You misunderstood what I was saying, so I'll restate. B&W film has a broader range of contrast than [color film which has been desaturated in order to produce a B&W look].
In my experience a lot of Mac games use installers. And I always try out the demos before making a purchase, so it really boils down to trusting the particular download site. Or, and I'm not familiar enough with OS X internals to know if it does this, have installers signed with the developer's private key. And if that's not possible, at least the archive itself can be.
Correct, the good apps come in a single bundle which you drag over... but enough Mac users have experienced the ones which DO require extra priveleges and are familiar with entering their username and password for these, for occasional OS X updates, etc. So another random installer asking for it doesn't raise too many red flags. I think Mac users would be susceptible to this almost the same as a Windows user running a trojaned EXE file.
Just because it doesn't happen does not imply that it can't happen. I could write an applet, sign it, put it up on a webpage, and have it request permission to access your local hard drive. Once that far, your Mac is doomed. As a Mac user myself, I know that while the platform is more secure, it still isn't secure from user-initiated problems.
How many times do you download an installer and the security dialog drops down asking you to enter your username and password to complete the install so that it can write to the/Applications directory? Do you check everytime that the dialog being displayed was created by OS X and isn't faked by the installer app? Would you even *know* how to verify that the dialog can be trusted? Even if that dialog is created by OS X and not faked by the installer, once the installer is granted sudo priveleges, is there anything it then *can't* do? All it takes is one time for you to think that an application's installer is legitimate when it isn't and your machine gets pwn3d.
Even on the Mac, where you're prompted to enter your username and password to grant temporary root access for an installer. What's to stop an application putting up its own fake security dialog during the install, thereby bypassing the built-in Mac security dialog? It's not like it's impossible to fake that dialog, then not only can the application have root access to do whatever it needs to, but it can also save your username and password to re-use later or send to a third party for a bit of remote fun.
... and after you click "Yes" to the warning, you have granted the Java code permission to modify anything on your hard drive. So, the fact that it modifies IE is really incidental. It could just as easily modify Firefox, Mozilla, OpenOffice.org, Thunderbird, emacs, gcc, and any other application it wants to.
A better title for this article would have been "Every application vulnerable to attack due to bug in either Firefox and/or Sun's JRE".
You don't think hollywood would want to re-release older movies or television shows to a younger generation to milk the franchise one more time? The content has already been made, it just needs to be brought up to speed to be appealing to the youth of today.
I thought the usual formula of bringing old movies up to speed and *trying* to appeal to the youth of today was to add Ben Affleck and re-shoot. Of course, shoot Ben Affleck and re-add might be preferable to most.
You said you had several ideas that would work, yet you still aren't responding with them.
I believe I said I had several ideas, not necessarily that they would work.:) Lobbying your local political critter is one of them. Perhaps combine that with developing a grassroots movement (no astroturf) of like-minded individuals who wish to see those changes. In essence, become your own lobby firm. You won't see anything happen overnight, however with persistence you can not only archive java classes, but also develop political clout.
I am so curious what this could do for so many old movies...
Ruin them?:) A lot of the appeal of older B&W movies is the fact that they aren't in color. You get a much broader range of contrast when it's filmed on B&W film than a color image which has been desaturated.
If you meant older color movies which have degraded, then I agree. This seems like a very useful technique for restoring the original vibrancy of colors to films whose media hasn't stood the test of time.
The fact that nobody at MS (well, there are a lot of people there and statistics being what they are maybe somebody, but not as a matter of company policy) has killed anybody is likewise irrelevant. They are supporting the actions of the company, and if their ethics are that tarnished then I see it as a necessary sacrifice to the greater good since as far as I can see nothing else has a snowball's chance in hell of working.
Then perhaps you ought to amend your "offer". Heck, $5 for any Microsoft employee would mean that the janitor who cleans the bathrooms in the evening would fall into that category -- hardly someone who has any moral or ethical interest in the company. Perhaps you ought to do research on individual employees and publish a list rather than making such a broad statement if you believe your method to be warranted.
Of course, I'd rather encourage you to think of alternate means of resolving this rather than through violence. Lawmakers can be persuaded if enough people express their opinions as it puts the next election on the line for them.
Well, solicitation for murder is a criminal offense. That's sure not taking the high road on this one. At least (barring information to the contrary) nobody at Microsoft has ever offered money in exchange for someone's death.
Well... the slashdot world needs more people like you.
So slashdot needs more subscribers who get to read and post on the article ahead of time?:)
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Oh, and another thing: I never see any similar initiatives to get more men into... say... nursing, or even regular biology.
For nursing, I think the reason has to due with the word itself. Ask anybody out of the blue to draw what a nurse looks like and I doubt you'd find anybody who would draw a male nurse. It's similar to how people thought of doctors decades ago. To me (I'm a guy in case it's not obvious) the word nurse has a similar connotation to the word maid. Sure, you could have a man who comes around and cleans your house and folds your laundry, but what's the word for that?
If society really wants men to enter the nursing profession, I think a new word is required. Otherwise, it will be many decades before the stigma of being called a "nurse" reduces to a level acceptable for the average male ego.
Thereby increasing the workload on the IRS, forcing them to hire more people and raise your taxes.
Rather than what? File electronically so that they can save money by not needing people to enter your information in. And I'm sure, like all good government organizations, that the extra surplus is returned to the American people and the IRS says "We just didn't need the money, please take it back." Of course not. With the surplus money they hire more auditors and nail you for some obscure tax law you didn't know about but that recently hired auditor sure did.
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Although the official one does inform you of which app is asking (if you expand the disclosure triangle)
Okay, but what's to stop me from implementing my own with a fake disclosure triangle? I bet it would look pretty official.
You misunderstood what I was saying, so I'll restate. B&W film has a broader range of contrast than [color film which has been desaturated in order to produce a B&W look].
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In my experience a lot of Mac games use installers. And I always try out the demos before making a purchase, so it really boils down to trusting the particular download site. Or, and I'm not familiar enough with OS X internals to know if it does this, have installers signed with the developer's private key. And if that's not possible, at least the archive itself can be.
Correct, the good apps come in a single bundle which you drag over... but enough Mac users have experienced the ones which DO require extra priveleges and are familiar with entering their username and password for these, for occasional OS X updates, etc. So another random installer asking for it doesn't raise too many red flags. I think Mac users would be susceptible to this almost the same as a Windows user running a trojaned EXE file.
This stuff doesn't happen on my Mac.
/Applications directory? Do you check everytime that the dialog being displayed was created by OS X and isn't faked by the installer app? Would you even *know* how to verify that the dialog can be trusted? Even if that dialog is created by OS X and not faked by the installer, once the installer is granted sudo priveleges, is there anything it then *can't* do? All it takes is one time for you to think that an application's installer is legitimate when it isn't and your machine gets pwn3d.
Just because it doesn't happen does not imply that it can't happen. I could write an applet, sign it, put it up on a webpage, and have it request permission to access your local hard drive. Once that far, your Mac is doomed. As a Mac user myself, I know that while the platform is more secure, it still isn't secure from user-initiated problems.
How many times do you download an installer and the security dialog drops down asking you to enter your username and password to complete the install so that it can write to the
Even on the Mac, where you're prompted to enter your username and password to grant temporary root access for an installer. What's to stop an application putting up its own fake security dialog during the install, thereby bypassing the built-in Mac security dialog? It's not like it's impossible to fake that dialog, then not only can the application have root access to do whatever it needs to, but it can also save your username and password to re-use later or send to a third party for a bit of remote fun.
... and after you click "Yes" to the warning, you have granted the Java code permission to modify anything on your hard drive. So, the fact that it modifies IE is really incidental. It could just as easily modify Firefox, Mozilla, OpenOffice.org, Thunderbird, emacs, gcc, and any other application it wants to.
A better title for this article would have been "Every application vulnerable to attack due to bug in either Firefox and/or Sun's JRE".
You don't think hollywood would want to re-release older movies or television shows to a younger generation to milk the franchise one more time? The content has already been made, it just needs to be brought up to speed to be appealing to the youth of today.
I thought the usual formula of bringing old movies up to speed and *trying* to appeal to the youth of today was to add Ben Affleck and re-shoot. Of course, shoot Ben Affleck and re-add might be preferable to most.
You said you had several ideas that would work, yet you still aren't responding with them.
:) Lobbying your local political critter is one of them. Perhaps combine that with developing a grassroots movement (no astroturf) of like-minded individuals who wish to see those changes. In essence, become your own lobby firm. You won't see anything happen overnight, however with persistence you can not only archive java classes, but also develop political clout.
I believe I said I had several ideas, not necessarily that they would work.
"What's wrong?"
"It's as if millions of lawyers stampeded the patent office and then suddenly... prior art."
I am so curious what this could do for so many old movies...
:) A lot of the appeal of older B&W movies is the fact that they aren't in color. You get a much broader range of contrast when it's filmed on B&W film than a color image which has been desaturated.
Ruin them?
If you meant older color movies which have degraded, then I agree. This seems like a very useful technique for restoring the original vibrancy of colors to films whose media hasn't stood the test of time.
The fact that nobody at MS (well, there are a lot of people there and statistics being what they are maybe somebody, but not as a matter of company policy) has killed anybody is likewise irrelevant. They are supporting the actions of the company, and if their ethics are that tarnished then I see it as a necessary sacrifice to the greater good since as far as I can see nothing else has a snowball's chance in hell of working.
Then perhaps you ought to amend your "offer". Heck, $5 for any Microsoft employee would mean that the janitor who cleans the bathrooms in the evening would fall into that category -- hardly someone who has any moral or ethical interest in the company. Perhaps you ought to do research on individual employees and publish a list rather than making such a broad statement if you believe your method to be warranted.
Of course, I'd rather encourage you to think of alternate means of resolving this rather than through violence. Lawmakers can be persuaded if enough people express their opinions as it puts the next election on the line for them.
So what you are saying is that you have no better solution to offer?
I can think of various. However, that was not the intent of my post.
Four hours later, he posts another picture on his blog "Get Out Of My Belly!"
Well, solicitation for murder is a criminal offense. That's sure not taking the high road on this one. At least (barring information to the contrary) nobody at Microsoft has ever offered money in exchange for someone's death.
it uses NSS 1024-bit RSA implementation, that's not exactly 'home-rolled'
Assuming the implementation has no bugs or intentionally designed flaws...
Well... the slashdot world needs more people like you.
:)
So slashdot needs more subscribers who get to read and post on the article ahead of time?
Oh, and another thing: I never see any similar initiatives to get more men into... say... nursing, or even regular biology.
For nursing, I think the reason has to due with the word itself. Ask anybody out of the blue to draw what a nurse looks like and I doubt you'd find anybody who would draw a male nurse. It's similar to how people thought of doctors decades ago. To me (I'm a guy in case it's not obvious) the word nurse has a similar connotation to the word maid. Sure, you could have a man who comes around and cleans your house and folds your laundry, but what's the word for that?
If society really wants men to enter the nursing profession, I think a new word is required. Otherwise, it will be many decades before the stigma of being called a "nurse" reduces to a level acceptable for the average male ego.
No, but I've seen the searches. Search Google for "search" and Google isn't listed until the 8th entry.
Ah... well, clearly that *proves* it.
Thereby increasing the workload on the IRS, forcing them to hire more people and raise your taxes.
Rather than what? File electronically so that they can save money by not needing people to enter your information in. And I'm sure, like all good government organizations, that the extra surplus is returned to the American people and the IRS says "We just didn't need the money, please take it back." Of course not. With the surplus money they hire more auditors and nail you for some obscure tax law you didn't know about but that recently hired auditor sure did.
Bastard! You've ruined it for me now! ;-)
Okay, so how do you know they don't? Have you seen the code?