Please show me the interpreted byte code langauge/runtime that has never had a buffer overflow exploit.
I promise you that I can count one one finger higher than you can show me systems without a buffer overflow exploit.
The fact that your saying what you're saying tells me you really have no understanding of how exploits happen at all, let alone any reason you should be talking about secure code.
This is the second retarded WhiteHat story posted in the last hour and a half, how much are they paying you guys and how do I sign up? I have at least 2/3rds of a clue and I'm willing to pay for slashvertisements, that puts me well above any offer they could possibly make short of owning you outright.
Every day, my firewall emails me a list of port scans against it, sorted by IP address.
To put it bluntly, you need a life. I don't have time to spend reading firewall logs daily. When my firewall emails me, its because something abnormal actually happened, it doesn't tell me about normal everyday traffic, which portscans are at this point, ESPECIALLY on things like DSL and Cable. If you actually spent more time understanding the way the internet works and what you should be looking for on your firewall then you'd know this. Probably don't have time cause you spend it reading useless logs from crap done by script kiddies the world over.
the ISPs hosting those machines don't provide any meaningful or automated way to report them, there is no way to contact the owner of those machines, so they just keep on spewing and infecting the rest of the system.
abuse@domainname.com
If they don't have that email address you need to block their entire domain for many reasons. If they do not respond properly, you block their entire domain. Many of us do this, its really not hard and is an easy process for us geeks. For home users its a little more difficult, it generally requires you to call your ISP and complain and hope they are competent... which for the big ones isn't a problem. You might have an issue with some smaller ISPs but thats just the way the world works.
This is one of those rare cases where "there ought to be a law" is a reasonable response
Sure... there should be a law that says you get your way and the entire rest of the world has to submit to your wishes. Thats just a retarded statement.
I agree there are a bunch of bad hosts out there, but 'a law' isn't going to fix the problem... unless you manage to unify the entire world under one government and everyone just starts working together like you are best friends.
(NB: "repeatedly submitting false abuse reports" is itself abuse, and should also result in the source of the false reports being shut down).
Do you live in an alternate reality? Thats exactly what happens already. Are you sure we're talking about the same Internet cause you don't seem to understand how it works.
And you sir, don't understand that the executable bit can be worked around... pretty much instantly, with a basic shell script... which itself doesn't have or need the executable bit.
Good job for thinking you have a clue, but I'll run any binary on your system in a heartbeat that I have a +r on regardless of its +x status.
let me give you a simple starting point, just past e this into your shell prompt as is...
echo #!/bin/sh > test.sh echo echo Hello, I'm an idiot who really doesn't understand file permissions >> test.sh/bin/sh test.sh
Yes, it depends on being able to start the process off by assuming/bin/sh is executable which it may not be, but there are hundreds of other binaries to use in place as well as a ton of other ways to get the shell to do things for you.
Please stop talking about security like you have a clue because you run Linux in mommies basement, you don't.
Jeremiah Grossman, CTO of WhiteHat Security, said Thursday that many organizations, particularly in the financial services industry, have gotten to the point of assuming that their customers' desktops are compromised.
As the CTO of a company named 'WhiteHat Security' you are, and I'm being mild here, completely unqualified for your job if you're just now learning to make that assumption. You do not belong in any group, conversation, publication, organization or even organizational unit that involves security. You are ignorant of the most basic premises of security.
Now... to put it bluntly, you fucking suck at your job.
Anyone with half a clue assumes the client is compromised and has for as long as I can remember.
Steam: DRM done right - non intrusive, value added (auto patching, friends lists/voice/matchmaking etc., forget about juggling masses of CDs and cases), cheaper than boxed retail.
I can have all of those things without the DRM and a better experience too boot.
I can and do buy games online with auto patching, friends lists and no need to juggle CDs and I do it without any DRM, once you throw in the fact that the DRM-less version will likely be available on piratebay before I can buy it from steam you really have no actual advantage to Steam. Its nothing more than a Walmart to me, and when they add stupid restrictions I don't like I'll simply go to kmart, or piss me off enough and I'll just buy it out of my friends trunk instead so I don't have to deal with your bullshit DRM.
If you want to sell a used game then OK you are SOTL but thats the bargain you are making.
Bargin? What fucking bargin are you talking about? Most games cost the exact same in download only form as they do in box, and then I'm stuck relying on steam to allow me to play it rather than just putting the disk in and playing it whenever I want. There is no bargin in steam, you actually get less across the board for the same price.
No, you let her know up front. Save yourself a lot of trouble. Anyone who gets upset because her keys are deemed secondary is someone who isn't well adjusted and someone you should probably save yourself the trouble and just avoid.
I realize most of slashdot has a hard time with women, but keeping around disfunctional broken women doesn't help you, her or either of you get better dealing with normal people.
Don't keep her around if she's that nutty that she can't differentiate from practical and emotional.
Why do you assume intelligent? There is no indication that the original poster is all that intelligent and It was posted by timothy... If anything I'd say all indications here are that the intelligence level involved is far lower than an average person, let alone what could be considered intelligent.
Yea, I'm not really seeing the difficult part here.
3 door locks? You lock your outer door and your inner door twice? You and your girlfriend? Move someplace that you don't feel so damn scared that you have to lock 3 locks.
Roof key? Seriously? You can't figure out to take that one off the chain? You go on the roof 5 or 6 times a day requiring you to unlock it but not leave it unlocked while working there? Swiss army knife on your keychain? Seriously, just buy a couple leatherman and leave one at home, one in your car and one in your office, your covered far better than with a dinky little swiss army knife. PO box key should be left in your car or at home, theres no reason to carry it with you all the time. Leave the bike key in the bike lock when not in use and take out when you lock it. Key stays where its needed and you don't carry it around pointlessly.
My keychain contains 2 office keys (we're in a shared building so front door and our office doors), my house door key and my car key. Everything else is on a keyring at the office or at home. The day I'm afraid to leave my home locked with only one lock is the day my house goes on the market. The office keys are on a second ring which is easy to ditch when I don't need it.
The number of keys on your keyring is inversely proportional to your importance, or more specifically how important you think you are. People who tend to feel less important also feel the need to carry more keys to feel more important. My guess is no amount of sane suggestions will solve this guys problem as well as a therapist would.
The fact that this was asked means someone needs to turn in their geek card. Not just the submitter, but timothy too... oh, nevermind, he never had one. If you can't manage your keyring... how the fuck do you manage the rest of your life? What kind of mess does that turn into?
Its also entirely possible that people have begun to realize that netbooks are just annoying.
Too small for long term use, too large for stuffing in your pocket or a small purse, battery life no better than my MBP for the same tasks and utterly incapable of doing the same things. Not useful as a phone.
Netbooks were a cute fad but lets face it, they aren't really useful to most people and it took people a little bit to realize it.
But surely the title should be: Fully Featured MacOS Computer Runs Game That Already Runs on MacOS Computers
Too bad thats not whats happening. The iPad is only displaying and taking input, the game runs elsewhere. That is why this story exists. Its roughly like playing the game via RDP or VNC. Do you think that RDP or VNC some how magically transport the code and data for the application to your local machine to run it?
No, wait, I have a better one: Expensive Fully Featured MacOS Computer Runs Game That Already Runs on Any Cheap-Ass Commodity Windows Computer
While that is true, it has no relation to this story at all. the iPad isn't a fully featured Mac computer. Its an iPad, it is a cut down tablet style PC with input methods that are pretty much nothing like a cheap ass commodity windows computer or a fully featured Mac...
A little verbose, but I think accuracy is important in journalism.
If you think accuracy is important than why are you so completely out of touch with the story and its facts? You essentially got every single thing wrong in your post and you want to talk about accuracy? Next time before you start talking about accuracy you should probably get at least one of the facts of the story straight. Its really a good idea to actually HAVE A CLUE before you start telling others they don't.
Really? Modded insightful? So not only are you a moron, but at the time of writing this, at least four other idiots followed right along with you.
This is a perfect example of why slashdot needs a -1 WRONG modifier.
Getting the right font is important to someone like a design firm where clients will know their image is 'perfect' when they see it.
To you, myself and most of the rest of the world, there are too many other aesthetic issues that we've got wrong for the 'perfect font' to matter.
There has been testing, though I'm too lazy to find a reference, to show that taking a design that most people find pleasing and simply changing fonts to something else resulted in an obviously bad response to the change.
The font matters when the design IS the content, otherwise not so much.
If people start using actual text with a downloadable font rather than images they've made containing the text in the proper font then you can simply tell your browser not to download any fonts.
Now instead of downloading 500k of images, you have the option of downloading 1k of text, and 1m of font file (that can be cached).
I think the second option is better for the majority of current network topologies. It gives the client more options.
Too bad someone had to agree to the terms before buying it. Apple requires that you're presented with all the terms of service about the device before the purchase can be made. You have to 'sign' (digitally or otherwise) that you agree to the terms before they take your money.
If you don't know what you're getting into when you buy an iPad or iPhone you entirely deserve to be told to fuck off for being a moron that signed without reading.
The current person in possession of the device may not have agreed to those terms, but someone did.
I love America, I really do... but god... we can make complete asses of ourselves sometimes... I mean on a whole new level...
The porn industry is saying: HEY! We want to make it REALLY easy for you to classify us so we don't bother you. We're giving you an instant 'adults only' part of the URL so you don't have to even think twice about it! We'll make it easy for you to avoid us and then we won't have to deal with your complaints and you won't have to deal with our sites! Everyone wins! We'll just stay over here in our corner and not bother anyone who doesn't come looking for us specifically!
America says: No, we're rather make it hard to block you from our children who will be emotionally scared for life if they see tits and ass.
Porn Industry: Emotionally scared? WTF, the first thing most babies see is their moms asshole, the second thing his her tits for breakfast...
America: Thats different...
Porn Industry:...
America: You're in contempt of court!
Porn Industry: Oh fuck off, we'll just keep doing what we do and you idiots can continue to deal with it in an incredibly retarded way while we keep making a fortune off of you because you have some sort of retarded cultural thing that makes sex dirty and somehow different than every other normal type of social interaction.
My question to my country:
WHEN THE FUCK ARE WE GOING TO STOP TREATING SEX AS SPECIAL?
Its just sex for fucks sake. Everyone does it and our species has relied on it for longer than our species has actually existed! (Chick and the egg) Stop treating it as different. Stop teaching women to be so emotionally tied to their vaginas, its nothing more than a convenient hole for fucks sake. Stop treating the penis as though its the key to a mans life, it can be replaced with a $15 battery powered chunk of silicon that is more effective for every purpose except urination. (Vibrator for sexual pleasure, turkey baster to transfering sperm).
Stop freaking make sex so taboo. Stop with this 'sex crimes' crap, thats as dumb as 'hate crimes'. STOP TREATING SEX AS SOMETHING TABOO AND IT WILL STOP BEING TABOO.
I've had HW accelerated video for... 5... 6 years... I donno, whenever I started writing that particular app.
There were NEW APIs introduced recently to make it so even the Geico cavemen could figure out how to do it, but anyone who hasn't been capable of playing h264 video in a hardware accelerated window in the last 5 years should not be called a developer. Hell, there are freaking xcode examples on Apples website dated 4 years ago.
Like I said... been playing hardware accelerated video on my mac for years in my own apps.
You seriously need to learn the difference between 'Open', 'Free', and GPL zealots definition of 'free' in this context before you start making comments like that.
The rest of the world outside of GPL fanboys have an entirely different definition of open and free that h264 fits into nicely.
If you guys want to continue to play with the rest of the world, you might want to stop trying to invent your own definitions of words to suit your agenda, it just causes everyone else in the world to realize you sprew more bullshit than truth.
If Apple allows cross compilers, guess what? People won't be 'loyal' to Apple and will migrate to Android, BB or WM7 devices because their apps are on those platforms as well.
Wrong.
BlackBerry and WinMo simply aren't competition for the iPhone. They may think they are... a few people may write about them as if they are, but anyone who has physically touched both devices knows better. The only people that actually think the BB or WM7 devices are competition has never actually touched both devices.
The iPhone was a land slide hit BEFORE the AppStore existed. If the AppStore lockin is what made the iPhone popular then I'm in awe of how Steve managed to get millions of the devices sold and make it a world wide sensation... BEFORE he even announced the part that people wanted.
People don't by an iPhone because of the AppStore. They by the iPhone because its a good, usable, user friendly device that has the features they want.
Then theres Android. There are three types of people that buy android devices.
1) The geek. The true geek loves his/her Android phone. Unfortunately there are only 8 true geeks that own Android phones and they all work at Google. These people love their Android phones.
2) The wanna be geek. This is the person who really isn't a geek, but is a Linux/OSS/GPL fanboy/fanatic. They own a Android phone because it suits their current angsty battlecry and current method of 'sticking it to the man'. These people don't like Android but they'll never admit it. They want you to think they love it because they want you to love it to, and by proxy, love their precious Linux. This portion consitutions almost ALL of the android phone owners in existence.
3) The normal person who thinks Android might not suck. This group is really hard to estimate size for. Unfortunately, this group owns an Android device for some length of time less than that allowed to return it. This group of people will buy an Android device, realize that it has nothing special to offer and to put it bluntly, it isn't an iPhone. At this point, they Android device gets returned and they go buy an iPhone. The only exception to this are those people locked in contracts with Verizon and T-Mobile, they continue to suffer at this point due to the missing iPhone on their respective networks and their unwillingness to move to a new provider for various other reasons (such as AT&Ts shitty service coverage).
In case you haven't really noticed, Cell phones, even smart phones were a commodity 5 years ago, probably closer to 10 at this point. People aren't buying iPhones because of the AppStore. They are buying iPhones because they break the mold of shitty devices and now everyone else in the world is trying to copy it. Your argument is that by allowing flash it would allow people to use other phones... but... they can already use flash on other phones now... So your argument becomes 'only the iphone has good games and they aren't in flash so I can't run them on other phones'... in which case maybe... just maybe... its time you realize why the iPhone has the great games and no one else does, if you haven't figured it out yet, skip back to the top of my post and start reading again.
Adobe still treats Apple like a second class citizen.
The Flash Player is ass on a good day.
None of the Adobe products other than Flash Player will install on a Mac with a case sensitive partition.
Adobe took freaking FOR EVER to update their Apps to the new API (Cocoa, and I'm not sure its actually done in CS5 or not, I'll never know since it requires a case insensitive filesystem!)
In short, even if Apple was doing nothing more than trying to hurt Adobe, I'd still be on Apple's side. Adobe has been more of a pain in the ass to me in the last 5 years than MS ever was.
Yea, its too bad that Safari with SVG support is capable of doing almost everything flash is already sans a few sound issues (that have probably been fixed already)
Its easy enough to get around the problem without Flash.
Just for reference however... Netflix has done most of those things already actually.
I suspect GameFly has too, on their scale if they haven't done most of these things then they aren't really trying that hard anyway.
Considering the GameFly and Netflix mailers are considerably different, one has to wonder if netflix hasn't simply been down this road and fixed the problem. I realize GameFly's mailers look and feel stronger and safer... but that in and of itself may be the problem. Netflix mailers are larger and more flexible, is there a reason?
Sounds like USPS is being an ass, but on the scale we're talking here these questions are trivial amounts of work. Some stated 'it could take hundreds of man hours' to figure out new locations for distro centers... first off, 2 or 3 hundred man hours for gamefly or the USPS isn't even noticable, second, they should have already done this anyway more or less as proper business practice preparing to move forward and expand.
I live in Raleign, NC...
My GameFly games come from Tampa Fl generally.
All my Netflix movies come from a miles down the road at the 'nearest distribution center' which happens to be here. That most certainly has a massive effect on how many netflix disks I'm going to have with issues compared to gamefly.
Mind you, I've never had a problem with either one.
USPS, you didn't have to be such an ass, a simple "Ok we'll give you the same treatment as Netflix and Blockbuster" would have been the right thing to do. --
If you know anything about the USPS you'll know that 99.9% of the work is done by machines. It would take them a rather large amount of effort to actually treat GameFly different than Netflix. It would literally cost them more to treat them worse.
They do get treated the same, the automated sorters and routers aren't trained to 'break' GameFly disks when they see them, or shuffle them off to the 'stolen' bin.
Another typical overreaction by slashdotters who haven't spent any time thinking about the issue and just assume the story is actually true.
You do realize that publishing of books, television, and movies has already been like this for years.
You realize that you aren't actually allowed to distribute most documents you create because you don't have a distribution license for the fonts you used (this is true even for most of the stock windows, office or mac fonts).
But it happens every day.
You realize that a printer has to own (in most font licenses anyway) a special 'license' in order to reprint documents you make with fonts you're legally allowed to use. Basically you can buy a font and use it to create a document, but the printer has to also by that font and pay royalties (in some, not all cases) for each copy they print.
Reusing media in television almost always requires paying per viewer for the media used from something else unless they can squeeze fair use out of it.
Just because you haven't seen it before doesn't mean this stuff is new or that anyone actually cares about the 'letter of the law'.
Just because someone writes something in a contract doesn't mean its actually legal, there are exceptions and courts regularly deal with issues like this where its clearly bullshit.
Its really great that they claim that and all... but there are court cases showing that they can't charge you extra for content you create with their software, regardless of what they say.
As an example... its like MS saying that they get to charge you for each copy of a document created in word that you print. They simply don't get to tell you what to do with the content you create. Its yours, not theirs.
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Please show me the interpreted byte code langauge/runtime that has never had a buffer overflow exploit.
I promise you that I can count one one finger higher than you can show me systems without a buffer overflow exploit.
The fact that your saying what you're saying tells me you really have no understanding of how exploits happen at all, let alone any reason you should be talking about secure code.
Seriously ... spamvertise/slashvertise much?
This is the second retarded WhiteHat story posted in the last hour and a half, how much are they paying you guys and how do I sign up? I have at least 2/3rds of a clue and I'm willing to pay for slashvertisements, that puts me well above any offer they could possibly make short of owning you outright.
To put it bluntly, you need a life. I don't have time to spend reading firewall logs daily. When my firewall emails me, its because something abnormal actually happened, it doesn't tell me about normal everyday traffic, which portscans are at this point, ESPECIALLY on things like DSL and Cable. If you actually spent more time understanding the way the internet works and what you should be looking for on your firewall then you'd know this. Probably don't have time cause you spend it reading useless logs from crap done by script kiddies the world over.
abuse@domainname.com
If they don't have that email address you need to block their entire domain for many reasons. If they do not respond properly, you block their entire domain. Many of us do this, its really not hard and is an easy process for us geeks. For home users its a little more difficult, it generally requires you to call your ISP and complain and hope they are competent ... which for the big ones isn't a problem. You might have an issue with some smaller ISPs but thats just the way the world works.
Sure ... there should be a law that says you get your way and the entire rest of the world has to submit to your wishes. Thats just a retarded statement.
I agree there are a bunch of bad hosts out there, but 'a law' isn't going to fix the problem ... unless you manage to unify the entire world under one government and everyone just starts working together like you are best friends.
Do you live in an alternate reality? Thats exactly what happens already. Are you sure we're talking about the same Internet cause you don't seem to understand how it works.
ugh, nice mangling slashdot ... it didn't look screwed up when I previewed it ...
echo #!/bin/sh > test.sh
echo echo Hello, I'm an idiot who really doesn't understand file permissions >> test.sh
And you sir, don't understand that the executable bit can be worked around ... pretty much instantly, with a basic shell script ... which itself doesn't have or need the executable bit.
Good job for thinking you have a clue, but I'll run any binary on your system in a heartbeat that I have a +r on regardless of its +x status.
let me give you a simple starting point, just past e this into your shell prompt as is ...
As the CTO of a company named 'WhiteHat Security' you are, and I'm being mild here, completely unqualified for your job if you're just now learning to make that assumption. You do not belong in any group, conversation, publication, organization or even organizational unit that involves security. You are ignorant of the most basic premises of security.
Now ... to put it bluntly, you fucking suck at your job.
Anyone with half a clue assumes the client is compromised and has for as long as I can remember.
I can have all of those things without the DRM and a better experience too boot.
I can and do buy games online with auto patching, friends lists and no need to juggle CDs and I do it without any DRM, once you throw in the fact that the DRM-less version will likely be available on piratebay before I can buy it from steam you really have no actual advantage to Steam. Its nothing more than a Walmart to me, and when they add stupid restrictions I don't like I'll simply go to kmart, or piss me off enough and I'll just buy it out of my friends trunk instead so I don't have to deal with your bullshit DRM.
Bargin? What fucking bargin are you talking about? Most games cost the exact same in download only form as they do in box, and then I'm stuck relying on steam to allow me to play it rather than just putting the disk in and playing it whenever I want. There is no bargin in steam, you actually get less across the board for the same price.
No, you let her know up front. Save yourself a lot of trouble. Anyone who gets upset because her keys are deemed secondary is someone who isn't well adjusted and someone you should probably save yourself the trouble and just avoid.
I realize most of slashdot has a hard time with women, but keeping around disfunctional broken women doesn't help you, her or either of you get better dealing with normal people.
Don't keep her around if she's that nutty that she can't differentiate from practical and emotional.
And no, her moving in isn't the solution either.
Why do you assume intelligent? There is no indication that the original poster is all that intelligent and It was posted by timothy ... If anything I'd say all indications here are that the intelligence level involved is far lower than an average person, let alone what could be considered intelligent.
Yea, I'm not really seeing the difficult part here.
3 door locks? You lock your outer door and your inner door twice? You and your girlfriend? Move someplace that you don't feel so damn scared that you have to lock 3 locks.
Roof key? Seriously? You can't figure out to take that one off the chain? You go on the roof 5 or 6 times a day requiring you to unlock it but not leave it unlocked while working there? Swiss army knife on your keychain? Seriously, just buy a couple leatherman and leave one at home, one in your car and one in your office, your covered far better than with a dinky little swiss army knife. PO box key should be left in your car or at home, theres no reason to carry it with you all the time. Leave the bike key in the bike lock when not in use and take out when you lock it. Key stays where its needed and you don't carry it around pointlessly.
My keychain contains 2 office keys (we're in a shared building so front door and our office doors), my house door key and my car key. Everything else is on a keyring at the office or at home. The day I'm afraid to leave my home locked with only one lock is the day my house goes on the market. The office keys are on a second ring which is easy to ditch when I don't need it.
The number of keys on your keyring is inversely proportional to your importance, or more specifically how important you think you are. People who tend to feel less important also feel the need to carry more keys to feel more important. My guess is no amount of sane suggestions will solve this guys problem as well as a therapist would.
The fact that this was asked means someone needs to turn in their geek card. Not just the submitter, but timothy too ... oh, nevermind, he never had one. If you can't manage your keyring ... how the fuck do you manage the rest of your life? What kind of mess does that turn into?
Its also entirely possible that people have begun to realize that netbooks are just annoying.
Too small for long term use, too large for stuffing in your pocket or a small purse, battery life no better than my MBP for the same tasks and utterly incapable of doing the same things. Not useful as a phone.
Netbooks were a cute fad but lets face it, they aren't really useful to most people and it took people a little bit to realize it.
Too bad thats not whats happening. The iPad is only displaying and taking input, the game runs elsewhere. That is why this story exists. Its roughly like playing the game via RDP or VNC. Do you think that RDP or VNC some how magically transport the code and data for the application to your local machine to run it?
While that is true, it has no relation to this story at all. the iPad isn't a fully featured Mac computer. Its an iPad, it is a cut down tablet style PC with input methods that are pretty much nothing like a cheap ass commodity windows computer or a fully featured Mac ...
If you think accuracy is important than why are you so completely out of touch with the story and its facts? You essentially got every single thing wrong in your post and you want to talk about accuracy? Next time before you start talking about accuracy you should probably get at least one of the facts of the story straight. Its really a good idea to actually HAVE A CLUE before you start telling others they don't.
Really? Modded insightful? So not only are you a moron, but at the time of writing this, at least four other idiots followed right along with you.
This is a perfect example of why slashdot needs a -1 WRONG modifier.
Getting the right font is important to someone like a design firm where clients will know their image is 'perfect' when they see it.
To you, myself and most of the rest of the world, there are too many other aesthetic issues that we've got wrong for the 'perfect font' to matter.
There has been testing, though I'm too lazy to find a reference, to show that taking a design that most people find pleasing and simply changing fonts to something else resulted in an obviously bad response to the change.
The font matters when the design IS the content, otherwise not so much.
This will help you.
If people start using actual text with a downloadable font rather than images they've made containing the text in the proper font then you can simply tell your browser not to download any fonts.
Now instead of downloading 500k of images, you have the option of downloading 1k of text, and 1m of font file (that can be cached).
I think the second option is better for the majority of current network topologies. It gives the client more options.
Why? The sim card is certainly lower on the hardness scale than most random bones in meat that the knife is likely to come in contact with.
Too bad someone had to agree to the terms before buying it. Apple requires that you're presented with all the terms of service about the device before the purchase can be made. You have to 'sign' (digitally or otherwise) that you agree to the terms before they take your money.
If you don't know what you're getting into when you buy an iPad or iPhone you entirely deserve to be told to fuck off for being a moron that signed without reading.
The current person in possession of the device may not have agreed to those terms, but someone did.
I love America, I really do ... but god ... we can make complete asses of ourselves sometimes ... I mean on a whole new level ...
The porn industry is saying:
HEY! We want to make it REALLY easy for you to classify us so we don't bother you. We're giving you an instant 'adults only' part of the URL so you don't have to even think twice about it! We'll make it easy for you to avoid us and then we won't have to deal with your complaints and you won't have to deal with our sites! Everyone wins! We'll just stay over here in our corner and not bother anyone who doesn't come looking for us specifically!
America says:
No, we're rather make it hard to block you from our children who will be emotionally scared for life if they see tits and ass.
Porn Industry: ...
Emotionally scared? WTF, the first thing most babies see is their moms asshole, the second thing his her tits for breakfast
America: ...
Thats different
Porn Industry: ...
America:
You're in contempt of court!
Porn Industry:
Oh fuck off, we'll just keep doing what we do and you idiots can continue to deal with it in an incredibly retarded way while we keep making a fortune off of you because you have some sort of retarded cultural thing that makes sex dirty and somehow different than every other normal type of social interaction.
My question to my country:
WHEN THE FUCK ARE WE GOING TO STOP TREATING SEX AS SPECIAL?
Its just sex for fucks sake. Everyone does it and our species has relied on it for longer than our species has actually existed! (Chick and the egg) Stop treating it as different. Stop teaching women to be so emotionally tied to their vaginas, its nothing more than a convenient hole for fucks sake. Stop treating the penis as though its the key to a mans life, it can be replaced with a $15 battery powered chunk of silicon that is more effective for every purpose except urination. (Vibrator for sexual pleasure, turkey baster to transfering sperm).
Stop freaking make sex so taboo. Stop with this 'sex crimes' crap, thats as dumb as 'hate crimes'. STOP TREATING SEX AS SOMETHING TABOO AND IT WILL STOP BEING TABOO.
Steve didn't mention it because its bullshit.
I've had HW accelerated video for ... 5 ... 6 years ... I donno, whenever I started writing that particular app.
There were NEW APIs introduced recently to make it so even the Geico cavemen could figure out how to do it, but anyone who hasn't been capable of playing h264 video in a hardware accelerated window in the last 5 years should not be called a developer. Hell, there are freaking xcode examples on Apples website dated 4 years ago.
Like I said ... been playing hardware accelerated video on my mac for years in my own apps.
You seriously need to learn the difference between 'Open', 'Free', and GPL zealots definition of 'free' in this context before you start making comments like that.
The rest of the world outside of GPL fanboys have an entirely different definition of open and free that h264 fits into nicely.
If you guys want to continue to play with the rest of the world, you might want to stop trying to invent your own definitions of words to suit your agenda, it just causes everyone else in the world to realize you sprew more bullshit than truth.
Wrong.
BlackBerry and WinMo simply aren't competition for the iPhone. They may think they are ... a few people may write about them as if they are, but anyone who has physically touched both devices knows better. The only people that actually think the BB or WM7 devices are competition has never actually touched both devices.
The iPhone was a land slide hit BEFORE the AppStore existed. If the AppStore lockin is what made the iPhone popular then I'm in awe of how Steve managed to get millions of the devices sold and make it a world wide sensation ... BEFORE he even announced the part that people wanted.
People don't by an iPhone because of the AppStore. They by the iPhone because its a good, usable, user friendly device that has the features they want.
Then theres Android. There are three types of people that buy android devices.
1) The geek. The true geek loves his/her Android phone. Unfortunately there are only 8 true geeks that own Android phones and they all work at Google. These people love their Android phones.
2) The wanna be geek. This is the person who really isn't a geek, but is a Linux/OSS/GPL fanboy/fanatic. They own a Android phone because it suits their current angsty battlecry and current method of 'sticking it to the man'. These people don't like Android but they'll never admit it. They want you to think they love it because they want you to love it to, and by proxy, love their precious Linux. This portion consitutions almost ALL of the android phone owners in existence.
3) The normal person who thinks Android might not suck. This group is really hard to estimate size for. Unfortunately, this group owns an Android device for some length of time less than that allowed to return it. This group of people will buy an Android device, realize that it has nothing special to offer and to put it bluntly, it isn't an iPhone. At this point, they Android device gets returned and they go buy an iPhone. The only exception to this are those people locked in contracts with Verizon and T-Mobile, they continue to suffer at this point due to the missing iPhone on their respective networks and their unwillingness to move to a new provider for various other reasons (such as AT&Ts shitty service coverage).
In case you haven't really noticed, Cell phones, even smart phones were a commodity 5 years ago, probably closer to 10 at this point. People aren't buying iPhones because of the AppStore. They are buying iPhones because they break the mold of shitty devices and now everyone else in the world is trying to copy it. Your argument is that by allowing flash it would allow people to use other phones ... but ... they can already use flash on other phones now ... So your argument becomes 'only the iphone has good games and they aren't in flash so I can't run them on other phones' ... in which case maybe ... just maybe ... its time you realize why the iPhone has the great games and no one else does, if you haven't figured it out yet, skip back to the top of my post and start reading again.
Adobe still treats Apple like a second class citizen.
The Flash Player is ass on a good day.
None of the Adobe products other than Flash Player will install on a Mac with a case sensitive partition.
Adobe took freaking FOR EVER to update their Apps to the new API (Cocoa, and I'm not sure its actually done in CS5 or not, I'll never know since it requires a case insensitive filesystem!)
In short, even if Apple was doing nothing more than trying to hurt Adobe, I'd still be on Apple's side. Adobe has been more of a pain in the ass to me in the last 5 years than MS ever was.
Yea, its too bad that Safari with SVG support is capable of doing almost everything flash is already sans a few sound issues (that have probably been fixed already)
Its easy enough to get around the problem without Flash.
Just for reference however ... Netflix has done most of those things already actually.
I suspect GameFly has too, on their scale if they haven't done most of these things then they aren't really trying that hard anyway.
Considering the GameFly and Netflix mailers are considerably different, one has to wonder if netflix hasn't simply been down this road and fixed the problem. I realize GameFly's mailers look and feel stronger and safer ... but that in and of itself may be the problem. Netflix mailers are larger and more flexible, is there a reason?
Sounds like USPS is being an ass, but on the scale we're talking here these questions are trivial amounts of work. Some stated 'it could take hundreds of man hours' to figure out new locations for distro centers ... first off, 2 or 3 hundred man hours for gamefly or the USPS isn't even noticable, second, they should have already done this anyway more or less as proper business practice preparing to move forward and expand.
I live in Raleign, NC ...
My GameFly games come from Tampa Fl generally.
All my Netflix movies come from a miles down the road at the 'nearest distribution center' which happens to be here. That most certainly has a massive effect on how many netflix disks I'm going to have with issues compared to gamefly.
Mind you, I've never had a problem with either one.
If you know anything about the USPS you'll know that 99.9% of the work is done by machines. It would take them a rather large amount of effort to actually treat GameFly different than Netflix. It would literally cost them more to treat them worse.
They do get treated the same, the automated sorters and routers aren't trained to 'break' GameFly disks when they see them, or shuffle them off to the 'stolen' bin.
Another typical overreaction by slashdotters who haven't spent any time thinking about the issue and just assume the story is actually true.
You do realize that publishing of books, television, and movies has already been like this for years.
You realize that you aren't actually allowed to distribute most documents you create because you don't have a distribution license for the fonts you used (this is true even for most of the stock windows, office or mac fonts).
But it happens every day.
You realize that a printer has to own (in most font licenses anyway) a special 'license' in order to reprint documents you make with fonts you're legally allowed to use. Basically you can buy a font and use it to create a document, but the printer has to also by that font and pay royalties (in some, not all cases) for each copy they print.
Reusing media in television almost always requires paying per viewer for the media used from something else unless they can squeeze fair use out of it.
Just because you haven't seen it before doesn't mean this stuff is new or that anyone actually cares about the 'letter of the law'.
Just because someone writes something in a contract doesn't mean its actually legal, there are exceptions and courts regularly deal with issues like this where its clearly bullshit.
Its really great that they claim that and all ... but there are court cases showing that they can't charge you extra for content you create with their software, regardless of what they say.
As an example ... its like MS saying that they get to charge you for each copy of a document created in word that you print. They simply don't get to tell you what to do with the content you create. Its yours, not theirs.