This is exactly the attitude that is holding FOSS back.
That's too general a statement. A more correct statement would be "This is exactly the attitude that is holding FOSS back in user-driven markets".
In technology-driven markets, FOSS is doing just fine because in those markets, users are expected to at least look at the documentation before deciding something doesn't work.
The real value isn't killing the command & control part of the botnet. The real value is putting honeypot C&C machines in place that can capture the IPs of infected machines so that volunteers can track down the owner/ISP of the infected machine and clean it up.
With that in mind, adding more domains doesn't do anything to prevent the capture of infected IPs.
The real question is whether infected IPs can be cleaned up faster than new machines can be (re)infected. More secure operating systems will help. Better identification and cooperation from ISPs will help. Greater security awareness of computer owners will help.
there are agencies that buy packaged software that will sit on shelves never opened just so they can be sure to spend enough of there budget not to have it reduced the following year.
You've got it backwards. SUVs categorically have the highest fatalities per mile driven (not counting motorcycles). In layman's terms, an SUV driver is far more likely to die in an accident than a non-SUV driver.
It might be true that an SUV driver has a better chance of surviving an accident, but that advantage is more than offset by the SUV's increased risk of having an accident in the first place.
And while it might seem unintuitive at first, the car's improved ability to avoid accidents in the first place means that a disproportionate amount of SUV accidents will be with other SUVs, negating any size advantage you think you're gaining by driving an SUV in the first place.
You're right, there is a selection mechanism present here, but not the kind you thought it was.
Users are becoming savvy enough to know that there are other browser options out there, so if people start using HTML5 and IE doesn't support it, IE will lose users. For that reason, MS can't afford to ignore HTML5.
I predict that IE will implement enough HTML5 to be able to claim support for it, but the implementation will start out incomplete or not sufficiently robust to offer a good HTML5 experience. This will slow the uptake of HTML5 much like it did with CSS, but since MS no longer has the dominant position they had then, I don't think it'll matter much. If Google offers an improved youtube experience in HTML5, then people will switch to whatever browser supports it.
The way I see it, MS is no longer trying to win the browser war. They're just trying to stay relevant.
Recognizing correlation is one of the foundational steps in establishing causation. It is a failure of critical thinking on your part to rule out the possibility of causation before there is an explanation for the correlation.
You go on to claim that the correlation is meaningless, but you lack the exact same evidence to support your claim that you require of the opposite claim.
Please correct this hypocrisy by either retracting your claim or posting your explanation of the correlation along with supporting evidence so that we can evaluate the merits of your argument.
One problem with this analogy is that it's not just one "doctor" that's saying "operate", it's thousands.
But how many of those "thousands" have actually seen the data and performed their own analysis on it or even just reviewed someone else's analysis of it? Maybe a dozen?
This is often why an officer will walk you around your car so that the whole car can be seen as being within your reach giving them authority to search for weapons.
How does walking you around the outside of your car give them the authority to search the inside?
If my understanding is correct, project honey pot puts bogus emails in webpages and any mail sent to those email addresses are, pretty much by definition, spam.
If that's true, then that would indicate that your machine is sending email to honey pot addresses.
No. The only way you can legally distribute your code is as open-source, but you still have the option of not distributing your code at all and keeping it closed.
Your other options include finding an alternate 3rd party library that isn't GPL or writing your own implementation of whatever you're using the library for.
If you still think that MySQL has a performance advantage over Postgres, you're knowledge is several years out of date. Once your DB app is sufficiently loaded to have multiple concurrent connections, MySQL quickly becomes the loser. Even in the non-concurrent case, MySQL is often the loser. The cases where it out-performs Postgres are, as far as I know, the same cases where MySQL doesn't protect your data.
My second undergrad operating systems course had us delve into the Linux kernel fairly deeply. Assignments included added real-time scheduling and implementing the CPM file system.
It wasn't a required course, but it was excellent.
Slashdot Mirror
IIRC, the core of OOO is written in C++, not Java.
This is exactly the attitude that is holding FOSS back.
That's too general a statement. A more correct statement would be "This is exactly the attitude that is holding FOSS back in user-driven markets".
In technology-driven markets, FOSS is doing just fine because in those markets, users are expected to at least look at the documentation before deciding something doesn't work.
What do we know about Windows 7 in that regard?
Is it not more secure than it's predecessors?
The real value isn't killing the command & control part of the botnet. The real value is putting honeypot C&C machines in place that can capture the IPs of infected machines so that volunteers can track down the owner/ISP of the infected machine and clean it up.
With that in mind, adding more domains doesn't do anything to prevent the capture of infected IPs.
The real question is whether infected IPs can be cleaned up faster than new machines can be (re)infected. More secure operating systems will help. Better identification and cooperation from ISPs will help. Greater security awareness of computer owners will help.
I'm optimistic.
there are agencies that buy packaged software that will sit on shelves never opened just so they can be sure to spend enough of there budget not to have it reduced the following year.
How is that different from fraud?
Isn't misuse of public funds a criminal act?
You've got it backwards. SUVs categorically have the highest fatalities per mile driven (not counting motorcycles). In layman's terms, an SUV driver is far more likely to die in an accident than a non-SUV driver.
It might be true that an SUV driver has a better chance of surviving an accident, but that advantage is more than offset by the SUV's increased risk of having an accident in the first place.
And while it might seem unintuitive at first, the car's improved ability to avoid accidents in the first place means that a disproportionate amount of SUV accidents will be with other SUVs, negating any size advantage you think you're gaining by driving an SUV in the first place.
You're right, there is a selection mechanism present here, but not the kind you thought it was.
And what do you think will happen if/when MS succeeds in pushing Flash out of the marketplace?
What exactly does flash or silverlight offer that isn't included in HTML5?
Users are becoming savvy enough to know that there are other browser options out there, so if people start using HTML5 and IE doesn't support it, IE will lose users. For that reason, MS can't afford to ignore HTML5.
I predict that IE will implement enough HTML5 to be able to claim support for it, but the implementation will start out incomplete or not sufficiently robust to offer a good HTML5 experience. This will slow the uptake of HTML5 much like it did with CSS, but since MS no longer has the dominant position they had then, I don't think it'll matter much. If Google offers an improved youtube experience in HTML5, then people will switch to whatever browser supports it.
The way I see it, MS is no longer trying to win the browser war. They're just trying to stay relevant.
I don't run an adblocker because I find that blocking flash via noscript is sufficient to remove the ads that I find unacceptable.
Non-flash ads are rendered just fine.
And they don't bother me one bit.
If that's true, then those advertisers will shrink their market until they go out of business.
The surviving advertisers will be the ones who learned how to make ads that aren't blocked.
Correlation is not causation.
Recognizing correlation is one of the foundational steps in establishing causation. It is a failure of critical thinking on your part to rule out the possibility of causation before there is an explanation for the correlation.
You go on to claim that the correlation is meaningless, but you lack the exact same evidence to support your claim that you require of the opposite claim.
Please correct this hypocrisy by either retracting your claim or posting your explanation of the correlation along with supporting evidence so that we can evaluate the merits of your argument.
One problem with this analogy is that it's not just one "doctor" that's saying "operate", it's thousands .
But how many of those "thousands" have actually seen the data and performed their own analysis on it or even just reviewed someone else's analysis of it? Maybe a dozen?
Polls of this type are meaningless.
Can you compare and contrast Arch with Gentoo?
Do the scratch the same itches or do they target subtly different audiences?
That pretty much sums up my experience with Ubuntu and Debian...except that I went back to Gentoo.
I believe that the constitutional requirements only apply to criminal cases. Patent suits are civil suits.
This is often why an officer will walk you around your car so that the whole car can be seen as being within your reach giving them authority to search for weapons.
How does walking you around the outside of your car give them the authority to search the inside?
Did I misunderstand your statement?
Not entrapment.
Planting "evidence".
If my understanding is correct, project honey pot puts bogus emails in webpages and any mail sent to those email addresses are, pretty much by definition, spam.
If that's true, then that would indicate that your machine is sending email to honey pot addresses.
No. The only way you can legally distribute your code is as open-source, but you still have the option of not distributing your code at all and keeping it closed.
Your other options include finding an alternate 3rd party library that isn't GPL or writing your own implementation of whatever you're using the library for.
I don't think that's true. You can use BSD code in products that have non-free licenses.
Seriously, how many don't also offer Postgres?
Can you give us any insight on how Google is using MySQL?
I was under the impression that they've invented their own distributed file system for their storage needs.
If you still think that MySQL has a performance advantage over Postgres, you're knowledge is several years out of date. Once your DB app is sufficiently loaded to have multiple concurrent connections, MySQL quickly becomes the loser. Even in the non-concurrent case, MySQL is often the loser. The cases where it out-performs Postgres are, as far as I know, the same cases where MySQL doesn't protect your data.
My second undergrad operating systems course had us delve into the Linux kernel fairly deeply. Assignments included added real-time scheduling and implementing the CPM file system.
It wasn't a required course, but it was excellent.
How do you keep your ink cartridge from drying out in that amount of time?
When we still had a ink jet printer, it seemed like we had to replace the cartridges every couple of months since they would dry out or clog up.