That's not what they want. Ever read Bin Laden's speeches? He long ago stopped ending his speeches with requests that Americans become Muslim. Bin Laden views America as a threat because it had soldiers in Saudi Arabia, and is helping Israel. From Bin Laden's speech prior to the US election:
...This is contrary to Bush's claim that we hate freedom. Let him tell us why we did not strike Sweden, for example..... We fought you because we are free and do not accept injustice. We want to restore freedom to our nation. (Emphasis mine)
Jizya is overrated. Muslims in America pay taxes, some of which go to Bush's faith-based charities, ergo churches and synagogues and mosques. Jizya is only a tax like any other. In exchange, the government protects you, and allows you to build your own church or place of worship and get government protection. It also takes place of the mandatory charity that Muslims are obligated by their religion to pay. Also, if you pay Jizya, Muslims will fight and die to protect you, and you yourself will be exempt from the draft.
So knock it off, non-Muslims enjoyed greater freedoms under middle ages Islamic rule than Muslims did under Christian rule. The Golden Age of Judaism was when Jews were allowed freedom to worship in Muslim Spain, and only ended when the Inquisition drove them out, forcibly converted them, or executed them.
Sikh extremists blew up a plane over Canada once. Catholics have some history of violence, go check out Northern Ireland, where places like crowded bars were bombed. Jewish extremists have bombed civillian homes and buildings in America (JDL) and Israel (Kach and Kahane Chai for starters).
Every religion has extremists, don't say it's specific to Islam.
Wow, what an offensive sig. Do you want to nuke the Vatican as well? How about Jerusalem to show the JDL a lesson? Don't stop there, what about flattening Amritsar to get those Sikhs in line too?
Is that your idea of Collective Punishment? Do you hold Meccans responsible for what terrorists do? Do you hold the Pope responsible for priests molesting children? The religious leaders have condemned these sort of actions that the extremists carry out. Attacking their Holy centers won't solve anything, and will make every moderate turn against you.
They don't care if you drink beer. Christianity allows it, and they're not going to stop you. The bigger problems are meddling foreign policy, that's what they'd like to see disappear.
They're not being Islamic, and they're not Holy. Did you notice that every major Islamic organization so far has condemned and distanced themselves from those groups?
I'm not positive Apple took all opensource code to make OS X. They took the Mach microkernel, hired its creator, Avi Tevanian, and integrated it in. Was that open source?
Apple opensourced their changes, and put them into the tree, like the KHTML for example. You can therefore say that Apple opensourced Darwin's kernel or whatever.
While I agree with you that terrorism is overrated compared to drunk driving, terrorism is a problem in plenty of countries. What about Columbia? Actually, there is more terrorism in South America than in the Middle East, according to the US State Department.
Lately, Apple really dove into the standards game. Keynote will save in Keynote, Powerpoint, flash, PDF, PNG, JPG, TIFF, and quicktime formats. Pages will save in Appleworks, Pages, RTF, txt, PDF, HTML and.DOC formats.
It was mainly the Christians, not the Arabs that did the persecuting at that time. Maimonides studied under Arab rule and did so with relatively less persecution than the Jews in Europe.
I wouldn't worry. Apple's making sure it's mostly reverse-compatible. Steve Jobs even demoed PhotoshopCS and Office for Mac running on an Intel OS X. It may be slower than an Intel compiled version, but the User isn't going to notice except for speed.
Look at OS X today. I can run my 1986 version of Stuntcopter running in Classic and using the built-in 68k emulator. It's compiled for a different processor, and a different OS, but Apple pulled it off. Apple is saying that this will be just as simple as when they switched to PPC from the 68k Macs. It was completely transparent to the user.
Just how is it in the thousands? Popular app Disinfectant didnt scan for thousands. Norton I doubt had that many Mac viruses in their bank. I believe MacOS had under 30 viruses, and I only heard of once since OS 8.6, a quicktime autostart bug.
"Safe" files are supposed to be non-executable files. Safari preferences state "Safe files include movies, pictures, sounds, PDF and text documents, and disk images and other (ZIP,.Sit,.rar) archives."
Widgets seem to be considered "safe" but this could change in a patch.
I'm sure if Apple tried that, they'd be blamed by customers for every point release that broke an app somewhere. Your request for something that up to date would only benefit a minority of users. My mother doesn't know what a point release is, only that she can't see her web page because my ipfw broke something.
If you really want package management, get Fink, or Gentoo, or DawrinPorts, or BSD's ports.
So wait for a security patch, and let Apple do it for you.
This is turning into a vicious circle here. If you don't want to disable a service, compile it yourself, or you can leave it open and be placed at a minute risk for a theoretical exploit, or you can wait for Apple to release a patch.
Simple, Apple's Safari browser warns you if the disk image you are downloading has an application in it and asks if you want to open it anyway. In earlier versions and today, if you try to open a file, which tries to open an application you've never launched before, it shows you where the application is and asks if you wish to proceed. These little things make the Mac much more secure than Windows.
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Why outlaw circumcision? I mean, I think we should do something about smoking first, that's far more harmful.
Jizya is overrated. Muslims in America pay taxes, some of which go to Bush's faith-based charities, ergo churches and synagogues and mosques. Jizya is only a tax like any other. In exchange, the government protects you, and allows you to build your own church or place of worship and get government protection. It also takes place of the mandatory charity that Muslims are obligated by their religion to pay. Also, if you pay Jizya, Muslims will fight and die to protect you, and you yourself will be exempt from the draft.
So knock it off, non-Muslims enjoyed greater freedoms under middle ages Islamic rule than Muslims did under Christian rule. The Golden Age of Judaism was when Jews were allowed freedom to worship in Muslim Spain, and only ended when the Inquisition drove them out, forcibly converted them, or executed them.
Sikh extremists blew up a plane over Canada once. Catholics have some history of violence, go check out Northern Ireland, where places like crowded bars were bombed. Jewish extremists have bombed civillian homes and buildings in America (JDL) and Israel (Kach and Kahane Chai for starters).
Every religion has extremists, don't say it's specific to Islam.
Wow, what an offensive sig. Do you want to nuke the Vatican as well? How about Jerusalem to show the JDL a lesson? Don't stop there, what about flattening Amritsar to get those Sikhs in line too?
Is that your idea of Collective Punishment? Do you hold Meccans responsible for what terrorists do? Do you hold the Pope responsible for priests molesting children? The religious leaders have condemned these sort of actions that the extremists carry out. Attacking their Holy centers won't solve anything, and will make every moderate turn against you.
And if you win through such ill-gotten means, wouldn't it be stealing from Apple?
They don't care if you drink beer. Christianity allows it, and they're not going to stop you. The bigger problems are meddling foreign policy, that's what they'd like to see disappear.
They're not being Islamic, and they're not Holy. Did you notice that every major Islamic organization so far has condemned and distanced themselves from those groups?
I'm not positive Apple took all opensource code to make OS X. They took the Mach microkernel, hired its creator, Avi Tevanian, and integrated it in. Was that open source?
Apple opensourced their changes, and put them into the tree, like the KHTML for example. You can therefore say that Apple opensourced Darwin's kernel or whatever.
While I agree with you that terrorism is overrated compared to drunk driving, terrorism is a problem in plenty of countries. What about Columbia? Actually, there is more terrorism in South America than in the Middle East, according to the US State Department.
Lately, Apple really dove into the standards game. Keynote will save in Keynote, Powerpoint, flash, PDF, PNG, JPG, TIFF, and quicktime formats. Pages will save in Appleworks, Pages, RTF, txt, PDF, HTML and .DOC formats.
I wouldn't worry. Apple's making sure it's mostly reverse-compatible. Steve Jobs even demoed PhotoshopCS and Office for Mac running on an Intel OS X. It may be slower than an Intel compiled version, but the User isn't going to notice except for speed.
Look at OS X today. I can run my 1986 version of Stuntcopter running in Classic and using the built-in 68k emulator. It's compiled for a different processor, and a different OS, but Apple pulled it off. Apple is saying that this will be just as simple as when they switched to PPC from the 68k Macs. It was completely transparent to the user.
Just how is it in the thousands? Popular app Disinfectant didnt scan for thousands. Norton I doubt had that many Mac viruses in their bank. I believe MacOS had under 30 viruses, and I only heard of once since OS 8.6, a quicktime autostart bug.
That was patched like a week after Tiger shipped, in the 10.4.1 update.
The code is installed, but not run. You have to open the Dashboard, then drag the widget onto the screen, before it will run.
No. Apple already had a clone business, which they killed off because it was bleeding them dry.
Christians think that. Muslims say that Jesus, peace be upon him, never drank alcohol, and when he comes back, will be a prohibitionist.
Maybe YOUR apps quit, but I remember Mac apps not doing so from the olden days.
Not everything quits when you press X. AIM? MSN? Yahoo messenger?
Mac OS X Up-To-Date Program. Now with Tiger, they lowered the price from a $20 upgrade to $9.95! Just mail in your proof of purchase, and that's it.
Even so, the widget is installed, but not run. You have to open dashboard and drag it to the desktop to be run.
"Safe" files are supposed to be non-executable files. Safari preferences state "Safe files include movies, pictures, sounds, PDF and text documents, and disk images and other (ZIP, .Sit, .rar) archives."
Widgets seem to be considered "safe" but this could change in a patch.
If you really want package management, get Fink, or Gentoo, or DawrinPorts, or BSD's ports.
So wait for a security patch, and let Apple do it for you.
This is turning into a vicious circle here. If you don't want to disable a service, compile it yourself, or you can leave it open and be placed at a minute risk for a theoretical exploit, or you can wait for Apple to release a patch.
Simple, Apple's Safari browser warns you if the disk image you are downloading has an application in it and asks if you want to open it anyway. In earlier versions and today, if you try to open a file, which tries to open an application you've never launched before, it shows you where the application is and asks if you wish to proceed. These little things make the Mac much more secure than Windows.