Apparently the cartoons were published in Egypt back in October. The guy who posted that is in Egypt and has a pretty solid grasp on how the local dictatorships are using the cartoons to their advantage. Pretty much if you see a riot in Syria and Iran it's state sponsered.
Let's not paint the professor as a saint in all this. His role was to run to the media right away, and only after others started pointing out inconsistencies and asking for more details did he start to question the student's story. At this point he still refuses to name the student and I wouldn't be surprised to learn it was all made up by the professor.
Do you have any numbers to back that up? My understanding is that the iMacs and laptops are flying off the shelves. The towers aren't selling like crazy but they aren't meant to.
Just looking around campus there's probably at least 50x more students with powerbooks/ibooks than 2 years ago.
Please explain what the irony is in that. FreeBSD also works in the real-world quite well (Yahoo, Hotmail before MS, not to mention 2.5 million other sites.
While FreeBSD doesn't have the "sexiness" of Linux right now (although I'd argue that is starting to wane a good bit) it is rock solid and dead simple to admin.
Did you read the WT article the grandparent poster cited? Did you even read the citation he used? The article has nothing to do with what Wilson has said, instead focusing on a CIA agent who helped train Plame and now claims that her employment was public knowledge. Add him to a list of people who have claimed as much now (Cliff May, Andrea Mitchell, Cooper.)
I don't know about Cocoa calls, but none of the widgets that access command-line tools asked me before they installed. It can run commands directly from the javascript, so it doesn't even need to include any actual binaries.
Dashboard feels like it was really rushed out the door in general. Everyone I know who upgraded to Tiger had to go through a reboot to install their first widget, and I've managed to crash Dashboard several times now just by trying to write a simple widget. I agree that Apple didn't do it's best work here (but I'm hopeful they can get it cleaned up, because outside of the bugs it's extremely handy.)
Although it's still better than the Mail.app UI changes they made (wtf were they thinking?!?)
I had it on by default because in Panther it was fine. It only opened PDFs and Zip files and mp3s and some other non-executable formats. If Safari just downloaded and unzipped the zip files it would be one thing, but to automatically install the Widget bundle is just dumb.
True, but widgets can run external programs if certain permissions are set. The most insane part is that the widget itself sets the permissions it's allowed to have. Putting a key in the Info.plist file with "AllowFullAccess" set to "Yes" will allow the widget to run anything, access the network, etc. Basically at that point it's a full featured app. How hard would it be to make a widget that's invisible but periodically queries Safari's browser history, or songs played in itunes, or do a spotlight search for "password" and email the results to some guy in Russia? The widget could even be invisible to the user, with a 1x1 transparent gif as it's screen.
It seems really really dumb in this light to have Safari not only automatically download zip files, but uncompress them and if it finds a Widget bundle inside to install it. All without user intervention.
You're correct. I was blinded by the fact that you completely misrepresented Apple in your post, implying that what they did is just as stupid as what MS has done. I agree MS was dumb and if they give out beta copies of their OS to reporters they should reasonably expect to have screenshots posted.
I should have said the public's "right to know" doesn't include leaking copies of Apple's OS.
But even still, screenshots hardly fall into the public interest category. I don't have to worry about Longhorn's interface causing me to get cancer, or otherwise harm me in any way (other than having to talk my users through using it.)
1.) Comparing a leaked copy of the OS to screenshots is silly. 2.) Apple didn't sue over the leaked copy of Tiger. They watermarked it and caught the guy through technical means. 3.) I think you seriously need to rethink your definition of "right to know" as it is nothing like what anyone I know uses. See I have a "right to know" MS is dumping toxic waste in my backyard. I don't have a "right to know" anything I want about their unreleased product.
As for harming MS, if you can't see how these screenshots do that you haven't been reading the critical reviews of it. It has been widely panned as actually managing to make XP's interface look positively sleek and elegant.
One of the customers where I work was recently added to a bunch of RBLs, all because people who signed up for their mailing list decided they didn't want it anymore. This is fairly common, as several other customers have had to deal with it in the past (in every single case I was able to easily confirm they were not spamming, only opt-in, and they don't buy addresses.)
Many times it has nothing to do with the ISP, but about stupid people who don't understand what is in their inbox. Given how easy it is to get added to a RBL it's not surprising, really. What annoys me is when our customers don't notice or don't tell me, and 6 months later the blacklist expands to our entire IP block. We're not spammers and we don't host spammers, but we're blacklisted as spammers.
Canadian bloggers may face charges for posting links to captainsquartersblog.com's article. That to me seems to validate most of what he posted. Bear in mind what happens in that court is public record, people just aren't allowed to publish it.
Ad hominem and strawmen is basically all a lot of people have. The alternative is admitting something they've believed strongly for years is wrong, something not many people can do.
The democrats (mostly the southern democrats) were the ones fighting against all the civil rights bills of the 50's and 60's. The 1957 bill barely got passed due to massive opposition by the democratic party, and had to be watered down quite a bit to get any democratic support. It was drawn up by Eisenhower's (a republican) administration. The 1960 bill was also heavily watered down to get the democratic party's votes.
The 1964 Civil Rights Act was passed the house 289 to 124 (80% republican and 63% dems voting "yes") and passed the senate 73 to 27. 21 of the "No" votes were democrats.
If you hit google or sign up for a Congressional Quarterly account you can easily get these numbers yourself.
I'm not trying to convince anyone to be a conservative or even a republican (I'm not one), but the parent poster dragged out the tired old line about republicans hating minorities, which is just false. I'm also not saying all dems were against civil rights, but statistically the republicans were more likely to support civil rights bills.
The Democrats are the party of Robert Byrd. For those who don't know he was in the KKK and there are several letters he wrote decrying "race mongrels."
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This page at Google Video seems to suggest it is.
Currently people in New Zealand and Singapore can view the video just fine.
http://egyptiansandmonkey.blogspot.com/2006/02/bo
Apparently the cartoons were published in Egypt back in October. The guy who posted that is in Egypt and has a pretty solid grasp on how the local dictatorships are using the cartoons to their advantage. Pretty much if you see a riot in Syria and Iran it's state sponsered.
That's not a Kyoto feature. The US has been doing emission trading since the 70's.
Let's not paint the professor as a saint in all this. His role was to run to the media right away, and only after others started pointing out inconsistencies and asking for more details did he start to question the student's story. At this point he still refuses to name the student and I wouldn't be surprised to learn it was all made up by the professor.
Name another time that the President has ordered warrantless spying on Americans.
There were the times Carter authorized warrantless electronic surveillance and Clinton authorized warrantless searches. Clinton even expanded it to cover purely domestic situations.
There's a surprising amount of case law in this area, and all of it has consistently found the president is authorized to do this.
Do you have any numbers to back that up? My understanding is that the iMacs and laptops are flying off the shelves. The towers aren't selling like crazy but they aren't meant to.
Just looking around campus there's probably at least 50x more students with powerbooks/ibooks than 2 years ago.
Except for this bill, which was a single line.
Please explain what the irony is in that. FreeBSD also works in the real-world quite well (Yahoo, Hotmail before MS, not to mention 2.5 million other sites.
While FreeBSD doesn't have the "sexiness" of Linux right now (although I'd argue that is starting to wane a good bit) it is rock solid and dead simple to admin.
Did you read the WT article the grandparent poster cited? Did you even read the citation he used? The article has nothing to do with what Wilson has said, instead focusing on a CIA agent who helped train Plame and now claims that her employment was public knowledge. Add him to a list of people who have claimed as much now (Cliff May, Andrea Mitchell, Cooper.)
"All jocks think about it sports. All nerds think about is sex."
-- Louis Skolnick in Revenge of the Nerds
It wasn't a secret. It'd been discussed on numerous sites (including this one) many many times.
I don't know about Cocoa calls, but none of the widgets that access command-line tools asked me before they installed. It can run commands directly from the javascript, so it doesn't even need to include any actual binaries.
Here's a good example:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/dashboard/q
Dashboard feels like it was really rushed out the door in general. Everyone I know who upgraded to Tiger had to go through a reboot to install their first widget, and I've managed to crash Dashboard several times now just by trying to write a simple widget. I agree that Apple didn't do it's best work here (but I'm hopeful they can get it cleaned up, because outside of the bugs it's extremely handy.)
Although it's still better than the Mail.app UI changes they made (wtf were they thinking?!?)
I had it on by default because in Panther it was fine. It only opened PDFs and Zip files and mp3s and some other non-executable formats. If Safari just downloaded and unzipped the zip files it would be one thing, but to automatically install the Widget bundle is just dumb.
True, but widgets can run external programs if certain permissions are set. The most insane part is that the widget itself sets the permissions it's allowed to have. Putting a key in the Info.plist file with "AllowFullAccess" set to "Yes" will allow the widget to run anything, access the network, etc. Basically at that point it's a full featured app. How hard would it be to make a widget that's invisible but periodically queries Safari's browser history, or songs played in itunes, or do a spotlight search for "password" and email the results to some guy in Russia? The widget could even be invisible to the user, with a 1x1 transparent gif as it's screen.
It seems really really dumb in this light to have Safari not only automatically download zip files, but uncompress them and if it finds a Widget bundle inside to install it. All without user intervention.
The italians were also going more than double the speed limit on that road, and failed to stop for the roadblock despite warning shots.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050429/pl_afp/italy
You're correct. I was blinded by the fact that you completely misrepresented Apple in your post, implying that what they did is just as stupid as what MS has done. I agree MS was dumb and if they give out beta copies of their OS to reporters they should reasonably expect to have screenshots posted.
I should have said the public's "right to know" doesn't include leaking copies of Apple's OS.
But even still, screenshots hardly fall into the public interest category. I don't have to worry about Longhorn's interface causing me to get cancer, or otherwise harm me in any way (other than having to talk my users through using it.)
1.) Comparing a leaked copy of the OS to screenshots is silly.
2.) Apple didn't sue over the leaked copy of Tiger. They watermarked it and caught the guy through technical means.
3.) I think you seriously need to rethink your definition of "right to know" as it is nothing like what anyone I know uses. See I have a "right to know" MS is dumping toxic waste in my backyard. I don't have a "right to know" anything I want about their unreleased product.
As for harming MS, if you can't see how these screenshots do that you haven't been reading the critical reviews of it. It has been widely panned as actually managing to make XP's interface look positively sleek and elegant.
One of the customers where I work was recently added to a bunch of RBLs, all because people who signed up for their mailing list decided they didn't want it anymore. This is fairly common, as several other customers have had to deal with it in the past (in every single case I was able to easily confirm they were not spamming, only opt-in, and they don't buy addresses.)
Many times it has nothing to do with the ISP, but about stupid people who don't understand what is in their inbox. Given how easy it is to get added to a RBL it's not surprising, really. What annoys me is when our customers don't notice or don't tell me, and 6 months later the blacklist expands to our entire IP block. We're not spammers and we don't host spammers, but we're blacklisted as spammers.
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/0
Canadian bloggers may face charges for posting links to captainsquartersblog.com's article. That to me seems to validate most of what he posted. Bear in mind what happens in that court is public record, people just aren't allowed to publish it.
Currently at least one Canadian blog is in trouble for posting a LINK to captainsquartersblog.com.
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/0
It sure is a good thing Microsoft digitally signs everything. Clearly they are lightyears ahead of open-source in terms of security.
Ad hominem and strawmen is basically all a lot of people have. The alternative is admitting something they've believed strongly for years is wrong, something not many people can do.
The democrats (mostly the southern democrats) were the ones fighting against all the civil rights bills of the 50's and 60's. The 1957 bill barely got passed due to massive opposition by the democratic party, and had to be watered down quite a bit to get any democratic support. It was drawn up by Eisenhower's (a republican) administration. The 1960 bill was also heavily watered down to get the democratic party's votes.
The 1964 Civil Rights Act was passed the house 289 to 124 (80% republican and 63% dems voting "yes") and passed the senate 73 to 27. 21 of the "No" votes were democrats.
If you hit google or sign up for a Congressional Quarterly account you can easily get these numbers yourself.
I'm not trying to convince anyone to be a conservative or even a republican (I'm not one), but the parent poster dragged out the tired old line about republicans hating minorities, which is just false. I'm also not saying all dems were against civil rights, but statistically the republicans were more likely to support civil rights bills.
The Democrats are the party of Robert Byrd. For those who don't know he was in the KKK and there are several letters he wrote decrying "race mongrels."
http://www.stentorian.com/politics/byrd.html