Microsoft failed in the mobile market. This isn't surprising that they'd go this far after being so butt hurt and spanked by Blackberry, Apple and Google's quick success in the new markets.
My message to M$ is simple:
suck it up, try to catch up and get your shit together.
However, the deal is still a year away and subject to regulatory approval.
However, the deal is still a year away and subject to regulatory lobbying and bribery.
I wish you weren't absolutely right on this one. I just hope that this corrupt system doesn't disappoint me even further. Also as an ATT customer (not by choice, long story) I can personally say what shit we're in for: dropped calls, late texts, crazy data rates. Caps will get smaller. And Android updates will be stuck at 3 versions back because they have no incentive to do otherwise.
The problem is Michio Kaku is stuck in the world of physics. He sees things in terms of equations and absolutes (Moore's law is an equation for him, not just an idea). Physics and math deal in absolutes but they don't give much flexibility for flexibility. Economics on the other hand adapts naturally. It is flexible because it needs to be. Physics isn't flexible it requires a hard rulesets. Economy isn't a natural science, it's an ever changing completely unpredictable (in the long term) beast and to say that once this tech reaches this point the economy will do this is just a really out there guess. Don't misunderstand, I respect Mr. Kaku for exactly what he is: a scientist. But.. "Forget it, you're out of your element Donny!"
Yea every time I hear "administration", "privacy", and "rights" in the same sentence in a story I pretty much assume they're up to no good. That's just how far it's gone. I didnt even read the article. A lot of us don't need to.
I agree with the parent, this is crazy. But if they don't want it to happen during school time they should simply not allow cellphones or laptops. The school computers should block facebook and noneducational sites anyway, it'll only distract them from their work (and if they're smart enough to webproxy around it: they'll violate the terms of use anyway) . And everything they do outside of school is not the school's concern it's the parents or the local police. Now if that bullying where to be present on campus physically it would be one thing. But as soon as it takes to the streets and the nets I can't see liability on the school's part. They used to tell us that from the time you leave school right up to the time before you enter your doorstep the school is responsible. And I personally think this is bullcrap. But this is just my humble opinion of an already broken system.
Absolutely revolting. I advice any member of the internet that knows anything about these faghats to _murder_ them. You'll be forgiven as an agent of karma and the world will thank you.
http://japan.person-finder.appspot.com/
As we all might have guessed the phone lines and cellphone systems are disabled still. But the internet is a very persistent entity.
Simple and effective. Hope this gets more records.
The only person hurt here is the consumer, pirates will do what they do regardless and now the consumer has just that many fewer options to enjoy their product. Good job hollywood, you shoot yourself in the foot yet again
First off, I love the idea of wargames. They're fun, I used to participate in them from time to time. But it flat out shouldn't be done for a business unless the environment is extremely well controlled:
1.) live systems critical to the business can BREAK with hacking attempts
2.) any shells spawned during the wargame can be exploited by other attackers that aren't participants...
3.) during the wargame IDS are basically useless which is the PERFECT time for an insider to make a move, or an informed attacker to start his campaign
doesn't exist when you are a "criminal". It could be argued that no one really has privacy on facebook anymore. This is just becoming common knowledge, I am unpleasantly unsurprised.
If Stuxnet taught us anything is that even systems not connected directly to the internet are still very much vulnerable. Spear phishing and other targeted attacks towards the maintainers/developers of those systems are just as effective if not more so than attacking the system head-on.
I'll take the cape of Captain Obvious here but anyone funding an attack sophisticated enough to pull off a Stuxnet-like payload is more than likely well invested in the return of said attack. But of course no one could ever earn any money hacking a stock exchange system right?;)
Who should we place more blame in though? The journalists making American Idol news such a priority or a populous ripe with apathy? It saddens me to think of either scenario as being true, but I know.
If a threat of sabotage is really imminent and proper backups have been made simply restore from back ups to pre-firing times when the admin was happy and lock them out. This ensures nothing nasty was left behind. Defending against each individual threat is so much more ridiculously complicated than just losing a few days worth of changes to the server. Also to note, unless the backups were off-site and secure themselves it should be assumed they are also compromised.
When has it ever been acceptable that a government request its local tech companies to install backdoors? That puts them in a very difficult position to deny their own government while catering to the needs of their users' privacy. I dont blame Russia from wanting out of MS in the least
Here is a press release from a couple of years ago basically trumpeting the same thing. I think it is policy to recycle this every so often to prop up their stock price.
You do have a valid point, the weekly view says it has been rising steadily since monday, but more than likely they made this "breakthrough" earlier and decided when to spit it as the stocks bottomed on a certain threshold. Just because the announcement was strategically planned does not mean that the breakthrough is any less real though.
Psychopaths have the ability to emulate morals, just like we emulate manners. I see no reason to exclude them from their current label. An evil pretending to be good is worse than a purely outward evil.
I mean, just look at Star Craft 2! Oh, how the once-great have fallen; in Starcraft 1, you could use the second disk to create a multiplayer-only spawn install for an essentially unlimited number of LAN players; now, every single multiplayer game has to be authenticated via Battle.Net, even if it's just going to be played over the local network between two full copies of the game (which is, I suppose, something of a misnomer, because now there's nothing but full copies of the game).
As much as I love Starcraft 2 (Ive been a fanboi of sc for a decade) even I can agree blizzard has really dropped the ball on this issue. Just the other day I got booted at the net cafe because they ran out of sc2 logins and started reusing them (which causes the first player to get dropped...). This isnt my ideal gaming experience.
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People have nothing to say and no one cares anyway! At least we can back this up with research. Wonderful.
Ice cream is a bad analogy for this. I'm rather bitter about the whole subject.
dont fight it, you'll just end up looking like a fool and be overtaken by more change happy competitors
Microsoft failed in the mobile market. This isn't surprising that they'd go this far after being so butt hurt and spanked by Blackberry, Apple and Google's quick success in the new markets. My message to M$ is simple: suck it up, try to catch up and get your shit together.
However, the deal is still a year away and subject to regulatory approval.
However, the deal is still a year away and subject to regulatory lobbying and bribery.
I wish you weren't absolutely right on this one. I just hope that this corrupt system doesn't disappoint me even further. Also as an ATT customer (not by choice, long story) I can personally say what shit we're in for: dropped calls, late texts, crazy data rates. Caps will get smaller. And Android updates will be stuck at 3 versions back because they have no incentive to do otherwise.
The problem is Michio Kaku is stuck in the world of physics. He sees things in terms of equations and absolutes (Moore's law is an equation for him, not just an idea). Physics and math deal in absolutes but they don't give much flexibility for flexibility. Economics on the other hand adapts naturally. It is flexible because it needs to be. Physics isn't flexible it requires a hard rulesets. Economy isn't a natural science, it's an ever changing completely unpredictable (in the long term) beast and to say that once this tech reaches this point the economy will do this is just a really out there guess. Don't misunderstand, I respect Mr. Kaku for exactly what he is: a scientist. But.. "Forget it, you're out of your element Donny!"
The bar is made of solid gold courtesy of MicroFUD. Who don't they pay off anymore? That list would be more interesting
Yea every time I hear "administration", "privacy", and "rights" in the same sentence in a story I pretty much assume they're up to no good. That's just how far it's gone. I didnt even read the article. A lot of us don't need to.
I agree with the parent, this is crazy. But if they don't want it to happen during school time they should simply not allow cellphones or laptops. The school computers should block facebook and noneducational sites anyway, it'll only distract them from their work (and if they're smart enough to webproxy around it: they'll violate the terms of use anyway) . And everything they do outside of school is not the school's concern it's the parents or the local police. Now if that bullying where to be present on campus physically it would be one thing. But as soon as it takes to the streets and the nets I can't see liability on the school's part. They used to tell us that from the time you leave school right up to the time before you enter your doorstep the school is responsible. And I personally think this is bullcrap. But this is just my humble opinion of an already broken system.
Absolutely revolting. I advice any member of the internet that knows anything about these faghats to _murder_ them. You'll be forgiven as an agent of karma and the world will thank you.
http://japan.person-finder.appspot.com/ As we all might have guessed the phone lines and cellphone systems are disabled still. But the internet is a very persistent entity. Simple and effective. Hope this gets more records.
The only person hurt here is the consumer, pirates will do what they do regardless and now the consumer has just that many fewer options to enjoy their product. Good job hollywood, you shoot yourself in the foot yet again
BREAKING 0DAY NEWS: Humans still vulnerable to social engineering with dumb emails! Fix the human, fix the problem.
First off, I love the idea of wargames. They're fun, I used to participate in them from time to time. But it flat out shouldn't be done for a business unless the environment is extremely well controlled: 1.) live systems critical to the business can BREAK with hacking attempts 2.) any shells spawned during the wargame can be exploited by other attackers that aren't participants... 3.) during the wargame IDS are basically useless which is the PERFECT time for an insider to make a move, or an informed attacker to start his campaign
doesn't exist when you are a "criminal". It could be argued that no one really has privacy on facebook anymore. This is just becoming common knowledge, I am unpleasantly unsurprised.
If Stuxnet taught us anything is that even systems not connected directly to the internet are still very much vulnerable. Spear phishing and other targeted attacks towards the maintainers/developers of those systems are just as effective if not more so than attacking the system head-on. I'll take the cape of Captain Obvious here but anyone funding an attack sophisticated enough to pull off a Stuxnet-like payload is more than likely well invested in the return of said attack. But of course no one could ever earn any money hacking a stock exchange system right? ;)
"All armies prefer high ground to low and sunny places to dark." - Sun Tzu. Space is the ultimate high ground, it's just a matter of time.
Who should we place more blame in though? The journalists making American Idol news such a priority or a populous ripe with apathy? It saddens me to think of either scenario as being true, but I know.
If a threat of sabotage is really imminent and proper backups have been made simply restore from back ups to pre-firing times when the admin was happy and lock them out. This ensures nothing nasty was left behind. Defending against each individual threat is so much more ridiculously complicated than just losing a few days worth of changes to the server. Also to note, unless the backups were off-site and secure themselves it should be assumed they are also compromised.
When has it ever been acceptable that a government request its local tech companies to install backdoors? That puts them in a very difficult position to deny their own government while catering to the needs of their users' privacy. I dont blame Russia from wanting out of MS in the least
Here is a press release from a couple of years ago basically trumpeting the same thing. I think it is policy to recycle this every so often to prop up their stock price.
You do have a valid point, the weekly view says it has been rising steadily since monday, but more than likely they made this "breakthrough" earlier and decided when to spit it as the stocks bottomed on a certain threshold. Just because the announcement was strategically planned does not mean that the breakthrough is any less real though.
Psychopaths have the ability to emulate morals, just like we emulate manners. I see no reason to exclude them from their current label. An evil pretending to be good is worse than a purely outward evil.
I mean, just look at Star Craft 2! Oh, how the once-great have fallen; in Starcraft 1, you could use the second disk to create a multiplayer-only spawn install for an essentially unlimited number of LAN players; now, every single multiplayer game has to be authenticated via Battle.Net, even if it's just going to be played over the local network between two full copies of the game (which is, I suppose, something of a misnomer, because now there's nothing but full copies of the game).
As much as I love Starcraft 2 (Ive been a fanboi of sc for a decade) even I can agree blizzard has really dropped the ball on this issue. Just the other day I got booted at the net cafe because they ran out of sc2 logins and started reusing them (which causes the first player to get dropped...). This isnt my ideal gaming experience.
boom!
Good bye net neutrality~