Virtually everything that government tries to keep secret somewhat undermines the ability of the people of the USA to judge what their government is doing with their money, and hence undermines their ability to make a good choice on whom to vote for next time.
How about choosing the one that promises not keep secrets? I find it scary that there is no such choice, which is thus an indication that people in general don't care.
The whole point of a a virtual machine is to sandbox your code. So it doesn't matter how un-secure the layer is that is running it.
The only way to get out of the virtual machine and buffer overflow the real PC would be to first buffer overflow your virtual machine, or find some other type of vulnerability in the VM first. Which as this article points out is pretty solid.
Well ignoring the fact that Microsoft is mean to be 'teh evil' and looking purely at the framework that their engineers have produced I have found very little to criticize.
It feels like they looked at Java and stripped out the bad and produced easy to use clean languages. The first things that spring to mind: * Easier exception handling. * Transparency with the whole string class/primitive issue. * Really easy to create and catch events.
The Visual studio IDE however! Piece of HTML mangling non XHTM compliant &*$£
"You're not locked into anything. If you don't like the service, its terms of use, etc., don't use it. Simple as that."
Not entirely true, you are locked in to the same type of thing in the end thanks to the DMCA and the RIAA. If you don't like iTunes you can use some other service with very similar terms of service and DRM'ed WMA files. -
Not what I would call free market.
Thats why I loved the idea of allofmp3. I would be willing to pay more for it, if that is what legitimisingit requires, it was providing a service the the RIAA backed sites couldn't (And I am not talking about the cheapness!)
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How about choosing the one that promises not keep secrets? I find it scary that there is no such choice, which is thus an indication that people in general don't care.
The whole point of a a virtual machine is to sandbox your code. So it doesn't matter how un-secure the layer is that is running it. The only way to get out of the virtual machine and buffer overflow the real PC would be to first buffer overflow your virtual machine, or find some other type of vulnerability in the VM first. Which as this article points out is pretty solid.
Well ignoring the fact that Microsoft is mean to be 'teh evil' and looking purely at the framework that their engineers have produced I have found very little to criticize.
It feels like they looked at Java and stripped out the bad and produced easy to use clean languages. The first things that spring to mind:
* Easier exception handling.
* Transparency with the whole string class/primitive issue.
* Really easy to create and catch events.
The Visual studio IDE however! Piece of HTML mangling non XHTM compliant &*$£
Not entirely true, you are locked in to the same type of thing in the end thanks to the DMCA and the RIAA. If you don't like iTunes you can use some other service with very similar terms of service and DRM'ed WMA files. - Not what I would call free market.
Thats why I loved the idea of allofmp3. I would be willing to pay more for it, if that is what legitimisingit requires, it was providing a service the the RIAA backed sites couldn't (And I am not talking about the cheapness!)