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0 pointsarchangel_one13y ago0 comments

No, that is a totally different thing, and a fairly ridiculous comparison. You clearly can't have Crysis 3 15 years ago because the computers weren't powerful enough. Please don't apply a bad metaphor and tell me that's my reasoning, because it clearly wasn't.

Security does not require computing power, it needs careful code. By your logic, OpenBSD would have been an insecure mess 15 years ago, and nobody's web server would be getting hacked today. That is not how it works.

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powertower13y ago

I've pointed out how ridiculous it's to blame Windows 95 for not being what today OSes are.

Since that wasn't good enough, I then pointed out how ridiculous it would be to compare IE6 (circa 2001) with the latest version of Chrome (2012).

But that wasn't good enough either.

So in the most general of ways I gave you one even better, which BTW had a small part to do with PC performance and more to do with everything else.

> OpenBSD would have been an insecure mess 15 years ago, and nobody's web server would be getting hacked today.

Have no idea what logic you're talking about.

I think we'll just have to disagree.

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