The "interactivity" of those things you mentioned were only a bunch of user-triggered animations, possibly with added calculator functionality. Basically a more colourful way of not thinking.
Yeah, I remember that from the 80s as well, back when it was called video. It didn't work particularly well then, either, but it was popular among students as they didn't need to concentrate.
Oh, so you can't talk like that. "There's no evidence it was actively exploited" is a lot more convoluted than "Except it was never actually exploited", right? Hardly. Whereas the first statement is to the point and likely correct, the second makes a bold claim with no evidence. When said in defence of someone claiming Apple's OSes don't get exploited, it smells of fraudulent advertising, and that's one thing Mac fanboys specialise in.
Fact: you don't know that the iOS hole hasn't been exploited by others.
This story is about a local root hole. Apple has them, Linux has them, Windows has them, OpenBSD has them. To use it, you need to make the computer run the code, you need an infection vector. Linux is more or less exclusively exploited as a server OS, as it has services running and accepting connections from the outside 24/7. OS X is no different. Not at all. Etc, etc. As a desktop or phone OS, I've never heard of Linux being targeted, but at least I'm not saying it's never happened.
Why is desktop Linux and OS X targeted so rarely? Think about the infection vector: either getting people to install a trojan, or planting malicious code e.g. on a web server, and then hoping that a bunch of random users should stumble across the site, hopefully running the correct versions of the right browsers -- it just wouldn't be very effective. So you don't get widespread infections, and they aren't reported. If such an exploit were to be worthwhile, you'd expect it to be targeted to a specific user or organisation with a known software stack, using your ordinary social engineering skills to lure people into clicking a link, for instance. This shouldn't be too hard, and it would more often go undetected. Perfect for spying. The same goes for iOS, of course, although it's a lot simpler, for obvious reasons.
OK, I know you're a giant fanboy, but the jailbreak hack is in fact an exploit. You're the one with the notion that OS X is superior and that there's no exploit out there, you're simply projecting your own retardedness over on me.
I tried to find a photo of one of their people standing before a swastika, but for some reason Chromium doesn't allow pasting into a Slashdot submission form, so it's not much use (I'm not typing it in by hand). But if you google "about vlaams belang and sweden democrats", you should find it in an article on Little Green Footballs (an "anti-jihadist" site) saying these guys aren't good to be associated with.
You'll find there are known bugs in Windows and OS X that aren't getting fixed as well. It's not a FOSS-only thing. I was pissed off at Apple for not fixing a bug in chsh that would render Terminal.app unusable (and only fixable from a terminal, of course) -- I'm pretty sure it would be labeled Release Critical in Debian and never found in Stable, but I don't think Apple ever fixed it. It probably went away when they abandoned the horrid NetInfo garbage in 2007.
Then again, FOSS software can be more susceptible to developer weirdness, and FOSS nerds tend to be weird. KDE's usenet reader has been broken since forever, and apparently the developer likes it that way.
Because this is Slashdot, and there wouldn't be much discussion if the article wasn't consistently wrong. Even a random word generator would get things right more often than a Slashdot editor.
Oh, and BTW: keep in mind that issuing a fatwa against a literary work is also a speech act. Defending someone's right to issue such a fatwa is not a defence of freedom of speech.
Oh so they insulted you and therefore you have the right to insult them. It all comes down to who's the biggest child in the playground, and "freedom of speech" was never anything but hollow rhetoric. Not that this never was obvious: Moryath's "western world" doesn't actually defend the other's right to say what it thinks (by burning books?!), it defends its own right to tell the others what it thinks, and under the threat of violence as well. He's a nazi dressed up as a liberal, i.e. a neocon, and a hypocrite.
Book burning is traditionally an approach to suppress freedom of speech, and is about as expressive as spitting someone in the face. Yes, that's very expressive, but it's also suppressive. Telling these people to go fuck themselves and to get their own web hosting is just as much an act of speech as book burning is, and in no way more suppressive. The church can set up their own server.
I've said in comments elsewhere that iTunes on Windows is a bloated mess, and that Apple should be ashamed of ridiculing Flash when iTunes is worse. At least Flash only breaks things when it's used. Other people chipped in and said iTunes is just as bad on OS X. I know of Mac users complaining that iTunes' domination of the OS X platform has led to there being no usable music player available for the platform at all (VLC isn't really suitable for audio).
Your gripe with wireless is a bullshit non-argument: wireless devices can use USB too.
Only 2% of those who don't own an Apple product are tempted to buy an iPad, and iPod sales have been slowing since 2008: it's a redundant device now that any new phone can play music (even through streaming services like Spotify). In addition, plenty of people are turned off from Apple's remarkably shitty products, e.g. iTunes, which is, after all, the hub of the iOS platform and experience.
Apple is rapidly going the way of Sony: just like Sony responded to the mp3 craze by updating its iconic Walkman line to play ATRAC files (idiots), Apple responds to ubiquitous wireless by tying everything to iTunes (idiots). They make stuff that people don't want. Nobody wants iTunes (the software).
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Symbian has always been the OS for smartphones. I don't quite get how they could "move" something beyond something which it never was.
The "interactivity" of those things you mentioned were only a bunch of user-triggered animations, possibly with added calculator functionality. Basically a more colourful way of not thinking.
Yeah, I remember that from the 80s as well, back when it was called video. It didn't work particularly well then, either, but it was popular among students as they didn't need to concentrate.
Oh, so you can't talk like that. "There's no evidence it was actively exploited" is a lot more convoluted than "Except it was never actually exploited", right? Hardly. Whereas the first statement is to the point and likely correct, the second makes a bold claim with no evidence. When said in defence of someone claiming Apple's OSes don't get exploited, it smells of fraudulent advertising, and that's one thing Mac fanboys specialise in.
$cd tmp/mesa
$ git pull
$ ls src/gallium/state_trackers/d3d1x/
d3d1xshader docs dxgid3d11 gd3d1x Makefile.inc tools
d3d1xstutil dxgi gd3d10 gd3dapi mstools w32api
d3dapi dxgid3d10 gd3d11 Makefile progs
Only about 11%, it seems.
Fact: you don't know that the iOS hole hasn't been exploited by others.
This story is about a local root hole. Apple has them, Linux has them, Windows has them, OpenBSD has them. To use it, you need to make the computer run the code, you need an infection vector. Linux is more or less exclusively exploited as a server OS, as it has services running and accepting connections from the outside 24/7. OS X is no different. Not at all. Etc, etc. As a desktop or phone OS, I've never heard of Linux being targeted, but at least I'm not saying it's never happened.
Why is desktop Linux and OS X targeted so rarely? Think about the infection vector: either getting people to install a trojan, or planting malicious code e.g. on a web server, and then hoping that a bunch of random users should stumble across the site, hopefully running the correct versions of the right browsers -- it just wouldn't be very effective. So you don't get widespread infections, and they aren't reported. If such an exploit were to be worthwhile, you'd expect it to be targeted to a specific user or organisation with a known software stack, using your ordinary social engineering skills to lure people into clicking a link, for instance. This shouldn't be too hard, and it would more often go undetected. Perfect for spying. The same goes for iOS, of course, although it's a lot simpler, for obvious reasons.
No. Some of the tweets use a different address.
It's the best, perhaps only way to automatically retweet. That's a fairly unique service.
OK, I know you're a giant fanboy, but the jailbreak hack is in fact an exploit. You're the one with the notion that OS X is superior and that there's no exploit out there, you're simply projecting your own retardedness over on me.
I tried to find a photo of one of their people standing before a swastika, but for some reason Chromium doesn't allow pasting into a Slashdot submission form, so it's not much use (I'm not typing it in by hand). But if you google "about vlaams belang and sweden democrats", you should find it in an article on Little Green Footballs (an "anti-jihadist" site) saying these guys aren't good to be associated with.
When the real news is that the swastica-waving "democratic nationalist" party Sverigedemokraterna got a seat in the parliament.
Except that was never actually reported.
Fixed that for you.
You'll find there are known bugs in Windows and OS X that aren't getting fixed as well. It's not a FOSS-only thing. I was pissed off at Apple for not fixing a bug in chsh that would render Terminal.app unusable (and only fixable from a terminal, of course) -- I'm pretty sure it would be labeled Release Critical in Debian and never found in Stable, but I don't think Apple ever fixed it. It probably went away when they abandoned the horrid NetInfo garbage in 2007.
Then again, FOSS software can be more susceptible to developer weirdness, and FOSS nerds tend to be weird. KDE's usenet reader has been broken since forever, and apparently the developer likes it that way.
Because this is Slashdot, and there wouldn't be much discussion if the article wasn't consistently wrong. Even a random word generator would get things right more often than a Slashdot editor.
It runs on storks.
I've heard that a world in which Sarah Palin makes sense is one of the many things proven possible by string theory.
The right wing is more acquainted with logic, and has decided it's unpatriotic and evil, you say?
Oh, and BTW: keep in mind that issuing a fatwa against a literary work is also a speech act. Defending someone's right to issue such a fatwa is not a defence of freedom of speech.
Did I argue that "hate speech" should be banned? I must have, otherwise your argument would be void, but clearly I didn't.
Oh so they insulted you and therefore you have the right to insult them. It all comes down to who's the biggest child in the playground, and "freedom of speech" was never anything but hollow rhetoric. Not that this never was obvious: Moryath's "western world" doesn't actually defend the other's right to say what it thinks (by burning books?!), it defends its own right to tell the others what it thinks, and under the threat of violence as well. He's a nazi dressed up as a liberal, i.e. a neocon, and a hypocrite.
Book burning is traditionally an approach to suppress freedom of speech, and is about as expressive as spitting someone in the face. Yes, that's very expressive, but it's also suppressive. Telling these people to go fuck themselves and to get their own web hosting is just as much an act of speech as book burning is, and in no way more suppressive. The church can set up their own server.
Tell me, how is book burning representative for that quote popularly attributed to Voltaire now again?
I've said in comments elsewhere that iTunes on Windows is a bloated mess, and that Apple should be ashamed of ridiculing Flash when iTunes is worse. At least Flash only breaks things when it's used. Other people chipped in and said iTunes is just as bad on OS X. I know of Mac users complaining that iTunes' domination of the OS X platform has led to there being no usable music player available for the platform at all (VLC isn't really suitable for audio).
Your gripe with wireless is a bullshit non-argument: wireless devices can use USB too.
OK, so you like iTunes. Most people don't.
Only 2% of those who don't own an Apple product are tempted to buy an iPad, and iPod sales have been slowing since 2008: it's a redundant device now that any new phone can play music (even through streaming services like Spotify). In addition, plenty of people are turned off from Apple's remarkably shitty products, e.g. iTunes, which is, after all, the hub of the iOS platform and experience.
Apple is rapidly going the way of Sony: just like Sony responded to the mp3 craze by updating its iconic Walkman line to play ATRAC files (idiots), Apple responds to ubiquitous wireless by tying everything to iTunes (idiots). They make stuff that people don't want. Nobody wants iTunes (the software).
Besides: Hardly anyone but Mac fans buy iPads. That's how much impact they're going to have on the netbook market. None whatsoever.