Several things - first, what the hell is a "social media expert"? Reminds me of the absurdly specific correspondent titles on the Daily Show.
Second, social networks are populated by voluntary disclosure, and participants have no expectation of privacy. You never know who might be reading it, so I don't put anything on there that I wouldn't feel comfortable putting on a postcard. This is basically implicit inasmuch as you are joining a social network, where the whole idea is to share information about yourself.
Third, I've found that the best way to defend myself against identity theft is to just be myself, which is to say, boring. Who would want to be me, when even I don't want to be me? Plus, the more time I spend on Facebook, the more I notice that people everywhere are adopting my strategy.
Fourth, at the end of the day, social networks are just another way to waste time on the internet. There's more to life than sitting in front of a computer. I promise!
Facebook was really cool back when it was just college students. You can call it elitism if you like, but it was nice to have something that was just for us. Now anyone can get on, and all the third party developer apps make it feel like myspace... I don't see the sale to MSFT helping any. Guess it makes sense for Zuckerberg & Co, from a business perspective, to target as many people as possible.
"a new Windows release is primarily a chance to sustain the revenue we have"
obviously. there's not really much there in terms of day to day productivity boosters. there's nothing in windows vista that'll change the world or blow my mind. it's pretty easy to to see that this also applies to, for example, office 2007 - how many releases do they need before they get word processing right? the glaring example of this is of course the ribbon bar, imho - a UI change/obfuscation just so that people would have a reason to buy the product again.
"We have no plans to do so in the standard controller that ships with PlayStation 3. I believe that the Sixaxis controller offers game designers and developers far more opportunity for future innovation than rumble ever did. Now, rumble I think was the last generation feature; it's not the next-generation feature. I think motion sensitivity is. And we don't see the need to do that." - Phil Harrison, President, Sony Worldwide, 26 Feb 2007
This question has been asked and answered. Look at the numbers of marquee games out by publishers, by platform, vs. the sales numbers for the Wii and DS. This is not news.
Suppose that some individual finds a key, or perhaps some en/decrypting scheme that cracks AACS in its entirety. If that individual then encrypted these logs in that manner before storing them, and then turned them over to the court, wouldn't they also have to turn over the key or scheme? Wouldn't the key or scheme then become a matter of public record, and the MPAA/RIAA unable to squelch its distribution?
It isn't the fact that I have to be monitored that bothers me, it is the fact that I have restructure my life (different OS, different software on that OS)
He doesn't mind that he's being watched, he only minds that he has to switch OSes. That's just bizarre.
Also, has this person never considered that there are alternatives? (cygwin, wine, xen & other vms?)
Developers at Microsoft do not run the company and do not determine direction. Never have and never will so wake up and smell the acid that's eating your brain.
Indeed, just like I said originally ("the business guys make the high level decisions").
Microsoft is out to terminate Adobe Flash, gain control of the cross-platform AJAX developers, stop Firefox growth, and force Google to work under Microsofts terms.
Negative. Microsoft is a publicly traded and owned company. Their one and only goal is to make money for their shareholders. Everything they do is subordinate to (and supportive of) that goal.
Watch for some massive campaign to tie MS Silverlight into college CS curriculum real soon. Remember all the financial deals MSFT was making which resulted in dropped Java courses and added MS.Net courses?
A good developer can move with a fair amount of ease from one language to another. So even though my university mainly taught in Java, I was able to adapt when I got hired into a shop that uses different languages. Languages as a rule aren't really that important, it's understanding the concepts behind them that makes you a good developer.
Honestly, the MSFT folks are a bunch of smart people. They hire pretty much only the best. I would wager that a significant chunk of their workforce, and even a majority of their developers and researchers, would love to do interoperability and open-source. If they can convince the business guys, the people in charge who make the high level decisions, that cooperating is better than extending and extinguishing, they're on the way to making the software world a better place for all.
...when you are talking about a market with massive investment related non-recoverable expenses & high barriers to entry, such as processor fabrication.
Although I submit it would be really cool to just manufacture these things in my garage.
1.The screenshots clearly show WinXP, not Vista. In fact, this guy's ultra-leet "port sniffing software and networking tools" is PeerGuardian 2. Straight from the product's home page: Note: PeerGuardian 2 does not support Windows Vista at the moment. This is a top priority, and we hope to have a Vista download soon.
The screenshots also clearly show another computer is involved, since he is remoting from his Vista PC to his Windows PC. Perhaps they are both on the same network, and he has reason to believe that these connections are being caused by having Vista on the network.
I also think that newer features on the Elite, like the 80GB hard drive, will encourage more family activities, like downloading TV shows and movies.
Downloading TV shows and movies are family activities? That doesn't sound like a very rich family life to me. Family activities are things like sailing trips, playing scrabble, and laughing at Dad's grilling abilities. Or even waving wands around in front of a TV in a game of Wii boxing...
That's not what I mean. The certificates are for support, yet Microsoft says that they do not entitle the bearer to support from them or from anyone else. So what, exactly, are the certificates good for? What is the utility of owning one of these certs?
"At this point in time, in order to avoid any doubt or legal debate on this issue, Microsoft has decided that the Novell support certificates that we distribute to customers will not entitle the recipient to receive from Novell, or any other party, any subscription for support and updates relating to any code licensed under GPLv3."
How very interesting. The Novell support certificates that Microsoft distributes don't entitle the recipient to get support for GPLv3 code. So why would anyone buy one of these things from them?
but if you don't like Prince, you probably don't actually know much about him
Haha, what kind of a nonsensical statement is this? By analogy, if you don't like oranges, well then you probably don't know much about them. Because apparently liking something, or not, isn't a personal opinion anymore - it's a fact.
I don't agree. If the examiners really can detect the rootkit, then they should be able to detect it twice. Also, in real world scenarios, the examiner (like a virus or malware scanning app) won't have access to two identical machines, one with, and one without.
If I were her, I would put Blue Pill on both machines. This has two advantages for her: First, the examiners' obvious strategy of comparing runtime aspects (CPU %, execution time, IO, etc) between the two machines fails, because now both machines incur the VM overhead penalty, and second, if the examiners pick out one of the machines as infected, she can 'prove' them wrong by showing the infection on the other one (given the contest rules of one clean machine, one infected machine). It's worth noting that that's not a real proof, because if the examiners really can deduce the presence of Blue Pill, then they could just show that both are infected. But this strategy definitely defeats the 'compare execution' plan that the examiners have said they are going to use.
The subpoenas were not issued; the Senate Judiciary Committee merely voted to authorize them. Nothing "happens" until they are actually issued, which may or may not happen in a timely manner, or at all. Consider the matter of the firing of the those US Attorneys - subpoenas were authorized months ago, but only actually issued a few weeks ago.
I find that I work best (hardest, smartest, and longest) on projects that are personally interesting to me; I suspect that you may find the same is true for you.
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Several things - first, what the hell is a "social media expert"? Reminds me of the absurdly specific correspondent titles on the Daily Show.
Second, social networks are populated by voluntary disclosure, and participants have no expectation of privacy. You never know who might be reading it, so I don't put anything on there that I wouldn't feel comfortable putting on a postcard. This is basically implicit inasmuch as you are joining a social network, where the whole idea is to share information about yourself.
Third, I've found that the best way to defend myself against identity theft is to just be myself, which is to say, boring. Who would want to be me, when even I don't want to be me? Plus, the more time I spend on Facebook, the more I notice that people everywhere are adopting my strategy.
Fourth, at the end of the day, social networks are just another way to waste time on the internet. There's more to life than sitting in front of a computer. I promise!
Facebook was really cool back when it was just college students. You can call it elitism if you like, but it was nice to have something that was just for us. Now anyone can get on, and all the third party developer apps make it feel like myspace... I don't see the sale to MSFT helping any. Guess it makes sense for Zuckerberg & Co, from a business perspective, to target as many people as possible.
"a new Windows release is primarily a chance to sustain the revenue we have"
obviously. there's not really much there in terms of day to day productivity boosters. there's nothing in windows vista that'll change the world or blow my mind. it's pretty easy to to see that this also applies to, for example, office 2007 - how many releases do they need before they get word processing right? the glaring example of this is of course the ribbon bar, imho - a UI change/obfuscation just so that people would have a reason to buy the product again.
"We have no plans to do so in the standard controller that ships with PlayStation 3. I believe that the Sixaxis controller offers game designers and developers far more opportunity for future innovation than rumble ever did. Now, rumble I think was the last generation feature; it's not the next-generation feature. I think motion sensitivity is. And we don't see the need to do that." - Phil Harrison, President, Sony Worldwide, 26 Feb 2007
hahaha
This question has been asked and answered. Look at the numbers of marquee games out by publishers, by platform, vs. the sales numbers for the Wii and DS. This is not news.
Suppose that some individual finds a key, or perhaps some en/decrypting scheme that cracks AACS in its entirety. If that individual then encrypted these logs in that manner before storing them, and then turned them over to the court, wouldn't they also have to turn over the key or scheme? Wouldn't the key or scheme then become a matter of public record, and the MPAA/RIAA unable to squelch its distribution?
*idea inspired by Zenon Panoussis v. Scientology
Also, has this person never considered that there are alternatives? (cygwin, wine, xen & other vms?)
like it, love it, live it
Honestly, the MSFT folks are a bunch of smart people. They hire pretty much only the best. I would wager that a significant chunk of their workforce, and even a majority of their developers and researchers, would love to do interoperability and open-source. If they can convince the business guys, the people in charge who make the high level decisions, that cooperating is better than extending and extinguishing, they're on the way to making the software world a better place for all.
Smartass :)
...when you are talking about a market with massive investment related non-recoverable expenses & high barriers to entry, such as processor fabrication.
Although I submit it would be really cool to just manufacture these things in my garage.
The screenshots also clearly show another computer is involved, since he is remoting from his Vista PC to his Windows PC. Perhaps they are both on the same network, and he has reason to believe that these connections are being caused by having Vista on the network.
Downloading TV shows and movies are family activities? That doesn't sound like a very rich family life to me. Family activities are things like sailing trips, playing scrabble, and laughing at Dad's grilling abilities. Or even waving wands around in front of a TV in a game of Wii boxing...
That's not what I mean. The certificates are for support, yet Microsoft says that they do not entitle the bearer to support from them or from anyone else. So what, exactly, are the certificates good for? What is the utility of owning one of these certs?
...can you be the Next Big Thing? If there's a record, it surely belongs to Linux.
How very interesting. The Novell support certificates that Microsoft distributes don't entitle the recipient to get support for GPLv3 code. So why would anyone buy one of these things from them?
...shortly thereafter, the human era will be ended.
I don't agree. If the examiners really can detect the rootkit, then they should be able to detect it twice. Also, in real world scenarios, the examiner (like a virus or malware scanning app) won't have access to two identical machines, one with, and one without.
If I were her, I would put Blue Pill on both machines. This has two advantages for her: First, the examiners' obvious strategy of comparing runtime aspects (CPU %, execution time, IO, etc) between the two machines fails, because now both machines incur the VM overhead penalty, and second, if the examiners pick out one of the machines as infected, she can 'prove' them wrong by showing the infection on the other one (given the contest rules of one clean machine, one infected machine). It's worth noting that that's not a real proof, because if the examiners really can deduce the presence of Blue Pill, then they could just show that both are infected. But this strategy definitely defeats the 'compare execution' plan that the examiners have said they are going to use.
... to not work for the U.S. government.
The subpoenas were not issued; the Senate Judiciary Committee merely voted to authorize them. Nothing "happens" until they are actually issued, which may or may not happen in a timely manner, or at all. Consider the matter of the firing of the those US Attorneys - subpoenas were authorized months ago, but only actually issued a few weeks ago.
I find that I work best (hardest, smartest, and longest) on projects that are personally interesting to me; I suspect that you may find the same is true for you.