No, even iTunes users overwhelmingly prefer CDs to DRM shit.
That troll article (which of course you submitted) was promptly dismissed by the community. Did you take the time to browse the comments? For example, this one pretty much sums up your agenda. I suggest browsing at +5 to see if anyone at all agrees with you.
Just because you found the that the article supports your weirdcrusade against the iPod and iTunes that doesn't mean it's true or even factual. It just means it got accepted to Slashdot, so please don't use it as a bullet point to try to prove your flawed arguments.
I saw a preview of Spyglass in 1989 that had RSS feeds, a built-in MMORPG and pink ponies, but unfortunately it wasn't widely avaiable. You do believe me, don't you?
None of those claims are sourced in any way. And a "technical preview that was not available" doesn't exactly count either.
If I was MS, I certainly wouldn't brag about anti-malware being the most popular application.
Which is interesting of course, given the fact that the vast majority of "malware" in people's computers gets there thanks to their own intervention. So I don't see how Microsoft would have a problem with giving them something to fix their own mistakes.
There are certainly worms and trojans that make it into a Windows box via vulnerabilities (and dumb ones at that), but I don't think they represent the primary infection vector - not by a long shot. One of the fastest-spreading email worms in history required user intervention to activate.
The 'grey market' for cameras, lenses and other accessories is also huge, especially now with the wild proliferation of digital cameras, although it used to be smaller in scale in the days of film SLRs.
Even reputable shops like Adorama will sell you 'grey' prosumer Nikon digital SLRs for example. The difference is the lack of a US-actionable warranty and funky things like manuals in Turkish and whatnot... but other than that the gear is largely the same (be careful who you buy from anyway!). These things typically go for about 10% less than the 'straight' ones.
I've bought a couple of high-end Canon lenses this way and I haven't been burned yet, but I probably won't be doing it anymore. Too much risk.
I don't understand your point - if he had a name (like 'twitter', maybe?) would your "opinion" be any different? "stroking the brown turd" and "absolute humiliation" pretty much cover the bases as far as you're concerned, don't they? Or did you have some other particular point?
It does but I do still get annoyed by the companies with which I have a relationship. The other day I got a call from "Satarmanapaya" or something regarding one of my credit card companies' EXCELLENT CREDIT MONITORING SERVICE, which I have no use for since I already get that from someone else. Aside from the near-unintelligible way of speaking, they are indoctrinated to follow their damn script to the letter so they just talk and talk before you can say "I'm not interested". And then they go through the motions on why theirs is so much better than the one you have and canisendyouthepaperworksirplease.
More often than not I'm tempted to just friggin' hang up but then I think that's just a guy probably working on comission trying to make a living and I really don't want to be rude. But they are fucking annoying.
Oh yes twitter, I run a "Windoze" botnet specifically designed to collect Slashdot mod points and then apply them to anything you post. And with my Taco-like powers I can also post in a discussion without causing those mods to revert. I work for "M$" and I'm all powerful.
And as long as we're linking to each other's posting history, here's my contribution. I guess you're still "laughing" at me, eh?
I suppose you can only post once a day now? Well, if you stop trolling maybe they'll let you post more. Bwahahaha. Run along now.
but your happy fantasy world where only mean old humans upset the balance is nothing but that - fantasy.
Riight. Hey, listen - when you run into a species of frogs that can pollute a river with radioactive waste or some wacky birds that can slash and burn half of the world rainforests in under 50 years, I'd love to know. Until then though, stay in your fantasy world, OK? It looks like you really need it.
The clones didn't work because Apple panicked when they figured that their little adventure was going to eat into their margins and promptly put the screws back on. They didn't fail because the idea was flawed, they failed because Apple got greedy and Jobs (as soon as he returned) couldn't negotiate the insane royalty windfall he wanted from the cloners. I love this part:
Jobs exploited this loophole by declaring the imminent version of the Mac OS (which would otherwise have been numbered something like 7.7) to be 8.0, leaving the clone manufacturers without the ability to ship a current Mac OS version and effectively ending the cloning program.
But of course only Microsoft does this type of thing.
What a stupid and lame discussion. Of course we have an impact on the earth. So do insects, cows and bacteria
Not to seem pedantic here and all, but man is the only animal species that actually destroys ecosystems and causes the extincion of other species that are not in his food chain. We are also the only species that is incapable of existing in an ecological balance. We have an inordinate amount of impact on the planet. Elk and bacteria haven't yet industrialized the production of resources (and the elimination of its byproducts), as far as I know.
Having said that, I have a feeling that there wouldn't be much of a point to the existence of man if we weren't supposed to be doing what we do (albeit in a less destructive manner, ideally). Maybe destroying your surroundings goes along with being sentient and having opposable thumbs? Who knows. Unfortunately we don't have a frame of reference for these types of things.
Again, you're missing the point. People are getting infected because they go to great lengths to execute untrusted code. For Evolution and KMail and Thunderbird to be immune to this they would have to simply delete all incoming attachments. And of course that would make them useless.
They're not getting infected by simply clicking on attachments as you claim, and again, I don't know of a Windows mail client that will let you do that nowadays anyway. They are getting infected because they download crap, install crap, click 'yes' instead of 'no' and so on.
Well, yes. It's really no different than XP though. But that's what I use. Ultimately it's largely the same OS underneath (if we're talking about XPSP2).
Isn't there POC code that works on fully-patched XP machines?
No, unless you can point me to evidence showing otherwise. That's what patching is for, eh? What you are asserting is that I'm unsafe even if I patch. That's not the case. Now, patching does not cure stupidity so if the user still installs crap or clicks 'yes' on that ActiveX warning dialog then all bets are off anyway. But that's my point.
Way to go twitter, nothing like an opportunity to do your "M$ windoze" routine. Are they letting you post again after all your troll and flamebait moderations? And why are you back on it again?
you seriously think people would start sending RPM files in the mail if Linux were popular?
ROFL. You seriously think that won't happen?
had to save the file somewhere, then execute that file separately
What part of "a TAR file with a Python script and the exec bit, plus instructions in bad english" or "ZIP files with passwords" did you miss? Further, the popularity of Linux will inevitably lead to an increase in the number of distros and applications, some of which surely won't be as secure as your stock Debian, to say the least.
since the corps are all addicted to Outlook
What part of "does not let you execute attachments" did we miss? And funny, my company has 30,000 desktops and not a piece of spyware in sight. We must have created a rip in the space-time continuum!
will still get infected within minutes
Yeah, except there's a $25 rinky Linksys router between my cable modem and teh interwebs so I can patch at my lesiure.
See, you guys are completely disconnected from reality. There have been very few malicious worms, so I don't know what you mean by "damage". If you mean a malicious worm can nuke my data, then it's a hell of a lot bigger problem for Joe Blow at home, because he doesn't give a shit about the operating system or the/etc/ folder, he cares about the family photos and his porn.
And since you don't need root access to turn a machine into a zombie or an adbot (which is what the VAST majority of malware does these days) and join it up to a botnet, the "well I'm not running as root" argument is pointless.
considering that Linux has the majority of web sites according to Netcraft
Those boxes are not run by clueless users, they're run by sysadmins in data centers. Do you begin to understand the difference?
With 10% marketshare between them, you'd think someone would bother to make one, just to prove it can be done.
Huh? There's pleny of POC code out there. The problem (if one can call it that I guess) for you "and your cohorts" is that worms have gone from a being a hacker's experiment to extremely big business. Rest assured that when OS X becomes a juicy enough target someone will write malware for it. And by "juicy target" here I mean it's being run by half a billion computer illiterate people. Don't worry, one day maybe you'll get your own.
To my knowledge, most Windows attacks do not require anywhere near this level of user interaction.
Your knowledge is wrong. Obviously you don't run any Windows-based systems then I gather? Outlook does not allow you to run executables directly anymore unless you hack the registry, and the physical action of running an attachment is still the user's responsibility. There was one short-lived exploit about six years ago that would run an executable just by opening a message in OE. That's it.
you're hosed
If you have a patched box (even Linux needs patching, correct?) you get "hosed" if you do something stupid, which is unfortunately very common. So you've never gotten spyware for Linux by mail? I wonder why that is. No one is writing it because it can't be done, or because there's no point on doing it because there are so very few desktop machines that run it?
MS-ware.
This "let me tell you how it is" FUD about Windows that involves nothing more than touching the mouse or breathing hard to get infected really gets old, you know.
I hope to gain nothing other than point out you are completely insane if you are actually serious.
What you read is my cynicism
OK, you were not serious I gather? Very good. Please don't feel offended by what I said - it's obviously all a big misunderstanding and you were making a joke. Cheers.
Applications that require admin rights to run should be driven out of the market now that Vista will make it a pain in the ass to run them, but it will take time. It's the legacy that results in going from Windows 9x "hello ma, no security" to the NT-based systems.
And besides, it's not like you need root access in Linux or OS X to turn a machine into a zombie.
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That troll article (which of course you submitted) was promptly dismissed by the community. Did you take the time to browse the comments? For example, this one pretty much sums up your agenda. I suggest browsing at +5 to see if anyone at all agrees with you.
Just because you found the that the article supports your weird crusade against the iPod and iTunes that doesn't mean it's true or even factual. It just means it got accepted to Slashdot, so please don't use it as a bullet point to try to prove your flawed arguments.
None of those claims are sourced in any way. And a "technical preview that was not available" doesn't exactly count either.
Natalie Portman? In hot grits... please.
Which is interesting of course, given the fact that the vast majority of "malware" in people's computers gets there thanks to their own intervention. So I don't see how Microsoft would have a problem with giving them something to fix their own mistakes.
There are certainly worms and trojans that make it into a Windows box via vulnerabilities (and dumb ones at that), but I don't think they represent the primary infection vector - not by a long shot. One of the fastest-spreading email worms in history required user intervention to activate.
Even reputable shops like Adorama will sell you 'grey' prosumer Nikon digital SLRs for example. The difference is the lack of a US-actionable warranty and funky things like manuals in Turkish and whatnot... but other than that the gear is largely the same (be careful who you buy from anyway!). These things typically go for about 10% less than the 'straight' ones.
I've bought a couple of high-end Canon lenses this way and I haven't been burned yet, but I probably won't be doing it anymore. Too much risk.
You do realize that my reply to that post of yours is visible when anyone clicks that link, correct?
Why are you posting the same thing again ?
That's tremendously clever and funny twitter, and I notice it's similar to all your troll mods of the past few weeks.
I don't understand your point - if he had a name (like 'twitter', maybe?) would your "opinion" be any different? "stroking the brown turd" and "absolute humiliation" pretty much cover the bases as far as you're concerned, don't they? Or did you have some other particular point?
More often than not I'm tempted to just friggin' hang up but then I think that's just a guy probably working on comission trying to make a living and I really don't want to be rude. But they are fucking annoying.
And as long as we're linking to each other's posting history, here's my contribution. I guess you're still "laughing" at me, eh?
I suppose you can only post once a day now? Well, if you stop trolling maybe they'll let you post more. Bwahahaha. Run along now.
Riight. Hey, listen - when you run into a species of frogs that can pollute a river with radioactive waste or some wacky birds that can slash and burn half of the world rainforests in under 50 years, I'd love to know. Until then though, stay in your fantasy world, OK? It looks like you really need it.
And no one else. We're due for another Cold War anyway...
The clones didn't work because Apple panicked when they figured that their little adventure was going to eat into their margins and promptly put the screws back on. They didn't fail because the idea was flawed, they failed because Apple got greedy and Jobs (as soon as he returned) couldn't negotiate the insane royalty windfall he wanted from the cloners. I love this part:
Jobs exploited this loophole by declaring the imminent version of the Mac OS (which would otherwise have been numbered something like 7.7) to be 8.0, leaving the clone manufacturers without the ability to ship a current Mac OS version and effectively ending the cloning program.
But of course only Microsoft does this type of thing.
Not to seem pedantic here and all, but man is the only animal species that actually destroys ecosystems and causes the extincion of other species that are not in his food chain. We are also the only species that is incapable of existing in an ecological balance. We have an inordinate amount of impact on the planet. Elk and bacteria haven't yet industrialized the production of resources (and the elimination of its byproducts), as far as I know.
Having said that, I have a feeling that there wouldn't be much of a point to the existence of man if we weren't supposed to be doing what we do (albeit in a less destructive manner, ideally). Maybe destroying your surroundings goes along with being sentient and having opposable thumbs? Who knows. Unfortunately we don't have a frame of reference for these types of things.
They're not getting infected by simply clicking on attachments as you claim, and again, I don't know of a Windows mail client that will let you do that nowadays anyway. They are getting infected because they download crap, install crap, click 'yes' instead of 'no' and so on.
Well, yes. It's really no different than XP though. But that's what I use. Ultimately it's largely the same OS underneath (if we're talking about XPSP2).
No, unless you can point me to evidence showing otherwise. That's what patching is for, eh? What you are asserting is that I'm unsafe even if I patch. That's not the case. Now, patching does not cure stupidity so if the user still installs crap or clicks 'yes' on that ActiveX warning dialog then all bets are off anyway. But that's my point.
Um, if you know of any POC code that works on an up to date fully patched Server 2003 box I'll be happy to try it out as well. I don't see your point.
Way to go twitter, nothing like an opportunity to do your "M$ windoze" routine. Are they letting you post again after all your troll and flamebait moderations? And why are you back on it again?
ROFL. You seriously think that won't happen?
What part of "a TAR file with a Python script and the exec bit, plus instructions in bad english" or "ZIP files with passwords" did you miss? Further, the popularity of Linux will inevitably lead to an increase in the number of distros and applications, some of which surely won't be as secure as your stock Debian, to say the least.
What part of "does not let you execute attachments" did we miss? And funny, my company has 30,000 desktops and not a piece of spyware in sight. We must have created a rip in the space-time continuum!
Yeah, except there's a $25 rinky Linksys router between my cable modem and teh interwebs so I can patch at my lesiure.
And since you don't need root access to turn a machine into a zombie or an adbot (which is what the VAST majority of malware does these days) and join it up to a botnet, the "well I'm not running as root" argument is pointless.
Those boxes are not run by clueless users, they're run by sysadmins in data centers. Do you begin to understand the difference?
Huh? There's pleny of POC code out there. The problem (if one can call it that I guess) for you "and your cohorts" is that worms have gone from a being a hacker's experiment to extremely big business. Rest assured that when OS X becomes a juicy enough target someone will write malware for it. And by "juicy target" here I mean it's being run by half a billion computer illiterate people. Don't worry, one day maybe you'll get your own.
Your knowledge is wrong. Obviously you don't run any Windows-based systems then I gather? Outlook does not allow you to run executables directly anymore unless you hack the registry, and the physical action of running an attachment is still the user's responsibility. There was one short-lived exploit about six years ago that would run an executable just by opening a message in OE. That's it.
If you have a patched box (even Linux needs patching, correct?) you get "hosed" if you do something stupid, which is unfortunately very common. So you've never gotten spyware for Linux by mail? I wonder why that is. No one is writing it because it can't be done, or because there's no point on doing it because there are so very few desktop machines that run it?
This "let me tell you how it is" FUD about Windows that involves nothing more than touching the mouse or breathing hard to get infected really gets old, you know.
I hope to gain nothing other than point out you are completely insane if you are actually serious.
OK, you were not serious I gather? Very good. Please don't feel offended by what I said - it's obviously all a big misunderstanding and you were making a joke. Cheers.
And besides, it's not like you need root access in Linux or OS X to turn a machine into a zombie.