Apple made it perfectly clear in their contracts that they would be compensated by merely getting excited about the thought of working near the place where such secret and beautiful products are created. Even just working for Apple should be compensation enough. Hell, you should be able to get your date off merely by telling her you work for Apple.
I take it these people didn't get the memo. Do these people not know that?
Come up with a lame technical 'solution' to identity theft to help stop the completely over-hyped global terrorism threat, and then make the whole thing even easier by allowing easy cloning of existing passports. Be in several places at the same time! All you need is one loophole and it propogates.
Additionally, I see no improvements to the initial checking of who is eligible for a passport to try and sort out the Day of the Jackal fraud:
Using some form biometric system that seems to be implicitly trusted is even more dangerous, since if you can get your bogus identity trusted then people aren't ever going to question it.
Oh, right, because Moonlight won't be able to? What about the codec pack Microsoft will release for non-Windows operating systems, for x86, x86_64, and PowerPC alike, specifically and solely for Moonlight?
You've just described the problem the OP was pointing to. Well done. As soon as Silverlight has reached critical mass and their interests are elsewhere they will drop that like a hot potato.
Why is it that the trolls crawl out from under the bridge whenever Mono comes up?
Because Miguel, and trolls like you, do not grok what has happened, consistently, over the past twenty five years which is unbelievable. I think all such posts should be modded funny.
Turning in his Somewhat Charred Grave
on
Scotty's Final Mission
·
· Score: 5, Informative
Hmmmmm. I thought Scotty's ashes had been lost before:
If you want to write for distro foo, you release the source code and get to work collaborating with distro foo. Someone will package your program, and you'll be fine.
This has been pointed out dozens of times, but people in the various distributions still do not get it. If you're packaging software up on a widespread basis so users can install it you are not going to do it for each and every distribution and you are certainly not going to wait years for it to appear in a package repository. Those are the same problems we have with software availability from repositories now. ISVs are not going to package up their software and submit it to your daft repository.
given that THE ARTICLE HAS NOTHING WHATSOEVER TO DO WITH THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT IN ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM.
Hmmmm, there is more than one article quoted here to give some background on this whole anti-piracy thing, so I'll give you the link here (actually given above):
Now, a leaked letter dated just two days before the major revelation has surfaced and shows that the British government is just as adamant over the idea of ISPs being copyright police as the major copyright industry - if not, more so......the British government has secretly set a goal of reducing file-sharing by 80% over the course of the next three years. The letter was signed by Baroness Vadera, the business minister.
Reading the whole article text usually helps. There you go. This is pretty much British government policy. You got modded insightful for not actually reading.
But please, don't let this stop your plans for a generalized semi-conspiratorial anti-government, to say nothing of anti-USA rant. Becaause clearly this is what qualifies as "insightful" here.
Fuck. You've been modded up to insightful because you believe that that comment was an anti-USA rant - which it wasn't in any way, because it describes the situation as-is from the point of view of someone who, presumably, actually, you know, lives in the UK? It certainly rings true with me and the article proves it.
The irony seems to go like this:
1. Attack a comment for something you believe it says, but actually doesn't.
2. Fail miserably to read the context around the article, or even the links, and say that it has nothing to do with something when in fact it does.
3. Add in a sarcastic comment about what passes as 'insightful' around here.
4. As a result of 3, get the mods second guessing themselves.
5. Get a stupid comment modded as insightful.
The controversy is that it redefines what.0 means to most computer users and has meant throughout the release history of KDE.
No it hasn't. Most users of most distros never saw KDE 4.0 unless they fiddled with their package management systems.
What people don't understand with open source software is the layers involved in terms of development and the decisions made at each level as to whether the software is good enough. Developers carry on cranking out the releases until everyone says "Ahhhhh, yes" and most distros are totally fine about shipping it.
I'll also add that given how good KDE 4 now looks, maybe people will start bitching to the Firefox developers about why Firefox looks like arse. In all honesty, I don't hold much faith for Firefox for any Linux desktop. Hopefully we'll get really good WebKit based browsers built into KDE and Gnome by default.
Is Firefox 3 still looking like ass on KDE, and when you attempt to make it use KDE themes, the scrollbars disappear?
The KDE put effort into the QtGTK theme engine to mitigate this, but, you should complain to the Firefox developers as they stalled any kind of Qt port for a ridiculous amount of time (commit access to developers and other silliness) and then bitched in their blogs that there was no interest in a Qt port so they were removing it.
Nothing complicated. In Europe you can get away with charging more for software, and in Treasure Island (otherwise known as the UK) you can whip out some lube, bend someone over a cash machine and give them a right screwing. Not only will they enjoy it, they'll also buy your software licenses at an exorbitantly high price.
Oh, and I haven't even touched above on the numerous benefits of central management, cutting down on running around trying to troubleshoot local deployment issues, re-installing and re-configuring local software, provisioning new systems, installing configuring client software when laptops inevitably get lost, stolen or damaged, data cleansing and purging when a machine is due to be scrapped and generally running around like a complete blue arsed fly.
I'm not sure whether it is the Windows client culture that has got us like this, but management of local and client software and systems is a PITA and has only succeeded in creating a market for companies to lube up and screw you for lots of pointless client software that needs yet more installing and configuring to manage this problem.
With respect, you're putting an awful lot of effort into managing this yourself when it really is just too much hard work. It also doesn't get around the fundamental problem that, encrypted or not, double encrypted or not, your data is still physically lost if the laptop gets lost or stolen.
You can't trust all your employees to manage this themselves, and quite frankly, we use computers and networks so we don't have to think about this kind of crap. Procedures loosen up over time and naturally get lax if there is more important work to be done. If you're travelling and have some serious sporadic internet bandwidth problems I can understand a set up of this kind, but it should be a pretty extreme exception.
Is there any particular reason you can't use a remote desktop to do your work remotely, or access it over a VPN? This means that if your laptop gets lost, damaged or stolen you haven't actually lost any work at all, there's no risk of any data getting physically stolen and if you've managed outside access properly there's no risk of anyone getting remote access. You can simply revoke a VPN certificate.
Meanwhile, you can get back up and running in little to no time, because all you need is a new laptop with a remote/VPN client, and there isn't even any pointless installing, re-installing and configuring of any client software that you might need - Truecrypt, for example.
Honestly, what your doing really does sound like too much time and effort, and it's the trap I see an awful lot of people falling into. They talk about local encryption if it will somehow solve all their problems, when it's where the data is physically located that's the real problem.
You know, in this day of the internet, where you can easily get outside access without too much cost and trouble, VPNs and alike, I'm always amazed that some organisations still think that the way to get outside access to data, or to get data from A to B for access, is to burn it to a CD, download it on to a USB drive or download the entire database into a CSV or even a whole Excel file. I'm also flabbergasted that any non-developer would really need to do this. These files inevitably get left scattered around, and despite what anyone might tell you there is absolutely no way of dealing with this whatsoever. You've made it an unmanaged mess, and it will stay one.
You'd think that VPNs, Terminal Services, remote X and stuff like NX Server just didn't exist. If you want to give outside access to something, and you want somebody to work on something while they're off-site, let them log in via Terminal Services or a remote X session and let them actually do their work physically on-site. If that's not quite possible, let them access the services they need through a secure VPN so critical data is never taken off site and you never open the can of worms where you are bullied into relaxing access to solve the off-site access problem. If someone leaves you just cut their login access and they can't get to any critical data any more.
Seriously, this is what the internet and your bandwidth should be *used* for. While in a small minority of cases there will be some people who will need local access to some data, or there might be bandwidth problems, these will be few and far between and should never be solved by arbitrarily letting any idiot with a laptop download a massive CSV dump of a database.
Maybe if YOU had read the compatibility list you would know they don't test specific controllers, they test hardware platforms from server vendors.
Yer, and? Most vendors do that. That doesn't mean that it won't work on some commodity hardware you can buy though, since ummmmm, all those enterprisey systems are actually commodity hardware themselves.
I've had ESX(i) running very well on an Adaptec 2420SA SATA controller (I was thoroughly confused about the whole SAS thing) as well as some plain PC based systems. ESX(i) is basically a very thin Linux system that boots the hypervisor system on top, so all the base drivers are Linux ones. It just wouldn't make sense to start writing your own device drivers for things when ones already exist. That would be colossally expensive for VMware. Only Microsoft can afford to maintain a system like that with all the hardware support needed these days.......
Get this through your heads already: Apple is not Steve Jobs.......Assuming Apple's engineers (the people who actually matter) don't quit when Jobs leaves, Apple will do just fine after Jobs.
Take a look at Apple before 1997 when Steve Jobs came to the rescue. The company had no clue whatsoever who they were, let alone what they were doing and what they were selling.
He says in this article that GNOME was chosen for how easy to use it is. He's saying that the widget set doesn't dictate that
Further down, that doesn't sound like what he's saying to me, otherwise there would be no need at all to talk about Qt.
Shuttleworth: Whether we'll be able to have the FSF excited about something, have GNOME excited about something, have Nokia excited about something which makes life better for developers - that's gonna be the interesting challenge for me.
Personally, I find Mark Shuttleworth utterly confusing at the best of times.
It's unfortunate that KDE developers still try to deny or at least greatly minimize the impact of these kind of problems.
Problems with what? You're running around like a geek trying to run a piece of software that hasn't been out for even a few months and you're complaining it has shortcomings and some things missing? Stop press, news at 11.
Meanwhile, back on planet Earth people are still using KDE 3.5.x, they will probably use successive versions of it as well, and when the general consensus is that KDE 4.x looks OK then you'll start to see a natural move to it. That's what naturally tends to happen with these things. You just......................stop worrying. If you're an early adopter then that's exactly what you are. I hear that people actually pay for licenses for that privilege, and they complain less than the furore we've had with KDE 4. Go figure.
Is this a troll or do you suffer from short attention span? This was his first comment, but the discussion on bugzilla was very long, and further down he identified technical issues that prevent this from being done sanely
You're kidding me? Is this a troll? The first comment was a clear response on what the developer thought of it, and I'm highly amused by the fact that there's reasons as to why it can't be done sanely, because uhmmm, Windows, OS X and KDE are doing it.
Slashdot Mirror
Apple made it perfectly clear in their contracts that they would be compensated by merely getting excited about the thought of working near the place where such secret and beautiful products are created. Even just working for Apple should be compensation enough. Hell, you should be able to get your date off merely by telling her you work for Apple.
I take it these people didn't get the memo. Do these people not know that?
Come up with a lame technical 'solution' to identity theft to help stop the completely over-hyped global terrorism threat, and then make the whole thing even easier by allowing easy cloning of existing passports. Be in several places at the same time! All you need is one loophole and it propogates.
Additionally, I see no improvements to the initial checking of who is eligible for a passport to try and sort out the Day of the Jackal fraud:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_of_the_Jackal
Using some form biometric system that seems to be implicitly trusted is even more dangerous, since if you can get your bogus identity trusted then people aren't ever going to question it.
You've just described the problem the OP was pointing to. Well done. As soon as Silverlight has reached critical mass and their interests are elsewhere they will drop that like a hot potato.
Because Miguel, and trolls like you, do not grok what has happened, consistently, over the past twenty five years which is unbelievable. I think all such posts should be modded funny.
Hmmmmm. I thought Scotty's ashes had been lost before:
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/10/2249214
Always multiply your estimates by a factor of 4. Seriously, the advice has done me wonders. People really do think that you're a miracle worker.
Hmmmm. English not a first language for you and the mods then :-).
Wasn't that where some Microsoft people used to meet, and wasn't that a codename of a version of Windows?
Hmmmmmmmmmm.
*Strokes chin in style of Dr. Evil*
Because it's the desktop they're trying to make this patch as pretty as possible, without sacrificing the innate beauty and usability of the system.
This has been pointed out dozens of times, but people in the various distributions still do not get it. If you're packaging software up on a widespread basis so users can install it you are not going to do it for each and every distribution and you are certainly not going to wait years for it to appear in a package repository. Those are the same problems we have with software availability from repositories now. ISVs are not going to package up their software and submit it to your daft repository.
The Slashdot effect that can make Apple actually patch something.
Hmmmm, there is more than one article quoted here to give some background on this whole anti-piracy thing, so I'll give you the link here (actually given above):
http://www.zeropaid.com/news/9652/Leaked+British+Government+Letter+-+P2P+Will+be+Cut+by+80%25
Now, a leaked letter dated just two days before the major revelation has surfaced and shows that the British government is just as adamant over the idea of ISPs being copyright police as the major copyright industry - if not, more so......the British government has secretly set a goal of reducing file-sharing by 80% over the course of the next three years. The letter was signed by Baroness Vadera, the business minister.
Reading the whole article text usually helps. There you go. This is pretty much British government policy. You got modded insightful for not actually reading.
Fuck. You've been modded up to insightful because you believe that that comment was an anti-USA rant - which it wasn't in any way, because it describes the situation as-is from the point of view of someone who, presumably, actually, you know, lives in the UK? It certainly rings true with me and the article proves it.
The irony seems to go like this:
1. Attack a comment for something you believe it says, but actually doesn't.
2. Fail miserably to read the context around the article, or even the links, and say that it has nothing to do with something when in fact it does.
3. Add in a sarcastic comment about what passes as 'insightful' around here.
4. As a result of 3, get the mods second guessing themselves.
5. Get a stupid comment modded as insightful.
No it hasn't. Most users of most distros never saw KDE 4.0 unless they fiddled with their package management systems.
What people don't understand with open source software is the layers involved in terms of development and the decisions made at each level as to whether the software is good enough. Developers carry on cranking out the releases until everyone says "Ahhhhh, yes" and most distros are totally fine about shipping it.
I'll also add that given how good KDE 4 now looks, maybe people will start bitching to the Firefox developers about why Firefox looks like arse. In all honesty, I don't hold much faith for Firefox for any Linux desktop. Hopefully we'll get really good WebKit based browsers built into KDE and Gnome by default.
The KDE put effort into the QtGTK theme engine to mitigate this, but, you should complain to the Firefox developers as they stalled any kind of Qt port for a ridiculous amount of time (commit access to developers and other silliness) and then bitched in their blogs that there was no interest in a Qt port so they were removing it.
Nothing complicated. In Europe you can get away with charging more for software, and in Treasure Island (otherwise known as the UK) you can whip out some lube, bend someone over a cash machine and give them a right screwing. Not only will they enjoy it, they'll also buy your software licenses at an exorbitantly high price.
Oh, and I haven't even touched above on the numerous benefits of central management, cutting down on running around trying to troubleshoot local deployment issues, re-installing and re-configuring local software, provisioning new systems, installing configuring client software when laptops inevitably get lost, stolen or damaged, data cleansing and purging when a machine is due to be scrapped and generally running around like a complete blue arsed fly.
I'm not sure whether it is the Windows client culture that has got us like this, but management of local and client software and systems is a PITA and has only succeeded in creating a market for companies to lube up and screw you for lots of pointless client software that needs yet more installing and configuring to manage this problem.
With respect, you're putting an awful lot of effort into managing this yourself when it really is just too much hard work. It also doesn't get around the fundamental problem that, encrypted or not, double encrypted or not, your data is still physically lost if the laptop gets lost or stolen.
You can't trust all your employees to manage this themselves, and quite frankly, we use computers and networks so we don't have to think about this kind of crap. Procedures loosen up over time and naturally get lax if there is more important work to be done. If you're travelling and have some serious sporadic internet bandwidth problems I can understand a set up of this kind, but it should be a pretty extreme exception.
Is there any particular reason you can't use a remote desktop to do your work remotely, or access it over a VPN? This means that if your laptop gets lost, damaged or stolen you haven't actually lost any work at all, there's no risk of any data getting physically stolen and if you've managed outside access properly there's no risk of anyone getting remote access. You can simply revoke a VPN certificate.
Meanwhile, you can get back up and running in little to no time, because all you need is a new laptop with a remote/VPN client, and there isn't even any pointless installing, re-installing and configuring of any client software that you might need - Truecrypt, for example.
Honestly, what your doing really does sound like too much time and effort, and it's the trap I see an awful lot of people falling into. They talk about local encryption if it will somehow solve all their problems, when it's where the data is physically located that's the real problem.
You know, in this day of the internet, where you can easily get outside access without too much cost and trouble, VPNs and alike, I'm always amazed that some organisations still think that the way to get outside access to data, or to get data from A to B for access, is to burn it to a CD, download it on to a USB drive or download the entire database into a CSV or even a whole Excel file. I'm also flabbergasted that any non-developer would really need to do this. These files inevitably get left scattered around, and despite what anyone might tell you there is absolutely no way of dealing with this whatsoever. You've made it an unmanaged mess, and it will stay one.
You'd think that VPNs, Terminal Services, remote X and stuff like NX Server just didn't exist. If you want to give outside access to something, and you want somebody to work on something while they're off-site, let them log in via Terminal Services or a remote X session and let them actually do their work physically on-site. If that's not quite possible, let them access the services they need through a secure VPN so critical data is never taken off site and you never open the can of worms where you are bullied into relaxing access to solve the off-site access problem. If someone leaves you just cut their login access and they can't get to any critical data any more.
Seriously, this is what the internet and your bandwidth should be *used* for. While in a small minority of cases there will be some people who will need local access to some data, or there might be bandwidth problems, these will be few and far between and should never be solved by arbitrarily letting any idiot with a laptop download a massive CSV dump of a database.
Is it me?
Yer, and? Most vendors do that. That doesn't mean that it won't work on some commodity hardware you can buy though, since ummmmm, all those enterprisey systems are actually commodity hardware themselves.
I've had ESX(i) running very well on an Adaptec 2420SA SATA controller (I was thoroughly confused about the whole SAS thing) as well as some plain PC based systems. ESX(i) is basically a very thin Linux system that boots the hypervisor system on top, so all the base drivers are Linux ones. It just wouldn't make sense to start writing your own device drivers for things when ones already exist. That would be colossally expensive for VMware. Only Microsoft can afford to maintain a system like that with all the hardware support needed these days.......
Take a look at Apple before 1997 when Steve Jobs came to the rescue. The company had no clue whatsoever who they were, let alone what they were doing and what they were selling.
You are fucking joking, of course right? I mean, your post will be modded funny, right?
Hmmmm. OK. So there's another one who doesn't understand how open source development works.
Sound like a couple of tossers to me.
Further down, that doesn't sound like what he's saying to me, otherwise there would be no need at all to talk about Qt.
Personally, I find Mark Shuttleworth utterly confusing at the best of times.
Problems with what? You're running around like a geek trying to run a piece of software that hasn't been out for even a few months and you're complaining it has shortcomings and some things missing? Stop press, news at 11.
Meanwhile, back on planet Earth people are still using KDE 3.5.x, they will probably use successive versions of it as well, and when the general consensus is that KDE 4.x looks OK then you'll start to see a natural move to it. That's what naturally tends to happen with these things. You just......................stop worrying. If you're an early adopter then that's exactly what you are. I hear that people actually pay for licenses for that privilege, and they complain less than the furore we've had with KDE 4. Go figure.
You're kidding me? Is this a troll? The first comment was a clear response on what the developer thought of it, and I'm highly amused by the fact that there's reasons as to why it can't be done sanely, because uhmmm, Windows, OS X and KDE are doing it.