The fundamental security model of Linux is no better than that of Windows. The main reason Windows gets nailed is that it's more profitable to write malware for Windows than for anything else. If Linux had the market share of Windows, it would have as much, or nearly as much, malware.
No, that's what MSNBC (Microsoft's news network at the time) tried to tell people, but it's not true, no matter how often you and other gullible people repeat it. The main reason that windows security sucks is that it wasn't always present, and so Microsoft started a user culture that encouraged insecurity by default. Essentially, they compromised security and other best practice for a quick gain in customers. Ever since, it's been biting them in the ass, which seems quite just to me.
In either Linux or Windows, being able to run any code at all gives you essentially complete access to the user's data, plus almost unlimited access to system resources, plus the ability to talk to the network.
That's not true for Linux OR Windows, and you know it. At least, I hope you do.
Well, clicking "View in HTML mode" on their screwed up PDF pages gives:
We're sorry, but something went wrong... ouch
We've been notified about this issue and we'll take a look at it shortly.
And viewing their seemingly custom-made content that works better in the HTML mode works, yes, if you ignore the zooming bug where the toolbar stays in the middle of the page sometimes. Problem is, that "custom content" was probably a perfectly readable web page with web browser scrolling etc. before they wrapped it in their jumped-up iframe.
Ah, but now, we don't have to worry about them fucking up material suitable for PDF format. Now, they're fucking up material suitable for HTML format, too.
You mean supporting phones from four different makers costs more than supporting one?
Of course. Why wouldn't it? I mean, when you write a webpage, it costs more to support a Windows PC running nVidia as well as a Windows PC running ATI... right?
Trust me, there's a big difference between a medical cure existing and actually becoming available to the average Joe. It'll be DECADES at least before this is available, to all but a few people who happen to have the perfect profile and know one of the researchers. Laser eye surgery is largely proven and dependable, and available here and now, so you're much better off just going with that.
Meego is the obvious choice apart from Android. Only think is... Intel seem to be focused on netbooks, and Nokia can't seem to support their hardware for more than a couple of months.
In particular, Nokia's N900 came with Maemo, which was largely incomplete (the front camera driver is very noisy, for instance, the GPS is slow, FM transmitter is underpowered so much that it doesn't work, portrait mode is largely unavailable and buggy, navigation isn't turn-by-turn, doesn't sync to PC, etc.) An upgrade to Maemo 6 was supposed to be coming, but this is now Meego, except that last Nokia said, they're counting on the community to do their support for N900 for them. This is their flagship product and they're trying to attract open source developers based on that kind of support? Don't they realise that open source developers are used to having hardware support for much longer than windows support periods? Who is going to develop for a platform that routinely doesn't even last a few months before it's abandoned?
Also, Intel and Nokia are claiming they want to do this Meego development all out in the open. But they seem to want to develop the source code only in the open, and then roll their own very different distros, with their own branding, including separate app stores, which is pretty much insane. That said, I'd welcome a nokia app store, since intel's app store for Moblin required credit card details just to browse it. Also insane.
I'm interested to see how this plays out. But really, I suspect Nokia will need to produce a properly supported Meego 1.x (and maybe even 2.x) on N900 if Meego is to have any chance of competing with the already established Android. Otherwise, a lot of N900 owners will probably do what they're already trying to do: replace Maemo/Meego with Android.
You don't get it. With this, you can put an agent on the laptops with sensitive information to contact you and inform you that the laptops have sensitive information on them.
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No, that's what MSNBC (Microsoft's news network at the time) tried to tell people, but it's not true, no matter how often you and other gullible people repeat it. The main reason that windows security sucks is that it wasn't always present, and so Microsoft started a user culture that encouraged insecurity by default. Essentially, they compromised security and other best practice for a quick gain in customers. Ever since, it's been biting them in the ass, which seems quite just to me.
That's not true for Linux OR Windows, and you know it. At least, I hope you do.
Hey, come on. It's not Microsoft's fault that they got confused between their viable products and an Elite's Imperial spaceships.
Those human wretches at scribd are soo annoying. Someone should put them out of their misery.
There's no lock-in with those formats, silly.
Oh really?
Well, clicking "View in HTML mode" on their screwed up PDF pages gives:
And viewing their seemingly custom-made content that works better in the HTML mode works, yes, if you ignore the zooming bug where the toolbar stays in the middle of the page sometimes. Problem is, that "custom content" was probably a perfectly readable web page with web browser scrolling etc. before they wrapped it in their jumped-up iframe.
Ah, but now, we don't have to worry about them fucking up material suitable for PDF format. Now, they're fucking up material suitable for HTML format, too.
Sorry, I'm avoiding that link. Do you have a simple pdf link anywhere?
Yes, but they're stolen.
We're not the only creatures that give birth, you know.
So? Spiders shit webs that are stronger than steel.
Because rounding up porn into .xxx is to modern society as rounding up jews into camps once was germany?
Basically... since when is it a good thing to segregate society? The internet is cool because it's a mixture of different ideas in one system.
Dude. You're soo missing out on Google Home Playmate.
Of course. Why wouldn't it? I mean, when you write a webpage, it costs more to support a Windows PC running nVidia as well as a Windows PC running ATI... right?
It's called abstraction, my friend.
Kitchen tours. $10 a pop. Kids unwelcome.
Trust me, there's a big difference between a medical cure existing and actually becoming available to the average Joe. It'll be DECADES at least before this is available, to all but a few people who happen to have the perfect profile and know one of the researchers. Laser eye surgery is largely proven and dependable, and available here and now, so you're much better off just going with that.
Meego is the obvious choice apart from Android. Only think is... Intel seem to be focused on netbooks, and Nokia can't seem to support their hardware for more than a couple of months.
In particular, Nokia's N900 came with Maemo, which was largely incomplete (the front camera driver is very noisy, for instance, the GPS is slow, FM transmitter is underpowered so much that it doesn't work, portrait mode is largely unavailable and buggy, navigation isn't turn-by-turn, doesn't sync to PC, etc.) An upgrade to Maemo 6 was supposed to be coming, but this is now Meego, except that last Nokia said, they're counting on the community to do their support for N900 for them. This is their flagship product and they're trying to attract open source developers based on that kind of support? Don't they realise that open source developers are used to having hardware support for much longer than windows support periods? Who is going to develop for a platform that routinely doesn't even last a few months before it's abandoned?
Also, Intel and Nokia are claiming they want to do this Meego development all out in the open. But they seem to want to develop the source code only in the open, and then roll their own very different distros, with their own branding, including separate app stores, which is pretty much insane. That said, I'd welcome a nokia app store, since intel's app store for Moblin required credit card details just to browse it. Also insane.
I'm interested to see how this plays out. But really, I suspect Nokia will need to produce a properly supported Meego 1.x (and maybe even 2.x) on N900 if Meego is to have any chance of competing with the already established Android. Otherwise, a lot of N900 owners will probably do what they're already trying to do: replace Maemo/Meego with Android.
Oh, I think they play enough shitty games with alternate platforms already.
Either that's a mixed metaphor, or you think of different things from me when you mention devices in a computing context.
Yeah, but it had chicks who were turned on by guys with swords, so none of us cared :)
Indeed. Only a marketer could come up with the idea that the CREATOR (rather than the nature) of a product changes over time.
Or have an ounce of poetry in you... ;)
True. If someone had tried to write good speech recognition in perl, it'd be easy. Every word would be "FUCK!"
Can see how WHAT would be annoying?
It's penetration by a double-agent that people need to worry about.
You don't get it. With this, you can put an agent on the laptops with sensitive information to contact you and inform you that the laptops have sensitive information on them.