You have a statistical anomoly here. There are less users using Macs/Linux, there for proportionately less problems. The same amount of problems would exist if Mac or Linux had the market share Windows does. This is simply because users common sense is not dependent on the OS being used. User's common sense is a mathmatical constant, otherwise known as zero;-)
Select * from users where clue > 0
Zero rows returned!
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It must be nice to open up the paper at brunch one morning to another suit on your company and be able to go back to bed realizing that no suit could ever make a sizeable dent in your 44$ bil in cash reserves.
We make a lot of fun of Gates, but hmm, could you imagine... 'puttin' on the ritz, baby'
That will make Washington St. a spam haven state where people from all over can set up by ISP space to spam as many people at will without fear of retribution.
*Leaves Microsoft comments to the trolls*
(ah, just one)
I don't believe Bill Gates is the devil, there is just an inherent relationship between people who speak the same language!:-)
If that logic is pursued, just make every crime, from littering and jaywalking on up, a capital offence. That would deter ALL crime. Sounds idyllic, doesn't it?
Metaphors can be extended beyond what was intended, which is what has happened here. Now I'm not going to disagree that those things would happen less with stiffer punishments, but I'm not advocating stiffer punishments for crimes that don't call for it. If someone is hacking into a corporate network, the punishment should send a message to others who would attempt such an endevour that the risk it not worth the potential return.
No offense, but how do you know the bulk of hacking is internal . . . you seen any charts quoting that. My opinion is, if you keep the punishment higher, people are less likely to do it. In other countries, people are shot by a firing squad if they get caught DUI. Therefore, less people drive drunk and no accidents. Same principal applies here. Not saying we should shoot hackers:-), but that if the punishment is steep, maybe it would detere illegal hacking.
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Why not bundle the application to read the format with the book storage? Problem solved!
You have a statistical anomoly here. There are less users using Macs/Linux, there for proportionately less problems. The same amount of problems would exist if Mac or Linux had the market share Windows does. This is simply because users common sense is not dependent on the OS being used. User's common sense is a mathmatical constant, otherwise known as zero ;-)
Select * from users where clue > 0
Zero rows returned! (shirt from Thinkgeek.com)
We make a lot of fun of Gates, but hmm, could you imagine ... 'puttin' on the ritz, baby'
That will make Washington St. a spam haven state where people from all over can set up by ISP space to spam as many people at will without fear of retribution. *Leaves Microsoft comments to the trolls* (ah, just one) I don't believe Bill Gates is the devil, there is just an inherent relationship between people who speak the same language! :-)
If that logic is pursued, just make every crime, from littering and jaywalking on up, a capital offence. That would deter ALL crime. Sounds idyllic, doesn't it? Metaphors can be extended beyond what was intended, which is what has happened here. Now I'm not going to disagree that those things would happen less with stiffer punishments, but I'm not advocating stiffer punishments for crimes that don't call for it. If someone is hacking into a corporate network, the punishment should send a message to others who would attempt such an endevour that the risk it not worth the potential return.
No offense, but how do you know the bulk of hacking is internal . . . you seen any charts quoting that. My opinion is, if you keep the punishment higher, people are less likely to do it. In other countries, people are shot by a firing squad if they get caught DUI. Therefore, less people drive drunk and no accidents. Same principal applies here. Not saying we should shoot hackers :-), but that if the punishment is steep, maybe it would detere illegal hacking.