I hope they get arrested because their actions would be damaging to everyone: Apple, their customers, and the FSF.
I don't see a whole lot that needs to be changed. Free software has established itself as a viable platform, and virtually everybody depends on it these days. It continues to grow and improve. And I have contributed in a few very small ways. Good for us, and great for the people who have been driving this so hard for so long.
But what's that I hear? Free software wants all the benefits of proprietary software too, like cool television ads, top drawer retail space, and "genius bars?" Then raise some money to do those things, don't try to destroy what others have built.
I have three iPods, and a Zune 30 (with the new firmware). The new Zune does not suck *at all*, and the wireless sync works quite well. The Zune button is not nearly as good as the click-wheel, though. But the iTMS, and the Zune Marketplace are comparable. iTunes still has better podcast support (includes password protected podcasts), but the Zune has a useful Zunepass subsciption service. And honestly, I'm surprised at how I kinda prefer the Zune points system. There's a certain degree of convenience there that I like.
Zune is for real, and anyone who would be disappointed to get one would only be disappointed because it's not what Muffy has.
The behavior depends on a number of factors, and in many ways UAC is vastly superior to Mac OS in this regard. To dispel some myths and speculation that have been swirling here:
1) UAC dialogs can be automatically ignored or suppressed 2) UAC can be configured to require password, even with an administrator account 3) running as a limited user, UAC requires a passwords 4) applications can't snoop the password as its being entered (contrast with MacOS)
To highlight some areas that haven't been addressed:
-- UAC provides virtualization of registry hives to make older applications work well under the new system -- UAC makes GREAT use of color to highlight potentially untrustoworth applications that have requested credentials -- UAC behavior can be centrally managed through group policy
For the security-conscious among us, UAC will preovide a great deal of control unavailable on MacOS. For uncle Bob, it will save him from a lot of malware even if he runs as admin all the time.
The comparison in the article is superficial, at best.
The headline is just plain rude. Microsoft has shown a much greater degree of responsibility and maturity in the security efforts than Slashdot is showing here in your journalistic efforts. In no way is Vista "designed to make malware easy."
The headline reads "Comcast Lying About Vonage." Nothing like "Customers *Allege* Comcast is Lying About Vonage," or any sort of qualifier at all. One anecdote, and Slashdot screams to the world that Comcast is lying. Because Slashdot is somehow an unimpeachable beacon of truth, with no biases, agendas, or opinions, and Comcast is just a bunch of greedy corporate scumbags who kick puppies at every opportunity.
You don't even have the decency of Fox News, who would have said "Is Comcast Lying About Vonage?" Nope, Slashdot is 100% above reproach, and has no interest whatsoever is hyperbole or copntroversy. Nothing to see here folks, move on.
I do not work for Comcast or any of its competitors or suppliers, and I don't know and can't really evaluate if the claims are true. But I know crap journalism when I see it.
The NSA is a big powerful agency, and we are correct to be concerned with their power. But this just isn't a big deal. Its a bad law, almost certainly written with little or no understanding of the technology involved, and I'm completely confident that this was an honest mistake by the NSA. Do you think the uber spies in the NSA are running their website? I mean, I'm sure they're pretty sharp, but at the end of the day they're IT guys like thousands of IT guys everywhere, and they upgraded some software with unanticipated side effects.
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According to the link below, the tool to remove XCP is itself *seriously* flawed from a security point of view:
I agree that the patent system can be improved, but this appears to be just an examination of the costs of the patent system without any discussion of the benefit.
In one survey last year, 99% of Americans reported that the ongoing costs of operating their cars impacted their bank account in a negative manner...
If asking Paul Parenthood to keep up his productivity is "discriminating against him because he has kids", then so is asking Sam Singleton to pick up Paul's slack when he says he can't.
True enough. A competent manager should strive to allocate work fairly according to professional -- not personal -- concerns. Though a competent manager also must realize that people are humans, and their personal life infringes on their professional life (and vice versa).
as far as Sam Singleton is concerned, seeing LOTR or setting the weekend's LAN party is just as emotionally important to Sam, as setting up the kid's birthday party is to Paul Parenthood.
Poppycock! As a father and a manger, as well as a dyed in the wool geek, I can tell you without equivocation that the emotional attachment you may feel to LOTR is in no way comparable to the emotional connection a parent has with his or her children. Parents quit jobs routinely to spend time with their children. I would die for my daughter. If your child is seriously ill, functioning normally enters the realm of the courageous.
There are social and personal consequences involved if you neglect your parenting responsibilities. If you miss the opening of LOTR, who gives a fuck?
Excuse me? "Ideally, with the ideas and sharing, these guys will have a better appreciation for us, adjust our budgets appropriately, and help us in our business."
Whose business?
You will never get anywhere if you think that IT is the business of the company. You must understand that the IT division exists to help the company, not the other way around.
Despite recent advances in economic freedoms, China is still a dangerous totalitarian regime. In the west, we rail against the abuses of the State, and rightly so, but the abuses of the west are nothing compared to China.
To say "Go China" is to deny the real and substantial differences between liberal democracies and repressive regimes. I can say that W is a dummy with impunity in the US. Chinese citizens can't do likewise. These freedoms make forums like slashdot possible, and are directly responsible for the wealth and privilege that I and many many others in western democracies enjoy.
I hope that China will join the community of nations that protects the rights of the individual. Maybe the power they now have will help them, and the rest of us, fulfill the promise of the American Declaration of Independence. In the meantime, don't make the deadly and dangerous mistake of confusing interesting technology with "good." Linux and spaceships can be used for good and evil.
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GPO is also extensible, which is nice: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc736356.aspx
That is incorrect: http://blogs.technet.com/dataplatforminsider/archive/2008/12/10/sql-server-2005-sp3-now-available-for-download.aspx.
I hope they get arrested because their actions would be damaging to everyone: Apple, their customers, and the FSF.
I don't see a whole lot that needs to be changed. Free software has established itself as a viable platform, and virtually everybody depends on it these days. It continues to grow and improve. And I have contributed in a few very small ways. Good for us, and great for the people who have been driving this so hard for so long.
But what's that I hear? Free software wants all the benefits of proprietary software too, like cool television ads, top drawer retail space, and "genius bars?" Then raise some money to do those things, don't try to destroy what others have built.
I hope any nimrod who does this gets arrested for trespassing and sued for malicious interference.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=68C48DAD-BC34-40BE-8D85-6BB4F56F5110&displaylang=en
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/lifecycle/servicepacks.mspx
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936929
https://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=2010&SiteID=17
Just a small effort will tell you lots about XP SP3.
I have three iPods, and a Zune 30 (with the new firmware). The new Zune does not suck *at all*, and the wireless sync works quite well. The Zune button is not nearly as good as the click-wheel, though. But the iTMS, and the Zune Marketplace are comparable. iTunes still has better podcast support (includes password protected podcasts), but the Zune has a useful Zunepass subsciption service. And honestly, I'm surprised at how I kinda prefer the Zune points system. There's a certain degree of convenience there that I like.
Zune is for real, and anyone who would be disappointed to get one would only be disappointed because it's not what Muffy has.
Isn't this, you know, a library?
Great headline there. Its like a parsing test for natural language AI engines. :-)
"The Internet" is a set of rules that allow people to communicate using computers.
The behavior depends on a number of factors, and in many ways UAC is vastly superior to Mac OS in this regard. To dispel some myths and speculation that have been swirling here:
r ary/00d04415-2b2f-422c-b70e-b18ff918c2811033.mspx? mfr=true
1) UAC dialogs can be automatically ignored or suppressed
2) UAC can be configured to require password, even with an administrator account
3) running as a limited user, UAC requires a passwords
4) applications can't snoop the password as its being entered (contrast with MacOS)
To highlight some areas that haven't been addressed:
-- UAC provides virtualization of registry hives to make older applications work well under the new system
-- UAC makes GREAT use of color to highlight potentially untrustoworth applications that have requested credentials
-- UAC behavior can be centrally managed through group policy
There's more too.
There's a ton of good information about it at Microsoft. See, for example, http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsVista/en/lib
For the security-conscious among us, UAC will preovide a great deal of control unavailable on MacOS. For uncle Bob, it will save him from a lot of malware even if he runs as admin all the time.
The comparison in the article is superficial, at best.
I think you own Microsoft an apology.
The headline reads "Comcast Lying About Vonage." Nothing like "Customers *Allege* Comcast is Lying About Vonage," or any sort of qualifier at all. One anecdote, and Slashdot screams to the world that Comcast is lying. Because Slashdot is somehow an unimpeachable beacon of truth, with no biases, agendas, or opinions, and Comcast is just a bunch of greedy corporate scumbags who kick puppies at every opportunity.
You don't even have the decency of Fox News, who would have said "Is Comcast Lying About Vonage?" Nope, Slashdot is 100% above reproach, and has no interest whatsoever is hyperbole or copntroversy. Nothing to see here folks, move on.
I do not work for Comcast or any of its competitors or suppliers, and I don't know and can't really evaluate if the claims are true. But I know crap journalism when I see it.
The NSA is a big powerful agency, and we are correct to be concerned with their power. But this just isn't a big deal. Its a bad law, almost certainly written with little or no understanding of the technology involved, and I'm completely confident that this was an honest mistake by the NSA. Do you think the uber spies in the NSA are running their website? I mean, I'm sure they're pretty sharp, but at the end of the day they're IT guys like thousands of IT guys everywhere, and they upgraded some software with unanticipated side effects.
According to the link below, the tool to remove XCP is itself *seriously* flawed from a security point of view:
http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=927
I agree that the patent system can be improved, but this appears to be just an examination of the costs of the patent system without any discussion of the benefit.
In one survey last year, 99% of Americans reported that the ongoing costs of operating their cars impacted their bank account in a negative manner...
There have been lots of IM warnings in the pastjust look at CERT> warnings for a sense of how pervasive this threat is.
True enough. A competent manager should strive to allocate work fairly according to professional -- not personal -- concerns. Though a competent manager also must realize that people are humans, and their personal life infringes on their professional life (and vice versa).
as far as Sam Singleton is concerned, seeing LOTR or setting the weekend's LAN party is just as emotionally important to Sam, as setting up the kid's birthday party is to Paul Parenthood.
Poppycock! As a father and a manger, as well as a dyed in the wool geek, I can tell you without equivocation that the emotional attachment you may feel to LOTR is in no way comparable to the emotional connection a parent has with his or her children. Parents quit jobs routinely to spend time with their children. I would die for my daughter. If your child is seriously ill, functioning normally enters the realm of the courageous.
There are social and personal consequences involved if you neglect your parenting responsibilities. If you miss the opening of LOTR, who gives a fuck?
I have good luck with a mixture of Virtual PC for Macs and VMWare for Linux. VPC doesn't run on the G5s yet, though.
Maybe a virtual solution will work for you?
Excuse me? "Ideally, with the ideas and sharing, these guys will have a better appreciation for us, adjust our budgets appropriately, and help us in our business."
Whose business?
You will never get anywhere if you think that IT is the business of the company. You must understand that the IT division exists to help the company, not the other way around.
Despite recent advances in economic freedoms, China is still a dangerous totalitarian regime. In the west, we rail against the abuses of the State, and rightly so, but the abuses of the west are nothing compared to China.
http://www.hrw.org/reports/2003/china0803/2.htm#_
http://www.derechos.org/human-rights/nasia/china/
http://www.tibet.ca/wtnarchive/1997/1/30_7.html
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB16/
To say "Go China" is to deny the real and substantial differences between liberal democracies and repressive regimes. I can say that W is a dummy with impunity in the US. Chinese citizens can't do likewise. These freedoms make forums like slashdot possible, and are directly responsible for the wealth and privilege that I and many many others in western democracies enjoy.
I hope that China will join the community of nations that protects the rights of the individual. Maybe the power they now have will help them, and the rest of us, fulfill the promise of the American Declaration of Independence. In the meantime, don't make the deadly and dangerous mistake of confusing interesting technology with "good." Linux and spaceships can be used for good and evil.