Please tell me how Apple fixed security problems before they were informed of them?
By accident, you fucking idiot. Do you have any indication that these bugs were in any beta of Panther? No? Than @stake must have informed Apple many months ago, and Apple fixed them immediately, but only in Panther, and then both did nothing at all until 4 days ago, when Apple supposedly told Goldsmith all of a sudden that the fix is in and it's called "upgrade to Panther". Gee, you must be pretty desperately trying to find a fly in Apple's soup to believe that.
My point was that MS frequently releases patches to existing products based on fixes to the code base that were discovered while developing new products.
Well, maybe you should have said so. But your too far in zealot mode to write a concise sentence.
Unlike Apple, however, MS didn't make NT 4.0 users wait until after Win2k shipped before bothering to release the fixes for NT 4.0. Jaguar users shouldn't have had to wait until after Panther shipped to get those security fixes.
Well, genius, will you give your time-machine to Apple so they can send the fix back to before they A) shipped Panther and B) were informed of the bug after A)? As for Microsoft, they sure as hell fixed bugs in NT 4 after Win2k shipped, as well as after XP shipped - and NT4 is EOL, so they won't fix any more bugs that are found, and there will be more bugs found in NT4.
If there already hadn't been people specifically bitten by using a (non-Microsoft) software firewall and installing a brand new Windows security patch - and losing access to the internet.
Yeah, but the only reason why Linux is used in embedded systems is that people took years to chop off bloat from the kernel. That wasn't a job done in a few weeks, and the result (rather results) are pretty different from even a GUI-less desktop or server Linux distribution.
On the other hand, if you come to work taking pictures of internal affairs and publish them on the web with blatant intentions of making your employer look bad, how the fuck do you expect them to react!?!
If they think Even Microsoft wants G5s is making them look bad, they better not read the stories about how they fired that guy.
Finally, he decided to try L-tagatose, a rare left-handed sugar. When the maker accidentally sent him D-tagatose, he tested it. It was nearly as sweet as sugar, with similar baking and browning properties. By coincidence, D-tagatose is structurally similar to L-fructose, making it enough like a left-handed sugar that the small intestine absorbs only 20 to 25 percent of it. Translation: low-calorie.
As it turns out, the perfect sugar Levin was searching for wasn't left-handed at all. But it took a lesson in chiral chemistry to find it.
At $129 Jaguar offers a little more than LiteSwitchX at $15. I don't think anyone will think Panther "is a bit steep right now", but LiteSwitchX is a bargain.
This isn't about damage, it's about punishment. It has to hurt to do "victimless" crimes, else nobody will be kept from doing them. But maybe we could give them a choice: $1000 or a kick in the family jewels.
And no matter if there are technical means to get rid of SPAM or not, even the fact that a single piece of SPAM takes my mind for even the shortest time of what I actually wanted to do, and the fact that those technical means will cost me at least time and probably money to set up and maintain already make me a victim.
Yeah, imagine if we hadn't hung more of your ancestors, they would all have escaped to America, and all those monsters would have shaped the US. See, you have to thank us after all.
BTW the biggest reason why people move to the US is because the US needs qualified, well educated people - and you can't find those in the US.
Of course for those cases a simple pencil would have worked - which they couldn't use in the space craft because the graphite dust might float into the electrical systems. You have to be pretty paranoid to develop a pen that can still be used in your craft after (or even during) it lost atmosphere and/or insulation.
Huston, we have a problem. But at least our pen still works.
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Certainly noone too stupid to add it to a Mac. Oh, you mean you don't know how to do it?
Let me get this straight - sooner or later we all go the direction of the biggest jerk?
Yet another ignorant Yankee asshole tries to speak English... ho hum.
Gee, if you get all nitpicky like that, at least get it right: A teraflops is a trillion floating point operations per second.
By accident, you fucking idiot. Do you have any indication that these bugs were in any beta of Panther? No? Than @stake must have informed Apple many months ago, and Apple fixed them immediately, but only in Panther, and then both did nothing at all until 4 days ago, when Apple supposedly told Goldsmith all of a sudden that the fix is in and it's called "upgrade to Panther". Gee, you must be pretty desperately trying to find a fly in Apple's soup to believe that.
My point was that MS frequently releases patches to existing products based on fixes to the code base that were discovered while developing new products.
Well, maybe you should have said so. But your too far in zealot mode to write a concise sentence.
Well, genius, will you give your time-machine to Apple so they can send the fix back to before they A) shipped Panther and B) were informed of the bug after A)? As for Microsoft, they sure as hell fixed bugs in NT 4 after Win2k shipped, as well as after XP shipped - and NT4 is EOL, so they won't fix any more bugs that are found, and there will be more bugs found in NT4.
If there already hadn't been people specifically bitten by using a (non-Microsoft) software firewall and installing a brand new Windows security patch - and losing access to the internet.
Yeah, but the only reason why Linux is used in embedded systems is that people took years to chop off bloat from the kernel. That wasn't a job done in a few weeks, and the result (rather results) are pretty different from even a GUI-less desktop or server Linux distribution.
Sourcecode modification of your gui?
So when was the last time you modified the sourcecode of your GUI? Did you get anything useful out of it?
Less than 10% of the working population has the training, education and experience to build a complete file cabinet.
Maybe they just wanted to employ somebody cheaper without any hassle, maybe move his job to India.
Yeah, sure you did. You can't even follow who wrote what. If you thought that would raise your credibility...
Well, you're also pretty sure "there were big turquoise G4s sitting right on people's desks".
I wonder what they will do to the guy that put up signs pointing to the loading dock all over the campus.
Yup. But the developers already had their G5s for quite some time.
If they think Even Microsoft wants G5s is making them look bad, they better not read the stories about how they fired that guy.
At $129 Jaguar offers a little more than LiteSwitchX at $15. I don't think anyone will think Panther "is a bit steep right now", but LiteSwitchX is a bargain.
Hrrm, the latest craze: Frist Sroty about X! ;-)
but it's north of New York. Aurora borealis there doesn't sound that spectacular anymore, hrmm?
And no matter if there are technical means to get rid of SPAM or not, even the fact that a single piece of SPAM takes my mind for even the shortest time of what I actually wanted to do, and the fact that those technical means will cost me at least time and probably money to set up and maintain already make me a victim.
Well, "The product is a powder made from [blood that has been stored for more than six weeks and can not be used for transfusion]." Clear now?
BTW the biggest reason why people move to the US is because the US needs qualified, well educated people - and you can't find those in the US.
Hint: Leo is your friend ;-)
Huston, we have a problem. But at least our pen still works.