Maybe someone should bring forth the litany of previous Unix exploits? Samba, Sendmail, various RPC flaws, telnet, shell issues, etc...
Windows has had some security issues lately, but Unix is a complete joke as far as security. The only things it does have going for it are:
a.) It's ancient so most of the flaws are finally worked out. b.) Nobody _gives a shit_ about Unix so there aren't a lot of hackers out there targetting it.
You know who I can't stand? It's Rumsfeld. That guy has "dark power behind the scenes" written all over his weasly face. You know he's ordered a lot of people killed.
Java is one of the best programming languages out there, most of the people who don't like it are either a.) idiots, or b.) sysadmins who just love to "program" in perl.
Not that Java is perfect, but it's certainly closer than most other languages.
So he's supposed to be like every other dime a dozen and design his book around sensitivity decisions? What a load of crap.
Hint: In real life young girls are often whiney and immature. "Hey - this is Unix! I know this!" is the most idiotic, people-pleasin', politically correct crap in the whole movie.
Unbelievable that you would even mention this as a serious point.
Umm, no. Of course ATI doesn't make drivers for laptops. It's up to the vendor to do so. I've got them on a laptop and I have no problem playing games.
Are you trolling? That's the biggest load of shit I've read in this thread. You are by far the worst offender of the nimwits coming out of the woodwork whining that nobody needs files bigger than 2GB.
You even mention K&R Unix and claim it was faster than modern systems and use that as some kind of yardstick?
Jeses Christ, that's stupid. It's not 1975 any more, and none of your blathering has any relevence to the modern day. Technology progresses, take your dinosaur ass to a VMS shop and bore us all with your claims of how advanced VMS is, but don't tell people what they need and don't need, and certainly don't bandy about the term "incompetent" when you're so obviously projecting.
Wait, it's Dell, HP, and Gateway's decisions to include Windows (and by proxy, their customers) that decide if MS is a monopoly? Wow, that's, ummm, great.
Our antitrust laws are stupid. If Standard Oil were selling oil below cost, and there were 20 of their competitors selling it for free there would have been no case.
But somehow, because the market has chosen MS in the face of many, many alternatives (some even free), MS is suddenly a monopoly.
It's patently idiotic and there is no valid argument for it other than "I don't like Microsoft tools" or "I'm a Microsoft competitor and I can't beat them".
David Boiieies, hero of the Linux folk! God bless him, he went up against evil Microsoft!
Now, he's a pariah. Bad David, Bad!
I absolutely adore this. It's quite funny.
You're even hypocritical enough to say "if you can't compete, sue"! Nevermind that Sun, Netscape, and the various states' attorneys lived by the same mantra when they went after Microsoft.
This is great. I love it. I hope they tear a swath of destruction across your beloved Linux vendors. It's only fair, since you all cheered him on when he went after MS.
Where's my knife, I need to cut through the irony.
First of all, 64 bits isn't about speed, it's about address space. Buh? Of course. Why are you lecturing me on the obvious. I said Itanium II is in some of the fastest machines, you lecture me about CS 101. One is completely unrelated to the other. Itanium II performs. Itanium II is 64-bit. They're different dimensions to a large degree. No shit.
2G? Where are you from? "people" need more than 2G? No they don't. Even most businesses don't need more. And you can access more than 2G from the P4, depending on your OS configuration.
64-bit is not meaningful for most people who aren't already using it. If you want it, you probably don't need to also run your crappy old 32-bit apps as well.
AMD is doing exactly what people used to bitch about Intel about - they're extending an ancient ISA with all its cruft and legacy crap. But now that it's AMD it's A-OK with all the nerds. Bah!
Nice cheerleading. I think any company that needs a high end machine should go out and buy one now!
Oh, wait. I forgot. They don't exist. And when they do the competition will have advanced a considerable degree (people who cheerlead always assume that their hero non-existent CPU will come out and the competition will be at the same place it is now).
The Itanium II is certainly not a dud - it's in some of the highest performing systems money can buy. Of course it's expensive, it's not for Joe Buck or Tim Small Business.
x86 compatibility is worthless ina high end 64-bit machine, somethin AMD doesn't seem to grasp. They're marketing a high end technology (consumers and normal business users don't need 64-bit technology and won't for a while) to the mainstream market. Morons.
And you seem to be ignoring the numbers (remember that 'reality' the rest of us live in matters to us, if not to you). AMD is going broke. Intel isn't.
All in all you seem to be engaging in wishful thinking mixed with a little delusion.
Come on, this is about as realistic as the computer jargon you hear on TV.
"My Subnetwork ping redistributer is down! I need to reboot my LAN before the virus infects my ethernet cable and gets everywhere!!!"
And yet I see people saying "this is probably not true" or "this may be a hoax", or "if they're doing this it should be illegal!". Come on. For Christ's Sake, this is totally idiotic and anyone with an iota of computer knowledge should immediately dismiss it.
I don't care if Linus Torvalds himself came out and said he'd done it, I'd laugh and point.
David Boies. The guy most of you drooling nerds probably have alters in honor of in your little huts. He went after Microsoft and you loved him.
Hasn't the worm turned? I find the idea of lawsuit idiotic and I hope he loses, but I'm glad you nerds are suffering some of what MS had to suffer because of this crap and I think it's pretty funny.
Why did you even read the responses? Slashdot is home to a bunch of angry nerds who blindly pounce on a certain keywords. They then feed off of the mob mentality and compete to see who can be Queen Nerd. TCPI and Palladium are some of those words.
You could invent a turing complete SlashDot replacement by creating a program that angrily replied to any post with any of the words: Microsoft.NET DRM Windows TCPI Palladium Censored DMC A CSS DECSS
They don't make technical decisions regarding the merits of a platform. Quit making inane, clueless comments implying that the FTC would have had some reason to prevent the merger because of the Alpha.
God, you make me sick. You're so pathetically happy to see the state of Socialist California hit Microsoft that you're drooling all over your pocket protectors. Those that aren't don't think it's harsh enough - they want literal blood. How dare MS sell their own product as they see fit!
Most of you claim to be libertarians except when it comes to MS - you want your little pet nerd OS (Linux) to win at any cost, even your fleeting capricious political ideals.
You pathetic nerds really make me sick - I'm glad you all got beat up in school, you deserved it.
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Strange, I don't see any of you nerds commenting on the various sendmail or Samba flaws that have come out recently?
Oh, I forgot, you're nerds. You worship Unix blindly.
You could replace the heading ("Number of Identified Viruses per Platform") with an equally informative:
Number of people (out of 60085) who give a flying FUCK about the below OS's:
Hint: The more in use an OS is, the more it gets targeted.
Maybe someone should bring forth the litany of previous Unix exploits? Samba, Sendmail, various RPC flaws, telnet, shell issues, etc...
Windows has had some security issues lately, but Unix is a complete joke as far as security. The only things it does have going for it are:
a.) It's ancient so most of the flaws are finally worked out.
b.) Nobody _gives a shit_ about Unix so there aren't a lot of hackers out there targetting it.
You know who I can't stand? It's Rumsfeld. That guy has "dark power behind the scenes" written all over his weasly face. You know he's ordered a lot of people killed.
The guys an idi..ugh, cough. I'm dead.
Java is one of the best programming languages out there, most of the people who don't like it are either a.) idiots, or b.) sysadmins who just love to "program" in perl.
Not that Java is perfect, but it's certainly closer than most other languages.
Oh come on. Like it's a life and death matter if you get a few weeks of extra spam. It's your fault for signing up for it in the first place.
This guy is just a crybaby.
Wow. You're stupid.
Performance is all that matters in the end, not IPC.
The "Universe" is not only knowable, but it's shaped like a donut. Uhhh huh. Gotta love modern physics. They just make crap up at will.
Hint: The "Universe" is unknowable. I wish they would come up with a better term. Known Universe would at least be less ridiculous.
Th problem with bandying about terms like Universe is that there's always a chance there's "something" just beyond what you think is the limit.
That's completely daft. 4x3 looks like crap, so your second paragraph isn't worth reading. I did anyway.
What the hell are you going to squeeze into the (comparatively) extra up-down space on the 4x3? You going to hire taller actors???
Idiocy.
Let's see:
Microsoft has a EULA indicating what you can and can't do (e.g. resell). This is bad. Bad Microsoft. We hates's Microsoft, they tricksies.
GLP has a EULA (you have to do this or that to use this code). Good GPL. They'ss our friendss. Nice GPL.
Good lord. Make up your mind, people.
So he's supposed to be like every other dime a dozen and design his book around sensitivity decisions? What a load of crap.
Hint: In real life young girls are often whiney and immature. "Hey - this is Unix! I know this!" is the most idiotic, people-pleasin', politically correct crap in the whole movie.
Unbelievable that you would even mention this as a serious point.
Umm, no. Of course ATI doesn't make drivers for laptops. It's up to the vendor to do so. I've got them on a laptop and I have no problem playing games.
Maybe your friend is just clueless.
Are you trolling? That's the biggest load of shit I've read in this thread. You are by far the worst offender of the nimwits coming out of the woodwork whining that nobody needs files bigger than 2GB.
You even mention K&R Unix and claim it was faster than modern systems and use that as some kind of yardstick?
Jeses Christ, that's stupid. It's not 1975 any more, and none of your blathering has any relevence to the modern day. Technology progresses, take your dinosaur ass to a VMS shop and bore us all with your claims of how advanced VMS is, but don't tell people what they need and don't need, and certainly don't bandy about the term "incompetent" when you're so obviously projecting.
Wait, it's Dell, HP, and Gateway's decisions to include Windows (and by proxy, their customers) that decide if MS is a monopoly? Wow, that's, ummm, great.
Our antitrust laws are stupid. If Standard Oil were selling oil below cost, and there were 20 of their competitors selling it for free there would have been no case.
But somehow, because the market has chosen MS in the face of many, many alternatives (some even free), MS is suddenly a monopoly.
It's patently idiotic and there is no valid argument for it other than "I don't like Microsoft tools" or "I'm a Microsoft competitor and I can't beat them".
David Boiieies, hero of the Linux folk! God bless him, he went up against evil Microsoft!
Now, he's a pariah. Bad David, Bad!
I absolutely adore this. It's quite funny.
You're even hypocritical enough to say "if you can't compete, sue"! Nevermind that Sun, Netscape, and the various states' attorneys lived by the same mantra when they went after Microsoft.
This is great. I love it. I hope they tear a swath of destruction across your beloved Linux vendors. It's only fair, since you all cheered him on when he went after MS.
Where's my knife, I need to cut through the irony.
First of all, 64 bits isn't about speed, it's about address space.
Buh? Of course. Why are you lecturing me on the obvious. I said Itanium II is in some of the fastest machines, you lecture me about CS 101. One is completely unrelated to the other. Itanium II performs. Itanium II is 64-bit. They're different dimensions to a large degree. No shit.
2G? Where are you from? "people" need more than 2G? No they don't. Even most businesses don't need more. And you can access more than 2G from the P4, depending on your OS configuration.
64-bit is not meaningful for most people who aren't already using it. If you want it, you probably don't need to also run your crappy old 32-bit apps as well.
AMD is doing exactly what people used to bitch about Intel about - they're extending an ancient ISA with all its cruft and legacy crap. But now that it's AMD it's A-OK with all the nerds. Bah!
Nice cheerleading. I think any company that needs a high end machine should go out and buy one now!
Oh, wait. I forgot. They don't exist. And when they do the competition will have advanced a considerable degree (people who cheerlead always assume that their hero non-existent CPU will come out and the competition will be at the same place it is now).
Also, one benchmark doesn't mean squat.
Wow - way to make up stuff.
The Itanium II is certainly not a dud - it's in some of the highest performing systems money can buy. Of course it's expensive, it's not for Joe Buck or Tim Small Business.
x86 compatibility is worthless ina high end 64-bit machine, somethin AMD doesn't seem to grasp. They're marketing a high end technology (consumers and normal business users don't need 64-bit technology and won't for a while) to the mainstream market. Morons.
And you seem to be ignoring the numbers (remember that 'reality' the rest of us live in matters to us, if not to you). AMD is going broke. Intel isn't.
All in all you seem to be engaging in wishful thinking mixed with a little delusion.
Let me guess - you don't program much, do you?
Java is one of the most productive languages in the world. End of story.
Come on, this is about as realistic as the computer jargon you hear on TV.
"My Subnetwork ping redistributer is down! I need to reboot my LAN before the virus infects my ethernet cable and gets everywhere!!!"
And yet I see people saying "this is probably not true" or "this may be a hoax", or "if they're doing this it should be illegal!". Come on. For Christ's Sake, this is totally idiotic and anyone with an iota of computer knowledge should immediately dismiss it.
I don't care if Linus Torvalds himself came out and said he'd done it, I'd laugh and point.
Umm, there's a 0% chance this is true. I can't believe the drooling nerds on SlashDot are taking this even semi-seriously.
Hey, I've got this cancer cure I'd like to sell you all - interested?
David Boies. The guy most of you drooling nerds probably have alters in honor of in your little huts. He went after Microsoft and you loved him.
Hasn't the worm turned? I find the idea of lawsuit idiotic and I hope he loses, but I'm glad you nerds are suffering some of what MS had to suffer because of this crap and I think it's pretty funny.
Why did you even read the responses? Slashdot is home to a bunch of angry nerds who blindly pounce on a certain keywords. They then feed off of the mob mentality and compete to see who can be Queen Nerd. TCPI and Palladium are some of those words.
.NETC A
You could invent a turing complete SlashDot replacement by creating a program that angrily replied to any post with any of the words:
Microsoft
DRM
Windows
TCPI
Palladium
Censored
DM
CSS
DECSS
They don't make technical decisions regarding the merits of a platform. Quit making inane, clueless comments implying that the FTC would have had some reason to prevent the merger because of the Alpha.
God, you make me sick. You're so pathetically happy to see the state of Socialist California hit Microsoft that you're drooling all over your pocket protectors. Those that aren't don't think it's harsh enough - they want literal blood. How dare MS sell their own product as they see fit!
Most of you claim to be libertarians except when it comes to MS - you want your little pet nerd OS (Linux) to win at any cost, even your fleeting capricious political ideals.
You pathetic nerds really make me sick - I'm glad you all got beat up in school, you deserved it.