If you read the article, or had been following this at all, you would know that Monad wasn't being included in Vista anyway. More importantly, both Windows Vista and Longhorn are STILL IN BETA!
So, people are complaining that Microsoft are removing a product from vista (not true - they removed it some time ago so that they could get it right) because of virus threats (not true - read the article - they're just malicious scripts, which have been around for years on Unix/Linux and will always be there on any OS with an advanced shell) and finally they're being criticised for having a beta product that isn't complete yet (ridiculous!)
Having a misleading article much like this Slashdot one is precisely what is wrong with todays technology world - people take facts and glue them together in their own (misleadingly incorrect) way. Get over old prejudices and grow up!
Posting it to slashdot may have had something to do with that - The firefox team seem to be fairly aware of the world around them and what it might think of firefox...
Yeah - I've always wondered about things like this. In a company as large as Microsoft, they must have *many* security experts, in turn with many different views. I imagine they have a lot of infighting when decisions like this are made. Perhaps explains some of the inconsistency in their security initiatives over time.
Also, I think most of the changes in SP2 were made to protect the home user - port scans can be quite useful for sys admins, but stopping home PCs from using raw sockets will probably stem the spread of viruses (Well, for a short time at least...)
It's well known that MS has quite a bit of money to throw around, and also stands to loose a lot if (and sometimes when) their software is found vulnerable. For this reason, I expect that a book written by a bunch of their security folks would be worth a read.
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If you read the article, or had been following this at all, you would know that Monad wasn't being included in Vista anyway. More importantly, both Windows Vista and Longhorn are STILL IN BETA!
So, people are complaining that Microsoft are removing a product from vista (not true - they removed it some time ago so that they could get it right) because of virus threats (not true - read the article - they're just malicious scripts, which have been around for years on Unix/Linux and will always be there on any OS with an advanced shell) and finally they're being criticised for having a beta product that isn't complete yet (ridiculous!)
Having a misleading article much like this Slashdot one is precisely what is wrong with todays technology world - people take facts and glue them together in their own (misleadingly incorrect) way. Get over old prejudices and grow up!
Wheee.... watch me get modded down
The point in the article is that they're doing it to investigate orbital mechanics, not to visit the moon again.
Posting it to slashdot may have had something to do with that - The firefox team seem to be fairly aware of the world around them and what it might think of firefox...
An alternative to the Virtual Keyboard shown in the article is Cambridge University's Dasher:
http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/
Predictive text for your mouse, very cool. Could be disorientating on the move though.
It's rare to see that kind of attitude on slashdot. 10 points.
Yeah - I've always wondered about things like this. In a company as large as Microsoft, they must have *many* security experts, in turn with many different views. I imagine they have a lot of infighting when decisions like this are made. Perhaps explains some of the inconsistency in their security initiatives over time. Also, I think most of the changes in SP2 were made to protect the home user - port scans can be quite useful for sys admins, but stopping home PCs from using raw sockets will probably stem the spread of viruses (Well, for a short time at least...) It's well known that MS has quite a bit of money to throw around, and also stands to loose a lot if (and sometimes when) their software is found vulnerable. For this reason, I expect that a book written by a bunch of their security folks would be worth a read.