[fireman15]

These days there is so much about technology that people spread myths about. Many of them are spread with malevolent intent with unknown or well understood motives behind them. But I have heard each of these many times.

[CodeToad]

Much of it is spread by the social media workers at the tech companies. companies spend gobs of money on their Internet presence.

[Leaning Right]

They missed one.

Myth:
Computers programmed with sophisticated voter data can predict elections.

Truth:
Donald Trump: 304 electoral votes
Hillary Clinton: 227 electoral votes

[bitt]

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[proxy_user]

“Apple computers can get viruses, if you type in your root password whenever anything requests you to do so...”

[VanDeKoik]

Myth: Computers can explode if you press the wrong buttons.

Truth: You are likely above the age of 43, and seen too many cartoons.

[ctdonath2]

Those answers were way too short, and weasel-worded, to be properly accurate. They amount to myths themselves.

[ctdonath2]

“Myth: Apple computers can’t get viruses
Truth: Apple computers are susceptible to malware just like Windows PCs. Apple once bragged they were not as susceptible until a Trojan infected thousands of computers in 2012.”

Non-sequiturs galore there.

“Viruses” aren’t “trojans”.
Both are malware, yes, but that doesn’t make one platform “just...as susceptible”.
And the incident mentioned required nearly heroic levels of stupidity on a cultural level to happen: high-risk malware had to be obtained from risky sources and installed thru risky abnormal methods culminating in the user explicitly authorizing blatant security violations. Hardly on par with the heyday of Windows viruses.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

10 years ago the first 2 questions may have been relevant.

Question 3 is kind of silly. Since it’s a fact that your head attenuate’s the antenna the question is unanswerable.

[Gene Eric]

>> Myth: More signal bars guarantee good cell reception.

Given the precise wording of this so-called myth, I decided to check out the definitive meaning of the word, myth:

Myth: A widely held but false belief or idea

So it seems this particular entry on cellular signal bars is mythleading...

[Crusher138]

In regards to Apple’s invulnerability:

With enough effort, any computer can be hacked.

With a stupid enough user, any computer can be hacked.

My sister, bless her heart, believed some Pakistani guy who said her Mac had viruses and that he would clean them up for her.

My buddy bought a video game from a sketchy source for about 10% of the retail cost. Typed in his password while installing it. Ooops.

What generally doesn’t happen on Macs is the wonderful Windows habit of installing Mal-ware by just visiting an infected web site. Newer Windows versions protect against this better than they used to, but it can still happen.

In the Mac world you just have to follow a few, simple rules:

1. Install your apps from the app store.
2. If a window pops up and asks you to type in your password while visiting a web site or opening an email, don’t.
3. Don’t click on links that you are not certain where they go.