Replying to myself here, and to all above who have proposed solutions: The same day they make an OS/Computer on which a user can't screw himself is the same day they come out with unbreakable DRM. It's the same game, really.
Won't matter. Most malware is installed via the user while installing the latest screensavers, emoticon packs, and browser toolbars. Nothing will ever be able to defeat the uneducated user.
Holy shit, you mean if I use taint mode in perl this can't happen to me? Or mysql_real_escape_string in PHP? Just like if I used paramterized queries in C# I can also be similarly NOT fucked?
You might not like asp.net very much, but saying that people who use it are not web developers is just a tad harsh, wouldn't you say? Or were you just not aware of it?
Strange. I never had toolbar that I didn't install just 'show up'. My 11 year old daughter does constantly, though. It's usually down to her having installed the latest MEGA INSTANT MESSANGER PONYS AND UNICORNS EMOTICON PACK or something similar and *gasp* not reading the part where it explains that it's going to install 14 toolbars and a bunch of other spyware. This is why she works in a VM. Maybe ask one of your parents to set one up for you?
The biggest difference is that ODF did not go through Fast Track, it went trough a long and tedious process in OASIS. Besides, OOo did not save to ODF before it was done deal in ISO.
And although the WP article does not mention it ODF actually got to skip the one month contradictory period that was required of OOXML. So this long and tedious process for ISO certification you're talking about . . . Didn't exist.
Then there is the problem that Office 2007 does not fully support the OOXML (so you cannot save to OOXML now, only OOXMLish).
So someone has found bugs in Office 2007? Say it ain't so.
Furthermore Microsoft has clearly stated they will not follow ISO-OOXML - unless it does exactly what Microsoft wants it to do.
The funny part about the original CNN article I read on this said that Heritage Auction Galleries estimated the age of the thing to be at around 40,000 years old. At least the musuem guy is letting smarter people sell the thing.
Hrm, it wouldn't stop the kids from smoking at the onset, but if it let them smoke for a few years to be 'cool' and end with them NOT being addicted it could be a good thing.
You do realize that even though it died before the extension it IS covered now, right? Send that sucker in to get it fixed and make a few bucks on ebay.
Small company. We're certainly not turning in our copies of office, but google apps are great for a lot of the tasks where we need to collaborate. With no full time IT staff setting up something like sharepoint or even using groove is too much hassle.
Don't forget last week and the week after this one. It sucks, during Sept 24th - Nov 20th I am going to have spent over 500 dollars on games. And I already own the two consoles I buy for. Oh well, the fact that there are enough good games in that short a time span is probably one of those "good problems".
Bring back the buggy, unforseen, wild, insulting, violent mess that was Ultima Online back in the early years.
Always fun to daydream, but given the alternative people will always pick the safe and easy. Who's going to want to be a sheep in that game when they can just play WoW? And MMORPGs wont work when everyone is a wolf.
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Let us completely block certain domains from our personal search results. ExpertSexchange would be first to go.
Sammy Davis Jr?
Replying to myself here, and to all above who have proposed solutions: The same day they make an OS/Computer on which a user can't screw himself is the same day they come out with unbreakable DRM. It's the same game, really.
Won't matter. Most malware is installed via the user while installing the latest screensavers, emoticon packs, and browser toolbars. Nothing will ever be able to defeat the uneducated user.
Um, are you on crack? Three people. You forgot Bob Sutor.
I'm cool with that.
very cool with it, in fact.
Make it a buck.
Holy shit, you mean if I use taint mode in perl this can't happen to me? Or mysql_real_escape_string in PHP? Just like if I used paramterized queries in C# I can also be similarly NOT fucked?
Not really because apache is just as susceptible to this as any other web server.
Heh, nice pro spam message by RMS there.
Wrong. ODF was fast tracked.
Wow, only on slashdot does microsoft get the blame for google being evil.
You might not like asp.net very much, but saying that people who use it are not web developers is just a tad harsh, wouldn't you say? Or were you just not aware of it?
Huh?
Are you kidding?
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/xfhwa508.aspx
And that's just me randomly hitting a particular class. Most of them have examples.
Strange. I never had toolbar that I didn't install just 'show up'. My 11 year old daughter does constantly, though. It's usually down to her having installed the latest MEGA INSTANT MESSANGER PONYS AND UNICORNS EMOTICON PACK or something similar and *gasp* not reading the part where it explains that it's going to install 14 toolbars and a bunch of other spyware. This is why she works in a VM. Maybe ask one of your parents to set one up for you?
Make these fuckers cost 200 a year again. It'd likely cut out a LOT of bullshit.
The biggest difference is that ODF did not go through Fast Track, it went trough a long and tedious process in OASIS. Besides, OOo did not save to ODF before it was done deal in ISO.
Wrong.
Wikipedia Article on OASIS
And although the WP article does not mention it ODF actually got to skip the one month contradictory period that was required of OOXML. So this long and tedious process for ISO certification you're talking about . . . Didn't exist.
Then there is the problem that Office 2007 does not fully support the OOXML (so you cannot save to OOXML now, only OOXMLish).
So someone has found bugs in Office 2007? Say it ain't so.
Furthermore Microsoft has clearly stated they will not follow ISO-OOXML - unless it does exactly what Microsoft wants it to do.
Can I get some sort of cite here?
The funny part about the original CNN article I read on this said that Heritage Auction Galleries estimated the age of the thing to be at around 40,000 years old. At least the musuem guy is letting smarter people sell the thing.
Hrm, it wouldn't stop the kids from smoking at the onset, but if it let them smoke for a few years to be 'cool' and end with them NOT being addicted it could be a good thing.
You do realize that even though it died before the extension it IS covered now, right? Send that sucker in to get it fixed and make a few bucks on ebay.
Small company. We're certainly not turning in our copies of office, but google apps are great for a lot of the tasks where we need to collaborate. With no full time IT staff setting up something like sharepoint or even using groove is too much hassle.
The Gene Ray of software development. Good fucking example.
How many stories have we seen about people being sued that didn't even own computers or were deceased?
5 or 6.
And all of the rest?
Don't forget last week and the week after this one. It sucks, during Sept 24th - Nov 20th I am going to have spent over 500 dollars on games. And I already own the two consoles I buy for. Oh well, the fact that there are enough good games in that short a time span is probably one of those "good problems".
Bring back the buggy, unforseen, wild, insulting, violent mess that was Ultima Online back in the early years.
Always fun to daydream, but given the alternative people will always pick the safe and easy. Who's going to want to be a sheep in that game when they can just play WoW? And MMORPGs wont work when everyone is a wolf.