Privilege escalation? You've got to be kidding me. I challenge you to find an example of malware that attempts to exploit privilege escalation vulnerabilities. There might be a few out there, but based on my experience administering hundreds of windows boxes used by kids over the last ten years, they are not even remotely common.
In the real world where risk/reward ratio is considered, a separate limited account for the kids is an acceptable solution.
"If you want truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between "for" and "against" is the mind's worst disease." -- Sent-ts'an
My mistake. Cressal did say that the file renaming issue happened OS9, and he repeatedly stated how much he hated OS9, so I assumed the whole rant was based on experienced with OS9.
OS X must have been a steaming pile of shit back in 2001.
Presidents don't enact the budgets, Congress does. The President submits a budget, the congress enacts it and the President can then veto it. How often has that happened?
Historically congress has pretty much gone along with presidents' budget proposals. The burden of balancing the budget lies with the president.
BTW - Most of the long term obilgations (SS, Medicare, Welfare) have come from the entitlement programs - who enacted those?
Democrats enacted them, and they should be damn proud of them. Entitlement programs like Medicare and SS save lives and have a MUCH better ROI over Military spending, which is the only other type of spending that can be cut drastically to balance the budget.
No! This is a not a "demopublican" problem. This is a REPUBLICAN problem, through and through. If you look at this graph, you can see that the only presidents since Truman to increase our federal debt as a percentage of GDP since WWII are Reagan and the two Bushes.
Republican presidents are responsible for nearly *all* of our federal debt!
Your scenario is based upon the bad assumption that employees are machines that work at full productivity for the entire time that their computers are available to them.
You're being too nice. The guy is a dolt. He's spent half his life studying and dedicating a website to what any decent IT person would consider offhand knowledge.
You are oversimplifying the issue. Things like drugs and polygamy and suicide are outlawed because, at some point a consensus was reached that those things did harm too much harm to society as a whole to be allowed.
How much harm drugs, polygamy, or suicide do to our society is still debated, and I've heard rational (or at least semi-rational) arguments on both sides of those issues, but I have never ever heard a single rational argument as to how gay marriage harms our society.
some crack addict who raped and murder children in a "drug related" crime would get off
He is not talking about people who commit crimes while being on drugs. He's talking about people who are locked up solely because of using or selling drugs.
* The vast majority of malware is written for financial gain * The vast majority of malware are propagated via social engineering. * Apple computers are operated by people. * People who own computers have money.
It all comes down to market share.
Anyone who thinks otherwise has their head up their ass.
I'd rather get my health care and owe a huge pile of cash than not receive health care at all.
That's called socialized health care, only it's handled through the bankruptcy courts. With the exception of some cases like cancer (where you *will* be denied treatment and allowed to die if you can't pay) the U.S. already has free health care. It seems to me that we should just admit so and focus on making it work more efficiently.
That's a good point, but I think our pseudo-free-market health care system drives doctors to urban areas because of the morass of badly run social health care programs and budget ("HMO" style) health insurance policies that fight tooth and nail from having a pay for their customers' health care needs.
Removing the complication of payment collection (even if it meant, *gasp*, regulating costs) would remove the biggest stress of a doctor's life, and might encourage them to stay in rural areas. The malpractice "industry", the ridiculous amount of regulations (probably stemming from the malpractice "industry") and drug costs, are issues that inflate our costs to levels that tower above any other nation.
I'm sure health care in rural areas will always be inferior, but right now it is at third world levels, and for a country with a 20 Trillion GDP, that's just plain wrong.
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Privilege escalation? You've got to be kidding me. I challenge you to find an example of malware that attempts to exploit privilege escalation vulnerabilities. There might be a few out there, but based on my experience administering hundreds of windows boxes used by kids over the last ten years, they are not even remotely common.
In the real world where risk/reward ratio is considered, a separate limited account for the kids is an acceptable solution.
"If you want truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between "for" and "against" is the mind's worst disease."
-- Sent-ts'an
My mistake. Cressal did say that the file renaming issue happened OS9, and he repeatedly stated how much he hated OS9, so I assumed the whole rant was based on experienced with OS9.
OS X must have been a steaming pile of shit back in 2001.
The video was made in 2001 and referring to OS9.
It was Portugal. Here is a link to a paper by the CATO institute about the success policies in Portugal.
Human stupidity, chaos, I dunno what you want to call it...
"Tragedy of the commons" is the term that comes to mind.
Presidents don't enact the budgets, Congress does. The President submits a budget, the congress enacts it and the President can then veto it. How often has that happened?
Historically congress has pretty much gone along with presidents' budget proposals. The burden of balancing the budget lies with the president.
BTW - Most of the long term obilgations (SS, Medicare, Welfare) have come from the entitlement programs - who enacted those?
Democrats enacted them, and they should be damn proud of them. Entitlement programs like Medicare and SS save lives and have a MUCH better ROI over Military spending, which is the only other type of spending that can be cut drastically to balance the budget.
This is a Demopublican problem.
No! This is a not a "demopublican" problem. This is a REPUBLICAN problem, through and through. If you look at this graph, you can see that the only presidents since Truman to increase our federal debt as a percentage of GDP since WWII are Reagan and the two Bushes.
Republican presidents are responsible for nearly *all* of our federal debt!
Your scenario is based upon the bad assumption that employees are machines that work at full productivity for the entire time that their computers are available to them.
But how much more would need to be added to your budget for for staff retraining costs?
$0.00
Generic laws have the problem of being up to too much interpretation.
Writing good laws is an art form that is rarely mastered.
It is NOT BROKEN. It's just misunderstood!!
You're being too nice. The guy is a dolt. He's spent half his life studying and dedicating a website to what any decent IT person would consider offhand knowledge.
Sounds like you crave more of a simulation. I would suggest Operation Flashpoint or is sequel, Armed Assault.
Evolution is about the origin of species, not the origin of life.
Stand to Reason offer good arguments against "gay" marriage, for the good of society
So what are those "good arguments", and why didn't they make them during the campaign for prop 8?
Or are outright lies considered "good arguments" to you fundies?
You must be from one of these states where education is frowned upon...
Fixed that for you.
You are oversimplifying the issue. Things like drugs and polygamy and suicide are outlawed because, at some point a consensus was reached that those things did harm too much harm to society as a whole to be allowed.
How much harm drugs, polygamy, or suicide do to our society is still debated, and I've heard rational (or at least semi-rational) arguments on both sides of those issues, but I have never ever heard a single rational argument as to how gay marriage harms our society.
some crack addict who raped and murder children in a "drug related" crime would get off
He is not talking about people who commit crimes while being on drugs. He's talking about people who are locked up solely because of using or selling drugs.
So just install into ~
Malware does not need anything more than regular user rights to do 'useful' things.
OS X (and other BSD based OS) and Linux are based on different design principles and mostly immune to viruses.
lol!
You are one of those "intelligent design" advocates aren't you?
Sure thing....
* The vast majority of malware is written for financial gain
* The vast majority of malware are propagated via social engineering.
* Apple computers are operated by people.
* People who own computers have money.
It all comes down to market share.
Anyone who thinks otherwise has their head up their ass.
I'd rather get my health care and owe a huge pile of cash than not receive health care at all.
That's called socialized health care, only it's handled through the bankruptcy courts. With the exception of some cases like cancer (where you *will* be denied treatment and allowed to die if you can't pay) the U.S. already has free health care. It seems to me that we should just admit so and focus on making it work more efficiently.
That's a good point, but I think our pseudo-free-market health care system drives doctors to urban areas because of the morass of badly run social health care programs and budget ("HMO" style) health insurance policies that fight tooth and nail from having a pay for their customers' health care needs.
Removing the complication of payment collection (even if it meant, *gasp*, regulating costs) would remove the biggest stress of a doctor's life, and might encourage them to stay in rural areas. The malpractice "industry", the ridiculous amount of regulations (probably stemming from the malpractice "industry") and drug costs, are issues that inflate our costs to levels that tower above any other nation.
I'm sure health care in rural areas will always be inferior, but right now it is at third world levels, and for a country with a 20 Trillion GDP, that's just plain wrong.