But it's true, right? That an OSS app is clearly more secure than a CSS app, despite being a large target - that Windows isn't just attacked the most only because it's the most common OS, but possibly because it's not as good and isn't fixed as easily?
OS X and Linux are currently less popular. This means they will be infected with less stuff. They are gaining popularity, though slowly. However, becuase of the nature of open-source software, patches can be applied every time there is a new vulnerability discovered or exploited, so that by the time it is a really big target most of the obvious problems will be fixed. At least that's the theory. I've heard that one current example of this is the fact that MS IIS is a fraction of its market compared to Apache, but that IIS gets a disproportionately large amount of attacks compared to Apache (which receives a very tiny number of attacks).
*Shines flashlight in your face
Oh, wait, I see...
Some people are ready to hate Google, others are just becoming leery and cautious. Google's been great but we need to keep an eye on her, just like all other companies. (Distrust everyone big and powerful: people, corporations, and governments) I think Apple is MUCH better than M$, but some people think that means Apple is perfect, which irritates others who in their haste to remind Apple users of their faults devolve into flaming just as fast as their targets begin Job-worshipping. I dislike M$'s business practices and products, but am happy that they take stupid people's money and give it away to charity (I only wish they weren't so keen on crushing competition), Apple is nice but superfical, expensive, and too full of itself sometimes (Windows users are usually ignorant, and Mac users are elitist snobs), and Linux is my favorite, but still pretty geeky and less-than-easy or standardized (and Linux users are/.ers -good and bad). But oh my the computing field is interesting, I can't wait to see what it's like in 10 years.
You want to run Windows and play your precious games and whatnot? Buy a cheap-o Dell.
What kind of games do you play? If I'm $2000 in the hole buying a Mac, I sure as hell want to not have to spend another $1000-2000 building a machine capable of playing BF2, F.E.A.R., Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl (when it comes out), and UT2k7 in a year. Macs are really nice, but a nice PC dual booting Windows and Linux will have to suffice for me, for now. Unless you want to loan me $2000...
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Smoke and mirrors for marketers and dwellers of the blogospheric ghetto.
Keep up the good work! Thanks guys, without you jumping on every Winblows exploit, we would never have gotten where we are today. Linux and OS X for a brighter future! - The Apple Team
For the record, I want to invade NK and overthrow their govt. I don't give two shits about oil being there or not. The NK govt. is more of Big Brother than the US or UK govt.s could ever hope to be. I don't care about nukes either. I care about freeing their people, because as much as all of our govt.s suck, theirs sucks more.
This is silly bickering. All nations contain people, which all suck just as bad. Europe's histroty is nothing but countless wars, most of which were pointless. The US has a history shorter but comparably bad (wiping out natives, proxy wars, etc.). The only completely true statement one can make about one being better than the other is that the US is more involved with the world right now, so we fuck up more, but also do more good things. Europe doesn't do much anymore, so they fuck up less, but also don't do as much good. The US is alot bigger than most other nations (in terms of power and money) so all of the charicteristics that all nations have are simply very exaggerated in the US. For an interesting site on how countries and other groups view themselves, see http://zompist.com/amercult.html. As a Texan, please look at the Texas part of it, we do get a VERY unfair international image (Since when was being a cowboy bad? They were supposed to be heroes, fearless enforcers of peace in a land of lawlessness).
He _did_ print the security sections of the manual for the guy. He just changed the name to make him notice and had the solution sitting right next to it. It's not like he started loading horse porn and bragging messages all over his pc.
The US Navy has been operating dozens, maybe hundreds of nuclear reactors for half a century without incident. While normally I'm against it, I think that private companies can't be trusted with nuclear power and that the Navy (with Marines to gaurd I believe is SOP) has known from the start that one slip-up would cancel their nuclear power program and thus have rules and procedures so tight a Nazi drill sargent would snap. At least as I understand it. Wind and solar have their place, but we need all, and power conservation.
Yeah, I had a great experience with SP2. My PC only took 10 minutes to startup after that, and crashed regularly. Whee. Now I run Windows Nemesis (SP2 preinstalled) on a WD 36GB Raptor and startup in less than a minute.
I want to actually see an HD movie on an HDTV first. How much better than DVD is it really? Besides, the thing that really bugs me in movies are in panning or action sequences where the camera isn't fast enough and everything becomes blurry. I'll care when the medium is affordable, durable, reliable, and capable of cool footage. Or when good movies are made again (guess I'll be waiting a while, huh).
Ah, must be the pron. Apparently only Linux is strong enough to handle my hardcore. Seriously though, maybe I am unlucky (certainly plenty of evidence of that), but I have reinstalled Windows from a different disk (and over time experienced the same problems) and seem similar problems on PCs of people I know and at my school. Perhaps, since most other people's problems are probably due to poor security, mine are likely due to heavy use (gaming, large amounts of multimeda playing/creating/burning, sheer high-usage and long usage from both work and pleasure). Well, I suppose if one runs a pc like a race car, no matter the maintenance, it'll break, right? It doesn't make it less irritating though. I try to criticize MS fairly most of the time, but slipped into venting anger before thinking of other possibilities. (Wow! Moderation on/.? Who'da thunk it?)
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But it's true, right? That an OSS app is clearly more secure than a CSS app, despite being a large target - that Windows isn't just attacked the most only because it's the most common OS, but possibly because it's not as good and isn't fixed as easily?
My calculator has no Mt Everest button. Turn in your geek badge. Now.
OS X and Linux are currently less popular. This means they will be infected with less stuff. They are gaining popularity, though slowly. However, becuase of the nature of open-source software, patches can be applied every time there is a new vulnerability discovered or exploited, so that by the time it is a really big target most of the obvious problems will be fixed. At least that's the theory. I've heard that one current example of this is the fact that MS IIS is a fraction of its market compared to Apache, but that IIS gets a disproportionately large amount of attacks compared to Apache (which receives a very tiny number of attacks).
I think IBM should be in there too, they own a hujangous number of patents, although they are trying to open up some.
*Shines flashlight in your face Oh, wait, I see... Some people are ready to hate Google, others are just becoming leery and cautious. Google's been great but we need to keep an eye on her, just like all other companies. (Distrust everyone big and powerful: people, corporations, and governments) I think Apple is MUCH better than M$, but some people think that means Apple is perfect, which irritates others who in their haste to remind Apple users of their faults devolve into flaming just as fast as their targets begin Job-worshipping. I dislike M$'s business practices and products, but am happy that they take stupid people's money and give it away to charity (I only wish they weren't so keen on crushing competition), Apple is nice but superfical, expensive, and too full of itself sometimes (Windows users are usually ignorant, and Mac users are elitist snobs), and Linux is my favorite, but still pretty geeky and less-than-easy or standardized (and Linux users are /.ers -good and bad). But oh my the computing field is interesting, I can't wait to see what it's like in 10 years.
You want to run Windows and play your precious games and whatnot? Buy a cheap-o Dell.
What kind of games do you play? If I'm $2000 in the hole buying a Mac, I sure as hell want to not have to spend another $1000-2000 building a machine capable of playing BF2, F.E.A.R., Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl (when it comes out), and UT2k7 in a year. Macs are really nice, but a nice PC dual booting Windows and Linux will have to suffice for me, for now. Unless you want to loan me $2000...
Smoke and mirrors for marketers and dwellers of the blogospheric ghetto.
Wow. Can I quote that? I love it.
I know that, but the common image is what I was talking about. That's what most people know and refer to.
You should. Linux, OS X, and BSD must join forces to destroy the real Great Satan (im joking of course)
A totalitarian govt makes that hard to do though. Do you think the French could have overthrown the Nazis all alone (not bashing France btw)?
Keep up the good work! Thanks guys, without you jumping on every Winblows exploit, we would never have gotten where we are today. Linux and OS X for a brighter future! - The Apple Team
For the record, I want to invade NK and overthrow their govt. I don't give two shits about oil being there or not. The NK govt. is more of Big Brother than the US or UK govt.s could ever hope to be. I don't care about nukes either. I care about freeing their people, because as much as all of our govt.s suck, theirs sucks more.
This is silly bickering. All nations contain people, which all suck just as bad. Europe's histroty is nothing but countless wars, most of which were pointless. The US has a history shorter but comparably bad (wiping out natives, proxy wars, etc.). The only completely true statement one can make about one being better than the other is that the US is more involved with the world right now, so we fuck up more, but also do more good things. Europe doesn't do much anymore, so they fuck up less, but also don't do as much good. The US is alot bigger than most other nations (in terms of power and money) so all of the charicteristics that all nations have are simply very exaggerated in the US. For an interesting site on how countries and other groups view themselves, see http://zompist.com/amercult.html. As a Texan, please look at the Texas part of it, we do get a VERY unfair international image (Since when was being a cowboy bad? They were supposed to be heroes, fearless enforcers of peace in a land of lawlessness).
He _did_ print the security sections of the manual for the guy. He just changed the name to make him notice and had the solution sitting right next to it. It's not like he started loading horse porn and bragging messages all over his pc.
The US Navy has been operating dozens, maybe hundreds of nuclear reactors for half a century without incident. While normally I'm against it, I think that private companies can't be trusted with nuclear power and that the Navy (with Marines to gaurd I believe is SOP) has known from the start that one slip-up would cancel their nuclear power program and thus have rules and procedures so tight a Nazi drill sargent would snap. At least as I understand it. Wind and solar have their place, but we need all, and power conservation.
Ow.
and not Chicago?
Cell processor runs you!
Say what you will about the plot of it (not really my cup of tea) but the dialogue is golden. Wittiest show on TV.
Yeah, I had a great experience with SP2. My PC only took 10 minutes to startup after that, and crashed regularly. Whee. Now I run Windows Nemesis (SP2 preinstalled) on a WD 36GB Raptor and startup in less than a minute.
"virtues are greater in number than those of the girls of Lesbos combined"
Lesbos is the historical root of the word lesbian. Virtuous indeed. My kind of virtue.
will solve all of your problems http://gaim.sourceforge.net/
Okay, I see. Hail Cthulhu!
I want to actually see an HD movie on an HDTV first. How much better than DVD is it really? Besides, the thing that really bugs me in movies are in panning or action sequences where the camera isn't fast enough and everything becomes blurry. I'll care when the medium is affordable, durable, reliable, and capable of cool footage. Or when good movies are made again (guess I'll be waiting a while, huh).
Ah, must be the pron. Apparently only Linux is strong enough to handle my hardcore. Seriously though, maybe I am unlucky (certainly plenty of evidence of that), but I have reinstalled Windows from a different disk (and over time experienced the same problems) and seem similar problems on PCs of people I know and at my school. Perhaps, since most other people's problems are probably due to poor security, mine are likely due to heavy use (gaming, large amounts of multimeda playing/creating/burning, sheer high-usage and long usage from both work and pleasure). Well, I suppose if one runs a pc like a race car, no matter the maintenance, it'll break, right? It doesn't make it less irritating though. I try to criticize MS fairly most of the time, but slipped into venting anger before thinking of other possibilities. (Wow! Moderation on /.? Who'da thunk it?)