On 3/4/10 8:48 AM, Chris Penn wrote: > Ballmer is the biggest hole. > > On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Paul Saenz <forensicneoph...@gmail.com > <mailto:forensicneoph...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > If Microsoft wants a security tax, then who ever makes a bigger > security > hole should be taxed the most.... and that would be Microsoft. > > You might say that the reason Microsoft is the biggest hole is because > the are the most widely used OS (at least here in the US which is what > this tax would apply to) but I think it also has to do with their > marketing > plan, and the default security setting which they propagated across the > net for past 20 year. Yeah, they have made changes in the recent past, > but that was after they filled the world with insecure systems. > > On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Chris Penn <cantorm...@gmail.com > <mailto:cantorm...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > The Windows Operating System. Linux Driver development by > hardware OEMs, the IPad (no stylus!?)....... > > Chris... > > > On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Jeff Lasman > <jpli...@nobaloney.net <mailto:jpli...@nobaloney.net>> wrote: > > On Tuesday 02 March 2010 09:54:25 pm David Kaiser wrote: > > > > > http://www.itworld.com/software/98522/microsofts-charney-suggests-net-tax-c > > lean-computers > > > > HA HA HA HA - Microsoft wants a general usage tax on using > the Internet > > - to deal with their insecure operating system being a tax > on everyone. > > <snip> > "I actually think the health care model ... might be an > interesting way to > think about the problem," Charney said. With medical > diseases, there are > education programs, but there are also social programs to > inspect people and > quarantine the sick. > </snip> > > The health care model? Without being in favor of any "fix" > suggested so > far... can anything think of something more broken than > healthcare in the US? > > Jeff
So what else is new, that is common knowledge
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