Finally!! I always wanted to lie in my garden typing away while my laptop sits in the bedroom!
But on a more serious note: the range is cool, but how is this newsworthy?? Bluetooth keyboard and mice are on the market already for a longer period. Are times that bad for/. to consider it news if a manufacturer takes some of its products, and puts them into a single box to sell them? I can see it already:
Put three existing items into a single coated paper box
Advertise it on/.
Profit
And yes, for once we already know the ??? step in beforehand.
The security hole here is between the keyboard and the chair. Joe Sixpack with his friendly ready-for-the-desktop Linux distribution will soon discover that it's easy to install software: you just type the 'root' password into any box that asks for it. Once he does that, then the spyware author has decades of rootkit techniques to draw upon. That machine will never be disinfected.
Unlike in the Windows world, there are solutions to this problem outthere. Consider e.g. MacOS X which uses a setting with a bit more privileges for the admin account, but disabled login for root. If admin privileges are not enough for certain tasks, then suid root wrappers are used. By using root wrappers you can effectively control what is allowed to happen or not on the machine (like installing software which itself is suid root).
Ahh, 20th anniversary of Windows. May be a good reason to pull out the Ballmer musical again (Dance Monkey Boy and Developers cut together to an outstanding acoustic drama).
I can guarantee that if Linux were on 95% of computers in the world, it would be having the same malware and security issues as MS, mainly do to (inexperinced) users.
Has it ever occurred to you that there are technical differences between operating systems, and that the design of UNIX makes it much harder to run spyware which can spy a lot, or viruses which can spread that easy (remember "I LOVE YOU"?)?
All this "it's only because Linux has a small market share" is rubbish. Even if it had 95%, it would still be more secure because of its design, than Windows.
including an interview with Mr. Bill Gates himself.
Is reading an interview with him considered an honor today, or what?? Not that there would already be plenty of other interviews where he can spread FUD.
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Finally!! I always wanted to lie in my garden typing away while my laptop sits in the bedroom!
But on a more serious note: the range is cool, but how is this newsworthy?? Bluetooth keyboard and mice are on the market already for a longer period. Are times that bad for /. to consider it news if a manufacturer takes some of its products, and puts them into a single box to sell them? I can see it already:
And yes, for once we already know the ??? step in beforehand.
Aah, and this can't happen in C++ how?
Let's see. Submitter of story: Jean-Marie Dautelle. Javolution project owner: Jean-Marie Dautelle.
But he's got to send those pix first. Err, she.
Sorry, but I don't give anything on these x86 cpus.
I hate to break it to you, but your actually reading /. using lots of sand. Ever wondered what your cpu is built from?
Wow, he's actually got two of them?
No, they had fixed the root of the problem.
Psssst, look here.
Some people do have really serious doubts about the credibility of wikipedia content.
On the other hand, wikipedia people do have doubts about these other lads as well. Hmmm, looks like circular distrust to me...
You can even leave out step one on wikipedia. No account needed for editing or inserting articles.
It was about time!
I just hope that the next time I drag a cow out of a shop the alarm doesn't go off.
Unlike in the Windows world, there are solutions to this problem outthere. Consider e.g. MacOS X which uses a setting with a bit more privileges for the admin account, but disabled login for root. If admin privileges are not enough for certain tasks, then suid root wrappers are used. By using root wrappers you can effectively control what is allowed to happen or not on the machine (like installing software which itself is suid root).
Ahh, 20th anniversary of Windows. May be a good reason to pull out the Ballmer musical again (Dance Monkey Boy and Developers cut together to an outstanding acoustic drama).
Or, even more to the point - if windows hadn't be there we had had a better operating system to start with during the last two centuries already.
Has it ever occurred to you that there are technical differences between operating systems, and that the design of UNIX makes it much harder to run spyware which can spy a lot, or viruses which can spread that easy (remember "I LOVE YOU"?)?
All this "it's only because Linux has a small market share" is rubbish. Even if it had 95%, it would still be more secure because of its design, than Windows.
Well, but at least the virus issue does not seem to be on the fall, though.
Provides myriads of spyware you mean...
Yes, it's a true relieve to finally have access to all this spyware again!
Which does not make it any faster or more secure though.
Is reading an interview with him considered an honor today, or what?? Not that there would already be plenty of other interviews where he can spread FUD.
And /me already thought they've finally found that dude from Dragonheart 2.