I'm not even sure that NT can be said to contain ideas proprietary to VMS. Is there any evidence of that?
Well, Microsoft gave DEC (as I recall) 60 odd million dollars for intellectual property they weren't supposed to have been using. Seems they though they'd done something wrong.
Good./. is a crucible and we've burned away everything else. There it is: the reason for all these off-topic yet not modded-so religious discussions: hate for George Bush.
Hey, you were the essentially claiming that his election represented a religious mandate from the people. I don't hate GW any more than I hate the two soulles idiots the Dems have put up the last couple of rounds. Hell, I even voted for him the first time. (I went Libertarian last time. Its not as though there was every any doubt about which way this state was going).
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Actually, if you're an "Admin" user, you have write access (without any password prompt) to quite a bit of the system - probably everything in/Applications, for example (unless you've gone through an manually twiddled file permissions).
This is unfortunately true, but I've found OS X to be a lot more usable as a non-admin account that Windows is. Some stuff belongs to group admin, some to group wheel,
Science proves the existence of God (a supreme creator) at every corner. Every new discovery validates more and more how beautiful and intricate the universe is.
Why does beauty or complexity have to indicate the presence of a divine creator? Quite a lot of complexity has shown to arise naturally without intervention being necessary, provided a source of energy.
The latest election shows how people really think. These self-proclaimed intellectuals just like to shout loud so that they seem more numerous than they are.
Congratulations. An essentially war-time president running on a campaign of fear barely managed to edge out the pathetic loser the democrats chose. A mop and bucket with a face drawn on it would have had as much leadership potential as Kerry. If thats going to be the bar for how the "people really think" maybe you should go check out Bush's current approval ratings.
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A virus does not rely on any vulnerability in the platform to propogate. Instead, a virus attaches itself to an executable and spreads itself when the executable is launched. So, by definition, Longhorn will be as vulnerable as XP to a virus. And Linux 2. will be just as vulnerabile as Linux 2.. And OSX 10.4 will be as vulnerable as OSX 10.3. As long as you can run binary content, your platform is vulnerable to viruses.
I'm going to say this isn't totally true - A failure to meaningfully seperate write and execute permissions on a file can be considered a vulnerability. Modern windows versions do this, but they haven't always. Windows XP is not as vulnerable as 95 (as long as your not running as Admin) which is less vulnerable than DOS/3.1 (which had no meaningful permissions whatsoever).
This has lead to a culture of users, Admins and developers that just assume that users will be running as Admin, and often they are. If I run a virus on my Linux system, guess what happens? Nothing! I'm not root. Theres a couple of user-specific script files it could get at and thats about it. On windows, I'm probably running as Admin adn can infect anything. (Well, _I_ don't, but most people do). On OS X I have to type in my admin password to fubar anything.
Most of the criticism I hear of her, like yours, is highly partisan.
What, exactly, was partisan about what the grand parent said? Just because she's a Republican does not make any criticism of her wrong. All of the things he sited represent serious problems related to national security that occured during her tenure as the national security advisor. It's not partisan - She really was bad at her job.
They're not. If you think they are, this probbaly indicates you have no clue whats involved in running a large mail installation.
Seems like you have to be a PhD Rocket Scientist to change the most simplest thing.
Rather ironically I'm currently taking over mail service from a department of Rocket Scientists who no longer have the in house skillset to do it themselves.
Has to be asked- was it entirely a coincidence that the camp was situated near the manufacturing facilities?
They Japanese were big on forced labor camps. Given this, I'd say there is a pretty obvious reason for the camp to be located near manufacturing facilities.
Next, the virus doesn't exactley need to run inside the system. It just needs to exploit somethign in the system. Nothign in this needs a mac to acomplish either. The virus could just feed the processor jumbo and cause the MAC to crash after a couple seconds or something. Exploits that could allow this can be found easily with security advisories.
In order "feed the processor jumbo" whatever thats supposed to mean, it would first have to be _running on the system_. Requires either 1. An exploit, or 2. The user to bring the program in and run it. Either of these two things is OS specific. Changing the processor doesn't change anything. You might see a few more exploits from othe UNIX-on-Intel systems that run without modification for OS X, but the Unix world is not exactly rife with viral infections.
Intel assembly code isn't the issue here. It is the little endian big endian processor extentions as well as some basics. Code writen for an intel X86 machine will not runn on a mac g4 processor because of this. Now with wintel it is portable. Virus can be basicaly recycled from one operating system to another.
What is the hell is a "big endian/little endian processor extension". Big Endian/Little Endian refers to the byte order used to store integers in memory - Nothing about it could be considered an "extension". Code written for a Windows machine _still_ won't run on a Mac unless it doesn't use any system calls at all - In which case, it can't do anything useful because in these modern, enlightened post-DOS days we don't let every peice of code on the system do whatever it wants to the hardware. I mention X86 Assembly code because if you're writing to that level of bare metal, you'll probably have to use some.
Could a boot sector virus still infect a Intel based Mac? Maybe. But boot sector viruses went out with warez trading on floppy disks. You have to boot the machine off removable, writable storage (no CD's, unless the virus was placed in the image pre-burn) to get a boot sector virus, and how often do you actually do that? Any installation of a boot sector virus post-boot would require compromise of OS security, and the use of OS specific system calls.
If just being on Intel exposed an OS to crossovers from Windows viruses, Linux, FreeBSD, etc would be having virus problems. Nothing going on there.
By far the most annoying thing about the Mac/Intel switch IMO is the amount of bullshit being spewed by people who obviously know squat about computer architecture. Just putting an Intel processor in it doesn't make it a Windows PC with all the failings thereof anymore than the XBox is going to be a Mac or the Nintendo 64 was an SGI workstation.
One of the reasons for the "no virii" is because the different proccessors nedded different programing requirments. It is possible that running on wintell products more people will be added to the pool and more virus could be writen. Even though it is a different operating system, the core processes would take the same code if the virus could get access directly to the processor or parts of the memory.
Whaaa? This doesn't even make sense. It's like saying that just because Apple runs on Intel it's magically going to run my copy of Half-Life 2. It's a different OS. The libraries are different. The security holes are different. The executable formats and file systems are different. There have been cross platform viruses before, but they basically just piggyback a virus for one platform with the other - two seperate infection vectors, and two different engines that run once the machine is infected. Apple switching to Intel is hardly likely to introduce more viruses to the platform.
But remember, a boot sector virus doesn't even load an operating system so at minimum, old boot sector virus could be changed to fit the New and Improved MACs.
First off, a boot sector virus? How quaint...
Second, it would still have to run on the system first - meaning it would first have to exploit some sort of existing security hole _specific to OS X_ to run. So once again, switching to Intel has no effect. I suppose theres a enlarged pool of people who are familiar with Intel assembly code over PPC, but really, how large a difference is that going to make? They're still going to need a Mac to write viruses on.
It will inconvenience a big number of CEO's, CFO's, and other people who literally cannot be bothered to learn how their laptops work and want all their email to look like it is from their work account no matter where they are.
V-P-N. If they're that far up the tree what they're sending is probably confidential anyway.
For the n-th time, what would Apple have to gain? Who would buy a Mac when they could buy a Dell.
Maybe someone who doesn't want his Tech support calls forwarded to Bangalore? (Not that I don't have my complaints about Apple support, but at least I could figure out what everyone was telling me, leaving out the ambiguity of figuring out whether they really sucked or whether I just thought they sucked because I couldn't figure out what the hell they were saying.)
Even if it means a database of IP address to geographic location mappings.
Only if IP's corresponded reliably to physical locations, which is broken to start with and gets even works when you start throwing in VPN's and tunnels.
You have it all wrong my man. SCOX is a scan to RIP OFF THE SHAREHOLDERS not to protect them. Look at the Vultus deal carefully. SCO buys vultus in order to transfer money from the SCO shareholders to the people who own vultus (which surprise! have lots of other dealings with people who own most of SCO stock). They then write off the deal as a loss and shareholder got reamed.
Of course in the US that's perfectly moral and legal. Capitalism YouGottaLoveIt (TM).
Not necessarily. If the stockholders can show that thats why the deal was done and that it was not in the best interests in the company, they can sue to recover their losses.
DeBeers are the biggest bunch of capitalist fucks outside
Off topic, but why is anyone who acts greedy always denounced on Slashdot as a "Capitalist"? Capitalism is generally characterized by a free market - the DeBeers corporation is a Cartel that controls the supply of diamonds to maintain an artificially high price. This is about as far from a free market as you can get.
Same for Enron really - They're not capitalists, they're con men.
This doesn't make any sense. How is the user capable, or how has the user been capable to display information on the Web (not the internet, just a part) with a web browser.
...Atrocious grammar aside, I _think_ what you're trying to ask is how has the user been responsible for how content is displayed. The answer is easy - His browser makes those choices for him. Thats how the web is suspposed to work - The end user agent gets to make the actual display decisions, fitting the information from the HTML into the display capabilities of the machine and the users preferences.
It cetainly has happened before, on a less ambitious scale - For a very long time on both Netscape and IE browsers I've been able to select what colors I want to see text in, with the option to override whats specified by a site author, and not load certain kinds of content such as images. This really just seems to be an extension of that.
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I seem to recall that the comentary mentioned that the Korean Studio doing the animation kept making it shorter and shorter...
Also, like, dust devils are not tornados, because they aren't. Dust devils are primarilly dust, while tornado are primarilly not.
It definitely wasn't there before. Talk about pathetic.
And that, for those who were wondering, is why Slashdot doesn't and probably never will allow editing of posts.
Well, Microsoft gave DEC (as I recall) 60 odd million dollars for intellectual property they weren't supposed to have been using. Seems they though they'd done something wrong.
Hey, you were the essentially claiming that his election represented a religious mandate from the people. I don't hate GW any more than I hate the two soulles idiots the Dems have put up the last couple of rounds. Hell, I even voted for him the first time. (I went Libertarian last time. Its not as though there was every any doubt about which way this state was going).
This is unfortunately true, but I've found OS X to be a lot more usable as a non-admin account that Windows is. Some stuff belongs to group admin, some to group wheel,
Why does beauty or complexity have to indicate the presence of a divine creator? Quite a lot of complexity has shown to arise naturally without intervention being necessary, provided a source of energy.
The latest election shows how people really think. These self-proclaimed intellectuals just like to shout loud so that they seem more numerous than they are.
Congratulations. An essentially war-time president running on a campaign of fear barely managed to edge out the pathetic loser the democrats chose. A mop and bucket with a face drawn on it would have had as much leadership potential as Kerry. If thats going to be the bar for how the "people really think" maybe you should go check out Bush's current approval ratings.
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I'm going to say this isn't totally true - A failure to meaningfully seperate write and execute permissions on a file can be considered a vulnerability. Modern windows versions do this, but they haven't always. Windows XP is not as vulnerable as 95 (as long as your not running as Admin) which is less vulnerable than DOS/3.1 (which had no meaningful permissions whatsoever).
This has lead to a culture of users, Admins and developers that just assume that users will be running as Admin, and often they are. If I run a virus on my Linux system, guess what happens? Nothing! I'm not root. Theres a couple of user-specific script files it could get at and thats about it. On windows, I'm probably running as Admin adn can infect anything. (Well, _I_ don't, but most people do). On OS X I have to type in my admin password to fubar anything.
I do that all the time. I mean, the keys are right next to each other...
What, exactly, was partisan about what the grand parent said? Just because she's a Republican does not make any criticism of her wrong. All of the things he sited represent serious problems related to national security that occured during her tenure as the national security advisor. It's not partisan - She really was bad at her job.
They're not. If you think they are, this probbaly indicates you have no clue whats involved in running a large mail installation.
Seems like you have to be a PhD Rocket Scientist to change the most simplest thing.
Rather ironically I'm currently taking over mail service from a department of Rocket Scientists who no longer have the in house skillset to do it themselves.
They Japanese were big on forced labor camps. Given this, I'd say there is a pretty obvious reason for the camp to be located near manufacturing facilities.
In order "feed the processor jumbo" whatever thats supposed to mean, it would first have to be _running on the system_. Requires either 1. An exploit, or 2. The user to bring the program in and run it. Either of these two things is OS specific. Changing the processor doesn't change anything. You might see a few more exploits from othe UNIX-on-Intel systems that run without modification for OS X, but the Unix world is not exactly rife with viral infections.
Intel assembly code isn't the issue here. It is the little endian big endian processor extentions as well as some basics. Code writen for an intel X86 machine will not runn on a mac g4 processor because of this. Now with wintel it is portable. Virus can be basicaly recycled from one operating system to another.
What is the hell is a "big endian/little endian processor extension". Big Endian/Little Endian refers to the byte order used to store integers in memory - Nothing about it could be considered an "extension". Code written for a Windows machine _still_ won't run on a Mac unless it doesn't use any system calls at all - In which case, it can't do anything useful because in these modern, enlightened post-DOS days we don't let every peice of code on the system do whatever it wants to the hardware. I mention X86 Assembly code because if you're writing to that level of bare metal, you'll probably have to use some.
Could a boot sector virus still infect a Intel based Mac? Maybe. But boot sector viruses went out with warez trading on floppy disks. You have to boot the machine off removable, writable storage (no CD's, unless the virus was placed in the image pre-burn) to get a boot sector virus, and how often do you actually do that? Any installation of a boot sector virus post-boot would require compromise of OS security, and the use of OS specific system calls.
If just being on Intel exposed an OS to crossovers from Windows viruses, Linux, FreeBSD, etc would be having virus problems. Nothing going on there.
By far the most annoying thing about the Mac/Intel switch IMO is the amount of bullshit being spewed by people who obviously know squat about computer architecture. Just putting an Intel processor in it doesn't make it a Windows PC with all the failings thereof anymore than the XBox is going to be a Mac or the Nintendo 64 was an SGI workstation.
Whaaa? This doesn't even make sense. It's like saying that just because Apple runs on Intel it's magically going to run my copy of Half-Life 2. It's a different OS. The libraries are different. The security holes are different. The executable formats and file systems are different. There have been cross platform viruses before, but they basically just piggyback a virus for one platform with the other - two seperate infection vectors, and two different engines that run once the machine is infected. Apple switching to Intel is hardly likely to introduce more viruses to the platform.
But remember, a boot sector virus doesn't even load an operating system so at minimum, old boot sector virus could be changed to fit the New and Improved MACs.
First off, a boot sector virus? How quaint...
Second, it would still have to run on the system first - meaning it would first have to exploit some sort of existing security hole _specific to OS X_ to run. So once again, switching to Intel has no effect. I suppose theres a enlarged pool of people who are familiar with Intel assembly code over PPC, but really, how large a difference is that going to make? They're still going to need a Mac to write viruses on.
V-P-N. If they're that far up the tree what they're sending is probably confidential anyway.
For the n-th time, what would Apple have to gain? Who would buy a Mac when they could buy a Dell.
Maybe someone who doesn't want his Tech support calls forwarded to Bangalore? (Not that I don't have my complaints about Apple support, but at least I could figure out what everyone was telling me, leaving out the ambiguity of figuring out whether they really sucked or whether I just thought they sucked because I couldn't figure out what the hell they were saying.)
ActiveX Web Controls: What the hell were you thinking?
Only if IP's corresponded reliably to physical locations, which is broken to start with and gets even works when you start throwing in VPN's and tunnels.
Failure to show due diligence in managing a company would be a situation where corporate officers can be personally liable.
Of course in the US that's perfectly moral and legal. Capitalism YouGottaLoveIt (TM).
Not necessarily. If the stockholders can show that thats why the deal was done and that it was not in the best interests in the company, they can sue to recover their losses.
DeBeers are the biggest bunch of capitalist fucks outside
Off topic, but why is anyone who acts greedy always denounced on Slashdot as a "Capitalist"? Capitalism is generally characterized by a free market - the DeBeers corporation is a Cartel that controls the supply of diamonds to maintain an artificially high price. This is about as far from a free market as you can get.
Same for Enron really - They're not capitalists, they're con men.
...Atrocious grammar aside, I _think_ what you're trying to ask is how has the user been responsible for how content is displayed. The answer is easy - His browser makes those choices for him. Thats how the web is suspposed to work - The end user agent gets to make the actual display decisions, fitting the information from the HTML into the display capabilities of the machine and the users preferences.
It cetainly has happened before, on a less ambitious scale - For a very long time on both Netscape and IE browsers I've been able to select what colors I want to see text in, with the option to override whats specified by a site author, and not load certain kinds of content such as images. This really just seems to be an extension of that.
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(I kid, I've actually seen all of the other ones).
Well, actually Apache isn't GPL. http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html.
On what? AS/400's? IBM just sold off its thinkpad line and I'm not sure they still ship desktops anymore either.
/me looks at screen...Looks at story...Looks at screen...Thats bigger than what I've got on my DESK RIGHT NOW. :)