Lets face it: They're probably sitting on a huge amount of old inventory and for every 1 semi-tech savvy customer who specifically wants the faster CPU version, there will be 1000 customers who wouldn't know the CPU from their elbow.
If Microsoft is really playing serious to make people switch to Windows Phone, they will have to somehow make syncing contacts, emails and calendars between Windows PC and Apple/Android not work as well as with Windows Phone.
It would likely open themselves up to anti-trust suits but they already know how to handle that.
That's not how ICO fines work.
The way they work is this: If you suffer a data breach that the ICO hears off, they'll investigate.
Once the investigation is complete, they'll do a few things:
1. Write a beautifully-worded press release explaining exactly what you did wrong and put it on the news wires.
2. Write an equally beautifully-worded report explaining what you did wrong in explicit detail.
3. Issue a thumping great fine.
It's important to note that they don't have to take an organisation to court to raise this fine. It's the other way around - if your organisation gets fined, it's down to you to raise an appeal.
Parent posting needs to be modded up.
A previous employer, a game company whose name rhymes with lizard, uses MITM proxy
This is an industry wide issue thanks to RoHS. This isn't just Apple, this effects Dell and HP laptops that have high temp GPUs. The XBox 360 is another perfect example. The problem is caused from the constant thermal cycling causing expansion and contraction as it cools. Like bending a paper clip, over time metal fatigue sets in and cracks the solder.
AFAIK, they still use tin-lead based solder in medical equipment, even the new stuff, for this reason. The consumer industry went along with the RoHS stuff because they knew it was a form of built-in obsolescence. Even the tin whisker problem has been known about since the 1960s.
A gesture that the UK Govt did wrong at the time
We must never forget that sometimes, the laws are wrong and cause great people to suffer or die.
Hmmm. Yeah, you're right. The stuff I had seen is for an obsolete manufacturing process and doesn't apply to the bio-engineered solution which is used in the USA.
Do you have a link describing this process? Or are you making this up?
The ethanol used for fuel is made from industrial grade corn syrup. Because the corn syrup used is not food-grade, it is usually made using a process which uses mercury. So, the combustion of fuel with ethanol is actually putting mercury into the environment.. Mercury is considered a worse toxin than lead but it's arguably at much smaller quantities.
Although I like where your head is, wouldn't the CPU power required to do on-the-fly GPG decoding of content be prohibitive? Or am I misunderstanding the proposed solution?
A large amount of the content on the internet is static. The static assets can be stored on the disk, already signed. This has the added advantage that HTTPS cannot provide: The static assets are cacheable and they are tamper-proof, should the server be compromised.
When it comes to dynamic content, one can 'cheat' a little by reusing the same session key for the same connection. The startup cost is not much different than existing HTTPS which uses DH for key exchange.
It's not going to be much slower than what we have today with HTTPS for interactive sites, where humans are the slow link in the chain.
Using HTTPS is not the solution when the only thing people see is that some trusted certificate was used. If a trusted Certificate Authority was compromised or issued `fake' certificates for government spy agencies, the target wouldn't know that a MITM attack has occurred because the little green icon is showing just fine.
However, if we had something like a GPG content encoding, if the site hasn't already been trusted by the user, red flags will immediately be showing.
Like as like not, with the proliferation of CAs which exist, MITM attacks are easier than ever because people have been conditioned to trust HTTPS.
I wonder what the public reaction would be if some pro-democracy dissident who is operating covertly in their own hostile country is murdered and the country gives a press release saying that they couldn't have found their criminal if it wasn't for the help of the NSA compromising internet security...
Does that put the NSA/FISA on the side of dictatorships and other anti-freedom nations?
They probably used a power budget similar to the public Facebook datacenter data but then decided to run their machines on Windows Azure.
I have noticed that power consumption of my computers is significantly higher when running Windows - and the laptops have seriously reduced battery life, even while doing nothing.
This must be part of the Open Government Initiative that the US administration has been promising: http://www.whitehouse.gov/open
Ahh... While I am doing programming, I watch videos on mute because it will disrupt the music.
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