Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.karotte.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Lloyd Parsons Newsgroups: alt.comp.freeware,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Date: 8 Oct 2015 20:05:07 GMT Lines: 52 Message-ID: References: <86549329f10d815d2e5922dee68cf94a@anemone.mooo.com> <210920151849448520%nospam@nospam.invalid> <041020151828504734%nospam@nospam.invalid> <041020151852561506%nospam@nospam.invalid> <041020151911207774%nospam@nospam.invalid> <041020152005503949%nospam@nospam.invalid> <041020152029590863%nospam@nospam.invalid> <5612928c$0$49041$c3e8da3$92d0a893@news.astraweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net uAwjTJXxKp1j4WWgQHbBxgAWBaN7CcIzbtLqCFGqQfFdoXoTZe Cancel-Lock: sha1:Di5TdtYioiXyGHfa2tj2czSrpZU= User-Agent: Pan/0.139 (Sexual Chocolate; GIT bf56508 git://git.gnome.org/pan2) Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.freeware:245638 comp.sys.mac.system:82568 comp.os.linux.advocacy:325585 On Thu, 08 Oct 2015 14:03:13 -0500, JEDIDIAH wrote: > On 2015-10-07, Onion Knight wrote: >> On 7 Oct 2015 19:53:36 GMT, Jolly Roger wrote: >> >>> On 2015-10-07, Snit wrote: >>>> On 10/7/15, 12:31 PM, in article d7la8vFogllU5@mid.individual.net, >>>> "Jolly Roger" wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 2015-10-07, GreyCloud wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> No one is an expert that buys an PC from Apple. >>>>> >>>>> The truth is experts like to use the best tool for the job unlike >>>>> loser zealots who refuse to use the best tool for the job just >>>>> because of the logo that happens to be on the outside of it. ; ) > > Using a Mac as such quickly cured me of whatever regard I had for > Apple. > > There are cheaper and better ways of having a Unix laptop or > desktop. > > Since the majority of appeals to authority here seem to be focused > on > Silicon Valley, then there's a strong chance that the fruity logo is > just a status symbol. This has been a passing fad in other industries. > > >>>> Pretty much. >>> >>> I dare one of these zealots to walk into a tech conference and tell >>> everyone there none of them using Macs are experts. They'd get laughed >>> out of the place. : ) >> >> I just had a recent stay in a major hospital and the doctors, nurses >> and staff were all using iPads. The nurses station was using a >> combination of Macs and Windows. > > Given the level of beaurocracy in medicine, not likely. > > You would be lucky to see anything that isn't VERY OLD. More complete bullshit from you. I live in the boonies and our hospitals are very modern. Some use iPads, some don't. The computers are a fairly mixed bag of OSX and Windows. -- Lloyd