This article bounces around like a 3 - year old exposed to Penguin Mints. There is no logical progression of events, no real explanation of what happened, and no coherence. This is a bunch of He Said - someone else said. I understand why no reporter put his name on this article - I never would want my name on something so poorly written.
Take a look if you like: there are 44 paragraphs, with an average of 3 sentences each.
Here is my favorite:
Anyway and why this is more than passingly interesting, buried half way through its suit, MySQL claims NuSphere materially breached the GPL by distributing programs derived from MySQL without providing the source code as required by the GPL license.
Forget the reporter: What kind of editor let this pass through? This passes for reporting? The freaking WORD paperclip speaks more intellegently.
The Jewish opinion on menstruation has always been that it is natural but unclean thing. Women who were in the throes of it were to be sent to the "Women's House" out back and locked in there until they were no longer unclean. Men who cavorted with an unclean woman would also become unclean and would need to go to the Temple to become cleansed.
To put this in a little more context (Book of Levidicus) Skin flaws of most sorts (lesions, rashes) were also unclean,(Lev 13:7-9;Lev 13:13-15) as well as rabbits (anything that walks on paws; Lev 11:27) and mildew (Lev 13:50-52) and nocternal emissions (lev 15:1-3;15-17).
This is not to say that women are as vile as bugs, but that a number of things made a number of people unclean according to the laws written in the books of Moses.
The problem for me is, XP does include a couple of features that make it better for home use by my family than Win 98, the biggest one being stability
Every MS WINDOWS package is touted as being "more stable" than its predecessor...since Windows 3.1 (I know, it was a GUI that sat on top of DOS...) Why did this not compel you to upgrade to WinME?
Don't kid yourself. If it's not an application, it may be a driver incompatability, but WinXP will either die or show incompatabilities with one or more devicies or applications you own.
I'm tired of telling my mom that the computer crashed because "Windows is stupid" (which has become my default explanation for computer problems).
Soon, you'll be able to tell your mom that the computer crashed because "Windows XP is stupid" (which will become your new, improved default explanation for computer problems).
I like Linux as much as the next guy, but I'm not sure Linux is ready for my family to use. Granted. It would be difficult to teach your parents a new OS with a new paradigm if they didn't want to take the time to learn it.
Windows is the only viable solution right now, and Windows XP is the best Windows there is.
Granted, Windows may be the best solution for you right now, but why must you upgrade? 98SE is a pretty good OS, as far as MS-OS's go, and you don't have the benefit of having seen XP in the field (at least not exposed to millions of end - users) so if stability is really your goal, give XP a year to release a few service packs, then consider upgrading. You can still participate in the boycott until XP has proven itself.
I like the idea of a "configureable" controller, but I want something more tactile than a flat screen.
I know where the A and B buttons are located on my mouse and joystick, not by sight, but by sense of touch. There is a clear, tactile line that seperates them, either by raising or lowering the sides, or by differing textures. An LCD panel won't do that, so I have to LOOK at the controller to figure out where the buttons are, each time I pick it up after drinking / petting the dog / taking a wizz. blech.
I also have the problem of lazy fingers that refuse to interpret visual information. That means that they can't read the controller and, as they are prone to fidgeting between turns, I will lose a lot of game play repeatedly dedicating 0.00000001 second each turn to visually confirming the layout.
Since you asked, you deserves an explanation. My parents did not abuse me. We have a great relationship and see each other several times a year (we're 300 miles apart cause of work).
I was a terrible firebug - I played with fire a lot, and this was one time where I'd actually destroyed property. And I needed a lesson. Sure, I got a couple of 1st degree burns that day, but I had a much greater respect for fire.
when I was 13, I tried to determine whether a series of matches burn hotter when grouped in a square or circular formation. I caught the living room rug on fire. Then I had to find out (because my dad was curious) how many matches were in a typical book. The kick was, that I had to burn each one down to my fingers before dropping it.
Of course they don't have written records of what happened. That's why there is so much conjecture about how the damn things were built in the first place. -----
They don't have written records of how the pyramids were constructed. It makes more sense that they would have more personal records on the fact that they were enslaved.
Doubtful. There don't exist many records of ancient cultures who saw value in teaching slaves how to read & write. I'm not saying it's impossible, just unlikely that you would ever find the personal memoirs of one of Pharoa's slaves.
You know that all of those guys in the applications division run linux and bsd at home.
Or at work. There was Linux on plenty of desktops at their support center at Las Colinas. I did support for them for about 6 months, and there was plenty of discussion about Linux, the trial ( I started just after the Jackson's FoF), and what the outcomes would be like.
With all of the FUDmongering that comes out of Redmond, you'd think that Linux would be a four - letter word at Microsoft, but they use the same number of letters there as anywhere else in the English - speaking world.
They were generously unconcerned about what software, what os, and what games we had on our machine. OTOH, there was a huge THOU SHALT NOT USE OPEN -SOURCE TOOLS TO DEVELOP mentality, that probably forced developers to conform to a standard - approved tools list.
Now they no longer only know what you're buying, but exactly where you are, to the nearest light-fitting.
Ingnoring your paranoia for a second, and focusing in the technical aspects of your argument:
"They" would know better than "to the nearest light - fitting". Effective wireless networks have considerable overlap, rather than tangents where transmission radii intersect.
Using this overlap, then, "they" could triangulate your position within much cliser than "to the nearest light fitting". Try within the nearest 2".
I'm not so scared about people stealing it, but what really scares me is a location of whatever security, where is posted a sign that says, "no matter what, don't make any explosions here"
No matter what material you use, whether it's glass, ceramic, steel, marble, or something else, some culture that comes after ours, will see the amazing mass of $seminaturalresource and decide that they can sell it for a profit, whether they can tell what's inside or not.
The pyramids have been "investigated" by museums, but plenty of gravesites and momuments were pillaged by thieves long before that.
I wonder if they will have a swimming pool. That would be odd in zero G. a big sphere of water hovering in the middle of the room.
This sounds extremely dangerous; Water containment would be the first challenge; I don't know how surface tension differs, but it would stand to my reason that , a "big sphere" would react to newtonian physics as well - if everyone jupmed in on one side, using the walls as a push point or whatever, then the mass of water would be pushed around quite easily. And break. Then you have perpetual zero-grav percipitation, not a pool.
The bigger challenge I see is orientation and buoyancy. IN a 10' deep pool, most people know to swim "up". In a zero-grav environment, especially where pressure is significantly lower than what people are used to, one would easily become quite disoriented. Without unfamiliar buyancy charqacteristics, people could suffocate themselves by swimming "in" instead of "out".
I'm not saying I'd never swim in outerspace; it sounds like a bit of fun, actually. But I'd want a few lessons beforehand.
It would seriously suck to be housekeeping up there. I imagine maids have interesting stories down here, but I can't imagine everything they'd run into up there.
Think about what happens with spillover in a zero-gravity environment.(define spillover as you wish).
I know the hotel would probably have some technique to create artificial gravity, but still there will be areas (as crowdpleasers) where zero-gravity can be experienced. People will find a way to experiment with this in every way you can or cannot imagine, and in ways you wish you couldn't imagine. eww.
My parents' first shopping trip togther went something like this:
Mom: "Look, Spam! Do you like Spam?" (hoping he'd say "no")
Dad: "Sure, OK." (wishing she hadn't asked)
And so we ate spam once, often twice a week for 2 years.
Two years, when neither one would admit to hating the stuff, and we, being kids, didn't know any better so we ate it also.
I think it was my dad who finally fessed up, but I've never had want or need to confirm this. I'm just glad they decided together, before I reached 10 and started considering SPAM real food. Now, I can't stand the stuff.
btw, they're still happily married, and will hit their 20th anniversary this summer.
I bought a Logitech Cordless TrackMan FX the other day : this thing is a *cordless* trackball ! I understand the need for a cordless mouse, to avoid dragging a cord around, but a cordless trackball ?? that's about as useful as a cordless telephone pole...
...and yet you bought it. Yep. You shilled out $60 - $80 of your hard - earned cash for something that you admit was worthless. You're the kind of consumer we love.
Don't bother hitting the article. Read below for all the details readers are getting:
IBM will devote 25 percent of its research and development budget for synergy synergy synergy synergy synergy synergy synergy synergy synergy synergy synergy synergy synergy synergy synergy synergy synergy synergy synergy synergy synergy synergy synergy synergy synergy synergy synergy synergy IBM.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger thinks this is a really important problem. Not synergy. Irving thinks we need more synergy.
"In that effort, we are COMMUNICATING that, going forward, we will PRACTIVELY Leverage our SYNERGIES, Keeping the End in Mind, whilst Sharpening our Saws and putting First Things First. Even though the last word I just said was said was first. ", said Mr. Wladawsky-Berger
I have a hard enough time when the US auctions off used, 15 - year old aircraft carriers to developing nations, although there's little I can do to stop it.
This thing flew less than 5 years ago, and China has already been known to buy Russian space technology for its own use. This capsule is said to be fully loaded. Can we trust Russia to strip American proprietary secrets out of the capsule before this blue - light special? Can we be guaranteed that it won't end up in the hands of some terrorist?
OK, this isn't designed to be a weapons grade device, but are we certain that there is NO enabling technology that, say, Iran or Iraq can use for their purposes?
THis isn't to say that forign nationals are bad, but we'd do well to acknowledge at least these two things:
Russia is still arguably an unwise place to do business
There are more than a few places where they don't tale a lot of pride in the the American flag
Since a cheap camera is more likely to bust open if you drop it
Not Hardly. Unless you've tinkered quite a bit with a disposable camera, they are difficult to open "accidentally". there's the Kodak sticker covering the seams on all 4 sides, plus the groove / latches to deal with.
Don't get me wrong; These are easy to open with screwdrivers, especially of you don't care what latches you break and how ugly it might be when you put it back together. But they aren't likely to voluntarily divulge their contents as the result of rapid deceleration following a fall of less than 15 feet.
What happens to the infrastructure of any company that cannot afford it?
Intel had a building going up in Austin, until the.bomb eroded their bank balance, and now the building just sits. There was a newspaper "contest" yesterday, challenging us all to repurpose the existing architecture that was already there. Among the entries: homeless shelter, art museum, paint it trailer - park pink, etc, to hilgight the fact that it really was an unwanted eyesore. My favorite: encase it in three miles, or so, of barbwire (ie use a series of barbwire wrappings to approximate "walls".
The point is, the company that wanted it, doesn't anymore and it just sits and will deteriorate until someone decides it's cheap enough to buy.
The same thing happened with the VUE boxes that came out in the early 80's (think basic TV + HBO)
Sure, they tried to reclaim the boxes, but didn't have the means to do so and since there's no programming left for those particular set - top boxes, they collect dust. There is a price point there - I'd buy one for $0.50, just to throw on a shelf and not look at it. Maybe I could tweak it sufficiently to get content from China, I just don't have the will.
The infrastructure here (computers!) have purpose outside of rent - ware. Software exists that can read M$ proprietary file formats, with proper tweaking. and if it's imprtant enough, software will be created to read other proprietary formats, whether they're created with rentware or some other software.
Nevermind that that neither the Supreme Court, nor the high courts of other countries, nor the greatest pontiffs on pontificators known to walk the earth can judge between good and evil 100%.
Nevermind that the judgement of even single acts in specific settings can be overturned as either acts of heroism or heinous atrocity by sane, objective, wise men and women purely by a shift of perspective.
Nevermind that we can't even decide for ourselves whether there is a god or not...we're going to allow some herd of programmers to attempt to judge us as either righteous or unholy souls? Why? I already know the answer. I'm counting on a higher power to forgive me, because I couldn't even be a perfect failure if I wanted to.
My judgement is pretty well set, but I have it on good authority that I will be forgiven, no matter what some koderz might say about me.
However, you should recognize that some of us actually use computers for professional purposes, that others are in charge of multy terabyte databases, that some of us are responsible to guarantee a mere 3'000'000 transactions a day on our clustered systems and that - if our systems crash - every minute might cost 10'000s of $.
If a server is necessary for that amount of money, time, and prestige, then WTF are you doing, using it to surf the web, read email, or whatever other various and sundry stuff outside of the firewall?
If you don't have the common sense required to
1) download necessary patches on a computer with low security mandates (relative to mulitbilliondollarservers)
2) end the inet session, close your browser, and run a virus scan on downloaded files with the latest dictionary
3) THEN copy it to servers where it's needed,
you almost are as innocent as a man who superglues his hand to his forehead. I mean, sure, he looks deep in thought for the first half hour, then people catch on to the fact that his IQ matches the sticky stuff he used in the first place.
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This article bounces around like a 3 - year old exposed to Penguin Mints. There is no logical progression of events, no real explanation of what happened, and no coherence. This is a bunch of He Said - someone else said. I understand why no reporter put his name on this article - I never would want my name on something so poorly written.
Take a look if you like: there are 44 paragraphs, with an average of 3 sentences each.
Here is my favorite:
Anyway and why this is more than passingly interesting, buried half way through its suit, MySQL claims NuSphere materially breached the GPL by distributing programs derived from MySQL without providing the source code as required by the GPL license.
Forget the reporter: What kind of editor let this pass through? This passes for reporting? The freaking WORD paperclip speaks more intellegently.
The Jewish opinion on menstruation has always been that it is natural but unclean thing. Women who were in the throes of it were to be sent to the "Women's House" out back and locked in there until they were no longer unclean. Men who cavorted with an unclean woman would also become unclean and would need to go to the Temple to become cleansed.
To put this in a little more context (Book of Levidicus) Skin flaws of most sorts (lesions, rashes) were also unclean,(Lev 13:7-9;Lev 13:13-15) as well as rabbits (anything that walks on paws; Lev 11:27) and mildew (Lev 13:50-52) and nocternal emissions (lev 15:1-3;15-17).
This is not to say that women are as vile as bugs, but that a number of things made a number of people unclean according to the laws written in the books of Moses.
No. The true, message of god is "all your base are belong to us".
Either ally with Him or don't. But don't think that you'll win a fight with God.
The problem for me is, XP does include a couple of features that make it better for home use by my family than Win 98, the biggest one being stability
Every MS WINDOWS package is touted as being "more stable" than its predecessor...since Windows 3.1 (I know, it was a GUI that sat on top of DOS...) Why did this not compel you to upgrade to WinME?
Don't kid yourself. If it's not an application, it may be a driver incompatability, but WinXP will either die or show incompatabilities with one or more devicies or applications you own.
I'm tired of telling my mom that the computer crashed because "Windows is stupid" (which has become my default explanation for computer problems).
Soon, you'll be able to tell your mom that the computer crashed because "Windows XP is stupid" (which will become your new, improved default explanation for computer problems).
I like Linux as much as the next guy, but I'm not sure Linux is ready for my family to use.
Granted. It would be difficult to teach your parents a new OS with a new paradigm if they didn't want to take the time to learn it.
Windows is the only viable solution right now, and Windows XP is the best Windows there is.
Granted, Windows may be the best solution for you right now, but why must you upgrade? 98SE is a pretty good OS, as far as MS-OS's go, and you don't have the benefit of having seen XP in the field (at least not exposed to millions of end - users) so if stability is really your goal, give XP a year to release a few service packs, then consider upgrading. You can still participate in the boycott until XP has proven itself.
I like the idea of a "configureable" controller, but I want something more tactile than a flat screen.
I know where the A and B buttons are located on my mouse and joystick, not by sight, but by sense of touch. There is a clear, tactile line that seperates them, either by raising or lowering the sides, or by differing textures. An LCD panel won't do that, so I have to LOOK at the controller to figure out where the buttons are, each time I pick it up after drinking / petting the dog / taking a wizz. blech.
I also have the problem of lazy fingers that refuse to interpret visual information. That means that they can't read the controller and, as they are prone to fidgeting between turns, I will lose a lot of game play repeatedly dedicating 0.00000001 second each turn to visually confirming the layout.
Since you asked, you deserves an explanation. My parents did not abuse me. We have a great relationship and see each other several times a year (we're 300 miles apart cause of work).
I was a terrible firebug - I played with fire a lot, and this was one time where I'd actually destroyed property. And I needed a lesson. Sure, I got a couple of 1st degree burns that day, but I had a much greater respect for fire.
when I was 13, I tried to determine whether a series of matches burn hotter when grouped in a square or circular formation. I caught the living room rug on fire. Then I had to find out (because my dad was curious) how many matches were in a typical book. The kick was, that I had to burn each one down to my fingers before dropping it.
Of course they don't have written records of what happened. That's why there is so much conjecture about how the damn things were built in the first place.
-----
They don't have written records of how the pyramids were constructed. It makes more sense that they would have more personal records on the fact that they were enslaved.
Doubtful. There don't exist many records of ancient cultures who saw value in teaching slaves how to read & write. I'm not saying it's impossible, just unlikely that you would ever find the personal memoirs of one of Pharoa's slaves.
I was thinking keyboards. Not so much the dreaded "windows" key, but if attached to the 10 most commonly used letters...rstlnecmda...
You know that all of those guys in the applications division run linux and bsd at home.
Or at work. There was Linux on plenty of desktops at their support center at Las Colinas. I did support for them for about 6 months, and there was plenty of discussion about Linux, the trial ( I started just after the Jackson's FoF), and what the outcomes would be like.
With all of the FUDmongering that comes out of Redmond, you'd think that Linux would be a four - letter word at Microsoft, but they use the same number of letters there as anywhere else in the English - speaking world.
They were generously unconcerned about what software, what os, and what games we had on our machine. OTOH, there was a huge THOU SHALT NOT USE OPEN -SOURCE TOOLS TO DEVELOP mentality, that probably forced developers to conform to a standard - approved tools list.
Now they no longer only know what you're buying, but exactly where you are, to the nearest light-fitting.
Ingnoring your paranoia for a second, and focusing in the technical aspects of your argument:
"They" would know better than "to the nearest light - fitting". Effective wireless networks have considerable overlap, rather than tangents where transmission radii intersect.
Using this overlap, then, "they" could triangulate your position within much cliser than "to the nearest light fitting". Try within the nearest 2".
I'm not so scared about people stealing it, but what really scares me is a location of whatever security, where is posted a sign that says, "no matter what, don't make any explosions here"
use absolute JUNK.
No matter what material you use, whether it's glass, ceramic, steel, marble, or something else, some culture that comes after ours, will see the amazing mass of $seminaturalresource and decide that they can sell it for a profit, whether they can tell what's inside or not.
The pyramids have been "investigated" by museums, but plenty of gravesites and momuments were pillaged by thieves long before that.
I wonder if they will have a swimming pool. That would be odd in zero G. a big sphere of water hovering in the middle of the room.
This sounds extremely dangerous; Water containment would be the first challenge; I don't know how surface tension differs, but it would stand to my reason that , a "big sphere" would react to newtonian physics as well - if everyone jupmed in on one side, using the walls as a push point or whatever, then the mass of water would be pushed around quite easily. And break. Then you have perpetual zero-grav percipitation, not a pool.
The bigger challenge I see is orientation and buoyancy. IN a 10' deep pool, most people know to swim "up". In a zero-grav environment, especially where pressure is significantly lower than what people are used to, one would easily become quite disoriented. Without unfamiliar buyancy charqacteristics, people could suffocate themselves by swimming "in" instead of "out".
I'm not saying I'd never swim in outerspace; it sounds like a bit of fun, actually. But I'd want a few lessons beforehand.
It would seriously suck to be housekeeping up there. I imagine maids have interesting stories down here, but I can't imagine everything they'd run into up there.
Think about what happens with spillover in a zero-gravity environment.(define spillover as you wish).
I know the hotel would probably have some technique to create artificial gravity, but still there will be areas (as crowdpleasers) where zero-gravity can be experienced. People will find a way to experiment with this in every way you can or cannot imagine, and in ways you wish you couldn't imagine. eww.
My parents' first shopping trip togther went something like this:
Mom: "Look, Spam! Do you like Spam?" (hoping he'd say "no")
Dad: "Sure, OK." (wishing she hadn't asked)
And so we ate spam once, often twice a week for 2 years.
Two years, when neither one would admit to hating the stuff, and we, being kids, didn't know any better so we ate it also.
I think it was my dad who finally fessed up, but I've never had want or need to confirm this. I'm just glad they decided together, before I reached 10 and started considering SPAM real food. Now, I can't stand the stuff.
btw, they're still happily married, and will hit their 20th anniversary this summer.
HI MOM! HI DAD! Congratulations!
I bought a Logitech Cordless TrackMan FX the other day : this thing is a *cordless* trackball ! I understand the need for a cordless mouse, to avoid dragging a cord around, but a cordless trackball ?? that's about as useful as a cordless telephone pole ...
...and yet you bought it. Yep. You shilled out $60 - $80 of your hard - earned cash for something that you admit was worthless. You're the kind of consumer we love.
Don't bother hitting the article. Read below for all the details readers are getting:
IBM will devote 25 percent of its research and development budget for synergy synergy synergy synergy synergy synergy synergy synergy synergy synergy synergy synergy synergy synergy synergy synergy synergy synergy synergy synergy synergy synergy synergy synergy synergy synergy synergy synergy IBM.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger thinks this is a really important problem. Not synergy. Irving thinks we need more synergy.
"In that effort, we are COMMUNICATING that, going forward, we will PRACTIVELY Leverage our SYNERGIES, Keeping the End in Mind, whilst Sharpening our Saws and putting First Things First. Even though the last word I just said was said was first. ", said Mr. Wladawsky-Berger
I have a hard enough time when the US auctions off used, 15 - year old aircraft carriers to developing nations, although there's little I can do to stop it.
This thing flew less than 5 years ago, and China has already been known to buy Russian space technology for its own use. This capsule is said to be fully loaded. Can we trust Russia to strip American proprietary secrets out of the capsule before this blue - light special? Can we be guaranteed that it won't end up in the hands of some terrorist?
OK, this isn't designed to be a weapons grade device, but are we certain that there is NO enabling technology that, say, Iran or Iraq can use for their purposes?
THis isn't to say that forign nationals are bad, but we'd do well to acknowledge at least these two things:
Russia is still arguably an unwise place to do business
There are more than a few places where they don't tale a lot of pride in the the American flag
Since a cheap camera is more likely to bust open if you drop it
Not Hardly. Unless you've tinkered quite a bit with a disposable camera, they are difficult to open "accidentally". there's the Kodak sticker covering the seams on all 4 sides, plus the groove / latches to deal with.
Don't get me wrong; These are easy to open with screwdrivers, especially of you don't care what latches you break and how ugly it might be when you put it back together. But they aren't likely to voluntarily divulge their contents as the result of rapid deceleration following a fall of less than 15 feet.
You can['t fool me! those 2600 boys hacked into the New York Times! That's what happened!
You've gotta like it when a sompany such as Microsoft looks around and says, "yeah, this thing does suck. Let's get rid of it.
We should hope for more such moves; given a sufficient number and quality of such changes, we may find that Microsoft sucks less.
What happens to the infrastructure of any company that cannot afford it?
.bomb eroded their bank balance, and now the building just sits. There was a newspaper "contest" yesterday, challenging us all to repurpose the existing architecture that was already there. Among the entries: homeless shelter, art museum, paint it trailer - park pink, etc, to hilgight the fact that it really was an unwanted eyesore. My favorite: encase it in three miles, or so, of barbwire (ie use a series of barbwire wrappings to approximate "walls".
Intel had a building going up in Austin, until the
The point is, the company that wanted it, doesn't anymore and it just sits and will deteriorate until someone decides it's cheap enough to buy.
The same thing happened with the VUE boxes that came out in the early 80's (think basic TV + HBO)
Sure, they tried to reclaim the boxes, but didn't have the means to do so and since there's no programming left for those particular set - top boxes, they collect dust. There is a price point there - I'd buy one for $0.50, just to throw on a shelf and not look at it. Maybe I could tweak it sufficiently to get content from China, I just don't have the will.
The infrastructure here (computers!) have purpose outside of rent - ware. Software exists that can read M$ proprietary file formats, with proper tweaking. and if it's imprtant enough, software will be created to read other proprietary formats, whether they're created with rentware or some other software.
Nevermind that that neither the Supreme Court, nor the high courts of other countries, nor the greatest pontiffs on pontificators known to walk the earth can judge between good and evil 100%.
Nevermind that the judgement of even single acts in specific settings can be overturned as either acts of heroism or heinous atrocity by sane, objective, wise men and women purely by a shift of perspective.
Nevermind that we can't even decide for ourselves whether there is a god or not...we're going to allow some herd of programmers to attempt to judge us as either righteous or unholy souls? Why? I already know the answer. I'm counting on a higher power to forgive me, because I couldn't even be a perfect failure if I wanted to.
My judgement is pretty well set, but I have it on good authority that I will be forgiven, no matter what some koderz might say about me.
However, you should recognize that some of us actually use computers for professional purposes, that others are in charge of multy terabyte databases, that some of us are responsible to guarantee a mere 3'000'000 transactions a day on our clustered systems and that - if our systems crash - every minute might cost 10'000s of $.
If a server is necessary for that amount of money, time, and prestige, then WTF are you doing, using it to surf the web, read email, or whatever other various and sundry stuff outside of the firewall?
If you don't have the common sense required to
1) download necessary patches on a computer with low security mandates (relative to mulitbilliondollarservers)
2) end the inet session, close your browser, and run a virus scan on downloaded files with the latest dictionary
3) THEN copy it to servers where it's needed,
you almost are as innocent as a man who superglues his hand to his forehead. I mean, sure, he looks deep in thought for the first half hour, then people catch on to the fact that his IQ matches the sticky stuff he used in the first place.