There are no Microsoft-like ActiveX analogous components that allow viruses to replicate if you do something innocuous-sounding like read email or run a word-processor.
You mean *besides* the buffer overflows found in quicktime?
We keep their DNA sample, and then plant some at the crime scene the next time we kill someone.
There was a comedian talking about he never litters. "With my luck I'll toss a soda can out the window while driving down the freeway and it'll land right on top of a dead body"
He also mentioned that he buys gum every hour on the hour at random convenience stores.. being sure to pay with a credit card and wave at the security camera.
Sometimes it's nice to have the government be able to track you.. it provides you with an alibi.
"What actually is happening is that I'm waiting for lightning to strike my kite. Me, Ben Franklin, the Inventor of Electricity!"
"Shouldn't you say, 'The discoverer of electricity?'"
"You think the ultimate power in the Universe is just under some rock, waiting to be discovered? Ha! I, Ben Franklin, am going to summon power from the heavens by sheer force of genius!"
Right, which means not only will users forget passwords, but they will also lose their smardcard (which aren't cheap).
Most businesses require a badge. You need to swipe your badge to get in the building. Adding a smartchip to it wouldn't make people magically start losing their badges.
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I've been doing regex for a long time (over 10 years), and the best rule I can give newbies to follow is "match less, not more"
/]+>/ instead of //
Write your regex's so that they generalize as little as possible.
For example, matching an xml tag use
If you're using ".*?" in a regex, you might want to look at rewriting it.. it's almost never needed and almost always causes problems.
Citation?
The AutoStart 9805 Worm for one.
And define many. To some, a few dozen is many.
The last count I saw there were over 50 unique virsues/worms that infected macos. None that infect OSX however.
I have been using Mac's for 8+ years now
Then you're just lucky. OS9 had many viruses.. the most virulent ones would infect a floppy upon insertion.
There are no Microsoft-like ActiveX analogous components that allow viruses to replicate if you do something innocuous-sounding like read email or run a word-processor.
You mean *besides* the buffer overflows found in quicktime?
To me, the benefits of being able to solve a years old case based on DNA samples outweighs the risks of abuse within the system.
:)
I've watched enough Cold Case Files to know that many cases go unsolved simply because they can't identify the victim.
I wouldn't mind having my DNA on file simply because if I'm ever murdered and mutilated beyond recognition, they could at least notify my family.
They just got a recent mass murder case solved when a daughter of a suspect volunteered to give a DNA sample, when he refused.
No, what they got was sufficient cause for a warrant.
They used the daughter's DNA to obtain a warrant for *his* DNA.
We keep their DNA sample, and then plant some at the crime scene the next time we kill someone.
There was a comedian talking about he never litters. "With my luck I'll toss a soda can out the window while driving down the freeway and it'll land right on top of a dead body"
He also mentioned that he buys gum every hour on the hour at random convenience stores.. being sure to pay with a credit card and wave at the security camera.
Sometimes it's nice to have the government be able to track you.. it provides you with an alibi.
An ID is harder to forge than a signature.
Nonsense. I can print my photo out on an ink jet with "Bob's Bargain Bin Employee #333" on it and laminate it and it's an ID.
What is a signature? Is it not just a unique, identifying mark? Could not "Please See ID" be just as good of a signature as "John Doe"?
Yeah, but you'd better hope you've got "Please See ID" written on your drivers license.
If you do not take cards with CID on the back, It will be only a matter of time before you are reported to VISA/Discover.
VISA (I don't know about Discover) *specifically* says not to write "see id" on the back. The card isn't valid.
Our bank has little notes up saying that a card with "see id" is invalid.
Running Adaware and S&D takes a few unattended minutes.
Do you just run it and then leave or do you show them how to use it?
My wife runs S&D at least once a week. If the users think "if I run this, it will speed up my computer" they're more likely to run it on their own.
Remember how often you defragged your drive on DOS?
In other news, 50% of all cars on the road are 8 years old or older.
But an 8 year old car still costs way more than a brand new computer.
It makes sense. A mensa membership carries about the same degree of prestige as an MSCE cert.
(Read: none at all)
putting style over content.
You know, I have no problem putting style over content.
Art is what inspires man. If it were up to the content-nazis, we'd be nothing more than machines... processing data all damn day.
Art inspires imagination. Imagination drives brilliance. Brilliance drives innovation, and innovation drives society.
The Renaissance saved humanity.
"What actually is happening is that I'm waiting for lightning to strike my kite. Me, Ben Franklin, the Inventor of Electricity!"
"Shouldn't you say, 'The discoverer of electricity?'"
"You think the ultimate power in the Universe is just under some rock, waiting to be discovered? Ha! I, Ben Franklin, am going to summon power from the heavens by sheer force of genius!"
By having drives that can use both standards? Sounds good to me!
Unless you own a mac.
I swear, Apple has got to own some stake in DVD-R tech or something. Every PC I've seen can handle both standards.
Right, which means not only will users forget passwords, but they will also lose their smardcard (which aren't cheap).
Most businesses require a badge. You need to swipe your badge to get in the building. Adding a smartchip to it wouldn't make people magically start losing their badges.
When placing 2 buttons left-right, it is extremely likely that people mix them up
Yeah, we should also have only one pedal in the car, braking is as easy as holding down control while you step on the gas.
Is selecting the menu item "Eject disk" intuitive enough for you?
But which disk will it eject? My dvdrom? My cdburner? One of my mounted Appleshares?
The reality is if you are draging a disk, the trash can becomes a "Eject" sign magically.
In OSX, not in OS9 and earlier.
Talk about something you don't know.
Try pushing that button while the computer is in the middle of writing to the disk.
Yeah yeah, and try exiting your car while driving down the freeway.
PC users seemed get by for 20 years just fine without premature ejectulation.
Plus there's no reason why cdrom drives can't have buttons. The powerbooks do, why don't the desktops?
Apple: Protecting you from yourself for 20 years!
The Win Key isn't used for contextual actions. That'll be the context menu key, which is used by about 3 people in the universe.
You know, I never use that context menu key, but just for fun, I tried it.. it works under linux! Who knew?
Thousands of refugees adding water and ingesting their "building in a bags" thinking they were MRE's.
It's an easy mistake. They taste almost identical.
No "exploit" here. AFAIK, code signed by a trusted certificate can run without prompting the user.
I thought Java Applets run in a sandbox and can't modify local files.
Oh well.. good thing I hate java and don't have *any* JRE installed.
That's BS. Papers are advertising-delivery mechanisms, always have been.
Yup. For pretty much every newspaper in the country, advertising revenue outpaces subscription revenue by a fairly large margin.