If that were true, someone would have taken the less than an hours time to do it as there are many more people than you, who are far smarter and more skilled, with far fewer ethical mores. I'll believe it when I see it, but then again, on that front I'm more of a curious observer as I don't own a Mac (though I do an iPod).
The average user (like say my mother this last weekend) cares a lot about paying a Norton subscription every year rather than running a system that doesn't have those problems. So she bought one of the new HP 10" netbooks and had me install Ubuntu Netbook Remix on it.
She feels better knowing that the OS is designed securely and that she doesn't need to worry about getting more viruses and cruft on there like on her Windows computers. She specifically told me this. She is the epitome of an average user, but she knows enough to ask someone who is computer savvy when making purchasing decisions and actually listen to their advice.
To say that the average computer user doesn't care about these things would negate the entire "security" industry as that's exactly what they prey on. The care and worry of the average user that the OS they are using was not designed securely and is vulnerable to attack vectors by people who know more than they do about the machine.
I don't use a Mac, and I tend to look at the AV/Security "industry" as very small amount above goombas asking for "protection" money. They are leeches that are simply a result of Microsoft not designing their OS properly.
There would be a MUCH higher payoff for having a remote code execution vulnerability exploit on a Linux server target since a large amount of very valuable data is stored on linux servers, yet none has been captured in the wild. Instead viruses continue to be written targeting a poorly designed OS to turn the clients into spam spewing zombies.
Plus, if you want to spew spam out across the net, how about zombie-ing a server sitting on a nice piece of fiber, that's a trusted mail packet source instead of a machine sitting on at best a 1.5 Mbps shared bandwidth line that any mail server with half a brain discards the payload coming off it?
Get your own chair at the grown up table and stop using Windows. Spam will stop, and vendors will "magically" make their software for other OS's.
# Number of Infections: 0 - 49 # Number of Sites: 0 - 2
So, its been detected at somewhere in the area of 1 or 2 sites. Ever. Not really losing sleep over it, but I'll concede the point that there kinda sorta is one virus definition in the virus scanner.
the second one isn't even protected against by the AV software.
Nice long post, but you have one MAJOR fallacy included:
As Macs are increasingly used in mixed environments, antivirus software is always prudent, as Mac antivirus software also recognizes and captures Windows viruses in addition to Mac, stopping inadvertent spread. For example, Symantec's full array of virus definitions for Windows and Mac OS are included in the definitions on both platforms.
Wrong. Totally wrong. Mac antivirus software ONLY scans for W32 viruses as those are the only payloads that there are definitions for. You run that as a dontation of CPU cycles to your clueless Windows running counterparts who can't be bothered to run an OS designed from the ground up for multi-user networked security (like Linux, BSD, or as a result, MacOS)
Assuming you're not one the many people that blocks google-analytics.com using NoScript, thus negating a large chunk of Mozilla Firefox (and thus Linux) users.
Video editing. DVD authoring. MP3 Encoding. Video Capture. HTPC. Signal Processing.
The list goes on for processor limited tasks that new hardware continues to improve. To say that you only use your PC for gaming shows your age and naivete.
You do realize you're agreeing with him in a vigorous tone, right? Look at the line you quoted:
Monopoly isn't all about market share. It is about anti-competitive practices.
That statement doesn't even imply that it has nothing to do with market share, it states (very correctly as you pointed out as well) that market share is not the only factor in determining an illegal monopoly.
Use the "Manual Configuration" option at the bottom of the Network Manager menu. Setup your home network under your Manual Configuration. When you're on the road, go into it and check roaming mode for the wifi, and use NM as normal. Problem solved.
For now, we offer the free version of EtherPad as a service, which is already useful in a number of use cases. In the free versions, pads are secured by creating unique and non-guessable URLs. Only people who know the URL to your pad will be able to access its contents. In this way, you can control access to a pad. You can think of the randomly-generated URL as a sort of password.
Boy, I hope some suckers use this for ultra secret stuff. I will be firing up my script soon enough to figure out those "non-guessable" URLs.
I've already made the decision not to do that. I can make backups of all my DVD's and use a medialess home theater system, record OTA HD and auto remove all the advertising, and have CONVENIENCE over bitrate quality. Its certainly nice not to pay DirecTV $100/month and get a more enjoyable experience out of the deal.
What DOES NOT work on me in a similar light are stupid reward programs, like the fact that I carry around FIVE different plastic cards, one for each brand of supermarket. I don't give a crap which one I shop in, but if one of them were to drop their obnoxious "we jack up the price so we can discount it when you get our stupid card" program, I might be willing to go a few minutes out of my way to go there, just as a statement of how lame that crap is.
FYI, you don't have to do that. Per an FTC ruling a few years back I believe, they are obliged to give you the "reward card" price even if you don't carry it.
I completely agree. I tend to avoid those things actively as well. I don't wear "free" branded shirts. I repackage bulk food purchases for my lunch rather than buying a boxed (really high sodium) frozen meal. I brew my own coffee and carry it around in a travel mug. I have tried to avoid the "brand image" society as much as possible. If I see a product doing something particularly obnoxious for an advertising campaign, I will go out of my way to avoid it, I think the most memorable example of that recently was on several of the BCS Bowl Games on Fox last year, "Jumper" paid to have every transition to an instant replay branded with a really obnoxious transition including a sound effect. Given that effort I declined to see a movie that I may have otherwise seen (although from the reviews it seems I saved myself agony).
I guess I have the attitude that if you NEED to market it to me hard, it must not be able to stand on its own merits, so its a cue to avoid it more than a cue to buy it.
I am one of the generation that ACTIVELY builds REAL filters against advertising. I stop watching shows when they get obnoxious with "banner ads" after the real commercial breaks. My MythTV box hits the delete button on commercials, adblock removes banners from the web. My day to day life is fairly marketing free and I try to read real reviews and tests of products to seek advice in my buying decisions.
Its not perfect but I try to avoid walking around in a marketing induced daze like many of the sheeple I encounter on a day to day basis. It makes me chuckle sometimes.
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If that were true, someone would have taken the less than an hours time to do it as there are many more people than you, who are far smarter and more skilled, with far fewer ethical mores. I'll believe it when I see it, but then again, on that front I'm more of a curious observer as I don't own a Mac (though I do an iPod).
The average user (like say my mother this last weekend) cares a lot about paying a Norton subscription every year rather than running a system that doesn't have those problems. So she bought one of the new HP 10" netbooks and had me install Ubuntu Netbook Remix on it.
She feels better knowing that the OS is designed securely and that she doesn't need to worry about getting more viruses and cruft on there like on her Windows computers. She specifically told me this. She is the epitome of an average user, but she knows enough to ask someone who is computer savvy when making purchasing decisions and actually listen to their advice.
To say that the average computer user doesn't care about these things would negate the entire "security" industry as that's exactly what they prey on. The care and worry of the average user that the OS they are using was not designed securely and is vulnerable to attack vectors by people who know more than they do about the machine.
I don't use a Mac, and I tend to look at the AV/Security "industry" as very small amount above goombas asking for "protection" money. They are leeches that are simply a result of Microsoft not designing their OS properly.
There would be a MUCH higher payoff for having a remote code execution vulnerability exploit on a Linux server target since a large amount of very valuable data is stored on linux servers, yet none has been captured in the wild. Instead viruses continue to be written targeting a poorly designed OS to turn the clients into spam spewing zombies.
Plus, if you want to spew spam out across the net, how about zombie-ing a server sitting on a nice piece of fiber, that's a trusted mail packet source instead of a machine sitting on at best a 1.5 Mbps shared bandwidth line that any mail server with half a brain discards the payload coming off it?
Get your own chair at the grown up table and stop using Windows. Spam will stop, and vendors will "magically" make their software for other OS's.
Oh,
And MS Word macros have a much cheaper solution:
http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/
Ok,
but read the DB closely:
So, its been detected at somewhere in the area of 1 or 2 sites. Ever. Not really losing sleep over it, but I'll concede the point that there kinda sorta is one virus definition in the virus scanner.
the second one isn't even protected against by the AV software.
Reference please?
Nice long post, but you have one MAJOR fallacy included:
Wrong. Totally wrong. Mac antivirus software ONLY scans for W32 viruses as those are the only payloads that there are definitions for. You run that as a dontation of CPU cycles to your clueless Windows running counterparts who can't be bothered to run an OS designed from the ground up for multi-user networked security (like Linux, BSD, or as a result, MacOS)
touche
Assuming you're not one the many people that blocks google-analytics.com using NoScript, thus negating a large chunk of Mozilla Firefox (and thus Linux) users.
I know this is gonna hurt, but I'll bite.
Video editing. DVD authoring. MP3 Encoding. Video Capture. HTPC. Signal Processing.
The list goes on for processor limited tasks that new hardware continues to improve. To say that you only use your PC for gaming shows your age and naivete.
You do realize you're agreeing with him in a vigorous tone, right? Look at the line you quoted:
That statement doesn't even imply that it has nothing to do with market share, it states (very correctly as you pointed out as well) that market share is not the only factor in determining an illegal monopoly.
Use the "Manual Configuration" option at the bottom of the Network Manager menu. Setup your home network under your Manual Configuration. When you're on the road, go into it and check roaming mode for the wifi, and use NM as normal. Problem solved.
http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=212100714
Stupid information week split across 5 pages to fit more banners crap.
Windows Explorer == File Browswer
Internet Explorer == Internet Browser
They share libraries, but are different beasties.
And you're still cranking out CO2. This is about EVs (Electric Vehicles).
Nope, just missing. Perhaps you should click read more yourself.
I think you mean Libel.
Boy, I hope some suckers use this for ultra secret stuff. I will be firing up my script soon enough to figure out those "non-guessable" URLs.
I've already made the decision not to do that. I can make backups of all my DVD's and use a medialess home theater system, record OTA HD and auto remove all the advertising, and have CONVENIENCE over bitrate quality. Its certainly nice not to pay DirecTV $100/month and get a more enjoyable experience out of the deal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advil
Next time READ the comment.
ADVIL == Ibuprofen as stated in the comment.
READING COMPREHENSION FAIL!
FYI, you don't have to do that. Per an FTC ruling a few years back I believe, they are obliged to give you the "reward card" price even if you don't carry it.
I completely agree. I tend to avoid those things actively as well. I don't wear "free" branded shirts. I repackage bulk food purchases for my lunch rather than buying a boxed (really high sodium) frozen meal. I brew my own coffee and carry it around in a travel mug. I have tried to avoid the "brand image" society as much as possible. If I see a product doing something particularly obnoxious for an advertising campaign, I will go out of my way to avoid it, I think the most memorable example of that recently was on several of the BCS Bowl Games on Fox last year, "Jumper" paid to have every transition to an instant replay branded with a really obnoxious transition including a sound effect. Given that effort I declined to see a movie that I may have otherwise seen (although from the reviews it seems I saved myself agony).
I guess I have the attitude that if you NEED to market it to me hard, it must not be able to stand on its own merits, so its a cue to avoid it more than a cue to buy it.
I am one of the generation that ACTIVELY builds REAL filters against advertising. I stop watching shows when they get obnoxious with "banner ads" after the real commercial breaks. My MythTV box hits the delete button on commercials, adblock removes banners from the web. My day to day life is fairly marketing free and I try to read real reviews and tests of products to seek advice in my buying decisions.
Its not perfect but I try to avoid walking around in a marketing induced daze like many of the sheeple I encounter on a day to day basis. It makes me chuckle sometimes.
Well you may want to price it against ibuprofen since that's the active ingredient. Just sayin'