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Disney Chief Bob Iger Doesn't Believe Movie Hack Threat Was Real (hollywoodreporter.com)
You may remember Disney's boss revealing that hackers had threatened to leak one of the studio's new films unless it paid a ransom. Bob Iger didn't name the film, but it was thought to be "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales." But now Iger says: "To our knowledge we were not hacked." From a report: Disney chairman-CEO Bob Iger confirmed Thursday that a hacker claiming to have stolen an upcoming Disney movie and demanding a ransom didn't appear to have the goods. "To our knowledge we were not hacked," Iger told Yahoo Finance. "We had a threat of a hack of a movie being stolen. We decided to take it seriously but not react in the manner in which the person who was threatening us had required." Iger continued, "We don't believe that it was real and nothing has happened." On May 15, as first reported by The Hollywood Reporter, Iger told ABC employees at a town hall meeting in New York that someone claiming to have stolen an upcoming movie would release the film on the internet unless the company paid a ransom. Iger told staff that the studio wouldn't meet any such demands.
I donâ(TM)t want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Mac fanatics? Iâ(TM)ve been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac (a 8600/300 w/64 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running Windows 10, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Firefox will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even Atom is straining to keep up as I type this.
I wonâ(TM)t bore you with the laundry list of other problems that Iâ(TM)ve encountered while working on various Macs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is Iâ(TM)ve never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macsâ(TM) faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 300 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I donâ(TM)t get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.
Mac addicts, flame me if youâ(TM)d like, but Iâ(TM)d rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.