Prefaced by this gem:
Of course, there is also the chance "Satoshi Nakamoto" is a pseudonym, but that raises the question why someone who wishes to remain anonymous would choose such a distinctive name.
But not the question why someone who wished to remain anonymous would chose his own name.
Exactly! Not even a moron would use their own name to conceal their identity.
No, it means Microsoft shareholders should buy some Google stock...
It actually means Ballmer has left the building, and reality is staring them in the face. They've spent too much time fucking themselves. And now it don't feel so good.
LOL, Microsoft can't even give Windows Phone away. Just like Linux on the desktop.
(What, you were expecting your prejudices to be catered to? Too bad.)
Why would MS event want to give LInux on the desktop away? Its already "Free". They'd probably fuck it up anyway.
Agree. And then there is the integrated Bing, Outlook.com, inferior maps, and all the other "goodies" that aren't as good as the Google services you get on a $50 PAYGO Android phone.
Just wondering if I could plug it into my Linux desktop, and copy files to/from easily or do I have to play for MS crapware to fully use. Just wondering, don't know, but that's part of the appeal for android for me, its pretty platform neutral. Including development tools.
Great performance on lesser hardware. Windows Phone is more responsive on comparable hardware than Android or iOS. If it's free to license, I think you'll see Windows Phone make a good run at the lower-end phone market......it already does fairly well there in Europe, we'll see what this does for their position in India.
Yea, but a lot of people have tried MS products. Why would they then buy a phone from them when there is low cost options?
We turn off comments and pingbacks because of just the pure amount of spam we were constantly dealing with on a regular basis. I agree this looks like a Wordpress flaw not an xml-rpc issue drupal or dotnetnuke are not having the same issue on there platforms.
That's probably because the ratio of dotnetnuke blogs with pingbacks enabled vs wordpress blogs with pingback enabled is a *illion to 1 or so. And if you were trying to use an amplification technique, dotnetnuke blogs probably isn't a good choice. You either use pingbacks or not. I don't believe there is a way to say "hey this is a good pingback from random stranger and this other one from random stranger2 over here is for malicious purposes". And probably one reason you don't want something to get too popular. Then it becomes a vehicle for stuff just because of its popularity. I host quite a few wordpress sites, and haven't seen any unusual traffic, so they are probably targeting large shared hosting operations with lots of WP sites.
The post alludes to a flaw in xml-rpc, but it seems to me this is a Wordpress-exclusive vulnerability being reported on today. Drupal uses xml-rpc for example, and all is quiet for those folks it seems.
I know a fair amount of work has been spent beefing up Drupal's xml-rpc implementation, so maybe that's working now, whereas the implementation used by Wordpress is vulnerable and failing. TFA is a little light on details as to the technical source being manipulated and abused.
Drupal probably does not do pingbacks out of the box. Its a blog thing, and Drupal's blog implementation is pretty weak. WordPress does allow pingbacks unless you explicitly turn that off.
don't use the fast ISP? like you have a CHOICE??
I can pick dsl (dog slow link; that's what DSL means) or I can pick comcast.
what makes you think people in the US can actually choose an isp? they are all based on where you live. you'd have to MOVE to be able to choose an alternate.
not sure why you posted this BS but its not helpful in the least...
If you had said you lived in a shithole sewer somewhere, I would have known not to bother.
Don't use Comcast DNS servers.
Don't use Comcast
Interesting. I don't always want to be messing with my DNS setting every time I get a 404 not found.
What is needed is a quick way to temporarily try using a different DNS, to see whether that's the problem.
I don't think there is a downside to using somebody else, across the board. Google seems good at 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. Use it for everything (desktops, servers) and don't remember ever having a slow response.
So the sort of people who claim that PHP is worthwhile are those who stick with a terrible webhost and have no clue how much they should be paying?
Yes, that sounds typical.
Actually I think its more that a certain percentage of the population has as the top priority just being able to get something done, and the low level details of this or that's garbage collection and memory management is way, way down the priority list somewhere.
Firefox was built on Netscape so given the equally terrible experience of developing for Netscape back in the IE6 days I would be surprised if you didnt hate Firefox as well. Both Netscape and IE were terrible to develop for with their proprietary non-standard extensions, Netscape just had the decency to die and be reborn under a different name to make people forget its horrible legacy, IE should have died and been resurrected under a different name around IE10 when Microsoft finally changed tact and brought standards compliance to the forefront.
Contrary to Steve Jobs' comments the Internet Explorer of those days was *not* a very good browser, but >=IE10 is pretty decent.
One difference is that Netscape's "proprietary" extensions included stuff SSL, cookies, and javascript. They created a lot of what the web is all about, and were successful enough to scare microsoft into retaliation for having a better idea, which led to the anti-trust suit. Netscape didn't so much die, as was stabbed in the back by a wannabe. IE10 might be good somewhere, but it sucks out loud on android, osx, ios and Linux (my preferred platforms). At best, its a niche product.
So if Microsoft does not really belive in transparency/privacy...whats the point of all this initiatives?
Secret World Domination Agenda?
Its called follow the leader. See what the leaders in your industry are doing, and to not look like a boob, you do your own variation so people think you know how to play the game. Its a perception thing only, which only needs to work for a certain uninformed market segment (IE their customers).
Why is everyone talking like there even is a problem? In August Android had almost 80% of the market. Yeah, it must be incredibly boring and horrible to use if so many people want it.
Exactly. Its like the fragmentation argument that is just killing Android. Or how insecure Android is. Its just people writing headlines to attract attention to themselves.
I expect you'll see them ramp up their marketing efforts as the software becomes more feature-complete. Until then, it's just not ready for end users.
Thats sounds like a page straight out of the ol' MS playbook.
"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love." -- Albert Einstein
