Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store

From	Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system, alt.comp.freeware, comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject	Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store
Date	2015-10-08 08:08 -0700
Message-ID	<D23BD518.5F7A2%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> (permalink)
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On 10/8/15, 6:34 AM, in article mv5r8e$l5s$2@dont-email.me, "A.M" <.m@nsn.s>
wrote:

> On 2015-10-07 8:29 PM, Snit wrote:
>> On 10/7/15, 3:37 PM, in article
>> 56159e8c$0$25164$c3e8da3$e408f015@news.astraweb.com, "vallor"
>> <vallor@cultnix.org> wrote:
>> 
>>>>> What problem does that cause?
>>>>> 
>>>>> And yes. I was asking Peter for his own example, thanks.
>>>> 
>>>> None.
>>> 
>>> Actually, that turns out not to be the case.
>>> 
>>> If you run two different applications that use their own versions of
>>> libavcodec, you're not getting one of the big benefits of shared
>>> libraries: saving RAM by only having one copy of the library loaded into
>>> memory.
>>> 
>>> (No wonder OS X isn't happy unless it has 16GB! ;)
>> 
>> What on Earth makes you think OS X needs 16GB? My wife's computer has 4GB
>> and runs fairly well.
> 
> vallor's statement is about as empty as his head is. He has no reason to
> state that OS X requires 16GB for a decent experience. My parents use
> 4GB with their machine and while I don't find it necessarily speedy,
> it's more than decent.

My wife's is 7 years old and works respectably well. Speedy powerhouse - of
course not. But it does what she needs and she does a fair bit.

>> And with OS X application do not generally load twice... with Linux they
>> often do.
> 
> Linux is like a girlfriend that means well but can't manage much.

The whole logic of how bad it is to load some tiny libraries twice on
another OS while their preferred OS tend to load entire programs twice makes
no sense.

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  Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2015-10-07 09:05 +0200
    Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-07 08:10 -0700
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        Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-07 08:25 -0700
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