It was even easier on the Mac. Back in those days, you could infect a Mac just by putting the floppy disk into the drive. On a PC you generally would have to run an infected executable on the floppy before your system got owned.
Just for the record: According to this source, wind turbines cost around 1.2-2.6 million USD per MW. Assuming a (I think conservative?) capacity factor of 25%, that's 4.8-10.4 million USD per produced MW, so for 1 billion USD you should be able to buy 96-208 MW.
You are aware that Apple didn't pay their $1 billion to generate energy, but for a data center?
And what exactly about that requires the use of a proprietary sync method, instead of just mounting it as any old USB device and having the sync app do a normal filesystem level copy?
Okay, its obvious you're a troll when you want to use "a normal filesystem level copy" instead of something like rsync. And even that doesn't know which files actually need to be synced - unless you store your address book data in your music directory.
Mass-mailers requiring user interaction are called worms since forever. But many older worms used some form of exploit code, and Melissa was called a virus because it was actually an Office file infector (a macro virus). It's easy to see the reason for confusion.
Love Letter was already being called a worm without exploiting any flaws back in 2000, though*, so was Sircam in 2001 and Bugbear/Thanatos in 2002.
Not quite true IIRC - they all could be activated without further user action when having the auto-preview or preview pane active in Outlook.
Not everyone pays to have the latest Apple service pack. So a lot of Macs had support for Java applets.
No matter how you want to distort the facts, the fix was there and it took Apple two months (and a lot of media coverage) to have them ship it.
That doesn't negate the fact that the security risk is apparently true. Who cares if the company is only doing it for PR reasons for potential AV sales? The problem is still there. And Apple's response, apparently, is to go for denial.
Yeah, they denied the problem existed by releasing a security update for Java - six days before the article was written.
Eh? Not to make a "no true Scotsman" plea, but the security world is not that big. If Apple hasn't heard of them before, it means that Apple has no presence in this field.
To report security issues that affect Apple products, please contact: product-security@apple.com
...
Collaboration with other security groups
Apple works with the formal incident response community to distribute information. Most Apple security notices are distributed by CERT/CC at the same time that they are sent through Apple's own channels. Apple is a member of the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST), and cooperates with other FIRST members to disseminate security-related information.
Apple also works very closely with the FreeBSD Security team to analyze and release patches for security vulnerabilities.
Indeed. And the 3rd gen iPad is way wide of the mark too. Heavier, hotter, sucks battery, all because Tim Cook couldn't think of any way to improve it except to crank resolution up way past anything anybody actually wanted.
25 hours use as a LTE-WiFi-hotspot. As "hot" and lighter and longer battery time than top Android tablets. You are a troll.
My wife saw me print a document the other day by typing "lpr name.pdf" and she made me show her how to do it, because it is way faster than starting an application and clicking your way through a bunch of dialogs.
Let's see: ignoring that this also works the same way in OS X, this plain doesn't work for many types of documents (try lpr name.sdw. And of course you have to have an terminal open for that to work, else you have to start an application to type that. Last but not least: right/ctrl-click on icons, select "Print" - yeah, that was so much harder. Much too complicated for a Linutic.
Tme for all the hypocrites to come out against apple who is offering a free, perpetual license for the relevant patents, in favor of those who won't do the same, only because they have an irrational hatred of apple. Just look at the first post.
The are offering a 'free' license only to anyone who licenses their patents under the same conditions. That's not really 'free' that's 'Apple is tired of getting charged license fees by people who've been doing phone R&D rather longer than they have'...
Who cares, Nokia said Apple doesn't have any patents on the new design - are you calling them liars?
“We are not aware of any Apple Intellectual Property which it considers essential to its nano-SIM proposal. In light of this, Apple’s proposal for royalty-free licensing seems no more than an attempt to devalue the intellectual property of others.” – Nokia
What Apple wants is hand at the neck of the throats of other companies.
The Mini-Dport license is royalty free but has an express provision that voids the license if the licensee were to "commence an action for patent infringement against Apple". So sue-happy Apple gets to hold this over other companies, as a result no-one has taken up mini-dport.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini_DisplayPort It is also used in new PC notebooks from various manufacturers such as Lenovo, Toshiba, HP and Dell. On 7 January 2010, Toshiba introduced Satellite Pro S500, Tecra M11, A11 and S11 notebooks featuring Mini DisplayPort.[10][11][12][13]
AMD released a special variant of its Radeon HD 5870 graphics card - called the Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition, which features 2GB GDDR5 memory, higher clock speeds than the original card, and six Mini DisplayPort outputs with a maximum resolution of 5760 × 2160 pixels (a 3×2 grid of 1080p displays).
On 5 May 2010, HP announced Envy 14 and Envy 17 notebooks with Mini DisplayPort.[15]
On 20 October 2010, Dell announced XPS 14, 15, and 17 notebooks with Mini DisplayPort.[16]
On 17 May 2011, Lenovo announced the ThinkPad X1 notebook with Mini DisplayPort.
More proof that Apple haters have Reality Destruction Fields. Which obviously rot their brain.
Rainfall: Wettest summer on record for Takaka and Nelson. Very wet across the North Island, Otago and South Canterbury. Extremely dry over southwest of South Island.
Temperatures: A cooler than average summer between Timaru and Gisborne, as well as for the Central Plateau and Bay of Plenty. Warmer than usual for the West Coast of the South Island and Fiordland.
I think Daisey using Foxconn's name in relation to the Hexane poisoning was probably the tipping point. A hexane poisoning incident did happen but it was a different company, Wintek. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/22/chinese-workers-apple-nhexane-poisoning
Daisey using Foxconn's name made his monologue sound too much like journalism which it never was. But it was good muckraking.
Did you pick that article on purpose? Because it sure pulls a nice Daisey itself. Forgetting to mention that Wintek has many customers apart from Apple, and that they used n-Hexane cleaning all products.
Apple's own audits show (PDF) the company has caught underage workers at a handful of its suppliers.
There is just a slight matter of scale here. Apple found evidence that several companies had hired employees when they were underage. In the year before, one company was responsible for more than half of these cases, and that company lost their contract with Apple.
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15152 - The New York Times
August 5th, 2008
State labor investigators have identified 57 under-age workers who were employed at a kosher meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa
That's 15 more than the company Apple dropped.
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It was even easier on the Mac. Back in those days, you could infect a Mac just by putting the floppy disk into the drive. On a PC you generally would have to run an infected executable on the floppy before your system got owned.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoned_(computer_virus) - you're full of it.
I recall the founder of Greenpeace now speaks-out against them.
You may be thinking of Paul "Whale Wars" Watson.
Greenpeace states that Watson "...was an influential early member but not, as he sometimes claims, a founder."
Now it again hangs on Greenpeace's word.
Just for the record: According to this source, wind turbines cost around 1.2-2.6 million USD per MW. Assuming a (I think conservative?) capacity factor of 25%, that's 4.8-10.4 million USD per produced MW, so for 1 billion USD you should be able to buy 96-208 MW.
You are aware that Apple didn't pay their $1 billion to generate energy, but for a data center?
And what exactly about that requires the use of a proprietary sync method, instead of just mounting it as any old USB device and having the sync app do a normal filesystem level copy?
Okay, its obvious you're a troll when you want to use "a normal filesystem level copy" instead of something like rsync. And even that doesn't know which files actually need to be synced - unless you store your address book data in your music directory.
Mass-mailers requiring user interaction are called worms since forever. But many older worms used some form of exploit code, and Melissa was called a virus because it was actually an Office file infector (a macro virus). It's easy to see the reason for confusion.
Love Letter was already being called a worm without exploiting any flaws back in 2000, though*, so was Sircam in 2001 and Bugbear/Thanatos in 2002.
Not quite true IIRC - they all could be activated without further user action when having the auto-preview or preview pane active in Outlook.
So, what you're saying is, It Just Works?
Unless you have run the recent Java update, then it just won' workt - because it uses the same fixed exploit as Flashback.H.
Not everyone pays to have the latest Apple service pack. So a lot of Macs had support for Java applets. No matter how you want to distort the facts, the fix was there and it took Apple two months (and a lot of media coverage) to have them ship it.
Linutix shouldn't be too smug about taking time fixing known holes - 6 years is hard to beat, even if it weren't a root exploit in the kernel.
That doesn't negate the fact that the security risk is apparently true. Who cares if the company is only doing it for PR reasons for potential AV sales? The problem is still there. And Apple's response, apparently, is to go for denial.
Yeah, they denied the problem existed by releasing a security update for Java - six days before the article was written.
Eh? Not to make a "no true Scotsman" plea, but the security world is not that big. If Apple hasn't heard of them before, it means that Apple has no presence in this field.
https://ssl.apple.com/support/security/
Contacting Apple
To report security issues that affect Apple products, please contact: product-security@apple.com
...
Collaboration with other security groups
Apple works with the formal incident response community to distribute information. Most Apple security notices are distributed by CERT/CC at the same time that they are sent through Apple's own channels. Apple is a member of the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST), and cooperates with other FIRST members to disseminate security-related information.
Apple also works very closely with the FreeBSD Security team to analyze and release patches for security vulnerabilities.
Indeed. And the 3rd gen iPad is way wide of the mark too. Heavier, hotter, sucks battery, all because Tim Cook couldn't think of any way to improve it except to crank resolution up way past anything anybody actually wanted.
25 hours use as a LTE-WiFi-hotspot. As "hot" and lighter and longer battery time than top Android tablets. You are a troll.
My wife saw me print a document the other day by typing "lpr name.pdf" and she made me show her how to do it, because it is way faster than starting an application and clicking your way through a bunch of dialogs.
Let's see: ignoring that this also works the same way in OS X, this plain doesn't work for many types of documents (try lpr name.sdw. And of course you have to have an terminal open for that to work, else you have to start an application to type that. Last but not least: right/ctrl-click on icons, select "Print" - yeah, that was so much harder. Much too complicated for a Linutic.
The problem i have with changing what we have now
No, your problem is that you actually believe that anyone is "changing what we have now".
Tme for all the hypocrites to come out against apple who is offering a free, perpetual license for the relevant patents, in favor of those who won't do the same, only because they have an irrational hatred of apple. Just look at the first post.
The are offering a 'free' license only to anyone who licenses their patents under the same conditions. That's not really 'free' that's 'Apple is tired of getting charged license fees by people who've been doing phone R&D rather longer than they have'...
Who cares, Nokia said Apple doesn't have any patents on the new design - are you calling them liars?
“We are not aware of any Apple Intellectual Property which it considers essential to its nano-SIM proposal. In light of this, Apple’s proposal for royalty-free licensing seems no more than an attempt to devalue the intellectual property of others.” – Nokia
In fact only they have patents which they won't release if their design isn't taken. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/28/nokia_sim_again/ Class act.
This is China we're talking about
This is Apple we're talking about.
Actually, this is Foxconn we are talking about.
What Apple wants is hand at the neck of the throats of other companies. The Mini-Dport license is royalty free but has an express provision that voids the license if the licensee were to "commence an action for patent infringement against Apple". So sue-happy Apple gets to hold this over other companies, as a result no-one has taken up mini-dport.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini_DisplayPort It is also used in new PC notebooks from various manufacturers such as Lenovo, Toshiba, HP and Dell.
On 7 January 2010, Toshiba introduced Satellite Pro S500, Tecra M11, A11 and S11 notebooks featuring Mini DisplayPort.[10][11][12][13]
AMD released a special variant of its Radeon HD 5870 graphics card - called the Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition, which features 2GB GDDR5 memory, higher clock speeds than the original card, and six Mini DisplayPort outputs with a maximum resolution of 5760 × 2160 pixels (a 3×2 grid of 1080p displays).
On 5 May 2010, HP announced Envy 14 and Envy 17 notebooks with Mini DisplayPort.[15]
On 20 October 2010, Dell announced XPS 14, 15, and 17 notebooks with Mini DisplayPort.[16]
On 17 May 2011, Lenovo announced the ThinkPad X1 notebook with Mini DisplayPort.
More proof that Apple haters have Reality Destruction Fields. Which obviously rot their brain.
The nano-SIM is basically the old SIM without the plastic.
They pay more and use less? What a shocker! Who would have thought?
Well, according to TFA, the problem is they don't pay more, both for the phone and the data. Your problem, poor little hateboy.
And in the southern Hemisphere, We've had one of the coldest and wettest summers on record in New Zealand.
But you only hear about climate change when people are hot.....
Wettest, yes (partly). Coldest, no. http://www.niwa.co.nz/summer-2011-12
Rainfall: Wettest summer on record for Takaka and Nelson. Very wet across the North Island, Otago and South Canterbury. Extremely dry over southwest of South Island.
Temperatures: A cooler than average summer between Timaru and Gisborne, as well as for the Central Plateau and Bay of Plenty. Warmer than usual for the West Coast of the South Island and Fiordland.
I think Daisey using Foxconn's name in relation to the Hexane poisoning was probably the tipping point. A hexane poisoning incident did happen but it was a different company, Wintek. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/22/chinese-workers-apple-nhexane-poisoning Daisey using Foxconn's name made his monologue sound too much like journalism which it never was. But it was good muckraking.
Did you pick that article on purpose? Because it sure pulls a nice Daisey itself. Forgetting to mention that Wintek has many customers apart from Apple, and that they used n-Hexane cleaning all products.
Paying rent to the company and being forced to buy from the company store IS a form of slavery
So being forced to pay rent if you choose to live in a company owned dorm is slavery? Nice try, Mr. Daisey.
Apple's own audits show (PDF) the company has caught underage workers at a handful of its suppliers.
There is just a slight matter of scale here. Apple found evidence that several companies had hired employees when they were underage. In the year before, one company was responsible for more than half of these cases, and that company lost their contract with Apple.
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15152 - The New York Times August 5th, 2008 State labor investigators have identified 57 under-age workers who were employed at a kosher meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa That's 15 more than the company Apple dropped.
Ferdinand Moebius has been dead since 1868.
August Ferdinand Möbius, actually.
Post inane drivel in the name of OPEN SOURCE. Oh wait, that's how not to do it.
Spec benchmarks never supported any of Apple's claims, int or floating performance.
Wrong. http://www.realworldtech.com/page.cfm?ArticleID=rwt051400000000&p=3 - and like you mention, SPEC never bothered with SIMD.
You fail.