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If it's to do with advertising, I guess it's because they use exclusively Google-owned advertising networks for on the pages for their own services. I honestly don't see the problem with this (doesn't Microsoft do the exact same thing with Bing?)
IIRC, the problem is that Google's own services appear to be favoured in search rankings over competitors. I would think that this is primarily be because they're significantly more popular than the competitors, though, and not due to any bias on the part of Google.
A search for "email" on Google returns Hotmail as the first result and "web browser" gives an ad for IE, the wikipedia page for "web browser", Opera, and Firefox before Chrome appears. There doesn't seem to be anything particularly shady on there based on my rather unscientific test.
I think you would be on the phone to your ISP complaining about being under attack if I pointed my handy-dandy test rig at the public IP address you are using.
Aside from the fact that all those packets would likely just be instantly dropped by my firewall (I'm not running any public-facing services on my public IP), I wouldn't call my ISP about it. It's not their responsibility, their responsibility is simply to deliver packets destined for my public IP to my network (I could bring net neutrality into this here). If you did manage to DoS a public service I owned/ran, the sole responsibility for that would be on you.
How much memory an application can possibly use is set as a property/execution parameter and can only be altered between executions.
Most VMs do this. I believe.NET does it too. I won't pretend to understand the reasoning behind it. Why not set the limit for the VM at the process limit of the OS? (2GB or 3GB with LAA on 32-bit Windows, 8TB for 64-bit)
Usually the store will want to be compensated for the time the copy is not available. This is called rental. In the case of copying on the internet, the original copy is still available at all times.
I'm reporting my experience with the open source Radeon drivers. And compositing has next to no noticeable impact on Windows, so my guess is it's nVidia's fault here.
This is the first I've heard that a decent compositing window manager (ie. not early Compiz builds) actually significantly affecting 3D fps. Windows has used a compositing windows manager since Vista (dwm) and, if anything, FPS got better for windowed apps, and vsync is "free". The worst I've ever seen compositing affect fps (in non-alpha Compiz, GNOME3 or Unity) is in the single digits.
Last I checked, the XBox360 and the PS3 use PowerPC CPUs too. The XBox360 has a triple-core PowerPC CPU and the PS3's CPU is a single PowerPC core (PPE) with 7 SPEs.
IIRC, it's a fork of Cyanogenmod, and (the non-Android part of) CM is also GPL, so they'd have to also distribute the modifications to CM. This, I think, is the larger infringement that people are annoyed about?
So the new file transfer dialogs and task manager, multi-monitor taskbars, EAP support for WiFi, etc. are available out of the box in Windows 7? Please, tell me how.
if 'correcthorsebatterystaple' were a standard password creation method, a brute force using a decent dictionary would be quite plausible.
Would it be though? According to a study by Harvard and Google, there are around 1 million words in the english language. 10^24 possible combinations for a four-word password. Not sure that a brute force dictionary attack would be plausible on that search space.
Really? I've been running the game in a 1080p window, switching to other windows periodically for IM chat or web pages and I've never seen it crash from the ALT-TAB. And I'm running it on relatively ancient hardware too (Radeon 3870 X2, Core 2 Duo, 4GB RAM). Are you sure it's not a driver issue?
It's native to the windowing system on both the local and remote machine
I thought that modern linux toolkits (GTK and Qt) and windows managers (eg. kwin and metacity) render windows entirely offscreen and just tell X to draw the resulting pixmap. Remote X just sends that bitmap over the network to the remote host. There seem to be little efficiency to be gained by using remote X over VNC in this case
there is absolutely nothing I need to do to either system to pop up a remote display other than insert a 'DISPLAY=remote-host:0.0' in front of the command line.
You need to have a command line to start with. If you're starting from nothing, opening a VNC session is not really harder than opening an SSH session.
X11 doesn't "push push bitmaps around" unless you direct it to do so.
And it pretty much always does so nowadays given that's how most modern window managers and toolkits interact with X (all rendering is done offscreen and X is simply asked to draw the resulting pixmap)
I just checked out Victoria's MyKi system(which was not the one they cracked, but I imagine the one they cracked offers similar services) and they still have an option to buy anonymously.
No personally identifying information is stored on the Myki - just the balance and last 10 trips.
From the article it's pretty easy to guess that the cracked system was the ancient, magnetic-strip-on-paper-cards Metcard system. I highly doubt there's any tracking going on, that would require the people running the system to be competent
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It's not really a replacement for FAT, though. F2FS is very obviously designed for flash memory, whereas FAT is media-independent.
Jelly Bean's Play Store introduces DRM and that's incompatible with GPLv3.
I wasn't aware that the APK encryption in JellyBean was mandatory.
Nope
It varies by region also. This is what I get for email, in order: hotmail, gmail, yahoo mail, bigpond mail (I live in Australia), wikipedia
For maps: Google Maps, whereis.com, NBN Co rollout map (Australian), travelmate.com.au, wikipedia
If it's to do with advertising, I guess it's because they use exclusively Google-owned advertising networks for on the pages for their own services. I honestly don't see the problem with this (doesn't Microsoft do the exact same thing with Bing?)
IIRC, the problem is that Google's own services appear to be favoured in search rankings over competitors. I would think that this is primarily be because they're significantly more popular than the competitors, though, and not due to any bias on the part of Google.
A search for "email" on Google returns Hotmail as the first result and "web browser" gives an ad for IE, the wikipedia page for "web browser", Opera, and Firefox before Chrome appears. There doesn't seem to be anything particularly shady on there based on my rather unscientific test.
I think you would be on the phone to your ISP complaining about being under attack if I pointed my handy-dandy test rig at the public IP address you are using.
Aside from the fact that all those packets would likely just be instantly dropped by my firewall (I'm not running any public-facing services on my public IP), I wouldn't call my ISP about it. It's not their responsibility, their responsibility is simply to deliver packets destined for my public IP to my network (I could bring net neutrality into this here). If you did manage to DoS a public service I owned/ran, the sole responsibility for that would be on you.
The same model TiVo that lets you add disks to its RAID array?
Isn't this what hot spares are for?
How much memory an application can possibly use is set as a property/execution parameter and can only be altered between executions.
Most VMs do this. I believe .NET does it too. I won't pretend to understand the reasoning behind it. Why not set the limit for the VM at the process limit of the OS? (2GB or 3GB with LAA on 32-bit Windows, 8TB for 64-bit)
Usually the store will want to be compensated for the time the copy is not available. This is called rental. In the case of copying on the internet, the original copy is still available at all times.
I'm reporting my experience with the open source Radeon drivers. And compositing has next to no noticeable impact on Windows, so my guess is it's nVidia's fault here.
This is the first I've heard that a decent compositing window manager (ie. not early Compiz builds) actually significantly affecting 3D fps. Windows has used a compositing windows manager since Vista (dwm) and, if anything, FPS got better for windowed apps, and vsync is "free". The worst I've ever seen compositing affect fps (in non-alpha Compiz, GNOME3 or Unity) is in the single digits.
Thought - it all systems were clean-OS only, would you trust average Joe/Jane user to download and install a decent anti-virus package on their own?
Windows 8 includes the free MSE antivirus in Windows Defender now, so they don't need to
Last I checked, the XBox360 and the PS3 use PowerPC CPUs too. The XBox360 has a triple-core PowerPC CPU and the PS3's CPU is a single PowerPC core (PPE) with 7 SPEs.
IIRC, it's a fork of Cyanogenmod, and (the non-Android part of) CM is also GPL, so they'd have to also distribute the modifications to CM. This, I think, is the larger infringement that people are annoyed about?
Really?
So the new file transfer dialogs and task manager, multi-monitor taskbars, EAP support for WiFi, etc. are available out of the box in Windows 7? Please, tell me how.
if 'correcthorsebatterystaple' were a standard password creation method, a brute force using a decent dictionary would be quite plausible.
Would it be though? According to a study by Harvard and Google, there are around 1 million words in the english language. 10^24 possible combinations for a four-word password. Not sure that a brute force dictionary attack would be plausible on that search space.
Skyrim crashes every time within a few ALT-TABs
Really? I've been running the game in a 1080p window, switching to other windows periodically for IM chat or web pages and I've never seen it crash from the ALT-TAB. And I'm running it on relatively ancient hardware too (Radeon 3870 X2, Core 2 Duo, 4GB RAM). Are you sure it's not a driver issue?
Not on Windows RT. And sideloading on Windowst RT is only allowed for enterprise and developers (for the specific purpose of testing their own apps).
That's true, but most people would agree that TWM is horrendously ugly.
It's native to the windowing system on both the local and remote machine
I thought that modern linux toolkits (GTK and Qt) and windows managers (eg. kwin and metacity) render windows entirely offscreen and just tell X to draw the resulting pixmap. Remote X just sends that bitmap over the network to the remote host. There seem to be little efficiency to be gained by using remote X over VNC in this case
there is absolutely nothing I need to do to either system to pop up a remote display other than insert a 'DISPLAY=remote-host:0.0' in front of the command line.
You need to have a command line to start with. If you're starting from nothing, opening a VNC session is not really harder than opening an SSH session.
X11 doesn't "push push bitmaps around" unless you direct it to do so.
And it pretty much always does so nowadays given that's how most modern window managers and toolkits interact with X (all rendering is done offscreen and X is simply asked to draw the resulting pixmap)
I just checked out Victoria's MyKi system(which was not the one they cracked, but I imagine the one they cracked offers similar services) and they still have an option to buy anonymously.
No personally identifying information is stored on the Myki - just the balance and last 10 trips.
From the article it's pretty easy to guess that the cracked system was the ancient, magnetic-strip-on-paper-cards Metcard system. I highly doubt there's any tracking going on, that would require the people running the system to be competent