As PCMag's Security Watch noted yesterday, Mac users did not have to download or even interact with the malware to become infected. Websites exploited a Java flaw that let Flashback.K download itself onto Macs without warning. It then asked users to supply an administrative password, but even without that password, the malware was already installed.
So - yes, it required a trojan-esque password entry to fully activate, but it installed and was active even without it. Which means that it was probably ready and waiting for the next legitimate use of a password entry.
Your walled garden has been breached, and instead of putting your head in the sand, perhaps you'd better wake up to the fact that yes, security really is, at the end of the day, the user/owner's responsibility.
Well - I'd note that sometimes, the language choices aren't really clear.
For example, in Dragon Age II, when you are trying to help out the gay healer hiding out in Darktown (forget his name now), there's a good chance he'll hit on you just because you are assisting him with his crusade.
And note that there's no body language between your avatar and the NPC's. Such a "gay bit" would indicate what body language might (or might not) exist.
In effect, yes. The officer writes you a ticket for jaywallking. You say something back. The officer gets you for resisting arrest, loitering, interfering with an officer, or any of the other multitude of "offenses" they can roll out at will if they don't like someone.
... will be to end all vaccinations, and not to clean up the poisons that our kids breath, the crap that's in our food, and all the other potentially genetically damaging stuff that we do.
The other side of that argument is that science is telling folks that no, you can't use more than we've got forever, and yes, what you do is impacting other people. And some folks want any excuse to say, "So what. I only live once, screw the next generation, I want it all. Now!"
To put it more directly, conservatives see science as both theoretically and empirically telling them that unbridled capitalism, and all that it brings (the pollution, the stripping of resources and all the other impacts on both environment and climate) are not sustainable. That eventually, it has to end.
This they cannot tolerate. And since they can't refute the data or the facts, they attack science as a whole and cast disparities on its practitioners and methods. They make huge shows of the few scientists who attempt to fake data and results, and the peer review system as a whole (all the while ignoring the fact that it is almost always that same peer review system that finds the bad eggs).
Conservatives in power probably know full well that climate change is real and that we're running out of resources. But to keep their supporters fat and happy, they have to keep the flow of consumer junk and cheap energy flowing.
Too many people see science as a sort of magic. You do the incantations, make the invisible bits perform, and you can see an image of Grandma 2000 miles away.
They forget the method behind it all, the structure of thought, and only look at the results.
Add to this the intentional noise added (tobacco companies, food corporations, anti-climate science, etc.), and it becomes easier and easier to view science as some sort of supernatural thing, not to really be trusted, but to be used when it makes life a bit more comfy.
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And... I thought that the point of a walled garden was that the keepers of the wall kept you safe, happy and hip...
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It says right there they won't make you feel special by responding to you unless they need more information.
Not about making anyone feel special - it's about professional courtesy.
I'd note that the timbre of your post does not endear your fellow Mac enthusiasts to the rest of the world.
Obviously, they DID send information to that address (or another one off the web site), as Dr Web's rep said that they had turned over all their data.
Apple just didn't bother to respond.
To carry the analogy further, there is no immune system evolution in the Mac ecosystem, and what exists are usually exact genetic clones.
In the biological world, this is a species extinction event waiting to happen.
Also:
As PCMag's Security Watch noted yesterday, Mac users did not have to download or even interact with the malware to become infected. Websites exploited a Java flaw that let Flashback.K download itself onto Macs without warning. It then asked users to supply an administrative password, but even without that password, the malware was already installed.
From here:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2402641,00.asp
So - yes, it required a trojan-esque password entry to fully activate, but it installed and was active even without it. Which means that it was probably ready and waiting for the next legitimate use of a password entry.
Your walled garden has been breached, and instead of putting your head in the sand, perhaps you'd better wake up to the fact that yes, security really is, at the end of the day, the user/owner's responsibility.
Except that this was well enough done to nail 600,000 Apple users:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/04/06/researchers-confirm-flashback-trojan-infects-600000-macs-being-used-for-clickfraud/
Unless you happen to be one of the 600,000 who clicked on a bogus/rigged link on a spoofed site and got this Flashback Trojan installed.
... nuclear devices flying around for months over enemy territory ...
What could possibly go wrong?
So - the appropriate response to an argument about an emotional topic (specifically, love) is to... bully and mock?
Really?
Or are you all about revenge?
I'm not taking sides here, but the crab bucket approach to life only brings others down without allowing anyone to rise.
Well - I'd note that sometimes, the language choices aren't really clear.
For example, in Dragon Age II, when you are trying to help out the gay healer hiding out in Darktown (forget his name now), there's a good chance he'll hit on you just because you are assisting him with his crusade.
And note that there's no body language between your avatar and the NPC's. Such a "gay bit" would indicate what body language might (or might not) exist.
... that I played on a teletype terminal connected to a mainframe that resided in the Lawrence Hall of Science (associated with UCB).
Now get off my lawn.
I thought that Obama was the secret Muslim, with a Muslim agenda.
But - Muslims are banning porn.
Santorum wants to ban porn.
*gasp* Santorum is a secret Muslim!
That's how they do it here.
There, a different set of blinders are in use.
Somewhat off topic, but one might that argue is real, too - but that it is required for free will to exist.
We're talking about the party that came up with the Ownership Society here.
Captain - or galley slave.
Owner - or owned.
You note that she says "own or operate a ship" - not "crews".
I guess to her, someone who works on a ship is either an officer or owner - or a galley slave.
We do not have landed gentry titles in this country for a reason.
But we do have a landed gentry. They were just smart enough to take the targets off their backs.
In effect, yes. The officer writes you a ticket for jaywallking. You say something back. The officer gets you for resisting arrest, loitering, interfering with an officer, or any of the other multitude of "offenses" they can roll out at will if they don't like someone.
... but not for individuals?
... will be to end all vaccinations, and not to clean up the poisons that our kids breath, the crap that's in our food, and all the other potentially genetically damaging stuff that we do.
The other side of that argument is that science is telling folks that no, you can't use more than we've got forever, and yes, what you do is impacting other people. And some folks want any excuse to say, "So what. I only live once, screw the next generation, I want it all. Now!"
To put it more directly, conservatives see science as both theoretically and empirically telling them that unbridled capitalism, and all that it brings (the pollution, the stripping of resources and all the other impacts on both environment and climate) are not sustainable. That eventually, it has to end.
This they cannot tolerate. And since they can't refute the data or the facts, they attack science as a whole and cast disparities on its practitioners and methods. They make huge shows of the few scientists who attempt to fake data and results, and the peer review system as a whole (all the while ignoring the fact that it is almost always that same peer review system that finds the bad eggs).
Conservatives in power probably know full well that climate change is real and that we're running out of resources. But to keep their supporters fat and happy, they have to keep the flow of consumer junk and cheap energy flowing.
Too many people see science as a sort of magic. You do the incantations, make the invisible bits perform, and you can see an image of Grandma 2000 miles away.
They forget the method behind it all, the structure of thought, and only look at the results.
Add to this the intentional noise added (tobacco companies, food corporations, anti-climate science, etc.), and it becomes easier and easier to view science as some sort of supernatural thing, not to really be trusted, but to be used when it makes life a bit more comfy.
Uncrackable DRM is putting part of the core engine on a server that you have to connect to, like, say the enemy AI.