I didn't read this link, but I read it on CNN, and to answer your first two questions no... they very specifically said the real concern here is that a user can be attacked without doing anything.
As far as #3, the hows were unaddressed.
#4, it seems that at least several firewall packages block it just fine... but there was no discussion as to whether or not it was something special about the packages mentioned, or if it's just blocking some specific port that makes you safe.
AVG's personal email scanner solution sits between any mail client(using standard protocols) and the mail servers and performs transparent scanning of messages sent and received, and a very good job it does too.
Has something changed since I last looked? I thought it was protocol... as in POP3 only, leaving me and my imap solutions out of luck.
The Windows approach is easier because the stuff I don't care about doesn't enter the picture... Synaptic is great, but there's just so much there it's not something the average user wants to see.
Also, the Windows approach is pretty easy now a days because you can just install whatever you want, leave the zip hanging out in your download directory & still have plenty of room on you 250gig harddrive, and not eat up too much of your processing power/memory/whatever.
Windows: Find package website (in this case mozilla.com). Surf links. Download firefox from link. Figure out where you just saved the installed (I've seen many users choke at this, strangely). Run installer. Click next a bunch of times. Done
Actually, in this case, in windows you find the package website, download... if you're running Firefox or any browser with a download manager you just click "run"... there's no need to find anything.
And then, the package can update itself.
It's a new side of programs that's become really popular over the last few years, they maintain their own updating over the internet, and sadly it's something the debian based distros haven't really kept up with well... sometimes apt updates it, sometimes firefox updates it, sometimes it's an install from compile... whatever, it's not too hard to confuse the package managers in linux these days.
Actually I know several medium sized business that use USB drives, and do vault them weekly/monthly...
Tapes are on their way out for all but the big companies... they still have their obvious advantages, but they're slow and tedious and require someone at $100+ an hour to get setup. Whereas for a couple hundred bucks you can have a USB solution running on alternating drives, one of which is taken offsite each night.
1080p is 1920x1080 right now... will it stop there? Maybe... but what about 3D?
Digitial cameras for the consumer are available (but expensive) at nearly 17MP.
I'd guess we'll also give up on MP3's and just use FLAC or similar if internet bandwidth ever catches up to this kind of storage (and when this kind of storage becomes more portable).
DRM overhead is constantly growing... and request for it is also growing.
But some trends are going the other way... Vector Graphics should reduce file sizes for example.
Regardless, saying "and it will stop there" tends to be just plain wrong in the tech world... I can't imagine a need for > 12MP camera, better than FLAC audio or better than 1080p video (with the exception of holographic displays) right now... but I'm not in R&D... don't be surprised if we see all of them in the next 5 years.
Only to a point, it is possible to make time to crack estimates which use the "every atom in the universe working to solve the problem" estimations... namely the NP-Complete problems like PK-Encryption.
The problem comes with coming out in late November/early December... then all the customers shout that their box doesn't have Vista installed, and they thought it would. The OEMs still have to test everything out, and doing all this during the busiest time is not when they'd rather do it.
According to the CNN article on the same topic the OEMs were saying they don't want it out just before the holiday buying season.
I'm interested in how people get one of those phones from Amazon with 100% rebates, WITHOUT signing up for any sort of phone plan.
Yeah it's great, I did that... bought a new phone, and the rebates made it cost -$50... two and a half years later I'm still jumping through hoops with Amazon to actually get that check delivered and cashed, but hey when I do, it'll be a great deal.
Plenty of US bars dye beer green for the night... usually something like one of the big light beers (Miller or Bud) cause it's alot easier to tell.
Just a little food coloring in the pitcher, nothing fancy... heck in Chicago they dye our whole dang river flourescent green.
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In my experience it's about whoever's ancestors make a bigger deal of it... I'm generalizing here obviously, but that seems to me to be largely related to what they did once they moved here. Living in heterogenous communities makes it fade pretty fast.
My grandparents on one side, Polish... second generation... speak the language, grew up in strongly Polish neighborhoods in Chicago, strongly identify with it... grandparents on the other side, one German one Luxembourgian, lived in a pretty Luxembourgian neighborhood in the Chicago burbs (did you even know they existed, I sure didn't) but never really latched on.
But I've always agreed with you... at some point you gotta be american right? But if you're asking about motivations for why someone's Irish on St. Patty's day... well, I'll give you one guess & it should only take you 3 letters.
It was NOT free, a part of the price of the laptop most definitely went to pay for the windows license - you're confused because you were almost certainly never shown the option to NOT buy windows (removing this option seems to be part of the deal Microsoft makes with popular computer manufacturers).
I think perhaps you missed of the post... I exclusively use IBM thinkpads, they cannot be purchased without an OS (at least not last I made a purchase)... hence, I have Windows for the price of the computer. If I install Linux, it's no more or less money out of my pocket, if I'm then unhappy with it and want to re-install Windows, it's no more or less money out of my pocket.
I'm not talking about your support for monopoloies or legal reasons behind packaged products... because as I was trying to state, no one cares... if you can't buy a system with Linux well installed on it, then screw it... vendor support will drive driver support will drive user adoption (if user adoption is driveable).
90%+ of the desktops out there are Windows. If you have a problem, even if you cannot get it fixed, you'll be among other people who have had problems.
Which also means that for a fistful of dollars you can hire someone to make it work (if it's something fixable).
Ever tried to hire someone to fix your linux system for a home computer? I did once... I spent an incredible number of hours tweaking and modifying Debian to the nth degree to get it running on my old laptop... I finally had a usuable system, but the sound was just not quite right... I scoured and scoured, and could not find a Debian trained person who would answer an email for a quote on what it would cost to fix it. Sure I found tons of people on mailing lists and IRC who had ideas, and we re-installed and re-compiled and so on and so forth... but I was SOL if I just wanted to hand the box off with $50 and get it back in working condition.
I have never, and I mean never, had a sound card that didn't just work on Linux.
Good for you! What's your point?
My sound cards have all worked with Linux too... however I've had plenty of Linux installs with no sound because I didn't check the right box on the installer, or because it installed two sound servers or the kernel didn't have sound compiled... or my favorite, half the programs installed could make sound, and half couldn't.
And in Windows, they've always worked for me... but guess what, that anecdotal evidence in reference to the couple dozen machine configurations I've installed on doesn't mean squat... if you've run into problems with it, there's something that needs work.
. As for DVD Video, that's not the Linux distributors' fault; it's the DVD patent pool's fault and the major American motion picture studios' fault.
Here's a hint... no one cares whose fault it is.
Here's a second one... Windows doesn't cost $200 on a new computer, it's more like $50-$75 (go ahead price out pre-built machines without an OS & see what you save.. on average, not one random new-egg link)... that's a very reasonable price for everything to work.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a big Linux fan, would even like to see it on my laptop again... but you can't deflect criticism by pushing blame around... cause quite frankly, if something doesn't work in Linux, and I can't make it work in a reasonable amount of time or for a reasonabel fee, I'll just go re-install Windows... it came free with my laptop too.
Yep... as per usual, linux is about 18 months behind.
Just when it starts to work pretty darn well on the desktop, a significant percentage of homes start adding at least one laptop... and then the wireless drivers are mediocre, or don't work with your version of the kernel... or your LCD doesn't display well... or you can't route the second output on your laptop to the TV or second monitor... or your battery life is awful.
Vendor support... hardware & software, that's what Linux is missing... these are not arenas where you can always keepup by reverse engineering everything.
Wine is great, but why did I give up running Linux on my Thinkpad (back when IBM, the great friend of Linux was still building them)... was it the 2 days it took to get -almost- everything on the machine working? No, was it the fact that I lost an hour on my battery life? No... I couldn't run the latest version of Quickbooks and my accountant demanded it. Pfffft, alot of energy down the drain.
I like Linux more than most people, my servers all run it... I used to keep trying it on the desktop, and would even go through months of running it... then I got a laptop, I kept trying over the coures of a handful of years, and finally got to the point where I was pretty good with it... then it was one more thing... I really just can't imagine it ever catching on the way people are discussing in these threads without vendor support though.
I've had no problems with Firefox 1.5 itself although a couple of the extensions I like did develop minor bugs. I often open up fifty tabs at a time and don't have any major memory problems although I'm sure some exist.
Firefox extensions make Firefox something great... buggy Firefox extensions cause 99% of the memory leaks discussed (it especially seems like people neglect the fact that Web Developer has some significant leaks).
Oh well, what're you going to do, you support buggy extensions and you'll get a bad rep. for it... I'm downloading this version of opera to toy with it, but it'll have to be something pretty special to consider a full out switch.
Well that's a very true statement... I think what I found disturbing about the article is how low the right price was, and how easy it was to approach the seller, and the lack of recourse for the individual.
It would be another matter entirely if getting caught using the service involved jail time or whatnot.
I have one of those wireless bluetooth mice, and I honestly have no idea how often I need to recharge the batteries because I hardly ever use it... what I do know though, is that I have to change them just about everytime I use it because I go so long inbetween uses... it's a real pain, hence I use it even less, hence I wasted 70 bucks or whatever it cost.
I think that's a really good point... to me the key then becomes setting the price point low enough so that when I go to replace my current DVD player I just pick up this better one instead, cause hey it was only $50 more.
I think it's pretty clear this isn't going to be a boom take off like DVD or CD was, but just because it can't live up to those stratospheric levels of success doesn't mean it's doomed to DVD-A or SACD standards either... I think the solution is to print the media with HD-DVD (or Blu-Ray) on one side, and standard DVD on the other... that way the media can get into homes, and the player can be purchased as your next available DVD player purchasing convenience. If you're forced to have the player first I foresee too much media sitting on the shelves.
I'd like to agree, considering I have a nice new 1080p set sitting in the next room right now... but I'm wondering why you're so convinced, because I have yet to see any 1080p source available for viewing.
Or are you solely extrapolating based on the technologies behind interlacing and the differences betwen 720i & 720p?
I'm genuinely curious, mostly because if there's a way to get some 1080p going on my TV I want to see it
With an electronic ballot I've got a recording made by a computer, which due either to tampering, software bugs, data corruption or other electronic failure, may or may not match what the voter actually entered. How can you get around this very serious obstacle ?
Have it print out a paper ballot which the voter can verify, and then drop in a box. Now, at the end of the day, you have the computers word, and you have the paper ballots you can verify against... all done. This also answers your question about the error rate being measured.
And yes, this has its short comings, but no more so than any other system which has a paper ballot or an electronic ballot... in fact, it has the intersection of the two, which is getting pretty small.
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I didn't read this link, but I read it on CNN, and to answer your first two questions no... they very specifically said the real concern here is that a user can be attacked without doing anything.
As far as #3, the hows were unaddressed.
#4, it seems that at least several firewall packages block it just fine... but there was no discussion as to whether or not it was something special about the packages mentioned, or if it's just blocking some specific port that makes you safe.
AVG's personal email scanner solution sits between any mail client(using standard protocols) and the mail servers and performs transparent scanning of messages sent and received, and a very good job it does too.
Has something changed since I last looked? I thought it was protocol... as in POP3 only, leaving me and my imap solutions out of luck.
The Windows approach is easier because the stuff I don't care about doesn't enter the picture... Synaptic is great, but there's just so much there it's not something the average user wants to see.
Also, the Windows approach is pretty easy now a days because you can just install whatever you want, leave the zip hanging out in your download directory & still have plenty of room on you 250gig harddrive, and not eat up too much of your processing power/memory/whatever.
Windows: Find package website (in this case mozilla.com). Surf links. Download firefox from link. Figure out where you just saved the installed (I've seen many users choke at this, strangely). Run installer. Click next a bunch of times. Done
... there's no need to find anything.
Actually, in this case, in windows you find the package website, download... if you're running Firefox or any browser with a download manager you just click "run"
And then, the package can update itself.
It's a new side of programs that's become really popular over the last few years, they maintain their own updating over the internet, and sadly it's something the debian based distros haven't really kept up with well... sometimes apt updates it, sometimes firefox updates it, sometimes it's an install from compile... whatever, it's not too hard to confuse the package managers in linux these days.
Because of the images & the text... Opera has had it for the text, maybe flash according to your post... but not scaling the whole page appropriately.
Actually I know several medium sized business that use USB drives, and do vault them weekly/monthly...
Tapes are on their way out for all but the big companies... they still have their obvious advantages, but they're slow and tedious and require someone at $100+ an hour to get setup. Whereas for a couple hundred bucks you can have a USB solution running on alternating drives, one of which is taken offsite each night.
1080p is 1920x1080 right now... will it stop there? Maybe... but what about 3D?
... don't be surprised if we see all of them in the next 5 years.
Digitial cameras for the consumer are available (but expensive) at nearly 17MP.
I'd guess we'll also give up on MP3's and just use FLAC or similar if internet bandwidth ever catches up to this kind of storage (and when this kind of storage becomes more portable).
DRM overhead is constantly growing... and request for it is also growing.
But some trends are going the other way... Vector Graphics should reduce file sizes for example.
Regardless, saying "and it will stop there" tends to be just plain wrong in the tech world... I can't imagine a need for > 12MP camera, better than FLAC audio or better than 1080p video (with the exception of holographic displays) right now... but I'm not in R&D
Only to a point, it is possible to make time to crack estimates which use the "every atom in the universe working to solve the problem" estimations... namely the NP-Complete problems like PK-Encryption.
The problem comes with coming out in late November/early December... then all the customers shout that their box doesn't have Vista installed, and they thought it would. The OEMs still have to test everything out, and doing all this during the busiest time is not when they'd rather do it.
According to the CNN article on the same topic the OEMs were saying they don't want it out just before the holiday buying season.
I'm interested in how people get one of those phones from Amazon with 100% rebates, WITHOUT signing up for any sort of phone plan.
Yeah it's great, I did that... bought a new phone, and the rebates made it cost -$50... two and a half years later I'm still jumping through hoops with Amazon to actually get that check delivered and cashed, but hey when I do, it'll be a great deal.
Plenty of US bars dye beer green for the night... usually something like one of the big light beers (Miller or Bud) cause it's alot easier to tell.
Just a little food coloring in the pitcher, nothing fancy... heck in Chicago they dye our whole dang river flourescent green.
In my experience it's about whoever's ancestors make a bigger deal of it... I'm generalizing here obviously, but that seems to me to be largely related to what they did once they moved here. Living in heterogenous communities makes it fade pretty fast.
My grandparents on one side, Polish... second generation... speak the language, grew up in strongly Polish neighborhoods in Chicago, strongly identify with it... grandparents on the other side, one German one Luxembourgian, lived in a pretty Luxembourgian neighborhood in the Chicago burbs (did you even know they existed, I sure didn't) but never really latched on.
But I've always agreed with you... at some point you gotta be american right? But if you're asking about motivations for why someone's Irish on St. Patty's day... well, I'll give you one guess & it should only take you 3 letters.
I'm still hung over from last night, and your post makes me want to drink again... Fat Tire now legally sold in Chicago... thank goodness.
it came free with my laptop too
It was NOT free, a part of the price of the laptop most definitely went to pay for the windows license - you're confused because you were almost certainly never shown the option to NOT buy windows (removing this option seems to be part of the deal Microsoft makes with popular computer manufacturers).
I think perhaps you missed of the post... I exclusively use IBM thinkpads, they cannot be purchased without an OS (at least not last I made a purchase)... hence, I have Windows for the price of the computer. If I install Linux, it's no more or less money out of my pocket, if I'm then unhappy with it and want to re-install Windows, it's no more or less money out of my pocket.
I'm not talking about your support for monopoloies or legal reasons behind packaged products... because as I was trying to state, no one cares... if you can't buy a system with Linux well installed on it, then screw it... vendor support will drive driver support will drive user adoption (if user adoption is driveable).
90%+ of the desktops out there are Windows. If you have a problem, even if you cannot get it fixed, you'll be among other people who have had problems.
Which also means that for a fistful of dollars you can hire someone to make it work (if it's something fixable).
Ever tried to hire someone to fix your linux system for a home computer? I did once... I spent an incredible number of hours tweaking and modifying Debian to the nth degree to get it running on my old laptop... I finally had a usuable system, but the sound was just not quite right... I scoured and scoured, and could not find a Debian trained person who would answer an email for a quote on what it would cost to fix it. Sure I found tons of people on mailing lists and IRC who had ideas, and we re-installed and re-compiled and so on and so forth... but I was SOL if I just wanted to hand the box off with $50 and get it back in working condition.
I have never, and I mean never, had a sound card that didn't just work on Linux.
Good for you! What's your point?
My sound cards have all worked with Linux too... however I've had plenty of Linux installs with no sound because I didn't check the right box on the installer, or because it installed two sound servers or the kernel didn't have sound compiled... or my favorite, half the programs installed could make sound, and half couldn't.
And in Windows, they've always worked for me... but guess what, that anecdotal evidence in reference to the couple dozen machine configurations I've installed on doesn't mean squat... if you've run into problems with it, there's something that needs work.
. As for DVD Video, that's not the Linux distributors' fault; it's the DVD patent pool's fault and the major American motion picture studios' fault.
Here's a hint... no one cares whose fault it is.
Here's a second one... Windows doesn't cost $200 on a new computer, it's more like $50-$75 (go ahead price out pre-built machines without an OS & see what you save.. on average, not one random new-egg link)... that's a very reasonable price for everything to work.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a big Linux fan, would even like to see it on my laptop again... but you can't deflect criticism by pushing blame around... cause quite frankly, if something doesn't work in Linux, and I can't make it work in a reasonable amount of time or for a reasonabel fee, I'll just go re-install Windows... it came free with my laptop too.
Yep... as per usual, linux is about 18 months behind.
Just when it starts to work pretty darn well on the desktop, a significant percentage of homes start adding at least one laptop... and then the wireless drivers are mediocre, or don't work with your version of the kernel... or your LCD doesn't display well... or you can't route the second output on your laptop to the TV or second monitor... or your battery life is awful.
Vendor support... hardware & software, that's what Linux is missing... these are not arenas where you can always keepup by reverse engineering everything.
Wine is great, but why did I give up running Linux on my Thinkpad (back when IBM, the great friend of Linux was still building them)... was it the 2 days it took to get -almost- everything on the machine working? No, was it the fact that I lost an hour on my battery life? No... I couldn't run the latest version of Quickbooks and my accountant demanded it. Pfffft, alot of energy down the drain.
I like Linux more than most people, my servers all run it... I used to keep trying it on the desktop, and would even go through months of running it... then I got a laptop, I kept trying over the coures of a handful of years, and finally got to the point where I was pretty good with it... then it was one more thing... I really just can't imagine it ever catching on the way people are discussing in these threads without vendor support though.
I've had no problems with Firefox 1.5 itself although a couple of the extensions I like did develop minor bugs. I often open up fifty tabs at a time and don't have any major memory problems although I'm sure some exist.
Firefox extensions make Firefox something great... buggy Firefox extensions cause 99% of the memory leaks discussed (it especially seems like people neglect the fact that Web Developer has some significant leaks).
Oh well, what're you going to do, you support buggy extensions and you'll get a bad rep. for it... I'm downloading this version of opera to toy with it, but it'll have to be something pretty special to consider a full out switch.
Well that's a very true statement... I think what I found disturbing about the article is how low the right price was, and how easy it was to approach the seller, and the lack of recourse for the individual.
It would be another matter entirely if getting caught using the service involved jail time or whatnot.
I have one of those wireless bluetooth mice, and I honestly have no idea how often I need to recharge the batteries because I hardly ever use it... what I do know though, is that I have to change them just about everytime I use it because I go so long inbetween uses... it's a real pain, hence I use it even less, hence I wasted 70 bucks or whatever it cost.
I think that's a really good point... to me the key then becomes setting the price point low enough so that when I go to replace my current DVD player I just pick up this better one instead, cause hey it was only $50 more.
I think it's pretty clear this isn't going to be a boom take off like DVD or CD was, but just because it can't live up to those stratospheric levels of success doesn't mean it's doomed to DVD-A or SACD standards either... I think the solution is to print the media with HD-DVD (or Blu-Ray) on one side, and standard DVD on the other... that way the media can get into homes, and the player can be purchased as your next available DVD player purchasing convenience. If you're forced to have the player first I foresee too much media sitting on the shelves.
I'd like to agree, considering I have a nice new 1080p set sitting in the next room right now... but I'm wondering why you're so convinced, because I have yet to see any 1080p source available for viewing.
Or are you solely extrapolating based on the technologies behind interlacing and the differences betwen 720i & 720p?
I'm genuinely curious, mostly because if there's a way to get some 1080p going on my TV I want to see it
There's no way to link a receipt with a person. With the notable exception of the person's possession of the receipt.
With an electronic ballot I've got a recording made by a computer, which due either to tampering, software bugs, data corruption or other electronic failure, may or may not match what the voter actually entered. How can you get around this very serious obstacle ?
Have it print out a paper ballot which the voter can verify, and then drop in a box. Now, at the end of the day, you have the computers word, and you have the paper ballots you can verify against... all done. This also answers your question about the error rate being measured.
And yes, this has its short comings, but no more so than any other system which has a paper ballot or an electronic ballot... in fact, it has the intersection of the two, which is getting pretty small.