As a Swede myself, there was a minor disturbance in the force here, but I'm happy to hear things are now back to normal again.:-p
Seriously, I'm happy to see a screenshot of a DirectConnect client not being good enough evidence for a court. To a good Photoshopper, you could just as well give the court a scribbled down note listing an IP address and tell them it's proof. These things are so easy to tamper with, so one should be able to assume these get thrown out of court. However, with how things are going today, I'm still almost feeling surprised by it, and it worries me.
"I guess it's time to start using Opera, instead."... which has had security flaws too.
If you're looking for a browser that never has any special security flaws to talk of that's still usable for modern web sites, you're up for a hell of a search.
All I can say is thank goodness the first person on the moon wasn't put there by a commercial entity. I'm sure the first words would have been something like, "That's one small step for a man, but a Taco Bell Gordito(tm) is much bigger!"
Hehe, or "Funding this space program... Billions of your tax dollars... Me walking on the moon... Priceless!";-)
Well, for one thing we wouldn't be in this whole global warming mess, because we'd understand that small things done by men could mean a giant leap for mankind. That is, proper environmentally friendly garbage sorting by individuals, up to company scale with reduced pollution, could lead to giant benefits to mankind!
But now the bastards at NASA ruined this with their poor audio equipment.:-(
Low bitrate audio is only necessary in specialized uses, and hardly on portable devices anymore. Media players are moving to 80 GB sizes and more, and even the lower boundary for sold players seem to increase. I don't need to even bring up hard drives, and then we only have e.g Internet radio left, in which case Ogg's may be more useful in case of bandwidth limits, although I'm personally having no problem streaming 128 kbps or more all day long, and I believe ISP subscriptions are moving in this direction in general if they aren't already there.
It's a popular complaint though, because as opposed to the war in Iraq enhancing the US society every day it goes on, NASA isn't achieving anything good for it with their funding.:-p
online gambling really isn't a problem, just like online sales of goods isn't a problem to walmart or best buy.
I thought the problem was about the addiction factor and accessibility. But one could of course argue if the alternative legal forms are much better. However, where I live, there have reportedly been more cases of addiction since online gambling entered the scene. And that's a cost for society to manage if such addictions start implying criminal activity.
Did the fixes work? No one knows, because the original posters either never returned to the forum or never posted a reply. Only 20% of the forum threads we looked at included a follow-up message from the original poster indicating that they had solved the problem.
My question would then be: if it's working, how many of you even bother to visit Microsoft's forum to post "Thanks, it worked"? Usually, when a fix works, people move on, and don't go back to forums to confirm things are working.
OK so I click on the link and what do I see... no useful content whatsoever, just some marketspeak about an 'exclusive social experience'. Why would I bother spending five minutes to sign up?
Besides a refreshingly new social experience, you would gain a vista of networking services that would allow your mind to focus on global interaction in close, yet broad, human networks. The safe and free environment would embrace your personality with rich media content as well as allow you to easily express this to your friends.
1. Support. Sizable and friendly community for when things go wrong. Very important. Helps build a community spirit too. Compare e.g. Ubuntu to another far more obscure Linux distro, but about as friendly.
2. Features. Make something Windows (or OS X if that's the user's OS) can, but better. Being free is often not enough, assuming a user has already purchased or pirated (and don't mind pirating) the software setup.
3. Information. Media/news coverage, preferrably beyond any geeky OSS sites themselves. For something to get used, people need to know it exist.
Take one of these out and you seriously limit wide adoption.
The parent was asking about overwritten MBR's, not overwritten operating systems. Doing an OS upgrade has never allowed you to "roll back" in the way you describe; it would just be a way too complex operation. The answer to the parent's question is however still a no, the Vista MBR still ovewrites other ones at install.
The usual oversight with these reactionary comments a la "OMG, Microsoft shouldn't work on the Vista UI while there are still so many bugs!!12"...
Programmers are generally not artists. Artists are generally not programmers.
Don't worry, the developers will keep working on OOo.
Meanwhile, why not give some artists some work they can do?
Sorry if I'm harsh, but I've seen that kind of argument a million times by now, and the reason it's flawed is so super simple to understand that it's downright scary how often it's overlooked. Are you thinking their software designers start rolling their thumbs as soon as some artist guys start working on fucking icons? Come on.
From a busines perspective, this may be the same as bundling IE
Actually, it isn't really that either, because Vista doesn't bundle an antivirus tool, which is the flagship product of these companies. They do seem to include a simple antimalware thing though, but I fail to see the big deal about that, especially when it's about helping to protect clueless users installing random "funny applications" from the web. So I don't really see what the big deal is. Microsoft isn't bundling an antivirus tool. They do provide a way for antivirus developers to use the Security Center for a standardized way of reporting their status though, and that's actually *good* for these developers.
Vista isn't saying no to third party security, and this article isn't about that. This article is about replacing the Security Center, not about preventing Symantec from installing antivirus tools. Heck, Microsoft even provides an open API for security tool developers to report their status to the Security Center so Windows can appropriately inform the user if they'd be shut down in a standardized way. They're in this way doing a service to these 3rd party developers they didn't before Windows XP SP2.
True, however what these antivirus developers are asking for is to take out Microsoft's mechanism to identify whether these applications are running: Antivirus, firewall, anti-spyware, and the Windows Updates service. (I may be missing some) It's easy to see why MS is hesitant of doing so -- where's the good reason for doing so, and how would it open for malware developers of replacing that one too with something fake? And just because MS doesn't approve this, doesn't mean that they don't approve Symantec of installing an antivirus with a new firewall and anti-spyware. Actually, Microsoft even provides an API for 3rd party developers like these to make Windows "see" them as active in the Security Center.
If these guys wish to add extra functionality, why don't they just make their own 3rd party Security Center, put it as a small service with an icon in the taskbar, warning whenever something get disabled?
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As a Swede myself, there was a minor disturbance in the force here, but I'm happy to hear things are now back to normal again. :-p
Seriously, I'm happy to see a screenshot of a DirectConnect client not being good enough evidence for a court. To a good Photoshopper, you could just as well give the court a scribbled down note listing an IP address and tell them it's proof. These things are so easy to tamper with, so one should be able to assume these get thrown out of court. However, with how things are going today, I'm still almost feeling surprised by it, and it worries me.
It's not every day you see a low Slashdot ID user named JenniferJ being excited about boobiethons!
ROFL, too funny :-p
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"Firefox has become IE"
... which has had security flaws too.
Not even close.
"I guess it's time to start using Opera, instead."
If you're looking for a browser that never has any special security flaws to talk of that's still usable for modern web sites, you're up for a hell of a search.
All I can say is thank goodness the first person on the moon wasn't put there by a commercial entity. I'm sure the first words would have been something like, "That's one small step for a man, but a Taco Bell Gordito(tm) is much bigger!"
;-)
Hehe, or "Funding this space program... Billions of your tax dollars... Me walking on the moon... Priceless!"
I wonder how many that would have upset, heh.
Well, for one thing we wouldn't be in this whole global warming mess, because we'd understand that small things done by men could mean a giant leap for mankind. That is, proper environmentally friendly garbage sorting by individuals, up to company scale with reduced pollution, could lead to giant benefits to mankind!
:-(
But now the bastards at NASA ruined this with their poor audio equipment.
How much do you value [F]reedom? Is it worth more or less than brand recognition or market share?
Where will my freedom to have Firefox in Debian be?
Low bitrate audio is only necessary in specialized uses, and hardly on portable devices anymore. Media players are moving to 80 GB sizes and more, and even the lower boundary for sold players seem to increase. I don't need to even bring up hard drives, and then we only have e.g Internet radio left, in which case Ogg's may be more useful in case of bandwidth limits, although I'm personally having no problem streaming 128 kbps or more all day long, and I believe ISP subscriptions are moving in this direction in general if they aren't already there.
It's a popular complaint though, because as opposed to the war in Iraq enhancing the US society every day it goes on, NASA isn't achieving anything good for it with their funding. :-p
And for those who disagree, there ARE stupid questions.
:-p
Or at least leading questions.
Yeah, in other words, the WTO is a bit like a marriage. :-)
online gambling really isn't a problem, just like online sales of goods isn't a problem to walmart or best buy.
I thought the problem was about the addiction factor and accessibility. But one could of course argue if the alternative legal forms are much better. However, where I live, there have reportedly been more cases of addiction since online gambling entered the scene. And that's a cost for society to manage if such addictions start implying criminal activity.
My question would then be: if it's working, how many of you even bother to visit Microsoft's forum to post "Thanks, it worked"?
Usually, when a fix works, people move on, and don't go back to forums to confirm things are working.
Why's that funny? I'd like to see a collaboration between Google and that science team for this. :-)
OK so I click on the link and what do I see... no useful content whatsoever, just some marketspeak about an 'exclusive social experience'. Why would I bother spending five minutes to sign up?
Besides a refreshingly new social experience, you would gain a vista of networking services that would allow your mind to focus on global interaction in close, yet broad, human networks. The safe and free environment would embrace your personality with rich media content as well as allow you to easily express this to your friends.
1. Support. Sizable and friendly community for when things go wrong. Very important.
Helps build a community spirit too. Compare e.g. Ubuntu to another far more obscure Linux distro, but about as friendly.
2. Features. Make something Windows (or OS X if that's the user's OS) can, but better.
Being free is often not enough, assuming a user has already purchased or pirated (and don't mind pirating) the software setup.
3. Information. Media/news coverage, preferrably beyond any geeky OSS sites themselves.
For something to get used, people need to know it exist.
Take one of these out and you seriously limit wide adoption.
It's a Release Candidate, which should be 99.9% finished. Not being able to connect to the internet is a major bug.
In his drivers or in the OS?
The parent was asking about overwritten MBR's, not overwritten operating systems. Doing an OS upgrade has never allowed you to "roll back" in the way you describe; it would just be a way too complex operation. The answer to the parent's question is however still a no, the Vista MBR still ovewrites other ones at install.
Some good questions in there, but you posted them in the wrong forum!
Try theirs instead and you're much more likely to receive a reply, but maybe you aren't interested in that?
"In this case" indeed. I can't believe how common "its" -> "it's" is, even among journalists. It has to be the grammar mistake online.
The usual oversight with these reactionary comments a la "OMG, Microsoft shouldn't work on the Vista UI while there are still so many bugs!!12"...
Programmers are generally not artists.
Artists are generally not programmers.
Don't worry, the developers will keep working on OOo.
Meanwhile, why not give some artists some work they can do?
Sorry if I'm harsh, but I've seen that kind of argument a million times by now, and the reason it's flawed is so super simple to understand that it's downright scary how often it's overlooked. Are you thinking their software designers start rolling their thumbs as soon as some artist guys start working on fucking icons? Come on.
Actually, it isn't really that either, because Vista doesn't bundle an antivirus tool, which is the flagship product of these companies. They do seem to include a simple antimalware thing though, but I fail to see the big deal about that, especially when it's about helping to protect clueless users installing random "funny applications" from the web. So I don't really see what the big deal is. Microsoft isn't bundling an antivirus tool. They do provide a way for antivirus developers to use the Security Center for a standardized way of reporting their status though, and that's actually *good* for these developers.
Vista isn't saying no to third party security, and this article isn't about that. This article is about replacing the Security Center, not about preventing Symantec from installing antivirus tools. Heck, Microsoft even provides an open API for security tool developers to report their status to the Security Center so Windows can appropriately inform the user if they'd be shut down in a standardized way. They're in this way doing a service to these 3rd party developers they didn't before Windows XP SP2.
True, however what these antivirus developers are asking for is to take out Microsoft's mechanism to identify whether these applications are running: Antivirus, firewall, anti-spyware, and the Windows Updates service. (I may be missing some) It's easy to see why MS is hesitant of doing so -- where's the good reason for doing so, and how would it open for malware developers of replacing that one too with something fake? And just because MS doesn't approve this, doesn't mean that they don't approve Symantec of installing an antivirus with a new firewall and anti-spyware. Actually, Microsoft even provides an API for 3rd party developers like these to make Windows "see" them as active in the Security Center.
If these guys wish to add extra functionality, why don't they just make their own 3rd party Security Center, put it as a small service with an icon in the taskbar, warning whenever something get disabled?