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I have reservations about the policies of app stores run by MS and Apple. I won't even join FB due to their goddamn awful practices relating to privacy, and trying at one stage to assume copyright over uploaded content. My chance of "friending" them is remote to put it mildly. I'd be more likely to teach myself malicious hacking and attempt to mess up their servers (that's not very likely, in case anyone from NSA checks CP forums).
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Rob Grainger wrote: I'd be more likely to teach myself malicious hacking and attempt to mess up their servers
I have to admit, this is a tempting scenario!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I'm looking for the FOADIAF button myself.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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It's been over seven years since the Prism project started, led by the patterns & practices team. It was originally known as the Composite Application Library. Last year, we celebrated our 5th official release of Prism. And by "grows up", they mean they're dumping it on the community
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Seven years? Try thirty. 
"
In August 1985 the first draft of a high-level design was delivered, and work began on the detailed design. The PRISM specification was developed over a period of many months
" -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_Prism[^]
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Traditional technical interviews are terrible for everyone. Just hire the first person that applies
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I am not going to give up hours/days of my time on a worthless project when I already know that interviews are decided in the first few seconds of meeting someone, face-to-face. Technical questions are a poor way to interview and I have refused to white board but I've also agreed and found it to be a poor interview technique but can also be fun.
The best and fairest way is to ask generalized questions to see if the interviewee would be a cultural fit in the team/business because they could be the smartest developer in the world but if they won't mesh with the team then you've just hired a whole heap of trouble. Oh, and actually follow up on the references. Duh.
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Today, we’re announcing two new updates to Enterprise Site Discovery as part of the March 2015 Update: IE8, IE9, and IE10 support and enhanced privacy options. "Private Eyes, they're watching you"
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...but no IE11 support?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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IE11 already came with it.
TTFN - Kent
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Aha! I knew I should have actually read the article! 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Windows 10 hardware must support Secure Boot and won't have to let you turn it off. Some Leopards can't change their spots
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The more you tighten your grip, the more systems will slip through your fingers...
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Definitely - it's almost as if the Windows team hasn't received the memo about "the new Microsoft"
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Definitely - it's almost as if the Windows team hasn't received the memo about "the new Microsoft"
Consider sending that line to "the new Microsoft"
Recursion: see Recursion.
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Seems like the kind of ham-fisted thing that Steve Ballmer would have done...maybe it was something that was started when he was still around?...anyway, they should get rid of it.
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Are they just going to slide down this slope until the EU says "antitrust"?
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This will be the first thing I check before buying a new system from now on.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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It's a shame that those manufacturers who will choose to not provide an off-switch won't get paid back because most people won't care or even know.
Recursion: see Recursion.
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Yeah, and I'm sure the people in Best Buy will be just as clueless:
Q. "Does this laptop's firmware allow me to disable Secure Boot?"
A. <Blank Stare>
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Absolutely.
Alternative A: Why would you ever want to do that? It would be less secure!
Recursion: see Recursion.
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It all seems good to me.
Secure Boot simply means an O/S must be signed to be acceptable.
The fact that it's up to the manufacturer is fine. Tablets/Phones will require it. Most laptops/PCs won't. Its optional (to the manufacturer).
It may limit hardware choice to altOS, but not that much, as the issues relating to open source drivers are pretty gargantuan regardless of this.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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There's a huge potential difference between the manufacturer must let the user turn it off (the current situation on laptops/desktops) and the manufacturer can let the user turn it off if they want to, but can make it impossible to disable if they want. The problem, and why so many people are justifiably concerned, is that much of the difference comes down to back channel communications between MS and the OEMs about what the default should be. There's a huge difference between the likely state of a typical machine if what MS is saying is "we're only offering this as an option because a few more security paranoid customers are asking. You should only make it an option that can be requested at purchase time; and not the default on mass market products." and "We'll give you a $10/machine OS license discount if you implement this on at least 90% of your computers to help us elephant the penguins. MUAHHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!"
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Adobe Reader and Flash Player fell to security researchers as well. It's official: there is no security
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Security to play flash content?  Really?
After all, there is no software, which is crack proof. But the guy made his fortune. 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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