Can you offer any insights as to why, even after all these years, forces in the IT and journalism scenes still insist on beating up Apple Computer? The cries of "Apple is dying!" have echoed in my ears for over ten years, and Apple still survives - in fact, Apple is one of the few computer companies to continue to make a profit in the current slowdown. From it's early days as the first true home PC, all the way up to it's current award-winning accomplishments - Firewire, the iPod, the first true consumer-oriented Unix OS - Apple has positioned itself as a leader in the industry. So why is it that the industry is forever running it down, instead of giving it the credit it deserves?
If configured properly, FoolProof was almost impossible to beat. You couldn't move stuff around on the drive, you couldn't boot off of external media, you couldn't bypass the extension with the shift key, you couldn't even write to the drive without permission, and yet students were still able to launch apps, save to external media, even run Internet apps without problems. I had several labs configured with FoolProof, and never had any complaints about the machines being hacked, or about the students being unable to use the machines.
One of the most important things to remember about configuring FoolProof is to NOT allow the execution of applications on remote volumes. That way, you couldn't use an external AppleScript, or a remote application, or (my favorite) an installer on a floppy that overwrote the FoolProof files with a copy that had a password that *you* knew (which I acquired from a machine that hadn't been locked down properly).
I would highly recommend taking another look at the manual and playing with the software some more before dismissing it.
I didn't know a thing about this exploit until I heard there was a patch for it. Not to bash or anything, but if it was MS, it would have been all over the news before the fix came out. Guess there's something to be said for being the minority player after all:)
Up until today, I wanted a Corbin Sparrow. Now, I've kinda got my heart set on one of those air-powered cars, being the target market and all:) Ann Arbor would be a great place for a car like that.
(BTW, this site is a good place to go if you want to see the kana for an English word.)
MDN is one of the two Japanese news sites I go to, along with Japan Today. MDN is more into WaiWai and shocking news, while JapanToday covers a wider range of news topics, and has comment sections for just about everything they post, from quotes to pictures to news of the day.
And here I was hoping to take my boy to see it, since he's a big Toonami fan. I should have known that if Taco said he couldn't see it, I wasn't either, since we live in the same area. Oh well, guess we'll have to settle for the Monsters, Inc. DVD that's coming from Netflix tomorrow...
I don't run or maintain any mail server that I use, so I can't beat on the spammers the way I want. There's no way that I can say "My server, my rules" as clearly as I could by using the SPEWS blacklist. The best I can do is send the LARTs and hope the spammers get nuked. *sigh*
On that day, I was in my cubicle at work when I read the news. I spent a good part of that day in the office of a friend and co-worker, talking with him about the family he had in India, hoping that they weren't affected by the earthquake.
And, not to be rude, but what sort of perspective are you hoping to find? It's a national story, a huge story about death and destruction. Every nation focuses on their national stories first, even at the expense of dramatic stories from otgher parts of the world.
I seem to recall that the earthquake in India was on the US news for weeks afterwards, and the coverage didn't stop until foreign aid started arriving. I'm sure that if you checked the Indian media in the days and weeks before the first anniversary of the earthquake, you'd likely have seen the same kind of coverage that this whole 9/11 thing has gotten... because it's *their* news, it's national, it's local, it affected them DIRECTLY.
but what about the audio? Will we be able to hear a simple *bloop* when picking up an item? How about the sound when killing a dragon with the sword? And I seem to recall an odd sound loop when running into certain things...
I don't have Quake3 (sacrilege!), but I might just go get a copy after this map is finished:D
Just before I went in for gall bladder surgery this month, I picked up a WaveLan Silver card. I grabbed the 802.11 Newton software that's out there, and in no time, had a handheld Newton 2100 web browser and telnet box.
For the first few days aafter the surgery, it was too uncomfortable to even have my iBook in my lap, so I satisfied my geeky urges propped up in bed with my wireless Newton:) (I should mention that I had it with me at the hospital - surgery was done around 5 pm, and by 5 am, I was playing chess in my recovery room on the Newton:D )
He got into Worldcom's systems while I was working there, and it threw the entire company for a loop - out of the blue, passwords were expired en mass on various portions of the network, and a weak VPN software package was crammed down the throats of the Windows users. Thousands of people had to get it installed, and ALL of the registration and training and configurations had to be handled through a VERY small pipe. That was an interesting time... good thing I wasn't one of the people that had to rely on the VPN software to do my job.
The haiku is a three-line, seventeen syllable, unrhymed poem, which uses nature as its primary focus. The Haiku captures a moment in nature or in life and freezes it with disciplined language. Each reader then thaws the message, the picture that has been painted by words, and brings the scene to life.
17 syllable, 3 lines
Line 1 5 syllables Line 2 7 syllables Line 3 5 syllables
I remember reading about this kind of technology years ago, back in college. I didn't think it would have advanced this far, this soon.
There's a history of macular degeneration in my family, and my vision is currently around 20/800. I always joked about getting my eyes replaced when they got too bad, assuming my vision would hold out until my mid-50s and the technology got that far. It seems as though I might not have been joking after all:)
(NOTE: Anyone with firsthand experience on the Japanese system, please correct if if I'm wrong, these are just the ramblings of a gaijin reading the news from inside the U.S.)
From what I read on the Japanese news sites, the problem is that this is a single nationwide database that will be available online, similar to the one that has been discussed in the recent past in the U.S. There's a great deal of concern about network hacking and identity theft.
From an article on the issue:
The system will link basic residency registries across the country by encoding information such as people's names, addresses, dates of birth and gender under 11-digit individual numbers. It will enable people to receive social benefits, such as children's allowances and pensions, without their resident cards, the government said. Officials also said the network will simplify administrative procedures, such as passport issuance, in the future.
People say "Well, the US already has this in their Social Security number"... but a SS# is only part of the formula. To really do damage to someone the way the U.S. system operates, you need a few more pieces of information, like a driver's license number, bank account information, etc. Thankfully, the "American way" is to build your own system if you don't like someone else's (or even if you do like it, but want the credit for yourself), so there's a lot of gridlock and problems with getting data from one point to another between various state and national gov't agencies.
Imagine how much identity theft would occur in the U.S. if there was one single database available online with all of this information, considering what OS the gov't would likely use to run such a database.
Also, Japanese citizens already carry "resident cards". Ths is a similar concept to someone from the U.S. already having a SS# - why would they want or need ANOTHER government sponsored ID card? It's just another system where personal information can be stored and possibly accessed by someone that's not supposed to have it. Add to that the natural reluctance to having any government agency "keeping an eye" on them, and you can see the reason for the concern.
I've had an account with Hotmail that I created in November 2001 for the express purpose of trapping spam. To this date, I have yet to receive a single spam to that account, aside from the regular hotmail notices.
I have never displayed the address on it's own in public, so maybe that's part of the problem. It can be viewed on the web page I created for this trap test , but nowhere else.
Hmm, now that I mention this page, two of the links seem to be down... looks like I have a bit of editing to do.
"On July 19, a researcher at SnoSoft posted a note to SecurityFocus.com's popular Bugtraq mailing list with a hyperlink to a computer program letting a Tru64 user gain full administrator privileges. The researcher, who goes by the alias "Phased," said in the message: "Here is the warez, nothing special, but it does the job." "
Call me crazy, but if I were a mega-corporation, I wouldn't want someone releasing "warez" to break into my systems this way. If this was announced in a different way, like say a formal research group contacting the company privately with test results, instead of just some random person posting under an alias to an open list like BugTraq, things might be different.
Streaming media illegal, says the RIAA
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"4. Online piracy is the unauthorized uploading of a copyrighted sound recording and making it available to the public, or downloading a sound recording from an Internet site, even if the recording isn't resold. Online piracy may now also include certain uses of "streaming" technologies from the Internet."
Sorry, did I miss a memo? When was streaming declared illegal? Shouldn't someone notify Apple and Real that thier streaming server software is facilitating illegal activities?
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Can you offer any insights as to why, even after all these years, forces in the IT and journalism scenes still insist on beating up Apple Computer? The cries of "Apple is dying!" have echoed in my ears for over ten years, and Apple still survives - in fact, Apple is one of the few computer companies to continue to make a profit in the current slowdown. From it's early days as the first true home PC, all the way up to it's current award-winning accomplishments - Firewire, the iPod, the first true consumer-oriented Unix OS - Apple has positioned itself as a leader in the industry. So why is it that the industry is forever running it down, instead of giving it the credit it deserves?
There is no honor among thieves...
:)
and bonus points to anyone who pictures the artwork with that caption from the old D&D books (Dungeon Master's Guide?) when they hear that phrase
Well, at least my G3 and G4 at home will get to spin down at nights now... and I can dedicate all the spare cpu on my sparc at work to seti :)
If configured properly, FoolProof was almost impossible to beat. You couldn't move stuff around on the drive, you couldn't boot off of external media, you couldn't bypass the extension with the shift key, you couldn't even write to the drive without permission, and yet students were still able to launch apps, save to external media, even run Internet apps without problems. I had several labs configured with FoolProof, and never had any complaints about the machines being hacked, or about the students being unable to use the machines.
One of the most important things to remember about configuring FoolProof is to NOT allow the execution of applications on remote volumes. That way, you couldn't use an external AppleScript, or a remote application, or (my favorite) an installer on a floppy that overwrote the FoolProof files with a copy that had a password that *you* knew (which I acquired from a machine that hadn't been locked down properly).
I would highly recommend taking another look at the manual and playing with the software some more before dismissing it.
I didn't know a thing about this exploit until I heard there was a patch for it. Not to bash or anything, but if it was MS, it would have been all over the news before the fix came out. Guess there's something to be said for being the minority player after all :)
Up until today, I wanted a Corbin Sparrow. Now, I've kinda got my heart set on one of those air-powered cars, being the target market and all :) Ann Arbor would be a great place for a car like that.
I never thought to look up the word until you posted that...
From Jeffrey's Japanese{-}English Dictionary Server:
mainichi
(n-adv,n-t) every day; (P)
(BTW, this site is a good place to go if you want to see the kana for an English word.)
MDN is one of the two Japanese news sites I go to, along with Japan Today. MDN is more into WaiWai and shocking news, while JapanToday covers a wider range of news topics, and has comment sections for just about everything they post, from quotes to pictures to news of the day.
Yeah, I get a feeling that this is going to end up being the first DVD we buy :)
And here I was hoping to take my boy to see it, since he's a big Toonami fan. I should have known that if Taco said he couldn't see it, I wasn't either, since we live in the same area. Oh well, guess we'll have to settle for the Monsters, Inc. DVD that's coming from Netflix tomorrow...
I don't run or maintain any mail server that I use, so I can't beat on the spammers the way I want. There's no way that I can say "My server, my rules" as clearly as I could by using the SPEWS blacklist. The best I can do is send the LARTs and hope the spammers get nuked. *sigh*
On that day, I was in my cubicle at work when I read the news. I spent a good part of that day in the office of a friend and co-worker, talking with him about the family he had in India, hoping that they weren't affected by the earthquake.
And, not to be rude, but what sort of perspective are you hoping to find? It's a national story, a huge story about death and destruction. Every nation focuses on their national stories first, even at the expense of dramatic stories from otgher parts of the world.
I seem to recall that the earthquake in India was on the US news for weeks afterwards, and the coverage didn't stop until foreign aid started arriving. I'm sure that if you checked the Indian media in the days and weeks before the first anniversary of the earthquake, you'd likely have seen the same kind of coverage that this whole 9/11 thing has gotten... because it's *their* news, it's national, it's local, it affected them DIRECTLY.
but what about the audio? Will we be able to hear a simple *bloop* when picking up an item? How about the sound when killing a dragon with the sword? And I seem to recall an odd sound loop when running into certain things...
:D
I don't have Quake3 (sacrilege!), but I might just go get a copy after this map is finished
Just in case nobody knows what / where Akihabara is, here's the official Akihabara home page as well as a nice shopping guide in English.
Well, Silver, at least... WaveLan Silver :)
:) (I should mention that I had it with me at the hospital - surgery was done around 5 pm, and by 5 am, I was playing chess in my recovery room on the Newton :D )
Just before I went in for gall bladder surgery this month, I picked up a WaveLan Silver card. I grabbed the 802.11 Newton software that's out there, and in no time, had a handheld Newton 2100 web browser and telnet box.
For the first few days aafter the surgery, it was too uncomfortable to even have my iBook in my lap, so I satisfied my geeky urges propped up in bed with my wireless Newton
He got into Worldcom's systems while I was working there, and it threw the entire company for a loop - out of the blue, passwords were expired en mass on various portions of the network, and a weak VPN software package was crammed down the throats of the Windows users. Thousands of people had to get it installed, and ALL of the registration and training and configurations had to be handled through a VERY small pipe. That was an interesting time... good thing I wasn't one of the people that had to rely on the VPN software to do my job.
His site isn't loading for me. Guess I'll have to go Google's cache to - oh, wait a minute... it's not in there! How rare!
From nmhu.edu:
HAIKU - (high-coo)
The haiku is a three-line, seventeen syllable, unrhymed poem, which uses nature as its primary focus. The Haiku captures a moment in nature or in life and freezes it with disciplined language. Each reader then thaws the message, the picture that has been painted by words, and brings the scene to life.
17 syllable, 3 lines
Line 1 5 syllables
Line 2 7 syllables
Line 3 5 syllables
Sa-wing that mallet
SPEWS can stop that spammy flood
Always LART that spam!
I remember reading about this kind of technology years ago, back in college. I didn't think it would have advanced this far, this soon.
:)
There's a history of macular degeneration in my family, and my vision is currently around 20/800. I always joked about getting my eyes replaced when they got too bad, assuming my vision would hold out until my mid-50s and the technology got that far. It seems as though I might not have been joking after all
From what I read on the Japanese news sites, the problem is that this is a single nationwide database that will be available online, similar to the one that has been discussed in the recent past in the U.S. There's a great deal of concern about network hacking and identity theft.
From an article on the issue: People say "Well, the US already has this in their Social Security number"... but a SS# is only part of the formula. To really do damage to someone the way the U.S. system operates, you need a few more pieces of information, like a driver's license number, bank account information, etc. Thankfully, the "American way" is to build your own system if you don't like someone else's (or even if you do like it, but want the credit for yourself), so there's a lot of gridlock and problems with getting data from one point to another between various state and national gov't agencies.
Imagine how much identity theft would occur in the U.S. if there was one single database available online with all of this information, considering what OS the gov't would likely use to run such a database.
Also, Japanese citizens already carry "resident cards". Ths is a similar concept to someone from the U.S. already having a SS# - why would they want or need ANOTHER government sponsored ID card? It's just another system where personal information can be stored and possibly accessed by someone that's not supposed to have it. Add to that the natural reluctance to having any government agency "keeping an eye" on them, and you can see the reason for the concern.
I've had an account with Hotmail that I created in November 2001 for the express purpose of trapping spam. To this date, I have yet to receive a single spam to that account, aside from the regular hotmail notices.
I have never displayed the address on it's own in public, so maybe that's part of the problem. It can be viewed on the web page I created for this trap test , but nowhere else.
Hmm, now that I mention this page, two of the links seem to be down... looks like I have a bit of editing to do.
Well, beyond Megatokyo being in heavy rotation in the banner ads...
"On July 19, a researcher at SnoSoft posted a note to SecurityFocus.com's popular Bugtraq mailing list with a hyperlink to a computer program letting a Tru64 user gain full administrator privileges. The researcher, who goes by the alias "Phased," said in the message: "Here is the warez, nothing special, but it does the job." "
Call me crazy, but if I were a mega-corporation, I wouldn't want someone releasing "warez" to break into my systems this way. If this was announced in a different way, like say a formal research group contacting the company privately with test results, instead of just some random person posting under an alias to an open list like BugTraq, things might be different.
From riaa.com's "What is Piracy" pages:
"4. Online piracy is the unauthorized uploading of a copyrighted sound recording and making it available to the public, or downloading a sound recording from an Internet site, even if the recording isn't resold. Online piracy may now also include certain uses of "streaming" technologies from the Internet."
Sorry, did I miss a memo? When was streaming declared illegal? Shouldn't someone notify Apple and Real that thier streaming server software is facilitating illegal activities?
Did somebody say sunglasses?
... unfortunately, they eventually got him in trouble.
Professor Mann has had sunglass-mounted gear for years (well, except for the battery pack, HD, and other controllers), and they eventually