Because Gizm0do and others that jumped on that story were taking heat for the device being fake. So rather then waiting a few weeks to say I told you so when the announcement comes they felt better about themselves by saying "look! we have a name".
Ya, they suck! yeah, I've no plans to visit the site again anytime soon.
Fan boy much? If apple wants to put safari on windows then they need to play by windows' rules. In windows, The browser should verify if a download is desired. You know, like every other browser that runs on windows.
Oh I'm sure they see the problem. For Microsoft.
First they spam the bundled download of safari and then ms windows looks less secure? Tell me, why would they hurry and fix it?
LOL-10% of staff is IT? Unless you guys are an IT company and 50-100 of those people are in sales then impression you paint just might be right. Your business should outsource!
Less divine mastery from the IT gods it seems and more evolution perhaps?
Worse, you HAVE to have some sort of external connection, since your data is outside of your company's physical location, something you can simply avoid by having your data in house. So you don't have the internet "in-house" and more then one location is the only way to run a safe business? Your internet is MUCH more likely to be your weak link in then a secured link between two locations. In todays world distance does NOT mean less secure.
And second, it is WAY easier to sue an employee when data appears somewhere else (and you can prove that he, and only he, could have taken it, which is trivial with good logging) than some company. Easier how? Getting money and compensation from me personally will be MUCH harder then a company with say E&O insurance and deeper pockets then an individual. Logging is a non-detail because you can do that anywhere. In fact you could log remote actions but keep them "in-house". Poof! Like magic your logs could now be double secure! As to the legal aspects, pft! The same type of "binding" documents can be written in the event of a outsourcing partnership as with a employee.
Stop thinking like an IT guy that might need a new job. The sky is not falling! Think like a company charged with outsourcing and a smart "guy" will find a way to get it done safely. If we are talking about Fortune 500 where money is not object then it doesn't matter much but we aren't. The original post is much more general and generally speaking outsourcing of most every IT related task is getting to be more feasible.
No later than when companies notice that suddenly, surprisingly someone patents something they were on the verge of patenting themselves, when they notice that said company is somehow curiously located where their servers are.
I guess even our business captains know that putting information into hands you can't control is a BAD idea. They should know. They've been gathering ours for years, and they know what value even trivial information (like your shopping habits) has. So if you employ people rather than outsource to them your IP will be safer? That seems a bit of a pipe dream. Isn't most theft still the result of internal breaches? Seems to me that relocating your data may be better then in house in some cases. After all, a sneaky employee that steals data may or may not go away afterwards but a company who's job is managing machines and keeping your data locked up safe with people baby sitting it actually sounds pretty good to me.
Outsource doesn't always mean India or China.
How about, the biggest disadvantage with Free Software is being locked in or limited in changing vendors...what about from he perspective of service and support. Good or bad, ms (and apple to a lesser degree) has done a great job of marketing "ms professionals" and has created an industry around/for people who know their products and then support them. Now if you are mom, pop, or the smaller business you might be able to get help with your OSS by looking in the phone book or you might not. Now try getting help with an ms based product or find an apple store and while competency will vary, you'll find a pro right away and that to many is not locked in to a vendor. Being able to call any PC shop up for help, that is another kind of freedom that the OS community has to conquer and can't claim on the same level as most proprietary products. I do think this will change with time and Canonical, RH, Suse, are examples and perhaps exceptions but it's nothing compared to the other guys. I think this is changing of course. Much in my family have been running Unbuntu for a few years now and the young ones will be just as comfortable with it as anything else but you can't ignore the barrier of familiarity and easy access to support.
Even the attitude of some already posting here are great examples of why people feel locked in if they go OS. "I won't help them if it's not OSS..." IMO it's the wrong attitude and does nothing for the cause of OS. If you don't want to help then don't but don't make blame it on OS or not OS. Without starting a flame war...some of the time the OSS isn't solution is not near as good as others available.
I think too much is being assumed here. The tech folks won't care because they will have moved on with the new release. The non-tech folks won't care because they are going to use whatever the tech friends points them at. LTS or not. Where LTS matters the most is in larger deployments where consistency is very important to keep support costs down. In those cases Gnome can be use or 2 upgrades rather then 1 in 3 years can be done if KDE must be used. Given the reason behind the shorter (non-LTS) support of KDE in 8.04 I don't see any other way. What is the alternative you'd do? No Kubuntu 8.04 release? Because in 24 moths no one will be updating KDE 3.x let alone in 40 months.
Pleeeeese...I even like debian myself but slow doesn't even start to describe debian's history of releasing. Sure, I know about stability and debian is as stable as anything out there but they've done little if anything to further the acceptance of linux. I'd love to start seeing debian and other nix folks start giving ubuntu it's due props. As I see it it, ubuntu has furthered the linux and OS growth by leaps and bounds compared to any other project since the first linux release and this will be good for everyone in the long run. I may even force MS to suck less.
While the timing is harsh KDE given it's LTS release time and no KDE I am glad to know in advance.
This isn't the case. What UofO and the AG are saying is that the information only points at two possible machines and any number of potential people and that they simply are not going provide names without detail. Making broad sweeping requests for information never means you are required to give detail that may or may not be unrelated. It's more then a valid reason to deny. Innocent until proven guilty is something that must be respected along the way of an investigation/lawsuit. The school has no business sharing information that may not be true. Perhaps if the user(s) in question had been logged into school systems with a school ID...that seem a whole other story.
Even notice that smart people still come off as stupid sometimes.
The first law of thermodynamics states: "The increase in the internal energy of a system is equal to the amount of energy added by heating the system, minus the amount lost as a result of the work done by the system on its surroundings".
Where does it say that the suits/shirts will require more movement? Most people move on a regular basis...just suppose for a moment that this includes those in the military. You see they already move and would already be generating some energy for the suit. Perhaps this is the whole idea?
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Because Gizm0do and others that jumped on that story were taking heat for the device being fake. So rather then waiting a few weeks to say I told you so when the announcement comes they felt better about themselves by saying "look! we have a name". Ya, they suck! yeah, I've no plans to visit the site again anytime soon.
Fan boy much? If apple wants to put safari on windows then they need to play by windows' rules. In windows, The browser should verify if a download is desired. You know, like every other browser that runs on windows.
Oh I'm sure they see the problem. For Microsoft. First they spam the bundled download of safari and then ms windows looks less secure? Tell me, why would they hurry and fix it?
LOL-10% of staff is IT? Unless you guys are an IT company and 50-100 of those people are in sales then impression you paint just might be right. Your business should outsource!
How about, the biggest disadvantage with Free Software is being locked in or limited in changing vendors...what about from he perspective of service and support. Good or bad, ms (and apple to a lesser degree) has done a great job of marketing "ms professionals" and has created an industry around/for people who know their products and then support them. Now if you are mom, pop, or the smaller business you might be able to get help with your OSS by looking in the phone book or you might not. Now try getting help with an ms based product or find an apple store and while competency will vary, you'll find a pro right away and that to many is not locked in to a vendor. Being able to call any PC shop up for help, that is another kind of freedom that the OS community has to conquer and can't claim on the same level as most proprietary products. I do think this will change with time and Canonical, RH, Suse, are examples and perhaps exceptions but it's nothing compared to the other guys. I think this is changing of course. Much in my family have been running Unbuntu for a few years now and the young ones will be just as comfortable with it as anything else but you can't ignore the barrier of familiarity and easy access to support.
Even the attitude of some already posting here are great examples of why people feel locked in if they go OS. "I won't help them if it's not OSS..." IMO it's the wrong attitude and does nothing for the cause of OS. If you don't want to help then don't but don't make blame it on OS or not OS. Without starting a flame war...some of the time the OSS isn't solution is not near as good as others available.
I think too much is being assumed here. The tech folks won't care because they will have moved on with the new release. The non-tech folks won't care because they are going to use whatever the tech friends points them at. LTS or not. Where LTS matters the most is in larger deployments where consistency is very important to keep support costs down. In those cases Gnome can be use or 2 upgrades rather then 1 in 3 years can be done if KDE must be used. Given the reason behind the shorter (non-LTS) support of KDE in 8.04 I don't see any other way. What is the alternative you'd do? No Kubuntu 8.04 release? Because in 24 moths no one will be updating KDE 3.x let alone in 40 months.
Pleeeeese...I even like debian myself but slow doesn't even start to describe debian's history of releasing. Sure, I know about stability and debian is as stable as anything out there but they've done little if anything to further the acceptance of linux. I'd love to start seeing debian and other nix folks start giving ubuntu it's due props. As I see it it, ubuntu has furthered the linux and OS growth by leaps and bounds compared to any other project since the first linux release and this will be good for everyone in the long run. I may even force MS to suck less. While the timing is harsh KDE given it's LTS release time and no KDE I am glad to know in advance.
This isn't the case. What UofO and the AG are saying is that the information only points at two possible machines and any number of potential people and that they simply are not going provide names without detail. Making broad sweeping requests for information never means you are required to give detail that may or may not be unrelated. It's more then a valid reason to deny. Innocent until proven guilty is something that must be respected along the way of an investigation/lawsuit. The school has no business sharing information that may not be true. Perhaps if the user(s) in question had been logged into school systems with a school ID...that seem a whole other story.
Where does it say that the suits/shirts will require more movement? Most people move on a regular basis...just suppose for a moment that this includes those in the military. You see they already move and would already be generating some energy for the suit. Perhaps this is the whole idea?