You're safe for now so long as you didn't get infected prior to installing the latest update. Apple tried to remove Flashback, but there's no evidence they were aware this trojan was in the wild and it appears to predate the Flash update.
Pretty much, as far as I can tell. The nice thing is that unless I'm missing something any prior art has to cover all the new aspects added in the 2009 patents but has to predate the priority date of 1995, over a decade before they claimed to have invented the things in question.
The patents in question date back to at least 1996. Anyway, if it's that easy to find prior art then the case should be a slam dunk.
The trick is apparently that they've used continuations in part, which allows them to patent new improvements on an existing patent in such a way that any prior art for them only counts if it predate the original patent - which in this case means that the prior art has to be over a decade older than the claimed inventions by Worlds Inc. I've no idea who thought this aspect of patent law was a good idea.
Ah, continuations on patents, that clever trick where you can legally claim to have invented something a decade before you actually thought of the idea.
I think the attack surface of Preview.app actually extends into the OS X kernel itself. One of the iPhone jailbreaks used a kernel-level PDF exploit and it was apparently in code shared with the desktop version.
Interesting. I seem to recall that all the power management and call management stuff is closed source and locked down, though, so presumably you can't really use it as a phone after that.
As far as anyone can tell, if an attacker breaks one device then she'll be able to create arbitrary amounts of money out of thin air and transfer it to other devices through the Internet.
More effectively locked down than Motorola's Android phones ever were, apparently - even though on paper you have root, you can't load non-Nokia-provided kernel modules or replace the kernel, you can't tamper with the system software, and it has a fairly powerful mandatory access control framework to make it harder to bypass any of this.
Well, getting infected with this doesn't require an admin password and can happen just from surfing the web because it exploits a security vulnerability in Java that Apple were slow to release an update for, as they often are with third-party code that they distribute.
A "most favoured nation" clause restricts the price that company A can charge company B for something. Apple's restriction is different - they limit the price that company A can allow company B to resell its products to consumers for, which is price fixing.
This is one of the reasons why the GOP & corporatist-run state governments have been careful to leave the police alone when it comes to union busting: because they need someone to bust the heads of the regular working people.
The current British government actually screwed this one up recently. As I recall, it was shortly before the riots that left London burning.
Farnell in Norway does not sell devices other than the Raspberry Pi to end users. There was a big PR campaign by the Raspberry Pi Foundation to market the device to ordinary end users, then a big backlash when they changed their distribution plan and only businesses would be able to order it in many countries, so they managed to convince Farnell and RS Electronics to start selling to ordinary consumers in countries where they normally don't.
As I understand it, you can't run Wayland at all without having a recent GPU that supports it right now because it relies on hardware OpenGL support in order to actually be able to send graphics from the Wayland applications to the compositor. So VNC is probably a no-go too.
Downsides include not having any kind of network transparency or remote desktop support. Even supporting something like VNC on top of it would require a lot of internal changes and probably kernel-level support code too, and the developers basically consider this Someone Else's Problem.
The AVR architecture is Harvard rather than von Neumann - it has completely seperate address spaces for code and data, and the address space for code generally doesn't contain any RAM into which you can load programs. So there's really no way to run Linux on one without emulation.
I wonder how many people are using them in new designs, though? 32-bit ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers seem to be around the same price these days and obviously have a lot more compute power.
A mandatory warranty that all _sellers_ of goods have to give by law, which is valid for two years. This covers only problems that existed prior to the purchase. So for example, if some part breaks simple to being worn out, the _seller_ has no obligation to cover it.
That's not actually true. It also covers failures due to the goods not being of satisfactory quality or manufacture, where the definition of "satisfactory" depends on the nature and cost of the goods and any statements made by the manufacturer. So if some part in your expensive Macbook breaks due to wearing out after just over a year and you as a customer quite reasonably expected - based on Apple's carefully cultivated image of quality - that it would be designed with parts that lasted a little longer, the seller of the goods would still be on the hook for it.
That audio helped fan the nation-wide flames of hysteria over the supposed fact that the police had released an obvious racist who had tracked and killed Martin out of racist motives.
Not supposed. They had apparently received calls from him insisting that black kids were up to no good before - and only blacks.
If IE and Firefox want to be lazy buttheads and use twice the memory just because it is cheap, I can also use Chrome when I could use that gig or two of memory back for other processes.
Wrong way around. Chrome consistently has much higer memory usage than Firefox once you have more than a handful of tabs open, both in my personal experience and in the tests that various online reviewers have carried out. In fact I don't think the Windows version of Firefox can even use more than 2 GB of RAM ever.
I'm currently using Firefox because Chromium just hung again and restarting it with a large number of tabs is a pain. It seems to do that quite often after it's been running for a while. (There are other annoyances - for example, if you accidentally click the close button on the top of a window with lots of it won't prompt or appear to do anything, but it'll close that window several minutes later, and if you don't notice more or less immediately after this happens there's no way to reopen it.)
Chrome uses a similar technique to avoid fucking breaking everything to Firefox. Unfortunately, it appears that in this instance it didn't work - apparently the bug has been in the beta releases since November and no-one noticed it when testing them. (I suspect a lot more Chrome users use the beta releases because Chrome can be quite broken if you don't.)
A lot of Africa has poor soil, and a lot of the more fertile areas are rainforests which we wouldn't want to advocate burning to the ground to turn into farmland.
The rainforests apparently have really bad soil too actually - there's a thin, slightly more fertile surface layer that's bound in place by the trees and that's it, and once the trees are gone the soil rapidly becomes useless for farming.
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You're safe for now so long as you didn't get infected prior to installing the latest update. Apple tried to remove Flashback, but there's no evidence they were aware this trojan was in the wild and it appears to predate the Flash update.
Pretty much, as far as I can tell. The nice thing is that unless I'm missing something any prior art has to cover all the new aspects added in the 2009 patents but has to predate the priority date of 1995, over a decade before they claimed to have invented the things in question.
The patents in question date back to at least 1996. Anyway, if it's that easy to find prior art then the case should be a slam dunk.
The trick is apparently that they've used continuations in part, which allows them to patent new improvements on an existing patent in such a way that any prior art for them only counts if it predate the original patent - which in this case means that the prior art has to be over a decade older than the claimed inventions by Worlds Inc. I've no idea who thought this aspect of patent law was a good idea.
Ah, continuations on patents, that clever trick where you can legally claim to have invented something a decade before you actually thought of the idea.
I think the attack surface of Preview.app actually extends into the OS X kernel itself. One of the iPhone jailbreaks used a kernel-level PDF exploit and it was apparently in code shared with the desktop version.
Interesting. I seem to recall that all the power management and call management stuff is closed source and locked down, though, so presumably you can't really use it as a phone after that.
As far as anyone can tell, if an attacker breaks one device then she'll be able to create arbitrary amounts of money out of thin air and transfer it to other devices through the Internet.
More effectively locked down than Motorola's Android phones ever were, apparently - even though on paper you have root, you can't load non-Nokia-provided kernel modules or replace the kernel, you can't tamper with the system software, and it has a fairly powerful mandatory access control framework to make it harder to bypass any of this.
Well, getting infected with this doesn't require an admin password and can happen just from surfing the web because it exploits a security vulnerability in Java that Apple were slow to release an update for, as they often are with third-party code that they distribute.
And a week ago OSX Software Update installed an updated version of Java that is not susceptible to this malware.
Several weeks after non-Mac users got an update for the same security issue, and only after Macs started getting infected through it in large numbers.
A "most favoured nation" clause restricts the price that company A can charge company B for something. Apple's restriction is different - they limit the price that company A can allow company B to resell its products to consumers for, which is price fixing.
This is one of the reasons why the GOP & corporatist-run state governments have been careful to leave the police alone when it comes to union busting: because they need someone to bust the heads of the regular working people.
The current British government actually screwed this one up recently. As I recall, it was shortly before the riots that left London burning.
Farnell in Norway does not sell devices other than the Raspberry Pi to end users. There was a big PR campaign by the Raspberry Pi Foundation to market the device to ordinary end users, then a big backlash when they changed their distribution plan and only businesses would be able to order it in many countries, so they managed to convince Farnell and RS Electronics to start selling to ordinary consumers in countries where they normally don't.
As I understand it, you can't run Wayland at all without having a recent GPU that supports it right now because it relies on hardware OpenGL support in order to actually be able to send graphics from the Wayland applications to the compositor. So VNC is probably a no-go too.
Downsides include not having any kind of network transparency or remote desktop support. Even supporting something like VNC on top of it would require a lot of internal changes and probably kernel-level support code too, and the developers basically consider this Someone Else's Problem.
The AVR architecture is Harvard rather than von Neumann - it has completely seperate address spaces for code and data, and the address space for code generally doesn't contain any RAM into which you can load programs. So there's really no way to run Linux on one without emulation.
I wonder how many people are using them in new designs, though? 32-bit ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers seem to be around the same price these days and obviously have a lot more compute power.
A mandatory warranty that all _sellers_ of goods have to give by law, which is valid for two years. This covers only problems that existed prior to the purchase. So for example, if some part breaks simple to being worn out, the _seller_ has no obligation to cover it.
That's not actually true. It also covers failures due to the goods not being of satisfactory quality or manufacture, where the definition of "satisfactory" depends on the nature and cost of the goods and any statements made by the manufacturer. So if some part in your expensive Macbook breaks due to wearing out after just over a year and you as a customer quite reasonably expected - based on Apple's carefully cultivated image of quality - that it would be designed with parts that lasted a little longer, the seller of the goods would still be on the hook for it.
That audio helped fan the nation-wide flames of hysteria over the supposed fact that the police had released an obvious racist who had tracked and killed Martin out of racist motives.
Not supposed. They had apparently received calls from him insisting that black kids were up to no good before - and only blacks.
Welcome to "post-racial" America, enjoy your stay. Things really haven't gotten that much better.
Chrome on the other hand will quite happily use 20 GB or more of RAM...
If IE and Firefox want to be lazy buttheads and use twice the memory just because it is cheap, I can also use Chrome when I could use that gig or two of memory back for other processes.
Wrong way around. Chrome consistently has much higer memory usage than Firefox once you have more than a handful of tabs open, both in my personal experience and in the tests that various online reviewers have carried out. In fact I don't think the Windows version of Firefox can even use more than 2 GB of RAM ever.
I'm currently using Firefox because Chromium just hung again and restarting it with a large number of tabs is a pain. It seems to do that quite often after it's been running for a while. (There are other annoyances - for example, if you accidentally click the close button on the top of a window with lots of it won't prompt or appear to do anything, but it'll close that window several minutes later, and if you don't notice more or less immediately after this happens there's no way to reopen it.)
Chrome uses a similar technique to avoid fucking breaking everything to Firefox. Unfortunately, it appears that in this instance it didn't work - apparently the bug has been in the beta releases since November and no-one noticed it when testing them. (I suspect a lot more Chrome users use the beta releases because Chrome can be quite broken if you don't.)
A lot of Africa has poor soil, and a lot of the more fertile areas are rainforests which we wouldn't want to advocate burning to the ground to turn into farmland.
The rainforests apparently have really bad soil too actually - there's a thin, slightly more fertile surface layer that's bound in place by the trees and that's it, and once the trees are gone the soil rapidly becomes useless for farming.