The bad thing is how many important SSL sites (banks and others) get a fail in various areas of the SSL test.
The SSL for my banks internet banking site fails both the "secure renegotiation" and "insecure renegotiation". Not that the other Australian banks are any better...
Can anyone point me to something indicating what information the EU feels Microsoft should have provided but did not provide? (or information competitors of Microsoft believe Microsoft should have provided but did not provide?)
Having followed C++11 support in compilers, I can tell you that the C++11 support in even the latest version of Visual C++ (Visual C++ 2012 RC) is lagging behind both GCC and clang. To be fair, a lot of the lag is caused because Microsoft spent a lot of their resources in the VS2012 development cycle attempting to implement Variadic Templates (and not getting it done in time for the VS2012 release)
They need to keep logs so that when the FBI goes to them and says "we are investigating a bomb threat and it was sent by one of your customers" or whatever, they have enough logs to find the bad guy.
Apple doesn't make their own hardware but the parts they use (motherboards specifically) are specific to Apple machines and can't be bought from Intel directly.
Big thank-you to AMD for supporting CoreBoot. Intel on the other hand seem disinterested in CoreBoot at best, actively against it at worst. You cant run CoreBoot with any Intel CPU made in the last decade and Intel has thus far refused to share any specs on their chipsets.
OSX contains checks inside parts of the OS (e.g. windowing system) to verify that its running on legitimate apple hardware. (or at least it did last time I heard about it). That to me would count as a "technological protection measure" under the DMCA. The fact that Apple didn't use the DMCA in court doesn't necessarily mean that what Pystar did isn't a DMCA violation.
Given how many people seem to complain about cellphones and loud talking in theaters, why dont the theaters do more to stop it? They could easily erect signage saying "dont talk in the theater and turn off your cellphone" and eject people who break the rules. If you absolutely MUST be contactable, either dont go to the theater or set your phone on vibrate/silent and step outside for the phone call so as not to disturb people.
I pretty much always just buy junk food from the supermarket instead of at the theater and haven't yet been called on it by the theater people. If a theater told me I couldn't do it anymore (i.e. told me I couldn't bring chips bought from the supermarket even though they sell the exact same packet of chips at the candy bar at a higher price) I would stop going to that theater and go to one of the 1/2 dozen other options I have for going to the movies.
The last 2 times I bought from the theater candy bar, one was from a small 3-screen theater that's struggling to compete with the massive chain multiplexes and needs the money to actually survive and the second was when I was out with family and buying from the supermarket was not really an option.
Oh and for those complaining about issues with cellphones and talking and noise, I cant remember the last time I was in a theater where there was cellphones or loud talking going on during the actual film and all the theaters I have been to have an announcement before the film saying "please turn off your phones"
What will it take for governments to STOP listening to the big media companies on issues like 3-strikes, anti-circumvention, website take-downs (the kind that happen without due process or any independent validation that yes, the site is doing something illegal) and other stuff? Or is there no government willing to challenge the power of the media juggernauts?
I have a vision problem preventing me from viewing 3D films and I have not yet had a problem finding a non-3D screening at a time that suited me. The hardest film to find in non-3D actually was the Thor film, I had to go out of my way to find a screening there but these days many theaters around here put on plenty of non-3D screenings. Combine that with various offers like "cheap Tuesday" and I haven't paid more than about $11 for a film in ages.
Cryptonomicon would make an awesome movie. As for turning cyberpunk into films, forget Snow Crash, go with the original (and still one of the best IMO) and make Neuromancer into a film. Now THAT'S a film I would pay to go and see. (I would love to see how the CGI guys interpret the Kuang virus and Tessier-Ashpool data cores). Plus, if its successful they can move on and make Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive.
Google also wants.plus, seems like a great thing for Google Plus where they could give every user.plus as a link directly to their Google Plus profile page. Easy to remember, easy to direct people to and small to link to in e.g. a Twitter message.
At the very least Intel could provide the technical specs required to create Linux drivers for the Thunderbolt hardware that it makes and sells (i.e. the Thunderbolt ports on Intel motherboards that have it)
The main reason why VS2012 apps cant be made to work on XP is because sometime around the VS2010 time-frame Microsoft decided to stop shipping the CRT build scripts (and those bits of the CRT it doesn't give out source for), probably because having custom-built CRTs was a security risk (even more so if people start using the same name as the stock MS CRT DLLs)
Under secure boot, user-space code that talks to hardware will be banned (otherwise it could open a hole in the secure boot logic) and all kernel-mode code is GPLv2 anyway. None of the normal user-space code needs to be signed (so the clauses in GPLv3 dont matter)
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The bad thing is how many important SSL sites (banks and others) get a fail in various areas of the SSL test.
The SSL for my banks internet banking site fails both the "secure renegotiation" and "insecure renegotiation". Not that the other Australian banks are any better...
Can anyone point me to something indicating what information the EU feels Microsoft should have provided but did not provide? (or information competitors of Microsoft believe Microsoft should have provided but did not provide?)
The spec documents at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd208104(v=prot.10) seem to cover a lot of the things that competitors might want access to so whats missing?
Having followed C++11 support in compilers, I can tell you that the C++11 support in even the latest version of Visual C++ (Visual C++ 2012 RC) is lagging behind both GCC and clang. To be fair, a lot of the lag is caused because Microsoft spent a lot of their resources in the VS2012 development cycle attempting to implement Variadic Templates (and not getting it done in time for the VS2012 release)
They need to keep logs so that when the FBI goes to them and says "we are investigating a bomb threat and it was sent by one of your customers" or whatever, they have enough logs to find the bad guy.
Apple doesn't make their own hardware but the parts they use (motherboards specifically) are specific to Apple machines and can't be bought from Intel directly.
Big thank-you to AMD for supporting CoreBoot. Intel on the other hand seem disinterested in CoreBoot at best, actively against it at worst. You cant run CoreBoot with any Intel CPU made in the last decade and Intel has thus far refused to share any specs on their chipsets.
I should note that my copy of the Intel Instruction Set Reference from around 2003 has documentation for RDTSC
OSX contains checks inside parts of the OS (e.g. windowing system) to verify that its running on legitimate apple hardware. (or at least it did last time I heard about it). That to me would count as a "technological protection measure" under the DMCA.
The fact that Apple didn't use the DMCA in court doesn't necessarily mean that what Pystar did isn't a DMCA violation.
Oracle wont be going out of business anytime soon, too many people use their database products and middle-ware for that to happen.
It was also a DMCA violating because PsyStar circumvented the technological protection measures in OSX.
Given how many people seem to complain about cellphones and loud talking in theaters, why dont the theaters do more to stop it?
They could easily erect signage saying "dont talk in the theater and turn off your cellphone" and eject people who break the rules. If you absolutely MUST be contactable, either dont go to the theater or set your phone on vibrate/silent and step outside for the phone call so as not to disturb people.
I pretty much always just buy junk food from the supermarket instead of at the theater and haven't yet been called on it by the theater people. If a theater told me I couldn't do it anymore (i.e. told me I couldn't bring chips bought from the supermarket even though they sell the exact same packet of chips at the candy bar at a higher price) I would stop going to that theater and go to one of the 1/2 dozen other options I have for going to the movies.
The last 2 times I bought from the theater candy bar, one was from a small 3-screen theater that's struggling to compete with the massive chain multiplexes and needs the money to actually survive and the second was when I was out with family and buying from the supermarket was not really an option.
Oh and for those complaining about issues with cellphones and talking and noise, I cant remember the last time I was in a theater where there was cellphones or loud talking going on during the actual film and all the theaters I have been to have an announcement before the film saying "please turn off your phones"
What will it take for governments to STOP listening to the big media companies on issues like 3-strikes, anti-circumvention, website take-downs (the kind that happen without due process or any independent validation that yes, the site is doing something illegal) and other stuff?
Or is there no government willing to challenge the power of the media juggernauts?
I have a vision problem preventing me from viewing 3D films and I have not yet had a problem finding a non-3D screening at a time that suited me. The hardest film to find in non-3D actually was the Thor film, I had to go out of my way to find a screening there but these days many theaters around here put on plenty of non-3D screenings. Combine that with various offers like "cheap Tuesday" and I haven't paid more than about $11 for a film in ages.
Cryptonomicon would make an awesome movie.
As for turning cyberpunk into films, forget Snow Crash, go with the original (and still one of the best IMO) and make Neuromancer into a film. Now THAT'S a film I would pay to go and see. (I would love to see how the CGI guys interpret the Kuang virus and Tessier-Ashpool data cores). Plus, if its successful they can move on and make Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive.
It may well be that Microsoft has done a deal with Intel to encourage tablet OEMs to use x86 rather than ARM by pricing ARM higher than x86.
The obvious answer is for Google to not treat gTLD websites different to any other web site.
Google also wants .plus, seems like a great thing for Google Plus where they could give every user .plus as a link directly to their Google Plus profile page. Easy to remember, easy to direct people to and small to link to in e.g. a Twitter message.
In fact, there is no way for the citizens of Oceania to know that Eurasia and Eastasia even exist except because the government says it does.
At the very least Intel could provide the technical specs required to create Linux drivers for the Thunderbolt hardware that it makes and sells (i.e. the Thunderbolt ports on Intel motherboards that have it)
I am a long time Diablo 2 player and I refuse to buy D3 for this exact reason.
The main reason why VS2012 apps cant be made to work on XP is because sometime around the VS2010 time-frame Microsoft decided to stop shipping the CRT build scripts (and those bits of the CRT it doesn't give out source for), probably because having custom-built CRTs was a security risk (even more so if people start using the same name as the stock MS CRT DLLs)
Most universities will be members of one of the Microsoft programs that let students get free copies of the Pro edition of VS (MSDNAA and similar)
Maybe someone should contact Markus and ask if he has licensed LZO for this or whether it is being used without his permission.
Under secure boot, user-space code that talks to hardware will be banned (otherwise it could open a hole in the secure boot logic) and all kernel-mode code is GPLv2 anyway. None of the normal user-space code needs to be signed (so the clauses in GPLv3 dont matter)