Macs have never been immune to viruses.

the reason windows needs AV protection to run safely is because one account can overwrite critical OS files replacing them with malware infested fake software, and everyone by default starts out with ability to install any program including malware that later will get the special administrator privileges (on a reboot) needed to permanently infect the machine.

heartbleed and shellshock are nasty but a well hardened install will not be a problem, as the users dumb enough to install bad software generally need to ask someone to do that for them. and yes i realize they can run any command and possibly as root with shellshock if your cgi-bin is running things as root. seems to me that with Apache needing to run things as user Apache or httpd it was quite the oversight to let cgi-bin run as root in the first place!

these are all really great questions and I would like to know the answers. Meanwhile, here's a bit of extra info from TFA: "The reddit.com search returns a web page containing the list of botnet C&C servers and ports published by criminals in comments to the post minecraftserverlists under the account vtnhiaovyd." so its clear that the user vtnhiaovyd is a 14yo minecraft fan who probably developed this extensive botnet as a way to farm gold or whatever you do in minecraft.

Windows machines don't count. They're designed to be backdoored. Apple's actually are supposed to be secure.

The transmission vector has changed in the past. It will change in the future.

Consider...doctors who knew what they were doing, wore protective suits and underwent decontamination procedures regularly still contracted the virus and several have died.

So if you sat next to the guy on the plane, rode in the cab after he did, etc....No Worries! (cough cough...literally)

> Didn't John Carmack of ID Software vanished voxel-based engines back in the 1990's as being technically inferior

/sarcasm That is why Mojang was bought for $2.5 billion dollars from Microsoft because it had an inferior voxel engine. :-)

Oh wait. Voxel engines are NOT the problem. It is the world interaction that either breaks or makes the games. Successful games are about FUN first, graphics second, regardless of what sequelitis EA & Ubisoft is trying to shovel this year.

I have lost 75lbs. Part of it was exercise, and the other part is cutting out Diet food from my Diet. If I want something sweet, I eat something with Real Sugar. If I want something fattening then I will eat something fattening, like with real butter.

I am not about organic and all natural. But you should focus more on foods that you know of. They will tend to fill you up and stop the craving. Diet food, doesn't fill you up or solve your craving. So you eat more of it.

If artificial sweeteners are actually giving some people diabetes by disrupting their sugar absorption, then that is indirectly leading to their weight gain through the problems caused by diabetes or at least a diabetes-like state in their blood stream. It doesn't mean that the artificial sweetener itself is directly causing the weight gain.

Disappointed this submission didn't link to the article in New Scientist which does a better job explaining the paper.

the deniers are saying "its not happening" when every piece of evidence in the world (literally, the world) says "yes it is".

in scientific debate, there are many places to have disagreement and debate. but reality itself isnt one of them.

Apple always deny there is a problem, even after they fixed it. They denied the iPhone 4 antenna problems, but offered customers a free rubber bumper anyway. They denied problems with overheating MacBook Pros, but replaced the CPU boards anyway. They denied problems with moisture sensors but added exceptions to their warranty policies anyway. They denied iPod battery problems but reduced the replacement price from $250 to $50 anyway. They denied retina screen problems with their laptops but replaced ghosting ones anyway.

I imagine they will just quietly fix the problem and pretend it never existed. Probably their lawyers telling them to admit nothing, since most of these issues end up as lawsuits.

Because there's no other options than "lose everything" or "put it all on someone else's computer?"

I expect that sort of non-thinking response from the crowd over at Yahoo, but c'mon man - this is /., we expect more thinky from our community.