If you live in the US, it may as well be a myth. No sane manufacturer is going to install this on their machines. Imagine the number of support calls it alone would generate. Besides, netbooks are more than capable of running Windows 7 + Aero.
These people you work for...they are simple minded. All you have to do is print out a list of Linux malware, and then print out a list of Windows malware.
Place both stacks (well, the sheet of paper that says Linux and the stack that says Windows) next to each other in front of them, explain what each stack is, and then ask them "Which one seems more secure to you?"
Each new piece of legislation can cover only one issue/topic/new law. The words "and", "also", "as well as", "including", and "too" shall not be allowed in any bill.
UAC on all systems is irrelevant anyway. Users who know what they are doing don't need UAC, and users who don't know what they're doing are just going to click OK/put in their password to get the alert out of their face.
There's only so much a OS can do to protect users from themselves while still allowing them to have control of their systems.
Trust me, if the masses ever take up Linux, it'll be just as bad as Windows.
All I have to say is don't start bundling it with a bunch of crap or loading it with a bunch of extra "features" that hardly anyone will use. It just makes everything clunkier and more difficult to find the settings/controls you're looking for.
Firefox appealed to me because of simplicity with the option of adding things that I wanted. IE7 is a clunky piece of trash...it looks like sh*t and I can't stand it. Keep it simple for the n00bs, the l337 h@x0rz can use extensions.
Why the hell is everything about making more money anyway? I for one don't feel bad or find it to be news that software companies find themselves making less. Why is always in the news when companies make less? I mean, wtf, did they think that they could continue to make perpetually increasing profits?
If Adobe can't take competition from a MS product, then their product must not be that spectacular. (Their PDF reader sucks....memory hog. Try FoxIt Reader.) I would not shed a tear for them if they lost share in the PDF market.
Their corporate client has a decent rep (until this).
Symantec usually takes no more than few days to release a patch for their corporate software when they are alerted of a security hole. Better than any/most other applications out there.
Their consumer clients are steaming bloated piles of crap.
If you're the kind of person who would notice that Norton Antivirus is "bloated", you shouldn't be using it.
Symantec, in most cases, releases an antivirus definition to detect any threat that may attempt to exploit a hole in the product, so even if you are unpatched, so long as your defs are updated, you are protected.
A: Symantec has oodles of cash...so that's not an issue B: There's already a version Symantec Antivirus (and other products) already available for Vista
"People in western countries, and in the United States in paticular, have, for reasons inexplicable, a huge problem with sex."
Western countries in particular? OMG, try showing a boob in Iran or Saudi Arabia, or China where they jail pornographers. The "east" has a much bigger problem with sex.
Congressional Democrats and other experts fault the research as potential fuel for an antisatellite arms race that could ultimately hurt this nation
Actually, if that happened, I would imagine that there would be an "arms race" to produce stealth satellites, and weaponized satellites that can take down antisatellite weapons.
The single biggest thing that held back WinXP OTS sales is the product activation scheme.
Good point. I still haven't purchased a copy of XP for that reason alone. I don't mind hte price, I just don't want to have to reactive everytime I change hardware.
today ID numbers get stolen and misused... and none of them are broadcast. So there is nothing in today's reality that leads me to believe that this new ID number won't also be "stolen", and won't also be misused...
1. Capture your data.
2. Encode to my chip.
3. Now I'm you, I can:
4.
* Travel as you.
* Commit various offences as you
* Do whatever I want as you, and hell, the computer can't be wrong.
5. (mandatory) PROFIT!
Kinda like when an illegal alien decides to use a stolen SSN?
(I was buying a car last week and two Hispanic gentlemen where attempting to finance a truck, and I overheard the lady doing the loan paper say something about how the SSN had been used on another account with different info already.)
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If you live in the US, it may as well be a myth. No sane manufacturer is going to install this on their machines. Imagine the number of support calls it alone would generate. Besides, netbooks are more than capable of running Windows 7 + Aero.
These aren't new "features", they're tweaks to existing features.
Not the dictator. He doesn't just get to give money to whoever he wants. It has to go through the Congress first.
How does it compare to Evince in Ubuntu?
These people you work for...they are simple minded. All you have to do is print out a list of Linux malware, and then print out a list of Windows malware. Place both stacks (well, the sheet of paper that says Linux and the stack that says Windows) next to each other in front of them, explain what each stack is, and then ask them "Which one seems more secure to you?"
You have more faith in users than I.
Each new piece of legislation can cover only one issue/topic/new law. The words "and", "also", "as well as", "including", and "too" shall not be allowed in any bill.
UAC on all systems is irrelevant anyway. Users who know what they are doing don't need UAC, and users who don't know what they're doing are just going to click OK/put in their password to get the alert out of their face. There's only so much a OS can do to protect users from themselves while still allowing them to have control of their systems. Trust me, if the masses ever take up Linux, it'll be just as bad as Windows.
Plus robots are controlled by someone at a terminal...they don't control themselves. I think this whole discussion is pointless until we have AI.
All I have to say is don't start bundling it with a bunch of crap or loading it with a bunch of extra "features" that hardly anyone will use. It just makes everything clunkier and more difficult to find the settings/controls you're looking for.
Firefox appealed to me because of simplicity with the option of adding things that I wanted. IE7 is a clunky piece of trash...it looks like sh*t and I can't stand it. Keep it simple for the n00bs, the l337 h@x0rz can use extensions.
Why the hell is everything about making more money anyway? I for one don't feel bad or find it to be news that software companies find themselves making less. Why is always in the news when companies make less? I mean, wtf, did they think that they could continue to make perpetually increasing profits?
Good tip!
If Adobe can't take competition from a MS product, then their product must not be that spectacular. (Their PDF reader sucks....memory hog. Try FoxIt Reader.) I would not shed a tear for them if they lost share in the PDF market.
Their corporate client has a decent rep (until this).
Symantec usually takes no more than few days to release a patch for their corporate software when they are alerted of a security hole. Better than any/most other applications out there.
Their consumer clients are steaming bloated piles of crap.
If you're the kind of person who would notice that Norton Antivirus is "bloated", you shouldn't be using it.
Symantec, in most cases, releases an antivirus definition to detect any threat that may attempt to exploit a hole in the product, so even if you are unpatched, so long as your defs are updated, you are protected.
Patching ASAP is still a priority though.
Google, you want to gain the everlasting love of the linux people?
Yeah, Google wants the love of all five of them.
There is no cost for you to download and use it, so it is "free". It's just not "open". There is a difference.
I just loaded it, from your link even.
A: Symantec has oodles of cash...so that's not an issue
B: There's already a version Symantec Antivirus (and other products) already available for Vista
C: Very likely
"People in western countries, and in the United States in paticular, have, for reasons inexplicable, a huge problem with sex." Western countries in particular? OMG, try showing a boob in Iran or Saudi Arabia, or China where they jail pornographers. The "east" has a much bigger problem with sex.
Congressional Democrats and other experts fault the research as potential fuel for an antisatellite arms race that could ultimately hurt this nation
Actually, if that happened, I would imagine that there would be an "arms race" to produce stealth satellites, and weaponized satellites that can take down antisatellite weapons.
The Star Trek equivalent of Animal House. Crazy co-eds, the antics of Star Fleet Academy's most crazy frat house
That sounds like a plotline for an award winning TV Series!
The single biggest thing that held back WinXP OTS sales is the product activation scheme.
Good point. I still haven't purchased a copy of XP for that reason alone. I don't mind hte price, I just don't want to have to reactive everytime I change hardware.
today ID numbers get stolen and misused... and none of them are broadcast.
;)
So there is nothing in today's reality that leads me to believe that this new ID number won't also be "stolen", and won't also be misused...
Good point.
(bet you don't see that on Slashdot much
Lots of ways, most immediately comes to mind:
1. Capture your data.
2. Encode to my chip.
3. Now I'm you, I can:
4.
* Travel as you.
* Commit various offences as you
* Do whatever I want as you, and hell, the computer can't be wrong.
5. (mandatory) PROFIT!
Kinda like when an illegal alien decides to use a stolen SSN?
(I was buying a car last week and two Hispanic gentlemen where attempting to finance a truck, and I overheard the lady doing the loan paper say something about how the SSN had been used on another account with different info already.)