Carlos Slim , Mexican Billionaire and the worlds richest man, has decided that sinking $2 Billion into the flailing retailer CompUSA is enough and will close all of the remaining stores in the United States. Not an earth shattering suprise after last years severe contraction of retail outlets, along with the heated competition from mass market retailers. Gordon Brother's Group, a retail liquidation company will oversee the divestiture of CompUSA inventory and assets.
Displayport , the new license and royalty free display standard courtesy of VESA designed to supplant DVI and HDMI on PC's, is seen in a first iteration on AMD RV635 cards outed by the guys over at Hothardware.
Since each DisplayPort cable can run multiple monitors in a daisy-chain configuration, imagine a four panel setup from a single graphics card and even possibly a single cable connection. We'll have more to come on the LCD side of the equation, soon.
To say that John C. Dvorak is soft spoken, unopinionated, and "PC" would be ridiculous right? Well we say that is ridiculous with a capital "R". Today at PCMag , John chimes in with a rather scathing rebuke of the One Laptop Per Child Project .
It appears we weren't the only people in the world
looking a bit askance at Microsoft's Security Strategy Director Jeff
Jones's claims of superiority on the security front with Internet
Explorer compared to other browsers. Technology Strategist for Mozilla,
Mike Shaver, had quite alot to say about the dodgy reasoning involved
in Mr. Jones's whitepaper.
If Mozilla wanted to do better than Microsoft on this report, we would
have an easy path: stop fixing and disclosing bugs that we find
in-house. It is well known that Microsoft redacts release notes for
service packs and bundles fixes, sometimes meaning that you get a
single vulnerability “counted” for, say, seven defects repaired. Or
maybe you don’t hear about it at all, because it was rolled into SP2
and they didn’t make any noise about it.
Pretty harsh words, but also quite accurate ones. It's a bit of a shame
to see Microsoft resorting to this level of spin and backward logic,
solely because Mozilla's whipping their butt on the browser front. Read
the entirety of Mike Shaver's blog here .
In what we feel is an egregious example of backward thinking, Microsoft's Security Strategy Director Jeff Jones claims in a rather controversial whitepaper that frequent security updates make Firefox more susceptible to exploits. From his Technet blog , Jeff writes... "Over the past few years, there has been much discussion of the need for improvements in browser security, but few hard data studies performed to support assertions concerning the security of available browsers."
In his white paper he examines exploit severity, version to version trends, and forms an overall analysis of how each browser is performing relative to existing exploits in a three year cycle.
