Just because a customer makes you rich doesn't mean that you love or even respect them. More often than not, the opposite is true.
Something which Michael O'leary, the CEO of Ryan Air have proven again and again. A couple of sample quotes
“The European consumer would crawl naked over broken glass to get low fares.”
On passengers who forget to print their boarding pass: “We think [they] should pay 60 euros for being so stupid.”
"Anyone who thinks Ryanair flights are some sort of bastion of sanctity where you can contemplate your navel is wrong. We already bombard you with as many in-flight announcements and trolleys as we can. Anyone who looks like sleeping, we wake them up to sell them things."
Because we picked on apple for that one on August 29th and to those of us that are capable of thinking clearly it make very little sense to pick on apple when the topic clearly is a windows vulnerability.
Off topic: He is half black, half white. Why do people constantly insist he is black?
Because to some people mulatto and black are synonymous and anyone that are not of European heritage is considered as untrustworthy, nefarious and inferior by default.
I commend you for your well written message to Keith Alexander but believe the chance of him ever taking it to heart being slightly less likely than the coming true of a prayer to the Flying Spaghetti Monster that he will be trampled to death by a elephant in musth.
It's a Government agency and being such it is heavily influenced by revolving door politics, so I can imagine that what will happen is that an external consulting company will be assigned with the task of managing the funds and will invoice them to the tune of 144,001 Bitcoins.
The only different here is the US isn't flopping over and whining like a European Soccer player about a little spying.
Do you seriously believe that US politicians wouldn't feign the same outrage if the roles were reversed and documents about the French tapping congress and your President leaked out?
And no one would be childish enough to rename French Fries to Freedom Fries in the congressional cafeterias.
Politics is only as important as we let them make it. It's hard sometimes for the politically active to acknowledge, but that's the deal.
How silly of me, of course politics have nothing to do with unimportant things such as that the houses most of us live in are subjected to building codes, whether your children's school curriculum include intelligent design next to evolution or not, minimum wages, military spending and the taxes we pay towards it, infrastructure, health care, accessibility to clean water.
I have no fucking idea which one David Cameron runs. How bout throwing us a bone and just telling us which country we're talking about?
How about that you read or watch news about world events once in a while? Note that by world events I do not mean what Rihanna wore on the red carpet or what Justin Bieber did last night but actual politics as in that stuff that pretty much play an important part in our daily lives. Bone for the search engine impaired and generally ignorant.
Not really as one (the primary?) reason for the new connector is size. The old connector effectively put serious limitations on the form factor and size of their devices, for example the planned iWatch would either have to rely on a standard USB or a second proprietary Apple connector along side the 30 pin one or be ridiculously clunky all of which would be poor business decisions. The ideal solution from Apples perspective was to drop the old connector in favor of a new smaller one in order to greatly expand the possible designs of products that can go with it.
if you want to upgrade you'll if you want to rebuild an inventory of accessories
Why would you need to rebuild your accessories when switching to iPhone 5? It's not like you don't have Lightning to 30 pin adapters.
On a second look I have to retract that the SoundDoock become a paperweight without an iPhone/iPad but it certainly do lose some its appeal, and I distinctly remember having seen Apple only accessories in the past so my point stands.
The difference being that Apple makes it very difficult for third party manufacturers
On the contrary, they gladly help third party accessory while at the same time they lock out handset manufacturers as that's very effective a lock-in of their customer base. Someone that have spent USD300 on a Bose SoundDock are less likely to change to a different handset maker than they otherwise would be since a SoundDock without an iPhone/iPad it is just a very expensive paperweight.
This customer lock in via third parties would evaporate the very instant that Apple gave other handset makers access to their proprietary connectors. And while Apple have equivalents to many of the third party accessories, it would not be possible for Apple to keep it all in-house as people want/need more variety on their accessories than Apple can and want to offer.
Apple need 3rd party manufacturers more than 3rd party manufacturers need Apple.
REAL security costs good money, takes real time and effort and doesn't show immediate results on the bottom line so most companies? Just don't give a fuck. Call it "the rise of MBA (Major Buffons and Assholes) culture" or the "fuck everything but the quarterly earnings!" attitude or anything you like, if it doesn't show profits quickly?
Even cheap and simple but crucial security such as verification of a user before password reset for windows login, VPN, operation crucial applications and so on were not part of standard operating procedure at a company with an annual revenue of more than USD90 Billion that I worked at some time ago. Worse yet, no verification procedure were in place at all! When I questioned the rational behind this I never got an actual answer but it were implied that the senior executives found such procedures inconvenient, probably as the PHBs barely could remember their own Windows user name let alone a password for more than a couple of days and being confronted with a verification procedure would apart from being a nuisance also hurt the fragile PHB ego i.e. "Minion how dare you not recognize my voice that you've never heard before!". Combine that with an IT Security department that's incapable of selling the importance of such basic essentials and you have a recipe for disaster.
Your UID as well as your comment indicate that you are not new here. FTA: "Gates, who owned 49 percent of Microsoft before it went public in 1986, sells about 80 million Microsoft shares a year under a pre-set plan, which if continued would leave him with no financial stake in the company by 2018."
Commenting on an article you didn't read, a well honored/. tradition since 1997
It's at a point where people are grasping at straws to find fault with the company.
When I see the General Sherman giant sequoia I think "Now that is one motherfucking huge tree!", I guess you just shrug your shoulders and go "meh, straw"
it's kind of shitty to force people out of the thing they made.
I'm sure he was aware of that possibility when Microsoft launched their IPO 27 years ago, and compared to how many other company founders have fared after their company went public I'd say that Gates have lasted for a pretty damn long time. It's all part of doing business, a place were ethics and morals only are facetious words used in corporate PR bullshit.
No it does not beg the question "Are we winning the war on drugs yet?". The war on drugs cannot be won as long as there exist people creating demand for illicit products since these very same people will find a way to obtain it. The only way to win that war is by exterminating humanity as a species and that would be the definitive Pyrrhic victory.
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Would anyone except cold fjord actually believe anything the NSA has to say at this point?
TFTFY
Sweden also has the highest suicide rates Strange thing you left out those facts, guess they did not fit your case.
Strange thing you left out the fact that the USA have a higher suicide rate than Sweden, guess it did not fit your case. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate
Just because a customer makes you rich doesn't mean that you love or even respect them. More often than not, the opposite is true.
Something which Michael O'leary, the CEO of Ryan Air have proven again and again. A couple of sample quotes
“The European consumer would crawl naked over broken glass to get low fares.”
On passengers who forget to print their boarding pass: “We think [they] should pay 60 euros for being so stupid.”
"Anyone who thinks Ryanair flights are some sort of bastion of sanctity where you can contemplate your navel is wrong. We already bombard you with as many in-flight announcements and trolleys as we can. Anyone who looks like sleeping, we wake them up to sell them things."
Just like no one is putting Hitler or swastika on vodka or anything else.
The Italian beer Birra Dala Storia have images of Hitler and Mussolini
It's not the first time it happens on Windows but similar issues have also affected Linux and most likely OSX too.
Why only pick on Windows? http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/08/rendering-bug-crashes-os-x-and-ios-apps-with-string-of-arabic-characters/
Because we picked on apple for that one on August 29th and to those of us that are capable of thinking clearly it make very little sense to pick on apple when the topic clearly is a windows vulnerability.
i don't trust "news" from osnews
How about the the source osnews used for this, the Guardian? http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/24/google-breaks-promise-banner-ads-search-results
In my opinion all the below have been for good, in particular operation Tunisia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Tunisia
http://www.examiner.com/article/anonymous-exposes-pedophile-ring-hacks-lolita-city
http://www.salon.com/2013/10/02/anonymous_vs_scientology_partner/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Payback#Operation_Avenge_Assange
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/17/westboro-baptist-church-hacked-anonymous-protest-newtown-shooting-victims-funerals_n_2315070.html
Off topic: He is half black, half white. Why do people constantly insist he is black?
Because to some people mulatto and black are synonymous and anyone that are not of European heritage is considered as untrustworthy, nefarious and inferior by default.
I commend you for your well written message to Keith Alexander but believe the chance of him ever taking it to heart being slightly less likely than the coming true of a prayer to the Flying Spaghetti Monster that he will be trampled to death by a elephant in musth.
Keith Alexander, director of the NSA and commander of US Cyber Command, comes off as a weird dude and, you know, a literal tool.
Am I the only one that find the description of Keith Alexander in the article uncannily applicable to cold fjord?
It's a Government agency and being such it is heavily influenced by revolving door politics, so I can imagine that what will happen is that an external consulting company will be assigned with the task of managing the funds and will invoice them to the tune of 144,001 Bitcoins.
The only different here is the US isn't flopping over and whining like a European Soccer player about a little spying.
Do you seriously believe that US politicians wouldn't feign the same outrage if the roles were reversed and documents about the French tapping congress and your President leaked out?
And no one would be childish enough to rename French Fries to Freedom Fries in the congressional cafeterias.
Politics is only as important as we let them make it. It's hard sometimes for the politically active to acknowledge, but that's the deal.
How silly of me, of course politics have nothing to do with unimportant things such as that the houses most of us live in are subjected to building codes, whether your children's school curriculum include intelligent design next to evolution or not, minimum wages, military spending and the taxes we pay towards it, infrastructure, health care, accessibility to clean water.
I have no fucking idea which one David Cameron runs. How bout throwing us a bone and just telling us which country we're talking about?
How about that you read or watch news about world events once in a while? Note that by world events I do not mean what Rihanna wore on the red carpet or what Justin Bieber did last night but actual politics as in that stuff that pretty much play an important part in our daily lives. Bone for the search engine impaired and generally ignorant.
I think it partially invalidates your argument.
Not really as one (the primary?) reason for the new connector is size. The old connector effectively put serious limitations on the form factor and size of their devices, for example the planned iWatch would either have to rely on a standard USB or a second proprietary Apple connector along side the 30 pin one or be ridiculously clunky all of which would be poor business decisions. The ideal solution from Apples perspective was to drop the old connector in favor of a new smaller one in order to greatly expand the possible designs of products that can go with it .
if you want to upgrade you'll if you want to rebuild an inventory of accessories
Why would you need to rebuild your accessories when switching to iPhone 5? It's not like you don't have Lightning to 30 pin adapters.
effectively destroyed any "lock-in" that it commanded.
Did they destroy it in favor of a design they do not own the rights to, or did the move from one design lock-in to another?
Hint: Not very much happened that invalidate my argument.
On a second look I have to retract that the SoundDoock become a paperweight without an iPhone/iPad but it certainly do lose some its appeal, and I distinctly remember having seen Apple only accessories in the past so my point stands.
The difference being that Apple makes it very difficult for third party manufacturers
On the contrary, they gladly help third party accessory while at the same time they lock out handset manufacturers as that's very effective a lock-in of their customer base. Someone that have spent USD300 on a Bose SoundDock are less likely to change to a different handset maker than they otherwise would be since a SoundDock without an iPhone/iPad it is just a very expensive paperweight.
This customer lock in via third parties would evaporate the very instant that Apple gave other handset makers access to their proprietary connectors. And while Apple have equivalents to many of the third party accessories, it would not be possible for Apple to keep it all in-house as people want/need more variety on their accessories than Apple can and want to offer.
Apple need 3rd party manufacturers more than 3rd party manufacturers need Apple.
REAL security costs good money, takes real time and effort and doesn't show immediate results on the bottom line so most companies? Just don't give a fuck. Call it "the rise of MBA (Major Buffons and Assholes) culture" or the "fuck everything but the quarterly earnings!" attitude or anything you like, if it doesn't show profits quickly?
Even cheap and simple but crucial security such as verification of a user before password reset for windows login, VPN, operation crucial applications and so on were not part of standard operating procedure at a company with an annual revenue of more than USD90 Billion that I worked at some time ago. Worse yet, no verification procedure were in place at all!
When I questioned the rational behind this I never got an actual answer but it were implied that the senior executives found such procedures inconvenient, probably as the PHBs barely could remember their own Windows user name let alone a password for more than a couple of days and being confronted with a verification procedure would apart from being a nuisance also hurt the fragile PHB ego i.e. "Minion how dare you not recognize my voice that you've never heard before!". Combine that with an IT Security department that's incapable of selling the importance of such basic essentials and you have a recipe for disaster.
FTA: "Gates, who owned 49 percent of Microsoft before it went public in 1986, sells about 80 million Microsoft shares a year under a pre-set plan, which if continued would leave him with no financial stake in the company by 2018."
Commenting on an article you didn't read, a well honored /. tradition since 1997
Do you have the slightest idea of what it takes to own 4.5% of a company like Microsoft
About 12.465 Billion USD?
It's at a point where people are grasping at straws to find fault with the company.
When I see the General Sherman giant sequoia I think "Now that is one motherfucking huge tree!", I guess you just shrug your shoulders and go "meh, straw"
it's kind of shitty to force people out of the thing they made.
I'm sure he was aware of that possibility when Microsoft launched their IPO 27 years ago, and compared to how many other company founders have fared after their company went public I'd say that Gates have lasted for a pretty damn long time. It's all part of doing business, a place were ethics and morals only are facetious words used in corporate PR bullshit.
No it does not beg the question "Are we winning the war on drugs yet?". The war on drugs cannot be won as long as there exist people creating demand for illicit products since these very same people will find a way to obtain it. The only way to win that war is by exterminating humanity as a species and that would be the definitive Pyrrhic victory.