On Thu, 22 May 2008 06:15:16 -0600, High Plains Thumper wrote:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> High Plains Thumper on Thursday :
>>> DFS wrote:
>>>> High Plains Thumper wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/29/ubuntu_left_standing/
>>>>>
>>>>> [quote] Only Ubuntu left standing, as Flash vuln fells Vista in
>>>>> Pwn2Own hacking contest
>>>>>
>>>>> Contestant overcomes bout of 'hacktile dysfunction' By Dan Goodin in
>>>>> Vancouver Published Saturday 29th March 2008 21:27 GMT
>>>>>
>>>>> CanSecWest A laptop running a fully patched version of Microsoft's
>>>>> Vista operating system was the second and final machine to fall in a
>>>>> hacking contest that pitted the security of Windows, OS X and Ubuntu
>>>>> Linux. With both a Windows and Mac machine felled, only the Linux box
>>>>> remained standing following the three-day competition. [/quote]
>>>>>
>>>>> OSX and Vista pwned by Ubuntu! Way to go, Debian!
>>>>
>>>> Don't fool yourself, dweeb.
>>>
>>> Interesting that this troll must not only post his point but add a
>>> pungent insult also.
>>>
>>>> http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=8
>>>>
>>>> Now that's ownage - to the tune of 145 to 1.
>>>
>>> http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=12
>>>
>>> "Market Share Worldview. The report you requested is only available in
>>> the pay version."
>>>
>>> Okay, another site, look at the demography:
>>>
>>> http://w3schools.com/about/about_pagehits.asp
>>>
>>> [quote] Visitors Demographics Origin Percent, United States 42.1 %,
>>> India 10.1 %, United Kingdom 8.0 %, Canada 4.7 %, Netherlands 2.5 %,
>>> Australia 2.3 %, Germany 2.0 %, Sweden 1.7 %, France 1.7 %, Spain 1.4
>>> %, Italy 1.3 %, Singapore 1.3 %, Brazil 1.2 %, Philippines 1.1 %, Hong
>>> Kong 1.1 %, Poland 1.0 % [/quote]
>>>
>>> US has greatest number of visits at 42.1%, which is heavily Windows
>>> oriented. Other countries that have a higher Linux and Unix count are
>>> under represented. Not all access the internet has heavily as the US.
>>> Therefore, to utilise such statistics as indicative of Linux installed
>>> base leads to erroneous results.
>>>
>>> Next ....
>>
>> It actually shows the entire sample was very grossly population-biased,
>> almost rigged.
>>
>> Maybe they picked 1000 sites. 1 MSN.com, 999 mom-and-pop sites, then
>> applied no special weighting, merged the logs and ran the algo. That's
>> just taking it to the extreme anyway.
>>
>> Who funded this laborious study? What's the motive for a volunteer?
>
> Even W3 Schools admits this:
>
> http://w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
>
> [quote]
> Statistics Are Often Misleading
>
> You cannot - as a web developer - rely only on statistics. Statistics can
> often be misleading.
>
> Global averages may not always be relevant to your web site. Different
> sites attract different audiences. Some web sites attract professional
> developers using professional hardware, while other sites attract
> hobbyists using old low spec computers.
> Also be aware that many statistics may have an incomplete or faulty
> browser detection. It is quite common by many web-stats report programs,
> not to detect the newest browsers.
Maybe you should quote that at Quack & his "1%" web stats. ;-)
> (The statistics above are extracted from W3Schools' log-files, but we are
> also monitoring other sources around the Internet to assure the quality of
> these figures).
>
> QUOTES
>
> "First get your facts; then you can distort them at your leisure." Mark
> Twain
> [/quote]
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