Some laptops are better than others in this respect, my Thinkpad has some fairly sturdy looking hinges. Lasted a while, but maybe because I don't use it that often.
At least in the UK, docking stations are commonly used because health and safety regulations require it. IANAL, but I think it's something about long periods of use and the small keyboard on a laptop. YMMV.
Well, I wasn't exactly meaning to say that windows was secure (though I didn't word it all that well, in retrospect). I was trying to say the OSX and Windows have similar levels of security (very low levels). I wasn't comparing OSX unfavourably against Windows.
As for your analogy, consider that a bank (important business) shouldn't transport gold bullion (important files?) in either car. They should use some kind of security company. Because at the end of the day, while a low probability of break in is useful, statistics people will be saying things like "past performance is necessarily and indicator of future success" and "correlation does not mean causation". People don't use PGP just because it doesn't get broken into, they use it because is it actually provably secure.
The fact that it is breaking news is because of the oft cited claim that Macs' are not susceptible to viruses; not because they are actually secure and this is an unexpected attack. Apple do not engage in anywhere near the level of testing or release engineering to actually be secure - they're secure for the same reasons that Windows is secure: obscurity.
It's just that their market share has recently become high enough for them to become a target of virus writers, not because they are better designed.
Most unemployed people are not lazy bums who don't want to work. They are people with psychological problems who feel being outcast from society, and don't belong anywhere.
This is not entirely true. The UK benefits system has is too wide, and gives benefits to too many, and certain people are not eligible who should be. It is important to have a benefit system, but many in the UK are (understandably) upset that their benefit system isn't as fair as it really should be.
This isn't just a benefits issue though. The low end (ie >~£15k) tax brackets are set up to inordinately punish those in low paying work (ie part time people, mainly mothers etc).
Borrowing RIAA's tactics, we can now accuse people of violations and assume they are guilty until proven innocent. Of course, when RIAA does it, it's bad; but when FSF does it, it must be good.
What a ridiculous statement.
This isn't an "accusation" or legal threat, it's an open ended question.
The GPL is designed so that companies who use it have to share their modifications when they distribute.
The Jeff Jones reports are complete crap. This was obvious at the time. He pretty much showed himself a fool by claiming that XP had less critical bugs than the current Ubuntu, SuSE and RHEL, and thus was more secure. He seems to think that he can compare security based on the number of public and critical bug reports between a company that does not release bug reports to the public and companies that do.
Any observer from a tech background would know that this would turn his results to shit, but he is;
Exactly. Gmail offers a gig, and plenty of third party applications store documents there. 500 megabytes explains why Bill Gates is a billionaire- as if anybody needed to be hit over the head with the fact he's a cheap penny pincher.
This statement is far to dismissive for a product that isn't even concrete yet. It's just heading into beta, there is little available data, and you have already dismissed it.
I'm not even someone who is a big Microsoft fan - this is posted from a Debian machine, and I personally concur with the politics of Debian.
On a side note, Bill Gates did not make money from being a "cheap penny pincher". He made money by entering a market where the only real costs of manufacture are the initial R&D. As he is able to "value price" a product at ~£200 (windows) that has a per-unit cost of only a few pence (cd, booklet, box), he is a billionaire.
I could very easily just mod you down (I have mod points) but I decided that the scale of your ignorance warranted a challenging post.
Between the childish writing technique, this offered me an insight; America is far more class bound than I thought (far more class bound than the UK).
As a person just leaving sixth form (last two years of "high school") in the UK, it seems to me that the reasons behind using myspace/facebook here in the UK are different. Most people I know, inside or outside of school and work have a myspace. A few people have a Facebook, but that's more to do with being frustrated with the poor design of myspace than social class. I don't see any link in which of my social networks sign up to facebook, except that once one person in a group does, it normally happens en masse. It is true, however, over here that myspace has a strong connection to the music scene (I enjoy the local music scene where I am, but find bands on myspace obnoxious).
Obviously, this is totally anecdotal, but I've moved to and from state, private and public schools (ie, the free kind, the pay for kind, and the pay for kind with the pretentiousness) and so have a mix of contacts from each.
As already mentioned a myriad of times, this only works for the smallest of corrections. Try to read through a dissertation, looking for instances where you've mispelt "their" as "thier".
For a surprising amount of people, this is a frequent handwriting error. I know it's probably one of my more common errors when writing by hand.
So all these groups need to do is go "we'll make no deal" and they get free press on a bunch of geek news sites, more support from the community AND they get street cred?
These distributions are doing what the commmunity wants, so they get community support. It does seem obvious, doesn't it? Perhaps because it is obvious?
SHOCKER:When a major distro makes an important decision, it comes up on slashdot.
I've never found a language that feels as natural as Ruby. The standard library seems to anticipate most productivity bottlenecks that you find in other languages and deals with them in an elegant way. Ruby also is incredibly easy to read and understand even if you've never looked at a program before. It's not totally self-documenting but sometimes it feels like it is.
Try Common Lisp. I'm serious; although it's largely useless nowadays (though not because the language has aged; simply because the standard library has not been updated in a very long time). Many of the things people like about Python/Perl/Ruby are simply things that were originally Lisp concepts. Lists, Garbage Collection, etc.
I really wish a new lisp dialect would arise with a modern standard library. Bracket power!
Is it up to Microsoft to require people to use secure passwords? Is it up to Oracle to require people with sensitive data to use the data encryption features of Oracle? Is it up to the postfix authors to require people to not run open mail relays?
Almost. The policy of sane and secure defaults should be followed. Most distros try their hardest to do this, sometimes getting it wrong, but it is probably the biggest factor in the reduction of attacks against FOSS Unix machines.
It is, but it's a lot more difficult. As I understand it, the magnetised area of the disc spreads slightly into the space between tracks. A later write doesn't completely cover this spread out area. You can't recover what was written using the drive electronics, but with very expensive equipment you can analyse the spaces between the tracks.
Very interesting. I was not aware of this; though I imagine the cost to be astronomical. Far more than the average persons data is worth. Is there a name for this technique, that I can use in order to research it?
Overwriting data to securely erase it is expensive on a desktop and approaching impossible on a busy server. This is why people who don't wear tinfoil hats will use Boot'n'Nuke or somesuch before selling a hard drive on eBay. You can't just delete something (even on your own computer, mind you) and expect it to be gone. That's not the way filesystems work.
It's not expensive...you can just wipe the disk, and then fill it with zeroes. On a running machine, this is an issue, but not on a unused drive.
You're also misrepresenting forensic drive analysis. They're not always going to be able to recover files. If the space the file occupied has been since overwritten, it is not possible to retrieve the data, unless I am mistaken. On a drive that continues to be used for writes, the chances of a deleted file on a disk eventually reduce to near zero.
I've never sold or thrown away a drive that was used for anything important, but friends have, and wiping them securely is not particularly difficult.
They don't set any precedent if they settle. However, if they lose, which it looks like they will, that certainly will be a precedent.
I wasn't referring to a legal precedent (ie common law). I meant that if they settle with the first guy that takes them to court, others will take them to court in an attempt to make them settle.
It's somewhat possible, and Gateway probably want to fight that.
I'm sure that before billboards were widely used, people thought of them and large and obnoxious, whereas humans became adjusted to them and filtered them out of their lives.
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Some laptops are better than others in this respect, my Thinkpad has some fairly sturdy looking hinges. Lasted a while, but maybe because I don't use it that often.
Dependant on what kind of desktop you use. A long of "desktops" for business users are thin clients running citrix on a small machine.
At least in the UK, docking stations are commonly used because health and safety regulations require it. IANAL, but I think it's something about long periods of use and the small keyboard on a laptop. YMMV.
Well, I wasn't exactly meaning to say that windows was secure (though I didn't word it all that well, in retrospect). I was trying to say the OSX and Windows have similar levels of security (very low levels). I wasn't comparing OSX unfavourably against Windows.
As for your analogy, consider that a bank (important business) shouldn't transport gold bullion (important files?) in either car. They should use some kind of security company. Because at the end of the day, while a low probability of break in is useful, statistics people will be saying things like "past performance is necessarily and indicator of future success" and "correlation does not mean causation". People don't use PGP just because it doesn't get broken into, they use it because is it actually provably secure.
No, that's just not how it works.
The fact that it is breaking news is because of the oft cited claim that Macs' are not susceptible to viruses; not because they are actually secure and this is an unexpected attack. Apple do not engage in anywhere near the level of testing or release engineering to actually be secure - they're secure for the same reasons that Windows is secure: obscurity.
It's just that their market share has recently become high enough for them to become a target of virus writers, not because they are better designed.
This isn't just a benefits issue though. The low end (ie >~£15k) tax brackets are set up to inordinately punish those in low paying work (ie part time people, mainly mothers etc).
Any observer from a tech background would know that this would turn his results to shit, but he is;
- A Microsoft Employee
- A Blogger
so that never mattered anyway.Maybe because the whining is not related to the releases, but in fact the attitude of Google themselves?
I'm not even someone who is a big Microsoft fan - this is posted from a Debian machine, and I personally concur with the politics of Debian.
On a side note, Bill Gates did not make money from being a "cheap penny pincher". He made money by entering a market where the only real costs of manufacture are the initial R&D. As he is able to "value price" a product at ~£200 (windows) that has a per-unit cost of only a few pence (cd, booklet, box), he is a billionaire.
I could very easily just mod you down (I have mod points) but I decided that the scale of your ignorance warranted a challenging post.
I hadn't heard of either of them. I'll go try them out. Thankyou.
Between the childish writing technique, this offered me an insight; America is far more class bound than I thought (far more class bound than the UK).
As a person just leaving sixth form (last two years of "high school") in the UK, it seems to me that the reasons behind using myspace/facebook here in the UK are different. Most people I know, inside or outside of school and work have a myspace. A few people have a Facebook, but that's more to do with being frustrated with the poor design of myspace than social class. I don't see any link in which of my social networks sign up to facebook, except that once one person in a group does, it normally happens en masse. It is true, however, over here that myspace has a strong connection to the music scene (I enjoy the local music scene where I am, but find bands on myspace obnoxious).
Obviously, this is totally anecdotal, but I've moved to and from state, private and public schools (ie, the free kind, the pay for kind, and the pay for kind with the pretentiousness) and so have a mix of contacts from each.
As already mentioned a myriad of times, this only works for the smallest of corrections. Try to read through a dissertation, looking for instances where you've mispelt "their" as "thier".
For a surprising amount of people, this is a frequent handwriting error. I know it's probably one of my more common errors when writing by hand.
It's probably a tongue in cheek reference about how similar the USA is to the USSR.
SHOCKER:When a major distro makes an important decision, it comes up on slashdot.
I really wish a new lisp dialect would arise with a modern standard library. Bracket power!
You're also misrepresenting forensic drive analysis. They're not always going to be able to recover files. If the space the file occupied has been since overwritten, it is not possible to retrieve the data, unless I am mistaken. On a drive that continues to be used for writes, the chances of a deleted file on a disk eventually reduce to near zero.
I've never sold or thrown away a drive that was used for anything important, but friends have, and wiping them securely is not particularly difficult.
It's somewhat possible, and Gateway probably want to fight that.
I thought I responded in kind; maybe I'm crap at jokes, but I thought there was at least one in my post. Maybe I should give up.
I'm sure that before billboards were widely used, people thought of them and large and obnoxious, whereas humans became adjusted to them and filtered them out of their lives.
With time, perhaps sound will become the same?