When is somebody going to wake up and engineer a blatant ripoff of these things to sell without the "Apple tax"?
About the same time Apple fires its entire legal team and hires you in their place.
Judging by your obvious ignorance of trademark law, that's about what it would take. Anyone with half a brain knows that "blatant ripoff" and "trade dress infringement" go hand-in-hand, and most companies who try it find themselves on the wrong end of a lawsuit. And lose.
OS X has had global spell-check since nearly the beginning. I didn't use the pre-10.1 versions nearly enough to remember where it started, but the hooks are in the OS. Safari makes very good use of them indeed.
Does this virus use Outlook Express to infect others or does it have it's own mail implementation? I've been looking around and see no mention.
Actually, the two articles I read (linked here in the story -- I actually RTFA for once!) both said the virus uses its own SMTP engine, not Outkook's.
Of course, just because THIS one doesn't use Outkook doesn't mean the NEXT worm d'jour won't. So you should take this opportunity to dump Windows anyway.
This virus is actually a lot WORSE than ones I've seen in the past.
NB: I don't use Windows, so I can't comment on what it would actually do on a Win box.
Let's say you're a typical American college student with a Win box on your dorm network. Your friends mostly speak good English, and receiving a message purporting to be from one of them that says
"This is my game effort. You are first player! Hope to enjoy!"
is fairly obviously machine-generated and thus sounds suspicious.
But when you get a message that says, in its entirety, "Mail transaction failed. Partial message is available," or "The message contains Unicode characters and has been sent as a binary attachment," along with an attachment of [filename].zip, well, that sounds pretty legitimate. Certainly, it sounds a lot more legitimate than the messages generated by Klez or Sircam or whatever.
Never underestimate the power of social engineering to convince ignorant people...
Some anecdotal stats: I've gotten nearly 50 of these since midnight to an address that I didn't even know that many Windows users HAD. Far and away most of the messages are from.EDU TLDs, but there have been a significant number from broadband accounts as well. This looks to be running absolutely rampant on college campuses.
They have webcam's on mars covering the mars rover? Awesome!
Yeah. They're part of the Naked Mars Rovers Internet Teenage Sorority House XXX Voyeur project. Didn't you get that e-mail? I can send you a few of my spare copies if you didn't...
Engineer 1: Fair enough, buy the crap and hand me the other twisty-turny thingy over there? I need to screw on this name tag reading... "Spirit"? Engineer 2: Look, it's either that or my wife's name.
Which would be great, except the two probes were already assembled and ready to go before Sofi Collis named them "Spirit" and "Opportunity."
We also get memos telling us NOT to let Bin Laden or Saddam open accounts... allong with a list of the US Government's top 100 most wanted. I'm still not quite sure how we're suppossed to memorize all those names...
Ideally, your bank would have a list of names to flag when someone starts going through the account setup process. Tellers and other bank employees shouldn't HAVE to memorise all those names; that's what computers are for.
Unless your bank still uses ditto machines and carbon copies in triplicate, done by typewriters, for everything...
It is combustive, so it will burn, but it doesn't explode in the sense that you seem to imply. I'm sure that's a great comfort to the survivors of the Hindenburg.
Ok, so if aerogel has the lowest density of any solid, what has the highest density? AFAIK, the current record-holder among the known substances whose density has been measured would be osmium.
If you want to go extra-terrestrial, then the oft-cited "teaspoon" of neutron star material might be tops...
And supply the energy to slow down and stop presumably.
Couldn't you use eddy braking and simply convert some of the kinetic energy of the train back into electrical energy? That's similar to the way gas-electric hybrid cars do their braking, and it makes for mucho efficiency.
I wonder if anyone has done a statistical analysis of spelling errors in emails by American youth. Talk about undetectable ways to hide a message in plain text!
Youth? I get e-mails every day from adults who are functionally illiterate. Age has little or nothing to do with it. Face it: most people can't spell worth a damn. Especially Robert Wheeler.
it appears that there is no testing during the processing of the image, but SOLELY during the import operations (convert to ps internal format routine).
That explains why ImageReady can be used, and why previous versions of Photoshop can import a pic of a bill and convert it to a PSD which can be used in Photoshop CS.
I detest "features" like this, but I detest poor implementations of them even more.
When was the last time you had a non-disposable battery powered device that didn't have a replacable battery?
Oh, I dunno. Try every single cordless shaver on the market.
Or most of the Sony Clie models with LiIon batteries. Or a lot of other PalmOS devices with LiIon batteries. Or most PocketPC devices with LiIon batteries.
All of the above have replaceable batteries, but none of those are user-replaceable, which is what this is all about.
And in that respect, none of them are any different from the iPod.
Now that iTunes for Windows is available, this has changed.
Which is exactly why his argument doesn't hold any water any more, and thus isn't "interesting." Honestly. Do moderators (or meta-moderators) even pay attention to what ratings they're giving these days?
There are, of course, plenty of major criminal hackers who do get away with it... you're assumed to be mean of spirit, not to have aimed high enough to get caught, mere embezzling rats or at most a sort of criminal investment banker. How does that feel?
I would imagine that Andy Dufresne feels pretty damn good about it, actually.
At first getting it to work was a bit difficult on Windows XP. But a few minutes of fiddling fixed that.
Then Music Match pissed me off in about 1 day. I switched to Ephpod. Ephpod works much better but still tends to be a bit flakey.... [lots of other anti-iPod-on-Windows ranting]...
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A little afraid of what your customers would do to you if they knew your real policy?
More likely, he's afraid of what his employer would do if they found out he just told the truth about the policy they implement...
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Clearly, Radagast the Brown is a simple, bird-taming fool.
Happy?
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When is somebody going to wake up and engineer a blatant ripoff of these things to sell without the "Apple tax"?
About the same time Apple fires its entire legal team and hires you in their place.
Judging by your obvious ignorance of trademark law, that's about what it would take. Anyone with half a brain knows that "blatant ripoff" and "trade dress infringement" go hand-in-hand, and most companies who try it find themselves on the wrong end of a lawsuit. And lose.
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Well, you left Apple too early.
OS X has had global spell-check since nearly the beginning. I didn't use the pre-10.1 versions nearly enough to remember where it started, but the hooks are in the OS. Safari makes very good use of them indeed.
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Holy shit, you mean Dvorak was RIGHT about something? God help us all.
Does this virus use Outlook Express to infect others or does it have it's own mail implementation? I've been looking around and see no mention.
Actually, the two articles I read (linked here in the story -- I actually RTFA for once!) both said the virus uses its own SMTP engine, not Outkook's.
Of course, just because THIS one doesn't use Outkook doesn't mean the NEXT worm d'jour won't. So you should take this opportunity to dump Windows anyway.
p
This virus is actually a lot WORSE than ones I've seen in the past.
.EDU TLDs, but there have been a significant number from broadband accounts as well. This looks to be running absolutely rampant on college campuses.
NB: I don't use Windows, so I can't comment on what it would actually do on a Win box.
Let's say you're a typical American college student with a Win box on your dorm network. Your friends mostly speak good English, and receiving a message purporting to be from one of them that says
"This is my game effort.
You are first player!
Hope to enjoy!"
is fairly obviously machine-generated and thus sounds suspicious.
But when you get a message that says, in its entirety, "Mail transaction failed. Partial message is available," or "The message contains Unicode characters and has been sent as a binary attachment," along with an attachment of [filename].zip, well, that sounds pretty legitimate. Certainly, it sounds a lot more legitimate than the messages generated by Klez or Sircam or whatever.
Never underestimate the power of social engineering to convince ignorant people...
Some anecdotal stats: I've gotten nearly 50 of these since midnight to an address that I didn't even know that many Windows users HAD. Far and away most of the messages are from
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I agree with you 100%. Might I suggest James Franco as a "if-I-had-a-time-machine-and-a-George-Lucas-cluest ick" alternative?
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how much Natalie Portman does it show?
And how big is the bowl of hot grits that Hayden Christensen jumps into when he gets injured and thus has to wear the black suit?
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They have webcam's on mars covering the mars rover? Awesome!
Yeah. They're part of the Naked Mars Rovers Internet Teenage Sorority House XXX Voyeur project. Didn't you get that e-mail? I can send you a few of my spare copies if you didn't...
p
That rover probably took a picture of something that looked a little too much like a Disney character
I told you I saw a face on the surface of Mars!
Jeez, no one believed me until now...
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Engineer 1: Fair enough, buy the crap and hand me the other twisty-turny thingy over there? I need to screw on this name tag reading... "Spirit"?
Engineer 2: Look, it's either that or my wife's name.
Which would be great, except the two probes were already assembled and ready to go before Sofi Collis named them "Spirit" and "Opportunity."
p
We also get memos telling us NOT to let Bin Laden or Saddam open accounts... allong with a list of the US Government's top 100 most wanted. I'm still not quite sure how we're suppossed to memorize all those names...
Ideally, your bank would have a list of names to flag when someone starts going through the account setup process. Tellers and other bank employees shouldn't HAVE to memorise all those names; that's what computers are for.
Unless your bank still uses ditto machines and carbon copies in triplicate, done by typewriters, for everything...
p
It is combustive, so it will burn, but it doesn't explode in the sense that you seem to imply.
I'm sure that's a great comfort to the survivors of the Hindenburg.
Er...what survivors?
p
Ok, so if aerogel has the lowest density of any solid, what has the highest density?
AFAIK, the current record-holder among the known substances whose density has been measured would be osmium.
If you want to go extra-terrestrial, then the oft-cited "teaspoon" of neutron star material might be tops...
p
And supply the energy to slow down and stop presumably.
Couldn't you use eddy braking and simply convert some of the kinetic energy of the train back into electrical energy? That's similar to the way gas-electric hybrid cars do their braking, and it makes for mucho efficiency.
p
Since when does Paul Thurrott, aka 'tuxlove,' post on /.?
This crap isn't insightful. It's f*cking retarded, just like it was when Thurrott posted it.
I wonder if anyone has done a statistical analysis of spelling errors in emails by American youth. Talk about undetectable ways to hide a message in plain text!
Youth? I get e-mails every day from adults who are functionally illiterate. Age has little or nothing to do with it. Face it: most people can't spell worth a damn. Especially Robert Wheeler.
p
it appears that there is no testing during the processing of the image, but SOLELY during the import operations (convert to ps internal format routine).
That explains why ImageReady can be used, and why previous versions of Photoshop can import a pic of a bill and convert it to a PSD which can be used in Photoshop CS.
I detest "features" like this, but I detest poor implementations of them even more.
p
When was the last time you had a non-disposable battery powered device that didn't have a replacable battery?
Oh, I dunno. Try every single cordless shaver on the market.
Or most of the Sony Clie models with LiIon batteries. Or a lot of other PalmOS devices with LiIon batteries. Or most PocketPC devices with LiIon batteries.
All of the above have replaceable batteries, but none of those are user-replaceable, which is what this is all about.
And in that respect, none of them are any different from the iPod.
p
I am curious as to why then Li-ion powered devices routinely instruct you to allow them to discharge completely several times when new?
It calibrates the charging circuitry.
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Now that iTunes for Windows is available, this has changed.
Which is exactly why his argument doesn't hold any water any more, and thus isn't "interesting." Honestly. Do moderators (or meta-moderators) even pay attention to what ratings they're giving these days?
p
There are, of course, plenty of major criminal hackers who do get away with it ... you're assumed to be mean of spirit, not to have aimed high enough to get caught, mere embezzling rats or at most a sort of criminal investment banker. How does that feel?
I would imagine that Andy Dufresne feels pretty damn good about it, actually.
p
At first getting it to work was a bit difficult on Windows XP. But a few minutes of fiddling fixed that.
... [lots of other anti-iPod-on-Windows ranting] ...
Then Music Match pissed me off in about 1 day. I switched to Ephpod. Ephpod works much better but still tends to be a bit flakey.
I don't suppose it ever occurred to you that perhaps all these problems could be solved by using software designed specifically for that device, did it?
That's like complaining that OpenOffice doesn't have every single feature of M$ Office. If you want the features of M$ Office, USE M$ OFFICE.
This ain't rocket science, people.
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Calais, France and Brighton, UK ... largest and greatest urban [emphasis mine -p] construction project ever
Uhm...no offense to any French or English types, but neither Brighton nor Calais is exactly "urban" in the sense that downtown Boston is "urban."
Now, maybe if the Chunnel ran from Picadilly Circus to the Left Bank...
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