Apple's policy may be messy, but for me the important difference is that MS doesn't seem to be interested in individual developers (see faq. As a result, I (currently iPhone developer) do not care for them either.
There is nothing separate from the POSIX permissions in OS X
This is not correct and has nothing to do with Finder. In addition to file permissions, there are also "file flags" that add additional file security: $ touch test.txt $ ls -la test.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 user staff 0 Mar 8 11:12 test.txt $ chflags uchg test.txt $ rm text.txt rm: test.txt: Operation not permitted
It's not that hard to fool Genuine Windows validation and keep Windows patched (on XP, at least - all that required is patched version of LegitCheckControl.dll which is easy to find). My guess is that most of these pirated XP disks already have validation cracked and latest service packs installed.
The problem is inherent to Windows itself - legit or not, cracked ot original, some day your Windows PC is going to be 0wn3d.
There's no 'Display PDF' on OS X, you've probably mistaken it with Display Postscript from Classic Mac OS era. What are you saying might have been true for Display Postscript, but OS X's Quartz 2D is something completely different.
You are wrong. Not sure about Phorm, but at least NebuAd does this with content owner consent. Content owner then gets some clicks from the ads, just like with AdWords.
... just finished editing a critical report, saved it, and then couldn't locate it to deliver to their client.
Well, there are some people who can't find Pacific Ocean on the map. I dont see map makers running around in panic, thinking how to make their maps more accessible to the general population...
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Use OGG and you'll be safe too.
What security measures should be taken to prevent normal users from falling victim to such malicious bodies?
I think a massive DOS attack will teach these Estonian bastards! Oh wait..
I hear the sound of the millions of ./-ers sighing with relief.
Cheaper? My friend, when you'll start shooting anti-ICBM missiles, money won't mater anymore.
"Looking at the exploit code and our test cases, I think this is self-inflicted and we should have hidden the bug earlier"
Nice attitude, guys...
Because speed is not everything.
What's so proprietary about dbf? It's so ancient, the specs themselves are old... f.i. here's some. I'm sure there are many free/oss converters too.
How is that news? MS says about shutdowns right there on RC's download page. Must be a really slow news day, nothing to chew MS for...
I don't think it means what you think it means.
Is that really PHP-ish way of adding elements to array? Wow...
Apple's policy may be messy, but for me the important difference is that MS doesn't seem to be interested in individual developers (see faq. As a result, I (currently iPhone developer) do not care for them either.
I guess it would be hard to go agile on $500m .
Wow... they could just Ask Slashdot.
There is nothing separate from the POSIX permissions in OS X
This is not correct and has nothing to do with Finder. In addition to file permissions, there are also "file flags" that add additional file security:
$ touch test.txt
$ ls -la test.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 user staff 0 Mar 8 11:12 test.txt
$ chflags uchg test.txt
$ rm text.txt
rm: test.txt: Operation not permitted
It's not that hard to fool Genuine Windows validation and keep Windows patched (on XP, at least - all that required is patched version of LegitCheckControl.dll which is easy to find). My guess is that most of these pirated XP disks already have validation cracked and latest service packs installed.
The problem is inherent to Windows itself - legit or not, cracked ot original, some day your Windows PC is going to be 0wn3d.
Here's another example: finding all empty folders below the current one
In PowerShell:
$a = Get-ChildItem . â"recurse | Where-Object {$_.PSIsContainer -eq $True}
$a | Where-Object {$_.GetFiles().Count -eq 0} | Select-Object FullName
Using find:
find . -type d -depth -empty
Hmm... No COM, .NET or WMI technologies required.
Does anybody honestly think that the traditional Unix filesystem heirarchy makes an ounce of sense in 2009?
Yes.
There used to be no debugger at all... alert(), anyone?
There's no 'Display PDF' on OS X, you've probably mistaken it with Display Postscript from Classic Mac OS era. What are you saying might have been true for Display Postscript, but OS X's Quartz 2D is something completely different.
Fonts.
A black hole CAN NOT BE CREATED By US!!!
Don't worry... EU can.
I don't know in what weird part of the world you are, but here on Earth -242C is not considered to be "everyday temperature".
causing major system trouble
As in "breaking Pwnage tool"? Oh noes...
You are wrong. Not sure about Phorm, but at least NebuAd does this with content owner consent. Content owner then gets some clicks from the ads, just like with AdWords.
... just finished editing a critical report, saved it, and then couldn't locate it to deliver to their client.
Well, there are some people who can't find Pacific Ocean on the map. I dont see map makers running around in panic, thinking how to make their maps more accessible to the general population...