Real Story of the Rogue Rootkit

BokLM writes "Wired has an interesting article from Bruce Schneier about what's happening with the Sony Rootkit, and criticizing the anti-virus companies for not protecting its users. From the article: 'Much worse than not detecting it before Russinovich's discovery was the deafening silence that followed. When a new piece of malware is found, security companies fall over themselves to clean our computers and inoculate our networks. Not in this case.'"

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Re:A thought experiment

[suzerain]

I think it's a big pseudopsychological masturbation-fest from some asshole who can't control his porn watching habits, and feels that he has a "problem", so he deals with it by concocting this big bullshit treatise on the perfect partner as a way of dealing with his problem.

Re:A thought experiment

[Fordiman]

I can't argue with most of this, mostly because most of it is untestable (in scientific terms, they refer to such things as either "bunk" or "theoretical physics").

I will point out, however, that my mom told me a story about once, when I was a baby of less than a year old, I was in a shopping cart while she was getting some items from the aisle. Another woman with large breasts came by to coo over my baby form, and I reached right up to these breasts, rubbing them and saying, "ooooh, pwetty".

I'm pretty sure I'd never seen porn that young. No, they weren't my first words (those started in full sentences at 6 months).

As for the bisexual/threesome idea. It's something that comes from logical thought without inserting the "human element". Example in C++:

If (I->LikesWomen() && She->LikesWomen())
{
try (ShareWoman()) or catch(BackPedal(LIKE_A_MANIAC));
}

In other words, if sexual exclusion is not present in one person, the logical conclusion for the other person, being a sexually driven creature, would likely be to broach the topic of bringing in a third party. Or fourth.

What this sexually driven person sometimes doesn't realize is that there is the strong possibility that their partner wants monogamy, not more sex. Nor does this person realize that their competition has in fact doubled - but that's easily driven by internal denial.

"Assuming for the moment that men are NOT just naturally sex-crazed misogynists who only want to use women as a sex class"

Clue for you: Teenaged-thru-25-year-old boys and men ARE naturally sex-crazed. Chalk that up to millions of years of evolution. Sorry, but you're a member of a race that's survived on the extreme need for reproduction. While sex doesn't necessarily lead to reproduction these days, that doesn't stop the desire for it.

Meanwhile, why you be trolling with the offtopic shit, yo? This isn't gamegirl or women's weekly. It's Slashdot. We talk about technology and related issues, not prudish sexual philosophy.

Re:A thought experiment

[Fordiman]

Oh, and for a possible reason for the attractiveness of large breasts: Click here