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  1. Download paid for content on Flood of 4K James Bond Leaks Further Point To iTunes Breach (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    I buy 4K content on iTunes to play on my AppleTV on occasion, but when you download a copy to a computer it's limited to 1080p. Does this mean I can finally get copies of movies I've paid for in 4K so when Apple pulls them from its catalog I have a copy? I would actually make more 4K purchases on iTunes if I was sure I could download a copy, even if it had DRM as long as I could play it from my Mac to my TV.

  2. Re:C'mon, what's with the weird units? on Lockheed Martin Creates Its Largest 3D-Printed Space Part To Date (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    It may be easier to image the volume in more reasonable standard units. 74.4G ~= 538 Grapefruit, or 164.5 Bulgarian Funbags. Further comparisons are left as an exercise for the reader.

  3. Re: The bigger issue here on A Single Line of Computer Code Put Thousands of Innocent Turks in Jail (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    IIRC from the news I saw this morning, international tourism into the United States was down ~4% last year while globally international tourism was up ~7%. The United States slipped to the 3rd most popular destination behind France and Spain. Feel free to correct those numbers if Iâ(TM)m wrong, not enough coffee yet.

  4. Re:Overpriced on Apple iMac Pro Goes on Sale December 14th (engadget.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    According to Apple's web site the iMac pro has:
    4xThunderbolt 3(USB-C), suppotring 2 additional 5K kmonitors
    1X10Gb ethernet (Nbase-T 1,2.5,5,10Gb support)
    4XUSB 3
    SDXC card slot
    and a mini-headphone jack

  5. Re:Units on Turkeys Are Twice as Big as They Were in 1960 (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    15.1lb ==1.6308 Jub, 0.7873, Adult Badgers, or 0.0046 skateboarding rhinos....1.0786 stone if you're dull.
    31.1lb = 3.3589 Jub, 1.6216, Adult Badgers, or 0.0094 skateboarding rhinos....2.2216 stone if you're unfamiliar with proper weight units.

  6. Re:Timmy's Final Solution Rolls On on Mac Sales Declined Nearly 10 Percent Last Year (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 2

    Timmy's hatred for computers and Steve Jobs are legendary. The decline of the Mac lines which have been preceded by the reductions in hardware capability and operating system capability are the plan to kill-off the Mac, iPod and iTunes. Back in the day, iPod and iTunes saved the Mac after their introduction.

    Timmy's and Apple's next master-plan piece of innovation will be a the "Apple Tickle" a lesbian masturbation device tethered by blue-tooth and wifi to allow two or more lesbians to masturbate (the device is inserted into the vagina and controlled by iPhone) while playing masturbation games, in their home, on a bus, in a shopping mall or in their cars as such.

    Apple with just "Partner" with Lovense like they did with LG. Slap an Apple logo on one end and everybody is happy.

  7. Battery problem has been known, and is fixable on Chinese Consumer Group Has Asked Apple To Investigate 'a Considerable Number' of iPhone Shutdowns (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    I had an iPhone6 that would do the same thing, die with a 30-40% charge, then show the charge again and work after plugging it into a charger for a minute. This problem has been known for a while. A quick search shows the following thread on the apple discussion boards. There is a fix posted on payetteforward. I used that fix and my iPhone6 never had that battery problem again. I'd forgotten how I fixed it but 5 secods of a Google search for "iphone 6 turns off at 40" turned it up again.

  8. Re: Damn this is inconvenient on 23 Years Later: the Apple II Receives Another OS Update (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Actually the Apple IIe supported both 5.25" and 3.5" floppies under ProDOS. There was another drive controller card that worked in slot 7 iirc.

    I ran many a program and wrote all of my college papers using AppleWorks on my tricked out IIe.

    80 column card, heh, I had a 1M memory card. I had to put individual memory chips into it. Toss in the 5.25" controller, 3.5" controller, 2 slot AppleCat 9600b modem, parallel card for my Apple Color dot matrix printer and the 8Mhz Zip Chip and I had the most tricked out IIe I knew of at NMSU in1992. Now get off my lawn.

  9. NMSU has a very similar device in 1992 on IBM Creates World's First Artificial Phase-Change Neurons (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I was an undergrad at NMSU in 1992 working for a team developing artificial neural network processing elements in the 1990's. By 1992 a paper was published for using the PEs for pulse streamling filtering. The specific PE used for that example had electrically isolated dendritic inputs and axionic output. The team had preciously developed a PE that had dendritic input and axionic output on the same circuit. These behaved exactly the same as the ones from IBM, without the need for fancy phase-change materials, from what I can tell from the short article (grammar fail, I know.). The problem faced at the time was automated training of the PEs when connected. I'm glad to see someone has overcome that problem, but this sort of artificial neural network processing element has been around for over 20 years.

  10. Re: At least they were salted and hashed on Hackers Stole 65 Million Passwords From Tumblr (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    2 T oil
    8 oz corned beef
    65M passwords
    1 white onion chopped
    1 bell pepper chopped
    2 potatoes shredded
    Salt and pepper to taste

    Sauté' vegetables in oil until soft, add passwords and continue until clear text
    Add corned beef and potatoes and fry until golden brown

    Serve with 2 pwned eggs

  11. Re: Is it, uh.... on Man Builds 'Scarlett Johansson' Robot From Scratch (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    That would be the Jess Weixler doll. Guess there is a new use for G-Strings, dental floss.

  12. Re: The government voluntarily gave up their righ on Why Are Apple's Competitors Staying Silent On the iPhone Unlocking Fight? · · Score: 1

    Getting the new password won't allow them to use the known iCloud backup work around for the encryption. The iPhone has the old iCloud password stored in its keychain. The current iCloud password, even if revealed to the FBI is different. The iCloud encryption work around is due to the iPhone doing an automatic backup sync to the iCloud account. This will not work if the iPhone's stored password doesn't match the current iCloud password. With out being able to unlock the phone, they can't change the iCloud password on it to match the current actual iCloud password. Its also not feasible to change the current iCloud password back to what is stored on the iPhone, as I'm sure the password reset didn't expose the old password.

    So go ahead, get the new password from the IT individual who changed it, he would probably give it up with out a warrant, it won't help the FBI get into the phone.

  13. Re:Amazing... on CERN Engineers Have To Identify and Disconnect 9,000 Obsolete Cables (vice.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    So THATS where the PFY has been all morning. I thought he was in the tape safe again.

  14. Re:Anti-Unix site running IIS now? on Slashback: Blender, Pictures, Servitude · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Ask and you shal receive:

    nmap -sS -O -v -v www.wehavethewayout.com

    Starting nmap V. 2.53 by fyodor@insecure.org ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ )
    Host www.wehavethewayout.com (130.94.214.143) appears to be up ... good.
    Initiating SYN half-open stealth scan against www.wehavethewayout.com (130.94.21
    4.143)
    Adding TCP port 443 (state open).
    Adding TCP port 25 (state open).
    Adding TCP port 21 (state open).
    Adding TCP port 3306 (state open).
    Adding TCP port 2105 (state open).
    Adding TCP port 5900 (state open).
    Adding TCP port 110 (state open).
    Adding TCP port 1433 (state open).
    Adding TCP port 80 (state open).
    The SYN scan took 11 seconds to scan 1523 ports.
    For OSScan assuming that port 21 is open and port 20 is closed and neither are f
    irewalled
    Interesting ports on www.wehavethewayout.com (130.94.214.143):
    (The 1134 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: filtered)
    Port State Service
    21/tcp open ftp
    25/tcp open smtp
    80/tcp open http
    110/tcp open pop-3
    443/tcp open https
    1433/tcp open ms-sql-s
    2105/tcp open eklogin
    3306/tcp open mysql
    5900/tcp open vnc

    TCP Sequence Prediction: Class=random positive increments
    Difficulty=591570 (Good luck!)

    Sequence numbers: 4DC1679D 4DDCE751 4DEDCAD4 4DF3B30E 4DF835BF 4DFD21F9
    Remote operating system guess: MS Windows2000 Professional RC1/W2K Advance Serve
    r Beta3
    OS Fingerprint:
    TSeq(Class=RI%gcd=1%SI=906D2)
    T1(Re sp=Y%DF=Y%W=402E%ACK=S++%Flags=AS%Ops=MNWNNT)
    T2( Resp=Y%DF=N%W=0%ACK=S%Flags=AR%Ops=)
    T3(Resp=Y%DF =Y%W=402E%ACK=S++%Flags=AS%Ops=MNWNNT)
    T4(Resp=Y% DF=N%W=0%ACK=O%Flags=R%Ops=)
    T5(Resp=Y%DF=N%W=0%A CK=S++%Flags=AR%Ops=)
    T6(Resp=Y%DF=N%W=0%ACK=O%Fl ags=R%Ops=)
    T7(Resp=Y%DF=N%W=0%ACK=S++%Flags=AR%O ps=)
    PU(Resp=N)

    Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 15 seconds

  15. Re:Similar "Ooops" in Microsoft Office X on WinXP Keygen Foils Product Activation · · Score: 1

    The original poster was talking about the 1 command line needed to block the port MSOffice for MacOSX uses for copy protection, which happens to open a DOS hole in OSX as well.

    offtopic, but OSX has a complete FW implementation, ipfw, included in the default installation. It can be hand configured @ a cli or with a couple different GUI wrappers

  16. this is available on some unices on UNIX Process Cryogenics? · · Score: 1
    find your self a nice solaris box and do:



    man cpr


    man powerd


    man power.conf


    Sometimes there are advantages of commercial OSs


    Hawks

  17. Re:It's too expensive for what it does on Review of the Audiotron Stereo MP3 Component · · Score: 1
    I keep all my mp3s on a samba share, so any computer in the house can get to it (well the macs can't, but I'm working on setting up some sort of mac compatible solution alongside samba).


    Just FYI, if your macs are running OSX.1, they can mount CIFS/Samba shares natively. In the "Connect to Server" dialog use a url like:


    smb://server/share


    Enjoy

  18. fp on RMS Accused Of Attempting Glibc Hostile Takeover · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp...maybe

  19. Re:Does Apple still matter? on Amelio, Raskin, Gassée On What Apple Means · · Score: 2, Informative
    OK, Xerox PARC was the most prominent R&D lab for the industry, Apple ripped everything off first (like they often do, NEVER invent),...!

    Actually....Apple bought the rights to every peice of IP Xerox came up with and Apple used in MacOS. Xerox didnt think it was going anywhere and gave it to apple for a bunch of stock. That stock then went way up, so Xerox made a mint. I like Apple, sure, and I know people who dont, but if you're going to slam something, try to get your information right or someone might think you're a disinformation troll. Now you just look like a lemming. Moving right along....

  20. Re:This could be the greatest thing to happen sinc on Microsoft Cracked · · Score: 1

    as of last check, 11:02EST, MSFT was up over 2points. This just proves, to me anyway, that wallstreet is as delusional as Bill G.
    Hawks
    "Developers are the redheaded bastard step children of the computer world",

  21. Re:Wow on Underwater Computer For Ocean Research · · Score: 1

    ok, now THAT was one of the funniest posts I've read in a long time.
    Hawks
    "Developers are the redheaded bastard step children of the computer world",

  22. Re:Excuse me... on Would You Pay $1000 For Windows? · · Score: 2
    Hummmmm....Have you looked lately, Solaris is free for any machine with upto 8 processors. Last time I checked Windows didnt run on anything with more than 8 processors so.....Commercial OS on semi-comparable machine (same # of procs/ram) == $0. Thats what I expect to pay. yes I know, there's a shipping/media fee, the OS itself is still free


    Hawks
    "Developers are the redheaded bastard step children of the computer world",

  23. Re:When will we abandon single fast CPU for SMP? on Intel to Release Pentium 1.13Ghz · · Score: 2

    A bit off topic of the original article, but right on for this comment, Apple today (hold on, keep reading! :) ) moved 2/3 of its desktop machines to dual processor boxes for this exact reason. They're having a terrible time getting IBM/Mot to product >500Mhz G4's, so they went with 2xG4s to up performance. No, 9.0.4 is not SMP, but OSX is, and so are the betas. So, if you want consumer level MP/SMP a a resonable price, just "Think Different" and they're here today.
    Hawks
    "Developers are the redheaded bastard step children of the computer world",