Hopefully Windows (Microsoft) will implement a repository system like in Linux distros. There's no reason to have EACH program run an updater for itself. Or, if you don't like the Linux example think of Apple app store....
Why don't you use Ubuntu, that's what they focus on. Some people who like Debian bitch about Ubuntu that is this or that, but they should realize that Ubuntu is protecting Debian from people like you who want to make it less stable and more experimental.
Yes, let's focus on 1 in 5 million disease and ignore the one that strikes 1 in 5 (numbers are arbitrary). You can say "you can get a 1 in 5 million disease" that's true, but is it important, effective use of time, smart to focus on that? I'll never claim that Linux is "safe" no OS is safe, no piece of software that has more than 20 lines of code is bug-free, however claiming "software is insecure, Linux is software, therefore Linux is insecure" while logically correct is misleading and irrelevant.
Basically, call me back when there's a virus that spreads actively on Linux.
"but it has zero ability to measure something like social intelligence, the ability to manipulate people" -- that's what low IQ people say, they are full of social intelligence and are good at manipulating people, they usually end up working in HR.
He probably gave up his real estate job because real estate doesn't sell that well in this period (have you heard about the crash?) not because he wants to dedicate his time to sell t-shirts. The description is most likely misleading.
"It doesn't matter if you get that rootkit installed by making the user believing he is installing iPhoto or by exploiting something else in the OS, you still end up with a rootkit installed on a remote machine."
It does matter how the stuff gets installed, it matters if malware gets installed only by browsing a site that has a malicious ad that distributes malware, or the "hacker" needs to convince the user to install a fake iPhoto program. Just like it matters how you get a disease, by having sex or by drinking water, a disease is still a disease, but it matters a lot how it spreads. Wearing condoms won't protect you against water-related diseases.
I think you don't know what a trojan is. A trojan is a simple program that pretends to be something that it isn't. Any OS is vulnerable to such program because OSes are designed to, guess what, run programs, no OS is that smart to identify if a program is not doing what is claiming to do. (not getting into details, there are way to limit the damage and heuristics, but the main idea is that a trojan is a program that the user is running because he/she doesn't know any better).
Actually the big part of the problem is running programs from random sites on the internet, Linux for example has the advantage that most of the programs come from well vetted sources not from random sites that can be also be subject to phishing.
Technology changes, I'm sure there already are many devices that can record images without being intrusive (and in the near future your shirt might record images, who knows). So what is the problem here, having a camera stuck in your face or being recorded? Because you can be recorded without having a camera stuck in your face.
It is entirely up to interpretation if allowing prayer in schools constitutes an "establishment of religion" or whether it is "prohibiting the free exercise thereof".
I see it like this, if people pray by themselves and don't bother anybody it should be fine, if prayers are conducted by professors or force or even persuade people to join than is more like establishment of religion.
I'm an Atheist, I'm all for people praying in their free time wherever they want as long as I don't hear them (I don't need my peace disturbed by the braying of the religious people), and I'm against doing that on my time when I go to learn in school.
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Hopefully Windows (Microsoft) will implement a repository system like in Linux distros. There's no reason to have EACH program run an updater for itself. Or, if you don't like the Linux example think of Apple app store....
Why don't you use Ubuntu, that's what they focus on. Some people who like Debian bitch about Ubuntu that is this or that, but they should realize that Ubuntu is protecting Debian from people like you who want to make it less stable and more experimental.
More people have died in either Spain, England, Ireland or France due to terrorist bombings than in the US.
I wonder if that's factual... you know... true. Do you have any supporting evidence?
Freeloaders? I think you don't know what free software is all about...
The guy is probably thankful now that you slashdoted his site....
The truth is a national security risk in China.
http://www.3outube.com/ works fine too, no extension needed. Granted, I download Youtube videos only very seldom.
Yes, let's focus on 1 in 5 million disease and ignore the one that strikes 1 in 5 (numbers are arbitrary). You can say "you can get a 1 in 5 million disease" that's true, but is it important, effective use of time, smart to focus on that? I'll never claim that Linux is "safe" no OS is safe, no piece of software that has more than 20 lines of code is bug-free, however claiming "software is insecure, Linux is software, therefore Linux is insecure" while logically correct is misleading and irrelevant.
Basically, call me back when there's a virus that spreads actively on Linux.
you are in the category that needs emoticons ;) to understand when a joke has been made.
Your inability to understand a joke place you in the second or forth category, probably the forth.
"but it has zero ability to measure something like social intelligence, the ability to manipulate people" -- that's what low IQ people say, they are full of social intelligence and are good at manipulating people, they usually end up working in HR.
IQ is correlated with height from what I've heard.
"Google found out: the best performers are the ones who have the lowest scores on their interviews." [citation needed]
Maybe it's because they don't need to pass the HR hurdle...
He probably gave up his real estate job because real estate doesn't sell that well in this period (have you heard about the crash?) not because he wants to dedicate his time to sell t-shirts. The description is most likely misleading.
AVG has a "rescue CD" http://free.avg.com/ww-en/kb.pnuid-1267095510 it can be written on a USB flashdrive. Also SuperAntiSpyware has a protable scanner: http://www.superantispyware.com/portablescanner.html
I also lack time to discuss every time I cannot come up with good arguments for my position :)
"It doesn't matter if you get that rootkit installed by making the user believing he is installing iPhoto or by exploiting something else in the OS, you still end up with a rootkit installed on a remote machine."
It does matter how the stuff gets installed, it matters if malware gets installed only by browsing a site that has a malicious ad that distributes malware, or the "hacker" needs to convince the user to install a fake iPhoto program. Just like it matters how you get a disease, by having sex or by drinking water, a disease is still a disease, but it matters a lot how it spreads. Wearing condoms won't protect you against water-related diseases.
I think you don't know what a trojan is. A trojan is a simple program that pretends to be something that it isn't. Any OS is vulnerable to such program because OSes are designed to, guess what, run programs, no OS is that smart to identify if a program is not doing what is claiming to do. (not getting into details, there are way to limit the damage and heuristics, but the main idea is that a trojan is a program that the user is running because he/she doesn't know any better).
Actually the big part of the problem is running programs from random sites on the internet, Linux for example has the advantage that most of the programs come from well vetted sources not from random sites that can be also be subject to phishing.
I agree. The only thing lost is the name, not sure how important is that, sometimes it might be important....
"I'm on Arch Linux, and the KDE 4.x branch has been quite stable for me - the odd crash here and there"
Funny, I haven't had any crash on Kubuntu.
Technology changes, I'm sure there already are many devices that can record images without being intrusive (and in the near future your shirt might record images, who knows). So what is the problem here, having a camera stuck in your face or being recorded? Because you can be recorded without having a camera stuck in your face.
It is entirely up to interpretation if allowing prayer in schools constitutes an "establishment of religion" or whether it is "prohibiting the free exercise thereof".
I see it like this, if people pray by themselves and don't bother anybody it should be fine, if prayers are conducted by professors or force or even persuade people to join than is more like establishment of religion.
I'm an Atheist, I'm all for people praying in their free time wherever they want as long as I don't hear them (I don't need my peace disturbed by the braying of the religious people), and I'm against doing that on my time when I go to learn in school.
On the contrary, I think these decisions need to be taken at federal level because ignorance can sink the entire US.
You probably assume that dumb people know they are dumb...