Posts by dogged 4790 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Nov 2009
> And this is where guys like the readership of these esteemed pages come into it. Amongst plenty of others.
In theory.
In practice, what you get is a whole lot of people shouting about how the code they run is safe because it's reviewed by millions whereas actually, none of them have reviewed it and odds are pretty high that nobody else has either.
No, I'm a debian user who writes software for several platforms (mainly C and C++) and recognizes that OS evangelism is ultimately self-harming and makes everyone who joins in stupid.
And I am most definitely not a fan of Microsoft's Escher-inspired licensing system.
It doesn't appreciably except for the timing. When the USA PATRIOT act (epic naming, guys, not cheesy at all) was introduced pretty much all of America was convinced that Osama bin Laden was going to fly a 747 into their personal trailer with all their guns in it the within the next 45 minutes so SIGINT and law enforcement could ask for anything at all and get it.
None of the big IT players had any chance against that and Google were probably hoping to be awarded the contract since that's their business model anyway.
Things are a little different now.
> The most likely outcome for an influx of Muslims is "no go" zones, elevated rape statistics etc etc.
That's bullshit. Hundreds of thousands of Muslims peacefully integrated in the UK and you come out with that kind of crap?
No wonder ISIS are winning, You've already surrendered.
> Dread Pirate Roberts would probably love to post a rebuttal -
Which is an excellent example of the FBI knowing exactly what they were looking for before they even started looking, not to mention some extremely useful phrases to run against the encryption.
Paranoia is healthy in this day and age but it's better when you back it up with some research.
@Matt - it's not really. Yes, it can (under some circumstances) be trivial for the Five Eyes to locate Tor endpoints and traffic analysis can tell you which node is up or down. This accompanied by seemingly innocuous items like power usage (smart meters, anyone?) can help to locate the exact source machine but, and this is important, only if you know who you're looking for and what you're looking at before you start.
TOR can be broken but it's useless for fishing expeditions.
> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-449887/Iran-hostage-Mr-Bean-branded-disgraceful-mother.html
I dunno about that, you'd have to ask Lewis Page. I was never Navy.
However, 1) shame on you for linking the Daily Fail as evidence of anything ever and 2) yes, she does seem like a disgraceful mother, abandoning her kid for her sister to raise and then slagging him off publicly in a shitty excuse for a newspaper.
> Back in the day, when a business was discovered by MS to possess insufficient licences, they were granted a period of time to "get legal"
That hasn't changed. I think it's about six months, as a general thing. I agree with the study that licensing on many MS products is not so much byzantine as an outright tribute to MC Escher (no kids, that's not a rapper) - especially those products which no offer a hosted Azure alternative.
I can't help wondering whether that's deliberate.
> After quickly looking at your posts I'd say you tend to be combative and insulting to other view points, hence the downvotes.
Absolutely, but some days you post a thing and then notice that you have a single solitary downvote on everything you've said for the last week, whether it was combative and insulting or not.
> ."oh, I don't want to buy an iPad for junior, I just saw an article that it is on the way out and everyone is getting Microsoft's tablet!"
But nobody's reporting this except the Reg. Not even Ars Technica (which belongs to the same group as the company that did the survey). Do normal punters read the Reg?
No. They don't.
I await you claiming that the Register have been bribed by MS.
> Nice try but an abject fail. Boss has Iphone, you have shit windows phone. Boss has Mac and Ipad, you have fart bang crash prone Windows and no slate.
Boss only does email and even then, secretary prints it all out for him. You have actual productivity software.
It doesn't run on a Mac but then, what does?
> Yep, more units sold at cut down prices or even just given away.
Citation needed because if you're giving away a SP3 or SP4, I'll take it.
I don't need it but hey, you don't want it (presumably for religious reasons) so I'll happily take a pice of shiny new tech off your hands.
@Mikel - actually, the Zune was pretty beloved (especially the HD, as I recall) but only by about 100 people since there were only about 100 available for sale and then only in the US. Absolute marketing incompetence rather than a poor product.
It certainly sounded better than an iPod.
Then again, very little sounds quite as poor as an iPod.
> So what is the real reason why us here in Blighty can't get our hands on a Surface book for another three months?
No idea. Either distribution supply lines or maybe they can't work out how to send emails without the @ over the 2.
I have to say though, I'd never import a laptop (or buy a Macbook) purely because I don't want to have to dick around with a US keyboard layout.
EDIT - and the Kin was telecoms carrier-specific so at least they had a reason for that. No reason at all for the Zune other than utter incompetence or deliberate self-sabotage.
> dogma
I see what you did there.
> That is probably based on your dogma that iPad (with or without keyboard) cannot possibly be a productivity device.
Not at all, which is why (above) I referred to the iPad Pro as a "high end productivity device".
Do try to pay attention.
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