In fact, I'd like to add that companies like paypal penalise those who get frauded by others. In one case, a friend of mine was "paid $1000" over paypal, and a week later, paypal took it away and charged him $500 for a really dodgy reason. I constantly hear of such cases over paypal and the end result is that the frauder wins in one way or another.
Whats even worse is that I have never seen any online store do a basic check to see if users were on a proxy or not, which could easily help reduce fraud if they did.
Unrelated, if you want to see just how much credit card companies care about fraud, a rather funny link can be found at http://www.zug.com/pranks/credit_card/. It explains why I dont have a credit card...
This is probably a good thing, because it proves that even with stackguarding, etc.. Treating your system as if they dont exist is the best thing you can do. Microsoft unfortunately chooses to use stackguarding as a first line of defence to allow them to take their time patching software, which is a terrible idea.
So basically, nothing has changed in the security world in the past year. The only thing is that the attitude of programmers have in some cases, become slacker because of technologies like this, believing they can get away with it now.
If you ask me though personally, I'm betting Microsoft didn't run major tests on the security of DEP anyway, only simpler ones
Might want to checkout the maximum theoretical inbound and outbound bandwidth of the ISP too before you rush into things...
It might be that they only have a 1 gigabit pipe connecting them to the rest of the internet, which would ensure that the only time you'll reach 8 megabits, is when you are only transferring to other people on the same ISP.
Then the routing might be so bad that you have 600ms lag which will make it terrible for gamers.
Anyone actually on this ISP and checked the lag, and the average speed?
except that when you put reflections into the equation.. then it will matter.. regardless, video cards currently perform very fast matrix operations anyway. There was nothing stopping people doing a lot of these operations on the video cards now, just many programmers were too lazy
its very rare for a system to be able to be completely parallelised.
There will always be "critical sections", data which can only be used by 1 thread at a time, which limits how much it can be split up.. Then you have programs which cant be.. I mean, you can split up a game for instance into a sound, video, and keyboard threads easily. To really utilise parallel processing takes a massive amount of code, which with current languages, seems to make it a bit implausible to get a massive increase.
It should also be remembered that the G5's and G4's already have altivec, and even though this is on a much grander scale, there will always be bottlenecks that slow it down preventing 99% of commonly used apps from getting a significantly large increase..
GTK-QT will never work 100%, because QT and GTK have different widgets, and some dont exist within the others libraries, and some widgets have different functionalities.. The only way they will ever work completely together is when GTK gets all the QT elements embedded within the language, and vice versa.
Meanwhile, EFL has completely dynamic elements, so any QT or GTK theme would be missing a lot of critical elements, and wouldn't be dynamic at all. Thats the beauty of EFL, its completely dynamic. At the very least, I couldn't foresee any way of porting EFL themes to GTK or QT anyway, so either way, it would be a one way conversion.
Either way, QT and GTK need a rewrite anyway to be more dynamic (if you want proof, try learning GTK and you'll see exactly what I mean. GTK is ok for standard applications aimed at businesses and GIMP, etc.. but when it gets around to designing something dynamic which can attract any crowd, and provide a visually nice desktop to impress people, GTK can be a pain.
GTK has its uses, and EFL does too.. I severely doubt that EFL is best for everything yet (obviously for starters, GTK is more stable so better for businesses).
actually, the reason its taken so long is because they have completely made EFL uber dynamic.. Believe me, after trying out entrance (the Enlightenment GDM/KDM/XDM equiv), I just seriously sat there staring at it for 20mins.. They can easily beat gnome/kde.
I personally think KDE and gnome (or GTk/QT) are in need of a rewrite, and many programmers have agreed with me.. GTK# might save GTK, but the C code for it can be hell. I think its extremely promising considering E17 is still barely finished yet.
Take my advice and give at least engage and entrance a try from CVS.. You'll see its very newsworthy
E17 has been around for a very long time, but about a year ago they started a total rewrite, so technically, only 1 or 2 years.
And you must understand, what rasterman, etc are trying to do is a hell of a lot more advanced then anything tried before. They for instance are developing their own composite system instead of using Xorg's, and they do a lot of work optimisation wise.
They have also been developing it to be completely dynamic. In retrospect for instance, the windows start bar, the best you can do is theme it, but it will always be the same. Rasterman and the rest of the enlightenment team are making it so that the way things work on the bar are completely dynamic for instance. An example would be when you put your mouse away from the applications button, it moves to the right (bad example, but you get the point).
So, I hate to say it, but I dont think you realise the real benefits. The default theme cannot show off the full power of enlightenment 17, and you can only see it after using it for a while. And btw, I'm sure they'll add virtual desktops, its still an early alpha. virtual desktops dont take many lines of code...
As a programmer, I actually very eagerly await e17, because the foundation libraries and concepts seem pretty amazing, and believe me, all the other window libraries like GTK and QT are mostly static.. In fact, the library seems so cool that I might be changing the application I'm programming to EFL from gtk
Some anti-spyware tools have done a horrible job in my experience, incorrectly removing them sometimes leading to crashes occasionally (in fact, one that I've experienced was due to ad aware). A proper test should also test how correct the removal is and test the stability of potentially affected programs.
I'm wondering how they did quality analysis of the removal process.. Whats to say that some spyware removed here was only disabled or half removed?
Its also a matter of their distribution on the planet, of all the billions of worms out there for instance, just because a virus detector detects more then the other ones, they might be extremely rare.
I wouldn't rush off and choose any of these based on these figures, because the best ones could easily be the ones which incorrectly remove common spyware breaking stuff.
I think eric did a good job though. Maybe though he should update the results to include the distribution in the wild and quality of the removal
Due to the way the can spam act works with the opt-out links, this doesn't really stop spam at all. Recent research pointed out that the majority of domainkey users so far have been spammers, because it makes it more likely they pass the spam filters. Its really no better then the techniques used now, especially because a large amount of spam isn't using spoofed addresses, but completely valid ones.
The problem with spam is slowing it down, whats really needed is a CPU intensive solution like the hashcash suggestion (like which has been suggested before), that way mass spammers can be differentiated from different users. While mailing lists may suffer due to it, with the addition of a standard mailing list protocol where you email a certain message to your mailing server, they send a message to the mailing list to subscribe on behalf of you, and for your account prevent the need to use hashcash.
The only way this could help spam is if Microsoft started charging for emails (which they have wanted to do for a while now).
umm, remember when Microsoft lost their domain passport.com domain and some guy bought it because they forgot to pay for it.. that was more of what I was referring to. Even with 1 server down, there would still be disruptions too, just not as bad..
I'd find it very unlikely if there wasn't a way to copy the cards either. That was more of what I was referring to at that point, or like keygening, staying connected to the computer and offloading it to their card. And yes, I am aware that while there is no easy way now with most algorithms, all encryption algorithms will eventually be broken. After testing enough keys too, when a algotithm is broken, the private key can be guesstimated (I'd imagine many algorithms have been completely broken).
I find it fishy no ones asked who gets the money for these cards too (Microsoft I'm guessing makes a decent profit).
Of course you'd need a PIN/password to use the card.
Doesn't it make it pointless then if you need to memorise a password anyway?? At the end nothing would be gained, except you'd just need a shorter PIN to access the account. Maybe a bit more extra security, but nothing better then using a properly decentralised solution similar to passport with only password anyway. The best thing is using a jabber based system, you'd be able to host the authentication server yourself.
passports and drivers licenses have a photo though, so you cant pretend to be the owner of the item.
Credit cards have a pin number, contain no customer details, and the ATM eats your card after 5 bad entries.. Many ATM's also take your photo, so its harder to use it. Finally, the ATM's generally only let you extract a small amount each transaction, so it isn't that easy.
Internet doesn't have a photo or restrictions, so you can log into a.NET enabled shares site, and with the.net key, suddenly, they might sell all their stocks, trash their emails, pretend to be them on the internet, hack their site, etc.. The best way to think of this is imagine the extreme. Imagine if all sites ran.NET, because thats EXACTLY what MS wants. Every site, 1 password for 1 user.
Its similar to the national identity card.. What if your card gets stolen. Any idiot can probably use it to connect to all of your accounts, without effort.
Even worse, its a very poor idea to base your systems on a completely centralised system like passport authentication. It only takes 1 person at microsoft to trip on a cable then for all of your logins to fail.
Finally, it offers no protection still. Bill gates is assuming you cant capture the password in memory. It is in fact even easier with.net because unlike a keylogger, the answer wont be obfuscated, you can just monitor the smartcard port, capture all the details sent, and you dont even need the smartcard.. You just emulate the smartcard hardware and fake the connection to the card, easy.
This system offers much less security then now, and the last few drops of respect I had for.NET are now mostly gone. This is nothing more then a publicity act that only stops people who tell others their passwords, and even then, they will just be able to borrow the smartcard.
Smartcards and MS passport also make a great way of tracking people. No one can tell me that Microsoft wont abuse this to improve their search engine
It will take only 1 more DNS mess-up for everything to fall apart, and is nothing more then a marketting Act. I beg of the mono people to offer a proper decentralised authentication system instead, like one based on jabber where any login method is possible anyway if the server supports the authentication type. PLEASE.. Do not use.NET authentication, or you are putting yourself in a terrible position (it costs money anyway, so I think its time us as a programming community should get together and get jabber up to the point the same thing is possible in a decentralised way).
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There are many other factors too..
Due to the nature of hotmail and yahoo, and the lack of searching, even deleting 50 emails is difficult. Even worse, the spam detection on hotmail is very unreliable (about 50-75% accurate), meaning its very difficult to manage emails.
The 200megs storage limit on hotmail can hold about 4000 emails, and since its difficult to handle even 50, I'd hate to leave my inbox unattended for a week.
Overall, the reason gmail is succeeding isn't just the business plan, but the features make it more usable then hotmail or yahoo. In my opinion though, yahoo is still doing a much better job then hotmail, with its features.
Having a hotmail account has no real benefits (it has the smaller space, you can get a passport without a hotmail account, they tend to get very spammy, and theres no "hotmail groups" which needs a hotmail account to sign up) and because of all the email addresses, its very hard to end up with a remotely decent email on it. Gmail has started to suffer the same problem, but I severely doubt it will ever suffer it as bad as hotmail or yahoo (yahoo for instance has different domains such as auzy@yahoo.com will accept the same emails as auzy@yahoo.co.uk, but someone might not realise it and sign up for both with different ID's, halving the total domains).
Its not just about advertising, its about the usage. Everyone has a hotmail account they leave around for junk.. Which means that they are just gathering emails at the moment costing Microsoft in Bandwidth costs.
Sounds like computerworld really needed a story honestly. An employee leaving doesn't always mean because they diss the company.. In fact, if you read the article, they dont even interview him to get the facts straight.
Sadly, I hope this form of media reports, based on jumping to conclusions isn't the future of journelism
Oh no, it indexes all the files on the harddisk. It can do that regardless anyway, regardless of whose user it is. Thats spyware???
Spyware is where information is sent back to a server to spy on a user.. Last time I checked, this just uses a local daemon and doesn't send any info to google. Therefore, this isn't spyware.
I'd imagine though that files which are encrypted would be ignored completely though. If they were that worried about it, they would realise that it wouldn't make a difference whose user it is anyway, because they could just run the windows search function on it.
Sometimes I wonder how some of these articles make it on slashdot. Next they'll be telling us Linus isn't the author of Linux.. err wait a sec, that already happened too
This is no cause for concern and its actually an even more invalid concern then the gmail privacy worries
Actually, I dont think people realise that even if it is ported, that it wouldn't run official MAC OS X G5 programs, so until stuff was ported, it would be useless, and would have less compatibility anyway.
Either way, the base, Darwin has been ported to PC anyway. and I think that Apple have obviously analysed the benefits of a full port at the moment, but they are right, theres nothing even running on darwin for x86 now, and until there is, it would be a waste of time and effort.
In fact, I've been considering working on a few projects for darwin.. maybe would be nice to get it out there...
I noticed they are still using OSS instead of Alsa for the meantime and aren't supporting AMD64, so unfortunately we wont be able to say definately how great it runs in linux compared to windows at the moment.. because with OSS, its bound to be slower.
The oxygen bar known issue would be pretty annoying too.
Hopefully though this will spawn a massive amount of new linux games based on the doom 3 engine.
Anyone feel like benchmarking to test at the moment?
Bill Gates stated that he believes the cure for spam is charging for emails.
Ever get the feeling that his trying to manipulate the market to do at this point? Notice how he only offers the service to people who pay for it now?
Even more disturbing is the sender verification his implementing. In reality, it has little benefit in stopping spam because spam will 99.9999% of the time always appear from a valid host. So my only thought is that his aiming to implement the email stamps instead.
Bill gates said himself that "if it didn't sell" (from http://www.cantrip.org/nobugs.html), he wouldn't do it. I think that pretty much emphasises theres a hidden motive behind this, especially since changing Hotmail to have 200megabyte inboxes instead of 2megs obviously isn't profitable.
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In fact, I'd like to add that companies like paypal penalise those who get frauded by others. In one case, a friend of mine was "paid $1000" over paypal, and a week later, paypal took it away and charged him $500 for a really dodgy reason. I constantly hear of such cases over paypal and the end result is that the frauder wins in one way or another.
Whats even worse is that I have never seen any online store do a basic check to see if users were on a proxy or not, which could easily help reduce fraud if they did.
Unrelated, if you want to see just how much credit card companies care about fraud, a rather funny link can be found at http://www.zug.com/pranks/credit_card/. It explains why I dont have a credit card...
This is probably a good thing, because it proves that even with stackguarding, etc.. Treating your system as if they dont exist is the best thing you can do. Microsoft unfortunately chooses to use stackguarding as a first line of defence to allow them to take their time patching software, which is a terrible idea.
So basically, nothing has changed in the security world in the past year. The only thing is that the attitude of programmers have in some cases, become slacker because of technologies like this, believing they can get away with it now.
If you ask me though personally, I'm betting Microsoft didn't run major tests on the security of DEP anyway, only simpler ones
Might want to checkout the maximum theoretical inbound and outbound bandwidth of the ISP too before you rush into things...
It might be that they only have a 1 gigabit pipe connecting them to the rest of the internet, which would ensure that the only time you'll reach 8 megabits, is when you are only transferring to other people on the same ISP.
Then the routing might be so bad that you have 600ms lag which will make it terrible for gamers.
Anyone actually on this ISP and checked the lag, and the average speed?
except that when you put reflections into the equation.. then it will matter.. regardless, video cards currently perform very fast matrix operations anyway. There was nothing stopping people doing a lot of these operations on the video cards now, just many programmers were too lazy
its very rare for a system to be able to be completely parallelised.
There will always be "critical sections", data which can only be used by 1 thread at a time, which limits how much it can be split up.. Then you have programs which cant be.. I mean, you can split up a game for instance into a sound, video, and keyboard threads easily. To really utilise parallel processing takes a massive amount of code, which with current languages, seems to make it a bit implausible to get a massive increase.
It should also be remembered that the G5's and G4's already have altivec, and even though this is on a much grander scale, there will always be bottlenecks that slow it down preventing 99% of commonly used apps from getting a significantly large increase..
GTK-QT will never work 100%, because QT and GTK have different widgets, and some dont exist within the others libraries, and some widgets have different functionalities.. The only way they will ever work completely together is when GTK gets all the QT elements embedded within the language, and vice versa.
Meanwhile, EFL has completely dynamic elements, so any QT or GTK theme would be missing a lot of critical elements, and wouldn't be dynamic at all. Thats the beauty of EFL, its completely dynamic. At the very least, I couldn't foresee any way of porting EFL themes to GTK or QT anyway, so either way, it would be a one way conversion.
Either way, QT and GTK need a rewrite anyway to be more dynamic (if you want proof, try learning GTK and you'll see exactly what I mean. GTK is ok for standard applications aimed at businesses and GIMP, etc.. but when it gets around to designing something dynamic which can attract any crowd, and provide a visually nice desktop to impress people, GTK can be a pain.
GTK has its uses, and EFL does too.. I severely doubt that EFL is best for everything yet (obviously for starters, GTK is more stable so better for businesses).
actually, the reason its taken so long is because they have completely made EFL uber dynamic.. Believe me, after trying out entrance (the Enlightenment GDM/KDM/XDM equiv), I just seriously sat there staring at it for 20mins.. They can easily beat gnome/kde.
I personally think KDE and gnome (or GTk/QT) are in need of a rewrite, and many programmers have agreed with me.. GTK# might save GTK, but the C code for it can be hell. I think its extremely promising considering E17 is still barely finished yet.
Take my advice and give at least engage and entrance a try from CVS.. You'll see its very newsworthy
E17 has been around for a very long time, but about a year ago they started a total rewrite, so technically, only 1 or 2 years.
And you must understand, what rasterman, etc are trying to do is a hell of a lot more advanced then anything tried before. They for instance are developing their own composite system instead of using Xorg's, and they do a lot of work optimisation wise.
They have also been developing it to be completely dynamic. In retrospect for instance, the windows start bar, the best you can do is theme it, but it will always be the same. Rasterman and the rest of the enlightenment team are making it so that the way things work on the bar are completely dynamic for instance. An example would be when you put your mouse away from the applications button, it moves to the right (bad example, but you get the point).
So, I hate to say it, but I dont think you realise the real benefits. The default theme cannot show off the full power of enlightenment 17, and you can only see it after using it for a while. And btw, I'm sure they'll add virtual desktops, its still an early alpha. virtual desktops dont take many lines of code...
As a programmer, I actually very eagerly await e17, because the foundation libraries and concepts seem pretty amazing, and believe me, all the other window libraries like GTK and QT are mostly static.. In fact, the library seems so cool that I might be changing the application I'm programming to EFL from gtk
Some anti-spyware tools have done a horrible job in my experience, incorrectly removing them sometimes leading to crashes occasionally (in fact, one that I've experienced was due to ad aware). A proper test should also test how correct the removal is and test the stability of potentially affected programs.
I'm wondering how they did quality analysis of the removal process.. Whats to say that some spyware removed here was only disabled or half removed?
Its also a matter of their distribution on the planet, of all the billions of worms out there for instance, just because a virus detector detects more then the other ones, they might be extremely rare.
I wouldn't rush off and choose any of these based on these figures, because the best ones could easily be the ones which incorrectly remove common spyware breaking stuff.
I think eric did a good job though. Maybe though he should update the results to include the distribution in the wild and quality of the removal
Due to the way the can spam act works with the opt-out links, this doesn't really stop spam at all. Recent research pointed out that the majority of domainkey users so far have been spammers, because it makes it more likely they pass the spam filters. Its really no better then the techniques used now, especially because a large amount of spam isn't using spoofed addresses, but completely valid ones.
The problem with spam is slowing it down, whats really needed is a CPU intensive solution like the hashcash suggestion (like which has been suggested before), that way mass spammers can be differentiated from different users. While mailing lists may suffer due to it, with the addition of a standard mailing list protocol where you email a certain message to your mailing server, they send a message to the mailing list to subscribe on behalf of you, and for your account prevent the need to use hashcash.
The only way this could help spam is if Microsoft started charging for emails (which they have wanted to do for a while now).
umm, remember when Microsoft lost their domain passport.com domain and some guy bought it because they forgot to pay for it.. that was more of what I was referring to. Even with 1 server down, there would still be disruptions too, just not as bad.. I'd find it very unlikely if there wasn't a way to copy the cards either. That was more of what I was referring to at that point, or like keygening, staying connected to the computer and offloading it to their card. And yes, I am aware that while there is no easy way now with most algorithms, all encryption algorithms will eventually be broken. After testing enough keys too, when a algotithm is broken, the private key can be guesstimated (I'd imagine many algorithms have been completely broken).
I find it fishy no ones asked who gets the money for these cards too (Microsoft I'm guessing makes a decent profit).
Of course you'd need a PIN/password to use the card.
Doesn't it make it pointless then if you need to memorise a password anyway?? At the end nothing would be gained, except you'd just need a shorter PIN to access the account. Maybe a bit more extra security, but nothing better then using a properly decentralised solution similar to passport with only password anyway. The best thing is using a jabber based system, you'd be able to host the authentication server yourself.
passports and drivers licenses have a photo though, so you cant pretend to be the owner of the item.
.NET enabled shares site, and with the .net key, suddenly, they might sell all their stocks, trash their emails, pretend to be them on the internet, hack their site, etc.. The best way to think of this is imagine the extreme. Imagine if all sites ran .NET, because thats EXACTLY what MS wants. Every site, 1 password for 1 user.
Credit cards have a pin number, contain no customer details, and the ATM eats your card after 5 bad entries.. Many ATM's also take your photo, so its harder to use it. Finally, the ATM's generally only let you extract a small amount each transaction, so it isn't that easy.
Internet doesn't have a photo or restrictions, so you can log into a
Its similar to the national identity card.. What if your card gets stolen. Any idiot can probably use it to connect to all of your accounts, without effort. Even worse, its a very poor idea to base your systems on a completely centralised system like passport authentication. It only takes 1 person at microsoft to trip on a cable then for all of your logins to fail.
.net because unlike a keylogger, the answer wont be obfuscated, you can just monitor the smartcard port, capture all the details sent, and you dont even need the smartcard.. You just emulate the smartcard hardware and fake the connection to the card, easy.
.NET are now mostly gone. This is nothing more then a publicity act that only stops people who tell others their passwords, and even then, they will just be able to borrow the smartcard.
.NET authentication, or you are putting yourself in a terrible position (it costs money anyway, so I think its time us as a programming community should get together and get jabber up to the point the same thing is possible in a decentralised way).
Finally, it offers no protection still. Bill gates is assuming you cant capture the password in memory. It is in fact even easier with
This system offers much less security then now, and the last few drops of respect I had for
Smartcards and MS passport also make a great way of tracking people. No one can tell me that Microsoft wont abuse this to improve their search engine
It will take only 1 more DNS mess-up for everything to fall apart, and is nothing more then a marketting Act. I beg of the mono people to offer a proper decentralised authentication system instead, like one based on jabber where any login method is possible anyway if the server supports the authentication type. PLEASE.. Do not use
There are many other factors too..
Due to the nature of hotmail and yahoo, and the lack of searching, even deleting 50 emails is difficult. Even worse, the spam detection on hotmail is very unreliable (about 50-75% accurate), meaning its very difficult to manage emails.
The 200megs storage limit on hotmail can hold about 4000 emails, and since its difficult to handle even 50, I'd hate to leave my inbox unattended for a week.
Overall, the reason gmail is succeeding isn't just the business plan, but the features make it more usable then hotmail or yahoo. In my opinion though, yahoo is still doing a much better job then hotmail, with its features.
Having a hotmail account has no real benefits (it has the smaller space, you can get a passport without a hotmail account, they tend to get very spammy, and theres no "hotmail groups" which needs a hotmail account to sign up) and because of all the email addresses, its very hard to end up with a remotely decent email on it. Gmail has started to suffer the same problem, but I severely doubt it will ever suffer it as bad as hotmail or yahoo (yahoo for instance has different domains such as auzy@yahoo.com will accept the same emails as auzy@yahoo.co.uk, but someone might not realise it and sign up for both with different ID's, halving the total domains).
Its not just about advertising, its about the usage. Everyone has a hotmail account they leave around for junk.. Which means that they are just gathering emails at the moment costing Microsoft in Bandwidth costs.
Sounds like computerworld really needed a story honestly. An employee leaving doesn't always mean because they diss the company.. In fact, if you read the article, they dont even interview him to get the facts straight.
Sadly, I hope this form of media reports, based on jumping to conclusions isn't the future of journelism
SCO keeps on asking for so much out of IBM, its no surprise they cant keep up..
vino's included in gnome 2.6 and uses the new xorg extensions making it very very fast
well, when I tried to access them, they seemed pretty dead to me surprisingly.. might have just have been the routing to their server from mine though
You can also use the gentoo live CD (you can even get an experimental one for reiser4) at www.gentoo.org.
k s/linux/library/l-knopx.html?ca=dgr-lnxw01-obg-Sys Recover
There are also lots of speecialised ones. generally, the only time a linux box wont boot though is just a lilo or grub problem...
By the way, the coralised link is: http://www-106.ibm.com.nyud.net:8090/developerwor
Oh no, it indexes all the files on the harddisk. It can do that regardless anyway, regardless of whose user it is. Thats spyware???
Spyware is where information is sent back to a server to spy on a user.. Last time I checked, this just uses a local daemon and doesn't send any info to google. Therefore, this isn't spyware.
I'd imagine though that files which are encrypted would be ignored completely though. If they were that worried about it, they would realise that it wouldn't make a difference whose user it is anyway, because they could just run the windows search function on it.
Sometimes I wonder how some of these articles make it on slashdot. Next they'll be telling us Linus isn't the author of Linux.. err wait a sec, that already happened too
This is no cause for concern and its actually an even more invalid concern then the gmail privacy worries
Actually, I dont think people realise that even if it is ported, that it wouldn't run official MAC OS X G5 programs, so until stuff was ported, it would be useless, and would have less compatibility anyway.
Either way, the base, Darwin has been ported to PC anyway. and I think that Apple have obviously analysed the benefits of a full port at the moment, but they are right, theres nothing even running on darwin for x86 now, and until there is, it would be a waste of time and effort.
In fact, I've been considering working on a few projects for darwin.. maybe would be nice to get it out there...
Prob is it doesn't use ALSA, but OSS, so I doubt it even has support for hardware audio mixing :(
they'll fix that eventually though, and that will speed it up alot I'm guessing.. Dont expect much speedwise from the first port
I noticed they are still using OSS instead of Alsa for the meantime and aren't supporting AMD64, so unfortunately we wont be able to say definately how great it runs in linux compared to windows at the moment.. because with OSS, its bound to be slower. The oxygen bar known issue would be pretty annoying too. Hopefully though this will spawn a massive amount of new linux games based on the doom 3 engine. Anyone feel like benchmarking to test at the moment?
This has been discussed time and time again.. Imagine, getting spam with horny as the title, and being unable to access hotmail.
Its no big issue. Its implausible for ISP's to implement, and even if they do, everyone will just use proxies anyway..
Its actually kind of old news. I heard stuff like this discussed on the radio years ago, and everyone agreed it wont work
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2003-06-29-gates -spamhow_x.htm
Bill Gates stated that he believes the cure for spam is charging for emails.
Ever get the feeling that his trying to manipulate the market to do at this point? Notice how he only offers the service to people who pay for it now?
Even more disturbing is the sender verification his implementing. In reality, it has little benefit in stopping spam because spam will 99.9999% of the time always appear from a valid host. So my only thought is that his aiming to implement the email stamps instead.
Bill gates said himself that "if it didn't sell" (from http://www.cantrip.org/nobugs.html), he wouldn't do it. I think that pretty much emphasises theres a hidden motive behind this, especially since changing Hotmail to have 200megabyte inboxes instead of 2megs obviously isn't profitable.