And neither is informative journalism. The glaring point is it's not mentioned in the article. I suppose you subscribe to periodicals that give as little information as possible leaving you to puzzle over whether the missing germane information is rocket science or not.
Very nice. But lets also not forget one tiny innovative ergonomic detail: Apple was the first to alter the laptop keyboard location, they moved the keys up close to the hinge and the display, to give their laptops a wrist-wrest. Subsequent to their seemingly minor but apparently brilliant innovation, you cannot find a laptop that does not have this feature. And yet "no one copies Apple!"
This is slashdot. In this fantasy world, Apple innovates and everyone else imitates.
The GP made a point, and your facetiousism turns out to be true. Take a look at tablets before iPad. The were nothing like iPad. By and large, they were tablet computers that ran a slightly modified version of XP, and they required a stylus. After iPad, suddenly, there's no other way to make a tablet or tablet interface! Perplexed, competitors scream "how else can it be done?" If Apple's competitors do not need to copy every little thing Apple does, then why do they do it?
I happen to call it by its proper name; it is an octothorpe , you insensitive clod.
Used by Bell Labs engineers by 1968. Lauren Asplund says that he and a colleague were the source of octothorp at AT&T engineering in New York in 1964. The Merriam-Webster New Book of Word Histories, 1991, has a long article that is consistent with Doug Kerr's essay, in that it says "octotherp" was the original spelling, and that the word arose in the 1960s among telephone engineers as a joke. The first appearance of "octothorp" in a US patent is in a 1973 filing which also refers to the six-pointed asterisk () used on telephone buttons as a "sextile".
Destroy the habitat and our numbers will collapse (its happened before, at one time the human population dwindled to less than 5,000.)
I'm fairly certain it wasn't human-caused destruction of habitat when the very existence of our species met that crisis --but instead some cataclysmic event. Also, at some point in our recent evolutionalry past, the population of homo sapiens once dwindled far below 5000 to around 60 or 70 individuals. It was really a very very close call.
That's a bit optimistic. Most that "leave the faith" actually haven't left, but rather no longer practice because they are simply lazy or bored. The third largest religion in the US is non-practicing Catholics. A very tiny percentage of former Catholics are actually mindful enough to have honestly split from the program on epistemic grounds, even if most that no longer practice may claim to have done so. The reason for this is that Catholics are programmed. Generally speaking, there's only one way out... to understand why, imagine trying to quit being male, or to quit being Irish, or to quit being Chinese, or to quit being human. Faith is not as easy as the faithless make it sound, like being stupid is... and yet still the old habits die hard.
Virgin Media won the contract to supply Wi-Fi to the Underground earlier this year
How were they paid?
It will be free until after the Olympics have concluded, but customers of Virgin Media and other selected networks will continue to get it free afterwards. Others will be able to use the service on a pay-as-you-go basis.
I don't get it. This can't be right. The contract isn't free, Virgin doesn't supply services for free... yet apparently, no one is paying for it except "others" after the Olympics.
Allow me to put to rest any doubt that Microsoft is using linux on the bare iron to create the Azure platform, with citations and all:
Windows Azure has been described as a "cloud layer" on top of a number of Windows Server systems, which use Windows Server 2008 and a customized version of Hyper-V, known as the Windows Azure Hypervisor to provide virtualization of services.
There is no hypervisor that exists that doesn't use a linux kernel. Azure is linux. kthxbai.
But allow me to put to rest any doubt that Microsoft is using linux on the bare iron to create the Azure platform, with citations and all:
Windows Azure has been described as a "cloud layer" on top of a number of Windows Server systems, which use Windows Server 2008 and a customized version of Hyper-V, known as the Windows Azure Hypervisor to provide virtualization of services.
There is no hypervisor that exists that doesn't use a linux kernel. Azure is Linux. kthxbai.
Something tells me that this wasn't designed by a teenager.
Arguably, yes it was. According to the NYT, it was designed under George Bush.
That's not what the article says. It says Olympic Games began under George Bush's administration. The article doesn't say who developed Flame, only that forensic analysis is underway.
The whole purpose of Linux, the main reason it exists and is popular, is because Windows sucks... Linux and the OSS community react nearly instantly every time Microsoft makes Windows suckier in a valiant effort to reduce the suckiness. To a large extent, they succeed. Any victories beyond this goal is gravy.
Microsoft cares about loyalty to their own products. They will never exclude them, and will always give them an advantage. But they will support things if they are forced to by the market,
It is not interesting that you didn't read the article, nor that you failed to read the summary. What is fascinating is that you didn't even read the summary title, "Microsoft to Run Linux." Microsoft has their own enterprise software solutions to accomplish the same thing they're using Linux for... but somehow, they likely found it was less expensive and more lucritive for them to run Linux for these purposes. They have excluded their own proprietary enterprise solutions in favor of Linux. I stand by my claim, and have sufficiently countered your own. If nothing else, Microsoft is a study in pure business.
Ah, that only works with a "red matter" black hole. You know, the kind of black hole that you can go through and come out a hundred years in the past!
You are mistaken; ejecting the WARP core is an all encompassing solution to escape any number of unfortunate circumstances one may find one's ship in while exploring the Galaxy.
This statement, and statements like it, epitomizes the arrogance of even competant Windows admins. They always seem to assume that if they follow the security proscriptions that their systems and their ass is covered.
My suggestion is to assume the opposite: that you are always infected and have no way of detecting it! And then come up with a solution that solves this regardless of your prowess at detecting or eliminating these fucking things. Virtualizing the infectable OS inside one that is not infectable is a step in the right direction.
It's not Windows admins, btw, that are the problem, fundamentally. It is (or was mistakes made in the past yet still relevant due to the insistence upon compatibility with decades old software) a grave mistake of software design and the philosphy of software design that originated with Microsoft and lax security policies within their OS, allowing coders to develop extremely poor security habits regarding their software.
Consider that Microsoft inadvertently created the entire industry of anti-virus, and then once they recognized it as a profitable commercial space, rather than fixing the security deficiencies of the operating system itself, began themselves to compete within this commcercial space. Imagine a car manufacturer doing something like this... selling millions upon millions of cars that are defective, then instead of fixing the design or recalling the vehicles for repair, instead began to compete against the third parties that offered solutions for mitigating the defects. This would immediately make the car manufacturer a target for class action lawsuits brought by customers, and yet Microsoft has yet to see such litigation against them for selling and reselling licensing to an operating system that is, at best defective when it comes to security.
My understanding is its necessary to prevent the spread to other systems, not necessarily to protect the vm which is easily restorable to a clean state, but documents that are portable and may move from system to system, some of which are real and not virtual, can reak havoc. I guess what makes me nuts is the unexamined notion that anti-virus is an important fundamental part of an operating system, as though by definition, espescially when the vendor that created the entire AV economy by having a defective philosophy towards software development and defective operating system to begin with personally gets into the game with its own (initially non-free) anti-virus offering. Any Windows machine, if secured properly, will spend more processor cycles scanning for virus than doing any other single individual task. This is ridiculous. I, for one, didn't make a significant hardware investment just so I could sit around scanning for virus.
Yup, you just described a typical military system: Linux, VMware and a Windows VM
THANK YOU... This makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. I've been evangelizing about this method, which I suppose I came up with on my own in parallel to (at least internally, if not publically) published university (and, now I learn, unpublished military) computer security theory, since 2003./pats self on back
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It's not rocket science.
And neither is informative journalism. The glaring point is it's not mentioned in the article.
I suppose you subscribe to periodicals that give as little information as possible leaving you to puzzle over whether the missing germane information is rocket science or not.
Oh and there's the fact that Windows integrates nicely in to being centrally managed, and the iPad does not.
Oh and there's the fact that your biased editorial is wildly inaccurate.
Very nice. But lets also not forget one tiny innovative ergonomic detail: Apple was the first to alter the laptop keyboard location, they moved the keys up close to the hinge and the display, to give their laptops a wrist-wrest. Subsequent to their seemingly minor but apparently brilliant innovation, you cannot find a laptop that does not have this feature. And yet "no one copies Apple!"
This is slashdot. In this fantasy world, Apple innovates and everyone else imitates.
The GP made a point, and your facetiousism turns out to be true. Take a look at tablets before iPad. The were nothing like iPad. By and large, they were tablet computers that ran a slightly modified version of XP, and they required a stylus. After iPad, suddenly, there's no other way to make a tablet or tablet interface! Perplexed, competitors scream "how else can it be done?" If Apple's competitors do not need to copy every little thing Apple does, then why do they do it?
So that's why you call it the pound sign.
I happen to call it by its proper name; it is an octothorpe , you insensitive clod.
from wiki
Unless, that is, it is followed by a "!" in which case the entire 2 character string is called shebang
Destroy the habitat and our numbers will collapse (its happened before, at one time the human population dwindled to less than 5,000.)
I'm fairly certain it wasn't human-caused destruction of habitat when the very existence of our species met that crisis --but instead some cataclysmic event. Also, at some point in our recent evolutionalry past, the population of homo sapiens once dwindled far below 5000 to around 60 or 70 individuals. It was really a very very close call.
That is because so many Catholics become fed up
That's a bit optimistic. Most that "leave the faith" actually haven't left, but rather no longer practice because they are simply lazy or bored. The third largest religion in the US is non-practicing Catholics. A very tiny percentage of former Catholics are actually mindful enough to have honestly split from the program on epistemic grounds, even if most that no longer practice may claim to have done so. The reason for this is that Catholics are programmed. Generally speaking, there's only one way out... to understand why, imagine trying to quit being male, or to quit being Irish, or to quit being Chinese, or to quit being human. Faith is not as easy as the faithless make it sound, like being stupid is... and yet still the old habits die hard.
Then there can be little doubt the mutation was in any way beneficial after some as yet unknown cataclysmic apostrophe.
at no cost to fare or tax payers
How?
How were they paid?
I don't get it. This can't be right. The contract isn't free, Virgin doesn't supply services for free... yet apparently, no one is paying for it except "others" after the Olympics.
Allow me to put to rest any doubt that Microsoft is using linux on the bare iron to create the Azure platform, with citations and all:
There is no hypervisor that exists that doesn't use a linux kernel. Azure is linux. kthxbai.
But allow me to put to rest any doubt that Microsoft is using linux on the bare iron to create the Azure platform, with citations and all:
There is no hypervisor that exists that doesn't use a linux kernel. Azure is Linux. kthxbai.
...and you are still an hypocrite who cannot read.
It seems ad hominem is gaining ever more popularity amongst technolgy insiders.
Joshua
FTFY
Something tells me that this wasn't designed by a teenager.
Arguably, yes it was. According to the NYT, it was designed under George Bush.
That's not what the article says. It says Olympic Games began under George Bush's administration. The article doesn't say who developed Flame, only that forensic analysis is underway.
The more I learn about Flame the more it amazes me.
The more I learn about the whole cyberwar program the more I am impressed.
Thank you for proving what a moron you are...
Very well argued, sir. Particularly, I appreciate the ad hominem. It really gives meat to your argument.
The whole purpose of Linux, the main reason it exists and is popular, is because Windows sucks... Linux and the OSS community react nearly instantly every time Microsoft makes Windows suckier in a valiant effort to reduce the suckiness. To a large extent, they succeed. Any victories beyond this goal is gravy.
Citation please.
it was a little tough to find this, but here ya go:
Microsoft To Run Linux On Azure
Do not underestimate the bandwidth of a parcel filled harddrives overnighted to a foreign country half-way around the world.
Microsoft cares about loyalty to their own products. They will never exclude them, and will always give them an advantage. But they will support things if they are forced to by the market,
It is not interesting that you didn't read the article, nor that you failed to read the summary. What is fascinating is that you didn't even read the summary title, "Microsoft to Run Linux." Microsoft has their own enterprise software solutions to accomplish the same thing they're using Linux for... but somehow, they likely found it was less expensive and more lucritive for them to run Linux for these purposes. They have excluded their own proprietary enterprise solutions in favor of Linux. I stand by my claim, and have sufficiently countered your own. If nothing else, Microsoft is a study in pure business.
Microsoft doesn't care about loyalty, to customers, to vendors, to themselves, or even their own products. They simply care about profit.
Ah, that only works with a "red matter" black hole. You know, the kind of black hole that you can go through and come out a hundred years in the past!
You are mistaken; ejecting the WARP core is an all encompassing solution to escape any number of unfortunate circumstances one may find one's ship in while exploring the Galaxy.
I've been hit by exactly two viruses
This statement, and statements like it, epitomizes the arrogance of even competant Windows admins. They always seem to assume that if they follow the security proscriptions that their systems and their ass is covered.
My suggestion is to assume the opposite: that you are always infected and have no way of detecting it! And then come up with a solution that solves this regardless of your prowess at detecting or eliminating these fucking things. Virtualizing the infectable OS inside one that is not infectable is a step in the right direction.
It's not Windows admins, btw, that are the problem, fundamentally. It is (or was mistakes made in the past yet still relevant due to the insistence upon compatibility with decades old software) a grave mistake of software design and the philosphy of software design that originated with Microsoft and lax security policies within their OS, allowing coders to develop extremely poor security habits regarding their software.
Consider that Microsoft inadvertently created the entire industry of anti-virus, and then once they recognized it as a profitable commercial space, rather than fixing the security deficiencies of the operating system itself, began themselves to compete within this commcercial space. Imagine a car manufacturer doing something like this... selling millions upon millions of cars that are defective, then instead of fixing the design or recalling the vehicles for repair, instead began to compete against the third parties that offered solutions for mitigating the defects. This would immediately make the car manufacturer a target for class action lawsuits brought by customers, and yet Microsoft has yet to see such litigation against them for selling and reselling licensing to an operating system that is, at best defective when it comes to security.
Although they do run anti-virus too.
My understanding is its necessary to prevent the spread to other systems, not necessarily to protect the vm which is easily restorable to a clean state, but documents that are portable and may move from system to system, some of which are real and not virtual, can reak havoc. I guess what makes me nuts is the unexamined notion that anti-virus is an important fundamental part of an operating system, as though by definition, espescially when the vendor that created the entire AV economy by having a defective philosophy towards software development and defective operating system to begin with personally gets into the game with its own (initially non-free) anti-virus offering. Any Windows machine, if secured properly, will spend more processor cycles scanning for virus than doing any other single individual task. This is ridiculous. I, for one, didn't make a significant hardware investment just so I could sit around scanning for virus.
Yup, you just described a typical military system: Linux, VMware and a Windows VM
THANK YOU... This makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. I've been evangelizing about this method, which I suppose I came up with on my own in parallel to (at least internally, if not publically) published university (and, now I learn, unpublished military) computer security theory, since 2003. /pats self on back