Some of us actually prefer Homeric Greek. It can be tricky--compilers won't accept anything that's not in well-formed dactylic hexameter--but it's beautiful when it's done right!
Even in the realm of OS X, is this exploit really all that new or exciting? Not having gotten my hands on a copy of this, I don't know how it works, but it seems similar to the proof-of-concept from nearly two years ago, which exploited issues in the Finder with handling file extensions vs. type/creator codes (IIRC, the proof was an application with type code 'APPL' and extension.mp3, which made the Finder display it as an MP3 but treat it as an application when clicked).
...it comes from the Greek for word/speech about flowers (logos=word/speech, anthos=flower).
Well, sort of. The word logos can indeed mean a word or a speech, but it has other meanings too--calculation and reckoning, for example. It comes from the verb lego, whose core meaning is "to gather/pick up," out of which come the senses of counting something and then speaking of it (the last being the most common sense of the word in ancient Greek). So despite appearances, an anthology is, indeed, a gathering of flowers.
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Some of us actually prefer Homeric Greek. It can be tricky--compilers won't accept anything that's not in well-formed dactylic hexameter--but it's beautiful when it's done right!
Even in the realm of OS X, is this exploit really all that new or exciting? Not having gotten my hands on a copy of this, I don't know how it works, but it seems similar to the proof-of-concept from nearly two years ago, which exploited issues in the Finder with handling file extensions vs. type/creator codes (IIRC, the proof was an application with type code 'APPL' and extension .mp3, which made the Finder display it as an MP3 but treat it as an application when clicked).
...it comes from the Greek for word/speech about flowers (logos=word/speech, anthos=flower). Well, sort of. The word logos can indeed mean a word or a speech, but it has other meanings too--calculation and reckoning, for example. It comes from the verb lego, whose core meaning is "to gather/pick up," out of which come the senses of counting something and then speaking of it (the last being the most common sense of the word in ancient Greek). So despite appearances, an anthology is, indeed, a gathering of flowers.