Hold down the Control key while clicking the mouse button. Been around for about a decade in the Mac OS.
It's been around as a 'modern' feature for a while now. But because it's hidden, any GUI can't rely on it and put actions only in the contextual menu, or try and load about 20 options in there. Both of those lines of thinking are just user unfriendly.
AFAIK, no current operating system is both usable and provides adequate protection mechanisms against viruses.
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Why not go for as long as you can before doing its evil.
To avoid detection/removal.
My scenario would be to infect as many machines as possible for 30 minutes (this could be >100k new infections) then kill the host.
This would wipe just about all infectable computers off the internet. And probably have the unintended side effect of removing a lot of spam and network traffic.
But it would be truly easy to combine a fast propogation worm with a time delay and a format C: command. Infect, propogate, wait 30 min, format. It's all out there already, but it seems that no one has (or wants to?) put them all together...yet.
That should make a lot of people tremble but, for some reason, people keep using an OS that allows this.
Introducing alien animals into the wild will cause native animals to die out.
Just because humans did this in your examples doesn't mean nature doesn't do this as well. It's not right or wrong, it's nature. Does that automatically make it wrong if humans introduce new species? Or is it that no one likes a change or the after effects of this change? No one being humans. All the other animals just adapt or die. Which brings us back to nature...
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Step one of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
Then you need to tell the suits the magical word.
Redundancy. To two different ISPs.
If they don't like the cost for it, ask them what the cost is to be without internet access for 2 days.
If you're running a script as root, you're the idot who doesn't understand what root means.
Go away.
Hold down the Control key while clicking the mouse button. Been around for about a decade in the Mac OS.
It's been around as a 'modern' feature for a while now. But because it's hidden, any GUI can't rely on it and put actions only in the contextual menu, or try and load about 20 options in there. Both of those lines of thinking are just user unfriendly.
It is easy to learn for someone with no biases.
Your problem is that it's hard for you to forget the 'windows way'. That's a memory issue, not a learning issue.
Wow, so root can delete files on the system?
I'm not sure what fantasy world you live in, but there isn't and won't be an OS that doesn't allow this.
I think you need to go recheck your base assumptions.
And yet previously, you said OS X was too hard...
I'm guessing you brought a LOT of bais to that test.
Well, that and the fact that FLOUR is not an element.
Though I figured out what he meant, it took a minute since I had just made pizza dough last night. Lots of flour there.
AFAIK, no current operating system is both usable and provides adequate protection mechanisms against viruses.
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Please correct me if I got my facts wrong.
You did get your facts wrong.
See MY sig.
Nothing to see here... yet again.
Maybe it's just me, but I think you're missing the point of TFA.
I'm on the north pole, you insensitive clod!
Can I just spin real fast?
30 minutes of applescript and RSS should take care of that.
They're called homeless. SF is full of them.
Thanks a lot, jackass. Now I have to go listen to Price all day to burn that song out of my head.
Try FileMaker Pro. It's a very nice GUI.
Wow, that's even eviler!
But the data would still be recoverable. A reformat and zero would wipe the data as well.
And you're right, it is surprising how easy this is, and that no one has done it yet. Maybe because the script kiddies secretly like Windows?
Why not go for as long as you can before doing its evil.
To avoid detection/removal.
My scenario would be to infect as many machines as possible for 30 minutes (this could be >100k new infections) then kill the host.
This would wipe just about all infectable computers off the internet. And probably have the unintended side effect of removing a lot of spam and network traffic.
But it would be truly easy to combine a fast propogation worm with a time delay and a format C: command. Infect, propogate, wait 30 min, format. It's all out there already, but it seems that no one has (or wants to?) put them all together...yet.
That should make a lot of people tremble but, for some reason, people keep using an OS that allows this.
Better bottom line: Use an environment that isn't so susceptible to infections and security holes.
A system SHOULD run safe when connected to the internet. It's just that many have chosen an easy to infect OS.
Introducing alien animals into the wild will cause native animals to die out.
Just because humans did this in your examples doesn't mean nature doesn't do this as well. It's not right or wrong, it's nature. Does that automatically make it wrong if humans introduce new species? Or is it that no one likes a change or the after effects of this change? No one being humans. All the other animals just adapt or die. Which brings us back to nature...
Apple 'makes you fork out' $150 every year about as much as MS 'makes you fork out' $300 every
Wouldn't it make more sense to come up with SIPv2 that can handle NAT and firewalls?
Especially if it is fully backward compatible with SIPv1.
Stop with all the cloak and dagger crap.
That's a realtor's version of job security.
You do know that there are flash based iPods, right?
http://www.apple.com/ipodshuffle/
And, hey, it's cheaper than your solution for the same size!