Or anyone that needs to go somewhere without phone signal, or on the ocean or in the air or somewhere where good enough is not good enough where precise location is critical.
MS and other companies have no objection to proper court orders in the appropriate country following due process. This move is due to the US governments unwillingness to follow due process and demand access to servers and data residing in foreign countries without going through the legal processes of that country. So going to German court and arguing the case for access they will be fine with, but of course that will be issued against Deutch Telkom not MS
JIT is a common terminology for many things. Just In Time Access, Just In Time Manufacturing, Just in Time Production and numerous others. Just in computing the most common one is just in time compilers.
most likely if they are doing this they would be cover that and many other combinations, why limit yourself to one domain when 20 or 30 misspellings will net you far more careless users. What I don't understand is why they went the route of installing malware. They were in a position to get users to enter bank details and other identity information as the users thinks they are at the trusted site they typed in, malware just raises the suspicion level when they could have harvested far more by careful selection of banks and sites that don't use MFA.
The easy fix is to switch to a fixed-width, fixed-size font so that things like bankofarnerica don't look like bankofamerica, etc.
No, the easy fix is to never update software from anywhere other than the developer's website. Has the bonus feature of always working now and forever on every OS.
perhaps you missed the part of this story that says it is about typosquatters? I am sure Ubuntu.om or maybe redhat.om will happily serve you up your "safe" updates.
really? typosquatting is one of the easiest routes to hijack unsuspecting users. Much better than a phishing email as the user if presented right in the browser will be seeing their banks page asking them to update X or please enter your credentials. typosquatting is the lazy way to get users to your dodgy site.
The exact same thing could have been said for chrome and firefox and opera et al in the EU. Any of them could have negotiated deals with OEM's or stores to ship their browser as the default. Basically this is an identical situation to the MS one and the government are acting in a similar fashion, it is not up to government to set the standard, it is there responsibility to police those that are abusing their position.
having said that I think both this case and the anti trust cases against MS were and are utter bullshit driven purely by political and corporate interests at the time.
OEM's, Users, corporates etc etc had full power to replace Internet Explorer and distribute whatever the hell they wanted. You don't need OSS to have choice, conversely you don't need to be a closed source system to restrict choice and options.
The report is quite good unlike the absolute turd that was submitted as this summary and headline which are just plain wrong and bare little resemblance to the actual report.
Win 7 is in extended support till 2020. it isn't really end of support till it leaves extended support which is all an enterprise requires to have access to hotfixes and security patches. So that is 11 years vs Linux 7
I am not sure Valve knows what it is doing. They are slow on inhouse game dev, steamboxes are just a skid mark in valves shitter from when they were afraid MS was going to be successful with its own store. They have lots of good ideas but don't seem to have the resources, direction or knowhow to follow through effectively
current laptops are incredibly powerful compared to older desktops. Current desktops are another huge stepup. you can't get a top end laptop that comes anywhere near the performance you can get in a top end desktop. If your needs are low then sure modern laptops are powerful enough for many, but for high end gaming or professional needs they don't come close yet.
what an ignorant statement. Just because you are too closed minded to understand a segment of the market obviously it has no reason to exist despite being one of the largest segments. I have 3 laptops, 2 tablets and 2 smartphones in the house. I still would not trade my 2 desktops for any of them as they simply can't match the performance and convenience of a desktop. Maybe one day they will but that certainly is still a ways off for many areas (gaming, design, development, video and audio etc)
a formal proof for such a complex system is hideously, insanely ridiculously expensive. proper testing is sufficient. Yes a company could lose billions if their systems went offline as opposed to definitely spending billions to write verifiable software that will be out of date by the time they release it.
I would imagine trackpads are vulnerable to the exact same fingerprinting techniques. browser priority is unlikely to have any significant effect on timing and tracking of these events and it would be an absolute pain in the arse.
Well for post Gates/Balmer Microsoft has been trying hard to clean up its hard 80's style business tactics and move towards a friendlier company.
This type of stuff shows its real DNA.
Yep it shows they are a business that acts reasonably! I gather that is what your trying to say? or are you suggesting it is unreasonable for them to chase someone stealing or counterfeiting millions of dollars worth of licenses?
As proven before, IP addresses are a really poor way to identify someone. Considering the circumstances, it could very well be a zombie PC in a larger botnet being identified.
could well be, given the clear illegal activiities the best way to find that out is through the court with subpeana's so they can check it which seems to be what they are doing. When such a massive clear violation has occurred they have to at least follow the process and check, would not be the first time a criminal has been a moron and shit in their own nest.
Then why such a massive uninformative overly wordy summary? this all could have been achieved in a couple of sentences. FBI made changes, it was accepted by secret court but we don't know what the fuck they changed but privacy groups are somewhat happy about the changes they can't tell us about.
of course they care. Their low marketshare puts them in a precarious position, If Android finally cleans its act up to the point where it is as good as the hardware it is running on then Apple will suffer. Apple cannot afford to lose even 1% of the market as it would see a massive profit drop in the company. luckily for them we are still a long way off Android providing a clean consistent interface.
pretty well? as I said they are doing amazingly profit wise, actual marketshare though is under 15%. Samsung alone has a higher share. I don't like the monoculture we have I am just pointing out Apple most definitely is not kicking the crap out of everyone in anything but money (which arguably for a company is all that matters), consumer wise though they are second, mobile OS wise they are a DISTANT second.
While Apple is kicking the crap out of everyone profit wise, they are actually getting the crap kicked out of them in the mobile space for actual marketshare. Still everyone would rather have the share that is happy to pay a much higher margin on hardware.
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for most windows phones that IS Here maps or the Microsoft one which is based on Here maps.
Or anyone that needs to go somewhere without phone signal, or on the ocean or in the air or somewhere where good enough is not good enough where precise location is critical.
MS and other companies have no objection to proper court orders in the appropriate country following due process. This move is due to the US governments unwillingness to follow due process and demand access to servers and data residing in foreign countries without going through the legal processes of that country. So going to German court and arguing the case for access they will be fine with, but of course that will be issued against Deutch Telkom not MS
JIT is a common terminology for many things. Just In Time Access, Just In Time Manufacturing, Just in Time Production and numerous others. Just in computing the most common one is just in time compilers.
most likely if they are doing this they would be cover that and many other combinations, why limit yourself to one domain when 20 or 30 misspellings will net you far more careless users. What I don't understand is why they went the route of installing malware. They were in a position to get users to enter bank details and other identity information as the users thinks they are at the trusted site they typed in, malware just raises the suspicion level when they could have harvested far more by careful selection of banks and sites that don't use MFA.
The easy fix is to switch to a fixed-width, fixed-size font so that things like bankofarnerica don't look like bankofamerica, etc.
No, the easy fix is to never update software from anywhere other than the developer's website. Has the bonus feature of always working now and forever on every OS.
perhaps you missed the part of this story that says it is about typosquatters? I am sure Ubuntu.om or maybe redhat.om will happily serve you up your "safe" updates.
really? typosquatting is one of the easiest routes to hijack unsuspecting users. Much better than a phishing email as the user if presented right in the browser will be seeing their banks page asking them to update X or please enter your credentials. typosquatting is the lazy way to get users to your dodgy site.
The exact same thing could have been said for chrome and firefox and opera et al in the EU. Any of them could have negotiated deals with OEM's or stores to ship their browser as the default. Basically this is an identical situation to the MS one and the government are acting in a similar fashion, it is not up to government to set the standard, it is there responsibility to police those that are abusing their position.
having said that I think both this case and the anti trust cases against MS were and are utter bullshit driven purely by political and corporate interests at the time.
OEM's, Users, corporates etc etc had full power to replace Internet Explorer and distribute whatever the hell they wanted. You don't need OSS to have choice, conversely you don't need to be a closed source system to restrict choice and options.
The report is quite good unlike the absolute turd that was submitted as this summary and headline which are just plain wrong and bare little resemblance to the actual report.
Win 7 is in extended support till 2020. it isn't really end of support till it leaves extended support which is all an enterprise requires to have access to hotfixes and security patches. So that is 11 years vs Linux 7
I am not sure Valve knows what it is doing. They are slow on inhouse game dev, steamboxes are just a skid mark in valves shitter from when they were afraid MS was going to be successful with its own store. They have lots of good ideas but don't seem to have the resources, direction or knowhow to follow through effectively
current laptops are incredibly powerful compared to older desktops. Current desktops are another huge stepup. you can't get a top end laptop that comes anywhere near the performance you can get in a top end desktop. If your needs are low then sure modern laptops are powerful enough for many, but for high end gaming or professional needs they don't come close yet.
what an ignorant statement. Just because you are too closed minded to understand a segment of the market obviously it has no reason to exist despite being one of the largest segments. I have 3 laptops, 2 tablets and 2 smartphones in the house. I still would not trade my 2 desktops for any of them as they simply can't match the performance and convenience of a desktop. Maybe one day they will but that certainly is still a ways off for many areas (gaming, design, development, video and audio etc)
modularization doesn't eliminate complexity though, it removes one complexity and replaces it with a whole other set of complexities and problems.
a formal proof for such a complex system is hideously, insanely ridiculously expensive. proper testing is sufficient. Yes a company could lose billions if their systems went offline as opposed to definitely spending billions to write verifiable software that will be out of date by the time they release it.
I would imagine trackpads are vulnerable to the exact same fingerprinting techniques. browser priority is unlikely to have any significant effect on timing and tracking of these events and it would be an absolute pain in the arse.
Microsoft have ALWAYS chased people that pirate or counterfeit on commercial scales.
Well for post Gates/Balmer Microsoft has been trying hard to clean up its hard 80's style business tactics and move towards a friendlier company.
This type of stuff shows its real DNA.
Yep it shows they are a business that acts reasonably! I gather that is what your trying to say? or are you suggesting it is unreasonable for them to chase someone stealing or counterfeiting millions of dollars worth of licenses?
As proven before, IP addresses are a really poor way to identify someone. Considering the circumstances, it could very well be a zombie PC in a larger botnet being identified.
could well be, given the clear illegal activiities the best way to find that out is through the court with subpeana's so they can check it which seems to be what they are doing. When such a massive clear violation has occurred they have to at least follow the process and check, would not be the first time a criminal has been a moron and shit in their own nest.
Then why such a massive uninformative overly wordy summary? this all could have been achieved in a couple of sentences. FBI made changes, it was accepted by secret court but we don't know what the fuck they changed but privacy groups are somewhat happy about the changes they can't tell us about.
who the fuck wrote this awful summary. was it really that hard to add a little about what the fuck the changes actually are
of course they care. Their low marketshare puts them in a precarious position, If Android finally cleans its act up to the point where it is as good as the hardware it is running on then Apple will suffer. Apple cannot afford to lose even 1% of the market as it would see a massive profit drop in the company. luckily for them we are still a long way off Android providing a clean consistent interface.
pretty well? as I said they are doing amazingly profit wise, actual marketshare though is under 15%. Samsung alone has a higher share. I don't like the monoculture we have I am just pointing out Apple most definitely is not kicking the crap out of everyone in anything but money (which arguably for a company is all that matters), consumer wise though they are second, mobile OS wise they are a DISTANT second.
While Apple is kicking the crap out of everyone profit wise, they are actually getting the crap kicked out of them in the mobile space for actual marketshare. Still everyone would rather have the share that is happy to pay a much higher margin on hardware.