many of the bugs are problems that are just outright bizare in thinking of how they'd get executed.
"Here is a malformed HFS+ filesystem that can potentially cause a kernel panic and cause arbitrary code execution. you should all be quaking in your boots."
now just one damn minute... first, you have to get me a DMG, which, apparently, will instantly panic the kernel. Fine. so what? In real life, i'd throw out the dmg file, download it again, it would panic again, and i'd give up.
I'm missing (and it could just be me) how that's in any way exploitable in any meaningful sense.
i think the problem is that MOAB is putting on a show of bugs.. and nothing more. These are bugs that either made it past the guys in Cupertino, or they just didn't see them as that big of a deal, and figured they'd get to them eventually.
Some of these bugs are bad and could cause Macs the world over to get pwn3d and get used to do whatever you can do with an pwn3d Windows box. Fine.
But many of them are just, well.. bugs that causes the system to crash. So the hell what? Without some kind of setup and extreme set of circumstances, the majority of the bugs here crash your system, and then you reboot...
Microsoft's problem has been "be a user on the internet with their software, get pwn3ed." I'm trying to see which of these bugs would give Mac users similar "functionality".
#21 requires a local user to take advantage of this escalation problem - on a machine that they are probably already the only user of
#20 is the same thing... as is #8, and #15.
the bulk of the others are "DoS, cause computer to crash with possibility of arbitrary code execution..." and that assumes the panic condition is consistent.
the only actual scary ones are #19 (not apple's software, and i don't even know if it could actually allow arbitrary code execution), #17, #1 (now fixed), #2 (not apple, and fixed), #4, and #20... so, 6... and 4 are left.
this is just stupid.. my machines are still buck naked on the internet, and i'm still not scared at all.
The RIAA screwed up and didn't make DRM mandatory on their media - the CD - and so, it turned out that just about anyone in 2000 could produce and reproduce and sell a fairly decent product without needing the "music industry".
The MPAA learned from this, and since video gear is about two decimal places more expensive, they've had a head start in making sure that independent film makers are fucked when it comes to producing next-gen video. I can shoot, edit, and create totally fine high-def product - but the MPAA is preventing me from distributing it. I have to go thru them, or pay an insane price to ensure that high def disks (BR/HDDVD) will play on consumer gear by going thru a high priced disc publisher so-as to get the new DRM put on the thing.
The point of DRM is to prevent the next George Lucas (his beginnings, not his shitty blockbusters of the 2000s) from going out, making a damn fine movie on prosumer gear, editing it in Final Cut, and burning copies of the disks that will look stunning on all those plasma/LCD/DLP screens that people will want to buy and see more of. Right now, it could be done on DVD since you can make DVDs without CCS. You can't make movies without AACS and BR+ that will playback on consumer gear.
They have, by all logic, prevented independent production of next gen video disks ahead of the formats even being available. You want to make a disk - you gotta pay the toll, or you don't play. No more small, independent firms making a living heling folks get their content onto next gen disks... no more making home movies that you can send to other people.
That's what it has been about all along, it has been very little to do with piracy. Its all about making sure that when the equipment is up there with what Peter Jackson and Spielberg can get that you can't compete with them.
if these bulbs leak mercury into the environment, where did we get the mercury... originally?
i'm not trying to be smart... i seriously don't understand the problem - and could stand to be informed.
if we put the mercury into the bulb, we got it from somewhere... its not like we spontaneously generated mercury or alchemized it from carbon or something.
If you put a power switch on them, they wouldn't send back a signal even if you were getting RF energy.
That would pretty much end the ability for someone to sniff out your RFID tags in your credit cards and passports until you pressed the button - closing the circuit between the antenna recieving the RF power signal and the part that generates and broadcasts the signal back.
how it would work in the real world is - you'd pull our your credit card at the store, squeeze the pressure button, and wave the card over the reader. If you waved the card over the reader without squeezing the button, nothing would happen.
Don't worry, no one else seems to understand how insanely simple this is.
if you put a switch in the circuit, and leaving the circuit open means that no matter how much power you zap it with, it will not do anything.
A power switch doesn't require you have a power supply. It simply means that if you have power, the circuit is open, and will not work. If its open when not being pressed, then it doesn't matter if the antenna is being provided with an incoming radio frequency or not. No matter how much RF energy the RFID tag gets, power from that RF energy will not get to the CMOS integrated circuit....
an on/off button.
these kinds of buttons would be good only for RFID's within credit cards, passports, etc... any device which is supposed to be used by people. Hell, the mark of the beast could even work that way - your mark would only work if you pressed against the mark.
a few of my friends (okay, all of the groomsmen in my wedding) work(ed) at Apple. One of them showed me one of the iMac (with the lamp arm) prototypes.
It was the basic iMac lamp you know, but it didn't have a shiny Luxo-like arm. What it did have was fully articulated arm... that is, it moved like snake-light, except that it didn't have tension built in. It was totally fluid and you could move the monitor to just about any angle and direction you wanted.
The trick was, there was a paddle behind the monitor on the right side of the mount - you pulled on it like a flappy-paddle gearshift behind the steering wheel on some new cars. When you did, the arm would go totally limp, with all the weight of the monitor in your hands, and when you released the paddle, the arm went totally stiff - like some kind of magic potion turned the snake-arm into stone.
I don't know what kind of clutch it used to do that, but it was really eerie. One moment, you could pull and push and pretty much move the monitor however you wanted, and the moment you let go - BAM - the round base and the monitor and the arm were magically a one-piece device - rock solid and totally stable.
While quite interesting as a design concept - it was rightly rejected. First of all, it totally ruined the lines of the monitor (bah me if you want, but its true) on the back and made it look like some kind of weird bike/computer thing. Secondly - and most importantly - even if you were warned "Look, the weight is going to go from zero to 15 pounds in a microsecond, so be sure to hold on tight" - you'd still end up pulling the handle, it would crash land on the bottom of the monitor frame like a ton of bricks on the keyboard below. I was warned, and i did it. The break point wasn't at the beginning or the end of the pull - which was about and inch and a half of travel. Unlike a car clutch, which has a smooth and vague transition, this went from on to off like a light - and the problem was that the weight of the monitor also went from zero to everything in your hands that fast as well.
In the end, Apple is the quintessential engineering house.. they start off with the user in mind totally, then they throw out whatever doesn't work, even if it cost a ton of money to develop.. then, they develop and maintain contingencies on the off chance that they'll totally change direction.
That's why they are kicking ass and why their stuff is worth more than they charge for it and why they can't make their shit fast enough.
I'm sure that Microsoft didn't "forget" about home-PC assemblers (dude, you build a wall with bricks and mortar, you don't "build" a PC. You snap together 6 parts that were all meant to work together)...
i'm sure that Microsoft was just seeing what they could get away with. At the WORST their original Vista plan would have raked in bazillions of dollars. At the worst, they were going to have to come back down off of their trial balloon...
with the result being that you now feel better about Vista even though you Windows users are STILL getting ass-rammed by the whole concept that it will call home, that it will still deactivate if you don't call microsoft to authenticate your computer, and that you have to call them each and every time you change your hardware.
its classic politics.... promise to give them a shit sandwich with rat poison... then fallback on just the shit sandwich.
Just a shit sandwich, you say?! Marvelous! That's much better than a shit sandwich with rat poison on it!
Listen... you are going to eat this shit sandwich.. now, you can put mustard on it... you can put a kick ass video card in it...
but in the end, you are going to eat this shit sandwich of a license agreement which gives Microsoft the right to snoop on you, pwn your computer, and shut it down at their earliest conveneince... whether you like it or not.
I'm a video guy. I can't render video fast enough. I can't do transcoding fast enough. My video is getting larger and deeper in color, and i need more power.
all of that is threadable.
so is photographic processing. You can divide a picture 80 ways and have each processor do whatever it is you want to do on it.
Gamers? Fscking a.... i'm so SICK of hearing hiow everything is for them. Just because something isn't going to help Halo Life 3 run faster is not any of my concern.
There are lots of people working on their computers that want to see more cores because it will make our lives better.
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now wait just a damn minute - there is NOTHING stopping Amazon from writing software for Mac OS X. nothing. Apple allows anyone to write software for Mac OS X. They do not have exclusive rights to the hardware and software to make this work on the Mac.... Microsoft does.
Micorsoft does not write any software to allow non-Windows operating systems to view Windows Media files. (they used to have Windows Media Player for the Mac - but now, they let a small company write a codec for Quicktime to play non-DRM WMP files - Flip4Mac)
Anyhow - screw Amazon - they are lying. They can write any damn software they want for the Mac - and the iPod will play any mp4 file you want.
Nothing is stopping them from making Mac compantible files - its their own problem that they don't.
you've heard all the stories about guys in the military during WWII trading whiskey for bullets or other such things, well, my buddy and i came upon a huge spool of single mode fiber optic cable - Like, dining room table sized. Anyhow, our plan was to trade up the spool of fiber to an F-15 that we could share since we were in the Air Force.
we got as far as finding a guy that would take the spool from us after we used all the fiber... oh well.
i scored 100% on the pilot qualification test for the Air Force, and have flown jet trainers. I wasn't able to become a military pilot or navigator for a career because my eyesight eventually exceeded the uncorrected limit of 20/70.
I am now 20/15 with contacts, even tho i wear contacts with -8.5 diopaters - which means my glasses are about 4 inches think. i'm sure i'll be totally blind by 70, but i'm not today.... today, my eyesight is fine.
i have driven an average of ~32,500 miles a year since 16 (not including miles in rental cars). Honestly, if i had to guess what the rental cars added - i bet it would be closer to 38,000. I'm 34.
I have had two accidents in those 18 years. 1 was because i mistakenly believed the right hand turn signal of the person coming down the street that was indicating they were going to turn into the driveway i was in - turns out they were just going down the street with their indicator on. They didn't turn, and i looked right to see if i was clear to turn left onto the street. I sideswiped them as they continued down the street - this accident was my fault regardless of the other driver's ineptitude. 2 was because i looked down to change a radio station as the person in front of me stopped unexplainably at a left-green arrow. After we got out, the arrown went to yellow.. then to red. I asked him why he had stopped, but to no avail - i don't speak Korean and he, no english - so i'll never know. But again, this accident was my fault regardless of the other driver being Korean.
I have driven almost 600,000 miles in my life - with two low speed accidents, 1 caused by poor judgement, the other "by a stereo".
Since 21, i have had cell phones and used them in cars.
Should i have my cell phone useage "rights" taken from me?
If so, why? Have i not proven my abilities to you, the government, and anyone else that has decided that they want to be my mom?
that anyone would think that they know "the temperature the earth is supposed to be" is the height of arrogance.
was the temperature "too low" during the last ice age? Was the level of CO2 "wrong" after Mt. St. Helens blew?
are we contributing to climate change? its just too uncertain to say... possibly. But concidering how much the atmosphere changes its chemical composition from volcaic activity alone, i think its a bit presumptuous to think that our tiny contribution (in comparison to volcanic activity) means jack shit.
but actually working to activly affect climate change unidirectionally takes the cake for "ultimate act of hubris".
i often bag on how bac Windows 3.11 is to Mac bashers who's last Mac experience was a Mac Classic back in high school.
I mean, if their understanding of the Mac platform is "it uses all proprietary hardware, you have to buy special ethernet cables for it, and you can't just hook it into a Windows network", then why can't i go back and talk about their OS in a similar timeframe of obsolesence?
Just so long as the Netherlands and France go after their closed source proprietary "plays for sure for the most part sometimes" DRM and ensures that its available to run on any device....
i got half-way thru the process, and then, the website basically chocked up spew - bad pages, links to nowhwere, "this site is too busy" messages, and pages that didn't display properly on my Mac. (these were NOT complicated web sites, and its hardly my fault that i don't have Internet Explorer...
I wasn't able to make it to the "setup online share account" step - there was no link for me. I tried for like an hour - and eventually just gave up.
i certainly hope that they don't try to come after me - or actually, i don't care. When they say "why didn't you pay for the shares" the answer is easy - you didn't give me any way to complete the transaction, therefore, you didn't actually offer me anything. If you want to offer me something, you have to give me a line to sign.
Now, i believe i singed on the line that said "i want to do this" but that's when the next step came up...and i couldn't get anywhere. But honestly, it had taken me an hour to get to that point - becuase i had to keep reloading pages to get whatever website to kick out semi-useful webpages.
oh well... if they want to come after me for $1700, that's fine - they can kiss my ass and talk to my lawyer.
me: "Why can't we use Macs or other word processors at least?" IT: "training costs. Costs too much to show people how to use different software. that's why we're all Office and all microsoft."
"training costs" excuse.... we hardly knew thee...
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many of the bugs are problems that are just outright bizare in thinking of how they'd get executed.
"Here is a malformed HFS+ filesystem that can potentially cause a kernel panic and cause arbitrary code execution. you should all be quaking in your boots."
now just one damn minute... first, you have to get me a DMG, which, apparently, will instantly panic the kernel. Fine. so what? In real life, i'd throw out the dmg file, download it again, it would panic again, and i'd give up.
I'm missing (and it could just be me) how that's in any way exploitable in any meaningful sense.
i think the problem is that MOAB is putting on a show of bugs.. and nothing more. These are bugs that either made it past the guys in Cupertino, or they just didn't see them as that big of a deal, and figured they'd get to them eventually.
Some of these bugs are bad and could cause Macs the world over to get pwn3d and get used to do whatever you can do with an pwn3d Windows box. Fine.
But many of them are just, well.. bugs that causes the system to crash. So the hell what? Without some kind of setup and extreme set of circumstances, the majority of the bugs here crash your system, and then you reboot...
Microsoft's problem has been "be a user on the internet with their software, get pwn3ed." I'm trying to see which of these bugs would give Mac users similar "functionality".
#21 requires a local user to take advantage of this escalation problem - on a machine that they are probably already the only user of
#20 is the same thing... as is #8, and #15.
the bulk of the others are "DoS, cause computer to crash with possibility of arbitrary code execution..." and that assumes the panic condition is consistent.
the only actual scary ones are #19 (not apple's software, and i don't even know if it could actually allow arbitrary code execution), #17, #1 (now fixed), #2 (not apple, and fixed), #4, and #20... so, 6... and 4 are left.
this is just stupid.. my machines are still buck naked on the internet, and i'm still not scared at all.
The RIAA screwed up and didn't make DRM mandatory on their media - the CD - and so, it turned out that just about anyone in 2000 could produce and reproduce and sell a fairly decent product without needing the "music industry".
The MPAA learned from this, and since video gear is about two decimal places more expensive, they've had a head start in making sure that independent film makers are fucked when it comes to producing next-gen video. I can shoot, edit, and create totally fine high-def product - but the MPAA is preventing me from distributing it. I have to go thru them, or pay an insane price to ensure that high def disks (BR/HDDVD) will play on consumer gear by going thru a high priced disc publisher so-as to get the new DRM put on the thing.
The point of DRM is to prevent the next George Lucas (his beginnings, not his shitty blockbusters of the 2000s) from going out, making a damn fine movie on prosumer gear, editing it in Final Cut, and burning copies of the disks that will look stunning on all those plasma/LCD/DLP screens that people will want to buy and see more of. Right now, it could be done on DVD since you can make DVDs without CCS. You can't make movies without AACS and BR+ that will playback on consumer gear.
They have, by all logic, prevented independent production of next gen video disks ahead of the formats even being available. You want to make a disk - you gotta pay the toll, or you don't play. No more small, independent firms making a living heling folks get their content onto next gen disks... no more making home movies that you can send to other people.
That's what it has been about all along, it has been very little to do with piracy. Its all about making sure that when the equipment is up there with what Peter Jackson and Spielberg can get that you can't compete with them.
if these bulbs leak mercury into the environment, where did we get the mercury... originally?
i'm not trying to be smart... i seriously don't understand the problem - and could stand to be informed.
if we put the mercury into the bulb, we got it from somewhere... its not like we spontaneously generated mercury or alchemized it from carbon or something.
Yes, they are powered. They are powered by RF.
If you put a power switch on them, they wouldn't send back a signal even if you were getting RF energy.
That would pretty much end the ability for someone to sniff out your RFID tags in your credit cards and passports until you pressed the button - closing the circuit between the antenna recieving the RF power signal and the part that generates and broadcasts the signal back.
how it would work in the real world is - you'd pull our your credit card at the store, squeeze the pressure button, and wave the card over the reader. If you waved the card over the reader without squeezing the button, nothing would happen.
Don't worry, no one else seems to understand how insanely simple this is.
i can't believe i've responding to an AC.
if you put a switch in the circuit, and leaving the circuit open means that no matter how much power you zap it with, it will not do anything.
A power switch doesn't require you have a power supply. It simply means that if you have power, the circuit is open, and will not work. If its open when not being pressed, then it doesn't matter if the antenna is being provided with an incoming radio frequency or not. No matter how much RF energy the RFID tag gets, power from that RF energy will not get to the CMOS integrated circuit....
an on/off button.
these kinds of buttons would be good only for RFID's within credit cards, passports, etc... any device which is supposed to be used by people. Hell, the mark of the beast could even work that way - your mark would only work if you pressed against the mark.
i wonder if i should be mentioning this...
how about a read button?
If you are pressing the button, the circuit closes and your card will enable a reader.
If you are not pressing the button, the circuit is open, and disables the RFID on the chip?
I mean, even my MacBook has a power button.
You know, like on everything else?
If you aren't pressing the button/leaving the circuit open, zapping the RFID device does nothing.
If you are pressing the button/closing teh circuit, the RFIC device will read?
Why the FSCK am i the only person alive that seems to see RFID as not a problem if you put a power button on it?
a few of my friends (okay, all of the groomsmen in my wedding) work(ed) at Apple. One of them showed me one of the iMac (with the lamp arm) prototypes.
It was the basic iMac lamp you know, but it didn't have a shiny Luxo-like arm. What it did have was fully articulated arm... that is, it moved like snake-light, except that it didn't have tension built in. It was totally fluid and you could move the monitor to just about any angle and direction you wanted.
The trick was, there was a paddle behind the monitor on the right side of the mount - you pulled on it like a flappy-paddle gearshift behind the steering wheel on some new cars. When you did, the arm would go totally limp, with all the weight of the monitor in your hands, and when you released the paddle, the arm went totally stiff - like some kind of magic potion turned the snake-arm into stone.
I don't know what kind of clutch it used to do that, but it was really eerie. One moment, you could pull and push and pretty much move the monitor however you wanted, and the moment you let go - BAM - the round base and the monitor and the arm were magically a one-piece device - rock solid and totally stable.
While quite interesting as a design concept - it was rightly rejected. First of all, it totally ruined the lines of the monitor (bah me if you want, but its true) on the back and made it look like some kind of weird bike/computer thing. Secondly - and most importantly - even if you were warned "Look, the weight is going to go from zero to 15 pounds in a microsecond, so be sure to hold on tight" - you'd still end up pulling the handle, it would crash land on the bottom of the monitor frame like a ton of bricks on the keyboard below. I was warned, and i did it. The break point wasn't at the beginning or the end of the pull - which was about and inch and a half of travel. Unlike a car clutch, which has a smooth and vague transition, this went from on to off like a light - and the problem was that the weight of the monitor also went from zero to everything in your hands that fast as well.
In the end, Apple is the quintessential engineering house.. they start off with the user in mind totally, then they throw out whatever doesn't work, even if it cost a ton of money to develop.. then, they develop and maintain contingencies on the off chance that they'll totally change direction.
That's why they are kicking ass and why their stuff is worth more than they charge for it and why they can't make their shit fast enough.
I, for one, welcome our Diebold-provided Republican overlo.... what?
oh. shit.
does that mean we like Diebold now?
at least, there's going to be lawyers crawling all over the place making sure no one got disen... wait? They aren't?
holy shit.. i'm so confused. Fsck politics.
I'm sure that Microsoft didn't "forget" about home-PC assemblers (dude, you build a wall with bricks and mortar, you don't "build" a PC. You snap together 6 parts that were all meant to work together)...
i'm sure that Microsoft was just seeing what they could get away with. At the WORST their original Vista plan would have raked in bazillions of dollars. At the worst, they were going to have to come back down off of their trial balloon...
with the result being that you now feel better about Vista even though you Windows users are STILL getting ass-rammed by the whole concept that it will call home, that it will still deactivate if you don't call microsoft to authenticate your computer, and that you have to call them each and every time you change your hardware.
its classic politics.... promise to give them a shit sandwich with rat poison... then fallback on just the shit sandwich.
Just a shit sandwich, you say?! Marvelous! That's much better than a shit sandwich with rat poison on it!
Listen... you are going to eat this shit sandwich.. now, you can put mustard on it... you can put a kick ass video card in it...
but in the end, you are going to eat this shit sandwich of a license agreement which gives Microsoft the right to snoop on you, pwn your computer, and shut it down at their earliest conveneince... whether you like it or not.
its nice knowing that my Mac is my computer, and that once i sent my money to Apple, they assumed that this computer was no longer their property.
The day Apple ever does this kind of shit is the day i skulk over to Linux and figure out how i'm going to do my video work.
I'm a video guy. I can't render video fast enough. I can't do transcoding fast enough. My video is getting larger and deeper in color, and i need more power.
all of that is threadable.
so is photographic processing. You can divide a picture 80 ways and have each processor do whatever it is you want to do on it.
Gamers? Fscking a.... i'm so SICK of hearing hiow everything is for them. Just because something isn't going to help Halo Life 3 run faster is not any of my concern.
There are lots of people working on their computers that want to see more cores because it will make our lives better.
apparently, in Europe, the Ministry of Truth is working well - making sure that old news doesn't rear it ugly head to compete with the news of today.
They are spinning like a politician on this...
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now wait just a damn minute - there is NOTHING stopping Amazon from writing software for Mac OS X. nothing. Apple allows anyone to write software for Mac OS X. They do not have exclusive rights to the hardware and software to make this work on the Mac.... Microsoft does.
Micorsoft does not write any software to allow non-Windows operating systems to view Windows Media files. (they used to have Windows Media Player for the Mac - but now, they let a small company write a codec for Quicktime to play non-DRM WMP files - Flip4Mac)
Anyhow - screw Amazon - they are lying. They can write any damn software they want for the Mac - and the iPod will play any mp4 file you want.
Nothing is stopping them from making Mac compantible files - its their own problem that they don't.
How do state mandated warning stickers, people going to jail, and other government intrusions = unlicensed and open spectrum?
Lord save us all the day that 2.4 GHz becomes licensed and regulated.
and all i got was a rude error message.
that doesn't usually happen with Safari unless the website is down... curious...
you've heard all the stories about guys in the military during WWII trading whiskey for bullets or other such things, well, my buddy and i came upon a huge spool of single mode fiber optic cable - Like, dining room table sized. Anyhow, our plan was to trade up the spool of fiber to an F-15 that we could share since we were in the Air Force.
we got as far as finding a guy that would take the spool from us after we used all the fiber... oh well.
Best laid plans and all....
i scored 100% on the pilot qualification test for the Air Force, and have flown jet trainers. I wasn't able to become a military pilot or navigator for a career because my eyesight eventually exceeded the uncorrected limit of 20/70.
I am now 20/15 with contacts, even tho i wear contacts with -8.5 diopaters - which means my glasses are about 4 inches think. i'm sure i'll be totally blind by 70, but i'm not today.... today, my eyesight is fine.
i have driven an average of ~32,500 miles a year since 16 (not including miles in rental cars). Honestly, if i had to guess what the rental cars added - i bet it would be closer to 38,000. I'm 34.
I have had two accidents in those 18 years.
1 was because i mistakenly believed the right hand turn signal of the person coming down the street that was indicating they were going to turn into the driveway i was in - turns out they were just going down the street with their indicator on. They didn't turn, and i looked right to see if i was clear to turn left onto the street. I sideswiped them as they continued down the street - this accident was my fault regardless of the other driver's ineptitude.
2 was because i looked down to change a radio station as the person in front of me stopped unexplainably at a left-green arrow. After we got out, the arrown went to yellow.. then to red. I asked him why he had stopped, but to no avail - i don't speak Korean and he, no english - so i'll never know. But again, this accident was my fault regardless of the other driver being Korean.
I have driven almost 600,000 miles in my life - with two low speed accidents, 1 caused by poor judgement, the other "by a stereo".
Since 21, i have had cell phones and used them in cars.
Should i have my cell phone useage "rights" taken from me?
If so, why? Have i not proven my abilities to you, the government, and anyone else that has decided that they want to be my mom?
that anyone would think that they know "the temperature the earth is supposed to be" is the height of arrogance.
was the temperature "too low" during the last ice age? Was the level of CO2 "wrong" after Mt. St. Helens blew?
are we contributing to climate change? its just too uncertain to say... possibly. But concidering how much the atmosphere changes its chemical composition from volcaic activity alone, i think its a bit presumptuous to think that our tiny contribution (in comparison to volcanic activity) means jack shit.
but actually working to activly affect climate change unidirectionally takes the cake for "ultimate act of hubris".
should i wait to say "First Post" 7 days from now?
i often bag on how bac Windows 3.11 is to Mac bashers who's last Mac experience was a Mac Classic back in high school.
I mean, if their understanding of the Mac platform is "it uses all proprietary hardware, you have to buy special ethernet cables for it, and you can't just hook it into a Windows network", then why can't i go back and talk about their OS in a similar timeframe of obsolesence?
Just so long as the Netherlands and France go after their closed source proprietary "plays for sure for the most part sometimes" DRM and ensures that its available to run on any device....
like iPods.
In Europe, the Internet will be a place (more like what we in the US have today) where ideas are exchanged freely.
you must be in Amsterdam smoking some weed to say something as incredibly daft as "Europe... where ideas are exchanged freely"
In Europe, you can exchange ideas so long as they're everyone else's ideas. Jeremy Clarkson would beg to differ that ideas can be freely exchanged.
you can't even bring up actual real history without getting into trouble. You can't sell WWII memorabilia in France if it is German in nature.
and those are only two off the top of my head.
i got half-way thru the process, and then, the website basically chocked up spew - bad pages, links to nowhwere, "this site is too busy" messages, and pages that didn't display properly on my Mac. (these were NOT complicated web sites, and its hardly my fault that i don't have Internet Explorer...
I wasn't able to make it to the "setup online share account" step - there was no link for me. I tried for like an hour - and eventually just gave up.
i certainly hope that they don't try to come after me - or actually, i don't care. When they say "why didn't you pay for the shares" the answer is easy - you didn't give me any way to complete the transaction, therefore, you didn't actually offer me anything. If you want to offer me something, you have to give me a line to sign.
Now, i believe i singed on the line that said "i want to do this" but that's when the next step came up...and i couldn't get anywhere. But honestly, it had taken me an hour to get to that point - becuase i had to keep reloading pages to get whatever website to kick out semi-useful webpages.
oh well... if they want to come after me for $1700, that's fine - they can kiss my ass and talk to my lawyer.
me: "Why can't we use Macs or other word processors at least?"
IT: "training costs. Costs too much to show people how to use different software. that's why we're all Office and all microsoft."
"training costs" excuse.... we hardly knew thee...