The answer is educating people. We should have classes. Perhaps in school?
If you had a life, you would know that 90% of users are thicker than a ton of bricks, and
educating them is difficult.
Hell even if you watched daytime TV, you would know edukatin' users is a lot more difficult than paying Mafia hit men to get the virus writers. Now that would be a good use of tax dollars!
People need Cisco to put antivirus stuff in their routers. By law if necessary Yeas, all those viruses went through Cisco routers. If Cisco routers stopped them, the viruses would be gone in a day. However, Cisco saales of routers would fall drastically, since 90% of the traffic they carry is viruses and spam.
Who is for a class action by the virus-infected against Cisco for delivering the viruses?
The only real solution for viruses (and spam) involve the use of rocket propelled grenades - (if you think RPG is something to do with games, you are part of the problem:-)
Sure they were a respected UNIX vendor. They were the only serious choice at one time for Intel,
No they were not. This is a completely different company who bought the name. You are talking about
the Santa Cruz Operation. Their "Unix" was not very good, but it was not likely to be until the invention of the 386, cos the 286 MMU was not up to the job. (Both MMUs were reworks of earlier DEC ones, so experienced Unix users knew what the issues were.)
Killing innocent people as part of a deliberate attempt to xripple an enemy (even to end war) is still killing innocent people.
You are obviously very young and foolish, and had no contact with people who experienced WWII.
It was simple maths: Which would kill less people? Allowing the war to continue for D days, killing K people per day, or stopping it by killing
less than (D * K)/10 people?
Sure the figures were approximate, but computers had not been invented as far as most people knew, and in those days, people were used to working with approximate figures, especially the military.
Were the figures wrong? Maybe, no one will ever know.
Was it the wrong thing to do? Few people alive at the time, even in Japan, think so.
We use excludively OpenBSD on UltraSParc servers for our financial transactions processing. I am not switching - I want
uptimes of a year and I certainly dont want to port our software to another OS or hardware. $8k wouldnt go near that.
(We have over 20 CPUs, but porting is not going to happen while my Sun kit works). I have never paid Sun
a penny for support. Their kit is reliable.
We a class suit for criminal negligence for the owners of the stolen IP against the owners of the infected machines, supervised by Groklaw and the EFF.
That's because you're young, and, consequently, have little money.
You are wrong on that - I am over 60. I have all the music I want in my vast collection from before CDs were invented,
and my eyes are not very good, so I don't like watching moving pictures much.
I have some interest in actual new content, but none at all in Hollywood movies,
We have Sky at home, and I do watch (I am watching now)
an African movie channel (Movistar).
If I wanted to watch Ugly Betty, etc, I could watch TV.
Its rubbish, and I dont want to watch it. I don't care about the method of delivery, it is still pointless garbage.
I do download music and videos, but its not the stuff that the major networks produce. That is the advantage youtube has:
it has stuff that has not had the hand of the major networks in it.
There is a market for those that don't want cameras, so devices exist and will continue to exist.
Maybe where you live, but here in the UK, there is a market, but no product.
We want the Nokia E61 (Not the E61i or E71, which have cameras) updated to have the nice big keyboard, not a fiddly little one (so we can enter part numbers and long tech words), accelerometers and GPS - BUT NO DAMN CAMERA!!!!
So it can be used in secure workplaces AND SPECIFIED FOR CORPORATE USE IN SAME.
YES, NOKIA, THIS MEANS YOU! You would get huge corporate contracts if you just got rid of the damn camera.
Whats to stop someone affiliated in some way with a security service from planting information into one of these databases to frame an innocent person?
If something stopped that, the whole exercise would be rather pointless, wouldn't it?
One thing we can be sure of is that the ISP will be better at storing it than the secret service,
who would store it on USB sticks left in pubs, or the police, who would display it where news reporters
can photograph it.
Personally, I think write-only tapes on the floor of a back room at the ISP _are_ the best way.
This is the uK, not the USA - we have the right to free speach, so long as we don't use it.
(We would like the right to free beer, but even if we brew it at home for our own use,
the government has the right to tax it, and indeed everything else.)
How about a FPS where you are John Prescott, and have to punch the greatest possible number of Paperrazzi before being hit by a tomato/custard pie/salacious revelation.
Or even a porno game where you are a black prostitute and have to sleep with as many Conservative MPs as possible before they get elected. Read all about it
That depends on the standard you are using and your definition of "slows to a crawl"
I can believe that. I have just returned to the UK from France, and I can tell you that the "free and unlimited internet" in McDonalds, France is about the same speed as 56k Dialup or 3G on O2. - ie rubbish. And I was the only customer with a laptop!
So far, none of the MMS messages I have sent has ever been recieved, so Viruses are probably held back by the lack of compatibility between networks/handsets. As MMS will be dead in less than a year because e-mail does the same job for free, I dont see this as a major issue.
Cars built today don't necessarily have to have the 400 cubic inch plants and 500 horsepower that they sometimes had in the 60's.
Much as I like the idea of big-block Chevvy engines, here in Europe 3 Litres (200ci) has always been big, as we could get 100HP/litre even
then, without a turbo - hell, even without fuel injection. (Hint: it pays to design decent gas flow, and we think a good engine should be
balanced to do 6,000RPM without falling to bits.)
Today European/Japanese production plants regularly get over 100HP/Litre from Diesel engines with a turbo.
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The biggest risk is that a trigger happy cop will decide the scan means you are a Brazilian electrician and shoot you.
If you had a life, you would know that 90% of users are thicker than a ton of bricks, and educating them is difficult.
Hell even if you watched daytime TV, you would know edukatin' users is a lot more difficult than paying Mafia hit men to get the virus writers. Now that would be a good use of tax dollars!
People need Cisco to put antivirus stuff in their routers. By law if necessary Yeas, all those viruses went through Cisco routers. If Cisco routers stopped them, the viruses would be gone in a day. However, Cisco saales of routers would fall drastically, since 90% of the traffic they carry is viruses and spam.
Who is for a class action by the virus-infected against Cisco for delivering the viruses?
The only real solution for viruses (and spam) involve the use of rocket propelled grenades - (if you think RPG is something to do with games, you are part of the problem :-)
No they were not. This is a completely different company who bought the name. You are talking about the Santa Cruz Operation. Their "Unix" was not very good, but it was not likely to be until the invention of the 386, cos the 286 MMU was not up to the job. (Both MMUs were reworks of earlier DEC ones, so experienced Unix users knew what the issues were.)
Unfortunately for Vista, if its an MS product, that reads: Whether it works or not, there's no need to replace it. (the replacement won't either).
You are obviously very young and foolish, and had no contact with people who experienced WWII.
It was simple maths: Which would kill less people? Allowing the war to continue for D days, killing K people per day, or stopping it by killing less than (D * K)/10 people?
Sure the figures were approximate, but computers had not been invented as far as most people knew, and in those days, people were used to working with approximate figures, especially the military.
Were the figures wrong? Maybe, no one will ever know.
Was it the wrong thing to do? Few people alive at the time, even in Japan, think so.
We use excludively OpenBSD on UltraSParc servers for our financial transactions processing. I am not switching - I want uptimes of a year and I certainly dont want to port our software to another OS or hardware. $8k wouldnt go near that. (We have over 20 CPUs, but porting is not going to happen while my Sun kit works). I have never paid Sun a penny for support. Their kit is reliable.
It would definely work here in the UK.Sure the jails would be full of rather foolish elderly women, but they dont vote anyway.
There, fixed that for you.
We a class suit for criminal negligence for the owners of the stolen IP against the owners of the infected machines, supervised by Groklaw and the EFF.
You are wrong on that - I am over 60. I have all the music I want in my vast collection from before CDs were invented, and my eyes are not very good, so I don't like watching moving pictures much.
I have some interest in actual new content, but none at all in Hollywood movies,
We have Sky at home, and I do watch (I am watching now) an African movie channel (Movistar).
Its rubbish, and I dont want to watch it. I don't care about the method of delivery, it is still pointless garbage.
I do download music and videos, but its not the stuff that the major networks produce. That is the advantage youtube has: it has stuff that has not had the hand of the major networks in it.
Maybe where you live, but here in the UK, there is a market, but no product.
We want the Nokia E61 (Not the E61i or E71, which have cameras) updated to have the nice big keyboard, not a fiddly little one (so we can enter part numbers and long tech words), accelerometers and GPS - BUT NO DAMN CAMERA!!!! So it can be used in secure workplaces AND SPECIFIED FOR CORPORATE USE IN SAME.
YES, NOKIA, THIS MEANS YOU! You would get huge corporate contracts if you just got rid of the damn camera.
So Gordon Brown's policy is not original after all. Quelle Surprise!
If something stopped that, the whole exercise would be rather pointless, wouldn't it?
The British government IS the terrorists.
Personally, I think write-only tapes on the floor of a back room at the ISP _are_ the best way.
(We would like the right to free beer, but even if we brew it at home for our own use, the government has the right to tax it, and indeed everything else.)
I for one, welcome our animal potato overlords!
Or even a porno game where you are a black prostitute and have to sleep with as many Conservative MPs as possible before they get elected. Read all about it
We know for sure that:
a) If there are N economists, there are N! explanations of what is happening, of which < 1 are probably correct.
b) The more qualified an economist, the less likely his predictions are to be right.
I would say climatology is in the same boat.
You ave failed to recognise that 60% of UK companies dont tell the truth while answering questionaires, and 50% can't tell COBOL from a pig's ear.
I can believe that. I have just returned to the UK from France, and I can tell you that the "free and unlimited internet" in McDonalds, France is about the same speed as 56k Dialup or 3G on O2. - ie rubbish. And I was the only customer with a laptop!
Hopefully involving...rocket propelled grenades
So far, none of the MMS messages I have sent has ever been recieved, so Viruses are probably held back by the lack of compatibility between networks/handsets. As MMS will be dead in less than a year because e-mail does the same job for free, I dont see this as a major issue.
Today European/Japanese production plants regularly get over 100HP/Litre from Diesel engines with a turbo.