UPDATED: Inserted line breaks to try and fix the formatting… Getting tired of the way the 1s & 0s were breaking this mess up…
Simonkiker on Slashdot posts on Viruses and Market Dominance - Myth or Fact?. Now several orders removed, we arrive at:
So there are far fewer viruses for Mac OS X and Linux. It’s true that those two operating systems do not have monopoly numbers, though in some industries they have substantial numbers of users. But even if Linux becomes the dominant desktop computing platform, and Mac OS X continues its growth in businesses and homes, these Unix-based OS’s will never experience all of the problems we’re seeing now with email-borne viruses and worms in the Microsoft world. Why?
Granneman goes on to break down how Windows and Windows-based apps are practically hard-wired to mess up your system. This isn’t quite the sweeping “user-friendliness-equals-massive-security-hole” accusation that it could be … but it does rub that way in the short term. More to the point though, he emphasizes the root/administrator difference and how it’s imperative for the Windows world to develop a stricter analog. This alone would be stopping short — but would at least be a good start.
Ultimately, though? “Social engineering.”
- More on the 64-bit screamer: the G5, put through the paces
- A WiFi Ghetto Blaster!? …11b, 120GB hard drive, MP3 decoder, web-based controller, and oh so much retro 80s flair…
- Truly plug-and-play…? USB peripheral’s sole function is to vibrate. Certainly there is a practical application for this. And by practical, I mean non-sexual…
…Around the Bend?
802.16a: …covers non-line-of-site metropolitan area networking using the 2 to 11 GHz range…
So long 11! B’gock to the ^30~!
Rot in hell Phelps, you’ll find no comfort among the living. Keep your shit away from everyone else. Props to the city of Casper for their plans to fight you.
re: Abandoned Blogs:: The abandonment rate did vary significantly based on which service was being used: Pitas, BlogSpot and Diaryland had above average abandonment rates; Xanga had an average abandonment rate; LiveJournal had the lowest abandonment rate (the sample size for Blog-City, TypePad and Weblogger was too low to compare).
A few interesting points about demographics yes but “abandoned” hardly seems the right word when so many migrate from one spot to another.
This one’s for you, Mark G.: Archaeology has never been a wealthy discipline, but by borrowing tools developed for more well-endowed professions, archaeologists are developing X-ray vision—or, to be precise, infra-red, microwave and magnetic vision, which are even better.
