The malware writers could in theory do the same thing to Linux distros. However the openjdk and java on Linux is essentially different in as much as the methods to run and install to a user home directory a downloaded.so the way this malware does cannot happen on Linux distros in as much as the user is the only one on Linux who can direct which binaries run from within a user profile at login.
If you are able to alter the user's files, then you can pretty much do anything you want with their account. The trick is just figuring out how to do so based what ever GUI they happen to be running. For Macs there just happens to be a single approach. There's no reason this approach couldn't be tailored to Linux and sort itself out with GNOME and KDE. If there's a similar autostart mechanism, then the virus can just manipulate that.
At the very least, it could install itself at the end of.login or.bashrc.
Guys build products that appeal to themselves. Imagine that.
If girls aren't getting into the industry on the ground floor due to lack of interest, you can hardly blame it on "institutionalized sexism". It was simply never there to begin with. They weren't there to influence the industry because they chose to be.
Clueless geek males trying to "appeal to girls" likely would be an even bigger disaster. It would probably trigger even more severe whining about sexism.
It's absurd to try to condemn a "negative feed back loop" when there isn't anything feeding it to begin with. it would be one thing to point to some sort of "industry drop out rate" but we don't really have that here.
> But you've got front-facing hot swap drive bays, so Thunderbolt is pointless. What a fucking jackass.
It gets better.
Not only do I have accessible external drive bays, I also have expansion slots. I don't need an "external PCIe" cable because I already have internal PCIe slots. I can add any kind of interface you care to invent.
No. The jackass is the blindered fanboy that has to buy this years model of the fruity computer because last years model is woefully out of date already and there isn't any good way to upgrade it.
When a TB expansion card finally comes out, the cheapest crappiest real PC will be able to use it while Macs continue to be doorstops.
TB is a solution for a problem most people really don't have.
>> Not only that, but the vast majority of people are not going to run out and upgrade all of their peripherals to utilize the new connection standards anyway. > > So you're saying there's no point in USB 3.
USB3 won't force anyone to dump all of their old peripherals.
It will just "be there" until you are ready to take advantage of it.
It's funny you should mention ethernet since I had to buy a USB ethernet for my "superiour quality" Mac when the internal NIC on it died.
For what it needs to do, it does an adequate job.
I don't really care about the "one cable to rule them all" rhetoric. It makes some sense to segregate the "cheap slow" stuff from the "fast expensive" stuff. It doesn't unnecessarily make the cheap stuff more expensive.
> but how many people store it on their harddrive at home?
Anyone that makes their own home movies.
You can find quite a selection of video cameras at your local Target or Walmart. How does that work if "very few people" are in the habit of accumulating video?
Even still images can get rather large after a bit of accumulation.
Then there are media purchase services like iTunes.
Then add things like PC games into the mix. Those love to eat drive space despite not letting you start the game without the original disk.
If you aren't using a PC like a glorified terminal, there are plenty of sources for accumulating digital cruft.
That's not even getting into things like buying an external expansion drive for your Tivo.
They are being given away to everyone. Much like a web page, there should be no artificial limitations imposed upon whom can view the content or with what.
As long as the signal is not altered, it should be retransmittable by anyone. The fact that this is currently not the case is a gross error in the current law.
It's the current law that is bogus, not this company.
Any "community antenna" service should be allowed.
I am averse because it is stupid and inconsistent. It flies in the face of decades of practice that represented the simplest and most convenient practice.
Forcing a base 10 mindset on a base 2 environment is just mindless nonsense that's contrary to the entire idea that metric was sold on in the first place.
GiB makes as much sense as a cubit.
An actual number can be specified in any situation where there is any risk of confusion.
The only ridiculous claim is that "everyone is a thief".
You may be too much of an idiot to take advantage of all of the technology that's widely available even to the average grandma.
We are not.
There are plenty of ways to accumulate terabytes of legitimate stuff. Multimedia is big. High Definition stuff is even bigger. If you think 2TB is big, you don't really understand the scale of stuff being alluded to here.
Plus, hard drives don't have to be full.The market shifts to larger drives regardless of whether or not the average grandma fills hers up.
I use whatever unit happens to be most convenient at the time.
I don't buy into the propaganda that something is bad because it is old. There might have been a good reason those measurements arose. They are themselves the product of years of use and refinement.
They aren't just arbitrary, defined by a comittee or some bearocrat that was high on a power trip.
Yes. That is a spending problem. No one planned for the likelihood that revenues might decrease and that we could have a "lean year". This is a basic fundemental problem that humans have been dealing with since the beginning of civilization.
You save up for a rainy day.
Yes. Having no rainy day fund is a spending problem.
All of these throwbacks trying to invent reasons why 4:3 is better are hilarious. They are doubly so when they try to bring up document prep or "typesetting". There was a time for awhile in the 90s when actual "full page" monitors were somewhat popular.
Guess what aspect ratio they had?
Sorry to say but the closest thing you are going to have to a "task appropriate" monitor is a HDTV on it's side.
An ancient tube TV (or it's modern successor), just isn't it.
Find another lame excuse for being an inflexible old fossil.
>> The idea of plugging a mouse into your keyboard is very much a non-PC idea. > I know Sun invented the idea, but surely PCs have been doing this for over 10 years?
Nope.
You wanna do that and you will need to buy yourself a Mac keyboard. While you can still plug it into a PC, it will still have those funky Apple keys on it.
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The malware writers could in theory do the same thing to Linux .so the way this malware does
distros. However the openjdk and java on Linux is essentially
different in as much as the methods to run and install to a user
home directory a downloaded
cannot happen on Linux distros in as much as the user is the
only one on Linux who can direct which binaries run from within
a user profile at login.
If you are able to alter the user's files, then you can pretty much do anything you want with their account. The trick is just figuring out how to do so based what ever GUI they happen to be running. For Macs there just happens to be a single approach. There's no reason this approach couldn't be tailored to Linux and sort itself out with GNOME and KDE. If there's a similar autostart mechanism, then the virus can just manipulate that.
At the very least, it could install itself at the end of .login or .bashrc.
Guys build products that appeal to themselves. Imagine that.
If girls aren't getting into the industry on the ground floor due to lack of interest, you can hardly blame it on "institutionalized sexism". It was simply never there to begin with. They weren't there to influence the industry because they chose to be.
Clueless geek males trying to "appeal to girls" likely would be an even bigger disaster. It would probably trigger even more severe whining about sexism.
Exactly.
It's absurd to try to condemn a "negative feed back loop" when there isn't anything feeding it to begin with. it would be one thing to point to some sort of "industry drop out rate" but we don't really have that here.
It's almost like young people are lacking in experience due to not having been around long enough to have gotten it yet.
> Hate to burst your bubble, but the Autobahn doesn't last forever
In the Soviet Union, many of the best roads were built by the Nazis during World War II as "temporary" roads.
> For equivalency, a 4 port hub would only add $6 to the cost
That kills the idea right there.
PC users haven't been doing this since the 80s. So they won't miss it. Leave it off and save yourself $6.
> But you've got front-facing hot swap drive bays, so Thunderbolt is pointless. What a fucking jackass.
It gets better.
Not only do I have accessible external drive bays, I also have expansion slots. I don't need an "external PCIe" cable because I already have internal PCIe slots. I can add any kind of interface you care to invent.
No. The jackass is the blindered fanboy that has to buy this years model of the fruity computer because last years model is woefully out of date already and there isn't any good way to upgrade it.
When a TB expansion card finally comes out, the cheapest crappiest real PC will be able to use it while Macs continue to be doorstops.
TB is a solution for a problem most people really don't have.
>> Not only that, but the vast majority of people are not going to run out and upgrade all of their peripherals to utilize the new connection standards anyway.
>
> So you're saying there's no point in USB 3.
USB3 won't force anyone to dump all of their old peripherals.
It will just "be there" until you are ready to take advantage of it.
It's funny you should mention ethernet since I had to buy a USB ethernet for my "superiour quality" Mac when the internal NIC on it died.
For what it needs to do, it does an adequate job.
I don't really care about the "one cable to rule them all" rhetoric. It makes some sense to segregate the "cheap slow" stuff from the "fast expensive" stuff. It doesn't unnecessarily make the cheap stuff more expensive.
I do work in IT farmer boy.
> but how many people store it on their harddrive at home?
Anyone that makes their own home movies.
You can find quite a selection of video cameras at your local Target or Walmart. How does that work if "very few people" are in the habit of accumulating video?
Even still images can get rather large after a bit of accumulation.
Then there are media purchase services like iTunes.
Then add things like PC games into the mix. Those love to eat drive space despite not letting you start the game without the original disk.
If you aren't using a PC like a glorified terminal, there are plenty of sources for accumulating digital cruft.
That's not even getting into things like buying an external expansion drive for your Tivo.
They shouldn't be.
They are being given away to everyone. Much like a web page, there should be no artificial limitations imposed upon whom can view the content or with what.
As long as the signal is not altered, it should be retransmittable by anyone. The fact that this is currently not the case is a gross error in the current law.
It's the current law that is bogus, not this company.
Any "community antenna" service should be allowed.
I am averse because it is stupid and inconsistent. It flies in the face of decades of practice that represented the simplest and most convenient practice.
Forcing a base 10 mindset on a base 2 environment is just mindless nonsense that's contrary to the entire idea that metric was sold on in the first place.
GiB makes as much sense as a cubit.
An actual number can be specified in any situation where there is any risk of confusion.
The only ridiculous claim is that "everyone is a thief".
You may be too much of an idiot to take advantage of all of the technology that's widely available even to the average grandma.
We are not.
There are plenty of ways to accumulate terabytes of legitimate stuff. Multimedia is big. High Definition stuff is even bigger. If you think 2TB is big, you don't really understand the scale of stuff being alluded to here.
Plus, hard drives don't have to be full.The market shifts to larger drives regardless of whether or not the average grandma fills hers up.
Don't be obtuse. If you asked a Russian or an Arab what a dollar is, what would they tell you?
I use whatever unit happens to be most convenient at the time.
I don't buy into the propaganda that something is bad because it is old. There might have been a good reason those measurements arose. They are themselves the product of years of use and refinement.
They aren't just arbitrary, defined by a comittee or some bearocrat that was high on a power trip.
Yes. That is a spending problem. No one planned for the likelihood that revenues might decrease and that we could have a "lean year". This is a basic fundemental problem that humans have been dealing with since the beginning of civilization.
You save up for a rainy day.
Yes. Having no rainy day fund is a spending problem.
Corporations are not people. They are a legal construct to shield people from the legal consequences of their actions.
They are therefore not "morally aware" and specifically created to avoid such "moral awareness". Therefore they can have no moral rights.
They are a work of legal fiction and should be treated as such.
Available perhaps. "Common" is another matter.
It's not something that is considered standard and is seen as missing if it's not there. THAT is an important distinction.
You can find all sorts of weird things on Google. That's kind of the point of it.
They're already out. Just go to the Apple store and buy yourself one.
Hope you've got a limb to spare. They aren't cheap.
My $200 Acer Revo has an eSATA port on it.
A device that doesn't need a collection of dongles is the one that is smaller and more portable.
All of these throwbacks trying to invent reasons why 4:3 is better are hilarious. They are doubly so when they try to bring up document prep or "typesetting". There was a time for awhile in the 90s when actual "full page" monitors were somewhat popular.
Guess what aspect ratio they had?
Sorry to say but the closest thing you are going to have to a "task appropriate" monitor is a HDTV on it's side.
An ancient tube TV (or it's modern successor), just isn't it.
Find another lame excuse for being an inflexible old fossil.
>> The idea of plugging a mouse into your keyboard is very much a non-PC idea.
> I know Sun invented the idea, but surely PCs have been doing this for over 10 years?
Nope.
You wanna do that and you will need to buy yourself a Mac keyboard. While you can still plug it into a PC, it will still have those funky Apple keys on it.
Legacy is usually meant as a term of derision for something that is old and a burden.
It's a way of dismissing something without giving any real reasons.