if you have your servers compromised, the data on them, and login attempt into them may be keylogged, WOW! Is this the level of articles we want on slashdot ?

Regarding the rant: http://www.qamacalculator.com/ (Even Fields medal nominee T.Gowers reacted positively to it)

This virus originates in rodents, and feeds on tissue (dead tissue).

In order to increase the food it developed a trick to attack the area of the brains related to danger/sexual "high".
In rats/mice it cause them to not run away from the cats (there are claims it makes the mice behave as if they are sexually aroused by cats)
In human males it causes lousy risk management, so that people infected are prone to dangerous activities (it appears >60% of donored organs are toxoplasmosis infected),
All of which indicates it attacks complex and subtle parts of nervous system.

So it is no surprise it attacks human females by this being prone to suicide.

Kinda makes sense.

The above breakdown is too simplistic. It doesn't imply what is the size of its edition (i.e. how many copies have been produced) The varying cost (i.e. encorporated in each book's copy) is the publisher's printing equipment's materials and work. The rest is constant cost - the marketing, the printing setup, pre-production, Design, and it all is depending on the size. the exact percentage goes down as edition goes up. So the example does not really show a real life breakdown. Also the retailer's price includes storing, shipping/transportation to the retailer's site. and it of course depends on the amount of copies. As to the electronic book - transportation and storage are quite small, as well as the marketing. As to the whole idea of having paper books - it will take some time that the "producers of the horseshoes" (paper books publishers) will stop fighting "producers of the railroads" (ebook publishers), and eventually the paper will be used in very rare cases - like certification documents, notable agreements, etc. And the e-Reader technology will evolve to a point, where people will enjoy it as much as we, the retrogrades enjoy paper books. And having a large library won't take half of one's dining room :) I believe in the progress, and see nothing bad with it. Publishers - ADAPT, or DIE.

I thought he said "large scale" (something on the scale of > 1000)

I prefer to use a non-common OS:

• the team is keener to improve such OS
• exploits are less common to spread
• faster development cycles, more features

As to the article... it indeed mostly works by s/linux/vista/g indeed :)

this is way off topic, but...

I have thought ethics requires people to stick to ethics not only at work. But, well, that's just me. As to the subject, I don't understand what good does it make to give a scene to this person, and remind him on slashdot pages. Well, in the 2nd thought, I hope he's paid a lot for this publicity slashdot has given him.

I must add "Silent Bob" - http://silentbob.sourceforge.net/ Cheers.