The problem with IE is that it's hard to test, since both IE and Trident are not available for most platforms. Out of all the PCs where I work and at home, none run windows, so it's not easy to test IE, while I can test Chrom{e,ium}, Firefox, Opera, etc on almost any desktop OS.
What a humorous example! I've run into numerous stereos that have an antitheft feature where it requires a code after losing power. Some dealerships will provide the code for free, most won't. The real bad ones demand that you bring the car in for service and pay an hour of labor. Sometimes the code was provided to the original owner of the car, sometimes not. Good luck finding it, you're not supposed to keep it in the car.
Is sounds to me that you should demand this code when you buy your car, and go to the next dealer if they'll deny it.
Wow, bet you haven't ever paid for a magazine then, or a newspaper, or how about cable television? The ads are allowing big companies to subsidize your gold subscription. You're welcome.
Cable TV used to be ad-free, that's what the original idea was. Plenty of newspapers are free, and those with a cost are dirt cheap.
How many people in this list would pirate instead of pay.
Not just pirate. I only use MSO for looking at funny PPT/PPS I get by email or some *.doc file once a year. I'd never have installed any office suite if it cost me anything at all.
IMHO, OpenID is better. Whether google is trustworthy or not is a matter of opinion, and google can be just another OpenID provider. If we want a single provider, the world will never settle for a single trusted entity.
Sadly, they departed too much from their OpenOffice origins.
As a former OO user (who never really used MSO), I find LO very alienating. There are some stupid features that annoy me to a point where it becomes unusable.
Here's a really stupid, but extremely annoying example: OO opened ".pps" files in impress, so I could quickly view attachments from my email client and quickly scroll through them. LO attempts to imitate MSO by opening them only in a fullscreenviewer, with transitions and music (which I'd rather avoid). There is no way to go back to the OO behaviour. The path is now: 1) save file to RW disk. 2) rename file 3) open renamed file.
The worst part isn't the change in default, but the fact that there is no option to go back to OO behaviours. Sure, MSO users feel more at home, but OO users feel they're using some new, wierd office suite they don't quite understand.
Indeed. If we start softening our SPF filters, then nobody will fix their servers, so we'll end up with lots of broken senders, and SPF will become useless (because of the excess of broken senders).
SPF isn't meant to add points; SPF can fail or not-fail, but the best it can assure is that the email came from a server the admin says is trusted to send emails, nothing more.
SPF means the sender's domain admin EXPLICITLY configured their domain to advertise a "drop messages that didn't come through X MTA". User of that domain should be informed of this, and if important emails are lost due to bad SPF records, then it's the admin (or part of the sending organization's) fault.
As a side note, providing a windows-only updater could be bad for them. If there's an issue that REQUIRES a firmware update, and people need a $50 software to install it, I'm pretty sure they'll be in trouble.
DOS has no abstractions or protected more or anything else that gets in the way of direct hardware access. This is usually a bad thing (because it's insecure), but it better for something that needs direct hardware access.
Legacy applications? I've a 2010 intel motherboard with an integrated nic that reports "bad eeprom checksum" every time there's a power failure. Intel only provides a DOS utility to re-flash the firmware, if it weren't for FreeDOS, I'd have a useless nic (on a mobo with no free PCIs, BTW).
Lots of hardware vendors still provide DOS-only BIOS updated, and similar utilities, regrettably, so FreeDOS still has plenty of uses - though not for the average user.
Optical media will probably be around longer, as long as Hollywood doesn't manage to kill it off, because it has one concrete advantage: longevity (as long as it's not based on organic dyes). BD-R media is likely to be around (in single, 2, 3, 4, or more) layer forms for a really, really long time.
Optical media is already dying. High end notebooks (including ultrabooks) no longer include optical media. Most desktops I've seen around don't have optical media. I've 7 computers at home, of which only one (very old) laptop has a dvd drive. At the office, only iMacs have optical drives.
If I decided to do this, I would need to operate my LAN like every node was bare on the internet.
You should be doing that anyway if you actually care about security.
I've got fileservers with guest access (for, you know... houseguests), web services, my invoicing system, and a whole slew of other personal services.
Sounds like if any single of your devices (or your guest's devices) are compromised, your entire network is compromised. The problem already exists, opening up your network would only expose it further.
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So 90% of your time is spend writing things like "document.getElementById()"?
The problem with IE is that it's hard to test, since both IE and Trident are not available for most platforms.
Out of all the PCs where I work and at home, none run windows, so it's not easy to test IE, while I can test Chrom{e,ium}, Firefox, Opera, etc on almost any desktop OS.
Unless you're a stock holder, or trying to increase sales of Office 365.
What a humorous example! I've run into numerous stereos that have an antitheft feature where it requires a code after losing power. Some dealerships will provide the code for free, most won't. The real bad ones demand that you bring the car in for service and pay an hour of labor. Sometimes the code was provided to the original owner of the car, sometimes not. Good luck finding it, you're not supposed to keep it in the car.
Is sounds to me that you should demand this code when you buy your car, and go to the next dealer if they'll deny it.
This was my exact first thought.
How do you define "device"?
Is it a new one when I change the Motherboard? CPU? Video card? Monitor? Keyboard? Who draws the line?
Wow, bet you haven't ever paid for a magazine then, or a newspaper, or how about cable television? The ads are allowing big companies to subsidize your gold subscription. You're welcome.
Cable TV used to be ad-free, that's what the original idea was. Plenty of newspapers are free, and those with a cost are dirt cheap.
How many people in this list would pirate instead of pay.
Not just pirate. I only use MSO for looking at funny PPT/PPS I get by email or some *.doc file once a year. I'd never have installed any office suite if it cost me anything at all.
Software AND hardware costs about twice the price in third world countries, it DEFINITELY does not cost less.
I have. It's a WONTFIX, since the interest of LO developers is to attract as many MSO users as possible.
You may not be aware, but that is correct behavior.
The correct behaviour for software I use, is for me to be able to control how it behaves, not for MS to dictate how I should use it.
IMHO, OpenID is better. Whether google is trustworthy or not is a matter of opinion, and google can be just another OpenID provider. If we want a single provider, the world will never settle for a single trusted entity.
Sadly, they departed too much from their OpenOffice origins.
As a former OO user (who never really used MSO), I find LO very alienating. There are some stupid features that annoy me to a point where it becomes unusable.
Here's a really stupid, but extremely annoying example:
OO opened ".pps" files in impress, so I could quickly view attachments from my email client and quickly scroll through them.
LO attempts to imitate MSO by opening them only in a fullscreenviewer, with transitions and music (which I'd rather avoid). There is no way to go back to the OO behaviour. The path is now:
1) save file to RW disk.
2) rename file
3) open renamed file.
The worst part isn't the change in default, but the fact that there is no option to go back to OO behaviours. Sure, MSO users feel more at home, but OO users feel they're using some new, wierd office suite they don't quite understand.
Indeed. If we start softening our SPF filters, then nobody will fix their servers, so we'll end up with lots of broken senders, and SPF will become useless (because of the excess of broken senders).
It would also be nice if all this text was CC licensed or something, so other could reuse it for their own SPF-rejects. ;)
SPF isn't meant to add points; SPF can fail or not-fail, but the best it can assure is that the email came from a server the admin says is trusted to send emails, nothing more.
SPF means the sender's domain admin EXPLICITLY configured their domain to advertise a "drop messages that didn't come through X MTA".
User of that domain should be informed of this, and if important emails are lost due to bad SPF records, then it's the admin (or part of the sending organization's) fault.
Most, not all manufacturers.
As a side note, providing a windows-only updater could be bad for them. If there's an issue that REQUIRES a firmware update, and people need a $50 software to install it, I'm pretty sure they'll be in trouble.
DOS has no abstractions or protected more or anything else that gets in the way of direct hardware access. This is usually a bad thing (because it's insecure), but it better for something that needs direct hardware access.
This happened from day 0, it's a known issue with this model - no fix.
Legacy applications?
I've a 2010 intel motherboard with an integrated nic that reports "bad eeprom checksum" every time there's a power failure.
Intel only provides a DOS utility to re-flash the firmware, if it weren't for FreeDOS, I'd have a useless nic (on a mobo with no free PCIs, BTW).
Lots of hardware vendors still provide DOS-only BIOS updated, and similar utilities, regrettably, so FreeDOS still has plenty of uses - though not for the average user.
Optical media will probably be around longer, as long as Hollywood doesn't manage to kill it off, because it has one concrete advantage: longevity (as long as it's not based on organic dyes). BD-R media is likely to be around (in single, 2, 3, 4, or more) layer forms for a really, really long time.
Optical media is already dying. High end notebooks (including ultrabooks) no longer include optical media.
Most desktops I've seen around don't have optical media.
I've 7 computers at home, of which only one (very old) laptop has a dvd drive.
At the office, only iMacs have optical drives.
there has been no official communication from Kaspersky
It seems they were using Windows XP.
PySide is quite powerful as well, and can be used for both desktop and mobile development.
While I really like C, I think it doesn't remotely qualify as "doesn't have to be compiled for a particular processor".
If I decided to do this, I would need to operate my LAN like every node was bare on the internet.
You should be doing that anyway if you actually care about security.
I've got fileservers with guest access (for, you know... houseguests), web services, my invoicing system, and a whole slew of other personal services.
Sounds like if any single of your devices (or your guest's devices) are compromised, your entire network is compromised. The problem already exists, opening up your network would only expose it further.