"Locking it down" is why they're absolutely virus proof. If Windows S can only run Metro apps and web apps, both of which are sandboxed, I'd expect it to be comparable. You're limited to exploits based upon bugs in the web browser and sandboxing environment, and the chances of those existing are more or less equal (OK, Microsoft has been incompetent in the past, but...) for both platforms.
You can put it into developer's mode and then yeah, you can do that. As of now we don't know if Windows S will have the same kind of function. But it doesn't really matter: the point is ChromeOS is intended to be used in its locked down state, and the same is true of Windows S. And both support the ability to run both web applications and semi-native apps (NaCl vs Metro/whateveritscalledtoday) that are sandboxed.
Schools buy Chromebooks because they're locked down by default, because it's easy to tell if they're not (and easy to reset them if they're not) and because they work with easily maintainable centrally maintained accounts.
RT/Cloud/S is designed to compete with ChromeOS, not Ubuntu. ChromeOS is extremely popular in the target market, so actually this version of Windows stands a much higher chance of success than RT did in the generic consumer market.
What I'd be interested to know is if this is effectively "RT Pro"/"RT Enterprise", and if so how they've implemented it. We only saw "RT Home". If you're wondering what ol' squiggleslash is blathering about (and how a stripped down Windows could get a "Pro" label), the main difference between Windows Home and Windows Pro is that the latter is possible to manage using Active Directory.
This is VERY important in the target market. Chromebooks are selling not just because they're locked down, but because an admin can easily centrally create and manage user accounts, and users can log into any Chromebook and have access to the right features.
Windows S needs that central management. But also, that central management needs to be much easier to use than Active Directory, whose user interface has always been powerful but unbelievably opaque and clumsy.
If they don't produce AD S to go with Windows S, they haven't got the right product.
A modern Intel CPU contains anything from half a billion to over 1.4 BILLION transistors. If Intel made it easy to audit the AMT firmware, you still wouldn't be able to guarantee a CPU isn't free of backdoors inserted by bad actors.
Indeed, if I were inserting a backdoor into a CPU, AMT isn't really how I'd do it. It actively takes effort to make AMT accessible over the Internet. I can think of a number of ways to make a backdoor more useful to intelligence or law enforcement agencies. Imagine a CPU that, upon seeing a particular fingerprint in its L1 cache, makes an outgoing connection to a given IP address, and opens a console to it. You could compromise your CPU just by downloading an image, even if served over SSL, even if not visible in your browser, that contains the fingerprint.
AMT is flawed, but it's a poor fit for the intentional back door for malicious third parties its louder critics claim it is.
The AC is actually right, but that said, if you bought a consumer PC, and AMT came fully enabled, with the web console running, without you needing to change settings in the BIOS, please post the name of the company that made it here, so the rest of us knows who to avoid in future.
Can you name and quote any "credentialed and qualified" person who has stated that Syria has moderate rebels who are positioned to turn Syria into anything remotely like Switzerland?
Because if there's one thing I've noticed about the alt-right, it's that it's really easy for them to make up straw men to ridicule the viewpoints of their political opponents than it is to actually address what their opponents are actually saying.
No, farmers aren't. The agricultural industry, of which John Deere is a part, is. The giant conglomerates who control farming are. But the actual people who get upset when they're told they can't fix their John Deere tractor so it can run on methane have virtually no pull whatsoever.
What you're saying is akin to saying movie directors have huge amounts of political power because the studios do. They don't, and farmers don't either.
That's still not the same thing as "whereever they want". We don't generally allow cars to drive on the sidewalk: we're unlikely to ever get into a situation where we'd allow flying cars to "land" where people loiter or walk.
And actually that's a really good analogy, because if we really did let cars drive whereever they want, we'd also get anxious. Imagine walking on a sidewalk and having to worry that a 75mph Tesla is going to appear out of nowhere and ketchup us. We don't have that fear because we know we're somewhere Teslas are literally banned from driving (save for very specific designated access routes to drive ways where the driver must give us right of way and where we can clearly see the vehicle and have ample warning.)
Why feel anxious about flying cars but not normal cars? I don't see why we should.
Individual farmers may be furious at John Deere here, but there's a massive difference between that and a lobby big enough to actually get Congress to take action and pass laws. On top of that, there's a massive difference between passing a "right to repair" law aimed at pacifying upset farmers, and a "right to build your own Blu-ray disc player" law.
Add to that the fact that DRM would have to be effectively outlawed to prevent it from actually being used, and, well, how is it going to disappear? Because, sure, it'd be nicer if it became legal to try to break DRM, but there are people all over the world who are breaking DRM anyway, a law change making it legal probably isn't going to affect whether Hollywood et al continue to use it.
I'm skeptical. I hope he's right but I just don't see how he could be.
Java (like Flash) was always designed as a plug-in, running side by side with the browser, not an integrated part of the browser. T
Uh, what?
Just because Sun developed a Java plug-in doesn't mean that Sun's vision was ever that Java was primarily supposed to be used that way. Java has always meant to be used as a standalone programming language, and the percentage of Java development targeted at the plugin is absolutely tiny. Most of it is focused on back-end applications, websites, and the occasional desktop app.
I'm not sure where this "Java = applets" thing comes from, and it's especially hard to understand why software developers would think this given it's pretty hard to work in this industry for more than a few years without being given a Tomcat/etc application hosted in a JBoss environment to fix up.
It should be positively encouraged. I also believe offices should be furnished with beds, so we can take a nap when we want. And we should all have an additional computer with an up to date graphics card and 4K monitor that we can install Steam on.
This seems reasonable to me. What say you, fellow programmers?
As long as there's a market for right wing nonsense, there'll always be something like Fox News. If it really does crash and burn, expect Brietbart TV or Stormfront Vision to take its place.
All of them, and make no mistake Hillary would have been just as bad.
No, I'm pretty sure she wouldn't have been. I think it's reasonable to assume she would have continued the same kind of policies as Obama. And it was Obama's FCC that started to take Network Neutrality seriously to begin with.
There is no justification for claiming a "Both sides" position here, just as there isn't with 90% of what Trump is doing.
I am pretty sure that "we don't want shopping malls to fall on our heads" count as a strong government and public interest.
Yes, I agree, but we're not talking about people misrepresenting their qualifications designing buildings, we're talking about people saying they're qualified to discuss timings for amber lights.
Restricting phrases like "I am an engineer" in the context of someone making final technical decisions concerning building design arguably makes sense, but it's no longer "narrow conditions" when you restrict such a vague, ambiguous, phrase under all circumstances.
I say arguably because if the conversation is something like:
Isaac: I say old bean, you're putting the wrong tensile cable on that suspension bridge of yours. Here, use this rope, should be strong enough Isambard: Who the fuck are you? What is this crap? Isaac: You can trust me. I'm an engineer! Isambard: Oh OK. Hold a moment. There. Oh fuck, the bridge collapsed! I thought you said you're an engineer! Isaac: I am. An IEEE certified software engineer! I know PHP! Whoopwhoop!
...then that law is obviously a waste of time anyway.
There doesn't need to be any unfairness here, FWIW. Well, OK, maybe if you want everyone to be part of the exact same MMORPG, but if that's not an issue (simple arena matches), why not have servers... all across the world? Including Hawaii? Each player just connects to the lowest latency server available to them to play with others connected to that server?
Let's see the same story, as published by the Squiggleslash Gazette:
Today Jimmy Wales, known for eating children, announced a new web site whose job will be collecting articles critical of the Trump administration, identifying journalists who are critics of the regime, so that Wales can go to their homes and murder them one by one.
There. That should satisfy for wish for multiple viewpoints. Questions for you:
1. Is it remotely accurate?
2. Is it more true than the summary or the article linked to?
3. Is the truth "somewhere in the middle": the original article says nothing about Wales murdering anyone, so is just a little bit of a child murderer, and is he maybe going to go to Journalists homes and just slightly murder them?
4. Is the viewpoint of the Squiggleslash Gazette worth even a split second of your time?
5. When you read the version of the story, as reported by the Squiggleslash Gazette, were you more informed, or did it make you dumber?
Compare two articles reporting on global warming. One quotes scientists, and accurately reports that the consensus within the scientific community is that smoking causes lung cancer The other fails to report that consensus, and includes only interviews with two denialists, both of whom superficially have qualifications related to health (maybe a practicing family doctor, and the director of a think tank's healthcare policy division) but neither of whom reflect the views of the majority of scientists studying in the area, and who have been found, repeatedly, to lie or misrepresent evidence. The second article presents the views of the denialists as either mainstream within medical science, or normal within science as if there's a legitimate dispute.
Is the truth "somewhere in the middle" for those two articles? Does it help you reach an informed decision to include exposure to information known to be false, without being told it's false? Are you helped if you're essentially lied to?
T-Mobile neglected to mention the "Regulatory Compliance Fees" that added $15/mo to my bill (and made them look like taxes when they're not, and no, they're not the fees for giving poor folks phone access, those have a separate line item)
That's pretty much true of all cellular companies, I've never come across one until recently that doesn't outright lie about their prices, omitting stuff like the universal service fee that's actually a cost of doing business. They lobby quite extensively to the FCC to get the FCC to agree they should be able to lie about their prices in their ads by omitting various costs-of-doing-business and adding them to bills as mandatory add-ons.
The one carrier that doesn't? Well... actually it's T-Mobile. No, not accusing you of lying, you were right up until a few months ago, it's just they've finally started to be honest about it with their T-Mobile One plan, where the prices quoted are all-inclusive.
Yes Sir, that's another one of our great hits! Between you me and the fence post, we're also looking into commissioning a pilot for a new show called NCIS:Cyber, featuring the Naval Criminal Intelligence agencies that protect our brave Marines from hackers.
Also, I don't know if you like to laugh (who doesn't?) but we're looking for some top notch comedy writers for our humorous look at the "science" world, The Big Bang Theory. If you think you have what it takes, and are familiar with the kinds of shows nerds watch, like The Star Trek, and Firebug, send us your resume and some samples of your work, and maybe you can join our writing team!
Do you have a runway in your backyard? No? What about one at work or at the store? No?
It's the same problem that's preventing automated single person trains from being used for general commuting purposes. The technology is fine, it exists, but the infrastructure isn't where you need it.
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Where do you see that? Windows S for their educational machines, not their consumer/business line.
"Locking it down" is why they're absolutely virus proof. If Windows S can only run Metro apps and web apps, both of which are sandboxed, I'd expect it to be comparable. You're limited to exploits based upon bugs in the web browser and sandboxing environment, and the chances of those existing are more or less equal (OK, Microsoft has been incompetent in the past, but...) for both platforms.
You can put it into developer's mode and then yeah, you can do that. As of now we don't know if Windows S will have the same kind of function. But it doesn't really matter: the point is ChromeOS is intended to be used in its locked down state, and the same is true of Windows S. And both support the ability to run both web applications and semi-native apps (NaCl vs Metro/whateveritscalledtoday) that are sandboxed.
Schools buy Chromebooks because they're locked down by default, because it's easy to tell if they're not (and easy to reset them if they're not) and because they work with easily maintainable centrally maintained accounts.
RT/Cloud/S is designed to compete with ChromeOS, not Ubuntu. ChromeOS is extremely popular in the target market, so actually this version of Windows stands a much higher chance of success than RT did in the generic consumer market.
What I'd be interested to know is if this is effectively "RT Pro"/"RT Enterprise", and if so how they've implemented it. We only saw "RT Home". If you're wondering what ol' squiggleslash is blathering about (and how a stripped down Windows could get a "Pro" label), the main difference between Windows Home and Windows Pro is that the latter is possible to manage using Active Directory.
This is VERY important in the target market. Chromebooks are selling not just because they're locked down, but because an admin can easily centrally create and manage user accounts, and users can log into any Chromebook and have access to the right features.
Windows S needs that central management. But also, that central management needs to be much easier to use than Active Directory, whose user interface has always been powerful but unbelievably opaque and clumsy.
If they don't produce AD S to go with Windows S, they haven't got the right product.
A modern Intel CPU contains anything from half a billion to over 1.4 BILLION transistors. If Intel made it easy to audit the AMT firmware, you still wouldn't be able to guarantee a CPU isn't free of backdoors inserted by bad actors.
Indeed, if I were inserting a backdoor into a CPU, AMT isn't really how I'd do it. It actively takes effort to make AMT accessible over the Internet. I can think of a number of ways to make a backdoor more useful to intelligence or law enforcement agencies. Imagine a CPU that, upon seeing a particular fingerprint in its L1 cache, makes an outgoing connection to a given IP address, and opens a console to it. You could compromise your CPU just by downloading an image, even if served over SSL, even if not visible in your browser, that contains the fingerprint.
AMT is flawed, but it's a poor fit for the intentional back door for malicious third parties its louder critics claim it is.
The AC is actually right, but that said, if you bought a consumer PC, and AMT came fully enabled, with the web console running, without you needing to change settings in the BIOS, please post the name of the company that made it here, so the rest of us knows who to avoid in future.
Can you name and quote any "credentialed and qualified" person who has stated that Syria has moderate rebels who are positioned to turn Syria into anything remotely like Switzerland?
Because if there's one thing I've noticed about the alt-right, it's that it's really easy for them to make up straw men to ridicule the viewpoints of their political opponents than it is to actually address what their opponents are actually saying.
No, farmers aren't. The agricultural industry, of which John Deere is a part, is. The giant conglomerates who control farming are. But the actual people who get upset when they're told they can't fix their John Deere tractor so it can run on methane have virtually no pull whatsoever.
What you're saying is akin to saying movie directors have huge amounts of political power because the studios do. They don't, and farmers don't either.
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Mass shooters mostly.
That's still not the same thing as "whereever they want". We don't generally allow cars to drive on the sidewalk: we're unlikely to ever get into a situation where we'd allow flying cars to "land" where people loiter or walk.
And actually that's a really good analogy, because if we really did let cars drive whereever they want, we'd also get anxious. Imagine walking on a sidewalk and having to worry that a 75mph Tesla is going to appear out of nowhere and ketchup us. We don't have that fear because we know we're somewhere Teslas are literally banned from driving (save for very specific designated access routes to drive ways where the driver must give us right of way and where we can clearly see the vehicle and have ample warning.)
Why feel anxious about flying cars but not normal cars? I don't see why we should.
Individual farmers may be furious at John Deere here, but there's a massive difference between that and a lobby big enough to actually get Congress to take action and pass laws. On top of that, there's a massive difference between passing a "right to repair" law aimed at pacifying upset farmers, and a "right to build your own Blu-ray disc player" law.
Add to that the fact that DRM would have to be effectively outlawed to prevent it from actually being used, and, well, how is it going to disappear? Because, sure, it'd be nicer if it became legal to try to break DRM, but there are people all over the world who are breaking DRM anyway, a law change making it legal probably isn't going to affect whether Hollywood et al continue to use it.
I'm skeptical. I hope he's right but I just don't see how he could be.
Mass shooters, mostly.
Uh, what?
Just because Sun developed a Java plug-in doesn't mean that Sun's vision was ever that Java was primarily supposed to be used that way. Java has always meant to be used as a standalone programming language, and the percentage of Java development targeted at the plugin is absolutely tiny. Most of it is focused on back-end applications, websites, and the occasional desktop app.
I'm not sure where this "Java = applets" thing comes from, and it's especially hard to understand why software developers would think this given it's pretty hard to work in this industry for more than a few years without being given a Tomcat/etc application hosted in a JBoss environment to fix up.
OK, so you get in a train that drops you off in the middle of London. Now, how do you get to where you're going from there?
The answer is not "MOAH CARS!" The answer is better city planning.
It should be positively encouraged. I also believe offices should be furnished with beds, so we can take a nap when we want. And we should all have an additional computer with an up to date graphics card and 4K monitor that we can install Steam on.
This seems reasonable to me. What say you, fellow programmers?
As long as there's a market for right wing nonsense, there'll always be something like Fox News. If it really does crash and burn, expect Brietbart TV or Stormfront Vision to take its place.
Numerous court cases have set the precedent that "I did it on the Internet so it's not illegal" isn't usually a defense.
Go on... in what way is it remotely like Steam? I'm curious to know what you were thinking when you posted this?
No, I'm pretty sure she wouldn't have been. I think it's reasonable to assume she would have continued the same kind of policies as Obama. And it was Obama's FCC that started to take Network Neutrality seriously to begin with.
There is no justification for claiming a "Both sides" position here, just as there isn't with 90% of what Trump is doing.
Yes, I agree, but we're not talking about people misrepresenting their qualifications designing buildings, we're talking about people saying they're qualified to discuss timings for amber lights.
Restricting phrases like "I am an engineer" in the context of someone making final technical decisions concerning building design arguably makes sense, but it's no longer "narrow conditions" when you restrict such a vague, ambiguous, phrase under all circumstances.
I say arguably because if the conversation is something like:
There doesn't need to be any unfairness here, FWIW. Well, OK, maybe if you want everyone to be part of the exact same MMORPG, but if that's not an issue (simple arena matches), why not have servers... all across the world? Including Hawaii? Each player just connects to the lowest latency server available to them to play with others connected to that server?
Doesn't that pretty much fix the problem?
Let's see the same story, as published by the Squiggleslash Gazette:
Today Jimmy Wales, known for eating children, announced a new web site whose job will be collecting articles critical of the Trump administration, identifying journalists who are critics of the regime, so that Wales can go to their homes and murder them one by one.
There. That should satisfy for wish for multiple viewpoints. Questions for you:
1. Is it remotely accurate?
2. Is it more true than the summary or the article linked to?
3. Is the truth "somewhere in the middle": the original article says nothing about Wales murdering anyone, so is just a little bit of a child murderer, and is he maybe going to go to Journalists homes and just slightly murder them?
4. Is the viewpoint of the Squiggleslash Gazette worth even a split second of your time?
5. When you read the version of the story, as reported by the Squiggleslash Gazette, were you more informed, or did it make you dumber?
Compare two articles reporting on global warming. One quotes scientists, and accurately reports that the consensus within the scientific community is that smoking causes lung cancer The other fails to report that consensus, and includes only interviews with two denialists, both of whom superficially have qualifications related to health (maybe a practicing family doctor, and the director of a think tank's healthcare policy division) but neither of whom reflect the views of the majority of scientists studying in the area, and who have been found, repeatedly, to lie or misrepresent evidence. The second article presents the views of the denialists as either mainstream within medical science, or normal within science as if there's a legitimate dispute.
Is the truth "somewhere in the middle" for those two articles? Does it help you reach an informed decision to include exposure to information known to be false, without being told it's false? Are you helped if you're essentially lied to?
That's pretty much true of all cellular companies, I've never come across one until recently that doesn't outright lie about their prices, omitting stuff like the universal service fee that's actually a cost of doing business. They lobby quite extensively to the FCC to get the FCC to agree they should be able to lie about their prices in their ads by omitting various costs-of-doing-business and adding them to bills as mandatory add-ons.
The one carrier that doesn't? Well... actually it's T-Mobile. No, not accusing you of lying, you were right up until a few months ago, it's just they've finally started to be honest about it with their T-Mobile One plan, where the prices quoted are all-inclusive.
Yes Sir, that's another one of our great hits! Between you me and the fence post, we're also looking into commissioning a pilot for a new show called NCIS:Cyber, featuring the Naval Criminal Intelligence agencies that protect our brave Marines from hackers.
Also, I don't know if you like to laugh (who doesn't?) but we're looking for some top notch comedy writers for our humorous look at the "science" world, The Big Bang Theory. If you think you have what it takes, and are familiar with the kinds of shows nerds watch, like The Star Trek, and Firebug, send us your resume and some samples of your work, and maybe you can join our writing team!
- LM
Do you have a runway in your backyard? No? What about one at work or at the store? No?
It's the same problem that's preventing automated single person trains from being used for general commuting purposes. The technology is fine, it exists, but the infrastructure isn't where you need it.