So you don't like kittens??
You cruel heartless bastard! We have a term for you all. You are called Ed users.
But... but... "Ed is the standard text editor:" when I use an editor, I don't want eight extra KILOBYTES of worthless help screens and cursor positioning code! I just want an EDitor!! Not a “viitor”. Not a “emacsitor”. Those aren't even WORDS!!!! ED! ED! ED IS THE STANDARD!!!
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It was a "free upgrade" to a paid service. Such a deal!
What part of
"The Windows Upgrade to Subscription tool, found in the latest Windows Insider builds, helps to manage certain volume licensing upgrades from Windows 10 Pro Anniversary Update to Windows 10 Enterprise. This binary file is not associated with the free consumer upgrade offering nor is it applicable to consumer Windows editions."
Did you miss?
I know, picking on Microsoft is still popular, even rightly so at times, and they might as well be lying or maybe tell the truth now and make a 360 later on, but still...
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Even though I don't use those services, I just tried your links. Spotify works and Pandora works as well (Music plays fine). Hulu is the only one that does not work without flash.
Interesting... what browser/OS combination? The latest Safari complains in exactly the same way.
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Does anything but ads actually use Flash in this day and age? I haven't had it installed for several years!
Let's see... these are just some results using Firefox 41.0.1 on OS X Mavericks:
Spotify: "To enjoy Spotify, please install Adobe Flash. It's free."
Pandora: "In order to use Pandora internet radio, please upgrade to a more current browser or install a newer version of Flash (v.10 or later)."
Hulu: "Hulu requires Flash Player 11.0.1.152 or higher. Please download and install the latest version of Flash Player before continuing."
I'm sure there are plenty more, but just these three are enough to prove that you're dead wrong -- or just trolling. And no, there's no love lost between Flash and me, either.
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So no, I was not the one "Deflecting" (the fact that you were trying to pull the wool over my, and all readers-of-your-comment's eyes); that would be, er, you.
Sigh. I'm counting 24 posts from you on this topic. If you're on your little crusade or just get a kick out of defending Apple no matter what, be my guest. I would feel very embarrassed, but hey! whatever rocks your boat.
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Nice try, but no phattie.
Look, it's a big mess and we'll probably never know how big it really is. You can deflect all you want and I could nitpick as well as you, but what's the point? Let's just say that Apple's review process leaves a lot to be desired and leave at that, okay?
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The very first thing Apple should do is admit that it is, in fact, possible for malware to get past their screening process.
This meme needs to FINALLY be taken out back and SHOT: As I said elsewhere in this thread; I don't think that APPLE has ever said that. Instead, it seems to be almost universally Fandroids that SAY that Apple (or their Users) have said that.
Okay, I'll byte: The safest place to download apps for your Mac is the Mac App Store. Apple reviews each app before it’s accepted by the store
Yes, that's about the Mac App Store. Do you want something about the App Store? No problem: We review all apps submitted to the App Store and Mac App Store to ensure they are reliable, perform as expected, and are free of offensive material
It seems as official as it can get, don't you think?
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If you're not using HTML5 by now, you're a fucking dinosaur.
Fair enough, but where are the authoring tools then? Coding everything by hand might be fun for a "look ma, no Flash!" demo, but a full blown application? Not so much. And don't get me started about Google, Apple, etc. pushing their slightly different flavour of HTML5...
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Fact: I'm older than you are and I was around when Pac-Man was brand new. Nobody but arcade-going nerds played Pac-Man or any video games, really.
That you are older than the OP might even be a fact, but another fact is that a song about a video game that, according to you, "nobody played" peaked at #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States in March 1982.
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If only FreeBSD would boot my old 08 Macbook but only Ubuntu works on it...someone make a howto if it's possible, Linux blows.
Assuming you're serious and the problem is that you can't get FreeBSD to boot after the installation, check the post installation steps ("gpart" section towards the end) -- they fixed my late 2009 iMac.
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And while Intel will "begin offering 3D NAND drives in the second half of next year" Samsung has been doing just that for a few months. For insgtance, here a review from last June: Samsung 850 Pro SSD Review: 3D Vertical NAND Hits Desktop Storage. But, then again, since when has IT World needed any facts?
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Heartbleed was caused by a FreeBSD bug,
No. Heartbleed is a security bug in the OpenSSL cryptography library. OpenSSL, in turn, is an open-source implementation of the SSL and TLS protocols vailable for most Unix-like operating systems (including Solaris, Linux, Mac OS X and the various open source BSD operating systems), OpenVMS and Microsoft Windows. See? Not OS specific.
Shellshock was caused by a GNU bash bug.
Correct but, again, not OS specific.
Both projects are independent of the Linux Kernel Project. That's the project managed by Linus. So blaming Linus management for the lost confidence on open source security is, at least, unbased.
True, but the article didn't mention either and, let's face it, a kernel with no applications to run wouldn't be much fun -- or useful.
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And the bugs this article refers to are BSD's and GNU's fault.
Would you care to elaborate? The article talks about Heartbleed and Shellshock bugs which, affecting userland components, aren't OS specific.
Actually, I find it odd that you singled out the BSD family, especially considering that bash is not part of the default FreeBSD install and, even if a user decides to install it,
20140926:
AFFECTS: users of shells/bash
AUTHOR: bdrewery@FreeBSD.org
Bash supports a feature of exporting functions in the environment with
export -f. Running bash with exported functions in the environment will
then import those functions into the environment of the script being ran.
This resulted in security issues CVE-2014-6271 and CVE-2014-7169, commonly
known as "shellshock". It also can result in poorly written scripts being
tricked into running arbitrary commands.
To fully mitigate against this sort of attack we have applied a non-upstream
patch to disable this functionality by default. You can execute bash
with --import-functions to allow it to import functions from the
environment. The default can also be changed in the port by selecting the
IMPORTFUNCTIONS option.
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For the record, Yahoo, running FreeBSD, was compromised via Shellshock.
No, not really:
Earlier today, we reported that we isolated a handful of servers that were detected to have been impacted by a security flaw. After investigating the situation fully, it turns out that the servers were in fact not affected by Shellshock.
Also, are you sure that Yahoo is running FreeBSD on every server? I can't find anything more recent than this piece from 2011, but it would appear that 75% of Yahoo’s Web sites and services run on Linux".
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