I'd mod you up if I could. In truth, I did feel dirty citing the Economist, and not only for the reasons you give. I hope you don't assume the two links I gave were my only source of skepticism regarding Iran's alleged irrationality.
You have to separate rhetoric from hard-nosed pragmatic reality. American foreign policy in recent years (particularly, I hate to say it, since the present administration began replacing knowledgeable experts in Middle Eastern policy with morons with little understanding of regional nuance, culture, or even language) seems to mistake the populist bluster of Islamist politicians for real intent to obliterate Israel. This is rubbish. Iran is not suicidal. Its leadership is not composed of fools with death wishes.
You want a nation with nuclear capabilities that actually is run by a psychopath, you'll have to look outside the Middle East for that.
Eh? Where are you getting this idea that Iran's leadership is insane? I have yet to read a crediblesource that gives me any particular reason to think Iran would be stupid enough to initiate nuclear attack. The mullahs are religious, Ahmadinejad hates on Israel—so what? Plenty of Israeli politicians still want to see the Palestinian Authority wiped out. Frankly, maybe a nuclear-armed Iran is exactly what Israeli moderates need to get their government to stop pissing off its neighbors in the Middle East with such impunity.
No, he just recognizes ADO.NET for the inflexible, utterly tasteless pile of shit it is. And as he points out in some of his other blog entries, VS does in fact seem to actively thwart the application of good design principles, including by making it difficult to adhere to MVC. I'm sorry Visual C++ gave you a bad experience with the MVC pattern, but then, I always feel sorry for people who've only ever labored under the Microsoft yoke. Judging by the lack of thought and resistance to change evident in your response, it sounds like you wouldn't know tasteful design unless it was the kind of "tasteful" that clobbered you over the head. No wonder you prefer Microsoft tools.
You might be interested in this series of blog entries by a longtime.NET developer whose recent adventures in Cocoa have opened his eyes to just how, well, shitty the whole VS.NET approach to development really is. Here's an entry on "double-click and code syndrome". Here's another on how flexibility need not be sacrificed for ease of development; that's a fallacy perpetuated by Microsoft's habitually thoughtless design.
Right now? It isn't. But give it time. The iPhone-tuned features of OS X are far more appropriate to a slate form factor than desktop OS X or Windows Brick—excuse me, Tablet Edition.
Sorry, how was that offtopic? To elaborate, Apple's answer to the tablet PC would have to be considered an upscaled iPhone, retaining a hi-res display and all the essential features of OS X, including most importantly Inkwell and multitouch.
If you're particularly literal-minded and you think Apple's answer to the tablet PC would be, as in the PC world, a desktop computer crammed into slab format, then yeah, Apple wouldn't do that. Fortunately.
Willful ignorance of this degree can't be for real. Your commentary is satire, isn't it? And the funniest part is that we're taking you seriously, right?
They're not defending our freedom or our way of life. They're defending a series of lies this administration has yet to own up to.
The best thing we could have done for our boys and girls—and not just the ones fighting the war—would have been NOT TO SEND THEM THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE.
I don't think so. Irony died with this administration. Pointless to demonstrate its lack of self-awareness when they consider self-awareness a disadvantage.
Maybe you didn't notice, but she's a Mac user. I'm a Mac user too—an O.G. Mac user, even—and I get annoyed, too, by people trying to tell me my OS is bulletproof. It isn't.
Indeed, this exploit is of absolutely no concern to anyone who doesn't use the internet, and anyone stating otherwise is a "FUDmeister."
Is "Apple-haters" the new "lib'ruls"? IOW, people with legitimate concerns who get dismissed as traitors by people who were never real Mac users to begin with?
Why do you hate Apple? Stop emboldening the enemy.
Sweet, thanks for the tip. I don't know why I didn't think to try double-clicking.
Will it still pop up that annoying confirmation dialog on disk images and zips? Because I think we can all agree that's just another way, when the inevitable happens, to shift blame to the user.
(1) FileVault won't help you here, since an intruder gaining Safari's privileges (e.g.) has access to everything Safari has access to, namely, your entire home directory. Besides, do you encrypt your entire home directory?
(2) You don't need root to launch an application (like a bot) or even install a keylogger (suid isn't set for KeyboardViewerServer, for example).
Why say "Linux" rather than open source? KHTML has nothing to do with Linux. Anyway, from what I've been reading, it seems more likely related to a bug in JavaScriptCore, derived from KJS and which is also open source.
You are coming to a sad realization. Cancel or allow?
skewers that very behavior of Safari you describe. Of course, if you have "open safe files after downloading" turned off, it's even more obnoxious—you have to find the file on your desktop and open it manually. Exactly the sort of repetitive task I thought my computer should be doing on my behalf.
What? Who gives a shit about Windows? Any vulnerability is bad news; don't trivialize it with your "oh but M$Windoze!1!!" because, in all honesty, whatever flaws exist in Windows have zero relevance to me as a Mac user.
From one Mac user to (presumably) another, please get your head out of the sand. These "stupid people" to whom you refer you might otherwise know as "The Rest of Us." It doesn't matter how technically competent you are, we are all "stupid" every now and then—or do you only ever visit the same two or three well-known sites every day? Even if you do, how can you be sure they haven't been compromised by, say, some sort of injection attack? Or even by an unscrupulous advertiser in an iframe?
And why on earth does it make a difference whether the user account was admin or regular? If an intruder has access to your personal documents, you're just as fucked either way.
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I'd mod you up if I could. In truth, I did feel dirty citing the Economist, and not only for the reasons you give. I hope you don't assume the two links I gave were my only source of skepticism regarding Iran's alleged irrationality.
You have to separate rhetoric from hard-nosed pragmatic reality. American foreign policy in recent years (particularly, I hate to say it, since the present administration began replacing knowledgeable experts in Middle Eastern policy with morons with little understanding of regional nuance, culture, or even language) seems to mistake the populist bluster of Islamist politicians for real intent to obliterate Israel. This is rubbish. Iran is not suicidal. Its leadership is not composed of fools with death wishes.
You want a nation with nuclear capabilities that actually is run by a psychopath, you'll have to look outside the Middle East for that.
Eh? Where are you getting this idea that Iran's leadership is insane? I have yet to read a credible source that gives me any particular reason to think Iran would be stupid enough to initiate nuclear attack. The mullahs are religious, Ahmadinejad hates on Israel—so what? Plenty of Israeli politicians still want to see the Palestinian Authority wiped out. Frankly, maybe a nuclear-armed Iran is exactly what Israeli moderates need to get their government to stop pissing off its neighbors in the Middle East with such impunity.
No, he just recognizes ADO.NET for the inflexible, utterly tasteless pile of shit it is. And as he points out in some of his other blog entries, VS does in fact seem to actively thwart the application of good design principles, including by making it difficult to adhere to MVC. I'm sorry Visual C++ gave you a bad experience with the MVC pattern, but then, I always feel sorry for people who've only ever labored under the Microsoft yoke. Judging by the lack of thought and resistance to change evident in your response, it sounds like you wouldn't know tasteful design unless it was the kind of "tasteful" that clobbered you over the head. No wonder you prefer Microsoft tools.
Whoops, sorry, fixed link: ...this series of blog entries...
You might be interested in this series of blog entries by a longtime .NET developer whose recent adventures in Cocoa have opened his eyes to just how, well, shitty the whole VS.NET approach to development really is. Here's an entry on "double-click and code syndrome". Here's another on how flexibility need not be sacrificed for ease of development; that's a fallacy perpetuated by Microsoft's habitually thoughtless design.
What the hell. Seriously, flamebait?
Right now? It isn't. But give it time. The iPhone-tuned features of OS X are far more appropriate to a slate form factor than desktop OS X or Windows Brick—excuse me, Tablet Edition.
Sorry, how was that offtopic? To elaborate, Apple's answer to the tablet PC would have to be considered an upscaled iPhone, retaining a hi-res display and all the essential features of OS X, including most importantly Inkwell and multitouch.
If you're particularly literal-minded and you think Apple's answer to the tablet PC would be, as in the PC world, a desktop computer crammed into slab format, then yeah, Apple wouldn't do that. Fortunately.
The iPhone.
Willful ignorance of this degree can't be for real. Your commentary is satire, isn't it? And the funniest part is that we're taking you seriously, right?
In all honesty, please explain: How did invading Iraq have anything to do with "defending our way of life"?
They're not defending our freedom or our way of life. They're defending a series of lies this administration has yet to own up to.
The best thing we could have done for our boys and girls—and not just the ones fighting the war—would have been NOT TO SEND THEM THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE.
I don't think so. Irony died with this administration. Pointless to demonstrate its lack of self-awareness when they consider self-awareness a disadvantage.
Maybe you didn't notice, but she's a Mac user. I'm a Mac user too—an O.G. Mac user, even—and I get annoyed, too, by people trying to tell me my OS is bulletproof. It isn't.
Indeed, this exploit is of absolutely no concern to anyone who doesn't use the internet, and anyone stating otherwise is a "FUDmeister."
Is "Apple-haters" the new "lib'ruls"? IOW, people with legitimate concerns who get dismissed as traitors by people who were never real Mac users to begin with?
Why do you hate Apple? Stop emboldening the enemy.
Sweet, thanks for the tip. I don't know why I didn't think to try double-clicking.
Will it still pop up that annoying confirmation dialog on disk images and zips? Because I think we can all agree that's just another way, when the inevitable happens, to shift blame to the user.
Try reading comprehension sometime. "Stupid fuck" indeed.
(1) FileVault won't help you here, since an intruder gaining Safari's privileges (e.g.) has access to everything Safari has access to, namely, your entire home directory. Besides, do you encrypt your entire home directory?
(2) You don't need root to launch an application (like a bot) or even install a keylogger (suid isn't set for KeyboardViewerServer, for example).
By the way— Should be "update's," for consistency.
You know what's scary? I could tell you're a Mac user from the "oh-so-indie" spelling of "ur."
What? Who gives a shit about Windows? Any vulnerability is bad news; don't trivialize it with your "oh but M$Windoze!1!!" because, in all honesty, whatever flaws exist in Windows have zero relevance to me as a Mac user.
You don't need root to rm -rf ~.
Or to osascript -e 'tell application "Mail" to send contents of folder "~" to everyone in Address Book'.
From one Mac user to (presumably) another, please get your head out of the sand. These "stupid people" to whom you refer you might otherwise know as "The Rest of Us." It doesn't matter how technically competent you are, we are all "stupid" every now and then—or do you only ever visit the same two or three well-known sites every day? Even if you do, how can you be sure they haven't been compromised by, say, some sort of injection attack? Or even by an unscrupulous advertiser in an iframe?
And why on earth does it make a difference whether the user account was admin or regular? If an intruder has access to your personal documents, you're just as fucked either way.