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Apple Fixes 'Misleading' Leopard Firewall Settings
4 for 52 writes "ZDNet is reporting that Apple has fessed up to at least three serious design weaknesses in the new application-based firewall that ships with Mac OS X Leopard. The acknowledgment comes less than a month after independent researchers threw cold water on Apple's claim that Leopard's firewall can block all incoming connections. The firewall patches come 24 hours after a Mac OS X update that provided cover for at least 41 security vulnerabilities."
apple apologists such as he must surely have it done in advance, with a standby crew of other apple fans ready to mod all the way to +5 informative before anyone else posts
"can block all incoming connections. "
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
n/t jagoff
A little precognitive slashdot response, huh? Must've been burning a hole in your clipboard...
Dinosaur found with vacuum-cleaner mouth
110 million-year-old plant eater discovered in Sahara Desert
WASHINGTON - Perhaps it was one of those eureka moments, when the scientists realized they had discovered a new dinosaur with mouth parts designed to vacuum up food.
The 110 million-year-old plant eater, discovered in the Sahara Desert, was to be unveiled Thursday by the National Geographic Society.
Discoverer Paul Sereno named the elephant-sized animal Niggersaurus taqueti, an acknowledgment of the African country Nigger and a French paleontologist, Philippe Taquet.
Sereno, a National Geographic explorer-in-residence and paleontologist at the University of Chicago, said the first evidence of Niggersaurus was found in the 1990s and now researchers have been able to reconstruct its skull and skeleton.
While Niggersaurus' mouth is shaped like the wide intake slot of a vacuum, it has something lacking in most cleaners -- hundreds of tiny, sharp teeth to grind up its food.
The 30-foot-long Niggersaurus had a feather-light skull held close to the ground to graze like an ancient cow. Sereno described it as a younger cousin of the North American dinosaur Diplodicus.
Its broad muzzle contained more than 50 columns of teeth lined up tightly along the front edge of its jaw. Behind each tooth more were lined up as replacements when one broke off.
Using CT scans the researchers were able study the inside of the animal's skull where the orientation of canals in the organ that helps keep balance disclosed the habitual low pose of the head, they reported.
Niggersaurus also had a backbone consisting of more air than bone.
"The vertebrae are so paper-thin that it is difficult to imagine them coping with the stresses of everyday use -- but we know they did it, and they did it well," Jeffrey Wilson, assistant professor at the University of Michigan and an expedition team member, said in a statement.
The dinosaur's anatomy and lifestyle were to be detailed in the Nov. 21 issue of journal PLoS ONE, the online journal from the Public Library of Science, and in the December of National Geographic magazine.
The first bones of Niggersaurus were picked up in the 1950s by French paleontologists, but the species was not named at that time. Sereno and his team honored this early work by naming the species after Taquet.
The research was partly funded by National Geographic.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21818194/wid/18298287/?GT1=10628
Yeah,Apple screwed up but they are fixing it and the admit it. Integerity can go a long way.
Like I said, they deserve applause for recognising the issue, admitting the problem, and fixing it. Kudos to them.
In your world it seems nothing and nobody can every be forgiven for making a mistake. How sad.
Wow. Did you read my post?
They should be forgiven for making a mistake. But they deserve a spanking first, otherwise what reason is there for them to get better? You think they'll just learn to be better because some of their customers are annoyed? If so then you are either delusional or a fanboi, because anyone in tune with recent Apple support issues (specifically with regards to problems with the new aluminium iMacs) will know that Apple's shit does, in fact, stink.
This one is on it.slashdot.org. Shouldn't you Apple shills be hanging out on apple.slashdot.org??
Holy COW! Apple has design flaws? Critical patches within the first 30 days! All you crazy idiots that condemn Microsoft for this stuff should be slamming Apple just as hard....... but you won't, b\c you fanboys are just a bunch of hypocrites. Anyone who buys into the "Apple" mindset really should have their head examined...... its pretty much as idiotic as considering voting for Hillary Clinton for President in '08.
How else would you get your Apple Troll as FP?
Kiss my ass, fanboi.
Nothing personal. It's just that we here have some standards to uphold.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
"I don't consider it so much "paying for Slashdot" as sending a little financial support to the people that keep a site I find useful...and gives them some idea of the value which I place on their product."
...? eh?
:)
Nice try - that snow job almost worked. 'product'
The 'product' here is aggregated stuff that flows in _after_ it has been placed online elsewhere - and you enjoy paying for dated content? To the extent you compare it to paying a musician directly? Hello - you're paying for nothing here, except a platform. The original authors get zip from you.
You're obviously a shill (with suspiciously well timed and pre-packaged comments) shoveling a promotional agenda - good luck with that
apple fags should be use to getting viruses by penetration.
Not sure if Apple declares troll salary in its annual income report. Good job!