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Comment: Re:US Government Does it Too (Score 5, Informative) 245

Persian Gulf Veterans would like to have a word with you.

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: Re:Macs don't get hacked (Score 3, Insightful) 429

by 0racle (#39585231) Attached to: Flashback Trojan Hits 600,000 Macs and Counting

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.

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