As Mr. Linehan has stated, "This is a British Sitcom. It has nothing whatsoever to do with reality, for example, Goths actually can't cling to the ceiling."
I suppose you found "Office Space" and "Real Genius" equally unrealistic and unfunny.
Like Tim McVeigh. He fell for that whole thing to the point of having home made license tags on his car. Because sovereign citizens don't NEED state issued tags.
That's what brought him to the attention of a cop, who stopped him and saw, if I recall correctly, a pistol on the seat next to McVeigh.
And that's how the prototeabagger schmuck McVeigh was caught after he destroyed the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, 19 years ago.
Apple will lock down the iMac and Mac Mini the same day Apple includes a magical golden unicorn that poops peppermint flavored ice cream with each purchase.
"Now I read the shady details and find that this is a service provider issue, and the client is basically responding as designed to a trusted server that does not deserve that trust...."
"However the finger needs to point firmly at the fat sloppy dogs that can't, or won't properly secure their server resources.
Shame on you AT&T, et al YOU FUCKED UP BAD!"
And, if I might ask, where are the reports of all those iPhones 0wned by this exploit?
Or are you merely tossing out some FUD because you can't offer anything else?
When tens of thousands of Android phones get 0wned, due to some Flash exploit, for example, and at the same time, hundreds of thousands of iPhones don't get 0wned by any exploit, who do you think will be smiling quietly to himself at all the bad publicity towards Android & Google, and at the increase in stock price of Apple.
I don't care that the iPhone is locked down. I don't care that the iPad is locked down. I can write all the software I want for my several Macs here in my home. Not being allowed to do the same for an iPhone or iPad is not something that particularly troubles me.
If I may quote myself from some years back (with a slight rewriting):
You are not the target audience for the iPhone/iPad.
You have never been the target audience for the iPhone/iPad.
You will never be the target audience for the iPhone/iPad.
Really, you might as well be griping about the lack of Ogg Vorbis support in iTunes and the iPod for all the good your whining is going to do.
Fox to FUTURAMA: <voice of Mom>"Listen up, crapsacks! Each of these movies needs to be made so I can squeeze every last penny from the idiots who like this porpoise hork! I want to see 4 half hour standalone episodes out of each film!"</voice of Mom>
FUTURAMA to Fox: <voice of Igner>"But that'll make the movies look stupid and contrived and we'll have to do a lot of padding..."</voice of Igner>
Fox to FUTURAMA: <voice of Mom>"Stick a ham in it and do what you're told!"</voice of Mom>
You thought the movies sucked. This is why you think they sucked. (You're wrong, BTW. Some were just less brilliant that others.)
As far as most of humanity is concerned, some not so incredibly brilliant as humanly possible Futurama is better than none whatsoever.
There's a certain shiny metal ass that requires your osculatory administrations.
Regardless of what you think about the movies, were it not for the profit from the DVD sales, coupled with the high ratings FUTURAMA garnered on [adult swim], along with the rights purchase by Comedy Central, there would be NO NEW FUTURAMA AT ALL.
So shut your noise hole, coffinstuffer, and kiss a certain shiny, metal ass!
Actually, A Democratic Administration and Justice Department used the criminal investigation and justice system to find, arrest, indict, bring to trial, convict and imprison for life almost all of those involved with the first WTC bombing. All within two years, if I recall the details correctly.
Compare and contrast to the Republican Administration and Justice Department in office on 9/11/2001.
(And yes, I KNOW you were being sarcastic. The above is to remind those/.ers who revere the names of Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Limbaugh, Beck, et al, ad nauseum, of the real history of their fulsome, feculent "heroes")
A fellow in the local C64 users group was a tester for Maverick (copy protection removal utility).
We had Maverick files to deprotect software that were never released to the public.
"Oh, man! This disk is driving me crazy, I can't copy it!" Was a frequent lament on QuantumLink.
And we would smile quietly to ourselves. "Maybe for YOU."
The SuperSnapShot cartridge ruled. Load an app or a game, go through ALL the dumbass copy protection nonsense, like "what's word 6 in sentence 9 on page 12?" and then configure the app/game, push the button on the cartridge, drop into a menu, and save a bootable RAM image to a floppy.
NO copy protection and everything is just as you liked. It was also a way to quit a game that had no SAVE level option or when you were about to do something that could be very dangerous (gameplay wise.) Just save to disk and take on the level boss. If you died, no big deal. Run the saved image and try again.
And if that didn't work, cheat! Drop into the ML monitor, change a few characters, return to the game and not only did you have unlimited arrows, you had, essentially, a bow and arrow machine gun. (Autofire when holding down the Big Red Shiny CANDY LIKE button on the joystick was always useful when leveling up.)
Although, making the Pac-Man unkillable was considered poor form, all things considered.
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Is reduced to a superannuated pop gun, that has lost its cork, the string is frayed and the wood is riddled with dry rot and termites.
As Mr. Linehan has stated, "This is a British Sitcom. It has nothing whatsoever to do with reality, for example, Goths actually can't cling to the ceiling."
I suppose you found "Office Space" and "Real Genius" equally unrealistic and unfunny.
In Odessa Texas you own botnet!
...it becomes YOUR device.
"The student stole the laptop."
If you have evidence supporting this assertion, I am SURE you have forwarded it to the appropriate authorities.
You DID forward it to the appropriate authorities, right?
RIGHT?
"dyed in the wool moron to believe that crap."
Like Tim McVeigh. He fell for that whole thing to the point of having home made license tags on his car. Because sovereign citizens don't NEED state issued tags.
That's what brought him to the attention of a cop, who stopped him and saw, if I recall correctly, a pistol on the seat next to McVeigh.
And that's how the prototeabagger schmuck McVeigh was caught after he destroyed the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, 19 years ago.
Foo! What is this, "The Preview Button" of which you speak?"
" The Scourge Of Public Libraries
"and shout moronic stuff to give libertarians a bad name."
Believe me, Slappy, libertarians do quite well in giving themselves a bad name.
Every time ESR opens his piehole for example. Or this brainhurting example:
"The Scourge of Public Libraries ".
Randroids, don't "Go Galt". Just go away.
And are these exploits in use in the wild?
Are they for both Jailbroken and unbriken iPhones?
Do they rely upon server side holes?
And finally, are they more prevalent than Flash and other Adobe exploits?
Also, my comment was from five days ago. That's an eternity in /. time. Sheesh! Try to keep up, OK?
Wow... just... wow!
Comparing Apple policy to the Holocaust.
Hyperbole much?
Please mod this up.
Thank you.
Can you sell me some of that pot you're smoking?
Apple will lock down the iMac and Mac Mini the same day Apple includes a magical golden unicorn that poops peppermint flavored ice cream with each purchase.
Oh, so Adobe has a Flash plugin that's absolutely ironclad and unhackable and non-exploitable?
Cool!
From comment: http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1320379&cid=28892777
"Now I read the shady details and find that this is a service provider issue, and the client is basically responding as designed to a trusted server that does not deserve that trust...."
"However the finger needs to point firmly at the fat sloppy dogs that can't, or won't properly secure their server resources.
Shame on you AT&T, et al YOU FUCKED UP BAD!"
And, if I might ask, where are the reports of all those iPhones 0wned by this exploit?
Or are you merely tossing out some FUD because you can't offer anything else?
Just a thought.
When tens of thousands of Android phones get 0wned, due to some Flash exploit, for example, and at the same time, hundreds of thousands of iPhones don't get 0wned by any exploit, who do you think will be smiling quietly to himself at all the bad publicity towards Android & Google, and at the increase in stock price of Apple.
I don't care that the iPhone is locked down. I don't care that the iPad is locked down. I can write all the software I want for my several Macs here in my home. Not being allowed to do the same for an iPhone or iPad is not something that particularly troubles me.
If I may quote myself from some years back (with a slight rewriting):
You are not the target audience for the iPhone/iPad.
You have never been the target audience for the iPhone/iPad.
You will never be the target audience for the iPhone/iPad.
Really, you might as well be griping about the lack of Ogg Vorbis support in iTunes and the iPod for all the good your whining is going to do.
The Ancients speak of a mystical thing, a thing of wonder and miracles.
"The Preview Button".
Although none have seen it for 1000 generations, it is said to exist even yet.
(Having posted a few really astounding mistakes here, you have my sympathy. I feel your pain!)
Yeah! It was pretty damn good.
chrb, I bow thrice in thy honored direction, Osensei!
Lacking mod points, this is the best I can do!
Ten Forward.
With a fridge for cold drinks. And a Flatscreen.
Xbox? Of course.
Botnets. Worldwide Botnets.
What kind of boxes are on botnets?
Gateway, HP, Dell & Sony, true!
Compaq, Packard Bell, maybe even Asus, too!
Are boxes, found on botnets.
And they all run Windows, Foo!
The stench of the Randroid droppings is thick in the air this morning!
Fox to FUTURAMA: <voice of Mom>"Listen up, crapsacks! Each of these movies needs to be made so I can squeeze every last penny from the idiots who like this porpoise hork! I want to see 4 half hour standalone episodes out of each film!"</voice of Mom>
FUTURAMA to Fox: <voice of Igner>"But that'll make the movies look stupid and contrived and we'll have to do a lot of padding..."</voice of Igner>
Fox to FUTURAMA: <voice of Mom>"Stick a ham in it and do what you're told!"</voice of Mom>
You thought the movies sucked. This is why you think they sucked. (You're wrong, BTW. Some were just less brilliant that others.)
As far as most of humanity is concerned, some not so incredibly brilliant as humanly possible Futurama is better than none whatsoever.
There's a certain shiny metal ass that requires your osculatory administrations.
Regardless of what you think about the movies, were it not for the profit from the DVD sales, coupled with the high ratings FUTURAMA garnered on [adult swim], along with the rights purchase by Comedy Central, there would be NO NEW FUTURAMA AT ALL.
So shut your noise hole, coffinstuffer, and kiss a certain shiny, metal ass!
Actually, A Democratic Administration and Justice Department used the criminal investigation and justice system to find, arrest, indict, bring to trial, convict and imprison for life almost all of those involved with the first WTC bombing. All within two years, if I recall the details correctly.
Compare and contrast to the Republican Administration and Justice Department in office on 9/11/2001.
(And yes, I KNOW you were being sarcastic. The above is to remind those /.ers who revere the names of Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Limbaugh, Beck, et al, ad nauseum, of the real history of their fulsome, feculent "heroes")
A fellow in the local C64 users group was a tester for Maverick (copy protection removal utility).
We had Maverick files to deprotect software that were never released to the public.
"Oh, man! This disk is driving me crazy, I can't copy it!" Was a frequent lament on QuantumLink.
And we would smile quietly to ourselves. "Maybe for YOU."
The SuperSnapShot cartridge ruled. Load an app or a game, go through ALL the dumbass copy protection nonsense, like "what's word 6 in sentence 9 on page 12?" and then configure the app/game, push the button on the cartridge, drop into a menu, and save a bootable RAM image to a floppy.
NO copy protection and everything is just as you liked. It was also a way to quit a game that had no SAVE level option or when you were about to do something that could be very dangerous (gameplay wise.) Just save to disk and take on the level boss. If you died, no big deal. Run the saved image and try again.
And if that didn't work, cheat! Drop into the ML monitor, change a few characters, return to the game and not only did you have unlimited arrows, you had, essentially, a bow and arrow machine gun. (Autofire when holding down the Big Red Shiny CANDY LIKE button on the joystick was always useful when leveling up.)
Although, making the Pac-Man unkillable was considered poor form, all things considered.