A software is never safer than:
* the number of people/resources trying to bring it down
* Its popularity
With the raise of both options, the number of found vulnerabilities will definitly increase.
The problem is not that they are not the same or even different charsets. The problem is that they are near enough for the naked eye to confuse a russian user. Lets say they have a real bank with the address www.baHk.py (baHk = bank in russian but I'm not using cyrillics here so use your imagination). A pisher could easily setup a domain www.bahk.py (using latins py = paraguay) and this should be very difficult for a naormal user to catch the error.... This is a phishers wet dream, actually.
1- Their aweful move of making it adware..., I mean... like we don't have enough ads on the sites...
2- Their aweful interface... first it was some kind of MDI abomination... Now they have a poor attempt to use tabs
3- Theit poor support for plug ins.
In the same article they kind of blame IE for their lack of success. They should rather look are Firefozz to see how to success by own merits and not by criying....
Vista is doing what it is supposed to do. Do you have unused memory? Well USE IT damn it! If you have unused memory at one point of time, Vista will just use it for whatever. Don't worry. It WILL get you back when an application needs it. Of course, uneducated people will say: LoOk aT tEh SuCk, thEy ArE tHe BlOaT!
Oh, I remember in the good old days, saying something like "I prefer Intel over AMD" on/. was like saying I prefer Windows over Linuzzz. You could get infinitley moderated down and a lot of irated comments would just waiting to flame you... Oh, those were the times...
What is with any of my signatures that always seem to be so politically incorrect here in/.? I guess if my sig was "M$ products are an abbomination and teh suck" everyone here would get an orgasm.
But no, I actually dislike the Abble way very much (from their dumbed down telettuby user interface to their market practices). I have the right to say what i think like anybody else, even if it is politically incorrect...
You need to realize that TODAY there are no patents on the EU. But what if tomorrow the EU parlament aproves them? How could MS posibly survive the MILLION and MILLIONS os sharks then? Or do who do you think those sharks will attack first? MS or MyLitleAnnonymousShop.com?
And then people bash MS when they patent something. How can one of the richest companies in the world defend theyselves from thoses sharks? You NEED to patent everything you have if you don't want to open your pocked every week. Defensive patents are a necesity these days.
Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon : Free as in speech, free as in beer comes with about 20000 apps (the number's pulled out of thin air, but there are a lot of apps available), of which most are probably quite simple or outright crap, but there's true quality stuff among them and the pre-selection by the installer is quite good in my book. Oh and I'm part of the Ubuntu community, too.
Been there, tried that. Sorry, not my cup of tea. I have no time to tweak here and there. And I need to run my games and my visual studio, amd my autocad natively.
OS/X : Hereround 155$. Probably nicest user interface, at least at Panther level very stable, rock solid foundation (BSD) a real shell and real scripting. Oh and it gives me fanboy privileges.
And it comes with an unusable firewall, broken network copy/move operations and an unusable time machine. Not to talk about an extremly annoying user interface. Why do people seem to think that you must like the Mac way is out of my understandning. Still I've been obligate to use one of those everyday at work.. Sigh...
Vista Ultimate: ~700$. Nothing really to offer, exept maybe this floating waterfall background, which must eat a ton of resources. Requires activation, abuses 30% of my resources for Hollywoods satisfaction. Oh: And by default I'm a criminal software thieve pirate.
I use it gladly. And pay for it as well. Call me an idiot. I don't care.
The problems will definitly NOT be the same. New unknown problems will arise and new hacking techniques will be discovered. The problems will be of the same nature, tough, where the end user will often be the main responsible of the security of his/her system. Security holes will exist and they will be patched only to discover new. The same story
I see more and more of this comming. GPLvX, with all their advantages and disadvantages RE licences, and as such, they will have a bagage of restrictions, legal issues, etc. Thus the contradiction: a licence that was created to guarantee and keep the "freedom" actually has "freedom limitations". The solution to this double moral problem is Public Domain. Even id OD is " a license" as well, PD is practically the anti-license with no limitations at all.
I agree with those who say tha PD ilimitated freedom can generate chaos, but if you REALLY care about freedom, if you really want about your code being used without limitations and with full potential and without the ego of being recognised as the author, etc. PD is the ONLY way to go. Compare this to those millioners that give millios to charity and report to the press (GPL). or those who you never lknow about their donations (PD). It's actually about ego. Do you care about your rights? No? You only care about your code really contributing to the humanity? Only PD can help.
Another question is about that some countries don't recognise PD as a legal license. I know some people that actually have kind of bypased that issue by realising some code COMPLETLY anonymously. That way there is NOONE who holds the copyright. Believeme, owr lawyers here at out university had some issues with such a code and they didn't even know how to proceed. The concept of property is the base of our societies, so PD kind of confuses our poor heads...
Anyway, believe it or not the major problem with this incredible number of cell phones, GPS devices, wireless routers etc is the so called "ether pollution".
This is NOT about health problems (tumors, camncer, etc) which, even if there are some theories, there is NOTHING definitively proved. The prolem is more of a technical nature. The number of frequencies, interferences, garbage signals, etc is nowdays alarming.
And there are also theories that say that this chaos is contributing to the global warming, but this is also debatable. Anyway, if you compare our planet today, this chaotic sea of signals is a BIG change from the "clean planet" we had 200 years back in the past.
Not only that. More MS programmers participating on OS projects will also automatically mean more talented programmers. There is absolutely no contradiction in that.
Actually, using IE7 on Vista in it's DEFAULT sandboxed mode will protect you from almost every 3rd party plugin problem.... So you ARE partially right. I use it my self IE7 sandoxed on Vista and have no intentions to change to whatever...
Actually there are several technologies that are being developed for the (more or less) same thing: the german and the japanese are considered the leaders in this field.
The key difference between Japanese and German maglev trains is that the Japanese trains use super-cooled, superconducting electromagnets. This kind of electromagnet can conduct electricity even after the power supply has been shut off. In the EMS system, which uses standard electromagnets, the coils only conduct electricity when a power supply is present. By chilling the coils at frigid temperatures, Japan's system saves energy.
Another difference between the systems is that the Japanese trains levitate nearly 10 cm above the guideway. One potential drawback in using the EDS system is that maglev trains must roll on rubber tires until they reach a liftoff speed of about 100 kph. Japanese engineers say the wheels are an advantage if a power failure caused a shutdown of the system. Germany's Transrapid train is equipped with an emergency battery power supply.
Anyway, this is a very new technology, so there is A LOT place for innovation here.
yes, I agree with you about the problem: there are a lot of small things that makes the whole experience less than good. Especially, you are right about the Z order of the UAC. That IS a big problem with their implementation.
What i am in disagreement with you is when you say that opeople should turn to macOs... when (especially Leopard) have a LOT more of SERIOUS problems (like magically disapearing files when copying to a network drive, broken and slow Time machine, a lot of rought edges overall, barely working firewall, bad implemented UAC as well, etc). This is the biggest problem here : people (not only you), seem to aprove even bigger flaws on other systems (like the incredible imperfect macOS) and seem to bash even harder Vista for the minimal thing...
I am the first one to tell you that Vista need a LOT of work, but hey, i at leat try to see it in perspective... Well, here we go, another "troll" or "flamebait" moderated post.. oh well, don't care.
Yes, if it ain't broken, don't fix it. Hell, our Math department are still running Mandriva linuzzz 2004 edition and Solaris 7. Are they rushing to upgrade to mandriva 2008 or Solaris 10? No way José... Not so fast... maybe in the future or if they are upgrading hardware to new machines.... They cannot risk to get new problems whhen they have an stable envioroment, and actually, they really don't care as long as their precios calculation proggy works fine.
Is the new mandriva a failure? or Ubuntu because those guys are not upgrading? No. An OS is not a peace of meat with a caducity date.... Use it, and when and IF you need something else, then upgrade. Until then... I'm still using my 2002 palm pilot.
UAC seems to come out a lot the first week, when the user is installing programs, browser plugins, changing settings, etc. When a month or so has passed, people don't tend to change so much the settings, so UAC almost never comes up then.
People seem to bitch a lot about UAC in Vista but it's MUCH worse on Abbles OSX and people are lyrical about it there. First: if your account is originally an administrator, on Vista you will get a Accept-Deny dialog. If your account is not an admin, you will get a login prompt to introduce your credentials. On a makos, you will ALWAYS get the password thingy, which can be annoying after a while.
Then on Vista you can disable the UAC if you want (I don'y know why do you'd want to do that, but the options is there). On Abbles system, of course you don't have that option.
And believe me, I work daily on both systems and the sames rules apply when firing the UAC prompt.
About blue screen: this is a driver thingy. Vista was notoriously bad supported by 3rd part companies in the beginning. My Ericsson phone got support for Vista only last month! Fortunatly, this is slowly advancing as well.
Vista is certenly not perfect, there are a lot of things that need to be improved, but actually it's not THAT bad, like having a broken VSS^H^H^HTimeMachine or that it looses file when copying to the network like Leopard does.
So they are having dificulties converting users from XP to Vista? And they are laughing all the way to the bank.
OTOH, people and enterprises are slowly but sure upgrading to vista. The university where I work just took the step and upgraded 25 computer labs (30 computers each) from XP to Vista. Our departments are now slowly migrating as well. There is no rush... Why do we need to rush if XP was working great for us? If it ain't broken, don't fix it.
But now every new computer we buy, we get it with Vista. Seeing the users that have Vista just make the rest of us realize that Vista is not the horror that somepeople seem to be. Knowledge is the best medicine, so people see "oh, it works well", "oh, UAC was not THAT bad, it barely comes up when you work and don't install things"..,so slowly, more and more people are willing to upgrade. This is our case, and i think this is happening everywhere.
OTOH, if they are much cheaper it may be a good deal. Anybody have one of the latest Disney DVDs? To just start the film you need yo click 12 times. And no, pressing menu doesn't help.
First you need to see the Copyright notice (no skip), then you get 2 disney logos (the one with Ting and the Buena Vista one, no skip).
Then you have no less than 8 "Comming to DVD" Disney films. Thankfully those can be skipped, but not directly. For some reason, you need to press skipp 8 times. And no, "Menu" doesn't get you directly to the..ehmm...menu..
Sometimes i don't care to press skip and rather let my son watch the whole thing.. they win again..
And worst of all, those Disney VDs are in fact more expensive than those from other studios which have less ads.. Go figure
So i rather pay less for the same ads (I doub they'll have more than Disney anyway).
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Abble with their illimited greed and monopolistic actions are actually *involuntary* helping the situation.... Way to go!
A software is never safer than: * the number of people/resources trying to bring it down * Its popularity With the raise of both options, the number of found vulnerabilities will definitly increase.
The problem is not that they are not the same or even different charsets. The problem is that they are near enough for the naked eye to confuse a russian user. Lets say they have a real bank with the address www.baHk.py (baHk = bank in russian but I'm not using cyrillics here so use your imagination). A pisher could easily setup a domain www.bahk.py (using latins py = paraguay) and this should be very difficult for a naormal user to catch the error.... This is a phishers wet dream, actually.
1- Their aweful move of making it adware..., I mean... like we don't have enough ads on the sites...
2- Their aweful interface... first it was some kind of MDI abomination... Now they have a poor attempt to use tabs
3- Theit poor support for plug ins.
In the same article they kind of blame IE for their lack of success. They should rather look are Firefozz to see how to success by own merits and not by criying....
Vista is doing what it is supposed to do. Do you have unused memory? Well USE IT damn it! If you have unused memory at one point of time, Vista will just use it for whatever. Don't worry. It WILL get you back when an application needs it. Of course, uneducated people will say: LoOk aT tEh SuCk, thEy ArE tHe BlOaT!
And no, no "top seller" version has Linuzzz preinstalled in any shape and form.
Oh, I remember in the good old days, saying something like "I prefer Intel over AMD" on /. was like saying I prefer Windows over Linuzzz. You could get infinitley moderated down and a lot of irated comments would just waiting to flame you... Oh, those were the times...
But no, I actually dislike the Abble way very much (from their dumbed down telettuby user interface to their market practices). I have the right to say what i think like anybody else, even if it is politically incorrect...
You need to realize that TODAY there are no patents on the EU. But what if tomorrow the EU parlament aproves them? How could MS posibly survive the MILLION and MILLIONS os sharks then? Or do who do you think those sharks will attack first? MS or MyLitleAnnonymousShop.com?
And then people bash MS when they patent something. How can one of the richest companies in the world defend theyselves from thoses sharks? You NEED to patent everything you have if you don't want to open your pocked every week. Defensive patents are a necesity these days.
There... thank me later
I agree with those who say tha PD ilimitated freedom can generate chaos, but if you REALLY care about freedom, if you really want about your code being used without limitations and with full potential and without the ego of being recognised as the author, etc. PD is the ONLY way to go. Compare this to those millioners that give millios to charity and report to the press (GPL). or those who you never lknow about their donations (PD). It's actually about ego. Do you care about your rights? No? You only care about your code really contributing to the humanity? Only PD can help.
Another question is about that some countries don't recognise PD as a legal license. I know some people that actually have kind of bypased that issue by realising some code COMPLETLY anonymously. That way there is NOONE who holds the copyright. Believeme, owr lawyers here at out university had some issues with such a code and they didn't even know how to proceed. The concept of property is the base of our societies, so PD kind of confuses our poor heads...
This is NOT about health problems (tumors, camncer, etc) which, even if there are some theories, there is NOTHING definitively proved. The prolem is more of a technical nature. The number of frequencies, interferences, garbage signals, etc is nowdays alarming.
And there are also theories that say that this chaos is contributing to the global warming, but this is also debatable. Anyway, if you compare our planet today, this chaotic sea of signals is a BIG change from the "clean planet" we had 200 years back in the past.
Actually, using IE7 on Vista in it's DEFAULT sandboxed mode will protect you from almost every 3rd party plugin problem.... So you ARE partially right. I use it my self IE7 sandoxed on Vista and have no intentions to change to whatever...
The key difference between Japanese and German maglev trains is that the Japanese trains use super-cooled, superconducting electromagnets. This kind of electromagnet can conduct electricity even after the power supply has been shut off. In the EMS system, which uses standard electromagnets, the coils only conduct electricity when a power supply is present. By chilling the coils at frigid temperatures, Japan's system saves energy.
Another difference between the systems is that the Japanese trains levitate nearly 10 cm above the guideway. One potential drawback in using the EDS system is that maglev trains must roll on rubber tires until they reach a liftoff speed of about 100 kph. Japanese engineers say the wheels are an advantage if a power failure caused a shutdown of the system. Germany's Transrapid train is equipped with an emergency battery power supply.
Anyway, this is a very new technology, so there is A LOT place for innovation here.
Well, have half a brain and explain me (AC or not) what did I make up in my post?
What i am in disagreement with you is when you say that opeople should turn to macOs... when (especially Leopard) have a LOT more of SERIOUS problems (like magically disapearing files when copying to a network drive, broken and slow Time machine, a lot of rought edges overall, barely working firewall, bad implemented UAC as well, etc). This is the biggest problem here : people (not only you), seem to aprove even bigger flaws on other systems (like the incredible imperfect macOS) and seem to bash even harder Vista for the minimal thing...
I am the first one to tell you that Vista need a LOT of work, but hey, i at leat try to see it in perspective... Well, here we go, another "troll" or "flamebait" moderated post.. oh well, don't care.
One man's wet dream is other man's nightmare.
Is the new mandriva a failure? or Ubuntu because those guys are not upgrading? No. An OS is not a peace of meat with a caducity date.... Use it, and when and IF you need something else, then upgrade. Until then... I'm still using my 2002 palm pilot.
People seem to bitch a lot about UAC in Vista but it's MUCH worse on Abbles OSX and people are lyrical about it there. First: if your account is originally an administrator, on Vista you will get a Accept-Deny dialog. If your account is not an admin, you will get a login prompt to introduce your credentials. On a makos, you will ALWAYS get the password thingy, which can be annoying after a while.
Then on Vista you can disable the UAC if you want (I don'y know why do you'd want to do that, but the options is there). On Abbles system, of course you don't have that option.
And believe me, I work daily on both systems and the sames rules apply when firing the UAC prompt.
About blue screen: this is a driver thingy. Vista was notoriously bad supported by 3rd part companies in the beginning. My Ericsson phone got support for Vista only last month! Fortunatly, this is slowly advancing as well.
Vista is certenly not perfect, there are a lot of things that need to be improved, but actually it's not THAT bad, like having a broken VSS^H^H^HTimeMachine or that it looses file when copying to the network like Leopard does.
OTOH, people and enterprises are slowly but sure upgrading to vista. The university where I work just took the step and upgraded 25 computer labs (30 computers each) from XP to Vista. Our departments are now slowly migrating as well. There is no rush... Why do we need to rush if XP was working great for us? If it ain't broken, don't fix it.
But now every new computer we buy, we get it with Vista. Seeing the users that have Vista just make the rest of us realize that Vista is not the horror that somepeople seem to be. Knowledge is the best medicine, so people see "oh, it works well", "oh, UAC was not THAT bad, it barely comes up when you work and don't install things"..,so slowly, more and more people are willing to upgrade. This is our case, and i think this is happening everywhere.
First you need to see the Copyright notice (no skip), then you get 2 disney logos (the one with Ting and the Buena Vista one, no skip).
Then you have no less than 8 "Comming to DVD" Disney films. Thankfully those can be skipped, but not directly. For some reason, you need to press skipp 8 times. And no, "Menu" doesn't get you directly to the ..ehmm...menu..
Sometimes i don't care to press skip and rather let my son watch the whole thing.. they win again..
And worst of all, those Disney VDs are in fact more expensive than those from other studios which have less ads.. Go figure
So i rather pay less for the same ads (I doub they'll have more than Disney anyway).