Why does Slashdot continue with fruitless attempts to revise history by using the term "cracker"? It's not "cracker" and never has been. NEVER.
Just face it, there are criminal hackers, and there are ethical hackers. The same as there are criminal locksmiths (eg thieves) and ethical locksmiths.
If you want to try and change the term, at least don't lie about it and flame people when they quite rightly correct you.
Jobs: - Creates technology products people want, or don't know they want yet -- but want. Rarely, this is hit-or-miss. - Outstanding technological visionary, all through his years, but especially at NeXT and the modern-day Apple. You may hate him, but you can't really argue against this point with validity.
Gates: - Creates technology products he *thinks* people want. This is hit or miss, miss usually. - Unarguably a vastly generous, in many ways selfless philanthropist.
1. The correct word is cracking not hacking. Hacking was originally a word representing something good and useful, but has been taken over by the news media to bean somethine vile and disguisting. Cracking means breaking into something, in order to do vile and dispicable things. What you were doing was cracking, not hacking.
You're a complete moron and you're wrong, ESR Junior. You're either clueless and haven't been around long, or you're purposely trying to mislead people.
Benchmarks are always hyped by a company. But the fact is, my 20" iMac is noticeably faster than the dual 2ghz G5 it replaced. Anyone who believes subjective benchmarks anymore is naive.
This whole debate is pointless until some of these new machines get in the hands of hackers. But despite that, I'll add some points anyway:
- Dell (Inspiron 9400) and Samsung are also shipping Core Duo machines which assumingly are EFI-based as well. What are they doing? They come with a normal Windows XP install.
- EFI reportedly has a "BIOS emulation" mechanism. This could mean that EFI machines will run vanilla Windows XP, but may not dual-boot (as this BIOS emulation mode is probably incompatible with what OS X needs).
- Standard partitioning on an EFI machine is completely new, it's neither legacy-x86 (MBR) nor Apple's (APM or w/e they call it) way, it's "GPT". This may mean some custom bootloader must be written for the bootloader environment, it may not.
PS: Feel free to correct anything, I'm still new to EFI
What Sony did is a lot different than what Apple has done. Sony was malicious and hid stuff from the user to restrict their rights. Apple seems to merely be implementing a recommendations system.
I additionally met an individual who served at A51. These are normal people who work there. They don't run around in black hats and black cloaks.
When he was first stationed at our base, people thought he was AFOSI because his orders had "**DATA MASKED**" all over it (even his last post field).
He was very likeable and took good care of/stood up for us younger avionics troops. One night on mid-shift the conversation on the work truck steered towards F117 systems and it vaguely came out that that was where he came from. He didn't say hardly anything at all, but what he did intimate seemed to indicate test aircraft, UAVs, and cruise missile stuff. When UFOs were mentioned he just laughed it off. It was a very weird conversation amongst us, because we got a lot of information without him actually violating any oaths, I think.
Personally seeing his orders (someone photocopied them and passed them around and rumors flew), and knowing his high level of integrity, I totally believe that he worked at A51. He was totally how a perfect NCO should be, too bad there weren't more like him.
Yeah and the nazis had "unique" local laws and practices, too. I'm sorry, but China oppressing its people and killing off dissidents goes a little beyond that. But hey money talks, and I'm sure China dumps a lot of it into Microsoft. Why would they want to lose that profit?
Microsoft's System.Windows.Forms implementation currently sits on top of Win32. SWF is a small, small part of the.NET platform. I rarely even use it.
Mono is in the process of implementing their own System.Windows.Forms, which sits on top of whatever it is it sits on top of (Gtk? MacMono sits on top of Cocoa as I recall).
It was called BeOS. It was a nice OS in many respects, but failed due both to technical and business issues. Perhaps if it had a 25 year headstart to "clunk" and mature it might still be around, who knows.
Yes, but its virtually 525 lines. A lot different than 200. Watch a video of the most supreme quality at 320x200 and then scale it to TV sized displays. Not good.
No, it IS possible by definition. That's why they push the term "intellectual property". Property is something that can be stolen. Never mind that in reality, you're just limiting progress and ideas.
And IP doesn't just apply to making illegal copies of games, it often applies to reverse engineering software. For example, reverse engineering a program to understand its protocols, or modifying your Tivo to not be a nazi and delete Latest-And-Greatest-Show after 3 days.
Should software piracy be legal? Probably not. Should legitimate reverse engineering? Hell no. The day I don't own something, but instead license it, is the day I don't acknowledge it and do what I want, or just plain don't buy/use it.
I'm not sure why you got modded as a troll, it seems you were trying to make a legitimate point. However, I don't recall Xcode or IB ever crashing on me (which is odd, since everything seems to crash once in a while).
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Why does Slashdot continue with fruitless attempts to revise history by using the term "cracker"? It's not "cracker" and never has been. NEVER.
Just face it, there are criminal hackers, and there are ethical hackers. The same as there are criminal locksmiths (eg thieves) and ethical locksmiths.
If you want to try and change the term, at least don't lie about it and flame people when they quite rightly correct you.
Oh? Switch to a Mac?
Done.
Bye bye.
I highly respect them both.
Jobs:
- Creates technology products people want, or don't know they want yet -- but want. Rarely, this is hit-or-miss.
- Outstanding technological visionary, all through his years, but especially at NeXT and the modern-day Apple. You may hate him, but you can't really argue against this point with validity.
Gates:
- Creates technology products he *thinks* people want. This is hit or miss, miss usually.
- Unarguably a vastly generous, in many ways selfless philanthropist.
1. The correct word is cracking not hacking. Hacking was originally a word representing something good and useful, but has been taken over by the news media to bean somethine vile and disguisting. Cracking means breaking into something, in order to do vile and dispicable things. What you were doing was cracking, not hacking.
You're a complete moron and you're wrong, ESR Junior. You're either clueless and haven't been around long, or you're purposely trying to mislead people.
Benchmarks are always hyped by a company. But the fact is, my 20" iMac is noticeably faster than the dual 2ghz G5 it replaced. Anyone who believes subjective benchmarks anymore is naive.
And yet an article that already violates Taco's guidelines.
1. The new iMacs don't include the shell component of EFI. So no EFI shell.
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2. The command-line utility, bless, has a bunch of new stuff to enable multi-OS booting. Take a look at the manpage for bless(8):
http://absent.org.nyud.net:8090/~jgw/stuff/bless8
Not on a DTK machine, no. Rosetta seems quite speedy. No flash stuttering either.
No, my first thought upon reading the story was "Fuck it, I'm not doing that shit. Fuck off" etc etc.
Uh, so we can dual boot. Get with the program.
This whole debate is pointless until some of these new machines get in the hands of hackers. But despite that, I'll add some points anyway:
- Dell (Inspiron 9400) and Samsung are also shipping Core Duo machines which assumingly are EFI-based as well. What are they doing? They come with a normal Windows XP install.
- EFI reportedly has a "BIOS emulation" mechanism. This could mean that EFI machines will run vanilla Windows XP, but may not dual-boot (as this BIOS emulation mode is probably incompatible with what OS X needs).
- Standard partitioning on an EFI machine is completely new, it's neither legacy-x86 (MBR) nor Apple's (APM or w/e they call it) way, it's "GPT". This may mean some custom bootloader must be written for the bootloader environment, it may not.
PS: Feel free to correct anything, I'm still new to EFI
What Sony did is a lot different than what Apple has done. Sony was malicious and hid stuff from the user to restrict their rights. Apple seems to merely be implementing a recommendations system.
Heh whoops, sucks when you accidently post something as a Non-AC.
I additionally met an individual who served at A51. These are normal people who work there. They don't run around in black hats and black cloaks.
When he was first stationed at our base, people thought he was AFOSI because his orders had "**DATA MASKED**" all over it (even his last post field).
He was very likeable and took good care of/stood up for us younger avionics troops. One night on mid-shift the conversation on the work truck steered towards F117 systems and it vaguely came out that that was where he came from. He didn't say hardly anything at all, but what he did intimate seemed to indicate test aircraft, UAVs, and cruise missile stuff. When UFOs were mentioned he just laughed it off. It was a very weird conversation amongst us, because we got a lot of information without him actually violating any oaths, I think.
Personally seeing his orders (someone photocopied them and passed them around and rumors flew), and knowing his high level of integrity, I totally believe that he worked at A51. He was totally how a perfect NCO should be, too bad there weren't more like him.
lol @ troll x 2
This just goes to show the WINE project's dedication to accurately reproducing the Windows libraries.
*drum hit*
Thank you, thank you, next show at 10!
It has everything to do with Bush; he's our current president and has a documented disregard for the Bill Of Rights.
Yeah and the nazis had "unique" local laws and practices, too. I'm sorry, but China oppressing its people and killing off dissidents goes a little beyond that. But hey money talks, and I'm sure China dumps a lot of it into Microsoft. Why would they want to lose that profit?
Ah that is right, and I knew that, I just forgot ;)
Thanks for the re-clueing.
Oh, cry me a river...
Err no, wait.
Uh no.
.NET platform. I rarely even use it.
Microsoft's System.Windows.Forms implementation currently sits on top of Win32. SWF is a small, small part of the
Mono is in the process of implementing their own System.Windows.Forms, which sits on top of whatever it is it sits on top of (Gtk? MacMono sits on top of Cocoa as I recall).
It was called BeOS. It was a nice OS in many respects, but failed due both to technical and business issues. Perhaps if it had a 25 year headstart to "clunk" and mature it might still be around, who knows.
Yes, but its virtually 525 lines. A lot different than 200. Watch a video of the most supreme quality at 320x200 and then scale it to TV sized displays. Not good.
No, it IS possible by definition. That's why they push the term "intellectual property". Property is something that can be stolen. Never mind that in reality, you're just limiting progress and ideas.
And IP doesn't just apply to making illegal copies of games, it often applies to reverse engineering software. For example, reverse engineering a program to understand its protocols, or modifying your Tivo to not be a nazi and delete Latest-And-Greatest-Show after 3 days.
Should software piracy be legal? Probably not. Should legitimate reverse engineering? Hell no. The day I don't own something, but instead license it, is the day I don't acknowledge it and do what I want, or just plain don't buy/use it.
I'm not sure why you got modded as a troll, it seems you were trying to make a legitimate point. However, I don't recall Xcode or IB ever crashing on me (which is odd, since everything seems to crash once in a while).