This must mean that a 1996 LEXUS ES 300 is as dangerous as a Corvair... I saw one that was in an accident and the Lexus was dented. I know that the Corvair will only explode and catch on fire... but... the Lexus is just as dangerous as the Corvair.
So we know there is a vulerability... How many people do we know of that got infected or hacked via this exploit. Lets pretent that Apple has 5% of the marketshare. I know 40 people that got hit with Blaster and many of them were also hit with the I Love you Virus and a few others along the way. So with the Windows machines taking up 95 percent of the market... going by the numbers there is 1 mac user for every 19 PC users... So I should definatly know 2 people that were r00ted by a L33T H4X0R with this recent attack?
With OS 10.3 we expect a few if the "gee wiz" features that will not make it back to the 10.2 experience. While the "security flaws" are a little difficult to get installed in such a way that they are actually flaws... they are still flaws.
The thing that has gotten to me in the near week that OS 10.3 has been out is, there is no Safari 1.1 for Mac OS 10.2.x Safari is Apple freeware, but if they fixed all the Javascript and many of the issues that plagued the 1.0 release, why not let us 10.2.x users have our fill of it. We want javascript to work for us.
I hearby would like to license the development method of drinking much caffinated beverages... staying up way to late on a debug session and remaining paste white year round.
This Slashdot posting is brought to you by the letter U and the Number 2... With a grant from the Caranagie foundation. Even if this were possible there would be more albums that have the Fund Raiser in the middle of a song... and with that... I couldn't really live like that... I am really okay with paying a few bucks to PBS every year or so... I do love Red Green. However... if you are just ripping people off (not that we are not being ripped off the otherway) make sure atleast the band is getting their piece of the action. Oh yeah Negitivland probably has some copywrite on the first part of this message... but I will site fair use. --Turvey
It isn't like the songs are zapped from your computer... you just have to re-authorize it with american funds? I do plan to travel outside of the US sometime in the next year and I don't think that once I get to flying over international waters that my ipod or ibook will explode. I guess if I were planning to move forever to someplace like that I will backup all of my.plist files that are related to the DRM stuffs that are part of the iTMS DRM stuffs. This is not a big deal for 99.99% of iTMS users. For those of us that moved away to Canada... it is punishment for free medical insurance. --Turvey
I believe it could be very well used for other things, such as writers writing with other writers... for a movies scene... I am writing the scene and my co-writer is adding more glitz and glamour to the dialouge so I don't make it come out all corny and terrible...
Wait? Who pays for pirated things? How does that help terrorists? Doesn't piracy not pay anybody? The only one making any cash in piracy that I see is the lowest cost CD brand.
*I would like to state for the record that I am not a pirate*
A few years back I was using a VAX/VMS account and had a few programs that allowed users to log various activities. The problem with the system is that the logic of the program relied on the users writing to the file then closing the file handle with the "close" command. One of the users had a friend with the last name "Close". In your mail you could "assign" names to be short handles for e-mail addresses. Now the system was implemented for a clock-in/clock-out system. And no one could write to the file while it was still "open". So... I eventually figured it out. It took a bit longer than finding the kid who knew assigned a friend to be "IF" after the interactive fiction board he ran.
If they are using two microphones that are not omni-directional, but instead uni-directional then the gate is the perfect thing for them. Every microphone has a diffrent sweet spot. For the uni-directional mic you can have rather loud noises all around it... as long as the sound isn't directed into the sweet spot, it isn't going to get picked up much at all. Thus the sound gate would most definatly kill any noise made at Mic 2 from the person at Mic 1.
If someone wanted to transport a highly sensitive document over the world without using a network. I could see light waves being a highly secure medium. Send 4 encrypted "bottles of light" to the destination... and have each one of the bottles be 1/4 of the information. If someone steals on of the 4 bottles... or if one of them is damaged... no message is recieved at the other end.
Granted the machinary that would pick up a half meter of light from a "bottle of light" would have to do a lot of quick calculation... unless they released it slowly... like their previous experiments to get light to move at a bicycles pace. The nice thing about light as a storage medium is that the molocules would be infinely close in proximity of one another. If a given the burst technology existed I guess the only thing slowing this down would be the pulse rate that could be achieved from a laser source. I could imagine a line of light, no longer than a football field that contains more information than the current internet.
People generally are limited by two things when it comes to their computer. The input and the out put. The input... the muscle control it takes to type or move a mouse. This typicall is taken care of via nifty specialized input devices. There are tons of these devices... all of them are odd looking but serve a specific function. As for out put... persons that are blind are the people that are hurt most in this area. People that are deaf are not terribly disadvantaged by having a computer without sound (unless they are playing games... then they get fragged quite easily.) In fact most of the NT/Win2k machines on the campus where I work do not have speakers attached to them.
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I have seen many devices like this for the blind... usually costing upto multi-thousands of dollars. Each unit that i have seen is the size of an old school tape recorder. If this could be reliably introduced to the market from IBM or Palm, I could see a huge market for these devices.
Perhaps the best thing Poloriod could have done would have been a camera that had the instant picture capabilities... And also had the ability to store that same picture digitally for later use. The old combo camera. I would have went for one of those.
<sarcasm>Only 300 Mhz? And so what if it can get 2.4 GFLOPS per processor... What are GFLOPS? Why aren't these machines as fast as pentium pro chips? I saw it has 192 processors... it better. So this machine has the processing power of 27 or 28 of the new Pentium processors that run at 2.1 GHZ.... Hardly seems worth it. I bet this Cray system probably ships with 5400 RPM disk drives too. Probably all about 800 MB. I don't think I will be buying one of these any time soon. And the darn thing is round? Probably stole some of the designers from Apple. </sarcasm>
Troll article. One little sentence about "we are corperate partners with Microsoft" now back with the roast of an OS that threatens our corperate partner.
Anyone here that has read "The Fountainhead" realizes that there is a reason mediocre product prevail.
It is hundred times easier to convince someone that MS-Office crashed than it is to convince them that VI or JOVE crashed.
Command line? Extremely sweet GUI? I have been connecting to my Linux box and doing the command line thing... Repetitive tasks need command line interfaces or some intelligent scripting interface. Tasks that you will only do once or twice... I think a GUI can be fine for such a thing. More recently though I have been mounting my root directory via netatalk and writing the shell scripts with BBEDIT and running them in the ssh terminal. Once OS X gets here I can do it all in one stop shopping...
To me it is all about one thing... workflow. With OS X all of the tools are on one box. What else are you going to edit a picture on? You're pesky "Can't devide?/Intel inside?".
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Now if only they could get one to automatically play a real F or some of the more complicated SUS7#'s for us...
I have the fealing that most guitarists use the F just to stop me from trying to learn the song.
--Turvey
This must mean that a 1996 LEXUS ES 300 is as dangerous as a Corvair... I saw one that was in an accident and the Lexus was dented. I know that the Corvair will only explode and catch on fire... but... the Lexus is just as dangerous as the Corvair.
So we know there is a vulerability... How many people do we know of that got infected or hacked via this exploit. Lets pretent that Apple has 5% of the marketshare. I know 40 people that got hit with Blaster and many of them were also hit with the I Love you Virus and a few others along the way. So with the Windows machines taking up 95 percent of the market... going by the numbers there is 1 mac user for every 19 PC users... So I should definatly know 2 people that were r00ted by a L33T H4X0R with this recent attack?
However I know of Zero that were affected by it.
Take a second... figure my point out.
With OS 10.3 we expect a few if the "gee wiz" features that will not make it back to the 10.2 experience. While the "security flaws" are a little difficult to get installed in such a way that they are actually flaws... they are still flaws.
The thing that has gotten to me in the near week that OS 10.3 has been out is, there is no Safari 1.1 for Mac OS 10.2.x
Safari is Apple freeware, but if they fixed all the Javascript and many of the issues that plagued the 1.0 release, why not let us 10.2.x users have our fill of it. We want javascript to work for us.
Marky Mark was not in NKOTB... His brother Donny was.
I hearby would like to license the development method of drinking much caffinated beverages... staying up way to late on a debug session and remaining paste white year round.
Take THAT!
--Turvey
This Slashdot posting is brought to you by the letter U and the Number 2... With a grant from the Caranagie foundation.
Even if this were possible there would be more albums that have the Fund Raiser in the middle of a song... and with that... I couldn't really live like that...
I am really okay with paying a few bucks to PBS every year or so... I do love Red Green. However... if you are just ripping people off (not that we are not being ripped off the otherway) make sure atleast the band is getting their piece of the action.
Oh yeah Negitivland probably has some copywrite on the first part of this message... but I will site fair use.
--Turvey
It isn't like the songs are zapped from your computer... you just have to re-authorize it with american funds? I do plan to travel outside of the US sometime in the next year and I don't think that once I get to flying over international waters that my ipod or ibook will explode. I guess if I were planning to move forever to someplace like that I will backup all of my .plist files that are related to the DRM stuffs that are part of the iTMS DRM stuffs.
This is not a big deal for 99.99% of iTMS users.
For those of us that moved away to Canada... it is punishment for free medical insurance.
--Turvey
The national drug Czar is anti-drugs... The privacy Czar is anti-privacy...
--CJT
I believe it could be very well used for other things, such as writers writing with other writers... for a movies scene... I am writing the scene and my co-writer is adding more glitz and glamour to the dialouge so I don't make it come out all corny and terrible...
--Chris
Wait? Who pays for pirated things? How does that help terrorists? Doesn't piracy not pay anybody? The only one making any cash in piracy that I see is the lowest cost CD brand.
*I would like to state for the record that I am not a pirate*
What about Kermit with CRC-32 checking and amazing packet length.
Come on people get with the late eighties.
-bucktug
A few years back I was using a VAX/VMS account and had a few programs that allowed users to log various activities. The problem with the system is that the logic of the program relied on the users writing to the file then closing the file handle with the "close" command. One of the users had a friend with the last name "Close". In your mail you could "assign" names to be short handles for e-mail addresses. Now the system was implemented for a clock-in/clock-out system. And no one could write to the file while it was still "open". So... I eventually figured it out. It took a bit longer than finding the kid who knew assigned a friend to be "IF" after the interactive fiction board he ran.
--Bucktug
--Turvey
--Turvey
I can see it now... Dozens of future slashdotter being bullied out of their lunch and gym money.
--Turvey
If they are using two microphones that are not omni-directional, but instead uni-directional then the gate is the perfect thing for them. Every microphone has a diffrent sweet spot. For the uni-directional mic you can have rather loud noises all around it... as long as the sound isn't directed into the sweet spot, it isn't going to get picked up much at all. Thus the sound gate would most definatly kill any noise made at Mic 2 from the person at Mic 1.
If someone wanted to transport a highly sensitive document over the world without using a network. I could see light waves being a highly secure medium. Send 4 encrypted "bottles of light" to the destination... and have each one of the bottles be 1/4 of the information. If someone steals on of the 4 bottles... or if one of them is damaged... no message is recieved at the other end.
Granted the machinary that would pick up a half meter of light from a "bottle of light" would have to do a lot of quick calculation... unless they released it slowly... like their previous experiments to get light to move at a bicycles pace.
The nice thing about light as a storage medium is that the molocules would be infinely close in proximity of one another. If a given the burst technology existed I guess the only thing slowing this down would be the pulse rate that could be achieved from a laser source. I could imagine a line of light, no longer than a football field that contains more information than the current internet.
--Turvey
People generally are limited by two things when it comes to their computer. The input and the out put. The input... the muscle control it takes to type or move a mouse. This typicall is taken care of via nifty specialized input devices. There are tons of these devices... all of them are odd looking but serve a specific function. As for out put... persons that are blind are the people that are hurt most in this area. People that are deaf are not terribly disadvantaged by having a computer without sound (unless they are playing games... then they get fragged quite easily.) In fact most of the NT/Win2k machines on the campus where I work do not have speakers attached to them.
I have seen many devices like this for the blind... usually costing upto multi-thousands of dollars. Each unit that i have seen is the size of an old school tape recorder. If this could be reliably introduced to the market from IBM or Palm, I could see a huge market for these devices.
--Turvey
Perhaps the best thing Poloriod could have done would have been a camera that had the instant picture capabilities... And also had the ability to store that same picture digitally for later use. The old combo camera. I would have went for one of those.
--Turvey
<sarcasm>Only 300 Mhz? And so what if it can get 2.4 GFLOPS per processor... What are GFLOPS? Why aren't these machines as fast as pentium pro chips? I saw it has 192 processors... it better. So this machine has the processing power of 27 or 28 of the new Pentium processors that run at 2.1 GHZ.... Hardly seems worth it. I bet this Cray system probably ships with 5400 RPM disk drives too. Probably all about 800 MB. I don't think I will be buying one of these any time soon. And the darn thing is round? Probably stole some of the designers from Apple. </sarcasm>
Troll article. One little sentence about "we are corperate partners with Microsoft" now back with the roast of an OS that threatens our corperate partner.
Anyone here that has read "The Fountainhead" realizes that there is a reason mediocre product prevail.
It is hundred times easier to convince someone that MS-Office crashed than it is to convince them that VI or JOVE crashed.
Just randomness.
--bucktug
Command line? Extremely sweet GUI? I have been connecting to my Linux box and doing the command line thing... Repetitive tasks need command line interfaces or some intelligent scripting interface. Tasks that you will only do once or twice... I think a GUI can be fine for such a thing. More recently though I have been mounting my root directory via netatalk and writing the shell scripts with BBEDIT and running them in the ssh terminal. Once OS X gets here I can do it all in one stop shopping... To me it is all about one thing... workflow. With OS X all of the tools are on one box. What else are you going to edit a picture on? You're pesky "Can't devide?/Intel inside?".