Keep in mind that right now, they are not advertising this as a plain audio-out device. You won't necessarily be able to play your DVD to your AirTunes device. This is an output for iTunes only. So surround-sound is overkill even for audiophiles. Overkill for everyone except Flaming Lips fans.
Either way, you are not witnessing the development of new species
Who said anything about new species? It used to be that very few weeds were roundup resistant. Now that the roundup susceptible weeds are dead, there are more roundup resistant weeds.
It's ok, he's still full of crap. Use eBay as an example anyway: Wired estimates that eBay will facilitate $30 BILLION in transactions in the next year, making it the 81st largest economy in the world. Three percent of $30 billion is... you know... not negligible.
The goal of initiatives like this is not to allow better security. The current scheme allows for relatively decent security. However, the easiest way to use the current scheme (one password everywhere or trivial passwords) is incredibly insecure. It is difficult enough to remember dozens of strong passwords that people choose not to.
The goal of initiatives like this is to make decent security the only easy way. It is worth increasing the hassle a bit, even for users like you, if it drastically increases the hassle for the insecure path. So long as the decrease in fraud outpaces the increase in minimum hassle, we have a net win for the bank & bank customers.
Configure it with a largeish partition for ghost files. Install Windows on the other partition and configure it however much or little security you'd like. Enable the firewall. Install automated spyware & virus protection. Do windows update.
Ghost the machine as it is, properly configured, to the ghost partition. Later, after they've fucked everything up, you can restore from the ghost file.
When you're 60 years old and remembering the great times of your life, no ones going to say, "You know, I should have dumped that old broad and played more video games..."
What, are you kidding? When I look back at a few previous relationships, I think exactly that. Even worse is when I think about all the homework I did in middle school. All that time I could have been playing X-Com or something. What the hell is wrong with my parents, I'll never know.
And more to the point, you are doing something illegal when you make a mix on your computer or smoke weed. There are millions of people that could be sent to jail that should not be.
Depending on what the bridge looks like, the view might be better. I certainly think the Marin County hills look better with the Golden Gate Bridge all up in them.
The Berkeley hills are beautiful because of, not in spite of, the houses and freeways built around them. Yeah, even the freeways.
You're right, privacy isn't in the constitution, but
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
that sounds a lot like privacy to me. In particular that it says we have a right to be secure in our papers against unreasonable searches and seizures.
I'm not sure if that's where the SCOTUS got the idea of a right to a reasonable expectation of privacy, but it's plenty for me. Certainly less of a stretch than interpreting
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
to mean that you can take handguns away from people... or even impose a waiting period. Or licensing. (Don't get me wrong. I'm in favor of firearm regulation, but it's pretty clear that the founders weren't.)
The interview with Crosby is just heartbreaking because you know what he is saying is true. You are not going to find anything at the store other than what WalMart or BestBuy thinks will be a hit with teenagers. I wonder how much great music is out there languishing like it wouldn't have 20 or 30 years ago?
See, that's the miracle of the internet. Nothing needs to languish. Way better than 20 or 30 years ago in that regard.
Sure, the music industry might be in trouble, but music is doing fine. I've got more excellent music than I could ever listen to on my computer. Fifteen thousand tracks. No, really. All selected by me or someone I trust. Sneakernet & iPods was all it took, and we weren't even really trying very hard. It'll probably take me a few years to get through all this music, and at that point, I'm pretty certain that I'll have thirty thousand tracks to deal with.
And BTW, y'all hippies built Aquarius Records in the 1970. Thanks. They're rad. Dunno what we'd do without them.
That's correct, anything that makes your computer unstable is not worth using - APE does not make your computer unstable. Badly coded APE modules do, in the same way as badly coded apps do.
I don't understand. I don't use APE, and I don't have a horse in this race. What you are saying doesn't make any sense: No, a badly coded application will not make my computer unstable unless something is horribly wrong. Why would a badly coded APE module make my computer unstable? How can that be acceptable?
At this point, it's clear he's just trolling. Saying "there is no such thing" is meaningless, and arguing that it's because MacOS is more secure is also meaningless.
He's making arguments with gaping holes because he wants further response. Trolly troll troll.
What happened is that a.plist or pref got fucked up and you couldn't alter the prefs.
Yes, probably. The notable thing wasn't just that I couldn't change her homepage, but that it was set to some overture style search-shop-portal and I couldn't change it.
The popups, though, were what made me think she actually had some rogue process. But I've been wrong before. Whatever.
If it works in a new user and not in your old user, you have a prefs or.plist problem. This is what you discovered, not spyware.
Well, it could have been spyware that was dependent on a prefs or.plist modification. I certainly haven't heard anyone else echo my story, and I did a bit of googling, but that's what it looked like to me.
Not often you se e someone with a hammer AND a screwdriver using the hammer to pound screws.
That's what you're supposed to do. Screwdrivers are for taking out screws. Putting screws in with a screwdriver takes way way way too long, and is at least as likely to split the board.
Of course, a power drill is much better, but if you only have a hammer and a screwdriver... you use the hammer to put the screws in. That's what they did before they had electric drills. (IANAL, but I used to work in a cabinet shop.)
Right, this is in Jaguar, and something she got off P2P easily could have mucked around inside/Applications/Internet Explorer.app/ without asking to authenticate. Because she's an admin. Fortunately it didn't try.
Internet Explorer got popups & the homepage couldn't be modified either in system prefs or in application prefs.
It was a similarly fucked up situation, but obviously not as bad. I created a new user account & migrated only the clean stuff from ~/Library. Everything was fine.
I was concerned that the spyware had injected an executable into the Internet Explorer.app directory & modified some plist somewhere, but fortunately they did not. Of course, yes, Mac OS X requires you do enter your admin password for many system administration tasks, but modifying something in/Applications is not one of them. Too inconvenient.
Anyway. The only input I have is to reiterate what everyone else is saying: Do your post-mortem or whatever, but rebuild the machine just the same. If you think you can prove that they didn't install some rootkit... then you don't understand them. Back up your documents & format & reinstall everything else.
Dude, you misunderstand. I wrote that comment in thirty seconds. I do think that Anti-Bush sentiment gets generalized into Anti-American sentiment by many people. And I can't even hold it against them.
But really, when I say that "Anti-American sentiment reaches such heights etc." I'm maligning GW, not the world. It's his doing. It wouldn't have occured to me to read my comment the other direction.
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Keep in mind that right now, they are not advertising this as a plain audio-out device. You won't necessarily be able to play your DVD to your AirTunes device. This is an output for iTunes only. So surround-sound is overkill even for audiophiles. Overkill for everyone except Flaming Lips fans.
Because it would be bigger. And then you wouldn't buy the $250 Airport Extreme Basestation also. Right now Apple stands to get $250 + $130 per stereo.
That's the way I've always understood it, but I was just pointing out that the dude's logic was broken. Even if we defined species his way.
Such a feature would in many circumstances be enough to differentiate a species.
Then they'd already be different species, wouldn't they?
Whatever.
Either way, you are not witnessing the development of new species
Who said anything about new species? It used to be that very few weeds were roundup resistant. Now that the roundup susceptible weeds are dead, there are more roundup resistant weeds.
What the hell are you talking about?
No kidding.
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Who would have thought that evolution would be developing it's own roundup resistance. Damn that Charles Darwin.
Maybe the Monsanto executives are creationists.
It's ok, he's still full of crap. Use eBay as an example anyway: Wired estimates that eBay will facilitate $30 BILLION in transactions in the next year, making it the 81st largest economy in the world. Three percent of $30 billion is... you know... not negligible.
The goal of initiatives like this is not to allow better security. The current scheme allows for relatively decent security. However, the easiest way to use the current scheme (one password everywhere or trivial passwords) is incredibly insecure. It is difficult enough to remember dozens of strong passwords that people choose not to.
The goal of initiatives like this is to make decent security the only easy way. It is worth increasing the hassle a bit, even for users like you, if it drastically increases the hassle for the insecure path. So long as the decrease in fraud outpaces the increase in minimum hassle, we have a net win for the bank & bank customers.
So, restore from the ghost file at the end of the summer.
Configure it with a largeish partition for ghost files. Install Windows on the other partition and configure it however much or little security you'd like. Enable the firewall. Install automated spyware & virus protection. Do windows update.
Ghost the machine as it is, properly configured, to the ghost partition. Later, after they've fucked everything up, you can restore from the ghost file.
Isn't that how you ran your labs?
And more to the point, you are doing something illegal when you make a mix on your computer or smoke weed. There are millions of people that could be sent to jail that should not be.
Depending on what the bridge looks like, the view might be better. I certainly think the Marin County hills look better with the Golden Gate Bridge all up in them.
The Berkeley hills are beautiful because of, not in spite of, the houses and freeways built around them. Yeah, even the freeways.
(See subject.)
I'm not sure if that's where the SCOTUS got the idea of a right to a reasonable expectation of privacy, but it's plenty for me. Certainly less of a stretch than interpreting to mean that you can take handguns away from people... or even impose a waiting period. Or licensing. (Don't get me wrong. I'm in favor of firearm regulation, but it's pretty clear that the founders weren't.)
Sure, the music industry might be in trouble, but music is doing fine. I've got more excellent music than I could ever listen to on my computer. Fifteen thousand tracks. No, really. All selected by me or someone I trust. Sneakernet & iPods was all it took, and we weren't even really trying very hard. It'll probably take me a few years to get through all this music, and at that point, I'm pretty certain that I'll have thirty thousand tracks to deal with.
And BTW, y'all hippies built Aquarius Records in the 1970. Thanks. They're rad. Dunno what we'd do without them.
At this point, it's clear he's just trolling. Saying "there is no such thing" is meaningless, and arguing that it's because MacOS is more secure is also meaningless.
He's making arguments with gaping holes because he wants further response. Trolly troll troll.
What happened is that a .plist or pref got fucked up and you couldn't alter the prefs.
.plist problem. This is what you discovered, not spyware.
.plist modification. I certainly haven't heard anyone else echo my story, and I did a bit of googling, but that's what it looked like to me.
Yes, probably. The notable thing wasn't just that I couldn't change her homepage, but that it was set to some overture style search-shop-portal and I couldn't change it.
The popups, though, were what made me think she actually had some rogue process. But I've been wrong before. Whatever.
If it works in a new user and not in your old user, you have a prefs or
Well, it could have been spyware that was dependent on a prefs or
Think Different.
You're a dick.
Of course, a power drill is much better, but if you only have a hammer and a screwdriver... you use the hammer to put the screws in. That's what they did before they had electric drills. (IANAL, but I used to work in a cabinet shop.)
And you have to boot off a known good CD, or else you can't know that you're actually reading those hashes. But yeah.
Right, this is in Jaguar, and something she got off P2P easily could have mucked around inside /Applications/Internet Explorer.app/ without asking to authenticate. Because she's an admin. Fortunately it didn't try.
Internet Explorer got popups & the homepage couldn't be modified either in system prefs or in application prefs.
/Applications is not one of them. Too inconvenient.
It was a similarly fucked up situation, but obviously not as bad. I created a new user account & migrated only the clean stuff from ~/Library. Everything was fine.
I was concerned that the spyware had injected an executable into the Internet Explorer.app directory & modified some plist somewhere, but fortunately they did not. Of course, yes, Mac OS X requires you do enter your admin password for many system administration tasks, but modifying something in
Anyway. The only input I have is to reiterate what everyone else is saying: Do your post-mortem or whatever, but rebuild the machine just the same. If you think you can prove that they didn't install some rootkit... then you don't understand them. Back up your documents & format & reinstall everything else.
Dude, you misunderstand. I wrote that comment in thirty seconds. I do think that Anti-Bush sentiment gets generalized into Anti-American sentiment by many people. And I can't even hold it against them.
But really, when I say that "Anti-American sentiment reaches such heights etc." I'm maligning GW, not the world. It's his doing. It wouldn't have occured to me to read my comment the other direction.