People on/. continually bitch about how corporations run the US govt. So congress starts passing laws to limit political speech to make things more "fair", i.e. limiting hard and soft campaign comtributions. Ironically it hurt the democrats more than the republicans since the democrats had a lot of large contributors in hollywood and the law field. Anyway, now these new laws start looking into what's going on on the internet, and you're surprised and outraged? Give me a break, you asked for limitations on free speech in politics, and now you're getting it.
Yes, shouldn't MGM be suing the end users? That's what everyone says when there's a story of this type on/. Of course when they actually do sue end users, this arguement is conveniently forgotten.
"All I could do was cringe and go "Dear god use Linux and no such problem happens..."
You need to get out into the real world. Our engineers are on Linux boxes, and for the most part hate open office and have a lot of problems with evolution's stability. I've personally had X crash on me more than once.
from post: "Symantec has been fanning the flames of totally bogus "Macs aren't more secure, it's just that Windows is a bigger target" technical-equivalence propaganda"
Of course, in the article, the Symatec claim is actually backed up. from Symantec article: "In its seventh bi-annual Internet Security Threat Report, Symantec said over the past year, security researchers had discovered at least 37 serious vulnerabilities in the Mac OS X system."
"Apple Computer has become a target for new attacks... The appearance of a rootkit109 called Opener in October 2004, serves to illustrate the growth in vulnerability research on the OS X platform..."
"Symantec's concerns were echoed by James Turner, security analyst at Frost & Sullivan Australia, who said many of the people who bought Apple products were not concerned about security, which left them wide open to attack."
"Look at where mobile viruses are going and they are not targeting Microsoft - they are targeting the market leader, which is Symbian,"
There was nothing unreasonable about the 6 tips. Active people don't want music that skips when they run. Extra features such as an fm tuner can be a nice addition. A screen is nice for searching around for the song you want to hear at the moment (Life isn't always random). It's always nice to have options for more than 1 place to get legal music online. etc. If it wasn't for the Apple zealots and the rabidly anti-Microsoft crowd, this wouldn't even be news.
The iPod shuffle has a chip which supports WMA, but for some reason Apple refused to enable this feature. Apple supports lock-in on both ends. They only sell songs with proprietary non-licenseable DRM, and they only support this DRM standard on their mp3 players. What about this does not scream, we're locking you in to our product lines.
" Not the iPod Shuffle. It's the only player I can think of without a display.... and it's very popular."
You just crawl out of a cave, or are you stuck in Jobs' reality distortion field? A friend of mine has had an mp3 player the size of a cigarette lighter for years. No display, 1 blinking light
In academic circles, tainting data to impress your sponsor, regardless of who it is, is a serious ethics violation. I haven't seen any evidence in the article to show that there was any bias. Assuming there is bias because of the funding source is not good enough. Show some proof before making such accusations.
I've seen personally at least a couple of solaris attacks and a linux box attack back when I was in school. You quote statistics without understanding what they mean. The lack of virii on MacOS is in part due to the low population makes it difficult to spread them. With this in mind, the economics doesn't make it worthwhile. Note that the prize was rescinded. Someone's afraid.
"If that doesn't strike you as conclusive, then feel free to explain how it is that Apache running on *BSD has such a better security record than IIS running on Windows"
Can you show some stats to support this claim? Just look at the reason why it's called Apache.
No. The original post said the function of the recording industry is to distribute music. The reply was that the recording industry also promotes and markets the music. Music doesn't just magically become popular. Someone has to decide it's worth playing on the radio or whereever. The average person doesn't want to listen to a thousand albums to find a good one. They want the industry and the media to do the work for them.
WindowsXP is based on NT, which was developed by guys they got from DEC, who had developed VAX operating systems. Windows "started over" long before Apple. Apple probably learned it from them.
When the RIAA sues someone for distributing their songs using p2p software, there are hundreds of posts from outraged/.ers. When someone does the same thing with Apple software, the attitude is, he got what he deserved. Is there a double standard here?
This is a patch for a major security flaw in Firefox. I hope Firefox users are putting the bandwidth to good use or they will face the same problems as IE users.
Apple powerbook shouldn't even be on the list. It looks just like a thinkpad. Hardly innovative. Reminds me of an article on/. awhile ago that rated the powerbook 100 as the best portable gadget ever. Give me a break. The only interesting thing about the powerbook 100 is that people who liked MacOS back then finally got a portable to run it on.
" When the content is properly priced, what's the need for DRM anyway?"
Why is this modded up as insightful? So, by analogy, I shouldn't put locks or alarms in my store, and if my prices are low enough, people will just pay them, instead of going through the hassle of walking out without paying.
" This is awesome, Jon is single handedly causing a pretty reasonable DRM scheme to rapidly degrade into something nearly unusable. Thanks man!"
It wasn't usable for people on Linux, so he fixed it. There wasn't this kind of resentment when the DVD encryption scheme was cracked. What's the problem now? Oh right, the DVD consortium is not Apple.
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People on /. continually bitch about how corporations run the US govt. So congress starts passing laws to limit political speech to make things more "fair", i.e. limiting hard and soft campaign comtributions. Ironically it hurt the democrats more than the republicans since the democrats had a lot of large contributors in hollywood and the law field. Anyway, now these new laws start looking into what's going on on the internet, and you're surprised and outraged? Give me a break, you asked for limitations on free speech in politics, and now you're getting it.
Yes, shouldn't MGM be suing the end users? That's what everyone says when there's a story of this type on /. Of course when they actually do sue end users, this arguement is conveniently forgotten.
"and what, a 1.2 or 1.4ghz processor?
You're not really using MHz to compare, are you?"
No. I've read Hennesy and Patterson.
Why should I have to buy a machine from Apple to run their software? Why can't I run Apple software on x86 hardware?
" How much did you pay for your computer 3 years ago?"
What I paid for it 3 years ago is irrelevant. Today I could build it for a lot less than $500.
"All I could do was cringe and go "Dear god use Linux and no such problem happens..."
You need to get out into the real world. Our engineers are on Linux boxes, and for the most part hate open office and have a lot of problems with evolution's stability. I've personally had X crash on me more than once.
from post:
"Symantec has been fanning the flames of totally bogus "Macs aren't more secure, it's just that Windows is a bigger target" technical-equivalence propaganda"
Of course, in the article, the Symatec claim is actually backed up.
from Symantec article:
"In its seventh bi-annual Internet Security Threat Report, Symantec said over the past year, security researchers had discovered at least 37 serious vulnerabilities in the Mac OS X system."
"Apple Computer has become a target for new attacks... The appearance of a rootkit109 called Opener in October 2004, serves to illustrate the growth in vulnerability research on the OS X platform..."
"Symantec's concerns were echoed by James Turner, security analyst at Frost & Sullivan Australia, who said many of the people who bought Apple products were not concerned about security, which left them wide open to attack."
"Look at where mobile viruses are going and they are not targeting Microsoft - they are targeting the market leader, which is Symbian,"
"Honest question, how in the world do you navigate 1GB of music with no screen?"
But didn't you here Steve Jobs? Life is random. You don't want to navigate through 1GB of music.
Ask and you shall receive. 512MB and less than $100. This one even has a screen. click here
There was nothing unreasonable about the 6 tips. Active people don't want music that skips when they run. Extra features such as an fm tuner can be a nice addition. A screen is nice for searching around for the song you want to hear at the moment (Life isn't always random). It's always nice to have options for more than 1 place to get legal music online. etc. If it wasn't for the Apple zealots and the rabidly anti-Microsoft crowd, this wouldn't even be news.
The iPod shuffle has a chip which supports WMA, but for some reason Apple refused to enable this feature. Apple supports lock-in on both ends. They only sell songs with proprietary non-licenseable DRM, and they only support this DRM standard on their mp3 players. What about this does not scream, we're locking you in to our product lines.
" Not the iPod Shuffle.
It's the only player I can think of without a display.... and it's very popular."
You just crawl out of a cave, or are you stuck in Jobs' reality distortion field? A friend of mine has had an mp3 player the size of a cigarette lighter for years. No display, 1 blinking light
In academic circles, tainting data to impress your sponsor, regardless of who it is, is a serious ethics violation. I haven't seen any evidence in the article to show that there was any bias. Assuming there is bias because of the funding source is not good enough. Show some proof before making such accusations.
I've seen personally at least a couple of solaris attacks and a linux box attack back when I was in school. You quote statistics without understanding what they mean. The lack of virii on MacOS is in part due to the low population makes it difficult to spread them. With this in mind, the economics doesn't make it worthwhile. Note that the prize was rescinded. Someone's afraid.
"If that doesn't strike you as conclusive, then feel free to explain how it is that Apache running on *BSD has such a better security record than IIS running on Windows"
Can you show some stats to support this claim? Just look at the reason why it's called Apache.
"Most cost analysis studies show that Linux is cheaper in the long run not to mention more secure."
Have you looked at Red Hat pricing lately?
" Thats what he said"
No. The original post said the function of the recording industry is to distribute music. The reply was that the recording industry also promotes and markets the music. Music doesn't just magically become popular. Someone has to decide it's worth playing on the radio or whereever. The average person doesn't want to listen to a thousand albums to find a good one. They want the industry and the media to do the work for them.
Didn't Firefox just patch a major security flaw yesterday. His comments are pretty accurate.
WindowsXP is based on NT, which was developed by guys they got from DEC, who had developed VAX operating systems. Windows "started over" long before Apple. Apple probably learned it from them.
When the RIAA sues someone for distributing their songs using p2p software, there are hundreds of posts from outraged /.ers. When someone does the same thing with Apple software, the attitude is, he got what he deserved. Is there a double standard here?
This is a patch for a major security flaw in Firefox. I hope Firefox users are putting the bandwidth to good use or they will face the same problems as IE users.
Apple powerbook shouldn't even be on the list. It looks just like a thinkpad. Hardly innovative. Reminds me of an article on /. awhile ago that rated the powerbook 100 as the best portable gadget ever. Give me a break. The only interesting thing about the powerbook 100 is that people who liked MacOS back then finally got a portable to run it on.
" When the content is properly priced, what's the need for DRM anyway?"
Why is this modded up as insightful? So, by analogy, I shouldn't put locks or alarms in my store, and if my prices are low enough, people will just pay them, instead of going through the hassle of walking out without paying.
Given that you haven't been modded down as a troll yet, people seem to have missed the sarcasm in your comments. That's a bit scary.
" This is awesome, Jon is single handedly causing a pretty reasonable DRM scheme to rapidly degrade into something nearly unusable. Thanks man!"
It wasn't usable for people on Linux, so he fixed it. There wasn't this kind of resentment when the DVD encryption scheme was cracked. What's the problem now? Oh right, the DVD consortium is not Apple.