It is easier with something simpler, not something smaller. When you start doing extreme optimization for size, as in this case, you are going to do it at the expense of many things, checks being one of them. If you want to have good security, particularly for something that can be hit with completely arbitrary and hostile input like something on the network, you want to do good data checking and sanitization. Well guess what? That takes code, takes memory, takes cycles. You start stripping everything down to basics, stuff like that may go away.

What's more, with really tiny code sizes, particularly for complex items like an OS, what you are often doing is using assembly, or at best C, which means that you'd better be really careful, but there is a lot of room to fuck up. You mess up one pointer and you can have a major vulnerability. Now you go and use a managed language or the like and the size goes up drastically... but of course that management framework can deal with a lot of issues.

And also other tradeoffs. It is fashionable for some geeks to cry about the amount of disk space that stuff takes, but it always seems devoid of context and consideration, as though you could have the exact same performance/setup in a tiny amount of space if only programmers "tried harder" or something. However you do some research, and it turns out to all be tradeoffs, and often times the tradeoff to use more system resources is a good one. Never mind just capabilities/features, but there can be reasons to have abstractions, managed environments, and so on.

Of course, I'm the one who has it wrong right?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W...

Read the first line.

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But of course my kind doesn't rely on facts and figures, I just make things up. You are funny.

Oh, and for technical cred, I currently am a systems engineer working specifically on email systems design. I have the technical cred, do you?

Nuclear weapons aren't the only kind of WMD. Iraq had chemical and biologic weapons. We knew they were there as they had used them on the Kurds, and the US sold them to Saddam.

http://politics.slashdot.org/c...

WMD did exist, and were found.

As far as Kespersky, they have said there was some evidence of a possible EST in the build of stuxnet. However, this could just as easily be someone in Russia's time getting home from work rather than someone in the US going into work. It also doesn't give any kind of conclusive proof of US involvement in Stuxnet/Flame. Without proof, it is just a theory, therefore shouldn't be put forward as fact.

Except no one does more than speculate this, even Kespersky. There is still only speculation as there is no actual evidence of who did it.

Yes, you can.... everywhere except in the real world. Garbage collection is one of the reasons iOS is much faster than Android on the same hardware.

You might want to check the weight of those more efficient vehicles again. Hybrid/Electric cars weight more than a comparable ICE vehicle.

Exactly. Every time the minimum wage is raised, it is worth less and less. When you raise minimum wage, prices rise and that amount will always be worth less and less. The worth of the minimum wage has only gone down since 1968, despite being repeatedly raised because the lowest paid are always going to be the lowest paid, no matter how much you pay them.

I'm not the one calling people idiots while not being able to spell basic words.

So, because this specific tree that you choose is different, somehow the forest as a whole has changed entirely, lets just call it a field instead.

Probably just less money spent on the roads. When I drive to my girlfriend's parents house, I can see the difference in the roads the instant I cross the border, even though the traffic is pretty much the same on both sides. And we have big ruts in the roads where the big trucks drive, even though few people use studded tires in the winter.

No matter how much you pay the bottom 10%, it will always be the bottom 10%. When someone does a job that can be done better by a machine, what kind of pay do they deserve?

Because encouraging people to drive on bald tires until they explode would just be such a good idea...

And who could possibly have predicted that?