Lewin was tragically killed when AA flight 11 was crashed during the 9-11 terrorist attack.
And if he had been hit by a bus, would that be less tragic? Jesus christ, I've heard "Nine eleven" invoked in some stupid ways, but this takes the cake.
He defended his prior ruling because it was based on the pittance of information the bank and registrar had provided him
And acting on a pittance of information to such an extreme, when you have the full power to say, "Go fish, I need more information before I'll shut down an entire website", is excusable how?
Injunctions are supposed to be used only when the plaintiff has presented PROOF that irreparable damages will occur unless they get said injunction. It's not even enough to say that enormous damage will be done- it has to be irreparable.
The whole point of factories is efficiency via spreading capital investment across a greater quantity of product. If fabricators become cheap enough for personal use, the factory ones will get cheaper, which means that they'll still make things cheaper and better than you can. They have more money for better equipment, trained staff to produce a high quality product, etc.
Fabrication and prototyping has always been more expensive than manufacturing. That will not change simply because lots of people are infatuated with devices that take hours upon hours to construct, and make very poor looking "plastic" things made out of globs of goo stuck together.
I like TED as much as the next guy, but more and more of it seems like a whitewash, style-over-substance dog and pony show.
Because an easy source of raw materials in orbit would certainly make a lot of things a *lot* more interesting, considering the price of lifting such materials to orbit
1)The nuclear devices would cause EM pulses if they were too close to the earth
2)To be large enough to be useful, it would influence tides (and the moon's orbit) ever so slightly- enough to present significant problems in the long haul. It would also influence the orbit of everything *else* orbiting the earth.
they believe American troops are able to track down Taliban members using their cellphones.
Too bad it'll make all their cell phones transmit MORE, looking for said shut down towers- when a cell can't reach a tower, not only does it try to reconnect more often, but it also bumps up the transmit power.
That makes the cell phone a whole lot easier to find...and kills everyone's batteries...
More importantly, are they going to work on anything actually *useful*, instead of sexy stupid stuff that is the 2008 equivalent of "skinning" mp3 players? Every time I heard about SoC participants, I noticed that a)it wasn't something really useful or important and b)the main development team was really lazy about integrating in the work the student had done.
A great example of where some SoC lovin' would be great: Netatalk *blows*. It doesn't handle sleeping clients that try to reconnect, and they've sat on their fucking hands for YEARS with the whole openssl/GNU licensing debacle. It's still impossible for any distribution to distribute netatalk with SSL support compiled in (Debian and Ubuntu being two big examples.) Leopard now *requires* encrypted password support- you get an immediate error if the server doesn't support it (rightfully so.)
And no, Samba isn't an acceptable alternative. It vastly underperforms versus AFP on the same hardware/network, and doesn't support a lot of functionality Macintosh programs require- Quickbooks, for example, won't open a quickbooks file on a SMB/CIFS server.
If one or two Summer of Code students sat down and worked on improving netatalk, they'd be instantly loved by many the world over. I dare say that netatalk would do well from (another) code split; they haven't done a release in over TWO YEARS.
The Adafruit "shield" uses a $50 (yes, $50) Xport module, which is anything but "open source".
So. $10 for the circuit board, $50 for the module, and then another $30-$40 for the Adruino board.
That's $100 not including shipping...plus the cost of a wall-wart power supply ($10+), ethernet cable ($10-20) and an ethernet port (a couple more dollars- you can get hubs pretty cheap these days)
You could easily hit $150-200 on this project for just getting to know that 2 of your plants need water, something you can figure out by sticking your fucking finger in the soil each morning.
Finland's EFF has information about the block list, which reportedly includes a musical instrument store, a doll store, and a site of Windows tips in Thai.
Right, because someone hosting child porn would be stupid enough to link to it on their legitimate business site.
Child porn could have very well been there- maybe the site owner has a/kiddieporn/ directory, or maybe someone put porn on the server without them knowing- either someone who just needed a server to distribute said porn, or someone who wanted to exact revenge.
A server I helped run was hacked and it had an IRC bot on it providing sample clips of a group's movie rip (incidentally, Rizon IRC admins refused to do anything about it, claiming "you could have faked logs". I suppose then, that it's normal to have a channel with 10,000+ members all sitting idle, eh? With a group name that's easily googleable to see that they do pirate movie releases? Make no mistake: Rizon is 100% about supporting movie and software piracy.)
Isn't "could eventually" one of those warning phrases that tells you something is dubious, like "up to twice as long" or "she has a great personality" or "you're violating our patents but we don't want to tell you which ones"?
Or "we'll develop it and then an 'energy company' which is a front for an oil conglomerate will swoop in and buy up all the intellectual property and sit on it."
Responsible companies in the adult industry such as ours have done a great deal to deter minors from accessing adult material,
Of course they have- kids can't legally pay for porn with a credit card (they're minors and thus unable to sign contracts/agreements.)
That and porn sites can either put up a trivial "what is your age?" or require paid "age verification services", which are just a second revenue stream. Both of which help them stave off the conservative legislators.
Nevermind that according to the googles, it has an occurance rate of.9 in 100,000. That means that about 2000 people a year get it in the entire US population, roughly. The mortality rate is an even smaller piece of that pie.
Researchers reviewed the behavior signatures of terrorists on 12,000 attacks between 2003 and mid-2007 to calculate relative probabilities of future attacks on various target types.
All of which will change now because a)they may know about it because of the news story or b)if it works, US forces will behave differently.
The precalculated probabilities and patterns will be worthless. All it will take is the guerrilla fighters changing how they pick targets.
really, I wouldn't have a problem with law enforcement gaining access to spy satellite photography as long as they can only get it after supplying evidence to establish probable cause that a specific person committed a specific crime in a specific time and place.
Wait, did you seriously just say "I'm okay with omnipresent surveillance"? Oh boy, do you need a smack upside the head with the Constitution.
And how long will this language remain?
Like the Bush administration has been paying any attention to the letter of law? Let's be clear here: Bush's wiretapping program was NEVER legal or constitutional.
On a site note: god, I wish the press would develop a backbone and stop using 'anonymous government sources which are not authorized to speak'. News-fucking-flash to the press core: the only reason they're talking to you is because the people in power want the information to get out, but "unofficially" so nobody's held accountable; they're controlled leaks. Learn to start printing, "John Smith, head of Blah Blah, refused to comment."
Brendan O'Conner first called attention to the vulnerabilities of these new devices at a Black Hat talk in '06 and warns that these are no longer "dumb" machine sitting in the corner and should be treated with their own respective security strategy.
The Xerox WorkCentres are more likely to malfunction, first. They jam incessantly unless you use Xerox brand paper (rather than design their machines to handle popular paper, they design their machines to only handle Xerox paper properly) and they have basic design defects- for example, toner builds up on fingers near the fuser assembly, which has to be scraped off regularly or the machine starts to jam with increasing frequency.
Also, the print spooler PC on the back of the 3535 units (the B&W ones, may have that # wrong) were completely stupid- when the copier displays a message to the effect of "PC booting" with a progress bar, it's a TIMER, and nothing more- the machine doesn't actually check if the PC successfully booted and is accepting jobs.
Don't even get me started about how atrocious the Windows-based RIP engine is for the color printers.
And also help to track down that pesky journalist/blogger/dissident always posting images the government doesn't like? No, I'm not referring to any government in particular.
They'd be storing a *representation* of the iris image data. Useless for matching. Watermarking the actual image is only mentioned very briefly and in passing, in a sort of "oh, and you could watermark the image with this" kind of way.
Given Canon's bread and butter with pro cameras are the press (your cute digital rebel costs $700; a 1DMk3 is $4k), they're unlikely to do anything that will piss them off.
Canon has filed for a patent for using iris watermarking (as in the iris of your eye) to take photographer's copyright protection to the next level.
No, putting your photos on a CD or DVD and then following these instructions takes it to the next level. It helps that a)you have the RAW files and nobody else does and b)most cameras encode their serial number into the EXIF data (or similar for a RAW image), and if you have proof of ownership of said camera...
I didn't see anything in the patent summary provided by the linked site that related to ease of copyright enforcement. Just:
Alternatively, by embedding personal data which is biological information in the image of a subject as an electronic watermark, falsification can be prevented more robustly.
Wow, you don't say. We can do that now- it's called Digimarc. They'll even crawl the web for you and look for images with your Digimarc watermark. Too bad it costs about a zillion dollars- their pricing model means that only a small number of pros use it (and you pay for both per-image watermarking, AND the services like web crawling.) This technology is sufficiently expensive and limited in scope to mean that it will never make it into anything except the 1D series cameras- it probably wouldn't even make it into the _0D series.
I really don't see an application for this technology, except for *maybe* press agencies, where they want to (more) easily track who took what photo. This is a fairly painless way of doing so; you no longer need to track who has what camera (Canon and Nikon provide loaners for repairs and loaners for special events, which means that no, it's not 1 person, 1 camera. Pro's also often shoot with more than one body.)
Though really, they could do the same thing with a microSD slot (where shooting preferences could be stored, too) for a lot cheaper. The only thing this gets them is more "proof", maybe- if they can somehow provide tamper-proof metadata (supposedly, the "data verification kit" from Canon provides verifiable images, but I've never seen even the most basic description of how it works.)
I've read its possible to get it to work, but it doesn't work out of the box with a standard VNC client.
You're still completely wrong. GO INTO THE PREFERENCES. ENABLE VNC. ENTER A PASSWORD. CONNECT WITH A VNC CLIENT. WOW. LOOK AT THAT, PRESTO AMAZO.
It has been that way for *YEARS*. The post you're linking to refers to the *APPLE RDC PROTOCOL*. *****NOT APPLE'S VNC SERVER*****.
So your solution to software bugs is to reinstall the OS? It sounds to me like you have spent too much time maintaining Windows machines.
No, jackass. You're not qualified/experienced enough to do advanced troubleshooting, so it's a waste of your employer's time to have you spend hours futzing around on Google- especially since such a problem is extremely uncommon. If it's corrupted software, it'll be fixed with a reinstall, and restoring from Time Machine is quick and painless. If it's bad hardware, it'll still show up on a fresh install. If you try to get the machine serviced, Apple's first question will be, "so did you reinstall the OS from scratch?".
Maybe stupid college kids like yourself would be wise to listen to people who have not only been in your shoes, but spent 10 years getting wiser. Start reinstalling today, and the problem has a 50% chance of being fixed by 5pm. Keep going at your "whine on the intertubes" strategy, and you'll have a 100% chance of it still being broken.
PS:Ubuntu sucks. Everyone we upgraded had massive problems with network cards, graphics adapters, and printer issues. Not a single 10.3, 10.4, or 10.5 upgrade I have performed has gone sour, and I've done *hundreds.*
Also, apple doesn't come with a standard VNC server, instead it uses VNC with some proprietary shit built in, so I had to install vine server to get a remote desktop.
MacOS X Server does in fact come with a standard VNC server. You need to enable it and set a password.
Oh wait, the X Serve doesn't play nice with a standard KVM
See one of my bug reports here.
Samba is not in OS X Server.
The three xServes I've worked on over the years on 2 different KVMs have worked just fine- in fact, better than the HP rackmount gear- this includes high-end Raritan stuff and low-end "iogear" stuff. Maybe you have a crappy KVM, or you haven't configured it properly.
Oh yeah, last but not least, the server crashes. It responds to pings, still responds to local terminal input, but anything that requires authentication is dead in the water. So that leaves mail, netbios, ssh, server admin, work group manager, etc etc all dead. I think the LDAP server is crapping out, but I haven't been able to prove it yet. I've had to hard boot the server half a dozen times in the last two weeks.
Then stop whining and fix the problem, chief. Wipe the box and reinstall with a restore (easy to do with Time Machine) and then if that doesn't work, call Apple and have the machine serviced.
Um, bullshit. It was a crowd of a few dozen at most, from the pictures I saw (no, not by a news agency.) They were protesting on Beacon Street (I've walked by the Scientology building many a time) and there isn't anywhere near enough room for 270 people. Boston PD had four officers working a paid detail- far as I know, no other BPD presence.
Even ignoring all that, it's still 1970s technology.
...which was used mostly to launch spy satellites.
That's probably not as much of a concern as keeping *any* space related information out of their hands these days. We're apparently in another space race- and just like before, it's purely for political, military, and military industry reasons. Bush getting to leave some sort of "legacy" is just a side bonus.
It's rather disingenuous to compare actions that were the social norm in one period of time to similar actions taken in a time when they are way outside the societal norm. 1000 years ago slaughter, rape, pillage and plunder were like cheering for your favorite ball team is today.
The difference being with Christians is that it's only figuratively speaking when you say 'up in arms'.
Yeah, save the NINE "official" crusades (aka wars) and the ten or so un-numbered ones. Most of which were to stamp out other religious groups.
Let's keep a little bit of historical perspective, please. Most religions that has been around long enough has been responsible for intolerance, persecution, repression, death, and destruction.
I'd like to see stats on effort per platform
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We're thinking of having a contest where we have Vista and OS X and Linux... and see which one goes first.
What I'd be most interested in is a survey of contestants as to their platform experience, and how focused they intend to be on attacking the different platforms. That part could be wildly unscientific, but could be interesting if everyone answers openly.
Couple that with some good logs of network activity, to see how focused attacks are on the various systems.
For example, it could turn out that nobody goes for the supposed low hanging fruit, and everyone tries to target the Mac...or an OpenBSD box, if they bring one. Etc.
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Lewin was tragically killed when AA flight 11 was crashed during the 9-11 terrorist attack.
And if he had been hit by a bus, would that be less tragic? Jesus christ, I've heard "Nine eleven" invoked in some stupid ways, but this takes the cake.
He defended his prior ruling because it was based on the pittance of information the bank and registrar had provided him
And acting on a pittance of information to such an extreme, when you have the full power to say, "Go fish, I need more information before I'll shut down an entire website", is excusable how?
Injunctions are supposed to be used only when the plaintiff has presented PROOF that irreparable damages will occur unless they get said injunction. It's not even enough to say that enormous damage will be done- it has to be irreparable.
when are they auctioning this stuff off..?
"Counterfeit" (or in this case, unlicensed) goods are usually destroyed.
Fabrication and prototyping has always been more expensive than manufacturing. That will not change simply because lots of people are infatuated with devices that take hours upon hours to construct, and make very poor looking "plastic" things made out of globs of goo stuck together.
I like TED as much as the next guy, but more and more of it seems like a whitewash, style-over-substance dog and pony show.
Because an easy source of raw materials in orbit would certainly make a lot of things a *lot* more interesting, considering the price of lifting such materials to orbit
1)The nuclear devices would cause EM pulses if they were too close to the earth
2)To be large enough to be useful, it would influence tides (and the moon's orbit) ever so slightly- enough to present significant problems in the long haul. It would also influence the orbit of everything *else* orbiting the earth.
they believe American troops are able to track down Taliban members using their cellphones.
Too bad it'll make all their cell phones transmit MORE, looking for said shut down towers- when a cell can't reach a tower, not only does it try to reconnect more often, but it also bumps up the transmit power.
That makes the cell phone a whole lot easier to find...and kills everyone's batteries...
MythTV? You're joking, right?
More importantly, are they going to work on anything actually *useful*, instead of sexy stupid stuff that is the 2008 equivalent of "skinning" mp3 players? Every time I heard about SoC participants, I noticed that a)it wasn't something really useful or important and b)the main development team was really lazy about integrating in the work the student had done.
A great example of where some SoC lovin' would be great: Netatalk *blows*. It doesn't handle sleeping clients that try to reconnect, and they've sat on their fucking hands for YEARS with the whole openssl/GNU licensing debacle. It's still impossible for any distribution to distribute netatalk with SSL support compiled in (Debian and Ubuntu being two big examples.) Leopard now *requires* encrypted password support- you get an immediate error if the server doesn't support it (rightfully so.)
And no, Samba isn't an acceptable alternative. It vastly underperforms versus AFP on the same hardware/network, and doesn't support a lot of functionality Macintosh programs require- Quickbooks, for example, won't open a quickbooks file on a SMB/CIFS server.
If one or two Summer of Code students sat down and worked on improving netatalk, they'd be instantly loved by many the world over. I dare say that netatalk would do well from (another) code split; they haven't done a release in over TWO YEARS.
So. $10 for the circuit board, $50 for the module, and then another $30-$40 for the Adruino board.
That's $100 not including shipping...plus the cost of a wall-wart power supply ($10+), ethernet cable ($10-20) and an ethernet port (a couple more dollars- you can get hubs pretty cheap these days)
You could easily hit $150-200 on this project for just getting to know that 2 of your plants need water, something you can figure out by sticking your fucking finger in the soil each morning.
Finland's EFF has information about the block list, which reportedly includes a musical instrument store, a doll store, and a site of Windows tips in Thai.
Right, because someone hosting child porn would be stupid enough to link to it on their legitimate business site.
Child porn could have very well been there- maybe the site owner has a /kiddieporn/ directory, or maybe someone put porn on the server without them knowing- either someone who just needed a server to distribute said porn, or someone who wanted to exact revenge.
A server I helped run was hacked and it had an IRC bot on it providing sample clips of a group's movie rip (incidentally, Rizon IRC admins refused to do anything about it, claiming "you could have faked logs". I suppose then, that it's normal to have a channel with 10,000+ members all sitting idle, eh? With a group name that's easily googleable to see that they do pirate movie releases? Make no mistake: Rizon is 100% about supporting movie and software piracy.)
Isn't "could eventually" one of those warning phrases that tells you something is dubious, like "up to twice as long" or "she has a great personality" or "you're violating our patents but we don't want to tell you which ones"?
Or "we'll develop it and then an 'energy company' which is a front for an oil conglomerate will swoop in and buy up all the intellectual property and sit on it."
Responsible companies in the adult industry such as ours have done a great deal to deter minors from accessing adult material,
Of course they have- kids can't legally pay for porn with a credit card (they're minors and thus unable to sign contracts/agreements.)
That and porn sites can either put up a trivial "what is your age?" or require paid "age verification services", which are just a second revenue stream. Both of which help them stave off the conservative legislators.
Nevermind that according to the googles, it has an occurance rate of .9 in 100,000. That means that about 2000 people a year get it in the entire US population, roughly. The mortality rate is an even smaller piece of that pie.
Researchers reviewed the behavior signatures of terrorists on 12,000 attacks between 2003 and mid-2007 to calculate relative probabilities of future attacks on various target types.
All of which will change now because a)they may know about it because of the news story or b)if it works, US forces will behave differently.
The precalculated probabilities and patterns will be worthless. All it will take is the guerrilla fighters changing how they pick targets.
really, I wouldn't have a problem with law enforcement gaining access to spy satellite photography as long as they can only get it after supplying evidence to establish probable cause that a specific person committed a specific crime in a specific time and place.
Wait, did you seriously just say "I'm okay with omnipresent surveillance"? Oh boy, do you need a smack upside the head with the Constitution.
And how long will this language remain?
Like the Bush administration has been paying any attention to the letter of law? Let's be clear here: Bush's wiretapping program was NEVER legal or constitutional.
On a site note: god, I wish the press would develop a backbone and stop using 'anonymous government sources which are not authorized to speak'. News-fucking-flash to the press core: the only reason they're talking to you is because the people in power want the information to get out, but "unofficially" so nobody's held accountable; they're controlled leaks. Learn to start printing, "John Smith, head of Blah Blah, refused to comment."
Brendan O'Conner first called attention to the vulnerabilities of these new devices at a Black Hat talk in '06 and warns that these are no longer "dumb" machine sitting in the corner and should be treated with their own respective security strategy.
The Xerox WorkCentres are more likely to malfunction, first. They jam incessantly unless you use Xerox brand paper (rather than design their machines to handle popular paper, they design their machines to only handle Xerox paper properly) and they have basic design defects- for example, toner builds up on fingers near the fuser assembly, which has to be scraped off regularly or the machine starts to jam with increasing frequency.
Also, the print spooler PC on the back of the 3535 units (the B&W ones, may have that # wrong) were completely stupid- when the copier displays a message to the effect of "PC booting" with a progress bar, it's a TIMER, and nothing more- the machine doesn't actually check if the PC successfully booted and is accepting jobs.
Don't even get me started about how atrocious the Windows-based RIP engine is for the color printers.
Not even remotely "smart".
And also help to track down that pesky journalist/blogger/dissident always posting images the government doesn't like? No, I'm not referring to any government in particular.
They'd be storing a *representation* of the iris image data. Useless for matching. Watermarking the actual image is only mentioned very briefly and in passing, in a sort of "oh, and you could watermark the image with this" kind of way.
Given Canon's bread and butter with pro cameras are the press (your cute digital rebel costs $700; a 1DMk3 is $4k), they're unlikely to do anything that will piss them off.
Canon has filed for a patent for using iris watermarking (as in the iris of your eye) to take photographer's copyright protection to the next level.
No, putting your photos on a CD or DVD and then following these instructions takes it to the next level. It helps that a)you have the RAW files and nobody else does and b)most cameras encode their serial number into the EXIF data (or similar for a RAW image), and if you have proof of ownership of said camera...
I didn't see anything in the patent summary provided by the linked site that related to ease of copyright enforcement. Just:
Alternatively, by embedding personal data which is biological information in the image of a subject as an electronic watermark, falsification can be prevented more robustly.
Wow, you don't say. We can do that now- it's called Digimarc. They'll even crawl the web for you and look for images with your Digimarc watermark. Too bad it costs about a zillion dollars- their pricing model means that only a small number of pros use it (and you pay for both per-image watermarking, AND the services like web crawling.) This technology is sufficiently expensive and limited in scope to mean that it will never make it into anything except the 1D series cameras- it probably wouldn't even make it into the _0D series.
I really don't see an application for this technology, except for *maybe* press agencies, where they want to (more) easily track who took what photo. This is a fairly painless way of doing so; you no longer need to track who has what camera (Canon and Nikon provide loaners for repairs and loaners for special events, which means that no, it's not 1 person, 1 camera. Pro's also often shoot with more than one body.)
Though really, they could do the same thing with a microSD slot (where shooting preferences could be stored, too) for a lot cheaper. The only thing this gets them is more "proof", maybe- if they can somehow provide tamper-proof metadata (supposedly, the "data verification kit" from Canon provides verifiable images, but I've never seen even the most basic description of how it works.)
I've read its possible to get it to work, but it doesn't work out of the box with a standard VNC client.
You're still completely wrong. GO INTO THE PREFERENCES. ENABLE VNC. ENTER A PASSWORD. CONNECT WITH A VNC CLIENT. WOW. LOOK AT THAT, PRESTO AMAZO.
It has been that way for *YEARS*. The post you're linking to refers to the *APPLE RDC PROTOCOL*. *****NOT APPLE'S VNC SERVER*****.
So your solution to software bugs is to reinstall the OS? It sounds to me like you have spent too much time maintaining Windows machines.
No, jackass. You're not qualified/experienced enough to do advanced troubleshooting, so it's a waste of your employer's time to have you spend hours futzing around on Google- especially since such a problem is extremely uncommon. If it's corrupted software, it'll be fixed with a reinstall, and restoring from Time Machine is quick and painless. If it's bad hardware, it'll still show up on a fresh install. If you try to get the machine serviced, Apple's first question will be, "so did you reinstall the OS from scratch?".
Maybe stupid college kids like yourself would be wise to listen to people who have not only been in your shoes, but spent 10 years getting wiser. Start reinstalling today, and the problem has a 50% chance of being fixed by 5pm. Keep going at your "whine on the intertubes" strategy, and you'll have a 100% chance of it still being broken.
PS:Ubuntu sucks. Everyone we upgraded had massive problems with network cards, graphics adapters, and printer issues. Not a single 10.3, 10.4, or 10.5 upgrade I have performed has gone sour, and I've done *hundreds.*
I administer an apple x server at work,
Xserve, running OS X Server.
Also, apple doesn't come with a standard VNC server, instead it uses VNC with some proprietary shit built in, so I had to install vine server to get a remote desktop.
MacOS X Server does in fact come with a standard VNC server. You need to enable it and set a password.
Oh wait, the X Serve doesn't play nice with a standard KVM
See one of my bug reports here.
Samba is not in OS X Server.
The three xServes I've worked on over the years on 2 different KVMs have worked just fine- in fact, better than the HP rackmount gear- this includes high-end Raritan stuff and low-end "iogear" stuff. Maybe you have a crappy KVM, or you haven't configured it properly.
Oh yeah, last but not least, the server crashes. It responds to pings, still responds to local terminal input, but anything that requires authentication is dead in the water. So that leaves mail, netbios, ssh, server admin, work group manager, etc etc all dead. I think the LDAP server is crapping out, but I haven't been able to prove it yet. I've had to hard boot the server half a dozen times in the last two weeks.
Then stop whining and fix the problem, chief. Wipe the box and reinstall with a restore (easy to do with Time Machine) and then if that doesn't work, call Apple and have the machine serviced.
Boston - around 270 people
Um, bullshit. It was a crowd of a few dozen at most, from the pictures I saw (no, not by a news agency.) They were protesting on Beacon Street (I've walked by the Scientology building many a time) and there isn't anywhere near enough room for 270 people. Boston PD had four officers working a paid detail- far as I know, no other BPD presence.
Even ignoring all that, it's still 1970s technology.
...which was used mostly to launch spy satellites.
That's probably not as much of a concern as keeping *any* space related information out of their hands these days. We're apparently in another space race- and just like before, it's purely for political, military, and military industry reasons. Bush getting to leave some sort of "legacy" is just a side bonus.
Because that is why they aren't using webkit, apache, samba, cups (or employ the guy who writes it), and several others in their default install.
....none of which touch proprietary hardware or deal with DRM.
It's rather disingenuous to compare actions that were the social norm in one period of time to similar actions taken in a time when they are way outside the societal norm. 1000 years ago slaughter, rape, pillage and plunder were like cheering for your favorite ball team is today.
"Thou shalt not kill."
The difference being with Christians is that it's only figuratively speaking when you say 'up in arms'.
Yeah, save the NINE "official" crusades (aka wars) and the ten or so un-numbered ones. Most of which were to stamp out other religious groups.
Let's keep a little bit of historical perspective, please. Most religions that has been around long enough has been responsible for intolerance, persecution, repression, death, and destruction.
We're thinking of having a contest where we have Vista and OS X and Linux ... and see which one goes first.
What I'd be most interested in is a survey of contestants as to their platform experience, and how focused they intend to be on attacking the different platforms. That part could be wildly unscientific, but could be interesting if everyone answers openly.
Couple that with some good logs of network activity, to see how focused attacks are on the various systems.
For example, it could turn out that nobody goes for the supposed low hanging fruit, and everyone tries to target the Mac...or an OpenBSD box, if they bring one. Etc.