Actually the US and EU are looking into Chrome OS with regards to anti-trust and privacy issues already.
From articles you're talking about:
On the surface, it may appear that Google has not violated antitrust law, Pociask added. "But there are real anticompetitive risks," he said. "Not from the operating system per se as much as it is from the whole online dominance we're seeing."
Oh nos, terrible anti-trust!
It would not be surprising that Chrome OS can only be sold in the US due to various other countries privacy laws.
Such as which laws? I'm pretty versed in most EU privacy laws due to my moving around and experience in doing web business and I cannot think of any in particular that this would violate. If you even read the article you were referring to, you would know the privacy stuff is just a bunch of people who don't know about the privacy settings in the Google OS and are worried about things like advert tracking cookies.
So, does this have to do with preventing Google from including a webbrowser?
I'll give you a hint: Nothing.
I'm starting to wonder if you're a smart troll, I get this from the way you formulate your posts and speak half truths.
I wonder how Google will get around this or will it be another double standard in this industry "just because".
Google hasn't been deemed to have broken various anti-trust laws to gain an advantage with regards to webbrowsers, so they don't have this "problem" Microsoft has. But no, I don't see any double standard here, I don't understand how you could either.
Just wandering and looking when using Emerald reveals: Few people are using the Linden-supplied viewer.
I have found many places where this is not true. I guess you don't get out of the places you usually go to, much.
Reading the news shows that the OpenGrid is picking up more and more followers, in general people have decided they are sick of the Lindens and they can do better on their own.
OpenGrid needs content, a micropayment system, DRM, people and various SL features that aren't implemented correctly yet (see: attachment, various scripting functions, physics).
XStreet was an example of this
Who gives a crap about xstreet? Many people already pulled off with the Nazi listing requirements. We have apez, slapt.me metaversexchange etc.
The most popular alternative will get integrated search and automatic listing added to Emerald (or similar community-made viewers).
It's more likely regular SL classifieds will be intergrated with xstreet and thus xstreet will be intergrated with search results no matter what you're using. So guess what people making a tonne of money will be using.
In the last couple of years we have seen increased reporting of security problems with Firefox
Much like with other software in the last couple of years. This isn't unusual or unexpected from any software turning mainstream. What is pretty good is that the majority of these vulnerabilities are fixed very soon after. Except for certain, exploits, like on Windows and Linux, you can retrieve the start parameters of any applications being launched and thus if it's a ftp or http url with login credentials or login session in the URL (like launching the browser from an e-mail application) - Firefox has remained quite resilient (source: secunia).
Compare this to IE where many exploits are found and don't get fixed for years on end... (source: secunia). I personally feel there is a lower risk with Firefox, especially with it's automated update system that doesn't care how genuine your system is and default settings make it fully automatic updates, thus preventing the prolonged use of exploits that work years on a substantial amount of people for years).
the fans of yesterday explain this with Firefox "becoming bloatware" and hence "becoming insecure"
Okay, despite careful code analysis of AROS (due to the amount of years of experience I have had in developing, testing and toying with it), I could not find any evidence of the existence of back doors in it.
To be fair, Windows 7 today has 1 (http://secunia.com/advisories/product/27467/?task=advisories) unpatched vulnerability.
... that we know of.
Seriously, am I the only one getting real tired by the whole culture of anti-windows fanboyism on slashdot?
I'm not, I'm often fascinated in hearing all the dealings Microsoft does, from trying to sway votes on open standards via methods considered against the rules to false news media released against competitors like Linux etc.
You cannot report a newpiece related to windows/ms lately and not have people talk trash about pretty much anything they've done
It's the same with OS X, Linux etc. I don't see the difference or the problem.
This is Slashdot... News for Nerds... Stuff that Matters.
Nobody cares about Scientology. Lets keep this a tech site. We'll leave the Scientology stuff to 4chan (not that they want it either).
Slashdot doing articles about Scientology predates 4chan's existence.
Scientology has been known for calling up on censorship and claiming copyright theft since the 90s. They got articles pulled from usenet servers by issuing false cancel messages on insecure nodes, DDoSed servers to prevent information from being spread, threaten internet anonymity etc.
Seems like something "nerds" would rage on to me and certain articles seem relevant to Slashdot in my opinion.
Re:So let me get this straight...
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I just got a G1 from my brother to use for development. I thought it was very cool I could wipe the firmware from T-Mobile and put a custom mod on there that allowed me to move apps to the SD card, use WiFi tethering, etc. Show me another phone/OS environment you see that happen on.
Maemo 5.
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Windows did not dominate the OS market by superior design, but by superior approach.
Well, that and Apple also helped them a lot by suing the majority of OS developers that had anything resembling a GUI, thus eliminating the majority of their competition. It was only a little later Microsoft employed various "anti-competitive" tactics against the remaining systems out there.
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Android may be great, but its implementation is different on every Android phone. Different hardware, different features, different amounts of android functionality.
I believe many people like the flexibility in phone UIs, as they have new innovative ways to do things on a miniature platform.
Additionally, architecture doesn't matter much since the userland supports running Android applications that are written in a form of crossplatform Java. Thus, writing universal applications shouldn't be too much of an issue, even feature wise, it's not like it's hard to check if something supports X, otherwise do Y etc. The use of being able to be used on different architectures also allows for the possibility of use with different hardware that maybe better at using less power with increased hardware support for various features.
I can see it turning into the nightmare
It might take a bit of extra code to do some checking, but that slight inconvinience is offset by what may become, a vast set of handsets, which means a wider market for your software.
I think what you labeled as weaknesses are in-fact, strengths.
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Find some current news at least. I mean a day or two fine but 19 days old.
Well no shit, you obviously don't understand the concept of humor when I was writing every in a dumbed down English. Obviously you're not going to get a match when the entire sentence is dumbed down like that. Are you trying to be a smart ass (yes, I'm linking this, because I get the feeling you're going to try to twist the meaning of my words again)?
What you wrote was just a lazy start to a straw man argument.
I don't see it as such, I have seen it plenty of times on Slashdot and elsewhere from many individuals, infact if I look at the link I gave, going through the pages, I already found quite a few.
If you'd bothered to read up on greylists and/or spambots (instead of just assuming you understood how it works), you'd see that spambots generally don't track which machines send what (they just work from a common list), nor do they parse delivery reports.
If you read what I wrote, you would realize that there are actual regular mail server installations that get exploited into sending mail, these installations are setup with default settings to retry sending mail etc.
I have had personal experience in finding that greylisting does not help against those spam relays. I get spammed a lot by vulnerable e-mail form sites, from greeting card websites to badly setup request 'support' via this textbox sites which pass e-mails to the legitimate mail server running on the webserver - Greylisting will not help in those situations, period.
I did try, but all I could find was articles on their site about "Apple should quit hardware business", "Windows Mobile loses nearly a third of market share", "Gartner Says Worldwide Smartphone Sales Reached Its Lowest Growth" etc.
Nothing really helpful in this regard. I couldn't even find information as to how they got these "marketshare" statistics. With IDC, it was worse. I couldn't find any document that specifically talked about market share directly and it wanted me to pay stuff like 4000USD to gain access to the information. Again with no information as to how they did the research.
And you could also take a look at OS usage stats from any number of sources which would confirm the trend of an increasing proportion of Mac users out there.
Well, I noticed on sites that gather statistics on visitors, in the USA statistic sites (such as hitslink), the OS X users are increasing slowly but steadily, but then you look on OS statistics from major European web portals, like (from wp.pl, portail.free.fr to berlin.de) and you find that OS X is decreasing significantly (also I was surprised to see Linux over take OS X over double in German portals).
I'm not very convinced as it stands and I can't really find anything I consider reliable (I don't really see browser statistics as reliable) and these sources you gave me unfortunately aren't very helpful in determining this.
Mac's marketshare has been steadily increasing for quite some time now.
I'm curious where these statistics are, because the only thing I have found through my own searching on this matter is that Macs have been selling a lot better, but then PCs have been selling far more than before too (mentioned in quite a few articles from this year and last).
I used to like KDE 3.5 more than Gnome. Now I like Gnome more than KDE 4, because all handy things of the desktop are lost with KDE 4's new way. And now Gnome is also going that route? NOOOOO!
I'm still using KDE 3.5, waiting for Kubuntu's next LTS release.
Yeah, right, but what comes closer to replacing Photoshop than GIMP?
I would say the opensource Krita, honestly. Krita is designed to be a image manipulation tool, printing (hence the CMYK support) and paint tool.
So, if it wasn't for Photoshop you'd still be stuck with crap like GIMP that's useless for "print work and painting".
Nope. I will admit though that when it comes to image manipulation, I have a tendency to use GIMP over Krita for it's advanced selection tools that Photoshop doesn't even have.
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From articles you're talking about:
Oh nos, terrible anti-trust!
Such as which laws? I'm pretty versed in most EU privacy laws due to my moving around and experience in doing web business and I cannot think of any in particular that this would violate. If you even read the article you were referring to, you would know the privacy stuff is just a bunch of people who don't know about the privacy settings in the Google OS and are worried about things like advert tracking cookies.
So, does this have to do with preventing Google from including a webbrowser?
I'll give you a hint: Nothing.
I'm starting to wonder if you're a smart troll, I get this from the way you formulate your posts and speak half truths.
Google hasn't been deemed to have broken various anti-trust laws to gain an advantage with regards to webbrowsers, so they don't have this "problem" Microsoft has. But no, I don't see any double standard here, I don't understand how you could either.
I have found many places where this is not true. I guess you don't get out of the places you usually go to, much.
OpenGrid needs content, a micropayment system, DRM, people and various SL features that aren't implemented correctly yet (see: attachment, various scripting functions, physics).
Who gives a crap about xstreet? Many people already pulled off with the Nazi listing requirements. We have apez, slapt.me metaversexchange etc.
It's more likely regular SL classifieds will be intergrated with xstreet and thus xstreet will be intergrated with search results no matter what you're using. So guess what people making a tonne of money will be using.
Much like with other software in the last couple of years. This isn't unusual or unexpected from any software turning mainstream. What is pretty good is that the majority of these vulnerabilities are fixed very soon after. Except for certain, exploits, like on Windows and Linux, you can retrieve the start parameters of any applications being launched and thus if it's a ftp or http url with login credentials or login session in the URL (like launching the browser from an e-mail application) - Firefox has remained quite resilient (source: secunia).
Compare this to IE where many exploits are found and don't get fixed for years on end... (source: secunia). I personally feel there is a lower risk with Firefox, especially with it's automated update system that doesn't care how genuine your system is and default settings make it fully automatic updates, thus preventing the prolonged use of exploits that work years on a substantial amount of people for years).
I've noticed you do generalize a lot.
It isn't? Here is the source if you don't believe me:
http://aros.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/nightly-download?20091120/Sources/AROS-20091120-source.tar.bz2
Feel free to verify it yourself too.
Actually, that is not true. Redhat and Novell certainly have audited selinux extensively in the past, along with many individual security researchers.
What?
Okay, despite careful code analysis of AROS (due to the amount of years of experience I have had in developing, testing and toying with it), I could not find any evidence of the existence of back doors in it.
... that we know of.
I'm not, I'm often fascinated in hearing all the dealings Microsoft does, from trying to sway votes on open standards via methods considered against the rules to false news media released against competitors like Linux etc.
It's the same with OS X, Linux etc. I don't see the difference or the problem.
You must be new here...
Slashdot doing articles about Scientology predates 4chan's existence.
Scientology has been known for calling up on censorship and claiming copyright theft since the 90s. They got articles pulled from usenet servers by issuing false cancel messages on insecure nodes, DDoSed servers to prevent information from being spread, threaten internet anonymity etc.
Seems like something "nerds" would rage on to me and certain articles seem relevant to Slashdot in my opinion.
Maemo 5.
Well, that and Apple also helped them a lot by suing the majority of OS developers that had anything resembling a GUI, thus eliminating the majority of their competition. It was only a little later Microsoft employed various "anti-competitive" tactics against the remaining systems out there.
I believe many people like the flexibility in phone UIs, as they have new innovative ways to do things on a miniature platform.
Additionally, architecture doesn't matter much since the userland supports running Android applications that are written in a form of crossplatform Java. Thus, writing universal applications shouldn't be too much of an issue, even feature wise, it's not like it's hard to check if something supports X, otherwise do Y etc. The use of being able to be used on different architectures also allows for the possibility of use with different hardware that maybe better at using less power with increased hardware support for various features.
It might take a bit of extra code to do some checking, but that slight inconvinience is offset by what may become, a vast set of handsets, which means a wider market for your software.
I think what you labeled as weaknesses are in-fact, strengths.
You must be new here.
19 days is pretty good for Slashdot.
Well no shit, you obviously don't understand the concept of humor when I was writing every in a dumbed down English. Obviously you're not going to get a match when the entire sentence is dumbed down like that. Are you trying to be a smart ass (yes, I'm linking this, because I get the feeling you're going to try to twist the meaning of my words again)?
I don't see it as such, I have seen it plenty of times on Slashdot and elsewhere from many individuals, infact if I look at the link I gave, going through the pages, I already found quite a few.
Try guessing a few search terms, not really difficult.
If you read what I wrote, you would realize that there are actual regular mail server installations that get exploited into sending mail, these installations are setup with default settings to retry sending mail etc.
I have had personal experience in finding that greylisting does not help against those spam relays. I get spammed a lot by vulnerable e-mail form sites, from greeting card websites to badly setup request 'support' via this textbox sites which pass e-mails to the legitimate mail server running on the webserver - Greylisting will not help in those situations, period.
"OMG random OS will pwn Microsoft in the next few years, just you see!"
I did try, but all I could find was articles on their site about "Apple should quit hardware business", "Windows Mobile loses nearly a third of market share", "Gartner Says Worldwide Smartphone Sales Reached Its Lowest Growth" etc.
Nothing really helpful in this regard. I couldn't even find information as to how they got these "marketshare" statistics. With IDC, it was worse. I couldn't find any document that specifically talked about market share directly and it wanted me to pay stuff like 4000USD to gain access to the information. Again with no information as to how they did the research.
Well, I noticed on sites that gather statistics on visitors, in the USA statistic sites (such as hitslink), the OS X users are increasing slowly but steadily, but then you look on OS statistics from major European web portals, like (from wp.pl, portail.free.fr to berlin.de) and you find that OS X is decreasing significantly (also I was surprised to see Linux over take OS X over double in German portals).
I'm not very convinced as it stands and I can't really find anything I consider reliable (I don't really see browser statistics as reliable) and these sources you gave me unfortunately aren't very helpful in determining this.
I'm curious where these statistics are, because the only thing I have found through my own searching on this matter is that Macs have been selling a lot better, but then PCs have been selling far more than before too (mentioned in quite a few articles from this year and last).
Care to provide some sources?
We've heard this for over a decade now.
Now the question is, are you like the boy who cried wolf, and the wolf came or is the wolf not going to come?
I suspect the latter.
Well, that pretty much sums you up as a person and the motivation behind your point.
I noticed filesystems on MacFUSE have a greater tendency to crash, actually. Makes it quite frustrating to use for long periods of time.
I'm still using KDE 3.5, waiting for Kubuntu's next LTS release.
Someone is wrong on the Internet!
I would say the opensource Krita, honestly. Krita is designed to be a image manipulation tool, printing (hence the CMYK support) and paint tool.
Nope. I will admit though that when it comes to image manipulation, I have a tendency to use GIMP over Krita for it's advanced selection tools that Photoshop doesn't even have.
What point?