I wonder how long until Norton comes up with a solution to this 66.35.250.150. I can see it now. Their firewall blocks it. I bet M$ starts that trend in their firewall first though.
"Seriously though, is it that Mac OS X isn't as widely deployed as windows and isn't used as much for servers as linux that OS X isn't targeted by viruses/worms/trojans, or is OS X simply harder to break into and not worth the time and effort?"
OS X (based and intertwined with FreeBSD) tops the list of most secure operating systems (along with the other BSDs as already reported on/.). Although the Unix examples apply to OS X as Unix is really BSD-Unix. They may not point out mac but the same rules apply.
"Nowadays a mechanic plugs a laptop into your car and the car tells him/her "the fuel pump is 10% off, should I readjust?". 15 years ago mechanics would do something closely resembling forensics to figure out which wire was fried. This is done today in seconds."
And they still charge you the same rate as when it took them hours to find the problem and fix it.
"I could have just taken that job as a mechanic straight out of High School and built my skills up to the point that I could be making good money in the automotive industry rather than spent all those years and all that money in college to get to the same point? I'm feeling a little depressed."
DOn't feel so bad. Hopefully you got to party with all the good lookin ladies in college. Plus, a desk job is so much easier on your body than being a mechanic.
" Does anyone have any benchmark comparisons (3rd party comparisons, none of this "Apple-funded / Intel-funded" stuff) I'm a bit skeptical considering I bought a Dell laptop with 1.6Ghtz about 1.5 years ago."
THe new apples are significantly faster than that in all around general use. I have a laptop for work that is that fast and a ppc laptop for my personal use and the ppc blows it away. they are both about a year old.
THe archiecture is radicaly different and remember so is the OS. OS X based on BSD is much much faster than windows. it's like running a linux vs windows comparison on a pc. linux wins. same here with the apple os x. it's just faster. on top of the fast hardware.
I have done the bang for your buck with comparisons and you get more with apple. You need to price them out as equal systems. Take a 15' powerpc and compare it to a top end speed PC laptop with dvd burner, dvd authoring software and all the other bells and whistles including bluetooth and the 54mbs wireless plus gigabit ethernet.
You have to evaluate bang for your buck. Apple wins out there.
"The prohibitive price is still a bottleneck for me though."
Go price out a PC notebook with all the bells and whistles in an apple. then compare prices. The apple will be less expensive when it comes to bang for your buck.
I have a year old powerbook and the new ones for the same deal I got have halk gigahertz speed improvement, 20 gig bigger hard drive, over twice the speed of dvd burn, faster wireless, faster firewire bluetooth and more. And it's the same price. That's quite an increase for a year. It's so cool to see yet so depressing at the same time.
What defines sexually explicit?? There are some cases where it is obvious and some where it is iffy. Isn't it like sexual harrassment and in the eye of the beholder. Or would they use a rating system like movies??
The iTrip doesn't deliver the quality that you get over the direct lines. It's like the difference between a radio station and a CD. There is a quality difference.
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A solution to this might be to block mail from mail servers with residential cable and DSL IPs. Many ISPs are already doing this.
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"perhaps legislation should be put forward to outlaw distributed (this would have to be defined further... perhaps third party or in a different physical location, obviously wouldn't want it to affect legitimate servers) mail delivery like this"
There are may legitimate companies that have distributed mail systems in may different locations. Yahoo and M$ for example. This is not only for load but redundancy. Something like this might be hard to do.
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(1 x 24) x 365 = $8760 per year.
The money is tempting. Imagine all the toys that could be bought with it.
I'll learn to hack my car so I don't have to deal with it. Even if my car gets it's own tim foil hat. But..... all those idiot, dumbass drunks out on the road at 2am will get busted and not hit me. I do feel safer.
"I can just imagine hundreds of thousands of angry drivers getting speeding tickets in the mail after the RFID sent to the DMV detected they exceeded the speed limit. I prefer to be pulled caught and pulled over the old-fashioned(TM) way thank you."
I live in Michigan. Everyone speeds. If your not speeding you have been or are getting pushed off the road and become that accident. So, pretty much everyone will get filled up on points and have to license. There goes the state. And, NO, this will not stop anyone from speeding. It will cause the a new market for tin foil caps foryour car.
"weather-related road hazards, or warning a driver that his vehicle is going too fast to safely negotiate an upcoming curve."
Who decides when a car is going to fast??? I live in Michigan and if your going the speed limit that's to slow. Would they warn you based on a spped limit or what the road is rated at. The expressways here are rated for safe speeds at 20 or 30 miles an hour faster than the speed limit. This is also different depending on the car. A jeep can topple over easier than a grand prix (for example). Who decides these things????
This isn't to much of a blow to employers. Most employees can be fired at the discretion of the employeer. If they know you are doing it then that is enough. They don't have to go through any legal system or have proof that is legally bound.
" Geeks tend to get along with their own better than warrior-king types."
There would still be wars. THey would not be between countries but between Windows, Linux, BSD and Mac overloards. Windows would be like the US. Big, bulky and some part of it is always screwed up. BSD and Mac would have a treaty and tag team the others.
"What this utility allows is someone to transfer the music they bought to a non "apple sanctioned" platform. It allows for someone to play this music on Linux, or other portable music players."
Transfering from one compressed form to another degrades the quality. To keep the quality as high as possible the best way is to burn it then rip it as something else. A little more time and the price of a cd but the quality is better.
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I am suprised, they didn't even try to be sneaky about it. I mean they could have at lest come up with sneaky names.
All though, they say any press is good press.
I wouldn't give it up for chocolate but I'd sure think about it for some p0rn or a good lap dance.
I wonder how long until Norton comes up with a solution to this 66.35.250.150. I can see it now. Their firewall blocks it. I bet M$ starts that trend in their firewall first though.
"Seriously though, is it that Mac OS X isn't as widely deployed as windows and isn't used as much for servers as linux that OS X isn't targeted by viruses/worms/trojans, or is OS X simply harder to break into and not worth the time and effort?"
/.). Although the Unix examples apply to OS X as Unix is really BSD-Unix. They may not point out mac but the same rules apply.
OS X (based and intertwined with FreeBSD) tops the list of most secure operating systems (along with the other BSDs as already reported on
A must own for every coder of longhorn.
"Nowadays a mechanic plugs a laptop into your car and the car tells him/her "the fuel pump is 10% off, should I readjust?". 15 years ago mechanics would do something closely resembling forensics to figure out which wire was fried. This is done today in seconds."
And they still charge you the same rate as when it took them hours to find the problem and fix it.
"I could have just taken that job as a mechanic straight out of High School and built my skills up to the point that I could be making good money in the automotive industry rather than spent all those years and all that money in college to get to the same point? I'm feeling a little depressed."
DOn't feel so bad. Hopefully you got to party with all the good lookin ladies in college. Plus, a desk job is so much easier on your body than being a mechanic.
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" Does anyone have any benchmark comparisons (3rd party comparisons, none of this "Apple-funded / Intel-funded" stuff) I'm a bit skeptical considering I bought a Dell laptop with 1.6Ghtz about 1.5 years ago."
THe new apples are significantly faster than that in all around general use. I have a laptop for work that is that fast and a ppc laptop for my personal use and the ppc blows it away. they are both about a year old.
THe archiecture is radicaly different and remember so is the OS. OS X based on BSD is much much faster than windows. it's like running a linux vs windows comparison on a pc. linux wins. same here with the apple os x. it's just faster. on top of the fast hardware.
I have done the bang for your buck with comparisons and you get more with apple. You need to price them out as equal systems. Take a 15' powerpc and compare it to a top end speed PC laptop with dvd burner, dvd authoring software and all the other bells and whistles including bluetooth and the 54mbs wireless plus gigabit ethernet.
You have to evaluate bang for your buck. Apple wins out there.
"The prohibitive price is still a bottleneck for me though."
Go price out a PC notebook with all the bells and whistles in an apple. then compare prices. The apple will be less expensive when it comes to bang for your buck.
I have a year old powerbook and the new ones for the same deal I got have halk gigahertz speed improvement, 20 gig bigger hard drive, over twice the speed of dvd burn, faster wireless, faster firewire bluetooth and more. And it's the same price. That's quite an increase for a year. It's so cool to see yet so depressing at the same time.
What defines sexually explicit?? There are some cases where it is obvious and some where it is iffy. Isn't it like sexual harrassment and in the eye of the beholder. Or would they use a rating system like movies??
The iTrip doesn't deliver the quality that you get over the direct lines. It's like the difference between a radio station and a CD. There is a quality difference.
A solution to this might be to block mail from mail servers with residential cable and DSL IPs. Many ISPs are already doing this.
"perhaps legislation should be put forward to outlaw distributed (this would have to be defined further... perhaps third party or in a different physical location, obviously wouldn't want it to affect legitimate servers) mail delivery like this"
There are may legitimate companies that have distributed mail systems in may different locations. Yahoo and M$ for example. This is not only for load but redundancy. Something like this might be hard to do.
(1 x 24) x 365 = $8760 per year.
The money is tempting. Imagine all the toys that could be bought with it.
Does anyone know how private this network is? Do you have to get a key from a member? Does it just use encryption? Any details on this?
"Ask yourself, though, do you feel safer?"
I'll learn to hack my car so I don't have to deal with it. Even if my car gets it's own tim foil hat. But..... all those idiot, dumbass drunks out on the road at 2am will get busted and not hit me. I do feel safer.
"I can just imagine hundreds of thousands of angry drivers getting speeding tickets in the mail after the RFID sent to the DMV detected they exceeded the speed limit. I prefer to be pulled caught and pulled over the old-fashioned(TM) way thank you."
I live in Michigan. Everyone speeds. If your not speeding you have been or are getting pushed off the road and become that accident. So, pretty much everyone will get filled up on points and have to license. There goes the state. And, NO, this will not stop anyone from speeding. It will cause the a new market for tin foil caps foryour car.
"weather-related road hazards, or warning a driver that his vehicle is going too fast to safely negotiate an upcoming curve."
Who decides when a car is going to fast??? I live in Michigan and if your going the speed limit that's to slow. Would they warn you based on a spped limit or what the road is rated at. The expressways here are rated for safe speeds at 20 or 30 miles an hour faster than the speed limit. This is also different depending on the car. A jeep can topple over easier than a grand prix (for example). Who decides these things????
This isn't to much of a blow to employers. Most employees can be fired at the discretion of the employeer. If they know you are doing it then that is enough. They don't have to go through any legal system or have proof that is legally bound.
" Geeks tend to get along with their own better than warrior-king types."
There would still be wars. THey would not be between countries but between Windows, Linux, BSD and Mac overloards. Windows would be like the US. Big, bulky and some part of it is always screwed up. BSD and Mac would have a treaty and tag team the others.
I believe I get "No Shit" moments instead of that's funny.
"What this utility allows is someone to transfer the music they bought to a non "apple sanctioned" platform. It allows for someone to play this music on Linux, or other portable music players."
Transfering from one compressed form to another degrades the quality. To keep the quality as high as possible the best way is to burn it then rip it as something else. A little more time and the price of a cd but the quality is better.