Disactivate it, and it does not send data
on
iTunes is Malware?
·
· Score: 1
Just disactivate it, from the button on right lower corner or from the menus, and nothing is sent of what you listen to. And if you doubt, use little snitch to verify it.
125 messages in my inbox of which 125 messages are spam. 18 messages in spam folder.
i don't even bother to read the titles, just select all and report spam.
as long as the spammers are happy with my hotmail account, and my work email gets nothing else than "next to kin" offers of all those Nigerians living in a concentration camp somewhere in Africa to transfer me their millions of $, I'm fine. My custom made filter for Nigerian scams works, and the spam in hotmail has not ceased to amaze me in these 10 years. Well past caring about my own statistics.. maybe I bother for next year.
Not only the online dating sites and ads sound like scams.
Just think of the personals pages in the newspapers. This seems to be a worldwide phenomenon; at least some of the constantly very bad personal ads can be seen in Italy, UK, Finland....
"44 years old, fabulous looking, model body, great job with big income, high moral values, sportive, likes travelling, arts, extremely highly educated and well behaving female, is looking for a male of 40-60 years with equal details." "great looking, age xx, female or male, with PhD, speaks fluently 4 languages, has lived abroad, likes to engage in intellectual discussions, wants to meet a male or female for serious relationship and family."
And so on. Seeing any of these ads on printed paper (and in the Internet too) makes me want to scream. If you are attractive, educated, smart, have so many interests that you tell you have, why do you have to place an ad to some newspaper? Men and women should be raining on you.
All those "great" ads sound like scam to me. If you are such a perfect person, there is no way you are still a single, given the fact there are so many lusers who are not single either. Or scamming offices --- people actually pay for offices for finding their soulmates.... offices in the real life. With their selected few hundred applicants they browse and select the criteria for selection... I can't decide if I see them as business, or as a scam. You can look for the people of the sex you are interested in, but you can't force love in that criteria. Maybe only the mail catalogs for exotic women (to marry) are actually more real; people know they will find someone else there, and who is most likely not how they had imagined their ideal 'other half' to be. I can't believe the descriptions in those catalogs would be as lame as in any of these normal newspaper dating ads are. These people are a scam.
Like seriously. Can't they just cure the Internet addiction online? Would be so much easier to go to a website that helps you with your addiction than to go to China....
I haven't heard of any computer store do such... yet. Maybe like with everything, it takes someone to start it. So go and talk with them. Maybe it could end up like at my work.. doing tech nites about stuff like wireless networking or security or encryption for the people to learn more about them after work hours, enjoying the company of the other geek work mates and company sponsored pizzas.
Maybe if one computer store would have such evenings, they could get some money back of it (parts, peripherals.. selling at low cost burned OpenOffice etc softwares) - and as well get a very nice mouth to mouth advertising by the people who would enjoy it.:)
I have basically two kinds of music: music that I really dig, and the music that is more on the temporariry basis on my collection.
The music that I really dig is of the kind I could listen to in say 10 years.. maybe in those 40. Maybe 50 % of that music is known enough that I could be able to rebuy it somewhere in World now or say in 10 years. That music exists in various backups: CDs, DVDs, 3-4 hard drives, backupped on my bf's HD as well. And some of the music that I really, really, like has been also CDed to some of my closest friends.
But the other category goes far without precaution. It is music that I listen to, but that is not really something I care for. Why backup that? I consider that as needed to store as the music I would hear on radio. It's there as long as I like, then change it.
I rarely buy music on CDs - and when I do, I give most of the times the CDs away. So the friends will have a more material copy of my CDs (the original CD, while I have only data), in case that I would need an access of those later.
Not everything is for sure worth keeping for. Just as how and why would you want to store all your 1970s or 1990s clothes? Besides, the most annoying music - top 40 - never seems to die. So even if you personally take care to NOT backup anything even remotely sounding like Britney Spears, Ricky Martin or Backstreet Boys, what do you think you will be hearing in the radios when you are in an old people's home in 40 years?
Built in firewire is the key, but 2 GB only? I seem to get 4.6 GB with the standard installation... even with language packs removed, it is still past 3 GB... and not even containing iLife.
if "asia" was a reason, we would have had a wide selection of ipod clones in the web for the past 3 years. if there would have been this selection of those, a shuffle clone would not have hit the/. headlines now.
never underestimate apple's lawyers. the chances that you would not lose are existant, only if you 1) have more money to burn to prove it, and 2) did not copy the product. the "family" is not going to protect anyone against apple.
Most of the emails I need to store are decided mail by mail. I keep 20-50 folders on my macs, and store most ork related mails in.mbox format every now and then. Very rarely I have an urge to store any personal emails. I have saved a few IMs, however my bf has saved practically all IMs for a long time, for work purposes. That includeds a very interesting amount of old IMs with me and him,.. I really rarely find reading old personal emails or IMs interesting. But it must be something "wrong" with me, since I don't keep any personal photos anywhere eitehr.
How come/. has so old news today? This particular one was already in the printed newspaper in Italy, La Repubblica (article). And the 6th sense thing was already printed a few days ago.
I watched my 2 friends take apart a Mac mini yesterday in iChat using 2 iSights (one here, one in US).
It took them less than 30 minutes to take everything back, explain me and themselves what they were doing (there were other people there watching it too), and put everything back. I took several snapshots during the takeapart - which is good since they forgot to use their cameras...
Actually, pretty amazing. That Mac that is, but as well how good quality of video I had.
The first thing I wanted to do when I saw those Macs was to take one apart. Now seen one taken apart, took pictures of it, and will take one apart as soon as I have one myself... So yes, not news seeing the contents of them.
however, it doesn't do for me, since i need internet or rendezvous document simultaneus editing. so a typical examples is i need to edit a document at work in ireland, one other needs to edit same document in france, 3 people in us and so on... that is something i've seen only subetha do so far.:)
i use mainly subethaedit now. even for editing books.
i need to edit html and other stuff.. but what subetha has and hte others dont is the rendezvous and internet sharing for editing. haven't seen any others have that, and work free.:)
Maybe they are only UK results? I keep a standard selection of about 8-11 GB of music in my iPod of 20 GB. The rest of the music changes according to the feel - but even the "clean" "essential" musics full at least to 8 GB. The rest of the content varies weekly or monthly.
I am different? I can underrstand one person being not in the mainstream, but it appears to me that most of my friends with an iPod have a similar tendency - at least if their iPod is bigger than 5 GB.
iPod mini must be treated diferently. If I want one, I can't jsut fill it with music that I want to keep always with me. And not with music that is in the normal iPod either.
Who would want trojans or viruses like this to exist?
I wonder if it is RIAA behind it - they for sure would love if the people were suddenly too scared to download music illegally.
Another group that does get profit from this is the anti-virus companies. Since mac os x was practically virusless platform, not everybody urged to have an anti-virus program. I am sure the anti-virus program sales for macs go up this week.
Slashdot Mirror
Just disactivate it, from the button on right lower corner or from the menus, and nothing is sent of what you listen to.
And if you doubt, use little snitch to verify it.
actually check my hotmail account.
125 messages in my inbox of which 125 messages are spam.
18 messages in spam folder.
i don't even bother to read the titles, just select all and report spam.
as long as the spammers are happy with my hotmail account, and my work email gets nothing else than "next to kin" offers of all those Nigerians living in a concentration camp somewhere in Africa to transfer me their millions of $, I'm fine. My custom made filter for Nigerian scams works, and the spam in hotmail has not ceased to amaze me in these 10 years. Well past caring about my own statistics.. maybe I bother for next year.
Isn't this old news? And it so makes me remember the depressed hampsters from the early 1990s.
Not only the online dating sites and ads sound like scams.
Just think of the personals pages in the newspapers. This seems to be a worldwide phenomenon; at least some of the constantly very bad personal ads can be seen in Italy, UK, Finland....
"44 years old, fabulous looking, model body, great job with big income, high moral values, sportive, likes travelling, arts, extremely highly educated and well behaving female, is looking for a male of 40-60 years with equal details."
"great looking, age xx, female or male, with PhD, speaks fluently 4 languages, has lived abroad, likes to engage in intellectual discussions, wants to meet a male or female for serious relationship and family."
And so on. Seeing any of these ads on printed paper (and in the Internet too) makes me want to scream. If you are attractive, educated, smart, have so many interests that you tell you have, why do you have to place an ad to some newspaper? Men and women should be raining on you.
All those "great" ads sound like scam to me. If you are such a perfect person, there is no way you are still a single, given the fact there are so many lusers who are not single either. Or scamming offices --- people actually pay for offices for finding their soulmates.... offices in the real life. With their selected few hundred applicants they browse and select the criteria for selection... I can't decide if I see them as business, or as a scam. You can look for the people of the sex you are interested in, but you can't force love in that criteria. Maybe only the mail catalogs for exotic women (to marry) are actually more real; people know they will find someone else there, and who is most likely not how they had imagined their ideal 'other half' to be. I can't believe the descriptions in those catalogs would be as lame as in any of these normal newspaper dating ads are. These people are a scam.
Like seriously.
Can't they just cure the Internet addiction online?
Would be so much easier to go to a website that helps you with your addiction than to go to China....
Server meltdown? Oh let's /. them now that they are back online.
and like the VCRs killed the movie industry.
Wait, didn't the mobile phones and the internet kill the landline phones already 10 years ago?
His email is linked into the /. article. Gee, I wonder why he gets spam, at least from now on...
I haven't heard of any computer store do such... yet. Maybe like with everything, it takes someone to start it. So go and talk with them. Maybe it could end up like at my work .. doing tech nites about stuff like wireless networking or security or encryption for the people to learn more about them after work hours, enjoying the company of the other geek work mates and company sponsored pizzas.
:)
Maybe if one computer store would have such evenings, they could get some money back of it (parts, peripherals.. selling at low cost burned OpenOffice etc softwares) - and as well get a very nice mouth to mouth advertising by the people who would enjoy it.
I have basically two kinds of music: music that I really dig, and the music that is more on the temporariry basis on my collection.
The music that I really dig is of the kind I could listen to in say 10 years.. maybe in those 40. Maybe 50 % of that music is known enough that I could be able to rebuy it somewhere in World now or say in 10 years. That music exists in various backups: CDs, DVDs, 3-4 hard drives, backupped on my bf's HD as well. And some of the music that I really, really, like has been also CDed to some of my closest friends.
But the other category goes far without precaution. It is music that I listen to, but that is not really something I care for. Why backup that? I consider that as needed to store as the music I would hear on radio. It's there as long as I like, then change it.
I rarely buy music on CDs - and when I do, I give most of the times the CDs away. So the friends will have a more material copy of my CDs (the original CD, while I have only data), in case that I would need an access of those later.
Not everything is for sure worth keeping for. Just as how and why would you want to store all your 1970s or 1990s clothes? Besides, the most annoying music - top 40 - never seems to die. So even if you personally take care to NOT backup anything even remotely sounding like Britney Spears, Ricky Martin or Backstreet Boys, what do you think you will be hearing in the radios when you are in an old people's home in 40 years?
Built in firewire is the key, but 2 GB only? I seem to get 4.6 GB with the standard installation ... even with language packs removed, it is still past 3 GB ... and not even containing iLife.
if "asia" was a reason, we would have had a wide selection of ipod clones in the web for the past 3 years. if there would have been this selection of those, a shuffle clone would not have hit the /. headlines now.
never underestimate apple's lawyers. the chances that you would not lose are existant, only if you 1) have more money to burn to prove it, and 2) did not copy the product. the "family" is not going to protect anyone against apple.
Looks a bit too similar to iPod shuffle to let Apple lawyers just ignore it. I would guess before next Friday that company is gone, or heavily sued...
Most of the emails I need to store are decided mail by mail. I keep 20-50 folders on my macs, and store most ork related mails in .mbox format every now and then. .. I really rarely find reading old personal emails or IMs interesting. But it must be something "wrong" with me, since I don't keep any personal photos anywhere eitehr.
Very rarely I have an urge to store any personal emails.
I have saved a few IMs, however my bf has saved practically all IMs for a long time, for work purposes. That includeds a very interesting amount of old IMs with me and him,
Those "old good times" you paid $500 to have something like a Motorola Flare (my first mobile, and left me a horror towards Motorola phones really).
How come /. has so old news today? This particular one was already in the printed newspaper in Italy, La Repubblica (article). And the 6th sense thing was already printed a few days ago.
europe.
I watched my 2 friends take apart a Mac mini yesterday in iChat using 2 iSights (one here, one in US).
It took them less than 30 minutes to take everything back, explain me and themselves what they were doing (there were other people there watching it too), and put everything back. I took several snapshots during the takeapart - which is good since they forgot to use their cameras...
Actually, pretty amazing. That Mac that is, but as well how good quality of video I had.
The first thing I wanted to do when I saw those Macs was to take one apart. Now seen one taken apart, took pictures of it, and will take one apart as soon as I have one myself... So yes, not news seeing the contents of them.
Yea, it has been widely known for ages.
eamcs is good. i like it.
... that is something i've seen only subetha do so far. :)
however, it doesn't do for me, since i need internet or rendezvous document simultaneus editing. so a typical examples is i need to edit a document at work in ireland, one other needs to edit same document in france, 3 people in us and so on
true
.. but what subetha has and hte others dont is the rendezvous and internet sharing for editing. haven't seen any others have that, and work free. :)
i use mainly subethaedit now. even for editing books.
i need to edit html and other stuff
Did anyone ever believe that Pepsi Co etc who have bought 100,000,000 tracks in iTMS paid the full price?
Cell phone directory or catalog is not worth news.
It has been talked about for a long time - the first time I heard it being talked seriously was in Italy in 1998.
Maybe they are only UK results?
I keep a standard selection of about 8-11 GB of music in my iPod of 20 GB. The rest of the music changes according to the feel - but even the "clean" "essential" musics full at least to 8 GB. The rest of the content varies weekly or monthly.
I am different? I can underrstand one person being not in the mainstream, but it appears to me that most of my friends with an iPod have a similar tendency - at least if their iPod is bigger than 5 GB.
iPod mini must be treated diferently. If I want one, I can't jsut fill it with music that I want to keep always with me. And not with music that is in the normal iPod either.
Who would want trojans or viruses like this to exist?
I wonder if it is RIAA behind it - they for sure would love if the people were suddenly too scared to download music illegally.
Another group that does get profit from this is the anti-virus companies. Since mac os x was practically virusless platform, not everybody urged to have an anti-virus program. I am sure the anti-virus program sales for macs go up this week.