Nokia is transforming into an empty shell company to serve as patent troll puppet of Microsoft to push Windows phones, just as Microsoft intended from the start.
Microsoft is dying and is sacrificing allies left and right to stay alive a bit longer.
Conflict of interest. Thats what you get when you want an algorithm used by everyone so it must appear to be absolutely secure but at the same time want it to be insecure for everyone else so you can read everything.
You add a subtle vulnerability of a class you believe only you know about and can exploit, then push it as a standard. Then it turns out there are other smart guys out there, oops. Or not and you hit jackpot.
I think this is exactly what is happening right now. They got a backdoor in Tor and now want everyone to start using it, so they say they can not beak it.
I never understood this No-SQL fad. You can turn off transaction isolation and cram serialized record data into a single BLOB field, and you will get the same thing right? Or, use a freaking filesystem?
Why do they keep patting themselves on the shoulder over performance of particular implementation that is due to lack of features and safety, and comparing it to relational databases in general as if it was somehow superior? Apples and oranges. Like saying MyISAM backend is superior to InnoDB in MySQL because it is faster.
SQL as a performance bottleneck? Having to escape certain characters? mysql_real_escape_string()? They probably never heard of bound parameters and prepared statements.
Once they find out they need to start addressing things like durability (when they acknowledge successful completion of a transaction to the remote client, and then there is a crash immediately after that, will the transaction be lost?) and isolation (multiple concurrent transactions modifying the same data jeopardizing the integrity of the data) they will eventually find out that transaction processing is about more than just atomic updates, and find themselves doing the stuff they loathe on the SQL databases. And it will hurt performance to do it compared to the case where they don't care about these things, surprise, surprise.
Reminds me of the postgresql guys when they thought they could somehow make their great idea of snapshot based concurrency control into a proper serializable isolation, and everyone else was doing it wrong. They couldn't, it only works for read only transactions. Now they know.
I wonder if the anti-MS bias at slashdot will ever die down.
It won't. Karma is a big thing around here, and we still remember what Microsoft did over the years. No amount marketing or astroturfing using shill accounts can fix this.
Czech here. There can be revolution without a bloodshed. All it takes is for everyone to realize the governemnt does not represent the people anymore and nobody really trusts it...
You are talking about brute force, high bound on the work required to crack something. Any respectable encryption algorithm sets these reasonably high (like, use all computers on earth for thousands of years...). The problem is there may be shortcuts revealed thru cryptanalysis based on some properties of the cipher. And these are extremely valuable to certain people/agencies if they remain secret... these may involve such class of a problem. I can see a lot of material for a thriller plot there...
Nah, I just didn't have C128, I had C64 so i never saw the Microsoft copyright... I was programming the C64 in assembler all the time, even had a demo group...:-) Good old days...
What? What does Microsoft have to do with BASIC? Do you think Microsoft invented it or something?
You are probably thinking Visual Basic. That has no relation to Commodore's implementation.
You fall victim to Microsoft's marketing practice of calling their products generic names.
Thats what you get when you push ISPs as "content providers" instead of commoditized content agnostic neutral transport service.
Imagine your electricity provider having to police your use of electricity consuming devices, because, you know, one of them could be a computer capable of showing a pr0n...
And the best part is, they always insist on ISPs doing it on their own expense.
It's always easy to spend someone else's money...
Let the sheep opress themselves with their own work! Brilliant isn't it?
Hmm, I see it the other way:
With their fate sealed with the Microsoft devil's deal Nokia is transferring into a patent troll zombie company to be leveraged by Micrsosoft to stop competition to their windows phones (and will stop making phones in the process, which they maybe don't realize but Microsoft planned this since the beginning).
All RIM wants is to hurt a competitor by any and all means necessary out of desperation as they can not compete by making a better product, becoming a tool of the dark side too.
What difference does a SIM card thickness reduction make for a company whose phones are close to twice as thick as Apple's and who can not possibly make them thinner? None. It only helps Apple. So they try to burry it.
No new content at all? You're not the only creator in the world, you know. Not everyone does it for money.
Yeah, someone will do it for free right? So, why not you? Go, spend 20 man years making a game and then give it away for free just for the good feeling of being creative...
There are things that simply can not be free, because it takes too much to create them.
Free silly flash games? By all means. Free Skyrim? No way.
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Wow, they invented Java?
There are no Microsoft fans, just bribed "influencers".
He hasn't figured out how to install apps :)
Nokia is transforming into an empty shell company to serve as patent troll puppet of Microsoft to push Windows phones, just as Microsoft intended from the start. Microsoft is dying and is sacrificing allies left and right to stay alive a bit longer.
"Im afraid I can't do that, Dave."
Conflict of interest. Thats what you get when you want an algorithm used by everyone so it must appear to be absolutely secure but at the same time want it to be insecure for everyone else so you can read everything. You add a subtle vulnerability of a class you believe only you know about and can exploit, then push it as a standard. Then it turns out there are other smart guys out there, oops. Or not and you hit jackpot.
Bugs. Unpublished algorithm vulnerabilities. Compromised compilers and libraries. Compromised binary packages.
I think this is exactly what is happening right now. They got a backdoor in Tor and now want everyone to start using it, so they say they can not beak it.
You don't know what DDR is?
East Germany?
Unfortunately the radioactive fallout is still there, as anyone who enters the market will be immediately sued to death too.
I never understood this No-SQL fad. You can turn off transaction isolation and cram serialized record data into a single BLOB field, and you will get the same thing right? Or, use a freaking filesystem? Why do they keep patting themselves on the shoulder over performance of particular implementation that is due to lack of features and safety, and comparing it to relational databases in general as if it was somehow superior? Apples and oranges. Like saying MyISAM backend is superior to InnoDB in MySQL because it is faster. SQL as a performance bottleneck? Having to escape certain characters? mysql_real_escape_string()? They probably never heard of bound parameters and prepared statements. Once they find out they need to start addressing things like durability (when they acknowledge successful completion of a transaction to the remote client, and then there is a crash immediately after that, will the transaction be lost?) and isolation (multiple concurrent transactions modifying the same data jeopardizing the integrity of the data) they will eventually find out that transaction processing is about more than just atomic updates, and find themselves doing the stuff they loathe on the SQL databases. And it will hurt performance to do it compared to the case where they don't care about these things, surprise, surprise. Reminds me of the postgresql guys when they thought they could somehow make their great idea of snapshot based concurrency control into a proper serializable isolation, and everyone else was doing it wrong. They couldn't, it only works for read only transactions. Now they know.
Electricity.
I wonder if the anti-MS bias at slashdot will ever die down.
It won't. Karma is a big thing around here, and we still remember what Microsoft did over the years. No amount marketing or astroturfing using shill accounts can fix this.
Yep, Karma is a bitch!
Czech here. There can be revolution without a bloodshed. All it takes is for everyone to realize the governemnt does not represent the people anymore and nobody really trusts it...
You are talking about brute force, high bound on the work required to crack something. Any respectable encryption algorithm sets these reasonably high (like, use all computers on earth for thousands of years...). The problem is there may be shortcuts revealed thru cryptanalysis based on some properties of the cipher. And these are extremely valuable to certain people/agencies if they remain secret... these may involve such class of a problem. I can see a lot of material for a thriller plot there...
Nah, I just didn't have C128, I had C64 so i never saw the Microsoft copyright... I was programming the C64 in assembler all the time, even had a demo group... :-) Good old days...
What? What does Microsoft have to do with BASIC? Do you think Microsoft invented it or something? You are probably thinking Visual Basic. That has no relation to Commodore's implementation. You fall victim to Microsoft's marketing practice of calling their products generic names.
Now Iran will be invaded on the pretense of copyright infringement, the worst of the atrocities known to man!
Why would FBI raid their own honeypot?
Haha I always advocated C# should be pronouned cis (as a musical note) not the MS matketing's 'See Sharp'.
It's London, how much climate control is actually needed?
An umbrella?
Stenography? Poor secretaries! (You probably meant steganography :) )
Thats what you get when you push ISPs as "content providers" instead of commoditized content agnostic neutral transport service. Imagine your electricity provider having to police your use of electricity consuming devices, because, you know, one of them could be a computer capable of showing a pr0n... And the best part is, they always insist on ISPs doing it on their own expense. It's always easy to spend someone else's money... Let the sheep opress themselves with their own work! Brilliant isn't it?
Hmm, I see it the other way: With their fate sealed with the Microsoft devil's deal Nokia is transferring into a patent troll zombie company to be leveraged by Micrsosoft to stop competition to their windows phones (and will stop making phones in the process, which they maybe don't realize but Microsoft planned this since the beginning). All RIM wants is to hurt a competitor by any and all means necessary out of desperation as they can not compete by making a better product, becoming a tool of the dark side too. What difference does a SIM card thickness reduction make for a company whose phones are close to twice as thick as Apple's and who can not possibly make them thinner? None. It only helps Apple. So they try to burry it.
Just make your content as easy (or easier ) available than on rapidshare. Note that I said "easier" not "cheaper" or "free" just "easier".
Proper response in a market based economy is to go create your own competing content and offer it at better terms, not to bitch about high prices.
No new content at all? You're not the only creator in the world, you know. Not everyone does it for money.
Yeah, someone will do it for free right? So, why not you? Go, spend 20 man years making a game and then give it away for free just for the good feeling of being creative... There are things that simply can not be free, because it takes too much to create them. Free silly flash games? By all means. Free Skyrim? No way.