"emember them saying that Windows XP was the most secure operating system ever?"
Ever heard about relativity? Cmoon - it's still way more secure than Windows _ME_. And in Bills world there isn't MacosX or freeBSD (linux intentionally not mentioned)
But this doesn't matters, since you can easly say for your business partners that Skype is secure and is your preferred way of communications this way. And it works. Conference calls/chats rocks too. And with skype on each end - who cares about charges.
In fact, in our company (outsourcing services in Latvia), 90% of communications with client already happens over Skype. And we are only wining, since it allows much more efficient communications than over e-mail or phone.
"Adding insult to injury you only mentioned the old (and many say obsolete) Microsoft and Apple environments, and totally ignored the much more relevant and modern Open Soruce communities, such as Linux and FreeBSD."
I just wonder, when will it stop. I won't even comment on calling linux or freeBSD relevant (think X11), but saying that Apple envorement is in any way outdated...
Everybody knows that there is nothing that beats good old CRT in the area of display quality. And resolution.
CRT just cannot be easily scaled up to the sizes preferred by now almost blind american coach potatos:)
Plasma, on the other hand, is a joke. Poor colors, scaled resolutions, fast image degradiation. But it's sexy. And renders pink really well.
It's simple - looking for quality and sharpness - choose good CRT. Loewe or really really good sony will do. Have a lust for wall sized images - good DLP front projectors can be had for price so ridicilous it makes me weep.
Oh, and have an additional requirement - impress chicks, well, go plasma. They will immediately know you are techno geek or simply brain damaged.
Ok, ram is quite a shitt, but think again. If the speccs and description are right, then I'm picking two immediately up.
You know why? Just because it has iTunes. Forget the store, but there simply isn't anything that manages large collections of mp3/lossless audio so effortlessly. And the speed of iTunes on G4 is simply blazing.
So, they have sold two of them already. And it won't impede their high end sales since I'm buying them as applicances, not as computer.
Now all I have to pray for is proper audio output. Something on a level of iBook, not some x86 world realtek or via crapchip.
They DID it already quite a while ago. And then - stopped to do this. It just isn't the same level of quality or service if OEM's starts to put their "well save 30c on this if we place crappy samsung instead of proper hdd in" thinking in.
Perhaps, some day, it will be repeated. But for now - a mac is a mac from Apple. And this means - quality, working drivers, effortless installations and compatible hardware. Always.
My guess would be - at the moment when Mac will realise that their core value now is not the hardware, but MacOS X. Cheap volume market with profits from MacOS X. Sounds nice, but a nightmare for the people that value quality.
MacOS X already is. In a sensible way
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In fact, if you use MacOS X for a while, at one moment you realize, that, in fact, it already is 3D workspace. See how it manages displaying that some windows are in foreground, expose functionality... Compare it with windows, and, no matter what kind of skinning you add to it, it still is plain 2d.
It just is implemented sensibly and without the "nifty demos" everybody seems to be concentrating their development on.
C'moon guys - you all perfectly know that the nice and shiny 4proc capable boxes you bought with 600% price premium, just to have _option for future_ still happily runs with their single processor. And are retired on average after 3 years of service.
Perhaps the ONLY thing I have ever seen being upgraded is memory. And storage, of course, always is kept in external arrays, so, this is not an issue to even consider - as long as you have at least one pci slot to add additional scsi controller.
I don't care - I live in eastern europe, and you know - we have regular major snowstorms here. Know what? Nobody cares. It's a FUCKING WEATHER. You can't change it and there is no big point to know it in advance in anyway. Except, of course, you are one of those people who needs to pack just to visit the other end of the town.
And, yes, btw - just how exactly, apart from telling people what we should be afraid from today, this agency is changing anything.
(and as for those 'be vevvy vevvy afvaid!' shit - shit it.)
Silly, silly slashdoters, we. Some stupid agency compiled a list of our worthless comments, made some changes they were planning to the original policy and now we all KNOW THEY LISTEN.
"Because this system responded to ICMP ping requests, there was a low number of attempts to compromise the system--795 attacks." Makes sense?
Also, from their methodology I really don't quite understand how they count attack attempts. Especially for MacOS X they say that ~44% of total attacks observed in experiment were targeting MacOSX machine, but later they honestly say that almost all of attacks were some kind of Microsoft exploits. Does this means that they counted microsoft exploits attempting to compromise MacOS X as a mac attacks?
And, finally, I really like their babbling about most secure platforms being THREE (linspire, SP1 + zoneAlarm, windows SP2) and mentions the fact that mac were not compromised just in one table.
If you would like to see conspiracy, I would say that this is a Microsoft PR with goal to: a) SP2 is good. b) Don't fucking use our products without additional security software (a marvelous reccomendation by the article) c) the only real operating envorement in this article is irrevelant and we just added it at the latest moment to gain some credibility.
And Bluetooth. I'm not avare of bluetooth support in recent linux releases, but I happily use bluetooth with my ibook laptop and Nokia 6600 wherever I go. Bluetooth defines wireless modem profile, and from there, it's a piece of cake.
Actually - it usually does. You have to figure out how to configure it yourself, of course - ether as an USB Phone modem or Bluetooth Modem, but apart from this all you need to know is gprs configuration parameters (gprs access *point* name, user, password).
The best I have seen from this are motorolla phones with miniUsb connector. They have simple and proper support for usb modem.
Those software packages and fancy config dialogs - screw them. provider can't avoid infrastructure standards, so - use them.
The reason why electronic voting is being promoted is simple:
A) To simplify requirements for preparation of election and summarising results afterwards.
i.e. there is no need to print paper ballots or at least - not in large amounts, you get results already in simple table without need to sit at them for the night and on and on and on.
P.S. (Additional benefits may include, but are not limited to:
b) spend taxpayers money
c) Diabolic paycheck to some of the parties involved.)
System is approximately the same as in Ukraine, but - don't mix two entirely different things:
In Ukraine the issue was that while working with the good old paper based voting method there are serious doubts about the overall elections since:
- Counting process of ballots was often handled by officials ordered by current government.
- There were cases (a lot of them, actually - almost as a law) where independent observers were denied any access to the counting or verifying process.
- People were denied entry in the voting office. Sometimes with guns.
- Current government didn't even bothered to hide the fact that they are holding a good old CCCP elections where the supposed candidate wins with 99% of voters voting for him (and 100% of registered voters appears at the voting office). Just smarter and with nicer looking percentages (for all of those who are watching the results from outside to make at least an impression).
- Ukraine still has a lot of CCCP legacy and populacy generally active and concerned about their future and democratic process.
In USA:
- Electronic voting had numerous problems starting with hanging machines up to a machines that had votes on them when firing up at the beginning of voting process or changed their mind about vote count during the voting process.
- In addition to the above - there is NO WAY to even detect any problems with voting machines afterwards. And while at it, most election officials, noting such problems, reacted - "oh, never mind, we have voters at the door, nothing can be done about that". And later the only results there is, simply is. No chance to recount the results and no chance to detect that recound may be required.
- A lot of ballots simply wasn't counted. As an interesting sidenote - a very significant portion of them were people who, quite correctly, distrusting electronic voting process required paper "absentee" (or how they are correctly called) ballots - basically ensuring that votes from significant portion of the population that IS aware about those problems, simply were not counted.
- PostElection statistical analysis shows or do not shows that actual results produced doesn't matches with the exit polls or population counts. But again - this is statistics.
- Population is generally inert about political issues and under quite strong impression that a) democracy and b) fair voting is guranteed in USA.
As a summary - those two are entirely different things. In Ukraine people had election under guns and population is on the verge of revolt (similarry to what happened in 1990s in CCCP (not to count, of course, that CCCP was the ones that mastered and ordered revolts then)). In USA people, except for a very small and smarter group of population, naively believes that everything is fine and okay.
This is the thing that worries me more. In Ukraine will be bloodshed, but at least - they will eventually get to democratic election process. In USA, if everything will go on as of now, we will have election day parties where nobody will ever bother to pretend that their vote counts and the results will be prepared by Administration anyway.
In short - In Ukraine people care - they will get it soon. In USA the averange voter cares for his sixpack and a tv.
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Aren't they?
"emember them saying that Windows XP was the most secure operating system ever?"
Ever heard about relativity? Cmoon - it's still way more secure than Windows _ME_. And in Bills world there isn't MacosX or freeBSD (linux intentionally not mentioned)
But this doesn't matters, since you can easly say for your business partners that Skype is secure and is your preferred way of communications this way. And it works. Conference calls/chats rocks too. And with skype on each end - who cares about charges.
In fact, in our company (outsourcing services in Latvia), 90% of communications with client already happens over Skype. And we are only wining, since it allows much more efficient communications than over e-mail or phone.
With Real track record as it is, yes, definetly.
And can you imagine your parents using computer without at least any kind of spyware? It's unnatural. So - Real comes to help again.
"Adding insult to injury you only mentioned the old (and many say obsolete) Microsoft and Apple environments, and totally ignored the much more relevant and modern Open Soruce communities, such as Linux and FreeBSD."
:)
I just wonder, when will it stop. I won't even comment on calling linux or freeBSD relevant (think X11), but saying that Apple envorement is in any way outdated...
The battle of equals for sure
You just Don't Get It. Think about why it's called shuffle.
Apple attempts to make a revolution again.
We killed a major (and in a Major sense, this is no silly CBC stuff) broadcaster.
Good teamwork, soldiers!
Everybody knows that there is nothing that beats good old CRT in the area of display quality. And resolution.
:)
CRT just cannot be easily scaled up to the sizes preferred by now almost blind american coach potatos
Plasma, on the other hand, is a joke. Poor colors, scaled resolutions, fast image degradiation. But it's sexy. And renders pink really well.
It's simple - looking for quality and sharpness - choose good CRT. Loewe or really really good sony will do. Have a lust for wall sized images - good DLP front projectors can be had for price so ridicilous it makes me weep.
Oh, and have an additional requirement - impress chicks, well, go plasma. They will immediately know you are techno geek or simply brain damaged.
Ok, ram is quite a shitt, but think again. If the speccs and description are right, then I'm picking two immediately up.
You know why? Just because it has iTunes. Forget the store, but there simply isn't anything that manages large collections of mp3/lossless audio so effortlessly. And the speed of iTunes on G4 is simply blazing.
So, they have sold two of them already. And it won't impede their high end sales since I'm buying them as applicances, not as computer.
Now all I have to pray for is proper audio output. Something on a level of iBook, not some x86 world realtek or via crapchip.
They DID it already quite a while ago. And then - stopped to do this. It just isn't the same level of quality or service if OEM's starts to put their "well save 30c on this if we place crappy samsung instead of proper hdd in" thinking in.
Perhaps, some day, it will be repeated. But for now - a mac is a mac from Apple. And this means - quality, working drivers, effortless installations and compatible hardware. Always.
My guess would be - at the moment when Mac will realise that their core value now is not the hardware, but MacOS X. Cheap volume market with profits from MacOS X. Sounds nice, but a nightmare for the people that value quality.
In fact, if you use MacOS X for a while, at one moment you realize, that, in fact, it already is 3D workspace. See how it manages displaying that some windows are in foreground, expose functionality... Compare it with windows, and, no matter what kind of skinning you add to it, it still is plain 2d.
It just is implemented sensibly and without the "nifty demos" everybody seems to be concentrating their development on.
No, they wont. Most spam e-mails contain ip links anyway.
C'moon guys - you all perfectly know that the nice and shiny 4proc capable boxes you bought with 600% price premium, just to have _option for future_ still happily runs with their single processor. And are retired on average after 3 years of service.
Perhaps the ONLY thing I have ever seen being upgraded is memory. And storage, of course, always is kept in external arrays, so, this is not an issue to even consider - as long as you have at least one pci slot to add additional scsi controller.
I don't care - I live in eastern europe, and you know - we have regular major snowstorms here. Know what? Nobody cares. It's a FUCKING WEATHER. You can't change it and there is no big point to know it in advance in anyway. Except, of course, you are one of those people who needs to pack just to visit the other end of the town.
And, yes, btw - just how exactly, apart from telling people what we should be afraid from today, this agency is changing anything.
(and as for those 'be vevvy vevvy afvaid!' shit - shit it.)
Silly, silly slashdoters, we. Some stupid agency compiled a list of our worthless comments, made some changes they were planning to the original policy and now we all KNOW THEY LISTEN.
"Because this system responded to ICMP ping requests, there was a low number of attempts to compromise the system--795 attacks." Makes sense?
Also, from their methodology I really don't quite understand how they count attack attempts. Especially for MacOS X they say that ~44% of total attacks observed in experiment were targeting MacOSX machine, but later they honestly say that almost all of attacks were some kind of Microsoft exploits. Does this means that they counted microsoft exploits attempting to compromise MacOS X as a mac attacks?
And, finally, I really like their babbling about most secure platforms being THREE (linspire, SP1 + zoneAlarm, windows SP2) and mentions the fact that mac were not compromised just in one table.
If you would like to see conspiracy, I would say that this is a Microsoft PR with goal to:
a) SP2 is good.
b) Don't fucking use our products without additional security software (a marvelous reccomendation by the article)
c) the only real operating envorement in this article is irrevelant and we just added it at the latest moment to gain some credibility.
And Bluetooth. I'm not avare of bluetooth support in recent linux releases, but I happily use bluetooth with my ibook laptop and Nokia 6600 wherever I go. Bluetooth defines wireless modem profile, and from there, it's a piece of cake.
Actually - it usually does. You have to figure out how to configure it yourself, of course - ether as an USB Phone modem or Bluetooth Modem, but apart from this all you need to know is gprs configuration parameters (gprs access *point* name, user, password).
The best I have seen from this are motorolla phones with miniUsb connector. They have simple and proper support for usb modem.
Those software packages and fancy config dialogs - screw them. provider can't avoid infrastructure standards, so - use them.
Nobody finds it funny that the amount of text differs so dramatically between those two entries in wikipedia?
Especially considering which one of those cases was the serious one.
The reason why electronic voting is being promoted is simple:
A) To simplify requirements for preparation of election and summarising results afterwards.
i.e. there is no need to print paper ballots or at least - not in large amounts, you get results already in simple table without need to sit at them for the night and on and on and on.
P.S. (Additional benefits may include, but are not limited to:
b) spend taxpayers money
c) Diabolic paycheck to some of the parties involved.)
System is approximately the same as in Ukraine, but - don't mix two entirely different things:
In Ukraine the issue was that while working with the good old paper based voting method there are serious doubts about the overall elections since:
- Counting process of ballots was often handled by officials ordered by current government.
- There were cases (a lot of them, actually - almost as a law) where independent observers were denied any access to the counting or verifying process.
- People were denied entry in the voting office. Sometimes with guns.
- Current government didn't even bothered to hide the fact that they are holding a good old CCCP elections where the supposed candidate wins with 99% of voters voting for him (and 100% of registered voters appears at the voting office). Just smarter and with nicer looking percentages (for all of those who are watching the results from outside to make at least an impression).
- Ukraine still has a lot of CCCP legacy and populacy generally active and concerned about their future and democratic process.
In USA:
- Electronic voting had numerous problems starting with hanging machines up to a machines that had votes on them when firing up at the beginning of voting process or changed their mind about vote count during the voting process.
- In addition to the above - there is NO WAY to even detect any problems with voting machines afterwards. And while at it, most election officials, noting such problems, reacted - "oh, never mind, we have voters at the door, nothing can be done about that". And later the only results there is, simply is. No chance to recount the results and no chance to detect that recound may be required.
- A lot of ballots simply wasn't counted. As an interesting sidenote - a very significant portion of them were people who, quite correctly, distrusting electronic voting process required paper "absentee" (or how they are correctly called) ballots - basically ensuring that votes from significant portion of the population that IS aware about those problems, simply were not counted.
- PostElection statistical analysis shows or do not shows that actual results produced doesn't matches with the exit polls or population counts. But again - this is statistics.
- Population is generally inert about political issues and under quite strong impression that a) democracy and b) fair voting is guranteed in USA.
As a summary - those two are entirely different things. In Ukraine people had election under guns and population is on the verge of revolt (similarry to what happened in 1990s in CCCP (not to count, of course, that CCCP was the ones that mastered and ordered revolts then)). In USA people, except for a very small and smarter group of population, naively believes that everything is fine and okay.
This is the thing that worries me more. In Ukraine will be bloodshed, but at least - they will eventually get to democratic election process. In USA, if everything will go on as of now, we will have election day parties where nobody will ever bother to pretend that their vote counts and the results will be prepared by Administration anyway.
In short - In Ukraine people care - they will get it soon. In USA the averange voter cares for his sixpack and a tv.
Well, I believe, just as duke nukem forever this could become one of those *reminded to us by taco every three months* things.
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As the current track record of this project and
yes. ;D
You could start with an idea. And, quite preferrably, a talent.
The tools will be obvious, then. Believe me.
it IS bittorent client. With hardcoded torrent.