On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 15:47:43 -0800 jdow disseminated the following: > > And here I thought the Aussies were bright :-( > > > > Stephen and Franki : don't you have asylums down under ? > > > > Kaj Haulrich. > > The criteria were somewhat weak. But given that it was a journalist > who did the tests and installs it is fair to consider him to be more > of a talking head mentality than a technoid mentality. That is fair, > too. He was performing his tests for Aunt Tilly not for the average > highly computer literate technoid such as we are or are approaching > as a state of being.
...none of which excuses a journalist from misinforming people. As you point out, the author make an egregious error in not properly comparing the different OS's from a security standpoint. If one wants to merely journalise ones own experiences for anecdotal interest, that's one thing, but to put on the appearance that they had actually done some research, and have clearly not done so, is disingenuous. -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 19:17:04 up 31 days, 7:57, 6 users, load average: 0.11, 0.07, 0.14 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes, to blind you from the truth..." -- Morpheus, in The Matrix, describing Fox News
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