> how many people actually continued to use Open Office and how many used it briefly, discovered that it is crap and downloaded a pirated copy of Microsoft Office.
@loucatellia: "How did you feel about your portrayal in Pirates of Silicon Valley, and who do you want to play you next in a movie"?
@thisisbillgates: "That portrayal was reasonably accurate"....
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"We should wait until we have a way to do a high level of integration that will be harder for the likes of Notes, Wordperfect to achieve, and which will give Office a real advantage". Bill Gates
"You never sent me a response on the question of what things an app would do that would make it run with MSDOS and not run with DR-DOS," Bill Gates
The only people opposing ethanol usage in motor fuel are the OIL indistry. The people who also push for import quotas on sugar products from south America. With massive trading on the commodoties futures market, this is what's caused the 'shortages'...
"Q: Apple has in the past decade, risen with its iPod, iPhone and iPad as one of the most successful companies in history. Recently, there are increasing doubts about how long the winning streak is still continuing."
"Apple has such high profit margins, is also due to its brand. I am proud that we have such loyal fans. But this loyalty is not given, the needs with the best products are always kept alive and confirmed. Currently we are in my opinion in the smartphone business with the features somewhat behind. Others have caught up. Samsung is a great competitor. But precisely because they are currently making great products." link
"Microsoft's PR department has started a campaign to convince Gmail users that Google reads your personal emails, referring to Google's automated method of scanning emails for keywords to generate supposedly relevant advertising".
Exactly the same way that Windows Live Hotmail does it...
"We use your information to inform you of other products or services offered by Microsoft and its affiliates, and to send you relevant survey invitations related to Microsoft services." link
"Fox News` credibility rating has hit a four-year record-low, with the majority of Americans distrusting the conservative-leaning channel. New Public Policy Polling (PPP) results show that 46 percent of voters distrust the network, while only 41 percent of voters perceive its information as reliable." link
That whole article reads like it could have been written by the Microsoft FUD division. It's either nobody uses Open Source or, if it is popular, then it has to be fragmenting...
"Android also gives you tools for creating apps that look great and take advantage of the hardware capabilities available on each device. It automatically adapts your UI to look it's best on each device, while giving you as much control as you want over your UI on different device types."
"you can create a single app binary that's optimized for both phone and tablet form factors. You declare your UI in lightweight sets of XML resources, one set for parts of the UI that are common to all form factors and other sets for optimzations specific to phones or tablets".
"At runtime, Android applies the correct resource sets based on its screen size, density, locale, and so on."
"After a long battle with the international arm of the MPAA, Usenet indexing site Newzbin2 has called it quits. The site had been operating under adverse conditions, not least almost total censorship by a court-ordered ISP blockade in the UK."
"Add to this a climate of fear driving individuals providing vital services away from the site, plus legal action against PayPal aimed at Newzbin2's UK-based payment provider, and the site's operators have decided to shut down."
'While TurboPascal launched the idea of an integrated development environment, [Jeff] Duntemann credits Microsoft's Visual Basic (VB), launched in 1991, with being the first real IDE'.
"Turbo C is an Integrated Development Environment and compiler for the C programming language from Borland. First introduced in 1987, it was noted for its integrated development environment, small size, fast compile speed, comprehensive manuals and low price".
> FreeDOS.. is still being actively developed, despite achieving its initial aim of an MS-DOS compatible OS..
That isn't so amazing considering MS-DOS was a renamed 86-DOS, from 'Seattle Computer Products', and 'Digital Research' sold DR-DOS up until Microsoft started to build-in incompatibilities into Windows to make it not run on alien Operating Systems...
"Apple hasn't issued any official statements advising users of the change or its reasons, but it's a safe bet that the company has deemed Oracle's most recent update to Java insecure"
'Users are 21 times more likely to get hit with malware from online shopping sites and 27 more times likely with a search engine than [if they weren't using Windows]..
"To discuss operating system security is to marvel at the diversity of deployed access-control models: Unix and Windows NT multiuser security.. This diversity is the result of a stunning transition from the narrow 1990s Unix and NT status quo to security localization"
To mention Unix and Windows NT security in the one sentence, just begs credulity...
"Windows NT and its successors.. were not initially designed with Internet security in mind"
"Gee, let's take EVERYTHING and connect it all on a giant, publicly accessible, open network that spans the entire world using a protocol suite designed in the 70's with no security in mind".
I don't think so, Microsoft was selling Windows NT as the Internet platform for commerce, since at least 1995...
"The cyber war has seen various attacks around the world, with incidents such as Stuxnet [Windows], Flame [Windows], and Red October[Windows] garnering attention. Some attacks have been against government systems, but increasingly likely to attack civilian entities. U.S. banks and utilities have already been hit [DDOS attacks run from compromised WINDOWS desktops]".
"Given the malicious actors that are out there and the development of the technology, in my mind, there's little doubt that some adversary is going to attempt a significant cyberattack on the United States at some point"
Only if you persist in running your infrastructure on that back-doored OS and connected directly to the Internet...
You have got to be kidding, do you seriously think the pornography seekers had to wait until now to easily find porn? Des slashdot have to join in what looks like a blatent attempt to tarnish the Apple App Store by associating it with porn.
"Vine lets you explore video categories with a hashtag, and a few quick searches for #sex, #porn, and some others that we'd prefer not to write down here show a number of graphic videos that feature male genitalia and recordings of pornographic videos streaming on laptops. That's just scratching the surface"
> Why should we waste time and brainpower studying obsolete software?
You'd be surprised hos so little has changed, yea you get 3d fluttering window effects, but the underling usability of the software hasn't improved by much, you still have to tell it what to do...
"This is an ASLR bypass technique, not an actual exploitable vulnerability by itself. The attacker still needs an exploitable memory corruotion vulnerability to start the attack. ASLR+DEP is designed to make it much harder for an attack to gain foothold in the face of such an attack", benjymouse
"KingCope.. has detailed a mechanism through which the ASLR of Windows 7, Windows 8 and probably other operating systems can be bypassed to load a DLL file with malicious instructions to a known address space". 'Once done, the rest of the memory, which was filled up earlier, can be freed and known exploit methods of spraying the heap and heap corruption can be used to exploit the system'
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> how many people actually continued to use Open Office and how many used it briefly, discovered that it is crap and downloaded a pirated copy of Microsoft Office.
And you know this somehow?
A more relevent subject for discussion is how the thieves got hold of your 'banking passwords` in the first place.
@loucatellia: "How did you feel about your portrayal in Pirates of Silicon Valley, and who do you want to play you next in a movie"?
@thisisbillgates: "That portrayal was reasonably accurate"....
--
"We should wait until we have a way to do a high level of integration that will be harder for the likes of Notes, Wordperfect to achieve, and which will give Office a real advantage". Bill Gates
"You never sent me a response on the question of what things an app would do that would make it run with MSDOS and not run with DR-DOS," Bill Gates
Comes v. Microsoft
Microsoft Litigation
The only people opposing ethanol usage in motor fuel are the OIL indistry. The people who also push for import quotas on sugar products from south America. With massive trading on the commodoties futures market, this is what's caused the 'shortages' ...
"Q: Apple has in the past decade, risen with its iPod, iPhone and iPad as one of the most successful companies in history. Recently, there are increasing doubts about how long the winning streak is still continuing."
"Apple has such high profit margins, is also due to its brand. I am proud that we have such loyal fans. But this loyalty is not given, the needs with the best products are always kept alive and confirmed. Currently we are in my opinion in the smartphone business with the features somewhat behind. Others have caught up. Samsung is a great competitor. But precisely because they are currently making great products." link
Haaa haaaaaa !!!!!!!
"Microsoft's PR department has started a campaign to convince Gmail users that Google reads your personal emails, referring to Google's automated method of scanning emails for keywords to generate supposedly relevant advertising".
...
Exactly the same way that Windows Live Hotmail does it
"We use your information to inform you of other products or services offered by Microsoft and its affiliates, and to send you relevant survey invitations related to Microsoft services." link
"Fox News` credibility rating has hit a four-year record-low, with the majority of Americans distrusting the conservative-leaning channel. New Public Policy Polling (PPP) results show that 46 percent of voters distrust the network, while only 41 percent of voters perceive its information as reliable." link
That whole article reads like it could have been written by the Microsoft FUD division. It's either nobody uses Open Source or, if it is popular, then it has to be fragmenting ...
"Android also gives you tools for creating apps that look great and take advantage of the hardware capabilities available on each device. It automatically adapts your UI to look it's best on each device, while giving you as much control as you want over your UI on different device types."
"you can create a single app binary that's optimized for both phone and tablet form factors. You declare your UI in lightweight sets of XML resources, one set for parts of the UI that are common to all form factors and other sets for optimzations specific to phones or tablets".
"At runtime, Android applies the correct resource sets based on its screen size, density, locale, and so on."
"After a long battle with the international arm of the MPAA, Usenet indexing site Newzbin2 has called it quits. The site had been operating under adverse conditions, not least almost total censorship by a court-ordered ISP blockade in the UK."
"Add to this a climate of fear driving individuals providing vital services away from the site, plus legal action against PayPal aimed at Newzbin2's UK-based payment provider, and the site's operators have decided to shut down."
'While TurboPascal launched the idea of an integrated development environment, [Jeff] Duntemann credits Microsoft's Visual Basic (VB), launched in 1991, with being the first real IDE'.
"Turbo C is an Integrated Development Environment and compiler for the C programming language from Borland. First introduced in 1987, it was noted for its integrated development environment, small size, fast compile speed, comprehensive manuals and low price".
> FreeDOS .. is still being actively developed, despite achieving its initial aim of an MS-DOS compatible OS ..
That isn't so amazing considering MS-DOS was a renamed 86-DOS, from 'Seattle Computer Products', and 'Digital Research' sold DR-DOS up until Microsoft started to build-in incompatibilities into Windows to make it not run on alien Operating Systems ...
"Apple's App Store is a thriving marketplace with a huge amount of software available, except Microsoft Office"
What's preventing Microsoft from selling Office for iOS through the Windows Store
"Apple hasn't issued any official statements advising users of the change or its reasons, but it's a safe bet that the company has deemed Oracle's most recent update to Java insecure"
Does this apply to the OpenJDK Runtime Environment
'Users are 21 times more likely to get hit with malware from online shopping sites and 27 more times likely with a search engine than [if they weren't using Windows] ..
> Can we fucking kill this meme right now?
Mod this comment up +99
"To discuss operating system security is to marvel at the diversity of deployed access-control models: Unix and Windows NT multiuser security .. This diversity is the result of a stunning transition from the narrow 1990s Unix and NT status quo to security localization"
...
.. were not initially designed with Internet security in mind"
To mention Unix and Windows NT security in the one sentence, just begs credulity
"Windows NT and its successors
"TCP/IP has been with us since the late 1970's. Was the primary protocol in use on the Internet from the early 1980's on"
.. Microsoft Windows NT Server security".
As you so rightly pointed out, TCP/IP is a communication protocol, insecurity was provided at a higher level.
"Microsoft Internet Commerce Strategy"
"Server Foundation. A server and tools commerce foundation based on
"Gee, let's take EVERYTHING and connect it all on a giant, publicly accessible, open network that spans the entire world using a protocol suite designed in the 70's with no security in mind".
...
I don't think so, Microsoft was selling Windows NT as the Internet platform for commerce, since at least 1995
"The cyber war has seen various attacks around the world, with incidents such as Stuxnet [Windows], Flame [Windows], and Red October[Windows] garnering attention. Some attacks have been against government systems, but increasingly likely to attack civilian entities. U.S. banks and utilities have already been hit [DDOS attacks run from compromised WINDOWS desktops]".
...
"Given the malicious actors that are out there and the development of the technology, in my mind, there's little doubt that some adversary is going to attempt a significant cyberattack on the United States at some point"
Only if you persist in running your infrastructure on that back-doored OS and connected directly to the Internet
You have got to be kidding, do you seriously think the pornography seekers had to wait until now to easily find porn? Des slashdot have to join in what looks like a blatent attempt to tarnish the Apple App Store by associating it with porn.
"Vine lets you explore video categories with a hashtag, and a few quick searches for #sex, #porn, and some others that we'd prefer not to write down here show a number of graphic videos that feature male genitalia and recordings of pornographic videos streaming on laptops. That's just scratching the surface "
> Why should we waste time and brainpower studying obsolete software?
You'd be surprised hos so little has changed, yea you get 3d fluttering window effects, but the underling usability of the software hasn't improved by much, you still have to tell it what to do ...
Borland Sidekick
dBase
Word Star
Turbo Pascal
Slammer worm crashed Ohio nuke plant net
Slammer Worm Hit FirstEnergy
Slammer worm crashed Ohio nuke plant network
US blackout was computer related
"This is an ASLR bypass technique, not an actual exploitable vulnerability by itself. The attacker still needs an exploitable memory corruotion vulnerability to start the attack. ASLR+DEP is designed to make it much harder for an attack to gain foothold in the face of such an attack", benjymouse
.. has detailed a mechanism through which the ASLR of Windows 7, Windows 8 and probably other operating systems can be bypassed to load a DLL file with malicious instructions to a known address space". 'Once done, the rest of the memory, which was filled up earlier, can be freed and known exploit methods of spraying the heap and heap corruption can be used to exploit the system '
"KingCope