Malware is a numbers game. Windows used to be the main player by a much larger margin and criminals knew that code over a poor or rare windows exploit generally infected far more computers than even some of the worst mac exploits.

As Mac OS gains more and more users (and similarly any other platform like IOS, Android, and *gasp* Linux) they become more and more vulnerable because rarer and rarer exploits still result in powerful botnets.

Apple has never been "virus proof," they just never had the numbers to make a lot of exploits worth the coding time.

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-interkin3tic is a Slashdot troll who has no idea that a patent application is not a patent.

The article specifically points out this is a patent application and with that status comes no legal protection of any sort. The case either has yet to be reviewed or is in the process of being reviewed by anyone at the USPTO. It is only the applicant at this point who shows broad ignorance of iphoto or other similar tagging applications. This application will most likely be shot down or highly modified and limited if it does ever issue as a patent.

Of course you have - and guess what, this is not a patent, but merely an application.

There are still many rounds of prosecution to go and the claim language will doubtfully look anything like it currently does.

Patent Applications != Patents.

Hello pseudscience!

Show me a controlled study and maybe... but there are so many problems with your statement it's frightening.

Some people just meltdown under the pressure...

I mean buckle... Buckle!

They don't already?!

I've had my computer, "Cardboardbox," up and running for 3 years now!

It even started out running in the MSI box it came in with a couple modifications (i.e. Duct Tape) to the box.

As I said in one of my FB posts:

The whole zodiac system is a CANCER on our society.

We should LIBRArate ourselves from it before our whole society ends in PICES.

Personally I'm not very GlaD right now...

They said there'd be cake.

Actually, Kill-switch based malware is much less valuable in reality than other types of hacks. If this were a server processor, I could see the value in an enhanced remote server-kill. Because these are basic home-use processors though, remote kill viruses probably won't get much farther than proof-of-concept.

Botnets are much more lucrative in the malware world - processor uptime is much more valuable than processor downtime.

You know, that one year of the linux desktop we always talk about...

Man, it's so long ago I can't even remember it now.

Ahh - cheers mate, I was also quite surprised.

Thought that was the argumentative standpoint, but after a re-read and the above comment it's clearly not.

I actually wouldn't be terribly surprised if both the income and life expectancy are off. Most countries have an average income that's 2/3rds of their per-capita GDP (which can more accurately be measured by exports) considering South Korea's Per-capita GDP is $1,900, the actual average income is more likely to be closer to $1,250 (not that it is guaranteed to be)

So yes, there are very likely some serious discrepancies with countries like South Korea that view the rest of the world as enemies.

While that may be true, do you think this graph was made off of a census specifically sanctioned within the borders of North Korea by Hans Rosling himself, or do you think he's going by existing census and income information?!

I'm not saying the data is correct, I'm saying that dot in the lower left quadrant of the graph is Afghanistan and not North Korea.

What are you talking about?

While the world's life expectancy has obviously increased, there is a very clear best-fit line that can be drawn at any time with quite obviously a very strong statistical significance.

P.S. here's a great map of life expectancy by country

It's pretty clear the lowest life expectancy in Asia is Afghanistan.

Actually no, it isn't

Given that North Korea has an average life expectancy of 63.8 and a per-capita income of $1,700, that would put it solidly above the 50 year line. The North Korea dot is most likely the one slightly above and to the left of India.