Here's the thing about locking down Windows, it has the most pointlessly complex, convoluted security policies you could ever imagine. Something as simple as the firewall can be changed in 3 THREE different places on XP(no idea about future versions), and the way they interact and overrule each other is completely non-obvious. Now compare this with iptables, one text file, just one, and it's a text file. Boom, you have a functioning firewall and if someone needs a port opened/closed, it's just a vi command and/etc/init.d iptables reload away. I swear Microsoft makes their products pointlessly complex in order to maximize the number of people who take the MSCE test.
Wow, you know nothing, and it shows, and the fact that someone as ignorant as you is writing security guides speaks volumes on Windows security. I have repeated myself I don't know how many times but you refuse to listen, IT WAS FUCKING IMPOSSIBLE TO TOTALLY DISABLE AUTORUN IN WINDOWS UNTIL VERY VERY RECENTLY!!!!!!!!! Why do you think Microsoft finally removed it? Because Windows is such a buggy pile of shit that they couldn't figure out how to allow users to totally disable it without breaking 50 fucking things. You could "disable" it, but that didn't actually totally disable it, it was still incredibly trivial for a hacker to take advantage of it's many, many flaws. And yes, if you totally actually you know, ignore the severity of the holes(which Microsoft LOVES to do) and include EVERY Linux package under the sun, then yeah, Windows has fewer holes. But the ones it does have are so big you could drive a truck through them. You are a Microsoft shill as I said, and I look forward to your clients suing the shit out of you for recommending such a buggy, insecure OS to them. There is a reason that Windows server is losing ground faster than Balmer can throw chairs, nobody wants to take even a remote chance on putting any actual real data at risk with that buggy insecure piece of shit "operating system"(read toy). The numbers speak volumes, Windows is a dead end, and if you value you career I suggest you actually get your head out of Billy G's ass and look at the actual data.
Name me one, ONE serious incident in the past 10 years that was a result of a Unix security bug. I'll just fire off the most notable Windows ones, because I would be writing a novel if I listed every single Windows security failure.
Stuxnet, Conflicker, SQL slammer, the pentagon hacks(which succeeded because of Window's inability to totally disable autorun, see earlier argument), Klez. and the list goes on and on. Not to mention a security incident just waiting to happen, Microsoft's DRM anti-piracy system. It just gives me such a warm fuzzy feeling knowing that I have to prove that I bought that piece of shit OS to Bill whenever he demands that I do. And that if he doesn't particularly like me he can remotely disable my system. Yeah, that's not a security issue at all.
Windows is a joke to hack and you are a shill or an idiot for arguing otherwise. So which is it, shill or moron?
Yeah, because waiting on Microsoft to fix security exploits is SUCH a good idea, how many 10 year plus exploits have been found for Windows? Way more than any other OS out there, and whenever a whole is found in a major linux package they are fixed within at most days, vs. weeks windows. But yeah, you keep playing with your toy OS, makes it easier for people to own your data!
First and foremost, no, until recently it was IMPOSSIBLE to COMPLETELY disable auto-run, Microsoft's pathetic security really shown through there. Secondly you have shown you know absolutely NOTHING about Linux. Unlike Microsoft there is no Linux "monolith" outside the kernel(and even then). The kernel has nothing to do with autorun. And furthermore, on distros that do enable auto-run it's insanely simple not only to disable autorun, but to remove the functionality from the system. Try removing, not just disabling, autorun from Windows. Go ahead, I can wait..... So yeah, you obviously need to use a real operating system and realize how absolutely primitive Microsoft is before saying anything more to expose your own ignorance.
Nope, you fail it. Linux auto-run was actually possible to totally turn off, fuck it's not even on by default. Microsoft's pathetic excuse for an "operating system" didn't actually allow you to totally turn off autorun, you could disable parts of it, but it was impossible to actually completely turn it off. Nice try Microsoft shill, but you fail it. And also, the number of attacks, even considering the market share, against OS X are a drop in the bucket compared to the cum-bucket that is Windows. Why do you think Google banned windows from it's networks? Because Windows "security" is a joke and always has been a joke and always will be a joke. But Microsoft's repeated failures are finally catching up to it and it won't be relevant in a decade anyway, so...
I especially like your #1: -all of your hard drives show up as one big storage pool.
Not only does EVERY unix do that, it's the ONLY way it can be done. Mixing up the logical and physical partitions in such a convoluted way is a Microsoft only type of deal. Drive letters were thrown out in real operating systems decades ago. Again, Windows: Failing today to do what Unix successfully did decades ago.
Because external threats are the only kind that exist! Oh, wait, there's also employee ineptitude, like plugging in a petri dish of a flash drive and opening up more gaping backdoors than you'll find at a massive gay orgy. Guess what? That's far less of a concern on a server as your sysadmin likely isn't going to be that stupid.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA, I find it hilarious that you use this example as an example SUPPORTING Microsoft. You are aware that it was ONLY FUCKING MICROSOFST that had autolaunch and until extremely recently that it was even possible to completely disable it. Real operating systems(and not toys like the ones Microsoft makes) have had ways to disable that shit for eons before Microsoft even realized it was possible. If you are trusting critical data to a Microsoft product you are asking to be hacked.
What good is any sort of enterprise policy on an OS thats trivial to hack? Not to mention that all that group policy bullshit is proprietary, they don't even use open authentication methods, NTLM is just WAITING to be hacked.
There's a reason Google has banned the use of the toy OS for development machines, they don't want their information being stolen by hackers. There are also other, easier ways to do what group policy does. I never found it to be even remotely useful, or even remotely make up for all the extra time necessary to manage Windows machines over their Linux and Mac counterparts.
Maybe in the 70s that view was correct, but modern republicans HATE science because it contradicts what the "moral majority" is trying to promote.
Also listen to any republican talk about academics. They are pretty open about their disdain for them. Probably comes from the fact that Republicans have about 0 empirical evidence for any of their programs, they just use some vague ideological arguments for tax cuts and crusades against public health care despite the overwhelming evidence that shows a moderate tax rate and public health insurance tends to result in much healthier economy and populace.
Seriously, drive extender's "features" that Microsoft couldn't get to work right include stuff that has been standard in the Unix world for over a decade. Tell me again why people even bother with windows, especially a "server" edition? It's not nearly as functional as Linux but you get to pay a ton of money for it and get DRM as a bonus! Wow, where do I sign up?
Microsoft's new slogan: We are pushing the boundaries of what the rest of the computing world was doing 20 years ago.
This...exactly this... Republicans have made no effort to hide their disdain for intellectuals? Why? Because people who can actually think critically never vote Republican. They might not necessarily vote democrat either, but they certainly aren't going to vote republican. Republicanism thrives on ignorance.
Other than games that use the accelerometer that probably wouldn't work out too well because you would have no physical feedback on the controls. Having to look at controls when they are on the same screen is enough of a pain in the ass, having to look totally away from the game screen to see the controller seems like a recipe for frustration.
And how is that different from almost EVERY TV AND GAMES CONSOLE EVER SOLD IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND? Sorry for the caps but you either do not remember the past correctly or seem to have an extremely selective memory. Maybe I'm totally off base here, but even after the introduction of the apple TV you can still build and piece together your own computer. And software. And games. And movies. And music. And drawings. And and and and and. By your definition books were incredibly evil because all a book really allows you to do is "consume content".
HAHAHAHA, that's so adorable you believe Bush's made up numbers! Pro tip, he didn't include his war to avenge daddy in the deficit numbers, they were always passed using "emergency funding bills". So the real total cost of Bush's ineptitude due to his daddy issues isn't even factored in. Once you take that into account the man child was running huge deficits even when the economy was good.
Also GWB made it a point to promote an "ownership society", it was the fucking theme of his re-election campaign for christ sakes. He was the fucker pushing for easier access to credit so at least temporarily it wouldn't look like his policies were abject failures(which is what they were). It's amazing how little of history republicans choose to remember. But yeah, the war to avenge daddy had 0 impact on the economy and spending....right....
Yup, because we all know that Bush's tax cuts for the uber wealthy were so wonderful that they prevented all future recessions and had us living shangri la....oh wait.....
Shaking up the freight trains is a really bad idea, while the US lags far, far behind the rest of the rich world(save Canada) in passenger trains, we have a much more efficient freight system than Europe does. It's probably one of the most "hidden" strengths of our economy, and the reason China can actually sell goods to people on the East coast for as cheap as they do.
Um yeah, you might want to check on the Man Child's last years before you go blaming Obama for the record deficits, oh, and the greatest recession in almost 70 years, again caused by the Man Child's ineptitude. Also, I know you are a Republican and thus incapable of rational thought(note that doesn't mean I think fiscal conservatives aren't capable of rational thought, just anyone that belongs to the modern "Keep government out of the board room but in the bedroom! republicans are), but one election does not a trend make. You do realize that the last election was hardly a resounding "mandate" for the republican party and more of a "vote out the incumbents!" vote. Just like 2006 + 2008 were hardly resounding wins for the democrats, it was pretty much the same mentality of voting against the incumbents.
Hard to see where the Republicans are going in the future, on one hand they appeal to the nation's fastest shrinking demographic, old white people, and on the other hand they appeal to the nation's fastest growing demographic, morons.
and if someone breaks into my house and steals my dongle? What then? I have to have some way of going and getting a new one and inactivating the old one. How can I do that? How can I prove that I am the original owner? I'm going to need some type of security mechanism, such as a.....PASSWORD!
Actually a bigger reason for Nintendo's slump is that Nintendo REALLY sucks at playing the forex game, esp. when compared to their fellow country(corp?)men Sony. Nintendo has only had a few quarters where they have lost money and they have all been when the yen was insanely strong. Nintendo went through this about a decade ago and they had assured everyone that they learned their lesson and that would never happen again. Now the yen is insanely strong and Nintendo's costs are almost entirely in yen. Unlike Sony's game division Nintendo does very little development in Europe and North America(Metroid Prime being the prime(ha!) exception). So when the yen Nintendo's costs increase but their revenue doesn't(they sell a lot more in NA and Europe than they do at home). Maybe Reggie Fils Amie should be pestering the Kyoto office to move more people under him:P
These tools don't "mangle" data in the sense you seem to think they do, quite simply what these tools do is provide an "eventually consistent" database. IE a write won't necessary be propagated instantaneously to every single database. Instead it will be "eventually"(with eventually depending on the scope of the problem and the overall system architectures involved) be consistent. Now for large classes of problems(social networks, search engines, message boards like/.), this is a huge boon. By relaxing the timeline constraint for consistency then can make both reads and writes MUCH faster, scale up better, handle faults better etc. However you are right in that there are also large classes of problems for which eventual consistency isn't a very useful tool. For instance a real time database in a factory or even databases for small businesses where there is no real benefit to going to an eventually consistent system with more fluid data structures. Again, right tool, right job.
Right, but there really isn't going to be a whole lot of demand for higher pixel densities until the software can improve to the point where such densities are useful. As such no monitor manufacturer(or any of the other groups associated with computer video) are going to really be interested in investing in the R&D necessary to make higher density displays.
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He's like the decadent and incompetent version of Putin.
George W. Bush?
Here's the thing about locking down Windows, it has the most pointlessly complex, convoluted security policies you could ever imagine. Something as simple as the firewall can be changed in 3 THREE different places on XP(no idea about future versions), and the way they interact and overrule each other is completely non-obvious. Now compare this with iptables, one text file, just one, and it's a text file. Boom, you have a functioning firewall and if someone needs a port opened/closed, it's just a vi command and /etc/init.d iptables reload away. I swear Microsoft makes their products pointlessly complex in order to maximize the number of people who take the MSCE test.
I just farted. There, let it be said that I have increased the amount of human knowledge on the internet!
Wow, you know nothing, and it shows, and the fact that someone as ignorant as you is writing security guides speaks volumes on Windows security. I have repeated myself I don't know how many times but you refuse to listen, IT WAS FUCKING IMPOSSIBLE TO TOTALLY DISABLE AUTORUN IN WINDOWS UNTIL VERY VERY RECENTLY!!!!!!!!! Why do you think Microsoft finally removed it? Because Windows is such a buggy pile of shit that they couldn't figure out how to allow users to totally disable it without breaking 50 fucking things. You could "disable" it, but that didn't actually totally disable it, it was still incredibly trivial for a hacker to take advantage of it's many, many flaws. And yes, if you totally actually you know, ignore the severity of the holes(which Microsoft LOVES to do) and include EVERY Linux package under the sun, then yeah, Windows has fewer holes. But the ones it does have are so big you could drive a truck through them. You are a Microsoft shill as I said, and I look forward to your clients suing the shit out of you for recommending such a buggy, insecure OS to them. There is a reason that Windows server is losing ground faster than Balmer can throw chairs, nobody wants to take even a remote chance on putting any actual real data at risk with that buggy insecure piece of shit "operating system"(read toy). The numbers speak volumes, Windows is a dead end, and if you value you career I suggest you actually get your head out of Billy G's ass and look at the actual data.
Name me one, ONE serious incident in the past 10 years that was a result of a Unix security bug. I'll just fire off the most notable Windows ones, because I would be writing a novel if I listed every single Windows security failure.
Stuxnet, Conflicker, SQL slammer, the pentagon hacks(which succeeded because of Window's inability to totally disable autorun, see earlier argument), Klez. and the list goes on and on. Not to mention a security incident just waiting to happen, Microsoft's DRM anti-piracy system. It just gives me such a warm fuzzy feeling knowing that I have to prove that I bought that piece of shit OS to Bill whenever he demands that I do. And that if he doesn't particularly like me he can remotely disable my system. Yeah, that's not a security issue at all.
Windows is a joke to hack and you are a shill or an idiot for arguing otherwise. So which is it, shill or moron?
Yeah, because waiting on Microsoft to fix security exploits is SUCH a good idea, how many 10 year plus exploits have been found for Windows? Way more than any other OS out there, and whenever a whole is found in a major linux package they are fixed within at most days, vs. weeks windows. But yeah, you keep playing with your toy OS, makes it easier for people to own your data!
First and foremost, no, until recently it was IMPOSSIBLE to COMPLETELY disable auto-run, Microsoft's pathetic security really shown through there. Secondly you have shown you know absolutely NOTHING about Linux. Unlike Microsoft there is no Linux "monolith" outside the kernel(and even then). The kernel has nothing to do with autorun. And furthermore, on distros that do enable auto-run it's insanely simple not only to disable autorun, but to remove the functionality from the system. Try removing, not just disabling, autorun from Windows. Go ahead, I can wait..... So yeah, you obviously need to use a real operating system and realize how absolutely primitive Microsoft is before saying anything more to expose your own ignorance.
Nope, you fail it. Linux auto-run was actually possible to totally turn off, fuck it's not even on by default. Microsoft's pathetic excuse for an "operating system" didn't actually allow you to totally turn off autorun, you could disable parts of it, but it was impossible to actually completely turn it off. Nice try Microsoft shill, but you fail it. And also, the number of attacks, even considering the market share, against OS X are a drop in the bucket compared to the cum-bucket that is Windows. Why do you think Google banned windows from it's networks? Because Windows "security" is a joke and always has been a joke and always will be a joke. But Microsoft's repeated failures are finally catching up to it and it won't be relevant in a decade anyway, so...
Yup, LVM FTW. you fail it.
I especially like your #1:
-all of your hard drives show up as one big storage pool.
Not only does EVERY unix do that, it's the ONLY way it can be done. Mixing up the logical and physical partitions in such a convoluted way is a Microsoft only type of deal. Drive letters were thrown out in real operating systems decades ago. Again, Windows: Failing today to do what Unix successfully did decades ago.
Because external threats are the only kind that exist! Oh, wait, there's also employee ineptitude, like plugging in a petri dish of a flash drive and opening up more gaping backdoors than you'll find at a massive gay orgy. Guess what? That's far less of a concern on a server as your sysadmin likely isn't going to be that stupid.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA, I find it hilarious that you use this example as an example SUPPORTING Microsoft. You are aware that it was ONLY FUCKING MICROSOFST that had autolaunch and until extremely recently that it was even possible to completely disable it. Real operating systems(and not toys like the ones Microsoft makes) have had ways to disable that shit for eons before Microsoft even realized it was possible. If you are trusting critical data to a Microsoft product you are asking to be hacked.
What good is any sort of enterprise policy on an OS thats trivial to hack? Not to mention that all that group policy bullshit is proprietary, they don't even use open authentication methods, NTLM is just WAITING to be hacked.
There's a reason Google has banned the use of the toy OS for development machines, they don't want their information being stolen by hackers. There are also other, easier ways to do what group policy does. I never found it to be even remotely useful, or even remotely make up for all the extra time necessary to manage Windows machines over their Linux and Mac counterparts.
Maybe in the 70s that view was correct, but modern republicans HATE science because it contradicts what the "moral majority" is trying to promote.
Also listen to any republican talk about academics. They are pretty open about their disdain for them. Probably comes from the fact that Republicans have about 0 empirical evidence for any of their programs, they just use some vague ideological arguments for tax cuts and crusades against public health care despite the overwhelming evidence that shows a moderate tax rate and public health insurance tends to result in much healthier economy and populace.
Seriously, drive extender's "features" that Microsoft couldn't get to work right include stuff that has been standard in the Unix world for over a decade. Tell me again why people even bother with windows, especially a "server" edition? It's not nearly as functional as Linux but you get to pay a ton of money for it and get DRM as a bonus! Wow, where do I sign up?
Microsoft's new slogan: We are pushing the boundaries of what the rest of the computing world was doing 20 years ago.
This...exactly this... Republicans have made no effort to hide their disdain for intellectuals? Why? Because people who can actually think critically never vote Republican. They might not necessarily vote democrat either, but they certainly aren't going to vote republican. Republicanism thrives on ignorance.
Other than games that use the accelerometer that probably wouldn't work out too well because you would have no physical feedback on the controls. Having to look at controls when they are on the same screen is enough of a pain in the ass, having to look totally away from the game screen to see the controller seems like a recipe for frustration.
And how is that different from almost EVERY TV AND GAMES CONSOLE EVER SOLD IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND? Sorry for the caps but you either do not remember the past correctly or seem to have an extremely selective memory. Maybe I'm totally off base here, but even after the introduction of the apple TV you can still build and piece together your own computer. And software. And games. And movies. And music. And drawings. And and and and and. By your definition books were incredibly evil because all a book really allows you to do is "consume content".
HAHAHAHA, that's so adorable you believe Bush's made up numbers! Pro tip, he didn't include his war to avenge daddy in the deficit numbers, they were always passed using "emergency funding bills". So the real total cost of Bush's ineptitude due to his daddy issues isn't even factored in. Once you take that into account the man child was running huge deficits even when the economy was good.
Also GWB made it a point to promote an "ownership society", it was the fucking theme of his re-election campaign for christ sakes. He was the fucker pushing for easier access to credit so at least temporarily it wouldn't look like his policies were abject failures(which is what they were). It's amazing how little of history republicans choose to remember. But yeah, the war to avenge daddy had 0 impact on the economy and spending....right....
Pfft, chess sucks when compared to the real thing, commanding a group of 16 warriors on an 8x8 battlefield in a battle to the death.
Yup, because we all know that Bush's tax cuts for the uber wealthy were so wonderful that they prevented all future recessions and had us living shangri la....oh wait.....
Shaking up the freight trains is a really bad idea, while the US lags far, far behind the rest of the rich world(save Canada) in passenger trains, we have a much more efficient freight system than Europe does. It's probably one of the most "hidden" strengths of our economy, and the reason China can actually sell goods to people on the East coast for as cheap as they do.
Um yeah, you might want to check on the Man Child's last years before you go blaming Obama for the record deficits, oh, and the greatest recession in almost 70 years, again caused by the Man Child's ineptitude. Also, I know you are a Republican and thus incapable of rational thought(note that doesn't mean I think fiscal conservatives aren't capable of rational thought, just anyone that belongs to the modern "Keep government out of the board room but in the bedroom! republicans are), but one election does not a trend make. You do realize that the last election was hardly a resounding "mandate" for the republican party and more of a "vote out the incumbents!" vote. Just like 2006 + 2008 were hardly resounding wins for the democrats, it was pretty much the same mentality of voting against the incumbents.
Hard to see where the Republicans are going in the future, on one hand they appeal to the nation's fastest shrinking demographic, old white people, and on the other hand they appeal to the nation's fastest growing demographic, morons.
and if someone breaks into my house and steals my dongle? What then? I have to have some way of going and getting a new one and inactivating the old one. How can I do that? How can I prove that I am the original owner? I'm going to need some type of security mechanism, such as a.....PASSWORD!
Actually a bigger reason for Nintendo's slump is that Nintendo REALLY sucks at playing the forex game, esp. when compared to their fellow country(corp?)men Sony. Nintendo has only had a few quarters where they have lost money and they have all been when the yen was insanely strong. Nintendo went through this about a decade ago and they had assured everyone that they learned their lesson and that would never happen again. Now the yen is insanely strong and Nintendo's costs are almost entirely in yen. Unlike Sony's game division Nintendo does very little development in Europe and North America(Metroid Prime being the prime(ha!) exception). So when the yen Nintendo's costs increase but their revenue doesn't(they sell a lot more in NA and Europe than they do at home). Maybe Reggie Fils Amie should be pestering the Kyoto office to move more people under him :P
These tools don't "mangle" data in the sense you seem to think they do, quite simply what these tools do is provide an "eventually consistent" database. IE a write won't necessary be propagated instantaneously to every single database. Instead it will be "eventually"(with eventually depending on the scope of the problem and the overall system architectures involved) be consistent. Now for large classes of problems(social networks, search engines, message boards like /.), this is a huge boon. By relaxing the timeline constraint for consistency then can make both reads and writes MUCH faster, scale up better, handle faults better etc. However you are right in that there are also large classes of problems for which eventual consistency isn't a very useful tool. For instance a real time database in a factory or even databases for small businesses where there is no real benefit to going to an eventually consistent system with more fluid data structures. Again, right tool, right job.
it's made of people?!
Right, but there really isn't going to be a whole lot of demand for higher pixel densities until the software can improve to the point where such densities are useful. As such no monitor manufacturer(or any of the other groups associated with computer video) are going to really be interested in investing in the R&D necessary to make higher density displays.