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by XaYdEk 10y ago
I'd like an answer too. I'm a Linux guy and Win7 is the last I will ever use personally for my own machines (unless I really need it for work, which case I'll VM it anyway). But my reasons are different, I really don't t
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by XaYdEk 10y ago
What's stopping Canonical ? 1) Their goals. They are trying to get Ubuntu more widely adopted, not to polish it, at least, not yet. 2) Orders of magnitude, risk involved and business model. Apple is like what ? 100,000 employees and 50
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by XaYdEk 10y ago
And there's the difference between journalist and reporter. ;) Journalists seem to be going extinct.
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by XaYdEk 10y ago
It's a code injection method. And it's an interesting approach, but dll injection with some tricks can be just as undetectable. Short version: An attacker already has unprivileged access to your machine (running something with you
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by XaYdEk 10y ago
I don't know, the Contamination effect seems more like buffer overflow in our neural network and the Repetition effect more like a poor implementation of caching.
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by XaYdEk 10y ago
True, should've said 'because the NSA was involved in the design of the standard'. They never classified it (the design), but I think they did in DES. And it makes sense, especially at the time, to harden against differential
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by XaYdEk 10y ago
Desktop. Talking desktop. You will never get them to do it by themselves, you have to set it up for them. There is a resistence to switching to Linux, because of the image they have in their mind about it. Mint and Ubuntu are very user frie
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by XaYdEk 10y ago
This is a bit like saying you can't trust AES because it was declassified by the NSA and offered to the public. It works well enough within its limits. There is nothing that will protect you from active surveillance from a global actor
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by XaYdEk 10y ago
Ok, don't get me wrong, I love Linux and I'm not trying to be an ass. I'm a Linux guy (Debian/Gentoo mostly), but you will never get average users to switch to Linux, the same way you will never get me to use anything af
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by XaYdEk 10y ago
That's nice but ... Will this year be the year of the Linux Desktop ? Nop ... How about next year ? Nop ... When will the Year of the Linux Desktop occur ? At our current trajectory I estimate that will occur somewhere around the time*