Comment Open source (Score 0) 35
Isn't it open source?
Why is there no fix then?
Isn't it open source?
Why is there no fix then?
I thought the consensus here was that open source software was secure? Why do the events of the past year make it appear as if they're as bad or worse?
That is all hogwash FUD and confirmation bias.
The truth is that there are a few orders of magnitude more effort put in to bash closed source software and hating on Microsoft on online tech boards compared to actual reading of source code to find bugs. Thats we have extremely serious bugs coming out of software like the Linux kernel that are 20 years old.
That applies to open source too.
There some in plain sight in some of the most popular server software in the world like OpenSSL that were found really late.
The preview doesn't say it will run on Nexus 4, hopefully the final version will run because it's powerful hardware, 2GB RAM and Quadcore. Forced obsolescence of good hardware is annoying and hope Google is not bad as other OEMs.
> but is Google really only paying their software developers 123,000 in Silicon Valley? That seems low for that place
Those numbers don't include stock options, which are a big part of compensation. The SV companies that don't give stock options have high salaries posted. The amount of ignorance in these comments is amazing.
Looks like there are a lot of highly skilled and highly paid people in the companies I looked... the opposite of the Slashdot narrative of indentured servants working on minimum wage.
That lab allowed Gates to take enormous tax write-offs but never produced any scientific or tecnological break-throughs. But hey, it was all in good tax-dodging fun, right?
Tax write-off and tax dodging? What the heck? That's like you donating $100 to the Red Cross to get $15 back in tax refund. Not to even mention all the payroll taxes that people working in Microsoft pay. MS would be way better off just stashing the money like Apple does.
Your post is utterly moronic. What is it about Microsoft that turns otherwise smart people into f**king morons?
It's interesting how it's Apple that mostly did everything and how the summary led people like you to mention only Microsoft. Typical biased Slashdot bullshit.
Not to mention other companies are part of Rockstar like RIM, EMC, Ericsson, Sony. Apple bought some patents from Rockstart in 2012 for like $1B.
From http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/...
By the fifth round of bidding, it was Rockstar Bidco that decided not to submit a bid. This brought the group of bidders down to three: Google, Apple, and Intel.
Then something really interesting happened.
Following Rockstar’s seeming exit, Apple asked Nortel for permission to talk to the group about a possible partnership. This request was granted. Following these discussions, Apple decided they wanted to partner with Rockstar and adopt their name and transaction structure.
Essentially, Apple decided to stake the Rockstar group in this high-stakes poker game.
A long time went between the discovery and the fix available to the public. The ignorance and history rewriting is getting painful to watch in these comments.
Yet you don't cringe at all the snooping that Google is doing with student the information.
http://mashable.com/2014/03/19...
>I know that kid's data is saved to their Google Drive - automatically.
Where it can be mined for showing ads.
Fantastic, indeed, but for Google, not for the students.
To get around this, MS can sell a hardware dongle that costs $$$ that happens to come with free Windows, and Windows only runs if that hardware dongle is present. That way they can do the same thing that Apple does.
Kolab charges a license fee.
What about multiuser systems that are used as remote desktops? What about privilege separation? Why should a user logged into a machine be able to read keystrokes of all the others even though they're a normal user and not root? That doesn't happen with Windows.
Linux had and has a string of security issues, including things like this.
http://theinvisiblethings.blog...
Try doing that on a Terminal Server.
What multiuser security again?
Windows 7 is not Windows Server
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