Comment: Re:a bird in hand (Score 2) 336
Comment: Re:US Government Does it Too (Score 5, Informative) 245
Persian Gulf naming dispute
"In recent years, due to increased cooperation with Arab states of the Persian Gulf, various branches of the U.S. armed forces have issued directives to their members to use the "Arabian Gulf" when operating in the area ("Persian Gulf" is still used in official publications and websites), partially to follow local conventions, or simply to follow local laws that ban the use of "Persian Gulf", e.g. in the United Arab Emirates."
As it's bordered roughly on half by Arabian countries and half by Persian (Iran), there's a strong case for either.
Well I suppose if you ignore everything else, including the fact that up until the 60's those Arabian countries were perfectly fine with the name, then yes, they have just a strong claim.
It has been called the Persian Gulf since around 550 BC.
Comment: Seems more approprate to Apple (Score 1) 337
Comment: Re:No one buys Apple because they have to (Score 1) 330
The force is applied before and after the sale, beforehand in deliberately limiting design and implementation
[citation needed]
afterward in lawsuits and other threats to enforce those limitations
[citation needed] No seriously, anything at all to backup your claims?
Comment: I don't have a cosmo account (Score 3, Funny) 197
Comment: Fantastic Reliability (Score 5, Interesting) 194
Comment: Re:Ah, Yes, the Tinfoil Hat Game! (Score 1) 267
Comment: Re:Only good for testing the model (Score 2) 77
Comment: Re:Not hacking (Score -1, Troll) 153
Comment: Re:Passwords are for philistines (Score 4, Insightful) 167
Comment: Re:Macs don't get hacked (Score 3, Insightful) 429
Aside from this, the general public does not seem vulnerable:
Security researchers have uncovered yet another Mac Trojan in the wild, this time hiding inside pirated versions of the Mac OS X image editing application GraphicConverter.
Yep, idiots doing idiot things because they're idiots. The OS doesn't protect you from yourself., when you tell it to install something it does it.
Comment: Re:that's for virtualization. (Score 2) 305
Comment: Re:Sanity vs. politically motivated scaremongering (Score 4, Insightful) 267
Comment: Re:And? (Score 1) 50
Don't be so lazy
Oh, and this is a news aggregator, not a news site, there are no journalists here.