except I want it on my mac. Detailed network control PLUS filesystem control. Anyone know of an app that can do this? Preferrably one that is, or will be, universal binary.
I tried little snitch a while back - I found it to be kinda lacking in features. My old software firewall on XP allowed me to set detailed rules per application, allowing an application to contact some addreses, but not others, to connect on certain ports, to only use certain protocols. I'd love to see something like this for the mac.
I enjoyed having something similar to zone alarm running on my old windows PC - it was reassuring to know every single time an app tried to connect to the interweb.
I'd love to see some similar products for the mac, if anyone has some links. Ideally I'd like to limit certain applications to only be able to write to certain directories, and also be notified whenever someone is trying to do something fishy.
If anyone is a troll here it's the AC with factually inaccurate garbage. Of course, no one moderates based on logic or facts on slashdot - its all about moderating what you like and don't like. Now this one is offtopic, bitches - mod it down, I've got karma to burn.
Goddamn do I hate dongles. I do all my data capture/analysis in a single program. It has great integration with matlab so I can do a lot of heavy scripting and automate the most boring tasks. Start the experiment, hit "collect", and go get a cup of coffee. Innovation at its finest.
However, the goddamn software requires a dongle. A parallel port dongle. That means it's damn near impossible to run the software under parallels on my macbook, and actually work on my scripts while I'm out of the office. You're talking about a 50,000 dollar software package and they make us jump through a zillion hoops. For fifty grand, we should be able to make as many copies as we want.
In all fairness, the new intel macs represent a MASSIVE leap forward in terms of speed and flexibility of a system. The laptops were stagnant as hell, with Apple trying to squeeze years of extra life out of the G4, a processor that should have died a long time ago. I had a G4 ibook, and upgraded to a 13" macbook the week it came out - even with the stock 512 megs of Ram, and the shitty intel integrated graphics, my macbook is faster than my ibook...
and the macbook is running two OSes at once via parallels!
Mac folks are certainly ones who like to upgrade and upgrade often - they like to have the newest and shiniest goodies from the Holy Land in cupertino. The Intel switch, though, is something a little bit extra-special, as it represents not an incremental speed bump but a massive leap.
And one final point - you can usually sell an Apple product a year after you bought it and only take around a 10-20% loss. That's pretty remarkable for a computer - a Dell sure doesn't hold its value like that. I know more than one Apple user (myself included) who takes the extra money it would cost to get a 3-year applecare plan, and uses that money to upgrade in a year by selling the old system off on ebay and buying a newer, better one. Part of why mac users upgrade so often is because it's actually fairly cheap to do so if you are smart about it.
I ran into this on the macrumors forums just yesterday. There was an article about that DRM protest, and these rabid fanbois were FOAMING AT THE MOUTH defending DRM. It was unreal to see a bunch of people who so strongly supported DRM. In fact, outside of someone who PROFITS from DRM, these idiots were the only people I've EVER seen defend that bullshit. It was really mind-blowing.
A lot of my friends accuse me of being a mac fanboy, or even a zealot, because I strongly believe the platform is superior and try to get as many people as possible to switch. If I'm a zealot, what the hell are those whackjobs over at MR?
Grandparent - funny and insightful comment about the sometimes over-simplification of mac UI's
Parent - stupid troll who doesn't realize that there are about ten different ways to do most tasks in OS X, with more uniform keyboard shortcuts and extensive contextual menus than windows has.
As someone who is a big fan of Pembroke Welsh Corgis... and who doesn't give a crap about anime...
I am freaking SICK of meeting fat people with corgis named "Ein". We get it, you're a nerd. If you have to do something nerdly, don't make it so obvious. Name your dog after your D&D character or something.
Just a guess here, but I'm thinking that someone who is willing to have his finger sliced open with a scalpel, the layers of dermis split with an elevator, and a little bead shoved in there, all probably done without anethetic....
Probably not all that concerned about it ripping out.
Tom Brazda is no "hack". He is one of a handful of people who PIONEERED the modern body modification scene. He invented a lot of the tools and techniques that can be found in any piercing studio on the beach today. He helped push the industry to its limits, while also helping spread word about how to do things as safely and carefully as possible. People like Tom are the reason every respectable studio on the planet has an autoclave.
Second, Shannon Larratt is no idiot. A risk taker, sure. Someone who uses his own body as a testbed for the untried? Absolutely. But an idiot? Not a chance. He knows exactly what he's doing, and he knows the risks. He's written countless articles about the safety aspects of piercings, tattoos, and more extreme body modifications. He's quite well aware of the risks, and indeed most likely purposely chose to have Tom do the removal because that way he could document every step of the process for others to learn.
Third - read the article more carefully. Another person with the same implant went to a doctor to have it removed. The Dr. fucked it up. The local emergency room person may or may not do the same. The problem with Doctors is, just like everything else in the world - there are ones who are good, and there are ones who are not. A perfect example of this is doctors who tell people with an infected piercing to remove it and shoot them up with antibiotics. This can often be a VERY bad idea, because the piercing can no longer be properly cleaned, AND it can no longer drain. You better hope those antibiotics work, because the good Doc has just taken away all but one of your treatment options.
And last but not least - your quip about a sterile environment shows just how clueless you are. Any good quality piercer will have sterility routines that put your average family practice doctor to shame. EVERYTHING is autoclaved, needles are disposed of in proper medical sharps containers, studios are kept immaculately clean and gloves are changed CONSTANTLY during a procedure.
My piercier practices better hygiene than my oral surgeon.
I think you'd be surprised how many people here make (or have made) maille. Swing by home depot and buy a dowel, some cutting pliers, and a spool of wire, and give it a shot. It's a good "thinking" hobby - always helped me relieve some stress.
It could have been done on CDs, but not floppies. Autorun.inf doesn't do anything on a floppy.
The difference here, of course, is that a USB stick is something someone would be likely to keep to use themselves. A burned CD isn't nearly as appealing.
A lot of the stuff you've listed is slowly losing its validity.
For example, the studio's expensive equipment is not nearly as expensive as it used to be. Recordings made today with a little firewire preamp and a copy of garageband sound better than recordings made in the old magnetic tape based studios.
And all that advertising and shoving the music down peoples' throats? Look at how viral advertising on the interweb has made phenomenon out of the silliest crap. Make something enough people genuinely enjoy, and it has a good chance of making its way around the 'net.
More and more small bands are learning that they can get their music heard without bending over and getting fucked by the RIAA. This is great news! The only major hurdle at this point that's blocking non-RIAA bands from going mainstream is the strangle hold the RIAA has on the radio industry. Thankfully, thinks like podcasting are negating even that need.
I but video games for one reason, and one reason only. To play them during the occasional drunken downtime with a couple of friends. I don't want to have to waste hours of my own time unlocking multiplayer levels just so I can actually PLAY those levels when my friends arrive. And God forbid a memory card gets corrupted and I have to spend another 50 hours unlocking all the shit so I can actually enjoy the part of the game that I WANT to play.
Perfect example: Any of the Goldeneye-derived shooters, like timesplitters or perfect dark. You start out the game with four or five multiplayer levels and a half a handful of play modes, when there are like 20 different play modes in the game, and three times as many levels as you have access to.
To get these levels, you have to do all kinds of asinine stuff, like play mini-games and shooting galleries. I don't want to do all that shit - I want to jump into a multiplayer game with my friends. I wouldn't even give a fuck if there WAS a single player mode - I want my games for multiplayer fun, and that is ALL i want them for.
How is this an example of how things "cut both ways"?
Politicians ignore science to further their own goals. Hippies further their own goals by ignoring the facts. Where are the scientists abusing anything here?
Right.... the republicans are raping the environment because they want to stick it to the democrats. It has NOTHING to do with the millions of campaign dollars contributed by companies that profit from the destruction of the planet.
In the government's defense, here... talk to an average teenager today (or visit myspace) and you'll see that a good percentage of parents are not, in fact, doing JACK SHIT to uphold their responsibility.
Maybe we should put RFID chips in peoples' genitals, and gather DNA samples to determine who is predetermined to be an irresponsible fuckwit. We could even program the chips to shock the hell out of those gonads to prevent procreation when the chips detect a match that's likely to produce a whiney emo douchebag.
Now just you wait, a week from now there will be a slashdot story about a blog that links to this post screaming that "THEY are proposing we electronically control human mating." Two days later it will be duped with the title "Will 2006 be like 1984?'
No one is holding a gun to your head and "forcing" you to stay in the US. If you want to go somewhere where research isn't important and tax dollars don't fund it, be my guest. Might I suggest any one of the third world nations? Maybe there you can see what it's like to be GENUINELY forced to do something, when soldiers with guns steal the food that was given to you by the big bad evil US government.
Oh wait, that food was funded by money stolen from the American taxpayers. Oh woe is me, I'm a poor fat America who has my wages stolen away while I throw out my leftover food because I can just buy some more at the grocery store. Big bad government is taking all my money:(
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This is EXACTLY what I want....
except I want it on my mac. Detailed network control PLUS filesystem control. Anyone know of an app that can do this? Preferrably one that is, or will be, universal binary.
I tried little snitch a while back - I found it to be kinda lacking in features. My old software firewall on XP allowed me to set detailed rules per application, allowing an application to contact some addreses, but not others, to connect on certain ports, to only use certain protocols. I'd love to see something like this for the mac.
I enjoyed having something similar to zone alarm running on my old windows PC - it was reassuring to know every single time an app tried to connect to the interweb.
I'd love to see some similar products for the mac, if anyone has some links. Ideally I'd like to limit certain applications to only be able to write to certain directories, and also be notified whenever someone is trying to do something fishy.
If anyone is a troll here it's the AC with factually inaccurate garbage. Of course, no one moderates based on logic or facts on slashdot - its all about moderating what you like and don't like. Now this one is offtopic, bitches - mod it down, I've got karma to burn.
Goddamn do I hate dongles. I do all my data capture/analysis in a single program. It has great integration with matlab so I can do a lot of heavy scripting and automate the most boring tasks. Start the experiment, hit "collect", and go get a cup of coffee. Innovation at its finest.
However, the goddamn software requires a dongle. A parallel port dongle. That means it's damn near impossible to run the software under parallels on my macbook, and actually work on my scripts while I'm out of the office. You're talking about a 50,000 dollar software package and they make us jump through a zillion hoops. For fifty grand, we should be able to make as many copies as we want.
Yeah, because re-encoding a video NEVER puts the sound of out sync.
Watch the original available from TFA - it's perfectly in sync.
In all fairness, the new intel macs represent a MASSIVE leap forward in terms of speed and flexibility of a system. The laptops were stagnant as hell, with Apple trying to squeeze years of extra life out of the G4, a processor that should have died a long time ago. I had a G4 ibook, and upgraded to a 13" macbook the week it came out - even with the stock 512 megs of Ram, and the shitty intel integrated graphics, my macbook is faster than my ibook...
and the macbook is running two OSes at once via parallels!
Mac folks are certainly ones who like to upgrade and upgrade often - they like to have the newest and shiniest goodies from the Holy Land in cupertino. The Intel switch, though, is something a little bit extra-special, as it represents not an incremental speed bump but a massive leap.
And one final point - you can usually sell an Apple product a year after you bought it and only take around a 10-20% loss. That's pretty remarkable for a computer - a Dell sure doesn't hold its value like that. I know more than one Apple user (myself included) who takes the extra money it would cost to get a 3-year applecare plan, and uses that money to upgrade in a year by selling the old system off on ebay and buying a newer, better one. Part of why mac users upgrade so often is because it's actually fairly cheap to do so if you are smart about it.
I ran into this on the macrumors forums just yesterday. There was an article about that DRM protest, and these rabid fanbois were FOAMING AT THE MOUTH defending DRM. It was unreal to see a bunch of people who so strongly supported DRM. In fact, outside of someone who PROFITS from DRM, these idiots were the only people I've EVER seen defend that bullshit. It was really mind-blowing.
A lot of my friends accuse me of being a mac fanboy, or even a zealot, because I strongly believe the platform is superior and try to get as many people as possible to switch. If I'm a zealot, what the hell are those whackjobs over at MR?
Grandparent - funny and insightful comment about the sometimes over-simplification of mac UI's
Parent - stupid troll who doesn't realize that there are about ten different ways to do most tasks in OS X, with more uniform keyboard shortcuts and extensive contextual menus than windows has.
So, breeding in a back yard is ok? Or breeding in a puppy mill? But put it in a lab, and that's just WRONG.
Eat a lot of paint chips when you were little?
As someone who is a big fan of Pembroke Welsh Corgis... and who doesn't give a crap about anime...
I am freaking SICK of meeting fat people with corgis named "Ein". We get it, you're a nerd. If you have to do something nerdly, don't make it so obvious. Name your dog after your D&D character or something.
Just a guess here, but I'm thinking that someone who is willing to have his finger sliced open with a scalpel, the layers of dermis split with an elevator, and a little bead shoved in there, all probably done without anethetic....
Probably not all that concerned about it ripping out.
A few points...
Tom Brazda is no "hack". He is one of a handful of people who PIONEERED the modern body modification scene. He invented a lot of the tools and techniques that can be found in any piercing studio on the beach today. He helped push the industry to its limits, while also helping spread word about how to do things as safely and carefully as possible. People like Tom are the reason every respectable studio on the planet has an autoclave.
Second, Shannon Larratt is no idiot. A risk taker, sure. Someone who uses his own body as a testbed for the untried? Absolutely. But an idiot? Not a chance. He knows exactly what he's doing, and he knows the risks. He's written countless articles about the safety aspects of piercings, tattoos, and more extreme body modifications. He's quite well aware of the risks, and indeed most likely purposely chose to have Tom do the removal because that way he could document every step of the process for others to learn.
Third - read the article more carefully. Another person with the same implant went to a doctor to have it removed. The Dr. fucked it up. The local emergency room person may or may not do the same. The problem with Doctors is, just like everything else in the world - there are ones who are good, and there are ones who are not. A perfect example of this is doctors who tell people with an infected piercing to remove it and shoot them up with antibiotics. This can often be a VERY bad idea, because the piercing can no longer be properly cleaned, AND it can no longer drain. You better hope those antibiotics work, because the good Doc has just taken away all but one of your treatment options.
And last but not least - your quip about a sterile environment shows just how clueless you are. Any good quality piercer will have sterility routines that put your average family practice doctor to shame. EVERYTHING is autoclaved, needles are disposed of in proper medical sharps containers, studios are kept immaculately clean and gloves are changed CONSTANTLY during a procedure.
My piercier practices better hygiene than my oral surgeon.
PROBABLY a fake?!?
It hits a fucking truck and the yahoos inside drive out hootin' and hollerin' like a buncha texas cowboys, the truck unscathed.
Science would be pretty fucking boring if we only ever did experiments where we knew the outcome.
If I had mod points, I'd mod you up just for mentioning BME. I have a few "user experience" articles posted there myself.
I think you'd be surprised how many people here make (or have made) maille. Swing by home depot and buy a dowel, some cutting pliers, and a spool of wire, and give it a shot. It's a good "thinking" hobby - always helped me relieve some stress.
It could have been done on CDs, but not floppies. Autorun.inf doesn't do anything on a floppy.
The difference here, of course, is that a USB stick is something someone would be likely to keep to use themselves. A burned CD isn't nearly as appealing.
A lot of the stuff you've listed is slowly losing its validity.
For example, the studio's expensive equipment is not nearly as expensive as it used to be. Recordings made today with a little firewire preamp and a copy of garageband sound better than recordings made in the old magnetic tape based studios.
And all that advertising and shoving the music down peoples' throats? Look at how viral advertising on the interweb has made phenomenon out of the silliest crap. Make something enough people genuinely enjoy, and it has a good chance of making its way around the 'net.
More and more small bands are learning that they can get their music heard without bending over and getting fucked by the RIAA. This is great news! The only major hurdle at this point that's blocking non-RIAA bands from going mainstream is the strangle hold the RIAA has on the radio industry. Thankfully, thinks like podcasting are negating even that need.
Bullshit.
I but video games for one reason, and one reason only. To play them during the occasional drunken downtime with a couple of friends. I don't want to have to waste hours of my own time unlocking multiplayer levels just so I can actually PLAY those levels when my friends arrive. And God forbid a memory card gets corrupted and I have to spend another 50 hours unlocking all the shit so I can actually enjoy the part of the game that I WANT to play.
Perfect example: Any of the Goldeneye-derived shooters, like timesplitters or perfect dark. You start out the game with four or five multiplayer levels and a half a handful of play modes, when there are like 20 different play modes in the game, and three times as many levels as you have access to.
To get these levels, you have to do all kinds of asinine stuff, like play mini-games and shooting galleries. I don't want to do all that shit - I want to jump into a multiplayer game with my friends. I wouldn't even give a fuck if there WAS a single player mode - I want my games for multiplayer fun, and that is ALL i want them for.
I do condensed matter research, and used to do it on a cute little ibook. Now I do it on a cute little macbook.
How is this an example of how things "cut both ways"?
Politicians ignore science to further their own goals. Hippies further their own goals by ignoring the facts. Where are the scientists abusing anything here?
Right.... the republicans are raping the environment because they want to stick it to the democrats. It has NOTHING to do with the millions of campaign dollars contributed by companies that profit from the destruction of the planet.
In the government's defense, here... talk to an average teenager today (or visit myspace) and you'll see that a good percentage of parents are not, in fact, doing JACK SHIT to uphold their responsibility.
Maybe we should put RFID chips in peoples' genitals, and gather DNA samples to determine who is predetermined to be an irresponsible fuckwit. We could even program the chips to shock the hell out of those gonads to prevent procreation when the chips detect a match that's likely to produce a whiney emo douchebag.
Now just you wait, a week from now there will be a slashdot story about a blog that links to this post screaming that "THEY are proposing we electronically control human mating." Two days later it will be duped with the title "Will 2006 be like 1984?'
No one is holding a gun to your head and "forcing" you to stay in the US. If you want to go somewhere where research isn't important and tax dollars don't fund it, be my guest. Might I suggest any one of the third world nations? Maybe there you can see what it's like to be GENUINELY forced to do something, when soldiers with guns steal the food that was given to you by the big bad evil US government.
:(
Oh wait, that food was funded by money stolen from the American taxpayers. Oh woe is me, I'm a poor fat America who has my wages stolen away while I throw out my leftover food because I can just buy some more at the grocery store. Big bad government is taking all my money