> It really is time to just run *everything* inside a virtual machine. Got a virus? Who cares. It's just a virtual virus - all your data is backed up to a safe, real partition which you don't boot from.
What if you need to transfer your data one way or the nother over the internet?
> As Linux gets more and more momentum behind it, it starts to seem like it will be the last OS that will ever make serious inroads into the general public.
You may be right, but I don't see how that conclusion could possibly follow from that observation. Linux may be the next OS to make serious inroads, but how could we possibly expect it to be the last one that does?
> It never ceases to amaze me that in the world of "science" that theory is most always talked of as proven fact. If the probability that object x doesn't exist is 80%, that object is talked about as if it doesn't exist conclusively, even though the possiblity that it exists is in the other 20%t. The age of the universe is a good example. Scientist y estimates to to being x Billion years old, and every textbook, news article, journal, documentary, etc states that the universe is x billion years old as if proven fact. The truth is that no-one currently knows exactly whether it's one billion or a billion billion years old.
That's why scientists prefer convergent evidence over one individual's opinion.
BTW, AFAICT astronomers are now nearly unanimous on an age of 13.7 billion years. This is a fairly recent result.
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Nevermind.
> I certainly wouldn't choose this method to attack SCO, nor would I suggest it to others. But since it's happening (ostensibly) I intend to enjoy it.
Time for us to treat Wiktionary to it's first Slashdotting.
> have a good laugh as Microsoft get's the Benny Hill punishments...
Have them chased around by a bevy of babes in lingerie? No wonder so many people want to have a monopoly!
Activate "Operation European Freedom" immediately.
Apparently Slashdot isn't the only place karma accumulates.
> This is SO true. I wouldn't put it past Lucas to try to pump out a storyline for the "final" trilogy in the Star Wars world.
VII : Star Wars - A New Action Figure
VIII : The Action Figures Strike Back
IX : The Return of the Action Figure
> no matter how great it is
Small risk...
> I thought SPF had something to do with sunblock.
Yes, and this is in case spam gives you a rash.
Anyone want to buy squares on how long 'til it's cracked?
> There is zero insight in that article. Quotes from both sides.
Yessir, it's a fantsy writin' style called Churn a Lizzm. I seen it in a big city newspaper once.
> Any law which is so powerful and ambiguous as to put fear into people by its mere mention must be a bad law.
You refer, of course, to Barnum's Law?
Spam prevention is going to take more than 640K. Which do you want?
> I knew this was coming.
I also predicted it, I think the day Slashdot first announced that MS was going to use XML for Word. This is utterly unsurprising.
The politicians have been selling themselves since forever.
Arguably they're just a sub-specialization of the World's Oldest Profession.
Oh, great. Now we have to kill everybody that reads Slashdot.
...what to do in case of a Slashdotting?
> It really is time to just run *everything* inside a virtual machine. Got a virus? Who cares. It's just a virtual virus - all your data is backed up to a safe, real partition which you don't boot from.
What if you need to transfer your data one way or the nother over the internet?
> Have some sort of way to filter out the fake files put out by record companies and the RIAA.
You mean, the stuff they try to pass off as music these days?
> As Linux gets more and more momentum behind it, it starts to seem like it will be the last OS that will ever make serious inroads into the general public.
You may be right, but I don't see how that conclusion could possibly follow from that observation. Linux may be the next OS to make serious inroads, but how could we possibly expect it to be the last one that does?
Darl sues IBM for making a press release when it was his turn.
> It never ceases to amaze me that in the world of "science" that theory is most always talked of as proven fact. If the probability that object x doesn't exist is 80%, that object is talked about as if it doesn't exist conclusively, even though the possiblity that it exists is in the other 20%t. The age of the universe is a good example. Scientist y estimates to to being x Billion years old, and every textbook, news article, journal, documentary, etc states that the universe is x billion years old as if proven fact. The truth is that no-one currently knows exactly whether it's one billion or a billion billion years old.
That's why scientists prefer convergent evidence over one individual's opinion.
BTW, AFAICT astronomers are now nearly unanimous on an age of 13.7 billion years. This is a fairly recent result.
> I wonder when Microsoft is going to come out behind SCO's curtain?
When the hard-on goes away.
> "Forget anthrax - Linux is the real WMD!"
That's so last year. In 2004 it's "WMDRPA".
Having a boss is the worst nuisance I've ever run across, and it seems like there's one at every damn place I work.
I was going to announce my Bathtub Initiative later today.