Ah yes! Backdoor access... a number of my exes used to quite enjoy that sort of thing!
If, on the other hand, you're poking about in her computer's backdoor, then you're a stalker and a manipulative control freak.
In addition to all the reasons "why this won't work" already mentioned, a national do not email list would be ineffective because the United states of America is not the whole world. Foreign spammers (and US spammers using foreign servers) would be unaffected and mostly untouchable.
I'll go with the anal twits here. Virus has no plural in latin, thus you go with the english plural rules which says add an -es.
Thank you!
Since the word "virus' came from medicine, I asked a physician friend about this. Her response was "Well, we've been calling them viruses for 40 years...". English grammer just isn't as simplistic or as hidebound as some geeks (and many high-school teachers would have us believe).
The ostentatious hyper-correct language employed by so many geeks is not only unnecessary and wrong, but it distances all of us from the rest of society.
To most people, affectations such as using "virii" instead of "viruses" are as annoying as nails on a chalkboard, or the sentence: "John and myself went to the opera". They mark you as someone who never boarded the clue train.
I'm seeing a lot of features but where is the security? This looks a lot like how older versions of windows used to share the contents of your drive over ethernet but not dialup without asking and theres a good reason they stopped doing that.
Or have I missed something?
Yes. You have missed something: Rendevous/ZeroConf auto assigns link-local addresses in 168.254.x.x range. These IPs are intended only for lans and will be filtered by any router/firewall. More info here
It's important to remember that Zeroconf is not Apple property, it is an open protocol. Rendezvous is just Apple's implementation of it (yes, the source code is available)
I was pretty impressed with the performance specs. 97+ MPH out of 130ish horespower is not bad.
You're easily impressed... a modern streamlined car that can only go 97 mph with 130 hp? My 1975 Alfa spider has only 120 hp and all the turbulence associated with a convertable, yet it can still manage 110-115 mph.
New York technology analyst Richard Doherty said companies have delayed many new products, services and forms of entertainment because of the DVD industry's problems.
Yeah, they sure did, like, the VCR, the Rio, PVRs, Napster, My.MP3.com, DVD copying software, all that stuff was delayed or killed by entertainment industry bullshit.
He probably was referring to technologies you conveniently overlooked, like Digital Audio Tape (DAT) which was killed
Doesn't anyone remember Hypercard? It was Apple's hypertext environment back in the late 1980s. Hypercard had a well-defined plug-in API.
Didn't Photoshop and other graphics applications have plug-ins galore?
Active-X controls? What about extensions in the old MacOS? What about control resources in the old MacOS.
In each case, we can add new file formats and can add new controls and functions via plug-ins. What's so special about browsers? They are just another application. It's inevitable that some programmer "skilled in the art" would decide to add plug-ins to a browser.
I thought Microsoft had a large interest in Apple, interest as in stocks?
No. They had a large interest in Apple (see below), but they've sold the shares
Didn't they basically save Apple's ass a couple of years ago?
No. They bought a swack of stock ($150 million I think) to settle a lawsuit out of court. Apple had sued them for breaking a contract & "borrowing" some of their technology
Thanx for the support... nice to know that somebody besides a confused troll has read this thread. I case he's still following this article, I'll try to paraphrase my last post as explicitly as possible:
Yes, we know what memory interleaving is, and it's no big deal. For example: it is a built-in feature on a 6.5 year old computer that I own
If a built-in feature is properly designed, it just works (no tweaking required)
Upgrades are simple if your hardware has the right features, properly designed (no tweaking required)
Many old Macs have such features making them easy to upgrade (no tweaking required)
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I take that statement to mean that you've never heard of memory interleaving
Memory interleaving is a feature of my old (early 1996) PowerMac 7600's motherboard.... and it accepts up to 1GB of ram. Currently this ancient box has the following hardware upgrades: G3, 560mb ram, 18gb scsi, 60gb ata-133, usb1, 32x CD-RW. It boots into MacOS 9, OS X orLinuxPPC. I occasionally program in MS Access using VirtualPC to emulate a Win98 box. Nope, no expandability or versatility here!
Does Firewire have its place? Sure. But it's not on most consumer devices.
I think you've confused "computer peripherals" with "consumer devices". The first is a subset of the second.
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By the time this ships, Firewire will be twice as fast. Firewire has always had this capability & is about to double its speed. To quote the article:
The debut of USB On-the-Go helps USB 2.0 draw closer in functionality to rival IEEE 1394, also known as FireWire. The 1394 specification, which is used widely in consumer-electronics devices such as digital videos, also has so-called host capabilities. Analysts say it would cost about the same to implement 1394 and USB On-the-Go in devices.
The JPEG standard is the result of a cooperative project by people in the digital imaging field. Isn't that a strong argument against this patent?
As Jeffrey D. Ullman said in his 2000 Knuth-Prize Lecture: "An idea is nonobvious if it would not be discovered by one of 'ordinary skill in the art' when the idea was needed."
Somehow your joke got moderated as "insightful" instead of "funny". Apparently some of the moderators don't know that "civil society" means "the democratic society of citizens, not governments" (for a more rigorous discussion, look here and here)
Is it just me, or was this story posted mainly to spread the use of the word malware?
Not entirely, this story was also posted to promote e-l33tr8 affectations such as: virii (for viruses), unices (for unixes), boxen for boxes and, of course, l33t
Shouldn't someone file an injunction to prevent you from linking to the article? I'm completely serious... just think how the publicity (ie. getting laughed out of court) would help 2600
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Ah yes! Backdoor access... a number of my exes used to quite enjoy that sort of thing! If, on the other hand, you're poking about in her computer's backdoor, then you're a stalker and a manipulative control freak.
WTF? I thought MS settled out of court and bought $140 million of Apple stock as part of that settlement. I suppose some people might call it winning
....unless you're named "Dmitry Sklyarov"
In addition to all the reasons "why this won't work" already mentioned, a national do not email list would be ineffective because the United states of America is not the whole world. Foreign spammers (and US spammers using foreign servers) would be unaffected and mostly untouchable.
Thank you!
Since the word "virus' came from medicine, I asked a physician friend about this. Her response was "Well, we've been calling them viruses for 40 years...". English grammer just isn't as simplistic or as hidebound as some geeks (and many high-school teachers would have us believe).
The ostentatious hyper-correct language employed by so many geeks is not only unnecessary and wrong, but it distances all of us from the rest of society.
To most people, affectations such as using "virii" instead of "viruses" are as annoying as nails on a chalkboard, or the sentence: "John and myself went to the opera". They mark you as someone who never boarded the clue train.
...if people compared vehicles the same way they compare computers (using RPMs instead of using horsepower).
Yes. You have missed something: Rendevous/ZeroConf auto assigns link-local addresses in 168.254.x.x range. These IPs are intended only for lans and will be filtered by any router/firewall. More info here
It's important to remember that Zeroconf is not Apple property, it is an open protocol. Rendezvous is just Apple's implementation of it (yes, the source code is available)
The CPCC tariff will be $23.82 CDN ($15.50 US)
I'm surprised nobody has made the connection with this story
You're easily impressed... a modern streamlined car that can only go 97 mph with 130 hp? My 1975 Alfa spider has only 120 hp and all the turbulence associated with a convertable, yet it can still manage 110-115 mph.
To paraphrase an old boss of mine: Poor planning on Eisner's part does not justify creating an emergency for me.
He probably was referring to technologies you conveniently overlooked, like Digital Audio Tape (DAT) which was killed
Anything sold to US citizens in the US, falls under US laws./
Really? Tell that to the U.S. judge who ruled, last year, that Yahoo didn't have to block auctions of Nazi items to French citizens.
Seriously. You did work for the company. How much did they pay?
Doesn't anyone remember Hypercard? It was Apple's hypertext environment back in the late 1980s. Hypercard had a well-defined plug-in API.
Didn't Photoshop and other graphics applications have plug-ins galore?
Active-X controls? What about extensions in the old MacOS? What about control resources in the old MacOS.
In each case, we can add new file formats and can add new controls and functions via plug-ins. What's so special about browsers? They are just another application. It's inevitable that some programmer "skilled in the art" would decide to add plug-ins to a browser.
No. They had a large interest in Apple (see below), but they've sold the shares
No. They bought a swack of stock ($150 million I think) to settle a lawsuit out of court. Apple had sued them for breaking a contract & "borrowing" some of their technology
Memory interleaving is a feature of my old (early 1996) PowerMac 7600's motherboard.... and it accepts up to 1GB of ram. Currently this ancient box has the following hardware upgrades: G3, 560mb ram, 18gb scsi, 60gb ata-133, usb1, 32x CD-RW. It boots into MacOS 9, OS X orLinuxPPC. I occasionally program in MS Access using VirtualPC to emulate a Win98 box. Nope, no expandability or versatility here!
Just to wax pendantic for a moment: an estimate of "10 kilos" isn't precisely "22 lbs". A more *accurate* translation would be "20 lbs".
Something like this perhaps?
The JPEG standard is the result of a cooperative project by people in the digital imaging field. Isn't that a strong argument against this patent?
As Jeffrey D. Ullman said in his 2000 Knuth-Prize Lecture: "An idea is nonobvious if it would not be discovered by one of 'ordinary skill in the art' when the idea was needed."
Somehow your joke got moderated as "insightful" instead of "funny". Apparently some of the moderators don't know that "civil society" means "the democratic society of citizens, not governments" (for a more rigorous discussion, look here and here)
Not entirely, this story was also posted to promote e-l33tr8 affectations such as: virii (for viruses), unices (for unixes), boxen for boxes and, of course, l33t
;-b thibbbbbt!
Shouldn't someone file an injunction to prevent you from linking to the article? I'm completely serious... just think how the publicity (ie. getting laughed out of court) would help 2600