it was the webmaster's stupidity. it's not a matter of someone hacking or defacing the web page by any means other than posting html code in the "your message" area on the page.
he didn't say PowerPC was proprietary. He said the Mac platform is. and it's true. you can't go out and buy a mac motherboard and build yourself a mac. some people might jump on that and say YES YOU CAN but that is still using apple's proprietary (meaning that you can't get them from a 3rd party company) parts salvaged from older machines, or reserved for repairs.
i can't point it out either. where is CALIRORNIA anyway?
Seiously though I have heard statistics like that before and they are total crap. You would be hard-pressed to find someone that can not point out california on a map. if you are going by what you see on the tonight show with jay leno travelling the streets you should know they ask thousands of people before they find the dumbasses.
microsoft is not going to get rid of a cash cow like backwards compatibility to piss off the comparitively small xbox-linux crowd. they know minutes after the xbox2 is released people will already be working on getting linux on it anyway.
really, look at it realisticly. there are not very many people running linux on the xbox. there are definitely not enough people doing it for microsoft to give a fuck.
it has been said before that the xbox 2 will be a home media device more than just a gaming device. ati's future (and current) products DO fall into this category. they have tv tuner cards, video capture, all-in-wonder pvr type shit. nvidia has only dabbled in this area a little bit, not to the extent that ATI has. I think this ALONG WITH the financial factor is what made MS chose ATI
that changes the resolutoion but not the size of the workspace. do that and then move the mouse around the screen edges. see how the screen slips around?
[and i am an idiot for not changing to plain-old-text]
the only thing this WORM maker did was wake everybody up to install this one patch. people aren't gonna catch on that this is not a one-time occurence. it's gonna happen again and again.
The guy that originially found the vulnerability reported it to microsoft a long time ago. then microsoft posted a patch a long time ago. all this virus writer did was prey on the fact that people don't update their machines like they should.
i believe windows xp has automatic updates on by default and you have to turn it off explicitly. Why are all these end users turning off the auto update features. these are the same end users most slashbots say are incapable of understanding when the taskbar has been moved from the bottom of the screen to the side.
Anyway I am rambling. What I am trying to say is sure, Microsoft's security is a bit lacking, but they patched the hole long before this expliot came out. The users are dumb for turning off auto-update. and the virus-writer is an asshole for vandalizing computers under the guise of "sending a message". Microsoft already had the message and already fixed this exact problem before the worm was ever released.
I am not an MS fan, I use a mac myself, but jeez. they were on the ball this time. there are many programs released in the *nix world with security holes that were not forseen before too. these things happen, get over it.
clearly the guilty party is the virus writer.
If there was a problem with the locks on the doors of your car would you prefer someone to knock on your door and let you know that your lock can easily be circumvented, or would you want that same person to enter your house using that vulnerability in your door, invite some of his lockpicking friends over and then use your house as a homebase to do the same thing to other houses, so they can then use those houses for the same purpose as they used yours, and so on? Why is this criminal in the real world, but doing us a favor in the world of computers
and i see since you mention terrorism that you have been sufficiently programmed by the mainstream media so I don't even imagine you have read this far.
the only thing this WORM maker did was wake everybody up to install this one patch. people aren't gonna catch on that this is not a one-time occurence. it's gonna happen again and again.
The guy that originially found the vulnerability reported it to microsoft a long time ago. then microsoft posted a patch a long time ago. all this virus writer did was prey on the fact that people don't update their machines like they should.
i believe windows xp has automatic updates on by default and you have to turn it off explicitly. Why are all these end users turning off the auto update features. these are the same end users most slashbots say are incapable of understanding when the taskbar has been moved from the bottom of the screen to the side.
Anyway I am rambling. What I am trying to say is sure, Microsoft's security is a bit lacking, but they patched the hole long before this expliot came out. The users are dumb for turning off auto-update. and the virus-writer is an asshole for vandalizing computers under the guise of "sending a message". Microsoft already had the message and already fixed this exact problem before the worm was ever released.
I am not an MS fan, I use a mac myself, but jeez. they were on the ball this time. there are many programs released in the *nix world with security holes that were not forseen before too. these things happen, get over it.
clearly the guilty party is the virus writer.
If there was a problem with the locks on the doors of your car would you prefer someone to knock on your door and let you know that your lock can easily be circumvented, or would you want that same person to enter your house using that vulnerability in your door, invite some of his lockpicking friends over and then use your house as a homebase to do the same thing to other houses, so they can then use those houses for the same purpose as they used yours, and so on? Why is this criminal in the real world, but doing us a favor in the world of computers
and i see since you mention terrorism that you have been sufficiently programmed by the mainstream media so I don't even imagine you have read this far.
why is it such a shock that your ISP keeps logs of every URL you travel to. They do not log the content of the pages, just the URLs.
The phone company logs every phone call you make. They do not log the content of the phone call, just the names/numbers.
it WAS actually believed that masturbation would cause blindness and spontaneous GROWTH of hair. the reason the joke was made was that if you are a kernel hacker you most likely have no social life so no prospect of sex so masturbation is your only recourse for sexual gratification
they DO ahve access to the whole machine in order to deface a page. they don't just do it through a web browser. they gain root/administrator access to the machine and modify whatever files they see fit. they have access to the whole box, not just the "live" folder.
anyone that thinks ie on mac is faster than on the pc is smoking some serious crack. it has been extremely slow, especially on loading large text intensive pages such as the one you are reading this on now. it uses nonstandard widgets, a slow rendering engine, and ugly interface. IE on windows is 20 times better in the usability department.
the stockholders and potential stockholders are not the *nix community and probably do not have all the information that the *nix community does. I imagine most of them actually believe the tripe being spewed by SCO
he is not being punished for raising hell in the game world. he is being punished for his real world hacking. his gaining access to a computer system that he was not authorized to access.
AFAIK your credit card company does not release your age. however i believe you can't get a credit card unless you are 18. that is how porn sites verify your age with a credit card number.
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i see this a lot. OS X is not linux. It is OS X. completely different. OS X and Linux are both UNIX based but that is where the similarity ends.
that is like saying "photoshop runs on windows, windows runs on x86 and linux does too, so shouldn't photoshop run on linux?"
it was the webmaster's stupidity. it's not a matter of someone hacking or defacing the web page by any means other than posting html code in the "your message" area on the page.
yep. i read this in beethoven's memoirs... and those travelling minstrels back in the day. they made sure no one stole their IP back then.
he didn't say PowerPC was proprietary. He said the Mac platform is. and it's true. you can't go out and buy a mac motherboard and build yourself a mac. some people might jump on that and say YES YOU CAN but that is still using apple's proprietary (meaning that you can't get them from a 3rd party company) parts salvaged from older machines, or reserved for repairs.
i can't point it out either. where is CALIRORNIA anyway?
Seiously though I have heard statistics like that before and they are total crap. You would be hard-pressed to find someone that can not point out california on a map. if you are going by what you see on the tonight show with jay leno travelling the streets you should know they ask thousands of people before they find the dumbasses.
yes and that's how bush won too right?
how is this different than installing apple's monthly security updates?
microsoft is not going to get rid of a cash cow like backwards compatibility to piss off the comparitively small xbox-linux crowd. they know minutes after the xbox2 is released people will already be working on getting linux on it anyway.
really, look at it realisticly. there are not very many people running linux on the xbox. there are definitely not enough people doing it for microsoft to give a fuck.
it has been said before that the xbox 2 will be a home media device more than just a gaming device. ati's future (and current) products DO fall into this category. they have tv tuner cards, video capture, all-in-wonder pvr type shit. nvidia has only dabbled in this area a little bit, not to the extent that ATI has. I think this ALONG WITH the financial factor is what made MS chose ATI
that changes the resolutoion but not the size of the workspace. do that and then move the mouse around the screen edges. see how the screen slips around?
[and i am an idiot for not changing to plain-old-text] the only thing this WORM maker did was wake everybody up to install this one patch. people aren't gonna catch on that this is not a one-time occurence. it's gonna happen again and again. The guy that originially found the vulnerability reported it to microsoft a long time ago. then microsoft posted a patch a long time ago. all this virus writer did was prey on the fact that people don't update their machines like they should. i believe windows xp has automatic updates on by default and you have to turn it off explicitly. Why are all these end users turning off the auto update features. these are the same end users most slashbots say are incapable of understanding when the taskbar has been moved from the bottom of the screen to the side. Anyway I am rambling. What I am trying to say is sure, Microsoft's security is a bit lacking, but they patched the hole long before this expliot came out. The users are dumb for turning off auto-update. and the virus-writer is an asshole for vandalizing computers under the guise of "sending a message". Microsoft already had the message and already fixed this exact problem before the worm was ever released. I am not an MS fan, I use a mac myself, but jeez. they were on the ball this time. there are many programs released in the *nix world with security holes that were not forseen before too. these things happen, get over it. clearly the guilty party is the virus writer. If there was a problem with the locks on the doors of your car would you prefer someone to knock on your door and let you know that your lock can easily be circumvented, or would you want that same person to enter your house using that vulnerability in your door, invite some of his lockpicking friends over and then use your house as a homebase to do the same thing to other houses, so they can then use those houses for the same purpose as they used yours, and so on? Why is this criminal in the real world, but doing us a favor in the world of computers and i see since you mention terrorism that you have been sufficiently programmed by the mainstream media so I don't even imagine you have read this far.
the only thing this WORM maker did was wake everybody up to install this one patch. people aren't gonna catch on that this is not a one-time occurence. it's gonna happen again and again. The guy that originially found the vulnerability reported it to microsoft a long time ago. then microsoft posted a patch a long time ago. all this virus writer did was prey on the fact that people don't update their machines like they should. i believe windows xp has automatic updates on by default and you have to turn it off explicitly. Why are all these end users turning off the auto update features. these are the same end users most slashbots say are incapable of understanding when the taskbar has been moved from the bottom of the screen to the side. Anyway I am rambling. What I am trying to say is sure, Microsoft's security is a bit lacking, but they patched the hole long before this expliot came out. The users are dumb for turning off auto-update. and the virus-writer is an asshole for vandalizing computers under the guise of "sending a message". Microsoft already had the message and already fixed this exact problem before the worm was ever released. I am not an MS fan, I use a mac myself, but jeez. they were on the ball this time. there are many programs released in the *nix world with security holes that were not forseen before too. these things happen, get over it. clearly the guilty party is the virus writer. If there was a problem with the locks on the doors of your car would you prefer someone to knock on your door and let you know that your lock can easily be circumvented, or would you want that same person to enter your house using that vulnerability in your door, invite some of his lockpicking friends over and then use your house as a homebase to do the same thing to other houses, so they can then use those houses for the same purpose as they used yours, and so on? Why is this criminal in the real world, but doing us a favor in the world of computers and i see since you mention terrorism that you have been sufficiently programmed by the mainstream media so I don't even imagine you have read this far.
except nt workstation DID show up in microsoft's bulletin. also the last in the line of win9x versions, Windows ME was listed as unaffected.
because they are worried about THEIR bottom line, not everyone else's
why is it such a shock that your ISP keeps logs of every URL you travel to. They do not log the content of the pages, just the URLs. The phone company logs every phone call you make. They do not log the content of the phone call, just the names/numbers.
it WAS actually believed that masturbation would cause blindness and spontaneous GROWTH of hair. the reason the joke was made was that if you are a kernel hacker you most likely have no social life so no prospect of sex so masturbation is your only recourse for sexual gratification
they DO ahve access to the whole machine in order to deface a page. they don't just do it through a web browser. they gain root/administrator access to the machine and modify whatever files they see fit. they have access to the whole box, not just the "live" folder.
no, it was a dual xeon 3.06GHz configuration that they pitted the dual 2 GHz g5 (ppc 970) against in the benchmarks in question.
anyone that thinks ie on mac is faster than on the pc is smoking some serious crack. it has been extremely slow, especially on loading large text intensive pages such as the one you are reading this on now. it uses nonstandard widgets, a slow rendering engine, and ugly interface. IE on windows is 20 times better in the usability department.
the stockholders and potential stockholders are not the *nix community and probably do not have all the information that the *nix community does. I imagine most of them actually believe the tripe being spewed by SCO
he is not being punished for raising hell in the game world. he is being punished for his real world hacking. his gaining access to a computer system that he was not authorized to access.
Everyone fighting for ownership of a standard, and fighting over something that, down the road, won't change much to the fight between Linux and MS...
but this isn't about MS Vs. Linux. that is just a subplot. the main event here is SCO Vs. IBM.
yes. and we all know how the games industry is shaking in their boots over the quality games that the open source community has offered so far.
AFAIK your credit card company does not release your age. however i believe you can't get a credit card unless you are 18. that is how porn sites verify your age with a credit card number.
wow. most teenagers in beverly hills perhaps but i doubt it's widespread to give kids unfettered access to their bank accounts.