I recall reading this (URL:http://www.semiaccurate.com/2009/07/31/apple-keyboard-firmware-hack-demonstrated/) last year but never heard any follow up from Apple. Does anyone know if there was actually any firmware release for this to close this potential security hole? It appears the likelihood of this getting exploited is rather small (requiring local access at this time) but it still warrants a response from Apple IMO.
I have to say that WGA was really the final straw for me with Microsoft. I, being a paying customer, felt from day 1 of WGA that it was an absolute kick in the teeth from Microsoft. It is what turned me from a Microsoft fan over to using my Mac Mini. It was a sad thing for me but I'm much happier now and will never come back. Thanks for turning me away Microsoft!
Or you could simply use the cannon to send up the pieces to build a large space cruiser above Earth's orbit thus eliminating the problem of getting such a huge ship out of our atmosphere. This would be a game changer.
Something already has happened. WGA was t he final straw for me as I finally migrated to Mac and am never looking back. Microsoft can keep all their licenses to themselves for all I care. I vote with my wallet.
A recording and subsequent youtube video upload would have done wonders for you in terms of therapy and the resulting backlash would have been a good kick to Apple's ribs. Remember....always record your conversations in such situations.
when it comes it but thank you to SONY for slapping some sense back into me. After the rootkit fiasco I never bought a SONY product again but I was becoming weak and wanted to get some GTA4 action going on. I have smelled the smelling salts and have woken up again. SONY never gets another yen from me (still).
If the batteries for electric cards turns into a BluRay-HDDVD type format war things would get messy and hobble the efforts of getting this off the ground. All car manufacturers need to look the greater good (environment and consumers)and be in agreement on one standard form factor. Here's to hoping this happens.
FYI: Facebook is just as bad in my books as they encourage users to input their email account credentials to help them add friends to their facebook accounts. Very bad form IMO.
Very long time Windows user here. WGA was the first final straw for me but I let it slide for several years....but now with this stunt it has really pushed me over the edge. I have already switched my wife over by purchasing her a Mac Mini. I will be following suit in the next week. Really Microsoft, if wanted me to switch so badly all you had to do was ask. Your wish is my command. Thanks for the memories though.
If so, sign me up! But if they are looking to have their cake and eat it too by running commercials to paying customers I would not even think about it.
In the mean time this very long time Windows user will be migrating to Mac. I have already migrated my wife, parents and brothers (all very satisfied). The reason? WGA. Being treated as a criminal and having to have 'Windows Genuine Advantage' installed was the last straw for me. I could tolerate all the other garbage but that finally made me do what was previously unthinkable. Yes, Microsoft you forced me to wake up and look at the alternatives. It's been fun and I will miss some aspects of Windows but I won't be looking back. Bye.
To think that any of these could be averted and save the human race if we were only to spend less $$$ on killing each other and instead funding science and space project. If it were not for all the greedy wars we would already be exploring space far beyond what we already have. But alas stupid is, stupid does. Carry on skintubes.
Just for reference, the name "Gojira" (the actual Japanese name for Godzilla) was derived from combining the Japanese words for Gorilla (gorira) and Whale (kujira). It would have been hilarious if Godzilla's inventor had envisioned the actual beast to be a mix of the two creatures.
Seeing as there is no way we can really stop this build up of methane from escaping at this point, we should be finding a way to capture and process it to reuse it.
"deleted your legit music"? Is this a known problem from the past? I am currently considering the switch to OSX from Windows but hearing this has got me thinking twice. I have never installed Itunes on XP for this very reason, I have always had the tin-foil hat fear that it would attempt to delete my mp3's. Is there any online reference regarding this?
...there are fully electric plug-in vehicles. I have no interest in a "hybrid" vehicle with it's overly complex internals (combined electric and internal-combustion). It will be interesting what effect the introduction of fully electric vehicles will have on the current automobile market. Will internal combustion car owners be able to sell off their clunkers?
And this type of thing is exactly why I stopped eating beef altogether 7-8 years ago. I don't trust the farmers nor the government bureaucracy to be honest and sincere with regard to Mad Cow. I think the safest route is to stop eating it all together. 8 years later and I don't miss it in the least. I, of course, still eat meat and only avoid beef. F*ck them, seriously...if they can't play by the rules I'm not going to be giving them my $....vote with your wallet. Full stop.
This is really it. I am jumping ship the second Apple releases a new version of the Mac Mini (hopefully next month). WGA, when it first arrived, was the slap in the face from Microsoft that did it for me. Why do I, a paying customer, need to be subjected to this treatment? Microsoft acts as though it is a privilege to use their operating system. Well, I've been paying enough money to Microsoft since 3.11 and I no longer like the stink here so I'm moving on. Thanks for the memories Bill and Steve...good luck.
Well Harry wants to be at the premier for "Raiders of the Lost Ark 9" and "Star Wars epsiode 22: The revenge of Jar Jar's great grand children". He cries about what a sellout Lucas has become yet his own site is just the same, he wants to be invited to the premiers so i can continue his own business. The sellout kisses the ass of the bigger sellout.
The review before AICN caved in to Lucas's phallus attack:
"Harry hated THE CLONE WARS!
I've never hated a STAR WARS film before. I have weathered Jar Jar and any number of Ewoks. I survived Hayden and a wooden Portman. I even accepted Jake Lloyd. I handled all that because it felt like STAR WARS.
I can accept all of Lucas' flaws, so long as at its heart it felt like Star Wars. I can deal with politics in Star Wars. I can deal with trade skirmishes in Star Wars. I can deal with musical numbers, breathing in the vacuum of space. Basically - so long as it feels like STAR WARS - I can watch any of it.
Was I looking forward to STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS (2008)?
******** A!
I was dying. After Genndy's CLONE WARS - I felt that perhaps Lucas "got it" - and that this new animated series was taking a lead from Tartakovsky's brilliant assembly of pieces. Genndy's CLONE WARS got STAR WARS better than anyone has got it since Lawrence Kasdan and Irvin Kershner. Genndy took designs and characters that folks were dissatisfied with and made them cool. He did this by using and adapting the themes created by John Williams, the wholly perfect entity involved with Star Wars along with... the sound effects of Ben Burtt. He understood speed and motion - not just with action, but in editing. He understood classic film composition and iconography. And he knows what BADASS is.
The folks behind this STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS movie... you could tell, they looked at what Genndy did - but they didn't understand any of it. There's a ****load of battles and ***** going boom. There's noise everywhere - fury everywhere... but none of it is directed. The music by Kevin Kiner is criminally bad. Why they didn't employ Paul Dinletir and James Venable is beyond me. No, no - let's hire the composer of WALKER, TEXAS RANGER. Ahem.
Now - I made excuses for this film as I was watching it. I don't think you understand how much I love STAR WARS. Maybe you do, maybe you do too.
Before the movie started I was firing myself up to go out after the film and buy that new $200 Hasbro Millenium Falcon. I really wanted to go buy it, and I wanted this movie to empower my brain to go through with that. Instead, I found myself at home - putting on Genndy's THE CLONE WARS - to try and rebuild my passion - so I can go get that new Falcon.
Instead - I'm thinking I'll just be here at home enjoying this and that'll be all I need.
Anyway - as I was watching the film, I was excusing the sloppy shots, the sloppy use of the Clone Troopers and Droids - undoing all the awesome work that Genndy had done - and the droids are silly again. The Clone Troopers are limp. And the Jedi - they're at 25% power from the mind of Genndy. But I was accepting that. I figured that was Lucas dialing back so that the animated series wouldn't overpower his features.
Then they introduced Baby Jabba aka Rotta the Huttlet aka Stinky. At the point of this character's introduction - it officially became, the worst character in the history of STAR WARS. If you hate George Lucas cutsiepoo bull**** - oooooooh boy. You're gonna have a field day of venting and hatred directed at this unbelievably ****ing awful little ****.
Oh - but wait... Little Stinky the Hutt isn't the worst character in the history of STAR WARS... because Stinky got introduced earlier in the film. As much as I hated lil Stinky... I was weathering Stinky. I seriously was. But later there was a character of such immense **** - offensively bad. The character was so bad, so incredibly awful - that it was a slap to the face. It woke me out of my ****-accepting stupor and made me angry. SUDDENLY my "inner fanboy rage" was awoken.
As I watched this terrifyingly awful character named Ziro the Hutt. A seemingly female Hutt - with tattoos and make-up that sounds like a racist take on a Black New Orleans Crack-Dealing Whore. Because this Hutt speaks ENGLISH - and it is many times worse than I'm actually describing. This character was actually too much for me. So bad
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I recall reading this (URL:http://www.semiaccurate.com/2009/07/31/apple-keyboard-firmware-hack-demonstrated/) last year but never heard any follow up from Apple. Does anyone know if there was actually any firmware release for this to close this potential security hole? It appears the likelihood of this getting exploited is rather small (requiring local access at this time) but it still warrants a response from Apple IMO.
I have to say that WGA was really the final straw for me with Microsoft. I, being a paying customer, felt from day 1 of WGA that it was an absolute kick in the teeth from Microsoft. It is what turned me from a Microsoft fan over to using my Mac Mini. It was a sad thing for me but I'm much happier now and will never come back. Thanks for turning me away Microsoft!
Or you could simply use the cannon to send up the pieces to build a large space cruiser above Earth's orbit thus eliminating the problem of getting such a huge ship out of our atmosphere. This would be a game changer.
So it appears that it won't be on Australian retail shelves but will they somehow prevent AU L4D fans from downloading it from Steam?
Something already has happened. WGA was t he final straw for me as I finally migrated to Mac and am never looking back. Microsoft can keep all their licenses to themselves for all I care. I vote with my wallet.
"TrueCrypt, TrueCrypt, TrueCrypt!" we all say, but do we actually know who develops truecrypt? Who is behind the curtain is what I'd like to know.
A recording and subsequent youtube video upload would have done wonders for you in terms of therapy and the resulting backlash would have been a good kick to Apple's ribs. Remember....always record your conversations in such situations.
when it comes it but thank you to SONY for slapping some sense back into me. After the rootkit fiasco I never bought a SONY product again but I was becoming weak and wanted to get some GTA4 action going on. I have smelled the smelling salts and have woken up again. SONY never gets another yen from me (still).
If the batteries for electric cards turns into a BluRay-HDDVD type format war things would get messy and hobble the efforts of getting this off the ground. All car manufacturers need to look the greater good (environment and consumers)and be in agreement on one standard form factor. Here's to hoping this happens.
FYI: Facebook is just as bad in my books as they encourage users to input their email account credentials to help them add friends to their facebook accounts. Very bad form IMO.
Very long time Windows user here. WGA was the first final straw for me but I let it slide for several years....but now with this stunt it has really pushed me over the edge. I have already switched my wife over by purchasing her a Mac Mini. I will be following suit in the next week. Really Microsoft, if wanted me to switch so badly all you had to do was ask. Your wish is my command. Thanks for the memories though.
If so, sign me up! But if they are looking to have their cake and eat it too by running commercials to paying customers I would not even think about it.
...it's called the "do not buy flag". Screw you Amazon. Learn the hard way suckers.
In the mean time this very long time Windows user will be migrating to Mac. I have already migrated my wife, parents and brothers (all very satisfied). The reason? WGA. Being treated as a criminal and having to have 'Windows Genuine Advantage' installed was the last straw for me. I could tolerate all the other garbage but that finally made me do what was previously unthinkable. Yes, Microsoft you forced me to wake up and look at the alternatives. It's been fun and I will miss some aspects of Windows but I won't be looking back. Bye.
and I'm doubly not going now.
To think that any of these could be averted and save the human race if we were only to spend less $$$ on killing each other and instead funding science and space project. If it were not for all the greedy wars we would already be exploring space far beyond what we already have. But alas stupid is, stupid does. Carry on skintubes.
Just for reference, the name "Gojira" (the actual Japanese name for Godzilla) was derived from combining the Japanese words for Gorilla (gorira) and Whale (kujira). It would have been hilarious if Godzilla's inventor had envisioned the actual beast to be a mix of the two creatures.
Not if it is a good selection!
Seeing as there is no way we can really stop this build up of methane from escaping at this point, we should be finding a way to capture and process it to reuse it.
"deleted your legit music"? Is this a known problem from the past? I am currently considering the switch to OSX from Windows but hearing this has got me thinking twice. I have never installed Itunes on XP for this very reason, I have always had the tin-foil hat fear that it would attempt to delete my mp3's. Is there any online reference regarding this?
...there are fully electric plug-in vehicles. I have no interest in a "hybrid" vehicle with it's overly complex internals (combined electric and internal-combustion). It will be interesting what effect the introduction of fully electric vehicles will have on the current automobile market. Will internal combustion car owners be able to sell off their clunkers?
And this type of thing is exactly why I stopped eating beef altogether 7-8 years ago. I don't trust the farmers nor the government bureaucracy to be honest and sincere with regard to Mad Cow. I think the safest route is to stop eating it all together. 8 years later and I don't miss it in the least. I, of course, still eat meat and only avoid beef. F*ck them, seriously...if they can't play by the rules I'm not going to be giving them my $....vote with your wallet. Full stop.
This is really it. I am jumping ship the second Apple releases a new version of the Mac Mini (hopefully next month). WGA, when it first arrived, was the slap in the face from Microsoft that did it for me. Why do I, a paying customer, need to be subjected to this treatment? Microsoft acts as though it is a privilege to use their operating system. Well, I've been paying enough money to Microsoft since 3.11 and I no longer like the stink here so I'm moving on. Thanks for the memories Bill and Steve...good luck.
Well Harry wants to be at the premier for "Raiders of the Lost Ark 9" and "Star Wars epsiode 22: The revenge of Jar Jar's great grand children". He cries about what a sellout Lucas has become yet his own site is just the same, he wants to be invited to the premiers so i can continue his own business. The sellout kisses the ass of the bigger sellout.
"Harry hated THE CLONE WARS!
I've never hated a STAR WARS film before. I have weathered Jar Jar and any number of Ewoks. I survived Hayden and a wooden Portman. I even accepted Jake Lloyd. I handled all that because it felt like STAR WARS.
I can accept all of Lucas' flaws, so long as at its heart it felt like Star Wars. I can deal with politics in Star Wars. I can deal with trade skirmishes in Star Wars. I can deal with musical numbers, breathing in the vacuum of space. Basically - so long as it feels like STAR WARS - I can watch any of it.
Was I looking forward to STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS (2008)?
******** A!
I was dying. After Genndy's CLONE WARS - I felt that perhaps Lucas "got it" - and that this new animated series was taking a lead from Tartakovsky's brilliant assembly of pieces. Genndy's CLONE WARS got STAR WARS better than anyone has got it since Lawrence Kasdan and Irvin Kershner. Genndy took designs and characters that folks were dissatisfied with and made them cool. He did this by using and adapting the themes created by John Williams, the wholly perfect entity involved with Star Wars along with... the sound effects of Ben Burtt. He understood speed and motion - not just with action, but in editing. He understood classic film composition and iconography. And he knows what BADASS is.
The folks behind this STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS movie... you could tell, they looked at what Genndy did - but they didn't understand any of it. There's a ****load of battles and ***** going boom. There's noise everywhere - fury everywhere... but none of it is directed. The music by Kevin Kiner is criminally bad. Why they didn't employ Paul Dinletir and James Venable is beyond me. No, no - let's hire the composer of WALKER, TEXAS RANGER. Ahem.
Now - I made excuses for this film as I was watching it. I don't think you understand how much I love STAR WARS. Maybe you do, maybe you do too.
Before the movie started I was firing myself up to go out after the film and buy that new $200 Hasbro Millenium Falcon. I really wanted to go buy it, and I wanted this movie to empower my brain to go through with that. Instead, I found myself at home - putting on Genndy's THE CLONE WARS - to try and rebuild my passion - so I can go get that new Falcon.
Instead - I'm thinking I'll just be here at home enjoying this and that'll be all I need.
Anyway - as I was watching the film, I was excusing the sloppy shots, the sloppy use of the Clone Troopers and Droids - undoing all the awesome work that Genndy had done - and the droids are silly again. The Clone Troopers are limp. And the Jedi - they're at 25% power from the mind of Genndy. But I was accepting that. I figured that was Lucas dialing back so that the animated series wouldn't overpower his features.
Then they introduced Baby Jabba aka Rotta the Huttlet aka Stinky. At the point of this character's introduction - it officially became, the worst character in the history of STAR WARS. If you hate George Lucas cutsiepoo bull**** - oooooooh boy. You're gonna have a field day of venting and hatred directed at this unbelievably ****ing awful little ****.
Oh - but wait... Little Stinky the Hutt isn't the worst character in the history of STAR WARS... because Stinky got introduced earlier in the film. As much as I hated lil Stinky... I was weathering Stinky. I seriously was. But later there was a character of such immense **** - offensively bad. The character was so bad, so incredibly awful - that it was a slap to the face. It woke me out of my ****-accepting stupor and made me angry. SUDDENLY my "inner fanboy rage" was awoken.
As I watched this terrifyingly awful character named Ziro the Hutt. A seemingly female Hutt - with tattoos and make-up that sounds like a racist take on a Black New Orleans Crack-Dealing Whore. Because this Hutt speaks ENGLISH - and it is many times worse than I'm actually describing. This character was actually too much for me. So bad