Maybe I missed it, but is no one else struck by the hypocrisy of Microsoft criticizing someone else's security measures. Right or wrong, how does their track record of horrendous failures in security qualify them to tell someone else how to do it right? Since when did failure become a path to success?
Actually, I read this as CYA for Microsoft in government. With computers being as important as they are for the financial health and other aspects of our country, the Dept. of Homeland Security is making cyber-terrorism a higher priority. With that in mind, one sure way to improve security of the world's most critical computer systems is to not having them running an operating system known as a dismal failure at protecting users from malicious attacks.
So, shock shock, Microsoft is going against the grain of it's pro-big-business overlords to say that efforts to improve security to thwart terrorism are overblown, before someone says, maybe "we should switch our government systems to BSD." Otherwise, they may be forced to spend even more time and effort to correct their legacy code mistakes.
Do you really think they're diverting resources away from fixing bugs so that they can add "censorship" features to IM?
Is this a joke question? We're talking about Microsoft, the company that leaves security holes in their products for months on end while churning more DRM into it.
There's a [i]slight[/i] difference between your employer catching you doing substances (which may effect your performance on the job), and trying to dictate how you behave outside the workplace when you're doing nothing illegal.
Frankly, if I'm having to follow someone else's code of conduct 24hrs a day, I expect to be compensated for it 24hrs a day.
"Stop fawning over Firefox so much and develop the projects more equally" isn't even mentioned.
It's just a case of glory seekers. From the Mozillazine forums/Bugzilla, it appears MScott is pretty much the only truly dedicated developer of Thunderbird. It's not as "sexy" as Firefox, so people want to contribute to the browser instead. Firefox has brand recognition to almost make it a household name like IE is now. Thunderbird, not nearly so much.
1. Cost. Laptops cost almost twice what comparable desktop systems cost...
2. Upgrades. Upgrading a laptop means currently that you have to throw out the old one and buy a new one....
3. Vendor lock-in. Even if upgrading is possible, you often need very specific Dell/IBM/Toshiba-only parts that fit only in this brand of laptop, often also only in this series (anyone who ever wanted to up their ram in the IBM notebooks knows what I'm talking about)......
6. Defects. When a part of the notebook fails, you have to send it in for repairs. No user serviceable parts inside (with most models at least)...
In other words, this entire study was probably funded by the hardware manufacturers.
This is ridiculous. A $3.8 billion expansion and they can't afford to clean up the mess that they're creating?
At which point will the Indiana legislators start realising that their duty is to all the people of Indiana, not just the few that work for BP?
Don't be silly. The current politicians aren't worried in the least about this issue. By the time cleanup becomes a concern for them, they'll all have different jobs.
...but my carrier (Verizon) told me I wouldn't be able to use my GSM/sim card based Sony Ericsson t610 in america when I moved from Australia. Where will this OpenMoko phone work?
Why are you asking a CDMA carrier for advice on GSM phones?
The T610 is a triband {900, 1800, 1900 mhz) phone. It works fine here. In fact, it's what T-Mobile sold subsidized in the U.S. market. Later came the T616, which was the same phone but supported the 850mhz band instead of the 900 so it would work with Cingular.
They should get the customers bills correct, and then they'd stop calling.
You assume they have valid billing issues. Some people dispute stuff just because they don't want to pay it. And when a customer service rep refuses, guess what they do. Yup, they call over and over again hoping to reach someone who will do what they want.
What does this have to do with the iPhone? I mean, I know the summary says it doesn't have anything to do with the iPhone, but I'm not sure what that means.
The connection is, the iPhone does this right now with it's internet browsing (switching from EDGE to Wi-Fi), and lots of people wanted it to do the same thing with voice. That's one reason they wanted to get Skype working on the iPhone since then their voice calls would be handled the way data is.
In the mainstream, this can easily get spun as the iPhone is extremely insecure, and has been "broken into", causing normal people to steer very clear.
Its common knowledge Windows is extremely insecure, yet I don't see people steering clear of it.
If this device doesn't have a cablecard slot or any other way of descrambling encrypted digital channels, I don't know how it qualifies as a "set top box" except in the fact it can sit on top of a CRT television. Using this logic, the clock radio on top of my TV is a "set top box" as well.
"A glacier specialist, Andres Rivera, told Chilean newspaper La Tercera that the lake's disappearance seemed to be part of the continual reforming of the landscape.
The Magallanes area "has seen interesting changes in the last few decades," he said, noting that the lake itself had not been there 30 years ago."
So the disappearance of the lake is just a small part of the area's sea change.
Actually, in these two states there are regions where there are two cable companies. Also, some of the issues are more local government than state/national like you might think.
We are selling one of our markets to the competitor, who is the "incumbent" cableco. The reason is, we do not service the entire area of this market. The FCC has recently thrown the book at us. They say we either have to service the whole thing, or none of it. We have tried in the past to build out equipment in the unserviced region to extend our coverage area, but we have encountered opposition from neighborhood groups, and the local municipality's government will not grant us building permits either.
Why they would want to keep out another cableco is beyond "optimistic" thinking. After all, competition is a good thing. It can plainly be seen that people who are with the incumbent cablecos pay more if they live in regions we do not service verses areas where the those cablecos have to compete with us. So even if these citizens who have some beef with us never subscribed to our service, their rates would go down from us being there.
Anyway, we were conversing with our competitor about how to expand out into this region despite these problems (yes, cablecos do cooperate even though they're competing) and the incumbent offered to buy our equipment and customer base in the affected area. Our executives agreed since I'm sure we were having trouble with finding any other solution.
So now people are calling to complain about being stuck with the incumbent and no longer having the choice. I think it's quite funny. The NIMBY people wouldn't let us build out, and now we're having to sell out everyone because of it. In effect, it's their own fault they're going to be stuck with the incumbent. Note: this is the only market where we were competing with this particular incumbent.
Now does this series of events sound like a coincidence to you? [pessimistic grin]
...and to combine your post with the parent, many broadcasters, who include cable companies, aren't thrilled about DVR's. The last thing they are going to want to do is distribute the listings for their studio's channels for free for MythTV boxes that are directly competing with the CableCo's DVR offerings.
Besides satellite, which isn't necessarily an option for broadband, cable *IS* a monopoly in most places. You usually don't have the option to "take your money" and go home.
I didn't realize cable TV was a major utility (the topic of the article is video service bundling and price gouging). You always have the option to not watch at all if they piss you off enough.
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Actually, I read this as CYA for Microsoft in government. With computers being as important as they are for the financial health and other aspects of our country, the Dept. of Homeland Security is making cyber-terrorism a higher priority. With that in mind, one sure way to improve security of the world's most critical computer systems is to not having them running an operating system known as a dismal failure at protecting users from malicious attacks.
So, shock shock, Microsoft is going against the grain of it's pro-big-business overlords to say that efforts to improve security to thwart terrorism are overblown, before someone says, maybe "we should switch our government systems to BSD." Otherwise, they may be forced to spend even more time and effort to correct their legacy code mistakes.
People may make jokes about how this was a mystery that wasn't that great and "who cares" but really, I actually rather liked the fact it was unknown.
Yeah, no one really believed it was the real Steve Jobs, but it's still one of those things where now that it's out things aren't quite the same.
Is this a joke question? We're talking about Microsoft, the company that leaves security holes in their products for months on end while churning more DRM into it.
There's a [i]slight[/i] difference between your employer catching you doing substances (which may effect your performance on the job), and trying to dictate how you behave outside the workplace when you're doing nothing illegal.
Frankly, if I'm having to follow someone else's code of conduct 24hrs a day, I expect to be compensated for it 24hrs a day.
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No you didn't.
"Stop fawning over Firefox so much and develop the projects more equally" isn't even mentioned.
It's just a case of glory seekers. From the Mozillazine forums/Bugzilla, it appears MScott is pretty much the only truly dedicated developer of Thunderbird. It's not as "sexy" as Firefox, so people want to contribute to the browser instead. Firefox has brand recognition to almost make it a household name like IE is now. Thunderbird, not nearly so much.
Insightful? WTF!
I would make a list of every fat rapper and opera singer if I had the time. Quite a few older rockers are putting on the pounds, too.
In other words, this entire study was probably funded by the hardware manufacturers.
Don't be silly. The current politicians aren't worried in the least about this issue. By the time cleanup becomes a concern for them, they'll all have different jobs.
So now our computers are going to delete files we got from P2P networks for us. So much for using my own system with it spying on me.
Bill Gates new nickname:
The Man with the Palladium Gun.
Because some ISP's have bandwidth caps, and what if you want better quality than XviD?
Why are you asking a CDMA carrier for advice on GSM phones?
The T610 is a triband {900, 1800, 1900 mhz) phone. It works fine here. In fact, it's what T-Mobile sold subsidized in the U.S. market. Later came the T616, which was the same phone but supported the 850mhz band instead of the 900 so it would work with Cingular.
You assume they have valid billing issues. Some people dispute stuff just because they don't want to pay it.
And when a customer service rep refuses, guess what they do. Yup, they call over and over again hoping to reach someone who will do what they want.
The connection is, the iPhone does this right now with it's internet browsing (switching from EDGE to Wi-Fi), and lots of people wanted it to do the same thing with voice. That's one reason they wanted to get Skype working on the iPhone since then their voice calls would be handled the way data is.
Hey, baby! I want to log in to YOUR root tonight!
Its common knowledge Windows is extremely insecure, yet I don't see people steering clear of it.
If this device doesn't have a cablecard slot or any other way of descrambling encrypted digital channels, I don't know how it qualifies as a "set top box" except in the fact it can sit on top of a CRT television. Using this logic, the clock radio on top of my TV is a "set top box" as well.
No, that was the biology lab preparers.
The Microsoft guys deal with shit, and are in over their heads.
Oh, wait. THAT was the whale guys!
How does one listen to an unencoded MP3? That's like listening to an unrecorded audio cassette.
So the disappearance of the lake is just a small part of the area's sea change.
Actually, in these two states there are regions where there are two cable companies. Also, some of the issues are more local government than state/national like you might think.
We are selling one of our markets to the competitor, who is the "incumbent" cableco. The reason is, we do not service the entire area of this market. The FCC has recently thrown the book at us. They say we either have to service the whole thing, or none of it. We have tried in the past to build out equipment in the unserviced region to extend our coverage area, but we have encountered opposition from neighborhood groups, and the local municipality's government will not grant us building permits either.
Why they would want to keep out another cableco is beyond "optimistic" thinking. After all, competition is a good thing. It can plainly be seen that people who are with the incumbent cablecos pay more if they live in regions we do not service verses areas where the those cablecos have to compete with us. So even if these citizens who have some beef with us never subscribed to our service, their rates would go down from us being there.
Anyway, we were conversing with our competitor about how to expand out into this region despite these problems (yes, cablecos do cooperate even though they're competing) and the incumbent offered to buy our equipment and customer base in the affected area. Our executives agreed since I'm sure we were having trouble with finding any other solution.
So now people are calling to complain about being stuck with the incumbent and no longer having the choice. I think it's quite funny. The NIMBY people wouldn't let us build out, and now we're having to sell out everyone because of it. In effect, it's their own fault they're going to be stuck with the incumbent. Note: this is the only market where we were competing with this particular incumbent.
Now does this series of events sound like a coincidence to you? [pessimistic grin]
or:
American Entertainment Companies Demand Canadian DMCA
...and to combine your post with the parent, many broadcasters, who include cable companies, aren't thrilled about DVR's. The last thing they are going to want to do is distribute the listings for their studio's channels for free for MythTV boxes that are directly competing with the CableCo's DVR offerings.
California (first sentence under "Ask questions when they ask...")
Colorado (two paragraphs under "Requests by Businesses")
I didn't realize cable TV was a major utility (the topic of the article is video service bundling and price gouging). You always have the option to not watch at all if they piss you off enough.