no, he's right. Say there are 900 viruses in the world, 300 for Windows, 300 for Mac, 300 for Unix.
If you're an all Windows shop, you are vulnerable to only 300 viruses. If you're a fully hetero shop, you're subject to all 900.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months." -jafac's law
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Basically, if you want to affect this process, you must get an account (you weenie), and become a useful and productive member of/. society, reading, and posting nice, on-topic posts, and eventually, if you're a good boy, and don't troll and flamebait, you'll get moderator privileges too. Even I got moderator a couple of times, so if an idiot like me can get it, so can you, just stop being such a dufus. All opinions, even pro-MS opinions are, in fact, welcome on/. It's just distorting facts and offtopic posts that get moderated out. We used to have a couple of pro-MS people who posted all the time, one was named sql*kitten, often posted some insightful stuff, rarely got hauled-out for repeating MS-marketing FUD, because he was smart, and avoided such foolishness.
If you don't want to be a part of the/. community, then don't get an account, stop posting, and stop complaining about the rules.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months." -jafac's law
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Sounds to me like Steve Barhkto went and got a degree at DeVry!
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months." -jafac's law
You put way too much faith in technology - and the so-called free-market.
Once some company knows they've got you by the balls, they'll screw you, and send you the bill for services rendered. QOS guarantees? You've got to be joking. Any other service I rely on today? Like my Cable? Like my phone service? You're talking about adding costs for consumers, and decreasing reliability, and options. you think Microsoft has you by the balls now? Just wait until they bill you per-OS boot!
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months." -jafac's law
the perfect example of why you don't want to rely on a network for your critical apps: The dreaded Slashdot effect.
Anybody try to go to Symantec today to download a virus update for the latest viral attrocity? Forget it. Wait until next week. Now, I'm smart enough to resist the temptation of opening an unsolicited attachment while there's warnings flying all over the press and from every person I know who has a computer. So I can wait a week or two for the update to become "reasonably available". But when there's a mission critical application I need to use, it's gotta be local if at all possible. If I need to get something done, I don't want to sit on my ass waiting while 200,000 other users are pegging someone's server whom I'm paying to rent per-use software from. I'm certainly not going to store data, encrypted or otherwise, on someone else's machine across the internet. Not only is it not secure, (anyone can bust in and decode it at their leisure), it's risky. How does one handle a situation where your Internet Storage Provider says, "sorry, our system crashed and when we tried to restore your data from backup it was corrupted"? I know, all of these things can happen with data stored locally, but with local data, you are answerable to yourself, and you know exactly what is done to your data, and you are in charge of how well protected it is.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months." -jafac's law
fsck that, my desktop machine's SCSI or ATA (or FireWire) bus gets me my data MUCH more quickly than say, even my stored data on my server across the 100mbps ethernet LAN - and you expect me to trade that for a dialup line that I gotta pay $30 a month for?
If the power goes out that's one thing, then say there's a 1:1000 chance I can't use my computer on a given afternoon, but add onto that the chance that the network is down, congested, infected with or dealing with ExploreZip's descendents, etc. Again I say FSCK that!
Then, on top of that, perhaps I forget my password to the network, perhaps someone hacks my account, perhaps their billing program barfs on a y2k bug and cancels my account, so I have to call their customer service rep during business hours on a weekday to get the account reinstated, and it's Saturday at 2am and I have a project deadline for Monday morning?
There's just way too many things that can go wrong in the "networked future". So again, I say FSCK that, I want MY data, and MY software on MY machine, on MY desktop. I don't need or want to be reliant on someone else's network service, or their goodwill to keep their prices down once they've monopolized the market, or their altruistic desire to improve the reliability and speed, or to hire competent people -
Forget it man, this is what the PC revolution was all about in the first place. Now that we've got network connections on desktop PC's, we have available the best of BOTH worlds, but take your elements of 1960's centralized control mainframes running dumb terminals, and shove them up your USB port.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months." -jafac's law
I think there have been a number of Sci Fi stories based on this premise, that the ancient aliens that visited prehistoric earth encoded messages in our DNA, meant for us to decode millenia later when we had advanced far enough - One of the best variations on this (IMHO) was The Andromeda Strain, where aliens had sent out millions of microscopic space "capsules", with a genetically engineered germ living on them, designed to live off the material of the "capsule", and radiation in space. It would be cheaper to mass produce billioins of these capsules with the germ, and send them out into space, than to attempt to broadcast radio waves into space to contact other civilizations. Since these capsules would normally burn-up on entry to an atmosphere, a non-spacefaring race would not be able to receive this "signal", but in the story, Earth sent up satellites to scoop micrometiorites out of orbital space for research. The craft that intercepted the capsule crashed in Piedmont, Arizona, and the germ mutated, and destroyed the entire population. The USAF then took the capsule to a secret underground lab where they picked it apart and discoverd the secret. (but not before some tense moments when the thing mutated again, and started eating all the rubber gaskets, and leaked into the lab, and the automatic nuclear self-destruct was triggered - just as the scientists figured out that this thing thrived on gamma radiation.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months." -jafac's law
... yeah, right, and Gulf War Syndrome was sold by US Biowar companies to Saddam Hussein back in the '80s while he was at war with Iraq, and used on US troops in Desert Storm, and now the USAF is spraying US cities with a genetically modified virus to impart US populations with resistance to the Syndrome so we don't catch it from the infected troops returning home. . .
http://strangehaze.freeservers.com/index.html
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months." -jafac's law
Yeah, that's the plan. Ship-off all the human inhabitants of Earth (non essential MS employees included) to Mars, and then corner the Oxygen market. Sell it with a per-breath license fee.
Then, he won't have to worry about Linux anymore.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months." -jafac's law
It's not the OS extensions you gotta worry about, it will be the IIS-specific extensions to Perl that MS will use to "extend" and marginalize the standard. And they'll sell it in some nifty development tool, probably compulsarily bundled with IE, IIS, Office, and Windows, people (non-geeks) will start using that, and that will be the start of the fragmentation.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months." -jafac's law
Well, in T2, the AI wasn't what I would define as "evil". But in The Matrix, when the one agent began to relate how he hated "this place", and how humans just stink, and their stink was all over the place, and how he hated them. That fits my definition of evil. When the machine ceases to be cold, logical, reasonable, and began to hate.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months." -jafac's law
The reason they don't assasinate Slobodan and Saddam is because they're on the CIA payroll. How else would they justify these wars that keep the american people enslaved to pay taxes to prop up the military industrial complex. They kept up the Cold War for several decades, but that only went so long. Now they're simply rotating "enemies".
This is also why what Slobodan and Saddam do does not make sense, and no matter how much their people and their economies suffer, they still live in total luxury, completely unpunished for the so-called attrocities they commmitted.
Without all of these "wars", I wonder how many stars we could have colonized by now - with spaceships powered by cold-fusion reactors.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months." -jafac's law
The postponing of this show is an allegorical reference to our society at large - that these kids were to graduate - from High School - being children, to College, being adults.
Instead of allowing this "graduation" to happen, the show was "postponed", delaying the transition of the audience (intended or not) from childhood to adulthood. In having "them" make the decision for us, whether we can exercise our own judgement as to whether we'd be offended or shocked, or experience Post Littleton Stress Syndrome, anyone with a TV that has the WB pipe to it, has been treated like a child.
I for one, will download this from the net and view it, w/o commercials. Fuck WB.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months." -jafac's law
The postponing of this show is an allegorical reference to our society at large - that these kids were to graduate - from High School - being children, to College, being adults.
Instead of allowing this "graduation" to happen, the show was "postponed", delaying the transition of the audience (intended or not) from childhood to adulthood. In having "them" make the decision for us, whether we can exercise our own judgement as to whether we'd be offended or shocked, or experience Post Littleton Stress Syndrome, anyone with a TV that has the WB pipe to it, has been treated like a child.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months." -jafac's law
Slashdot Mirror
Even if you backup all changes to WORM, a virus can still harm you. The damage is in the time lost, not necessarily the data.
While backing up everything can insure that you get your data back, you're still going to take a productivity hit from a successful virus infection.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
no, he's right.
Say there are 900 viruses in the world, 300 for Windows, 300 for Mac, 300 for Unix.
If you're an all Windows shop, you are vulnerable to only 300 viruses. If you're a fully hetero shop, you're subject to all 900.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
Basically, if you want to affect this process, you must get an account (you weenie), and become a useful and productive member of /. society, reading, and posting nice, on-topic posts, and eventually, if you're a good boy, and don't troll and flamebait, you'll get moderator privileges too. /.
/. community, then don't get an account, stop posting, and stop complaining about the rules.
Even I got moderator a couple of times, so if an idiot like me can get it, so can you, just stop being such a dufus.
All opinions, even pro-MS opinions are, in fact, welcome on
It's just distorting facts and offtopic posts that get moderated out.
We used to have a couple of pro-MS people who posted all the time, one was named sql*kitten, often posted some insightful stuff, rarely got hauled-out for repeating MS-marketing FUD, because he was smart, and avoided such foolishness.
If you don't want to be a part of the
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
Sounds to me like Steve Barhkto went and got a degree at DeVry!
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
search for spock:
You klingon bastard, you KILLED my son!!!
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
MSActiveYugoYoke
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
You put way too much faith in technology - and the so-called free-market.
Once some company knows they've got you by the balls, they'll screw you, and send you the bill for services rendered. QOS guarantees? You've got to be joking. Any other service I rely on today? Like my Cable? Like my phone service? You're talking about adding costs for consumers, and decreasing reliability, and options. you think Microsoft has you by the balls now? Just wait until they bill you per-OS boot!
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
I just want to add:
the perfect example of why you don't want to rely on a network for your critical apps: The dreaded Slashdot effect.
Anybody try to go to Symantec today to download a virus update for the latest viral attrocity? Forget it. Wait until next week. Now, I'm smart enough to resist the temptation of opening an unsolicited attachment while there's warnings flying all over the press and from every person I know who has a computer. So I can wait a week or two for the update to become "reasonably available". But when there's a mission critical application I need to use, it's gotta be local if at all possible. If I need to get something done, I don't want to sit on my ass waiting while 200,000 other users are pegging someone's server whom I'm paying to rent per-use software from. I'm certainly not going to store data, encrypted or otherwise, on someone else's machine across the internet. Not only is it not secure, (anyone can bust in and decode it at their leisure), it's risky. How does one handle a situation where your Internet Storage Provider says, "sorry, our system crashed and when we tried to restore your data from backup it was corrupted"?
I know, all of these things can happen with data stored locally, but with local data, you are answerable to yourself, and you know exactly what is done to your data, and you are in charge of how well protected it is.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
fsck that, my desktop machine's SCSI or ATA (or FireWire) bus gets me my data MUCH more quickly than say, even my stored data on my server across the 100mbps ethernet LAN - and you expect me to trade that for a dialup line that I gotta pay $30 a month for?
If the power goes out that's one thing, then say there's a 1:1000 chance I can't use my computer on a given afternoon, but add onto that the chance that the network is down, congested, infected with or dealing with ExploreZip's descendents, etc. Again I say FSCK that!
Then, on top of that, perhaps I forget my password to the network, perhaps someone hacks my account, perhaps their billing program barfs on a y2k bug and cancels my account, so I have to call their customer service rep during business hours on a weekday to get the account reinstated, and it's Saturday at 2am and I have a project deadline for Monday morning?
There's just way too many things that can go wrong in the "networked future". So again, I say FSCK that, I want MY data, and MY software on MY machine, on MY desktop. I don't need or want to be reliant on someone else's network service, or their goodwill to keep their prices down once they've monopolized the market, or their altruistic desire to improve the reliability and speed, or to hire competent people -
Forget it man, this is what the PC revolution was all about in the first place. Now that we've got network connections on desktop PC's, we have available the best of BOTH worlds, but take your elements of 1960's centralized control mainframes running dumb terminals, and shove them up your USB port.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
. . . and this idea comes from the X-Files. . .
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
I think there have been a number of Sci Fi stories based on this premise, that the ancient aliens that visited prehistoric earth encoded messages in our DNA, meant for us to decode millenia later when we had advanced far enough -
One of the best variations on this (IMHO) was The Andromeda Strain, where aliens had sent out millions of microscopic space "capsules", with a genetically engineered germ living on them, designed to live off the material of the "capsule", and radiation in space. It would be cheaper to mass produce billioins of these capsules with the germ, and send them out into space, than to attempt to broadcast radio waves into space to contact other civilizations. Since these capsules would normally burn-up on entry to an atmosphere, a non-spacefaring race would not be able to receive this "signal", but in the story, Earth sent up satellites to scoop micrometiorites out of orbital space for research. The craft that intercepted the capsule crashed in Piedmont, Arizona, and the germ mutated, and destroyed the entire population. The USAF then took the capsule to a secret underground lab where they picked it apart and discoverd the secret. (but not before some tense moments when the thing mutated again, and started eating all the rubber gaskets, and leaked into the lab, and the automatic nuclear self-destruct was triggered - just as the scientists figured out that this thing thrived on gamma radiation.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
... yeah, right, and Gulf War Syndrome was sold by US Biowar companies to Saddam Hussein back in the '80s while he was at war with Iraq, and used on US troops in Desert Storm, and now the USAF is spraying US cities with a genetically modified virus to impart US populations with resistance to the Syndrome so we don't catch it from the infected troops returning home. . .
http://strangehaze.freeservers.com/index.html
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
Yeah, that's the plan. Ship-off all the human inhabitants of Earth (non essential MS employees included) to Mars, and then corner the Oxygen market. Sell it with a per-breath license fee.
Then, he won't have to worry about Linux anymore.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
But I wouldn't want to LIVE there.
can you imagine how hard it would be just to get something like fresh fruit?
I'll stay here on Earth, thank you.
If we can contimplate adjusting Mars' climate, we can contimplate fixing Earth's broken climate too.
Something I think that is a bit more worthwhile.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
It's not the OS extensions you gotta worry about, it will be the IIS-specific extensions to Perl that MS will use to "extend" and marginalize the standard. And they'll sell it in some nifty development tool, probably compulsarily bundled with IE, IIS, Office, and Windows, people (non-geeks) will start using that, and that will be the start of the fragmentation.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
Onehundredeighteenium is my vote.
Although, MS could just donate $10billion to the lab, and they could name the heaviest element after the heaviest OS: NTium.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
IBM and so do you.
And one of IBM's stinkier turds is Broken Ring.
If you want more of that (the list goes on, need I reiterate?), keep cheering for IBM.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
unfortunately, Larry Ellison would probably kick all three of their asses without breaking a sweat. I hear he's a mean Karate killer.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
Well, in T2, the AI wasn't what I would define as "evil". But in The Matrix, when the one agent began to relate how he hated "this place", and how humans just stink, and their stink was all over the place, and how he hated them. That fits my definition of evil. When the machine ceases to be cold, logical, reasonable, and began to hate.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
The reason they don't assasinate Slobodan and Saddam is because they're on the CIA payroll. How else would they justify these wars that keep the american people enslaved to pay taxes to prop up the military industrial complex. They kept up the Cold War for several decades, but that only went so long. Now they're simply rotating "enemies".
This is also why what Slobodan and Saddam do does not make sense, and no matter how much their people and their economies suffer, they still live in total luxury, completely unpunished for the so-called attrocities they commmitted.
Without all of these "wars", I wonder how many stars we could have colonized by now - with spaceships powered by cold-fusion reactors.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
" ... get enough
minds together, and eventually good stuff comes out. "
Yeah, like the collected works of Shakespeare. . .
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
The postponing of this show is an allegorical reference to our society at large - that these kids were to graduate - from High School - being children, to College, being adults.
Instead of allowing this "graduation" to happen, the show was "postponed", delaying the transition of the audience (intended or not) from childhood to adulthood. In having "them" make the decision for us, whether we can exercise our own judgement as to whether we'd be offended or shocked, or experience Post Littleton Stress Syndrome, anyone with a TV that has the WB pipe to it, has been treated like a child.
I for one, will download this from the net and view it, w/o commercials. Fuck WB.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
The postponing of this show is an allegorical reference to our society at large - that these kids were to graduate - from High School - being children, to College, being adults.
Instead of allowing this "graduation" to happen, the show was "postponed", delaying the transition of the audience (intended or not) from childhood to adulthood. In having "them" make the decision for us, whether we can exercise our own judgement as to whether we'd be offended or shocked, or experience Post Littleton Stress Syndrome, anyone with a TV that has the WB pipe to it, has been treated like a child.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
DOOOO IIIIIIT!
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
couldn't remember this one -
Barton Fink
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law