There is no indication that this was the result of an issue with our product.
Well... technically right, but the "product" people buy is not just the software: It is the whole package, which includes the on-going maintenance of whitelists, signing binaries and whatnot. And that appears to have been badly compromised.
We are continuing to monitor the situation.
Surely, if the product is that great, then you can relax, right? Isn't that what you're selling to your customers? "Security in a box?" (I know. Security is an on-going process, but not if you ask sales)
While our investigation shows our product was not compromised, we are finalizing a product patch that will automatically detect and stop the execution of any malware that illegitimately uses the certificate
Repetition Repetition... "product not compromised"... except that it no longer provided any protection against those evil hackers?
I think I'm getting my head around doublespeak - will be useful when I respond to bugs...
Rubbish. "Omni" comes from Latin, meaning "all"... Surely you must have encountered this prefix before.... "Omnibus", "Omnivor", "Omnidirectional microphone", "Omnipresent Gods" etc etc
Please... Don't comment it out. If people want to see what it was like before, that's what version control is for. If you delete code, you should actually delete it.
You should give the same courtesy to others as you expect from them: When reading code, you're interested in what it does, and how it does it. Not a history lesson.
Having people resign for bad journalism isn't necessarily a bad thing... But why on earth start that at the BBC !!?? Why not start that trend at the Huffington Post? Or Fox News?
In my experience, "messy code" is a good indicator of "messy development". I strongly believe that the structure and appearance of the code is a insight into the developer's brain. And messy code: Usually means trouble ahead.
And yes: IDEs can help with automatically formatting code: It's good since it allows developers to spot obvious mistakes, and it's bad because it allows bad developers to hide structural errors. But probably good overall.
There's more to coding style than simply indentation: The really most important concept is clarity.
If a developer cannot explain (in one sentence) what a given function does, what a given class does or what a application does: be worried. If the developers thinks they know and still cannot explain: Be very worried.
The religious zealots have no interest in getting the video blocked or removed: It helps drive people straight into their arms - and as a result we should expect more radicals and fodder for suicide bombings...
It may cause people to believe in homeopathy, since it will become the "official treatment": It gives undue credibility
Studies have shown that when people are given expensive placebos (placeboes?), they report a bigger effect than for cheap placebos (even when told it is a placebo!) - I wish I had the link handy...
And imagine the lawsuit, media coverage and political mayhem if a patient was given a government-approved-known-to-be-placebo medicine and then died - it's bound to happen (law of large numbers and whatnot) - even if it is not causally related...
The article gets off to a bad start in the very first sentence:
In the 1930s, U.S. Navy researchers stumbled upon the concept of radar when...
Rubish. The US Navy did not invent radar as it implies. Nicola Tesla descibed the concept in 1917 and others were playing with similar ideas before then. Sorry. Im not going to bother reading the rest. Isnt there an actual paper on the subject we can read instead of this badly-informed junk?
This is classic microsoft.... They have their eyes focused on their competition, examining what the competition is doing, trying to figure out what they're thinking and wondering how to counter (or block) their next move... Although they consider themselves pro-active it is really a very defensive posture...
And while they're looking at the competition, they ignore the customers... So we should not expect their reaction to consider customers - simply to target (however accurately) the competition...
As a supporter of Free Software and Open Source, we should watch this carefully - we need to understand what to expect from Microsoft - and possibly Apple: Probably lots of patent stuff and other "Intellectual Property" noise. But we should always keep in mind that the most effective countermeasure is to write good software: stay on top of bugs and listen to the users! That way, everybody wins. Microsoft seems to be forgetting that.
Slight correction: <span class="pedant">Mandriva is not an OS. It is a distribution.</span>
The underlying OS is GNU Linux - but different distributions differ very little in this respect - at least as far as the typical desktop user would care about.
Beyond the operating system: yes you are correct: The differences listed do not seem to distinguish Mandriva from a plethora of other distributions
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Yep. These guys are coming to the same conclusion. Too bad that the title in slashdot claims it to be "solved" - the new paper does not claim to have it solved - merely to have reached the same conclusion with (what appears to be) a higher confidence level.
"Scandinavian Regions" - makes sense.
But "Scandinavia"!? NOT A COUNTRY - you must just have invented that one. Or perhaps it is a Bushism?
Mind you, only a fraction of the scandinavian regions are north of the artic cicle.
It's a bit like claiming that the eclipse was seen in the USA even though it was only visible in parts of Alaska...
Being Danish, I was curious about the reference to Denmark in this post.
Although the linked article mentions Denmark,I cannot find any mention of Denmark in the PDF from the actual study!?
Am I missing it? If so, please point me in the right direction. If not, then my home country is being unfairly associated with spam (of the email sort):-(
captcha for emails? This will just encourage innovation in the OCR field and computer vision in general. I believe that progress is being made in these areas already. At most, it will buy time until the spammers evolve, and annoy a lot of innocent users in the process (and discriminate against those with visual impairments). It might work if you assume that it will put people off computers: less people using computers might result in less spam for the rest of us:-)
Education? Good luck with that. In general people are not interested in computers - they view them as tools or just a "magic black box" and have no incentive to understand what goes on inside. They're too busy with their own jobs to dwelve into the black magic of algorithms, patterns, security and whatnot. General sceptical education and encouraging people to think before they click might have some effect though. Until spammers and malware writers evolve new methods.
Taking away how malware developers can profit? Hm... Malware is not really a technical problem, it's just another vector for scam- and con artists that brings the benefits of scale. In the end, they make their money off the victims, not off the computers. The computers are just the means.
so... a new approach? I do not think it is plausible that any of the things you suggest will solve the problem. But then again, I don't have a solution either. I just want to make sure that the cure is not worse than the illness...
I'm not surprised that it is in English. But I am surprised of the reluctance to change it. If it is not changed, then sooner or later we will end up with two separate "internets" and we will all be poorer as a result.
Yeah right. Because everybody in the whole world only uses ASCII right?
Sorry for sounding flippant, but such US-myopia is far to prevalent for my liking.... Come on guys: Wake up and smell the coffee! There is more to the world than the US! There is no reason to make most of South East Asia and China 2nd-rate citizens on the internet.
I agree that there is a lot of software that needs changing as a result though. But that just means more work, right? You could probably sell this as an anti-recession measure too.
Why? I think it is out of a desire of "same rules for all", and exactness. It is not "just an attempt at moral justification". It is the thin end of the wedge.
The Pirate bay simply *points* to where content can be found - it doesn't actually host it, or control the hosting. What is next? Will Google be sued for having links to web sites that use infringing graphics? Will Yellow Pages be sued for "linking" to businesses that play their radios where the customers might hear it? Will magazines be sued for carrying adverts for such businesses? The problem is: Applying the same (crazy) logic will lead to this.
This doesn't mean that what the Pirate Bay is doing is right. But suing them is misplaced: The actual copyright infringement is being done by others - lots of individuals, scattered all over. It gives the distinct impression that Pirate Bay is being punished because it is easier to aim at.
As far as I know, FSF has never sued anybody for breaking their "policies". But I have little doubt that the FSF may have sued people for actual copyright infringement. An analogus situation would be the FSF suing somebody for giving instructions on how to illegally copy FSF software - somewhat unrealistic
PS: Why would we want an illegal copy of Adobe Photoshop? We have the Gimp and Inkscape - there is no *need* for us to run software we cannot tweak.
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Impressive:
Well... technically right, but the "product" people buy is not just the software: It is the whole package, which includes the on-going maintenance of whitelists, signing binaries and whatnot. And that appears to have been badly compromised.
Surely, if the product is that great, then you can relax, right? Isn't that what you're selling to your customers? "Security in a box?" (I know. Security is an on-going process, but not if you ask sales)
Repetition Repetition... "product not compromised" ... except that it no longer provided any protection against those evil hackers?
I think I'm getting my head around doublespeak - will be useful when I respond to bugs...
So.. Ctrl-N and Ctrl-P ain't working for you?
Rubbish. "Omni" comes from Latin, meaning "all"... Surely you must have encountered this prefix before.... "Omnibus", "Omnivor", "Omnidirectional microphone", "Omnipresent Gods" etc etc
Please... Don't comment it out. If people want to see what it was like before, that's what version control is for. If you delete code, you should actually delete it.
You should give the same courtesy to others as you expect from them: When reading code, you're interested in what it does, and how it does it. Not a history lesson.
... and? Why would we want a window clone?
50% or 50% empty is a misnomer. Let an engineer look at it, and he'll show you an over-engineered bottle!
Having people resign for bad journalism isn't necessarily a bad thing... But why on earth start that at the BBC !!?? Why not start that trend at the Huffington Post? Or Fox News?
In my experience, "messy code" is a good indicator of "messy development". I strongly believe that the structure and appearance of the code is a insight into the developer's brain. And messy code: Usually means trouble ahead.
And yes: IDEs can help with automatically formatting code: It's good since it allows developers to spot obvious mistakes, and it's bad because it allows bad developers to hide structural errors. But probably good overall.
There's more to coding style than simply indentation: The really most important concept is clarity.
If a developer cannot explain (in one sentence) what a given function does, what a given class does or what a application does: be worried. If the developers thinks they know and still cannot explain: Be very worried.
Interesting... This means that the pirates had added subtitles BEFORE Netflix did? Now that's impressive! (and good customer service too!)
The religious zealots have no interest in getting the video blocked or removed: It helps drive people straight into their arms - and as a result we should expect more radicals and fodder for suicide bombings...
There are two problems with this:
And imagine the lawsuit, media coverage and political mayhem if a patient was given a government-approved-known-to-be-placebo medicine and then died - it's bound to happen (law of large numbers and whatnot) - even if it is not causally related...
The article gets off to a bad start in the very first sentence:
Rubish. The US Navy did not invent radar as it implies. Nicola Tesla descibed the concept in 1917 and others were playing with similar ideas before then. Sorry. Im not going to bother reading the rest. Isnt there an actual paper on the subject we can read instead of this badly-informed junk?
This is classic microsoft.... They have their eyes focused on their competition, examining what the competition is doing, trying to figure out what they're thinking and wondering how to counter (or block) their next move... Although they consider themselves pro-active it is really a very defensive posture...
And while they're looking at the competition, they ignore the customers ... So we should not expect their reaction to consider customers - simply to target (however accurately) the competition...
As a supporter of Free Software and Open Source, we should watch this carefully - we need to understand what to expect from Microsoft - and possibly Apple: Probably lots of patent stuff and other "Intellectual Property" noise. But we should always keep in mind that the most effective countermeasure is to write good software: stay on top of bugs and listen to the users! That way, everybody wins. Microsoft seems to be forgetting that.
please... somebody mod parent "funny".. definitely not insightful...
Shortening to ".sec" is not a good idea - on a QWERTY keyboard the C and X keys are next to each other and grandma cannot be trusted to avoid typos...
Slight correction: <span class="pedant">Mandriva is not an OS. It is a distribution.</span>
The underlying OS is GNU Linux - but different distributions differ very little in this respect - at least as far as the typical desktop user would care about.
Beyond the operating system: yes you are correct: The differences listed do not seem to distinguish Mandriva from a plethora of other distributions
Yep. These guys are coming to the same conclusion. Too bad that the title in slashdot claims it to be "solved" - the new paper does not claim to have it solved - merely to have reached the same conclusion with (what appears to be) a higher confidence level.
Don't be misled by the title in Slashdot... :-)
"Scandinavian Regions" - makes sense. But "Scandinavia"!? NOT A COUNTRY - you must just have invented that one. Or perhaps it is a Bushism? Mind you, only a fraction of the scandinavian regions are north of the artic cicle. It's a bit like claiming that the eclipse was seen in the USA even though it was only visible in parts of Alaska...
What is the connection to Denmark? I cannot find any mention of Denmark or any Danish bank in the study?
Being Danish, I was curious about the reference to Denmark in this post. Although the linked article mentions Denmark,I cannot find any mention of Denmark in the PDF from the actual study!? :-(
Am I missing it? If so, please point me in the right direction. If not, then my home country is being unfairly associated with spam (of the email sort)
Hm... We're talking technology here. And you forgot that: "Newer" != "More Advanced"
captcha for emails? This will just encourage innovation in the OCR field and computer vision in general. I believe that progress is being made in these areas already. At most, it will buy time until the spammers evolve, and annoy a lot of innocent users in the process (and discriminate against those with visual impairments). It might work if you assume that it will put people off computers: less people using computers might result in less spam for the rest of us :-)
Education? Good luck with that. In general people are not interested in computers - they view them as tools or just a "magic black box" and have no incentive to understand what goes on inside. They're too busy with their own jobs to dwelve into the black magic of algorithms, patterns, security and whatnot. General sceptical education and encouraging people to think before they click might have some effect though. Until spammers and malware writers evolve new methods.
Taking away how malware developers can profit? Hm... Malware is not really a technical problem, it's just another vector for scam- and con artists that brings the benefits of scale. In the end, they make their money off the victims, not off the computers. The computers are just the means.
so... a new approach? I do not think it is plausible that any of the things you suggest will solve the problem. But then again, I don't have a solution either. I just want to make sure that the cure is not worse than the illness...
I'm not surprised that it is in English. But I am surprised of the reluctance to change it. If it is not changed, then sooner or later we will end up with two separate "internets" and we will all be poorer as a result.
Yeah right. Because everybody in the whole world only uses ASCII right?
Sorry for sounding flippant, but such US-myopia is far to prevalent for my liking.... Come on guys: Wake up and smell the coffee! There is more to the world than the US! There is no reason to make most of South East Asia and China 2nd-rate citizens on the internet.
I agree that there is a lot of software that needs changing as a result though. But that just means more work, right? You could probably sell this as an anti-recession measure too.
Why? I think it is out of a desire of "same rules for all", and exactness. It is not "just an attempt at moral justification". It is the thin end of the wedge.
The Pirate bay simply *points* to where content can be found - it doesn't actually host it, or control the hosting. What is next? Will Google be sued for having links to web sites that use infringing graphics? Will Yellow Pages be sued for "linking" to businesses that play their radios where the customers might hear it? Will magazines be sued for carrying adverts for such businesses? The problem is: Applying the same (crazy) logic will lead to this.
This doesn't mean that what the Pirate Bay is doing is right. But suing them is misplaced: The actual copyright infringement is being done by others - lots of individuals, scattered all over. It gives the distinct impression that Pirate Bay is being punished because it is easier to aim at.
As far as I know, FSF has never sued anybody for breaking their "policies". But I have little doubt that the FSF may have sued people for actual copyright infringement. An analogus situation would be the FSF suing somebody for giving instructions on how to illegally copy FSF software - somewhat unrealistic
PS: Why would we want an illegal copy of Adobe Photoshop? We have the Gimp and Inkscape - there is no *need* for us to run software we cannot tweak.