A popup arrives inviting you to install temperature software in tray. Popup arrives asking user to type in root password.
User obliges, because he's confident Mac is secure.
Root password is plasted all over the web. User has spyware / trojan installed.
It's very possible. Then y'all will be barking about the root password being stolen.
Let's get real for a moment shall we? 90% of the world's desktop computers have some form of spyware on them. Windows has 95% of the market. Mac OS has maybe 5% desktop mkt share. Meaning if they targed the Mac, the world permeation of spyware would cover maybe 4.5% of the world's desktops (assuming mac users are as dumb as peecee users).
I think it's the luck of the draw really. I went to Home depot in Coquitlam, and felt berated by this aweful construction industry reject. I was working on a project to convert an A/C pump to an Air Compressor in my Jeep, something that's been done by many ppl (hit google - OBA Jeep). I was looking for a fitting for the A/C pump, and I asked him to help me find it.
Instead of helping me find it, he asked what I was doing with this A/C unit. i explained I was converting it to a compressor, and needed a hose fitting to attached air hose to it. He began to tell me how impossible my project was, and how it wasn't gonna work. I told him that I have the schematics for it and I've seen it working. He then patronized me and told me "okay, whatever you say". That set me off. I politely explained to him that just because he couldn't make it in home construction doesn't qualify him as an expert in auto mechanics and if he wasn't going to help me to just say "I don't know" and leave me alone.
That left a sour taste in my mouth, and about the only time I shop at Home Depot now is when I need a specific bolt or two. I find Canadian Tire and KMS Tools have better prices on tools, and if I need anything else I'll got to Rona, even if it costs a bit more.
Actually, the two Starbucks I frequent have really great service - Park & Tillford in North Van, and Starbucks on Columbia in New West. They're always really chatty and nice.
Denny's OTOH - I only go there when I'm pissed drunk at 3am anyway... Who the heck cares about the quality of service when they're wasted anyway?
Yeah, but at least here on the west coast, we've benefited from cutthroat competition in computers, and we have A&B Sound, and Visions which really play down the competition in home electronics and CD/DVD costs. Why anyone is stupid enough to buy a CD at Virgin or HMV is beyond me.
I used to work at A&B Sound. The warranty push was still there - the markup on it was 100%; the cost was 50% of the selling price, and I received commision on that, so they made it worth my while as a sales person.
I know never to buy that warranty myself, for I find it a waste of money. I figure with all the electornics I've bought over the years, one repair bill still wouldn't cover all the money I could have been duped into spending in warranty coverage.
My solution: get a platinum or gold card. They usually double the warranty for some period. While not the most pleasant experience, they will eventually cover the expense of the repair bill, and you get 90 days replacement coverage if something happens. My citi platinum card has no fees either.
I always buy my processors on my platinum card now - you can overclock the hell out of them and if you fry them you get a the cost new one covered without even setting foot in a store! Now that's warranty:)
I've had sales people try to argue that dealing with the Credit Card insurance was so horrible. I didn't find it so bad really. And given the fact that it's free, I'll take a few extra hoops for that free service.
You know, it's sad that you're being persecuted over this and ppl are saying you deserve to get your ass kicked.
Behind my house is an alleyway, and accross that alleyway is a park.
When I was a teenager, I got high and drank deep in the forest so I'd be left alone.
Things are different today. People come behind my house, drink, smoke up, pound their steros, hoot and holler and then drive off. this has been ongoing for three years. I've phone and spoke to the police, who advised that my complaint was insufficient to increase patrols. I've written city councilors. I've written the paper. No one cares. Apparantly I need to form a block watch society and speak on behalf of a group of people who are miffed.
That's horse-shit. I should be heard when I have a complaint. They party behind MY house, not my neighbours' houses. My house is stregically located between the lamp posts where they cannot be seen.
I applaud your actions. You didn't deserve to get your ass kicked. Not a day goes by where I ponder solutions to my problem. However they all end up with people knowing where I live and me not knowing where they live. I will lose no matter what action I take if I take matters into my own hands.
I've thought about laying down caltrops and shards of glass, but it's still a park and don't want anyone innocent to get hurt by mistake.
Oh, and always keep a can of bear spray in your car, in a pocket in a backpack. Cops can't take bear spray away from you if it's in a backpack - that's an acceptable place for it to be. You like to hike and need bear spray when you do so.
So:
1) Sepreme court rules downloading and burning legal
2) Govt of Canada passed cd-r levy to pay artists for lost works.
We can conclude that you are neither legally wrong or morally corrupt.
Download and burn away!
Is he a relative of yours? What gives you the right to say his live is an acceptable cost? Would you be okay with your father / brother / uncle being in that position? If so you're a very unique person - most people I know would be furious with that.
And by using a crystal ball you discern that American women would be wearing Burkas if Baby Bush didn't invade? Where did you get your crystal ball from? The GW Bush fan club?
Look at it this way for a moment. And ponder how many lives have really been saved by the war in Iraq, compared to how many lives could have been saved by spending that money elsewhere. What is the opportunity cost
Thanks for the link update... Forgot to point the TLD. Anyway, I was more trying to say was the phrase "acceptable risk" is horrible. As far as I'm concerned, the loss of a single innocent civillian life (on either side of the war) is too great of a price to pay.
ahh, so someone in the military making the call that a stray shot killing a civilian is not acceptable but becomming a suicide bomber and killing several civillians and/or actively targeting civilians is acceptable?... yeah, your real fucking righteous there pal...
I never said suicide bombers were right either. However they don't ahve the same armament the US MIlitary does. They're desperate. Still, wrong, but desperate.
However if your foes resort to rape and torture, so should you? Just because Saddam did it doesn't mean the US should. According to Bush at least, the US Army is supposed to be the "good guys"
Alright, so where are the real numbers? The US military isn't saying a word on it. Note that the civilian deaths are substantiated to the best of their abilities. They have it sitting between 9,000 and 11,000....
Not accurate, but surely better than what the US military has provided for info so far.
You can't use that term in context unless you know what it means. Acceptable risk - a stray shot killing a civillian is not what I would call acceptable risk if it was my father / mother / sister / etc... I'd be instantly converted to a prospective suicide bomber.
Acceptable risk? Guess you've never lost a family member to stray fire have you? Would you claim acceptable cost then?
Acceptable risk is a retarded US Military saying.
It's like you sitting in front of your TV and saying 10,000
dead Iraqi civillians and 5,000 dead Iraqi militari personnel is an acceptable cost. Ask the families of those 15,000 people.
Funny how y'all defend the first amendment and forget about the right to due process. IIRC, the right to due process has been lost with Patriot Act I & II, and the right against unlawful search and siezure is also lost in said Patriot Acts as well.
US Govt will disregard its own constitution, and use the guise of terrorism to do so.
Yeah, there's nothing like being a local machine admin, and not being able to kill and restart a process. That pisses me off.
Or looking at a process list and seeing 60MB of RAM being used, but the system monitor using 360MB of RAM and wonder WTF the rest is being help captive for.
But definately no BSOD. Not since the NT4 and win95 days personally.
I enjoy using Linux on the desktop too. It has it's plusses, but lately it seems like Gnome / KDE have turned into bloatware - something a few years ago zealots used to say about windows.
Honestly I haven't, and I spend the bulk of my day doing a variety of stuff... I program in vb.net and asp.net using vs.net 2k3; I code cf in dreamweaver. I use photoshop. I write PHP in phpedit. I play games like RTCW. I convert (legit, I swear) avi's to mpeg and burn to DVD. I write java code in eclipse. I have three or four shell sessions open. I'm not a n00b; I use my PC for a lot of stuff.
Honestly I've never had a BSOD. I've had a boatload of memory leaks, and programs that don't shutdown properly, but never had I had a BSOD. I've had the good ol' "an error has occurred in application 'x'" - and it's usually me being an idiot that's caused it, but nothing as severe as a BSOD.
You must have hardware issues or driver conflicts. I've honestly never really seen a BSOD in XP ever. I think I saw one once on a machine at my old workplace, and it was due to faulty RAM...
You might suggest I'm one of the lucky ones, but I also am the "de-facto" friends and family computer guy - there's about 20 in my world that I look after. None of them have seen any BSOD either in XP. Sure, those dumb-asses even have a tonne of spyware that I regularly have to clean up (ahem - security?), but no BSOD's that I've heard of.
So you're saying that Windows can include a lot more data about users' machines, and still fit on one CD, yet Linux needs a DVD to accomplish the same goal?
I recall hearing a lot of grumbling about windows' bloat. You can agree that this is bloat can't you? When a linux distro needs a dvd to accomplish what a windows version can do in a cd... Hmmmm...
Yes, I know, you get an office program, a bunch of stupid games, and other apps you don't get with windows, but I hope you get my point about bloat.
What's this BSOD I've been hearing about? I haven't seen one of those since win95... C'mon folks, install the correct hardware drivers and your OS will run fine.
I know what happens to KDE when you setup the nvidia drivers wrong and *poof* command line only...
And configuring X at the command line kinda sucks sometimes.
The KDE and GNOME guys are competing with Windows on Windows' playing field.
Then they are most definately losing that battle. XP is definately more efficient.
I installed FC1 on a P3-700 with 128MB of RAM, and it Gnome still ran like crap. XP was definately the best choice for that desktop too.
The authoer makes a valid point; WM's needn't be so bloated. To make the desktop push, i think kde/gnome developers need to lighten up a bit and find more efficient ways to do the same stuff.
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ARM Sucks!!! jk. Who the hell cares? Does one have a choice? Cell phones work. We bitch when they don't work.
So I can see it now.
A popup arrives inviting you to install temperature software in tray. Popup arrives asking user to type in root password.
User obliges, because he's confident Mac is secure.
Root password is plasted all over the web. User has spyware / trojan installed.
It's very possible. Then y'all will be barking about the root password being stolen.
Let's get real for a moment shall we? 90% of the world's desktop computers have some form of spyware on them. Windows has 95% of the market. Mac OS has maybe 5% desktop mkt share. Meaning if they targed the Mac, the world permeation of spyware would cover maybe 4.5% of the world's desktops (assuming mac users are as dumb as peecee users).
Me too! /Canadian Slashdot Visitor.
I think it's the luck of the draw really. I went to Home depot in Coquitlam, and felt berated by this aweful construction industry reject. I was working on a project to convert an A/C pump to an Air Compressor in my Jeep, something that's been done by many ppl (hit google - OBA Jeep). I was looking for a fitting for the A/C pump, and I asked him to help me find it. Instead of helping me find it, he asked what I was doing with this A/C unit. i explained I was converting it to a compressor, and needed a hose fitting to attached air hose to it. He began to tell me how impossible my project was, and how it wasn't gonna work. I told him that I have the schematics for it and I've seen it working. He then patronized me and told me "okay, whatever you say". That set me off. I politely explained to him that just because he couldn't make it in home construction doesn't qualify him as an expert in auto mechanics and if he wasn't going to help me to just say "I don't know" and leave me alone. That left a sour taste in my mouth, and about the only time I shop at Home Depot now is when I need a specific bolt or two. I find Canadian Tire and KMS Tools have better prices on tools, and if I need anything else I'll got to Rona, even if it costs a bit more.
Actually, the two Starbucks I frequent have really great service - Park & Tillford in North Van, and Starbucks on Columbia in New West. They're always really chatty and nice.
Denny's OTOH - I only go there when I'm pissed drunk at 3am anyway... Who the heck cares about the quality of service when they're wasted anyway?
=D
Yeah, but at least here on the west coast, we've benefited from cutthroat competition in computers, and we have A&B Sound, and Visions which really play down the competition in home electronics and CD/DVD costs. Why anyone is stupid enough to buy a CD at Virgin or HMV is beyond me.
:)
I used to work at A&B Sound. The warranty push was still there - the markup on it was 100%; the cost was 50% of the selling price, and I received commision on that, so they made it worth my while as a sales person.
I know never to buy that warranty myself, for I find it a waste of money. I figure with all the electornics I've bought over the years, one repair bill still wouldn't cover all the money I could have been duped into spending in warranty coverage.
My solution: get a platinum or gold card. They usually double the warranty for some period. While not the most pleasant experience, they will eventually cover the expense of the repair bill, and you get 90 days replacement coverage if something happens. My citi platinum card has no fees either.
I always buy my processors on my platinum card now - you can overclock the hell out of them and if you fry them you get a the cost new one covered without even setting foot in a store! Now that's warranty
I've had sales people try to argue that dealing with the Credit Card insurance was so horrible. I didn't find it so bad really. And given the fact that it's free, I'll take a few extra hoops for that free service.
there are relatively secure closed source browsers(Safari being one)
AFAIK, and IIRC, Safari is strongly based on Konqueror which is open source, and Apple is giving back to Konqueror changes made to it.
The only noteworthy closed source browser I know if is now Opera, and IMHO Firefox kicks some serious ass over Opera.
You know, it's sad that you're being persecuted over this and ppl are saying you deserve to get your ass kicked.
Behind my house is an alleyway, and accross that alleyway is a park.
When I was a teenager, I got high and drank deep in the forest so I'd be left alone.
Things are different today. People come behind my house, drink, smoke up, pound their steros, hoot and holler and then drive off. this has been ongoing for three years. I've phone and spoke to the police, who advised that my complaint was insufficient to increase patrols. I've written city councilors. I've written the paper. No one cares. Apparantly I need to form a block watch society and speak on behalf of a group of people who are miffed.
That's horse-shit. I should be heard when I have a complaint. They party behind MY house, not my neighbours' houses. My house is stregically located between the lamp posts where they cannot be seen.
I applaud your actions. You didn't deserve to get your ass kicked. Not a day goes by where I ponder solutions to my problem. However they all end up with people knowing where I live and me not knowing where they live. I will lose no matter what action I take if I take matters into my own hands.
I've thought about laying down caltrops and shards of glass, but it's still a park and don't want anyone innocent to get hurt by mistake.
Oh, and always keep a can of bear spray in your car, in a pocket in a backpack. Cops can't take bear spray away from you if it's in a backpack - that's an acceptable place for it to be. You like to hike and need bear spray when you do so.
So: 1) Sepreme court rules downloading and burning legal 2) Govt of Canada passed cd-r levy to pay artists for lost works. We can conclude that you are neither legally wrong or morally corrupt. Download and burn away!
Maybe you didn't install it right? I'm using Firefox right now to type this...
Woo hoo! Ascii pr0n!
Reminds of the days when I waited forever for an EGA GIF to download... Mmmm... 16 color snatch - my fav...
Is he a relative of yours? What gives you the right to say his live is an acceptable cost? Would you be okay with your father / brother / uncle being in that position? If so you're a very unique person - most people I know would be furious with that.
And by using a crystal ball you discern that American women would be wearing Burkas if Baby Bush didn't invade? Where did you get your crystal ball from? The GW Bush fan club?
Look at it this way for a moment. And ponder how many lives have really been saved by the war in Iraq, compared to how many lives could have been saved by spending that money elsewhere. What is the opportunity cost
I think your story would change if you or a family member was the hostage.
That poor Korean fellow didn't deserve to die. Neither did Nick Berg. Go tell their families that it was an "acceptable cost".
Thanks for the link update... Forgot to point the TLD. Anyway, I was more trying to say was the phrase "acceptable risk" is horrible. As far as I'm concerned, the loss of a single innocent civillian life (on either side of the war) is too great of a price to pay.
However if your foes resort to rape and torture, so should you? Just because Saddam did it doesn't mean the US should. According to Bush at least, the US Army is supposed to be the "good guys"
Alright, so where are the real numbers? The US military isn't saying a word on it. Note that the civilian deaths are substantiated to the best of their abilities. They have it sitting between 9,000 and 11,000....
Not accurate, but surely better than what the US military has provided for info so far.
You can't use that term in context unless you know what it means. Acceptable risk - a stray shot killing a civillian is not what I would call acceptable risk if it was my father / mother / sister / etc... I'd be instantly converted to a prospective suicide bomber.
Acceptable risk? Guess you've never lost a family member to stray fire have you? Would you claim acceptable cost then?
Acceptable risk is a retarded US Military saying.
It's like you sitting in front of your TV and saying 10,000 dead Iraqi civillians and 5,000 dead Iraqi militari personnel is an acceptable cost. Ask the families of those 15,000 people.
Funny how y'all defend the first amendment and forget about the right to due process. IIRC, the right to due process has been lost with Patriot Act I & II, and the right against unlawful search and siezure is also lost in said Patriot Acts as well.
US Govt will disregard its own constitution, and use the guise of terrorism to do so.
Yeah, there's nothing like being a local machine admin, and not being able to kill and restart a process. That pisses me off.
Or looking at a process list and seeing 60MB of RAM being used, but the system monitor using 360MB of RAM and wonder WTF the rest is being help captive for.
But definately no BSOD. Not since the NT4 and win95 days personally.
I enjoy using Linux on the desktop too. It has it's plusses, but lately it seems like Gnome / KDE have turned into bloatware - something a few years ago zealots used to say about windows.
Honestly I haven't, and I spend the bulk of my day doing a variety of stuff... I program in vb.net and asp.net using vs.net 2k3; I code cf in dreamweaver. I use photoshop. I write PHP in phpedit. I play games like RTCW. I convert (legit, I swear) avi's to mpeg and burn to DVD. I write java code in eclipse. I have three or four shell sessions open. I'm not a n00b; I use my PC for a lot of stuff.
Honestly I've never had a BSOD. I've had a boatload of memory leaks, and programs that don't shutdown properly, but never had I had a BSOD. I've had the good ol' "an error has occurred in application 'x'" - and it's usually me being an idiot that's caused it, but nothing as severe as a BSOD.
You must have hardware issues or driver conflicts. I've honestly never really seen a BSOD in XP ever. I think I saw one once on a machine at my old workplace, and it was due to faulty RAM...
You might suggest I'm one of the lucky ones, but I also am the "de-facto" friends and family computer guy - there's about 20 in my world that I look after. None of them have seen any BSOD either in XP. Sure, those dumb-asses even have a tonne of spyware that I regularly have to clean up (ahem - security?), but no BSOD's that I've heard of.
FWIW, works in FF 0.9... Might have been a FF bug after all :)
So you're saying that Windows can include a lot more data about users' machines, and still fit on one CD, yet Linux needs a DVD to accomplish the same goal? I recall hearing a lot of grumbling about windows' bloat. You can agree that this is bloat can't you? When a linux distro needs a dvd to accomplish what a windows version can do in a cd... Hmmmm... Yes, I know, you get an office program, a bunch of stupid games, and other apps you don't get with windows, but I hope you get my point about bloat.
What's this BSOD I've been hearing about? I haven't seen one of those since win95... C'mon folks, install the correct hardware drivers and your OS will run fine. I know what happens to KDE when you setup the nvidia drivers wrong and *poof* command line only... And configuring X at the command line kinda sucks sometimes.