The few random vulnerabilitys that have even made headlines have been snuffed out in a week or two by Apple themselves in Security Updates. And even they usually required the user to have done something in order for the vulnerability to even be a vulnerability.
Im not saying it couldnt happen, but one of the biggest reason Microsoft is such a virus fest is because its just easier to exploit the system and Microsoft takes weeks if not months to patch it. Apple sends out patches almost every 2 weeks if not more, and Apple users unlike Microsoft users, the bulk of which just have no clue, tend to actually patch their software on a regular basis. Once a vulnerability is found, typically its patched before anyone even has time to exploit it, some of the current crop of Windows viruses have been because of vulnerabilitys known about for years in some cases.
But the funny thing is, unlike on Windows where it was built in, Safari is just delivered with it installed (much like IE is installed as well on Macs up untill recent)
there is nothing making Safari built into the OS where you couldnt do things without it, unlike Windows and IE. Infact I know a lot of users who use Firefox instead of Safari.
It was widely thought that Bill use this to threaten Apple that if they pulled IE support they could pull Office support too. Everyone knows Microsoft would never do such a thing though cause they actually make a large chunk of profit from their office release, much more than you would think.
Actually unless you knew the company, you would think that, but the fact is like Sony they deliberatly underestimate what they need to make a demand to be filled in later.
Once the demand is over (like with the mini) they only make as much as they need. Some systems (like the eMac) are built as they are ordered.
They know perferctly well the forcast for their things, but then you wouldnt have a demand for the item.
80% of the people DID leave. Privitization did nothing to cause the problems in NO. People wouldnt leave and the governments reluctance to do anything at first cause 90% of the problem.
Infact privitization helped in some respects since the only places left for those unwilling to leave till it was getting too late was privatly owned buildings who opened their doors.
You sir have a very fucked up idea of what private companys are supposed to do. This is a government debacle, which is only being saved BECAUSE private companys are donating time and money before the government even spent a cent on relief efforts. You lose sir, good bye.
"A case can be made against them if they're found helping violate human rights in another country, and I really hope someone makes that case."
Nope, they where aiding in a police investigation. They are required to by UN trade law to do this (since your so fond of bringing the biggest criminals of them all, the UN into this). What china was investigating this person for might be considered a violation of his rights, but to yahoo they where only aiding a investigation.
Dont like it? Tough. You have a lot more problems in your own country than to be butting into others.
No, moron, I mean the Journalist should have know better before he went off using yahoo without hiding his identity.
Just because Yahoo is a western company in no way means they dont have to abide by the laws in China in working there. Even here if a person where to violate the law, yahoo would be forced to release info. Why is this any different in china where free press is (wait for it) AGAINST THE LAW.
Does it make it right no not at all. But at the same time the reporter was dumb enough to not hide his information or identity in using the web, a very easy and fast thing to do that would have helped in keeping his identity a secret.
They work in China, China is the largest internet market in the world. China could just have easily blocked them from not being able to be used in China by not giving the information. Yahoo states that they will divulge your info to police.
Seems like a lot of chest beating over nothing.
Just cause we in the west dont like it doesnt mean Yahoo could get away with NOT providing info. Reporters should know they are treading dangerously, after all they ARE in a communist country.
In a way your right, though in a way your wrong. Europe doesnt matter, but for the reason of Europe doesnt have half the gaming market that Japan/US has.
Sony has always done pretty well in Europe because very few American/Japanese games actually MAKE it to Europe, with Sony having the biggest chunk.
Now where there is something Europe likes, it buys it up, but the fact is there are very few titles actually IN Europe to make it almost a moot point. Nintendo in particular does not release games in Europe, the DS there has 1/4th the library that it does here and in Japan, which is why its kicking the PSPs ass across the board here, but being kicked there. Sony on the otherhand released as much as they could to save face from there horrable US and Japan sales.
The fact remains though that Europe alone wont be enough for Sony to justify keeping the PSP running in the long term.
Here is a good one, why dont slashdot redo the moderation system to prevent idiot trolls for modding something funny offtopic, redundant, flamebait, or troll.
this is getting insain. Just cause your too young to get the joke doesnt mean 90% of us dont get it.
no its that the moderators who actually get points on this site have no fing clue and are too busy building l337 CS pwning machines, its a major/. problem.
Seriously, what is the point of trying to trot out this PC superiority bs when the systems count sales in the 300-700 thousand range even for poor games and PC game manufacturers count them in the 100-200 thousand range for the best.
Obviously its not about the box, cause Xbox would outsell the PS2 and Gamecube would outsell Xbox and a PC would outsell them all. So its simply the games which unfortunatly for PC gamers means they wont see 1/10 what the systems do since very few system games translate at all well to PCs and vise versa.
So can we stop trying to wave the PC ePenis like its going to get you anywhere, because its not about the GHZ, its about how you use it and you simply dont see people crouded around a monitor playing Soul Calaber III which is why these systems trounce the PC market time and again. And no amount of networkability has been able to solve that yet.
wrong it was a prebate program, they signed a slip to join it, they didnt need to they could have just bought them outright, in order to get a discount on their cartrages, they signed a little slip of paper you pick up at the back of the store saying yes I will send back these empty if you send me 20 bucks back and then didnt send them back
It was a SPECIAL REBATE PROGRAM.
RTFA before you decide to show how much of a idiot you are
The FBI for years has used Macs and Linux systems because they know through their own investigations most people wouldnt have a clue where to find the data on those systems so as through simply changing the OS their data gains a extra level of protection weeding out all but the most determined or most understanding of would be data theives.
Nothing new here, just goes to show that making a standard leads to dumb techs and investigators. Looks like someone needs to fire their acadamy teachers.
Sony historically undersupplys stores so that it doesnt look bad that PSPs are just sitting there. I know around here after the first week where you couldnt get it anywhere, the things just sat on the shelves unsold and remain so while the DS vastly outsells it thanks to the sheer amount of fun games in comparison to Sonys rehashes of older (and in most cases still sucky the second time around) games.
The DS might not be as powerful as the PSP, but just like Sony is able to kick Nintendos ass with the PS2s library, the DS with its own library and its compatibility with the Advance has managed to kick Sonys ass the exact same way with the DS.
wrong wrong WRONG. It has everything to do with sunlight and NOTHING to do with human intervention.
as for the hole its self, new studies show that it has been there since even before industrialization and has possibly always been there since we have had a ozone layer, growing and shrinking with the seasons.
Apple today bought out Creative, and floged their CEO in public.
Even if creative somehow managed to get a judge to overlook there was prior art to even their patent (which there is thus the patent is null and void) they still will get powered out by Apple who has much more money than they could even imagine.
Not bad for a company who 7 years ago was deeply in the red.
What you forgot is the whole, its happened hundreds of times over the course of the Earths history from multiple different reasons, making it useless to think humans can stop it, or even SHOULD stop it.
Thats the biggest problem with global warming is a danger arguments, history of previous global warm has shown that not only is it NOT a danger, but some of the most prosperous times in human history and earths history as a whole where thanks to this comming "danger".
And the fact remains there is a failsafe people forget. Once the earth gets too warm and the seas grow too big... they reflect the solar energy and become.... yes you guessed it ICE. And yet again nothing humans can do with our present technology could ever stop that either. Will it summon another iceage. yep, will we survive? We have 3 other times already.
The anti-intellectualism comes from both the Bush camp who thinks that gives us a free card to polute anyway, and wackjobs who think humans in any way shape and form have any say in how the earth is going to behave. Stop being full of youself.
"go-getting" attitude of Google is coming across as arrogance to many people in the Valley.
Yet its just the additude needed to move ahead and not become bogged down in the "just good enough now so we will just market that we are improving but keep putting out the same thing with bug fixes" attitude that Microsoft and AOL used to excel at but realize the minute you stop someone will come in and do it better. Microsoft has the money to restart their engines, AOL is on its way to the bottom cause it didnt.
More importantly, it draws attention to the fact that Google has drained the market of talent, caused a 25% to 50% hike in salaries and made it difficult for startups to get funding."
"Can I have whiny CEOs for 1000 Alex"
Seriously, I can think of so many talented techs out there who cant get jobs. Maybe companys should stop trying to BE Google and start being themselves and hire workers based on what they can do and not what degrees they earned. And dont even give me the money bullshit. There is more than enough money in these companys to pay better, that is IF their employer can keep his greedy fat hands off of it.
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Im not saying it couldnt happen, but one of the biggest reason Microsoft is such a virus fest is because its just easier to exploit the system and Microsoft takes weeks if not months to patch it. Apple sends out patches almost every 2 weeks if not more, and Apple users unlike Microsoft users, the bulk of which just have no clue, tend to actually patch their software on a regular basis. Once a vulnerability is found, typically its patched before anyone even has time to exploit it, some of the current crop of Windows viruses have been because of vulnerabilitys known about for years in some cases.
there is nothing making Safari built into the OS where you couldnt do things without it, unlike Windows and IE. Infact I know a lot of users who use Firefox instead of Safari.
It was widely thought that Bill use this to threaten Apple that if they pulled IE support they could pull Office support too. Everyone knows Microsoft would never do such a thing though cause they actually make a large chunk of profit from their office release, much more than you would think.
Once the demand is over (like with the mini) they only make as much as they need. Some systems (like the eMac) are built as they are ordered.
They know perferctly well the forcast for their things, but then you wouldnt have a demand for the item.
Obviously your not a buisness economics major.
Likewise M$ stated that they will no longer support the Mac period because basically they have Safari.
Infact privitization helped in some respects since the only places left for those unwilling to leave till it was getting too late was privatly owned buildings who opened their doors.
You sir have a very fucked up idea of what private companys are supposed to do. This is a government debacle, which is only being saved BECAUSE private companys are donating time and money before the government even spent a cent on relief efforts. You lose sir, good bye.
Its innovative not because it hasnt been done before, but because it has never been done in THIS WAY.
Course this might all change if the younger set starts flocking to cingular in droves to get one.
Nope, they where aiding in a police investigation. They are required to by UN trade law to do this (since your so fond of bringing the biggest criminals of them all, the UN into this). What china was investigating this person for might be considered a violation of his rights, but to yahoo they where only aiding a investigation.
Dont like it? Tough. You have a lot more problems in your own country than to be butting into others.
Yahoo has offices in china, thus they have to abide by Chinese law.
Just because Yahoo is a western company in no way means they dont have to abide by the laws in China in working there. Even here if a person where to violate the law, yahoo would be forced to release info. Why is this any different in china where free press is (wait for it) AGAINST THE LAW.
Does it make it right no not at all. But at the same time the reporter was dumb enough to not hide his information or identity in using the web, a very easy and fast thing to do that would have helped in keeping his identity a secret.
Seems like a lot of chest beating over nothing.
Just cause we in the west dont like it doesnt mean Yahoo could get away with NOT providing info. Reporters should know they are treading dangerously, after all they ARE in a communist country.
Sony has always done pretty well in Europe because very few American/Japanese games actually MAKE it to Europe, with Sony having the biggest chunk.
Now where there is something Europe likes, it buys it up, but the fact is there are very few titles actually IN Europe to make it almost a moot point. Nintendo in particular does not release games in Europe, the DS there has 1/4th the library that it does here and in Japan, which is why its kicking the PSPs ass across the board here, but being kicked there. Sony on the otherhand released as much as they could to save face from there horrable US and Japan sales.
The fact remains though that Europe alone wont be enough for Sony to justify keeping the PSP running in the long term.
as is posting two replys for the same subject.
this is getting insain. Just cause your too young to get the joke doesnt mean 90% of us dont get it.
no its that the moderators who actually get points on this site have no fing clue and are too busy building l337 CS pwning machines, its a major /. problem.
Obviously its not about the box, cause Xbox would outsell the PS2 and Gamecube would outsell Xbox and a PC would outsell them all. So its simply the games which unfortunatly for PC gamers means they wont see 1/10 what the systems do since very few system games translate at all well to PCs and vise versa.
So can we stop trying to wave the PC ePenis like its going to get you anywhere, because its not about the GHZ, its about how you use it and you simply dont see people crouded around a monitor playing Soul Calaber III which is why these systems trounce the PC market time and again. And no amount of networkability has been able to solve that yet.
It was a SPECIAL REBATE PROGRAM.
RTFA before you decide to show how much of a idiot you are
They participated in the program to get cheaper cartrages in exchage to send the empty ones back but failed to do so.
WTF this isnt even close to being a troll o_O. God I think the admins just give away modpoints to morons sometimes.
Nothing new here, just goes to show that making a standard leads to dumb techs and investigators. Looks like someone needs to fire their acadamy teachers.
Sony historically undersupplys stores so that it doesnt look bad that PSPs are just sitting there. I know around here after the first week where you couldnt get it anywhere, the things just sat on the shelves unsold and remain so while the DS vastly outsells it thanks to the sheer amount of fun games in comparison to Sonys rehashes of older (and in most cases still sucky the second time around) games. The DS might not be as powerful as the PSP, but just like Sony is able to kick Nintendos ass with the PS2s library, the DS with its own library and its compatibility with the Advance has managed to kick Sonys ass the exact same way with the DS.
as for the hole its self, new studies show that it has been there since even before industrialization and has possibly always been there since we have had a ozone layer, growing and shrinking with the seasons.
Even if creative somehow managed to get a judge to overlook there was prior art to even their patent (which there is thus the patent is null and void) they still will get powered out by Apple who has much more money than they could even imagine.
Not bad for a company who 7 years ago was deeply in the red.
What you forgot is the whole, its happened hundreds of times over the course of the Earths history from multiple different reasons, making it useless to think humans can stop it, or even SHOULD stop it.
Thats the biggest problem with global warming is a danger arguments, history of previous global warm has shown that not only is it NOT a danger, but some of the most prosperous times in human history and earths history as a whole where thanks to this comming "danger".
And the fact remains there is a failsafe people forget. Once the earth gets too warm and the seas grow too big... they reflect the solar energy and become.... yes you guessed it ICE. And yet again nothing humans can do with our present technology could ever stop that either. Will it summon another iceage. yep, will we survive? We have 3 other times already.
The anti-intellectualism comes from both the Bush camp who thinks that gives us a free card to polute anyway, and wackjobs who think humans in any way shape and form have any say in how the earth is going to behave. Stop being full of youself.
Seriously, I can think of so many talented techs out there who cant get jobs. Maybe companys should stop trying to BE Google and start being themselves and hire workers based on what they can do and not what degrees they earned. And dont even give me the money bullshit. There is more than enough money in these companys to pay better, that is IF their employer can keep his greedy fat hands off of it.