I know perfectly well that this is probably illegal. However, we all know that now spammers generally send their trash through 0wn3d Windoze computers. Is is not possible to write a slowly-propagating virus (One that will NOT cause the network to slow to a crawl) that will search out and destroy spam/spy/ad-ware on the computer?
There is no way to find the bastards or stop them from sending their trash without getting rid of their zombie networks. If you eliminate those, you might as well break their electronic kneecaps.
The ubiquitous format for exchanging mediums between computers? What about CD-ROMS? *coughISO-9960cough*
It can't be a MS format, otherwise all my Microsoft-approved CDs from 10+ years ago wouldn't work in my new Microsoft CD-ROM drive with my Microsoft operating system.
Since when is nuclear power dangerous? There have been two nuclear accidents that anyone remembers in the last half century. Once was caused by a piss-poor reactor design (Chernobyl) and one was caused when operators screwed up (but almost no radiation was released). You get exposed to more radiation on an *airplane trip* than you will in a nuclear power plant. And coincedently, you also get more radiation from a coal power plant than from a nuclear power plant; see below.
As for the choice of a bucket of coal or fission waste, that's loaded. By the time you had a bucket full of nuclear waste, you'd have burnt about 3 million tons of coal to generate the same amount of energy. And those 3 million tons of coal, when burnt, released about 3 tons of uranium and about 10 tons of thorium in the process.
Run around in circles and scream! Coal power plants are a nu-cu-lar disaster!:)
Has anyone considered having ISP's send out test spams to all their customers? Anyone stupid enough to respond is banned from e-mail on that ISP for a LONG time. I think even the kind of absolute moron who responds to spam would HAVE to take that kind of hint.
I'm kind of torn as to how to implement the E-Mail ban on the id10ts...
Block ALL traffic on port 25
Every attempted message from them bounces when it hits the ISP's E-Mail servers
Send a technician to explain to the person what a fscking moron they are and delete any and all e-mail programs.
But really, this could work: Grab an authentic spam, have it contact you instead of the human trash who sent it. There is no possible way for spammers to avoid it: It doesn't require any cooperation from them, and the very morons who respond to spam are the ones who get eliminated. For everyone else, it's just one more spam.
What do you think? Could it possibly work, or even help?
And regarding how the government should file an antitrust suit against the RIAA (which is beyond a shadow of a doubt a monopolitic cartel, don't get me wrong). If nothing else, the current administration has shown little interest in pursuing antitrust cases of any flavor. Second is that we've been had on both sides of the aisle on this issue: Republicans favor business, Democrats get half their funding from Hollywood.
After that, assuming that antitrust charges are even filed and that the prosecutor is willing to really fight the case rather than make a token effort to please their constituents, take a look at the Microsoft case. At the very least, the RIAA will use their legal team to drag the case out for ever and ever and ever; By the time it finally does come to a resolution (assuming it ever does), the original issue will likely be dated (by the time the judges decided about the First Browser War, Microsoft had already destroyed Netscape). At that point, it seems likely that the RIAA (like Microsoft) would get off with, at most, a slap on the wrist and continue their monopolistic behavior unabated.
Sorry, but I don't think that a legal/legislative approach will work against the RIAA. Just as it won't work against spam or malware or any other electronic problem.
The RIAA just does not 'get it'. The whole reason people buy from iTMS and co is because the price is reasonable! For somewhat less than the price of a normal CD, they can get a full CD's worth of music that has only tracks they want!
The question is, What can we do about it? I've got a list of starting suggestions:
Do not share RIAA-0wn3d music on P2P networks. First of all, if it's all such bad music (as is endlessly stated to be the reason for falling CD sales), why are you sharing it? Second, even though you may have legitimate reasons for sharing it, doing so plays straight into the hands of the RIAA. If the amount of traffic on P2P networks suddenly plunges for a prolonged period of time and CD sales continue to slip, that's a pretty solid piece of evidence that P2P is not the problem. If people chant that they sell worthless pap and then go get it anyway, that sends a message that we DO want their music, we just don't want to pay. Listen to indie music and radio stations instead.
Don't listen to ClearChannel because they broadcast the same music found on CD's, and increased viewership will again send the message that we DO want their music, we just don't want to pay; Wrong message:(.
Tell your friends and family! Saying this here is just preaching to the choir. Ranting and raving to Slashdot about what a bunch of anal raping bastards the RIAA and their congressional cronies are does not help.
The point here is that the RIAA is claiming that falling CD sales are caused by rampant, unpaid sharing of their music on the Internet. As long as the sharing continues, judges and congresspersons will continue to believe them. If the sharing stops and sales keep dropping, at least some officials will have to see through their argument.
On a lighter note, This is what their easter egg makes me think of.
Ever since I started on Mandrake 8.2 I've been able to change the screen resolution to whatever was supported by simply using drakconf. Now if something breaks the GUI then editing the XF86Config-4 is still an option, but if your GUI is broken then you've got other things to worry about than resolution.
I don't know if the same function was always present in Mandrake, but I know it's been there since 8.2.
If they're considering using or are using genetic algorithms to help her learn the best way to interact with her environment. It would take a while, but her up and give her a single task to learn; Say, the most efficient way to climb stairs. Then let the genetic algorithm go to work.
Probably the best use for genetic algorithms would be speech recognition; With each suceedding generation of (?) rules, she gets more and more accurate.
All I know is, I've got three grandparents and they could all use one.
That the human trash who write malware always obey the law. Just like spammers coughCANSPAMcough do. I mean, honestly, since when does someone who feels that it is acceptable to steal your personal information without your permission obey stupid little things like the law?
But I'd have to say I come down with Apple this time. They've been trying to come up with some sort of way to control copying (The RIAA won't license them all their music otherwise, so as much as Apple probably doesn't want DRM, they've been forced into it) that's acceptable to everyone. You can still un-DRM iTMS songs by burn/rip, and you don't see Apple running around randomly suing.001% of the people who have a CD burner.
But the big difference that I percieve here is that people generally respect Apple, whereas everyone would personally shit on the RIAA given half a chance. On one hand, that might just mean that the RIAA is trying to use Apple as a front that everyone doesn't hate, but I doubt it; The RIAA is doing everything it can to prevent any distribution of music over the Internet. However, it still comes down to a matter of respecting the vender. No one on earth respects the RIAA, therefore no one feels bad when they claim to be hurting from "piracy." However, the person who wrote PlayFair wrote it to only decode legally purchased songs for the purpose of playing them on non-Apple platforms.
For what it's worth, Apple could please all sides without using the DMCA: Release an iTMS player for Linux and Windows. People who simply want to play their music on another platform can now do so, without the need of feeding the RIAA propaganda machine.
"According to Moore's law, when would the size of a transistor become the same size as an atom of silicon?"
Before we get to that point we'll have the problem of finding a new dielectric; The silicon dioxide gates are currently a few molecules thick and can barely hold back a few volts. It'll take either a new dielectric material, or a far colder chip (because to keep working with SiO2 means lower voltage, and therefore a lower temperature to keep static accpetable).
I wonder what she means by "Fix" when talking to the recording industry. I have a feeling that it would coincide perfectly with "break" to everyone else.
The real criminals don't break laws; They write them.
That's what my set of encyclopedias from 1968 say about the new "Stellarator" reactor they're building over at Stanford... "Within 10 or 20 years." But cynicism aside, there's no denying we've made great progress. From energy output/input ratios of.00001 to.3 and.4 since fusion research began.
My thought is that if you want a way to get unbelievable energy intensities, use the big fusion reactor in the sky. Launch a gossamer thin sheet of aluminized mylar, spin it into a disk, and use a minimal amount of structure to form it into a parabolic mirror. If you use a 500 meter radius piece, that's a constant 740 megawatts focused on the pinhead-sized object of your choice. If you need more, just launch a bigger piece of aluminized mylar.
[Apologies to Tron 2.0]
Is that those of top have so completely mastered the art of screwing everyone for their own benefit and getting away with it.
The reason they're so good at getting away with it is because no one cares. The average idiot cares about nothing but bread and circuses, and will continue to do so until the continuance of such behavior becomes a serious impediment to caring about nothing but bread and circuses.
Therefore, I would suggest that failing to do your civic duty and vote come with unpleasant consequences:
Your TV access will be turned off (except for broadcast, of course)
Your Internet access will be turned off, and all attempts to go anywhere online will result in a page saying "Vote to regain internet access"
Your tele/satellite/cell phone will be turned off
On voting night, the list of checked off names (those who did vote) will be compared to and removed from the list of people who reside in the precinct (as determined by the last census).
This will not violate privacy, because the information was already there anyway: the list of people who voted at the polling booths, and the last census. When compiled, the list of nonvoters will be sent to the phone, ISP, and cable providers for that precinct, who will cut off service from those listed. And if you get cut off, you still pay for the service. You're safe from getting hosed if you move out of the precinct, because if you're not there they can't cut off service for you.
Those who did not vote have 14 days to pick up a voting information packet/absentee ballot and send it in to be counted. When your vote arrives and is counted, service is restored based on lists of those who have now voted sent in each day. If you don't respond by the 14-day time limit, you got no cable, phone, or internet until the next election. Have fun!
Because one of my main ideas here is to make you vote without violating your civil rights, there will be some rather considerable holes: Since the whole population list uses the last census, if you moved to a new district within that time, you've got until the next new decade that you can slip under the radar. Oh well. I don't think moving every 10 years is worth not having to vote:)
There are probably some technical issues to be worked out, but it seems like a solid idea. Unless you are satisfied with broadcast TV, talk over ham radio, and get internet access over radio teletype, it would be rather unpleasant.
I realise that this may seem to have gone off at rather a tangent (or maybe cotangent) to the "pirate" act, but it is on topic: If people can't just sit around and let corrupt politicians bilk the handful of voters, but feel compelled to educate themselves, how long would those corrupt politicians last?
"Compare this with the $820 million cost of recently sending the robots Spirit and Opportunity to Mars, roughly one thousandth the cost of the President's initiative."
Yes, and those rovers have moved, what, a few hundred meters, crawling along (literally) at the speed of a snail? I mean, it took days for Spirit to *turn around and use the other ramp.*
Humans need to be sent because, for the forseeable future, we have immeasurably greater versatility than any robotic probe. A *child* could have either turned Spirit around in seconds, or drove over the parachute and unstuck it from the wheels if anything went wrong. The Apollo astronauts covered more distance in a combined few days on the moon's surface in their buggies than all the probes we've sent to mars can ever hope to.
The point is that, until robots are capable or driving themselves, they will need to be remote-controlled. And the only other body where you could drive a probe remotely at a meaningful speed is the Moon. Mars is taking robotic RC to the limit, crawling along at 16mm per second so that Mission Control can react in time to prevent the probes from crashing into something. Until robots are 100% autonomous and can think for themselves, they need humans there to provide that function for them.
I've also had sound problems with the Linux flash player. The sound plays for an instant, then siezes up for a moment (presumably being rendered/cached), and then resumes correctly. However, it absolutely kills the experience.
Strangely, I've only found such a playback problem while running Konqueror. Running the exact same player under Mozilla eliminates it.
Anyone else had the same problem?
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Not speaking as a physics grad here, and possibly talking out my ass, but I was under the impression that the space end of the tether would be a little outside the balance point, such that (if not for the cable holding it down) it would continually try to fly off into space. Thus, when it's energy was sapped by the launch of a new spacecraft, it would in turn sap the rotational energy of earth to return to it's highest possible orbit.
There ain't no free ride into space: The elevator will simply replace violently exothermic chemicals with the slow sapping of earth's rotational energy.
There is *no point* to having a virus scanner if the idiot users do not keep it up to date! So either we have to configure it to call home (which we all agree would be bad) or rely on idiot users to upgrade it themselves.
In this day and age, if you do not keep your tools for protecting yourself up to date, then it's arguable that you should have your box 0wned again and again until you learn your damn lesson. This is already happening; Unfortunately, stupidity is defined as an inability to learn.
They're probably neglected because it takes SO damn long to get out there working with chemical rockets: It's weeks, maybe months to reach Mars or Venus. It'll take an entire generation for a chemical rocket to get out to pluto. We need better rockets: NERVA, fusion, solar sail, ion drive, anything. We are going nowhere in a big hurry unless we develop something else.
After all, unless it can happen before the corporate whor^H^H^Hpoliticians are up for re-election, what good is it?
"The group discounted the recent wave of worms, viruses and other attacks that have affected Windows systems worldwide. It confined the study to overt digital attacks by hackers."
So they are not talking simply about "Your OS got 0wned more than mine." They are only talking about the number of times systems got 0wned BY A USER. I suspect that this survey would look very different if you included all the viruses, worms, and trojans that attack Windows.
And if you want to own and control a remote computer personally, you will want to attack Linux: It can be administered (or 0wned) completely by remote on a CLI, or graphically with X, and offers comprehensive remote control utilities that Windows usually lacks. What's the point of r00ting a generic Windows box, when all you can do is PING, TRACERT, and WINIPCFG without taking the time to install other software, when you can find a Linux box that's been badly mis-administered, and immediately have all the command-line utilities you'll ever need?
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Hehe, another ice age would keep you at a constant 0 degrees C because you'd be under 2 miles of ice :)
I know perfectly well that this is probably illegal. However, we all know that now spammers generally send their trash through 0wn3d Windoze computers. Is is not possible to write a slowly-propagating virus (One that will NOT cause the network to slow to a crawl) that will search out and destroy spam/spy/ad-ware on the computer?
There is no way to find the bastards or stop them from sending their trash without getting rid of their zombie networks. If you eliminate those, you might as well break their electronic kneecaps.
The ubiquitous format for exchanging mediums between computers? What about CD-ROMS? *coughISO-9960cough*
It can't be a MS format, otherwise all my Microsoft-approved CDs from 10+ years ago wouldn't work in my new Microsoft CD-ROM drive with my Microsoft operating system.
Since when is nuclear power dangerous? There have been two nuclear accidents that anyone remembers in the last half century. Once was caused by a piss-poor reactor design (Chernobyl) and one was caused when operators screwed up (but almost no radiation was released). You get exposed to more radiation on an *airplane trip* than you will in a nuclear power plant. And coincedently, you also get more radiation from a coal power plant than from a nuclear power plant; see below.
:)
As for the choice of a bucket of coal or fission waste, that's loaded. By the time you had a bucket full of nuclear waste, you'd have burnt about 3 million tons of coal to generate the same amount of energy. And those 3 million tons of coal, when burnt, released about 3 tons of uranium and about 10 tons of thorium in the process.
Run around in circles and scream! Coal power plants are a nu-cu-lar disaster!
I'm kind of torn as to how to implement the E-Mail ban on the id10ts...
- Block ALL traffic on port 25
- Every attempted message from them bounces when it hits the ISP's E-Mail servers
- Send a technician to explain to the person what a fscking moron they are and delete any and all e-mail programs.
But really, this could work: Grab an authentic spam, have it contact you instead of the human trash who sent it. There is no possible way for spammers to avoid it: It doesn't require any cooperation from them, and the very morons who respond to spam are the ones who get eliminated. For everyone else, it's just one more spam.What do you think? Could it possibly work, or even help?
And regarding how the government should file an antitrust suit against the RIAA (which is beyond a shadow of a doubt a monopolitic cartel, don't get me wrong). If nothing else, the current administration has shown little interest in pursuing antitrust cases of any flavor. Second is that we've been had on both sides of the aisle on this issue: Republicans favor business, Democrats get half their funding from Hollywood.
After that, assuming that antitrust charges are even filed and that the prosecutor is willing to really fight the case rather than make a token effort to please their constituents, take a look at the Microsoft case. At the very least, the RIAA will use their legal team to drag the case out for ever and ever and ever; By the time it finally does come to a resolution (assuming it ever does), the original issue will likely be dated (by the time the judges decided about the First Browser War, Microsoft had already destroyed Netscape). At that point, it seems likely that the RIAA (like Microsoft) would get off with, at most, a slap on the wrist and continue their monopolistic behavior unabated.
Sorry, but I don't think that a legal/legislative approach will work against the RIAA. Just as it won't work against spam or malware or any other electronic problem.
The question is, What can we do about it? I've got a list of starting suggestions:
- Do not share RIAA-0wn3d music on P2P networks. First of all, if it's all such bad music (as is endlessly stated to be the reason for falling CD sales), why are you sharing it? Second, even though you may have legitimate reasons for sharing it, doing so plays straight into the hands of the RIAA. If the amount of traffic on P2P networks suddenly plunges for a prolonged period of time and CD sales continue to slip, that's a pretty solid piece of evidence that P2P is not the problem. If people chant that they sell worthless pap and then go get it anyway, that sends a message that we DO want their music, we just don't want to pay. Listen to indie music and radio stations instead.
- Don't listen to ClearChannel because they broadcast the same music found on CD's, and increased viewership will again send the message that we DO want their music, we just don't want to pay; Wrong message
:(.
- Tell your friends and family! Saying this here is just preaching to the choir. Ranting and raving to Slashdot about what a bunch of anal raping bastards the RIAA and their congressional cronies are does not help.
The point here is that the RIAA is claiming that falling CD sales are caused by rampant, unpaid sharing of their music on the Internet. As long as the sharing continues, judges and congresspersons will continue to believe them. If the sharing stops and sales keep dropping, at least some officials will have to see through their argument.On a lighter note, This is what their easter egg makes me think of.
Ever since I started on Mandrake 8.2 I've been able to change the screen resolution to whatever was supported by simply using drakconf. Now if something breaks the GUI then editing the XF86Config-4 is still an option, but if your GUI is broken then you've got other things to worry about than resolution.
I don't know if the same function was always present in Mandrake, but I know it's been there since 8.2.
If he is, we need to tell him about a coupla punks in Lindon, Utah who been talkin shit about the boss.
If they're considering using or are using genetic algorithms to help her learn the best way to interact with her environment. It would take a while, but her up and give her a single task to learn; Say, the most efficient way to climb stairs. Then let the genetic algorithm go to work.
Probably the best use for genetic algorithms would be speech recognition; With each suceedding generation of (?) rules, she gets more and more accurate.
All I know is, I've got three grandparents and they could all use one.
That the human trash who write malware always obey the law. Just like spammers coughCANSPAMcough do. I mean, honestly, since when does someone who feels that it is acceptable to steal your personal information without your permission obey stupid little things like the law?
But I'd have to say I come down with Apple this time. They've been trying to come up with some sort of way to control copying (The RIAA won't license them all their music otherwise, so as much as Apple probably doesn't want DRM, they've been forced into it) that's acceptable to everyone. You can still un-DRM iTMS songs by burn/rip, and you don't see Apple running around randomly suing .001% of the people who have a CD burner.
But the big difference that I percieve here is that people generally respect Apple, whereas everyone would personally shit on the RIAA given half a chance. On one hand, that might just mean that the RIAA is trying to use Apple as a front that everyone doesn't hate, but I doubt it; The RIAA is doing everything it can to prevent any distribution of music over the Internet. However, it still comes down to a matter of respecting the vender. No one on earth respects the RIAA, therefore no one feels bad when they claim to be hurting from "piracy." However, the person who wrote PlayFair wrote it to only decode legally purchased songs for the purpose of playing them on non-Apple platforms.
For what it's worth, Apple could please all sides without using the DMCA: Release an iTMS player for Linux and Windows. People who simply want to play their music on another platform can now do so, without the need of feeding the RIAA propaganda machine.
"According to Moore's law, when would the size of a transistor become the same size as an atom of silicon?"
Before we get to that point we'll have the problem of finding a new dielectric; The silicon dioxide gates are currently a few molecules thick and can barely hold back a few volts. It'll take either a new dielectric material, or a far colder chip (because to keep working with SiO2 means lower voltage, and therefore a lower temperature to keep static accpetable).
Personally I place my bet with optical computers.
I wonder what she means by "Fix" when talking to the recording industry. I have a feeling that it would coincide perfectly with "break" to everyone else.
The real criminals don't break laws; They write them.
That's what my set of encyclopedias from 1968 say about the new "Stellarator" reactor they're building over at Stanford... "Within 10 or 20 years." But cynicism aside, there's no denying we've made great progress. From energy output/input ratios of .00001 to .3 and .4 since fusion research began.
My thought is that if you want a way to get unbelievable energy intensities, use the big fusion reactor in the sky. Launch a gossamer thin sheet of aluminized mylar, spin it into a disk, and use a minimal amount of structure to form it into a parabolic mirror. If you use a 500 meter radius piece, that's a constant 740 megawatts focused on the pinhead-sized object of your choice. If you need more, just launch a bigger piece of aluminized mylar.
Is that those of top have so completely mastered the art of screwing everyone for their own benefit and getting away with it.
The reason they're so good at getting away with it is because no one cares. The average idiot cares about nothing but bread and circuses, and will continue to do so until the continuance of such behavior becomes a serious impediment to caring about nothing but bread and circuses.
Therefore, I would suggest that failing to do your civic duty and vote come with unpleasant consequences:
On voting night, the list of checked off names (those who did vote) will be compared to and removed from the list of people who reside in the precinct (as determined by the last census).
This will not violate privacy, because the information was already there anyway: the list of people who voted at the polling booths, and the last census. When compiled, the list of nonvoters will be sent to the phone, ISP, and cable providers for that precinct, who will cut off service from those listed. And if you get cut off, you still pay for the service. You're safe from getting hosed if you move out of the precinct, because if you're not there they can't cut off service for you.
Those who did not vote have 14 days to pick up a voting information packet/absentee ballot and send it in to be counted. When your vote arrives and is counted, service is restored based on lists of those who have now voted sent in each day. If you don't respond by the 14-day time limit, you got no cable, phone, or internet until the next election. Have fun!
Because one of my main ideas here is to make you vote without violating your civil rights, there will be some rather considerable holes: Since the whole population list uses the last census, if you moved to a new district within that time, you've got until the next new decade that you can slip under the radar. Oh well. I don't think moving every 10 years is worth not having to vote
There are probably some technical issues to be worked out, but it seems like a solid idea. Unless you are satisfied with broadcast TV, talk over ham radio, and get internet access over radio teletype, it would be rather unpleasant.
I realise that this may seem to have gone off at rather a tangent (or maybe cotangent) to the "pirate" act, but it is on topic: If people can't just sit around and let corrupt politicians bilk the handful of voters, but feel compelled to educate themselves, how long would those corrupt politicians last?
"Compare this with the $820 million cost of recently sending the robots Spirit and Opportunity to Mars, roughly one thousandth the cost of the President's initiative."
Yes, and those rovers have moved, what, a few hundred meters, crawling along (literally) at the speed of a snail? I mean, it took days for Spirit to *turn around and use the other ramp.*
Humans need to be sent because, for the forseeable future, we have immeasurably greater versatility than any robotic probe. A *child* could have either turned Spirit around in seconds, or drove over the parachute and unstuck it from the wheels if anything went wrong. The Apollo astronauts covered more distance in a combined few days on the moon's surface in their buggies than all the probes we've sent to mars can ever hope to.
The point is that, until robots are capable or driving themselves, they will need to be remote-controlled. And the only other body where you could drive a probe remotely at a meaningful speed is the Moon. Mars is taking robotic RC to the limit, crawling along at 16mm per second so that Mission Control can react in time to prevent the probes from crashing into something. Until robots are 100% autonomous and can think for themselves, they need humans there to provide that function for them.
I just found a perfect place to test fire your 30-megajoule rail gun.
Visual BASIC?
I've also had sound problems with the Linux flash player. The sound plays for an instant, then siezes up for a moment (presumably being rendered/cached), and then resumes correctly. However, it absolutely kills the experience.
Strangely, I've only found such a playback problem while running Konqueror. Running the exact same player under Mozilla eliminates it.
Anyone else had the same problem?
Not speaking as a physics grad here, and possibly talking out my ass, but I was under the impression that the space end of the tether would be a little outside the balance point, such that (if not for the cable holding it down) it would continually try to fly off into space. Thus, when it's energy was sapped by the launch of a new spacecraft, it would in turn sap the rotational energy of earth to return to it's highest possible orbit.
There ain't no free ride into space: The elevator will simply replace violently exothermic chemicals with the slow sapping of earth's rotational energy.
There is *no point* to having a virus scanner if the idiot users do not keep it up to date! So either we have to configure it to call home (which we all agree would be bad) or rely on idiot users to upgrade it themselves.
In this day and age, if you do not keep your tools for protecting yourself up to date, then it's arguable that you should have your box 0wned again and again until you learn your damn lesson. This is already happening; Unfortunately, stupidity is defined as an inability to learn.
But what if someone switches her from Suck to Blow?
They're probably neglected because it takes SO damn long to get out there working with chemical rockets: It's weeks, maybe months to reach Mars or Venus. It'll take an entire generation for a chemical rocket to get out to pluto. We need better rockets: NERVA, fusion, solar sail, ion drive, anything. We are going nowhere in a big hurry unless we develop something else.
After all, unless it can happen before the corporate whor^H^H^Hpoliticians are up for re-election, what good is it?
"The group discounted the recent wave of worms, viruses and other attacks that have affected Windows systems worldwide. It confined the study to overt digital attacks by hackers."
So they are not talking simply about "Your OS got 0wned more than mine." They are only talking about the number of times systems got 0wned BY A USER. I suspect that this survey would look very different if you included all the viruses, worms, and trojans that attack Windows.
And if you want to own and control a remote computer personally, you will want to attack Linux: It can be administered (or 0wned) completely by remote on a CLI, or graphically with X, and offers comprehensive remote control utilities that Windows usually lacks. What's the point of r00ting a generic Windows box, when all you can do is PING, TRACERT, and WINIPCFG without taking the time to install other software, when you can find a Linux box that's been badly mis-administered, and immediately have all the command-line utilities you'll ever need?