"While Windows machines exist on submarines (afterall, who doesn't think M$ Office is so ubiquitous as to be used extensively by the military), they in no way access/control or interface with the command and control systems for nuclear weapons"
'The Royal Navy announced in 2008 that it would be installing a Microsoft Windows operating system on its nuclear submarines.. It is unlikely that the operating system would play a direct role in the signal to launch, although this is far from certain. Knowledge of the operating system may lead to the insertion of malicious code, which could be used to gain accelerating privileges, tracking, valuable information, and deception that could subsequently be used to initiate a launch. Remember from Chapter 2 that the UK's nuclear submarines have the authority to launch if they believe the central command has been destroyed'
'As of May 2009, no major cyber terror event has occurred. Policy makers, media
organisations, and security companies often use the threat of cyber terrorism to further
their own agendas'
"if 37% do do it by end of next year, that's really good. No sane IT department would spend money on large deployments before hardware makers have first released win 7 drivers"
No 'sane IT department' would deploy version one of anything, generally it's best to wait for version three. I don't see any evidence that 'hardware makers' are causing delays in Win7 as it most likely it will come pre-installed on new hardware.
"The Network Computer [wikipedia.org] was developed by Oracle and partners to take out Microsoft and Microsoft Windows.. It eventually flopped"
Actually no, the NC was seen as a good revenue stream by the originators and only seen as a threat if you were living in Redmond and saw every new development as one less Windows license.
"The Windows Org marketing team has spent the past 6 months fighting the TCO battle, addressing the threat of the NC.. We have been closely monitoring, attacking, and winning NC threatened accounts", FY98
'we have a conference call with them (intel) re NetPC today at 9.. yup, it would be crazy to Intel define this.. the only urgent issue I can think of is defining how it boots, if we let Intel do this in a proprietary way we're screwed.. having Intel draft this spec and take it to the industry will cause up more headaches in the long run if we don't get out in front'
"The battle between Microsoft and Google entered a new phase last week with the announcement of Google's Chrome Operating System -- a direct attack on Microsoft Windows"
Since when was the release of a new Operating System seen solely in terms of the producers of a mediocre GUI OS working out of Redmond. It also begs the question as to all the negative press about a yet to be delivered platform and the total silence regarding Apples offerings.
Is Bill and Nathan going to actually build such a system, or wait until someone else does so and then go after them for royalties. Does these patents cover all methods of decreasing the surface temperature?
Replace the 5.25" floppy disk drives with 3 1/2 inch and download DOS from some site. As to what you can run on it, you may have better luck with one of the smaller Linux distros, like Damn Small Linux
"There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live -- did live, from habit that became instinct -- in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized"
"Microsoft did manage to hit upon the idea of standard "IBM Compatible" hardware with their OS, which allowed PC's to become usable and affordable to a lot more people"
Microsoft was hired on by IBM to create the OS for the yet to be designed IBM PC. IBM lost control of the platform because of a number of reasons. Columbia Data Products figured out how to cleanroom the BIOS and companies such as Compaq produced much cheaper knockoffs in the far east. IBM gave Microsoft a non-exclusive license for PC-DOS little realizing that the clone market would overtake their own efforts, ultimately leading to its total exit from the IBM PC business.
"The U.S. has set up over the last two centuries a means by which information that should be kept secret is kept secret and information that should be public is public. By and large, this works.. Wikileaks would throw all of this out"
The people have a right to know what its government is doing on their behalf. Generally, if it can't stand the cold light of day, then they shouldn't be doing it. The ACTA secret agreement being a case in point.
'This week's NYSE Program Trading report was very odd.. what was shocking was the disappearance of the #1 mainstay of complete trading domination (i.e., Goldman Sachs) from not just the aforementioned #1 spot, but the entire complete list. In other words: Goldman went from 1st to N/A in one week'
US v Sergey Aleynikov, Violations of 18 U.S.C $$ 1832(a) (2), 2314, & 2
"ALEYNIKOV claimed, however, that he only intended to collect "open source" files on which he had worked, but later realized he had obtained more files than he intended. ALEYNIKOV aslo admitted that he has uploaded files from his work desktop from home. ALEYNIKOV claimed he did not distribute any of the proprietary software that he obtained from the Financial Institution, and further claimed that he has abided by an agreement he entered into with his new employer not to use any unlicensed software"
"There was quite a high degree of risk involved on both sides. But Accenture, Microsoft and Avanade were very keen to make sure this would work. They pulled out all the stops"
"NYSE and OMX both run Linux based systems. I trade on OMX Stockholm and there is a lot of hickups. I've heard a lot of bad things about NYSE too", anonymous coward
"I contracted with the Chicago-based branch of the NYSE a couple years back and I can confirm the bad Linux setups", IANAAC
Do either of you, have any verifiable third party sources for these statements? When was the last time the Stockholm or NYSE stopped trading because of a Linux "outage?
"Accenture.. outsourcing.. India.. No regression testing.. programmers do not fully understand the business processes, there are often major flaws in their software which force complete recompilation of the software"
Do you have any verifiable third party citations for the above statements?
"They're abandoning TradElect and the platform it happened to be on. The OS is really a background to all of this. The primary cause of the switch has more to do with TradElect sucking than anything else
What exactly were the problems with TradElect and not caused by the underlying platform. According to this an 'external test environment' was in place, at least since Jan 2009.
"Availability of the external test environment (Customer Development Service or CDS) for TradElect and Infolect: early January 2009"
"Using the Microsoft®.NET Framework in Windows Server® 2003 and the Microsoft SQL Server(TM) 2000 database, the new Infolect® system.. with support from Microsoft and Accenture, shows the London Stock Exchange's leadership in developing next-generation trading systems"
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"The unabomber wasn't rational but fortunately he was a mathematician, not a rail signalling engineer or an air traffic controller"
.. :)
The unabomber built his bombs out of wood, so lucky he never became a tree surgeon
"While Windows machines exist on submarines (afterall, who doesn't think M$ Office is so ubiquitous as to be used extensively by the military), they in no way access/control or interface with the command and control systems for nuclear weapons"
.. It is unlikely that the operating system would play a direct role in the signal to launch, although this is far from certain. Knowledge of the operating system may lead to the insertion of malicious code, which could be used to gain accelerating privileges, tracking, valuable information, and deception that could subsequently be used to initiate a launch. Remember from Chapter 2 that the UK's nuclear submarines have the authority to launch if they believe the central command has been destroyed'
'The Royal Navy announced in 2008 that it would be installing a Microsoft Windows operating system on its nuclear submarines
'As of May 2009, no major cyber terror event has occurred. Policy makers, media organisations, and security companies often use the threat of cyber terrorism to further their own agendas'
"Terrorists could remotely commandeer computers in China and use them to launch a US nuclear attack against Russia"
Seriously, if such systems exist, the designers should be locked up !
The solution is not to connect your Nuclear Command and Control center to the InterTUBES !!!
"If your library is GPL-licensed, you're barring people from using it; from finding bugs and contributing patches. What open source is all about imho"
You're kidding, right?
"if 37% do do it by end of next year, that's really good. No sane IT department would spend money on large deployments before hardware makers have first released win 7 drivers"
No 'sane IT department' would deploy version one of anything, generally it's best to wait for version three. I don't see any evidence that 'hardware makers' are causing delays in Win7 as it most likely it will come pre-installed on new hardware.
What's curious is that that it took an Internet Search Company to produce the first/newest Operating System - in years !
"The Network Computer [wikipedia.org] was developed by Oracle and partners to take out Microsoft and Microsoft Windows .. It eventually flopped"
.. We have been closely monitoring, attacking, and winning NC threatened accounts", FY98
.. yup, it would be crazy to Intel define this .. the only urgent issue I can think of is defining how it boots, if we let Intel do this in a proprietary way we're screwed .. having Intel draft this spec and take it to the industry will cause up more headaches in the long run if we don't get out in front'
Actually no, the NC was seen as a good revenue stream by the originators and only seen as a threat if you were living in Redmond and saw every new development as one less Windows license.
"The Windows Org marketing team has spent the past 6 months fighting the TCO battle, addressing the threat of the NC
'we have a conference call with them (intel) re NetPC today at 9
"The battle between Microsoft and Google entered a new phase last week with the announcement of Google's Chrome Operating System -- a direct attack on Microsoft Windows"
Since when was the release of a new Operating System seen solely in terms of the producers of a mediocre GUI OS working out of Redmond. It also begs the question as to all the negative press about a yet to be delivered platform and the total silence regarding Apples offerings.
Is Bill and Nathan going to actually build such a system, or wait until someone else does so and then go after them for royalties. Does these patents cover all methods of decreasing the surface temperature?
Replace the 5.25" floppy disk drives with 3 1/2 inch and download DOS from some site. As to what you can run on it, you may have better luck with one of the smaller Linux distros, like Damn Small Linux
"There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live -- did live, from habit that became instinct -- in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized"
"Microsoft did manage to hit upon the idea of standard "IBM Compatible" hardware with their OS, which allowed PC's to become usable and affordable to a lot more people"
Microsoft was hired on by IBM to create the OS for the yet to be designed IBM PC. IBM lost control of the platform because of a number of reasons. Columbia Data Products figured out how to cleanroom the BIOS and companies such as Compaq produced much cheaper knockoffs in the far east. IBM gave Microsoft a non-exclusive license for PC-DOS little realizing that the clone market would overtake their own efforts, ultimately leading to its total exit from the IBM PC business.
"The U.S. has set up over the last two centuries a means by which information that should be kept secret is kept secret and information that should be public is public. By and large, this works .. Wikileaks would throw all of this out"
The people have a right to know what its government is doing on their behalf. Generally, if it can't stand the cold light of day, then they shouldn't be doing it. The ACTA secret agreement being a case in point.
I wonder where the Novas Scarman report has gone. If it's run like most of these charity rackets, it'll be one huge gravy train.
'This week's NYSE Program Trading report was very odd .. what was shocking was the disappearance of the #1 mainstay of complete trading domination (i.e., Goldman Sachs) from not just the aforementioned #1 spot, but the entire complete list. In other words: Goldman went from 1st to N/A in one week'
US v Sergey Aleynikov, Violations of 18 U.S.C $$ 1832(a) (2), 2314, & 2
"ALEYNIKOV claimed, however, that he only intended to collect "open source" files on which he had worked, but later realized he had obtained more files than he intended. ALEYNIKOV aslo admitted that he has uploaded files from his work desktop from home. ALEYNIKOV claimed he did not distribute any of the proprietary software that he obtained from the Financial Institution, and further claimed that he has abided by an agreement he entered into with his new employer not to use any unlicensed software"
In the development, roll-out, and implementation processes, Microsoft worked closely with the London Stock Exchange
"It was (entirely?) outsourced to Accenture .. TradElect was/is a project management and technical disaster", Jerky McNaughty
.. was first developed with Microsoft and Accenture "
"A prototype
"There was quite a high degree of risk involved on both sides. But Accenture, Microsoft and Avanade were very keen to make sure this would work. They pulled out all the stops"
"NYSE and OMX both run Linux based systems. I trade on OMX Stockholm and there is a lot of hickups. I've heard a lot of bad things about NYSE too", anonymous coward
"I contracted with the Chicago-based branch of the NYSE a couple years back and I can confirm the bad Linux setups", IANAAC
Do either of you, have any verifiable third party sources for these statements? When was the last time the Stockholm or NYSE stopped trading because of a Linux "outage?
"Accenture .. outsourcing .. India .. No regression testing .. programmers do not fully understand the business processes, there are often major flaws in their software which force complete recompilation of the software"
Do you have any verifiable third party citations for the above statements?
"They're abandoning TradElect and the platform it happened to be on. The OS is really a background to all of this. The primary cause of the switch has more to do with TradElect sucking than anything else
.NET Framework in Windows Server® 2003 and the Microsoft SQL Server(TM) 2000 database, the new Infolect® system .. with support from Microsoft and Accenture, shows the London Stock Exchange's leadership in developing next-generation trading systems"
What exactly were the problems with TradElect and not caused by the underlying platform. According to this an 'external test environment' was in place, at least since Jan 2009.
"Availability of the external test environment (Customer Development Service or CDS) for TradElect and Infolect: early January 2009"
"Using the Microsoft®
What feeture is PHP missing already, otherwise I would use it :)
"Can I ask why this article is tagged "republicans"?
Cause republican is a generic term for a complete anal-retentive bastard. As in hey dude, are you a republican or something.
Does that mean he'll be 221 when he gets out ?