Lets face it. Most companies are ill equipped to defend against compromise and it stems from people treating business computing resources like their personal equipment. Most places find out theyve been compromised by sheer accident. If the Pentagon, NSA, and US military can't keep from being owned* I think there are bigger problems to address.
And just put a windows desktop over the top of a Linux install. UI is the one thing MS does well and something the Linux community will never quite get right. Under the hood however MS will never get away from their chewing gum and binder twine approach to systems support and development. There could have been a better mix here.
Global warming is having a noticeable impact in areas where the normal climate is only a couple of degrees below freezing. Alaskan permafrost for example is normaly 29 degrees or so. A couple of degrees change to : the warmer and that stuff starts melting which releases more c02 as once frozen plant matter begins to decay. The himilayas are much colder than the permafrost and a couple degrees of warming isn't enough to get anything melting. It's the same reason you see icecaps on mountain tops when its summer.
> building more oil refining capacity as a political football
The "political football" isn't going anywhere. It's nothing more than a bargaining point that Americans can understand when they see two candidates arguing on Fox News. It's an important piece of strategy and not going anywhere.
At CES this year I sat in a room with a panel of people from at&t, verizon and others. There were also infrastructure engineers both on the panel and in the audience. 4g was discussed in depth. The Takeaway is that 4g is marketing hype. The telcos cannot get the necessary spectrum to support the number of devices, carriers do not have the infrastructure to support the bandwidth and device manufactrurers are struggling with device footprint and battery life. I didn't get a clear picture of how any of them were going to get past the issues.
> 17 lives lost in the last 50 years of U.S. space exploration really is not too bad
Understand your reasoning but that's not the point here. Those lives and money were lost due to human negligence and pure bullheadedness. The loss was easily preventable.
FTFA "A special mechanism that runs on the distribution server modifies certain parts of the Trojan in order to ensure that every malicious app that gets downloaded is unique. "
So basically we're talking about "some guys website" hosting malware. This is not about Android Market.
Most people I know simply don't care about their privacy when it comes to facebook, google+, whatever. They want an easy way to post their pictures online and stay "connected" with friends and family. Email does not work because granny has learned to never click anything in an email so the 50mb zipped attachment stays in her Inbox, or if she does click it, can figure out what the zip file is. Things get too complicated for regular users and it's easier for them to make excuses about privacy, stay in denial, and pretend google or facebook will never screw them.
I think Moglen is spot-on but you can't expect people to get on-board when they haven't the background to understand the situation. What's worse is the one-click Easy Button for everything has become the norm and people expect that. Anything more and they get glassy-eyed and loose interest faster than a 5yr old on a sugar high.
If social networking is to become more secure, it's not going to come from google or facebook. It will come from the OSS community in something like googlesharing, (encrypted) Tor, Bittorrent or the like.
I keep wondering what apple's drive is for stifling competition through use of litigation mired. Perhaps if they can control the mobile and tablet platforms there will be no way for any other entity to offer alternatives. Imagine the leverage you would have if you decide certain services *coughgooglecough* just don't quite work right on the platform you control. You can call the shots then.
The whole presidential campaign process in general is shaping up to an unfortunate dramatic comedy of a cast of misfits. Do these individuals really represent the US population?
the really productive and happy software engineer is the one who can hack something together, or be meticulous and pedantic, when the job calls for it. the key is knowing which approach is the best route for the project. there can be elegance, simplicity and organization in both.
Apple would need to drown puppies in the blood of circus clowns while wearing a Mister Rogers costume before anyone will seriously consider a boycott of their products.
After the whole microsoft office document format snafu, I'm surprised people are embracing this. It's not a crime that Apple is tackling the move from paper textbook to digital, but I think there are some very key factors being overlooked which will come to light only after it's too late to go back. But hey, it's Apple. They won't do anything bad, right?
The reason manufacturing left the US is money. Loose, if any, environmental standards and dirt cheap labor. there was an abundance of skilled labor in the US up until about the mid 90s when offshoring caught on like wildfire. companies left the workforce hanging as design, engineering and manufacturing jobs left for china, india and korea. people holding those positions had to look for work elsewhere and in different fields.
Didn't read the whole article but the jist of it is 'offensive ssid offends soccer mom'. Since the wifi signal is broadcast over radio spectrum I would assume this would be the same as cussing up a blue streak on a CB radio. Completely in violation of FCC regulations. I would expect the NYPD to handle this as an FCC violation and not a criminal hate crime.
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Lets face it. Most companies are ill equipped to defend against compromise and it stems from people treating business computing resources like their personal equipment. Most places find out theyve been compromised by sheer accident. If the Pentagon, NSA, and US military can't keep from being owned* I think there are bigger problems to address.
* http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/secret_projects2/project396.htm
* http://www.codemysafety.com/?p=1143
And just put a windows desktop over the top of a Linux install. UI is the one thing MS does well and something the Linux community will never quite get right. Under the hood however MS will never get away from their chewing gum and binder twine approach to systems support and development. There could have been a better mix here.
Global warming is having a noticeable impact in areas where the normal climate is only a couple of degrees below freezing. Alaskan permafrost for example is normaly 29 degrees or so. A couple of degrees change to : the warmer and that stuff starts melting which releases more c02 as once frozen plant matter begins to decay. The himilayas are much colder than the permafrost and a couple degrees of warming isn't enough to get anything melting. It's the same reason you see icecaps on mountain tops when its summer.
>The language has evolved and incorporated modern programming paradigms and techniques. It's still verbose, but no more than Java,
Dear God they've created COBOL++
> building more oil refining capacity as a political football
The "political football" isn't going anywhere. It's nothing more than a bargaining point that Americans can understand when they see two candidates arguing on Fox News. It's an important piece of strategy and not going anywhere.
Wonder what else is buried in it.
So they didn't get what they want and now they're going to spin it like they were gang-raped. Why?
At CES this year I sat in a room with a panel of people from at&t, verizon and others. There were also infrastructure engineers both on the panel and in the audience. 4g was discussed in depth. The Takeaway is that 4g is marketing hype. The telcos cannot get the necessary spectrum to support the number of devices, carriers do not have the infrastructure to support the bandwidth and device manufactrurers are struggling with device footprint and battery life. I didn't get a clear picture of how any of them were going to get past the issues.
> 17 lives lost in the last 50 years of U.S. space exploration really is not too bad
Understand your reasoning but that's not the point here. Those lives and money were lost due to human negligence and pure bullheadedness. The loss was easily preventable.
FTFA "A special mechanism that runs on the distribution server modifies certain parts of the Trojan in order to ensure that every malicious app that gets downloaded is unique. "
So basically we're talking about "some guys website" hosting malware. This is not about Android Market.
Most people I know simply don't care about their privacy when it comes to facebook, google+, whatever. They want an easy way to post their pictures online and stay "connected" with friends and family. Email does not work because granny has learned to never click anything in an email so the 50mb zipped attachment stays in her Inbox, or if she does click it, can figure out what the zip file is. Things get too complicated for regular users and it's easier for them to make excuses about privacy, stay in denial, and pretend google or facebook will never screw them.
I think Moglen is spot-on but you can't expect people to get on-board when they haven't the background to understand the situation. What's worse is the one-click Easy Button for everything has become the norm and people expect that. Anything more and they get glassy-eyed and loose interest faster than a 5yr old on a sugar high.
If social networking is to become more secure, it's not going to come from google or facebook. It will come from the OSS community in something like googlesharing, (encrypted) Tor, Bittorrent or the like.
I keep wondering what apple's drive is for stifling competition through use of litigation mired. Perhaps if they can control the mobile and tablet platforms there will be no way for any other entity to offer alternatives. Imagine the leverage you would have if you decide certain services *coughgooglecough* just don't quite work right on the platform you control. You can call the shots then.
The whole presidential campaign process in general is shaping up to an unfortunate dramatic comedy of a cast of misfits. Do these individuals really represent the US population?
the really productive and happy software engineer is the one who can hack something together, or be meticulous and pedantic, when the job calls for it. the key is knowing which approach is the best route for the project. there can be elegance, simplicity and organization in both.
seems to me a collective of respected, well known and conscientous scientists, or even professors, should be the ones determining securuty concerns.
just less of a boom.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser-guided_bomb
Roughly equates to:
Apple would need to drown puppies in the blood of circus clowns while wearing a Mister Rogers costume before anyone will seriously consider a boycott of their products.
us cellular has unlimited data plans and so does sprint. why does AT&T need to gang rape it's customers?
After the whole microsoft office document format snafu, I'm surprised people are embracing this. It's not a crime that Apple is tackling the move from paper textbook to digital, but I think there are some very key factors being overlooked which will come to light only after it's too late to go back. But hey, it's Apple. They won't do anything bad, right?
Actually, Marcello Truzzi is credited with coining that phrase:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcello_Truzzi
The reason manufacturing left the US is money. Loose, if any, environmental standards and dirt cheap labor. there was an abundance of skilled labor in the US up until about the mid 90s when offshoring caught on like wildfire. companies left the workforce hanging as design, engineering and manufacturing jobs left for china, india and korea. people holding those positions had to look for work elsewhere and in different fields.
Didn't read the whole article but the jist of it is 'offensive ssid offends soccer mom'. Since the wifi signal is broadcast over radio spectrum I would assume this would be the same as cussing up a blue streak on a CB radio. Completely in violation of FCC regulations. I would expect the NYPD to handle this as an FCC violation and not a criminal hate crime.
This should save Texas a lot of time next time they want to rewrite school text books in the interest of religion.
Censorship - Now there's and App for that!
http://www.eschoolnews.com/2011/09/14/news-release-district-deploys-1300-ipad-alternatives-to-assure-ayp/