IIRC, and I may not, wasn't the Olympics originally a fairly spartan (not Spartan!) excercise with minimal accoutrements designed to provide some competition, to get the citizens and warriors into shape (many of the original olympic events seem to have resembled military tasks), and to show anyone watching that the city-state wasn't one to be messed with?
I just can't conceive of sun-bronzed Adonii working up a sweat deciding "King to Queen's Pawn 4?..."
Chess has about as much fit with classic Olympic activity (ignore the modern TV-friendly Olympics including Curling and Tai Chi and Lord knows what else) as Microsoft does with secure systems...
And performance enhancing drugs for chess? Maybe some tranqs so you could get some sleep instead of being bored for hours... next thing they'll suggest is full-contact Olympic bocce....
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Not to be Oliver-Stonian, but it seems to me that
the profligate number of bugs written to take a
hack at the MS security vulnerabilities in IIS,
Win xx, etc. might be some sort of covert action
by free software types.
Now, before anyone starts frothing at the cranium,
I don't lump all free software types in this
class. Nor can I say with any certainty the case
I suggest is so.
Instead, I just suggest it for a thought.
If Linux is the 2nd largest OS, then why don't
we see far more Linux-specific hacks? You could
argue that it is the stability and security of
the system. Partly, I'd buy that - MS is kinda
weak in the security department. But even so,
you'd expect to see some MS Tiger Team secretly
releasing something nasty to take out the
competition. But that doesn't often seem to be
the case.
And the MS attacking virii multiply, in form as
well as instance.
It is just barely possible this is someone's way
of saying "Sod Off!" to Bill and Co. If so, though
the sentiment is laudible, the action is not.
Every time one of these virii hits, it "justifies"
more restrictive practices in terms of code
release, security protocols, limiting interop
capabilities, buttoning down and monitoring the
net, giving the police and Governments more power
to tackle anything they think needs their dirty
paws on the Net, etc.
Maybe what we really need is some White Hat
Crackers to take a real stab at nailing these
virus-writing pussbags. A dose of their own
medicine (or a repeated encounter with a solid
surface) might show them the error of their ways...
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IIRC, and I may not, wasn't the Olympics originally a fairly spartan (not Spartan!) excercise with minimal accoutrements designed to provide some competition, to get the citizens and warriors into shape (many of the original olympic events seem to have resembled military tasks), and to show anyone watching that the city-state wasn't one to be messed with?
I just can't conceive of sun-bronzed Adonii working up a sweat deciding "King to Queen's Pawn 4?..."
Chess has about as much fit with classic Olympic activity (ignore the modern TV-friendly Olympics including Curling and Tai Chi and Lord knows what else) as Microsoft does with secure systems...
And performance enhancing drugs for chess? Maybe some tranqs so you could get some sleep instead of being bored for hours... next thing they'll suggest is full-contact Olympic bocce....
Not to be Oliver-Stonian, but it seems to me that
the profligate number of bugs written to take a
hack at the MS security vulnerabilities in IIS,
Win xx, etc. might be some sort of covert action
by free software types.
Now, before anyone starts frothing at the cranium,
I don't lump all free software types in this
class. Nor can I say with any certainty the case
I suggest is so.
Instead, I just suggest it for a thought.
If Linux is the 2nd largest OS, then why don't
we see far more Linux-specific hacks? You could
argue that it is the stability and security of
the system. Partly, I'd buy that - MS is kinda
weak in the security department. But even so,
you'd expect to see some MS Tiger Team secretly
releasing something nasty to take out the
competition. But that doesn't often seem to be
the case.
And the MS attacking virii multiply, in form as
well as instance.
It is just barely possible this is someone's way
of saying "Sod Off!" to Bill and Co. If so, though
the sentiment is laudible, the action is not.
Every time one of these virii hits, it "justifies"
more restrictive practices in terms of code
release, security protocols, limiting interop
capabilities, buttoning down and monitoring the
net, giving the police and Governments more power
to tackle anything they think needs their dirty
paws on the Net, etc.
Maybe what we really need is some White Hat
Crackers to take a real stab at nailing these
virus-writing pussbags. A dose of their own
medicine (or a repeated encounter with a solid
surface) might show them the error of their ways...
Tomb.