First off, the utter stupidity of that article shows just how simple it has become over the past 15 years to actually mod your PC. Most of his instructions involve 'brute force,' which is always wrong (excepting the Athlon CPU fan circa 1 GHz).
The second thing: First, a quote from the article, then a quote from the website:
"he comes across a little 'hardware' website with just 12 people on the statcounter and a mere 6 more registered in the forums"
"Please register or login. There are 20 registered and
11277 anonymous users currently online. Current bandwidth usage: 2595.34 kbit/s"
Forewarning: The open source community is not portrayed in positive light so you might want to skip reading this.
Yeah. That's the way to get the community some cred. Ignore criticism and articles that don't agree with you or your philosophy, or paint you in a bad light.
You *could* write them a letter, or start posting counter-articles to more tech-friendly mags.
No offense. But the law of numbers *does* apply here. If there were 10x the users of *nix, there would be 10x the virii written. There would be 10x the number of people prying for holes, and 10x the number of holes found.
As other posters have said, the effects of these holes might be severely less than windows (I expect they would) but every once in awhile there would be some massively bad virii.
I mean, c'mon. I liked Soul Caliber, but this game was really little more than a graphics update.
Perhaps the problem was the SC was already incredibly gorgeous in comparison to other fighting games, but when I got SC2, I was completely underwhelmed by the supposed greatness.
The problem with your argument (and I've seen this about 25 times now), is that the overwhelming majority (I'd guess upwards of 90% of the internet users) are clueless dolts in terms of security.
And when they get a worm, it affects ALL OF US, not just them. So to turn your argument on its head, what happens when 85% of your ISP's users get a worm, taking you and your hosting off the net? You lose business.
IMHO, an ISP should offer port blocking in the following manner: default to block all "unnecessary" ports; allow opt-out IFF user opting out has their own firewall (which can very easily be determined from the ISP-side); and/or assess 'fines' to users who opt-out of port-forwarding but cost them unecessary bandwidth due to worms.
If you've avoided Tivo because of the subscription concept, than simply buy a lifetime subscription. It lasts the lifetime of the box (which you can make repairs on), and it totally makes tv worth watching again.
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I think you mean 'lack of direction.' Loss implies that the genre had direction at one point, which it didn't. ^_^
The second thing: First, a quote from the article, then a quote from the website:
Oh, the irony.
I mean, MS isn't going to take on IBM. That would be suicide.
Oh, wait...
Now I'm gonna have to buy the XBox version as well.
Gotta fetch 'em all.
Yeah. That's the way to get the community some cred. Ignore criticism and articles that don't agree with you or your philosophy, or paint you in a bad light.
You *could* write them a letter, or start posting counter-articles to more tech-friendly mags.
My initial response is:
"Where's the legal defense fund, I want to contribute?"
...and those who now have it and are looking at it...
Thanks from all of us who were waiting eagerly for this one to come out. We appreciate your contribution of the additional four month wait.
assholes.
No offense. But the law of numbers *does* apply here. If there were 10x the users of *nix, there would be 10x the virii written. There would be 10x the number of people prying for holes, and 10x the number of holes found.
As other posters have said, the effects of these holes might be severely less than windows (I expect they would) but every once in awhile there would be some massively bad virii.
Lets see how my math skills are doing.
2 * $0 = $0
Yup, the prize still blows.
...you get Anthrax? (or maybe the less dangerous VBS/Anthrax?)
...causing all the problems.
"He also has issues with impolite players"
Cause I've never met a football player who was rude because he thaught he was better than me.
He had a little bit of credibility until we got here: "11. Myst wasn't a very good game."
Myst wasn't a very good game. It never was. It wasn't neat, or novel. It was a slideshow with hotspots. (What we now refer to as "The web")
Actually, I had problems with some of the other items on the list, but I almost laughed out loud when I got here.
Why the hell would I do that? Who the hell *is* he?
(And finally they're on topic!)
"I'm here to kick ass and chew bubble-gum. And I'm all out of gum."
And my personal favorite:
"Hmm. I don't have time to play with myself."
Good to see that verisignsucks.it still does the proper thing.
And doesn't suck it.
Sometimes you have to watch those crafty Italians.
Seriously. I don't mean that I don't care about the fate of linux, because I do (very much).
But I DO NOT care about every little open letter sent from Darl's dog to his grandmother regarding OSS.
Lets get back to 'stuff that matters.'
Here.
Score: 91
"The final word: Black and White is one of the most unique -- and enjoyable -- strategy games we've seen this year."
Yeah, ok schmeg.
I mean, c'mon. I liked Soul Caliber, but this game was really little more than a graphics update.
Perhaps the problem was the SC was already incredibly gorgeous in comparison to other fighting games, but when I got SC2, I was completely underwhelmed by the supposed greatness.
How does that not violate the GPL then? I'm confused.
You go to all the trouble of zipping them? I just change the extension by one letter (usually I make it more l33t.)
so thatprogramyouwanted.exe becomes thatprogramyouwanted.3x3.
The problem with your argument (and I've seen this about 25 times now), is that the overwhelming majority (I'd guess upwards of 90% of the internet users) are clueless dolts in terms of security.
And when they get a worm, it affects ALL OF US, not just them. So to turn your argument on its head, what happens when 85% of your ISP's users get a worm, taking you and your hosting off the net? You lose business.
IMHO, an ISP should offer port blocking in the following manner: default to block all "unnecessary" ports; allow opt-out IFF user opting out has their own firewall (which can very easily be determined from the ISP-side); and/or assess 'fines' to users who opt-out of port-forwarding but cost them unecessary bandwidth due to worms.
The NEW management is saying that the OLD management was evil, had lied, etc.
My question is what is the union between the sets OLD and NEW management? (I'd bet its fairly high.)
If you've avoided Tivo because of the subscription concept, than simply buy a lifetime subscription. It lasts the lifetime of the box (which you can make repairs on), and it totally makes tv worth watching again.
Wow! You completely made the parent's parent's post's point. What you're basically saying is:
...
RTFM. If you don't like it go use windows.
Now why isn't linux catching on again?
I use a usenet service that respects my right to privacy by not keeping access logs.
That's probably about as anonymous as I'm going to get without being my own usenet feed.