I’ve been wanting to put together another Mises article on network neutrality, as previously mentioned. I’ve got several projects and finals coming up though, so here are a few more opeds on the matter. Note: I think there are a number of misconceptions all stemming from State intervention.
4/24/2006
What is neutral about neutrality?
How secure is your computer, for reals?
I’ve been using computers for nearly 20 years. The last 15 of which I have used some form of Windows. I’m not sure at what point I thought this, but I never really considered my system secure from virus writers, script kiddies and the like. At the same time I am not a professional programmer (…I do know how to write programs in various languages), but I do understand the mundane difficulties it must take to close every imaginable hole in a large and complex operating system — it is nearly impossible. All of this said, I nominate the following as the comment of the day:
Jim Alchin, Brian Valentine, Partners in Windows, please show the world that you trust Vista’s security…put your social security number, personal bank account numbers, and personal credit card numbers a on a Vista machine configured by Dell with a publically accessible and un-firewalled IP address and announce that IP address to the world.
Again, I always assume my system is insecure. Perhaps this might move me over to the Mac once more. And no, don’t try to convince me to use desktop Linux. Been there, done that numerous times — if it is too complicated for my mom to use, then I really don’t want to invest more time into it.