If nothing else, requiring a password before installing an app will solve most of the "naked pictures of celebrity" emails.
Actually, I don't think that's too important. Even non-superusers can be used to spread viruses and that's all that a virus needs. IMHO, the largest factor is that big WTF that is the exe. The idea that you can make a file executable by changing it's name is just wrong. On top of that, by just clicking on the file, your executing whatever code is in there! This is how all viruses that require user interaction spread. The rest have to spread via vulns, which is difficult.
I know there was no harm meant, but I see comments like this all the time, and they're no more helpful than all the adolecent slashdoters who go on about MS being teh (sic) gay.
The myth that christianity and science are at odds is really unfortunate, particularly because it is being propogated by people who really ought to know better (both on the christian and the secular side). I don't really what the arguing is about. Evolution on a cosmic level has never been observed and it's not much more than an educated guess. Even if it was, evolution isn't contrary to the Christian belief (this is where those 'Creation Scientists' are wrong). The Genesis creation story is a story, it's not an historical account, it was never meant to be*. You won't really understand Genesis 1-2 unless you understand the historical context they were written in.
* note: I didn't say it was nessicarily false. The the historical accuracy this this case is not relevant to the story. There are deeper messages there, ones that can not be proved by scientific measurements.
Yes, but a platform should work for you, not against you. ASP.NET was an attempt to make web applications look like desktop applications. It's failure is that it succeded.
And don't get me started on doPostback() or whatever that inane 'lets use links for forms and break every single fricking thing about HTTP!!"
This kind of comment is about as usefull as C programers complaining that scripted languages like python and such were only mimicing compiled languages and doing it badly (because they were slow). Hypertext, Semantics, and Rest — the ideas the web is built around — are really, really cool. So why does the web seem so clunky? Here's some explainations.
The world is full of bad programmers and designers. The web is probably even worse because it has suffered the fate of way too much hype.
Web browers are pretty bad. There are a few really nice ones. But most of the popular ones all have issues. Firefox is probably my favorite, but it still has way too much bagage laying around from Netscape. I think web browsers have a lot of room for improvment, which is good news. Also browser developers tend to do retarded and inane things to try and stomp out competition. Think <blink>, ActiveX, the list goes on.
HTML necromancy. HTML is old, and it's starting to stink, yet people still cling to it. XHTML is 6 years old already, and it is quite mature. This delay is caused mostly by Internet Explorer and lazy developers.
Standards support. Again this follows with the browsers suck part. The standards drawn up by the W3C are awesome. I love DOM, CSS, and SVG. The problem is that the implementations are so bad that they're a real pain to use in real life.
I believe the web as a platform has amazing potential, if gready people would stop hijacking it. Comparing it to regular applications on a computer is comparing apples and oranges. One of the greatest things about REST is of it's client neutraity. In short, if you have a properly done web application. You should be able to have a web interface to it, or create a traditional GTK app in C that interfaces with it, or whatever you want, that way you can get the best of both worlds.
1. I definitly don't ignore flaws in GNU/Linux software, I run promptly off and patch them. As for Windows flaws, I find them quite interesting because they're usually not just a regular typo kind of flaw but something more deep in the archetecture, they kind that I want to learn to avoid as a budding computer programmer. Plus I'm a Windows sysadmin and so these will quite possibly affect me personally
2. I've actually never yelled anything on slashdot ( by yelling, I'm assuming you mean typing with caps on)
3. I have one penis, that is enough. Thank you.
4. I don't hate windows, it's more of a strong distaste, like the feeling I have for asparagus. Also, you'll never see me spending money on windows emulation software. I've played with Wine to get IE to work in Linux, but that is because I'm a web developer and I need to test stuff, not because I enjoy that travesty.
5. I'm not quite sure what this means, but I have it on good authority that several large bussinesses use it on there desktops. Nasa is one example, Ibm is moving there, and I think European companies have a dispropotionatly large number of deployments.
6. I don't know any linux user who would be ashamed that people don't know what linux is. It's a bug, but were working on it. https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/1
7. Somebody else alreay spoke to this.
8. Are kids masochists for playing with Legos for hours on ends? I do this because I enjoy it. If you don't there are many distros that do not require that sort of thing.
9. Funny, I saw an artical in newsforge about a professional publisher that used about half linux, half windows.
10. I know nothing about video editing, don't really care either.
11. Depends on what you mean. For the 'gamer' types (you know who you are) that is true. It's the main reason I still have a copy of windows. For most people I don't think that's too much of an issue. As for educational software, there's plenty for Linux.
12. I actually find this more true of windows users that linux users.
13. These lunatics are probably smarter than you or I will ever be. And I don't think any one where has a problem with clicking. It's just really inefficient for some tasks.
14. Yes, and your statement was incredibly factual. Pot, meet kettle.
15. I'm deeply confused what 'gentoo', 'lgx', and 'rpm' have to do with tenageers.
16. I'm actually quite happy with win32codecs.
17. No I'm starting to think your post should have been modded funny.
18. I'm not much of an office user, but OpenOffice works quite fine for me. I love the pdf export option, and it's equation writting capabilities suit me well as a math student. Sure it has a few issues, but I like it better than MS Office.
19. I've never had problems with recording in Gnome. It's increadiby easy too.
20. I have a CD-RW, DVD R/RW and it can read and write both CDs and DVD fine in linux.
21. I didn't need any 3rd party software to use X. To get good graphic accelleration I needed the non-free fglrx driver. But the same would be true in Windows.
22. I'm not a usenet user. But I do find emails from Outlook users with their tiny blue fonts annoying so I can sympatise.
23. Did I miss something? What happened to IBM, Redhat, Novel, HP, and several other large companies.
24. Thats fine with me. I'll continue to give my money to the companies that stay.
25. I'm not an authourity on the issue. But I've heard that the Windows one would be better off to be non-existant too.
26. I've set up Windows about 150 times now. It takes about 3-5 hours to get the computer into a state were it is ready to use. (this includes patching, and installing important software like a real web browser, office software, a firewall, AV, etc). An Ubuntu install is about 1 hour.
27. All my usb stuff Just Works(tm). Same with my brother's, and anyone else I've seen.
That's great, but some of us you know, might actually think differently from you. I for one did not find ask.com slow. They have image searches and news as well, although I never used anything but web and image searches anyways. From my experience ask.com provided really good results — informative web pages, not just popular ones.
Something is very wrong with that church. I believe that homosexuality is wrong, but beliving it deserves captial punishment, that's insane? We don't live in ancient Israel, those laws are neither valid nor helpful in our modern society.
As for the Jews, WTF is up with that? Jesus himself was a Jew! He followed all the Jewish traditions (well almost all). The whole execution was carried out by the Sanhedrien and the local Roman officials. The Sanhedrien was well known for being chalk full of liars, and I'll be damned (quite literally, in fact) if a bunch of corrupt officials can bring such judgement on an entire nation.
In short, what are these guys on (and were can I find some:P). Sometimes I wish there was an IQ test or something people had to pass to become church members. It's a good thing, God's grace is free.
The sad thing though, is that on the other side of the Pacific ocean, they'll still all be using pirated copies of Windows no matter how much malarkey MS pulls.
It threw the GUI and all these drivers into kernel space.
I'm not sure if this is FUD or just plain stupidness, but it is certainly not true. Windows' design was monolithic, and IE certainly didn't help, but IE is no more in the windows kernel than say nautilus or konqeror, it's just a program with a library that is far too widely used. The lie that IE was ever in the kernel has permeated Slashdot, but it's still a lie. If you got to any Nt based box and crash IE the rest of everything (daemons, etc) should still putt on fine.
Also I don't think Windows will be looking like Unix any time soon. They've got a lot of culture there that would totally conflict with such a move. It would cause a massive disruption that would probably result in loss of mindshare to the Apple folks, and they would lose their dumb excuses as to why their not compatible with everyone else.,
Don't you realise — the colour toolbar is on the top now! How could not notice that revolutionary piece of innovation. You 'Free Software' loving hippies will be left in the dust for sure now.
I agree that it's a bit bias (were on slashdot after all), but there are some relevant differences. First, Microsoft has known about the bug for 40 days already, and hadn't done anything. The only reason we are hearing about it today is because some guy was hanging around and underground website and read about it. Remember that many of the people who frequent those websites are skiddies trying to compensate for a small manhood or something. These are the same people who cause all the problems that my parents and a lot of other people I know have to deal with. In short, it's in the wild and there's no patch yet.
While the flaw in sendmail is very, very bad, it's not near as severe as IE's one. For one thing, I don't think the sendmail thing was out in the wild yet. There's already a patch. I'm guessing that most *nix computers will not be remotely exploitable out of the box, either because sendmail wasn't installed or because it was installed with a nutered config.
Also the target audience of these apps are different. Sendmail is normally installed and managed by sysadmins (indeed, the configuration is so convoluted most people can't touch it) who will be vigilant and patch this thing quickly. The target awdence of IE is a regular desktop user. They tend to be pretty clueless otherwise they wouldn't be using IE. They also tend to dislike updating because it might break things, and they probably will never hear about this new bug.
Also, IE is a far more widely deployed. What do you think is more newsworthy, a deadly disease that has infected a handful of people, or a deadly disease that has infected thousands?
I'm not quite sure if I read your reply correctly, but if you don't understand why they qualify I'll spell it out.
Matthew
One of the 12 disciples.
Mark
He probably knew Jesus as a kid (it's generally believed that he was the young man streaking on the night before Jesus' execution. At any rate, Mark was a close associate with Paul, who (I'll explain later) is considered to ft the criteria.
Luke
A doctor who was a close associate of Paul as well. He wrote the book of Acts which could almost be called Paul's Biography (plus a few chapters).
John
Another one of the 12 disciples
Paul
He saw Jesus on the road to Damascus, because of that he was considered an eyewitness. This isn't something new, even in Paul's letters you'll see references to it.
Author of Hebrews
We don't quite no who this guy actually is because he doesn't identify himself. On of the most popular belives like that it's Paul, but this doesn't hold up to literary critisim because the style is too different. IIRC, this was one of the harder books to get into the Cannon.
James
The brother of Jesus, I hope that counts as an eyewitness
Peter
One of the 12 disciples.
Jude
Another brother of Jesus
I think that's all of them. I might have forgotten 1 or 2, this was just of the top of my head. The stuff I've posted is all generally accepted. Most of the books and letters were written within 20-60 years of Jesus' death so there was too many witnesses for people to get away with a lot of malarky.
"Communication barrier. This is especially true of deaf people, but it exists with to other disabled groups to various extents."
I am communicating to you now without sound;).
Sorry, that was poorly put. A cultural barrier would be a more appropriate term. Sure you and I can communicate without sound, but that's because we are both good english speakers and have had somewhat similar experiences (I'm using 'similar' a bit liberally). The deaf people (particularly those born deaf) do not share our language and language has an enormous impact on culture. For an example, try learning spanish in school (I'm assuming your not in a spanish speaking country) and then go and live in Guatemala for a 4-6 months. I can assure you that there will be a lot of culture shock and mis-communication.
Oh, if it was this easy. Your probably aware of this, but what you said above is only true in the best of circumstance. For one thing, you'll have to have users that are competant enough to report bugs well. This is fairly rare normally. Add to that are several other problems.
As a sibling poster pointed out the bootstrapping problem. While it may be fairly easy for blind people (I don't know) there are many other disablities too. While this isn't an insurmountable problem, it will still limit the amount of help.
Communication barrier. This is especially true of deaf people, but it exists with to other disabled groups to various extents.
The problem of identifying the problem is probably the worst. For example, consider a color blind person. If they encounder something that is hard to distinguish because of their color blindness, they may just think that that is the way that it was supposted to look. Trying to nail down problems like this take a lot of pain-staking testing that few people are willing to go through.
It's not just FOSS. The computer world as a whole has largely ignored them. There have been several notible attempts to make them equals (the W3C for example), but the problem is that software interface people are 1) generally not disabled and do not understand what it is like to be disabled, and 2) generally aren't even experts at all, but tossed in from the software development or marketing department. As a result they're often clueless about accessability (hell even usability is a serious problems in many cases).
This isn't limited to FOSS. For a perfect example, see Netscape.
According to the HTTP specs your allowed to make two requests at a time to a particular server. Fasterfox ignores this, so don't be suprised it you get treated as a little abusive bot -- your acting like one.
As for your last comment, it's actually a very good thing they ownly accept a subset of what has been written as scripture. In making up the cannon, they wanted to maintain a very high standard of reliability. In the Christian New Testament all the books had to be writen by an eyewittness of the man Jesus or a very close associate of one (Paul is counted as an eyewittness because of the Damascus incedent). That alone cuts out the bulk of the stuff, not to mention all the apocryphal literature that had popped up (the Gnostics were particularly miscevious). Also the stuff had to have been accepted by the church as a whole (democracy at work). Finally, it had to be relevant (i.e. the kind of content that belongs in scriptures).
Don't think that the inclusion of a book in scripture was just a willy nilly decision. It was considered with all the weight that such a question should have. Since then, they have goon though plenty of literary and historical critisism. The New Testament is, hands down, the most citisied (here critisim isn't nessisarly bad) book in history. That's a really good thing. The Hebrew Scripture have definetly recieved their fair share too. Unfortunatly the Islamic scriptures have been largely ignored, probably because taking an objective look at them usually ended up with someone losing a head.
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Actually, I don't think that's too important. Even non-superusers can be used to spread viruses and that's all that a virus needs. IMHO, the largest factor is that big WTF that is the exe. The idea that you can make a file executable by changing it's name is just wrong. On top of that, by just clicking on the file, your executing whatever code is in there! This is how all viruses that require user interaction spread. The rest have to spread via vulns, which is difficult.
I know there was no harm meant, but I see comments like this all the time, and they're no more helpful than all the adolecent slashdoters who go on about MS being teh (sic) gay.
The myth that christianity and science are at odds is really unfortunate, particularly because it is being propogated by people who really ought to know better (both on the christian and the secular side). I don't really what the arguing is about. Evolution on a cosmic level has never been observed and it's not much more than an educated guess. Even if it was, evolution isn't contrary to the Christian belief (this is where those 'Creation Scientists' are wrong). The Genesis creation story is a story, it's not an historical account, it was never meant to be*. You won't really understand Genesis 1-2 unless you understand the historical context they were written in.
* note: I didn't say it was nessicarily false. The the historical accuracy this this case is not relevant to the story. There are deeper messages there, ones that can not be proved by scientific measurements.
And why, again, does a geek need a bed?
Yes, but a platform should work for you, not against you. ASP.NET was an attempt to make web applications look like desktop applications. It's failure is that it succeded.
And don't get me started on doPostback() or whatever that inane 'lets use links for forms and break every single fricking thing about HTTP!!"
Not quite. Last time I checked Microsoft still refuses to support the proper \n line break. Opening my text files in notepad causes all sorts of pain.
Yeah, Microsoft, again.
This kind of comment is about as usefull as C programers complaining that scripted languages like python and such were only mimicing compiled languages and doing it badly (because they were slow). Hypertext, Semantics, and Rest — the ideas the web is built around — are really, really cool. So why does the web seem so clunky? Here's some explainations.
I believe the web as a platform has amazing potential, if gready people would stop hijacking it. Comparing it to regular applications on a computer is comparing apples and oranges. One of the greatest things about REST is of it's client neutraity. In short, if you have a properly done web application. You should be able to have a web interface to it, or create a traditional GTK app in C that interfaces with it, or whatever you want, that way you can get the best of both worlds.
Unfortunatly, my friend, you underestimate the power of marketing and clueless people.
1. I definitly don't ignore flaws in GNU/Linux software, I run promptly off and patch them. As for Windows flaws, I find them quite interesting because they're usually not just a regular typo kind of flaw but something more deep in the archetecture, they kind that I want to learn to avoid as a budding computer programmer. Plus I'm a Windows sysadmin and so these will quite possibly affect me personally
2. I've actually never yelled anything on slashdot ( by yelling, I'm assuming you mean typing with caps on)
3. I have one penis, that is enough. Thank you.
4. I don't hate windows, it's more of a strong distaste, like the feeling I have for asparagus. Also, you'll never see me spending money on windows emulation software. I've played with Wine to get IE to work in Linux, but that is because I'm a web developer and I need to test stuff, not because I enjoy that travesty.
5. I'm not quite sure what this means, but I have it on good authority that several large bussinesses use it on there desktops. Nasa is one example, Ibm is moving there, and I think European companies have a dispropotionatly large number of deployments.
6. I don't know any linux user who would be ashamed that people don't know what linux is. It's a bug, but were working on it. https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/1
7. Somebody else alreay spoke to this.
8. Are kids masochists for playing with Legos for hours on ends? I do this because I enjoy it. If you don't there are many distros that do not require that sort of thing.
9. Funny, I saw an artical in newsforge about a professional publisher that used about half linux, half windows.
10. I know nothing about video editing, don't really care either.
11. Depends on what you mean. For the 'gamer' types (you know who you are) that is true. It's the main reason I still have a copy of windows. For most people I don't think that's too much of an issue. As for educational software, there's plenty for Linux.
12. I actually find this more true of windows users that linux users.
13. These lunatics are probably smarter than you or I will ever be. And I don't think any one where has a problem with clicking. It's just really inefficient for some tasks.
14. Yes, and your statement was incredibly factual. Pot, meet kettle.
15. I'm deeply confused what 'gentoo', 'lgx', and 'rpm' have to do with tenageers.
16. I'm actually quite happy with win32codecs.
17. No I'm starting to think your post should have been modded funny.
18. I'm not much of an office user, but OpenOffice works quite fine for me. I love the pdf export option, and it's equation writting capabilities suit me well as a math student. Sure it has a few issues, but I like it better than MS Office.
19. I've never had problems with recording in Gnome. It's increadiby easy too.
20. I have a CD-RW, DVD R/RW and it can read and write both CDs and DVD fine in linux.
21. I didn't need any 3rd party software to use X. To get good graphic accelleration I needed the non-free fglrx driver. But the same would be true in Windows.
22. I'm not a usenet user. But I do find emails from Outlook users with their tiny blue fonts annoying so I can sympatise.
23. Did I miss something? What happened to IBM, Redhat, Novel, HP, and several other large companies.
24. Thats fine with me. I'll continue to give my money to the companies that stay.
25. I'm not an authourity on the issue. But I've heard that the Windows one would be better off to be non-existant too.
26. I've set up Windows about 150 times now. It takes about 3-5 hours to get the computer into a state were it is ready to use. (this includes patching, and installing important software like a real web browser, office software, a firewall, AV, etc). An Ubuntu install is about 1 hour.
27. All my usb stuff Just Works(tm). Same with my brother's, and anyone else I've seen.
28. I used linux before I knew s
That's great, but some of us you know, might actually think differently from you. I for one did not find ask.com slow. They have image searches and news as well, although I never used anything but web and image searches anyways. From my experience ask.com provided really good results — informative web pages, not just popular ones.
Diversity and choice is a good thing.
they lied.
Something is very wrong with that church. I believe that homosexuality is wrong, but beliving it deserves captial punishment, that's insane? We don't live in ancient Israel, those laws are neither valid nor helpful in our modern society.
As for the Jews, WTF is up with that? Jesus himself was a Jew! He followed all the Jewish traditions (well almost all). The whole execution was carried out by the Sanhedrien and the local Roman officials. The Sanhedrien was well known for being chalk full of liars, and I'll be damned (quite literally, in fact) if a bunch of corrupt officials can bring such judgement on an entire nation.
In short, what are these guys on (and were can I find some :P). Sometimes I wish there was an IQ test or something people had to pass to become church members. It's a good thing, God's grace is free.
I haven't checked it out, but it would probably be better if this line
was changed toIt would make it standard code as well as be a lot more efficient.The sad thing though, is that on the other side of the Pacific ocean, they'll still all be using pirated copies of Windows no matter how much malarkey MS pulls.
I'm not sure if this is FUD or just plain stupidness, but it is certainly not true. Windows' design was monolithic, and IE certainly didn't help, but IE is no more in the windows kernel than say nautilus or konqeror, it's just a program with a library that is far too widely used. The lie that IE was ever in the kernel has permeated Slashdot, but it's still a lie. If you got to any Nt based box and crash IE the rest of everything (daemons, etc) should still putt on fine.
Also I don't think Windows will be looking like Unix any time soon. They've got a lot of culture there that would totally conflict with such a move. It would cause a massive disruption that would probably result in loss of mindshare to the Apple folks, and they would lose their dumb excuses as to why their not compatible with everyone else.,
No it shouldn't. That's why we have murder and manslaughter. In both places the victim ends up dead, but the pushisment is different, and rightly so.
Don't you realise — the colour toolbar is on the top now! How could not notice that revolutionary piece of innovation. You 'Free Software' loving hippies will be left in the dust for sure now.
While the flaw in sendmail is very, very bad, it's not near as severe as IE's one. For one thing, I don't think the sendmail thing was out in the wild yet. There's already a patch. I'm guessing that most *nix computers will not be remotely exploitable out of the box, either because sendmail wasn't installed or because it was installed with a nutered config.
Also the target audience of these apps are different. Sendmail is normally installed and managed by sysadmins (indeed, the configuration is so convoluted most people can't touch it) who will be vigilant and patch this thing quickly. The target awdence of IE is a regular desktop user. They tend to be pretty clueless otherwise they wouldn't be using IE. They also tend to dislike updating because it might break things, and they probably will never hear about this new bug.
Also, IE is a far more widely deployed. What do you think is more newsworthy, a deadly disease that has infected a handful of people, or a deadly disease that has infected thousands?
I've heard of a guy named Someone Else that might be able to help. I keep on hearing about all the cool stuff this guy does:
Just one example, but I've heard people talking about him doing many other things too.
I'm not quite sure if I read your reply correctly, but if you don't understand why they qualify I'll spell it out.
Matthew One of the 12 disciples. Mark He probably knew Jesus as a kid (it's generally believed that he was the young man streaking on the night before Jesus' execution. At any rate, Mark was a close associate with Paul, who (I'll explain later) is considered to ft the criteria. Luke A doctor who was a close associate of Paul as well. He wrote the book of Acts which could almost be called Paul's Biography (plus a few chapters). John Another one of the 12 disciples Paul He saw Jesus on the road to Damascus, because of that he was considered an eyewitness. This isn't something new, even in Paul's letters you'll see references to it. Author of Hebrews We don't quite no who this guy actually is because he doesn't identify himself. On of the most popular belives like that it's Paul, but this doesn't hold up to literary critisim because the style is too different. IIRC, this was one of the harder books to get into the Cannon. James The brother of Jesus, I hope that counts as an eyewitness Peter One of the 12 disciples. Jude Another brother of JesusI think that's all of them. I might have forgotten 1 or 2, this was just of the top of my head. The stuff I've posted is all generally accepted. Most of the books and letters were written within 20-60 years of Jesus' death so there was too many witnesses for people to get away with a lot of malarky.
Sorry, that was poorly put. A cultural barrier would be a more appropriate term. Sure you and I can communicate without sound, but that's because we are both good english speakers and have had somewhat similar experiences (I'm using 'similar' a bit liberally). The deaf people (particularly those born deaf) do not share our language and language has an enormous impact on culture. For an example, try learning spanish in school (I'm assuming your not in a spanish speaking country) and then go and live in Guatemala for a 4-6 months. I can assure you that there will be a lot of culture shock and mis-communication.
Oh, if it was this easy. Your probably aware of this, but what you said above is only true in the best of circumstance. For one thing, you'll have to have users that are competant enough to report bugs well. This is fairly rare normally. Add to that are several other problems.
It's not just FOSS. The computer world as a whole has largely ignored them. There have been several notible attempts to make them equals (the W3C for example), but the problem is that software interface people are 1) generally not disabled and do not understand what it is like to be disabled, and 2) generally aren't even experts at all, but tossed in from the software development or marketing department. As a result they're often clueless about accessability (hell even usability is a serious problems in many cases).
This isn't limited to FOSS. For a perfect example, see Netscape.
According to the HTTP specs your allowed to make two requests at a time to a particular server. Fasterfox ignores this, so don't be suprised it you get treated as a little abusive bot -- your acting like one.
As for your last comment, it's actually a very good thing they ownly accept a subset of what has been written as scripture. In making up the cannon, they wanted to maintain a very high standard of reliability. In the Christian New Testament all the books had to be writen by an eyewittness of the man Jesus or a very close associate of one (Paul is counted as an eyewittness because of the Damascus incedent). That alone cuts out the bulk of the stuff, not to mention all the apocryphal literature that had popped up (the Gnostics were particularly miscevious). Also the stuff had to have been accepted by the church as a whole (democracy at work). Finally, it had to be relevant (i.e. the kind of content that belongs in scriptures).
Don't think that the inclusion of a book in scripture was just a willy nilly decision. It was considered with all the weight that such a question should have. Since then, they have goon though plenty of literary and historical critisism. The New Testament is, hands down, the most citisied (here critisim isn't nessisarly bad) book in history. That's a really good thing. The Hebrew Scripture have definetly recieved their fair share too. Unfortunatly the Islamic scriptures have been largely ignored, probably because taking an objective look at them usually ended up with someone losing a head.
You forgot
7. Get modded up for making a tired joke about a tired joke.