Very authentic. If there was a way to get Slashdot to allow posters to flash alternating Red/Blue or other irritating color combinations, or simply "twitch" the post in an annoying fashion every few seconds, would bring it up to yet another dimension in realism.
The AC has a valid point I wanted to make myself. Although I would have done it more tactfully (I'd drop the "dumbass" and political flame).
What this means is we need the percentage of clued vs. clueless users. Ad merketers bemoan the ultra-low clickthrough rate on banner ads, often in the low or sub-percent range. Since these are the few people who most likely responded to the attempts to install spyware or responded to the popups, of what valid use is this data?
I buy stuff on the net all the time, mainly software and DVDs. No one tracks my actions except the vendors themselves and I am careful to check/uncheck any "share info" boxes.
While I agree that Fink is the next-best thing to sliced bread, I have had nothing but problems with it ever since 10.2 came out. Installing binaries doesn't work, and compiling causes it to crap out with errors compiling itself. This is even when running the latest versions of everything.
My point was that if your box is insecure, or your house unlocked, then someone will take advantage of the situation, it is all a matter of time. Whether the tresspasser has the right to do so or not does not matter.
If you had your drive improperly shared with read/write permissions, it could be used as a drop box for pirated material. On a windows box with a shared C:\ drive and no logging, how could you prove it wasn't you when the **AA come's a knocking? That might be the first time you hear of it.
Granted 'visitors' can 'share' computer resources in ways an inexperienced user might not notice, although they would notice if it were their home that was being shared (where'd all the beer go? who left the seat up?)
If you left on vacation, and unsavory types took up residence in an unlocked home and committed various illegal activities, I would bet that the legal authorities would come down on the property owner as well.
As for local merchants, well if the house had a limitless supply of VCRs and other household items, say via a ST:TNG replicator, then I would bet there would be lawsuits.
Just because someone is ignorant of computer security, or just a plain moron, does not excuse them from properly securing their equipment when hooked up to a global, public network.
Not securing your equipment is like leaving your door open and unlocked. In the case of the Internet, that door is on a house in the seediest, most crack-infested neighborhood ever.
And then, after they went through all this trouble of faking a whole moon landing set and doctoring the photos, they forgot to fill in the little black X's, which is about the easiest kind of object to Photoshop into an existing picture I can think of.... Hmmm, I dunno, I'm definitely leaning towards conspiracy on that one!
Not to nitpick, but what version of Photoshop were they using back in 1969-1974? I'm curious.
Well, you aren't so far off. A DoD contractor (Northrop) did indeed buy parts from Radio Shack to be used in the MX missiles' guidance system (see 4th paragraph). Granted, these purchases were not supposed to be made in the first place, but doesn't this make you feel more safe?
Word Mark X++ Goods and Services IC 009. US 021 023 026 036 038. G & S: Pre-recorded computer program for use in business management, namely, accounting, inventory purchasing, inventory control, order processing and sales, customer account management, budgeting, planning and production control Mark Drawing Code (5) WORDS, LETTERS, AND/OR NUMBERS IN STYLIZED FORM
I guess Damgaard International has a quite nifty piece of IP there to sell to MS.
I can imagine that 10,000,000 years from now, an archaeological dig where a scientist studying the old decayed cities of the past civilization and comes across these still-shiny plastic discs in what appears to be a large shrine composed of shiny plastic bits, fossilized organic detritus, and disposable diapers as offerings to the Gods.
The scientist places the disc into their all-purpose decoder/translator, and suddenly a nearby overlooked sarcophagus opens, and out pop the mummified corpses of media lawyers bearing copies of the DMCA. The scientist shrieks (as only super-intelligent cockroaches can) and tries to run, but its too late...
There's actually a lot of users that have two video cards. A nasty bug surfaced in memory allocation in 10.2 where if you run an NVidia AGP card and an ATI PCI video card, you get kernel panics on startup.
On my machine (which worked just fine prior to 10.2), it involved downgrading to 1 GB of RAM, and the problem becomes more manageable (panics most of the time instead of all of the time).
My fix was to open the case, remove the ATI card, power up, shut down, reinsert the card, power up and close up the case.
Its a good thing I don't reboot too often.
I ran the softwareupdate utility remotely from home, and the machine updated and rebooted without a problem, so I have my fingers crossed.
I've been using Discreet's 3dstudio max [discreet.com] since it was a DOS app (then autodesk's 3ds studio made by the Yost group). I've been teaching it since Max r1 came around. I find it interesting that your question doesn't mention it.
Quite possibly its because he/they were looking for Mac OS X rendering packages. 3DS Max is Windows-only. I would think running it in Virual PC would be wasteful, slow and painful.
Not so offbase after all. I went to the Apple Store for the release of 10.2 and they were handing out Jaguar-themed mousepads to all the customers. I asked the store manager why they were doing so, since Apple has released only optical mice for years now.
All I got was a knowing smile and a shrug.
What I do know from experience on my woodgrain desk, it that an optical mouse works VERY well on a mousepad compared to the normal desk where the cursor would tend to jump around a lot.
I love my optical mouse mainly for the smooth tracking and the lack of "mouse smegma" that builds up on the balls.
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Assess the value? For what? Was he planning to go public and set up an IPO?
They look really authentic on my OS X box, BTW.
Very authentic. If there was a way to get Slashdot to allow posters to flash alternating Red/Blue or other irritating color combinations, or simply "twitch" the post in an annoying fashion every few seconds, would bring it up to yet another dimension in realism.
What this means is we need the percentage of clued vs. clueless users. Ad merketers bemoan the ultra-low clickthrough rate on banner ads, often in the low or sub-percent range. Since these are the few people who most likely responded to the attempts to install spyware or responded to the popups, of what valid use is this data?
I buy stuff on the net all the time, mainly software and DVDs. No one tracks my actions except the vendors themselves and I am careful to check/uncheck any "share info" boxes.
If you had your drive improperly shared with read/write permissions, it could be used as a drop box for pirated material. On a windows box with a shared C:\ drive and no logging, how could you prove it wasn't you when the **AA come's a knocking? That might be the first time you hear of it.
Granted 'visitors' can 'share' computer resources in ways an inexperienced user might not notice, although they would notice if it were their home that was being shared (where'd all the beer go? who left the seat up?)
If you left on vacation, and unsavory types took up residence in an unlocked home and committed various illegal activities, I would bet that the legal authorities would come down on the property owner as well.
As for local merchants, well if the house had a limitless supply of VCRs and other household items, say via a ST:TNG replicator, then I would bet there would be lawsuits.
This same group can also trash my files after helping themselves to what they want (stealing a VCR, or getting credit card info for instance).
No one having the right to walk in does not change the fact that eventually, someone will. Whether they have the right to or not.
Not securing your equipment is like leaving your door open and unlocked. In the case of the Internet, that door is on a house in the seediest, most crack-infested neighborhood ever.
I say, they get what is coming to them.
She should order The Demon Seed (the older, non 1997 version) as her next book if she really thinks that way.
Well, you aren't so far off. A DoD contractor (Northrop) did indeed buy parts from Radio Shack to be used in the MX missiles' guidance system (see 4th paragraph). Granted, these purchases were not supposed to be made in the first place, but doesn't this make you feel more safe?
What I posted was a trademark, not a patent.
A quick search of TESS:
Word Mark X++
Goods and Services IC 009. US 021 023 026 036 038. G & S: Pre-recorded computer program for use in business management, namely, accounting, inventory purchasing, inventory control, order processing and sales, customer account management, budgeting, planning and production control
Mark Drawing Code (5) WORDS, LETTERS, AND/OR NUMBERS IN STYLIZED FORM
I guess Damgaard International has a quite nifty piece of IP there to sell to MS.
That proves even roaches have standards...
Yes, but you must never underestimate the technological prowess of a super-intelligent cockroach.
The scientist places the disc into their all-purpose decoder/translator, and suddenly a nearby overlooked sarcophagus opens, and out pop the mummified corpses of media lawyers bearing copies of the DMCA. The scientist shrieks (as only super-intelligent cockroaches can) and tries to run, but its too late...
Too damn slow to do anything with now, I prefer burning CDs for now.
Yes, but mine is fewer keystrokes.
;-)
Wrong link above, sorry, the real link is here
I've had an update fail (10.1.4 or 10.1.5 AFAIR) and the downloadable installer worked fine.
You can download it here.
%su
password:<enter password>
%softwareupdate 3404
(software update progress occurs)
%reboot
You are now updated to 10.2.2
On my machine (which worked just fine prior to 10.2), it involved downgrading to 1 GB of RAM, and the problem becomes more manageable (panics most of the time instead of all of the time).
My fix was to open the case, remove the ATI card, power up, shut down, reinsert the card, power up and close up the case.
Its a good thing I don't reboot too often.
I ran the softwareupdate utility remotely from home, and the machine updated and rebooted without a problem, so I have my fingers crossed.
Quite possibly its because he/they were looking for Mac OS X rendering packages. 3DS Max is Windows-only. I would think running it in Virual PC would be wasteful, slow and painful.
You would not need to eat either you you still had an umbilical cord instead of going cordless.
All I got was a knowing smile and a shrug.
What I do know from experience on my woodgrain desk, it that an optical mouse works VERY well on a mousepad compared to the normal desk where the cursor would tend to jump around a lot.
I love my optical mouse mainly for the smooth tracking and the lack of "mouse smegma" that builds up on the balls.