Posts by Blane Bramble 256 publicly visible posts • joined 11 May 2007
Having dealt with a few penetration testing companies on behalf of some of our customers, they seem to largely rely on using the same OS tools that anyone else would use and provide a report that is simply the unfiltered output, including such gems as proposing an ssh server is insecure because it reports its version (hint: this is required for interoperation between servers and clients).
The problem is, by the time you've gone through GCSE's, A levels and university, the latest version of Office that is going to be used in the real world is likely to be as different to the one you learnt as OpenOffice or anything else is. Add to this the "parrot-style" tuition that often passes for computer literacy these days, and very few kids have the skills to use a word processor or a spreadsheet - instead they have a qualification for Word 20xx and Excel 20yy.
@AC 08:55:
"Those decisions are for the democratically elected government and the judicial system."
As I understand the US legal system, it is the exact opposite. The right to free speech is the right to NOT have the government make that decision.
Their right to free speech does not mean they can demand or expect that having pissed others off, those others are not allowed to drown out their speech.
Windows 8 System Requirments:
Processor: 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster with support for PAE, NX, and SSE2
So no 386's then.
PAE: Pentium Pro or newer
NX: Pentium 4/AMD64 or better
SSE2: P4/AMD64 or better
(from Wikipedia)
So, Windows 8 doesn't support 386, 486, Pentium, Pentium 2 or Pentium 3 architectures it seems, or any of the AMD equivalents.
Put up a dish and installed a Humax Foxsat box specifically for all the Olympics channels earlier this year. Bonus of being able to record the F1 in HD when not around to watch it (if I can avoid hearing the results!). Refuse to give money to Murdoch and Sky, even if it means missing live coverage of some races. As a bonus I have a horror channel to record plenty of crap movies!
DNS is supposed to be a hierarchy. The existing JANet name system was reversed (quite literally in this case) into DNS. Technically we should have a .gb name space, but .uk was preferred against the relevant standard. Nominet did the right thing and used the hierarchy to set up a sensible name space, and manage it in a way that is genuinely better than any other country registry that I am aware of. Now they seem to want to throw that all away.
You seem to be misunderstanding modern trading. The point is to pay yourself huge amounts of money for a high-pressure, high-risk job, and then ensure that you stack the system so that someone else (preferably a tax payer) takes that risk. Trebles and Bollinger all round!
The examples you have given are either games consoles or appliance electronics (in the case of blu-ray). They are designed for a single purpose, and subsidised by the manufacturer (in the case of games consoles), with a levy on the software supporting this subsidisation.
The iPhone is not subsidised by Apple (in the UK it is usually subsidised by the supplying Network provider, again supported by income from your monthly contract), and is designed to run applications. It is pushed as a device that "has an app for that". However, if "that" does not fit in with Apples view of how the iPhone should be, it simply will not be approved.
How many other "smart" phone platforms can you mention where the owner of the device is not the one to say what applications they can use on it?
How many other computer platforms (and we have been repeatedly told that a smart phone is a portable computing device) can you mention where the owner of the device is not the one to say what applications they can use on it?
Now do you begin to understand?
Incorrect. Windows 3 had co-operative multi-tasking, and task switches were performed when you relinquished control by polling the message queue for your application - as long as your application was processing messages, tasks would be switched correctly. If you decided to sit in a loop and not poll the Windows message queue, you would lock up the system.
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