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From: JohnT on 29 Jul 2006 09:50 "Mxsmanic" <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:scbmc2tl4ciecgt3atgfc1ojh9i2h776vt(a)4ax.com... > Jim Ley writes: > >> Of course it is, designing the system so it cannot run untrusted code >> is absolutely virus protection, it was part of the design constraints. > > Running trusted code and actively protecting against viruses are two > different things. Virus attacks are unlikely in a wristwatch. I should think that it is certainly possible for the uplink from Braunsweig to be deliberately corrupted. You have chosen a very bad example. OTOH my refrigerator doesn't contact the outside world so is probably safe from attack. JohnT
From: JohnT on 29 Jul 2006 09:53 "Mxsmanic" <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:nnlmc2hk2o9qfdprmdh9e7giurv071qb5k(a)4ax.com... > Martin writes: > >> You aren't in the computer industry. > > Why not? Because you got the sack/pink slip/P45? Only you know. JohnT
From: Stanislas de Kertanguy on 29 Jul 2006 10:00 Terry Richards a expos le 29/07/2006 : > "Jim Ley" <jim(a)jibbering.com> wrote in message > news:44cb564d.94706515(a)news.individual.net... >> On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 14:32:27 +0200, "Terry Richards" >> <terryr999(a)removethis.orange.fr> wrote: >> >> With that result it seems clear that the claim of a great majority >> isn't sustainable - > > Which was my point. > >> but that's got absolutely sod all to do with cars, >> which are not computers. > > If you review the thread, you will see that I was using cars as examples of > devices that contain one or more computers that are not PCs. OK, so I infer that injection calculators don't have antivirus software because it would destabilize tham ? same for airbag calculators and ABS sensors ? -- remplacez "lesptt" par "laposte" pour me joindre substitute "laposte" for "lesptt" to reach me
From: Dave Frightens Me on 29 Jul 2006 10:00 On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 14:38:17 +0200, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote: >Dave Frightens Me writes: > >> So you are saying they are all wrong. > >Yes. Too bad, because there are more of them than you. When it comes to a language, majority rules. >> A computer is what people consider a computer, whether you consider >> the definition differently or not. > >If computer has no fixed definition, then questions about how common >antivirus programs are are moot. And operating systems. -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- --
From: Mxsmanic on 29 Jul 2006 12:06
barney2(a)cix.compulink.co.uk writes: > By your own account, your only employment is as an English teacher and > tour guide. So a doctor without a job is no longer a doctor? -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail. |