that kind of information should never be carried on one's laptop, period.
I completely agree with you, which is why I think this article is bunk. It shouldn't matter if your company uses encryption on laptops or not, because if your data is too valuable to lose then it's too valuable to be stored on a laptop.
Think about it -- why do we have BluRay, which has a maximum capacity of 50GB? They already have solid-state memory devices that only weigh a few grams and have that much storage capacity -- and they don't degrade, scratch, or fall apart after a few months.
They only cost $100 more per unit. Who needs cheap media anyways?
What kind of impact will this have on security patches for remaining security flaws (if any) for 1.3 and 2.0? TFA states that security updates would be provided by "some other means" but I'm not sure what those are.
Contrary to popular belief, a company's sole responsibility is NOT to its shareholders;
In the US, you'd actually be wrong about that. The Supreme Court disagrees with you in Dodge v. Ford Motor Company - funny name, I know. According to Wikipedia:
The Court held that a business corporation is organized primarily for the profit of the stockholders, as opposed to the community or its employees.
The companies responsibility is to its stakeholders to provide maximum profit.
Which is why my favorite employers have always been privately owned. They are more concerned about keeping things smooth for the long run, rather than panicking at the thought of a poor quarterly report.
I don't go see movies very often but this is one film that I was very happy to see in theaters. I realized about 20 minutes into the alien world that it was well worth the money to see it now - I don't think even the nicest BluRay player and HDTV can faithfully reproduce all of the computer generated detail they packed into this film.
I had a much better experience with Dish. Sure, I didn't own any of the equipment but I didn't pay anything for it either. When the receiver broke, they replaced it without any trouble. When I moved houses they sent out a new installation crew free of charge. Eventually when I decided to cancel (TV isn't worth money..) they asked for my "LNBF" and the receiver, I said "Sure I'll send you the receiver, but you sent out a crew of three men to install that dish with the LNBF and if you want to have that you will need to send them back." So the account rep took note of the fact I wasn't going up three and a half stories to get their LNBF, I mailed back the receiver free of charge and that was the end of that. If I ever decide to pay for television again, I'm going nowhere but Dish.
I use NVidia's closed drivers for Linux on my 8800GT and I have never, ever experienced a crash or lockup. Even when playing games like Team Fortress 2 with a maxed out resolution for hours at a time, never a crash. On the other hand, my completely open Intel drivers on this here work PC has caused three hard locks just this week while running the glxgears screen saver.
All I can tell (from TFA), is it affects Windows servers.
SQL injection attacks affect any number of platforms. It's not a Windows problem, it's not a database problem, it's a "we hired cheap, unskilled developers" problem.
Now the people who browse these sites and get hit with malware, that looks to be specific to Windows.
This is a laughably lame argument. It's the same one spouted over and over again by authorities who want to push the envelope when it comes to our privacy.
In linux they push patches all the time, but a company (like the one I work for) can still screen and test them before they roll out.
It works that way in the Windows world, as well. We have some kind of Windows Update server here that downloads all patches for all the flavors of Windows that we use. Then an administrator clicks approve for each patch and our local server pushes the updates to our Windows desktops and servers.
At a previous employer we had a mantra about using Access to store data
You didn't even read what drfreak said, which was about using Access as a front end and using MSSQL Server to store the data.
We've successfully converted a number of decade-old Access 97 applications into MSSQL databases - the Access apps continue to run as they always have, but the data is stored on our SQL Server which has no problems with concurrency and is also backed up on a regular schedule.
How can Sprint AT&T and Verizon all have the best 3G networks like they each claim in their commercials?
"Best" is a subjective term. Does it mean the fastest 3G? The one with the widest area of coverage? The one with the least amount of downtime? The one with the highest customer satisfaction? Or some selective combination of all the above?
I just hope that it means we get to see some chips from AMD that once again provide a much better performance/cost ratio than the Intel chips.
AMD processors are still beating Intel in the performance/cost ratio. They have been falling behind Intel on performance benchmarks alone, but the cost is cheap enough to make AMD a clear winner when comparing performance and cost.
I'm looking forward to the time where they once again provide better performance than Intel while also toting a cheaper price tag.
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that kind of information should never be carried on one's laptop, period.
I completely agree with you, which is why I think this article is bunk. It shouldn't matter if your company uses encryption on laptops or not, because if your data is too valuable to lose then it's too valuable to be stored on a laptop.
VPN -> Citrix -> Data.
Think about it -- why do we have BluRay, which has a maximum capacity of 50GB? They already have solid-state memory devices that only weigh a few grams and have that much storage capacity -- and they don't degrade, scratch, or fall apart after a few months.
They only cost $100 more per unit. Who needs cheap media anyways?
As per http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/branches/1.3.x/README the proposal (Full disclosure: I'm colm@apache.org - the proposer), was that we would start distributing security patches via; http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/patches/
Thanks, colmmacc.
What kind of impact will this have on security patches for remaining security flaws (if any) for 1.3 and 2.0? TFA states that security updates would be provided by "some other means" but I'm not sure what those are.
Contrary to popular belief, a company's sole responsibility is NOT to its shareholders;
In the US, you'd actually be wrong about that. The Supreme Court disagrees with you in Dodge v. Ford Motor Company - funny name, I know. According to Wikipedia:
The Court held that a business corporation is organized primarily for the profit of the stockholders, as opposed to the community or its employees.
The companies responsibility is to its stakeholders to provide maximum profit.
Which is why my favorite employers have always been privately owned. They are more concerned about keeping things smooth for the long run, rather than panicking at the thought of a poor quarterly report.
I don't go see movies very often but this is one film that I was very happy to see in theaters. I realized about 20 minutes into the alien world that it was well worth the money to see it now - I don't think even the nicest BluRay player and HDTV can faithfully reproduce all of the computer generated detail they packed into this film.
I had to laugh today when I signed into Slashdot to see we are still talking about Duke Nukem.
I had a much better experience with Dish. Sure, I didn't own any of the equipment but I didn't pay anything for it either. When the receiver broke, they replaced it without any trouble. When I moved houses they sent out a new installation crew free of charge. Eventually when I decided to cancel (TV isn't worth money..) they asked for my "LNBF" and the receiver, I said "Sure I'll send you the receiver, but you sent out a crew of three men to install that dish with the LNBF and if you want to have that you will need to send them back." So the account rep took note of the fact I wasn't going up three and a half stories to get their LNBF, I mailed back the receiver free of charge and that was the end of that. If I ever decide to pay for television again, I'm going nowhere but Dish.
WiFi has always been free at our McDonald's here in Podunk, Ohio.
Didn't RTFA, I see. It states that Parallels Desktop 5 is available, but only for Mac. I just checked out their website and I have to agree.
I use NVidia's closed drivers for Linux on my 8800GT and I have never, ever experienced a crash or lockup. Even when playing games like Team Fortress 2 with a maxed out resolution for hours at a time, never a crash. On the other hand, my completely open Intel drivers on this here work PC has caused three hard locks just this week while running the glxgears screen saver.
All I can tell (from TFA), is it affects Windows servers.
SQL injection attacks affect any number of platforms. It's not a Windows problem, it's not a database problem, it's a "we hired cheap, unskilled developers" problem.
Now the people who browse these sites and get hit with malware, that looks to be specific to Windows.
Don't install any extensions.
This is a laughably lame argument. It's the same one spouted over and over again by authorities who want to push the envelope when it comes to our privacy.
In fact, most values coerce to true except integer zero, NaN, undefined, null and empty string.
Except in the DOM, as someone else has pointed out document.all which intentionally breaks Javascript specifications.
3) Are you a developer, or a guy who makes web apps?
Wait, since when is there a difference? I consider myself a developer, but my applications are only available on the web..
Umm, Javascript is great for object-oriented programming. I don't think you are using it properly..
If I've got Javascript on the front end, and say Java working the back end... How much more Java can I get?
Repeat after me: Javascript is not Java. Don't confuse the two, they are completely different technologies.
In linux they push patches all the time, but a company (like the one I work for) can still screen and test them before they roll out.
It works that way in the Windows world, as well. We have some kind of Windows Update server here that downloads all patches for all the flavors of Windows that we use. Then an administrator clicks approve for each patch and our local server pushes the updates to our Windows desktops and servers.
At a previous employer we had a mantra about using Access to store data
You didn't even read what drfreak said, which was about using Access as a front end and using MSSQL Server to store the data.
We've successfully converted a number of decade-old Access 97 applications into MSSQL databases - the Access apps continue to run as they always have, but the data is stored on our SQL Server which has no problems with concurrency and is also backed up on a regular schedule.
More surface area for exploits, yeah!
How can Sprint AT&T and Verizon all have the best 3G networks like they each claim in their commercials?
"Best" is a subjective term. Does it mean the fastest 3G? The one with the widest area of coverage? The one with the least amount of downtime? The one with the highest customer satisfaction? Or some selective combination of all the above?
So not being able to run native apps to buy from iTunes, sync my iPod and iPhone
It's almost like you blame Linux for the fact your hardware vendor tries so hard to lock out 3rd party support.
I just hope that it means we get to see some chips from AMD that once again provide a much better performance/cost ratio than the Intel chips.
AMD processors are still beating Intel in the performance/cost ratio. They have been falling behind Intel on performance benchmarks alone, but the cost is cheap enough to make AMD a clear winner when comparing performance and cost.
I'm looking forward to the time where they once again provide better performance than Intel while also toting a cheaper price tag.