In the immortal words of an extreme idiot: "I feel your pain". I've grown to despise my own inbox. Thats very similar to hating your own arms or something. Unfortunatly, unless we plan a clandestine militia of ray-gun blasting anti-spammers, then there isn't much we can do. The corporate types don't really care, nor do they have to. I think the matter is strongly in the hands of the consumer... I think we need some creativity! Maybe an anti-spam chip? A 'v-chip' of the spammer world.. Speaking of spam, anybody ever been in the supermarket and seen the 'spam' ripoffs? "TREAT" and the ever generic "LUNCHEON MEAT" are always on the shelf in quantity! What exactly is the stuff made of? --cr@ckwhore
I'm sorry you misunderstood my point. I was simply trying to spawn a little thought about *why* leaked code from a closed source system is *dangerous* versus freely viewable code from an open source system. I think there's something to be said about open source when drawing those parallels. Take a minute and think about it.
Who's ass did I drag my conclusions out of? Mine! A little FYI about me: I'm responsible for a number of 'mission critical' systems 24/7/365. These systems run various OSs and perform various tasks. They are considered mission critical because downtime is intolerable and lives are literally at stake. Where the ass meets the pavement, you can talk about or m$ systems all day, but they can't handle SERIOUS uptime. My m$ based systems will probably cause me heart attacks someday.
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In the immortal words of an extreme idiot: "I feel your pain". I've grown to despise my own inbox. Thats very similar to hating your own arms or something. Unfortunatly, unless we plan a clandestine militia of ray-gun blasting anti-spammers, then there isn't much we can do. The corporate types don't really care, nor do they have to. I think the matter is strongly in the hands of the consumer... I think we need some creativity! Maybe an anti-spam chip? A 'v-chip' of the spammer world.. Speaking of spam, anybody ever been in the supermarket and seen the 'spam' ripoffs? "TREAT" and the ever generic "LUNCHEON MEAT" are always on the shelf in quantity! What exactly is the stuff made of? --cr@ckwhore
its nice to have friends, isn't it?
yeah, it's HTML... so what? What did you expect? Some kind of "I'm a hacker, look at me!" award? Get a life
Does anybody have one of those magic 10Gb Scotch Tape drives yet? If so, please record the broadcast and stick it somewhere important.
I'm sorry you misunderstood my point. I was simply trying to spawn a little thought about *why* leaked code from a closed source system is *dangerous* versus freely viewable code from an open source system. I think there's something to be said about open source when drawing those parallels. Take a minute and think about it.
Who's ass did I drag my conclusions out of? Mine! A little FYI about me: I'm responsible for a number of 'mission critical' systems 24/7/365. These systems run various OSs and perform various tasks. They are considered mission critical because downtime is intolerable and lives are literally at stake. Where the ass meets the pavement, you can talk about or m$ systems all day, but they can't handle SERIOUS uptime. My m$ based systems will probably cause me heart attacks someday.