But you have to train someone to use and adminstrate Linux, which means making training materials for your custom Linux installation even before you put your proprietary front-end on it. With MS Windows, all you have to do is give them a copy of "XP For Dummies" and everyone's happy
And? Malware get depreciated quicker than any other type of software, due to exploited getting found and fixed. Obviously any malware targeted at firmware has an air or permanence to it, but even that will get depreciated when the hardware is replaced or firmware upgraded.
Also worth noting is it depends on the particular device being targeted. For example, the firmware in the SCADA systems Stuxnet targeted is completely reliant on the PC connected to it. Disable the PC and you effectively disable the malware. On the other hand, BIOS/UEFI exploits could be programmed to be OS agnostic, meaning that no matter how often you reformat your disks and no matter what OS you install, the malware could potentially still update itself over ethernet and wreak havoc. Cellphone baseband firmware is also susceptible to this sort of "sophisticated" attack.
In the end, almost all firmware is worth attacking by someone somewhere. As malware becomes more sophisticated, firmware will be targeted more often, and malware such as Stuxnet may well become the norm.
It's simple. Since Facebook sort of hit the social networking nail on the head, everyone who does social networking by default goes to Facebook. Sure, there are alternatives, but the majority use the one platform. It's the same with the telephone. Sure, you can send someone a letter (if you have their address, find it in the phone book (ironically)) but the de-facto means of long-distance communication is the telephone nowadays. Same with Facebook. If you want to stalk that girl you saw at a party or want to snoop through photos of your boss when he's drunk, then Facebook is the place to go. People need to stop treating Facebook like a virtual pub and treat it for what it is, an online phone book where you can nose through everyone's personal life.
It's that it's too different. It's a well argued fact that the 2 major mobile OSes are very similar programatticaly to their desktop brethren. In fact, the only visual different between iOS/Android and Mac/Windows is the lack of a multi-window interface. Almost every widget could be seen on both desktops and touch screens in some shape or form, and as such, coding a browser such as Firefox for any of them platforms is much the same regardless of platform. The problem with Metro is it's just too different. It's very hard to convert an interface written for, say, win32 to the new Metro interface simply because there's not many similarities. And herein lies the issues. If developers can't easily code for your API, they won't, and hence Mozilla's stance.
It's a dead platform anyway. I wonder if in 5 years we'll remember it as fondly as we currently remember Vista.
Or that dark matter actually exists. I've never seen any definitive scientific evidence of the existence of it. Dark matter just seems to be that stuff we use to answer anything we don't quite understand. Big Bang? Dark matter. Quantum physics? Dark matter. Extinction of the dinosaurs? Dark matter. Why is yo mamma so fat? Dark matter.
And child porn isn't a contraband item? Sure, it's much easier to get hold of than cocaine, but it still doesn't negate the fact that there is a lot of suffering and psychological scarring that goes along with the production of child porn. As long as there's paedophiles they'll be child porn, and as long as it is (and rightly should be) illegal to have sexual relations with someone under the age of consent, there will be paedophiles. After all, it's all about supply and demand. Charlie Sheen needs his snow, the pervert at the end of the road needs his fix by perving on the schoolgirls. Both are very much illegal, and both for very good reasons. It's up to you yourself to decide where your morals fall, and which crime is greyer than the other.
How is the possession or consumption of cocaine a crime at all? That's a victimless crime?!?! Well no, it's not. People get murdered, kidnapped, raped and shot, purely to get that fine white power into Charlie Sheen's sinuses.
Same with Child porn. There's all sorts of psychological damage that can be done by making child porn. Obviously there is times when child porn can be made without hurting the, errr, "actor", but in general, it's not a victimless crime at all.
Just because your part in the chain doesn't actively hurt anybody, doesn't mean your part in the chain isn't actively helping to support rape, kidnap, murder etc. With most "victimless" crimes, it's all about a moral standpoint. Choose your footing wisely, or you might fall off the mountain.
Linux is Linux no matter where it's installed. You're more welcoming to add Linux for System/Z (i've never seen, will see, or particularly care for the existence of an IBM System/Z big iron) than the most prolific and successful Linux distribution ever in the history of Linux? Sure, it's not "GNU/Linux", and what a f**k**g shame.... There's too many slightly incompatible GNU/Linux distro's out there, and too many neckbeards fighting over which slightly incompatible OS is better. When something good and positive for Linux appears on slashdot, why can't you all agree that it's a good thing. After all, i've got more hope of getting that Angry Birds apk working on CyanogenMod than i do a VLC RPM on CentOS.
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Linux can do it, Android can do it, Mac OS X can do it, and i can also do it on my jailbroken iDevices. Simply having a Linux package manager means nothing, after all, both Macports and Cydia (for jailbroken iOS devices) use the Debian.DEB package manager, and they're definitely not Linux.
Don't get me wrong though, Sailfish is much closer to a real "conventional" GNU/Linux distro than Android is. IIRC it uses X.org, and it's main UI toolkit is QT, as well as having most of the same subsystems as a conventioal Linux distro would expect. This means that porting apps from GNU/Linux to Sailfish should be easier than porting from Android. Either way, Sailfish is a very interesting prospect indeed
It's about as close to a currency as gold and silver are. All bitcoin is is a commodity that can be traded for good and services, or a real regulated and respected currency
I've got a Commodore 64 DTV at home, i'm just waiting for the parts to make it an (almost) fully functional C64. Single-board retro computers are not new. The miggy has done it, the C64 has done it, i suppose it was about time the brits caught up.
Here in the UK we have a system of student loans to help finance the cost of university or college. This loan can, and in most circumstances, does cover the university fees, along with rent and living fees. This is great, as we can go to uni without having to pay anything at all up-front. But, seeing as it's a loan, we have to pay it back (at 9% or our earnings (!?!?!)) once we earn more than £21,000.
This loan system allows people from poorer backgrounds to get the same access to education that richer kids get. I'm sure there's a similar system in America, but this one works well here. We don't pay (much) tax towards uni fees, and only people who actually want an education get funding.
MHO they should have just stuck to Symbian. Nokia could have made a killing by making "smartphones" at the price of dumbphones, just by leveraging Symbian. Just because a market exists, doesn't mean you have to enter it. If I could buy a Nokia for £100 that could play MP3's and browse the internet,as well as call and text, i'd buy 3
And the world Wide Web was invented by a brit in Switzerland. That doesn't mean that the Brits and the Swiss should have a monopoly over the control of it, hence why the W3C was created.
It's time the US did the right thing and opened up ICANN as an internationally let consortium, instead of a consortium that puts domestic needs first.
The best way to stop spying is to not let any connections to foreign websites. Whilst i'm not one for great firewalls or suchlike (and as a brit i despise David Macaroon's internet filtering policy) maybe it's time to start filtering connections from certain countries. If the EU is so worked up about America controlling the internet (which it does) maybe it's time to set up a Euronet and filter connection to and from the US. Would it help keep the internet free? No. But the internet will never be free whilst it's run by a single country.
is that as soon as you lose a device, not only are you $200-$2000 out of pocket, but your life could easily be ruined by a nefarious passer-by who happened to find your lost gadget. No technology is private, stop deluding yourself.
The majority of young americans: hate Obama; think public healthcare is a waste of money, whilst not understanding the new laws; believe Snowdon was serving in the public's interest; blame colleges (and not the lack of a subsidised education system) on student debt; are pro-life and would like to see abortion made illegal; are against banning assault weapons; as well as, of course, believing astrology is a science.
I think it's time to look at exactly who and where these people being surveyed are. The old adage of "There are lies, damned lies, and statistics" seems very relevant here.
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But you have to train someone to use and adminstrate Linux, which means making training materials for your custom Linux installation even before you put your proprietary front-end on it. With MS Windows, all you have to do is give them a copy of "XP For Dummies" and everyone's happy
Astonishing APR?
Brilliant Bankers?
or maybe...
Crippling Charges?
Defaulting Debit?
And? Malware get depreciated quicker than any other type of software, due to exploited getting found and fixed. Obviously any malware targeted at firmware has an air or permanence to it, but even that will get depreciated when the hardware is replaced or firmware upgraded.
Also worth noting is it depends on the particular device being targeted. For example, the firmware in the SCADA systems Stuxnet targeted is completely reliant on the PC connected to it. Disable the PC and you effectively disable the malware. On the other hand, BIOS/UEFI exploits could be programmed to be OS agnostic, meaning that no matter how often you reformat your disks and no matter what OS you install, the malware could potentially still update itself over ethernet and wreak havoc. Cellphone baseband firmware is also susceptible to this sort of "sophisticated" attack.
In the end, almost all firmware is worth attacking by someone somewhere. As malware becomes more sophisticated, firmware will be targeted more often, and malware such as Stuxnet may well become the norm.
It's simple. Since Facebook sort of hit the social networking nail on the head, everyone who does social networking by default goes to Facebook. Sure, there are alternatives, but the majority use the one platform. It's the same with the telephone. Sure, you can send someone a letter (if you have their address, find it in the phone book (ironically)) but the de-facto means of long-distance communication is the telephone nowadays. Same with Facebook. If you want to stalk that girl you saw at a party or want to snoop through photos of your boss when he's drunk, then Facebook is the place to go. People need to stop treating Facebook like a virtual pub and treat it for what it is, an online phone book where you can nose through everyone's personal life.
So i'm meant to be more scared of someone not minding their P's and Q's than someone smashing in the local grocers?
The 1600's sent a letter, they want their ships back
It's that it's too different. It's a well argued fact that the 2 major mobile OSes are very similar programatticaly to their desktop brethren. In fact, the only visual different between iOS/Android and Mac/Windows is the lack of a multi-window interface. Almost every widget could be seen on both desktops and touch screens in some shape or form, and as such, coding a browser such as Firefox for any of them platforms is much the same regardless of platform. The problem with Metro is it's just too different. It's very hard to convert an interface written for, say, win32 to the new Metro interface simply because there's not many similarities. And herein lies the issues. If developers can't easily code for your API, they won't, and hence Mozilla's stance.
It's a dead platform anyway. I wonder if in 5 years we'll remember it as fondly as we currently remember Vista.
And they're all batshit crazy.
Strangely that's more believable.
Or that dark matter actually exists. I've never seen any definitive scientific evidence of the existence of it. Dark matter just seems to be that stuff we use to answer anything we don't quite understand. Big Bang? Dark matter. Quantum physics? Dark matter. Extinction of the dinosaurs? Dark matter. Why is yo mamma so fat? Dark matter.
Because Microsoft tried it and failed, and nowevery OS vendor is scared to try to conjoin tablet and desktop oses
And child porn isn't a contraband item? Sure, it's much easier to get hold of than cocaine, but it still doesn't negate the fact that there is a lot of suffering and psychological scarring that goes along with the production of child porn. As long as there's paedophiles they'll be child porn, and as long as it is (and rightly should be) illegal to have sexual relations with someone under the age of consent, there will be paedophiles. After all, it's all about supply and demand. Charlie Sheen needs his snow, the pervert at the end of the road needs his fix by perving on the schoolgirls. Both are very much illegal, and both for very good reasons. It's up to you yourself to decide where your morals fall, and which crime is greyer than the other.
How is the possession or consumption of cocaine a crime at all? That's a victimless crime?!?! Well no, it's not. People get murdered, kidnapped, raped and shot, purely to get that fine white power into Charlie Sheen's sinuses.
Same with Child porn. There's all sorts of psychological damage that can be done by making child porn. Obviously there is times when child porn can be made without hurting the, errr, "actor", but in general, it's not a victimless crime at all.
Just because your part in the chain doesn't actively hurt anybody, doesn't mean your part in the chain isn't actively helping to support rape, kidnap, murder etc. With most "victimless" crimes, it's all about a moral standpoint. Choose your footing wisely, or you might fall off the mountain.
If you put lipstick on a pig, it's still a pig.
Linux is Linux no matter where it's installed. You're more welcoming to add Linux for System/Z (i've never seen, will see, or particularly care for the existence of an IBM System/Z big iron) than the most prolific and successful Linux distribution ever in the history of Linux? Sure, it's not "GNU/Linux", and what a f**k**g shame.... There's too many slightly incompatible GNU/Linux distro's out there, and too many neckbeards fighting over which slightly incompatible OS is better. When something good and positive for Linux appears on slashdot, why can't you all agree that it's a good thing. After all, i've got more hope of getting that Angry Birds apk working on CyanogenMod than i do a VLC RPM on CentOS.
God help you if you ever try Haiku OS.
BREAKING NEWS! A UNIX-LIKE OS CAN BE SSH'D INTO AND SOFTWARE INSTALLED ON IT VIA COMMAND LINE
.DEB package manager, and they're definitely not Linux.
Linux can do it, Android can do it, Mac OS X can do it, and i can also do it on my jailbroken iDevices. Simply having a Linux package manager means nothing, after all, both Macports and Cydia (for jailbroken iOS devices) use the Debian
Don't get me wrong though, Sailfish is much closer to a real "conventional" GNU/Linux distro than Android is. IIRC it uses X.org, and it's main UI toolkit is QT, as well as having most of the same subsystems as a conventioal Linux distro would expect. This means that porting apps from GNU/Linux to Sailfish should be easier than porting from Android. Either way, Sailfish is a very interesting prospect indeed
And someone should have written an open source equivalent of Windows XP too. Just because something seems logical doesn't mean it's easy.
It's about as close to a currency as gold and silver are. All bitcoin is is a commodity that can be traded for good and services, or a real regulated and respected currency
I've got a Commodore 64 DTV at home, i'm just waiting for the parts to make it an (almost) fully functional C64. Single-board retro computers are not new. The miggy has done it, the C64 has done it, i suppose it was about time the brits caught up.
Here in the UK we have a system of student loans to help finance the cost of university or college. This loan can, and in most circumstances, does cover the university fees, along with rent and living fees. This is great, as we can go to uni without having to pay anything at all up-front. But, seeing as it's a loan, we have to pay it back (at 9% or our earnings (!?!?!)) once we earn more than £21,000.
This loan system allows people from poorer backgrounds to get the same access to education that richer kids get. I'm sure there's a similar system in America, but this one works well here. We don't pay (much) tax towards uni fees, and only people who actually want an education get funding.
MHO they should have just stuck to Symbian. Nokia could have made a killing by making "smartphones" at the price of dumbphones, just by leveraging Symbian. Just because a market exists, doesn't mean you have to enter it. If I could buy a Nokia for £100 that could play MP3's and browse the internet,as well as call and text, i'd buy 3
And the world Wide Web was invented by a brit in Switzerland. That doesn't mean that the Brits and the Swiss should have a monopoly over the control of it, hence why the W3C was created.
It's time the US did the right thing and opened up ICANN as an internationally let consortium, instead of a consortium that puts domestic needs first.
The best way to stop spying is to not let any connections to foreign websites. Whilst i'm not one for great firewalls or suchlike (and as a brit i despise David Macaroon's internet filtering policy) maybe it's time to start filtering connections from certain countries. If the EU is so worked up about America controlling the internet (which it does) maybe it's time to set up a Euronet and filter connection to and from the US. Would it help keep the internet free? No. But the internet will never be free whilst it's run by a single country.
is that as soon as you lose a device, not only are you $200-$2000 out of pocket, but your life could easily be ruined by a nefarious passer-by who happened to find your lost gadget. No technology is private, stop deluding yourself.
The majority of young americans: hate Obama; think public healthcare is a waste of money, whilst not understanding the new laws; believe Snowdon was serving in the public's interest; blame colleges (and not the lack of a subsidised education system) on student debt; are pro-life and would like to see abortion made illegal; are against banning assault weapons; as well as, of course, believing astrology is a science.
I think it's time to look at exactly who and where these people being surveyed are. The old adage of "There are lies, damned lies, and statistics" seems very relevant here.