Would someone please search the Sudan desert for alien spores that will begin taking over human bodies if we don't kill them now while they are helpless?
I am one of the developers working on javascript support in VS. I am working very closely with jquery support. Our goal is to get as many developers as possible using our tools. That means supporting libraries that web developers want to use.
I think the grandmother who has been there for 12 years represents Windows 95. She is old. People don't pay much attention to her, but somehow she gets a lot done.
Windows XP is the giraffe that has been in the family for 6 years. The family accuses Bill of taking it away. In reality he didn't take it away and was framed by someone else.
The pool has Bill wanting features that the pool just doesn't have.
I'm not sure what the neighbor's broken car represents.
It might raise some uncomfortable questions for creationists. There is little that science can do to shake the faith of those of us who believe in God and study science.
Tricky, uncomfortable and assumption-challenging questions arising from science are to be considered a success. Again... very little to do with theology.
Are you complaining because Microsoft hired people to do work? You know, the corporate charter doesn't create anything itself. It is all people doing the actual work.
erm... No, I meant the former. See a tenet is a meme and in the post-sigularity world is likely to be a sentient meme living in a society of other sentient memes themselves forming a theoretic collective. These memetic lifeforms actually live inside the theory and thus the tenaets of the theory are actually tenants in the theory.
One tenant of the technological singularity is that we are completely unequipped to predict what the other side will look like. Our pre-cooking, small brain energy ancestors would certainly be unequipped to predict today's world.
Not every point along the exponential curve is deemed a singularity, it's just part of the process of accelerating returns (use advance X as a stepping stone to create advance Y, and do so in less time than it took you to get to X. Lather, rinse, repeat. faster and faster).
Expoential curves look the same no matter the scale at which you look at them. Every point is growing at the same rate. The singularity occurs on the intelligence curve when it passes us and, from our perspective, looks like the hockey stick. But from the point of view of, say, a wolf, that hockey stick part of the curve was hit a long time ago.
I wrote to my representatives in Congress about the ever lengthening copyright term. The response was that there are copyrighted materials that are still bringing in lots of money to the US economy from overseas. If we allow those copyrights to expire, we will signficantly increase our trade deficit.
If it's my computer, I should be able to put whatever on it I want.
I agree with that.
And in order to do that while still having the system to ensure that no one else can put stuff on there without my permission, I need to be able to sign what I put on and have that signature accepted.
That seems more difficult to me. If you are signing on the machine which will run the signed software, how does the system know it is you running the signing commands and not attacking software?
I think there is a business plan there -- especially for open source/free software. Be a trusted entity that will compile, sign, and delivery binaries for the end user. Building that trust is difficult, but I bet one of the major distributions, like Red Hat, could do it.
Although now that I've considered it I am sure Microsoft had already considered that and determined that no one would be interested in that service at the price they would need to charge. Still, that doesn't mean that another company wouldn't be able to do it profitably at a smaller scale than Microsoft would feel compelled to do.
Since Microsoft does not provide for that, I must conclude there is more reason than you seem to be aware of.
That is certainly possible, but I doubt it. I would find it much more likely that the decision was made to prevent the millions of clueless users from opening their system to attack. It gets in the way of knowledgable users, but that tradeoff was deemed acceptable. But I don't really know for sure.
Secrets leak out of Microsoft like a sieve. There is no way there are nefarious plans afoot with any meaningful level of development resources without evidence of it getting out.
Trusted computing is all about allowing vendors like microsoft to trust the computer to work in thier partners interests rather than the users.
That is not the attitude I've seen inside Microsoft. The goal is to allow you to trust that your computer has not been compromised by a third party. Does your system have a rootkit installed on it? How do you know?
I have no clue which is better from either a subjective-what-the-marketplace-needs or a personal what-you-want perspective.
Does TrueCrypt enforce a chain of trust down to the hardware? Under what scenarios could an attacker get a hold of your encryption key and access your data?
Is the BitLocker chain of trust really secure?
These are questions for which I do not know the answer.
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A post above comments that "over 100,000 laptops were "lost or stolen" within the realm of airline travel".
If only 300 people have been caught stealing then on average it takes 33 laptops to be caught or there are a lot more thieves who haven't been caught.
Using a simple bias from the article that the average thief steals 31 laptops, then that number might not be too far off.
But if this is a particularly egregious instance then there are still a lot of thieves in the TSA's employment.
Would someone please search the Sudan desert for alien spores that will begin taking over human bodies if we don't kill them now while they are helpless?
erm... that reply wasn't me.
I don't agree that non-open-source software is evil.
I do believe that creating value for others is good. I also believe that I deserve a share of the value I create as a reward.
I respect your right to give away all of the value that you create. However, that does not compel me to do the same.
I am one of the developers working on javascript support in VS. I am working very closely with jquery support. Our goal is to get as many developers as possible using our tools. That means supporting libraries that web developers want to use.
3) Idiots think they will win big.
When playing poker, we call those people ATM's.
I am pretty sure the discussing that would be a violation of NDA.
They were framed!
Windows have frames.
Giraffes have long necks.
Ergo: The giraffe is Windows XP.
I think the grandmother who has been there for 12 years represents Windows 95. She is old. People don't pay much attention to her, but somehow she gets a lot done.
Windows XP is the giraffe that has been in the family for 6 years. The family accuses Bill of taking it away. In reality he didn't take it away and was framed by someone else.
The pool has Bill wanting features that the pool just doesn't have.
I'm not sure what the neighbor's broken car represents.
Just wait until you figure out that you are just one aspect of God. You're really going to hate that.
Ever read the book of Job?
It might raise some uncomfortable questions for creationists. There is little that science can do to shake the faith of those of us who believe in God and study science.
Tricky, uncomfortable and assumption-challenging questions arising from science are to be considered a success. Again... very little to do with theology.
Are you complaining because Microsoft hired people to do work? You know, the corporate charter doesn't create anything itself. It is all people doing the actual work.
Microsoft: It's made of people!
Duh.
Thank you.
erm... No, I meant the former. See a tenet is a meme and in the post-sigularity world is likely to be a sentient meme living in a society of other sentient memes themselves forming a theoretic collective. These memetic lifeforms actually live inside the theory and thus the tenaets of the theory are actually tenants in the theory.
One tenant of the technological singularity is that we are completely unequipped to predict what the other side will look like. Our pre-cooking, small brain energy ancestors would certainly be unequipped to predict today's world.
I like your analogy.
Expoential curves look the same no matter the scale at which you look at them. Every point is growing at the same rate. The singularity occurs on the intelligence curve when it passes us and, from our perspective, looks like the hockey stick. But from the point of view of, say, a wolf, that hockey stick part of the curve was hit a long time ago.
I wrote to my representatives in Congress about the ever lengthening copyright term. The response was that there are copyrighted materials that are still bringing in lots of money to the US economy from overseas. If we allow those copyrights to expire, we will signficantly increase our trade deficit.
Interesting. Obviously, I don't know what I'm talking about then. What is the purpose of bitlocker requiring TPM?
The encrypted signature is what makes this difficult.
What you want is to sign the bootloader with some other encryption key that you have told Vista is trusted.
The question is, how do you tell Vista that a signature is to be trusted?
I agree with that.
That seems more difficult to me. If you are signing on the machine which will run the signed software, how does the system know it is you running the signing commands and not attacking software?
I think there is a business plan there -- especially for open source/free software. Be a trusted entity that will compile, sign, and delivery binaries for the end user. Building that trust is difficult, but I bet one of the major distributions, like Red Hat, could do it.
Although now that I've considered it I am sure Microsoft had already considered that and determined that no one would be interested in that service at the price they would need to charge. Still, that doesn't mean that another company wouldn't be able to do it profitably at a smaller scale than Microsoft would feel compelled to do.
That is certainly possible, but I doubt it. I would find it much more likely that the decision was made to prevent the millions of clueless users from opening their system to attack. It gets in the way of knowledgable users, but that tradeoff was deemed acceptable. But I don't really know for sure.
Secrets leak out of Microsoft like a sieve. There is no way there are nefarious plans afoot with any meaningful level of development resources without evidence of it getting out.
That is not the attitude I've seen inside Microsoft. The goal is to allow you to trust that your computer has not been compromised by a third party. Does your system have a rootkit installed on it? How do you know?
Are you saying that the MBR's design contraints make it impossible to be swapped out by an attacker with another binary that compromises your system?
And if TrueCrypt does interface with TPM then it is going to run into similar issues as BitLocker.
How do you know that the bootloader you trust is the bootloader that is actually running?
If the market wants that then it will happen. Keep up the efforts to educate people. It is possible to change market sentiment.
I have no clue which is better from either a subjective-what-the-marketplace-needs or a personal what-you-want perspective.
Does TrueCrypt enforce a chain of trust down to the hardware? Under what scenarios could an attacker get a hold of your encryption key and access your data?
Is the BitLocker chain of trust really secure?
These are questions for which I do not know the answer.