I think most people scoff at antivirus software for a mobile OS because one of the advantages of getting away from the desktop PC was supposed to be the avoidance of malware. Stories like this help justify Apple's approach to quality control.
Why is it that slashdot is all about crowd sourcing things and peer-to-peer distributing the load until it comes to government? Then, suddenly, there's all kind of trust and faith in consolidation of power, authority, (re)distribution of resources, etc..
Isn't it obvious? The majority of the readership is politically left-of-center.
I'm not sure where people are getting that Microsoft will have some kind of opportunity here. They took a big hit with the Xbox 360 just like Sony took a hit with the PS3. The Playstation 4 using off-the-shelf components means it will be more affordable. I actually think it's Microsoft who might fall behind because they won't have a year's headstart, and Sony might use more familiar hardware that's easier to develop for--one of the reasons the Xbox had a developer advantage the first few years.
The world is confusing enough w/o having multiple formats to deal with. Imagine if, instead of DVD, we would have had another Betamax vs. VHS war. (Call it DVD vs. BetaDVD.) Nothing good comes out of these things, at least not for consumers.
I never understand this argument, because in one breath people say say that there should be more competition and that competition is good, and in the next breath reject format wars.
Picasa? I would think the stronger indicator of support would be Chrome, but then again, Google's schizophrenic position on codec support ("We're rejecting H.264 video in the name of openness! Now enjoy the bundled Adobe Flash plugin and MP3/AAC playback.") makes them difficult to gauge.
DLC makes up for the cost of software development. Videogames are the only entertainment industry that hasn't adjusted its prices in response to inflation and other factors because customers won't let go of the $50-60 sweet spot in their minds.
"In the same way that Apple championed FireWire for the replacement of parallel SCSI"
So the assumption is that because Firewire didn't replace SCSI, it's going to fail again? Firewire became the common communication port for video and audio devices, exactly as intended. Thunderbolt just came out. Instead of using dramatic phrases like "dead in the water," how about we wait a while and see?
This is the emotional anger that dominates environmentalism today. Facts and reasoning are not what drives the viewpoint--it's name-calling and a need to feel superior.
Does anyone not notice that this is from Ed Bott's Microsoft blog, just like yesterday's Mac "malware explosion" article was also from Ed Bott's Microsoft blog?
Do you know what Mac Defender/Protector is? It's nothing more than a social engineering popup that prompts you to download and install an app that asks for your credit card. You have to give your permission via a password prompt to install apps on OS X. There's no security exploit at work here, and this app is easy to remove and doesn't automatically spread.
There is no "malware explosion." This is merely the bi-annual OS X malware alarmism that never leads to anything. Today it's based on nothing more than Ed Bott claiming to find a couple of hundred posts after hours of searching on the Apple discussion forums so that he'd have something to troll about in his Microsoft blog.
I always hear about the stereotype of the smug and self-important Mac user, but in my experience, it's always Mac-haters who act smug, arrogant, and proactively antagonistic towards people who quietly use their Macs simply because they don't want to maintain Linux or Windows.
What drive-by download is getting installed on Macs through Flash ads? "Mac Protector" is just an app you have to willingly download and install that sits there displaying pop-ups asking for your credit card until you remove the app.
Malware has been "about to explode" on the Macs for the last 10 years according to pundits. People, this is Ed Bott's Microsoft blog. Why are you falling for such obvious flamebait?
I love these dramatic phrases like "about to explode" and "malware explosion."
What's with the stories today? First, the headline about PSN going down, when it hasn't gone down--Sony took down the login pages on several of its websites to fix an exploit, but PSN is up and running.
Now, this story from Ed Bott, a Microsoft writer on ZDNet. This "malware explosion" the summary is referring to? It's literally just Ed Bott scouring the discussion forums "for a couple of hours" looking for posts about alleged malware, as if a couple hundred uninformed forum posts are some legitimate metric. Most people don't even know what their computers are doing half the time; anyone who's done tech support knows that people blame viruses for everything. If there was truly malware explosion, we'd hear official announcements from the usual security firms and antivirus companies. Ed cites "more than 200 posts" to prove his case. There are millions of Mac users, so his batch of clueless forum posts is tiny and hardly reputable.
The "Mac Protector" software that some of the posts he quoted were referring to? It's a website popup that displays a fake virus scanner. Clicking on it downloads an installer. The software installer on OS X asks for your confirmation before installing anything, so users doing this have to give their permission for the software to show up on their machine in the first place. It's not some silent installation like what you'd normal imagine when thinking of malware, and there's no security exploit at work here. This is just a normal software program you willingly download and install through simple social engineering. It's also much simpler to remove than the usual Windows malware; just remove it from the login items and delete the app bundle. The phrase "malware explosion" implies some hard-to-detect trojan that's quietly infecting everyone's machines, spreading automatically.
It's rather obvious why someone who writes the Microsoft blog at ZDNet would be sniping at the image of Mac security, but I think another motivation for Ed's article is mentioned in the first paragraph. He's striking back at John Gruber, whose attack on him probably generated a significant amount of traffic. And now, Slashdot is generating its own by linking to Ed's flamebait.
Could we tone down the exaggeration and deception in the headlines around here, please?
Speaking of dumb, PSN isn't down. This story's headline is completely inaccurate. What's been taken down is several website login pages that use PSN accounts, such as Qrocity.com.
The only place it was a "scandal" was on websites like Slashdot. The public probably wouldn't even know what you're talking about. They also promptly forgot about the PSN hack the moment they could get online again and play Call of Duty.
By the way, PSN never went down, so this headline is totally false. What's down is signing in using a PSN account on several websites like Playstation.com and Qrocity. It was a website exploit, not a PSN problem. This site is totally lying.
Speaking of police work, Slashdot editors should try actually verifying their stories. PSN isn't down. It's up right now I type this. Apparently, what's down is the email reset page.
As for your credit card number, there is no evidence credit card data was obtained in the PSN breach. Credit card companies would have noticed an increase in fraud and alerted their customers. The alarmism on forums is ridiculous, and most of it is driven from Sony hatred rather than facts. This is the website on which a commenter to a story on the Japan earthquake delaying the Sony NGP justified the lethal disaster by saying, "Anything that hurts Sony is good for the consumer." It got +3 Funny.
For the most part, Western gamers have come to expect more open-ended, free-roaming gameplay, or at least customization options when completing a linear path. Burnout: Paradise switched to an open city in which you may drive freely, manually starting races yourself at various intersections. Batman: Arkham Asylum allows you to gain points that you can spend on customizing your abilities, and the levels are designed with multiple solutions. Infamous and Prototype give you superpowers and dump you in a big city to do what you want.
When I play a Japanese game, it's often the same anime characters in the same old storylines. How many times am I going to save a steampunk world from corporations stealing the planet's magic?
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One game with a long development time was bad, so all will be bad. Love your logic.
Maybe because the blame has merit. Google just mass-removed another round of malware from their store.
I think most people scoff at antivirus software for a mobile OS because one of the advantages of getting away from the desktop PC was supposed to be the avoidance of malware. Stories like this help justify Apple's approach to quality control.
Isn't it obvious? The majority of the readership is politically left-of-center.
That's pretty much what he said: "When Starcraft 2 came out last year I felt cheated that it only contained the Terran campaign."
Linux has too much customizability, leading to a lack of standards. Ever heard of the "tyranny of choice?"
I'm not sure where people are getting that Microsoft will have some kind of opportunity here. They took a big hit with the Xbox 360 just like Sony took a hit with the PS3. The Playstation 4 using off-the-shelf components means it will be more affordable. I actually think it's Microsoft who might fall behind because they won't have a year's headstart, and Sony might use more familiar hardware that's easier to develop for--one of the reasons the Xbox had a developer advantage the first few years.
I never understand this argument, because in one breath people say say that there should be more competition and that competition is good, and in the next breath reject format wars.
Picasa? I would think the stronger indicator of support would be Chrome, but then again, Google's schizophrenic position on codec support ("We're rejecting H.264 video in the name of openness! Now enjoy the bundled Adobe Flash plugin and MP3/AAC playback.") makes them difficult to gauge.
DLC makes up for the cost of software development. Videogames are the only entertainment industry that hasn't adjusted its prices in response to inflation and other factors because customers won't let go of the $50-60 sweet spot in their minds.
"In the same way that Apple championed FireWire for the replacement of parallel SCSI"
So the assumption is that because Firewire didn't replace SCSI, it's going to fail again? Firewire became the common communication port for video and audio devices, exactly as intended. Thunderbolt just came out. Instead of using dramatic phrases like "dead in the water," how about we wait a while and see?
This is the emotional anger that dominates environmentalism today. Facts and reasoning are not what drives the viewpoint--it's name-calling and a need to feel superior.
Why is it that you assume the fix had anything to do with signs of recovery 22 years later?
Oh. The usual anti-corporate propaganda. Sorry. I forgot...
Does anyone not notice that this is from Ed Bott's Microsoft blog, just like yesterday's Mac "malware explosion" article was also from Ed Bott's Microsoft blog?
Do you know what Mac Defender/Protector is? It's nothing more than a social engineering popup that prompts you to download and install an app that asks for your credit card. You have to give your permission via a password prompt to install apps on OS X. There's no security exploit at work here, and this app is easy to remove and doesn't automatically spread.
There is no "malware explosion." This is merely the bi-annual OS X malware alarmism that never leads to anything. Today it's based on nothing more than Ed Bott claiming to find a couple of hundred posts after hours of searching on the Apple discussion forums so that he'd have something to troll about in his Microsoft blog.
I always hear about the stereotype of the smug and self-important Mac user, but in my experience, it's always Mac-haters who act smug, arrogant, and proactively antagonistic towards people who quietly use their Macs simply because they don't want to maintain Linux or Windows.
What drive-by download is getting installed on Macs through Flash ads? "Mac Protector" is just an app you have to willingly download and install that sits there displaying pop-ups asking for your credit card until you remove the app.
Malware has been "about to explode" on the Macs for the last 10 years according to pundits. People, this is Ed Bott's Microsoft blog. Why are you falling for such obvious flamebait?
I love these dramatic phrases like "about to explode" and "malware explosion."
It is? Because Ed Bott surfed the clueless Apple discussion forums for a few hours and claimed there's a "malware explosion" in his Microsoft blog?
What's with the stories today? First, the headline about PSN going down, when it hasn't gone down--Sony took down the login pages on several of its websites to fix an exploit, but PSN is up and running.
Now, this story from Ed Bott, a Microsoft writer on ZDNet. This "malware explosion" the summary is referring to? It's literally just Ed Bott scouring the discussion forums "for a couple of hours" looking for posts about alleged malware, as if a couple hundred uninformed forum posts are some legitimate metric. Most people don't even know what their computers are doing half the time; anyone who's done tech support knows that people blame viruses for everything. If there was truly malware explosion, we'd hear official announcements from the usual security firms and antivirus companies. Ed cites "more than 200 posts" to prove his case. There are millions of Mac users, so his batch of clueless forum posts is tiny and hardly reputable.
The "Mac Protector" software that some of the posts he quoted were referring to? It's a website popup that displays a fake virus scanner. Clicking on it downloads an installer. The software installer on OS X asks for your confirmation before installing anything, so users doing this have to give their permission for the software to show up on their machine in the first place. It's not some silent installation like what you'd normal imagine when thinking of malware, and there's no security exploit at work here. This is just a normal software program you willingly download and install through simple social engineering. It's also much simpler to remove than the usual Windows malware; just remove it from the login items and delete the app bundle. The phrase "malware explosion" implies some hard-to-detect trojan that's quietly infecting everyone's machines, spreading automatically.
It's rather obvious why someone who writes the Microsoft blog at ZDNet would be sniping at the image of Mac security, but I think another motivation for Ed's article is mentioned in the first paragraph. He's striking back at John Gruber, whose attack on him probably generated a significant amount of traffic. And now, Slashdot is generating its own by linking to Ed's flamebait.
Could we tone down the exaggeration and deception in the headlines around here, please?
PSN isn't down. What Sony shut down is several website login pages that used PSN accounts, due to an email reset exploit.
Speaking of dumb, PSN isn't down. This story's headline is completely inaccurate. What's been taken down is several website login pages that use PSN accounts, such as Qrocity.com.
All that ranting about "fanbois," and you didn't even have all the facts. You said that last time you pointed out how bad things were, you were modded down, but your last post was actually a false claim that PS3 users weren't been able to play their games during the PSN outage, and others corrected you.
The only place it was a "scandal" was on websites like Slashdot. The public probably wouldn't even know what you're talking about. They also promptly forgot about the PSN hack the moment they could get online again and play Call of Duty.
By the way, PSN never went down, so this headline is totally false. What's down is signing in using a PSN account on several websites like Playstation.com and Qrocity. It was a website exploit, not a PSN problem. This site is totally lying.
Speaking of police work, Slashdot editors should try actually verifying their stories. PSN isn't down. It's up right now I type this. Apparently, what's down is the email reset page.
As for your credit card number, there is no evidence credit card data was obtained in the PSN breach. Credit card companies would have noticed an increase in fraud and alerted their customers. The alarmism on forums is ridiculous, and most of it is driven from Sony hatred rather than facts. This is the website on which a commenter to a story on the Japan earthquake delaying the Sony NGP justified the lethal disaster by saying, "Anything that hurts Sony is good for the consumer." It got +3 Funny.
For the most part, Western gamers have come to expect more open-ended, free-roaming gameplay, or at least customization options when completing a linear path. Burnout: Paradise switched to an open city in which you may drive freely, manually starting races yourself at various intersections. Batman: Arkham Asylum allows you to gain points that you can spend on customizing your abilities, and the levels are designed with multiple solutions. Infamous and Prototype give you superpowers and dump you in a big city to do what you want.
When I play a Japanese game, it's often the same anime characters in the same old storylines. How many times am I going to save a steampunk world from corporations stealing the planet's magic?