'cus the way google is going, buying up dark fibre and installing wifi access, it's pretty obvious that they want to provide services direct to users and bypass the ISPs entirely.
MS may end up buying AOL just at the time when it becomes irrelevant.
In many projects it's (foolishly) more important to make progress than to create a secure service. Security is often something thought about at the end rather than being builtin from the design stage.
Fraud doesn't have to be obvious, especially when using an electoral college system. In a close election a hundred votes here and there in a couple of counties may be sufficient to swing the college one way or the other. Such small manipulation would be extremely difficult to detect. Indeed, in an insecure voting machine you would cheat by deleting votes for the "wrong" side rather than by adding votes for the "correct" side. If someone complains, the machine has "malfunctioned" and without a full audit nobody is aware of all the missing votes.
Until MS include the customers costs in the costs to create and distribute a security fix you will never see a sensible security policy come out of MS.
OTOH, until MS customers find ways to punish MS when it does something stupid MS will not change its ways.
What the chances that WinXP will be rebranded as "Vista Classic" for all those people who can't afford the bank loans required for the hardware upgrade necessary to get Vista running at more than a glacial pace?
Where does one stop when removing rights to protect a society?
You have to stop at some point otherwise you end up with a police state.
So why not stop TODAY?
You defeat stupid idealism with BETTER ideas not by giving up on rights and freedoms that millions have died to protect.
Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller (MI5 boss) is supposed to be protecting UK society. After what she has said, she should be fired, arrested and prosecuted for treason.
For good measure there are a couple of others in the UK government who seem to think that 1984 is a text book on good government and might benefit from a few years in an actual jail.
In the UK for example, there is about 90% market coverage so the phone companies are looking for new markets in Africa and China. For these you need a much cheaper phone.
Then of course, if the chipset is only $30, your next laptop may have a cell phone builtin.
NASA should just say that as long as the crew wants to fly, the shuttle should fly and everybody else should shut up.
I'm sure that the flight crew is perfectly able to judge the risks for themselves. This time they found lots of minor problems because they LOOKED harder than normal. Every single flight may have had similar problems that only someone who read the post flight technical reports knew about -- if then.
Does the US really want to be paying China rent on a spacestation when they decide to go back into space after wimping out?
I have a perfectly legal XP system bought boxed from Toshiba via a well known and honest UK dealer.
Microsoft accuse me and/or Toshiba and/or the dealer of having an illegal copy of XP.
Now I will solve the problem by giving up on XP (which I only need to run IE occasionally where badly designed web sites require it) and using Linux and Solaris.
But what will happen when a large organisation falls foul of this problem? I predict a class action in Microsofts future that may cause them a lot of hurt.
...if you annoy me you've lost even the vague possibility of a sale.
It's a myth that there is no such thing as bad advertising. Product name recognition works both ways. For me, I can easily remember why I don't buy from some sources.
The "data" obtained by the methods described is very low grade and often totally useless.
... perhaps it is because the modern CS students have just spent three years learning about operating systems by using open source operating systems?
Once upon a time you could make real money by working for a startup Microsoft. Today, it's just another job and all the cool ideas are coming out of Google.
that has been forgotton in many education circles.
Secondly, there is no point forcing a kid to learn something until they can read, write and do arithmetic. Everything else is built on these. If little Johny still can't read he is doomed to a lousy low paid job no matter how nice he is or how clever he is.
Finally, not everybody is ready to learn beyond the basics when they are young. Make sure that adult education is free, widespread, easy to access and NOT viewed as a poor second rate option for dummies.
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'cus the way google is going, buying up dark fibre and installing wifi access, it's pretty obvious that they want to provide services direct to users and bypass the ISPs entirely.
MS may end up buying AOL just at the time when it becomes irrelevant.
It's a million to one chance but why risk it?
You don't even need stupid users.
In many projects it's (foolishly) more important to make progress than to create a secure service. Security is often something thought about at the end rather than being builtin from the design stage.
Fraud doesn't have to be obvious, especially when using an electoral college system. In a close election a hundred votes here and there in a couple of counties may be sufficient to swing the college one way or the other. Such small manipulation would be extremely difficult to detect. Indeed, in an insecure voting machine you would cheat by deleting votes for the "wrong" side rather than by adding votes for the "correct" side. If someone complains, the machine has "malfunctioned" and without a full audit nobody is aware of all the missing votes.
The problem is, almost nobody involved in computing does join as the BCS has been irrelevant for many years.
Now all these upstart home programmers have the gall to create products with the quality of Linux and Apache.
In short, the BCS is a club for people who want to talk about programming rather than actually crank code.
Until MS include the customers costs in the costs to create and distribute a security fix you will never see a sensible security policy come out of MS.
OTOH, until MS customers find ways to punish MS when it does something stupid MS will not change its ways.
... so there is little change in sea level when it melts.
Of course all the fresh water may cause problems.
What the chances that WinXP will be rebranded as "Vista Classic" for all those people who can't afford the bank loans required for the hardware upgrade necessary to get Vista running at more than a glacial pace?
So why not stop TODAY?
You defeat stupid idealism with BETTER ideas not by giving up on rights and freedoms that millions have died to protect.
Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller (MI5 boss) is supposed to be protecting UK society. After what she has said, she should be fired, arrested and prosecuted for treason.
For good measure there are a couple of others in the UK government who seem to think that 1984 is a text book on good government and might benefit from a few years in an actual jail.
Some lawyer sues someone citing some imagined harm caused by the additional dimensions.
I can't imagine the web staff are qualified to do on site rescue work so can't be so busy that they can't produce something for the public.
The list of companies associated with OSDL looks like the Microsoft enemies list.
IBM, Novell, HP, Intel etc.
GNU as a trademark for computer software has been registered by the FSF for a number of years.
So did the Compact Cassette kill live music?
Or did live music kill the Compact Cassette?
In the UK for example, there is about 90% market coverage so the phone companies are looking for new markets in Africa and China. For these you need a much cheaper phone.
Then of course, if the chipset is only $30, your next laptop may have a cell phone builtin.
NASA should just say that as long as the crew wants to fly, the shuttle should fly and everybody else should shut up.
I'm sure that the flight crew is perfectly able to judge the risks for themselves. This time they found lots of minor problems because they LOOKED harder than normal. Every single flight may have had similar problems that only someone who read the post flight technical reports knew about -- if then.
Does the US really want to be paying China rent on a spacestation when they decide to go back into space after wimping out?
Exactly how do you do a product recall when your product is injected into the bodies of 300 million people?
Assuming the guy hasn't been misquoted, he is a fool who hasn't given a single second of thought to the failure modes of the scheme.
This is apart from the stupid idea that you deal with the bad guys by treating all the good guys as if they were the bad guys.
Why on earth are passwords a/ being kept in plaintext form and b/ being kept on a server that is available directly from the internet?
Totally clueless!
I have a perfectly legal XP system bought boxed from Toshiba via a well known and honest UK dealer.
Microsoft accuse me and/or Toshiba and/or the dealer of having an illegal copy of XP.
Now I will solve the problem by giving up on XP (which I only need to run IE occasionally where badly designed web sites require it) and using Linux and Solaris.
But what will happen when a large organisation falls foul of this problem? I predict a class action in Microsofts future that may cause them a lot of hurt.
...if you annoy me you've lost even the vague possibility of a sale.
It's a myth that there is no such thing as bad advertising. Product name recognition works both ways. For me, I can easily remember why I don't buy from some sources.
The "data" obtained by the methods described is very low grade and often totally useless.
... don't mention Linux.
Seriously, with MS spreading the word people will start to wonder what this Linux thing is and is it any good.
After all, MS is spending a lot of energy briefing against it...
... perhaps it is because the modern CS students have just spent three years learning about operating systems by using open source operating systems?
Once upon a time you could make real money by working for a startup Microsoft. Today, it's just another job and all the cool ideas are coming out of Google.
That's what it is really. It's intended to scare off kids and parents who have a cunning plan to misuse the tickets.
that has been forgotton in many education circles.
Secondly, there is no point forcing a kid to learn something until they can read, write and do arithmetic. Everything else is built on these. If little Johny still can't read he is doomed to a lousy low paid job no matter how nice he is or how clever he is.
Finally, not everybody is ready to learn beyond the basics when they are young. Make sure that adult education is free, widespread, easy to access and NOT viewed as a poor second rate option for dummies.
last I heard there wasn't a thriving black market for stolen school text books.