I was going by net worth, of which Walmarts about double apple. Market cap? What does that even mean? It's just what everyone's speculating the future value of the company is.
yea, but now if the attackers motives are even the least bit benign, it renders your computer unbootable. I doubt the virus writers going to care enough to make sure you're not using windows 8 before he installs its boot loader.
I guess we can all sleep at night now. They finally brought these 2 heinous groups down. Who'd have thought they were hiding in plain sight on the streets of LA?!?! Good work FBI... now you can focus on more important crimes like people downloading music and such.
Game Devs Predict Death of Flash, Installed Games, meanwhile ISPs introduce bandwidth caps, usage limits, per-MB pricing dashing the game devs hopes.
Yea, you're going to run streaming video @ 1920x1080 and up, with surround sound and 0 latency for an MMO that addicts are going to play for 12hrs+ per day and the ISPs are just going to roll over and take it... I think not.
I have always had an amazing memory and can even remember being in the crib. Freaks most people out... specially my mother when I describe the room and such. I've mentioned it to doctors over the years thinking they'd want to investigate it but never had any interest. Alas, as I've gotten older it's faded. I can still remember all the stuff that occurred when I was younger, but things that happened in the past 6-12 months are far less clear to me than most of when I was a toddler.
Ok, again, help me understand... where, previously a virus would occasionally redirect me to a coupon site or install a toolbar without my permission, now this new system will instead prevent the entire system from booting? And this is an improvement? I just don't see this as being very popular.
Walmarts listed on the Dow... and they are WAY bigger than apple. There are a lot of other companies on the DOJA that are as big, if not larger than apple. Apple keeps their stock price high for PR reasons.
Help me understand... all this does is provide keys and such... does it actually prevent anything from happening? My understanding of the tech is that it simply provides keys that allow the OS to know that it was booted cleanly and from the secure environment and also allows it to tell if the devices it's connecting to are really the devices they say they are and not rogue DLLs. Even if this system is in place, what's to stop Linux (or any other OS) from booting on the device and just ignoring the keys? Does the system itself actually prevent startup?
So you have to have a NFC-ready Sprint Nexus S 4G phone and a Citi MasterCard? That sounds like a very narrowly defined target audience to me. I wonder what their marketing department told them about those people.
You clearly have no idea how enterprise networks work. I said "The internet" You can have a GLOBAL network and not have it connected to the internet. getting into this network requires you to be inside "The building" or any number of buildings owned by the business.
It's all well and good that he wants to bring down the deficit. I hate taxes, but if it would lower the deficit, then I'd support it. But our federal government has a track record doesn't it? They will raise taxes... and at the same time, raise the deficit. Then we'll invade another middle eastern country, or maybe even Africa this time... install a new base, bomb more cities. Maybe we'll use a bit of it to hire a Chinese company to build some bridges for us.
The problem isn't the government, the problem is us. If you're voting democrat or republican, YOU are the problem. Vote for ANYONE other than the 2 established parties and you'll be doing something to make a difference. You can even vote communist, I don't care. Just get the parties that are currently working together to destroy this country out of office... we can clean up the mess afterwards.
How many times does this have to happen before these businesses realize they should not be on the internet... period. You're either inside the building, or your not logged in. It's that simple.
Rich patients fly to other countries to have exotic, untested, unproven procedures that have little to no chance of saving their lives. There's nothing new here. To somehow say that this behavior has something to do with the hobbling of medical science by the government (Which is a very real concern on its own) is just silly. The 2 subjects are unrelated.
Lets get one thing strait here. For a long time The media industry sought to focus the publics interest. It's hard to market to huge audiences with a wide variety of tastes. With free and easy distribution on the internet, the media industries aren't just afraid that people are pirating their content... their true fear is the availability of content not approved by them. They aren't trying to stop piracy, they are trying to stop the alternative distribution systems that are forming outside of their control. They are trying to destroy the systems that could bring new, different and FREE content to their customers not because their afraid of theft, but because they cannot compete with something that's free and tailored to the consumers needs. They want you to have choices limited to what they've chosen for you, in the format they've decided on, at the price they've agreed on with their "competitors."
What happens when the feds violate these rules? Nothing? That's what I figured.
I'd much rather have my banking info stolen by Russian mobsters than by the NSA. One will, at most, clean out the account. The other rendition me to the middle of Africa because I bought the wrong kind of rug in the duty free shop while on layover in Istanbul.
Not likely. A company the size of Google when looking for a place to build a facility gets courted by many municipalities. One of the first things offered for free are utilities. If you look around at the largest businesses in your city, they more than likely pay no utility bills what-so-ever.
Hitler had a few good points to... but taken on the whole, his ideas were horrifying. And before anyone starts spouting off about mentioning Hitler means you lose the internet, I'd like to point out that communism killed farm more people in concentration camps than Hitler could have even dreamed of.
Sorry, I gotta agree with kamapuaa, I didn't see it bounce off a damned think, yet saw it pass through numerous obvious windows and such. This seemed to be more about their fancy projector than the actual game. The guy barely leaned form left to right to move it. I'd rather have seen the padded EXACTLY where the player stood, and the player having to run from one side of the building to the other in order to move the paddle.
The difference is that what you're talking about are individual business owners, which is an entirely different thing than a publicly traded company. Google has a legal, and some would say even moral liability to its investors to do whatever is most profitable, irrelevant of how they feel about their "product"
What I see, where I work, is that we have some older employees that are incredibly good in the language they've been writing in for decades, but absolutely refuse to believe that there is any need for them to move on to something else. We still have systems that run Cobol... but we're not doing anything new with them, and if fact planning on replacing them in a few years. So what's going to happen to these people that are incredibly good at something we have no use for anymore?
I'm not saying it's fair, but if the thing you're good at is going away, learn a new thing.
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I was going by net worth, of which Walmarts about double apple. Market cap? What does that even mean? It's just what everyone's speculating the future value of the company is.
yea, but now if the attackers motives are even the least bit benign, it renders your computer unbootable. I doubt the virus writers going to care enough to make sure you're not using windows 8 before he installs its boot loader.
I guess we can all sleep at night now. They finally brought these 2 heinous groups down. Who'd have thought they were hiding in plain sight on the streets of LA?!?! Good work FBI... now you can focus on more important crimes like people downloading music and such.
Game Devs Predict Death of Flash, Installed Games, meanwhile ISPs introduce bandwidth caps, usage limits, per-MB pricing dashing the game devs hopes.
Yea, you're going to run streaming video @ 1920x1080 and up, with surround sound and 0 latency for an MMO that addicts are going to play for 12hrs+ per day and the ISPs are just going to roll over and take it... I think not.
I have always had an amazing memory and can even remember being in the crib. Freaks most people out... specially my mother when I describe the room and such. I've mentioned it to doctors over the years thinking they'd want to investigate it but never had any interest. Alas, as I've gotten older it's faded. I can still remember all the stuff that occurred when I was younger, but things that happened in the past 6-12 months are far less clear to me than most of when I was a toddler.
Ok, again, help me understand... where, previously a virus would occasionally redirect me to a coupon site or install a toolbar without my permission, now this new system will instead prevent the entire system from booting? And this is an improvement? I just don't see this as being very popular.
Walmarts listed on the Dow... and they are WAY bigger than apple. There are a lot of other companies on the DOJA that are as big, if not larger than apple. Apple keeps their stock price high for PR reasons.
Help me understand... all this does is provide keys and such... does it actually prevent anything from happening? My understanding of the tech is that it simply provides keys that allow the OS to know that it was booted cleanly and from the secure environment and also allows it to tell if the devices it's connecting to are really the devices they say they are and not rogue DLLs. Even if this system is in place, what's to stop Linux (or any other OS) from booting on the device and just ignoring the keys? Does the system itself actually prevent startup?
Because, if you actually read it, the difference being that Windows REQUIRES it. Linux does not.
So you have to have a NFC-ready Sprint Nexus S 4G phone and a Citi MasterCard? That sounds like a very narrowly defined target audience to me. I wonder what their marketing department told them about those people.
You clearly have no idea how enterprise networks work. I said "The internet" You can have a GLOBAL network and not have it connected to the internet. getting into this network requires you to be inside "The building" or any number of buildings owned by the business.
It's all well and good that he wants to bring down the deficit. I hate taxes, but if it would lower the deficit, then I'd support it. But our federal government has a track record doesn't it? They will raise taxes... and at the same time, raise the deficit. Then we'll invade another middle eastern country, or maybe even Africa this time... install a new base, bomb more cities. Maybe we'll use a bit of it to hire a Chinese company to build some bridges for us.
The problem isn't the government, the problem is us. If you're voting democrat or republican, YOU are the problem. Vote for ANYONE other than the 2 established parties and you'll be doing something to make a difference. You can even vote communist, I don't care. Just get the parties that are currently working together to destroy this country out of office... we can clean up the mess afterwards.
How many times does this have to happen before these businesses realize they should not be on the internet... period. You're either inside the building, or your not logged in. It's that simple.
Rich patients fly to other countries to have exotic, untested, unproven procedures that have little to no chance of saving their lives. There's nothing new here. To somehow say that this behavior has something to do with the hobbling of medical science by the government (Which is a very real concern on its own) is just silly. The 2 subjects are unrelated.
If you want more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KH-9_Hexagon
Lets get one thing strait here. For a long time The media industry sought to focus the publics interest. It's hard to market to huge audiences with a wide variety of tastes. With free and easy distribution on the internet, the media industries aren't just afraid that people are pirating their content... their true fear is the availability of content not approved by them. They aren't trying to stop piracy, they are trying to stop the alternative distribution systems that are forming outside of their control. They are trying to destroy the systems that could bring new, different and FREE content to their customers not because their afraid of theft, but because they cannot compete with something that's free and tailored to the consumers needs. They want you to have choices limited to what they've chosen for you, in the format they've decided on, at the price they've agreed on with their "competitors."
What happens when the feds violate these rules? Nothing? That's what I figured.
I'd much rather have my banking info stolen by Russian mobsters than by the NSA. One will, at most, clean out the account. The other rendition me to the middle of Africa because I bought the wrong kind of rug in the duty free shop while on layover in Istanbul.
Not likely. A company the size of Google when looking for a place to build a facility gets courted by many municipalities. One of the first things offered for free are utilities. If you look around at the largest businesses in your city, they more than likely pay no utility bills what-so-ever.
You shouldn't be able to sell a patent. Period.
Stalin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin#Calculating_the_number_of_victims
Khmer Rouge (Pol Pot) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Rouge#Number_of_deaths
Hitler had a few good points to... but taken on the whole, his ideas were horrifying. And before anyone starts spouting off about mentioning Hitler means you lose the internet, I'd like to point out that communism killed farm more people in concentration camps than Hitler could have even dreamed of.
Sorry, I gotta agree with kamapuaa, I didn't see it bounce off a damned think, yet saw it pass through numerous obvious windows and such. This seemed to be more about their fancy projector than the actual game. The guy barely leaned form left to right to move it. I'd rather have seen the padded EXACTLY where the player stood, and the player having to run from one side of the building to the other in order to move the paddle.
The difference is that what you're talking about are individual business owners, which is an entirely different thing than a publicly traded company. Google has a legal, and some would say even moral liability to its investors to do whatever is most profitable, irrelevant of how they feel about their "product"
What I see, where I work, is that we have some older employees that are incredibly good in the language they've been writing in for decades, but absolutely refuse to believe that there is any need for them to move on to something else. We still have systems that run Cobol... but we're not doing anything new with them, and if fact planning on replacing them in a few years. So what's going to happen to these people that are incredibly good at something we have no use for anymore?
I'm not saying it's fair, but if the thing you're good at is going away, learn a new thing.
This is what you people get for paying for your content. Suckers.