If you leave your car (or house) unlocked in an unsafe neighbourhood you can expect problems, and you can blame yourself.
If a market-leading car manufacturer sells you a car that does not come with door locks, immobiliser, alarm,... and it gets stolen and taken for a joyride, you might feel inclined to blame them.
Yes, the joyriding kid is a sociopath, but the 'net is an unsafe neighbourhood.
No-one ever cracked / wrote virii as an intellectual exercise, so the gaping holes in generic OS's and software were only known to a few people (e.g. in your Govt, someone else's Govt, your competitor's IT division) and there would never be any pressure for MS (& others) to patch their flaky security?
A moderate level of illicit activity on the internet gives people the impression that "it's a jungle out there", so precautions are taken.
If Ford (for example) sells you a car without door locks, or an alarm, or an engine immobiliser, etc and it gets nicked, who would you blame? Who would "the public" blame?
I have discovered a minor glitch: When going through "preview" HTML character entities like <, &, etc get interpreted, and so the preview won't be the same as the submitted page.
Is this the right place to raise this?
o/w I like the new config options. "Light" is good (maybe "Lite"? 8-7), "Nested" is good, moderation+filters seem an adequate solution to a sticky problem.
<satire>This is a waste of time, as there is no Windows source. This would imply that there was a human hand in their production. The Win* installation CD leapt fully-formed from the entrails of a sacrificial goat.</satire>
<serious>I do think it is a waste of time, as the proposal does not directly address the problem - MS using its position as the producer of the de-facto standard OS to produce dubiously "integrated" products, charge too much, bloat, threaten competitors in the non-OS market, and all those other practises we know and love them for. I doubt that producing Micros~1, Micros~2, Micros~3,... will do that much either. </serious>
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If a market-leading car manufacturer sells you a car that does not come with door locks, immobiliser, alarm,... and it gets stolen and taken for a joyride, you might feel inclined to blame them.
Yes, the joyriding kid is a sociopath, but the 'net is an unsafe neighbourhood.
If Ford (for example) sells you a car without door locks, or an alarm, or an engine immobiliser, etc and it gets nicked, who would you blame? Who would "the public" blame?
My Aus$0.03. (US$0.02)I have discovered a minor glitch: When going through "preview" HTML character entities like <, &, etc get interpreted, and so the preview won't be the same as the submitted page.
Is this the right place to raise this?
o/w I like the new config options. "Light" is good (maybe "Lite"? 8-7), "Nested" is good, moderation+filters seem an adequate solution to a sticky problem.
<satire>This is a waste of time, as there is no Windows source. This would imply that there was a human hand in their production. The Win* installation CD leapt fully-formed from the entrails of a sacrificial goat.</satire>
<serious>I do think it is a waste of time, as the proposal does not directly address the problem - MS using its position as the producer of the de-facto standard OS to produce dubiously "integrated" products, charge too much, bloat, threaten competitors in the non-OS market, and all those other practises we know and love them for. I doubt that producing Micros~1, Micros~2, Micros~3,... will do that much either. </serious>
Tux = fat penguin with belly full of fish
British spelling. (Actually, non-US spelling, to be precise.) It seems that the company is EU-based.
yes, I think Rob should change "Anonymous Coward"
to "Anonymous Kipling"
[sez a former AC who just registered - third time lucky]
oh yeah - and I just nabbed "kipling" as a nick.
Sorry guys. Sort of fits my embryonic linux abilities.