Transfering from one compressed form to another degrades the quality.
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To keep the quality as high as possible the best way is to burn it then rip it as something else. A little more time and the price of a cd but the quality is better
Bzzzzzt. Wrong. There will be absolutely no difference in quality. Going (AAC -> MP3) will produce the exact same file as going (AAC -> CD -> MP3).
why did the U.S. steal the term that covers everyone from North, Central, & South AMERICA?
Well, seeing as Virginia was the first English colony in the Americas, I see no problem with the people living in the country that that colony eventually became calling themselves Americans (i.e. the English name for people from that continent). Just as I would have no problem with the people living in the countries that came from the first Spanish colonies calling themselves Americanos.
What do you suggest people from the United States of America call themselves?
If I'm not mistaken, it's kinda retarded to put the code in the ID3 tags. They could put it in the resource fork, since they've already got a resource fork anyway and the hack requires the resource fork.
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Putting the code in the ID3 tags adds nothing, apart from making it sound like a scary MP3 trojan, when there's not really anything MP3 specific about it.
"making it sound like a scary MP3 trojan" is probably what the author was going for.
I think it actually IS just a program with the extension and icon of an mp3, which happens to send an MP3 to itunes or your default player to make the user think it was a normal mp3
It is both a program and an mp3 file (any mp3 player will play it, including any player on OSX, OS9, Windows, Linux, etc). It also has metadata that identifies it as an application, and it has a 'cfrg' resource that tells the OS where to find the executable data (which resides in an id3 tag in the mp3).
They could feasably patch for it by, when anything that looks like a file that's not an executable, actually IS, displaying a warning to the user.
It isn't an executable that looks like an mp3 file; nor is it an mp3 file that looks like an executable -- It is simultaneously an mp3 file and an executable.
The traditional Mac OS file system has two forks, a data fork, which is where normal data (like an MP3) lives, and a resource fork, which contains stuff like window designs, icons, bitmaps etc. for applications. I guess the executable code also lives there as well.
You're basically correct, but in this instance, the executable code isn't in the resource fork, it's in one of the ID3 tags. However, the *offset* of that executable data is in the resource fork (in the 'cfrg' resource).
OK, I'll put it in terms that a "f*cking Networking major" can understand:
Saying "why don't we just send it to the sun?" makes about as much sense as saying "Why can't I use these two paper cups and a string to get a 100 Gbps network connection?"
Do you realize how much energy would be required to send something to the sun? First, you'd have to break Earth orbit. Then you'd have to slow the craft down enough to overcome it's inertia (remember that it will be orbiting the sun at nearly the same speed as the earth itself). What a colossal waste. It would make much more sense to send them into the Earth's atmosphere than to the Sun.
Man, sewerage is bad enough... Whats leftover from the waste? Super waste?
RTFA, the sewage is actually cleaner when it comes out the other end. A lot of the organic matter has been broken down by bacteria. The same process is used at sewage treatment plants, just without the collecting of the liberated electrons.
You don't *know*, and you can't *tell* whether it's been used. *EVERY* Solaris machine with multiple users ought to be reinstalled. I think this is a bigger-than-average problem!
And what he was saying is that this is no different than any root exploit in this respect, so it isn't a "bigger-than-average problem". Any time that there's a root exploit on any platform, Linux, Solaris, Windows, BSD, whatever, the cracker can always cover their tracks. So, by your logic, whenever an exploit is discovered in Linux, "*EVERY* [Linux] machine with multiple users ought to be reinstalled".
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Ummm... yes.
So did Beethoven, but I wouldn't classify his music as a "sub-genre" of pop.
Tactical Nuke :)
Why would the MPAA care what you do with your music files?
And those who can't manage ... are still managers.
OK, I'll put it in terms that a "f*cking Networking major" can understand:
Saying "why don't we just send it to the sun?" makes about as much sense as saying "Why can't I use these two paper cups and a string to get a 100 Gbps network connection?"
Do you realize how much energy would be required to send something to the sun? First, you'd have to break Earth orbit. Then you'd have to slow the craft down enough to overcome it's inertia (remember that it will be orbiting the sun at nearly the same speed as the earth itself). What a colossal waste. It would make much more sense to send them into the Earth's atmosphere than to the Sun.
It has little printer-breasts and a printer-vagina
RTFA, the sewage is actually cleaner when it comes out the other end. A lot of the organic matter has been broken down by bacteria. The same process is used at sewage treatment plants, just without the collecting of the liberated electrons.
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth
Umm... Everyone with a non-zero IQ already knew that.
Umm, RTFA, The thief had already been caught, and had confessed to selling the goods to that EB location.
Just use the sound of a really strong breeze :)
"look in to how homing pigeons are able to navigate"
Well, according to recent research, homing pigeons simply follow landmarks (like roads)
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