Why should they be forced to buy two computers just so that they can preserve their "entire Mac experience"?
No one is being "forced" to do anything in this context. The choice - and it is a choice - is left to the individual user. Please don't be so melodramatic.
modular - new features are easily added to further improve its impact, want it to have P2P propagation capability, add it, want it to disseminate over IM, done.
Okay, malware can be modular - makes sense.
The lack of P2P worms is, I think, a logical consequence of the RIAA's busts around the U.S, and the global response towards P2P networks copyright infringement.
How did the author manage to come to that "logical" conclusion? How is the presence (or !presence) of malware related to the "global response... copyright infringement"?
Given today's P2P concepts, and the disruptive BitTorrent technology, it is not longer required to on purposely slow down transfers to hide the activity on a user's host.
And where the heck is he going with this??
Submitter, if this is your idea of "well written", I respectfully suggest you broaden your literary scope.
Gates urged that new design approaches must "dramatically reduce" the number of security-related issues as well as make fixes easier to administer. "Eventually," he added, "our software should be so fundamentally secure that customers never even worry about it."
Fair enough, but regardless of what is happening in the way of "new design approaches", the current installed base is the problem. The best ways to show dedication to the reduction of security issues would be a) rigorous code review + pre-emptive bugfixes and b) more rapid response to issues that are found elsewhere. There have been improvements, but the sum of the successes will not outweigh the sum of the failures.
Roland and BB both have very memorable names, so it makes them all the more obvious when they have multiple stories accepted.
The memorable names of the problem submitters make it equally obvious that they do not participate in the discussions they spawn. Could it be that the topic at hand is of no interest to them (beyond getting the submission approved, of course)?
I can't mention who I work for since we deal with government contracts.
Translation: "I can't mention who I work for because the customer reads/. too, and I would certainly be out of a job if they knew how our company's IT department is managed."
I joined 6 years ago (I have 5 years of IS Management experience, and 15 years of experience with IS in general)
If you really do have the experience you claim, how did you manage to acquire it without learning how to communicate with CXOs?
So I went browsing the isles of Wal*Mart and see if there were any good hackable items to be had there.
Yarrrr, sailing the treacherous Isles O' Wal-Mart... Harpoons at the ready, lads - thar she blows! Arrr, that's a fine shot, me hearties - ye got 'er right in the Nascar logo! Now heave to and bring her aboard!
Looked easy enough to trace... and all the smarts appeared to be in Santa's left shoe.
This sentence struck me as really funny for some reason.
Calling the ability to convert analog video content to a digital format a "significant technical weakness in content protection,"
I'm keen to see how these technically-inclined *ahem* folks intend to remove the digital-analog conversion: to the very best of my knowledge our eyes and ears are analog devices.
H.R. 4569 would require all consumer electronics video devices manufactured more than 12 months after the DTCSA is passed to be able to detect and obey a "rights signaling system" that would be used to limit how content is viewed and used.
I foresee a frenzy of electronics sales around ($DATE + 11_months).
In broader terms, this makes Windows far more like Linux and Unix - and even the MacOS - where the graphics subsystem is a separate component, rather than being hard-wired into the OS kernel.
I know it makes you all hip and tres cool to bash Microsoft, but they actually had this design wa-a-a-y back in NT 3.5/3.51. That would be in the mid/late 1990s for you youngsters in the audience. They made the change to the current model in NT 4.0.
Nobody wants to hear your opinion about parenting based on your experiences as a child.
Maybe you don't want to hear it. Perhaps you should let the submitter of the question decide what he does/doesn't want to hear. Oddly enough, that is not your decision to make.
If you're a parent, you're qualified to offer an opinion (not impose one). If you're not, don't tell this guy how to parent his children.
I find it both amusing and disturbing that people who manage to procreate think this imbues them with knowledge far beyond that of non-parents. If you think the opinion of a dullard who happens to be a parent is more valuable than the opinion of an educated, well-read non-parent, then I fear for your children.
You know, not GPL anymore. Did that escape you while writing the ad?
From TFA:
Nessus 3.0 was developed in response to growing market demand from enterprises, government agencies and consultants for a commercially licensed version of Nessus. Nessus 3.0 users will now have access to a number of commercial support and training options from Tenable Network Security. Tenable Network Security will continue to manage, distribute and maintain the open source version, Nessus 2.x. (emphasis mine)
Did that escape you while you were writing your kneejerk response? Of course it did: you couldn't be bothered to read the FIRST PARAGRAPH of the article.
The Russian word is zloy, which can be translated both as wicked and angry among others. Dostoevsky uses zloy a lot, so the choice is quite significant. I don't know English enough to advise the best choice though.
Ochin spasiba!:-)
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I've read a few books by Dostoevsky, and they are not christmas books! Christmas should be about having fun, not getting a headache reading.
Try Notes from Underground. It's only ~150 pages, so it's lighter in that sense; it's still fairly tragic but is incredibly worthwhile reading.
As an aside my [older] translation begins with "I am a sick man... an angry man... an unattractive man. For whatever reason the newer translation substitutes wicked for angry. Perhaps someone who understands more Russian would know why.
PS I think you meant Also Sprach Zarathustra.:-) Try Beyond Good and Evil , too, if you like Nietzsche.
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If you've not heard much about Emacs development in recent years, you might be surprised to find that it is has been very active.
Also, China's efforts to impose its own technology standards across a range of consumer products, including mobile phones, digital photography and wireless networks, are widely interpreted as a strategy to dominate the global market for information technology goods.
That approach will probably serve them quite well within their own borders, but I don't see how they can hope to impose their own standards on the rest of the world. There are already standards (e.g. 3G) in place across the globe, accompanied by hardware produced by manufacturers in several countries.
The Chinese standards would have to displace the incumbents (so to speak) and become widely adopted by those same former incumbents. It sounds like a very difficult - if not insurmountable - obstacle.
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Yes, I'm sure their motives are just that pure. I bet they would be shocked - shocked! - to learn that some less-than-scrupulous people were using their techniques to cause money to change hands. *rolls eyes*
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"As we continue to peel back the onion, every time we turn a corner we find something else that doesn't look right," Ferguson said.
The scary part is that their onions have corners.
Why should they be forced to buy two computers just so that they can preserve their "entire Mac experience"?
No one is being "forced" to do anything in this context. The choice - and it is a choice - is left to the individual user. Please don't be so melodramatic.
From the article:
modular - new features are easily added to further improve its impact, want it to have P2P propagation capability, add it, want it to disseminate over IM, done.
Okay, malware can be modular - makes sense.
The lack of P2P worms is, I think, a logical consequence of the RIAA's busts around the U.S, and the global response towards P2P networks copyright infringement.
How did the author manage to come to that "logical" conclusion? How is the presence (or !presence) of malware related to the "global response... copyright infringement"?
Given today's P2P concepts, and the disruptive BitTorrent technology, it is not longer required to on purposely slow down transfers to hide the activity on a user's host.
And where the heck is he going with this??
Submitter, if this is your idea of "well written", I respectfully suggest you broaden your literary scope.
Gates urged that new design approaches must "dramatically reduce" the number of security-related issues as well as make fixes easier to administer. "Eventually," he added, "our software should be so fundamentally secure that customers never even worry about it."
Fair enough, but regardless of what is happening in the way of "new design approaches", the current installed base is the problem. The best ways to show dedication to the reduction of security issues would be a) rigorous code review + pre-emptive bugfixes and b) more rapid response to issues that are found elsewhere. There have been improvements, but the sum of the successes will not outweigh the sum of the failures.
Roland and BB both have very memorable names, so it makes them all the more obvious when they have multiple stories accepted.
The memorable names of the problem submitters make it equally obvious that they do not participate in the discussions they spawn. Could it be that the topic at hand is of no interest to them (beyond getting the submission approved, of course)?
From the summary:
at the Cato Institute's new blogazine
Alarm bells are ringing, Willie:
Fluff topic? Check.
A grandiosely named organization? Check
A newly-coined, silly, and far-too-hip word modeled after another newly-coined, silly, and far-too-hip word? Check.
Also, find out why, upon meeting Richard Stallman, Lanier's reaction was: 'An open version of UNIX! Yuk!'
This part is probably true, although without the 'An open version of UNIX!' part.
Fuer Elise is also acceptable.
I need help! I understood that!!!
I think it could have used another 'Go':
"Acting MA CIO Appointed, ODF A Go Go"
Well, you see, there's no original error. "Free complementary" is not redundant. The food and drink complements the event, see?
Upon further reflection, it appears the food may complement the drinks and vice versa. *looks around shiftily*
Dang, the grammar nazis are foiled by the conjunction of two apparent errors. Two wrongs DO make a right, apparently.
Indeed they do, and since these discussions usually (and almost religiously) follow the same path...
Two wrongs make a rite.
Which is so much tastier than the not free complementary food and drinks.
So true, but I think you (and moto, the submitter) mean complimentary.
If this guy is there, I would say the "odds" are well represented.
I can't mention who I work for since we deal with government contracts.
Translation: "I can't mention who I work for because the customer reads
I joined 6 years ago (I have 5 years of IS Management experience, and 15 years of experience with IS in general)
If you really do have the experience you claim, how did you manage to acquire it without learning how to communicate with CXOs?
So I went browsing the isles of Wal*Mart and see if there were any good hackable items to be had there.
Yarrrr, sailing the treacherous Isles O' Wal-Mart... Harpoons at the ready, lads - thar she blows! Arrr, that's a fine shot, me hearties - ye got 'er right in the Nascar logo! Now heave to and bring her aboard!
Looked easy enough to trace... and all the smarts appeared to be in Santa's left shoe.
This sentence struck me as really funny for some reason.
Calling the ability to convert analog video content to a digital format a "significant technical weakness in content protection,"
I'm keen to see how these technically-inclined *ahem* folks intend to remove the digital-analog conversion: to the very best of my knowledge our eyes and ears are analog devices.
H.R. 4569 would require all consumer electronics video devices manufactured more than 12 months after the DTCSA is passed to be able to detect and obey a "rights signaling system" that would be used to limit how content is viewed and used.
I foresee a frenzy of electronics sales around ($DATE + 11_months).
In broader terms, this makes Windows far more like Linux and Unix - and even the MacOS - where the graphics subsystem is a separate component, rather than being hard-wired into the OS kernel.
I know it makes you all hip and tres cool to bash Microsoft, but they actually had this design wa-a-a-y back in NT 3.5/3.51. That would be in the mid/late 1990s for you youngsters in the audience. They made the change to the current model in NT 4.0.
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Nobody wants to hear your opinion about parenting based on your experiences as a child.
Maybe you don't want to hear it. Perhaps you should let the submitter of the question decide what he does/doesn't want to hear. Oddly enough, that is not your decision to make.
If you're a parent, you're qualified to offer an opinion (not impose one). If you're not, don't tell this guy how to parent his children.
I find it both amusing and disturbing that people who manage to procreate think this imbues them with knowledge far beyond that of non-parents. If you think the opinion of a dullard who happens to be a parent is more valuable than the opinion of an educated, well-read non-parent, then I fear for your children.
You know, not GPL anymore. Did that escape you while writing the ad?
From TFA:
Nessus 3.0 was developed in response to growing market demand from enterprises, government agencies and consultants for a commercially licensed version of Nessus. Nessus 3.0 users will now have access to a number of commercial support and training options from Tenable Network Security. Tenable Network Security will continue to manage, distribute and maintain the open source version, Nessus 2.x. (emphasis mine)
Did that escape you while you were writing your kneejerk response? Of course it did: you couldn't be bothered to read the FIRST PARAGRAPH of the article.
The Russian word is zloy, which can be translated both as wicked and angry among others. Dostoevsky uses zloy a lot, so the choice is quite significant. I don't know English enough to advise the best choice though.
Ochin spasiba!
Does anyone have a mod point for xitology? Something in 'Informative' or 'Interesting' would do nicely. TIA!
I've read a few books by Dostoevsky, and they are not christmas books! Christmas should be about having fun, not getting a headache reading.
Try Notes from Underground. It's only ~150 pages, so it's lighter in that sense; it's still fairly tragic but is incredibly worthwhile reading.
As an aside my [older] translation begins with "I am a sick man... an angry man... an unattractive man. For whatever reason the newer translation substitutes wicked for angry. Perhaps someone who understands more Russian would know why.
PS I think you meant Also Sprach Zarathustra.
If you've not heard much about Emacs development in recent years, you might be surprised to find that it is has been very active.
Wow - I just thought it was full.
our new chinese overlords. Better than the old ones...
I'm not so sure.
From the article:
Also, China's efforts to impose its own technology standards across a range of consumer products, including mobile phones, digital photography and wireless networks, are widely interpreted as a strategy to dominate the global market for information technology goods.
That approach will probably serve them quite well within their own borders, but I don't see how they can hope to impose their own standards on the rest of the world. There are already standards (e.g. 3G) in place across the globe, accompanied by hardware produced by manufacturers in several countries. The Chinese standards would have to displace the incumbents (so to speak) and become widely adopted by those same former incumbents. It sounds like a very difficult - if not insurmountable - obstacle.
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Yes, I'm sure their motives are just that pure. I bet they would be shocked - shocked! - to learn that some less-than-scrupulous people were using their techniques to cause money to change hands. *rolls eyes*
aren't part of some proletarian information revolution, but instead have become the tech world's new elite.
No - no, they are not. Mayhap the person(s) forming this opinion should venture into the "tech world" one of these days.
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