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Let's take a look at some facts
Have you normalized your "facts" by relating the number of exploits to the number of installations, or are you simply using absolute numbers like a good zealot?
If Linux were as popular as Windows is today, it would be just as plagued by security holes.
That's a fine list but it would be far less impressive if you'd listed the birth and death dates of the individuals. They were almost all creatures of their own time - when it was either fashionable or practically compulsory to believe in God.
Face it. Religion is fighting a losing battle here just as it did with the earth-centric view. That was demolished and now it's time to demolish the idea of the soul. Good riddance.
I guess it's just hard for some of us to accept that the man is just an animal. We live our lives, lacking anything better to do and devise reason later. We're born from oblivion; bear children, hellbound as ourselves; go into oblivion and no-one will miss us when the universe dies.
Ok, but you could say the same thing about Earth communications which are handled by satellites. Dumb communication satellites are cheap even around the moon.
BTW. I thought the idea of having a telescope on the far side of the moon was to avoid the radio interference from the Earth and not the sunlight.
As long as there is no world government, surely a US government attempting to police the net
Well, I don't see any problems in policing international travel. I'd use the passport/visa system as a model for the more robust internet authentication.
I'm curious why you're opposed to SPEWS but favour some restrictions that many people would consider draconian.
After the run-ins I have had with SPEWS ("your ISP supports spam, that's why you can't receive/send mail anymore even if you didn't do anything wrong") I cannot consider them as legitimate civil action anymore. They are a bunch of vigilantes.
If I'm going get shafted by anyone, I'd rather take abuse from the government than from a group of anonymous cowards like SPEWS.
So, no privacy or freedom and compulsory TCPA? Do you work for Microsoft?
Well, I know this will piss people off here, but I believe that once the population (virtual or not) grows numerous enough, there must be limits to individual freedoms. This happened ages ago in the real world, but the net has only recently matured to this stage.
Cars, international travel, movies, guns and drugs are controlled. I don't see the problem with controlling access to the net.
Wonderful -- a complete expression of Ashcroft's wettest dream. Make the net bulletproof for business and to hell with anyone with a legitimate need for privacy or anonymity. Yeah, Islamic law for the net. You skunk-fucking dipshit.
Thank you for your insightful post.
Then I suppose you want an unsable net. Or do you actually have any real ideas on how to stop the inevitable degeneration of the net?
And speaking of privacy, why aren't you complaining about the necessity of having a passport or even visas when traveling abroad? I'd say freedom to travel is much more important than net access and yet it's heavily controlled.
Spammers and virus writers/blackhats have joined in an unholy alliance and scammers like the ones in this article are running their schemes apparently with impunity.
Existing legislation has failed mainly because it is national and not international like the net itself. Technological means have failed as clearly shown in this article. If encryption/authentication like SSL won't work, then what will.
The dream is gone. The freewheeling internet from the late 80s and early 90s is dead and will never come back. The net can no longer remain both useful and unregulated and I will certainly opt for the usefulness over unregulation.
And no, before someone starts bashing Microsoft, running Linux won't save you. This is not a technological problem. Even if every computer in the world were running free software, the users would be the same. Yes. Those who run as root and click on every goddamn mail attachment. This is a social problem just like ignorance of the general population, scamming and vandalism are in the real world.
So what to do? Well, if the problem is the same as in the real world, use the tools we already have for controlling travel, gun ownership or who gets to drive a car or practise a profession. Age limits for net access, controlled net hardware (punishments in the same class as dealing "class A controlled substances"), tightly controlled licenses for running a business on the net and most of all a compulsory international e-identity (smartcard/bio authentication; equivalent of a passport) without which you cannot even access the net.
Modern electroshock treatment is carried out under sedation and it tends to to provide very quick and effective relief in some forms of depression. I would not have hesitated trying out electroshocks if the meds had not worked out in my case.
I suppose no-one knows how the electroshocks actually work, but the last theory I heard about said that some forms of depression are caused by "loops" (as in the obsessive-compulsion disorder) in thought and that the shock breaks them down.
I seem to recall that during the Gulf War II, a British operation "Snipe-hunt" either in Afghanistan or Iraq also appeared to be a source of amusement in the media.
Since I'm neither a Brit or an American, I never figured it out. Anyone?
No patched kernel yet available for my RedHat, SuSE or Gentoo distributions and I'm sure as hell not going to compile a vanilla kernel that would only mess up the package management system.
If you're an asshole now, as a person or a corporation, it will come back to get you one way or another.
"I used to think that life was unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse, if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe." (Marcus on B5)
So, go Microsoft! Your unethical practises are making me feel warm inside.
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Have you normalized your "facts" by relating the number of exploits to the number of installations, or are you simply using absolute numbers like a good zealot?
If Linux were as popular as Windows is today, it would be just as plagued by security holes.
That's a fine list but it would be far less impressive if you'd listed the birth and death dates of the individuals. They were almost all creatures of their own time - when it was either fashionable or practically compulsory to believe in God.
Face it. Religion is fighting a losing battle here just as it did with the earth-centric view. That was demolished and now it's time to demolish the idea of the soul. Good riddance.
I guess it's just hard for some of us to accept that the man is just an animal. We live our lives, lacking anything better to do and devise reason later. We're born from oblivion; bear children, hellbound as ourselves; go into oblivion and no-one will miss us when the universe dies.
BTW. I thought the idea of having a telescope on the far side of the moon was to avoid the radio interference from the Earth and not the sunlight.
Are you kidding?
That's child's play with a satellite in the moon orbit. Relay the signal to the satellite and from there to Earth.
I just love them. Always with me, total freedom to screen my calls and I can always place a call wherever I am and whenever I want.
Well, I don't see any problems in policing international travel. I'd use the passport/visa system as a model for the more robust internet authentication.
After the run-ins I have had with SPEWS ("your ISP supports spam, that's why you can't receive/send mail anymore even if you didn't do anything wrong") I cannot consider them as legitimate civil action anymore. They are a bunch of vigilantes.
If I'm going get shafted by anyone, I'd rather take abuse from the government than from a group of anonymous cowards like SPEWS.
Well, I know this will piss people off here, but I believe that once the population (virtual or not) grows numerous enough, there must be limits to individual freedoms. This happened ages ago in the real world, but the net has only recently matured to this stage.
Cars, international travel, movies, guns and drugs are controlled. I don't see the problem with controlling access to the net.
Thank you for your insightful post.
Then I suppose you want an unsable net. Or do you actually have any real ideas on how to stop the inevitable degeneration of the net?
And speaking of privacy, why aren't you complaining about the necessity of having a passport or even visas when traveling abroad? I'd say freedom to travel is much more important than net access and yet it's heavily controlled.
There's no contradiction here.
As with any law enforcement, I don't tolerate vigilantism.
Spammers and virus writers/blackhats have joined in an unholy alliance and scammers like the ones in this article are running their schemes apparently with impunity.
Existing legislation has failed mainly because it is national and not international like the net itself. Technological means have failed as clearly shown in this article. If encryption/authentication like SSL won't work, then what will.
The dream is gone. The freewheeling internet from the late 80s and early 90s is dead and will never come back. The net can no longer remain both useful and unregulated and I will certainly opt for the usefulness over unregulation.
And no, before someone starts bashing Microsoft, running Linux won't save you. This is not a technological problem. Even if every computer in the world were running free software, the users would be the same. Yes. Those who run as root and click on every goddamn mail attachment. This is a social problem just like ignorance of the general population, scamming and vandalism are in the real world.
So what to do? Well, if the problem is the same as in the real world, use the tools we already have for controlling travel, gun ownership or who gets to drive a car or practise a profession. Age limits for net access, controlled net hardware (punishments in the same class as dealing "class A controlled substances"), tightly controlled licenses for running a business on the net and most of all a compulsory international e-identity (smartcard/bio authentication; equivalent of a passport) without which you cannot even access the net.
Ok. And why would someone want to deprive someone of the use of "free" software?
A sort of an ideological pre-emptive strike? We are all equal but some of us must be more equal then than others in order for the system to work?
Why support FSF when there are other licenses than GPL that are actually more free?
Modern electroshock treatment is carried out under sedation and it tends to to provide very quick and effective relief in some forms of depression. I would not have hesitated trying out electroshocks if the meds had not worked out in my case.
I suppose no-one knows how the electroshocks actually work, but the last theory I heard about said that some forms of depression are caused by "loops" (as in the obsessive-compulsion disorder) in thought and that the shock breaks them down.
Since I'm neither a Brit or an American, I never figured it out. Anyone?
No patched kernel yet available for my RedHat, SuSE or Gentoo distributions and I'm sure as hell not going to compile a vanilla kernel that would only mess up the package management system.
Sure the initial cost of a laser printer tends to be higher than that of an ink jet, but it is more economical in the long run.
BTW, I just checked the local price for a low-end HP LaserJet 1010: 180 euros including 28% VAT.
Laser printers, of course.
Is someone actually still using ink-jet printers?
Well, well, well... some things don't change.
Quite frankly, I miss Jon and his trollfest articles.
After all, if you were innocent in the first place you wouldn't have to be tried. That would, after all, mean that one could not rely on the police.
Rest assured that we'll have the "balls thoroughly licked". War is such an H-word...
Tories are rudderless and the beauty of a de facto two-party system guarantees that no outsiders can challenge the poodle.
I agree. The article got my hopes up but after seeing that the source was ESR, oh well... now it's just a rumor from a zealot.
"I used to think that life was unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse, if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe." (Marcus on B5)
So, go Microsoft! Your unethical practises are making me feel warm inside.