You do realize that this is Slashdot and you could be talking to a libertarian who believes that if the government went away tomorrow things wouldn't go New Orleans looters, or to a socialist who believes that property is theft.
You're thinking about the old Slashdot. This is the new Slashdot. The New Slashdot loves Microsoft, loves Bush, loves everything bad in this world. It's like Ronald Reagan's election--it was at that point that the world had surely gone insane. And the worst part is: the new Slashdot can't be stopped.
The "study" simply theorizes that pirated versions of Windows are to blame but offers no proof of that whatsoever. In any event, you can still patch pirated versions of Windows XP, AFAIK. Though I fail to see why Microsoft should be forced to provide updates to people who pirate their software. Well, because spreading viruses is a security risk to nonpirated versions of Windows too? Also: Windows Genuine Advantage makes it much harder to get updates if you're pirated.
As opposed to Windows Update, for example? It takes the average FOSS program less than a day--at the very longest, a week--to patch its critical programs, because of the many eyes thing. Microsoft takes up to a month, because of things like Patch Tuesday.
Can you give an example that wasn't from NASA? NASA is a corporation with incredibly unique needs, and it is in a completely different league from the average corporation. Remember that it's easier to make a cheap product more featured than it is a featured product cheaper.
You do realize that the artists don't get any money from "legitimate" record sales either, right? Not a single artist looking for money will forgo touring. Now the ethics of not paying the record labels are debatable but what isn't is that Public Enemy made more money from selling five thousand CDs online where the artists got all the money than from selling five million CDs with the label.
Oh, please. Most products that support both Windows and Linux are usually almost trivially ported to BSD. (I tried FreeBSD and it's not bad but I still prefer Linux)
He's probably talking about servers, given that he responded to a post about Windows Server and was mentioning Legacy Unix. And who the fuck buys an Apple server? I know they offered one as a testbed for OS X but the server is one place Apple has never really tried to get in on.
If we found some way to get rid of religion what that would mean would be that people would have to search harder to find a justification for the belief that their social group is superior to the rest of humanity. (Banning religion and getting rid of religion are two completely different things.)
Although Margaret Sanger was indeed a eugenicist she was not a Nazi and in fact considered the Nazis to be "sad and horrible". Actually the biggest supporters of Mussolini in the United States were the businessmen, and we all know about Henry Ford.
Until McCarthy actually reveals the people in the State department that are "communists" it really can't be judged which people (if any) in the State Department are and aren't communists. Until this happens, all we are being fed is hearsay and speculation.
So let me see if I get this right. If I have a "Windoze" server I fail to patch and it gets p0wn'd then "M$" is to blame, correct? Well, considering that Microsoft has been denying many users the right to patch, yes.
But if I'm running Linux and I have an OpenSSH exploit that I fail to patch, then... who is at fault? Me? Yours? The easter bunny? Well, your distribution should make it easy to update, and most fasttrack security updates, so either you or your distributor.
I'm pretty convinced you don't know what you're talking about now, because a rootkit cannot exploit a system on its own, by the very definition of a rootkit. A rootkit usually requires an existing root account, and attaches a 'hook' into the system to allow the cracker to regain root access. Rootkits perpetuate attacks, they don't start them. Considering you don't know what a rootkit is, I'm calling into question the honesty of the rest of your evidence.
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You do realize that this is Slashdot and you could be talking to a libertarian who believes that if the government went away tomorrow things wouldn't go New Orleans looters, or to a socialist who believes that property is theft.
You're thinking about the old Slashdot. This is the new Slashdot. The New Slashdot loves Microsoft, loves Bush, loves everything bad in this world. It's like Ronald Reagan's election--it was at that point that the world had surely gone insane. And the worst part is: the new Slashdot can't be stopped.
In that case, it's more than just a rootkit and the rootkit is part of the general exploit.
Last I checked it was Henry V who was being anal retentive. Though it's hard to be anal retentive when you don't have an anus.
Can you give an example that wasn't from NASA? NASA is a corporation with incredibly unique needs, and it is in a completely different league from the average corporation. Remember that it's easier to make a cheap product more featured than it is a featured product cheaper.
You do realize that the artists don't get any money from "legitimate" record sales either, right? Not a single artist looking for money will forgo touring. Now the ethics of not paying the record labels are debatable but what isn't is that Public Enemy made more money from selling five thousand CDs online where the artists got all the money than from selling five million CDs with the label.
Oh, please. Most products that support both Windows and Linux are usually almost trivially ported to BSD. (I tried FreeBSD and it's not bad but I still prefer Linux)
I think it started with the Beatles and the fact that you couldn't even hear them in their concerts because of all the screaming fans.
Human running speed varies, but the 10 m/s figure was for indoors and for the raptor with a broken leg, while 25 m/s was for healthy raptors outdoors.
I had a name for Kopete. "The Worst Program in the World", I think I called it.
The #1 cause of pain and suffering is people who thought they and their particular group of people were superior to the rest of humanity.
Male, I assume.
He's probably talking about servers, given that he responded to a post about Windows Server and was mentioning Legacy Unix. And who the fuck buys an Apple server? I know they offered one as a testbed for OS X but the server is one place Apple has never really tried to get in on.
Yeah, but why should we listen to the Goa'uld? :P
If we found some way to get rid of religion what that would mean would be that people would have to search harder to find a justification for the belief that their social group is superior to the rest of humanity. (Banning religion and getting rid of religion are two completely different things.)
Although Margaret Sanger was indeed a eugenicist she was not a Nazi and in fact considered the Nazis to be "sad and horrible". Actually the biggest supporters of Mussolini in the United States were the businessmen, and we all know about Henry Ford.
In the time it took you to think up that post, David Banh got a masters degree in religion.
No, Rush Limbaugh's fact checker is there to make sure there are no actual facts there.
Singularity, if it actually exists.
And don't forget the parodies these post chains always get.
Amsterdam has the smallest drug problem in America? Wow!
Until McCarthy actually reveals the people in the State department that are "communists" it really can't be judged which people (if any) in the State Department are and aren't communists. Until this happens, all we are being fed is hearsay and speculation.
I'm pretty convinced you don't know what you're talking about now, because a rootkit cannot exploit a system on its own, by the very definition of a rootkit. A rootkit usually requires an existing root account, and attaches a 'hook' into the system to allow the cracker to regain root access. Rootkits perpetuate attacks, they don't start them. Considering you don't know what a rootkit is, I'm calling into question the honesty of the rest of your evidence.