Most of the vulnerabilities in 'Classic' Mac OS were to do with System Extensions and Control Panels which loaded up at boot time. Since they were analogous to kernel extensions, they had deep access into the heart of the OS.
The astronomers are not convinced. "If your navigation system causes two planes to crash because of a one-second error, you have worse problems than leap seconds," said Steve Allen, a University of California astronomer who maintains a Web site about leap seconds.
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If I go out in my lunch time taking photos (as I often do) and one of them ends up being published (as they do in print from time to time - and heck, I put them up on the web for others to enjoy) do I have to get the written permission of every tourist who happens to wander into my picture frame?
What if I walk a couple of hundred metres down the street and take photos, or outside my house?
I wish people would learn what's what before making comments like this.
The Council of Europe is a totally separate *intergovernmental* organisation and has no relationship with the European Union apart from having Europe in its name.
Take a look at their web site (http://www.coe.int). This is what they say:
------------- The Council of Europe is the continent's oldest political organisation, founded in 1949. It:
groups together 46 countries, including 21 countries from Central and Eastern Europe,
has application from 1 more country (Bélarus),
has granted observer status to 5 more countries (the Holy See, the United States, Canada, Japan and Mexico),
is distinct from the 25-nation European Union -------------
Now look at the EU's list of its institutions.
http://europa.eu.int/index_en.htm
The Council of Europe does not appear in that list - N.B. the Council of the European Union isn't the same thing at all.
US Federal officials announced today that, since some of the 911 hijackers were found to have used Route I-95 during their preparations for their terrorist attack, this highway would be permanently closed from 11am Tuesday to prevent its use in future atrocities.
Similarly, Oldsmobile saloons would also become proscribed items on the same date. Current owners of Oldsmobiles have until 15 October to hand them in to a Federal car pound.
We notice that your recent story titled "Gamers Unite for Video Game Olympics" contains an unauthorised use of the word 'Olympics', a trademark that is owned by the International Olympic Committee.
Cease and desist immediately. Failure to do so will result in legal action seeking punitive damages.
Yours sincerely,
IP Freely Partner Sue, Grabbett and Runne Solicitors for the IOC
About six months ago I was told by an 'engineer' for a *very* large IT consultancy in the UK (infamous for overrun government contracts) that there wasn't any point in connecting a couple of OS X machines to a proposed ADSL router installation since "Apple Macs can't be networked" and that they certainly couldn't use the Internet in any way, shape or form.
If large corporate entities like AT&T are prepared to do the research, then it will help everyone take the alternatives to the Micro$oft desktop quasi-monopoly seriously.
And who do you think put those people in power in the first place?
The CIA (together with the British Secret Service) engineered a coup in Iran in 1953 to put the Shah in power after the elected leader Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh, was planning to nationalise oil interests.
http://www.payk.net/politics/cia-docs/main.html
And who do you think put those people in power and kept them there in the first place?
Leaving aside the thorny issue of solid US support for Israel over the last fifty years...
In 1949, the CIA engineered a military coup to oust Syria's elected leader, President Shukri Quwatli.
In 1953 (together with the British Secret Service) the CIA sponsored a coup in to put the Shah in power after the elected leader Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh, had nationalised western oil interests. Happily, oil production was returned to their rightful owners once the Shah was in control.
(as an interesting aside, 'Stormin' Norman Schwarzkopf's father was stationed in Iran as a CIA operative during this period)
http://www.payk.net/politics/cia-docs/main.html
Of course, we all know what happened to Iran after the people voiced their opinion on his repressive regime.
Again, the CIA has a track record of interfering in Iraq through the 1950s and 1960s - backing a coup in 1963 that overthrew the left-leaning Gen. Abdel-Karim Kassem in favour of the Baath Party of Saddam Hussein. When things didn't go quite as intended, they backed a palace coup in 1968 in which Saddam Hussein's cousin became president, eventually passing on power to Hussein in 1979.
It's well known that the US wasn't averse to helping out Saddam Hussein in his war with Iran throughout the 1980s.
Jordan's King Hussein rewarded with millions of dollars every year from a secret CIA fund for a period of 20 years from the 1950s onward in return for intelligence reports of the Middle East.
In August 1982, Bashir Gemayel (on both the CIA and Mossad payrolls since studying in the US in the seventies) was elected president of Lebanon with a covert payment of $10 million signed off by Ronald Reagan. Unfortunately, he was assassinated in September, but his brother Amin was sworn in as President. The Gemayel's Christian Phalangist malitia were responsible for the Sabra and Shatila massacres, by the way.
The US isn't alone in this. The British were meddling in the Middle East for most of the first half of the 20th century. Much of the region was a British Protectorate after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire following the First World War, when the Turks were allies of Germany. Winston Churchill is infamous for his ordering of the RAF to drop chemical munitions on Iraqi villages during insurrections against British-backed rule in the 1920s.
Returning to Saudi Arabia, the British were instrumental in assisting the House of Saud in a revolt against the Ottomans in 1902, and after a protracted civil war where they helped the al Sauds, were the first to recognise the expanded state of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1932.
While the Al Sauds had gained power with British help, the Kingdom was poor, with very little infrastructure to speak of; until the discovery of oil by a joint operation between Texaco and Standard Oil of California (SOCAL-later renamed Chevron) in 1936. The oil companies built the basic infrastructure of a modern state, and to defend their installations, brought the US military in, establishing the base in Dharan in 1944, when commercial exploitation of the oil resources began in earnest.
The House of Saud is still in firm control of the country to this day, with American weapons and British military training. Their track record on human rights isn't particularly good.
Your point that 'No Arabian pledged allegiance to the United States' is particularly pertinent in this context - it might seem that many of the leaders of Arab nations have done precisely that on behalf of their citizens, often in
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I don't ever recall auto-execution of applications on floppy disks on any version of Mac OS (or System x.x).
c /data/autostart.9805.html
I suspect your thinking of the Hong Kong Virus outbreak of 1998 that piggybacked on the behaviour of QuickTime 2.5 and later's AutoPlay feature.
[let's use Symantec as they're topical]
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/ven
Most of the vulnerabilities in 'Classic' Mac OS were to do with System Extensions and Control Panels which loaded up at boot time. Since they were analogous to kernel extensions, they had deep access into the heart of the OS.
The astronomers are not convinced. "If your navigation system causes two planes to crash because of a one-second error, you have worse problems than leap seconds," said Steve Allen, a University of California astronomer who maintains a Web site about leap seconds.
That's so right.
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How long before the RIAA wake up to this story and start suing soldiers in Iraq?
:-)
Kids, grannies, soldiers, what's the difference?
Well, the first 12 days anyhow.
Quick 'n' dirty animated GIF:)
http://www.cybertects.co.uk/scirocco/fun/news.gif
Looks like a cardboard box with some PhotoShopped paper stuck on it. And the same for the box it's packed in.
mirrordot.org
I work just by Tower Bridge in London.
If I go out in my lunch time taking photos (as I often do) and one of them ends up being published (as they do in print from time to time - and heck, I put them up on the web for others to enjoy) do I have to get the written permission of every tourist who happens to wander into my picture frame?
What if I walk a couple of hundred metres down the street and take photos, or outside my house?
It doesn't work.
I've got around 1200 CDs. Even 80 GB is going to be too small ripping with AAC at 160 KBps.
Still waiting...
I wish people would learn what's what before making comments like this.
The Council of Europe is a totally separate *intergovernmental* organisation and has no relationship with the European Union apart from having Europe in its name.
Take a look at their web site (http://www.coe.int). This is what they say:
-------------
The Council of Europe is the continent's oldest political organisation, founded in 1949. It:
groups together 46 countries, including 21 countries from Central and Eastern Europe,
has application from 1 more country (Bélarus),
has granted observer status to 5 more countries (the Holy See, the United States, Canada, Japan and Mexico),
is distinct from the 25-nation European Union
-------------
Now look at the EU's list of its institutions.
http://europa.eu.int/index_en.htm
The Council of Europe does not appear in that list - N.B. the Council of the European Union isn't the same thing at all.
that Microsoft have any interest at all in fixing it? ;-)
Perhaps it's just another Americanism, but over here in England we spell it 'grammar' :)
nt
"one centimetre" as we say in England
:)
A meter is a device you use for measuring things.
A metre is a measurement of distance
US Federal officials announced today that, since some of the 911 hijackers were found to have used Route I-95 during their preparations for their terrorist attack, this highway would be permanently closed from 11am Tuesday to prevent its use in future atrocities.
Similarly, Oldsmobile saloons would also become proscribed items on the same date. Current owners of Oldsmobiles have until 15 October to hand them in to a Federal car pound.
Does this strike anyone else as so blindingly obvious that you're amazed it hasn't happened yet?
Equip the iPod with WiFi, marry with a sprinkling of Airport Express units around the house and you shall have music wherever you go.
I guess the power drain could be an issue, but I'd buy it.
nt
We notice that your recent story titled "Gamers Unite for Video Game Olympics" contains an unauthorised use of the word 'Olympics', a trademark that is owned by the International Olympic Committee.
Cease and desist immediately. Failure to do so will result in legal action seeking punitive damages.
Yours sincerely,
IP Freely
Partner
Sue, Grabbett and Runne
Solicitors for the IOC
Someone else from the same company insisted I needed a special Ethernet cable, 'because it's a Mac'.
Sometimes it makes me want to cry.
Didn't want to mess with MacTCP and FreePPP then? ;)
About six months ago I was told by an 'engineer' for a *very* large IT consultancy in the UK (infamous for overrun government contracts) that there wasn't any point in connecting a couple of OS X machines to a proposed ADSL router installation since "Apple Macs can't be networked" and that they certainly couldn't use the Internet in any way, shape or form.
I nearly fell off my chair.
If large corporate entities like AT&T are prepared to do the research, then it will help everyone take the alternatives to the Micro$oft desktop quasi-monopoly seriously.
Q. Why is 7 UP the official sponsor of SpaceShipOne?
:-}
A. Because they couldn't get Pepsi.
Boom! Tish!
Ooop. Wrong space vehicle for that old joke.
And who do you think put those people in power in the first place?
The CIA (together with the British Secret Service) engineered a coup in Iran in 1953 to put the Shah in power after the elected leader Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh, was planning to nationalise oil interests.
http://www.payk.net/politics/cia-docs/main.html
And who do you think put those people in power and kept them there in the first place?
Leaving aside the thorny issue of solid US support for Israel over the last fifty years...
In 1949, the CIA engineered a military coup to oust Syria's elected leader, President Shukri Quwatli.
In 1953 (together with the British Secret Service) the CIA sponsored a coup in to put the Shah in power after the elected leader Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh, had nationalised western oil interests. Happily, oil production was returned to their rightful owners once the Shah was in control.
(as an interesting aside, 'Stormin' Norman Schwarzkopf's father was stationed in Iran as a CIA operative during this period)
http://www.payk.net/politics/cia-docs/main.html
Of course, we all know what happened to Iran after the people voiced their opinion on his repressive regime.
Again, the CIA has a track record of interfering in Iraq through the 1950s and 1960s - backing a coup in 1963 that overthrew the left-leaning Gen. Abdel-Karim Kassem in favour of the Baath Party of Saddam Hussein. When things didn't go quite as intended, they backed a palace coup in 1968 in which Saddam Hussein's cousin became president, eventually passing on power to Hussein in 1979.
It's well known that the US wasn't averse to helping out Saddam Hussein in his war with Iran throughout the 1980s.
Jordan's King Hussein rewarded with millions of dollars every year from a secret CIA fund for a period of 20 years from the 1950s onward in return for intelligence reports of the Middle East.
In August 1982, Bashir Gemayel (on both the CIA and Mossad payrolls since studying in the US in the seventies) was elected president of Lebanon with a covert payment of $10 million signed off by Ronald Reagan. Unfortunately, he was assassinated in September, but his brother Amin was sworn in as President. The Gemayel's Christian Phalangist malitia were responsible for the Sabra and Shatila massacres, by the way.
The US isn't alone in this. The British were meddling in the Middle East for most of the first half of the 20th century. Much of the region was a British Protectorate after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire following the First World War, when the Turks were allies of Germany. Winston Churchill is infamous for his ordering of the RAF to drop chemical munitions on Iraqi villages during insurrections against British-backed rule in the 1920s.
Returning to Saudi Arabia, the British were instrumental in assisting the House of Saud in a revolt against the Ottomans in 1902, and after a protracted civil war where they helped the al Sauds, were the first to recognise the expanded state of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1932.
While the Al Sauds had gained power with British help, the Kingdom was poor, with very little infrastructure to speak of; until the discovery of oil by a joint operation between Texaco and Standard Oil of California (SOCAL-later renamed Chevron) in 1936. The oil companies built the basic infrastructure of a modern state, and to defend their installations, brought the US military in, establishing the base in Dharan in 1944, when commercial exploitation of the oil resources began in earnest.
The House of Saud is still in firm control of the country to this day, with American weapons and British military training. Their track record on human rights isn't particularly good.
Your point that 'No Arabian pledged allegiance to the United States' is particularly pertinent in this context - it might seem that many of the leaders of Arab nations have done precisely that on behalf of their citizens, often in
...he was (to understate somewhat) irked by the presence of US troops in Saudi Arabia during and after the first Gulf War.
Remember that Saudi Arabia holds some of the most sacred sites in Islam within its borders.