Comment Re:It's a net loss (Score 1) 254
It's not like Xbox360s are expensive by the way, they are cheap as hell second hand now, probably no more than twice the price of the DVD drive you purchased, and no, that won't be 'more money for them'.
I completely agree. Other than a few reputable research journals, I'm not aware of any groundbreaking news reporting being done by any of the 'popular' publications. I can understand paying for a copy of the paper though, when you actually get something tangible in return, but for online news? It's just data, that costs next to nothing to replicate, and more often than not incorporates ads and banners anyway!
I mean, where are they putting them all? Are they actually using them as PS3s (case, PSU and all), or are they ripping the motherboards out and shoving them in a rack of some kind? The former does sound like a rather romantic hack, but surely it is terribly inefficient with power requirements, cooling, cabling, etc?
Or do they just not care because the project was such a bargain (compared to the alternatives)?
You can find them FOSS substitutes for their existing software
There is more than one reason why this is an excellent suggestion. Other than the cost issue, often employers will incorporate training time into the software decision making process. TFS says that they are willing to hang about waiting for shareware timers to count down to avoid paying - surely that time could be spent learning how to use tar or gzip?
Unless they were to visual verify every line of every code of every applications (there are what, over 100,000 apps?) then there is no way they can possibly prevent all malware.
And yet, all of those 100,000 apps have gone through Apple's verification and approval process. What exactly is involved in that? I would say checking for malicous activity and programs attempting to gain access to privilaged information would be the bear minimum, surely?
IANAL, but a content provider that facilitates distribution of malware/spyware through its portal must be culpable to some extent?
I use a Mac at home and don't have to worry about such things
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/16/2327246 I was with you up until the very end. Why ruin a perfectly good comment with overconfidence and arrogance?
The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected. -- The Unix Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972