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No one is arguing that Islam should be credited for Western liberalism. That's not an argument.

That's not unusual. The Roman 'Golden Age' coincided with (or slightly preceded, depending on your POV) the Roman conquest of Europe and the Renaissance and Enlightenment coincided with the European conquest of the Americas and Africa. There was, as I recall, even a 'mini-renaissance' that coincided with the Crusades. No doubt. It seems like you could turn the argument around and claim that, e.g., the Enlightenment was a product of westerners but not of the West. Islam did spread into Europe. The result was arguably the high-point of Iberian civilization. That didn't stop it from happenin

The sections on topics that I'm familiar with seem to be accurate enough. We aren't talking about modern times.

Erm....

I used to use (pseudo-)random 63 character passwords. You'd need large tables

Details? Quick search only turned up a relatively difficult to exploit TKIP vulnerability.

Nope.

Sun fixed it last year. Apple hasn't rolled the fix into the OS X JRE.

TEMPEST. You did say "anything".

The probability that address filtering will prevent a network with WPA (or even WEP) enabled from being compromised is vanishingly small.

MAC address filtering doesn't improve security. It's ridiculously easy to identify and spoof an allowed address.

A single ext3 partition for / should be fine. If the installer doesn't understand swap files you'll probably want a small swap partition, too; 512 MiB should be more than enough.

Also....

You can do it with HTML+CSS+JavaScript. The Ext Core lightbox and JSONP examples together have about 90% of what you'd need (and a lot that you probably wouldn't need).

The masks are a wearable placebo. Surgical masks are supposed reduce the risk of infection (I don't know about painters masks) but right now the main benefit is psychological.

God help us. This isn't a technical debate: we're arguing about free will.

You missed the point on that one. The user-interaction occurs before the virus is present on the drive; the infection is a side-effect of automated processes (automatic network drive remounting, AutoRun, etc). You right: humans and birds have more in common than viruses and worms.

Their policies are almost indistinguishable. Obama's policies seem to be worse in some cases, e.g. wiretapping. Bush didn't commit treason. Indeed, he's usually criticized for what was, at least superficially, essentially a 'War on Treason'.

They have a point about OS X and Unix. UNIX® certification doesn't mean that OS X doesn't suck. It's a remote vulnerability. The advisories I looked at said it requires authentication on the target machine on NT 6 (but not NT 5) but didn't provide details.

Well, yes, because your definition is crazy. Everything requires some sort of user interaction. Your machine can't be infected unless you buy it, bring it home, set it up, turned it on, etc. And then discover that there was a factory-installed boot sector virus on the HDD. You could have a mapped network drive that's infected after it's mapped. People do many of the same things that birds do. People are not a subclass of birds.

I'm still not sure that cross-Unix viruses are especially practical. Native code viruses would likely have to deal with, e.g., the various object file formats used by Unices (ELF on Linux and the BSDs, Mach-O on OS X, COFF on AIX and Irix, etc) and non-native viruses would likely be portable to non-Unices. Please tell me you mean LPC. The 'remote' part of RPC means that you can't rely on client-side security at all. I realize that there's some kind of law that RPC has to be broken but that would be a bit much. I make it all up as I go along.

Worms and viruses are separate categories. They have practically nothing in common. Boot sector viruses and AutoRun viruses.

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No way. Unix has maybe 15% of the PC market. The server market's something like 1/25th the size of the PC market, so that's at most another few percent. The near-complete lack of binary compatibility presents a bit of a problem. Source compatibility, too, for that matter; I don't think autoconf is an option for a virus.

Vote fraud with paper ballots was a bug. With electronic voting machines it's a feature. (I don't really care half as much about all this as it sounds.)