Maybe because it would make it as plain to everyone in the U.S. as it has been to everyone without: that Bush launched not one but two unnecessary wars and pissed away trillions of dollars while wiping his ass with the Constitution. Funny enough how we never invaded Saudi Arabia, the source of the hijackers and their support.
But details, smetails. PNAC had to get their war on.
You mean people keep shooting down your naked Islamophobia, and you're getting poutraged over it.
Then we're supposed to remember the crusades, but not mention the ethnic cleansing and forced conversions going on in Egypt, Sudan, the Philippines, Pakistan, etc.
The invasion of Iraq led to the deaths of a million Iraqis, and created millions more refugees. You sure you want to keep throwing stones in your bigoted glass house?
Of course, there are some more recent examples you can find, but historically, Chrisitianity has been peaceful almost all of it's history.
Of course, that's laughable when you look past the selective accounting. Any violence committed by someone who happens to be muslim == Islamic Violence. Any violence committed by Christians - KKK, IRA, the Mafia, Vietnam War, Iraq Invasion, etc - is Totally Unrealted To Their Religion And How Dare You For Asking.
I think it is partially just people who are very self centered.
Do you own a mirror?
All in all it equals a situation where any story about another country has people making posts to try and show the Us in a bad light, rather than discussing the story.
Hypocrisy: wanting to mock others for XYZ and then getting all butthurt when someone points out you do XYZ as well.
You want a spoon or a fork to eat it with? The Taliban did offer to hand over Bin Laddin if proof was offered, but it's just easier for the jingoistic simpleton to ignore historical facts than deal with the reality that the U.S. engaged in not one but two wars of choice that it never fucking had to.
Indeed I did, did you read the part where Apple gave them a license for free to help make it popular as well as develop several fonts for it to ensure its success? It's called collaboration
No, it's called licensing someone else's product. Apple licensed the pdf format for their operating system from Adobe...does that mean that pdf is an Apple innovation?
which is what they did like when they bought a bunch of stock to save Apple's ass
Myth. The stock purchase was to end litigation over Microsoft using stolen Quicktime code, nothing more.
Fuck you. The Taliban offered to hand over Bin Laddin a good ten years ago - on the crazy condition that the U.S. provide some proof for it's claims that Bin Laddin was responsible for 911. Instead, the U.S. has spent the last decade bombing the shit out of large parts of Asia, committing many multiples the amount of civilian deaths that we've ever suffered in terrorist attacks.
Complete Nonsense. Islamics in both Nigeria and Pakistan were making up all sorts of BS before the fake vaccination program to dissuade their followers from participating in the vaccine program. With success leading to continuing polio outbreaks well before OBL's death.
You mean like Jenny McCarthy in the west on vaccines and autism? Nah, it's just those crazy mooslims that have weird ideas. But unlike McCarthy, those people in that part of the world, and not just the old men in the hills, now have a perfectly good reason to distrust vaccination programs. Because one was used as a CIA front - you know, the same organization that spent 6 years torturing people under Bush and 3 years blowing up weddings and funerals with Predator Drones under Obama.
Trojans exist on all platforms, by the very nature of their being an exploit of the user, not the system. Preventing, detecting, and removing them requires the same security needs, regardless of platform.
Attempted slight of hand, noted. You started this out by talking about the security needs of platforms, not the hypothetical threat of trojans. And the simple fact of the matter is the only group of people that have the security needs of Windows Users are.....Windows Users. Because Microsoft didn't start to give a shit about open services or privilege separation until Vista.
Because Apple "educated" its users to ignore threat mitigation entirely.
Oh, is that why they ask users if they are sure they want to open applications downloaded from the internet. Or, maybe you're trying to conflate theoretical possibility with likelihood, in which case how much time do you spend a day checking the skies for incoming meteors?
And I'm a hater?
Make talking points like a hater, sneer at the never-named 'Apple fanboys' like a hater, try to move the goalposts like a hater...chances are it's a hater.
Or are you trying to tell me that the fanboi population has ceased to exist since the first mention of 800,000 infected Macs?
I see you've moved to Step 2.
So where are these fanboys, exactly. "Everywhere, just look around!" You'll have no problem finding some examples then Crickets
My closest friend bought the iPhone 4 just over 18 months ago, even after all my efforts. He kept telling me it was an iPhone and that's all that mattered.
And what would happen on Slashdot if some dude was loudly insisting to his friends that the iPhone was the One True Device? Nevermind what the friend said he wanted, of course. Faaaaanbbbbbbooooiiiii. By any chance do you have one of these in your house?
They've seen my S2 connect to their TV via a common USB cable and streaming 1080p.
You mean a simple video adapter. So does the iPhone.
They've seen me wirelessly send files to their laptop.
iCloud.
They've seen Google Maps on Android.
Also on iPhone. If you're referring the free navigation, that's something done by Google as an incentive to buy an Android advice.
They've seen the photos it takes.
8 megapixels vs....8 megapixels.
It's not easy at all.
LOL. It's great that you like your Android, but if anyone was half as pushy here on Apple products they'd be laughed out of town.
Uh huh. And if Samsung was the one getting the upper hand and the importing of iPhones was banned somewhere, would you be dying to get an iPhone just to spite Samsung?
But there is no excuse not to install anti virus software on OSX
Other than the one you just mentioned - 40,000 vs 30,000,000? It would make more sense to wear crash helmets and flame-retardant clothing when driving than to install anti-virus software on a Mac...
Yeah. It is. Any computing system that allows the user system-level access will be vulnerable to trojans. The only way to stop trojans is to box the user in so tight that he can't do anything malicious to his system...but that would be the ultimate "walled gardens", and you guys claim to hate those....
But that was only because of Apple's superior marketshare at the time. If Microsoft had had Apple's marketshare, they would have had just as many viruses then too!/wankery
Okay, moving past that red herring, as the subject isn't about who had the first malware. It's who's had the worst record on malware.
Frankly since Vista finally got rid of the legitimate complaint of Windows defaulting users to admins
By having a nagging popup window for mundane tasks, training the user to hit "allow". As opposed to reserving that for less-than-mundane tasks, and asking for a password.
And the problem with pointing out where the Macs don't get viruses
Because for the most part, they don't, but then haterz like to conflate existence with probability. Do meteors fall to earth? Sure do. Would it be bad news for you if they hit your house or car? Sure would.
How much of a time do you spend in a day worrying about a meteor attack? Zero, because the chances are so remote that you don't have to worry about it. Just like Mac users and viruses.
simply accepting the fact that ALL OSES GET BUGS
Another red herring. Has the Wii had a few hardware issues? You bet. Doesn't mean that they've been remotely equivalent to the Red Ring of Death and the 25% failure rate of the 360.
You're obviously running on hatorade and poutrage. Kinda sad really.
This. Right here. Is why. It. Is. Dangerous. To claim. Your. Platform. Does. Not. Have. The same. Security needs. As. Any. Other. Platform.
Speaking perfectly normally: they don't. Trojans have existed on Unix variants for decades, but that doesn't mean that the Unix community has been the cesspool of malware that Windows has been. Same for Apple.
If Nintendo ran ads touting the lack of a Red Ring of Death on the Wii, would that equate to saying that the Wii has had zero issues with malfunctioning hardware? You should see a doctor about that broken sense of proportion.
some people do truly think that Apple can do now wrong and that
Which people, exactly. Periodically I'll ask haterz on Slashdot to point some out, and it usually goes like this:
So where are these fanboys, exactly. "Everywhere, just look around!" You'll have no problem finding some examples then Crickets
Which does what to change the fact that there are hundreds of millions of suppliers on the planet, or that only a sliver of a fraction of a percentage of the population is willing or able to be organ donors?
Without the illegal immigration, the channels for the drug running wouldn't exist, and the drug cartel members themselves would have a very hard time getting here, and no undocumented populaiton to hide aidst.
Are you smoking what they're selling? This isn't immigration, this is profit motive. Same as it was for the Canadians during the Prohibition of alcohol, and there was no shortage of white mules either then or now.
Of course you could be demanding at least the Prohibition of marijuana be eliminated, as we don't have ganstas coming from Quebec anymore. But then you wouldn't be able to rationalize racist polices towards brown people....
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe because it would make it as plain to everyone in the U.S. as it has been to everyone without: that Bush launched not one but two unnecessary wars and pissed away trillions of dollars while wiping his ass with the Constitution. Funny enough how we never invaded Saudi Arabia, the source of the hijackers and their support.
But details, smetails. PNAC had to get their war on.
You mean people keep shooting down your naked Islamophobia, and you're getting poutraged over it.
The invasion of Iraq led to the deaths of a million Iraqis, and created millions more refugees. You sure you want to keep throwing stones in your bigoted glass house?
Of course, that's laughable when you look past the selective accounting. Any violence committed by someone who happens to be muslim == Islamic Violence. Any violence committed by Christians - KKK, IRA, the Mafia, Vietnam War, Iraq Invasion, etc - is Totally Unrealted To Their Religion And How Dare You For Asking.
Do you own a mirror?
Hypocrisy: wanting to mock others for XYZ and then getting all butthurt when someone points out you do XYZ as well.
Um, I guess they don't have Fox News or Republicans in your area?
You want a spoon or a fork to eat it with? The Taliban did offer to hand over Bin Laddin if proof was offered, but it's just easier for the jingoistic simpleton to ignore historical facts than deal with the reality that the U.S. engaged in not one but two wars of choice that it never fucking had to.
Obvious tautology is obvious.
No, it's called licensing someone else's product. Apple licensed the pdf format for their operating system from Adobe...does that mean that pdf is an Apple innovation?
Myth. The stock purchase was to end litigation over Microsoft using stolen Quicktime code, nothing more.
Fuck you. The Taliban offered to hand over Bin Laddin a good ten years ago - on the crazy condition that the U.S. provide some proof for it's claims that Bin Laddin was responsible for 911. Instead, the U.S. has spent the last decade bombing the shit out of large parts of Asia, committing many multiples the amount of civilian deaths that we've ever suffered in terrorist attacks.
You mean like Jenny McCarthy in the west on vaccines and autism? Nah, it's just those crazy mooslims that have weird ideas. But unlike McCarthy, those people in that part of the world, and not just the old men in the hills, now have a perfectly good reason to distrust vaccination programs. Because one was used as a CIA front - you know, the same organization that spent 6 years torturing people under Bush and 3 years blowing up weddings and funerals with Predator Drones under Obama.
Attempted slight of hand, noted. You started this out by talking about the security needs of platforms, not the hypothetical threat of trojans. And the simple fact of the matter is the only group of people that have the security needs of Windows Users are.....Windows Users. Because Microsoft didn't start to give a shit about open services or privilege separation until Vista.
Oh, is that why they ask users if they are sure they want to open applications downloaded from the internet. Or, maybe you're trying to conflate theoretical possibility with likelihood, in which case how much time do you spend a day checking the skies for incoming meteors?
Make talking points like a hater, sneer at the never-named 'Apple fanboys' like a hater, try to move the goalposts like a hater...chances are it's a hater.
I see you've moved to Step 2.
So where are these fanboys, exactly.
"Everywhere, just look around!"
You'll have no problem finding some examples then
Crickets
If you're making a selective comparison and leaving out Africa, the Middle East and chunks of Asia, maybe.
That's not how this works. It's your assertion, so it's your job to back it up if you want it to be taken seriously.
And what would happen on Slashdot if some dude was loudly insisting to his friends that the iPhone was the One True Device? Nevermind what the friend said he wanted, of course. Faaaaanbbbbbbooooiiiii. By any chance do you have one of these in your house?
You mean a simple video adapter. So does the iPhone.
iCloud.
Also on iPhone. If you're referring the free navigation, that's something done by Google as an incentive to buy an Android advice.
8 megapixels vs....8 megapixels.
LOL. It's great that you like your Android, but if anyone was half as pushy here on Apple products they'd be laughed out of town.
Do you own a mirror?
Uh huh. And if Samsung was the one getting the upper hand and the importing of iPhones was banned somewhere, would you be dying to get an iPhone just to spite Samsung?
Other than the one you just mentioned - 40,000 vs 30,000,000? It would make more sense to wear crash helmets and flame-retardant clothing when driving than to install anti-virus software on a Mac...
Yeah. It is. Any computing system that allows the user system-level access will be vulnerable to trojans. The only way to stop trojans is to box the user in so tight that he can't do anything malicious to his system...but that would be the ultimate "walled gardens", and you guys claim to hate those....
But that was only because of Apple's superior marketshare at the time. If Microsoft had had Apple's marketshare, they would have had just as many viruses then too! /wankery
Okay, moving past that red herring, as the subject isn't about who had the first malware. It's who's had the worst record on malware.
By having a nagging popup window for mundane tasks, training the user to hit "allow". As opposed to reserving that for less-than-mundane tasks, and asking for a password.
Because for the most part, they don't, but then haterz like to conflate existence with probability. Do meteors fall to earth? Sure do. Would it be bad news for you if they hit your house or car? Sure would.
How much of a time do you spend in a day worrying about a meteor attack? Zero, because the chances are so remote that you don't have to worry about it. Just like Mac users and viruses.
Another red herring. Has the Wii had a few hardware issues? You bet. Doesn't mean that they've been remotely equivalent to the Red Ring of Death and the 25% failure rate of the 360.
You're obviously running on hatorade and poutrage. Kinda sad really.
But those are examples of slang, as opposed to a misuse of an existing term...
Speaking perfectly normally: they don't. Trojans have existed on Unix variants for decades, but that doesn't mean that the Unix community has been the cesspool of malware that Windows has been. Same for Apple.
If Nintendo ran ads touting the lack of a Red Ring of Death on the Wii, would that equate to saying that the Wii has had zero issues with malfunctioning hardware? You should see a doctor about that broken sense of proportion.
Which people, exactly. Periodically I'll ask haterz on Slashdot to point some out, and it usually goes like this:
So where are these fanboys, exactly.
"Everywhere, just look around!"
You'll have no problem finding some examples then
Crickets
Willfully obtuse much?
Which does what to change the fact that there are hundreds of millions of suppliers on the planet, or that only a sliver of a fraction of a percentage of the population is willing or able to be organ donors?
Are you smoking what they're selling? This isn't immigration, this is profit motive. Same as it was for the Canadians during the Prohibition of alcohol, and there was no shortage of white mules either then or now.
Of course you could be demanding at least the Prohibition of marijuana be eliminated, as we don't have ganstas coming from Quebec anymore. But then you wouldn't be able to rationalize racist polices towards brown people....
What are you blabbering on about? The U.S. spends over a trillion a year on it's military despite not facing an invasion for literally 200 years.
I'm proposing that entitled douchebags STFU about "illegal immigration" if they aren't a member of an indian tribe.
Suuuure you did. Before you won the Powerball or after you partied with Elvis?