Fins increase the surface area exposed to the air, increasing the "cooling" of the "hot component" (this is a reverse heat sink; your solar heater gets hot due to sun, and you cool it off with air; all the same rules apply that apply to CPU heat sinks) which translates to more heat passed into the air. I'm not certain…

I certainly agree that bad practices are bad practices regardless of platform. No arguing about that. I look at my firewall logs from time to time and see literally thousands of SSH root login attempts (mostly from APAC) every day.

Of course, more and more malware nowadays is social engineering, and of course no OS…

XProtect, since Snow Leopard, but that's only one bit of it. Code signing (Gatekeeper) matters, quarantine matters. The biggest advantage Macs have is that UAC is useful/usable and operates on rational heuristics. My windows boxen BEAT me to death with UAC requests, until they don't mean anything anymore.

LOL. I'm not one who's going to tell you that using an alternate OS makes you bulletproof. But I will point out that if all the AV/AM vendors had to depend on the sum total of malware of all types for OSX, it would be, at best, a cottage industry. It's not that there aren't any security risks; there just aren't enough…

How about: I run OSX and have far lower risk profile.

Or "I run Linux/OpenBSD/etc" and have a far lower risk profile.

Those are both accurate and demonstrable by any reasonable definition of terms.

Wait, Windows Defender is pre-installed on OSX?

Ordered the Anker because I've really liked everything else I've gotten from them. This is no exception - I've had it for a couple of hours, but I like it quite a bit already.

Notice none of those values (at least the ones I checked) included things frequently mentioned on this site: Emergency funds, 401ks, savings of any kind, etc.

Specifically in relationship to the red car statistics, I've seen breakdowns that showed they cost insurance companies no more than equivalent blue or white cars, based on published numbers from insurance companies, as part of a course on the use and abuse of statistics. As insurance companies are well known for…

But how one interprets 'verifiable information' is what matters. Some insurance companies have, in the past, adjusted rates by the color of the vehicle. Problem is that the color of the vehicle is unrelated to actual risk, and breaks out in the same numbers they're sold in. That is, during the 80s, red sports cars…

My daughter loved veggies when she was a wee tyke. Now she's 13 and it's like pulling teeth to get her to eat anything but meat. We had to institute a "salad first" policy to get ANY veggies in her for a while.

So what? Does it really matter if driver b "zips around" driver a? I have a rule of thumb: If I don't have to hit my brakes, you didn't fuck up. Zip around all you want, just don't be one of those fucknuts that zips around me to immediately slam on your brakes for a left turn.

I'm baffled by the reaction of people to other drivers. I completely get the instance where you're cruising on an empty two-lane and someone comes up on you and you realize you're poking along, but I'm completely baffled by the societal antipathy towards being passed.

It's incredibly reliable. Change lanes and…

Are they gray? Our gray cats have always been the worst. Our litterboxen are in the basement, and I had a gray one (I miss him still, but not his poop!) that you could identify by the smell of cat poop on the second floor of the house. We had a tiny gray cat that was just beautiful, with blue eyes and fur like velvet,…

God, yes. Who ever thought 'shitflower' was a great smell?

I do that all the time because I work from home and end up on internet conferences all the time, and I don't want to accidentally turn on the web cam and have eight other engineers peering into my office. I have accidentally turned the web cam on before, and they saw nothing more embarrassing than me playing guitar…

I think you're describing how you think things ought to be in an idealized world that you wish existed. I think some people can have the sort of relationship you describe, but I also know many people who simply aren't interested in the sort of relationship you describe. I can introduce you to women who are unabashed…

I like how - like so many - you're so certain you were wrong in your youth, but you're also so certain now that you've got it right.

I love the "not ALL women" responses in this thread.

The Microsoft Natural was a great keyboard. I wore two of them out :D Since then, though, my choice is mechanical (the CM Storm, right now - best bang-for-the-buck keyboard I ever bought!) or the apple chiclet keyboards. I never loved a laptop keyboard from anyone until Apple released the chiclet kbd. I despised the…