I seem to recall that the fellow who designed the iMac's packaging had previously designed a space toilet. Perhaps this is meant to highlight that fact.
They have to make their money somehow, and if tracking your habits gives them a valid excuse to give you a free email account, stop complaining.
This is only true if you are informed up front of that aspect of the deal. Since they did not -- since in fact their privacy policy said otherwise -- your admonition is way out of line. --
>I'm surprised that all those hoplophobes out >there who seem convinced that mere possesion of a >firearm is a danger because of the chance of >being easily triggered into homicidal fury, are >content to let even cops carry guns.
I agree strongly. It's directly contradictory to the hacker ethic that the possession alone of a particular tool, much less competence in the use of same, inherently inclines one to abuse it.
>As the Melissa debacle demonstrated: a system has >to be engineered to deal with the stupidity of >it's users.
How has RedHat failed to do this? They regularly post security updates that can be downloaded and installed with a simple command line, or even a graphical tool if that's your thing.
>Redhat has some SERIOUS security issues they need >to deal with.
Every Linux distribution -- indeed, any OS distribution -- has security holes. RedHat does its part to make fixes available. What's your problem?
>In this respect, Redhat suffers from being 'too >easy'.
You are conflating the issues of ease of use and insecurity. If anything, ease of updating and fixing security holes can INCREASE security.
It is a common practice among beginners in a craft to equate the happenstance knowledge of a memorized sequence of useful actions with divine enlightenment, and the lack thereof with damnable ignorance. Their wiser and more knowledgeable colleagues are likelier to recognize such lacunae in one's knowledge for what they are -- an opportunity to enlighten and inform.
His objections to RedHat have more to do with some bad practices of inexperienced users rather than any technical flaws in RedHat Linux itself -- a subject on which I'm sure he is incompetent to comment.
Slashdot Mirror
I seem to recall that the fellow who designed the iMac's packaging had previously designed a space toilet. Perhaps this is meant to highlight that fact.
--
if tracking your habits gives them a valid
excuse to give you a free email account, stop
complaining.
This is only true if you are informed up front of that aspect of the deal. Since they did not -- since in fact their privacy policy said otherwise -- your admonition is way out of line.
--
>I'm surprised that all those hoplophobes out
>there who seem convinced that mere possesion of a
>firearm is a danger because of the chance of
>being easily triggered into homicidal fury, are
>content to let even cops carry guns.
I agree strongly. It's directly contradictory to the hacker ethic that the possession alone of a particular tool, much less competence in the use of same, inherently inclines one to abuse it.
>As the Melissa debacle demonstrated: a system has
>to be engineered to deal with the stupidity of
>it's users.
How has RedHat failed to do this? They regularly post security updates that can be downloaded and installed with a simple command line, or even a graphical tool if that's your thing.
>Redhat has some SERIOUS security issues they need
>to deal with.
Every Linux distribution -- indeed, any OS distribution -- has security holes. RedHat does its part to make fixes available. What's your problem?
>In this respect, Redhat suffers from being 'too
>easy'.
You are conflating the issues of ease of use and insecurity. If anything, ease of updating and fixing security holes can INCREASE security.
It is a common practice among beginners in a craft to equate the happenstance knowledge of a memorized sequence of useful actions with divine enlightenment, and the lack thereof with damnable ignorance. Their wiser and more knowledgeable colleagues are likelier to recognize such lacunae in one's knowledge for what they are -- an opportunity to enlighten and inform.
His objections to RedHat have more to do with some bad practices of inexperienced users rather than any technical flaws in RedHat Linux itself -- a subject on which I'm sure he is incompetent to comment.