This is why, for general web browsing, I use Firefox in a stripped-down VM. A bit extreme, but my main machine has never been infected by anything, and the VM only got hit once. Reverted to a backup image and I was back in business. I hear Sandboxie is nearly as effective as this setup, too.
And through their failure, we gained the Wintel platform which now turns out to have been insanely open.
You don't seem to have a clue what an "open" platform is. Windows is *definitely* not an open platform. On an open platform the following scenario wouldn't happen:
1. You look up in Microsoft documentation for the best way to import data directly from a document into SQL Server 2005. It says to use ADO.NET. 2. You try using ADO.NET and get an obscure error. 3. You search for a couple hours on the internet and find out that the error means ADO.NET is not installed. 4. You go to try and install ADO.NET, only to find Microsoft doesn't include it in SQL Server 2005 64-bit edition, only the 32-bit edition. 5. A few weeks later a KB article appears saying MS doesn't support ADO.NET on 64-bit platforms anymore. A better place for this notice would be, oh I don't know, maybe IN THE DOCUMENTATION ON DATA IMPORTING.
See, in open platforms, developers, partners and users have a say in what goes into the platform. Microsoft does a good dog and pony show, saying they take developer input, but their communication *sucks*, they don't let you know what's going into a platform, and they rarely, if at all, have a roadmap beyond the next major release, and what roadmap there is is pretty sparse.
Is Silverlight being deprecated? No answer. WPF? No answer. What will be in the next version of Silverlight? No answer. Will.NET be fully supported in Windows 8/Metro? No definitive answer, but C++/HTML5 will be a "first class" platform. Well that's just great. Will there be a.NET 5? No answer.
This is not open, not by a long shot.
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The best camera is the one you have with you. The iPad in your backpack is better than the DSLR in your closet at home.
I'll see your unsubstantiated anecdote and raise you the Los Angeles Redevelopment Authority, an organization that existed to manipulate land values and funnel money into the coffers of politically connected developers:
Now we're talking *billions* of dollars in misappropriated funds in the guise of helping poor and blighted communities. This included a $52 million dollar parking garage for a wealthy real estate mogul's private museum, and several high-end condo projects sandwiched next to freeways. They also eminent-domained and tore down a historic theater started by Al Jolson that was undergoing renovations. It has been wonderfully re-developed into a weed-covered field. Because, you know, that helps poor people.
I've gone easy and only listed examples of municipal waste. If you really want to get into it I could start in on the department of defense...
" They have strong incentives to be wasteful." STFU. I word with civil servants, and they are far, FAR more responsible with money then people in the private sector.
LOL really? Travel about 50 miles due east to the wonderful world of the Detroit Public school system. Just Google them to see how insanely wasteful that district is. They built a brand new campus for one of it's better high schools, and replaced *everything* The old building was left full of lab equipment and textbooks - to rot. Some of it was new. They had an entire warehouse full of brand new office supplies and textbooks that was left to rot as well. When an EFM was brought in a couple of years ago, he found rampant fraud and mismanagement throughout the entire system - to the point where the district had no idea how much it owed to suppliers.
Now travel forty miles north to Pontiac, MI. A recent review of their school system's finances revealed $135,000,000 in unaccounted transactions over a four year span in the 2000s. That's $135 million in money spent - and they have *no idea* where it went. The average number of irregularities in an audit of that size is maybe a couple dozen. There were over 28,000. There were $200,000 in payroll irregularities, which should *never* happen. The city had the report completed two years ago, and they kept it under wraps and did nothing about it in that time span.
I could go on and on. The pressure to limit waste in private enterprise is clear - less waste equals more profit. There is no profit motive in the public sector. The reverse is true - the more you spend the more budget you get. If you are a politician you can legally buy votes by cranking up pension benefits that you won't have to worry about funding. It's a broken system.
Hell, I've seen "stem cell treatment" clinics advertising all kinds of BS therapies for years. Last I heard the only approved treatment was for repairing damage done from chemotherapy - and that has been going on for decades.
Usually is not always, in this particular case it appears the general consul that signed the document is of the Taiwan company.
Erm - that's not what his business card says."Ray Mai - Legal Department - Proview Technology (Shenzen) Co. Ltd" then lists the the address of the company in Shenzen, China. That's Proview Technology, not Proview Electronics. Where in the documents does it say that he's the consul for the Taiwanese branch?
This case is also complicated by the possible twist that the Shenzhen company was in the hands of the receivers from March 2009 - sale of assets is not allowed without the approval of the creditors (prevent asset stripping) - see link in one of my previous posts.
That's a good point. However, in that case, the creditors can go after Proview for illegally selling something. Proview doesn't have standing. A valid contract was put together and the property was sold.
Then Apple can sue them and have the product removed from sale. That line does not help Apple Inc with the charge that they undertook not to use the name on a competing product (on email apparently - I use "apparently" because I haven't sighted the email).
As I said, Proview is going to have to argue that Apple's modern cordless touchscreen tablet is in direct competition with their 10 year old CRT desktop computer. Good luck with that.
Yes it is listed, Proview doesn't have to argue rogue anything, where the legal counsel is from is irrelevant as far as I can see - unless the legal counsel had the power to authorise a sale from Shenzhen.
Usually an officer of a company has the legal authority to sell assets of the company, and the general consul is the chief legal officer. Keep in mind the only thing that matters is if someone legally able to sell the mark authorized the sale. It doesn't matter of the CEO didn't want to sell, or anyone else for that matter, all that matters is that someone legally able to sell the mark signed off on the contract. If the general consul sold the mark without authorization from the rest of the company, the company can sue the legal consul or fire him, but the contract transferring the mark is completely valid.
The courts will also decide if Apple Inc were deceptive and broke their end of the contract by putting a competing product on the market despite an undertaking by their legal team that they wouldn't.
That's also pretty dicey for Proview to prove, since the iPad they developed is basically a first-gen iMac knockoff. They'd have to prove that a CRT based desktop computer (developed in 1998) competes in the same market as an LCD touchscreen tablet.
Did you see pictures of the "iPad" ProVIEW developed? It's basically an opaque first-gen iMac with buttons on top of the screen. Similar down to where the speakers are located and the carry handle on the back.
Over on allthingsD they have the contracts for everything available for download. China is clearly listed in the list of marks being transferred. It may be that Taiwan did not, in fact, own the rights to the mark in China, however, the legal consul handling the sale was from the Shenzen office, so it's going to be pretty hard for Proview to argue that Taiwan was going rogue in selling the Chinese rights.
It's not a matter of botnets - the backbones of these systems use leased lines, they aren't on the internet. They only talk to the outside world through transactions, the only way to access the application or OS is physically walking up to the machine. That's why you need access to dozens of machines, you need to fake them all out simultaneously. Then, it's only a matter of time before the transactions are resolved and your fake is caught.
I once worked with software that queried a credit reporting agency. Their security was completely nuts, and all I was doing was querying credit scores. Think leased lines, short-timeout encrypted access tokens, multiple layers of transport encryption, custom transport layers with multiple transaction verification schemes. They also did some heavy-duty traffic analysis - if you did anything even slightly weird you'd get a mail asking what was going on. This is just for credit scores, now just imagine what banks have protecting money transfers.
It came bundled for "free" on tons of low end machines in the late 90's. I'd say half of the college students I helped at the university help desk used it for writing papers. I'd imagine there are still a lot of Works files floating around.
Seriously? I *Hate* the new KDE4 UI. And I was a huge fan of KDE3. What's with the scrolling "start" menu? I just want a list of apps to run. Then there's all the clutter in dolphin. The newer builds of 4 are faster and less crash-y, but the UI is bloating up pretty badly.
It's exceedingly difficult to fake a wire transfer as they are double checked by multiple redundant systems. You'd have to hack into a dozen different systems and coordinate everything simultaneously.
The best you probably get away with is to fake a transfer for a short period of time. Kinda like writing a bad check, but it's caught much, much faster.
Sorta. I like KDE3/Gnome2 's interface better than XP. I prefer XP over GNOME3/KDE4. There's just too much crap going on, those OSes are starting to get in the way of getting things done.
I don't see a problem with forking off discovery. It's not really a core function of CUPs and is probably better handled, and maintained, by a package that handles that functionality specifically.
The only thing that comes close is LPRng, which isn't under heavy development (the last release was about a year and a half ago) CUPs works fine, why would you use something else?
The list of countries included in the transaction clearly includes China (Schedule A) and the deal was signed off by Proview's legal consul from the mainland Chinese office in Shenzhen (Ray Mai.)
There are a bunch of emails from court documents on allthingsd. One email says that the Taiwan division actually owns the iPad trademark, not the Shenzhen office. This email is from people in the Shenzhen office (second one down)
Actually just the opposite. Taiwan doesn't consider itself part of China, while China considers Taiwan another province, completely owned and controlled by China.
Saying that contracts in Taiwan don't apply in mainland China would be like saying that Taiwan is NOT a part of China, but an independent state, or some sort of autonomous zone, which is NOT what China has historically claimed, nor is the official position of the government.
Did you read the emails in the court documents? There are Proview representatives from the mainland Chinese division (Shenzen) giving the sale the go-ahead, even saying that payment should go to Proview.
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This is why, for general web browsing, I use Firefox in a stripped-down VM. A bit extreme, but my main machine has never been infected by anything, and the VM only got hit once. Reverted to a backup image and I was back in business. I hear Sandboxie is nearly as effective as this setup, too.
And through their failure, we gained the Wintel platform which now turns out to have been insanely open.
You don't seem to have a clue what an "open" platform is. Windows is *definitely* not an open platform. On an open platform the following scenario wouldn't happen:
1. You look up in Microsoft documentation for the best way to import data directly from a document into SQL Server 2005. It says to use ADO.NET.
2. You try using ADO.NET and get an obscure error.
3. You search for a couple hours on the internet and find out that the error means ADO.NET is not installed.
4. You go to try and install ADO.NET, only to find Microsoft doesn't include it in SQL Server 2005 64-bit edition, only the 32-bit edition.
5. A few weeks later a KB article appears saying MS doesn't support ADO.NET on 64-bit platforms anymore. A better place for this notice would be, oh I don't know, maybe IN THE DOCUMENTATION ON DATA IMPORTING.
See, in open platforms, developers, partners and users have a say in what goes into the platform. Microsoft does a good dog and pony show, saying they take developer input, but their communication *sucks*, they don't let you know what's going into a platform, and they rarely, if at all, have a roadmap beyond the next major release, and what roadmap there is is pretty sparse.
Is Silverlight being deprecated? No answer. WPF? No answer. What will be in the next version of Silverlight? No answer. Will .NET be fully supported in Windows 8/Metro? No definitive answer, but C++/HTML5 will be a "first class" platform. Well that's just great. Will there be a .NET 5? No answer.
This is not open, not by a long shot.
The best camera is the one you have with you. The iPad in your backpack is better than the DSLR in your closet at home.
I'll see your unsubstantiated anecdote and raise you the Los Angeles Redevelopment Authority, an organization that existed to manipulate land values and funnel money into the coffers of politically connected developers:
http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2011/01/cra_la_jerry_brown_billion.php
Now we're talking *billions* of dollars in misappropriated funds in the guise of helping poor and blighted communities. This included a $52 million dollar parking garage for a wealthy real estate mogul's private museum, and several high-end condo projects sandwiched next to freeways. They also eminent-domained and tore down a historic theater started by Al Jolson that was undergoing renovations. It has been wonderfully re-developed into a weed-covered field. Because, you know, that helps poor people.
I've gone easy and only listed examples of municipal waste. If you really want to get into it I could start in on the department of defense...
" They have strong incentives to be wasteful."
STFU. I word with civil servants, and they are far, FAR more responsible with money then people in the private sector.
LOL really? Travel about 50 miles due east to the wonderful world of the Detroit Public school system. Just Google them to see how insanely wasteful that district is. They built a brand new campus for one of it's better high schools, and replaced *everything* The old building was left full of lab equipment and textbooks - to rot. Some of it was new. They had an entire warehouse full of brand new office supplies and textbooks that was left to rot as well. When an EFM was brought in a couple of years ago, he found rampant fraud and mismanagement throughout the entire system - to the point where the district had no idea how much it owed to suppliers.
Now travel forty miles north to Pontiac, MI. A recent review of their school system's finances revealed $135,000,000 in unaccounted transactions over a four year span in the 2000s. That's $135 million in money spent - and they have *no idea* where it went. The average number of irregularities in an audit of that size is maybe a couple dozen. There were over 28,000. There were $200,000 in payroll irregularities, which should *never* happen. The city had the report completed two years ago, and they kept it under wraps and did nothing about it in that time span.
I could go on and on. The pressure to limit waste in private enterprise is clear - less waste equals more profit. There is no profit motive in the public sector. The reverse is true - the more you spend the more budget you get. If you are a politician you can legally buy votes by cranking up pension benefits that you won't have to worry about funding. It's a broken system.
Hell, I've seen "stem cell treatment" clinics advertising all kinds of BS therapies for years. Last I heard the only approved treatment was for repairing damage done from chemotherapy - and that has been going on for decades.
Usually is not always, in this particular case it appears the general consul that signed the document is of the Taiwan company.
Erm - that's not what his business card says."Ray Mai - Legal Department - Proview Technology (Shenzen) Co. Ltd" then lists the the address of the company in Shenzen, China. That's Proview Technology, not Proview Electronics. Where in the documents does it say that he's the consul for the Taiwanese branch?
This case is also complicated by the possible twist that the Shenzhen company was in the hands of the receivers from March 2009 - sale of assets is not allowed without the approval of the creditors (prevent asset stripping) - see link in one of my previous posts.
That's a good point. However, in that case, the creditors can go after Proview for illegally selling something. Proview doesn't have standing. A valid contract was put together and the property was sold.
Then Apple can sue them and have the product removed from sale. That line does not help Apple Inc with the charge that they undertook not to use the name on a competing product (on email apparently - I use "apparently" because I haven't sighted the email).
As I said, Proview is going to have to argue that Apple's modern cordless touchscreen tablet is in direct competition with their 10 year old CRT desktop computer. Good luck with that.
Yes it is listed, Proview doesn't have to argue rogue anything, where the legal counsel is from is irrelevant as far as I can see - unless the legal counsel had the power to authorise a sale from Shenzhen.
Usually an officer of a company has the legal authority to sell assets of the company, and the general consul is the chief legal officer. Keep in mind the only thing that matters is if someone legally able to sell the mark authorized the sale. It doesn't matter of the CEO didn't want to sell, or anyone else for that matter, all that matters is that someone legally able to sell the mark signed off on the contract. If the general consul sold the mark without authorization from the rest of the company, the company can sue the legal consul or fire him, but the contract transferring the mark is completely valid.
The courts will also decide if Apple Inc were deceptive and broke their end of the contract by putting a competing product on the market despite an undertaking by their legal team that they wouldn't.
That's also pretty dicey for Proview to prove, since the iPad they developed is basically a first-gen iMac knockoff. They'd have to prove that a CRT based desktop computer (developed in 1998) competes in the same market as an LCD touchscreen tablet.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/17/proview_ipad/
Did you see pictures of the "iPad" ProVIEW developed? It's basically an opaque first-gen iMac with buttons on top of the screen. Similar down to where the speakers are located and the carry handle on the back.
Over on allthingsD they have the contracts for everything available for download. China is clearly listed in the list of marks being transferred. It may be that Taiwan did not, in fact, own the rights to the mark in China, however, the legal consul handling the sale was from the Shenzen office, so it's going to be pretty hard for Proview to argue that Taiwan was going rogue in selling the Chinese rights.
It's not a matter of botnets - the backbones of these systems use leased lines, they aren't on the internet. They only talk to the outside world through transactions, the only way to access the application or OS is physically walking up to the machine. That's why you need access to dozens of machines, you need to fake them all out simultaneously. Then, it's only a matter of time before the transactions are resolved and your fake is caught.
I once worked with software that queried a credit reporting agency. Their security was completely nuts, and all I was doing was querying credit scores. Think leased lines, short-timeout encrypted access tokens, multiple layers of transport encryption, custom transport layers with multiple transaction verification schemes. They also did some heavy-duty traffic analysis - if you did anything even slightly weird you'd get a mail asking what was going on. This is just for credit scores, now just imagine what banks have protecting money transfers.
The cheap brown iPod touch with no apps.
It came bundled for "free" on tons of low end machines in the late 90's. I'd say half of the college students I helped at the university help desk used it for writing papers. I'd imagine there are still a lot of Works files floating around.
Seriously? I *Hate* the new KDE4 UI. And I was a huge fan of KDE3. What's with the scrolling "start" menu? I just want a list of apps to run. Then there's all the clutter in dolphin. The newer builds of 4 are faster and less crash-y, but the UI is bloating up pretty badly.
It's exceedingly difficult to fake a wire transfer as they are double checked by multiple redundant systems. You'd have to hack into a dozen different systems and coordinate everything simultaneously.
The best you probably get away with is to fake a transfer for a short period of time. Kinda like writing a bad check, but it's caught much, much faster.
Sorta. I like KDE3/Gnome2 's interface better than XP. I prefer XP over GNOME3/KDE4. There's just too much crap going on, those OSes are starting to get in the way of getting things done.
Flash? You probably aren't using a web browser to begin with. Well, Links, maybe. :)
Probably someone who wants to distinguish the GNU/Linux environment, which uses Linux for a kernel and X11 for graphics
Or fb, or svgalib, or GGI, or DirectFB, or DRI, or Wayland. Er - it doesn't distinguish it that much, actually.
IRIX was dying? Still boots fine on my Indy :)
I don't see a problem with forking off discovery. It's not really a core function of CUPs and is probably better handled, and maintained, by a package that handles that functionality specifically.
The only thing that comes close is LPRng, which isn't under heavy development (the last release was about a year and a half ago) CUPs works fine, why would you use something else?
The list of countries included in the transaction clearly includes China (Schedule A) and the deal was signed off by Proview's legal consul from the mainland Chinese office in Shenzhen (Ray Mai.)
There are a bunch of emails from court documents on allthingsd. One email says that the Taiwan division actually owns the iPad trademark, not the Shenzhen office. This email is from people in the Shenzhen office (second one down)
http://allthingsd.com/20120216/take-a-look-at-some-of-apples-evidence-in-proview-ipad-dispute
Further down the page is the list of countries included in the contract. China is clearly listed.
Actually just the opposite. Taiwan doesn't consider itself part of China, while China considers Taiwan another province, completely owned and controlled by China.
Saying that contracts in Taiwan don't apply in mainland China would be like saying that Taiwan is NOT a part of China, but an independent state, or some sort of autonomous zone, which is NOT what China has historically claimed, nor is the official position of the government.
Did you read the emails in the court documents? There are Proview representatives from the mainland Chinese division (Shenzen) giving the sale the go-ahead, even saying that payment should go to Proview.