So, you've found and patched 50 critical security flaws with a single patch. What that says to me is that there is a failure to audit code for security on an epic scale within your company, and that I won't be trusting ANY software from you until it has been proven secure for several months/years in the marketplace.
With the advent of x86/x64 or ARM everywhere, it is probably easier to write portable native code (2 architectures) than cater to the many JVM versions out there anyhow.
Nah, it just goes to show how far behind the performance card the radiation hardened, military/aerospace grade equipment is.
Plus, you really don't want to be bleeding edge on this sort of stuff. Discovering a mission ending critical CPU bug when you're astronomical scale distance away = bad.
launchd does more than launching daemons, too, such as start/stop to conserve resources. i cbf checking all your points, but most definitely points 1 and 3 are covered by launchd. ive never had to deal with point 2 on the mac, so presumably it handles that as well.
Yeah that's a fair assessment, and why i have avoided android this far and stuck with the "walled garden" of iOS.
It is an appliance, like a toaster or a fridge. We've gone through decades of malware on PCs, and it doesn't need to be that way.
I'll gladly trade the ability to pay a nominal development kit fee for a security cert and tools in order to have a more secure locked down device. Whether that means iOS, Windows Mobile, or whatever new platform provides a nice slick UI, good performance and an decent application library.
In practice, open vs closed is not that relevant to my interests.
Diagnostics by the mobile operator maybe. And by using your device on their network you have no doubt agreed to terms of service which allow them to do this sort of thing.
Exactly, especially when the third party unsupported hack is to go contrary to the direction microsoft is forcing upon users with their OS design choices.
What's to say SP1 or some critical security update won't break this third party freeware app? If you've deployed this, and that happens - you're fucked.
I don't want to just search files. I want to search across filenames, email, documents AT THE SAME TIME. Win8 metro search can not do that, along with a great many other search terms that Windows 7 and vista could.
As another example of why touch screens are bad.... currently, right now, i have my laptop screen and an external 22" display plugged in. Both of them are currently OUT OF ARM'S REACH.
This. Trackpads don't have to be garbage. I highly recommend everyone try a Mac trackpad, see how they are supposed to work, and stop accepting the absolute fucking garbage being put out by PC laptop vendors.
Whether you are an Apple person or not, you are missing out on what a trackpad should be if you haven't tried a mac trackpad.
It's one of the major, major reasons I am happy to pay the apple tax. A trackpad that works means i don't need a mouse carted around and a surface to use it on to use my laptop efficiently.
I use a mouse pad because the teflon feet on the mouse glide over it better than my table, and i have actually scuffed the surface of a desk up before with a mouse.
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+1 to this. One of our apps was broken due to a bug in version 6 between patch levels 28 and 30.
So, you've found and patched 50 critical security flaws with a single patch. What that says to me is that there is a failure to audit code for security on an epic scale within your company, and that I won't be trusting ANY software from you until it has been proven secure for several months/years in the marketplace.
With the advent of x86/x64 or ARM everywhere, it is probably easier to write portable native code (2 architectures) than cater to the many JVM versions out there anyhow.
I handed that in long ago when i started sleeping with women and being gainfully employed :D
errr.. performance CURVE, obviously.
Nah, it just goes to show how far behind the performance card the radiation hardened, military/aerospace grade equipment is.
Plus, you really don't want to be bleeding edge on this sort of stuff. Discovering a mission ending critical CPU bug when you're astronomical scale distance away = bad.
launchd does more than launching daemons, too, such as start/stop to conserve resources. i cbf checking all your points, but most definitely points 1 and 3 are covered by launchd. ive never had to deal with point 2 on the mac, so presumably it handles that as well.
I'd actually argue that Android has had more thought put into application security than the typical linux distro has.
Especially after it's been fucked up by idiots doing this sort of thing
Apple has only been officially selling in China for a very small period of time as I understand it - like the last year or so?
Yeah that's a fair assessment, and why i have avoided android this far and stuck with the "walled garden" of iOS.
It is an appliance, like a toaster or a fridge. We've gone through decades of malware on PCs, and it doesn't need to be that way.
I'll gladly trade the ability to pay a nominal development kit fee for a security cert and tools in order to have a more secure locked down device. Whether that means iOS, Windows Mobile, or whatever new platform provides a nice slick UI, good performance and an decent application library.
In practice, open vs closed is not that relevant to my interests.
Diagnostics by the mobile operator maybe. And by using your device on their network you have no doubt agreed to terms of service which allow them to do this sort of thing.
Running unsigned code from anywhere is awesome!
30+ years of this shit on desktop computers, and so it repeats on mobile.
Ahh this must be why all the pro photographers have tiny lenses on their SLRs. Owait..
Seriously how can they not see that as a usability issue (I'm right handed so i don't care, but...)
Exactly, especially when the third party unsupported hack is to go contrary to the direction microsoft is forcing upon users with their OS design choices.
What's to say SP1 or some critical security update won't break this third party freeware app? If you've deployed this, and that happens - you're fucked.
I don't want to just search files. I want to search across filenames, email, documents AT THE SAME TIME. Win8 metro search can not do that, along with a great many other search terms that Windows 7 and vista could.
This isn't a security exploit. No software was "exploited". It is Google being a dick with internet standards.
This post pretty much sums it up. IIRC, IE was affected too, for complying with P3P.
And yes. "don't be evil" my arse.
Apple has made no such claims about safari. They've played the "mac's don't get viruses" card. This isn't a virus.
except, you know... name files properly...
Maybe you should get the concept of immutable flags on configuration files.
Metro can't find content in outlook. Metro search can not do a search like say "from:jeff date:"last week" bigproject".
By desktop search, i mean through an explorer window's search bar.
I've been running Window 8 since the beta.
Sounds like your usage is pretty basic if you haven't run into search issues.
Except the employer is being forced to pay them out after they are let go with the same wage they were earning whilst they go back to school.
As another example of why touch screens are bad.... currently, right now, i have my laptop screen and an external 22" display plugged in. Both of them are currently OUT OF ARM'S REACH.
How is a touch screen going to help me again?
This. Trackpads don't have to be garbage. I highly recommend everyone try a Mac trackpad, see how they are supposed to work, and stop accepting the absolute fucking garbage being put out by PC laptop vendors.
Whether you are an Apple person or not, you are missing out on what a trackpad should be if you haven't tried a mac trackpad.
It's one of the major, major reasons I am happy to pay the apple tax. A trackpad that works means i don't need a mouse carted around and a surface to use it on to use my laptop efficiently.
I use a mouse pad because the teflon feet on the mouse glide over it better than my table, and i have actually scuffed the surface of a desk up before with a mouse.