Pretty much that. Apple haven't really invented any single product category. What they do excel at however is taking a product and packaging it and refining it such that it is actually usable. So much hate for the company here, but I guess this is the crowd who still think shit like xorg.conf and twm are acceptable for personal computers.
True, however various bits of the BSD kernel have been ported to it. This is why I said "probably won't show up", because stuff like the firewalling code has been ported.
Don't put words in my mouth. I'm not relying entirely on security via obscurity. But if the OS is not the most common mainstream noob-used OS, then it is going to see less effort put towards hacking it. All my shit is still firewalled and doesn't even listen to any remote admin port via the internet.
The relevant bits of the FreeBSD userland are periodically (every major release) imported into OS X. The two systems are fairly different, so kernel changes in FreeBSD probably won't show up, but tweaks to command line tools and other stuff probably will.
Thanks. The less noobs like yourself that use it, the less of a target the OS will be. I've been happily running internet facing stuff on FreeBSD since 2001, and it's been a pleasant change from the chaos that is Linux development and distribution upgrade.
No, it is not inherent to capitalism. It is inherent to governments who want to spend beyond their means. Rather than tax people to pay for things, the US is simply debasing the currency to stealthily tax everybody including the rest of the world who hold USD via inflation. Sooner or later people will catch on.
Yup. The "massively inflate the currency" option has been in progress since the 80s (at least) it would appear:) But eventually others will simply stop accepting USD for payment. Especially if the chinese (as rumored) push the Yuan as a gold backed reserve, or component of a bundle of reserve currencies.
Even figuring out where the IP block was allocated to doesn't necessarily show where it is geographically. If it's a global corporation, they could be routing their public address space anywhere on the internet.
Could be a million different reasons, for example it is entirely possible that ISP A's link was congested or down, and the packet was routed via a suboptimal path via a peering arrangement with ISP B to get off-continent via an alternative route.
If by balancing somewhat, you mean 90% of the world debt in the US (with say, 5% of the population), and 10% in the rest, (or somewhat similar numbers) then sure.
Roughly 16.7tn in debt. I.e., $16,700,000,000,000 and growing by a couple of trillion a year. Let's say that all the employees no longer getting paid are on $1,000 a week on average. Hell, let's be generous and make it $10,000 a week. That's $7,830,000,000 per week. Or 125 weeks to save 1 trillion from this. Assuming no other negative impact to the economy.
The govenment will still be going backwards by roughly 2 trillion per year.
Pretty much my line of thinking. Whilst in theory, iOS devices are also breakable, the comparison for instances of malware for the two platforms is night and day.
Also, by default, on iOS, all applications are sandboxed. Whilst this may be true for metro apps on Windows 8, it most certainly is NOT true for non-metro applications.
But in any case, I'd seriously suggest not running personal software on a device such as this irrespective of that. For a device in this role, I'd be locking it down tighter than fish's arse-hole - to the point where "personal use" beyond access to the corporate e-mail system would be pretty much impossible anyway.
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Pretty much that. Apple haven't really invented any single product category. What they do excel at however is taking a product and packaging it and refining it such that it is actually usable. So much hate for the company here, but I guess this is the crowd who still think shit like xorg.conf and twm are acceptable for personal computers.
Garmin and the other GPS companies had (and still have) no fucking clue with regards to building a device that is actually pleasant to use.
just how big do you want those images?
no. they enable use of proprietary blobs, but do not ship with proprietary blobs in the kernel.
True, however various bits of the BSD kernel have been ported to it. This is why I said "probably won't show up", because stuff like the firewalling code has been ported.
Don't put words in my mouth. I'm not relying entirely on security via obscurity. But if the OS is not the most common mainstream noob-used OS, then it is going to see less effort put towards hacking it. All my shit is still firewalled and doesn't even listen to any remote admin port via the internet.
The relevant bits of the FreeBSD userland are periodically (every major release) imported into OS X. The two systems are fairly different, so kernel changes in FreeBSD probably won't show up, but tweaks to command line tools and other stuff probably will.
*shrug*. I just resurrected an EFI loader SNAFU on my mac mini with a firewire cable. Target disk mode rocks.
And all netapps array, junipers, iphones, ipads, ipods and macs run a variety of FreeBSD components.
Thanks. The less noobs like yourself that use it, the less of a target the OS will be. I've been happily running internet facing stuff on FreeBSD since 2001, and it's been a pleasant change from the chaos that is Linux development and distribution upgrade.
Yeah 2 years is ok between vulnerability introduction by the maintainer and the fix, right? It's not like openSSL is used for anything important?
Open source is peer reviewed and secure, right?
No, it is not inherent to capitalism. It is inherent to governments who want to spend beyond their means. Rather than tax people to pay for things, the US is simply debasing the currency to stealthily tax everybody including the rest of the world who hold USD via inflation. Sooner or later people will catch on.
Yup. The "massively inflate the currency" option has been in progress since the 80s (at least) it would appear :) But eventually others will simply stop accepting USD for payment. Especially if the chinese (as rumored) push the Yuan as a gold backed reserve, or component of a bundle of reserve currencies.
Do you trust them to audit their random number generator?
They're in the firmware/hardware anyway. That 87 megabyte NVIDIA blob you're running? HAHA! That intel microcode update? Guess what!
Even figuring out where the IP block was allocated to doesn't necessarily show where it is geographically. If it's a global corporation, they could be routing their public address space anywhere on the internet.
Could be a million different reasons, for example it is entirely possible that ISP A's link was congested or down, and the packet was routed via a suboptimal path via a peering arrangement with ISP B to get off-continent via an alternative route.
Yeah, much as i dislike RMS, being nutty when compared to the population at large doesn't make him wrong. Most people are stupid.
Pretty much sums it up. Unless you can analyse the CPU microcode and block diagram, sorry, but you're boned.
... also.
If by balancing somewhat, you mean 90% of the world debt in the US (with say, 5% of the population), and 10% in the rest, (or somewhat similar numbers) then sure.
My bad. IN any case - my comments regarding personal use stand. Whether it's Surface RT OR IOS.
Roughly 16.7tn in debt. I.e., $16,700,000,000,000 and growing by a couple of trillion a year. Let's say that all the employees no longer getting paid are on $1,000 a week on average. Hell, let's be generous and make it $10,000 a week. That's $7,830,000,000 per week. Or 125 weeks to save 1 trillion from this. Assuming no other negative impact to the economy.
The govenment will still be going backwards by roughly 2 trillion per year.
Sure, its a symbolic guesture, but...
Pretty much my line of thinking. Whilst in theory, iOS devices are also breakable, the comparison for instances of malware for the two platforms is night and day.
Also, by default, on iOS, all applications are sandboxed. Whilst this may be true for metro apps on Windows 8, it most certainly is NOT true for non-metro applications.
But in any case, I'd seriously suggest not running personal software on a device such as this irrespective of that. For a device in this role, I'd be locking it down tighter than fish's arse-hole - to the point where "personal use" beyond access to the corporate e-mail system would be pretty much impossible anyway.
Compare the amount of malware available for the Windows platform to the amount of malware available for the iOS platform.