Oh and you probably wiped the recovery partition/data.
Problem with these software stuff is trying to make it easier and making it harder in the process. Brought to you by clueless engineers and even more clueless managers.
as far as "corporate security researchers" go, they are, apparently, using Microsoft Bob to do their "hacking"...
No, really, see the Ars Technica link up there:
"They think I have nothing but a heirarchy based on IRC [Internet Relay Chat] aliases!" he wrote. "As 1337 as these guys are suppsed to be they don't get it. I have pwned them!:)"
And that's the 'security researcher' mixing sys admins with 'hackers'
"Here is what happens with an open source product:"
I really like how you pulled the old bait and switch here. Instead of listing the behavior of quoted product, you instead drill into why open source software is bad. Well, if you just took the software and didn't pay a dime for it, then maybe a few of those points apply.
Too bad he's more right than not.
Not that a similar thing doesn't happen with closed source products, and be more or equally frustrating.
I've seen this with Apache, with several other softwares, where 1) doesn't work 2) can't figure out why 3) the darn software DOESN'T SAY WHAT'S WRONG
And that's really frustrating.
Back on topic, Exchange may be crap, but the alternatives suck more. At least I've heard nothing good about Zimbra, for example.
I really wish I could recommend Mozilla Thunderbird for example, but it has SEVERAL SHOWSTOPPERS. For example, you can't switch between an IMAP and POP server in the config (YA REALLY). Once you set the type, it's set. Completely Unjustifiable.
The difference is that the subtitle is not placed 'in the middle' but it has to be positioned according to other 3D elements on the scene.
So, in Avatar, fi there was something 'closer' to the viewer on the left side, the subtitle would be on the right side, more or less on the same Z-Position ('closer' to the viewer)
what i believe in is capitalism, with social safety nets. moderate, fair safety nets. that correct the abuses of capitalism, without destroying capitalism. i don't want to be called a communist, because i'm not
so i won't glom you with the extremists, if you don't do the same with me
Great! I agree with that too. I just mentioned extremists as an example
I've known a number of rich kids in my life. Some of them are the most lazy useless wastes you'll ever meet. I've also been to 3rd world slums, some of them full of the most hard working people in the world. Why is this?
Do the rich deserve to be rich, and the poor deserve to be poor? No, most of the discrepancy in wealth is not due to hard work, but class structure: nepotism, corruption, who you know rather than what you know or how hard you work. I'm not saying that some poor don't rise up, and some rich don't sink down, as is deserving of their character. And in fact the USA does a better job of meritocracy than most other countries. But so much else going on is NOT meritocracy, clearly.
True, but get this. The rich KIDS are exactly that. They got their wealth from their parents. And maybe a good job (like a job as PotUS =P). That's when the unfairness begins. Their parents probably were not rich, and worked a lot, and of course, got lucky.
For that reason, many libertarian beliefs only serve to reinforce existing class structures, because so many libertarians don't understand how unfair the distribution of wealth is. In a just society, you NEED to artificially distribute wealth down, because the existing structure naturally concentrates wealth up.
Don't blame (all) the libertarians. IMHO libertarianism should mean a FAIR playing field, not a 'no rules' playing field. Of course there are extremists.
Libertarian philosophy starts with this insane assumption that society is a meritocracy, when all evidence is to the contrary. I agree that society SHOULD be a meritocracy, but to make it a meritocracy, you need to artificially counteract the natural tendency of wealth to attract more wealth.
Libertarians: class structure is real, and growing in the USA. Now you can deny that, or you can do something about that. But making castle-in-the-sky pronouncements about adhering to a meritocracy that doesn't fully exist is just an exercise in fooling yourself.
Some people need to read less Charles Darwin, and more Charles Dickens.
Well, for example, you could move to Cuba, where a slight deviation from the level and you get your house confiscated. How would you like that? How would you like to, for example, be allowed only 20% of your money to go to your kids?! And of course, all that money has been taxed already (theoretically, of course, but in most cases, it is)
There's a 'social fairness' against a 'fairness to the individual'.
But you can move money 'downstairs' by means of jobs. But instead of going to the US it's going to China and India, where someone is very happy to be payed $4000 year (or even less) Good for them.
But for every action there is a reaction. What if you lower taxes so people don't even bother getting their money offshore?!
Taxes suck, and are necessary, but the tighter you squeeze the more it slips through the fingers.
If you put the security of your industrial installation in an anti virus, I'm sorry, but you are REALLY REALLY FSCKING STUPID
Beyond the network requirements and rigging a shotgun pointed at the user to the IE icon (unnecessary given the 1st step, but still fun)
You should
1 - ONLY install from trusted sources 2 - the minimum set of drivers (for example, skip sound installation if not needed) 3 - keep it updated IF POSSIBLE
And unless needed, once it's set, NO CD, NO USB, NO NETWORK
I doubt it is easier duplicate chunks of your code in a different language (plus the cost of buying the Flash authoring tool) than it is to alter a couple of lines in your Javascript. But then again, you said "better" which is a subjective term.
My favourite way would be every time that an IE-specific line of code is called, an email gets sent to the IE team at Microsoft...That would get their attention.
True, yeah, maybe it would be easier to do all the 'bells and whistles' on Flash, so you wouldn't have the duplication problem. (Even though flash costs money)
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Well, I do that to my laptops
Except I install Linux on them
Oh and you probably wiped the recovery partition/data.
Problem with these software stuff is trying to make it easier and making it harder in the process. Brought to you by clueless engineers and even more clueless managers.
... that thinks writing an aggressive Windows GUI ping program is "hacking"
Well, I thought that was brilliant.
A non-anonymizing DoS program flooding big names with identifiable aggressor information;
lamer magnet
That would be Tsutomu Shimomura all over again. Probably very likely (in the future)
I would be worried about the 'state power thing'
as far as "corporate security researchers" go, they are, apparently, using Microsoft Bob to do their "hacking"...
No, really, see the Ars Technica link up there:
"They think I have nothing but a heirarchy based on IRC [Internet Relay Chat] aliases!" he wrote. "As 1337 as these guys are suppsed to be they don't get it. I have pwned them! :)"
And that's the 'security researcher' mixing sys admins with 'hackers'
Yeah, it was as bad as 'hurr durr we're a security firm, what's the password to MS Bob again?! hurrr durr'
I'm surprised they actually know what SSH is
Too bad they never heard of auth by keypair. Next time they'll probably send the keys attached, and not use a passphrase =P
Erm... no
Or, in the words of Donald Knuth "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it."
Most bugs have nothing to do with 'proof'
Try proofing a code against an API, against random input, agains other (buggy) modules, etc, etc That's the problem
Well, of course it's going to deny it!
It's actually around 40% roadkill, so this accusation is ludicrous!
"Here is what happens with an open source product:"
I really like how you pulled the old bait and switch here. Instead of listing the behavior of quoted product, you instead drill into why open source software is bad. Well, if you just took the software and didn't pay a dime for it, then maybe a few of those points apply.
Too bad he's more right than not.
Not that a similar thing doesn't happen with closed source products, and be more or equally frustrating.
I've seen this with Apache, with several other softwares, where 1) doesn't work 2) can't figure out why 3) the darn software DOESN'T SAY WHAT'S WRONG
And that's really frustrating.
Back on topic, Exchange may be crap, but the alternatives suck more. At least I've heard nothing good about Zimbra, for example.
I really wish I could recommend Mozilla Thunderbird for example, but it has SEVERAL SHOWSTOPPERS. For example, you can't switch between an IMAP and POP server in the config (YA REALLY). Once you set the type, it's set. Completely Unjustifiable.
Well, but I thought everything was better with Bluetooth...
you leave in anger and ruin the backup...
There should be more than one person worrying about this, keep the physical media in somebody's hands (preferably management)
Yeah, I'm not sure how I can try that if my password is 12345678 I mean, I can't make it go caps...
Treat all information posted on social networks as public
It is anyway, after a court order, or a systems invasion, or a dodgy employer.
Yes, it's fairly common
The difference is that the subtitle is not placed 'in the middle' but it has to be positioned according to other 3D elements on the scene.
So, in Avatar, fi there was something 'closer' to the viewer on the left side, the subtitle would be on the right side, more or less on the same Z-Position ('closer' to the viewer)
what i believe in is capitalism, with social safety nets. moderate, fair safety nets. that correct the abuses of capitalism, without destroying capitalism. i don't want to be called a communist, because i'm not
so i won't glom you with the extremists, if you don't do the same with me
Great! I agree with that too. I just mentioned extremists as an example
This is very interesting...
Note: I am a Libertarian
I've known a number of rich kids in my life. Some of them are the most lazy useless wastes you'll ever meet. I've also been to 3rd world slums, some of them full of the most hard working people in the world. Why is this?
Do the rich deserve to be rich, and the poor deserve to be poor? No, most of the discrepancy in wealth is not due to hard work, but class structure: nepotism, corruption, who you know rather than what you know or how hard you work. I'm not saying that some poor don't rise up, and some rich don't sink down, as is deserving of their character. And in fact the USA does a better job of meritocracy than most other countries. But so much else going on is NOT meritocracy, clearly.
True, but get this. The rich KIDS are exactly that. They got their wealth from their parents. And maybe a good job (like a job as PotUS =P). That's when the unfairness begins. Their parents probably were not rich, and worked a lot, and of course, got lucky.
For that reason, many libertarian beliefs only serve to reinforce existing class structures, because so many libertarians don't understand how unfair the distribution of wealth is. In a just society, you NEED to artificially distribute wealth down, because the existing structure naturally concentrates wealth up.
Don't blame (all) the libertarians. IMHO libertarianism should mean a FAIR playing field, not a 'no rules' playing field. Of course there are extremists.
Libertarian philosophy starts with this insane assumption that society is a meritocracy, when all evidence is to the contrary. I agree that society SHOULD be a meritocracy, but to make it a meritocracy, you need to artificially counteract the natural tendency of wealth to attract more wealth.
Libertarians: class structure is real, and growing in the USA. Now you can deny that, or you can do something about that. But making castle-in-the-sky pronouncements about adhering to a meritocracy that doesn't fully exist is just an exercise in fooling yourself.
Some people need to read less Charles Darwin, and more Charles Dickens.
Well, for example, you could move to Cuba, where a slight deviation from the level and you get your house confiscated. How would you like that?
How would you like to, for example, be allowed only 20% of your money to go to your kids?! And of course, all that money has been taxed already (theoretically, of course, but in most cases, it is)
There's a 'social fairness' against a 'fairness to the individual'.
But you can move money 'downstairs' by means of jobs. But instead of going to the US it's going to China and India, where someone is very happy to be payed $4000 year (or even less) Good for them.
But for every action there is a reaction. What if you lower taxes so people don't even bother getting their money offshore?!
Taxes suck, and are necessary, but the tighter you squeeze the more it slips through the fingers.
The real question is: Who's going to play Julian Assange's hair?!
Yes, and Chase No Face is the new CEO of Chase Bank
Yes
But they're going to take Steve Jobs brain and put it in Eric Schmidt
Turtlenecks are forbidden until 2 years after the surgery.
You might try to optimize your solution with something called "an infinite loop" look it up
Wow, that got my head spinning...
If you put the security of your industrial installation in an anti virus, I'm sorry, but you are REALLY REALLY FSCKING STUPID
Beyond the network requirements and rigging a shotgun pointed at the user to the IE icon (unnecessary given the 1st step, but still fun)
You should
1 - ONLY install from trusted sources
2 - the minimum set of drivers (for example, skip sound installation if not needed)
3 - keep it updated IF POSSIBLE
And unless needed, once it's set, NO CD, NO USB, NO NETWORK
all these download sites throttle the connection themselves (unless you are a premium user)
Not to mention really hard to work captchas, and waiting 30 second or more to download.
So I guess if it's really being throttled no one notices it
I doubt it is easier duplicate chunks of your code in a different language (plus the cost of buying the Flash authoring tool) than it is to alter a couple of lines in your Javascript. But then again, you said "better" which is a subjective term.
My favourite way would be every time that an IE-specific line of code is called, an email gets sent to the IE team at Microsoft...That would get their attention.
True, yeah, maybe it would be easier to do all the 'bells and whistles' on Flash, so you wouldn't have the duplication problem. (Even though flash costs money)
About the email idea, I LOVE IT.
Well, from your description, apparently the solution you currently use is flash, correct?!
So I guess it would be better to maintain Flash in IE9 rather than 'neuter' Canvas code.
Tell MS to go fsck themselves and show a message to IE9 users telling them to use Chrome or Firefox
Why should you waste time and money supporting them? And by the way, Firefox is the most used browser in Europe right now.