"nobody forces you to take student loan" is a common false choice

1) Going to college at all is a choice, and lots of people could go without.

2) I did go to college - but I worked all through college EXACTLY so that I could keep student loans small. I left with just 11k of debt.

3) Pick your college with a consideration of costs in mind as well as what you want to study. When choosing a school I found that made a pretty large difference.

And yet, costs have not re-normalized to meet that new reality.

I don't think you understand. There's nothing to make prices "normalize" because anyone who wants a cheap student loan can get one. It's a pipeline from the government, to universities through any number of students - indeed the more students there are the better the money "bandwidth" to the schools.

The schools don't care because they get the money. It's the taxpayers who have to tax in on the chin WHEN there are massive defaults because not many people can really make back $300k on a basket-weaving major (without even the underwater specialization these days because who can be arsed?)

You don't understand how malware works, do you? It's a market. Money, the almighty buck, is the driving force of it.

Then you would ABSOLUTELY target iOS preferentially.

People use those same devices when proclaiming how huge market share is - which means people still buy them. So they should be included in discussions on security.

Blackberry prioritized security over extensibility.

They had a built in man in the middle attack. I would argue they NEVER prioritized security, just presented a strong illusion of it.

It would be more accurate to say, Blackberry prioritized email above everything. And look where that got them... but it is not true of the iPhone or Android.

There is malware in Google Play.

There are also exploits like the recent SMS attack on Android via Facebook ads.

You don't need to side-load to be compromised on Android, and most non-technical people have very few options for updating devices if there are security patches in newer Android versions.

So, take your pick, run only Apple approved code (which as we saw recently isn't immune to malware anyway) or actually own your device and take some responsibility for it.

I agree, but what I am saying is that for non-technical users they simply CANNOT take a proper level of responsibility for an Android device - they are simply not able to.

I'm still okay with recommending Android to non-technical users, given that most of them manage just fine on Macs and PCs that face the same primary vector for attack

But with computers there is no really secure alternative (though I would still argue in this case Macs are more secure, since they manage updates in a way it's more likely to happen for non-technical users).

With phones there is an alternative that we know is more secure - the iPhone. That is why I don't think it's right to steer non-technical users to a platform where they simply are not able to manage risk well.

And it's not just downloading trojans that's the issue - it's really nasty stuff like the recent Android SMS exploit where just getting an SMS can infect you. And since so few hardware makers do updates with any frequency, there's not even a good plan for how those users could be automatically protected.

There's no way the market share on Android explains the malware for the device; Android is not 98% of the smartphone market, but it DOES have 98% of the malware.

This is exactly why for any non-technical user I cannot recommend Android. It's too dangerous for people who are not technically ept enough to properly manage security or know when something is fishy.

The slow iOS-ification of the OS doesn't count?

Since nothing like that happened with Mavericks, no.

Mavericks drops another set of iOS apps onto OS X

WTF? You need to buy better rum man.

I don't remember when they added their version of the Start Screen (Launchpad), but it's there, and you can't get rid of it.

a) It was a few versions ago, NOT Mavericks
b) You never have to use it (I don't).
c) It's not in my sidebar so you can get rid of it if you want.

I think the point of the post was big corps run DC

Which I agreed with - EXCEPT for Hollywood, which just run Democrats. Deny the truth of that, I dare you. Hollywood is primarily Democrats, and exerts vast influence over them.

And the producer of the camera (or any other discrete component) can't be responsible for drivers instead of the OS why?

They are - just as they were in the PC era.

And it will work out just as well.

This has all happened before, and will all happen again. Not just a TV show tagline, it's the tech industry in a nutshell.

I'm just telling you what you will GET, not what you WANT.

In reality we WANT many things we cannot GET. That is life.

The new Thief has a similar level: a haunted asylum. It has a shock scare early on (you will predict it, too obvious) and a few chills within but isn't nearly as scary as Shalebridge, not by a longshot.

Shalebridge still freaks me out.

I played through Dishonored several times because I was needing a stealth fix. The method of gameplay does affect the outcome but the number of those outcomes isn't huge (think Mass Effect 3's Pick-A-Colour ending). Dishonored was far too easy, I play on the hardest difficulty and ghosted it ending with a happy cutscene ending, hardest and killed everyone where plague rats ran amok and the end cutscene was rather grim and everything in between.

The Blink spell and Dark Vision spells made the game a walk in the park.

It's a very good game and does pay homage to the Thief series in a few parts. If you see it on sale, it's worth a buy if only for another type of stealthy-type game.