He claims that they encourage people to speak up. Even if true (which I don't believe) we all know that all such discussions will be happening behind closed doors and in secret courts. That's the problem. Someone might speak up, it will be discussed in secret forums and the people won't have a chance to have their democratic say on these issues.
Unlikely they have a "back door". An outside chance they have an attack vector. But if they do, you will never hear anything about it. It will be their deepest secret for spying on foreign enemies.
The judge would hardly order a back door for a specific case and defendant, because it would be too late, not to mention way beyond the scope of the case.
There was a time when people thought Linux would become a contender on the desktop. That basically hasn't happened, and it's not going to happen in a big way. Thus linux users are starved for good native apps (kinda a chicken and egg thing going on too).
Now if you ditched KDE and Gnome and simply went with a full on clone of OS X, suddenly a whole ton of apps would come to Linux, whether it be running OS X apps as-is or whether you convince developers to do a simple recompile for Linux. Whether you like OS X or don't like it, the reality is this would boost Linux, bring apps, and give a shoe in for a possible desktop future for Linux.
And the reality is, OS X is actually quite good. Apple developers have always quite liked developing for the platform, users apparently like it, so nobody would be terribly upset.
Or you can keep running with the failed KDE/Gnome wars.
Can't America send in some drone strikes against those pesky Greenlanders who are dumping their ice in the water? Bombing them will teach them a lesson!
Errm is simply looking at the Oracle binaries and observing their vulnerabilities considered reverse engineering? I thought that term was to do with creating work alikes.
That's one of those good questions that's impossible to answer. In my personal opinion, there would have been a lot of people with similar foresight that could have replaced him. Lots. Probably half the geeks out there, as opposed to any bean counter pencil pusher. But that's one of those propositions that we just can't test.
That's what I was thinking. I don't claim to be an expert on every cloud technology out there, but everything I've seen about the cloud has been heavily proprietary.
Is he arguing against a straw man? I don't think anyone would seriously argue that Jobs invented anything that (a) wasn't just combining existing tech and (b) probably wouldn't have come along a few years later anyway. Jobs did it first (sort of) and did it better. He wasn't an Edison, he was just a guy (a) with a ton of resource behind him and (b) with good taste and moderate foresight. Nobody would say he was an Edison. We don't live in an age when an Edison gets rich and famous. We live in an age when someone who can combine and weave together a ton of existing technologies into just the right consumer product can get rich and famous.
Couldn't every man and his dog see that this was always a total waste of money? If Microsoft wanted to make their own phones they always had the wherewithal to do it themselves. Besides which, Nokia was happily making their phones without them buying them. They should have just allowed that while secretly designing their own. Saved 8 billion or whatever. I don't know what these CEOs are thinking.
Yes exactly. There is going to be very little technical difference between routing phone call data and internet data. In fact isn't a phone call a 64kbs data stream?
Even if you can technically run generators underwater if all the stars are aligned, it's hardly what you want to plan for is it? How do you do repairs on a generator underwater?
All nukes need to be near water. All (or almost) all sources of water can overflow their normal height. Ergo putting generators in the basement is never a good idea.
As has been pointed out, if the law says the king can say "off with your head" because you looked at him funny, that's a fair trial because it is in accordance with the law.
It's debatable what the Patriot Act really "legally" allows, and indeed if that act is itself legal. Either way, most people never knew what was being done in its name.
The Start Menu never ever ever contained every application on the system. It only ever included ones that either MS thought would be good there, or else that Application vendors thought would be good there. (Yes, vendors provide many little apps in their packages that they don't put in there.).
You exaggerate quite a bit. Courts have actually declared the government's spying illegal based on Snowden revelations. Those arguments are continuing and in higher courts but the point is, it goes well beyond some guy thought maybe some secret should be revealed.
Possibly, but the Japanese government were caught out in a cover up on this disaster from the beginning. Are they still covering up? Probably not, but when you can't trust the government, why would you risk it?
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He claims that they encourage people to speak up. Even if true (which I don't believe) we all know that all such discussions will be happening behind closed doors and in secret courts. That's the problem. Someone might speak up, it will be discussed in secret forums and the people won't have a chance to have their democratic say on these issues.
Unlikely they have a "back door". An outside chance they have an attack vector. But if they do, you will never hear anything about it. It will be their deepest secret for spying on foreign enemies.
The judge would hardly order a back door for a specific case and defendant, because it would be too late, not to mention way beyond the scope of the case.
I suspect those LTS bumps are way more painful than on OSX.
It will never work out of the box like OS X, because of hardware.
There was a time when people thought Linux would become a contender on the desktop. That basically hasn't happened, and it's not going to happen in a big way. Thus linux users are starved for good native apps (kinda a chicken and egg thing going on too).
Now if you ditched KDE and Gnome and simply went with a full on clone of OS X, suddenly a whole ton of apps would come to Linux, whether it be running OS X apps as-is or whether you convince developers to do a simple recompile for Linux. Whether you like OS X or don't like it, the reality is this would boost Linux, bring apps, and give a shoe in for a possible desktop future for Linux.
And the reality is, OS X is actually quite good. Apple developers have always quite liked developing for the platform, users apparently like it, so nobody would be terribly upset.
Or you can keep running with the failed KDE/Gnome wars.
What encryption system I wonder. Isn't https an encryption system that is used by Islamic State?
Anybody with the inside scoop on exactly how he was caught, given that bitcoin is supposed to be anonymous?
Can't America send in some drone strikes against those pesky Greenlanders who are dumping their ice in the water? Bombing them will teach them a lesson!
Errm is simply looking at the Oracle binaries and observing their vulnerabilities considered reverse engineering? I thought that term was to do with creating work alikes.
That's one of those good questions that's impossible to answer. In my personal opinion, there would have been a lot of people with similar foresight that could have replaced him. Lots. Probably half the geeks out there, as opposed to any bean counter pencil pusher. But that's one of those propositions that we just can't test.
That's what I was thinking. I don't claim to be an expert on every cloud technology out there, but everything I've seen about the cloud has been heavily proprietary.
Is he arguing against a straw man? I don't think anyone would seriously argue that Jobs invented anything that (a) wasn't just combining existing tech and (b) probably wouldn't have come along a few years later anyway. Jobs did it first (sort of) and did it better. He wasn't an Edison, he was just a guy (a) with a ton of resource behind him and (b) with good taste and moderate foresight. Nobody would say he was an Edison. We don't live in an age when an Edison gets rich and famous. We live in an age when someone who can combine and weave together a ton of existing technologies into just the right consumer product can get rich and famous.
Couldn't every man and his dog see that this was always a total waste of money? If Microsoft wanted to make their own phones they always had the wherewithal to do it themselves. Besides which, Nokia was happily making their phones without them buying them. They should have just allowed that while secretly designing their own. Saved 8 billion or whatever. I don't know what these CEOs are thinking.
Yes exactly. There is going to be very little technical difference between routing phone call data and internet data. In fact isn't a phone call a 64kbs data stream?
Even if you can technically run generators underwater if all the stars are aligned, it's hardly what you want to plan for is it? How do you do repairs on a generator underwater?
All nukes need to be near water. All (or almost) all sources of water can overflow their normal height. Ergo putting generators in the basement is never a good idea.
As has been pointed out, if the law says the king can say "off with your head" because you looked at him funny, that's a fair trial because it is in accordance with the law.
It's debatable what the Patriot Act really "legally" allows, and indeed if that act is itself legal. Either way, most people never knew what was being done in its name.
The US has just as much malevolence, it's just that they dress it up pretty and pretend it is democracy (when it's really not).
The Start Menu never ever ever contained every application on the system. It only ever included ones that either MS thought would be good there, or else that Application vendors thought would be good there. (Yes, vendors provide many little apps in their packages that they don't put in there.).
Difficult, because these other crimes go "right to the top". You'd need big balls to authorise that.
You exaggerate quite a bit. Courts have actually declared the government's spying illegal based on Snowden revelations. Those arguments are continuing and in higher courts but the point is, it goes well beyond some guy thought maybe some secret should be revealed.
Then why was Nixon kicked out?
Possibly, but the Japanese government were caught out in a cover up on this disaster from the beginning. Are they still covering up? Probably not, but when you can't trust the government, why would you risk it?