So basically, the hardware manufacturers that go for locked secure boot will see drops in sales, I guess.
I sure wont buy it if I can't use what I want on it. That's stupid.
The reality of it is that most people will probably be apathetic and ignorant. Your garden variety users will want something easy to use where they don't have to think about it so in reality they won't see much of a drop in sales. Geeks like you and I will care so, inevitably, there will be a manufacturer or two that will spring up to cater to our needs.
I can also see a potential problem of paying twice for an OEM PC. Their is nothing to stop an OEM from first charging for the PC, then charging for the unlock of the bootloader. Furthermore, said OEM can threaten those who "jail break" their own PCs with voiding the warranty. I wonder if people that decide to purchase Windows 8 to use directly on a PC they built would be required to install some firmware update to give Microsoft its way.
Sheesh people, this is a free market. If you don't like it, don't buy it. It's not like these are mandatory government issued computers or something. On top of that, it is still cheaper to build your own machine and be your own Original Equipment Manufacturer.
This is a non-story.
Whoever modded the parent a troll, should not have been given moderator points because this is simply an observation that is not designed to inflame. It is a free market so vote with your wallet as it is far more powerful and easier than seeking assistance from the legal system. If everyone refused to purchase hardware that has Microsoft's Big Brother Bootloader than you'll see how quickly OEMs will be releasing firmware updates to remove this because, last time I checked, a company needs to be ultimately profitable in order to be viable. OEMs would be picketing at Microsoft's door.
IMHO, this is a great learning opportunity and a chance to add to your resume. There are plenty of good howtos and tutorials to get you started. Securing it is not even that difficult. It just takes some willingness to do some reading and can be just as reliable as hosting. You might even continue reading more about failover and use a hosted site as a backup.
"Microsoft will attempt to use our gorilla status to force OEMs to lock out non-Windows operating systems, but ultimately, it's their decision as to whether they want to make it possible for you to run what you want on their computer, or whether they want us to not bomb them into the stone age and build a parking lot on the smoking ruins of their company."
The open source community is no longer a fringe and it grows as the years go by. If the OEMs want to engage in this behavior, members of the open source community (and I include myself as I run OpenBSD) could always just do an end run around the problem. In fact, with coreboot, the open source BIOS, it already makes easier. Also, there is nothing stopping us from building our own PCs and just voting with our wallets.
Employers who would embrace telecommuting and give up old, stodgy, antiquated views of working would find that their costs go down because they need not have expensive office space with upkeep, utility bills, etc. Meetings can be done via video conference. The wonders of VOIP allow people to have office phones. It is stubborn, old-fasioned thinking and outmoded management philosophies that force people into an office. An insurance company that I know closed down its office-based claims processing center and let everyone work from home. Turnover went down by a large factor. The minimum time in employment averaged 6 years.
That survey is absolutely rubbish. Those that I know who work from home work longer hours. Sometimes they are available at 11:00 at night. Telecommuters report higher job satisfaction too with less turnover. Turnover actually hurts companies, whether or not management chooses to pay attention to this.
That is a possible theoretic outcome and we have begun to see this with the closure of Borders and other businesses. If 10% hold all of the material wealth, that leaves 90% of people with all of the power to either keep the wealthy at their present status or break them. If all of the sudden everyone said, "We are not buying iPads," Apple's infrastructure would collapse. If everyone stopped shopping at Wal Mart and grew some of their own food, the Walton family would be decimated quickly.
I advocate a return to microeconomics where the economy centers around a town and people are largely self sufficient. All the poor have to do is start realizing that they have power and start re-learning long forgotten skills, they can be largely self-sufficient. What gives us bills and expenses is, essentially, we look for the easy way out so we pay someone else to do what we do not want to or are unable. I have a friend in Alaska that lives off of the grid. In the summer he grows vegetables and hunts for food. He has a small cabin that he built on his own from materials that he purchased using the proceeds from a 401K cashout. He hasn't had an occupation in over five years, he works at his own pace, and he makes his own clothes.
This is exactly what it is, a proposal. It will never happen! If it does and I am wrong, it will be with significant concessions as to render the thing useless and the middle class will bear the brunt again.
George W. Bush signed legislation that significantly hobbled science. Anyhow, the U.S. is on a significant and rapid decline much in the way of the Roman Empire. This is just one more symptom of a sick America.
Set up your firewall to redirect all outgoing port 80, 8080, etc packets to the proxy (running squid), then use calamaris to analyze the logs (or roll your own analysis). Squid can also block urls based or regular expression matching.
I would also use the authentication features that Squid has which can be integrated with Active Directory. This way a username can be more easily associated with an employees web activity. Finally, you might also use SquidGuard or DansGuardian for more granular (i.e. regex) filtration.
I can see a large commercial use for this as a replacement for the traditional cruise ship. Imagine being able to take an air cruise, a nice slow trip across the US at a medium altitude. I think it could be a lot of fun.
Whoever modded the comment as a troll needs to relax and take the stick out of their arse The comment was meant to be funny and it was. In actuality, Theldala does not have a leg to stand on. She is a public employee and gives up certain protections against defamation. In any case, she would be hard pressed to demonstrate any actual damages. If the TSA were more than just blue suited security guards with two brain cells to rub together, they'd be screaming out against the x-ray body scanners. After all, they are the ones working at least 8 hours a day around radiation. Certainly that can't be healthy. Is protecting America worth dying a slow agonizing death from cancer for?
I would think that the Feds would want the criminals to advertise on Google. A criminal enterprise that advertises itself is much easier to catch than a more shadowy one that advertises through spam.
The two words I have to offer Microsoft are GIVE and UP. Windows does not work well on a phone, it never has and never will. Microsoft is trying to be all things to all people and doing so at the suffering quality of their flagship products. I have to maintain a Windows 2008 SBS Server and network. Every time there is a Windows Update, I lose the correct TCP/IP settings and DHCP gets corrupted. This means that I have to put the correct TCP/IP settings in, remove and re-add the DHCP server role, and then run the Fix My Network Wizard. It is too bad that Microsoft does a whole lot of little things half-assed instead of a few things very well.
Well, I don't hit the advertised speeds. I am provisioned at 7mb down and 896k up. On a good day I get 6mb down but the upstream seems fairly consistent. However, this is a lot better than the leading cable company, Cox. Cox was a nightmare to deal with so I'll gladly put up with Qwest because I have no other choice. At least Qwest is less evil and doesn't engage in port blocking and require you to buy a small business package for a static IP to stop port blocking.
I will buy that and you seem honest enough to report it but I don't think Big Pharma executives are going to rush out and investigate. I think, if anything, they'll want to bury it! And, this has been replete through recent history. Just look at the acne drug acutane that causes permanent damage to people's bodies. Unfortunately, until the importance of ethics and honesty outweigh profits, public forums need to be open for discussion.
That's exactly my point. It may have effects that can tertiarily treat depression and bipolar, there are better medications out there such as antidepressants themselves or mood stabilizers for bipolar. These should be used first, and antipsychotics used second... but thats not how they are prescribed.
I was also talking about the specific classification of the drug. The summary makes it sound like it's a SSRI.
Guess what, there are also natural ways to cure depression! You don't need to pop some pill made by Astra Zeneca or Eli Lilly to get better! If *bleep* uncle sam would get it's collective asses in gear and just legalize marijuana, it would help by quite a bit. But, I can't get the one drug (marijuana) that leaves me depression and anxiety free for 3 weeks after just one joint because the gubmint says so!
The problem with Big Pharma in America and worldwide is that the industry has no interest in a cure for a disease or condition, only symptom mitigation. Big Pharma is concerned that this true motive will get exposed via Facebook. When you take drugs to counter the side effects of other drugs, the regiment ceases to be a cure and designed to keep you buying their drugs until you die because your condition was NOT cured nor was their any interest in a cure because cures don't make money. I think Big Pharma is concerned that other "sleeping" Americans will wake up to this fact once they read about other people's experiences. Medicines were never meant to be advertised and mass marketed! They should remain solely in the realm of the physician and used at the physician's discretion. Big Pharma and doctors have gotten to cozy. I think social media is the answer to this problem.
My respect went up for Facebook by a large margin. When Mark Zuckerberg ranted about the "necessary" end to privacy, I thought he would conveniently exclude corporations. At least this end to privacy effects corporations and individuals alike! This is as it should be.
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So basically, the hardware manufacturers that go for locked secure boot will see drops in sales, I guess. I sure wont buy it if I can't use what I want on it. That's stupid.
The reality of it is that most people will probably be apathetic and ignorant. Your garden variety users will want something easy to use where they don't have to think about it so in reality they won't see much of a drop in sales. Geeks like you and I will care so, inevitably, there will be a manufacturer or two that will spring up to cater to our needs.
All the while preaching to the vendors on the merits of a locked bootloader.
I can also see a potential problem of paying twice for an OEM PC. Their is nothing to stop an OEM from first charging for the PC, then charging for the unlock of the bootloader. Furthermore, said OEM can threaten those who "jail break" their own PCs with voiding the warranty. I wonder if people that decide to purchase Windows 8 to use directly on a PC they built would be required to install some firmware update to give Microsoft its way.
Sheesh people, this is a free market. If you don't like it, don't buy it. It's not like these are mandatory government issued computers or something. On top of that, it is still cheaper to build your own machine and be your own Original Equipment Manufacturer.
This is a non-story.
Whoever modded the parent a troll, should not have been given moderator points because this is simply an observation that is not designed to inflame. It is a free market so vote with your wallet as it is far more powerful and easier than seeking assistance from the legal system. If everyone refused to purchase hardware that has Microsoft's Big Brother Bootloader than you'll see how quickly OEMs will be releasing firmware updates to remove this because, last time I checked, a company needs to be ultimately profitable in order to be viable. OEMs would be picketing at Microsoft's door.
Andrew Mason is a crook! Hopefully the SEC will do what they failed to do on his previous dot com failure and that is .... Prosecute him!
IMHO, this is a great learning opportunity and a chance to add to your resume. There are plenty of good howtos and tutorials to get you started. Securing it is not even that difficult. It just takes some willingness to do some reading and can be just as reliable as hosting. You might even continue reading more about failover and use a hosted site as a backup.
Will it come with its own nuclear power plant to provide the necessary energy to power it? :)
"Microsoft will attempt to use our gorilla status to force OEMs to lock out non-Windows operating systems, but ultimately, it's their decision as to whether they want to make it possible for you to run what you want on their computer, or whether they want us to not bomb them into the stone age and build a parking lot on the smoking ruins of their company."
The open source community is no longer a fringe and it grows as the years go by. If the OEMs want to engage in this behavior, members of the open source community (and I include myself as I run OpenBSD) could always just do an end run around the problem. In fact, with coreboot, the open source BIOS, it already makes easier. Also, there is nothing stopping us from building our own PCs and just voting with our wallets.
Employers who would embrace telecommuting and give up old, stodgy, antiquated views of working would find that their costs go down because they need not have expensive office space with upkeep, utility bills, etc. Meetings can be done via video conference. The wonders of VOIP allow people to have office phones. It is stubborn, old-fasioned thinking and outmoded management philosophies that force people into an office. An insurance company that I know closed down its office-based claims processing center and let everyone work from home. Turnover went down by a large factor. The minimum time in employment averaged 6 years.
That survey is absolutely rubbish. Those that I know who work from home work longer hours. Sometimes they are available at 11:00 at night. Telecommuters report higher job satisfaction too with less turnover. Turnover actually hurts companies, whether or not management chooses to pay attention to this.
That is a possible theoretic outcome and we have begun to see this with the closure of Borders and other businesses. If 10% hold all of the material wealth, that leaves 90% of people with all of the power to either keep the wealthy at their present status or break them. If all of the sudden everyone said, "We are not buying iPads," Apple's infrastructure would collapse. If everyone stopped shopping at Wal Mart and grew some of their own food, the Walton family would be decimated quickly. I advocate a return to microeconomics where the economy centers around a town and people are largely self sufficient. All the poor have to do is start realizing that they have power and start re-learning long forgotten skills, they can be largely self-sufficient. What gives us bills and expenses is, essentially, we look for the easy way out so we pay someone else to do what we do not want to or are unable. I have a friend in Alaska that lives off of the grid. In the summer he grows vegetables and hunts for food. He has a small cabin that he built on his own from materials that he purchased using the proceeds from a 401K cashout. He hasn't had an occupation in over five years, he works at his own pace, and he makes his own clothes.
This is exactly what it is, a proposal. It will never happen! If it does and I am wrong, it will be with significant concessions as to render the thing useless and the middle class will bear the brunt again.
George W. Bush signed legislation that significantly hobbled science. Anyhow, the U.S. is on a significant and rapid decline much in the way of the Roman Empire. This is just one more symptom of a sick America.
Set up your firewall to redirect all outgoing port 80, 8080, etc packets to the proxy (running squid), then use calamaris to analyze the logs (or roll your own analysis). Squid can also block urls based or regular expression matching.
I would also use the authentication features that Squid has which can be integrated with Active Directory. This way a username can be more easily associated with an employees web activity. Finally, you might also use SquidGuard or DansGuardian for more granular (i.e. regex) filtration.
Bacula is a good network backup solution. Check it out at http://www.bacula.org/
I can see a large commercial use for this as a replacement for the traditional cruise ship. Imagine being able to take an air cruise, a nice slow trip across the US at a medium altitude. I think it could be a lot of fun.
Whoever modded the comment as a troll needs to relax and take the stick out of their arse The comment was meant to be funny and it was. In actuality, Theldala does not have a leg to stand on. She is a public employee and gives up certain protections against defamation. In any case, she would be hard pressed to demonstrate any actual damages. If the TSA were more than just blue suited security guards with two brain cells to rub together, they'd be screaming out against the x-ray body scanners. After all, they are the ones working at least 8 hours a day around radiation. Certainly that can't be healthy. Is protecting America worth dying a slow agonizing death from cancer for?
I would think that the Feds would want the criminals to advertise on Google. A criminal enterprise that advertises itself is much easier to catch than a more shadowy one that advertises through spam.
The pot just called the kettle black!
The two words I have to offer Microsoft are GIVE and UP. Windows does not work well on a phone, it never has and never will. Microsoft is trying to be all things to all people and doing so at the suffering quality of their flagship products. I have to maintain a Windows 2008 SBS Server and network. Every time there is a Windows Update, I lose the correct TCP/IP settings and DHCP gets corrupted. This means that I have to put the correct TCP/IP settings in, remove and re-add the DHCP server role, and then run the Fix My Network Wizard. It is too bad that Microsoft does a whole lot of little things half-assed instead of a few things very well.
Well, I don't hit the advertised speeds. I am provisioned at 7mb down and 896k up. On a good day I get 6mb down but the upstream seems fairly consistent. However, this is a lot better than the leading cable company, Cox. Cox was a nightmare to deal with so I'll gladly put up with Qwest because I have no other choice. At least Qwest is less evil and doesn't engage in port blocking and require you to buy a small business package for a static IP to stop port blocking.
I will buy that and you seem honest enough to report it but I don't think Big Pharma executives are going to rush out and investigate. I think, if anything, they'll want to bury it! And, this has been replete through recent history. Just look at the acne drug acutane that causes permanent damage to people's bodies. Unfortunately, until the importance of ethics and honesty outweigh profits, public forums need to be open for discussion.
That's exactly my point. It may have effects that can tertiarily treat depression and bipolar, there are better medications out there such as antidepressants themselves or mood stabilizers for bipolar. These should be used first, and antipsychotics used second... but thats not how they are prescribed. I was also talking about the specific classification of the drug. The summary makes it sound like it's a SSRI.
Guess what, there are also natural ways to cure depression! You don't need to pop some pill made by Astra Zeneca or Eli Lilly to get better! If *bleep* uncle sam would get it's collective asses in gear and just legalize marijuana, it would help by quite a bit. But, I can't get the one drug (marijuana) that leaves me depression and anxiety free for 3 weeks after just one joint because the gubmint says so!
The problem with Big Pharma in America and worldwide is that the industry has no interest in a cure for a disease or condition, only symptom mitigation. Big Pharma is concerned that this true motive will get exposed via Facebook. When you take drugs to counter the side effects of other drugs, the regiment ceases to be a cure and designed to keep you buying their drugs until you die because your condition was NOT cured nor was their any interest in a cure because cures don't make money. I think Big Pharma is concerned that other "sleeping" Americans will wake up to this fact once they read about other people's experiences. Medicines were never meant to be advertised and mass marketed! They should remain solely in the realm of the physician and used at the physician's discretion. Big Pharma and doctors have gotten to cozy. I think social media is the answer to this problem.
My respect went up for Facebook by a large margin. When Mark Zuckerberg ranted about the "necessary" end to privacy, I thought he would conveniently exclude corporations. At least this end to privacy effects corporations and individuals alike! This is as it should be.