It's about time! Now every kind of GPLed software, from operating systems to yet another version of colorizing "ls" can provide a nifty "automatic updates" feature without too much extra work on the part of the developers.
Step one: Produce a shared-secret key that is a gigabyte in size and get it to the other party via a secure medium.
Step two: XOR your secret message with this shared-secret key, beginning at some random address within the shared-secret.
Step three: Encrypt the XORed message with the usual mechanisms.
Step four: Email the thus-encrypted message.
Step five: Call the other party and tell them the beginning address within the shared secret key, speaking in some kind of predetermined code language.
Now, when some idiot government agency tries to decrypt the damn thing, they'll fry all their computers trying to brute-force the PGP or GPG or whatever encryption, only to end up with garbage no matter what they do. And there is NO way that they can brute force the shared secret since it will always be the same length as the message.
Well, the only thing that's certain at this point is that the instant Microsoft and all the computer makers stop selling Windows XP, there will be more piracy of Windows XP in the United States than there has ever been in China. Hell, they should just keep selling it because it'll make up for their losses due to the "excellent" sales of Vista.
Thanks for the spelling correction. I wrote whine incorrectly (thinking that it's spelled wine) and then thought to make a Wine-related pun, but forgot. So you fixed both.:-)
In other words, China is jumping on the bandwagon of countries that is playing the "Sue Microsoft Lottery" to get some extra cash. I mean, I don't like Microsoft's products, particularly their operating systems, because I think they've completely lost touch with what a computer is supposed to do, but when it comes down to it, it's our fault, not Microsoft's, that their junk software is so ingrained in the entire computing industry. We are the ones who vote with our dollars, and so, if you don't like Microsoft, or their software doesn't get the job done for you, then don't pay them your money. But don't wine and complain about them either. And certainly don't play the Microsoft lottery. That's ridiculous.
Excellent news for those of us (like me) who would like to run Windows apps without having to run an entire machine in VMware, Qemu, Parallels, or a similar program. Of course, nobody is paying attention right now because they're all busy downloading Firefox 3 to create a new Guinness world record for most software downloads in one day. (This story is being posted almost at the instant that Firefox 3 is being made available; not-so-great timing on/.'s part!) Nonetheless, I'm going to download Wine 1.0 right now.
I know W can't run again, but his dad still has one term left, and there's always Jeb who could potentially be president for eight years. So we could get at least another twelve years of Bushes, and then hopefully find a few more Bush family presidents after that.
This is ridiculous. Waiting for whatever hour to download the new Firefox is like camping out in front of the store and waiting in line all night to buy a Playstation the first minute it appears on a shelf, or worse yet, paying out the nose for one on eBay when all you have to do is wait a few weeks and get one at retail price without all this nonsense. Why bombard the server to download it at the first moment of its availability? Like I said, totally ridiculous, and I'm not saying this to start a flame war.
There should be a bill as follows: Once per month, your computer locks up and stops working completely, and you have to pay $250 each into the accounts of the RIAA, MPAA, and Microsoft to regain control of your computer. This is $250 to each entity, per computer. If you use Linux or other such rogue malware, the charge is $500 to the RIAA, $500 to the MPAA, and $9500 to Microsoft. Failure to pay within 24 hours results in the hardware frying itself, after deleting all your files. It would be a shame if that would happen, so you should pay up to "protect" your system from such a fate.
On the first question, I cannot turn myself into a vegetable by running 'rm -rf/' even as root because the watchdog timer will automatically execute a reset, which will cause execution of the boot loader, which is stored in ROM. The boot loader in turn creates a new partition overwriting the previous one, decompresses a "factory settings" operating system into it, and loads as many of my memories as possible from my backup.
On the second question, I'm using wireless. Use your imagination to figure out what the hell that's supposed to mean.:-)
That's nothing. I'm already running a port of Linux in my brain, and cross-compiling for it on a program I wrote called VMbrain, which is able to run the same code as my brain.
Why not pass a worldwide law that upon birth (or on the date the law goes into effect), every single person in the world must have an implant that detects whenever that person sees, hears, or otherwise experiences any form of copyrighted material, and on each occurrence, transfers money from their bank account directly into the accounts of the RIAA, MPAA, and Microsoft. This would solve the problem of people downloading illegally, as it would become legal to download copyrighted material for free. You would pay each time you hear/see/use the material. This would be a form of Pay-Per-Use, and to the RIAA's, MPAA's, and Microsoft's huge advantage, they'll get to charge you even when you pull up to a stoplight and you hear a song being blasted on the radio of the car next to you. Violation of the law by not having the implant will be punishable by weeks of inhumane torture, followed by the death penalty, without wasting anyone's time with nonsense like trials, legal proceedings, due process, or any of that other pesky stuff.
Why not make it look like a Star Fleet uniform from TNG? Captain has four filled dots, 1st officer has three, etc. And a communicator that you sometimes have to touch in order to speak, and other times not, for who knows what reasons.
Let's take the downward trend of the overall airline experience and extrapolate. We'll examine the state of airline travel in ten years. All of the following has been verified for accuracy by traveling to the future.
In ten years, this is what it will be like to travel across the country by airplane:
First, you'll buy your ticket online for prices starting at $1400 or so, plus a $200 security fee tacked on for every flight segment. This is for each direction; there will no longer be "round trip" fares. All fares will be nonrefundable and nontransferable, and being late for your flight means automatic forfeiture of your fare and ticket, as there will no longer be an option to wait "on standby" for another flight or to change your ticket if your plans change.
When you show up at the airport, the first thing that happens is that you're put through one of two processes. Most people will go through a general process, which will be as follows: You get in line at the check-in, where you are questioned as to where you live, where you work, where you're flying, the purpose of your flight, what you're carrying in your luggage and on your person, whether you've purchased any electronics in the past six years, including electronics that you're not bringing on board with you, how much you paid for them, and why. During this time you will present ID and be photographed and fingerprinted; these will be input into the agent's laptop, which will immediately search through a government computer network of known terrorists, known criminals, known fugitives, people who are delinquent on child support payments, people who owe taxes, people who have been arrested in the last five years (even if not charged or convicted), people who are on the sex offender registry, people who haven't showed up to jury duty, people with bad credit, people who didn't register with the Selective Service System, people of other than Mexican origin who are in the country illegally, or people with unpaid parking tickets on their record. A match on one or more of these results in your being taken to a special room for additional questioning. There will be many false positives, so you'll wait in line for hours before being admitted into the interrogation room. This will mean that you'll probably miss your flight without a refund of your fare and with no compensation or rights whatsoever. If, by some miracle, you are seen in the interrogation room before your flight takes off, you'll miss it due to the length of the questioning process.
If you were not pulled out of the check-in line for interrogation, you go to the next step, which is to be weighed; at this point, you'll pay a dollar for each pound that you and your luggage weigh, plus $100 for each piece of luggage, $50 for your carry-on, and $25 for your personal item that you'll bring on board. Checking in will be free, but to obtain your boarding pass, you'll have to pay a $10 printing fee. The routing labels placed on your luggage will cost $5 each, and tags to put on your bag with your name and address will be a dollar each.
Now it's time for security, which happens in several stages. First, you'll bring your checked luggage to the TSA luggage scanner, where they'll pile up bags for flights that are about to take off somewhere on the side while scanning and pushing through the bags going on flights that aren't taking off for another two hours. One out of every ten bags will be chosen randomly and moved to a holding area where it will be held for a month and then returned to the airport, which will try and search for the owner, a process that will be extremely backlogged and won't succeed very often due to shoddy record keeping. Of those bags that are not randomly selected, each bag will be scanned electronically, and following that, each bag will be opened to wrinkle up the clothing. Then the bag will be passed on to the baggage handlers, who according to the 2013 Airport Security Passenger Luggage Contents Protection and Loss Prevention Act will be required to produce proof of
I heard the CEO has just been awarded patent #093454509485, Method and Apparatus for the Reproduction of Human Life, because that process (now patented) mimics what he wishes could happen every time he logs on to the Internet on a lonely evening.
Did I read that right? Forty-five million dollars to carry out the STUDY for the first leg of the project? If this train were to be built by a business, rather than a government, $45M would get the whole darn thing built and operational!
Let's take the downward trend of the overall airline experience and extrapolate.
In ten years, this is what it will be like to travel across the country by airplane: Buying the ticket online for $400 or so, plus a $200 security fee tacked on for every flight segment. All fares will be nonrefundable and nontransferable, and being late for your flight means automatic forfeiture of your fare and ticket, as there will no longer be an option to wait "on standby" for another flight. Then you'll show up at the airport, where the first thing that happens is that you're put through one of two processes. Most people will go through a general process, which will be as follows: You get in line at the check-in, where you are questioned as to where you live, where you work, where you're flying, the purpose of your flight, what you're carrying in your luggage and on your person, and why. During this time you will present ID and be photographed and fingerprinted; these will be input into the agent's laptop, which will immediately search through a computer network of known terrorists, known criminals, known fugitives, people who are delinquent on child support payments, people who owe taxes, people who have been arrested in the last five years (even if not charged or convicted), people who are on the sex offender registry, people who haven't showed up to jury duty, people with bad credit, people who didn't register with the Selective Service System, people of other than Mexican origin who are in the country illegally, or people with unpaid parking tickets on their record. A match on one or more of these results in your being taken to a special room for additional questioning, which will mean one of three things: Either you will be denied boarding privileges without a refund of your fare; Or you'll miss your flight because the questioning will take so long, without a refund of your fare; Or, if you're very, very lucky, you might still make your flight, but this will occur less than one percent of the time. If you survived the questioning, you go to the next step, which is to be weighed; at this point, you'll pay a dollar for each pound that you weigh, plus a hundred dollars per checked bag plus a dollar per pound of that checked bag's weight plus fifty dollars for a single carry-on and twenty-five dollars for one personal item, plus a dollar per pound of those items' weight. Then it's time to actually check in and get your boarding pass. Checking in will be free, but to obtain your boarding pass, you'll have to pay a ten dollar printing fee. The routing labels placed on your luggage will cost five dollars each, and tags to put on your bag with your name and address will be a dollar each. Now it's time for security, which happens in several stages. First, you'll bring your checked luggage to the TSA luggage scanner, where they'll pile up bags for flights that are about to take off somewhere on the side while scanning and pushing through the bags going on flights that aren't taking off for another two hours. One out of every ten bags will be chosen randomly and moved to a holding area where it will be held for a month, and then the airport will try and search for the owner, a process that won't succeed very often. Of those bags that are not randomly selected, each bag will be scanned electronically, and following that, each bag will be opened not to perform a physical search, but for the sole purpose of wrinkling up clothing and moving breakable objects such that they'll be more likely to break during transit. Then the bag will be passed on to the baggage handlers, who according to the 2013 Airport Security Passenger Luggage Contents Protection and Loss Prevention Act will be required to produce proof of at least two felony convictions in order to be eligible for the job. The same act will give all baggage handlers the right to take and keep any items they find in luggage which they like. Now that you've handed off your bag (and don't know if you'll ever see it again), it's time for security. You will not be allowed to bring any ge
Carbon is NOT being removed, but Cocoa interfaces to all heretofore "Carbon-only" code are being added.
Spotlight is being modified to remember the index of all external disks and network disks that a computer or any of its network peers see, so that when a Spotlight search is performed for something your computer has "seen" on an external drive at one time, the search results can tell you that the file exists on that disk, even if that disk is not attached at the time of the search.
Time Machine is improved in that a backup volume can be migrated to a new disk, and you can now specify any number of Time Machine disks and/or network shares for a single computer, and it will backup onto any or all of them each time it "sees" them.
Spaces is being improved such that on a multi-monitor system, you can merge any of the monitors together to display one large space, display any space on any monitor, or even display the same space on multiple monitors, for presentations and such (or any combination thereof). The last possibility replaces display mirroring in the display preferences.
Spaces is further improved such that each space can be a face of a cube, and switching between spaces occurs with a visual rotation of the cube. This dictates that six spaces can appear on a cube, so you can have multiple cubes and switching between spaces that exist across cubes will show a three-dimensional pan from one cube to the other.
Really, they own that patent? Well then why in the last 15 years didn't they bother to enforce it? I'm sorry but lack of enforcement of a patent is grounds to dismiss that patent. There's a zillion examples of prior art everywhere in the world and this does NOT belong to that Singapore company.
They own the rights to hyperlinks about as much as SCO owns the right to Linux. And if that's true, I am going to sue everyone because I own a patent (that I just filed five minutes ago) for a "method and apparatus to control the flow of an algorithm based on the logical outcome of a predefined logical test," a.k.a., the "if" statement used in all computer programming. From now on, no program that uses the "if" statement can exist without paying me ten trillion Zimbabwe dollars (that's about five cents) per instance. And the first thing I'm going to do is sue SCO because that program they claim to own contains a bazillion of those "if" statements.
Ok, so let me get this straight. In addition to your luggage, passport, and plane tickets, you'll also need to carry: Certificates of authenticity for all software on all digital devices you have, receipts for the purchase of every video, song, and other content to prove you paid for them, and official notarized letters from each of the RIAA, MPAA, and Microsoft stating that you have paid your monthly protection dues and are allowed safe passage from city to city. In addition, every human and animal on this planet should be compelled to have a brain implant that detects automatically each time that subject hears or sees any type of content, so that the actual retail purchase price can be automatically deducted from his/her/its bank account and forwarded to the appropriate organization for each instance. These implants would detect the audio or video and perform the transaction even if the person is blind and/or deaf and therefore cannot actually experience the audio or video, but was in the vicinity of said audio or video. This means that if you are walking down the street and some punk is listening to music on a boombox like they did in the 80's, or if you pull up to a stoplight and the idiot next to you is blasting his stock stereo, your bank account will be debited, even if you did not actually wish to experience the sounds produced by the aforementioned phenomena.
Oh, and I forgot to mention one other thing. Since the border guards will be so busy checking everyone's iPods, they'll probably let another 19 hijackers from Saudi Arabia through. As long as the Saudis don't pack iPods with their box cutters.
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It's about time! Now every kind of GPLed software, from operating systems to yet another version of colorizing "ls" can provide a nifty "automatic updates" feature without too much extra work on the part of the developers.
Very simple solution to all of this:
Step one: Produce a shared-secret key that is a gigabyte in size and get it to the other party via a secure medium.
Step two: XOR your secret message with this shared-secret key, beginning at some random address within the shared-secret.
Step three: Encrypt the XORed message with the usual mechanisms.
Step four: Email the thus-encrypted message.
Step five: Call the other party and tell them the beginning address within the shared secret key, speaking in some kind of predetermined code language.
Now, when some idiot government agency tries to decrypt the damn thing, they'll fry all their computers trying to brute-force the PGP or GPG or whatever encryption, only to end up with garbage no matter what they do. And there is NO way that they can brute force the shared secret since it will always be the same length as the message.
Now all we need is to replace the soldiers themselves with robots that look like Arnold Schwartzenegger and we've got it made.
"Hello, I am Macintosh!"
Well, the only thing that's certain at this point is that the instant Microsoft and all the computer makers stop selling Windows XP, there will be more piracy of Windows XP in the United States than there has ever been in China. Hell, they should just keep selling it because it'll make up for their losses due to the "excellent" sales of Vista.
1. Download libsdl (Simple DirectMedia Layer, works on many OSes and platforms)
2. ???
3. Profit!
Thanks for the spelling correction. I wrote whine incorrectly (thinking that it's spelled wine) and then thought to make a Wine-related pun, but forgot. So you fixed both. :-)
In other words, China is jumping on the bandwagon of countries that is playing the "Sue Microsoft Lottery" to get some extra cash. I mean, I don't like Microsoft's products, particularly their operating systems, because I think they've completely lost touch with what a computer is supposed to do, but when it comes down to it, it's our fault, not Microsoft's, that their junk software is so ingrained in the entire computing industry. We are the ones who vote with our dollars, and so, if you don't like Microsoft, or their software doesn't get the job done for you, then don't pay them your money. But don't wine and complain about them either. And certainly don't play the Microsoft lottery. That's ridiculous.
Excellent news for those of us (like me) who would like to run Windows apps without having to run an entire machine in VMware, Qemu, Parallels, or a similar program. Of course, nobody is paying attention right now because they're all busy downloading Firefox 3 to create a new Guinness world record for most software downloads in one day. (This story is being posted almost at the instant that Firefox 3 is being made available; not-so-great timing on /.'s part!) Nonetheless, I'm going to download Wine 1.0 right now.
So I should get rid of that Bush 2008 sticker?
I know W can't run again, but his dad still has one term left, and there's always Jeb who could potentially be president for eight years. So we could get at least another twelve years of Bushes, and then hopefully find a few more Bush family presidents after that.
This is ridiculous. Waiting for whatever hour to download the new Firefox is like camping out in front of the store and waiting in line all night to buy a Playstation the first minute it appears on a shelf, or worse yet, paying out the nose for one on eBay when all you have to do is wait a few weeks and get one at retail price without all this nonsense. Why bombard the server to download it at the first moment of its availability? Like I said, totally ridiculous, and I'm not saying this to start a flame war.
There should be a bill as follows: Once per month, your computer locks up and stops working completely, and you have to pay $250 each into the accounts of the RIAA, MPAA, and Microsoft to regain control of your computer. This is $250 to each entity, per computer. If you use Linux or other such rogue malware, the charge is $500 to the RIAA, $500 to the MPAA, and $9500 to Microsoft. Failure to pay within 24 hours results in the hardware frying itself, after deleting all your files. It would be a shame if that would happen, so you should pay up to "protect" your system from such a fate.
On the second question, I'm using wireless. Use your imagination to figure out what the hell that's supposed to mean. :-)
That's nothing. I'm already running a port of Linux in my brain, and cross-compiling for it on a program I wrote called VMbrain, which is able to run the same code as my brain.
Why not pass a worldwide law that upon birth (or on the date the law goes into effect), every single person in the world must have an implant that detects whenever that person sees, hears, or otherwise experiences any form of copyrighted material, and on each occurrence, transfers money from their bank account directly into the accounts of the RIAA, MPAA, and Microsoft. This would solve the problem of people downloading illegally, as it would become legal to download copyrighted material for free. You would pay each time you hear/see/use the material. This would be a form of Pay-Per-Use, and to the RIAA's, MPAA's, and Microsoft's huge advantage, they'll get to charge you even when you pull up to a stoplight and you hear a song being blasted on the radio of the car next to you. Violation of the law by not having the implant will be punishable by weeks of inhumane torture, followed by the death penalty, without wasting anyone's time with nonsense like trials, legal proceedings, due process, or any of that other pesky stuff.
Why not make it look like a Star Fleet uniform from TNG? Captain has four filled dots, 1st officer has three, etc. And a communicator that you sometimes have to touch in order to speak, and other times not, for who knows what reasons.
Let's take the downward trend of the overall airline experience and extrapolate. We'll examine the state of airline travel in ten years. All of the following has been verified for accuracy by traveling to the future.
In ten years, this is what it will be like to travel across the country by airplane:
First, you'll buy your ticket online for prices starting at $1400 or so, plus a $200 security fee tacked on for every flight segment. This is for each direction; there will no longer be "round trip" fares. All fares will be nonrefundable and nontransferable, and being late for your flight means automatic forfeiture of your fare and ticket, as there will no longer be an option to wait "on standby" for another flight or to change your ticket if your plans change.
When you show up at the airport, the first thing that happens is that you're put through one of two processes. Most people will go through a general process, which will be as follows: You get in line at the check-in, where you are questioned as to where you live, where you work, where you're flying, the purpose of your flight, what you're carrying in your luggage and on your person, whether you've purchased any electronics in the past six years, including electronics that you're not bringing on board with you, how much you paid for them, and why. During this time you will present ID and be photographed and fingerprinted; these will be input into the agent's laptop, which will immediately search through a government computer network of known terrorists, known criminals, known fugitives, people who are delinquent on child support payments, people who owe taxes, people who have been arrested in the last five years (even if not charged or convicted), people who are on the sex offender registry, people who haven't showed up to jury duty, people with bad credit, people who didn't register with the Selective Service System, people of other than Mexican origin who are in the country illegally, or people with unpaid parking tickets on their record. A match on one or more of these results in your being taken to a special room for additional questioning. There will be many false positives, so you'll wait in line for hours before being admitted into the interrogation room. This will mean that you'll probably miss your flight without a refund of your fare and with no compensation or rights whatsoever. If, by some miracle, you are seen in the interrogation room before your flight takes off, you'll miss it due to the length of the questioning process.
If you were not pulled out of the check-in line for interrogation, you go to the next step, which is to be weighed; at this point, you'll pay a dollar for each pound that you and your luggage weigh, plus $100 for each piece of luggage, $50 for your carry-on, and $25 for your personal item that you'll bring on board. Checking in will be free, but to obtain your boarding pass, you'll have to pay a $10 printing fee. The routing labels placed on your luggage will cost $5 each, and tags to put on your bag with your name and address will be a dollar each.
Now it's time for security, which happens in several stages. First, you'll bring your checked luggage to the TSA luggage scanner, where they'll pile up bags for flights that are about to take off somewhere on the side while scanning and pushing through the bags going on flights that aren't taking off for another two hours. One out of every ten bags will be chosen randomly and moved to a holding area where it will be held for a month and then returned to the airport, which will try and search for the owner, a process that will be extremely backlogged and won't succeed very often due to shoddy record keeping. Of those bags that are not randomly selected, each bag will be scanned electronically, and following that, each bag will be opened to wrinkle up the clothing. Then the bag will be passed on to the baggage handlers, who according to the 2013 Airport Security Passenger Luggage Contents Protection and Loss Prevention Act will be required to produce proof of
The answer is 42. The question is left as an exercise for the reader.
I heard the CEO has just been awarded patent #093454509485, Method and Apparatus for the Reproduction of Human Life, because that process (now patented) mimics what he wishes could happen every time he logs on to the Internet on a lonely evening.
Did I read that right? Forty-five million dollars to carry out the STUDY for the first leg of the project? If this train were to be built by a business, rather than a government, $45M would get the whole darn thing built and operational!
Let's take the downward trend of the overall airline experience and extrapolate.
In ten years, this is what it will be like to travel across the country by airplane: Buying the ticket online for $400 or so, plus a $200 security fee tacked on for every flight segment. All fares will be nonrefundable and nontransferable, and being late for your flight means automatic forfeiture of your fare and ticket, as there will no longer be an option to wait "on standby" for another flight. Then you'll show up at the airport, where the first thing that happens is that you're put through one of two processes. Most people will go through a general process, which will be as follows: You get in line at the check-in, where you are questioned as to where you live, where you work, where you're flying, the purpose of your flight, what you're carrying in your luggage and on your person, and why. During this time you will present ID and be photographed and fingerprinted; these will be input into the agent's laptop, which will immediately search through a computer network of known terrorists, known criminals, known fugitives, people who are delinquent on child support payments, people who owe taxes, people who have been arrested in the last five years (even if not charged or convicted), people who are on the sex offender registry, people who haven't showed up to jury duty, people with bad credit, people who didn't register with the Selective Service System, people of other than Mexican origin who are in the country illegally, or people with unpaid parking tickets on their record. A match on one or more of these results in your being taken to a special room for additional questioning, which will mean one of three things: Either you will be denied boarding privileges without a refund of your fare; Or you'll miss your flight because the questioning will take so long, without a refund of your fare; Or, if you're very, very lucky, you might still make your flight, but this will occur less than one percent of the time. If you survived the questioning, you go to the next step, which is to be weighed; at this point, you'll pay a dollar for each pound that you weigh, plus a hundred dollars per checked bag plus a dollar per pound of that checked bag's weight plus fifty dollars for a single carry-on and twenty-five dollars for one personal item, plus a dollar per pound of those items' weight. Then it's time to actually check in and get your boarding pass. Checking in will be free, but to obtain your boarding pass, you'll have to pay a ten dollar printing fee. The routing labels placed on your luggage will cost five dollars each, and tags to put on your bag with your name and address will be a dollar each. Now it's time for security, which happens in several stages. First, you'll bring your checked luggage to the TSA luggage scanner, where they'll pile up bags for flights that are about to take off somewhere on the side while scanning and pushing through the bags going on flights that aren't taking off for another two hours. One out of every ten bags will be chosen randomly and moved to a holding area where it will be held for a month, and then the airport will try and search for the owner, a process that won't succeed very often. Of those bags that are not randomly selected, each bag will be scanned electronically, and following that, each bag will be opened not to perform a physical search, but for the sole purpose of wrinkling up clothing and moving breakable objects such that they'll be more likely to break during transit. Then the bag will be passed on to the baggage handlers, who according to the 2013 Airport Security Passenger Luggage Contents Protection and Loss Prevention Act will be required to produce proof of at least two felony convictions in order to be eligible for the job. The same act will give all baggage handlers the right to take and keep any items they find in luggage which they like. Now that you've handed off your bag (and don't know if you'll ever see it again), it's time for security. You will not be allowed to bring any ge
Carbon is NOT being removed, but Cocoa interfaces to all heretofore "Carbon-only" code are being added.
Spotlight is being modified to remember the index of all external disks and network disks that a computer or any of its network peers see, so that when a Spotlight search is performed for something your computer has "seen" on an external drive at one time, the search results can tell you that the file exists on that disk, even if that disk is not attached at the time of the search.
Time Machine is improved in that a backup volume can be migrated to a new disk, and you can now specify any number of Time Machine disks and/or network shares for a single computer, and it will backup onto any or all of them each time it "sees" them.
Spaces is being improved such that on a multi-monitor system, you can merge any of the monitors together to display one large space, display any space on any monitor, or even display the same space on multiple monitors, for presentations and such (or any combination thereof). The last possibility replaces display mirroring in the display preferences.
Spaces is further improved such that each space can be a face of a cube, and switching between spaces occurs with a visual rotation of the cube. This dictates that six spaces can appear on a cube, so you can have multiple cubes and switching between spaces that exist across cubes will show a three-dimensional pan from one cube to the other.
It is the product of 5.3 and 2.
Really, they own that patent? Well then why in the last 15 years didn't they bother to enforce it? I'm sorry but lack of enforcement of a patent is grounds to dismiss that patent. There's a zillion examples of prior art everywhere in the world and this does NOT belong to that Singapore company.
They own the rights to hyperlinks about as much as SCO owns the right to Linux. And if that's true, I am going to sue everyone because I own a patent (that I just filed five minutes ago) for a "method and apparatus to control the flow of an algorithm based on the logical outcome of a predefined logical test," a.k.a., the "if" statement used in all computer programming. From now on, no program that uses the "if" statement can exist without paying me ten trillion Zimbabwe dollars (that's about five cents) per instance. And the first thing I'm going to do is sue SCO because that program they claim to own contains a bazillion of those "if" statements.
Why is everyone ignoring Hillary?
Bush #1, economy in the gutter. Clinton, economy booming. Bush #2, economy in the gutter. Is there a pattern here?
Ok, so let me get this straight. In addition to your luggage, passport, and plane tickets, you'll also need to carry: Certificates of authenticity for all software on all digital devices you have, receipts for the purchase of every video, song, and other content to prove you paid for them, and official notarized letters from each of the RIAA, MPAA, and Microsoft stating that you have paid your monthly protection dues and are allowed safe passage from city to city. In addition, every human and animal on this planet should be compelled to have a brain implant that detects automatically each time that subject hears or sees any type of content, so that the actual retail purchase price can be automatically deducted from his/her/its bank account and forwarded to the appropriate organization for each instance. These implants would detect the audio or video and perform the transaction even if the person is blind and/or deaf and therefore cannot actually experience the audio or video, but was in the vicinity of said audio or video. This means that if you are walking down the street and some punk is listening to music on a boombox like they did in the 80's, or if you pull up to a stoplight and the idiot next to you is blasting his stock stereo, your bank account will be debited, even if you did not actually wish to experience the sounds produced by the aforementioned phenomena.
Oh, and I forgot to mention one other thing. Since the border guards will be so busy checking everyone's iPods, they'll probably let another 19 hijackers from Saudi Arabia through. As long as the Saudis don't pack iPods with their box cutters.