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Confirmed: Satan is a Mac user

I’m just saying. :)

Bernie Madoff is still living a life of luxury.

Published Mar 13 2009, 03:50 PM by pthurrott
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kenmcnamee said:

Like it even needed to be said...

March 13, 2009 2:03 PM
 

tayme said:

So that makes both the messiah(Obama) and Satan, right???

--tayme

March 13, 2009 2:05 PM
 

Lindy said:

I though he is in jail as of Wednesday with out bail?

March 13, 2009 2:17 PM
 

murdocdv said:

Of course he's a Mac user, how else did you think he was able to steal $59 billion by himself? It was all the extra time not lost to Vista ;-)

March 13, 2009 2:27 PM
 

Ocean said:

March 13, 2009 2:28 PM
 

tayme said:

@Ocean - What's your point? Paul didn't deny using a Mac...he pointed out that Satan (Madoff) uses one as well.

--tayme

March 13, 2009 2:47 PM
 

chuckb84 said:

What I conclude from a list of Mac users (or Windows users) is that I conclude nothing. Some Mac users:

Madoff

G. Gordon Liddy

Rush Limbaugh

Al Gore

Lauren Bacall

Tom Cruise

Whoopi Goldberg

Tom Hanks

Dolly Parton

Tom Brokaw

Roger Ebert

Conan O'Brien

Rosie O'Donnell

Tom Clancy

Spike Lee

George Lucas

Oliver Stone

Cyndi Lauper

Troy Aikman

Sir Roger Banister

Mikail Gorbechev

Paris HIlton

Paul Thurrott

If there is a pattern, it escapes me. But putting Paul next to Paris was kind of fun.

March 13, 2009 3:11 PM
 

chuckb84 said:

And, I should add that while he does the rest of his life in prison--and may he rot for a long time---it would be better to force him to use Windows :) than to take his computer away completely. I'm thinking Window ME would be the best one.

March 13, 2009 3:12 PM
 

lotsamystuff said:

It was the only laptop he could find that would run Windows reliably.

March 13, 2009 3:13 PM
 

yert said:

Sure, you could say Madoff uses a Mac, and the richest man on the planet uses Windows, but that wouldn't show us how much usability work has been put into either.

No, for that you have to read development blogs outlining research, and why decisions were made. Oh wait.

March 13, 2009 3:26 PM
 

Waethorn said:

"It was the only laptop he could find that would run Windows reliably."

It's hard to find anything else when you shop in hell, AKA the Apple Store.

March 13, 2009 3:54 PM
 

gfryesc1 said:

mobileme...  and discuss.

March 13, 2009 4:07 PM
 

lotsamystuff said:

"It's hard to find anything else when you shop in hell, AKA the Apple Store."

Yes, with sales of $4,700 per square foot in 2008 (the highest in the country) they're the most successful consumer electronic stores on the planet. Such misery.

Go back to your basement, "Waethorn". "Helper Cat" needs her dinner.

March 13, 2009 4:12 PM
 

gfryesc1 said:

I would assume that he's got Windows bootcamped in that sucker...  now that is diabolical enough to be worthy of the devil.

March 13, 2009 4:21 PM
 

Waethorn said:

"Yes, with sales of $4,700 per square foot in 2008 (the highest in the country) they're the most successful consumer electronic stores on the planet."

As is typical with most Apple fanatics, they have more money than brains.

"Such misery."

Yes, I've seen the many "geniuses" that work there.  (I've also seen the customers that walk out too, but that's another story altogether)

March 13, 2009 4:50 PM
 

Waethorn said:

"I would assume that he's got Windows bootcamped in that sucker...  now that is diabolical enough to be worthy of the devil."

No, he's modded a new UEFI-compatible BIOS for it so that he doesn't need OS X on it.

March 13, 2009 4:51 PM
 

daveinla said:

Add myself to the list of mac users...

BTW Paul is an Apple user not a Mac user. He knows s**t about OS X.

March 13, 2009 5:02 PM
 

LC21 said:

Waethorn & Robertsjoe: Separated at birth.

March 13, 2009 5:17 PM
 

DRWAM said:

"Waethorn & Robertsjoe: Separated at birth."

But if they were ever reunited, it was cause an annihilation reaction on such a high quantum level, that a worm hole would open up and swallow up the universe.

March 13, 2009 5:59 PM
 

gfryesc1 said:

'No, he's modded a new UEFI-compatible BIOS for it so that he doesn't need OS X on it.'

no chance, if it could be done, thurrott would have surely done it and then bragged up how he switched to apple hardware just to switch back in a deformed way...  while apple deposits his paid 'apple taxes' in their account.  And then the world would start all over the next day.  crazy.

March 13, 2009 6:28 PM
 

Waethorn said:

"no chance, if it could be done, thurrott would have surely done it and then bragged up how he switched to apple hardware"

I didn't say it's impossible, but there's one thing I've noticed is that Paul wouldn't have the skills.  UEFI is open source.  It would also require reverse-engineering of Apple's hardware to determine some of the non-standard EFI 1.1 interconnections to the standard PC hardware in their systems - something which is illegal according to their EULA (yes, it is).  Someone could theoretically code a new UEFI BIOS for a Mac with the knowledge they'd receive by doing the heavy work.  They'd also have to code a custom firmware flash program, or else replace the firmware code in a hacked Apple firmware uploader app.  Once it was run, the system wouldn't boot into OS X anymore, but the user could reformat and use Vista SP1 with UEFI support to boot natively off the DVD.

It would certainly be easier to take their existing EFI 1.1 firmware and just update it to UEFI specifications than to code a whole new BIOS for it.

Of course, if Apple actually decides to update their BIOS to UEFI, then the hard work is already done.  Boot off a Vista DVD in UEFI mode and nuke the drive completely.  If Windows Vista SP1's version of DiskPart allows you to set the hard disk to GPT, be happy in knowing that Windows Vista will install without requiring the leftover cruft that is OS X.

March 13, 2009 6:48 PM
 

robertsjoe said:

Confirmed: Windows users have no taste.

March 13, 2009 9:14 PM
 

Dipsh t Admin said:

"Confirmed: Windows users have no taste."

What???  Isn't it the exact opposite?  Madoff is evil.  Madoff uses a Mac.  Therefore, Apple is evil.  Confirmed.

March 13, 2009 9:51 PM
 

Ocean said:

March 13, 2009 10:17 PM
 

robertsjoe said:

@Dipsh t Admin: It's known that Microsoft are evil. Google no. Apple no. Others no.

March 13, 2009 11:22 PM
 

darkmax said:

Madoff ain't evil, he is what greed of others made him out to be.

Mac or not, he can afford it.

March 14, 2009 1:54 AM
 

shark47 said:

"Add myself to the list of mac users..."

Oooh. There's a pattern emerging.

"Confirmed: Windows users have no taste."

Sure thing, dude. Tell Gates that taking our hard earned money and spending it on finding a cure for some random third-world disease is tasteless. Ponzi schemes are a lot more civilized and tasteful, of course. Or, mnaybe he should jet-hop from one town to another, talking about global warming and making movies. That's a lot cooler.

March 14, 2009 8:06 AM
 

lotsamystuff said:

" (I've also seen the customers that walk out too, but that's another story altogether)"

You really are a twat, "Waethorn". I feel sorry for your customers.

March 14, 2009 8:36 AM
 

lotsamystuff said:

"Madoff ain't evil"

BuIIshit. He stole the life savings of a Holocaust survivor, for crying out loud. It doesn't get much more "evil" than that.

March 14, 2009 10:57 AM
 

mikegalos@msn.com said:

Will Rogers once said something to the effect of "I'd rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it"

We have mutated into a society where, to some people, the man who sold the Brooklyn Bridge is no longer a villain but is now a hero and, if he's caught at that fraud is treated as a victim whose only misdeed was not being more careful at avoiding capture.

Sad. And hopefully something that's changing.

March 14, 2009 11:14 AM
 

Waethorn said:

"You really are a twat"

That seems to be an ongoing habit of yours, losta - call someone names when you can't come up with anything witty in response.

Very childish IMO.  You must be taking lessons from robertsjoe.

(Would you like to add a "STFU" to your statement?)

March 14, 2009 12:15 PM
 

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