Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Snit Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.comp.os.windows-10 Subject: Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2018 21:29:52 -0700 Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <4a010466d8bf0797547c4cd089c0402f@dizum.com> <061120181234479589%nospam@nospam.invalid> <071120180933002666%nospam@nospam.invalid> <071120181113045080%nospam@nospam.invalid> <071120181205555306%nospam@nospam.invalid> <071120181311552902%nospam@nospam.invalid> <081120180033254276%nospam@nospam.invalid> <081120181049101184%nospam@nospam.invalid> <081120182219259140%nospam@nospam.invalid> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net XNPQh3q94tUxksYErCDj+QwO0jF5q6hVDF0kbYkorYtSIDllpr Cancel-Lock: sha1:wcq39cSaYm8UPSM0vhnBgr/c93Q= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 In-Reply-To: <081120182219259140%nospam@nospam.invalid> Content-Language: en-US Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:119416 comp.os.linux.advocacy:476515 alt.comp.os.windows-10:78333 On 11/8/18 8:19 PM, nospam wrote: > In article , Snit > wrote: > >> Mac OS was beginning to struggle under Extensions and other changed >> tacked on to an older OS. > > that's because extensions patched all sorts of stuff, often not that > well, causing problems with other extensions, especially ones that > patched the same traps, as well as unrelated apps. Yes. I remember playing with the Extensions manager and having different sets for different needs. I do NOT miss that. :) >> Apple knew they had to move to a newer / >> better kernel. > > yep. and they're thinking about that even now. technology moves fast. > nothing lasts forever. I know they are always looking to improve macOS, but are they looking to replace the full kernel? Would be interested in hearing about that. When Mac OS X was first released, Jobs *did* say the plan was to have it work for the next 20 years. We are not too far from that. :) -- Personal attacks from those who troll show their own insecurity. They cannot use reason to show the message to be wrong so they try to feel somehow superior by attacking the messenger. They cling to their attacks and ignore the message time and time again.