But even on OS X there are shed-loads of apps that come with installers that demand an admin password so that they can be installed into/Applications.
I find this a worrying security hole because without poking around in the package (something I'm not really adept enough to do) there is no way to know that the reason it is asking for the password is really to pop itself into/Applications, rather than doing something more sinister.
That's actually a very good point. Logically you should be right. I must admit I ripped the factoid about tooth discolouration from the CDC's page here. It's not particularly clear on the point.
No. The natural coating of the teeth is enamel, which is largely composed of the minerals hydroxyapatite and carbonated hydroxyapatite. Fluoride ions in water or toothpaste can displace the hydrogen ions in the enamel forming fluorapatite which is more acid resistant.
When I was a kid, I was actually subjected to sitting in a dentists chair for 15 minutes while a mould with a concentrated fluoride gel where held against my teeth.
It looks like this company is using exactly the same type of gel and mould, but adding an electrical current to try and speed up the hydrogen replacement. I've no idea if this would work or not, but it gets my snake-oil detectors twitching just a bit.
In terms of discolouration, I believe the advice is that children under 5 should limit exposure to fluoride toothpaste (just use a bit) to avoid white spots on their teeth, apart from that, there aren't any problems.
No, the post to which you are replying is right; your original post is a truly horrible "summary" and that post is no better.
He doesn't say he "is the best at doing it" - he says he has put a lot of time and effort in.
He doesn't say that "Free software is bad because he can't make money" - he says that he is not in the business of offering free software and the lack of sales is dissuading him further development work.
Hope that helps. It isn't that hard to comprehend.
The very fact that you suggest that 'billions' of years of data is the order of magnitude makes your point suspect.
Ice core samples give us pretty detailed view of the atmospheric trends over the last 200,000. The most astonishing thing is the speed at which atmospheric carbon dioxide has changed over the last 200 or so using direct observation.
You may wish to look into the subject a bit more before jumping to conclusions about people jumping to conclusions.
At some point, it really doesn't matter what the actual biological causes are... we have to act as though people are actually capable of controlling their actions.
Even if they can't right? Let's just stick our head in the sands and pretend, OK?
Society already provides more lenient punishment for those it judges insane or having impaired judgement. Presumably you would like that repealed.
You're right. It doesn't mean that you can jump to conclusions about the cause. Luckily,... or unluckily as the case may be, the climatologists who have decided that human activity is a prime cause of the current warming trend didn't just leap to this conclusion.
It seems most likely to me that the suggestion is that the virus is effecting behaviour. There are quite a few disease organisms that effect the host behaviour in some way, usually as a way of completing the life cycle.
The pop case at the moment is toxoplasmosis, which makes infected mice less scared of cats (in the pathogen's primary host). It is also alleged that humans with the infection are less risk averse and more likely, for example, to drive recklessly.
Another parasite infects small snails, causing them to climb to the top of pieces of grass where they can easily be eaten by cows (guess what the primary host is).
So, is it possible that an infection could cause the part of the brain responsible for appetite to go off wack? I guess so. And going off into the realms of sci-fi you could posit a hypothetical pathogen than 'discovered' that big, fat humans were more likely to be eaten by carnivore predators.
I would guess that this is still only the minority cause of obesity though.
This news would be a lot more interesting if I knew the size of the errata list for the G4 or the G5. I think it unlikely that there are zero unfixed bugs.
I want devices that can be controlled at a distance and that don't require me always around to control the damn thing.
Ah yes, I can see how that would be useful for televisions. Ahem.
Talk about the eco-nuts missing the point, its not about making this a harsher world. I suspect the eco-nuts believe that the world is going to get really very harsh quite quickly if people aren't willing to take remedial steps such as... oh I don't know - standing up to turn on the TV.
Really, the only way you are going to stop this problem is by switching off everything at the wall.
I suspect actually that what is being angled for here is either UK or European legislation that would prohibit equipment from having a standby button, and mandates hard on/off switches. Personally, I am sufficiently concerned by global warming to support such a move though I'm a a pretty big offender when it comes to leaving the TV on standby.
Precisely; I was thinking that the really shocking way to have spun this story would have been: "Credit card offers are written in such complex English that they are unintelligible to 75% of college students".
Some of the worst security I have seen is with computers that only have dial-up.
Why? It take the users much much much too much time to download the security patches the need. Grabbing something like XP SP 2 is going to take goodness knows how many hours.
DRM is not a single monolithic entity in my opinion. There are many ways of implementing DRM schemes stupidly, but that doesn't mean that non-stupid DRM systems can't be devise. You say 'DRM is a failed concept that actually hinders consumer' yet, no-one seems to be particularly hindered by the DRM in iTunes, and it thwarts pirates sufficiently to make the publishers comfortable.
It seems to me that your job covers two fundamentally different uses of the word 'security'. There is the security in the sense of keeping a user's machine free of malware, but you are also charged enforcing digital content controls and ensuring that a user does not have the ability to use digital content on their machine in a way that the content provider has not sanctioned.
Day to day, which aspect of the job keeps you busiest and how do you balance the demands of the two aspects? Do you see any mutual conflicts between the two parts of the role in a world where digital rights management software and malware are sometimes hard to distinguish, from the end user's point of view.
There is an ongoing debate about whether the relatively large number of Windows security issues and exploits is related to intrinsic security weaknesses, compared with other operating systems, or the attraction that its massive has on malware authors.
Where do you stand on this? Is the Windows family intrinsically more prone to security breaches, or are other operating system users simply protected by their favoured system's niche status?
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Of course, they could just switch to AMD
But even on OS X there are shed-loads of apps that come with installers that demand an admin password so that they can be installed into /Applications.
/Applications, rather than doing something more sinister.
I find this a worrying security hole because without poking around in the package (something I'm not really adept enough to do) there is no way to know that the reason it is asking for the password is really to pop itself into
That's actually a very good point. Logically you should be right. I must admit I ripped the factoid about tooth discolouration from the CDC's page here. It's not particularly clear on the point.
No. The natural coating of the teeth is enamel, which is largely composed of the minerals hydroxyapatite and carbonated hydroxyapatite. Fluoride ions in water or toothpaste can displace the hydrogen ions in the enamel forming fluorapatite which is more acid resistant.
When I was a kid, I was actually subjected to sitting in a dentists chair for 15 minutes while a mould with a concentrated fluoride gel where held against my teeth.
It looks like this company is using exactly the same type of gel and mould, but adding an electrical current to try and speed up the hydrogen replacement. I've no idea if this would work or not, but it gets my snake-oil detectors twitching just a bit.
In terms of discolouration, I believe the advice is that children under 5 should limit exposure to fluoride toothpaste (just use a bit) to avoid white spots on their teeth, apart from that, there aren't any problems.
No, the post to which you are replying is right; your original post is a truly horrible "summary" and that post is no better.
He doesn't say he "is the best at doing it" - he says he has put a lot of time and effort in.
He doesn't say that "Free software is bad because he can't make money" - he says that he is not in the business of offering free software and the lack of sales is dissuading him further development work.
Hope that helps. It isn't that hard to comprehend.
Apple's Safari renders it just fine.
The very fact that you suggest that 'billions' of years of data is the order of magnitude makes your point suspect.
Ice core samples give us pretty detailed view of the atmospheric trends over the last 200,000. The most astonishing thing is the speed at which atmospheric carbon dioxide has changed over the last 200 or so using direct observation.
You may wish to look into the subject a bit more before jumping to conclusions about people jumping to conclusions.
A nice attempt at over-simplification.
You say:
At some point, it really doesn't matter what the actual biological causes are... we have to act as though people are actually capable of controlling their actions.
Even if they can't right? Let's just stick our head in the sands and pretend, OK?
Society already provides more lenient punishment for those it judges insane or having impaired judgement. Presumably you would like that repealed.
You're right. It doesn't mean that you can jump to conclusions about the cause. Luckily,... or unluckily as the case may be, the climatologists who have decided that human activity is a prime cause of the current warming trend didn't just leap to this conclusion.
It seems most likely to me that the suggestion is that the virus is effecting behaviour. There are quite a few disease organisms that effect the host behaviour in some way, usually as a way of completing the life cycle.
The pop case at the moment is toxoplasmosis, which makes infected mice less scared of cats (in the pathogen's primary host). It is also alleged that humans with the infection are less risk averse and more likely, for example, to drive recklessly.
Another parasite infects small snails, causing them to climb to the top of pieces of grass where they can easily be eaten by cows (guess what the primary host is).
So, is it possible that an infection could cause the part of the brain responsible for appetite to go off wack? I guess so. And going off into the realms of sci-fi you could posit a hypothetical pathogen than 'discovered' that big, fat humans were more likely to be eaten by carnivore predators.
I would guess that this is still only the minority cause of obesity though.
Thanks for pushing that quote up above the 2 point mod threshold.
Twerp.
No, I haven't seen it yet.
Thank you, very informative. And worth noting that all of the 24 G5 errata are marked as 'no fix planned'.
This news would be a lot more interesting if I knew the size of the errata list for the G4 or the G5. I think it unlikely that there are zero unfixed bugs.
Anyone? Bueller?
Seconded. I've googled and it appears to be a new dungeon/area. But a pretty poor article summary.
I want devices that can be controlled at a distance and that don't require me always around to control the damn thing.
Ah yes, I can see how that would be useful for televisions. Ahem.
Talk about the eco-nuts missing the point, its not about making this a harsher world. I suspect the eco-nuts believe that the world is going to get really very harsh quite quickly if people aren't willing to take remedial steps such as... oh I don't know - standing up to turn on the TV.
its.... about people being smarter.
Yes, yes it is.
Really, the only way you are going to stop this problem is by switching off everything at the wall.
I suspect actually that what is being angled for here is either UK or European legislation that would prohibit equipment from having a standby button, and mandates hard on/off switches. Personally, I am sufficiently concerned by global warming to support such a move though I'm a a pretty big offender when it comes to leaving the TV on standby.
Precisely; I was thinking that the really shocking way to have spun this story would have been: "Credit card offers are written in such complex English that they are unintelligible to 75% of college students".
Some of the worst security I have seen is with computers that only have dial-up.
Why? It take the users much much much too much time to download the security patches the need. Grabbing something like XP SP 2 is going to take goodness knows how many hours.
So they don't bother. So they get compromised.
At the current rate of technological progress, I do not believe we will have a computer powerful enough to model the human brain until 2015 or 2020.
I think you misspelled 'amphibian'
DRM is not a single monolithic entity in my opinion. There are many ways of implementing DRM schemes stupidly, but that doesn't mean that non-stupid DRM systems can't be devise. You say 'DRM is a failed concept that actually hinders consumer' yet, no-one seems to be particularly hindered by the DRM in iTunes, and it thwarts pirates sufficiently to make the publishers comfortable.
It seems to me that your job covers two fundamentally different uses of the word 'security'. There is the security in the sense of keeping a user's machine free of malware, but you are also charged enforcing digital content controls and ensuring that a user does not have the ability to use digital content on their machine in a way that the content provider has not sanctioned.
Day to day, which aspect of the job keeps you busiest and how do you balance the demands of the two aspects? Do you see any mutual conflicts between the two parts of the role in a world where digital rights management software and malware are sometimes hard to distinguish, from the end user's point of view.
There is an ongoing debate about whether the relatively large number of Windows security issues and exploits is related to intrinsic security weaknesses, compared with other operating systems, or the attraction that its massive has on malware authors.
Where do you stand on this? Is the Windows family intrinsically more prone to security breaches, or are other operating system users simply protected by their favoured system's niche status?
Virtually virus free? I worked in publishing in the early 90s using Macs and I would say about 30% of the floppies that came in had some kind of virus on them. Luckily there was the excellent freeware Disinfectant by the splendid John Nortstad - that sorted everything out until it was discontinued in 1998. Every Mac had the disinfectant init installed and the machines were religiously updated.
I took a hiatus from personal Mac use until the advent of OS X, since then I've only seen Word macro viruses.
I don't currently have a virus checker installed, am I complacent? Maybe.
I believe that in the phonebook case it is the 'collection' of facts which is copyright, rather than each individual datum.
... "and this is my receipt, for your receipt"