Honestly, having a common dictionary word as your domain name was assumed to be the key to internet success in the mid 90's, but haven't we moved on since then?
However, when the US government awarded a patent to Microsoft to sell your photos, information and calendar information to the highest bidder, they didn't think that was a problem.
If Chrome had a better ad-blocking solution, I'd agree with you. All the Chrome ad-blockers still render/run the ad in the background
I was reading AintItCoolNews with Chrome, and some ad in the background downloaded and opened a PDF without asking me, which Microsoft Security Essentials was quick to report had malicious code in it.
With Firefox and Adblock Plus, I never see ads. Where are most of these exploits going to originate from? Ads.
Everyone was absolutely convinced the iPad was going to be called the Slate or iSlate. And most of the rumors ($999 pricetag) were wrong. In fact, most Apple speculation proves to be wrong.
The 3G S was definately going to have a higher-resolution OLED screen and front-facing camera, remember?
I certainly hope these new rumors are true, but I'm content to wait for a press release and focus on facts.
I always hear that Linux gets the short-end of the Flash stick.
Flash is buggy and unstable on all platforms. Since I run nightly builds of Firefox on Windows with out-of-process plugins, I haven't had one single Firefox crash. However, I've seen Flash crash left and right. Apple's crash reports show Flash is the number one cause of application crashes on their platform.
Linux support used to be terrible. The Linux player was way behind, and Adobe didn't seem to care to update it.
Today Linux is the only platform you can get an official 64-bit version of Flash. One can argue that Adobe has treated Linux better than the other platforms by giving them a 64-bit Flash before anyone else.
Google grew to a 33% share, despite the government encouraging users to use Baidu, the fact that Baidu was well established before Google in China, and that all government employees use Baidu. That rapid growth is pretty impressive.
Even worse than Beck/Olbermann/whoever you hate is Fred Phelps, who basically cheers on the death of every American, every Canadian, every Swede, etc. In fact, he seems to just cheer on the death of anyone he can.
I'm sure many citizens are content to accept censorship, because the impact is minimal. It isn't worth risking upheaval if they feel they don't have much to gain.
As fewer major players operate in China, the citizens will realize the effects of censorship more.
Doing so encourages the citizens of China to push for an end to censorship.
Novell paid for patent protection, so Novell shipping Mono is fairly safe. The problem is Ubuntu shipping Mono without patent protection, or Red Hat for that matter.
As for Microsoft playing nice, I doubt that is their motivation, but the EU is basically demanding that Microsoft work on interopability.
The Microsoft/Novell deal really does make sense for both parties. Novell doesn't have to worry about patent lawsuits. They get to go to existing Microsoft shops and tell them that Novell is the best Linux flavor to integrate into existing Microsoft environments.
Microsoft gets to hold FUD over Red Hat's head saying "if you run Red Hat, you may get sued!" For customers who might consider a Linux migration, Microsoft doesn't lose them as customers. For one, they're less likely to move over 100% to a full Red Hat/Linux environment when Microsoft can tell them to shift only a few systems to Linux with Novell/SLES and interoperate with existing Microsoft products. Even better, they buy the Linux licenses through Microsoft and maintain the client/vendor relationship.
So long as it appeases the EU, and it remains mutually beneficial to both sides, Microsoft will play nice with Novell.
For the record, I'm not one of those guys up in arms that Novell is trying to create interoperability with Microsoft systems. I think this is a good move to help companies transition to Linux.
Novell's work on Mono, Moonlight, OOXML support in OpenOffice, Samba, OpenChange, etc. is a good thing.
That being said, there have been tons of worried detractors citing possible patent problems with.NET.
De Icaza told everyone not to worry about them, and started shoving Mono into every app he could, ignoring those concerns constantly. Isn't a bit late to start listening to those concerns after you shipped products with Mono in them?
Do you care about securing smartphones, laptops, etc? Do you want to reserve the right to restrict their use?
If they can access and store company information, introduce infections into company systems, or pull customer information, then maybe you should reconsider the cost-saving approach.
Insurance companies can no longer deny coverage due to preexisting conditions, which means they must now provide coverage for far more people where they are going to dole out serious dollars.
How would that not significantly raise premiums across the board?
That would be my first guess.
I'm all for trying to help provide health coverage, but I would have preferred tort reform to get premiums down in price. As for kids who aren't covered, my wife and mother-in-law both work for a rehab clinic. Most kids who come there initially have no health coverage, basically because they never applied for it. So the rehab clinic does the paper work and gets them on medicare. They either weren't aware they qualified, or never bothered with the application process.
In addition to medicare, my state (Nebraska) also has additional programs aimed specifically at kids such as Kids Connect. When I was out of work and had zero income, I apparently still didn't qualify for medicare because I previously had high income, and I should have opted for Cobra. However, my daughter got free coverage from Kids Connect, even though I didn't qualify for medicare.
There are tons of existing programs like these that most people just don't seem to realize exist.
The iPhone uses three different methods for location data. GPS is only one of them. Even if I'm in a building and can't get a GPS signal, the iPhone can show me my current location within 5 seconds or so.
I often hear that triangulation of your location off towers is bullshit, except I have a working proof of concept sitting in my hand.
Do authorities have access to that immediately without a warrant? I would hope not.
That's precisely the problem, is that enterprise environments often assume using anti-virus and firewall solutions mean they no longer have to be concerned with information security.
It is all too easy to bypass anti-virus detection, and anti-virus products often only protect against known threats. There will always be unknown threats it doesn't protect against.
What you really need is proper sandboxing, but that is a hassle that most people just don't want to deal with.
I could just bury your comment by modding you a troll, but I'd rather correct the misinformation.
Microsoft has patents on how to sell your personal information to the highest bidder. Microsoft, Yahoo, and AOL all handed over your personal search histories to the US government. They all play ball in China. Yahoo handed over bloggers to the Chinese government.
Google targets ads to you, but they don't share your personal data out to anyone. Google tracks your information to serve up ads, but this is all machine controlled. It isn't like Google employees sit around all day reading your email.
If you don't want Google to have your information, then don't use their services. I happen to really like their services. I want the convenience of being able to get to my mail from any device without having to try and run my own mail server (dealing with SSH attacks, whitelisting, backups, etc. can be a pain). Google provides me a free service I enjoy, and thusly I willingly accept the trade-off of targeted ads.
They are VERY upfront about what they do, and they also provide tons of great open source products. They are the primary funder of Firefox, and they fund a decent chunk of Linux development. I'm sick of people calling them evil every single day without providing one single piece of evidence.
Either provide some evidence, or stop spouting FUD and lies. Personally, I'm sick of it.
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Any parent with common sense taught their children how to operate the DVD player so they could better ignore their children.
search.com > google.com
video.com > hulu.com and youtube.com
shopping.com > amazon.com
Honestly, having a common dictionary word as your domain name was assumed to be the key to internet success in the mid 90's, but haven't we moved on since then?
However, when the US government awarded a patent to Microsoft to sell your photos, information and calendar information to the highest bidder, they didn't think that was a problem.
If Chrome had a better ad-blocking solution, I'd agree with you. All the Chrome ad-blockers still render/run the ad in the background
I was reading AintItCoolNews with Chrome, and some ad in the background downloaded and opened a PDF without asking me, which Microsoft Security Essentials was quick to report had malicious code in it.
With Firefox and Adblock Plus, I never see ads. Where are most of these exploits going to originate from? Ads.
If I run a 64-bit distro, I have to duplicate a ton of libraries in memory to run 32-bit Firefox just for Flash.
With 64-bit Flash, I can run a 100% 64-bit environment and not duplicate all those libraries, thusly cutting down on memory usage.
Everyone was absolutely convinced the iPad was going to be called the Slate or iSlate. And most of the rumors ($999 pricetag) were wrong. In fact, most Apple speculation proves to be wrong.
The 3G S was definately going to have a higher-resolution OLED screen and front-facing camera, remember?
I certainly hope these new rumors are true, but I'm content to wait for a press release and focus on facts.
I always hear that Linux gets the short-end of the Flash stick.
Flash is buggy and unstable on all platforms. Since I run nightly builds of Firefox on Windows with out-of-process plugins, I haven't had one single Firefox crash. However, I've seen Flash crash left and right. Apple's crash reports show Flash is the number one cause of application crashes on their platform.
Linux support used to be terrible. The Linux player was way behind, and Adobe didn't seem to care to update it.
Today Linux is the only platform you can get an official 64-bit version of Flash. One can argue that Adobe has treated Linux better than the other platforms by giving them a 64-bit Flash before anyone else.
I keep saying all the time, I really wish I had a less accurate way to use my touchscreen, and have even less tactile feedback.
Extending my finger all the way to the screen is such work.
Please, sign me up!
Google grew to a 33% share, despite the government encouraging users to use Baidu, the fact that Baidu was well established before Google in China, and that all government employees use Baidu. That rapid growth is pretty impressive.
Even worse than Beck/Olbermann/whoever you hate is Fred Phelps, who basically cheers on the death of every American, every Canadian, every Swede, etc. In fact, he seems to just cheer on the death of anyone he can.
I'm sure many citizens are content to accept censorship, because the impact is minimal. It isn't worth risking upheaval if they feel they don't have much to gain.
As fewer major players operate in China, the citizens will realize the effects of censorship more.
Doing so encourages the citizens of China to push for an end to censorship.
Pineapple on pizza is precisely twelve types of wonderful, and I will electrocute sheep if you disagree with me!
And while I somewhat enjoyed the video, not once did I approach laughter. I'm not sure why people thought this was outrageously funny.
So I've decided to electrocute cows if you disagree with me!
Novell paid for patent protection, so Novell shipping Mono is fairly safe. The problem is Ubuntu shipping Mono without patent protection, or Red Hat for that matter.
As for Microsoft playing nice, I doubt that is their motivation, but the EU is basically demanding that Microsoft work on interopability.
The Microsoft/Novell deal really does make sense for both parties. Novell doesn't have to worry about patent lawsuits. They get to go to existing Microsoft shops and tell them that Novell is the best Linux flavor to integrate into existing Microsoft environments.
Microsoft gets to hold FUD over Red Hat's head saying "if you run Red Hat, you may get sued!" For customers who might consider a Linux migration, Microsoft doesn't lose them as customers. For one, they're less likely to move over 100% to a full Red Hat/Linux environment when Microsoft can tell them to shift only a few systems to Linux with Novell/SLES and interoperate with existing Microsoft products. Even better, they buy the Linux licenses through Microsoft and maintain the client/vendor relationship.
So long as it appeases the EU, and it remains mutually beneficial to both sides, Microsoft will play nice with Novell.
Last time I checked, Google has been running on Linux from day 1.
Facebook is developed in PHP, hence their new HipHop project.
Wikipedia has always run on Linux, like Google, before Mono was really up and running.
I find it hard to believe any of these were developed using .NET.
For the record, I'm not one of those guys up in arms that Novell is trying to create interoperability with Microsoft systems. I think this is a good move to help companies transition to Linux.
Novell's work on Mono, Moonlight, OOXML support in OpenOffice, Samba, OpenChange, etc. is a good thing.
That being said, there have been tons of worried detractors citing possible patent problems with .NET.
De Icaza told everyone not to worry about them, and started shoving Mono into every app he could, ignoring those concerns constantly. Isn't a bit late to start listening to those concerns after you shipped products with Mono in them?
Do you care about securing smartphones, laptops, etc? Do you want to reserve the right to restrict their use?
If they can access and store company information, introduce infections into company systems, or pull customer information, then maybe you should reconsider the cost-saving approach.
Marble is an amazing program with all kinds of different maps and satelite images it can pull from. It is worth checking out.
It may be available on Windows as well through windows.kde.org
More people qualify for medicare, which potentially means fewer people paying for insurance. That would be lower volume for insurance companies.
Insurance companies can no longer deny coverage due to preexisting conditions, which means they must now provide coverage for far more people where they are going to dole out serious dollars.
How would that not significantly raise premiums across the board?
That would be my first guess.
I'm all for trying to help provide health coverage, but I would have preferred tort reform to get premiums down in price. As for kids who aren't covered, my wife and mother-in-law both work for a rehab clinic. Most kids who come there initially have no health coverage, basically because they never applied for it. So the rehab clinic does the paper work and gets them on medicare. They either weren't aware they qualified, or never bothered with the application process.
In addition to medicare, my state (Nebraska) also has additional programs aimed specifically at kids such as Kids Connect. When I was out of work and had zero income, I apparently still didn't qualify for medicare because I previously had high income, and I should have opted for Cobra. However, my daughter got free coverage from Kids Connect, even though I didn't qualify for medicare.
There are tons of existing programs like these that most people just don't seem to realize exist.
Aren't there like laws and stuff against intentionally limiting competition?
It all started with Ultima IV, where the goal of the game wasn't to kill the big baddie, but to ascribe to a series of morals.
Richard Garriot realized precisely this problem, the "protagonist" in most RPGs was causing as much harm as they were supposedly doing good.
What is this Google that you speak of?
Do I need an internet key to access it?
The iPhone uses three different methods for location data. GPS is only one of them. Even if I'm in a building and can't get a GPS signal, the iPhone can show me my current location within 5 seconds or so.
I often hear that triangulation of your location off towers is bullshit, except I have a working proof of concept sitting in my hand.
Do authorities have access to that immediately without a warrant? I would hope not.
That's precisely the problem, is that enterprise environments often assume using anti-virus and firewall solutions mean they no longer have to be concerned with information security.
It is all too easy to bypass anti-virus detection, and anti-virus products often only protect against known threats. There will always be unknown threats it doesn't protect against.
What you really need is proper sandboxing, but that is a hassle that most people just don't want to deal with.
I could just bury your comment by modding you a troll, but I'd rather correct the misinformation.
Microsoft has patents on how to sell your personal information to the highest bidder. Microsoft, Yahoo, and AOL all handed over your personal search histories to the US government. They all play ball in China. Yahoo handed over bloggers to the Chinese government.
Google targets ads to you, but they don't share your personal data out to anyone. Google tracks your information to serve up ads, but this is all machine controlled. It isn't like Google employees sit around all day reading your email.
If you don't want Google to have your information, then don't use their services. I happen to really like their services. I want the convenience of being able to get to my mail from any device without having to try and run my own mail server (dealing with SSH attacks, whitelisting, backups, etc. can be a pain). Google provides me a free service I enjoy, and thusly I willingly accept the trade-off of targeted ads.
They are VERY upfront about what they do, and they also provide tons of great open source products. They are the primary funder of Firefox, and they fund a decent chunk of Linux development. I'm sick of people calling them evil every single day without providing one single piece of evidence.
Either provide some evidence, or stop spouting FUD and lies. Personally, I'm sick of it.