I would agree with you, but there's a lot of horses in that barn yet.
That said, they have to do a whole lot more than change the policy. There was a huge resistance to Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) technologies in the early days of military adoption - some of it warranted and some of it not. I was there then. It's important to leverage the technologies of the day because failing to do so is ceding the advantage of technology to the enemy which is loss of advantage, but neglecting security to do so is unwise and unnecessary.
USB and other ports can be desoldered and removed, or barring that, filled with epoxy. SATA and ATA ports can be disabled in a number of ways including writing your own BIOS to require a disk pre-imaged with encryption, snipping pins or cutting traces. This is testable, verifiable rework that can be required before a system is approved for use in a secure environment. If a computer in a secure environment has an optical media burner, that's a failure of judgment right there that you can fix with a hammer. The leaker was allegedly pretending to listen to music while burning a CD? There are SO many failures in that sentence I can't even start describing them.
Not running the world's least secure desktop environment also might help, and NCOs aren't going to cut it.
Command needs guidance from some geeks who aren't too vulnerable to the awesome powers that their rank bestows to give them the straight dope. They actually have a mechanism for this that they're not using: Warrant Officers. Bringing in experts at the professional level who aren't in the regular chain would help.
I'm not sure that the leaks actually harm US policy in the long run. Apparently they may launch a new age of openness in detente. It may have been the best thing that could have happened in the end. But that's a different topic for a different thread.
Florian, could you be less useful if you tried? Look, you've got to put in ten more years at this before you can be more reviled or more wrong than Rob Enderle - though I can see you're giving it the old college try.
They give us what we want, so we love them. It's not that hard. Your boss should try that.
Nothing too bad is going to happen in the Great IPocalypse. A bunch of lawyers will get some billable hours to go through the motions. There will be a flutter of competing press releases. Eventually the executives will settle the whole thing over a nice lunch. Some years later some new lawyer will forget to seal the docket in a completely different suit and we'll get to find out who did what to whom and who got paid.
But neither iOS nor Android is going away. This noise will not slow either one. We'll have our stunningly disruptive revolution.
Florian, your sugar daddy's getting squashed between Apple, Google, HTC, Motorola, a host of others, and a stampeding horde of customers clamoring for the progress that's been held back too long. HP, Acer and Dell will be slow to come along, but their partnership is not a suicide pact. Your flopping about will not slow the outcome in the slightest.
Enjoy your incentives while they still come. Nothing lasts forever. They'll use you up and throw you out one day so you may as well get yours, right?
I wasn't going to post in this article with Florian's taint on it, but here goes anyway. In the end I expect this will get nasty for a while, and then the companies will come to an understanding about the coexistence of iOS and Android. They'll cross-license some patents and then once united turn and attack... who?
Agreed. I know people who have done it. I don't think I would advertise it as a general case, but it can be done. I guess we were thinking about different types of business.
A site that would store evercookies would do other things I don't approve of. They have gone from providing information to furtive tracking. For someone who's gone that far, a phone-home BHO is just one logical step away.
If the site requires the ability to store flash evercookies as a cost of viewing the site, I'm OK with not being able to see their content. It's too much to pay.
This is the "Choice is bad" argument again. As long as there's a few high-end phones with a spectrum of cutting edge features to choose from, why should you care if there's a thousand off-brand special-purpose kidphones? If you don't like the burden of choice, you'll always have the option to go to Apple where there's One True iPhone. But for people who need a phone that's more economical or configured differently than an iPhone, it's nice to have the choice. Besides, the dynamic nature of Android phone design shows Apple what features are crucial to add to their phone to keep striving to be on top. We all win.
Yeah, in Android land developers have to do more work to fit their apps to diverse platforms. This isn't new - PC developers have been doing it always. But that's one of the reasons why we pay them for their apps. If they need a stable high-population platform to launch their app development company there's the iPhone to build from. Once the app is built, porting to Android is a minor thing. It's the features and the interface that are important to app acceptance - the hard part. Porting is pretty mechanical work that involves little creative input.
Every life has a purpose. The purpose of yours may be to provide a cautionary tale for those who come after.
The obvious correct answer to this question is an app that leverages sharing the GPS info of participants in order to deliver to the same participants reliable real-time info about traffic conditions. The fact that you're flying down this particular freeway at 100KPH right now is valuable information to people who also know of other routes to where they want to be where people are creeping along or not moving at all. Since this is useful information that can then be sold, it's possible that paying people to participate in the scheme some fraction of the gross - in addition to providing them better traffic guidance - would be economically feasible. Then most people would then get some slightly delayed, ad-sponsored automatic guidance by radio or something. Also, selling the information to traffic guidance for people who didn't want to share their GPS would also be good.
Naturally the Tornoodle Network that provides this service globally would be the bee's knees. I think I would call it "tornoodle.com." That name evokes the image of a bowl of noodles, representing potential routes, and is similar to "tornado" which is both chaotic and orderly, but unpredictable and very active. It's getting harder to find domain names these days. If you want that one, I figure you've got about ten minutes. But it was available at the time of this posting.
Heck, at that price Sergey could refit it so that he could have a "my yacht is bigger than your yacht" game with Steve Ballmer. Steve's yacht is only 126m. This is 210m. That's a lot of m's.
This used to be true. Now Microsoft has been threatening people with patent litigation. If fact, they took the outstanding step of suing Motorola - several times!
Of course this is neither here nor there on the evilness issue. That's a story that has no beginning and no end, its purity no degree.
It's Possible Another Delightful product will have to be their next driver for growth. Another Product Produced Later Eventually Taking Volume away from consumer products they don't currently cover would have to continue the trend.
Apple's doing fine. If you're going to worry about somebody, there are other vendors whose products aren't selling so well - who haven't seen capitalization growth in a long time.
According to the theory the all of the mass-energy of the universe has already occupied a space no larger than a beach ball. If it were possible for gravity to recompress everything back down through a singularity, it would have done so then.
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I would agree with you, but there's a lot of horses in that barn yet.
That said, they have to do a whole lot more than change the policy. There was a huge resistance to Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) technologies in the early days of military adoption - some of it warranted and some of it not. I was there then. It's important to leverage the technologies of the day because failing to do so is ceding the advantage of technology to the enemy which is loss of advantage, but neglecting security to do so is unwise and unnecessary.
USB and other ports can be desoldered and removed, or barring that, filled with epoxy. SATA and ATA ports can be disabled in a number of ways including writing your own BIOS to require a disk pre-imaged with encryption, snipping pins or cutting traces. This is testable, verifiable rework that can be required before a system is approved for use in a secure environment. If a computer in a secure environment has an optical media burner, that's a failure of judgment right there that you can fix with a hammer. The leaker was allegedly pretending to listen to music while burning a CD? There are SO many failures in that sentence I can't even start describing them.
Not running the world's least secure desktop environment also might help, and NCOs aren't going to cut it.
Command needs guidance from some geeks who aren't too vulnerable to the awesome powers that their rank bestows to give them the straight dope. They actually have a mechanism for this that they're not using: Warrant Officers. Bringing in experts at the professional level who aren't in the regular chain would help.
I'm not sure that the leaks actually harm US policy in the long run. Apparently they may launch a new age of openness in detente. It may have been the best thing that could have happened in the end. But that's a different topic for a different thread.
Florian, could you be less useful if you tried? Look, you've got to put in ten more years at this before you can be more reviled or more wrong than Rob Enderle - though I can see you're giving it the old college try.
They give us what we want, so we love them. It's not that hard. Your boss should try that.
Nothing too bad is going to happen in the Great IPocalypse. A bunch of lawyers will get some billable hours to go through the motions. There will be a flutter of competing press releases. Eventually the executives will settle the whole thing over a nice lunch. Some years later some new lawyer will forget to seal the docket in a completely different suit and we'll get to find out who did what to whom and who got paid.
But neither iOS nor Android is going away. This noise will not slow either one. We'll have our stunningly disruptive revolution.
Florian, your sugar daddy's getting squashed between Apple, Google, HTC, Motorola, a host of others, and a stampeding horde of customers clamoring for the progress that's been held back too long. HP, Acer and Dell will be slow to come along, but their partnership is not a suicide pact. Your flopping about will not slow the outcome in the slightest.
Enjoy your incentives while they still come. Nothing lasts forever. They'll use you up and throw you out one day so you may as well get yours, right?
I'll leave you with a parting thought: "Analysts sell out -- That's their business model." - James Plamondon, Microsoft Evangelist.
I wasn't going to post in this article with Florian's taint on it, but here goes anyway. In the end I expect this will get nasty for a while, and then the companies will come to an understanding about the coexistence of iOS and Android. They'll cross-license some patents and then once united turn and attack... who?
Go on, guess. Guessing is fun.
Agreed. I know people who have done it. I don't think I would advertise it as a general case, but it can be done. I guess we were thinking about different types of business.
A site that would store evercookies would do other things I don't approve of. They have gone from providing information to furtive tracking. For someone who's gone that far, a phone-home BHO is just one logical step away.
Hunh? Did you mean hundreds of thousands? Hundreds is lunch money.
This one will do.
Geocities in apps format.
Actually if you have a lot of domains on Bluehost, it's more like $10/yr each. Very affordable, and great service.
If the site requires the ability to store flash evercookies as a cost of viewing the site, I'm OK with not being able to see their content. It's too much to pay.
This is the "Choice is bad" argument again. As long as there's a few high-end phones with a spectrum of cutting edge features to choose from, why should you care if there's a thousand off-brand special-purpose kidphones? If you don't like the burden of choice, you'll always have the option to go to Apple where there's One True iPhone. But for people who need a phone that's more economical or configured differently than an iPhone, it's nice to have the choice. Besides, the dynamic nature of Android phone design shows Apple what features are crucial to add to their phone to keep striving to be on top. We all win.
Yeah, in Android land developers have to do more work to fit their apps to diverse platforms. This isn't new - PC developers have been doing it always. But that's one of the reasons why we pay them for their apps. If they need a stable high-population platform to launch their app development company there's the iPhone to build from. Once the app is built, porting to Android is a minor thing. It's the features and the interface that are important to app acceptance - the hard part. Porting is pretty mechanical work that involves little creative input.
Every life has a purpose. The purpose of yours may be to provide a cautionary tale for those who come after.
The obvious correct answer to this question is an app that leverages sharing the GPS info of participants in order to deliver to the same participants reliable real-time info about traffic conditions. The fact that you're flying down this particular freeway at 100KPH right now is valuable information to people who also know of other routes to where they want to be where people are creeping along or not moving at all. Since this is useful information that can then be sold, it's possible that paying people to participate in the scheme some fraction of the gross - in addition to providing them better traffic guidance - would be economically feasible. Then most people would then get some slightly delayed, ad-sponsored automatic guidance by radio or something. Also, selling the information to traffic guidance for people who didn't want to share their GPS would also be good.
Naturally the Tornoodle Network that provides this service globally would be the bee's knees. I think I would call it "tornoodle.com." That name evokes the image of a bowl of noodles, representing potential routes, and is similar to "tornado" which is both chaotic and orderly, but unpredictable and very active. It's getting harder to find domain names these days. If you want that one, I figure you've got about ten minutes. But it was available at the time of this posting.
Heck, at that price Sergey could refit it so that he could have a "my yacht is bigger than your yacht" game with Steve Ballmer. Steve's yacht is only 126m. This is 210m. That's a lot of m's.
And now she's a big hole in the ocean for throwing money in.
Party barge! Does Charlie Sheen have any money left?
This used to be true. Now Microsoft has been threatening people with patent litigation. If fact, they took the outstanding step of suing Motorola - several times!
Of course this is neither here nor there on the evilness issue. That's a story that has no beginning and no end, its purity no degree.
It wouldn't really be that difficult.
You may find this post educational.
It's Possible Another Delightful product will have to be their next driver for growth. Another Product Produced Later Eventually Taking Volume away from consumer products they don't currently cover would have to continue the trend.
Apple's doing fine. If you're going to worry about somebody, there are other vendors whose products aren't selling so well - who haven't seen capitalization growth in a long time.
Sometime in the very near future (relatively) we are all wiped out by a rock.
According to the theory the all of the mass-energy of the universe has already occupied a space no larger than a beach ball. If it were possible for gravity to recompress everything back down through a singularity, it would have done so then.
Correction: Novell WAS a business. Now it's a brand name.
For "Attachmate", read "Microsoft".