Correct but it does indicate mac peeps aren't particularly careful about what they download or what sites they visit. This is going to cause them problems later when we see more mac malware.
This is very true. Mac users generally surf the web with a complacent sense of impunity from malware.
...but how is it 'transmitted'? That implies an installed transmitter, ie. malware.
I guess we'd have to attach it to an email and send it along to them. Since it's can't act on its own, and it isn't active on the system, it's just sitting there like any other file on my Mac.
There are no environmental restrictions on mining asteroids to my knowledge.
And no restrictions on advertising! You can show someone actually drinking a beer or even pretend to be a nutritional expert and no one can make you stop:-)
Does anyone know what the (plausible) ROI for this is?
If you bring enough precious metals back to make huge profits then the price of the precious metals will drop because they won't be as scarce as the were before you sent your miners into the heavens on a fool's errand.
Slightly paraphrasing Hubert Farnsworth: "Yes, there's no safer occupation than mining. Especially when you're on a rock whipping through space at a million miles an hour! Whoo whoo whoo whoooo! Safe!"
Dr. Zoidberg: It's true, it's true. I've never had one asteroid miner come to me seeking medical attention.
Can't he just move the hosting of his site to another provider ( one that is outside of the US ) and then tell them to go fuck themselves ?
Oh wait, I am talking about the US, how silly of me!
But seriously, wouldn't that solve it ?
Not if he's charging for his services and receiving the money in NC. If he's operating his business in NC then he's going to be subject to NC laws.
which 'the man' is doing the sticking, and which 'the man' is getting stuck?
Based on what I can gather from TV, the "top" is doing the sticking and the "bottom" is getting stuck. You should probably use Google images to find out more;-)
Exactly how it should be. The entire point of requiring a warrant, is to provide checks and ballances to the system.
And yet, when individuals or law enforcement investigations want to get specific information about a TelCo or ISP these companies circle the wagons and spout off about warrants, subpoenas and the like.
But how does that help? I mean "seed", heck, we've been/terraformed/ with evidence that Win security is bad, yet the average Win user is still pretty clueless about it.
We Mac users pay a premium for our computers with the presumption that one of the benefits of a Mac is that security is stringent. Just make sure your updates are up-to-date, don't randomly install crap or casually click with a 'Hey, OK, if you really think you should install that' mentality.
This is like relying on the warning light on your dash that you're about to run out of gas. You never take it for granted that it will keep you from doing something stupid after the first time it fails you.
I say make it worse next time! And, target all OS's!
The Java exploit used to spread Mac Flashback wasn't Mac specific, it just went unpatched for several months longer on OS X than on Windows. All the while almost all Mac users surfed the internet with a false sense of impunity.
I don't think any researchers have tried to figure out how many PC's were affected by the same Java exploit, but the impact this has had on the Mac user mindset - and Apple's security responses - should be rather sobering.
Do a little checking into Sony before you deem this the pinnacle of evil.
I think they've effectively ruined their corporate image with this.
Oh please. Both of these companies have done much worse. Most customers aren't going to care all that much if some high-priced high-tech employees didn't get to leverage one company against another for a job.
What they did was wrong - all of them (there were others besides Apple & Google), and this will be another ethics wakeup call to corporate America... until the next scheme crosses one of their minds.
But why this obsession with saving the species? Why not try to save the family or order?
We're humans. We consider ourselves more valuable than the rest of the Earth's creatures combined. If we do not survive then the rest of it doesn't matter because we won't be around to see it.
Oh, btw. - can we please stop calling them gTLDs? They are anything but "generic". That exactly is the fundamental problem with them. They are in fundamental opposition to the very concept of the DNS, that it breaks down into ever more specific parts from highly generic ones. You can argue that.com and.org and.net have lost their original meanings, but they are still very generic and fit thousands upon thousands of domains. How many 2nd level names will we see within.citibank,.kfc and.disney?
I agree that these 'vanity' corporate TLDs are the opposite of generic, but I'm sure there are some who are going to drop $185,000 to try to set up their own TLD simply to extort money from companies trying to protect their corporate identities or to try to become a cool alternative to.com,.net, etc.
The company that registers a generic enough TLD, such as.cloud,.web,.service, will be able to harvest a nice registration fee (and annual renewals) from any company that doesn't want someone else grabbing it first. And let's not forget the high price during the 'land rush' phase of registration could bring small fortunes for domains like internet.cloud (and many others).
A new popular TLD - let's say.zombie became popular - that sells tens of thousands of domains will be a gold mine. If a company like Facebook buys the.facebook or.fb TLD they can sell domains to companies or vain celebrities for $1,000's a piece.
Those this is definitely a racket by ICANN it's also going to turn out to be another opportunity for companies or domain squatters to try to profit off others.
Someone could go on Kickstarter and raise some money for an open source project to do it for them. They could hand out tee-shirts saying "I helped fix the Internet".
How about using Kickstarter to get enough funding to buy one (or more) of these ludicrous vanity TLD? Then we can vote on which one(s) to buy. There's already been a suggestion to establish a fucksgoats TLD here on/., but I'm pretty sure there may be a few other suggestions. What would you like to see as a vanity TLD?
I have a simple test for whether a new TLD is sensible: the fucksgoats test.
I'm pretty sure that Facebook would sue you for copywright and/or trademark infringement if you setup a fucksgoats TLD. See, Facebook and fucksgoats both start with the letter 'F' and have two syllables, and I'm pretty sure Facebook claims to own anything that meets those criteria. Also, Facebook and fucksgoats share half of the same letters - FACOK - which Facebook will determine to be too misleading for their users. And finally, fucksgoats and fuckssheep are almost identical and Facebook has already laid claims that they - and they alone - should be allowed to fuck their sheep.
If Apple promised to replace parts they knew to be defective for up to four years then they'd better step up. The court costs far outweighed the costs of replacing the GPU in his MacBook (and probably 100's of others). The cost of the bad press? It seems Apple has always been willing to test the patience of their customers' loyalties.
Wait... we're still pretending there's an actual difference between the Republicans and Democrats now?
There are differences, but none significant enough to determine which should be burned at the stake first. It looks like we'll just have to supply a bipartisan two stake solution.
What if you don't have enough room for both a fridge and a tv set?
IKEA sells boxes that are big enough to be an addition to your home, condo or apartment. First you expand your living space with an IKEA box and then you fill it with the stuff that came in the IKEA box;-)
And not lodge a complaint with the FCC or his local congresscritter (maybe over an expensive dinner)?
One man, even with a loud voice, isn't going to make much of a difference. By posting it on Facebook he's hoping to stir the pot and get others up in arms about the unfair nature of this special treatment.
When another car partially blocked the officer's view of Krioukov's car momentarily, the officer could have missed the brief yet crucial timing of his stop. At least, that's Krioukov's version of the case.
Physics explained what the officer saw (or thought he saw) but another car explains what the officer didn't see (Krioukov stopping at the stop sign).
"Space exploration doesn't make rich people richer **TODAY**"
It won't make anyone richer today, tomorrow, or ever. Unless you can sell vacuum, space is EMPTY. There's NOTHING there. And the few things that ARE there, are so ridiculously small and far away, it's not worth it. By the time you build big enough steam locomotives... the 20th century happens. Understand? If you had the resources to do anything in space, you don't need to!
The technological byproducts of developing space programs benefit everyone. I can't even imagine what will come out of developing a Mars mission, but on such a long voyage I have to assume it will involve major improvements in recycling technology and significant insights into prevention and treatment of muscle atrophy (and related diseases).
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Correct but it does indicate mac peeps aren't particularly careful about what they download or what sites they visit. This is going to cause them problems later when we see more mac malware.
This is very true. Mac users generally surf the web with a complacent sense of impunity from malware.
...but how is it 'transmitted'? That implies an installed transmitter, ie. malware.
I guess we'd have to attach it to an email and send it along to them. Since it's can't act on its own, and it isn't active on the system, it's just sitting there like any other file on my Mac.
There are no environmental restrictions on mining asteroids to my knowledge.
And no restrictions on advertising! You can show someone actually drinking a beer or even pretend to be a nutritional expert and no one can make you stop :-)
Does anyone know what the (plausible) ROI for this is?
If you bring enough precious metals back to make huge profits then the price of the precious metals will drop because they won't be as scarce as the were before you sent your miners into the heavens on a fool's errand.
Slightly paraphrasing Hubert Farnsworth: "Yes, there's no safer occupation than mining. Especially when you're on a rock whipping through space at a million miles an hour! Whoo whoo whoo whoooo! Safe!"
Dr. Zoidberg: It's true, it's true. I've never had one asteroid miner come to me seeking medical attention.
Can't he just move the hosting of his site to another provider ( one that is outside of the US ) and then tell them to go fuck themselves ? Oh wait, I am talking about the US, how silly of me! But seriously, wouldn't that solve it ?
Not if he's charging for his services and receiving the money in NC. If he's operating his business in NC then he's going to be subject to NC laws.
which 'the man' is doing the sticking, and which 'the man' is getting stuck?
Based on what I can gather from TV, the "top" is doing the sticking and the "bottom" is getting stuck. You should probably use Google images to find out more ;-)
Exactly how it should be. The entire point of requiring a warrant, is to provide checks and ballances to the system.
And yet, when individuals or law enforcement investigations want to get specific information about a TelCo or ISP these companies circle the wagons and spout off about warrants, subpoenas and the like.
That's interesting... the comment my reply was added to was not the one I replied to and in fact didn't even exist when I clicked reply.
That's odd. I guess it's the ghost of Commander Taco haunting the machine ... or it could just be the UI Ajax going rogue ;-)
But how does that help? I mean "seed", heck, we've been /terraformed/ with evidence that Win security is bad, yet the average Win user is still pretty clueless about it.
We Mac users pay a premium for our computers with the presumption that one of the benefits of a Mac is that security is stringent. Just make sure your updates are up-to-date, don't randomly install crap or casually click with a 'Hey, OK, if you really think you should install that' mentality.
This is like relying on the warning light on your dash that you're about to run out of gas. You never take it for granted that it will keep you from doing something stupid after the first time it fails you.
I say make it worse next time! And, target all OS's!
The Java exploit used to spread Mac Flashback wasn't Mac specific, it just went unpatched for several months longer on OS X than on Windows. All the while almost all Mac users surfed the internet with a false sense of impunity.
I don't think any researchers have tried to figure out how many PC's were affected by the same Java exploit, but the impact this has had on the Mac user mindset - and Apple's security responses - should be rather sobering.
It's not the height of evil, that wasn't my claim. My claim was only that this was starkly beyond the gray zone.
Ah, I see what you meant. Yes, it was clearly evil on their part. No doubt about it.
Seriously, it doesn't get much more clearly evil.
Do a little checking into Sony before you deem this the pinnacle of evil.
I think they've effectively ruined their corporate image with this.
Oh please. Both of these companies have done much worse. Most customers aren't going to care all that much if some high-priced high-tech employees didn't get to leverage one company against another for a job.
... until the next scheme crosses one of their minds.
What they did was wrong - all of them (there were others besides Apple & Google), and this will be another ethics wakeup call to corporate America
How it security by obscurity treating you now?
Security by obscurity was not the problem. Complacency was the problem.
But why this obsession with saving the species? Why not try to save the family or order?
We're humans. We consider ourselves more valuable than the rest of the Earth's creatures combined. If we do not survive then the rest of it doesn't matter because we won't be around to see it.
Oh, btw. - can we please stop calling them gTLDs? They are anything but "generic". That exactly is the fundamental problem with them. They are in fundamental opposition to the very concept of the DNS, that it breaks down into ever more specific parts from highly generic ones. You can argue that .com and .org and .net have lost their original meanings, but they are still very generic and fit thousands upon thousands of domains. How many 2nd level names will we see within .citibank, .kfc and .disney?
I agree that these 'vanity' corporate TLDs are the opposite of generic, but I'm sure there are some who are going to drop $185,000 to try to set up their own TLD simply to extort money from companies trying to protect their corporate identities or to try to become a cool alternative to .com, .net, etc.
.cloud, .web, .service, will be able to harvest a nice registration fee (and annual renewals) from any company that doesn't want someone else grabbing it first. And let's not forget the high price during the 'land rush' phase of registration could bring small fortunes for domains like internet.cloud (and many others).
.zombie became popular - that sells tens of thousands of domains will be a gold mine. If a company like Facebook buys the .facebook or .fb TLD they can sell domains to companies or vain celebrities for $1,000's a piece.
The company that registers a generic enough TLD, such as
A new popular TLD - let's say
Those this is definitely a racket by ICANN it's also going to turn out to be another opportunity for companies or domain squatters to try to profit off others.
Someone could go on Kickstarter and raise some money for an open source project to do it for them. They could hand out tee-shirts saying "I helped fix the Internet".
How about using Kickstarter to get enough funding to buy one (or more) of these ludicrous vanity TLD? Then we can vote on which one(s) to buy. There's already been a suggestion to establish a fucksgoats TLD here on /., but I'm pretty sure there may be a few other suggestions. What would you like to see as a vanity TLD?
I have a simple test for whether a new TLD is sensible: the fucksgoats test.
I'm pretty sure that Facebook would sue you for copywright and/or trademark infringement if you setup a fucksgoats TLD. See, Facebook and fucksgoats both start with the letter 'F' and have two syllables, and I'm pretty sure Facebook claims to own anything that meets those criteria. Also, Facebook and fucksgoats share half of the same letters - FACOK - which Facebook will determine to be too misleading for their users. And finally, fucksgoats and fuckssheep are almost identical and Facebook has already laid claims that they - and they alone - should be allowed to fuck their sheep.
If Apple promised to replace parts they knew to be defective for up to four years then they'd better step up. The court costs far outweighed the costs of replacing the GPU in his MacBook (and probably 100's of others). The cost of the bad press? It seems Apple has always been willing to test the patience of their customers' loyalties.
Wait... we're still pretending there's an actual difference between the Republicans and Democrats now?
There are differences, but none significant enough to determine which should be burned at the stake first. It looks like we'll just have to supply a bipartisan two stake solution.
What if you don't have enough room for both a fridge and a tv set?
IKEA sells boxes that are big enough to be an addition to your home, condo or apartment. First you expand your living space with an IKEA box and then you fill it with the stuff that came in the IKEA box ;-)
And not lodge a complaint with the FCC or his local congresscritter (maybe over an expensive dinner)?
One man, even with a loud voice, isn't going to make much of a difference. By posting it on Facebook he's hoping to stir the pot and get others up in arms about the unfair nature of this special treatment.
Is there an equivalent of Collusion for Chrome?
I believe it's called Google Ads ;-)
When another car partially blocked the officer's view of Krioukov's car momentarily, the officer could have missed the brief yet crucial timing of his stop. At least, that's Krioukov's version of the case.
Physics explained what the officer saw (or thought he saw) but another car explains what the officer didn't see (Krioukov stopping at the stop sign).
"Space exploration doesn't make rich people richer **TODAY**"
It won't make anyone richer today, tomorrow, or ever. Unless you can sell vacuum, space is EMPTY. There's NOTHING there. And the few things that ARE there, are so ridiculously small and far away, it's not worth it. By the time you build big enough steam locomotives... the 20th century happens. Understand? If you had the resources to do anything in space, you don't need to!
The technological byproducts of developing space programs benefit everyone. I can't even imagine what will come out of developing a Mars mission, but on such a long voyage I have to assume it will involve major improvements in recycling technology and significant insights into prevention and treatment of muscle atrophy (and related diseases).