Don't be stupid. If you install the malware yourself like these pirates did, then no, it's not virus-proof. The security of the Mac is that you don't magically get infected with something just from browsing the web or your email like Windows PCs seem to.
Religious idiots like to say that gay marriage is wrong. I tell 'em that thousands of species practice homosexuality in nature
Since when do animals get married?
Being anti-religious on Slashdot isn't interesting or clever anymore, sorry. This is coming from a jaded agnostic. But I'm sure the college kids who think it's edgy to mock religion will give you a +5.
This is the same issue Mac OS X faces with its.app bundles -- each app basically ships a/usr like prefix with all of its dependencies on top of the base OS X API's, and application startup times on cold cache pales to a shared-dependency approach.
This is inaccurate. OS X apps link to shared system frameworks in/Library/Frameworks. They can, if they wish, embed a framework in their bundle which will appear in the bundle's internal Frameworks directory. There is no/usr dependency hierarchy in every app...
It's a little strange to talk about how old COBOL is when C came out in 1972. These languages were the obvious solutions to computing problems. It's not a surprise they'll be around for a while.
Just because you disagree with something doesn't make it flamebait. See, the idea here is that you reply with your counterpoint rather than mindlessly silencing people with downmods.
"The best"? Ports will blow up your system if you try to update a package A that depends on package B version 2.0, while the already installed packages C and D depend on B version 1.0. Ports will happily upgrade B to 2.0 without warning you, thus breaking C and D. Apt never does this. I shouldn't have to manually inspect every dependency to ensure that nothing will break if I update packages!
Every GNU tool I've used is far better than its BSD counterpart (if it exists).
"Far better?" Do you have an example? Generally, there's a feeling among BSD users that their tools are superior in quality and documentation. The man pages as well as the handbook are fantastic and explain everything you'd want to know. It's like you get an actual manual with your new UNIX-based workstation.
There are efforts to replace the non-modular GCC because FSF purposely obfuscated it to prevent people from easily making extensions (something Slashdotters would criticize if a commercial company had done). Goofy crap like that is poor quality software and poor attitude that more practical users have no time for.
Why not just run FreeBSD with a real BSD userland and ports system? I'm just curious why you would use a BSD kernel but keep a Debian userland when it would probably be more reliable to just use FreeBSD's userland too.
Are you implying that most of developers can't handle being criticized?
He's not implying it. He's flat-out stating it. I spend a bit of time on Freenode too, and many Linux channels are full of assholes--that is, if your problem gets any response at all and isn't simply ignored.
You're forgetting that politicians like Al Gore have a financial interest in making you feel guilty enough to pay his company carbon credits. You know, the company he started right before he released his film. The company he used to pay himself through carbon credits when he got called out for having an enormous house.
Making people feel guilty tricks them into sacrificing things to the government such as money, rights, and common sense. With the media playing along with Al Gore and shunning any detractors, the system is able to keep the public stupid and gullible while they pay more money and give the government more power.
You know, nobody has ever given me an example of how Fox News is biased or twists its news. It's just an accepted punchline that nobody questions.
A UCLA-Stanford media study done a few years ago showed Fox News was the most centrist, with Brit Hume's show being the fairest of all news shows on TV. Naturally, the media didn't report this study very widely.
Slashdot Mirror
Don't be stupid. If you install the malware yourself like these pirates did, then no, it's not virus-proof. The security of the Mac is that you don't magically get infected with something just from browsing the web or your email like Windows PCs seem to.
Since when do animals get married?
Being anti-religious on Slashdot isn't interesting or clever anymore, sorry. This is coming from a jaded agnostic. But I'm sure the college kids who think it's edgy to mock religion will give you a +5.
No, there is not a "substantial amount of applications" that bundle their own frameworks.
This is inaccurate. OS X apps link to shared system frameworks in /Library/Frameworks. They can, if they wish, embed a framework in their bundle which will appear in the bundle's internal Frameworks directory. There is no /usr dependency hierarchy in every app...
It's a little strange to talk about how old COBOL is when C came out in 1972. These languages were the obvious solutions to computing problems. It's not a surprise they'll be around for a while.
But don't you dare call piracy "theft!"
Yes, I do work in IT. I haven't seen a BSOD in almost a decade.
I haven't seen a BSOD in almost a decade.
"We are think for ourselves," eh?
My point, since you missed it, was that we often don't, based on the story posted. Nobody will remember this when the next iPhone comes out.
Are we hating Apple today or loving them?
Just because you disagree with something doesn't make it flamebait. See, the idea here is that you reply with your counterpoint rather than mindlessly silencing people with downmods.
Learn and move on.
If the town had evacuated on the day of his prediction, nothing would have happened, and they would have returned to get hit the week after anyway.
Absolutely all of this is completely false.
Poor package management? Ports is one of the best I've ever used. What problems did you have?
"Far better?" Do you have an example? Generally, there's a feeling among BSD users that their tools are superior in quality and documentation. The man pages as well as the handbook are fantastic and explain everything you'd want to know. It's like you get an actual manual with your new UNIX-based workstation.
There are efforts to replace the non-modular GCC because FSF purposely obfuscated it to prevent people from easily making extensions (something Slashdotters would criticize if a commercial company had done). Goofy crap like that is poor quality software and poor attitude that more practical users have no time for.
Why not just run FreeBSD with a real BSD userland and ports system? I'm just curious why you would use a BSD kernel but keep a Debian userland when it would probably be more reliable to just use FreeBSD's userland too.
Or you'd just hold the mouse button on bootup and auto-eject the disk. You should just stop posting.
You're so uninformed, I'm not sure why you even bothered posting and revealing it to everyone.
The followup article didn't exist yet when I submitted the story on Thursday.
Then don't expect people to use your unsupported software.
He's not implying it. He's flat-out stating it. I spend a bit of time on Freenode too, and many Linux channels are full of assholes--that is, if your problem gets any response at all and isn't simply ignored.
You're forgetting that politicians like Al Gore have a financial interest in making you feel guilty enough to pay his company carbon credits. You know, the company he started right before he released his film. The company he used to pay himself through carbon credits when he got called out for having an enormous house.
Making people feel guilty tricks them into sacrificing things to the government such as money, rights, and common sense. With the media playing along with Al Gore and shunning any detractors, the system is able to keep the public stupid and gullible while they pay more money and give the government more power.
A Measure of Media Bias
Tim Groseclose
Department of Political Science
UCLA
Jeff Milyo
Department of Economics
University of Missouri
December 2004
You know, nobody has ever given me an example of how Fox News is biased or twists its news. It's just an accepted punchline that nobody questions.
A UCLA-Stanford media study done a few years ago showed Fox News was the most centrist, with Brit Hume's show being the fairest of all news shows on TV. Naturally, the media didn't report this study very widely.
Another fucking sequel.
Hollywood is on its way out.