The brand new Mac I use at work doesn't have any trouble with viruses either, but for some reason I can't use it for more than a week without needing to reboot because it becomes unusably slow. I don't know what the culprit is exactly, but my wife's Apple laptop has similar behavior and I'm inclined to think it's the operating system itself.
Make sure that the maintence scripts are running. (Yeah, yeah, it just works....)
No, I think that we can always assume they are jerks, and rude, pushy jerks at that. If it's a legitimate emergency, use your emergency flashers, in which case other drivers are legally obligated to give right of way. Otherwise, the whole world doesn't revolve around your pressing need to get to the coffee shop 2 minutes faster than you normally would.
Which one - iOS or Android - is the one you choose to keep pictures of your grandkids on?
That's obvious. Android. I want to be sure that I'll always be able to get to those pictures, and not have them under the thumb of a megalomaniacal sociopath.
Right. JPEG, TIFF, UNIX - all products of a megolomaniacal sociopath. Calm down. Have some Kool Aid. Relax.
Your neurons technically emit an EM signal, so I guess we should turn our brains off too.
Shouldn't be hard for most people. From what I've seen, the average passenger has a built in "Airplane" mode that shuts higher functioning down as soon as they get across the jetway.
I'm in a place with no good aerial photography and have considered doing it myself and adding the streets to openstreetmap. What's a good known system to get started with this?
You might check out TFA. They have a system to sell you (no prices).Draganfly will sell you one for about 10 grand. A quick consultation with Google gives prices from $400 up. I looked into this a while back for pretty much the same reason. A decent system that could get high enough to get over trees / hills / etc. and hold a big enough camera to get reasonable resolution would be closer to the 10K than $400. If you wanted to make a significant fraction of it yourself (like the camera mounts) you could get the price down a bit, but not a whole lot.
A good camera platform is still pretty pricey. Cheaper than a (real) helicopter for sure, but still takes some cash.
Smells like desperation - MSFT has really been losing the market of people in their late teens/twenties to Apple lately. This does not bode well for their future prospects because losing a customer to Apple carries the potential of being a lifelong loss.
Without some of the revenue streams they used to have, they really have to protect their market share in Windows consumer licenses.
No, it doesn't smell like desperation, it smells like Marketing - which really smells like some anchovies left inside a damp athletic shoe for six months. Conceptually, it's simple - if the costs of the marketing campaign are less than the perceived value then it's a 'good idea'. Bonus points for getting people riled up about and bouncing it around the echo chamber (as we are doing here).
So, some marketing droid (probably sitting in a Starbucks banging away at his / her / it's MacBook Air) gets a few brain cells to fire, manages to pull off writing 6 moderately coherent paragraphs and downloads a couple of (copyrighted) images that may or may not have much to do with the main concept, gives everything a few tasteful drop shadows and gradients, stuffs everything into a Keynote file, emails it to a couple more droids who show it to some uberdroid who shows it to it's boss who runs a few specious calculations on a spreadsheet, then manipulates the numbers so they look better, then stops briefly to end this annoyingly run on sentence.
Then it gets massaged, changed and photoshopped until the end result has very little to do with the original idea.
Then it gets sold to some low level exec at Microsoft, a similar process ensues and some months later a marketing campaign dribbles out to the delight of bored Slashotters everywhere.
Desperation isn't quite the applicable concept here.
Gentlemen, what we have just witnessed is the power of the/. effect.
Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed. The ability to destroy a glorified cell phone is insignificant compared to the power of the Force.
You can search for applicable files and just delete them, too. But that also requires opening up Activity Monitor and finding related processes to shut down first, as well as, checking startup items for anything fishy.
I guess I would be hard pressed to call that 'hard' for anyone but the technically disinclined. That's what Symantec is for, I suppose.
That's precisely what TFA was talking about. Supposedly it's 'hard to uninstall' (maybe the users couldn't find 'uninstall.exe'?). Did you have any problems?
You could read TFA (yes, I know). According to it, the annoyance in question appears to be a trojan called "MacProtector" that clueless users downloaded because 1) they thought it was from Apple 2) they thought it was a free antivirus program.
All it appears to do is popup porn sites at random times however it was unclear if anyone actually has looked at the program carefully as of yet. It apparently is 'hard to uninstall'.
So, PEBAK wins. Stupid people doing stupid things will have bad outcomes. The whole thing strikes me as pretty odd - why go through all that trouble just to embarrass somebody?
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Wrong. Needs an admin password.
Being that it took 11 years for one to come for OS X. That method just might work.
And it works OK for WIndows, right? (That's how I know it's Tuesday when I'm at work)
Or just not run Safari in the first place. IE for the win!
The brand new Mac I use at work doesn't have any trouble with viruses either, but for some reason I can't use it for more than a week without needing to reboot because it becomes unusably slow. I don't know what the culprit is exactly, but my wife's Apple laptop has similar behavior and I'm inclined to think it's the operating system itself.
Make sure that the maintence scripts are running. (Yeah, yeah, it just works ....)
Kudos to Apple for doing what Microsoft has been doing for many years: the monthly updated malicious software removal tool included in Windows Update.
OMG. Patch Tuesday comes to OS X! NO!!!!!
Amazon has better taste than I thought.
No, I think that we can always assume they are jerks, and rude, pushy jerks at that. If it's a legitimate emergency, use your emergency flashers, in which case other drivers are legally obligated to give right of way. Otherwise, the whole world doesn't revolve around your pressing need to get to the coffee shop 2 minutes faster than you normally would.
Emergency Flasher.
That word doesn't mean what you think it means.
Which one - iOS or Android - is the one you choose to keep pictures of your grandkids on?
That's obvious. Android. I want to be sure that I'll always be able to get to those pictures, and not have them under the thumb of a megalomaniacal sociopath.
Right. JPEG, TIFF, UNIX - all products of a megolomaniacal sociopath. Calm down. Have some Kool Aid. Relax.
Your neurons technically emit an EM signal, so I guess we should turn our brains off too.
Shouldn't be hard for most people. From what I've seen, the average passenger has a built in "Airplane" mode that shuts higher functioning down as soon as they get across the jetway.
I'm in a place with no good aerial photography and have considered doing it myself and adding the streets to openstreetmap. What's a good known system to get started with this?
You might check out TFA. They have a system to sell you (no prices).Draganfly will sell you one for about 10 grand. A quick consultation with Google gives prices from $400 up. I looked into this a while back for pretty much the same reason. A decent system that could get high enough to get over trees / hills / etc. and hold a big enough camera to get reasonable resolution would be closer to the 10K than $400. If you wanted to make a significant fraction of it yourself (like the camera mounts) you could get the price down a bit, but not a whole lot.
A good camera platform is still pretty pricey. Cheaper than a (real) helicopter for sure, but still takes some cash.
Even though this is purely coincidentally, all the believers of the May 21 "rapture" are going to cite this as evidence.
Umm, if they're still 'here' after May 21st, all the evidence in the world isn't going to be very persuasive.
And as a side note, what's with these weird Icelandic names? "Vatnajokull" sounds like something only a Scrabble fanatic would come up with.
Smells like desperation - MSFT has really been losing the market of people in their late teens/twenties to Apple lately. This does not bode well for their future prospects because losing a customer to Apple carries the potential of being a lifelong loss.
Without some of the revenue streams they used to have, they really have to protect their market share in Windows consumer licenses.
No, it doesn't smell like desperation, it smells like Marketing - which really smells like some anchovies left inside a damp athletic shoe for six months. Conceptually, it's simple - if the costs of the marketing campaign are less than the perceived value then it's a 'good idea'. Bonus points for getting people riled up about and bouncing it around the echo chamber (as we are doing here).
So, some marketing droid (probably sitting in a Starbucks banging away at his / her / it's MacBook Air) gets a few brain cells to fire, manages to pull off writing 6 moderately coherent paragraphs and downloads a couple of (copyrighted) images that may or may not have much to do with the main concept, gives everything a few tasteful drop shadows and gradients, stuffs everything into a Keynote file, emails it to a couple more droids who show it to some uberdroid who shows it to it's boss who runs a few specious calculations on a spreadsheet, then manipulates the numbers so they look better, then stops briefly to end this annoyingly run on sentence.
Then it gets massaged, changed and photoshopped until the end result has very little to do with the original idea.
Then it gets sold to some low level exec at Microsoft, a similar process ensues and some months later a marketing campaign dribbles out to the delight of bored Slashotters everywhere.
Desperation isn't quite the applicable concept here.
It's actually a constitutional republic.
More like a Banana Republic, these days.
Get a life everyone.
I see what you did there....
I'll be at work, waiting for my shift to end in 3.5 hours. At that point, I would probably welcome an apocalyptic earthquake.
I'll be at work and an apocalypse would be just Business As Usual.
N0 improvements 99.999 percent of used need or will see.
Sucks to be them.
Hard to do with toasters.
Gentlemen, what we have just witnessed is the power of the /. effect.
Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed. The ability to destroy a glorified cell phone is insignificant compared to the power of the Force.
...not so well on veggies or other things that don't have barcodes.
Not to worry. Monsanto is already working on this.
You can search for applicable files and just delete them, too. But that also requires opening up Activity Monitor and finding related processes to shut down first, as well as, checking startup items for anything fishy.
I guess I would be hard pressed to call that 'hard' for anyone but the technically disinclined. That's what Symantec is for, I suppose.
I suspect the most common malware in the PC world works the same way.
Not really, Windows is usually pre installed.
Hrummph. 10 seconds on Google and it's here. Even Symantec knows about it.
That's precisely what TFA was talking about. Supposedly it's 'hard to uninstall' (maybe the users couldn't find 'uninstall.exe'?). Did you have any problems?
You could read TFA (yes, I know). According to it, the annoyance in question appears to be a trojan called "MacProtector" that clueless users downloaded because 1) they thought it was from Apple 2) they thought it was a free antivirus program.
All it appears to do is popup porn sites at random times however it was unclear if anyone actually has looked at the program carefully as of yet. It apparently is 'hard to uninstall'.
So, PEBAK wins. Stupid people doing stupid things will have bad outcomes. The whole thing strikes me as pretty odd - why go through all that trouble just to embarrass somebody?
I kept wondering how I could get into an Oblivion mod.
1 pint vodka
1 pint brandy
1/2 cup orange juice
12 psilocybin mushrooms
4 marijuana brownies
A couple of valiums
That ought to do nicely.