Meanwhile, Infinity Ward managed to put out a rock solid multi-platform FPS- COD4. If they can make it look and play so great on the PS3, why can't Valve? Because EA (and not Valve) is responsible for the PS3-port.
That's a translation problem. The agency in question here is the "Verfassungsschutz" (meaning, ironically, "Federal Agency for the Protection of the Constitution"), which is the German Version of the NSA (not that this name is any better). The submitter just couldn't be bothered to go through all that hassle and called it "the police".
Now, while the VS certainly doesn't have the means of the NSA, it is indeed a rather sophisticated service, and I am entirely convinced it is not beyond their means to employ really good security experts. Nope, Ziercke is President of the BKA, the Bundeskriminalamt. That's the federal equivalent of the LKA aka Landeskriminalamt aka Police.
Conclusion? Well, the Bundespolizei (that's German police to you) Just nitpicking: Police in Germany is split between federal and state-police.
The states all have LKAs (Landes-Kriminal-Amt), the federal state has the BKA (Bundes-Kriminal-Amt) and the Bundespolizei.
The BKA is responsible for all inter-state crimes and the protection of german politicians. The Bundespolizei is responsible for securing the (nowadays non-existant) borders and Airports&Railways.
Ziercke (the man talking in the article) is head of the BKA.
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WHOA! If those numbers are true (hey, they are on a KDE-site!), then the preconception that KDE has more bloat than GNOME needs to be discarded.
Do you have a similiar page by the GNOME-people or a neutral third party?
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For all the "bloat" KDE uses less memory and runs faster than Gnome Citation needed.
You are right, datacenters are a prime target for criminals.
That is why good datacenters have military-grade security. The last data-center i worked for had tripple barbed fences(NATO-standard compliant)and reinforced concrete blocks to prevent ramming with explosive-filled trucks. The inner layout of the datacenter placed the offices at the outside walls of the building and the machines at the center core of the building.
It would have taken several men with heavy machinery to get into the center, and that's assuming that the video-surveillance would not have caught them.
A "datacenter" where criminals can dig through walls to get to the machinery is not a datacenter but an office with additional power- and coolingsupplies.
Kontact is Linux only. While I wish many KDE apps would make it to the windows platform, most aren't, so kontact probably isn't a good comparison. kolab perhaps, as it is based on kontact, but I don';t think that's exactly ready to uproot outlook any time soon. KDE4 will run under Windows.
Which is different from the Linux version of Flash player lagging two versions behind the Windows version, how? It isn't different at all. I never said that Flash is good.
Not that hard to figure out, I mean, Microsoft has to release documentation on how to program in the language, if they want adoption, correct?:) Xou mean how they helped the Mono-team (hint: they did not help. Mono runs great nowadays _despite_ Microsoft)?
(Oh, wait, I see... your website... FSFE... I now understand your bias and will proceed to take you with a grain of salt.) Well, we all are biased. Your signature clearly defines your bias.
I have no strong bias against Microsoft or their products.
I happen to think that Free software is the way to go, but i still regularily use Microsoft producs at work and at home.
I am simply saying that by not releasing a linux-version at the same time as the windows-version they clearly show that the linux-port is of no priority to them. And given the track-record of Microsoft i find it hard to believe that this time everything will be different.
Note that Moonlight is being developed **outside** of Microsoft, although it has the support (not just verbally, but engineering support) of Microsoft. So it can't be killed quite that easy. It can't be discontinued from one day to the next, that's right. But if Microsoft decides to no longer provide documentation, moonlight automatically falls behind silverlight and is therefore useless.
At the moment but there is a technicaly superior and easier to use and more reliable platform available:-.NET
I think there are many people who would disagree with "technical superior" and "reliable". Not to speak of "easier" when your whole operation is centered around Java...
And big business is taking it seriously. Lots of feasibility studies and pilot projects at the
moment but thats how java started off. I know of several organisations who have finished their studies. Many of them will adopt.NET; Many will stay with Java.
Plus java on the mainframe has been tried and found wanting, big iron developers are returning to COBOL
and good old C. That is right. However, i see more and more mainframes being replaced by large clusters.
Java is tomorows legacy language. .NET 1.0 and 2.0 are _todays_ legacy languages. I know quite some developers who where pretty pissed off about the major changes MS makes with each new edition.
The thing is: URIs are handled by the OS (in this case : Windows). It does not matter if you use Firefox, Internet Explorer, Word or OpenOffice: They all use the system's URI-handler.
Many software products contain many bugs. Because software systems contain so many source code lines, you are almost certain that there are bugs. This is especially true if languages like C++ are used to create relatively undemanding applications. Many upon many of these bugs will never show up, if they were, they would have been discovered during testing. And if they show up, they may not do much harm. For example, a memory leak or buffer overflow in a graphics application won't matter too much.
Yeah, that's the reason the highly important security-bugs do not exist: if they were important, they would have surfaced during the testing phase.
This is another part of the reason why I view the Linux "community" as such a toxic, virulent sociological sickness. It's because things like this effort on Microsoft's part demonstrate that, while Linux advocates can talk about the community valuing unity to the degree that they do, that's all such talk is; talk. Linux users are a lot quicker to shun each other for imagined violations of Stallmanite philosophy than they are to genuinely stand together against a common enemy. This is easy for Microsoft to see, and in conflict, it is customary to attempt to capitalise on the enemy's weakness. Sun Tzu also wrote that one of the most important things in war is to divide the enemy wherever possible, and to prevent the enemy from forming alliances with anyone.
This is not a weakness. No matter how wild, insulting and unpleasant the flamewars grow, the licenses enable the developers to continue working on each other's code. And when something is objectively better, it will prevail (see XFree vs XOrg).
Microsoft signs one of these agreements with Novell or whoever else, and it wins in two ways. It wins by potentially driving said company out of business, because of said company no longer being able to sell its' distribution, and it also wins by making sure that members of the community are too busy fighting each other to be able to do anything else, because of splits between those who still want to keep using said companies' distros and those who think it is wrong to do so. So they can sign these agreements, and then merely stand back to observe the fireworks. You yourselves do the rest.
Since the agreement between Novell and MS, there have been mayor changes in the Linux-Kernel. Just of the top of my head: two new hardware-platforms, a completly new scheduler, a new wireless subsystem, an improved IDE-subsystem, etc...
I don't see the development slow down in any way just because some trolls out-write each other on slashdot.
Want to start beating Microsoft, Linux users? Stop thinking and acting like religious fanatics, and in general, grow the hell up. Right now, you're being played like a violin, and if you want that to continue, just keep doing more of the same.
I don't see what the users have to do with anything.
Linux-based systems have an enormous market-share in all fields of the IT-industry except for the desktop. But even there it is constantly growing.
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Now, while the VS certainly doesn't have the means of the NSA, it is indeed a rather sophisticated service, and I am entirely convinced it is not beyond their means to employ really good security experts. Nope, Ziercke is President of the BKA, the Bundeskriminalamt. That's the federal equivalent of the LKA aka Landeskriminalamt aka Police.
Police in Germany is split between federal and state-police. The states all have LKAs (Landes-Kriminal-Amt), the federal state has the BKA (Bundes-Kriminal-Amt) and the Bundespolizei.
The BKA is responsible for all inter-state crimes and the protection of german politicians. The Bundespolizei is responsible for securing the (nowadays non-existant) borders and Airports&Railways.
Ziercke (the man talking in the article) is head of the BKA.
Thanks.
WHOA! If those numbers are true (hey, they are on a KDE-site!), then the preconception that KDE has more bloat than GNOME needs to be discarded. Do you have a similiar page by the GNOME-people or a neutral third party?
I prefer http://bash.org/?5300
I thought letting the accessible through the public IP is the first step to separate Application-server and DB-server. DB-Server {internet} App-Server
Perhaps we are finally ready to put the misnomer 'cracker' to rest once and for all.
Quit being an assclown and re-learn your vocabulary: hacker: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hacker.html cracker: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/C/cracker.html
what about it? Since when does Sun do mono?
You are right, datacenters are a prime target for criminals. That is why good datacenters have military-grade security. The last data-center i worked for had tripple barbed fences(NATO-standard compliant)and reinforced concrete blocks to prevent ramming with explosive-filled trucks. The inner layout of the datacenter placed the offices at the outside walls of the building and the machines at the center core of the building. It would have taken several men with heavy machinery to get into the center, and that's assuming that the video-surveillance would not have caught them. A "datacenter" where criminals can dig through walls to get to the machinery is not a datacenter but an office with additional power- and coolingsupplies.
KDE4 will run under Windows.
http://openmoko.com/
- Touchscreen
- WLAN
- completely open
- A-GPS
Only the 64-bit version of Vista has the draconian security-measures in place.
(Oh, wait, I see... your website... FSFE... I now understand your bias and will proceed to take you with a grain of salt.) Well, we all are biased. Your signature clearly defines your bias.
I have no strong bias against Microsoft or their products.
I happen to think that Free software is the way to go, but i still regularily use Microsoft producs at work and at home.
I am simply saying that by not releasing a linux-version at the same time as the windows-version they clearly show that the linux-port is of no priority to them. And given the track-record of Microsoft i find it hard to believe that this time everything will be different.
I think there are many people who would disagree with "technical superior" and "reliable". Not to speak of "easier" when your whole operation is centered around Java... And big business is taking it seriously. Lots of feasibility studies and pilot projects at the
moment but thats how java started off.
I know of several organisations who have finished their studies. Many of them will adopt
Plus java on the mainframe has been tried and found wanting, big iron developers are returning to COBOL
and good old C.
That is right. However, i see more and more mainframes being replaced by large clusters.
Java is tomorows legacy language.
.NET 1.0 and 2.0 are _todays_ legacy languages. I know quite some developers who where pretty pissed off about the major changes MS makes with each new edition.
Thanks. I wonder why heise did not link that article from the german version.
Germany's DIN has voted to vote YES (sorry, article in german) at ISO.
The thing is: URIs are handled by the OS (in this case : Windows). It does not matter if you use Firefox, Internet Explorer, Word or OpenOffice: They all use the system's URI-handler.
Yeah, that's the reason the highly important security-bugs do not exist: if they were important, they would have surfaced during the testing phase.
This is another part of the reason why I view the Linux "community" as such a toxic, virulent sociological sickness. It's because things like this effort on Microsoft's part demonstrate that, while Linux advocates can talk about the community valuing unity to the degree that they do, that's all such talk is; talk. Linux users are a lot quicker to shun each other for imagined violations of Stallmanite philosophy than they are to genuinely stand together against a common enemy. This is easy for Microsoft to see, and in conflict, it is customary to attempt to capitalise on the enemy's weakness. Sun Tzu also wrote that one of the most important things in war is to divide the enemy wherever possible, and to prevent the enemy from forming alliances with anyone.
This is not a weakness. No matter how wild, insulting and unpleasant the flamewars grow, the licenses enable the developers to continue working on each other's code. And when something is objectively better, it will prevail (see XFree vs XOrg). Microsoft signs one of these agreements with Novell or whoever else, and it wins in two ways. It wins by potentially driving said company out of business, because of said company no longer being able to sell its' distribution, and it also wins by making sure that members of the community are too busy fighting each other to be able to do anything else, because of splits between those who still want to keep using said companies' distros and those who think it is wrong to do so. So they can sign these agreements, and then merely stand back to observe the fireworks. You yourselves do the rest.
Since the agreement between Novell and MS, there have been mayor changes in the Linux-Kernel. Just of the top of my head: two new hardware-platforms, a completly new scheduler, a new wireless subsystem, an improved IDE-subsystem, etc...
I don't see the development slow down in any way just because some trolls out-write each other on slashdot. Want to start beating Microsoft, Linux users? Stop thinking and acting like religious fanatics, and in general, grow the hell up. Right now, you're being played like a violin, and if you want that to continue, just keep doing more of the same.
I don't see what the users have to do with anything.
Linux-based systems have an enormous market-share in all fields of the IT-industry except for the desktop. But even there it is constantly growing.