Intel CEO tells us to buy a Mac
Intel President Paul Otellini says he spends an hour every weekend
cleaning up the spyware from his daughter's computer. Suggests we get a Mac if we want to be secure. http://blogs.siliconvalley.com/gmsv/...ing_to_pa.html Yousuf Khan |
Buy something else?
Like AMD? T. |
"YKhan" writes:
Intel President Paul Otellini says he spends an hour every weekend cleaning up the spyware from his daughter's computer. Suggests we get a Mac if we want to be secure. http://blogs.siliconvalley.com/gmsv/...ing_to_pa.html Well, he was asked if a user should by a Mac, and said they should buy "something else" (my interpretation of the wording of the story is that he meant something other than Wintel, not something other than Mac). Gee, I don't have any trouble with spyware on my daughter's computer. She runs Linux. -- Joseph J. Pfeiffer, Jr., Ph.D. Phone -- (505) 646-1605 Department of Computer Science FAX -- (505) 646-1002 New Mexico State University http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~pfeiffer |
The word Linux might be a political hot potato which would get him in
trouble with Microsoft. Microsoft doesn't mind the Mac, because it knows it's not a direct threat, and besides it even sells software for the Macs. Yousuf Khan |
Hmmmm use a MAC were most of my stuff dont work on or use linux were spyware
is almost 0 but alas windows is here to stay now if only microsoft will figure out the best way to block adware is to ONLY allow what the USER wants then it will be fine... "YKhan" wrote in message oups.com... The word Linux might be a political hot potato which would get him in trouble with Microsoft. Microsoft doesn't mind the Mac, because it knows it's not a direct threat, and besides it even sells software for the Macs. Yousuf Khan |
On 26 May 2005 13:59:19 -0700, "YKhan" wrote:
Intel President Paul Otellini says he spends an hour every weekend cleaning up the spyware from his daughter's computer. Suggests we get a Mac if we want to be secure. http://blogs.siliconvalley.com/gmsv/...ing_to_pa.html Yousuf Khan Could this be connected with the rumor of "Intel Inside" Macs coming? |
On Fri, 27 May 2005 09:02:26 -0500, "Anthony"
wrote: "YKhan" wrote in message roups.com... The word Linux might be a political hot potato which would get him in trouble with Microsoft. Microsoft doesn't mind the Mac, because it knows it's not a direct threat, and besides it even sells software for the Macs. Hmmmm use a MAC were most of my stuff dont work on or use linux were spyware is almost 0 but alas windows is here to stay now if only microsoft will figure out the best way to block adware is to ONLY allow what the USER wants then it will be fine... To be fair, Microsoft already KNOWS how to implement that and it is a perfectly valid option IFF you set you're WinXP system up correctly. The trouble is that over 99% of home users will setup their system so that they always have admin privileges. Now Microsoft is partly to blame for this in that they default to always giving users full admin rights, but they are also correct that they would have WAY more problems if they did not do this. Hell, even if they did correct this it's not like they would solve the problem. People just don't care enough to read what they're agreeing to on computers anymore, they just click "next" and enter their password when asked for it. If someone made spyware for Macs and OS X (where the default is to setup a root user for admin tasks and a non-privileged user for non-admin tasks) and it popped up a Window asking for a user to enter their password to install the app, I can guarantee that well over 50% of users will happily type in their admin password and to install the spyware without giving it a second thought. ------------- Tony Hill hilla underscore 20 at yahoo dot ca |
On Fri, 27 May 2005 22:03:19 GMT, "
wrote: On 26 May 2005 13:59:19 -0700, "YKhan" wrote: Intel President Paul Otellini says he spends an hour every weekend cleaning up the spyware from his daughter's computer. Suggests we get a Mac if we want to be secure. http://blogs.siliconvalley.com/gmsv/...ing_to_pa.html Yousuf Khan Could this be connected with the rumor of "Intel Inside" Macs coming? Extremely doubtful. It's MUCH more likely that people are being dumb and reading *WAY* too much into an off-hand comment that didn't even endorsed Macs in the first place. He could just as well have been thinking more of Linux on Intel than Macs. ------------- Tony Hill hilla underscore 20 at yahoo dot ca |
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