That's a separate insurance policy in addition to the manufacturers warranty. On the other hand, i doubt anyone would vomit or urinate on a computer intentionally, that has to be an uncontrollable reaction which may or may not be their own fault (eg getting drunk)... Smoking on the other hand is obviously deliberate.
Many consumers are surprised when they buy a computer running windows and realise that it doesn't live up to the advertising hype, that it's not so easy to use as microsoft said it was and that they actually do need a good level of windows specific knowledge to keep it running. They are also surprised to find out that windows on its own is rather useless, and they will need to acquire (usually buy) additional third party addons before it becomes useful.
As for responsible companies, do you know any? companies have an obligation to maximize profit, and one way to do that is to reduce the number of warranty repairs you have to make... You will find that virtually every reasonably large company will do this. They only ever do anything that remotely benefits the consumer as a side effect of their attempts to maximize profit.
Unfortunately, transport is a requirement and there aren't really any practical alternatives to vehicles fuelled with gas or diesel... I doubt there is anyone alive today who doesn't depend on transportation, either for their own use, or by third parties on their behalf (even people bedridden need to have food brought to them).
Before cars, people used horses which not only release unpleasant gases, but also liquid and solid waste. And while electric cars may not release any unpleasant gases as they are driven, that electricity was most likely generated in a plant which burns coal and stored in batteries full of acid and lead which were made in a factory that emits plenty of nasty byproducts of its own.
All we can do is try to reduce the level of movement required (working from home more, not concentrating workplaces all in one area and residences in another etc)..
Smoking is not a requirement, people can easily live without it and many do.
Because it's a choice, and you can legally penalize someone for doing something detrimental which they chose to do... In many places, if you are interviewing someone for a job your not allowed to consider their ethnicity or gender (over which they obviously have no control), but if they smoke you can use that as your reason for choosing someone else.
I could use a computer in an environment where it gets no ventilation, and that would void the warranty if they could see evidence of how it was used... I can smash it with a hammer and the warranty is voided, i can try using it in the bath and the warranty gets voided... Noone is forcing you to smoke in the vicinity of your computer, you do so at your own risk.
And smokers themselves are so used to the smell and brown/yellow residue that they will consider it normal and not notice it. I've seen smokers complaining about other people who smell for instance, when they themselves permanently smell worse but take great offence to being told that to a non smoker they smell far more offensive than the guy with a sweat or urine smell.
Who says he had a choice? You take the property that you can afford, which is within reasonable distance of where you work... There might not be much choice. Some people have an apartment provided for them, usually when they cannot afford one of their own... For some people, the only other options are likely to be homelessness or jail.
Software is not hugely different to music, it is often priced such that the initial development costs are paid off very quickly, leaving pure profit afterwards... And the company will make millions while whoever did the hard work of writing the software will just get their 9-5 wage, and quite possibly be fired once the software is finished so the company can go on selling it and make more money.
Most programmers are paid a fixed wage, and work 9-5 in the back end churning out code... Unlike the big name musicians, and more like the backend workers who do all the hard work making a big name singer sound good, trying to make their singing in tune with the instruments and then pressing it all to a cd.
You don't get celebrity programmers on tv being paid millions for trivial appearances, and most programmers will not continue seeing any money once they stop actively writing code.
Being paid a reasonable wage for a reasonable amount of work is one thing, being paid huge amounts of money for work you haven't even done recently is quite another.
Software companies make millions off the hard work of their programmers, and they don't get an ongoing percentage of sales. If that programmer leaves, they stop getting anything at all but the company continues to make millions from the work they did.
As a developer you have a lot more freedom with gecko or webkit, you don't need to automate the browser or its rendering engine, you can modify it to do exactly what you want, or incorporate its code into your program and call its internal functions directly. There's nothing stopping you from implementing the api that you want.
How many developers will care about cross-platform? Some developers create cross platform apps by default, but the vast majority create them by accident using cross platform languages... How many flash objects or java applets were ever tested or designed on more than one platform? If you make cross platform ability an option rather than the default, then the vast majority of apps will not be cross platform.
Similar features in an incompatible way, meaning that this won't be cross platform at all. They are counting on developers not realising, only testing on windows and putting out tons of windows-only sites because having a product people are forced to use is much better than making something people actually want to use.
It's all Arnold Schwarzenegger's fault, now that he's no longer making movies, he doesn't want you watching anyone else's movies instead so he's trying to force everyone else to have a small crappy set at home...
Incidentally, the small CRT i had a few years ago uses a lot more power than the fairly large LCD i have now.
MS are pretty screwed here, they either offer a half assed netbook os and lose out to linux, or they offer a full featured one and lose out on margin... Intel on the other hand, have every reason to push chrome as a cut down limited os reinforces their notion that such machines aren't full featured and you need to buy a (more expensive, bigger margin) full size laptop instead.
Yes, but google don't have a monopoly on desktop os, you can completely ignore chrome os and not suffer any disadvantage as a result. Completely ignore windows and you cant play many games, cant open some proprietary formats (which you will come across sooner or later, like it or not), cant run many proprietary apps etc.
Both Jaguar and Aston Martin are still producing cars today, which will quite happily beat a honda in many objective measurements... I believe 40 years from now, a greater proportion of these cars will still be on the roads than the hondas being produced today which was my point, rather than that cars from the 1960s would still be around 40 years from now (tho i'm sure some will).
In the 1960s, the jaguar and aston martins of their day were also superior in measurable (as well as personal) ways to the 1960s equivalent of todays honda.
There are plenty of rational reasons for keeping old cars, many people prefer the style, or the sound, or the way it feels (yes it feels objectively worse than a modern car, but many people prefer that), and lets not forget that certain types of old cars become classics and command a significant price.... It's only with certain classic cars that the value of a vehicle will go up over time instead of down, whereas your brand new honda will lose half its value as soon as you drive it out of the dealership.
Well, it's a beta making it one step up from an alpha (the article noted that fennec was beta on maemo but only considered alpha on windows mobile). and ok, i forgot about opera, but there are non beta versions of opera available too, which there arent for fennec.
Windows password encryption still doesn't use salts, most of the people being attacked will be using windows and a lot of those schemes will hang off the system password.. Even if the encryption on the data is very strong, if it relies on windows standard hashing to store the passwords then you just attack that - the weakest link.
A disturbingly large number of encryption programs rely on the weak password encryption employed by windows, especially in corporate networks.
There's a cluster capable version of john the ripper too, http://www.bindshell.net/tools/johntheripper Some people benchmarked it on a top500 system a few years ago (was well within the top 100 if i remember), but i seem to be unable to find the benchmark output right now...
You can use control chars in passwords too, but depending how you log in you might not be able to enter them... I used to add an alt-tab char to the password on linux boxes, it makes it impossible for windows users to log in.
As well as the password now being in plain text on your mail server and transmitted over the internet... Your password was obviously stored unencrypted or using reversible encryption on the server, most likely the former. It is extremely rare for servers to encrypt data, or if they do they also keep the key on the machine too (so the machine can boot unattended).
I have similar experience to you, and yes... cost or convenience triumphs over security in virtually every case.
Doesn't say what encryption they are cracking at that speed either... Download a copy of john the ripper and run the benchmark, depending on your cpu and type of crypto your trying to crack, you will get anywhere between 100 and 100,000,000 attempts/sec
The article doesn't say what type of encryption they are trying to crack... I assume it's only a fairly limited number of well known encryption programs they target with this, and by using something else you could avoid their attacks quite easily, at least until they implement support for it.
Google search is embedded into billions of third party sites and tools... Google have no control over that. MS search is pretty much only embedded into first party sites and tools. The number of people using Chrome is very small compared to the number of people lumbered with IE...
For an ethernet cable, or any other digital cable, it's easy to test the cable and verify that it is "perfect" for its purpose, that is all the bits of data transmitted from one end are received intact on the other. For analog it's a lot harder to prove that, and a lot of people end up spending a lot of money for diminishing returns.
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That's a separate insurance policy in addition to the manufacturers warranty.
On the other hand, i doubt anyone would vomit or urinate on a computer intentionally, that has to be an uncontrollable reaction which may or may not be their own fault (eg getting drunk)...
Smoking on the other hand is obviously deliberate.
Many consumers are surprised when they buy a computer running windows and realise that it doesn't live up to the advertising hype, that it's not so easy to use as microsoft said it was and that they actually do need a good level of windows specific knowledge to keep it running. They are also surprised to find out that windows on its own is rather useless, and they will need to acquire (usually buy) additional third party addons before it becomes useful.
As for responsible companies, do you know any? companies have an obligation to maximize profit, and one way to do that is to reduce the number of warranty repairs you have to make... You will find that virtually every reasonably large company will do this. They only ever do anything that remotely benefits the consumer as a side effect of their attempts to maximize profit.
Unfortunately, transport is a requirement and there aren't really any practical alternatives to vehicles fuelled with gas or diesel...
I doubt there is anyone alive today who doesn't depend on transportation, either for their own use, or by third parties on their behalf (even people bedridden need to have food brought to them).
Before cars, people used horses which not only release unpleasant gases, but also liquid and solid waste. And while electric cars may not release any unpleasant gases as they are driven, that electricity was most likely generated in a plant which burns coal and stored in batteries full of acid and lead which were made in a factory that emits plenty of nasty byproducts of its own.
All we can do is try to reduce the level of movement required (working from home more, not concentrating workplaces all in one area and residences in another etc)..
Smoking is not a requirement, people can easily live without it and many do.
Because it's a choice, and you can legally penalize someone for doing something detrimental which they chose to do...
In many places, if you are interviewing someone for a job your not allowed to consider their ethnicity or gender (over which they obviously have no control), but if they smoke you can use that as your reason for choosing someone else.
I could use a computer in an environment where it gets no ventilation, and that would void the warranty if they could see evidence of how it was used... I can smash it with a hammer and the warranty is voided, i can try using it in the bath and the warranty gets voided... Noone is forcing you to smoke in the vicinity of your computer, you do so at your own risk.
And smokers themselves are so used to the smell and brown/yellow residue that they will consider it normal and not notice it. I've seen smokers complaining about other people who smell for instance, when they themselves permanently smell worse but take great offence to being told that to a non smoker they smell far more offensive than the guy with a sweat or urine smell.
Who says he had a choice?
You take the property that you can afford, which is within reasonable distance of where you work... There might not be much choice.
Some people have an apartment provided for them, usually when they cannot afford one of their own...
For some people, the only other options are likely to be homelessness or jail.
Software is not hugely different to music, it is often priced such that the initial development costs are paid off very quickly, leaving pure profit afterwards... And the company will make millions while whoever did the hard work of writing the software will just get their 9-5 wage, and quite possibly be fired once the software is finished so the company can go on selling it and make more money.
Most programmers are paid a fixed wage, and work 9-5 in the back end churning out code... Unlike the big name musicians, and more like the backend workers who do all the hard work making a big name singer sound good, trying to make their singing in tune with the instruments and then pressing it all to a cd.
You don't get celebrity programmers on tv being paid millions for trivial appearances, and most programmers will not continue seeing any money once they stop actively writing code.
Being paid a reasonable wage for a reasonable amount of work is one thing, being paid huge amounts of money for work you haven't even done recently is quite another.
Software companies make millions off the hard work of their programmers, and they don't get an ongoing percentage of sales. If that programmer leaves, they stop getting anything at all but the company continues to make millions from the work they did.
Or that 40% of applications are garbage and pirates aren't even willing to take them for free?
As a developer you have a lot more freedom with gecko or webkit, you don't need to automate the browser or its rendering engine, you can modify it to do exactly what you want, or incorporate its code into your program and call its internal functions directly.
There's nothing stopping you from implementing the api that you want.
How many developers will care about cross-platform?
Some developers create cross platform apps by default, but the vast majority create them by accident using cross platform languages... How many flash objects or java applets were ever tested or designed on more than one platform? If you make cross platform ability an option rather than the default, then the vast majority of apps will not be cross platform.
Similar features in an incompatible way, meaning that this won't be cross platform at all. They are counting on developers not realising, only testing on windows and putting out tons of windows-only sites because having a product people are forced to use is much better than making something people actually want to use.
It's all Arnold Schwarzenegger's fault, now that he's no longer making movies, he doesn't want you watching anyone else's movies instead so he's trying to force everyone else to have a small crappy set at home...
Incidentally, the small CRT i had a few years ago uses a lot more power than the fairly large LCD i have now.
MS are pretty screwed here, they either offer a half assed netbook os and lose out to linux, or they offer a full featured one and lose out on margin...
Intel on the other hand, have every reason to push chrome as a cut down limited os reinforces their notion that such machines aren't full featured and you need to buy a (more expensive, bigger margin) full size laptop instead.
Yes, but google don't have a monopoly on desktop os, you can completely ignore chrome os and not suffer any disadvantage as a result.
Completely ignore windows and you cant play many games, cant open some proprietary formats (which you will come across sooner or later, like it or not), cant run many proprietary apps etc.
Both Jaguar and Aston Martin are still producing cars today, which will quite happily beat a honda in many objective measurements...
I believe 40 years from now, a greater proportion of these cars will still be on the roads than the hondas being produced today which was my point, rather than that cars from the 1960s would still be around 40 years from now (tho i'm sure some will).
In the 1960s, the jaguar and aston martins of their day were also superior in measurable (as well as personal) ways to the 1960s equivalent of todays honda.
There are plenty of rational reasons for keeping old cars, many people prefer the style, or the sound, or the way it feels (yes it feels objectively worse than a modern car, but many people prefer that), and lets not forget that certain types of old cars become classics and command a significant price....
It's only with certain classic cars that the value of a vehicle will go up over time instead of down, whereas your brand new honda will lose half its value as soon as you drive it out of the dealership.
Well, it's a beta making it one step up from an alpha (the article noted that fennec was beta on maemo but only considered alpha on windows mobile).
and ok, i forgot about opera, but there are non beta versions of opera available too, which there arent for fennec.
Windows password encryption still doesn't use salts, most of the people being attacked will be using windows and a lot of those schemes will hang off the system password.. Even if the encryption on the data is very strong, if it relies on windows standard hashing to store the passwords then you just attack that - the weakest link.
A disturbingly large number of encryption programs rely on the weak password encryption employed by windows, especially in corporate networks.
There's a cluster capable version of john the ripper too, http://www.bindshell.net/tools/johntheripper
Some people benchmarked it on a top500 system a few years ago (was well within the top 100 if i remember), but i seem to be unable to find the benchmark output right now...
You can use control chars in passwords too, but depending how you log in you might not be able to enter them...
I used to add an alt-tab char to the password on linux boxes, it makes it impossible for windows users to log in.
There are already pre-made dictionaries containing common passwords like that, for different layouts of keyboard too.
As well as the password now being in plain text on your mail server and transmitted over the internet... Your password was obviously stored unencrypted or using reversible encryption on the server, most likely the former. It is extremely rare for servers to encrypt data, or if they do they also keep the key on the machine too (so the machine can boot unattended).
I have similar experience to you, and yes... cost or convenience triumphs over security in virtually every case.
Doesn't say what encryption they are cracking at that speed either...
Download a copy of john the ripper and run the benchmark, depending on your cpu and type of crypto your trying to crack, you will get anywhere between 100 and 100,000,000 attempts/sec
The article doesn't say what type of encryption they are trying to crack...
I assume it's only a fairly limited number of well known encryption programs they target with this, and by using something else you could avoid their attacks quite easily, at least until they implement support for it.
Google search is embedded into billions of third party sites and tools... Google have no control over that.
MS search is pretty much only embedded into first party sites and tools.
The number of people using Chrome is very small compared to the number of people lumbered with IE...
For an ethernet cable, or any other digital cable, it's easy to test the cable and verify that it is "perfect" for its purpose, that is all the bits of data transmitted from one end are received intact on the other.
For analog it's a lot harder to prove that, and a lot of people end up spending a lot of money for diminishing returns.