Didn't say it made anyone stupid. It's just the next best thing.
It gets you the same results - someone rips you off - maybe just a little but not enough to really hurt all that much - and either you don't know or don't care, or both. Either way, there's no response.
Besides, you may not know who makes the engines, but consider this. Would you care if the engine maker had a track record for making bad engines? Do you care if the tires on your car came from a manufacturer with a track record for making bad tires? Honestly, if enough people didn't care, can you say it wouldn't affect you?
All facetiousness aside, I would have to rate apathetic somewhat higher than stupid.
However, while this may not affect one's life in a 'material way' right now, its easy to see how it can be really annoying if you ever need to reinstall windows. Everyone who's had to reinstall windows and knows they probably will again cares about this kind of thing. And yes, that's the/. crowd.
The 'anti piracy' efforts of any given media industry has been a losing battle since the battle began. Pick a media, any media you want. Someone comes up with a way to prevent copying some kind of media. Someone else comes up with a way to defeat the copy protection. The copy protection never wins. It would be interesting to hear an account of when copy protection has definitively won.
Google for 'mac osx rootkit' turns up about 3000 hits, the top being an osx rootkit.
From Google: Results 1 - 10 of about 1,370 for "mac os x rootkit". (0.22 seconds)
Not quite 3000 hits. The first hit is an article about 'Opener'. I think in order for opener to act like a windows rootkit, you'd have to allow root logins. I don't recall exactly if logging in as root on OSX/bsd lets you install software without a password, but I think I tried it on 10.1.5, and IIRC it didn't ask for a password. Although not too horribly difficult, not something that many know how to do. Unless someone gets around the requirement on OSX/bsd to provide a password to install software, it will be harder for rootkits to get traction - not harder to write rootkits - jsut harder for them to get traction.
How many people run windows as admin, just because its the only way to get done what you need to get done?
"we admit the soundness of his position, that corporations are persons within the meaning of the clause in question." This gave corporations privileges like freedom of speech and due process.
From Timeline of Personhood Rights and Powers "Of the 14th Amendment cases
brought before the Supreme Court between 1890 and 1910, 19 dealt with African Americans, 288 dealt with corporations." America - home of the free.
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MS is the only OS maker that has had so many pervasive and systemic security problems - through the last15 years and 4 operating systems. They are the unchallenged leader in virus spreading, and new virus production. They are the only vender so afflicted, and just attributing that to "everybocy hates microsoft" doesn't cut anymore.
Even just this weekend, one of the DS3's where I work went down, and MS Exchange was the only product that choked. This kind of thing happens with their software, that they have earned every bit of critism they receive here.
So, while I wouldn't say MS is stupid, I wouldn't say they are smart either.
I think bashing./ers just to deflect MS critisms will never help MS produce better software.
4 percent of the recipients have bought something advertised through spam within the past year.
So, the 22 or so billion $ in spam generated economic activity. Was this economic activity good or bad for the economy? Was the economic activity generated more than the expense of the spam?
Don't get me wrong - I'd like to see spam go away as much as the next person, but doesn't someone need to ask the question?
I think it should be obvious that USPTO doesn't really have the ability to judge whether or not a patent is merited. How can granting patents willy-nilly help things?
It has too many automation abilities. No mail client needs to be able to launch applications or retreive all the addresses in an address book and mail a message to all of them. The integration and automation capabilities were added at one point in time perhaps with the thought in mind that people would send a mail message that would start a IP telephony connection upon being opened, for example. Or play a song, a movie - the list could go on and on.
These abilities were added with nary a "what if" it seems. Before people started exploiting outlook's ability to spam, I heard a microsoft rep say once that "all our applications will have email capabilities". When I asked him why, he said so people could click a button in word and mail it to someone.
That response reflected a general attitude of throwing every possible feature into a software program, whether it made real sense or not. If people want to email a word document, they just need to learn how email works.
Instead, Microsoft should have just focused on making a better email client, one with the Internet in mind, as opposed to throwing resources into adding features without ever asking why.
I think at a deeper level is that Microsoft's corporate culture is still not very Internet-centric. They constantly try to pollute Internet standards; they constantly try to centralize functionality (with them); they constantly try to hide things - it seems like their way of thinking and the kind of thinking that drove the development of the internet are just too different.
It really seems as if Microsoft and the Internet will never get along.
A molecular crossbar latch is provided, comprising two control wires and a signal wire that crosses the two control wires at a non-zero angle to thereby form a junction with each control wire. Each junction forms a switch and the junction has a functional dimension in nanometers. The signal wire selectively has at least two different voltage states, ranging from a 0 state to a 1 state, wherein there is an asymmetry with respect to the direction of current flow from the signal wire through one junction compared to another junction such that current flowing through one junction into (out of) the signal wire can open (close) while current flowing through the other junction out of (into) the signal wire can close (open) the switch, and wherein there is a voltage threshold for switching between an open switch and a closed switch. Further, methods are provided for latching logic values onto nanowires in a logic array, for inverting a logic value, and for restoring a voltage value of a signal in a nano-scale wire."
From USTPO "A novel switching device is provided with an active region arranged between first and second electrodes and including a molecular system and ionic complexes distributed in the system. A control electrode is provided for controlling an electric field applied to the active region, which switches between a high-impedance state and a low-impedance state when the electrical field having a predetermined polarity and intensity is applied for a predetermined time."
Haven't they been saying this for years? Since 2001 or so? How many thousands of viruses has microsoft's OS been nailed with since then?
Palladium, anyone?
Really, for a company whose software spreads viruses like a whore on a submarine for the last 20 years to claim that all of a sudden it thinks security is important at least implies that security wasen't number 1 until now...
Boy that make me feel safe using windows! Thank God!
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Didn't say it made anyone stupid. It's just the next best thing.
It gets you the same results - someone rips you off - maybe just a little but not enough to really hurt all that much - and either you don't know or don't care, or both. Either way, there's no response.
Besides, you may not know who makes the engines, but consider this. Would you care if the engine maker had a track record for making bad engines? Do you care if the tires on your car came from a manufacturer with a track record for making bad tires? Honestly, if enough people didn't care, can you say it wouldn't affect you?
All facetiousness aside, I would have to rate apathetic somewhat higher than stupid.
However, while this may not affect one's life in a 'material way' right now, its easy to see how it can be really annoying if you ever need to reinstall windows. Everyone who's had to reinstall windows and knows they probably will again cares about this kind of thing. And yes, that's the
People are perfectly able to understand the difference between Windows, OSX and Linux - they just don't particularily care
Not caring - the next best thing to stupid.
I woke up this morning looking for a reason to spend time on the phone with microsoft. Otherwise, I'd never have anyone to call.
The 'anti piracy' efforts of any given media industry has been a losing battle since the battle began.
Pick a media, any media you want. Someone comes up with a way to prevent copying some kind of media. Someone else comes up with a way to defeat the copy protection. The copy protection never wins. It would be interesting to hear an account of when copy protection has definitively won.
Seen a few cropping in on OS X 10.2.7 as well
Does anyone get any results from popup adds at all?
Google for 'mac osx rootkit' turns up about 3000 hits, the top being an osx rootkit.
From Google: Results 1 - 10 of about 1,370 for "mac os x rootkit". (0.22 seconds)
Not quite 3000 hits. The first hit is an article about 'Opener'. I think in order for opener to act like a windows rootkit, you'd have to allow root logins. I don't recall exactly if logging in as root on OSX/bsd lets you install software without a password, but I think I tried it on 10.1.5, and IIRC it didn't ask for a password. Although not too horribly difficult, not something that many know how to do. Unless someone gets around the requirement on OSX/bsd to provide a password to install software, it will be harder for rootkits to get traction - not harder to write rootkits - jsut harder for them to get traction.
How many people run windows as admin, just because its the only way to get done what you need to get done?
MINNEAPOLIS & ST. L. R. CO. v. BECKWITH, January 7,1889
"we admit the soundness of his position, that corporations are persons within the meaning of the clause in question."
This gave corporations privileges like freedom of speech and due process.
From Timeline of Personhood Rights and Powers "Of the 14th Amendment cases brought before the Supreme Court between 1890 and 1910, 19 dealt with African Americans, 288 dealt with corporations." America - home of the free.
Yes, its totally off topic.
"Seriously, what would people say if Microsoft tried to charge money for their baseline security software?"
Nothing. They'd pay for it. Its not as though most windows users are aware they have choices.
Would that be like zero-carb HIV? Or HIV98se?
Hmm..
When counting vulnerabilities and patches for its software, the OS and the Apps are counted separately.
When in front of a federal judge, some of the Apps and the OS are counted as being together.
Hmm..
This article has an interesting comparison between C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, Rexx, and Tcl.
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He said the child could use the laptop like a text book.
Would it come with a highlighter? Oh, wait, he said child not business major.
"It's more like taking that new car to a racetrack and pounding the heck out of it trying to win with the stock engine and suspension
So, connecting windows to the internet is pounding the living daylights out of it? Why is that not the issue with other OSes?
MS is the only OS maker that has had so many pervasive and systemic security problems - through the last15 years and 4 operating systems. They are the unchallenged leader in virus spreading, and new virus production. They are the only vender so afflicted, and just attributing that to "everybocy hates microsoft" doesn't cut anymore.
./ers just to deflect MS critisms will never help MS produce better software.
Even just this weekend, one of the DS3's where I work went down, and MS Exchange was the only product that choked. This kind of thing happens with their software, that they have earned every bit of critism they receive here.
So, while I wouldn't say MS is stupid, I wouldn't say they are smart either.
I think bashing
4 percent of the recipients have bought something advertised through spam within the past year.
So, the 22 or so billion $ in spam generated economic activity. Was this economic activity good or bad for the economy? Was the economic activity generated more than the expense of the spam?
Don't get me wrong - I'd like to see spam go away as much as the next person, but doesn't someone need to ask the question?
Its altogether possible that Apple ran them for awhile before marketing them.
Only a possibility, not a given, though.
Or pay to touch...
When they will grant a patent for getting a cat to chase a laserpointer
I think it should be obvious that USPTO doesn't really have the ability to judge whether or not a patent is merited. How can granting patents willy-nilly help things?
For software of all things?
It has too many automation abilities. No mail client needs to be able to launch applications or retreive all the addresses in an address book and mail a message to all of them. The integration and automation capabilities were added at one point in time perhaps with the thought in mind that people would send a mail message that would start a IP telephony connection upon being opened, for example. Or play a song, a movie - the list could go on and on.
These abilities were added with nary a "what if" it seems. Before people started exploiting outlook's ability to spam, I heard a microsoft rep say once that "all our applications will have email capabilities". When I asked him why, he said so people could click a button in word and mail it to someone.
That response reflected a general attitude of throwing every possible feature into a software program, whether it made real sense or not. If people want to email a word document, they just need to learn how email works.
Instead, Microsoft should have just focused on making a better email client, one with the Internet in mind, as opposed to throwing resources into adding features without ever asking why.
I think at a deeper level is that Microsoft's corporate culture is still not very Internet-centric. They constantly try to pollute Internet standards; they constantly try to centralize functionality (with them); they constantly try to hide things - it seems like their way of thinking and the kind of thinking that drove the development of the internet are just too different.
It really seems as if Microsoft and the Internet will never get along.
From nanoinvestornews:
A molecular crossbar latch is provided, comprising two control wires and a signal wire that crosses the two control wires at a non-zero angle to thereby form a junction with each control wire. Each junction forms a switch and the junction has a functional dimension in nanometers. The signal wire selectively has at least two different voltage states, ranging from a 0 state to a 1 state, wherein there is an asymmetry with respect to the direction of current flow from the signal wire through one junction compared to another junction such that current flowing through one junction into (out of) the signal wire can open (close) while current flowing through the other junction out of (into) the signal wire can close (open) the switch, and wherein there is a voltage threshold for switching between an open switch and a closed switch. Further, methods are provided for latching logic values onto nanowires in a logic array, for inverting a logic value, and for restoring a voltage value of a signal in a nano-scale wire."
From USTPO
"A novel switching device is provided with an active region arranged between first and second electrodes and including a molecular system and ionic complexes distributed in the system. A control electrode is provided for controlling an electric field applied to the active region, which switches between a high-impedance state and a low-impedance state when the electrical field having a predetermined polarity and intensity is applied for a predetermined time."
Haven't they been saying this for years? Since 2001 or so? How many thousands of viruses has microsoft's OS been nailed with since then?
Palladium, anyone?
Really, for a company whose software spreads viruses like a whore on a submarine for the last 20 years to claim that all of a sudden it thinks security is important at least implies that security wasen't number 1 until now...
Boy that make me feel safe using windows! Thank God!
"People would be very lucky if other sectors of the economy worked as well as the PC industry."
But not very lucky if other products worked as well as windows
If you look at things like spam, we feel very good about the progress there.
Thanks to poor design, Outlook now helps spammers(worms and viruses) innovate more than ever.
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This was interesting also, regarding the timeline for longhorn: We're targeting 2006 but that isn't in any sense an exact date.
For a 'genius', he certainly understands that a year is not the same as an exact date.
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I wish I could get an exact date....
Just like this giant pile of burning 5hit