I don't know what is more amusing thinking businesses base their decisions on anything other than their bottom line or they would choose to "upgrade" to Windows 8.
Normally the spectre of loosing vendor support can itself be an important driver for change yet XP is soo old and soo well understood I doubt this much works anymore even when security patches stop.
If I were a hardware vendor and I knew XP is the second most popular operating system in the world the question of support becomes more rhetorical than an actual question.
The problem is unless you are paying rediculous ammounts for dedicated SSL services and high quality certs your setup will not be the "ideal", and you'll have to make exceptions by overriding code.
Oh bullshit you are just trying to justify your own laziness.
If you don't want to pay for an SSL cert there is nothing stopping you from using a self signed cert and embedding the public key in your application..also see RFC 2817 for virtual hosts.
I will say overall it does sound like more of a case of giving developers copious amounts of rope to hang themselves in much the same way PHP encouraged certain behaviors leading to rampant SQL injection vulnerabilities.
I know technically it may not be the platforms fault but the platform rises or falls on the success of its users.
My guess what is really needed are some much higher level API calls with easy configuration and cert chain validation schemes for common usage scenarios.
Besides all of this talk about small time APP developers with little security clue making a common mistake and no talk about virtually all mobile OS developers who should be extremely clueful doing the exact same shit with WPA2-Enterprise is quite amusing.
No cert validation, no name validation just some hokey leap of faith if even that. Heck the ultra secure windows phone does not even bother to check the cert at all. What a joke.
It would be soo awesome to have some internal memos detailing evidence of TSA playing security games for *political* reasons right now before the elections.
The saddest part of that is that you probably are really stupid enough to think that your list is somehow prior art. The idiocy of slashtards never ceases to amaze.
I was just having fun. You are being rude and condescending for no reason.
Let me take this opportunity to publically declare the following ideas as prior art and therefore non-patentable by anyone.
Applying electric shock to the user when they screw up, die, etc.
Changing shape of the controller to simulate damage to vechicles being (poorly) commanded.
Scratching or prickling the player with a sharp projection to hurt them in response to an on-screen attack of some kind.
Projecting bright lights and or piercing sounds from the controller to anger or disorient the user.
Strong gryos or moving masses within the controller to physically make control difficult or even cause the controller to "jump" out of a persons hand (Not your moms "dualshock")
Dynamically changing thermal conductivity of controller to make it seem to user as if the controllers temperature has changed. (This is a workaround to sony patent)
A feign controller damage revenge/tilt mode for crybabies who throw their controller around.
Smoke and or smells release to simulate fog, fire, aliens with bad breath..etc.
Create magnetic fields in an attempt to disorient magnetometer embedded in controllers of other players nearby compelling them to physically move to avoid disruption.
Release of liquids to simulate falling off a cliff into a ravine or make the controller extraordinarily slippery or sticky imparing the users ability to control the device.
Any and all possible combinations of controller options can work together to sell an effect. For example applying DC current to a controller to lock up the users muscles and then prickle them or use moving mass to make their hands shake violently.
Controllers which sense current light level in the room and adjust ingame experience to match.
Controllers sense physical proximty to other players and use this feedback on-screen.
Controllers with fans directing puffs of air to simulate strong winds or large masses wizzing by the on-screen character.
Controllers with stored physical prizes such as fake jems or game momentos released once the user has achived a significant goal like beating a boss or winning the game.
Controllers with displays coupled to position and motion sensors to act as augmented reality to on-screen environment.
Controllers which sense the capacitance of the users skin, oxygen saturation, pulse, lekage of EM from body and other facts to effect the physical attributes of on screen avatar or otherwise disparage a user for being out of shape.
The registry was an abortion from the first day it came out. I can't really think of any benefit of having it over.ini files.
Apps are free to do whatever they want including writing.ini files... that soo many have chosen to use the registry for configuration should speak for itself.
I can think of several possible advantages:
Central configuration store with a common access experience for all applications..ini files...xml files...binary files...
Configuration store is automatically safe against concurrent access..try rewriting a.ini file by multiple apps at the same time and let me know how it goes. Today bulk registry operations can be fully transactional thanks to windows KTM.
Security ACLs per entry..ini file security as far as the operating system is concerned is for the whole file.
Common set of tools "regedit" to modify, backup, monitor, restore and search configuration across participating apps.
I love classic centrally controlled systems and I love compartmentalized jails where all configuration and file access is localized. There is no right answer only the best tool for the job at hand after careful consideration of competing tradeoffs.
Windows needs to make "future" applications unable to get out of their install directory, and unable to write to a global registry.
Hey great idea Microsoft should have done that with their metro/RT apps. Apps could even come with a manifest declaring access required of the app, enforced by the operating system ahead of time before the app even runs... hey that would have been awesome.
Windows would suddenly catch up with this whole Internet fad if they secured their OS from viruses finally.
It is not that difficult to protect the OS...problem is the operating system is not what users really care about.
If you fence a browser from the rest of the OS..great the OS is safe from the browser...but wait a second...I don't care about the OS!! I care about my browser not siphoning off my banking details to some foreign server.
If you fence your word processor off from the rest of the OS...great the OS is safe but what about the documents word processor has access to? IE my work... my documents I actually care about? Does the OS also protect me from a macro virus in the word processor?
I believe if Microsoft made their OS secure against viruses, they'd actually be a step ahead of Apple.
Don't run as root. Aint that difficult and really doesn't solve anything either.
Given that the system knows where in the building students are and were, I imagine the parents will likely change their minds and praise the system if a student goes missing. They'll know when and where the student was the last time they were on campus, and I would assume through which door the student left.
What if they take the ID tag off or it is taken off of them and the misdirection complicates investigation?
Wow, it's just like the teacher taking attendance! Except that it uses technology to automate the task, saving valuable lesson time. Clearly this is another example of government oppression.
Dude can you carry my tag into class with you today while I skip?..cool man u rock
Or does it work like patent law, where adding 'on a computer' to a well-established procedure turns it into something completly different?
If you don't think tagging people and tracking their every move electronically is oppressive there are other reasons to be against it.
Having something that can broadcast your location can be a risk to students. The same way wielding an American passport in foreign lands with an RFID chip can enhance your risk of being a target. Before you go off thinking I'm crazy ask yourself why passports now come with foil linings to block their own signals.
RFID need not be exclusivly restricted to a small area.. they can be activated over extended distances with the right antenna systems.
I think this change is a good thing. When people realize what they could get for free with perfect picture quality in most areas with a reasonable antenna they will be more inclined to drop cable service alltogether.
I can't think of anything more likely to drive this discovery process more than perverbial white noise.
If commercial sponsored OTA can be profitable without added eyeball tax then the expense of cable is hard to justify given digital broadcasting offers about thirty digital stations with broadcast bandwidth previously consumed by a single analog station.
Neither Windows phone 8 or the Lumina 920 have been released and we have people already yelling "rrruuunnn!!!"
There is a fine line between working vigorously to save a sinking ship and trying to work the pumps and hand bailer after it is too late. You need equal quantities of balls and intelligence to make the correct decision.
What TFA is doing is seeing a puddle on the floor and immediately sounding abandon ship and running for the life boats.
There is no low hanging fruit left in business. Sometimes you need to slug it out and take risks because changing strategies every two seconds is not a winning proposition either.
I'm not saying they won't fail or that windows phone is good or bad. I'm only asserting it is too early.
No, this is why it's GOOD, and why many developers, myself included, will not work on non-GPL projects.
Most contributors to the linux kernel are paid by their bosses to make these contributions.
As a commercial developer GPL means I won't look or touch a GPL 'API' project let alone contribute anything to it because when I reference it all of my propritary shit gets sucked into GPLs uselessly vauge definition of derivative work. For godsakes I have every incentive in the world to send in my patches so I don't have to deal with maintaing deltas.
I have seen LGPL projects spring up and surpass in popularity functionality of GPL analouge it replaced. There does not seem to be any lack of users willing to contribute LGPL code back into these projects.
I have seen LGPL maintainers go through great pains to keep GPL tainted code out of the project... seems like an extraordinary waste of talent and resources to have these crappy disputes because a few purists refuse to acknowledge reality that industry is footing the bill for most of our open source code.
No one yet answered this question, what is the speed of information? What is the speed of the universal laws? What is the speed of the gravitational force??????
Why would you store credit card information in WHOIS? I already get mail from registrars wanting me to "renew" my domains (read Transfer them to them) for a "reduced rate" of $30 (I pay $12 a year).
This is just another intentionally misleading headline. Card data is not going into whois.
The issue is requiring registrars to hang on to CC data so that governments would be able to "lawfully" request from the registrar if that registrar is operating within jurisdiction of said goverment.
Rather than addressing data retention standards with legislation as decided by each countries government...such as thru a billing passed by congress and signed by the president they are essentially attempting an end run around democractic process to get a desired outcome.
None if it is defensible...both ICANN and FTC are in the wrong regardless of what you feel about the issue of data retention.
I love ICANN.. They require real contact information be stored in a public database or else your domain can be taken and resold and oh by the way registrars get to charge extra just to keep your identity in the public database safe.
All they are doing to address the sespool of automated domain capture, phishing and extortion activities upon expiration is truely amazing and inspiring.
I'm having trouble finding the words to express my appreciation for their infinite TLD program which has opened up new and exciting opportunities for name protection extortion, phishing and additional layers of government involvement.
ICANN is the only Internet body who consistantly errors on the side of unmitigated greed and selling out to governments. It has no soul and does not deserve to exist.
It's just that the PC (including Mac as well as Windows desktop and notebook) is no longer a focal point for either technical or entrepreneurial innovation, and arguably has not been for at least 10 years. With the advent of smartphones and other mobile devices, the importance of PC's for innovation becomes even less.
I'm terribly sorry.. it seems I have been asleep for the last 10 years... even worse I don't own a smartphone or a tablet!
If not too much trouble would someone kindly fill me in on all that innovation I have been missing out on?
What happens if Columbus punctured a lung on the way to America? He dies. Exploration is dangerous and we need to stop being pussies. We will send young men into the fray every single day, but we blanch at suicide Mars missions.
What is the point of sending humans to Mars or anywhere in space at this point? Having watched countless hours of missions to station and shuttle orbital flights the crew might as well be a bunch of robots since all activities and actions are planned down to the smallest detail anyway.
I would rather see all that money spent on researching automated manufacturing technology to enable robotic mining and production...why settle for crappy tents and cramped piss poor living conditions when you can have machines building a space port and whole city before anyone arrives? Not to mention positive effect such advances could have to production of goods here on this planet.
Obama = NDAA Romney = I'll say whatever you want to hear for your vote.
I've never voted for a third party whacktard in my life. I'm sure Gary is full of crack ideas and won't get much accomplished with the senate and house but I don't much care anymore. Enough is enough.
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I don't know what is more amusing thinking businesses base their decisions on anything other than their bottom line or they would choose to "upgrade" to Windows 8.
Normally the spectre of loosing vendor support can itself be an important driver for change yet XP is soo old and soo well understood I doubt this much works anymore even when security patches stop.
If I were a hardware vendor and I knew XP is the second most popular operating system in the world the question of support becomes more rhetorical than an actual question.
The problem is unless you are paying rediculous ammounts for dedicated SSL services and high quality certs your setup will not be the "ideal", and you'll have to make exceptions by overriding code.
Oh bullshit you are just trying to justify your own laziness.
If you don't want to pay for an SSL cert there is nothing stopping you from using a self signed cert and embedding the public key in your application..also see RFC 2817 for virtual hosts.
I will say overall it does sound like more of a case of giving developers copious amounts of rope to hang themselves in much the same way PHP encouraged certain behaviors leading to rampant SQL injection vulnerabilities.
I know technically it may not be the platforms fault but the platform rises or falls on the success of its users.
My guess what is really needed are some much higher level API calls with easy configuration and cert chain validation schemes for common usage scenarios.
Besides all of this talk about small time APP developers with little security clue making a common mistake and no talk about virtually all mobile OS developers who should be extremely clueful doing the exact same shit with WPA2-Enterprise is quite amusing.
No cert validation, no name validation just some hokey leap of faith if even that. Heck the ultra secure windows phone does not even bother to check the cert at all. What a joke.
It would be soo awesome to have some internal memos detailing evidence of TSA playing security games for *political* reasons right now before the elections.
If you don't like it then stop whining and pull yourselves from google. You have the power don't pretend you don't or don't know that you do.
What is the point of whining when a few lines added to a single text file will solve *all* of your problems?
The saddest part of that is that you probably are really stupid enough to think that your list is somehow prior art. The idiocy of slashtards never ceases to amaze.
I was just having fun. You are being rude and condescending for no reason.
Let me take this opportunity to publically declare the following ideas as prior art and therefore non-patentable by anyone.
Applying electric shock to the user when they screw up, die, etc.
Changing shape of the controller to simulate damage to vechicles being (poorly) commanded.
Scratching or prickling the player with a sharp projection to hurt them in response to an on-screen attack of some kind.
Projecting bright lights and or piercing sounds from the controller to anger or disorient the user.
Strong gryos or moving masses within the controller to physically make control difficult or even cause the controller to "jump" out of a persons hand (Not your moms "dualshock")
Dynamically changing thermal conductivity of controller to make it seem to user as if the controllers temperature has changed. (This is a workaround to sony patent)
A feign controller damage revenge/tilt mode for crybabies who throw their controller around.
Smoke and or smells release to simulate fog, fire, aliens with bad breath..etc.
Create magnetic fields in an attempt to disorient magnetometer embedded in controllers of other players nearby compelling them to physically move to avoid disruption.
Release of liquids to simulate falling off a cliff into a ravine or make the controller extraordinarily slippery or sticky imparing the users ability to control the device.
Any and all possible combinations of controller options can work together to sell an effect. For example applying DC current to a controller to lock up the users muscles and then prickle them or use moving mass to make their hands shake violently.
Controllers which sense current light level in the room and adjust ingame experience to match.
Controllers sense physical proximty to other players and use this feedback on-screen.
Controllers with fans directing puffs of air to simulate strong winds or large masses wizzing by the on-screen character.
Controllers with stored physical prizes such as fake jems or game momentos released once the user has achived a significant goal like beating a boss or winning the game.
Controllers with displays coupled to position and motion sensors to act as augmented reality to on-screen environment.
Controllers which sense the capacitance of the users skin, oxygen saturation, pulse, lekage of EM from body and other facts to effect the physical attributes of on screen avatar or otherwise disparage a user for being out of shape.
The registry was an abortion from the first day it came out. I can't really think of any benefit of having it over .ini files.
Apps are free to do whatever they want including writing .ini files... that soo many have chosen to use the registry for configuration should speak for itself.
I can think of several possible advantages:
Central configuration store with a common access experience for all applications. .ini files...xml files...binary files...
Configuration store is automatically safe against concurrent access..try rewriting a .ini file by multiple apps at the same time and let me know how it goes. Today bulk registry operations can be fully transactional thanks to windows KTM.
Security ACLs per entry. .ini file security as far as the operating system is concerned is for the whole file.
Common set of tools "regedit" to modify, backup, monitor, restore and search configuration across participating apps.
I love classic centrally controlled systems and I love compartmentalized jails where all configuration and file access is localized. There is no right answer only the best tool for the job at hand after careful consideration of competing tradeoffs.
Windows needs to make "future" applications unable to get out of their install directory, and unable to write to a global registry.
Hey great idea Microsoft should have done that with their metro/RT apps. Apps could even come with a manifest declaring access required of the app, enforced by the operating system ahead of time before the app even runs... hey that would have been awesome.
Windows would suddenly catch up with this whole Internet fad if they secured their OS from viruses finally.
It is not that difficult to protect the OS...problem is the operating system is not what users really care about.
If you fence a browser from the rest of the OS..great the OS is safe from the browser...but wait a second...I don't care about the OS!! I care about my browser not siphoning off my banking details to some foreign server.
If you fence your word processor off from the rest of the OS...great the OS is safe but what about the documents word processor has access to? IE my work... my documents I actually care about? Does the OS also protect me from a macro virus in the word processor?
I believe if Microsoft made their OS secure against viruses, they'd actually be a step ahead of Apple.
Don't run as root. Aint that difficult and really doesn't solve anything either.
Given that the system knows where in the building students are and were, I imagine the parents will likely change their minds and praise the system if a student goes missing. They'll know when and where the student was the last time they were on campus, and I would assume through which door the student left.
What if they take the ID tag off or it is taken off of them and the misdirection complicates investigation?
Wow, it's just like the teacher taking attendance! Except that it uses technology to automate the task, saving valuable lesson time. Clearly this is another example of government oppression.
Dude can you carry my tag into class with you today while I skip? ..cool man u rock
Or does it work like patent law, where adding 'on a computer' to a well-established procedure turns it into something completly different?
If you don't think tagging people and tracking their every move electronically is oppressive there are other reasons to be against it.
Having something that can broadcast your location can be a risk to students. The same way wielding an American passport in foreign lands with an RFID chip can enhance your risk of being a target. Before you go off thinking I'm crazy ask yourself why passports now come with foil linings to block their own signals.
RFID need not be exclusivly restricted to a small area.. they can be activated over extended distances with the right antenna systems.
I think this change is a good thing. When people realize what they could get for free with perfect picture quality in most areas with a reasonable antenna they will be more inclined to drop cable service alltogether.
I can't think of anything more likely to drive this discovery process more than perverbial white noise.
If commercial sponsored OTA can be profitable without added eyeball tax then the expense of cable is hard to justify given digital broadcasting offers about thirty digital stations with broadcast bandwidth previously consumed by a single analog station.
"The only winning move is not to play"
What is an iMam? Is this some sort of cupertino gadget for learning ancient Myan?
Not being tolerant to the speech and opinions of others IS hateful to my religion.
Why do you need a "supercomputer" to "process" and relay signals?
How are "processed" signals going to get to earth from a station on the dark side of the moon without a line of sight back to earth?
Neither Windows phone 8 or the Lumina 920 have been released and we have people already yelling "rrruuunnn!!!"
There is a fine line between working vigorously to save a sinking ship and trying to work the pumps and hand bailer after it is too late. You need equal quantities of balls and intelligence to make the correct decision.
What TFA is doing is seeing a puddle on the floor and immediately sounding abandon ship and running for the life boats.
There is no low hanging fruit left in business. Sometimes you need to slug it out and take risks because changing strategies every two seconds is not a winning proposition either.
I'm not saying they won't fail or that windows phone is good or bad. I'm only asserting it is too early.
No, this is why it's GOOD, and why many developers, myself included, will not work on non-GPL projects.
Most contributors to the linux kernel are paid by their bosses to make these contributions.
As a commercial developer GPL means I won't look or touch a GPL 'API' project let alone contribute anything to it because when I reference it all of my propritary shit gets sucked into GPLs uselessly vauge definition of derivative work. For godsakes I have every incentive in the world to send in my patches so I don't have to deal with maintaing deltas.
I have seen LGPL projects spring up and surpass in popularity functionality of GPL analouge it replaced. There does not seem to be any lack of users willing to contribute LGPL code back into these projects.
I have seen LGPL maintainers go through great pains to keep GPL tainted code out of the project... seems like an extraordinary waste of talent and resources to have these crappy disputes because a few purists refuse to acknowledge reality that industry is footing the bill for most of our open source code.
I hate Agile with a passion it is the exact opposite of everything I believe and know to be true.
The only thing worse are people who when pushed are only able to justify their position by citing who all else is doing it too.
At the end of the day the premise of your question is wrong. The ONLY objective function is PROFIT.
If chaos makes your firm more money then your a moron if you don't immediatly ship code once it successfully compiles.
No one yet answered this question, what is the speed of information? What is the speed of the universal laws? What is the speed of the gravitational force??????
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What do you think is worse?
Not getting the memo about FTL neutrinos?
Sleeping thru the "tachyon" lecture and later claiming to have discovered it?
Why would you store credit card information in WHOIS? I already get mail from registrars wanting me to "renew" my domains (read Transfer them to them) for a "reduced rate" of $30 (I pay $12 a year).
This is just another intentionally misleading headline. Card data is not going into whois.
The issue is requiring registrars to hang on to CC data so that governments would be able to "lawfully" request from the registrar if that registrar is operating within jurisdiction of said goverment.
Rather than addressing data retention standards with legislation as decided by each countries government...such as thru a billing passed by congress and signed by the president they are essentially attempting an end run around democractic process to get a desired outcome.
None if it is defensible...both ICANN and FTC are in the wrong regardless of what you feel about the issue of data retention.
I love ICANN.. They require real contact information be stored in a public database or else your domain can be taken and resold and oh by the way registrars get to charge extra just to keep your identity in the public database safe.
All they are doing to address the sespool of automated domain capture, phishing and extortion activities upon expiration is truely amazing and inspiring.
I'm having trouble finding the words to express my appreciation for their infinite TLD program which has opened up new and exciting opportunities for name protection extortion, phishing and additional layers of government involvement.
ICANN is the only Internet body who consistantly errors on the side of unmitigated greed and selling out to governments. It has no soul and does not deserve to exist.
It's just that the PC (including Mac as well as Windows desktop and notebook) is no longer a focal point for either technical or entrepreneurial innovation, and arguably has not been for at least 10 years. With the advent of smartphones and other mobile devices, the importance of PC's for innovation becomes even less.
I'm terribly sorry.. it seems I have been asleep for the last 10 years... even worse I don't own a smartphone or a tablet!
If not too much trouble would someone kindly fill me in on all that innovation I have been missing out on?
What happens if Columbus punctured a lung on the way to America? He dies. Exploration is dangerous and we need to stop being pussies. We will send young men into the fray every single day, but we blanch at suicide Mars missions.
What is the point of sending humans to Mars or anywhere in space at this point? Having watched countless hours of missions to station and shuttle orbital flights the crew might as well be a bunch of robots since all activities and actions are planned down to the smallest detail anyway.
I would rather see all that money spent on researching automated manufacturing technology to enable robotic mining and production...why settle for crappy tents and cramped piss poor living conditions when you can have machines building a space port and whole city before anyone arrives? Not to mention positive effect such advances could have to production of goods here on this planet.
Go big or go home.
Gary Johnson or Mickey Mouse for prez.
Obama = NDAA
Romney = I'll say whatever you want to hear for your vote.
I've never voted for a third party whacktard in my life. I'm sure Gary is full of crack ideas and won't get much accomplished with the senate and house but I don't much care anymore. Enough is enough.