I did some quick research on 3554 Amun, and it is expected to contain Iron, Nickel, Cobalt, and the Platinum group including: platinum, osmium, iridium, palladium, etc.
What I noticed missing was the Gold group, with Copper, Silver, and Gold. These are the metals that we need for their electrical properties. In particular, copper is slowly getting more and more expensive, and a good source of that would certainly be nice. (Not that the Platinum group metals aren't nice to have for their catalytic properties.)
So now we've moved from "proof of concept, as long as you're stupid enough to double-click on it first", and "rootkit installed after snooping passwords" to "casing the joint".
Wake me up when we reach the "minor outbreak" stage.
And I still remember the good old days with Scores and CDEF and nVir.
Shortly before DSL became available, I heard of some guys wanting to create a wireless mesh. You know, pringles can antennas and all that. And then DSL came and it wasn't worth the effort, especially when you had to get enough nerdy guys living close enough to each other in the same neighborhood for this to work. There's WAPs all up and down my street, but of course none of them are set up for mesh networking, they're just to avoid wiring up a house.
The only other realistic alternative I can think of which doesn't require proximity is a VPN mesh network. It's just a bunch of encrypted packets, though T.H.E.Y. can still see where the packets are going if your mesh isn't deep enough.
Maybe instead of making money by selling studios, they should make money by selling games worth playing? Of course Infogrames should have thought of that before the buying spree mentioned by another poster.
Dvorak is predicting that Apple will adopt Windows.
What a dumbass. First of all, he's about a month and a half early. (check the calendar)
He's basing this on the ideas of someone else who thinks that removing Firewire from iPods means anything about the operating system Apple will use, never mind that Windows supports FireWire just fine, it's just that PCs have been slow to adopt it. And Apple wants to switch to Windows because because they switched CPUs? You mean to one they had already been making sure for years that their own OS would run on? The one with a much faster update schedule than Microsoft could ever dream of?
Wow. He's one of the oldest and biggest trolls out there in the computer-related press, and he's still trolling. Remember, his target audience is PC Magazine, read by the kind of folks who don't want to believe that it's a mistake for them to still be using Windows. So he's just providing more comfort to them that mean ol' Apple won't take their tattered, filthy, stinking, virus-laden security blanket away. Hey, switch my keyboard already, I'm writing just like Dvorak!
And if I may lump in a reply to squidguy's post: Lazy, clueless users don't run as root on Mac OS X, since it's not default.
It's not only not the default, it is in fact very complicated to allow logins using the root account. Lazy, clued users don't do it either. Thanks to sudo and the security dialog, there is also no need to allow root logins. One important thing about OS X security is that there are absolutely no default accounts that allow logins. So anyone who wants to guess weak passwords over SSH also has to guess for account names. This means that they actually have to find out something about the system that they are trying to break into.
Please, folks, don't use your login password as a password for web sites. Many times the password is sent in the clear or nearly so (base64 encoded), and is easily intercepted. If you use the same username and password on a web site as you do to log on to OS X (or Linux or any other *nix), you're begging to get hacked.
If the user is root, or possibly admin, the script writes files in/Library/InputManagers.
Um, why is my/Library chmod 775? It's that way on all four OS X machines that I can reach via SSH right now, two 10.4.x and two 10.3.x. Because there is no/Library/InputManagers in my/Library, so any program running under an admin account on my machine could create one. Admittedly,/Library/StartupItems being group-writable would be a much worse security violation (stuff in there runs as root at startup), and I have seen cases where installers will create one chmod 775 or 777, but I don't see any reason why a program that isn't setuid root (in other words, requiring the security dialog first) should be able to create new directories or drop files into/Library.
Anyhow, this is not a virus, it's a trojan. A virus attaches itself to existing executables (boot blocks included in the definition of "executables"). This is a trojan, and if it replicates, then it's a file-propagating worm (as opposed to the e-mail- and network- propagating worms that plague Windows). So far there is still no malware for OS X that doesn't depend upon human stupidity for propagation. Whether that be saving an e-mail attachment to disk and then double-clicking on its icon on the desktop (this thing won't auto-open while reading e-mail), or simply using bad username/password combinations allowing a brute-force break-in over SSH, there is still no sign of any kind of fully-automated malware for OS X.
In the meantime, I'm going to be doing a lot of "sudo chmod 755/Library".
Dvorak is predicting that Apple will adopt Windows.
What a dumbass. First of all, he's about a month and a half early. (check the calendar)
He's basing this on the ideas of someone else who thinks that removing Firewire from iPods means anything about the operating system Apple will use, never mind that Windows supports FireWire just fine, it's just that PCs have been slow to adopt it. And Apple wants to switch to Windows because because they switched CPUs? You mean to one they had already been making sure for years that their own OS would run on? The one with a much faster update schedule than Microsoft could ever dream of?
Wow. He's one of the oldest and biggest trolls out there in the computer-related press, and he's still trolling. Remember, his target audience is PC Magazine, read by the kind of folks who don't want to believe that it's a mistake for them to still be using Windows. So he's just providing more comfort to them that mean ol' Apple won't take their tattered, filthy, stinking, virus-laden security blanket away. Hey, switch my keyboard already, I'm writing just like Dvorak!
Guy in Kitchen: I'M GOING TO GET A SODA, ANYONE WANT ONE? HEY GRAHAM I'M NOT IN THE ROOM RIGHT?
Graham: What room?
Galstaff: I wanna cast... Magic Missile!
Guy in Kitchen: THE ROOM WHERE HE'S CASTING ALL THESE SPELLS FROM!
Graham: He hasn't cast anything yet!
Galstaff: I am though if you'd listen. I'm casting Magic Missile!
Graham: Why are you casting Magic Missile? There's nothing to attack here.
Galstaff: I... I'm attacking the darkness!
(LAUGHTER FROM ALL)
Graham: Fine, fine... you attack the darkness. There's an elf in front of you.
Finally, I'm curious what this does with all the tools that the FSF maintains. I mean, aren't most of the regular unix userspace tools maintained by them? Wouldn't this license possibly get slapped on those GNU tools?
The userspace tool and kernel licensing don't interfere with each other. What this means is that, for instance, the HD-DVD organization couldn't create a DRM-aware version of 'cp' or 'tar' with the capability to copy an HD-DVD movie to your hard drive while slapping new DRM on the copy. But since the kernel is GPLv2, they can still write an open-source kernel module which will translate on-the-fly, without having to release the encryption keys it uses.
I don't know the Cisco culture, but I'd imagine there'd be some communication problems if they tried it.
The big thing would be that all of Nintendo would have to switch to Clearcase.
On the other hand, IOS already runs on PPC, so Cisco could port IOS to run on GameCube, and make their next megarouter a RAIN. (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Nintendo). Since Linksys uses a lot of ARM chips, they would be in charge of the GameBoy line-up.
The ending to all true classic games, as in before the NES, is "Game Over". They are supposed to just get harder and harder until you finally die more times than you get free ships/lives/whatever.
Yes, they used to say stuff like "17 more" under the section. And then a few weeks ago, it got stuck and Games was on "17 more" for two weeks. Last week they fix it, and now this. It's an interesting change, at least. Under the old way, I would never have seen this article because I wouldn't have bothered to click on the "Science" topic. Mostly because "Science" wasn't in my "Sections" list on the left side of the page.
Slashdot Mirror
I said Nickel already. I'm talking about the important metals that the asteroid apparently doesn't contain.
What I noticed missing was the Gold group, with Copper, Silver, and Gold. These are the metals that we need for their electrical properties. In particular, copper is slowly getting more and more expensive, and a good source of that would certainly be nice. (Not that the Platinum group metals aren't nice to have for their catalytic properties.)
Wake me up when we reach the "minor outbreak" stage.
And I still remember the good old days with Scores and CDEF and nVir.
I'll still have to buy the White Album again.
The only other realistic alternative I can think of which doesn't require proximity is a VPN mesh network. It's just a bunch of encrypted packets, though T.H.E.Y. can still see where the packets are going if your mesh isn't deep enough.
Maybe instead of making money by selling studios, they should make money by selling games worth playing? Of course Infogrames should have thought of that before the buying spree mentioned by another poster.
What a dumbass. First of all, he's about a month and a half early. (check the calendar)
He's basing this on the ideas of someone else who thinks that removing Firewire from iPods means anything about the operating system Apple will use, never mind that Windows supports FireWire just fine, it's just that PCs have been slow to adopt it. And Apple wants to switch to Windows because because they switched CPUs? You mean to one they had already been making sure for years that their own OS would run on? The one with a much faster update schedule than Microsoft could ever dream of?
Wow. He's one of the oldest and biggest trolls out there in the computer-related press, and he's still trolling. Remember, his target audience is PC Magazine, read by the kind of folks who don't want to believe that it's a mistake for them to still be using Windows. So he's just providing more comfort to them that mean ol' Apple won't take their tattered, filthy, stinking, virus-laden security blanket away. Hey, switch my keyboard already, I'm writing just like Dvorak!
It's not only not the default, it is in fact very complicated to allow logins using the root account. Lazy, clued users don't do it either. Thanks to sudo and the security dialog, there is also no need to allow root logins. One important thing about OS X security is that there are absolutely no default accounts that allow logins. So anyone who wants to guess weak passwords over SSH also has to guess for account names. This means that they actually have to find out something about the system that they are trying to break into.
Please, folks, don't use your login password as a password for web sites. Many times the password is sent in the clear or nearly so (base64 encoded), and is easily intercepted. If you use the same username and password on a web site as you do to log on to OS X (or Linux or any other *nix), you're begging to get hacked.
Um, why is my /Library chmod 775? It's that way on all four OS X machines that I can reach via SSH right now, two 10.4.x and two 10.3.x. Because there is no /Library/InputManagers in my /Library, so any program running under an admin account on my machine could create one. Admittedly, /Library/StartupItems being group-writable would be a much worse security violation (stuff in there runs as root at startup), and I have seen cases where installers will create one chmod 775 or 777, but I don't see any reason why a program that isn't setuid root (in other words, requiring the security dialog first) should be able to create new directories or drop files into /Library.
Anyhow, this is not a virus, it's a trojan. A virus attaches itself to existing executables (boot blocks included in the definition of "executables"). This is a trojan, and if it replicates, then it's a file-propagating worm (as opposed to the e-mail- and network- propagating worms that plague Windows). So far there is still no malware for OS X that doesn't depend upon human stupidity for propagation. Whether that be saving an e-mail attachment to disk and then double-clicking on its icon on the desktop (this thing won't auto-open while reading e-mail), or simply using bad username/password combinations allowing a brute-force break-in over SSH, there is still no sign of any kind of fully-automated malware for OS X.
In the meantime, I'm going to be doing a lot of "sudo chmod 755 /Library".
What a dumbass. First of all, he's about a month and a half early. (check the calendar)
He's basing this on the ideas of someone else who thinks that removing Firewire from iPods means anything about the operating system Apple will use, never mind that Windows supports FireWire just fine, it's just that PCs have been slow to adopt it. And Apple wants to switch to Windows because because they switched CPUs? You mean to one they had already been making sure for years that their own OS would run on? The one with a much faster update schedule than Microsoft could ever dream of?
Wow. He's one of the oldest and biggest trolls out there in the computer-related press, and he's still trolling. Remember, his target audience is PC Magazine, read by the kind of folks who don't want to believe that it's a mistake for them to still be using Windows. So he's just providing more comfort to them that mean ol' Apple won't take their tattered, filthy, stinking, virus-laden security blanket away. Hey, switch my keyboard already, I'm writing just like Dvorak!
Like this one?
I'm actually disappointed to find out they've changed the design. Here's what the classic Tot stapler looks like. And the classic Tot stapler is only available in red.
The problem is, it sounds like these things will hide behind the sofa when they see you, not the other way round.
Guy in Kitchen: I'M GOING TO GET A SODA, ANYONE WANT ONE? HEY GRAHAM I'M NOT IN THE ROOM RIGHT?
Graham: What room?
Galstaff: I wanna cast... Magic Missile!
Guy in Kitchen: THE ROOM WHERE HE'S CASTING ALL THESE SPELLS FROM!
Graham: He hasn't cast anything yet!
Galstaff: I am though if you'd listen. I'm casting Magic Missile!
Graham: Why are you casting Magic Missile? There's nothing to attack here.
Galstaff: I... I'm attacking the darkness!
(LAUGHTER FROM ALL)
Graham: Fine, fine... you attack the darkness. There's an elf in front of you.
Can I interest you in this propane-powered +5 Sword of Flame? There's nothing like cooking monsters with clean-burning propane, you know.
I for one welcome our new Voodoo Wasp overlords.
The userspace tool and kernel licensing don't interfere with each other. What this means is that, for instance, the HD-DVD organization couldn't create a DRM-aware version of 'cp' or 'tar' with the capability to copy an HD-DVD movie to your hard drive while slapping new DRM on the copy. But since the kernel is GPLv2, they can still write an open-source kernel module which will translate on-the-fly, without having to release the encryption keys it uses.
Raising them to the fourth power might be even better, but we live in a three-dimensional world, so that can be rather difficult.
...640K was enough for anybody?
The big thing would be that all of Nintendo would have to switch to Clearcase.
On the other hand, IOS already runs on PPC, so Cisco could port IOS to run on GameCube, and make their next megarouter a RAIN. (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Nintendo). Since Linksys uses a lot of ARM chips, they would be in charge of the GameBoy line-up.
The ending to all true classic games, as in before the NES, is "Game Over". They are supposed to just get harder and harder until you finally die more times than you get free ships/lives/whatever.
Yes, they used to say stuff like "17 more" under the section. And then a few weeks ago, it got stuck and Games was on "17 more" for two weeks. Last week they fix it, and now this. It's an interesting change, at least. Under the old way, I would never have seen this article because I wouldn't have bothered to click on the "Science" topic. Mostly because "Science" wasn't in my "Sections" list on the left side of the page.
Yeah, and so did Inanimate Carbon Rod, who was the star of the mission. You don't hear people saying "In Buzz We Trust", do you?
All I did was a quick check on Google, and I found both answers. I always thought it was 10Mbit, so I went with that.
You can't boot OS X from a USB drive, dumbass. That was my whole point.
Great. Now tell me how you expect to boot a Mac off of a USB drive?