Comment this is just a link to apple pr (Score 1) 100
PR disguised as a news article.
Comment Re:Sauce for the goose (Score 1) 926
Cop cars already broadcast their GPS location in most jurisdictions.
Secure OS Gets Highest NSA Rating, Goes Commercial 352
ancientribe writes "A hardened operating system used in the B1B bomber and other military aircraft has now been released commercially, after receiving the highest security rating by a National Security Agency-run certification program. Green Hills Software's Integrity-178B operating system was certified as EAL6+, which means that it can defend against well-funded and sophisticated attackers." The company is not saying how much the OS would cost a potential customer: "The system and its associated integration and consulting services are custom solutions." Both Windows and Linux are EAL 4+ certified, which means they can defend against "inadvertent and casual" security breach attempts.
Submission + - Microsoft Wanted To Drop Mac Office To Hurt Apple
Overly Critical Guy writes: More documents in the Iowa antitrust case have come out. This time, it's revealed that Microsoft considers Mac users its "guinea pigs" for new Office features, and they once considered dropping Mac Office entirely, "as doing so will do a great deal of harm to Apple immediately." This case has become a treasure trove of internal memos describing Microsoft's internal business practices of the last ten years.
Comment Haven't they been doing this for a while now? (Score 1) 340
I bought a Dell workstation about a 1.5 years ago with RedHat WS pre-installed.
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