- Microsoft's been a commercial company since 1981, and marketing reaches crowds. The first Windows came out 1985. - 6 years later... - Linux started as a hobby project in 1991, GPL'd a year later. It stayed too techy for the average user for the next 10 years (about).
Microsoft got a big head start in terms of exposure to the public, from a human-social-familiarity perspective this is why most people know of, and use Windows.
I'll be a hypocrite to dis Windows, since I've been coding on it for 12+ years, knowing the internals. Now that I'm learning the *nix internals however, I do see fundamental architectural differences.
Not always a result of bad implementation, but more from code and logic designed during a different age, some of which is now irrelevant and obsolete (information age and all). This opens up vulnerabilities and issues that weren't present at the time.
Being a geek I naturally gravitate towards that which I find technically appealing. Naturally that would be *nix. Us Linux fiends love it because it makes us feel like the first time we discovered computers all over again!
Sorry for the slight terminology mistake, these are actually Client Honeypots, similar in function but where honeypots are usually servers that wait for attacks, client honeypots are clients that actively go out and issue server requests.
The article could have elaborated a bit I'm sure. Like how this setup appears to be a honeypot, while they more than likely monitor the traffic through a transparent proxy.
They also could have setup snapshots before and after visiting each site, and do a diff of the file system and registry to see what files has been planted and which files/settings changed.
Obviously I can't confirm this, but that's what I would do.
No really folks, my mum had an issue recently, the government office used an ActiveX component, over the net, to calculate annual TAX, which caused clients to become unstable and crash. The horror, the horror.
I have never experienced hard drive crashes and shitty updates that broke something, while getting unsupported 3G and other hardware working. I bet you got ripped off by shelving out for Win(tm)-only hardware. Also check out this new book "PC's for Dummys", hope you can follow it with your IQ barely over room temperature.
A combination of text files that are stored on google.docs, which enables you to roam. Using the CL interface you can edit docs like they're on your local machine:
This is what happens when you don't double-check your clipboard contents. (The URLs being similar apart from one missing character is just coincidence)
I guess at this stage, the cells respond to the external stimulus in a very erratic way, and are quite 'unconscious' of the environment, if you will.
Maybe getting the external input into a format that the cells can interpret in an understandable level, and more cells are introduced to provide more 'brain power', then we will see intelligent learning.
Technically, even a screw is considered a machine. Everything more complex and more functional than a screw should then also be a machine, regardless if it contains biomass. No?
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Stating the timeline...
- Microsoft's been a commercial company since 1981, and marketing reaches crowds. The first Windows came out 1985.
- 6 years later...
- Linux started as a hobby project in 1991, GPL'd a year later. It stayed too techy for the average user for the next 10 years (about).
Microsoft got a big head start in terms of exposure to the public, from a human-social-familiarity perspective this is why most people know of, and use Windows.
I'll be a hypocrite to dis Windows, since I've been coding on it for 12+ years, knowing the internals. Now that I'm learning the *nix internals however, I do see fundamental architectural differences.
Not always a result of bad implementation, but more from code and logic designed during a different age, some of which is now irrelevant and obsolete (information age and all). This opens up vulnerabilities and issues that weren't present at the time.
Being a geek I naturally gravitate towards that which I find technically appealing. Naturally that would be *nix. Us Linux fiends love it because it makes us feel like the first time we discovered computers all over again!
Sorry for the slight terminology mistake, these are actually Client Honeypots, similar in function but where honeypots are usually servers that wait for attacks, client honeypots are clients that actively go out and issue server requests.
The article could have elaborated a bit I'm sure. Like how this setup appears to be a honeypot, while they more than likely monitor the traffic through a transparent proxy.
They also could have setup snapshots before and after visiting each site, and do a diff of the file system and registry to see what files has been planted and which files/settings changed.
Obviously I can't confirm this, but that's what I would do.
At one point, a van stopped to pick up hitchhikers.
Just don't use a Windows OS. (ducks and covers)
No really folks, my mum had an issue recently, the government office used an ActiveX component, over the net, to calculate annual TAX, which caused clients to become unstable and crash. The horror, the horror.
... manipulate complex visual images on a computer screen using only the mind
First thing that came to mind was, "Ooh, editing photos with the GIMP!"
For sure. Kids are destructive and I was no exception. Carving drawing and even burning desks was part of the adolescent regime.
+1 for lulz!
... or this tasty!
I don't get it either but I'm loving it! It just tickles my brains.
I have never experienced hard drive crashes and shitty updates that broke something, while getting unsupported 3G and other hardware working. I bet you got ripped off by shelving out for Win(tm)-only hardware. Also check out this new book "PC's for Dummys", hope you can follow it with your IQ barely over room temperature.
Remember that the classic window-and-widget UI metaphor as we know it today has been around since about 1973.
In one hand we need to embrace change to evolve, in the other, some people don't like change and will give you flak for your decisions.
Granted it won't be a flip-of-the-switch smooth change, but our attitudes to want to improve is key here.
I'm also uneasy about this, I won't lie. But I trust the Ubuntu design team to change metaphors much more than I do the MS Windows team.
A combination of text files that are stored on google.docs, which enables you to roam. Using the CL interface you can edit docs like they're on your local machine:
$ google docs edit "todos"
http://code.google.com/p/googlecl/
I'm enlightened. Thank you!!
The one post where 90% of /. users will actually read TFA
This is what happens when you don't double-check your clipboard contents. (The URLs being similar apart from one missing character is just coincidence)
The big bang itself didn't make any light. Photons simply couldn't exist in those conditions.
I have not considered that before! Great insight.
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Thanks clone, I should have been more pedantic in my search for links. I tend to overlook semantics in favor of the bigger picture.
How did I not know about this, thanks! :)
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I guess at this stage, the cells respond to the external stimulus in a very erratic way, and are quite 'unconscious' of the environment, if you will.
Maybe getting the external input into a format that the cells can interpret in an understandable level, and more cells are introduced to provide more 'brain power', then we will see intelligent learning.
Technically, even a screw is considered a machine. Everything more complex and more functional than a screw should then also be a machine, regardless if it contains biomass. No?
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