I see -- so it's because of political correctness that nobody taught you about the paragraph?
If that's really how bad things are, my southern brothers, I think it's time to rise up against the status quo, and bring about a REVOLUTION! VIVA! VIVA! VIVA LOS PARAGRAPHOS!:P
I'd call slashdot semi-formal. Certainly, people like seeing proper capitalization. Not having such things is the written equivilant of walking into a room with a pair of underwear on your head.
I think I'm in the majority when I say that I don't want or need to learn some proprietary keyboard format. QWERTY or nothing, because my time is worth more than that.
Hey, you can't blame Rupert for giving the people what they want. the Fox network for when you feel like watching the lowest common denominator, and Fox News for the times you want to be told you're angry at the lowest common denominator.:P
New plan. Just don't watch their movies at all. Then you've got nothing to worry about -- you're not contributing to their loss so you've got nothing to worry about, and you're not paying for these lies to be propogated, so you're morally in the clear.
Sure, you'll have to find another source of entertainment, but the internet is a massive place.
Didn't know there was an article on AP about it. Just goes to show that nothing is really new, and certain ideas simply come about naturally from circumstances.:)
I agree that it doesn't eliminate all obstacles, but it does reduce some fairly significant ones. Learning a new API is easy, but heading over to a whole new hardware platform is somewhat less so.
First, the development alpha of MacOSX is available for a standard PC(Not legally, but remember who we're talking about here). Any script kiddie can make it in, without dishing out for a new Mac.
Second, the tools to write code for an x86 machine are readily available and understood for the x86 platform. This means that any virus coder who couldn't practically develop viruses for the Mac before because the machine required different development tools will be in luck.
You could definitely argue that these may not be huge obstacles, but they are significant to coders who aren't used to different CPU platforms, and their removal could have a significant effect.
A free man can learn how to use any software package he wants. This is one of the virtues of being free. If you have decided that a software package isn't worth using because you're not willing to put the effort in to learn how to use it, that's your free choice as well. Nobody will stop you, and you haven't paid a thing for the opportunity to try.
It's possible but unlikely that the operating system architecture of MacOS is inherently more resistant to viruses. I'd sooner guess that by lowering the bar for entry by removing the requirement for machine based on a PowerPC chip, Apple may be opening themselves to a lot more viruses. At the moment it's got the best of both worlds; No PowerPC virus works, no x86 virus exists yet. Every idiot script kiddie has an x86 box, however. This is worrisome, and I can't help but think that we'll see more viruses for MacOS x86 than we ever saw for MacOS 68k or MacOS PPC.
Actually, most languages I know of tend to steal bits and pieces from english as time progresses. Japanese is a particular offender, because of the speed with which they were shunted into the 19th century. Others still do it, though.
Here's why I link them to politics: Like an idiot, you assume that because I say it's strange you say you're 'pro-adwords', I'm 'anti-adwords'. Get out of that mindset. It's destroying America. Don't let it destroy you too.
So you're suggesting that everyone should become intimately familiar with the source code of every program they use?
Perhaps if you were paranoid of everyone using a program. I may only contribute to a handful of the programs I use, but others contribute to the other programs. The transparancy itself is a layer of security which can be trusted, and historically has shown itself to be trustworthy.
Truth of the matter is that many websites are simply unsafe. I had to leave sphosting.com, for example, because I refused to use a site which tried to install gator under the guise of a website of mine.
Don't lump us all together like that. Some of us have a fully reasonable understanding of how our modes of transportation operate, for the same reason we know how our computers work: Because we can.
I think you need to step away from American politics for a good long while. You may believe that adwords are a neccessary evil. You may even believe that they're the best of all possible worlds in which there are advertising. However, to say that you are pro-adwords is nuts.
It's not really random at all; there are definite cues as to which is the correct answer.
That said, I tend to prefer OSS, partially because I know OSS code writers want me to use it, and partially because it tends to be much more trustworthy, especially if it's on a site like sourceforge.
Question 1 of 8: Screensavers: Pick the safe site.
Subtle, but the first site appears to have more content, and more varied content.
Question 2 of 8: Smileys: Pick the safe site.
One is trying to sell something, the other isn't. Guess who the spyware is?
Question 3 of 8: Free Games: Pick the safe site.
"Download solitare game!" vs. "Download Frozen Bubble!" The choice is plain as day.
Question 4 of 8: Lyrics: Pick the safe site.
This one was very difficult, but in the end, the user participation of the second site implies that they won't use spyware -- at least in the context of this quiz.
Questions 5-8 In our tests, some of these sites had downloads that came bundled with spyware, adware, or other unwanted programs. For each site, decide whether or not it is safe.
Bearshare says sponsored Emule is an Open Source product Kazaa is famously spyware Blubster I've never heard about before, but the default response is to believe p2p software is adware.
Slashdot Mirror
It would be. Every one until now has been.
I see -- so it's because of political correctness that nobody taught you about the paragraph?
:P
If that's really how bad things are, my southern brothers, I think it's time to rise up against the status quo, and bring about a REVOLUTION! VIVA! VIVA! VIVA LOS PARAGRAPHOS!
I'd call slashdot semi-formal. Certainly, people like seeing proper capitalization. Not having such things is the written equivilant of walking into a room with a pair of underwear on your head.
I don't know what kind of SHIT you're trying to pull here, but it's NOT going to work.
(Do I get 'the ladies' now?)
If you choose major purchases based on a single number, you deserve whatever you get.
And why is that?
We don't buy products to do what others want to do, we buy them for what WE want to do. At least, that's what the sane among us do.
To try to confine our views to what the machine claims to do is to fall prey to marketing.
Well...Pimpin' ain't easy.
I think I'm in the majority when I say that I don't want or need to learn some proprietary keyboard format. QWERTY or nothing, because my time is worth more than that.
Indeed. Anyone who actually wanted to know the truth over the past ten years has been sorely dissapointed.
But I suppose a stupid population is an easy to control population.
Hey, you can't blame Rupert for giving the people what they want. the Fox network for when you feel like watching the lowest common denominator, and Fox News for the times you want to be told you're angry at the lowest common denominator. :P
New plan. Just don't watch their movies at all. Then you've got nothing to worry about -- you're not contributing to their loss so you've got nothing to worry about, and you're not paying for these lies to be propogated, so you're morally in the clear.
Sure, you'll have to find another source of entertainment, but the internet is a massive place.
Didn't know there was an article on AP about it. Just goes to show that nothing is really new, and certain ideas simply come about naturally from circumstances. :)
I agree that it doesn't eliminate all obstacles, but it does reduce some fairly significant ones. Learning a new API is easy, but heading over to a whole new hardware platform is somewhat less so.
First, the development alpha of MacOSX is available for a standard PC(Not legally, but remember who we're talking about here). Any script kiddie can make it in, without dishing out for a new Mac.
Second, the tools to write code for an x86 machine are readily available and understood for the x86 platform. This means that any virus coder who couldn't practically develop viruses for the Mac before because the machine required different development tools will be in luck.
You could definitely argue that these may not be huge obstacles, but they are significant to coders who aren't used to different CPU platforms, and their removal could have a significant effect.
A free man can learn how to use any software package he wants. This is one of the virtues of being free. If you have decided that a software package isn't worth using because you're not willing to put the effort in to learn how to use it, that's your free choice as well. Nobody will stop you, and you haven't paid a thing for the opportunity to try.
It's possible but unlikely that the operating system architecture of MacOS is inherently more resistant to viruses. I'd sooner guess that by lowering the bar for entry by removing the requirement for machine based on a PowerPC chip, Apple may be opening themselves to a lot more viruses. At the moment it's got the best of both worlds; No PowerPC virus works, no x86 virus exists yet. Every idiot script kiddie has an x86 box, however. This is worrisome, and I can't help but think that we'll see more viruses for MacOS x86 than we ever saw for MacOS 68k or MacOS PPC.
Actually, most languages I know of tend to steal bits and pieces from english as time progresses. Japanese is a particular offender, because of the speed with which they were shunted into the 19th century. Others still do it, though.
Here's why I link them to politics: Like an idiot, you assume that because I say it's strange you say you're 'pro-adwords', I'm 'anti-adwords'. Get out of that mindset. It's destroying America. Don't let it destroy you too.
So you're suggesting that everyone should become intimately familiar with the source code of every program they use?
Perhaps if you were paranoid of everyone using a program. I may only contribute to a handful of the programs I use, but others contribute to the other programs. The transparancy itself is a layer of security which can be trusted, and historically has shown itself to be trustworthy.
Truth of the matter is that many websites are simply unsafe. I had to leave sphosting.com, for example, because I refused to use a site which tried to install gator under the guise of a website of mine.
The numbers say otherwise.
Street smarts aren't only neccessary on the street. They're also quite useful on the superhighway.
You have to deal with that knawing yearning to kick windows users in the groin. It's a small price to pay, but it is still a price. ;p
Don't lump us all together like that. Some of us have a fully reasonable understanding of how our modes of transportation operate, for the same reason we know how our computers work: Because we can.
pro-adwords? Are you serious?
I think you need to step away from American politics for a good long while. You may believe that adwords are a neccessary evil. You may even believe that they're the best of all possible worlds in which there are advertising. However, to say that you are pro-adwords is nuts.
Do you mean at all, or for any program they use at all?
I won't lie and say that every program I use gets scrutinized, but some of my favourites have actually had contributions from me.
It's not really random at all; there are definite cues as to which is the correct answer.
That said, I tend to prefer OSS, partially because I know OSS code writers want me to use it, and partially because it tends to be much more trustworthy, especially if it's on a site like sourceforge.
Question 1 of 8: Screensavers: Pick the safe site.
Subtle, but the first site appears to have more content, and more varied content.
Question 2 of 8: Smileys: Pick the safe site.
One is trying to sell something, the other isn't. Guess who the spyware is?
Question 3 of 8: Free Games: Pick the safe site.
"Download solitare game!" vs. "Download Frozen Bubble!" The choice is plain as day.
Question 4 of 8: Lyrics: Pick the safe site.
This one was very difficult, but in the end, the user participation of the second site implies that they won't use spyware -- at least in the context of this quiz.
Questions 5-8 In our tests, some of these sites had downloads that came bundled with spyware, adware, or other unwanted programs. For each site, decide whether or not it is safe.
Bearshare says sponsored
Emule is an Open Source product
Kazaa is famously spyware
Blubster I've never heard about before, but the default response is to believe p2p software is adware.