Posts by oldcoder

Re: Re-inventing the wheel

More likely refitted with the grown-up features that git has.

Microsoft didn't get "lucky". Microsoft used unethical and illegal business practices to do that.

Re: OK, I give

You mean MICROSOFT doesn't care. and "As long as it makes sense for MICROSOFT it doesn't matter".

Re: certification

You left out part of the "mitigation".

The "under the table" payments to compensate for feeling bad about failures....

Re: Discounts ...

I understand the entire Surface range has already had a 28% drop in sales...

Not much left to "suffer".

Re: Dear gods...

You wouldn't use windows to try an test those designs... That is on on Linux.

And there are a number of aircraft design tools for Linux. Even from NASA.

You mean after having to PAY for yet another "development process"...

No profit for the customer.

So why should they give Microsoft more money?

Re: It's right in the EULA...

Can't reinstall 7. No new licenses. Can't use the old license either, no media and OEM Windows 7 is tied to the PC.

Re: Key Learning Point for the OSS Community: IP Ownership Governance

That also opens up the possibility that the project gets taken over... and taken proprietary.

NOT a good thing for the users or developers.

Re: We won't be living on alien planets.

I believe sintered rock tends to be inflexible and brittle.

Fine if you only want a little compression...

Not good under tension though.

That makes it inappropriate to use for colony use EXCEPT for interior small construction.

Re: Funniest Thing I've read today

No wonder so many of those Enterprise customers have security failures.

Re: Ads...ads...ads....

Windows already is malware.

So malware on malware?

Re: 5 level page tables

Flash would up to Adobe, not the kernel developers.

Re: Apples and Oranges

I believe he did hold a clearance. It most likely not top secret though, but secret.

Why, because as governer he is in some control over the local national guard. Thus how those units are dispatched is a secret level message, but has to be passed to the governor.

Thus access to "confidential material".

As for Clinton, the Department of States mail servers were known to already be compromised.

Specifically because it is Microsoft promoting a "benefit". They do it all the time.

And then threaten to sue anyway.

Re: 325 Million

And just how many of those haven't shown up in the hoovering from baby pictures and calls from parents showing off the little one to grandparents?

None?

Re: Devils and details.

Problem with Office365?

there is LibreOffice.

No contract to cause problems, no license fees...

That has nothing to do with the problem.

What you are talking about is BUILT to invade networks.

Since the device is doing what it was designed for, it can't be called "malware", and doesn't reflect at all on Android security.

It does reflect on the activity of the VENDOR of the device.

Re: Neat.

Microsoft already got rid of quality control. They got rid of standards decades ago.

No security (other than not taking the blame for failures), not even warranted for any purpose.

Re: Some flaws for sure

Yes you can.

At least until the block itself gets overwritten. Deletes in flash don't actually delete - it just puts the block in a queue to be erased, and allows operations to continue. Depending on the size of the device, the length of the queue - it can be quite a while before it actually is overwritten/erased.

I don't think the GPL code is at risk - it has already gone through courts.

Re: Sounds great - A project managers document

Right.... "dependencies of the construction of large buildings"... "identifying issues"...

Like PAYING BILLS?

Re: sanmigueelbeer

It doesn't seem any different than the Pentium FPU fiasco.

Same ducking of responsibility.

Oh well - Intel lost the power war, ARM won.

It might also explain why Intel quit making the Atom line.

Re: Chilling

As soon as it singled out a religion - it did.

As soon as it was a blanket ban - it did.

Re: Time for a Great Firewall

What was there to do?

The failure was U.S. Steel's for using insecure systems.

The only thing Obama could is say "Why did you do that?"...

Re: Voodoo

Did that once to a bill changer to get change for another soda.

The bill was rejected, but after the "take it or else", it went through just fine...

And the supervisors jaw dropped...

"Whats the matter? It worked didn't it?"

No problem at all.

Just don't use Windows.

Microsoft has NEVER been able to handle networking very well. It isn't designed for it.