Apple Posts Security Update 2005-002

thelemmings writes "Today, Apple released Security Update 2005-002 for Mac OS X. It fixes a bug in the Java 1.4.2 implementation where an untrusted applet could gain elevated privileges and potentially execute arbitrary code. Sounds scary."

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Re:Safari Popup Fix

[Storlek]

Excellent point; you hit the nail on the head.

Online advertisers are focusing too much on the short-term: get people to see the ad. Banners worked for a while, then everyone started ignoring them, so they went for more annoyingly sized and placed ads, popups, popunders, etc., which caught people's attention for a while. Then ad blockers came along, and suddenly online advertising came to a screeching halt as they tried to figure out how to get around them. Now they have, and look how quickly people are asking how to block the new popups.

Most banner ads are completely useless, and I'm not missing anything by blocking. I don't need faster downloads and more local access numbers, and I don't care that I could win a free iPod by guessing which disembodied head is Britney Spears. Maybe if I had been looking at the homepage of some well-known overpriced dialup ISP, I would have greater than zero chance of caring that some other ISP is cheaper and faster; if I were reading a website about Britney Spears, I might want to get that iPod. Okay, the last one still wouldn't apply, since I already have an iPod, and don't like Britney Spears anyway, but that's beside the point.

Other online advertisers should take a nice long look at AdSense, marvel in its simplicity and usefulness. I've seen online advertising grow up from the moderately tasteful small static banner image to the obnoxious beast that it's become and have never yet had any reason to click on a single one of them until AdSense came along and started providing relevant and interesting ads. In fact, oh-so-long ago, I didn't even know ad banners were clickable. I presume a lot of non-net-savvy people still don't realize it. This is another advantage of using text ads: people look at colored underlined text and equate it with "click this", whereas they see some out-of-place picture and mentally filter it out as irrelevant.