Available for: Mac OS X v10.3.9, Mac OS X Server v10.3.9, Mac OS X v10.4.8, Mac OS X Server v10.4.8
Impact: Attackers on the wireless network may cause arbitrary code execution
Description: A heap buffer overflow exists in the AirPort wireless driver's handling of probe response frames. An attacker in local proximity may be able to trigger the overflow by sending maliciously-crafted information elements in probe responses. This issue affects eMac, iBook, iMac, PowerBook G3, PowerBook G4, and Power Mac G4 systems equipped with an original AirPort card. This issue does not affect systems with the AirPort Extreme card. This update addresses the issue by performing additional validation of probe response frames. Credit to H D Moore of Metasploit for reporting this issue.
I'm the guy that waits a year or so for the game I want to drop down to $20 or so, when I saw the first LEGO Star Wars installment become a Players Choice game I knew it had to be pretty good.
Actually with my Zelda background I expected free camera movement and didn't really "get it" the first time I played, so it sat on the shelf for a week. Then... strangely my WIFE said she wanted to try it, she hasn't played a single video game EVER since we've been married. I'd never have expected it, but we found a game we can play together and work out way through. She'd actually come home and say "Okay after dinner lets play some LEGOS", it was a shock! Alright the one annoying thing is when teammates walk in opposite directions the screen pulls you back, so sometimes you can get yourself stuck in a repeat dying spot and have no escape since both characters can't move. Other than that, I've gotten quite used to it and have enjoyed it immensely. The Freeplay mode is a lot of fun and the ability to swap characters at any time let's you blow through old enemies that were at first challenging. Also the ability to "drop out" and then join back in comes in handy when the wife gets stuck on some jump or pod-racing section she can't beat. I'm also surprised how rarely she drops out as she's willing to try over and over until she figures something out. Normally she hates games she loses at, but with the infinite lives and not throwing us back to the start it doesn't bother her much.
Nice bit of variety with the pod-racing and space battles, it's a great game for a gamer to introduce a non-gamer with. Being able to go two-player at any time is really nice.
Any game that gets my wife interested is the game of the year to me. Now she can't wait til we get a Wii.:-)
Only problem is... I have to watch Pride and Predjudice.;-)
I suppose long ago there was a longer phrase such as "Caught short of cash" in the US and it ended up being shortened to "Caught short". A similar phrase in the UK may have been "Caught short of a restroom" which later shortened and became familiar with a different meaning.
"No doubt it was a very, very popular gift, and no matter how well you plan on the server side of the equation, there are always times when you get caught short."
How I love differences in US and UK English... yes I imagine they were caught short indeed!
I understand your reading of it, in the sense that we are "born in sin" and will no longer be that way after death. In other words the sinful inclination of the flesh would be removed. I'll give you that one, that regardless of a resurrection in heaven or on earth everyone will no longer have the inheritance from Adam which naturally inclines us to do what is wrong. I was reading it in the sense of "an eye for an eye" you read it differently, and Vine's is not quite clear enough which term it actually is. I still believe however that death is actually death, from the warning to Adam of what would happen to him, scriptures about the death of the soul and Ecc.9:5-10 for example. After all the punishment for sin is death.:)
As a result, religions will come to de-emphasize the notion that people get what they "deserve" after they die.
Just FYI religions and the Bible are two different things. Basically most forms of Christiandom believe what you stated, that "You'll get it in the end!" and people smile with the smug belief that anyone who messes with them in this life will get their reward x infinity in the next one.
However the bible actually teaches that sins are all forgiven on death. Romans 6:23 explains the the wages of sin is death, and Romans 6:7 rightly states then that anyone who has died has paid off their sins. That's totally fair, especially when you learn about the resurrection on earth and the big second chance everyone gets. (Ac. 24:15) When contrasted with what most people claim it becomes quite obvious why many chose to hate God and think of him as a twisted sick-puppy who wants to torture people FOREVER. That's not justice at all, and there's no crime whatsoever that deserves eternal suffering, certainly a lack of faith in him wouldn't deserve that either.
Batman Begins was arguably the best superhero movie ever.
Okay, I'll give you that... best EVARRRR, until Ras Al Goul showed up at his house and the plot just went screwy.
Honestly it feels like they couldn't get the ending figured out so they hacked up a new one and said let's just get it out in time. I especially enjoyed the Batgun cable hanging below the train going through all the platforms.
Oh but we WILL program them that way. You think someone's gonna spend tens of thousands of dollars on a robot servant that will allow itself to be run over by a car while crossing the street? Yeah right, first time a house burns down with a robot inside it there's gonna be a lawsuit against the manufacturer saying that it should have saved itself and refusing to add such functionality to robots is basically building in a recurring revenue scheme. Now once you build in self-preservation that's when even more complicated situations start popping up.
I'm waiting for those tongue-connected vision overlay devices. Only thing is, I want it to project hearing instead of vision. I'll also work on the back as I understand it, easier to talk that way.:-)
Koko's dialog all goes through her owner for editing first. All the gibberish is removed until something sorta kinda interpretable is left. Often the interpretatons require huge mental leaps. I've met a couple deaf people who've seen Koko at a zoo and they all said she just signs random words all the time. Yeah, yeah, they're not animal behaviorist experts or whatever, but check out the AOL chat transcript with Koko sometime... It's full of wild wishful thinking by her owner who will stop at nothing to make sense of random signs and movements.
One of my favorite parts:
Question: Do you like to chat with other people? HaloMyBaby: That was from Rulucky! LiveKOKO: fine nipple DrPPatrsn: Nipple rhymes with people, she doesn't sign people per se, she was trying to do a "sounds like..."
Yeah, I'm really sure Koko was trying to say the word "people" by signing "nipple" which sounds just like it! Fun read.
Sure there's the speed, that's great... but the range is key here. Ya see wirless is one of those techs where the providers have an automatic monopoly on service. Let's take the local Starbucks, the shopping mall, the airport... generally you're only going to have access to a single network in those locations. Automatic monopoly of wireless services = $40 a month service fees if you're lucky.
Now compare this to my condo, there's generally four to eight wireless networks in range in any room of the house. Some are locked, and some are open. I have my own closed network not broadcasting it's SSID, but the point is plenty of options.
Soon imagine a world where you go to Starbucks, the mall or the airport and you see four to eight wireless networks available. Hmmm... shall I join the local wireless business club for more than I pay for broadband at home, or shall I jump on "FreeWiMAX" instead?
Most likely some sort of ad-supported "FreeWiMAX" network will pop up all over, also some home users, etc... with varying levels of speed and quality, but the point is the local providers have lost their monopoly of service in their areas and finally wireless charges will have to drop and they'll need to actually compete.
So all the high rated posts I see talk about how terrible Apple's security was, 1984 comes true, blah blah blah.
Did any of you bother to try out the exploit? I just did... know what it does? It turns on that bright green LED right next to the camera, the one that tells you when it's on. It's pretty bright and when it turns on all of the sudden, you NOTICE. It then proceeded to crash my browser. Well it may be possible that Apple carefully designed their hardware in such a way that the LED is software controlled and the camera is capable of invisibly monitoring people, there is no evidence to back those claims.
True with proprietary software one just never knows for sure, but honestly let's see someone figure out how to take a picture or make a movie without the light coming on, THEN we can start calling Apple Big Brother. Honestly if that were possible then I'd dump this laptop in a heartbeat since it would require purposely designing it with that in mind.
the former IRS tax commissioner who wrote the tax code in '78 and is the author of the famous and controversial book on the insight into the IRS's inner chamber members that so many of us are familiar with.
Unfortunately I'm not familiar with it... digging around on Google, Wikipedia, Amazon and eBay didn't turn up any promising leads. Name of the book please.
Owners of the Nintendo Wii reported that when they used the Nintendo remote and wrist strap, as instructed by the material that accompanied the Wii console, the wrist strap broke and caused the remote to leave the user's hand.
So basically the lawyers are claiming that the remote was firmly IN HAND when the strap somehow magically broke itself, which then caused the holder of the remote to let go of it, further causing expensive property damage.
This is a new era of legal blame-shifting, no longer is "The devil made me do it" required in court, you can now simply say "The wrist strap made me do it".
"new revenue generation dialogues with end users."
Ahhh yes, increased support calls and service contracts. Exactly why an IT admin would lovingly bestow such wonderful products upon those he is paid to help.
I was working on a slideshow presentation for a client and had been using Keynote when I heard about the MacHeist bundle. I noticed Fotomagico and saw that it's normal price is $80, so I figured $50 for the whole package is a great deal. The last few days I've been playing around with them as I have time and basically here's how it runs down for me.
I picked Enigmo since I played the first version and liked it, but didn't feel like purchasing it. So that's money from me Pangea wouldn't have gotten.
Delicious Library is cool, but I don't really see how I'm going to USE it. Still fun to scan my stuff and I'll have to remind myself to scan things before I loan them to friends, I'll probably use it every now and then. Doubt I'll upgrade but it's nice to have in it's current form.
DevonThink I've never heard of before, but I'm trying to get into the Getting Things Done workflow and I think it'll help me out there. It's just so flexible and does so much I'm still not sure what to do with it, but I'll definately start trying to put some projects on it and hope I can get the flow going with it. A definite keeper, more $$ they never would have gotten from me. May even upgrade someday if I really get the hang of it.
ShapeShifter... I'm not a themer. Yeah some are cool looking, but I'm not a Pimp My Ride kinda guy. There's another developer that got dinero of mine they'd NEVER have seen otherwise.
Disco. I may need this someday, nice to have in the Utilities folder, better burning than the OS has built in... not sure when I'll ever use it.
RapidWeaver. Already started using it, I tried to make a basic page before with iWeb and it just wasn't working out. Fooled with this a few minutes and got my page up and running. Very nice.
iClip... I dunno, I think including this in the same package of DevonThink kinda lowers it's usefulness. I'll have to fool with it a bit, but doubt I'll be using it much. I pretty much just use text clippings on the desktop then clean them up later. I don't really think to start another app just to copy some stuff.
Newsfire. I don't keep track of many sites, Safari's RSS does the job for me although I know it's limited. If someone ever asks about a better RSS agent than Safari I'll have one in mind.
TextMate. I'm not really a programmer so we'll see if I ever use this.
So then, out of 10 apps I only would have actually bought ONE of them. No, let me take that back, I wouldn't have bought Fotomagico on it's own since I don't really feel like shelling out $80 for it.
So really NOBODY would have gotten any of my cash at all without this deal. But especially the four apps I'll never ever use. There are the 6 which I have some interest in, but only 2 or 3 I'll use regularly from now on.
Still, they've gotten me to at least download and try out all 10 apps, maybe later on I'll recommend one of them to someone even though I personally don't use it. It builds awareness and spreads goodwill for ALL of those developers. So now if I talk to some Mac user who remembers with fondness the old WinAMP interface and wishes he could have it back, I'll tell him to pick up ShapeShifter and mod his OS. Someone asks about information saving and organizing I'll mention Freemind first of all, and then point out DevonThink has a different focus but is still very slick and worth checking out.
Compare this to magazine subscriptions, as I understand it costs an average of $40 of advertising and free giveaways for everyone 1 subscriber. So overall the developers involved in the MacHeist got themselves way more than $1,000,000 worth of advertising and mindshare with this. Goodness how do you market software? These guys made out like bandits here.
People who pay $50,000 for something aren't afraid to kill you if you lie to them. This especially makes sense if the mafia / SPAM connections are true.
20 people asking "Why would anyone need this?" 50 people replying "I encode video" 45 people replying "Games" 10 replying "Babes of course" 1 karma whore incapable of making a decent top 10 list.:)
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Nice pic of the unabomber sketch on the release page... quite telling.
It was patched I believe Nov 14th.
From here.
They just want us to think they don't know how to make fake moon dust. :)
I'm the guy that waits a year or so for the game I want to drop down to $20 or so, when I saw the first LEGO Star Wars installment become a Players Choice game I knew it had to be pretty good.
:-)
;-)
Actually with my Zelda background I expected free camera movement and didn't really "get it" the first time I played, so it sat on the shelf for a week. Then... strangely my WIFE said she wanted to try it, she hasn't played a single video game EVER since we've been married. I'd never have expected it, but we found a game we can play together and work out way through. She'd actually come home and say "Okay after dinner lets play some LEGOS", it was a shock! Alright the one annoying thing is when teammates walk in opposite directions the screen pulls you back, so sometimes you can get yourself stuck in a repeat dying spot and have no escape since both characters can't move. Other than that, I've gotten quite used to it and have enjoyed it immensely. The Freeplay mode is a lot of fun and the ability to swap characters at any time let's you blow through old enemies that were at first challenging. Also the ability to "drop out" and then join back in comes in handy when the wife gets stuck on some jump or pod-racing section she can't beat. I'm also surprised how rarely she drops out as she's willing to try over and over until she figures something out. Normally she hates games she loses at, but with the infinite lives and not throwing us back to the start it doesn't bother her much.
Nice bit of variety with the pod-racing and space battles, it's a great game for a gamer to introduce a non-gamer with. Being able to go two-player at any time is really nice.
Any game that gets my wife interested is the game of the year to me. Now she can't wait til we get a Wii.
Only problem is... I have to watch Pride and Predjudice.
I suppose long ago there was a longer phrase such as "Caught short of cash" in the US and it ended up being shortened to "Caught short". A similar phrase in the UK may have been "Caught short of a restroom" which later shortened and became familiar with a different meaning.
I understand your reading of it, in the sense that we are "born in sin" and will no longer be that way after death. In other words the sinful inclination of the flesh would be removed. I'll give you that one, that regardless of a resurrection in heaven or on earth everyone will no longer have the inheritance from Adam which naturally inclines us to do what is wrong. I was reading it in the sense of "an eye for an eye" you read it differently, and Vine's is not quite clear enough which term it actually is. I still believe however that death is actually death, from the warning to Adam of what would happen to him, scriptures about the death of the soul and Ecc.9:5-10 for example. After all the punishment for sin is death. :)
As a result, religions will come to de-emphasize the notion that people get what they "deserve" after they die.
Just FYI religions and the Bible are two different things. Basically most forms of Christiandom believe what you stated, that "You'll get it in the end!" and people smile with the smug belief that anyone who messes with them in this life will get their reward x infinity in the next one.
However the bible actually teaches that sins are all forgiven on death. Romans 6:23 explains the the wages of sin is death, and Romans 6:7 rightly states then that anyone who has died has paid off their sins. That's totally fair, especially when you learn about the resurrection on earth and the big second chance everyone gets. (Ac. 24:15) When contrasted with what most people claim it becomes quite obvious why many chose to hate God and think of him as a twisted sick-puppy who wants to torture people FOREVER. That's not justice at all, and there's no crime whatsoever that deserves eternal suffering, certainly a lack of faith in him wouldn't deserve that either.
Batman Begins was arguably the best superhero movie ever.
Okay, I'll give you that... best EVARRRR, until Ras Al Goul showed up at his house and the plot just went screwy.
Honestly it feels like they couldn't get the ending figured out so they hacked up a new one and said let's just get it out in time. I especially enjoyed the Batgun cable hanging below the train going through all the platforms.
Is that I don't have an account with those 3 institutions.
So I could close em.
Oh but we WILL program them that way. You think someone's gonna spend tens of thousands of dollars on a robot servant that will allow itself to be run over by a car while crossing the street? Yeah right, first time a house burns down with a robot inside it there's gonna be a lawsuit against the manufacturer saying that it should have saved itself and refusing to add such functionality to robots is basically building in a recurring revenue scheme. Now once you build in self-preservation that's when even more complicated situations start popping up.
I'm waiting for those tongue-connected vision overlay devices. Only thing is, I want it to project hearing instead of vision. I'll also work on the back as I understand it, easier to talk that way. :-)
One of my favorite parts:
Yeah, I'm really sure Koko was trying to say the word "people" by signing "nipple" which sounds just like it! Fun read.
Sure there's the speed, that's great... but the range is key here. Ya see wirless is one of those techs where the providers have an automatic monopoly on service. Let's take the local Starbucks, the shopping mall, the airport... generally you're only going to have access to a single network in those locations. Automatic monopoly of wireless services = $40 a month service fees if you're lucky.
Now compare this to my condo, there's generally four to eight wireless networks in range in any room of the house. Some are locked, and some are open. I have my own closed network not broadcasting it's SSID, but the point is plenty of options.
Soon imagine a world where you go to Starbucks, the mall or the airport and you see four to eight wireless networks available. Hmmm... shall I join the local wireless business club for more than I pay for broadband at home, or shall I jump on "FreeWiMAX" instead?
Most likely some sort of ad-supported "FreeWiMAX" network will pop up all over, also some home users, etc... with varying levels of speed and quality, but the point is the local providers have lost their monopoly of service in their areas and finally wireless charges will have to drop and they'll need to actually compete.
WHEEEEEEE!!!
So all the high rated posts I see talk about how terrible Apple's security was, 1984 comes true, blah blah blah.
Did any of you bother to try out the exploit? I just did... know what it does? It turns on that bright green LED right next to the camera, the one that tells you when it's on. It's pretty bright and when it turns on all of the sudden, you NOTICE. It then proceeded to crash my browser. Well it may be possible that Apple carefully designed their hardware in such a way that the LED is software controlled and the camera is capable of invisibly monitoring people, there is no evidence to back those claims.
True with proprietary software one just never knows for sure, but honestly let's see someone figure out how to take a picture or make a movie without the light coming on, THEN we can start calling Apple Big Brother. Honestly if that were possible then I'd dump this laptop in a heartbeat since it would require purposely designing it with that in mind.
the former IRS tax commissioner who wrote the tax code in '78 and is the author of the famous and controversial book on the insight into the IRS's inner chamber members that so many of us are familiar with.
Unfortunately I'm not familiar with it... digging around on Google, Wikipedia, Amazon and eBay didn't turn up any promising leads. Name of the book please.
So basically the lawyers are claiming that the remote was firmly IN HAND when the strap somehow magically broke itself, which then caused the holder of the remote to let go of it, further causing expensive property damage.
This is a new era of legal blame-shifting, no longer is "The devil made me do it" required in court, you can now simply say "The wrist strap made me do it".
Would I rather hold a leash and follow a dog around, or put my own face in the wet muddy grass? Hmmmmmm...
"new revenue generation dialogues with end users."
Ahhh yes, increased support calls and service contracts. Exactly why an IT admin would lovingly bestow such wonderful products upon those he is paid to help.
I was working on a slideshow presentation for a client and had been using Keynote when I heard about the MacHeist bundle. I noticed Fotomagico and saw that it's normal price is $80, so I figured $50 for the whole package is a great deal. The last few days I've been playing around with them as I have time and basically here's how it runs down for me.
... I dunno, I think including this in the same package of DevonThink kinda lowers it's usefulness. I'll have to fool with it a bit, but doubt I'll be using it much. I pretty much just use text clippings on the desktop then clean them up later. I don't really think to start another app just to copy some stuff.
I picked Enigmo since I played the first version and liked it, but didn't feel like purchasing it. So that's money from me Pangea wouldn't have gotten.
Delicious Library is cool, but I don't really see how I'm going to USE it. Still fun to scan my stuff and I'll have to remind myself to scan things before I loan them to friends, I'll probably use it every now and then. Doubt I'll upgrade but it's nice to have in it's current form.
DevonThink I've never heard of before, but I'm trying to get into the Getting Things Done workflow and I think it'll help me out there. It's just so flexible and does so much I'm still not sure what to do with it, but I'll definately start trying to put some projects on it and hope I can get the flow going with it. A definite keeper, more $$ they never would have gotten from me. May even upgrade someday if I really get the hang of it.
ShapeShifter... I'm not a themer. Yeah some are cool looking, but I'm not a Pimp My Ride kinda guy. There's another developer that got dinero of mine they'd NEVER have seen otherwise.
Disco. I may need this someday, nice to have in the Utilities folder, better burning than the OS has built in... not sure when I'll ever use it.
RapidWeaver. Already started using it, I tried to make a basic page before with iWeb and it just wasn't working out. Fooled with this a few minutes and got my page up and running. Very nice.
iClip
Newsfire. I don't keep track of many sites, Safari's RSS does the job for me although I know it's limited. If someone ever asks about a better RSS agent than Safari I'll have one in mind.
TextMate. I'm not really a programmer so we'll see if I ever use this.
So then, out of 10 apps I only would have actually bought ONE of them. No, let me take that back, I wouldn't have bought Fotomagico on it's own since I don't really feel like shelling out $80 for it.
So really NOBODY would have gotten any of my cash at all without this deal. But especially the four apps I'll never ever use. There are the 6 which I have some interest in, but only 2 or 3 I'll use regularly from now on.
Still, they've gotten me to at least download and try out all 10 apps, maybe later on I'll recommend one of them to someone even though I personally don't use it. It builds awareness and spreads goodwill for ALL of those developers. So now if I talk to some Mac user who remembers with fondness the old WinAMP interface and wishes he could have it back, I'll tell him to pick up ShapeShifter and mod his OS. Someone asks about information saving and organizing I'll mention Freemind first of all, and then point out DevonThink has a different focus but is still very slick and worth checking out.
Compare this to magazine subscriptions, as I understand it costs an average of $40 of advertising and free giveaways for everyone 1 subscriber. So overall the developers involved in the MacHeist got themselves way more than $1,000,000 worth of advertising and mindshare with this. Goodness how do you market software? These guys made out like bandits here.
FYI. It's called Leopard.
People who pay $50,000 for something aren't afraid to kill you if you lie to them. This especially makes sense if the mafia / SPAM connections are true.
Don't tease, those, who have graduated, from the Shatner, School of Grammar.
20 people asking "Why would anyone need this?" :)
50 people replying "I encode video"
45 people replying "Games"
10 replying "Babes of course"
1 karma whore incapable of making a decent top 10 list.
Whatever, they're called LAZARS