yea, and so will flying cars and robots that clean our houses and make us dinner and giant flying machines that carry people hundreds of miles in a matter of hours!
soviet russia huh? funny, i remember the soviet bloc falling in 1991, when i was but a wee lad. slashdot has its first entry in the wayback machine at 1996, and the first page in 1997.
so unless the reds developed time travel, youll be hard-pressed to find posts from soviet russia.
more likely: you are experiencing idiots making bad jokes.
but we know exactly which machines those are, and worst comes to worst we can just shut them off the net. theres nothing secretive about what has just happened. they are continuously broadcasting their addresses to hundreds of other machines.
then you just proved my point, that the genetic darwinian version of evolution does not apply here.
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execution is pisspoor. reference the previous article about viruses/worms being good for us. massive attacks like melissa/iloveyou/sobig/whatever the latest one is gives us another chance to educate our users and friend about not doing things like opening PIFs and EXEs, even from people you know. plus it gets the vulnerability plugged (theoretically anyway).
the ultimate truth is that if we didnt have those hokey virii written by hobbyists, we wouldnt have them. end of story. there would not be a knowledge base to build larger, more effective virii on. everything would be in the dark, and as such wouldnt happen to the magnitude or severity things do now.
virii do nothing to improve the education of the average person who gets slammer and calls their friend to "fix the internet"
building up immuno-defensives against the cold will not protect you agasint ebola, just as getting and removing sobig will not protect you from davinci.
did you read the comments? or are you just shooting from the hip?
the comments were to the effect of "this will bring amateur radio to the unwashed masses! hooray!"
in fact the opposite is true. this will merely provide another divide beween geek-culture and "regular" people. if movies (contact, frequency come to mind) cant bridge the gap, do you think an already "nerdy" operating system would do any better?
you try to lecure me on warm-fuzzy crap while preaching cant we all just get along? dismount from your high-horse i say!
i know for a fact that hams are not all old codgers - i AM one (have been since i was 16), and i work for a very popular antenna company - but by far, believe me, they are old folks. some nice, some codgerly, but 99% older folks. the apathy and lack of attention span that later generations have is to blame.
so then your view is that happiness comes from suffering? how very puritanical (in the religious sense) of you. white without black is still white, similarly is happiness truly happiness without negative to contrast it.
it was mostly hyperbole dude, and if you think thats what people would *flock* to, you missed the point entirely.
HAM operators use tecnology for its own sake. the general public uses tech because it does something they want. why would they do something overcomplicated and expensive when a cellphone, or webcam does exactly the same thing? in a way that they better understand, and not have to code entirely from scratch on their own?
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...a good starwars refernce.
never tell me the odds!
then the rest of it crashes too, duh.
yea, and so will flying cars and robots that clean our houses and make us dinner and giant flying machines that carry people hundreds of miles in a matter of hours!
hurrah!
soviet russia huh? funny, i remember the soviet bloc falling in 1991, when i was but a wee lad. slashdot has its first entry in the wayback machine at 1996, and the first page in 1997.
so unless the reds developed time travel, youll be hard-pressed to find posts from soviet russia.
more likely: you are experiencing idiots making bad jokes.
...i had a bit of a brainfart. sorry.
because its been done, just not the GUI portion. and thats likely been done, we just arent allowed to know it exists.
strong suit? did you even look at daikatana?
wouldnt that be more useful as some sort of bludgeoning device?
yup. just look at windows xp. no pirated copies of that ANYWHERE. nop e nope.
yea thats true. tell em ill take a check, and they can just make it out to "cash" if they want
by my calculations thats approximately eleventy billion dollars. muahahahaha!!!
dont you mean the numbers 1 and 0?
i suppose we will see when the g5 actually starts shipping, and see how well it runs.
the proof will be in the pudding, methinks.
but we know exactly which machines those are, and worst comes to worst we can just shut them off the net. theres nothing secretive about what has just happened. they are continuously broadcasting their addresses to hundreds of other machines.
then you just proved my point, that the genetic darwinian version of evolution does not apply here.
execution is pisspoor. reference the previous article about viruses/worms being good for us. massive attacks like melissa/iloveyou/sobig/whatever the latest one is gives us another chance to educate our users and friend about not doing things like opening PIFs and EXEs, even from people you know. plus it gets the vulnerability plugged (theoretically anyway).
creating a network THIS way is counterproductive.
the ultimate truth is that if we didnt have those hokey virii written by hobbyists, we wouldnt have them. end of story. there would not be a knowledge base to build larger, more effective virii on. everything would be in the dark, and as such wouldnt happen to the magnitude or severity things do now.
virii do nothing to improve the education of the average person who gets slammer and calls their friend to "fix the internet"
building up immuno-defensives against the cold will not protect you agasint ebola, just as getting and removing sobig will not protect you from davinci.
using that, and the story posted earlier about windows being insecure by design, shouldnt it have become extinct by now?
but it hasnt, thus this isnt darwinism.
did you read the comments? or are you just shooting from the hip?
the comments were to the effect of "this will bring amateur radio to the unwashed masses! hooray!"
in fact the opposite is true. this will merely provide another divide beween geek-culture and "regular" people. if movies (contact, frequency come to mind) cant bridge the gap, do you think an already "nerdy" operating system would do any better?
you try to lecure me on warm-fuzzy crap while preaching cant we all just get along? dismount from your high-horse i say!
i know for a fact that hams are not all old codgers - i AM one (have been since i was 16), and i work for a very popular antenna company - but by far, believe me, they are old folks. some nice, some codgerly, but 99% older folks. the apathy and lack of attention span that later generations have is to blame.
so then your view is that happiness comes from suffering? how very puritanical (in the religious sense) of you. white without black is still white, similarly is happiness truly happiness without negative to contrast it.
what? no support for the evil bit?
right exactly, and linux is just LEAPING onto grandmas desktop right now.
doesnt this go against everything we love so dearly about linux?
i cant mess with the config file directly? why on earth would i want to run this obviously broken software in that case?
it was mostly hyperbole dude, and if you think thats what people would *flock* to, you missed the point entirely.
HAM operators use tecnology for its own sake. the general public uses tech because it does something they want. why would they do something overcomplicated and expensive when a cellphone, or webcam does exactly the same thing? in a way that they better understand, and not have to code entirely from scratch on their own?
the answer is, they wont.