So what he's saying is, we don't have a great idea for Windows on a tablet, but we know tablets are hot and we would look dumb if we don't make a windows tablet, so we're creating one just to try to look good. Of course, it will be a POS, but hey, we made it!
Wouldn't that make the web a lot less useful? The idea is that I conduct a transaction and have a reasonable expectation that just because someone does business with me does not allow them to sell everything they know about me to anyone they choose.
My password wants to be free? My social security number wants to be free? I think the quote you are using refers to conceptual information such as software algorithms and the like, more so that individual data bits, although certainly there is probably pressure on all data to be free.
Yes, I can always rely on marketers to honor the "opt-out" feature. And it's always so easy to find and use! This is an obvious fraud designed to avoid pending legislation of some sort. It's a dishonest attempt to appear to honor people's privacy. Only Opt-In truly honors my privacy. My data is MINE.
You had me until right here. Can you explain this? Because a bum is almost always jobless, so there seems a strong relationship. It's not two-way, maybe that's what you meant.
If you know the coordinates of the window, then you can make a pretty good guess as to the location of the URL bar.
Not in my browser. When you add extensions, the URL field moves to accomodate them. I would guess similar behavior is common elsewhere. I think this attack is going to be hard to do in practice.
I don't know, I suppose the same way we mark you as -1, Fanboy
Thus you make his point for him nicely. There is no way to express an opinion on this subject without pissing people off, and it's mostly due to the tone of this article.
That's a great example of why some argue that the "secret questions" approach to "enhanced security" is actually less secure than just a password. How many of your friends do other people know as well as you? That's very guessable compared to your password.
It doesn't seem to me to be a contradiction for IBM to support patent reform but be a vigorous player in the patent system as is. In fact, it would be foolish for them to abstain as they will simply be trampled on by others.
So a service based on the ridiculous (to me) idea of incredibly short messages is now going multimedia, which is the other complete extreme, a huge use of bandwidth and time. Talk about mission creep.
Walmart is going to be very good for the phone industry. Walmart is very good at delivering CHEAP. Now the assholes that run AT&T and Verizon etc might have to compete on actual service instead of relying on monopoly.
But peer review is still going on here. The only thing being squelched is press coverage. I'm sympathetic to the argument that press coverage, even if biased, is necessary and this should not be happening, but it's not like the government is covering up the results. They are just not allowing their scientists to talk to the press about it. Not the same thing, actually, although they are in the same ballpark, I agree.
The Canadian government didn't suppress the publishing of the results, rather they prevented the scientists from contacting the media.
You know, that seems a reasonable position from where I'm standing. I might not like it, but I cannot fault the government for wanting to control the media spin. It's not like the reporters are actually going to report the science without a bunch of spin of their own.
No, but I definitely see why you are worried.
chicken == "reads magazines and internet news sites"
egg == "becomes stupid"
Does the chicken cause the egg, or the egg cause the chicken?
Just because the worm author makes statements agains the US war in Iraq and calls himself "Iraqi resistance" does not mean he is anti-US. I too am agains the war in Iraq. Is it possible to disagree with US foreign policy and not be accused of being a traitor? Yes, I know he crossed a line making a (fairly harmless) worm, but this guy sounds as much aligned with US interests as most beer-swilling, harley-riding, pit bull owning flag wavers.
Totally, even if 20% of Americans are in the lowest 20% of the IQ bracket, there still is no way that 20% of us think the world is the center of the Universe. Right?
Well, on OS X the searching problem *should* be solved by Spotlight, as it indexes "all files on your hard drive" (not) into constant-time searches automagically. The trouble with Spotlight is that Apple does not search all folders and I do not know of a way to enable it to search all folders. If you import it into Mail.app, you do get the indexed behavior, and my situation is similar to yours, and I do exactly that. But all those billions of old messages, I keep in an archive that I never look at.
Anyhow, look into Spotlight on OS X. Ooops, you said "open sourced," right? Damn. I don't know, then.
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So what he's saying is, we don't have a great idea for Windows on a tablet, but we know tablets are hot and we would look dumb if we don't make a windows tablet, so we're creating one just to try to look good. Of course, it will be a POS, but hey, we made it!
Then don't send your data out on the web.
Wouldn't that make the web a lot less useful? The idea is that I conduct a transaction and have a reasonable expectation that just because someone does business with me does not allow them to sell everything they know about me to anyone they choose.
My password wants to be free? My social security number wants to be free? I think the quote you are using refers to conceptual information such as software algorithms and the like, more so that individual data bits, although certainly there is probably pressure on all data to be free.
Yes, I can always rely on marketers to honor the "opt-out" feature. And it's always so easy to find and use! This is an obvious fraud designed to avoid pending legislation of some sort. It's a dishonest attempt to appear to honor people's privacy. Only Opt-In truly honors my privacy. My data is MINE.
being jobless and being a bum are not related.
You had me until right here. Can you explain this? Because a bum is almost always jobless, so there seems a strong relationship. It's not two-way, maybe that's what you meant.
"defense contractor and philanthropist?" Really? I'm not sure those two are entirely compatible species.
If you know the coordinates of the window, then you can make a pretty good guess as to the location of the URL bar.
Not in my browser. When you add extensions, the URL field moves to accomodate them. I would guess similar behavior is common elsewhere. I think this attack is going to be hard to do in practice.
I don't know, I suppose the same way we mark you as -1, Fanboy
Thus you make his point for him nicely. There is no way to express an opinion on this subject without pissing people off, and it's mostly due to the tone of this article.
I personally cannot believe the implication that Steve Jobs occasionally exaggerates his tecnology's usefulness! How dare they!
That's a great example of why some argue that the "secret questions" approach to "enhanced security" is actually less secure than just a password. How many of your friends do other people know as well as you? That's very guessable compared to your password.
It doesn't seem to me to be a contradiction for IBM to support patent reform but be a vigorous player in the patent system as is. In fact, it would be foolish for them to abstain as they will simply be trampled on by others.
So a service based on the ridiculous (to me) idea of incredibly short messages is now going multimedia, which is the other complete extreme, a huge use of bandwidth and time. Talk about mission creep.
Walmart is going to be very good for the phone industry. Walmart is very good at delivering CHEAP. Now the assholes that run AT&T and Verizon etc might have to compete on actual service instead of relying on monopoly.
What has peer review got to do with this?
I was responding to postbigbang.
But peer review is still going on here. The only thing being squelched is press coverage. I'm sympathetic to the argument that press coverage, even if biased, is necessary and this should not be happening, but it's not like the government is covering up the results. They are just not allowing their scientists to talk to the press about it. Not the same thing, actually, although they are in the same ballpark, I agree.
The Canadian government didn't suppress the publishing of the results, rather they prevented the scientists from contacting the media.
You know, that seems a reasonable position from where I'm standing. I might not like it, but I cannot fault the government for wanting to control the media spin. It's not like the reporters are actually going to report the science without a bunch of spin of their own.
Don't you have something better than to put down random people
You were not selected randomly. I selected you based on your post's content.
What's missing for me here is the government's claimed reason for doing this. National security?
No, but I definitely see why you are worried.
chicken == "reads magazines and internet news sites"
egg == "becomes stupid"
Does the chicken cause the egg, or the egg cause the chicken?
Just because the worm author makes statements agains the US war in Iraq and calls himself "Iraqi resistance" does not mean he is anti-US. I too am agains the war in Iraq. Is it possible to disagree with US foreign policy and not be accused of being a traitor? Yes, I know he crossed a line making a (fairly harmless) worm, but this guy sounds as much aligned with US interests as most beer-swilling, harley-riding, pit bull owning flag wavers.
If there's one thing I encounter daily that feels like it's making me stupid, it's most of the crap in any newspaper, magazine, or online news site.
Yep, it does seem to be having that effect on you. Of course, it's a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem, don't you think?
Hmm? Obama's home country *IS* Kenya,
OK, birther. Sorry, but the facts do not support you.
Totally, even if 20% of Americans are in the lowest 20% of the IQ bracket, there still is no way that 20% of us think the world is the center of the Universe. Right?
Well, on OS X the searching problem *should* be solved by Spotlight, as it indexes "all files on your hard drive" (not) into constant-time searches automagically. The trouble with Spotlight is that Apple does not search all folders and I do not know of a way to enable it to search all folders. If you import it into Mail.app, you do get the indexed behavior, and my situation is similar to yours, and I do exactly that. But all those billions of old messages, I keep in an archive that I never look at.
Anyhow, look into Spotlight on OS X. Ooops, you said "open sourced," right? Damn. I don't know, then.
He's also assuming that
4) Everyone in the military uses common sense.