What I'd want to know is when Apple will come out with an iVo or whatever. There was quite a bit of speculation about a video iPod, until Jobs shot the idea down. And, there's has been plenty of speculation about a P/DVR built by Apple. With their "digital hub" strategy and user interface expertise, I would think they'd have jump on this. Considering the various Mac OS X features (Rendezvous - for networking, iCal -for scheduling?) they could "leverage," this seems like a natural fit. If Tivo can build a well-regarded UI for a P/DVR, imagine what Apple could do.
This is what is keepingt my wife from letting me get one even though she has friends (women) who swear by TiVo after they let their husbands get it. Another $15 ontop of a cable bill is just too much.
You mention the higher number of security "holes" in various *nix vs MSFT software. If you have a server array with a mix MSFT, Unix, Linux, Mac OS X and such, you're not going to be competely taken down by cracker running an exploit against one OS. And if you have fail-over structured properly, you shouldn't see any disruption to service if a machine is successfully compromised. That is the case against a monoculture. Diversity, not absolute security.
Tangentially, I agree that biology is a poor metaphor for this, but the idea that "The culture that we should focus on is that of the people responsible for software...[:]...Microsoft" doesn't fit either. The culture to focus on is one that encourages corporations to spend the least possible money on computing resources. Corporation's preference for cheap commodity hardware is what MSFT exploited (that and the Mac/Xeroc PARC GUI) to gain their 95% market share. Why would anyone give a shake when these companies and others complain that their ill-informed bargain hunting has created a system that nearly fatally flawed?
The "culture" that wed themselves to cheap boxes, enjoyed mightily the savings until the started falling off. Expecting MSFT to fix it and then believing them when they say they can overcome the inherent problems with a closed, monolithic system is not a situation where "we all win."
Sincerely, A puny zealot who must speak his mind lest his head explode...oh, whatever.
I can't tell, but when I read just the headline at NYT.com
"F.C.C. Begins Rewriting Rules on Delivery of the Internet"
my gut reaction was "Oh, crap, this is going to be bad." How many others had a similar thought? It is a bit depressing that Mike Powell's FCC engenders that kind of response.
...reflect upon what projects have governments undertaken that you personally would hail as successful, efficient, and inexpensive (Assuming the U.S. government)
- Head Start - Interstate highway system - Rural electrification - School lunch program - the Internet
So, some.gov starts an open source project, front most of the intial cost (mostly time, some money), releases it to the Open Source Community and then what? The code sucks and it dies or it sucks and OSS folks fix it or the code is about the same quality as most OSS projects and life goes on with another hopefully useful program for everyone.
And, finally, if the government has become more business-like (not automatically a good thing: Worldcom, Enron...) then wouldn't it follow that the code will be above average?
All of your points -- good ones at that -- just go to illustrate what M$ will do to beat Google: resort to dirty tricks.
What is M$'s secret weapon? IE installed on all those machines. Suppose it might be possible that the news Service Pack will make it next to impossible to search anywhere but MSSearch.com? Could they jigger IE to internally redirect any entry of Google to MSSearch.com before it hits the network?
Sure, and there will be tons of bellyaching and the Justice Department might decide to chase them on it, but by the time that happens Google could see it's hits go down the drain.
Why? First, if they were caught their companies would very quickly go out of business in the ugliest, most litigious (sp) and scandalous manner. Could you imagine how the mainstream press would react to something like this? Corporate attorneys? The rest of the computer industry?
Second, the Feds would go nuts over it.
Third, they just aren't that stupid to trade a few bucks in renewed subcriptions at the risk of the two aforementioned things happening.
Finally, this logic "...when everyone went to charging a subscription fee yearly for updates it kind of became obvious that antivirus companies are behind most, if not all viruses in existence today." is pretty twisted.
Is the American Cancer Society behind most cancer because they benefit (donations) from cancer? Is the NTSB behind most plane crashes because they benefit (funding) from them? Is the President behind most wars because he....um, never mind.
I mean, Super Mario Brothers 3 sold millions of copies at $50 each in 1988, and today Grand Theft Auto 3 and VC sold millions of copies each at $50 each.
Wouldn't a variant of Moore's Law apply to game creation and user base and number of titles sold per company? Thereby affecting this pricing issue. I just can't see these companies holding down these prices and losing money. It is more likely -- probable -- that they are just hitting the ceiling in effiencies that have allowed the $50 price to remain constant, according to your statement. A rental scheme must appear to be a way to add profit.
Take this one for example, which many considered to be a "big security issue". Basically it only was a problem:
On laptops.
When someone had sudo running in Terminal.
When the computer was put to sleep.
For 10-20 SECONDS after the computer was woken up, but before the clock was updated, someone with physical access to the computer could execute code.
...Who knew it was a bad idea to leave your computer running sudo just laying around in Starbucks while you went to the can?
Condsidering the diffculty of breaking into OS X with these sort of holes, a cracker would probably have to steal the laptop from the Starbucks to have enough time achieve root access. D'oh!
Eh, I'm divided about whether this one is lame or not. Thank goodness for moderators to decide. Here goes. It is realitvely harmless, but I've seen it drive folks nuts.
(BTW, tends to work better on Macs...)
1. Take screen shot of desktop 2. Open the shot in Photoshop or similar gfx app. 3. Rotate 180 degrees so image of desktop is upside down. 4. Enlarge image to 100% and hide menu bar (this is where it works best with Photoshop), palettes and toolbars. 5. Act confused when brought over to see "whacked icons." 5a. mention virus or "sign that hard drive is in process of erasing itself."
All the machines in our office run Photoshop as do the laptops, so it's a trick to pull when things get slow on off-site gigs.
After so many "outbreaks" like this, I wonder how could MS not have long ago updated Outlook with a built-in filter that displays a big red warning whenever any file with a.exe or other non-Big 3 extension shows up in an email messsage? (Whew mod -1 for run-on sentence)
With all the "We know how you should run your computer" couldn't they have a small DMZ/virtual machine that runs an.exe or.pif or whatever to judge what is wants to do? I guess this should be what anti-virus software does, but seems not to be.
No sweat. Since I have access to the machine (per your last exploit) I insert the Mac OS X install disk, reboot from the CD, and select "Reset Password" (paraphrasing here) to change the password for the admin accounts
Exactly, if someone already has this kind of access to a machine, then why bother with all the other stuff?
The G5 demo'ed Monday is aimed at the "Pro" user. Your description of yourself would lead me to believe that you're not who Apple is targeting with this machine.
Wait for the G5 iMac and see if it is tuned toward all the activities you mentioned using your computer.
I've used camping headlamps for reading in bed and other nocturnal residential navigation (raiding the fridge, letting the dog out, checking out noises...oh, no don't go there,) Anyway, I think they work better than book lights.
REI has a cool one Petzl Zipka LED Headlamp that isn't big and bulky. It also has a lens kit that would address some night vision issues (red filter, etc.)
I really like how small it is and I am tempted to get one myself to replace the ancient (circa 1990) clunker I have.
Is ironic that most of the measures assumed that the terrorist are dumb and use always the same method..
My guess is that this is exactly the assumption most security agencies work under: terrorists are working from explicitly writter orders or "training manuals" because they are not extremely well-educated and are opeating under a great deal of stress carrying out these orders (i.e. blowing up themselves and/or others.)
Also, the lead time for changing techniques probably is an issue due to the time and effort it takes to train and motivate potential recruits.
I would guess again that if a venue begins allowing backpacks, but bans straw hats you may be safe assuming a new training manual has been found containing entries on "straw hat attacks."
I disagree. First, it is not worth the damage to a publication's reputation to do what you assert just to conform to political correctness. Second, my guess is that the girl probably couldn't afford a pack of cigarettes if she wanted them -- it was the Depression. You're reading to much into that pose and making yourself sick for no reason.
Would it be possible to put some type of shield on the heat-tile-wing surfaces of the Shuttle?
I'm sure such a thing would introduce weight and aerodynamic issues at launch. But, what sort of material could be applied or attached to that area to protect the tiles from foam, ice, space junk and other objects capable of damage?
I imagine the "material" burning off at reentry and perhaps during this burn-off contributing to the tiles' heat dissapating ability -- rather than turning into a flaming ooze spreading over the vulnerable parts of the fueselage and such.
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The is exactly the solution for someone selling the "Pen Manager Server and related debris.
What I'd want to know is when Apple will come out with an iVo or whatever. There was quite a bit of speculation about a video iPod, until Jobs shot the idea down. And, there's has been plenty of speculation about a P/DVR built by Apple.
With their "digital hub" strategy and user interface expertise, I would think they'd have jump on this. Considering the various Mac OS X features (Rendezvous - for networking, iCal -for scheduling?) they could "leverage," this seems like a natural fit.
If Tivo can build a well-regarded UI for a P/DVR, imagine what Apple could do.
Exactly!
This is what is keepingt my wife from letting me get one even though she has friends (women) who swear by TiVo after they let their husbands get it. Another $15 ontop of a cable bill is just too much.
More people voted than 100% of those registered?
Shocked! I am appalled.
Sincerely,
Chicago
You mention the higher number of security "holes" in various *nix vs MSFT software. If you have a server array with a mix MSFT, Unix, Linux, Mac OS X and such, you're not going to be competely taken down by cracker running an exploit against one OS. And if you have fail-over structured properly, you shouldn't see any disruption to service if a machine is successfully compromised. That is the case against a monoculture. Diversity, not absolute security.
Tangentially, I agree that biology is a poor metaphor for this, but the idea that "The culture that we should focus on is that of the people responsible for software...[:]...Microsoft" doesn't fit either. The culture to focus on is one that encourages corporations to spend the least possible money on computing resources. Corporation's preference for cheap commodity hardware is what MSFT exploited (that and the Mac/Xeroc PARC GUI) to gain their 95% market share. Why would anyone give a shake when these companies and others complain that their ill-informed bargain hunting has created a system that nearly fatally flawed?
The "culture" that wed themselves to cheap boxes, enjoyed mightily the savings until the started falling off. Expecting MSFT to fix it and then believing them when they say they can overcome the inherent problems with a closed, monolithic system is not a situation where "we all win."
Sincerely,
A puny zealot who must speak his mind lest his head explode...oh, whatever.
I can't tell, but when I read just the headline at NYT.com
"F.C.C. Begins Rewriting Rules on Delivery of the Internet"
my gut reaction was "Oh, crap, this is going to be bad."
How many others had a similar thought?
It is a bit depressing that Mike Powell's FCC engenders that kind of response.
...reflect upon what projects have governments undertaken that you personally would hail as successful, efficient, and inexpensive
.gov starts an open source project, front most of the intial cost (mostly time, some money), releases it to the Open Source Community and then what? The code sucks and it dies or it sucks and OSS folks fix it or the code is about the same quality as most OSS projects and life goes on with another hopefully useful program for everyone.
(Assuming the U.S. government)
- Head Start
- Interstate highway system
- Rural electrification
- School lunch program
- the Internet
So, some
And, finally, if the government has become more business-like (not automatically a good thing: Worldcom, Enron...) then wouldn't it follow that the code will be above average?
All of your points -- good ones at that -- just go to illustrate what M$ will do to beat Google: resort to dirty tricks.
What is M$'s secret weapon? IE installed on all those machines. Suppose it might be possible that the news Service Pack will make it next to impossible to search anywhere but MSSearch.com? Could they jigger IE to internally redirect any entry of Google to MSSearch.com before it hits the network?
Sure, and there will be tons of bellyaching and the Justice Department might decide to chase them on it, but by the time that happens Google could see it's hits go down the drain.
I wouldn't put it past Sir. Gates.
Why? First, if they were caught their companies would very quickly go out of business in the ugliest, most litigious (sp) and scandalous manner. Could you imagine how the mainstream press would react to something like this? Corporate attorneys? The rest of the computer industry?
...when everyone went to charging a subscription fee yearly for updates it kind of became obvious that antivirus companies are behind most, if not all viruses in existence today." is pretty twisted.
Second, the Feds would go nuts over it.
Third, they just aren't that stupid to trade a few bucks in renewed subcriptions at the risk of the two aforementioned things happening.
Finally, this logic "
Is the American Cancer Society behind most cancer because they benefit (donations) from cancer? Is the NTSB behind most plane crashes because they benefit (funding) from them? Is the President behind most wars because he....um, never mind.
> I can show you where they shoved it up - but trust me, you don't want to go there.
:-(
I tried to see, but they took it offline
Wouldn't a variant of Moore's Law apply to game creation and user base and number of titles sold per company? Thereby affecting this pricing issue. I just can't see these companies holding down these prices and losing money. It is more likely -- probable -- that they are just hitting the ceiling in effiencies that have allowed the $50 price to remain constant, according to your statement. A rental scheme must appear to be a way to add profit.
Condsidering the diffculty of breaking into OS X with these sort of holes, a cracker would probably have to steal the laptop from the Starbucks to have enough time achieve root access. D'oh!
I believe I saw a follow-up that Music Match vs iTunes (for Windows) and it was more of an compatibility issue than disabling the MM software.
According to the note, re-installing the Music Match app solves the problem. Sorry for no refer URL.
Clearly something that needs to be fixed and for reasons such as the one awing() presents.
Eh, I'm divided about whether this one is lame or not. Thank goodness for moderators to decide. Here goes. It is realitvely harmless, but I've seen it drive folks nuts.
(BTW, tends to work better on Macs...)
1. Take screen shot of desktop
2. Open the shot in Photoshop or similar gfx app.
3. Rotate 180 degrees so image of desktop is upside down.
4. Enlarge image to 100% and hide menu bar (this is where it works best with Photoshop), palettes and toolbars.
5. Act confused when brought over to see "whacked icons." 5a. mention virus or "sign that hard drive is in process of erasing itself."
All the machines in our office run Photoshop as do the laptops, so it's a trick to pull when things get slow on off-site gigs.
If there was only someway to connect the fortunes of the RIAA to these anti-spam activists effort and then point the two entities at each other.
Sort of like when the mean monster ate the bad dude in Star Wars II because of swanky Jedi mind trick.
Obi Wan, are you there?
After so many "outbreaks" like this, I wonder how could MS not have long ago updated Outlook with a built-in filter that displays a big red warning whenever any file with a .exe or other non-Big 3 extension shows up in an email messsage? (Whew mod -1 for run-on sentence)
With all the "We know how you should run your computer" couldn't they have a small DMZ/virtual machine that runs an .exe or .pif or whatever to judge what is wants to do? I guess this should be what anti-virus software does, but seems not to be.
Glad to be running OS X, fwiw.
No sweat. Since I have access to the machine (per your last exploit) I insert the Mac OS X install disk, reboot from the CD, and select "Reset Password" (paraphrasing here) to change the password for the admin accounts
Exactly, if someone already has this kind of access to a machine, then why bother with all the other stuff?
The G5 demo'ed Monday is aimed at the "Pro" user. Your description of yourself would lead me to believe that you're not who Apple is targeting with this machine.
Wait for the G5 iMac and see if it is tuned toward all the activities you mentioned using your computer.
He's an space alien! THEY have all the best computers. Shoot, OS X is probably like Palm OS to him.
It was released for Macintosh.
The best selling game of 1996, 3D Realms' Duke Nukem 3D is coming to the Macintosh as MacSoft ships the title today
(Circa 1997)
I've used camping headlamps for reading in bed and other nocturnal residential navigation (raiding the fridge, letting the dog out, checking out noises...oh, no don't go there,) Anyway, I think they work better than book lights.
REI has a cool one Petzl Zipka LED Headlamp that isn't big and bulky. It also has a lens kit that would address some night vision issues (red filter, etc.)
I really like how small it is and I am tempted to get one myself to replace the ancient (circa 1990) clunker I have.
My guess is that this is exactly the assumption most security agencies work under: terrorists are working from explicitly writter orders or "training manuals" because they are not extremely well-educated and are opeating under a great deal of stress carrying out these orders (i.e. blowing up themselves and/or others.)
Also, the lead time for changing techniques probably is an issue due to the time and effort it takes to train and motivate potential recruits.
I would guess again that if a venue begins allowing backpacks, but bans straw hats you may be safe assuming a new training manual has been found containing entries on "straw hat attacks."
I disagree. First, it is not worth the damage to a publication's reputation to do what you assert just to conform to political correctness. Second, my guess is that the girl probably couldn't afford a pack of cigarettes if she wanted them -- it was the Depression. You're reading to much into that pose and making yourself sick for no reason.
The problem with amazon is that their main purpose is to sell the product.
I think it would be a problem if Amazon didn't sell products. *Poof* and it would cease to exist.
Please dismantle this idea at your leisure...
Would it be possible to put some type of shield on the heat-tile-wing surfaces of the Shuttle?
I'm sure such a thing would introduce weight and aerodynamic issues at launch. But, what sort of material could be applied or attached to that area to protect the tiles from foam, ice, space junk and other objects capable of damage?
I imagine the "material" burning off at reentry and perhaps during this burn-off contributing to the tiles' heat dissapating ability -- rather than turning into a flaming ooze spreading over the vulnerable parts of the fueselage and such.
Is this just completely unrealistic?