(Thanks, P. :)
Reader P. writes:
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Re: NOTE TO READER WHO WROTE ABOUT 'REPETITIOU....
Quite right Hobie. Just some side-notes for yer personal edification (or maybe my funny ramblings ...) ...
1). At some level, all music is rhythmic or repetitive.
2). [never mind :)]
3). JAVA-code can do lots of bad things. This is the reason that while JAVA is in MACOSX, at this late date, and as public policy, ALL JAVA is disabled in MacOSX. It is awakened only when needed, and only when a system prompt is approved by the user. JAVAscript remains active, but that's not the same thing at all. Much of HTML won't work without it, in modern environs. After 3-days of JAVA full access, MacOSX shuts the thing down again, until it's prompted for use again. This is to function for people that want to do online-banking, the only reason for JAVA on the Internet remaining.
JAVA and JAVA-script are two distinct items, but are joined at the hip for certain authorship reasons.
4). PC problems and UNIX-based systems have a different set of malware problems (just as a comment to point to a safe-and-sane talking point).
PC-related stuff. At present, the best invasion point is as follows, Internet Explorer, Edge (in Win-10), and any Anti-Malware package. This last is a new beast, but the Anti-malware community is recently very 'abuzz' talking about it. Couple the basic holes in the Windows operating system, to the analysis engines present in the anti-malware packages, and the new hacking attempts have found a new and profitable battle ground. And all of this happens without the awareness of the user.
UNIX-type systems, including MacOSX, are not the swiss-cheeze that is present in Windows. Anti-Malware software still works quite well for these systems. Some systems are still essentially immune. Ubuntu Linux has NEVER seen a vulnerability shown in the wild ever. Blackhat conferences routinely ignore Linux for this reason. The UNIX under MacOSX is tight as a drum, just as these system are on the U.S. Stock-Market. For example, while Anonymous is successful at attacking banks via the vulnerabilities present in the JAVA front-ends in these systems (the news is full of this stuff recently), we're not seeing success by invasion of the stock-market transaction systems. They are 100% BSD-UNIX and were established in the middle of the 20th century. Some of those systems have NEVER been shutdown, for maintenance or for any other reason. It isn't necessary, as it is for Windows Server Software.
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As for hearing music, your commentary is something the original post'r should take to heart. Yer right. But, the next thing he should do is evaluate his Internet needs and take some action.
Firstly, if he's using Windows, he's already using a system that should NEVER be placed onto the Internet. And that is final. I gave up on servicing Windows when I began to learn that all Windows users were not only putting their computers on the Internet, BUT then a high percentage of them were doing VERY risky things with them, like frequenting unsafe porn-sites, that insist on Flash for dissemination of media (all laced with intentional malware), and all having a clear-path to the command and control of any Windows system. No such thing as a 'Safe' Windows system. Infections occur in 30-seconds or less to an unprotected system. Windows Defender is almost no protection at all. Remember, Microsoft invented it. The same guys that invented that POS we call Windows. An externally protected Windows system (something with a third-party anti-malware) can be infected in less than 90-seconds. And there are literally thousands of access points.
Nextly, the only way to 'fix' a Windows system, is to clear the hard drive of Windows, and place your favorite version of Linux on it. If you can find a version that works well on yer hardware. If not, your only remaining avenue is to buy a piece of hardware with anything but Windows on it. That means the few Wintel builders that are still publishing Linux equipped hardware. If not that, then a ChromeBook (which I won't deal with because Google is a bunch American Traitors), or buy a Macintosh.
These rules are simple, and clearly written. The rules of the game changes, but the answers remain almost the same. I do not support Windows at any level, anymore. I want users to become frustrated and angry and demand a better computer. There's a reason why you can buy a Windows laptop for $300. Because the system on it is a POS, and actually endangers its users. Let them get mad and do something else. Windows systems are a loss-leader (like that watermelon for $1, to get you into the supermarket) to get you entwined into the Windows culture, buy Windows compatible software (which forces you to get yer money's worth out of these Apps), and get you involved with paying for tech-services, when you find yer system so damaged by stuff on the WEB, that now you pay more for the medicine than the the original disease (Windows). $500 repair bills are not uncommon (this is more than the average teenager pays for his Wintel laptop.)
Keep in mind, in seriously damaged Wintel hardware, a complete reload of Windows is required. Then adjustment and tuning. This can take more than 24-working hours. Anybody that tells you otherwise is a hack.
All Android, and ChromeBook, IOS and Macintosh, are systems that use a version of UNIX underneath of them. They are the response to Windows. In today's World, collectively, these four varieties of systems outnumber Windows users (I know, some people will be shocked by this). They point the way, and will continue to erode the strength of Windows, until the folks in Redmond Washington tear up their sourcecode for Windows and write something new. I mean totally new.
From scratch.
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Hobie, I know, I'm ranting. Don't publish if you feel it's too much. It is unpleasantly truthful. Unfortunately.
Thanks for the ear ...
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