Given that the only popular Java application on Mac OS X, Azureus, is universally regarded as being slow, bloated, and ugly, I'd say the GP's impression is not at all outdated.
So one app defines an entire platform and language? Java apps, at least on Windows, can take on multiple Look and Feels, thus it is possible for an app to look more like the native apps for Windows. Whether this is possible for Java under OSX (and the iPhone) is a different issue. If it is not possible then that is probably the fault of Apple. You also assume the developers for Azureus are the greatest devs available and thus made a perfect app that can't be sped up or written better. Their app may be slow because of their skills and not because of the language/platform they chose to use.
It could be that the enormous demand is making mass production more profitable, and also leading to cheaper manufacture methods.
Another possibility (or a little bit of both situations) is that they are manufacturing so many that even with enormous demand there is a glut. High supply, high demand. That drives costs down so that the supply becomes more in line with demand and the "scarcity" issue comes into play once again. The same thing happened with flat panel TVs last year: too many got produced and prices plummeted.
You could, however, "dial" them by repeatedly hitting the hangup buttons. So I was hacking your "unhackable" phone when I was 16. Actually I was cracking not hacking; I was hacking when I made guitar fuzzboxes out of $10 transistor radios and selling them for $50 each to other teenaged guitar players.
Actually, you were doing an early version of phreaking.
Yeah, but when you start requiring specific clothes, all you're going to do is entice the teenagers to get naked. You don't want to have naked teenagers on your hands, do you? I know I would. I mean, wouldn't. Right.
Just like the subliminal message in Disney's Aladdin, "Good teenagers take off their clothes". That was said sometime around the scene where Aladdin uses the magic carpet to go up to the princess's room in the tower. The volume has to be up high to hear it (I tested it on VHS version, the DVD may not have it).
Like the title of this post says - screw antivirus software, call appropriate law enforcement agencies when you get these phishing attempts!
You actually think they will care or even have the knowledge and know-how to do anything about it? There is, however, the Internet Crime Complaint Center and here just down the street from me (10 min).
Government jobs are similarly stressful, he said. Increased security in recent years means TraceSecurity personnel are trying to get past "guys with machine guns."
Maybe at some government locations the guards have machine guns but at the place I work the guards are armed but only with hand guns. I think I recall hearing at some locations they use rifles but I'd have to guess that machine guns are just a little bit too much for armed guards to use but maybe I'm wrong.
I also wonder, who's using these storage companies? Is it for backups of corporate data centers?
It's any company that needs a major amount of storage (tera/peta/exa bytes) either at their main site or even remote sister sites would utilize these products. Companies like EMC and EqualLogic make device frames that house hundreds of regular hard drives and are presented to servers as a local drive despite not being local. Because the storage is in a frame and the frames are intelligent, the frames can do data replication to DR sites without a server ever needing to know about it. I know EMC makes both fibre channel-based and IP-based hardware and, based on the headline of the linked article, EqualLogic makes IP-based (iSCSI) SAN equipment. iSCSI allows a corporation to utilize an existing ethernet/IP network without investing hundreds of thousands in a separate storage area network (i.e. fibre channel, see Brocade Comm. Systems).
SANs enable proper separation of servers and data and come with their own tools. Servers can be setup in a cluster with each node being configured to utilize storage allocated on the SAN but only an active node has the storage mounted. Upon failover the passive node can take over and users don't notice any downtime. The data is independent of the server hosting it. It can get expensive though. EMC sells its DMX Symmetrix frames for about $1.4 million (last time I saw a value) depending on capacity ($1.4M probably gets you about a petabyte but don't quote me on the price; it's been too long to remember accurately).
For restaurants, hair salons, etc., there's a simple solution -- just make it a policy, and have the guts to enforce it. Post little "No cell phone usage inside this establishment" signs.
So you are still jamming their cell phone because you are telling them their phone is not allowed to be used in the establishment. How is that any different? The only way it would be different in my opinion is if the jammer effects were *not* confined to within the walls of the establishment and therefore if you wanted to go outside to use a cell phone (like you would have to if a "policy" said you couldn't use it inside) you couldn't use it outside either because the jamming was inadvertently reaching too far. Other than that, a restaurant owner is either going to jam using either a paper-based or electronic-based jammer. What is the difference?
Before cell phones, if a person had a heart attack in a restaurant an employee would be the one to make the call to 911 so why can't that still happen? It would have to happen if a person had to abide by a paper-based jammer unless they take the extra 5 seconds to walk outside and make the call, which is about the same amount of time it would take to tell an employee to make the 911 call if your phone was the victim of a electronic-based jammer.
how did the kid's grand parents get custody of their natural father is still alive and kicking? The kids were growing up here and how they were transplanted to a culture remarkably different?
Uh, if I had to guess I'd say they were sent to be with their grandparents because their father was the prime suspect in their mother's murder. From the perspective of the authorities, their theory is the correct one and they would not want to later be proven correct and then be blamed for allowing his kids to have been with him the whole time. They are taking precautions. From their point of view, it's better the kids change cultures than be dead or taken hostage by Reiser. Again, this is from their perspective, not Reiser's.
So basically you are saying murder is OK. Wow. Innocent until proven guilty but that takes some really... interesting thinking to claim that murder is somehow forgivable.
The thing is, not only is he implying murder is okay, he is making the punishment an arbitrary decision based on age. Where is the cut off point? This is similar to the arbitrary decision about killing someone because their life may not be up to snuff (no pun intended). Whose to say whether someone else's life isn't good enough to continue? Whose to say whether someone is too old to serve time for a crime (especially murder or rape)? No human being is allowed to do that. No human should get away with murder. The question here is whether she really committed the crime she was initially in prison for. She claims she is innocent. How baseless is that claim? If it is baseless then she needs to go back to jail to finish her sentence. This is also the type of case where DNA analysis not available in the 70s could be used to exonerate someone or damn them to a life of imprisonment. It is things like this that make a black and white world turn gray. We let that happen.
so I've looked at the various pieces of info powerball.com contains and one of the items says that the majority of the winners had computer-chosen numbers rather than having chosen numbers themselves. The site also lists the last 5 or so drawings and 2 drawings in a row (just about 3 drawings ago; still on their site) the 2 lowest number balls were 10 and 11. Of course this is totally random (assumg it isn't rigged) but as someone else said, humans assign meaning to certain numbers/patterns. That is the whole premise of numerology. Some people would say picking all 1s for Powerball is stupid but that is just as likely as all 5s or 10, 22, 23, 40, 42, and 2.
Patterns do arise out of the randomness (chaos theory anyone?) and it is that randomness (with a high reward) that keeps people coming back time and again (gambling). The lottery is one of the classic reward scenarios in psychology: variable ratio reward. After a varying number of responses (buying a lottery ticket) a reward is given (jackpot). You never know how many tickets it takes to get a reward so you will buy a ticket as often as you can (at least 1 for every lottery drawing) on the off chance that particular drawing will reward you for plunking your dollar down. People can go years and never win but other people can win (and have) multiple times in a lifetime. But it truly is random as long as the games aren't rigged.
Couldn't you argue that more layers = more possibilities for attack vectors?
First, consider the alternative of having no protection at all, the attack vectors available for the services you are running are still there with no protection whatsoever. At least with a firewall you have protection even if the firewall itself isn't perfect. Second, we assume the mechanisms we use for protection have a better chance of providing just that, protection, rather than an additional attack vector which could end up allowing an attacker to bypass the protection altogether. Obviously some hardware and software have a better protection/vulnerability ratio than others. Case in point: Windows has generally been known to provide little protection but a high rate of vulnerability as opposed to Linux which provides a high level of protection and doesn't expose your system to an excessive amount of vulnerabilities in the meantime.
Therefore, those who know better, are more likely to risk their system running Linux than Windows. The same goes for a network as a whole which should include firewalls, IDSs, etc. This ultimately leads to the defense-in-depth security model. If any security layer gives you less protection but gives an attacker more vulnerabilities to exploit then you need to replace the product providing that layer so that you have the advantage.
exactly which topic on the forum is the discussion I should be reading? All the links point to the main osx86 forum main page and I have no clue which topic I should be reading. The one with the most views is just a bunch of people saying "I'm running it on Intel here". Or am I missing something more fundamental?
Maybe it fell a bit, but I would still consider selling 9.3 million copies a month pretty damn good. Say each sold for ~$100, since it doesn't state if they were OEM or Retail copies, that's still 930 million dollars a month in sales in just Microsoft's Operating System division.
And how many people bought it and went back to XP afterwards? Or how many got it because it came on their computer whether they wanted it or not? Windows sales are skewed because of how MS forces OEMs to pre-install it. Do these sales numbers exclude copies sold but returned? The article may address all this but I'm not going to bother reading it. Just keep these things in mind when anyone reports sales figures.
Those companies that sell Linux's, such as Novell, are chump change compared to the Vista juggernaught. Novell did 21 million dollars of Linux for the 3rd quarter. Microsoft will blow through that in a couple of days of Vista sales... even excluding OEMS. Really, because Linux is open source, there's really no point to selling it at all.
Don't compare sales dollars for a product that can cost upwards of $400 to a product that can cost upwards of $90 or whatever SuSE currently costs. Comparing Vista to the enterprise versions of Linux is similarly not a fair comparison. Compare the actual quantities of the units sold, not the dollar values, unless they happen to be the same price. Also don't forget that many times a user can get Linux for free from a distributor; are those download numbers included in sales figures for Novell or any other distributor that allows free downloads?
to OS X and Macs (bought my first Mac, it is a Macbook, last night on newegg and it will probably have Tiger on it anyway) so forgive my ignorance but does this Application Enhancer come with OS X Leopard? It sounds like it is an application that some users would already have installed as a separate installation from a previous OS X version and it just happens to cause issues once Leopard is installed. If this is a wrong assumption and Application Enhancer is part of Leopard, why would Apple bundle something like that if it isn't certified by Unsanity as being compatible with 10.5?
Didn't I just hear that the Storm worm was slowing to a crawl?
The size of the botnet (which is what that link is referring to) doesn't have anything to do with whether it decides to retaliate at any given point in time due to someone angering it. I think if we sacrifice enough virgins we will please it.
sorry if I sound stupid. It seems like greak to me. I'm just used wireshark etc
I think you have bigger problems than not knowing the advantages of shaving 1 ms off network analysis scans. I also think you removed any question of sounding stupid.
There's a lot of concern among climatologists that global darkening has been masking the effects of global warming, and that as solar radiation on the surface goes up again, the effects of global warming might come upon us more severely and faster than our previous estimates.
Exactly, our previous estimates are 100% accurate. Why shouldn't they be? Climatologists are making models and predictions 20 years or even 100 years into the future but yet somehow meteorologists can't make an accurate forecast 30 days into the future. The fact that climate is a more regional, longer-term version of weather really is irrelevant. Tell me again why we are threatening people, killing people, and spending billions based on information that can't possibly be right? Models 30 years ago predicted something else. Which to believe? Well, it would be whichever set of models produces the most fear in people that the media feed off of.
These things are getting so insidious and vast in scope, I'm honestly wondering if I can safely believe that any Windows machine I come across with problems ISN'T on Storm or one of the other botnets. At what point does having a multi-use computing device become more of a problem than the benefits it provides? If 90% of what you get for connecting to the Internet is problems, what's the point? Bile spewing bloggers, bought-and-paid news reports and total advertising awareness?
Although I think I see where you are coming from, the thing I have to say against your argument is...where's the problem? Although I do get spam (1 or 2 a day, sometimes none) I don't have an ad blocker but they are available. Flash can be disabled for certain sites as well for the admittedly annoying Flash-based ads. I don't use IE or Outlook. I use Opera and Thunderbird. I also don't use anti-virus or a firewall (I do have my wireless router firewall capabilities). I do use emule once in a great while but it's an older binary that doesn't have a lot of the junk of newer binaries. Using my computer is not a problem, and yes, I'm the only one (no other person OR computer) using my computer.
Somehow there are some computers that are infested with adware, viruses, trojans, and worms. I guess it's due to people using IE, Outlook, and unknown p2p programs. People need to be more informed. IE should not have an icon on the Windows desktop and should instead be replaced with Firefox and the Outlook Express icon should be a Thunderbird icon. Also, people should not be allowed to use a computer w/o taking a class on the Internet and computer usage. We don't let people drive without a test so why should we let them use a computer without one?
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So one app defines an entire platform and language? Java apps, at least on Windows, can take on multiple Look and Feels, thus it is possible for an app to look more like the native apps for Windows. Whether this is possible for Java under OSX (and the iPhone) is a different issue. If it is not possible then that is probably the fault of Apple. You also assume the developers for Azureus are the greatest devs available and thus made a perfect app that can't be sped up or written better. Their app may be slow because of their skills and not because of the language/platform they chose to use.
What sickens a more specific set of them is that GOOG was trading at $740 just 2 days ago.
Another possibility (or a little bit of both situations) is that they are manufacturing so many that even with enormous demand there is a glut. High supply, high demand. That drives costs down so that the supply becomes more in line with demand and the "scarcity" issue comes into play once again. The same thing happened with flat panel TVs last year: too many got produced and prices plummeted.
Actually, you were doing an early version of phreaking.
Just like the subliminal message in Disney's Aladdin, "Good teenagers take off their clothes". That was said sometime around the scene where Aladdin uses the magic carpet to go up to the princess's room in the tower. The volume has to be up high to hear it (I tested it on VHS version, the DVD may not have it).
You actually think they will care or even have the knowledge and know-how to do anything about it? There is, however, the Internet Crime Complaint Center and here just down the street from me (10 min).
Maybe at some government locations the guards have machine guns but at the place I work the guards are armed but only with hand guns. I think I recall hearing at some locations they use rifles but I'd have to guess that machine guns are just a little bit too much for armed guards to use but maybe I'm wrong.
It's any company that needs a major amount of storage (tera/peta/exa bytes) either at their main site or even remote sister sites would utilize these products. Companies like EMC and EqualLogic make device frames that house hundreds of regular hard drives and are presented to servers as a local drive despite not being local. Because the storage is in a frame and the frames are intelligent, the frames can do data replication to DR sites without a server ever needing to know about it. I know EMC makes both fibre channel-based and IP-based hardware and, based on the headline of the linked article, EqualLogic makes IP-based (iSCSI) SAN equipment. iSCSI allows a corporation to utilize an existing ethernet/IP network without investing hundreds of thousands in a separate storage area network (i.e. fibre channel, see Brocade Comm. Systems).
SANs enable proper separation of servers and data and come with their own tools. Servers can be setup in a cluster with each node being configured to utilize storage allocated on the SAN but only an active node has the storage mounted. Upon failover the passive node can take over and users don't notice any downtime. The data is independent of the server hosting it. It can get expensive though. EMC sells its DMX Symmetrix frames for about $1.4 million (last time I saw a value) depending on capacity ($1.4M probably gets you about a petabyte but don't quote me on the price; it's been too long to remember accurately).
So you are still jamming their cell phone because you are telling them their phone is not allowed to be used in the establishment. How is that any different? The only way it would be different in my opinion is if the jammer effects were *not* confined to within the walls of the establishment and therefore if you wanted to go outside to use a cell phone (like you would have to if a "policy" said you couldn't use it inside) you couldn't use it outside either because the jamming was inadvertently reaching too far. Other than that, a restaurant owner is either going to jam using either a paper-based or electronic-based jammer. What is the difference?
Before cell phones, if a person had a heart attack in a restaurant an employee would be the one to make the call to 911 so why can't that still happen? It would have to happen if a person had to abide by a paper-based jammer unless they take the extra 5 seconds to walk outside and make the call, which is about the same amount of time it would take to tell an employee to make the 911 call if your phone was the victim of a electronic-based jammer.
Uh, if I had to guess I'd say they were sent to be with their grandparents because their father was the prime suspect in their mother's murder. From the perspective of the authorities, their theory is the correct one and they would not want to later be proven correct and then be blamed for allowing his kids to have been with him the whole time. They are taking precautions. From their point of view, it's better the kids change cultures than be dead or taken hostage by Reiser. Again, this is from their perspective, not Reiser's.
The thing is, not only is he implying murder is okay, he is making the punishment an arbitrary decision based on age. Where is the cut off point? This is similar to the arbitrary decision about killing someone because their life may not be up to snuff (no pun intended). Whose to say whether someone else's life isn't good enough to continue? Whose to say whether someone is too old to serve time for a crime (especially murder or rape)? No human being is allowed to do that. No human should get away with murder. The question here is whether she really committed the crime she was initially in prison for. She claims she is innocent. How baseless is that claim? If it is baseless then she needs to go back to jail to finish her sentence. This is also the type of case where DNA analysis not available in the 70s could be used to exonerate someone or damn them to a life of imprisonment. It is things like this that make a black and white world turn gray. We let that happen.
I don't know about that. Stain-resistant pants are pretty nice. I mean, who needs a flying car when we have stain-resistant pants?
so I've looked at the various pieces of info powerball.com contains and one of the items says that the majority of the winners had computer-chosen numbers rather than having chosen numbers themselves. The site also lists the last 5 or so drawings and 2 drawings in a row (just about 3 drawings ago; still on their site) the 2 lowest number balls were 10 and 11. Of course this is totally random (assumg it isn't rigged) but as someone else said, humans assign meaning to certain numbers/patterns. That is the whole premise of numerology. Some people would say picking all 1s for Powerball is stupid but that is just as likely as all 5s or 10, 22, 23, 40, 42, and 2.
Patterns do arise out of the randomness (chaos theory anyone?) and it is that randomness (with a high reward) that keeps people coming back time and again (gambling). The lottery is one of the classic reward scenarios in psychology: variable ratio reward. After a varying number of responses (buying a lottery ticket) a reward is given (jackpot). You never know how many tickets it takes to get a reward so you will buy a ticket as often as you can (at least 1 for every lottery drawing) on the off chance that particular drawing will reward you for plunking your dollar down. People can go years and never win but other people can win (and have) multiple times in a lifetime. But it truly is random as long as the games aren't rigged.
First, consider the alternative of having no protection at all, the attack vectors available for the services you are running are still there with no protection whatsoever. At least with a firewall you have protection even if the firewall itself isn't perfect. Second, we assume the mechanisms we use for protection have a better chance of providing just that, protection, rather than an additional attack vector which could end up allowing an attacker to bypass the protection altogether. Obviously some hardware and software have a better protection/vulnerability ratio than others. Case in point: Windows has generally been known to provide little protection but a high rate of vulnerability as opposed to Linux which provides a high level of protection and doesn't expose your system to an excessive amount of vulnerabilities in the meantime.
Therefore, those who know better, are more likely to risk their system running Linux than Windows. The same goes for a network as a whole which should include firewalls, IDSs, etc. This ultimately leads to the defense-in-depth security model. If any security layer gives you less protection but gives an attacker more vulnerabilities to exploit then you need to replace the product providing that layer so that you have the advantage.
exactly which topic on the forum is the discussion I should be reading? All the links point to the main osx86 forum main page and I have no clue which topic I should be reading. The one with the most views is just a bunch of people saying "I'm running it on Intel here". Or am I missing something more fundamental?
And how many people bought it and went back to XP afterwards? Or how many got it because it came on their computer whether they wanted it or not? Windows sales are skewed because of how MS forces OEMs to pre-install it. Do these sales numbers exclude copies sold but returned? The article may address all this but I'm not going to bother reading it. Just keep these things in mind when anyone reports sales figures.
Don't compare sales dollars for a product that can cost upwards of $400 to a product that can cost upwards of $90 or whatever SuSE currently costs. Comparing Vista to the enterprise versions of Linux is similarly not a fair comparison. Compare the actual quantities of the units sold, not the dollar values, unless they happen to be the same price. Also don't forget that many times a user can get Linux for free from a distributor; are those download numbers included in sales figures for Novell or any other distributor that allows free downloads?
to OS X and Macs (bought my first Mac, it is a Macbook, last night on newegg and it will probably have Tiger on it anyway) so forgive my ignorance but does this Application Enhancer come with OS X Leopard? It sounds like it is an application that some users would already have installed as a separate installation from a previous OS X version and it just happens to cause issues once Leopard is installed. If this is a wrong assumption and Application Enhancer is part of Leopard, why would Apple bundle something like that if it isn't certified by Unsanity as being compatible with 10.5?
You mean like this guy did (but for a slightly different reason)?
The size of the botnet (which is what that link is referring to) doesn't have anything to do with whether it decides to retaliate at any given point in time due to someone angering it. I think if we sacrifice enough virgins we will please it.
Can you tell us in some non-obvious way (unless you don't care) which ISP you work for so we can give credit where credit is due?
I think you have bigger problems than not knowing the advantages of shaving 1 ms off network analysis scans. I also think you removed any question of sounding stupid.
like this charge "assault with an assault weapon by proxy". It seems like they are stretching the legal system with that charge.
Exactly, our previous estimates are 100% accurate. Why shouldn't they be? Climatologists are making models and predictions 20 years or even 100 years into the future but yet somehow meteorologists can't make an accurate forecast 30 days into the future. The fact that climate is a more regional, longer-term version of weather really is irrelevant. Tell me again why we are threatening people, killing people, and spending billions based on information that can't possibly be right? Models 30 years ago predicted something else. Which to believe? Well, it would be whichever set of models produces the most fear in people that the media feed off of.
Although I think I see where you are coming from, the thing I have to say against your argument is...where's the problem? Although I do get spam (1 or 2 a day, sometimes none) I don't have an ad blocker but they are available. Flash can be disabled for certain sites as well for the admittedly annoying Flash-based ads. I don't use IE or Outlook. I use Opera and Thunderbird. I also don't use anti-virus or a firewall (I do have my wireless router firewall capabilities). I do use emule once in a great while but it's an older binary that doesn't have a lot of the junk of newer binaries. Using my computer is not a problem, and yes, I'm the only one (no other person OR computer) using my computer.
Somehow there are some computers that are infested with adware, viruses, trojans, and worms. I guess it's due to people using IE, Outlook, and unknown p2p programs. People need to be more informed. IE should not have an icon on the Windows desktop and should instead be replaced with Firefox and the Outlook Express icon should be a Thunderbird icon. Also, people should not be allowed to use a computer w/o taking a class on the Internet and computer usage. We don't let people drive without a test so why should we let them use a computer without one?