Instead of flooding them with so many questions that they can easily ignore the hard hitting ones, how about a Slashdot Interview style selection of good questions which we then submit as a group.
Does this mean that we should filter the highways and not allow anyone to use the highway when they go to buy porn at the Quicky-Mart?
You either provide a service or you don't. When you start filtering the service, then you are saying that some people's values are worth more than other people's but you will take their money all the same.
How about just because you will always have the iPod with you and won't necessarily be toting around your toolkit.
I agree this doesn't make a whole lot of sense for system admins who should be carrying around (or have handy) a whole toolkit though. When the iPod first came out, I thought that the coolest thing was that I could have my entire system on it and any Mac I encountered could boot my system (rather like the original NeXT idea).
Too bad you can't update the original post...I think people are suggesting OSX because it sounded like you were saying you were using Mac OS X on the server already. Hopefully someone will mod-up your comments stating that you already have x86 servers.
The tool is his text editor and an assembler. So modifying the story, he wants to build a brick fireplace with a Stanley trowel and QuickCrete mortar. He will still have to use bricks, that is the goal, but what brand of tool he uses to do it doesn't matter.
Several people have parroted your argument and it is completely bogus in this case. yes, he will have to have some sort of x86 cpu to test on but he has a perfectly good toolset to do the coding already.
And 3) could be: In the past Apple, like Microsoft delighted in pre-announcing features and even demoing them (like Tiger last year) long before their release dates. Many of the current features of Mac OS X, including smart folders were announced and demoed as part of the Copland project. Here is an article from 1996 which talks briefly about them, but I'm sure that a better description exists somewhere.
Security and usability are on 2 ends of the same spectrum. If you want usability, you have to give up security and vice versa. MS for years has tried to get as close to usability as they could and they gave up security to do it.
Although I would agree with you that the two OS have different goals, saying that security and usability are at opposite ends of the same spectrum is totally full of crap. First of all, I don't believe that Microsoft was concentrating on usability, but features. Second, because the two groups concentrated on one thing to the exclusion of all others doesn't mean that usability and security are mutually exclusive.
It takes effort to do good security, and it takes effort to do good usability (and takes time to add new features). If you take the easy route to do one thing, then you do generally compromise the other, but that is due to laziness or lack of time and not to some inherent relationship between the two.
As an owner of a house on a hillside, I can answer that question. My house is 80 years old, and about 20 years ago had a water main break up the street from it. The foundation upgrades done afterwards to keep the house on the hill involved piers, massive grade beams, and massive retaining walls.
So much concrete was used that whatever moron did the job decided to tilt the house slightly up hill so that the inevitable settling that the house would do would correct itself. Concrete weighs a lot, and if you put that on a clay slope the whole thing will want to move down hill. Since we have the piers, it just sinks in place instead
During the past three summers, I have projected movies every other Saturday night onto my neighbors garage, across the street from my house. My initial invite list of about 15 people has grown to over 70, but from my reading I am still within my rights. I am not showing the movie to the general public, but to friends and family. Sure, someone driving through can stop and watch (and several people have) but for the most part it is a 'private' showing.
From what I understood, there is no hack of the iPod. Instead, Real has managed to re-package their own tracks in FairPlay wrappers which they reverse-engineered after Apple denied them a license to FairPlay. So, this would be very different than hacking the X-Box.
Although I see Apple having every legal right to prevent this (since FairPlay which is their IP was hacked) I don't think that it is a good thing to do for either innovation or the iPod. Apple seems to be having trouble determining if they want to make money off the iTunes store, or off the iPod and in the process stomping on their users.
Jet Blue style? God, let's hope not...I wouldn't want the space lounge to be my "last stop to pick up oxygen tanks". How about we say "commercial air travel style" and hope that means at least a little bit of service.
Using PGP would just be attacking the problem from a different angle. Rather than saying what servers you can send from, your receiving server could just refuse to accept mail from un-authenticated (no pgp signature) senders. Once enough people were using pgp signatures (including spammers since it wouldn't take much effort) you would then need to either restrict to signatures of people you know (not very useful...you can do that now) or allow all mail from a particular signing authority (imnotspam.com) or trust level that you set.
Obviously the biggest drawback to this is that instead of convincing several large ISPs to make the change, you would have to convince the general public to make changes and set up a trust infrastructure so that you could still receive mail from people you don't know if you wanted to.
I think that using PGP would be a better system, but I don't think it will ever actually happen...too difficult to implement.
Government belongs to the people. All content created at taxpayer expense should be in an open format, not subject to proprietary licensing.
Consider this alternative view: Being a taxpayer is like being a shareholder in a company. Just because you invest in Microsoft, even though you're an owner, that doesn't (and shouldn't) give you the right to use all their software for free.
The analogy is slightly flawed. As a shareholder of Microsoft stock, I benefit from the profits made by the company. With content created at taxpayer expense, the benefit is the content. If they use my money to create something, I shouldn't have to pay again to use it unless they plan on reimbursing me for my initial investment
And yes, I do remember them all getting hacked last year...do you remember MS products being hacked yesterday? the day before? the day before that?...
Nobody is saying that there is a magic server or os that can't be hacked. What I was pointing out is that just because you are popular doesn't mean that you are the easy target that receives all the attention.
Do you remember the article Slashdot posted that showed Linux was the most breached OS on the net?
Yes, and I also remember how that report was for directed attacks. That means that what was conveniently left out was the fact that nobody even bothers to direct an attack at a Windows box, you can just take them down wholesale. One attack, 10,000 machines...more bang for your buck.
I personally have been responsible for over 20 Macs being sold, all to people who are now complete converts for various reasons (ease of use, security, etc).
Same here, but all to individuals. I think that most of the market share numbers come from large businesses which run office and not much else. As for people I know running PCs versus Macs, 5 years ago I would have said that Macs had a much lower market share than today. Most people I know are switching away from Windows when they upgrade...and loving it.
That is such a tired, over-simplified, and patently false rant I'm surprised it rates an insightful...Yes, lower market share will result in fewer exploits. But giving half a thought to basic security precautions will too. Between the two of them you end up with an operating system which currently has 0 viruses in the wild and very few exploits which affect the default installation.
It is also inane to suggest that all of a sudden, everyone will switch to a mac and suddenly get viruses. The point is that with a diversified eco-system (linux, freeBSD, Solaris, MacOS, Windows, etc.) all using different client and server software, the threat potential goes down for everyone because it makes it that much harder for a worm or virus to spread.
Explain how Apache is the most popular web server, and yet the server which gets holed by worms on a regular basis is IIS
I would imagine that many of the people you are ranting at weren't alive in the Ford and Carter years, were a tad to young to vote in the Reagan and Bush years, and hadn't yet had their own rights trampled upon in the Clinton years.
Why is it hypocrytical to wake up and want to affect political change? Selective protesting is exactly what people should do...focus all of their effort on something that matters to them rather than generally complaining about all injustices.
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a) If it's the card itself (a "hacked" RFID that has a very weak response signal), we're on the "safe" side.
This in no way makes it "safe". The entire problem with radio is that all you need to hear something further away is a better antenna. WiFi only useable 100 feet away? Fine, strap on an 18dbi antenna. Can't hear the pulsing of that quasar? Fine, use Aracebo.
There is no 'power boost' needed, just bigger ears...or more directional ears (same difference).
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which is exactly what systems like Keychain Access, Password Wallet (or Password Wallet), Keywallet etc. are for.
Instead of flooding them with so many questions that they can easily ignore the hard hitting ones, how about a Slashdot Interview style selection of good questions which we then submit as a group.
You either provide a service or you don't. When you start filtering the service, then you are saying that some people's values are worth more than other people's but you will take their money all the same.
I agree this doesn't make a whole lot of sense for system admins who should be carrying around (or have handy) a whole toolkit though. When the iPod first came out, I thought that the coolest thing was that I could have my entire system on it and any Mac I encountered could boot my system (rather like the original NeXT idea).
Too bad you can't update the original post...I think people are suggesting OSX because it sounded like you were saying you were using Mac OS X on the server already. Hopefully someone will mod-up your comments stating that you already have x86 servers.
Several people have parroted your argument and it is completely bogus in this case. yes, he will have to have some sort of x86 cpu to test on but he has a perfectly good toolset to do the coding already.
For those with enough time on their hands to check random slashdot posts for meaning, I salute you.
And 3) could be: In the past Apple, like Microsoft delighted in pre-announcing features and even demoing them (like Tiger last year) long before their release dates. Many of the current features of Mac OS X, including smart folders were announced and demoed as part of the Copland project. Here is an article from 1996 which talks briefly about them, but I'm sure that a better description exists somewhere.
Better yet, mount two of these in glasses and even Elton John would think you looked like a geek.
Although I would agree with you that the two OS have different goals, saying that security and usability are at opposite ends of the same spectrum is totally full of crap. First of all, I don't believe that Microsoft was concentrating on usability, but features. Second, because the two groups concentrated on one thing to the exclusion of all others doesn't mean that usability and security are mutually exclusive.
It takes effort to do good security, and it takes effort to do good usability (and takes time to add new features). If you take the easy route to do one thing, then you do generally compromise the other, but that is due to laziness or lack of time and not to some inherent relationship between the two.
So you are getting your porn from the retirement community and your prescription medication spam from Hollywood?
So much concrete was used that whatever moron did the job decided to tilt the house slightly up hill so that the inevitable settling that the house would do would correct itself. Concrete weighs a lot, and if you put that on a clay slope the whole thing will want to move down hill. Since we have the piers, it just sinks in place instead
So I assume that you go to Pacific Ocean, instead of the Pacific Ocean?
They did, they had just been patented:
Patent #9999: System and Method for preserving data in case of catastrophe...
Of course, the company who filed it was charging too much for the PTO to pay and they decided to wait until the patent expired to implement it.
During the past three summers, I have projected movies every other Saturday night onto my neighbors garage, across the street from my house. My initial invite list of about 15 people has grown to over 70, but from my reading I am still within my rights. I am not showing the movie to the general public, but to friends and family. Sure, someone driving through can stop and watch (and several people have) but for the most part it is a 'private' showing.
From what I understood, there is no hack of the iPod. Instead, Real has managed to re-package their own tracks in FairPlay wrappers which they reverse-engineered after Apple denied them a license to FairPlay. So, this would be very different than hacking the X-Box. Although I see Apple having every legal right to prevent this (since FairPlay which is their IP was hacked) I don't think that it is a good thing to do for either innovation or the iPod. Apple seems to be having trouble determining if they want to make money off the iTunes store, or off the iPod and in the process stomping on their users.
Jet Blue style? God, let's hope not...I wouldn't want the space lounge to be my "last stop to pick up oxygen tanks". How about we say "commercial air travel style" and hope that means at least a little bit of service.
Using PGP would just be attacking the problem from a different angle. Rather than saying what servers you can send from, your receiving server could just refuse to accept mail from un-authenticated (no pgp signature) senders. Once enough people were using pgp signatures (including spammers since it wouldn't take much effort) you would then need to either restrict to signatures of people you know (not very useful...you can do that now) or allow all mail from a particular signing authority (imnotspam.com) or trust level that you set.
Obviously the biggest drawback to this is that instead of convincing several large ISPs to make the change, you would have to convince the general public to make changes and set up a trust infrastructure so that you could still receive mail from people you don't know if you wanted to.
I think that using PGP would be a better system, but I don't think it will ever actually happen...too difficult to implement.
The analogy is slightly flawed. As a shareholder of Microsoft stock, I benefit from the profits made by the company. With content created at taxpayer expense, the benefit is the content. If they use my money to create something, I shouldn't have to pay again to use it unless they plan on reimbursing me for my initial investment
sure...and type 'IIS' into the search field for worms and exploits affecting IIS.
And yes, I do remember them all getting hacked last year...do you remember MS products being hacked yesterday? the day before? the day before that?...
Nobody is saying that there is a magic server or os that can't be hacked. What I was pointing out is that just because you are popular doesn't mean that you are the easy target that receives all the attention.
Do you remember the article Slashdot posted that showed Linux was the most breached OS on the net?
Yes, and I also remember how that report was for directed attacks. That means that what was conveniently left out was the fact that nobody even bothers to direct an attack at a Windows box, you can just take them down wholesale. One attack, 10,000 machines...more bang for your buck.
Same here, but all to individuals. I think that most of the market share numbers come from large businesses which run office and not much else. As for people I know running PCs versus Macs, 5 years ago I would have said that Macs had a much lower market share than today. Most people I know are switching away from Windows when they upgrade...and loving it.
That is such a tired, over-simplified, and patently false rant I'm surprised it rates an insightful...Yes, lower market share will result in fewer exploits. But giving half a thought to basic security precautions will too. Between the two of them you end up with an operating system which currently has 0 viruses in the wild and very few exploits which affect the default installation.
It is also inane to suggest that all of a sudden, everyone will switch to a mac and suddenly get viruses. The point is that with a diversified eco-system (linux, freeBSD, Solaris, MacOS, Windows, etc.) all using different client and server software, the threat potential goes down for everyone because it makes it that much harder for a worm or virus to spread.
Explain how Apache is the most popular web server, and yet the server which gets holed by worms on a regular basis is IIS
Most of the people who visit my office can't make that distinction either.
I would imagine that many of the people you are ranting at weren't alive in the Ford and Carter years, were a tad to young to vote in the Reagan and Bush years, and hadn't yet had their own rights trampled upon in the Clinton years.
Why is it hypocrytical to wake up and want to affect political change? Selective protesting is exactly what people should do...focus all of their effort on something that matters to them rather than generally complaining about all injustices.
This in no way makes it "safe". The entire problem with radio is that all you need to hear something further away is a better antenna. WiFi only useable 100 feet away? Fine, strap on an 18dbi antenna. Can't hear the pulsing of that quasar? Fine, use Aracebo.
There is no 'power boost' needed, just bigger ears...or more directional ears (same difference).