If they steal your Paypal password, then what difference does it make. Obtaining a password via a keylogger/trojan is one of the most common types of credit card fraud. Seems to be a lot of a hassle with not much benefit, plus you can't use it at real stores.
According to the CCC, of the searches done for videos on P2P sites...
* 63 percent of searches were for pornography
* 10 percent of searches were for child pornography
* 27 percent of searches were for copyrighted material
It's a haven for illegal material of all kinds. Is P2P really worth it? There is no means for regulation of any kind, and a huge majority of the material is illegally downloaded. I think the torrent idea probably has less potential for abuse, and is more useful because corporations (like Novell) can provide links to their free software for no charge. Searching for Suse Linux in a non-torrent P2P application is not only likely to be more difficult to find, but also more likely to be a virus of some sort.
The prices of music are ridiculously inflated, but people still deserve compensation for their work.
Why does MS Office have all these fancy features that only a few people use, yet they open up a world of vulnerabilities? I use MS Excel to write a spreadsheet with some basic formulas, and MS Word to write documents that I could just have easily written in WordPad (minus the spell check). Turn off macros by default, and have a generic "you're running a macro and this is unsafe" popup (which I beleive they already do). If the user clicks yes unwittingly, then they're probably too stupid to read the dialog asking them about the signature, and they're screwed anyhow.
You can increase the number of bits, but again it's only going to put off the problem. This is the kind of stuff that video card designers deal with all the time. A.0000001 difference early in the calculations can cause a 30% shift later on. For most of us though, who cares if my income taxes are two pennies over?
Obviously if "security software" can bypass the restrictions, then so can malicious programs. There isn't any fundamental difference between software and malicious software that Windows can detect (one computer's virus is another computer's formatting software).
This has been the case for years. IBM has always specialized on "Enterprise Solutions" for businesses. Indeed, this is where IBM makes most of their money (not their consumer products).
Hard to get too upset. Desception has always been a valuable tool in politics. The whole "Kerry is wishy-washy" campaign actually worked (amazingly). The average Joe is so stupid.
That sounds like a violation of people's trust. What if grandma types in gogle.com (that she heard about from her grandson), and she thinks she's at the real website? It's a form of intentional deception. Not to mention they give anyone adspace on their fake search engine, including some apps that install spyware. It's an abuse of power.
While I tend to agree with you, schools face a tremendous market pressure to go with the latest technology "fad". My old high-school put desktops in the back of every classroom. Since there's only 8 per classroom, no one ever uses them. Next, they wanted to get laptops for every student (despite the fact they would get lost, stolen, etc). This kind of stuff is constant.
How many soccer-moms see the Microsoft commercials on TV (which claim that Windows "inspires" children), and vote at school-board meetings to have a $1,500 laptop for every kid? It was more than 50% in my district.
I wouldn't despute that women use technology, but don't confuse that with an interest in technology. Most women I know use computers for e-mail, myspace, ordering flowers, etc.
Second, the fine print says women ages 15-49. Why not 15-99? Perhaps they wanted to distort the numbers to make it newsworthy.
Lastly, the study cannot imply anything about whether women actually like technology more than clothes. Perhaps they would prefer a digital camera to a pair of shoes because they have 200 shoes, and only a crappy disposable camera.
"You can't run a DX9 app on DX3 hardware and get the advantages of DX."
Actually you can run DX9 on a DX3 card. DirectX has various emulation levels that will simulate the hardware, but the further back you try to go, the slower it gets. Since the average DX3 card doesn't have that much power to begin with, it's virtually unusable. However, running DX9 on a DX8 card isn't entirely out of the question.
100,000 writes is only a median of the distribution. Some will be higher and some will be lower, so a counter would be useless. I'm sure it's made of a higher quality RAM than your typical flash drive. 100,000 writes would last about one day on a server, and probably less than four days for your typical PC [if you assume one write per second for a busy server, which is not unreasonable].
I'm not sure a flash cache makes a hell of a difference. Why not just use RAM, and have a battery to keep the memory state for 20 or 30 minutes if the power were to shut off? Plus even the fastest static RAM is no where near the fastest regular RAM.
If they can get the size, speed, and reliability up to par perhaps it could be useful.
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If they steal your Paypal password, then what difference does it make. Obtaining a password via a keylogger/trojan is one of the most common types of credit card fraud. Seems to be a lot of a hassle with not much benefit, plus you can't use it at real stores.
According to the CCC, of the searches done for videos on P2P sites... * 63 percent of searches were for pornography * 10 percent of searches were for child pornography * 27 percent of searches were for copyrighted material It's a haven for illegal material of all kinds. Is P2P really worth it? There is no means for regulation of any kind, and a huge majority of the material is illegally downloaded. I think the torrent idea probably has less potential for abuse, and is more useful because corporations (like Novell) can provide links to their free software for no charge. Searching for Suse Linux in a non-torrent P2P application is not only likely to be more difficult to find, but also more likely to be a virus of some sort. The prices of music are ridiculously inflated, but people still deserve compensation for their work.
This idea isn't new. Trojan designed a condom in the 90's that broke on purpose so people wouldn't have sex all day.
Wasn't Java supposed to be a WebOS? Why, exactly, should I rewrite my online applications to run on GoogOS?
When does Web 2.1 come out?
Why does MS Office have all these fancy features that only a few people use, yet they open up a world of vulnerabilities? I use MS Excel to write a spreadsheet with some basic formulas, and MS Word to write documents that I could just have easily written in WordPad (minus the spell check). Turn off macros by default, and have a generic "you're running a macro and this is unsafe" popup (which I beleive they already do). If the user clicks yes unwittingly, then they're probably too stupid to read the dialog asking them about the signature, and they're screwed anyhow.
You can increase the number of bits, but again it's only going to put off the problem. This is the kind of stuff that video card designers deal with all the time. A .0000001 difference early in the calculations can cause a 30% shift later on. For most of us though, who cares if my income taxes are two pennies over?
Obviously if "security software" can bypass the restrictions, then so can malicious programs. There isn't any fundamental difference between software and malicious software that Windows can detect (one computer's virus is another computer's formatting software).
This has been the case for years. IBM has always specialized on "Enterprise Solutions" for businesses. Indeed, this is where IBM makes most of their money (not their consumer products).
Hard to get too upset. Desception has always been a valuable tool in politics. The whole "Kerry is wishy-washy" campaign actually worked (amazingly). The average Joe is so stupid.
That sounds like a violation of people's trust. What if grandma types in gogle.com (that she heard about from her grandson), and she thinks she's at the real website? It's a form of intentional deception. Not to mention they give anyone adspace on their fake search engine, including some apps that install spyware. It's an abuse of power.
not to mention all the anthrax...
While I tend to agree with you, schools face a tremendous market pressure to go with the latest technology "fad". My old high-school put desktops in the back of every classroom. Since there's only 8 per classroom, no one ever uses them. Next, they wanted to get laptops for every student (despite the fact they would get lost, stolen, etc). This kind of stuff is constant.
How many soccer-moms see the Microsoft commercials on TV (which claim that Windows "inspires" children), and vote at school-board meetings to have a $1,500 laptop for every kid? It was more than 50% in my district.
I wouldn't despute that women use technology, but don't confuse that with an interest in technology. Most women I know use computers for e-mail, myspace, ordering flowers, etc.
Second, the fine print says women ages 15-49. Why not 15-99? Perhaps they wanted to distort the numbers to make it newsworthy.
Lastly, the study cannot imply anything about whether women actually like technology more than clothes. Perhaps they would prefer a digital camera to a pair of shoes because they have 200 shoes, and only a crappy disposable camera.
"You can't run a DX9 app on DX3 hardware and get the advantages of DX."
Actually you can run DX9 on a DX3 card. DirectX has various emulation levels that will simulate the hardware, but the further back you try to go, the slower it gets. Since the average DX3 card doesn't have that much power to begin with, it's virtually unusable. However, running DX9 on a DX8 card isn't entirely out of the question.
100,000 writes is only a median of the distribution. Some will be higher and some will be lower, so a counter would be useless. I'm sure it's made of a higher quality RAM than your typical flash drive. 100,000 writes would last about one day on a server, and probably less than four days for your typical PC [if you assume one write per second for a busy server, which is not unreasonable]. I'm not sure a flash cache makes a hell of a difference. Why not just use RAM, and have a battery to keep the memory state for 20 or 30 minutes if the power were to shut off? Plus even the fastest static RAM is no where near the fastest regular RAM. If they can get the size, speed, and reliability up to par perhaps it could be useful.