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More Mac Vulnerabilities Than Windows In 2007?
eldavojohn writes "A ZDNet blog reports stats from Secunia showing OSX averaged 20.25 vulnerabilities per month while XP & Vista combined averaged 3.67/month. Is this report card's implication accurate, or is this a symptom of one company turning a blind eye while the other concentrates on timely bugfixes? 'While Windows Vista shows fewer flaws than Windows XP and has more mitigating factors against exploitation, the addition of Windows Defender and Sidebar added 4 highly critical flaws to Vista that weren't present in Windows XP. Sidebar accounted for three of those additional vulnerabilities and it's something I am glad I don't use. The lone Defender critical vulnerability that was supposed to defend Windows Vista was ironically the first critical vulnerability for Windows Vista.'"
lacking modpoints, and annoyed ath that being called troll, I'd just like to add my +1 funny.
Even as a person liking Windows (2000/XP anyway), I find that a riot.
Self proclaimed typo king, and inventor of the bear destroying coffee table (patent not pending).
GW administration is the "USA"? Holy crap, pull the wool from your eyes man! Or in your eyes the US will disappear when Bush leaves the presidency?!?! You claim this like Bush was some sort of embodiment of the USA. I'm glad that vast majority of US citizens and lawmakers do not agree with your point of you.
Your post was definitely flaimbait. There are people that do a lot worse than Hussein ever did (you know Saddam is a first name, like George, or should I just call US's president George from now on?). They did a lot worse yet are perfectly fine because,
1. they have better military, and/or they have nukes, or
2. they do not oppose US, or
3. US doesn't need anything they have
For examples of areas that have leaders that did a lot worse than Hussein, the short list off the top of my head would be (for recent history): Somalia, Rwanda (genocide), Sudan (current genocide), Burma, DR. Congo, Burma, Uzbekistan, etc..
Hussein could have been a very good US asset in the area, even post 90s war. Bush should have made him into a puppet, but I guess they just don't understand the motivation of someone like Hussein. That is very sad considering they apparently have an "expert" in the Soviet politics in Rice - I guess that expert was on paper only.
Bush administration has so far ruined the US financially, economically and morally. The next administration will have a difficult time to get back up.
Hoes does this relate to the original flame of "Mac security worse than Windows" baffles me.
Go ahead and call Bush "George". I don't care, and he likely doesn't either. In the Middle East, a famous person being called by his first name isn't an insult at all from what my friends who have served there tell me. That's cultural transferrance from people in the West. Please call GWB "Mr. President" when addressing him directly in person, though, as to respect the office. I would have paid Hussein the same honor when in his country while he was in power, but now he's dead.
The US was in Somalia, but Bill was getting blow jobs in the Oval Office and there was a movie called "Wag the Dog" implying that military involvement there was to take our minds off the scandal. That was a no-win situation.
The Russians are very tense over the US doing anything in Uzbekistan.
The US has even less support for doing anything in Sudan, Rwanda, Burma, or the DR Congo than we had to go into Iraq. Don't think that Sudan is militarly mightier than Iraq. Don't even suspect it, because it's simply not true.
Let me tell you what I think of Iraq, since you are asking me what I think about the situation. Iraq was not, as far as I can tell, directly nor indirectly tied to 9/11. They were in contact with Al Qaeda, but neither one trusted the other enough to even meet face to face, let alone work together. They did pay off families of suidice bombers in the "Palestinian resistence". They did evade, lie to, and interfere with the UN weapons inspectors. They did keep key WMD scientists employed and idle even while they weren't actively working on WMD projects. They repeatedly violated the no-fly zones. They had a history of gassing people internally and while at war with Iran. They invaded Kuwait over alleged slant drilling rather than going to the UN. They tortured their people and claimed 100% voter turnout and 100% votes for Saddam. The president's sons regularly raped women and girls then killed their families if there were any complaints. The US was at war with Iraq which ended in a ceasefire, and Saddam Hussein and his military for 11 years repeatedly violated the terms of that ceasefire. Which of the other countries you listed fit those criteria, most importantly the ceasefire?
Right now, GWB and his administration are the executive branch of the US federal government. That means that, other than nebulous private market pressures or the very specific Congressional action of a new declared war, they are all of the US that projects power outside US borders until the end of the current presidential term. Your "GWB is the whole US" question is a strawman. I never claimed that. This is specifically what I said, and it very clearly makes the distinctions you claim I did not make:
"Regardless of your feelings about the US in general, the US federal government in particular, or specifically the George W. Bush administration, if you're going to argue against a tactic (in this case empty repetition) don't turn around and use it in the same post. If you have a gripe, gripe. Don't just repeat your conclusion."
This thread relates to the method of discourse being used by Microsoft, satirized by George Orwell in 1984, pointed out by the parent of my original post, then utilized in the parent of my original post. That is, namely, that if you repeat a falsehood enough that people will begin to believe it based on the repitition.
I merely asked for some reason the parent was trashing the US government rather than a repitition about how bad the government is supposed to be. Apparently that's too much to ask of some Slashdot posters.