This is just another example of how the western world has shown just how effective terrorism is. Especially if your goal is to make your enemy into a police state and loose every human right they once had.
Free travel, the right to privacy, free speech, innocent until proven guilty all of them are on the way out. It wont happen over night but we are going there much faster than i thought people would allow.
This was the very goal of the 9/11 attacks and we have taken the bait, hook, line and sinker.
Biggest winner are China and other suppressing states that nowadays seem pretty innocent. Its very hard for other countries to demonize them when they in many regards are just as bad, compared to China they are just a lighter shade of gray.
In essense its like a criminal complaining when someone steals something from them.
I see people all over sitting infront of their facebook instead of interacting IRL. Facebook is a compliment to IRL, not a substitute. I can understand teenagers who havent got kids, houses, work etc to look after but grown ups? Its just sad.
I suspect the showing of more signal than is present was a way in wich Apple tried to make it appear Iphone had better reception than it really has. As this comes back and bites them hard when said reception totally disappears thanks to the faulty antenna they try to "fix" the problem by showing the correct signal strength.
One thing is clear, Apple will be much (i didnt thought it possible) worse than Microsoft if given the chance. These guys seems to have taken customer deception to a new low.
Id say most scientists i have ever seen have been way to drawn back in their apperance. They talk to the press like they talk to their peers. When a reporter asks something that is 99% probable a scientist often seems vague and unsure, because that 1% chance is still there.
When your "oponents" draw their facts out of their arse (intelligent design, oil industry, global warming, food poisons, religion etc) you cant have a normal discussion. You need to pile their fantasies down with force, making them look like the complete tools they really are.
.Net is dead, it just dont know it yet. Smart people use better tools, the idiots are beginners getting smarter every day until they realize the tool they use is shits.
Previously at work i used pretty expensive equipment to analyze the wifi spectrum. Nowadays the only thing i need is my Nexus One and the Wifi Analyzer application. While its very simple and not at all very fancy i have no problem isolating and identifying sources of interference.
Have you tried a couple of other channels? If that dont help its probably not another wifi thats the source of interference. A simple triangulation with Wifi Analyzer and the channel rating stuff should make it easy to spot exactly where the interference originate. Unless its really strong, then you have to extend your triangulation area a bit.
Codeplex is utterly GPL unfriendly, i would say GPL hostile. Its also nothing more than a way to steer open source towards being something you build with Microsofts closed technologies. Its not even stealthy in that regard.
I say fuck Microsoft until they prove they can cooperate. Why give them free ammo for absolutely nothing?
If you have read fairly recent American history, say from 1950 and onwards, you would have no problem believing many conspiracy theories probably have a grain of truth in them. US history is littered with underhand tactics, black-ops and using any security agency for domestic politics.
Kind of takes the edge off of those who complain about Android being fragmented. Microsofts Windows Mobile push is fragmented even at vapourware state.
Building a website that can keep up with very high loads isnt rocket science and i very much doubt Apple would have any problems doing it. I also doubt the strain on the servers are any higher than around the iPad launch.
Considering Apples love for the theater and manufactured hype, artificial problems is the most probable cause.
Because thats exactly what im talking about. Microsoft runs around paying analysts warping statistics and bending the world around windows in order to make it atleast look secure. For them its a PR issue and they solve it by paying for better reviews, not by improving security.
As such you would expect them to excel at security nowadays since it seems a very big concern amongst most users. Still their security efforts are pretty laid back and half assed. Microsoft dont take security seriously, its a pr problem for them at the most.
As a market leader one would expect Windows spanking Linux, BSD and Apples behinds but in reality Windows security sucks. Not because its more prevalent but because its a sitting duck. At Microsoft, features and ease of development has always stood higher than security on the priority lists. The only thing that can change that is monetary pressure like demand for accountability of their products. Until then, Microsoft security is a game of statistics, lies and damn statistics.
I actually think Google would be different. That said i think monopolies should be hard fought against. A free market strives for monopolies and accumulation of resources and without anything holding back you will wind up with one single company without any serious competition.
I never thought i would say this but darn it, we are lucky Apple didnt win against Microsoft. Apple will if given enough market share make Microsoft look pretty tame.
Steve seems intent on using any leverage against competitors no matter how bad the outcome is for the customers. Microsoft does this too but not at this level, probably because of antitrust concerns.
Apple seemed like a nice company but recent moves has changed that perception almost completely. If given the opportunity they will be just as bad for computing in general as Microsoft has been for the last 20 years.
Steve Jobs are a huge douchebag and the best we can hope for is cooperation between Apple and Microsoft. That way they can stab each others back instead of ruining computing for the rest of us.
We tried Win7, Vista still sucks.
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We have trialed Windows 7 and the only real difference from a user perspective is that someone played roll the dice on the UI elements. Everything is strewn around randomly, obscured by worthless wizards or hidden six levels down into menu hell.
From a admin perspective Windows 7 sucks just as bad as XP. If you get yourself a 100% Microsoft environment it gets better but it still arent much better than XP.
I think some games have been pretty good once made into movies. Prins of persia was something i really liked and enjoyed. Postal the movie is also a gem and really something that made me change my perception of UWe Boll. Somehow he did succeed in capturing the athmosphere and general feeling of the game. The feeling is very important since the story in games is just for setting the mood. Mostly the story is just slapped on afterwards and not really what makes the game good.
That said, most games that hit the screen turns into crap. The biggest problem i see is the established movie industry that takes any script and molds it into a specific pattern no matter what. Their fear of failure prevents them from success. Making a movie out of a game demands going out on a limb if you want to capture the feel and gameplay onto the screen, using totally new and untested angles of moviemaking.
Hey asshole, it doesnt matter what security any other OS has, Windows is still shit on a stick. The biggest company with ooodles of money can do much better, thats the issue here. Comparing an insanely rich company with income that would make most countries envy it with some free hobbyist OS is grasping for straws, any straws. Its nothing but greed that sits between us users and better security. Greed and utter incompetence from management.
Microsoft should have much better security than the others, not almost as good as. Try running your precious Windows computer without antiwhatever for a week, visiting sites without regard. It will be a smoking pile of bits and pieces and its no fault but Microsofts. I dont give a fuck it has more market, it should have better security for all the money Microsft prints daily.
That said, the Secunia comparison is flawed, first and foremost because it compares Windows only, to a Linux distribution (a distribution is the linux kernel, Gnu and most applications ever made for Linux). Its like comparing Windows only to Windows + every application ever made and conclude that yes, Windows without any apps is more safe than Windows with apps installed.
Secunia also follows Microsofts ratings for security issues when they are widely known to downplay any issue until proven wrong and even then in most cases they still mark serious flaws as non-critical. Linux on the other hand grades local exploits as serious.
Strange name for a bill thats made for limiting and controlling the flow of information in case of, well just about anything. War on drugs, immigrants, terrorists, citizens?
If there was any real concern about cyber security, Windows would be outright banned on the spot.
From a security point of view Chrome OS is very interesting. I also like the efforts spent on keeping the user out of managing and nursing the OS and make it tend its own business, letting the user work on the computer instead of playing it-expert.
If its going to be even remotely as good as Android i think we can have a winner here.
The act of integration with the sole purpose of killing Netscape was what they got sued for. They leveraged their monopoly on Windows to kill a competitor in the browser wars.
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Bin Ladin wrote himself of the goals of attacks on the US, years ahead.
If you in any way think "we" have won im seriously troubled.
This is just another example of how the western world has shown just how effective terrorism is. Especially if your goal is to make your enemy into a police state and loose every human right they once had.
Free travel, the right to privacy, free speech, innocent until proven guilty all of them are on the way out. It wont happen over night but we are going there much faster than i thought people would allow.
This was the very goal of the 9/11 attacks and we have taken the bait, hook, line and sinker.
Biggest winner are China and other suppressing states that nowadays seem pretty innocent. Its very hard for other countries to demonize them when they in many regards are just as bad, compared to China they are just a lighter shade of gray.
In essense its like a criminal complaining when someone steals something from them.
I see people all over sitting infront of their facebook instead of interacting IRL. Facebook is a compliment to IRL, not a substitute. I can understand teenagers who havent got kids, houses, work etc to look after but grown ups? Its just sad.
I suspect the showing of more signal than is present was a way in wich Apple tried to make it appear Iphone had better reception than it really has. As this comes back and bites them hard when said reception totally disappears thanks to the faulty antenna they try to "fix" the problem by showing the correct signal strength.
One thing is clear, Apple will be much (i didnt thought it possible) worse than Microsoft if given the chance. These guys seems to have taken customer deception to a new low.
Id say most scientists i have ever seen have been way to drawn back in their apperance. They talk to the press like they talk to their peers. When a reporter asks something that is 99% probable a scientist often seems vague and unsure, because that 1% chance is still there.
When your "oponents" draw their facts out of their arse (intelligent design, oil industry, global warming, food poisons, religion etc) you cant have a normal discussion. You need to pile their fantasies down with force, making them look like the complete tools they really are.
.Net is dead, it just dont know it yet. Smart people use better tools, the idiots are beginners getting smarter every day until they realize the tool they use is shits.
Previously at work i used pretty expensive equipment to analyze the wifi spectrum. Nowadays the only thing i need is my Nexus One and the Wifi Analyzer application. While its very simple and not at all very fancy i have no problem isolating and identifying sources of interference.
Have you tried a couple of other channels? If that dont help its probably not another wifi thats the source of interference. A simple triangulation with Wifi Analyzer and the channel rating stuff should make it easy to spot exactly where the interference originate. Unless its really strong, then you have to extend your triangulation area a bit.
Codeplex is utterly GPL unfriendly, i would say GPL hostile. Its also nothing more than a way to steer open source towards being something you build with Microsofts closed technologies. Its not even stealthy in that regard.
I say fuck Microsoft until they prove they can cooperate. Why give them free ammo for absolutely nothing?
If you have read fairly recent American history, say from 1950 and onwards, you would have no problem believing many conspiracy theories probably have a grain of truth in them. US history is littered with underhand tactics, black-ops and using any security agency for domestic politics.
Kind of takes the edge off of those who complain about Android being fragmented. Microsofts Windows Mobile push is fragmented even at vapourware state.
Building a website that can keep up with very high loads isnt rocket science and i very much doubt Apple would have any problems doing it. I also doubt the strain on the servers are any higher than around the iPad launch.
Considering Apples love for the theater and manufactured hype, artificial problems is the most probable cause.
Trying to make your product appear desired by throttling your bandwidth must be the lamest trick of them all.
Because thats exactly what im talking about. Microsoft runs around paying analysts warping statistics and bending the world around windows in order to make it atleast look secure. For them its a PR issue and they solve it by paying for better reviews, not by improving security.
In reality Windows security is a joke.
As such you would expect them to excel at security nowadays since it seems a very big concern amongst most users. Still their security efforts are pretty laid back and half assed. Microsoft dont take security seriously, its a pr problem for them at the most.
As a market leader one would expect Windows spanking Linux, BSD and Apples behinds but in reality Windows security sucks. Not because its more prevalent but because its a sitting duck. At Microsoft, features and ease of development has always stood higher than security on the priority lists. The only thing that can change that is monetary pressure like demand for accountability of their products. Until then, Microsoft security is a game of statistics, lies and damn statistics.
"The difference is, ten years ago Apple didn't matter."
I thought it got worse in recent years with Steve Jobs increasing paranoia.
I actually think Google would be different. That said i think monopolies should be hard fought against. A free market strives for monopolies and accumulation of resources and without anything holding back you will wind up with one single company without any serious competition.
I never thought i would say this but darn it, we are lucky Apple didnt win against Microsoft. Apple will if given enough market share make Microsoft look pretty tame.
Steve seems intent on using any leverage against competitors no matter how bad the outcome is for the customers. Microsoft does this too but not at this level, probably because of antitrust concerns.
Apple seemed like a nice company but recent moves has changed that perception almost completely. If given the opportunity they will be just as bad for computing in general as Microsoft has been for the last 20 years.
Steve Jobs are a huge douchebag and the best we can hope for is cooperation between Apple and Microsoft. That way they can stab each others back instead of ruining computing for the rest of us.
We have trialed Windows 7 and the only real difference from a user perspective is that someone played roll the dice on the UI elements. Everything is strewn around randomly, obscured by worthless wizards or hidden six levels down into menu hell.
From a admin perspective Windows 7 sucks just as bad as XP. If you get yourself a 100% Microsoft environment it gets better but it still arent much better than XP.
We will cling to XP like there is no tomorrow.
I think some games have been pretty good once made into movies. Prins of persia was something i really liked and enjoyed. Postal the movie is also a gem and really something that made me change my perception of UWe Boll. Somehow he did succeed in capturing the athmosphere and general feeling of the game. The feeling is very important since the story in games is just for setting the mood. Mostly the story is just slapped on afterwards and not really what makes the game good.
That said, most games that hit the screen turns into crap. The biggest problem i see is the established movie industry that takes any script and molds it into a specific pattern no matter what. Their fear of failure prevents them from success. Making a movie out of a game demands going out on a limb if you want to capture the feel and gameplay onto the screen, using totally new and untested angles of moviemaking.
Hey asshole, it doesnt matter what security any other OS has, Windows is still shit on a stick. The biggest company with ooodles of money can do much better, thats the issue here. Comparing an insanely rich company with income that would make most countries envy it with some free hobbyist OS is grasping for straws, any straws. Its nothing but greed that sits between us users and better security. Greed and utter incompetence from management.
Microsoft should have much better security than the others, not almost as good as. Try running your precious Windows computer without antiwhatever for a week, visiting sites without regard. It will be a smoking pile of bits and pieces and its no fault but Microsofts. I dont give a fuck it has more market, it should have better security for all the money Microsft prints daily.
That said, the Secunia comparison is flawed, first and foremost because it compares Windows only, to a Linux distribution (a distribution is the linux kernel, Gnu and most applications ever made for Linux). Its like comparing Windows only to Windows + every application ever made and conclude that yes, Windows without any apps is more safe than Windows with apps installed.
Secunia also follows Microsofts ratings for security issues when they are widely known to downplay any issue until proven wrong and even then in most cases they still mark serious flaws as non-critical. Linux on the other hand grades local exploits as serious.
Strange name for a bill thats made for limiting and controlling the flow of information in case of, well just about anything. War on drugs, immigrants, terrorists, citizens?
If there was any real concern about cyber security, Windows would be outright banned on the spot.
The biggest problem with really strong beer is that it tastes like beer with spirit poured into it.
From a security point of view Chrome OS is very interesting. I also like the efforts spent on keeping the user out of managing and nursing the OS and make it tend its own business, letting the user work on the computer instead of playing it-expert.
If its going to be even remotely as good as Android i think we can have a winner here.
The act of integration with the sole purpose of killing Netscape was what they got sued for. They leveraged their monopoly on Windows to kill a competitor in the browser wars.
I would love to see this guy explain why the same ink delivered in bulk is so much cheaper, even when from HP?
See link.
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