Posts by TheVogon

Re: In 2 - 10 years, Microsoft is going to gobble Cyanogen

I saw an article this week on WindowsLatest which stated that Windows Mobile devs earn on average twice the income of Android devs and 50% more than IOS devs. So whilst the platform might not be exactly top of the pops, there are some good financial reasons to consider skilling up on it!

"In 2 - 10 years, Microsoft is going to gobble Cyanogen "

Only if it annoys Google - and can add revenue...

Re: Can it run Windows 10 IOT?

"Would anybody actually care if it could?"

Lots of people like me would - for the hundreds of millions familiar with Windows and for the millions who are familiar with developing in Visual Studio it's a neat automation / prototyping solution. (Windows IOT and associated tools are free to use). Above all it gives you more choice versus other development options.

After some searching I found that Eben Upton is quoted as saying that the Pi3 can likely run a full version of Windows, so W10 IOT on Pi3 is likely a no brainer, assuming Microsoft want to...

"Upton says the Pi 3 is technically capable of running a full version of Windows - pointing to the similarities of the board's underlying hardware architecture to that of the original Surface RT tablets, which ran a version of Windows 8."

Can it run Windows 10 IOT? Presumably the hardware is supported?

Re: Data

"The UK has African levels of corruption"

Nope - not even close: See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index

and http://www.worldaudit.org/corruption.htm

Re: Wanna stop kids looking at porn?

"such as pigs?"

Debbie does Wilber?

Re: Wanna stop kids looking at porn?

"the fictional rubbish that makes up porn fantasies."

Will it work for Barbara Cartland readers too then?

Re: Seems like banks are going to have to beef up at last

"The Vogon's list is stupid dick-waving"

If you like, but to correct other "stupid dick waving" claiming that Linux was great because there were no solutions in this space on Windows...

Ooops at another big hole in GLIBC - less than a year after the GHOST one! So much for those Linux security mitigations...

Re: Seems like banks are going to have to beef up at last

"But applications on Linux definitely have access (and more often than not, actually use) many more technologies for limiting the damage from those bugs"

Nope - Windows has more native technology options in that space:

Attack Surface Reduction (ASR)

Export Address Table Filtering (EAF+)

Data Execution Prevention (DEP)

Structured Execution Handling Overwrite Protection (SEHOP)

NullPage

Heapspray Allocation

Export Address Table Filtering (EAF)

Mandatory Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR)

Bottom Up ASLR

Load Library Check

Memory Protection Check

Caller Checks

Simulate Execution Flow

Stack Pivot

Control Flow Guard

Protected Processes

Untrusted fonts

Secure Boot

Measured Boot

Virtualization-based security / Hypervisor enforced code integrity

Device Guard

Credential Guard

App Locker

"One of the issues with having Office 365 is that you don't get Ace installed on your PC"

No, the issue is that the Office 365 client install by default runs in a virtualised container (what they refer to as Click-To-Run). Think like Docker if you are from an Open Source background, but this is based on something called App-V (originally SoftGrid) which is a rather more mature and sophisticated solution (for instance it has install on demand and application streaming technology - so it can start running before installation has completed!) and is far more widely adopted - although you might not be aware of it!

Hence you need to understand and manage connectivity to applications outside of that CTR container accordingly. You do not have to install Office 365 as a CTR app if you don't want to - you can still install it using an MSI option.

Re: 2013 / 2016 / 365 for small businesses

"most of my customers want to buy a license per pc not rent it."

Most enterprise and corporate customers (which is where the big money is) would much rather rent software.

Re: Remind me why Linux is more secure again?

"That sounds a very Windows-esque vulnerability."

It sounds a very Android like vulnerability to me...

"because "I've lost five years worth of photographs of my children / cat"

Reset My PC leaves the data intact.

"My experience too is that users just carry on blithely using the PC, however slow and awful it gets. Until their friend who can deal this thing is round, then ask for help."

Quite true historically - but now all they need to do is learn to select the "Reset my PC" option under Settings / Update & Security / Recovery...

Re: False premise leads to false results

"the only way to reduce their population growth is to make them better off."

Or not spend billions of our aid budget on keeping them alive in countries already populated well beyond what local resources can consistently support.

Re: False premise leads to false results

"Nobody but the cult of absolute disbeliever understand that the world has gone through many changes."

But most of them not caused by mankind over a few decades.

"but calling 6 every time a dice rolls will eventually land on the right answer too."

That's a good example of what the deniers are doing citing "18 years" of no warming - natural variation in the short term will always provide windows where you can pretend your chosen outcome is happening by cherry picking time ranges.

However, the longer term your data set versus the effect you are measuring, the less likely statistical anomalies are versus a long term trend...See for instance https://crudata.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/temperature/

Re: False premise leads to false results

"none of the climate scientists predicted the pause, which has lasted for 18 years an 8 months now."

I think you are a bit out of date - there is no 'pause': See http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/media/image/d/2/hadcrut4_graph_small.jpg

Not to mention that 2016 is expected for the third year in a row to be the warmest on record: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/news/releases/archive/2015/global-temperature

Re: False premise leads to false results

"You really need to educate yourself on the total GHG effect in the atmosphere versus the delta of human GHG emissions."

Yes, done that in much detail. The impact of human emissions of CO2 are well known, anyway. e.g. long term warming of the planet.

"Thermogeddon is not going to happen."

Depends what you mean by 'Thermogeddon'. The planet is likely going to continue getting warmer as a direct consequence of increased level of human caused CO2 emissions. A catastrophic runaway impact as I would infer from your term is apparently quite possible. For instance what happens when the permafrost melts? Or the clathrates?

See http://www.wunderground.com/resources/climate/melting_permafrost.asp

and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate_gun_hypothesis

"What is more likely to happen is that idiot governments will listen to idiot pseudo-scientists "

Seems to be a particularly American thing, but yes there is apparently a risk of ignoring the problem - largely driven by a massive funding effort by those with vested interested (like fossil fuel companies) to create the illusion of an on-going scientific debate where none really exists.

Re: False premise leads to false results

Also of note for sea level rise - 20% of it has been offset by increased retention of water on land - see:

http://spacecoastdaily.com/2016/02/study-nasa-satellite-shows-rising-seas-slowed-by-increasing-water-on-land/

Re: False premise leads to false results

"it took many years to establish a trend"

But only a few years in this case to demonstrate that something is not "stable" but is subject to significant variation.

Trends like AGW though do indeed take many years to take us to the current point of lack of credible scientific doubt.

Re: False premise leads to false results

""Accelerating sea level rises" - not happening anywhere in the real world."

Sure - so those island states that are gradually sinking benieth the waves are imagining it? Or they are not "the real world"?

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_level_rise#/media/File:Trends_in_global_average_absolute_sea_level,_1880-2013.png

Re: False premise leads to false results

"Anyone quoting the 97% merely demonstrates they are incapable of independent thought "

Anyone quoting incorrectly as 97% of climate scientists maybe. The actual consensus was 97% of peer reviewed climate science papers. See the source I posted.

That global warming is happening and that man is at least a significiant cause hasn't been in any credible doubt for at least a decade now. The things really in question are how bad is it going to get, in what time scale, versus what atmospheric levels of CO2 as we don't know how accurate the models are, and what natural amplification or mitigation effects might exist that we don't yet know about?

Re: A suggestion for those worried about all that extra time, fuel, CO2, ...

"runway 5 at Schipol is in a different postcode!"

As a UK postcode is ~25 houses, that's not saying much.

Re: False premise leads to false results

"I won't believe until I see some some actual evidence"

Like the accelerating year on year rise in sea levels for instance?

Re: False premise leads to false results

"temperatures are currently relatively stable"

You must have missed the last 2 years being in turn the warmest since records began?

Re: False premise leads to false results

"The 97% figure is one of the things that makes me think 'hmmm'."

It comes from here: http://skepticalscience.com/97-percent-consensus-cook-et-al-2013.html

Re: False premise leads to false results

"as it has for 40 years according to the instruments in space"

Nope. The satellite data shows the same very clear long term warming trend as the surface data. See http://woodfortrees.org/plot/rss

"Testing with live data is unlawful in the UK, isn't it?"

Why would that be illegal?