Not the best solution, but as the article says, there aren't a lot of virsuses for the mac for this reason. So one thing that can make your servers more secure is to use a more obscure OS and know it really well.
Mac viruses aren't in wide circulation for reasons beyond numbers. Apple, unlike MS, actually secures things so that scripting can't run amok, as with ILOVEYOU and all the others. Fully scriptable OS are trouble waiting to happen and everyone BUT Microsoft knows it.
And yes, Macs get viruses. There are also ways to trash a Mac system with scripting, but most of them aren't even a tenth as evil as this stuff coming to a Windows machine near you. Ironic, the last virus problem that I had to watch for were macro viruses that came through corrupted Word files. If you don't have Office on the machine, you don't have a problem--Appleworks and MacLink get the job done.
It's the only real way to insure security in America today. I considered it in the same light that ebay ranks sellers on their service. People get extra credit for being good merchants, and buyers are less reluctant to send a paypal check to them, relying on the credit to assure them they'll get their stuff.
Are you equating the intrusion into the private lives of millions of people by the likes of Crusader-for-the-almighty-dollar Larry Ellison and the All-too-ready US government is like seller ratings on Ebay? If this is the kind of thinking that pervades the American Scene, we're totally doomed.
First, airplane travel is a contracted service between airlines and individual passengers on the basis of a totally voluntary exchange of money. There is no constitutionally established or protected right to air travel and the airlines can choose not to serve anyone at anytime. The reason that they don't exercise that option is because it is bad for their bottom lines, which is the real problem.
This would also be why they choose minimum wage contract labor companies to handle security for them. In this respect, the airlines are not a good value and market forces ought to be applied to force them to change. Airlines SHOULD have minded security and still don't, given that 67% percent of attempts to get weapons on to planes were successful as late as last week. Airlines are most interested in making money and getting handouts from the government and don't give a rat about anything else. This would be the exact reason why airport security sucks so hard and why people were able to do this.
Second, national ID would not have prevented this tragedy and people who believe otherwise apparently also would buy the Ebay idea above.
Third, the government has been -waiting- for a chance to do this to us. I fear for my children and grandchildren should this go through. No one would be safe and it would allow the government to step in at anytime and restrict our freedom of movement by a simple press of a key(or a simple typo).
The downside, of course, is - as Ellison puts it - we would have to accept the limited measure of privacy we probably already have. But the positives might outweigh the negatives.
Ellison wants to invade our private lives. He stands to make MILLIONS and BILLIONS off such a contract and he doesn't have to care about you or I. If you're confused, look at the MS debacle.
We are truly being attacked from all sides, here, from within and without. If this tragedy has made hundreds more would-be martyrs and suicide bombers out of our enemy, then terrorism might become more commonplace in America. Is it not already a daily part of life in Israel, Northern Ireland, and England?
"We" are not being attacked from anywhere but within. Frankly, until the American people stop electing idiots who promote and condone some of the actions that incited this tragedy, no one, anywhere is safe. "We" most assuredly didn't have it coming, but I think that our government -should- have it coming.
As people wake up to the reality that we were NEVER safe, they yearn for someone else to make them so. This was FDR's great lie to the American People and perhaps we should dispense with the illusion and start taking care of ourselves. I prefer to not have a central authority decide those issues for me and my family.
Those who would trade essential liberty for temporary security.....
It's not so much fun being an American anymore...
For those of us who realized that something like this could have happened in advance of September 11, America is just as wonderful as it ever was. Remember that the government listed this very scenario as a possibility and in no way prepared itself for it. Moreover, your personal safety -always- was your responsibility and many people who work in tall buildings might well be reconsidering those jobs now. You never could be assured survival in a high rise fire, so hitting one with an airplane didn't improve or diminish those odds.
There are instances where we turn our safety over to others and always will be. However, you should not turn your safety over to others blindly, because in this case, you're going to get screwed.
Interstingly enough, not having broadcast or cable TV, I found radio and the internet sufficient for my news needs. NPR didn't repeat nearly as much as the commercial networks, and CSPAN radio was quite informative of its own.
Even though I found myself missing access to live TV, I really have to admit that I was much more calm and at peace than many of my cohorts. It was the lack of live images and barrage of pictures. TV is designed to manipulate more than other media, freeze people to the couch, induce emotion, which is part of the reason why I let my cable subscription lapse. My kids go outside now.;)
Why is the parent modded as Flamebait? The US/Canada border -was- sealed, along with the US/Mexico border. Air traffic has been grounded in both countries as well.
A bunch of someones flew great big bombs into the sides of 3 buildings, using commercial airliners. Communications in and out of NYC have been devastated by the loss of equipment on top of the WTC. Of course, given the basic unknown nature of the threat, they closed the borders. This is -that- serious.
Kids have been taught to be lazy in their play by TV and a toy industry that is all too willing to do all the imagination for them. LEGO made the mistake of making sets that catered to this kind of nonsense, instead of giving us nifty parts that we could make into whatever we wanted to.
LEGO lost that and they lost a lot of business from people who wanted to share LEGO with their kids.:) It's a bit better now, being able to buy bulk bricks and stuff, so maybe we still can.
The evil here is really marketing and what marketers will do to manage your experiences so that they can make money. The only real way to beat that it to buy things that don't let them do it. 'Convenience' and 'toys' probably don't mix as well as they want it to.
It jumps to many MS owned sites when she logs in. I have to spend at least fifteen minutes cleaning up the garbage that's left behind on my PC after she checks her mail.
No one puts Microsoft or Lara Croft on my machine without my permission. Less likely to catch something I didn't want that way.;)
No one buys this stuff? We're about to see a trainwreck of titanic proportions, methinks.
Most people are simply not going to toss out a perfectly good TV set in favor of a grossly more expensive model. I sure am not, because it's just insane to spend thousands for a new idiot box that doesn't have the functionality of my current one or isn't a computer.
Don Henley mentioned in one of his essays on the topic of IP and the music industry that we probably were going to need our 2nd Amendment rights more to protect us from corporations than from the government. In some ways, especially with crap like this Adobe crap, they are becoming one in the same.
Maybe the article didn't make this clear, but the bench is not filled with money.
Well, neither was the fiberglass rhinoceros in front of Scott Molds in Kent, Ohio, but that never, ever, stopped people from stealing it for senior pranks. Kept right on happening even after the huge log chain was attached. I think the company finally gave up and got rid of the thing after it had wound up on the lawns, rooftops, and in a swimming pool of assorted local schools over the course of 20 or so years.
Virtually none. Microsoft has consistently said that they intend to make their platform the best place to run.NET apps and this article reiterates that. If you want to cripple MS, you don't use their stuff and let someone else catch Mono. It's a sucky virus to have anyway.;)
All it really takes to stop/slow this is for a few high profile cases and lawsuits to come of it. I mean, until we get real tort reform in the US, you'll be able sue anyone for anything at anytime, and police departments aren't immune to high damages civil suits and class actions by people who get wrongly hauled in because of this technology. The Supreme Court is also coming down on the side of the Constitution in a number of important instances, so law enforcement generally doesn't have a free hand for longer than it takes a court to rule on it.
You might call it utter frustration, and to some small extent it is, but I take pains to point out that it's not real hard to find pay phones or get home service and that most everyone has unlimited local calling here. You pick up the phone, dial, and the call almost always goes through.
I realize that the garden variety user in the US is nothing like all the l33t h8x0r who need DSL to download tons of hot teen slut pr0n, but I'm still on 56k and NOT having huge problems with it. Believe it or not, not everyone here needs or even wants high bandwidth digital email on our celphones.
Hell, a bunch of us don't even need celphones at all--I envy them.
Please remember, my American compatriots, that the reason why we are 'so far behind' in many telco issues is not because we are some bleating band of nincompoops, but rather that many other countries simply didn't have much in the way of infrastructure to begin with and when they installed, they installed modern digital because it was the prevailing technology.
Our telco infrastructure is much older, widely based on the old copper and analog systems, and we have to spend a lot of money to upgrade it to the modern stadards, unsurprisingly enough, because we still have one of the best telephone systems in the world in terms of access and availability for users. It's a shame that deregulation will probably destroy that.
I don't need to be told what the input window and the 'send' button are. MSN Messenger, however, assumes that I don't know my ass from a hole in the ground and won't let me turn the damn feature off. It's a sign of stupidity to assume that someone whom you've never met is stupid. It's also a good way to get bit on the ass in the long run.
Americans might be dumbed down, but telling us we're stupid just pisses us off.
I've never seriously considered actually blocking IE from my sites...until now. Probably time to go find that javascript and install it. Enough is quite enough.
I remember a fight between two kids on the playground. One was the archetypical bully and the other was a kid who was pint sized and who honestly looked like he'd break if you looked at him the wrong way. Well, as things went, the bully and his gang of twits surrounded the kid and as things erupted, the smaller boy used a few moves that his dad, the Marine, had taught him. Ended badly for the bully, because -everyone- saw it.
High profile attacks on the might is right approach of ICANN can't be bad for the internet in the long run. Government isn't going to contain it.
Should the paramedic be able to know that much about a patient from a computer in the back of an ambulance? What kind of security does that ultimately provide the patient with HIV, or something else as stigmatized? Does he need to know about a genetic skin condition when I am bleeding to death from a car accident? I believe that McNealy's argument here is flawed in this respect, since he assumes that we all -want- the ambulance driver needs to have this information. This is generally not the case at all.
Medic-alert tags that say things like "Diabetic" or "Allergic" to something on our person are often much more effective, especially when you cannot be guaranteed that computerized records access is going to be there to save the day. Before we had computers, this -was- how things were done, and anyone smart would still be doing it.
Which brings me to 'customized experiences'. Okay, so you can get your web-enabled celphone to find the restaurant and make the reservation for you. Is it necessarily a good thing to let someone else decide where you'll eat? Do we lose somethn in not adventuring and discovering the world on our own? The problem with McNealy's approach is that it lets someone else, or a machine, or something not you, make choices based on a limited set of inputs. You can't be sure that you'll like or dislike a movie or a restaurant based soley on a previous experience. Reality isn't that contiguous or even predictable. "Blood Simple" isn't the same on a TV screen as it was in the theater, and not everyone who might suggest a video offering via web-gadget is going to grok that.
Which brings me to the point about some of the best experiences I've had in life resulted from happy accidents like a flat tire or a wrong turn. First, you can't remove chaos from life, and being wired seems to only make life more chaotic. I also tend to think that life is diminished when we want everything done for us. I mean, when the car broke down in the sticks of Florida, I watched my husband and my eldest daughter spend some very meaningful time together playing in the surf. In fact, I think our whole approach to family vacations has been altered by that breakdown. We'll probably go back to that little town again, because we found a great little bungalow on the beach and got to sit and watch the surf for 2 days.
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I think that the thing you mis in your commentary is the fact that this was a brutal war with stakes a lot higher than anything we have seen in our lifetimes. The US was caught between a Europe that had been wrecked by several years of conflict before 1941 and a war with Japan. It wasn't pretty and the Germans were working on things as bad as the A-Bomb. The unfortunate reality is that Hitler devastated Europe in the course of a few short years and was systematically exterminating people who didn't fit his vision of the world to come.
There can be no room for PC revisionism , really, and certainly bombing population centers into the Stone Age is a horrific business(and I mean that in total sincerity), but we're also not talking about the age of smart bombs and super technology, either. When it was a choice between Hiroshima and Nagasaki or landing an invasion force where they -knew- that the allied casualties were going to be astronomical? Yes, we used those bombs, perhaps for nothing other the very honest reason that we valued our people more than we valued the enemy.
In the stark realities of Us v Them, you wind up with choices like this--and we are *damn* lucky that we never had to use the bomb again in a wartime scenario(nuclear testing is a whole different can of worms). We should also be very careful to seperate the events that led to the Cold War from the Manhattan Project. Stalin wasn't a very nice guy and killed 10 million of his own people, afterall.
You claim to be righteous, but you supported those causes. Diana outwardly was harmless, but she was against U.S. policy.
And curiously enough, she was from the part of the world that has suffered pretty heavily from leftover land mines. We're talking about ordinance that stands the test of time and people to this day manage to get themselves killed in leftover mine fields from wars gone by. Any resonably humane person could well look at the situation and say, "My god, this needs to be fixed.", even if it might be impractical to actually do anything about it.
And if Diana had been doing things secretly to undermine US policy, or even openly doing it, it still wouldn't change the basic idea that the CIA and NSA both need a lot more public scrutiny.
The words of Marie Antionette and the history of the events that led to the French Revolution spring to mind. Seems to me that ignoring the peasants always ends badly. Her counterparts in the content industry clearly don't know their history.
Seems to me that ignoring the end user, or treating them like criminals and thieves, will probably alienate them pretty soundly. If Congress, the FCC and the others allow the content industry to dictate like this, then they won't have anyone but themselves to blame for a backlash against the technology. In this respect, the government should really let the market dictate and let these people self-destruct--might be better for everyone.
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Mac viruses aren't in wide circulation for reasons beyond numbers. Apple, unlike MS, actually secures things so that scripting can't run amok, as with ILOVEYOU and all the others. Fully scriptable OS are trouble waiting to happen and everyone BUT Microsoft knows it.
And yes, Macs get viruses. There are also ways to trash a Mac system with scripting, but most of them aren't even a tenth as evil as this stuff coming to a Windows machine near you. Ironic, the last virus problem that I had to watch for were macro viruses that came through corrupted Word files. If you don't have Office on the machine, you don't have a problem--Appleworks and MacLink get the job done.
Are you equating the intrusion into the private lives of millions of people by the likes of Crusader-for-the-almighty-dollar Larry Ellison and the All-too-ready US government is like seller ratings on Ebay? If this is the kind of thinking that pervades the American Scene, we're totally doomed.
First, airplane travel is a contracted service between airlines and individual passengers on the basis of a totally voluntary exchange of money. There is no constitutionally established or protected right to air travel and the airlines can choose not to serve anyone at anytime. The reason that they don't exercise that option is because it is bad for their bottom lines, which is the real problem.
This would also be why they choose minimum wage contract labor companies to handle security for them. In this respect, the airlines are not a good value and market forces ought to be applied to force them to change. Airlines SHOULD have minded security and still don't, given that 67% percent of attempts to get weapons on to planes were successful as late as last week. Airlines are most interested in making money and getting handouts from the government and don't give a rat about anything else. This would be the exact reason why airport security sucks so hard and why people were able to do this.
Second, national ID would not have prevented this tragedy and people who believe otherwise apparently also would buy the Ebay idea above.
Third, the government has been -waiting- for a chance to do this to us. I fear for my children and grandchildren should this go through. No one would be safe and it would allow the government to step in at anytime and restrict our freedom of movement by a simple press of a key(or a simple typo).
The downside, of course, is - as Ellison puts it - we would have to accept the limited measure of privacy we probably already have. But the positives might outweigh the negatives.
Ellison wants to invade our private lives. He stands to make MILLIONS and BILLIONS off such a contract and he doesn't have to care about you or I. If you're confused, look at the MS debacle.
We are truly being attacked from all sides, here, from within and without. If this tragedy has made hundreds more would-be martyrs and suicide bombers out of our enemy, then terrorism might become more commonplace in America. Is it not already a daily part of life in Israel, Northern Ireland, and England?
"We" are not being attacked from anywhere but within. Frankly, until the American people stop electing idiots who promote and condone some of the actions that incited this tragedy, no one, anywhere is safe. "We" most assuredly didn't have it coming, but I think that our government -should- have it coming.
As people wake up to the reality that we were NEVER safe, they yearn for someone else to make them so. This was FDR's great lie to the American People and perhaps we should dispense with the illusion and start taking care of ourselves. I prefer to not have a central authority decide those issues for me and my family.
Those who would trade essential liberty for temporary security.....
It's not so much fun being an American anymore...
For those of us who realized that something like this could have happened in advance of September 11, America is just as wonderful as it ever was. Remember that the government listed this very scenario as a possibility and in no way prepared itself for it. Moreover, your personal safety -always- was your responsibility and many people who work in tall buildings might well be reconsidering those jobs now. You never could be assured survival in a high rise fire, so hitting one with an airplane didn't improve or diminish those odds.
There are instances where we turn our safety over to others and always will be. However, you should not turn your safety over to others blindly, because in this case, you're going to get screwed.
Even though I found myself missing access to live TV, I really have to admit that I was much more calm and at peace than many of my cohorts. It was the lack of live images and barrage of pictures. TV is designed to manipulate more than other media, freeze people to the couch, induce emotion, which is part of the reason why I let my cable subscription lapse. My kids go outside now. ;)
A bunch of someones flew great big bombs into the sides of 3 buildings, using commercial airliners. Communications in and out of NYC have been devastated by the loss of equipment on top of the WTC. Of course, given the basic unknown nature of the threat, they closed the borders. This is -that- serious.
Kids have been taught to be lazy in their play by TV and a toy industry that is all too willing to do all the imagination for them. LEGO made the mistake of making sets that catered to this kind of nonsense, instead of giving us nifty parts that we could make into whatever we wanted to.
LEGO lost that and they lost a lot of business from people who wanted to share LEGO with their kids. :) It's a bit better now, being able to buy bulk bricks and stuff, so maybe we still can.
The evil here is really marketing and what marketers will do to manage your experiences so that they can make money. The only real way to beat that it to buy things that don't let them do it. 'Convenience' and 'toys' probably don't mix as well as they want it to.
No one puts Microsoft or Lara Croft on my machine without my permission. Less likely to catch something I didn't want that way. ;)
Most people are simply not going to toss out a perfectly good TV set in favor of a grossly more expensive model. I sure am not, because it's just insane to spend thousands for a new idiot box that doesn't have the functionality of my current one or isn't a computer.
Well, neither was the fiberglass rhinoceros in front of Scott Molds in Kent, Ohio, but that never, ever, stopped people from stealing it for senior pranks. Kept right on happening even after the huge log chain was attached. I think the company finally gave up and got rid of the thing after it had wound up on the lawns, rooftops, and in a swimming pool of assorted local schools over the course of 20 or so years.
I miss those days. I miss the rhino, too.
And let's not get into Pentium floating point error issues. The mere thought of broken bones and bruises from that make me cringe.
I realize that the garden variety user in the US is nothing like all the l33t h8x0r who need DSL to download tons of hot teen slut pr0n, but I'm still on 56k and NOT having huge problems with it. Believe it or not, not everyone here needs or even wants high bandwidth digital email on our celphones.
Hell, a bunch of us don't even need celphones at all--I envy them.
Please remember, my American compatriots, that the reason why we are 'so far behind' in many telco issues is not because we are some bleating band of nincompoops, but rather that many other countries simply didn't have much in the way of infrastructure to begin with and when they installed, they installed modern digital because it was the prevailing technology.
Our telco infrastructure is much older, widely based on the old copper and analog systems, and we have to spend a lot of money to upgrade it to the modern stadards, unsurprisingly enough, because we still have one of the best telephone systems in the world in terms of access and availability for users. It's a shame that deregulation will probably destroy that.
But the half witted managers will now read this and say that it isn't real. Why? Because they didn't read the article -either-.
I predict a new rise in people being fired for malingering when they really are suffering.
I don't need to be told what the input window and the 'send' button are. MSN Messenger, however, assumes that I don't know my ass from a hole in the ground and won't let me turn the damn feature off. It's a sign of stupidity to assume that someone whom you've never met is stupid. It's also a good way to get bit on the ass in the long run.
Americans might be dumbed down, but telling us we're stupid just pisses us off.
I've never seriously considered actually blocking IE from my sites...until now. Probably time to go find that javascript and install it. Enough is quite enough.
High profile attacks on the might is right approach of ICANN can't be bad for the internet in the long run. Government isn't going to contain it.
Should the paramedic be able to know that much about a patient from a computer in the back of an ambulance? What kind of security does that ultimately provide the patient with HIV, or something else as stigmatized? Does he need to know about a genetic skin condition when I am bleeding to death from a car accident? I believe that McNealy's argument here is flawed in this respect, since he assumes that we all -want- the ambulance driver needs to have this information. This is generally not the case at all.
Medic-alert tags that say things like "Diabetic" or "Allergic" to something on our person are often much more effective, especially when you cannot be guaranteed that computerized records access is going to be there to save the day. Before we had computers, this -was- how things were done, and anyone smart would still be doing it.
Which brings me to 'customized experiences'. Okay, so you can get your web-enabled celphone to find the restaurant and make the reservation for you. Is it necessarily a good thing to let someone else decide where you'll eat? Do we lose somethn in not adventuring and discovering the world on our own? The problem with McNealy's approach is that it lets someone else, or a machine, or something not you, make choices based on a limited set of inputs. You can't be sure that you'll like or dislike a movie or a restaurant based soley on a previous experience. Reality isn't that contiguous or even predictable. "Blood Simple" isn't the same on a TV screen as it was in the theater, and not everyone who might suggest a video offering via web-gadget is going to grok that.
Which brings me to the point about some of the best experiences I've had in life resulted from happy accidents like a flat tire or a wrong turn. First, you can't remove chaos from life, and being wired seems to only make life more chaotic. I also tend to think that life is diminished when we want everything done for us. I mean, when the car broke down in the sticks of Florida, I watched my husband and my eldest daughter spend some very meaningful time together playing in the surf. In fact, I think our whole approach to family vacations has been altered by that breakdown. We'll probably go back to that little town again, because we found a great little bungalow on the beach and got to sit and watch the surf for 2 days.
There can be no room for PC revisionism , really, and certainly bombing population centers into the Stone Age is a horrific business(and I mean that in total sincerity), but we're also not talking about the age of smart bombs and super technology, either. When it was a choice between Hiroshima and Nagasaki or landing an invasion force where they -knew- that the allied casualties were going to be astronomical? Yes, we used those bombs, perhaps for nothing other the very honest reason that we valued our people more than we valued the enemy.
In the stark realities of Us v Them, you wind up with choices like this--and we are *damn* lucky that we never had to use the bomb again in a wartime scenario(nuclear testing is a whole different can of worms). We should also be very careful to seperate the events that led to the Cold War from the Manhattan Project. Stalin wasn't a very nice guy and killed 10 million of his own people, afterall.
And curiously enough, she was from the part of the world that has suffered pretty heavily from leftover land mines. We're talking about ordinance that stands the test of time and people to this day manage to get themselves killed in leftover mine fields from wars gone by. Any resonably humane person could well look at the situation and say, "My god, this needs to be fixed.", even if it might be impractical to actually do anything about it.
And if Diana had been doing things secretly to undermine US policy, or even openly doing it, it still wouldn't change the basic idea that the CIA and NSA both need a lot more public scrutiny.
Seems to me that ignoring the end user, or treating them like criminals and thieves, will probably alienate them pretty soundly. If Congress, the FCC and the others allow the content industry to dictate like this, then they won't have anyone but themselves to blame for a backlash against the technology. In this respect, the government should really let the market dictate and let these people self-destruct--might be better for everyone.