Yes! Finding the people with the required skill sets and background across the many disciplines withing the larger umbrellas of Computer Science and Computer Engineering needed to implement something like Davlik in reasonable is no small feat. It certainly can be done if you have Google's money for payroll but searching successfully for the above who have also never seen a Java doc? The may be beyond the power of even the Google the search king!
Can name one Netflix device that takes CC number? I never seen that. They all either take your Netflix username/password pair or like the Wii give you number you then enter on the website with your PC.
Not that Joe Sixpack's un-patched, allow all outbound firewall or not firewalled, Windows PC logged on as 'Administrator' is much safer to type a CC number on but still.
Security is not anywhere, it must be everywhere. If your OS and underlying libraries get compromised the browser process could do anything! It has to be baked in, treating "hotspots" is what the industry has done for decades and it does not work. Security means best effort at every layer and zero trust designs anywhere possible.
People keep posting this but its drek! The truth is for the few shares common stock most of us could afford to buy we would purchase more influence over Apple or Google, then we could get in national election.
No, this was evil, plain and simple. Working to keep salaries down for people is evil.
Really?
What if my objective is to hold down inflation so that little old laddies can afford to live off the savings they worked a life time to make? You want to force them to eat cat food a live without heat in winter. Sounds pretty evil to me.
No it is wrong, full stop. Laws should apply equally to everyone.
If its illegal for Google to collude for the purpose of manipulating the labor market it should be illegal for you or anyone else to do so. There should be no special exceptions, around 'who'. If a law appears to need them, it means the definition of 'what' has been badly crafted.
I have to agree with this, despite what others are saying. Microsoft bread and butter is the enterprise market. Microsoft usually is pretty sensitive and aware of their needs/wants. Just looking at the wide market place that exists for mobile device management solutions; packages that try to glue Windows Domain like management infrastructure onto ISO or Droid; its pretty evident the enterprise IT world wants tablet software they can manage like your typical corporate desktop.
My guess Microsoft is aware that Enterprise IT has stalled as long as it can and pressure form the business both top and bottom to deploy tablets and smart phones to largish numbers of users is forcing them to act. Microsoft simply can't wait, once the F500 world gets substantial deployments of either Droid and IOS devices they are not going to switch.
If Microsoft does not get an entry into the table space NOW they will NEVER be more than an also ran there. It will (DROID | IOS ) + (Good | Zenprise | McAfee | Mobile Iron ) in the work place. There will be no consumer market for them either, as DROID and IOS already have that space and the only foot in the door Microsoft could get is the "well its what we use at work," late comers, who won't exist.
No this is pretty typical strategy on Microsoft's part. Get something out the door to stifle the "vaporware!" cries, even if it only delivers a tenth of the vision and promise the rest is coming in version inext.
I really think the quality of Ask Slashdot stories has declined a great deal. Lately they all have the following format.
Dear Slashdot I have this problem foo, for which I have already identified the solution. The solution is bar. The trouble is that I don't like bar, how can I alter reality to suit my personal preferences?
The result is then we all post talking around the problem because there is no answer other than the one already given. A more interesting discussion starter on this subject might have been something like:What are some techniques beyond sending a letter I could use to raise my issue with my political representative? This being Slashdot I'd be especially interested ideas related to electronic media. Could we please get some editing?
Bush went to war against Iraq, Obama got us out. Can you see the wee-bit of difference there?
Or we could go with the full story. Bush got a congressional authorization to use military force against Iraq and Afghanistan. Which got some debate, even if the intelligence community, Bush was arguable responsible for, delivered an incomplete and agenda driven picture.
Obama got us our of Iraq but happening to be sitting in the oval office at a time when the engagement was pretty much over. He doubled down in Afghanistan at almost the same time. I'd say the middle war machine policy is pretty similar or identical.
Then we move on to Libya, where Obama committed us to combat operation without consulting congress and continued those operations past the sixty day mark, a previously defined legal length of time. He also conducted special forces operations to get Bin Laden in a (ostensibly) friendly nation without their knowledge or consent, also doing largely the same in Yemen against other targets. One of the Yemeni targets being one of our own citizens, who was killed without trial or any process.
If anything Obama has proven to be at least as much or more hawkish than Bush, while at the same time showing decidedly more contempt for the checks and balances on the power of the presidency designed to make sure the nation is really behind the actions of the President.
But...yea... go on thinking the two men differ in ways other than, accent, skin color and basket-ball talent; if helps you sleep at night.
I don't cable TV because after what is available OTA and on Netflix I value the reaming entertainment i could get from it at about $0 so as little as it would cost I still don't have have it. Last I looked however, shortly before I dropped it the all the major providers have their packages and pricing plans if you have Internet service, than adding basic cable to that will only run you $10; they practically give it away (because its worthless).
So you don't save much there. Netflix is on of the last things I'd cut though if I need to really lower my expenses (like if I was not working or something). The way I figure it is that $7.99/mo is keeping at home and not out spending money. Hell you can barely go for a drive for $7.99 when you consider all the costs! Even the public library likely costs you as much to utilize unless you live near enough to it to walk!
Let me guess you are financial genius of the sort who worked at Lehman, Citi, Wells, WAMU, BOA, etc? Those guys did so much better as I recall. Clearly only these proud few should be allowed to spend large sums of money; and only other peoples at that.
So don't get to specific about the implementation. That is what comments in the code are for (well I suppose they are form of documentation as well). The design docs help you eliminate the most dangerous type of bug, "the logic flaw", almost any other type of problem can be patched. If you get the basic assumptions wrong you wind up throwing away all the glue.
The glue is the application. Anyone one can toss together a little atomic procedures to do X or Y, know which ones are needed in the first place, and being able to organize them into something larger an cohesive is all the value.
which brings us back to the problem of making violations of a licensing agreement a crime.
The answer is of course it should never be a crime to violate a 'license' agreement. A license is a contract and should remain a strictly civil matter. Violating a license as in "I made copies I was not permitted to", "Ran this on more systems than was allowed", "Used that code in some other application where prohibited" are all things where the author has in some way made the code available to me in the first place.
Theft of code might be a legitimate area of law for criminalization if the code was acquired through extraordinary means. "I dumped it of my employeer's provided laptop and removed it to my own storage", "I broke into this companies server and downloaded it", "I paid someone with access to provide me with illegal copies", type situations.
I would say for the most part it work just like every other protocol that requires inspection by the gateway/firewall device. It will look inside the data stream and fish out the port / address numbers, then store them for later use; it might even change them suit its needs going out. "It can't do that if its encrypted!" you say.
Get with the times if your gateway device does not intercept and MTIM tls/ssl/ssh traffic that you otherwise allow out you are not in a "secure environment".
In this case the server you are connecting to would be in the security zone and behind the MTIM proxy which you have to trust. If you are also in a security zone controlled by someone you don't trust that is MTIMing you like any other protocol you cannont use it to connect to secure services.
Right and we also need to recognize Jennifer's worth in the market. Lets Face it the TSA is not hiring the from the upper crust of the labor pool when it comes to screeners.
These are people who terms of raw talent, education, previous and experience needed are maybe just one notch above the fast food work force, in that they have to be able to clear a moderately thorough background check; and pass drug tests. The reality is Jennifer is a dime a dozen employee. That goes double if what she says is true that there is no real training, if that is the case there is no cost of training new people.
Given the threat is basically non-existent, and being government the risk of liability is also effectively non-existent; she is probably right. There is not pressure on the TSA to be effective or safe, so why bother training the screeners and why not fire the ones that step out of line?
Stop perpetuating the lie the War of Northern Aggression was anything more than tangentially related to slavery. slavery ending was a good thing to come out of the war but it was not why it was fought, and it would have probably happened within another couple decades anyway.
If the Civil War was about slavery, the Emancipation Proclamation would have been issued day one. The war was about Federal power, and the slavery issues was pulled into gain the needed political support of abolitionists and no other reason.
1) Get citizen accustomed to life without the fourth amendment. 2) Provide government union jobs to re-elect incumbents. 3) Preserve the culture of fear, again to re-elect incumbents. 4) Discourage would be rabble raisers form assembly; can't have more than just local Occupy protesters showing up wherever the G8 is being held.
Information acts like just about everything else in the universe. Without constantly applied effort and energy it flows from high concentration to lower concentrations.
We as a society need to recognize that its not possible to have it both ways. We are going to be open, and with that comes acceptance, our ideas, invention, imaginary property, etc will be making their way out in to the world; or we can close down and with concerted effort and expenditure we can keep our secrets.
I think history shows us open *is* better. If for no other reason than closed is actually really hard. We'd have to limit what you can buy/sell/manufacture abroad in ways that would probably be the undoing of many of our biggest business when they suddenly lose their foreign plant investments over night. Locking down our boards will push American wages up but it will also push prices of things like agricultural products typically produced with lots of immigrant and alien labor high enough to stave today's poor and impoverish today's middle class.
There the rubber meets the road is deaths per terawatt hours.
That is stupid metric, to compare nuclear power with other options. By and large those other options spead the deaths over a long period of time, and in a mostly predictable way. You can use it to compare coal to nat gas. Nuclear OOTH tends to be almost completely safe except when it very suddenly isn't.
Society can plan for and budget and function around those slow deaths, and predictable and usually localized environmental costs. Suddenly have to abandon 50 square miles, and all the assets within them, and potentially the people as well is a bit of back breaker.
Think of it like this. Smoking cigarettes does a lot of harm over a life time but it happens slowly and for a long time your body is able to cleanse itself of most of those toxins and carry on, its certain to shorten your life. A bullet probably does less total harm than those cigarettes do, in terms of cells killed; but the damage is sudden and catastrophic. Deepening on the specific circumstances it may prove immediately fatal. So if you have to pick one like we do with electrical generation what really makes more sense?
Which is why I think the EU and US should institute a 1-child-per-couple policy* to control population. Otherwise come 2050 Mother Nature will be downsizing our population through starvation and suffering. Better we do it ourselves.
Now why should we do that? If not for immigration our birth rate would already be below the replacement rate. There is no reason to place restrictions on the families of people who already live here. They are not needed. If population in the us starts to become a concern (its currently not) we should just shut the boarders.
They have been predicting this since Malthus and something has always come along to change the game. There is simply no reason technology will not continue to make larger populations possible. It has always been the pattern in the past
The other issue economic collapse is usually not the result of resource constraints, war is. We are not all going just sit around and stave to death. We will kill each other.
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Yes! Finding the people with the required skill sets and background across the many disciplines withing the larger umbrellas of Computer Science and Computer Engineering needed to implement something like Davlik in reasonable is no small feat. It certainly can be done if you have Google's money for payroll but searching successfully for the above who have also never seen a Java doc? The may be beyond the power of even the Google the search king!
Can name one Netflix device that takes CC number? I never seen that. They all either take your Netflix username/password pair or like the Wii give you number you then enter on the website with your PC.
Not that Joe Sixpack's un-patched, allow all outbound firewall or not firewalled, Windows PC logged on as 'Administrator' is much safer to type a CC number on but still.
Security is not anywhere, it must be everywhere. If your OS and underlying libraries get compromised the browser process could do anything! It has to be baked in, treating "hotspots" is what the industry has done for decades and it does not work. Security means best effort at every layer and zero trust designs anywhere possible.
People keep posting this but its drek! The truth is for the few shares common stock most of us could afford to buy we would purchase more influence over Apple or Google, then we could get in national election.
No, this was evil, plain and simple. Working to keep salaries down for people is evil.
Really?
What if my objective is to hold down inflation so that little old laddies can afford to live off the savings they worked a life time to make? You want to force them to eat cat food a live without heat in winter. Sounds pretty evil to me.
No it is wrong, full stop. Laws should apply equally to everyone.
If its illegal for Google to collude for the purpose of manipulating the labor market it should be illegal for you or anyone else to do so. There should be no special exceptions, around 'who'. If a law appears to need them, it means the definition of 'what' has been badly crafted.
I have to agree with this, despite what others are saying. Microsoft bread and butter is the enterprise market. Microsoft usually is pretty sensitive and aware of their needs/wants. Just looking at the wide market place that exists for mobile device management solutions; packages that try to glue Windows Domain like management infrastructure onto ISO or Droid; its pretty evident the enterprise IT world wants tablet software they can manage like your typical corporate desktop.
My guess Microsoft is aware that Enterprise IT has stalled as long as it can and pressure form the business both top and bottom to deploy tablets and smart phones to largish numbers of users is forcing them to act. Microsoft simply can't wait, once the F500 world gets substantial deployments of either Droid and IOS devices they are not going to switch.
If Microsoft does not get an entry into the table space NOW they will NEVER be more than an also ran there. It will (DROID | IOS ) + (Good | Zenprise | McAfee | Mobile Iron ) in the work place. There will be no consumer market for them either, as DROID and IOS already have that space and the only foot in the door Microsoft could get is the "well its what we use at work," late comers, who won't exist.
No this is pretty typical strategy on Microsoft's part. Get something out the door to stifle the "vaporware!" cries, even if it only delivers a tenth of the vision and promise the rest is coming in version inext.
It's not evil at all, it's no different than what every union does
I really think the quality of Ask Slashdot stories has declined a great deal. Lately they all have the following format.
Dear Slashdot I have this problem foo, for which I have already identified the solution. The solution is bar. The trouble is that I don't like bar, how can I alter reality to suit my personal preferences?
The result is then we all post talking around the problem because there is no answer other than the one already given. A more interesting discussion starter on this subject might have been something like:What are some techniques beyond sending a letter I could use to raise my issue with my political representative? This being Slashdot I'd be especially interested ideas related to electronic media.
Could we please get some editing?
Bush went to war against Iraq, Obama got us out. Can you see the wee-bit of difference there?
Or we could go with the full story.
Bush got a congressional authorization to use military force against Iraq and Afghanistan. Which got some debate, even if the intelligence community, Bush was arguable responsible for, delivered an incomplete and agenda driven picture.
Obama got us our of Iraq but happening to be sitting in the oval office at a time when the engagement was pretty much over. He doubled down in Afghanistan at almost the same time. I'd say the middle war machine policy is pretty similar or identical.
Then we move on to Libya, where Obama committed us to combat operation without consulting congress and continued those operations past the sixty day mark, a previously defined legal length of time. He also conducted special forces operations to get Bin Laden in a (ostensibly) friendly nation without their knowledge or consent, also doing largely the same in Yemen against other targets. One of the Yemeni targets being one of our own citizens, who was killed without trial or any process.
If anything Obama has proven to be at least as much or more hawkish than Bush, while at the same time showing decidedly more contempt for the checks and balances on the power of the presidency designed to make sure the nation is really behind the actions of the President.
But...yea... go on thinking the two men differ in ways other than, accent, skin color and basket-ball talent; if helps you sleep at night.
I don't cable TV because after what is available OTA and on Netflix I value the reaming entertainment i could get from it at about $0 so as little as it would cost I still don't have have it. Last I looked however, shortly before I dropped it the all the major providers have their packages and pricing plans if you have Internet service, than adding basic cable to that will only run you $10; they practically give it away (because its worthless).
So you don't save much there. Netflix is on of the last things I'd cut though if I need to really lower my expenses (like if I was not working or something). The way I figure it is that $7.99/mo is keeping at home and not out spending money. Hell you can barely go for a drive for $7.99 when you consider all the costs! Even the public library likely costs you as much to utilize unless you live near enough to it to walk!
Let me guess you are financial genius of the sort who worked at Lehman, Citi, Wells, WAMU, BOA, etc? Those guys did so much better as I recall. Clearly only these proud few should be allowed to spend large sums of money; and only other peoples at that.
So don't get to specific about the implementation. That is what comments in the code are for (well I suppose they are form of documentation as well). The design docs help you eliminate the most dangerous type of bug, "the logic flaw", almost any other type of problem can be patched. If you get the basic assumptions wrong you wind up throwing away all the glue.
The glue is the application. Anyone one can toss together a little atomic procedures to do X or Y, know which ones are needed in the first place, and being able to organize them into something larger an cohesive is all the value.
Its still all you ever needed its just not all you'd ever want.
which brings us back to the problem of making violations of a licensing agreement a crime.
The answer is of course it should never be a crime to violate a 'license' agreement. A license is a contract and should remain a strictly civil matter. Violating a license as in "I made copies I was not permitted to", "Ran this on more systems than was allowed", "Used that code in some other application where prohibited" are all things where the author has in some way made the code available to me in the first place.
Theft of code might be a legitimate area of law for criminalization if the code was acquired through extraordinary means. "I dumped it of my employeer's provided laptop and removed it to my own storage", "I broke into this companies server and downloaded it", "I paid someone with access to provide me with illegal copies", type situations.
Resolution and aspect ratio SHOULD NOT be tied together like that. If they are it means your display subsystem is naive and generally crap.
Possibly because these are US companies and we have trade agreements.
So how does this work in a secure environment?
I would say for the most part it work just like every other protocol that requires inspection by the gateway/firewall device. It will look inside the data stream and fish out the port / address numbers, then store them for later use; it might even change them suit its needs going out. "It can't do that if its encrypted!" you say.
Get with the times if your gateway device does not intercept and MTIM tls/ssl/ssh traffic that you otherwise allow out you are not in a "secure environment".
In this case the server you are connecting to would be in the security zone and behind the MTIM proxy which you have to trust. If you are also in a security zone controlled by someone you don't trust that is MTIMing you like any other protocol you cannont use it to connect to secure services.
Right and we also need to recognize Jennifer's worth in the market. Lets Face it the TSA is not hiring the from the upper crust of the labor pool when it comes to screeners.
These are people who terms of raw talent, education, previous and experience needed are maybe just one notch above the fast food work force, in that they have to be able to clear a moderately thorough background check; and pass drug tests. The reality is Jennifer is a dime a dozen employee. That goes double if what she says is true that there is no real training, if that is the case there is no cost of training new people.
Given the threat is basically non-existent, and being government the risk of liability is also effectively non-existent; she is probably right. There is not pressure on the TSA to be effective or safe, so why bother training the screeners and why not fire the ones that step out of line?
Stop perpetuating the lie the War of Northern Aggression was anything more than tangentially related to slavery. slavery ending was a good thing to come out of the war but it was not why it was fought, and it would have probably happened within another couple decades anyway.
If the Civil War was about slavery, the Emancipation Proclamation would have been issued day one. The war was about Federal power, and the slavery issues was pulled into gain the needed political support of abolitionists and no other reason.
TSA's real reasons for existence:
1) Get citizen accustomed to life without the fourth amendment.
2) Provide government union jobs to re-elect incumbents.
3) Preserve the culture of fear, again to re-elect incumbents.
4) Discourage would be rabble raisers form assembly; can't have more than just local Occupy protesters showing up wherever the G8 is being held.
Information acts like just about everything else in the universe. Without constantly applied effort and energy it flows from high concentration to lower concentrations.
We as a society need to recognize that its not possible to have it both ways. We are going to be open, and with that comes acceptance, our ideas, invention, imaginary property, etc will be making their way out in to the world; or we can close down and with concerted effort and expenditure we can keep our secrets.
I think history shows us open *is* better. If for no other reason than closed is actually really hard. We'd have to limit what you can buy/sell/manufacture abroad in ways that would probably be the undoing of many of our biggest business when they suddenly lose their foreign plant investments over night. Locking down our boards will push American wages up but it will also push prices of things like agricultural products typically produced with lots of immigrant and alien labor high enough to stave today's poor and impoverish today's middle class.
There the rubber meets the road is deaths per terawatt hours.
That is stupid metric, to compare nuclear power with other options. By and large those other options spead the deaths over a long period of time, and in a mostly predictable way. You can use it to compare coal to nat gas. Nuclear OOTH tends to be almost completely safe except when it very suddenly isn't.
Society can plan for and budget and function around those slow deaths, and predictable and usually localized environmental costs. Suddenly have to abandon 50 square miles, and all the assets within them, and potentially the people as well is a bit of back breaker.
Think of it like this. Smoking cigarettes does a lot of harm over a life time but it happens slowly and for a long time your body is able to cleanse itself of most of those toxins and carry on, its certain to shorten your life. A bullet probably does less total harm than those cigarettes do, in terms of cells killed; but the damage is sudden and catastrophic. Deepening on the specific circumstances it may prove immediately fatal. So if you have to pick one like we do with electrical generation what really makes more sense?
Russian roulette? or the Pack-a-day habit?
Which is why I think the EU and US should institute a 1-child-per-couple policy* to control population. Otherwise come 2050 Mother Nature will be downsizing our population through starvation and suffering. Better we do it ourselves.
Now why should we do that? If not for immigration our birth rate would already be below the replacement rate. There is no reason to place restrictions on the families of people who already live here. They are not needed. If population in the us starts to become a concern (its currently not) we should just shut the boarders.
They have been predicting this since Malthus and something has always come along to change the game. There is simply no reason technology will not continue to make larger populations possible. It has always been the pattern in the past
The other issue economic collapse is usually not the result of resource constraints, war is. We are not all going just sit around and stave to death. We will kill each other.