Note that I didn't say he had many failures, I said that the company he founded did. Atari basically had one major success, the 2600. Bushnell, as a person, seems to have had two. The first part of Atari's life, and Chuck E. Cheese's. His other things seem to be failures as well. And the 2600 was definitely an instance of nothing but good timing. As his first computer game box (Computer Space) was considered a commercial failure because it was too far ahead of its time.
Not sure if I'd trust a person whose company was responsible for multiple failed consoles (Jaguar, 5200, ET the game, to name a few). Then again, the founder of a company with so many failures might know how to spot a potential failure from experience with failing so many times.
I've known people to get attacked via this method. Unscrupulous advertising companies have used it to install spyware on several occasions.
Often times people will exploit it via normal advertisers, or find some exploit on some other software used by a website (the myspace flash exploit) or they'll find an exploit in some software the webserver uses such as phpBB, some dashboard software/configuration manager, or some other easily exploited piece of a webserver (as seen in the WMF exploit). They use one exploit to pass on another. It's really quite ingenious how some of these malware writers pile on exploits.
Remember, the phishing filter that IE uses is "live". If a new site becomes a phishing site, MS can address it on their servers immediately. If a site is mislabeled, MS can fix that immediately. There's no definitions being downloaded, it's all server side.
The "flaw" that SecureWorks reported did not exist. Apple wasn't told what the flaw was or really any details about it, and like a responsible company, audited all relevant code irregardless. They found three potential *crashers*. These may be impossible crashers, as in the requirements to get to that section of code means it is impossible for the data to be invalid, but they added an error check "just in case".
The problem is now days everyone considers a crasher to be a security exploit, even if it can't be used to run any code.
But none of these are what the SecureWorks guys "reportedly" found. Either way, they definitely and without a doubt lied on that video. The device they attached was not a wireless device seen by the system at all. The SecureWorks guys never even stated anything, other than the community didn't have the mental capacity to understand what the exploit was.
They also said they would not release details until Apple fixed it. So I assume they'll now put up or shut up. It really all looks like a publicity stunt to sell their upcoming book.
It seems more like amazon is hosting these major retailer's websites. For example, if you go to target.com it says on the bottom right, "Powered by Amazon.com". Amazon has their hands in a lot of retailers pockets. Mostly because it is just easier to pay amazon to do it than it is to set it all up yourself. Especially when amazon.com is a "proven" website.
While this is true, Apple would just drop Foxcomm completely. You may think that Apple would never do this due to the amount of money Apple could lose. You'd be wrong. Steve Jobs has been known to drop companies that embarrass him, even if dropping them means less profits.
Flashlight geeks have been dealing with this issue for a while.
I'd imagine this would be true if they are using cheap Li-Ion batteries or mixing cells from different brands. Hell, it's not even wise to mix cells of different ages of the same brand (old versus new).
IIRC, Lithium Ion battery charge can creep from one cell to another and due to the fragile nature of these batteries (easily overcome with proper circuitry) it's possible one cell can overcharge another. IE, if one cell discharges faster than another, the charge will flow into the empty cell possibly causing overheating. At least that's what I am getting from wikipedia. If the circuitry on the cells is cheap, overheating can be very likely.
So I wouldn't become all super paranoid over a few stories like this as it almost always involves cheap batteries or mixing of cells (which may be from using cheap batteries or "Whatever is around the house" in the first flashlight example). After all, you'll almost certainly hear about EVERY single failure but you never hear about the batteries performing their job correctly because when you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all.
It's all text, all names, and no links. Who ARE those people? I have no idea! I wanted to find out, but it looks like I'd have to Google each and every name.
Agreed. Everyone on that list is a total nobody loser.
Try copying a 40 character file from a windows server to a OSX client. What happens? Well... it depends if you used appletalk or SMB to connect with.
Which is always the issue. Windows is the weakest link. Services for Macintosh (now deprecated) is the thing that changes the names to be "mac safe" even though the idea of "mac safe" has long since changed since SfM was created. "Luckily" SfM is gone in Vista.
I mean c'mon. A day's worth of submissions, and you can't do any better than information that's been on the street for over a week, rewritten by a fifth-grader?
By week, I think you mean year. The fact leopard would be announced at WWDC was pre-announced at last year's WWDC. I'm not sure how this is news.
Which is completely useless when the XML files silently gets corrupted before the main file gets corrupted
Not something that happens in practice. The XML file is saved after the iTunes DB. So if the db is hosed, the XML file cannot be updated to a corrupted version. Seeing as my iTunes DB has died twice and I was able to restore successfully from the XML file twice.
MS wants to read [PDF] this way, so it has to be read that way.
In all fairness, Office 2007 cannot read PDFs. It's more of a "hmm, let's not export Word tables to PDF and say it's a limitation of PDF!" kind of future worrisome thing.
What if Adobe realized that MS was probably going to bastardize their PDF and simply didn't want MS to have a free reign with it?
That's my guess. It's not like MS doesn't have a history of it. OpenGL, CSS, HTML, OpenDocument, Java. Implementing or joining a committee that decides on the future of a spec, implementing the first version to the spec, then bastardizing it via embrace and extend (extend here also meaning making a version that has some serious issues such as speed or expandability like OpenGL).
Adobe's open licensing policy specifically states it must maintain the integrity of PDF.
In the areas where DirectX and OpenGL overlap, what what are in the works for OpenGL that would make it comparable with the new capabilities of DirectX 10?
OpenGL has this little thing called "extensions" that allow GPU manufacturers to add features to their card without waiting for a new version of OpenGL to be released. So game developers don't have to wait for a new version of a specification from Microsoft that could take years to be available to the general public if they use OpenGL. If an extension gets popular enough, it can be added to the official OpenGL spec. In otherwords, OpenGL likely has many of the extensions already.
Sadly, the default windows implementation for OpenGL does not allow the use of extensions, but as stated somewhere in this thread, most graphic card drivers don't appear to use MS's implementation.
Does this mean I should trade in my PC, stick a Mac in my rucksack, and let it work out how many calories I burn cycling to work?
Yes, however you'd probably have to connect a dummy DVI connector in order to keep the laptop from Sleeping. Note that this will drain your battery life in this configuration. You'd only be able to take about a 3-4 hour "trip" with all the power saving features turned on. But if you don't live that far away from work, battery life shouldn't be a problem.
Less Internet-literate people (people who don't know HTML, people who are uncomfortable typing in a text editor, etc.) have plenty of reasons to want to use a familiar word processor to blog.
Do we really want blogging to be more accessible to your grandmother? It's bad enough that blogging is accessible to 14 year old girls.
You know... if Microsoft integrated a spell checker that shows squiggly lines in Internet Explorer, the main reason I've seen for wanting to use word to blog goes away.
Actually, there's a very good reason for them to want to block VPN. It allows them to charge more for a business plan for businesses that need VPN. In fact, I think this might already be a common practice.
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Doesn't anyone pay attention to history?
Note that I didn't say he had many failures, I said that the company he founded did. Atari basically had one major success, the 2600. Bushnell, as a person, seems to have had two. The first part of Atari's life, and Chuck E. Cheese's. His other things seem to be failures as well. And the 2600 was definitely an instance of nothing but good timing. As his first computer game box (Computer Space) was considered a commercial failure because it was too far ahead of its time.
Not sure if I'd trust a person whose company was responsible for multiple failed consoles (Jaguar, 5200, ET the game, to name a few). Then again, the founder of a company with so many failures might know how to spot a potential failure from experience with failing so many times.
... the Japanese killed the rare ocean dwelling animal in order to sell four flipper dolphin medicine and magical flipper medallions to the rich.
I do believe you're confusing the chinese with the japanese.
The Japanese made a mechanical exoskeleton for the dolphin and equipped it with a giant gun. That'll teach Godzilla not to mess with France.
I've known people to get attacked via this method. Unscrupulous advertising companies have used it to install spyware on several occasions.
Often times people will exploit it via normal advertisers, or find some exploit on some other software used by a website (the myspace flash exploit) or they'll find an exploit in some software the webserver uses such as phpBB, some dashboard software/configuration manager, or some other easily exploited piece of a webserver (as seen in the WMF exploit). They use one exploit to pass on another. It's really quite ingenious how some of these malware writers pile on exploits.
Remember, the phishing filter that IE uses is "live". If a new site becomes a phishing site, MS can address it on their servers immediately. If a site is mislabeled, MS can fix that immediately. There's no definitions being downloaded, it's all server side.
It think both Apple and Dell are using the same Intel chipsets, so this is apparently an Intel fix.
Apple does not use the Intel wireless chipsets. They use atheros.
The "flaw" that SecureWorks reported did not exist. Apple wasn't told what the flaw was or really any details about it, and like a responsible company, audited all relevant code irregardless. They found three potential *crashers*. These may be impossible crashers, as in the requirements to get to that section of code means it is impossible for the data to be invalid, but they added an error check "just in case".
The problem is now days everyone considers a crasher to be a security exploit, even if it can't be used to run any code.
But none of these are what the SecureWorks guys "reportedly" found. Either way, they definitely and without a doubt lied on that video. The device they attached was not a wireless device seen by the system at all. The SecureWorks guys never even stated anything, other than the community didn't have the mental capacity to understand what the exploit was.
They also said they would not release details until Apple fixed it. So I assume they'll now put up or shut up. It really all looks like a publicity stunt to sell their upcoming book.
It seems more like amazon is hosting these major retailer's websites. For example, if you go to target.com it says on the bottom right, "Powered by Amazon.com". Amazon has their hands in a lot of retailers pockets. Mostly because it is just easier to pay amazon to do it than it is to set it all up yourself. Especially when amazon.com is a "proven" website.
While this is true, Apple would just drop Foxcomm completely. You may think that Apple would never do this due to the amount of money Apple could lose. You'd be wrong. Steve Jobs has been known to drop companies that embarrass him, even if dropping them means less profits.
Flashlight geeks have been dealing with this issue for a while.
I'd imagine this would be true if they are using cheap Li-Ion batteries or mixing cells from different brands. Hell, it's not even wise to mix cells of different ages of the same brand (old versus new).
IIRC, Lithium Ion battery charge can creep from one cell to another and due to the fragile nature of these batteries (easily overcome with proper circuitry) it's possible one cell can overcharge another. IE, if one cell discharges faster than another, the charge will flow into the empty cell possibly causing overheating. At least that's what I am getting from wikipedia. If the circuitry on the cells is cheap, overheating can be very likely.
So I wouldn't become all super paranoid over a few stories like this as it almost always involves cheap batteries or mixing of cells (which may be from using cheap batteries or "Whatever is around the house" in the first flashlight example). After all, you'll almost certainly hear about EVERY single failure but you never hear about the batteries performing their job correctly because when you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all.
It's all text, all names, and no links. Who ARE those people? I have no idea! I wanted to find out, but it looks like I'd have to Google each and every name.
Agreed. Everyone on that list is a total nobody loser.
Try copying a 40 character file from a windows server to a OSX client. What happens? Well... it depends if you used appletalk or SMB to connect with.
Which is always the issue. Windows is the weakest link. Services for Macintosh (now deprecated) is the thing that changes the names to be "mac safe" even though the idea of "mac safe" has long since changed since SfM was created. "Luckily" SfM is gone in Vista.
The correct url is http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2006/07/ 05/657510.aspx the link in the summary was missing the trailing x.
I mean c'mon. A day's worth of submissions, and you can't do any better than information that's been on the street for over a week, rewritten by a fifth-grader?
By week, I think you mean year. The fact leopard would be announced at WWDC was pre-announced at last year's WWDC. I'm not sure how this is news.
Which is completely useless when the XML files silently gets corrupted before the main file gets corrupted
Not something that happens in practice. The XML file is saved after the iTunes DB. So if the db is hosed, the XML file cannot be updated to a corrupted version. Seeing as my iTunes DB has died twice and I was able to restore successfully from the XML file twice.
Or maybe... oh wait, I'm sorry. You're just trolling.
No.. someone can't take a joke..
"Windows is so broken that it's crazy to be running it on today's Internet"
I think that's a little harsh. I mean it's been what, 2 months since the last vulnerability made news? Give MS some slack.
MS wants to read [PDF] this way, so it has to be read that way.
In all fairness, Office 2007 cannot read PDFs. It's more of a "hmm, let's not export Word tables to PDF and say it's a limitation of PDF!" kind of future worrisome thing.
What if Adobe realized that MS was probably going to bastardize their PDF and simply didn't want MS to have a free reign with it?
That's my guess. It's not like MS doesn't have a history of it. OpenGL, CSS, HTML, OpenDocument, Java. Implementing or joining a committee that decides on the future of a spec, implementing the first version to the spec, then bastardizing it via embrace and extend (extend here also meaning making a version that has some serious issues such as speed or expandability like OpenGL).
Adobe's open licensing policy specifically states it must maintain the integrity of PDF.
In the areas where DirectX and OpenGL overlap, what what are in the works for OpenGL that would make it comparable with the new capabilities of DirectX 10?
OpenGL has this little thing called "extensions" that allow GPU manufacturers to add features to their card without waiting for a new version of OpenGL to be released. So game developers don't have to wait for a new version of a specification from Microsoft that could take years to be available to the general public if they use OpenGL. If an extension gets popular enough, it can be added to the official OpenGL spec. In otherwords, OpenGL likely has many of the extensions already.
Sadly, the default windows implementation for OpenGL does not allow the use of extensions, but as stated somewhere in this thread, most graphic card drivers don't appear to use MS's implementation.
Does this mean I should trade in my PC, stick a Mac in my rucksack, and let it work out how many calories I burn cycling to work?
Yes, however you'd probably have to connect a dummy DVI connector in order to keep the laptop from Sleeping. Note that this will drain your battery life in this configuration. You'd only be able to take about a 3-4 hour "trip" with all the power saving features turned on. But if you don't live that far away from work, battery life shouldn't be a problem.
Wow, people will say just about anything to justify why their preferred OS lacks a feature.
Less Internet-literate people (people who don't know HTML, people who are uncomfortable typing in a text editor, etc.) have plenty of reasons to want to use a familiar word processor to blog.
Do we really want blogging to be more accessible to your grandmother? It's bad enough that blogging is accessible to 14 year old girls.
Current Mood: I pee every time I sneeze.
You know... if Microsoft integrated a spell checker that shows squiggly lines in Internet Explorer, the main reason I've seen for wanting to use word to blog goes away.
Gotta love Safari for that, I guess...?
Actually, there's a very good reason for them to want to block VPN. It allows them to charge more for a business plan for businesses that need VPN. In fact, I think this might already be a common practice.