Sumatra PDF used to be light, a mere 800 KB, I just installed the latest version, a whopping 3.6 MB. It's suffering the same form of featuritis as the other PDF readers I dumped because they became slow and unwieldy (Adobe and Foxit).
There is debate about this, and at least here in Europe, those with it are more and more living their own lives. The 17-year old daughter of a colleague has it - and she is not only learning the trade of a baker: she is preparing to live alone, in an apartment in the middle of the city. She already manages her own money and her own relationship with various administrative bodies. With her father's support, but still - this would have been unthinkable even ten years ago.
This is also happening in Australia.
They are teaching people with disabilities to live on their own, not just in halfway houses but on their own, managing most of their own affairs. Some are down to 1 hour a week with social workers, stuff the cant take care of on their own they know to save for that time.
A far cry from 40 years ago where kids with down syndrome were sterilised.
Oh god, the ethics debates on this one will be fantastic. What if we can reverse Downs Syndrome in full grown adults. By modern legal definitions those with it are not competent, but could we ethically force them to take the "cure" if they don't want to? What if a mother does not want to have it "fixed" in her unborn child, is she a competent parent?
I dont think you'll get much of a debate from those with down syndrome.
They are aware they are different, they are also acutely aware of how others treat them. They may not know how to use the word stigma, but they'd jump at a chance to have it removed.
Same for a down syndrome parent, the debate is pretty much a moot point for anyone who's ever work with a down syndrome kid or adult, let alone a parent with a kid with down syndrome.
Your big issue in reversing down syndrome in adults is that you'll then have a fully functioning adult with an education of a 7 yr old. Nothing insurmountable, but it's not like you can flick a switch and say "down syndrome be gone". It'll be a recovery that takes years.
So then have them go through the training as well. The top military had to go through it to get where they are, so why not the top corporate?
The top military are officers, not enlisted men. While enlisted soldiers can later go through officer's training, or even be promoted in extraordinary circumstances in wartime, generally military organizations aren't actually absolute meritocracies that promote people in stages all the way from the bottom to the top. Not that officers don't go through their own tough training, but some of the expectations are fundamentally different.
This,
With all three branches of (Australia's) military you can enlist as a regular soldier (seaman or airman) or as an officer. Regulars can be promoted or can opt to officer training (you'll need your CO's approval though). I.E. A regular enters the navy as a seaman an officer enters the academy as a Midshipman and is promoted to Acting Sub Lieutenant when they graduate. For a Seaman to get to Acting Sub Lieutenant without going through the academy (Read: on merit) they need to go through the NCO and warrant officer ranks but usually they still need to go to the academy.
Which is nothing like business where you get promoted for brown-nosing more than merit.
BTW, our military ranking system comes from the olden times (I.E. before the US even existed as a nation) when officers were aristocracy and soldiers were commoners and the two never intermingled. Even in the Napoleonic wars raising an officer from the ranks was considered very controversial. However over the decades/centuries the system has evolved into a "mostly meritocracy" (although in many 3rd world nations, the armies are still very nepotistic).
It's (generally) bloodless and unarmed, but the basics are all there.
Not really, it's more like politics (lots of talking, some shouting but nothing ever gets done). MBA's like to pretend that business is war because it makes them feel like important generals, not just the douchebag with a nice suite they really are.
Business is not war precisely because it lacks the destruction and death that acompanies war. Even cold wars claim 1000's of lives.
Would it really be such a bad thing to view them as such?
Do you really need to ask that question?
In the mid 20th century we had corporations who practically had armies, we called it Fascism. In the modern day, we call them Mafia's.
So then have them go through the training as well
Yeah right. Good luck with that. They'll never do it.
This kind of "training" is only for the workers. Managers are exempt.
Europe's a big enough market that we started building them a bit better. Mostly because it was too expensive to run one production line for crap American Cars and one for Decent Euro cars. They're not great, but they'll do 140,000 miles.
The problem with trying to break into Europe is extreme protectionism. No barriers between Germany and France, but between Germany and anywhere outside the EU is a 25% tax barrier.
This is why Europeans have to get a Euro car that does 200,000 K's instead of a Japanese car that does 500,000 K's (I sold my EK Civic at 300,000 K's, if the next owner takes care of it it'll run for another 300,000 K's, hell if he runs it into the ground it'll reach 400,000 K's before it dies).
It's also why Ford has different cars for USDM and EUDM (US Domestic Market and EU Domestic Market) because to be competitive Ford have to manufacture the car in the EU so to make it cheaper they use smaller engines, less features as standard. ADM (Australian) and USD cars are closer despite being RHD to LHD.
Mouse control in menus is fine if the game itself is controlled with a mouse, such as FPS or RTS. But some games are played with the keyboard only or with a USB gamepad, such as platformers, fighting games, and falling block games. What advantage does mouse control in menus or in the game bring for those genres?
Anything you use the control pad's analogue stick for can be done better and faster with a mouse.
Not all games use the analogue sticks though, most notably the three genre's you mentioned. These three genre's are so simple that the platform you play them on hardly matters, control schemes are so limited they are easily replicated on a touch screen (one of the worst game controllers in existence due to a complete lack of tactile feedback). Even fighting games which are the mainstay of the console can be easily replicated on the PC, the reason most are better on the console is that consoles are made for spilt screen gaming and PC's aren't.
I prefer fighting games and platformers on consoles because I play these games with friends in the same room, but dont delude yourself that the console controller is superior.
Now simple games present no deficiencies with the console controller, but anything more complex than a platformer shows glaring deficiencies.
"Spotify's goal is to grow a service which people love, ultimately want to pay for, and which will provide the financial support to the music industry necessary to invest in new talent and music," a company spokesperson said today. "We want to help artists connect with their fans, find new audiences, grow their fan base and make a living from the music we all love. Right now we're still in the early stages of a long-term project that's already having a hugely positive effect on artists and new music. We've already paid US$500M to rightsholders so far and by the end of 2013 this number will reach US$1bn. Much of this money is being invested in nurturing new talent and producing great new music. We're 100% committed to making Spotify the most artist-friendly music service possible, and are constantly talking to artists and managers about how Spotify can help build their careers."
Unbelievable how they respond with corporate drivel. For me, this is the sign that no real human is at the helm and I'd rather keep downloading than give money to this faceless entity.
Spotify oddly enough is doing the right thing (by law) and paying for the copyrighted materials they use.
It's the "rightsholders" who aren't paying the artists. They're the ones who deserve your ire.
Australia's capital, Canberra is very effective.
It's a set of concentric circles that can be seen easily from a distance with all the politicians right in the bullseye.
The problem is there are a set of bunkers underneath Canberra.
Who would have thought that underneath Canberra was a place more boring than Canberra.
The point here probably being, that if your route to sydney is misbehaving, losing packets, being otherwise slow etc. you break it even more from the point where it's misbehaving and the system should reroute it around that point.
Not really, Don't break, isolate. If packets are going faster through the Melbourne link, the router should pick that up (lowest route cost), if worse comes to worse I can raise the cost of that route.
Breaking it more doesn't help, if there is a router misconfiguration, smashing the fibre with a sledgehammer will do nothing to help me. Instead of just a misconfigured router, I now have a misconfigured router and some broken glass to fix.
The closest thing we have here is replacing suspected bad with known good. I think the router might be misconfigured, so I replace the router with the last known working config to test. Even then, that's fixing the issue (or at least isolating the cause) not breaking it more.
1. Use my favorite torrent site, or
2. Check netflix
Not available in my country
check Amazon Instant video
Not available in my country
check vudu
Not available in my country
find a local Blockbuster store that hasn't shut down (unlikely)
Sign up, prepare to pay A$7 only to find out it hasn't been released... In my country.
And wont be released for at least 6 months.
Find a redbox (probably doesn't have it),
Not available in my country.
buy it at Walmart (don't want to), return to step 1.
No Walmart in my country, but I'll run with it. I could go down to JB HiFi, Target or Big W, prepare to pay $30 minmum and find out that it's either not released in my country yet or not in stock.
So...
Return to step 1.
Yep, bit torrent. Always available in my country.
Dearest media conglomerates,
You're probably not reading Slashdot but in case you are, I have X dollars to spend per month on entertainment, you can have a share in that but only if I find the price reasonable. Your artificial monopoly is gone and your competition is piracy, Seeing as you cant provide me with a cheaper service, provide me with superior service at a price point I find acceptable AND on a time table I find acceptable. Otherwise I'll go to your competition.
Choke and die, Erm, I mean have a fantastic day,
A regular Australian.
> STTNG is priced at $125 a season because there are people who want it that are willing to pay that much for it.
It's funny that Trek should be mentioned here because those shows are available on the pay-per-month streaming services now. There's really not much reason left to buy those sets at any price. Never mind an unrealistic one.
Which of these streaming services operate in Australia?
Paramount can keep wondering why I pirated all 7 seasons of TNG. Especially when they were asking A$70 a pop in 2012.
So if I have one broken leg, the best solution is to break another leg and maybe an arm?
Mechanical and electrical problems are radically different to biological ones as they dont self heal/mutate.
With a cell, you're attempting to force it into a reaction by breaking it more. We do this because we dont have the knowledge or experience to fix it ourselves. With networks it's the opposite, isolate the damage, route around it if need be and then fix the broken components. Yes that's a simple view, but the basis for fixing network issues.
If my route to Sydney is down, deliberately breaking my route to Melbourne wont help if there is a physical cable problem or some idiot down in the NOC changed the route cost to 10000 on the router. Nope, instead of one route to Australia down, I now have two.
these were missiles being laundered from Russia to NK through Cuba
North Korea and Russia share a border. There's no reason for them to attempt what you're suggesting.
Welcome to plausible deniability.
Israeli made weapons based on US designs are sold to Mujahadeen via 3rd parties (I.E. in Jordan, Pakistan). Russia does the same through other deniable parties, so does France (HTF do you think dictators get Exocet missiles). Mostly it's just excess stock and end of life weapons, but a 80's era mortar is still good for blowing up Infidels/Communists/Enemy of your choosing today.
Every weapons producing nation profits dirty little wars.
I thought we were past the "being surprised that websites get hacked" years ago.
This is not malware, it's a hacked site with annoying javascript. The only news here is how desperate some people are to show that OSX is vulnerable to malware - even when the malware never is installed on the system...
Erm, no.
This is still malware as it is code (software) deigned to perform a malicious action.
To be more specific it's "ransomware" and for a long, long time ransomware has been considered malware. Really, this one can trace its roots back to hoax viruses
What this means is that OSX users like yourself can no longer pretend your automagically protected. You're vulnerable to the same kinds of attacks as Windows.
I thought we were past the "being surprised that apple products get malware" stage years ago. This seems like a pretty run-of-the-mill scam. I can't really see what's notable about it. Someone help?
But this isn't malware... Or so the OSX fanboys say every time these things come up.
After that, they blame the user with one side of their mouth whilst blaming Windows for the problems of windows users with the other side. So really the fact we like seeing obnoxious OSX users stew in their own cognitive dissonance is the reason we keep seeing these stories. It's like watching a hobo fight with himself from a safe distance.
But really, all OS have long passed being the primary vulnerability for any system. Realistically they never were the biggest vulnerability. The user has always been the biggest security hole. The reason we're seeing more user target malware on OSX is simply because there are more users on that platform now. Malware has always been a numbers game, whether doing it for profit or street cred and for a long time the only thing protecting OSX users was the low numbers on that platform and it's time for OSX users to admit this (then start teaching themselves basic malware self preservation measures like not installing candy from strangers). Even Linux benefits from a small user base a bit even though it's pretty well targeted as a lot of critical infrastructure runs on it, very few home users do (so practically no soft targets) so few bother writing ransomware for it.
Evolution doesn't give a damn how much of an irresponsible moron you are, only how much you reproduce. And irresponsible morons are especially good at that.
Evolution doesn't give a crap how many kids you pop out. That only determines your survival (Natural Selection).
Evolution is primarily driven by a need to change.
I expected Slashdot to know the difference between Natural Selection and Evolution. I am disappoint.
Having the US to blame for everything helps pull the continent together. I'd like to see Europe cut itself off from Google, Apple. Ebay, et.al. It would be entertaining.
You've got that backwards.
It's not up to the EU to cut off Google, Ebay, et al. It's up to Google, Ebay, et al. to cut themselves off from Europe.
Apple is different, Apple has a lot of property in Europe the EU can seize for non compliance, then it becomes the case above.
Europeans can continue to use Google, Ebay and even Itunes as long as Google, Ebay and Apple permit access. The EU cant change that, what the EU can do is:
1) seize any property belonging to the company in Europe, this includes Imaginary, sorry, Intellectual Properties even if the IP is not granted by the EU (I.E. is granted by a treaty the EU is party to).
2) Prevent European entities from doing business with these companies.
Number 2 is the big kicker. Seeing as online business depend upon local content for revenue, (not just advertising, to sell to Swedes, Ebay needs Swedish sellers and Itunes needs Swedish media).
Mmm, really? Arab countries famously have laws prohibiting Israeli content in products. The US has laws outlawing such (http://www.bis.doc.gov/complianceandenforcement/antiboycottcompliance.htmt).
Once again, you have it wrong.
This isn't a boycott (I find it ironic that it's all fine and dandy for the US to boycott Iran, Cuba, et al. but if another country does the same to a US ally, well, we cant have that). Germany isn't saying "you cant operate in our territory" Germany is saying "if you want to do business in our territory, comply with our laws". So the choice of whether they do business in Germany lies with the company, not with Germany or the EU.
However Samsung wants to expand their foundry business badly.
What is your source for this?
The only reason they would want to expand their foundry business would be if it was hugely profitable, and offering Apple even bigger discounts than they already were getting would make it LESS profitable. Further, Samsung already can handle Apple's total chip requirements, so this wouldn't involve an expansion at all.
Samsung might not want to IDLE any of their foundries by losing Apple business, but with Android sales surging to 70% market share world wide, there is little risk of that having any long term effect.
This.
It's a case of Apple needing Samsung because Samsung can deliver the volume and quality Apple want.
Samsung is simply not vindictive, so they're not turning down the contract.
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Check out Sumatrapdf http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/free-pdf-reader.html. It's super fast and does not support javascript or actionscript in PDF's. I use it exclusively now.
Sumatra PDF used to be light, a mere 800 KB, I just installed the latest version, a whopping 3.6 MB. It's suffering the same form of featuritis as the other PDF readers I dumped because they became slow and unwieldy (Adobe and Foxit).
There is debate about this, and at least here in Europe, those with it are more and more living their own lives. The 17-year old daughter of a colleague has it - and she is not only learning the trade of a baker: she is preparing to live alone, in an apartment in the middle of the city. She already manages her own money and her own relationship with various administrative bodies. With her father's support, but still - this would have been unthinkable even ten years ago.
This is also happening in Australia.
They are teaching people with disabilities to live on their own, not just in halfway houses but on their own, managing most of their own affairs. Some are down to 1 hour a week with social workers, stuff the cant take care of on their own they know to save for that time.
A far cry from 40 years ago where kids with down syndrome were sterilised.
Oh god, the ethics debates on this one will be fantastic. What if we can reverse Downs Syndrome in full grown adults. By modern legal definitions those with it are not competent, but could we ethically force them to take the "cure" if they don't want to? What if a mother does not want to have it "fixed" in her unborn child, is she a competent parent?
I dont think you'll get much of a debate from those with down syndrome.
They are aware they are different, they are also acutely aware of how others treat them. They may not know how to use the word stigma, but they'd jump at a chance to have it removed.
Same for a down syndrome parent, the debate is pretty much a moot point for anyone who's ever work with a down syndrome kid or adult, let alone a parent with a kid with down syndrome.
Your big issue in reversing down syndrome in adults is that you'll then have a fully functioning adult with an education of a 7 yr old. Nothing insurmountable, but it's not like you can flick a switch and say "down syndrome be gone". It'll be a recovery that takes years.
So then have them go through the training as well. The top military had to go through it to get where they are, so why not the top corporate?
The top military are officers, not enlisted men. While enlisted soldiers can later go through officer's training, or even be promoted in extraordinary circumstances in wartime, generally military organizations aren't actually absolute meritocracies that promote people in stages all the way from the bottom to the top. Not that officers don't go through their own tough training, but some of the expectations are fundamentally different.
This,
With all three branches of (Australia's) military you can enlist as a regular soldier (seaman or airman) or as an officer. Regulars can be promoted or can opt to officer training (you'll need your CO's approval though). I.E. A regular enters the navy as a seaman an officer enters the academy as a Midshipman and is promoted to Acting Sub Lieutenant when they graduate. For a Seaman to get to Acting Sub Lieutenant without going through the academy (Read: on merit) they need to go through the NCO and warrant officer ranks but usually they still need to go to the academy.
Which is nothing like business where you get promoted for brown-nosing more than merit.
BTW, our military ranking system comes from the olden times (I.E. before the US even existed as a nation) when officers were aristocracy and soldiers were commoners and the two never intermingled. Even in the Napoleonic wars raising an officer from the ranks was considered very controversial. However over the decades/centuries the system has evolved into a "mostly meritocracy" (although in many 3rd world nations, the armies are still very nepotistic).
Not really, it's more like politics (lots of talking, some shouting but nothing ever gets done). MBA's like to pretend that business is war because it makes them feel like important generals, not just the douchebag with a nice suite they really are.
Business is not war precisely because it lacks the destruction and death that acompanies war. Even cold wars claim 1000's of lives.
Do you really need to ask that question?
In the mid 20th century we had corporations who practically had armies, we called it Fascism. In the modern day, we call them Mafia's.
Yeah right. Good luck with that. They'll never do it.
This kind of "training" is only for the workers. Managers are exempt.
Europe's a big enough market that we started building them a bit better. Mostly because it was too expensive to run one production line for crap American Cars and one for Decent Euro cars. They're not great, but they'll do 140,000 miles.
The problem with trying to break into Europe is extreme protectionism. No barriers between Germany and France, but between Germany and anywhere outside the EU is a 25% tax barrier.
This is why Europeans have to get a Euro car that does 200,000 K's instead of a Japanese car that does 500,000 K's (I sold my EK Civic at 300,000 K's, if the next owner takes care of it it'll run for another 300,000 K's, hell if he runs it into the ground it'll reach 400,000 K's before it dies).
It's also why Ford has different cars for USDM and EUDM (US Domestic Market and EU Domestic Market) because to be competitive Ford have to manufacture the car in the EU so to make it cheaper they use smaller engines, less features as standard. ADM (Australian) and USD cars are closer despite being RHD to LHD.
Mouse control in menus is fine if the game itself is controlled with a mouse, such as FPS or RTS. But some games are played with the keyboard only or with a USB gamepad, such as platformers, fighting games, and falling block games. What advantage does mouse control in menus or in the game bring for those genres?
Anything you use the control pad's analogue stick for can be done better and faster with a mouse.
Not all games use the analogue sticks though, most notably the three genre's you mentioned. These three genre's are so simple that the platform you play them on hardly matters, control schemes are so limited they are easily replicated on a touch screen (one of the worst game controllers in existence due to a complete lack of tactile feedback). Even fighting games which are the mainstay of the console can be easily replicated on the PC, the reason most are better on the console is that consoles are made for spilt screen gaming and PC's aren't.
I prefer fighting games and platformers on consoles because I play these games with friends in the same room, but dont delude yourself that the console controller is superior.
Now simple games present no deficiencies with the console controller, but anything more complex than a platformer shows glaring deficiencies.
The reply from Spotify:
"Spotify's goal is to grow a service which people love, ultimately want to pay for, and which will provide the financial support to the music industry necessary to invest in new talent and music," a company spokesperson said today. "We want to help artists connect with their fans, find new audiences, grow their fan base and make a living from the music we all love. Right now we're still in the early stages of a long-term project that's already having a hugely positive effect on artists and new music. We've already paid US$500M to rightsholders so far and by the end of 2013 this number will reach US$1bn. Much of this money is being invested in nurturing new talent and producing great new music. We're 100% committed to making Spotify the most artist-friendly music service possible, and are constantly talking to artists and managers about how Spotify can help build their careers."
Unbelievable how they respond with corporate drivel. For me, this is the sign that no real human is at the helm and I'd rather keep downloading than give money to this faceless entity.
Spotify oddly enough is doing the right thing (by law) and paying for the copyrighted materials they use.
It's the "rightsholders" who aren't paying the artists. They're the ones who deserve your ire.
Which two weeks? Do you think artists just vomit out tunes in the studio? Maybe you're listening to the wrong music.
Rap, techno, remix and electronica.
Seriously, if they take longer than 2 weeks to excrete that crap they simply aren't trying.
Then again, I cant call them artists either, so you might be right.
Australia's capital, Canberra is very effective.
It's a set of concentric circles that can be seen easily from a distance with all the politicians right in the bullseye.
The problem is there are a set of bunkers underneath Canberra.
Who would have thought that underneath Canberra was a place more boring than Canberra.
How is a broken leg a network? Did you even read the story?
Its an analogy.
/. understands. If I have one smashed up car, will smashing up the road make it fixed?
If I have one problem, it's not fixed by creating another.
OK, I'll try to put it into a language
The point here probably being, that if your route to sydney is misbehaving, losing packets, being otherwise slow etc. you break it even more from the point where it's misbehaving and the system should reroute it around that point.
Not really, Don't break, isolate. If packets are going faster through the Melbourne link, the router should pick that up (lowest route cost), if worse comes to worse I can raise the cost of that route. Breaking it more doesn't help, if there is a router misconfiguration, smashing the fibre with a sledgehammer will do nothing to help me. Instead of just a misconfigured router, I now have a misconfigured router and some broken glass to fix.
The closest thing we have here is replacing suspected bad with known good. I think the router might be misconfigured, so I replace the router with the last known working config to test. Even then, that's fixing the issue (or at least isolating the cause) not breaking it more.
If I want to rent a movie, I have to either:
1. Use my favorite torrent site, or
2. Check netflix
Not available in my country
check Amazon Instant video
Not available in my country
check vudu
Not available in my country
find a local Blockbuster store that hasn't shut down (unlikely)
Sign up, prepare to pay A$7 only to find out it hasn't been released... In my country. And wont be released for at least 6 months.
Find a redbox (probably doesn't have it),
Not available in my country.
buy it at Walmart (don't want to), return to step 1.
No Walmart in my country, but I'll run with it. I could go down to JB HiFi, Target or Big W, prepare to pay $30 minmum and find out that it's either not released in my country yet or not in stock.
So...
Return to step 1.
Yep, bit torrent. Always available in my country.
Dearest media conglomerates,
You're probably not reading Slashdot but in case you are, I have X dollars to spend per month on entertainment, you can have a share in that but only if I find the price reasonable. Your artificial monopoly is gone and your competition is piracy, Seeing as you cant provide me with a cheaper service, provide me with superior service at a price point I find acceptable AND on a time table I find acceptable. Otherwise I'll go to your competition.
Choke and die, Erm, I mean have a fantastic day,
A regular Australian.
> STTNG is priced at $125 a season because there are people who want it that are willing to pay that much for it.
It's funny that Trek should be mentioned here because those shows are available on the pay-per-month streaming services now. There's really not much reason left to buy those sets at any price. Never mind an unrealistic one.
Which of these streaming services operate in Australia?
Paramount can keep wondering why I pirated all 7 seasons of TNG. Especially when they were asking A$70 a pop in 2012.
So if I have one broken leg, the best solution is to break another leg and maybe an arm?
Mechanical and electrical problems are radically different to biological ones as they dont self heal/mutate.
With a cell, you're attempting to force it into a reaction by breaking it more. We do this because we dont have the knowledge or experience to fix it ourselves. With networks it's the opposite, isolate the damage, route around it if need be and then fix the broken components. Yes that's a simple view, but the basis for fixing network issues.
If my route to Sydney is down, deliberately breaking my route to Melbourne wont help if there is a physical cable problem or some idiot down in the NOC changed the route cost to 10000 on the router. Nope, instead of one route to Australia down, I now have two.
Everyone knows you use potatoes. Nobody wants to root around in a container full of mouldy potatoes.
Lord of War
And I'm yet to see an inspector open a crate marked "nuclear waste".
these were missiles being laundered from Russia to NK through Cuba
North Korea and Russia share a border. There's no reason for them to attempt what you're suggesting.
Welcome to plausible deniability.
Israeli made weapons based on US designs are sold to Mujahadeen via 3rd parties (I.E. in Jordan, Pakistan). Russia does the same through other deniable parties, so does France (HTF do you think dictators get Exocet missiles). Mostly it's just excess stock and end of life weapons, but a 80's era mortar is still good for blowing up Infidels/Communists/Enemy of your choosing today.
Every weapons producing nation profits dirty little wars.
I thought we were past the "being surprised that websites get hacked" years ago.
This is not malware, it's a hacked site with annoying javascript. The only news here is how desperate some people are to show that OSX is vulnerable to malware - even when the malware never is installed on the system...
Erm, no.
This is still malware as it is code (software) deigned to perform a malicious action.
To be more specific it's "ransomware" and for a long, long time ransomware has been considered malware. Really, this one can trace its roots back to hoax viruses
What this means is that OSX users like yourself can no longer pretend your automagically protected. You're vulnerable to the same kinds of attacks as Windows.
I thought we were past the "being surprised that apple products get malware" stage years ago. This seems like a pretty run-of-the-mill scam. I can't really see what's notable about it. Someone help?
But this isn't malware... Or so the OSX fanboys say every time these things come up.
After that, they blame the user with one side of their mouth whilst blaming Windows for the problems of windows users with the other side. So really the fact we like seeing obnoxious OSX users stew in their own cognitive dissonance is the reason we keep seeing these stories. It's like watching a hobo fight with himself from a safe distance.
But really, all OS have long passed being the primary vulnerability for any system. Realistically they never were the biggest vulnerability. The user has always been the biggest security hole. The reason we're seeing more user target malware on OSX is simply because there are more users on that platform now. Malware has always been a numbers game, whether doing it for profit or street cred and for a long time the only thing protecting OSX users was the low numbers on that platform and it's time for OSX users to admit this (then start teaching themselves basic malware self preservation measures like not installing candy from strangers). Even Linux benefits from a small user base a bit even though it's pretty well targeted as a lot of critical infrastructure runs on it, very few home users do (so practically no soft targets) so few bother writing ransomware for it.
Where are the mass arrests?
Get the guns out, people with bigger guns show up and there you have your mass arrests.
Or mass shooting, whichever comes first.
If this continues, every item sold within the US is going to have a 89-page disclaimer.
I believe Apple already serves this with every iTunes update.
Case dismissed!
And none of it is legally enforceable.
Case re-opened.
Mod parent up, was just gonna say this.
Evolution doesn't give a damn how much of an irresponsible moron you are, only how much you reproduce. And irresponsible morons are especially good at that.
Evolution doesn't give a crap how many kids you pop out. That only determines your survival (Natural Selection).
Evolution is primarily driven by a need to change.
I expected Slashdot to know the difference between Natural Selection and Evolution. I am disappoint.
Having the US to blame for everything helps pull the continent together. I'd like to see Europe cut itself off from Google, Apple. Ebay, et.al. It would be entertaining.
You've got that backwards.
It's not up to the EU to cut off Google, Ebay, et al. It's up to Google, Ebay, et al. to cut themselves off from Europe.
Apple is different, Apple has a lot of property in Europe the EU can seize for non compliance, then it becomes the case above.
Europeans can continue to use Google, Ebay and even Itunes as long as Google, Ebay and Apple permit access. The EU cant change that, what the EU can do is:
1) seize any property belonging to the company in Europe, this includes Imaginary, sorry, Intellectual Properties even if the IP is not granted by the EU (I.E. is granted by a treaty the EU is party to).
2) Prevent European entities from doing business with these companies.
Number 2 is the big kicker. Seeing as online business depend upon local content for revenue, (not just advertising, to sell to Swedes, Ebay needs Swedish sellers and Itunes needs Swedish media).
Mmm, really? Arab countries famously have laws prohibiting Israeli content in products. The US has laws outlawing such (http://www.bis.doc.gov/complianceandenforcement/antiboycottcompliance.htmt).
Once again, you have it wrong.
This isn't a boycott (I find it ironic that it's all fine and dandy for the US to boycott Iran, Cuba, et al. but if another country does the same to a US ally, well, we cant have that). Germany isn't saying "you cant operate in our territory" Germany is saying "if you want to do business in our territory, comply with our laws". So the choice of whether they do business in Germany lies with the company, not with Germany or the EU.
Then where would Samsung turn to for their product designs?
They'll just have to rip of Samsung's old designs themselves and cut out the middleman.
However Samsung wants to expand their foundry business badly.
What is your source for this?
The only reason they would want to expand their foundry business would be if it was hugely profitable, and offering Apple even bigger discounts than they already were getting would make it LESS profitable. Further, Samsung already can handle Apple's total chip requirements, so this wouldn't involve an expansion at all.
Samsung might not want to IDLE any of their foundries by losing Apple business, but with Android sales surging to 70% market share world wide, there is little risk of that having any long term effect.
This.
It's a case of Apple needing Samsung because Samsung can deliver the volume and quality Apple want.
Samsung is simply not vindictive, so they're not turning down the contract.