Two things - first a hacker is simply a skilled computer technologist and it is only the media that has twisted the term to mean something like 'evil child killer whose probably a communist'. Second er I think I covered my second point already, i.e. from TFS: 'But this approach is also 'germane for highly skilled staffers', as though hackers aren't skilled!
They were developed by companies that definitely wouldn't have done it if it weren't for the IP rewards.
And your proof for this is . ..? Actually you can have no proof because we have always lived under an increasingly suffocating patent/copyright/trade-mark blanket. Big Pharma is the most profitable industry in the world, surely some restriction on their ability to print money wouldn't harm innovation in the field, in fact maybe the exact opposite is true!
and their economies are creating ecological disasters of enormous proportions.
Couldn't resist . . . I know ecological disasters don't equate to carbon dioxide emissions but according to the World Bank USA Carbon Emissions are at about 20 tons per capita and in India its at just over 1 ton per capita, so even given the population discrepancy the national output is incomparably larger for the US and thus it is arguable contributing to our current most pressing environmental catastrophe.
I think there are two things of note. First the article is in the Daily Mail which has a populist agenda usually veering alarmingly to the right. They have jumped on the anti-id bandwagon so maybe this article should be taken with a pinch of salt. Secondly if it is true it raises some interesting points. Who did the UK Government get to test the security on these cards? How do you respond to such a public relations disaster? How to you tally lax security with bullet proof identification and if this is not possible what plausible reason is there for rolling these things out nationally? I would be very interested to get a Government spokesmen on Question Time squirming to reply to those questions, because they are essentially unanswerable whilst still clinging to the existing policy. And too much money has been spent for this Government to change it now . . .
Keep in mind that Google is based on selling advertising
True, but their business model is rooted in providing the best search engine - advertising revenue follows from that - and these Bing results show that, at present, they are still top dog with regard search algorithms, which is a technology par excellence as fas as I'm concerned!
And even funnier - search for "Why is Microsoft Windows so expensive?" and the fifth result is a slashdot article entitled: "Why is OSS Commercial Software So Expensive?"!
No not surprised but it is funny that they think this even helps their cause even slightly. It's as though they think if someone is searching for that specific term then not returning results related to it will make them think - 'O windows can't be so expensive because the interweb says so!'
I'm sure we could count on law enforcement, our employers and credit card companies to show the same moral character.
Ha ha very good! The sad thing is they would keep the data while telling the media they didn't, then justify keeping it when there lies are exposed, then mock outrage when it gets stolen, then bungled legislation when the peasants revolt. It's written in my tea leaves - which at least will be destroyed on MY say so!
Information needs to be found, extracted, interpreted, organised in a comprehensible format, fact checked, and presented in context
So what your saying is information needs to be processed before it has value - you may have a point, but one which is indistinguishable from the one you are replying to. Information exists, the processing of that information potentially adds value, and value that is potentially chargeable.
Talking with your friends is not comparable. There is the possibility that your friends are talking shite.
Obviously you are confused as to what constitutes information - there is no qualitative hoops that data needs to jump through before it is classed as 'information'!
The Times at one time was not owned by Murdoch. It was a serious newspaper. He bought it and the rot began.
True - the rot began when he took over and the paper shifted steadily rightwards politically and soon became a poor mans Telegraph. This was about 7 years ago. Since then it has definitely improved and now has a generally fair minded approach to content rather than as previously where they stuck on the Daily Mail goggles and parsed the results through a syllable multiplier.
On the one hand I agree with you, obviously downloading and installing a RC version of an OS does have overhead, but before passing judgment better to see the beans first. But also I think a healthy dose of skepticism when confronted by pre-release hype is not only understandable but a prerequisite for maintaining sanity in this marketing saturated world of ours!
The best way to assess market share is through a survey.
And the best survey is one which doesn't let humans get involved! I'm guessing these are pretty accurate for desktop share.
Windows 93.04%
Mac 4.86%
Linux 1.05%
iPhone 0.30%
Java ME 0.29%
Symbian 0.14%
iPod Touch 0.06%
Windows Mobile 0.05%
Playstation 0.03%
Android 0.02%
BlackBerry 0.01%
FreeBSD 0.01%
SunOS 0.01%
Palm 0.01%
Server share is more difficult but likely that Linux does well in this sector.
In a way that's quite reassuring - if everything had gone smoothly AND the judgement remained as it is then I would start thinking of show trials and 1984 - at least with this level of incompetence you know there's no global conspiracy - just stupid people wrapped up in their own theories of 'right'.
I'm in the process of virtualizing our servers and will be using encryption to further secure the data. You make a good point because the most unpleasant part of the process is gonna be telling the other admin he can't work with root anymore. Here's me diligently creating a new user with only the necessary rights, both on the System and within services (Mysql, etc.), and there's him tip-toeing around the file system like an elephant in a rage. He dropped one of our live databases by accident the other day whilst implementing a new schema . . . er yes the virtualized solution includes a test AND a production environment!
though after yesterday's article about the BIOS "rootkit" that is Computrace, I'd be wary of the hardware at that point.
So what your saying is be wary of the hardware when your kit is stolen AND be wary of the hardware before your kit's been stolen. Great! I was gonna wait until my hardware was morphing into robocop before being scared of it now I'll have to rethink . . .
The perp won't be able to read the data, unless he installs this rootkit, returns your PC and then steals it again to read the keylogger info.
Easy solution: Wipe the system and restore it from a backup if you suspect your machine has been physically compromised.
Even easier solution: I ensure my system contains nothing but totally useless crap. That'll learn 'em!
The notion that the free market is doing a good job at healthcare is simply not well founded in reality, and in fact it is doing SO badly, I think even the government would struggle to fail as epically as the private insurance industry.
Failure from who's point of view? Surely you don't think anyone in power cares about citizens do you? The private insurance industry is an unmitigated success - but only from the point of view of the insurers . . . and they be the dudes with the cash and the clout in Washington.
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Two things - first a hacker is simply a skilled computer technologist and it is only the media that has twisted the term to mean something like 'evil child killer whose probably a communist'. Second er I think I covered my second point already, i.e. from TFS: 'But this approach is also 'germane for highly skilled staffers', as though hackers aren't skilled!
They were developed by companies that definitely wouldn't have done it if it weren't for the IP rewards.
And your proof for this is . . .? Actually you can have no proof because we have always lived under an increasingly suffocating patent/copyright/trade-mark blanket. Big Pharma is the most profitable industry in the world, surely some restriction on their ability to print money wouldn't harm innovation in the field, in fact maybe the exact opposite is true!
That is a much smaller target zone . . .
True but would still have to include the E.U. which isn't known for it's pro Microsoft stance!
and their economies are creating ecological disasters of enormous proportions.
Couldn't resist . . . I know ecological disasters don't equate to carbon dioxide emissions but according to the World Bank USA Carbon Emissions are at about 20 tons per capita and in India its at just over 1 ton per capita, so even given the population discrepancy the national output is incomparably larger for the US and thus it is arguable contributing to our current most pressing environmental catastrophe.
There's nothing good going on behind the scenes at fairpoint
Nothing good?? Obviously at least one of them has been reading Enders Game . . .
Slashdot Rule #36
Slashdot has 36 rules!? Fuck me I never got past:
Rule #1: Post banal comments
Rule #2: See #1
Does anyone have any technical details on how this was achieved?
I guess you aren't familiar with the Daily Mail, they are usually quite thin on details. Great at hyperbole though!
I think there are two things of note. First the article is in the Daily Mail which has a populist agenda usually veering alarmingly to the right. They have jumped on the anti-id bandwagon so maybe this article should be taken with a pinch of salt. Secondly if it is true it raises some interesting points. Who did the UK Government get to test the security on these cards? How do you respond to such a public relations disaster? How to you tally lax security with bullet proof identification and if this is not possible what plausible reason is there for rolling these things out nationally? I would be very interested to get a Government spokesmen on Question Time squirming to reply to those questions, because they are essentially unanswerable whilst still clinging to the existing policy. And too much money has been spent for this Government to change it now . . .
Keep in mind that Google is based on selling advertising
True, but their business model is rooted in providing the best search engine - advertising revenue follows from that - and these Bing results show that, at present, they are still top dog with regard search algorithms, which is a technology par excellence as fas as I'm concerned!
And even funnier - search for "Why is Microsoft Windows so expensive?" and the fifth result is a slashdot article entitled: "Why is OSS Commercial Software So Expensive?"!
No not surprised but it is funny that they think this even helps their cause even slightly. It's as though they think if someone is searching for that specific term then not returning results related to it will make them think - 'O windows can't be so expensive because the interweb says so!'
I'm sure we could count on law enforcement, our employers and credit card companies to show the same moral character.
Ha ha very good! The sad thing is they would keep the data while telling the media they didn't, then justify keeping it when there lies are exposed, then mock outrage when it gets stolen, then bungled legislation when the peasants revolt. It's written in my tea leaves - which at least will be destroyed on MY say so!
Information needs to be found, extracted, interpreted, organised in a comprehensible format, fact checked, and presented in context
So what your saying is information needs to be processed before it has value - you may have a point, but one which is indistinguishable from the one you are replying to. Information exists, the processing of that information potentially adds value, and value that is potentially chargeable.
Talking with your friends is not comparable. There is the possibility that your friends are talking shite.
Obviously you are confused as to what constitutes information - there is no qualitative hoops that data needs to jump through before it is classed as 'information'!
The Times at one time was not owned by Murdoch. It was a serious newspaper. He bought it and the rot began.
True - the rot began when he took over and the paper shifted steadily rightwards politically and soon became a poor mans Telegraph. This was about 7 years ago. Since then it has definitely improved and now has a generally fair minded approach to content rather than as previously where they stuck on the Daily Mail goggles and parsed the results through a syllable multiplier.
5 out of 20 people in my old guild of WoW have had their account stolen because of this...
Wow, that's almost as bad as 1 in 4!!!
On the one hand I agree with you, obviously downloading and installing a RC version of an OS does have overhead, but before passing judgment better to see the beans first. But also I think a healthy dose of skepticism when confronted by pre-release hype is not only understandable but a prerequisite for maintaining sanity in this marketing saturated world of ours!
The best way to assess market share is through a survey.
And the best survey is one which doesn't let humans get involved! I'm guessing these are pretty accurate for desktop share.
Windows 93.04%
Mac 4.86%
Linux 1.05%
iPhone 0.30%
Java ME 0.29%
Symbian 0.14%
iPod Touch 0.06%
Windows Mobile 0.05%
Playstation 0.03%
Android 0.02%
BlackBerry 0.01%
FreeBSD 0.01%
SunOS 0.01%
Palm 0.01%
Server share is more difficult but likely that Linux does well in this sector.
. . . or more scarily sending Bill Clinton on a reccy!
Be a man, declare bankruptcy
The world's gone wierd again - where's my urban dictionary!?
How has everything gone so completely wrong?
In a way that's quite reassuring - if everything had gone smoothly AND the judgement remained as it is then I would start thinking of show trials and 1984 - at least with this level of incompetence you know there's no global conspiracy - just stupid people wrapped up in their own theories of 'right'.
and still keep working with an admin account
I'm in the process of virtualizing our servers and will be using encryption to further secure the data. You make a good point because the most unpleasant part of the process is gonna be telling the other admin he can't work with root anymore. Here's me diligently creating a new user with only the necessary rights, both on the System and within services (Mysql, etc.), and there's him tip-toeing around the file system like an elephant in a rage. He dropped one of our live databases by accident the other day whilst implementing a new schema . . . er yes the virtualized solution includes a test AND a production environment!
though after yesterday's article about the BIOS "rootkit" that is Computrace, I'd be wary of the hardware at that point.
So what your saying is be wary of the hardware when your kit is stolen AND be wary of the hardware before your kit's been stolen. Great! I was gonna wait until my hardware was morphing into robocop before being scared of it now I'll have to rethink . . .
The perp won't be able to read the data, unless he installs this rootkit, returns your PC and then steals it again to read the keylogger info. Easy solution: Wipe the system and restore it from a backup if you suspect your machine has been physically compromised.
Even easier solution: I ensure my system contains nothing but totally useless crap. That'll learn 'em!
hd encryption was designed to stop people stealing your hd
Yes, when my encrypted volume detects bad people it shouts "Go away, this volume is encrypted, shooo!"
The notion that the free market is doing a good job at healthcare is simply not well founded in reality, and in fact it is doing SO badly, I think even the government would struggle to fail as epically as the private insurance industry.
Failure from who's point of view? Surely you don't think anyone in power cares about citizens do you? The private insurance industry is an unmitigated success - but only from the point of view of the insurers . . . and they be the dudes with the cash and the clout in Washington.