I think what he's getting at is that businesses should hire usability experts rather than spend money on search engine advertising and optimization, obviously. It's a self-serving analysis.
Oh, sorry, my bad. I guess I should have been more specific and asked for a vulnerability that isn't from 2004. I should have specified, you know, a current one or one that is actually being exploited on more than a handful of machines.
This doesn't have to be a pissing match you know. It's very simple, there are very few exploitable vulnerabilities in OS X as evidenced by the -- probably very close to 0 -- rate of infections of OS X machines. No one is claiming that OS X is invulnerable and that your favorite OS is the "suxors" or whatever it is you kids say. Right now, all evidence points to OS X being a safer OS. But god forbid someone should make that claim without someone coming up with all kinds reasons why it's not true despite the evidence. Or, how vulnerabilities from two years ago proves OS X is just as vulnerable as Windows.
There's a serious inferiority complex thing going on here. It's sad really. Mac users (if you can make such a broad generalization) aren't nearly as smug as people make them out to be. All of the Mac users I know are security-conscious. They have no illusions about the potential security dangers though they know that OS X is more secure than Windows. Somehow this is interpreted as smugness and having your head in the sand. Go figure.
So again how is it a safer OS if these exploits existed in the first place?
Because most weren't critical vulnerabilities and there are no exploits. Show me an exploit for a Mac OS X vulnerability. Now, show me one in the wild. Can't? The only thing you have to do to wipe the smug look of a Mac users face is to release an exploit in to the wild. Go ahead. What are you waiting for?
If just one person who thinks Macs are just as vulnerable as PCs would just write a worm/trojan/virus, we could end these f*@&!#g trolls and all agree that security is hard. Really, please, someone write an OS X exploit and spread it. Make it benign if you're uncomfortable with writing viruses. Just get something out there.
I'd like to see it just so people will stop using the lame "there are more Windows PCs" arguments. I'm sorry but this whole issue has gotten so blown out of proportion that the first person to show a really bad Mac vulnerability with an exploit would be on every geek blog and quite possible the NYT. You'd be f*@&!#g famous.
Lastly, don't forget that this is pretty close to Amish country. These people are no strangers to wanting to live lives unspoiled by modern technology.
Most Amish use electricity. They just don't use it in their homes.
... segway its iPod market into the mobile phone market.
Is this one of those modern euphemisms like 'jump the shark?' I'm guessing it would mean to introduce something technologically advanced but with little real world utility.
Yeah, but it'll crash your browser as often as not. I jumped on Flip4Mac when I heard about it on Digg and immediately deleted WMP. The first WMV I viewed after installing played smoothly in QT then promptly crashed Safari. Grrrrr...
I do want to run XP but I'd rather have something like Qemu that is fast enough to run big apps like ArcGIS. I need Windows applications but I don't need Windows. My dream is to be able to switch between ArcGIS and Safari. I don't want to reboot depending on what application I want to use.
Will the dual processor nature of these Intels make emulators like Qemu faster? XP in Virtual PC on a G4 is barely useable for Internet Explorer. I'm hoping Mactel means faster emulation and XP in Qemu on OS X with good performance.
I'm quite happy that if they say they are not keeping it, then they are not. But IF THEY WERE collecting this information in terms of totals which are useful to record companies marketing, can anyone explain what damage this would cause to individuals?
About as much as is caused by record stores reporting sales of CDs.
The only way you could get me angry about this is if they were collecting personally identifiable information. In other words, information they could use to say, "Joe Smith likes these bands, his credit rating is high, he lives at 123 Maple St. and his phone number is 555-1234." Then, they bombard Joe with telemarketing and junk mail.
As long as it's anonymous and doesn't suck up too much of my bandwidth, I don't have problem. But then, I use Audioscrobbler/Last.fm so I'm not afraid of people knowing what songs I'm listening to.
What happened? Where's the Firewire 800? I can understand, maybe, leaving it off the iMac but surely the MacBook should have one? My 15" Powerbook has Firewire 800. I just don't get it. I can't imagine they'd abandon Firewire for USB.
Personally, I'm guessing that Apple and Google are going to butt heads eventually. They are both organizing around access to media content. I don't see how they could work closely together past pushing MicroSoft out of the arena. Unless the execs at Apple and Google are so enlightened that they can see past their own egos and not fight about control of digital content distribution. Hah!
Just random speculation - i'm probably quite, quite wrong! Ditto.
Apple recently released an update to Java, Version J2SE 5.0.
Except Apple is still on Java 1.4.2
# java -version java version "1.4.2_09" Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.2_09-232) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.2-54, mixed mode)
You can install 1.5 (which I have) but it still defaults to 1.4.2 unless your app specifically looks for 1.5. And, what would Java have to do with Safari anyway? As far as I know, Safari is written in C++.
If I buy a Battlestar Galactica episode from iTunes and then go and download the same episode in HDTV resolution via BitTorrent, am I breaking the law?
Actually, wire services will refuse to run something if it has a copyright statement attached to it. If you put something out on a wire service, you pretty much are saying, "go ahead, copy at will." I think it's kind of a gray area but, if you're putting something out on a wire service, you want the material to be spread around and aren't going to sue anyone for lifting it. I'd bet the wire service would take issue if you did sue.
I once sent out an image with a news release. In the metadata of the image was a copyright notice. The wire service refused to run the image unless I resubmitted it without the copyright notice.
There are some short commings though (like having to use your mouse to select Application Menus) but over all, I find it the best Desktop experience for my needs regardless of cost.
Use Control+F1 to toggle full keyboard access on/off. Use Control+F2 to focus the menu bar. With the menu bar focused, use the arrow keys to navigate the menus. You can use the keyboard, too. Try typing this (just an example, the shortcut is obviously easier) with full keyboard access on:
Control+F2
f
return
new w
return
It's worth exploring System Preferences -> Keyboard and Mouse -> Keyboard Shortcuts
Turns out everything we know about hypnosis is wrong,
No, actually everything you know about hypnosis seems to be wrong. Seriously, I'm not trying to put you down. Just go read about hypnosis and talk to real live hypno-therapists. There are a lot of people out there fear-mongering about something they know little about.
Riiiight. So if you were hypnotised and you experienced a simulation of your mother beating you with a wooden spoon you wouldn't feel any anomosity towards your mother afterwards?
No. You wouldn't. Unless your mother really did beat you with a spoon (in which case she already caused the damage) you would reject the suggestion and come out of the trance. As the AC says, all hypnosis is self-hypnosis. You allow yourself to be hypnotized. The moment something you're uncomfortable with creeps in, you wake up.
Maybe? What kind of evidence do you have for this? It's purely speculative. Yeah, it's fun to imagine a Neuromancer scenario but, really, that's just fantasy. More likely, you'd wake up and be no more messed up than after watching a scary movie.
In fact, many activities induce trance or trance-like states such as watching TV or a movie, playing a video game, exercising, or even programming. Ever watched a good movie and later felt like you had 'zoned out,' that time had passed quickly without you noticing it? It's not that much different than a hypnotic state. Some might say it is a hypnotic state. Now, watch a good horror or suspense flick like that. There will be no permanent damage even though your heart may be racing.
Hypnosis is not mind control or any shortcut to messing up someone's head. The human mind has very strong defense mechanisms. Saying that a hypnotized person is in a 'highly suggestive state' is a bit misleading. Any competent hypno-therapist (or even stage hypnotist) will tell you that you can't make people do anything they don't -- on some level -- want to do. So, a very shy man under hypnosis may be a smooth talker but only because, subconsciously that's what he wants to be and in the hypnotic state his inhibitions are removed. A grown woman will cluck like a chicken on stage because she's already open to doing that even if she may consciously be embarrassed by the prospect. Stage hypnotists are very careful who they call up on stage. They learn to pick people who will be 'cooperative.'
The moment you try to suggest something to a hypnotized individual that they aren't prone to do, they will come out of the trance. And, you can't force someone into a hypnotic trance. There is no real danger.
To me, this isn't even an issue for boycotting. When a company makes a product that is shoddy or defective or poorly supported, you just don't buy it. It's common sense, really. Boycotting is for political issues. While, you can go so far as to draw political implications from Sony's DRM shenanigans, you don't have to. If I was trying to convince someone not to buy Sony, I'd start with, "dude that CD will totally f--k up your computer."
Now, with a big company like Sony, you can get into issues like, "do I not buy a PS3 because Sony CDs are spying on me?" I'd be willing to bet that the people working in the Playstation, computer and TV divisions at Sony are calling for the heads of the music division managers who are giving their products a bad name.
Personally, I don't buy major label music anyway. Hell, I rarely buy any CDs anymore. But if I'm in the market for a game console or TV, I'm more likely to judge Sony's products based on their specs, on reviews and on my experience with my Trinitron monitor and Handycam. Now, if Sony was caught selling weapons to terrorists or destroying a rain forest, I'd boycott. But one shoddy product from one division of a huge company won't make write them off completely.
I would like to see some upper-level management fire for this, though.
The whole point of a supercomputer is that it performs well beyond what commodity systems are capable of. When supercomputers are made entirely of commodity parts, there will be no supercomputers.
you dont generate revenue by simply redistributing it.To *generate* you have to actually provide a product or a service. 90% of government 'revenue' ( as you put it ) doesnt fall under either of these.
Huh? That makes no sense
generate
cause to arise or come about; produce
revenue
income, esp. when of a company or organization and of a substantial nature; a state's annual income from which public expenses are met.
Get yourself a dictionary before you argue semantics. Taxes are state revenue. Collecting taxes generates that revenue.
( and no, giving money to welfare people isnt a generating service, its just a redistribution )
Hah! Thanks for the complete non-sequitur. It gave me a laugh.
You must also think that its the government's money with that attitude.
What's that supposed mean? I gladly pay taxes because I and everyone else in society benefit from it. It's not always done right (as in this case). And I don't always agree with how it's spent but that's what you get with a democracy.
Im glad you dont have any input into the tax laws.
I do actually. I vote and lobby my representatives.
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Katamari.
I think what he's getting at is that businesses should hire usability experts rather than spend money on search engine advertising and optimization, obviously. It's a self-serving analysis.
Well, I sure as hell wouldn't say that Google is an OSS leech. (See also Summer of Code)
Oh, sorry, my bad. I guess I should have been more specific and asked for a vulnerability that isn't from 2004. I should have specified, you know, a current one or one that is actually being exploited on more than a handful of machines.
This doesn't have to be a pissing match you know. It's very simple, there are very few exploitable vulnerabilities in OS X as evidenced by the -- probably very close to 0 -- rate of infections of OS X machines. No one is claiming that OS X is invulnerable and that your favorite OS is the "suxors" or whatever it is you kids say. Right now, all evidence points to OS X being a safer OS. But god forbid someone should make that claim without someone coming up with all kinds reasons why it's not true despite the evidence. Or, how vulnerabilities from two years ago proves OS X is just as vulnerable as Windows.
There's a serious inferiority complex thing going on here. It's sad really. Mac users (if you can make such a broad generalization) aren't nearly as smug as people make them out to be. All of the Mac users I know are security-conscious. They have no illusions about the potential security dangers though they know that OS X is more secure than Windows. Somehow this is interpreted as smugness and having your head in the sand. Go figure.
Because most weren't critical vulnerabilities and there are no exploits. Show me an exploit for a Mac OS X vulnerability. Now, show me one in the wild. Can't? The only thing you have to do to wipe the smug look of a Mac users face is to release an exploit in to the wild. Go ahead. What are you waiting for?
If just one person who thinks Macs are just as vulnerable as PCs would just write a worm/trojan/virus, we could end these f*@&!#g trolls and all agree that security is hard. Really, please, someone write an OS X exploit and spread it. Make it benign if you're uncomfortable with writing viruses. Just get something out there.
I'd like to see it just so people will stop using the lame "there are more Windows PCs" arguments. I'm sorry but this whole issue has gotten so blown out of proportion that the first person to show a really bad Mac vulnerability with an exploit would be on every geek blog and quite possible the NYT. You'd be f*@&!#g famous.
Most Amish use electricity. They just don't use it in their homes.
Is this one of those modern euphemisms like 'jump the shark?' I'm guessing it would mean to introduce something technologically advanced but with little real world utility.
Or did you mean 'segue?'
Yeah, but it'll crash your browser as often as not. I jumped on Flip4Mac when I heard about it on Digg and immediately deleted WMP. The first WMV I viewed after installing played smoothly in QT then promptly crashed Safari. Grrrrr...
I do want to run XP but I'd rather have something like Qemu that is fast enough to run big apps like ArcGIS. I need Windows applications but I don't need Windows. My dream is to be able to switch between ArcGIS and Safari. I don't want to reboot depending on what application I want to use.
Will the dual processor nature of these Intels make emulators like Qemu faster? XP in Virtual PC on a G4 is barely useable for Internet Explorer. I'm hoping Mactel means faster emulation and XP in Qemu on OS X with good performance.
About as much as is caused by record stores reporting sales of CDs.
The only way you could get me angry about this is if they were collecting personally identifiable information. In other words, information they could use to say, "Joe Smith likes these bands, his credit rating is high, he lives at 123 Maple St. and his phone number is 555-1234." Then, they bombard Joe with telemarketing and junk mail.
As long as it's anonymous and doesn't suck up too much of my bandwidth, I don't have problem. But then, I use Audioscrobbler/Last.fm so I'm not afraid of people knowing what songs I'm listening to.
Oooh, I know how to play this game. Let me do a quick word swap here:
I want the child raper to look at what I actually look at, not just what I tell them too. It's far more likely to give me good suggestions that way.
Apple installed a child raper on my computer without telling me!
how many of the chapters are dupes?
What happened? Where's the Firewire 800? I can understand, maybe, leaving it off the iMac but surely the MacBook should have one? My 15" Powerbook has Firewire 800. I just don't get it. I can't imagine they'd abandon Firewire for USB.
Personally, I'm guessing that Apple and Google are going to butt heads eventually. They are both organizing around access to media content. I don't see how they could work closely together past pushing MicroSoft out of the arena. Unless the execs at Apple and Google are so enlightened that they can see past their own egos and not fight about control of digital content distribution. Hah!
Just random speculation - i'm probably quite, quite wrong! Ditto.
Except Apple is still on Java 1.4.2
You can install 1.5 (which I have) but it still defaults to 1.4.2 unless your app specifically looks for 1.5. And, what would Java have to do with Safari anyway? As far as I know, Safari is written in C++.
Also, check out an animation of a spontaneous pole reversal in a simulation on a Cray C90 circa 1996.
This raises a question for me:
If I buy a Battlestar Galactica episode from iTunes and then go and download the same episode in HDTV resolution via BitTorrent, am I breaking the law?
Actually, wire services will refuse to run something if it has a copyright statement attached to it. If you put something out on a wire service, you pretty much are saying, "go ahead, copy at will." I think it's kind of a gray area but, if you're putting something out on a wire service, you want the material to be spread around and aren't going to sue anyone for lifting it. I'd bet the wire service would take issue if you did sue.
I once sent out an image with a news release. In the metadata of the image was a copyright notice. The wire service refused to run the image unless I resubmitted it without the copyright notice.
Use Control+F1 to toggle full keyboard access on/off. Use Control+F2 to focus the menu bar. With the menu bar focused, use the arrow keys to navigate the menus. You can use the keyboard, too. Try typing this (just an example, the shortcut is obviously easier) with full keyboard access on:
It's worth exploring System Preferences -> Keyboard and Mouse -> Keyboard Shortcuts
No, actually everything you know about hypnosis seems to be wrong. Seriously, I'm not trying to put you down. Just go read about hypnosis and talk to real live hypno-therapists. There are a lot of people out there fear-mongering about something they know little about.
Riiiight. So if you were hypnotised and you experienced a simulation of your mother beating you with a wooden spoon you wouldn't feel any anomosity towards your mother afterwards?No. You wouldn't. Unless your mother really did beat you with a spoon (in which case she already caused the damage) you would reject the suggestion and come out of the trance. As the AC says, all hypnosis is self-hypnosis. You allow yourself to be hypnotized. The moment something you're uncomfortable with creeps in, you wake up.
thanks random person on Slashdot.You're welcome, random person on Slashdot.
Maybe? What kind of evidence do you have for this? It's purely speculative. Yeah, it's fun to imagine a Neuromancer scenario but, really, that's just fantasy. More likely, you'd wake up and be no more messed up than after watching a scary movie.
In fact, many activities induce trance or trance-like states such as watching TV or a movie, playing a video game, exercising, or even programming. Ever watched a good movie and later felt like you had 'zoned out,' that time had passed quickly without you noticing it? It's not that much different than a hypnotic state. Some might say it is a hypnotic state. Now, watch a good horror or suspense flick like that. There will be no permanent damage even though your heart may be racing.
Hypnosis is not mind control or any shortcut to messing up someone's head. The human mind has very strong defense mechanisms. Saying that a hypnotized person is in a 'highly suggestive state' is a bit misleading. Any competent hypno-therapist (or even stage hypnotist) will tell you that you can't make people do anything they don't -- on some level -- want to do. So, a very shy man under hypnosis may be a smooth talker but only because, subconsciously that's what he wants to be and in the hypnotic state his inhibitions are removed. A grown woman will cluck like a chicken on stage because she's already open to doing that even if she may consciously be embarrassed by the prospect. Stage hypnotists are very careful who they call up on stage. They learn to pick people who will be 'cooperative.'
The moment you try to suggest something to a hypnotized individual that they aren't prone to do, they will come out of the trance. And, you can't force someone into a hypnotic trance. There is no real danger.
To me, this isn't even an issue for boycotting. When a company makes a product that is shoddy or defective or poorly supported, you just don't buy it. It's common sense, really. Boycotting is for political issues. While, you can go so far as to draw political implications from Sony's DRM shenanigans, you don't have to. If I was trying to convince someone not to buy Sony, I'd start with, "dude that CD will totally f--k up your computer."
Now, with a big company like Sony, you can get into issues like, "do I not buy a PS3 because Sony CDs are spying on me?" I'd be willing to bet that the people working in the Playstation, computer and TV divisions at Sony are calling for the heads of the music division managers who are giving their products a bad name.
Personally, I don't buy major label music anyway. Hell, I rarely buy any CDs anymore. But if I'm in the market for a game console or TV, I'm more likely to judge Sony's products based on their specs, on reviews and on my experience with my Trinitron monitor and Handycam. Now, if Sony was caught selling weapons to terrorists or destroying a rain forest, I'd boycott. But one shoddy product from one division of a huge company won't make write them off completely.
I would like to see some upper-level management fire for this, though.
The whole point of a supercomputer is that it performs well beyond what commodity systems are capable of. When supercomputers are made entirely of commodity parts, there will be no supercomputers.
Huh? That makes no sense
generate cause to arise or come about; produce revenue income, esp. when of a company or organization and of a substantial nature; a state's annual income from which public expenses are met.Get yourself a dictionary before you argue semantics. Taxes are state revenue. Collecting taxes generates that revenue.
( and no, giving money to welfare people isnt a generating service, its just a redistribution )Hah! Thanks for the complete non-sequitur. It gave me a laugh.
You must also think that its the government's money with that attitude.What's that supposed mean? I gladly pay taxes because I and everyone else in society benefit from it. It's not always done right (as in this case). And I don't always agree with how it's spent but that's what you get with a democracy.
Im glad you dont have any input into the tax laws.I do actually. I vote and lobby my representatives.