Of course, you can't say that the financial industry is much the same, that all these speculators add nothing, are fluff. But that is what happened, we had the financial industry fluffing itself up by selling itself its own products over and over again. This whole mortage reselling would be similar to Ford and Chrysler (apologies if they are the same) buying each others cars over and over and counting that as total production. The financial industry obtained a far larger share of the total market then it really is supposed to have. It worked because everyone believed it, believed that Wall Street really is important. It isn't.
Then it collapsed, people did indeed loose fate. Somewhere someone burst the bubble. What we got now is not so much a reccesion, as a re-appreasal. We now got to decide what exactly the role of the financial industry is supposed to be. Is it a service industry to the rest of the industry (exactly like say a cleaning company is a service industry) or is everyone else in the service of the financial industry.
It is a mistake to assume that the current financial clusterfuck is because of bad mortgages or a bubble burst (we didn't have any serious issues with the Dot Com bubble). The bad mortgages are nothing but the trigger to two serious underlying problems:
(1) Most people in western countries live beyond their means. (2) But most importantly: Credit Default Swaps.
The current financial situation is due mostly to [banks/investment firms/everyone and their dogs] betting on the failure of different entities. This is all due because of Credit Default Swaps are totally unregulated and they are a speculator's wet dream. The current house of CDS cards of about 50+ trillion $ (yes, trillion) is crumbling. First wave was MBIA and other bond insurers being downgraded by rating firms. This immediately triggered a metric fuckton of CDS collateral calls. Bear Stearns and Merill go under (well, saved last minute). Freddie and Fannie get bailed out, this immediately calls for another round of collateral calls. This second wave caused the collapse of Lehman, the nationalization of AIG and the massive cash infusion into Citi. If either big auto makers goes down, prepare for the worse. Oh and Goldman Sachs has started to write down bad assets too, no bank is safe.
This all thanks to speculators betting on companies with their unregulated toys: the Credit Default Swaps. It has nothing to do with believing or not in a system or losing faith in Wall Street. It's all about making a bunch of really bad bets without having cash on hand to cover the losses. And now that the bets are lost, it's time to pay. But t here is no money...
Why was this modded funny? How many "reputable" news organizations ask questions like the Daily Show does? How many of them point out the utter hypocrisy in politicians? Shows like Daily Show, Colbert Report and Real Time with Bill Maher are light years ahead of any other news show.
Everyone I know who has seen it has laughed a lot and thought it was a great commercial. Also they find it interesting the lack of mention about MS.
Isn't that contradictory? Great commercial yet people have no clue what the hell is being marketed? Shouldn't a great commercial be entertaining and same time clearly pitch a product or message?
I am willing to bet it doesn't stop Adobe Flash to store "cookies" on your PC. It's pretty useless for average Joes to hide their tracks surfing pr0n since they don't know how to disable flash cookies. Worse, they aren't even aware of the existence of these cookies.
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I got no issues with it as well, however, I will stay with Firefox for a few reasons:
(1) Adblock. (2) NoScript. (3) Automatically clear private information on close.
My head hurts reading that article. Who the fuck wrote it? A ten year old mental retard?
It's like............... this and VM's this VM's that (Yes, notice the spelling?). Ooooh and the cyberwarfare boogeyman! You can't even find this much Hollywood scenario fear mongering from Hollywood themselves. Oh noes! Our entire infrastructure will be killed by evil cyber terrorists because it runs on VMware!
Oh and and lovely parts like 'w/' instead of 'with'. Hey douchebag, this is not SMS, is it so hard to hit another 2 keys on your keyboard? Oh and for the love of $DEITY$, please learn basic HTML and use links so I don't have to copy paste text into the address bar.
As for Slashdot editors, why the fuck did they pick the worse possible article from the Firehose when plenty others look *WAY* more professional?
Previously, there were three big companies, EA, Activision, and Blizzard.*
Just because Blizzard prints money with World of Warcraft it doesn't mean that they are "big". They have a total of three game franchises: Warcraft, Diablo and Starcraft line. That's it. That's hardly a lot compared to EA or Activision who each have gazillions of franchises. Take out WoW from the equation and suddenly Blizzard doesn't look that impressive at all.
Microsoft have already done one kernel rewrite, going from Windows 9x/Me to Windows NT.
Erm... no. Microsoft had already finished the NT kernel when they decided to ditch the Win9x/ME "kernel" for the one in NT 4.0 and Win2K (NT came out ages before ME). It wasn't a kernel rewrite at all, just two different kernels running side by side until MS decided to kill the weak one and use the good one.
Sounds to me like it would not only work well at educating teens, but also many other people. Probably be a good read for anybody who's at all interested in the subject matter, and even those who aren't, as long as they have an open mind about the material. Yes, because the favorite pastime of teenagers is reading books instead of playing World of Warcraft.
The problem is Windows, and Microsoft could have fixed much of this, but decided that having an insecure OS, and making security and virus protection a profit center really will be their downfall. No.
The problem with Windows is that everyone and their dog is running Windows as administrator (root). Stop running Windows as root and you stop malware with a brick wall. Run any other OS as root and you are going to have the same exact problems.
PS: I never used an anti-virus (or other anti-malware). I don't need any. Common sense + not running Windows as root is all you need.
Great. Another expansion that adds "more of the same" to an already tired genre. 10 million subscribers are a tired genre? Sure.
The nature of MMOs is that an expansion can't REALLY add anything that's very different than everything else in the game. This is because of that magical word "Balance" You obviously haven't played pre Burning Crusade WoW. Plenty of changes were introduced from vanilla WoW to TBC that weren't just more of the same, for example, gear progression was made way more diverse instead of the old raid or STFU paradigm.
TBC introduced: - Gear progression for solo play (crafting, PvP). You can finally craft powerful items. - Competitive PvP that doesn't require you to stop living and play 28h a day and it's based mostly on skill (I am perfectly aware that is not perfect). Arena system. - Heroic dungeons with their own gear progression. - Completely eliminated the trinity of warrior + priest + mage. It's not perfect but all classes have various abilities that are wanted in the game, it's no more let's wait for the protection warrior to log on so we can do something. - Socket system.
Stuff TBC will introduce: - Death Knight class, with its own unique game mechanics: not mana, not rage, not energy. Something unique. - The 25 man raids will have a 10 man version. So you won't have to run the same Karhazan instance until your eyes bleed. Variety. Options. Something they started with TBC, to allow everyone to experience every facet and story of the game. - Brand new crafting profession. Again, different than the flock we have now. - Some other stuff we are unaware of.
Power gamers play these games and figure out what is the "best" of everything, and exploit that knowledge to be the "best" in the game. This means that everything new added to the game cannot deviate to far from the existing paradigms, such as damage-over-time, healing-per-mana-point, etc etc I wonder why the FIFA doesn't sanction head butts a la Zidane since that would add 'diversity' and 'deviate' from current football rules. Oh wait... maybe because football is about kicking a ball and not head butting your opponent in the chest? Same way WoW is about casting spells and using offensive melee abilities. If you want to play a sci-fi MMOG go play Eve Online. If you want to play an FPS go play Quake. WoW is a medieval fantasy setting game, you can't really deviate from its core rules. You can't add a B-52 bomber to the game because it would make no sense.
When people buy these expansions they are really just paying for additional artwork of the new monsters. And when you buy the new music CD from your favorite band you are just buying 'additional' notes and artwork right? How about books? Just additional words?
If you even have a "confidential handbook", you're a cult, not a religion...or maybe a good old fashioned pyramid scheme. There is no difference between a religion and a cult. Well, a minor one: religion is a popular cult.
I'm not sure anyone at Microsoft has anything to be pissed off about, they probably made a pretty penny from Apple licensing ActiveSync. Maybe because Windows Mobile is a complete failure? When Microsoft shills like Mary Jo Foley are skeptical about Windows Mobile, MS might have a 'small' problem on their hands.
The basis of the idea behind intelligent design is the belief in a God or other deity which has no beginning or end, in this case there is no need for a previous designer. Really? that's not what the Dover trial defendants were pretending, in the court of law and in front of a judge. Behe and Co. made lot of strides trying to remove any reference of 'God' from Intelligent Design.
Homer: Not a bear in sight. The "Bear Patrol" is working like a charm! Lisa: That's specious reasoning, Dad. Homer: [uncomprehendingly] Thanks, honey. Lisa: By your logic, I could claim that this rock keeps tigers away. Homer: Hmm. How does it work? Lisa: It doesn't work; it's just a stupid rock! Homer: Uh-huh. Lisa: But I don't see any tigers around, do you? Homer: (pause) Lisa, I want to buy your rock. Instead of going to see a doctor next time when you are sick, go see the old lady next door and ask her 'view' and 'suppositions' about your illness, after all you need a second opinion, eh?. Oh and make sure you follow the old ladies advice about how to 'cure' your illness.
The point is intelligent design basically agrees with evolution but suggests that someone kick started it. There is no science which disagrees with this, I see no reason why this couldn't be taught (for what it is) as a theory in a classroom.
Your thoughts? Hypothesis: Life is too complex to have evolved without aid. Thus an intelligent designer is required.
(1) Our designer must have been WAY too complex to be able to create a universe. (2) Since complexity requires a designer, the designer itself *MUST* have a designer. (3) GOTO (2).
Can one single ID proponent answer this simple string of questions?
Who created our designer? And its designer? And its designers designer? And... ####!33""$%%% STACK OVERFLOW NO CARRIER
If I rephrased to replace the first instance of the word theory with "idea", "view", or "supposition" would you then still have a problem with my stated view?/I accept your argument that use of the specific word "theory" in the GP causes confusion between the scientific term "theory" and the colloquial term "theory" and adjust accordingly. Let's see:
My View: by hiding the fact that other ideas/views/suppositions exist you only harm the credibility of the leading theory once the individual finds out about the other views. (as a general rule, not just to be applied to evolutionary biology / intelligent design)/damnit I fed the troll.
So now you question the validity of the only scientific theory that explains evolution, and this theory is backed up with mountains of irrefutable evidence, with 'views' (read: opinions)? Great!
I really wish doctors would prescribe 'prayer' as a cure for ill people who don't believe in evolution. Or maybe the doctor would throw out of the window what he learned and start meditating with the patient so the patient gets better. I mean, he believes, in his view, that meditation can cure a disease. What does it matter that 99.99% of other doctors would prescribe antibiotics, fuck them! Meditation baby! The cure of all disease!
Who needs logic and reason when you can have 'views' and 'suppositions'?
My View: by hiding the fact that other theories exist you only harm the credibility of the leading theory once the individual finds out about the other views. (as a general rule, not just to be applied to evolutionary biology / intelligent design)/damnit I fed the troll. ID is a scientific theory? No. It's someones acid trip while watching a movie about an acid trip. It has no scientific merit, it's not falsifiable and the hypothesis (See? I am not using the word theory.) is inherently false for a simple question that leads to an infinite number of designers: Who designed the designer?. Something no ID proponent can answer.
ID is a hypothesis with *ZERO* evidence. Evolution is a scientific theory with *MOUNTAINS* of evidence.
Let's not mix up one of our best scientific theories with some wild idea someone pulled out of their ass^H^H^H^H^Hbible.
Microsoft is already facing serious competitions and its dominant position looks less invincible than it used to be.
The only serious competition MS is facing it is from itself. Vista vs XP. Where is the non MS competition for Desktop Windows or for Office? Before mods jump on my case, I am a happy Kubuntu and Google Docs user, however, Linux, OS X, Google Docs and Open Office are not even a blip on the 'Danger Radar' for Microsoft when it comes to their cash cows Office and Windows.
If, big 'If', ODF takes off and becomes widely used, and Google Docs becomes more powerful, and OS X and/or Desktop Linux gain significant traction in the enterprise, yes, Microsoft will have to worry. Not until then. Right now they are sitting at 95%+ Desktop Windows install base, I don't think they have to worry about anything. Windows Server was never a 95%+ dominant player (not even close) so no worries there either for MS, in fact it has been gaining ground over the last few years.
The only thing MS has to worry about is itself, and lately, they have been shooting themselves in the foot a lot.
Basic memory protection yes, but that's not really what I'm refering to. I don't know... "Windows not having complete memory isolation between programs" Sounds pretty clear to me...
I'm talking about noexecute memory spaces, which prior to SP2 in XP, an application inside a file (say jpg) could launch. In Unix, this has been forbidden since day 1, and requires no hardware level support. This is one of Windows critical flaws. Funny you mention that. I do recall Unix being hit by many buffer overflows. In fact, the first known worm was on... yes, Unix, the finger service. Oops?
There's a certificate needed to ruin the program, but if that could be forged, or if a protected app can under a buffer overrun vulnerability, then we'd be screwed. If your Apache server has a vulnerability you are fscked too. In fact replace 'Apache' with [insert system service that takes data from the outside world]. What's your point? Important programs can and do have security vulnerabilities? You don't stay! Stop the presses, news at 11!
Vista and XP do this for a lot of applications processes, but it's still possible to kill the kernel by killing a program badly. OS X only goes down if there's actual bad data in the kernel (an actual kernel bug, or more likely, faulty RAM chips). You have no idea how the Windows kernel works don't you? So if I understand right, if your OS X runs on a Mac that has a faulty RAM module or a bug in it's kernel it will magically be ok? Whoa! I wonder why our Sun machine went down hard in flames. Oh right, faulty hardware. But fear not, the thingamajic inside Mac OS X can make sure the Mac runs without problems even if the memory crashes and burns.
Also, because of the way memory is assigned, and the walls drawn around programs, most traditional viruses are simply impossible. How is this possible on the Wintel PC if you don't run as administrator? Oooops, it's not possible. I've been using Windows since Win2k, never had one anti malware program installed. Nothing ever got through.
There are ways to hack a mac, and rain root permissions, but a human needs to do this (though a web page might open the door if a dumjb user is on the other end) The root of the problem. The dumb/ignorant human using the computer.
Once in, they could change passwords, mess with stuff, install applications, but anyt background services, like a bot, that they might wish to install, could be easily discovered by a virus scanner, and may even be readily obvious to a user. You never heard of rootkits didn't you?
Feel free to resume your Windows bashing and make sure you don't let facts get into your way.
DEP has nothing to do with interprocess memory protection, it has to do with preventing buffer overflows with the processor executing code inside memory segments marked as 'no execute'.
You said: "With Windows not having complete memory isolation between programs, buffer overruns are possible, which they are not in other OS."
Give me *ONE* single example, how a.exe can overwrite the memory of b.exe without loading b.exe. It has nothing to do with DEP but basic memory protection in Windows which has been in the kernel since I don't remember when (the NT kernel, not the Windows 98 Dos shell). Unless a.exe loads b.exe and injects stuff into b.exe's memory, what you say is impossible, NT will throw a 0xC0000005 fault (also known as General Protection Fault) and your offending process will be killed promptly.
If you don't believe me, try it. Write a process that opens the memory of say... lsass.exe and see if you can overwrite it. My money is on the kernel killing your process with a fault thrown. Since early 90's the NT kernel protects processes from each other, infact they can't even address the other process' memory unless they explicitly use the OpenProcess() API and related functions. And even then they will need write access to it.
I know bashing Windows is the 'cool' thing on/. but let's base our bashing on facts and not some urban legends, shall we?
With Windows not having complete memory isolation between programs, buffer overruns are possible, which they are not in other OS. Care to give one example under NT/Win2K/XP/Vista? Just one.
They tried the 'Run as Administrator' thing with Vista. It sucks.
You get spyware and crap TELLING you to click on the prompts--and people blindly follow it. Why? They don't know any better.
"For your Free iPod, click the Accept button, and then on the Allow Program dialog."
So, your logic fails. Yes because in a hypothetical Windows free world, the average Linux/Mac user will be careful about computer security and they won't blindly execute stuff they download off the net. Right?
Oh, I got a bridge up for sale, if you are interested.
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Of course, you can't say that the financial industry is much the same, that all these speculators add nothing, are fluff. But that is what happened, we had the financial industry fluffing itself up by selling itself its own products over and over again. This whole mortage reselling would be similar to Ford and Chrysler (apologies if they are the same) buying each others cars over and over and counting that as total production. The financial industry obtained a far larger share of the total market then it really is supposed to have. It worked because everyone believed it, believed that Wall Street really is important. It isn't.
Then it collapsed, people did indeed loose fate. Somewhere someone burst the bubble. What we got now is not so much a reccesion, as a re-appreasal. We now got to decide what exactly the role of the financial industry is supposed to be. Is it a service industry to the rest of the industry (exactly like say a cleaning company is a service industry) or is everyone else in the service of the financial industry.
It is a mistake to assume that the current financial clusterfuck is because of bad mortgages or a bubble burst (we didn't have any serious issues with the Dot Com bubble). The bad mortgages are nothing but the trigger to two serious underlying problems:
(1) Most people in western countries live beyond their means.
(2) But most importantly: Credit Default Swaps.
The current financial situation is due mostly to [banks/investment firms/everyone and their dogs] betting on the failure of different entities. This is all due because of Credit Default Swaps are totally unregulated and they are a speculator's wet dream. The current house of CDS cards of about 50+ trillion $ (yes, trillion) is crumbling. First wave was MBIA and other bond insurers being downgraded by rating firms. This immediately triggered a metric fuckton of CDS collateral calls. Bear Stearns and Merill go under (well, saved last minute). Freddie and Fannie get bailed out, this immediately calls for another round of collateral calls. This second wave caused the collapse of Lehman, the nationalization of AIG and the massive cash infusion into Citi. If either big auto makers goes down, prepare for the worse. Oh and Goldman Sachs has started to write down bad assets too, no bank is safe.
This all thanks to speculators betting on companies with their unregulated toys: the Credit Default Swaps. It has nothing to do with believing or not in a system or losing faith in Wall Street. It's all about making a bunch of really bad bets without having cash on hand to cover the losses. And now that the bets are lost, it's time to pay. But t here is no money ...
Because this isn't Venezuela or the USSR... yet.
Yeah because Venezuela or the soviets spent way more than 700 G$ on their financial sector. Oh wait ...
Daily Show
Why was this modded funny? How many "reputable" news organizations ask questions like the Daily Show does? How many of them point out the utter hypocrisy in politicians? Shows like Daily Show, Colbert Report and Real Time with Bill Maher are light years ahead of any other news show.
Ok. Then what can we trust?
Free open source anti-virus?
ClamAV is nice.
How about common sense?
Common sense allowed me to run Windows since 1999 virus AND anti-virus free.
Everyone I know who has seen it has laughed a lot and thought it was a great commercial. Also they find it interesting the lack of mention about MS.
Isn't that contradictory? Great commercial yet people have no clue what the hell is being marketed? Shouldn't a great commercial be entertaining and same time clearly pitch a product or message?
I am willing to bet it doesn't stop Adobe Flash to store "cookies" on your PC. It's pretty useless for average Joes to hide their tracks surfing pr0n since they don't know how to disable flash cookies. Worse, they aren't even aware of the existence of these cookies.
I got no issues with it as well, however, I will stay with Firefox for a few reasons:
(1) Adblock.
(2) NoScript.
(3) Automatically clear private information on close.
My head hurts reading that article. Who the fuck wrote it? A ten year old mental retard?
It's like ............... this and VM's this VM's that (Yes, notice the spelling?). Ooooh and the cyberwarfare boogeyman! You can't even find this much Hollywood scenario fear mongering from Hollywood themselves. Oh noes! Our entire infrastructure will be killed by evil cyber terrorists because it runs on VMware!
Oh and and lovely parts like 'w/' instead of 'with'. Hey douchebag, this is not SMS, is it so hard to hit another 2 keys on your keyboard? Oh and for the love of $DEITY$, please learn basic HTML and use links so I don't have to copy paste text into the address bar.
As for Slashdot editors, why the fuck did they pick the worse possible article from the Firehose when plenty others look *WAY* more professional?
Previously, there were three big companies, EA, Activision, and Blizzard.*
Just because Blizzard prints money with World of Warcraft it doesn't mean that they are "big". They have a total of three game franchises: Warcraft, Diablo and Starcraft line. That's it. That's hardly a lot compared to EA or Activision who each have gazillions of franchises. Take out WoW from the equation and suddenly Blizzard doesn't look that impressive at all.
Microsoft have already done one kernel rewrite, going from Windows 9x/Me to Windows NT.
Erm ... no. Microsoft had already finished the NT kernel when they decided to ditch the Win9x/ME "kernel" for the one in NT 4.0 and Win2K (NT came out ages before ME). It wasn't a kernel rewrite at all, just two different kernels running side by side until MS decided to kill the weak one and use the good one.
The problem with Windows is that everyone and their dog is running Windows as administrator (root). Stop running Windows as root and you stop malware with a brick wall. Run any other OS as root and you are going to have the same exact problems.
PS: I never used an anti-virus (or other anti-malware). I don't need any. Common sense + not running Windows as root is all you need.
TBC introduced:
- Gear progression for solo play (crafting, PvP). You can finally craft powerful items.
- Competitive PvP that doesn't require you to stop living and play 28h a day and it's based mostly on skill (I am perfectly aware that is not perfect). Arena system.
- Heroic dungeons with their own gear progression.
- Completely eliminated the trinity of warrior + priest + mage. It's not perfect but all classes have various abilities that are wanted in the game, it's no more let's wait for the protection warrior to log on so we can do something.
- Socket system.
Stuff TBC will introduce:
- Death Knight class, with its own unique game mechanics: not mana, not rage, not energy. Something unique.
- The 25 man raids will have a 10 man version. So you won't have to run the same Karhazan instance until your eyes bleed. Variety. Options. Something they started with TBC, to allow everyone to experience every facet and story of the game.
- Brand new crafting profession. Again, different than the flock we have now.
- Some other stuff we are unaware of. Power gamers play these games and figure out what is the "best" of everything, and exploit that knowledge to be the "best" in the game. This means that everything new added to the game cannot deviate to far from the existing paradigms, such as damage-over-time, healing-per-mana-point, etc etc I wonder why the FIFA doesn't sanction head butts a la Zidane since that would add 'diversity' and 'deviate' from current football rules. Oh wait
Lisa: That's specious reasoning, Dad.
Homer: [uncomprehendingly] Thanks, honey.
Lisa: By your logic, I could claim that this rock keeps tigers away.
Homer: Hmm. How does it work?
Lisa: It doesn't work; it's just a stupid rock!
Homer: Uh-huh.
Lisa: But I don't see any tigers around, do you?
Homer: (pause) Lisa, I want to buy your rock. Instead of going to see a doctor next time when you are sick, go see the old lady next door and ask her 'view' and 'suppositions' about your illness, after all you need a second opinion, eh?. Oh and make sure you follow the old ladies advice about how to 'cure' your illness.
Your thoughts? Hypothesis: Life is too complex to have evolved without aid. Thus an intelligent designer is required.
(1) Our designer must have been WAY too complex to be able to create a universe.
(2) Since complexity requires a designer, the designer itself *MUST* have a designer.
(3) GOTO (2).
Can one single ID proponent answer this simple string of questions?
Who created our designer? And its designer? And its designers designer? And
STACK OVERFLOW
NO CARRIER
My View: by hiding the fact that other ideas/views/suppositions exist you only harm the credibility of the leading theory once the individual finds out about the other views. (as a general rule, not just to be applied to evolutionary biology / intelligent design)
So now you question the validity of the only scientific theory that explains evolution, and this theory is backed up with mountains of irrefutable evidence, with 'views' (read: opinions)? Great!
I really wish doctors would prescribe 'prayer' as a cure for ill people who don't believe in evolution. Or maybe the doctor would throw out of the window what he learned and start meditating with the patient so the patient gets better. I mean, he believes, in his view, that meditation can cure a disease. What does it matter that 99.99% of other doctors would prescribe antibiotics, fuck them! Meditation baby! The cure of all disease!
Who needs logic and reason when you can have 'views' and 'suppositions'?
ID is a hypothesis with *ZERO* evidence.
Evolution is a scientific theory with *MOUNTAINS* of evidence.
Let's not mix up one of our best scientific theories with some wild idea someone pulled out of their ass^H^H^H^H^Hbible.
Microsoft is already facing serious competitions and its dominant position looks less invincible than it used to be.
The only serious competition MS is facing it is from itself. Vista vs XP. Where is the non MS competition for Desktop Windows or for Office? Before mods jump on my case, I am a happy Kubuntu and Google Docs user, however, Linux, OS X, Google Docs and Open Office are not even a blip on the 'Danger Radar' for Microsoft when it comes to their cash cows Office and Windows.If, big 'If', ODF takes off and becomes widely used, and Google Docs becomes more powerful, and OS X and/or Desktop Linux gain significant traction in the enterprise, yes, Microsoft will have to worry. Not until then. Right now they are sitting at 95%+ Desktop Windows install base, I don't think they have to worry about anything. Windows Server was never a 95%+ dominant player (not even close) so no worries there either for MS, in fact it has been gaining ground over the last few years.
The only thing MS has to worry about is itself, and lately, they have been shooting themselves in the foot a lot.
Feel free to resume your Windows bashing and make sure you don't let facts get into your way.
DEP has nothing to do with interprocess memory protection, it has to do with preventing buffer overflows with the processor executing code inside memory segments marked as 'no execute'.
... lsass.exe and see if you can overwrite it. My money is on the kernel killing your process with a fault thrown. Since early 90's the NT kernel protects processes from each other, infact they can't even address the other process' memory unless they explicitly use the OpenProcess() API and related functions. And even then they will need write access to it.
/. but let's base our bashing on facts and not some urban legends, shall we?
You said: "With Windows not having complete memory isolation between programs, buffer overruns are possible, which they are not in other OS."
Give me *ONE* single example, how a.exe can overwrite the memory of b.exe without loading b.exe. It has nothing to do with DEP but basic memory protection in Windows which has been in the kernel since I don't remember when (the NT kernel, not the Windows 98 Dos shell). Unless a.exe loads b.exe and injects stuff into b.exe's memory, what you say is impossible, NT will throw a 0xC0000005 fault (also known as General Protection Fault) and your offending process will be killed promptly.
If you don't believe me, try it. Write a process that opens the memory of say
I know bashing Windows is the 'cool' thing on
PS: My workstation is running Kubuntu 7.10.
You get spyware and crap TELLING you to click on the prompts--and people blindly follow it. Why? They don't know any better.
"For your Free iPod, click the Accept button, and then on the Allow Program dialog."
So, your logic fails. Yes because in a hypothetical Windows free world, the average Linux/Mac user will be careful about computer security and they won't blindly execute stuff they download off the net. Right?
Oh, I got a bridge up for sale, if you are interested.