No company worth their salt will put all the company data "on the cloud" No way in HELL is my customer DB and accounting DB going on the cloud.
Whats funny about this is plenty have and I work at a company who is migrating their email servers to gmail.
The question came up: in terms of privacy, security etc - could we honestly say that we as a company were better than Google at securing and backing up our data? Before you answer that: Google has had less breakins per connection than any other company on the planet.
Only guy I know/worked with who has a CISSP comes across as a security noob - someone who poked at it long enough to earn a bunch of credentials.. He wrote a book too:
I had a chance for a week to work with a color scientist there. We used to create an ICC profiles for the printer by printing out a color pattern without using any color profiles or modifications to the output, then capture that color information using a spectrometer.
I found that I could create some pretty amazing prints when the printer was properly calibrated to the paper (even really cheap printers - sub $100 models) you were using, but that it took a $12,000 piece of hardware to do it (I which I could remember the name/brand of the machine that did this - something German as I recall, but it basically had a robot arm that would analyze each swatch of the test pattern we printed earlier).
Wow... So windows has at least two layers not even counting AV/firewall/defender/user only rights that are supposed to protect users - doesn't seem to work though.
All downloaded files in Windows from external networks are blocked from execution - you have to click through that over-ride dialog.
Then you have to click through the UAC prompt to elevate the installer to Admin.
Then if the app wants to access the outside world you need click through the firewall prompts.
Actually that kind of is a user experience bug. The default should be whatever preserves data, not to exit the app without saving anything. That way if the user just hits enter it pops up a save dialog.
To me that is a form of fault tolerance - it can deal with dumb users without breaking.
The other day I cleaned up a DNS poisoning issue on a Mac - somehow the DNS was hard set to two IP addresses sitting off a host in Russia called prolite (p-lite.ru). Basically all google results pointed to a site called "google-analytics.com" which displayed spam and popups.
Still not quite sure DNS got changed yet (still looking at it), but it was a clear cut case of malware.
I'll grant you its not nearly as common as Windows, but saying "This simply does not happen on Mac. I am sorry, but it is true." is simply not true.
I've never met a windows fanboy defending their faith in person (have met plenty of Mac fanboys at work though!). Most Windows users are normal people just doing stuff with their computers.
If they are too open - China releases crappy products using a bunch of reference code. If they lock it down so they control the release cycle more the zealots come out and decry Google for not being open enough.
Is there any middle ground? Keep in mind - any released code from Google no matter what the license - China will steal.
As someone who tearfully sold off the last of my Amiga hardware (an A4000 with a BPPC 233 604 board and my Amiga 1200) the entire Amiga OS really wasn't in ROM - it was really just the stuff to bootstrap the OS, libraries to handle mouse/keyboard io and dialogue boxes and windows. 3.1 had workbench.library in rom too, but I'm really not sure why.
The vast majority of the OS was still on disk;).
In other words: the ENTIRE OS wasn't restored every time you switched the thing on which is what the parent wants.
In fact Amiga viruses were really quite nasty (since the OS had no memory management/protection, no security layer what-so-ever, and all the systemlibraries and kernel were EASILY patchable). More than one bypassed the floppy write protect (granted this was rumor) by patching trackdisk.device.
Actually car accidents do have something to do with power plants - everything we do - whether its drive to work or splitting atoms we accept a risk (that we will get seriously injured) and I think that was the original posters intent to show.
We actually accept more risk driving to work than we do with nuclear power.
When they have a significant market share - yes they are forcing you to deal with them. I'm an android fan, but even I would have iOS offerings if I was making an eBook app simply because that is where the money is.
If Apple won't let you beat them on price and availability they are playing the mafia boss who is upset your moving in on his turf/territory.
Apple is your mom when they tell you how to develop an application, distribute it and how much you can charge for it (oh and btw - it will cost more than Apple's offerings because you have to give 30% to them) plus how much you can charge for content on it (again - another 30%).
If they change the rules - your out of the house.
Apple is worse than your mother - Apple is like some sort of crime lord.
There are bunches of tools out of the box to automate things in Windows - the scripting host (supports js/vb), power shell, and wmi - or a combination of things. You can open a wmi interface in vb for instance.
You just explained health care in a nutshell - and the problem with taxes in this country in general.
We pay assloads of money (on average - most companies pay about 12-15k a YEAR for healthcare benefits per employee) in our paychecks for healthcare, but because it isn't listed as a tax its not a problem. Technically its the same, but with different words and it isn't being paid to the government.
If it was a tax - we'd notice that were paying more in taxes than most anyone in Europe...
A journalist friend of mine has suggested the possibility that Sony is staging this "hacker" attack as a fortuitous propaganda stunt to make hackers look bad and possibly cover up a real infrastructure problem caused by Sony itself.
You think the damage in their reputation, their online branding for SOE etc is worth this? If true they have some monumentally stupid people working for them.
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I've seen it a couple of times in the university helpdesk I work at ;).
Oh kinda like MSRT? Its mostly useful assuming the malware even lets it run...
Whats funny about this is plenty have and I work at a company who is migrating their email servers to gmail.
The question came up: in terms of privacy, security etc - could we honestly say that we as a company were better than Google at securing and backing up our data? Before you answer that: Google has had less breakins per connection than any other company on the planet.
In my experience the only people who sideload apps are power users - most people will just get their stuff from "Android Market".
Only guy I know/worked with who has a CISSP comes across as a security noob - someone who poked at it long enough to earn a bunch of credentials.. He wrote a book too:
http://www.amazon.com/Botnets-Killer-Web-Craig-Schiller/dp/1597491357/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1306865119&sr=8-1
I had a chance for a week to work with a color scientist there. We used to create an ICC profiles for the printer by printing out a color pattern without using any color profiles or modifications to the output, then capture that color information using a spectrometer.
I found that I could create some pretty amazing prints when the printer was properly calibrated to the paper (even really cheap printers - sub $100 models) you were using, but that it took a $12,000 piece of hardware to do it (I which I could remember the name/brand of the machine that did this - something German as I recall, but it basically had a robot arm that would analyze each swatch of the test pattern we printed earlier).
Until that userspace malware exploits something to elevate itself to root.
Just because it starts as a limited user doesn't mean it won't go somewhere :).
Wow... So windows has at least two layers not even counting AV/firewall/defender/user only rights that are supposed to protect users - doesn't seem to work though.
All downloaded files in Windows from external networks are blocked from execution - you have to click through that over-ride dialog.
Then you have to click through the UAC prompt to elevate the installer to Admin.
Then if the app wants to access the outside world you need click through the firewall prompts.
People still get infected though :).
Actually that kind of is a user experience bug. The default should be whatever preserves data, not to exit the app without saving anything. That way if the user just hits enter it pops up a save dialog.
To me that is a form of fault tolerance - it can deal with dumb users without breaking.
The other day I cleaned up a DNS poisoning issue on a Mac - somehow the DNS was hard set to two IP addresses sitting off a host in Russia called prolite (p-lite.ru). Basically all google results pointed to a site called "google-analytics.com" which displayed spam and popups.
Still not quite sure DNS got changed yet (still looking at it), but it was a clear cut case of malware.
I'll grant you its not nearly as common as Windows, but saying "This simply does not happen on Mac. I am sorry, but it is true." is simply not true.
Ever since the dawn of MSRT (the malicious software removal tool) which has been around for the last 6 years Microsoft has been doing exactly this.
500 kbps is about how fast Verizon typically goes and between the voice/texting and data plan its about 70 USD total.
I've never met a windows fanboy defending their faith in person (have met plenty of Mac fanboys at work though!). Most Windows users are normal people just doing stuff with their computers.
Nexus One is actually the same thickness as the Iphone 4 and it has a user replaceable battery ;).
And if you don't like sims - try getting a cdma phone?
This is the way cdma phones work - you call a number and it associates you with you phones ESN.
If they are too open - China releases crappy products using a bunch of reference code. If they lock it down so they control the release cycle more the zealots come out and decry Google for not being open enough.
Is there any middle ground? Keep in mind - any released code from Google no matter what the license - China will steal.
As someone who tearfully sold off the last of my Amiga hardware (an A4000 with a BPPC 233 604 board and my Amiga 1200) the entire Amiga OS really wasn't in ROM - it was really just the stuff to bootstrap the OS, libraries to handle mouse/keyboard io and dialogue boxes and windows. 3.1 had workbench.library in rom too, but I'm really not sure why.
The vast majority of the OS was still on disk ;).
In other words: the ENTIRE OS wasn't restored every time you switched the thing on which is what the parent wants.
In fact Amiga viruses were really quite nasty (since the OS had no memory management/protection, no security layer what-so-ever, and all the systemlibraries and kernel were EASILY patchable). More than one bypassed the floppy write protect (granted this was rumor) by patching trackdisk.device.
Actually car accidents do have something to do with power plants - everything we do - whether its drive to work or splitting atoms we accept a risk (that we will get seriously injured) and I think that was the original posters intent to show.
We actually accept more risk driving to work than we do with nuclear power.
When they have a significant market share - yes they are forcing you to deal with them. I'm an android fan, but even I would have iOS offerings if I was making an eBook app simply because that is where the money is.
If Apple won't let you beat them on price and availability they are playing the mafia boss who is upset your moving in on his turf/territory.
Apple is your mom when they tell you how to develop an application, distribute it and how much you can charge for it (oh and btw - it will cost more than Apple's offerings because you have to give 30% to them) plus how much you can charge for content on it (again - another 30%).
If they change the rules - your out of the house.
Apple is worse than your mother - Apple is like some sort of crime lord.
There are bunches of tools out of the box to automate things in Windows - the scripting host (supports js/vb), power shell, and wmi - or a combination of things. You can open a wmi interface in vb for instance.
You just explained health care in a nutshell - and the problem with taxes in this country in general.
We pay assloads of money (on average - most companies pay about 12-15k a YEAR for healthcare benefits per employee) in our paychecks for healthcare, but because it isn't listed as a tax its not a problem. Technically its the same, but with different words and it isn't being paid to the government.
If it was a tax - we'd notice that were paying more in taxes than most anyone in Europe...
Someone who really worked a lot with WP5.1 (really the last great version before MS started to encroach in) F7 would exit the program.
Reveal codes was F11 :).
Android can run on Intel (or indeed any cpu) just fine :).
You think the damage in their reputation, their online branding for SOE etc is worth this? If true they have some monumentally stupid people working for them.