That's really what's all about, IE had insider access to the whole API, Netscape didn't. Big chunks of IE code was pre-loaded in the kernal, netscape's all loaded on startup. Not all classes of competitor's were treated equitably by the OS vender. If netscape had access to the insider API, the nature of the competiton would have been very different, this is what gave MS IE an unfair advantage.
If IE product line were a seperate company, then they would have had to pay for the developement and/or the knowedege of and right to use what went into the kernal, specificaly for IE's use.
existing laws would have forced all customer's (browser manufaturers, real or virtual) of the OS vender (Microsoft) to be treated on an equitable basis i.e. this many licienses for this much money ect.).
Because the IE product line had no revenue because it was cost free software, they would have gone bankrupt
IMHO any remedy that does not include break-up with just be blue-smoke and mirrors. Break-up is the only way to enforce serperate accounting, preventint one product line from subsidiseing an other. It would make it easier to verify that OS programmers are not working on aps or trading insider knowledge of the API not available to other competitors. And a seperate OS company would not be force to impose resitrictions on which apps are displayed by default on the desktop or even what default security settings were allowing OEM venders to further differentiate their products. Of course IANAL and use Linux so what do I know
Thanks for the link, I originaly got slackware 2.2 w/kernal 1.2 dated 1995, because I knew it had this lisp language that I was intrested. Well I never got arround to doing anything with it over the years. I guess that it time to get started. I think that lisp is a lot better at more things than people would imagine, it innate use of linked-lists make a lot of SQL look like a kludge.
As far as dificult to learn I remember read a Byte article about elementry students writing lisp-ish programs using turtle graphics.
I Used a flush door (no door knob whole or hinge cut-outs). a 33 inch by 7 foot desk top was $30.00. Add some quarter round mouldings to fit arround your el-cheapo book cases ( on the underside), and stain and finish. took about a week, mainly to get the luan finished smooth and glossy. It looks great, I used about 6 coats of of sanded ureathane to get a glassy finish. Then I set this top on top of the bookshelves and viola a huge desk that has room to crawl under and reach behind to get to hardware!
The bookcases are a little hard to get to so they only have books about Windows on them:) I try not to sit or stand on top of it, it flexs a little. the best thing is if necessary, the desk top just lifts off the bookcases. I wouldn't trade it, the only improvement that I would make is to add one of those keyboard drawers on the underside.
I object to your...Unless your writing throw-away-code..., how many times did that useful script get seen by someone else, applied to a similar task, have a GUI hung on to make it more "User friendly" then end up in the middle of a major project? Far to many, remember all that Y2K stuff a little while ago, programmers assuming that their stuff would be out of service long before its a problem, problem. Everything else I agree with.
I was trained as a COBOL programmer, it's a language that will not die, mainly because it readable. There is a lot that canbe done to other languages to increase readability, but the real need is for clean logic, a clear API, and documentation. When Pro athletes go to training camp every year, they are re-taught the basics. We change the names but they basics remain the same, design, walk-through, code, test, and document.
They could revert to the pre-GPL'd code and start their own fork from there and be technically good to go. However IMHO this would put the SPL'd code developed under a cloud, anyone how submitted a patch under the GPL would be able to say "My code is still in there, they only changed it a little to make it look like their own" and take them to court.
This would have to be done like back in the old days when you could reverse engineer programs;
Set up a bunch of programmers who have never seen the GPL'd code in a 'clean room'
Work the program with the new programmers
Wait to be ligated out of exsistence anyways
This project is all ways going to be 'tainted' anyone who uses it commercialy will be looking over their shoulder for a law suit. Its just not appropriate to place programs with commercial potential under the GPL, there are other liciences
more appropriate.
access to space-vehicles (anti-satallite weapons?)
no I don't think this is a technology that'll see much commercial or civillan use. The engines probably are fire once, and discard type technology. Fuel/Oxidiser econ would be better than a rocket engine no LOX to carry; but not as good as a normal jet emgine IMHO. The Russians used a missile with a ram-jet engine for air-defense, it convinced us not to fly U-2 spy-planes over their airspace.
Those rockets are designed to throw a specific weight into orbit, so this thing is probably just replacing ballast anyways.
And as for the antenna, it only has to work once. Once its deployed there should be no forces on it, its all in free-fall. The only forseeable problem would be an impact from an other object
"if you want to catch mice, make a sound like cheese" (or something very similar) from a former Radio Shack CEO book title. He was the guy , Korn I think, that turned Radio Shack from an Electronics store for serious hobbiest into a store form consumer grade trash.
The CoCo, Color Computer, was the last cool thing they built. Real cutting edge for its time
imagine color display on a TV!
Real 16 bit registers in the 6809 CPU
1st home computer where you could get a multi-tasking OS
1st home computer that used those 3.5 inch floppies
The COCO actualy had monthly magazines devoted to it
It was a bitter day when the SAM chip burned out in my CoCo. Maybe they should just drop the parts, I think that they are only there for sentimental reasons any ways.
They had answers when the geeks were in the stores working mainly for the employee discount, but no parts no geeks. Modern geeks are usualy hacking software rather than hacking hardware now anyways.
Yeah duty-cycle is pretty low with web browsing, about 30 people (typical home users can ride on one b channel (a real 56K)) and proxy servers help alot; that is until one users gets a virus that dump his/her 30 Gig hard disk to all 357 people in their address book or a code-red worm!
Bussiness users typicaly except 10-1 ratio. where I'm at./ typicaly loads at about 4-6 KB/s per netscape ( my personal record was a companythat installed fiber via robots in sewers at 14Kb/sec)and my modem connects at about 26.4-28.8, most sites run about half that and Yahoo usualy peaks at 2KB/sec for me I'm 24,599 feet from the Central Office (or 3Mi. as the crow flies) our lines are poor here. DSL is $89.00/MO. for 128K/128K I think its business terms though.
Now that so many viri and worms are time-delayed,
when I recieve one I Email the sender and the admin at his ISP to warn them.
should we expect six-pack joe who needs a cdrom to setup his ISP account to know about this stuff or should we expect the "experts" who made the easy-to-use cdrom to know?
If the admin knows and the user knows, then I've done all I could.
Shouldn't the manufacter test there routers-bridges-modems for problems?
Shouldn't the ISP test their supplied hardware for suitablility for the supplied purpose?
I think this is an example of multi-tasking i.e. doing 80% of the task in 20% of the time, it leads the ISP and manufactures into mediocrity. Often because the program specs said a message is x sized the developer assumes that the programmer writing the sendind module tests the size and vica versa, the result is the numerous buffer-overflow exploits we hear about over and over.
The internet is increasingly a shared resource, We should demand that ISP work with users to protect this resource. We need to demand the software and hardware manufactures, actualy test their products. If a product is not presented as suitable for any particular purpose, why buy it?
MSIE is too user friendly, write bad code, it displays in MSIE. MSIE displays what it thinks you meant. NETSCAPE displays what you wrote.
Post-Nuke 0.61 left out a closing tag on the user.php file, in Netscape its broke, I bet it works in MSIE, probably where all of those cntrl M's came from. Post-Nuke brags about HTML 4 compliance too, but I notice all of the verify icon's are gone!
Actualy a Amaya is real good for checking your HTML with W3C has it and lots of good info, browser tests and tools for writing good HTML. take a look at
W3C.org.
C/C++ are actualy pretty simple, its the interfaces for the GAZILLION libraries that gives the learning curve it's steepness.
Will Java replace C/C++? I think not in my lifetime, after all rember Pascal with a p-code compiler back in the late 70's early 80's it was supossed to replace C too. Intermediary compiles for cross-platform compatability are great in theory but they don't seem to cut the real life mustard.
Now what might be real cool is if Transmetta used their code-morphing tech to run bytecode as native, then no VM.
He's smart, writes good code (that's why Transmeta hired him NOT because he's Linux)
He listens to the his developers that makes his own mind up (usualy right but not always)
Does all of this without alienating everybody (no mean feat concidering the size of egos involved
b. Also when was the last time you found a programmer who wanted to do documentation, program documentation is almost an oxymorron. Book publishers print the documentation. in M$ you buy the program liciense and get the documentation for free, in open source you buy the documentation and get the program for free.
C. M$ has it's own UI inconsistencies, especial with right click actions, also in linux if the UI can't do it, you can always hand edit a text file for configuration, frequently hard but do-able with a little research of the available doc. In M$ if you can do it with the UI, it's usualy impossible for an above average user to do.
D. want good fonts? go to M$, they have them, you just can't bundle'em with non-M$.(that's my understanding)
E. Coding standards don't make good code just like type setting doesn't make good books. I hate machine generated code, it's overwritten, redundant, hard to read, nearly impossible to modify by hand but it sure standardized! The design-walk-through-code-document-test cycle is more inportant than where you put the { after an if command
You should be able to get arround TOS problems by using commercial connects, they are by nature for network usage. You might have to convince the suits that the 'costs' should be charged against the Good-Will account. Some considerations are;
the public server should broadcast from outside the DMZ
have real corperate net traffic from inside have priority over public net traffic from outside.
keep some ports bandwidth artificialy low such as SMPT port to discourage spammers, and of course Known innapropriate sites should be blocked you're doing this already right? after all you don't want joe breaking the law or creating a 'Hostile Work Enviroment' do you?
as for serious crackers, log their cards MAC. When they go through the DHCP they have to report their MAC and that's a fairly unique number, which they would find discouraging. Actually the FBI might like this they could just walk up and start sniffing, an open network might be like the in plain sight or public speach they as far as search warrants go IANAL.
Sure they'll complain about security, but actualy this will force them to think about it. probably their network is wide open now and they don't realise it.
It wouldn't be any different than UUNET from the old days. For you youngsters that was when company A said "we got bandwidth from Detroit to NYC" ans company B said "we got bandwidth from NYC to Miami" lets share so we can get Email from Miami to Detroit using only local calls sure everything was batched and didn't run too fast but it was cheaper than leasing 10 T1 lines to all of your cities.
add a few park benches with tastefull advertising, maybe lease space, to food venders, coffee shops and viola! open air internet cafe. Most userage would be during your off-peak hours. Not to different than what they are doing at airports right now. If they keep the commercial side low-key it wouldn't realy put people off too much.
the original steel for Japanese blades had several contaminates from the original iron ores they used
Chromium
Vanaddium
Molybdenum
by rehaeating the blade repeatedly the steel aquires carbon for iron carbide (very hard but brittle)
The hard part of folded blades in general is making the welding flux things like silica sand, and Sal amonium are used this is what the secrete formulas came from mostly
the actual folding pattern controls the patern on the blade and a lot of its individual properties. if I remeber correctly, individual modern knife-smiths have patents, trademarks and or copyrights of these paterns
In short to do-it yourself start with your Craftman's socket set, some old carbon bateries, and sand and start pounding. Maybe you'l figure it out before you go broke.
I don't think that just because the original steel was from Japan that maybe chinese ores wouldn't have been simalar, and available to the Indian and Arab's, they were primarily trading societies
It's the Kill the messenger mentality, and it comes from the organization who has a member who thinks that reading an eBook version of "Alice in Wonderland" out loud is a violation of the copyright!
I long for the good ol' days when doing the right thing all of the time was enought to keep a person out of prision. I had to explain to my wife that taking a picture of my grand-daughter bare butt on the rug would get us put in prision for a very long time and those pictures her mother took of her could too. Now I cann't read out loud to my grand-kids from an e-book
Shakespeare was wrong, Don't kill all of the lawyers, leave one alive so we can watch him starve to death!
Think about O'Reilly and Assoc., aren't all of their book's freely available in electronic format. More than once I've bought a book like N.A.G only after read big chunks of it off the hard-drive! The hard-copy is great for skimming to get an idea or two, then back to the e-formated version to get the current version for technical details right.
If book publisher's realy needed all of the IP rights to survive then why was the Bible one of the first book's published and is still being published? Actualy I've got more paid for copies of the Bible around the house then any other book and I still haven't actualy read the whole thing.
If what the author really wants is to publish his baby well get a life; you don't need to know that much HTML to publish a book or article and you can still get 100Mb of free webspace. guestbooks and messageboards are free to and you can just cut and paste to put them up, that way you get feedback from readers. If your self-published book is that good people will find it, recomend it to others, and if it gets big enough, a publisher will seek you out rather than vica versa.
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Maybe no one told their sysadmins that they are no longer running BSD spoofing that it is M$ yet!
check out the above link...
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The graph at netcraft.com Survey shows Apache's market share slipping lately, I bet that changes pretty quick. And just think Microsoft is paying for ads in "Linux Magazine" to woo back Hosting providers, just before their software gets plastered by CodeRed et.al. Glad we are not paying extra for an NT server.
Maybe Microsoft's next EULA should have a clause that alows Microsoft to for collect damages to their reputation for "failing to properly maintain and apply official required Updates to Microsoft Software".
I think John Wayne said "Life is tough, it's tougher when you're stupid." Get the patch or turn it off.
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Connecting a stupid windows box without a firewall like zonealarm or blackice is just STUPID.
I have trouble believing the/.ers do it. (maybe the poster is a Microsoft spy)
Linux doesn't have to beat M$ off of the desktop, this whale really seems to be beached and sufficating under the weight of its own buffer over-flows. They are going to have to go through millions of lines of code written by thousands of independant contracts to find them all; in short its probably impossible.
Its not the preemption, it's the fact the tasks are not prioritized. Our problem is bosses that have the concentration of a butterfly, just flittering for one task to an other as if they were flowers. What do you think happens when the boss says add an other task and you ask which task's priority gets downgraded to make room for it and you grab a pen and paper to note his answer?
What happens for most of us is he/she throws a temper tantrum like a three year old and make a lot of comments about lack of commitment, high unemployment rate.
Saw a book title "the Minute Manager", catchy title aimed ad the fad-management buzz-word mentality set. The problem here is most tasks take more than a minute so it gets "delegated" usualy to someone who is paid for a much more expensive skill set.
The most pathetic part of this sorry deal is that my understanding is that the FBI uses a lot of ElcomSoft software for "recovering lost passwords"! I wouldn't be suprised if the USG and especialy the FBI is the worlds biggest customer of these illegal hacking tools, after all they need something to open all of the stuff that Carnivore munches on, from the net.
Maybe all of the special agents should take turns arresting each other for using illegal circumvention tools. Hey guys remember that oath you took especialy the part that went, To protect and defend the constitution... uphold and enforce the laws of the United States, well I do even if you don't. This is a prime example of why americans are more afraid of their police than their millitary. I'm retired military with 24 years of service, so don't even blow me off as some kind of unpatriotic jerk.
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IMHO any remedy that does not include break-up with just be blue-smoke and mirrors. Break-up is the only way to enforce serperate accounting, preventint one product line from subsidiseing an other. It would make it easier to verify that OS programmers are not working on aps or trading insider knowledge of the API not available to other competitors. And a seperate OS company would not be force to impose resitrictions on which apps are displayed by default on the desktop or even what default security settings were allowing OEM venders to further differentiate their products. Of course IANAL and use Linux so what do I know
Thanks for the link, I originaly got slackware 2.2 w/kernal 1.2 dated 1995, because I knew it had this lisp language that I was intrested. Well I never got arround to doing anything with it over the years. I guess that it time to get started. I think that lisp is a lot better at more things than people would imagine, it innate use of linked-lists make a lot of SQL look like a kludge.
As far as dificult to learn I remember read a Byte article about elementry students writing lisp-ish programs using turtle graphics.
I Used a flush door (no door knob whole or hinge cut-outs). a 33 inch by 7 foot desk top was $30.00. Add some quarter round mouldings to fit arround your el-cheapo book cases ( on the underside), and stain and finish. took about a week, mainly to get the luan finished smooth and glossy. It looks great, I used about 6 coats of of sanded ureathane to get a glassy finish. Then I set this top on top of the bookshelves and viola a huge desk that has room to crawl under and reach behind to get to hardware! :) I try not to sit or stand on top of it, it flexs a little. the best thing is if necessary, the desk top just lifts off the bookcases. I wouldn't trade it, the only improvement that I would make is to add one of those keyboard drawers on the underside.
The bookcases are a little hard to get to so they only have books about Windows on them
I was trained as a COBOL programmer, it's a language that will not die, mainly because it readable. There is a lot that canbe done to other languages to increase readability, but the real need is for clean logic, a clear API, and documentation. When Pro athletes go to training camp every year, they are re-taught the basics. We change the names but they basics remain the same, design, walk-through, code, test, and document.
This would have to be done like back in the old days when you could reverse engineer programs;
This project is all ways going to be 'tainted' anyone who uses it commercialy will be looking over their shoulder for a law suit. Its just not appropriate to place programs with commercial potential under the GPL, there are other liciences
more appropriate.
no I don't think this is a technology that'll see much commercial or civillan use. The engines probably are fire once, and discard type technology. Fuel/Oxidiser econ would be better than a rocket engine no LOX to carry; but not as good as a normal jet emgine IMHO. The Russians used a missile with a ram-jet engine for air-defense, it convinced us not to fly U-2 spy-planes over their airspace.
Those rockets are designed to throw a specific weight into orbit, so this thing is probably just replacing ballast anyways.
And as for the antenna, it only has to work once. Once its deployed there should be no forces on it, its all in free-fall. The only forseeable problem would be an impact from an other object
The CoCo, Color Computer, was the last cool thing they built. Real cutting edge for its time
- imagine color display on a TV!
- Real 16 bit registers in the 6809 CPU
- 1st home computer where you could get a multi-tasking OS
- 1st home computer that used those 3.5 inch floppies
- The COCO actualy had monthly magazines devoted to it
It was a bitter day when the SAM chip burned out in my CoCo. Maybe they should just drop the parts, I think that they are only there for sentimental reasons any ways.They had answers when the geeks were in the stores working mainly for the employee discount, but no parts no geeks. Modern geeks are usualy hacking software rather than hacking hardware now anyways.
Bussiness users typicaly except 10-1 ratio. where I'm at ./ typicaly loads at about 4-6 KB/s per netscape ( my personal record was a companythat installed fiber via robots in sewers at 14Kb/sec)and my modem connects at about 26.4-28.8, most sites run about half that and Yahoo usualy peaks at 2KB/sec for me I'm 24,599 feet from the Central Office (or 3Mi. as the crow flies) our lines are poor here. DSL is $89.00/MO. for 128K/128K I think its business terms though.
when I recieve one I Email the sender and the admin at his ISP to warn them.
I think this is an example of multi-tasking i.e. doing 80% of the task in 20% of the time, it leads the ISP and manufactures into mediocrity. Often because the program specs said a message is x sized the developer assumes that the programmer writing the sendind module tests the size and vica versa, the result is the numerous buffer-overflow exploits we hear about over and over.
The internet is increasingly a shared resource, We should demand that ISP work with users to protect this resource. We need to demand the software and hardware manufactures, actualy test their products. If a product is not presented as suitable for any particular purpose, why buy it?
be careful, you have to be smart enough to be realy stupid.
The like shows a screen capture of slashdot, broken in netscape 6. My appologies fom my other comment.
MSIE is too user friendly, write bad code, it displays in MSIE. MSIE displays what it thinks you meant. NETSCAPE displays what you wrote.
Post-Nuke 0.61 left out a closing tag on the user.php file, in Netscape its broke, I bet it works in MSIE, probably where all of those cntrl M's came from. Post-Nuke brags about HTML 4 compliance too, but I notice all of the verify icon's are gone!
Actualy a Amaya is real good for checking your HTML with W3C has it and lots of good info, browser tests and tools for writing good HTML. take a look at W3C.org.
C/C++ are actualy pretty simple, its the interfaces for the GAZILLION libraries that gives the learning curve it's steepness. Will Java replace C/C++? I think not in my lifetime, after all rember Pascal with a p-code compiler back in the late 70's early 80's it was supossed to replace C too. Intermediary compiles for cross-platform compatability are great in theory but they don't seem to cut the real life mustard. Now what might be real cool is if Transmetta used their code-morphing tech to run bytecode as native, then no VM.
b. Also when was the last time you found a programmer who wanted to do documentation, program documentation is almost an oxymorron. Book publishers print the documentation. in M$ you buy the program liciense and get the documentation for free, in open source you buy the documentation and get the program for free.
C. M$ has it's own UI inconsistencies, especial with right click actions, also in linux if the UI can't do it, you can always hand edit a text file for configuration, frequently hard but do-able with a little research of the available doc. In M$ if you can do it with the UI, it's usualy impossible for an above average user to do.
D. want good fonts? go to M$, they have them, you just can't bundle'em with non-M$.(that's my understanding)
E. Coding standards don't make good code just like type setting doesn't make good books. I hate machine generated code, it's overwritten, redundant, hard to read, nearly impossible to modify by hand but it sure standardized! The design-walk-through-code-document-test cycle is more inportant than where you put the { after an if command
- the public server should broadcast from outside the DMZ
- have real corperate net traffic from inside have priority over public net traffic from outside.
- keep some ports bandwidth artificialy low such as SMPT port to discourage spammers, and of course Known innapropriate sites should be blocked you're doing this already right? after all you don't want joe breaking the law or creating a 'Hostile Work Enviroment' do you?
- as for serious crackers, log their cards MAC. When they go through the DHCP they have to report their MAC and that's a fairly unique number, which they would find discouraging. Actually the FBI might like this they could just walk up and start sniffing, an open network might be like the in plain sight or public speach they as far as search warrants go IANAL.
- Sure they'll complain about security, but actualy this will force them to think about it. probably their network is wide open now and they don't realise it.
- It wouldn't be any different than UUNET from the old days. For you youngsters that was when company A said "we got bandwidth from Detroit to NYC" ans company B said "we got bandwidth from NYC to Miami" lets share so we can get Email from Miami to Detroit using only local calls sure everything was batched and didn't run too fast but it was cheaper than leasing 10 T1 lines to all of your cities.
add a few park benches with tastefull advertising, maybe lease space, to food venders, coffee shops and viola! open air internet cafe. Most userage would be during your off-peak hours. Not to different than what they are doing at airports right now. If they keep the commercial side low-key it wouldn't realy put people off too much.- the original steel for Japanese blades had several contaminates from the original iron ores they used
- Chromium
- Vanaddium
- Molybdenum
- by rehaeating the blade repeatedly the steel aquires carbon for iron carbide (very hard but brittle)
- The hard part of folded blades in general is making the welding flux things like silica sand, and Sal amonium are used this is what the secrete formulas came from mostly
- the actual folding pattern controls the patern on the blade and a lot of its individual properties. if I remeber correctly, individual modern knife-smiths have patents, trademarks and or copyrights of these paterns
In short to do-it yourself start with your Craftman's socket set, some old carbon bateries, and sand and start pounding. Maybe you'l figure it out before you go broke. I don't think that just because the original steel was from Japan that maybe chinese ores wouldn't have been simalar, and available to the Indian and Arab's, they were primarily trading societiesIt's the Kill the messenger mentality, and it comes from the organization who has a member who thinks that reading an eBook version of "Alice in Wonderland" out loud is a violation of the copyright!
I long for the good ol' days when doing the right thing all of the time was enought to keep a person out of prision. I had to explain to my wife that taking a picture of my grand-daughter bare butt on the rug would get us put in prision for a very long time and those pictures her mother took of her could too. Now I cann't read out loud to my grand-kids from an e-book
Shakespeare was wrong, Don't kill all of the lawyers, leave one alive so we can watch him starve to death!
Think about O'Reilly and Assoc., aren't all of their book's freely available in electronic format. More than once I've bought a book like N.A.G only after read big chunks of it off the hard-drive! The hard-copy is great for skimming to get an idea or two, then back to the e-formated version to get the current version for technical details right.
If book publisher's realy needed all of the IP rights to survive then why was the Bible one of the first book's published and is still being published? Actualy I've got more paid for copies of the Bible around the house then any other book and I still haven't actualy read the whole thing.
If what the author really wants is to publish his baby well get a life; you don't need to know that much HTML to publish a book or article and you can still get 100Mb of free webspace. guestbooks and messageboards are free to and you can just cut and paste to put them up, that way you get feedback from readers. If your self-published book is that good people will find it, recomend it to others, and if it gets big enough, a publisher will seek you out rather than vica versa.
neither is CodeRed, SirCam32 ect.
Maybe no one told their sysadmins that they are no longer running BSD spoofing that it is M$ yet!
Maybe Microsoft's next EULA should have a clause that alows Microsoft to for collect damages to their reputation for "failing to properly maintain and apply official required Updates to Microsoft Software".
I think John Wayne said "Life is tough, it's tougher when you're stupid." Get the patch or turn it off.
Connecting a stupid windows box without a firewall like zonealarm or blackice is just STUPID. I have trouble believing the /.ers do it. (maybe the poster is a Microsoft spy)
Linux doesn't have to beat M$ off of the desktop, this whale really seems to be beached and sufficating under the weight of its own buffer over-flows. They are going to have to go through millions of lines of code written by thousands of independant contracts to find them all; in short its probably impossible.
Its not the preemption, it's the fact the tasks are not prioritized. Our problem is bosses that have the concentration of a butterfly, just flittering for one task to an other as if they were flowers. What do you think happens when the boss says add an other task and you ask which task's priority gets downgraded to make room for it and you grab a pen and paper to note his answer? What happens for most of us is he/she throws a temper tantrum like a three year old and make a lot of comments about lack of commitment, high unemployment rate. Saw a book title "the Minute Manager", catchy title aimed ad the fad-management buzz-word mentality set. The problem here is most tasks take more than a minute so it gets "delegated" usualy to someone who is paid for a much more expensive skill set.
The most pathetic part of this sorry deal is that my understanding is that the FBI uses a lot of ElcomSoft software for "recovering lost passwords"! I wouldn't be suprised if the USG and especialy the FBI is the worlds biggest customer of these illegal hacking tools, after all they need something to open all of the stuff that Carnivore munches on, from the net.
Maybe all of the special agents should take turns arresting each other for using illegal circumvention tools. Hey guys remember that oath you took especialy the part that went, ... uphold and enforce the laws of the United States, well I do even if you don't. This is a prime example of why americans are more afraid of their police than their millitary. I'm retired military with 24 years of service, so don't even blow me off as some kind of unpatriotic jerk.
To protect and defend the constitution