Of course people who engages in stressful, compeditive pursuits will demonstrate more aggressive behavior than somone at rest. I want to see studies comparing video games to other compeditive, stressful activies - any sport, politics, board games.
The words "responsible" and "Clinton" have no business appearing in the same sentence! Travelgate? Watergate? Filegate?
Huh, if you guys still can't let those manufactured scandals go, the ones that failed to net a single conviction, fine or settlement from the Clintons, I wonder what you would have done if Bill Clinton had sat around on his ass for 20 minutes while the nation was under attack. Or if he had a male homosexual prostitute with zero press experience pose as a reporter and lob softball questions at news conferences. Or if he led the country to war, spending hundereds of billions of dollars and over a thousand American lives on pretenses that turned out to be bullshit.
It won't change until you find a way to convince the general public to stop voting people they don't really want up through the primary elections just because they think they can win
Great advice, if you are a dissatisfied conservative. If you want to elect a democratic candidate, you do have to vote for someone "electable", or your idealism will merely insure that the Republicans win. Again.
Why do I say this? Because the center/left simply can not afford to screw around with oddball presidential candidates or pushing thrid party candidates with no chance to win. Currently, there is no split in the God/gun nut/no taxes jihad, so to divide your base while the other guy's base is united is asinine. There's another term for asinine in this context: Ralph Nader.
Yes, the Democratic party needs to refocus and find new issues, but pushing real candidates to give your issues a look is far better than voting for candidates who believe in your issues 100% - but have no chance of being elected.
just as willing to implement fiscal irresponsibility as the Democrats
Ah, another Republican talking point that needs to be put to rest. Who's had the most balanced budgets/suprluses? Democratic presidents. Who's had the largest defecits? Republicans.
As someone once observed, Democrats tax and spend, Republicans borrow and spend.
The worst of the "drug war" laws - criminalization of marijuana, forfeiture laws, mandatory sentances - all happened loooong before Clinton took office.
it was Clinton who knocked it up to the next level, instituting programs such as "Know Your Neighbor"
Such a far reaching, massive program that Google searches like '"know your neighbor" clinton drug war' turns up a lot of jack squat. Why don't you do something constructive, like trying to blame the Asian tsumani on him instead.
Hillary believes it's ok for a teenage girl to have the right to have an abortion without parental consent
Yeah...so? Parental "consent" should be 100% irrelevant. What *should* be relevant is the fathers say in the matter. If he doesn't want to support the baby, he's on the hook for the next 18 years of her life. If he does want the baby but she doesn't, hello abortion clinic. Either way he has no say, and that's wrong.
It would be really interesting if one could invent a perfectly fair Tax system where you only have to pay in exactly what you use.
Impossible, because paying for only what you directly use ignores indirect benefits. Regaurdless of wether or not you have kids, you should pay for education, because you benefit by lower crime and a larger middle class to buy whatever products/services are produced by the company you work for.
The average Slashdotter doens't care about an OPEN music compression algorithm that has distinct advantages over MP3?
Not average, more like "overwhelmingly vast majority." 1) for the end user MP3 is every bit as free as OGG which adds to 2) OGG has no distinct advantages over MP3 whatsoever.
That's all well and good, but any true "audiophile" would surely agree that compressing a song into lossy MP3 format
So use lossless AAC or WAV, duh. iPods support both.
stooping to the level of presenting a product that has no display screen whatsoever
Then don't buy one.
It's unlike the Apple I usually think of to release rather "stripped down" products that are aimed at the "mass market".
"Mass market" means "cheap". Trying to compete with Dell on throwing cheap boxes together is like Walgreens trying to take on Wal-Mart. And frequently going for selling fewer but higher margin units can be much more profitable than throwing out cheap units just to gain marketshare. I was looking at a gaming magazine (PC Gamer? sorry no link) that showed that Nintendo makes more money than Sony with the release of a new console system, because although Sony sells more systems and games, Nintendo makes more money because they don't take a large loss on the hardware. Case in point: other than Dell or Apple, what other players have shown signifigant, consistant profits over the last few years?
In all fairness, this would probably have been the advice which the average slashdotter would have given if Apple weren't involved.
Well, sure, if you were a dumbass. Online stores either use DRM formats that lock you in, or sell DRM-free mp3's or aac's, which all iPods play just fine. What's your point?
I executed one of the files on that HD and got my system infected with MBDF-A (or -B, I am not sure)
That's not a virus, that's a trojan. Most (if not all) of the viruses out for the Mac in those days were cross platform macro viruses from Microsoft Office.
Look, I think Apple's default configuration is the right one, but the grandparent was claiming that you are secure out of the box. That is simply wrong.
Yes, they are.
You are not secure because the software installed at the factory will be out of date by the time you get it. The firewall is OFF BY DEFAULT
And all services ARE OFF BY DEFAULT. How is a cracker going to compromise your old version off ssh if IT'S NOT RUNNING? Get a clue.
"A car is only as safe as the driver. It's not our fault the gas tank in the Ford Pinto blows up in a 10 mph collision - we weren't driving it at the time." -made up Ford exec, 1978
With a Mac, you have to work at it to make it insecure. Have weak passwords, turn on all the services that are off by default, and wait for a network worm to pass by. With Windows, you have to do a GREAT deal of work to make it secure. It is simply inexcusable that a fresh install of Windows XP can be loaded with malware before you even have time to download the first patch.
named Switchback which infected OSX Macs, but nobody noticed it.
Probably because the article was written by 'Anne Onymus', was a joke and 'Rumor Mill' is a parody site.
There are others such as Renepo.B
Uh, no. Renepo is a bash script that attempts to gather passwords. It spreads by copying itself to "/Volumes//Library/StartupItems/". So for this script to work, first you have to run it as root, and have the root volumes of other Mac's mounted in that directory with superuser write access. Not even Gumby could reach so far as to call this a virus.
MacOS MW2004 Trojan
That's a trojan, not a virus. Did you look at what you were copying & pasting? As long as we have software applications it will be possible to write one that will try to do something behind your back. This one masquerades as a Mirosoft Office 'web installer'.
MP3 Concept
Another trojan. Even Symantic calls this a trojan, as they did MW2004, and they have the most vested interest in convincing Mac users that there are viruses for which they need to buy anti-virus software.
Opener
While this script does some very nasty stuff, like running John the Ripper to decrypt your own passwords, it is also not a virus. It's more of a classic unix rootkit. Did you read these articles you're linking to, or did you just copy and paste from a Google search? From the comments in the scipt itself:
# You need an admin level user name and password or physical access (boot from a CD or firewire, ignore permissions on the internal drive) to install this
sound driver virus
Alright, you are trolling, or just too lazy to check your own links. If you go to that website, you'll see that it says,
"SoundDiver Virus is a editor/librarian solution for Windows 95, XP, MacOS 9 and MacOS X and can be downloaded free of charge from the Access Music web site."
I think clearly the only virus myth about OSX, is the myth that OSX has no viruses that can infect it.
Yeah, there are myths...and you're trying to spread them. There are rootkits, there are trojans, but OS X still has a perfect record when it comes to viruses.
All Macs with built in Firewire can do it. Vaio's can do it. Some Asus boards can do it. There are probably more computers that support 1394 booting that USB booting.
I must of missed the part when people were forced to live in Boise.
No, you were just blind and missed the part where he talked about workers having to support a family and make morgatge payments. The "screw it, quit and move" philosophy works great - if you don't have local obligations or a family, have another job lined up and enough money to last you until you start.
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The hookers are women. It's just fine if you off a thousand guys in the game, off a woman, that's not cool.
Of course people who engages in stressful, compeditive pursuits will demonstrate more aggressive behavior than somone at rest. I want to see studies comparing video games to other compeditive, stressful activies - any sport, politics, board games.
The words "responsible" and "Clinton" have no business appearing in the same sentence! Travelgate? Watergate? Filegate?
Huh, if you guys still can't let those manufactured scandals go, the ones that failed to net a single conviction, fine or settlement from the Clintons, I wonder what you would have done if Bill Clinton had sat around on his ass for 20 minutes while the nation was under attack. Or if he had a male homosexual prostitute with zero press experience pose as a reporter and lob softball questions at news conferences. Or if he led the country to war, spending hundereds of billions of dollars and over a thousand American lives on pretenses that turned out to be bullshit.
It won't change until you find a way to convince the general public to stop voting people they don't really want up through the primary elections just because they think they can win
Great advice, if you are a dissatisfied conservative. If you want to elect a democratic candidate, you do have to vote for someone "electable", or your idealism will merely insure that the Republicans win. Again.
Why do I say this? Because the center/left simply can not afford to screw around with oddball presidential candidates or pushing thrid party candidates with no chance to win. Currently, there is no split in the God/gun nut/no taxes jihad, so to divide your base while the other guy's base is united is asinine. There's another term for asinine in this context: Ralph Nader.
Yes, the Democratic party needs to refocus and find new issues, but pushing real candidates to give your issues a look is far better than voting for candidates who believe in your issues 100% - but have no chance of being elected.
just as willing to implement fiscal irresponsibility as the Democrats
Ah, another Republican talking point that needs to be put to rest. Who's had the most balanced budgets/suprluses? Democratic presidents. Who's had the largest defecits? Republicans.
As someone once observed, Democrats tax and spend, Republicans borrow and spend.
Hilary comes out against GTA but not this Terri Schiavo thing
What exactly do you mean by being against "this Terri Shiavo thing"?
The worst of the "drug war" laws - criminalization of marijuana, forfeiture laws, mandatory sentances - all happened loooong before Clinton took office.
it was Clinton who knocked it up to the next level, instituting programs such as "Know Your Neighbor"
Such a far reaching, massive program that Google searches like '"know your neighbor" clinton drug war' turns up a lot of jack squat. Why don't you do something constructive, like trying to blame the Asian tsumani on him instead.
What are you talking about? Obviously anyone to the left of Tom Delay is a left wing pinko.
Hillary believes it's ok for a teenage girl to have the right to have an abortion without parental consent
Yeah...so? Parental "consent" should be 100% irrelevant. What *should* be relevant is the fathers say in the matter. If he doesn't want to support the baby, he's on the hook for the next 18 years of her life. If he does want the baby but she doesn't, hello abortion clinic. Either way he has no say, and that's wrong.
you forgot "beleaguered".
I didn't know you where into hentai.
Exactly.
Exactly not.
It would be really interesting if one could invent a perfectly fair Tax system where you only have to pay in exactly what you use.
Impossible, because paying for only what you directly use ignores indirect benefits. Regaurdless of wether or not you have kids, you should pay for education, because you benefit by lower crime and a larger middle class to buy whatever products/services are produced by the company you work for.
"They"? You mean Conservatives?
Absolutely, because the Tom Delays are the ones in power right now.
The average Slashdotter doens't care about an OPEN music compression algorithm that has distinct advantages over MP3?
Not average, more like "overwhelmingly vast majority." 1) for the end user MP3 is every bit as free as OGG which adds to 2) OGG has no distinct advantages over MP3 whatsoever.
That's all well and good, but any true "audiophile" would surely agree that compressing a song into lossy MP3 format
So use lossless AAC or WAV, duh. iPods support both.
stooping to the level of presenting a product that has no display screen whatsoever
Then don't buy one.
It's unlike the Apple I usually think of to release rather "stripped down" products that are aimed at the "mass market".
"Mass market" means "cheap". Trying to compete with Dell on throwing cheap boxes together is like Walgreens trying to take on Wal-Mart. And frequently going for selling fewer but higher margin units can be much more profitable than throwing out cheap units just to gain marketshare. I was looking at a gaming magazine (PC Gamer? sorry no link) that showed that Nintendo makes more money than Sony with the release of a new console system, because although Sony sells more systems and games, Nintendo makes more money because they don't take a large loss on the hardware. Case in point: other than Dell or Apple, what other players have shown signifigant, consistant profits over the last few years?
In all fairness, this would probably have been the advice which the average slashdotter would have given if Apple weren't involved.
Well, sure, if you were a dumbass. Online stores either use DRM formats that lock you in, or sell DRM-free mp3's or aac's, which all iPods play just fine. What's your point?
Flac is future-proof.
How so? What do you think there will be more of in 20 years: flac players or mp3 players?
Prior to OS X, the Mac OS had no security model.
It didn't need one. It had no shell access and no network services to crack into.
I executed one of the files on that HD and got my system infected with MBDF-A (or -B, I am not sure)
That's not a virus, that's a trojan. Most (if not all) of the viruses out for the Mac in those days were cross platform macro viruses from Microsoft Office.
Look, I think Apple's default configuration is the right one, but the grandparent was claiming that you are secure out of the box. That is simply wrong.
Yes, they are.
You are not secure because the software installed at the factory will be out of date by the time you get it. The firewall is OFF BY DEFAULT
And all services ARE OFF BY DEFAULT. How is a cracker going to compromise your old version off ssh if IT'S NOT RUNNING? Get a clue.
A computer is only as secure as its user.
"A car is only as safe as the driver. It's not our fault the gas tank in the Ford Pinto blows up in a 10 mph collision - we weren't driving it at the time." -made up Ford exec, 1978
With a Mac, you have to work at it to make it insecure. Have weak passwords, turn on all the services that are off by default, and wait for a network worm to pass by. With Windows, you have to do a GREAT deal of work to make it secure. It is simply inexcusable that a fresh install of Windows XP can be loaded with malware before you even have time to download the first patch.
named Switchback which infected OSX Macs, but nobody noticed it.
Probably because the article was written by 'Anne Onymus', was a joke and 'Rumor Mill' is a parody site.
There are others such as Renepo.B
Uh, no. Renepo is a bash script that attempts to gather passwords. It spreads by copying itself to "/Volumes//Library/StartupItems/". So for this script to work, first you have to run it as root, and have the root volumes of other Mac's mounted in that directory with superuser write access. Not even Gumby could reach so far as to call this a virus.
MacOS MW2004 Trojan
That's a trojan, not a virus. Did you look at what you were copying & pasting? As long as we have software applications it will be possible to write one that will try to do something behind your back. This one masquerades as a Mirosoft Office 'web installer'.
MP3 Concept
Another trojan. Even Symantic calls this a trojan, as they did MW2004, and they have the most vested interest in convincing Mac users that there are viruses for which they need to buy anti-virus software.
Opener
While this script does some very nasty stuff, like running John the Ripper to decrypt your own passwords, it is also not a virus. It's more of a classic unix rootkit. Did you read these articles you're linking to, or did you just copy and paste from a Google search? From the comments in the scipt itself:
- # You need an admin level user name and password or physical access (boot from a CD or firewire, ignore permissions on the internal drive) to install this
sound driver virusAlright, you are trolling, or just too lazy to check your own links. If you go to that website, you'll see that it says,
- "SoundDiver Virus is a editor/librarian solution for Windows 95, XP, MacOS 9 and MacOS X and can be downloaded free of charge from the Access Music web site."
I think clearly the only virus myth about OSX, is the myth that OSX has no viruses that can infect it.Yeah, there are myths...and you're trying to spread them. There are rootkits, there are trojans, but OS X still has a perfect record when it comes to viruses.
And there I was chugging....along....on...my....2400....baud.
Yeah, made playing TradeWars a real bitch.
The new standard
Vaporware.
My 4-year-old motherboard boots USB fine as does every one from the last five years I've ever seen
Limited, as I said.
I have yet to see a firewire-booting one.
All Macs with built in Firewire can do it. Vaio's can do it. Some Asus boards can do it. There are probably more computers that support 1394 booting that USB booting.
I must of missed the part when people were forced to live in Boise.
No, you were just blind and missed the part where he talked about workers having to support a family and make morgatge payments. The "screw it, quit and move" philosophy works great - if you don't have local obligations or a family, have another job lined up and enough money to last you until you start.