'Hall of Fame' REVEALED

To day there was this article about "'Hall of Fame' REVEALED".

I would like to have the person who invented the word "Computer Virus" added to that list.

I am not sure if it would add Bill Gates or not.

I know people who still think a virus, is something like smallpox or mad cow disease made in heaven bye bad persons or as an act of god.

They do not understand that the house they bought has doors without doors, open windows and keys left in the locks.

Why not instead report about programming errors in such and such programs exploitable bye such and such programs (freely available on the internet).

Too bad

I did not save any of those early computers like Apple II, Pet, ABC 80 and the Sinclair’s Z88.

The ABC should have been mentioned, perhaps.

Seeing the Sinclair’s Z88 I wanted one right away, but then I think it was the most annoying "computer" I have ever used, terrible quit frankly, even if I liked the rubber keys.

I still think that Visicalc the first spread sheet program ever, and originally made for the Apple II+,

was the first and only software that has really surprised me. That was something really new and surprising. As far as I remember Visicalc tried to patent it but their lawyer told them not to.

In those days patenting things was not as easy as to day. What a disgusting mess it has become since then.

I suppose

they are all running linux.

Nice point

"to blackmail people in the government or people in the military"

Now rewrite the proposal so that that is impossible.

As far as I know the "party" in the USSR used to have some exclusive lanes on the roads in the "good old days".

Perhaps the government thinks It has something similar on the internet, to day.

"commercially made spacecraft"

In the USA, but I do believe the Russians have been "awfully" commercial for some time.

The electrical wind car

We need electrical wind cars that are charged only when there is an excess of wind power.

The car you lend to your kids, you know.

So

If you plan to shoot the Prime Minister then it's only about an intellectual challenge till you pull the trigger.

Thanks again

Thanks again Neelie Kroes. Now if we could find somebody to get rid of the increased volume for commercials on the TV.

Now

is a good time to register the iBank and for every i**bank anything to shiver.

Bullshit

"I'm most concerned with securing the longevity of humanity." .

"the ultimate goal is to get humanity off a single planet to ensure the continuation of the species."

"a column of water pointed at the Sun would provide protection from solar storms"

"Martian atmosphere (for humans)!!.

The only thing that concerns him is to get enough people investing money into something

with a very large part of "small print".

Good luck, still.

I must admit

The Amiga was a stunning experience then, long ago, and I don't think I have seen anything since then the same way. Age may have affected me but it's really hard to find anything really new to day.

Came to think of IT

I would probably rather have a outside toilet and a mobile phone than just an inside toilet.

I am sure my daughter would agree, a bit unsure about my wife.

What a mystery

"not written in C++ and it's not compiled with Microsoft's Visual C++ 2008".

What a mystery there is something else too.

The IT angle

Nice header, Titanic seems to interest us still.

As far as I have understood she could have survived bye ramming the iceberg head on and not trying to turn. Now that is interesting because probably no living person on the bridge would have had the courage or brain power to work that out and take such an action.

Suppose Titanic was "run" by a computer, would that computer then have reacted in an intelligent way. After all computers are programmed by humans.

Any way the disaster was caused by "human error" as the saying goes.

I have more "understanding" for the Titanic disaster than for the Airbus lost into the Atlantic.

Marketing and lawyers

They will always try to do their jobs regardless of company.

Layers at Apple will search for apad to zpad and then from apadd to zpadd and then continue with phonetic "problems" and why not with abad to zbad.

I am sure they will surprise us in the future too

Marketing will tell how Apple has saved the US and world economy and so on.

Years ago there was an article claiming that if people moved from Windows to open source and linux one million IT jobs would disappear in Europe.

That was quite funny considering the fact that Microsoft claimed that more people are needed to take care of linux, also one would assume that the people working with IT would simply move to work with linux and open source.

So, calm down, this is the way it works and as long as we know it, it does not matter much.

I have not forgotten the patent layers but I now need an ipi** and an ibeer.

Trojan drills into Firefox

Yes, it would be nice if the header would always tell what OS is affected like "Trojan drills into Firefox for Windows" or "Trojan drills into Firefox for Linux" and so on.

Over the years Microsoft has managed to paint viruses and trojans etc. as an "act of god" where Microsoft is totally innocent and so blamelessly keen and able to run to our rescue fast as hell.

Adding to the problem

of lost civil servant laptops.

Perhaps it is the only way to get an up to date laptop or perhaps when it starts to behave randomly and each time you try to show how badly it behaves to the tech people it performs nicely like they tend to do. Perhaps the lost "solution" is then the only clever one.

Then again, perhaps, those who loose their computer should pay, personally, +20% for their new computer. Perhaps the number of lost stuff would decrease.

Or, perhaps, it is fine the way it is, or, perhaps, I am wrong altogether.

Yes

They are far from secure yet, and the temptation to tamper with the results comes from both inside and outside.

I wonder

Sometimes, about how many of those laptops lost, in different countries, are not simply given to the wife, children and grandchildren and them simply reported as stolen.

Would this be positive or negative thinking or simply a joke.

Hmm

"others may have real-world business related concerns for heightened security on their laptops"

So while you are logged in and want to add a printer the need for root will increase security?.

Or to quote

Linus Torwald, you can learn nothing from Windows.

Word and Excel

Is what the mighty Microsoft demands from the Unis, that is science talent.

Rockets are in

Submarines are out, still I would rather make a trip in the deep oceans than in space. What is there to see in space that we have not already seen.