if i double something from 1 to 2 and the other option is 10000, does the doubleing really matter?
IF Apple ever approaches 20% marketshare again, you can bet that they will become a viable target. look at all of the security issues found in firefox now that it has a very good market share.
it becomes more and more open to inspection as the number of people looking grows, and botnet creators are not stupid. thye are looking to create something and then sell it to people for their use and make money that way. so go after whatever gives the chance for the MOST computers to use, and that is going to be something with 90% marketshare.
it's simple math
even of the other is less secure, i can get more of the one with 9 times the marketshare....
if you think you can only infect about 0.0001% of the world's computers with your botnet (which at 6 billion total computers and 90% running windows, would be 540,000 infected computers), why would you aim it for the OS with 8% marketshare? (which using the same numbers would mean a potential of 48,000 infected computers)
it's called ROI.
since it's fairly easy to see that even the largest botnets fall below a million computers, and we are currently running something like 6 BILLION computers (or more) in the world, if i was targeting something to try and get a saleable botnet up and running, Mac OSX wouldn't be it.
hell you're probably better off trying to write something for Linux via apache/php exploits and run it on all those terribly administered hosted webservers than Mac OSX. (thats not a dig at LAMP, it's a dig at all the lazy admins and users who don't really know what they are doing on hosted accounts and don't keep things up to date or closed down)
can you drive a car if all of these other controls are not in the same place?
yes you can.
as long as the major necessary parts (the steering wheel, pedals, etc) all work in basically the same way and are located in basically the same place, the rest are items that are nice to have, but not necessary for operation.
it's kind of like why almost all email programs have a "send" button and a "to" field, and almost all browsers have an address bar and forward/back buttons.
the basics don't differ from one to the next much because the basics make the program usable by more people.
and this is easily done by simply using a turnkey reactor plant design versus the moronic idea of simply building a totally different design for every new reactor built. the military figured this out nearly 40 years ago.
you're right. instead we should use coal and burn it.
or we should use oil/natural gas and do the same.
or we should dam up all the rivers and use those.
or we should plug the geothermal vents and use those.
in case you missed the sarcasm, i'm telling you it's there by the bucket load.
Nuclear power is the BEST currently available alternative to coal. It's cleaner.
it's just as safe, if not safer (even the french can run a nuclear reactor...:P)
it's smaller in footprint than a comparable coal/oil/gas plant.
it doesn't rely on the whims of mother nature like solar and hydroelectric do.
The biggest problems with nuclear power are that we try to redesign the wheel every time we build one rather than standardizing on a single design for easier training maintenance and cost savings. (Think naval nuclear power)
and the second biggest problem is that we simply stop with still useable fuel because we make idiotic laws that say just becuase you could take the fuel and turn it into a weapon, we will just stop before there and deal with the waste.
simply stopping carbon steel production at the ingot stage since it can be used to make knives means we haven't gotten much use out of the carbon steel as other than a good weight, and we don't do that because it's moronic, yet we allow morons without a clue to tell us that we shouldn't use nuclear because it's "bad" and can "be used as weapons".
I've worked in nuclear reactors in the navy, and they, when staffed by properly trained individuals, are a reliable, easy to operate, serious contender for replacement of coal power.
but it doesn't matter.
obama-san will just raise taxes to pay for more of this "eco-energy" by fleecing the american public.
As opposed to those warm soft and cuddly EU ministers who just seem to LOVE every American Company and embrace them with open arms?
Let me guess where you live..........
I wonder how thankful all those plain old Joe citizens in the EU are going to be when they discover that their versions of their favorite OS are going to be even more gimped, cost them extra, and not have upgrade possibilities thanks to those oh so smart and forward looking EU ministers......
It's time for people the world over to stop believing the bullshit that "the evil corporations" are what is screwing them, and realize that the reality is that they love to be screwed, and will happily elect "their guy" to do so.
you'll also notice from the EXACT SAME article you linked to, that the GOOD SSD drives are still hugely faster than the best HDD's even in their "used" state.
not so for the shitty ones, but the intel, and indilix controlled ones it does hold true for, and the Indinlix controller has had a few firmware updates since that test and performance has improved even more.
but burst speed measured with HDTach is the only metric that's important when you wish to make your point that traditional rotating platter based hard drives are "nearly as fast" as quality SSD drives.
seriously.....
is there anyone by now that HASN'T seen the extensive test by Anandtech that completely DESTROYS this bullshit article?
All that matters in the real world for HDD performance is Random read and write speeds. And the difference in the two is an order of magnitude or more using the very fastest consumer drives (WDVR) and a quality SSD (Intel X-25).
Who the Hell thinks ma and pa PC user are using Firefox? The majority aren't. You may have turned your parents onto it, and I've tried with mine, but the reality is it's still an IE world, webpages are still designed to work in IE, and.Net is a widely used set of tools that more and more webpages are taking advantage of. having this installed into firefox for all users when the person ELECTS to download the.NEt framework because they've been told they need it for a certain webpage or program to work correctly is just common sense.
versus the more slashtard oriented view of making "Ma and Pa PC User" go download the required.Net framework for their needs, and then go download a firefox extension to make it work properly in the alternative browser that their geek son/daughter/relative told them was so much better.
yeah. So much better, and more annoying, and less useful.
But instead we get something like this that actually makes FF useful for the same places the user already downloaded the.Net framework for......
And since the extension was to allow click-once support for.net enabled websites, i'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that those "Ma and Pa PC Users" will LIKE having it installed so their webpages work correctly and function the way they expect. Just like they do in IE.
So in reality, despite what slashtards want to think, most people simply won't care, don't want to uninstall it, and in the real world, are probably glad it's there when they need it without having to go search for it and then download and install it.
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then simply get open source format epub books only.
problem solved.
amd it recently had 500,000 epub books added to it's library from Google.
All of which are available for the grand total of nothing.
that's right, free.
there was even a /. article on it.
but why let facts get in the way of the slashtard mentality.
no they aren't.
not when you consider the rather high monthly fees that go along with that just to make it function......
for two years.......
quite a lot do actually.
regardless of what slashtards seem to think.....
you mean like all the people with PPC macs who want to upgrade to snow leopard.......
it happens in hardware too.....
it's not a open source/closed source argument.
like you stated it happens everywhere.
if he's lying in a comma, maybe we can just turn him into an exclamation point instead and everything will be just be great!
if i double something from 1 to 2 and the other option is 10000, does the doubleing really matter?
IF Apple ever approaches 20% marketshare again, you can bet that they will become a viable target.
look at all of the security issues found in firefox now that it has a very good market share.
it becomes more and more open to inspection as the number of people looking grows, and botnet creators are not stupid.
thye are looking to create something and then sell it to people for their use and make money that way.
so go after whatever gives the chance for the MOST computers to use, and that is going to be something with 90% marketshare.
it's simple math
even of the other is less secure, i can get more of the one with 9 times the marketshare....
if you think you can only infect about 0.0001% of the world's computers with your botnet (which at 6 billion total computers and 90% running windows, would be 540,000 infected computers), why would you aim it for the OS with 8% marketshare? (which using the same numbers would mean a potential of 48,000 infected computers)
it's called ROI.
since it's fairly easy to see that even the largest botnets fall below a million computers, and we are currently running something like 6 BILLION computers (or more) in the world, if i was targeting something to try and get a saleable botnet up and running, Mac OSX wouldn't be it.
hell you're probably better off trying to write something for Linux via apache/php exploits and run it on all those terribly administered hosted webservers than Mac OSX.
(thats not a dig at LAMP, it's a dig at all the lazy admins and users who don't really know what they are doing on hosted accounts and don't keep things up to date or closed down)
please tell me you didnt just say that Apple has a monopoly on fast user switching.............
Windows has had this for almost a decade on consumer level OS's....
and Unix for even longer........
can you drive a car if all of these other controls are not in the same place?
yes you can.
as long as the major necessary parts (the steering wheel, pedals, etc) all work in basically the same way and are located in basically the same place, the rest are items that are nice to have, but not necessary for operation.
it's kind of like why almost all email programs have a "send" button and a "to" field, and almost all browsers have an address bar and forward/back buttons.
the basics don't differ from one to the next much because the basics make the program usable by more people.
and any real company will be on a maximum 5 year replacement cycle for all workstations.
which is when the OS gets replaced.
When the new machine is purchased.
Bullshit.
and this is easily done by simply using a turnkey reactor plant design versus the moronic idea of simply building a totally different design for every new reactor built.
the military figured this out nearly 40 years ago.
you're right.
instead we should use coal and burn it.
or we should use oil/natural gas and do the same.
or we should dam up all the rivers and use those.
or we should plug the geothermal vents and use those.
in case you missed the sarcasm, i'm telling you it's there by the bucket load.
Nuclear power is the BEST currently available alternative to coal.
It's cleaner.
it's just as safe, if not safer (even the french can run a nuclear reactor... :P)
it's smaller in footprint than a comparable coal/oil/gas plant.
it doesn't rely on the whims of mother nature like solar and hydroelectric do.
The biggest problems with nuclear power are that we try to redesign the wheel every time we build one rather than standardizing on a single design for easier training maintenance and cost savings. (Think naval nuclear power)
and the second biggest problem is that we simply stop with still useable fuel because we make idiotic laws that say just becuase you could take the fuel and turn it into a weapon, we will just stop before there and deal with the waste.
simply stopping carbon steel production at the ingot stage since it can be used to make knives means we haven't gotten much use out of the carbon steel as other than a good weight, and we don't do that because it's moronic, yet we allow morons without a clue to tell us that we shouldn't use nuclear because it's "bad" and can "be used as weapons".
I've worked in nuclear reactors in the navy, and they, when staffed by properly trained individuals, are a reliable, easy to operate, serious contender for replacement of coal power.
but it doesn't matter.
obama-san will just raise taxes to pay for more of this "eco-energy" by fleecing the american public.
Do you live in the same world as the rest of us?
People ARE stupid.
It's proven every day when they rant and rave against whatever the topic du jour is.
Also when they decide that they need to be like every other sheeple out there and run right out and buy the latest fad.
People the world over have a herd mentality and tend toward a lowest common denominator type thinking process in that herd.
As opposed to those warm soft and cuddly EU ministers who just seem to LOVE every American Company and embrace them with open arms?
Let me guess where you live..........
I wonder how thankful all those plain old Joe citizens in the EU are going to be when they discover that their versions of their favorite OS are going to be even more gimped, cost them extra, and not have upgrade possibilities thanks to those oh so smart and forward looking EU ministers......
It's time for people the world over to stop believing the bullshit that "the evil corporations" are what is screwing them, and realize that the reality is that they love to be screwed, and will happily elect "their guy" to do so.
or just block them with adblock and keep your money.
the problem with good RAID controllers is that the cost of the card doesn't increase equally with the number of channels.
for instance a good 8 channel full hardware raid card with onboard processor and battery backup might cost you $700
the same card, by the smae company, but with 24 ports will most likely cost in the area of $1000.
most of the cost isnt in adding channels, it's in the base card and processor/memory.battery backup.
the controller card to run this (assuming you're not going to try to get your software raid to run this) would be more than the drives..........
if you are trying to get your software raid to run this, you'd better get a really nice processor.......
you'll also notice from the EXACT SAME article you linked to, that the GOOD SSD drives are still hugely faster than the best HDD's even in their "used" state.
not so for the shitty ones, but the intel, and indilix controlled ones it does hold true for, and the Indinlix controller has had a few firmware updates since that test and performance has improved even more.
but burst speed measured with HDTach is the only metric that's important when you wish to make your point that traditional rotating platter based hard drives are "nearly as fast" as quality SSD drives.
seriously.....
is there anyone by now that HASN'T seen the extensive test by Anandtech that completely DESTROYS this bullshit article?
All that matters in the real world for HDD performance is Random read and write speeds.
And the difference in the two is an order of magnitude or more using the very fastest consumer drives (WDVR) and a quality SSD (Intel X-25).
then you didnt look to hard.
Hell there are deals almost daily for the last 6 months for free (with government coupon) dtv boxes on all the major deal sites.
some even allowed you to make money on them by having a second MIR.
boo fucking hoo.
we feel really bad for your inability to have your dvr record shows for you.
Who the Hell thinks ma and pa PC user are using Firefox? .Net is a widely used set of tools that more and more webpages are taking advantage of. .NEt framework because they've been told they need it for a certain webpage or program to work correctly is just common sense.
The majority aren't.
You may have turned your parents onto it, and I've tried with mine, but the reality is it's still an IE world, webpages are still designed to work in IE, and
having this installed into firefox for all users when the person ELECTS to download the
versus the more slashtard oriented view of making "Ma and Pa PC User" go download the required .Net framework for their needs, and then go download a firefox extension to make it work properly in the alternative browser that their geek son/daughter/relative told them was so much better.
yeah.
So much better, and more annoying, and less useful.
But instead we get something like this that actually makes FF useful for the same places the user already downloaded the .Net framework for......
And since the extension was to allow click-once support for .net enabled websites, i'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that those "Ma and Pa PC Users" will LIKE having it installed so their webpages work correctly and function the way they expect.
Just like they do in IE.
So in reality, despite what slashtards want to think, most people simply won't care, don't want to uninstall it, and in the real world, are probably glad it's there when they need it without having to go search for it and then download and install it.
let the modding down for the truth begin.
you should do so for this one:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1255511&cid=28197577
as well.......