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Maybe its because Linux and BSD aren't popular platforms for most home users. OSX is 8% - which is large, but considering the rest of that is Windows (most people pin Linux at around 1% on the desktop it seems).

Even then - there are viruses for the Mac

There's also plenty of evidence to suggest OSX really isn't all that secure.

Your basic premise is wrong

"The larger companies (Google, Amazon) can afford the large iron and backend storage stacks [1]. For the uptimes that modern cloud storage has, the equipment costs are tremendous, because the machines that are able to do the large volume I/O over the net not just have to have performance, but be engineered around reliability, and that means large clusters distributed over geographically different regions storing identical data."

Google is based on Intel systems, although they have redesigned them a bit:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10209580-92.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

No "big iron" here, except that these systems are deployed 1,160 at a time.

Indeed, Google has so many consumer-level drives that they can publish stuff like:

http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf

which gives a review of how good (or not) SMART is on drives.

Google (for one) uses commodity hardware -- lots of it. I would imagine that it would be too painful to FIND a failed system. They probably just ignore them and work around them (after all, they currently use 400,000 or 500,000 servers, maybe more). It's the "RAID" principle applied to systems. Not all 500,000 servers are going down at the same time, and new servers can be (and probably are being) continually deployed. An individual server has little redundancy (except for the battery Google puts in).

Amazon (S3, EC2) has to offer more redundancy to ensure that the customers image isn't lost. Google couldn't care -- at worst a bit of web indexing would need to be redone, or a client would have to reissue a search request. So, Amazon would have more "big iron" in the disk department.

But it is still (probably) cheaper to use two commodity drives!

I own a DX - my mom and wife went in together on a Kindle 2 for my birthday, several days later Amazon announced the DX. Returned the K2 and got the DX a couple of weeks back. I have used it every day since receiving it, and have thoroughly enjoyed using it. Excellent reading device and experience. The DX simply allows me to read, without getting in the way.

Loading PDFs using USB is trivially easy; once, too rushed to plug the DX into my work laptop, I emailed a work-related PDF document to my kindle email address; $0.15 saved me a few minutes. Amazon will convert some documents to Kindle format via email if you cannot convert to PDF on your own. One downside on PDFs: have not figured out how to magnify other than rotating the DX. I cannot testify to complicated graphics, as I have not loaded any technical PDFs on my DX.

A few technical reviews I've found that you may find helpful:

http://www.matthewdavidwilliams.com/2009/06/12/technical-document-pdfs-on-the-kindle-dx/

CNET Review

Gizmodo Review

Hope this helps. There are other reviews out there.

Clever marketing, but irrelevant. As you note - in passing - this is for the information dissemination system, not for the trading system. It's there so people can do non-real-time-critical look-up of past trades. NASDAQ wouldn't trust their trading system to Windows.

Every trade processed in the NASDAQ marketplace goes through the system

Yes, it goes through the Windows stack after it has been processed by the trading system. Which used to run on a POSIX system on MIPS Tandem hardware the year after your MDDS system was installed. I can't find anymore recent info even on the NASDAQ site.

Are you sure your external screen is HDCP compliant?

Have you bothered calling Hp about this? The geforce 9600 is HDCP compatible. According to this its a bug, not an HDCP issue. Who knows maybe they have a fix for this already.

Use this link to avoid registration or see the same exact same story on CNET.

Thank you. I am starting to feel about nytimes.com the same way I feel about tinyurl.com - if it appears in the URL, I know the link is probably not worth visiting.

Use this link to avoid registration or see the same exact same story on CNET.

You're so insistent on taking me out of context, I'm not sure it's even worth responding.

Ad Hominem.

Even among climate skeptics (at least, the subset of skeptics with scientific credentials in relevant fields), only a handful will go so far as to claim that the warming is imaginary.

Maybe you just don't hear them because they're being suppressed. example A
example B
And have you seen this?

Who is this "we" who wanted to cover the polar ice caps in tar 30 or 40 years ago?

Scientists clamoring for government to do something about Global Cooling
I never claimed it was a consensus, and I didn't mean to imply that.

the number of peer reviewed papers predicting warming outnumbered the number that predicted cooling by about 6 to 1.

Your link does not support this, but suppose I take that as fact. I for one do not care how many people say something is true. In 1300 everyone knew the Earth was flat and everything revolved around it. Just because there is some kind of "consensus" either then or now, doesn't mean it's true.

Remember, the cap doesn't even kick in until 2012, and the industries that are most affected will continue to receive a sizeable number of free carbon permits for at least a decade after that.

Finally some good news. If I work real hard, I can get a raise so that I can pay my taxes. *feel the sarcasm!*

Sure, if somebody burns down your house, it's suddenly "more economical" to live under a bridge than in the middle of a field.

We need to be mindful of the timescales involved here. Burning a house down is a very immediate thing, with no warning, and little that predisposes one to having such a problem to begin with. If you live on the beach, you run the risk of your house being flooded by a storm swell, global warming or not. If you're not smart enough to get insurance, that's what we call natural selection.

Frankly, I'm stunned that someone can simultaneously believe that "the market" is capable of uprooting thousands of coastal cities, and yet is so fragile that it will fall over the moment CO2 pollution gets a price.

I don't think the market will fail. It is very resilient. I'm not like the alarmists- I'm not predicting doom for the economy if we don't do what I want. It'll just be harder on everyone, and you yourself admitted we don't know for sure if it will be a huge disaster. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

It seems that, in your mind, no disaster is truly epic so long as there are survivors, and that it wouldn't be worthwhile to you to take a $1500 pay cut to avert any disaster that leaves a handful of humans behind.

Putting aside your slight on my reasoning and risk evaluation, I maintain that it is not an epic disaster. New York may have to move a few miles up the Hudson. I admit that this is not cheap. But I submit that no one will die in the process. A slug could walk away from the rising sea it's happening so slowly (if it's happening). So it's a choice between economic hardship now, for something that could happen in the future, because of something that we might be causing, or we continue to prosper, allowing businesses to finance R&D that could produce a cheaper cleaner fuel- which they will, because who wouldn't buy that?

A made-up number from Heritage, an right-wing propaganda mill built from the ground up to oppose any and all regulation.

I suppose if Hitler had statistics supp

Oh you mean

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10173146-94.html

And
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/27/android_market_shuns_unlocked_google_phones/

There's also the well-publicised Fourth Category consisting of Windows shops that transitioned for entirely practical reasons.

When Munich is successful they will provide a wonderful example that it is possible and how to do it. Right now they provide a caution of the complexities.

I'd go farther and suggest they've been successful at every stage, and if there's any caution involved it's the careful analysis of the cost of "past sins". ;-)

Whatever the conclusions thus far, it's probably one of the most important IT stories of our time.

No, the 2 year warranty is only a general example and is only valid for physical goods (although the European Commission is presently trying to extend it to software as well, http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10237212-92.html).

There are however plenty of other hidden costs associated with doing business in EU.

Don't know about searching, but 9/11 caused several of the worlds largest news sites to be inaccessible for over an hour.

Mono is a cleanroom implementation of the CLR as specified by EMCA and .Net libraries, right? What exactly do you risk by using it?

From what I've learned (on Groklaw ;-) ), cleanroom implementations help you indemnify your software against copyright violation allegiations.
Stallmann is here saying that there is a possibility that Mono violates Microsoft software patents, and that in that case, software *depending on* mono (i.e. written in C#) is at risk if mono ever has to be de-installed because of patent violation allegiations.
In fact, there's a famous other article by Stallmann about copyright, patents and trademarks, where he claims the use of the word "Intellectual Property" should be stopped, which directly addresses your confusion: I really, heartily, strongly recommend you to read it, it's mindblowingly easy to read and I found it very enlightening:
Did You Say âoeIntellectual Propertyâ? It's a Seductive Mirage
IANA(P)L and I don't actually know much about .NET or Microsoft software but his arguments make sense. Also bear in mind that the Microsoft-Novell software patent deal of 2006 (here, here, here), where Microsoft promises not to sue Novell's customers for a limited period of time, expires in 2011 or so. So maybe then Ballmer will divulge what he meant with his "235 software patents Linux infringes" (maybe it should have been 205 software patents ;-) but it's very possible that Ballmer is completely truthful here). Then again 2011 is years away and maybe software patents won't exist anymore in the U.S.A because they wanted to harmonize with the rest of the world, which doesn't have them.

According to sources, the RIAA is unhappy about Audrey's motion, and is preparing a sack of money to send the Judge asking the Judge not to allow her to make it.

There, fixed that for you. Actually, to be fair:

According to sources, the RIAA is unhappy about Audrey's motion, and is preparing a letter to send the Judge reminding the Judge that he's bought and paid for just like the lawmakers and Judges up the rest of the chain.

More realistic although it's a shame this lower court Judge probably won't profit personally from the case unlike those installed into prestigious positions and those accepting lobbying money for their political campaigns.

Let's not kid ourselves ...

Sure, other governments "[route] all digital traffic in the country through a single choke point, using the capabilities of deep packet inspection" and so do we, in the US. I couldn't think of a better place to put fiber splicers than the "AT&T office in San Francisco." Facebook, and of course other social networking and technology companies, must be a gold mine for them. All they need to do is connect the social networking dots, as they currently do with American's phone calls -- there's no concern for domestic wiretapping laws involved -- it's simply call delivery data for them, and a bit of connecting the social network dots. Hence the reason Verizon Wireless sent out a snail-mail privacy notice to their customers regarding their use of call delivery records in light of the possible broad-surveillance lawsuits, a few years ago. One doesn't need the full conversation if it's possible to ascertain and forward onto other agencies the usual suspects. Separately, Larry Wall, the creator of Perl, once said that he doesn't "tell people the NSA uses Perl. [He merely tells] people the NSA thinks everyone uses Perl. They should know, after all."

Those are smart scientists and engineers over there, to be sure. I'd love to work for them, too. :-)

Love him or hate him, but at least listen to what he is actually saying.

1. He isn't saying that he doesn't "like" C#
2. He isn't saying that he is "against" C#
3. He isn't saying that Portable.NET is "better" than Mono
4. He isn't saying that "just because" it's .NET, it must be teh 3vil

All he is saying is that Microsoft has already publicly claimed that Linux violates a couple hundred MS patents. Recently, Microsoft invoked the Linux angle in a patent suit it filed against Tom Tom.

Therefore, he says, it should be obvious to all that MS intends to enforce its patents. So, the more one uses software based on MS technologies, the more likely it is that you may be impacted by a suit in the future. He calls this a "gratuitous" risk.

Or, in his words:

The problem is not in the C# implementations, but rather in Tomboy and other applications written in C#. If we lose the use of C#, we will lose them too. That doesn't make them unethical, but it means that writing them and using them is taking a gratuitous risk.

Let's ask one of the biggest computer buyers in the world if they are being forced to use IBM mainframes, or, if maybe they have satisfactory and competitive alternatives.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10209580-92.html

I suspect that one of their datacenters has more computing capacity than most mainframes...

I think they run AC to the row or rack of servers, then they have just one super efficient PSU powering all the servers in a rack rather than 42 separate power supplies (plus UL enclosures, connectors, extension cords, etc, etc)

No, they don't. They use motherboards built to their own specification that require only 12V power. This power is supplied by the server's own PSU, which takes 240V input. The PSU hooks into a 12V sealed lead acid battery, implementing UPS functionality (there is no centralized UPS).

I think it's a very elegant design.

Can we get like a panel of hardware engineers to have a discussion with this guy and can I get some popcorn?

Slashdotters might want to take a look at the details of the Google servers to see what Heiliger is looking for. There's also a video tour.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10272703-56.html

Did you say it shoud be free? You even got the "Vista Ultimate" bit right. Microsoft must be reading messages here on Slashdot.

http://www.powercastco.com/

True Wireless Power

Powercast recognizes there are several alternatives available for powering devices without the use of wires, each with different addressable markets. The alternative methods may seem similar on the surface, however, they offer limited solutions. Powercast is the only company with the technology and component-level products to deliver continuous charging, and provide its capability at a scalable distance.

They even won a best of CES 2007 award from CNET:

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-12760_7-9673092-5.html

They released working wirelessly powered Christmas tree lights in December 2007 as a consumer product!

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-9793204-1.html

Stuff like this comes up all the time but disappears down the memory hole very shortly thereafter.

http://www.powercastco.com/

True Wireless Power

Powercast recognizes there are several alternatives available for powering devices without the use of wires, each with different addressable markets. The alternative methods may seem similar on the surface, however, they offer limited solutions. Powercast is the only company with the technology and component-level products to deliver continuous charging, and provide its capability at a scalable distance.

They even won a best of CES 2007 award from CNET:

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-12760_7-9673092-5.html

They released working wirelessly powered Christmas tree lights in December 2007 as a consumer product!

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-9793204-1.html

Stuff like this comes up all the time but disappears down the memory hole very shortly thereafter.

It isn't a big news and it is not new for sure.

It seems Sega is exempt from that clause, because some of its games on the iPhone are emulators running original ROM code."

It's not as if this is new behavior for Apple. There's been at least one other case of an app by a big developer breaking the SDK agreement and getting approved, even though they fully and publicly admitted to it.

Google acknowledged breaking the official rules of Apple's iPhone software development kit when it created the latest version of the Google Mobile application for the iPhone, but denied a more serious charge.

I just wanted to take a moment to remember MindRover, a great game that never really got to see it's full potential.

For the uninformed, MindRover was a game where you'd build autonomous robots and program them for a wide range of events, ranging from races to combat. The programming was done through a process called "wiring", where you'd link your robot's physical components (sensors, motors, weapons, etc...) to logic circuits of varying complexity through flow charts.

(It sounds tedious, but it gets to be fun once you figure out how it works.)

The game originally started out on Windows and was later ported to linux and Mac OS X.

If you can still find it, it's worth a look.

In the mean time, has anyone found some other robotics apps like MindRover? I found one called WebBots a few months ago, but it carries a $3,200 price tag. (Not exactly ideal for "playing around"...)

Well, so now either the RIAA starts arguments that it needs to gain access to the address where the IP is registered to search the computer before the case, or everyone starts arguing they never had a computer, or that they had an open wifi access point, or other legal hairsplitting on either side. I'm all for beating the riaa in court, but I'd prefer that it _somehow_ led to a debate of the copyright and patent laws themselves, like the Pirate Party winning a seat on the European Parliament, or a debate on proper amount of punitive damages the US law allows for, the RIAA reputation, etc. The Jammie Thomas-Rasset case is being pretty helpful.

What this has to do with the PS3 is left as an exercise to the reader.

If you look at many cell phone contracts, they do in fact decrease the early termination fee (recovering the value of the subsidy) by an incremental amount each month, such that an early termination results in a roughly pro-rata recoupment of the subsidy.

In the US, that's mostly because courts and legislators, starting in California, forced them to.

Slightly o/t, I'd like to see a court ruling about the massive non-linearity in the price for cellular data when you go over your monthly quota - for instance AT&T DataConnect costs $60 for the first 5GB, but then they charge "0.00048/KB" thereafter. I don't know if that second figure is in dollars or cents - they don't say - but that means the price increases by a factor of either 5760 or 57.6. Either number is insane.

The other thing I'd like to see is a ruling or law that limits maximum overage charges to some multiple of your base monthly bill. I find it repugnant that cell carriers are allowed to send people $18,000+ invoices for services that are advertised as costing only $60 monthly.

Industry apologists have tried to argue that these charges are due to network transit costs; the service providers use this obscene billing structure because that is the billing structure that has been inflicted on them by their network operators. I don't buy this argument for a second. AT&T, Verizon, etc., are enormous companies with sufficient resources and bargaining power to change these contracts. I believe they simply haven't bothered to, because they have decided that the current situation suits them well.

The 1st such war involved Estonia and Russia (and its sympathizers). The war was sparked by the moving of a bronze statue of a Russian soldier on April 27, 2007. Russians in both Russia and elsewhere were outraged. According to the article published by "The Guardian", "The [Internet] attacks have been pouring in from all over the world, but Estonian officials and computer security experts say that, particularly in the early phase, some attackers were identified by their internet addresses - many of which were Russian, and some of which were from Russian state institutions."

Computerworld published an article about the incident. The Estonian government convicted an ethnic Russian (living in Estonia) of the crime. However, other cyber thugs (working for the Kremlin) also contributed to the attack, but these criminals live outside Estonia and are beyond the reach of its justice system.

Note that Estonia was part of the democratization wave that swept Eastern Europe around 1990. The Kremlin had brutalized and occupied Estonia for about 45 years. If an Estonian had opposed the occupation, Russian "security" forces would have killed him. Thousands of Estonians died at the hands of the Russian occupiers.

Despite this decades-long tyranny, the Estonians revolted against their Russian occupiers and established a liberal Western democracy and a free market in 1991. That is how people act when they truly want freedom and free markets.

By contrast, in 1979, after the Iranians overthrew the despotic government supported by Washington, the Iranians immediately established a brutal Islamic theocracy. That is how people act when they reject both freedom and free markets.

Cultures are different. Estonian culture and Iranian culture are different. The Iranian people are 100% responsible for creating a brutal theocracy. They are 100% responsible for the terrorist acts funded and conducted by Tehran.

Why don't they sue the Internet companies for hosting the material and facilitating illegal copying. Instead of suing end users, grannies and dead people? Or did the CAN-SPAM act indemnify the ISPs.

I think you might be confusing the internet protection suit with just the AV protection. I don't use the firewall BS and I always disable the link scanner (although it is working smoothly nowadays). Never had real-time-protection turned off either.

Anyways, I don't remember the one update that screwed everything. Actually, I remember the reports of it but none of the 150 instances across 7-8 sites I manage with AVG as the Antivirus had the issue. However, deleting innocent files, system files, email, Programs you have ran for years or screwing other installed programs for no apparent reason doesn't seem to be an isolated or uncommon issue. Then there was the MS root certificate expiration BS where symantec clients froze the system for 10 minutes anytime you opened a signed program like office or adobe or whatever.

I doubt your going to find one piece of software that doesn't give fits at some point in time. This is especially true when you consider the complexity of an AV product. If when it does, it throws you off from it, then by all means, use something else. But be realistic because you might be bouncing around for a while.

• Update, 5:00 p.m.: A Microsoft representative said late Tuesday that the company has decided to extend the period for which Windows 7 machines will be eligible to downgrade to XP. Rather than a six-month window, as originally planned, the window will extend to either 18 months from the Windows 7 launch or until the release of the first service pack of Windows 7, whichever comes first.

Even if SP1 comes first, that will be at least a year after Windows 7 is released (as you predicted). Of course, if enough big customers complain when the deadline is looming, they'll probably extend it again.

Why would you have to worry in the first place?

It's perfectly natural to see projects switch technologies periodically. MLB has bounced between technologies for years and they may again based on their experiences this year.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10215761-93.html

Most of the big companies who have done Silverlight continue to do it, and we're certainly seeing plenty of media companies switching from Flash to Silverlight, and a bunch more once Silverlight 3 is launched with compatibility with F4V (Flash H.264) files.

And from a market share perspective all we need is one great Silverlight site for each user. It's not like someone needs to uninstall Flash to run Silverlight; it's not a zero-sum game.

I'm quite pleased with the current rate of adoption, myself. I'm obviously not going to announce new official numbers here, but there's plenty of sites that track these things that'll give you a sense of the velocity of install rate.

Apple has a effective monopoly in both industries.

Also untrue. The itunes store no longer has DRM for any music files, so any AAC compatible player (including ones made by Microsoft, Sony, Creative, and Samsung) will play songs purchased through it. That said, you are correct that they are using itunes as a means of promoting ipod sales.

Boy uh, that's a stretch.

Sadly, it's not even close to a stretch at all (aside from the silliness of receiving a punch). I just got a check last week from the FTC claiming that waaaaay back in 1998 a bank apparently sold a list of 3 million credit card numbers for the purpose of "scrubbing" internet transactions. They sold the numbers of other banks' members, so "not doing business with them" would not have gotten you off the list.

Needless to say, some porn company purchased the list and used it to fraudulently charge a lot of people a lot of money. What a punch in the face!

If anybody can point to an actual patent that Mono or Tomboy violate, please file an issue report against the Mono project;

I know it is a bit old but, we'll file one once they publish which part they're going to patent, of course, that shouldn't be long. PS: The only complaint I have of .NET is the syntax of LINQ, but what'cha going do?

Besides, anyone thinking that MS would attacking Linux using patents isn't giving Microsoft any credit. I figure that they would try to kill Linux (GNOME proper, since GNOME != Linux) via contracts with Linux vendors as opposed to patents. It just seems too obvious to go that (patents) route. Linux isn't the problem with MS, it is more like the vendors pandering Linux that is.

Also I develop on OpenJDK, I was wondering if you could provide a list of patents that the OpenJDK is infringing on? I'm sure we could work out what it is that you feel is something we may have overlooked.

Mono is way ahead of languages like Java in that regard because, unlike Java, Mono is based on an open standard

Could you clear that up? I'm not sure I follow what you are talking about. Is it because .NET is a standard through an organized body? Whereas, Java is basically a community process with Sun at the head of the community? If this is your beef with Java then what exactly is different between how Java is made versus something like, Linux or GNU HURD?

Besides, what is all this seemingly bad blood between .NET and Java? I've been to many PDCs and the people behind .NET seem pretty accepting of Java much like the Samba - Microsoft love (which granted isn't awesome but it is still pretty good). Also, the Mono devs are pretty cool people on IRC. Really? Do we need to build walls?

The Microsoft definition is driven by Intel. It's dumb of both of them, as it defines "premium netbook" as one that doesn't have either of their products in it but which has a bigger screen, more memory, more storage or a faster processor. It's a "loser mentality" that tries to protect the notebook market that's already in "race to the bottom" mode.

Since neither of them can prevent other manufacturers from innovating outside of this specification, that just make it easier for an up-an-coming manufacturer to create a new market without them, and enjoy the benefit of not having to compete with them in that market.

So of course after that happens the restrictions will go away and it will be a free-for-all again.

"It's a loser mentality to not develop one segment because you're worried about the other," he said. "I think we have several years ahead of us where we can innovate the heck out of any of these categories without getting defensive about the other one. You just need to unleash innovation in all of the segments and see what happens." - Sean Maloney

It's interesting to see Intel expanding out of their traditional markets and unleashing innovation in every direction. Since they're also staying pretty open about interfaces, people are going to do some pretty amazing stuff with their new products.

The biggest problem I see with this theory is that just today a huge 23% decline in US video game sales was reported. This quarter video game sales dropped below $1B for the first time in years. I could be wrong, but I doubt we're going to see anything like a $300M jump in music sales this quarter.

Yeah, that was an awkward moment when they were talking about tethering and totally skipped over AT&T, wasn't it?

Well, AT&T had no problem repeatedly, illegally spying on me and selling me out multiple times and then lobbying to get themselves off.

I canceled them as my home service and will never EVER use them again, which precludes an iPhone (for now).

Which is fine, because rooted Android has had tethering (bluetooth & wifi) for a while now.

I'll probably get modded down for this, but the latest versions of Norton aren't slow anymore. I used to be dead set against Norton, but 2009 came with my laptop and it is easily the least intrusive AV I've ever come across. It's never picked up a virus, so I can't comment on detection, but I've never gotten viruses in the past anyway.

I suggest you use it before regurgitating the old Norton issues.

http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/review-norton-internet-security-2009-not-ready-2008101/
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2330018,00.asp
http://reviews.cnet.com/internet-security-and-firewall/norton-internet-security-2009/4505-3667_7-33246586.html?tag=api&subj=re

Even Newegg customer reviews are overwhelmingly fives. Yes, I know there aren't a ton of reviews, but it's interesting nonetheless.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductReview.aspx?Item=N82E16832108387

I can't comment on Microsoft's offering, but I am a bit skeptical. If it's free, I'll probably try it at some point.

"Right, there's no way you could have, say, a malicious perl script." - by sqlrob (173498)
on Friday June 12, @09:46AM (#28307331)

Agreed, 110%... And, "right, there's no way you could have, say, a malicious javascripted page or malicious javascript adbanner affect Linux either"

(NOT! Mainly because javascript runs everywhere & is the "vector for infection" across any OS there is, via webbrowsers themselves - correct me if I am wrong on this account fellas, but, it's right along the same lines that sqlrob is hitting upon...).

APK

P.S.=> And, as far as the subject-line above? "Yea, right" (sarcasm) again, because these items show otherwise:

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Bitten By the Red Hat Perl Bug:

http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/29/1423201

(Per SQLRob's statement, no less)

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Linux.Slapper.Worm:

http://www.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2002-091311-5851-99

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New worm targets Linux systems (Lupper):

http://news.cnet.com/New-worm-targets-Linux-systems/2100-7349_3-5938475.html

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But, then again, because it was said on SLASHDOT that "Viruses aren't a problem in Linux", per the subject-line above (again)?

"Well, heck, those other sources I just put out MUST be lies"... right, Linux Penguins?

Hate to tell you this truth then: "NOT!"

Because the main thing defending Linux vs. these "heinous machinations" is the fact it is less used than Windows (The most used OS on the most used hardware platform for personal computers in x86 that there is, bar-none)...

I.E.-> Security by obscurity, as the saying goes, IS what defends Linux from attacks! IF Linux is ever as widely used as Windows is, you can bank on it that it will be just as oft attacked as Windows is & has been the past decade++ now, because it will be the most used. MacOS X, once it started gaining market share, began to be attacked a lot more than any other *NIX variant I know of, because of it gaining ground... same thing WOULD happen to Linux, should it start stealing personal computer desktop share worldwide.

(Mainly because today's malware makers aren't out to "wreck your machine", as they used to be - now, it's a far more serious game: They're after your personal information & monies (such as stealing credit card #'s &/or other personal info.) OR turning your machine into a zombied DDOS slave, so it can be used to attack others - so, to do that? These malware makers did the LOGICAL thing (from their pov), & that's to attack the most widely used body of systems there is, Windows NT-based ones!) apk

OEMs are the ones who said there was no consumer demand. Anything else, anonymous?

And by unapproved, I mean deals not approved by Hollywood and Redmond.

Seriously, are we looking for justice from the RIAADOJ? We may as well look for truth from Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf.

Shouldn't be too hard to harvest energy from changes of momentum and orientation, similar to how many mechanical watches have for years been able to wind themselves.

Like these guys.

A number of lawsuits were filed over that and at least one gained class action status [seattlepi.com].

And was smacked down, as it should have been.

Apple was not slapped with a class action lawsuit, so who has the authority to be criticizing, I certainly wouldn't say it's you.

Straw man. If you think OS X runs fine on a G4 _anything_ you're in no position to be criticising Vista's performance.

I can watch all sorts of PBS documentaries on Hulu...please take your pseudo intellectual indignation elsewhere.

Woooooosh!

http://news.cnet.com/E-voting-predicament-Not-so-secret-ballots/2100-1014_3-6203323.html

You could hash a voter_id onto a ticket type receipt where the voter keeps a record of their vote and the election official keeps the other half of the tab. Then you go to the website and look for your hash. If your hash doesn't match what is published you can complain to your local election officials. There is then a paper trail that can be tallied against voter registration without giving away voter ids.

The scam in this situation is that you could issue the same hash to people that vote the same way but then count their vote differently, however the election officials could see in the tally of their copies of the hash that there are multiple instances of the same hash.

So instead of VOTER_ID, CANDIDATE_ID you would have RECEIPT_ID, ISSUE_ID that could then be tabulated by anyone and the receipts could be tabulated by election officials in the event of a dispute.

The Toshiba VM-4050 had a forward facing camera. There were two screens, a small one on the outside and a larger one when you flipped it open. Res wasn't great though. http://reviews.cnet.com/cell-phones/toshiba-vm-4050-sprint/4505-6454_7-30734023.html

Anyone know if they make an ignition interlock like device that can prevent me from buying games on steam that I'll never play when I'm too drunk to know better?

Ask and you shall receive (sort of): http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19512_7-10122946-233.html