It doesn't matter that they collect the data. What matters is what they can do with the data. It goes like this:
1. Collect data 2. Make a law that allows using this data for solving most brutal crimes 3. Make a law that allows using this data for solving any crime 4. Make new laws to "protect" the citisen. 5. Film next season of Big Brother on the streets. 6. Profit
Person who wants to exploit this hole, needs to get into to the system first and then that person can use the hole to get root access. So in general there is no danger to home users. Only servers that allow untrusted people to login are in danger. So most people have nothing to worry about. And those who need to worry, are most likely professionals or atleast they should be. And they can handle this, if they already hadn't.
There is probably some air on the prices, but not as much as the author of the article makes you think. Development, maintenance and hardware costs must be covered (service providers don't get the system for free). Then there is support you need to provide for customers. And billing. And marketing consumes some money also. And obviously managers need to get paid.
And have you ever wondered how is it possible that simple text messages can jam the system every New Year? Sending 10 byte sms 1000000 times isn't equal to sending 10x1000000 bytes of data using data transfer. Every time you send an sms, the system needs to open a connection and it consumes a lot more resources.
> Both XML-based standards are a huge step in the right direction that allow capabilities for the enterprise impossible with proprietary formats that aren't easily readable.
Only other is a standard (ODF). OOXML is just a proprietary format (as long as it can contain binary blobs that are not documented) that isn't easily readable (6000 page specifications and the undocumented parts) for which Microsoft is trying to buy (they already confessed this) a standard.
They have laws and they try to force everyone to obey those laws. Every time Microsoft has done something that would be illegal in most countries, it itself has said that it will obey the laws of the place where it operates. So Microsoft should be quite happy with this. EU is just helping them to obey the laws.
Microsoft has a lot of business and they might have broken several laws. Should rest of these crimes be forgotten simply because they were already judged?
I have no doubt that EU will handle the issues professionally and Microsoft will only get what it deserves. If they have done nothing wrong, they have nothing to worry about.
Promoting is marketing. Marketing brings new users -> more testers -> more developers -> better open source product.
Even if promoting causes harm, it most likely brings more good than it does bad. Take a look of Firefox for example. Firefox fanboys are already hated, but on the other hand there are millions of happy Firefox users.
If you tell that some software is good, you will be most likely ignored. But if 10 people tell the same guy that some software is good, he has no option but to bulieve it and try out why everyone is so much talking about it.
> Blaming McDonald's is kind of silly. Don't raise your kids on a diet of McDonald's. It is supposed to be a treat and not a diet.
Actually you can blame them for marketing. It is a known fact that marketing affects people and they market a lot. Their marketing is directly connected to the amount of fast food people buy. If it wouldn't be, they wouldn't do the marketing as that wouldn't be worth of it.
I started collecting a list of things that people have said that should happen on a certain date or year in the future. So far 4 dates on my list have passed and none of them has happened.
Yes. And even if Linux had a virus problem, there would be open source anti-virus application to defend people against viruses. That would also mean no more McAfee.
> At some point the killer Linux app will come along that will drive adoption.
That is quite unlikely, because usually big Linux applications are cross platform, or at least easy to port.
But because of this, people will eventually be using applications that can also be found from the Linux. At that point, they might want to switch, because the OS behind the applications doesn't really matter to the end user if it just works, is efficient and is cheap. Linux can offer all of these.
But there is actually one killer app that might do what you describe. Wine. If it can make all Windows applications to work perfectly on Linux, there is no reason to use Windows anymore.
There are some people who don't even have their own public ip address. These people are surfing by sharing the same ip address with thousands of other people and only thing they have in common is that they don't live in the USA and they have the same ISP.
Mono? Isn't that the UNFINISHED implementation of Microsoft's current.net version (I'm saying current, because at some point they will extend it a little more and Mono will lack behind.)? But I have a question to you. Have you ever heard of.net applications using Windows DLLs? Well I have as several of them do and because of that, they won't work on Linux.
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The problem usually is that spec is not complite. I admit that it is very hard if not impossible to think all alternatives. That is why the system must be as public as possible.
And I agree that it is a good idea to implement a reference implementation for the spec.
"To save time and to benefit from cooperation with the artists working in the Blender Institute on the Peach project, we will re-use as much material from Peach as possible. That means that the game will have funny & furry animals, and play in an outdoors environment.
This probably means an adventure/platform style of game, or maybe it's going to be like mini games or party games. The Apricot team will have - within above constraints - the full creative freedom in designing the game concept and game play." http://www.blender.org/blenderorg/blender-foundation/apricot-open-game/
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> It's my computer. Keep your God damned hands off of it
It stopped being your computer right after you installed Windows on it and connected it to the Internet.
It doesn't matter that they collect the data. What matters is what they can do with the data. It goes like this:
1. Collect data
2. Make a law that allows using this data for solving most brutal crimes
3. Make a law that allows using this data for solving any crime
4. Make new laws to "protect" the citisen.
5. Film next season of Big Brother on the streets.
6. Profit
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Person who wants to exploit this hole, needs to get into to the system first and then that person can use the hole to get root access.
So in general there is no danger to home users. Only servers that allow untrusted people to login are in danger. So most people have nothing to worry about. And those who need to worry, are most likely professionals or atleast they should be. And they can handle this, if they already hadn't.
They only talk about sex. How about drug addicts and dirty needles?
> We don't have a life!
You got the specs, why aren't you programming?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_Game_of_Life
You don't need silverlight, silverlight just shows static jpg images that are also on the website:
http://www.microsoft.com/heroeshappenhere/comicviewer/Images/Week1_Day1_full.jpg
http://www.microsoft.com/heroeshappenhere/comicviewer/Images/Week1_Day2_full.jpg
http://www.microsoft.com/heroeshappenhere/comicviewer/Images/Week1_Day3_full.jpg
ftp ftp.mozilla.org
/pub/firefox/releases/2.0.0.11/win32/en-US
ftp> cd
250 Directory successfully changed.
ftp> dir
200 PORT command successful. Consider using PASV.
150 Here comes the directory listing.
-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 6026816 Nov 29 20:49 Firefox Setup 2.0.0.11.exe
-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 186 Nov 29 20:53 Firefox Setup 2.0.0.11.exe.asc
There is probably some air on the prices, but not as much as the author of the article makes you think. Development, maintenance and hardware costs must be covered (service providers don't get the system for free). Then there is support you need to provide for customers. And billing. And marketing consumes some money also. And obviously managers need to get paid.
And have you ever wondered how is it possible that simple text messages can jam the system every New Year? Sending 10 byte sms 1000000 times isn't equal to sending 10x1000000 bytes of data using data transfer. Every time you send an sms, the system needs to open a connection and it consumes a lot more resources.
Woah, the shadows are quite impressive.
> Both XML-based standards are a huge step in the right direction that allow capabilities for the enterprise impossible with proprietary formats that aren't easily readable.
Only other is a standard (ODF). OOXML is just a proprietary format (as long as it can contain binary blobs that are not documented) that isn't easily readable (6000 page specifications and the undocumented parts) for which Microsoft is trying to buy (they already confessed this) a standard.
> Does anyone else think enough is enough?
They have laws and they try to force everyone to obey those laws. Every time Microsoft has done something that would be illegal in most countries, it itself has said that it will obey the laws of the place where it operates. So Microsoft should be quite happy with this. EU is just helping them to obey the laws.
Microsoft has a lot of business and they might have broken several laws. Should rest of these crimes be forgotten simply because they were already judged?
I have no doubt that EU will handle the issues professionally and Microsoft will only get what it deserves. If they have done nothing wrong, they have nothing to worry about.
Octopus has 3 hearts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopus
I suggest that you read how octopus uses the hearts. We could simply use one heart for the brain, other heart for the legs etc.
Promoting is marketing. Marketing brings new users -> more testers -> more developers -> better open source product.
Even if promoting causes harm, it most likely brings more good than it does bad. Take a look of Firefox for example. Firefox fanboys are already hated, but on the other hand there are millions of happy Firefox users.
If you tell that some software is good, you will be most likely ignored. But if 10 people tell the same guy that some software is good, he has no option but to bulieve it and try out why everyone is so much talking about it.
> Blaming McDonald's is kind of silly. Don't raise your kids on a diet of McDonald's. It is supposed to be a treat and not a diet.
Actually you can blame them for marketing. It is a known fact that marketing affects people and they market a lot. Their marketing is directly connected to the amount of fast food people buy. If it wouldn't be, they wouldn't do the marketing as that wouldn't be worth of it.
ACID2 and ACID3 tests don't test if browsers are standard compatible. They only test some features. To get better overview of the standards supports, try this page:
http://www.webdevout.net/browser-support-summary?IE7=on&FX2=on&OP9=on&uas=CUSTOM
Flying cars will happen in 2020, or so they say.
I started collecting a list of things that people have said that should happen on a certain date or year in the future. So far 4 dates on my list have passed and none of them has happened.
But no worries, because after year 2024 we can wait forever for these to happen: http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/03/164257&tid=191&tid=14
> For example, in Norway we produce much of our power using hydroelectric powerplants that run water coming from large magazines in our high mountains
1. Get a high mountain
2. Build hydroelectric powerplants
3. Sell electricity
4. Profit
I never realized it was that easy. So now I only need a mountain...
Yes. And even if Linux had a virus problem, there would be open source anti-virus application to defend people against viruses. That would also mean no more McAfee.
> At some point the killer Linux app will come along that will drive adoption.
That is quite unlikely, because usually big Linux applications are cross platform, or at least easy to port.
But because of this, people will eventually be using applications that can also be found from the Linux. At that point, they might want to switch, because the OS behind the applications doesn't really matter to the end user if it just works, is efficient and is cheap. Linux can offer all of these.
But there is actually one killer app that might do what you describe. Wine. If it can make all Windows applications to work perfectly on Linux, there is no reason to use Windows anymore.
> Here is the real question: How do you really know that your browser is safe at all?
Well first thing is to make sure you are using the latest version. E.g. not using FF 1.5, which doesn't anymore get security updates at all.
That is pretty much all you need to do if you are a normal user. If you need superiour security, then you run the browser in a sandbox.
There are some people who don't even have their own public ip address. These people are surfing by sharing the same ip address with thousands of other people and only thing they have in common is that they don't live in the USA and they have the same ISP.
Mono? Isn't that the UNFINISHED implementation of Microsoft's current .net version (I'm saying current, because at some point they will extend it a little more and Mono will lack behind.)? But I have a question to you. Have you ever heard of .net applications using Windows DLLs? Well I have as several of them do and because of that, they won't work on Linux.
The problem usually is that spec is not complite. I admit that it is very hard if not impossible to think all alternatives. That is why the system must be as public as possible.
And I agree that it is a good idea to implement a reference implementation for the spec.
"To save time and to benefit from cooperation with the artists working in the Blender Institute on the Peach project, we will re-use as much material from Peach as possible.
That means that the game will have funny & furry animals, and play in an outdoors environment.
This probably means an adventure/platform style of game, or maybe it's going to be like mini games or party games. The Apricot team will have - within above constraints - the full creative freedom in designing the game concept and game play."
http://www.blender.org/blenderorg/blender-foundation/apricot-open-game/