So... was Melissa, Blaster, Sasser, or any of the other major worms written by pros?
Good question, but beside the point. Prior acts by kid hackers doesn't limit organized acts by professional criminals. And you certainly wouldn't call the viruses designed by spammers acts of children. This will only get worse as terrorists, organized criminals and intelligence agencies make use of security holes for their own purposes. Paying bounty to catch incompetent kids may look good from a PR standpoint, but closing those security holes would actually prevent the damage caused by those with malicious ends. JMO.
It has deterent value. It says if you become good at writing viruses you will get nailed. Maybe MS does not care about the young kid messing around who does not damage anything. Microsoft is showing good restraint.
It may deter kids but certainly not pros. Rewards rely on enough individuals knowing who commited a crime so that at least one betrays the criminal. With kids that's easy since they're publishing their exploits as part of a game. With pros, no way. When terrorists and organized criminals write and distribute viruses, expect the MS reward to have much less impact.
Prevention through proper security, OTOH, cuts against both kids and pros. Cut out the exploit and you cut out the damage. Of course, MS management knows this...
[...]but I would suspect that the current video cards would be fine for an OS to use.
Hell, an old SGI Indigo handled a 3D file browser just fine. What does Windows need with a 3D graphics display adapter two generations above todays best? It's ridiculous in ways only Microsoft can implement. Remember Microsoft Word 5.1 for the Mac? That was MS at her best.
Note that that isn't just some cheap out of order execution multi-pipeline trick like hyperthreading, but two full ALUs with an integrated MMU on the CPU core. Essentially SMP on a chip. Rock on!
But I'm laughing my ass off just the same. Did I get FP? No and yes. Of course I posted my own first post. But did I get FP? No fucking way. Oh well, I'm no troll anyway. And I'm sure I'll gain that karma back in time just the same. The white hat way.
Naked Rayburn
A better question to ask is, what the fuck is an operating system doing with those resources? I understand wanting those specs to run simulations, data processing, or games... but what does longhorn do that no other OS offers which requires such specs? The memory and CPU expectations are particularly egregious. I can still run NetBSD on a Sun 3/60. Yeah, maybe I can't run and ssh2d, but the core OS runs just fine. Sheesh... 2GB of RAM and a 6ghz CPU with a high end 3D graphics processor -- for the OS??? Christ, give me a PDP-11 running RT-11. Guess I'm a luddite. PIP me baby!!!
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So... was Melissa, Blaster, Sasser, or any of the other major worms written by pros?
Good question, but beside the point. Prior acts by kid hackers doesn't limit organized acts by professional criminals. And you certainly wouldn't call the viruses designed by spammers acts of children. This will only get worse as terrorists, organized criminals and intelligence agencies make use of security holes for their own purposes. Paying bounty to catch incompetent kids may look good from a PR standpoint, but closing those security holes would actually prevent the damage caused by those with malicious ends. JMO.
Naked Rayburn
It has deterent value. It says if you become good at writing viruses you will get nailed. Maybe MS does not care about the young kid messing around who does not damage anything. Microsoft is showing good restraint.
It may deter kids but certainly not pros. Rewards rely on enough individuals knowing who commited a crime so that at least one betrays the criminal. With kids that's easy since they're publishing their exploits as part of a game. With pros, no way. When terrorists and organized criminals write and distribute viruses, expect the MS reward to have much less impact.
Prevention through proper security, OTOH, cuts against both kids and pros. Cut out the exploit and you cut out the damage. Of course, MS management knows this...
Naked Rayburn
[...]but I would suspect that the current video cards would be fine for an OS to use.
Hell, an old SGI Indigo handled a 3D file browser just fine. What does Windows need with a 3D graphics display adapter two generations above todays best? It's ridiculous in ways only Microsoft can implement. Remember Microsoft Word 5.1 for the Mac? That was MS at her best.
Naked Rayburn
Peripheral Interchange Program; or better put, lets smash that Printer / Fax Machine!!!
Naked Rayburn
Note that that isn't just some cheap out of order execution multi-pipeline trick like hyperthreading, but two full ALUs with an integrated MMU on the CPU core. Essentially SMP on a chip. Rock on!
Naked Rayburn
But I'm laughing my ass off just the same. Did I get FP? No and yes. Of course I posted my own first post. But did I get FP? No fucking way. Oh well, I'm no troll anyway. And I'm sure I'll gain that karma back in time just the same. The white hat way. Naked Rayburn
A better question to ask is, what the fuck is an operating system doing with those resources? I understand wanting those specs to run simulations, data processing, or games... but what does longhorn do that no other OS offers which requires such specs? The memory and CPU expectations are particularly egregious. I can still run NetBSD on a Sun 3/60. Yeah, maybe I can't run and ssh2d, but the core OS runs just fine. Sheesh... 2GB of RAM and a 6ghz CPU with a high end 3D graphics processor -- for the OS??? Christ, give me a PDP-11 running RT-11. Guess I'm a luddite. PIP me baby!!!
Naked Rayburn
Yup, this is post #1! (mine that is)