A OS 9 virus, a PowerPC/10.4 trojan, a proof of concept virus and a trojan that uses social engineering to scam $39.99 from unsuspecting users that also need to explicitly download and install it. That's the best you managed to find? Is like saying old unpatched releases of BIND are insecure and installing random software from internet is a bad idea.
No, since the user is the one fooled into installing it. As long people are able to install software in their machines you will not stop trojans, regardless of the OS unless we are talking about stock iOS. We are talking about self replicating, self installing virus.
Now, I would like that Apple kill the "open safe files automatically" in Safari and spend more time in the OS install process to teach basic security procedures to new users to be a happy customer.
Here in Mexico the army shot a pick-up full of civilians, mostly children in Sinaloa state 3 years ago. The only one that suffered consequences was the medical officer in the platoon that murdered them, and that was because the severe PST that he suffered, his drugged comrades keep firing while he was screaming and begging them that they stopped, that they were firing at children.
Now, I find understandable that the army and police forces try to protect their own, after all, they also have their lives in the line and the last thing that they want is to let a partner die, but this impulse becomes into unaccountability when they commit crimes.
We IT workers don't have the heavy burden of security forces or the ability to do has much damage like they, but people expect from us the same level of reliability of utilities no matter what is the size of their organization or the quality of equipment. Expect from us a clockwork orange, but if you provide it, they think that you are unnecessary.
Not only he managed to get the vision of the computer has appliance, he also managed to make Pixar a household name when George Lucas didn't had any idea about what to do with the studio, made tablet computers interesting for consumers and revolutionized phone industry.
Well, at least people in the USA don't have to worry about having a foreign power trying to influence elections there like we do in Latin America. The “ammo” step in soapbox-vote-ammo is something to be used when the “peace” with injustice becomes absolutely unbearable. After all, as General Sherman said, the legitimate purpose of war is a more perfect peace, but USA is still far away from needing a revolution. What USA needs is accountability.
Instead, we have a plutocracy run amok that will not stop until they end with their heads severed by a guillotine. American democracy currently is a very bad joke since there are not term limits,campaign spending limits, rules about propaganda in mass media, rules about what are you allowed to say about an opponent or a standardized voting method. That coupled with a poorly educated population is a recipe for disaster. Montesquieu wrote about how will look a sick republic several hundred of years ago. His description fits perfectly for the USA and most western nations. My country, Mexico, is just in a more advanced state of rotting than USA or France, but is a matter of time and lack of citizens will to change to be in the same mess that we mexicans are.
Personally, I think that most libertarians have the same understanding of society's complexity of a toddler. Most conservatives just follow the line that religious leaders and big media say them to follow. The last great conservative intellectual in my opinion was Robert A. Heinlein.
I think that the reason that these bugs bite them is that instead of relying in the iPod/iPhone’s internal real time clock the alarm app uses the iCal calendaring services and tries to be location aware. Normally, it would be a nice and powerful touch for the app, but there are too many corner cases to account in this scenario that the app becomes really prone to fail. However, if Android and Symbian manage to do this in a reliable way Apple can do it too; at least, you could set a preference in the app to make it “location/DST aware” or let it behave like a not powerful but reliable plain old mechanical clock.
Yup, I really enjoy Apple's devices, but bugs like this and the remote execution bug that rooted iPhone 4 just by visiting a web page are inexcusable. This bug should have been fixed since the first time it was spotted.
Sure many of/. have heard of the current drug war in Mexico. Since the war is a severe political liability security forces try to do their “best” to catch criminals. The sad part is since we don’t have a professional detective force and the internal security service, CISEN is more worried with political power games and blackmail than state’s security, the police and army relies on anonymous tips for their “investigations”.
Sadly, those tips mean that a prankster could send the army at your home at 3 am and they will beat you and destroy your furniture just because they were told that you are a kidnapper. That happened to my grandmother and is not funny to hear how she had a assault riffle pointed to her head and the family had to be sending her money to fix doors and broken furniture instead of Christmas presents. She was lucky; many people didn’t survive similar ordeals. Instead, the security forces plant evidence to make appear their crimes like a successful operation against gang members. I don’t understand why Americans having a working court and law system will want to throw it away and exchange it for the wild rotten “system” we have now here.
A tip information system is so easily gamed to be useless, specially in the case of airport security.
it is more about making a real world test of the current capabilities of what south korean companies can do so they can offer the buses to other customers. Doing this they amortize the R&D and will be able to sell at a better price than competitors. Overhead wire is dirt cheap and low maintenance; hell, even in my city here in Mexico we had several mayor routes of trolley buses, two of them were replaced by 2 lines of light rail in the 80's and early 90's, two lines are still in service an the 3-6 other lines were destroyed -like many of the good things in this hell hole country- by corrupt politicians.
Yes, I'm pissed because 30 years ago Mexico was more rich and was has advanced like South Korea. Now, there is no contest. We have the richest man in the world, they have a first world country. My hat of to the korean people.
Is more akin tho the media cartel eating his cake, forcing the artists to buy them another one, then forcing taxpayers to buy them another one, even if they are not consumers of their products. Despite what narrow minded people believe, tablet computers can be used for far more useful things than to listen to music or playing videos. If they want so badly these kind of levies, then lawmakers must abrogate all laws punishing non commercial copyright infringement since copyright holders are already compensated for it anyway.
It's France's Sarkozy government. His cabinet is made of such a clowns that this is perhaps the most well thought law that they have in the pipeline for the next year.
...and how come California state law applies to the entire world? I'm guessing something to do with eBay being in California? Doesn't seem right somehow...
Simple, it is on eBay's terms of service. Perhaps those same figures will appear soon in a Canadian auction site subject to more permisive canadians laws.
The problem is that they skipped the critical step of asking first permission from Apple and Jobs. We don't know if Apple is already in negotiations with another company to launch a similar product.
Considering the huge ammounts of bootleged and pirate products coming from China, the real news are that the chinese company listened to Apple compliants.
That said, I must recognize that the guys at MIC Gadget did a fine job.
Angered by the steep rates, consumers formed electricity cooperatives and municipal utilities. That in turn led Insull and his counterparts to plead with state officials for protection from this "ruinous" competition. Politicians complied, passing laws that granted the large electric power companies exclusive franchises in their areas in exchange for regulation of their prices and profits. The municipal utilities and electricity cooperatives continued to operate but in most cases never grew as large as the regulated for-profit (investor-owned) utilities.
I work for the state owned electric company of Mexico, Comisión Federal de Electricidad. For a private investor, it doesn't make sense to provide power to a small cluster of 5-20 homes, but for the people living there is the difference among living in XIX century and now living in XXI century. That's what state owned companies will provide or private companies can under a very strong regulation. I understand the view that "customers sould have a choice" specially when customer service in private and public utility companies is so bad that in our case, company vehicles in some places don't use company logos because they are welcomed by angry people with firearms fire, but the economies of scale works in favor of the large companies. No matter how good is your solar/wind array, it is no match for a large hydroelectric dam that produces 1Mw for a dollar or less.
Grandparent could go to live in Somalia, or, if he doesn't like long travel times, go to Ciudad Juárez to enjoy living in a place with government reduced to its minimum expression.
What most people here cannot understand is that water, health and electricity are not and cannot be regular markets since they are basic necessities for life. You will pay for them whatever the price is has long you can afford it.
In Japan you can buy even in 100 yen stores a very neat special covers for your laundry that you put over the hangers and voilá, women and girls can put they lingerie to dry in a balcony without worry about the prying eyes of the male neighbors. If this lady was truly worried about it she could have bought her laundry covers a long ago.
If this is the true quality of the top commanders in USA's army is no wonder that they have their ass kicked by a crappy rag tag army in Iraq and Afganistan. USA plays currently by the "madman's doctrine", the north koreans are playing the same because they have a several million hostages in Seoul that enables them to do so.
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A OS 9 virus, a PowerPC/10.4 trojan, a proof of concept virus and a trojan that uses social engineering to scam $39.99 from unsuspecting users that also need to explicitly download and install it. That's the best you managed to find? Is like saying old unpatched releases of BIND are insecure and installing random software from internet is a bad idea.
No, since the user is the one fooled into installing it. As long people are able to install software in their machines you will not stop trojans, regardless of the OS unless we are talking about stock iOS. We are talking about self replicating, self installing virus.
Now, I would like that Apple kill the "open safe files automatically" in Safari and spend more time in the OS install process to teach basic security procedures to new users to be a happy customer.
Here in Mexico the army shot a pick-up full of civilians, mostly children in Sinaloa state 3 years ago. The only one that suffered consequences was the medical officer in the platoon that murdered them, and that was because the severe PST that he suffered, his drugged comrades keep firing while he was screaming and begging them that they stopped, that they were firing at children.
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Now, I find understandable that the army and police forces try to protect their own, after all, they also have their lives in the line and the last thing that they want is to let a partner die, but this impulse becomes into unaccountability when they commit crimes.
We IT workers don't have the heavy burden of security forces or the ability to do has much damage like they, but people expect from us the same level of reliability of utilities no matter what is the size of their organization or the quality of equipment. Expect from us a clockwork orange, but if you provide it, they think that you are unnecessary.
Not only he managed to get the vision of the computer has appliance, he also managed to make Pixar a household name when George Lucas didn't had any idea about what to do with the studio, made tablet computers interesting for consumers and revolutionized phone industry.
Well, at least people in the USA don't have to worry about having a foreign power trying to influence elections there like we do in Latin America. The “ammo” step in soapbox-vote-ammo is something to be used when the “peace” with injustice becomes absolutely unbearable. After all, as General Sherman said, the legitimate purpose of war is a more perfect peace, but USA is still far away from needing a revolution. What USA needs is accountability.
Perhaps american citizens don't really want honest guys in Capitol Hill.
Instead, we have a plutocracy run amok that will not stop until they end with their heads severed by a guillotine. American democracy currently is a very bad joke since there are not term limits,campaign spending limits, rules about propaganda in mass media, rules about what are you allowed to say about an opponent or a standardized voting method. That coupled with a poorly educated population is a recipe for disaster. Montesquieu wrote about how will look a sick republic several hundred of years ago. His description fits perfectly for the USA and most western nations. My country, Mexico, is just in a more advanced state of rotting than USA or France, but is a matter of time and lack of citizens will to change to be in the same mess that we mexicans are.
Personally, I think that most libertarians have the same understanding of society's complexity of a toddler. Most conservatives just follow the line that religious leaders and big media say them to follow. The last great conservative intellectual in my opinion was Robert A. Heinlein.
Libertarian Nirvana is nortern Mexico, but I doubt that many /.ers want to live in Ciudad Juárez, murder capital of the world.
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Family Pack $49.00
Less than $10 per seat. It is way cheaper than any Windows version on sale and you don't need to worry about activation keys.
I think that the reason that these bugs bite them is that instead of relying in the iPod/iPhone’s internal real time clock the alarm app uses the iCal calendaring services and tries to be location aware. Normally, it would be a nice and powerful touch for the app, but there are too many corner cases to account in this scenario that the app becomes really prone to fail. However, if Android and Symbian manage to do this in a reliable way Apple can do it too; at least, you could set a preference in the app to make it “location/DST aware” or let it behave like a not powerful but reliable plain old mechanical clock.
Yup, I really enjoy Apple's devices, but bugs like this and the remote execution bug that rooted iPhone 4 just by visiting a web page are inexcusable. This bug should have been fixed since the first time it was spotted.
to be really bad.
Sure many of /. have heard of the current drug war in Mexico. Since the war is a severe political liability security forces try to do their “best” to catch criminals. The sad part is since we don’t have a professional detective force and the internal security service, CISEN is more worried with political power games and blackmail than state’s security, the police and army relies on anonymous tips for their “investigations”.
Sadly, those tips mean that a prankster could send the army at your home at 3 am and they will beat you and destroy your furniture just because they were told that you are a kidnapper. That happened to my grandmother and is not funny to hear how she had a assault riffle pointed to her head and the family had to be sending her money to fix doors and broken furniture instead of Christmas presents. She was lucky; many people didn’t survive similar ordeals. Instead, the security forces plant evidence to make appear their crimes like a successful operation against gang members. I don’t understand why Americans having a working court and law system will want to throw it away and exchange it for the wild rotten “system” we have now here.
A tip information system is so easily gamed to be useless, specially in the case of airport security.
You are not comparing 1970's computers, instrumentation and models with today's technology, are you?
it is more about making a real world test of the current capabilities of what south korean companies can do so they can offer the buses to other customers. Doing this they amortize the R&D and will be able to sell at a better price than competitors. Overhead wire is dirt cheap and low maintenance; hell, even in my city here in Mexico we had several mayor routes of trolley buses, two of them were replaced by 2 lines of light rail in the 80's and early 90's, two lines are still in service an the 3-6 other lines were destroyed -like many of the good things in this hell hole country- by corrupt politicians.
Yes, I'm pissed because 30 years ago Mexico was more rich and was has advanced like South Korea. Now, there is no contest. We have the richest man in the world, they have a first world country. My hat of to the korean people.
Most spanish language newspapers publish this day news in the same vein that is April Fools, but in this case, is just Sarkozy's usual stupidity.
Is more akin tho the media cartel eating his cake, forcing the artists to buy them another one, then forcing taxpayers to buy them another one, even if they are not consumers of their products. Despite what narrow minded people believe, tablet computers can be used for far more useful things than to listen to music or playing videos. If they want so badly these kind of levies, then lawmakers must abrogate all laws punishing non commercial copyright infringement since copyright holders are already compensated for it anyway.
It's France's Sarkozy government. His cabinet is made of such a clowns that this is perhaps the most well thought law that they have in the pipeline for the next year.
...and how come California state law applies to the entire world? I'm guessing something to do with eBay being in California? Doesn't seem right somehow...
Simple, it is on eBay's terms of service. Perhaps those same figures will appear soon in a Canadian auction site subject to more permisive canadians laws.
The problem is that they skipped the critical step of asking first permission from Apple and Jobs. We don't know if Apple is already in negotiations with another company to launch a similar product.
Considering the huge ammounts of bootleged and pirate products coming from China, the real news are that the chinese company listened to Apple compliants.
That said, I must recognize that the guys at MIC Gadget did a fine job.
Angered by the steep rates, consumers formed electricity cooperatives and municipal utilities. That in turn led Insull and his counterparts to plead with state officials for protection from this "ruinous" competition. Politicians complied, passing laws that granted the large electric power companies exclusive franchises in their areas in exchange for regulation of their prices and profits. The municipal utilities and electricity cooperatives continued to operate but in most cases never grew as large as the regulated for-profit (investor-owned) utilities.
I work for the state owned electric company of Mexico, Comisión Federal de Electricidad. For a private investor, it doesn't make sense to provide power to a small cluster of 5-20 homes, but for the people living there is the difference among living in XIX century and now living in XXI century. That's what state owned companies will provide or private companies can under a very strong regulation. I understand the view that "customers sould have a choice" specially when customer service in private and public utility companies is so bad that in our case, company vehicles in some places don't use company logos because they are welcomed by angry people with firearms fire, but the economies of scale works in favor of the large companies. No matter how good is your solar/wind array, it is no match for a large hydroelectric dam that produces 1Mw for a dollar or less.
I worked this Xmas Eve at the utility company, you insensitive clod!!
Enjoy your delicious chinese food :'(
Grandparent could go to live in Somalia, or, if he doesn't like long travel times, go to Ciudad Juárez to enjoy living in a place with government reduced to its minimum expression.
What most people here cannot understand is that water, health and electricity are not and cannot be regular markets since they are basic necessities for life. You will pay for them whatever the price is has long you can afford it.
In Japan you can buy even in 100 yen stores a very neat special covers for your laundry that you put over the hangers and voilá, women and girls can put they lingerie to dry in a balcony without worry about the prying eyes of the male neighbors. If this lady was truly worried about it she could have bought her laundry covers a long ago.
If this is the true quality of the top commanders in USA's army is no wonder that they have their ass kicked by a crappy rag tag army in Iraq and Afganistan. USA plays currently by the "madman's doctrine", the north koreans are playing the same because they have a several million hostages in Seoul that enables them to do so.