It's the slow march to unification across macOS/iOS/tvOS. Last major update they made "zoom" take the window full-screen in its own space by default. This major, they move towards apps grouping documents under the same window. Next major they improve spaces support (potentially making an application space run in a window), then they've migrated the window-based-paradigm into an app-based-paradigm (like iOS and tvOS). iOS apps already support flexible sizing since iOS 9 to enable this. Once applications can (optionally) support multiple input methods (touch / mouse / keyboard), all new apps are already using the same underlying tech (CloudKit, UIKit, etc.) across all apple OSes, and iOS apps bytecode format already runs on macOS.
Respect to them for exercising restraint toward unification to let their users catch up, as opposed to going too far too fast (windows 8) and alienating everyone, but yes some people will still be alienated. No one can argue "system integrity" AKA Rootless doesn't improve security, but it can't be argued it doesn't disable some use cases.
I'm reading/. frontpage, listening to a George Carlin standup youtube video (R.I.P.), chatting to three people on two protocols and waiting for a reply to an SMS I just sent.
Not really being very productive at all, unsuprisingly.
One very important metric google analytics doesn't include is "Who doesn't have Javascript enabled?".
Another thing to keep in mind: the whole "hosting scripts for global caching" thing was already done by Yahoo! with their YUI libraries, so keep in mind you should apply all your google-directed conspiracy hate at them as well.
I'm sure Ballmer loves the definition of free-as-in-freedom, but in the same vein he also loves the free-as-in-beer definition as well. Ballmer doesn't pay for Microsoft OSes or products, so it's free to him-- see where i'm going for this? Free and Freedom applies to him and he's happy about that, but by steering his company into talks with hardware manufacturers and other businesses like record labels and movie distribution companies and applying ever-more restrictive DRM methods, and increasingly complex, shoddy and complex protection mechanisms in their operating systems.
Free trade means more money for Ballmer. Freedom (for Microsoft) means more money for Ballmer. Trust me, this is what runs through his mind.
Ballmer is a businessman, and 'free' isn't a word in a businessman's dictionary. Add that to the fact that Microsoft is fairly entrenched in a business market, i'm not sure what else you'd expect. Even Canonical (Ubuntu's parent) has bills to pay, and these bills have to be paid somehow.
You guys are about 2 hours late with this article:(
Seriously though to me it's the same as my previous firefox (came from 1.8 -> 2.0) plus a few graphical tweaks and this nifty spellchecker. All my extensions updated fine, and so far so good.
QANTAS is a acronym, for the Queensland And Northern Territory Aerial Service. This means the actual proper pronunciation should be "Kew Ay En Tee Ay Ess", I suppose, but us Australian folk are all kinds of lazy so we say "Kwantas" ("Q" as a "Kw"). P.S. Get a hobby, for god's sake.
Citrix is probably the worst software I've ever had the displeasure of using. Buggy, slow when it shouldn't be, and just generally horrible to use.
Just... don't.
If it's a truly anonymous darknet, they won't keep 'subscriber linked to ip accessed this resource'-type records. Even if the US or any other overzealous country or power subpoenaed or stole the records to prosecute, they won't know which subscriber did what and when.
So the minimum of records they would have to keep is who's subscribed and paid, and even with only a handful of people on the service, there's no way anyone could prove beyond reasonable doubt that a specific person did it, and I don't think swedish law would enable prosecution of the ISP.
Has everyone forgot installing Windows 95/98, and going through the process of deleting the bundled AOL trials, CompuServe this and MSN Online that? It's not "Punch the monkey and win a free iPod!"-style advertising, but it is paid product placement and it is advertising. Also in Windows 95 and 98 was a "Sampler" directory on the CD with games and reference utilities, although most were distributed by Microsoft Games, there was a game from Scholastic and another company.
In Windows XP, view your My Pictures folder (or any folder you or windows has identified as a photo folder), and look at the task pane: "Order Prints Online" takes you to a list of paid links to photo printers, "Shop for Pictures Online" takes you to a page with two microsoft links and one to 'BizPresenter.com'.
It's not a new concept! It's just been subtle, but I doubt it'll get too much more obvious (viewing a 10 second advertisement every time you boot up, or "Targeted Media" on your desktop, ala Win98's Active Desktop items but with Coke ads instead of CBS News -- wait, they're both advertising!
A better analogy, I think: If you have a cordless house phone, connected to your home line, on the footpath/sidewalk outside your house (I suppose it's chained to your fence or something as well). You sometimes use it there, and when people pass by they sometimes use it. The phone has the capacity to be locked to a certain password before it can be used, but you have chosen not to activate this because you are a good samaritan.
In this scenario, someone has been coming along and calling china, parts of europe, and new zealand on the phone, and you don't like that -- so rather than putting a password on the phone so noone can use it, the homeowner has decided all the international calls are going to be rerouted to 1-800-KITTENS, ensuring both security and hilarity!
It's the same as putting a password on the phone, but funnier because the person who's been abusing the priviledge is placed in a very confusing scenario. Lighten up, nerds!
Instead of making it illegal to have an unsecured network, why not just encourage the writers of the next wireless protocol to not support insecure or open configurations, or rather: By all defaults, you must set a password/WEP key, unless you specifically set it to run under a completely different status as an open, accessable network (such as one used in McDonalds, Starbucks, Universities etc.)
Sometimes the lawmakers get much too overzealous with thier power.
Ignorance is bliss, and I'd agree with your statement, and even extend that all people (yes, everyone) won't learn (or put effort into anything for that matter) unless they see to profit in some way themselves from it, monitarily or otherwise.
That said, who's going to ignore "If you click on links in e-mail, you could have large amounts of money stolen from you"? Accompany it with horror stories and the general person will ease into a mindset of what those familiar with internet and e-mail would call 'common sense', which helps everybody.
I'm also looking forward to see if OpenDNS (http://www.opendns.com/) will take off, and if it could actually have an effect on phishing schemes like this.
The target authorities and security developers should be aiming for, in my opinion, is not the people who do the wrong-doing, but the users themselves. The major difference that phishing has from hacking or physical robbery is that the attack is forceful against either the bank's online front or the customer whereas phishing preys on not physical or technological weakness but on intellectual weakness: ignorant users are conned into giving up personal details, going to a particular site or running a program because they are unaware of the risks.
In phishing cases there really should be a bigger push for educating customers through more than just 20-pixel-high signatures on electronic correspondance. There should be in-bank brochures, tv spots/advertisements (or at least addendums to current tv spots) and users should clearly know never to click a link in an email from anyone, especially if it's pertaining to a bank or paypal-like site or in a personal mail from someone unfamiliar.
There's a reason many geeks have clean-as-whistle computers (I virus and spyware scan every now-and-then -- about every 6 months -- and they both always come up clean) whereas the "common user" has problems with viruses and scumware seemingly constantly, and that reason is education and not-so-common sense. The answer then is obviously to educate, and make that sense common.
...albeit the discussion depth isn't exactly what you'd call "deep" -- almost all 4chan's posts and replies are made anonymously, and there is definately interaction there, but the biggest problems with such an anonymous system is that no friendships can be forged over the internet, because you don't know who is who; it can be very difficult for administrators to weed out spammers and abusers due to the lack of information stored.
Once you start moving up toward usernames, registration systems, and cross-user identification, anonymonity is lost, to the scale of IRC, which would clearly allow tracking to any dedicated enough parties.
I would class myself as probably a step above the "ordinary user" -- while I can rip apart hardware and have great fluency with the windows OS, when it comes to things like *nix I'm definately a fish out of water.
For laughs, the other day I ordered my Ubuntu CDs and a few weeks later they arrived. I formatted my harddrive and installed the software. First thing's first, after that tedious installation I jumped on the internet and MSN Messenger/iChat (no problem) and went to play an mp3 that was stuck in my head. Jumped onto the samba share for my file server, went to doubleclick and play, but no dice -- Ubuntu doesn't play mp3's out of the box. I copy it locally and try again, to no avail. Trawling across the internet, I downloaded a media player but couldn't install it, because I didn't have access to/etc/ or some strange directory (that wasn't under a disk such as C:! How confusing.
Eventually I got fed up, formatted again and installed Windows XP. Within minutes I had my whole mp3 collection in WMP playing on random, surfing the internet and chatting on MSN Messenger happily.
The problem is, things are intuitively *easy*. I know the GUI basics (click, click, doubleclick) and that should be all I need to do anything I like. Why can't things just be easy? Once they are, the users will flow in.
Someone really needs to release a 'patch' for a simple, harmless, and very kiddie-rated game to make it a hardcore porno. The same principles are being tested that get games like GTA and this game more extreme ratings, and I doubt they'll red-flag something intended to be so 'innocent'.
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It's the slow march to unification across macOS/iOS/tvOS. Last major update they made "zoom" take the window full-screen in its own space by default. This major, they move towards apps grouping documents under the same window. Next major they improve spaces support (potentially making an application space run in a window), then they've migrated the window-based-paradigm into an app-based-paradigm (like iOS and tvOS). iOS apps already support flexible sizing since iOS 9 to enable this. Once applications can (optionally) support multiple input methods (touch / mouse / keyboard), all new apps are already using the same underlying tech (CloudKit, UIKit, etc.) across all apple OSes, and iOS apps bytecode format already runs on macOS. Respect to them for exercising restraint toward unification to let their users catch up, as opposed to going too far too fast (windows 8) and alienating everyone, but yes some people will still be alienated. No one can argue "system integrity" AKA Rootless doesn't improve security, but it can't be argued it doesn't disable some use cases.
It's more likely the PS3 is more powerful than your PC
I'm sure your user will be deeply affected by this.
More realism in consequences will only come with greater realism in controls. Once you're truly "in the game" can you deal with "in the game" realism.
I'm reading /. frontpage, listening to a George Carlin standup youtube video (R.I.P.), chatting to three people on two protocols and waiting for a reply to an SMS I just sent.
Not really being very productive at all, unsuprisingly.
One very important metric google analytics doesn't include is "Who doesn't have Javascript enabled?". Another thing to keep in mind: the whole "hosting scripts for global caching" thing was already done by Yahoo! with their YUI libraries, so keep in mind you should apply all your google-directed conspiracy hate at them as well.
I'm sure Ballmer loves the definition of free-as-in-freedom, but in the same vein he also loves the free-as-in-beer definition as well. Ballmer doesn't pay for Microsoft OSes or products, so it's free to him-- see where i'm going for this? Free and Freedom applies to him and he's happy about that, but by steering his company into talks with hardware manufacturers and other businesses like record labels and movie distribution companies and applying ever-more restrictive DRM methods, and increasingly complex, shoddy and complex protection mechanisms in their operating systems.
Free trade means more money for Ballmer. Freedom (for Microsoft) means more money for Ballmer. Trust me, this is what runs through his mind.
Ballmer is a businessman, and 'free' isn't a word in a businessman's dictionary. Add that to the fact that Microsoft is fairly entrenched in a business market, i'm not sure what else you'd expect. Even Canonical (Ubuntu's parent) has bills to pay, and these bills have to be paid somehow.
You guys are about 2 hours late with this article :(
Seriously though to me it's the same as my previous firefox (came from 1.8 -> 2.0) plus a few graphical tweaks and this nifty spellchecker. All my extensions updated fine, and so far so good.
QANTAS is a acronym, for the Queensland And Northern Territory Aerial Service. This means the actual proper pronunciation should be "Kew Ay En Tee Ay Ess", I suppose, but us Australian folk are all kinds of lazy so we say "Kwantas" ("Q" as a "Kw"). P.S. Get a hobby, for god's sake.
I wasn't aware the technically uninformed read "News for Nerds" Slashdot.
Citrix is probably the worst software I've ever had the displeasure of using. Buggy, slow when it shouldn't be, and just generally horrible to use. Just... don't.
If it's a truly anonymous darknet, they won't keep 'subscriber linked to ip accessed this resource'-type records. Even if the US or any other overzealous country or power subpoenaed or stole the records to prosecute, they won't know which subscriber did what and when.
So the minimum of records they would have to keep is who's subscribed and paid, and even with only a handful of people on the service, there's no way anyone could prove beyond reasonable doubt that a specific person did it, and I don't think swedish law would enable prosecution of the ISP.
Has everyone forgot installing Windows 95/98, and going through the process of deleting the bundled AOL trials, CompuServe this and MSN Online that? It's not "Punch the monkey and win a free iPod!"-style advertising, but it is paid product placement and it is advertising. Also in Windows 95 and 98 was a "Sampler" directory on the CD with games and reference utilities, although most were distributed by Microsoft Games, there was a game from Scholastic and another company. In Windows XP, view your My Pictures folder (or any folder you or windows has identified as a photo folder), and look at the task pane: "Order Prints Online" takes you to a list of paid links to photo printers, "Shop for Pictures Online" takes you to a page with two microsoft links and one to 'BizPresenter.com'. It's not a new concept! It's just been subtle, but I doubt it'll get too much more obvious (viewing a 10 second advertisement every time you boot up, or "Targeted Media" on your desktop, ala Win98's Active Desktop items but with Coke ads instead of CBS News -- wait, they're both advertising!
A better analogy, I think: If you have a cordless house phone, connected to your home line, on the footpath/sidewalk outside your house (I suppose it's chained to your fence or something as well). You sometimes use it there, and when people pass by they sometimes use it. The phone has the capacity to be locked to a certain password before it can be used, but you have chosen not to activate this because you are a good samaritan. In this scenario, someone has been coming along and calling china, parts of europe, and new zealand on the phone, and you don't like that -- so rather than putting a password on the phone so noone can use it, the homeowner has decided all the international calls are going to be rerouted to 1-800-KITTENS, ensuring both security and hilarity! It's the same as putting a password on the phone, but funnier because the person who's been abusing the priviledge is placed in a very confusing scenario. Lighten up, nerds!
Lets just hope someone reading a very blurry or upside-down slashdot doesn't stumble across this post ;)
Instead of making it illegal to have an unsecured network, why not just encourage the writers of the next wireless protocol to not support insecure or open configurations, or rather: By all defaults, you must set a password/WEP key, unless you specifically set it to run under a completely different status as an open, accessable network (such as one used in McDonalds, Starbucks, Universities etc.) Sometimes the lawmakers get much too overzealous with thier power.
Ignorance is bliss, and I'd agree with your statement, and even extend that all people (yes, everyone) won't learn (or put effort into anything for that matter) unless they see to profit in some way themselves from it, monitarily or otherwise. That said, who's going to ignore "If you click on links in e-mail, you could have large amounts of money stolen from you"? Accompany it with horror stories and the general person will ease into a mindset of what those familiar with internet and e-mail would call 'common sense', which helps everybody. I'm also looking forward to see if OpenDNS (http://www.opendns.com/) will take off, and if it could actually have an effect on phishing schemes like this.
The target authorities and security developers should be aiming for, in my opinion, is not the people who do the wrong-doing, but the users themselves. The major difference that phishing has from hacking or physical robbery is that the attack is forceful against either the bank's online front or the customer whereas phishing preys on not physical or technological weakness but on intellectual weakness: ignorant users are conned into giving up personal details, going to a particular site or running a program because they are unaware of the risks. In phishing cases there really should be a bigger push for educating customers through more than just 20-pixel-high signatures on electronic correspondance. There should be in-bank brochures, tv spots/advertisements (or at least addendums to current tv spots) and users should clearly know never to click a link in an email from anyone, especially if it's pertaining to a bank or paypal-like site or in a personal mail from someone unfamiliar. There's a reason many geeks have clean-as-whistle computers (I virus and spyware scan every now-and-then -- about every 6 months -- and they both always come up clean) whereas the "common user" has problems with viruses and scumware seemingly constantly, and that reason is education and not-so-common sense. The answer then is obviously to educate, and make that sense common.
...albeit the discussion depth isn't exactly what you'd call "deep" -- almost all 4chan's posts and replies are made anonymously, and there is definately interaction there, but the biggest problems with such an anonymous system is that no friendships can be forged over the internet, because you don't know who is who; it can be very difficult for administrators to weed out spammers and abusers due to the lack of information stored. Once you start moving up toward usernames, registration systems, and cross-user identification, anonymonity is lost, to the scale of IRC, which would clearly allow tracking to any dedicated enough parties.
I'm still waiting for "The EU has begun fining Microsoft"... until then my doubt that they will do anything but threaten will remain.
I would class myself as probably a step above the "ordinary user" -- while I can rip apart hardware and have great fluency with the windows OS, when it comes to things like *nix I'm definately a fish out of water.
/etc/ or some strange directory (that wasn't under a disk such as C:! How confusing.
For laughs, the other day I ordered my Ubuntu CDs and a few weeks later they arrived. I formatted my harddrive and installed the software. First thing's first, after that tedious installation I jumped on the internet and MSN Messenger/iChat (no problem) and went to play an mp3 that was stuck in my head. Jumped onto the samba share for my file server, went to doubleclick and play, but no dice -- Ubuntu doesn't play mp3's out of the box. I copy it locally and try again, to no avail. Trawling across the internet, I downloaded a media player but couldn't install it, because I didn't have access to
Eventually I got fed up, formatted again and installed Windows XP. Within minutes I had my whole mp3 collection in WMP playing on random, surfing the internet and chatting on MSN Messenger happily.
The problem is, things are intuitively *easy*. I know the GUI basics (click, click, doubleclick) and that should be all I need to do anything I like. Why can't things just be easy? Once they are, the users will flow in.
Someone really needs to release a 'patch' for a simple, harmless, and very kiddie-rated game to make it a hardcore porno. The same principles are being tested that get games like GTA and this game more extreme ratings, and I doubt they'll red-flag something intended to be so 'innocent'.