Look at the web sites. Most of them no longer support any browser version less than 4.0 (be it IE or Netscape). I haven't heard complaints about that so far. Why? Because it gave them better web browsing experience, so they have upgraded. Consider this point for your own apps to see if it is worth to support older versions. Is there too many data? What about migration costs? There is no simple answer to this, and random answers (including this one) at slashdot may only confuse more than help.
If you have something like Star Trek in the future, where you "develop" programs using voice commands, do you consider it more advanced? I don't because Mr. Data still uses CLI!
It's simply a matter of preference. GUI tools are more suitable for developing visual stuff. Usually, they tend to downplay (but not fully) the "batch processing" concept - this will lead to a certain kind of unmanageability and you probably need third-party tools to help. For example, it is hard to use directly a GUI IDE to discern whether two forms are identical or not, but a CLI diff will do the job cleanly.
In any case, the answer is simple: just choose the right tool for the right job. Nothing is 100% better than any other tool!
So this is news... The Y2K bug resurfaced at slashdot.org after the recent db crash? Java at that time was slow as hell.
Can someone tell me what the problem domain was? If the problem was something that Lisp deals excellently, then it would be unfair to other general purpose languages. What about real world stuff like network programming, GUIs, remote objects calling, etc.?
Really? I bet that IBM is by far the largest OS company in terms of $$ spent on OS projects ($1,000,000,000, or so they say) and they seem to be doing pretty well. Everyone cries "Who will make a succesful service business that supports open source?" The answer: IBM.
It is because IBM has been relying on consulting services since 1970s. This giant's software is a giveaway in many cases. When they tried to market software directly to general consumers, they have failed miserably,e.g. PC-DOS and OS/2. For corporate customers, they buy the expensive hardware first and the software configuration services, so giving away software that runs on top of it does not hurt.
This is not the case of other Linux companies. VA Linux was only selling common and cheap hardware, i.e., anybody can come up something similar from other vendors. They do not have a "service-oriented" brandname like IBM. Red Hat mainly sells the Linux OS and the easier and more popular Linux becomes, less people will be inclined to buy RH's maintenance services. The outlook is certainly not good for them.
If there are domain name servers for translating names to IP addresses, there should be route servers that lookup the route (or routes) for a specific IP address in the future. Of course, it should be really the future when computing power is cheap enough to be nearly 100% pervasive to all households.
I think that the US government should give everyone an IPV6 address and distribute the addresses via smartcards (or any memory device that can store it properly). It's a great way to mass introduce this new technology. Then, watch for new applications (malicious or not) derived from this unique ID.
Time and time again Microsoft moves into new territory, acting fairly at first, then they propritize everything and leave no possible way for others to compete.
The lawsuit referred here has nothing to do with whether the MS Passport service is anticompetitive or not, but about security and privacy issues. I don't understand why you would relate the things in such a manner. In any case, I doubt that I will not be able to use Netscape to use the services authenticated by Passport (not that I like to use MS passport, but MS has not locked out *NIX users from using Hotmail so far).
So far, I have not heard of any password being compromised due to Hotmail's security problems (you can only read mail, but the password is not revealed because of this).
Of course, hackers can still use the old password guessing trick or social-engineering techniques, but this is not Passport's problem, nor Hotmail's.
"fallen" dotcoms are, by definition, no longer in bussiness. Complaining about them won't do any good.
Although the companies may be out of business, their founders and owners are not yet dead. You can always sue them if they leak your personal info when they sell the dotcom assets.
Their passport service has a bad track record.
What kind of bad track record? Has it leaked any private info? You have to separate the security problems of Hotmail (which is a Passport client) from the Passport service.
So these privacy groups get worried about Microsoft's Passport leaking information when the biggest leaks of personal info are from fallen dotcoms and stupid e-commerce web sites? People, when you are paranoid, at least be paranoid to everybody, not just to Microsoft.
The CNN article talks about virus and worm attacks (despite that some exploit security bugs) and their financial impact on companies. Why does this topic use the "bug" icon? So now/. editors have freedom to introduce new concepts to the term "bug", which generally refers to the software defects as in debug?
Suppose a company hates someone. It can invent a kind of "e-book" security using, say, a modified ROT-13 algorithm. Then challenge openly the guy to crack it. He does that and publishes his results. Now, can the company can use DMCA to put that person in jail?
Wine is a set of libraries that allows you to run Windows apps directly in the X-Window environment. This is completely different from emulators like VMWare et al that are basically Windows inside a window. Besides, Wine is also used to port Windows applications to Linux quickly, e.g. Corel WordPerfect.
In other words, it doesn't make sense comparing emulators to Wine, a development library. This is the same as comparing Allegro, SDL libraries to a SNES emulator.
Well, if anything, this only proves that telnet and login are the culprit (due to the way they accept passwords), not SSH. For paranoids, it is necessary to find ways to avoid normal telnet authentication methods.
Look, the entire computing experience being controlled by a single company DOES have advantages - uniformity and ease of support. Of course, having competition is good, but it didn't happen only because competition couldn't make a viable alternative to Windows. OS/2 was near that, but its near perfect compatibility with Windows killed itself. IBM had enough money to push OS/2 to OEMs, but it didn't.
BTW, bundling a browser is GOOD for average Joe users, and as you have stated earlier, most of them cannot do that by themselves and having one bundled by default is something OEM should have done anyway. IE 4 was superior to Netscape (in speed and HTML compatibility) and it was perfectly natural for OEMs to choose this browser. The major mischief of MS, IMHO, is that they didn't allow OEMs to change the desktop, but this alone doesn't warrant a heavy remedy like breakup.
According to the article, the lobbyists sent to the Utah attorney handwritten letters. If they are genuine MS supporters, they should have used MS Outlook to send e-mail or MS Word to print it, right? Otherwise, what's the reason behind support MS if they are not even using their products? Why handwritten letters? Hmm...
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Look at the web sites. Most of them no longer support any browser version less than 4.0 (be it IE or Netscape). I haven't heard complaints about that so far. Why? Because it gave them better web browsing experience, so they have upgraded. Consider this point for your own apps to see if it is worth to support older versions. Is there too many data? What about migration costs? There is no simple answer to this, and random answers (including this one) at slashdot may only confuse more than help.
If you have something like Star Trek in the future, where you "develop" programs using voice commands, do you consider it more advanced? I don't because Mr. Data still uses CLI!
It's simply a matter of preference. GUI tools are more suitable for developing visual stuff. Usually, they tend to downplay (but not fully) the "batch processing" concept - this will lead to a certain kind of unmanageability and you probably need third-party tools to help. For example, it is hard to use directly a GUI IDE to discern whether two forms are identical or not, but a CLI diff will do the job cleanly.
In any case, the answer is simple: just choose the right tool for the right job. Nothing is 100% better than any other tool!
The name just sounds like it comes from Sony. Besides, what exactly that this HomeStation does that X-Box is not able to do?
It is because IBM has been relying on consulting services since 1970s. This giant's software is a giveaway in many cases. When they tried to market software directly to general consumers, they have failed miserably,e.g. PC-DOS and OS/2. For corporate customers, they buy the expensive hardware first and the software configuration services, so giving away software that runs on top of it does not hurt.
This is not the case of other Linux companies. VA Linux was only selling common and cheap hardware, i.e., anybody can come up something similar from other vendors. They do not have a "service-oriented" brandname like IBM. Red Hat mainly sells the Linux OS and the easier and more popular Linux becomes, less people will be inclined to buy RH's maintenance services. The outlook is certainly not good for them.
Why do people keep modding up copyright violations? NY Times has every right to require registration. If you want to read, register!
Check the above link to read about this merger...
If there are domain name servers for translating names to IP addresses, there should be route servers that lookup the route (or routes) for a specific IP address in the future. Of course, it should be really the future when computing power is cheap enough to be nearly 100% pervasive to all households.
I think that the US government should give everyone an IPV6 address and distribute the addresses via smartcards (or any memory device that can store it properly). It's a great way to mass introduce this new technology. Then, watch for new applications (malicious or not) derived from this unique ID.
The lawsuit referred here has nothing to do with whether the MS Passport service is anticompetitive or not, but about security and privacy issues. I don't understand why you would relate the things in such a manner. In any case, I doubt that I will not be able to use Netscape to use the services authenticated by Passport (not that I like to use MS passport, but MS has not locked out *NIX users from using Hotmail so far).
If anything, you are only proving the weakness of /. password recovery scheme and not of MS Passport due to Hotmail's security bugs.
So far, I have not heard of any password being compromised due to Hotmail's security problems (you can only read mail, but the password is not revealed because of this).
Of course, hackers can still use the old password guessing trick or social-engineering techniques, but this is not Passport's problem, nor Hotmail's.
Although the companies may be out of business, their founders and owners are not yet dead. You can always sue them if they leak your personal info when they sell the dotcom assets.
Their passport service has a bad track record.
What kind of bad track record? Has it leaked any private info? You have to separate the security problems of Hotmail (which is a Passport client) from the Passport service.
So these privacy groups get worried about Microsoft's Passport leaking information when the biggest leaks of personal info are from fallen dotcoms and stupid e-commerce web sites? People, when you are paranoid, at least be paranoid to everybody, not just to Microsoft.
The CNN article talks about virus and worm attacks (despite that some exploit security bugs) and their financial impact on companies. Why does this topic use the "bug" icon? So now /. editors have freedom to introduce new concepts to the term "bug", which generally refers to the software defects as in debug?
Suppose a company hates someone. It can invent a kind of "e-book" security using, say, a modified ROT-13 algorithm. Then challenge openly the guy to crack it. He does that and publishes his results. Now, can the company can use DMCA to put that person in jail?
In other words, it doesn't make sense comparing emulators to Wine, a development library. This is the same as comparing Allegro, SDL libraries to a SNES emulator.
But, then how does the hacker know that your are typing a password at su prompt or simply typing an e-mail?
Well, if anything, this only proves that telnet and login are the culprit (due to the way they accept passwords), not SSH. For paranoids, it is necessary to find ways to avoid normal telnet authentication methods.
Unless TCP/IP sends exactly one character in each packet, I wonder how the attacker can guess the password by the keyboard latencies.
Look, the entire computing experience being controlled by a single company DOES have advantages - uniformity and ease of support. Of course, having competition is good, but it didn't happen only because competition couldn't make a viable alternative to Windows. OS/2 was near that, but its near perfect compatibility with Windows killed itself. IBM had enough money to push OS/2 to OEMs, but it didn't.
BTW, bundling a browser is GOOD for average Joe users, and as you have stated earlier, most of them cannot do that by themselves and having one bundled by default is something OEM should have done anyway. IE 4 was superior to Netscape (in speed and HTML compatibility) and it was perfectly natural for OEMs to choose this browser. The major mischief of MS, IMHO, is that they didn't allow OEMs to change the desktop, but this alone doesn't warrant a heavy remedy like breakup.
According to the article, the lobbyists sent to the Utah attorney handwritten letters. If they are genuine MS supporters, they should have used MS Outlook to send e-mail or MS Word to print it, right? Otherwise, what's the reason behind support MS if they are not even using their products? Why handwritten letters? Hmm...
If somebody violates GPL, is it a "viral" copyright infringement?
Since the messageid requires guessing, wouldn't it be easier to guess the password of the targeted user directly?
... when they have Java? Just let AIX perform well on the high-end and Linux perform well on the lower-end and Java be the bridge.