* Posts by danbi

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From Russia with no love: Prez Putin dubs Ed Snowden 'unwanted gift'

danbi

Re: Snowden's options look limited

More likely, his plane will crash on the way to the US, or his car become part of severe road incident on the way from airport, etc. These things happen naturally, don't they?

However ironic it sounds, Snowden's best option is to agree to what Putin offered, stop telling the world what he knows and provide Putin with all this information, in exchange for his life.. at least for a while. Then expect one day to be traded with the US for whatever benefit Russia might need.

Microsoft DENIES it gives backdoor access to Outlook encryption

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Re: What's the problem?

"this is news to the black hat hacker community"

Are you serious? The black hat community is perfectly aware that 'Microsoft' and 'security' cannot be used in the same sentence unless you qualify with 'lack of'. I doubt they learned anything they didn't already know.

Not just telcos, THOUSANDS of companies share data with US spies

danbi

Re: Unstable system

"I for one am tempted to drop my Google phone because I don't feel comfortable with that information black-hole."

Did you now know that Google vacuums as much data from you as possible, before buying that phone?

If you knew, then you apparently don't mind.

Then, you probably agreed to their license and usage terms.....

Climate change forces women into prostitution - US politicians

danbi

Re: End of the last Ice Age == Population explosion

Ken, that was "free sex". Now, with a new Ice Age coming, women will begin refusing sex, except in exchange for better social position, more money, clothes and security (from polar bears). Welcome prostitution.

Gender frameworks will always be ignored, as will any policy -- when it comes to surviving the mankind or plain old pleasure.

Get lost, drivers: Google Maps is not for you – US judge

danbi

Re: I always use my phone for Google's GPS when I'm in California

"she looked bright and educated."

Might be, you misunderstood what she asked you for. :)

Microsoft's security apps still trip up on Windows 8

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Re: Microsoft proclaimed...

@Coward,

Windows NT was originally derived from DEC's VMS. But that system was extremely foreign to anything Microsoft, and was in fact not able to run their desktop code. Microsoft eventually "improved" it, by removing most of NTs original security aspects and bolted back the "desktop" part, which is utterly insecure. The resulting "OS" is what we know since XP -- a complete mess, that "somehow works".

With all the effort Microsoft spend on "fixing" it, they could have completely re-designed and rewritten the whole "OS" and made is just as secure as anybody else's. But they chose not to.

Even their recent WinRT which was an good promise for something better, was "Microsoft-ised" by bolting back the win32 junk.

Pathetic.

Microsoft leads charge against Google's Android in EU antitrust complaint

danbi

Re: Hang On

"Microsoft were hammered by EU commission for almost exactly the same issue - they were forced to implement a 'Select your browser choice' screen in IE

...

Anybody who argues against this is an idiotic hypocrite."

I don't know about being "idiotic hypocrite" (whatever that means), but some of us were around and do remember: It was Microsoft who "invented" and proposed the browser choice, in order to have their fines lowered back then. It was then again Microsoft, who promise the very promise they made. Recidivists are usually punished harder.

But it is understandable, that people new to computers would cry "poor Microsoft".

danbi

"Are you using "Apple search"

On an iOS device, it is the user who choses which search engine to use. Not Apple, not Google, not Microsoft.

Tick-tock! 40% of PCs start Windows XP malware meltdown countdown

danbi

Re: @VaalDonkie - monopoly?

Microsoft were "smart" enough to sign contract with a number of European governments over Windows licensing. That should at least make them legally bound to support whatever they sold at the time.

Of course, I would not be surprised if the wording of the licenses is in the tune of "you take whatever we give you" (meaning "you are obliged to upgrade to whatever new version of Windows we declare is current"). In which case certain government representatives need to face some criminal charges.

danbi

Re: " it has been 13 years"

XP is really NT with some coating, and plenty of new bugs, of course. So you switched from old NT to a more Microsoft-ised NT. Not much of a change. Not that the never NT versions (known as Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8) are any different. Just more sugar coating.

Norkoshop: How Pyongyang well and truly forked Adobe

danbi

Re: Also for export

"Or are we no longer allowed to criticise our own Glorious Leaders?"

As long and you don't export them, you are licensed to worship them as much as you desire.

Bill Gates: Windows Phone strategy was 'a mistake'

danbi

As someone who remembers the time before MS-DOS and of course before Windows and Linux, I can tell you have some stuff confused.

There was never "big iron unix". Unix, at best was on mini computers and microcomputers at that time. The "big iron" was universaly running IBM's OS.

It was IBM who got scared by "those garage sales" of Apple and decided to get hold of that market, by introducing the IBM PC. IBM wanted to play it safe, and the IBM PC had as primary goal bein an smart terminal for the "big iron" IBM computers. In order to do it, because they had no clue, they chose two companies, who were very envious, because their competitors fared better: Microsoft and Intel. The rest is history. But if you have something to complain about either Microsoft or Intel -- blame IBM: they were their creators.

The IBM PC computers became popular not because of IBM, but because a lotof spec leaked and the (apparently) poor design was cloned by a number of non-name "will do anything for money" manufacturers.

danbi

Re: wow

"as a music/video player it was great and one of the best of it's era."

There were and still are plenty of great and utterly cheap MP3/MP4 players out there. Real cheap, like $10 with the design of an iPod. But still, the Apple's iPod sells by millions and those do not --- because it is the sensible service that sells these things. Microsoft were just too greedy, as always.

danbi

Re: wow

"They realised that if they can get true integration between MS O/S's on desktop tablet and mobile then they have the ability to provide a one-size-fits all solution that the opens up the market to developers that embrace Notro."

This, even if in theory doable (not by Microsoft), does not make sense.

We have moved from mainframes to smaller (including personal) computers to the current Internet "cloud". The computer of today is actually spread all over. It is also heterogenous. You can have the backend run OS ABC, the storage run OS MNT, the middleware run OS WRT and the front-end run OS XYZ and still be perfectly "compatible", as long as you use standards compliant protocols. Other companies do this for decades. Microsoft apparently can't -- perhaps because they insist on "inventing" their own incompatible variations of existing protocols and for some reason they believe "compatibility" means having the same code everywhere -- which is not only impossible, but not neccesary at all.

Until Microsoft stick to their policy in this area, they will follow the downward spiral.

danbi

Re: wow

"Windows 8 is key to the future"

But, this is true! Windows 8 is key to the Microsoft-less future. As is Windows Phone, as is Surface.

That won't happen overnight, but people embrace all sorts of "alternative" computing devices simply because they do not run Windwos.

They say, nobody else can do to you what you can do to yourself. Go Microsoft, go!

Nokia's Elopocalypse two years on: Has Microsoft kept its side of the bargain?

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Re: "make its phone OS its priority number one (and two and three)"

Bla, bla..

What matter is the consistent API. If you don't have the same, consistent API across all platforms, you can't claim they are any compatible. Only XAML is not enough, especially because he mobile and desktop UIs are by definition different and expressing both in XAML makes no difference.

Apple refreshes MacBook Pro range

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Re: Not tempted

Disk performance... Perhaps try and modern SSD based MacBook, for a change.

Nemo cancels Microsoft's Surface Pro launch

danbi

Let's face it

The first Surface Microsoft let in the world -- and Nature reacted with Sandy.

The second Surface Microsoft let in the world -- Nemo comes.

The third time, they say is the final one.

Let's pray there will be no third Surface, or the US might suffer some more. For who knows what the Nature's reaction would be... a meteorite hitting Times Square?

Hearts, minds and balls: Microsoft's Windows 8 Surface gamble

danbi

Re: The competitor isn't the iPad but the MacBook Air

If this stuff is to compete with the MacBook Air, where is the Thunderbolt port?

Thunderbolt is the sole interface an portable device needs these days (x4 PCI-Express off the CPU + DisplayPort). It's just one (small) additional chip. Ok, USB could be included, as the Intel chipset already has it included - as cheap and ubiquitous interface to many peripherals.

Microsoft halves Surface RT production orders - report

danbi

Re: It's going the way of the Zune and the Kin.

> ...but not quickly enough

This is Good. It means that many more victims (that is, patients) will purchase this greatest technology from Microsoft and more will understand what Microsoft are really capable of. "The OEMs are to blame" won't fly anymore.

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