Only works locally, a parking cam can catch the real culprit (think in catching the originator of most of the spam/malware that goes thru email), and is somewhat shortlived (by the time most of the ones that got the ticket went to internet the site could have been taking down).
To make it much worse, YOU can catch him and take revenge of every spam/malware/spyware/virus you received ever. We can get an updated version of witch burning for the XXI century.
You become increasingly dependant on expensive software, as you can get freely, and if something change (like that they start to enforce copyrigth) you could not have enough margin to move away and have to buy all of that. If you can afford it, then buy it or at least be sure to always have enough budget to do that. If not, go to a free or at least cheaper alternative
How are they measuring it? Just counting how many boxes sell redhat and suse?
You have linux from bios, networking equipment, embedded appliances, cellphones, all the way up to massive clusters. Windows could be keeping taking over the old concept of desktop, but the world breathe linux in everything more complex than a calculator. What about counting market share including all of that to see more to the ground numbers?
We are at the border of the abyss, but we will take a step forward. Adding spam to the system will do in the short term more harm than good, and in the long term? People that follow the spam links probably have not enough discern to learn the lesson, or even worse, the spam will start coming with a "this time we are serious" warning to take distance from that experiment.
Could be of consideration taking control of domains/URLs very refered by spam, and instead of taking them down (by the hosting ISPs or whatever) redirect them to a central warning "dont follow this or you will be sorry" site, you will not add more spam to the system, and still will warn people that follow the links.
Is a Microsoft update, they own the operating system so think that have the right over anything running there. Their release notes should include "turn back and bend over while we install this" somewhere.
For some searchs could fit the warning that could have malware. For others is almost unthinkable. But for some, you could end thinking that google is censoring something, maybe even leveraging its monopoly.
This caught me by surprise... wasnt aware of the problem, and my today search was simply about memcached, and, of course, all were marked as holding malware. One of the sites had a comment section, so could had some vulnerability that enabled visitors to post malware somewhat, or some botnet owner figured how to push phishing sites right to the top of search results, but when i found that the Wikipedia entry had that too conspiracy theories started to fly.
I suppose that mine was an average case, but for some searches the feeling could have been far worse.
Dont attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity. Maybe Windows 7 is faster and use less resources than Vista because their engineers didnt figured how to be slower and require even more resources. You need real talent for that.
Considering how similar is Windows 7 interface is to KDE 4 one, seems that Microsoft made himself a similar question and found that KDE innovations weren't patented.
So the idea is that if some specific change is coming slow enough, we can adapt and build solutions before it too late?
It could happens. It couldnt, too. Changes dont come alone, at least in a system as complex as the one we live in. We could have time to build solar panels to stop the global warming before it gets too hot. But that process will trigger more changes, you are prepared to take measures against every single one of them?
But there is a factor that you are not taking into account, and is the human one... more specifically, the human stupidity factor, that if given a chance will do everything to stop or delay taking effective measures (patenting and putting excessive prices to key components, making wars (against terror, for religion, for history, whatever) diverting resources from what really matters at the end, denying that there is a problem, calling solutions just too expensive so do nothing or delay it to future generations, etc) until you have no more time to adapt.
They have a battery (lasting around 4hs) so survives turning off the pc, or do some not very extensive hardware maintenance. And maybe more important, rebooting (kernel upgrades happens).
In the other hand, tmpfs have the transfer rate limit of ram (~6G/s), while in this devices the limit is the SATA one (~400M/s).
There is a precedent of another gaping "optional" security hole pretty hard to disable that is on by default in windows. How hard had been ever to disable internet explorer?
1st block sites that show/promotes child pornography... looks ok then go after sites that shows models that look underage... a bit more debatable then go after all porn... something is about to explode then block "by mistake" the opposite party web sites around next election... oops!
After reaching the goal of not having to reboot it at all for years, reaching the one of booting it in N seconds dont look so special.
To be fair, power outages happens, not always suspend in notebooks is the best choice, and kernel updates happens too, And sometimes you want to have downtime as minimal as possible.
The only rules i know related to flying cars so far are more related to avoid meeting yourself in the future or your mother when she was young.
Considering that this ones are more like planes than i.e. DeLorean using antigrav and powered by mr.fusion, probably planes/helicopters/etc rules should apply.
Those people (computers) are sick, even they would be scared if you tell them so, and very willing to take a vaccine. So, what if you do that without telling all of them?
Can be seen from other point of view. The botnet is already there. Is taking orders already from people definately should not be trusted. What if someone that possibly could be trusted to add some extra order in that process?
In the other hand, the botnet owners could decide that will be better to erase the evidence (and the infected people machines in the process) and put the blame on the ones that announced that will clean that mess.. and of course, start a new botnet in new machines without that vulnerability, lowering profits for a while but feeling untouchables after.
I'd really like to not care about the name of the browser I'm using, but the mental cost of switching could be high for someone used to particular Firefox extensions, unless or until they can all be expected to work seamlessly with Chrome.
Is that coming from the same people that ask to switch to FFox from MSIE (or from Windows to Linux), even that could be some "essential" plugin/extra/program/whatever that wont work seamlessly in firefox?
At least there is an advantage in Firefox extensions: they are (most, at least) opensource. If Chrome have any way to be able to "plug" code from others (call it plugin, extension, addon, whatever) those essential firefox extensions could be ported, adapted or recoded to fit in the new browser, and with a bit of luck, with not very much effort over what is needed to port them to the next firefox version.
And that is not something that one must wait google (or the chrome developers community) to do. But they should provide the tools to enable others to do that.
The first computer that come to my mind seeing that photos was the ZX Spectrum, the keys are similar, and the concept (minus the actual machine specs, power source and the side touchscreen) are somewhat similar too.
Too bad no movie (that i remember, at least) used that kind of computers with some cosmetics to represent the computers of the future... could had a major hit in accuracy.
Slashdot Mirror
Problem Exist Between Redmond And Press. Sometimes is not user fault.
And they take your blood... wooden stake anyone?
Only works locally, a parking cam can catch the real culprit (think in catching the originator of most of the spam/malware that goes thru email), and is somewhat shortlived (by the time most of the ones that got the ticket went to internet the site could have been taking down).
To make it much worse, YOU can catch him and take revenge of every spam/malware/spyware/virus you received ever. We can get an updated version of witch burning for the XXI century.
You become increasingly dependant on expensive software, as you can get freely, and if something change (like that they start to enforce copyrigth) you could not have enough margin to move away and have to buy all of that. If you can afford it, then buy it or at least be sure to always have enough budget to do that. If not, go to a free or at least cheaper alternative
How are they measuring it? Just counting how many boxes sell redhat and suse?
You have linux from bios, networking equipment, embedded appliances, cellphones, all the way up to massive clusters. Windows could be keeping taking over the old concept of desktop, but the world breathe linux in everything more complex than a calculator. What about counting market share including all of that to see more to the ground numbers?
We are at the border of the abyss, but we will take a step forward. Adding spam to the system will do in the short term more harm than good, and in the long term? People that follow the spam links probably have not enough discern to learn the lesson, or even worse, the spam will start coming with a "this time we are serious" warning to take distance from that experiment.
Could be of consideration taking control of domains/URLs very refered by spam, and instead of taking them down (by the hosting ISPs or whatever) redirect them to a central warning "dont follow this or you will be sorry" site, you will not add more spam to the system, and still will warn people that follow the links.
In the land version we can see even people and cars. What we will see there? Submarines? Fishes? Coral formations? Our sunken economy?
Is a Microsoft update, they own the operating system so think that have the right over anything running there. Their release notes should include "turn back and bend over while we install this" somewhere.
For some searchs could fit the warning that could have malware. For others is almost unthinkable. But for some, you could end thinking that google is censoring something, maybe even leveraging its monopoly.
This caught me by surprise... wasnt aware of the problem, and my today search was simply about memcached, and, of course, all were marked as holding malware. One of the sites had a comment section, so could had some vulnerability that enabled visitors to post malware somewhat, or some botnet owner figured how to push phishing sites right to the top of search results, but when i found that the Wikipedia entry had that too conspiracy theories started to fly.
I suppose that mine was an average case, but for some searches the feeling could have been far worse.
Dont attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity. Maybe Windows 7 is faster and use less resources than Vista because their engineers didnt figured how to be slower and require even more resources. You need real talent for that.
Considering how similar is Windows 7 interface is to KDE 4 one, seems that Microsoft made himself a similar question and found that KDE innovations weren't patented.
Hey, no one in Slashdot think that Windows is garbage. Is unfair, offensive, and without basis. Why you hate garbage so badly?
So the idea is that if some specific change is coming slow enough, we can adapt and build solutions before it too late?
It could happens. It couldnt, too. Changes dont come alone, at least in a system as complex as the one we live in. We could have time to build solar panels to stop the global warming before it gets too hot. But that process will trigger more changes, you are prepared to take measures against every single one of them?
But there is a factor that you are not taking into account, and is the human one... more specifically, the human stupidity factor, that if given a chance will do everything to stop or delay taking effective measures (patenting and putting excessive prices to key components, making wars (against terror, for religion, for history, whatever) diverting resources from what really matters at the end, denying that there is a problem, calling solutions just too expensive so do nothing or delay it to future generations, etc) until you have no more time to adapt.
They have a battery (lasting around 4hs) so survives turning off the pc, or do some not very extensive hardware maintenance. And maybe more important, rebooting (kernel upgrades happens).
In the other hand, tmpfs have the transfer rate limit of ram (~6G/s), while in this devices the limit is the SATA one (~400M/s).
There is a precedent of another gaping "optional" security hole pretty hard to disable that is on by default in windows. How hard had been ever to disable internet explorer?
Beware... you could end in "All you zombies" version of RAHeinlein time travel, and you will enjoy twice meeting with your mother.
1st block sites that show/promotes child pornography... looks ok
then go after sites that shows models that look underage... a bit more debatable
then go after all porn... something is about to explode
then block "by mistake" the opposite party web sites around next election... oops!
After reaching the goal of not having to reboot it at all for years, reaching the one of booting it in N seconds dont look so special.
To be fair, power outages happens, not always suspend in notebooks is the best choice, and kernel updates happens too, And sometimes you want to have downtime as minimal as possible.
Just wait till that distributed firewall "decide" (bug, intrusion, feeding patterns, whatever) to block the port 80.
Hey, isnt so bad, they will make the fastest cars in history. Wonder what will be the speed when they hit the ground. Maybe even faster than this one
The only rules i know related to flying cars so far are more related to avoid meeting yourself in the future or your mother when she was young.
Considering that this ones are more like planes than i.e. DeLorean using antigrav and powered by mr.fusion, probably planes/helicopters/etc rules should apply.
Can be seen from other point of view. The botnet is already there. Is taking orders already from people definately should not be trusted. What if someone that possibly could be trusted to add some extra order in that process?
In the other hand, the botnet owners could decide that will be better to erase the evidence (and the infected people machines in the process) and put the blame on the ones that announced that will clean that mess.. and of course, start a new botnet in new machines without that vulnerability, lowering profits for a while but feeling untouchables after.
I'd really like to not care about the name of the browser I'm using, but the mental cost of switching could be high for someone used to particular Firefox extensions, unless or until they can all be expected to work seamlessly with Chrome.
Is that coming from the same people that ask to switch to FFox from MSIE (or from Windows to Linux), even that could be some "essential" plugin/extra/program/whatever that wont work seamlessly in firefox?
At least there is an advantage in Firefox extensions: they are (most, at least) opensource. If Chrome have any way to be able to "plug" code from others (call it plugin, extension, addon, whatever) those essential firefox extensions could be ported, adapted or recoded to fit in the new browser, and with a bit of luck, with not very much effort over what is needed to port them to the next firefox version.
And that is not something that one must wait google (or the chrome developers community) to do. But they should provide the tools to enable others to do that.
Some misunderstood spam (or just an intrusion to the system) could give a whole new meaning to that phrase.
The first computer that come to my mind seeing that photos was the ZX Spectrum, the keys are similar, and the concept (minus the actual machine specs, power source and the side touchscreen) are somewhat similar too. Too bad no movie (that i remember, at least) used that kind of computers with some cosmetics to represent the computers of the future... could had a major hit in accuracy.