Ars Technica lost a lot of respect with me yesterday when they stated in the analysis of Mega's security that symmetric encryption is inherently less safe than asymmetric.
Also the quoted article does not appear to show considerable insight on internet security.
Sheer directory traversal should never be considered a criminal act.
Of course if they had followed through with the stock manipulation, this would warrant criminal punishment.
Although of course stock manipulation is only punishable if you're not a bank or hedgefund which is sad.
In the actual chat logs (which Ars ignores), another chatter brings up shorting the stock, weev explicitly says shorting the stock would be illegal and that if someone wants to do that, not to involve him. Aside from the fact that no one did it and this was obviously silly chat room banter to begin with, weev is actually showing intent of not running afoul of the law.
Later in the chat, another user says that weev should post the leaked data to a public mailing list, and weev says no because that could potentially be criminal.
I find it hard to imagine someone in the hacker news crowd rating 8 over 7 on developer hardware. From my limited experience, the only major improvement I noticed was the improved task manager (which is really nifty). What other substantial improvements over 7 do you think Win8 provides?
* improved file copy dialog, including pausing
* much faster boot
* improved task manager (as you said)
* better multi-monitor support (I have 2 monitors)
It's not much but was worth the $30 upgrade. I don't mind the new start screen but I understand that is subjective.
I think Win8 is a downgrade in almost every aspect, but it does boot faster. Granted, I think that it's doing something akin to hibernating in Windows 7 and not actually shutting down.
I wonder if people are comparing the boot time of year-old Windows 7 installations to brand new Windows 8 installations.
I know my SSD-based Windows 7 system could boot to the desktop in less than 10 seconds when it was new, but now that it's over a year old with dozens of additional installed programs and drivers, I'm lucky to see the desktop in less than 30 seconds.
As a developer, I care about some of the under the hood changes, new features and improvements:
- lighter memory usage
- better power management
- address space randomization (forcible)
- full hardware (direct-x) rendered UI
- storage spaces
- hyper-v
- incremental file histories
- mandatory DEP
- system refresh
Of course, at the UI level, there are various changes that are a mix of good and bad IMHO, but overall, I would say more parts of the UI suck a little less than before.
I wrote three different comments and deleted them all, really didn't have much to add, except, as a product guy who's never raised money before and doesn't know much about it, these types of posts are incredibly insightful and make me hopeful that a product focus is seen as a positive in the eyes of investors.
