Assuming the graphs generated are, in fact, accurate and not just a bunch of scribbles on a page (it would be nice if there was an expanded version that showed the whole thing, legibly..).
One of the principles of secure programming is to keep it simple (stupid). Simpler interfaces have fewer potential areas for exploitation. That said, the picture doesn't tell the whole story. For one, the blog title saying Windows is less secure, is possibly inaccurate (at least, it cannot be derived from that picture) - the additional complexity may make it HARDER for MS to secure Windows, but that says nothing really of the intrinsic security of either platform.
I wish I could mode the whole story as a troll.. seriously. What he did was not "disclosing [a] security vulnerabilit[y]", it was exploiting a security vulnerability for personal gain. Huge difference there.
I've got to lean towards this being Apple's fault.
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Whenever there are upgrades to OSes there are going to be some incompatibilities. Knowing what I know of MS's internal practices, it's likely Apple knew of this problem quite a while ago (either through their own testing or MS's) and knew how to fix it. They just decided to sit on it for marketing reasons (OMFG!! VISTA breakz iPODzz!)
I find it hard to believe that such an issue was completely unknown before the release of Vista..
Stupid arguments. If you don't like Vista/don't have the hardware to run it.. stay with XP! No need to go to "free software" (why does this seem like an attempt to promote "free software" with tabloid-like tactics?)
The Green party should stick to environmental issues.. a software program is not one of these.
EMachines has a known issue where if the power supply goes on some of their models, it'll take the motherboard with it (never heard of the CPU going as well.. but that's not outside the realm of possibility). I wouldn't be surprised if there was a class action suit because of this.. I've seen quite a few people with this problem!
The problem here is that there is no indication (at least, according to the article.. I don't own a Zune, and don't plan on it, so I can't verify..) on the Zune store that any of these tracks have these extra restrictions. So you can't, say, give a big FUCK YOU to Sony for not allowing their tracks to be "squirted" (is that really what they call this? Damn marketing dept..) by not buying any of their tracks. It's only AFTER you buy the song and try to transfer that you find out that this is, in fact, verboten.
"You have to physically click on it to get to those sites" O rly? And even if true, how do they know that it was the teacher doing so and not one of the students?
The only real nail in the coffin of her case is why did she not turn off the computer? That sounds like the logical first step, to me.. the computer is "broken" and therefore needs to be sent to the computer administrator to be fixed..
I had a similar situation with them. Frankly, run, don't walk, away from them. Signed up for a 30 day free trial because I needed to send a couple of faxes (didn't have a fax machine at home at the time.. and using the one at work seemed like a no-no since this was personal business).
So a couple of days later, I go to cancel. They try a bunch of tricks to try to stop me from cancelling (inc. saying I need to wait until the end of the month before trying to cancel..).. I only make progress when I start cursing them (this was using their online support, so I had to type in UPPER CASE LETTERS AS WELL) and threatening to chargeback if they did not cancel the account right then and there. So they did.... or did they?
A couple of weeks later, I receive an e-mail message from them saying I'd received a fax (that's odd.. I cancelled my account, right?), so I check on the site.. and MY ACCOUT HAD NOT BEEN CANCELLED! So I have to go through their web chat AGAIN to cancel the bloody account for real this time.
Reading some complaints others have posted about this company, this is not a unique occurance. They are now one of those companies with whom I will never do business with again. Ever.
Seriously.. nothing to see. The girl doesn't get naked at all during the whole video. That's not how you make a sex video.. she should talk to Paris Hilton:->
First off, this really isn't Vista v. Mac OS X.. it's a comparison of their user interfaces (the author ignoring everything else about them..) - OK fine, but let's just make that clear from the get-go.. because while Vista has a lot of nice UI improvements, many of the exciting changes (at least, from my perspective) are more "under the hood" (one of them.. a I-can't-believe-they-took-so-long-to-get-this is per-application volume levels).
Now, here's where the article gets a bit nonsensical. It's a comparison of the UIs.. but he turns OFF part of Vista's? OK.. I see we've got an objective comparison coming here..
In all, he makes a few good points about Vista (UAC nagging and "personalization" vs "display" notable), but it's mostly just nitpicking.. and he doesn't criticize MacOS in any way, and doesn't point out any of the deficiencies in the MacOS UI (because it's plainly obvious what action clicking on red, yellow, or green circle has, to someone who hasn't used OSX..)
Only problem is, anything going against the Slashdot-groupthink (ie. OSS good, DRM bad, etc.) is almost automatically modded out of existence (if a comment is written, but is modded down to -1.. will anyone read it?)
So then don't open source it. nVidia does that for their drivers.
So, it's really a case not of these companies not cooperating to allow drivers to be written, it's these companies not cooperating in a manner that suits the OSS software writers - which is a bit different.
Sony, Microsoft, or Nintendo will easily lose out in this gen if they don't get developers to make plenty of worthwhile games. The 360 has the advantage here, as it's already got a large user base (relatively speaking) and devs know how to develop for it. PS3 may overtake the 360 if BluRay catches on and/or if developers are able to unleash the "unlimited" power of the cell processor to deliver compelling game experiences that the 360 just can't provide. Wii is sort of the wild card - how well will the controller work? Will it be something revolutionary, that adds to just about every game? Or a gimmick that only works well for a few games, but is more of a hindrance than anything for most others? While initial reviews seem positive, the long-term outcome remains to be seen (as an analogy, some games just don't work on the DS that play beautifully on the PSP)
And let's remember what happened last generation - the console that had the one year lead (the PS2) built up a library of games that the other consoles were not able to match (and this is a self-reinforcing cycle.. more games means more gamers means more games..) and indisputably won.
My money's on Microsoft.. because they've got the most compelling game experience right now with a larger library and cheaper games (I picked up PD:Z for $12.99:->) than any of their competitors. Also, because this is Microsoft, and they've shown time and time again that they're able to enter a market late, the underdog, only to come out to dominate it (through their own merit, through mistakes of competitors, or through nefarious means..)
I mean, there's software in there. How dare they bundle that! What if I don't want an optical drive? How dare they bundle a DVD burner (ie. another product) with the computer?
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Oh, the article is from the Register. I see.. no surprises there.
when you're programming open source, you're programming communism.
Assuming the graphs generated are, in fact, accurate and not just a bunch of scribbles on a page (it would be nice if there was an expanded version that showed the whole thing, legibly..).
One of the principles of secure programming is to keep it simple (stupid). Simpler interfaces have fewer potential areas for exploitation. That said, the picture doesn't tell the whole story. For one, the blog title saying Windows is less secure, is possibly inaccurate (at least, it cannot be derived from that picture) - the additional complexity may make it HARDER for MS to secure Windows, but that says nothing really of the intrinsic security of either platform.
I wish I could mode the whole story as a troll.. seriously.
What he did was not "disclosing [a] security vulnerabilit[y]", it was exploiting a security vulnerability for personal gain. Huge difference there.
Whenever there are upgrades to OSes there are going to be some incompatibilities. Knowing what I know of MS's internal practices, it's likely Apple knew of this problem quite a while ago (either through their own testing or MS's) and knew how to fix it. They just decided to sit on it for marketing reasons (OMFG!! VISTA breakz iPODzz!)
I find it hard to believe that such an issue was completely unknown before the release of Vista..
Stupid arguments.
If you don't like Vista/don't have the hardware to run it.. stay with XP! No need to go to "free software" (why does this seem like an attempt to promote "free software" with tabloid-like tactics?)
The Green party should stick to environmental issues.. a software program is not one of these.
EMachines has a known issue where if the power supply goes on some of their models, it'll take the motherboard with it (never heard of the CPU going as well.. but that's not outside the realm of possibility). I wouldn't be surprised if there was a class action suit because of this.. I've seen quite a few people with this problem!
The problem here is that there is no indication (at least, according to the article.. I don't own a Zune, and don't plan on it, so I can't verify..) on the Zune store that any of these tracks have these extra restrictions. So you can't, say, give a big FUCK YOU to Sony for not allowing their tracks to be "squirted" (is that really what they call this? Damn marketing dept..) by not buying any of their tracks. It's only AFTER you buy the song and try to transfer that you find out that this is, in fact, verboten.
"You have to physically click on it to get to those sites"
O rly? And even if true, how do they know that it was the teacher doing so and not one of the students?
The only real nail in the coffin of her case is why did she not turn off the computer? That sounds like the logical first step, to me.. the computer is "broken" and therefore needs to be sent to the computer administrator to be fixed..
I had a similar situation with them. Frankly, run, don't walk, away from them.
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Signed up for a 30 day free trial because I needed to send a couple of faxes (didn't have a fax machine at home at the time.. and using the one at work seemed like a no-no since this was personal business).
So a couple of days later, I go to cancel. They try a bunch of tricks to try to stop me from cancelling (inc. saying I need to wait until the end of the month before trying to cancel..).. I only make progress when I start cursing them (this was using their online support, so I had to type in UPPER CASE LETTERS AS WELL) and threatening to chargeback if they did not cancel the account right then and there. So they did..
or did they?
A couple of weeks later, I receive an e-mail message from them saying I'd received a fax (that's odd.. I cancelled my account, right?), so I check on the site.. and MY ACCOUT HAD NOT BEEN CANCELLED! So I have to go through their web chat AGAIN to cancel the bloody account for real this time.
Reading some complaints others have posted about this company, this is not a unique occurance. They are now one of those companies with whom I will never do business with again. Ever.
Nothing to see here, folks. Move along.
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Seriously.. nothing to see. The girl doesn't get naked at all during the whole video. That's not how you make a sex video.. she should talk to Paris Hilton
First off, this really isn't Vista v. Mac OS X.. it's a comparison of their user interfaces (the author ignoring everything else about them..) - OK fine, but let's just make that clear from the get-go.. because while Vista has a lot of nice UI improvements, many of the exciting changes (at least, from my perspective) are more "under the hood" (one of them.. a I-can't-believe-they-took-so-long-to-get-this is per-application volume levels).
Now, here's where the article gets a bit nonsensical. It's a comparison of the UIs.. but he turns OFF part of Vista's? OK.. I see we've got an objective comparison coming here..
In all, he makes a few good points about Vista (UAC nagging and "personalization" vs "display" notable), but it's mostly just nitpicking.. and he doesn't criticize MacOS in any way, and doesn't point out any of the deficiencies in the MacOS UI (because it's plainly obvious what action clicking on red, yellow, or green circle has, to someone who hasn't used OSX..)
I'd rather have a client that disconnects as soon as the download is complete. That would be much more useful, as far as I'm concerned.
Beta != released software.
Too bad MS didn't send me one of these. Maybe it's time to update the ol' blog..
Only problem is, anything going against the Slashdot-groupthink (ie. OSS good, DRM bad, etc.) is almost automatically modded out of existence (if a comment is written, but is modded down to -1.. will anyone read it?)
"supposed analysis"? Are you Johnny Cochrain? Are you going to use the Chewbacca defense?
So then don't open source it. nVidia does that for their drivers.
So, it's really a case not of these companies not cooperating to allow drivers to be written, it's these companies not cooperating in a manner that suits the OSS software writers - which is a bit different.
Sign it, get the necessary information to write the driver, and be done with it. Where's the problem here?
Sony, Microsoft, or Nintendo will easily lose out in this gen if they don't get developers to make plenty of worthwhile games. The 360 has the advantage here, as it's already got a large user base (relatively speaking) and devs know how to develop for it. PS3 may overtake the 360 if BluRay catches on and/or if developers are able to unleash the "unlimited" power of the cell processor to deliver compelling game experiences that the 360 just can't provide. Wii is sort of the wild card - how well will the controller work? Will it be something revolutionary, that adds to just about every game? Or a gimmick that only works well for a few games, but is more of a hindrance than anything for most others? While initial reviews seem positive, the long-term outcome remains to be seen (as an analogy, some games just don't work on the DS that play beautifully on the PSP)
:->) than any of their competitors. Also, because this is Microsoft, and they've shown time and time again that they're able to enter a market late, the underdog, only to come out to dominate it (through their own merit, through mistakes of competitors, or through nefarious means..)
And let's remember what happened last generation - the console that had the one year lead (the PS2) built up a library of games that the other consoles were not able to match (and this is a self-reinforcing cycle.. more games means more gamers means more games..) and indisputably won.
My money's on Microsoft.. because they've got the most compelling game experience right now with a larger library and cheaper games (I picked up PD:Z for $12.99
The Counterstrike is not something you can just dump something on, it's not a big ad-machine. It's, it's a series of tubes!
Plain and simple.
I mean, there's software in there. How dare they bundle that!
What if I don't want an optical drive? How dare they bundle a DVD burner (ie. another product) with the computer?
Too often, the site reverts to German (or some other non-English language :-> ).. and the interface doesn't seem to lend itself to mass-downloading.
Any ideas?
This is what happens to those who flunked out of.. grade 4 math.