Well, considering how many compromised Linux machines are running SSH password crackers looking for other badly configured setups, incompetent sysadmins are the norm.
Uhmmm, actually you are only aware of it since two weeks ago. How long the attacks have been going on, or whether or not you are already infected with a rootkit, is unknown. A rootkit that isn't used much, except to find and download the CEO's email once a month, may go undetected for a long time.
WP is popular with lawyers, since it really works. Eg. It counts words correctly - some cases have been dismissed as a brief exceeded the maximum word count due to a bug in MS Word. Headers footers and columns really work. It has a 'make it fit on one page' command. It can export to PDF, which is required by some courts. The text of WP documents are also more easily searchable than MS Word, since it is less broken up by control codes, which is very useful when looking for precedents.
Absolutely, they don't have money to waste on expensive imported buggy software.
The US gov doesn't care what software it wastes its money on, since most of it stays in the country. To other countries, it makes a huge difference whether they spend money in their country or outside their country.
If Microsoft was based in Russia, you can bet your bottom Dollar that the US gov would pass a similar law. The only thing that surprises me is that it took other countries so long to start doing this.
If lightning hit your cheap ass grid, then you will lose all your generators, all the wiring and most of the houses too...
Stopping lightning ain't easy d00d.
No it's not insane. The important details are not available. Note that in a free society, even military companies need to locate each other to build stuff.
If the robot is realy designed by a military electronics company, then it will be quite immune to EMP and radiation. There are many robots in use in the military and there are sentries armed with shotguns in Iraq even. See this: http://www.spawar.navy.mil/robots/land/robart/hist ory.html
Uhh - last I checked, Russia has a trade surplus, while the USA has been running a trade deficit for longer than anyone can remember.
Large parts of the USA is extremely backward and large parts of US cities are decaying (or now, covered in mud and water).
Don't believe everything you see on CNN regarding other countries. CNN is not even reality television, it is more like show wrestling...
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is in Vegas when she isn't in France. Consequently you are quite safe in Canada.
Well, considering how many compromised Linux machines are running SSH password crackers looking for other badly configured setups, incompetent sysadmins are the norm.
together wirf my noth ring and tongue thtud...
You said it: "known pathogens".
Now think about "unknown pathogens" for a minute.
Only the paranoid will survive...
Uhmmm, actually you are only aware of it since two weeks ago. How long the attacks have been going on, or whether or not you are already infected with a rootkit, is unknown. A rootkit that isn't used much, except to find and download the CEO's email once a month, may go undetected for a long time.
I guess, at the end of the day, you have to trust someone eg. Google or Verisign...
WP is popular with lawyers, since it really works. Eg. It counts words correctly - some cases have been dismissed as a brief exceeded the maximum word count due to a bug in MS Word. Headers footers and columns really work. It has a 'make it fit on one page' command. It can export to PDF, which is required by some courts. The text of WP documents are also more easily searchable than MS Word, since it is less broken up by control codes, which is very useful when looking for precedents.
The scientists figured that the solar system is too stable - in order to justify a space program, they have to engineer some collisions with earth.
Provided that it is two dimentional, then sure...
Well, that is why we have CVS.
You just need to open the tap to get deuterium. It is distributed at very low cost to almost every household in North America and Europe...
Oh man, you are so disconnected with the real world - i don't think you have ever installed Linux - not in the last 5 years anyway.
Windows is only easy to maintain because everybody get so much practise fixing it all the time...
Absolutely, they don't have money to waste on expensive imported buggy software. The US gov doesn't care what software it wastes its money on, since most of it stays in the country. To other countries, it makes a huge difference whether they spend money in their country or outside their country. If Microsoft was based in Russia, you can bet your bottom Dollar that the US gov would pass a similar law. The only thing that surprises me is that it took other countries so long to start doing this.
Oh no! Prior art! There goes the patent.
Uhm, well, not as if prior art ever stopped the USPTO...
Uhmmm - If people find using any Wordprocessor hard to use, then I think you need better people. It is just a friggen glorified typewriter...
I think WordPerfect support is better too - can write WP files. OOo can only read WP files.
If lightning hit your cheap ass grid, then you will lose all your generators, all the wiring and most of the houses too... Stopping lightning ain't easy d00d.
Yes, but how fast is that in Libraries of Congres per Small Car?
Notepad has always been good enough for me and always will be.
Yeah, right...
No it's not insane. The important details are not available. Note that in a free society, even military companies need to locate each other to build stuff.
No, not with EMP or microwave, but a RPG or artilery will do the trick...
See this for example http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/gro und/fcs-arv.htm
If the robot is realy designed by a military electronics company, then it will be quite immune to EMP and radiation. There are many robots in use in the military and there are sentries armed with shotguns in Iraq even. See this: http://www.spawar.navy.mil/robots/land/robart/hist ory.html
Uhh - last I checked, Russia has a trade surplus, while the USA has been running a trade deficit for longer than anyone can remember. Large parts of the USA is extremely backward and large parts of US cities are decaying (or now, covered in mud and water). Don't believe everything you see on CNN regarding other countries. CNN is not even reality television, it is more like show wrestling...
Before supplying the rest of the world with top class managers, you'll have to break them out of jail first...