Let's look at what is getting kids killed, and focus our efforts there....I can't remember the last time I heard of a kid getting killed because they fell down on the playground, but I can tell you that I'm sick of hearing about kids coming into schools with guns, and shooting the place up. I think our focus might be misdirected.
Let's look at the incentives for someone at Microsoft releasing the worm:
1. Instead of looking foolish because they have a bug in their software, they look like the hero who fights off an internet threatening hacker. (cough, cough)
2. Microsoft gets a lot of visibility with the government.
I'm sure there are more, and it's probably a stretch, but makes a good conspiracy theory.
The OS(Open Source) movement desperately needs a leader if it wants to succeed as a major movement. But, as always, leaders tend to slowly become evil dictators.
That's probably true and I'm sure it would happen to an extent, but isn't there something to be said for competition benefiting the consumer? The OS(Open Source) movement has resulted in something that Microsoft can't ignore. However, it seems that it needs a leader to move it to the next level. Even if that leader became somewhat of an evil dictator, maybe that next level would be enough competition to have a good effect on Microsoft. The evilness of the dictator could be buffered by implementing a community process similar to Sun's Java Community Process.
That is not totally true. Computer Engineering also deals with programming language theory, algorithms, data structures, etc. Basically, if you're interested in software, you should go with CS. However, if you are also interested in hardware, computer engineering is a good mix of the two. Like another person said, look at the classes for both and make a decision about what you'd rather do.
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Let's look at what is getting kids killed, and focus our efforts there....I can't remember the last time I heard of a kid getting killed because they fell down on the playground, but I can tell you that I'm sick of hearing about kids coming into schools with guns, and shooting the place up. I think our focus might be misdirected.
Let's look at the incentives for someone at Microsoft releasing the worm:
1. Instead of looking foolish because they have a bug in their software, they look like the hero who fights off an internet threatening hacker. (cough, cough)
2. Microsoft gets a lot of visibility with the government.
I'm sure there are more, and it's probably a stretch, but makes a good conspiracy theory.
The OS(Open Source) movement desperately needs a leader if it wants to succeed as a major movement. But, as always, leaders tend to slowly become evil dictators.
That's probably true and I'm sure it would happen to an extent, but isn't there something to be said for competition benefiting the consumer? The OS(Open Source) movement has resulted in something that Microsoft can't ignore. However, it seems that it needs a leader to move it to the next level. Even if that leader became somewhat of an evil dictator, maybe that next level would be enough competition to have a good effect on Microsoft. The evilness of the dictator could be buffered by implementing a community process similar to Sun's Java Community Process.
That is not totally true. Computer Engineering also deals with programming language theory, algorithms, data structures, etc. Basically, if you're interested in software, you should go with CS. However, if you are also interested in hardware, computer engineering is a good mix of the two. Like another person said, look at the classes for both and make a decision about what you'd rather do.