If he cared about his offspring, why did he own a gun? (And even if he had some need to own one, why not lock it into a safe?) Even the simplest mind should know a weapon is dangerous, and should not be near a child. He was careless.
I don't really feel sorry for them. If they are dumb enough to disable updating, then they should bear the responsibility. If they install botnets, then it's their fault. If they don't install any Anti-Virus software themselves, they will have to live without. No one forces people to use Windows.
Using a VM for banking doesn't improve your security very much. The traffic still goes over your OS, so if it's compromised, you've lost. Using a VM for everything besides banking might help though. But that's quite wasteful. A much better method, and more secure, is to boot from CD.
Or do what I do: Be more paranoid than most people with security, use a regularly updated non-mainstream OS, a regularly updated Browser, disable security holes like Flash, JavaScript, PDF Plugin functionality and similar.
Weak encryption? What was that guy smoking? AES is state-of-the-art, it's security is widely considered sufficient: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Encryption_Standard#Security. While there exist attacks on AES 256 which make it a bit less secure, it's still almost as secure as AES 128 which is used in FileVault by default.
Apple already has decoders that are properly licensed in QuickTime, so all they have to do is use those in Safari. A technology Firefox can use as well with plugins.
It is not the duty and right of random corporations to commits act of vigilante justice. Until Wikileaks is sentenced by a court, they should not be punished. And once they are, the govermnent should punish them.
The world would be quite a chaotic place if everyone could do anything under the guise of enforcing his own law.
It seems quite stupid to give some random, untrustworthy company access to the IP address data of visitors of a government network. That probably violated a few privacy laws.
And the only result is some boring, low resolution pseudo 3D graph? What a waste.
Excellent! I am really interested in seeing how the GLSL support turned out.
Qt is the best Cross-Platform Framework I've worked with so far. And while it doesn't have the integration and elegance of Apple's APIs, it works on the three big platforms.
Some facts are private, like this one apparently. Privacy laws are not everywhere as worthless as in the USA. Past convictions, medical history and many other things are not something that the general public is supposed to know.
I am sure there exist facts that you would prefer to not be publicly known and be it only your passwords to your bank account and nude pictures of your imaginary girlfriend.
It's always risky to execute code downloaded from the Web, be it JavaScript, Flash content, Java Code or ActiveX. NoScript can help mitigate that risk by offering WhiteListing in Firefox. It might not be too convenient, but security seems to be worth it to me.
For 1: User authentication does not help against data loss due to stolen or lost hardware. Local access means root access, unless encryption is used. And Apple can't turn on FileVault by default since users that aren't careful (master password, write their password down and store it in a safe) would just forget their passwords and lose access to their data permanently. For 2: The purpose of a firewall is to filter traffic to open ports. Mac OS X has no open ports by default. Any services the user chooses to run have to get a hole in the firewall anyway to work. So how exactly would turning the firewall on by default help the security against intrusion?
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If he cared about his offspring, why did he own a gun? (And even if he had some need to own one, why not lock it into a safe?) Even the simplest mind should know a weapon is dangerous, and should not be near a child.
He was careless.
Who cares what the courts decide?
The law states "No software patents". That's it. All courts can do is apply the law.
If this were a federally-regulated bank they would not be able to do this.
to bring the American Economy to it's knees instead.
Did you forget to type half of your sentence?
And where do you think the VM gets it's key strokes from? :)
I don't really feel sorry for them. If they are dumb enough to disable updating, then they should bear the responsibility. If they install botnets, then it's their fault. If they don't install any Anti-Virus software themselves, they will have to live without. No one forces people to use Windows.
Using a VM for banking doesn't improve your security very much. The traffic still goes over your OS, so if it's compromised, you've lost. Using a VM for everything besides banking might help though. But that's quite wasteful. A much better method, and more secure, is to boot from CD.
Or do what I do: Be more paranoid than most people with security, use a regularly updated non-mainstream OS, a regularly updated Browser, disable security holes like Flash, JavaScript, PDF Plugin functionality and similar.
The IP was owned by the emloyees. They created it after all. That CEO had no right to STEAL the products of the hard work of the employees.
Weak encryption? What was that guy smoking? AES is state-of-the-art, it's security is widely considered sufficient: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Encryption_Standard#Security. While there exist attacks on AES 256 which make it a bit less secure, it's still almost as secure as AES 128 which is used in FileVault by default.
Just buy a lot of Nexi Ones for 49$, and sell them for material price! I am going to be rich!
I didn't expect google of all companies to be braindead enough to subsidize unlocked phones...
Apple already has decoders that are properly licensed in QuickTime, so all they have to do is use those in Safari. A technology Firefox can use as well with plugins.
Why not just switch carriers and keep the phone you have?
It could probably easily work with a small photovoltaic cell and a capacitor/rechargeable battery. At least my watch does :)
It seems quite stupid to give some random, untrustworthy company access to the IP address data of visitors of a government network.
Government offices rarely give data to random, untrustworthy companies. They have specific companies they contract with.
Yes, but in this case it was obviously not a trustworthy one. Just look at this article! They posted it on youtube!
That probably violated a few privacy laws.
Why do you say that? Which privacy laws mandate the government may never hire private sector contractors?
Hireing is one thing, telling them who visited their network an other. And letting them post the results on the web a completely different.
It is not the duty and right of random corporations to commits act of vigilante justice. Until Wikileaks is sentenced by a court, they should not be punished. And once they are, the govermnent should punish them.
The world would be quite a chaotic place if everyone could do anything under the guise of enforcing his own law.
Why would you want to do that? You don't expect evil people to use botnet nodes in every country?
That was the first thing I thought of.
It seems quite stupid to give some random, untrustworthy company access to the IP address data of visitors of a government network. That probably violated a few privacy laws.
And the only result is some boring, low resolution pseudo 3D graph? What a waste.
I'd call it "sale contract"
Excellent! I am really interested in seeing how the GLSL support turned out.
Qt is the best Cross-Platform Framework I've worked with so far. And while it doesn't have the integration and elegance of Apple's APIs, it works on the three big platforms.
Does it work like the TouchPad on Mac Books gesture wise? I am mainly interested in the basic gestures such as click and dragging.
It seems to have worked quite well so far.
It depends on the fact.
Some facts are private, like this one apparently. Privacy laws are not everywhere as worthless as in the USA.
Past convictions, medical history and many other things are not something that the general public is supposed to know.
I am sure there exist facts that you would prefer to not be publicly known and be it only your passwords to your bank account and nude pictures of your imaginary girlfriend.
How did you come to that ridiculous conclusion?
It's always risky to execute code downloaded from the Web, be it JavaScript, Flash content, Java Code or ActiveX. NoScript can help mitigate that risk by offering WhiteListing in Firefox. It might not be too convenient, but security seems to be worth it to me.
For 1: User authentication does not help against data loss due to stolen or lost hardware. Local access means root access, unless encryption is used. And Apple can't turn on FileVault by default since users that aren't careful (master password, write their password down and store it in a safe) would just forget their passwords and lose access to their data permanently.
For 2: The purpose of a firewall is to filter traffic to open ports. Mac OS X has no open ports by default. Any services the user chooses to run have to get a hole in the firewall anyway to work. So how exactly would turning the firewall on by default help the security against intrusion?
What does this have to do with GCD?