When cats walk or climb on your keyboard, they can enter random commands and data, damage your files, and even crash your computer. This can happen whether you are near the computer or have suddenly been called away from it.
And if you're not careful, attempting to delete it can turn you into a Freakazoid!
The first time I signed a cell phone contract was also the first and only time I've been denied the right to possess a copy of that contract.
I want a hand-held scanner with internal memory that only needs to be tethered to a computer to retrieve the scan after the fact. Preferably one that can pass for a reading light so they won't know I just copied their contract for my later perusal.
In Beyond Castle Wolfenstein, you could drag dead Nazis around to block entrances to keep the SS from showing up. The same strategy worked in the original Castle Wolfenstein, but you had to carefully kill soldiers so they'd fall there since you couldn't drag them. Once you had a uniform though, it was pretty easy to hold them at gunpoint exactly where you wanted them.
Dead soldiers also allowed you to walk through some walls.
The Malaysian government insists that such a filter would only be used to block pornography, though critics of the plan expect it would be wielded as a political tool, censoring websites that are critical of the current administration.
Yes, like they said: pornography.
When you work without a definition, only knowing it when you see it, you can label anything that way.
(Yeah, I know the original usage by SCOTUS was for defining obscenity.)
Offtopic? GP opened the door by referencing Tomorrow Never Dies. And the lyrics are a warning of letting one journalistic organization wield a monopoly on reporting. (I was being generous in not using my Karma Bonus.)
People say, "No one will ever pay for what they can get now, for free" but that same argument would have doomed cable television, and cable is alive and well.
Cable includes multiple value-adds, not the least of which is better signal quality for broadcast channels.
(Time-Warner Cable of Lincoln, NE actually gets its feed for local Fox broadcast affiliate KSNB from Dish Network because the signal strength is too weak for even them to pull it in by antenna.)
Your life is a story I've already written. The news is that I am in control. And I have the power To make you surrender. Not only your body, but your soul.
Whatever you're after Trust me, I'll deliver. You'll relish the world that I create.
The truth is now what I say. I've taken care of yesterday.
Tomorrow never dies... surrender. Tomorrow will arrive on time. I'll tease and tantalize with every line 'Til you are mine. Tomorrow never dies. Tomorrow never dies. Tomorrow never dies.
I for one can't wait for this to happen: "I dunno how much AIDS scares y'all, but I got a theory: the day they come out with a cure for AIDS, a guaranteed one-shot cure, on that day there's gonna be fucking in the streets, man." - Bill hicks
Yeah, I think Bill's pretty much right on that one--there's definitely going to be some partying going on out there if this is a sure cure.
Yeah, but with my luck, I'll be reading the wrong Twitter feed and miss out on all the fun.
extreme Sabotage was more funny than fun - basically, it started at a high difficulty level and got harder
How did you do it? Was it just to start it with more helicopters than normal or did you adjust the timing? How did it compare to running the stock version at native speed on an Apple IIgs? Did you find and disable the memory-dump-card copy protection?
I had completely disassembled SABOTAGE and labeled all the branches and memory locations I could identify to a text file in an aborted attempt at converting it to Apple IIgs graphics. If only I could have afforded a real assembler at the time to realize that design. There would be enough unused bits per pixel on the IIgs to have allowed me to have day-night cycles and possibly weather patterns. Imagine jet levels with a rendered late night thunderstorm in the background.
I don't recall it getting into making a Defender clone (but my memory may be faulty or I didn't finish the book), but my favorite book for Apple II assembly programming was "Apple Graphics and Arcade Game Design" by Jeffrey Stanton. Amazon.com has some used copies available.
A little more research and I can say yes, this is the same book that promised to teach how to make a Defender clone.
I don't recall it getting into making a Defender clone (but my memory may be faulty or I didn't finish the book), but my favorite book for Apple II assembly programming was "Apple Graphics and Arcade Game Design" by Jeffrey Stanton. Amazon.com has some used copies available. This helped me understand how some games were coded, especially the screen memory lookup tables to get raster graphics into the right spots in memory (needed for the venetian-blind interlacing pattern the Apple II graphics used). I had intended to take what I learned to adapt several Apple II games to Apple IIgs graphics, but college (including summer classes) took up what spare time I had had in high school to work on that, coupled with getting my first Mac (7500/100) and budding addiction to TinyMUCK.
"Did you know men can breastfeed? Seriously. I read that somewhere. OK, I made it up. No, I read it somewhere, no, really. I wrote it down and then I read it. I believe everything I read. No, it's true. Men can breastfeed. Apparently you have to strap a couple cans of evaporated milk to your chest, and then you give the kid a can opener." -- Bob Sagat
What was the crew is unknown, though it is presumed they are to the same scale as the Space Jockey. However, from scenes removed and later restored in Alien, those eggs could be what remains of the crew: the queen wasn't introduced until Aliens; instead the alien could bioform other beings into eggs.
The "hold" may have been the ship's morgue if it wasn't so large and non-conforming in scale and shape to the ship itself. And we didn't see it having a proper entrance either: Kane was lowered down through what appeared to be an acid-formed hole in the deck.
I had to try twice to get it to acknowledge the update being available for my PowerBook G4 Titanium (though it is a 14.4 Kbps cell modem connection).
Hopefully the Download Only option will work this time. My install disk is for 10.5.0 and I had to reinstall once already to a new 320 GB hard drive(*). I've been having problems with it telling me updates could not be saved (due to a sudden inability to contact the update server) and with "Install and Keep Package" not keeping the package. It's as if some updates you can't retain unless you download them directly from the Apple website and give Apple your e-mail address, and Software Update doesn't tell you which ones.
(*) Disk Utility was telling me it would not repair permissions on certain SUID programs on the original drive that it said had been modified(!) and Carbon Copy Cloner was failing to complete its copies, as was System Migration.
Available for: Mac OS X v10.4.11, Mac OS X Server v10.4.11, Mac OS X v10.5 through v10.5.7, Mac OS X Server v10.5 through v10.5.7
Impact: Decompressing maliciously crafted data may lead to an unexpected application termination
Description: An out-of-bounds memory access exists in bzip2. Opening a maliciously crafted compressed file may lead to an unexpected application termination. This update addresses the issue by updating bzip2 to version 1.0.5. Further information is available via the bzip2 web site at http://bzip.org/.
ColorSync
CVE-ID: CVE-2009-1726
Available for: Mac OS X v10.4.11, Mac OS X Server v10.4.11, Mac OS X v10.5 through v10.5.7, Mac OS X Server v10.5 through v10.5.7
Impact: Viewing a maliciously crafted image with an embedded ColorSync profile may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: A heap buffer overflow exists in the handling of images with an embedded ColorSync profile. Opening a maliciously crafted image with an embedded ColorSync profile may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution. This update addresses the issue by performing additional validation of ColorSync profiles. Credit to Chris Evans of the Google Security Team for reporting this issue.
ImageIO
CVE-ID: CVE-2009-1722
Available for: Mac OS X v10.4.11, Mac OS X Server v10.4.11, Mac OS X v10.5 through v10.5.7, Mac OS X Server v10.5 through v10.5.7
Impact: Viewing a maliciously crafted OpenEXR image may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: A heap buffer overflow exists in ImageIO's handling of OpenEXR images. Viewing a maliciously crafted OpenEXR image may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution. This update addresses the issue by updating OpenEXR to version 1.6.1. Credit to Lurene Grenier of Sourcefire VRT, and Chris Ries of Carnegie Mellon University Computing Services for reporting this issue.
ImageIO
CVE-ID: CVE-2009-1721
Available for: Mac OS X v10.4.11, Mac OS X Server v10.4.11, Mac OS X v10.5 through v10.5.7, Mac OS X Server v10.5 through v10.5.7
Impact: Viewing a maliciously crafted OpenEXR image may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: An uninitialized memory access issue exists in ImageIO's handling of OpenEXR images. Viewing a maliciously crafted OpenEXR image may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution. This update addresses the issue through proper memory initialization and additional validation of OpenEXR images. Credit: Apple.
ImageIO
CVE-ID: CVE-2009-1720
Available for: Mac OS X v10.4.11, Mac OS X Server v10.4.11, Mac OS X v10.5 through v10.5.7, Mac OS X Server v10.5 through v10.5.7
Impact: Viewing a maliciously crafted OpenEXR image may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: Multiple integer overflows exist in ImageIO's handling of OpenEXR images. Viewing a maliciously crafted OpenEXR image may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution. This update addresses the issues through improved bounds checking. Credit: Apple.
ImageIO
CVE-ID: CVE-2009-0040
Available for: Mac OS X v10.4.11, Mac OS X Server v10.4.11, Mac OS X v10.5 through v10.5.7, Mac OS X Server v10.5 through v10.5.7
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted PNG image may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: An uninitialized pointer issue exists in the handling of PNG images. Processing a maliciously crafted PNG image may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution. This update addresses the issue by pe
Who appointed Apple to be the legal guardian and nanny of iPhone users?
I was going to say Jennipher Dickens, except Apple was applying rejection terms to applications from the start before Baby Shaker(*) made it to the store. But I think you can hold her responsible for the ramping up of the rules.
And the kinds of rejections we see now indicate to me that there are people on the approval panel inside Apple protesting these rules by making these sorts of ridiculous rejections to pressure Apple with bad press to let up.
(*) And a misunderstood "game" it was: it intended to educate that it is very easy to kill a baby with very little shaking, so don't shake them! Better to learn that lesson safely on your iPhone than with a real baby! A shame the publisher is too cowed to explain it.
Further, if you share data with an outside company, you don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy in that data anymore, and the government can subpoena that company for what it knows about you. Just like a lawyer engaging in communications with his client with a third party present, those communications are no longer privileged.
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When cats walk or climb on your keyboard, they can enter random commands and data, damage your files, and even crash your computer. This can happen whether you are near the computer or have suddenly been called away from it.
And if you're not careful, attempting to delete it can turn you into a Freakazoid!
@[=g3,8d]\&fbb=-q]/hk%fg
The first time I signed a cell phone contract was also the first and only time I've been denied the right to possess a copy of that contract.
I want a hand-held scanner with internal memory that only needs to be tethered to a computer to retrieve the scan after the fact. Preferably one that can pass for a reading light so they won't know I just copied their contract for my later perusal.
It may depend if the text is readable 100 feet away + distance from bumper to driver of other vehicle.
In Beyond Castle Wolfenstein, you could drag dead Nazis around to block entrances to keep the SS from showing up. The same strategy worked in the original Castle Wolfenstein, but you had to carefully kill soldiers so they'd fall there since you couldn't drag them. Once you had a uniform though, it was pretty easy to hold them at gunpoint exactly where you wanted them.
Dead soldiers also allowed you to walk through some walls.
The Malaysian government insists that such a filter would only be used to block pornography, though critics of the plan expect it would be wielded as a political tool, censoring websites that are critical of the current administration.
Yes, like they said: pornography.
When you work without a definition, only knowing it when you see it, you can label anything that way.
(Yeah, I know the original usage by SCOTUS was for defining obscenity.)
Offtopic? GP opened the door by referencing Tomorrow Never Dies. And the lyrics are a warning of letting one journalistic organization wield a monopoly on reporting. (I was being generous in not using my Karma Bonus.)
People say, "No one will ever pay for what they can get now, for free" but that same argument would have doomed cable television, and cable is alive and well.
Cable includes multiple value-adds, not the least of which is better signal quality for broadcast channels.
(Time-Warner Cable of Lincoln, NE actually gets its feed for local Fox broadcast affiliate KSNB from Dish Network because the signal strength is too weak for even them to pull it in by antenna.)
So, Murdock to Amazon: "You are middle men"?
Your life is a story
I've already written.
The news is that I am in control.
And I have the power
To make you surrender.
Not only your body, but your soul.
Whatever you're after
Trust me, I'll deliver.
You'll relish the world that I create.
The truth is now what I say.
I've taken care of yesterday.
Tomorrow never dies... surrender.
Tomorrow will arrive on time.
I'll tease and tantalize with every line
'Til you are mine.
Tomorrow never dies.
Tomorrow never dies.
Tomorrow never dies.
I for one can't wait for this to happen:
"I dunno how much AIDS scares y'all, but I got a theory: the day they come out with a cure for AIDS, a guaranteed one-shot cure, on that day there's gonna be fucking in the streets, man." - Bill hicks
Yeah, I think Bill's pretty much right on that one--there's definitely going to be some partying going on out there if this is a sure cure.
Yeah, but with my luck, I'll be reading the wrong Twitter feed and miss out on all the fun.
extreme Sabotage was more funny than fun - basically, it started at a high difficulty level and got harder
How did you do it? Was it just to start it with more helicopters than normal or did you adjust the timing? How did it compare to running the stock version at native speed on an Apple IIgs? Did you find and disable the memory-dump-card copy protection?
I had completely disassembled SABOTAGE and labeled all the branches and memory locations I could identify to a text file in an aborted attempt at converting it to Apple IIgs graphics. If only I could have afforded a real assembler at the time to realize that design. There would be enough unused bits per pixel on the IIgs to have allowed me to have day-night cycles and possibly weather patterns. Imagine jet levels with a rendered late night thunderstorm in the background.
I don't recall it getting into making a Defender clone (but my memory may be faulty or I didn't finish the book), but my favorite book for Apple II assembly programming was "Apple Graphics and Arcade Game Design" by Jeffrey Stanton. Amazon.com has some used copies available.
A little more research and I can say yes, this is the same book that promised to teach how to make a Defender clone.
I don't recall it getting into making a Defender clone (but my memory may be faulty or I didn't finish the book), but my favorite book for Apple II assembly programming was "Apple Graphics and Arcade Game Design" by Jeffrey Stanton. Amazon.com has some used copies available. This helped me understand how some games were coded, especially the screen memory lookup tables to get raster graphics into the right spots in memory (needed for the venetian-blind interlacing pattern the Apple II graphics used). I had intended to take what I learned to adapt several Apple II games to Apple IIgs graphics, but college (including summer classes) took up what spare time I had had in high school to work on that, coupled with getting my first Mac (7500/100) and budding addiction to TinyMUCK.
Tickling, I believe, is linked with touch. Your brain suppresses/mutes touches done to yourself, which is why most people can't tickle themselves.
You can't tickle yourself with numb fingers either.
And yet masturbation works.
"Did you know men can breastfeed? Seriously. I read that somewhere. OK, I made it up. No, I read it somewhere, no, really. I wrote it down and then I read it. I believe everything I read. No, it's true. Men can breastfeed. Apparently you have to strap a couple cans of evaporated milk to your chest, and then you give the kid a can opener."
-- Bob Sagat
And what exactly crewed the original ship?
What was the crew is unknown, though it is presumed they are to the same scale as the Space Jockey. However, from scenes removed and later restored in Alien, those eggs could be what remains of the crew: the queen wasn't introduced until Aliens; instead the alien could bioform other beings into eggs.
The "hold" may have been the ship's morgue if it wasn't so large and non-conforming in scale and shape to the ship itself. And we didn't see it having a proper entrance either: Kane was lowered down through what appeared to be an acid-formed hole in the deck.
people call you a troll, but the fact is you spend much more time on this post than all the other people on theirs, combined.
This turn of phrase is familiar to me. Where have I heard its like before? Ah yes:
"Nebraska Diamond sells more engagement and wedding rings than all the other area jewelry stores combined."
So we've defined the OS equivalents of rock, paper, scissors, and lizard... but who is Spock?
I had to try twice to get it to acknowledge the update being available for my PowerBook G4 Titanium (though it is a 14.4 Kbps cell modem connection).
Hopefully the Download Only option will work this time. My install disk is for 10.5.0 and I had to reinstall once already to a new 320 GB hard drive(*). I've been having problems with it telling me updates could not be saved (due to a sudden inability to contact the update server) and with "Install and Keep Package" not keeping the package. It's as if some updates you can't retain unless you download them directly from the Apple website and give Apple your e-mail address, and Software Update doesn't tell you which ones.
(*) Disk Utility was telling me it would not repair permissions on certain SUID programs on the original drive that it said had been modified(!) and Carbon Copy Cloner was failing to complete its copies, as was System Migration.
I don't know of any 10.4.11 major issues.
CVE-ID: CVE-2008-1372
Available for: Mac OS X v10.4.11, Mac OS X Server v10.4.11, Mac OS X v10.5 through v10.5.7, Mac OS X Server v10.5 through v10.5.7
Impact: Decompressing maliciously crafted data may lead to an unexpected application termination
Description: An out-of-bounds memory access exists in bzip2. Opening a maliciously crafted compressed file may lead to an unexpected application termination. This update addresses the issue by updating bzip2 to version 1.0.5. Further information is available via the bzip2 web site at http://bzip.org/.
CVE-ID: CVE-2009-1726
Available for: Mac OS X v10.4.11, Mac OS X Server v10.4.11, Mac OS X v10.5 through v10.5.7, Mac OS X Server v10.5 through v10.5.7
Impact: Viewing a maliciously crafted image with an embedded ColorSync profile may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: A heap buffer overflow exists in the handling of images with an embedded ColorSync profile. Opening a maliciously crafted image with an embedded ColorSync profile may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution. This update addresses the issue by performing additional validation of ColorSync profiles. Credit to Chris Evans of the Google Security Team for reporting this issue.
CVE-ID: CVE-2009-1722
Available for: Mac OS X v10.4.11, Mac OS X Server v10.4.11, Mac OS X v10.5 through v10.5.7, Mac OS X Server v10.5 through v10.5.7
Impact: Viewing a maliciously crafted OpenEXR image may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: A heap buffer overflow exists in ImageIO's handling of OpenEXR images. Viewing a maliciously crafted OpenEXR image may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution. This update addresses the issue by updating OpenEXR to version 1.6.1. Credit to Lurene Grenier of Sourcefire VRT, and Chris Ries of Carnegie Mellon University Computing Services for reporting this issue.
CVE-ID: CVE-2009-1721
Available for: Mac OS X v10.4.11, Mac OS X Server v10.4.11, Mac OS X v10.5 through v10.5.7, Mac OS X Server v10.5 through v10.5.7
Impact: Viewing a maliciously crafted OpenEXR image may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: An uninitialized memory access issue exists in ImageIO's handling of OpenEXR images. Viewing a maliciously crafted OpenEXR image may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution. This update addresses the issue through proper memory initialization and additional validation of OpenEXR images. Credit: Apple.
CVE-ID: CVE-2009-1720
Available for: Mac OS X v10.4.11, Mac OS X Server v10.4.11, Mac OS X v10.5 through v10.5.7, Mac OS X Server v10.5 through v10.5.7
Impact: Viewing a maliciously crafted OpenEXR image may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: Multiple integer overflows exist in ImageIO's handling of OpenEXR images. Viewing a maliciously crafted OpenEXR image may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution. This update addresses the issues through improved bounds checking. Credit: Apple.
CVE-ID: CVE-2009-0040
Available for: Mac OS X v10.4.11, Mac OS X Server v10.4.11, Mac OS X v10.5 through v10.5.7, Mac OS X Server v10.5 through v10.5.7
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted PNG image may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: An uninitialized pointer issue exists in the handling of PNG images. Processing a maliciously crafted PNG image may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution. This update addresses the issue by pe
Who appointed Apple to be the legal guardian and nanny of iPhone users?
I was going to say Jennipher Dickens, except Apple was applying rejection terms to applications from the start before Baby Shaker(*) made it to the store. But I think you can hold her responsible for the ramping up of the rules.
And the kinds of rejections we see now indicate to me that there are people on the approval panel inside Apple protesting these rules by making these sorts of ridiculous rejections to pressure Apple with bad press to let up.
(*) And a misunderstood "game" it was: it intended to educate that it is very easy to kill a baby with very little shaking, so don't shake them! Better to learn that lesson safely on your iPhone than with a real baby! A shame the publisher is too cowed to explain it.
There are task forces underway to... ensure every home has a large print bible with big pictures of a non-Jewish Jesus.
How? With full-frontal non-circumcised nudity?
Further, if you share data with an outside company, you don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy in that data anymore, and the government can subpoena that company for what it knows about you. Just like a lawyer engaging in communications with his client with a third party present, those communications are no longer privileged.
IANAL, I just watch fake ones on TV.
4. Health care
Not quite yet. When it makes the list, it'll be "4. Biohazards" and coincide with the next big plague.
cost U.S. businesses jobs and billions of dollars a year in lost revenue
There are now three keys to the Constitution: