Why does everyone assume this? Sites like Slashdot are worth precisely nothing to this type of company. Your average Dell buyer doesn't read Slashdot, and certainly wont be affected by any story posted there.
In laymans terms, you're (we're?) not that important.
Actually, PC Pro's is an iPhone 3G. They're just using WiFi (which technically means it should be faster).
And if it started with the iPhone being off, it would be considerably more painful (it was in standby, not off).
Let's face it, both ads were "doctored" in favour of their viewpoint. But to be honest I do see the examples shown in the Apple ad taking around a minute to a minute and a half at least.
Blizzard actually gives you Digital Brood War with that Digital Starcraft. Buy both together from a store, I reckon you'll find that they cost the same.
However, enter your Physical Starcraft key into the Blizzard account page (even with no expansion) and you can automatically download Digital Starcraft and Digital Brood War.
That be truth. I know it's crappy, and the spec really should have a less dumb way of handling it, but that's pretty much what we've got right now - crappy or no.
Easiest way to log out using browser authentication? Throw a 403 when the browser sends its credentials. They get in a huffy and demand the user give them new ones.
Provided you disable P2P (which means the downloader will only use HTTP download) then the traffic is only from Akamai. I realise not all ISPs have Akamai caches, but I can say with near-certainty that almost all countries do. Now, I know there are costs involved in fetching data from other ISPs even in the same country, but the costs would be low enough (or even balance out to nothing) with a decent peering arrangement that it's inexcusable to charge for it. And it's definitely inexcusable to charge for traffic that doesn't even need to leave the ISPs datacentre (the local Akamai cache is 4 hops from my PC - and one of those is my router with another being the ISPs DSL->Ethernet router).
Or possible, for that matter. Bandwidth is not free to obtain for the ISP, so any attempt to claim they are selling you unlimited bandwidth at a limited price is overselling, and is exactly why Comcast and the like are bitching. Just because they charge enough to increase the margin of people (and type of people) they can have before cost outstrips income, doesn't mean that in the event of a huge spike they could handle the traffic.
Actually, it doesn't usually reduce costs at all. The latest WoW patch (as in your example) is actually distributed via Akamai (yes, the torrent and HTTP seed). Akamai actually co-locate with my ISP, so it costs them only for the local loop to send me this patch - they don't even need to pay for any international bandwidth at all! But you know what? It costs the same to download this patch as it does to download a 2GB movie from Pirate Bay.
Why can't these vendors make a product that only allows my "good" programs to execute and nothing else?
I actually saw a product like that once - it was called Stardock SecureProcess. An interesting theory, it would prompt you with Allow, Allow Always , and Block when a program started so you could whitelist or blacklist apps you wanted to run or not, with a greylist as default. They seem to have stopped developing it though.
Option 1 doesn't really solve the issue - after all, even you said it: almost all. Change the exposure so that there's more Mac than Windows and we'll likely start seeing keyloggers for it (after all, it only needs userland access to work). Option 2 for high security environments is best.
Disclaimer: I'm actually an in-house government worker for another country (not US) - and from the outside it's my impression that you let your unions get away with WAY too much.
Actually, there are very few (if any) known security vulnerabilities in that particular version of IIS. So your sarcastic point is actually valid in reality.
What you'll probably find is that the application is of Government Subcontractor Quality. And we all know what that's like.
I don't need to cite the obvious. Any court decision that considers a digital copy which can be easily tampered with as evidence should (and would!) be declared invalid by any sane person.
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Why does everyone assume this? Sites like Slashdot are worth precisely nothing to this type of company. Your average Dell buyer doesn't read Slashdot, and certainly wont be affected by any story posted there.
In laymans terms, you're (we're?) not that important.
It's possible it doesn't pinpoint over WiFi, or maybe they have location services turned off? Not sure exactly.
Actually, PC Pro's is an iPhone 3G. They're just using WiFi (which technically means it should be faster).
And if it started with the iPhone being off, it would be considerably more painful (it was in standby, not off).
Let's face it, both ads were "doctored" in favour of their viewpoint. But to be honest I do see the examples shown in the Apple ad taking around a minute to a minute and a half at least.
Interesting. So do you complain about the number of things Apple stole from Xerox PARC? Nope? Oh, of course, Apple would never do wrong!
They were all pretty scummy back then. Get over it.
security and speed depend on lots of people looking through the code
Actually, no. They don't.
I dunno, I've got a Siemens router that works well. Runs Linux too. Though I've never seen a copy of the GPL with it, but whatever.
Actually, he'd be better off getting Blizzard prosecuted for murder.
After all, they've been killing Warcraft Lore for 4 years now.
No, no. They'll settle by providing 3 days free play, THEN banning his account.
Blizzard actually gives you Digital Brood War with that Digital Starcraft. Buy both together from a store, I reckon you'll find that they cost the same.
However, enter your Physical Starcraft key into the Blizzard account page (even with no expansion) and you can automatically download Digital Starcraft and Digital Brood War.
Make sense now?
That be truth. I know it's crappy, and the spec really should have a less dumb way of handling it, but that's pretty much what we've got right now - crappy or no.
It sorta-kinda-works in my experience.
It's now a more user friendly AND standards compliant POS.
Easiest way to log out using browser authentication? Throw a 403 when the browser sends its credentials. They get in a huffy and demand the user give them new ones.
Sorry, to clarify I mean:
Provided you disable P2P (which means the downloader will only use HTTP download) then the traffic is only from Akamai. I realise not all ISPs have Akamai caches, but I can say with near-certainty that almost all countries do. Now, I know there are costs involved in fetching data from other ISPs even in the same country, but the costs would be low enough (or even balance out to nothing) with a decent peering arrangement that it's inexcusable to charge for it. And it's definitely inexcusable to charge for traffic that doesn't even need to leave the ISPs datacentre (the local Akamai cache is 4 hops from my PC - and one of those is my router with another being the ISPs DSL->Ethernet router).
it's good, but certainly not cheap.
Or possible, for that matter. Bandwidth is not free to obtain for the ISP, so any attempt to claim they are selling you unlimited bandwidth at a limited price is overselling, and is exactly why Comcast and the like are bitching. Just because they charge enough to increase the margin of people (and type of people) they can have before cost outstrips income, doesn't mean that in the event of a huge spike they could handle the traffic.
I once asked them when I would be receiving my cheque for "patch distribution services".
Never did get an answer to that.
Actually, it doesn't usually reduce costs at all. The latest WoW patch (as in your example) is actually distributed via Akamai (yes, the torrent and HTTP seed). Akamai actually co-locate with my ISP, so it costs them only for the local loop to send me this patch - they don't even need to pay for any international bandwidth at all! But you know what? It costs the same to download this patch as it does to download a 2GB movie from Pirate Bay.
Why can't these vendors make a product that only allows my "good" programs to execute and nothing else?
I actually saw a product like that once - it was called Stardock SecureProcess. An interesting theory, it would prompt you with Allow, Allow Always , and Block when a program started so you could whitelist or blacklist apps you wanted to run or not, with a greylist as default. They seem to have stopped developing it though.
Are you saying something positive about a Symantec product?
Please pack your things and turn in your Slashdot ID on the way out.
Option 1 doesn't really solve the issue - after all, even you said it: almost all. Change the exposure so that there's more Mac than Windows and we'll likely start seeing keyloggers for it (after all, it only needs userland access to work). Option 2 for high security environments is best.
Yes. Healthcare is govt funded, vacation days is 28, sick days is 14 (for a total of 42).
Doing that might actually be illegal if it causes damage to their hearing. And rightly so.
Disclaimer: I'm actually an in-house government worker for another country (not US) - and from the outside it's my impression that you let your unions get away with WAY too much.
Actually, there are very few (if any) known security vulnerabilities in that particular version of IIS. So your sarcastic point is actually valid in reality.
What you'll probably find is that the application is of Government Subcontractor Quality. And we all know what that's like.
I don't need to cite the obvious. Any court decision that considers a digital copy which can be easily tampered with as evidence should (and would!) be declared invalid by any sane person.
Incorrect. A web cache is not considered "evidence".