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Jon Johansen Breaks iTunes DRM Yet Again
ikewillis writes "Remember earlier today when Apple released an update supposedly blocking the hole in iTMS recently discovered by Jon Johansen? News.com reports that he has already worked around the update, and iTMS can now be accessed from non-Windows/MacOS X systems using the new version of his PyMusique software. You can view his blog entry on the issue (ironically titled So Sue Me). More power to you, Jon!"
I laughed my ass off the first time I read that joke (after realizing that it is in fact satire). Thanks for the laugh.
News.com posted their story about this at 15:37pmPST.
Boingboing posted theirs at 15:40PST.
I don't mean to go offtopic, but is Slashdot regularly slower than other tech sites? Are Boingboing and news.com usually so fast (at ~100 minutes)?
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This is the first, and probably last, tech news that I found about on Google News first before Slashdot.
Try gpsd and gpsbabel. Or for that matter, use the ancient gd2, which still works even on the newest Garmin models.
-russ
Don't piss off The Angry Economist
> I am getting tired of trying to correct all
> the misinformation and anon posters have a
> limit to how many factual corrections they
> can post in 24 hours (10 corrections maximum).
>
> The only reason I am trying to educate people
> again and again is becasue NO ONE is reading
> the -1 posts and some fool keeps modding these
> facts down for no reason.
I have also given up posting factual corrections,
because moderators seem to arbitrarily filter
posts, often based on their own opinions and not
facts.
Factual errors are really too common. Even more
so with comments in discussion.
What I find most distasteful is relaying pure
hype and then shaping the discussion by moderators
own ignorance on the topic.
While working at Symbian (my job was to
investigate virus and security threats), I have
several times pointed out in discussions that
none of what they called 'virus' or 'worm' was
actually any serious threat. Having seen the
code *and seen them run* I can claim with 100%
certainty that there has not yet been a single
exploit of faulty symbian code. I am not saying
Symbian code is perfect in any way though.
Rather, Symbian has some fundamental design
choices that protect it. First, all system files
are in a flash rom so cannot physically be
modified without extra hardware. Runtime security
benefits from descriptors (eliminate buffer
overflows), servers (for example only way to
access file system is through file server) and
others but most importantly kernel and MMU design
that give memory protection unseen in other OS.
Countless symbian 'features' typically annoy
people switching from coding for windows, linux or
java but are proving to be a valuable asset in
security. Needless to say, Symbian also knows how
important security is and even our moderator would
be surprised with how richly exotic Symbian's new
'plaform security' is.
Anyway, my point is that instead of my posts on
Symbian related stories, you could read some kid's
off-topic bitching.