Bullshit. It appends the DNS servers to point the user to phishing and porn sites and runs a cron job to make sure the changes are modified. Does it then email everyone in your address book and infect every other machine on your network? No. It can't even install itself without the Admin password. It's a social hack.
In a world where the Microsoft hegemony determines the OS on your sub 800 dollar PC and the vasy majority have no choice but to accept the Windows tax (absolutely none of the desk jockeys sitting at any major company have a choice when the Mouse Clicking Solutions Experts continue buy nothing but Windows), I can't imagine anything more useless than touting Window's "sales". They have an illegal monopoly which they continue to squeeze for cash. The ridiculous prices and 7 version shell game that MS is playing with Vista is certainly enough evidence of Microsoft's greed, arrogance and marketing stupidity.
"One wonders, too, just how well Linux would survive an economic downturn."
Yes. How could an essentially free OS possibly survive when people have less money? I imagine the idiotic price structure for Vista would become a little more apparent in such a case.
Spade lugs give you much more surface area contact, but primarily we (audio visual integration company) use them because once a speaker cabinet is 80 feet in the air, you want the connector to stay in place.
... I'm calling BS on the idea that consumers have in any way "suffered" from Apple's control over the user experience with respect to it's products. Just the lack of malware, trojans and viruses alone is worth hundreds of dollars per user per year. The consistency of the user experience is another bonus that one cannot put a price on. And let's have a quick look at the iPhone. In one product release Apple has betrayed the utter lameness and anti-consumer stance of companies that have had more than 15 years to do something forward looking in the realm of cellular phones/PDA's. And does anyone need to be reminded that Apple grew this market clout all on it's own, in an industry that is slaved to the Microsoft hegemony? Anyone who doubts that can pull up more than a dozen articles in a 10 second search that engage in such blatant lies and anti-Apple FUD it would make Bill Gates blush. The writer can't travel internationally with his iPhone? They are called roaming charges, simpleton. You pay to run on someone else's network. Absolutely everyone does it. This has nothing to do with Apple.
Apple is "trying" to charge them (third party manufacturers) a "Made for iPod" sticker tax for adding no value? First off, it isn't trying, it *is*charging, and secondly, no value? The value is that the accessory will actually work with your iPod. That's value. And again, when everybody and their goddamned dog does the same thing for thoroughly ridiculous reasons (makers of vanilla power bars that are "Windows Certified") exactly what is the complaint here? That Apple makes a bit of money making sure that third party device stick to Apple's guidelines and the products behave in a consistent fashion? How fucking evil of Apple.
Seriously now. People that pointed out where Microsoft's market dominance would lead were for decades derided as haters and sour grapes types. Now that Apple has committed the crime of surviving into this Millennium and is again producing innovative cutting edge products and services that people actually go out of their way to buy, Apple is in the wrong and is somehow worse than Microsoft? Please. Shove all this whining up your ass.
So many things in the tech world that should die (PS2, MBR) and we perennially have articles about a law that never was "dying". Cutting edge journalism, all right.
I use it on a 64 bit Athlon which used to run XP. Absolutely everything is bogged down by the kludge that is Vista. It's very sad. No amount of service packs will change the fact that Vista is a resource pig. XP got progressively slower with every service pack. Why does anyone think things will get better with any work on Vista, especially when it's becoming more and more obvious that Vista is broken by design?
"Yawn" is right. No history lesson changes the pain and suffering inflicted on end users by Microsoft Windows security practices. It certainly doesn't recover the billions of dollars in lost IT time have evaporated due to same.
So it is Apple's position that no one will change the patent system, or are you just adding your own sentiment to an already incorrect version of Apple's statement?
You've never seen any coverage of Microsoft, have you? It's like Bill Gates' own personal cult! They way they fawn over every single soon-to-be-irrelevant failure in his keynote addresses is beyond pathetic... it's downright scary.
Stick it, Sunshine. When you have an actual in-the-wild virus/malware/trojan running on Mac OS X to report, you make all the hyperbolic statements you want.
When all you have is a software change for a possible vulnerability that hasn't been exploited, you should just sit down and shut up.
That is why OS X... tends to be at least a bit more secure than Windows.
No *nix of ANY stripe is as riddled with crappy programming and security errors as Windows. Period. DOS attack bots and spam bots owes their entire existence to Microsoft and it's terminally stupid system design and nearly non-existent security. This isn't some sliding scale where Mac OS X, Linux and UNIX are marginally better than Windows. When it comes to security issues such as viruses, trojans and worms, for all intents and purposes they do not exist on any platform but Windows.
Post articles about all the proof of concept descriptions and known security issues with *nix all you want. It will not change the fact that malware and viruses are simply a non-issue for any platform but Microsoft Windows running Internet Explorer and Outlook.
eMusic is a website. You subscribe to it and pay a monthly fee for a certain number of downloads. Then you download the songs to your iTunes and sync them. The AT&T deal has users pay prices many times higher to get the utility of downloading songs directly to your phone
What, exactly, is the story here? That Boo Hoo, I have to continue to pay the much lower cost of 7$US for 40 songs and sync it to my iPhone using iTunes?
Now who is going to be hit with the "cost of cool"?
My two Zire's had integrated batteries and I wouldn't demand that change for all the replacement batteries in the world.
Having seen more than 80 or more phones come and go thru our company in the last 8 years just cements the fact that this whining about integrated batteires is just that: whining. Every cell phone that didn't have the battery cover break (construction sites are hard on phones) rarely if ever outlasted it's battery. Batteries were replaced all right, but more often than not that did nothing to fix the intermittent operation that many of the cell phones displayed after 2 years of daily use.
And please stick your pointless blither about "the cost of cool" where the sun doesn't shine.
If Apple could guarantee forced adoption of it's OS across tens of thousands of users buying new computers, these number might mean something. If Vista had to be *sold*, rather than packaged with new PCs in no-choice agreements, the uptake would mean something.
Since more than hundreds of thousands of PC users with absolutely no choice in the matter will eventually have to use Vista, the market share argument is absolutely meaningless.
If I don't believe a word of this. But we'll see. At least they claim they are going to demonstrate the hack, rather than lie about it, thumb their nose at the company, fake some "death threats" publicity and then disappear off the radar.
Is that supposed to be witty? Dell and Hewlett Packard combined have littered the landscape with more metric tons of disposable PCs than Apple can ever hope to match with iPods and iPhones, and Apples products last longer than their counterparts.
But don't let the facts get in the way of your lame attempts at humor.
And millions of Americans have admitted publicly that they believe Jesus will come out of the clouds to destoy civilisation and kill everyone who disagrees with their particuliar religious viewpoint.
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Clueless Idiots. Didn't we just have a thread debunking most of these claims?
In a world where the Microsoft hegemony determines the OS on your sub 800 dollar PC and the vasy majority have no choice but to accept the Windows tax (absolutely none of the desk jockeys sitting at any major company have a choice when the Mouse Clicking Solutions Experts continue buy nothing but Windows), I can't imagine anything more useless than touting Window's "sales". They have an illegal monopoly which they continue to squeeze for cash. The ridiculous prices and 7 version shell game that MS is playing with Vista is certainly enough evidence of Microsoft's greed, arrogance and marketing stupidity.
"One wonders, too, just how well Linux would survive an economic downturn." Yes. How could an essentially free OS possibly survive when people have less money? I imagine the idiotic price structure for Vista would become a little more apparent in such a case.
I know they are a litigious bunch of asshats, but lately it's like some put crazy in the water.
Spade lugs give you much more surface area contact, but primarily we (audio visual integration company) use them because once a speaker cabinet is 80 feet in the air, you want the connector to stay in place.
Apple is "trying" to charge them (third party manufacturers) a "Made for iPod" sticker tax for adding no value? First off, it isn't trying, it *is*charging, and secondly, no value? The value is that the accessory will actually work with your iPod. That's value. And again, when everybody and their goddamned dog does the same thing for thoroughly ridiculous reasons (makers of vanilla power bars that are "Windows Certified") exactly what is the complaint here? That Apple makes a bit of money making sure that third party device stick to Apple's guidelines and the products behave in a consistent fashion? How fucking evil of Apple.
Seriously now. People that pointed out where Microsoft's market dominance would lead were for decades derided as haters and sour grapes types. Now that Apple has committed the crime of surviving into this Millennium and is again producing innovative cutting edge products and services that people actually go out of their way to buy, Apple is in the wrong and is somehow worse than Microsoft? Please. Shove all this whining up your ass.
So many things in the tech world that should die (PS2, MBR) and we perennially have articles about a law that never was "dying". Cutting edge journalism, all right.
something seriously wrong with Vista
I use it on a 64 bit Athlon which used to run XP. Absolutely everything is bogged down by the kludge that is Vista. It's very sad. No amount of service packs will change the fact that Vista is a resource pig. XP got progressively slower with every service pack. Why does anyone think things will get better with any work on Vista, especially when it's becoming more and more obvious that Vista is broken by design?
Just another in a long list of security sites that seem incapable of describing who is affected and what should be done about it.
"Yawn" is right. No history lesson changes the pain and suffering inflicted on end users by Microsoft Windows security practices. It certainly doesn't recover the billions of dollars in lost IT time have evaporated due to same.
So it is Apple's position that no one will change the patent system, or are you just adding your own sentiment to an already incorrect version of Apple's statement?
You've never seen any coverage of Microsoft, have you? It's like Bill Gates' own personal cult! They way they fawn over every single soon-to-be-irrelevant failure in his keynote addresses is beyond pathetic... it's downright scary.
When all you have is a software change for a possible vulnerability that hasn't been exploited, you should just sit down and shut up.
No *nix of ANY stripe is as riddled with crappy programming and security errors as Windows. Period. DOS attack bots and spam bots owes their entire existence to Microsoft and it's terminally stupid system design and nearly non-existent security. This isn't some sliding scale where Mac OS X, Linux and UNIX are marginally better than Windows. When it comes to security issues such as viruses, trojans and worms, for all intents and purposes they do not exist on any platform but Windows.
Post articles about all the proof of concept descriptions and known security issues with *nix all you want. It will not change the fact that malware and viruses are simply a non-issue for any platform but Microsoft Windows running Internet Explorer and Outlook.
Can you hear my eyes rolling?
What, exactly, is the story here? That Boo Hoo, I have to continue to pay the much lower cost of 7$US for 40 songs and sync it to my iPhone using iTunes?
Now who is going to be hit with the "cost of cool"?
Having seen more than 80 or more phones come and go thru our company in the last 8 years just cements the fact that this whining about integrated batteires is just that: whining. Every cell phone that didn't have the battery cover break (construction sites are hard on phones) rarely if ever outlasted it's battery. Batteries were replaced all right, but more often than not that did nothing to fix the intermittent operation that many of the cell phones displayed after 2 years of daily use.
And please stick your pointless blither about "the cost of cool" where the sun doesn't shine.
Since more than hundreds of thousands of PC users with absolutely no choice in the matter will eventually have to use Vista, the market share argument is absolutely meaningless.
If I don't believe a word of this. But we'll see. At least they claim they are going to demonstrate the hack, rather than lie about it, thumb their nose at the company, fake some "death threats" publicity and then disappear off the radar.
Because I find it amusing that they can write these articles and not give any useful information as to what systems are affected buy such a program.
But then I guess most of us already know the answer.
Yes, you could bother to read the article, or just continue to be an ignorant ass. Guess which option you chose?
But don't let the facts get in the way of your lame attempts at humor.
...but somebody please take these industry fuckers outside and shoot them in the streets.
Where is your evidence ?