Bill Gates is supported by a system of veins and arteries that cycle blood throughout his body, as well as a set of lungs which collect oxygen which is then added to the blood...
"Also, he works with three monitors and is looking forward to buying a digital whiteboard next year."
I can't fathom why the world's richest man would wait for any period of time before buying something, especially if it's something useful!
No matter how nasty worms get a user still has to execute them for his/her PC to become infected -- and even then with a decent setup there's still the possibility/probability of a correctly-setup anti-virus prog checking the message between the user's click(s) and the execution of the malware.
So, malware makers are not so much "ahead of the game" as "still reliant on the problem that exists between the keyboard and the chair."
Instead, we never had this as an option, combined with the fact that the.COM registrars will give a domain to just about anybody that can breath and has DNA!!
When you don't use the web browser as a wide-open portal to the internals of your operating system you run a lot less risks. Whether it's Firefox or Opera or whatever else, other browsers are unable to do the sort of damage that IE can do BY DESIGN.
Why do I say BY DESIGN? Try and use Windows Update with any browser but IE...
Incidentally, that question is asked every time a new Windows or IE critical security flaw comes along, and the answer is always the same.
I decided to make a Windows XP SP2 "slipstream" disc yesterday in case I had to reinstall (you can never be too paranoid about this). So I got my "Genuine Microsoft" XP (no SP) CD, got the SP2 fixes put in, then proceeded to get the critical fixes so I wouldn't spend the whole day rebooting and patching.
There are 40 critical patches for XP SP2. 40. Most of them are "integratable" (you can include them using the/integrate switch), but others are not. Largely it's still a dog's breakfast. Even after doing that I had to go on Windows update and load a few more high-priority (but apparently not critical) updates, as well as a bunch of other stuff to make things work properly (.NET frameworks, various non-high-priority updates, etc.
If I'd made the CD next month, how many critical fixes would that be? 45? 50? who knows. Microsoft could make an "up to date from SP2" patch designed for ease of integration, but they don't. I imagine it'd be a bit of a drag trying to figure out if everything does in fact work together at all.
I kinda feel sorry for the guys who have to migrate or install XP on whole networks... now THERE's a job that never ends.
It's also good to keep in mind that Google limits its workforce to people who demonstrate a fairly high intelligence. It's no guarantee that every idea they come up with is a golden one, but it certainly improves the odds that at least some of them are really worth looking into.
The idea of a pure meritocracy, although noble, is doomed because it is at odds with existing hierarchies.
In a sense it's the same reason why getting a degree is a good idea nearly 100% of the time. Bill Gates may be the richest man in the world AND a college dropout, but the only reason he was able to achieve this was that he (with a number of other people) formed his own company. The minute you want to step away from the entrepreneurial path you need to have a degree -- any degree, as long as it's a valid one.
Likewise in any existing business hierarchy merely delivering the goods is not good enough -- you have to deliver the goods AND play the office politics game in order to get ahead, and more often than not that means letting your boss take credit for ideas you come up with.
*Claria's new business model is 'a new platform designed to provide consumers with a personalized Internet experience.'*
Just like a virus Claria's evil will simply mutate into a more, well, virulent and invasive strain which will require new remedies to eradicate. Yay for malware!
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*They use PAL instead of NTSC for standard def TVs. HTDV all uses the same standard. Isn't that great?*
Not as far as I know. You see I have this *cough*cough* friend with a hacked PS2 and an HDTV set (component video input), and when, er, he puts in a European title it boots, but the image cycles vertically on his TV, making it unplayable.
Of course his TV was made and bought in 2003, and things might have changed since then.
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This announcement seems all flash and no substance -- Europe will STILL have to have a separate set of games because they use PAL instead of NTSC anyway. What this *might* mean is that more Japanese-market games will be playable by NA gamers. Now don't get me wrong, that's a good thing, but it's hard not to think that the real reason for this is Sony wanting to save money where it can by not creating unnecessary "editions" of the same games.
Of course an OS with less holes is better than one with more holes, but what does that have to do with an OS with more, worse security holes and a longer patch cycle?
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Bill Gates is supported by a system of veins and arteries that cycle blood throughout his body, as well as a set of lungs which collect oxygen which is then added to the blood...
"Also, he works with three monitors and is looking forward to buying a digital whiteboard next year." I can't fathom why the world's richest man would wait for any period of time before buying something, especially if it's something useful!
"What could possibly go wrong?"
Is there a non-iPod player that can actually play AAC?
Perhaps there is, but I can't think of one.
Enough of proprietary formats that lock you into one brand of hardware... whether it's called MD, UMD, ATRA or anything else (frankly, even AAC).
How can one tell whether something is really on MySpace or a parody of something on MySpace?!?
It would have been funnier if this hadn't been exactly what Symantec did with Sygate (buy it to kill it)..
Clearly subtlety is the key here!
Heck, looking at pr0n is "playing solitaire", if you know what I mean...
No matter how nasty worms get a user still has to execute them for his/her PC to become infected -- and even then with a decent setup there's still the possibility/probability of a correctly-setup anti-virus prog checking the message between the user's click(s) and the execution of the malware.
So, malware makers are not so much "ahead of the game" as "still reliant on the problem that exists between the keyboard and the chair."
Instead, we never had this as an option, combined with the fact that the .COM registrars will give a domain to just about anybody that can breath and has DNA!!
Oh, I don't think they're THAT strict.
The ICANN guys were too busy masturbating to schedule the damn meetings.
When you don't use the web browser as a wide-open portal to the internals of your operating system you run a lot less risks. Whether it's Firefox or Opera or whatever else, other browsers are unable to do the sort of damage that IE can do BY DESIGN.
Why do I say BY DESIGN? Try and use Windows Update with any browser but IE...
Incidentally, that question is asked every time a new Windows or IE critical security flaw comes along, and the answer is always the same.
I decided to make a Windows XP SP2 "slipstream" disc yesterday in case I had to reinstall (you can never be too paranoid about this). So I got my "Genuine Microsoft" XP (no SP) CD, got the SP2 fixes put in, then proceeded to get the critical fixes so I wouldn't spend the whole day rebooting and patching.
/integrate switch), but others are not. Largely it's still a dog's breakfast. Even after doing that I had to go on Windows update and load a few more high-priority (but apparently not critical) updates, as well as a bunch of other stuff to make things work properly (.NET frameworks, various non-high-priority updates, etc.
There are 40 critical patches for XP SP2. 40. Most of them are "integratable" (you can include them using the
If I'd made the CD next month, how many critical fixes would that be? 45? 50? who knows. Microsoft could make an "up to date from SP2" patch designed for ease of integration, but they don't. I imagine it'd be a bit of a drag trying to figure out if everything does in fact work together at all.
I kinda feel sorry for the guys who have to migrate or install XP on whole networks... now THERE's a job that never ends.
It's also good to keep in mind that Google limits its workforce to people who demonstrate a fairly high intelligence. It's no guarantee that every idea they come up with is a golden one, but it certainly improves the odds that at least some of them are really worth looking into.
The idea of a pure meritocracy, although noble, is doomed because it is at odds with existing hierarchies.
In a sense it's the same reason why getting a degree is a good idea nearly 100% of the time. Bill Gates may be the richest man in the world AND a college dropout, but the only reason he was able to achieve this was that he (with a number of other people) formed his own company. The minute you want to step away from the entrepreneurial path you need to have a degree -- any degree, as long as it's a valid one.
Likewise in any existing business hierarchy merely delivering the goods is not good enough -- you have to deliver the goods AND play the office politics game in order to get ahead, and more often than not that means letting your boss take credit for ideas you come up with.
I have the feeling that an awful lot of ideas out there are the "penny stock" kind -- you know, the type you get a lot of spam about...
I guess it's possible to widdle a 2x4 into a toothpick... you just need a lot of time and a few kegs of beer!
*Claria's new business model is 'a new platform designed to provide consumers with a personalized Internet experience.'*
Just like a virus Claria's evil will simply mutate into a more, well, virulent and invasive strain which will require new remedies to eradicate. Yay for malware!
*They use PAL instead of NTSC for standard def TVs. HTDV all uses the same standard. Isn't that great?*
Not as far as I know. You see I have this *cough*cough* friend with a hacked PS2 and an HDTV set (component video input), and when, er, he puts in a European title it boots, but the image cycles vertically on his TV, making it unplayable.
Of course his TV was made and bought in 2003, and things might have changed since then.
This announcement seems all flash and no substance -- Europe will STILL have to have a separate set of games because they use PAL instead of NTSC anyway. What this *might* mean is that more Japanese-market games will be playable by NA gamers. Now don't get me wrong, that's a good thing, but it's hard not to think that the real reason for this is Sony wanting to save money where it can by not creating unnecessary "editions" of the same games.
Honda? Surely you meant Hyundai?
Of course an OS with less holes is better than one with more holes, but what does that have to do with an OS with more, worse security holes and a longer patch cycle?
There's an excellent story about this sort of thing here (via another tech site with a digging-related name).
"Microsoft" and "open"... damn, I must be having a stroke.