An OT side-note:
Just as each of us has our own organizational scheme for our own bookshelves, libraries tend to vary more than we think too.
Just about every school and community library you'll find uses Dewey Decimal, of course, but others have other schemes. For instance: the Library of Congress, in order to conserve space on their shelves, orders their books by size. (No, I'm not kidding. Look it up.) The directory is computerized, of course, so aside from the inconvenience of having same-topic volumes wildly separated in space, it's not a big deal for them.
Considering how boiler-plated all of his work post-1945 was, I don't think I'll be buying it... but out of curiosity, I'll probably borrow a copy from the library.
I want to say that Heinlein was a one-note song, but it's not true. He had several notes, always played in the same order: space exploration (which I applaud), sex, self-righteousness, anti-communism, eugenics, and more sex.
I'm not eager to read more.
OpenOffice and StarOffice also having built-in scripting languages. Perhaps the risks of buffer overruns aren't as common under those (I don't know, since I lack much experience with those scripting languages), but in all fairness to MS, if OpenOffice were the leading suite & de facto standard, it would also see many attacks.
The problem in this case isn't that the flaw exists-- patches are easy enough to apply. It's that with the near-monopoly MS has over hundreds of millions of users, you can always guarantee some large subset of users won't have the patches installed, and thus will be vulnerable to attack.
Even X tried to emulate the "look & feel" of Windows; I'm not a Microsoft fan, no matter that I make my money by developing Windows apps, but I will give credit where it's due. Their graphic designers have done a wonderful job in the past. Yeah, the new interface they gave XP coul suckstart a Harley, but at least there's an option to revert to the "classic" desktop.
It's the guts of the Windows OS's that are scary, not the UI.
And for the purists, yes, I realize there are even better solutions that could be used, but if we reduce the set we're considering to just those are affordable and have a chance of converting the legions, then we're left with the interface popularized by Apple & MS. That's life.
Boy, if that isn't being a little dramatic. Reread the original article, you'll find that even though the jammers are being permitted, they're to operate with at minimal time over minimal range over minimal bandwidth. They're not going to be on the entire duration of the G8 conference or of the Pope's visit.
Your reaction is a lot like assuming that because the RCMP are permitted to use horses that someone is going to slip in horse manure & sue the Canadian federal government about it.
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An OT side-note:
Just as each of us has our own organizational scheme for our own bookshelves, libraries tend to vary more than we think too.
Just about every school and community library you'll find uses Dewey Decimal, of course, but others have other schemes.
For instance: the Library of Congress, in order to conserve space on their shelves, orders their books by size. (No, I'm not kidding. Look it up.) The directory is computerized, of course, so aside from the inconvenience of having same-topic volumes wildly separated in space, it's not a big deal for them.
Considering how boiler-plated all of his work post-1945 was, I don't think I'll be buying it... but out of curiosity, I'll probably borrow a copy from the library. I want to say that Heinlein was a one-note song, but it's not true. He had several notes, always played in the same order: space exploration (which I applaud), sex, self-righteousness, anti-communism, eugenics, and more sex. I'm not eager to read more.
OpenOffice and StarOffice also having built-in scripting languages. Perhaps the risks of buffer overruns aren't as common under those (I don't know, since I lack much experience with those scripting languages), but in all fairness to MS, if OpenOffice were the leading suite & de facto standard, it would also see many attacks. The problem in this case isn't that the flaw exists-- patches are easy enough to apply. It's that with the near-monopoly MS has over hundreds of millions of users, you can always guarantee some large subset of users won't have the patches installed, and thus will be vulnerable to attack.
Even X tried to emulate the "look & feel" of Windows; I'm not a Microsoft fan, no matter that I make my money by developing Windows apps, but I will give credit where it's due. Their graphic designers have done a wonderful job in the past. Yeah, the new interface they gave XP coul suckstart a Harley, but at least there's an option to revert to the "classic" desktop.
It's the guts of the Windows OS's that are scary, not the UI.
And for the purists, yes, I realize there are even better solutions that could be used, but if we reduce the set we're considering to just those are affordable and have a chance of converting the legions, then we're left with the interface popularized by Apple & MS. That's life.
Boy, if that isn't being a little dramatic. Reread the original article, you'll find that even though the jammers are being permitted, they're to operate with at minimal time over minimal range over minimal bandwidth. They're not going to be on the entire duration of the G8 conference or of the Pope's visit. Your reaction is a lot like assuming that because the RCMP are permitted to use horses that someone is going to slip in horse manure & sue the Canadian federal government about it.