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No, Dell did it too.

http://news.cnet.com/2100-1040-963901.html

"I doubt Sun would have ever filed any of these lawsuits."

Bullshit. MS paid big bucks to use "Java patents", such as Just In Time compilation in .net.

http://news.cnet.com/2100-1012_3-5188012.html
http://news.cnet.com/Sun-gets-second-Microsoft-patent-payment/2100-1016_3-5671576.html
http://patft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=6910205.PN.&OS=PN/6910205&RS=PN/6910205

"I doubt Sun would have ever filed any of these lawsuits."

Bullshit. MS paid big bucks to use "Java patents", such as Just In Time compilation in .net.

http://news.cnet.com/2100-1012_3-5188012.html
http://news.cnet.com/Sun-gets-second-Microsoft-patent-payment/2100-1016_3-5671576.html
http://patft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=6910205.PN.&OS=PN/6910205&RS=PN/6910205

MP3.COM had the "My.MP3.com" feature, which let users stream music from CDs that they had registered with the site. Universal Music Group sued them and cost mp3.com $53 million in judgements and legal fees.

In 1999, $53M was a lot of money for a fledgling dot-com that had just raised $344M from its IPO.

With respective market capitalizations of $316B, 167B, and $94B, a judgement of $53M ($0.053B) is fucking pocket change for the likes of AAPL, GOOG, and AMZN.

As much as I hate to see the bad guys rewarded for their misdeeds, the best thing that could happen for the Internet would be for a consortium of dot-coms to simply buy MAFIAA out, lock, stock, and barrel.

I think you need read this: http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20068939-245/exclusive-ceo-says-hackers-tried-to-extort-data-money/ These are a bunch of thugs looking to get some attention. Get over it.

Seems CNet ran a story about how much spectrum at&t actually has http://news.cnet.com/8301-30686_3-20058494-266.html .
From the article, AT&T has more spectrum than Verizon, but Verizon doesn't seem to be whining about spectrum. Seems AT&T line of more spectrum is complete bullshit.

The Translation API has not been deprecated: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-20068839-93/google-not-killing-translate-api-will-develop-paid-version/

I have an iPhone, not your model of Android, and I love moments like this. You get the 'my phone is better than your phone, and here's why' articles, but everybody knows those aren't impartial.

So you look for people to tell you what's wrong with their device outside of the pissing contest discussions. And boy, is this such an example.

Your Android doesn't trust you enough to lock your own phone when you're done all by yourself, or not if that's your choosing? Wow. Just ...wow!

I'm sorry that I have to contradict you here, but open-source stuff is generally unsafe, as any MS employee would be able to tell you.

Actually, the best option to most problems with Windows is to buy the Premium Edition.

For many years my employer stuck to IE6 while I used Firefox in my home. Why was this? Was it because one browser was superior to the other?

After raising questions, it turned out that for the longest time (although it should be changing soon if not already) there were enterprise controls like group policies, remotely configuring proxy, enterprise settings, locking down the browser, etc. that were actually considered better on Internet Explorer (even IE6) than Firefox.

The fact is that at some point, there are some features that matter much more to large corporations. Will I ever use any of the above in my home? Never. But that was the sole reasoning behind a Fortune 500 company clinging to IE6 for a dangerously long time. Your assumption that "better" for a user is "better" for an enterprise is often false (though I'm not claiming the two are mutually exclusive). Further improvements for the enterprise are likely to be far outside a home user's need. Hell, making the settings tabs more confusing is probably detrimental to mom and dad configuring their cookie settings or cleaning up their cache.

A company called Konarka developed fully transparent cells in 2009, brownish and blueish cells from Sunways are already used in existing buildings.

The video says it all:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-20074064-248/conan-obrien-rips-apples-final-cut-pro-x-on-show/

He pulls Ballmer's strings? Since when has anyone pulled Ballmer's strings? The CEO of Google was on Apple's board, did he pull Job's strings? If you think that, you are delusional.

October 2010 -- The Microsoft board of directors cut Ballmer's bonus in half citing his performance. Link.

Pushed, as in Microsoft had an inside man who had a conflict of interest

You're still not getting the way this relationship works. The conflict of interest goes the other way. Suggest looking up how board of directors renumeration works. Netflix CEO gains (and has a conflict) in coaxing MS Execs to move towards Netflix. Reason: MS integrating Netflix into services gets Netflix more income so Netflix CEO's stock value increases, bonuses increase, salary increases. Netflix CEO gains nil when coaxing Netflix to move to MS technologies. Prove that statement wrong, and you have a case. In your analogy, btw, you're suggesting that Jobs had influence over Google because of Eric Smith being on Apple's board. How did that even parse?

The CEO made a choice that was against that of his customers (you can call it rambling, but when thousands of customers are simultaneously "rambling" it is usually a bad sign.

That is truly an orthogonal issue. You said Microsoft 'pushed' Netflix. This is your evidence?

You ignored, completely, the meaning of eat their own dog food. I pointed out, very clearly, that technical support is NOT (repeat: NOT) what I meant.

1. Maybe you should look up the term dogfood -- it refers to internal betas. Nevermind -- that's splitting hairs. I get your larger point. 2. Maybe you shouldn't have used the word 'stopped supporting' in your previous post, and then watered-down your claim to 'stopped dogfooding'. 3. They stopped using it on one site. From this you conclude 'stopped using'? 4. Support lifecycle is infinitely more important than 'oh, MS stopped using SL on skydrive'. 5. If you're not prepared to defend your inflammatory posts, maybe you shouldn't make them in the first place, instead of watering down your claim and then claiming that I'm ignoring your content.

That makes you either ignorant, or a troll. I quite honestly would respect you more if it were the latter.

See your original post in this thread. Evaluate it for inflammatory content, factual correctness, etc. Then call me a troll. I'll merely say this -- if my responses sound terse, it's not because i'm trying to be rude or anything.. just at work with limited time..

And my goodness there are a lot of Windows PC customers, and neither Google nor Apple have that advantage.

Actually Apple have a good market penetration among people who actually buy smartphones like college students and people with the disposable income to actually buy these things. That's confirmed by studies like this : "74 percent of iPad owners surveyed currently own a Mac, while just 26 percent own a PC." and "iPhone users twice as likely to own a mac"

Most of the PC's out there are corporate desktops or owned by people who aren't interested in the latest in computing, these are not potential smartphone customers.

"We've had the technology to do video calling for quite a while - people just aren't that into it."

Wrong: we want video phones but we don't want to pay a lot for it, especially since it requires both parties to spend $$$. People do want to see each other, webcams seem to have done quite well since they're less than $100 but few wanted to spend the several hundreds of dollars that video calling had cost until just recently.

In response to the synopsis: "we can use Skype to call one another over the Internet and video call with mobile `phones, but the video quality is nowhere near the quality shown in the film 2001 or the aforementioned Transatlantic Tunnel film."

Huh? You act like progress on video calling has just ended. You realize 20 years ago a video phone cost $750 and looked and sounded like crap over 56k, right?

It wasn't until 2004 when a real video phone was released by D-Link. Using broadband eliminated the framerate problems but the price was a bit high at $400 each.

Video phones really wouldn't be possible until we had a wireless network that could handle it but 3G cellphones weren't even available in the US until 2004, and 3G was still so new by 2007 that the first iPhone didn't even offer 3G.

Fast-forward just 6 years after 3G first reached the US and Skype now allows video calls through 3G on iPhones for free. That's amazing progress! To go from the network just being setup to transmitting video calls over it for free. And that was all of 6 months ago, give it some time, another 6 years from now using your cellphone as a video phone will look better than it did in 2001 and Transatlantic Tunnel and it will be free.

"We've had the technology to do video calling for quite a while - people just aren't that into it."

Wrong: we want video phones but we don't want to pay a lot for it, especially since it requires both parties to spend $$$. People do want to see each other, webcams seem to have done quite well since they're less than $100 but few wanted to spend the several hundreds of dollars that video calling had cost until just recently.

In response to the synopsis: "we can use Skype to call one another over the Internet and video call with mobile `phones, but the video quality is nowhere near the quality shown in the film 2001 or the aforementioned Transatlantic Tunnel film."

Huh? You act like progress on video calling has just ended. You realize 20 years ago a video phone cost $750 and looked and sounded like crap over 56k, right?

It wasn't until 2004 when a real video phone was released by D-Link. Using broadband eliminated the framerate problems but the price was a bit high at $400 each.

Video phones really wouldn't be possible until we had a wireless network that could handle it but 3G cellphones weren't even available in the US until 2004, and 3G was still so new by 2007 that the first iPhone didn't even offer 3G.

Fast-forward just 6 years after 3G first reached the US and Skype now allows video calls through 3G on iPhones for free. That's amazing progress! To go from the network just being setup to transmitting video calls over it for free. And that was all of 6 months ago, give it some time, another 6 years from now using your cellphone as a video phone will look better than it did in 2001 and Transatlantic Tunnel and it will be free.

I appreciate that you're trying to show how the free market is flawed and central planning is the way to go, but no one was "forced".

The GSMA trade association announced at its 2009 Mobile World Congress here that it has brokered a deal with the world's leading handset makers to come up with a standard for charging cell phones.

All the major handset makers, including, LG, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, and Sony Ericsson, have agreed to use the Micro-USB technology as the common universal charging interface, Rob Conway, GSMA CEO, said during the opening keynote speech Tuesday. By 2012, the GSMA promises, most cell phones will use the same kind of connector to charge their batteries.

Seventeen mobile operators, including Vodafone, Orange, and Telofonic, announced they are committed to implementing the standard for the universal mobile phone charger.

The GSMA said that going to this single standard will not only make life easier for the more than 3 billion mobile phone users in the world today, but it will also help the environment.

Source: CNet.

The coverage maps aren't lies. They're just useless because they don't provide nearly high enough granularity, don't account for variations in handsets, and don't take into account whether you are in a building or not.

Odds are good that in most of the places where they claim to have a signal, you can get a signal, so long as you have a good handset and are outdoors. The problem is that with a typical handset, indoors, you can't. Sure, the wall is only... say an 8dB difference, and the handset is just another 12 dB on top of that, but when your signal is dodgy to begin with, that's more than enough.

The only way to get a really good idea of the cellular phone signal in a particular area is to drive around and plot signal strengths all around the area under various weather conditions and at various times of day. This is not an easily solved problem. If it were, you'd already have the data. :-) That said, if your particular area is covered by it, the CNET/Root Metrics coverage map is generally a good approximation of reality, from what I've seen.

I'm skeptical. In this interview from October 2010, he doesn't seem to be in any special relation with Apple. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-20020465-56.html

a) Who cares what Apple thinks or their brand (in context of this discussion). If the RIAA or one of it's members files suit and gets access to music stored in iCloud in discovery, Apple has to obey the law.

On what basis would they sue ? They wouldn't have a leg to stand on.

b) If 90% of Apple's customers use iCloud for storing pirated music, that will be a problem with the business plan, unless you are right about some legal/license arrangement existing in advance.

Apple has indeed signed agreements with all major record labels prior to launching this service. Further more only songs that don't exist in the iTunes catalogue will get uploaded, the rest will just be made available for download to you. Now have a look at the iTunes catalogue, whatever is not in there I probably bought legally because it's going to be relatively obscure.

c) Assume nothing. It would be wise to read the contract, terms of service and any license agreement between the labels, RIAA and Apple before putting yourself and your family at risk. Personally, I hope Apple has got a solution on this. If not, then I'd rather not be left out in the wind like iPhone developers are right now (see Lodsys).

Reading the terms is never a bad idea. And you seem to have missed that Apple has developer's backs on the Lodsys situation. Unlike Google which has been silent on the matter despite its developers also being targeted.

They would never put in a backdoor to their web server that claimed Netscape engineers were weenies that went undetected for over 4 years. Oh, wait, my mistake... they did do that. http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-239273.html

An Update On Skype For Mac

April 1

77 replies, the last posted April 16.

Download.com alone has logged over 400,000 downloads of Skype 5.1for the Mac since May 27. Skype for Mac

FaceTime is a 13 MB download, Skype 20 MB.
Close enough.

Skype is a VoIP or the masses.The client will be shaped by their needs and not yours. That is the price you pay for being able to call out to 700 million users.

BTW wikipedia lists the DC as part of the PS2/Xbox/Gamecube generation. It was released four years after the PS1, one year ahead of PS2 and two years ahead of GC and Xbox.

If you're going to use the failed 'appeal to authority' approach in an argument, you should at least use an 'authority', not, you know, wikipedia.

If you want to question the veracity of someone else's claim, do it with evidence. You don't have to rely on Wikipedia to find that in the US, Dreamcast was released in September 1999, the PlayStation 2 was released in October 2000, and Xbox and GameCube in November 2001.

BTW wikipedia lists the DC as part of the PS2/Xbox/Gamecube generation. It was released four years after the PS1, one year ahead of PS2 and two years ahead of GC and Xbox.

If you're going to use the failed 'appeal to authority' approach in an argument, you should at least use an 'authority', not, you know, wikipedia.

If you want to question the veracity of someone else's claim, do it with evidence. You don't have to rely on Wikipedia to find that in the US, Dreamcast was released in September 1999, the PlayStation 2 was released in October 2000, and Xbox and GameCube in November 2001.

BTW wikipedia lists the DC as part of the PS2/Xbox/Gamecube generation. It was released four years after the PS1, one year ahead of PS2 and two years ahead of GC and Xbox.

If you're going to use the failed 'appeal to authority' approach in an argument, you should at least use an 'authority', not, you know, wikipedia.

If you want to question the veracity of someone else's claim, do it with evidence. You don't have to rely on Wikipedia to find that in the US, Dreamcast was released in September 1999, the PlayStation 2 was released in October 2000, and Xbox and GameCube in November 2001.

This is only one item (an account of an interview about Black's book), but please read the whole thing, not just the first few paragraphs.

This by itself is not proof of anything, of course, it's just a taste. You can find lots more on Google. Some of it is hogwash, to be sure... but some of it isn't. It's usually pretty easy to tell real evidence, like memos and business records, from anecdotal B.S.

Try here, or here, or here, or here.

Every time this topic comes up, people suggest these guys. There used to be PGP, I think it's commercial now, but there's GNU PGP.

I think any manner of Google searches will tell you how to do this. It's something that's been around for quite some time in various incarnations.

Many if not all video recording technology using CCDs is susceptible to being blinded by IR light. I'm frankly surprised that theaters don't already use a powerful strobbing, patterned IR lamp on their projectors or next to the screen to make sure that boolegers get a really screwed up images. Not something like an over-elaborate over-engineered in-video encoding but something as simple as some remote control LEDs taped to the walls. Might not work on expensive, shielded stuff but el cheapo cameras more likely to get snuck in by are certainly screwed up by it.

In the end though, I guess we'll just have to go back to bribing the projector operators with free beer for a really clean copy of whatever the movie house is playing that week.

Same here. All the benchmarks show Chrome using many times more memory than Firefox. It is time this rumor died.

I'm just realizing, for lots of iTunes users, Apple already has their catalog information.

Wow, you take part of a statement, and then make your own absurd statement from it. I would say it is a surprise, but no, it's just you trolling. Unless you believe that it is impossible to read and post to slashdot without a UID.

I can see the UIDs well. From the UIDs, it is easily seen that I am here first way before you do. Slashdot doesn't recycle inactive UIDs. That's why I call bullshit on you.

I guess I errantly expected you were smart enough to realize that people can read and post here without UIDs, for as long as they wish. It is perfectly reasonable to read and post here arbitrarily long with no UID if you so desire, although I expect you will try to deny that as well.

I have meta-moderated wherever I liked it, and it works just fine. If you want to believe what a lot of people told you, then fine.

Clearly you have no idea what you are talking about. Meta-moderation is not something that you opt to do in a particular part of slashdot, nor has it ever been that way. If you click the meta-moderation link, you would know that you are given 10 random comments to meta-moderate.

Furthermore if you clicked that link you would immediately realize at least a few of the glaringly obvious problems with the system.

If I were to apply the same concept as you, then many people who commented on news about the Apple union like the one at http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-20070919-248/meet-the-man-who-wants-an-apple-retail-union/ also commented about how evil unions can be, with some even trotting the same GM example. Because people says so, then unions is truly evil as those people says there (and here).

No, that is not applying the same concept at all. Nice try though, troll.

Allow me to reiterate. Meta-moderation is broken. This has been known and documented for some time. It has several substantial errors that you could easily see if you went to the meta-moderation page, and several more that you would realize if you went to it, and then read the slashdot FAQ on meta-moderation.

BTW, this thread has nearly 1000 comments,

Wow, you can read the three-digit number at the top of the page. Congratulations, this might be the first fact you have shared in this entire discussion.

which indicates that many people actually read it

Fail. It does not mean that at all. Hell, look at your own comment history, you have posted to this thread over 20 times already. Hence 1,000 comments could be reached with fewer than 50 trolls like you posting to it.

Surely I will have low karma by now

Not if very few people consider this thread to be worth moderating.

I am a troll.

Correct, you are a troll!

It isn't perfect, especially in cold articles, but it do work - http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol10/issue2/poor.html#methods.

That is an article from 2005 that you cited. Very little of the code that runs this site currently has roots from 2005 or earlier.

Calling me a troll isn't going to work

Have you read the slashdot FAQ? In particular, it has definitions of troll and flamebait:

Flamebait -- Flamebait refers to comments whose sole purpose is to insult and enrage. If someone is not-so-subtly picking a fight (racial insults are a dead giveaway), it's Flamebait.

Troll -- A Troll is similar to Flamebait, but slightly more refined. This is a prank comment intended to provoke indignant (or just confused) responses. A Troll

I'm not sure if you could come up with a more ridiculous question if you tried...

Mainly because you imply that I am incorrect when I am saying USPS unions comes after the organization founding.

Wrong. Simply wrong. The USPS actually showed gains after the establishment of the unions. USPS started shrinking much, much later.

True only after the wars. Not during other times. Even between WWI-WWII USPS doesn't really do well.

Wow, you take part of a statement, and then make your own absurd statement from it. I would say it is a surprise, but no, it's just you trolling. Unless you believe that it is impossible to read and post to slashdot without a UID.

I can see the UIDs well. From the UIDs, it is easily seen that I am here first way before you do. Slashdot doesn't recycle inactive UIDs. That's why I call bullshit on you.

No, it doesn't work. Many more people agree that it is broken than agree that it works. Have you even tried to meta moderate, ever? If you would have tried it years ago, you would know how it was supposed to work. If you then subsequently tried it more recently you would see how badly it does not work. There are so many problems with it now that the only way you could possibly claim it to work is is you have never tried it, or had no idea whatsoever of what it is supposed to accomplish. What it attempts to do right now doesn't even live up to the name.

I have meta-moderated wherever I liked it, and it works just fine. If you want to believe what a lot of people told you, then fine.

If I were to apply the same concept as you, then many people who commented on news about the Apple union like the one at http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-20070919-248/meet-the-man-who-wants-an-apple-retail-union/ also commented about how evil unions can be, with some even trotting the same GM example. Because people says so, then unions is truly evil as those people says there (and here).

I have already explained how your karma is not related to your trolling. Besides you've posted too much jibberish to this thread to catch the attention of the main source of moderation here, and you've trolled so far deep into discussions that the odds of being moderated is damned near zero.

Statistic doesn't lie. BTW, this thread has nearly 1000 comments, which indicates that many people actually read it. Surely I will have low karma by now if people did consider I am a troll.

If you think the moderation system itself to be without flaws then you aren't paying attention to that, either.

But then again we all know you are a troll.

It isn't perfect, especially in cold articles, but it do work - http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol10/issue2/poor.html#methods. Calling me a troll isn't going to work. Whether someone is a troll or not, statistic can easily proved it to be true or not. Remember, meta-moderation doesn't affect the score of a post, but will affect the karma of the poster.

Searching for "Apple Kidsafe" brings up a few more recent widgets that appear to do something similar.

Meanwhile, Apple is in the middle of a giant lawsuit against Samsung for it's mobile phone division, which is starting to seriously make a run for crown of the Android market, and is eating away at Apple's business.

Apple:

1. Generates more revenue than any other company in the world selling cell phones (yes they generate more revenue than Nokia)

http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-20056289-248.html

2. Has 50% of the worldwide profit in cell phones compared to 13% for all Android manufacturers combined:

http://www.asymco.com/2011/05/16/iphone-share-of-phone-market-in-q1/

3. The iOS app market is more than 17x bigger than Android's by revenue:

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/21/861-5-percent-growth-android-puny/

Android from a business perspective isn't really doing that great.....

U.S. Senators Harry Reid (D-Nev.), Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), and Tom Udall (D-N.M.) are named as senders in the letter

Oh, of course.

Where do they admit that they spent 1 billion? I remember them committing to a warranty plan that somebody worked out could end up being a billion, but when did they say they actually reached that level of spending?

How about this and this?

It is *very* difficult to believe that if they truly hit 30%, they wouldn't stop the factories and nip that right away.

Sorry, perhaps it's your favorite console of all time, but that doesn't deny the truth. The first Xbox had to be killed in less than four years, and the second one is a distant 2nd place, with less than 2% bigger worldwide marketshare than the PS3. Spending so much money for a relatively low success rate would be very stupid, but Microsoft has always had a very long term vision and very deep pockets to help realize it.

Funny, many analysts - and Apple themselves - have said that the App Store runs at "slightly better than break-even." From your hyperbolic claims, you'd think that they were minting money with the app stores and barely breaking even on their hardware sales, which is in fact exactly opposite from reality.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20008540-37.html

The vast majority of Apple's revenue comes from hardware & device sales. Whether you assign App store sales to "Itunes" or "Software" in this chart, it's still a very small fraction of their revenue.

When I originally submitted it, the post looked like this. However, the link was lost somehow when it was officially posted. Not sure why. In any case, the link to the story is at this link and originally from this site

So now we're posting submissions without sources that try to make an entire discussion out of a single alleged factoid? Seriously?

Most links I can find on this topic point to CNET, but this is the closest thing I can find to the original source. One website high in the google results links to pdf of this supposed study, but the link is dead.

Why don't you just follow the link to the story to find out how they came up with that figure? It's... right... huh.

Dammit, I've been Soulskilled!

(Thankfully /. 2.0 links to the original submission, and you can get the link from there: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-20069682-17/a-childs-hobby-average-gamer-is-37-years-old/)

Anyway, reading that story, you're probably right, because it turns out the study is by an industry group trying to prove that kids don't play violent video games. They're not exactly what I'd call impartial.

Anyway, since CNet is useless, here's the link to the original study: http://www.theesa.com/newsroom/release_detail.asp?releaseID=147

Not to crush your Robin Hood hero imagery, but it looks like these guys really are just thugs.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20068939-245/exclusive-ceo-says-hackers-tried-to-extort-data-money

http://www.ksplice.com/
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/08/04/24/1334234/Patch-the-Linux-Kernel-Without-Reboots - Apr 2008

When you install Windows 7 or a new Linux kernel, do you have to restart? Why? OS X Lion don't require that.

We haven't "had" to reboot linux for more than 3 years now, where have you been?

But I think what you say about Lion is incorrect. "Mac OS X Lion's new Resume feature lets users get back to where they left off after a shutdown or restart" - CNet

That is significant, but it's not the same as not having to rebooting. If you didn't reboot, then it's just sleep/hybernate, and Windows has done that for many years. So, where are you getting that info that it never has to reboot, even with new kernel? If you've run Snow Leopard, you will be familiar with restarting after updates, desktop AND server (I run both, btw, and I have a server asking for reboot right now, and it's not even a kernel update). Linux usually never needs a restart unless you specifically update the kernel. But even then, you don't have to. It will continue to run on the previous kernel until you decide to restart. With other tools like KSplice, we don't have to ever reboot. But, I highly doubt you can do all updates, including kernel, without restarting Lion.

The same goes for iPhone/iPad. If it updates the kernel, you're going to have to reboot the device. But, maybe they are changing this, just wanna know where you read it?

Hooray, you can crack an NTLM password in like five seconds!

Yeah, 1997 called, they want their l0phtcrack back.

Nailed that one. Sure looks like iOS is 'winning' to me. Just over half as many iOS devices as there are Android devices, But people must be sick of this fragmentation and wouldn't ever think of buying an Android device, right? It's a good thing that iOS doesn't have any malware on it, best of all no applications sending off all sorts of non-anonymous data to who knows where, without telling you that this would happen. Before you reply, note that I'm aware Android does this, but if you'll take a gander, you'll find your precious iOS sending uniquely identifiable info about 3x as often as Android, and it doesn't warn you.

Don't the social engineered attacks act as the gateway for launching deeper attacks?

If this were Windows XP, definitely. But on OS X 10.6 and above, not so much. At least not so far... And recent moves like this are a clear sign that Apple is taking security very seriously in 10.7 (Lion).

Once your foot is in the door all kinds of possibilites present themselves. How is OS X ahead of the curve when according to you they are just growing good practices now. They have a solid security model in place but that doesn't mean it does not have any potential vulnerabilities. Shouldn't they have already been growing good practices all along or did they actually believe OSX invulnerable and decided not to bother?

Your statements above are self-canceling, you realize that, don't you? First you jump on my poorly-worded statement, implying that Apple is just starting to add security features to OS X. Then you say that they have a solid security model in place. So, which is it?

Nevermind; I'll answer for you: OS X 10.6, Snow Leopard, already has several security features; but 10.7, Lion (which is almost ready to release) will have decidedly more. Got it?

They have not handled the current malware attack very well. Thier customer support center started playing down the threat and would not give any advice on how to remove an infection and often tried to mislead those calling into thinking it was some other application causing the problem. Someone from corporate even published a copy of the instructions communicated to the support reps on how to handle the problem without ever admitting the problem actually existed. Now a couple of weeks later they come up with a patch and that is considered as staying ahead of the curve?

Apple was already "ahead of the curve" regarding more serious infections due to the features already implemented in the current version of OS X (see above). As been said on these pages many, many times, nothing can completely insulate an OS (any OS) from the most serious security problem (the one sitting in front of the keyboard).

Although I was not thrilled with the initial response on MacDefender, either; Apple's early decision to tell their support people to "not help people" eradicate MacDefender is actually grounded in sound business policy; which is, when a company like Apple has their "agents" say "This will work", Apple is essentially "owning" that fix, and there could be an "implied warranty" issue if the procedure doesn't work on a particular customer's machine. I know that sounds weasel-y; but that's what happens when Tech Support conflicts with the Legal Department in a big corporation.

But, as soon as Apple was able to figure out and test a solution, they released it. They did not wait for "Patch Tuesday", (I know they have no such thing, thank FSM; but you get my point). They rolled it out fairly promptly. By Microsoft standards, the "denial" period was vanishingly short, and the patch was issued with relative alacrity and candor.

You don't necessarily need user mode drivers to recover from crashes. I've seen XP recover from a hang in driver - actually due to a badly seated connector in a laptop - by switching to the stock VGA driver and popping up a dialog box.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd349392(v=ws.10).aspx

Very impressive actually - XP must have a watchdog timer and the ability to switch back to the non accelerated Microsoft VGA driver when the accelerated and vendor provided driver gets stuck waiting for the hardware. What's interesting is that the resolution and bit depth of the display changes. So the GDI must be able to recover from this on the fly.

On Windiows - auto switching from IGP to defdicated graphics is done by at least the NVidia "Optimus" drivers.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10449383-1.html

These business are probably mom and pop shops or startup hipsters who'll never run anything more enterprisey then Outlook on the Macs.

No. Of course not. Nobody seriously uses Macs (or is currently studying same) in a large-scale deployment. And of course, this doesn't even count the countless educational institutions (from K through college) and R&D (pure science) labs that have each used dozens to thousands of Macs for years. If you think those don't count as "enterprise-scale" deployments as well, you're delusional.

People will buy junk for awhile, until they figure out it's a gimmick. Fucking worthless controller.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-20027133-17.html

Of course Sony had their own with the SIXAXIS sensors, but AFAIK later games have not pursued it strongly because it sucks so bad.

Googe did. They have been opposed to this the whole way.

People don't want to believe that because it goes against their incorrect belief that corporation can buy any legislatation they want.

Had that been true, this would never have been passed.

"Several large corporations such as Google, Yahoo!, Ebay, American Express and Paypal have all opposed the bill. At an earlier hearing on the act, Google opposed the act saying that it will have very negative ramifications.'

http://broadbandbreakfast.com/2011/05/senate-committee-passes-protect-ip-act-but-wyden-issues-quick-halt/

http://www.ghacks.net/2011/05/19/google-stands-against-protect-ip/

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-20063963-261.html

Uhhh...just in case you ain't noticed, been hid under a rock or something, the current choices (hell for the last 30 years at least) have been, now choose wisely! A.-Corporate cock sucking rich douchebag in a blue suit, OR B.Corporate cock sucking rich douchebag in a slightly darker blue suit. Man, decisions decisions!

News Flash: when it costs on average something in the neighborhood of 100 MILLION dollars just to be a senator or congressman, and that is from one of the shitty flyover states? Well the odds you are gonna get a choice that isn't Corporate cock sucking rich douchebag in a blue suit is pretty much 0%. That is why no matter how bad things get they ALWAYS vote for the corporate interests, every time.

As for TFA anybody who think the corps won't get everything their hard stolen bribes can buy can think again. the lust for power and control has gotten to the point that they don't even pretend to give a fuck about We The People or the constitution or rule of law anymore. i mean can you imagine Nixon or LBJ having the brass balls to say they have the right to assassinate Americans anywhere, even on American soil without so much as a hearing and get away with it? But that's where getting your corporate pals in control of the media pays off. it lets you label whistleblowers as 'terrorists" and have a dozen talking heads talking about what an evil bastard they are before the end of the day.

I mean for fuck's sake they ruled that a single Goatse style troll can land you in prison since the feds are running their own "kiddie porn" honeypots that don't log referrers and don't actually offer any CP! When you've got a system so corrupted where the rule of law is completely ignored time and time again any corp with a big bank acount can ram shit like this home. Just don't be surprised if you see Nancy Grace talking up how TPB and other P2P sites are nothing but a "home for pedos and pervs!" as they have just about beat the terrorist buzzword to death so they'll need a new bogeyman to sell this to the general pop.