One way it can directly hurt other people is by allowing the computer running it to be exploited and turned into a node in a crap spewing botnet.
It also indirectly harms other users because while it maintains a considerable user share people either have to develop for it as a baseline (a way to degrade to this), ensure some sort of compatibility (read: essentially develop two applications), or limit development to the capabilities of IE6.
IE6 having the capacity to slow down the of HTML5 "revolution" scares me.
Windows XP is the worlds most widely deployed Desktop operating system. Because of its design, most users run as "Administrator" because that is the default, and it is a pain in the ass to do otherwise. UNIX was developed from the ground up as a multiuser operating system with a clearly defined separation of powers where running as a normal user is fine until you need root, at which point you can easily and temporarily gain privileges when you need them. (Vista has made inroads on this problem, but still has issues.) This means that when you download a file off the net, to install it you have to present a password, which forces the (intelligent) user to think about the repercussions of running code that you just downloaded from *somewhere*. Also, most UNIX-like operating systems (Linux, *BSD, and there is an implementation for OSX [but it isn't as widely used]) use some form of software repository system (apt, yum, ports, etc...) where there is a reasonable expectation that you are getting the 'legitimate' version of the software sans trojans. Honestly, I am having a hard time remembering the last time I needed to 'just download' a binary package since moving to Linux; sure there is the occasional./configure, make, make install that I have to go through, and sure there could be a trojan in the source, but again it is usually downloaded from mostly trusted repositories that have restrictions on who has commit access. In the Windows world you are forced to download binary packages and hope for the best (Is every rapidshare uploader of that application really out to help you?)
Building on a commitment to bring more people into the Convention experience than ever before, the Democratic National Convention Committee has taken a comprehensive approach to ensure the 2008 Democratic National Convention will be the most technologically-savvy event of its kind.
Really? If it were the "most technologically-savvy event" wouldn't it at least make an effort to support ALL operating systems, especially the one used mostly by the "technologically-savvy" people. It isn't a difficult feat to use technology which is supported by the three major OSes on the market. This isn't acceptable in this day and age. =/
The Golden Record isn't for future generations of the planet earth, but for extra terrestrials tens of thousands of years from now (it left our solar system in 2004). The purpose of these disks is to pass on some of our knowledge to future generations if there were to be global catastrophe, so if we were to put them in space it would have to be local space (no farther than the moon) so that they have a chance of finding it.
Which is why we all need to use encryption methods. If they see that someone is using encryption, using the "If you have nothing to hide" mentality they will assume that you do have something to hide, and you will become a viable target. If large amounts of people do this then we can protect our privacy by causing the watchers to spread themselves too thin.
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You mean you don't allocate memory to store your comments as strings?
60/60/24/7/52/10/10
One way it can directly hurt other people is by allowing the computer running it to be exploited and turned into a node in a crap spewing botnet.
It also indirectly harms other users because while it maintains a considerable user share people either have to develop for it as a baseline (a way to degrade to this), ensure some sort of compatibility (read: essentially develop two applications), or limit development to the capabilities of IE6.
IE6 having the capacity to slow down the of HTML5 "revolution" scares me.
Err, three astronauts died when faulty wiring ignited a 100% Oxygen environment while preparing for the Apollo 1 mission.
Windows XP is the worlds most widely deployed Desktop operating system. Because of its design, most users run as "Administrator" because that is the default, and it is a pain in the ass to do otherwise. UNIX was developed from the ground up as a multiuser operating system with a clearly defined separation of powers where running as a normal user is fine until you need root, at which point you can easily and temporarily gain privileges when you need them. (Vista has made inroads on this problem, but still has issues.) This means that when you download a file off the net, to install it you have to present a password, which forces the (intelligent) user to think about the repercussions of running code that you just downloaded from *somewhere*. Also, most UNIX-like operating systems (Linux, *BSD, and there is an implementation for OSX [but it isn't as widely used]) use some form of software repository system (apt, yum, ports, etc...) where there is a reasonable expectation that you are getting the 'legitimate' version of the software sans trojans. Honestly, I am having a hard time remembering the last time I needed to 'just download' a binary package since moving to Linux; sure there is the occasional ./configure, make, make install that I have to go through, and sure there could be a trojan in the source, but again it is usually downloaded from mostly trusted repositories that have restrictions on who has commit access. In the Windows world you are forced to download binary packages and hope for the best (Is every rapidshare uploader of that application really out to help you?)
I've no personal experience in the field, but I have heard good things about USB Snoop which is open source.
Really? If it were the "most technologically-savvy event" wouldn't it at least make an effort to support ALL operating systems, especially the one used mostly by the "technologically-savvy" people. It isn't a difficult feat to use technology which is supported by the three major OSes on the market. This isn't acceptable in this day and age. =/
0.009 1 Library of Congress = 10 Terabytes = ~0.009 Petabytes
The Golden Record isn't for future generations of the planet earth, but for extra terrestrials tens of thousands of years from now (it left our solar system in 2004). The purpose of these disks is to pass on some of our knowledge to future generations if there were to be global catastrophe, so if we were to put them in space it would have to be local space (no farther than the moon) so that they have a chance of finding it.
Which is why we all need to use encryption methods. If they see that someone is using encryption, using the "If you have nothing to hide" mentality they will assume that you do have something to hide, and you will become a viable target. If large amounts of people do this then we can protect our privacy by causing the watchers to spread themselves too thin.
yea, but it got closer (83/100)