Still worthless. If you don't have Internet access, you don't have a Chrome notebook that's usable. That's the problem with ANY "Cloud" premise to begin with- it's only as useful as your access to the 'Net. With a Laptop, I can still do LOADS of things. Yes, there's a risk of losing something if the device is trashed, but what Google's selling isn't any better an answer- and this doesn't get into the security aspects of what they're selling here- or the privacy ones either.
It could be- if you can get a SIP server that you agree upon. Another cross-platform solution along those lines would be QuteCom, which while it's not on Android or iPhone, it is on Windows, OSX. and Linux.
Ah...but "experience" doesn't change those people either. I've seen examples of where someone looked "good" on paper- but couldn't code their way out of a wet paper bag.
If it were solely a Government agency, it'd be doing "okay". Unfortunately, like AAFES, it's a Government owned business. It operates off of it's income and typically doesn't get any pork on it's own. Government is shrinking, yes...this, however, isn't going to shrink it in the right places.
Heh... That's opposite thinking. When you "settle" with these jokers, it's typically a friggin' dogpile on you over time- they know you'll pay out so they'll come with their hands out and threatening to sue them. LOTS of them.
All you're doing is paying economic terrorists off. You'll never be rid of them unless you deep-six them. I'd have thought the SCOX debacle would've taught them that lesson- but apparently not.
Heh... It's bad enough when someone goes and does a "program" with Mathcad and expects to have it gracefully and efficiently handle HUGE datasets and things like it. This tends to be even worse when someone doesn't see this for what it is- which is a learning aid. I've seen all sorts of train-wrecks where someone thought they could do without a Software Engineer or Programmer and tried to wing it with something like this tool. For over 25 years I've seen this sort of stuff. COBOL was the first attempt at this sort of thing, and while there seems to be no end to things- I'm amazed that people keep trying as hard as they have with it all.
They've been saying "this is the way of the future" with this sort of stuff for DECADES. In the end, you still need to express things in a full-on programming language to make things perform well.
Seems to me that it's more akin to Chuck Moore's GA144 that's about to ship- except that these are claimed to be programmable by C as opposed to Forth.
Heh... It should be said that I wouldn't consider the Octeon as a low-power device- it's more intended for high-end network processing engines, isn't it?
Depends on the jurisdiction. NJ, NY, MA, etc. happen to have something stupid like this on their books. Main reasons I don't want to be living in those states as much as anything else.
Just because AV will not protect against ALL 0-days does make it nearly useless.
Fixed that for you. If it's a 0-day exploit, typically nobody knows about the virus that uses it execpt the jokers that wrote it. Seriously. That's why it's called a 0-day in the first place. That means it won't find the thing for you- ever.
It's a method of protecting against old threats which are still quite prevalent thanks to people who dont use or ignore AV. Not to mention that many viruses are simply minor variations of old ones, the W32.Foo.F virus looks quite similar to W32.Foo.E.
Considering that patching for the holes is a better answer than relying on a signature scan for things...simply put, no. It's less useful than you're making it out to be. It's like closing the barn door after all your horses have went on a walkabout on you. The virus writers have gotten clever, by the way- they don't make easy to flag out a Foo.F from the Foo.E anymore. If you've gotten zapped by an "old" virus like that would get caught out this way, it means you either haven't updated the system or your OS vendor didn't fix the hole like they claimed they did.
Heh... And it'll never catch ANY of the new stuff...by definition. They're not doing proactive security in the normal sense- they're looking for signature sets within the files being scanned. And, since it's not like the Tripwire stuff which monitors inappropriate changes to the system, it doesn't do nearly as much as you're attributing to it.
Since the AV stuff looks for signatures, it won't, by definition, catch a new one until they know about it. The whole concept is pretty damn flawed, really. It's like closing the barn door once the horses have all run off.
Anti-Virus is like trying to close the barn door after the horses have left the same...
It's a reactive answer to the real problem- which is more that Windows is insecure by design than anything else. Security takes a big back seat to "ease of use" amongst other things.
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Still worthless. If you don't have Internet access, you don't have a Chrome notebook that's usable. That's the problem with ANY "Cloud" premise to begin with- it's only as useful as your access to the 'Net. With a Laptop, I can still do LOADS of things. Yes, there's a risk of losing something if the device is trashed, but what Google's selling isn't any better an answer- and this doesn't get into the security aspects of what they're selling here- or the privacy ones either.
Only sort-of supported on Linux through the gmail client. Couple that with it being US-only, it's a bit of a weak answer.
It could be- if you can get a SIP server that you agree upon. Another cross-platform solution along those lines would be QuteCom, which while it's not on Android or iPhone, it is on Windows, OSX. and Linux.
Ah...but "experience" doesn't change those people either. I've seen examples of where someone looked "good" on paper- but couldn't code their way out of a wet paper bag.
A helo's an array of spare parts flying in fairly loose formation.
If it were solely a Government agency, it'd be doing "okay". Unfortunately, like AAFES, it's a Government owned business. It operates off of it's income and typically doesn't get any pork on it's own. Government is shrinking, yes...this, however, isn't going to shrink it in the right places.
No... Whence you pay the Dane his Danegeld, he keeps coming back for more.
Heh... That's opposite thinking. When you "settle" with these jokers, it's typically a friggin' dogpile on you over time- they know you'll pay out so they'll come with their hands out and threatening to sue them. LOTS of them.
Hardly "maximizing shareholder value", now is it?
All you're doing is paying economic terrorists off. You'll never be rid of them unless you deep-six them. I'd have thought the SCOX debacle would've taught them that lesson- but apparently not.
That's far, far from true. And you know this to be the case. If it were so, Baen wouldn't be making money like they do.
Heh... It's bad enough when someone goes and does a "program" with Mathcad and expects to have it gracefully and efficiently handle HUGE datasets and things like it. This tends to be even worse when someone doesn't see this for what it is- which is a learning aid. I've seen all sorts of train-wrecks where someone thought they could do without a Software Engineer or Programmer and tried to wing it with something like this tool. For over 25 years I've seen this sort of stuff. COBOL was the first attempt at this sort of thing, and while there seems to be no end to things- I'm amazed that people keep trying as hard as they have with it all.
They've been saying "this is the way of the future" with this sort of stuff for DECADES. In the end, you still need to express things in a full-on programming language to make things perform well.
Seems to have happened that way at least once with LibreOffice.
Seems to me that it's more akin to Chuck Moore's GA144 that's about to ship- except that these are claimed to be programmable by C as opposed to Forth.
Heh... It should be said that I wouldn't consider the Octeon as a low-power device- it's more intended for high-end network processing engines, isn't it?
Depends on the jurisdiction. NJ, NY, MA, etc. happen to have something stupid like this on their books. Main reasons I don't want to be living in those states as much as anything else.
Damn, for want of mod points... :-D
I think there's a few of us that would hold that position.
Fixed that for you. If it's a 0-day exploit, typically nobody knows about the virus that uses it execpt the jokers that wrote it. Seriously. That's why it's called a 0-day in the first place. That means it won't find the thing for you- ever.
Considering that patching for the holes is a better answer than relying on a signature scan for things...simply put, no. It's less useful than you're making it out to be. It's like closing the barn door after all your horses have went on a walkabout on you. The virus writers have gotten clever, by the way- they don't make easy to flag out a Foo.F from the Foo.E anymore. If you've gotten zapped by an "old" virus like that would get caught out this way, it means you either haven't updated the system or your OS vendor didn't fix the hole like they claimed they did.
Heh... And it'll never catch ANY of the new stuff...by definition. They're not doing proactive security in the normal sense- they're looking for signature sets within the files being scanned. And, since it's not like the Tripwire stuff which monitors inappropriate changes to the system, it doesn't do nearly as much as you're attributing to it.
Since the AV stuff looks for signatures, it won't, by definition, catch a new one until they know about it. The whole concept is pretty damn flawed, really. It's like closing the barn door once the horses have all run off.
Anti-Virus is like trying to close the barn door after the horses have left the same...
It's a reactive answer to the real problem- which is more that Windows is insecure by design than anything else. Security takes a big back seat to "ease of use" amongst other things.
Heh... Nobody told him just what sort of "Virgins" that he'd be getting as his just reward... >:-D
Uh... Obama's just done the same thing with Libya... How about you drop the pretense there and let it just be, hm?
And the Far Left and "Moderate" Left will find some way to slam the "Far Right" out of the box...
You know...you'd best just drop the crap, for that's what that was.
Ah...but it won't drop down to that... This wasn't the cause and it won't fix it by removing it as a "problem".