"In a professionally managed environment, it's relatively simple to prevent viruses."
The key words there in your statement are "professionally managed"... and judging by the evidence of my own spam/virus filtering and the hits on my firewall... the vast majority of home users and businesses out there using ms-windows are not professionally managed... and the default security settings of XP HE do not encourage it and there is very little mention in the little pamphlet that comes with a box these days of the requirements for setting a good password for the hidden administrator account or for not running with admin privileges either... or for turning on the pathetic firewall that comes with it either...
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that's a turnoff for a start... and an awfull lot of the younger slashdotters will be going "Wordstar"??? Yes kids... it was big but Wordstar failed to keep up in the feature race back in the days of Wordperfect for Dos etc...
I use nano and or pico myself...
Stop trying to follow whatever Microsoft are doing and concentrate on what you are doing well. Companys that let Microsoft lead them will forever have to follow "standards" that get churned/dumped on Microsoft's own terms... and with Microsoft's internal developers having access to far better support there will always be the prospect of hidden api calls etc. for them to take advantage of.
wtf does she want a career for??? she married a millionaire... and Me??? I "retired" last year at 46. I only work now when I want to... I made a killing on the shares during the.com boom and got out before the crash.
ps. I'm a grandfather too... became one at the sprightly age of 46... nothing wrong with that age... divide it by two and see how old I was when I became a father... 23... so the lady you're disparaging was a perfectly respectable age herself when she first became a mother...
now if we were great-grandparents in our late 40's...
I mean... "infiltrate"... file sharing of material to which you do not have clear title is illegal... clear cut and dried... no questions about it... And any student who doesn't think so should read read the terms and conditions of using the campus assets again very slowly and wonder just why it's not a very good idea to do it...
ok so there are legal uses of file sharing software, but those who distribute material that isn't legal haven't got a leg to stand on... and deserve everything that gets thrown at them...
Darl hasn't claimed this as a derivative of SCO IP yet. I mean it was obviously developed using very powerful hydro-codes which must have come from SCO IP...;)
Why the constant assumption that Grandma and Grandpa can't cope with Linux??? I am a grandfather and I have no problems at all... so stop doing us down... Thank you.
This has been a public service announcement from the Grandparents are not Clueless Idiots Association...
Normal service is now being resumed... flame on...
I hope they're going to continue the fight in the courts over Microsoft's usage of a comon word as a trademark... I'd hate to see them drop it just when they've got Microsoft on the ropes in the US courts.
I wanted to mod you up as informative and mod him down as troll. I'm currently runing my boxen on Suse 9 and Mandrake 10 with a solitary smoothwall box for firewall duties. I've succesfully installed Gentoo for trial purposes but wasn't too impressed. I've been spoilt by the configuration tools that come with SuSE and Mandrake you see... but with SuSE's YAST shortly to become GPL, then some kind soul might do a port to Gentoo.
Uhhmmm.. There are many free sites that rely on the income generated from pop-up ads to function. This legislation would force those sites to close. Pop-ups pay on the order of $1-2 CPM. Normal banner ads are something like $0.05-$0.15 CPM now (for comparison, I used to get $3-$5 CPM during the.com boom:(). CPM is 1000 raw impressions.
Unless you want to beg your users for money, or force them to CLICK on banners, popups are pretty much the only way you can go. It's _stupid_ to outlaw that. Get a popup blocker, or even better, don't visit sites with popups if they bother you that much! Bandwidth needs to be paid for.
but not by ramming popups in front of people's eyes... or any of the number of devious tricks that get used to hide the window controls so the user can't close the window quickly...
I have javascript set so that that type of behaviour can't happen and popups get blocked that I haven't personally requested by clicking on a button or link...
If you want money for your bandwidth, then make your content worth my money...
where's my MOD points when I really need them??? I am really getting sick and tired of this old crap about LindowsOS being trotted out at every opportunity...
plus two very obvious flamebait topics in one day???
but RMS *ALWAYS*. Masses of AC's belittle his accomplishments, insult his appearance and attack his insistence that the GNU (freedom aspect) of Linux distros be mentioned lest it be forgotten.
I strongly suspect that there are hordes of MS employees all over the world with strict instructions to haunt slashdot and other places that permit anonnymous posting to constantly FUD RMS and the GNU position.And for those sites that don't permit AC type posts, there's always the handy yahoo/hotmail type throwaway account for this purpose.
there also appears to be a lot of pro-ms karma whoring going on with accounts building up karma to get moderator points to then mod up pro-ms posts.
"Thats sort of like asking why a 67 caddy is more expensive used today then when it was first sold."
the supply of '67 Cadillacs is limited and numbers are falling... Pink Floyd music is limited to how many times they can keep cranking the presses to knock out perfect copies in fresh formats everytime there's a new playing medium available. ie it's currently out on 30th anniversary special edition in 5.1 surround sound with DVD extras... The music hasn't changed... but there are limits to how many times they can expect a person to keep purchasing the stuff. I bought it when it first came out in vinyl and then again on mobile Fidelity 1/2 speed mastered vinyl, and then on CD, and then on the remastered 21st anniversary CD... but I've hit my limit... I've replaced my vinyl collection... but I'm not going to replace my CD collection... which is why I've ripped it all to.ogg format to save wear and tear on the CDs... yes they do wear out, and I've got some original ones from the 80's that refuse to play anymore cos of the aluminium coating having degraded
Five years or 100,000 paid downloads whichever comes first... yes I can support that model. Why the heck can't the RIAA or MPAA get with it??? nah, they've got to keep milking the cash cow for as long as they possible can... why else is stuff like Pink Floyd or Led Zepp's back catalogue so expensive still some thirty years after first release???
note the emphasis on the word "almost"... wow you guys must really enjoy wasting precious processor cycles double checking each and every file pulled in or written out...
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The key words there in your statement are "professionally managed"... and judging by the evidence of my own spam/virus filtering and the hits on my firewall... the vast majority of home users and businesses out there using ms-windows are not professionally managed... and the default security settings of XP HE do not encourage it and there is very little mention in the little pamphlet that comes with a box these days of the requirements for setting a good password for the hidden administrator account or for not running with admin privileges either... or for turning on the pathetic firewall that comes with it either...
that's a turnoff for a start... and an awfull lot of the younger slashdotters will be going "Wordstar"??? Yes kids... it was big but Wordstar failed to keep up in the feature race back in the days of Wordperfect for Dos etc... I use nano and or pico myself...
Stop trying to follow whatever Microsoft are doing and concentrate on what you are doing well. Companys that let Microsoft lead them will forever have to follow "standards" that get churned/dumped on Microsoft's own terms... and with Microsoft's internal developers having access to far better support there will always be the prospect of hidden api calls etc. for them to take advantage of.
aah, the "reasonable and non-discriminatory" licenses... which just happen to be real bitch to use in a purely GPL environment...
and are "wavelets" unencumbered???
You make it sound like you were "forced"" to have those Windows boxes and that if the team had a free choice they wouldn't be used at all...
wtf does she want a career for??? she married a millionaire... and Me??? I "retired" last year at 46. I only work now when I want to... I made a killing on the shares during the .com boom and got out before the crash.
NISCC slashdotted so fast... what would happen in a real emergency??? when everybody really wants to know...
ps. I'm a grandfather too... became one at the sprightly age of 46... nothing wrong with that age... divide it by two and see how old I was when I became a father... 23... so the lady you're disparaging was a perfectly respectable age herself when she first became a mother...
now if we were great-grandparents in our late 40's...
ok so there are legal uses of file sharing software, but those who distribute material that isn't legal haven't got a leg to stand on... and deserve everything that gets thrown at them...
Darl hasn't claimed this as a derivative of SCO IP yet. I mean it was obviously developed using very powerful hydro-codes which must have come from SCO IP... ;)
This has been a public service announcement from the Grandparents are not Clueless Idiots Association...
Normal service is now being resumed... flame on...
I hope they're going to continue the fight in the courts over Microsoft's usage of a comon word as a trademark... I'd hate to see them drop it just when they've got Microsoft on the ropes in the US courts.
Yup it sure has been now... so when can we expect to see the corrected article
what "built in features"??? where??? in the Kernel??? or just in one particular browser...
twit... it's all prebuilt for you at PackmanThere's only libdvdcss and maybe some windows codecs to fetch as packman can't carry them.
I wanted to mod you up as informative and mod him down as troll. I'm currently runing my boxen on Suse 9 and Mandrake 10 with a solitary smoothwall box for firewall duties. I've succesfully installed Gentoo for trial purposes but wasn't too impressed. I've been spoilt by the configuration tools that come with SuSE and Mandrake you see... but with SuSE's YAST shortly to become GPL, then some kind soul might do a port to Gentoo.
but not by ramming popups in front of people's eyes... or any of the number of devious tricks that get used to hide the window controls so the user can't close the window quickly...
I have javascript set so that that type of behaviour can't happen and popups get blocked that I haven't personally requested by clicking on a button or link...
If you want money for your bandwidth, then make your content worth my money...
now they'll be able to "break" Linux... ;)
plus two very obvious flamebait topics in one day???
I strongly suspect that there are hordes of MS employees all over the world with strict instructions to haunt slashdot and other places that permit anonnymous posting to constantly FUD RMS and the GNU position.And for those sites that don't permit AC type posts, there's always the handy yahoo/hotmail type throwaway account for this purpose.
there also appears to be a lot of pro-ms karma whoring going on with accounts building up karma to get moderator points to then mod up pro-ms posts.
the supply of '67 Cadillacs is limited and numbers are falling... Pink Floyd music is limited to how many times they can keep cranking the presses to knock out perfect copies in fresh formats everytime there's a new playing medium available. ie it's currently out on 30th anniversary special edition in 5.1 surround sound with DVD extras... The music hasn't changed... but there are limits to how many times they can expect a person to keep purchasing the stuff. I bought it when it first came out in vinyl and then again on mobile Fidelity 1/2 speed mastered vinyl, and then on CD, and then on the remastered 21st anniversary CD... but I've hit my limit... I've replaced my vinyl collection... but I'm not going to replace my CD collection... which is why I've ripped it all to .ogg format to save wear and tear on the CDs... yes they do wear out, and I've got some original ones from the 80's that refuse to play anymore cos of the aluminium coating having degraded
Five years or 100,000 paid downloads whichever comes first... yes I can support that model. Why the heck can't the RIAA or MPAA get with it??? nah, they've got to keep milking the cash cow for as long as they possible can... why else is stuff like Pink Floyd or Led Zepp's back catalogue so expensive still some thirty years after first release???
yes, but most of the real damage is done in those few hours before the updates are available...
note the emphasis on the word "almost"... wow you guys must really enjoy wasting precious processor cycles double checking each and every file pulled in or written out...