I have when I worked with the government. I got written up for expecting a fellow worker to be able to keep up when I pointed out he had no problems doing the same amount of work when he was alone, but it somehow takes 3 times as long when he knew he'd get help.
Guessing you've never worked for the government, have you? Most don't get their jobs because they are qualified, they got it because they knew the right people.
Your forgetting one little fact. Some users, for lack of a better way to say it, are REALLY dumb. They want something that is as familiar as possible. They want the name to also be the same as possible. And if something is different, they will find a reason to bitch, moan and complain.
In fact, something like this happened last year with Facebook. Facebook changed its login screen and so http://www.readwriteweb.com/ made an article about it here. What was the shocking part was the comments down below, and I'll quote some: (make sure on the site to tell it to sort comments by oldest first:
Gladys
Ok If I have to I will comment,I love facebook so right now just want to log in if thats ok with you..lol Keep up the good work...
fuccinwayne
ok cool now can I get to facebook
John
The new facebook sucks> NOW LET ME IN.
kathy
when can we log in?
Nicole
I WANT THE OLD FAFEBOOK BACK THIS SHIT IS WACK!!!!!
cassandra james
just want to get on facebook
They all thought that the news article was the Facebook Login site. Not one of these people could do something as basic as type in www.facebook.com or have it bookmarked (its guessed they all Google searched Facebook Login) or even do the ultimate basic of checking the web address in the URL bar. There are over 100 comments like this on that page. And these are just the people who weren't too lazy to pipe up about it. They would have no doubt already been using their web browser that they are familiar with. Imagine what would happen if you change their software so it was unfamiliar? And you think it won't be hard to change from Word now? I like OO myself as well, but.... well after that, I would question.
Not all computer products will die soon. I had an old Toshiba laptop built in 1996 then when I finally recycled it in 2007 (was always using dekstops and that old one as the laptop, oddly enough I got more done with it then any desktop) the only thing that broke with it what the battery was long since dead. One night I even slipped on ice with it under my arm causing me to slam it corner first into the cement, worked perfectly still. Sometimes its luck of the draw. My friend's MB power brick died too easily I found. Our art friend came by one night and dropped his sketch pad (150 page one) on it from about a foot or 2 in the air and broke the power brick. Wasn't happy over that (though gave me a great idea what to buy him for Christmas after that).
Why is it so hard to take most of my post seriously? Yes the iPods warranty is a year, thats how I ended up with a second one. Paying $40 for the S&H of a new iPod (since it was was past the first 3 months) was cheaper then buying a whole new MP3 player.
The apps weren't pirated since the original App was free. This is one of the catches of freedom. You have the freedom to choose and make it yours, but that freedom can also be the freedom to screw yourself over by malicious people. This is why Android phones by default don't allow you to install non-market apps. You can of course turn that off and install any and everything under the sun that works on Android and that it your choice and freedom but it warns you when trying to do it that you can be taking a risk and be careful what you install. (my phone lists it as "Your phone and personal data are more vulnerable to attack by applications from unknown sources. You agree that you are solely responsible for any damage to your phone or loss of data that may result from using these applications") This is a very good popup (and you have to click OK for it to let you do this) that gives a nice, clear, non-legalese warning. Now if your ignore this clearly spelled out warning and still get screwed over, then its your fault and your problem.
I took amazing care of them, thank you for asking. In fact, when I sent in the first one to be replaced for warrenty after 11 months of usage, aside for the oil of my fingers on the wheel, you wouldn't have been able to tell it had been used at all. I've banged around my current cellphone (Xperia x10) a hell of a lot more in the first 3 months then I did during the whole time with both iPods and the phone hasn't had a single issue (beyond the chip in the glass when it bounced off a rock, screen first). I never really took the iPod out of my pocket since I didn't need to so it never was banged around or anything.
How its the most common I don't know, it might have something to do with the fact its the laptops and not the actual Mac desktops (those are rare for me to see in general). I do know that most people don't seem to be that delicate with their laptops so that might have something to do with it. Possibly reading data of the HDD and walking around with it would be my best guess and then dropping it. Like all people, they rarely tell you the truth of what they were doing when it broke. For all I know they tripped on the powercord and pulled it off (seen this once more or less, before my very eyes with a MacBook. The power cable was connected on the back left but had been pulled around the back and along the right side (so over half of it was wrapped with the cable), the sharp tug on the cable caused enough friction to pull the MacBook into a spin a few times and stopped half way off the table. Didn't matter that the power cord should have let go, but when its wrapped around it almost like a top it won't matter, friction takes over.)
Sometimes its just better to post the truth in something like this as an AC. If you don't, you'll be modded into the ground. I've done the same before. And I've noticed the quality issues of Apple products myself (one of the reasons I don't buy them).
I've owned 2 iPods, and both died in just under a year and I'm not alone there. Its quite rare I can find someone who's had a iPlayer(Pod, Touch, Shuffle) that has had one live for more then a year and a half. Does this mean there is none? No, but I find them to be quite rare with people who use them. I've had friends had other failing parts in MacBooks (HDs the most common). They just don't live any longer then a good built laptop from other companies. Granted this seems to be were many Mac users get annoying to me when comparing build quality. They will want to compare a $1200+ MacBook to a sub $400-$500 HP or Dell. Thats not a good comparison in any manor. HP and Dell are known to be subpar quality companies. Compare the Mac to something like a Asus, Sony or Toshiba. Do these companies have no failures? No, but they aren't shoddy built either. These are better build quality companies. An suddenly you'll see a more equal in quality build in all these companies. This was even highlighted by Squaretrades review of their records. Thing is, the price tag to the Apple laptops are much higher for the same specs and the review shows that the build quality isn't higher, its just higher priced to make you think your paying for something of higher quality. This is normal in designer products like clothes and perfumes/make-ups because people like to equate "higher price = higher quality" when in many situations, it isn't true but is to make you believe that it is.
Now, is Apple normally a shoddy build quality company? No, but they aren't the top build quality either. They just know how to give the impression that they are.
Now does this mean you shouldn't ever buy an Apple product? Not really. You should buy what you enjoy but should approach it knowing the facts and not have false impressions about the product either. In short, if you enjoy the Apple product, then all the power to you, but don't be surprised that not everyone will agree with you that they are the best. Its why there is more then one product out there. Everyone is different.
The phrase "Comcast can't interfere with Internet video traffic flowing over its broadband network." Sounds pretty universal to me.
Sounds more like Comcast (and only Comcast) can't interfere with internet video traffic. But whats the exact definition of 'internet video traffic'? Just streaming? What about boxes that download the video for future usage? Those might not fall in the definition of internet video traffic since they aren't 'internet video', they are video's downloaded from the internet. And thats just for streaming video. What if they decide to try their hand at other online business like digital downloads in the future? There is nothing there to stop them from doing that. The wording is too limited there.
Because in the real world, no one would ever be prepared in advanced. This will also go against the fact that the Mac OS has gone down in seconds where the Windows hacks takes minutes. A normal user would have restarted their computer (if they are using it) after 20-30 seconds of no/slow response which in the real world would kill the Windows attack, the Mac would be already too late.
You have also managed to contradict your self. Your post is trying to claim that OSX is better then Windows in security like Node said, then you turn around and claim that they are equal since they both fall at the same time. Which answer was the one you meant? Your can't flip between both of them.
And in reality everyone has bad experiences with any OS they use. Yes, even OSX. Its one of the reasons they put an in house repair shop (the genius bar) in every Mac store, because people have issues with OSX. Problems aren't limited to Windows, no matter how much you would like them to be. I've heard numerous complaints about OSX from normal (ie non-slashdot) users about the Mac they bought or can I fix Mac problem XYZ. Basic users when switching to a Mac trade problems X for problems Y.
The only problem I have with your statements is while OSX is based on Unix, Apple hasn't been the most proactive in keeping it's security up to date/maintenance. And when they do patch the holes,23 the list of holes tend to be quite large which means they are doing quite a large backlog (with some of the holes being months overdue, like in the first example having a security hole known since August and not patched until January the next year).
You can take something very secure but if your falter in it's maintenance then it won't be of a lot of use in real world usage. And its due to issues like these that make me believe the opposite. Sure, due to it's Unix background, OSX could be very secure, but its not. And as long as these issues keep happening then people like Charlie Miller will keep breaking into Macs and showing that they are in fact less secure then Windows. And while Microsoft isn't always patching security holes on day 0, they are much more likely to address the holes a lot faster then Apple has.
After looking up the Wiki source for the claim here and then butched with Google translate, I get the (bad engrish) line of:
Apple DEP since 2006 and the first implementation was to have only for the stack, not even for the heap.
What this tells me is that while Apple had a form of DEP since 2006, it was a very small, non-complete version of DEP (so to speak) which would explain when Charlie Miller states that OSX didn't have DEP until Snow Leopard (guessing thats when they used a more full/true version of DEP).
And your source to this claim is? Facts please, I've showed you mine, now your turn. Because until you've shown something that can back up this claim of yours, you are using a theoretical claim instead of an actual claim.
Look Node, you can tell me what you wish and believe whatever you wish. The facts have shown the opposite of what you wish to believe here. They showed that Macs are less secure, with showing how they are less secure and you are more then welcome to try to rephrase, alter and/or change anything you wish but it won't change the facts that have been laid bare before you.
As I mentioned in my other post, if you wish to still state otherwise, please show something to back it up. Your answers to every post have been your own claims with nothing to back it up, which amounts to nothing when compared to the facts. If you wish for me to take you seriously, you'll have something to back it up that is a creditable source (no random posts of someone making random claims). I've shown Charlie Miller who has a track record of 3 years showing the weakness of the Mac OS and his experience of this as my facts, I should be able to honestly expect something along these lines from you if you are correct in your statements about the Mac OS's security. If the Mac OS is as secure as you are claiming, then you should be able to find many, MANY security-backgrounded people who will agree with you.
Sure, if this is what you wish to believe. I've shown you the facts and even gave you the links from the mans mouth about why they really do fall first (being that they are the easiest target). You have tried to re-phrase and alter your answer but it doesn't change the reality. Its not because people attack it first, it's due to the fact they are the easiest target. You can reply to this claiming something else thats just a slightly altered answer yet again, it won't change the truth.
If you do wish to claim yet again that the facts are wrong, please show me something to back it up. At the current moment I have facts (weak ASLR and up to now no DEP, with a track history from Pwn2Own to back it up) that are backing up my claim and your entire retort has be your word which is starting to wear very thin and weak. You need facts, not claims to argue against the facts I've shown you. And trying to claim that my facts aren't correct isn't any better then what your doing now unless you have something that can prove it.
No it doesn't. Stating it and showing that it does is fact which is exactly what he did. He stated that its not as secure and also (3 years running) keeps showing that it falls during the Pwn2Own and pointing out the fact that Mac OS lacks basic security options like weak ASLR and (up to the latest Pwn2Own) no DEP. That is what the 'whole fact thing' works, by pointing out the fact and actually doing it. Windows does have a strong ASLR and has DEP which gives it an edge over OSX. Charlie Miller stated that OSX security is getting better, its still behind Windows (with no doubt their weak ASLR being the reason).
Your first post claimed that people attacked the Mac first due to the fact that they wanted to win the Mac. Charlie Miller stated that he attacked the Mac because Apple is an easier target, which does dispute exactly what you wrote. He doesn't attack it because he wants to win the Mac, its just the easier target due to its weaker security.
You mean, once the contest enters the phase where you can run a program remotely, people attack the Mac first, because they want to win the Mac, and Windows and Linux are successfully attacked minutes later.
No, he means exactly what he said. OSX is less secure then Windows. Charlie Miller (the guy who takes down the Macs first) has mentioned this in an interview here. While Apple has improved their security, they are still behind Windows.
Many pundits have made a lot of the fact that the Mac was the first to be exploited in the Pwn2Own contest. Was the choice of the Mac as the first target because the hardware/operating system combo was more desirable as a prize than the commodity Windows laptops of the other competitors? Or was it just because Macintosh exploits occur with much less frequency than Windows exploits and would therefore be more newsworthy?
So until this year, applications on Apple were way easier to exploit than Windows. This is because Apple had weak ASLR and no DEP while Windows had full ASLR and DEP. This year, Snow Leopard has DEP, so its no longer trivial to exploit. In fact, I have lots of bugs in Safari that I easily could have exploited on Leopard but will be very difficult on Snow Leopard. So it used to be that that it was much worse, but now its mostly comparable (although still slightly behind)
That could raise flags in an online match, but it says he lost all his trophies, which isn't always effected by online actions. One of the ways to tell when someone is cheating is to look at their trophies and when did they get them.Here's a YouTube video on how to unlock achievements though cheating/altering a Gamertag. If the kid logged online with such a gamertag then he'd be noted as cheating. The video doesn't mention how he was detected and he might have just done something as stupid as this, got caught and is either hiding behind his mother, his Autism or both. Don't know for sure since there isn't enough information.
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I have when I worked with the government. I got written up for expecting a fellow worker to be able to keep up when I pointed out he had no problems doing the same amount of work when he was alone, but it somehow takes 3 times as long when he knew he'd get help.
Guessing you've never worked for the government, have you? Most don't get their jobs because they are qualified, they got it because they knew the right people.
Your forgetting one little fact. Some users, for lack of a better way to say it, are REALLY dumb. They want something that is as familiar as possible. They want the name to also be the same as possible. And if something is different, they will find a reason to bitch, moan and complain.
In fact, something like this happened last year with Facebook. Facebook changed its login screen and so http://www.readwriteweb.com/ made an article about it here. What was the shocking part was the comments down below, and I'll quote some: (make sure on the site to tell it to sort comments by oldest first:
Gladys Ok If I have to I will comment,I love facebook so right now just want to log in if thats ok with you..lol Keep up the good work...
fuccinwayne ok cool now can I get to facebook
John The new facebook sucks> NOW LET ME IN.
kathy when can we log in?
Nicole I WANT THE OLD FAFEBOOK BACK THIS SHIT IS WACK!!!!!
cassandra james just want to get on facebook
They all thought that the news article was the Facebook Login site. Not one of these people could do something as basic as type in www.facebook.com or have it bookmarked (its guessed they all Google searched Facebook Login) or even do the ultimate basic of checking the web address in the URL bar. There are over 100 comments like this on that page. And these are just the people who weren't too lazy to pipe up about it. They would have no doubt already been using their web browser that they are familiar with. Imagine what would happen if you change their software so it was unfamiliar? And you think it won't be hard to change from Word now? I like OO myself as well, but.... well after that, I would question.
Not all computer products will die soon. I had an old Toshiba laptop built in 1996 then when I finally recycled it in 2007 (was always using dekstops and that old one as the laptop, oddly enough I got more done with it then any desktop) the only thing that broke with it what the battery was long since dead. One night I even slipped on ice with it under my arm causing me to slam it corner first into the cement, worked perfectly still. Sometimes its luck of the draw. My friend's MB power brick died too easily I found. Our art friend came by one night and dropped his sketch pad (150 page one) on it from about a foot or 2 in the air and broke the power brick. Wasn't happy over that (though gave me a great idea what to buy him for Christmas after that).
Why is it so hard to take most of my post seriously? Yes the iPods warranty is a year, thats how I ended up with a second one. Paying $40 for the S&H of a new iPod (since it was was past the first 3 months) was cheaper then buying a whole new MP3 player.
While its not a computer, but I do own a Made in South Korea MP3 Player (Cowon S9 to be exact).
The apps weren't pirated since the original App was free. This is one of the catches of freedom. You have the freedom to choose and make it yours, but that freedom can also be the freedom to screw yourself over by malicious people. This is why Android phones by default don't allow you to install non-market apps. You can of course turn that off and install any and everything under the sun that works on Android and that it your choice and freedom but it warns you when trying to do it that you can be taking a risk and be careful what you install. (my phone lists it as "Your phone and personal data are more vulnerable to attack by applications from unknown sources. You agree that you are solely responsible for any damage to your phone or loss of data that may result from using these applications") This is a very good popup (and you have to click OK for it to let you do this) that gives a nice, clear, non-legalese warning. Now if your ignore this clearly spelled out warning and still get screwed over, then its your fault and your problem.
I took amazing care of them, thank you for asking. In fact, when I sent in the first one to be replaced for warrenty after 11 months of usage, aside for the oil of my fingers on the wheel, you wouldn't have been able to tell it had been used at all. I've banged around my current cellphone (Xperia x10) a hell of a lot more in the first 3 months then I did during the whole time with both iPods and the phone hasn't had a single issue (beyond the chip in the glass when it bounced off a rock, screen first). I never really took the iPod out of my pocket since I didn't need to so it never was banged around or anything.
How its the most common I don't know, it might have something to do with the fact its the laptops and not the actual Mac desktops (those are rare for me to see in general). I do know that most people don't seem to be that delicate with their laptops so that might have something to do with it. Possibly reading data of the HDD and walking around with it would be my best guess and then dropping it. Like all people, they rarely tell you the truth of what they were doing when it broke. For all I know they tripped on the powercord and pulled it off (seen this once more or less, before my very eyes with a MacBook. The power cable was connected on the back left but had been pulled around the back and along the right side (so over half of it was wrapped with the cable), the sharp tug on the cable caused enough friction to pull the MacBook into a spin a few times and stopped half way off the table. Didn't matter that the power cord should have let go, but when its wrapped around it almost like a top it won't matter, friction takes over.)
Sometimes its just better to post the truth in something like this as an AC. If you don't, you'll be modded into the ground. I've done the same before. And I've noticed the quality issues of Apple products myself (one of the reasons I don't buy them).
I've owned 2 iPods, and both died in just under a year and I'm not alone there. Its quite rare I can find someone who's had a iPlayer(Pod, Touch, Shuffle) that has had one live for more then a year and a half. Does this mean there is none? No, but I find them to be quite rare with people who use them. I've had friends had other failing parts in MacBooks (HDs the most common). They just don't live any longer then a good built laptop from other companies. Granted this seems to be were many Mac users get annoying to me when comparing build quality. They will want to compare a $1200+ MacBook to a sub $400-$500 HP or Dell. Thats not a good comparison in any manor. HP and Dell are known to be subpar quality companies. Compare the Mac to something like a Asus, Sony or Toshiba. Do these companies have no failures? No, but they aren't shoddy built either. These are better build quality companies. An suddenly you'll see a more equal in quality build in all these companies. This was even highlighted by Squaretrades review of their records. Thing is, the price tag to the Apple laptops are much higher for the same specs and the review shows that the build quality isn't higher, its just higher priced to make you think your paying for something of higher quality. This is normal in designer products like clothes and perfumes/make-ups because people like to equate "higher price = higher quality" when in many situations, it isn't true but is to make you believe that it is.
Now, is Apple normally a shoddy build quality company? No, but they aren't the top build quality either. They just know how to give the impression that they are.
Now does this mean you shouldn't ever buy an Apple product? Not really. You should buy what you enjoy but should approach it knowing the facts and not have false impressions about the product either. In short, if you enjoy the Apple product, then all the power to you, but don't be surprised that not everyone will agree with you that they are the best. Its why there is more then one product out there. Everyone is different.
The phrase "Comcast can't interfere with Internet video traffic flowing over its broadband network." Sounds pretty universal to me.
Sounds more like Comcast (and only Comcast) can't interfere with internet video traffic. But whats the exact definition of 'internet video traffic'? Just streaming? What about boxes that download the video for future usage? Those might not fall in the definition of internet video traffic since they aren't 'internet video', they are video's downloaded from the internet. And thats just for streaming video. What if they decide to try their hand at other online business like digital downloads in the future? There is nothing there to stop them from doing that. The wording is too limited there.
Because in the real world, no one would ever be prepared in advanced. This will also go against the fact that the Mac OS has gone down in seconds where the Windows hacks takes minutes. A normal user would have restarted their computer (if they are using it) after 20-30 seconds of no/slow response which in the real world would kill the Windows attack, the Mac would be already too late.
You have also managed to contradict your self. Your post is trying to claim that OSX is better then Windows in security like Node said, then you turn around and claim that they are equal since they both fall at the same time. Which answer was the one you meant? Your can't flip between both of them.
And in reality everyone has bad experiences with any OS they use. Yes, even OSX. Its one of the reasons they put an in house repair shop (the genius bar) in every Mac store, because people have issues with OSX. Problems aren't limited to Windows, no matter how much you would like them to be. I've heard numerous complaints about OSX from normal (ie non-slashdot) users about the Mac they bought or can I fix Mac problem XYZ. Basic users when switching to a Mac trade problems X for problems Y.
The only problem I have with your statements is while OSX is based on Unix, Apple hasn't been the most proactive in keeping it's security up to date/maintenance. And when they do patch the holes, 2 3 the list of holes tend to be quite large which means they are doing quite a large backlog (with some of the holes being months overdue, like in the first example having a security hole known since August and not patched until January the next year).
You can take something very secure but if your falter in it's maintenance then it won't be of a lot of use in real world usage. And its due to issues like these that make me believe the opposite. Sure, due to it's Unix background, OSX could be very secure, but its not. And as long as these issues keep happening then people like Charlie Miller will keep breaking into Macs and showing that they are in fact less secure then Windows. And while Microsoft isn't always patching security holes on day 0, they are much more likely to address the holes a lot faster then Apple has.
After looking up the Wiki source for the claim here and then butched with Google translate, I get the (bad engrish) line of:
Apple DEP since 2006 and the first implementation was to have only for the stack, not even for the heap.
What this tells me is that while Apple had a form of DEP since 2006, it was a very small, non-complete version of DEP (so to speak) which would explain when Charlie Miller states that OSX didn't have DEP until Snow Leopard (guessing thats when they used a more full/true version of DEP).
And your source to this claim is? Facts please, I've showed you mine, now your turn. Because until you've shown something that can back up this claim of yours, you are using a theoretical claim instead of an actual claim.
Look Node, you can tell me what you wish and believe whatever you wish. The facts have shown the opposite of what you wish to believe here. They showed that Macs are less secure, with showing how they are less secure and you are more then welcome to try to rephrase, alter and/or change anything you wish but it won't change the facts that have been laid bare before you.
As I mentioned in my other post, if you wish to still state otherwise, please show something to back it up. Your answers to every post have been your own claims with nothing to back it up, which amounts to nothing when compared to the facts. If you wish for me to take you seriously, you'll have something to back it up that is a creditable source (no random posts of someone making random claims). I've shown Charlie Miller who has a track record of 3 years showing the weakness of the Mac OS and his experience of this as my facts, I should be able to honestly expect something along these lines from you if you are correct in your statements about the Mac OS's security. If the Mac OS is as secure as you are claiming, then you should be able to find many, MANY security-backgrounded people who will agree with you.
Sure, if this is what you wish to believe. I've shown you the facts and even gave you the links from the mans mouth about why they really do fall first (being that they are the easiest target). You have tried to re-phrase and alter your answer but it doesn't change the reality. Its not because people attack it first, it's due to the fact they are the easiest target. You can reply to this claiming something else thats just a slightly altered answer yet again, it won't change the truth.
If you do wish to claim yet again that the facts are wrong, please show me something to back it up. At the current moment I have facts (weak ASLR and up to now no DEP, with a track history from Pwn2Own to back it up) that are backing up my claim and your entire retort has be your word which is starting to wear very thin and weak. You need facts, not claims to argue against the facts I've shown you. And trying to claim that my facts aren't correct isn't any better then what your doing now unless you have something that can prove it.
No it doesn't. Stating it and showing that it does is fact which is exactly what he did. He stated that its not as secure and also (3 years running) keeps showing that it falls during the Pwn2Own and pointing out the fact that Mac OS lacks basic security options like weak ASLR and (up to the latest Pwn2Own) no DEP. That is what the 'whole fact thing' works, by pointing out the fact and actually doing it. Windows does have a strong ASLR and has DEP which gives it an edge over OSX. Charlie Miller stated that OSX security is getting better, its still behind Windows (with no doubt their weak ASLR being the reason).
Your first post claimed that people attacked the Mac first due to the fact that they wanted to win the Mac. Charlie Miller stated that he attacked the Mac because Apple is an easier target, which does dispute exactly what you wrote. He doesn't attack it because he wants to win the Mac, its just the easier target due to its weaker security.
You missed the last part of Charlie Millers answer to the question about security on Apple about how it compares to Windows.
now its mostly comparable (although still slightly behind).
That means that OSX security is mostly comparable but still slightly behind, ie not as good/less secure.
You mean, once the contest enters the phase where you can run a program remotely, people attack the Mac first, because they want to win the Mac, and Windows and Linux are successfully attacked minutes later.
No, he means exactly what he said. OSX is less secure then Windows. Charlie Miller (the guy who takes down the Macs first) has mentioned this in an interview here. While Apple has improved their security, they are still behind Windows.
Many pundits have made a lot of the fact that the Mac was the first to be exploited in the Pwn2Own contest. Was the choice of the Mac as the first target because the hardware/operating system combo was more desirable as a prize than the commodity Windows laptops of the other competitors? Or was it just because Macintosh exploits occur with much less frequency than Windows exploits and would therefore be more newsworthy?
So until this year, applications on Apple were way easier to exploit than Windows. This is because Apple had weak ASLR and no DEP while Windows had full ASLR and DEP. This year, Snow Leopard has DEP, so its no longer trivial to exploit. In fact, I have lots of bugs in Safari that I easily could have exploited on Leopard but will be very difficult on Snow Leopard. So it used to be that that it was much worse, but now its mostly comparable (although still slightly behind)
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That could raise flags in an online match, but it says he lost all his trophies, which isn't always effected by online actions. One of the ways to tell when someone is cheating is to look at their trophies and when did they get them.Here's a YouTube video on how to unlock achievements though cheating/altering a Gamertag. If the kid logged online with such a gamertag then he'd be noted as cheating. The video doesn't mention how he was detected and he might have just done something as stupid as this, got caught and is either hiding behind his mother, his Autism or both. Don't know for sure since there isn't enough information.