Have to call BS on this. I was actually working for Apple during this period.
There was always the ubiquitous nVir and a number of other nasties floating around.
The only implication in Apple's advertising is that the risk of data loss or loss of functionality was less. And it was.
Of the 10 or 15 meaningful malwares that infected the old 68000 OS, there were only two or three which could do serious damage. And most infections were cleaned up quite nicely with no data loss.
I love it when someone who never set foot on the Apple campus decides they know history better than people who were there,
There is nothing that says that whistleblowing has to be legal; in fact in repressive regimes it's always illegal.
I would argue that the US government is already repressive both to people- and politics which does not meet the jingoistic political views of either party.
> The "value" has to be compared against the cost. These unmanned robotic missions are way cheap. If you want to look for poor value/cost, look at the $100B squandered on the ISS.
Which is about the cost of five months of the 2003-2011 war in Iraq.
Yes... but every 100 billion spent on "frivolous pure research" is 100 billion not spent killing each other.
So whatever science was gained from the ISS can be considered a peace dividend. And the results of pure science always pay off eventually.
In order to be informed one must digest many news sources- even when their bias is not your bias. Even foreign sources.
Then... you ruminate. Let the information sink in. And make the best call you can about what is true.
At the moment much of journalism has lost it's value. But in my opinion, the bright spots are easy to spot when you ignore your own ideology and start matching facts against stories.
Just make sure you have a real understanding about what a "fact" actually is.
I would mod you up for being reasonable and intelligent...
Though I disagree a little bit. There are places you can hide and stay stable for long periods of time. Try doing IT for a stable manufacturer. They are out there. That's what I did.
After spending time in the "big league IT world" in, or associated,with silicon valley, I decided my last job before retirement would be at a successful commodity manufacturer. It worked. There are people here who have worked for 40 years in this company.
Though I did a lot of research of the local companies before trying for a position. And when I got the position it was as a tech rather than my usual executive/IT Director type gig. It's a big pay cut. I have good benefits. And drive 12 minutes to work with no traffic in a small town setting.
Successful manufacturers are hurting for IT people.. especially outside of major cities. They regularly promote from within, pay a lot less, and exist in rural or semi-rural areas.
Seems to me my lifestyle is about the same as it was in San Jose or Cupertino. A movie, popcorn, and a drink is less than $10.00 at the first run theater.
But the fun part? If you've held some decent positions and come out to the country with a fat resume.... suddenly you are a very big fish in a small pond. It's nice. And if you are struggling in a major metro area.... the undiscovered hinterland is bleeding for talent.
Exploit/bug/crash/vulnerability works as advertised. Scary. An easy way to bring down an entire operating system with a bat file and a little startup/service knowledge.
But the discovery itself was not obvious, and it was made by someone highly skilled, who had been trained and supported in decades of government science.
The discovery isn't even the most important thing, though. It was developed into a useful drug not by Fleming but by a chain of other people who were also supported by government science.
(Fleming was, as it happens, my father's supervisor for a time during the final stages of his medical training; he has told me in the past that Fleming didn't court the credit he has been given, and continued to credit where it was due, because the drug was actually mass produced through the work of others just as skilled as him.)
We always hated each other. Social media just makes it easier to be in other people's circles...
If you hated someone in 1970... you just avoided them. On the internet, short of blocking them on social media, you are confronted with them constantly.
So we haven't changed... social media just brings out some bad things in people. While still doing many good things.
There was another one like this recently... a ham radio software maker. The software "Ham Radio Deluxe" was rendered useless through an authentication server if the customer left a bad review. Since ham radio call signs were used as the product key, they simply banned a call sign in their server.
Look guys- we're watching a dying company. Sure they have a lot of business at the moment. But their tech is limited and specialized. They killed their desktop business. They are losing ground in the tablet and phone market.
Investing in your own GPU is not the thing to do under those conditions. And only for mobile or just Apple products? Even with an assumption that Apple can produce something competitive it just doesn't make sense.
This smells a lot like Newton, John Sculley's pet project. Or CyberDog. Or the System Administrator's Tool Kit. Or the E-mate. Or the AV series of Macs. All products that were cool as heck- with no place in the market.
I worked for Apple from 1995 until 2001 in the K12 division. They abandoned education gradually as soon as the focus became consumer goods like ipods.
Also, they ignored competitive advantages they had by not leveraging the Apple Share IP servers which could serve windows clients as well. They made the tech- and never pushed it. At the time it was apparent to me they were pulling out. It was also apparent with the Darwin kernel and the tools taken from NeXT that they had an ready to go enterprise solution in Server 10.
15 years later.... it's apparent they have pulled out of computers in general. It's sad too. When I pull out my alpha disks of OSX it's apparent that a revolution was lost. I can still load the alpha/pre-alpha OSX on present day Intel hardware. Go figure.
It's debatable as to whether they made the right decision or not- could they make a bundle in the enterprise? But to the engineers that worked there at the time paradise was indeed lost.
I'm not sure how I feel about this. If it was my estimation that the two political parties were more interested in what is best for America, rather than just winning their ideological war, this would hold more weight for me.
Snowdon seems the logical "other pardon". Not sure I'd like that to happen. Would prefer a trial where he would be allowed to make his case. Manning wasn't afforded that opportunity either.
Neither case is at the instigation of a foreign government. So the issues need to be gone through in an open court so the country can understand the issues. And legally decide whether a crime was committed, or these were justified acts done by patriots.
Well the day had to come. Though it's too bad these guys are dying off while there's a "moon landing denial movement". Which is sad.
We need to get another crew up there soon as a way to combat ongoing anti-scientific "belief systems" before we dumb down the entire country to the point we do something really stupid.
They better have real evidence. If you filled a 100ft by 100ft room full of the smartest people on earth- Carmack would be in the room. That's big game hunting.
You don't sue a person like that- you make a deal. Because he doesn't need to win- it was his brain. He already won.
Let's face it... it's not as if replacing Jobs was going to be an easy task- it may have been impossible.
That being said, Apple is not living up to the standard Jobs set. Maybe that's Cook's fault... maybe not. The recent products are lame. They've eviscerated their computer business. So if new products don't hit... it's not like they can fall back on the unfulfilled promise of OSX. They've been so successful with new consumer innovations, they've tossed away all the vertical markets they used to rule.
This is a dangerous position. They shouldn't cut his pay- they should fire him and find someone to take over.
What if the actual end of humanity is caused, because as an aggregate, we are smart enough to understand and avoid it, but the majority of our biomass isn't smart.
Perhaps, we've got too much of a spread in ability between intelligent folks and those who are constitutionally incapable of understanding the complexities of a large data set. Or the mathematics needed to interpret it. Or lack the desire to do the work that leads to understanding.
This really closes a circle for me. For some time I'd been hearing that Bob Lazar, the supposed physicist, had been spending a lot of time in China... Now we know...
With the synthesis of Element 114, the Chinese must have created a stable isotope based on Mr. Lazar's information gleaned from Groom Lake.
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Have to call BS on this. I was actually working for Apple during this period.
There was always the ubiquitous nVir and a number of other nasties floating around.
The only implication in Apple's advertising is that the risk of data loss or loss of functionality was less. And it was.
Of the 10 or 15 meaningful malwares that infected the old 68000 OS, there were only two or three which could do serious damage. And most infections were cleaned up quite nicely with no data loss.
I love it when someone who never set foot on the Apple campus decides they know history better than people who were there,
There is nothing that says that whistleblowing has to be legal; in fact in repressive regimes it's always illegal.
I would argue that the US government is already repressive both to people- and politics which does not meet the jingoistic political views of either party.
> The "value" has to be compared against the cost. These unmanned robotic missions are way cheap. If you want to look for poor value/cost, look at the $100B squandered on the ISS.
Which is about the cost of five months of the 2003-2011 war in Iraq.
Yes... but every 100 billion spent on "frivolous pure research" is 100 billion not spent killing each other.
So whatever science was gained from the ISS can be considered a peace dividend. And the results of pure science always pay off eventually.
Nothing was wasted.
In order to be informed one must digest many news sources- even when their bias is not your bias. Even foreign sources.
Then... you ruminate. Let the information sink in. And make the best call you can about what is true.
At the moment much of journalism has lost it's value. But in my opinion, the bright spots are easy to spot when you ignore your own ideology and start matching facts against stories.
Just make sure you have a real understanding about what a "fact" actually is.
I would mod you up for being reasonable and intelligent...
Though I disagree a little bit. There are places you can hide and stay stable for long periods of time. Try doing IT for a stable manufacturer. They are out there. That's what I did.
After spending time in the "big league IT world" in, or associated,with silicon valley, I decided my last job before retirement would be at a successful commodity manufacturer. It worked. There are people here who have worked for 40 years in this company.
Though I did a lot of research of the local companies before trying for a position. And when I got the position it was as a tech rather than my usual executive/IT Director type gig. It's a big pay cut. I have good benefits. And drive 12 minutes to work with no traffic in a small town setting.
Successful manufacturers are hurting for IT people.. especially outside of major cities. They regularly promote from within, pay a lot less, and exist in rural or semi-rural areas.
Seems to me my lifestyle is about the same as it was in San Jose or Cupertino. A movie, popcorn, and a drink is less than $10.00 at the first run theater.
But the fun part? If you've held some decent positions and come out to the country with a fat resume.... suddenly you are a very big fish in a small pond. It's nice. And if you are struggling in a major metro area.... the undiscovered hinterland is bleeding for talent.
Keep an open mind... It's out there...
Saw the article and spun up a test VM with Win 7.
Exploit/bug/crash/vulnerability works as advertised. Scary. An easy way to bring down an entire operating system with a bat file and a little startup/service knowledge.
Penicillin was discovered by accident, yes!
But the discovery itself was not obvious, and it was made by someone highly skilled, who had been trained and supported in decades of government science.
The discovery isn't even the most important thing, though. It was developed into a useful drug not by Fleming but by a chain of other people who were also supported by government science.
(Fleming was, as it happens, my father's supervisor for a time during the final stages of his medical training; he has told me in the past that Fleming didn't court the credit he has been given, and continued to credit where it was due, because the drug was actually mass produced through the work of others just as skilled as him.)
Thank you... You are my hero!
Oh... you mean markets cannot solve every problem on the planet?
Maybe if we spent a bunch of government grant money on the problem we could make it better?
Naw... the market always works... right? It's not like penicillin was discovered at St Mary's Hospital using government money.
Wait.... It was.
Usually I'm as pacifist.. though in this situation I've reconsidered.
No matter whether it's North Korea, Russia, or whomever.... Whoever is trying the "death by a million cuts" strategy against my country... be warned:
Yamamoto was right. We'll take it for a little while, settle our internal issues, and turn your countries into a mini mall.
You've been warned.
You can't own the road, the car, and patent the role of the driver.
A walled garden is bad. Microsoft's walled garden not only bad, but will spawn a 1000 lawsuits.
Microsoft has learned nothing from it's previous history.
We always hated each other. Social media just makes it easier to be in other people's circles...
If you hated someone in 1970... you just avoided them. On the internet, short of blocking them on social media, you are confronted with them constantly.
So we haven't changed... social media just brings out some bad things in people. While still doing many good things.
I wrote the k56 Flex modem CCL for the Apple Internet Connection Kit..... Used to run a Hermes BBS, then Nova Link.... But before that Wildcat.
It's deep in my DNA. But aside from an occasional wistful nostalgia... I've no desire to return to those days.
There was another one like this recently... a ham radio software maker. The software "Ham Radio Deluxe" was rendered useless through an authentication server if the customer left a bad review. Since ham radio call signs were used as the product key, they simply banned a call sign in their server.
No matter who dies it- it's very bad karma.
Look guys- we're watching a dying company. Sure they have a lot of business at the moment. But their tech is limited and specialized. They killed their desktop business. They are losing ground in the tablet and phone market.
Investing in your own GPU is not the thing to do under those conditions. And only for mobile or just Apple products? Even with an assumption that Apple can produce something competitive it just doesn't make sense.
This smells a lot like Newton, John Sculley's pet project. Or CyberDog. Or the System Administrator's Tool Kit. Or the E-mate. Or the AV series of Macs. All products that were cool as heck- with no place in the market.
History repeats itself again.
IT Executive.... that's an IT guy with an MBA who went back to school after failing as an Engineer. Or worse- someone with no engineering experience.
As the years have gone by, I've seen executives in tech migrate from "pretty smart" to downright stupid.
Anything an "IT Executive" says is suspect... all the time... every time.
I worked for Apple from 1995 until 2001 in the K12 division. They abandoned education gradually as soon as the focus became consumer goods like ipods.
Also, they ignored competitive advantages they had by not leveraging the Apple Share IP servers which could serve windows clients as well. They made the tech- and never pushed it. At the time it was apparent to me they were pulling out. It was also apparent with the Darwin kernel and the tools taken from NeXT that they had an ready to go enterprise solution in Server 10.
15 years later.... it's apparent they have pulled out of computers in general. It's sad too. When I pull out my alpha disks of OSX it's apparent that a revolution was lost. I can still load the alpha/pre-alpha OSX on present day Intel hardware. Go figure.
It's debatable as to whether they made the right decision or not- could they make a bundle in the enterprise? But to the engineers that worked there at the time paradise was indeed lost.
Extreme bling just got a lot lighter!!!!
I'm not sure how I feel about this. If it was my estimation that the two political parties were more interested in what is best for America, rather than just winning their ideological war, this would hold more weight for me.
Snowdon seems the logical "other pardon". Not sure I'd like that to happen. Would prefer a trial where he would be allowed to make his case. Manning wasn't afforded that opportunity either.
Neither case is at the instigation of a foreign government. So the issues need to be gone through in an open court so the country can understand the issues. And legally decide whether a crime was committed, or these were justified acts done by patriots.
Well the day had to come. Though it's too bad these guys are dying off while there's a "moon landing denial movement". Which is sad.
We need to get another crew up there soon as a way to combat ongoing anti-scientific "belief systems" before we dumb down the entire country to the point we do something really stupid.
They better have real evidence. If you filled a 100ft by 100ft room full of the smartest people on earth- Carmack would be in the room. That's big game hunting.
You don't sue a person like that- you make a deal. Because he doesn't need to win- it was his brain. He already won.
Let's face it... it's not as if replacing Jobs was going to be an easy task- it may have been impossible.
That being said, Apple is not living up to the standard Jobs set. Maybe that's Cook's fault... maybe not. The recent products are lame. They've eviscerated their computer business. So if new products don't hit... it's not like they can fall back on the unfulfilled promise of OSX. They've been so successful with new consumer innovations, they've tossed away all the vertical markets they used to rule.
This is a dangerous position. They shouldn't cut his pay- they should fire him and find someone to take over.
Interesting thought...
What if the actual end of humanity is caused, because as an aggregate, we are smart enough to understand and avoid it, but the majority of our biomass isn't smart.
Perhaps, we've got too much of a spread in ability between intelligent folks and those who are constitutionally incapable of understanding the complexities of a large data set. Or the mathematics needed to interpret it. Or lack the desire to do the work that leads to understanding.
There's so many factors involved.
I'm entirely happy he did the right thing,
I suppose it makes no difference since the girl was saved. Why turn it into a political commercial?
Certainly people who were not Trump supporters would have done the same thing.
Hey- you guys voted for Brexit. This is a consequence.
It's the free market. Allow it to sort things out. If you do not like the outcome- remember you voted for it.
This really closes a circle for me. For some time I'd been hearing that Bob Lazar, the supposed physicist, had been spending a lot of time in China... Now we know...
With the synthesis of Element 114, the Chinese must have created a stable isotope based on Mr. Lazar's information gleaned from Groom Lake.