They want to say the number of vulnerabilities increased in a certain period, then they have to compare that to another period of the same length.
Not true. You can work out the average speed of a car over 10 miles and do a straight comparison with compare another car over 20 miles. There is no difference here. It's simply a rate. You don't need a common divisor.
It wouldn't be a/. meme if there weren't people like you to repeat them.
Good domain-specific tools are written as command-line utilities, and are even better if you wrote them yourself for your project.
That's a bit of a giveaway that your problem is lack of good prewritten tools. Don't mistake the paucity of decent IDEs on Linux for an advantage.
The Unix way was a huge step forward and a great way to work in the 1970s and into the 80s. But it's not the 1980s any more. We don't have to emulate glass teletypes. GUIs can do everything that command line utilities can and a hell of a lot more. And they do.
Because of all the domain specific tools you'll be missing if you don't use the IDE. Because the syntax highlighting and autoformatting is made for purpose and therefore probably better in the IDE.
It's a good idea to have a good general purpose text editor in your toolbag for when you want to do some interesting editing task on a text file - often data rather than code. But developing applications - you're usually best off with a dedicated IDE for the platform and language in question.
It's one of those stupid/. memes that vi,, vim or emacs is better for all situations.
It appears you have never ever configured a notebook for secure use environment, I assure they can be configured to download only what you want them to from a source you specify.
Sure they can. You can pay technicians to make sure they are locked down and patched in the same way that iPads are locked down out of the box.
16GB less operating system, less applications, less multi-media content, less all required texts and plus references works and less student created content, shrinks to nothing pretty fast.
Do you actually own an iPad? Because I can assure you that's not the case. Movies will fill it up, as will the entire MP3 collection that some teenage kid has ripped off. But there's no chance of making a dent on it with a years worth of educational materials.
Plus you can protect the screen and you have a keyboard whilst retaining a full sized screen.
You like laptops. I get it. So do I. But they are not the best thing for school level education. The educational content available for the iPad is endless and far outdoes what's available for PCs. The great thing is that kids use direct manipulation through the touch screen. There is no level of indirectness as their is with using a mouse and keyboard to control software.
The drive with computerising schools to to get students to create content not bloody mindlessly consume it, just to drive corporate profits.
You're really playing through your biases now aren't you. You do realise those laptops you are suggesting cost money. And in most cases the content creation software you refer to is Microsoft Office.
Probably in your mind it's Linux. But that's not the real world of school education in most cases.
As to creating content, school has always had more consumption than creation. What do you think text books are? Stuff done by the teacher on blackboards, whiteboards, and these days projector screens? Thats consumption too. Of course they have to do tests based on that content. For which the iPad is a better option than a laptop. And any artwork or design work is better done with an iPad than a laptop (of course in actual art classes they'll mostly use paper).
At some point they'll be writing of course. And there, finally you do have something that the laptop is better for. But school writing tops out at about 500 words. And kids don't have a problem with typing on a screen.
Well first of all, there's no such thing as "at will employment" here. So you don't lose your job on an employer's whim. There have to be reasons, and there are processes that need to be followed, and if as an emplyee you are not at fault there's normally redundancy payments made relative to your years of service.
Then, if you lose your job, you aren't normally foreclosed on. This is a combination of mortgages being switched to interest only payments, welfare paying towards those payments, and eviction notices taking a long time to be granted.
Of course countries differ. But isn't it odd how America is so wealthy, yet treats employees as serfs.
Two iPads, providing they are the same generation (or at least they're both either retina or non-retina) is probably there least susceptible to this form of fingerprinting, Not only will the devices be hardware identical, the OS is very likely to be the latest, the installed fonts the same, and the browser engine identical regardless of browser app.
But having two such that are used interchangeably won't be that common. Besides this is for marketing uses - they don't need to get it right all the time.
You seem lost in the 1990s. You don't seem to appreciate that Javascript is essential to the way many or most web-sites deliver their content these days.
The "to hell with them" crowd is likely too young to know that pride gets in the way of providing for your family, and swallowing your pride is vastly easier than being foreclosed on.
It doesn't solve the problem as yet. From the FAQ:
"Currently, Privacy Badger does not prevent browser fingerprinting, of the sort we demonstrated with the Panopticlick project. But we will be adding fingerprinting countermeasures in a future update!"
Also it only supports Firefox and Chrome.
Torbrowser however does prevent canvas fingerprinting.
It can't. But that doesn't make it useless. There's a lot of variety out there. In a test out of 200 and some samples, it comes up with over a hundred different fingerprints.
It could be used if you want to differentiate when a known user (via account or other method) is using different devices. As a user is extremely unlikely to use 2 separate but identical computers.
It could be used in combination with other fingerprinting techniques to get closer to cookie levels of ID.
You might not care whether you get down to a single user. Hashing clients into buckets might serve your purposes.
Right, my logic only works in the case I described, whereas your nonsense applies all the rest of the time. Is that a red nose you're wearing? And outsize shoes?
Yes. but you get what you pay for. Libreoffice is far worse than MS Office. Linux is far worse than OSX and Windows, and Gimp is far worse than Photoshop or Pixelmator.
Yes, that's the model that ID and Apogee used to use back in the olden days. Play through a fair sized set of levels for free - several hours of play - and then pay for the rest of the levels.
But they could do that without in-app purchases. Simply have a free app for the initial level set, and a paid app for the rest. At the end of the free app, have a hyperlink which goes to the store for the paid app.
I wish the in-app-purchase freemium model had never been introduced. It's a can of worms. But given that the cat is out of the bag, they should at least be listed as "Freemium" rather than "Free".
The only one problem with this is there are a few good games where you can play it all for free and the in-apps are completely optional.
That's not a problem. The answer is contained in your message. Label games and other applications that come free but offer in app purchases as "Freemium". Such that at every place in the store that there are the possible categories "Paid" or "Free", make a third one that is "Freemium".
It's not a problem as Freemium is describing exactly what it is. It's not saying it's a scam.
I don't believe Apple's current solution to have a "Free" button with "Offers In-App Purchases" listed below is not sufficient. Because there are plenty of places, such as the front page, where they are just listed as free. This needs to be a whole separate category different from truly free apps.
I'm unfamiliar with what Google currently do and what they are promising to do in future, so I can;t comment but the solution I suggest for Apple would be good for them too.
In English you're supposed to say "Ukraine" and not "the Ukraine" since Ukraine is an independent country and not a part of the USSR. The only people who know the difference and insist on "the Ukraine" are Russian sympathizers, so you're actually picking a side you may not wish to pick by saying "the Ukraine".
Complete nonsense. I'm English, and it's always been known as "The Ukraine" here. To my knowledge since at least the 1970s when I was a boy, and had Ukranian immigrant friends, and it won't have been a new thing then.
And it has nothing to do with whether it's a an independent country or not, as other's have pointed out with "The United States", "The Netherlands", there's also "The Republic of Gambia" or "The Gambia", "The Maldives" and "The Bahamas".
It is true that Ukranian diplomats want the definite article dropped. But that doesn't mean we're taking the Russian side when we English speakers continue to refer to the Ukraine in the way we always have.
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The rate last year was 130 vulns per six months. The rate this year is 266 per six months.
Now what are you quibbling about?
Unless the article author has a time machine you still can't say that the vulnerabilities have increased 100% until they actually have.
The rate has increased precisely 104% already. There is no need for a common divisor when calculating rates.
They want to say the number of vulnerabilities increased in a certain period, then they have to compare that to another period of the same length.
Not true. You can work out the average speed of a car over 10 miles and do a straight comparison with compare another car over 20 miles. There is no difference here. It's simply a rate. You don't need a common divisor.
It wouldn't be a /. meme if there weren't people like you to repeat them.
Good domain-specific tools are written as command-line utilities, and are even better if you wrote them yourself for your project.
That's a bit of a giveaway that your problem is lack of good prewritten tools. Don't mistake the paucity of decent IDEs on Linux for an advantage.
The Unix way was a huge step forward and a great way to work in the 1970s and into the 80s. But it's not the 1980s any more. We don't have to emulate glass teletypes. GUIs can do everything that command line utilities can and a hell of a lot more. And they do.
Because of all the domain specific tools you'll be missing if you don't use the IDE. Because the syntax highlighting and autoformatting is made for purpose and therefore probably better in the IDE.
It's a good idea to have a good general purpose text editor in your toolbag for when you want to do some interesting editing task on a text file - often data rather than code. But developing applications - you're usually best off with a dedicated IDE for the platform and language in question.
It's one of those stupid /. memes that vi,, vim or emacs is better for all situations.
We seem to be having a lot of astroturf from MS today.
IE Exploits.
2013 = 130
H1-2014 = 133.
Bearing in mind the year vs half-year, that's a 104% increase. So no it's not an odd conclusion at all.
Looking at the graphic the raw number looks like about 130 for all of 2013, and slightly more for the first half of 2014.
What are you finding unclear about this graphic?
http://www.net-security.org/im...
It appears you have never ever configured a notebook for secure use environment, I assure they can be configured to download only what you want them to from a source you specify.
Sure they can. You can pay technicians to make sure they are locked down and patched in the same way that iPads are locked down out of the box.
16GB less operating system, less applications, less multi-media content, less all required texts and plus references works and less student created content, shrinks to nothing pretty fast.
Do you actually own an iPad? Because I can assure you that's not the case. Movies will fill it up, as will the entire MP3 collection that some teenage kid has ripped off. But there's no chance of making a dent on it with a years worth of educational materials.
Plus you can protect the screen and you have a keyboard whilst retaining a full sized screen.
You like laptops. I get it. So do I. But they are not the best thing for school level education. The educational content available for the iPad is endless and far outdoes what's available for PCs. The great thing is that kids use direct manipulation through the touch screen. There is no level of indirectness as their is with using a mouse and keyboard to control software.
The drive with computerising schools to to get students to create content not bloody mindlessly consume it, just to drive corporate profits.
You're really playing through your biases now aren't you. You do realise those laptops you are suggesting cost money. And in most cases the content creation software you refer to is Microsoft Office.
Probably in your mind it's Linux. But that's not the real world of school education in most cases.
As to creating content, school has always had more consumption than creation. What do you think text books are? Stuff done by the teacher on blackboards, whiteboards, and these days projector screens? Thats consumption too. Of course they have to do tests based on that content. For which the iPad is a better option than a laptop. And any artwork or design work is better done with an iPad than a laptop (of course in actual art classes they'll mostly use paper).
At some point they'll be writing of course. And there, finally you do have something that the laptop is better for. But school writing tops out at about 500 words. And kids don't have a problem with typing on a screen.
Well first of all, there's no such thing as "at will employment" here. So you don't lose your job on an employer's whim. There have to be reasons, and there are processes that need to be followed, and if as an emplyee you are not at fault there's normally redundancy payments made relative to your years of service.
Then, if you lose your job, you aren't normally foreclosed on. This is a combination of mortgages being switched to interest only payments, welfare paying towards those payments, and eviction notices taking a long time to be granted.
Of course countries differ. But isn't it odd how America is so wealthy, yet treats employees as serfs.
Even an entry level iPad has 16GB, which is enough for hundreds of books, or over a hundred of the largest app that can be downloaded wirelessly.
And unlike a notebook there is no chance of bandwidth being hogged by torrenting.
Two iPads, providing they are the same generation (or at least they're both either retina or non-retina) is probably there least susceptible to this form of fingerprinting, Not only will the devices be hardware identical, the OS is very likely to be the latest, the installed fonts the same, and the browser engine identical regardless of browser app.
But having two such that are used interchangeably won't be that common. Besides this is for marketing uses - they don't need to get it right all the time.
Note the difference between free as in libre and free as in beer.
Their ain't much freedom if your house depends on the whims of your employer.
You seem lost in the 1990s. You don't seem to appreciate that Javascript is essential to the way many or most web-sites deliver their content these days.
Maybe you've been living in that cave too long.
More like the celibate of the internet. less chance of infections but no fun either.
The "to hell with them" crowd is likely too young to know that pride gets in the way of providing for your family, and swallowing your pride is vastly easier than being foreclosed on.
God bless America, the land of the free.
You'll do precious litte on the internet without Javascript.
It doesn't solve the problem as yet. From the FAQ:
"Currently, Privacy Badger does not prevent browser fingerprinting, of the sort we demonstrated with the Panopticlick project. But we will be adding fingerprinting countermeasures in a future update!"
Also it only supports Firefox and Chrome.
Torbrowser however does prevent canvas fingerprinting.
It can't. But that doesn't make it useless. There's a lot of variety out there. In a test out of 200 and some samples, it comes up with over a hundred different fingerprints.
It could be used if you want to differentiate when a known user (via account or other method) is using different devices. As a user is extremely unlikely to use 2 separate but identical computers.
It could be used in combination with other fingerprinting techniques to get closer to cookie levels of ID.
You might not care whether you get down to a single user. Hashing clients into buckets might serve your purposes.
Right, my logic only works in the case I described, whereas your nonsense applies all the rest of the time. Is that a red nose you're wearing? And outsize shoes?
Yes. but you get what you pay for. Libreoffice is far worse than MS Office. Linux is far worse than OSX and Windows, and Gimp is far worse than Photoshop or Pixelmator.
Yes, that's the model that ID and Apogee used to use back in the olden days. Play through a fair sized set of levels for free - several hours of play - and then pay for the rest of the levels.
But they could do that without in-app purchases. Simply have a free app for the initial level set, and a paid app for the rest. At the end of the free app, have a hyperlink which goes to the store for the paid app.
I wish the in-app-purchase freemium model had never been introduced. It's a can of worms. But given that the cat is out of the bag, they should at least be listed as "Freemium" rather than "Free".
The button says "Buy" if there's an up-front cost, and "Free" for truly free and also freemium apps.
I agree that at every point, freemium apps should be listed separately from truly free apps.
The only one problem with this is there are a few good games where you can play it all for free and the in-apps are completely optional.
That's not a problem. The answer is contained in your message. Label games and other applications that come free but offer in app purchases as "Freemium". Such that at every place in the store that there are the possible categories "Paid" or "Free", make a third one that is "Freemium".
It's not a problem as Freemium is describing exactly what it is. It's not saying it's a scam.
I don't believe Apple's current solution to have a "Free" button with "Offers In-App Purchases" listed below is not sufficient. Because there are plenty of places, such as the front page, where they are just listed as free. This needs to be a whole separate category different from truly free apps.
I'm unfamiliar with what Google currently do and what they are promising to do in future, so I can;t comment but the solution I suggest for Apple would be good for them too.
In English you're supposed to say "Ukraine" and not "the Ukraine" since Ukraine is an independent country and not a part of the USSR. The only people who know the difference and insist on "the Ukraine" are Russian sympathizers, so you're actually picking a side you may not wish to pick by saying "the Ukraine".
Complete nonsense. I'm English, and it's always been known as "The Ukraine" here. To my knowledge since at least the 1970s when I was a boy, and had Ukranian immigrant friends, and it won't have been a new thing then.
And it has nothing to do with whether it's a an independent country or not, as other's have pointed out with "The United States", "The Netherlands", there's also "The Republic of Gambia" or "The Gambia", "The Maldives" and "The Bahamas".
It is true that Ukranian diplomats want the definite article dropped. But that doesn't mean we're taking the Russian side when we English speakers continue to refer to the Ukraine in the way we always have.