This reminds me of all the talk about "the paperless office" from a while back. I was asked in an interview with a local paper what I thought about "the paperless office", and I told them I thought it would be a reality shortly after the paperless bathroom.
Tell it to a liberal? Obviously you didn't bother to check out the vote totals. It passed 385-3. Two Republicans and one Democrat voted against it, and 46 representatives did not vote. And it's supported by the Republican administration. If there's anybody going crazy criminalizing new things right now, it's Bush and Ashcroft.
The original shell commands were designed to be economical of typing because people were often connecting to those systems with real TTYs. The lucky ones had 300 baud terminals. The difference of a few characters in a command name added up over time.
Remember, Unix had the source available from the very beginning. Security through obscurity was essentially impossible for the Unix developers.
As for MS being given 4 or 5 years to "lock down" their OS, I ask only "how long has Windows been in existence? Haven't they already had their 4 or 5 years?"
Sorry, but I don't see anything insightful or very well-connected to reality in this post.
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This reminds me of all the talk about "the paperless office" from a while back. I was asked in an interview with a local paper what I thought about "the paperless office", and I told them I thought it would be a reality shortly after the paperless bathroom.
Tell it to a liberal? Obviously you didn't bother to check out the vote totals. It passed 385-3. Two Republicans and one Democrat voted against it, and 46 representatives did not vote. And it's supported by the Republican administration. If there's anybody going crazy criminalizing new things right now, it's Bush and Ashcroft.
The original shell commands were designed to be economical of typing because people were often connecting to those systems with real TTYs. The lucky ones had 300 baud terminals. The difference of a few characters in a command name added up over time.
Remember, Unix had the source available from the very beginning. Security through obscurity was essentially impossible for the Unix developers.
As for MS being given 4 or 5 years to "lock down" their OS, I ask only "how long has Windows been in existence? Haven't they already had their 4 or 5 years?"
Sorry, but I don't see anything insightful or very well-connected to reality in this post.