Dont forget to continuously keep bringing up MySQL. If SQL Server offers something, either reply with "MySQL already has that", or if MySQL does not, then reply with "who needs that anyway? Thats just bloat". After all, who needs foreign keys, views, triggers, procedures etc?
Wtf not keep bringing it up, if there is free software available that already does this ?
I like how the poster complains that it wasn't explicitly made clear he was gay - as if that was relevant at all. This reminds me of an Onion spoof :
Alan Mathison Turing was one of the great, gay pioneers of the computer field.
He inspired the now common terms of "The Turing Machine" and "Turing's Test.",
and preferred the company of men to women.
As a mathematician he applied the concept of the algorithm to digital computers, and liked
to kiss and hold other men.
The homosexual's research into the relationships between machines and nature created the field of
artificial intelligence. His intelligence and foresight made him one of the first to
step into the information age. His sexual preference was for men.
I've posted about this before, and it absolutely WILL be a bigger threat.
One of the primary goals of Longhorn, with its Palladium technology, is MS lock-in. With Longhorn, vendor lock-in will be easier to enforce. It will be much more difficult and expensive to move away from MS products. If today you want to move away from MS Office suite to OpenOffice, it's really not too difficult, the primary costs are training, installation, conversion etc. With Longhorn, this may require getting digital certs for converting all your client docs to the new format. Or maybe it won't be possible to read Word docs at all with non-MS software. (E.g. Word docs could be encrypted with keys that only MS software can access.) The cost and the unknowns of moving off of MS will be too much to bear for many.
Miguel makes good points but is wrong to attribute MS's dominant position to Linux apps being 'late to market', for example.
At the time of Windows 95, nobody could seriously say that MAC OS was not far better - stable, superior UI etc. So, even when MS had an obviously inferior product, they still won. And now, from XP onwards, they don't have have such a bad product, so what hope is there ?
They won because of their ruthless, illegal business practices. It's time to stop with the argument "we'll win because we're better".
Good IS policy should explain why passwords are important, and suggest ways users can choose strong passwords (and what constitutes a strong password), and counter the problem of having to remember too many. Two suggestions:
1) Encourage users to use Schneier's Password safe program.
They only then need to remember one well-chosen password, which unlocks the password database.
2) Encourage users to make passwords from acronyms of easy to remember phrases, e.g. "My cat is called Bob, he is 6" => McicBhi6.
I'm surprised that the article makes no mention of Longhorn and the "trusted computing" initative as a barrier to Linux migration. One of the primary goals of Longhorn, with its Palladium technology, is MS lock-in.
With Longhorn, vendor lock-in will be easier to enforce. It will be much more difficult and expensive to move away from MS products. If today you want to move away from MS Office suite to OpenOffice, it's really not too difficult, the primary costs are training, installation, conversion etc. With Longhorn, this may require getting digital certs for converting all your client docs to the new format. Or maybe it won't be possible to read Word docs at all with non-MS software. (E.g. Word docs could be encrypted with keys that only MS software can access.)
The cost and the unknowns of moving off of MS will be too much to bear for many.
If you want the advantage of public file sharing, what is the benefit of encryption, since you purposefully want to share information with the public already?
Since maybe you don't want to publically share files, e.g. in private communities.
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I'm disappointed the /. editors didn't change the usual borg picture for one with nice red spots on it ...
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Not to troll, but WTF ?
"I get spam in my spam filter" - really don't see it as a problem when brute-force spam gets routed to my spam filter.
Great, that's all we need .. now for the "bittorrent is dying" trolls !
You guys all have it wrong .. the apology is not referring to the proof, it's for having linked to a pdf ..
It's only for "geek use", this is the developers desktop we are talking about.
Oracle is not pro Open Source. They are a closed source vendor using OS to get at MS.
The "enemy of my enemy is my friend" is a flawed philosophy. Oracle, IBM are just as big a$$holes as MS.
I like how the poster complains that it wasn't explicitly made clear he was gay - as if that was relevant at all. This reminds me of an Onion spoof :
Alan Mathison Turing was one of the great, gay pioneers of the computer field.
He inspired the now common terms of "The Turing Machine" and "Turing's Test.", and preferred the company of men to women. As a mathematician he applied the concept of the algorithm to digital computers, and liked to kiss and hold other men.
The homosexual's research into the relationships between machines and nature created the field of artificial intelligence. His intelligence and foresight made him one of the first to step into the information age. His sexual preference was for men.
I've posted about this before, and it absolutely WILL be a bigger threat.
One of the primary goals of Longhorn, with its Palladium technology, is MS lock-in. With Longhorn, vendor lock-in will be easier to enforce. It will be much more difficult and expensive to move away from MS products.
If today you want to move away from MS Office suite to OpenOffice, it's really not too difficult, the primary costs are training, installation, conversion etc. With Longhorn, this may require getting digital certs for converting all your client docs to the new format. Or maybe it won't be possible to read Word docs at all with non-MS software. (E.g. Word docs could be encrypted with keys that only MS software can access.)
The cost and the unknowns of moving off of MS will be too much to bear for many.
Miguel makes good points but is wrong to attribute MS's dominant position to Linux apps being 'late to market', for example.
At the time of Windows 95, nobody could seriously say that MAC OS was not far better - stable, superior UI etc. So, even when MS had an obviously inferior product, they still won. And now, from XP onwards, they don't have have such a bad product, so what hope is there ?
They won because of their ruthless, illegal business practices. It's time to stop with the argument "we'll win because we're better".
Good IS policy should explain why passwords are important, and suggest ways users can choose strong passwords (and what constitutes a strong password), and counter the problem of having to remember too many. Two suggestions :
1) Encourage users to use Schneier's Password safe program.
They only then need to remember one well-chosen password, which unlocks the password database.
2) Encourage users to make passwords from acronyms of easy to remember phrases, e.g. "My cat is called Bob, he is 6" => McicBhi6.
I'm surprised that the article makes no mention of Longhorn and the "trusted computing" initative as a barrier to Linux migration. One of the primary goals of Longhorn, with its Palladium technology, is MS lock-in. With Longhorn, vendor lock-in will be easier to enforce. It will be much more difficult and expensive to move away from MS products. If today you want to move away from MS Office suite to OpenOffice, it's really not too difficult, the primary costs are training, installation, conversion etc. With Longhorn, this may require getting digital certs for converting all your client docs to the new format. Or maybe it won't be possible to read Word docs at all with non-MS software. (E.g. Word docs could be encrypted with keys that only MS software can access.) The cost and the unknowns of moving off of MS will be too much to bear for many.