And if even the US military fail to secure them properly, how do you expect the average non-geek to do so?

You knew this was coming, with a setup like that...:-)

By using a linux/unix type OS. You will notice that mission-critical military systems, do NOT use Windows....i.e. nuclear subs, etc. The use of Windows in the military was purely a political choice, because of heavy lobbying by Microsoft advocates to boost sales to the governement. The fact that they would risk the safety of soldiers, by relying on Microsoft security, is criminal in my opinion.

And don't give me that argument that non-geeks can't do linux....it's just as easy as Windows, and installing is very easy nowadays. New Windows users go thru a heavy period of learning to point and click in the right places......linux is the same thing now.

About the only argument Windows has going for it, is the ease of new driver installation, like Bluetooth, etc. But the reason for that is the sweetheart deals Microsoft makes with manufacturers, to prevent linux drivers from being released.

I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth Remember How Lucky You Are

In reply to Re^11: Time::HiRes sleep does not always work by zentara
in thread Time::HiRes sleep does not always work by tone

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.