2 Mar
2013
2 Mar
'13
6:41 p.m.
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On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 3:08 PM PST Ian King wrote:
Would this thread please die? What we've learned
from this interminable,
er, "discussion":
Tony doesn't like RPi. Not surprising, it seems Tony doesn't like much
beyond early HP calculators, and only if misspelled. (Note: what's
generally considered the first "real" spell checker was created in 1971,
on the PDP-10 at SAIL. Early work goes back to the late 1950s/early
1960s. Is that sufficiently vintage?)
Some people are very confused about computer security.
Some people are very confused about computers that don't run MS-Windows.
Really, they exist, and many of them are quite useful. Some of them came
before MS-Windows. I can point you at some books about this. With
pictures, if needed.
And... that seems to be about it. Can we move on, please? -- Ian
Some of the conclusions you claim to have drawn perfectly illustrates why these
discussions accomplish zilcho. People get lost in the morasse, ie can't focus, are
overly idealistic, and are just prone to hallucinate.
As a parting though (imagine that!) there actually is merit to Richard bringing up the
focus of the first worm. Besides the internet was, is and likely always will be dominated
by UNIX based servers, UNIX and it's derivatives aren't immune from attacks.
It's just that generally, I feel, they're the target of more sophisticated
exploits, as opposed to every script kid wanting to bring down Windoze boxes.