We live out in the country (only a few miles from town) and we have one of those huge rural mailboxes. Almost anything we order fits into it. Not that it matters. I have had an unlocked bike sitting out on the back porch since it was brand new and nobody has touched it.
However, the different platforms cultivate different sorts of users.
On a platform where an immense amount of handholding is part of the design and culture of the platform, compliant and obedient users are the norm.
Compare the effectiveness of this sort of phishing on:
- An iOS account holder. - An OpenBSD account holder.
Clearly, the Fisher-Price interface coddles and encourages certain types of behavior. You can't really blame that on the developers, or the users. It's designed how the marketing folks want it, to develop the 'market' they wish to sell to.
MacOS is a shiny proprietary layer on top of NeXT OS, which became the Apple OS after the Apple developers had fumbled around and blown many, many millions on Taligent/Pink and some other crap, proving they were incapable of producing a moderm OS with preemptive multitasking. So they (were bought by./they bough) NeXT. Unfortunately, the NeXT OS was musty and very stale, because it was ancient and the project of a decaying failed company by this point in time. So they kept the Mach Kernel and the framework of the OS, pulled over a bunch of the userland from FreeBSD, plus bought one of the top FreeBSD developers for good measure.
MacOS is by no means a descendant of FreeBSD. They grafted some stuff from FreeBSD onto NeXT Step.
The whole structure of the OS is so vastly different. The whole base userland and kernel on a BSD OS are released as a complete source tarball on one revision tag. It all builds together. You can build an entire BSD release with two make commands, one for the kernel and one for the userland.
With Linux, the userland of each 'disto' is whatever that 'distro maintainer' decided to pull together into the dogs breakfast of a userland that Linux OSes always have. Source code for userland binaries come from all over the place. And there are so many userlands.
No, *BSD is what Linux couldn't be at the time, so it became linux instead.
The BSD license was still uncertain in 1991-3 when Linux was getting it's start. If the uncertainty had not been there, people would just have used 386BSD and been done with it.
One of the knobs on my Dynaco PAS2 preamplifier is missing. Almost all the tubes are the original Dynaco branded ones, though.
We have a television, because they were selling a nice flatscreen on an unadvertised en-cap clearance at Walmart for $99 this past winter. It isn't out of the carton yet, though.
You need to widen your horizons. There is Green Acres and Petticoat Junction, you know. Even the Beverly Hillbillies if you don't mind a slight 'Hollywood' contamination.
I bought a 9" black and white TV for my dorm room in 1978 because there were rumors that the Beatles were going to have a surprise reunion on Saturday Night Live.
Next year, when you're a sophomore, your classes will be harder and you won't be able to hang out with the cute chicks at the lit table in the student union.
Musk on the otherhand has launched dozens of orbital rockets, installed a quarter of a million residential solar systems, and has hundreds of thousands of vehicles on the road.
And don't forget millions of credit card chargebacks at PayPal.
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You don't want to spoil the appetite of your attack critter like that.
a lot of communities have restrictions
We have restrictions against that sort of community here where I live.
We live out in the country (only a few miles from town) and we have one of those huge rural mailboxes. Almost anything we order fits into it. Not that it matters. I have had an unlocked bike sitting out on the back porch since it was brand new and nobody has touched it.
It's nice out here.
It isn't really 'waking up' when you open your eyes to find yourself immersed in a fantasy world of 4chan memes.
Yes, it could be done on any platform.
However, the different platforms cultivate different sorts of users.
On a platform where an immense amount of handholding is part of the design and culture of the platform, compliant and obedient users are the norm.
Compare the effectiveness of this sort of phishing on:
- An iOS account holder.
- An OpenBSD account holder.
Clearly, the Fisher-Price interface coddles and encourages certain types of behavior. You can't really blame that on the developers, or the users. It's designed how the marketing folks want it, to develop the 'market' they wish to sell to.
MacOS is not a descendant of FreeBSD.
MacOS is a shiny proprietary layer on top of NeXT OS, which became the Apple OS after the Apple developers had fumbled around and blown many, many millions on Taligent/Pink and some other crap, proving they were incapable of producing a moderm OS with preemptive multitasking. So they (were bought by./they bough) NeXT. Unfortunately, the NeXT OS was musty and very stale, because it was ancient and the project of a decaying failed company by this point in time. So they kept the Mach Kernel and the framework of the OS, pulled over a bunch of the userland from FreeBSD, plus bought one of the top FreeBSD developers for good measure.
MacOS is by no means a descendant of FreeBSD. They grafted some stuff from FreeBSD onto NeXT Step.
NetBSD/xen is a port of NetBSD to the Xen virtual machine monitor.
NetBSD/xen has been around since 2004.
The whole structure of the OS is so vastly different. The whole base userland and kernel on a BSD OS are released as a complete source tarball on one revision tag. It all builds together. You can build an entire BSD release with two make commands, one for the kernel and one for the userland.
With Linux, the userland of each 'disto' is whatever that 'distro maintainer' decided to pull together into the dogs breakfast of a userland that Linux OSes always have. Source code for userland binaries come from all over the place. And there are so many userlands.
No, *BSD is what Linux couldn't be at the time, so it became linux instead.
The BSD license was still uncertain in 1991-3 when Linux was getting it's start. If the uncertainty had not been there, people would just have used 386BSD and been done with it.
It's so nice that there's a none-of-the-above choice that many people on Slashdot have made, then, isn't it?
There's nothing to prove. People readily accept the risk in human driven cars the way it is. The $100m is unnecessary.
failed 0.01% of the time
So that means, since there are probably 200,000,000 vehicle trips per day in the U.S. there will only be 20,000 failures per day.
Yes, you're free to check the math, it's certainly probably wrong. But 0.01% is a terrible failure rate.
I always ask myself what kind of goofballs James Lebron's parents are and why they screwed up his name like that.
One of the knobs on my Dynaco PAS2 preamplifier is missing. Almost all the tubes are the original Dynaco branded ones, though.
We have a television, because they were selling a nice flatscreen on an unadvertised en-cap clearance at Walmart for $99 this past winter. It isn't out of the carton yet, though.
You need to widen your horizons. There is Green Acres and Petticoat Junction, you know. Even the Beverly Hillbillies if you don't mind a slight 'Hollywood' contamination.
Translation: the advertisers have little or no say in the new high quality programming.
AM radio is a naturally sharp bandwidth filtered medium. You won't hear crisp nasal tones. As to monotonous, Air America isn't on the air any longer.
I bought a 9" black and white TV for my dorm room in 1978 because there were rumors that the Beatles were going to have a surprise reunion on Saturday Night Live.
Property is theft.
Next year, when you're a sophomore, your classes will be harder and you won't be able to hang out with the cute chicks at the lit table in the student union.
And what the heck is wrong with paying a 'credit verification fee' rather than just freeloading on the back of all of society?
Yeah. I know. LOTS of the heck is wrong. If you're a credit card company or a huckster who sells 'easy credit'.
Musk on the otherhand has launched dozens of orbital rockets, installed a quarter of a million residential solar systems, and has hundreds of thousands of vehicles on the road.
And don't forget millions of credit card chargebacks at PayPal.
You almost sound like a little kid carrying on about his sports hero.
Really disappointing.
Spacers gotta be spacers. it's a religion. Don't try reasoning with him.
If the shoe fits, "where" it.
The joke is on them.