But they should. Industry wants to make general public to believe that computers are easy. Computer are complicated devices with great processing power. They offer the user a good deal of choices and freedoms. These freedoms, however, come at a price. Millions computers linked together with a global network offer unmatched possibilities to gain knowledge and information, to communicate and play. It is a great power with which should come great responsibility. But it doesn't. It is because of that common belief that computer is a toy and simple to use we have much more SPAM than normal e-mails. The industry is only partly to blame for this disaster -- all they want is to sell more. Clueless users who pollute the network with their infected powerful machines are the main reason for this -- they have bought a PC where all they needed is possibly an Internet-enabled game console, bought it without knowing how to use it and they refuse to learn at the expense of others.
As for Linux -- you don't download software from the Web, you use package managers. One attack vector less, especially for newbies who don't know the Windows' way. Besides, diversity rules.
No one safe for Microsoft PR people can argue that right now a Linux desktop is very close to be a 100%-secure installation. Be it for better design or less widespread -- the point stands and it won't change overnight. Linux is secure. Even if that should change somehow some day in the distant future -- the needed infrastructure is ready, there already are AV products for Linux, one apt-get will take care of the rest.
Does no one in S. Korea see that this is a complete and utter bullshit? N. Korea has neither Internet access to raise nor money to acquire skilled hackers.
>Plus, it launched on July 4th, not a particularly significant day for North Koreans...
What could North Korea possibly have to do with any of this? They don't have Internet access save for Party elite, how could they raise computer security specialists skilled enough to make a successful botnet? They also have no money to acquire specialists which are needed for the attack. I don't think that North Korea is interested in such attacks at all (even those few among them who know what Internet is).
I'm not him, but I'd rather have the customer telling all his relatives and friends about how good and reliable my services were. Less short-time profit, more long-time profit. And a reputation is something you can't buy with money, on the other hand good reputation might get you some.
The reasoning is, if you play a role of a villain, you are assumed to be evil. That's the "role" part in a role playing game. Hence, the heroes are supposed to stop you. And vice-verse.
Ahh... customs... Off-topic follows. You can actually create customs in lab conditions.
A group of apes live together in an enclosure. There is a ladder in said enclosure with a banana on top of it. If some ape tries to access the ladder however, all apes are thrown cold water at.
Now, let's replace one ape with a new one. When that newbie tries to grab the banana all other apes beat him. If we replace another ape -- same beating will happen to it too and former newbie will participate in it very actively.
If we continue to replace apes one by one we'll end up with a bunch of high mammals who never took a cold shower but don't even try to grab a banana. Because its a custom.
Do you remember WISE? Windows Interface Source Environment. A program that purportedly allowed developers to write software to Windows APIs and run the resulting programs on Macintosh and UNIX systems. It was issued in 1994. By 1996 Microsoft had captured a large share of the corporate market and has proceeded to the next step: Microsoft has extended the Windows API without copying its changes to the WISE program. This meant that developers could no longer smoothly port applications to UNIX and Macintosh. In public, however, Microsoft continued to lead developers into believing that this software was still fully cross-platform. In 1997, Bill Gates noted in an internal email that those developers who wrote applications for the then-available software without realizing that it would not port all APIs to UNIX and Macintosh were "just fucked."
have accidentally replied earlier than I would like to. As you didn't provide any citations, I have assumed that you expect me to find your sources myself and don't mind the same applied to you.
I was referring to Opinion Research Business survey, an independent British polling agency. And no, they don't deny Holocaust before you ask. Although this report was largely ignored by western mass-media it's still one Google away. Even if you take Lancet surveys you'll still get 600000 as of June 2006, about 500 dead per day on an average. And please, don't insult us both by crying "Iraq Body Count", they count only media-covered violence (and mainstream media is constantly losing interest to Iraq).
As for your numbers -- the sources I have found also tell fairy-tails about plastic shredder, a myth that was already debunked (similar to WMD's).
What if a long-going civil war will now happen instead, a kind that would last for decades? History has known both civil wars and velvet revolutions which have ended tyrannic regimes. There is no way of telling the future. For the time being my point stands. And you *may* be able to say "toldya" in 20 years or so. I, for one, doubt that next 20 years will be any better than last 6.
Some sources say about more than a million dead Iraqis since the beginning of the invasion. That'd be about 27 years in Saddams terms. Young democracy has made it to the same amount in just 6 years.
You have to take a look at a broader picture sometimes. Saddam Hussein was by all means a bad person, his regime was oppressive and has committed numerous crimes. Yet such power was needed to keep such country as Iraq together. Look at the mess that happens now that he's been hanged in a kangaroo trial. The government is weak, corrupt (not that Saddam's government wasn't) but most importantly unable to control the situation and only massive US military involvement (who are, incidentally, behind the whole mess) keeps the country from a full scaled civil war between Shii and Sunni, separation of Kurds and further destabilisation of the whole region as Turkish Kurds would want to rejoin their Iraqi brothers. You may think of Saddam anything you want, but he was a better deal for a majority of people in Iraq and many people in other countries as well. And streets of Baghdad were much safer then that they are now.
You'll see, the USA will install another "democratic" dictator there, if they want to prevent Iraq from falling apart.
The only way they'll provide IE for for other OS' is if they want to recapture lost markets again.
As Mac example shows us, they'll drop support as soon as the market is theirs. In fact, they even stopped developing a Windows version at that point and the world was stuck with IE6 for many years.
You have to agree that they have a point -- IE8 has not one, but two standard compatibility modes: one that mimics IE6 and the other that tries to mimic at actual standard at least to some extend.
See? How much standard compatibility modes does Firefox have? One. Chrome? One. IE? Two! That's where it shines, that's why it is more standards compatible. Because, as we all know, two are better than one!
1. VirtualBox is better optimized for XP (or vice verse). Linux is known to be slower there. Try real equipment.
2. Clean XP install is as useless as a snooze button on a smoke alarm. Install software, for Gods sake! And don't forget an antivirus. We aren't talking about clean lab environment, it's a harsh real virtual world outside.
You're not alone in that experience. I've converted my father to Linux a couple of years ago. I converted him because of security issues and all the Window maintenance hassle. But I also know that the real reason he has switched were foobillard and same-gnome. He still plays his old spider game in wine though because he doesn't want to lose fine statistics he has there (have to look whether I can change AisleRiot's stats manually to make him switch:) ).
Hey, thanks a lot for the info! These damn fonts were driving me nuts! Good to hear it's solved. I'll test it on my lappy now and if it flies -- gotta close that bugreport...
Hollywood. It has produced so many movies where hundreds of people are killed and shit blows up in a spectacular way. Yet there are not much movies where rape is glorified or even shown. Said movies have formed morals of some generations so it is seen as acceptable.
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But they should. Industry wants to make general public to believe that computers are easy. Computer are complicated devices with great processing power. They offer the user a good deal of choices and freedoms. These freedoms, however, come at a price.
Millions computers linked together with a global network offer unmatched possibilities to gain knowledge and information, to communicate and play. It is a great power with which should come great responsibility. But it doesn't.
It is because of that common belief that computer is a toy and simple to use we have much more SPAM than normal e-mails.
The industry is only partly to blame for this disaster -- all they want is to sell more. Clueless users who pollute the network with their infected powerful machines are the main reason for this -- they have bought a PC where all they needed is possibly an Internet-enabled game console, bought it without knowing how to use it and they refuse to learn at the expense of others.
As for Linux -- you don't download software from the Web, you use package managers. One attack vector less, especially for newbies who don't know the Windows' way. Besides, diversity rules.
No one safe for Microsoft PR people can argue that right now a Linux desktop is very close to be a 100%-secure installation. Be it for better design or less widespread -- the point stands and it won't change overnight. Linux is secure. Even if that should change somehow some day in the distant future -- the needed infrastructure is ready, there already are AV products for Linux, one apt-get will take care of the rest.
Does no one in S. Korea see that this is a complete and utter bullshit? N. Korea has neither Internet access to raise nor money to acquire skilled hackers.
>Plus, it launched on July 4th, not a particularly significant day for North Koreans...
What could North Korea possibly have to do with any of this? They don't have Internet access save for Party elite, how could they raise computer security specialists skilled enough to make a successful botnet? They also have no money to acquire specialists which are needed for the attack. I don't think that North Korea is interested in such attacks at all (even those few among them who know what Internet is).
Clara Furse, the CEO of the London Stock Exchange got.
So you're trying to tell me that emerging generation isn't completely lost?
But did you notice any unusual shifts last couple months? Can you take a look at that statistics?
I'm not him, but I'd rather have the customer telling all his relatives and friends about how good and reliable my services were. Less short-time profit, more long-time profit.
And a reputation is something you can't buy with money, on the other hand good reputation might get you some.
In some countries it is forbidden by law to make a referendum to extend the head's of state term. I believe that is the case in Honduras too.
The reasoning is, if you play a role of a villain, you are assumed to be evil. That's the "role" part in a role playing game. Hence, the heroes are supposed to stop you. And vice-verse.
Ahh... customs... Off-topic follows.
You can actually create customs in lab conditions.
A group of apes live together in an enclosure. There is a ladder in said enclosure with a banana on top of it. If some ape tries to access the ladder however, all apes are thrown cold water at.
Now, let's replace one ape with a new one. When that newbie tries to grab the banana all other apes beat him. If we replace another ape -- same beating will happen to it too and former newbie will participate in it very actively.
If we continue to replace apes one by one we'll end up with a bunch of high mammals who never took a cold shower but don't even try to grab a banana.
Because its a custom.
Do you remember WISE? Windows Interface Source Environment. A program that purportedly allowed developers to write software to Windows APIs and run the resulting programs on Macintosh and UNIX systems. It was issued in 1994. By 1996 Microsoft had captured a large share of the corporate market and has proceeded to the next step: Microsoft has extended the Windows API without copying its changes to the WISE program. This meant that developers could no longer smoothly port applications to UNIX and
Macintosh. In public, however, Microsoft continued to lead developers into believing that this software was still fully cross-platform. In 1997, Bill Gates noted in an internal email that those developers who wrote applications for the then-available software without realizing that it would not port all APIs to UNIX and Macintosh were "just fucked."
have accidentally replied earlier than I would like to.
As you didn't provide any citations, I have assumed that you expect me to find your sources myself and don't mind the same applied to you.
I was referring to Opinion Research Business survey, an independent British polling agency. And no, they don't deny Holocaust before you ask. Although this report was largely ignored by western mass-media it's still one Google away.
Even if you take Lancet surveys you'll still get 600000 as of June 2006, about 500 dead per day on an average.
And please, don't insult us both by crying "Iraq Body Count", they count only media-covered violence (and mainstream media is constantly losing interest to Iraq).
As for your numbers -- the sources I have found also tell fairy-tails about plastic shredder, a myth that was already debunked (similar to WMD's).
>I try to limit myself to credible sources, you should try it.
Speaking of which -- I am still waiting for a citation about 75-125 innocents a day.
What if a long-going civil war will now happen instead, a kind that would last for decades? History has known both civil wars and velvet revolutions which have ended tyrannic regimes.
There is no way of telling the future.
For the time being my point stands. And you *may* be able to say "toldya" in 20 years or so. I, for one, doubt that next 20 years will be any better than last 6.
Some sources say about more than a million dead Iraqis since the beginning of the invasion. That'd be about 27 years in Saddams terms. Young democracy has made it to the same amount in just 6 years.
You have to take a look at a broader picture sometimes. Saddam Hussein was by all means a bad person, his regime was oppressive and has committed numerous crimes. Yet such power was needed to keep such country as Iraq together.
Look at the mess that happens now that he's been hanged in a kangaroo trial. The government is weak, corrupt (not that Saddam's government wasn't) but most importantly unable to control the situation and only massive US military involvement (who are, incidentally, behind the whole mess) keeps the country from a full scaled civil war between Shii and Sunni, separation of Kurds and further destabilisation of the whole region as Turkish Kurds would want to rejoin their Iraqi brothers.
You may think of Saddam anything you want, but he was a better deal for a majority of people in Iraq and many people in other countries as well. And streets of Baghdad were much safer then that they are now.
You'll see, the USA will install another "democratic" dictator there, if they want to prevent Iraq from falling apart.
The only way they'll provide IE for for other OS' is if they want to recapture lost markets again.
As Mac example shows us, they'll drop support as soon as the market is theirs. In fact, they even stopped developing a Windows version at that point and the world was stuck with IE6 for many years.
You have to agree that they have a point -- IE8 has not one, but two standard compatibility modes: one that mimics IE6 and the other that tries to mimic at actual standard at least to some extend.
See? How much standard compatibility modes does Firefox have? One. Chrome? One. IE? Two! That's where it shines, that's why it is more standards compatible. Because, as we all know, two are better than one!
1. VirtualBox is better optimized for XP (or vice verse). Linux is known to be slower there. Try real equipment.
2. Clean XP install is as useless as a snooze button on a smoke alarm. Install software, for Gods sake! And don't forget an antivirus. We aren't talking about clean lab environment, it's a harsh real virtual world outside.
So why haven't you talk about this to your system administrator?
You're not alone in that experience. I've converted my father to Linux a couple of years ago. I converted him because of security issues and all the Window maintenance hassle. :) ).
But I also know that the real reason he has switched were foobillard and same-gnome. He still plays his old spider game in wine though because he doesn't want to lose fine statistics he has there (have to look whether I can change AisleRiot's stats manually to make him switch
Hey, thanks a lot for the info! These damn fonts were driving me nuts! Good to hear it's solved. I'll test it on my lappy now and if it flies -- gotta close that bugreport...
Hollywood. It has produced so many movies where hundreds of people are killed and shit blows up in a spectacular way. Yet there are not much movies where rape is glorified or even shown. Said movies have formed morals of some generations so it is seen as acceptable.
They will be able to run Windows CE (which is a good thing for Linux though :) ).
You were joking but there is actually a movement to ban Minesweeper game -- it allegedly hurts feelings of landmine victims.