Ever hear of a Google bomb? Reports of their demise is premature. Try typing in most any republican candidate and see what the first or second hits are. This is nothing but a transparent attempt to prevent people from seeing the real candidates message. It is desperate and dishonest. And it seem only democrats do it. You could chalk it up to a lack of technical skills on the RNC's part or you can chalk it up to a lack of morals on the DNC's part. I'd go with the latter.
Ummm... lowering taxes is "bad for the United States". How exactly do you backup that comment? I don't think me or any other taxpayer is going to be hurt too badly if you take less money away.
Note: it is utterly idiotic to expect that "leaders" protect us from the horrors of mob rule.
Uhh, the constitution and the bill of rights? Wait! Did you got to public school? That would explain a lot. But, no, really, what "system of government" is better than a constitutional republic? I mean, you seem to think you've got a better idea, I'm willing to listen. If you don't really have a better idea and just want to see anarchy then STFU.
You can point out whatever you like about a candidate, but don't try and deceive the voters by registering a domain name of your opponents name. That's a dirty trick, it should be called out for what it is, not spun away like this is politics as usual. And that's what everyone should be upset about: This is an attempt to deceive voters or at the very least prevent Newt from registering the domain he in any fairness has a right to.
I would say the same thing if a Republican tried this. It's low down and dirty and is on the same level as having your opponents removed from the ballot on a technicality. If you can't stand without perpetrating fraud against voters then how honest can I expect you to be when you're elected and actually have a bit of power?
And what do you have in mind that is less evil than what we already have? Wait a second! Is that you Karl? Doh! Dirty trickster! You keep showing up in the strangest places!
Man, the DNC hacks are already hard at work modding your perfectly obvious comment down... Troll? Really? There is no "-1 No in favor of my political party", that's not what troll means!
If you think it's evil to prevent fair competition in smartphones by patenting common functions with plenty of prior art ([1], [2]) to prevent fair competition, how is this any different? Why not allow people to make their choices based on the merit of the individual? Is it that the DNC thinks the average voter is too stupid and needs to be manipulated into voting the "correct way"? Do you really need to trick people to vote for you?
This reminds me of a unattributable quote I've heard more than once: "The difference between a conservative and a liberal is that a conservative is afraid that you don't understand what they are talking about, while a liberal is afraid you do."
Yet, for some reason, no one else on the planet has been able to combine these existing technologies as well or as successfully as Apple.
This has more to do with marketing and the reality distortion field that SJ put forth in all Apple releases. Apple's ability to get people hyped up over nothing is a thing of legend.
When you say "They are a decade late to the smart phone race, but they claim to be the most prolific innovators in the market." --
Apple got into the market just when hardware acceleration became available, and benefited from having 1) a brand new OS 2) proprietary hardware and software 3) single piece of hardware. This allowed them to "skip a generation" of technology with their initial offering and only their initial offering. Since then they've largely relied on excellent (and very deceptive) marketing and a very devoted fan base. The proof of that statement is the fact that Apple has been hemorrhaging market share to all of their competition and Apple's decision to use the force of law to solve their problems instead of "innovating". BTW, why don't they just continue to innovate? Oh that's right, people are steeling all their important patents like the one in this story.
The iPod was not the first MP3 player, but far and away the best selling for ten years. The iPhone was not the first smartphone but it has over half the industry's profits with just 1/20th of the market. [appleinsider.com] And then Apple came along with the iPad and sold more tablets in one year than the whole rest of the PC industry had sold in the previous (almost) decade.
That sounds like proof of the already obvious. They sell an overpriced item and have a ton of after market licensing for third party companies wanting to make products for Apple's proprietary interface. And that's basically why everyone wants to leave Apple: everything is about making you spend money on something you should damn well get for free (or much less). I should NOT have to contend with a god damn iPod connector on a car! They should have been USB and used an open technology, of which there are many to choose from. So ya, they "earned" all of their profits from sticking to their devoted customers. And that's the biggest "fuck you" to the open source community. Apple basically locked out all their competition from using these now proprietary accessories. Real fucking innovative.
If Apple is "just" stealing everyone else's ideas and adding no value to the mix, then their success ought to be easy to replicate, right? Or maybe you're wrong, and they are doing good work, and you're just unable to see just what it is they're doing.
Indeed. Once people realized that Android and WinMo was offering much the same thing at a much lower price, and no asshole behavior, they jumped ship. And that is rather indisputable. You can't argue that they are actually gaining market share. Or maybe you can... I don't know you well enough.
One other point: your claim that "they steal from the open source community" is flat out wrong.
As I said to another user, and this is very much a copy of that: You misunderstand why I call it "theft". Not because they copied it, but because they copied it and then portray it as their own work. Plagiarism is probably a better word. It's done so covertly that the average Apple user doesn't know where the OS comes from, so it's plagiarism by omission. Have you ever presented an accomplishment to someone that they accidentally gave you credit for when someone else deserved the credit? Did you correct them and say "the credit really should go to..."?
From: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/evil
evil [ee-vuhl]
adjective
1. morally wrong or bad; immoral; wicked: evil deeds; an evil life. (Apple)
2. harmful; injurious: evil laws. (Apple)
3. characterized or accompanied by misfortune or suffering; unfortunate; disastrous: to be fallen on evil days.
4.due to actual or imputed bad conduct or character: an evil reputation. (Apple)
5.marked by anger, irritability, irascibility, etc.: He is known for his evil disposition.
You misunderstand why I call it "theft". Not because they copied it, but because they copied it and then portray it as their own work. Plagiarism is probably a better word. It's done so covertly that the average Apple user doesn't know where the OS comes from, so it's plagiarism by omission. Have you ever presented an accomplishment to someone that they accidentally gave you credit for when someone else deserved the credit? Did you correct them and say "the credit really should go to..."?
Umm your not allowed on/. if you don't no the diference between a kernel and an OS. And Darwin is only Based on FreeBSD.
Maybe that was true of NeXTSTEP, but that was a long time ago. Apple used what they wanted from FreeBSD, they did not restrict themselves to kernel code. Maybe you should read up a little before you go correcting people.
Thanks to its permissive licensing terms, much of FreeBSD’s code base has become an integral part of other operating systems such as Mac OS X that have subsequently been certified as UNIX-compliant and have formally received UNIX branding.
Still not convinced? Where did OSx get its virtual file system from? (and no, that is not part of the kernel)
Access the internet from a mobile device? Then your probably using Web-Kit which Apple poured huge amounts of work into turning KHTML into the the master of standards compliant web browsing for all. How evil of them.
This is a good act, but not innovative. I'm not sure why you brought that up or what if anything it has to do with this conversation. Sure Apple has done good before, but that does not excuse them from doing evil.
And lets face it Apple created the smartphone race. No one today would consider what came before the iPhone a smart phone anymore.
So you're just going to ignore 10+ years of development of windows mobile, symbian and palm? I was using a touch screen Kyocera palm OS with a phone almost a decade before the iPod came out, let alone the iPhone. There was a huge competitive market between symbian, palm and winmo long before Apple even had an iPod. I had full remote control of any windows/mac and putty for any *nix machines that didn't have a GUI. I would call that a fully functioning "computer in my pocket". So your idea that "Apple created the smartphone race" sounds like someone who just showed up to the smartphone race. And maybe that's why you think they're so innovative. You didn't bother to see that everything they're peddling is just a upgraded version of what we had 10 years ago.
Last time I checked Apple bundled Safari, just like MS bundled IE. But Apple will also not allow any competing browsers on their device. Which do you think is "more evil".
And exactly when does Apple receive the moniker: "Lord of all evil"? Can we vote to change Apple's logo on/. to a spinning flaming skull circa interweb 1999? Can someone please tell me what it is that Apple has innovated? Not only did they not make their own OS (last I checked FreeBSD is not a product of Apple inc.) but they steal from the open source community. (Logic:if they don't plan on playing nice they really don't deserve to benefit from the eons of man hours that went into creating the OS they so arrogantly tout as their own. That's just my opinion of course.) So what exactly did Apple innovate, invent or create? All I see here is a more up to date version of the windows mobile phones that came out in the late 90's.
Everything they've "invented" is nothing but mashups of technologies that already exist in software frameworks made by people other than Apple. Even the combinations they've selected existed long before the iPhone was created. Voice controlled AI? Ya, we were already doing that a long time before Apple abandoned their PPC hardware platform for the "not as good as the PPC" Intel platform. They are a decade late to the smart phone race, but they claim to be the most prolific innovators in the market. Anyone with even a cursory knowledge of the patents involved know without equivocation that Apple's arguments are worse than baseless, they are an insult to anyone who has used this technology for the last 20 years. And now they aim to cripple their competition, not thorough making a better product, but by using the perverted rule of law as a cudgel to prevent fair competition.
They were held to account. Tens of thousands of people stopped using Sony's service and switched to a competitor because of the breach. There still may be litigation against Sony that you don't even know about. I'm sure just as many people are appalled at the DMV and would just love to stop using the DMV and start using a competing service. It's called the "invisible hand", maybe you should learn a little about economics.
There are also developer geeks who, until Lion (which allows visualization), practically had to buy a Mac because they wanted to test their software under Windows, Linux, and OSX, on one machine. So it had to be a Mac visualizing the other two.
Just realize that the fact you can run Windows, Linux and OSX on the same machine has much more to do with Windows and Linux and really nothing to do with OSX.
The only reason you can't do this on every PC hardware platform is because Apple goes out of their way to prevent everyone else from running OSX on non-Apple hardware. They are the only player in the game that has ever done this and it's the most underhanded anti-geek thing there is. What if every OS was keyed to a specific hardware platform?
I find it very ironic that the only reason that a lot of people give for switching to Mac is that OSX is the very reason that Apple is much maligned: locking the OS into their hardware. Nobody else would even consider doing such an insidious thing.
Sorry, here's a better citation. But it was not "on the level of a typographical error, not a scientific error" as you say. It was at least incompetence and at most intentionally misleading, even if well meaning.
PCI doesn't make rules, they make guidelines that people can follow if they want to be called "PCI Certified". Some companies will not purchase commerce software unless it has PCI certification.
Maybe you should read the PCI guidelines before you shove your anonymous foot in your coward mouth.
From the doc:
Investigations after compromises consistently show common PCI DSS violations, including but not limited
to:
Storage of magnetic stripe data (Requirement 3.2). It is important to note that many compromised
entities are unaware that their systems are storing this data. I could find Requirement 3.2 but I'm pressed for time right now.
A rainbow table is a precomputed table for reversing cryptographic hash functions, usually for cracking password hashes.
I design software that stores password hashes. It uses the same cryptographic hash functions to store passwords (SHA1 probably). If you have the salt you can use a rainbow table to figure out the hash. That's the only reason rainbow tables are used, so clearly you don't know what you're talking about.
I would rather my CC be encrypted in a database someplace then have it written down on a piece of paper in the clear for the garbage man to find when they are taking out valves trash.
That's right, you would rather suffer from a hypothetical problem that hasn't and probably would never happen, than suffer from the problem that actually did happen, again and again to numerous large companies. You can lock up your building enough to prevent garbage men from taking your un-shredded trash, but can you lock up your computers enough? Wait. That's a rhetorical question, the answer is no.
Like most other "too big to obey rules" companies Valve just ignores PCI standards of keeping credit card information. PCI standards require that adherents not keep credit card information in a digital format, making it impossible to steel. Of course Valve can't be bothered to allow the annoyance of filling out a credit card form to break the urge to buy their [another persons] software. Now if you've ever used steam your credit card data is most likely compromised.
It sounds to me like they don't have a clue how many servers were compromised so I'll just go ahead and assume the hackers have the encryption key for the CC data and salt for the hashes. Now a simple rainbow table is required and then the hackers have your password/email - hope you don't use the same password on your banking site! Valves way of saying "thanks for using Steam".
I'll bet he/she eats vegetables. I'll be he/she also eats meat that eats vegetables. And he/she probably doesn't like the cold. And don't worry, CO2 isn't harmful to us until it reaches 50,000 PPM, it's around 300 PPM right now.
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Ever hear of a Google bomb? Reports of their demise is premature. Try typing in most any republican candidate and see what the first or second hits are. This is nothing but a transparent attempt to prevent people from seeing the real candidates message. It is desperate and dishonest. And it seem only democrats do it. You could chalk it up to a lack of technical skills on the RNC's part or you can chalk it up to a lack of morals on the DNC's part. I'd go with the latter.
Ummm... lowering taxes is "bad for the United States". How exactly do you backup that comment? I don't think me or any other taxpayer is going to be hurt too badly if you take less money away.
Uhh, the constitution and the bill of rights? Wait! Did you got to public school? That would explain a lot. But, no, really, what "system of government" is better than a constitutional republic? I mean, you seem to think you've got a better idea, I'm willing to listen. If you don't really have a better idea and just want to see anarchy then STFU.
Do you have dissociative identity disorder?
You can point out whatever you like about a candidate, but don't try and deceive the voters by registering a domain name of your opponents name. That's a dirty trick, it should be called out for what it is, not spun away like this is politics as usual. And that's what everyone should be upset about: This is an attempt to deceive voters or at the very least prevent Newt from registering the domain he in any fairness has a right to.
I would say the same thing if a Republican tried this. It's low down and dirty and is on the same level as having your opponents removed from the ballot on a technicality. If you can't stand without perpetrating fraud against voters then how honest can I expect you to be when you're elected and actually have a bit of power?
And what do you have in mind that is less evil than what we already have? Wait a second! Is that you Karl? Doh! Dirty trickster! You keep showing up in the strangest places!
Man, the DNC hacks are already hard at work modding your perfectly obvious comment down... Troll? Really? There is no "-1 No in favor of my political party", that's not what troll means!
If you think it's evil to prevent fair competition in smartphones by patenting common functions with plenty of prior art ([1], [2]) to prevent fair competition, how is this any different? Why not allow people to make their choices based on the merit of the individual? Is it that the DNC thinks the average voter is too stupid and needs to be manipulated into voting the "correct way"? Do you really need to trick people to vote for you?
This reminds me of a unattributable quote I've heard more than once: "The difference between a conservative and a liberal is that a conservative is afraid that you don't understand what they are talking about, while a liberal is afraid you do."
Then why the fuck should I vote for you?
This has more to do with marketing and the reality distortion field that SJ put forth in all Apple releases. Apple's ability to get people hyped up over nothing is a thing of legend.
Apple got into the market just when hardware acceleration became available, and benefited from having 1) a brand new OS 2) proprietary hardware and software 3) single piece of hardware. This allowed them to "skip a generation" of technology with their initial offering and only their initial offering. Since then they've largely relied on excellent (and very deceptive) marketing and a very devoted fan base. The proof of that statement is the fact that Apple has been hemorrhaging market share to all of their competition and Apple's decision to use the force of law to solve their problems instead of "innovating". BTW, why don't they just continue to innovate? Oh that's right, people are steeling all their important patents like the one in this story.
That sounds like proof of the already obvious. They sell an overpriced item and have a ton of after market licensing for third party companies wanting to make products for Apple's proprietary interface. And that's basically why everyone wants to leave Apple: everything is about making you spend money on something you should damn well get for free (or much less). I should NOT have to contend with a god damn iPod connector on a car! They should have been USB and used an open technology, of which there are many to choose from. So ya, they "earned" all of their profits from sticking to their devoted customers. And that's the biggest "fuck you" to the open source community. Apple basically locked out all their competition from using these now proprietary accessories. Real fucking innovative.
Indeed. Once people realized that Android and WinMo was offering much the same thing at a much lower price, and no asshole behavior, they jumped ship. And that is rather indisputable. You can't argue that they are actually gaining market share. Or maybe you can... I don't know you well enough.
As I said to another user, and this is very much a copy of that: You misunderstand why I call it "theft". Not because they copied it, but because they copied it and then portray it as their own work. Plagiarism is probably a better word. It's done so covertly that the average Apple user doesn't know where the OS comes from, so it's plagiarism by omission. Have you ever presented an accomplishment to someone that they accidentally gave you credit for when someone else deserved the credit? Did you correct them and say "the credit really should go to..."?
Well, Apple didn't.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/
http://www.apple.com/macosx/specs.ht
From: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/evil
evil [ee-vuhl]
adjective
1. morally wrong or bad; immoral; wicked: evil deeds; an evil life. (Apple)
2. harmful; injurious: evil laws. (Apple)
3. characterized or accompanied by misfortune or suffering; unfortunate; disastrous: to be fallen on evil days.
4.due to actual or imputed bad conduct or character: an evil reputation. (Apple)
5.marked by anger, irritability, irascibility, etc.: He is known for his evil disposition.
Three out of five!
You misunderstand why I call it "theft". Not because they copied it, but because they copied it and then portray it as their own work. Plagiarism is probably a better word. It's done so covertly that the average Apple user doesn't know where the OS comes from, so it's plagiarism by omission. Have you ever presented an accomplishment to someone that they accidentally gave you credit for when someone else deserved the credit? Did you correct them and say "the credit really should go to..."?
Well, Apple didn't.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/
http://www.apple.com/macosx/specs.html
http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is/
http://www.apple.com/macosx/whats-new/
No mention of FreeBSD anywhere in there! Assholes.
Maybe that was true of NeXTSTEP, but that was a long time ago. Apple used what they wanted from FreeBSD, they did not restrict themselves to kernel code. Maybe you should read up a little before you go correcting people.
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD
Still not convinced? Where did OSx get its virtual file system from? (and no, that is not part of the kernel)
This is a good act, but not innovative. I'm not sure why you brought that up or what if anything it has to do with this conversation. Sure Apple has done good before, but that does not excuse them from doing evil.
So you're just going to ignore 10+ years of development of windows mobile, symbian and palm? I was using a touch screen Kyocera palm OS with a phone almost a decade before the iPod came out, let alone the iPhone. There was a huge competitive market between symbian, palm and winmo long before Apple even had an iPod. I had full remote control of any windows/mac and putty for any *nix machines that didn't have a GUI. I would call that a fully functioning "computer in my pocket". So your idea that "Apple created the smartphone race" sounds like someone who just showed up to the smartphone race. And maybe that's why you think they're so innovative. You didn't bother to see that everything they're peddling is just a upgraded version of what we had 10 years ago.
Last time I checked Apple bundled Safari, just like MS bundled IE. But Apple will also not allow any competing browsers on their device. Which do you think is "more evil".
And exactly when does Apple receive the moniker: "Lord of all evil"? Can we vote to change Apple's logo on /. to a spinning flaming skull circa interweb 1999? Can someone please tell me what it is that Apple has innovated? Not only did they not make their own OS (last I checked FreeBSD is not a product of Apple inc.) but they steal from the open source community. (Logic:if they don't plan on playing nice they really don't deserve to benefit from the eons of man hours that went into creating the OS they so arrogantly tout as their own. That's just my opinion of course.) So what exactly did Apple innovate, invent or create? All I see here is a more up to date version of the windows mobile phones that came out in the late 90's.
Everything they've "invented" is nothing but mashups of technologies that already exist in software frameworks made by people other than Apple. Even the combinations they've selected existed long before the iPhone was created. Voice controlled AI? Ya, we were already doing that a long time before Apple abandoned their PPC hardware platform for the "not as good as the PPC" Intel platform. They are a decade late to the smart phone race, but they claim to be the most prolific innovators in the market. Anyone with even a cursory knowledge of the patents involved know without equivocation that Apple's arguments are worse than baseless, they are an insult to anyone who has used this technology for the last 20 years. And now they aim to cripple their competition, not thorough making a better product, but by using the perverted rule of law as a cudgel to prevent fair competition.
Apple really is the new root of all that is evil.
They were held to account. Tens of thousands of people stopped using Sony's service and switched to a competitor because of the breach. There still may be litigation against Sony that you don't even know about. I'm sure just as many people are appalled at the DMV and would just love to stop using the DMV and start using a competing service. It's called the "invisible hand", maybe you should learn a little about economics.
Just realize that the fact you can run Windows, Linux and OSX on the same machine has much more to do with Windows and Linux and really nothing to do with OSX.
The only reason you can't do this on every PC hardware platform is because Apple goes out of their way to prevent everyone else from running OSX on non-Apple hardware. They are the only player in the game that has ever done this and it's the most underhanded anti-geek thing there is. What if every OS was keyed to a specific hardware platform?
I find it very ironic that the only reason that a lot of people give for switching to Mac is that OSX is the very reason that Apple is much maligned: locking the OS into their hardware. Nobody else would even consider doing such an insidious thing.
Sorry, here's a better citation. But it was not "on the level of a typographical error, not a scientific error" as you say. It was at least incompetence and at most intentionally misleading, even if well meaning.
I'm not defending the Anonymous Coward's statement but he was only off by about 20 years in his critique of the IPCC's original estimate of 2035.
PCI doesn't make rules, they make guidelines that people can follow if they want to be called "PCI Certified". Some companies will not purchase commerce software unless it has PCI certification.
Read the all the docs here:
https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/security_standards/documents.php?category=saqs
Make sure you're right before you tell other people they are wrong.
From Wikipedia: Rainbow Table
I design software that stores password hashes. It uses the same cryptographic hash functions to store passwords (SHA1 probably). If you have the salt you can use a rainbow table to figure out the hash. That's the only reason rainbow tables are used, so clearly you don't know what you're talking about.
That's right, you would rather suffer from a hypothetical problem that hasn't and probably would never happen, than suffer from the problem that actually did happen, again and again to numerous large companies. You can lock up your building enough to prevent garbage men from taking your un-shredded trash, but can you lock up your computers enough? Wait. That's a rhetorical question, the answer is no.
Like most other "too big to obey rules" companies Valve just ignores PCI standards of keeping credit card information. PCI standards require that adherents not keep credit card information in a digital format, making it impossible to steel. Of course Valve can't be bothered to allow the annoyance of filling out a credit card form to break the urge to buy their [another persons] software. Now if you've ever used steam your credit card data is most likely compromised.
It sounds to me like they don't have a clue how many servers were compromised so I'll just go ahead and assume the hackers have the encryption key for the CC data and salt for the hashes. Now a simple rainbow table is required and then the hackers have your password/email - hope you don't use the same password on your banking site! Valves way of saying "thanks for using Steam".
And pleonasms run deep in you.
I'll bet he/she eats vegetables. I'll be he/she also eats meat that eats vegetables. And he/she probably doesn't like the cold. And don't worry, CO2 isn't harmful to us until it reaches 50,000 PPM, it's around 300 PPM right now.
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