Actually there seem to be multiple failures in this. Running Windows, not employing some sort of web filtering software,[...]
Actually, this is not surprizing at all. Remember all the red tape envolved!!!!
To deploy 'web filtering software', a request has to be generated, afeasibility study needs to be performed, a 'validation' process has to be followed, SOPs have to be written, then the whole thing re-certified in its entirety (used to be, you would need to re-certify each component again after modifying one part). Of course the reason you they Windows is that NT 4 and 5 were 'certified' by the govt... if the site admin decided to bend the corners by installing linux on the desktop or router, he's be out of a job and possibly in jail! Frankly, they don't get paid enough for it.
A competent admin is working elsewhere, where s/he is paid accordingly. The IT leftovers, not able to get hired by the private sector, get to work for the Govt... Generalization, of course, but more true than not.
Remember, in 2006, nearly 5 years after 9/11, most FBI employees still do not have a work email access, or the ability to do multiple word searches (e.g. cannot search for "bin laden", have to enter just "bin", then scroll down, because of the space character!). So what can you expect from a State govt of Oregon...
Microsoft cannot possibly test every driver for bugs and incompatibilities with every other driver or piece of software.
You know, a faulty piece of user software should under no circumstanses bring the whole system down. I believe MS mostly fixed that with SP2 for non-admin accounts (with video hardware acceleration turned off;-). *nix has that fixed for decades.
As for driver inter-compatibility and drivers affecting system stability, you are perhaps making an argument for microkernels here.
As for the faulty hardware bringing the OS down, well, that's what you get by sticking to the antiquated PC architecture... I saw a mainframe where one of the processors failed, but the system just reported it bad, and kept running... Why can't we have that in a PC?
Wired's argument appears to be that because it has openly chosen to disregard the Court's order (not to mention AT&T's rights) the Court should reverse that order. Talk about chutzpah."
To sum up Wired's circular arguement:
"No, Your Honor, I did not rape that minor. I was nowhere near there that night, I never even met her, she told me she was 18, and the sex was consentual."
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Actually there seem to be multiple failures in this. Running Windows, not employing some sort of web filtering software,[...] Actually, this is not surprizing at all. Remember all the red tape envolved!!!! To deploy 'web filtering software', a request has to be generated, afeasibility study needs to be performed, a 'validation' process has to be followed, SOPs have to be written, then the whole thing re-certified in its entirety (used to be, you would need to re-certify each component again after modifying one part). Of course the reason you they Windows is that NT 4 and 5 were 'certified' by the govt... if the site admin decided to bend the corners by installing linux on the desktop or router, he's be out of a job and possibly in jail! Frankly, they don't get paid enough for it.
a trusted administrator with lotsa logging
A competent admin is working elsewhere, where s/he is paid accordingly. The IT leftovers, not able to get hired by the private sector, get to work for the Govt... Generalization, of course, but more true than not.
Remember, in 2006, nearly 5 years after 9/11, most FBI employees still do not have a work email access, or the ability to do multiple word searches (e.g. cannot search for "bin laden", have to enter just "bin", then scroll down, because of the space character!). So what can you expect from a State govt of Oregon...
Microsoft cannot possibly test every driver for bugs and incompatibilities with every other driver or piece of software.
;-). *nix has that fixed for decades.
You know, a faulty piece of user software should under no circumstanses bring the whole system down. I believe MS mostly fixed that with SP2 for non-admin accounts (with video hardware acceleration turned off
As for driver inter-compatibility and drivers affecting system stability, you are perhaps making an argument for microkernels here.
As for the faulty hardware bringing the OS down, well, that's what you get by sticking to the antiquated PC architecture... I saw a mainframe where one of the processors failed, but the system just reported it bad, and kept running... Why can't we have that in a PC?
Wired's argument appears to be that because it has openly chosen to disregard the Court's order (not to mention AT&T's rights) the Court should reverse that order. Talk about chutzpah."
To sum up Wired's circular arguement:
"No, Your Honor, I did not rape that minor. I was nowhere near there that night, I never even met her, she told me she was 18, and the sex was consentual."