Not surprising at all. This just further illustrates Steve's continued mastery of media control. They're like puppets to Steve. What other person can you think of that could keep an organ transplant completely quiet for two months while under the media microscope?
Get better soon Steve!
However, the Bush administration has proven (e.g. current wiretapping issue) that it actually wants to troll for information and doesn't really care if it tramples on constitutional rights. That said, I guarantee you that they are looking to use the data for other purposes as well. Even if there is no personally identifiable data requested, just wait until they mine that data and find something that they are interested in. The next step is another subpoena for the IPs associated with the queries.
Although I agree that we (Mac fanboys of the world) may not be protecting ourselves from the eventual successfull attack, we are making the most informed, logical choice by NOT installing AV products at this time. Think about it, installing anti-virus, anti-spyware, intrusion detection, etc... software on my Macs at this time is not only a waste of time and computing resources but COULD ACTUALLY INTRODUCE VULNERABILITIES and instabilities that aren't part of OS X. Installing unneeded "protections" on an up-to-date OS X system at this time has a much higher probability of harming the system than protecting it.
Until the first real OS X virus rears it's ugly head (I concede that it will eventually) smart Mac users should be: 1) Backing up regularly, 2) leaving unneeded services disabled, 3) enabling the built-in firewall, 4) running "Software Update" at least once a week (i.e., commonly agreed upon best practices on any platform). That's it!
Ogerman has it right! The important thing that students should be learning are how to correctly use (and understand) the features common to a class of applications -- not how to use a specific vendors implementation. Training for general understanding of how features are correctly used makes for a user that is flexable and can easily pick up the specifics of nearly any vendor's applications.
Lets face it, a MAJORITY of word processor users have no idea what the difference between a tab stop, indent, or margin is and probably 99% of users still hit repeated tabs and spaces until "things line up" in columns, and also hit the return key twice between paragraphs.
So, save a bunch of money, use OO, and teach basic skills. This strategy serves both the taxpayer and the student best.
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Not surprising at all. This just further illustrates Steve's continued mastery of media control. They're like puppets to Steve. What other person can you think of that could keep an organ transplant completely quiet for two months while under the media microscope? Get better soon Steve!
However, the Bush administration has proven (e.g. current wiretapping issue) that it actually wants to troll for information and doesn't really care if it tramples on constitutional rights. That said, I guarantee you that they are looking to use the data for other purposes as well. Even if there is no personally identifiable data requested, just wait until they mine that data and find something that they are interested in. The next step is another subpoena for the IPs associated with the queries.
Although I agree that we (Mac fanboys of the world) may not be protecting ourselves from the eventual successfull attack, we are making the most informed, logical choice by NOT installing AV products at this time. Think about it, installing anti-virus, anti-spyware, intrusion detection, etc... software on my Macs at this time is not only a waste of time and computing resources but COULD ACTUALLY INTRODUCE VULNERABILITIES and instabilities that aren't part of OS X. Installing unneeded "protections" on an up-to-date OS X system at this time has a much higher probability of harming the system than protecting it.
Until the first real OS X virus rears it's ugly head (I concede that it will eventually) smart Mac users should be: 1) Backing up regularly, 2) leaving unneeded services disabled, 3) enabling the built-in firewall, 4) running "Software Update" at least once a week (i.e., commonly agreed upon best practices on any platform). That's it!
Ogerman has it right! The important thing that students should be learning are how to correctly use (and understand) the features common to a class of applications -- not how to use a specific vendors implementation. Training for general understanding of how features are correctly used makes for a user that is flexable and can easily pick up the specifics of nearly any vendor's applications. Lets face it, a MAJORITY of word processor users have no idea what the difference between a tab stop, indent, or margin is and probably 99% of users still hit repeated tabs and spaces until "things line up" in columns, and also hit the return key twice between paragraphs. So, save a bunch of money, use OO, and teach basic skills. This strategy serves both the taxpayer and the student best.
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