blog.linuxtoday.com — The New York Times seems hard-wired to rarely identify any Windows malware as Windows malware, but only "computer malware." They seem to share this illness with other people too, such as researchers and professors. Can it be that all these educated people ...really don't know that are other computer operating systems ?
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doctechnicalJun 18, 2009
You're preaching to the choir. 99% of the people who use computers don't read Digg, and if they tried they wouldn't understand the computer articles.The sad fact of the matter is that most people think Windows *is* the computer. I was doing tech support for a client, I had to talk him through re-booting Novell Netware. At one point I said "You should be seeing a lot of text flying by on the screen" and he replied "Yeah, it looks like The Matrix!"The command prompt is a lost art, alas.
mickstephensonJun 18, 2009
Yes but it is a little different when the discussion is about laws in China rather than the current state of your personal computer. The question of whether Macs and Linux are banned in China is an important and interesting question, one which surely Chinese law will have taken into account, but the reporting is completely failing to bring the reader this pertinent information, and instead drivels on and on about rubbish and pushes plenty of Anti-Chinese fud.
offrdbanditJun 18, 2009
Why is Submitter so Dumb About Title and Language?
aserer511Jun 18, 2009
the linux fanboys shouldn't even BEGIN to talk about instability. i love my ubuntu lappie but would never use it primarily. bugs like a phantom network issue that couldn't let me auto-connect to wifi for 10 minutes and the fact that my keyboard loses functionality 10 mins into a boot's first session relegate ubuntu to a project OS, not a primary one. that said, it's a great os
eraccusaJun 18, 2009
OS X (Apple) and GNU/Linux are built on the Unix principles of multi-user with privilege separation. This includes security, up front, as part of the design. While this does not make a desktop system running OS X or GNU/Linux invulnerable to 'social engineering' or trojans posing as legitimate commercial software than has been pirated (IBotNet), it does make them nearly impossible for an automated crack to succeed in taking over the system ala Microsoft Windows. The folks that were caught with iBotNet were "hoist with their own petard" in that they were breaking the licensing terms of the "pirated" software they downloaded. Oops, that illegally acquired software was loaded with a trojan. IMO, poetic justice. :)<a class="user" href="http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Mac-Vulnerability-to-Botnets-Proven-in-RealWorld-Case/">http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Mac-Vulnerabilit ...</a>
harlowsmonkeysJun 18, 2009
"Windows Windows Windows"
frayed_knotJun 19, 2009
Q: What's the difference between ignorance and apathy?A: I don't know and I don't care.