You may well be right there, but the implication that a spoofed UAC prompt could result in a stolen password is (I think) false. I've never been prompted for my password in UAC, it's all just clicks. Perhaps if the user understands what the screen dimming thing is supposed to mean, but by that point you'd hope they'd also notice the different-from-usual dialog. If they don't then they're likely the kind of user which you probably didn't have to go to all that trouble to fool anyway. Which, sadly, is a large percentage of users.
The environment you click that button in is a separate and theoretically secure desktop. That's why the screen dims: to indicate that. It's the same armor that protects your Windows password from keyloggers. Whether or not it's secure remains a largely open question. There are no exploits I've heard of to breach it, and Microsoft would (eventually) patch said exploits if they became apparent.
"Would the user treat this UAC with the same amount of caution?" His answer: No. Users will, as Microsoft intended when it selected those colors, note the teal border of the spoofed UAC and likely click through without a second thought, he said.
I've been using Vista for a month. There were color differences?
They all come off as squabbling children. This is FOSS' finest?
Here are the highlights for those who didn't RTFA: Lopez: "Linus, you don't know how to read Spanish, so are you an idiot too?" [snip] Schaller: "Could maybe be a good way to start a constructive dialog instead of this useless mudslinging?" [snip] Torvalds: "What I find unconstructive is how the GNOME people always make *excuses*. It took me a few hours to actually do the patches. It wasn't that hard. So why didn't I do it years ago?
I'll tell you why: because GNOME apologists don't say "please send us patches". No. They basically make it clear that they aren't even *interested* in fixing things, because their dear old Mum isn't interested in the feature. [snip] But why, oh, why, have GNOME people not just said "please fix it then"?
Instead, I _still_ (now after I sent out the patch) hear more of your kvetching about how you actually do everything right, and it's somehow *my* fault that I find things limiting.
Here's a damn big clue: the reason I find GNOME limiting is BECAUSE IT IS."
This is the new combined security and power-save model in Vista. Your PC can't get infected by spyware, no one can hack your home network, and you won't use any power, if the computer just burns the whole place to the ground.
I think it's in the Screen Saver settings someplace:
"[x] Enter Burn-House-to-Ground mode after [ 30 ] minutes of inactivity."
On a side note, I'm betting we'll see bluetooth enabled iPods before too long. Wireless headsets are cool, sure, but the real money maker will be as a wireless link for the iPods to be available as external storage for things like the iPhone. Doesn't need to be super fast to stream or one-up songs from "The archive" to the iPhone, and there's a continuing market for iPods even for people who just dropped $500+ on the iPhone.
I agree bluetooth or wifi is likely soon (probably bluetooth) but disagree as to what it's primary use will be.
What you propose sounds way too nerdy for Apple to subject their users to. Carrying two devices, one a storage device for the other, may be the way of the future, but is just too clunky and useless for now. The power of such a device would be that all your devices, mobile and otherwise, would use this storage device. That support isn't there right now and won't be for years.
Bluetooth on the iPod will more likely be used for (in descending order of likelihood):
Wireless Sync - you place the iPod near the computer and it syncs
Stereo Headphones - the principle power here is that you can switch between calls and music seamlessly
Zune-like Sharing - Jobs will negotiate and end up beating the Zune's 3-days-or-3-plays by a small margin
Storing Files - sort of like you were talking, but thrown in as an after-thought to replace the USB mass storage feature of today's iPod
That's the final straw. How feasible would it be to take the USPTO to court for not fulfilling their chartered duty and as a result causing millions of dollars of damage? There have been liability suits against the government, I think. How is this one different?
In October 2001 a music player was introduced. By the end of that year it had sold just 125,000 units. That MP3 player was the iPod. The Zune's launch figures mean very little, what it does in the next few years is everything. It's far too early to call this match.
No business has a right to succeed. You need to compete. Starbucks couldn't have put those small, artistic venues out of business without being preferred by customers. It isn't Starbuck's fault that the customers didn't actually want a small, artistic venue.
We here at Slashdot will rationally analyze all the nuances of your question before replying with a well-researched and neutral opinion. You just wait.
He's talking about the support infrastructure. It's my understanding that what Negroponte wants isn't just a device, but also satellite internet and support personnel. I have a hard time believing this would amount to $800, but it will be set up in remote and underdeveloped areas so it's possible that the overhead on that will be high. In this light the suggestion of trials isn't too far off the mark, both to gauge overall feasibility and also to identify kinks early.
Or: 4. Realize that doesn't happen anymore because the firewall that ships with SP2 is an adequate defense.
Network worms targeting out-of-the-box Windows boxes are a thing largely of the past. What may happen is after two months of using the computer and clicking "OK" to those pesky dialogs asking for exceptions to the firewall one of those services may be insecure enough to allow a remote attack. She or he might also get themselves infected via some other method, like surfing the uglier parts of the web with IE6 or opening an executable attachment.
You can't possibly speak for everybody. To do so is arrogance.
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Joel owns Fog Creek Software and their jobs page is here. Alternatively there's another small company that has similar fantastical working conditions. Both, however, are reputedly hard to get into. If only more companies thought that way. Even free food/drinks is a big step in the right direction that doesn't cost a lot.
Indians live in that subcontinent over near the Asia. Various Native and Indengious people live in South America.
And you wonder why Americans are called fat lazy and stupid.
Yes, let's answer cultural insensitivity with more and worse cultural insensitivity. Surely that will solve the problem. And, no, I don't really care if you do live in the United States (America refers to two continents) that doesn't give you the right to call the whole populace anything.
He kept his identity a secret as is standard in most multi-property deals. The reason being that somebody could start a bidding war for some critical piece of land and potentially screw you out of a lot of money. As it was he paid a considerable amount for land that was suffering from a drought. The locals main complaint seems to be that he (a) won't support their local development ventures and (b) won't return their phone calls. The ones that got bought out sound happy enough. The only real part of this story was that Jeff Bezos purchased a plot of land in Texas for Blue Origin and that's not how it was spun.
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That's what the trust systems for the semantic web are for.
That would be Bill's father: William H. Gates II. Bill is William H. Gates III.
You may well be right there, but the implication that a spoofed UAC prompt could result in a stolen password is (I think) false. I've never been prompted for my password in UAC, it's all just clicks. Perhaps if the user understands what the screen dimming thing is supposed to mean, but by that point you'd hope they'd also notice the different-from-usual dialog. If they don't then they're likely the kind of user which you probably didn't have to go to all that trouble to fool anyway. Which, sadly, is a large percentage of users.
The environment you click that button in is a separate and theoretically secure desktop. That's why the screen dims: to indicate that. It's the same armor that protects your Windows password from keyloggers. Whether or not it's secure remains a largely open question. There are no exploits I've heard of to breach it, and Microsoft would (eventually) patch said exploits if they became apparent.
They all come off as squabbling children. This is FOSS' finest?
Here are the highlights for those who didn't RTFA:
Lopez: "Linus, you don't know how to read Spanish, so are you an idiot too?"
[snip]
Schaller: "Could maybe be a good way to start a constructive dialog instead of this useless mudslinging?"
[snip]
Torvalds: "What I find unconstructive is how the GNOME people always make *excuses*. It took me a few hours to actually do the patches. It wasn't that hard. So why didn't I do it years ago?
I'll tell you why: because GNOME apologists don't say "please send us patches". No. They basically make it clear that they aren't even *interested* in fixing things, because their dear old Mum isn't interested in the feature.
[snip]
But why, oh, why, have GNOME people not just said "please fix it then"?
Instead, I _still_ (now after I sent out the patch) hear more of your kvetching about how you actually do everything right, and it's somehow *my* fault that I find things limiting.
Here's a damn big clue: the reason I find GNOME limiting is BECAUSE IT IS."
What you propose sounds way too nerdy for Apple to subject their users to. Carrying two devices, one a storage device for the other, may be the way of the future, but is just too clunky and useless for now. The power of such a device would be that all your devices, mobile and otherwise, would use this storage device. That support isn't there right now and won't be for years.
Bluetooth on the iPod will more likely be used for (in descending order of likelihood):
And the blackjack.
That's the final straw. How feasible would it be to take the USPTO to court for not fulfilling their chartered duty and as a result causing millions of dollars of damage? There have been liability suits against the government, I think. How is this one different?
In October 2001 a music player was introduced. By the end of that year it had sold just 125,000 units. That MP3 player was the iPod. The Zune's launch figures mean very little, what it does in the next few years is everything. It's far too early to call this match.
No business has a right to succeed. You need to compete. Starbucks couldn't have put those small, artistic venues out of business without being preferred by customers. It isn't Starbuck's fault that the customers didn't actually want a small, artistic venue.
"Woohoo! Yay! Uncle Bobby got me an Internet Freedom Disk!"
I can just the happy children smiling now.
We here at Slashdot will rationally analyze all the nuances of your question before replying with a well-researched and neutral opinion. You just wait.
Do tell the victim's family that. I'm sure it would go over well.
He's talking about the support infrastructure. It's my understanding that what Negroponte wants isn't just a device, but also satellite internet and support personnel. I have a hard time believing this would amount to $800, but it will be set up in remote and underdeveloped areas so it's possible that the overhead on that will be high. In this light the suggestion of trials isn't too far off the mark, both to gauge overall feasibility and also to identify kinks early.
Those studies were done on unpatched Windows boxes pre-SP2. You, sir, have been had.
Or:
4. Realize that doesn't happen anymore because the firewall that ships with SP2 is an adequate defense.
Network worms targeting out-of-the-box Windows boxes are a thing largely of the past. What may happen is after two months of using the computer and clicking "OK" to those pesky dialogs asking for exceptions to the firewall one of those services may be insecure enough to allow a remote attack. She or he might also get themselves infected via some other method, like surfing the uglier parts of the web with IE6 or opening an executable attachment.
You can't possibly speak for everybody. To do so is arrogance.
Joel owns Fog Creek Software and their jobs page is here. Alternatively there's another small company that has similar fantastical working conditions. Both, however, are reputedly hard to get into. If only more companies thought that way. Even free food/drinks is a big step in the right direction that doesn't cost a lot.
What is it with companies starting with "Universal" and web 2.0 litigation?
He kept his identity a secret as is standard in most multi-property deals. The reason being that somebody could start a bidding war for some critical piece of land and potentially screw you out of a lot of money. As it was he paid a considerable amount for land that was suffering from a drought. The locals main complaint seems to be that he (a) won't support their local development ventures and (b) won't return their phone calls. The ones that got bought out sound happy enough. The only real part of this story was that Jeff Bezos purchased a plot of land in Texas for Blue Origin and that's not how it was spun.