"The major distinction between fantasy and science fiction is, simply, that science fiction uses one, or a very, very few new postulates, and develops the rigidly consistent logical consequences of these limited postulates. Fantasy makes its rules as it goes along...The basic nature of fantasy is "The only rule is, make up a new rule any time you need one!" The basic rule of science fiction is "Set up a basic proposition--then develop its consistent, logical consequences."
-- John Campbell, 1966
"'Hard' science fiction... probes alternative possible futures by means of reasoned extrapolations in much the same way that good historical fiction reconstructs the probable past. Even far-out fantasy can present a significant test of human values exposed to a new environment. Deriving its most cogent ideas from the tension between permanence and change, science fiction combines the diversions of novelty with its pertinent kind of realism."
-- Jack Williamson
A handy short definition of almost all science fiction might read: realistic speculation about possible future events, based solidly on adequate knowledge of the real world, past and present, and on a thorough understanding of the nature and significance of the scientific method.
To make this definition cover all science fiction (instead of "almost all") it is necessary only to strike out the word "future."
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Saw it last night. The Matrix was a great movie and it certainly has things that this one does not. They are two different kinds of film. The Matrix was a American SF/action film made with the highest standards. That puts The Matrix up against films like The Phantom Menace and The 6th Day.
This movie however is a Chinese Martial Arts/Drama. There are no SF concepts in this movie except that people who learn martial-arts get super-abilities. <P>Now, if you want to just limit your comparision to the cheoreography and shooting of action sequences.. maybe we can make some educated statements. I can tell you that during both movies the fighting had me dropping my jaw and going WOW! I was amazed by the fighting last night at least as much as I was while watching the Matrix.
The problem with this comparision is that no great movie can live by action alone. CTHD focused on people who were not really evil, but who were not really good either. While watching them fight you have an internal debate as to who you actually want to win. You begin to fear that anyone could win... because it means the death of someone else who you care about. I would say that Ang Lee did a better job of making me fear for the character's lives here. <P> I would also say that Michelle Yeoh actually acts in this movie as if it were a drama. She is so full of hope and fear and strength making her character one of the most insteresting female roles I've seen in a long time.
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This is worse than the mindcraft stuff. This is essentially a press release. they refer some databases as just "a leading propeitary database". What are they afriad to say Oracle or something? Lets see actual results, this press release doesn't move me at all. --
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Part of what you say is true and part of what you say isn't. But the fact remains that if you break Crapistan's laws, then Crapistan may fine you or throw you in jail.
If you give a shit about Crapistan's laws and the results of breaking them, then you are going to have to find some way of filtering what you send to that country. Intentionally breaking the law is another option. It's just not a very good option for large companies who do business in Crapistan. --
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God, the number of clueless posts here is amazing. Here go a couple clues to work with people.
1) National laws apply when a crime is commited inside of nation.
2) The only way the internet can affect a national law is if the transaction occurs across national boundaries.
3) If you're going to do international transactions you have to obey all applicable laws for each nation involved.
My personal opinion is that if Yahoo can't work with French laws, then they shouldn't have any business dealings there.
Secondly I think it's obvious that E-Commerce sites like are going to have to implement a form territory restrictions to ensure that they don't sell material which is banned in certain territories. This is not that big a deal, these companies need to respect the law of whatever country the customer is in. --
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What you say might be true if PKD didn't have input into the script and movie.
PKD had siginificat input into the movie and was pleased with the script.
Further if you look at how PKD took his own stories and rewrote them (ie radio free albemuth vs valis) then blade runner is a fitting adaptation.. the way he would have done it. -- Be insightful. If you can't be insightful, be informative. If you can't be informative, use my name
What a dumbass you are. I've read the 100 posts your put up at score 2, and they don't amount to a hill of beans.
I bet you think that SAT scores measure intelligence. It's a classical mistake to think that intelligence is the ability to do math or speak. The difference you describe between comprehension and learned rote response is meaningless in the fashion you use it.
Comprehension is the act of grasping the nature of something. Intelligence is the capacity to acquire and apply knowledge. Comprehension is not required for intelligence. Also, intelligence is not distinguished by the manner something was taught. The error you make in your posts is in assuming it matter how this was learned. It makes no differnce if an animal learns by trial and error, positive reinforcement, or any other means. When you speak of intelligence you must be talking about the ability to learn, anything else is meaningless.
Here go a few things to look for in determining intelligence of a creature.
1) Ability to use tools. It's second nature for a human to use a club to beat someone with. Primates and other animals use tools to different degrees. The animal described here is able to twist/push/pull on knobs to get a desired result. By any measure this shows intelligence.
2) Ability to put actions together to make new ones. The parrot here appears to make plans in the form of chains of actions and act on them. This appears very simple but it's the best we can get out of it so far.
3) Memory... I can't remember what I was going to say for this one.
4) Ability to communicate. This is of course a complicated issue. Although parrots can simulate speach, actually talking to a parrot is not always meaningful communication. But speach is not the only form of communication that exists in our world. For instance humans communicate through artwork and ceremony. This experiment is interesting because it opens up a new way to communicate, namely through the usage of tools. In this experiment the bird is able to communicate its desire for a treat. That is a form of intelligence.
No one is claiming the bird is as smart as a human. What they are claiming is that in some measures of intelligence it could match up with a child. I don't find anything shocking in that. I'm sure a smart mouse can beat a todler at certain memory tests. -- Be insightful. If you can't be insightful, be informative. If you can't be informative, use my name
Sorry, but I fail to be appalled by the government suing these companies.
We pay a hell of a lot of taxes to medicare. Much of this money goes toward helping out middle class and poor people who smoked and smoked and smoked. Yeah I know they are suckers but because of the way medicare is set up we have to pay for their mistakes. I fully support trying to get big tabbacco to pay for what they have done.
Guns are a similiar case. Somehow these guns make it into criminals hands. Is it the governments responsibilty to pass more and more laws making it more difficult to get guns? That isn't going to work. I say try to make companies responsible for their actions. Make these gun makers o everything in their power to make sure their guns are not given to illegal arms dealers.
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`Battlefield Earth' is a Sci/Fi film like no other. From the opening, you're sucked into a fantastical world unto itself, with dark images of giants pitted against the last survivors of the human race. Reminiscent of `Planet of the Apes', with man -- stripped of technology and thrown back to his roots -- `Battlefield Earth' is an epic adventure the whole family will enjoy. Not your run-of-the-mill science fiction film, it delves into man's age old quest for knowledge and the delicate balance of technology versus nature. If you liked the novel, you'll love the movie with its visually stunning and unique approach to the material. It takes Hubbard's characters and colors them with the 21st century in sleek costume designs and state-of-the-art make-up effects. John Travolta as the Psychlo villain looms before us, employing humor in his evil antics so effectively it will make your skin crawl. Barry Pepper proves to be an engaging and likable hero, leading the enslaved humans in a winner-take-all battle for the planet. `Battlefield Earth' is a great escape from the summer heat!
Vivian Schilling Author, Actress and Screenwriter
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Like many other people in the media, Jon Katz profits from these sensational killings. I don't mean that he's paid some amount in cash every time something like this happens. Ratherhis writting about these deaths is something that improves his social standing, his reputation, and his fame. This is later translated into cash when he writes on other subjects for pay.
By no means is he alone in doing this. To some degree every media person who does in depth stories about this stuff is guilty as well. Personally I think it is the moral equivalent of Yellow Journalism. In the same way that newspapers profitted from reporting war in the 1800's, broadcasters in the 2000's profit from every "killer kid".
To some degree each of us should make an ethical decision as to if this is right or not.
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The simplest definition for a server is: "A server is something that responds to a client's requests." Calling something a server only makes sense when you are using something like a "client/server" metaphor. A "file server" is a specific kind of server which might behave in the way you describe.
In any case, it is certainly correct to say that any computer on the internet is a server of some fashion. The TCP/IP uses a peer to peer metaphor in which each peer could be described as a server and a client at the same time.
Saying a server is a something that will send a file to any computer that simply requests it does not capture what a server is.
The previous definition does not work because it is possible to make a server which does not send files but sends something else.. it could be messages, it could be signals, it could be absolutely anything.
Saying something is a server because it makes no distinction between "anyone" and a limited a set of computers also makes no sense. It is a simple matter to construct a server which only sends messages to a limited set of locations.
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It's pretty easy to think that way... the problem is that this doesn't help anyone. Amazon's laywers will just see it as proof they need to agressively use their IP. It makes the high tech field into a prisoners game, where people have no reason to help out a neighbor because
Reading the headline I barely surpresse a chuckle, as I was thinking pretty much the same thing. As I read further it just makes me sad. Many people share this common belief that we can uplift our situation and make things better using technology. It saddens me to think how much hard work and money will instead be devoted just working around these trivial patents. How ironic that the patent system was designed to help industry move forward and is now the biggest threat to forward progress there is.
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Everyone else had this posted this morning. Same for the Russian astronauts. I've noticed this happening with a lot of posts lately and I'm curious why Slashdot is so slow to post articles these days. This is interesting because a year or two back Slashdot was famous for being the fastest on the draw. The number of readers and editors has gone up so you would think it should be even faster nowdays. Is it because so many junk articles are submitted? Is it because the editors are now actually confirming press releases with companies like IBM? Is it because this article would have been rejected but the sheer number of submissions made Hemos change his mind? -- Be insightful. If you can't be insightful, be informative. If you can't be informative, use my name
PKD once said that reality is what remains even after you don't believe in it. That might take a couple reads to make sense.. but when you think about it all of our knowledge and beliefs are nothing more than assumptions. The only things we can actually be aware of are assumptions which are in the process of being proved wrong.
One critical failing of many attempts at defining the world through symbolic calculus and other logicial mathematics is an inability to work in more than one way, they all exhibit inflexibility and brittelness to varing degrees. This is because they all share the common design that there is a set of "truths" and "untruths" which can be maintained to describe reality. They all have different methods of generating this system of truths and maintaining it. They all utilimately fail. Although many philosophers and mathematicians will disagree with me I think it's because our reality is not defined by any set of truths.. I think they are wrong and PKD is right. The fundamental problem in developing a more human like program is developing a model of reality that works. -- Be insightful. If you can't be insightful, be informative. If you can't be informative, use my name
Hey slashdot I have a question for you: which CPU will serve my web pages fastest?
You can't answer that can you... you need to know what kind of web pages I'm talking about.. what kind of web server I have, what OS, etc..
In a simliar way this "ask slashdot" question is broken. When kind of "high end math", what kind of "real-time" as we talking about?
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I read this article and spent some time thinking about it. My reaction? The article is full of FUD.
He concludes that Linux needs software that stops virii in it's tracks, despite the facvt he says earlier there are no serious virii for Linux yet. Kinda like saying we need to develop weapons which can defeat godzilla even tho we haven't ever really seen him yet. Right!!!
he says we are vulnerable because people download, compile and install things as root. But really hat percentage of people do this? How could it amount to a plague?
In reality there are two ways to get a linux plague. 1) another internet worm is created and 2) someone making a distribution puts one in there.
Instead of talking about software to protect against exploits which don't exist why not address these two very real threats.
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We had moved the Class Documents to the members only area, but have replaced them in the developers site. Sorry to have stirred up such commotion. This was definitely not calculated to shut down independent development.
Darn it! Just when I had gotten my panties all into a bunch over this, you tell me it was all about nothing!! I had this really great flame of you, your mother, and your home town all typed up and ready to go. But Noooooo, you have to go and inject useful discussion onto my personal flame-board, Slashdot.
Oh well... I have to find something else to do, like look through the list of patents granted today or use the search engines to find out if anybody said something negative about Linux today.
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Wpoliticians collecting more and more money over the internet you'd think they would pass more clueful laws about it. -- Be insightful. If you can't be insightful, be informative. If you can't be informative, use my name
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This movie however is a Chinese Martial Arts/Drama. There are no SF concepts in this movie except that people who learn martial-arts get super-abilities. <P>Now, if you want to just limit your comparision to the cheoreography and shooting of action sequences.. maybe we can make some educated statements. I can tell you that during both movies the fighting had me dropping my jaw and going WOW! I was amazed by the fighting last night at least as much as I was while watching the Matrix.
The problem with this comparision is that no great movie can live by action alone. CTHD focused on people who were not really evil, but who were not really good either. While watching them fight you have an internal debate as to who you actually want to win. You begin to fear that anyone could win... because it means the death of someone else who you care about. I would say that Ang Lee did a better job of making me fear for the character's lives here. <P> I would also say that Michelle Yeoh actually acts in this movie as if it were a drama. She is so full of hope and fear and strength making her character one of the most insteresting female roles I've seen in a long time.
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Parabon is working on the "compute against cancer" project.
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This is worse than the mindcraft stuff. This is essentially a press release. they refer some databases as just "a leading propeitary database". What are they afriad to say Oracle or something? Lets see actual results, this press release doesn't move me at all.
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Part of what you say is true and part of what you say isn't. But the fact remains that if you break Crapistan's laws, then Crapistan may fine you or throw you in jail.
If you give a shit about Crapistan's laws and the results of breaking them, then you are going to have to find some way of filtering what you send to that country. Intentionally breaking the law is another option. It's just not a very good option for large companies who do business in Crapistan.
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God, the number of clueless posts here is amazing. Here go a couple clues to work with people.
1) National laws apply when a crime is commited inside of nation.
2) The only way the internet can affect a national law is if the transaction occurs across national boundaries.
3) If you're going to do international transactions you have to obey all applicable laws for each nation involved.
My personal opinion is that if Yahoo can't work with French laws, then they shouldn't have any business dealings there.
Secondly I think it's obvious that E-Commerce sites like are going to have to implement a form territory restrictions to ensure that they don't sell material which is banned in certain territories. This is not that big a deal, these companies need to respect the law of whatever country the customer is in.
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Looks like this script kiddie is turning his attention on to other sites using scoop as well.
Although I didn't see any problems on it earlier this week, Scoop.kuro5hin.org has been under attack all day.
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scoop.kuro5hin.org is now under atteck by the spammer. All of the comment threads have garbage in them. Anybody using the scoop engire should look out because it looks like the spammer is moving on to other sites as well.
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Moderator admits to smoking crack!
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What you say might be true if PKD didn't have input into the script and movie.
PKD had siginificat input into the movie and was pleased with the script.
Further if you look at how PKD took his own stories and rewrote them (ie radio free albemuth vs valis) then blade runner is a fitting adaptation.. the way he would have done it.
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What a dumbass you are. I've read the 100 posts your put up at score 2, and they don't amount to a hill of beans.
... I can't remember what I was going to say for this one.
I bet you think that SAT scores measure intelligence. It's a classical mistake to think that intelligence is the ability to do math or speak. The difference you describe between comprehension and learned rote response is meaningless in the fashion you use it.
Comprehension is the act of grasping the nature of something. Intelligence is the capacity to acquire and apply knowledge. Comprehension is not required for intelligence. Also, intelligence is not distinguished by the manner something was taught. The error you make in your posts is in assuming it matter how this was learned. It makes no differnce if an animal learns by trial and error, positive reinforcement, or any other means. When you speak of intelligence you must be talking about the ability to learn, anything else is meaningless.
Here go a few things to look for in determining intelligence of a creature.
1) Ability to use tools. It's second nature for a human to use a club to beat someone with. Primates and other animals use tools to different degrees. The animal described here is able to twist/push/pull on knobs to get a desired result. By any measure this shows intelligence.
2) Ability to put actions together to make new ones. The parrot here appears to make plans in the form of chains of actions and act on them. This appears very simple but it's the best we can get out of it so far.
3) Memory
4) Ability to communicate. This is of course a complicated issue. Although parrots can simulate speach, actually talking to a parrot is not always meaningful communication. But speach is not the only form of communication that exists in our world. For instance humans communicate through artwork and ceremony. This experiment is interesting because it opens up a new way to communicate, namely through the usage of tools. In this experiment the bird is able to communicate its desire for a treat. That is a form of intelligence.
No one is claiming the bird is as smart as a human. What they are claiming is that in some measures of intelligence it could match up with a child. I don't find anything shocking in that. I'm sure a smart mouse can beat a todler at certain memory tests.
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Sorry, but I fail to be appalled by the government suing these companies.
We pay a hell of a lot of taxes to medicare. Much of this money goes toward helping out middle class and poor people who smoked and smoked and smoked. Yeah I know they are suckers but because of the way medicare is set up we have to pay for their mistakes. I fully support trying to get big tabbacco to pay for what they have done.
Guns are a similiar case. Somehow these guns make it into criminals hands. Is it the governments responsibilty to pass more and more laws making it more difficult to get guns? That isn't going to work. I say try to make companies responsible for their actions. Make these gun makers o everything in their power to make sure their guns are not given to illegal arms dealers.
Our litigation system is messed up in that it allows you to do this. But that's the way it works. Might as well use it that way.
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This review by Vivian Schilling:
`Battlefield Earth' is a Sci/Fi film like no other. From the opening, you're sucked into a fantastical world unto itself, with dark images of giants pitted against the last survivors of the human race. Reminiscent of `Planet of the Apes', with man -- stripped of technology and thrown back to his roots -- `Battlefield Earth' is an epic adventure the whole family will enjoy. Not your run-of-the-mill science fiction film, it delves into man's age old quest for knowledge and the delicate balance of technology versus nature. If you liked the novel, you'll love the movie with its visually stunning and unique approach to the material. It takes Hubbard's characters and colors them with the 21st century in sleek costume designs and state-of-the-art make-up effects. John Travolta as the Psychlo villain looms before us, employing humor in his evil antics so effectively it will make your skin crawl. Barry Pepper proves to be an engaging and likable hero, leading the enslaved humans in a winner-take-all battle for the planet. `Battlefield Earth' is a great escape from the summer heat!
Vivian Schilling Author, Actress and Screenwriter
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That would be a fate worse than death!
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I think it is unethical to profit from another's misery. Reporting deaths and killing is one thing, but building your career on it is going too far.
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Like many other people in the media, Jon Katz profits from these sensational killings. I don't mean that he's paid some amount in cash every time something like this happens. Ratherhis writting about these deaths is something that improves his social standing, his reputation, and his fame. This is later translated into cash when he writes on other subjects for pay.
By no means is he alone in doing this. To some degree every media person who does in depth stories about this stuff is guilty as well. Personally I think it is the moral equivalent of Yellow Journalism. In the same way that newspapers profitted from reporting war in the 1800's, broadcasters in the 2000's profit from every "killer kid".
To some degree each of us should make an ethical decision as to if this is right or not.
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Sorry, the above post is not correct.
The simplest definition for a server is:
"A server is something that responds to a client's requests." Calling something a server only makes sense when you are using something like a "client/server" metaphor. A "file server" is a specific kind of server which might behave in the way you describe.
In any case, it is certainly correct to say that any computer on the internet is a server of some fashion. The TCP/IP uses a peer to peer metaphor in which each peer could be described as a server and a client at the same time.
Saying a server is a something that will send a file to any computer that simply requests it does not capture what a server is.
The previous definition does not work because it is possible to make a server which does not send files but sends something else.. it could be messages, it could be signals, it could be absolutely anything.
Saying something is a server because it makes no distinction between "anyone" and a limited a set of computers also makes no sense. It is a simple matter to construct a server which only sends messages to a limited set of locations.
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It's pretty easy to think that way... the problem is that this doesn't help anyone. Amazon's laywers will just see it as proof they need to agressively use their IP. It makes the high tech field into a prisoners game, where people have no reason to help out a neighbor because
Reading the headline I barely surpresse a chuckle, as I was thinking pretty much the same thing. As I read further it just makes me sad. Many people share this common belief that we can uplift our situation and make things better using technology. It saddens me to think how much hard work and money will instead be devoted just working around these trivial patents. How ironic that the patent system was designed to help industry move forward and is now the biggest threat to forward progress there is.
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Everyone else had this posted this morning. Same for the Russian astronauts. I've noticed this happening with a lot of posts lately and I'm curious why Slashdot is so slow to post articles these days. This is interesting because a year or two back Slashdot was famous for being the fastest on the draw. The number of readers and editors has gone up so you would think it should be even faster nowdays. Is it because so many junk articles are submitted? Is it because the editors are now actually confirming press releases with companies like IBM? Is it because this article would have been rejected but the sheer number of submissions made Hemos change his mind?
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PKD once said that reality is what remains even after you don't believe in it. That might take a couple reads to make sense.. but when you think about it all of our knowledge and beliefs are nothing more than assumptions. The only things we can actually be aware of are assumptions which are in the process of being proved wrong.
One critical failing of many attempts at defining the world through symbolic calculus and other logicial mathematics is an inability to work in more than one way, they all exhibit inflexibility and brittelness to varing degrees. This is because they all share the common design that there is a set of "truths" and "untruths" which can be maintained to describe reality. They all have different methods of generating this system of truths and maintaining it. They all utilimately fail. Although many philosophers and mathematicians will disagree with me I think it's because our reality is not defined by any set of truths.. I think they are wrong and PKD is right. The fundamental problem in developing a more human like program is developing a model of reality that works.
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Hey slashdot I have a question for you: which CPU will serve my web pages fastest?
You can't answer that can you... you need to know what kind of web pages I'm talking about.. what kind of web server I have, what OS, etc..
In a simliar way this "ask slashdot" question is broken. When kind of "high end math", what kind of "real-time" as we talking about?
In general you OS and driving program matter a lot more than anything else for real time. Real Time almost always means not running as fast a s possible.. instead it means running at a predictable rate.
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I read this article and spent some time thinking about it. My reaction? The article is full of FUD.
He concludes that Linux needs software that stops virii in it's tracks, despite the facvt he says earlier there are no serious virii for Linux yet.
Kinda like saying we need to develop weapons which can defeat godzilla even tho we haven't ever really seen him yet. Right!!!
he says we are vulnerable because people download, compile and install things as root. But really hat percentage of people do this? How could it amount to a plague?
In reality there are two ways to get a linux plague. 1) another internet worm is created and 2) someone making a distribution puts one in there.
Instead of talking about software to protect against exploits which don't exist why not address these two very real threats.
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Darn it! Just when I had gotten my panties all into a bunch over this, you tell me it was all about nothing!! I had this really great flame of you, your mother, and your home town all typed up and ready to go. But Noooooo, you have to go and inject useful discussion onto my personal flame-board, Slashdot.
Oh well... I have to find something else to do, like look through the list of patents granted today or use the search engines to find out if anybody said something negative about Linux today.
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This does seem off topic
Wpoliticians collecting more and more money over the internet you'd think they would pass more clueful laws about it.
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