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[dep]

quoth Bill Campbell:

| Hackers aren't the only thing that cause serious economic loss. 
| The lost productivity waiting for Windows systems to reboot, even
| if there's no data loss,  I did some rough calculations after
| reading an article that said United Parcel Service had about
| 160,000 Windows machines (bragging of course :-).  Assuming that
| each machine had only one unscheduled reboot a day with no data
| loss, the cost for lost time per year was well over $10,000,000 USD
| (closer to 20M).

i easily believe that. and it's an important issue. but it's also an 
issue different from those who with malice seek to disrupt other 
people's machines and the internet itself. as a friend once put it to 
me, if you catch your wife in bed with another guy and you shoot the 
other guy, you haven't solved the problem." and in any case, 
microsoft has no incentive to tighten its system; nor, apparently, do 
most windows users. neither microsoft nor windows is going away. 
those who exploit flaws in windows are eating up *my* bandwidth and 
sending crap to *my* mailbox. (and, apparently, gathering email 
addresses that include mine from messages sent to windows machines, 
and sending out virus-infected mail with my return address on it.) 
and if an effort were made to catch such persons and, when they are 
caught, cause them extreme distress -- perhaps send them to texas, 
where the gay guys have a lot of pent-up desire to stretch 
sphincters, to which the supreme court today gave the go-ahead -- 
there would be a lot less of this foolishness.
-- 
dep

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