It's not that quirky, in fact, it's a feature I rather miss. Back in my college days we had an IBM 1130. If you put a radio next to it you could hear it computing. The various sounds it made were a useful debugging tool. A steady tone meant your program was caught in a loop.
But the 1130 was an aggressively single-tasking machine. The instruction set was such that it was not possible to write multi-tasking code for it. I doubt that the radio trick would produce any meaningful sounds on a modern, multitasking pc.
After many years of working primarily with Linux, I am using Windows 7 in my new job. All I can say is, it is pathetic. Nothing works the way it should. I have to spend hours searching the web to find out how to do anything with it. The whole concept of "libraries" is ridiculous. It is so jumbled up I can never find where my files have been stored. Directories I never created just appear out of nowhere. Not to mention that both Excel and Word have crashed on me several times. And I'm not doing anything particularly interesting with them.
My assessment of Microsoft has not changed since the early days of MSDOS: it is a triumph of marketing over technology.
Obviously it has to be done "underground", i.e., outside the reach of any jurisdiction. As for the lack of a 100% effective method - that's not necessary. It would be sufficient to (a) disrupt Oleg Nikolaenko's machinery, and (b) disable 90% (or any significant fraction) of the botnet. Extra points if (b) can be done while leaving the functionality of the machines innocent victims which have been recruited into the botnet intact.
With all the talent lying aroung here, why can't we just take unilateral action to attack this guy and his botnet? Can it be that hard to track them down and hack them to pieces?
("hack" in the computer sense, not the Texas sense)
Way back in 1975, just after the twin blades first came out, SNL did a parody commercial about a 3-bladed razor. IIRC, the tag line was, "because you'll believe anything".
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Just as a point of reference, look up eradication of the screwworm fly. E.g., http://www.fao.org/docrep/U422...
It's not that quirky, in fact, it's a feature I rather miss. Back in my college days we had an IBM 1130. If you put a radio next to it you could hear it computing. The various sounds it made were a useful debugging tool. A steady tone meant your program was caught in a loop.
But the 1130 was an aggressively single-tasking machine. The instruction set was such that it was not possible to write multi-tasking code for it. I doubt that the radio trick would produce any meaningful sounds on a modern, multitasking pc.
... should burn in Hell.
No, the problem is that everything Windows does natively is done wrong.
After many years of working primarily with Linux, I am using Windows 7 in my new job. All I can say is, it is pathetic. Nothing works the way it should. I have to spend hours searching the web to find out how to do anything with it. The whole concept of "libraries" is ridiculous. It is so jumbled up I can never find where my files have been stored. Directories I never created just appear out of nowhere. Not to mention that both Excel and Word have crashed on me several times. And I'm not doing anything particularly interesting with them.
My assessment of Microsoft has not changed since the early days of MSDOS: it is a triumph of marketing over technology.
It wasn't?
The correct answer is Forbidden Planet.
As for the worst, the list is way too lengthy even to contemplate.
90% of programming is knowing how to type.
Lego. Not sure if that is significant.
Obviously it has to be done "underground", i.e., outside the reach of any jurisdiction. As for the lack of a 100% effective method - that's not necessary. It would be sufficient to (a) disrupt Oleg Nikolaenko's machinery, and (b) disable 90% (or any significant fraction) of the botnet. Extra points if (b) can be done while leaving the functionality of the machines innocent victims which have been recruited into the botnet intact.
With all the talent lying aroung here, why can't we just take unilateral action to attack this guy and his botnet? Can it be that hard to track them down and hack them to pieces?
("hack" in the computer sense, not the Texas sense)
So much for not being evil
A little paranoid, are we?
People who say Bingo! are usually nitwits.
Way back in 1975, just after the twin blades first came out, SNL did a parody commercial about a 3-bladed razor. IIRC, the tag line was, "because you'll believe anything".
But Microsoft is necessarily bad.