"Microsoft is actually one of the only companies that spends billions in research and doesn't just buy start-up companies like Google does" SharkLaser
So that's how Microsoft Research developed Android before Google stole it from Microsoft and tried to fob it off on the public as original results, shame on you Google...
"Recently LibreOffice corrupted line art horribly in my documents which made me quickly switch to Office. I still cannot trust LO to be compatible with the rest of the world. Maybe for basic text-only stuff you're good".
Could you post a sample of this line art that was corrupted?
"Brendan Eich.. reveals that Microsoft tried to buy Netscape at the end of 1994"
That's hardly news to those of us following the browser wars. After failing to get an exclusive deal on Netscape, Microsoft tried to negociate an exclusive license from NCSA. Failing that they licensed a browser from Spyglass promising to pay them for evey copy sold. Subsequently MS gave away the browser and ended up in court with Spyglass.
"Along with startup and shutdown times, they used several standard industry benchmarks to compare Windows 8 performance with that of Windows 7 running on the same machine".
But not any other OS and not without Microsoft deciding the criteria...
"Researchers have figured out a way to link online Skype users to their activity on peer-to-peer networks like BitTorrent. The team was able to sift out the nodes through which Skype calls are routed and determine the user's real IP address by sniffing the packets.
And the conclusions to be drawn are, security on the Windows platform relies on the applications being totally free of vulnerabilities that could be used to leverage privileges on the target system.
"MeeGo didn't fit for Nokia because it didn't fit within it's high-end smartphone plans... not because of any mechanizations on the part of Redmond".
a) Microsoft does deal with Nokia, b) Microsoft appoints new Nokia CEO, c) Nokia cancels MeeGo. Yea, no conspiracy there:) The reality is this is a classic tactic from the Microsoft playbook, in this case sabataging the potential relationship between Intel and Nokia
"Microsoft and Amazon signed a licensing agreement in February last year that covers technology used in the Kindle and various other products. That agreement does not cover Amazon’s new Android-powered Kindle Fire tablet, BGR has learned, which means Amazon could be coughing up hefty licensing fees to Microsoft in the near future" link
Cause Microsoft is one of the biggest funders on Capitol Hill !!!
"Microsoft's chief Washington lobbyist has been convening regular meetings attended by the company's outside consultants that have become known by some beltway insiders as "screw Google" meetings..
Microsoft is trying to harm Google in the regulatory, legal, and litigation arenas because they're having problems with Google in the competitive marketplace." link
"Google is being scrutinized by the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee for supposedly "cooking" their search results"
Are these accusations coming from the same source that scrapes Google search results and posts it as their own?
`Mr. Singhal posted a detailed post on Google's official blog describing how the company came to the conclusion that Bing was copying the Google search engine.. Google wants to compete with "algorithms built on core innovation, and not on recycled search results from a competitor"' link
`On top of all that, Microsoft is alleging that Google overcharges them as much as fifty-fold for advertising prices as compared to other buyers', samzenpus
Take notice of the exact phrasiology eminating out of RedMond.
Google “shouldn’t be permitted to pursue practices that restrict others from innovating and offering competitive alternatives.. That’s what it’s doing now”, Jack Evans - Microsoft link
"With the benefit of hindsight, IT experts are claiming that technical countermeasures at Swiss bank UBS could have stopped rogue trader Kweku Adoboli running up a $2 billion loss", timothy
Yet another "Rogue Trader" thrown to the wolves. The fact is, apart from the huge amount; such trades are commonplace and as long as money is being made, management turn a blind eye. When one such `trade' goes south, then it's time to blame the `rogue Trader'. While Kweku made the trade, there had to be someone else upstairs signing off on the trade and who would have noticed a dip of $2 billion in the balance. I understand that nowadays there are electronic devices that can display your bank balance on a television screen, any time and anywhere on the planet. If I can make a prediction, Kweku will be incarcerated until he cops a plea, and then let out for time served, as long as he don't implicate anyone upstairs.
"Might as well just return to the Tandy 1000 days With a core operating system in ROM, mounted as a system disk. Flash your new OS like a BIOS. That'd stop a lot of this rootkit crap cold, wouldn't it?"
That solution wouldn't work with today's `innovative' desktop operating systems and besides there's no money in your solution..
"Perhaps no segment of the security industry has evolved more in the last decade than the discipline of software security"
The only thing that's evolved is the amount of money lost to the `software security' sector and I stooped reading after seeing Microsoft in the same sentence as `Secure Code':
`We've also published books like "Writing Secure Code," by Michael Howard and David LeBlanc, which gives all developers the tools they need to build secure software from the ground up' - Bill Gates Jan 15 2002
`Microsoft won an industry award for innovation, for its book "Writing Secure Code", by Michael Howard and David LeBlanc, which forms the basis for the company's own efforts to make its products trustworthy' Apr 2003 link
"Microsoft, and Bill Gates in particular, were championing tablet computers years before the iPad was released"
"The punchline being that Microsoft’s 2001 Tablet PC initiative was the forebear to whatever it is that Apple seems poised to unveil, and Microsoft isn’t getting its due credit for this trailblazing effort. This is funny in two ways.. even if you’re only concerned about who was first, shouldn’t that credit go to Apple, for the Newton MessagePad that first shipped in 1993?" link
> This is one of the better 'browser battle' articles, though. Chrome 13, Firefox 6, IE9, Opera 11.50, and Safari 5.1 are put through 40-some tests on both Windows 7 and Mac OS X Lion..
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"Microsoft is actually one of the only companies that spends billions in research and doesn't just buy start-up companies like Google does" SharkLaser
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So that's how Microsoft Research developed Android before Google stole it from Microsoft and tried to fob it off on the public as original results, shame on you Google
"Recently LibreOffice corrupted line art horribly in my documents which made me quickly switch to Office. I still cannot trust LO to be compatible with the rest of the world. Maybe for basic text-only stuff you're good".
Could you post a sample of this line art that was corrupted?
"It's not the case with Portugal. Teaching software has to support (and in fact does support) Linux and Windows.
Where does it say that, do you have any links to citations?
"Brendan Eich .. reveals that Microsoft tried to buy Netscape at the end of 1994"
That's hardly news to those of us following the browser wars. After failing to get an exclusive deal on Netscape, Microsoft tried to negociate an exclusive license from NCSA. Failing that they licensed a browser from Spyglass promising to pay them for evey copy sold. Subsequently MS gave away the browser and ended up in court with Spyglass.
link
link
"yea, you guys are going to fuck us eventually", Thomas Reardon, Mosiac Communications Corp, September 26, 1994
"Had SureView been on Bradley Manning's machine, no one would know who Bradley Manning is today,"
Who is their right mind keeps such material and how can we trust to monitor such a system.
"Along with startup and shutdown times, they used several standard industry benchmarks to compare Windows 8 performance with that of Windows 7 running on the same machine".
...
But not any other OS and not without Microsoft deciding the criteria
"Researchers have figured out a way to link online Skype users to their activity on peer-to-peer networks like BitTorrent. The team was able to sift out the nodes through which Skype calls are routed and determine the user's real IP address by sniffing the packets.
Win32/Olmasco.R .. Affected platforms: Microsoft Windows .... enough said .....
'Here in my country the "Occupy .+ street" event was lead by the local communist party`, GreatBunzinni
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Would you please stop typing that kind of bullshit here on slashdot
Use a gigantic degaussing ring, similar to what they used on old CRT television tubes.
How do the Afghan people feel about their country being used as a field experiment by the US military industrial complex?
And the conclusions to be drawn are, security on the Windows platform relies on the applications being totally free of vulnerabilities that could be used to leverage privileges on the target system.
MeeGo on the Smartphone
:) The reality is this is a classic tactic from the Microsoft playbook, in this case sabataging the potential relationship between Intel and Nokia
"MeeGo didn't fit for Nokia because it didn't fit within it's high-end smartphone plans... not because of any mechanizations on the part of Redmond".
a) Microsoft does deal with Nokia, b) Microsoft appoints new Nokia CEO, c) Nokia cancels MeeGo. Yea, no conspiracy there
"Microsoft and Amazon signed a licensing agreement in February last year that covers technology used in the Kindle and various other products. That agreement does not cover Amazon’s new Android-powered Kindle Fire tablet, BGR has learned, which means Amazon could be coughing up hefty licensing fees to Microsoft in the near future" link
`The Avengers', "Two's A Crowd"
The Avengers (TV series)
Cause Microsoft is one of the biggest funders on Capitol Hill !!!
..
"Microsoft's chief Washington lobbyist has been convening regular meetings attended by the company's outside consultants that have become known by some beltway insiders as "screw Google" meetings
Microsoft is trying to harm Google in the regulatory, legal, and litigation arenas because they're having problems with Google in the competitive marketplace." link
"Google is being scrutinized by the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee for supposedly "cooking" their search results"
.. Google wants to compete with "algorithms built on core innovation, and not on recycled search results from a competitor"' link
Are these accusations coming from the same source that scrapes Google search results and posts it as their own?
`Mr. Singhal posted a detailed post on Google's official blog describing how the company came to the conclusion that Bing was copying the Google search engine
link
link
`On top of all that, Microsoft is alleging that Google overcharges them as much as fifty-fold for advertising prices as compared to other buyers', samzenpus
.. That’s what it’s doing now”, Jack Evans - Microsoft link
Take notice of the exact phrasiology eminating out of RedMond.
Google “shouldn’t be permitted to pursue practices that restrict others from innovating and offering competitive alternatives
"China is increasingly seen as the source of international hacking attacks"
We should ask ourselves who also is top of the State Departments shitlist, is there a correlation?
"With the benefit of hindsight, IT experts are claiming that technical countermeasures at Swiss bank UBS could have stopped rogue trader Kweku Adoboli running up a $2 billion loss", timothy
Yet another "Rogue Trader" thrown to the wolves. The fact is, apart from the huge amount; such trades are commonplace and as long as money is being made, management turn a blind eye. When one such `trade' goes south, then it's time to blame the `rogue Trader'. While Kweku made the trade, there had to be someone else upstairs signing off on the trade and who would have noticed a dip of $2 billion in the balance. I understand that nowadays there are electronic devices that can display your bank balance on a television screen, any time and anywhere on the planet. If I can make a prediction, Kweku will be incarcerated until he cops a plea, and then let out for time served, as long as he don't implicate anyone upstairs.
"Might as well just return to the Tandy 1000 days With a core operating system in ROM, mounted as a system disk. Flash your new OS like a BIOS. That'd stop a lot of this rootkit crap cold, wouldn't it?"
..
That solution wouldn't work with today's `innovative' desktop operating systems and besides there's no money in your solution
"Perhaps no segment of the security industry has evolved more in the last decade than the discipline of software security"
..
The only thing that's evolved is the amount of money lost to the `software security' sector and I stooped reading after seeing Microsoft in the same sentence as `Secure Code':
`We've also published books like "Writing Secure Code," by Michael Howard and David LeBlanc, which gives all developers the tools they need to build secure software from the ground up' - Bill Gates Jan 15 2002
`Microsoft won an industry award for innovation, for its book "Writing Secure Code", by Michael Howard and David LeBlanc, which forms the basis for the company's own efforts to make its products trustworthy' Apr 2003 link
Review
01. Assange re-used WikiLeaks's master password.
02. This password was then placed in the Guardian's book on the embassy cables.
03. A WikiLeaks activist put the encrypted files on BitTorrent.
04. A disillusioned WikiLeaks activist told German magazine Freitag about the password.
05. WikiLeaks posted detailed tweets giving clues about where the password could be found.
06. These files were posted on Cryptome.
"Microsoft, and Bill Gates in particular, were championing tablet computers years before the iPad was released"
.. even if you’re only concerned about who was first, shouldn’t that credit go to Apple, for the Newton MessagePad that first shipped in 1993?" link
"The punchline being that Microsoft’s 2001 Tablet PC initiative was the forebear to whatever it is that Apple seems poised to unveil, and Microsoft isn’t getting its due credit for this trailblazing effort. This is funny in two ways
> This is one of the better 'browser battle' articles, though. Chrome 13, Firefox 6, IE9, Opera 11.50, and Safari 5.1 are put through 40-some tests on both Windows 7 and Mac OS X Lion ..
Where are the browser benchmarks under Linux?