Americans 'misjudge online risks':
US computers users know more about Janet Jackson's breasts than about security software on their own PC.
A survey found that 90% of those asked could remember when Ms Jackson suffered her "wardrobe malfunction".
But only 60% recalled when they last updated anti-virus, firewall and operating system software on their PC.
The survey, by a US security group, found people were getting more worried about computer security but some vastly under-estimated how at risk they were.
e.p.c. posted this at 15:36 GMT on 3-Oct-2004 .
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While doing mass-cleaning and thorwing away of the detritus from various moves and houses and jobs, I came across the December 1993 draft of Unlimited Storage Availability for MVS/ESA, featuring the GETTMAIN macro.
GETTMAIN was very different from the existing GETMAIN macro in that it would allow you to acquire all virtual storage across all computers in existence at the time, this being 1993 this was probably 1Gb or less.
GETTMAIN was a joke, in case there's any MVS lurkers scanning their 1993 era Init & Tuning guides looking for it.
Anyway, it was funny in its own Myers Corners Lab exclusive way, and reflected a time at IBM when you could take a moment to have some fun at work.
I'm sure those moments have been excised from the corporation, wouldn't want people to enjoy working after all.
e.p.c. posted this at 18:27 GMT on 3-Oct-2004 .
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