Mac Demise Watch
Computer viruses are as natural a part of the digital ecosystem as nucleic acid viruses in the biological realm. The human cortex already forms a continuum with the electronic bitspace, albeit the interface remains clumsy. And like their biological namesakes, the evolution of computer viruses is a distributed process, occuring through dispersed small mutations and rare dramatic recombination events.
Anybody who believes that virus programmers should be locked up should similarly argue that third world farmers who cuddle their chickens should be locked up. Clearly the better solution isn't legal, it's the emergence of a healthy viro-medical industry and observance of good hygiene.
Wear a good warm firewall before going out and flush your cache regularly and your beloved laptop will still be zipping along on its 5th birthday.
- sheikh X at 8:39 AM
3 Comments:
I have to say that these viruses don't really leave me shaking in my boots. Still, this is all probably connected to Microsoft's takeover of apple a few years ago. Symantec must be paying out some money to support its MacOS products, despite the relatively small market share. Now that intel chips are sitting in the boxes the Mac OS is little more than Applekin Skywalker with his strings being pulled by Emperor Bill Palpatine.
Still the biggest problem with the MacOS is not technical: already a few years ago the OS achieved ignominy as the first to include "Palestine" as a geographic locale in its control array.
Still, I have continued to use macs after all these years because anybody who has tried anything else has to be painfully reminded how grossly inferior the various Windows OS incarnations are. Only a masochist or a fool would voluntarily subject himself to such substandard engineering and instability. Let's not even talk about design...
the intel chips are no more than brighter lipstick for the harlot.
The post sounds like some Hollywoood movie glorifying murderers. Let's all fall in admiration for the fellow who invents the best poison or the best arson tool.
A computer virus is clearly made with a malicious intent. Admiring those who make them is like admiring any other con-men - from the Nigerian scheme to Enron. Long live the thief, the newest hero.
We in the Western world who are fortunate to live with a roof over our heads and enough to eat and enough time to do something with our minds have by and large not done much. Instead of a civilization of knowledge, ours is a civilization of porn-downloaders and soap-opera addicts. Befittingly, our cultural heroes are the criminal, the harlot and the computer-virus designer.
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