I've got lots of perfectly good hardware (scanners, printers...etc) that never received a Windows 7 driver. I have to keep at least one XP machine around just for that reason.
That could be because anyone tech savvy enough to move beyond XP has discovered that they use printers and scanners so infrequently that it's too much of a cost for them to own one personally.
But seriously? You can't see any reason to distrust self-signed certificates?
He was saying that our browsers currently trust them more than plain text.
They aren't trusted because the browser has no way to verify their authenticity
Well maybe we should have a system for that. I don't think that it would be unreasonable for a browser (when it sees a cert for the first time) ask Google, Bing, Yahoo, or any other web crawler, if that's the cert they see for the website too. If they confirm that's the last cert they've seen for the site, move on ahead. Self signed certs are weary the first time the browser visits the website, but for returning visits it can be used to confirm that a man-in-the-middle isn't happening.
With plaintext the user at least doesn't expect the connection to be secure.
Well some users. Most users wouldn't know that plain text isn't secure. Wasn't the facebook login over http for the longest time?
I was hoping for Aero, or at least the option of Aero. I dislike the 'flatland' look for clarity reasons (distinguishing elements from one another).
I'm going to have to disagree with your reason there. The flatland brings a lot more distinguishing one element from another than what Aero did with skinnier, translucent/blurry boarders.
Soon every government official will get credit for creating local jobs by making it illegal to purchase anything made in a different country. Then we'll cycle back and have lots of globalization, and then we'll repeat the cycle again. Whatever you do, don't read history!
Given that this isn't being broadcast in a one to many network, and that it's not interfering with communication infrastructure, why does the FCC have authority to do something like this?
I don't see why they didn't just say, "Alright, no internet requirement of any kind for disc based games. If you want to use your game remotely, or share a game remotely, you'll have to connect to the internet." Totally f'n reasonable *choice* that you could make where internet based features = you need the internet. I think it's really stupid they basically said "fine, you get nothing".
I imagine that there was a deep enough dependency between the call home "feature" and the rest of the sharing, that they figured the easiest way to turn it all off was to not check in the module(s) that did all that. Which is why the functionality rolled back to 360 functionality.
With this change they also removed the ability to share downloaded games, and the ability to share a game without lending the disk. Those must have been the primary drivers behind the phone home requirements.
I never understood why Microsoft forced Internet Explorer inside Windows. Did they fear Netscape's "API" would really threaten them ?
Yes. Netscape was proposing a network connected API that would act as an interface between the program and the OS. It was going to be a complete API that would allow a developer to write a program that would run on the Netscape API and be OS independent.
I don't think that the breakdown of the neighborhood social structure is due to TV, I think it's due to Air Conditioning. With no AC you have to go outside on a regular basis; with AC you don't.
Here's an example where the 5th amendment makes a positive difference.
Prosecutor: Your honor, we don't have any evidence, but we're pretty sure he killed that man because he's all shifty looking.
Judge: Tell us why you killed that man.
Defendant:
Judge: Let the record show the defendant has refused to answer the question. This court is holding him in contempt. I order him confined in prison until such time as he consents to answer the question. Bailiff, take him away.
Do you want a society where the police focus on gathering evidence to convict an individual.
Or should the police and judges place more emphasis on compelling people to testify in their own conviction?
I don't believe that the OP said that without the 5th we all of a sudden become truth tellers. Given that so many people would be lying anyway, the police would still need to be going after physical evidence.
Because it works. Most people buy into it. Why should I pay $20+ for a BluRay? Oh, because it comes with the DVD and a Media file. But I don't want the DVD and Media file!!!! Too bad. You can't buy it any other way (than used.) So consumers buy anyway. And the sellers sit back rub their hands together with a MUAHAHAHA!
My parents don't have a BluRay player. My mom went to buy some DVD, and had to ask the store if they had it just as a DVD (instead of the combo pack) and the teenage store worker said that they did have just the DVD, but the combo pack is a better deal. My mom asked if the combo pack was cheaper than just the DVD, and they said 'No', but still insisted that it didn't make sense for my mom to buy the DVD because the combo pack was a better deal. My mom couldn't convince the teenager that a combo pack isn't a better deal if you can't use the other disks. So now she kind of holds it as a badge of honor that she's able to confuse the store clerks by getting just the DVD.
The FBI should use the C&C servers to force the machines to run Windows Update and clean the machines of the virus. The users obviously don't want to take care of their own machine, and if something goes wrong they'll know that they had a virus.
Why anybody, at this point, would invest *any* time in any windows language or platform is beyone me. Think Android. Think iOS.
But aren't all of your points even stronger when going from any of those starting states to an iOS or Android solution? Plus, don't be surprised if iOS changes its interface soon.
To a first approximation, Microsoft *is* Windows and Office.
Possibly true, but according to Slashdot, the open source versions of an OS and an office suite are so much better, that it's only a matter of time before everyone else agrees. So Microsoft needs to fan out and find new software ventures to try out once selling OS's and office suites are no longer viable.
Secure Boot isn't a requirement for a Windows 8 install; it's a requirement for a device to be Windows 8 certified. So an OEM can sell a device with Windows 8 on it, and not have Secure Boot; but in doing so they can't put the Windows 8 certified logo on the box. Given that nobody looks for that logo, I don't see it being that big of a deal.
I disable of all these shadows, nice borders, etc.
I don't know about shadows (I don't see any on my Win8 machine), but the nice boarders from Vista/7 got removed from Win8. I'm pretty sure it's not even possible to turn them back on.
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That kind of requires a population with a certain degree of literacy, which a lot of these Arab Spring democracies don't have.
This is just Google collecting all of the worlds data, just like they said they were doing to do.
I've got lots of perfectly good hardware (scanners, printers...etc) that never received a Windows 7 driver. I have to keep at least one XP machine around just for that reason.
That could be because anyone tech savvy enough to move beyond XP has discovered that they use printers and scanners so infrequently that it's too much of a cost for them to own one personally.
But seriously? You can't see any reason to distrust self-signed certificates?
He was saying that our browsers currently trust them more than plain text.
They aren't trusted because the browser has no way to verify their authenticity
Well maybe we should have a system for that. I don't think that it would be unreasonable for a browser (when it sees a cert for the first time) ask Google, Bing, Yahoo, or any other web crawler, if that's the cert they see for the website too. If they confirm that's the last cert they've seen for the site, move on ahead. Self signed certs are weary the first time the browser visits the website, but for returning visits it can be used to confirm that a man-in-the-middle isn't happening.
With plaintext the user at least doesn't expect the connection to be secure.
Well some users. Most users wouldn't know that plain text isn't secure. Wasn't the facebook login over http for the longest time?
I was hoping for Aero, or at least the option of Aero. I dislike the 'flatland' look for clarity reasons (distinguishing elements from one another).
I'm going to have to disagree with your reason there. The flatland brings a lot more distinguishing one element from another than what Aero did with skinnier, translucent/blurry boarders.
Soon every government official will get credit for creating local jobs by making it illegal to purchase anything made in a different country. Then we'll cycle back and have lots of globalization, and then we'll repeat the cycle again. Whatever you do, don't read history!
This kind of intervention from big bad government might do something to keep the search engines from devolving into glorified billboards.
Why should the government be in a position to prevent this? Companies should be allowed to devolve all they want.
By showing ads. That does not mean they are allowed to lie about results.
The last thing I want is advertising I cannot distinguish from real results.
Even if you don't like it, why shouldn't they be allowed to lie? Should we begin banning lying on the internet?
Given that this isn't being broadcast in a one to many network, and that it's not interfering with communication infrastructure, why does the FCC have authority to do something like this?
I don't see why they didn't just say, "Alright, no internet requirement of any kind for disc based games. If you want to use your game remotely, or share a game remotely, you'll have to connect to the internet." Totally f'n reasonable *choice* that you could make where internet based features = you need the internet. I think it's really stupid they basically said "fine, you get nothing".
I imagine that there was a deep enough dependency between the call home "feature" and the rest of the sharing, that they figured the easiest way to turn it all off was to not check in the module(s) that did all that. Which is why the functionality rolled back to 360 functionality.
With this change they also removed the ability to share downloaded games, and the ability to share a game without lending the disk. Those must have been the primary drivers behind the phone home requirements.
I never understood why Microsoft forced Internet Explorer inside Windows. Did they fear Netscape's "API" would really threaten them ?
Yes. Netscape was proposing a network connected API that would act as an interface between the program and the OS. It was going to be a complete API that would allow a developer to write a program that would run on the Netscape API and be OS independent.
I don't think that the breakdown of the neighborhood social structure is due to TV, I think it's due to Air Conditioning. With no AC you have to go outside on a regular basis; with AC you don't.
Employing the hungry in creating robots is one way to reduce the number of hungry.
Here's an example where the 5th amendment makes a positive difference.
Prosecutor: Your honor, we don't have any evidence, but we're pretty sure he killed that man because he's all shifty looking. Judge: Tell us why you killed that man. Defendant: Judge: Let the record show the defendant has refused to answer the question. This court is holding him in contempt. I order him confined in prison until such time as he consents to answer the question. Bailiff, take him away.
Defendant: I didn't kill the man,
That's so sad that we don't want truth telling to happen in court.
Why not just lie then?
If your own words can be used to convict you, then the police and government gain a huge incentive to torture you into confessing.
But there are still laws against torture. So even without the fifth, they still can't torture.
Do you want a society where the police focus on gathering evidence to convict an individual. Or should the police and judges place more emphasis on compelling people to testify in their own conviction?
I don't believe that the OP said that without the 5th we all of a sudden become truth tellers. Given that so many people would be lying anyway, the police would still need to be going after physical evidence.
Because it works. Most people buy into it. Why should I pay $20+ for a BluRay? Oh, because it comes with the DVD and a Media file. But I don't want the DVD and Media file!!!! Too bad. You can't buy it any other way (than used.) So consumers buy anyway. And the sellers sit back rub their hands together with a MUAHAHAHA!
My parents don't have a BluRay player. My mom went to buy some DVD, and had to ask the store if they had it just as a DVD (instead of the combo pack) and the teenage store worker said that they did have just the DVD, but the combo pack is a better deal. My mom asked if the combo pack was cheaper than just the DVD, and they said 'No', but still insisted that it didn't make sense for my mom to buy the DVD because the combo pack was a better deal. My mom couldn't convince the teenager that a combo pack isn't a better deal if you can't use the other disks. So now she kind of holds it as a badge of honor that she's able to confuse the store clerks by getting just the DVD.
The FBI should use the C&C servers to force the machines to run Windows Update and clean the machines of the virus. The users obviously don't want to take care of their own machine, and if something goes wrong they'll know that they had a virus.
Why anybody, at this point, would invest *any* time in any windows language or platform is beyone me. Think Android. Think iOS.
But aren't all of your points even stronger when going from any of those starting states to an iOS or Android solution? Plus, don't be surprised if iOS changes its interface soon.
To a first approximation, Microsoft *is* Windows and Office.
Possibly true, but according to Slashdot, the open source versions of an OS and an office suite are so much better, that it's only a matter of time before everyone else agrees. So Microsoft needs to fan out and find new software ventures to try out once selling OS's and office suites are no longer viable.
Secure Boot isn't a requirement for a Windows 8 install; it's a requirement for a device to be Windows 8 certified. So an OEM can sell a device with Windows 8 on it, and not have Secure Boot; but in doing so they can't put the Windows 8 certified logo on the box. Given that nobody looks for that logo, I don't see it being that big of a deal.
I disable of all these shadows, nice borders, etc.
I don't know about shadows (I don't see any on my Win8 machine), but the nice boarders from Vista/7 got removed from Win8. I'm pretty sure it's not even possible to turn them back on.