__/ [ The Ghost In The Machine ] on Thursday 11 January 2007 20:37 \__
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote
> on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 19:09:23 +0000
> <10093816.krrM5JuciM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> End-Time for the Internet
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Spam, spyware, and viruses can already get in the way of good,
>> | clean computing fun. But what happens when malicious code
>> | becomes apocalyptic? According to Jonathan Zittrain, professor
>> | of Internet governance and regulation at Oxford University,
>> | these software saboteurs will drive smart users to dumber
>> | appliances like BlackBerrys, iPods, and Xboxes.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.01/start.html?pg=15
>>
>>
>> Related:
>>
>> FEATURE: Mobile Linux: Why it will become the dominant mobile OS
>>
>>
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/feature-mobile-linux-why-it-will-become-the-dominant-mobile-os/2007-01-03
>
> iPods? IPODS! That reporter needs to know about the
> many many fine benefits of Orange phones and Zunes! :-)
> Next thing one knows he'll be using TiVo as a verb,
> when he should be using "Ultimate TV" instead. (Granted,
> "I tivoed that wacky 70's show" works a little better in
> contemporary English than any variant of "Ultimate TV"
> I can come up with. How does one conjugate the latter?)
>
> As for good, clean fun...well...let's just say there's
> a few websites one wouldn't want to visit prior to one's
> 18th or 19th birthday, or from within a Mormon church. :-)
>
> Some of them might offer malware as well as erotic enticements.
> I'll admit I've not checked.
Always run with JS disabled (easy to manage with NoScript for Firefox). It
reduces (if not eliminates) the frequency of browser crashes, it makes
browsing faster, improves security, privacy, etc.
I might as well mention that I provide very odd strings in the HTTP headers.
I'm one of those Linux users who don't support it by mock statistics. I hope
people will soon realise that those Web stats are meaningless. One gauges
Linux use of a subset of the Web at 0.6%, one at 3.6%... idiocy. Full rant
here:
http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2007/01/08/the-true-market-share-of-linux/
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