It's hard, but not impossible. To go with your first analogy, a skilled auto engineer WOULD be able to tell you many things about the real-world performance, based only on reading the blueprint.
Unless the writer has gone to great lengths to obfuscate, a disassembler combined with a skilled x86 assembly programmer should be able to tell you all about what it does. Maybe the AV companies don't have those skills . . . methinks they should.
blah blah same apologist argument we've all heard a billion times before
While it's true that IE is probably targeted much more due to its popularity, it's also true that it's demonstrably less secure than the alternatives, due to design decisions made in the respecive products.
Clearly you should have used a UPS, then set up a script that detects when the power is killed and starts looping a WAV file of sirens blaring and a robotic voice saying "MAIN POWER FAULT" at 90dB.
and unfortunately effective stopping often results in killing, but that's not the intent
Oh, so that's why everyone carries and uses nonlethal weapons which are just as effective and much less risky. Oh wait, they don't, and you're just spouting semantic bullshit.
Guns don't kill people; people weilding guns kill people.
Longhorn seems to be going against this well-established Microsoft policy, but the proof will be in the pudding, as they say.
Meh, chances are they'll just expand the feature list to enormous proportions, and ship it with many new features poorly tested. If their past record is any indication.
Oh, so every single staffer and every single decision maker for "The Center for the Moral Defense of Capitalism", past, present, and future acts solely on their belief in the principles of the organization, and you can guarantee this for all time?
Bullshit. I know how nonprofits work. They exist because of their funders, and they must work to keep the funders happy (regardless of the ideals coded in their bylaws). It is a fundamental conflict of interest for an organization that publishes work on the software market to accept money from Microsoft or any other vendor.
The only time a nonprofit is arguably independent is when they get all of their operating money from an established trust. Even then, the family/company who founded the trust typically has some pull in the organization.
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This really happens to people?
Sounds like you'd better move somewhere where you'll be surrounded by only white people. Anything else is just too risky.
Sure there is . . . we can call it a 45,000 mile round trip. It's sounding better already.
We still have plenty to learn from Mars . . . the true waste of resources is the idea to return to the freaking moon.
By that logic, we're not really sure if the sun is hot, are we?
Speaking of, does that gold-plated record Voyager is carrying out into the great unknown contain any fart jokes? Those are pretty universal.
FYI, the word is "plutocracy".
Or for short, "fraud". At least that's what they called it before the marketroids got their hands on it.
Or that burning a flag is like burning down the White House.
Maybe it checks to see if it's on the Internet by attempting to contact some known server. If it's on an isolated network, it quits.
Unless the writer has gone to great lengths to obfuscate, a disassembler combined with a skilled x86 assembly programmer should be able to tell you all about what it does. Maybe the AV companies don't have those skills . . . methinks they should.
While it's true that IE is probably targeted much more due to its popularity, it's also true that it's demonstrably less secure than the alternatives, due to design decisions made in the respecive products.
And as an added bonus, maybe all the pollution and garbage that gets dumped into space as a result will give the Earth a cool-looking set of rings.
You're right; the true blame should be placed on the 10 wet-noodle Republicans that were bullied into changing their votes.
VMS -> rot1 -> WNT
Clearly you should have used a UPS, then set up a script that detects when the power is killed and starts looping a WAV file of sirens blaring and a robotic voice saying "MAIN POWER FAULT" at 90dB.
And?
Oh, so that's why everyone carries and uses nonlethal weapons which are just as effective and much less risky. Oh wait, they don't, and you're just spouting semantic bullshit.
Guns don't kill people; people weilding guns kill people.Meh, chances are they'll just expand the feature list to enormous proportions, and ship it with many new features poorly tested. If their past record is any indication.
Why waste so much effort attacking Linux/OSS, and instead simply ignore it?
Where's "3. Profit!"? Oh, that's right, you spent it all on "2.".
I don't want to run the AIM client AND the MSN client AND the Yahoo! client. So I use Trillian.
Nethack.
Bullshit. I know how nonprofits work. They exist because of their funders, and they must work to keep the funders happy (regardless of the ideals coded in their bylaws). It is a fundamental conflict of interest for an organization that publishes work on the software market to accept money from Microsoft or any other vendor.
The only time a nonprofit is arguably independent is when they get all of their operating money from an established trust. Even then, the family/company who founded the trust typically has some pull in the organization.
The company uses MS as an abbreviation for itself all the time. MSN, MS-DOS, and MSDN are the first three examples that spring to mind.