Rafael Rivera generally tends to hold a good deal of trust and clout amongst Windows enthusiasts (shock and awe that there's such a crowd, I know) in that he's known specifically for thoroughly investigating a product. He always produces a high quality service, product, workaround, etc. for whatever his project happens to be, and has provided many of the safe patches that unlock hidden functionality during previous Windows alpha and beta releases.
His involvement in this project and in other general Windows reverse-engineering gigs in the past leads me to believe that ChevronWP7 is a solid and safe release. The fact that Microsoft endorsed this is not at all a surprise.
It's one of the few companies producing scientific research for the sake of research these days. This is a function which used to be governed best by Bell Labs, but now it's MSR that seems to put out the most content out of all research institutions which happen to be wholly-owned subsidiaries of for-profit corporations.
Giving a 600,000 dollar loan to someone making 40,000 dollars to sustain a family of four is unconscionable. The fact of the matter is that the crisis started as a result of shrewd underwriters writing bad mortgages while having them sold off in debt vehicles as AAA-risk debt.
Yes, these guys do indeed deserve to be put down for violating both the trust of the people who got the loans and the trust of the financial industry. The problem is that there's just too many of them.
Funny as it sounds: Bernie Madoff is sitting in jail right now for ripping off the rich, and they all got their money back. None of the people who wrote loans to everyday people knowing these people would default ended up going to jail. None of the people who inflated credit ratings on subprime financial vehicles are getting punished. This is where the protests should focus on, not just "greed," whatever that is.
They're too focused on the "greed of wall street," which makes the protesters seem like they're after handouts.
They need to instead focus on financial crimes, the fact that many of the people in the so-called 1% who are responsible for the subprime lending crisis, etc. aren't sitting in jail despite the fact that it's these white-collar crimes which bankrupted many innocent people. If they focus on the tax evasion, insider trading, blatant abuse of trust, and so forth, then they would have a more convincing case.
The data received trough the CEIP is astounding, but what's even cooler about it is the fact that all of it is clean. None of it contains personally identifiable information unless there's an application crash where the user volunteered to send more than the usual set of data.
The CEIP was used in the development of the Windows 7 taskbar as well as the Ribbon UI in Office 2007+. In all cases, the goal was to improve usability, and Microsoft's own statistics (empirical and otherwise) show internally that they succeeded. I'm willing to say that Microsoft has recently become a very powerful player in creating engaging and highly usable systems, and that's based on empirical evidence rather than pure opinion. The sheer amount of research done by Microsoft's labs to ensure that a particular UI is easier to use and more productive than the previous version is mindblowing.
it will be checked against a database from Websense database to in an attempt to [emphasis added]
Guys, come on!
In all seriousness, this'll be helpful for home users much more than it will in the office. I'm just surprised they've taken this long to do it; they've MITM'd every link for at least a year and a half.
What would be nice would be if we (the developers) could develop WP7 applications which also have the capability to run on ARM-built Windows 8. That said, from my knowledge of the means by which Metro development is being guided, I don't see this as a possibility.
I just feel that it would open Windows 8 on ARM to many established Windows Phone 7 applications (giving it a base to tap into, much like what the iPad had going for it), but given the differences between WP7 and Windows 8, this is just a pipe dream for me. Oh well.
Successful software created entirely inside universities' labs... I wouldn't know about that, but Facebook and Google are products of students at universities at the time said applications came into existence. Both addressed specific problems (Google -> search, Facebook -> social contact/updates/etc.).
Why is the United States Secret Service involved? From what I remember, the USSS is involved in matters of dignitary protection and anti-counterfeiting operations. Are the scammers involved in either of these?
Fortune wouldn't even rank Microsoft anywhere near their list of "Best Companies to Work For" (let alone in it for at least the last 5 years) if they had the problems you're describing, but then again, you're just another generic slashdot troll.
Is prefixing a submission from a first-timer about the fact that it's a first-time submission really considered news-worthy? What benefit does it offer to the slashdot community as a whole?
Tell that to Vermont, as well as to the millions out of power, the people and institutions which suffered billions of dollars in damage, and the relatives of those who lost their lives.
This was still a nasty storm.
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Should you find a security vulnerability (either in an open source project, a commercial product, or a company's hosted systems), what procedure would you consider "responsible disclosure" to the parties who are considered owners of the product? I recognize that each of the three cases listed above could vary significantly.
I'll extend this comment by stating that if your (OP's) passion is in software development, then develop software! You don't have to be paid to pursue a passion. Heck, you can do a lot more when programming via passion than when writing code under the constraints of work.
No, I'm speaking about healthy people (say, people in their 40s or 50s) who aren't showing signs of the disease. If current theories about the disease stemming from decades of damage from a prolonged cranial HSV1 infection are true, this drug could easily eradicate the vast majority of brain cells in a matter of weeks. These people would have appeared, prior to such an event, otherwise completely healthy with no remarkable symptoms of the disease.
I'd be more concerned if it treats cells infected with a latent virus in the fashion described here, to be honest.
For instance, lets assume Alzheimer's is caused (as suspected) by a combination of a defective APoE gene and an HSV1 infection. So if the vast majority of brain cells are infected but the brain is (more or less) still highly functional... wouldn't this theoretically kill every one of those brain cells, essentially advancing alzheimer's itself many-fold in a matter of weeks?
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Rafael Rivera generally tends to hold a good deal of trust and clout amongst Windows enthusiasts (shock and awe that there's such a crowd, I know) in that he's known specifically for thoroughly investigating a product. He always produces a high quality service, product, workaround, etc. for whatever his project happens to be, and has provided many of the safe patches that unlock hidden functionality during previous Windows alpha and beta releases.
His involvement in this project and in other general Windows reverse-engineering gigs in the past leads me to believe that ChevronWP7 is a solid and safe release. The fact that Microsoft endorsed this is not at all a surprise.
It's one of the few companies producing scientific research for the sake of research these days. This is a function which used to be governed best by Bell Labs, but now it's MSR that seems to put out the most content out of all research institutions which happen to be wholly-owned subsidiaries of for-profit corporations.
Thank goodness someone gets it. This is precisely how the subprime lending crisis started.
Turns out the payments only just started. Apologies on my part.
Giving a 600,000 dollar loan to someone making 40,000 dollars to sustain a family of four is unconscionable. The fact of the matter is that the crisis started as a result of shrewd underwriters writing bad mortgages while having them sold off in debt vehicles as AAA-risk debt.
Yes, these guys do indeed deserve to be put down for violating both the trust of the people who got the loans and the trust of the financial industry. The problem is that there's just too many of them.
Funny as it sounds: Bernie Madoff is sitting in jail right now for ripping off the rich, and they all got their money back. None of the people who wrote loans to everyday people knowing these people would default ended up going to jail. None of the people who inflated credit ratings on subprime financial vehicles are getting punished. This is where the protests should focus on, not just "greed," whatever that is.
They're too focused on the "greed of wall street," which makes the protesters seem like they're after handouts.
They need to instead focus on financial crimes, the fact that many of the people in the so-called 1% who are responsible for the subprime lending crisis, etc. aren't sitting in jail despite the fact that it's these white-collar crimes which bankrupted many innocent people. If they focus on the tax evasion, insider trading, blatant abuse of trust, and so forth, then they would have a more convincing case.
The data received trough the CEIP is astounding, but what's even cooler about it is the fact that all of it is clean. None of it contains personally identifiable information unless there's an application crash where the user volunteered to send more than the usual set of data.
The CEIP was used in the development of the Windows 7 taskbar as well as the Ribbon UI in Office 2007+. In all cases, the goal was to improve usability, and Microsoft's own statistics (empirical and otherwise) show internally that they succeeded. I'm willing to say that Microsoft has recently become a very powerful player in creating engaging and highly usable systems, and that's based on empirical evidence rather than pure opinion. The sheer amount of research done by Microsoft's labs to ensure that a particular UI is easier to use and more productive than the previous version is mindblowing.
Guys, come on!
In all seriousness, this'll be helpful for home users much more than it will in the office. I'm just surprised they've taken this long to do it; they've MITM'd every link for at least a year and a half.
I'll be honest, I totally did not expect this answer.
What would be nice would be if we (the developers) could develop WP7 applications which also have the capability to run on ARM-built Windows 8. That said, from my knowledge of the means by which Metro development is being guided, I don't see this as a possibility.
I just feel that it would open Windows 8 on ARM to many established Windows Phone 7 applications (giving it a base to tap into, much like what the iPad had going for it), but given the differences between WP7 and Windows 8, this is just a pipe dream for me. Oh well.
Successful software created entirely inside universities' labs... I wouldn't know about that, but Facebook and Google are products of students at universities at the time said applications came into existence. Both addressed specific problems (Google -> search, Facebook -> social contact/updates/etc.).
...unless you're a developer.
How many platforms has Microsoft killed in a short timeframe in the name of the future?
[citation needed]
Why is the United States Secret Service involved? From what I remember, the USSS is involved in matters of dignitary protection and anti-counterfeiting operations. Are the scammers involved in either of these?
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/bestcompanies/2007/snapshots/50.html
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/bestcompanies/2008/snapshots/86.html
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/bestcompanies/2009/snapshots/38.html
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/bestcompanies/2010/snapshots/51.html
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/bestcompanies/2011/snapshots/72.html
Fortune wouldn't even rank Microsoft anywhere near their list of "Best Companies to Work For" (let alone in it for at least the last 5 years) if they had the problems you're describing, but then again, you're just another generic slashdot troll.
No, Dallas and Houston haven't frozen over just yet.
Is prefixing a submission from a first-timer about the fact that it's a first-time submission really considered news-worthy? What benefit does it offer to the slashdot community as a whole?
Tell that to Vermont, as well as to the millions out of power, the people and institutions which suffered billions of dollars in damage, and the relatives of those who lost their lives.
This was still a nasty storm.
Should you find a security vulnerability (either in an open source project, a commercial product, or a company's hosted systems), what procedure would you consider "responsible disclosure" to the parties who are considered owners of the product? I recognize that each of the three cases listed above could vary significantly.
So basically, you're saying that spreading away from a ball on which humanity would otherwise forever be trapped is a total waste of money?
Ensuring the continuity of life on Earth is a waste of money?
I'll extend this comment by stating that if your (OP's) passion is in software development, then develop software! You don't have to be paid to pursue a passion. Heck, you can do a lot more when programming via passion than when writing code under the constraints of work.
and despite all of this, Counterstrike is a platform for some of the most absurd gametypes in gaming.
Surf maps come to mind.
No, I'm speaking about healthy people (say, people in their 40s or 50s) who aren't showing signs of the disease. If current theories about the disease stemming from decades of damage from a prolonged cranial HSV1 infection are true, this drug could easily eradicate the vast majority of brain cells in a matter of weeks. These people would have appeared, prior to such an event, otherwise completely healthy with no remarkable symptoms of the disease.
I'd be more concerned if it treats cells infected with a latent virus in the fashion described here, to be honest.
For instance, lets assume Alzheimer's is caused (as suspected) by a combination of a defective APoE gene and an HSV1 infection. So if the vast majority of brain cells are infected but the brain is (more or less) still highly functional... wouldn't this theoretically kill every one of those brain cells, essentially advancing alzheimer's itself many-fold in a matter of weeks?