I wrote a script once that redirected traffic via a proxy to babblefish which translated it to English to Russian and than back to English again.:-)
It made all the emails from hotmail look like they written by a 6 year old. Unfortunately, security software started catching up with man in the middle attacks by the time I was about finished as this was technically a redirect:-( so I could never use it without antivirus software screaming today.
If the guy is old a really embarrasing thing to link is this video. FYI not worksafe or the faint of heart... aka a shocker.;-)
I gave it an honest 2 weeks. I can't stand it. It is a better browser no doubt, but the lack of a search bar pane and the ability to select previous websites from the address bar are show stoppers. It requieres a doubling of the effort of picking web pages and is annoying.
Point to me an extension that offers these 2 things and I will switch.
Why should a user need to know that or care? I am going to recommend non techie users use Chrome for now on, and professionals use IE. This is quite serious and it says more about the unprofessionalism of Mozilla, then it does about the inconvenience.
The difference is Chrome is engineered to rapidly update since day 1. You wont see plugins errr addons fail to update or check version numbers and refuse to start. Add to this that Chrome has Flash, ad blocker, PDF reader, and others inise Chrome itself. As a user you do not have to even worry about them. Just go to youtube and watch videos and that is it. No security ridden out of date flash you need to worry about. It is all updated and taken care of automatically without a million different auto updaters at startup slowing down your computer.
Like the grandparent mentioned, Chrome does not require administrative priveldges to update either. Firefox is trying, but most users have Flash 9 and other outdated plugins that will break soon when Firefox does decide to do a major overhual rather than a minor update.
Firefox needs to fix these problems and get rid of the feature for checking browser versions. Users do not understand nor care and will blame Mozilla if the plugins fail. It is this reasoning why people are thinking of switching. I feel Chrome is a better browser, but its UI and addons really blow for regular use unfortunately. If Chrome fixes this I will switch myself.
You can think all you want but to the user it is a browser that fails, and to those of us who work in I.T. it is a dangerous product that can get us fired as these users will be pissed at us for picking a browser that is flakey with incompatible plugins.
I hate the Chrome UI but people love it because you never have to worry about this. It just works and nothing every breaks. I develop sites on occasion and the users all use IE because they are business owners anyway. It makes it temptimg to switch back after a decade.
Firefox needs to disable version checking for plugins ASAP! This is a serious bug.
They are fully compatible as it is a minor update. What it is, is that Firefox has a feature for add on developers where you can use a == or >= to disable addons for unknown versions of Firefox.
You can disable this BTW.
This is an embarrasement for Firefox and they need to get rid of this feature right away if they do not want us switching back to IE or Chrome. Sadly, I am beginning to like IE more as a result. Yes, I like Chrome style releases but I do not want to have people calling me telling me I picked a crappy browser because their addons keep failing every 2 - 3 months. I wonder what it is going to break?
IE does not follow standards until IE 9 so that POS breaks too with html rendering UGH. But I can run it for a long time. Anyway I hope Firefox developers are reading this comment as I would like to still use it.... or and please release Firefox as an MSI so it can be used in active directory too. Fix these 2 things and it will be corporate ready.
AMD is also betting big on Fusion and hardware accelerated HTML 5 with IE 10/Windows 8. They plan on making x86 tablets in which, some of their CPU's are barely faster than an Intel Atom but have a GPU inside as powerful as an ATI 6xxx HD. These benchmarks will be crap on the Llamo chip, but in real world use with Windows 8 and Flash 10.3 and higher you can run 1080p HD video fluidily without a sweat.
I would be irrated and concerned too if I were AMD, as people would get a false impression on their low end Llamo netbook chipsets as non Windows 8 ready.
"In fact at this point, heavily investing in any MS-technologies without hedging (such as DirectX while the rest of the mobile world is OpenGLES 2.x) is just daft."
Have you worked in I.T. in a corporate level (I am taking +1,000 employees)? I am not insinuating you have not or implying anything, but there is huge pressure to lower costs and reduce the amount of platforms and software. If you are a bank for example and buy out several other companies and each company had 3 programs then you have 6 - 9 programs that all do the same thing!
So you need to pick one. Now imagine yourself 12 years in the past in a server room, with Novel Netware, Bryon Vines, Unixware, Solaris, VMS, OS/2 eComstation, and this new product called Windows NT Server, supporting WordPerfect, MS Word, Novel Groupwise, Lotus Notes, and Outlook for the 2,000 users. You need to upgrade all this to be Y2k compliant and which platform will you chose? Which standard?
Corporate America chose Microsoft. They are a monopoly and it is important to use whatever everyone else is using. That same server room I was in 12 years ago is an all MS shop today. These same shops use silverlight and.NET are the same shops do not want to go back to Unix and OpenGL. It was a smart move to support one company, one standard, one way of doing things and having IT trained in just one company.
However, thankfully the internet and HTML 5 is freeing us of this, but causing chaos and headaches from these same companies. Add to tablets, phones, and IPads and it makes sense. Silverlight and other MS technologies will be a round for a very long long time, much like IBM mainframe software being run today in emulators from 30 years ago. If I had a time machine and could go 20 years into the future I would bet you IE 6 will still be run in emulator terminals running these old win32 intranet apps.
These users should be outraged, and expect support. The whole reason for using it was a hedge agaisn't using something that would go out of business or become obsolete or irrelevant. MS is a good bet to make as it sets the standards for corporate America.... it is a different world than playing around at home or in a small business.
The reason is simple. Many Americans (myself included) feel Obama's healthcare plan didn't go far enough and put the cost on me with a gun to my head saying pay or go to jail. With rent $1600 a month I go hungry. That angers me to no end.... now I used to be married last year. My wife was a teacher and we had the best plan out there! If we switch to a universal plan my health care would suffer as a result.
So if you are in the top 25% than it is in your best interest to support the private sector. If you are in the bottom 25% than it is in your best interest to oppose any bill that does not ban private insurance outright as these leeches will keep lobbying to force you to pay against your will. That leaves 50% somewhere in the middle.
The US does have medicare and medicaid and they are TERRIBLE. No real doctors take them and they are next to useless. So Americans think of medicaid and losing their premiums and are afraid they wont see their favorite doctors anymore.
Add to this in the news of Canadians going to the US for health care because of the long wait in Canada and that scares that other top 25% who want to keep their premiums.
It is a horrible horrible mess. Most Americans hate the system, but it is so entrenched only a purge of the whole industry can cure it and that is too radical.
Calling someone stupid is very insulting.... I do agree with you fully. $41, 000 avg is being obscured by the out-liner effects of the top 2% of income earners. Just because you have a regular blue collar job does not mean you deserve to die for not providing a greater value that the top 15%. It is morally wrong and disgusting.
Still why should we put up with that?... on that is right the drug companies and health insurance companies are the top campagn contributers and lobbiests who would want to see your family destitute and poor after a single catastrophic medical problem. After all, that is more money for them?
We are going to have a revolution soon and an American version of the Arab spring. This is unsustainable and with so many people broke, poor, hungry, in debt, and out of health insurance it is only a matter of time before they hit the streets to protest. If our own government is so corrupt to fix the problems then people will take action themselves.
"If they break adblock and noscript- I'm moving to another browser."
I hate to break it to you but no other browser has adblock and noscript. Chrome updates very rapidly, but the plugins get updated each time and always work so it is no biggie.
IE is your only other option if you have upgrading and change. What plugin broke? I think firefox needs to address this problem if they do rapid releases like Chrome. They never break.
"There is a reason why IE was so "underdeveloped" for all those years and that Apple recently discontinued development of their web editor and that Safari development is also pretty stagnant."
IE 9 puts IE back in the game with Firefox and Chrome. IE 10 is coming out by Christmas. I do admit its html 5 is still behind Firefox 4, but it does support CSS 3D to make up for WebGL. IE 9 is very secure. MS learned their lesson.
If WebGL did not define OpenGL, but rather any 3d framework that ran under it you can bet MS would probably be more inclined to support it with DirectX and DirectWrite. But the security threats are real and it is so simple to read a users ram. It is only a step above ActiveX.
These native network applications and mobile apps typically use HTML 5 and Ajax as their interface so a browser to render them is important. I believe html 5 would not be a big deal and no one would care if it were not for Android and IPhones being able to use it.
Chrome is updated every 2 - 3 months and nothing catastrophic happens. It is when a browser is under develop for 4 years and comes out and it is so radical and new that it causes problems. This effect causes businesses to deloy deploying the already old browser and intranet sites until its fixed which then reinforces webmasters to still code for older sites and so on... ala IE 6.
The point is if change is gradual then users will upgrade without knowing it and webmasters can slowly upgrade their sites. Then we who use other non IE browsers can get the benefits of html 5. With IE being the most popular and very out of date webmasters just write to older standards and we all lose. With slow upgrades nothing will break overnight either as shown by Chrome.
I hope IE has a new release every year too which is the new rumor. Once XP finally dies we can use new features and stop coding to old proprietary bugs and standards and life will be easier.
Chrome has a new version every 2 - 3 months. It is pretty standard and it is done automatically so users do not have to worry about it. Plugins are auto updated too which make is very nice with worrying over flash and java vulnerabilities.
Issue of course is corporate users would freak out about an update causing a bug.
I would use Chrome full time if it had a much better interface where I could click to select sites I go to on the address bar. Firefox needs to catch-up up to Chrome in features and security vulnerability. Webkit is far ahead of gecko with html 5 and ram usage.
Was it the executives who did this or the private equity firm who owned most of the company? They are the ones who always push sales and mergers to boast their share price. The executives just follow along so they can keep their jobs.
Sounds like the investors are sharks as they screwed the top as well as the bottom. I hope the executives sue.
Who should we feel sorry for? The executives who were promised a fortune after hard work and got axed and received the boot? Or the investors who didn't do anything, but steal the money from shares stolen by the executives who actually worked at Skype?
The executives were robbed. If I were them I would gang together and sue for every penny. If they are a public company then they have a fudicial duty to raise its price by selling for many times worth what the company is worth. Yes, they deserve that money if they worked hard to make Skype as good as it is today to bring such great value to their shareholders and private investors.
The real greed is the private equity. This is just pure theft and are the ones who pushed Skye to sell... not the so called evil executives who were simply looking out for the investors interests.
I hope they sue and win. We need to shift focus on who the true psychopaths are.
The issue is the EPA is run by energy company lobbiests who are not doing their job. New York state's water is so polluted with mecury that every body of water is considered hazzardous and exceeds the EPA's mercury limits. A single plant in Ohio did this damage and they are furious. So they tried to sue the company's themselves since the EPA refused to do their job under Bush. An oil company lobbiest headed the EPA in 2007.
This is why the case was brought up and it is really sad and it shows how much corruption rots the federal government to the core.
The EPA is filled with energy company executies and lobbiests who hate the environment and favor polluters. This all started under Reagan and Bush even hired an oil company lobbiest from Chevron or Enron to head the EPA!
This is why the suite was brought up and the bad guys one. The EPA will simply not enforce it unless people are falling dead in the streets as they work to help out the polluters. I have no idea what this is even legal to begin with, but we saw during deep water horizon just how corrupt the government's drilling and natural resource departments under the department of interior were. The heads of these departments have gifts from oil companies on their desks and the same inspectors also interview for jobs by the same companies by looking the other way and not doing their job.
Remember during the days of kernel 2.0 or 2.2 a decade ago you could buy a Netwinder appliance that came iwth Redhat Linux? Corel even shipped WordPerfect for Unix on it, and I remember reading a commentator who used it on LinuxMagazine.
ARM support has been supported in Linux for a very long time. This story is pure FUD.
I am sick of them. They are criminals and if they are retarded enough to do these things then you can bet the FBI is already on their asses with probably the white house itself tracking their every move.
What worries me is not them but others who are going to gather and do these things. No it is not the case of them being the good guys and showing private companies which systems are insecure if they cost hundredes of millions of dollars and lost face, for companies like Sony. I have no respect for them.
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"BitCoin fans, when you boast that your "currency holdings" have shot up in value by several hundred percent in a year, this is NOT A GOOD THING for BitCoins as a currency"
Replace BitCoin, with either a. housing or b. stocks and you have a real problem in the real world. After reading it, I too was tempted by greed realizing that maybe I can put down $1,000 now if it is crashing and cash in $3,000 later!... but my intelligence and better judgement shows me to look out the window at the foreclosed homes down the block that people bought for $350,000 expecting to sell them today for $500,000 which are being sold for just $188,000 by the bank. Florida is very depressed marketwise compared to the rest of the country.
The problem is people are greedy and we replace any value on goods such as homes, stocks, and yes even gold (I may be modded down for that), hoping to strike it rich. Deflation is a common thing when any market is too hot and it just comes to show that there is no substitute for real currency.
Accountants and financial investors/advisers/economists need to stop counting non currency items as real GDP or value. You really did not make $20,000 in cash because I think your home *might* be worth more did you? Come on?
Bitcoin is no different and is in fact more of gambling than a pyramid scheme. Save your money.
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I wrote a script once that redirected traffic via a proxy to babblefish which translated it to English to Russian and than back to English again. :-)
It made all the emails from hotmail look like they written by a 6 year old. Unfortunately, security software started catching up with man in the middle attacks by the time I was about finished as this was technically a redirect :-( so I could never use it without antivirus software screaming today.
If the guy is old a really embarrasing thing to link is this video. FYI not worksafe or the faint of heart ... aka a shocker. ;-)
I gave it an honest 2 weeks. I can't stand it. It is a better browser no doubt, but the lack of a search bar pane and the ability to select previous websites from the address bar are show stoppers. It requieres a doubling of the effort of picking web pages and is annoying.
Point to me an extension that offers these 2 things and I will switch.
Why should a user need to know that or care? I am going to recommend non techie users use Chrome for now on, and professionals use IE. This is quite serious and it says more about the unprofessionalism of Mozilla, then it does about the inconvenience.
The difference is Chrome is engineered to rapidly update since day 1. You wont see plugins errr addons fail to update or check version numbers and refuse to start. Add to this that Chrome has Flash, ad blocker, PDF reader, and others inise Chrome itself. As a user you do not have to even worry about them. Just go to youtube and watch videos and that is it. No security ridden out of date flash you need to worry about. It is all updated and taken care of automatically without a million different auto updaters at startup slowing down your computer.
Like the grandparent mentioned, Chrome does not require administrative priveldges to update either. Firefox is trying, but most users have Flash 9 and other outdated plugins that will break soon when Firefox does decide to do a major overhual rather than a minor update.
Firefox needs to fix these problems and get rid of the feature for checking browser versions. Users do not understand nor care and will blame Mozilla if the plugins fail. It is this reasoning why people are thinking of switching. I feel Chrome is a better browser, but its UI and addons really blow for regular use unfortunately. If Chrome fixes this I will switch myself.
You can think all you want but to the user it is a browser that fails, and to those of us who work in I.T. it is a dangerous product that can get us fired as these users will be pissed at us for picking a browser that is flakey with incompatible plugins.
I hate the Chrome UI but people love it because you never have to worry about this. It just works and nothing every breaks. I develop sites on occasion and the users all use IE because they are business owners anyway. It makes it temptimg to switch back after a decade.
Firefox needs to disable version checking for plugins ASAP! This is a serious bug.
They are fully compatible as it is a minor update. What it is, is that Firefox has a feature for add on developers where you can use a == or >= to disable addons for unknown versions of Firefox.
You can disable this BTW.
This is an embarrasement for Firefox and they need to get rid of this feature right away if they do not want us switching back to IE or Chrome. Sadly, I am beginning to like IE more as a result. Yes, I like Chrome style releases but I do not want to have people calling me telling me I picked a crappy browser because their addons keep failing every 2 - 3 months. I wonder what it is going to break?
IE does not follow standards until IE 9 so that POS breaks too with html rendering UGH. But I can run it for a long time. Anyway I hope Firefox developers are reading this comment as I would like to still use it. ... or and please release Firefox as an MSI so it can be used in active directory too. Fix these 2 things and it will be corporate ready.
Dude! The link is here sir
Thank you.
IE 9's hardware acceleration was probably having an issue with your VM's display driver. VirtualBox?
AMD is also betting big on Fusion and hardware accelerated HTML 5 with IE 10/Windows 8. They plan on making x86 tablets in which, some of their CPU's are barely faster than an Intel Atom but have a GPU inside as powerful as an ATI 6xxx HD. These benchmarks will be crap on the Llamo chip, but in real world use with Windows 8 and Flash 10.3 and higher you can run 1080p HD video fluidily without a sweat.
I would be irrated and concerned too if I were AMD, as people would get a false impression on their low end Llamo netbook chipsets as non Windows 8 ready.
"In fact at this point, heavily investing in any MS-technologies without hedging (such as DirectX while the rest of the mobile world is OpenGLES 2.x) is just daft."
Have you worked in I.T. in a corporate level (I am taking +1,000 employees)? I am not insinuating you have not or implying anything, but there is huge pressure to lower costs and reduce the amount of platforms and software. If you are a bank for example and buy out several other companies and each company had 3 programs then you have 6 - 9 programs that all do the same thing!
So you need to pick one. Now imagine yourself 12 years in the past in a server room, with Novel Netware, Bryon Vines, Unixware, Solaris, VMS, OS/2 eComstation, and this new product called Windows NT Server, supporting WordPerfect, MS Word, Novel Groupwise, Lotus Notes, and Outlook for the 2,000 users. You need to upgrade all this to be Y2k compliant and which platform will you chose? Which standard?
Corporate America chose Microsoft. They are a monopoly and it is important to use whatever everyone else is using. That same server room I was in 12 years ago is an all MS shop today. These same shops use silverlight and .NET are the same shops do not want to go back to Unix and OpenGL. It was a smart move to support one company, one standard, one way of doing things and having IT trained in just one company.
However, thankfully the internet and HTML 5 is freeing us of this, but causing chaos and headaches from these same companies. Add to tablets, phones, and IPads and it makes sense. Silverlight and other MS technologies will be a round for a very long long time, much like IBM mainframe software being run today in emulators from 30 years ago. If I had a time machine and could go 20 years into the future I would bet you IE 6 will still be run in emulator terminals running these old win32 intranet apps.
These users should be outraged, and expect support. The whole reason for using it was a hedge agaisn't using something that would go out of business or become obsolete or irrelevant. MS is a good bet to make as it sets the standards for corporate America. ... it is a different world than playing around at home or in a small business.
The reason is simple. Many Americans (myself included) feel Obama's healthcare plan didn't go far enough and put the cost on me with a gun to my head saying pay or go to jail. With rent $1600 a month I go hungry. That angers me to no end. ... now I used to be married last year. My wife was a teacher and we had the best plan out there! If we switch to a universal plan my health care would suffer as a result.
So if you are in the top 25% than it is in your best interest to support the private sector. If you are in the bottom 25% than it is in your best interest to oppose any bill that does not ban private insurance outright as these leeches will keep lobbying to force you to pay against your will. That leaves 50% somewhere in the middle.
The US does have medicare and medicaid and they are TERRIBLE. No real doctors take them and they are next to useless. So Americans think of medicaid and losing their premiums and are afraid they wont see their favorite doctors anymore.
Add to this in the news of Canadians going to the US for health care because of the long wait in Canada and that scares that other top 25% who want to keep their premiums.
It is a horrible horrible mess. Most Americans hate the system, but it is so entrenched only a purge of the whole industry can cure it and that is too radical.
Calling someone stupid is very insulting. ... I do agree with you fully. $41, 000 avg is being obscured by the out-liner effects of the top 2% of income earners. Just because you have a regular blue collar job does not mean you deserve to die for not providing a greater value that the top 15%. It is morally wrong and disgusting.
Still why should we put up with that? ... on that is right the drug companies and health insurance companies are the top campagn contributers and lobbiests who would want to see your family destitute and poor after a single catastrophic medical problem. After all, that is more money for them?
We are going to have a revolution soon and an American version of the Arab spring. This is unsustainable and with so many people broke, poor, hungry, in debt, and out of health insurance it is only a matter of time before they hit the streets to protest. If our own government is so corrupt to fix the problems then people will take action themselves.
"If they break adblock and noscript- I'm moving to another browser."
I hate to break it to you but no other browser has adblock and noscript. Chrome updates very rapidly, but the plugins get updated each time and always work so it is no biggie.
IE is your only other option if you have upgrading and change. What plugin broke? I think firefox needs to address this problem if they do rapid releases like Chrome. They never break.
"There is a reason why IE was so "underdeveloped" for all those years and that Apple recently discontinued development of their web editor and that Safari development is also pretty stagnant."
IE 9 puts IE back in the game with Firefox and Chrome. IE 10 is coming out by Christmas. I do admit its html 5 is still behind Firefox 4, but it does support CSS 3D to make up for WebGL. IE 9 is very secure. MS learned their lesson.
If WebGL did not define OpenGL, but rather any 3d framework that ran under it you can bet MS would probably be more inclined to support it with DirectX and DirectWrite. But the security threats are real and it is so simple to read a users ram. It is only a step above ActiveX.
These native network applications and mobile apps typically use HTML 5 and Ajax as their interface so a browser to render them is important. I believe html 5 would not be a big deal and no one would care if it were not for Android and IPhones being able to use it.
How many IE 7 users are still out there?
Chrome is updated every 2 - 3 months and nothing catastrophic happens. It is when a browser is under develop for 4 years and comes out and it is so radical and new that it causes problems. This effect causes businesses to deloy deploying the already old browser and intranet sites until its fixed which then reinforces webmasters to still code for older sites and so on ... ala IE 6.
The point is if change is gradual then users will upgrade without knowing it and webmasters can slowly upgrade their sites. Then we who use other non IE browsers can get the benefits of html 5. With IE being the most popular and very out of date webmasters just write to older standards and we all lose. With slow upgrades nothing will break overnight either as shown by Chrome.
I hope IE has a new release every year too which is the new rumor. Once XP finally dies we can use new features and stop coding to old proprietary bugs and standards and life will be easier.
Chrome has a new version every 2 - 3 months. It is pretty standard and it is done automatically so users do not have to worry about it. Plugins are auto updated too which make is very nice with worrying over flash and java vulnerabilities.
Issue of course is corporate users would freak out about an update causing a bug.
I would use Chrome full time if it had a much better interface where I could click to select sites I go to on the address bar. Firefox needs to catch-up up to Chrome in features and security vulnerability. Webkit is far ahead of gecko with html 5 and ram usage.
The WebGL is buggy and most of Mozilla's demo's wont run and the aquarium webGL experiment does not render properly.
I downgraded back to Firefox 4.01 and the problems went away. I have an ATI 5750 with the latest drivers under Windows 7.
The good news is Microsoft's IE fishtank demo topped 60 fps just like IE 9 with DirectWrite enabled. I am going to wait until 5.01 before I upgrade.
Was it the executives who did this or the private equity firm who owned most of the company? They are the ones who always push sales and mergers to boast their share price. The executives just follow along so they can keep their jobs.
Sounds like the investors are sharks as they screwed the top as well as the bottom. I hope the executives sue.
Who should we feel sorry for? The executives who were promised a fortune after hard work and got axed and received the boot? Or the investors who didn't do anything, but steal the money from shares stolen by the executives who actually worked at Skype?
The executives were robbed. If I were them I would gang together and sue for every penny. If they are a public company then they have a fudicial duty to raise its price by selling for many times worth what the company is worth. Yes, they deserve that money if they worked hard to make Skype as good as it is today to bring such great value to their shareholders and private investors.
The real greed is the private equity. This is just pure theft and are the ones who pushed Skye to sell ... not the so called evil executives who were simply looking out for the investors interests.
I hope they sue and win. We need to shift focus on who the true psychopaths are.
The issue is the EPA is run by energy company lobbiests who are not doing their job. New York state's water is so polluted with mecury that every body of water is considered hazzardous and exceeds the EPA's mercury limits. A single plant in Ohio did this damage and they are furious. So they tried to sue the company's themselves since the EPA refused to do their job under Bush. An oil company lobbiest headed the EPA in 2007.
This is why the case was brought up and it is really sad and it shows how much corruption rots the federal government to the core.
The EPA is filled with energy company executies and lobbiests who hate the environment and favor polluters. This all started under Reagan and Bush even hired an oil company lobbiest from Chevron or Enron to head the EPA!
This is why the suite was brought up and the bad guys one. The EPA will simply not enforce it unless people are falling dead in the streets as they work to help out the polluters. I have no idea what this is even legal to begin with, but we saw during deep water horizon just how corrupt the government's drilling and natural resource departments under the department of interior were. The heads of these departments have gifts from oil companies on their desks and the same inspectors also interview for jobs by the same companies by looking the other way and not doing their job.
Anyone remember it?
Remember during the days of kernel 2.0 or 2.2 a decade ago you could buy a Netwinder appliance that came iwth Redhat Linux? Corel even shipped WordPerfect for Unix on it, and I remember reading a commentator who used it on LinuxMagazine.
ARM support has been supported in Linux for a very long time. This story is pure FUD.
Didn't these guys say they did a DOS on a major government site just a week ago?
I hope they get the book thrown at them. I have been reading about them at ars technica for the past 2 weeks and not a day goes through where they brag about doing damage, espionage, or how they are l33ter than everyone else.
I am sick of them. They are criminals and if they are retarded enough to do these things then you can bet the FBI is already on their asses with probably the white house itself tracking their every move.
What worries me is not them but others who are going to gather and do these things. No it is not the case of them being the good guys and showing private companies which systems are insecure if they cost hundredes of millions of dollars and lost face, for companies like Sony. I have no respect for them.
"BitCoin fans, when you boast that your "currency holdings" have shot up in value by several hundred percent in a year, this is NOT A GOOD THING for BitCoins as a currency"
Replace BitCoin, with either a. housing or b. stocks and you have a real problem in the real world. After reading it, I too was tempted by greed realizing that maybe I can put down $1,000 now if it is crashing and cash in $3,000 later! ... but my intelligence and better judgement shows me to look out the window at the foreclosed homes down the block that people bought for $350,000 expecting to sell them today for $500,000 which are being sold for just $188,000 by the bank. Florida is very depressed marketwise compared to the rest of the country.
The problem is people are greedy and we replace any value on goods such as homes, stocks, and yes even gold (I may be modded down for that), hoping to strike it rich. Deflation is a common thing when any market is too hot and it just comes to show that there is no substitute for real currency.
Accountants and financial investors/advisers/economists need to stop counting non currency items as real GDP or value. You really did not make $20,000 in cash because I think your home *might* be worth more did you? Come on?
Bitcoin is no different and is in fact more of gambling than a pyramid scheme. Save your money.
Didn't WallStreet have a flash crash last year? The DOW went down 1,000 points in 10 to 15 minutes?
Funny, why didn't they find the culprit yet? ... did I mention flash trading is scary?