To be fair, this is Microsoft Research we're talking about. They don't (directly) exist to fill Microsoft's pockets and mostly research problems/ideas broadly related to computer science. Many famous figures in CS work there, including the creators of LaTeX and Quicksort.
I'm of the opinion that the software industry has just wised up a bit to security threats. IT too has become better at reducing their surface area of attack and patching products; Windows automatic updates probably did a world of good. Many ISPs filter the majority (all?) ports open by default on Windows as well. I help run a fairly large IRC network and we have seen the frequency of botnet activity and DDoS attacks drop dramatically over the last couple years. It's good and bad, I personally found things a little more exciting when a major hole would come out and chaos would ensue for the next week. Remember when blaster came out and the Internet grinded to a halt?
Right, but the point was that the GP believed you could prosecuted in the US for simply making a racist remark or generally promoting their murder. You can't unless it's really specific, to the point where you're inciting a particular incident of violence. We know other nations have laws that restrict (or arguably discard) freedom of expression, but despite what/. seems to think the US is one of the only nations that truly still protects that right. Comparing US limits on expression (those which infringe on the liberty of others) to China's (those which conflict with popular opinion or government interest) really trivializes the plight of all of those people who have been arrested, tortured, or killed under China's oppressive government. It's also counter-productive to any effort to try and improve the situation in nation's where expression is unduly limited when people will so quickly draw comparisons between that nation and the US and only really prove that they don't understand the gravity or reality of the issues they speak of.
That's one way of doing it, Microsoft uses a different protocol and I'm betting Blackberry has their own too. For those you need Exchange 2003 or Blackberry Enterprise Server respectively.
An SMS? That was the old way, with Exchange 2003 SP2 and WM5 with MSFP (AKU2) you can push e-mail to mobile clients without the need for a text message.
They don't want to give the federal government free roam over people's information I suppose. TFA also describes the new ID being used when people enter or leave a plane or federal building. I agree that it would sacrifice some privacy and is probably not necessary for the federal government to have. I'd rather suffer the potential consequences instead, though I personally believe that giving federal authorities the ability to peruse through a national database would introduce more problems than this could ever solve.
Also your argument about the DUI queries is silly, a computer having to issue 50 queries instead of 1 is a very very small price to pay for added privacy from the federal government. Remember, the federal government isn't supposed to have police powers (ethics, morals, safety) over its citizens.
Everything I'm finding - including the link you gave me - states that rights preventing self-incrimination do apply to grand juries. Read footnote seven, the referenced SCOUTS case, and Google "grand jury self-incrimination" if you still don't believe me.
I've had Vista 32-bit installed since October on my laptop (with RC2 at first) and Vista 64-bit on a desktop since January, and I have not had a single crash. I can't read the article as it's slashdotted at the moment, but I'm curious as to what could have provoked it. Very few things can actually crash Vista as nearly everything is done in user land. I'd guess a bad driver, but I'll wait and read the article to find out I suppose.
But free speech is the backbone of the Internet, nothing is more important. I also don't agree that a nation banning pro-Nazi expression is as free as the US. In America, free speech is built on the idea that people must be protected from the tyranny of the majority. Unpopular speech, like Nazi speech, must always be protected if the nation is to truly have free expression. I understand banning Nazi expression in Germany after WWII, but that's long over and in any case the point still remains.
It should be noted that while both IE 6 and IE 7 are vulnerable in Windows XP, the damage in IE 7 in Vista is quite limited in its default "protected" mode.
As was announced as CES this year, HP is launching a new product in conjunction with Microsoft called Windows Home Server. The device would logically replace their existing media center line of products, and is currently only in a beta stage with a release planned for sometime soon.
66 days is a really long time, and assuming this includes the patches from the Month of Mac exploits held in January I'm surprised they said only 1 was high priority. Without seeing their data I wouldn't put much stock into any of this, but I do hope it will shut up some zealots who haven't noticed the playing field is a lot more level than it used to be when it comes to security.
I don't really understand why this is being used as an opportunity to criticize FORTRAN. Sure he invented it, but the greater achievement was the invention of high level programming. For some that opened whole new doors, for others (like myself) it shaped our entire career. Our industry would certainly be a different place if it weren't for the work of John Backus.
I don't agree that most of the applications I use are products of Linux, but I do agree that alternative software has usually popped up at the same time and in either direction. It may surprise you to hear that I enjoy my Windows desktop and the applications that run on it. That said, I own UNIX computers as well and typically have a terminal going to them and occasionally an X session too. I used linux (debian then ubuntu) as a desktop for almost 2 years before I went back to Windows. The simple fact is that the applications I use most and do what I want most effectively are Windows applications, and I didn't have to ditch the UNIX ones because of the remote access. I agree that driver support in Linux is no longer the issue it once was, and my problems in that regard were minimal. Honestly Linux can be more fun to use because of all the control you can exercise over every detail of it. Still though, I never lost that, because I can just login remotely. It's not fear of change, just that change didn't make sense.
Similarly, Windows Vista does not require DRM. It merely supports some DRM formats -- you can still play MP3, AAC, AIFF, etc without any trouble. After reading the article more closely the author does not appear to state that either the iPod or Vista are DRM devices but instead lists the DRM-supported formats as the problem.
You honestly think this person deserved to die for their mistake? I didn't know there was such a thing as water poisoning, and this sounds like a reasonable set of circumstances to me. We're talking about a human life here! A mother of three who she entered the contest for no less. The true gravity of what has happened to her and her family should not be quickly discarded for people to harshly criticize her for not knowing. This is a complete tragedy, not a criminal who electrocuted himself while robbing a bank or other situation which would actually be worthy of a "haha darwin award".
I don't see how some of this criticism isn't true.
Myth 1: the iPhone is missing EVDO (or some other high end feature) which will stifle adoption.
Decent 3G service is not for a niche market or only for the rich. People have shown that high-bandwidth services like streaming video can drive a broadband market. Could we honestly say that broadband Internet access on the desktop hasn't brought with it a range of practical and compelling uses for the general public? Now you'd have that kind of speed wherever you are and in your pocket! Stating outright that people won't need it for their handset is arrogant and short-sighted, the market will decide in the end. TFA also writes that decent 3G service is "overpriced, and not quite ready yet" but my PocketPC handset is over a year old, works great, and is cheaper than the announced price for the iPhone!
Myth Two: The iPhone is priced too high. It needs a 2 GB version for $299 lacking phone features. How is the iPhone not expensive when compared to other phones? The $499 and $599 prices are with the two-year contract! That's significantly more expensive than every other PDA/Smartphone offered by Cingular, some of which are very comparable to the iPhone. "but it's also not expensive when compared to similar phones, which... aren't yet available" Need you be reminded that the iPhone itself is not coming out for almost 6 months? And how are the phones out today not similar? The Cingular 8525 looks comparable to me.
Myth Four: The iPhone software is a closed model, therefore the sky is falling. How can you say that third-party software would make the handset insecure and unstable? Do you believe this about computers in general? Third party development can (and frequently does) turn the ideas of the general public into brilliant applications that would likely not have existed otherwise. They drive the entire computer industry, and how can you so quickly dismiss the handset market as being different where third-party development would only mean negative things?
I'm out of time but these "myths" just speak of desperate fanboism. Please realize that criticism is a healthy thing and that if this handset isn't perfect Apple has the time, money, and resources to make something that is better. After all, they're only just entering this market and will have lessons to learn just like everyone else.
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To be fair, this is Microsoft Research we're talking about. They don't (directly) exist to fill Microsoft's pockets and mostly research problems/ideas broadly related to computer science. Many famous figures in CS work there, including the creators of LaTeX and Quicksort.
I'm of the opinion that the software industry has just wised up a bit to security threats. IT too has become better at reducing their surface area of attack and patching products; Windows automatic updates probably did a world of good. Many ISPs filter the majority (all?) ports open by default on Windows as well. I help run a fairly large IRC network and we have seen the frequency of botnet activity and DDoS attacks drop dramatically over the last couple years. It's good and bad, I personally found things a little more exciting when a major hole would come out and chaos would ensue for the next week. Remember when blaster came out and the Internet grinded to a halt?
Right, but the point was that the GP believed you could prosecuted in the US for simply making a racist remark or generally promoting their murder. You can't unless it's really specific, to the point where you're inciting a particular incident of violence. We know other nations have laws that restrict (or arguably discard) freedom of expression, but despite what /. seems to think the US is one of the only nations that truly still protects that right. Comparing US limits on expression (those which infringe on the liberty of others) to China's (those which conflict with popular opinion or government interest) really trivializes the plight of all of those people who have been arrested, tortured, or killed under China's oppressive government. It's also counter-productive to any effort to try and improve the situation in nation's where expression is unduly limited when people will so quickly draw comparisons between that nation and the US and only really prove that they don't understand the gravity or reality of the issues they speak of.
That's one way of doing it, Microsoft uses a different protocol and I'm betting Blackberry has their own too. For those you need Exchange 2003 or Blackberry Enterprise Server respectively.
An SMS? That was the old way, with Exchange 2003 SP2 and WM5 with MSFP (AKU2) you can push e-mail to mobile clients without the need for a text message.
They don't want to give the federal government free roam over people's information I suppose. TFA also describes the new ID being used when people enter or leave a plane or federal building. I agree that it would sacrifice some privacy and is probably not necessary for the federal government to have. I'd rather suffer the potential consequences instead, though I personally believe that giving federal authorities the ability to peruse through a national database would introduce more problems than this could ever solve.
Also your argument about the DUI queries is silly, a computer having to issue 50 queries instead of 1 is a very very small price to pay for added privacy from the federal government. Remember, the federal government isn't supposed to have police powers (ethics, morals, safety) over its citizens.
Everything I'm finding - including the link you gave me - states that rights preventing self-incrimination do apply to grand juries. Read footnote seven, the referenced SCOUTS case, and Google "grand jury self-incrimination" if you still don't believe me.
Being in front of a grand jury means you no longer hold 5th amendment rights? Where's the justification for that?
If the video really showed nothing, proove it to the court by allowing only the judge to see it - or something along those lines
He did. But I guess you can't be hassled to look into the facts before you call the tragedy of him being held for nearly a year justified.
I've had Vista 32-bit installed since October on my laptop (with RC2 at first) and Vista 64-bit on a desktop since January, and I have not had a single crash. I can't read the article as it's slashdotted at the moment, but I'm curious as to what could have provoked it. Very few things can actually crash Vista as nearly everything is done in user land. I'd guess a bad driver, but I'll wait and read the article to find out I suppose.
But free speech is the backbone of the Internet, nothing is more important. I also don't agree that a nation banning pro-Nazi expression is as free as the US. In America, free speech is built on the idea that people must be protected from the tyranny of the majority. Unpopular speech, like Nazi speech, must always be protected if the nation is to truly have free expression. I understand banning Nazi expression in Germany after WWII, but that's long over and in any case the point still remains.
It should be noted that while both IE 6 and IE 7 are vulnerable in Windows XP, the damage in IE 7 in Vista is quite limited in its default "protected" mode.
As was announced as CES this year, HP is launching a new product in conjunction with Microsoft called Windows Home Server. The device would logically replace their existing media center line of products, and is currently only in a beta stage with a release planned for sometime soon.
66 days is a really long time, and assuming this includes the patches from the Month of Mac exploits held in January I'm surprised they said only 1 was high priority. Without seeing their data I wouldn't put much stock into any of this, but I do hope it will shut up some zealots who haven't noticed the playing field is a lot more level than it used to be when it comes to security.
I don't really understand why this is being used as an opportunity to criticize FORTRAN. Sure he invented it, but the greater achievement was the invention of high level programming. For some that opened whole new doors, for others (like myself) it shaped our entire career. Our industry would certainly be a different place if it weren't for the work of John Backus.
Exchange does store dates in UTC.
I don't agree that most of the applications I use are products of Linux, but I do agree that alternative software has usually popped up at the same time and in either direction. It may surprise you to hear that I enjoy my Windows desktop and the applications that run on it. That said, I own UNIX computers as well and typically have a terminal going to them and occasionally an X session too. I used linux (debian then ubuntu) as a desktop for almost 2 years before I went back to Windows. The simple fact is that the applications I use most and do what I want most effectively are Windows applications, and I didn't have to ditch the UNIX ones because of the remote access. I agree that driver support in Linux is no longer the issue it once was, and my problems in that regard were minimal. Honestly Linux can be more fun to use because of all the control you can exercise over every detail of it. Still though, I never lost that, because I can just login remotely. It's not fear of change, just that change didn't make sense.
As is typical for tech related queries Wikipedia is chock full of information on what changed with Windows Vista. I recommend people take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windo ws_Vista if you're interested.
Why bother with facts when you can write vague and frightening nonsense, say "DRM" a couple times, and link to a slanted research article?
Similarly, Windows Vista does not require DRM. It merely supports some DRM formats -- you can still play MP3, AAC, AIFF, etc without any trouble. After reading the article more closely the author does not appear to state that either the iPod or Vista are DRM devices but instead lists the DRM-supported formats as the problem.
"ignorance is no defence"
You honestly think this person deserved to die for their mistake? I didn't know there was such a thing as water poisoning, and this sounds like a reasonable set of circumstances to me. We're talking about a human life here! A mother of three who she entered the contest for no less. The true gravity of what has happened to her and her family should not be quickly discarded for people to harshly criticize her for not knowing. This is a complete tragedy, not a criminal who electrocuted himself while robbing a bank or other situation which would actually be worthy of a "haha darwin award".
I don't see how some of this criticism isn't true.
Myth 1: the iPhone is missing EVDO (or some other high end feature) which will stifle adoption.
Decent 3G service is not for a niche market or only for the rich. People have shown that high-bandwidth services like streaming video can drive a broadband market. Could we honestly say that broadband Internet access on the desktop hasn't brought with it a range of practical and compelling uses for the general public? Now you'd have that kind of speed wherever you are and in your pocket! Stating outright that people won't need it for their handset is arrogant and short-sighted, the market will decide in the end. TFA also writes that decent 3G service is "overpriced, and not quite ready yet" but my PocketPC handset is over a year old, works great, and is cheaper than the announced price for the iPhone!
Myth Two: The iPhone is priced too high. It needs a 2 GB version for $299 lacking phone features.
How is the iPhone not expensive when compared to other phones? The $499 and $599 prices are with the two-year contract! That's significantly more expensive than every other PDA/Smartphone offered by Cingular, some of which are very comparable to the iPhone. "but it's also not expensive when compared to similar phones, which... aren't yet available" Need you be reminded that the iPhone itself is not coming out for almost 6 months? And how are the phones out today not similar? The Cingular 8525 looks comparable to me.
Myth Four: The iPhone software is a closed model, therefore the sky is falling.
How can you say that third-party software would make the handset insecure and unstable? Do you believe this about computers in general? Third party development can (and frequently does) turn the ideas of the general public into brilliant applications that would likely not have existed otherwise. They drive the entire computer industry, and how can you so quickly dismiss the handset market as being different where third-party development would only mean negative things?
I'm out of time but these "myths" just speak of desperate fanboism. Please realize that criticism is a healthy thing and that if this handset isn't perfect Apple has the time, money, and resources to make something that is better. After all, they're only just entering this market and will have lessons to learn just like everyone else.
EDGE as a 3G service is quite poor when compared to other 3G offerings, like UMTS.
Yes, what legitimate use could a company that makes money off IP phones have with the 'iPhone' mark?