> In order for Linux to have the same infection rate > as Windows, Linux would have to have the same (or > similar) flaws. For example, the same email client > installed, by default, upon every Linux machine > and that email client would have to run executable > content.
Why? How many people actually use the ability to run executable content? I've asked a few Microsoft users about it and they don't know what it is.
> That is exactly what we want them to do, given > current technology and anti-spam systems. The ISPs > will have far more ability to detect and stop the > spam, and actually care. Your average customer > doesn't understand what spam is, beyond the > concept of "email I don't want", but ISPs have a > very good idea of what spam is, what technologies > work to stop it, and have the deep pockets to make > it happen.
My ISP decided that incoming mail needed to be spam-filtered, so they hired Postini and started routing all mail through their filters (without telling the customers first). Until I shut them off Postini's filters were passing 50% of spam and stopping 10% of valid mail.
Doesn't everyone getting on an airplane these days have to strip naked, undergo a body-cavity search, and don shackles and an orange jumpsuit with PASSENGER stenciled on the back?
Just stop by your local farm store and pick up a cattle prod. Or order one at http://www.redhillgeneralstore.com/prod.htm or one of their many competitors.
> Any systematic attempt at guessing a password is > prevented before the attacker gains access. > Users make mistakes a few times, even for the > most simple passwords, one must sample tens of > passwords to break in.
Bill has been showing everyone in the office pictures of his new daughter Betsy. Fred, always on the alert for a way to make a quick buck, notices that Bill has just been given an account on the sensitive financial system. Since you are system administrator here, users are allowed to choose there own passwords and no password checking is done.
How do your superior system adminstration skills prevent Fred from guessing that Bill's password for his new account is 'betsy'? He isn't going to make multiple sequential attempts. He's going to make one try and if it works he's in. If he fails he will chat up Sally, who has told everyone that she uses one really easy to remember password for everything, about her pets.
> If you care about getting Britney Spears' > "Poison" in a listenable format in 20 years...
You haven't been paying attention. It's 120 years now.
>...by all means, break the DRM then. > What's more likely to happen by that time is > that some company like Rhino Records will put > out non-DRMed versions of the songs that have > made it into public domain.
It will still be a crime to break the DRM even after the contents are public domain.
>...if you want to use VideoLan in Linux to play > your iTunes files, you first have to generate the > client/user keys by playing back your M4P's on the > Windows version of VideoLan.
So you can't use VideoLan in Linux to play iTunes files unless you have Microsoft Windows. How useless.
I want to see network protocols and file formats, and I want to see them freely available. Interoperability with other operating systems is what matters.
>...the #debian channels were nothing but insults.
Try the debian-user mailing list. Go to www.debian.org to subscribe. While you are there take a look at the consultants list. Some of us are quite willing to do the sort of work you want.
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> In order for Linux to have the same infection rate
> as Windows, Linux would have to have the same (or
> similar) flaws. For example, the same email client
> installed, by default, upon every Linux machine
> and that email client would have to run executable
> content.
Why? How many people actually use the ability to run executable content? I've asked a few Microsoft users about it and they don't know what it is.
> That is exactly what we want them to do, given
> current technology and anti-spam systems. The ISPs
> will have far more ability to detect and stop the
> spam, and actually care. Your average customer
> doesn't understand what spam is, beyond the
> concept of "email I don't want", but ISPs have a
> very good idea of what spam is, what technologies
> work to stop it, and have the deep pockets to make
> it happen.
My ISP decided that incoming mail needed to be spam-filtered, so they hired Postini and started routing all mail through their filters (without telling the customers first). Until I shut them off Postini's filters were passing 50% of spam and stopping 10% of valid mail.
I don't want them touching my outgoing mail.
> Features are the last priority, while reliability
> is tops.
That rules out anything involving the Net.
So volunteer to help with the Hurd.
> PayPal was recently fined $10 MILLION for
> violating the US Patriot Act.
That's 10 MILLION points in their favor.
> It's not a company I do business with.
I haven't done business with them in the past, but if what you say is true I may reconsider.
A single narrow pulse is unlikely to stop your heart.
> create your own bazooka using a bic ballpen...
Or at least some model rocket engines and a heavy cardboard tube.
> personal mines using rat traps...
Plus a few shotgun shells.
> Maybe extend the observation phase to birth.
Isn't that in the current plan?
> There are lots of ways to hide explosives in
> seemingly innocent objects.
It's clear, then. We must immediately ban all seemingly innocent objects.
Idiots.
Doesn't everyone getting on an airplane these days have to strip naked, undergo a body-cavity search, and don shackles and an orange jumpsuit with PASSENGER stenciled on the back?
Just stop by your local farm store and pick up a cattle prod. Or order one at http://www.redhillgeneralstore.com/prod.htm or one of their many competitors.
> What happens when $VIRUS turns your domain name
> into a spamfest?
You get blacklisted, as you should be.
> If you're supporting any normal users at all,
> you're likely going to find it hard to maintain
> that reputation.
Securing your domain is your responsibility.
I imagine that many of these virus writers are professionals, well-paid by their spammer employers.
"Learning from nature" is what science _does_.
That's what the whales thought too, but after a few hundred thousand years of experimenting they decided that it really does work.
We can only hope.
Bullshit.
> Any systematic attempt at guessing a password is
> prevented before the attacker gains access.
> Users make mistakes a few times, even for the
> most simple passwords, one must sample tens of
> passwords to break in.
Bill has been showing everyone in the office pictures of his new daughter Betsy. Fred, always on the alert for a way to make a quick buck, notices that Bill has just been given an account on the sensitive financial system. Since you are system administrator here, users are allowed to choose there own passwords and no password checking is done.
How do your superior system adminstration skills prevent Fred from guessing that Bill's password for his new account is 'betsy'? He isn't going to make multiple sequential attempts. He's going to make one try and if it works he's in. If he fails he will chat up Sally, who has told everyone that she uses one really easy to remember password for everything, about her pets.
> Your users shouldn't require anything more than a
> 4 digit pin & a magnetic card. If it's enough to
> protect their money...
But it isn't.
> If you care about getting Britney Spears'
...by all means, break the DRM then.
> "Poison" in a listenable format in 20 years...
You haven't been paying attention. It's 120 years now.
>
> What's more likely to happen by that time is
> that some company like Rhino Records will put
> out non-DRMed versions of the songs that have
> made it into public domain.
It will still be a crime to break the DRM even after the contents are public domain.
> ...if you want to use VideoLan in Linux to play
> your iTunes files, you first have to generate the
> client/user keys by playing back your M4P's on the
> Windows version of VideoLan.
So you can't use VideoLan in Linux to play iTunes files unless you have Microsoft Windows. How useless.
One would think that the Slashdot editors would edit the articles before posting, full stop.
I want to see network protocols and file formats, and I want to see them freely available. Interoperability with other operating systems is what matters.
> ...the #debian channels were nothing but insults.
Try the debian-user mailing list. Go to www.debian.org to subscribe. While you are there take a look at the consultants list. Some of us are quite willing to do the sort of work you want.
As Jellyfish_Green observed, it's fusion, not fission. And tabletop neutron generators using fusion have been available for decades. See for example.