That said, Internet Explorer remains the most popular target for attacks, with 69 percent of all browser attacks targeted specifically at that browser alone. 20 percent of the attacks monitored during the period in question were targeted at Firefox.
This article is so blatantly targeted at Slashdot, that it makes me this much more sad that you are falling for it.
It's completely devoid of content, and concentrated on repeating familiar "issues" with Windows, that a Slashdotter would eat in a well sized small bites without choking.
Further damning is the section describing how Automatic Updates needed SP2 to become transparent.
I would expect a self proclaimed "technology columnist" to know he could turn Auto Updates on in the original release too, but SP2 makes it blatantly obvious with a wizard and a description along the lines of "turn it on, or else".
Why not? All they're trying to do is share something that they think is useful and good. It's entirely different from trying to convert someone religiously--it's not like we're saying "If you don't use this software instead, you're going to HELL!!!".
Yea well you actually do it. "Haha Windows lusers paying for Micro$oft crap! You're so stupid, Windows is not even an OS. Nag Nag Nag Nag".
This is called compensatory reaction. It happens with religious, sexual and cultural minorities. A large chunk of the Linux community is as obnoxious as a loud demonstrative gay parade.
Microsoft will delay shipping Vista to the EU until after SP1 this means European organisations will 1) Not have the "benefits" of learning about the early security holes 2) Not have the "advantage" of paying the launch list price, they'll have to wait until Microsoft slash prices as Vista doesn't fly 3) Have a mature support market to fall back on 4) More time to work out if its actually worth it. Brilliant, its like testing something dangerous on lab rats but we get to use Americans instead.
5) Watch as the market gets saturated OR use connections with US and pirated copies to be in touch wjith the technology. Of course this is mitigated by the fact.NET 3.0 is available on XP, but not all of Vista's API-s work on XP.
I don't know how Vista is considered "dangerous" to you, and since when XP is less dangerous than Vista. Ever stopped and actually thought a little about the whole deal, versus regurgitating silly rants started by other Slashdotters in the past?
Things are very simply in the world of business: Vista *IS* going to become the dominant desktop OS as a matter of its distribution with new PC-s. Vista offers productive API-s for much easier creating of a lot more functional, and even better looking, products. And the time for settling in the market is limited.
You are feeling biz-suicidal? That's fine. Go on create DOS applications and try and sell them in a Windows world.
Of course, it's not as bad as Microsoft tries to put it. They have a reason for warning Europe, and this is because the EU is being ridiculous right now. For example when they banned media player from Windows (the NC releases), they failed to acknowledge Flash as a video player, and concluded Windows Media Player is a "monopolist".
Now take any of the biggest video sites and tell me what they use for video: Flash or WMP? Where's the supposed "monopoly" of Windows?
YOu now what? Your PS/3 seems to be a blatant consumer rip-off and if the story is true the day will come that I - as a consumer - will stop buying Sony products.
Oh no, Sony completely relied upon you buying it! Now they might as well give up on the PS3.
You should take this info for what it is. As for how cool it is going to play on the market: we'll see this on the market. I claim our ability to predict the future in mad Slashdot rants is severely limited, and should not be relied upon.
None of those are commercial consumer applications, which is what I'm talking about. You can't sell to consumers on Linux. So games are out of the gueston.
. The drawback of this approach was that to take full advantage of your video hardware you had to run a certain buggy, unstable, and rather insecure operating system. Typically, the drivers were written only for Windows. Reinstalling Windows became a semi-annual ritual for serious gamers.
It's totally Microsoft's fault that Linux is not interesting to most gamers, or that GPL doesn't allow proprietary drivers to be used on Linux. Yea. Totally Microsoft's fault.
As for gamers, they have lots of stupid rituals and inability to maintain their computer properly, hence the reinstall to get rid of the spyware installed by all those cool free apps they keep installuing. For a while.
this has the potential for Linux to become the next serious gamer's platform.
Tell me a piece of consumer software (sorry this doesn't include servers, compilers and hacker tools), that has become successful on Linux.
If you think the reason for Linux not having serious consumer commercial software is because of a missing OpenGL driver, you're totally wrong.
I'm like reading the summary and it's being positive about adding 1800p on Microsoft X360 adding 1800p no fuzz and no special requirements. Whaaa? Is this Slashdot or what?
And then this tagged on comment: "Now honestly, show of hands: who has their console (not PC!) connected to a display device capable of 1080p? Who plans on buying a device capable of 1080p?"
Yeaa! Let's laugh at Microsoft for adding 1800p and we don't have any! Muhaha!
*Threat: The security measures are widely announced and campaigned, terrorists educate themselves and go around the new measures.
*Collateral: People being frisked, called on "random checks", arrests, disruption of business, spread of fear, rapid increase in intolerance towards muslim religion, rapid increase in muslim radicalists towards western cultures.
*Threat: Child porn sharers have long since moved to encrypted channels, they are nowhere to be found on public internet. Data retention can't decrypt strongly encrypted information and can't differentiate which encrypted data contains child porn or just bank data or whatever.
*Collateral: All those people who think they're safe since they did nothing have their data in the government. Corrupt people in appropriate position accessing private information and issuing arrests based on indirect evidence.
Bob Iger announced a million dollars revenue in the first week of movie sales on iTunes.
Those numbers sound impressive until you realize it's few percent of the iPod users buying a single movie out of interest.
Disney has found a $50M a year outlet for its old catalog requring no production costs and promotionally piggybacking on latest releases and Apple announcements. I bet they'd like more failures like that.
Disney definitely did find revenue. The question is what did Apple find?
You can't get "a good enough ipod". The batteries nor hard drives last forever. They're consumable devices.
riiight... this is why you still keep updating your tape Walkman, don't you?
Next time you won't buy an iPod, maybe you'll buy a phone with 1 TB storage and holographic projector. The appear of buying the same (or slightly enhanced) thing over and over just because it wears out is not big.
I suppose with that logic, all the automakers are doomed since with everyone gets a good enough car, no one will buy cars anyone...
You're on the right track there. Hence the laws that older cars get higher taxes because of pollution. Funny the law is written around the car age versus an actual measuremen of that car to the pollution, right?
How convenient. Not to mention all laws making it hard to sell a second hand car: domestically or abroad.
Plus now you know why cars are manifactured so that if you hit the bumper at walking speed into a pole, you need a 10k repair using original car manifacturer parts.
That continues to be the premise for devices that are branded in that category, and we think that we've clearly done a lot in that program, where there's a lot of devices out there, there are a lot of services out there, there are a lot of partners, and there are a lot of satisfied customers. We like that program. We've also found that there's a category of customers that say, "Give me a brand experience, advertise it to me on television; I want to be part of the digital music revolution, and that solution [PlaysForSure] doesn't work for me."
I've accidentally tripped on an encrypted message in this statement. I'm posting it here for your own conclusions:
"We were like: we wanna copy iPod, the branding and all, but everyone wants to sue us for abusing monopoly and other such crap. So we're like: we'll make the platform and open it for anyone to license.
So we, like, waited and waited and waited and the competition never managed to outdo iPod since they are too many and they compete among each other instead of complement each other, and iPod is one: it's easy to market, and recognize.
So finally we said: well, screw antitrust cases, screw PlaysForSure: we're ripping iPod."
t seems to me that if you create a format called "PlaysForSure", it should actually "Play for Sure". OTherwise your customers might - oh, I don't know - lose confidence in your ability to compete in the market? Instead, they'll go to a certain competitor that does "Play for Sure" despite not advertising such?
Welcome to the world of flexible language semantics: if words are abused, their definition will change in time to adapt the actual meaning.
This is why when "mental retardation" and "retard" was coined as a harmless alternative to offensive words, but in time "retard" became offensive. Same with "black" which was the non-offensive of you know what, but now it's also kinda considered offensive.
Hence, if you take a conversation in 2050 out of context you might now realize what these people wanted to say:
"Ok maybe you gotta turn it off and try the login again" "I'm trying but it keeps zuning on me." "Sorry dude, it ipods here properly" "Nah mate, it zunes, see this". "Oh that's definitely playing-for-sure. I'd call and request a refund". "Nice, that's a whole different aol to deal with."
Anyone else notice that in a race to lower production costs to their absolute minimum, companies are spending more and more money fixing problems down the line?
I would love to see the bid contracts that went out.
I can produce a set of laptop batteries using an old newspaper and 3 paper clips (can be bent, or rusty, preferably not colored). Cost: A Big Mac + Coke
Regards, Sony
PS: The Big Mac from the menu with the toys if possible (I can make mp3 player outs of them). Thanks!
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That said, Internet Explorer remains the most popular target for attacks, with 69 percent of all browser attacks targeted specifically at that browser alone. 20 percent of the attacks monitored during the period in question were targeted at Firefox.
o wser.php
So Firefox is still less targeted than IE
That's some surprise, let's see the stats:
http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2006/September/br
1. MSIE 6.x 19259574 (81%)
2. FireFox 2418997 (10%)
3. Safari 551590 (2%)
4. MSIE 5.x 416434 (2%)
5. MSIE 7.x 369996 (2%)
6. Unknown 260811 (1%)
7. Opera x.x 156979 (1%)
8. Netscape comp. 94551 (0%)
9. Netscape 7.x 83822 (0%)
Oh wow that's some shock eh? 60% of the attacks go to the browser with over 80% penetration! That's against the logic.
Obviously, computers can't have an opinion.
Welcome the new opinion-based CAPTCHA-s!
This article is so blatantly targeted at Slashdot, that it makes me this much more sad that you are falling for it.
It's completely devoid of content, and concentrated on repeating familiar "issues" with Windows, that a Slashdotter would eat in a well sized small bites without choking.
Further damning is the section describing how Automatic Updates needed SP2 to become transparent.
I would expect a self proclaimed "technology columnist" to know he could turn Auto Updates on in the original release too, but SP2 makes it blatantly obvious with a wizard and a description along the lines of "turn it on, or else".
Why not? All they're trying to do is share something that they think is useful and good. It's entirely different from trying to convert someone religiously--it's not like we're saying "If you don't use this software instead, you're going to HELL!!!".
Yea well you actually do it. "Haha Windows lusers paying for Micro$oft crap! You're so stupid, Windows is not even an OS. Nag Nag Nag Nag".
This is called compensatory reaction. It happens with religious, sexual and cultural minorities. A large chunk of the Linux community is as obnoxious as a loud demonstrative gay parade.
Microsoft will delay shipping Vista to the EU until after SP1 this means European organisations will
.NET 3.0 is available on XP, but not all of Vista's API-s work on XP.
1) Not have the "benefits" of learning about the early security holes
2) Not have the "advantage" of paying the launch list price, they'll have to wait until Microsoft slash prices as Vista doesn't fly
3) Have a mature support market to fall back on
4) More time to work out if its actually worth it.
Brilliant, its like testing something dangerous on lab rats but we get to use Americans instead.
5) Watch as the market gets saturated OR use connections with US and pirated copies to be in touch wjith the technology. Of course this is mitigated by the fact
I don't know how Vista is considered "dangerous" to you, and since when XP is less dangerous than Vista. Ever stopped and actually thought a little about the whole deal, versus regurgitating silly rants started by other Slashdotters in the past?
Things are very simply in the world of business: Vista *IS* going to become the dominant desktop OS as a matter of its distribution with new PC-s. Vista offers productive API-s for much easier creating of a lot more functional, and even better looking, products. And the time for settling in the market is limited.
You are feeling biz-suicidal? That's fine. Go on create DOS applications and try and sell them in a Windows world.
Of course, it's not as bad as Microsoft tries to put it. They have a reason for warning Europe, and this is because the EU is being ridiculous right now. For example when they banned media player from Windows (the NC releases), they failed to acknowledge Flash as a video player, and concluded Windows Media Player is a "monopolist".
Now take any of the biggest video sites and tell me what they use for video: Flash or WMP? Where's the supposed "monopoly" of Windows?
YOu now what? Your PS/3 seems to be a blatant consumer rip-off and if the story is true the day will come that I - as a consumer - will stop buying Sony products.
Oh no, Sony completely relied upon you buying it! Now they might as well give up on the PS3.
You should take this info for what it is. As for how cool it is going to play on the market: we'll see this on the market.
I claim our ability to predict the future in mad Slashdot rants is severely limited, and should not be relied upon.
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None of those are commercial consumer applications, which is what I'm talking about. You can't sell to consumers on Linux. So games are out of the gueston.
. The drawback of this approach was that to take full advantage of your video hardware you had to run a certain buggy, unstable, and rather insecure operating system. Typically, the drivers were written only for Windows. Reinstalling Windows became a semi-annual ritual for serious gamers.
It's totally Microsoft's fault that Linux is not interesting to most gamers, or that GPL doesn't allow proprietary drivers to be used on Linux. Yea. Totally Microsoft's fault.
As for gamers, they have lots of stupid rituals and inability to maintain their computer properly, hence the reinstall to get rid of the spyware installed by all those cool free apps they keep installuing. For a while.
this has the potential for Linux to become the next serious gamer's platform.
Tell me a piece of consumer software (sorry this doesn't include servers, compilers and hacker tools), that has become successful on Linux.
If you think the reason for Linux not having serious consumer commercial software is because of a missing OpenGL driver, you're totally wrong.
What, are you kidding? You can use a joystick in place of a mouse, but why?
Because "I'm using a mouse" won't make it to Slashdot?
Also for the chicks.
1800 != 1080
It's called wishful thinking.
I'm like reading the summary and it's being positive about adding 1800p on Microsoft X360 adding 1800p no fuzz and no special requirements. Whaaa? Is this Slashdot or what?
And then this tagged on comment: "Now honestly, show of hands: who has their console (not PC!) connected to a display device capable of 1080p? Who plans on buying a device capable of 1080p?"
Yeaa! Let's laugh at Microsoft for adding 1800p and we don't have any! Muhaha!
Saying that iPods will get "good enough" is like saying Microsoft's Office 10 was "good enough" when MS Office 12 is right around the corner.
Well as a proof of your own words, most of the business is still on Office 97 and doesn't plan moving.
Report on our Grand Plan on eradicating terrorism and child porn accross the world:
-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-
Terrorism
-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-
*Threat:
The security measures are widely announced and campaigned, terrorists educate themselves and go around the new measures.
*Collateral:
People being frisked, called on "random checks", arrests, disruption of business, spread of fear, rapid increase in intolerance towards muslim religion, rapid increase in muslim radicalists towards western cultures.
-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-
Child Porn
-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-
*Threat:
Child porn sharers have long since moved to encrypted channels, they are nowhere to be found on public internet.
Data retention can't decrypt strongly encrypted information and can't differentiate which encrypted data contains child porn or just bank data or whatever.
*Collateral:
All those people who think they're safe since they did nothing have their data in the government. Corrupt people in appropriate position accessing private information and issuing arrests based on indirect evidence.
Bob Iger announced a million dollars revenue in the first week of movie sales on iTunes.
Those numbers sound impressive until you realize it's few percent of the iPod users buying a single movie out of interest.
Disney has found a $50M a year outlet for its old catalog requring no production costs and promotionally piggybacking on latest releases and Apple announcements. I bet they'd like more failures like that.
Disney definitely did find revenue. The question is what did Apple find?
You can't get "a good enough ipod". The batteries nor hard drives last forever. They're consumable devices.
riiight... this is why you still keep updating your tape Walkman, don't you?
Next time you won't buy an iPod, maybe you'll buy a phone with 1 TB storage and holographic projector. The appear of buying the same (or slightly enhanced) thing over and over just because it wears out is not big.
I suppose with that logic, all the automakers are doomed since with everyone gets a good enough car, no one will buy cars anyone...
You're on the right track there. Hence the laws that older cars get higher taxes because of pollution. Funny the law is written around the car age versus an actual measuremen of that car to the pollution, right?
How convenient.
Not to mention all laws making it hard to sell a second hand car: domestically or abroad.
Plus now you know why cars are manifactured so that if you hit the bumper at walking speed into a pole, you need a 10k repair using original car manifacturer parts.
El Reg pinpoints the trouble: "The subscription crowd - and Apple via iTunes - must fight over a few pennies per song in profit.
Napster doesn't sell hardware. Furthermore Apple consciously did that. And further further more, both are doomed as DRM awareness and issues surface.
Apple is double-doomed since when everyone gets a good enough iPod, the only revenue Apple is left with is iTunes.
Hence movie downloads.. But they won't have success. Life sucks, doesn't it?
That continues to be the premise for devices that are branded in that category, and we think that we've clearly done a lot in that program, where there's a lot of devices out there, there are a lot of services out there, there are a lot of partners, and there are a lot of satisfied customers. We like that program. We've also found that there's a category of customers that say, "Give me a brand experience, advertise it to me on television; I want to be part of the digital music revolution, and that solution [PlaysForSure] doesn't work for me."
I've accidentally tripped on an encrypted message in this statement. I'm posting it here for your own conclusions:
"We were like: we wanna copy iPod, the branding and all, but everyone wants to sue us for abusing monopoly and other such crap. So we're like: we'll make the platform and open it for anyone to license.
So we, like, waited and waited and waited and the competition never managed to outdo iPod since they are too many and they compete among each other instead of complement each other, and iPod is one: it's easy to market, and recognize.
So finally we said: well, screw antitrust cases, screw PlaysForSure: we're ripping iPod."
Secondly, I've been using their service for almost a year and have never had adware pushed on me.
I really hate to tell you that but... well... you know those porn ads in your e-banking interface?
They really are not supposed to be there.
Ummm... the English alphabet only has 24 letters?
"L" and "W" have been deprecated in favor of counting letters on Slashdot posts.
t seems to me that if you create a format called "PlaysForSure", it should actually "Play for Sure". OTherwise your customers might - oh, I don't know - lose confidence in your ability to compete in the market? Instead, they'll go to a certain competitor that does "Play for Sure" despite not advertising such?
Welcome to the world of flexible language semantics: if words are abused, their definition will change in time to adapt the actual meaning.
This is why when "mental retardation" and "retard" was coined as a harmless alternative to offensive words, but in time "retard" became offensive. Same with "black" which was the non-offensive of you know what, but now it's also kinda considered offensive.
Hence, if you take a conversation in 2050 out of context you might now realize what these people wanted to say:
"Ok maybe you gotta turn it off and try the login again"
"I'm trying but it keeps zuning on me."
"Sorry dude, it ipods here properly"
"Nah mate, it zunes, see this".
"Oh that's definitely playing-for-sure. I'd call and request a refund".
"Nice, that's a whole different aol to deal with."
Anyone else notice that in a race to lower production costs to their absolute minimum, companies are spending more and more money fixing problems down the line?
I would love to see the bid contracts that went out.
I can produce a set of laptop batteries using an old newspaper and 3 paper clips (can be bent, or rusty, preferably not colored). Cost: A Big Mac + Coke
Regards, Sony
PS: The Big Mac from the menu with the toys if possible (I can make mp3 player outs of them). Thanks!
I know /. will flame me for this, but those promoting Global Warming do the exact same.
/. will flame me for this, but I'm getting tired of people getting modded up for saying /. may flame them for this.
I know
In sum, Soapbox is disappointing.
Uh... make up your mind!