Moore's Law doesn't just happen- it requires lots of improvements like this for it to be met. One can't just "sit back"
and wait for it to magically make chips smaller, faster and cheaper; it takes human effort of this sort.
People/organisations generally have two reasons for any action, namely a good reason and the real reason. Assuming that avoiding another High school shooting is Pinkerton's good reason, what might their real reason be?
I guess they're in it for the profit. Here are suggested ways to make money out of a list of students reported as misfits by their peers.
1) Pinkertons will use the list for recruitment, figuring that those reported for geekdoom will be quite bright.
2) They will use the list as a first port of call when their detective work requires them to find "misfits".
3) They've got a load of t-shirts and baseball caps that costs them a fortune to store, and they need to get rid of them all quikly.
4) Like.com start-ups they'll try to get a list of names together first and worry about how to make money from them later.
5) They'll blackmail the schools in question by saying, "We have information that suggests one of your pupils is making a bomb. We'll tell you who for $5000."
6) They hope that concerned parents of the reported will pay to have their children headshrunk.
Oh, and since when did jocks get motivated by free clothes? I thought the more expensive the better for those guys....
I think that the goodwill shown towards Linux by non-professional programmers will protect it from "conventionally developed" virii. Potential virus writers are unlikely to disrupt the Linux OS, which is closer to the haxx0r "ethic" than Windows and the like.
Linux's biggest threat from malicious software would be if MS ported Office or Explorer. Spreads like wildfire, ties up system resources, fills disks with huge files....
What are the biggest threats to the concept of OS software? Are there any legal battles looming? Could a war chest be set up to help fight GPL violations and the like?
Pico's a gret console based ed. It started life as the message editor of pine, but there is now a separate executable for it. All the functions are via control keys, in the familiar pine sytlie. It's small, it's quick and a lurve it.
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Or do Apple's Gx procs just not get hot no matter what?
That's just it, really, isn't it. If someone has no regard for their own safety, no security system will keep them out.
Moore's Law doesn't just happen- it requires lots of improvements like this for it to be met. One can't just "sit back"
and wait for it to magically make chips smaller, faster and cheaper; it takes human effort of this sort.
People/organisations generally have two reasons for any action,
.com start-ups they'll try to get a list of names together first
namely a good reason and the real reason. Assuming that avoiding another
High school shooting is Pinkerton's good reason, what might their real
reason be?
I guess they're in it for the profit. Here are suggested ways to make
money out of a list of students reported as misfits by their peers.
1) Pinkertons will use the list for recruitment, figuring that those
reported for geekdoom will be quite bright.
2) They will use the list as a first port of call when their detective
work requires them to find "misfits".
3) They've got a load of t-shirts and baseball caps that costs
them a fortune to store, and they need to get rid of them all quikly.
4) Like
and worry about how to make money from them later.
5) They'll blackmail the schools in question by saying, "We have
information that suggests one of your pupils is making a bomb. We'll tell
you who for $5000."
6) They hope that concerned parents of the reported will pay to have
their children headshrunk.
Oh, and since when did jocks get motivated by free clothes? I thought the
more expensive the better for those guys....
I think that the goodwill shown towards Linux by non-professional programmers will protect it from "conventionally developed" virii. Potential virus writers are unlikely to disrupt the Linux OS, which is closer to the haxx0r "ethic" than Windows and the like.
Linux's biggest threat from malicious software would be if MS ported Office or Explorer. Spreads like wildfire, ties up system resources, fills disks with huge files....
What are the biggest threats to the concept of OS software? Are there any
legal battles looming? Could a war chest be set up to help fight GPL
violations and the like?
Didn't this topic used to be called
"Care to register www.gates.sucks?"?
Was someone offended?
Pico's a gret console based ed. It started life as the message editor of pine, but there is now a separate executable for it. All the functions are via control keys, in the familiar pine sytlie. It's small, it's quick and a lurve it.