What does it matter if the same vulnerability is discovered? Microsoft would buy the knowledge of the exploit, patch it, and it would no longer be an issue.
No, I'm saying that your claim is weak. Maintaining the oil industry in Iraq is the ONLY way that the country has a chance to thrive, at least in the short run. Without the oil industry, the country is nothing. Although you can try to claim that the administration had ulterior motives, at the end of the day, what they were doing happened to be very important to Iraq.
Without oil, Iraq isn't worth anything, even to itself. If the coalition didn't work to secure the oil fields, Iraq would have collapsed anyway and the situation wouldn't be very different.
Not entirely disagreeing with you, but why wouldn't they secure the oil wells? We're talking about a middle eastern country here. Without an economy, there might as well be no government. And without oil, there is no economy there.
Yeah. I mean, maybe I've been watching too much Man vs Wild, but if people are familiar with an environment, they will know how to find enough food to maintain enough strength to continue finding food.
Ok, here's my problem with that. Microsoft was convicted of monopolizing the OS market, right? Despite the fact that the government has handcuffed them to some degree, you have to understand what Microsoft's position is. They did a good job of making and pushing windows at the right time. PC's were getting ready to explode, and they beat Apple in the business. Their OS monopoly has created an environment that is very difficult for competitors to survive in.
In their monopoly days, they used the monopoly to win mindshare and standards. So even if the government restricts them when it comes to tangible software issues, Microsoft is continuing to make tens of billions of dollars in profits off of the monopoly. Even if Microsoft isn't officially a monopoly anymore, the market still acts as if it is. I appreciate that Microsoft did the right thing in the right place at the right time. They "deserve" to reap profits for that. That's how business works. But that was in the late 80's/early 90's. That they are STILL reaping those profits today fueled by their impressions on the industry made 20 years ago is a good sign that the government shouldn't let Microsoft roam free.
I fail to see how a farming tower in the middle of a city will deprive "plebians" of sun any more than they already are by the rest of the skyscrapers. Isn't that why cities have parks anyway?
1. Not everybody who works in a city lives in the city.
2. I mean, air has to be pushed through the building doesn't it? Of course it would be mechanically filtered first, but that doesn't mean the plants can't filter the air like they normally would.
Why is the grid necessarily fossil fuel? I would hope that over time, we progressively replace gas fired and coal burning power plants with nuclear, wind power, and solar installations.
Wanna stop the world's population growth? Bring everybody's living standard up to the levels of the US and Western Europe. Seeing as that is unlikely to happen, maybe its time for you to drop that useless line of thinking. We're not going to be able to limit population growth any more than we can stop any other human impulse. Along those lines, we're not going to be able to stop people from driving their vehicles as far or using electronics as much. It is the burden of science and technology to find solutions to these problems.
You imply that Linux's "failure" is some sort of permanent state. All open source operating systems have gotten significantly easier to use over the past few years. We might not be able the point where the average joe can handle it, but we might be at the stage now where the average wannabe techie can. And all in all, both FreeBSD and derivatives, and Linux variants are generally getting easier to use. Open source operating systems are making great progress, so I'm not really sure where you are coming from.
What does that have to do with RHEL? It is designed to be a stable server platform. Your post has so little to do with the article, I'm going to need to ask you to RTFM.
Perhaps AOL will finally realize that they are the cause of the downfall of the english language. Perhaps, in an attempt to revive the floundering idiom, they will append their terms of service:
i) The use of "1337 speak" is prohibited in any and all conversation windows. Failure to comply is punishable by ban.
ii) The use of smiley faces (":)") are prohibited from any and all conversation windows. Failure to comply is punishable by ban.
iii) The use of the warn button will result in a virus infecting your computer through the backdoors you installed with our software; thanks:)
Slashdot Mirror
But that would require us to assume that there is civilized life outside of the USA. As far as we know, there are just primates and communists.
What does it matter if the same vulnerability is discovered? Microsoft would buy the knowledge of the exploit, patch it, and it would no longer be an issue.
No they don't? How do you suggest getting around this forward?
They force you to a page saying that you need to register but that you can't from Linux.
No, I'm saying that your claim is weak. Maintaining the oil industry in Iraq is the ONLY way that the country has a chance to thrive, at least in the short run. Without the oil industry, the country is nothing. Although you can try to claim that the administration had ulterior motives, at the end of the day, what they were doing happened to be very important to Iraq. Without oil, Iraq isn't worth anything, even to itself. If the coalition didn't work to secure the oil fields, Iraq would have collapsed anyway and the situation wouldn't be very different.
Not entirely disagreeing with you, but why wouldn't they secure the oil wells? We're talking about a middle eastern country here. Without an economy, there might as well be no government. And without oil, there is no economy there.
Yeah. I mean, maybe I've been watching too much Man vs Wild, but if people are familiar with an environment, they will know how to find enough food to maintain enough strength to continue finding food.
A day or two without food and you're dead? That's not even close to being true.
Ok, here's my problem with that. Microsoft was convicted of monopolizing the OS market, right? Despite the fact that the government has handcuffed them to some degree, you have to understand what Microsoft's position is. They did a good job of making and pushing windows at the right time. PC's were getting ready to explode, and they beat Apple in the business. Their OS monopoly has created an environment that is very difficult for competitors to survive in. In their monopoly days, they used the monopoly to win mindshare and standards. So even if the government restricts them when it comes to tangible software issues, Microsoft is continuing to make tens of billions of dollars in profits off of the monopoly. Even if Microsoft isn't officially a monopoly anymore, the market still acts as if it is. I appreciate that Microsoft did the right thing in the right place at the right time. They "deserve" to reap profits for that. That's how business works. But that was in the late 80's/early 90's. That they are STILL reaping those profits today fueled by their impressions on the industry made 20 years ago is a good sign that the government shouldn't let Microsoft roam free.
I fail to see how a farming tower in the middle of a city will deprive "plebians" of sun any more than they already are by the rest of the skyscrapers. Isn't that why cities have parks anyway?
1. Not everybody who works in a city lives in the city. 2. I mean, air has to be pushed through the building doesn't it? Of course it would be mechanically filtered first, but that doesn't mean the plants can't filter the air like they normally would.
Why is the grid necessarily fossil fuel? I would hope that over time, we progressively replace gas fired and coal burning power plants with nuclear, wind power, and solar installations.
Wanna stop the world's population growth? Bring everybody's living standard up to the levels of the US and Western Europe. Seeing as that is unlikely to happen, maybe its time for you to drop that useless line of thinking. We're not going to be able to limit population growth any more than we can stop any other human impulse. Along those lines, we're not going to be able to stop people from driving their vehicles as far or using electronics as much. It is the burden of science and technology to find solutions to these problems.
Tons of user-friendly OSes? Can you please point them out to me?
You imply that Linux's "failure" is some sort of permanent state. All open source operating systems have gotten significantly easier to use over the past few years. We might not be able the point where the average joe can handle it, but we might be at the stage now where the average wannabe techie can. And all in all, both FreeBSD and derivatives, and Linux variants are generally getting easier to use. Open source operating systems are making great progress, so I'm not really sure where you are coming from.
What does that have to do with RHEL? It is designed to be a stable server platform. Your post has so little to do with the article, I'm going to need to ask you to RTFM.
If anybody here works in the Waltham PD, we want our cluster computer back that you confiscated after last year's bomb threat. Thanks.
Wasn't there an article a few months ago about how BSOD's will no longer be just blue. I saw a screenshot of a red one.
http://home.att.net/~1.elliott/JOEKITTINGER.HTML "On August 16, 1960, Captain Joe Kittinger jumped from a huge helium balloon at a height of 102,800 feet, almost 20 miles above the earth! Captain Kittinger fell for a full 4 minutes, 36 seconds." http://www.thatvideosite.com/view/1164.html
Perhaps AOL will finally realize that they are the cause of the downfall of the english language. Perhaps, in an attempt to revive the floundering idiom, they will append their terms of service: i) The use of "1337 speak" is prohibited in any and all conversation windows. Failure to comply is punishable by ban. ii) The use of smiley faces (":)") are prohibited from any and all conversation windows. Failure to comply is punishable by ban. iii) The use of the warn button will result in a virus infecting your computer through the backdoors you installed with our software; thanks :)