No, what sucks is that there's no search bar where I can type "Printers" or "ODBC" and there pops up the appropriate Control Panel or Administrator functions. The first Server 2012 installation I did it took me a few minutes just to find the goddamned System Management functions.
Yes, sadly administering Windows server environments requires the use of that gawdawful slow and bloated.Net scripting layer that is just enough like the Bourne shell to make life miserable for those that administer mixed networks. To be sure Powershell is useful, but it's fucking awful at the same time.
Many countries have departure restrictions. Not defending it, but that's hardly unique to the Saudis. India has lots of people living at or below the poverty, as well as the killing of baby girls.
No matter how you cut it, North Korea puts almost every other regime in recent memory to shame. That's not to say that there are lots of other states with appalling human rights records, but there's appalling and then there's nightmares.
I don't recall the Allies worrying overly much about the lack of treaties with the Germans and Japanese (both had repudiated the League of Nations in the 1930s) when it came to the Nuremberg and Tokyo Trials. If North Korea ever shirks the Kims and the international community can agree on having trials, they will happen. The war crimes and crimes against humanity that the Axis powers were charged with set the precedent.
Do that, and North Korea is likely, in its dying moments, to bomb South Korea (if not its own populace, I honestly wouldn't put it past them). This is why there is this sort of unofficial entente between the US and China over North Korea. Neither probably likes the regime at all, but keeping it propped up is infinitely better than what may happen if it melts down.
My understanding is that China fears that if the regime collapses, they'll have millions of North Korean refugees flooding across the border. In essence, as awful as the North Korean regime is, it's the lid on the jar, so to speak.
I'm sure the thoughts going through the regime's heads is "You and what army."
So long as China sees fit to shield North Korea, there's precious little to be done, and even if China walked away, this nightmarish regime has at least some nuclear capacity, enough to turn good portions of the peninsula into Armageddon. I'm afraid there is no practical or safe way for external force to be applied, and one only hopes that eventually, somehow, those who live within this hell on Earth find a way to depose the Kims and their underlings.
As much as we can criticize many regimes for their ill conduct, I have a hard time imagining that what the Saudis or Israelis do is anything close to the North Korean regime's abuses.
You know this isn't going to end well for you, right? You don't think the guys above you are going to pay for the inevitable breach and scandal. Oh no, they will all point the finger at you, and by the time the legal department has finished with you, you'll forget you ever had an asshole that wasn't six inches wide.
Generally whomever I worked for took my security warnings to heart (the first production Linux server I ever built was put in place as a mail relay for a Windows-based mail server's SMTP daemon to prevent joe jobs and overcome some nasty security vulnerabilities, with the management's approval).
I can tell you that other kinds of warnings have historically not been heeded. I had a boss who decided that because Windows 2000 Server supported disk mirroring on IDE drives, he didn't need to invest in decent hardware RAID. I warned him repeatedly that software RAID is better than nothing, but certainly not as efficient nor as effective as hardware RAID and that SCSI drives were infinitely superior on heavy load servers like our SQL and Exchange servers. Well, guess who was bitching about Outlook being a dog, and he just got really pissed off when I told them that at least the db server should be moved to appropriate equipment.
Ubuntu can adopt the NT kernel for all I care. I abandoned it a number of years ago and will never go back. I just wish those toxic bastards would stop trying to influence the Debian team.
There's not much expertise in saying "You will be fired... and worse." We make it very clear that violation of both government privacy rules and company policies could very well invite legal proceedings.
Apart from the fact that I'm glad the leaks happened, it betrays an extraordinary amount of stupidity on the part of those who gave Snowden their credentials and indicates, at least to me, a considerable lack of training.
The company I run has some government contracts dealing with a considerable amount of very personal and detailed information of unemployed and disabled persons. I can tell you right now that we regularly drum into everyone's heads the level of confidentiality we require, that under no circumstances are you to give someone your IDs and passwords, or let them use your workstation while you're logged in. Every access to client information is logged, and information is strictly limited to what is needed by each employee to do their job.
Windows 3.1 and Win32S ran well in OS/2. What killed OS/2 in the end was that they had no access to the full Win32 API being used in Windows NT, and when Chicago/Windows 95 adopted the (nearly) full Win32 API suite, developers decided Microsoft, with its vast OEM network, was going to be the winner and abandoned any notion of supporting OS/2. I remember the last floundering days of OS/2 Warp 4, when IBM put out both a browser and an MS-Works-like office suite, as well as some sort of Win32 migration layer to the OS/2 32 bit API in the hopes that they could lure developers. Sadly, even by the mid-1990s, when my involvement with IBM as a VAR ended, Word and Excel had sufficient penetration that that last ditch attempt fell on its face, and OS/2, for all its advantages was relegated to a slow death.
"The case exemplifies how government secrecy can unintentionally transform otherwise easily corrected errors into a multi-year legal and bureaucratic nightmare and waste millions of taxpayer dollars in doing so."
It ultimately depends on how well it's done. Blackberry's compatibility layer sucks sufficiently that it was never seen as a competitor to Android. Microsoft certainly has the resources to pull it off, but I suspect they will run up against the same issue that BB did, and that is that if you make the compatibility too good, you end up simply damaging your own ecosystem and handing control of your hardware platform over to your biggest competitor.
I'd rather have the 99%, because, well, no matter how you cut it, I'd be making a lot more money.
Windows devices running Android is, to my mind, the ultimate capitulation. It is a tacit admission than the Windows ecosystem is in a long term crisis.
I don't, mainly because I'm pretty sure everyone else is doing it to. It sucks, but the idea that the NSA alone is spying on everything is BS. We know the Germans, French and Chinese are doing it, and I suspect the only countries that are not are countries that don't have the financial capacity to do so.
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No, what sucks is that there's no search bar where I can type "Printers" or "ODBC" and there pops up the appropriate Control Panel or Administrator functions. The first Server 2012 installation I did it took me a few minutes just to find the goddamned System Management functions.
Yes, sadly administering Windows server environments requires the use of that gawdawful slow and bloated .Net scripting layer that is just enough like the Bourne shell to make life miserable for those that administer mixed networks. To be sure Powershell is useful, but it's fucking awful at the same time.
I'm sorry, you're actually claiming the Powers That Be designed North Korea the way it is just to fool Westerners?
Many countries have departure restrictions. Not defending it, but that's hardly unique to the Saudis. India has lots of people living at or below the poverty, as well as the killing of baby girls.
No matter how you cut it, North Korea puts almost every other regime in recent memory to shame. That's not to say that there are lots of other states with appalling human rights records, but there's appalling and then there's nightmares.
I don't recall the Allies worrying overly much about the lack of treaties with the Germans and Japanese (both had repudiated the League of Nations in the 1930s) when it came to the Nuremberg and Tokyo Trials. If North Korea ever shirks the Kims and the international community can agree on having trials, they will happen. The war crimes and crimes against humanity that the Axis powers were charged with set the precedent.
I guess the British Empire should have let the Nazis march all over Europe because Britain's record had blemishes.
This is the most tortured logic I can imagine.
Do that, and North Korea is likely, in its dying moments, to bomb South Korea (if not its own populace, I honestly wouldn't put it past them). This is why there is this sort of unofficial entente between the US and China over North Korea. Neither probably likes the regime at all, but keeping it propped up is infinitely better than what may happen if it melts down.
My understanding is that China fears that if the regime collapses, they'll have millions of North Korean refugees flooding across the border. In essence, as awful as the North Korean regime is, it's the lid on the jar, so to speak.
I'm sure the thoughts going through the regime's heads is "You and what army."
So long as China sees fit to shield North Korea, there's precious little to be done, and even if China walked away, this nightmarish regime has at least some nuclear capacity, enough to turn good portions of the peninsula into Armageddon. I'm afraid there is no practical or safe way for external force to be applied, and one only hopes that eventually, somehow, those who live within this hell on Earth find a way to depose the Kims and their underlings.
As much as we can criticize many regimes for their ill conduct, I have a hard time imagining that what the Saudis or Israelis do is anything close to the North Korean regime's abuses.
I'm certainly ashamed of *my* human form and have no desire to cause economic damage to any nude resort by my attendance au naturel.
Who needs to get the 21st century when you've got big ass law firms at your beck and call and Congress permanently wrapped around your finger?
And exactly how profitable are torrents to the music industry?
You know this isn't going to end well for you, right? You don't think the guys above you are going to pay for the inevitable breach and scandal. Oh no, they will all point the finger at you, and by the time the legal department has finished with you, you'll forget you ever had an asshole that wasn't six inches wide.
Generally whomever I worked for took my security warnings to heart (the first production Linux server I ever built was put in place as a mail relay for a Windows-based mail server's SMTP daemon to prevent joe jobs and overcome some nasty security vulnerabilities, with the management's approval).
I can tell you that other kinds of warnings have historically not been heeded. I had a boss who decided that because Windows 2000 Server supported disk mirroring on IDE drives, he didn't need to invest in decent hardware RAID. I warned him repeatedly that software RAID is better than nothing, but certainly not as efficient nor as effective as hardware RAID and that SCSI drives were infinitely superior on heavy load servers like our SQL and Exchange servers. Well, guess who was bitching about Outlook being a dog, and he just got really pissed off when I told them that at least the db server should be moved to appropriate equipment.
Ubuntu can adopt the NT kernel for all I care. I abandoned it a number of years ago and will never go back. I just wish those toxic bastards would stop trying to influence the Debian team.
There's not much expertise in saying "You will be fired... and worse." We make it very clear that violation of both government privacy rules and company policies could very well invite legal proceedings.
Apart from the fact that I'm glad the leaks happened, it betrays an extraordinary amount of stupidity on the part of those who gave Snowden their credentials and indicates, at least to me, a considerable lack of training.
The company I run has some government contracts dealing with a considerable amount of very personal and detailed information of unemployed and disabled persons. I can tell you right now that we regularly drum into everyone's heads the level of confidentiality we require, that under no circumstances are you to give someone your IDs and passwords, or let them use your workstation while you're logged in. Every access to client information is logged, and information is strictly limited to what is needed by each employee to do their job.
Is BB's actual Android support any better now than it was a year or two ago, because the BB Android support I saw was pretty bloody dismal.
Windows 3.1 and Win32S ran well in OS/2. What killed OS/2 in the end was that they had no access to the full Win32 API being used in Windows NT, and when Chicago/Windows 95 adopted the (nearly) full Win32 API suite, developers decided Microsoft, with its vast OEM network, was going to be the winner and abandoned any notion of supporting OS/2. I remember the last floundering days of OS/2 Warp 4, when IBM put out both a browser and an MS-Works-like office suite, as well as some sort of Win32 migration layer to the OS/2 32 bit API in the hopes that they could lure developers. Sadly, even by the mid-1990s, when my involvement with IBM as a VAR ended, Word and Excel had sufficient penetration that that last ditch attempt fell on its face, and OS/2, for all its advantages was relegated to a slow death.
Can't we split the difference and attribute it to malicious stupidity?
Who said it was unintentional?
It ultimately depends on how well it's done. Blackberry's compatibility layer sucks sufficiently that it was never seen as a competitor to Android. Microsoft certainly has the resources to pull it off, but I suspect they will run up against the same issue that BB did, and that is that if you make the compatibility too good, you end up simply damaging your own ecosystem and handing control of your hardware platform over to your biggest competitor.
I'd rather have the 99%, because, well, no matter how you cut it, I'd be making a lot more money.
Windows devices running Android is, to my mind, the ultimate capitulation. It is a tacit admission than the Windows ecosystem is in a long term crisis.
I don't, mainly because I'm pretty sure everyone else is doing it to. It sucks, but the idea that the NSA alone is spying on everything is BS. We know the Germans, French and Chinese are doing it, and I suspect the only countries that are not are countries that don't have the financial capacity to do so.