So what's the difference between a "company laptop" and a tablet?
Company laptop can become a brick with nothing but Microsoft Office functioning while not connected to the home/hotel/coffee shop network. Company laptop doesn't have to be able to reload a web page while connectivity is going up and down every second. Tablet or a phone should have shitloads of applications running in a background through thousands of connect-disconnect-suspend-restore cycles. Company laptop can be limited to only company-provided applications but phone or even tablet is pretty useless without them. Company laptop does not double as a phone. Company laptop would cause a disaster if stolen while phones are guaranteed to be stolen regularly.
Instead of posting simple slogans such as “Long live our leaders” or “Long live the party”, the web commentators develop detailed, rational arguments which would more likely be trusted as reliable advice or information.
Is that a new form of a debate -- once you lost an argument, scream "Propaganda!"?
They do, but they still have to authenticate to do things users may expect to do with unreliable connectivity, and still end up preventing configuration by the local user. On a "company laptop" it's tolerable but on a handheld it will be a mess.
Overthrow what? You don't even know what is written it it! WTF is "regulated militia"? "cruel and unusual"? "interstate commerce"? Every politician "interprets" those things whatever way he wants.
Oh, you mean your government that doesn't give a flying fuck about anything written in your Constitution, its responsibilities or plain common sense? It's a time-honored American tradition to proudly proclaim to the world: "Our tapeworms are longer!"
Windows on tablet did not get those features because they require uninterrupted network connectivity with a "mothership" domain controller. What does not happen on handhelds.
The whole "analysis" is a ploy to proclaim Windows on ARM "Enterprise-ready" once Microsoft will figure out how to produce domain support with everything cached on the client. What will eventually happen even though it makes no sense.
In reality, handhelds have to be treated as insecure clients, must allow user flexibility in applications configuration and should never be allowed direct filesystem access, however Windows developers are too dumb to make an equivalent of FUSE, rsync and a package manager. My almost-abandonware Nokia N900 has better "enterprise support" now than those Windows "analysts" (marketing people) can ever imagine.
Because Constitution is an old poorly formulated document written in a dialect of English that no one spoken for centuries, and the only people authorized to interpret it with any effect are nine political appointees?
Once I looked at the summary, the first thought in my head was "Looks like Brian Proffitt!". I clicked on the link, and, as I expected, his disgusting bearded face stared from the page.
Can we, please, stop spreading our enemies' propaganda?
Dollar bubble? The dollar is worth less to comparible countries than it has been since I've been alive.
And it's still far above its true value. US dollar is backed by by "those crooks can't print dollars much faster than the whole world makes products, can they?"
"Facilitating online course delivery" is what one person working for a university can do in 5% of his time. Will this business run on $3000/y per school?
Because the only reason Libertarians are allowed to spout their nonsense, it supports Republican talking points. If Democrats knew how to benefit from Socialists, Socialists would be all over the media, too.
And how many of them managed to do that before the dotcom crash? How many, apart from Youtube, ended up in any way valuable for those companies? Do we really have to live through another wave of this?
So the "business" is going to charge schools for KEEPING CONTENT FROM MULTIPLE SCHOOLS ON ONE WEB PAGE? I think, the same model was known as "portal site", and if it ever worked, it was obsoleted by search engines.
I can see space for an open source product (so schools can use and develop it) and maybe a group of people acting as consultants (but I wouldn't recommend them to quit their day jobs for that). But a full-blown 1999-style dotcom? Seriously?
Oh, and you also have to supply your administrator password for infection to happen.
As far as I know, only in earlier versions, and it certainly managed to get out of sandbox using exploit, not by asking the user. If it was just a web page "Install this executable, it's Adobe Flash!", there would be no brouhaha about security.
Neither is the Flashback trojan, champ. It uses a flaw in Java to run automatically *as the user.* It then requests the root password from the user, in the guise of an installer package; the user MUST enter the admin password for the payload to be downloaded. That's a trojan, not a virus.
Flashback is a virus/exploit -- at least one variant exploits the Java sandbox vulnerability and runs as a non-sandboxed application on the system without user specifically installing it.
And yes, there ARE viruses in that list, but keep on proving my point
Sure, there are. They just DON'T WORK. You can just as well bring up the original Morris worm.
what antivirus software you use on your Linux systems
...nor antivirus software would be of any help against exploits, or against trojans installed by administrator. "Antivirus software for Linux" is actually software that runs on Linux but looks for Windows viruses.
Linux system's security can only be improved by removing, not adding software -- what should be true for any system, but false for Windows due to its massive brokenness.
Without a process monitor Linux is tremendoulsy vulnerable to trojans.
1. There is no such thing as a "process monitor" in Linux. 2. Trojans are malicious applications masquerading as useful software. Any OS is "vulnerable" to them if user installs things he randomly downloaded, however Linux (and everything Unix-like) still has the best "Are you really intending to RUN that?" check -- no combination of downloading, unpacking and clicking on files in GUI results in a executable file being executed unless it's installed from a repository, or user manually sets executable permission on it. Since recently even.desktop files are getting this restriction.
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You can probably get a degree in used car sales, but it would be worth about as much.
That's not a degree. That counts as a trade school with a preparation course for a bunch of industry certifications.
So what's the difference between a "company laptop" and a tablet?
Company laptop can become a brick with nothing but Microsoft Office functioning while not connected to the home/hotel/coffee shop network. Company laptop doesn't have to be able to reload a web page while connectivity is going up and down every second. Tablet or a phone should have shitloads of applications running in a background through thousands of connect-disconnect-suspend-restore cycles. Company laptop can be limited to only company-provided applications but phone or even tablet is pretty useless without them. Company laptop does not double as a phone. Company laptop would cause a disaster if stolen while phones are guaranteed to be stolen regularly.
Instead of posting simple slogans such as “Long live our leaders” or “Long live the party”, the web commentators develop detailed, rational arguments which would more likely be trusted as reliable advice or information.
Is that a new form of a debate -- once you lost an argument, scream "Propaganda!"?
They do, but they still have to authenticate to do things users may expect to do with unreliable connectivity, and still end up preventing configuration by the local user. On a "company laptop" it's tolerable but on a handheld it will be a mess.
Overthrow what? You don't even know what is written it it! WTF is "regulated militia"? "cruel and unusual"? "interstate commerce"? Every politician "interprets" those things whatever way he wants.
Oh, you mean your government that doesn't give a flying fuck about anything written in your Constitution, its responsibilities or plain common sense? It's a time-honored American tradition to proudly proclaim to the world: "Our tapeworms are longer!"
Congratulation, you are an idiot.
Nice try to defend your sacred cows by trying to start an argument about unrelated things that you ALSO wrong about.
Windows on tablet did not get those features because they require uninterrupted network connectivity with a "mothership" domain controller. What does not happen on handhelds.
The whole "analysis" is a ploy to proclaim Windows on ARM "Enterprise-ready" once Microsoft will figure out how to produce domain support with everything cached on the client. What will eventually happen even though it makes no sense.
In reality, handhelds have to be treated as insecure clients, must allow user flexibility in applications configuration and should never be allowed direct filesystem access, however Windows developers are too dumb to make an equivalent of FUSE, rsync and a package manager. My almost-abandonware Nokia N900 has better "enterprise support" now than those Windows "analysts" (marketing people) can ever imagine.
The simpler is the lie, the more people believe it. The net result of faking the libel than debunking it is always negative.
Because Constitution is an old poorly formulated document written in a dialect of English that no one spoken for centuries, and the only people authorized to interpret it with any effect are nine political appointees?
Once I looked at the summary, the first thought in my head was "Looks like Brian Proffitt!". I clicked on the link, and, as I expected, his disgusting bearded face stared from the page.
Can we, please, stop spreading our enemies' propaganda?
Dollar bubble? The dollar is worth less to comparible countries than it has been since I've been alive.
And it's still far above its true value. US dollar is backed by by "those crooks can't print dollars much faster than the whole world makes products, can they?"
"Facilitating online course delivery" is what one person working for a university can do in 5% of his time. Will this business run on $3000/y per school?
Because the only reason Libertarians are allowed to spout their nonsense, it supports Republican talking points.
If Democrats knew how to benefit from Socialists, Socialists would be all over the media, too.
No. He referred to a mythical application that continuously searches through a process list and kills everything that it finds suspicious.
And how many of them managed to do that before the dotcom crash? How many, apart from Youtube, ended up in any way valuable for those companies?
Do we really have to live through another wave of this?
So the "business" is going to charge schools for KEEPING CONTENT FROM MULTIPLE SCHOOLS ON ONE WEB PAGE? I think, the same model was known as "portal site", and if it ever worked, it was obsoleted by search engines.
I can see space for an open source product (so schools can use and develop it) and maybe a group of people acting as consultants (but I wouldn't recommend them to quit their day jobs for that). But a full-blown 1999-style dotcom? Seriously?
I am sure, American, Russian, Japanese, Chinese and South Korean scientists were looking at that launch, too.
Oh, and you also have to supply your administrator password for infection to happen.
As far as I know, only in earlier versions, and it certainly managed to get out of sandbox using exploit, not by asking the user. If it was just a web page "Install this executable, it's Adobe Flash!", there would be no brouhaha about security.
Neither is the Flashback trojan, champ. It uses a flaw in Java to run automatically *as the user.* It then requests the root password from the user, in the guise of an installer package; the user MUST enter the admin password for the payload to be downloaded. That's a trojan, not a virus.
Flashback is a virus/exploit -- at least one variant exploits the Java sandbox vulnerability and runs as a non-sandboxed application on the system without user specifically installing it.
And yes, there ARE viruses in that list, but keep on proving my point
Sure, there are. They just DON'T WORK. You can just as well bring up the original Morris worm.
what antivirus software you use on your Linux systems
...nor antivirus software would be of any help against exploits, or against trojans installed by administrator. "Antivirus software for Linux" is actually software that runs on Linux but looks for Windows viruses.
Linux system's security can only be improved by removing, not adding software -- what should be true for any system, but false for Windows due to its massive brokenness.
Those are not viruses.
That's an administrator's utility that views processes, not a mythical security-related utility that AC was talking about.
Which may be the eventual revenue model, especially if one views free courses as a form of marketing for the schools.
That's a job for a few faculty members or consultants maintaining school's own site with those courses, not a business.
Without a process monitor Linux is tremendoulsy vulnerable to trojans.
1. There is no such thing as a "process monitor" in Linux. .desktop files are getting this restriction.
2. Trojans are malicious applications masquerading as useful software. Any OS is "vulnerable" to them if user installs things he randomly downloaded, however Linux (and everything Unix-like) still has the best "Are you really intending to RUN that?" check -- no combination of downloading, unpacking and clicking on files in GUI results in a executable file being executed unless it's installed from a repository, or user manually sets executable permission on it. Since recently even