Apple has cool products, but I don't know why anyone would trust them any more than other corporate giants, with their teams of aggressive lawyers frothing at the mouth for any chance to litigate.
This is long, long overdue. There is no reason that space exploration needs to be monopolized by government. The private sector can and would do a much better job of making the whole enterprise of space travel and access more efficient. In 40 years, public institutes such as NASA haven't reduced the cost of getting to space by a single cent. Its pathetic, and a monumental waste of public funds. The commercialization of the space industry is the only way we'll see real technological progress. Additionally, it opens up a giant new industry for the developed world to occupy themselves with. See the economist Patrick Collins commentary on Space Tourism for an in-debt, well thought out point of view on this matter.
Media editors are undoubtably still the core "pro users" of Apple hardware, but there are a whole lot more users now than there ever was. I'm a pro sysadmin, for example, and I think that the powerbook line of laptops are the hottest UNIX box on the market. With x86 under the hood, even hotter. I want one. My most used app is Terminal.
The root DNS servers allow the global DNS system to function. They _could_ lie about name:IP address matching for the purposes of, say, economic/industrial espionage. Potential abuse of power is the reason that the root DNS system should have an open, distributed and international governance.
All you need is apache2 with WebDAV enabled, and an iCal client. On Windoze, there are probably several of them - Mozilla's calendar is one of them (Sunbird).
I would like to see a comparison of the seriousness of the vulnerabilities - how many of those IE exploits gave remote users full control over the victims computer, vs those of Firefox? Given that IE is so deeply tied into the OS, security problems with it tend to be much worse. For Firefox, the vulnerabilities tend to be trivial, such as browser crashes.
Whether they intended it or not, and whether they like it or not, this very web page is evidence of a successful viral marketing campaign for Apple's products.
Critics and skeptics have made a lot of good points about the impossibility of piracy as a means to success for Apple's market share. In posting these good points, they contribute to the buzz that is quickly spreading across the 'net. As the buzz buzzes, greater numbers of geeks and hackers become curious and try out OSx86.
While this may not turn into direct sales from the geeks and hackers, those who like Apple's OS may very well recommend to friends, family and possibly even the procurement department for the enterprise whose network they manage, that the next computer purchased be one that runs OSX. Innocent bystanders who come across the Internet buzz may also suddenly be moved to consider Apple systems, when previously they had not.
Anyone who has been to a system administration conference knows that they are about the geekiest place on Earth. Although it may not be the geeks who sign the checks for big hardware orders, it is they who recommend what to buy. Technology companies are well aware of this fact, as evidenced by the vendor exhibitions at these conferences.
Apple should be very happy that people are spending their time to try out their OS, hacked, stolen or otherwise.
The simplest way to proceed would be to set up an online form for content submission. Tell them its the only way that you'll take submissions. Then they can cut & paste text into the fields that you specify, or if they are professors, more likely they'll give it to their grad students or department secretaries to do.
You can give them some formatting options by using textarea tags and allowing a limited set of html tags into the content, the same way that slashdot does.
There has, of course, been decades of debate among philosophers about the possibility of scanning your consciousness into a computer. One of the most enlightening, and entertaining reads is Daniel C. Dennet's essay, "Where Am I?".
Imagine it: you go to the clinic, attach the appropriate nodes to your skull, or whatever, and the process begins. Some time later, the clinician says, "Thats it, we're done. Your mind is now in the machine. Have a nice death." Now do you feel OK about dying? You're still going to die. It will be a painful experience, and at the end of it, you'll be dead.
The knowledge that a simacula of your mind exists in the computer network will probably offer little comfort to your sense of impending doom. That your friends and family will be able to communicate with it, and perhaps therefore feel better about your death, may be ease your concerns about them. But as for yourself - you're still a soon-to-be corpse.
"The Sober.P worm is still spreading fast and made up almost 5 percent of all e-mail traffic on Friday morning, according to a U.K. antivirus company."
I find that very hard to believe. I'm a Canadian and travel to the U.S. several times per year. It has never happened to me, and I've never heard of it happening to anyone that I know.
I do, however, have a weirder story. A friend of mine (also a Canadian citizen) attended a Muslim wedding in Canada. On his return to his residence in the USA, the border guard asked him about the Muslim wedding that he attended! My friend had not disclosed that information, but the border people new about it and questioned him on it.
Lets not forget, that for some reason we can't find WMD
hmm, could it be the reason that there aren't any!?!@#?!@?#
Only every arms inspector and expert on the area that had made Iraq their focus for the past ten years of U.S. sanctions testified to the fact that Iraq had no WMD nor the capability of creating WMD!
BTW, chemical and biological weapons technically are not WMD. They are battlefield weapons. Terrorists have employed them before, such as in the sarin nerve gas bombings in Tokyo where 12 people were killed. They are not effective off of the battlefield. The only real WMD are nukes. You know, those weapons that the Bush family is always eager to mass produce?
There wasn't even the remotest possibility that Iraq had the materials or the capabilities to assemble WMDs -- everyone involved in Iraq inspections testified so at the UN and elsewhere that this was the case. Military analysts said that this was the case. Even the US administration, before 9/11, said that this was the case! Where the hell did you get that idea?!?
The networks are not provided by governments; they are local businesses who opt to host a wireless access point. In return, they get advertising on the login page. Speeds aren't fast enough to be usefull for serious spammers, although it would be useful for hax0rs to infect windows boxes with virus/worm software for spam gateways. This is a problem with wires or without though.
"I just got married, and my wife and I are putting together a home network... we're now... We'd like... we own... we don't want... our needs... our ideal... We're both... our..."
lol!
Translation:
I just got married; I no longer do, like, own, want, need or imagine anything myself. Please help.
Does anyone know of open source tools for configuring Macs using ZeroConf? It would be nice to have printers auto-configured when mac users plug into our UNIX network. For now they can use IP or the samba service, but those require that the user actually know something.
Its pretty common for wifi networks to require authentication before access; in the case of ResNet, applying the same principle could solve this problem. The network would have to be tightly monitored for virus/worm/windows-like behavior, but if discovered, that user/ethernet/port/mac address (however you implement the authorization) would be axed from the network. Then make the process to get reconnected arduous and painful. Word will get around quickly: be nice to the geek on your floor, get him to "fix" your computer regularly.
What is google gaining from your personal life?
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Google owns Orkut, Blogger.com, the largest search engine on the 'net, and is now offering free, high quality web-based email accounts with a gig of storage. Except for a few lone voices, I haven't seen any serious discussion about why this huge corporation is spending so much resources on providing these services for free.
The advertising revenue couldn't possibly amount to a significant fraction of the costs involved with these services. The value must lie in the personal information that people are donating to Google, Inc.. What are their plans for it? They obviously plan to datamine it - but how will and how can it be used? What new knowledge can be generated by correlating and cross-referencing your orkut, blogger, gmail and google search information?
It is troublesome that it seems to be popular and hip to be totally unconcerned about privacy. Attitudes like "we have none anyways" seem to prevail, and its funny to criticize those who voice some concern as tinfoil-hat-black-helicopter-seeing schitzos. It looks like people have forgotten that privacy matters. Like many other companies that try to collect personal information, Google's privacy policy is subject to change at any time. This makes it almost meaningless! It is effectively the same as saying, "We respect your privacy right at this moment, so have complete trust in us. Tomorrow we might change our minds."
Not everyone lives in the USA. But Google does, which exposes the information it carries to whatever may result from the backwards laws that you mention.
Slashdot Mirror
http://wiredblogs.tripod.com/cultofmac/index.blog? entry_id=1457845
Apple has cool products, but I don't know why anyone would trust them any more than other corporate giants, with their teams of aggressive lawyers frothing at the mouth for any chance to litigate.
The "123 pages" link produces this message:
We're sorry this page is not available.
With a link back to the referrer. Anyone know of an alternate location for that document?
This is long, long overdue. There is no reason that space exploration needs to be monopolized by government. The private sector can and would do a much better job of making the whole enterprise of space travel and access more efficient. In 40 years, public institutes such as NASA haven't reduced the cost of getting to space by a single cent. Its pathetic, and a monumental waste of public funds. The commercialization of the space industry is the only way we'll see real technological progress. Additionally, it opens up a giant new industry for the developed world to occupy themselves with. See the economist Patrick Collins commentary on Space Tourism for an in-debt, well thought out point of view on this matter.
Thank you Sun Microsystems!
"We've done a lot of testing. We've got 50 independent validation reports, we've got 65 peer-reviewed journal articles,"
I don't think he was talking about citations; he's talking about published articles in the course of "hydrino" research.
The NanoBook. Noice...
Media editors are undoubtably still the core "pro users" of Apple hardware, but there are a whole lot more users now than there ever was. I'm a pro sysadmin, for example, and I think that the powerbook line of laptops are the hottest UNIX box on the market. With x86 under the hood, even hotter. I want one. My most used app is Terminal.
The root DNS servers allow the global DNS system to function. They _could_ lie about name:IP address matching for the purposes of, say, economic/industrial espionage. Potential abuse of power is the reason that the root DNS system should have an open, distributed and international governance.
All you need is apache2 with WebDAV enabled, and an iCal client. On Windoze, there are probably several of them - Mozilla's calendar is one of them (Sunbird).
I would like to see a comparison of the seriousness of the vulnerabilities - how many of those IE exploits gave remote users full control over the victims computer, vs those of Firefox? Given that IE is so deeply tied into the OS, security problems with it tend to be much worse. For Firefox, the vulnerabilities tend to be trivial, such as browser crashes.
That reminds me of one of this week's Dilbert comics.
Damned pointy-haired bosses...
Whether they intended it or not, and whether they like it or not, this very web page is evidence of a successful viral marketing campaign for Apple's products.
Critics and skeptics have made a lot of good points about the impossibility of piracy as a means to success for Apple's market share. In posting these good points, they contribute to the buzz that is quickly spreading across the 'net. As the buzz buzzes, greater numbers of geeks and hackers become curious and try out OSx86.
While this may not turn into direct sales from the geeks and hackers, those who like Apple's OS may very well recommend to friends, family and possibly even the procurement department for the enterprise whose network they manage, that the next computer purchased be one that runs OSX. Innocent bystanders who come across the Internet buzz may also suddenly be moved to consider Apple systems, when previously they had not.
Anyone who has been to a system administration conference knows that they are about the geekiest place on Earth. Although it may not be the geeks who sign the checks for big hardware orders, it is they who recommend what to buy. Technology companies are well aware of this fact, as evidenced by the vendor exhibitions at these conferences.
Apple should be very happy that people are spending their time to try out their OS, hacked, stolen or otherwise.
The simplest way to proceed would be to set up an online form for content submission. Tell them its the only way that you'll take submissions. Then they can cut & paste text into the fields that you specify, or if they are professors, more likely they'll give it to their grad students or department secretaries to do.
You can give them some formatting options by using textarea tags and allowing a limited set of html tags into the content, the same way that slashdot does.
Another fine /. editorial accomplishment...
I find that very hard to believe. I'm a Canadian and travel to the U.S. several times per year. It has never happened to me, and I've never heard of it happening to anyone that I know.
I do, however, have a weirder story. A friend of mine (also a Canadian citizen) attended a Muslim wedding in Canada. On his return to his residence in the USA, the border guard asked him about the Muslim wedding that he attended! My friend had not disclosed that information, but the border people new about it and questioned him on it.
Lets not forget, that for some reason we can't find WMD
hmm, could it be the reason that there aren't any!?!@#?!@?#
Only every arms inspector and expert on the area that had made Iraq their focus for the past ten years of U.S. sanctions testified to the fact that Iraq had no WMD nor the capability of creating WMD!
BTW, chemical and biological weapons technically are not WMD. They are battlefield weapons. Terrorists have employed them before, such as in the sarin nerve gas bombings in Tokyo where 12 people were killed. They are not effective off of the battlefield. The only real WMD are nukes. You know, those weapons that the Bush family is always eager to mass produce?
There wasn't even the remotest possibility that Iraq had the materials or the capabilities to assemble WMDs -- everyone involved in Iraq inspections testified so at the UN and elsewhere that this was the case. Military analysts said that this was the case. Even the US administration, before 9/11, said that this was the case! Where the hell did you get that idea?!?
The networks are not provided by governments; they are local businesses who opt to host a wireless access point. In return, they get advertising on the login page. Speeds aren't fast enough to be usefull for serious spammers, although it would be useful for hax0rs to infect windows boxes with virus/worm software for spam gateways. This is a problem with wires or without though.
"I just got married, and my wife and I are putting together a home network ... we're now ... We'd like ... we own ... we don't want ... our needs ... our ideal ... We're both ... our ..."
lol!
Translation:
I just got married; I no longer do, like, own, want, need or imagine anything myself. Please help.
Does anyone know of open source tools for configuring Macs using ZeroConf? It would be nice to have printers auto-configured when mac users plug into our UNIX network. For now they can use IP or the samba service, but those require that the user actually know something.
The printer joke regarding HP got old when Dell was young.
Its pretty common for wifi networks to require authentication before access; in the case of ResNet, applying the same principle could solve this problem. The network would have to be tightly monitored for virus/worm/windows-like behavior, but if discovered, that user/ethernet/port/mac address (however you implement the authorization) would be axed from the network. Then make the process to get reconnected arduous and painful. Word will get around quickly: be nice to the geek on your floor, get him to "fix" your computer regularly.
Google owns Orkut, Blogger.com, the largest search engine on the 'net, and is now offering free, high quality web-based email accounts with a gig of storage. Except for a few lone voices, I haven't seen any serious discussion about why this huge corporation is spending so much resources on providing these services for free.
The advertising revenue couldn't possibly amount to a significant fraction of the costs involved with these services. The value must lie in the personal information that people are donating to Google, Inc.. What are their plans for it? They obviously plan to datamine it - but how will and how can it be used? What new knowledge can be generated by correlating and cross-referencing your orkut, blogger, gmail and google search information?
It is troublesome that it seems to be popular and hip to be totally unconcerned about privacy. Attitudes like "we have none anyways" seem to prevail, and its funny to criticize those who voice some concern as tinfoil-hat-black-helicopter-seeing schitzos. It looks like people have forgotten that privacy matters. Like many other companies that try to collect personal information, Google's privacy policy is subject to change at any time. This makes it almost meaningless! It is effectively the same as saying, "We respect your privacy right at this moment, so have complete trust in us. Tomorrow we might change our minds."
Not everyone lives in the USA. But Google does, which exposes the information it carries to whatever may result from the backwards laws that you mention.