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The difference: when you use a Mac, you don't need that software.

- You don't need to run third party antivirus or antispyware software on the client, only on your mail server (to protect Windows users if you forward Windows executables). OS X has built-in malware protection.

- You don't need third party management software, you can use NetInstall/NetBoot or ARD.

- Using NetBoot also solves the backup problem on the client, even though OS X does have built-in backup and recovery solutions built-in (Time Machine, Versions).

In other words, there are no add-on services needed that would bog down the system.
Yeah, sure, I'll try to clarify. I'm not advocating that we should stop them from speaking with any kind of legal measure. I value free speech too highly for that. I'm referring to the specific comments that I paraphrased. I don't think those posters have any specific malice towards women. I don't know them, but they're probably smart, generally respectable guys.

But they are an example of people who are apparently unwilling to acknowledge that maybe the harassment some women receive online or in the workplace could possibly be outside the realm of their experience. We have one group of people, women in tech, who are saying that they are being harassed (and providing examples of specific threats against them). Then we have a certain subset of men in tech who are saying "I know better than you do, and I say that you aren't being harassed any more than men are." That attitude is the problem (as well as the people in the community who don't immediately call them on it).

People with no personal experience in the matter saying it's not a problem and ignoring the fact that those who do have personal experience are saying that it is. And I think you could make a case that the underlying cause is that somewhere deep down they believe themselves "smarter" (or something) than women. How else can you tell someone that their own interpretation of how they are treated is incorrect?

Does that make sense?
I don't see why they're stuck on Android. The Android part is pretty hidden and if Amazon has shown an ability to do anything, it's to make wholesale changes without burning the place down. They also can sit on a property until they are ready for it (see: Slow integration of Audible, Goodreads). Indeed, it's possible they would like to get off Android to avoid being beholden to Google.
I love the tech field in general, and programming in particular. I only just learned about how bad this problem was recently. It saddens me to know that a large segment of the population is being pushed away from something I think is amazing and beautiful by assholes who think... I don't even know what they think.
> It's clear Google will not (and never were) going to heed any directions given by Apple

Actually the history is more complicated. Google held off on including multitouch but when Apple banned Google Voice from the App Store things soured. I think it was at that point Google said "Ok, if you're banning our stuff then the deal's off" and put multitouch in Android. So it's not clear how long Google might have held back multitouch if Apple had played nice (I'm sure the answer isn't "forever", but they might have gone much longer).
Weird, my RSS subscriptions have always been useful.
> The cure-all: Nix the diplomas and the tests. Let anybody practice, and use third party publications -- a "Zagats for lawyers" as they call it -- to police quality. New players will enter the market and costs will come down.

Hey, we should do this with food!

Wait, we tried. People died. We realized it was a terrible idea.
I'm pretty sure Macs still need to be backed up and managed.

And probably need securing from various perspectives.
You talk too much.
It's like Flickr for videos :)
his comments contain enough bigotry.
I don't, but I fully agree with Stallman that the fact that it accustoms people to the notion that they shouldn't expect to have complete control over hardware they own is a very, very wrong path to take.

Of course, like most of the things Stallman is right about, it's the kind of thing you don't notice until it actually affects you.
Some video ads (on YouTube and elsewhere) can detect AdBlock and refuse to play the video.
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IMO that's exactly being hypocritical. Why book users should be prevented from modifying and redistributing them if software users are allowed this right? That simply makes no sense.
By "receiver" I meant a television set. The big box that takes some sort of a signal, whether off the air or off a cable, and shows it on a screen. There is no default TV.
Try as Apple University might, Jobs is irreplaceable
Maybe RMS is saying freedom is more important than playing video games. I have no trouble understanding or agreeing with him there.

We all make sacrifices for freedom, whether it is traveling overseas, or opening a bank account, but playing video games seems such a silly one.
Torvalds uses the best tool for the job. The only reason git was even created was because some Linux developers refused to use BitKeeper.

The message of Torvalds is "use the best available to you" while the message of Stallman is "use the least restrictive available to you, and accept no substitutes"
I think you're being a tad critical.

In all fairness, having a really fun game IS more important than anything else. Definitely more important than marketing at this stage, where the game is not yet developed.

It's hard to make money marketing a game that doesn't exist.
a fairly classic nerd sniping question
( see: http://xkcd.com/356/ )
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Netflix is a much much harder problem.
I've used nginx a lot. So I guess that's why I don't see the overlap.

Nginx is not tornado in c. Its not about complex custom logic, its about rules redirects and caching.
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I know our work with a couple developers would love something like this, but that price we just can't afford, using personal accounts and shared folders works fine, especially if you don't need a lot of space.
But it's got XML, so it's obviously better. (I kid.)
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Jobs, too. When you talking about the persons rather than what they do, I think they are more similar than they're different.

>> I wouldn't call him hypocritical, though. I think he's wrong about some things, but he goes to great lengths to make his life consistent with his ideology with no regard to practicality.

Macbook Air with no DVD drive. Some people thought Jobs was wrong, because it had no regard for practicality.
Personally, I might put a picture of myself not wearing pants (in boxers, of course) in something if I were making a joke about a relaxed work environment, that kind of thing. It would be pretty damn inappropriate to just say "Hey look at this" to a female interviewee, of course... it's all about context.
I'm also pretty sure that once MacOS starts becoming prevalent in the enterprise, they'll eventually need antivirus, back up agents, and some sort of management agent as well.

How would an IT organization manage the settings on the OS without some sort of management agent?
I find myself agreeing with their recommendation, even though I disagree with their rationale.

Agreeing to let "HEROES" use Macs in an enterprise (and dear god what a terrible term, as if us Mac users weren't smug enough) seems to be basically capitulating to entitlement.

At my last company, when Mac OS X first shipped, I wanted to try it out, so I bought an iBook (the cheapest entry to the world of Macs, in case I ended up not liking it). People in my office were horrified, and I was forbidden from attaching it to our network (lest its cooties infect our other systems).

Over the course of about 6 months, I was eventually allowed to connect it. I had a coworker who continuously ran a vulnerability scanner against it, telling me that if it ever found anything, I'd have to remove it from the network forever (the handful of unpatched Windows boxes on the network weren't a concern, apparently).

Within a year, there were four or five other Macs in my group. Within two years, every single person had one.

At my current job, after complaining for two years about how awful my P.O.S. Dell laptop was I got an email from my boss about a month ago. It said "We're getting you a new laptop. Do you want a Thinkpad T520 or a Macbook Pro?".

I thought he was messing with me at first, but no, it turns out Macs were now OK for us to use as testing laptops.

I will say that in 11 years of going on-site to clients to do security assessments, I have only once encountered a company that had a non-trivial amount of Macs on their network. Over the years, I'd run into a graphic arts department here or there that had a few Macs, but in general, they were a rounding error for the large enterprise clients I deal with.
Take this just-posted PBS segment on video games: http://vimeo.com/31155800 . PBS didn't make the games shown in the clip; should Vimeo block it?

And the recent trigger here was the 586 games submitted to the Independent Games Festival (http://www.igf.com/php-bin/entries2012.php). Many entrants used Vimeo to host their trailers. Every single game trailer was created and uploaded by the game creators, yet many accounts were removed.

I understand Vimeo's position on people posting footage of their WoW raids, Counter-Strike matches, and so on, but blocking indie game devs from posting their own trailers and videos? This behavior is incongruent with their stated desire to support creators. And for what? Because they work in games and not films (or indeed, even films about games: http://vimeo.com/indiegame)?
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Kind of strange how you can't put a gameplay video up of a game you created, though.
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This link seems to 404 now. You can see the article in the news on the front page of sparkfun.com, but the permalink doesn't seem to work.
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I wonder whether you could do more with something like this, a la sousveillance?
If Jobs was alive, but didn't manage to build any more new products opening new markets in the next twenty years, your message would quite aptly apply to him too.

"Jobs made some quite important things twenty or thirthy years ago that are still useful or relevant nowadays. So what? It doesn't entitle him to be a pretentious, hypocritical "I know what's best for you" moron.
I'm sorry for the rudeness, but enough with the cult of personality, please."

Unfortunately he's gone, and we won't be able to tell.
So they may or may not have abandoned the cloud?
Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud generally implies a few distinguishing features such as hourly utility billing and no long term commitments, rapid elasticity (provision/de-provision in minutes, not hours) and usually (but not always - there are bare metal clouds) virtualization. People often refer to software as a service (SaaS) as cloud, which I think is where it starts getting very ambiguous (i.e. is any hosted web application in the cloud???)
Um, OK, I'll bite. Why not?
Aaron Greenspan, hater extraordinaire.
Yeah, I've donated to him this year already. Wondering if he has any counterparts on the house side...
Macs in the enterprise don't need management, backup or security software? You're fucking around, right?

Even in my personal limited deployment of macs, they're managed by joining the domain and ssh access. They're backed up with a combination of rsync and a home-rolled login hook/git solution. Given the recent malware hitting the internet for macs, our aggressive firewalling already doesn't cut it for security.

Once they're no longer flying under the radar, they're going to become saddled with aggressive business requirements or not be adopted (without AD support, they wouldn't have the limited corporate adoption they already do). As much as you might like to tell yourself macs are free-wheeling will never get that burden, they're already in my directory. Every time a problem comes up, they're going to continue to lose their purity, one GPO at a time.

edit: after re-reading your post and some of the others in the thread you seem to be saying they don't need 3rd party tools. Nether does a windows domain. Sometimes we find we want more functionality though. Apple first parties different areas for the mac, and thats good, but you're still eventually going to need to leave the garden. Frankly their 1st-party security sucks, I'm glad to see they're putting a lot of effort into building up that area of their company, but as far as I'm concerned their current offering is about as good as no security.
When we document what MikeeUSA does, or participating in documenting his emails and actions and talking in public (or possibly in private) about being one of his targets, makes us more his target. It makes us more of a target for other harassers too. It is like declaring a security vulnerability, which then draws more attention and thus attacks. If you have been going around as we have at geekfeminism.org, and asking people if they've been targeted by MikeeUSA, then you'd hear more stories of the reasons people have for not revealing and exposing every incident like this and every detail of it.

Also, when women report harassment, they get a wide range of scrutiny and criticism of every aspect of their life, personality, personal history, looks, and so on. The way they've reported the harassment is always criticized as being too private, too public, not official enough, or overreacting by going through official channels too quickly rather than trying to solve things informally. If you as a man watch a person you know go through this process, as their confidante perhaps, you might see some of these patterns crop up.

It can be disheartening to find that so many harassing incidents, assaults, and rapes go unreported because women don't want to put themselves in a position where they will be subject to even more attack.

To you all it's like a quirky little exercise in logic or something, and you get to have fun with your academic debate over whether harassment really exists or not. You don't have to think, not only will MikeeUSA stick you in his trolly, psychotic, rapey crosshairs on his pedophile message boards, nor do you have to know that you probably have just filtered yourself out of several possible future jobs since someone won't hire you because you are a known troublemaker who might accuse someone of sexual harassment at work. It is so deeply offensive to have you all debate the existence of our oppression while you understand about 1% of its surface. But, obviously, it is a learning experience people need to go through. I just wish that some of you all would bother to listen more, go do some reading, and actually try to educate yourselves in a significant way rather than waiting for the magic feminism fairy to bless you with enlightenment. Cheers!!!
Godwin aside, he makes a good point, which is that just being an uncompromising idealist is not always commendable. A person may stick with the same ideology or message for various reasons - maybe because the philosophy really is true/best, or maybe because the person is to egotistical to change, or for many other reasons. We shouldn't be respecting people solely because they are unwilling to change - instead respect should be based on the actual views and the merits thereof.
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It doesn't surprise me at all. But I don't watch broadcast television.
At what point are we going to get over the concept that Macs don't have virus issues because there's not popular enough yet? I feel like I've been hearing that chestnut for a decade now.

There are already IT management tools for Macs. I've worked at two large companies in a row (25k+ employees) where a large percentage of the company was using Macs (~30% or more) and they both had established management solutions that didn't bork the user experience on Macs. I'm typing this on a managed Macbook Air right now.

As for backups, those agents exist but they're rapidly growing less relevant as the majority of documents and work are either web-based or on servers anyway. If I somehow lost this computer, I'd be bummed to have to do some preferences setup again, but I wouldn't lose any work.
There seems to be varying opinions on what a startup actually is. Some definitions focus on the ability to rapidly scale, while others emphasize the fragility of startups. For instance, Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup, defines a startup as "a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty." This definition would tend to include almost every new business, while your definition of a startup would only include those which are structured for rapid growth. Maybe I'm being a bit too pedantic, but it seems the word "startup" is being used so inconsistently nowadays that it has lost a bit of its meaning.
Would they rather want them to give the code to, say, the Syrian government?

It is not like they can't take the idea expressed in the code and pay somebody with the appropriate code to fix it.

And it terms of military expenditure $50k is a joke.
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Maybe it's just me, but I think calling a number from a WHOIS record could be very creepy for the call receiver.
This is brilliant. How many schools are you guys at? I just signed up.
I wasn't comparing the men. I was comparing the arguments. Which means that Godwin's law doesn't apply. And all of the folks down voting me are Nazis.
Multiple Redundancy IS reliability. As long as everything stays running from the customer/business perspective, you are reliable.

When you start to define reliability as a specific layer of your infrastructure, you are setting yourself up for problems. You should be redundant at all layers, thereby reliable across your entire stack.
> I don't even know what is Stallman worried about. Some weird definition of freedom and some weird threats to the said freedom. His ideas are outdated and misplaced

stallman's worries are not only concrete, but pretty prescient. apple sells you a computing platform where you're not allowed to install whatever software you want (if apple had its way, that would even be illegal!). that sounds pretty unfree to me. 10 years ago, i doubt that most people would have even believed that a platform like that would even be possible. the climate now is much more desert-like than ever before!

> Is Android really the only Linux based mobile platform?

technically, you're correct, but the fact that you can't name a single other one is telling. android is the only generally available linux based mobile platform.

> This is a blatant lie.

nope. the itunes store tos disallows gpl software. even further, apple has pulled apps that were licensed under the gpl.
> In fact they let you have both dedicated hosts and cloud hosts and allow dedicated and cloud hosts to talk to each other.

That's not amazing at all.

You do realise that a "cloud" host and a dedicated box are two exact same hardware boxes siting next to each other in a rack? One's just virtualized 10x with Xen, VMWare, KVN, etc.
This seems to compete with some of the benefits of using Google Wallet. Although, I suppose a Google Wallet based loyalty card requires a lot larger investment by the business.

Also since a QR code is just an image and not something more complicated like an NFC tag what's to stop someone from taking a picture of it with their phone and scanning it multiple times at home?

edit:* well looking at their FAQ they say this:
Patent-pending technology guarantees the integrity of your loyalty program. GPS triangulation, velocity analysis, and statistical variation keep things secure.

That still has to trust the smartphone to report the correct
GPS and velocity, additionally I think faking the statistical variation might not be too difficult.
> - You don't need to run third party antivirus or antispyware software on the client, only on your mail server (to protect Windows users if you forward Windows executables). OS X has built-in malware protection.

I hope you realize Apple itself runs antivirus for their corporate MBPs... likely because like any monoculture, any viral malware could cause disastrous results.
its like the Sukey app - for OWS

http://Sukey.org was made by Bernie Gaus to help the london protesters not get funneled into arrests...
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Links to background of some of the work Gerry described in his talk:

http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/44215

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/propagators/
Apple Lossless Audio Codec is now open source (Apache license)
The copyright clause does not provide authority to regulate the operation of the Internet. And yes, the commerce clause gets contorted into an all-encompassing regulatory justification, but that doesn't make it right.
For one thing, if you work on other platforms you might want Emacs to behave the same way on all of them.
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Damning.

Upon seeing this, I thought pg had editorialized the "Hell freezes over" bit of the headline, but no ... that's the actual CNN headline.
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> I'm literally selling blood to buy a MacBook Air just for iOS development

I admire your determination. Look, I've bought an iMac to learn IOS in my spare time. Why don't we trade - time on my iMac, and you answer my iOS questions? PM me.