Let me log with something else than a Google account on my Android. Why shouldn't I be able to log with a Microsoft Live, Apple iCloud, or any OpenID/OAuth provider I so choose? Thanks for the OS, but I'd like it to come with no strings attached.
I come from Europe. I go to the US on a regular basis. You guys are crazy when it comes to A/C. I'm usually cold inside a cooled building, I have to put on a sweater or something. I've talked about this with many colleagues and they agree the A/C is set just too low in the US. Make it a reasonable temperature and you'll have tons of savings right there.
What about private companies who go easy on safety to turn a quick buck? See Fukushima where years before the incident reports were written indicating that the facility wouldn't survive a tsunami. Or when Areva drops nuclear waste in the rivers of France? The problem isn't with nuclear power per se, it's what our brilliant capitalistic society makes of it. We, as a civilization, are too bent on the short-time, low-hanging fruit of easy money to be trusted with anything as dangerous as nuclear fission reactors. When money isn't the only real God we worship, maybe we could consider it. How about storage of the nuclear waste? That's not going anywhere and is a huge problem by itself, and you should consider it in your carbon footprint calculation.
This is already the case in Israel. You have security check points before reaching the terminal (while still in your car). Then before entering the terminal you can be randomly checked (I was, once, because I wore a light jacket in the middle of summer and that was suspicious). Then you get an extra security check (with luggage x-ray) before reaching the check-in counters. Then you get the "usual" security check where you stuff is x-ray'd and you go through a metal detector. Then you get the passport check. As an international traveler this is annoying to me, but at least the Israelis are quite efficient and all this goes rather quick. I hope the same doesn't happen in the US because from what I've seen, Americans are not as efficient.
Anybody can create their own implementation of TCP, as far as I know? You simply need to follow some standard to ensure that your stack will work with other stacks, but that's about it as far as I know!
C#/.NET hasn't have had a vulnerability in a long time. I know it's not popular around here because "Micro$oft durr durr" but it's a great language and a great framework. Run Mono if you don't like Microsoft.
Do we know if they plan to make this available on tablets? How about running it on Apple hardware? I have an older Samsung Galaxy Tab and iPhone 3GS that would be perfect for trying this out.
It is. I work a lot with Americans (I'm from Europe) and we keeping dropping our jaws when we interact with our US colleagues. It's not only that they sometimes do stupid things, it's also that they are downright patronizing (as if Americans know better - they don't) and get very easily offended. It's not great to work with them.
Maybe if most of the money didn't go to people who already have enough money to spend their whole life without working, we wouldn't be expected to work 5 days a week. I know it sounds crazy, but if we are evolving to a point where we don't need to work 5 days a week, maybe it's time to work less and get the same income. There's enough money to everybody. It's not being communist or anything, because I think it's fine that some people who take risks or are very smart make more money. It's just that it seems that it's got out of proportion. When people start building Yachts made out of gold, I'd say they have enough money to have more people employed who work less hours than they do today.
Before I'm called stupid, keep in mind that in Medieval times, and until quite recently, people had to work 7 days a week, 12 hours a day. Now we are down to 5 days a week, 7 or 8 hours a day (in the west anyway). Who's to say it can't come down to 3 days a week, 5 hours a day, or two days a week, 8 hours a day?
Well if you can tell me where to find the firmware image for my old Galaxy Tab 10.1, first version, I'd be glad. Because as far as I'm concerned, Cyanogenmod didn't support it much longer than Samsung. Even though the device is listed and stable snapshots for stable versions are available, the actual page is empty.
I think I'm a good example. My main desktop OS is Windows. For a server I'll install CentOS 6.4 without even thinking twice, but for desktop, I use Windows. Windows 8, at that. There are two reasons: On Windows I can install a game without having to manually change any file (which by itself would require to read 3 or 4 threads on some obscure board, if I was using Linux). I just double click the installer, and It Just Works. The second reason is Visual Studio.
I have no passion about open software, even though I try to favor those as much as I can (mostly because they are free, and more and more of greater quality). So I won't be using Linux by 'political choice.' For now Windows is just a superior desktop experience for the two things I like most: games and C#. Make games and C# development as good on Linux as it is on Windows, and I'll switch overnight.
It's effective at getting hacked. "Patch Tuesday" is always followed by "Hack Wednesday" when "security researchers" all over the world make a diff to see what was patched, and start writing exploits. If you delay the update by one week, that's one week where you are more vulnerable than you should. So for the 98% of the time it works, it's safer to update asap.
Could somebody please explain to me why on earth you need a Full HD (1080p) resolution on a 5-11" screen? That's the resolution of my 57" TV. Besides costing a lot of battery life, I don't get it. Could people see the difference between a 1080p 5" screen vs a 720p or even 480p 5" screen? To me it just sounds like Marketing teams are pushing for this, so they can put the "Full HD" logo on the slides.
The problem, I find, is that most people look only at the last ~20-40 years of history. I guess it's human, your scale is your own lifetime. But if you take the Catholics, they probably created more wars and dead people than _anyone_ in the world with the Crusades alone. One could argue that this is ancient history, but my opinion is that _maybe_ we (the West) learned from that. Islam is a much more recent religion so maybe they need to make their own mistakes to realize you can't let religion dictate your politics because it makes people irrational and you can't base your politics on irrational people.
This is why, when everyone was freaking out that Islamic parties were being elected left and right following the Arab Spring, I didn't. People quickly come to realize that this doesn't work, and now the people in Egypt overthrew their Islamic president. More will follow I hope.
There's a reason people separate State from Church/Mosque/Synagogue, and people need to learn this.
You can't change TCP because of the myriads of network equipments that implement it. It's too low (4) on the OSI layers to be changed without breaking a lot of stuff. It was a good idea from Google to make it layer 6, just below HTTP. TCP isn't broken, so let's not try to fix it.
Also, HTTP 1.1's main problem is that it's sequential - you can't get the next resource unless the current one is done - and that is its main flaw (just like the main flaw of 1.0 was the one transaction per connection default behavior that Netscape patched and made its way to 1.1). HTTP 2.0 seems to fix that, so this is good.
DLP is made to prevent accidental leakage. You'd be surprised how many people mistype the name of the people they want to contact (or make a mistake when the email program auto-fill the names based on the input characters). One day my company received the full bookings spreadsheet of our main competitor, because our Sales Director's first name is the same as the competition. The guy just typed it and didn't read the last name and we received all the data.
I'm fairly certain that any G8 country could have developed this worm. France, Germany, Japan, UK, China, all of these have the technical capabilities (Japan might lack the "offensive intelligence" resources, that is, spies that'd go and steal trusted Microsoft certificates). The US might have an edge given that the target systems are made by US companies, but all the nations I've mentioned are capable of this. It's only a matter of will and investment - and also requires a rather aggressive state, for which the US and Israel definitively qualify. I'm not pointing fingers or judging, so take that as you will, but I think it's rather true to say that Israel and the US have started more wars/warfare situations than any other country in the last 20 years (regardless of the reasons and justifications, which I won't discuss because it's beside my point).
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Yeah, no. Paul Verhoeven has made too many films in a dystopian future to take Starship Troopers at face value.
Too bad for you, because C# is an awesome language that absolutely doesn't require Windows or .NET or Mono.
When you first boot up the OS, you have to setup a Google account or no account at all.
Let me log with something else than a Google account on my Android. Why shouldn't I be able to log with a Microsoft Live, Apple iCloud, or any OpenID/OAuth provider I so choose? Thanks for the OS, but I'd like it to come with no strings attached.
... an insurance company would accept to lower their rate by 80%?
I come from Europe. I go to the US on a regular basis. You guys are crazy when it comes to A/C. I'm usually cold inside a cooled building, I have to put on a sweater or something. I've talked about this with many colleagues and they agree the A/C is set just too low in the US. Make it a reasonable temperature and you'll have tons of savings right there.
What about private companies who go easy on safety to turn a quick buck? See Fukushima where years before the incident reports were written indicating that the facility wouldn't survive a tsunami. Or when Areva drops nuclear waste in the rivers of France? The problem isn't with nuclear power per se, it's what our brilliant capitalistic society makes of it. We, as a civilization, are too bent on the short-time, low-hanging fruit of easy money to be trusted with anything as dangerous as nuclear fission reactors. When money isn't the only real God we worship, maybe we could consider it. How about storage of the nuclear waste? That's not going anywhere and is a huge problem by itself, and you should consider it in your carbon footprint calculation.
This is already the case in Israel. You have security check points before reaching the terminal (while still in your car). Then before entering the terminal you can be randomly checked (I was, once, because I wore a light jacket in the middle of summer and that was suspicious). Then you get an extra security check (with luggage x-ray) before reaching the check-in counters. Then you get the "usual" security check where you stuff is x-ray'd and you go through a metal detector. Then you get the passport check. As an international traveler this is annoying to me, but at least the Israelis are quite efficient and all this goes rather quick. I hope the same doesn't happen in the US because from what I've seen, Americans are not as efficient.
Anybody can create their own implementation of TCP, as far as I know? You simply need to follow some standard to ensure that your stack will work with other stacks, but that's about it as far as I know!
Apparently with the next Intel CPU (Broadwell), it won't be possible anymore. http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/11/30/socketless.move.sees.intel.merge.processors.with.motherboard/
Is the data/proof receivable in an investigation? Isn't this akin to entrapment? I have no idea how the US system works when it comes to honeypots.
C#/.NET hasn't have had a vulnerability in a long time. I know it's not popular around here because "Micro$oft durr durr" but it's a great language and a great framework. Run Mono if you don't like Microsoft.
Do we know if they plan to make this available on tablets? How about running it on Apple hardware? I have an older Samsung Galaxy Tab and iPhone 3GS that would be perfect for trying this out.
It is. I work a lot with Americans (I'm from Europe) and we keeping dropping our jaws when we interact with our US colleagues. It's not only that they sometimes do stupid things, it's also that they are downright patronizing (as if Americans know better - they don't) and get very easily offended. It's not great to work with them.
Before I'm called stupid, keep in mind that in Medieval times, and until quite recently, people had to work 7 days a week, 12 hours a day. Now we are down to 5 days a week, 7 or 8 hours a day (in the west anyway). Who's to say it can't come down to 3 days a week, 5 hours a day, or two days a week, 8 hours a day?
Well if you can tell me where to find the firmware image for my old Galaxy Tab 10.1, first version, I'd be glad. Because as far as I'm concerned, Cyanogenmod didn't support it much longer than Samsung. Even though the device is listed and stable snapshots for stable versions are available, the actual page is empty.
I think I'm a good example. My main desktop OS is Windows. For a server I'll install CentOS 6.4 without even thinking twice, but for desktop, I use Windows. Windows 8, at that. There are two reasons: On Windows I can install a game without having to manually change any file (which by itself would require to read 3 or 4 threads on some obscure board, if I was using Linux). I just double click the installer, and It Just Works. The second reason is Visual Studio.
I have no passion about open software, even though I try to favor those as much as I can (mostly because they are free, and more and more of greater quality). So I won't be using Linux by 'political choice.' For now Windows is just a superior desktop experience for the two things I like most: games and C#. Make games and C# development as good on Linux as it is on Windows, and I'll switch overnight.
It's effective at getting hacked. "Patch Tuesday" is always followed by "Hack Wednesday" when "security researchers" all over the world make a diff to see what was patched, and start writing exploits. If you delay the update by one week, that's one week where you are more vulnerable than you should. So for the 98% of the time it works, it's safer to update asap.
Could somebody please explain to me why on earth you need a Full HD (1080p) resolution on a 5-11" screen? That's the resolution of my 57" TV. Besides costing a lot of battery life, I don't get it. Could people see the difference between a 1080p 5" screen vs a 720p or even 480p 5" screen? To me it just sounds like Marketing teams are pushing for this, so they can put the "Full HD" logo on the slides.
This is why, when everyone was freaking out that Islamic parties were being elected left and right following the Arab Spring, I didn't. People quickly come to realize that this doesn't work, and now the people in Egypt overthrew their Islamic president. More will follow I hope.
There's a reason people separate State from Church/Mosque/Synagogue, and people need to learn this.
Also, HTTP 1.1's main problem is that it's sequential - you can't get the next resource unless the current one is done - and that is its main flaw (just like the main flaw of 1.0 was the one transaction per connection default behavior that Netscape patched and made its way to 1.1). HTTP 2.0 seems to fix that, so this is good.
DLP is made to prevent accidental leakage. You'd be surprised how many people mistype the name of the people they want to contact (or make a mistake when the email program auto-fill the names based on the input characters). One day my company received the full bookings spreadsheet of our main competitor, because our Sales Director's first name is the same as the competition. The guy just typed it and didn't read the last name and we received all the data.
Like I said, if this occurs the files are probably set aside for human inspection, so piling tons of nesting isn't really going to work.
You don't ask allies to close their airspace just because somebody broke an NDA.
I'm fairly certain that any G8 country could have developed this worm. France, Germany, Japan, UK, China, all of these have the technical capabilities (Japan might lack the "offensive intelligence" resources, that is, spies that'd go and steal trusted Microsoft certificates). The US might have an edge given that the target systems are made by US companies, but all the nations I've mentioned are capable of this. It's only a matter of will and investment - and also requires a rather aggressive state, for which the US and Israel definitively qualify. I'm not pointing fingers or judging, so take that as you will, but I think it's rather true to say that Israel and the US have started more wars/warfare situations than any other country in the last 20 years (regardless of the reasons and justifications, which I won't discuss because it's beside my point).