Comment Re:Phone-based ransom-ware? (Score 1, Insightful) 321
a) Who's "they"?
b) If the pin is 10 digits then "they" are wasting their time.
a) Who's "they"?
b) If the pin is 10 digits then "they" are wasting their time.
Hah, you got me there. I only did it once though...got it right the second time.
Yeah because no thief has ever put it into another iPhone box and shrink wrapped it and sold it as new before...
If you're buying "new" iPhones from unknown people in gas stations then you deserve what you get IMHO.
The phone's CPU could have a special PIN number that comes on a scratch card in the box when you buy it.
If your phone gets stolen you call your operator and read them the PIN. They send out a "kill" signal and the phone commits suicide.
This is impossible for hackers to fake - they can never know the PIN.
I imagine people will get wise to that one real fast...
How about an old fashioned fuse inside the chip? Blow the fuse, job done...
Did you know that people are still using COBOL?
(And for the same reasons...)
How much ActiveX can you see out there? I see much more Javascript and HTML5
It's the "out there" part of your answer that worries me.
The OP clearly said "core business apps", ie. internal stuff.
I'd like to know how can they tell whether the energy has been ate by the browser, the scheduler, the idle process or whatever else is in a Windows OS!!!
If only there was an electrical device you could connect to a computer and see instantaneous power usage. That way you cold open a page in IE, look at the power. Open the same page in Firefox, look at the power, etc.
I guess we'll all have to wait at least another century for a technology as advanced as that, though.
You forget ActiveX!
The fiends at Microsoft are one step ahead of you!!
I fail to see how using IE over the other major browsers yields a net saving...
...so therefore it can't be true?
Must be nice to be omniscient.
Well..certainly not one that would allow their employees to have two extra cups of tea per week.
...a certain desperation to Microsoft's IE marketing efforts
Not at all. If you run a company with 10,000 PCs then it's a significant saving.
They only bought Java because they thought they could sue Google (ie. Android) over the API.
It's almost like he *wants* a decent percentage of us to go to Hell, right?
Love may laugh at locksmiths, but he has a profound respect for money bags. -- Sidney Paternoster, "The Folly of the Wise"
