"DNS Flaw"? Can we shoot for a bit more accuracy here on Slashdot, since we're all technical enough to understand the details? It's a flaw that affects BIND. And BIND != DNS. I shouldn't have to point that out...
You are mistaken. Go to tinydns.org and read -- it's covered on the main page. Hint: "djbdns supports all possible resource record types with a generic syntax."
TSA hand screens my checked luggage in front of me when I check in. They then seal it up with the "Passed TSA Security" sticker while I stand there. Theoretically it then goes straight to the airline and bypasses the other checked luggage that has to be screened by some unknown down below.
And right there I think you've hit upon a potential solution. All decisions on whether or not to open a piece of luggage should occur at the moment the luggage leaves the hand of the customer and enters the custody of the airline.
Consider for a moment that something like a third of the "GDP" is made up. For example, counting rent that would be paid if a homeowner was not living in their house but renting it out instead. That's weasel math IMO. I don't trust the "GDP" the gov't comes up with anymore. Along with the CPI and "hedonics", it's all a bunch of BS that tries to snow the citizens into thinking our problems aren't as serious as they really are. Some day the voters might realize that our gov't accounting style is Enron-style, and things could get momentarily interesting. I hope.
Take note that I've got a manual transmission in a '97 Subaru Outback. My verification that the injectors shut off is simply "seat of the pants"... there's a bit of a surge when they kick back in at low RPM's.
This is common on a lot of cars. I drive a 2006 Impreza STI and I can absolutely confirm that the injectors are off if you are engine braking. It's the only time EGT drops all the way to zero, even at idle EGT is still around 700*. My 2003 Mustang Cobra did exactly the same thing with the stock tune, verified in a similar way. I'm pretty sure most cars do this -- at least the manual transmission ones. If you leave the injectors firing at all when engine breaking, it causes popping & gurgling afterfires that sound like an old pickup truck.
If not for the error, there would not be probable cause to stop and search the guy. Therefore, it never happened, and by extension, nothing found was really found. Maintaining our moral standards are far more important than convicting one man. The ends most certainly do not justify the means.
IIRC the important difference is that when a series hybrid like the Volt has sufficient battery power, it is 100% electric. Doesn't a Prius have to use the gas engine for freeway speeds regardless of battery charge?
Electric w/range extender is perfectly valid terminology IMO, since plenty of people will see 100% electric usage. With a plug-in parallel hybrid like the Prius, what driving parameters have to be met to keep it electric only?
1. Take vote electronically. 2. Assign a randomly generated UUID. 3. Print UUID+vote on internal paper tape for backup. 4. Print UUID+vote on paper receipt for voter to keep. 5. Post UUID+vote on a public web site anyone can view.
Now, anybody can see the tally, do the math themselves, etc. And everyone who cares can look at their own UUID and see if the public tally is accurate.
This used to be the case, but not anymore. In the world of (legal) digital music distribution, Apple has nowadays at least as much marketshare and influence, as MS ever had for desktop OSs.
I disagree. Apple has about 80% of the market, which is substantial, but nowhere near monopoly status. Example: I own two Macs, an iPod, and an iPhone, and I buy every single song from Amazon MP3, not through iTunes.
And whereas MS steadily loses its market share every day, Apple keeps gaining more and more, with hardly any end in sight.
Again, I disagree. I used to buy music on iTunes, and then go through the hassle to strip the DRM. When Amazon started offering MP3s, I switched immediately. I don't believe I'm alone.
The bottom line is that Apple blocks what it percieves to hurt its business in an uncompetitive way. Music competitors to Apple is as Firefox/VLC is to MS. If we wouldn't tolerate MS blocking Firefox on Windows, we shouldn't tolerate Apple blocking a competitor to iTunes on iPhone/Pod.
I still take issue with comparing phones to PCs. And I'm absolutely positive that Apple holds a minority stake in the phone market. There are several good alternatives (just listen to all the "iPhone sucks, use such-and-such-it-is-a-better-product" comments that crop up every time iPhone gets mentioned). Apple's anti-competitive behavior is perfectly acceptable because the market has the ability to respond. It's only when there are no alternatives that we have to regulate business activities.
I can't speak for other markets, but here in Portland at least one station recently ran a prime time demonstration. They said "Right now we are going to turn off the analog transmitter for 60 seconds. You will know if you are affected if your picture goes away."
That's pretty smart IMO, and they should start doing that more often, perhaps every evening as we get closer to the switch, maybe even several times a day.
Young people don't vote. If the adult voting population was largely in favor of decriminalizing weed, it would happen. What you are saying is that as those young people matured into adults, their attitudes changed.
I completely disagree with the rest of your comment, but I agree with this part:
"If they want more money, they should charge more."
I agree, Apple should charge $500 for a copy of Leopard, but offer an instanct $375 loyalty rebate for anyone who owns a Mac.
"Apple sets their price with the assumption that buyers will be using the product on Apple hardware. If that assumption gets broken, that's Apple's problem for making it, not the buyer's fault for breaking it."
Except we're not talking about the buyer, we're talking about Pystar. Such a difficult concept to understand apparently.
"I have never met a single iPhone user who has had extensive use of a smart phone. Most iPhone users probably couldn't even come up with a somewhat accurate definition of a smart phone."
You have a deliberately narrow experience, you implicitly insult everyone who would buy an iPhone, and yet Slashdot readers think you're insightful.
"If a Mac is so superior that it is worth the money involved than people will not buy the clones and they will go under due to the alleged high standards of Apple."
This is exactly what will happen. I own a number of real Apple Macs, but I also own a fancy quad-core 8GB Hackintosh. I can attest that even the most modern Hacktintosh creation (like mine, running an unmolested retail copy of Leopard) is most definitely not as seamless an experience as a real Mac is. I'm not going to get rid of the Hackintosh, but I can say with some authority that the experience is sufficiently inferior to owning a real Mac that I wouldn't put up with it if I didn't enjoy tinkering with PC's.
Explain what is wrong with that argument? MacOS is part of the Mac as surely as the OS in a car like a Prius. It just so happens that Apple has made upgrades to that OS available to end users, where Toyota tightly controls distribution of their software so only the dealer can install it. Apple *could* do this, but making everyone bring in their Mac for an OS upgrade would be painful.
You just think there is something special about computer OS because generic distribution is the model employed by Windows and Linux. That's their choice, just as it's Apple's choice to market the Mac as more of an appliance rather than a generic white box PC.
"OSX is secure cause nobody attacks it. As soon as more people run it you will see its shortcommings."
Fanboys keep saying that. Apple's market share continues to increase -- they are *well* past the point where they have enough market share to be an inviting target for criminals.
Neither OSX nor Linux are perfect, but both have a dramatically better security track record than Windows. It's only recently that Windows has gotten any sort of security in place, and it's at the cost of much pain for the user.
"What would you think if you pulled into a gas station and the attendant said "I'm sorry, we can't put gas into cars like yours." They aren't saying the gas won't work, it is just their choice to sell it only to certain car owners."
I would think that making car analogies never seems to work on Slashdot. Could it be that most geeks don't really understand cars?
Last time I checked, Macs take the same electricity (read: gasoline) that PC's do. If you must have a car analogy, here goes...
This is like Ford creating a car that looks suspiciously like a Prius, and then pirating the software that runs the Prius and using it for their own car. Looks like a Prius, now it runs just like a Prius too! And look how much Ford just saved on development costs!
Over and over and over and over and over, people make this argument. It's bunk.
"However, if I build a completely original box in my garage which can run OSX, and I sell and support it, why should Apple be allowed to shut me down?"
Hello? You are not Pystar. You are not a company trying to make a quick buck by stealing another company's work.
When Apple goes after an individual for building a Mac clone, let me know.
That's exactly the same behavior a friend of mine has with his 3G phone. Not an iPhone. So perhaps it's just that 3G service is flaky, or AT&T sucks, or whatever.
I still jailbreak mine, even though the big reason was ssh. The remaining reasons that keep me doing it:
1. Customizing the interface (i.e. personalizing the graphics & such). 2. SSH daemon on the phone itself, something Apple will never allow on App Store. 3. 'Cause I can
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"DNS Flaw"? Can we shoot for a bit more accuracy here on Slashdot, since we're all technical enough to understand the details? It's a flaw that affects BIND. And BIND != DNS. I shouldn't have to point that out...
You are mistaken. Go to tinydns.org and read -- it's covered on the main page. Hint: "djbdns supports all possible resource record types with a generic syntax."
You might be waiting a while. Gmail is *still* "beta".
Archival grade DVDs are not terribly expensive and should last a lot longer than regular DVDs, and they claim a lot longer than 20 years as well.
TSA hand screens my checked luggage in front of me when I check in. They then seal it up with the "Passed TSA Security" sticker while I stand there. Theoretically it then goes straight to the airline and bypasses the other checked luggage that has to be screened by some unknown down below.
And right there I think you've hit upon a potential solution. All decisions on whether or not to open a piece of luggage should occur at the moment the luggage leaves the hand of the customer and enters the custody of the airline.
Consider for a moment that something like a third of the "GDP" is made up. For example, counting rent that would be paid if a homeowner was not living in their house but renting it out instead. That's weasel math IMO. I don't trust the "GDP" the gov't comes up with anymore. Along with the CPI and "hedonics", it's all a bunch of BS that tries to snow the citizens into thinking our problems aren't as serious as they really are. Some day the voters might realize that our gov't accounting style is Enron-style, and things could get momentarily interesting. I hope.
Take note that I've got a manual transmission in a '97 Subaru Outback. My verification that the injectors shut off is simply "seat of the pants"... there's a bit of a surge when they kick back in at low RPM's.
This is common on a lot of cars. I drive a 2006 Impreza STI and I can absolutely confirm that the injectors are off if you are engine braking. It's the only time EGT drops all the way to zero, even at idle EGT is still around 700*. My 2003 Mustang Cobra did exactly the same thing with the stock tune, verified in a similar way. I'm pretty sure most cars do this -- at least the manual transmission ones. If you leave the injectors firing at all when engine breaking, it causes popping & gurgling afterfires that sound like an old pickup truck.
If not for the error, there would not be probable cause to stop and search the guy. Therefore, it never happened, and by extension, nothing found was really found. Maintaining our moral standards are far more important than convicting one man. The ends most certainly do not justify the means.
IIRC the important difference is that when a series hybrid like the Volt has sufficient battery power, it is 100% electric. Doesn't a Prius have to use the gas engine for freeway speeds regardless of battery charge?
Electric w/range extender is perfectly valid terminology IMO, since plenty of people will see 100% electric usage. With a plug-in parallel hybrid like the Prius, what driving parameters have to be met to keep it electric only?
1. Take vote electronically.
2. Assign a randomly generated UUID.
3. Print UUID+vote on internal paper tape for backup.
4. Print UUID+vote on paper receipt for voter to keep.
5. Post UUID+vote on a public web site anyone can view.
Now, anybody can see the tally, do the math themselves, etc. And everyone who cares can look at their own UUID and see if the public tally is accurate.
This used to be the case, but not anymore. In the world of (legal) digital music distribution, Apple has nowadays at least as much marketshare and influence, as MS ever had for desktop OSs.
I disagree. Apple has about 80% of the market, which is substantial, but nowhere near monopoly status. Example: I own two Macs, an iPod, and an iPhone, and I buy every single song from Amazon MP3, not through iTunes.
And whereas MS steadily loses its market share every day, Apple keeps gaining more and more, with hardly any end in sight.
Again, I disagree. I used to buy music on iTunes, and then go through the hassle to strip the DRM. When Amazon started offering MP3s, I switched immediately. I don't believe I'm alone.
The bottom line is that Apple blocks what it percieves to hurt its business in an uncompetitive way. Music competitors to Apple is as Firefox/VLC is to MS. If we wouldn't tolerate MS blocking Firefox on Windows, we shouldn't tolerate Apple blocking a competitor to iTunes on iPhone/Pod.
I still take issue with comparing phones to PCs. And I'm absolutely positive that Apple holds a minority stake in the phone market. There are several good alternatives (just listen to all the "iPhone sucks, use such-and-such-it-is-a-better-product" comments that crop up every time iPhone gets mentioned). Apple's anti-competitive behavior is perfectly acceptable because the market has the ability to respond. It's only when there are no alternatives that we have to regulate business activities.
You overlook something critical. Apple does not have a monopoly. Rules are different for monopolies, pure and simple.
You're also comparing a phone to an operating system, which is a stretch. I can install Firefox and VNC on OSX any time I want.
I can't speak for other markets, but here in Portland at least one station recently ran a prime time demonstration. They said "Right now we are going to turn off the analog transmitter for 60 seconds. You will know if you are affected if your picture goes away."
That's pretty smart IMO, and they should start doing that more often, perhaps every evening as we get closer to the switch, maybe even several times a day.
Indeed not. That was my first reaction as well.
You sure about that?
I went and got a cert from startssl.com for my site to replace the self-signed cert I was using in the past.
Firefox 3 says...
"The certificate is not trusted because the issuer certificate is unknown.
(Error code: sec_error_unknown_issuer)"
This is better than a self signed certificate how?
Young people don't vote. If the adult voting population was largely in favor of decriminalizing weed, it would happen. What you are saying is that as those young people matured into adults, their attitudes changed.
I completely disagree with the rest of your comment, but I agree with this part:
"If they want more money, they should charge more."
I agree, Apple should charge $500 for a copy of Leopard, but offer an instanct $375 loyalty rebate for anyone who owns a Mac.
"Apple sets their price with the assumption that buyers will be using the product on Apple hardware. If that assumption gets broken, that's Apple's problem for making it, not the buyer's fault for breaking it."
Except we're not talking about the buyer, we're talking about Pystar. Such a difficult concept to understand apparently.
"I have never met a single iPhone user who has had extensive use of a smart phone. Most iPhone users probably couldn't even come up with a somewhat accurate definition of a smart phone."
You have a deliberately narrow experience, you implicitly insult everyone who would buy an iPhone, and yet Slashdot readers think you're insightful.
"If a Mac is so superior that it is worth the money involved than people will not buy the clones and they will go under due to the alleged high standards of Apple."
This is exactly what will happen. I own a number of real Apple Macs, but I also own a fancy quad-core 8GB Hackintosh. I can attest that even the most modern Hacktintosh creation (like mine, running an unmolested retail copy of Leopard) is most definitely not as seamless an experience as a real Mac is. I'm not going to get rid of the Hackintosh, but I can say with some authority that the experience is sufficiently inferior to owning a real Mac that I wouldn't put up with it if I didn't enjoy tinkering with PC's.
Explain what is wrong with that argument? MacOS is part of the Mac as surely as the OS in a car like a Prius. It just so happens that Apple has made upgrades to that OS available to end users, where Toyota tightly controls distribution of their software so only the dealer can install it. Apple *could* do this, but making everyone bring in their Mac for an OS upgrade would be painful.
You just think there is something special about computer OS because generic distribution is the model employed by Windows and Linux. That's their choice, just as it's Apple's choice to market the Mac as more of an appliance rather than a generic white box PC.
Insightful?
"OSX is secure cause nobody attacks it. As soon as more people run it you will see its shortcommings."
Fanboys keep saying that. Apple's market share continues to increase -- they are *well* past the point where they have enough market share to be an inviting target for criminals.
Neither OSX nor Linux are perfect, but both have a dramatically better security track record than Windows. It's only recently that Windows has gotten any sort of security in place, and it's at the cost of much pain for the user.
"What would you think if you pulled into a gas station and the attendant said "I'm sorry, we can't put gas into cars like yours." They aren't saying the gas won't work, it is just their choice to sell it only to certain car owners."
I would think that making car analogies never seems to work on Slashdot. Could it be that most geeks don't really understand cars?
Last time I checked, Macs take the same electricity (read: gasoline) that PC's do. If you must have a car analogy, here goes...
This is like Ford creating a car that looks suspiciously like a Prius, and then pirating the software that runs the Prius and using it for their own car. Looks like a Prius, now it runs just like a Prius too! And look how much Ford just saved on development costs!
Over and over and over and over and over, people make this argument. It's bunk.
"However, if I build a completely original box in my garage which can run OSX, and I sell and support it, why should Apple be allowed to shut me down?"
Hello? You are not Pystar. You are not a company trying to make a quick buck by stealing another company's work.
When Apple goes after an individual for building a Mac clone, let me know.
That's exactly the same behavior a friend of mine has with his 3G phone. Not an iPhone. So perhaps it's just that 3G service is flaky, or AT&T sucks, or whatever.
Here you can review the discussion from the first review of this book:
http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/28/1330215
I still jailbreak mine, even though the big reason was ssh. The remaining reasons that keep me doing it:
1. Customizing the interface (i.e. personalizing the graphics & such).
2. SSH daemon on the phone itself, something Apple will never allow on App Store.
3. 'Cause I can