There was just a story here the other day about a theoretical/lab exploit using a keyboard that hid a message in frequency of typing into remote machines. It would be easy for MS to build something similarly hidden into their messaging system that you wouldn't find easily at all by gleaming what little bits you can from the packets they send home. When you don't know exactly what 'should' be in the packets, it's hard to figure out what really is suspicous.
Right. And of course you sniff all the packets that your machine sends out from your windows machine every time it gets a patch from microsoft, etc, etc, to make sure it's not 'reporting back' on your activities since you last connected to Microsoft, etc, etc?
The opensource firewall only protects you from them initiating contact to your machine from outside. It doesn't prevent hidden reports being sent out. That takes a lot of human monitoring, and some packets, you just don't know the real content/context of (reports to MS etc).
No kidding. They are complaining about the Dell 2407WFP? That's 1920x1200 pixels on a *24*-inch monitor. I have that exact same resolution on my 15" inspiron 8600 laptop. Crank up the fonts in an application if the default is too small. Many other apps scale just fine. There are relatively few apps I have a problem with font size with.
I call BS. Please provide statistics to back this up.
They might not live longer, but smoking can cause asthma, cancer and many other problems causing prolonged medical care. Treating a smoker for chemotherapy will cost a lot more than if he keeled over two decades later, dead from a heart attack, etc. Where is the evidence you are spending less on them just because they live a shorter life?
Let's see, I and many others play games and run other applications that they only write for Windows and that requires direct hardware access. And I and many others rarely use OSX, but need/like to use it occasionally.
So yes troll, lots of us would like to run OSX in a VMWare session on windows machines. And we don't need to be smoking anything to have a legitimate need.
Specious? One only has to look at asbestos fibers to get an idea of what types of bad interactions some types of nano-particles might have with biological systems. I'm a biologist. Nano-particles are a valid area of concern.
Fear being spread is "The terrorists are going to kill you and your family!!!" That the republican neo-con idiots keep spewing.
Explicit warnings simply say "There is strong language on this CD. If you that's cool with you, the CD should be fine. If you happen to not like hearing that, or having your children have it, don't buy it." Where is the fear or terror? That sends no more chills up my spine than a label on clothing that says what % synthetic fibers are in it. I happen to like pure cotton just because it breaths better. 90% rayon fabrics don't 'scare' me. Just let me know what's in it, and let me as a consumer decide if that's what I'd like to purchase.
You may be learning stuff in martial arts, but you have no idea how science works if you consider it all an 'adversarial' system. Scientists get publications, funding, and resptect be discovering new things. No one gives you money for stopping someone else's laboratory from making an advance.
Sorry if peer-reviews and critiques seem aversarial to you. It's not at all an adversarial system. As the other poster said, some folks may be pricks about the way they point out flaws rather than very sweet, but the point is always to make sure *all of us* know the truth. That's very cooperative.
Of course not. Then it would be obvious it was a colony of Puppeteers. Unless of course they are trying to disguise the fact it's their homeworld by ejecting the other worlds from the Rosette. Puppeteers are sneaky!
Until they show that this vulnerability is there on a Mac with DEFAULT settings, using the built-in card, this can only be seen as a blatant attempt to use a Mac as a headline attention-getter.
They didn't specify why things were done for the same reason they didn't do a live demo. So bad guys couldn't figure it out and implement it right away. You people still need Apple and the other venders to get patches out to you. The fact remains, they didn't use the built-in mac wireless nic at Apple's request. Apple was trying to hide the fact that they are vulnerable. The vunerability is still there, like it or not.
Windows fanbois...
OpenBSD fanboy, thank you very much. OpenBSD rewrote the driver from scratch, so isn't vulnerable to the holes in those nasty binary-only blobs.
Sorry, no. Not any notebook. Ones running OpenBSD are not vulnerable because they wrote an open driver rather than using a closed binary blob from the vender like other OS's like to do.
And so how, in this fantasy world if yours where reporters are all getting rich for reporting on crime, would someone get a person who might be marginally involved in carrying out a small part of a much larger crime, to inform the public about the much larger crime, and who is carrying it out?
As I've said before, whistleblower laws very often just don't work. People are either not give the whistleblower status that they deserve, or retribution is carried out by others, or under guise that it's for something else.
Protecting the source is the only way these things will ever come out. Do you really think it would have been better for the country if Deep Throat had not come forward? If so, there are a lot of totalitarian regimes I'm sure you'd be happy to live under. For myself, I prefer a free press.
I believe a reports should ALWAYS be able to protect their source. No matter what. If a someone killed my parents and told a reporter about it, it would be no different than if they told a priest or their lawyer about it. Neither the priest or lawyer will tell anyone of their admission (the reporter will say someone talked about it, but not reveal their identity, protecting the source), and the lawyer cannot be compelled to by law. The only times they have duty to (and are required by law) is when they have knowledge of intent to do a future bad act, which they can prevent.
If something truely illegal is going on, those doing the leaking would be covered by a wistle blowers policy.
If you think retribution isn't VERY often taken out on whistleblowers, even when a law/policy is in place, I have a very large bridge to sell you.
The press has had a long standing rule of not giving out sources, and for a VERY good reason.
Actually I don't think that's a good way to go. If you act scared, the cop might very well think "he must have done something really wrong he's thinks I'm going to find out about if he's acting this scared".
I'm hardly forgetting. I grew up in the country. The nearest village to our farm had 300 people in it. Our road certainly wasn't paved. We were lucky when they put some gravel in the bigger dips. I grew up not seeing a snow plow for a week or so after a 'big' snow, while they were busy digging out more populated areas. (Lake effect snow in northern Ohio). My dad always had a 3/4 ton truck (he hauled stuff in it, an SUV would have been zero use for hauling wood). The rest of us had cars. Sedans, compacts. etc. You know what? We always seemed to get by ok with some snow tires. Sometimes the snow would get too high for the cars to plow through. But then again, it was sometimes too high to get through with a truck/SUV. You needed a plow.
Do I think everyone in the country needs to have a plow on the front of their truck/SUV? No. Do I think most people who drive an SUV, even in the country, really need one? No.
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If you are having problems like that, then you might need to call in the extra help.
Simply go to your local pharmacy and get a bottle of Fleet Phospho-Soda.
Sometime between twenty minutes to three hours after drinking that, you *will* be all cleaned out.
(Warning, drinking too much can be bad. See your physician first, yadda yadda yadda)
There was just a story here the other day about a theoretical/lab exploit using a keyboard that hid a message in frequency of typing into remote machines. It would be easy for MS to build something similarly hidden into their messaging system that you wouldn't find easily at all by gleaming what little bits you can from the packets they send home. When you don't know exactly what 'should' be in the packets, it's hard to figure out what really is suspicous.
The 'supposed' attacks were planned on international flights from the U.K. to the U.S.
Those are long flights. There's plenty of time for nature, even without help, to take it's course.
Right. And of course you sniff all the packets that your machine sends out from your windows machine every time it gets a patch from microsoft, etc, etc, to make sure it's not 'reporting back' on your activities since you last connected to Microsoft, etc, etc?
The opensource firewall only protects you from them initiating contact to your machine from outside. It doesn't prevent hidden reports being sent out. That takes a lot of human monitoring, and some packets, you just don't know the real content/context of (reports to MS etc).
You really should give credit where credit is due.
FreeBSD got the driver they use from OpenBSD.
OpenBSD folks have been campaigning against blobs, and specifically have been hounding the wireless folks to open up specs and documentation for a while now.
The FreeBSD folks... not so much.
No kidding. They are complaining about the Dell 2407WFP? That's 1920x1200 pixels on a *24*-inch monitor. I have that exact same resolution on my 15" inspiron 8600 laptop. Crank up the fonts in an application if the default is too small. Many other apps scale just fine. There are relatively few apps I have a problem with font size with.
I call BS. Please provide statistics to back this up.
They might not live longer, but smoking can cause asthma, cancer and many other problems causing prolonged medical care. Treating a smoker for chemotherapy will cost a lot more than if he keeled over two decades later, dead from a heart attack, etc. Where is the evidence you are spending less on them just because they live a shorter life?
Let's see, I and many others play games and run other applications that they only write for Windows and that requires direct hardware access. And I and many others rarely use OSX, but need/like to use it occasionally.
So yes troll, lots of us would like to run OSX in a VMWare session on windows machines. And we don't need to be smoking anything to have a legitimate need.
Specious? One only has to look at asbestos fibers to get an idea of what types of bad interactions some types of nano-particles might have with biological systems. I'm a biologist. Nano-particles are a valid area of concern.
Hey anonymous coward. That's not fear.
Fear being spread is "The terrorists are going to kill you and your family!!!" That the republican neo-con idiots keep spewing.
Explicit warnings simply say "There is strong language on this CD. If you that's cool with you, the CD should be fine. If you happen to not like hearing that, or having your children have it, don't buy it." Where is the fear or terror? That sends no more chills up my spine than a label on clothing that says what % synthetic fibers are in it. I happen to like pure cotton just because it breaths better. 90% rayon fabrics don't 'scare' me. Just let me know what's in it, and let me as a consumer decide if that's what I'd like to purchase.
You may be learning stuff in martial arts, but you have no idea how science works if you consider it all an 'adversarial' system. Scientists get publications, funding, and resptect be discovering new things. No one gives you money for stopping someone else's laboratory from making an advance.
Sorry if peer-reviews and critiques seem aversarial to you. It's not at all an adversarial system. As the other poster said, some folks may be pricks about the way they point out flaws rather than very sweet, but the point is always to make sure *all of us* know the truth. That's very cooperative.
Of course not. Then it would be obvious it was a colony of Puppeteers. Unless of course they are trying to disguise the fact it's their homeworld by ejecting the other worlds from the Rosette. Puppeteers are sneaky!
Actually it's just a small colony of Pierson's Puppeteers fleeing the explosion at the center of the galaxy.
They didn't specify why things were done for the same reason they didn't do a live demo. So bad guys couldn't figure it out and implement it right away. You people still need Apple and the other venders to get patches out to you. The fact remains, they didn't use the built-in mac wireless nic at Apple's request. Apple was trying to hide the fact that they are vulnerable. The vunerability is still there, like it or not.
Windows fanbois...
OpenBSD fanboy, thank you very much. OpenBSD rewrote the driver from scratch, so isn't vulnerable to the holes in those nasty binary-only blobs.
Sorry, no. Not any notebook. Ones running OpenBSD are not vulnerable because they wrote an open driver rather than using a closed binary blob from the vender like other OS's like to do.
Or they used a third party card because Apple was riding them hard not to use theirs.
Mac users...
Very much more.
Oops, sorry. Wrong link. I ment this one about OpenBSD's blob-free Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Driver.
Now ask if it runs on OpenBSD. The guys who are fighting hard for open drivers from the wireless manufacturers.
$250 for a couple gigs of *RAMBUS* RAM? Please tell me where.
And so how, in this fantasy world if yours where reporters are all getting rich for reporting on crime, would someone get a person who might be marginally involved in carrying out a small part of a much larger crime, to inform the public about the much larger crime, and who is carrying it out?
As I've said before, whistleblower laws very often just don't work. People are either not give the whistleblower status that they deserve, or retribution is carried out by others, or under guise that it's for something else.
Protecting the source is the only way these things will ever come out. Do you really think it would have been better for the country if Deep Throat had not come forward? If so, there are a lot of totalitarian regimes I'm sure you'd be happy to live under. For myself, I prefer a free press.
If something truely illegal is going on, those doing the leaking would be covered by a wistle blowers policy.
If you think retribution isn't VERY often taken out on whistleblowers, even when a law/policy is in place, I have a very large bridge to sell you.
The press has had a long standing rule of not giving out sources, and for a VERY good reason.
You are kidding right? This ruling just makes it harder for the real reporters, who do call up sources, to do their jobs.
The lazy-ass reporters who already do nothing but re-write press releases won't change a thing in how they do business.
Actually I don't think that's a good way to go. If you act scared, the cop might very well think "he must have done something really wrong he's thinks I'm going to find out about if he's acting this scared".
It's better to just be polite and respectful.
I'm hardly forgetting. I grew up in the country. The nearest village to our farm had 300 people in it. Our road certainly wasn't paved. We were lucky when they put some gravel in the bigger dips. I grew up not seeing a snow plow for a week or so after a 'big' snow, while they were busy digging out more populated areas. (Lake effect snow in northern Ohio). My dad always had a 3/4 ton truck (he hauled stuff in it, an SUV would have been zero use for hauling wood). The rest of us had cars. Sedans, compacts. etc. You know what? We always seemed to get by ok with some snow tires. Sometimes the snow would get too high for the cars to plow through. But then again, it was sometimes too high to get through with a truck/SUV. You needed a plow.
Do I think everyone in the country needs to have a plow on the front of their truck/SUV? No. Do I think most people who drive an SUV, even in the country, really need one? No.