"Microsoft made a bet on PC hardware and capabilities, and the PC industry pulled the rug out from under it.. Microsoft.. didn't trust OEMs to deliver on the promises the silicon vendors were making"
This is retrospective arse-covering by some Microsoft apologist. Microsoft got the OEMs to put a 'Vista Capable' label on the PCs and when people tried to upgrade - Vista couldn't run...
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`A new piece of [Windows] malware propagating across Skype has been discovered that tries to convince the recipient to click on a link. What makes this particular threat different is that it drops a Bitcoin miner application to make the malware author money. While malware has both spread on Skype and mined Bitcoins before, putting the two together could be an effective new strategy.`
Virtualization, cloud services and SAS won't replace conventional services until our 'broadband' is faster and more reliable than that offered to the consumer at the moment...
"this is to notify you of activity occurring on the Mozilla site listed below which infringes on the exclusive intellectual property rights of Id Software LLC.. The copyrighted work at issue is.. DOOM
The link below offers an unauthorized derivation or version of Id Software's DOOM game". link
"this patent also seems to cover a big chunk of what happens on the Internet: upgrading software, buying stuff online, and what's called cloud storage. If you have a patent on all that, you could sue a lot of people. And, in fact, that's what's happening with Chris Crawford's patent. Intellectual Venures sold it to a company called Oasis research in June of 2010. Less than a month later, Oasis Research used the patent to sue over a dozen different tech companies, including Rackspace, GoDaddy, and AT&T."
"I like secure boot from a security perspective, and we actually use it to lock down some embedded Linux products I've worked on. As long as savvy users can disable/override/change keys, we get the best of both worlds."
"Japanese scientists have located rich deposits of rare earth elements.. The cumulative effect of these finds could significantly weaken Chinese control of 90% of the world supply of rare earth metals, which the Chinese have been using to flex their muscles."
How is China forcing the US to buy cheap rare earth elements from China? link
"A Connecticut policeman told Lupica 'it sounded like a doctoral thesis, that was the quality of the research', and added, '[Mass killers such as Lanza] don't believe this was just a spreadsheet. They believe it was a score sheet. This was the work of a video gamer'."
Video games don't kill people, guns do. It's the arms manufacturers who should be held to account. Any lawyers out there up for a class action suit.
'Richards -- who has upward of 9,400 Twitter followers -- overheard a couple of unnamed developers in the row behind her engaged in a private conversation. One made an anatomical joke about "dongles," and the other made a comment about "forking."`
'Richards found their comments offensive, so she turned around, took their picture, and posted it to Twitter with the following text: "Not cool. Jokes about forking repo's in a sexual way and 'big' dongles. Right behind me #pycon."`
The real story being Richards invading other peoples privacy...
Ted: That's because their mouths were full of your wife's box..
"The attackers relied on a variety of methods, including the use of a digitally signed version of TeamViewer that has been modified through a technique known as "DLL hijacking" to spy on targets in real-time." link
01. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day.
02. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car.
03. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull over to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason, you would simply accept this.
04. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.
05. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive -- but would run on only five percent of the roads.
06. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single "General Protection Fault" warning light.
07. The airbag system would ask "Are you sure?" before deploying.
08. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna.
09. Every time GM introduced a new car, car buyers would have to learn to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.
10. You'd have to press the "Start" button to turn the engine off. link
"I googled veoh to see what they were, and was surprised to see that Veoh is still around. The wiki page says they were bought by an Israeli company. Is the new Veoh something similar in name only? I'm genuinely confused."
The current Veoh appears to show only trailers or brief snippits, with links to paid-for sites...
"Then they find out the truth, & then only to have their b.s. blow up in their FACES once a Linux started getting used (most used = most attacked, period) - & nothing shows THAT, better than ANDROID on smartphones"
Do you mean malware targeted to Android, which does not impact the technical aspects of the linux platform.
"Slashdot has REALLY gone downhill since they sold it.. if I find me another site that actually talks geek tech and has a decent community I'll be happy to join them"
I totally agree, I also find the choice of submissions, and what they don't choose, most curious and baffling. I too weary of finding a decent geek tech site.
Slashdot Mirror
"Thank god for the ultra secure model we have now, where we have to secure the control plane on every device individually."
:) haaa
They forgot the kiddie porn charge and I guess they figured sticking him in solitary would enthuse him to cop a plea.
"The idea that a chaotic system can give rise to complex life is in the not even wrong category"
...
This non-chaotic-system that gave rise to complex life, what gave rise to it, and don't say it was just always there
"Microsoft made a bet on PC hardware and capabilities, and the PC industry pulled the rug out from under it .. Microsoft .. didn't trust OEMs to deliver on the promises the silicon vendors were making"
...
ref ref
This is retrospective arse-covering by some Microsoft apologist. Microsoft got the OEMs to put a 'Vista Capable' label on the PCs and when people tried to upgrade - Vista couldn't run
`A new piece of [Windows] malware propagating across Skype has been discovered that tries to convince the recipient to click on a link. What makes this particular threat different is that it drops a Bitcoin miner application to make the malware author money. While malware has both spread on Skype and mined Bitcoins before, putting the two together could be an effective new strategy.`
I wonder how long for the first 'Firefox doesn't have $x feeture' poast :)
Virtualization, cloud services and SAS won't replace conventional services until our 'broadband' is faster and more reliable than that offered to the consumer at the moment ...
"this is to notify you of activity occurring on the Mozilla site listed below which infringes on the exclusive intellectual property rights of Id Software LLC .. The copyrighted work at issue is .. DOOM
The link below offers an unauthorized derivation or version of Id Software's DOOM game". link
Data Shredder
"The lab has hired many prominent scientists to work on a variety of inventions including safer nuclear reactor designs and vaccine research"
..
The 'lab' is nothing more than a patent troll factory
"Intellectual Ventures and Lodsys
"this patent also seems to cover a big chunk of what happens on the Internet: upgrading software, buying stuff online, and what's called cloud storage. If you have a patent on all that, you could sue a lot of people. And, in fact, that's what's happening with Chris Crawford's patent. Intellectual Venures sold it to a company called Oasis research in June of 2010. Less than a month later, Oasis Research used the patent to sue over a dozen different tech companies, including Rackspace, GoDaddy, and AT&T."
"I like secure boot from a security perspective, and we actually use it to lock down some embedded Linux products I've worked on. As long as savvy users can disable/override/change keys, we get the best of both worlds."
How does it work without using the MS-signed UEFI key
"Whatever happened to the folks who claimed in +5 insightful posts that Linux has better security because of the superior Unix architecture?
What has the actions of some user in installing malware got to do with the security of the architecture?
"Android attacks have become all the rage"
Except a user tricked into downloading and installing malware from some third party location, in no way shape or form, relates to Android security !
"Japanese scientists have located rich deposits of rare earth elements .. The cumulative effect of these finds could significantly weaken Chinese control of 90% of the world supply of rare earth metals, which the Chinese have been using to flex their muscles."
How is China forcing the US to buy cheap rare earth elements from China? link
The world spends some $1,000 billion annually on the military. How is this so?
"A Connecticut policeman told Lupica 'it sounded like a doctoral thesis, that was the quality of the research', and added, '[Mass killers such as Lanza] don't believe this was just a spreadsheet. They believe it was a score sheet. This was the work of a video gamer'."
Video games don't kill people, guns do. It's the arms manufacturers who should be held to account. Any lawyers out there up for a class action suit.
It was funny !!!!
Make a video recording of all communications with militant feminists. You may need to produce this if falsly accused of 'harrasment'.
Sexist joke' web developer whistle-blower fired
'Richards -- who has upward of 9,400 Twitter followers -- overheard a couple of unnamed developers in the row behind her engaged in a private conversation. One made an anatomical joke about "dongles," and the other made a comment about "forking."`
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'Richards found their comments offensive, so she turned around, took their picture, and posted it to Twitter with the following text: "Not cool. Jokes about forking repo's in a sexual way and 'big' dongles. Right behind me #pycon."`
The real story being Richards invading other peoples privacy
Ted: That's because their mouths were full of your wife's box
"The attackers relied on a variety of methods, including the use of a digitally signed version of TeamViewer that has been modified through a technique known as "DLL hijacking" to spy on targets in real-time." link
01. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day.
02. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car.
03. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull over to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason, you would simply accept this.
04. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.
05. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive -- but would run on only five percent of the roads.
06. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single "General Protection Fault" warning light.
07. The airbag system would ask "Are you sure?" before deploying.
08. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna.
09. Every time GM introduced a new car, car buyers would have to learn to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.
10. You'd have to press the "Start" button to turn the engine off. link
"I googled veoh to see what they were, and was surprised to see that Veoh is still around. The wiki page says they were bought by an Israeli company. Is the new Veoh something similar in name only? I'm genuinely confused."
...
The current Veoh appears to show only trailers or brief snippits, with links to paid-for sites
"Then they find out the truth, & then only to have their b.s. blow up in their FACES once a Linux started getting used (most used = most attacked, period) - & nothing shows THAT, better than ANDROID on smartphones"
Do you mean malware targeted to Android, which does not impact the technical aspects of the linux platform.
"Slashdot has REALLY gone downhill since they sold it .. if I find me another site that actually talks geek tech and has a decent community I'll be happy to join them"
I totally agree, I also find the choice of submissions, and what they don't choose, most curious and baffling. I too weary of finding a decent geek tech site.
"One reporter used a tool called Collusion to track who was tracking him; 105 companies tracked his Internet use during one 36-hour period"
I ran it on the Guardian, makes me wonder why a 'centre-left' newspaper spends so much effort in tracking what sites its readers visit online.
Collusion report on the Guardian : ajax.googleapis.com, chartbeat.com, cloudfront.net, criteo.com, doubleclick.net, guim.co.uk, imrworldwide.com, optimizely.com, outbrain.com, quantserve.com, scorechartresearch.com, wunderloop.net