you missed the part about typing in an admin password. windows doesn't have that additional layer of security on it.
I was thinking about this the other day. Can a program enter those details into those prompts or only a keyboard device? I assume there is something to stop someone from making a small application which prompts you for admin username and password (captures those details) and then uses them maliciously? It could be a small launcher type program which prompts you, you'd expect it to, it captures those details and then completes your install with them. Everything would look normal, except for the fact that your admin username and password have been captured. Is this possible in OSX?
I should have mentioned that I'm refering to potential future malicious code using this sort of trickery and not of that in the article. I'm thinking more from the OSX point of view than this specific malicious code.
It definitely is a trojan, and a harmless one at that. It seems that if you have configured your computer correctly, you would have to enter your admin password in order to allow it to do any harm.
You have to enter the admin name and password to delete your own user files? I think not and those are the files that are valuable to me.
I keep occasional compressed dd images of my OSX installs (from the shell in the OSX install media and a USB or FW drive), so I am not too fussed about losing an install, it's my own files which matter to me. I back them up two, but I don't want them stolen either.
Humour aside, that is actually correct. Right click if you have a two or more button mouse and choose Get Info. Notice "Kind" will state "Application". If you have a single button mouse you can Control click in place of right clicking. If it is a JPG then it should say "JPEG image".
I first learned about the Columbine Shooting when checking Slashdot. I first learned about the Columbia explosion by checking Slashdot. Now the first Mac virus. Slashdot brings me news of another life altering national tragedy.
I first heard about 9/11 while reading slashdot. That was shocking. Then I turned on the telly...
Germany and Japan have been defeated! The war is over! The allies have prevailed!
I grew up with these terrible toads in my backyard. That was in the early 70's and does not even come close to how long we have had these rotten toads.
BTW, they have also been known to kill crocodiles who eat them, due to the toads very powerful toxin. We urgently need something effective to use against the cane toad. They are killing off native species and are now invading our beautiful Daintree rainforest.
I remember typing in programs from magazines and even whole books of code ("BASIC games" and stuff like that, it's still sitting in my parents' basement), and getting hooked on programming that way.
I remember typing in HEX games from Compute! magazine, when it was a C64 magazine. The first thing you had to do is type in the BASIC program which would prompt you for the HEX characters, including a checksum pair at the end of the line. If you made a mistake, it would tell you and you would have to type that line in again. Those games were great, but of course some were literally pages and pages of HEX. The end result were often sprite based games which ran as fast as you would expect from assembler.
Just recently I found an old PC related magazine (Australian Personal Computer) which details how to write filters (lower2upper and stripping line feeds for example) in debug scripts. So I tried them and it has gotten me back into assembler.
Out of interest, can anyone recommend a good PPC assembler book which includes Altivec reference and examples?
Certain games had programs called "Turbo Loaders" that did fancy things with compression to make games load quicker, and to show these were working (and mostly for eye candy I'm guessing) the screen flashed with multi coloured lines.
Anyone remember loaders with built in games to keep you occupied while the bigger game loaded? "Invade-a-load" comes to mind, a very basic space invaders game you would play which was also loading the game you really want to play.
I loved my C64. I had one of the newer white ones without a reset switch, so I added a reset switch of my own to the case by using the reset line on the cartridge connector. I don't know what happened to my C64 but I found one thrown out in my street, but without the PSU. My girlfriend and I were driving back from some shopping at our local mall and I spotted a Amiga 500 on the top of some junk in a box on the side of the road. I HAD to stop and jump out to get it, which is when I found the C64. Joy of joys! I'm still wondering if it works. Anyone know of the PSU details and pinout?
Commodore 64 and Radio Shack tape deck on my little 9" Back and White TV.
Any software pirates remember copying games on tape with dual deck cassette recorders? (The dual deck cassette decks that were used by music pirates of the day).
I even had some good copies from the high speed copy modes. I wish I had backed up my games and then played from the backups because often the tapes would go bad and then you were out of luck on that game.
You're attempting to apply value judgements to natural selection. This is a fallacy.
No I wasn't. You have read WAY too much into what little I said. My point was that a person of incredible intelligence and great physical health can come to commit suicide and it not be the work of natural selection. There are often EXTERNAL overwhelming factors behind suicides which don't relate to how intelligent or phyically healthy someone is.
Natural selection is just how we describe the fact that those who have genetic traits that better allow them to pass on their dna to the next generation, will tend to be better represented genetically in future generations. If you are depressed and kill yourself, this does not necessarily make you a 'worse' person, any more than if you walk outside and get mowed over by a drunk driver.
I agree with that. And with you having said that, I am completely astonished that you then go on and say this...
But both of these actions will eliminate you from the gene pool, and hence are both natural selection in action.
Being run over by a drunk driver is obviously NOT an example of natural selection. Intelligent person A being killed by stupid or careless person B is not an example of natural selection. The intelligent person A dies while the stupid or careless person (who should have died) may live in THAT situation. That is an absurd example. Not every incident which eliminates someone from the gene pool is going to be an action of natural selection.
Killing yourself out of depression is also not necessarily an example of natural selection. Some are. Everyone has a breaking point.
Actually, they call it "reverse racism" or "reverse discrimination."
Thank you, that's what I meant.
And it's anti-racists who argue that racism can only be practiced by a socio-economically dominate racial group against a poor/underprivileged/lower-class racial group. So by definition blacks anywhere can't be racist because in America whites are dominant and in the world western nations are dominant.
I don't dispute that this might be the case. But it seems like a ridiculous way to think. It's as if disliking someone due to their race is okay if you have a good reason to dislike them (they are dominant and racist towards you). But really it is still wrong because if you dislike people who are dominant or racist towards you, then you could hardly be blamed. But disliking those same people BECAUSE of their race is racism itself and wrong. Dislike people for real reasons, not because of the colour of their skin or where they are from.
As far as I am concerned, racism is a hatred or judgmental feeling towards someone based on nothing but racial matters. As far as I am concerned you can be a racist regardless of your own race or social standing.
BTW, I realise you were not necessarily putting your own stance in that post.
This is hate-filled, vitriolic flamebait, pure and simple.
Considering I wrote it, I can tell you with absolute authority that it was not "hate-filled". I don't hate Christians. I do reject faith and merely wish to put forth why I think it is so ridiculous that various groups of people are willing to kill each other (the real) in the name of some things which cannot be shown to be real and are really out there.
They are caused by people like you who are unable to see another point of view of the world, regardless of what that view may be.
On the contrary, I was FORCED through Catholic teachings for more than 10 years as a child. I got one of those points of view rammed down my throat by Nuns who were known for their brutality (I copped my fair share) and Priests and Brothers who are known for their soddomy of little boys (thankfully I missed out on that one, but came close). My post is merely to point out how crazy it is that people put all this emphasis on what is written in some old books, when a lot of what is written in those old books is pretty much incredible fairytale esque stuff that cannot be backed up in the real World and flies in the face of real science.
Why should I have to waste my time visiting a place if the landlord will pick someone else anyway?
Exactly. The law tries to protect people from people, but ultimately laws can't change the way some people think about others. Those people will always find ways around the law.
In Australian Government jobs, positions are advertised as required by law, however often a person who already works in that department has already been chosen for the job. Because they must advertise and go through the whole interview and culling process, all these people waste their time, effort and money getting ready for and attending a bogus interview. These are GOVERNMENT workplaces getting around laws made by the GOVERNMENT.
The "individual" element will always be there. Whether you collect bins, are a politician or work for a spy agency. At the end of the day, some laws are going to just be useless. They'd only cover for the legal system which must seem to be dealing with these issues.
Also, I don't want to live in a house full of people who dislike me or my ways.
My God. Those forums are truely disturbing. I can't beleive people chat about that stuff.
I have a pretty thick skin to the point of getting my news from time to time from Ogrish. But those posts are terrible. They're speaking about living feeling people as if they're worthless objects to use and then discard.
I think I care for my cat more than any of those people care for themselves.
One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.
Oh for God's sake please don't use that ridiculous line. A person who intentionally kills children to punish thier enemy or blow up random innocent civilians is NOT A FREEDOM FIGHTER. They are murderers.
I say this as someone who has been strongly against the war from the start.
And yes, there are people I would consider terrorists on both sides. Taking away freedom (of life, of safety, from fear) from some other random people is NOT a legitimate way to fight for freedom.
Dipole antennas are directional to some extent. But mobile phones usually just use vertical antennas which are omnidirectional.
I know of one prototype Motorola phone which did use a dipole antenna setup of two verticals spaced on either side of the phone. The phone would constantly alter the phase relationship between the two antennas to rotate the radiation pattern to maintain the best gain.
The test engineer using the phone got cancer on the side of his head, which was publicised and Motorola never brought that feature to market. At least not that I am aware of.
BTW, I firmly believe that the non-ionizing radiation from mobile phones does NOT cause cancer. I'm not trying to suggest that the engineer got cancer from the phone. The public was certainly spooked though by that story when it was sensationalized by the media.
Well "+1 Funny" aside, I seem to remember reading that IPv6 could assign an IP to every atom in the universe.
I heard that IPv6 would provide for enough addresses for every square inch of our planet. Just a teensy bit less than every atom in the universe, but regardless... nmap that you 1337 h@xx0r$!
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I put my Mac on a toilet seat and I got this virus...Really!
That's not a virus. The cool kids call them "crabs" although your doctor will probably refer to them as "pubic lice".
you missed the part about typing in an admin password. windows doesn't have that additional layer of security on it.
I was thinking about this the other day. Can a program enter those details into those prompts or only a keyboard device? I assume there is something to stop someone from making a small application which prompts you for admin username and password (captures those details) and then uses them maliciously? It could be a small launcher type program which prompts you, you'd expect it to, it captures those details and then completes your install with them. Everything would look normal, except for the fact that your admin username and password have been captured. Is this possible in OSX?
Hey, this is slashdot.
Use protection -> wear condoms
Because the readers here will catch something from themselves?
browse safely -> wear sunglasses
How many slashdot readers actually see sunlight for real?
I should have mentioned that I'm refering to potential future malicious code using this sort of trickery and not of that in the article. I'm thinking more from the OSX point of view than this specific malicious code.
It definitely is a trojan, and a harmless one at that. It seems that if you have configured your computer correctly, you would have to enter your admin password in order to allow it to do any harm.
You have to enter the admin name and password to delete your own user files? I think not and those are the files that are valuable to me.
I keep occasional compressed dd images of my OSX installs (from the shell in the OSX install media and a USB or FW drive), so I am not too fussed about losing an install, it's my own files which matter to me. I back them up two, but I don't want them stolen either.
All you have to do is right click... oh, nm
Humour aside, that is actually correct. Right click if you have a two or more button mouse and choose Get Info. Notice "Kind" will state "Application". If you have a single button mouse you can Control click in place of right clicking. If it is a JPG then it should say "JPEG image".
I first learned about the Columbine Shooting when checking Slashdot. I first learned about the Columbia explosion by checking Slashdot. Now the first Mac virus. Slashdot brings me news of another life altering national tragedy.
I first heard about 9/11 while reading slashdot. That was shocking. Then I turned on the telly...
Germany and Japan have been defeated! The war is over! The allies have prevailed!
I grew up with these terrible toads in my backyard. That was in the early 70's and does not even come close to how long we have had these rotten toads.
BTW, they have also been known to kill crocodiles who eat them, due to the toads very powerful toxin. We urgently need something effective to use against the cane toad. They are killing off native species and are now invading our beautiful Daintree rainforest.
I remember typing in programs from magazines and even whole books of code ("BASIC games" and stuff like that, it's still sitting in my parents' basement), and getting hooked on programming that way.
I remember typing in HEX games from Compute! magazine, when it was a C64 magazine. The first thing you had to do is type in the BASIC program which would prompt you for the HEX characters, including a checksum pair at the end of the line. If you made a mistake, it would tell you and you would have to type that line in again. Those games were great, but of course some were literally pages and pages of HEX. The end result were often sprite based games which ran as fast as you would expect from assembler.
Just recently I found an old PC related magazine (Australian Personal Computer) which details how to write filters (lower2upper and stripping line feeds for example) in debug scripts. So I tried them and it has gotten me back into assembler.
Out of interest, can anyone recommend a good PPC assembler book which includes Altivec reference and examples?
Certain games had programs called "Turbo Loaders" that did fancy things with compression to make games load quicker, and to show these were working (and mostly for eye candy I'm guessing) the screen flashed with multi coloured lines.
Anyone remember loaders with built in games to keep you occupied while the bigger game loaded? "Invade-a-load" comes to mind, a very basic space invaders game you would play which was also loading the game you really want to play.
I loved my C64. I had one of the newer white ones without a reset switch, so I added a reset switch of my own to the case by using the reset line on the cartridge connector. I don't know what happened to my C64 but I found one thrown out in my street, but without the PSU. My girlfriend and I were driving back from some shopping at our local mall and I spotted a Amiga 500 on the top of some junk in a box on the side of the road. I HAD to stop and jump out to get it, which is when I found the C64. Joy of joys! I'm still wondering if it works. Anyone know of the PSU details and pinout?
Commodore 64 and Radio Shack tape deck on my little 9" Back and White TV.
Any software pirates remember copying games on tape with dual deck cassette recorders? (The dual deck cassette decks that were used by music pirates of the day).
I even had some good copies from the high speed copy modes. I wish I had backed up my games and then played from the backups because often the tapes would go bad and then you were out of luck on that game.
You're attempting to apply value judgements to natural selection. This is a fallacy.
No I wasn't. You have read WAY too much into what little I said. My point was that a person of incredible intelligence and great physical health can come to commit suicide and it not be the work of natural selection. There are often EXTERNAL overwhelming factors behind suicides which don't relate to how intelligent or phyically healthy someone is.
Natural selection is just how we describe the fact that those who have genetic traits that better allow them to pass on their dna to the next generation, will tend to be better represented genetically in future generations. If you are depressed and kill yourself, this does not necessarily make you a 'worse' person, any more than if you walk outside and get mowed over by a drunk driver.
I agree with that. And with you having said that, I am completely astonished that you then go on and say this...
But both of these actions will eliminate you from the gene pool, and hence are both natural selection in action.
Being run over by a drunk driver is obviously NOT an example of natural selection. Intelligent person A being killed by stupid or careless person B is not an example of natural selection. The intelligent person A dies while the stupid or careless person (who should have died) may live in THAT situation. That is an absurd example. Not every incident which eliminates someone from the gene pool is going to be an action of natural selection.
Killing yourself out of depression is also not necessarily an example of natural selection. Some are. Everyone has a breaking point.
Anyone else find it fitting that this comes right after the thread about Darwin? Natural Selection sure works wonders
How is this Insightful? Depression does not only affect people of weak mind or body.
Alan Turing commited suicide. I'm sure there are many other examples of incredible people who ended their own lives.
If you're getting news from Ogrish, I'm thinking you don't have much room to criticize when it comes to "caring".
I gather evidence from Ogrish BECAUSE I care.
Actually, they call it "reverse racism" or "reverse discrimination."
Thank you, that's what I meant.
And it's anti-racists who argue that racism can only be practiced by a socio-economically dominate racial group against a poor/underprivileged/lower-class racial group. So by definition blacks anywhere can't be racist because in America whites are dominant and in the world western nations are dominant.
I don't dispute that this might be the case. But it seems like a ridiculous way to think. It's as if disliking someone due to their race is okay if you have a good reason to dislike them (they are dominant and racist towards you). But really it is still wrong because if you dislike people who are dominant or racist towards you, then you could hardly be blamed. But disliking those same people BECAUSE of their race is racism itself and wrong. Dislike people for real reasons, not because of the colour of their skin or where they are from.
As far as I am concerned, racism is a hatred or judgmental feeling towards someone based on nothing but racial matters. As far as I am concerned you can be a racist regardless of your own race or social standing.
BTW, I realise you were not necessarily putting your own stance in that post.
This is hate-filled, vitriolic flamebait, pure and simple.
Considering I wrote it, I can tell you with absolute authority that it was not "hate-filled". I don't hate Christians. I do reject faith and merely wish to put forth why I think it is so ridiculous that various groups of people are willing to kill each other (the real) in the name of some things which cannot be shown to be real and are really out there.
They are caused by people like you who are unable to see another point of view of the world, regardless of what that view may be.
On the contrary, I was FORCED through Catholic teachings for more than 10 years as a child. I got one of those points of view rammed down my throat by Nuns who were known for their brutality (I copped my fair share) and Priests and Brothers who are known for their soddomy of little boys (thankfully I missed out on that one, but came close). My post is merely to point out how crazy it is that people put all this emphasis on what is written in some old books, when a lot of what is written in those old books is pretty much incredible fairytale esque stuff that cannot be backed up in the real World and flies in the face of real science.
Sorry but I think for myself and reject faith.
Discrimination is not a unilateral phenomenon. It's perpetuated on all sides.
Very true. And I HATE it with a passion, when people call what you described with that phone call "anti racism". Racism is racism.
Why should I have to waste my time visiting a place if the landlord will pick someone else anyway?
Exactly. The law tries to protect people from people, but ultimately laws can't change the way some people think about others. Those people will always find ways around the law.
In Australian Government jobs, positions are advertised as required by law, however often a person who already works in that department has already been chosen for the job. Because they must advertise and go through the whole interview and culling process, all these people waste their time, effort and money getting ready for and attending a bogus interview. These are GOVERNMENT workplaces getting around laws made by the GOVERNMENT.
The "individual" element will always be there. Whether you collect bins, are a politician or work for a spy agency. At the end of the day, some laws are going to just be useless. They'd only cover for the legal system which must seem to be dealing with these issues.
Also, I don't want to live in a house full of people who dislike me or my ways.
My God. Those forums are truely disturbing. I can't beleive people chat about that stuff.
I have a pretty thick skin to the point of getting my news from time to time from Ogrish. But those posts are terrible. They're speaking about living feeling people as if they're worthless objects to use and then discard.
I think I care for my cat more than any of those people care for themselves.
You don't seriously believe that nonsense do you?
But it is written in THE book!!
Plus those other two books, but those books don't count because they are RIDICULOUS and WRONG!!!
Now if you will excuse me, I am off to EAT THE FLESH OF GOD AND DRINK HIS BLOOD.
One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.
Oh for God's sake please don't use that ridiculous line. A person who intentionally kills children to punish thier enemy or blow up random innocent civilians is NOT A FREEDOM FIGHTER. They are murderers.
I say this as someone who has been strongly against the war from the start.
And yes, there are people I would consider terrorists on both sides. Taking away freedom (of life, of safety, from fear) from some other random people is NOT a legitimate way to fight for freedom.
a dipole antenna isn't directional
Dipole antennas are directional to some extent. But mobile phones usually just use vertical antennas which are omnidirectional.
I know of one prototype Motorola phone which did use a dipole antenna setup of two verticals spaced on either side of the phone. The phone would constantly alter the phase relationship between the two antennas to rotate the radiation pattern to maintain the best gain.
The test engineer using the phone got cancer on the side of his head, which was publicised and Motorola never brought that feature to market. At least not that I am aware of.
BTW, I firmly believe that the non-ionizing radiation from mobile phones does NOT cause cancer. I'm not trying to suggest that the engineer got cancer from the phone. The public was certainly spooked though by that story when it was sensationalized by the media.
AMD's rival technology, code-named Pacifica
I thought Pacifica was a complimentary technology for virtualization like VMware?
Well "+1 Funny" aside, I seem to remember reading that IPv6 could assign an IP to every atom in the universe.
I heard that IPv6 would provide for enough addresses for every square inch of our planet. Just a teensy bit less than every atom in the universe, but regardless... nmap that you 1337 h@xx0r$!