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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 01 2012 @ 11:00 AM EDT |
In 2011, the US government rolled out its "International Strategy for Cyberspace," which
reminded us that "interconnected networks link nations more closely, so an
attack on one nation’s networks may have impact far beyond its borders." An in-depth report today from the New York
Times confirms the truth of that statement as it finally lays bare the
history and development of the Stuxnet virus—and how it
accidentally escaped from the Iranian nuclear facility that was its
target.
The article is adapted from journalist David Sanger's forthcoming
book, Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and Surprising Use of
American Power, and it confirms that both the US and Israeli governments
developed and deployed Stuxnet.
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- slippery path - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 01 2012 @ 02:51 PM EDT
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 01 2012 @ 11:25 AM EDT |
I was indeed happy to read the result last night (UK time) but unfortunately
I then read about the secure boot problem in Fedora 18 and the possibility that
the only recourse would be paying $99 to Verisign/M$ for the privilege
to boot linux on a UEFI BIOS laptop in a couple of years time.
Matthew Garrett's difficult
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 01 2012 @ 06:23 PM EDT |
Can't tell if M$ or Oracle/florian/etc.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/google-accuses-microsoft-nokia-of-patent-trolling/
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| Authored by: complex_number on Saturday, June 02 2012 @ 05:26 AM EDT |
If we take it for granted that Microsoft wants us to love and cherish 'metro'
apps then where is their grand plan to ley us develop all this wonderful
software.
Lets look at Apple and the iPhone/iPad as an example.
The IDE is downloadable and works within OSX alongside your existing apps.
Then there is Android.
Much the same as Apple in that the IDE runs alongside the normal OS and its
apps.
Now lets look at Microsoft and Metro.
To put it bluntly, Metro is right there in your face. The Start menu has gone.
Yes you can find your old applications and either pin them to the taskbar or
make a shortcut as with Windows 7 but they have forgeotten about those seldom
used but essential applications that come with many packages even thos sold by
Microsoft itself. These are the ones that are burried inside some nexted menu
list.
I'm setting up a Server 2012 VM at the moment so I can't comment on that but it
seems to me that they have gone stark raving mad, bonkers or wharever. Do they
not consider ease of use? Their new paradym might be easy for Metro Apps but
what about the gazillion that are not metroised. They obviously don't deature on
their radar at all. Basically, that are saying 'Metro or nothing'. Rather IMHO
'Metro or bust'.
Why did they not allow a release where Metro and the old Start Menu and even
Classic worked alongside each other. This would ease the user community into the
new 'metroised' style of working but no, it is all or nothing.
Obviously the MS fanboi's are going to love this. The have been high on the MS
koolaid since Gates said 'The WOW starts now' with Vista.
The journos will get down on their knees and thank Mr Balmer ever so kindly for
giving them hundreds in for thoudands of column inches to spout forth on the
wonders of Metro but the rest of us will go 'Meh' and carry on with Windows 7.
I fully suggest that you start stockpiling Windows 7 and Server 2008 licenses
while you can and think very seriously about selling any MS shares you might
own. This is not investment advice but there is a chance that MS shares could
tank once this is sold to consumers and they start going [redacted].
Sadly, my current employer has bought heavily onto the .NET mantra. As it stands
our core product will become unusable in 6 months time. It won't work on Windows
8 Full Stop. I suspect that we are not going to be alone here.
Many companies will have to ask themselves the question,
'Is Microsoft our Runtime platform of choice'. I suspect that many will say
nope. Sadly, they might decide to run smack into the other train wreck (IMHO)
called Ubuntu.
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Ubuntu & 'apt-get' are not the answer to Life, The Universe & Everything which
is of course, "42" or is it 1.618?
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 02 2012 @ 10:51 AM EDT |
I am in awe of how Judge Alsup approched this case.
No matter how he ruled, it was the way he worked the case that was most
impressive, where the Socratic Method was in play every day in the court room
(and before).
Given his education.
And his background as a programmer too (tech educated).
Then, whoever is in the office of President (and has to nominate to fill a
Supreme Court slot)? Then, either party who is holding the job of selecting
the next Supreme Court Justice, should look hard at this judge.
We really need somone of his talent on the highest court.
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| Authored by: IMANAL_TOO on Saturday, June 02 2012 @ 04:03 PM EDT |
From AOL 1996 to Windows 8 2012...
A very
illustrative image is spreading like
wildfire.
Windows 8 is turning into the worst anachronism and
atavism of the millennium so far.
This may be good, however. For
Linux, Google (Android), and Apple.
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IMANAL
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