What, you're saying that Apple can't record every byte that is transferred between the honeypot and the hackers, so that they can identify exactly how the crack was performed?
C'mon, folks, this isn't brain surgery. Load the sucker with pirate warez, pose as a Russian hackers group, let leak that there's good shit on the server but that it's locked up tight, and let the creeps give it their best shot. They're like moths to a flame: they can't resist a challenge like that.
Put up a stock OS X box, with default config, and encourage the blackhat crowd to go for it. Take what they learn, apply it to the system updates, and re-iterate.
Cost - about thirty bucks. Technology - rudimentary. Efficiency - "Overall, these studies have shown that the Biosand filter removes: More than 90% of fecal coliform; 100% of protozoa and helminths; 50-90% of organic and inorganic toxicants; 95-99% of zinc, copper, cadmium and lead; 67% of iron and manganese; 47% of arsenic; all suspended sediments" (So it's not going to help with that arsenic-tainted water in India.)
IMO, there is no better filtration system. Cheap, low-tech, highly effective against the most common pathogens -- why should we be using anything else?!
Mais non? Throw money into the kitty as an incentive to have the open-source community develop a rival to Skype. I'll bet that for as little as fifty thousand dollars chump change, really AMD could destroy Skype and simultaneously put an end to this proprietary, CPU-locked bullshit.
I expect they'll do everything they can to benefit themselves exclusively and screw everyone else subtley. Or blatantly.
Perhaps that's why open-source and community projects will ultimately win (provided Microsoft doesn't succeed in making such software wholly illegal): the community efforts are about making everyone win.
My god, this patent madness just never stops. What does Creative Labs have against my whiskey bottles? I was gonna use them for candle holders, but now I gotta give 'em up? Arrrgh.
I agree 100%. Every time I've gone in for a teeth cleaning, the staff have oohed-and-aahed over the beautiful condition of my teeth. "Gosh, you must floss!" they exlaim. No, I don't.
I have had three cleanings in twenty years. To my mind, their response rather indicates that it is only necessary to brush well twice daily.
D-oh! Why on earth didn't someone think of this decades ago? This is basically the same process used in industry all over the place, from electroplating to automotive paint application. It's so obvious now that someone has done it!
...I was a programmer for CAI coursework. We used Authorware Professional, née Course of Action (IIRC). This was about fifteen years ago. I have no idea what happened to that app/framework, but it thoroughly kicked ass IMO.
"Open Safe Files After Downloading" :
def.: a silly name for "Open Potentially Unsafe Files After Downloading"
It had to be said again.
UI designers take note: we geeks are so very, very tired of their impact on our lives, that we plead: Help the n00bs make the right choice!
Yes, our dialog boxes will be phrased in an unpleasant way, but by god it is surely better that we have to put up with a snarking OS than have to put up with fixing our friends' computers yet again because they thought they were smart.
We can't beat the stupid ones, but we can make them have to work at it.
Apparently independent verification of election results is less important then $$$ transactions.
Obviously. That's why Diebold was hired in the first place. Being capable of ensuring the "right" President is elected is worth big money. Not to you and me, but to corporations and powerbrokers and such. You scratch their back, they scratch yours. Damn straight there isn't going to be verification!
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You are being so unfair: he has managed to eliminate Windows as a serious OS! The security problems have reached the stage of being so inane as to be comical: a WMF vulnerability on purpose?! Fer cripes sake, Bill, I can't take your OS seriously. I need a bit more security than that.
And furthermore, Intel itself is getting away from the MHz wars. They desperately want to be measured by another means, because their Pentium-M kicks the Pentium-4's ass... at a much lower clock speed. The worry is that people are going to be massively confused, and taken advantage of, while the transition is taking place.
It means I can have my cake and eat it, too. I trust Apple's OS X: it's got that Unix cachet of security through-and-through. I've lived the Windows world: I was always aware that it was an insecure system. Well, at this point, I think a whole lotta people are beginning to understand that.
So I'm perfectly happy if the Mac box comes with a cheap install of Windows, if only because I expect Windows to continue to reign in the computer games market, especially if their OS is compatible with XBox in some manner. But sure as hell, I'll be doing my business, email, home finances, online shopping, and suchlike on the OS X side of the box.
Apple wins the OS wars. Microsoft continues to dominate the Office and Computer Gaming field. It's a win-win for both companies and the consumers!
I'm completely puzzled as to why anyone would ever type that extra "h" -- it's a silent letter, so I would expect the natural inclination would be to leave it out, not insert it unnecessarily.
And, even more important was touted as ever-lasting: CDs and DVDs do not, for most practical purposes, wear out when handled with care. Everyone who grew up with vinyl and cassette and VHS knows what it's like to lose audible audio quality over time: the goddamn things wear out with casual everyday use! CDs and DVDs, hell, it's dead easy to keep them in prime condition forever and a day with next to no effort at all.
That is what sold a huge chunk of us on those formats.
The next format offers no additional advantage. Higher quality, sure, but at what price? When you've already got a couple K invested in your home theatre, and you're watching a nice sharp picture with CD-quality surround sound, on a reasonably good television... is ultra highdef worth the financial hit of starting all over again?
Ain't in this house, at any rate. If I were going to sink $2K into something, it'd be a audiophile music system. Or a maximum games box for UT2007. Or another motorcycle.
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Goddamn, that's a bit more than I'd expected. Teen titty city!
I have only two thoughts about this controversy:
(A) I wish I'd gone to that school. My mercy, yes.
(B) I may need to watch more of this series. Keep it up!
[watches the clip again]
I've never watched the show, but I'll sure as hell download the clip. Nothing like a bit of soft porn as a nightcap!
Thank you, Parents' Television Council! You have helped make my night magic!
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.
I think that's a truism.
Which is why the publication of hate speech which is all about the Big Lie is so dangerous: people will eventually come to believe it.
What, you're saying that Apple can't record every byte that is transferred between the honeypot and the hackers, so that they can identify exactly how the crack was performed?
C'mon, folks, this isn't brain surgery. Load the sucker with pirate warez, pose as a Russian hackers group, let leak that there's good shit on the server but that it's locked up tight, and let the creeps give it their best shot. They're like moths to a flame: they can't resist a challenge like that.
Put up a stock OS X box, with default config, and encourage the blackhat crowd to go for it. Take what they learn, apply it to the system updates, and re-iterate.
'cause that means BSD is now the core OS. The competition will be between GUIs, not between OSes.
P2P between friends and acquaintances? Rockin'.
Biosand Filter.
Cost - about thirty bucks.
Technology - rudimentary.
Efficiency - "Overall, these studies have shown that the Biosand filter removes:
More than 90% of fecal coliform; 100% of protozoa and helminths; 50-90% of organic and inorganic toxicants; 95-99% of zinc, copper, cadmium and lead; 67% of iron and manganese; 47% of arsenic; all suspended sediments" (So it's not going to help with that arsenic-tainted water in India.)
IMO, there is no better filtration system. Cheap, low-tech, highly effective against the most common pathogens -- why should we be using anything else?!
Mais non? Throw money into the kitty as an incentive to have the open-source community develop a rival to Skype. I'll bet that for as little as fifty thousand dollars chump change, really AMD could destroy Skype and simultaneously put an end to this proprietary, CPU-locked bullshit.
I expect they'll do everything they can to benefit themselves exclusively and screw everyone else subtley. Or blatantly.
Perhaps that's why open-source and community projects will ultimately win (provided Microsoft doesn't succeed in making such software wholly illegal): the community efforts are about making everyone win.
My god, this patent madness just never stops. What does Creative Labs have against my whiskey bottles? I was gonna use them for candle holders, but now I gotta give 'em up? Arrrgh.
That's it, I'm joining the EFF.
I agree 100%. Every time I've gone in for a teeth cleaning, the staff have oohed-and-aahed over the beautiful condition of my teeth. "Gosh, you must floss!" they exlaim. No, I don't.
I have had three cleanings in twenty years. To my mind, their response rather indicates that it is only necessary to brush well twice daily.
YMMV.
D-oh! Why on earth didn't someone think of this decades ago? This is basically the same process used in industry all over the place, from electroplating to automotive paint application. It's so obvious now that someone has done it!
...I was a programmer for CAI coursework. We used Authorware Professional, née Course of Action (IIRC). This was about fifteen years ago. I have no idea what happened to that app/framework, but it thoroughly kicked ass IMO.
I'll settle for keyboard electrocution, then.
Then the "Yes" button should always be the one that causes least harm. Like, f'rinstance, NOT opening up the damned attachments.
"Open Safe Files After Downloading" :
def.: a silly name for "Open Potentially Unsafe Files After Downloading"
It had to be said again.
UI designers take note: we geeks are so very, very tired of their impact on our lives, that we plead: Help the n00bs make the right choice!
Yes, our dialog boxes will be phrased in an unpleasant way, but by god it is surely better that we have to put up with a snarking OS than have to put up with fixing our friends' computers yet again because they thought they were smart.
We can't beat the stupid ones, but we can make them have to work at it.
it's tricky to fit a hundred-foot-plus telescoping drill onto a rover and expect it to work.
Is not! I do it all the time myself.
Kids these days. No gumption in 'em at all.
You nailed it exactly. Those days were exactly like that.
Apparently independent verification of election results is less important then $$$ transactions.
Obviously. That's why Diebold was hired in the first place. Being capable of ensuring the "right" President is elected is worth big money. Not to you and me, but to corporations and powerbrokers and such. You scratch their back, they scratch yours. Damn straight there isn't going to be verification!
You are being so unfair: he has managed to eliminate Windows as a serious OS! The security problems have reached the stage of being so inane as to be comical: a WMF vulnerability on purpose?! Fer cripes sake, Bill, I can't take your OS seriously. I need a bit more security than that.
And furthermore, Intel itself is getting away from the MHz wars. They desperately want to be measured by another means, because their Pentium-M kicks the Pentium-4's ass... at a much lower clock speed. The worry is that people are going to be massively confused, and taken advantage of, while the transition is taking place.
It means I can have my cake and eat it, too. I trust Apple's OS X: it's got that Unix cachet of security through-and-through. I've lived the Windows world: I was always aware that it was an insecure system. Well, at this point, I think a whole lotta people are beginning to understand that.
So I'm perfectly happy if the Mac box comes with a cheap install of Windows, if only because I expect Windows to continue to reign in the computer games market, especially if their OS is compatible with XBox in some manner. But sure as hell, I'll be doing my business, email, home finances, online shopping, and suchlike on the OS X side of the box.
Apple wins the OS wars. Microsoft continues to dominate the Office and Computer Gaming field. It's a win-win for both companies and the consumers!
It's a damn electric cord, not a musical chord.
I'm completely puzzled as to why anyone would ever type that extra "h" -- it's a silent letter, so I would expect the natural inclination would be to leave it out, not insert it unnecessarily.
Explanations, please?
since it was almost a quantum leap in quality
And, even more important was touted as ever-lasting: CDs and DVDs do not, for most practical purposes, wear out when handled with care. Everyone who grew up with vinyl and cassette and VHS knows what it's like to lose audible audio quality over time: the goddamn things wear out with casual everyday use! CDs and DVDs, hell, it's dead easy to keep them in prime condition forever and a day with next to no effort at all.
That is what sold a huge chunk of us on those formats.
The next format offers no additional advantage. Higher quality, sure, but at what price? When you've already got a couple K invested in your home theatre, and you're watching a nice sharp picture with CD-quality surround sound, on a reasonably good television... is ultra highdef worth the financial hit of starting all over again?
Ain't in this house, at any rate. If I were going to sink $2K into something, it'd be a audiophile music system. Or a maximum games box for UT2007. Or another motorcycle.