The usual Slashdot response is that there is no way prioritization is compatible with net neutrality, but we only have to look at the post office to see that it can be done. You have the choice to send by standard mail, or to pay more to speed up delivery.
Perfect! The customer pays extra for speed of a shipment irregardless of contents inside. Now if only the we could apply this to the internet.
As I've said many times, patches are nowhere near as high a concern if you lock things down in the first place, and Microsoft do provide some pretty good tools for doing that in Windows (namely Group Policy).
As I've said many times, might as well go back to testing with a pad and pen if my work computer is no better than a portable heater. If I had to ask for permission every time I need access to services on my own machine it would double the time it already takes me to get things done. Network security is important. It isn't more important that the reason the network exists in the first place. Locking everything down is the easy way out and not always the most productive. Is slashdot on your list of approved web sites or are you just invoking IT GOD power?
"Take that, you hostile sons-of-bitches!" -- James Coburn, in the finale of _The_President's_Analyst_
