How much did the Microsoft proxies spend on this campaign, as we all know who's really back of it. Microsoft has been desperate to catch up to Google for ages.
The Register as usual has nothing positive to say about Apple, Steve Jobs or Steve Wozniak. Reason being is that a long time ago The Register was barred from an Apple event because of some particularly snarky comments and Andrew Orlowski has never forgotten about it. I guess a brit reporter bounced from a free piss-up is someone not to be trifled with. This being example of what reporter Chris Mellor took from a recent press conference:
Chris Mellor 28 Jun 2017 at 03:03: "The Apple wizard that was, Steve Wozniak, Stephen Gary Wozniak, age 66, is sitting right next to Lance as Primary's chief scientist. Primary's execs can hardly contain themselves. Look who we have on board, they quietly beamed. Beat that, you other startups.
Then it's the Apple II designer's turn to talk. We hold our breath. And he engages Woz waffle mode. It's a pleasure to talk to us. We're thanked for taking the time to come visit. He joined Primary Data, and he'd liked FusionIO, because the company visions matched his ideas. The thing is to keep stuff simple. Kick out the middle stuff. Keep it simple and as direct as you can, by design. That was it, basically.".. unquote
11:41: Wozniak: 'Well you know what, when we started Apple, we didn't exactly have the culture of a big company. But we felt, the few of us that were there, it was important to hire professional people who knew what they were doing, not to remain just a couple of kids. And we also had this feeling that we were on top of a revolution, we had a great product. It was going to be the seeds of making something important in the world. So for the next two years almost nobody ever left. I mean we felt we were something important in the world. And I don't know if that's the culture that remains today but I'm sure it's a big seed of it..
17:39 Wozniak:.. the communication between sales and marketing is sometimes a problem too within a company. But when I joined FusionIO and I had one year where I was in my office everyday. I went on every sales call I could. I wanted to hear what the customers wanted..
19:12 Wozniak: But Apple made a lot of mistakes too putting out products like, ten years too early, five years too early. If you miss the timing because of the price and the value, that can hurt you too..
19:37 Wozniak: Even as an engineer, all my life was getting good at reducing the complexity, reducing the size, reducing the cost. Because I had no money. Having no money and not having done it before were the two greatest thing I ever did..
20:17 Wozniak: First of all you gotta have some engineering and talent that knows how to built it. And you should not conceive your product thinking then I'll go and get the engineering once I have the idea. The idea and some knowledge of building parts and what can't be made. People who have spent their life as makers, completing, really developing working prototypes and models of things, should be included in the starting team and you gotta have customer support. Somebody on your starting team is a customer. That absolutely lived there and knows what they want, what's good and what's bad and they also gotta have some good thinking. They can't have been just there, they gotta be like a person who really wants things to be right and not wrong. And not anything works anything is good, no. And I think you need those three people, they could all be in one person, or they could be two people or three, but you really need that in a founding team...'
Seriously as long as you don't use Microsoft Windows on the Intel chip set you should be safe. And who exactly had their fear raised over this. What I would like to know is what retard made the decision to store all his hacking tools on the Internet.
This following is a reconstruction of what actually took place:
Poettering: Dbus should move to SystemD.
Dbus developers: How do we get Dbus working under SystemD?
Poettering: That's low level stuff, we don't have the skills, besides that's not my problem.
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See also what SystemD does to/etc/hostname. There are now three different hostnames: static, pretty and transient. ref Again it's a curious decision and understanding the logic behind it fails me.
"I believe it is that they have by now gotten away with so many bad decisions"
Such as embedding the Google DNS addresses into the make file of the SystemD compile script - yea really. Have these people any idea of the security implications of embedding a fixed IP address into the DNS resolver. For instance disabling the local DNS server, blocking 8.8.8.8 and firing up your own box at 8.8.8.8. What F*****G genius thought of this particular hack. "This setting is hence only used if no other DNS server information is known" ref. If no DNS information is known then that should really mean that no DNS information is known.
Yet more of the Cloud.. the Cloud.. the Cloud, instead of paying the one off for your own servers, you pay a yearly rent, in the cloud.. in the cloud...
"A developer who worked with the Ubuntu Phone project has outlined the reasons for its failure"
Ubuntu Phone failed because Canonical failed to engage with the developers and didn't do a deal with the telecoms to provide a rich user experience. Like apple did with the original Apple Phone Demo.
"Software engineers have largely failed at security. Even with the move toward more agile development and DevOps, vulnerabilities continue to take off."
The root cause of the vast majority of security failures is Microsoft Windows running on Intel hardware.
"The CIA's Remote Devices Branch's UMBRAGE group collects and maintains a substantial library of attack techniques 'stolen' from malware produced in other states including the Russian Federation.
With UMBRAGE and related projects the CIA cannot only increase its total number of attack types but also misdirect attribution by leaving behind the "fingerprints" of the groups that the attack techniques were stolen from." link
@Jzanu: "If google tries to deny responsibility and refuses to fix these defects then they face being locked out of the largest growing industrial markets. They can survive in the USA alone, but they won't be growing, and stockholders won't like that outcome - google will comply."
'Daniel Fried, a career diplomat who oversaw sanctions imposed on Russia before retiring this year, told the Times that Comey "was spot-on right that Russia is coming after us, but not just the U.S., but the free world in general. And we need to take this seriously."'
"Here's how magnetic tapes work: Sounds and images are magnetized onto strips of tape, using the same principle as when you rub a piece of metal with a magnet and it retains that magnetism"
Geez, I thought that as the tape moved past an induction coil, tiny fluctuations in the coil induced a magnetic flux in the tape, which was coated in a magnetizable material.
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How much did the Microsoft proxies spend on this campaign, as we all know who's really back of it. Microsoft has been desperate to catch up to Google for ages.
Get rid of Systemd and I'll buy one ..
The Register as usual has nothing positive to say about Apple, Steve Jobs or Steve Wozniak. Reason being is that a long time ago The Register was barred from an Apple event because of some particularly snarky comments and Andrew Orlowski has never forgotten about it. I guess a brit reporter bounced from a free piss-up is someone not to be trifled with. This being example of what reporter Chris Mellor took from a recent press conference:
.. unquote
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.. the communication between sales and marketing is sometimes a problem too within a company. But when I joined FusionIO and I had one year where I was in my office everyday. I went on every sales call I could. I wanted to hear what the customers wanted ..
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Chris Mellor 28 Jun 2017 at 03:03: "The Apple wizard that was, Steve Wozniak, Stephen Gary Wozniak, age 66, is sitting right next to Lance as Primary's chief scientist. Primary's execs can hardly contain themselves. Look who we have on board, they quietly beamed. Beat that, you other startups.
Then it's the Apple II designer's turn to talk. We hold our breath. And he engages Woz waffle mode. It's a pleasure to talk to us. We're thanked for taking the time to come visit. He joined Primary Data, and he'd liked FusionIO, because the company visions matched his ideas. The thing is to keep stuff simple. Kick out the middle stuff. Keep it simple and as direct as you can, by design. That was it, basically."
Now lets see a part of what Steve Wozniak actually said: The Hive - Steve Wozniak, Dave Hitz & Lance Smith
11:41: Wozniak: 'Well you know what, when we started Apple, we didn't exactly have the culture of a big company. But we felt, the few of us that were there, it was important to hire professional people who knew what they were doing, not to remain just a couple of kids. And we also had this feeling that we were on top of a revolution, we had a great product. It was going to be the seeds of making something important in the world. So for the next two years almost nobody ever left. I mean we felt we were something important in the world. And I don't know if that's the culture that remains today but I'm sure it's a big seed of it
17:39 Wozniak:
19:12 Wozniak: But Apple made a lot of mistakes too putting out products like, ten years too early, five years too early. If you miss the timing because of the price and the value, that can hurt you too
19:37 Wozniak: Even as an engineer, all my life was getting good at reducing the complexity, reducing the size, reducing the cost. Because I had no money. Having no money and not having done it before were the two greatest thing I ever did
20:17 Wozniak: First of all you gotta have some engineering and talent that knows how to built it. And you should not conceive your product thinking then I'll go and get the engineering once I have the idea. The idea and some knowledge of building parts and what can't be made. People who have spent their life as makers, completing, really developing working prototypes and models of things, should be included in the starting team and you gotta have customer support. Somebody on your starting team is a customer. That absolutely lived there and knows what they want, what's good and what's bad and they also gotta have some good thinking. They can't have been just there, they gotta be like a person who really wants things to be right and not wrong. And not anything works anything is good, no. And I think you need those three people, they could all be in one person, or they could be two people or three, but you really need that in a founding team
Seriously as long as you don't use Microsoft Windows on the Intel chip set you should be safe. And who exactly had their fear raised over this. What I would like to know is what retard made the decision to store all his hacking tools on the Internet.
"U.S. senators sought on Wednesday to ban Moscow-based cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab .. because" we've already got backdoors into all the rest.
Where's the technology angle .. and why the free advert for Uber ...
Where's the technology angle .. and yet another free advert on the Microsoft slashdot ..
Didn't this used to be known as AppArmor or SELinux ..
"All it would take is a providing a few fixes for an OS they heralded as the best less than a decade ago."
.. ROTFLMHO ...
HA
This following is a reconstruction of what actually took place:
/etc/hostname. There are now three different hostnames: static, pretty and transient. ref Again it's a curious decision and understanding the logic behind it fails me.
Poettering: Dbus should move to SystemD.
Dbus developers: How do we get Dbus working under SystemD?
Poettering: That's low level stuff, we don't have the skills, besides that's not my problem.
--
See also what SystemD does to
"I believe it is that they have by now gotten away with so many bad decisions"
Such as embedding the Google DNS addresses into the make file of the SystemD compile script - yea really. Have these people any idea of the security implications of embedding a fixed IP address into the DNS resolver. For instance disabling the local DNS server, blocking 8.8.8.8 and firing up your own box at 8.8.8.8. What F*****G genius thought of this particular hack. "This setting is hence only used if no other DNS server information is known" ref. If no DNS information is known then that should really mean that no DNS information is known.
Yet more of the Cloud .. the Cloud .. the Cloud, instead of paying the one off for your own servers, you pay a yearly rent, in the cloud .. in the cloud ...
I disagree, the people have a right to say what they want, the rest of us have the right to take no notice.
I disagree !!!
"A developer who worked with the Ubuntu Phone project has outlined the reasons for its failure"
Ubuntu Phone failed because Canonical failed to engage with the developers and didn't do a deal with the telecoms to provide a rich user experience. Like apple did with the original Apple Phone Demo.
Remove Microsoft Windows and the Intel chipset from anywhere on your network ..
At least us Windows users have a modern GUI interface to play with instead of all those text config files under Linux.
"You don't know what a "binary blob" is, do you?"
I do, but was too lazy to look up the correct term and was relying instead on some genius like yourself to correct me over the Internet.
"Software engineers have largely failed at security. Even with the move toward more agile development and DevOps, vulnerabilities continue to take off."
The root cause of the vast majority of security failures is Microsoft Windows running on Intel hardware.
Run the device from a binary blob that is protected by a read-write switch.
"The CIA's Remote Devices Branch's UMBRAGE group collects and maintains a substantial library of attack techniques 'stolen' from malware produced in other states including the Russian Federation.
With UMBRAGE and related projects the CIA cannot only increase its total number of attack types but also misdirect attribution by leaving behind the "fingerprints" of the groups that the attack techniques were stolen from." link
@Jzanu: "If google tries to deny responsibility and refuses to fix these defects then they face being locked out of the largest growing industrial markets. They can survive in the USA alone, but they won't be growing, and stockholders won't like that outcome - google will comply."
..
Nobody is forced to use Google
'Daniel Fried, a career diplomat who oversaw sanctions imposed on Russia before retiring this year, told the Times that Comey "was spot-on right that Russia is coming after us, but not just the U.S., but the free world in general. And we need to take this seriously."'
"Here's how magnetic tapes work: Sounds and images are magnetized onto strips of tape, using the same principle as when you rub a piece of metal with a magnet and it retains that magnetism"
Geez, I thought that as the tape moved past an induction coil, tiny fluctuations in the coil induced a magnetic flux in the tape, which was coated in a magnetizable material.
I call cyber bullshit on this cyber report ...