No, history has not been made, Facebook was just covering their own butts before they got too embarrassed, Mark Zuckerbergs Facebook Page Hacked.
Just proving once again that to get anything done in securing sites, someone important has to be compromised.
And then came the Lego food riots, the Lego Revolution, the Lego Five Year Plans, the Great Lego Patriotic War... From Lego With Love... the fall of the Lego Wall... the rise of the Legoligarchs...
Sense there is no doubt that they will keep doing this to anyone and everyone, just put a positive spin on it. Instead of Starbucks using your face for free advertisement, your Facebook posts are being sponsored by Starbucks! You can go trolling with Starbucks logo always adorning your posts, the ever vigilant muse of overpriced caffeinated beverages giving you credence to bid your friends to come and partake. Whats That?!? Jerry is endorsing Mc Donald's? I must head over and eat some Big Macs because my Facebook friend has a huge golden M logo right next to his face!
I was looking around trying to figure it out myself. I couldn't find anything concrete, but I would assume its for these 2 reasons:
1. NASA has a lot of geeks, and geeks tend to like Linux and Android rather than the Iphone.
2. I would assume its much easier to make and load custom apps on an Android device than a Iphone, which they will need if the astronauts are going to use these phones.
But you cannot deny this is a good start. If Firefox can initiate a standard for a Do Not Track. Perhaps Congress can bind it with the No Tracking Bill, and make it so users who wish to opt out wont have to hunt around for a damn check box all over creation. This can't do any harm, and has a possibility of making everyone's life a whole lot easier.
Lawyers don't truly want to stop technological progress, they want to get rich while technology progresses. Sure a few may truly believe that improvements in technology will be the downfall of their profession (as many of us keep wishing). But any lawyer worth his suit jacket has realized that emerging technology is an amazing way to earn great money, and ingrain themselves deeper in the social/political system. It may appear that they wish technological innovation's downfall, but without an innovator to create an idea, where would the patent lawyer be.
The college I work at is similar to this, I don't know the full political infighting going on, I try to keep my nose out of all of that. Main campus is using Exchange servers that break down every other day and replaced all the Windows 7 workstations with thin clients horribly installed and never truly tested before implementation. The engineering campus run under a totally separate IT department. We have our own Solaris mail servers; Linux, Unix and Windows workstations; and everything works just fine.
It also uses (i believe) 4 windows specific 0 day hacks. Usually a 'common' virus writer uses only one, because you can use the other 3 to make 3 more viruses. It really shows these people REALLY wanted this to work. and for it to infect as many systems as it could before caught and stopped.
Siemens can sell to whomever they want. Iran can use those controllers for making plush teddy bears just as easily as for nuclear refinement. And the command/control servers for the virus were taken offline a while ago, so no-one holds the keys to deactivating virus anymore.
Everyone is pretty sure Stuxnet was targeting Iranian nuclear centrifuges, it was a well build virus that did its creators job well. The team who created it did their research, and figured this was the best stab at slowing the Iranian nuclear processing. Just goes to show good planning/funds and smart programmers can do significant damage to some secure facilities.
Allow me to be one of the 'younger folk'.
I agree that it can get damn annoying sometimes, flash advertisements and popup-spam come to mind. But in the end making, hosting, and maintaining a website does cost money. And no service is free. Instead of paying with your money, you pay for websites with your attention. If the 'cost' of privacy violation is too high (facebook), I wont participate. However if the service provided is useful and the adds/privacy isn't too bad (Google, Slashdot, etc.) I'll participate. I think the Canonical COO has a point, we as end consumers don't usually think about the people who have to fund the hardware that makes the web possible. I certainly hope their is some money to be made in the computer industry, or all this money I paid for college will be moot.
"Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct; nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record." ~ 1984 by George Orwell
Its great to see that Open Source applications are being reconized by Microsoft. I just hope people don't take these certifications too seriously. I don't have experience in an enterprise setting, but do companies not use a certain software because its not certified my Microsoft? I would assume that the software that best suits your needs would be chosen, not the one that has the title of "Microsoft Certified" because it happened to be tested by third-party tests.
That would never work! By the time the senate decides if were getting Marco's or Little Caesars and how much pepperoni they want on their half, we will all be dead of old age.
I agree give virtualbox a try. I have not used the Photoshop program virtualized I have used other programs like it, and had no trouble at all. It's simple and easy to set up, and best of all it's free!
Make that mail.google.com/mail/help/paper/more.html , for some reason my html attempt redirected it to slashdot instead. I also cant paste anything into the text field either.
I find it hallarious that Google makes an April Fools Day joke about taking Gmail to paper back in 2007, and then actually gets into the buisness for real now! They even say in their fake advertisement that they fill finance the operation with unobtrusive advertisements.
Google Mail
Slashdot Mirror
No, history has not been made, Facebook was just covering their own butts before they got too embarrassed, Mark Zuckerbergs Facebook Page Hacked. Just proving once again that to get anything done in securing sites, someone important has to be compromised.
And then came the Lego food riots, the Lego Revolution, the Lego Five Year Plans, the Great Lego Patriotic War... From Lego With Love... the fall of the Lego Wall... the rise of the Legoligarchs...
You mean the rise of the Legemon.
Sense there is no doubt that they will keep doing this to anyone and everyone, just put a positive spin on it. Instead of Starbucks using your face for free advertisement, your Facebook posts are being sponsored by Starbucks! You can go trolling with Starbucks logo always adorning your posts, the ever vigilant muse of overpriced caffeinated beverages giving you credence to bid your friends to come and partake. Whats That?!? Jerry is endorsing Mc Donald's? I must head over and eat some Big Macs because my Facebook friend has a huge golden M logo right next to his face!
where on earth they found a picture of a nun with an Eee PC.
Photoshop is a wonderful thing.
I was looking around trying to figure it out myself. I couldn't find anything concrete, but I would assume its for these 2 reasons: 1. NASA has a lot of geeks, and geeks tend to like Linux and Android rather than the Iphone. 2. I would assume its much easier to make and load custom apps on an Android device than a Iphone, which they will need if the astronauts are going to use these phones.
Whoosh. (...or "double-whoosh" on my part).
Which is, coincidentally, also the sound the space shuttle makes when they hit the launch button on the app.
Their App was rejected from the App store.
But you cannot deny this is a good start. If Firefox can initiate a standard for a Do Not Track. Perhaps Congress can bind it with the No Tracking Bill, and make it so users who wish to opt out wont have to hunt around for a damn check box all over creation. This can't do any harm, and has a possibility of making everyone's life a whole lot easier.
Lawyers don't truly want to stop technological progress, they want to get rich while technology progresses. Sure a few may truly believe that improvements in technology will be the downfall of their profession (as many of us keep wishing). But any lawyer worth his suit jacket has realized that emerging technology is an amazing way to earn great money, and ingrain themselves deeper in the social/political system. It may appear that they wish technological innovation's downfall, but without an innovator to create an idea, where would the patent lawyer be.
The college I work at is similar to this, I don't know the full political infighting going on, I try to keep my nose out of all of that. Main campus is using Exchange servers that break down every other day and replaced all the Windows 7 workstations with thin clients horribly installed and never truly tested before implementation. The engineering campus run under a totally separate IT department. We have our own Solaris mail servers; Linux, Unix and Windows workstations; and everything works just fine.
It also uses (i believe) 4 windows specific 0 day hacks. Usually a 'common' virus writer uses only one, because you can use the other 3 to make 3 more viruses. It really shows these people REALLY wanted this to work. and for it to infect as many systems as it could before caught and stopped. Siemens can sell to whomever they want. Iran can use those controllers for making plush teddy bears just as easily as for nuclear refinement. And the command/control servers for the virus were taken offline a while ago, so no-one holds the keys to deactivating virus anymore.
Everyone is pretty sure Stuxnet was targeting Iranian nuclear centrifuges, it was a well build virus that did its creators job well. The team who created it did their research, and figured this was the best stab at slowing the Iranian nuclear processing. Just goes to show good planning/funds and smart programmers can do significant damage to some secure facilities.
Allow me to be one of the 'younger folk'. I agree that it can get damn annoying sometimes, flash advertisements and popup-spam come to mind. But in the end making, hosting, and maintaining a website does cost money. And no service is free. Instead of paying with your money, you pay for websites with your attention. If the 'cost' of privacy violation is too high (facebook), I wont participate. However if the service provided is useful and the adds/privacy isn't too bad (Google, Slashdot, etc.) I'll participate. I think the Canonical COO has a point, we as end consumers don't usually think about the people who have to fund the hardware that makes the web possible. I certainly hope their is some money to be made in the computer industry, or all this money I paid for college will be moot.
"Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct; nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record." ~ 1984 by George Orwell
Its great to see that Open Source applications are being reconized by Microsoft. I just hope people don't take these certifications too seriously. I don't have experience in an enterprise setting, but do companies not use a certain software because its not certified my Microsoft? I would assume that the software that best suits your needs would be chosen, not the one that has the title of "Microsoft Certified" because it happened to be tested by third-party tests.
Naivete and paranoia are a dangerous combination.
And Naivete and paranoia and lots of money is a profitable business venture.
That would never work! By the time the senate decides if were getting Marco's or Little Caesars and how much pepperoni they want on their half, we will all be dead of old age.
Thats all that it is, sounds cool but utterly worthless to almost every-one.
The Court finds the defendant Jesus Christ guilty of not leveraging your power to make us all rich!
I did not sleep with that woman holding the launch codes.
I agree give virtualbox a try. I have not used the Photoshop program virtualized I have used other programs like it, and had no trouble at all. It's simple and easy to set up, and best of all it's free!
Make that mail.google.com/mail/help/paper/more.html , for some reason my html attempt redirected it to slashdot instead. I also cant paste anything into the text field either.
I find it hallarious that Google makes an April Fools Day joke about taking Gmail to paper back in 2007, and then actually gets into the buisness for real now! They even say in their fake advertisement that they fill finance the operation with unobtrusive advertisements. Google Mail