Wouldn't happen to be intended to delay the adoption of the new players until next year would it, by which time maybe they will figure out how to actually sell a usable product...
I wish people would stop confusing Interface with OS.
Sure, when people talk about OS X they are often referring to it's interface (Aqua), but an interface does NOT have to be integral to the OS. Linux / X-Windows are the obvious example on Slashdot.
Thats because they left the 30%+ tips with the watress at the bar the night before and don't have any money now.
Or maybe it's because half the time the waiters and waitresses are so obviously hung over from being out partying the night before that their service sucks.
na, can't be that.
(I generally tip well, but don't screw up my meal. It isn't complicated. I expect to be served promptly; I expect you to delivery the bill in a timely manner and I expect you to handle any problems that do crop up in an appropriate manner. You fail any of those and your tip will diminish.).
There is very little, if anything, in his story which is likely to be patently false.
The questions about who he was meeting and the type of relationship are actually standard questions if/when customs discovers you are meeting someone you don't really know.
Canada, and American customs are NOT fond of people coming in to the country to have relationships.
You can find other examples of the same type of laptop searches elsewhere on the Internet. (and previously mentioned on Slashdot).
As for the procedures followed when the iPod was stuck; at worst they get to practice their emergency procedures; at best it turns out a terrorist wanted to blow up the plane and it gets thwarted in spite of him claiming it's an ipod.
Just a guess, but my bet is that after many people saw the footage of a Dell bursting into flames they are taking battery recalls a lot more seriously, so they called right away when they heard of the recall, instead of over a period of days or weeks.
In general TDES with three different keys (3TDES) has a key length of 168 bits: three 56-bit DES keys (with parity bits 3TDES has the total storage length of 192 bits), but due to the meet-in-the-middle attack the effective security it provides is only 112 bits. A variant, called two-key TDES (2TDES), uses k1 = k3, thus reducing the key size to 112 bits and the storage length to 128 bits. However, this mode is susceptible to certain chosen-plaintext or known-plaintext attacks [2] [3] and thus it is officially [4] designated to have only 80-bits of security.
I'm sure that blackboxes on airplanes require specific auditing requirements and not just any hardware can be used for it.
As for the boxes in cars, well, at this point the manufacturer is under no obligation to disclose circumstances in which the data may be meaningless, misleading, or worse.
Now somebody has to explain to me why they require several years to inform customers. 2007, or 2008 would be quite reachable as target dates.
If you look at the under-the-covers changes Apple made to the available frameworks you would understand why developers have been moving to the latest and greatest versions.
All the users think they should or shouldn't upgrade based on the obvious changes to the OS; meanwhile Apple keeps adding frameworks to die for.
I'd love to see the sales statistics on the Family Pack. I mean it is entirely voluntary purchase as there is nothing preventing someone from buying a single copy and using it on all their computers at home.
It probably just needs to be signed and they haven't made a tool for it yet.
I'm sure someone else will make a tool in short order and make it at-least easy enough to distribute and install the games. They won't be able do anything about requiring the development tools and subscription. But so what?
If it catches on enough there will be some pressure on Microsoft to make it easier to share and distribute the projects. I think this is an excellent idea, although I expect the whole API to be rather limited and inappropriate for many projects.
Actually; they usually ignore the problem until it makes the front page of damn near every newspaper in north america.
Or didn't you know Ford spent years denying various problems of their vehicles. (Not that they are the only manufacturer to do this, they are just the most obvious.). (Ford Pinto; Ignition fires (I know someone personally who had his dash catch fire and destroy his car), Ford Explorer roll-over issues). Many industries have improved how they handle recall issues.
I really wonder about the intelligence of someone (not you) who knows full well a power adapter is starting to fail but keeps using it for the next few weeks until it does. REPLACE IT BEFORE IT KILLS SOMEONE.
Do you drive you're car until the the brakes fail, or do you have them fixed/replaced as normal maintenance?
It is quite possible, and based on the article I think likely, that these people have consistently abused their power adapters. I am always carefull when wrapping up cords to not stress them. Some people aren't so careful and some people are down right abusive. I'm not even disputing that Apple's design may have contributed to the issue; perhaps one of the power adapters was a very poor design.
which is exactly the problem many theaters are having. The customers stopped coming back, but the short term profits were good. When the short term profits dropped they upped the prices more and again made 'more money'. And lost more customers in the long term.
The local theater (was Silver City/Famous Players) dropped their price by almost 1/3rd a few years ago and gee, guess what? People started coming back.
The food prices are still too high, but that is easily solved by going out and having dinner before catching a movie.
NeXT ported ther OS to x86 a long time ago, but it didn't do them any favors. (It didn't help tht the hardware requirements were extremely specific and virtually nobody could run it. (The only person I know personally who ran a copy worked at a computer shop and had purchased the best equipment he could at the time, helps when you get significant discounts). OS/2 ran on significantly more hardware than the Intel version of NeXT.
Since NeXT ported their OS from 68K to x86 long before the integration with Apple; and they had to port to PPC platform they have a certain mount of skill in maintaining it across platforms. This allowed Apple to hedge their bets and just keep moving the OS X kernel forward and make sure it runs cross-platform. When it became apparent that IBM couldn't keep up their end of the deal they simply changed platforms.
Keeping the OS platform neutral was in their interest for catching and reducing bugs anyway. If the code works on one platform, and not the other and it shouldn't be relying on platform specific behavior it is obviously a bug. (Obviously certain code, particularly in the kernel is platform specific).
I still doubt they had planned 'for years' to switch to x86. If IBM had been able to push the G5 line as fast as they had promised Apple I doubt they ever would have switched.
See, you take some playdough and mash it up until you have this nice grey colour, and then you poke some wires it in and add batteries.
See? Watch this video and you'll see it go boom.
(Show video with big explosion).
See? We have to ban playdough as it's dangerous.
That is about the credibility of using an add-on card to prove that there is an available exploit in a particular laptop that has built in wireless. It doesn't matter if it's true or not, they presented it in an unbelievable fashion.
Personally it wouldn't surprise me either way; but their method is unconvincing. As security researchers they should know that.
Especially considering both products have PC versions.
While they probably wouldn't be able to share the entire codebase (obvious platform differences) they could readily share the core engine of VirtualPC as well as the VB stuff.
Virtual PC going away isn't a significant loss for anyone. Parallels works quite well now and VMWare is expected soon. As well these companies have experience with virtualization, not emulation. (VirtualPC emulated a PC, x86, etc.)
Dropping VB support in Office on the Mac platform is a more aggressive move and obviously means they are prepared to lose sales. (The good thing is VB or/dExcel viruses won't be cross platform:)
They did use a different compiler. They actually licensed the original Objective-C compiler. Without knowing the full details I expect they switch to gcc only because it supported more processors.
As well, it is quite likely the only reason why they wanted to only give binary modules back was because of the prior licensing arrangement they had regarding Objective-C. I'm sure it took them a lot of effort internally to determine if they even could release the source code.
Why is it people think that others are taking advantage (in a negative way) when someone uses Open Source, but doesn't have the skills to provide code back?
Ok, I admit that if the audience is big enough, and monetary donations are relevent that code is not the only way to contribute.
At the end of the day isn't it the idea that people are using it that matters?
As for supporting Oracle there are long-term advantages to supporting multiple databases; focusing on a single database allows for taking advantage of it's features, but at the expense of future compatibility with other databases, possibly tying the new versions to too many proprietary features making it diffiicult to support alternatives.
Isn't that the argument generally used when supporting multiple browsers. Supporting multiple browsers, and working towards standards has long term benefits.
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Wouldn't happen to be intended to delay the adoption of the new players until next year would it, by which time maybe they will figure out how to actually sell a usable product...
I wish people would stop confusing Interface with OS.
Sure, when people talk about OS X they are often referring to it's interface (Aqua), but an interface does NOT have to be integral to the OS.
Linux / X-Windows are the obvious example on Slashdot.
Thats because they left the 30%+ tips with the watress at the bar the night before and don't have any money now.
Or maybe it's because half the time the waiters and waitresses are so obviously hung over from being out partying the night before that their service sucks.
na, can't be that.
(I generally tip well, but don't screw up my meal. It isn't complicated. I expect to be served promptly; I expect you to delivery the bill in a timely manner and I expect you to handle any problems that do crop up in an appropriate manner. You fail any of those and your tip will diminish.).
There is very little, if anything, in his story which is likely to be patently false.
The questions about who he was meeting and the type of relationship are actually standard questions if/when customs discovers you are meeting someone you don't really know.
Canada, and American customs are NOT fond of people coming in to the country to have relationships.
You can find other examples of the same type of laptop searches elsewhere on the Internet. (and previously mentioned on Slashdot).
As for the procedures followed when the iPod was stuck; at worst they get to practice their emergency procedures; at best it turns out a terrorist wanted to blow up the plane and it gets thwarted in spite of him claiming it's an ipod.
Just a guess, but my bet is that after many people saw the footage of a Dell bursting into flames they are taking battery recalls a lot more seriously, so they called right away when they heard of the recall, instead of over a period of days or weeks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_DES
You missed some key points:
In general TDES with three different keys (3TDES) has a key length of 168 bits: three 56-bit DES keys (with parity bits 3TDES has the total storage length of 192 bits), but due to the meet-in-the-middle attack the effective security it provides is only 112 bits. A variant, called two-key TDES (2TDES), uses k1 = k3, thus reducing the key size to 112 bits and the storage length to 128 bits. However, this mode is susceptible to certain chosen-plaintext or known-plaintext attacks [2] [3] and thus it is officially [4] designated to have only 80-bits of security.
I'm sure that blackboxes on airplanes require specific auditing requirements and not just any hardware can be used for it.
As for the boxes in cars, well, at this point the manufacturer is under no obligation to disclose circumstances in which the data may be meaningless, misleading, or worse.
Now somebody has to explain to me why they require several years to inform customers. 2007, or 2008 would be quite reachable as target dates.
If you look at the under-the-covers changes Apple made to the available frameworks you would understand why developers have been moving to the latest and greatest versions.
All the users think they should or shouldn't upgrade based on the obvious changes to the OS; meanwhile Apple keeps adding frameworks to die for.
And in that 20 minutes the bag is either not-loaded, or unloaded.
It is a violation of FAA rules to fly with the baggage.
Who needs C4?
A carefully constructed Lithium Ion battery ought to be enough to cause serious damage and look like an accident.
I give it 6 months before Laptops with batteries are entirely banned.
I'd love to see the sales statistics on the Family Pack. I mean it is entirely voluntary purchase as there is nothing preventing someone from buying a single copy and using it on all their computers at home.
It probably just needs to be signed and they haven't made a tool for it yet.
I'm sure someone else will make a tool in short order and make it at-least easy enough to distribute and install the games. They won't be able do anything about requiring the development tools and subscription. But so what?
If it catches on enough there will be some pressure on Microsoft to make it easier to share and distribute the projects. I think this is an excellent idea, although I expect the whole API to be rather limited and inappropriate for many projects.
Actually; they usually ignore the problem until it makes the front page of damn near every newspaper in north america.
Or didn't you know Ford spent years denying various problems of their vehicles. (Not that they are the only manufacturer to do this, they are just the most obvious.).
(Ford Pinto; Ignition fires (I know someone personally who had his dash catch fire and destroy his car), Ford Explorer roll-over issues).
Many industries have improved how they handle recall issues.
I really wonder about the intelligence of someone (not you) who knows full well a power adapter is starting to fail but keeps using it for the next few weeks until it does. REPLACE IT BEFORE IT KILLS SOMEONE.
Do you drive you're car until the the brakes fail, or do you have them fixed/replaced as normal maintenance?
It is quite possible, and based on the article I think likely, that these people have consistently abused their power adapters. I am always carefull when wrapping up cords to not stress them. Some people aren't so careful and some people are down right abusive.
I'm not even disputing that Apple's design may have contributed to the issue; perhaps one of the power adapters was a very poor design.
and maybe they won't come back next time.
which is exactly the problem many theaters are having. The customers stopped coming back, but the short term profits were good. When the short term profits dropped they upped the prices more and again made 'more money'. And lost more customers in the long term.
The local theater (was Silver City/Famous Players) dropped their price by almost 1/3rd a few years ago and gee, guess what? People started coming back.
The food prices are still too high, but that is easily solved by going out and having dinner before catching a movie.
I doubt they planned to switch to x86 for years.
NeXT ported ther OS to x86 a long time ago, but it didn't do them any favors. (It didn't help tht the hardware requirements were extremely specific and virtually nobody could run it. (The only person I know personally who ran a copy worked at a computer shop and had purchased the best equipment he could at the time, helps when you get significant discounts). OS/2 ran on significantly more hardware than the Intel version of NeXT.
Since NeXT ported their OS from 68K to x86 long before the integration with Apple; and they had to port to PPC platform they have a certain mount of skill in maintaining it across platforms. This allowed Apple to hedge their bets and just keep moving the OS X kernel forward and make sure it runs cross-platform. When it became apparent that IBM couldn't keep up their end of the deal they simply changed platforms.
Keeping the OS platform neutral was in their interest for catching and reducing bugs anyway. If the code works on one platform, and not the other and it shouldn't be relying on platform specific behavior it is obviously a bug. (Obviously certain code, particularly in the kernel is platform specific).
I still doubt they had planned 'for years' to switch to x86. If IBM had been able to push the G5 line as fast as they had promised Apple I doubt they ever would have switched.
Really, look we know how to make a bomb...
See, you take some playdough and mash it up until you have this nice grey colour, and then you poke some wires it in and add batteries.
See? Watch this video and you'll see it go boom.
(Show video with big explosion).
See? We have to ban playdough as it's dangerous.
That is about the credibility of using an add-on card to prove that there is an available exploit in a particular laptop that has built in wireless. It doesn't matter if it's true or not, they presented it in an unbelievable fashion.
Personally it wouldn't surprise me either way; but their method is unconvincing. As security researchers they should know that.
This is common practice when the users in question have laptops and run around visiting clients, or other business locations.
You might not like the fact but it's true. Outlook should warn users and not corrupt it's own file.
You've been sleeping with your business techno-jargon word-a-day calendar again, haven't you?
Especially considering both products have PC versions.
While they probably wouldn't be able to share the entire codebase (obvious platform differences) they could readily share the core engine of VirtualPC as well as the VB stuff.
Virtual PC going away isn't a significant loss for anyone. Parallels works quite well now and VMWare is expected soon. As well these companies have experience with virtualization, not emulation. (VirtualPC emulated a PC, x86, etc.)
Dropping VB support in Office on the Mac platform is a more aggressive move and obviously means they are prepared to lose sales. (The good thing is VB or/dExcel viruses won't be cross platform:)
Actually, it looks like a poor knockoff.
No.
The kernel does not really perform all that well and needs some serious retooling.
They did use a different compiler. They actually licensed the original Objective-C compiler. Without knowing the full details I expect they switch to gcc only because it supported more processors.
As well, it is quite likely the only reason why they wanted to only give binary modules back was because of the prior licensing arrangement they had regarding Objective-C. I'm sure it took them a lot of effort internally to determine if they even could release the source code.
how did the gnu make nextstep possible?
The core of Next is mach/bsd; neither of which are gnu.
The majority of unix tools are available as either bsd, or gnu variants.
DAMN IT! I just bought a Mazda 6GT Hatchback!
Why is it people think that others are taking advantage (in a negative way) when someone uses Open Source, but doesn't have the skills to provide code back?
Ok, I admit that if the audience is big enough, and monetary donations are relevent that code is not the only way to contribute.
At the end of the day isn't it the idea that people are using it that matters?
As for supporting Oracle there are long-term advantages to supporting multiple databases; focusing on a single database allows for taking advantage of it's features, but at the expense of future compatibility with other databases, possibly tying the new versions to too many proprietary features making it diffiicult to support alternatives.
Isn't that the argument generally used when supporting multiple browsers. Supporting multiple browsers, and working towards standards has long term benefits.