> There are a lot of people that will let anyone be their online friend.
They are idiots. Letting somebody be your friend gives rise to all kinds of funny attacks, starting with the fact that usually your friends see/are notified when you are online (ok, there are enough social network where everybody sees that)... and continuing that you may be more exposed to injection vulnerabilities of the social; network you are using... going to that the person may get a much better clue who are your other friends... to last but not least messing up the originally good idea that people with many friends are somewhat more likely to be a real character....
Well - you know the big fight they posed about "IE being a core part of Windows". And i guess a selling point for large administrations was "working together very well with the OS" and "supporting you old web applications with active X as long as you want". Yeah sure.
Go to your customers with 10000 licences of Windows (and 10000 licenses of MS Office) and tell them in the face: "Sorry guys, we know we said IE would be working forever and especially well with windows, but you know, we cant afford that team any more, they just suck too much - take care about yourself.".
Good luck with that.
At MS it has always been a policy that if something does not crash immediately and enables the customer to do some work you can put it on a floppy disk/press the cd. To the standard PEBKAC the cuprit is not obvious anyway - if the computer crashes, is hacked, rund slower than before, need more memory than before to do the same work - for sure its not MS fault. However if something visible to the PEBKACs goes missing, then they would blame Microsoft.
Yes, and then there was the phase in the end of the 90s where they tried to add a "button where you could "increase" the stereo effect by some signal processing. I literally had to leave the room when someone used that.
Virus writers update their viruses 100 times faster than the military its rules. I would not wonder if the rules effective at that moment were 10 years old (or just minor revisions - like fixing security holes already being exploited). I work in a very large company, and each time i try to report a security problem i observe, i am being told the IT department is responsible and its not my job - and nothing changes. I assume in the military its the same problem but worse; maybe you even go in jail because you figured sth out.
Please contrast:
google chat: i dont think much data is transported
google voice: a moderate amount of data has to be relayed (1 hour of talking may be less than 10MB) - and not much storage at google is required (at least thats what i hope)
google wave: if user a in Australia, user b in Europe and User c in America use the same wave, and keep it open over weeks in the expectation that, as soon as they sit down the system will react instantaneously, it will impose strong requirements on the database. If 100 Million users keep 20 waves requiring several MBytes open (remember what google suggested you do with it), then you may run into problem when you try to finance that on a free basis (which they had to do to circumvent the chicken-egg problem).
I guess google stopped it because they could not figure out how to allocate the amount of server infractructure needed and still earn money while keeping the service free. I actually would think that wave would reduce googles advertisement income because it would grow on the cost of other services while it has much harder demands on the computation power assigned to it than e.g. google mail. Its ok if an email takes a minute, but in the wave concept an minute would be long. With mail its even if it takes 20 Minutes a a busy time of the year.
i agree about the architecture. C code which can only works on a single architecture points to the programmers having no clue. Usually that is a pretty strong indication not to use the code.
i am sure they find something suspicious about you. Technically you may turn out to be innocent in court, but prepare to get rid of the computer you are using (and maybe all other computers, too) for that for a few years when its held as evidence.
Do they write anywhere how much of the superconducting architecture they have? Number of cores? Flops? Mips? Anything?
Heck, i can build any architecture with a few watts if i am allowed to underclock and only use 4 cores to demonstrate it.
But well.... It was in Texas... Down where hillbilly creationists roam in the educational boards. Probably they where thought in school to strip any experiment of units and sensible numbers and replace these but general claims, so that all theories are equally scientific.
The assumption should be that you have been rooted by somebody who knows exactly what things are logged in your systems, possibly with continuous influence on what is being logged and how long, maybe even with the power to alter log files. IMHO one of the important things is to use several servers just for logs, to whom only a single admin has access. If one of them is going in a bad way, then you have at least the logs on the other machine. If you are paranoid, transfer the md5 checksums of the files on your servers to these machines and use git on the etc directory, backing the etc directories up on these machines. and force the it staff to make builds of custom SW automated.
This means you have a) logs of what has happened (at least you know what you know) b) a possibility to determine which files changed c) a documentation about which configuration changes have been done for which purpose. d) a backup of the configuration, enabling you to reinstall the machine e) a way to rebuild programs added to the system easily.
by using reusable packaging, not taking plastic bags but bringing own reusable ones, not use small packages of potatoes but buy 50kg at the farm one time per year and store them correctly, buy only fresh food from the market without a lot of packaging, somebody will inspect my garbage can regularly because my bag with recycle waste is not getting full enough? Will it the report me as a terrorist or something?
That sounds weird. (i appreciate recycling very much. But i am not a friend of anybody checking if i am within "normal" parameters).
I also dont want to babysit my phone. Which is exactly why a company selling an 800Euro phone which gets its copy and paste functionality with a firmware update, looses calls if i touch it wrong, introduces 3g several years after their competitors and uses their intelligence to prevent functionality is of my buying list for some time.
My idea is. I have a phone, whereever i am on the world i buy a SIM-card and use it with my laptop to access the net, make phone calls and transfer my contacts from the old phone to the new one without hassle (and directly - without the net).
Same is true for my 2006 Nokia E61. Impossible how i could stand having the choice between several web browsers. Totally irresponsible how Nokia does not enforce the use of the preinstalled (not so good) e-mail client but allows me to install unsigned (or signed) alternatives. Totally irresponsible that there are several instant messaging clients. This hampers with my user experience. i have to make choices what works best for me. Thinking hurts.
I want the legal right to, whenever a product is subsidised by adevertisements, buy the product without ads for a higher (but appropriate price). That applies to television programmes, newspapers in the web ( i would pay to get rid of the advertisements, at least the animated ones - until that time is ude adblock), movies in the cinema, etc.
So, the effect would be the same as i everyone would be using pseudonyms, just that we also loose the identity we may like? Should the schools be forced to reissue certificates etc? Should all offcial references be changed? or should the webpage of the alumi look like i never studied? Should i change my face (i have no doubt that searching for faces on picasa etc will arrive at some point in a big scale)? Should i tell wehn i apply for a job that this identity may be a little bit thinner than what you expect for my age?
No, thanks. I will just keep using pseudonyms and not let any photos of me besides official ones reside on the web. Who needs to know my real name will get to know it.
Its funny how people tend to think that having a different size of a single device type is the only variation to fit your needs....
In coffee shops, i prefer my ebook reader. smaller than the ipad, and battery lasts longer, and less intrusive when flipping pages. Chick which are impressed by the ipad are not the right ones for me.
For things i need to do (email, appointments etc), an phone with a real keyboard is enough. (Nokia e63 in my case). If the iphone is too small to create a real working keyboard for typing email quickly, i am not sure the right solution is to use an ipad.
For mobile surfing, i like my sharp pc t1 (arm device running on linux). No multitouch, but a clever two-button device where one button also track the motion of you finger. You dont need to take you hands of the device to scroll.
(and btw for playing mp3s i have another mp3 player, small enough not to be felt in the pocket when cycling)
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> There are a lot of people that will let anyone be their online friend.
They are idiots. Letting somebody be your friend gives rise to all kinds of funny attacks, starting with the fact that usually your friends see/are notified when you are online (ok, there are enough social network where everybody sees that)... and continuing that you may be more exposed to injection vulnerabilities of the social; network you are using... going to that the person may get a much better clue who are your other friends... to last but not least messing up the originally good idea that people with many friends are somewhat more likely to be a real character....
That said, there are a lot of idiots.
Also speaking as a non-RIM user:
does your phone warn you if you encounter a changed ssl certificate for the domain your mail client is connecting to?
Well - you know the big fight they posed about "IE being a core part of Windows". And i guess a selling point for large administrations was "working together very well with the OS" and "supporting you old web applications with active X as long as you want". Yeah sure.
Go to your customers with 10000 licences of Windows (and 10000 licenses of MS Office) and tell them in the face: "Sorry guys, we know we said IE would be working forever and especially well with windows, but you know, we cant afford that team any more, they just suck too much - take care about yourself.".
Good luck with that.
At MS it has always been a policy that if something does not crash immediately and enables the customer to do some work you can put it on a floppy disk/press the cd. To the standard PEBKAC the cuprit is not obvious anyway - if the computer crashes, is hacked, rund slower than before, need more memory than before to do the same work - for sure its not MS fault. However if something visible to the PEBKACs goes missing, then they would blame Microsoft.
Yes, and then there was the phase in the end of the 90s where they tried to add a "button where you could "increase" the stereo effect by some signal processing. I literally had to leave the room when someone used that.
Virus writers update their viruses 100 times faster than the military its rules. I would not wonder if the rules effective at that moment were 10 years old (or just minor revisions - like fixing security holes already being exploited). I work in a very large company, and each time i try to report a security problem i observe, i am being told the IT department is responsible and its not my job - and nothing changes. I assume in the military its the same problem but worse; maybe you even go in jail because you figured sth out.
Please contrast: google chat: i dont think much data is transported google voice: a moderate amount of data has to be relayed (1 hour of talking may be less than 10MB) - and not much storage at google is required (at least thats what i hope) google wave: if user a in Australia, user b in Europe and User c in America use the same wave, and keep it open over weeks in the expectation that, as soon as they sit down the system will react instantaneously, it will impose strong requirements on the database. If 100 Million users keep 20 waves requiring several MBytes open (remember what google suggested you do with it), then you may run into problem when you try to finance that on a free basis (which they had to do to circumvent the chicken-egg problem).
I guess google stopped it because they could not figure out how to allocate the amount of server infractructure needed and still earn money while keeping the service free. I actually would think that wave would reduce googles advertisement income because it would grow on the cost of other services while it has much harder demands on the computation power assigned to it than e.g. google mail. Its ok if an email takes a minute, but in the wave concept an minute would be long. With mail its even if it takes 20 Minutes a a busy time of the year.
He will do as many useful things as other ipad users
Indeed, the article could have tried to be a little more informative.
Questions like: if they recreate a event wrong and its sent as "news" what are the possible legal consequences?
I want the suitcase which contained the proofs that the code is theirs.
I would not wonder if "word for android" appeared in the app stores.
i agree about the architecture. C code which can only works on a single architecture points to the programmers having no clue. Usually that is a pretty strong indication not to use the code.
i am sure they find something suspicious about you. Technically you may turn out to be innocent in court, but prepare to get rid of the computer you are using (and maybe all other computers, too) for that for a few years when its held as evidence.
Do they write anywhere how much of the superconducting architecture they have? Number of cores? Flops? Mips? Anything?
Heck, i can build any architecture with a few watts if i am allowed to underclock and only use 4 cores to demonstrate it.
But well.... It was in Texas... Down where hillbilly creationists roam in the educational boards. Probably they where thought in school to strip any experiment of units and sensible numbers and replace these but general claims, so that all theories are equally scientific.
No.
If needed there should be a mechanism to automate bug reports in a meaningful way, as most professional software has.
I'd say -> I'd hope....
I don't think these servers need anything else by logins on the console....
The assumption should be that you have been rooted by somebody who knows exactly what things are logged in your systems, possibly with continuous influence on what is being logged and how long, maybe even with the power to alter log files. IMHO one of the important things is to use several servers just for logs, to whom only a single admin has access. If one of them is going in a bad way, then you have at least the logs on the other machine. If you are paranoid, transfer the md5 checksums of the files on your servers to these machines and use git on the etc directory, backing the etc directories up on these machines. and force the it staff to make builds of custom SW automated.
This means you have
a) logs of what has happened (at least you know what you know)
b) a possibility to determine which files changed
c) a documentation about which configuration changes have been done for which purpose.
d) a backup of the configuration, enabling you to reinstall the machine
e) a way to rebuild programs added to the system easily.
by using reusable packaging, not taking plastic bags but bringing own reusable ones, not use small packages of potatoes but buy 50kg at the farm one time per year and store them correctly, buy only fresh food from the market without a lot of packaging, somebody will inspect my garbage can regularly because my bag with recycle waste is not getting full enough? Will it the report me as a terrorist or something?
That sounds weird. (i appreciate recycling very much. But i am not a friend of anybody checking if i am within "normal" parameters).
I also dont want to babysit my phone. Which is exactly why a company selling an 800Euro phone which gets its copy and paste functionality with a firmware update, looses calls if i touch it wrong, introduces 3g several years after their competitors and uses their intelligence to prevent functionality is of my buying list for some time.
My idea is. I have a phone, whereever i am on the world i buy a SIM-card and use it with my laptop to access the net, make phone calls and transfer my contacts from the old phone to the new one without hassle (and directly - without the net).
SymVPN, which allows to use pptp seems not to exist in your reality.
But i admit, i would have appreciated a non-proprietary VPN preinstalled. Luckily Nokia allows software replacing functionality.
Same is true for my 2006 Nokia E61. Impossible how i could stand having the choice between several web browsers. Totally irresponsible how Nokia does not enforce the use of the preinstalled (not so good) e-mail client but allows me to install unsigned (or signed) alternatives. Totally irresponsible that there are several instant messaging clients. This hampers with my user experience. i have to make choices what works best for me. Thinking hurts.
Even more effective:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDilD3wAxt8
I want the legal right to, whenever a product is subsidised by adevertisements, buy the product without ads for a higher (but appropriate price). That applies to television programmes, newspapers in the web ( i would pay to get rid of the advertisements, at least the animated ones - until that time is ude adblock), movies in the cinema, etc.
So, the effect would be the same as i everyone would be using pseudonyms, just that we also loose the identity we may like? Should the schools be forced to reissue certificates etc? Should all offcial references be changed? or should the webpage of the alumi look like i never studied? Should i change my face (i have no doubt that searching for faces on picasa etc will arrive at some point in a big scale)? Should i tell wehn i apply for a job that this identity may be a little bit thinner than what you expect for my age?
No, thanks. I will just keep using pseudonyms and not let any photos of me besides official ones reside on the web. Who needs to know my real name will get to know it.
Its funny how people tend to think that having a different size of a single device type is the only variation to fit your needs....
In coffee shops, i prefer my ebook reader. smaller than the ipad, and battery lasts longer, and less intrusive when flipping pages. Chick which are impressed by the ipad are not the right ones for me.
For things i need to do (email, appointments etc), an phone with a real keyboard is enough. (Nokia e63 in my case). If the iphone is too small to create a real working keyboard for typing email quickly, i am not sure the right solution is to use an ipad.
For mobile surfing, i like my sharp pc t1 (arm device running on linux). No multitouch, but a clever two-button device where one button also track the motion of you finger. You dont need to take you hands of the device to scroll.
(and btw for playing mp3s i have another mp3 player, small enough not to be felt in the pocket when cycling)