OK buddy, you have done your job and made enough noises about FOSS. Your $large_discount coupon from MSFT is ready and waiting, mention coupon code
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The malware is so sophisticated nowadays, they evade detection from local monitors. Somehow getting more data from remote computers will help you detect the malware? Come on, Senthil it is not going to work.
This study finally explains why Starbucks is so successful. Its products create an illusion in their customers that they are normal human beings with some real life worth living. Once these Starbucks addicts stay away from caffeine they are overwhelmed by their own sense of inadequacy and rush back to the store for another hit.
Sites that code cluelessly and need javascript and flash to display a simple list will die first (hopefully, I am not so sure). Topping the list is http://www.channelinsider.com/
May be IT investment creates more jobs than physical infrastructure investment. But if the jobs are created in India, are we (Americans) really better off?
I think code must faster than I can type. Soon I will be able to just wear a sensor filled helmet and think code and this machine would convert it to an emacs macro and fill in the source. Yay!
galaxies form around giant black holes in the way that a pearl forms around grit
Exactly. The pulsars emit gamma rays like the dung beetle emit pheromones. The planets circle their star like insects circle a dome light in the porch.
Analogies form in the mind of submitters and editors of slashdot the same way driftwood washes up in the beaches of South Carolina.
Is google providing a virtual environment to execute x86 instruction set in the security context of the browser in all platforms? So that people with legacy programs in their local machines could just emulate x86 in a standard browser? In that case it would be a good idea.
If you have, say an old version of PhotoShop in a dying Xp machine and want to migrate to a shiny new Linux box and want to give that old copy of software that you have paid for a new lease of life, and if Google provides the emulator to do it, it would be great.
If the idea is to let websites stream in precompiled excutables to your browser and then execute the code in your machine to supplant Javascript, Java, Flash and Silverlight, it is a remarkably stupid idea. We do not want undecipherable cruft coming down the ethernet executing commands in the local machine.
Well, the Open Software programmers have done a great job of providing a very capable platform. But it is not the technical excellence that is keeping MSFT well entrenched. From barely legal tactics forcing the vendors to do things, playing with device drivers, many many marketing and business practices help MSFT maintain its hold. No matter how good the OS codes are, it is going to take significant investment to pry the users from proprietary MSFT format. Let IBM match MSFT in these tactics. The fall out would be good for the general community.
Users could be infected with the Trojan either from a drive-by download, which can infect a PC by exploiting a vulnerability in a browser, or by being duped into downloading it, Canja said.
It is not clear whether Firefox actually has a vulnerability that allows such a drive by downloads, or if IE or other browsers with a vulnerability might allow a drive by download that attacks FireFox. Anyway if the user downloads bits from the net and executes it voluntarily, there is nothing one can do to protect such an activity.
In every poll before the election there were these undecideds running up to a few percentage points. OK we shrugged. Then they conducted a poll on people who have already voted. And even then there were these 7% undecideds. That is the time we realized there is something profound going on. There are not simple minded doddering idiots. They are the quantum state of the axons and charmed quarks who can not ever be in the "decided" column! Evar! Never laugh at an undecided! They are mathematically proven to be the fundamental particle of the universe!
The cruelty is not being inflicted upon the students, it is on the teachers. All these dumb kids got through high schools with endemic grade inflation, not knowing the first thing about anything but with some supreme self confidence. Teaching them anything is difficult. Can't figure out simple free body diagrams in freshman physics, get all confused by the p orbitals and electrons in chmistry, can't differentiate a polynomial if their life depended on it, but they all come and sit in the computer science class and expect to be taught using innovative interesting creative techniques that require no effor on their part. Being a college prof dealing with freshman is a punishment, I tell you.
Not even in corporate environment most people, users, IT dept upgrade the OS. The IT dept "supports" older versions of the OS till all these boxes die. They might upgrade software, ACAD or Ansys WorkBench or Word etc. But mass upgrade of the OS of all the machines in the network? Hardly ever done.
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OK buddy, you have done your job and made enough noises about FOSS. Your $large_discount coupon from MSFT is ready and waiting, mention coupon code EGDI. Coupon good for getting all MSFT software for free. Manufacturers Coupon, Never expires.
The malware is so sophisticated nowadays, they evade detection from local monitors. Somehow getting more data from remote computers will help you detect the malware? Come on, Senthil it is not going to work.
This study finally explains why Starbucks is so successful. Its products create an illusion in their customers that they are normal human beings with some real life worth living. Once these Starbucks addicts stay away from caffeine they are overwhelmed by their own sense of inadequacy and rush back to the store for another hit.
Why bother with silkworms and such stupid things, when soilent green is availble, eh?
Sites that code cluelessly and need javascript and flash to display a simple list will die first (hopefully, I am not so sure). Topping the list is http://www.channelinsider.com/
The spending is spiraling out of control, out of this world and is astronomical, as every one knows.
May be IT investment creates more jobs than physical infrastructure investment. But if the jobs are created in India, are we (Americans) really better off?
I think code must faster than I can type. Soon I will be able to just wear a sensor filled helmet and think code and this machine would convert it to an emacs macro and fill in the source. Yay!
Wow! Extracts electricity from the atmosphere, eh? Don't tell me it was invented by John Galt.
Exactly. The pulsars emit gamma rays like the dung beetle emit pheromones. The planets circle their star like insects circle a dome light in the porch. Analogies form in the mind of submitters and editors of slashdot the same way driftwood washes up in the beaches of South Carolina.
It would probably snailmail patches to all the vendors connecting to their site ;-)
If the idea is to let websites stream in precompiled excutables to your browser and then execute the code in your machine to supplant Javascript, Java, Flash and Silverlight, it is a remarkably stupid idea. We do not want undecipherable cruft coming down the ethernet executing commands in the local machine.
Well, the Open Software programmers have done a great job of providing a very capable platform. But it is not the technical excellence that is keeping MSFT well entrenched. From barely legal tactics forcing the vendors to do things, playing with device drivers, many many marketing and business practices help MSFT maintain its hold. No matter how good the OS codes are, it is going to take significant investment to pry the users from proprietary MSFT format. Let IBM match MSFT in these tactics. The fall out would be good for the general community.
It has finally arrived! Hallelujah!
It is not clear whether Firefox actually has a vulnerability that allows such a drive by downloads, or if IE or other browsers with a vulnerability might allow a drive by download that attacks FireFox. Anyway if the user downloads bits from the net and executes it voluntarily, there is nothing one can do to protect such an activity.
These infiltrators are not from another galaxy. They are from the criminal ungerground in Karachi, Pakistan.
Yes, a billionth of most things are microscopic in size. So shipping it is quite difficult. Great job logitec.
In every poll before the election there were these undecideds running up to a few percentage points. OK we shrugged. Then they conducted a poll on people who have already voted. And even then there were these 7% undecideds. That is the time we realized there is something profound going on. There are not simple minded doddering idiots. They are the quantum state of the axons and charmed quarks who can not ever be in the "decided" column! Evar! Never laugh at an undecided! They are mathematically proven to be the fundamental particle of the universe!
The cruelty is not being inflicted upon the students, it is on the teachers. All these dumb kids got through high schools with endemic grade inflation, not knowing the first thing about anything but with some supreme self confidence. Teaching them anything is difficult. Can't figure out simple free body diagrams in freshman physics, get all confused by the p orbitals and electrons in chmistry, can't differentiate a polynomial if their life depended on it, but they all come and sit in the computer science class and expect to be taught using innovative interesting creative techniques that require no effor on their part. Being a college prof dealing with freshman is a punishment, I tell you.
Apple is known to be very susceptible to a number of bugs and viruses. So a recommendation to use antiviral products is quite sensible and it makes sense.
There are more legitimate businesses than the ones selling snake oil to cure body aches, pains and ligament sprains. Why pick on them, poor sods.
Let me be the first to welcome of ethical robotic overlords.
Does Turning Machine counts as a machine?
Never heard of him. You talk as though he was some kind of Super Star like Rajnikant.
Not even in corporate environment most people, users, IT dept upgrade the OS. The IT dept "supports" older versions of the OS till all these boxes die. They might upgrade software, ACAD or Ansys WorkBench or Word etc. But mass upgrade of the OS of all the machines in the network? Hardly ever done.