You're probably right, in an "Apple vs. Microsoft" world, but in environments where Microsoft isn't the knee-jerk default for everything, a combination of Apple for the desktop/workgroup management and *nix for the production side is VERY compelling, cost effective, reliable, and competitive.
Not every move that a company makes is designed to immediately take on the biggest bully on the block. Despite not releasing beta after beta, Apple generally gets it right for what their customers want, at least in the consumer world for now. I think the changes in Leopard Server are indicative of them starting to get it right for the business world as well.
It's running my network at a VERY rapidly growing printing company. Not just the creative group, either. Every desktop (and laptop) in our company is a Mac, and so is the entire back-end. The only things in our environment that aren't are the production web servers (Debian on cheapie Dells) and our Exchange (puke) server, which we had to put up so our salescritters could have Blackberries to show off at their cocktail parties.
Honestly, all fanboi-ness aside, I think you'll be seeing a greater penetration (heh) into the major enterprise markets thanks to the easy licensing terms, bullet-proof reputation, and honestly easier administration. I agree that Apple needs to come up with an answer to Exchange to REALLY compete, and I'm hoping that iCal server in Leopard is the first step in that direction.
Ah Slashdot; where age-old concepts are interpreted literally and trashed because they don't work literally.
As a leader in the military, we used this concept all the time. It's not to delay action or abdicate responsibility, but to get people thinking about how to solve problems before they go up the chain. Doesn't it make sense that the person closest to the problem might also have the best insight into how to fix it? If you're noticing it, chances are good that you're closest to it, or have a pretty idea who is.
It should probably be better stated thusly: "If you find a problem, figure out how YOU would fix it before you bring it to me, then tell me why YOUR way is better than the way I would fix it."
Do you really want to be like a program, processing input and spitting out errors with no way to fix the errors, only the ability to report them?
The very nature of strong, well-implemented TFA makes man-in-the-middle attacks impossible.
With something like SecurID (which is now very sucessfully implemented @ E*Trade and places like the Federal Gov't), you can have the path, you can capture every keystroke to get my PIN, but unless you get the token (which I'm reporting missing the second I lose it) and the PTB don't know it's lost, you've got nothing. That's the whole idea behind shared secret Pseudo-random number based authentication.
I've talked to guys for whom 2048-bit RSA keys weren't strong enough and who would never conceive of using anything short of one-time pad out-of-band authentication for things like email and whatnot, but they were f$%&ing weirdo conspiracy theorists; not at all like the joe schmoe who just wants to check his balances and pay bills online.
Full disclosure: I USED to work for RSA Security, but my options were worthless and they took them away when they laid me off anyway.:(
At the risk of sounding like someone who feeds trolls and replies to flame-bait, you're a scumbag. I for one am NOT a pirate, and have no problem paying for what I want. I'll admit that I have used services like Kazaa and was REALLY into Napster when it was new, but it still is and always has been theft.
The incentive to buy is exactly the what you mentioned. If you like a band, you buy their music so that you can support them and they'll make more. It's just like potato chips or caffeine vendors, buy their stuff and they'll make more and continue to innovate. Don't buy it and they'll consider the venture a failure and stop doing whatever it was no matter what you thought about it.
It's not about cluelessness about P2P, it's about paying for a product that someone else produces and you're enjoying the benefits of.
Some of those 7500 songs will come in the form of full albums, which are only $9.99, and frequently come with more than 10 songs. Put me in the Own My Bits camp.
Quote: "And what the blue fuck does the constitution have to do with it? Did the government author the service contract the thieves violated? Is the cable company a government agency? Companies and private citizens aren't bound to constitution."
Umm... The company operates under the laws of the land which are allowed for by the constitution. The discussion isn't about the conduct of the cable providers under the constitution, it's the construction of the laws that allow the cable providers to operate in this manner. As has been stated several times before, the issue is not whether what they did was illegal, we all agree that it was under the terms of their legally-binding contract. The issue is that the FBI used excessive means to enforce the law. There was no reason to seize all that equipment or detain anyone. Cancel their contract, fine them and put the fear of god (lowercase intentional) in them, but don't destroy their lives for a measly $11,000. Also, show me proof that this number is even close to realistic. The whole idea of excessive force and punishment is that the punishment should fit the crime. It's not like these people were modifying their cable modems with concrete smacking people with them. They used a little more bandwidth than they paid for. People do it on the freeways every day.
You're right about the encryption. They market it as 64 and 128-bit, but it's really 40 and 104 with 24-bit hard-coded Initialization Vectors. Thus the crack at UC Berkeley.
Microwaves are one thing, but let's look at something that operates in the same band. On my wireless lan, if I get on my 2.4GHz cordless, I have no more network, WEP or not.
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You're probably right, in an "Apple vs. Microsoft" world, but in environments where Microsoft isn't the knee-jerk default for everything, a combination of Apple for the desktop/workgroup management and *nix for the production side is VERY compelling, cost effective, reliable, and competitive.
Not every move that a company makes is designed to immediately take on the biggest bully on the block. Despite not releasing beta after beta, Apple generally gets it right for what their customers want, at least in the consumer world for now. I think the changes in Leopard Server are indicative of them starting to get it right for the business world as well.
It's running my network at a VERY rapidly growing printing company. Not just the creative group, either. Every desktop (and laptop) in our company is a Mac, and so is the entire back-end. The only things in our environment that aren't are the production web servers (Debian on cheapie Dells) and our Exchange (puke) server, which we had to put up so our salescritters could have Blackberries to show off at their cocktail parties.
Honestly, all fanboi-ness aside, I think you'll be seeing a greater penetration (heh) into the major enterprise markets thanks to the easy licensing terms, bullet-proof reputation, and honestly easier administration. I agree that Apple needs to come up with an answer to Exchange to REALLY compete, and I'm hoping that iCal server in Leopard is the first step in that direction.
Ah Slashdot; where age-old concepts are interpreted literally and trashed because they don't work literally.
As a leader in the military, we used this concept all the time. It's not to delay action or abdicate responsibility, but to get people thinking about how to solve problems before they go up the chain. Doesn't it make sense that the person closest to the problem might also have the best insight into how to fix it? If you're noticing it, chances are good that you're closest to it, or have a pretty idea who is.
It should probably be better stated thusly: "If you find a problem, figure out how YOU would fix it before you bring it to me, then tell me why YOUR way is better than the way I would fix it."
Do you really want to be like a program, processing input and spitting out errors with no way to fix the errors, only the ability to report them?
The very nature of strong, well-implemented TFA makes man-in-the-middle attacks impossible.
:(
With something like SecurID (which is now very sucessfully implemented @ E*Trade and places like the Federal Gov't), you can have the path, you can capture every keystroke to get my PIN, but unless you get the token (which I'm reporting missing the second I lose it) and the PTB don't know it's lost, you've got nothing. That's the whole idea behind shared secret Pseudo-random number based authentication.
I've talked to guys for whom 2048-bit RSA keys weren't strong enough and who would never conceive of using anything short of one-time pad out-of-band authentication for things like email and whatnot, but they were f$%&ing weirdo conspiracy theorists; not at all like the joe schmoe who just wants to check his balances and pay bills online.
Full disclosure: I USED to work for RSA Security, but my options were worthless and they took them away when they laid me off anyway.
At the risk of sounding like someone who feeds trolls and replies to flame-bait, you're a scumbag. I for one am NOT a pirate, and have no problem paying for what I want. I'll admit that I have used services like Kazaa and was REALLY into Napster when it was new, but it still is and always has been theft.
The incentive to buy is exactly the what you mentioned. If you like a band, you buy their music so that you can support them and they'll make more. It's just like potato chips or caffeine vendors, buy their stuff and they'll make more and continue to innovate. Don't buy it and they'll consider the venture a failure and stop doing whatever it was no matter what you thought about it.
It's not about cluelessness about P2P, it's about paying for a product that someone else produces and you're enjoying the benefits of.
Some of those 7500 songs will come in the form of full albums, which are only $9.99, and frequently come with more than 10 songs. Put me in the Own My Bits camp.
Quote: "And what the blue fuck does the constitution have to do with it? Did the government author the service contract the thieves violated? Is the cable company a government agency? Companies and private citizens aren't bound to constitution."
Umm... The company operates under the laws of the land which are allowed for by the constitution. The discussion isn't about the conduct of the cable providers under the constitution, it's the construction of the laws that allow the cable providers to operate in this manner. As has been stated several times before, the issue is not whether what they did was illegal, we all agree that it was under the terms of their legally-binding contract. The issue is that the FBI used excessive means to enforce the law. There was no reason to seize all that equipment or detain anyone. Cancel their contract, fine them and put the fear of god (lowercase intentional) in them, but don't destroy their lives for a measly $11,000. Also, show me proof that this number is even close to realistic. The whole idea of excessive force and punishment is that the punishment should fit the crime. It's not like these people were modifying their cable modems with concrete smacking people with them. They used a little more bandwidth than they paid for. People do it on the freeways every day.
You're right about the encryption. They market it as 64 and 128-bit, but it's really 40 and 104 with 24-bit hard-coded Initialization Vectors. Thus the crack at UC Berkeley.
Microwaves are one thing, but let's look at something that operates in the same band. On my wireless lan, if I get on my 2.4GHz cordless, I have no more network, WEP or not.