There's actually a closed-source, commercial predecessor to Wine called Wind/U that provided a way to port Windows 3.1 applications to Unix, and yes it is built on Motif. I've actually had the misfortune of using a proprietary application based on it which still hasn't been moved to anything more modern.
Interestingly, it apparently wouldn't have helped him with his iPhone or iPad. Apparently - and I didn't know this before - if you backup your iDevices to iCloud Apple don't let you make local backups of them as well, presumably because they don't think you'll need them. After all, your data is all nice and safe in the cloud! Wonder when they'll "upgrade" Mac OS X with this feature.
they don't recognize a country (Israel) and wishes it was wiped off the map.
That particular creative translation was provided by an Israeli political organisation. I'm not sure that the Iranian government even knows what it means, given that English is not exactly their first language, or even their second.
Probably because not enough people paid attention to the fact that Chick-Fil-A was donating to anti-gay groups until their COO publicly talked about their stance on marriage.
The sheer destructiveness might just have been an attempt to delay him regaining access to his accounts. Apparently it's happened before - it's a lot harder to try and wrest control from the hacker if your phone and all your devices with internet access have been wiped and are unusable.
Yep, it backs up to the computer your iPhone or iPad was set up on. Which in this case meant his Macbook Pro. Which was remotely wiped by the attacker at the same time as his iPhone and iPad. Whoops!
Not to worry, though, Apple now offers cloud-based backups of your iDevices to your iCloud account. Oh wait, the entire reason that the attacker could wipe this guy's data was because he'd gained access to the iCloud account they were linked to, so he could just delete those backups at the same time as well. Double-whoops!
If you'll recall NimbleBit's whine (http://is.gd/rJwkR7 ), to Zynga about Tiny Tower vs Dream Heights? The response (http://i.imgur.com/ajaYt.jpg ) was to show how NimbleBit had seemingly copied Corporation Inc, which looks itself to be a rip-off Sim Tower, and so on.
Except that Dream Heights is clearly a copy of Tiny Tower in ways that Tiny Tower isn't a copy of Corporation Inc. The building in Corporation Inc is a very different shape, the kinds of things you can put in the building are different, the user interface layout is very different, the goals of the game and scoring mechanics are completely different... All those things and more are basically identical between Dream Heights and Tiny Tower - really, just compare the original Nimblebit comparison with the one you linked above. As Tiny Tower and Corporation Inc demonstrate, there are many possible ways to create a game that involves building a towering empire of some kind from the ground up, you really don't have to copy your competitors.
Similarly, if you read EA's complaint which was linked further up, what they're actually suing over isn't the fact that Zynga launched another game which allowed you to create a character based on yourself and have them socialize with your friends' characters, it's that Zynga copied every last detail right down to the height of the walls and the RGB values of the skin tone options.
I believe it was a response to Apple submitting evidence equally late in the discovery process claiming that the Samsung F700 was a copy of the iPhone. Basically, the judge allowed Apple to ambush Samsung late in the discovery process with transparently bogus claims that they'd copied the iPhone when that was impossible barring time travel, despite the fact that Apple had to have known about the F700 for long enough to submit that evidence earlier, and then blocked Samsung from responding to the ambush on the basis that they waited until too late to submit evidence that they had no reason to expect they would need.
If I'm following this correctly, Samsung aren't the ones who are claiming that the F700 is in any way like the iPhone. Apple are accusing Samsung in court of copying the iPhone when creating the F700 - even though it is, as you way "actually a chunky 16.4mm-thick slider QWERTY that looks appreciably different than the iPhone" - and Samsung are being blocked from presenting evidence showing that they designed it before the iPhone came out.
for example pebble beds (meltdown is impossible because thermal expansion stops the reaction even if all cooling strategies fail)
Weren't those the ones that had all kinds of problems with the pebbles breaking down due to hot spots and poor thermal control, contaminating the reactor with radioactive particles that made it hard to decommission and that potentially leaked into the atmosphere in case of failure?
Up until recently they were profiteering off the sex industry (which uses human trafficking) and fought bitterly when the state attorneys went after them for it.
Fun fact: according to anti-trafficking activists, every time a sex worker moves to a different city or state she's been trafficked and anyone who helped her move is a sex trafficker, even if they had no idea how she earned her money and just gave her a lift because they were friends.
Anybody who isn't actively pretending that everything we've observed in several thousand years of animal selective breeding(along with more recent statistical and genetic work on heritability of various things) somehow magically doesn't have implications is arguably already there...
Oh, it definitely has implications - it implies we shouldn't be allowed to attempt the same thing on humans ever. Have you seen some of the really interesting health problems selective breeding has managed to introduce in dogs, for example? In the process of selecting for one particular set of traits, we accidentally managed to completely eliminate non-faulty versions of some genes from the gene pool of certain really popular dog breeds.
Well, it turns out that IQ tests don't measure potential either - they're affected by such things as the amount of practice someone's had taking IQ tests, even the supposedly culture-independent sections test learned ideas that actually don't exist at all in some obscure cultures, and they have all kinds of other problem.
It wouldn't have happened with an open source driver because Linus wouldn't have allowed such a foolish feature into the kernel. The open source drivers have quite complicated - and unfortunately somewhat performance-sapping - in-kernel checks on any interaction with the GPUs in order to stop attackers from doing exactly this kind of thing.
You appear to talking about income. The whole OWS campaign was against the top 1% of the country by wealth, which is a group that's an awful lot harder to get into than the top 1% by income. Many of the wealthiest individuals don't officially have that much income thanks to clever tax dodges, though since they don't really have to work for that income...
Nothing is stopping you from creating your own fixes
Aside from the fact that Oracle took down the (formerly open source) tools required to generate your own KSplice patches when they bought out KSplice... good luck finding them now!
How is this any more dangerous than swallowing any other small magnet that is reasonably strong?
It's not any more dangerous than swallowing any other neodymium magnet, but there are all sorts of regulations on the use of small neodymium magnets in general exactly because this is a danger.
Yes, the surgery is needed. If swallowed the magnetic balls stick together through the intestine walls, cutting off circulation and eventually punching holes in the intestines through which the intestinal contents leak into the abdomen. That's just a little fatal without surgery.
Still though, read their damn website. The front page is COVERED in "keep away from all children" warnings, the FAQ states in almost every answer that buckeyballs are not for children, it'll be all over the packaging, all over everything.
And even with all those warnings on the packaging and on the website - even knowing that kids have required surgery after swallowing them - there are still people like you or Dcnjoe60 or The MAZZTer who didn't realise that swallowing Buckyballs was fundamentally more dangerous than swallowing other objects like coins or paperclips and required special medical attention. That's dangerous. After all, everyone's either swallowed things they shouldn't have as kids or knows someone who has, and very few know anyone that's died or been seriously injured that way, so if they're thinking of swallowing Buckyballs as being just like that they're seriously underestimating the risks.
Cataclysmic tsunamis tend to happen at the same time as massive earthquakes for some reason. It's almost as if there's some kind of casual link between the two...
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There's actually a closed-source, commercial predecessor to Wine called Wind/U that provided a way to port Windows 3.1 applications to Unix, and yes it is built on Motif. I've actually had the misfortune of using a proprietary application based on it which still hasn't been moved to anything more modern.
Interestingly, it apparently wouldn't have helped him with his iPhone or iPad. Apparently - and I didn't know this before - if you backup your iDevices to iCloud Apple don't let you make local backups of them as well, presumably because they don't think you'll need them. After all, your data is all nice and safe in the cloud! Wonder when they'll "upgrade" Mac OS X with this feature.
they don't recognize a country (Israel) and wishes it was wiped off the map.
That particular creative translation was provided by an Israeli political organisation. I'm not sure that the Iranian government even knows what it means, given that English is not exactly their first language, or even their second.
Probably because not enough people paid attention to the fact that Chick-Fil-A was donating to anti-gay groups until their COO publicly talked about their stance on marriage.
The sheer destructiveness might just have been an attempt to delay him regaining access to his accounts. Apparently it's happened before - it's a lot harder to try and wrest control from the hacker if your phone and all your devices with internet access have been wiped and are unusable.
Well, until Apple iCloud-enables Time Capsule too...
Hell, device backup is even built into iTunes.
Yep, it backs up to the computer your iPhone or iPad was set up on. Which in this case meant his Macbook Pro. Which was remotely wiped by the attacker at the same time as his iPhone and iPad. Whoops!
Not to worry, though, Apple now offers cloud-based backups of your iDevices to your iCloud account. Oh wait, the entire reason that the attacker could wipe this guy's data was because he'd gained access to the iCloud account they were linked to, so he could just delete those backups at the same time as well. Double-whoops!
If you'll recall NimbleBit's whine (http://is.gd/rJwkR7 ), to Zynga about Tiny Tower vs Dream Heights? The response (http://i.imgur.com/ajaYt.jpg ) was to show how NimbleBit had seemingly copied Corporation Inc, which looks itself to be a rip-off Sim Tower, and so on.
Except that Dream Heights is clearly a copy of Tiny Tower in ways that Tiny Tower isn't a copy of Corporation Inc. The building in Corporation Inc is a very different shape, the kinds of things you can put in the building are different, the user interface layout is very different, the goals of the game and scoring mechanics are completely different... All those things and more are basically identical between Dream Heights and Tiny Tower - really, just compare the original Nimblebit comparison with the one you linked above. As Tiny Tower and Corporation Inc demonstrate, there are many possible ways to create a game that involves building a towering empire of some kind from the ground up, you really don't have to copy your competitors.
Similarly, if you read EA's complaint which was linked further up, what they're actually suing over isn't the fact that Zynga launched another game which allowed you to create a character based on yourself and have them socialize with your friends' characters, it's that Zynga copied every last detail right down to the height of the walls and the RGB values of the skin tone options.
What's wrong with HFT? Well, apparently, HFT traders taking out the stream of pricing data available to non-HFT individuals by spamming the market with order cancellations and then using the fact that, because their expensive premium pricing data streams weren't affected, they had prices that were several hours more up to date than everyone else to make bank. Amongst other things.
I believe it was a response to Apple submitting evidence equally late in the discovery process claiming that the Samsung F700 was a copy of the iPhone. Basically, the judge allowed Apple to ambush Samsung late in the discovery process with transparently bogus claims that they'd copied the iPhone when that was impossible barring time travel, despite the fact that Apple had to have known about the F700 for long enough to submit that evidence earlier, and then blocked Samsung from responding to the ambush on the basis that they waited until too late to submit evidence that they had no reason to expect they would need.
If I'm following this correctly, Samsung aren't the ones who are claiming that the F700 is in any way like the iPhone. Apple are accusing Samsung in court of copying the iPhone when creating the F700 - even though it is, as you way "actually a chunky 16.4mm-thick slider QWERTY that looks appreciably different than the iPhone" - and Samsung are being blocked from presenting evidence showing that they designed it before the iPhone came out.
for example pebble beds (meltdown is impossible because thermal expansion stops the reaction even if all cooling strategies fail)
Weren't those the ones that had all kinds of problems with the pebbles breaking down due to hot spots and poor thermal control, contaminating the reactor with radioactive particles that made it hard to decommission and that potentially leaked into the atmosphere in case of failure?
Up until recently they were profiteering off the sex industry (which uses human trafficking) and fought bitterly when the state attorneys went after them for it.
Fun fact: according to anti-trafficking activists, every time a sex worker moves to a different city or state she's been trafficked and anyone who helped her move is a sex trafficker, even if they had no idea how she earned her money and just gave her a lift because they were friends.
Anybody who isn't actively pretending that everything we've observed in several thousand years of animal selective breeding(along with more recent statistical and genetic work on heritability of various things) somehow magically doesn't have implications is arguably already there...
Oh, it definitely has implications - it implies we shouldn't be allowed to attempt the same thing on humans ever. Have you seen some of the really interesting health problems selective breeding has managed to introduce in dogs, for example? In the process of selecting for one particular set of traits, we accidentally managed to completely eliminate non-faulty versions of some genes from the gene pool of certain really popular dog breeds.
Well, it turns out that IQ tests don't measure potential either - they're affected by such things as the amount of practice someone's had taking IQ tests, even the supposedly culture-independent sections test learned ideas that actually don't exist at all in some obscure cultures, and they have all kinds of other problem.
It wouldn't have happened with an open source driver because Linus wouldn't have allowed such a foolish feature into the kernel. The open source drivers have quite complicated - and unfortunately somewhat performance-sapping - in-kernel checks on any interaction with the GPUs in order to stop attackers from doing exactly this kind of thing.
Scepticism requires admitting you're wrong when the evidence is against you. Climate change deniers don't do that - when the evidence they're collecting gives an answer they don't like (as happened with Watt's last attempt to find flaws in the NOAA surface station network), they just pretend it didn't happen and carry on.
You appear to talking about income. The whole OWS campaign was against the top 1% of the country by wealth, which is a group that's an awful lot harder to get into than the top 1% by income. Many of the wealthiest individuals don't officially have that much income thanks to clever tax dodges, though since they don't really have to work for that income...
Was it the same form factor?
Does every customer want the exact form factor that Apple provides and only that form factor?
Nothing is stopping you from creating your own fixes
Aside from the fact that Oracle took down the (formerly open source) tools required to generate your own KSplice patches when they bought out KSplice... good luck finding them now!
How is this any more dangerous than swallowing any other small magnet that is reasonably strong?
It's not any more dangerous than swallowing any other neodymium magnet, but there are all sorts of regulations on the use of small neodymium magnets in general exactly because this is a danger.
Yes, the surgery is needed. If swallowed the magnetic balls stick together through the intestine walls, cutting off circulation and eventually punching holes in the intestines through which the intestinal contents leak into the abdomen. That's just a little fatal without surgery.
Still though, read their damn website. The front page is COVERED in "keep away from all children" warnings, the FAQ states in almost every answer that buckeyballs are not for children, it'll be all over the packaging, all over everything.
And even with all those warnings on the packaging and on the website - even knowing that kids have required surgery after swallowing them - there are still people like you or Dcnjoe60 or The MAZZTer who didn't realise that swallowing Buckyballs was fundamentally more dangerous than swallowing other objects like coins or paperclips and required special medical attention. That's dangerous. After all, everyone's either swallowed things they shouldn't have as kids or knows someone who has, and very few know anyone that's died or been seriously injured that way, so if they're thinking of swallowing Buckyballs as being just like that they're seriously underestimating the risks.
It's hard not to lose one here or there when you play with them nearly daily.
At which point a little kid could pick the ones you've dropped off the floor and eat them. They don't look obviously dangerous at a glance.
Cataclysmic tsunamis tend to happen at the same time as massive earthquakes for some reason. It's almost as if there's some kind of casual link between the two...