As part of the attack, the anonymous researchers obtained a signature certificate from VeriSign for a company named Apple Computer
You have to fool VeriSign first, just like any other SSL man-in-the-middle attack, so I guess it depends on what you call easy.
Actually, as stated in the original blog post liked from the article, it was a demo signature certificate for a person named "Apple Computer". Such certificates are offered by VeriSign without validation. The problem is that the iPhone trusts such certificates, and that it doesn't make it clear that it isn't a validated organization name it publishes.
It would be funny if it weren't so sad. I guess most people remember the history of the Vista shutdown button.
I wonder what Windows would look like today if they stopped designing things by committee back in Redmond.
I, myself, just visited http://www.whatismyipv6.net/ and found out that I have become IPv6 connected without knowing it. So apparently, it doesn't have to be that painful.
So fix the bloody flaw. STOP HIDING FILE EXTENSIONS.
I'm not saying that I disagree, but in that case they would also have to stop supporting running unix executable files from within Finder or disable custom icons for such files.
Warning dialogs should ONLY be brought up before *rare* and *irreversible* actions. Not common ones.
Depending on point of view, launching a downloaded application for the first time could be considered rare and could definitely result in something irreversible.
The reason for the dialog you get when launching a downloaded application for the first time is to counter an otherwise existing flaw where an application could be disguised a document.
The key part of the dialog message is not that the file was downloaded from "the Internet", but rather the fact that the file is "an application".
And when you really think about it, paying any price for a digital download is simply price gouging anyway, since the cost of reproduction is zero. That means at $5, Trism is marked up 500 times. No wonder he got so rich, huh?
You seem to have a moral objection against high mark up percentages. Your first error is discussing margins in terms of percentages of costs. The only case where this is meaningful is when there is a risk involved with the cost. Since you disregard development costs, marketing costs and write-off costs, the remaining cost (distribution + "replication") carries no risk.
The markup percentage has nothing to do with how "rich" you get. Your profit comes from absolute margin times volumes sold. An acquaintance of mine runs a business with a "mark up" of < 5 % and they are still able to make loads of money. Are they saintly in your eyes?
I definitely don't think it is the price that made them drop it. Apple, more than most other producers, have a great advantage of production scale to offset the additional development costs and at least 3 times the margins compared to the other laptop producers.
The real reason is market segmentation. They know that the few people that really need the firewire port and are complaining most loudly now are ones not very likely to consider getting anything but a Mac anyway. They have just forced them to shell out some additional money for the Pro model. More profit for Apple.
I am well aware energy is measured in Joules. The sentence quantifies an amount of energy in Watts (27 MW worth of energy). More correct would be to say that it produces "27 MW of thermal power". Or that it produces 1.2 TWh of thermal energy during its life of 5 years.
The sentence
"it would produce 27 megawatts worth of thermal energy"
doesn't parse. Does it produce 27 megawatts for 1 ns?
It seems most people are good at making distinctions between speed and distance. Why is power vs. energy so hard?
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As part of the attack, the anonymous researchers obtained a signature certificate from VeriSign for a company named Apple Computer
You have to fool VeriSign first, just like any other SSL man-in-the-middle attack, so I guess it depends on what you call easy.
Actually, as stated in the original blog post liked from the article, it was a demo signature certificate for a person named "Apple Computer". Such certificates are offered by VeriSign without validation. The problem is that the iPhone trusts such certificates, and that it doesn't make it clear that it isn't a validated organization name it publishes.
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It would be funny if it weren't so sad. I guess most people remember the history of the Vista shutdown button. I wonder what Windows would look like today if they stopped designing things by committee back in Redmond.
I, myself, just visited http://www.whatismyipv6.net/ and found out that I have become IPv6 connected without knowing it. So apparently, it doesn't have to be that painful.
Yet, the cited study places a FreeBSD based OS at 10 times the Linux market share.
So fix the bloody flaw. STOP HIDING FILE EXTENSIONS.
I'm not saying that I disagree, but in that case they would also have to stop supporting running unix executable files from within Finder or disable custom icons for such files.
Warning dialogs should ONLY be brought up before *rare* and *irreversible* actions. Not common ones.
Depending on point of view, launching a downloaded application for the first time could be considered rare and could definitely result in something irreversible.
The reason for the dialog you get when launching a downloaded application for the first time is to counter an otherwise existing flaw where an application could be disguised a document.
The key part of the dialog message is not that the file was downloaded from "the Internet", but rather the fact that the file is "an application".
And when you really think about it, paying any price for a digital download is simply price gouging anyway, since the cost of reproduction is zero. That means at $5, Trism is marked up 500 times. No wonder he got so rich, huh?
You seem to have a moral objection against high mark up percentages. Your first error is discussing margins in terms of percentages of costs. The only case where this is meaningful is when there is a risk involved with the cost. Since you disregard development costs, marketing costs and write-off costs, the remaining cost (distribution + "replication") carries no risk.
The markup percentage has nothing to do with how "rich" you get. Your profit comes from absolute margin times volumes sold. An acquaintance of mine runs a business with a "mark up" of < 5 % and they are still able to make loads of money. Are they saintly in your eyes?
I definitely don't think it is the price that made them drop it. Apple, more than most other producers, have a great advantage of production scale to offset the additional development costs and at least 3 times the margins compared to the other laptop producers.
The real reason is market segmentation. They know that the few people that really need the firewire port and are complaining most loudly now are ones not very likely to consider getting anything but a Mac anyway. They have just forced them to shell out some additional money for the Pro model. More profit for Apple.
I am well aware energy is measured in Joules. The sentence quantifies an amount of energy in Watts (27 MW worth of energy). More correct would be to say that it produces "27 MW of thermal power". Or that it produces 1.2 TWh of thermal energy during its life of 5 years.
The sentence "it would produce 27 megawatts worth of thermal energy" doesn't parse. Does it produce 27 megawatts for 1 ns? It seems most people are good at making distinctions between speed and distance. Why is power vs. energy so hard?
Will you experience an increase in bone and muscle mass if you sleep with your head at the higher end?