Since the USA "lags the world" in broadband, and is in 12th place, that means the world must be composed of no greater than 23 nations. It IS a small world, after all!
The question is: which phamraceutical company would dare to jump on this first? After all, they don't make their money on cures but on treatments. Curing patients makes them non-customers and is bad for business.
This means if a user downloads some program via IM or the Web and if they run it the OS will look at the included ACL and cert and see what permission it wants and who will certify it as trustworthy, if anyone. Then, if it tries to exceed its authority, the OS will present a warning such as, "The program 'Storm' is not verified as trustworthy and would like to connect to the internet on a port normally used for sending instant messages. (Stop it from sending messages)(let it send messages once)(always let it send messages)(advanced options)."
Gee, that sounds like every client-based firewall on the market (including XP's). The only wrinkle is the application signing, which is ALSO already being done but with a crappy UI as you mentioned.
Most of these worms don't work on those old versions of Windows. It's the 2000 and XP machines that are vulnerable. Also, installing software requires that one download it first, and that's a cure that's worse than the disease (see Welchia).
I like the idea of turning on Windows Update, though.
That's funny, because Americans are usually panned by Europe whenever we pick up arms. We're vilified as the nation of gun-toting, war-mongering, rednecks. Someone please harmonize that dichotomy!
/me bought $170 worth of groceries for $101 last week (and it would have been $190 if the cat food I had free coups for had been in stock). By the way, that wasn't even my best trip in the last six months.
And that's a straw man, inferring that only sheeple who watch Disney movies like going to the theater. Clearly, the great unwashed like seeing all sorts of movies in the theaters or we'd be seeing blockbusters going direct-to-DVD by now.
Can you imagine if Shakespeare had copyright to protect his first book, and never returned to the writing desk to continue writing? That's sort of what we're seeing today with the implementation of ridiculous copyright laws
That's EXACTLY what we've seen with today's authors, like Stephen King and Tom Clancy. One book, and they RIDE the huge profits into retirement!
The copyright concept actually arose during Shakespeare's time. In fact, copyright was quite a bit more onerous in the past, often lasting in perpetuity if the heirs of the author chose it to. I feel that you simply don't know enough about the origin of copyright and its positive uses to have written a multi-paragraph opinion of it.
Democrat congresspeople voted for the war, it is true. But most of the Democrats that I know were against the war from the beginning. It was the Republican population that was supporting the war.
That's a fine combination of the "appeal to ignorance" and "appeal to popularity" fallacies there.
Actually, satire and parody are protected. Anything else would be a creative work purely for profit and I can respect the rights of the creator to control his/her/its creation in that manner.
Unfortunately, this section is violated all the time. Example: gun control. My PA carry permit is, in fact, useless in another state unless they have a reciprocity agreement.
Neocons are not ultra-right wing. They're more like RINOs. True conservatives are like Reagan, who was vilified by the left the entire time he was in office because he believed in throwback ideas like a strong national defense, minimizing government intervention, and keeping taxes as low as possible.
Scientific article is not a scientific paper. IT was a very high level description of a model written by somebody who might no what there doing, but probably doesn't.
Hey, that doesn't stop Slashdotters from trotting out every half-baked creationist website to "prove" that all Christians are knuckle-dragging idiots.
Yup. The new universe got stuck on the starboard nacelle of one of the DS9 runabouts. They discovered it was a protouniverse and was about to wipe out the entire quadrant, so naturally they solved this problem by carting it back through the wormhole. It's the Gamma quadrant's problem now!
I'd say China, where de facto you are expected to be atheist, and any Islamic countries where, under sharia law, you are considered subhuman and denied many natural human rights as an infidel.
All the anti-West and anti-Israel trolls above and below this post are, once again, looking in the wrong direction when they're raising the alarm over the infringement of human rights. Islamic countries, while the average Slashdotter may dismiss them as backward and unthreatening, have always embraced technology when it suits their means. Examples: Ak-47, RPGs, plastic explosives, wireless and satellite phones, the internet.
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Since the USA "lags the world" in broadband, and is in 12th place, that means the world must be composed of no greater than 23 nations. It IS a small world, after all!
Actually, I bet it was supposed to be an Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulatorrrrrrr...
The question is: which phamraceutical company would dare to jump on this first? After all, they don't make their money on cures but on treatments. Curing patients makes them non-customers and is bad for business.
They're the floppy drive. Useless. Or the Turbo button.
Most of these worms don't work on those old versions of Windows. It's the 2000 and XP machines that are vulnerable. Also, installing software requires that one download it first, and that's a cure that's worse than the disease (see Welchia).
I like the idea of turning on Windows Update, though.
That's funny, because Americans are usually panned by Europe whenever we pick up arms. We're vilified as the nation of gun-toting, war-mongering, rednecks. Someone please harmonize that dichotomy!
You people need to learn how to use coupons.
/me bought $170 worth of groceries for $101 last week (and it would have been $190 if the cat food I had free coups for had been in stock). By the way, that wasn't even my best trip in the last six months.
And that's a straw man, inferring that only sheeple who watch Disney movies like going to the theater. Clearly, the great unwashed like seeing all sorts of movies in the theaters or we'd be seeing blockbusters going direct-to-DVD by now.
That's EXACTLY what we've seen with today's authors, like Stephen King and Tom Clancy. One book, and they RIDE the huge profits into retirement!
The copyright concept actually arose during Shakespeare's time. In fact, copyright was quite a bit more onerous in the past, often lasting in perpetuity if the heirs of the author chose it to. I feel that you simply don't know enough about the origin of copyright and its positive uses to have written a multi-paragraph opinion of it.
No, but they drive old minivans that get worse mileage than a modern SUV.
Why does everyone on Slashdot assume that the entire world lives in cities?
Actually, satire and parody are protected. Anything else would be a creative work purely for profit and I can respect the rights of the creator to control his/her/its creation in that manner.
The patent holders will be first against the wall when revolution comes!
Slashdot: where posts using the "f-word" and threatening mass murder get modded "Insightful."
Unfortunately, this section is violated all the time. Example: gun control. My PA carry permit is, in fact, useless in another state unless they have a reciprocity agreement.
Who invited you here, Governor Corzine?
That's Lego (tm) brand building brick, you insensitive clod!
Yes, let's let Iraq devolve into an open bloodbath and become the next Afghanistan and Somalia, combined.
Yup. The new universe got stuck on the starboard nacelle of one of the DS9 runabouts. They discovered it was a protouniverse and was about to wipe out the entire quadrant, so naturally they solved this problem by carting it back through the wormhole. It's the Gamma quadrant's problem now!
I'd say China, where de facto you are expected to be atheist, and any Islamic countries where, under sharia law, you are considered subhuman and denied many natural human rights as an infidel.
All the anti-West and anti-Israel trolls above and below this post are, once again, looking in the wrong direction when they're raising the alarm over the infringement of human rights. Islamic countries, while the average Slashdotter may dismiss them as backward and unthreatening, have always embraced technology when it suits their means. Examples: Ak-47, RPGs, plastic explosives, wireless and satellite phones, the internet.