You can't advertise a service or a device as being secure, and then sell the keys to the locks to the highest bidder. Fuck RIM. I hope they burn. My wife wanted a blackberry on this last go round of upgrades. Nope.
Neither of those links say anything of the sort. If you actually read into the issue you'll see the primary issue is: The main problem is that the smartphone ecosystem does not comply with local regulations because it sends data outside the country.
And that the solution is to have a server in the country. WRT data encryption it is based on a symmetric key system, which as RIM said, isn't able to be decrypted as it goes through RIM's servers, the solution they have provided is a method to track email - if necessary - and then the security agencies can subpoena the corporation for the decrypted email.
i"m a JS developer, and the only time I've *ever* pegged a CPU with pure JS was when I was trying some recursion technique to traverse DOM information, and that's ONLY because I got > and confused for end point check and that was only for about 20 seconds because Firefox eventually shits itself when unchecked recursion runs.
and when designers start having to use JS for interactive content we're going to see many more instances of pegged CPU usage.
You really fail that hard at reading comprehension? Nowhere in TFA does it claim Predator outdoes Kinect at object tracking. It doesn't even mention 'object tracking' much less say it does it better than kinect.
Will there be a Slashdot asshole whining about each and every article posted? Seriously. Why can't you just go to the next article?
Because he *must* let people know that it's inconvenient to have to skip uninteresting stories - but doesn't want to moderate stories. Now, off to post the same thing in the Windows 8 app store article......!
I wouldn't say my machine is more secure than that of WordPress -- although, since theirs has been compromised and mine has not, I guess that's open for debate. One big difference is, I know what and where my vulnerabilities are, and I have my fingers in there daily so I'll know pretty quickly if and when someone breaks in. When hosting stuff on Other Peoples' Servers, you never really know for sure if they are secure, how secure they are, etc. Until you find out the hard way, of course.
Not to mention they have a myriad of processes so going through and exploiting just one of those through social engineering will probably net you something. On my system no-one else needs access to it, whereas 'cloud' businesses are built on many people having access to the system so naturally that's an easier social engineering target.
Exactly. Plus I seriously doubt they are going to get anywhere near the performance or efficiency that Linux (Android Linux, other Linuxes) or iOS does on ARM because they are so late to the game. I bet it would take years to tune it to work "well enough", which would STILL be way behind the competition.
Haven't they been working on minwin for years now? There's no reason to think they will have performance issues given the amount of time they've spent stripping down the kernel. And of course anything written in.Net will run fine assuming they've ported the CLR. Im not sure what you're referring to with 'efficiency'.
It's too little, too late. Even if Microsoft was able to get "true" Windows working perfectly on arm, what about all the 3rd party apps? What about Office? Outlook? Anything that matters in the Microsoft ecosystem?
Have you heard of.Net? All they need to do is write an ARM implementation of the CLR - something i'd wager they've already done - and they're good to go with all.Net apps. Why do you think there was the heavy transition by MS of so many of their apps to the.Net platform with the release of Vista and 7?
Windows can't open OOXML documents. Office can. That's a whole 'nother kettle of fish, they had big problems getting Office for Mac from PowerPC to x86, and reportedly the Office for Windows codebase is even older and more convoluted. It'll be hard if not impossible to port to ARM.
They already have office mobile running on ARM that can open ooxml documents.
Nope, when you're talking about writing software for a particular platform that platform is the specification of the layer your software is running on top of and that can be hardware or software. It isn't the runtime, for example the.Net runtime is the CLR, MS's runtime implementation of the.Net platform (the Common Language Infrastructure) and if you develop for the.Net platform (the CLI) you can run on the CLR or Mono runtimes.
imagine if your ability to use those devices for your own personal use was severely curtailed somehow. no jailbreaking on the iPhone. no modding/building/upgrading your PC. no open-app environment on Android devices.
It's simple, Sony removed otherOS, that pissed me off so i'm not going to buy the next Sony console and i buy PS3-exclusives second hand. I don't like it so I'll no longer support them. I'm not going to go and disrupt the experience of other customers - who don't care about otherOS removal - just because they don't see it from my point of view though.
what's being debated here is whether consumers should be dictating what corporations ultimately produce, or if corporations should ultimately dictate all of the things you can do with their "product".
No-one's taking that power from you, no-one says you have to buy their products, no-one says you can't build and sell your own free open-source console or phone.
Have you actually read that? They aren't selling you a license at all.
Also, you're an idiot. You keep claiming that your argument only applies to music, but then you refer to "copyright owner", "copyright law" and "copyright holders". Music is not some special category of copyrighted work that gets treated differently, as I've pointed out a few times now.
Just because it applies to music in the confines of copyright law doesn't mean it applies to everything covered by copyright law. When you buy software it almost always comes with a EULA where the owner stipulates the licensing terms, when you buy music it doesn't come with a EULA and the terms of use are simply those laid out by copyright law.
Your claims about "copyright" in general might happen to be generally accurate if "copyright" only applies to music, but in reality it happens to not. What's more, even if they are generally accurate about music, they are only coincidentally so because of the music industry's typical licensing practice.
And that's exactly what im discussing, you can write a contract to dictate the terms of just about anything, but the music industry does not do this unlike say the software industry - also copyright material - that does do this.
Really? You are really that stupid? They lose the ability to exercise the right of sole distribution, this is a fact. If nothing was lost then no damages would be awarded, clearly a multitude of court cases prove you wrong.
You are wrong. Since you have been informed of the truth and reject the truth
No, i actually know something about copyright law, unlike you and i'm staying within the context of the discussion, unlike you. And, as I said, you'll continue on this 'fair use' off-topic discussion because you can't bear to admit you're wrong regarding the fact that something has been 'taken' wrt unauthorised copying.
then there's nothing else to be said.
Oh bullshit, you know you're lying, you'll continue to reply.
Feel free to teach me how Fair Use is unrelated to distribution if you like.
Are you blind? I quite clearly corrected you after you made this assertion before, i'm not trying to teach you about fair use. Read this again a few more times just so you don't post the same thing yet again.
And a copyright owner "loses" nothing more than a sofa owner loses when a work is copied in violation of copyright or a photo of the sofa is made.
Really? You are really that stupid? They lose the ability to exercise the right of sole distribution, this is a fact. If nothing was lost then no damages would be awarded, clearly a multitude of court cases prove you wrong.
With the previous menubar system we could do alt key shortcuts with visual feedback as to where our keystrokes went. MS has destroyed this with the ribbon.
What are you talking about? Are you just an anti-MS troll or do you not know what ribbon is? Using the alt key shortcuts continues to work and gives even *more* feedback than the menubar system.
Toolbars were easy to customise and this could be done via macros when necessary, again MS has messed this up.
Given the utter nonsense of your first comment it's probably pointless to even ask exactly what you're having trouble with in regard to customising ribbons, because AFAICT they are just as easy and just as customizable.
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You can't advertise a service or a device as being secure, and then sell the keys to the locks to the highest bidder. Fuck RIM. I hope they burn. My wife wanted a blackberry on this last go round of upgrades. Nope.
What keys? wtf are you talking about?
whats not fair is RIM backdooring their product to appease third word oppressive regimes.
They didn't. Prove it or shut up.
Uh, yeah. They did.
Neither of those links say anything of the sort. If you actually read into the issue you'll see the primary issue is:
The main problem is that the smartphone ecosystem does not comply with local regulations because it sends data outside the country.
And that the solution is to have a server in the country. WRT data encryption it is based on a symmetric key system, which as RIM said, isn't able to be decrypted as it goes through RIM's servers, the solution they have provided is a method to track email - if necessary - and then the security agencies can subpoena the corporation for the decrypted email.
i"m a JS developer, and the only time I've *ever* pegged a CPU with pure JS was when I was trying some recursion technique to traverse DOM information, and that's ONLY because I got > and confused for end point check and that was only for about 20 seconds because Firefox eventually shits itself when unchecked recursion runs.
and when designers start having to use JS for interactive content we're going to see many more instances of pegged CPU usage.
In the same way that shit on a shoe is infinately better than shit on a shoe that has no shit?
No.
No, the linked article made that claim.
You really fail that hard at reading comprehension? Nowhere in TFA does it claim Predator outdoes Kinect at object tracking. It doesn't even mention 'object tracking' much less say it does it better than kinect.
You sound like you a parroting something you heard but don't really understand it.
Stop it.
Yes, im sure the developer of libfreenect doesn't know what he's talking about. You, on the other hand, post an inflammatory comment with no basis.
Errr... TFS says it's about savegames with download content activated.
Errr...you think DLCs don't/can't get pirated?
...legitimate *customers* get screwed. What's the bet the pirated version didn't have this problem?
Will there be a Slashdot asshole whining about each and every article posted? Seriously. Why can't you just go to the next article?
Because he *must* let people know that it's inconvenient to have to skip uninteresting stories - but doesn't want to moderate stories. Now, off to post the same thing in the Windows 8 app store article......!
I wouldn't say my machine is more secure than that of WordPress -- although, since theirs has been compromised and mine has not, I guess that's open for debate. One big difference is, I know what and where my vulnerabilities are, and I have my fingers in there daily so I'll know pretty quickly if and when someone breaks in. When hosting stuff on Other Peoples' Servers, you never really know for sure if they are secure, how secure they are, etc. Until you find out the hard way, of course.
Not to mention they have a myriad of processes so going through and exploiting just one of those through social engineering will probably net you something. On my system no-one else needs access to it, whereas 'cloud' businesses are built on many people having access to the system so naturally that's an easier social engineering target.
Was it too complicated a word so we needed to dumb it down to the picture used to represent it in network diagrams?!
while your data is tethered to a noose?
mixed metaphor much?
And you know it's going to need antivirus software so start betting on 4+ cores and a couple of gigs of RAM as a minimum configuration.
How many viruses have you actually had on your system? what were they?
Exactly. Plus I seriously doubt they are going to get anywhere near the performance or efficiency that Linux (Android Linux, other Linuxes) or iOS does on ARM because they are so late to the game. I bet it would take years to tune it to work "well enough", which would STILL be way behind the competition.
Haven't they been working on minwin for years now? There's no reason to think they will have performance issues given the amount of time they've spent stripping down the kernel. And of course anything written in .Net will run fine assuming they've ported the CLR. Im not sure what you're referring to with 'efficiency'.
It's too little, too late. Even if Microsoft was able to get "true" Windows working perfectly on arm, what about all the 3rd party apps? What about Office? Outlook? Anything that matters in the Microsoft ecosystem?
Have you heard of .Net? All they need to do is write an ARM implementation of the CLR - something i'd wager they've already done - and they're good to go with all .Net apps. Why do you think there was the heavy transition by MS of so many of their apps to the .Net platform with the release of Vista and 7?
Windows can't open OOXML documents. Office can. That's a whole 'nother kettle of fish, they had big problems getting Office for Mac from PowerPC to x86, and reportedly the Office for Windows codebase is even older and more convoluted. It'll be hard if not impossible to port to ARM.
They already have office mobile running on ARM that can open ooxml documents.
I think you mean "runtime."
Nope, when you're talking about writing software for a particular platform that platform is the specification of the layer your software is running on top of and that can be hardware or software. It isn't the runtime, for example the .Net runtime is the CLR, MS's runtime implementation of the .Net platform (the Common Language Infrastructure) and if you develop for the .Net platform (the CLI) you can run on the CLR or Mono runtimes.
This is why you always need the source and the signing keys to the software that runs on your devices. Always.
So you have the source and signing keys for every bit of software that runs on every device you have?
imagine if your ability to use those devices for your own personal use was severely curtailed somehow. no jailbreaking on the iPhone. no modding/building/upgrading your PC. no open-app environment on Android devices.
It's simple, Sony removed otherOS, that pissed me off so i'm not going to buy the next Sony console and i buy PS3-exclusives second hand. I don't like it so I'll no longer support them. I'm not going to go and disrupt the experience of other customers - who don't care about otherOS removal - just because they don't see it from my point of view though.
what's being debated here is whether consumers should be dictating what corporations ultimately produce, or if corporations should ultimately dictate all of the things you can do with their "product".
No-one's taking that power from you, no-one says you have to buy their products, no-one says you can't build and sell your own free open-source console or phone.
Do I feel bad for the customers that got effected, like PSN? Nope, wake up and smell reality.
So you feel it's ok for people to be punished simply because they don't share your point of view?
The fact is in the real world no-one uses EULAs or any derivation thereof to sell music to consumers
Sure they do. Here's one.
Have you actually read that? They aren't selling you a license at all.
Also, you're an idiot. You keep claiming that your argument only applies to music, but then you refer to "copyright owner", "copyright law" and "copyright holders". Music is not some special category of copyrighted work that gets treated differently, as I've pointed out a few times now.
Just because it applies to music in the confines of copyright law doesn't mean it applies to everything covered by copyright law. When you buy software it almost always comes with a EULA where the owner stipulates the licensing terms, when you buy music it doesn't come with a EULA and the terms of use are simply those laid out by copyright law.
Your claims about "copyright" in general might happen to be generally accurate if "copyright" only applies to music, but in reality it happens to not. What's more, even if they are generally accurate about music, they are only coincidentally so because of the music industry's typical licensing practice.
And that's exactly what im discussing, you can write a contract to dictate the terms of just about anything, but the music industry does not do this unlike say the software industry - also copyright material - that does do this.
"Platform" has had a pretty standard definition for many years now - it means the hardware.
Yeah right...who standardised this definition and where can i buy this Java platform hardware? Or this .Net platform hardware?
Really? You are really that stupid? They lose the ability to exercise the right of sole distribution, this is a fact. If nothing was lost then no damages would be awarded, clearly a multitude of court cases prove you wrong.
You are wrong. Since you have been informed of the truth and reject the truth
No, i actually know something about copyright law, unlike you and i'm staying within the context of the discussion, unlike you. And, as I said, you'll continue on this 'fair use' off-topic discussion because you can't bear to admit you're wrong regarding the fact that something has been 'taken' wrt unauthorised copying.
then there's nothing else to be said.
Oh bullshit, you know you're lying, you'll continue to reply.
Feel free to teach me how Fair Use is unrelated to distribution if you like.
Are you blind? I quite clearly corrected you after you made this assertion before, i'm not trying to teach you about fair use. Read this again a few more times just so you don't post the same thing yet again.
And a copyright owner "loses" nothing more than a sofa owner loses when a work is copied in violation of copyright or a photo of the sofa is made.
Really? You are really that stupid? They lose the ability to exercise the right of sole distribution, this is a fact. If nothing was lost then no damages would be awarded, clearly a multitude of court cases prove you wrong.
With the previous menubar system we could do alt key shortcuts with visual feedback as to where our keystrokes went. MS has destroyed this with the ribbon.
What are you talking about? Are you just an anti-MS troll or do you not know what ribbon is? Using the alt key shortcuts continues to work and gives even *more* feedback than the menubar system.
Toolbars were easy to customise and this could be done via macros when necessary, again MS has messed this up.
Given the utter nonsense of your first comment it's probably pointless to even ask exactly what you're having trouble with in regard to customising ribbons, because AFAICT they are just as easy and just as customizable.