>> do you really think people will turn of the TV and turn down the heating?
That's not hte point. But they will turn away from electric heating/AC in the first place, which is the point. Also, some will launch washing machine at the right time, or even better, washing machine makes will integrate a detection. TV is negligible compared to cooking, washing, heating.
The US surveillance system is much worse than the stasi, it has much more power because it controls nearly all data flowing... http://apps.opendatacity.de/st...
>>If you don't understand why you'd care about ensuring that you're using quality components rather than cheaply made knock-off fakes
Today, using a ftdi chip in a new design means : - using a too common device, typical target for compatibles and fakes - using a device which costs too much (hence the easy and obvious target for fakes) - using a part which presents a serious risk of customer return you have to take the cost because of a malicious action from FTDI. You use original chips, but you will be bitten due to good fakes being non discernable
I won't use FTDI in my upcoming products. There are better alternatives who cost half, are of equivalent value, and don't try to screw you to keep asking for a premium price.
I should add : >>>> Not if you actually test your product before you ship it. >>Products are not always tested by a windows based tester EOL testers never get driver updates. "a windows update blocked my production line for 2 days" is the last thing you want to hear.
>> Not if you actually test your product before you ship it. Products are not always tested by a windows based tester
Not if you perform ANY sort of inspection/testing of incoming components. >> fakes can be hard to detect. Factories assembling PCBs and sourcing components are rarely in direct control of the OEM.
1) No, we will just design new products to interface USB directly. This kind of action for FTDI tells me that never again will they be on any of my BOMs. 2) Use Linux, avoid malware in drivers.
>> Not really. Yes. Scanning on the network port or scanning on in the inboxes is exactly the same. The purpose of the scan could be the same. Automated or human does not make a difference. Compromised is compromised.
>> Someone gets an Office file, modifies it with LO, sends it back. Then they receive the e-mail "hey buddy, everything looks wrong". What happens now?
Not a problem. Everybody uses Libre, and that's the whole point of migrations well done.
>> How much of those €1M savings will be used to sponsor LibreOffice? Don't know for toulouse, but Munich contributed a lot back, in the form of a kind of frameword, at least.
>> I have never found anything better than the Outlook / Exchange combo for outright business usage You probably have never tried lightning + thunderbird
>> Hello, how about savings or losses in productivity from having to convert all the documents or not being able to read stuff sent from other places who are insistant on MS Word?
Two answers : - compatibility problems have mostly faded in the last few years - new laws are coming out slowly in the EU to force administrations to use odf -> Libreoffice is a big advantage.
>> You would use a 9-year-long migration as a success story? Yep. Better think an plan before acting wildly. It was a migration done in 3 steps, there's a lot of doc online on it.
>> Also, Excel has many useful features not in Calc VB is bad:)
>> thinking "libreoffice" was french-made. Nooooo. Never. Absolument impossible. "office" is an english word, it's fobidden by law to use too much english words. It would have been "Bureau Libéré"
Slashdot Mirror
>> do you really think people will turn of the TV and turn down the heating?
That's not hte point.
But they will turn away from electric heating/AC in the first place, which is the point.
Also, some will launch washing machine at the right time, or even better, washing machine makes will integrate a detection.
TV is negligible compared to cooking, washing, heating.
>> US is how far from living under the Stasi?
The US surveillance system is much worse than the stasi, it has much more power because it controls nearly all data flowing...
http://apps.opendatacity.de/st...
Or even better : The nice thing is systemD is not portable. It will infect only linux.
No, we can't.
>> I think we just created thousands more people...
Make Love, not airplanes
It's the Year of the linux airplane !! YYYEEEAAAAHH
>>If you don't understand why you'd care about ensuring that you're using quality components rather than cheaply made knock-off fakes
Today, using a ftdi chip in a new design means :
- using a too common device, typical target for compatibles and fakes
- using a device which costs too much (hence the easy and obvious target for fakes)
- using a part which presents a serious risk of customer return you have to take the cost because of a malicious action from FTDI. You use original chips, but you will be bitten due to good fakes being non discernable
I won't use FTDI in my upcoming products. There are better alternatives who cost half, are of equivalent value, and don't try to screw you to keep asking for a premium price.
I should add :
>>>> Not if you actually test your product before you ship it.
>>Products are not always tested by a windows based tester
EOL testers never get driver updates. "a windows update blocked my production line for 2 days" is the last thing you want to hear.
>> Not if you actually test your product before you ship it.
Products are not always tested by a windows based tester
Not if you perform ANY sort of inspection/testing of incoming components.
>> fakes can be hard to detect. Factories assembling PCBs and sourcing components are rarely in direct control of the OEM.
1) No, we will just design new products to interface USB directly. This kind of action for FTDI tells me that never again will they be on any of my BOMs.
2) Use Linux, avoid malware in drivers.
Use Linux.
>>The 3GS was released in 2009 and got a security update 2/2014
>>The iPhone 4 was released in 6/2010 and had the latest OS until 9/2014.
The release date is not relevant. Relevant is the end of production date.
Angry ribbon? like angry birds? :)
Ribbon is as crap as slashdot beta. LO is good
"nonsense, plenty of current malware run on XP, better than Microsoft's."
Corrected that for you.
>> Not really.
Yes. Scanning on the network port or scanning on in the inboxes is exactly the same. The purpose of the scan could be the same. Automated or human does not make a difference. Compromised is compromised.
>> Much of electronic collection is metadata
No. This is theory. In practice, they record everything for later (mis)use :
http://gawker.com/5991731/cias...
http://www.theguardian.com/com...
>> Not to mention that even if they aren't looking inside mailboxes for these images, they probably do scan messages traversing their network
Which is exactly the same than opening your mailbox.
>> Someone gets an Office file, modifies it with LO, sends it back. Then they receive the e-mail "hey buddy, everything looks wrong". What happens now?
Not a problem. Everybody uses Libre, and that's the whole point of migrations well done.
>> How much of those €1M savings will be used to sponsor LibreOffice?
Don't know for toulouse, but Munich contributed a lot back, in the form of a kind of frameword, at least.
>> Can we please hear a "status update" of these cities or governments switching to OSS?
https://media.ccc.de/browse/co...
https://www.google.com/search?...
>> Try using LibreOffice in a typical business environment for a couple of weeks
I use it for 3 years now, with shitty xlsx and docx from colleagues, no problem.
Compatibility issues in Libre have faded away since years.
>> I have never found anything better than the Outlook / Exchange combo for outright business usage
You probably have never tried lightning + thunderbird
>> Hello, how about savings or losses in productivity from having to convert all the documents or not being able to read stuff sent from other places who are insistant on MS Word?
Two answers :
- compatibility problems have mostly faded in the last few years
- new laws are coming out slowly in the EU to force administrations to use odf -> Libreoffice is a big advantage.
>> How do you automate detection and deployment of important security updates
apt-get.
>> You would use a 9-year-long migration as a success story?
Yep. Better think an plan before acting wildly. It was a migration done in 3 steps, there's a lot of doc online on it.
>> Also, Excel has many useful features not in Calc :)
VB is bad
>> Instead of hiring 10 cheap indians...
We do not hire "cheap indians" here in France. We use french speaking staffonly.
>> thinking "libreoffice" was french-made.
Nooooo. Never. Absolument impossible. "office" is an english word, it's fobidden by law to use too much english words. It would have been "Bureau Libéré"