Look at who authored that paper and who proofread it and Guess again.
Why do the IPTV and Media center people have such a large say in this? It's real goal is to force TPM down our throats. This is about protecting media companies from pirates rather than protecting the internet at large. The fact that this plan edges out alternative Operating Systems is just a side benefit. No certificate, no access and where would I get a certificate for my Debian Workstation?
If this were about Network Protection Microsoft could simply enforce this locally on the PC and not worry about the network. No patches? No access to anything but Windows Update. Simple and doesn't involve any changes to network infrastructure.
It depends on what you are trying to measure. If you want browsers accessing websites this stat is very likely accurate. OS share, On the other hand, is a lot more difficult because most Linux usage is server side and those don't generally browse websites.
It's slightly more useful if you are trying to measure Desktop OS usage. In that case, I'm more than willing to believe the numbers they have.
In Canada and Spain I've noticed an increase of automated DVD rental kiosks. They are far cheaper than Blockbuster and usually located in much more convenient places.
Always enter your BMO Financial Group web site using your bookmarks or any of our published URLs.
Review your financial statements regularly for unauthorized or suspicious transactions.
Never send personal and/or financial information via unsecured email.
Do not trust email headers. They can be easily forged.
Paypal and Ebay say the same thing. Don't click on links you get in an email and then enter your login credentials.
So yeah.. the exact opposite of good security practice. I'd call that a design flaw.
It works exactly how I know it works since I've used it to transfer money.
The sender logs in to their bank's website and tell it how much money they want to transfer to what email address. The system sends a recipient an email with a link that opens up on Interac's website where you are shown a list of banks where you can select your bank and get forwarded to your bank's website where you can then enter your bank details. After you login (at least on BMO) you are presented with a list of accounts where you can deposit the transfer.
If you don't click the link in the email you don't get the money.
The sender's money may be safe from theft but the system is designed around the opposite of good security practice by requiring you to click a link from an email.
Interac email money transfer is a phishing attack waiting to happen. The whole system is one giant design flaw and I'm guessing that's half on purpose to prevent you from automating it in any way.
There is an economy of scale to churches since a larger church requires fewer staff than two smaller churches of the same number but then you need sound systems so everyone can hear and either books or a display machine so everyone can sing their favorite songs on Sunday. Certain fixed expenses are actually government mandated such as an accountant to manage the accounts etc.
The machine and projectors is cheaper than a room full of song books so this actually saves money and the labor for the machine was free.
Churches are supposed to feed the poor but they also need to manage a decent service and the display also gets used to show presentations from places the money was spent (queue videos of children learning to play basketball, soup kitchens or orphanages in action etc)
It also gets used to display the financial statements at the end of the year so everyone knows exactly what the money they donated was spent on.
I just put a machine together for a Church's overhead display. Since they don't do much file storage on that machine I opted for a 32 GB SSD instead of going for a traditional drive since the price was roughly the same.
The machine it replaced didn't have a drive much larger than that and after installing Windows 7, office and Easy Worship I still have 16 GB left on the drive so the upper end of that size range is easily enough to replace your hard drive.
Funny.. but imagine life as a sales rep or contractor. You browse some site in the morning and now your phone doesn't work. It will be 7 or 8 hours before your back to your PC and in that 7 or 8 hours none of your customers not being able to contact you.
That is serious lost revenue and not a mild inconvenience.
Imagine having your phone bricked because you viewed the wrong PDF on some website.
Imagine a world where you don't have to break into your own device.
Imagine what would happen if everyone who didn't like the way random corporations treated their customers voted with their feet. It's not as if there aren't any alternatives. I for one don't own a single Apple product and I get by in life with no trouble.
If jailbreakme can use that exploit then so can someone malicious. Imagine having your phone bricked because you viewed the wrong PDF on some website. The update is a very good thing.
CBC radio has far too much chatter between songs. If I want to listen to classical I want to listen to music and not the entire history of the piece in question.
Forget the ipod for classical. I much prefer a music player with FLAC support and a decent pair of ear canal headphones. My Sennheiser CX 270 set are nice and I've managed to listen to a quiet note with a metro (subway) screeching into the stop with no trouble.
You have to admit, it's somewhat disconcerting that there's nobody in his coattails to take over.
There are at least a couple of good developers who could easily take over starting with the maintainer of the linux-next tree and if there were a huge disagreement then I'm sure the Linux foundation can step in if need be.
The lack of a unified "stable" kernel for distros to pull from (given 2.6s continued march) and at the same time the lack of a "real" development/next-generation kernel makes me likewise uneasy.
You would only say that if you haven't been using Linux long enough to remember when it was exactly the way you wish for. Back in the 2.4.x / 2.5.x days, people got so tired of features taking so long to be ready they started backporting the changes from 2.5.x to 2.4.x essentially making both branches unstable. For all of the whining kernel releases are a lot less buggy with fewer distro deviations from mainline. And as a bonus features actually get better testing now because fewer changes need to be tested at a time.
After having lived through that transition I never want to go back.
Not feasible in the Linux kernel case because some people who have contributed a lot of the work have died so their code would have to be replaced before any GPL3 relicensing.
With firefox I can set a default of "keep until: I close minefield" and then whitelist the cookies I want to keep. This is a lot different from just refusing cookies because all of the sites I use will still function correctly.
I can't switch until Chrome duplicates the Firefox cookie controls. Say what you want about the speed but Chrome still has the worst cookie controls of any of the major browsers.
Same deal here.. 10 years ago I was a sysadmin for a company with a top 100 list site that ended up being used by child porn sites to evade police/content filters. Sick bastards put images of toddeler/adult sex pics right in the banners.
They even took my blunt ended scissors away. Not sure what the hazard potential of scissors specifically designed not to allow you to accidentally stab yourself but...
My old boss had his cigar cutter taken because it was plastic and could be taken apart and used as a weapon. The next time he flew he took a metal cutter and they took that away too because it was heavy duty and could cut someone's finger. Being the angry Cuban he is he went into one of the shops inside the secure area, bought a new cutter and went back to show it to the screeners.
It's all about CYA. No one wants to be the guy who let through something that caused trouble later.
The primary reason the Itanium died was because it preformed poorly for all but niche tasks. Intel's dream of super compilers that can take over instruction scheduling was wishful thinking.
The final nail in the Itanium coffin was AMD forcing Intel to come out with 64 bit Xeons that ended up outperforming the Itanium.
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Look at who authored that paper and who proofread it and Guess again.
Why do the IPTV and Media center people have such a large say in this? It's real goal is to force TPM down our throats. This is about protecting media companies from pirates rather than protecting the internet at large. The fact that this plan edges out alternative Operating Systems is just a side benefit. No certificate, no access and where would I get a certificate for my Debian Workstation?
If this were about Network Protection Microsoft could simply enforce this locally on the PC and not worry about the network. No patches? No access to anything but Windows Update. Simple and doesn't involve any changes to network infrastructure.
It depends on what you are trying to measure. If you want browsers accessing websites this stat is very likely accurate. OS share, On the other hand, is a lot more difficult because most Linux usage is server side and those don't generally browse websites.
It's slightly more useful if you are trying to measure Desktop OS usage. In that case, I'm more than willing to believe the numbers they have.
In Canada and Spain I've noticed an increase of automated DVD rental kiosks. They are far cheaper than Blockbuster and usually located in much more convenient places.
Or just wait for the distros to package it for you.
Well lets see what the bank of Montreal says about that
Always enter your BMO Financial Group web site using your bookmarks or any of our published URLs.
Review your financial statements regularly for unauthorized or suspicious transactions.
Never send personal and/or financial information via unsecured email.
Do not trust email headers. They can be easily forged.
Paypal and Ebay say the same thing. Don't click on links you get in an email and then enter your login credentials.
So yeah.. the exact opposite of good security practice. I'd call that a design flaw.
It works exactly how I know it works since I've used it to transfer money.
The sender logs in to their bank's website and tell it how much money they want to transfer to what email address. The system sends a recipient an email with a link that opens up on Interac's website where you are shown a list of banks where you can select your bank and get forwarded to your bank's website where you can then enter your bank details. After you login (at least on BMO) you are presented with a list of accounts where you can deposit the transfer.
If you don't click the link in the email you don't get the money.
The sender's money may be safe from theft but the system is designed around the opposite of good security practice by requiring you to click a link from an email.
Interac email money transfer is a phishing attack waiting to happen. The whole system is one giant design flaw and I'm guessing that's half on purpose to prevent you from automating it in any way.
Hospitals keep extras of everything and put them in standard places. I fail to see how this could ever be a problem
It's a fair question.
There is an economy of scale to churches since a larger church requires fewer staff than two smaller churches of the same number but then you need sound systems so everyone can hear and either books or a display machine so everyone can sing their favorite songs on Sunday. Certain fixed expenses are actually government mandated such as an accountant to manage the accounts etc.
The machine and projectors is cheaper than a room full of song books so this actually saves money and the labor for the machine was free.
Churches are supposed to feed the poor but they also need to manage a decent service and the display also gets used to show presentations from places the money was spent (queue videos of children learning to play basketball, soup kitchens or orphanages in action etc)
It also gets used to display the financial statements at the end of the year so everyone knows exactly what the money they donated was spent on.
I just put a machine together for a Church's overhead display. Since they don't do much file storage on that machine I opted for a 32 GB SSD instead of going for a traditional drive since the price was roughly the same.
The machine it replaced didn't have a drive much larger than that and after installing Windows 7, office and Easy Worship I still have 16 GB left on the drive so the upper end of that size range is easily enough to replace your hard drive.
Funny.. but imagine life as a sales rep or contractor. You browse some site in the morning and now your phone doesn't work. It will be 7 or 8 hours before your back to your PC and in that 7 or 8 hours none of your customers not being able to contact you.
That is serious lost revenue and not a mild inconvenience.
Imagine having your phone bricked because you viewed the wrong PDF on some website.
Imagine a world where you don't have to break into your own device.
Imagine what would happen if everyone who didn't like the way random corporations treated their customers voted with their feet. It's not as if there aren't any alternatives. I for one don't own a single Apple product and I get by in life with no trouble.
If jailbreakme can use that exploit then so can someone malicious. Imagine having your phone bricked because you viewed the wrong PDF on some website. The update is a very good thing.
CBC radio has far too much chatter between songs. If I want to listen to classical I want to listen to music and not the entire history of the piece in question.
Forget the ipod for classical. I much prefer a music player with FLAC support and a decent pair of ear canal headphones. My Sennheiser CX 270 set are nice and I've managed to listen to a quiet note with a metro (subway) screeching into the stop with no trouble.
Just.. don't wear them while driving.
You have to admit, it's somewhat disconcerting that there's nobody in his coattails to take over.
There are at least a couple of good developers who could easily take over starting with the maintainer of the linux-next tree and if there were a huge disagreement then I'm sure the Linux foundation can step in if need be.
The lack of a unified "stable" kernel for distros to pull from (given 2.6s continued march) and at the same time the lack of a "real" development/next-generation kernel makes me likewise uneasy.
You would only say that if you haven't been using Linux long enough to remember when it was exactly the way you wish for. Back in the 2.4.x / 2.5.x days, people got so tired of features taking so long to be ready they started backporting the changes from 2.5.x to 2.4.x essentially making both branches unstable. For all of the whining kernel releases are a lot less buggy with fewer distro deviations from mainline. And as a bonus features actually get better testing now because fewer changes need to be tested at a time.
After having lived through that transition I never want to go back.
Not feasible in the Linux kernel case because some people who have contributed a lot of the work have died so their code would have to be replaced before any GPL3 relicensing.
With firefox I can set a default of "keep until: I close minefield" and then whitelist the cookies I want to keep. This is a lot different from just refusing cookies because all of the sites I use will still function correctly.
I can't switch until Chrome duplicates the Firefox cookie controls. Say what you want about the speed but Chrome still has the worst cookie controls of any of the major browsers.
Same deal here.. 10 years ago I was a sysadmin for a company with a top 100 list site that ended up being used by child porn sites to evade police/content filters. Sick bastards put images of toddeler/adult sex pics right in the banners.
I wish I could unsee all of that.
They even took my blunt ended scissors away. Not sure what the hazard potential of scissors specifically designed not to allow you to accidentally stab yourself but...
My old boss had his cigar cutter taken because it was plastic and could be taken apart and used as a weapon. The next time he flew he took a metal cutter and they took that away too because it was heavy duty and could cut someone's finger. Being the angry Cuban he is he went into one of the shops inside the secure area, bought a new cutter and went back to show it to the screeners.
It's all about CYA. No one wants to be the guy who let through something that caused trouble later.
I guess it depends on the country. The country that my friends are working in already blocks VPN.
Right and now they can just block anything with DNSSEC enabled.
I imagine they would block anything other than the government's approved nameservers.
The primary reason the Itanium died was because it preformed poorly for all but niche tasks. Intel's dream of super compilers that can take over instruction scheduling was wishful thinking.
The final nail in the Itanium coffin was AMD forcing Intel to come out with 64 bit Xeons that ended up outperforming the Itanium.