Submission + - by Tom Gjelten September 23, 2010 Listen to the (npr.org)
Leadmagnet writes: The United States and other world powers have agreed to arms control measures in recent years that limit the deployment and use of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, as well as tanks and other artillery pieces. So why is there no arms control measure that would apply to the use of cyberweapons?
It is not for lack of attention to the issue. Government and military leaders around the world have warned that the next world war is likely to be fought at least partly in cyberspace, and cyber "disarmament" discussions have been under way at the United Nations for more than a decade and more recently at the International Telecommunications Union, the leading U.N. agency for information technology issues.
The problem is that governments have widely varying ideas of what constitutes a "cyberweapon" — and what a "cyberwar" might look like.
Advanced industrial democracies are likely to see a cyberattack as an assault on the computer infrastructure that underlies power, telecommunications, transportation and financial systems.
It is not for lack of attention to the issue. Government and military leaders around the world have warned that the next world war is likely to be fought at least partly in cyberspace, and cyber "disarmament" discussions have been under way at the United Nations for more than a decade and more recently at the International Telecommunications Union, the leading U.N. agency for information technology issues.
The problem is that governments have widely varying ideas of what constitutes a "cyberweapon" — and what a "cyberwar" might look like.
Advanced industrial democracies are likely to see a cyberattack as an assault on the computer infrastructure that underlies power, telecommunications, transportation and financial systems.
Submission + - Windows 7 Marketshare Jumps Past 3 Percent (tomshardware.com)
Leadmagnet writes: According to TomsHardware Windows 7 has officially been a part of the worldwide mass market for more than a week and a half and now makes up more than 3.6 percent of all PCs tracked by research firm Net Applications.
Comment Re:documentum (Score 1) 237
I disagree - you must have it implemented improperly, because it works great for us and being a 25,000+ person company we generate thousands of pages (2TB+ ) in docs a week. Many of our docs are laden with graphic and embedded objects.
Comment load it up (Score 2) 206
just load a clean copy of XP SP3 and OOS - you are good to go.
Comment Re:I think it has passed already. (Score 1, Funny) 696
Vista is a huge and costly flop for Microsoft, they only sold 300 million copies this year, and barely 200 million copies of Office 2007, and IE is barely 80% of the browser market at this rate they will be out of business any second now. They might as well turn off the lights and go home.
However if they can hold on just long enough to release Windows 7 in 2010 then it might postpone their timely demise by a couple years at best.
Comment Re:handy disaster (Score 1) 662
If done right Windows 7 could be huge, Many large companies do an every other upgrade cycle and those XP PC are showing their age. And slot of people were scared of Vista - if this is only slightly better it could be the big one many uninformed are awaiting.
