And just like the unreplaceable battery in the iPod, I'm sure that no third party replacements will be popping up to replace your battery at a fraction of Apple's cost.
My brief overview of the article leads me to believe that it's long on general malware theory, and short on the specifics of current malwear infection vectors as opposed to techniques. I believe that most of the readers of Slashdot are familiar with how a rootkit works. Far more valuable would be a breakdown of the most common infection vectors for rootkits right now. Is it TCP/IP stack overflows, Active-X controls, e-mail trojans, or old-fashioned human error?
Fruthermore, "trends" in malware construction obscure the reality that certain software packages (Windows, IIS) are otrders of magnitude more vulnerable than others (OS X, Linux, Apache). The unstated elephant in the room is that 95-99% of malware attacks are due to Microsoft vulnerabilities.
Important: You Must Follow All These Steps in the Precise Order to Obtain Your iPhone. Failure to Do So Will mean Being Denied Entry To the Kingdom of Jobs
Take a number from the iphone number dispenser at the front of the store.
Proceed to the Coolness Evaluation Station. There you will be evaluated on your dress, apperance, and general coolness to determine whether you are worthy of having an iPhone. Among the criteria: A.) If you have a goatee, you may not have an iPhone. Those are so last year. B.) If you are a white man with Chinese or Japanese symbols tattooed on any part of your body, AND you can't read the language it's written in, you may not have an iPhone. Posuers are so lame. C.) If you are wearing a NASCAR shirt, a mullet, or carrying a can of Skoal, no iPhone for you, Cletus. D.) If you've ever owned, or even touched, a Zune, you may not have an iPhone. What's wrong with you? Finally, E. Any woman carrying a small dog with her as a fashion accesory may not have an iPhone. Get a life, Princess.
If you have passed the Coolness Test, you may proceed to the Icon of Jobs in the center of the store. Kiss it thrice and ask for Jobs to bless your purchase.
After kissing the Jobs icon, proceed to iPod/iPhone Acclimation station, where your iPod and your iPhone will be introduced to each other to see if their peronalities are compatible. If you have forgotten to bring your iPod, you may, at the acolytes' discression, buy a new one.
Finally, proceed to the Wallet Weighing Checkout station. Your wallet will be weighed, and must weigh more than a feather, but less than a duck. If it passes these tests, your wallet will be taken and you will be allowed to have your iPhone. No, you may not have your wallet back. Your bank will be able to issue you new credit cards.
Wow, letting someone watch something brodcast over the airwaves anywhere they want is almost as bad as someone breaking a hallowed major league record because they were using illegal, performance-enhancing drugs! But we know MLB would never let that happen...
(Given the plethora of entertainment choices available today, plus the numerous scandals that have rocked the sport just this decade, you would think that MLB would be happy that anyone still watches baseball, never mind when and where...)
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...just as soon as I get that $7 million I have coming to me from a Nigerian Prince.
I thought Fridays were officially "Suck Second Life's Schlong" day on Slashdot. I must not have gotten the TPS memo. Did you use the proper cover sheet?
Of course, every day is "Bash Bush and/or Dibold" day on Slashdot. That, and burning heretics who question the truth of the Protocols of the Elders of Global Warming.
"Today the FBI announced the largest ever nationwide mass arrest, as over 12 million World of Warcraft players were arrested for "Virtual Murder." Said FBI Virtual Crimes Section Chief Leonard Scarp: "These people have slain untold numbers of Night Elves, Dwarfs, Griffins, and Dragons, via such horrible means as decapitation, death by fire, and vile necromancy. Each and every one of them is a hard-core virtual murderer." A giant internment camp is being built in the Nevada desert to house the criminals while they await trial."
"In other news, ScuttleMonkey Industries reported that their profits were at an all-time high thanks to continued graft payments from the creators of Second Life to continue greenlighting stories about their company on Slashdot..."
It seems like every week Slashdot has a story on Second Life doing this or that or bla blah blah. What I want to know is: Who is the Second Life Paid Publicity Whore? After all, we're talking about a game with less than 1/10th the players of World of Warcraft, and yet there seem to be almost as many stories about it on Slashdot. Exactly whose palm is getting greased here?
Smell that, gentlemen? That's the smell of 100% genuine Astroturf!
...it's certainly a top-down mandate handed down by Communist Party officials in a one-party state! Why look at how well all those Soviet Five Year Plans did at burying us in mountains of wheat...
Alternately, China could stop dicking around with piecemeal reform and institute capitalism, democracy, and the rule of law. If China had half the per-capita GNP of Tiawan, they could easily surpass the United States economically. But as long as they cling to the vestiges of a totalitarian command economy, they won't do it.
India has already woken up and figured out that socialism doesn't work. Unless China does the same, it could well be India that supplants the United States as the world's biggest superpower by the end of the century, not China...
It's cross-platform (or at least (minus Fairplay) more cross-platform that WMA).
No Microsoft. Apple may not be a company of saints, but they're at least an order of magnitude less evil than Microsoft.
And speaking of which, AAC will win because Microsoft knifed their "Plays for Sure" partners in the back with Zune. ("Hey lets piss over major consumer electronics manufacturers to bring out a DOA product that loses us money!")
(RMS applies paddles to GPL3's chest. It twitches once, then lies still again)
RMS: Any response?
(EMS takes pulse of GPL3, shakes his head)
RMS: Alright, let's try watering down some of the shriller provisions. CLEAR! (RMS applies paddles to GPL3's chest again. It twitches, then lays still)
RMS: Anything?
EMS (peering into GPL's eyes) I'm sorry, I'm not seeing any Linus signs whatsoever.
Of course they had to be fired. Hillary certainly didn't want anything as base as "humor" to puncture the condescending hot air of her "listening tour." Which is what the mock-1984 ad did. Which is why it was a more effective ad than anything the official Obama campaign has put out thus far.
Yeah, Microsoft is evil, Novell stupid, etc. etc., yadda yadda, but is anything Novell offers actually released under GPL3? Linus has stated he intends to keep the Linux under GPL2. If Novell isn't offering anything released under GPL3, why should they care?
Anyone placing data that hasn't been cleared for release (even by the very informal process of being sent out on purpose) onto services run by people with whom you have no contract and no reasonable expectation of integrity is, frankly, no better than the idiots who don't back up their data and are then surprised to find out that MTBF is not a guarantee.
I'm not advocating Wiki methods for a nuclear missle silo, but I think a lot more companies can profit from a Wiki-type approach to (some) data than those that can beneift from an NSA "everything is top secret and must be locked down at all costs" approach.
I bet if you add up the totals, I bet as many or more people were killed in the middle of eating or drinking something while they walked across the street, but I don't see calls to ban that.
Ban smoking, ban drugs, ban "hateful" speech, ban trans-fats, ban iPods, ban anything the Nannystate says might let you hurt yourself. How long will it take people to realize that government exists to protect us from other people, not from ourselves?
Slashdot Mirror
Robot: "Women are not impressed by your vast array of Monty Python Quotes."
Slashdoter: "I'll bite your kneecaps off!"
Robot: "Women are not impressed by your vast array of Monty Python Quotes."
Slashdotter: "It's merely resting, pining for the fjords."
Robot: "Women are not impressed by your vast array of Monty Python Quotes."
Next week: Watch the Robot attempt to disuade the Slashdotter from using an "In Soviet Russia" joke.
Slashdoter: "In Soviet Russia, robot programs you!"
Robot: "I'm just not getting through to you, am I?"
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The more general iPhone FAQ.
Thank you! I'll be karma whoring here all week!
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"These days"? You must be new here...
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Oh, wait...
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And don't even get me started on the Castle Anthrax sequence from Monty Python and the Holy Grail...
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Each is going to be every bit as likely to have any effect on the world at large as this ban.
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Fruthermore, "trends" in malware construction obscure the reality that certain software packages (Windows, IIS) are otrders of magnitude more vulnerable than others (OS X, Linux, Apache). The unstated elephant in the room is that 95-99% of malware attacks are due to Microsoft vulnerabilities.
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(Given the plethora of entertainment choices available today, plus the numerous scandals that have rocked the sport just this decade, you would think that MLB would be happy that anyone still watches baseball, never mind when and where...)
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Of course, every day is "Bash Bush and/or Dibold" day on Slashdot. That, and burning heretics who question the truth of the Protocols of the Elders of Global Warming.
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"In other news, ScuttleMonkey Industries reported that their profits were at an all-time high thanks to continued graft payments from the creators of Second Life to continue greenlighting stories about their company on Slashdot..."
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Anyway, I didn't take any math in school, and it hasn't impaired my reasoning at all!
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At least I pray to God it is. Otherwise, we're all in deep, deep trouble.
Now you'll have to excuse me. I need to go update my will.
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Smell that, gentlemen? That's the smell of 100% genuine Astroturf!
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Alternately, China could stop dicking around with piecemeal reform and institute capitalism, democracy, and the rule of law. If China had half the per-capita GNP of Tiawan, they could easily surpass the United States economically. But as long as they cling to the vestiges of a totalitarian command economy, they won't do it.
India has already woken up and figured out that socialism doesn't work. Unless China does the same, it could well be India that supplants the United States as the world's biggest superpower by the end of the century, not China...
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- It doesn't suck.
- It sounds better per data byte than MP3 or WMA.
- It's cross-platform (or at least (minus Fairplay) more cross-platform that WMA).
- No Microsoft. Apple may not be a company of saints, but they're at least an order of magnitude less evil than Microsoft.
- And speaking of which, AAC will win because Microsoft knifed their "Plays for Sure" partners in the back with Zune. ("Hey lets piss over major consumer electronics manufacturers to bring out a DOA product that loses us money!")
Crow T. TrollbotRMS: Any response?
(EMS takes pulse of GPL3, shakes his head)
RMS: Alright, let's try watering down some of the shriller provisions. CLEAR! (RMS applies paddles to GPL3's chest again. It twitches, then lays still)
RMS: Anything?
EMS (peering into GPL's eyes) I'm sorry, I'm not seeing any Linus signs whatsoever.
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However, by the standards of 21st century political warfare, it was a creampuff. It was funny and didn't take itself too seriously, and was aimed to deflate Hillary, not directly attack her. Compare that to former Edwards campaign staffer Amanda Marcotte calling Catholics "godbags" and talking about how God filled the virgin Mary with "his hot, white, sticky Holy Spirit" and it seems like the tiniest of molehills.
About the only person who really has casue to complain about the whole kerfluffle is Steve Jobs...
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- "Steve Ballmer" + Zune + squirt + Naked
- Walrus Porn
- enriched uranium for sale
- "girl" + "myspace" + "16 and under" + "sex" + "I am not an FBI agent"
- Latex frog fetish
- "How can I keep the feds from discovering my vast marijuana growing operation?"
- "genital warts" + "cures" + "sandpaper"
- "nitroglycerin" + "subway schedule" + "best escape routes"
- anthrax + "crop dusting license"
- "Cowboy Neal in Bondage"
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Be sure to let Jimbo Wales know he's an idiot for doing it that way.
I'm not advocating Wiki methods for a nuclear missle silo, but I think a lot more companies can profit from a Wiki-type approach to (some) data than those that can beneift from an NSA "everything is top secret and must be locked down at all costs" approach.
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Ban smoking, ban drugs, ban "hateful" speech, ban trans-fats, ban iPods, ban anything the Nannystate says might let you hurt yourself. How long will it take people to realize that government exists to protect us from other people, not from ourselves?
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