Available for: Mac OS X v10.5.8, Mac OS X Server v10.5.8, Mac OS X v10.6.2, Mac OS X Server v10.6.2
Impact: Multiple vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player plug-in
Description: Multiple issues exist in the Adobe Flash Player plug-in, the most serious of which may lead to arbitrary code execution when viewing a maliciously crafted web site. The issues are addressed by updating the Flash Player plug-in to version 10.0.42.
Java maintained by Apple has always been WAY behind what everybody else is using. I'm glad Apple is going to ditch it and leave it up to others.
The odd thing is, with the release in question (Update 3), Apple's JVM is 1.6.0_22, exactly the same as the latest release for Linux/Solaris/Winows. This is the first time I can remember that that was the case.
In the past I've heard macs referred to as the ultimate developer's machine, with a full UNIX, all the gnu tools, a nice UI (with X if you need it), and nicely integrated laptop hardware. But Java is still one of the top languages on the planet, so if Apple really stops keeping it up to date that could put a nail in that coffin. Heck, I'm pretty sure the Apple Store has a big pile of Java back there...
The Linux foundation doesn't develop a Linux JVM. Microsoft's JVM was awful and incompatible.
Both those platforms are still widely used for Java development and deployment, in spite of depending on a third-party JVM.
Nowhere. But right now it's the most widely adopted and implemented (pretty much everyone but Firefox either does or is planning to support it).
Huh, that's really confusing. Because according to Wikipedia, Ogg Theora looks more supported in browsers than H.264.
No, he means exactly what he said. Pretty much everyone but Firefox either does or is planning to support it.
Yes, there are lots of no-name browsers with zero user base that don't do h.264. But IE, Chrome, and Safari all do h.264. Which leaves Firefox and Opera as the WebM holdouts.
I don't think the leaked Afghanistan war documents are a 'little egg'. It's clear proof that the war is lost and there is no hope for winning....
Bullshit. The Wikileaks documents a lot of out-of-context reports, mostly from low-level soldiers and unit commanders. Essentially, it's an internal bug-tracking database for the war.
Look at any internal bug-tracking database for any reasonably-sized project and you'll immediately conclude that the project is a horrible steaming pile of crap that everyone hates. That does not necessarily mean that the project actually is worthless. Imagine what the MS Windows (or OS X, or whatever) internal bug database must be like. Millions of known, incompatibilities, crash reports, and unsubstantiated error reports. And yet MS and Apple make shit-tons of money from them, and millions of people use them every ay.
Of course there are major problems with the war. It's a fucking war.
And? Do you think I haven't seen this countless times when I was making the point? The period takes up a small portion of its box in a fixed-width font. There's space to the left and space to the right of it - much more space than other characters. As a result, dot-space looks completely fine in a fixed-width font.
Wow. Just...wow.
THE PERIOD IN A MONOSPACED FONT IS AS WIDE AS A FUCKING 'W'. IT IS NOT FUCKING SMALL. In a monospaced font, all characters are the same width; hence there are no "small" characters in a monospaced font. Your assertion that a monospaced period is "small" is therefore demonstrably false.
So, in a monospaced font, you need two spaces to (visually) compensate for the wider space. A single space would be lost next to the huge gaping negative visual space surrounding the period.
In a proportional font, the period has no extra padding, therefore no extra spacing is needed after the period.
I had to RTFA to find out that WDE is Westinghouse Digital Electronics.
From TFS:
"The Software Freedom Conservancy has received a judgement against Westinghouse Digital Electronics for $90,000 in damages, $50,000 in costs plus a donation of all of the offending HDTV's that were using BusyBox in violation of the GPL. Given that WDE is nearly bankrupt it's likely that most if not all of the cash will disappear in a legal 'poof', but it is a victory regardless."
Did the summary get edited to include that, or what?
"Acts of God" is a legal term encompassing chance events, sudden natural disasters, and other unforeseeable and uncontrollable happenings. Forest fires, lightning, earthquakes, meteor strikes, volcanic eruptions, sudden sinkholes, etc.
The lawyers and judges understand what it means. It's a standard part of contracts and has nothing to do with any deity or religious belief whatsoever.
"WhichTimes"? This article is really tagged "WhichTimes"? It's the real and proper Times, damnit. The one that's called "The Times" (unless it is a Sunday, at which point it is called "The Sunday Times").
You mean, it's the one that's so out of touch with reality that it doesn't recognize that, in the last 220 years, some real and legitimate competition has arisen? No wonder they're having trouble adjusting to the 12st century
Luckily, if things keep going the way they are, there will only be one Times again. Though probably not that one.
How about you just sell the product and let the market sort it out?
Sounds like you need to re-read the thread above. What product? What market? Exactly. Those simply don't exist without marketing. Word of mouth is a form of marketing.
Basically what you're saying is, you've never bought anything and don't know anything about any product. All you know about is a hypothetical product called a "widget", and you have no idea where these things called, computers, originate.
Good lord, you're stupid. What is this, the Chewbacca Defense school of marketing?
"We have something, you need it, but it's so amazing we can't even tell you what it might be. Be glad we're telling you about it at all!"
Everyone I know with an iPhone 4 has the issue(s) but NONE of them have called AppleCare or gone to the Apple store to complain. They have all been patiently waiting for Apple to take care of them.
In other words, thave unrealistic expectations about their partner's emotional sensitivity.
"Why haven't you fixed the issues I haven't told you I'm experiencing?"
The humans get their energy from the nutrient filled goo. DUH. Where do they get the nutrients for the goo you ask? From the dead humans! DUH.
Obviously it's a depleting system with fewer and fewer humans to be gotten each time around. But one can also assume that when the sky was blacked out there was vegetation and vegetable and animal organics. The machines could have found a way to convert that into sugars (along with the other dead humans of course) and nutrients to feed the humans.
There is quite a bit of organic energy already here.
The original idea was that the matrix was a distributed system using human brains as nodes. That's why the humans were jacked in. When you think about it that way, the whole movie becomes at least two times better.
The hollywood people decided that would be too confusing to the audience, and thus the reason for the humans to be hooked in became a thermodynamic WTF.
If I'm interested in a product, I don't need to be told about it. If I want to find it, I'll find it
My head just exploded.
In general terms, the point of most advertising is to either introduce an unknown or new product to the public or to inform the public of benefits of using said product. As such, if you don't know about a product, how would you know you don't need to be told about it? Which means, you know you don't know so you don't need to know, therefore not knowing means you know enough about it to not need to know. WTF?!
*Boom* There it went again.
How about you just sell the product and let the market sort it out?
People (or "consumers," as marketers prefer to think of them) are actually quite capable of finding products to meet their needs. They talk to friends, consult experts and reference works, and visit retail stores.
Most products are not new. Most of them are only slightly altered versions of existing products...or worse, restyled versions of existing products (eg. clothes, MS Office releases.) In the exceptionally rare case that a truly new product is introduced, it's typically covered by the media (news, trade press, blogs, Slashdot) to some degree or another. And then there's word of mouth again.
Personally, I don't watch a lot of TV, and I block ads on the Internet. In spite of this, and to the confusion of marketing students everywhere, I manage to live a remarkably normal life. I'm not, as you marketers might assume, rocking back and forth in a bare, empty room, crying to myself and wondering if anyone has developed a consumable substance to satisfy the terrible hunger pangs that I periodically feel, cover my naked form, or entertain myself.
Ah... now here's someone who has been paying attention
Obviously, the Russians were after something other than the Windows source code. Microsoft does a lot more than Windows; maybe this had to do with Office, Microsoft's online service offerings, Exchange Server, SQL Server etc. You know, stuff that wouldn't be in the WIndows 7 source code (bear in mind that Windows 7 is a client OS)
Or more likely, business strategy, research & development direction, or contract bid pricing. Only a geek would assume he was in it for teh codez.
But, seriously Apple, you did a recall with the MacBook battery issue. You replaced batteries and even though it cost you some money your karma was helped by it.
Karma nothing. Recalls of dangerous products are mandated by US law. Even "voluntary" recalls aren't; the company either does them voluntarily when the company or CPSC finds a defect, or it risks being sued and paying a penalty in addition to doing a recall.
For that matter, selling a defective product that is not a safety hazard does not trigger a "recall." Unless these iPhones are strangling small children, catching fire, or are poisonous if touched, there's no recall potential here.
Slashdot Mirror
No, Flash does not auto-update on a Mac. Never has.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4004
Flash Player plug-in
CVE-ID: CVE-2009-3794, CVE-2009-3796, CVE-2009-3797, CVE-2009-3798, CVE-2009-3799, CVE-2009-3800, CVE-2009-3951
Available for: Mac OS X v10.5.8, Mac OS X Server v10.5.8, Mac OS X v10.6.2, Mac OS X Server v10.6.2
Impact: Multiple vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player plug-in
Description: Multiple issues exist in the Adobe Flash Player plug-in, the most serious of which may lead to arbitrary code execution when viewing a maliciously crafted web site. The issues are addressed by updating the Flash Player plug-in to version 10.0.42.
Emphasis mine.
Java maintained by Apple has always been WAY behind what everybody else is using. I'm glad Apple is going to ditch it and leave it up to others.
The odd thing is, with the release in question (Update 3), Apple's JVM is 1.6.0_22, exactly the same as the latest release for Linux/Solaris/Winows. This is the first time I can remember that that was the case.
In the past I've heard macs referred to as the ultimate developer's machine, with a full UNIX, all the gnu tools, a nice UI (with X if you need it), and nicely integrated laptop hardware. But Java is still one of the top languages on the planet, so if Apple really stops keeping it up to date that could put a nail in that coffin. Heck, I'm pretty sure the Apple Store has a big pile of Java back there...
The Linux foundation doesn't develop a Linux JVM.
Microsoft's JVM was awful and incompatible.
Both those platforms are still widely used for Java development and deployment, in spite of depending on a third-party JVM.
Seriously? Troll?
Someone posts an inflammatory, unsubstantiated statement and is modded insightful. Someone asks for proof, and that's trolling?!
What. The. Fuck.
Lisa, I want to buy your rock.
Nowhere. But right now it's the most widely adopted and implemented (pretty much everyone but Firefox either does or is planning to support it).
Huh, that's really confusing. Because according to Wikipedia, Ogg Theora looks more supported in browsers than H.264.
No, he means exactly what he said. Pretty much everyone but Firefox either does or is planning to support it.
Yes, there are lots of no-name browsers with zero user base that don't do h.264. But IE, Chrome, and Safari all do h.264. Which leaves Firefox and Opera as the WebM holdouts.
Yeah. Good luck with that.
article title should be fixed to "Apple sends out update to fix PDF Vulnerability" ;)
No, see, Apple users are all gay!
Which is funny, for some reason, because sexual orientations are funny. So...outing.... ...gay.... ...funny mod please?
I don't think the leaked Afghanistan war documents are a 'little egg'. It's clear proof that the war is lost and there is no hope for winning. ...
Bullshit. The Wikileaks documents a lot of out-of-context reports, mostly from low-level soldiers and unit commanders. Essentially, it's an internal bug-tracking database for the war.
Look at any internal bug-tracking database for any reasonably-sized project and you'll immediately conclude that the project is a horrible steaming pile of crap that everyone hates. That does not necessarily mean that the project actually is worthless. Imagine what the MS Windows (or OS X, or whatever) internal bug database must be like. Millions of known, incompatibilities, crash reports, and unsubstantiated error reports. And yet MS and Apple make shit-tons of money from them, and millions of people use them every ay.
Of course there are major problems with the war. It's a fucking war.
And? Do you think I haven't seen this countless times when I was making the point? The period takes up a small portion of its box in a fixed-width font. There's space to the left and space to the right of it - much more space than other characters. As a result, dot-space looks completely fine in a fixed-width font.
Wow. Just...wow.
THE PERIOD IN A MONOSPACED FONT IS AS WIDE AS A FUCKING 'W'. IT IS NOT FUCKING SMALL. In a monospaced font, all characters are the same width; hence there are no "small" characters in a monospaced font. Your assertion that a monospaced period is "small" is therefore demonstrably false.
So, in a monospaced font, you need two spaces to (visually) compensate for the wider space. A single space would be lost next to the huge gaping negative visual space surrounding the period.
In a proportional font, the period has no extra padding, therefore no extra spacing is needed after the period.
I had to RTFA to find out that WDE is Westinghouse Digital Electronics.
From TFS:
"The Software Freedom Conservancy has received a judgement against Westinghouse Digital Electronics for $90,000 in damages, $50,000 in costs plus a donation of all of the offending HDTV's that were using BusyBox in violation of the GPL. Given that WDE is nearly bankrupt it's likely that most if not all of the cash will disappear in a legal 'poof', but it is a victory regardless."
Did the summary get edited to include that, or what?
I was about to say the same thing. Because in fixed-width the period is so small...
What? Here, take a look:
WWWWW
Two spaces are appropriate for typewriters and similar monospaced fonts (Courier, Monaco, Andale Mono, Consolas, Vera, Deja Vu mono)
One space for proportional fonts (Times, Helvetica, almost everything.)
In that case the engineering drawings for a 777 (or anything else) should also be open to public scrutiny. Is that reasonable?
Absolutely
Honestly, I find this "magic" marketing strategy to be a complete turnoff.
The fact that you're on Slashdot makes you Not The Target Market.
To most people, virtually any computer thingie is sufficiently advanced.
"Acts of God" is a legal term encompassing chance events, sudden natural disasters, and other unforeseeable and uncontrollable happenings. Forest fires, lightning, earthquakes, meteor strikes, volcanic eruptions, sudden sinkholes, etc.
The lawyers and judges understand what it means. It's a standard part of contracts and has nothing to do with any deity or religious belief whatsoever.
Jesus! God has individual control over each nut?
He must. They all claim to either know him or be him
(By the way, The Times didn't exist in the 12th century).
Freudian typo. It's still stuck in the 11th, obviously. :-)
"WhichTimes"? This article is really tagged "WhichTimes"? It's the real and proper Times, damnit. The one that's called "The Times" (unless it is a Sunday, at which point it is called "The Sunday Times").
You mean, it's the one that's so out of touch with reality that it doesn't recognize that, in the last 220 years, some real and legitimate competition has arisen? No wonder they're having trouble adjusting to the 12st century
Luckily, if things keep going the way they are, there will only be one Times again. Though probably not that one.
It may shock some people, but there was an Internet (and a web) before there were commercially supported websites.
It was smaller, but it worked just fine. In fact, it worked beautifully. Many of us want it back.
How about you just sell the product and let the market sort it out?
Sounds like you need to re-read the thread above. What product? What market? Exactly. Those simply don't exist without marketing. Word of mouth is a form of marketing.
Basically what you're saying is, you've never bought anything and don't know anything about any product. All you know about is a hypothetical product called a "widget", and you have no idea where these things called, computers, originate.
Good lord, you're stupid. What is this, the Chewbacca Defense school of marketing?
"We have something, you need it, but it's so amazing we can't even tell you what it might be. Be glad we're telling you about it at all!"
You couldn't sell crack to an addict.
Everyone I know with an iPhone 4 has the issue(s) but NONE of them have called AppleCare or gone to the Apple store to complain. They have all been patiently waiting for Apple to take care of them.
In other words, thave unrealistic expectations about their partner's emotional sensitivity.
"Why haven't you fixed the issues I haven't told you I'm experiencing?"
The humans get their energy from the nutrient filled goo. DUH. Where do they get the nutrients for the goo you ask? From the dead humans! DUH.
Obviously it's a depleting system with fewer and fewer humans to be gotten each time around. But one can also assume that when the sky was blacked out there was vegetation and vegetable and animal organics. The machines could have found a way to convert that into sugars (along with the other dead humans of course) and nutrients to feed the humans.
There is quite a bit of organic energy already here.
The original idea was that the matrix was a distributed system using human brains as nodes. That's why the humans were jacked in. When you think about it that way, the whole movie becomes at least two times better.
The hollywood people decided that would be too confusing to the audience, and thus the reason for the humans to be hooked in became a thermodynamic WTF.
If I'm interested in a product, I don't need to be told about it. If I want to find it, I'll find it
My head just exploded.
In general terms, the point of most advertising is to either introduce an unknown or new product to the public or to inform the public of benefits of using said product. As such, if you don't know about a product, how would you know you don't need to be told about it? Which means, you know you don't know so you don't need to know, therefore not knowing means you know enough about it to not need to know. WTF?!
*Boom* There it went again.
How about you just sell the product and let the market sort it out?
People (or "consumers," as marketers prefer to think of them) are actually quite capable of finding products to meet their needs. They talk to friends, consult experts and reference works, and visit retail stores.
Most products are not new. Most of them are only slightly altered versions of existing products...or worse, restyled versions of existing products (eg. clothes, MS Office releases.) In the exceptionally rare case that a truly new product is introduced, it's typically covered by the media (news, trade press, blogs, Slashdot) to some degree or another. And then there's word of mouth again.
Personally, I don't watch a lot of TV, and I block ads on the Internet. In spite of this, and to the confusion of marketing students everywhere, I manage to live a remarkably normal life. I'm not, as you marketers might assume, rocking back and forth in a bare, empty room, crying to myself and wondering if anyone has developed a consumable substance to satisfy the terrible hunger pangs that I periodically feel, cover my naked form, or entertain myself.
Ah... now here's someone who has been paying attention
Obviously, the Russians were after something other than the Windows source code. Microsoft does a lot more than Windows; maybe this had to do with Office, Microsoft's online service offerings, Exchange Server, SQL Server etc. You know, stuff that wouldn't be in the WIndows 7 source code (bear in mind that Windows 7 is a client OS)
Or more likely, business strategy, research & development direction, or contract bid pricing. Only a geek would assume he was in it for teh codez.
But, seriously Apple, you did a recall with the MacBook battery issue. You replaced batteries and even though it cost you some money your karma was helped by it.
Karma nothing. Recalls of dangerous products are mandated by US law. Even "voluntary" recalls aren't; the company either does them voluntarily when the company or CPSC finds a defect, or it risks being sued and paying a penalty in addition to doing a recall.
For that matter, selling a defective product that is not a safety hazard does not trigger a "recall." Unless these iPhones are strangling small children, catching fire, or are poisonous if touched, there's no recall potential here.