I know it would be more food for the troll (and SCO case), I know Linus is not quite the irritable guy, but couldn't he sue the Alexis de Toquevill Institution for libel ?
Exactly, and I would rather have a C130 do that work instead of a 747. Hercules can fly half as fast as those big commercial jets when needed. One even landed on a carrier.
Or more probably, he died in a world that was a lot more advanced than when he was born, and he benefited greatly from it anyway, along with his contemporaries.
You, on the other hand, merely pointed out that the scientologists are, in yours, and mine, and pretty much all sane people's opinions, a bunch of babbling loons.
Hey, I resent this ! We, discordians, are the real bunch of babbling loons, not those scientoschmientologists.
I disagree, this is not a case of someone not protecting himself againts external aggressions, but rather a case of someone burning himself out of stupidity.
Newsflash, the source code of the trojan has been obtained. It's thought to be something like this: ---------- tell application "Finder" move home to trash empy trash end tell ----------
The market value and the inherent value of Open Source are disconnected. Who would seriously say that Linux costed $0 to make ? I mean, besides a technology-impaired editorialist on Microsoft's payola;)
IMAGINE if they ALL had gone out of their way to login with admin priviledges and had ALL enabled some network service on ALL the Macs for some reason, and imagine that this very particular service that is disabled by default (they all are in MacOS X) actually had an exploit and they had NOT applied a patch and someone had made a worm for this security flaw and let it loose...... then something scary might happen !
Given a couple millenia, I'm pretty confident mankind will find a way back to Bronze Age.
That, or we'll figure out the last missing tidbits in the stochastic electrodynamics theory, build faster-than-light fuelless spaceships and spread around the galaxy.
Austin Meyer, the author of X-Plane has been working with some military and implemented some functions for them so that they could turn X-Plane into a UCAV pilot training program. The details can be read in the Beta new features announcement.
Sombeody should tell this architect about earthships. They are durable and self-sustainable houses, they don't need to be connected to the community's power grid, water distribution or waste evacuation systems, by using solar power and by recycling water (and capturing rain water and condensation).
Ultimately, all these security measures are there for what ? Keeping some data on the hard drive and memory secret. Secrets that protect secrets that protect secrets that... My head hurts.
The Intego Virus Barrier software just flags as "infected" any CFM executable whose name ends in a common file extension... which is why it STUPIDLY flagged as viruses the BMP, PCX and PNG plugins for Photoshop Elements. Which means it does not even check for a dot and something else before the file extension.
Quoteth the article: The company says that Mac OS X displays the icon of the MP3 file, with an.mp3 extension, rather than showing the file as an application, leading users to believe that they can double-click the file to listen to it. But double clicking the file launches the hidden code, which can damage or delete files on computers running Mac OS X, then iTunes to play the music contained in the file, to make users think that it is really an MP3 file . While the first versions of this Trojan horse that Intego has isolated are benign, this technique opens the door to more serious risks.
When a file pretending to be a.mp3,.mpeg or.avi (or any similar media file) does not show a preview in the Finder's column view, I delete it for being corrupt or plain bogus. That, and I don't double click those files. I drag them to the corresponding player.
But of course I'm not sure that's how the majority of mac users do.
The Power and PowerPC architectures are not big-endian or little-endian, they can run in both modes. All you need for that is a set of instructions that lets you read and write data to and from memory in both endian modes, and these architectures have them.
That, and the x86 has dedicated instructions for reversing the byte order.
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I know it would be more food for the troll (and SCO case), I know Linus is not quite the irritable guy, but couldn't he sue the Alexis de Toquevill Institution for libel ?
Exactly, and I would rather have a C130 do that work instead of a 747. Hercules can fly half as fast as those big commercial jets when needed. One even landed on a carrier.
Or more probably, he died in a world that was a lot more advanced than when he was born, and he benefited greatly from it anyway, along with his contemporaries.
You, on the other hand, merely pointed out that the scientologists are, in yours, and mine, and pretty much all sane people's opinions, a bunch of babbling loons.
Hey, I resent this ! We, discordians, are the real bunch of babbling loons, not those scientoschmientologists.
I disagree, this is not a case of someone not protecting himself againts external aggressions, but rather a case of someone burning himself out of stupidity.
Newsflash, the source code of the trojan has been obtained. It's thought to be something like this:
----------
tell application "Finder"
move home to trash
empy trash
end tell
----------
I mean, a 60 Kilobytes Applescript fits perfectly the name "Word 2004 Mac Beta Installer".
D'uh.
The market value and the inherent value of Open Source are disconnected. Who would seriously say that Linux costed $0 to make ? I mean, besides a technology-impaired editorialist on Microsoft's payola ;)
IMAGINE if they ALL had gone out of their way to login with admin priviledges and had ALL enabled some network service on ALL the Macs for some reason, and imagine that this very particular service that is disabled by default (they all are in MacOS X) actually had an exploit and they had NOT applied a patch and someone had made a worm for this security flaw and let it loose... ... then something scary might happen !
Given a couple millenia, I'm pretty confident mankind will find a way back to Bronze Age.
That, or we'll figure out the last missing tidbits in the stochastic electrodynamics theory, build faster-than-light fuelless spaceships and spread around the galaxy.
You forgot about life on Mars and cold fusion.
Austin Meyer, the author of X-Plane has been working with some military and implemented some functions for them so that they could turn X-Plane into a UCAV pilot training program. The details can be read in the Beta new features announcement.
According to Stephen Hawking, all instruments are strings.
Sombeody should tell this architect about earthships. They are durable and self-sustainable houses, they don't need to be connected to the community's power grid, water distribution or waste evacuation systems, by using solar power and by recycling water (and capturing rain water and condensation).
Ultimately, all these security measures are there for what ? Keeping some data on the hard drive and memory secret. Secrets that protect secrets that protect secrets that... My head hurts.
The Confusion is out ? Well, then, Hail Eris ! Or something...
I'm french, you insensitive clod ! Your "socialists" are more liberal than our right wing !
...but Mr MS-Security himself said that there were NO exploits prior to the security patches !
The Intego Virus Barrier software just flags as "infected" any CFM executable whose name ends in a common file extension... which is why it STUPIDLY flagged as viruses the BMP, PCX and PNG plugins for Photoshop Elements. Which means it does not even check for a dot and something else before the file extension.
Proof (jpg)
Can you say "crappy" ? I'm sure you could.
It's 2 pages up from here, modded as (+5, Funny) ;)
Quoteth the article: .mp3 extension, rather than showing the file as an application, leading users to believe that they can double-click the file to listen to it. But double clicking the file launches the hidden code, which can damage or delete files on computers running Mac OS X, then iTunes to play the music contained in the file, to make users think that it is really an MP3 file . While the first versions of this Trojan horse that Intego has isolated are benign, this technique opens the door to more serious risks.
.mp3, .mpeg or .avi (or any similar media file) does not show a preview in the Finder's column view, I delete it for being corrupt or plain bogus. That, and I don't double click those files. I drag them to the corresponding player.
The company says that Mac OS X displays the icon of the MP3 file, with an
When a file pretending to be a
But of course I'm not sure that's how the majority of mac users do.
t's all fake, it's a fucking fake reaction that we are all mutually emulating. Other people seem offended, so by God, I should be offended too!
In other words:
the Emperor has no clothes !
There is no such thing as a religion of France, besides whining about their own government and politicians. What's the religion of America ?
The Power and PowerPC architectures are not big-endian or little-endian, they can run in both modes. All you need for that is a set of instructions that lets you read and write data to and from memory in both endian modes, and these architectures have them.
That, and the x86 has dedicated instructions for reversing the byte order.
This one is legit, the same was posted yesterday on various other websites, i.e. : on macbidouille.com (sorry, french article).