...at about 2am and I saw a light on in a jewelry store. I walked up to the door and peered inside, it looked like no one was in there. I gave the door a little tug and it moved a bit. It must be stuck I said so I gave it another tug. something clicked and the door opened. No alarm went off, nothing. I walked around and called for an employee but no one answered. I looked around and saw no one. I went in back, found a pen and piece of paper wrote a note for the guy at the store that his alarm was off and his front door was open or the door lock wasn't working. I shut off the lights and locked the door from the inside so as not to attract thieves, and left.
The next day I found out that the FBI wanted my head and had surrounded my parent's house. Wait, what?
You can switch to white on black, then change the number of colors back to Millions. It gets you back your coler and keeps everything reversed. Problem solved.... well, if you don't mind using a negative of aqua:^D Gotta love the orange buttons.
I guess Slashdot is just about as sensationalist as your average Dateline or 20/20. The truth of the matter is as follows for all of you who read the article but still didn't get it.
The document contained bits of assembly code that do all sorts of nasty things once slipped into a system. The code could elevate privileges, stat/stop processes, or reboot the machine. It's scary stuff but nothing you should be alarmed or surprised about. Anyone could harm a machine by writing code, that part isn't difficult at all. I could make an Applescript that wipes out your home directory or masks its self as another application, asks for an admin password, then proceeds to wipe your whole HD and overwrite it with ASCII garbage. Creating malware isn't the problem at all. Do you follow me?
What this guy did was create malware that could be slipped into a system remotely through another security exploit, a buffer overflow for example (a buffer overflow is the same type of bug that caused that whole OS X screensaver crashing nonsense a while back that was promptly fixed by Apple). The reason the article is not a reason for concern is that there isn't currently a well know exploit of this nature for someone to use the code featured in this article. The same "security flaws" exist in almost any modern computer system. The thing is, the code isn't the security flaw, an exploit that allows the code would be. The article names no such new exploit.
Who is the Bulk Club? I dunno, you tell me whois! By the way, I'd rather not call that phone number, can anyone confirm if it is fake or not? Last time I checked, 666 was not a local prefix.
Organization: The Bulk Club LLC The Bulk Club LLC The Bulk Club LLC 3867 W. Market St #272 Akron, OH 44333 US Phone: 330-666-7625 Email: aumaninc@hotmail.com
Created on..............: Thu, Aug 29, 2002 Expires on..............: Sun, Aug 29, 2004 Record last updated on..: Tue, Aug 26, 2003
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact: The Bulk Club LLC The Bulk Club LLC The Bulk Club LLC 3867 W. Market St #272 Akron, OH 44333 US Phone: 330-666-7625 Email: aumaninc@hotmail.com
...for the G5. Adobe Photoshop has been specially coded to take every possible advantage of the G4's architecture. I wouldn't be surprised if the program held back information and bits of commands in order to keep the standard 133MHz bus clear and chugging along with data as fast as possible. Just imagine the sort of speeds we'll get when Adobe really unleashes the beast and allows the program to entirely saturate two 1GHz busses with information and optimizes the code for the G5.
Pile that all on top of the speed increases seen under Mac OS 10.3 and you'll get a box that absolutely screams for Photoshop work (let alone anything else). With the tests performed today at bare feats, we can see that the G5 can beat the G4 at it's own game, let's see what the G5's game looks like.
has violated rights 2 and 3 a few times, has been brought to court, and has paid fair settlements (full refund on OS X purchase for users of certain hardware, $20 coupon for the Apple store if the user wishes to keep OS X). Even though Apple is my favorite software company, they have violated a few of these rights (though not many of the more horrible ones). This bill of rights would keep honest companies honest and awful companies out of business! Looks like everyone wins to me.
That first column says "Report as Error" It's a link to report the number as an error if it is unusually high compared to its neighbors, not to state that the actual figure is an error. Click the link, it will explain the system to you. I must be off because being a homosexual, a Macintosh user, and a priest takes a lot of my time! At least the slashdot trolls seem to think so! Toodles!!
But honestly, I've never heard of Tibco in my life before now. Anyone familiar with Tibco's product would know the difference and anyone who isn't probably wouldn't care. The technology plays to the same market (IT) but individuals in that market should be intelligent enough to tell the difference. If they can't then they need to be fired and replaced with competent employees.
IT Employee: "I saw the word Rendezvous on Mac OS X 10.2's ad in time magazine, did no research whatsoever on the product and wasted $10,000 ordering copies for every machine in the company, only to find out it only works on Macintoshes and does not contain any messaging software that works with Tibco's! CEO: You're fired.
Apple isn't even selling Rendezvous as a product! It costs nothing to implement and its specifications and quite a bit of example code for it are open to the public to use. I don't see how Apple is capitalizing on anything when there is no capital involved, except perhaps that which was used to develop the technology.
RaptorX better run for his life then. Every single person I've met with an illegal copy of "All the Things She Said" by Tatu has his copy. You know the one, it has the AIM door shutting sound at about 2:30. The RIAA finally comes up with a way to battle P2P that isn't asinine. Must be damn cold in hell.
I read it on Slashdot that no one makes games for Macs, so it must be true. I better let Aspyr, MacPlay, MacSoft, Westlake Interactive, Ambrosia, Freeverse, The Omni Group, Blizzard, GraphSim, and Feral Interactive among many other commercial operations and hundreds of shareware developers that no one at all makes games for the Macintosh and that they should all shut down immediately. Additionally, Inside Mac Games should shut down their operation immediately as they are a waste of server space because they will never have any news to report ever.
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I know little to nothing about traditional *nix tools, I still crack open BBEdit because that's the way I've done things, well, forever now, but when I type in emacs into the OS X command line I get this. It appears to be GNU Emacs, though a slightly outdated version. I never installed this. I'm the only user of this machine. It think it's included in OS X.
Apple does the same this with Applescript, except it usually doesn't lead to permissions elevation and horrific virii. The idea of scriptability is a noble and often very useful one, but it needs to be implemented correctly.
Even AppleScripts have to have the correct permissions to be executable. They are treated as applications. I was concerned about the notion of creating a Mac virus that used AppleScript to access a shell and wipe out everything it could, disguised as an email attachment, but even in application bundles, the virus would not run. It would spit out an "Error 1000" (or the like, it just means something ain't right with the executable) which would confuse Joe Mac User and any Mac user who understood the problem wouldn't be in the situation in the first place.
As for Linux, it's about the same deal as Mac OS X except I don't think ANY Linux/Unix user would ever set permissions then run a binary from some mysterious email. Or how about a Gentoo virus. "Damn this virus is taking way too long to compile and wreak havoc. I'm going out for a burger."
As you can see, the notion of a virus on any other platform doesn't really feel right (though I could very well be wrong!) Microsoft seriously needs to go back and essentially re-write Windows again. They tried it with NT to XP but it obviously isn't working out. They are still making very fundamental flaws in their code by using their ass backwards approach to.. well... nearly everything
It's a combination of Bayesian filtering and whitelists based on your address book. When you first start the application, it goes into pure training mode in which junk mail is flagged but not filtered out of your inbox automatically. You train it for a while, labeling junk yourself and correcting false positives. After the training mode is sufficient (no more false positives at all for a set period of time, though there usually aren't any as anyone in your address book is whitelisted and everyone you hold a correspondence with is added automatically) the filter then prompts you to go into automatic mode, in which it separates junk into its own box. After 10 days or so in the junk box (you can set the exact time, including never), the messages get deleted. And for those annoying people who forward jokes to you but are whitelisted anyway, enough training can actually selectively overcome the whitelist, it's really very cool. For the occasional piece of SPAM that makes its way into your mailbox, you can select it and press the junk button and it immediately banishes it to the junk box and learns for the mistake.
I understand that it wouldn't have worked out considering the methodology behind the tests but I'd be interested to see how Apple's Mail.app compares.
I just bought a Wallstreet Powerbook off ebay and I was afraid that it would run OS X reasonably because of this lawsuit. Well, apparently, the Powerbook that showed up at my door came with a ATI RageLT Pro card with 8MB of VRAM. I installed both 9 and X on the machine. 9 screamed, but with it's usual drawbacks (terrible multitasking and stability) and X performed surprisingly well. It installed, booted, and did everything I wanted it to (web, email, etc...) except Quicktime. Quicktime movies played atrociously! I guess that's what I get for not having hardware acceleration. But wait, there is a driver for the Rage LT Pro 8MB but Apple just never enabled in on Wallstreet Powerbooks you say?! Why yes there is! I headed over to Xlr8 Your Mac and edited a kernel extension to load my video card's drivers. It worked! Though there is still no 3D acceleration, now Quicktime playback is more than acceptable for a 266MHz machine and the entire OS is snappier. Apple could have just avoided this suit on several models had they just given a few minor tweaks to their graphics drivers. I don't understand why they didn't.
Not only are most of the APIs public, most of them are even in AppleScript, which allows not just developers but end users as well to take advantage. Take away the sarcasm of this post's grandfather and you have the truth. When Microsoft integrates things, it is almost always to crush 3rd parties or exercise power. When Apple does it, they end up innovating or coming up with a better product. Gotta love it.
I'd like to see what FSF thinks of these.... http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/ Shut up, an EULA is up for scrutiny by the FSF whether they like (or know) it of not!
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...at about 2am and I saw a light on in a jewelry store. I walked up to the door and peered inside, it looked like no one was in there. I gave the door a little tug and it moved a bit. It must be stuck I said so I gave it another tug. something clicked and the door opened. No alarm went off, nothing. I walked around and called for an employee but no one answered. I looked around and saw no one. I went in back, found a pen and piece of paper wrote a note for the guy at the store that his alarm was off and his front door was open or the door lock wasn't working. I shut off the lights and locked the door from the inside so as not to attract thieves, and left.
The next day I found out that the FBI wanted my head and had surrounded my parent's house. Wait, what?
You can switch to white on black, then change the number of colors back to Millions. It gets you back your coler and keeps everything reversed. Problem solved.... well, if you don't mind using a negative of aqua :^D Gotta love the orange buttons.
I guess Slashdot is just about as sensationalist as your average Dateline or 20/20. The truth of the matter is as follows for all of you who read the article but still didn't get it.
The document contained bits of assembly code that do all sorts of nasty things once slipped into a system. The code could elevate privileges, stat/stop processes, or reboot the machine. It's scary stuff but nothing you should be alarmed or surprised about. Anyone could harm a machine by writing code, that part isn't difficult at all. I could make an Applescript that wipes out your home directory or masks its self as another application, asks for an admin password, then proceeds to wipe your whole HD and overwrite it with ASCII garbage. Creating malware isn't the problem at all. Do you follow me?
What this guy did was create malware that could be slipped into a system remotely through another security exploit, a buffer overflow for example (a buffer overflow is the same type of bug that caused that whole OS X screensaver crashing nonsense a while back that was promptly fixed by Apple). The reason the article is not a reason for concern is that there isn't currently a well know exploit of this nature for someone to use the code featured in this article. The same "security flaws" exist in almost any modern computer system. The thing is, the code isn't the security flaw, an exploit that allows the code would be. The article names no such new exploit.
Who is the Bulk Club? I dunno, you tell me whois! By the way, I'd rather not call that phone number, can anyone confirm if it is fake or not? Last time I checked, 666 was not a local prefix.
Organization:
The Bulk Club LLC
The Bulk Club LLC The Bulk Club LLC
3867 W. Market St #272
Akron, OH 44333
US
Phone: 330-666-7625
Email: aumaninc@hotmail.com
Registrar Name....: Register.com
Registrar Whois...: whois.register.com
Registrar Homepage: http://www.register.com
Domain Name: THEBULKCLUB.COM
Created on..............: Thu, Aug 29, 2002
Expires on..............: Sun, Aug 29, 2004
Record last updated on..: Tue, Aug 26, 2003
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
The Bulk Club LLC
The Bulk Club LLC The Bulk Club LLC
3867 W. Market St #272
Akron, OH 44333
US
Phone: 330-666-7625
Email: aumaninc@hotmail.com
Domain servers in listed order:
NS2.ITBRAZIL.COM - 216.162.103.31
NS0000.4AMDNS.COM - 202.54.192.205
NS5.4AMDNS.COM - 203.199.113.19
Note to karmavore: the first correction that spellcheck offers is not always cerrito.
...for the G5. Adobe Photoshop has been specially coded to take every possible advantage of the G4's architecture. I wouldn't be surprised if the program held back information and bits of commands in order to keep the standard 133MHz bus clear and chugging along with data as fast as possible. Just imagine the sort of speeds we'll get when Adobe really unleashes the beast and allows the program to entirely saturate two 1GHz busses with information and optimizes the code for the G5.
Pile that all on top of the speed increases seen under Mac OS 10.3 and you'll get a box that absolutely screams for Photoshop work (let alone anything else). With the tests performed today at bare feats, we can see that the G5 can beat the G4 at it's own game, let's see what the G5's game looks like.
except for the part where it gives you radiation poisoning and then melts back into mercury and makes you go crazy.
has violated rights 2 and 3 a few times, has been brought to court, and has paid fair settlements (full refund on OS X purchase for users of certain hardware, $20 coupon for the Apple store if the user wishes to keep OS X). Even though Apple is my favorite software company, they have violated a few of these rights (though not many of the more horrible ones). This bill of rights would keep honest companies honest and awful companies out of business! Looks like everyone wins to me.
No.
Thank you. The slashdot mod system kinda makes replying to things a moving target. When in doubt, click the parent link.
Heh, the iWalk was all SpyMac. And the WWDC coverage was closer to 98% accurate.
That first column says "Report as Error" It's a link to report the number as an error if it is unusually high compared to its neighbors, not to state that the actual figure is an error. Click the link, it will explain the system to you. I must be off because being a homosexual, a Macintosh user, and a priest takes a lot of my time! At least the slashdot trolls seem to think so! Toodles!!
What kind? It won't be too long if it's a Nomad Jukebox.
But honestly, I've never heard of Tibco in my life before now. Anyone familiar with Tibco's product would know the difference and anyone who isn't probably wouldn't care. The technology plays to the same market (IT) but individuals in that market should be intelligent enough to tell the difference. If they can't then they need to be fired and replaced with competent employees.
IT Employee: "I saw the word Rendezvous on Mac OS X 10.2's ad in time magazine, did no research whatsoever on the product and wasted $10,000 ordering copies for every machine in the company, only to find out it only works on Macintoshes and does not contain any messaging software that works with Tibco's!
CEO: You're fired.
Apple isn't even selling Rendezvous as a product! It costs nothing to implement and its specifications and quite a bit of example code for it are open to the public to use. I don't see how Apple is capitalizing on anything when there is no capital involved, except perhaps that which was used to develop the technology.
RaptorX better run for his life then. Every single person I've met with an illegal copy of "All the Things She Said" by Tatu has his copy. You know the one, it has the AIM door shutting sound at about 2:30. The RIAA finally comes up with a way to battle P2P that isn't asinine. Must be damn cold in hell.
I read it on Slashdot that no one makes games for Macs, so it must be true. I better let Aspyr, MacPlay, MacSoft, Westlake Interactive, Ambrosia, Freeverse, The Omni Group, Blizzard, GraphSim, and Feral Interactive among many other commercial operations and hundreds of shareware developers that no one at all makes games for the Macintosh and that they should all shut down immediately. Additionally, Inside Mac Games should shut down their operation immediately as they are a waste of server space because they will never have any news to report ever.
I heard it on Slashdot so it must be true.
Apple does the same this with Applescript, except it usually doesn't lead to permissions elevation and horrific virii. The idea of scriptability is a noble and often very useful one, but it needs to be implemented correctly.
Even AppleScripts have to have the correct permissions to be executable. They are treated as applications. I was concerned about the notion of creating a Mac virus that used AppleScript to access a shell and wipe out everything it could, disguised as an email attachment, but even in application bundles, the virus would not run. It would spit out an "Error 1000" (or the like, it just means something ain't right with the executable) which would confuse Joe Mac User and any Mac user who understood the problem wouldn't be in the situation in the first place.
As for Linux, it's about the same deal as Mac OS X except I don't think ANY Linux/Unix user would ever set permissions then run a binary from some mysterious email. Or how about a Gentoo virus. "Damn this virus is taking way too long to compile and wreak havoc. I'm going out for a burger."
As you can see, the notion of a virus on any other platform doesn't really feel right (though I could very well be wrong!) Microsoft seriously needs to go back and essentially re-write Windows again. They tried it with NT to XP but it obviously isn't working out. They are still making very fundamental flaws in their code by using their ass backwards approach to.. well... nearly everything
It's a combination of Bayesian filtering and whitelists based on your address book. When you first start the application, it goes into pure training mode in which junk mail is flagged but not filtered out of your inbox automatically. You train it for a while, labeling junk yourself and correcting false positives. After the training mode is sufficient (no more false positives at all for a set period of time, though there usually aren't any as anyone in your address book is whitelisted and everyone you hold a correspondence with is added automatically) the filter then prompts you to go into automatic mode, in which it separates junk into its own box. After 10 days or so in the junk box (you can set the exact time, including never), the messages get deleted. And for those annoying people who forward jokes to you but are whitelisted anyway, enough training can actually selectively overcome the whitelist, it's really very cool. For the occasional piece of SPAM that makes its way into your mailbox, you can select it and press the junk button and it immediately banishes it to the junk box and learns for the mistake.
I understand that it wouldn't have worked out considering the methodology behind the tests but I'd be interested to see how Apple's Mail.app compares.
...it wouldN'T run OS X well...
Damn you Slashdot. Allow editing for god's sake!
I just bought a Wallstreet Powerbook off ebay and I was afraid that it would run OS X reasonably because of this lawsuit. Well, apparently, the Powerbook that showed up at my door came with a ATI RageLT Pro card with 8MB of VRAM. I installed both 9 and X on the machine. 9 screamed, but with it's usual drawbacks (terrible multitasking and stability) and X performed surprisingly well. It installed, booted, and did everything I wanted it to (web, email, etc...) except Quicktime. Quicktime movies played atrociously! I guess that's what I get for not having hardware acceleration. But wait, there is a driver for the Rage LT Pro 8MB but Apple just never enabled in on Wallstreet Powerbooks you say?! Why yes there is! I headed over to Xlr8 Your Mac and edited a kernel extension to load my video card's drivers. It worked! Though there is still no 3D acceleration, now Quicktime playback is more than acceptable for a 266MHz machine and the entire OS is snappier. Apple could have just avoided this suit on several models had they just given a few minor tweaks to their graphics drivers. I don't understand why they didn't.
Not only are most of the APIs public, most of them are even in AppleScript, which allows not just developers but end users as well to take advantage. Take away the sarcasm of this post's grandfather and you have the truth. When Microsoft integrates things, it is almost always to crush 3rd parties or exercise power. When Apple does it, they end up innovating or coming up with a better product. Gotta love it.
I'd like to see what FSF thinks of these....
http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/
Shut up, an EULA is up for scrutiny by the FSF whether they like (or know) it of not!
I don't know but I made an MP3 to enjoy on the go. 1:33 of pure auditory bliss. Soothing action action action....