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- inactive, on 11/28/2007, -1/+193The irony is, all he had to do the get this started was download a "free aquarium screen saver"
- JustAboutReal, on 11/28/2007, -5/+185New life goal: make one of these virus aquariums using a Beowulf cluster
- Dorkbot101, on 07/15/2009, -2/+128Network Pt. 2: Blaster and W32.Welchia combine and mutate into W32.RAPTOR
- inactive, on 11/28/2007, -5/+101damn.... xkcd is getting better and better with each comic.
thanks randall - jdm0778, on 11/28/2007, -4/+98did you fall asleep while writing the word "art"?
- adragontattoo, on 11/28/2007, -3/+83and here I thought that my fishtank was the geek version of a fishtank.
- thcobbs, on 11/28/2007, -5/+78But it will be really boring with linux
- Girlieq3, on 11/28/2007, -0/+62xkcd.com had it this morning too. Surprise!
- Trax91, on 11/28/2007, -22/+80The Alternate Text for the comic:
"Viruses so far have been really disappointing on the 'disable the internet' front, and time is running out. When Linux/Mac win in a decade or so the game will be over." - mauriziopetrone, on 11/28/2007, -17/+70Who's a good virus?
(LOL!) - JayD16, on 11/28/2007, -2/+35It needs to be virtual machines otherwise you would run into the obvious time sink of restoring a computer after it was randomly deleted. A billion internet points to any one who actually gets this to work.
- DeathUnlimited, on 11/28/2007, -5/+37The company I work for are looking into using virtual machines and I'm the one who is going to be creating the network
expect me to be jobless in a couple of weeks xD - betterth, on 11/28/2007, -1/+33Considering its a wildly successful comic, I'd have to say "no, it's not weird. That's actually kind of the point".
- inactive, on 11/28/2007, -1/+32http://blag.xkcd.com/2007/03/04/velociraptor-safet ...
- inactive, on 11/28/2007, -6/+36STFU! This is my first time reading it and it was funny.
- Trax91, on 11/28/2007, -8/+36Why am I dugg down? Its FTA!
- meez, on 11/28/2007, -4/+27Whilst you have a point, it is possible to argue there would be less, or at least they would be less widespread. Unix/Linux is funamentally more secure than Windows, but I still agree that there would be more viruses if they were the mainstream operating systems.
- inactive, on 11/29/2007, -1/+23How can you not love xkcd? It's a work of ar.
- inactive, on 11/28/2007, -1/+22Pics or it didn't happen.
- simpleid, on 11/28/2007, -6/+26you're obviously ignorant to how digg.com works. you see, someone submits anything they want. and if *people* like it, *they* digg it up. now if something has 1,000+ diggs, then that is exactly how many people cared.
does the world revolve around you? no. - rmetzger, on 11/28/2007, -1/+21oh the ironing.
- Zippo, on 11/28/2007, -2/+21This is MY geeky fish tank:
http://photos.extracaffeine.com/index.php?dir=MacG ... - keeganspeck, on 11/28/2007, -2/+21It's xkcd, buddy.
- zensequential, on 11/28/2007, -3/+21can i get that on my 50" plasma? it'll be my new animal planet channel
- hybridcreation, on 11/28/2007, -1/+17That's one of the most clever things I have read in a while.
- hybridcreation, on 11/28/2007, -0/+15It must be torture being so cool, huh?
- Tophillious, on 11/28/2007, -2/+17It seems like every xkcd comic gets insanely dugg 0.o
What badasses.. - tidalwav1, on 11/28/2007, -10/+24I'm as big a fan of XKCD as the next person, and it's a fantastic comic, but does every single XKCD that comes out need to be dugg up to the front page?
- KingBunny, on 11/28/2007, -1/+15Press "previous" for an equally funny + random comic!
..wait.. and then press it again.... and again... hmm..
...holy crap!! Is xkcd actually BETTER than it used to be? I thought it was already awesome. - ryansmith18, on 11/28/2007, -0/+14It's just stupid the number of people on Digg nowadays that have to point out that "Reddit had it first!" Does it matter? Does reddit get bonus points? Do they get sole rights to spread the news about a particular article? NO. Reddit, Digg, and the other various vote-on-news type sites out there are ALL going to have the same content (most of the time). It's just a matter of user preference. If you like Digg, use Digg. If you like Reddit, use Reddit and don't act like a douche because Reddit had some article before Digg.
- TangentThought, on 11/28/2007, -0/+14I really wish Firefox would fix this bug so I won't have to install an extension to read all of it.
- PFS1, on 11/28/2007, -3/+16Diggers are anti-mac? Holy crap, how long have you been here?
- TomFrost, on 11/28/2007, -2/+13Echoing meez's thoughts here, but I'd like to add the word "significantly" before "less". If you truly believe the only reason macs or linux boxes don't have viruses is because they're not popular, you could benefit from researching UNIX filesystem security and execution protections. There's no system that can't be exploited on *some* level, but when a virus is completely unable to overwrite any system configuration or access any resources without an admin password, that virus would be laughable at best.
- isntreal, on 11/28/2007, -25/+36The only thing that pisses me off about mac fan boys (ok, the only thing right this minute) is that they don't realize if Macs were more popular, they would have more viruses. It's not like Macs are "virus proof", there just aren't nearly as many developers who WANT to work with Macs.
- inactive, on 11/28/2007, -0/+10or they should just subscribe to the RSS
- AgentMull, on 11/28/2007, -2/+12I found the previous one to be pretty funny too.
- KingGorilla, on 11/28/2007, -2/+12Just like fish except no poop
- drimo, on 11/28/2007, -1/+10Agreed, especially when you start getting into computerized controllers for recording water parameters and remote controlling.
- xenlab, on 11/28/2007, -1/+10And its spam because?
- RoboDonut, on 11/28/2007, -6/+15I'm not a Mac fan, have never owned a Mac in my life, and do not plan on owning one in the future. However, I've noticed that diggers are rabidly anti-Mac. They are so anti-Mac, that they will digg down anything pro-Mac, even if it's true.
I've used UNIX-like OSes. I use Linux as the primary OS on my desktop, and I've used BSD on a few occasions. Mac OS X is a (heavily modified) form of BSD, and is thus much more secure than Windows. While it is not, by any means, immune to viruses you should at least acknowledge that it would be a little more resistant.
After all, Windows was derived from a single-user OS (DOS), where access controls and security were an afterthought that didn't really get started until the internet came around, while MacOSX/Linux/BSD was derived from a much more robust multi-user OS (UNIX), were access controls and security were present from the very beginning. Windows had to maintain a certain amount of backwards-compatibility, and as a result, we're still stuck with an OS that requires everyone to have admin privileges, auto-runs executables on removable media without prompting, continues to use password hashes that were proven insecure, and generally disregards security.
Windows isn't a bad OS, but you're wrong if you think it's on the same level of security as the alternatives. - hydraw, on 11/28/2007, -0/+8I think it has been fixed in firefox 3
- Kailash.Nadh, on 11/28/2007, -2/+9It was funny; din't cause laughter though.
- demodawid, on 11/28/2007, -1/+7Also, this is a brand new comic (as of this post)
- Upsizer, on 11/28/2007, -0/+6I'm not sure why you suddenly started ranting... the alternate text reads 'Linux/Mac', not just mac. Where exactly did you get your 'mac fan boys' implication?
- mwdcodeninja, on 11/28/2007, -9/+15I want one.... I think it would make an outstanding screen saver for my Mac :)
- strictnein, on 11/28/2007, -1/+7Reminds me of last weekend. A one hour task of moving a couple of hard drives to a new system magically ballooned into a 18 hour system and network rebuild. But, at everything is running really nicely now, so I'm happy.
- RoboDonut, on 11/28/2007, -1/+6It may have a shiny new kernel, but it still shares many of the flaws of the earlier MS-DOS-based releases.
Microsoft needed to maintain backwards-compatibility with 98 (and Me) when they released 2000. They should have done a complete overhaul, but they didn't because it would have been dangerous to them from a business perspective. That's why they still don't have proper access controls. - abhiroop, on 11/28/2007, -1/+6Although that is for the most part true, I remember a test that was run a while back where a computer was connected to the internet without any security measures (i.e. an XP Pro comp without any anti-virus, updates, firewall, or even SP2) and it had a virus in about 30 seconds of browsing the net. Try and search for it, if I find it I'll post it
- codefreakxff, on 11/28/2007, -1/+6Where do you work? *dusts of my resume*
- fuzzmeister, on 11/28/2007, -1/+6You know, you can just right click on the image and go to Properties. The resulting box shows you the full alt-text.
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