Well, users can take 1-2 hours & get the SAME from Windows... for less than $3,000, this is certain!
No, you don't. You get open user permissions and a kernel that's more than happy to escalate privileges to System just by asking *really* nicely. You also don't get a real file system either. or a real TCP/IP stack. Or memory management worth a damn. Or a graphical subsystem that's been doing what Aero glass has been doing since 2001. or a sane driver model. or...
Users of my guide apparently do as I have seen, no problems... & it works, AND FOR LESS THAN THE UPWARDS OF (or greater than) the $3,000 you spent on your Mac!
My macmini was only 500 and my macbook was only 999. You can get a MacBook Pro for 1,129. MacBook Airs are now only 1,500! Talk about a straw man argument.
When you are using a computer, are you going to advocate complete safety with no margin for error or failure? No acceptable risk at all?
If so, would you get into a car that only had lap and shoulder belts and moderately used tires or would you be not happy unless you had a 5 point racing harness and fresh tires and brakes?
This i going to keep going in circles. I'm tired of it. You have no intentions at all with seriously answering point to point in an honest fashion or even keeping up with the conversation at hand. I keep advocating what the typical user will see. They're not going to see people trying to break their browser and access their microphone. They should not be expected to face the kinds of automated, distributed attacks that would require a firewall. it's excessive.
Finally no amount of external hardening is going to change the fact that Windows itself is about as solid and reliable as cardboard is as a building material. Yes, by being extremely careful, picking software, components, drivers and vendors with care you can hit the magical 5 9s of reliability and higher, but, this doesn't change the fact that you've got to tip toe around it like it could break at any moment.
If you're a native english speaker, then please, type like you have a greater than average command of the language.
How the hell did you get published with your atrocious use of the language?
It's libel if you don't have a PHD & cannot practice psychiatry, and if you have not performed such an analysis formally on me... and?
I was asking if you were diagnosed. I wasn't practicing psychiatry. I was just putting 1 and 1 together to try to get 2.
Did I say it did in regards to this exchange & topic (which you have gone off topic on numerous times already in)... I only posted it in response to what you asked of "WHO ARE YOU?" is all... &, it also showed yuo have done not even 1/10th of what I have in this field that others noted as good.... mpr 1/100th of the mods I have here even either!
Yes, yes you have. You've made statements that, because you've been published and had your work everywhere that it makes you immune to criticism. It does not.
"Anyone following this thread would see that you're an asshole, a troll, an idiot or painfully all three" - RyuuzakiTetsuya (195424) on Sunday June 21, @11:38PM (#28416257)
Sure, sure - after the 100's of profanities you spoied here when frustrated, I am certain they'd think otherwise... just like your reply now, above...
APK
Saying "fuck" doesn't make me wrong, it makes me an asshole. There's a difference.
Falling FAR SHORT of those from APPLE themselves above, in addition to SECUNIA.COM's reocmmendation vs. the single exploit unpatched & present on MacOS X also, which do MUCH of what I suggest for Windows folks with proofs via the quotes of others that used them in addition to being either most viewed, sticky pinned threads, essential guides, & 300,000++ views in a single year of them across 20 forums...apk
Those are the security guidelines if you're in the mood to lock down your machine incredibly tight; not usable. Data encryption, disabling mic input, password protecting startup, etc. all are great if you're a corporate user and you're worried about someone snooping in on your machine, or the target of industrial sabotage. Not average home user concerns. What I was talking about in the original post versus what you're advocating are two different things.
No, average users shouldn't have to lock down their machines like this. If Apple proposed this be the case for the average home user, that too, would be user abuse.
If you're a business and you're handling sensitive data, sure, go right ahead, but, if you're not, why bother?
(like your suggesting the use of chroot, breaking a constraint I had no less of using a browser in its default launch & setup online, where I showed you about "chroot jail breaks" even making THAT statement of yours null & void, as well as an ineffective measure for security online)
Actually my suggestion was to make a file on my machine somewhere chowned to root:root(user:group). Not chrooting Firefox, the browser I'd be using to attach to whatever honey pot you'd have set up.
Chroot only affects processes that have chroot jails setup.:) I knew something was fishy when I read that statement. I'm talking about you exploiting my browser, escalating Firefox's privs to root, then doing *something* demonstrable with it. You're talking about chroot, I'm talking about actual system security.
1.) When you get your PHD in English? Then, you can comment on others writing...
Are you a native English speaker? Your English is terrible for a native speaker. It's great and above average for a non native. Talk to me when you can put "a" and "t" together and not get @.
2.) When you get your PHD in psychiatry?? Then you can say I have 'autism' etc. et al (which without one, & a formal analysis being performed on myself for that? You're also now libelling me here)...
Pointing out the obvious signs of autism isn't libel, it's a statement of fact. Asking isn't implying, it's genuinely asking, have you ever been diagnosed autistic? Is it libel? No. Cheap shot? Sure.
(Libel only applies if you can make a case my statement would damage your image in an untrue sort of way. Asking is not making a statement; the Enquirer knows this first hand).
3.) When you have appeared 10x or more in respected publications in this field, as I have, or have commercial code for a serverware maker that takes that company to a finalist position 2x in a row @ Microsoft tech ed or other noted competition etc. or when you have had freeware/shareware do as well as mine had over time???
Being published in your field doesn't make you more or less right, it makes you incredibly embarassed if you're ever proven wrong by someone who isn't. That's the fallacy of arguing from authority alone. "Because I am in position, I am right." As opposed to, "Experience tells me will happen for reasons, therefore I am right."
What you will do is snip off where ever it is convenient for you not to have to face a certain reality then quote that and take that on like it's the point I'm making. That's called the straw man fallacy.
The full quote was:
Those 4 posts where you got +5? 1 was a milquetoast post about graphics cards and the rest were misinformed IT rantings that everyone jumped on you about, one of which isn't +5 anymore, it's +2.
Anyone following this thread would see that you're an asshole, a troll, an idiot or painfully all three.
On a debate level, you are losing. This would be an F- in any college level debate class. Maybe an F+.
AND, there is the fact that around 100 people modded me up here also -> http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1229289&cid=27933241 that show others clearly do understand my comments! You may not like it, but the fact stands, I was modded up for good reasons (unlike yours here which my first post disproved right away & my continued posts got you "frothing @ the mouth" because that was all you had vs. their facts, lol!)
100 mod points isn't 100 people. It's 100 mod points. You can repeatedly mod someone up +1 over and over again. Someone with a good streak of luck and a whole lot of mod points could mod you up quick. Or a cadre of idiots who would follow you around.
(like your suggesting the use of chroot, breaking a constraint I had no less of using a browser in its default launch & setup online, where I showed you about "chroot jail breaks" even making THAT statement of yours null & void, as well as an ineffective measure for security online)
It's a put up or shut up moment. Either browsing is inherently safe or it's unsafe. Prove me wrong that running a default install of Mac OSX 10.5 with Firefox can be as unsafe as IE7 on Vista and I'll shut up. You don't even ahve to put something up, just point me to a proof of concept that someone else put up and I'll do it.
You said it: Any registered user here is TOO easily tracked, for "trolling purposes"... simple! I avoid it the easiest way possible or make it harder on trolls to do is all by posting as A/C... again, simple, & it works.
and running around signing your name on your posts isn't going to be tracked either? Christ, it's just a slashdot account, it's not a social security number.
Yes, the maximum one can be "modded up" here, no less... harder on us "A/C"'s by far, even getting a +1 mod up, because WE start @ zero!
This is where you lose this argument entirely.
I had more to that statement. Most importantly, that the times you got modded up +5 you were either saying something unrelated to OS/Browser security or you were contradicted. OR you were modded down.
Granted, that's 3 special cases, but...
And, like you? They too, lost badly... why else was I modded up THAT highly after all? Can you show me 100++ mod ups for you?? The +1 & +2 don't count for you, as you are a registered user, so, let's see a list of your +3 thru +5 then, ok???
Or are you too much of a skilled programmer to find the "comments" section? Christ.
There is no "banning me": IF I want "in", I can be back in, in seconds... Heh, speaking of arstechnica? I learned how to do it from their trolls in fact by watching they do that to forums admins to harass them, from a old site called 3dFiles.
Sure, change your IP on your NIC, get a spare gmail account, and creating a new account can easily swerve a ban. But that doesn't take the stink and disgrace of being banned from a major, reputable tech site because you were an idiot who wouldn't shut up or stop using symbols in place of common, every day words.
Oh, by the way? Answer these questions please, & quit evading them (and try not to go "off topic" anymore & be profane):
It's my right as an American to be a filthy son of a bitch. But I'll answer your questions anyway.
A.) HOW WOULD YOU SECURE THE SINGLE KNOWN MacOS X (971 total exploits discovered over time) security vulnerability?
install 10.5, run software update and not install any app that I didn't trust.
Done. Takes less than 20 minutes to run software update.
Actually, that's the way European political systems seem, or at least that's the way they seem to work to a timid Yankee observer like myself.
it seems like the European and UK systems work where they try to placate the rich and the poor equally(and pissing off both equally too) knowing both are possible registered voters, rather than trying to suck up to the obscenely rich in cynical attempts to pull off political victories during election seasons using smarmy scummy advertising.
Either way I remember rooting for Bio-Hazard vs Vlad the Impaler as much as I root for Sox vs Yankees.
I didn't. Sox v Yankees involve teams you can't help but to take sides. Bio-Hazard vs Vlad was a better match because I was rooting for victory. No matter who took it in the end.
It surely seems that others understand me just fine, per the 100 or so "upward mods" I received here ->
Had you understood what a fallacy is, we wouldn't be having this conversation. Just because you were modded up doesn't mean that people agree with you or even understand you. Looking at your list of posts, it seems like you randomly pick fights and expect your friends to come by and mod you up. Unfortunately, there's no real way to determine why someone gave you +5 or +4. Clearly meta-moderation isn't working.
I'll explain this to you simply and i'll type slowly so you can understand this.
Those 4 posts where you got +5? 1 was a milquetoast post about graphics cards and the rest were misinformed IT rantings that everyone jumped on you about, one of which isn't +5 anymore, it's +2.
(Looking at your list of +4s, clearly I'm not the first one who's tangled with you.)
Why don't you just have a normal slashdot account where people can track your comment history so they can see that you're making more noise than signal? The last time I heard SNR this bad was when I used to listen to AM radio from several states away.
Or are you afraid of registering because you can't get banned as an A/C permanently? Looks like even Ars Technica got fed up with your shit and banned you. Are you sure you're not autistic? You keep ignoring the things people tell you, you're stubborn and you act like a child, oh yeah and you claim to be a computer programmer(I KID! I KID!). The signs are there.
it's not cracking or breaking if someone tells you in a public forum to do something and you do it. I know there are dozens of various browser cracking techniques that go across various browser platforms. From IE to Firefox to Webkit based browsers or even Opera. The challenge is I have for you is put up some sort of proof of concept. Prove in some sort of live environment that connecting with a Mac or *NIX machine is inherently as unsafe as Windows. Particularly when that machine has little to no outside listening services. You can sit here and link to me all the technical documents you want, the thing i"m asking you to do is *prove* it. *do* it.
I'm not claiming OS X is anyway invincible, but, what I am saying is that when you consider the typical system usage, OSX, *NIX, BSD, etc. all employ sane enough and safe enough security considerations for the average user and that by telling a user that if they don't follow your guides that you're going to risk your entire machine is pretty bogus. If the OS wasn't shit in the first place, then you wouldn't need to fill in the gaps. The browser's always a security risk, but I'm willing to bet that breaking any given Mac/*NIX browser is going to be more difficult than Windows and IE, or even Windows and Firefox/Opera/Webkit Browser Goes Here, because of how lax security is, even in Vista, even in Seven.
Users shouldn't have to follow guides to make their computer secure. this is like saying, "Your car could explode at any moment, but if you listen to Car Talk, and follow their advice you'll be fine." Not that I don't like Car Talk, but I think it's abusive for an OS vendor to require this level of user diligence for a consumer OS.
As I told the other two assholes.
Put up or shut up.
Put up a page that can read the contents of a file on my desktop owned to root that isn't readable by everyone and it'sg roup is set to root. Do that, and i'll shut up and buy a Dell and follow your faggoty little guides to lock it down.
or if you can't, go the fuck home and stop bothering random slashdotters. You commented to me, and if I don't stop you no one will.
I said that "Yes, it occurs, but never has OSX been patched."
Wait, that's what you claim I said, what I actually said was:
"Yes, it occurs, but never has OSX been patched so copy and paste is no longer an infection vector. Or Autorun. Or..."
If you quote that entire statement I meant to say that there's never been a patch released for OSX to remove an infection vector that is caused by a basic OS function like copy and paste. This makes you, an asshole. A huge one at that.
Here's the put up and shut up moment I gave the other asshole.
Put up a page that I can get to that has some sort of browser hijack that can get you to read a file on my ~/Desktop directory that's chowned root:root. We'll work the details out later over email or something, but, put up or shut up.
Own my box or go the fuck home and stop bothering people.
Thomas Jefferson is often quoted with, "Ridicule is he only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them."
That is a way more valuable quote than it should be. It's almost my motto.
You follow him around, and mod him up.
I'd say that invalidates everything that he's been hyping about his own scores. Why isn't anyone else coming to his defense? It's because he's spouting largely bullshit non-sense.
Is OSX Flawed? Sure. Will running with a firewall or antivirus not completely trash my OS? No. Windows does not have that feature. It's a handy feature I like. Browser hijacks? Possible, but not likely. Nor is it any concern to me. it's an acceptable risk because quite frankly, Firefox is a difficult browser to hijack. Break, sure, that's one thing, but completely hijack it and do funny things to it? That's another story all together.
This is the put up or shut up moment. Put up a page i can go to, and I'll put a file on my desktop. It'll be chowned to root:root and if you can read it, I'll concede defeat.
LOL, grow up, & get this simple point thru your head, ok? You do NOT own this website, nor are you even a modeator here... so ordering me around? LOL, waste of time, you don't have the clout for it (or the ability to 'get the better of me', period) & anyone is free to read this exchange & see the numerous errors you made throughout it, vs. the points & evidences I put out vs. your "straight outta pravda" propoganda.
Still doesn't mean I can't tell you to get the fuck off the internet.
When you learn to THINK FOR YOURSELF one day, hopefully? You'll choose your words, & opponents, more carefully (because anyone here reading can see your "foaming @ the mouth raging frothing replies" replete with profanities doubtless out of frustration from making SO MANY ERRORS here? They will decide for themselves as to "who won" here (& I can assure you, it is NOT yourself, based on your 'performance', or rather, lack thereof)).
Being a dedicated Windows user for about 10 to 15 years has gotten me to really think for myself.
I thought, "Maybe I want a machine that isn't going to die just from browsing the web." Then I got a Mac.
By the way? WHY are you avoiding my questions now
Because you're an idiot. It's something I can't stress to you enough. Stop flogging WIndows. It's not secure. It's garbage.
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Well, users can take 1-2 hours & get the SAME from Windows... for less than $3,000, this is certain!
No, you don't. You get open user permissions and a kernel that's more than happy to escalate privileges to System just by asking *really* nicely. You also don't get a real file system either. or a real TCP/IP stack. Or memory management worth a damn. Or a graphical subsystem that's been doing what Aero glass has been doing since 2001. or a sane driver model. or...
Do you ever shut up?
Users of my guide apparently do as I have seen, no problems... & it works, AND FOR LESS THAN THE UPWARDS OF (or greater than) the $3,000 you spent on your Mac!
My macmini was only 500 and my macbook was only 999. You can get a MacBook Pro for 1,129. MacBook Airs are now only 1,500! Talk about a straw man argument.
Let me ask you this one thing.
When you are using a computer, are you going to advocate complete safety with no margin for error or failure? No acceptable risk at all?
If so, would you get into a car that only had lap and shoulder belts and moderately used tires or would you be not happy unless you had a 5 point racing harness and fresh tires and brakes?
HURR
DURR
HURRDURRR
This i going to keep going in circles. I'm tired of it. You have no intentions at all with seriously answering point to point in an honest fashion or even keeping up with the conversation at hand. I keep advocating what the typical user will see. They're not going to see people trying to break their browser and access their microphone. They should not be expected to face the kinds of automated, distributed attacks that would require a firewall. it's excessive.
Finally no amount of external hardening is going to change the fact that Windows itself is about as solid and reliable as cardboard is as a building material. Yes, by being extremely careful, picking software, components, drivers and vendors with care you can hit the magical 5 9s of reliability and higher, but, this doesn't change the fact that you've got to tip toe around it like it could break at any moment.
Yes, I am.
If you're a native english speaker, then please, type like you have a greater than average command of the language.
How the hell did you get published with your atrocious use of the language?
It's libel if you don't have a PHD & cannot practice psychiatry, and if you have not performed such an analysis formally on me... and?
I was asking if you were diagnosed. I wasn't practicing psychiatry. I was just putting 1 and 1 together to try to get 2.
Did I say it did in regards to this exchange & topic (which you have gone off topic on numerous times already in)... I only posted it in response to what you asked of "WHO ARE YOU?" is all... &, it also showed yuo have done not even 1/10th of what I have in this field that others noted as good.... mpr 1/100th of the mods I have here even either!
Yes, yes you have. You've made statements that, because you've been published and had your work everywhere that it makes you immune to criticism. It does not.
"Anyone following this thread would see that you're an asshole, a troll, an idiot or painfully all three" - RyuuzakiTetsuya (195424) on Sunday June 21, @11:38PM (#28416257)
Sure, sure - after the 100's of profanities you spoied here when frustrated, I am certain they'd think otherwise... just like your reply now, above...
APK
Saying "fuck" doesn't make me wrong, it makes me an asshole. There's a difference.
Falling FAR SHORT of those from APPLE themselves above, in addition to SECUNIA.COM's reocmmendation vs. the single exploit unpatched & present on MacOS X also, which do MUCH of what I suggest for Windows folks with proofs via the quotes of others that used them in addition to being either most viewed, sticky pinned threads, essential guides, & 300,000++ views in a single year of them across 20 forums...apk
Those are the security guidelines if you're in the mood to lock down your machine incredibly tight; not usable. Data encryption, disabling mic input, password protecting startup, etc. all are great if you're a corporate user and you're worried about someone snooping in on your machine, or the target of industrial sabotage. Not average home user concerns. What I was talking about in the original post versus what you're advocating are two different things.
No, average users shouldn't have to lock down their machines like this. If Apple proposed this be the case for the average home user, that too, would be user abuse.
If you're a business and you're handling sensitive data, sure, go right ahead, but, if you're not, why bother?
(like your suggesting the use of chroot, breaking a constraint I had no less of using a browser in its default launch & setup online, where I showed you about "chroot jail breaks" even making THAT statement of yours null & void, as well as an ineffective measure for security online)
Actually my suggestion was to make a file on my machine somewhere chowned to root:root(user:group). Not chrooting Firefox, the browser I'd be using to attach to whatever honey pot you'd have set up.
Chroot only affects processes that have chroot jails setup. :) I knew something was fishy when I read that statement. I'm talking about you exploiting my browser, escalating Firefox's privs to root, then doing *something* demonstrable with it. You're talking about chroot, I'm talking about actual system security.
One last thing, I meant change MAC on your nic, renew IP from your ISP, not change IP on NIC.
(Changing mac will for DHCP to spit out a new IP and let you browse with a new IP address.)
1.) When you get your PHD in English? Then, you can comment on others writing...
Are you a native English speaker? Your English is terrible for a native speaker. It's great and above average for a non native. Talk to me when you can put "a" and "t" together and not get @.
2.) When you get your PHD in psychiatry?? Then you can say I have 'autism' etc. et al (which without one, & a formal analysis being performed on myself for that? You're also now libelling me here)...
Pointing out the obvious signs of autism isn't libel, it's a statement of fact. Asking isn't implying, it's genuinely asking, have you ever been diagnosed autistic? Is it libel? No. Cheap shot? Sure.
(Libel only applies if you can make a case my statement would damage your image in an untrue sort of way. Asking is not making a statement; the Enquirer knows this first hand).
3.) When you have appeared 10x or more in respected publications in this field, as I have, or have commercial code for a serverware maker that takes that company to a finalist position 2x in a row @ Microsoft tech ed or other noted competition etc. or when you have had freeware/shareware do as well as mine had over time???
Being published in your field doesn't make you more or less right, it makes you incredibly embarassed if you're ever proven wrong by someone who isn't. That's the fallacy of arguing from authority alone. "Because I am in position, I am right." As opposed to, "Experience tells me will happen for reasons, therefore I am right."
HOW CAN YOU STATE THAT, when I quote each of your points & reply to them? Explain that...
Easily. Take this snippet:
"Those 4 posts where you got +5?" - by RyuuzakiTetsuya (195424) on Saturday June 20, @01:05AM (#28399371)
Yes, the maximum one can be "modded up" here, no less... harder on us "A/C"'s by far, even getting a +1 mod up, because WE start @ zero!
From: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1267281&cid=28399371
What you will do is snip off where ever it is convenient for you not to have to face a certain reality then quote that and take that on like it's the point I'm making. That's called the straw man fallacy.
The full quote was:
Those 4 posts where you got +5? 1 was a milquetoast post about graphics cards and the rest were misinformed IT rantings that everyone jumped on you about, one of which isn't +5 anymore, it's +2.
Anyone following this thread would see that you're an asshole, a troll, an idiot or painfully all three.
On a debate level, you are losing. This would be an F- in any college level debate class. Maybe an F+.
Also, my bad.
my comments section is at:
http://slashdot.org/~RyuuzakiTetsuya/comments/
AND, there is the fact that around 100 people modded me up here also -> http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1229289&cid=27933241 that show others clearly do understand my comments! You may not like it, but the fact stands, I was modded up for good reasons (unlike yours here which my first post disproved right away & my continued posts got you "frothing @ the mouth" because that was all you had vs. their facts, lol!)
100 mod points isn't 100 people. It's 100 mod points. You can repeatedly mod someone up +1 over and over again. Someone with a good streak of luck and a whole lot of mod points could mod you up quick. Or a cadre of idiots who would follow you around.
(like your suggesting the use of chroot, breaking a constraint I had no less of using a browser in its default launch & setup online, where I showed you about "chroot jail breaks" even making THAT statement of yours null & void, as well as an ineffective measure for security online)
It's a put up or shut up moment. Either browsing is inherently safe or it's unsafe. Prove me wrong that running a default install of Mac OSX 10.5 with Firefox can be as unsafe as IE7 on Vista and I'll shut up. You don't even ahve to put something up, just point me to a proof of concept that someone else put up and I'll do it.
You said it: Any registered user here is TOO easily tracked, for "trolling purposes"... simple! I avoid it the easiest way possible or make it harder on trolls to do is all by posting as A/C... again, simple, & it works.
and running around signing your name on your posts isn't going to be tracked either? Christ, it's just a slashdot account, it's not a social security number.
Yes, the maximum one can be "modded up" here, no less... harder on us "A/C"'s by far, even getting a +1 mod up, because WE start @ zero!
This is where you lose this argument entirely.
I had more to that statement. Most importantly, that the times you got modded up +5 you were either saying something unrelated to OS/Browser security or you were contradicted. OR you were modded down.
Granted, that's 3 special cases, but...
And, like you? They too, lost badly... why else was I modded up THAT highly after all? Can you show me 100++ mod ups for you?? The +1 & +2 don't count for you, as you are a registered user, so, let's see a list of your +3 thru +5 then, ok???
http://slashdot.org/RyuuzakiTetsuya/comments
Or are you too much of a skilled programmer to find the "comments" section? Christ.
There is no "banning me": IF I want "in", I can be back in, in seconds... Heh, speaking of arstechnica? I learned how to do it from their trolls in fact by watching they do that to forums admins to harass them, from a old site called 3dFiles.
Sure, change your IP on your NIC, get a spare gmail account, and creating a new account can easily swerve a ban. But that doesn't take the stink and disgrace of being banned from a major, reputable tech site because you were an idiot who wouldn't shut up or stop using symbols in place of common, every day words.
Oh, by the way? Answer these questions please, & quit evading them (and try not to go "off topic" anymore & be profane):
It's my right as an American to be a filthy son of a bitch. But I'll answer your questions anyway.
A.) HOW WOULD YOU SECURE THE SINGLE KNOWN MacOS X (971 total exploits discovered over time) security vulnerability?
install 10.5, run software update and not install any app that I didn't trust.
Done. Takes less than 20 minutes to run software update.
B.) Can you do it as easily as I can in fixin
Actually, that's the way European political systems seem, or at least that's the way they seem to work to a timid Yankee observer like myself.
it seems like the European and UK systems work where they try to placate the rich and the poor equally(and pissing off both equally too) knowing both are possible registered voters, rather than trying to suck up to the obscenely rich in cynical attempts to pull off political victories during election seasons using smarmy scummy advertising.
I'm sure hoping Obama's listening.
isn't this what Barack Obama advocated? To go, "Yay freedom" and stay out of the Iranian Government's affairs?
if he's willing to do all of that I don't think he has any friends.
Either way I remember rooting for Bio-Hazard vs Vlad the Impaler as much as I root for Sox vs Yankees.
I didn't. Sox v Yankees involve teams you can't help but to take sides. Bio-Hazard vs Vlad was a better match because I was rooting for victory. No matter who took it in the end.
It surely seems that others understand me just fine, per the 100 or so "upward mods" I received here ->
Had you understood what a fallacy is, we wouldn't be having this conversation. Just because you were modded up doesn't mean that people agree with you or even understand you. Looking at your list of posts, it seems like you randomly pick fights and expect your friends to come by and mod you up. Unfortunately, there's no real way to determine why someone gave you +5 or +4. Clearly meta-moderation isn't working.
I'll explain this to you simply and i'll type slowly so you can understand this.
Those 4 posts where you got +5? 1 was a milquetoast post about graphics cards and the rest were misinformed IT rantings that everyone jumped on you about, one of which isn't +5 anymore, it's +2.
(Looking at your list of +4s, clearly I'm not the first one who's tangled with you.)
Why don't you just have a normal slashdot account where people can track your comment history so they can see that you're making more noise than signal? The last time I heard SNR this bad was when I used to listen to AM radio from several states away.
Or are you afraid of registering because you can't get banned as an A/C permanently? Looks like even Ars Technica got fed up with your shit and banned you. Are you sure you're not autistic? You keep ignoring the things people tell you, you're stubborn and you act like a child, oh yeah and you claim to be a computer programmer(I KID! I KID!). The signs are there.
Have you ever considered not posting unreadable walls of text?
Fuck you.
it's not cracking or breaking if someone tells you in a public forum to do something and you do it. I know there are dozens of various browser cracking techniques that go across various browser platforms. From IE to Firefox to Webkit based browsers or even Opera. The challenge is I have for you is put up some sort of proof of concept. Prove in some sort of live environment that connecting with a Mac or *NIX machine is inherently as unsafe as Windows. Particularly when that machine has little to no outside listening services. You can sit here and link to me all the technical documents you want, the thing i"m asking you to do is *prove* it. *do* it.
I'm not claiming OS X is anyway invincible, but, what I am saying is that when you consider the typical system usage, OSX, *NIX, BSD, etc. all employ sane enough and safe enough security considerations for the average user and that by telling a user that if they don't follow your guides that you're going to risk your entire machine is pretty bogus. If the OS wasn't shit in the first place, then you wouldn't need to fill in the gaps. The browser's always a security risk, but I'm willing to bet that breaking any given Mac/*NIX browser is going to be more difficult than Windows and IE, or even Windows and Firefox/Opera/Webkit Browser Goes Here, because of how lax security is, even in Vista, even in Seven.
Did I just fail the turing test?
Blahblahblah.
Users shouldn't have to follow guides to make their computer secure. this is like saying, "Your car could explode at any moment, but if you listen to Car Talk, and follow their advice you'll be fine." Not that I don't like Car Talk, but I think it's abusive for an OS vendor to require this level of user diligence for a consumer OS.
As I told the other two assholes.
Put up or shut up.
Put up a page that can read the contents of a file on my desktop owned to root that isn't readable by everyone and it'sg roup is set to root. Do that, and i'll shut up and buy a Dell and follow your faggoty little guides to lock it down.
or if you can't, go the fuck home and stop bothering random slashdotters. You commented to me, and if I don't stop you no one will.
Clearly you're illiterate.
I said that "Yes, it occurs, but never has OSX been patched."
Wait, that's what you claim I said, what I actually said was:
"Yes, it occurs, but never has OSX been patched so copy and paste is no longer an infection vector. Or Autorun. Or..."
If you quote that entire statement I meant to say that there's never been a patch released for OSX to remove an infection vector that is caused by a basic OS function like copy and paste. This makes you, an asshole. A huge one at that.
Here's the put up and shut up moment I gave the other asshole.
Put up a page that I can get to that has some sort of browser hijack that can get you to read a file on my ~/Desktop directory that's chowned root:root. We'll work the details out later over email or something, but, put up or shut up.
Own my box or go the fuck home and stop bothering people.
Fuck you.
Seriously. Fuck you.
Thomas Jefferson is often quoted with, "Ridicule is he only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them."
That is a way more valuable quote than it should be. It's almost my motto.
You follow him around, and mod him up.
I'd say that invalidates everything that he's been hyping about his own scores. Why isn't anyone else coming to his defense? It's because he's spouting largely bullshit non-sense.
Is OSX Flawed? Sure. Will running with a firewall or antivirus not completely trash my OS? No. Windows does not have that feature. It's a handy feature I like. Browser hijacks? Possible, but not likely. Nor is it any concern to me. it's an acceptable risk because quite frankly, Firefox is a difficult browser to hijack. Break, sure, that's one thing, but completely hijack it and do funny things to it? That's another story all together.
This is the put up or shut up moment. Put up a page i can go to, and I'll put a file on my desktop. It'll be chowned to root:root and if you can read it, I'll concede defeat.
LOL, grow up, & get this simple point thru your head, ok? You do NOT own this website, nor are you even a modeator here... so ordering me around? LOL, waste of time, you don't have the clout for it (or the ability to 'get the better of me', period) & anyone is free to read this exchange & see the numerous errors you made throughout it, vs. the points & evidences I put out vs. your "straight outta pravda" propoganda.
Still doesn't mean I can't tell you to get the fuck off the internet.
When you learn to THINK FOR YOURSELF one day, hopefully? You'll choose your words, & opponents, more carefully (because anyone here reading can see your "foaming @ the mouth raging frothing replies" replete with profanities doubtless out of frustration from making SO MANY ERRORS here? They will decide for themselves as to "who won" here (& I can assure you, it is NOT yourself, based on your 'performance', or rather, lack thereof)).
Being a dedicated Windows user for about 10 to 15 years has gotten me to really think for myself.
I thought, "Maybe I want a machine that isn't going to die just from browsing the web." Then I got a Mac.
By the way? WHY are you avoiding my questions now
Because you're an idiot. It's something I can't stress to you enough. Stop flogging WIndows. It's not secure. It's garbage.