On Monday 07 November 2016 14:48:29 Richard Owlett wrote: > On 11/7/2016 7:57 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 07:12:00AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > [...] > > > >>> Debian is trying to protect you from someone taking over your... > >>> say Apache [...] > >> > >> My Debian machines do not physically have networking capability. > >> See my email hearder. Mr. Gates can handle some things ;/ > > > > No physical networking capability is needed for surprising things > > to happen. Spiritual network access may be enough (say playing a > > video file which carries a stack smashing exploit for your video > > player). > > > > I seem to discern in you the old DOS attitude which brought about > > a Golden Era of Virus (which is returning via the "The Browser is > > The Machine", mind you ;-) > > > > (please, don't take the above really seriously: but yes, many > > decisions behind all that permissions circus in Unix and children > > can be traced back to an effort to separate different things. > > If you let that concept sink in, you won't be surprised as often). > > I doubt that were are that far apart in goals. I'm so old > fashioned that I remember when the "cores" of core memory were > visible to the naked eye.
My husband is so old fashioned that he insists on using cheques. The problem is that workmen et al don't like cheques. So I have taken to suggesting that he should pay me by cheque and I will pay the workmen electronically. I want them to work for us again!! Sometimes Richard, you have to accept that they have invented the quartz watch and not insist on using a wind up, then complaining when the local watch cleaner has closed down because everyone else has switched to quartz. Lisi
