Obviously, Blockbuster just wants to rent movies to the people on the International Space Station, and can't figure out which region they should be offering.
They will not rent out NC-17 movies (which is a real bummer, because there have been some excellent movies which happened to carry the NC-17 rating) or anything "too contraversial".
They'll rent out the unrated versions of films though. Many of which would have earned an NC-17 rating if they had been rated.
I'd love to be able to play Metroid Prime or Final Fantasy 10 on my computer and no matter how good those games are I'd never buy a game console. They're too limiting.
Yeah, they're limitted to playing the games you really really want to play.. how sucky of them.
Homer: "Look at these low, low prices on famous brand-name electronics! " Bart: "Don't be a sap dad. These are just crappy knockoffs." Homer:" I know a genuine 'Panaphonics' when I see one. And look! There's 'Magnet Box' and 'Sorny!' "
but not a single person has contacted me and offered to help develop or debug the code.
An optimist would say that this is because your code, through some bizarre statistical anomoly, is perfect and doesn't need any further development or debugging.
A pesimist would say that you are the only one in the world who cares about spectral synthesis of stars undergoing quakes.
The point, however, is that it's extrememly difficult and/or impossible to write an autonomously propogating virus or worm for OSX that doesn't require active user intervention. Contrast with Windows...
You just haven't explored all the features of Entourage yet...
I thought the attacker only has to have a fake, evil DHCP server which responds faster than the true good DHCP server...? Of course this is hard to do, and controlling the supposed-to-be good DHCP server would work more reliably, but I don't think that's exactly required.
No, it's fairly trivial. Once you have access to the network, set up two interfaces. One interface has the same IP as the DHCP server. The other interface has a clean unused IP.
The two interfaces with the same IP will kill each other, and the DHCP server will be blind to the world. Then you can send out DHCP responses with the other interface.
And as I said before, can you guarrantee that the IT guy who was just laid off at your work isn't doing this?
You also forgot one important thing: it would be obvious to a Windows fanatic that you will reboot your machine.
Oh yeah, and Mac users don't? Please.. we all remember OS9. The majority of mac users at work still turn off their machines at night when they go home.. it's a force of habit.
The OS X vulnerability in the article isn't even a remote vulnerability. You need access to the machine's local network to pull at off, and you need to do it when the machine boots.
This is such a bullshit Microsoft response it's not even funny.
I said MS was full of shit when they said "that vulnerability is *really* hard to exploit" back in the late 90s, and I'm saying that Apple users are full of shit when they try and use the same excuse now.
Go see the article about all those access points in LA with WEP disabled. Getting onto your "local network" is trivial.
"kill the Haitians" is simply a line in the plot of a fictional game. If they started a kill the Haitians advertising campaign available to the public eye, thats different.
You think the outcry would be any different if Rockstar had decided to name the gang "Mexicans" or "Southern Hicks"?
This should suprise no one... the lawsuit may not have a leg to stand on, but it makes you wonder if there isn't a guy a rockstar who hates people from Haiti and is responsible for this whole thing.
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Video screams (both LCD and CRT)...QT smokes...external FW800 drives perform as they should...life's good.
You know I had a boss who screamed and smoked, and life wasn't good.
Uhh yeah, but it still shouldn't just crash!
I take exception (unhandled) to that!
The ARD Client allows an ARD Admin to remotely control your box.
I see Apple has decided to adopt a backwards naming system, just like X11. Shouldn't it be called ARD Server?
Well, Turbine tried to pirate Asheron's Call, but KazaaLite has been shut down.
Obviously, Blockbuster just wants to rent movies to the people on the International Space Station, and can't figure out which region they should be offering.
DVD Region Free costs 40 bucks.
They should've called it "DVD Region 40 Bucks" then... damn misadvertising bastards.
They will not rent out NC-17 movies (which is a real bummer, because there have been some excellent movies which happened to carry the NC-17 rating) or anything "too contraversial".
They'll rent out the unrated versions of films though. Many of which would have earned an NC-17 rating if they had been rated.
Denigrate it loudly while duplicating it quietly.
It's the opensource way!
You forget that the 1991 war was never ended.
You forget that 1991 was a *conflict* not a war.
Although since I'm posting this 2 days later, no one is going to read that
A few moths ago
Even 64-bit Linux doesn't prevent spelling mistakes on Slashdot.
No no, he's implying that it's buggy.
[Did they]...just say "DRM" and "Open Standard" in the same sentence?
You just did as well.
What's interesting is that with minimal trouble Winamp 5 installs and runs on Wine!
.exe I get an "Can't initialize plug-in directory" error.
How'd you get it to install? When I try and run the
I'd love to be able to play Metroid Prime or Final Fantasy 10 on my computer and no matter how good those games are I'd never buy a game console. They're too limiting.
Yeah, they're limitted to playing the games you really really want to play.. how sucky of them.
When you're on top, you make a tempting target.
I see, so you buy into the argument that MS is only targetted because it's so popular?
I'm always amazed at how fast Mac users will resort to MS-style tactics and excuses.
dustin2wti:/tmp/test 520% ls -ld . etc
drwxrwxr-t 3 root admin 102 15 Dec 14:10
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 68 15 Dec 14:10 etc/
dustin2wti:/tmp/test 521% mv etc newetc
mv: rename etc to newetc: Operation not permitted
Your test failed to take into account one thing:
ls -ld
lrwxrwx-t 1 root admin 11 Dec 15 15:31
Oftentimes in american culture there's this strange phenomenon where any amount of killing, gore, and disemboweling is perfectly fine.
But you show one breast and soon the censors come jumping in. Pretty strange.
perhaps you missed the part about all the gore, disembowling, blood being removed as well?
I left my AP in San Francisco
High on a hill, it calls to me
To be where signals are 3 bars,
my ISP is 4 stars.
My network is in the air, I don't care
Homer: "Look at these low, low prices on famous brand-name electronics! "
Bart: "Don't be a sap dad. These are just crappy knockoffs."
Homer:" I know a genuine 'Panaphonics' when I see one. And look! There's 'Magnet Box' and 'Sorny!' "
but not a single person has contacted me and offered to help develop or debug the code.
An optimist would say that this is because your code, through some bizarre statistical anomoly, is perfect and doesn't need any further development or debugging.
A pesimist would say that you are the only one in the world who cares about spectral synthesis of stars undergoing quakes.
The point, however, is that it's extrememly difficult and/or impossible to write an autonomously propogating virus or worm for OSX that doesn't require active user intervention. Contrast with Windows...
You just haven't explored all the features of Entourage yet...
I thought the attacker only has to have a fake, evil DHCP server which responds faster than the true good DHCP server...? Of course this is hard to do, and controlling the supposed-to-be good DHCP server would work more reliably, but I don't think that's exactly required.
No, it's fairly trivial. Once you have access to the network, set up two interfaces. One interface has the same IP as the DHCP server. The other interface has a clean unused IP.
The two interfaces with the same IP will kill each other, and the DHCP server will be blind to the world. Then you can send out DHCP responses with the other interface.
And as I said before, can you guarrantee that the IT guy who was just laid off at your work isn't doing this?
You also forgot one important thing: it would be obvious to a Windows fanatic that you will reboot your machine.
Oh yeah, and Mac users don't? Please.. we all remember OS9. The majority of mac users at work still turn off their machines at night when they go home.. it's a force of habit.
The OS X vulnerability in the article isn't even a remote vulnerability. You need access to the machine's local network to pull at off, and you need to do it when the machine boots.
This is such a bullshit Microsoft response it's not even funny.
I said MS was full of shit when they said "that vulnerability is *really* hard to exploit" back in the late 90s, and I'm saying that Apple users are full of shit when they try and use the same excuse now.
Go see the article about all those access points in LA with WEP disabled. Getting onto your "local network" is trivial.
"kill the Haitians" is simply a line in the plot of a fictional game. If they started a kill the Haitians advertising campaign available to the public eye, thats different.
You think the outcry would be any different if Rockstar had decided to name the gang "Mexicans" or "Southern Hicks"?
This should suprise no one... the lawsuit may not have a leg to stand on, but it makes you wonder if there isn't a guy a rockstar who hates people from Haiti and is responsible for this whole thing.
My cube's been up for 90 days. I plan to take it down and upgrade it eventually. Does this mean I'm going to be vulnerable?
It means you're probably already vulnerable.. to the SSH flaw, etc etc.