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Kiddie Porn - The Virus Did It
The New York Times reports on a British man who was accused of downloading child pornography, and who successfully convinced the court that a virus did it. This is at least the second time this has happened. These cases are extremely interesting since they bring together all sorts of issues of computerized agents - who is actually responsible when your computer does something?
It is common knowledge that *BSD is dying, that ever hapless *BSD is mired in an irrecoverable and mortifying tangle of fatal trouble. It is perhaps anybody's guess as to which *BSD is the worst off of an admittedly suffering *BSD community. The numbers continue to decline for *BSD but FreeBSD may be hurting the most. Look at the numbers. The loss of user base for FreeBSD continues in a head spinning downward spiral.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of BSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major marketing surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is exteremely sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dilettante dabblers. In truth, for all practical purposes *BSD is already dead. It is a dead man walking.
Fact: *BSD is dying
Same shit, different smell.
If you can't secure a computer, don't put it on the net!
Microsoft... if it was secure in the first place then this sort of thing couldn't happen...
Donald 'Duck' Dunn: We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline.
But that's not relevant to the point he/she was making. Either way, the Israeli's shouldn't be occupying land outside Israel.
Not at all; I'm saying that the number of people who like to look at kiddie porn has little to no relation to the number of people actually arrested for kiddie porn.
And pot is different in that the number of people who need to be inconvenienced must exceed the number of people who are convenienced by the status quo - and the War on Drugs has turned out to be perpetually convenient. Nevertheless, once enough high-profile conservatives are bitten for drug possession, you'll see a change.
-Hentai [in vita non pacem est]