[ale] Sunday 05-22-05 6PM RUN-AS-ROOT CHALLENGE

[George Carless]

> Ok, why not throw in the car argument.  How do you protect your
> desktop/laptop PC(s) from car accidents?  Let take this thread in
> all sorts of directions.  The real issue here is that nobody can
> provide solid data that run-as-root on a desktop/laptop is bad. 
> All they can do is hypothesis, describe hardware faults, and 
> obfuscate the issue.  This thread has turned from a serious "why not"
> into multiple people spreading *FUD*, some presumably to probably
> pump up their own measly means of existence.

This is inane.  Nobody is spreading FUD; you are just being remarkably obtuse, and making 
yourself look remarkably stupid.  

--George
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George Carless ... kafka at antichri.st
Words are just dust in deserts of sound