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NSA Security Guide for Mac OS X
An anonymous reader writes "The National Security Agency has just released a Security Configuration Guide for Apple Mac OS X (pdf). The guide mostly contains common sense configuration information that applies to many Unix systems. It also includes specific discussion for Apple's unique features such as Keychain and FileVault. It should be useful to most Mac OS X users and will be particularly useful for US Government organisations that use Mac OS X and for commercial IT Departments that are supporting Mac OS X. A range of other NSA Security Configuration guides for other operating systems, applications, and IT kit are also available."
Normally I wouldn't reply to this, but since you didn't post as Anonymous Coward I felt compelled to look at some of your other posts.
I can tell by reading what you've previously posted, that it's not the moderators that suck. You are very opinionated, which is fine, but you seem to think your opinion is actually fact.
You're either young, or you just never bothered to learn that everyone is different, and everyone sees things differently. For example, you don't like Open Office. Many people do, and many people like it more than the commercial alternatives. So when you post saying "Open Office sucks huge." You're not saying anything constructive. You're merely expressing an asinine immature emotion.
What would be constructive is if you openly looked at the other side of the argument, and actually considered it as being true, and took a step back and re-evaluated your own opionion for a moment. If you can't see the other side, or don't even bother to try, you're not really having a discussion, you're just having a pissing content. And after you can do that, you should then be able to express your opinion in terms of why's and how come's. Ie: Not just "Open Office's interface is st00pid#!!1" but "I dislike this feature of OO because of this reason, whereas MS Office does it this way and I feel that to be more efficient."
Truthfully, you just come across as an angry person with a chip on your shoulder. If you act like this in real life I expect you to have no friends, or atleast if you do have friends you've probably manipulated them into feeling bad for you. Really they only pity you. You need to grow up, and act like a man. Cliche, but true. Suck it up, and get over the fact that life is not perfect, nor is it what you want it to be (and it never will be). And that's okay. Life is life. No need to get mad about it.
Another hint for you is not to have your sig as "FUCK YOU SLASHDOT". The only explanation for that is a) you're a angry kid with a chip on his shoulder, or b) you want to modded down. Which makes sense in the context of a) since most people like that take derriviative forms of pleasure from making their plight's self-fulfulling. What a better way to scorn the world than to be certain the world scorns you?
My advice to you is grow up, get real, and quit being such a baby.
Note that this is posted anonymously because I _expect_ the moderators to mod it down. It is offtopic and should be modded accordingly.
Oh, one final thought. You complained about the moderators modding one of your comments as "Redundant." I remember reading that story (and its comments) and you probably posted that without even reading all the comments, because I remember reading a few others with similar (but much more well expressed) sentiments. Your post was most certainly redundant.
I'm waging my own ineffectual little war against those moderators in metamoderation by marking any negative moderation of comments about failings of editors or moderators unfair, and I urge the rest of the slashdot readership to do the same.
Isn't that just contributing to the problem? Complaints are off-topic as are many of the things that are modded as funny. Your little "war" is just punishing those who moderate properly instead of those who do not.
Not everything is analogous to cars. Car analogies rarely work.
The moderation FAQ clearly says to focus on positive moderation. People who negatively moderate things instead of focusing on positive moderation are not only wasting their moderation, but they're wasting their time.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"