Isn't Xinhua correct in this though? There's no lies - Google tried to change Chinese society and bring American values in it, just like is done in Iraq but only with military.
This is nothing new, the same has been done with Hollywood and other mass culture for long time. Just play Civilization - you can spread your culture and slowly your enemies cities will want to join you.
I disagree with that POV. The internet is its own society which is free from cultural and geological borders. That's the power of the Internet. The fact that EVERYONE is equal, irregardless of their location, political beliefs, language, religion, etc, etc, etc makes it it's own society. When a country tries to limit or control the internet, it is either because they don't understand it, or they fear it. This is especially true in cultures of control such as China and Iran. They are afraid of the internet, because it gives people access to a truly free society. The failure here is that almost no government believes that the Internet is a sovereign society.
Is this why US law like DMCA is imposed to me even while I don't live in US? Google removes results based on DMCA notices on all of their sites, not just google.com.
China tries to control it's own Internet. USA tries to control the whole Internet. Which one is worse?
And when everyone does this, what do you think will happen?
Besides that point, how is that going to protect against targeted attacks too? If your company is specifically targeted, it doesn't matter what OS you're running. The malware will be tailored to run on it.
So you seriously think malware creators choosing Windows as a target has nothing to do with the fact that almost everyone uses it, and the fact that those running Linux as a desktop know at least something about computers. If the roles were reversed and all the casual and incompetent users would be using Linux, we would see the same amount of malware there. Linux also would be a differently designed, as people need to be able to buy software from stores or download them from the internet, not just from the package maintainer (unless you want a totally closed PC like iPhone or iPad, and even Apple isn't stupid enough to try to do such restrictions on Mac OS X)
Too many Linux/OSX users sit there thinking "I use Unix. I have no need for security software". Especially the ones who were sold the idea on the grounds that 'there are no viruses for this'.
And this will lead to serious problems in future. "Yeah I'm safe from viruses, Apple told me so!". There are already malware for Mac OS X, and if Linux ever catches up with Windows/Mac market share, there will be a lot more malware for Linuxes too. In fact, malware on Linux precedeses Windows. But of course new users are just sold the idea that "linux is safe" and will believe so to the end.
He is either stupid or just trolling. Newer Windows are just as secure as Linux/BSD. It's the users who are dumb and as a mainstream OS and the one that everyone uses, there's going to be idiots.
To see how clueless people actually are, see comments on this article. People were googling for "facebook login" and suddenly that page jumped on top of results.
Its the same fight the RIAA is making. Its not about piracy, its about deciding what you watch, listens to and buys.
When has RIAA decided for you what you should watch? Sure, if you like bands under the labels that work with RIAA, those labels might go towards more popular music. It doesn't mean they're deciding what you can listen - you're free to go to any local pub, event or even look for indie music on the internet. There are a lot websites for non-signed artists to release their music and RIAA has no saying over that since the artists haven't given them permission to do so. You do know that RIAA doesn't just blindly attack sharing of any music, but only music by artists who have (or their labels have) authorized them to do so.
I was more surprised by the title, and then summary disappointed me with Farmville and other crap. Where have the actual business games gone? We had titles like Capitalism II, all the different kinds of tycoon, simulators... Where are those now?
The later ones you listed are content delivery networks (CDN). They're mostly used for static things like images. Besides that, signing up with them requires an established business and large up-front payments. Akamai's offices here in Stockholm are close to our place and we've done business with them, and it's nowhere near like just ordering a server from hosting company. Both of those reasons are why they probably don't have as much abuse.
How does the DRM affect you? It's merely there to enable/ you to play DRM'd files. It doesn't restrict you with anything. But if you have such files, it allows you to play them. How is that worse than Linux where you can't play them at all?
Forced to upgrade? IE8 works just fine on XP and will continue to do so.
Regardless of your default browser, MS update launches IE. How long before it requires IE 9, thereby cutting you out of any further updates?
Do you understand how ridiculous that sounds? Even if some application would launch IE instead of default browser, it would be the IE version installed on the system. Not a specific version.
For another, Windows XP is only two versions out of date. For comparison's sake, Windows XP was released in October of 2001. Red Hat Linux 7.2 was released in the same month. Since then, there have been three releases of Red Hat Linux, and twelve of Fedora. Red Hat Linux 7.2, despite being released at the same time as Windows XP, is a full fifteen versions out of date, while Windows XP is only two versions out of date.
You do know you cannot really compare software like this?
You might want to get on with the times. It's been many years since MS actually promoted vendor lock-in. More than that, Google joined in the fun too - paying browser manufacturers like Firefox to explicitly have Google as the default search engine.
If you're doing a lot of server installs, you should get one of those screens with keyboards you just carry with you and plug-in. Server staff in the company I work at use such and they're really convenient.
Also, I've heard that one of the large companies, HostGator, gets 1500 new customers every day and they catch around 500 of them being malicious/spammers (even with phone verification!). With that huge amount of customers, and the good-to-bad ratio, it's no surprise if some slip in.
I do agree they are more targeted but that is a price they have to pay for their size... Also, what about the hundreds of complains I sent? I've never got one single reply.
Lets take this into another scenario. USA is the main source of spam on the Internet. Does this mean USA as a whole is bad?
I'm fairly certain that they have specialized security/response teams. The difference between small and big companies is that the big ones are known by everyone. Even if they have a prompt response team they can't pre-screen servers, and even snooping around in them would be illegal. Obviously the huge companies will be better known to everyone and hence get more customers, good and bad.
Would you blacklist Google too? They are on the lists too. It's not the problem that they would be actively friendly towards such activity, it's that they're so big companies that they get abused.
Some of the ISP's in the list are huge hosting companies, namely ThePlanet, Layered Tech, Leaseweb, OVH.. You have no idea how big they are unless you've visited one of their data centers. They host millions of servers. How would they check it all? For that matter, who wants their data center staff snooping around in your server?
Being one of the largest hosting companies in the planet obviously brings in bad guys too.
You forgot tablets, and XP/Vista/Win7 are used in those too. With those you might actually flip the screen quite often - I do with my mobile phone too.
It's relevant because operating systems improve over time. The underlying system has changed and improved a lot too, hence programs made for newer OS don't work with the old ones. At some point it's good to jump off the sinking ship rather than hold on die a horrible death.
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Isn't Xinhua correct in this though? There's no lies - Google tried to change Chinese society and bring American values in it, just like is done in Iraq but only with military.
This is nothing new, the same has been done with Hollywood and other mass culture for long time. Just play Civilization - you can spread your culture and slowly your enemies cities will want to join you.
I disagree with that POV. The internet is its own society which is free from cultural and geological borders. That's the power of the Internet. The fact that EVERYONE is equal, irregardless of their location, political beliefs, language, religion, etc, etc, etc makes it it's own society. When a country tries to limit or control the internet, it is either because they don't understand it, or they fear it. This is especially true in cultures of control such as China and Iran. They are afraid of the internet, because it gives people access to a truly free society. The failure here is that almost no government believes that the Internet is a sovereign society.
Is this why US law like DMCA is imposed to me even while I don't live in US? Google removes results based on DMCA notices on all of their sites, not just google.com.
China tries to control it's own Internet. USA tries to control the whole Internet. Which one is worse?
And when everyone does this, what do you think will happen?
Besides that point, how is that going to protect against targeted attacks too? If your company is specifically targeted, it doesn't matter what OS you're running. The malware will be tailored to run on it.
So you seriously think malware creators choosing Windows as a target has nothing to do with the fact that almost everyone uses it, and the fact that those running Linux as a desktop know at least something about computers. If the roles were reversed and all the casual and incompetent users would be using Linux, we would see the same amount of malware there. Linux also would be a differently designed, as people need to be able to buy software from stores or download them from the internet, not just from the package maintainer (unless you want a totally closed PC like iPhone or iPad, and even Apple isn't stupid enough to try to do such restrictions on Mac OS X)
Too many Linux/OSX users sit there thinking "I use Unix. I have no need for security software". Especially the ones who were sold the idea on the grounds that 'there are no viruses for this'.
And this will lead to serious problems in future. "Yeah I'm safe from viruses, Apple told me so!". There are already malware for Mac OS X, and if Linux ever catches up with Windows/Mac market share, there will be a lot more malware for Linuxes too. In fact, malware on Linux precedeses Windows. But of course new users are just sold the idea that "linux is safe" and will believe so to the end.
He is either stupid or just trolling. Newer Windows are just as secure as Linux/BSD. It's the users who are dumb and as a mainstream OS and the one that everyone uses, there's going to be idiots.
To see how clueless people actually are, see comments on this article. People were googling for "facebook login" and suddenly that page jumped on top of results.
Stop letting users use your computers
Yes! While we're on it, lets fire all the people in the company! They just bring expenses and fuck things up!
Its the same fight the RIAA is making. Its not about piracy, its about deciding what you watch, listens to and buys.
When has RIAA decided for you what you should watch? Sure, if you like bands under the labels that work with RIAA, those labels might go towards more popular music. It doesn't mean they're deciding what you can listen - you're free to go to any local pub, event or even look for indie music on the internet. There are a lot websites for non-signed artists to release their music and RIAA has no saying over that since the artists haven't given them permission to do so. You do know that RIAA doesn't just blindly attack sharing of any music, but only music by artists who have (or their labels have) authorized them to do so.
Wouldn't this be a good slashdot poll? Maybe we should put kdawson in charge.
I don't think it's so easy to find an equivalent to him. He is like Jack Thompson, with an Australian bush hat.
There's this term called "aiding and abetting" you might want to look up sometime.
If you are aware of illegal activity, you can't just turn a blind eye and tell the whiners to screw off and tell the cops.
Because IF the cops find out you knew about it and didn't report it, *your* ass goes in the cooler too.
So you are saying The Pirate Bay guys are going to jail?
I was more surprised by the title, and then summary disappointed me with Farmville and other crap. Where have the actual business games gone? We had titles like Capitalism II, all the different kinds of tycoon, simulators... Where are those now?
The later ones you listed are content delivery networks (CDN). They're mostly used for static things like images. Besides that, signing up with them requires an established business and large up-front payments. Akamai's offices here in Stockholm are close to our place and we've done business with them, and it's nowhere near like just ordering a server from hosting company. Both of those reasons are why they probably don't have as much abuse.
How does the DRM affect you? It's merely there to enable/ you to play DRM'd files. It doesn't restrict you with anything. But if you have such files, it allows you to play them. How is that worse than Linux where you can't play them at all?
Forced to upgrade? IE8 works just fine on XP and will continue to do so.
Regardless of your default browser, MS update launches IE. How long before it requires IE 9, thereby cutting you out of any further updates?
Do you understand how ridiculous that sounds? Even if some application would launch IE instead of default browser, it would be the IE version installed on the system. Not a specific version.
For another, Windows XP is only two versions out of date. For comparison's sake, Windows XP was released in October of 2001. Red Hat Linux 7.2 was released in the same month. Since then, there have been three releases of Red Hat Linux, and twelve of Fedora. Red Hat Linux 7.2, despite being released at the same time as Windows XP, is a full fifteen versions out of date, while Windows XP is only two versions out of date.
You do know you cannot really compare software like this?
You might want to get on with the times. It's been many years since MS actually promoted vendor lock-in. More than that, Google joined in the fun too - paying browser manufacturers like Firefox to explicitly have Google as the default search engine.
If you're doing a lot of server installs, you should get one of those screens with keyboards you just carry with you and plug-in. Server staff in the company I work at use such and they're really convenient.
Also, I've heard that one of the large companies, HostGator, gets 1500 new customers every day and they catch around 500 of them being malicious/spammers (even with phone verification!). With that huge amount of customers, and the good-to-bad ratio, it's no surprise if some slip in.
I do agree they are more targeted but that is a price they have to pay for their size ... Also, what about the hundreds of complains I sent? I've never got one single reply.
Lets take this into another scenario. USA is the main source of spam on the Internet. Does this mean USA as a whole is bad?
I'm fairly certain that they have specialized security/response teams. The difference between small and big companies is that the big ones are known by everyone. Even if they have a prompt response team they can't pre-screen servers, and even snooping around in them would be illegal. Obviously the huge companies will be better known to everyone and hence get more customers, good and bad.
Would you blacklist Google too? They are on the lists too. It's not the problem that they would be actively friendly towards such activity, it's that they're so big companies that they get abused.
Some of the ISP's in the list are huge hosting companies, namely ThePlanet, Layered Tech, Leaseweb, OVH.. You have no idea how big they are unless you've visited one of their data centers. They host millions of servers. How would they check it all? For that matter, who wants their data center staff snooping around in your server?
Being one of the largest hosting companies in the planet obviously brings in bad guys too.
You forgot tablets, and XP/Vista/Win7 are used in those too. With those you might actually flip the screen quite often - I do with my mobile phone too.
It's relevant because operating systems improve over time. The underlying system has changed and improved a lot too, hence programs made for newer OS don't work with the old ones. At some point it's good to jump off the sinking ship rather than hold on die a horrible death.