its better than nothing. You have to start somewhere. Really.
If you view the world in black and white, and say that anyone not living in absolutes is the same as the opposite end, you will never make progress.
I think the man is going to try and demonstrate varios F/L/O technolgies as a replacements for the company-consumer oriented society we have today. Its great publicity for free/open source.
I just got done looking at open source ecology and its awesome. That said they don't make everything, but they make somethings. it would be a great advertisement for the capabilities of OSE and other free/open projects.
It will hopefully show how usefull they can be, and inspire more people to consider free/open alternatives in their own time. Many of these people might be engineers who further contribute. Thats the point of this excersize. Its a demonstration meant to draw people in.
at least with the server side, you still get the old UNIX fogeys who will give you an "amen" when you say windows is a joke OS that doesn't belong serverside.
Its funny getting involved in flame wars before your time, no really. the few remaining VMS guys will stare though.
just think of all the now dead mini-computer OS's from the 80s the UNIX/*NIX guys are laughing at.
in 20 years the only operating systems left will be UNIX based.(or clones/inspired by/POSIX/etc..)
read future brownshirt in the making. already spouting the company FUD I see.
Your company will NEVER develop anything for UNIX/*NIX because to them they are the enemy,
as for google, they are the real creators.
Google shares the android operating systems, and 99% of chrome in the form of chromium. They also host code.google.com.
Steve Ballmer has a career of blowing smoke, to include issuing blind threads and FUD against linux for the past 15 years to include his time as VP. He also has a short temper.
I guess it would be done sooner or later. Thats the power of free software/open source. If you don't like it, write your own version. Looks a lot like android. So we now have Android Christian edition, in addition to Ubuntu Christian Edition.
I can firmly say as an unbeliever I won't be buying one, but I as long as they share their source code, I wish them well.
not really. at $5 a stick, 10 would be $50 which should be more than enough.
its actually not a bad idea from an attacker's perspective. Very supprised this company has good employees that can spot things like this.
Most cases of malware infection come from stupid decisions made by non-tech people. Good sense to avoid crap like this isn't hard or obtrusive, it just requires that people merely pay attention and think on their feet, and some basic awareness.
that would stop 75% of all malware, found in parking lots or not.
at this moment, there is no class of code that is illegal. Its completely legal to write malware, viruses, network security tools.
Its only illegal if you use them against other people's computers. In fact most of the same tools used to break into computers are used to test security legimately, and many have even more diagnostic utilities.(wireshark, nmap, net cat, etc...)
What the FBI SHOULD have done is re-dirrect the web browsers of infected machines to an fbi.gov site informing them of the problems and providing instructions on how to re-install windows. Then mabey a link to add a cookie to bypass and keep browsing.
Then we have the issue that the malware is still live, but the FBI is controlling it. Does anyone else see a massive oppertunity for the FBI to use this to spy on people like the malware's original authors did.
For most people its going to be a slight headache to re-install, but nothing more. It should have been months ago.
nobody wants windows on a cellphone. People only use windows on the PC because they feel they are stuck with it.
Partnering with microsoft was a terrible idea. Unless windows 8 phone is some total game changer, its all lost.
They were much better sticking with maemo, because at least when you have GNU/linux, you have the monopoly on a solid niche. All of which are rabid fanatics who both shell out 10x money for a phone, only to turn around and do free work on it. When you have windows, you really don't have a base. The techies don't want it. The average user is comfortable with android, and the newbsauces, trendies have apple. Even corporate is going to apple, and there is nothing that windows phone does the iphone doesn't to counter this trend.
As for microsoft, "windows" is a toxic brand. If I were any other company, I'd be hesitant in selling "windows" anything. If I were microsoft, I would call "windows phone" "xbox phone", as the xbox brand is far less hated. In fact, I'd discontinue the windows brand alltogether except for corporate, and just use the xbox name.
the n9 sold more phones with no support than the overhyped windows phone in the same time peroid.
People will ask for it by name, and the people who want it are usually willing to pay, as its more than just a phone, as the rest of them are to other people.
well consider its the successor to maemo, I'd say most of the nerds want one. Like they wanted maemo.
Why? its a gnu/linux cellphone. Nerds like gnu/liunx. This is slashdot. News for nerds. I'm pretty sure that to the average slashdot reader, that something this nerdy is a very big deal. Especially after the whole nokia/microsoft debacle. Again, nerds are smart people and aren't driven off by silly things like labels and driven towards marketing campaigns. They are driven because its going to be easy to modify with a great community, which makes it more of a hobby than a cellphone. Being nerds, modifying cellphones is a very legitimate hobby. Again this is slashdot.
I was just having this conversation with a friend.
The bush family is from connecticut. Rich playboys. The "cowboy" image is just that. Pure marketing. In fact most images politicians have are made for them by the same PR goons who make them for celebrities.
We can't have a good conversation about politics until we start talking about politics as they really happen, not their PR campaigns.
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its better than nothing. You have to start somewhere. Really.
If you view the world in black and white, and say that anyone not living in absolutes is the same as the opposite end, you will never make progress.
I think the man is going to try and demonstrate varios F/L/O technolgies as a replacements for the company-consumer oriented society we have today. Its great publicity for free/open source.
I just got done looking at open source ecology and its awesome. That said they don't make everything, but they make somethings. it would be a great advertisement for the capabilities of OSE and other free/open projects.
It will hopefully show how usefull they can be, and inspire more people to consider free/open alternatives in their own time. Many of these people might be engineers who further contribute. Thats the point of this excersize. Its a demonstration meant to draw people in.
he's still living.
and who is he running against. can we croud source an operation to un-elect this goofball?
When I was working in corporate I had a windows 7 laptop, and I'd be damned if win7 wasn't so clumbsy.
I used to let outlook book while I grabed coffee.
on ubuntu with gnome-shell running evolution, email is up in 3 seconds. Seriously.
at least with the server side, you still get the old UNIX fogeys who will give you an "amen" when you say windows is a joke OS that doesn't belong serverside.
Its funny getting involved in flame wars before your time, no really. the few remaining VMS guys will stare though.
just think of all the now dead mini-computer OS's from the 80s the UNIX/*NIX guys are laughing at.
in 20 years the only operating systems left will be UNIX based.(or clones/inspired by/POSIX/etc..)
no YOUR the propagandizer!
microsoft has nothing anyone really wants to use.
people use windows because they believe they are stuck with it. They always manage to come out with a new version not that bad, but not stunning.
Most of their profits come from business sales to corporations who are already dependant on longterm software based on the previous windows version.
Oh, when I was in college, the state mandated that everyone pay pearsons ED $200 in lab fees to learn MS office.
Really? There was no opt out, or equivilants, although departments made exceptions to high level classes.
MS reigns through treachery, and partnering with other corrupting treacherous corps.
they never innovated. They always came up with some crazy legal mumbo jumbo to shut out the competition.
remember OS/2?
better than windows. OS/2 warp had many of the features of win95 2 years prior
read future brownshirt in the making. already spouting the company FUD I see.
Your company will NEVER develop anything for UNIX/*NIX because to them they are the enemy,
as for google, they are the real creators.
Google shares the android operating systems, and 99% of chrome in the form of chromium. They also host code.google.com.
Steve Ballmer has a career of blowing smoke, to include issuing blind threads and FUD against linux for the past 15 years to include his time as VP. He also has a short temper.
really?
he's been there for the last 10+ years.
because one of them will. They are just testing the waters.
If we can all agree these orders are bad, lets stop the partisan bickering.
this is terrible. Do they grant licenses for virus researchers?
what about the in case of the low budget, some guy in a basement open source type? I guess you can't crowd source virus research now.
In a future were viruses are outlawed, only the outlaws will be able to do ANY work, to include legitimate research on viruses.
I guess it would be done sooner or later. Thats the power of free software/open source. If you don't like it, write your own version. Looks a lot like android. So we now have Android Christian edition, in addition to Ubuntu Christian Edition.
I can firmly say as an unbeliever I won't be buying one, but I as long as they share their source code, I wish them well.
who says the attacker is intrested soley in money?
mabey just the thrill of it, mabey idealogical goals, mabey revenge, mabey power through blackmail, or some form of leverage.
not really. at $5 a stick, 10 would be $50 which should be more than enough.
its actually not a bad idea from an attacker's perspective. Very supprised this company has good employees that can spot things like this.
Most cases of malware infection come from stupid decisions made by non-tech people. Good sense to avoid crap like this isn't hard or obtrusive, it just requires that people merely pay attention and think on their feet, and some basic awareness.
that would stop 75% of all malware, found in parking lots or not.
at this moment, there is no class of code that is illegal. Its completely legal to write malware, viruses, network security tools.
Its only illegal if you use them against other people's computers. In fact most of the same tools used to break into computers are used to test security legimately, and many have even more diagnostic utilities.(wireshark, nmap, net cat, etc...)
I am implying its un constitutional. a simple majority is not enough to repeal constitutuional protections.
What the FBI SHOULD have done is re-dirrect the web browsers of infected machines to an fbi.gov site informing them of the problems and providing instructions on how to re-install windows. Then mabey a link to add a cookie to bypass and keep browsing.
Then we have the issue that the malware is still live, but the FBI is controlling it. Does anyone else see a massive oppertunity for the FBI to use this to spy on people like the malware's original authors did.
For most people its going to be a slight headache to re-install, but nothing more. It should have been months ago.
thats not the issue. Kernel Asside, android still runs its own libraries, where maemo/meego run standard GNU and full "linux distribution" libraries.
porting android kernel patches to mainstream linux, means using a mainstream kernel on android phones, or even running GNU on android.
davlik-alien had a maemo port.(something like WINE but for armel android/liunx to gnu/linux). So its not unfeasiable to run anrdroid apps.
nobody wants windows on a cellphone. People only use windows on the PC because they feel they are stuck with it.
Partnering with microsoft was a terrible idea. Unless windows 8 phone is some total game changer, its all lost.
They were much better sticking with maemo, because at least when you have GNU/linux, you have the monopoly on a solid niche. All of which are rabid fanatics who both shell out 10x money for a phone, only to turn around and do free work on it. When you have windows, you really don't have a base. The techies don't want it. The average user is comfortable with android, and the newbsauces, trendies have apple. Even corporate is going to apple, and there is nothing that windows phone does the iphone doesn't to counter this trend.
As for microsoft, "windows" is a toxic brand. If I were any other company, I'd be hesitant in selling "windows" anything. If I were microsoft, I would call "windows phone" "xbox phone", as the xbox brand is far less hated. In fact, I'd discontinue the windows brand alltogether except for corporate, and just use the xbox name.
sure there are.
the n9 sold more phones with no support than the overhyped windows phone in the same time peroid.
People will ask for it by name, and the people who want it are usually willing to pay, as its more than just a phone, as the rest of them are to other people.
there are always forks....
I used maemo, and I wish that meego could have stayed with the debian based and hildon desktop.
Hildon is free/open and will be included in Ubuntu Cellphone with 14.04
well consider its the successor to maemo, I'd say most of the nerds want one. Like they wanted maemo.
Why? its a gnu/linux cellphone. Nerds like gnu/liunx. This is slashdot. News for nerds. I'm pretty sure that to the average slashdot reader, that something this nerdy is a very big deal. Especially after the whole nokia/microsoft debacle. Again, nerds are smart people and aren't driven off by silly things like labels and driven towards marketing campaigns. They are driven because its going to be easy to modify with a great community, which makes it more of a hobby than a cellphone. Being nerds, modifying cellphones is a very legitimate hobby. Again this is slashdot.
Find your way back to gawker please.
I was just having this conversation with a friend.
The bush family is from connecticut. Rich playboys. The "cowboy" image is just that. Pure marketing. In fact most images politicians have are made for them by the same PR goons who make them for celebrities.
We can't have a good conversation about politics until we start talking about politics as they really happen, not their PR campaigns.
Every sort of the arms race from tanks, to machine guns, to computers has been part of a detterent somehow.
Only Nukes are so fucking destructive no one would admit wanting to use them, But people did/do.
Castro wanted to nuke NYC for the bay of pigs. Goldwater wanted to nuke china.
then we have all the brush wars nuclear powers fought against eachother in proxy. Kept peace my ass.