attempting to fit working programs into 4, 8, or even a glorious 16 kilobytes of RAM, was an art form that no one has had to practice in more than 30 years.
You know, there are still some of us who routinely develop software for controllers in weather probes, dive computers, GPS chips, and so on... there definitely are times where 16 kilobytes is glorious.
I'm being attacked by botnet zombies and sent spam constantly. Practically all of the zombies behind them are Win OS machines. If people choosing to use Win OS cause constant headache to me, then yes, I think it's plausible to see why I'd want to punish those people for their choice of OS.
For now, I've just blacklisted comcast, half of china, and a couple of smaller countries in my DSL router firewall.
And large airports. The airport crew in some European airports use Segways for getting to and fro. IMHO works better than the golf-carts they used to use (and still use for lugging stuff and disabled people around).
So if this isn't predictive, what is? Would you rather they develop an algorithm that identifies blacklist-worthy addresses before they make their first attack?
I invented just such a thing. I blocked the entire comcast network and a couple of big Chinese ISPs in my DSL firewall. Reduced ssh login attempts and spam significantly.
Predictive - very.
Collateral victims - nobody I'd care about.
The last time I've needed to touch windows was xp some years ago, when the IPv6 add-on package was mostly for entertainment purposes. It's good to hear it's improved to something usable.
This is good news. The IPv6 transition must happen in stages, the whole world cannot convert at the same time. In order to beat the chicken-and-egg problem, someone simply has to go first.
Deploy IPv6-capable infrastructure to area X (which has now provably happened for a good part of US)
Update all clients to IPv6 capable systems (i.e., junk Windows)
Notice that you can't access any services, since the services do not support IPv6
Bitch at Google, and install intermediate IPv6-IPv4 gateways
And people find Google, how exactly? Because the little elves carry the query bits through to the magical search engine, using their elvish-GPS-gizmos for guidance in the Intertubes?
Methinks you meant "arcanym", as a clever pun towards TLDs being arcane acronyms. Possibly just "acronym". But "Acranym" just screams some kind of disorder, sorry.
Hmm. I am the head nerd (CTO) in a company of utter nerds, do dorky RPG (also the occasional dress-up) as a hobby, but I'm also married to this really hot blonde (yes, really!). Gnork?
This might work for a corporate environment. But how will PC users in home environments know what to put on a whitelist and what not to put on a whitelist?
If your security works, nothing happens. So it's easy to say that money is "wasted". If the security doesn't work, the problem is a little more obvious.
True story: our office building had a long standing contract with a rat exterminator. We had never seen a rat while we had been there (a few years), so we ended the contract. In three months, guess what? Rats. The rat catchers' contract was immediately renewed.
I guess the difference to the referred-to Windows world is, that our solution actually solved the problem.
And this would scale to global customers, how exactly? Chinese or Swedish or maybe Australian buyers paying average-US-state sales tax on their purchases?
If something like this (the NY solution, or parent's) gets implemented for real, then online vendors will simply move out of the US to the land of the (tax-)free.
It's internet commerce. Any solution needs to be globally viable, or it will be doomed to silliness. This is also why it's going to be darn difficult to solve.
You can cite me: our company has moved 80% mac since 2004. That resulted in 50% cut of IT support personnel, because there simply isn't that much to do. And 80% of the work for the remaining IT support personnel is dealing with the remaining 20% of Windows installations (most of which are a few experts' desk/laptop machines).
I also did not wear a watch for a decade just for that reason - the mobile phone is always with me. But then I started scuba diving and couldn't find a mobile phone that could withstand the pressure of 30 meters of water, or sport a simple-to-use 1-hour timer... *sigh*
(A free hint to all you mobile phone developers out there, let's see someone combine a dive comp and a phone already!;-)
...and by the time you posted this, Chuck had already exacted his chilling revenge. For what are we in the Intertubes, except our avatars, which in./ means our usernames. What else do we have except our username, and our dignity?
The latter you dealt with with the Bruce Willis reference. And, ahem, have you noticed your username recently? Sorry, dude... never cross the Chuck.
... handcuffing customers to MS Office is the source of their income and power. All else (windows monopoly, etc) follows.
<rant>Which just sucks golfballs. I recently installed Office 2008 for the Mac. Universal binaries and all, made me expect improvements. Silly me - what a stinking pile of dog poop! As slow as the f*cking runtime-translated powerpc-binary-2004, buggy to no end (ate several files already, while I'm on a hard deadline), the interface has been changed where it makes no sense (the templates etc drop-down section) - but unchanged where it should have been fixed (native scroll bars in most controls). ARRRGH!!
I actually tried to build OOo so that I could try to fix the handling of tables in headers/footers (which is the main show-stopper for our company for using OOo). Too bad the mac native version isn't up to snuff yet (in too many ways for someone to just quickly fix)./rant>
But one does have to hand it to Microsoft. Well played.
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this is naval gazing and conjecture, no more credible than Intelligent Design.
Hmm, I would quite expect that any naval endeavour would have some intelligent design behind it.
It might not have been pretty, but it was stable since the Pleistocene.
Damn, you made me feel my age. I was in the university in the same OS courses as Linus...
attempting to fit working programs into 4, 8, or even a glorious 16 kilobytes of RAM, was an art form that no one has had to practice in more than 30 years.
You know, there are still some of us who routinely develop software for controllers in weather probes, dive computers, GPS chips, and so on... there definitely are times where 16 kilobytes is glorious.
I'm being attacked by botnet zombies and sent spam constantly. Practically all of the zombies behind them are Win OS machines. If people choosing to use Win OS cause constant headache to me, then yes, I think it's plausible to see why I'd want to punish those people for their choice of OS.
For now, I've just blacklisted comcast, half of china, and a couple of smaller countries in my DSL router firewall.
And large airports. The airport crew in some European airports use Segways for getting to and fro. IMHO works better than the golf-carts they used to use (and still use for lugging stuff and disabled people around).
314159 is conveniently the region-unlock remote code for most LG DVD players.
Maybe if it was a very small dress...
"But he had no union with her until she gave birth to a son"
Obvious. The mailman did it.
TCP/IIP?
So if this isn't predictive, what is? Would you rather they develop an algorithm that identifies blacklist-worthy addresses before they make their first attack?
I invented just such a thing. I blocked the entire comcast network and a couple of big Chinese ISPs in my DSL firewall. Reduced ssh login attempts and spam significantly.
Predictive - very.
Collateral victims - nobody I'd care about.
Actually, for Mac OS X it's even simpler, as screen comes with the base OS:
mymac:~ username$ which screen
/usr/bin/screen
Nah, just clueless :)
The last time I've needed to touch windows was xp some years ago, when the IPv6 add-on package was mostly for entertainment purposes. It's good to hear it's improved to something usable.
This is good news. The IPv6 transition must happen in stages, the whole world cannot convert at the same time. In order to beat the chicken-and-egg problem, someone simply has to go first.
And people find Google, how exactly? Because the little elves carry the query bits through to the magical search engine, using their elvish-GPS-gizmos for guidance in the Intertubes?
Methinks you meant "arcanym", as a clever pun towards TLDs being arcane acronyms. Possibly just "acronym". But "Acranym" just screams some kind of disorder, sorry.
And, uh, gesundheit?
Hmm. I am the head nerd (CTO) in a company of utter nerds, do dorky RPG (also the occasional dress-up) as a hobby, but I'm also married to this really hot blonde (yes, really!). Gnork?
If you had scripts doing the dirty work, you could run them in a loop and not need a life.
This might work for a corporate environment. But how will PC users in home environments know what to put on a whitelist and what not to put on a whitelist?
Why, iexplore.exe. Isn't that all you need?
If your security works, nothing happens. So it's easy to say that money is "wasted". If the security doesn't work, the problem is a little more obvious.
True story: our office building had a long standing contract with a rat exterminator. We had never seen a rat while we had been there (a few years), so we ended the contract. In three months, guess what? Rats. The rat catchers' contract was immediately renewed.
I guess the difference to the referred-to Windows world is, that our solution actually solved the problem.
And this would scale to global customers, how exactly? Chinese or Swedish or maybe Australian buyers paying average-US-state sales tax on their purchases?
If something like this (the NY solution, or parent's) gets implemented for real, then online vendors will simply move out of the US to the land of the (tax-)free.
It's internet commerce. Any solution needs to be globally viable, or it will be doomed to silliness. This is also why it's going to be darn difficult to solve.
You can cite me: our company has moved 80% mac since 2004. That resulted in 50% cut of IT support personnel, because there simply isn't that much to do. And 80% of the work for the remaining IT support personnel is dealing with the remaining 20% of Windows installations (most of which are a few experts' desk/laptop machines).
I also did not wear a watch for a decade just for that reason - the mobile phone is always with me. But then I started scuba diving and couldn't find a mobile phone that could withstand the pressure of 30 meters of water, or sport a simple-to-use 1-hour timer... *sigh*
(A free hint to all you mobile phone developers out there, let's see someone combine a dive comp and a phone already! ;-)
...and by the time you posted this, Chuck had already exacted his chilling revenge. For what are we in the Intertubes, except our avatars, which in ./ means our usernames. What else do we have except our username, and our dignity?
The latter you dealt with with the Bruce Willis reference. And, ahem, have you noticed your username recently? Sorry, dude... never cross the Chuck.
... handcuffing customers to MS Office is the source of their income and power. All else (windows monopoly, etc) follows.<rant>Which just sucks golfballs. I recently installed Office 2008 for the Mac. Universal binaries and all, made me expect improvements. Silly me - what a stinking pile of dog poop! As slow as the f*cking runtime-translated powerpc-binary-2004, buggy to no end (ate several files already, while I'm on a hard deadline), the interface has been changed where it makes no sense (the templates etc drop-down section) - but unchanged where it should have been fixed (native scroll bars in most controls). ARRRGH!!
I actually tried to build OOo so that I could try to fix the handling of tables in headers/footers (which is the main show-stopper for our company for using OOo). Too bad the mac native version isn't up to snuff yet (in too many ways for someone to just quickly fix)./rant>
But one does have to hand it to Microsoft. Well played.
I consider NFS to be the devil. If given the choice, I'll choose a different protocol every time.
So you use a random file system protocol?