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Comment · 12 years ago
Are there any official sales/revenue/margin/profit numbers for the Nexus devices or Chromecast announced by Google?
Comment · 12 years ago
That's wrong. Statcounter measures usage , while Net Applications measures user share and IE has by far the larger install base.
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Comment · 12 years ago
Perhaps they should be forced to release keywords versus clicked links data to other companies like Duck Duck Go, just like Microsoft was forced to document things like SMB for Samba and the various Office formats.
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Comment · 12 years ago
>The need to change passwords arose in April, when the Heartbleed vulnerability was revealed. Heartbleed makes systems vulnerable to data theft since attackers can use it to gain access to systems and then proceed to access and steal information without leaving a trace.

>Even though our central IT systems are protected against Heartbleed, any accounts that have already been stolen still pose a security risk. Almost 20,000 members of the McGill community did change their McGill Password, but thousands more did not, and so additional actions have become necessary.

So, ff the people who got the passwords read this post then all they need to do is double the passwords they got with HeartBleed to gain access?

Perhaps they should quadruple the password? /s

Comment · 12 years ago
>The brightest minds aren't programming on Microsoft platforms if you look at colleges and conferences worldwide. This cannot be reversed; Open Source products are now technically superior, the community is very well organized, and it is free.

All I see at colleges and conferences worldwide are Macbooks. How is OS X Open Source? It actually seems to be worse, since it's legally tied to expensive hardware.

Also, Open Source products aren't really technically superior for a number of categories. I am sorry but Photoshop, Office, Exchange etc. are definitely technically superior. Software like Windows Server and SQL Server are competing with free products and still doing very well.

Imagine how much marketshare they would have if they were free of cost and MySQL/PostgresSQL and Linux cost the same as SQL Server and Windows Server now. How many would buy them instead of the free MS products? How many would pay the same as Office costs now for OpenOffice if Office was free? How is this technically superior?

Also, Azure runs Linux and other open source products quite well.

Comment · 12 years ago

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