I would suggest that Apple aren't keen on jailbreaking and will be less so in the future. When it first came out it was easy to jailbreak them when they were using 1.1.1 firmware, and it has got steadily harder since. Jeez, there is that old "Apple is evil for fixing bugs" again.
Background tasks (such as the weather forcast downloader and the traffic alerts on my Treo) don't flatten the battery noticable more than before. Why does the iPhone get neutered? Why the hell would a weather forcast downloader or a traffic alerts app even need to be a background task? Is there a fundamental flaw in the Treo OS that requires this?
Baloney. You can buy about 5 Macbook Airs by selling off the Windows and Linux laptops on Ubuntu on ebay + $10,000 cash prize. Anyone who tried for the Macbook while sitting on Linux and Windows vulnerabilities is a idiot. Double-dare Baloney. Sitting on a Windows vulnerability and hoping it's still 0day when you want to enter a contest is suicide.
Good to see that social engineering is still all it requires to compromise something. So why weren't the Windows and Linux machines be able to be hacked inspite of the social engineering and users being at the helm all day? Because all those who had exploits made for the occasion were fucked by the fact that some asshole had the nerve to make public the vulnerability they used, thus robbing them of the desired 0day status.
I think the more interesting question is who's not reading the rules. Pwning a box in 2 minutes sounds pretty crazy, but how long does it take to direct someone to a malicious web site you've created beforehand? Of course, either way leaves me hanging until the patch comes out. How long does it take to send somebody to a one of thousands of malicious web sites that don't use a 0day exploit only you know about, but instead one of several that are still not fixed?
If you would prefer a MacBook Air over the $10,000 prize, you truly are a Mac Fanboi to the highest extreme. What would that make someone who prefers a $10,000 prize over a MacBook Air + $10,000 prize?
Uhh? Can't they ditch the Dell in the nearest trashcan and run to the Apple store with the $10,000 in cash? Or did you miss reading about the cash prize under the influence of some kind of field. Illegally dumping a Dell will probably get you fined more than $10,000.
To be completely fair, though, the Vista and Ubuntu machines are, according to all sources I've found, still up and still unhacked. If you can still win those (which I think you can?) even though there's no longer a cash prize there's at least incentive for someone to hack them. If it were a case of people coming prepared with vulnerabilities on all three machines you'd expect one of the other two would have been brought down by now.
Well, that just means one guy came in with an exploit set up, probably using a vulnerability he had found (and was sitting on) some time ago, just to get a chance at the MacBook. Compare that to the guys who are working hard to "make working exploit code" for fresh vulnerabilities they (think) they found.
Most of the discussion seems to be around the EULA & not the vulnerabilities.
Or have the fanboys modded down any comment about the vulnerabilities? Nope, the other hatebois only read the headline.
In certain jurisdictions, yes a signature is requested, sometime even with extra handwritten approval (such as "I have read and I approve") otherwise the contract is not binding. You mean those jurisdictions where stores are illegal? Do you sign a contract every time you buy chewing gum? Are you denying that there is a implied unsigned contract when you exchange cash for goods?
As someone who regularly uses the functions "copy" and "paste", I can tell you that there are many times where I c/p a blob of text and forgot to change something crucial in it. This happens to many people. Apparently, the folks at Apple are not immune to human flaws. So that's why they left it out of the iPhone...
Actually, in regards to QuickTime and iTunes, it doesn't simply show you iTunes. The ONLY update available for QuickTime is "QuickTime + iTunes". I have the most recent version of QuickTime, and I don't have iTunes installed, and it kept showing me that "update." Eventually I just disabled it. If you want to use the updater, you MUST install iTunes. Annoying. And I have the latest version of Quicktime, an ancient version of iTunes, and I have yet to see anything about a need to update iTunes, let alone any mention of Safari. Sorry, you are wrong.
I don't use thunderbird, so I don't know. Firefox, on the other hand, does not bundle thunderbird, and it certainly doesn't offer any plugins out of the box. They have a landing page which you can read through and take explicit action to opt into, which is nothing like having an updater which you have to opt out of. But a download is not an update. Well, if Apple did that, most here would still complain.
* Install iTunes, have it hijack all my multimedia file types. Not unless you are really, really dumb.
* Have all the mime types replaced in my browser (a new plugin to show jpg files, yay!) Not unless you are really, really dumb.
* Install an "iPod sync tool" in my system tray Not unless you are really, really dumb. I am begining to see a pattern.
And Firefox forcefully opens a page of extras I need to install to make it bearable after each update, and there is no obvious way to disable that - which becomes worse because it does that every time it crashes before you quit after updating (or rather when it shows the stupid page and then crashes).
Of course I could quit Firefox after updating (which is stupid enough), but then it won't restore the session - IOW the only real way to get rid of that page is to restart Windows after updating Firefox - how dumb is that?
For instance, the 10 commandments are already invalidated for Christians. So you admit that killing infidels is okay for Christians - why would they leave them out of the invalidated 5th (or 6th, depending on how you count).
Pick any deficiency in any software or hardware. Watch a fanboy claiming first that it doesn't exist, then that 99% of the users aren't affected, then that some convoluted workaround is absolutely not a big deal. It's all the same.
Suuure. The typical sign of a hateboy is that he picks some perceived flaw, blows it out of proportion, and sees any motion that he did just that as proof that the "fanbois" are after him, and of course that he was right all along, else they wouldn't deny it.
Those are Old Testament quotes; they're mostly all superceded by the New one. Either the Bible is true for each and every word in both parts or it isn't. I now declare the 10 commandments invalid for all true Christians.
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Nope, it's your ability to write coherently that's doubtful.
No wonder you didn't see the posts, they were mostly first posts to the anti-Apple articles you didn't see either. Thanks for the confirmation.
You must have ignored all those +5 Insightful "Apple sucks" posts, too.
Someone who can read.
Major OS Revisions, Apple vs. Microsoft:
Your method of comparison is (unsuprisingly) idiotic.
Yeah, because the differences between 10.1 and 10.2 are much bigger than between XP and XP x.64To be completely fair, though, the Vista and Ubuntu machines are, according to all sources I've found, still up and still unhacked. If you can still win those (which I think you can?) even though there's no longer a cash prize there's at least incentive for someone to hack them. If it were a case of people coming prepared with vulnerabilities on all three machines you'd expect one of the other two would have been brought down by now.
Well, that just means one guy came in with an exploit set up, probably using a vulnerability he had found (and was sitting on) some time ago, just to get a chance at the MacBook. Compare that to the guys who are working hard to "make working exploit code" for fresh vulnerabilities they (think) they found.Or have the fanboys modded down any comment about the vulnerabilities?
Nope, the other hatebois only read the headline.
As someone who regularly uses the functions "copy" and "paste", I can tell you that there are many times where I c/p a blob of text and forgot to change something crucial in it. This happens to many people. Apparently, the folks at Apple are not immune to human flaws. So that's why they left it out of the iPhone...
Let's not forget that the same god then changed all rules again 700 years later, when he wrote the next book, an instant success.
Of course it isn't, the two religions made up different ones.
* Install iTunes, have it hijack all my multimedia file types.
Not unless you are really, really dumb. * Have all the mime types replaced in my browser (a new plugin to show jpg files, yay!)
Not unless you are really, really dumb. * Install an "iPod sync tool" in my system tray
Not unless you are really, really dumb. I am begining to see a pattern.
Of course I could quit Firefox after updating (which is stupid enough), but then it won't restore the session - IOW the only real way to get rid of that page is to restart Windows after updating Firefox - how dumb is that?
Suuure. The typical sign of a hateboy is that he picks some perceived flaw, blows it out of proportion, and sees any motion that he did just that as proof that the "fanbois" are after him, and of course that he was right all along, else they wouldn't deny it.