This is what is going on here. The media companies decide, beforehand, how much money they should be making in a given period of time, based on voodoo bullshit as far as i can tell, then if they don't make that much money they bitch about the pirates and blame losses on them.
So while their digital revenue and legal downloads have probably gone up, the RIAA and the companies they represent think it should be going up MORE, a lot more apparently. The problem is they are fucking wrong, and have no credibility to say anything in public anymore.
The driver issue is the dealbreaker for me, i don't want ridiculous DRM code touching the kernel, ever. Using rootkits to prevent removal of kernel code is even more absurd.
Why do you think there isn't a simple way to yank the battery? Do you ever wonder why Apple "doesn't seem to do that"? Maybe it's because they want their users living in blind ignorance and they simply do what I am saying when you send it to them.
I'm saying yanking the battery doesn't always work, in fact i seem to recall a friend having to get a code from Dell because yanking the battery doesn't help. But by all means, go on making weird statements about the intentions of apple to keep users ignorant. That's pure jackass right there.
You see, this is what I'm getting at here. You make these statements like you are some type of authority on computer hardware, yet you don't know what you're talking about and can't be bothered to actually learn what you are talking about. Hmm, maybe it's the aforementioned smugness getting in the way.
Honestly, i don't care. You are taking slashdot posts far too seriously. Since you want to be a fucking dick though, i went to the trouble to find apples documents on the subject.
You can in fact restrict optical disc booting, target disk mode, and single user mode, etc. In fact the password also restricts resetting pram. It isn't selective so far as i can see, you cant ONLY restrict certain things making it less useful for situations like a school that wishes to simply lock down a machine but still allow use.
I tried to be somewhat polite in my first post, because it seemed like you were truly ignorant and maybe want to know how it really works. Now it seems you are ignorant and don't really care about learning these things. It's fine if you're ignorant and don't really care about learning how you're ignorant, but really, why even bother posting? When I first responded I was thinking, hmm, maybe this kid is right, maybe he knows something about Macs and what I know is wrong. But instead of correcting me on where I might have been wrong, you simply replied back with the same drivel from your first post.
You weren't trying to be polite at all, you responded to my original 3 sentence post with an attempt to fight about shit i never even said, and don't care about. You'd like to have a fight with someone about macs vs. pcs, but you're better off looking elsewhere.
I originally crafted a much harsher reply to your post, but I feel bad. Just please understand that you come off as the smug Apple fanboy in these few sentences and that's all I will say about that.
You know what smug means right? If i come off that way its because you wanted to read it that way.
I don't understand what "switch" you are referring to on "PC"s. I'm assuming you mean the clear cmos jumper. I'm not sure if Macs in general have the clear cmos jumper, but from looking in my G4 they most definitely have batteries that power the mobo's volatile memory that holds the BIOS settings. Also, companies that make parts for Macs also make parts for "PC"s. In the Mac commercials, when they refer to computers running Winders by calling them "PC"s, the difference they are talking about is the software. Yes, your Macs are "Personal Computers", even if Apple doesn't prefer you call them that.
*I'm* the smug one? Perhaps you are just waiting to have that argument with some Apple jackass, but i made no such arguments about Macs being technically superior or super-secure, i simple said they are a bit more secure than regular PCs, where yes, the CMOS jumper can usually wipe the firmware password.
I'm well aware of the difference and similarities between macs and pcs, and there are in fact differences, especially talking about the firmware and the firmware password.
As i already pointed out, Macbooks are similar to many PC laptops in that there isn't a simple way to yank the battery or hit a switch and reset the password, on PC laptops you can usually get a code from the OEM to reset it, Apple doesn't seem to do that, you have to send them the machine.
You "think"? Educate yourself, we do have teh internets now, google how to get root on a Mac. You don't even need a CD.
Yes, i think, i typed from memory, this isn't a fucking research project.
I'm well aware of single user mode, but single user mode can be restricted by the firmware. We aren't talking about root btw, we're talking about preventing the system from booting to any disc or partition but the one the stock OS was installed on, which as i pointed out yesterday can probably be circumvented by taking the drive out.
You can take the actual macbook drive out though, modify it all you want and put it back in, the firmware isn't doing verification on the drive, and it isn't encrypted, no TPM trickery going on with macs firmware.
On a PC it might be futile to set passwords and try to prevent reinstallation, but a macbook is a bit different, they can't just be reset by hitting a switch like most PCs.
Macbooks are a lot like other pc laptops in that regard, physical security is a bit higher.
I think you can set the password and prevent booting to an external disk or the CD drive, which would prevent booting the installer. The password reset thing isn't on the install disk btw.
If by "works" you mean "i have a 10.3 panther PPC machine and need non-journaling access to an ext3 partition", or "i have a tiger/leopard Intel machine and don't care if my machine suddenly panics". Those are the choices at the moment.
It's curious really, this is a filesystem for which the spec is very well known, implementations are available fully open source, and yet here we are with unmaintained and unstable projects that are alpha quality for both OS X and Windows. The drivers for Windows ext2/3 support cause bluescreens under various conditions, so yea those are alpha too.
NO! You don't want to go down that path my friend! First it's just the summary, then maybe you read the first comment, sooner or later you RTFA and things go downhill from there
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How can they be sure 95% of them are illegal?
This is what is going on here. The media companies decide, beforehand, how much money they should be making in a given period of time, based on voodoo bullshit as far as i can tell, then if they don't make that much money they bitch about the pirates and blame losses on them.
So while their digital revenue and legal downloads have probably gone up, the RIAA and the companies they represent think it should be going up MORE, a lot more apparently. The problem is they are fucking wrong, and have no credibility to say anything in public anymore.
Yes and where were you when funny man up there was writing his bad joke? Eh?
AT&T u-verse has some set top boxes running Win CE
.......your doctors are.....fucking retarded i believe.
It's called free society, people die, deal with it.
Take results with a grain of salt
Salt is forbidden by the EULA......and my doctor.
If you hadn't compared that to a car of some kind, i would have been totally lost.
Well, which is it? I can only do one at a time.
Not the best situation, companies doing whatever they want until someone complains.
I can't wake up in the morning if there isn't something to completely freak out about in the tech world
i have a problem :(
i look forward to visiting h t t p colon slash slash dot slash dot dot slash dot slash
I don't mean steam, i mean securom and all the other crap.
Only if you have a quacking fetish, which, after hearing about you using ducks to pickup girls, i have to wonder...
The driver issue is the dealbreaker for me, i don't want ridiculous DRM code touching the kernel, ever. Using rootkits to prevent removal of kernel code is even more absurd.
Why do you think there isn't a simple way to yank the battery? Do you ever wonder why Apple "doesn't seem to do that"? Maybe it's because they want their users living in blind ignorance and they simply do what I am saying when you send it to them.
I'm saying yanking the battery doesn't always work, in fact i seem to recall a friend having to get a code from Dell because yanking the battery doesn't help. But by all means, go on making weird statements about the intentions of apple to keep users ignorant. That's pure jackass right there.
You see, this is what I'm getting at here. You make these statements like you are some type of authority on computer hardware, yet you don't know what you're talking about and can't be bothered to actually learn what you are talking about. Hmm, maybe it's the aforementioned smugness getting in the way.
Honestly, i don't care. You are taking slashdot posts far too seriously. Since you want to be a fucking dick though, i went to the trouble to find apples documents on the subject.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1352
You can in fact restrict optical disc booting, target disk mode, and single user mode, etc. In fact the password also restricts resetting pram. It isn't selective so far as i can see, you cant ONLY restrict certain things making it less useful for situations like a school that wishes to simply lock down a machine but still allow use.
I tried to be somewhat polite in my first post, because it seemed like you were truly ignorant and maybe want to know how it really works. Now it seems you are ignorant and don't really care about learning these things. It's fine if you're ignorant and don't really care about learning how you're ignorant, but really, why even bother posting? When I first responded I was thinking, hmm, maybe this kid is right, maybe he knows something about Macs and what I know is wrong. But instead of correcting me on where I might have been wrong, you simply replied back with the same drivel from your first post.
You weren't trying to be polite at all, you responded to my original 3 sentence post with an attempt to fight about shit i never even said, and don't care about. You'd like to have a fight with someone about macs vs. pcs, but you're better off looking elsewhere.
I originally crafted a much harsher reply to your post, but I feel bad. Just please understand that you come off as the smug Apple fanboy in these few sentences and that's all I will say about that.
You know what smug means right? If i come off that way its because you wanted to read it that way.
I don't understand what "switch" you are referring to on "PC"s. I'm assuming you mean the clear cmos jumper. I'm not sure if Macs in general have the clear cmos jumper, but from looking in my G4 they most definitely have batteries that power the mobo's volatile memory that holds the BIOS settings. Also, companies that make parts for Macs also make parts for "PC"s. In the Mac commercials, when they refer to computers running Winders by calling them "PC"s, the difference they are talking about is the software. Yes, your Macs are "Personal Computers", even if Apple doesn't prefer you call them that.
*I'm* the smug one? Perhaps you are just waiting to have that argument with some Apple jackass, but i made no such arguments about Macs being technically superior or super-secure, i simple said they are a bit more secure than regular PCs, where yes, the CMOS jumper can usually wipe the firmware password.
I'm well aware of the difference and similarities between macs and pcs, and there are in fact differences, especially talking about the firmware and the firmware password.
As i already pointed out, Macbooks are similar to many PC laptops in that there isn't a simple way to yank the battery or hit a switch and reset the password, on PC laptops you can usually get a code from the OEM to reset it, Apple doesn't seem to do that, you have to send them the machine.
You "think"? Educate yourself, we do have teh internets now, google how to get root on a Mac. You don't even need a CD.
Yes, i think, i typed from memory, this isn't a fucking research project.
I'm well aware of single user mode, but single user mode can be restricted by the firmware. We aren't talking about root btw, we're talking about preventing the system from booting to any disc or partition but the one the stock OS was installed on, which as i pointed out yesterday can probably be circumvented by taking the drive out.
Passwd alters the system password, not the firmware password.
You can take the actual macbook drive out though, modify it all you want and put it back in, the firmware isn't doing verification on the drive, and it isn't encrypted, no TPM trickery going on with macs firmware.
On a PC it might be futile to set passwords and try to prevent reinstallation, but a macbook is a bit different, they can't just be reset by hitting a switch like most PCs.
Macbooks are a lot like other pc laptops in that regard, physical security is a bit higher.
I think you can set the password and prevent booting to an external disk or the CD drive, which would prevent booting the installer. The password reset thing isn't on the install disk btw.
Yes, if you need support for a filesystem, changing the entire operating system around that need makes much more sense.
At least COAL won't murder your wife
If by "works" you mean "i have a 10.3 panther PPC machine and need non-journaling access to an ext3 partition", or "i have a tiger/leopard Intel machine and don't care if my machine suddenly panics". Those are the choices at the moment.
It's curious really, this is a filesystem for which the spec is very well known, implementations are available fully open source, and yet here we are with unmaintained and unstable projects that are alpha quality for both OS X and Windows. The drivers for Windows ext2/3 support cause bluescreens under various conditions, so yea those are alpha too.
They aren't providing a GUI for sshfs on macfuse anymore
Because slashdot isn't a public service announcement system and macfuse is more interesting?
NO! You don't want to go down that path my friend! First it's just the summary, then maybe you read the first comment, sooner or later you RTFA and things go downhill from there