People who took this decision surely knows about extensions, VPN and even Tor. They know only 0.001% may care too. This is the magic formula which runs spam&spyware industry.
Remember Sony rootkit, nobody were aware of anything until they were absurdly unlucky to hit World's most advanced Windows kernel hacker Mark Russinovich. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik....I remember reading that story on/. That was the last drop for Sony shareholders. I hope the same for AT&T too.
They may inject their referral code to other people's/companies legimate ads soon, that is what spyware developers did back in the day. That (topmoxie) was the lowest level spyware could get.
Let's hope a clever law company sue them on behalf of effected parties and make billions.
Oracle is run by people who alienate best office developers working for free, waste a technology like Java down to bundling crap toolbars and now seriously blogging like this.
We got used to it but these guys are seriously number 2 or 3 software company on the planet. There isn't any alternative to their software and there is no escape. One way or another, you are in some Oracle database.
They should have let ATI keep their brand, ATI did nothing to be ashamed of.
They immediately gave up the ATI brand. Now, ATI finally have top of the line graphics processor but AMD doesn't have top of the line CPU. Gamers and press aren't stupid, they would eventually compare i7 CPU by taking out AMD CPU.
It is AMD brand manager suits who created this awkward situation. It still shows AMD is a mature company who dares to take such decisions like putting Intel in it. Imagine Oracle suggesting IBM servers for running their software.
This is exactly why it took decades and crazy hacks for people to write their own language electronically.
Thank God virtually failed (but won) Plan 9 (UNIX2) came by with idealistic developers who respects other cultures came up with Unicode and companies like IBM/Microsoft/Adobe along with Free software supported it.
Who knows if the software/hardware/network combination you use had a line coded by a person who is from those "computer illiterate" regions?
Their parent Dice holdings should start an internal investigation and find&fire the suits who led to this scandal. They should also hire a person who will oversee such decisions.
They may also suggest a fire&forget, respectable spyware cleaner (malwarebytes, spybot or even ms windows defender) to users.
Or they better backup the site, sudo shutdown -f now
I know we speak about very large sums of money here but one wonders how much unneccesary money has been paid to Microsoft in this shape of economy while Germany etc. are all switching to Linux/ sponsoring open source projects where possible.
There is a small possibility that they can uncover dirty tricks Microsoft and similar does to "convince" goverments to "choose" their software while Linux and even *BSD does the job perfectly.
They will inject paid stories to news sites with a very little "advertorial" marking. They will do secret agreements to sell user data and no, there is no way to prove they did it. They will become biased for certain political parties, opinions. They will be sponsored by billionaire political activists like Koch brothers, George Soros.
EU started to act like a 14 year old Internet troll lately.
If both Mac and Linux mentioned, I suspect the reason is OpenGL and the fact that it is moving slowly compared to DirectX. DirectX 12 is a real breakthrough.
Perhaps they should do what Firefox does. Use 3 different branches. ESR for military,business, industrial. Consumer with ever evolving rapid releases and Beta for gamers etc?
It seems they will put a clear line between Enterprise and Consumer. For example, consumers will get daily updates which will be easily rolled back if a problem occurs and yet Enterprise will keep the patch Tuesday approach .
Basically they are emulating Debian unstable/Stable.
The base of everything that will effect the number one operating system on portables (Android) and possibly "internet of things" has been upgraded after 24 months of work by individuals and Fortune 500 and all we will discuss is systemd.
If they weren't involved, it is like winning lottery for Microsoft and they didn't even purchase a ticket.
IMHO a kernel must have a significant change to bump major version.
Everyone gives Microsoft example but "windows 8", "windows 10" are consumer brands. They really keep a very logical honest versioning scheme. For example, Vista is Win 6, "Windows 7 " which is said to be just fixed Vista is indeed 6.1
Even the legendary Shimano is having hard time selling their electronic gears and not even daring to make them automatic since...Bicycle riding people _hate_ electronic devices except head/tail lights, speedometers. It doesn't fit at all. No, they aren't luddites either. Some seriously high technology is in use by cyclers today but they are all fit into the "soul" of cycling. Not a radar.
It is a big deal if you have to replace a core component of an OS with a third party solution to make it usable.
A logical acting company would hire the developer of "Classic Shell/ Start Menu". Microsoft, however, contacted him (a rough guess) to change the freaking Windows icon. It is already ironic that something open source, hosted at sourceforge may have saved millions of lost sales for Microsoft.
I really hope something other than being drunk or completely tasteless will be an explanation for this story. A keyboard shortcut made news on slashdot...Hope they cracked his/. account, even that would be better.
I bet everyone hopes Clamav will become what it deserves to be, a superior and unbeatable security solution with the financial/professional support of Cisco.
I really wonder how many software and hardware vendors which rely on it hit that donation button. Half of media apps I use and paid for has ffmpeg embedded. Could be none.
Slashdot Mirror
People who took this decision surely knows about extensions, VPN and even Tor. They know only 0.001% may care too. This is the magic formula which runs spam&spyware industry.
Remember Sony rootkit, nobody were aware of anything until they were absurdly unlucky to hit World's most advanced Windows kernel hacker Mark Russinovich. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik... .I remember reading that story on /. That was the last drop for Sony shareholders. I hope the same for AT&T too.
They may inject their referral code to other people's/companies legimate ads soon, that is what spyware developers did back in the day. That (topmoxie) was the lowest level spyware could get.
Let's hope a clever law company sue them on behalf of effected parties and make billions.
Oracle is run by people who alienate best office developers working for free, waste a technology like Java down to bundling crap toolbars and now seriously blogging like this.
We got used to it but these guys are seriously number 2 or 3 software company on the planet. There isn't any alternative to their software and there is no escape. One way or another, you are in some Oracle database.
They should have let ATI keep their brand, ATI did nothing to be ashamed of.
They immediately gave up the ATI brand. Now, ATI finally have top of the line graphics processor but AMD doesn't have top of the line CPU. Gamers and press aren't stupid, they would eventually compare i7 CPU by taking out AMD CPU.
It is AMD brand manager suits who created this awkward situation. It still shows AMD is a mature company who dares to take such decisions like putting Intel in it. Imagine Oracle suggesting IBM servers for running their software.
This is exactly why it took decades and crazy hacks for people to write their own language electronically.
Thank God virtually failed (but won) Plan 9 (UNIX2) came by with idealistic developers who respects other cultures came up with Unicode and companies like IBM/Microsoft/Adobe along with Free software supported it.
Who knows if the software/hardware/network combination you use had a line coded by a person who is from those "computer illiterate" regions?
Their parent Dice holdings should start an internal investigation and find&fire the suits who led to this scandal. They should also hire a person who will oversee such decisions.
They may also suggest a fire&forget, respectable spyware cleaner (malwarebytes, spybot or even ms windows defender) to users.
Or they better backup the site, sudo shutdown -f now
I really admire slashdot editors freely accepting SF stories no matter how damaging they are.
Did you see a single newspiece/editorial on CNET news.com about the junk download.com bundles?
I know we speak about very large sums of money here but one wonders how much unneccesary money has been paid to Microsoft in this shape of economy while Germany etc. are all switching to Linux/ sponsoring open source projects where possible.
There is a small possibility that they can uncover dirty tricks Microsoft and similar does to "convince" goverments to "choose" their software while Linux and even *BSD does the job perfectly.
They will inject paid stories to news sites with a very little "advertorial" marking. They will do secret agreements to sell user data and no, there is no way to prove they did it. They will become biased for certain political parties, opinions. They will be sponsored by billionaire political activists like Koch brothers, George Soros.
EU started to act like a 14 year old Internet troll lately.
There seem to be an adapter
http://www.clickykeyboards.com...
If both Mac and Linux mentioned, I suspect the reason is OpenGL and the fact that it is moving slowly compared to DirectX. DirectX 12 is a real breakthrough.
Perhaps they should do what Firefox does. Use 3 different branches. ESR for military,business, industrial. Consumer with ever evolving rapid releases and Beta for gamers etc?
It seems they will put a clear line between Enterprise and Consumer. For example, consumers will get daily updates which will be easily rolled back if a problem occurs and yet Enterprise will keep the patch Tuesday approach .
Basically they are emulating Debian unstable/Stable.
here we go...
Guess it's time to change my email address...
The base of everything that will effect the number one operating system on portables (Android) and possibly "internet of things" has been upgraded after 24 months of work by individuals and Fortune 500 and all we will discuss is systemd.
If they weren't involved, it is like winning lottery for Microsoft and they didn't even purchase a ticket.
The most secure operating system out of the box is SELinux which is maintained by the mighty NSA themselves.
Open source is a strange revolution.
It doesn't matter who codes it or the quality of code. Just a quick check on google store comments will show you that people _hate_ bundled software.
It happened to everyone, check Layar, Shazam and even Google play services which enables otherwise impossible things on older firmware.
Even a small shareware developer, if clever, won't allow his/her software to be bundled.
I can't even imagine security implications of this. Microsoft doesn't understand Unix & Java. Never did.
What bugs me is the use of google+ instead of facebook. Like, buying their claim "We are good guys". Nobody is good.
A plain site running on Debian stable with a GNU licensed portal engine. Bandwidth sponsored by some company. How hard is it?
IMHO a kernel must have a significant change to bump major version.
Everyone gives Microsoft example but "windows 8", "windows 10" are consumer brands. They really keep a very logical honest versioning scheme. For example, Vista is Win 6, "Windows 7 " which is said to be just fixed Vista is indeed 6.1
Everything making us impressed with IE ends up with "It is latest Windows only" argument.
Even the legendary Shimano is having hard time selling their electronic gears and not even daring to make them automatic since...Bicycle riding people _hate_ electronic devices except head/tail lights, speedometers. It doesn't fit at all. No, they aren't luddites either. Some seriously high technology is in use by cyclers today but they are all fit into the "soul" of cycling. Not a radar.
It is a big deal if you have to replace a core component of an OS with a third party solution to make it usable.
A logical acting company would hire the developer of "Classic Shell/ Start Menu". Microsoft, however, contacted him (a rough guess) to change the freaking Windows icon. It is already ironic that something open source, hosted at sourceforge may have saved millions of lost sales for Microsoft.
Go home, timothy, you are drunk.
I really hope something other than being drunk or completely tasteless will be an explanation for this story. A keyboard shortcut made news on slashdot...Hope they cracked his /. account, even that would be better.
Fork ClamAV...PLEASE!
I bet everyone hopes Clamav will become what it deserves to be, a superior and unbeatable security solution with the financial/professional support of Cisco.
50-60 hz flickering is known to trigger migraine attacks.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/romney/windows.asp
Per Snopes, although it is true that Romney made that remark, it was clearly told as a joke meant to lighten the mood. It was not a serious comment.
You can ask to any politician dating back to Roman republic, a politician should not "play fool" as a joke. Some may take it seriously.
For all their ardous work!
FFMpeg donations page is here:
http://ffmpeg.org/donations.html
I really wonder how many software and hardware vendors which rely on it hit that donation button. Half of media apps I use and paid for has ffmpeg embedded.
Could be none.