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[sigh] even the article title is "DNS Clients Have Small Vector of Risk after Patch" ,,, where is the word 'small' in the /. title... ?

Unless lookupd is doing something really weird, this is a non-issue.

I don't understand how I can be vulnerable to this if I'm not running a DNS server. No open ports means no one can get in, unless I connect to them. If the DNS server I connect to is secured, how can anyone compromise my machine this way?

What it comes down to was Apple reported this patched fixed a problem that it did not fix. This means either they did not test the patch, incompetence, or they knew it didn't address the problem but told everyone it did, lies. All this defence of the indefensible makes people look like blithering idiots. If any company releases a patch that claims to patch something, then does not, that company deserves scorn, not this weak defence (oh it's not that bad!).

Gotta love capitalism! Besides, you can avoid the hardware now anyway between VMs and straight up x86 ports of OSX.

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Anyone who wants to use FileVault (or other Leopard features) with a PowerPC Mac

1. False. http://www.iphonehacks.com/2007/08/iphonevideoconf.html
2. False. It's more than a cell phone. People like to do other things wih an iPhone.
3. Maybe. It will be interesting to see how they deal with battery life.
4. False. You only need one camera and very simple optics. And every call does not have to be a video call. Video can be turned off easily.
5. http://www.macnn.com/blogs/?p=534

...and so can a 17 year old kid: http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/05/02/bridger.maxwell.multitouch/ And he used a Mac. Much cooler.

but karma is a bitch

They have updated the EULA

New EULA

Apple has quietly changed the licensing terms of the Safari web browser, reports indicate. While the Mac license remains unchanged, the Windows license has been altered from "allows you to install and use one copy of the Apple Software on a single Apple-labeled computer at a time" to "allows you to install and use one copy of the Apple Software on each computer owned or controlled by you." The revision date on the license is March 26th.

http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/03/27/safari.license.changed/ While the Mac license remains unchanged, the Windows license has been altered from "allows you to install and use one copy of the Apple Software on a single Apple-labeled computer at a time" to "allows you to install and use one copy of the Apple Software on each computer owned or controlled by you." The revision date on the license is March 26th.

Come on guys, this was a bad cut-n-paste job when drafting the EULA for the Windows version of Safari, and you know it.

It has already been fixed.

Ok. CDs cost money to produce, but the article is dated, and I think a more interesting question with respect to the cost of music is "how do the costs translate to online sales?" I am clearly guessing here, but if anyone else has real numbers, please reply. Given that everyone likes to talk about Radiohead's "In Rainbows", I'll base my estimates on that. The album has 10 songs, so...

Online Distribution (10 songs / CD)

$0.17 - Musicians' unions - no change
$0.22 - Packaging/manufacturing - 2% of revenue to license mp3 format for content distribution, AAC is free for distribution, don't know about Fairplay DRM.
$0.82 - Publishing royalties - no change
$1.00 - Retail profit - 12 @ $.10/song
$0.10 - Distribution - Bandwidth ~5MB/song (downloaded from Radiohead) = 50 MB * 0.0005/MB=$.025 (the estimate is for Video on Demand, but that's all I could find). I bumped it up a little to cover hardware maintenance.
$1.60 - Artists' royalties - no change
$1.70 - Label profit - no change
$2.40 - Marketing/promotion - no change
$2.91 - Label overhead - no change
$0.00 - Retail overhead - not sure

Total: $10.92

Apple sells "In Rainbows" for $9.99. Amazon sells it for $7.99 as a download. I don't believe Apple loses money on downloads. I'm not sure about Amazon. While this is strictly hypothetical, it would seem the difference between a $15 CD and a $10 downloaded album is more than just the cost of production and distribution of the CD. Assuming I'm not totally off on my numbers, and the numbers that aren't related to production and distribution do not change, it should not be possible for Apple to sell the record for $10 or Amazon for $8. I believe the pricing model must allow for online retailers to make a profit, so what makes up the difference? Are the labels giving up profits? Are they operating more efficiently than they used to?

You mean like this? There have been tests for the glass used and the screen, and they all showed that the iPhone screen is scrath free and can be dropped 1-2 floors. Google it, I'll wait.

"Apple offered free licenses of Mac OS X for MIT's proposed $100 laptop initiative, however, the proposal offered by Apple's CEO Steve Jobs was declined because the program was looking for open-source software [...]"

Uhuh, yeah, right ...

Out of the numerous suits Apple has made against bloggers, how many have they won? I can already pull up one that they lost: http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/01/29/apple.pays.legal.fees

Macs use computers?

And I thought it was over 5 percent now...

Here's the thing. The only people that have to be worried are Mac users with a dot-mac account. I have an iMac but I wouldn't dream of getting .mac account. Seeing as it costs $99.95 for a year's membership, and for that you get:

a place to share photos online (which I do for free with Photobucket)

your own personal web-space (which for personal use, Blogger does the job just fine for me)

email access anywhere, even on an iPhone (but the iPhone shows your regular ISP email anyway, which is set up the first time you plug your iPhone into your Mac thanks to the settings in the Mail program, and GMail is accessed anywhere with internet connectivity too)

remote access to your Mac (which I personally have never needed)

the ability to sync your favourite stuff to the computer you're using (my iGoogle page shows me all the stuff I usually bookmark on any computer I decide to log into Google ...and after that, I have the URLs in my head or I can search for the stuff I want, or just send the URLs in an email to my GMail account, stick a star on the email and sort by stars to find it quickly)

10GB of storage online for files (XDrive gives 5GB away for free, eSnips gies 5GB away for free, my photos on Photobucket, my videos that I want people to see on YouTube...) .Mac Groups (there are enough free options out there for whatever group I want to start or join ...Google Groups, browsing the old Usenet newsgroups using Thunderbird, etc.)

Online backup if I don't have OS X 10.5 Leopard (or I can just buy Leopard and get all the new-fangled doohickeys too)...

What's the point? It's the equivalent of when people had CompuServe in the early-to-mid 90s. They'd pay through the nose to use a proprietary web browser and get access to groups that only other CIS users could use. It's the internet for people that don't know what's out there for nowt, a gated net community.

I think you're missing my point (although MIME is a bit newer than 1970).

I *know* that all these concepts are ancient. That was precisely why I mentioned them.

People are saying that "one-click was obvious; the only reason there's no prior art was because we thought it was a bad idea at the time." In retrospect, it was only a bad idea if you couldn't undo it.

So let's take digital audio, which was "obvious" by the early 20th century - yet not really usable until we developed good converters. And once you have something digitized, sending it around a network is also an obvious thing to do - yet not doable until you have a fast, reliable network.

So on the one hand, an invention like "a method to allow purchase of digitized music over a wireless network with no physical media involved" was obvious in the 1930s. We knew about digitization, we knew about networks, we knew about wireless, we certainly knew about selling.

On the other hand, Apple just patented it.

There's probably no prior art - not because it *couldn't* have been done three years ago, or because it couldn't have been conceived 30 years ago - but just because all the circumstances that make it not only possible, but commercially feasible, hadn't yet emerged.

Tens of thousands more would follow because they'd want the latest gadget.

Those people will still be bitter (and enslaved to a contract) after getting screwed by Steve Jobs.

It also happened this month - remember Target and the box o' rocks that was supposed to be an iPod? This poor girl got hit TWICE. http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/10/08/ipod.scam.in.texas/&startNumber=20

So the same feature that first appeared on Windows Server in 2003 and then on Vista is considered a security risk, especially because it is too 'easy' to use. [...] And now the same freaking feature in OS X is considered a 'security feature', and they claim it is even 'easier' to use than Vista's version?

... maybe not, but Apple is:

New Zealand Mac users missing DST patch
Apple has yet to issue a patch adjusting to a change in New Zealand's seasonal times, Mac users from the country complain.

http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/09/28/new.zealand.dst.problems/

They _do_ have to pretend to care that you want to go with a carrier other than who they have a contract with (AT&T).

Wow, you drank the Kool-Aid. It seems AT&T pays Apple for each subscriber on a monthly basis, how much and what for are in dispute. In your twisted representation, Apple would love nothing more to allow you to go elsewhere but for some other reason, AT&T would cry. Based on my reading, I see that Apple wants the single vendor relationship for its own benefit. The reality is Apple would lose the monthly fee for every subscriber not using AT&T. With at least 1 million phones and a few bucks a month ads up to a decent monthly income for Apple. If you do not think that is the reason, you need to take off the Apple glasses and look again.

Here are some links
http://www.unstrung.com/document.asp?doc_id=133945
http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/07/19/piper.iphone.income.share/
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9747031-7.html
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/14997/

You can search for Apple revenue sharing AT&T and read more. To think that Apple would not pursue similar kick back deals in other countries would be naive as well.

I guess that depends on whose numbers you look at. At MacNN it says that Apple had 5.6% of shipments for Q2 2007. Then at this site it shows Mac had 3.33% of the market share. So who knows the real numbers. I would bet it is between 3% - 5%.

I heard (from a Korean) it was released in Korea before iPod (was released there?)...

(Note, the Techeblog site fracks with my Mozilla Firefox browser in that it DELAYS my getting off their page and back into my Slashdot tab... I suspect some fracked up ad code, cookies/java/other code interrupting my keyboard and mouse...)

http://www.newsfactor.com/news/Samsung-Introduces-an--iPhone-Killer-/story.xhtml?story_id=0210017RZFZR

http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/09/14/samsung.croix.for.vodafone/

http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/samsungs-iphone-killer-f700

Now, on the techeblog site, someone remarked that the phone was not touchscreen capable.... Their comments were in February.

The MacNN site has commentary that it is touchscreen.

The NewsFactor site article is also in Feb 07. See "Features Galore" section.

But, as for regular phones, check out things that kick the pants off US-market phones (tho I realize most of the cell phones here ARE from Japan or Korea):

http://au.kddi.com/english/product/index.html

http://mb.softbank.jp/mb/en/

http://mb.softbank.jp/mb/en/product/3g/815t/index.html

I used to have a Vodafone phone that had a multicolor strobe emitting from the camera flash. It was independently activated.

http://www.sharp.co.jp/products/v402sh/

When I lost it I wanted to DIE.

Darwin was an open source project, that never gained traction or support from Apple. From Wikipedia: "OpenDarwin was a community-led operating system based on the Darwin platform, founded in April 2002 by the Internet Software Consortium and Apple. In July 2006, the OpenDarwin Core Team and Administrators announced that all development on OpenDarwin would cease, citing concerns over lack of interest from the community."

See also Open-source Darwin? Not yet. My favorite part: "Apple is stonewalling open-source developers despite the company's recent release of much of the Mac OS X Tiger kernel source code"

WebKit was KHTML, but modified so extensively by Apple it basically turned into a fork. Only recently have attmepts been made to merge them back together. Instead of working on KHTML, Apple chose to grab it, mangle it, and throw it in Safari

The unforking of KDE's KHTML and Webkit

Please get your facts straight, sir. I bought a G-4 in 2000 (before you could buy a G-4 with OS X preinstalled) and got an OS X t-shirt with it. I thought it was the dawn of a new day at Apple when OS X was released. I was wrong.

Skill with a soldering iron is not required.

To add onto that, Mac OS X Leopard has been certified as a Unix operating system, despite being based on BSD and their own (open source) kernel and (closed source) interface, none of which came from Unix.

http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/08/02/leopard.uni x.certified/

This is inaccurate and contradicts pretty much all expectations and current indications. In fact, 5.6% is an INCREASE. The Mac has gained marketshare. Albeit, it is still a niche player and always wil be as long as Apple is in the premium market.

For example:

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/07/18/appl es_u_s_mac_market_share_rises_to_5_6_percent_in_q2 .html Mac market share rises to 5.6%

http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/ 14057/ Predicting great increase in marketshare.

Or: http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/07/18/macs.have.5 6.share.in.us/ Mac marketshare shoots up 26%

there is one out already, i forget the name but someone was using this service for dialing internationally. Oh here it is: Talkety
http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/06/28/talkety.iph one.voip/

if the rate is cheaper than the long distance charges AT&T charges, it may make sense to use. Its not Skype, but its close.

It seems TFS has now been corrected from the mysterious future, but I took the time to compose my oh-so-informative post, so I'm going forward anyway, haha. Unless Samzenpus is in Australia (where it wouldn't be night right now), it's still the 27th, which is the night before the night before the iPhone is released. That extra "night before" missing from TFS might seem inconsequential, but remember kids-- if you're buying an iPhone, don't get off work early [thurs] TOMORROW night, get off work early on Friday June 29 to get in line in time.

I'm going to send one of our employees to get in line (for myself and three others) around noon, heh. Sure, I wish it had GPS and 3G, but since I'm coming from a BB8700, which doesn't have GPS (nor 3G), nor did my Treo before that, I'll live. And so far I'm encouraged by the reviews from Pogue and Mossberg (etc) discussed here yesterday. I've been closely watching engadget (etc), and believe the reviews to confirm that many of those sites (such as engadget) spreading negative rumors like "two thumb touchscreen typing was impossible to do, and our anonymous source gave up after a day or two" are really just sensational speculation for driving viewers to the site. It seems the screen takes some getting used to, but not nearly on the level that some "anonymous sources" have characterized. I'm also a bit disappointed in the family pricing.. it's not considerably cheaper for my own phone + my partner's on the same plan, versus individual plans. If they had made corporate/family pricing a little more attractive, I'd be inclined to buy some for our employees. The paltry 200 txt msgs standard to each plan is also annoying (so now I'll have to drop $10 or $20 per phone for extra). But even still, I'm firmly in the demographic that is willing to pay extra for the phone, the service, just for the UI (and non-crashyness) that Apple will bring to the table. This will hopefully have a very nice positive net effect-- I suspect most iPhone users will be very happy, and all other companies will now be pushed to improve their products or lose customers.

It seems TFS has now been corrected from the mysterious future, but I took the time to compose my oh-so-informative post, so I'm going forward anyway, haha. Unless Samzenpus is in Australia (where it wouldn't be night right now), it's still the 27th, which is the night before the night before the iPhone is released. That extra "night before" missing from TFS might seem inconsequential, but remember kids-- if you're buying an iPhone, don't get off work early [thurs] TOMORROW night, get off work early on Friday June 29 to get in line in time.

I'm going to send one of our employees to get in line (for myself and three others) around noon, heh. Sure, I wish it had GPS and 3G, but since I'm coming from a BB8700, which doesn't have GPS (nor 3G), nor did my Treo before that, I'll live. And so far I'm encouraged by the reviews from Pogue and Mossberg (etc) discussed here yesterday. I've been closely watching engadget (etc), and believe the reviews to confirm that many of those sites (such as engadget) spreading negative rumors like "two thumb touchscreen typing was impossible to do, and our anonymous source gave up after a day or two" are really just sensational speculation for driving viewers to the site. It seems the screen takes some getting used to, but not nearly on the level that some "anonymous sources" have characterized. I'm also a bit disappointed in the family pricing.. it's not considerably cheaper for my own phone + my partner's on the same plan, versus individual plans. If they had made corporate/family pricing a little more attractive, I'd be inclined to buy some for our employees. The paltry 200 txt msgs standard to each plan is also annoying (so now I'll have to drop $10 or $20 per phone for extra). But even still, I'm firmly in the demographic that is willing to pay extra for the phone, the service, just for the UI (and non-crashyness) that Apple will bring to the table. This will hopefully have a very nice positive net effect-- I suspect most iPhone users will be very happy, and all other companies will now be pushed to improve their products or lose customers.

And, BTW, where can I find a good used Powerbook (I assume G4) for ~$400? I kind of want one again but I can't seem to find any good cheap used ones.

Your best bet is eBay, or the forums at Mac sites such as the ones at Macnn, which has dedicated sales forum. It can be difficult to find cheap Powerbooks, though, as people tend to love them and hang onto them.

There are a number of people who have had luck re-flowing the BGA mount video controller on an Apple iBook. I have also found links to this being accomplished with a tea candle in the past.

http://forums.macnn.com/66/ibook-and-macbook/21023 2/diy-ibook-dual-usb-logic-board/

"Some" is very vague. It could mean 2 songs in their entire catalog. Mac fans like to believe it means most of the songs.

They keep saying that because Microsoft keeps babbling that because it's a closed platform, you for some reason can't install applications on it, which is 1) wrong and 2) silly.

Quite good considering the mini outperforms the Xserve G5 as a server

An article over at macnn.com about how a Mac Mini outperformed an (old) XServe says that the Mini used .37 amps at its peak. Presuming that was measuring the 110 Volt side, that's just over 40 Watts running full steam. I'd call that fairly power efficient.

Uh, isn't this from the same country which ruled Apple's DRM scheme as illegal? What happened to "information wants to be free?"

Or is this just Norway sticking its middle finger up at a United States company, only to then stick it up again to the rest of the world?

With an iPod as backup. LINK

Yeah, as much as /.ers and geeks in general like DVD Jon, he really isn't all that relevant in this case. The Norwegian Consumer Council's Senior Advisor's reply to Jobs' open letter, is far more important.

Basically, some bluster about exactly which part of the lock-in they're complaining about and what seems like an intentional misinterpretation of Jobs' letter as a sign of acceding to their demands aside, it says:
1) They're not interested in going after the big 4 record companies, since they don't sell directly to consumers; and thus any contractual obligations to the big 4 that prevent Apple from giving the Norwegian Consumer Council what they want are solely Apple's problem.
2) They know other companies are doing the exact same thing as Apple with regards to DRM, but 'everybody's doing it' is no excuse, and they're only going after Apple.

Honestly, to me, this is smelling more and more like the big 4 are using the Norwegians as a proxy to try to legally neuter Apple, so that they can retain sole control of the world's DRMed music for themselves.

It seems fairly obvious at this point that Apple will have to withdraw from Norway come October, and I for one will be interested to see what the Norwegians do then. If they go after Microsoft on the same grounds, trying to force them to license Zune's DRM to all comers, and license Plays4Sure for use with OSes other than Windows, then they'll be somewhat redeemed in my eyes. If they do nothing, or keep going after only Apple despite their withdrawal, then we'll all know in whose pocket the Norwegian Consumer Council resides.

The EFF asked the court for a multiplier (a.k.a, "loadstar") of the actual legal fees to compensate for the double contingent risk presented, i.e., both the risk of not prevailing in the defense of the subpoenas and the risk of succeeding, but without the circumstances necessary to obtain legal fees. At the low-end of traditional multipliers, which can range from 2-4 under California law, the EFF also said that California laws provides for a multiplier based on the novelty and complexity of the legal issues involved.

"We litigated this case in the public interest and successfully obtained substantial public benefits by vindicating constitutional rights protecting all journalists, and the public that benefits from the work of journalists, and vindicating federal statutory rights that protect all the millions of users of email communications," Opsahl wrote.

SED's were supposed to be in mass production and shipping in Japan in early 2006. I can see now why they haven't been actively marketed, and have even been pulled from US trade shows.

"Apple sold over 1.25 million Macs--including 667,000 desktops and 587,000 portables, a 20 percent increase from the year-ago. ... Apple did say, however, that it may not be able to meet demand for its new Intel-based MacBook Pro in the current quarter." http://www.macnn.com/articles/06/01/18/apples.holi day.quarter/

Wasn't Aspyr launching something similar to this called the 'Gamerhood'? Originally supposed to launch in Fall of 2006, I don't think it ever made it past the press release stage of it's life. In fact, searching Aspyr's site doesn't return anything even mentioning the Gamerhood.

"Switch to Gentoo you say? I could, but then I'd have to get my hands gooey at levels that I'd rather remain a mystery (the kernel should remain distant, angry, and invisible like a God)"

I can't for the life of me understand why you would need to get your hands gooey. These provide similar desktop experiences to Vista without compiling the kernel. Looking Glass on Ubuntu, Beryl 3D on Gentoo, Novells SLED and Suns Looking Glass 3D desktop.

"I'm not a communist and don't believe in that hippy crap"

Good for you, I'm a republican myself too. But talk about mixed metaphors, Hippys generally don't like to be told what to do and good communist think what the central committee tells them what to think.

was I'll be upgrading (Score:1 FUD)

Well, if you read it, it must be true then.

I think this sucks.
Note that this was reported months ago, August 7, 2006, to be exact.
Microsoft kills VirtualPC, VB for Mac

Here's the arstechnica.com forum discussion about it (started on August 7, 2006), with lots of pissed off users:
MS Killing VB in Next Version of Office for Mac

Here are two blogs (Aug 8 and 9) by MacBU devs Erik Schwiebert and Rick Schaut, trying to explain this decision.
Erik Schwiebert - Saying goodbye to Visual Basic
Rick Schaut - Virtual PC and Visual Basic

Because blogs are a way to reach audiences that are not reached through traditional marketing outlets

Yeah, because Apple has a real problem "reaching audiences." I mean, who ever heard of an iPod? They seem to think that TV commercials and word-of-mouth alone will sell the things.

they increase the amount of feedback you receive from your customers, and they provide a way to mine your user base for ideas.

If only there were some website where Apple could gather user opinions and feedback.

-- Brian Boyko
-- Professional Blogger.

It shows.

Would it take 'additional material' to get you to keep buying CDs?