Thin clients. Install a wifi card and mount one to the wall or cabinets in your kitchen. No battery necessary. Install LTSP or similar on a server and bammo! Instant kitchen terminal.
Not if your Intranet is one domain and your desktop PCs are in another domain, no.
Furthermore, you can make it is as granular as you want. If you want list individual servers, do it, or if you want to control it by CA, do it that way.
NoScript is good, and I use it, but it's far from sufficient to secure the browser against script-based attacks.
I agree. That's why browser makers need to focus on writing secure code. Microsoft has proven time and time again that they are most certainly NOT up to the task.
scripting is not dangerous unless there's a flaw in javascript.
If only JavaScript were the only scripting option on IE. Furthermore, JavaScript is one of the primary vectors of attack for Firefox, IE and Opera: what makes you think that an untrusted JavaScript is NOT dangerous?
you can do it with IE by putting the sites into the different zones.
Right. Again, see how NoScript does it. Far easier and more convenient for the user, IMHO.
Pffft. So tell me-- why when I browse a site in the "Internet-zone" and then print a table of links, does that function run in the 'Local Zone'?
I'll tell you why: because it has to. You can't access local devices in the Internet Zone. That's the point. Granular approaches would allow you to print without accidentally giving other permissions to something that shouldn't have them.
At the enterprise level, with something like NoScript, you can just allow entire domains, say intranet.example.com or whatever your organization uses.
Next thing you're gonna tell me is that you think Microsoft should do away with ACLs at the individual file level or even the directory because users are just too stupid to figure that out. They should just have "file zones" and people will just have to stick their files in the right zone. Pffft.
This is proof of what I've said from the beginning -- the whole concept 'zones' in IE is stupid and pointless. Scripts should be allowed only what you allow them, period. You should be able to give permissions down to the individual site (ala NoScript) or even down to the individual script.
1) The Linux kernel itself is and shall probably forever remain GPLv2. At least that's what Linus says, and since he's in charge, well, that's it. GPLv3 code can't be added by third parties (GPLv2 and v3 are incompatible).
2) I predict a "L/GPLv2 and later" fork of large parts of the GNU project, particularly glibc, fileutils, binutils, etc.
So, no, I don't think the anti-tivoisation clause will end up stopping Verizon in the near term or long term. Remember: Verizon is on the board of LiMo, so they, at least in part, get to influence the direction of LiMo.
Verizon feels Android "isn't as open as it would prefer."
Translation: Google won't let use lock Android phones down, so we made sure we had a place on the LiMo board to ensure that we can continue to control everything the way we've always done.
TIP: State and/or university surplus auctions are often GREAT ways to get used equipment. A friend of mine walked out with an unpopulated server rack + all mounting hardware from a University of Michigan surplus auction for like $40.
OTOH, first of all, there are far more tools available than just MSVB and MSVC++. For example, could your program's efficiency be improved by being developed in straight C (not C++)? Especially given that executables for object-oriented languages tend to be larger than those written in C?
As far as OO-tools, have you compared vs. GNU C++ or other open source compilers? How about Free Pascal? (Your Delphi code might even compile in Free Pascal unmodified). What about other commercial C++ compilers?
Secondly, using a given tool doesn't necessarily give you optimal efficiency, which is as at least as much about the skill of the programmer as it is about the tool. No optimizing compiler can optimize sloppy, poorly-written code.
Finally, if optimizing for size and performance, you have to design that way. Rampant featuritis is responsible for far more code bloat than incompetent coders. Think of Zawinski's Law: Every program of sufficient complexity expands until it can read mail.
No doubt they just install a rootkit/keylogger on your box after ripping your HD so after you leave their rootkit calls back and gives them your truecrypt passwords. Don't use a laptop you've lost sight of.
Real data is somewhere else -- perhaps sitting on an SSH server running on your cablemodem account or sitting on a thumbdrive/SD/XD/CF/etc. SSH keys, are of course, on removable media (you're not using SSH with *password* authentication are you? Tsk, tsk.) After you've lost sight of the laptop, you pop in your OS install CD/DVD, wipe and reinstall.
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Exactly. I knew you'd see it my way.
Thin clients. Install a wifi card and mount one to the wall or cabinets in your kitchen. No battery necessary. Install LTSP or similar on a server and bammo! Instant kitchen terminal.
Send them to me. I'll find a use for them. Hell, I'll pay your shipping.
Not if your Intranet is one domain and your desktop PCs are in another domain, no.
Furthermore, you can make it is as granular as you want. If you want list individual servers, do it, or if you want to control it by CA, do it that way.
Pffft. So tell me-- why when I browse a site in the "Internet-zone" and then print a table of links, does that function run in the 'Local Zone'?
I'll tell you why: because it has to. You can't access local devices in the Internet Zone. That's the point. Granular approaches would allow you to print without accidentally giving other permissions to something that shouldn't have them.
At the enterprise level, with something like NoScript, you can just allow entire domains, say intranet.example.com or whatever your organization uses.
Next thing you're gonna tell me is that you think Microsoft should do away with ACLs at the individual file level or even the directory because users are just too stupid to figure that out. They should just have "file zones" and people will just have to stick their files in the right zone. Pffft.
Mod parent up. See, for example, this thread.
This is proof of what I've said from the beginning -- the whole concept 'zones' in IE is stupid and pointless. Scripts should be allowed only what you allow them, period. You should be able to give permissions down to the individual site (ala NoScript) or even down to the individual script.
What? Do they let you have cell phones in prison?
1) The Linux kernel itself is and shall probably forever remain GPLv2. At least that's what Linus says, and since he's in charge, well, that's it. GPLv3 code can't be added by third parties (GPLv2 and v3 are incompatible).
2) I predict a "L/GPLv2 and later" fork of large parts of the GNU project, particularly glibc, fileutils, binutils, etc.
So, no, I don't think the anti-tivoisation clause will end up stopping Verizon in the near term or long term. Remember: Verizon is on the board of LiMo, so they, at least in part, get to influence the direction of LiMo.
TIP: State and/or university surplus auctions are often GREAT ways to get used equipment. A friend of mine walked out with an unpopulated server rack + all mounting hardware from a University of Michigan surplus auction for like $40.
Sure, but this was ex-post-facto: They put the sign up after you bought the ticket. I'd say you'd still have a case, but IANAL.
Yes. It's M-x in-air-light-refraction-affecting-butterflies. I think by default it's bound to C-M-S-Shift-L C-B
Hmmmm....maybe some.
OTOH, first of all, there are far more tools available than just MSVB and MSVC++. For example, could your program's efficiency be improved by being developed in straight C (not C++)? Especially given that executables for object-oriented languages tend to be larger than those written in C?
As far as OO-tools, have you compared vs. GNU C++ or other open source compilers? How about Free Pascal? (Your Delphi code might even compile in Free Pascal unmodified). What about other commercial C++ compilers?
Secondly, using a given tool doesn't necessarily give you optimal efficiency, which is as at least as much about the skill of the programmer as it is about the tool. No optimizing compiler can optimize sloppy, poorly-written code.
Finally, if optimizing for size and performance, you have to design that way. Rampant featuritis is responsible for far more code bloat than incompetent coders. Think of Zawinski's Law: Every program of sufficient complexity expands until it can read mail.
Well, it beats the hell out of "The Final Frontier". The campfire scene was just, well, campy. Great writing from that Shatner fellow, huh?
Anyone know which SCOTUS ruling this is? I tried searching on their website and couldn't find it.
This just in ... from the original script:
(Finale Scene: In the cave. Indiana Jones and company are surrounded by villains while the cave is collapsing.)
Jones (fighting off villains): HEY! Don't just stand there, DO SOMETHING!!!
Binks: Meesa gonna get the skull, Indy!!!
Well, okay, same as the Star Trek movies, only the OPPOSITE. Sorry.
Have you ever been to a concert that was or might be recorded? They typically don't, they just rely on the generic crap on the ticket.
Or news.news.com.com or news.news.news.com.com.com, for that matter.