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Over a Million Zombie PCs
Doyle writes "A BBC article discusses new research revealing that over 1 million computers have been compromised and are being used in bot nets. From the article: 'The largest network spied on by the team was made up of 50,000 hijacked home computers.'"
Just remember that it is also the responsibility of the computer users to patch their systems in a timely manner as soon as they are available.
If Linux had the the type of marketshare like Microsoft, there would still be plenty of zombie PCs to go around with unpatched systems.
Just putting an end to the mindless MS bashfest that inevitably arises with stories like these.
Slashdot: The left's answer to Rush Limbaugh...
Don't fall into their trap. The childish cynics and the childish idealists would have you believe that they are part of the left and right wings of the political spectrum; that one is conservative and the other liberal.
This is wrong. For proof, simply look at a dictionary whose definition of either term goes beyond "conservatives believe in right/conservative things" and "liberals believe in left/liberal things" and you'll see that the attempts by the "left" to keep things the same and the attempts by the "right" to do things that have never been done before, along with other actions which run directly contrary to the true meaning of various areas of the political spectrum or the meaning of those two words Conservative and Liberal.
Myself? I'm a conservative in the truest and best sense of the word: a traditionalist who tends to be frugal with expendatures, underestimate income, and prefers to limit government power. Following the lessons of the past, however, leads me to want to continue the best traditions which have made the modern world prosperous and free, rather than become one of the bickering children who would claim that their simplistic worldview, ignorant of the past, present, or future, is anything like the noble philosophies of the true left or right.
It's been a long time.