In 2001, Saudis lead by the Saudi Osama Bin Ladin, financed by Saudi Money attacked the United States of America. From the point of view of his attackers, your nephew is an invader. Iraq is like
Spheron 1.
Pissing off the Iraqis just drives them to Al-Qaida.
Right from the start, I knew that it was a war for making Cheney rich (Where does Halliburton.Com end and USMilitary.Mil begin?), but I figured that getting rid of Saddam Hussein would be a good thing. The new dictator is Dr. Iyad Allawi. Dr. Iyad Allawi worked his way through medical school as an assassin. This is my vission for Iraq in 2020:
Dr. Iyad Allawi will have killed over a million of his own people.
Iraq cost money, lives, ties down our military (if China wanted to annex Taiwan or North Korea wanted to annex South Korea, we, as things stand could not do a thing about it because of Iraq), weakens relations with our allies and is the best thing for Al-Qaida-recruiting to come along in years.
The fact is that the Bin-Bushes bend over for the Bin-Ladins. Dubya Shrub is a Saudi-lover -- Saudi-mite!
Indeed, but
Ice
Age
was done by Blue Sky Studios and Fox Animation Studios, not Pixar/Disney.
Mea Culpa!
You are right. It is all a matter of association:
The faux Jaguar-Fur on the box for Mac OS v10.2.x Jaguar reminds me about all of the furry critters from IceAge. It is kind of like how Dubya got dumb Americans to associate Osoma Bin Ladin with Saddam Hussien so that they believe that a war for plunder is a war against terrorism.
He turned the fastest massproduced computer on the planet into a WinTel! This moron reminds me about an idiot in High School who gloated about killing a cow by tipping her, while she slept, onto a sharp rock -- too bad when I called the police and SPCA, it was my word against his.
We should hire a taxidermist, an hitman, and a clockmaker, and then, kill him, gut him, and turn him into a Grandfatherclock!
The Endorian Holocaust is the devastation of the destruction of the second Death Star. At the end of Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi, the rebels destroyed the second Death Star in orbit around the Forest-Moon of Endor. The Endorian Holocaust may have lead to the extinction of Ewoks on the Forest-Moon of Endor.
States in
I
Am
Spock
that a strike of writers occurred.
It is a shame that the writers had to go on strike. Studios would pay writes minimum wage if they could. Writers would get half of the gross of a movie if they could. Ass both sides become more hungry during a strike, they both become more reasonable. Strikes are an unreasonable way of making people more reasonable. A more reasonable way would be to talk out their differences. Luckily, 99% of the time, writers and studios amicably negotiate new contracts -- the writers have not struck for over a decade.
If you would be intact, you would not need lubricants and sex would be much better. If you restore your praepuce, you will not need lubricants and you will partially regain lost sexual sensation. I suggest that you go to
Norm.Org:
Is it even possible to reliably measure how many units of Planck time pass in a given interval, theoretically or otherwise?
One cannot directly measure in Planck-Time-Units with current technology. We will have to do that what we already do:
The quartz-clock in your computer generates many ticks per seconds (let us say 65,536 ticks -- the number of ticks per second varies from quartz-clock to quartz-clock). Your computer divides to seconds. Rather than dividing to seconds, one would multiple to Planck-Time-Units.
Zero-time should be the instant of the Big Bang. By the time 256 bit cpus are standard we should know that accurately.
I thought about zero-time being the big bang. I figured that since the big is not known very accurately, it would not be a good idea. On second thought, if we revise the time and the conversion-tables (something which is necessary anyway as the value of the Planck-Time-Unit (5.4*E-44)) with revision of the time of the big bang, it will work. If we use the time of the big bang, we will have to include the version of the revision along with the time stamp or else the text file from one year ago will show as from one billion years ago while the spreadsheet from 2000 AD, will not exist for two billion years.
Anonymous
Coward:
(BTW, too bad I don't have some mod points to spend -- Planck units are the perfect rebuttal to those that claim the metric system is the best around)
Natural units (Planck-Units) are best. After them, Metric Units are second best. One must remember that the metric system predates the discovery of Planck-Constants. The metric system has definite advantages over other previous systems:
All units are interrelated
The names of the prefixes are powers of ten
It is an international standard
Natural units are too small for practical everyday use. Metric units are in the convenient range for everyday use. Still, it is important to remember that metric units are arbitrary.
Among my favorite arbitrary units is the byte, system for measuring memory:
2^10
This way, the amount of memory a computer can handle is always a round number (because the algorithms used for memory allocation, use binary mathematics). As an example, my filesystem can support files of upto 16 exobytes in size.
If we use Plank-Time and 256bit integers, we can handle 1.981384141637854Year*E+26. We should handle time as 256bit integer based on placktime and convert to local human time-standards as needed. We should support for a second 256bit imaginary integer and conversion to two floating point-math-units (one real and one imaginary) because some calculations in Physics involving time occur on the complex plain. I propose that zero-time be zero Julian Date.
When you use the title of a well-known series/movie/whatever, I expect either a remake or a continuation.
I would not make such a blanket-statement. This might workout like the remake of the Fly:
In the original Fly, a scientist invents the first teleporter. The scientist carefully teleports one object at a time because the teleporter can only focus on one object at a time. He finally tries to teleport himself, a fly is in the telepod with him. If the fly would not have been in the telepod with him or if the fly would be in physical contact, everything would be fine. As it is, the fly and the scientist emerged with parts exchanged. Because of scale this does not make sense. It is just for shock-value in a cheep horror-movie.
The premise of the Fly is almost a good one. Someone realized this and made a vastly superior remake:
In the remake of the fly all of the same up to reintegration:
The teleporter cannot reintegrate separate objects. The scientist and the fly become a chimaera, The chimaera looks just like the scientist. The scientist does not know that anything happens. Over the next few months, the scientist looses his humanity and sanity as he slowly becomes a chimaera intermediate between human and fly.
The story of the remake of the fly makes much more since and is much better than the original.
The original Battlestar Galactica is good but has a glaring problem:
The Cylons were originally suppose to be reptilian aliens. ABC did not want alien blood splattered all over the place. The Cylons became robots created by the Cylons, a race of reptilian aliens. Why do the Cylons want to kill humans? Because they want to conquer the universe! Why do the Cylons have an human form? Because the Cylons patterned the Cylons after humans! Why did the Cylons shape the Cylons after humans? Because humans are more efficient than Cylons! Why did not the Cylons invent a novel form more efficient than human? I do not know!
In the new series, the Cylons will have human form for a good reason:
They are made in the image of their creators.
The war between the Cylons and the humans also makes more sense as its causes are firmly rooted in the slavery of the Cylons and their rebellion:
Ever since the Cylon-Rebellion, both sides have been in a war of survival against the other -- a forty-year retreat is nothing.
The new series might be much better or much worse than the original. As a remake, I would not dismiss it just because it breaks cannon -- sequels should be burned for breaking cannon; while, remakes and their sequels and prequels can create their new cannon totally independent from the original and its sequels and prequels. If one is so interested in cannon, we should pickup where Battlestar Galactica 1980 leftoff. Battlestar Galactica 1980 + 23 would be a true sequel.
If it would be my job to upgrade the texts of Project Gutenberg, this is what I would do:
I would would have the proofreaders create new texts as Text/Plain with a textencoding of UTF-8. This way, one can use all of Unicode (if one needs it). Old texts can be converted from Text/Plain with a textencoding of US-ASCII to Text/Plain with a textencoding of UTF-8 if the original has non-US-ASCII characters.
I would markup the Text/Plains with a textencoding of UTF-8 to Application/Xhtml+Xmls with a textencoding of UTF-8.
Both the Text/Plains and the Application/Xhtml+Xmls would go into the public domain.
The reason I would do things in two steps is because the Optical Character-Recognition cannot be trusted in a direct conversion from paper to Application/Xhtml+Xml or other form of Text/Xml. The Optical Character-Recognition cannot even reliably recognize all of the characters in US-ASCII. Dirct conversion paper to a Text/Xml with a textencoding of UTF-8 would drive the proofreaders crazy. Both the humans and the software would choke on direct conversion to Text/Xml with a textencoding of UTF-8. Direct conversion from paper to Text/Xml with a textencoding of UTF-8 is too much too soon.
Recreations of all new texts and conversion of existing texts to Text/Plain with a textencoding of UTF-8 is a good idea, as is markup of Text/plains with a textencoding of UTF-8 to Application/Xhtml+Xml with a textencoding of UTF-8.
Legally when one commits a crime, one assumes risks and liabilities. Unless you can show that Ricky Coleman deliberately killed Douglas Fischer, he cannot be charged with murder.
You can sue BestBuy.Com for hiring a nutjob like Ricky Coleman. I remember in the 1980s, a barowner in town without a brain, decided to hire some thugs for security. The thugs attacked people just for shits and kicks -- What great security. The victims successfully sued the thugs and barowner.
You could try a wrongful deathsuit against BestBuy.Com and Ricky Coleman; but since however, Douglas Fischer died commiting a crime you would have to prove that Ricky Coleman deliberately killed Douglas Fischer. If Ricky Coleman would have killed an innocent person, you could have won a wrongful deathsuit just for Ricky coleman killing an innocent person. The difference goes back to people taking risks and liabilities in the commission of a crime.
I agree that Episode I was not the best movie. The trouble was it is, of necessity, prologue. It sets up all subsequent movies.
Episode II is much better. All of the preamble pays off in Episode II; everything unfolds nicely. The interesting thing about Episode II is that it is salient to the world today:
"It is with great reluctance that I have agreed to this calling. I love democracy, I love the Republic. The power you give me I will lay down when this crisis has abated."
--
Chancellor Palpatine -- after the Republican Senate voted to him emergency-powers for fighting the separatists in Star Wars -- Episode II: Attack of the Clones (Palpatine promises to lay-down this power when the crisis has abated -- Sure! I believe that!)
"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier... just as long as I'm the dictator..."
--
George Walker Bush
Dubya is busy trying to overthrow this Republic and set up a Fascistic Imperial Power.
The Resource-Fork of a file on HFS+-Volume on a Partition of a disk does not contain metadata. The resource-fork contains resources such as the icon-image. The metadata lives in the Desktopdatabase.
If I had it all to do over again, I would implement the file-system a journaled file-system with the file-system consisting of a series of caches containing the ID# of each file as a 64-bit integer, the location of the file on a volume as a 64-bit integer, the paths to the file through the hierarchy, ownership and permissions, the MIME-Type, the file-size, the file-dates, and the name of the file as upto 255 UTF-8-Octets.
The file would would have three forks:
A Resource-Fork
A Metadata-Fork
A Data-Fork
The resource-fork would contain the icon. The metadata-fork would all of the metadata like ID3-tags and EXIF. The Metadata-fork would use an XML-based language. The metadata and the XML-based language would be extendable. The data-fork would contain the bit-stream of the file.
A 64-bit file-system can handle up to 16 exafiles. Each file could be upto 16 exabytes. Assuming that the minimum file-size is 1 kilobyte, a volume could have upto 16 zettabytes of data.
A worm that exploits a buffer overflow can takeover that machine, or at least that process.
By default, all ports are closed in System Ten; ergo, no worms.
Well, I tend to agree as far as the OS goes, but I'm not about to lump the x86 crowd in too! Still, clearly a flamebait. I mean, calling other people "stupid" and their equipment "crap"? Insightful?
As far as hardware goes, sub-.5K$ computers are slow and unreliable. I see what you mean about the venum in my words; but didignantly however, I am tired of my friend not listening to me when I recommend a.8k$ eMac, buying a.5k$ eMachine and then complaining about how slow it is and cannot do anything, and then, to top it all off, complaining about a virus killing it. I am resigned to the truth that people buying WinTels are losers, WinTelLusers, and deserve what they get.
The only stupid people I can directly identify is Walabio for posting this drivel and the moron that moderated it up...
Everything I wrote is truthful. The first moderator merely recognized that my solution would stop the worms and virii. Do you deny that my solution would not work?
Would a program that deleted all your files without your permission be considered a virus?
Technically, it would not be a virus because virii reproduce. Looking at the example itself:
It would require the user to launch it -- it could not self launch.
It could only hose the homedirectory of the user sufficiently foolish to launch it.
For hosing the entire system, an administrative user would have to foolishly give to it an administrative password, or else it could not run as root -- without an administrative password, it could only hose the homedirectory of the user running it.
All ports are closed in System Ten by default (no worms). Emailattachments are inert unless a foolish user installs and launches the attachment. Programs are limited to the privileges and homedirectors of the user running them. Administrative users do not have rootprivileges by default -- they must enter a password to alter the OS or the contents of the Unixfolders. The firewall is on by default.
How would Mac OS X protect you against that?
If one is sufficiently dumb to launch such a program, the OS would limit the damage to the homedirectory of the launching user.
Malicious code simply cannot take over a MacIntosh.
System Ten is just vastly more secure than XP. Slashdot ran a stort about the problems with WinTelSecurity called
Insecure
By
Design.
Basically, MicroSoft.Com did not give much thought to security.
Slashdot Mirror
I could not find an emailaddress, but here is a nice commentform: http://mta-nyc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/mta_nyc.cfg/ph p/enduser/ask.php
Why do not we all give to them some feedback?
. . . that the true enemy is Audi Arabia?:
In 2001, Saudis lead by the Saudi Osama Bin Ladin, financed by Saudi Money attacked the United States of America. From the point of view of his attackers, your nephew is an invader. Iraq is like Spheron 1. Pissing off the Iraqis just drives them to Al-Qaida.
Right from the start, I knew that it was a war for making Cheney rich (Where does Halliburton.Com end and USMilitary.Mil begin?), but I figured that getting rid of Saddam Hussein would be a good thing. The new dictator is Dr. Iyad Allawi. Dr. Iyad Allawi worked his way through medical school as an assassin. This is my vission for Iraq in 2020:
Dr. Iyad Allawi will have killed over a million of his own people.
Iraq cost money, lives, ties down our military (if China wanted to annex Taiwan or North Korea wanted to annex South Korea, we, as things stand could not do a thing about it because of Iraq), weakens relations with our allies and is the best thing for Al-Qaida-recruiting to come along in years.
The fact is that the Bin-Bushes bend over for the Bin-Ladins. Dubya Shrub is a Saudi-lover -- Saudi-mite!
Mea Culpa!
You are right. It is all a matter of association:
The faux Jaguar-Fur on the box for Mac OS v10.2.x Jaguar reminds me about all of the furry critters from IceAge. It is kind of like how Dubya got dumb Americans to associate Osoma Bin Ladin with Saddam Hussien so that they believe that a war for plunder is a war against terrorism.
IceAge is a movie too.
He turned the fastest massproduced computer on the planet into a WinTel! This moron reminds me about an idiot in High School who gloated about killing a cow by tipping her, while she slept, onto a sharp rock -- too bad when I called the police and SPCA, it was my word against his.
We should hire a taxidermist, an hitman, and a clockmaker, and then, kill him, gut him, and turn him into a Grandfatherclock!
The Endorian Holocaust is the devastation of the destruction of the second Death Star. At the end of Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi, the rebels destroyed the second Death Star in orbit around the Forest-Moon of Endor. The Endorian Holocaust may have lead to the extinction of Ewoks on the Forest-Moon of Endor.
The Endorian Holocaust
States in I Am Spock that a strike of writers occurred.
It is a shame that the writers had to go on strike. Studios would pay writes minimum wage if they could. Writers would get half of the gross of a movie if they could. Ass both sides become more hungry during a strike, they both become more reasonable. Strikes are an unreasonable way of making people more reasonable. A more reasonable way would be to talk out their differences. Luckily, 99% of the time, writers and studios amicably negotiate new contracts -- the writers have not struck for over a decade.
If you would be intact, you would not need lubricants and sex would be much better. If you restore your praepuce, you will not need lubricants and you will partially regain lost sexual sensation. I suggest that you go to Norm.Org:
Norm.Org
Praeputial Restoration has greatly improved my life.
Is it even possible to reliably measure how many units of Planck time pass in a given interval, theoretically or otherwise?
One cannot directly measure in Planck-Time-Units with current technology. We will have to do that what we already do:
The quartz-clock in your computer generates many ticks per seconds (let us say 65,536 ticks -- the number of ticks per second varies from quartz-clock to quartz-clock). Your computer divides to seconds. Rather than dividing to seconds, one would multiple to Planck-Time-Units.
This is a response to the first two replies
John Hasler:
Zero-time should be the instant of the Big Bang. By the time 256 bit cpus are standard we should know that accurately.
I thought about zero-time being the big bang. I figured that since the big is not known very accurately, it would not be a good idea. On second thought, if we revise the time and the conversion-tables (something which is necessary anyway as the value of the Planck-Time-Unit (5.4*E-44)) with revision of the time of the big bang, it will work. If we use the time of the big bang, we will have to include the version of the revision along with the time stamp or else the text file from one year ago will show as from one billion years ago while the spreadsheet from 2000 AD, will not exist for two billion years.
Anonymous Coward:
(BTW, too bad I don't have some mod points to spend -- Planck units are the perfect rebuttal to those that claim the metric system is the best around)
Natural units (Planck-Units) are best. After them, Metric Units are second best. One must remember that the metric system predates the discovery of Planck-Constants. The metric system has definite advantages over other previous systems:
Natural units are too small for practical everyday use. Metric units are in the convenient range for everyday use. Still, it is important to remember that metric units are arbitrary.
Among my favorite arbitrary units is the byte, system for measuring memory:
2^10
This way, the amount of memory a computer can handle is always a round number (because the algorithms used for memory allocation, use binary mathematics). As an example, my filesystem can support files of upto 16 exobytes in size.
If we use Plank-Time and 256bit integers, we can handle 1.981384141637854Year*E+26. We should handle time as 256bit integer based on placktime and convert to local human time-standards as needed. We should support for a second 256bit imaginary integer and conversion to two floating point-math-units (one real and one imaginary) because some calculations in Physics involving time occur on the complex plain. I propose that zero-time be zero Julian Date.
I would not make such a blanket-statement. This might workout like the remake of the Fly:
In the original Fly, a scientist invents the first teleporter. The scientist carefully teleports one object at a time because the teleporter can only focus on one object at a time. He finally tries to teleport himself, a fly is in the telepod with him. If the fly would not have been in the telepod with him or if the fly would be in physical contact, everything would be fine. As it is, the fly and the scientist emerged with parts exchanged. Because of scale this does not make sense. It is just for shock-value in a cheep horror-movie.
The premise of the Fly is almost a good one. Someone realized this and made a vastly superior remake:
In the remake of the fly all of the same up to reintegration:
The teleporter cannot reintegrate separate objects. The scientist and the fly become a chimaera, The chimaera looks just like the scientist. The scientist does not know that anything happens. Over the next few months, the scientist looses his humanity and sanity as he slowly becomes a chimaera intermediate between human and fly.
The story of the remake of the fly makes much more since and is much better than the original.
The original Battlestar Galactica is good but has a glaring problem:
The Cylons were originally suppose to be reptilian aliens. ABC did not want alien blood splattered all over the place. The Cylons became robots created by the Cylons, a race of reptilian aliens. Why do the Cylons want to kill humans? Because they want to conquer the universe! Why do the Cylons have an human form? Because the Cylons patterned the Cylons after humans! Why did the Cylons shape the Cylons after humans? Because humans are more efficient than Cylons! Why did not the Cylons invent a novel form more efficient than human? I do not know!
In the new series, the Cylons will have human form for a good reason:
They are made in the image of their creators.
The war between the Cylons and the humans also makes more sense as its causes are firmly rooted in the slavery of the Cylons and their rebellion:
Ever since the Cylon-Rebellion, both sides have been in a war of survival against the other -- a forty-year retreat is nothing.
The new series might be much better or much worse than the original. As a remake, I would not dismiss it just because it breaks cannon -- sequels should be burned for breaking cannon; while, remakes and their sequels and prequels can create their new cannon totally independent from the original and its sequels and prequels. If one is so interested in cannon, we should pickup where Battlestar Galactica 1980 leftoff. Battlestar Galactica 1980 + 23 would be a true sequel.
That now is:
Julian 2003-11-02T13:01:23 GMT
Whovever wrote the release date is an idiot intent on ambiguity and total disregard for standards.
MacIntoshes are the most user-friendly computers on the planet and ship with all ports closed by default.
If it would be my job to upgrade the texts of Project Gutenberg, this is what I would do:
The reason I would do things in two steps is because the Optical Character-Recognition cannot be trusted in a direct conversion from paper to Application/Xhtml+Xml or other form of Text/Xml. The Optical Character-Recognition cannot even reliably recognize all of the characters in US-ASCII. Dirct conversion paper to a Text/Xml with a textencoding of UTF-8 would drive the proofreaders crazy. Both the humans and the software would choke on direct conversion to Text/Xml with a textencoding of UTF-8. Direct conversion from paper to Text/Xml with a textencoding of UTF-8 is too much too soon.
Recreations of all new texts and conversion of existing texts to Text/Plain with a textencoding of UTF-8 is a good idea, as is markup of Text/plains with a textencoding of UTF-8 to Application/Xhtml+Xml with a textencoding of UTF-8.
I would make certain that Maxtor does not lie about the capacity.
Legally when one commits a crime, one assumes risks and liabilities. Unless you can show that Ricky Coleman deliberately killed Douglas Fischer, he cannot be charged with murder.
You can sue BestBuy.Com for hiring a nutjob like Ricky Coleman. I remember in the 1980s, a barowner in town without a brain, decided to hire some thugs for security. The thugs attacked people just for shits and kicks -- What great security. The victims successfully sued the thugs and barowner.
You could try a wrongful deathsuit against BestBuy.Com and Ricky Coleman; but since however, Douglas Fischer died commiting a crime you would have to prove that Ricky Coleman deliberately killed Douglas Fischer. If Ricky Coleman would have killed an innocent person, you could have won a wrongful deathsuit just for Ricky coleman killing an innocent person. The difference goes back to people taking risks and liabilities in the commission of a crime.
I would see a lawyer before pursuing any action.
SFVs _"*NOT*"_ SFV's!
Mod Up Parent!
I agree that Episode I was not the best movie. The trouble was it is, of necessity, prologue. It sets up all subsequent movies.
Episode II is much better. All of the preamble pays off in Episode II; everything unfolds nicely. The interesting thing about Episode II is that it is salient to the world today:
-- Chancellor Palpatine -- after the Republican Senate voted to him emergency-powers for fighting the separatists in Star Wars -- Episode II: Attack of the Clones (Palpatine promises to lay-down this power when the crisis has abated -- Sure! I believe that!)
-- George Walker Bush
Dubya is busy trying to overthrow this Republic and set up a Fascistic Imperial Power.
The Resource-Fork of a file on HFS+-Volume on a Partition of a disk does not contain metadata. The resource-fork contains resources such as the icon-image. The metadata lives in the Desktopdatabase.
If I had it all to do over again, I would implement the file-system a journaled file-system with the file-system consisting of a series of caches containing the ID# of each file as a 64-bit integer, the location of the file on a volume as a 64-bit integer, the paths to the file through the hierarchy, ownership and permissions, the MIME-Type, the file-size, the file-dates, and the name of the file as upto 255 UTF-8-Octets.
The file would would have three forks:
The resource-fork would contain the icon. The metadata-fork would all of the metadata like ID3-tags and EXIF. The Metadata-fork would use an XML-based language. The metadata and the XML-based language would be extendable. The data-fork would contain the bit-stream of the file.
A 64-bit file-system can handle up to 16 exafiles. Each file could be upto 16 exabytes. Assuming that the minimum file-size is 1 kilobyte, a volume could have upto 16 zettabytes of data.
Unfortunately, HFS+ was not built this way.
The MacObserver states that System Ten has zero virii. Behold! the article.
By default, all ports are closed in System Ten; ergo, no worms.
As far as hardware goes, sub-.5K$ computers are slow and unreliable. I see what you mean about the venum in my words; but didignantly however, I am tired of my friend not listening to me when I recommend a .8k$ eMac, buying a .5k$ eMachine and then complaining about how slow it is and cannot do anything, and then, to top it all off, complaining about a virus killing it. I am resigned to the truth that people buying WinTels are losers, WinTelLusers, and deserve what they get.
Everything I wrote is truthful. The first moderator merely recognized that my solution would stop the worms and virii. Do you deny that my solution would not work?
By default, System Ten has no open ports; ergo, no worms.
Technically, it would not be a virus because virii reproduce. Looking at the example itself:
All ports are closed in System Ten by default (no worms). Emailattachments are inert unless a foolish user installs and launches the attachment. Programs are limited to the privileges and homedirectors of the user running them. Administrative users do not have rootprivileges by default -- they must enter a password to alter the OS or the contents of the Unixfolders. The firewall is on by default.
If one is sufficiently dumb to launch such a program, the OS would limit the damage to the homedirectory of the launching user.
Malicious code simply cannot take over a MacIntosh.
System Ten is just vastly more secure than XP. Slashdot ran a stort about the problems with WinTelSecurity called Insecure By Design. Basically, MicroSoft.Com did not give much thought to security.