This seems like a bad thing - I don't really trust any of the AV companies after 20 years of experience on Windows OEM AV crap...Is android doomed to the same bundled security crapware that plauges off the shelf Windows PCs in the retail channel?
Give it 12 months from the launch of this and you will have Norton/Mcafee trial crap on every android device when Asus/Samsung/Whoever figure out that there is money on the table...
Bugs aren't that bad - anyone in the area when its happening should check out the Purdue University bug bowl event that happens each year on the West Lafayette, IN campus - they have some tasty samples!
Will end users pay for the OS? is it supported by ads? I would love to see this succeed but to succeed it needs to make at least enough money to fund development (even if you have many volunteers there are still costs for testing and qa)
OS support wont sell as well for mobile as it does on big iron...
This is very cool but it is so well done that it looks less like one guys space video and more like a viral marketing effort from NASA...
Im ok with it because NASA needs to do whatever it can to recapture Americas attention and imagination and thus maybe we can get public support to make space a priority as it should have always remained.
I don't know about the tag line thing for the examples you give: Milk is a staple, been around long before modern advertising...and Think Mink? I never heard of it and cant really tell what they want me to buy with a quick google search for that term...
The days of the wild west on the net are gone...If the big boys in the industry cant get their shit together soon, we will get legislation, and that will be bad for everyone!
Just once I wish these companies could see that it is in the best interest of everyone to keep the government out and work together to reach a policy that will be adopted as a general standard without a law mandating it...
Look around you? almost everyone in teh USA is carrying an extra 10-20 Lbs or more, look at the statistics, this wasn't the case a few decades ago, and the biggest change since the 80s? GMOs and fake sugar type stuff... It could be correlation without causality, but I have read (albeit a few years ago) that in Europe they dont allow GMO and don't have the obesity issues.
There are a lot of other calms on the net about this stuff and its other dangers as well...
I am sure most people are aware of and angry about monsanto's practices and products, but I am tired of just being angry and talking to my friends who all agree...what can we do about it? Even the progressive wonderland of Ca cant get a simple GMO labling law passed, is there anything anyone can DO to change it?
Letters to Congress - HAH, they are paid for already. Stop buying their product - Cant, no way to tell what it is in... Go Organic: and pay $15 / Lb for fruit at Whole Paycheck, er uh Foods? no thanks...
This sort of thing is just what big pharma wants, no human interaction and careful consideration, just a pill dispenser...symptom a + symptom B == Pill 2... How much you wanna bet this thing always prescribes expensive non generic drugs and never tries the 50-70 year old known treatments that are usually the first steps in treatment before new expensive drugs are prescribed.
Also, anyone notice the change in medical advertising and communications, they never say "ask your doctor" any more, its ask your prescriber, or ask your provider...like they want to dis-intermediate doctors and are getting the public ready.
capitol gains tax post fiscal cliff is about 23.5% IIRC...If he had done this in December, it would have been about 15%...If you factor the marginal income tax rate that most people pay, the average federal income tax comes out to about 18-21% based on actual household income (for normal households of say 30k - about 2500 k)
The real benny comes in with no SS or Medicare taxation.
Seems to me like GOOG is where MSFT was in the early 2000s. The search business and cell phone platform business are both relatively mature and while other things may be growing, they are inconsequential in the over all picture of GOOG, Since there will be no more 10-25% year on year growth, the Wall Street guys will let the stock stagnate and not grow...If I owned any GOOG, I would sell too!
Not what I meant, I meant the kind of people who near robot like vote for the Republican or Democratic ticket in every election. the kind of people who cant ever give concrete answers, ideas like "I voted for X because he wants change in Washington!" What does that mean exactly? what changes that the candidate proposed do they like? Its kinda funny and sad how many people get offended at that most basic question and think I am a racist if asking it about President Obama, and that I am some sort of socialist if I ask the same thing about Mitt Romney. My favorite is one that I heard specifically in a recent campaign to fill Evan Bayh's seat in the Senate here in Indiana, saying "I am voting for candidate x because he is a Washington outsider" when the candidate in question had been a Washington based lobbyist since losing his last elected office like 15-20 years before.
I love spirited disagreement with political opposites, a thoughtful conversation is a great thing to have, my comment was directed at the alarmingly large number of mouth breathers on whom these political ads work.
I like this but I wish the FEC would grow a pair and make PACs and SuperPacs identify their donation sources. Tehy all have these cutesy names that mean nothing, you will hear things like "this ad paid for by Americans for an America in the tradition of Apple Pie and Chevrolet PAC" but for all you know that money could be coming from some oil man who just wants to have a friendly white house to his needs. Its no different than bill naming, if you want to take away freedoms and civil libertarians get upset, just call it the prevent terrorism and child porn act and they will shut up...
The problem is also education, that is to say that so many people, after receiving a k-12 education in the US are so fucking stupid that they just believe the crap in these ads and propaganda in general, some critical thinking amongst the 90 percent who just go all out blindly for one party or the other would solve many of our issues.
Assuming that all security updates hit both versions at the same time I love this...
I wish MS had that option, it was annoying and frightening to see how many people I knew back in 09-10 that refused to upgrade from XP to 7 because they didn't want to invest in their 2-4 year old PCs that were due for replacement when or IF they got a bonus, tax refund or whatever a few months or even a year later. I would rather see a 5 year old PC running ad supported win 7 with all updates than AD Free XP.
There is some value to heuristics in AVs in Windows. I have seen both SEP and MS Fep stop undefined malware with heuristics in a large company.
On the Mac however, there are no heuristic algorithms in wide enough use to be valuable, so AVs only really stop you from propagating Windows viruses, which Macs cant do anyway unless you are forwarding spam email, so its really pointless to run AVs on Macs.
I am not a web dev but it seems to me that there are way too many stories that involve wordpress attacks in the past year, I have heard of at least 10 cases of wordpress being compromised, but in that same time not one case of Drupal, Sharepoint, Joomla, or Movable Type having the same issues assuming all were running the latest releases.
Is wordpress broken at it's core, or is it all just crummy plugins that open holes?
I have had non technical Mac users ask me about this, that means that they (or at least more of them than before) are open to advise about security and don't just smugly boast about Macs being invincible any longer. This makes everyone safer from my view.
BTW the advise I give Mac users who ask is as follows: 1: run apple menu->software update manually at least once a week, and download everything it suggests* 2: use a non admin account for daily activity and NEVER provide admin creds unless you know exactly what it is using them for, you should never need to do this while surfing the web. 3: Only get software from trusted sources, like the app store, SourceForge, or vendor web sites like Adobe or Autodesk. 4: Switch to a platform where java is controlled and updated by the first party, Oracle and not a third party, Apple to ensure you have the best security possible.
*Just as with windows or any other *NIX box, there is an exception to the all update thing, if you know that it will break your workflow or some component thereof, you can skip it while that is worked out.
These conracts couldnt ever really work if people were allowed talk salary...There is nothing for me that is more awkward than when I have to answer that question from a prospective employer about salary, I don't know if I am really too high for the market or if he is BSing me to pay me less...
I just wish people were a little less shy about talking salary...am i worth 70 80 or 110k per year? I honestly don't know, so I just take a guess, its like throwing darts, I cant really put much stock in sites like CBSalaries and Glassdoor because I dont know where they get their data, how do I know it isnt just the companies putting in low ball salaries?
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This seems like a bad thing - I don't really trust any of the AV companies after 20 years of experience on Windows OEM AV crap...Is android doomed to the same bundled security crapware that plauges off the shelf Windows PCs in the retail channel?
Give it 12 months from the launch of this and you will have Norton/Mcafee trial crap on every android device when Asus/Samsung/Whoever figure out that there is money on the table...
Bugs aren't that bad - anyone in the area when its happening should check out the Purdue University bug bowl event that happens each year on the West Lafayette, IN campus - they have some tasty samples!
Will end users pay for the OS? is it supported by ads? I would love to see this succeed but to succeed it needs to make at least enough money to fund development (even if you have many volunteers there are still costs for testing and qa)
OS support wont sell as well for mobile as it does on big iron...
This is very cool but it is so well done that it looks less like one guys space video and more like a viral marketing effort from NASA...
Im ok with it because NASA needs to do whatever it can to recapture Americas attention and imagination and thus maybe we can get public support to make space a priority as it should have always remained.
I don't know about the tag line thing for the examples you give: Milk is a staple, been around long before modern advertising...and Think Mink? I never heard of it and cant really tell what they want me to buy with a quick google search for that term...
The days of the wild west on the net are gone...If the big boys in the industry cant get their shit together soon, we will get legislation, and that will be bad for everyone!
Just once I wish these companies could see that it is in the best interest of everyone to keep the government out and work together to reach a policy that will be adopted as a general standard without a law mandating it...
Look around you? almost everyone in teh USA is carrying an extra 10-20 Lbs or more, look at the statistics, this wasn't the case a few decades ago, and the biggest change since the 80s? GMOs and fake sugar type stuff... It could be correlation without causality, but I have read (albeit a few years ago) that in Europe they dont allow GMO and don't have the obesity issues.
There are a lot of other calms on the net about this stuff and its other dangers as well...
I am sure most people are aware of and angry about monsanto's practices and products, but I am tired of just being angry and talking to my friends who all agree...what can we do about it? Even the progressive wonderland of Ca cant get a simple GMO labling law passed, is there anything anyone can DO to change it?
Letters to Congress - HAH, they are paid for already.
Stop buying their product - Cant, no way to tell what it is in...
Go Organic: and pay $15 / Lb for fruit at Whole Paycheck, er uh Foods? no thanks...
So what can we DO?
This sort of thing is just what big pharma wants, no human interaction and careful consideration, just a pill dispenser...symptom a + symptom B == Pill 2...
How much you wanna bet this thing always prescribes expensive non generic drugs and never tries the 50-70 year old known treatments that are usually the first steps in treatment before new expensive drugs are prescribed.
Also, anyone notice the change in medical advertising and communications, they never say "ask your doctor" any more, its ask your prescriber, or ask your provider...like they want to dis-intermediate doctors and are getting the public ready.
capitol gains tax post fiscal cliff is about 23.5% IIRC...If he had done this in December, it would have been about 15%...If you factor the marginal income tax rate that most people pay, the average federal income tax comes out to about 18-21% based on actual household income (for normal households of say 30k - about 2500 k)
The real benny comes in with no SS or Medicare taxation.
Seems to me like GOOG is where MSFT was in the early 2000s. The search business and cell phone platform business are both relatively mature and while other things may be growing, they are inconsequential in the over all picture of GOOG, Since there will be no more 10-25% year on year growth, the Wall Street guys will let the stock stagnate and not grow...If I owned any GOOG, I would sell too!
Not what I meant, I meant the kind of people who near robot like vote for the Republican or Democratic ticket in every election. the kind of people who cant ever give concrete answers, ideas like "I voted for X because he wants change in Washington!" What does that mean exactly? what changes that the candidate proposed do they like? Its kinda funny and sad how many people get offended at that most basic question and think I am a racist if asking it about President Obama, and that I am some sort of socialist if I ask the same thing about Mitt Romney. My favorite is one that I heard specifically in a recent campaign to fill Evan Bayh's seat in the Senate here in Indiana, saying "I am voting for candidate x because he is a Washington outsider" when the candidate in question had been a Washington based lobbyist since losing his last elected office like 15-20 years before.
I love spirited disagreement with political opposites, a thoughtful conversation is a great thing to have, my comment was directed at the alarmingly large number of mouth breathers on whom these political ads work.
just had a crazy idea, require honest names for superpacs, like "Halliburton execs for Romney" or "Goldman Sachs managers for Obama"
I like this but I wish the FEC would grow a pair and make PACs and SuperPacs identify their donation sources. Tehy all have these cutesy names that mean nothing, you will hear things like "this ad paid for by Americans for an America in the tradition of Apple Pie and Chevrolet PAC" but for all you know that money could be coming from some oil man who just wants to have a friendly white house to his needs. Its no different than bill naming, if you want to take away freedoms and civil libertarians get upset, just call it the prevent terrorism and child porn act and they will shut up...
The problem is also education, that is to say that so many people, after receiving a k-12 education in the US are so fucking stupid that they just believe the crap in these ads and propaganda in general, some critical thinking amongst the 90 percent who just go all out blindly for one party or the other would solve many of our issues.
Assuming that all security updates hit both versions at the same time I love this...
I wish MS had that option, it was annoying and frightening to see how many people I knew back in 09-10 that refused to upgrade from XP to 7 because they didn't want to invest in their 2-4 year old PCs that were due for replacement when or IF they got a bonus, tax refund or whatever a few months or even a year later. I would rather see a 5 year old PC running ad supported win 7 with all updates than AD Free XP.
There is some value to heuristics in AVs in Windows. I have seen both SEP and MS Fep stop undefined malware with heuristics in a large company.
On the Mac however, there are no heuristic algorithms in wide enough use to be valuable, so AVs only really stop you from propagating Windows viruses, which Macs cant do anyway unless you are forwarding spam email, so its really pointless to run AVs on Macs.
I am not a web dev but it seems to me that there are way too many stories that involve wordpress attacks in the past year, I have heard of at least 10 cases of wordpress being compromised, but in that same time not one case of Drupal, Sharepoint, Joomla, or Movable Type having the same issues assuming all were running the latest releases.
Is wordpress broken at it's core, or is it all just crummy plugins that open holes?
I have had non technical Mac users ask me about this, that means that they (or at least more of them than before) are open to advise about security and don't just smugly boast about Macs being invincible any longer. This makes everyone safer from my view.
BTW the advise I give Mac users who ask is as follows:
1: run apple menu->software update manually at least once a week, and download everything it suggests*
2: use a non admin account for daily activity and NEVER provide admin creds unless you know exactly what it is using them for, you should never need to do this while surfing the web.
3: Only get software from trusted sources, like the app store, SourceForge, or vendor web sites like Adobe or Autodesk.
4: Switch to a platform where java is controlled and updated by the first party, Oracle and not a third party, Apple to ensure you have the best security possible.
*Just as with windows or any other *NIX box, there is an exception to the all update thing, if you know that it will break your workflow or some component thereof, you can skip it while that is worked out.
These conracts couldnt ever really work if people were allowed talk salary...There is nothing for me that is more awkward than when I have to answer that question from a prospective employer about salary, I don't know if I am really too high for the market or if he is BSing me to pay me less...
I just wish people were a little less shy about talking salary...am i worth 70 80 or 110k per year? I honestly don't know, so I just take a guess, its like throwing darts, I cant really put much stock in sites like CBSalaries and Glassdoor because I dont know where they get their data, how do I know it isnt just the companies putting in low ball salaries?