Compared to what? How many people do you know of that have Oracle or DB/2 installed on their laptops? ISP web servers? Home computers? How popular is MSDE compared to Oracle personal edition? Those are the areas that this worm hit, not the data centers.
"MS IIS is not the most popular Web server "
Actually it is. Don't confuse hosted sites with physical servers.
"the number of regular Windows/Outlook viruses is out of proportion even to their popularity"
Ok, you seem to be having a really hard time grasping this concept of popularity and what that means.
Which only work if a) you actually have software installation enabled in your preferences, b) have write access to the location where mozilla is installed and c) will prompt you BEFORE it installs the software, giving the web server and the package being installed.
Hmm, we still have millions of lines of COBOL running business systems. Yeah, not much new development is going that route, but there is a good deal of maintenance.
But a one semester class isn't going to teach you enough to really write large COBOL programs. But what it will give you is a working knowledge of the language that will come in useful when you are tasked with porting the application from COBOL to Java and need to read the current code to understand the logic.
Visual Basic is so trivially easy to master that it hardly requires a college course
It's not quite clear to me you understand what "master" means.
We who sit around on Saturday mornings sipping tasty caffienated beverages sometimes have a hard time relating to those in the 3rd world raised in highly religious environments where they are taught that all their problems are because of us, and the only way to fix it is with an AK or a suicide bomb.
I've come to notice a lot more ISP hosting services are offering databases for their clients.
That means they need to make it available out on the internet so their customers can connect and manage the database.
This does present a difficult problem then, as I agree, a database should be behind a firewall. Not just MS-SQL, but mySQL, Oracle, whatever. Other than worms, database username/password combos are often pretty easy to crack because databases don't have good intrusion detection or they don't lockout bad password attempts.:(
The ideal solution here would probably be for the ISP to offer a VPN tunnel into the network where the databases are housed. This would allow clients to maintain, but reduce the number of people with access.
It's amazing to me that the person making $500,000 deserves to keep less of his money than the person making $10,000 simply because he is more financially successful.
Then you may appreciate this quote:
"The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state."
Alas, they are too stupid to see how profitable it is to satiate a demand in the market.
Stupid? There's no way in hell I'd spend $2 per song when I can get a whole album for $12. I don't know many people who would... that's part of the problem.
Yet I used to pay $1.75 for vinyl singles back in the day. Actually I think the loss of a singles market is what has largely hurt the recording industry. They tried various CD singles, but since they are the same size as regular ones people expect more music... so now instead of 2 songs(A and B side) you get 4-5 and the price is $6. They've just never reconciled that.
No longer, there's nothing worthy of my hard earned dollar.
BTW, there is good music out there... The problem is finding it. The focus is on teen pop, much more so now than 5 years ago. But then the same was true of the late 80's as well.
It's cyclical. We're still waiting for the next big thing like Nirvana to come along and redefine an era. Until then we're stuck with Michelle Branch and the Backstreet Boys.
Besides the obvious ability to copy music CD's, what you don't realize it has taught us is how cheap CD's truely are.
I'm sure the same thing was said about books when the printing press arrived.
Hmm, come to think of it, isn't that why we have copyright law? Because of the realization that the true cost of creating something is far more than the cost of reproducing it in a media form.
BTW, I buy my CDs at Best Buy for about $12-13 on average. Now if the RIAA prevented Best Buy from discounting prices, then I'd be pissed. For now I'll just point out your an idiot for paying $18.99.
Radio Shack has no relationships with the music industry. They don't sell music, they don't create music.
If anything I could see them talking to the MPAA as they've been pushing satellite dishes and other video stuff as of late. Other than that, their main money makers are telephones and computers.
Does anyone have an idea on what the future will look like for the internet?
Ok, I've been making this argument for about 5 years now. It's not incredibly insightful, it's basically just how things historically work.
Imagine the Wild West...
In the beginning you were pretty much free to do whatever you wanted. Wasn't too many people around, nobody really cared. Move your cattle from Texas to Utah across miles of open territory.
Eventually people started moving out west, formed communities.. established businesses and put up fences. Well the newcomers and the oldtimers didn't take kindly to one another. But the newcomers were more populous and had more money, so they started hiring Marshalls and Sheriffs and Judges and so on and started cracking down on what you could and could not do.
Eventually something becomes large enough where people feel it needs to be regulated, monitored and controlled. The Internet is beginning to get more and more notice, the proliferation of child porn, spam, scams, copyright violations and so on.
We're already seeing the FBI, FTC and other US agencies spend more time on this. That's only going to increase over time.
Now how does this play out on a global scale? That I don't know. With the Westernized Capitalist nations we'll likely see treaties signed which deal with cross-jurisdictional issues. Someone in Australia is caught distributing Child Porn by someone in Denmark, the authorities will have recourse to call up Australia and have him nabbed. This type of cooperation is already happening today, and increasingly becoming more important further in light of this war on terrorism.
As to these other nations the ones mentioned in this article... They'll just continue trying to control users, or isolating themselves from the outside world.
It's the language effect I'm curious about. The initial design didn't really allow for compartamentalizing by language choice. I like the options google.com gives now of restricting results to a particular language. Very helpful. Will the world standardize on English, or will the Internet evolve further to isolate? Perhaps it depends on the nations involved.
A barrier to entry is kind of the point, I thought that was clear from this guys description. Do you want just anybody running around calling themselves a Doctor, or would you prefer someone who knew something about curing people?
I'll tell you what. Next time you need some surgery done, come on over to my house. I guarantee you I can do it cheaper on my kitchen table than a qualified surgeon. However I make no guarantees that you shall survive the operation, and I have no insurance.
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Huh?
Is it your belief that we should moderate posts not on the quality of their comments, but on whether or not they are anti-Microsoft enough for you?
The parent post you wanted to mod up was moronic.
"MS SQL Server is not the most popular DBMS"
Compared to what? How many people do you know of that have Oracle or DB/2 installed on their laptops? ISP web servers? Home computers? How popular is MSDE compared to Oracle personal edition? Those are the areas that this worm hit, not the data centers.
"MS IIS is not the most popular Web server "
Actually it is. Don't confuse hosted sites with physical servers.
"the number of regular Windows/Outlook viruses is out of proportion even to their popularity"
Ok, you seem to be having a really hard time grasping this concept of popularity and what that means.
Which only work if a) you actually have software installation enabled in your preferences, b) have write access to the location where mozilla is installed and c) will prompt you BEFORE it installs the software, giving the web server and the package being installed.
I'm confused. The same is also true for IE.
So how is Mozilla "better"?
Hmm, we still have millions of lines of COBOL running business systems. Yeah, not much new development is going that route, but there is a good deal of maintenance.
But a one semester class isn't going to teach you enough to really write large COBOL programs. But what it will give you is a working knowledge of the language that will come in useful when you are tasked with porting the application from COBOL to Java and need to read the current code to understand the logic.
Visual Basic is so trivially easy to master that it hardly requires a college course
It's not quite clear to me you understand what "master" means.
Your analogy is flawed. If you follow automobile enthusiasts boards you would find that many cars have very poor door locks.
It's trivial to pop the lock out of the door of say an Acura or BMW with nothing but a screwdriver and hammer.
Yet automakers are not liable for this, nor do they really intend to do anything about it.
We who sit around on Saturday mornings sipping tasty caffienated beverages sometimes have a hard time relating to those in the 3rd world raised in highly religious environments where they are taught that all their problems are because of us, and the only way to fix it is with an AK or a suicide bomb.
Mountain Dew is the key to world peace?
I've come to notice a lot more ISP hosting services are offering databases for their clients.
:(
That means they need to make it available out on the internet so their customers can connect and manage the database.
This does present a difficult problem then, as I agree, a database should be behind a firewall. Not just MS-SQL, but mySQL, Oracle, whatever. Other than worms, database username/password combos are often pretty easy to crack because databases don't have good intrusion detection or they don't lockout bad password attempts.
The ideal solution here would probably be for the ISP to offer a VPN tunnel into the network where the databases are housed. This would allow clients to maintain, but reduce the number of people with access.
Furthermore, it denigrates the whole of the open source movement to something analagous to a hobby shop.
Uhh, Open Source is a hobby movement.
You're kidding yourself if you think otherwise.
Try to open an mp3 in win xp - it doesn't play.
Will you eat a bar of soap if you are wrong?
You missed the last part... "under the protection of the state"
The wealthy benefit far more from the protection of the state than the poor, which is why it is understandable that they pay more.
The flat tax is a fine idea if you can figure out a way to make it fair rather than a regressive tax.
Then you may appreciate this quote:
Irrational Zealot small dick is.
Alas, they are too stupid to see how profitable it is to satiate a demand in the market.
Stupid? There's no way in hell I'd spend $2 per song when I can get a whole album for $12. I don't know many people who would... that's part of the problem.
Yet I used to pay $1.75 for vinyl singles back in the day. Actually I think the loss of a singles market is what has largely hurt the recording industry. They tried various CD singles, but since they are the same size as regular ones people expect more music... so now instead of 2 songs(A and B side) you get 4-5 and the price is $6. They've just never reconciled that.
No longer, there's nothing worthy of my hard earned dollar.
BTW, there is good music out there... The problem is finding it. The focus is on teen pop, much more so now than 5 years ago. But then the same was true of the late 80's as well.
It's cyclical. We're still waiting for the next big thing like Nirvana to come along and redefine an era. Until then we're stuck with Michelle Branch and the Backstreet Boys.
Besides the obvious ability to copy music CD's, what you don't realize it has taught us is how cheap CD's truely are.
I'm sure the same thing was said about books when the printing press arrived.
Hmm, come to think of it, isn't that why we have copyright law? Because of the realization that the true cost of creating something is far more than the cost of reproducing it in a media form.
BTW, I buy my CDs at Best Buy for about $12-13 on average. Now if the RIAA prevented Best Buy from discounting prices, then I'd be pissed. For now I'll just point out your an idiot for paying $18.99.
Obviously that depends.
If your web server is just doing static content, then probably not as a 486 can saturate a T1.
If your web server is doing dynamic content, then possibly.
Earthlink?
Do you really need a nationwide ISP anyway? The Internet is distributed. I use my local phone company.
Do you honestly expect the Internet would be nearly as open as it is today?
Have you ever actually used AOL?
Do you even know what open means?
hint: open is not AOL
He's a damn good troll, he deserves the +1! :)
Huh?
Radio Shack has no relationships with the music industry. They don't sell music, they don't create music.
If anything I could see them talking to the MPAA as they've been pushing satellite dishes and other video stuff as of late. Other than that, their main money makers are telephones and computers.
Does anyone have an idea on what the future will look like for the internet?
Ok, I've been making this argument for about 5 years now. It's not incredibly insightful, it's basically just how things historically work.
Imagine the Wild West...
In the beginning you were pretty much free to do whatever you wanted. Wasn't too many people around, nobody really cared. Move your cattle from Texas to Utah across miles of open territory.
Eventually people started moving out west, formed communities.. established businesses and put up fences. Well the newcomers and the oldtimers didn't take kindly to one another. But the newcomers were more populous and had more money, so they started hiring Marshalls and Sheriffs and Judges and so on and started cracking down on what you could and could not do.
Eventually something becomes large enough where people feel it needs to be regulated, monitored and controlled. The Internet is beginning to get more and more notice, the proliferation of child porn, spam, scams, copyright violations and so on.
We're already seeing the FBI, FTC and other US agencies spend more time on this. That's only going to increase over time.
Now how does this play out on a global scale? That I don't know. With the Westernized Capitalist nations we'll likely see treaties signed which deal with cross-jurisdictional issues. Someone in Australia is caught distributing Child Porn by someone in Denmark, the authorities will have recourse to call up Australia and have him nabbed. This type of cooperation is already happening today, and increasingly becoming more important further in light of this war on terrorism.
As to these other nations the ones mentioned in this article... They'll just continue trying to control users, or isolating themselves from the outside world.
It's the language effect I'm curious about. The initial design didn't really allow for compartamentalizing by language choice. I like the options google.com gives now of restricting results to a particular language. Very helpful. Will the world standardize on English, or will the Internet evolve further to isolate? Perhaps it depends on the nations involved.
Most open standards cost nothing right?
No.
Compact Disc is an open standard.
DVD is an open standard.
J2EE is an open standard.
and so on and so forth. Open only means it's well documented such that anybody can implement it in such a way that it is interoperable with others.
Open means the mechanism is documented so that competing companies can build solutions which are still interoperable with one another.
It has absolutely nothing to do with the cost. Although an Open Standard which is free of licensing charges will likely be more widely adopted.
You're confused on purpose... the Open Source people misuse the word Open. They did so purposefully, to distort the issues.
I can't believe you wasted your time putting together a response. :)
A barrier to entry is kind of the point, I thought that was clear from this guys description. Do you want just anybody running around calling themselves a Doctor, or would you prefer someone who knew something about curing people?
I'll tell you what. Next time you need some surgery done, come on over to my house. I guarantee you I can do it cheaper on my kitchen table than a qualified surgeon. However I make no guarantees that you shall survive the operation, and I have no insurance.
Maybe you still don't agree with me. Maybe I'm wrong. I really hope so. But perhaps it's worth keeping an eye on things.
And maybe I have a fire breathing dragon in my garage.
I better go check on my car.