I can assure you that they do not act this way out of sympathy for IE. They do so because they know that the user base not using IE/Firefox/Safari is too small to care for.
I have always been uncomfortable about giving the task to fight malwares to the company because of who they are there in the first time. Something sounds illogical in this...
Seen on a recent slashdot comment : "antivirus will use up bandwidth, CPU and RAM, will randomly block applications and slow down your system, they will cost you money. Virus do about the same, but at least they try to be stealthy at it."
If your application is non-critical, make a risk analysis of running without anti-virus. If your system is critical, you should better not rely on antivirus (and I have opinions using windows in that case but I know that even on/. this is not a consensus).
In my career, I have seen more data erased by an antivirus than by a virus.
There is something rotten in Washington.
I think Lawrence Lessig is right, you have to fix Congress first.
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What is so hard to understand in slashdot's slogan ?
Plus, insensitive clod, not everybody cares about this purely US-centric news. A lot of us live in developed countries and our birth were covered by a national healthcare.
That's the problem with vague claims in an article. We don't know if the weight is billions of times bigger or if the diameter is. Therefore we don't know if we have 6x10^9 atoms or 6x10^27 atoms. It doesn't even give an order of magnitude -> epic fail of scientific journalism.
Reminds me of my freebox
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That's right. And I think the ACLU doesn't contest that. All it does is contest the same thing that is abnormal about this whole "war on terrorism" thing : there is no clear enemy. When your enemy is not a nation neither a military force, the operation should be a police operation. You arrest people and judge them. You don't just blow their houses and hope the neighbors will dodge the shrapnels.
If you want to kill an American, you can strip him of his nationality first and give him a fair hear in court if this is a mistake. This may be impractical from a military viewpoint, but democracy is impractical from a military viewpoint.
The whole tech world took a serious nose dive when politics began to cluelessly try to regulate how to programm, interconnect computers, transmit content and say what I can or can't do with a screwdiver and the electronics I purchased.
The fact that we techies have to learn more about legalities and politics these days than about the latest tech is a serious problem, and slashdot articles unfortunately reflects that but I really think that it is the whole field that is moving in this direction.
The US military doctrine says that the order to opened fire has to be issued by a human. The only exception is when shooting down unmanned vehicle (eg. incoming missiles) than an autonomous "fire" decision can be taken.
I am not sure that the main issue is that it is fired from drones. I think the main issue is that it is shooting at US citizen outside of any judicial overseeing and that being done from drones, video records of the operations exist.
In fact most of us take religions non-seriously, so this kind of turn of events is most welcomed to expose the overall silliness of all this. "I don't get fish on friday !" "I am proposed pork at lunch !" well, "I can't grow padawan braid" makes one able to enter in this kind of discussion, obviously showing how silly their superstition are but with a good foot to take offense when they say that your religion is silly.
Read video on the web with Linux instead of Windows ! Be a pirate !
This has become silly. I used to think that the developer who said "just break silly laws" were not acting very maturely but now this. A law say "nay you can't" with absolutely no possible explanation other than corporate greed. It all the DeCSS days again.
Just make the H264 a semi-auto download on install in firefox and be gone with it...
Yeah, they may be people who just moved in and who want to have *gasp* internet access ! The vicious bastardly devils ! The thieves of non-thievable property ! the... the... TERRO-PIRATES !
Am I the only one to wonder how companies monetize that ? Let's suppose I'm an average teenager with no concept of privacy. Myspace has my email address, my physical address, the place where I study, the music I like, the girls I pretended to bang, my political opinions, my favorite beer, etc... Then what ? They send me spam ? Who doesn't have a filter nowadays ? They send me physical spam ? How do they monetize that ?
It is about the cryptographic signing. Finally banks understand that cryptography offer better proofs than hand signatures ! It was about *ucking time !
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I can assure you that they do not act this way out of sympathy for IE. They do so because they know that the user base not using IE/Firefox/Safari is too small to care for.
I mean, if anyone knows about viruses, it'd be Microsoft.
In the same manner that Lipton knows about tea...
I have always been uncomfortable about giving the task to fight malwares to the company because of who they are there in the first time. Something sounds illogical in this...
Seen on a recent slashdot comment : "antivirus will use up bandwidth, CPU and RAM, will randomly block applications and slow down your system, they will cost you money. Virus do about the same, but at least they try to be stealthy at it."
/. this is not a consensus).
If your application is non-critical, make a risk analysis of running without anti-virus. If your system is critical, you should better not rely on antivirus (and I have opinions using windows in that case but I know that even on
In my career, I have seen more data erased by an antivirus than by a virus.
There is something rotten in Washington.
I think Lawrence Lessig is right, you have to fix Congress first.
What is so hard to understand in slashdot's slogan ?
Plus, insensitive clod, not everybody cares about this purely US-centric news. A lot of us live in developed countries and our birth were covered by a national healthcare.
That's the problem with vague claims in an article. We don't know if the weight is billions of times bigger or if the diameter is. Therefore we don't know if we have 6x10^9 atoms or 6x10^27 atoms. It doesn't even give an order of magnitude -> epic fail of scientific journalism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebox
But most people agree that browsing the web on your TV is less useful than having the TV through VLC.
Anyway, everybody knows that in the workforce, roleplaying is much more important than heavy stats.
When the reward is a piece of paper saying "lvl 4857 Comp. Wizard" I am not sure it costs much to the employer...
That's right. And I think the ACLU doesn't contest that. All it does is contest the same thing that is abnormal about this whole "war on terrorism" thing : there is no clear enemy. When your enemy is not a nation neither a military force, the operation should be a police operation. You arrest people and judge them. You don't just blow their houses and hope the neighbors will dodge the shrapnels.
If you want to kill an American, you can strip him of his nationality first and give him a fair hear in court if this is a mistake. This may be impractical from a military viewpoint, but democracy is impractical from a military viewpoint.
The whole tech world took a serious nose dive when politics began to cluelessly try to regulate how to programm, interconnect computers, transmit content and say what I can or can't do with a screwdiver and the electronics I purchased.
The fact that we techies have to learn more about legalities and politics these days than about the latest tech is a serious problem, and slashdot articles unfortunately reflects that but I really think that it is the whole field that is moving in this direction.
The US military doctrine says that the order to opened fire has to be issued by a human. The only exception is when shooting down unmanned vehicle (eg. incoming missiles) than an autonomous "fire" decision can be taken.
I am not sure that the main issue is that it is fired from drones. I think the main issue is that it is shooting at US citizen outside of any judicial overseeing and that being done from drones, video records of the operations exist.
The doctrine regarding the use of lethal force against American civilians can be classified ? That sounds like a real problem...
"we only recognize jedis on active duty, with working light sabers".
Don't test us, dude.
In fact most of us take religions non-seriously, so this kind of turn of events is most welcomed to expose the overall silliness of all this. "I don't get fish on friday !" "I am proposed pork at lunch !" well, "I can't grow padawan braid" makes one able to enter in this kind of discussion, obviously showing how silly their superstition are but with a good foot to take offense when they say that your religion is silly.
Read video on the web with Linux instead of Windows ! Be a pirate !
This has become silly. I used to think that the developer who said "just break silly laws" were not acting very maturely but now this. A law say "nay you can't" with absolutely no possible explanation other than corporate greed. It all the DeCSS days again.
Just make the H264 a semi-auto download on install in firefox and be gone with it...
Yeah, they may be people who just moved in and who want to have *gasp* internet access ! The vicious bastardly devils ! The thieves of non-thievable property ! the... the... TERRO-PIRATES !
Am I the only one to wonder how companies monetize that ? Let's suppose I'm an average teenager with no concept of privacy. Myspace has my email address, my physical address, the place where I study, the music I like, the girls I pretended to bang, my political opinions, my favorite beer, etc... Then what ? They send me spam ? Who doesn't have a filter nowadays ? They send me physical spam ? How do they monetize that ?
I'm smelling fishy business plans here.
It is about the cryptographic signing. Finally banks understand that cryptography offer better proofs than hand signatures ! It was about *ucking time !
Apple is there.
Microsoft is not.
A stolen laptop should not threaten internal security. The tools to encipher crucial informations are free (as in $0)
'yet'
It just doesn't release those to the public.
That is also the main reason why so many of us don't use it. Or like it. Or find it of value.