To have a company intimately involved with *security* not apparently able to manage their own security in a manner that protects the country and their customers is a joke. .
Google needs to release its web office applications as a server that can be installed in a corporate datacenter. That would allow corporations to maintain full and auditable control over their data, while leaving the high cost of MS Office behind.
ok. but FF needs a way to KNOW that your friend told you that his Self-signed Certificate is OK. .
The way FF3 knows the certificate is OK is that I click on the OK button. FF does not need to know about any conversations or information exchange between me and my friend. All FF needs to know is that I want it to accept the self-signed certificate.
That's the interesting point in all this. Good security cannot get in the way of doing what you want to do. Windows Vista proved this with the UAC nagging. .
If I visit my friend's website, and he tells me that he self-signed the certificate, then I will trust that more than if a CA had signed a certificate. Why? Because I trust my friend more than I trust Verisign or whomever. Why should FF3's acceptance of the former trust relationship be more complex than its acceptance of the latter?
FF3 needs to make it easier to accept self-signed certificates.
your "facts" are actually just bitter whiny opinions
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Read the court transcripts.
The simple fact is you lost.
I did lose, as did hundreds of millions of other PC users who have had to put up with an unreliable operating system from a company that was more concerned about protecting its monopoly than engaging in the advancement of the PC industry via real innovation.
Monopoly laws are a relic of the steel and oil industries
That's your opinion. However, the monopoly laws are still on the books and have to be obeyed. If you break them, you suffer the consequences. It is good to see, however, that you implicitly acknowledge that Gates engaged in illegal activity to gain his wealth.
Bill Gates is just trying to improve how the history books will view his life. Fortunately, his legacy of illegal activity, the stifling of innovation in th ePC industry, and the draining of profits from the PC industry will outlive the recent attempts of his publicity staff to have him be seen as a humanitarian.
Every time there is a discussion about the Gates foundation, someone will predictably stand up and say that Gates is not a philanthropist because his actions as Microsoft CEO were not consistently philanthropic. .
His actions as Microsoft CEO were not just "not consistently philanthropic", they were shown to be illegal.
A commercial corporation is a voluntary collective of investors who want to maximize their financial investment. That's OK with me.
It's OK with me also, so long as it is done legally.
So, give Gates a break. He's hugely rich.
Hugely rich with illegally begotten money. Precisely because he is hugely rich, is the reason he should be subject to more scrutiny as to his motives.
"Success has a tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men." -- Demosthenes
"Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse." -- Chilo
"He is not great, who is not greatly good." -- William Shakespeare
Every time there is a discussion about the Gates foundation, someone will predictably stand up and say that Gates is not a philanthropist because his actions as Microsoft CEO were not consistently philanthropic. .
His actions as Microsoft CEO were not just "not consistently philanthropic", they were shown to be illegal.
A commercial corporation is a voluntary collective of investors who want to maximize their financial investment. That's OK with me.
It's OK with me so long as it is done legally.
So, give Gates a break. He's hugely rich.
Hugely rich with illegally begotten money.
"Success has a tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men." -- Demosthenes
"Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse." -- Chilo
"He is not great, who is not greatly good." -- William Shakespeare
Bill Gates is just trying to improve how the history books will view his life. Fortunately, his legacy of illegal activity, the stifling of innovation, and the draining of profits from the PC industry will outlive the recent attempts of his publicity staff to have him be seen as a humanitarian.
There's such a disconnect between what people experience in their cars and what they experience in the rest of their lives
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Probably because when people are in their cars they are driving around large, heavy, and potentially lethal, vehicles. Now Microsoft wants those people to be distracted by unreliable Microsoft software.
'engineers, not politicians or bureaucrats, should solve engineering problems.'
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That's a nice sound bite (typical of bureaucrats nowadays), but an engineering problem (bandwidth utilization of P2P networks) has been turned into a business opportunity -- restrictively low caps with excessive overage charges --- by the ISPs.
So, in effect, the lack of regulation due to "engineering problems needed to be solved by Engineers" has evolved into "engineering problems being solved by accountants".
Safari 3.1 is a good example, as far as we see it, the only reason they did this release was that Firefox 3 would come out and have Javascript speed which would be twice as fast as theirs, cause that's how it was before.
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The reason why Safari came out with the faster JavaScript is that the faster JavaScript was needed for the MobileMe service's web interface.
It is nothing more than trivially humorous that a FireFox fanboy describes the world as being Firefox-centric.
Having said that, competition, whether imagined (as with Mozilla's "evangelist," Christopher Blizzard) or real, is always for the better.
For the record, Opera 9.5 was the first official release of Opera that seemed worse in its core browsing functionality than the version that preceeded it for a lot of people.
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That hits the nail on the head. For me, 9.50, 9.51 and 9.52 versions of Opera are all significant back steps from 9.27.
I have to wonder why Opera released such half-baked software? Was there a race with FireFox 3.x? Was it the ACID results? I have trouble believing that a company which is trying to gain marketshare would intentionally release such problematic software.
Opera 9.51 (and the 9.52 beta) just does not work well enough for every day use. If you read the Opera news groups, you will see that Opera users are reverting to 9.27.
I still say it is harmful. Hungarian notation is way too complex. It makes it more difficult to write good code because you are thinking more about what friggin' prefix to use, and less about actually writing good code.
You'll have to do a lot better than citing a random article to convince me that Hungarian notation is not one of the larger programming guidelines mistakes in existence.
I agree, Hungarian notiation is absolutely one of the worst coding standards I have ever seen foist upon innocent programmers. Sometimes I wonder if it alone is the reason why Windows is so unreliable, i.e., Microsoft programmers are concentrating too much on trying to get that prefix correct, and not enough on writing quality code.
What standards have you found worked well in practice, increasing code readability and maintainability?
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Coding guidelines are typically justified because, as it goes, most of the time is spent fixing bugs in existing code than writing new code. The guidelines are needed because it helps others to come up to speed quickly while they try to figure out the code in which they have to fix the bug(s).
I think that is the wrong focus, as it tends to reinforce incorrect behavior, i.e., the writing of buggy code.
Coding guidelines should focus instead on the techniques that help reduce the number of bugs in code. How is that done? It takes someone (typically a senior person) looking at the the bugs that have been found in the code, categorizing their cause, devising a way to prevent those bugs from occurring, then putting that into the guidelines.
Keep the focus of the guidelines where it should be: to increase the quality of the software.
Slashdot Mirror
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I do submit news stories, however, they are not accepted, probably because they are too new.
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What is becoming of /. lately? Instead of discussions of breaking news, all I am seeing is retreads of old stories.
Wordle of TFA.
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Does the phrase lowest bidder mean anything? :(
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Google needs to release its web office applications as a server that can be installed in a corporate datacenter. That would allow corporations to maintain full and auditable control over their data, while leaving the high cost of MS Office behind.
What part don't you understand?
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All FF3 has to know is that I want it to accept the self-signed certificate. Period.
Then FF3 should provide a good UI to accommodate me.
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The way FF3 knows the certificate is OK is that I click on the OK button. FF does not need to know about any conversations or information exchange between me and my friend. All FF needs to know is that I want it to accept the self-signed certificate.
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If I visit my friend's website, and he tells me that he self-signed the certificate, then I will trust that more than if a CA had signed a certificate. Why? Because I trust my friend more than I trust Verisign or whomever. Why should FF3's acceptance of the former trust relationship be more complex than its acceptance of the latter?
FF3 needs to make it easier to accept self-signed certificates.
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Why can gmail (my new free email provider) do such a better job than Yahoo did?
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Read the court transcripts.
The simple fact is you lost.
I did lose, as did hundreds of millions of other PC users who have had to put up with an unreliable operating system from a company that was more concerned about protecting its monopoly than engaging in the advancement of the PC industry via real innovation.
Monopoly laws are a relic of the steel and oil industries
That's your opinion. However, the monopoly laws are still on the books and have to be obeyed. If you break them, you suffer the consequences. It is good to see, however, that you implicitly acknowledge that Gates engaged in illegal activity to gain his wealth.
Bill Gates is just trying to improve how the history books will view his life. Fortunately, his legacy of illegal activity, the stifling of innovation in th ePC industry, and the draining of profits from the PC industry will outlive the recent attempts of his publicity staff to have him be seen as a humanitarian.
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His actions as Microsoft CEO were not just "not consistently philanthropic", they were shown to be illegal.
A commercial corporation is a voluntary collective of investors who want to maximize their financial investment. That's OK with me.
It's OK with me also, so long as it is done legally.
So, give Gates a break. He's hugely rich.
Hugely rich with illegally begotten money. Precisely because he is hugely rich, is the reason he should be subject to more scrutiny as to his motives.
"Success has a tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men." -- Demosthenes
"Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse." -- Chilo
"He is not great, who is not greatly good." -- William Shakespeare
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His actions as Microsoft CEO were not just "not consistently philanthropic", they were shown to be illegal.
A commercial corporation is a voluntary collective of investors who want to maximize their financial investment. That's OK with me.
It's OK with me so long as it is done legally.
So, give Gates a break. He's hugely rich.
Hugely rich with illegally begotten money.
"Success has a tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men." -- Demosthenes
"Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse." -- Chilo
"He is not great, who is not greatly good." -- William Shakespeare
Bill Gates is just trying to improve how the history books will view his life. Fortunately, his legacy of illegal activity, the stifling of innovation, and the draining of profits from the PC industry will outlive the recent attempts of his publicity staff to have him be seen as a humanitarian.
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Money is strictly short-term, precedents affect the long-term.
The RIAA want precedents to be set such that they can continue to harass innocent people without regard for the consequences of their mistakes.
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Probably because when people are in their cars they are driving around large, heavy, and potentially lethal, vehicles. Now Microsoft wants those people to be distracted by unreliable Microsoft software.
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That's a nice sound bite (typical of bureaucrats nowadays), but an engineering problem (bandwidth utilization of P2P networks) has been turned into a business opportunity -- restrictively low caps with excessive overage charges --- by the ISPs.
So, in effect, the lack of regulation due to "engineering problems needed to be solved by Engineers" has evolved into "engineering problems being solved by accountants".
I'd rather have regulation.
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Microsoft is responsible for nearly 100% of the malware targets.
The root problem is the producers of malware, not the conduits that are used.
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The reason why Safari came out with the faster JavaScript is that the faster JavaScript was needed for the MobileMe service's web interface.
It is nothing more than trivially humorous that a FireFox fanboy describes the world as being Firefox-centric.
Having said that, competition, whether imagined (as with Mozilla's "evangelist," Christopher Blizzard) or real, is always for the better.
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That hits the nail on the head. For me, 9.50, 9.51 and 9.52 versions of Opera are all significant back steps from 9.27.
I have to wonder why Opera released such half-baked software? Was there a race with FireFox 3.x? Was it the ACID results? I have trouble believing that a company which is trying to gain marketshare would intentionally release such problematic software.
Opera 9.51 (and the 9.52 beta) just does not work well enough for every day use. If you read the Opera news groups, you will see that Opera users are reverting to 9.27.
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I still say it is harmful. Hungarian notation is way too complex. It makes it more difficult to write good code because you are thinking more about what friggin' prefix to use, and less about actually writing good code.
You'll have to do a lot better than citing a random article to convince me that Hungarian notation is not one of the larger programming guidelines mistakes in existence.
I agree, Hungarian notiation is absolutely one of the worst coding standards I have ever seen foist upon innocent programmers. Sometimes I wonder if it alone is the reason why Windows is so unreliable, i.e., Microsoft programmers are concentrating too much on trying to get that prefix correct, and not enough on writing quality code.
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Coding guidelines are typically justified because, as it goes, most of the time is spent fixing bugs in existing code than writing new code. The guidelines are needed because it helps others to come up to speed quickly while they try to figure out the code in which they have to fix the bug(s).
I think that is the wrong focus, as it tends to reinforce incorrect behavior, i.e., the writing of buggy code.
Coding guidelines should focus instead on the techniques that help reduce the number of bugs in code. How is that done? It takes someone (typically a senior person) looking at the the bugs that have been found in the code, categorizing their cause, devising a way to prevent those bugs from occurring, then putting that into the guidelines.
Keep the focus of the guidelines where it should be: to increase the quality of the software.