First I agree with Senator "Chucky" Schumer regarding the UAE-based company bidding to operate our ports, now I'm agreeing with Congressman Lantos on this issue!
If this keeps up, look for "Illbay" on the list of policy advisors for the Hillary! 2008 campaign!
Maybe the precautions you take don't seem like a big deal to you, but when you multiply that by 100,000 employees, it really is a big deal and a big expense.
First, I'm not sure how you'd define "big deal." Any time I spend money and/or time, it's a "deal," big or not. It's time and money I could spend elsewhere.
Second, I would think that 'economonies of scale' would dicated that it is LESS expensive to guard against malware and security issues.
For instance, my little SOHO server, for my ten-node network, runs Fedora Core 4 Linux. Drop Spamassassin and ClamAV on there, plus configure Sendmail (or Postfix, for that matter) to utilize the blackhole servers, and *voila*, you never see a single, solitary bit of spam or malware-laden email. I mean it: I've not gotten ONE SINGLE BIT of this crap in the nearly five years since I set this thing up.
Yes, for my server, Linux is DEFINITELY the answer, but all my workstations run Windows XP. So you can claim "hey, Linux is what saved you," and I won't argue, but your point, I think, is that we all ought to use Linux-based desktop machines because of the Windows vulnerabilities, and I'm just telling you how it is "easy" to make that problem go away.
That I use Linux to accomplish this "miracle" makes it a win-win situation, IMO.
What about the cost of dealing with all the problems that Windows brings with it: viruses, worms, spyware, etc.?
I'm sorry, I love Linux--to fool around with and to run my Samba server--but this vacuous talking point has long since lost its sting.
I have been using Windows for YEARS, on my SOHO network, when I worked for an employer, etc. I've NEVER gotten a virus or worm, and I've only KNOWN about one other personal acquaintance who ever did.
They're out there, and they're a danger, but if you're halfway intelligent they can be defeated.
If you're intelligent enough to figure out how to migrate to a Linux desktop/workstation, then you're smart enough to figure out how to fortify your machines, or your LAN, against such attacks.
Conversely, if you're too stupid to avoid all the malware dangers, then you're never going to have the smarts it takes to work in the Linux world on a daily basis.
I first used OS/2 on my new 486DX2-66 machine back in the early 90s, because even then I wanted the multitasking.
However, as a user-not-coder, what I really liked was Presentation Manager and the Workplace Shell.
If they DO make OS/2's parts Open Source, I hope someone will port that wonderful interface to Linux. If they could do that successfully, I do believe it would vault over Gnome and KDS in popularity.
I did google earlier, before posting my reply, and mostly it DOES talk about cell phone use. But that's the most common current application for BT.
I see no reason why, if you have a bluetooth dongle on your 'puter (as I do, because that's how I sync my Treo 650), you mightn't be susceptible to the same kinds of security hassles.
If I want something that has an extensible range, I'd go with 802.11x. To me, Bluetooth is more useful when its range is only a hundred feet (okay, 30 meters) or so--if even that.
I mean, aren't the problems with so-called "bluespamming" and "bluesnarfing" bad enough without allowing the punk kid in his bedroom across the street access to all your stuff?
I'm not a gamester. But I got HW (the original) as a birthday present from a friend who assumed all "geeks" were into computer games.
I tried it out one Saturday morning, and didn't emerge from my cave until late Sunday night.
As I say, I'm not a game-player, but it was the STORY that drew me in. There are a handful of films and books that, from the time I was a kid, made me WISH that I could "go there."
This was the first and only computer game that made me wish I could "go there." I found myself wishing I could "see inside" the mother ship, see the people in there and watch their lives.
The "aura" surrounding that game is like nothing I've ever felt, before or since. (And yes, I've tried the sequels, and no, they just weren't quite the same. The Storyline is the difference.
(Ever wish you could "forget" some of your favorite books and movies so you could go back and experience them again "for the first time?")
There's a whole lot more wrong with China than just this issue.
For instance, they're [REDACTED] about the [REDACTED] insofar as [REDACTED] is concerned, and yet they continually [REDACTED] the [REDACTED] for as long as they can [REDACTED].
I figured out (rather quickly) how to upgrade from FC2 to FC3 using YUM only. No CDs or DVDs were burned making this move.
I can see why you might want to "reinstall" from time to time, but it really doesn't appear necessary.
Oh, regarding your tagline: don't you feel rather silly now that we KNOW Saddam was developing WMDs? http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/13/international/mi ddleeast/13loot.html?8bl
Sorry, I thought everyone followed every detail of anything going on in America. How gauche of me!
Bias? Of course there's bias. It's just that on the Left, the bias masquerades as "conventional wisdome" (i.e. "everyone knows" that Bush lied, Cheney runs the country, blahblahblah. No gray matter required.)
One of the major news networks, CBS, "broke" the story that they had obtained "personal papers" of the man who had been Pres. Bush's commanding officer when he, Mr. Bush, was a Texas Air National Guard fighter pilot.
The documents purport to show that Mr. Bush disobeyed orders to report for training, did not report for a mandatory physical, etc., but was never reprimanded because "his daddy has connections."
Well, it turns out that (1) CBS cannot or will not divulge where they obtained the papers, (2) nearly every expert in the matter testifies that the papers are forged, were produced using a word processor and could not have been composed in the early 1970s, and (3) instead of trying to do damage control the graceful way, CBS (and especially their chief anchor, Dan Rather) is taking the "low road" and saying "don't focus on the documents, focus on what they say!"
With that logic, I can forge a Texas Lottery Ticket showing that I win millions of bucks, and if the authenticity is questioned I can just say "stop focusing on the document, the ticket! Focus on what it means, that I'm a millionaire!"
The Left in this country is in deep doo-doo, because they have been relying on filthy dirty tricks for some time, instead of actually coming up with ideas.
Still love Niven. Back in the early seventies as a "geek" before the term was used to signify such, I got so into his novels and stories that they made me wish I could just teleport into his universe.
There are only a few such authors like that for me: Vernor Vinge, Michael Shea, George R. R. Martin, Scott Card to name some names.
...has to be taken with a grain of salt.
We're talking about a place where Automatic Transmission is considered a novelty whose time hasn't yet arrived.
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Really? I thought she was the ELECTED Queen of Naboo. Shoulda known she was affiliated with the "galaxy far, far away's" version of the Kennedy clan.
Can always come here to Slashdot for an argument.
I've always considered myself part of the "special public."
If this keeps up, look for "Illbay" on the list of policy advisors for the Hillary! 2008 campaign!
You people just keep behavin' like *ssholes. We'll save civilization for ya.
First, I'm not sure how you'd define "big deal." Any time I spend money and/or time, it's a "deal," big or not. It's time and money I could spend elsewhere.
Second, I would think that 'economonies of scale' would dicated that it is LESS expensive to guard against malware and security issues.
For instance, my little SOHO server, for my ten-node network, runs Fedora Core 4 Linux. Drop Spamassassin and ClamAV on there, plus configure Sendmail (or Postfix, for that matter) to utilize the blackhole servers, and *voila*, you never see a single, solitary bit of spam or malware-laden email. I mean it: I've not gotten ONE SINGLE BIT of this crap in the nearly five years since I set this thing up.
Yes, for my server, Linux is DEFINITELY the answer, but all my workstations run Windows XP. So you can claim "hey, Linux is what saved you," and I won't argue, but your point, I think, is that we all ought to use Linux-based desktop machines because of the Windows vulnerabilities, and I'm just telling you how it is "easy" to make that problem go away.
That I use Linux to accomplish this "miracle" makes it a win-win situation, IMO.
I'm sorry, I love Linux--to fool around with and to run my Samba server--but this vacuous talking point has long since lost its sting.
I have been using Windows for YEARS, on my SOHO network, when I worked for an employer, etc. I've NEVER gotten a virus or worm, and I've only KNOWN about one other personal acquaintance who ever did.
They're out there, and they're a danger, but if you're halfway intelligent they can be defeated.
If you're intelligent enough to figure out how to migrate to a Linux desktop/workstation, then you're smart enough to figure out how to fortify your machines, or your LAN, against such attacks.
Conversely, if you're too stupid to avoid all the malware dangers, then you're never going to have the smarts it takes to work in the Linux world on a daily basis.
However, as a user-not-coder, what I really liked was Presentation Manager and the Workplace Shell.
If they DO make OS/2's parts Open Source, I hope someone will port that wonderful interface to Linux. If they could do that successfully, I do believe it would vault over Gnome and KDS in popularity.
It just WORKED.
I see no reason why, if you have a bluetooth dongle on your 'puter (as I do, because that's how I sync my Treo 650), you mightn't be susceptible to the same kinds of security hassles.
I mean, aren't the problems with so-called "bluespamming" and "bluesnarfing" bad enough without allowing the punk kid in his bedroom across the street access to all your stuff?
Hm. First time I ever heard someone suggest that, in order to stop criminals, you have to punish their victims.
I mean, I know we have a lot of "whack" social-engineering running around these days masquerading as "wisdom," but that one sure brought me up short.
Learn the definition of the word "redacted".
I'm not a gamester. But I got HW (the original) as a birthday present from a friend who assumed all "geeks" were into computer games. I tried it out one Saturday morning, and didn't emerge from my cave until late Sunday night. As I say, I'm not a game-player, but it was the STORY that drew me in. There are a handful of films and books that, from the time I was a kid, made me WISH that I could "go there." This was the first and only computer game that made me wish I could "go there." I found myself wishing I could "see inside" the mother ship, see the people in there and watch their lives. The "aura" surrounding that game is like nothing I've ever felt, before or since. (And yes, I've tried the sequels, and no, they just weren't quite the same. The Storyline is the difference. (Ever wish you could "forget" some of your favorite books and movies so you could go back and experience them again "for the first time?")
For instance, they're [REDACTED] about the [REDACTED] insofar as [REDACTED] is concerned, and yet they continually [REDACTED] the [REDACTED] for as long as they can [REDACTED].
I wish they'd address those issues as well.
...to "Soyuzworth?"
I figured out (rather quickly) how to upgrade from FC2 to FC3 using YUM only. No CDs or DVDs were burned making this move. I can see why you might want to "reinstall" from time to time, but it really doesn't appear necessary. Oh, regarding your tagline: don't you feel rather silly now that we KNOW Saddam was developing WMDs? http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/13/international/mi ddleeast/13loot.html?8bl
9,500.00 EUR = 11,854.55 USD as of today.
Your comment about the lack of helmets does not match your .sig.
Whattup widdat?
Bias? Of course there's bias. It's just that on the Left, the bias masquerades as "conventional wisdome" (i.e. "everyone knows" that Bush lied, Cheney runs the country, blahblahblah. No gray matter required.)
One of the major news networks, CBS, "broke" the story that they had obtained "personal papers" of the man who had been Pres. Bush's commanding officer when he, Mr. Bush, was a Texas Air National Guard fighter pilot.
The documents purport to show that Mr. Bush disobeyed orders to report for training, did not report for a mandatory physical, etc., but was never reprimanded because "his daddy has connections."
Well, it turns out that (1) CBS cannot or will not divulge where they obtained the papers, (2) nearly every expert in the matter testifies that the papers are forged, were produced using a word processor and could not have been composed in the early 1970s, and (3) instead of trying to do damage control the graceful way, CBS (and especially their chief anchor, Dan Rather) is taking the "low road" and saying "don't focus on the documents, focus on what they say!"
With that logic, I can forge a Texas Lottery Ticket showing that I win millions of bucks, and if the authenticity is questioned I can just say "stop focusing on the document, the ticket! Focus on what it means, that I'm a millionaire!"
The Left in this country is in deep doo-doo, because they have been relying on filthy dirty tricks for some time, instead of actually coming up with ideas.
And HERE'S the reason why.
So are all third parties combined looking to break the 5% of the total popular vote threshhold this time around?
There are only a few such authors like that for me: Vernor Vinge, Michael Shea, George R. R. Martin, Scott Card to name some names.
The first time I read that the TOC of MS Windows was "half" that of Linux.
...has to be taken with a grain of salt. We're talking about a place where Automatic Transmission is considered a novelty whose time hasn't yet arrived.
Nah. It was socialism.
Before the socialist revolution there, it was a verdant paradise, and the playground of the solar system's wealthy.
Now, it's Cuba without the palm trees.
The Martians are hoping and praying that the NASA landers are harbingers of the new "Yanqui" economy.