Most ATMs do run Windows XP. It's the version for embedded devices which has far fewer security holes to begin with, but that is the predominant operating system. At some point, they will have to be replaced. I don't envy...
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Currently all the furor over Bitcoins assumes it will the top player in the growing field. But anyone can create another Bitcoin protocol, each upgrading either the protocol's flaws or flaws in the human component:...
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I'm going to print up a T-shirt for my mother: One Of The Proud 13%
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"The Web" didn't just suddenly happen in 1989 (nor was it "invented" by Al Gore). What happened then is that a structure and a name was given to what was already in existance (highly-interconnected infrastructure,...
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The deal is set to be finalized later this year. It will be interesting to see if anything does stall or prevent it.
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gmail addresses are more valuable than facebook email addresses. Your suggestion that one try all login methods and then guess what data is being mined from each one is just playing paper scissors rock. There is no valid...
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The White House President's Council of Economic Advisers recently released a report that, while no doubt self serving, nevertheless pulls together some useful and telling information about the impact of patent trolls. It's...
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Whether it is in the military or otherwise, virtual desktops are the future. The problem is that we have continued to hear about it, yet nothing has been done. Now, the Army is doing it. That's because they realize the risks...
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I like the idea of CarPlay. It's an interesting way for Apple to get in the driver's seat. Microsoft, for example, has gone a different route by providing an OS for cars. Apple takes its consumer cachet and slides right...
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No question, Tim Berners-Lee's work launched the Web as we've come to know it -- but as many will add, what he created stands on the shoulders of those who helped create the Arpanet. I've had the good fortune to spend time...
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This is interesting. VMware is essentially going otuside of server infrastructure VMs and moving further into more appliance-like hardware. It makes sense. But it does make one wonder what other hardware appliances...
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I will be glad to see this OS fade from relevance. But it is true, many ATMs and security devices still use Windows XP. That's scary these devices have not innovated on the level that needs to be done. My thinking...
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Using the "web" in 1970 would quite a trick, since it wasn't invented until 1989. I think you meant you were using the Internet in 1970. Commonly confused, the Web and Internet are not the same.
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And another thing. When I asked whose server hardware supports Virtual SAN, I heard Cisco, IBM, Dell, Fujitsu but did not hear HP mentioned, which made me suspicious, needlessly so. HP is on the list of hardware suppliers...
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Let's also give credit to the U.S. Government and DOD. I started using the Web in 1970 to write curvefit programs at NASA Ames on what was termed "Darpanet." Government agencies, institutions and universities...
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I must say, I love the part about the amount of social junk floating around on the web today. Really, who could have thought that would ever happen? It's a social construct that we have created ourselves, a new form of...
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Interesting article. It would have been cool to be able to click to larger versions of some of those images. Legends and such were too small to make out on some. I tried clicking them but that just gets me a new window of...
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Good question, Laurie. VMware suggests only certain kinds of applications, such as management of virtual desktops, an area it wants to promote, and test/dev, disaster recovery should be the first implementations. It's emphasizing...
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Note the caution with which Vint Cerf treats the possibility of online voting. That's going to be much harder to make real than MOOCs. Do you agree?
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Michael The public are sick of Microsoft. Businesses are too. It will be interesting to see how they escape Mafiasoft's lock down. One thing for sure is if there is a will there is a way. I fled to Linux a decade...
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Although Tim Berners-Lee gets the credit, much of the underlying innovation that we know as the "World Wide Web" goes back a lot further. The origin of the idea of linked text and images probably lies with Vannevar...
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