Comment Re: I have seen some malware trying to infect my M (Score 1) 172
The stupidity is using file extensions as file types. But that horse has long since bolted.
The stupidity is using file extensions as file types. But that horse has long since bolted.
File extensions are absolutely irrelevant. If your malware security relies in any way on users knowing what file extensions are it's broken.
There's no confusing programs for data on Macs as any downloaded executable that isn't signed won't run without explicitly allowing it (individually or by changing the default security setting).
Neither the fact that other people have repeated it extensively before, nor whines about "political correctness" excuse your homophobia.
First of all plenty of users are still in 10.6.xx and further more every "power" user changes the settings.
Only about 8% are still on Snow Leopard. And you have no idea what setting people have for this. The smart money is on most people still having the default setting - with is not to allow untrusted apps. I'm certainly a power user and I still have the default setting. On the extremely rare occasions I want to run something downloaded from the internet that doesn't have a security cert, I use the one off button on System Preferences to just approve that one binary.
For some reason there is no: "never ask again for this app" option.
Once you've approved it, it never will ask again for that app. Of course if you then download another version, that's no longer the same app.
Non-App Store programs often check for software updates on a regular basis. Worst are those that autorun a daemon specifically for this: Adobe is one of the worst offenders (and indeed many other software crimes.)
Have you spotted any other common categories of why they might do so?
people in the UK are just generally unfamiliar with alternatives (as was I before living here).
That may be true but doesn't apply to me. I've lived for years in two other countries besides the UK and have been hospitalised and had a serious operation in a third. And I know a bit about the US system from following US political news.
I don't know about the Australian system so can't argue with you there. But your original post seemed to be more than a little inspired by right wing private sector good/public sector bad ideology. And in the UK that has not been true.
Furthermore, whilst the American "Obamacare" system is still private, it was characterised as "socialized healthcare" and predicted to be a failure. But in fact other than some short term issues with the web site, the outcomes of Obamacare so far have been very positive.
And I only had to pay the gap between the base rate (covered by medicare) and the private provider. Here in the UK I have to pay the whole lot.
Good. There are better things to do with NHS funds than using them to subsidise private patients. One of the reasons the NHS is more efficient than private insurance health systems is that it's a single payer system. Diluting it by encouraging people to go private would be a bad step.
If someone was bent on ethnic cleansing, limiting who can travel to a new planet would have the same net effect.
The plus is that this genetically cleansed group would be having a bad time of it. Living on a planet with no outdoor atmosphere or flora and fauna would be pretty miserable.
Sending one women, and then having the inseminated with a hand picked material will have a greater chance of birth a genetically superior child.
Blond and blue eyed of course.
Do you (or your employer) have to do annual insurance paperwork?
The NHS has demonstrated to me the absolute categorical failure of large centralised planning (the same thing that undoes communism).
The problem with that argument is that the NHS has progressively got worse as it's moved from central planning to every more devolved decision making and private ownership.
And the US comparison is bogus. They don't have universal coverage there, and still manage to pay 2.5 times more per capita for healthcare. If the NHS budget was multiplied by 2.5, then there wouldn't be any waiting lists - and they'd still have universal coverage.
Similarly, the UK train system has only got worse as services were privatised. The franchisee for the East Coast Line pulled out prematurely in 2009, and since then it;s been run by the public sector. And under government hands it's the most efficient of all the franchises. Whilst the private sector organisations take subsidies, the East Coast line actually returns a profit to the government.
Yet still, because of ignorant right wing ideology, the government is attempting to put this service back in to private hands. Insane.
I hadn't realised the police had access to petrol station forecourt cameras. You're right. It's not universal, but apparently some petrol stations do feed data from their private ANPR systems to the police.
Always? Blimey, that predates Colossus.
I think the point of not issuing tax discs now is that all enforcement work is done with Automatic Number Plate Recognition. Those cameras have been around for a few years, so they probably stopped manually checking some time ago.
Last year I had a van with an expired tax disc that I needed to take to a motor auction. I planned my route very carefully to stay off the motorway and out in the sticks to be sure I didn't pass any ANPR cameras, and there was less chance of encountering an ANPR equipped police car.
and of course the cost savings of not having to manufacture, print, and post the decals every year, and the lower government labor costs from an entirely automated online system, will surely be passed on to taxpayers in the form of lower fees, right? right?? RIGHT???
Of course not. The UK is still recovering from the crash of 2008. It's a time of austerity. Tax cuts need to be specifically targeted only towards people who might donate to the Conservative party coffers.
The US motto is "In God We Trust". One imaginary being is no more ridiculous than another.
It's the coat of arms of the British monarch (The Crown). And the unicorn is has some Scottish significance. It may well date back to a time when Unicorns were thought to be real! BTW, the Scottish Unicorn was featured on Last Week Tonight, the week before the Scottish independence vote. Pretty funny.
2.4 statute miles of surgical tubing at Yale U. = 1 I.V.League
