I think a better question he should have answered is:
Why should I develop anything in RoR since it has so many core issues, including security, performance, and scalability?
I think the answer to that question would reveal why RoR, and Ruby itself, are a declining minuscule percentage of new projects, much like no one writes anything new in Pascal or Basic anymore.
Stating "It's dead, David" is probably the only conclusion.
I'd say from the virus perspective, having more than 2/3s of the worlds servers running non-windows makes non-windows servers a big appealing target. Malware and trojans won't directly get you on most servers.
Every other OS out there for server and end user use is more secure than Windows. Windows is flawed by design. Here's why: windows is built on top of an inverted security model that requires the process token to have all permissions required for every aspect of the program running, and then masks that token for child threads and processes. That means that any thread or child-process that has an exploit can automatically run at the highest security level of the process. Add to that the ability of almost any process to inject code into DLLs, and you see why pwning windows is almost trivial. I submit that windows will never be secure until they fix these 2 fundamental architectural mistakes.
Meanwhile, Linux, BSD, and other *nix OSes have a sane least permissions security where a token can be elevated upon authentication/authorization as needed. If a process manages to escape its code path via a buffer overflow, damage is limited to whatever permissions that thread has at that time. In *nix systems, that's usually very little. If you're still not convinced, try to modify a system library in *nix from your own program or some javascript in your browser via a drive by scenario. No fair using the Java plugin, as that shouldn't be installed on any browser.
Your arrogance in the belief that Microsoft products are more risky than others would be laughable if it wasn't so dangerous.
All software is a possible attack vector, and you're no more safe using whatever bullshit you've convinced yourself is better.
Yes, all software has holes, Linux and Mac are like a house with open but screened windows. Microsoft is like a bunch of window frames suspended on sheer will.
RAID is not a backup, unless it has a snapshot feature.
Even then, it's not a backup in the true sense. A controller failure that sporadically writes to disk or multiple disk failures (both which I've seen occur) can crash any RAID system. The only true backup is a copy that is separate from the system running it.
How sad that so many Americans could seriously believe in this bullshit, but that's what happens when you're fed a steady diet of FOX News and a constant drumbeat of right-wing conspiracy theories.
Doesn't that kind of prove the point that FOX News has mind control abilities?
Then you've used cheap media. I have disks burned in 2001 that are still readable. I have a couple of pressed disks from the 1980s that are no longer readable due to bit rot, but many many others that are just fine still today.
That said you do have a valid point that Congress is getting in the way too much. How to solve this I'm not sure.
Limit them to a single term in a specific office. But, we can start by removing party affiliation from the ballot. That alone will probably lead to more churn than any other single change other than hard term limits. It would certainly change the face of politics in the US.
Let's take a look at what those numbers actually mean.
In analyzing the causes of iPhone performance issues, crashing apps (65 percent), WiFi (11 percent) and headset (4 percent) were found to be the primary culprits.
Despite their tremendous popularity and record-setting growth rates, Snapchat (17 percent), Instagram (14 percent) and Facebook (9 percent) dominated the list of crashing iOS apps.
How much you want to bet that those "crashing apps" are older apps that the user hasn't updated while they did update the OS? Android, of course, doesn't suffer from this problem as the vast majority of phones get less than 2 updates, thus if the app works on initial installation, it won't suffer from any OS updates.
Ah, don't feel bad. I left windows with Win whatever back in 94 that took it upon itself to erase the CMOS on my EISA motherboard upon the final reboot during installation. Did it three times (the third was to verify exactly where in the process the damn thing erased it). It only happened with 2 drives attached, if there was only 1, install went fine. If you've never had the pleasure of booting an EISA board with no configuration, trust me, it's painful and made any windows install look positively modern and fast in comparison. You could even configure and build gentoo faster the first time you ever saw linux after learning what a keyboard was.
The biggest mistake Reagan made was believing that this one time the Democrats weren't lying through their teeth like they had done every time before going back decades.
WTF? Reagan had Republican control of the Senate throughout most of his presidency. So any spending bill that got to his desk had already been blessed by the republican party.
no more or less than any other modern system. No modern PC system I'm aware of gives you schematics these days, and there are many that have gone to minimal chip motherboards with limited slots. So other than pining for the build it yourself systems of yesteryear, what are you missing compared to a Dell, Alienware, Lenovo, HP, or Acer computer? What about a Surface Pro?
They are all less open than previously, and less able to be tinkered with, at least not without voiding the warranty.
The Republicans of the 80s and even 90s are nothing like the party of today. Somewhere along the lines it was hijacked by religious nutjobs.
True, but even the Republicans of the 80s (Reagan #1) were not fiscal conservatives, no matter what their lips were spouting. The closest we got to a balanced budget since 1980 was under Clinton's terms, whether by luck or happenstance, who knows.
OK, so you can run whatever you need. So there's no "openness" issue regarding software.
it's that the entire system is less open. The Apple 2, for instance, was openable, an end user could easily plug in cards into available slots much like what PC ISA would years laters, and the manual that came with the machine even had a complete schematic for the computer!
And today, you can still open up the computer. Granted, there are fewer slots, and some things are now soldered instead of card plugs. Today's expansions are more about plugging things into those Thunderbolt/USB-C connectors, which offer much higher throughput than PC ISA, EISA, or even base PCI. So, removing all those things from consideration that you can now extend via either of those connectors, what exactly are you missing? (We'll take memory off the table, since that is the one item that is now only upgradeable on the Mac Pro)
You do realize those cards can be formatted with some other FS? In fact, various cameras do so, likely to avoid this $10 tax? Funny enough, my systems can read those alternatively formatted cards.
3) Availability. High speed Internet is available in probably 10% (or less) of America, despite decades of massive tax cuts to Internet providers for the sole purpose of connecting America. The corruptions needs to stop, and we need to get our money back.
I don't want our money back. I want ownership of the cables transferred to the localities that paid for them via those tax incentives etc. (Solves #2 as well) With the ownership issue resolved, things can change much more quickly.
I have to allow my browser to be configured to use a network proxy. They're not. HTTPS / TLS prevents supposedly exactly what you're discussing, unless the entire CA cert chain of trust has been compromised, admittedly possible and likely more common than we wish to know, but in that case you're already compromised.... I also tend to proxy to localhost via ssh tunnels for a variety of things that require that sort of thing. That type of proxying is not subject to these attacks at all, as I control all aspects of the encryption on those tunnels.
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And in 1 year's time, spend the money again as the phone becomes obsolete.
....to those who run older versions of IOS and have bought an app. But at least it's okay because you can side load the app. Oh wait.
FUCK YOU Apple. Android sucks but not as bad as you do.
You shouldn’t expect your Android phone to ever get a major OS update. Instead, you get updates to Google Play Services. That sucks, but that’s just how it is, and almost certainly how it always will be. Yep, meanwhile that 4S still gets the latest updates which is 5+ years ago and 4 major upgrades. Man, that REALLY sucks!!!!
I think a better question he should have answered is:
Why should I develop anything in RoR since it has so many core issues, including security, performance, and scalability?
I think the answer to that question would reveal why RoR, and Ruby itself, are a declining minuscule percentage of new projects, much like no one writes anything new in Pascal or Basic anymore.
Stating "It's dead, David" is probably the only conclusion.
I'd say from the virus perspective, having more than 2/3s of the worlds servers running non-windows makes non-windows servers a big appealing target. Malware and trojans won't directly get you on most servers.
Then you're making an ignorant assumption.
Yes, you are.
Every other OS out there for server and end user use is more secure than Windows. Windows is flawed by design. Here's why: windows is built on top of an inverted security model that requires the process token to have all permissions required for every aspect of the program running, and then masks that token for child threads and processes. That means that any thread or child-process that has an exploit can automatically run at the highest security level of the process. Add to that the ability of almost any process to inject code into DLLs, and you see why pwning windows is almost trivial. I submit that windows will never be secure until they fix these 2 fundamental architectural mistakes.
Meanwhile, Linux, BSD, and other *nix OSes have a sane least permissions security where a token can be elevated upon authentication/authorization as needed. If a process manages to escape its code path via a buffer overflow, damage is limited to whatever permissions that thread has at that time. In *nix systems, that's usually very little. If you're still not convinced, try to modify a system library in *nix from your own program or some javascript in your browser via a drive by scenario. No fair using the Java plugin, as that shouldn't be installed on any browser.
Your arrogance in the belief that Microsoft products are more risky than others would be laughable if it wasn't so dangerous.
All software is a possible attack vector, and you're no more safe using whatever bullshit you've convinced yourself is better.
Yes, all software has holes, Linux and Mac are like a house with open but screened windows. Microsoft is like a bunch of window frames suspended on sheer will.
RAID is not a backup, unless it has a snapshot feature.
Even then, it's not a backup in the true sense. A controller failure that sporadically writes to disk or multiple disk failures (both which I've seen occur) can crash any RAID system. The only true backup is a copy that is separate from the system running it.
How sad that so many Americans could seriously believe in this bullshit, but that's what happens when you're fed a steady diet of FOX News and a constant drumbeat of right-wing conspiracy theories.
Doesn't that kind of prove the point that FOX News has mind control abilities?
Then you've used cheap media. I have disks burned in 2001 that are still readable. I have a couple of pressed disks from the 1980s that are no longer readable due to bit rot, but many many others that are just fine still today.
Apparently Seagate got it right. They announced a 60TB SSD a couple of weeks ago.
That said you do have a valid point that Congress is getting in the way too much. How to solve this I'm not sure.
Limit them to a single term in a specific office. But, we can start by removing party affiliation from the ballot. That alone will probably lead to more churn than any other single change other than hard term limits. It would certainly change the face of politics in the US.
For every 100 i devices, 58 of them fail
Let's take a look at what those numbers actually mean.
How much you want to bet that those "crashing apps" are older apps that the user hasn't updated while they did update the OS? Android, of course, doesn't suffer from this problem as the vast majority of phones get less than 2 updates, thus if the app works on initial installation, it won't suffer from any OS updates.
Bonus Android 4.x Galaxy Notes FTW!!!
Ah, don't feel bad. I left windows with Win whatever back in 94 that took it upon itself to erase the CMOS on my EISA motherboard upon the final reboot during installation. Did it three times (the third was to verify exactly where in the process the damn thing erased it). It only happened with 2 drives attached, if there was only 1, install went fine. If you've never had the pleasure of booting an EISA board with no configuration, trust me, it's painful and made any windows install look positively modern and fast in comparison. You could even configure and build gentoo faster the first time you ever saw linux after learning what a keyboard was.
Aren't you a ray of fucking sunshine
He is. For many of us, such an event would be a major positive development.
The biggest mistake Reagan made was believing that this one time the Democrats weren't lying through their teeth like they had done every time before going back decades.
WTF? Reagan had Republican control of the Senate throughout most of his presidency. So any spending bill that got to his desk had already been blessed by the republican party.
Schematics, and the ability to tinker.
no more or less than any other modern system. No modern PC system I'm aware of gives you schematics these days, and there are many that have gone to minimal chip motherboards with limited slots. So other than pining for the build it yourself systems of yesteryear, what are you missing compared to a Dell, Alienware, Lenovo, HP, or Acer computer? What about a Surface Pro?
They are all less open than previously, and less able to be tinkered with, at least not without voiding the warranty.
Less than they think, and more than you'd believe, even if it's wrong.
The Republicans of the 80s and even 90s are nothing like the party of today. Somewhere along the lines it was hijacked by religious nutjobs.
True, but even the Republicans of the 80s (Reagan #1) were not fiscal conservatives, no matter what their lips were spouting. The closest we got to a balanced budget since 1980 was under Clinton's terms, whether by luck or happenstance, who knows.
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Oh boo hoo hoo. You insensitive clod.
You're just jealous.
It's not what I can't run...
OK, so you can run whatever you need. So there's no "openness" issue regarding software.
it's that the entire system is less open. The Apple 2, for instance, was openable, an end user could easily plug in cards into available slots much like what PC ISA would years laters, and the manual that came with the machine even had a complete schematic for the computer!
And today, you can still open up the computer. Granted, there are fewer slots, and some things are now soldered instead of card plugs. Today's expansions are more about plugging things into those Thunderbolt/USB-C connectors, which offer much higher throughput than PC ISA, EISA, or even base PCI. So, removing all those things from consideration that you can now extend via either of those connectors, what exactly are you missing? (We'll take memory off the table, since that is the one item that is now only upgradeable on the Mac Pro)
You do realize those cards can be formatted with some other FS? In fact, various cameras do so, likely to avoid this $10 tax? Funny enough, my systems can read those alternatively formatted cards.
Your comment makes no sense... the Apple 2 was *WAY* more open than the Mac has ever been.
What can't you run on a Mac?
3) Availability. High speed Internet is available in probably 10% (or less) of America, despite decades of massive tax cuts to Internet providers for the sole purpose of connecting America. The corruptions needs to stop, and we need to get our money back.
I don't want our money back. I want ownership of the cables transferred to the localities that paid for them via those tax incentives etc. (Solves #2 as well) With the ownership issue resolved, things can change much more quickly.
I have to allow my browser to be configured to use a network proxy. They're not. HTTPS / TLS prevents supposedly exactly what you're discussing, unless the entire CA cert chain of trust has been compromised, admittedly possible and likely more common than we wish to know, but in that case you're already compromised.... I also tend to proxy to localhost via ssh tunnels for a variety of things that require that sort of thing. That type of proxying is not subject to these attacks at all, as I control all aspects of the encryption on those tunnels.
Not in my experience. I don't use any ISP anything on my system. If you installed ISP software.... well, that's a personal problem.