What if you used your modchip to run Linux on the console?
It's not what you do with the modchip, it's the fact that it's there, capable of circumventing copyright. While I do think that all five of the people who installed a modchip in their console solely to run Linux are morally clean, the law disagrees.
Have you read any of the FSF's material on the subject? Much of it tries pretty hard to convince you that it is wrong to release your code under a different license.
Speaking as a developer, the GPL has caused nothing but hassle for me.
"The application needs keychain access for the keystore ABC."
Unfortunately, that's the exception, not the rule. And it's not for privilege escalation, it's for access to your keychain.
The little detail dropdown arrow should open up to an elegantly indented list of what privileged actions the app intends to do. Copy a plugin into/Library/foo? Install a kernel extension? Delete all user documents?
How is it going to get that information? Code analysis? Or is there going to be a new API for doing specific privileged operations with authentication? (Which there should be, and actually is, but no developer is using it and Apple has been greatly lax about the supporting infrastructure. Silly Security Manager. Maybe in Leopard...)
You're welcome to teach my grandmother how to personally audit every line of source code for every program she ever installs.
Certificates have other uses than blob signing. If nothing else, the current infrastructure of "web" certificates would allow you to verify that the mozilla.org you're about to download and run executable code from is mozilla.org and not some leet h4xxor who owned your ISP's DNS server. They're also supposed to be able to verify that it's Amazon.com Inc. you're about to give your credit card number to and you're not really at a carefully cloaked amazonn.com but in practice that kind of protection isn't dependable.
I wish the Mozilla foundation would get a cert; AFAICT they don't have one and it freaks me out whenever I download an extension....
Disk Utility, the graphical application, is not open source. diskutil and hdiutil, the command-line programs it is a front-end for, are open source. I don't know whether the DiskImages framework (which hdiutil could be considered a front-end for) is open source, though. (my guess is "yes")
Unlike english, math is easy for a moron to teach since the answer is either exactly right, or it's wrong. There's no comprehension needed to perform at that level.
Maybe for arithmetic. Did you never learn higher math?
Honestly I think that's one of the worst things that everyone always brings up. "Resistance isn't worth $660! Motorstorm isn't worth $660! VF5 isn't worth $660!" and so on. Fact: You're not going to be buying only one game for any system. If there is only one game that appeals to you right now, and you don't deem it worth $660, then it's not a good time for you to purchase the system, I agree. But how about when there are 3 games you're interested in? How about 5 or 6? 10? Where do you draw the line. At some point you need to stop asking yourself whether one game is worth $660 and look at what you'll get from the system as a whole.
"Am I willing to pay $720 to play X and Y? What about $780 to play X, Y, and Z? $840 to play X, Y, Z, and W?"
Clearer now?
Me, I'd rather spend that $840 to be able to play over a dozen games on my Wii....Actually, I can think of much better things to spend that much money on. Like more computer hardware. You can never have enough computer hardware!
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It's not what you do with the modchip, it's the fact that it's there, capable of circumventing copyright. While I do think that all five of the people who installed a modchip in their console solely to run Linux are morally clean, the law disagrees.
-:sigma.SB
Have you read any of the FSF's material on the subject? Much of it tries pretty hard to convince you that it is wrong to release your code under a different license.
Speaking as a developer, the GPL has caused nothing but hassle for me.
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Sorry, but the OP was encoding the already-ASCII'fied version of the key. :)
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To quote Spock, "I believe that is what [he] said."
I only caught it because I read RFC 2045 the other day. (specifically, the section on Base64 encoding...)
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Unfortunately, that's the exception, not the rule. And it's not for privilege escalation, it's for access to your keychain.
How is it going to get that information? Code analysis? Or is there going to be a new API for doing specific privileged operations with authentication? (Which there should be, and actually is , but no developer is using it and Apple has been greatly lax about the supporting infrastructure. Silly Security Manager. Maybe in Leopard...)
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Yay.
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I'm better at making code than graphics.
Now, if only other people were better at waiting on my every graphical need, free of charge...
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You're welcome to teach my grandmother how to personally audit every line of source code for every program she ever installs.
Certificates have other uses than blob signing. If nothing else, the current infrastructure of "web" certificates would allow you to verify that the mozilla.org you're about to download and run executable code from is mozilla.org and not some leet h4xxor who owned your ISP's DNS server. They're also supposed to be able to verify that it's Amazon.com Inc. you're about to give your credit card number to and you're not really at a carefully cloaked amazonn.com but in practice that kind of protection isn't dependable.
I wish the Mozilla foundation would get a cert; AFAICT they don't have one and it freaks me out whenever I download an extension....
-:sigma.SB (the paranoid)
If you're going to cut-and-paste like that, at least do the rest of us the courtesy of preserving the footnotes...
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They can also change the content of the page after it's accepted, so Google would have to check every ad fairly often.
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Something all the posters above me seem to have missed is that these are not virtual cameras.
(I RTFA.)
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It's the President, silly.
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Under Linux I got my old Clamshell iBook's power usage down to 8W, and that's without CPU frequency scaling.
For that matter, I couldn't get it to go ABOVE 15W.
With one of those new high-capacity batteries that worked out to more than 12 hours of battery life. 8+ under normal use.
Not too shabby if you ask me.
Shame I broke my battery. >_<
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On OSX, it's Adium.
Until someone ports GTK+ to Cocoa/Carbon, that is...
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I can only think of two: geothermal (gravitational compression of the Earth) and tidal (gravitational attraction of the moon). What's the third one?
(if you're going to say "wind..." the wind gets much of its energy from the day/night temperature differential, which is caused by the sun.)
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(five minutes later)
Oh, right. Nuclear fission. Never post tired...
Not to mention the fact that the efficiency of said rendering engine is currently... how can I put this delicately... vomit-inducingly pathetic.
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Not to mention the physical impact. (How likely am I to survive crashing into another car and then falling 60 or more meters to the ground?)
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It's 44GB larger than mine...
...Oh well, at least I'm not on that old 6GB anymore. T_T
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No, it's quite simple. Here's their rough plan:
On second thought, maybe that isn't the best plan ever. :P
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This is a slight exaggeration. It's actually more like a small truck in neutral.
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Blew mod points to respond to this.
Disk Utility, the graphical application, is not open source. diskutil and hdiutil, the command-line programs it is a front-end for, are open source. I don't know whether the DiskImages framework (which hdiutil could be considered a front-end for) is open source, though. (my guess is "yes")
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The RIAA has successfully sued people who were never proven or even reasonably suspected to have been filesharing.
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Maybe for arithmetic. Did you never learn higher math?
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Because two different people couldn't possibly use the same username at different locations, of course.
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"Am I willing to pay $720 to play X and Y? What about $780 to play X, Y, and Z? $840 to play X, Y, Z, and W?"
Clearer now?
Me, I'd rather spend that $840 to be able to play over a dozen games on my Wii. ...Actually, I can think of much better things to spend that much money on. Like more computer hardware. You can never have enough computer hardware!
-:sigma.SB