i take it you're not a game developer and/but a linux user yes? All serious gamers are happily running Windows XP with latest service pack. I have not yet seen a single gamer liking Vista unless he/she got a true monster machine which you can't tell difference whatever you do. Some game companies have guts to say "We do NOT support Vista at least until SP1 ships".
I am running OS X here and all my games are OS X native but you don't need DX 10 enabled Vista to browse game forums:)
The absolute need for Vista to run DX 10 killed it from the beginning. The DX 10 and Vista respectively. I am sure lots of game developers who coded direct3d only stuff questioned their choice and started to look to recent OpenGL advancements.
I am hoping they finally started to figure risks of using a MS only technology rather than platform independent, documented frameworks such as OpenGL, OpenAL.
Did MS care to explain what kind of undocumented,hidden quantum computing (!) routines in Vista needed for DX 10 running?:) Or did they simply state "We can't sell Vista otherwise, those FPS racing teens will buy it for DX10". I think they overlooked to gaming community, they weren't that stupid.
You think that "Linux user" wouldn't have clue but you forget WINE factor. If I had a problem with a missing dll in DirectX, I would talk to WINE people:)
The artists don't get any part of the revenue from downloaded tracks unless they own their own record company, which small artists usually don't.
So it doesn't make any difference. Come on, they get SOME money from sales. Small, large, all artists gets some money from each sale. That is only a urban legend like thing which is popular in piracy scene. If they produced their own album and sell it on a new generation copyright (Creative Commons) site such as Magnatunes.com , they make some great money since they get half of the price user or company (in case of commercial use) pays. No strings attached. That is their own choice. I don't think anyone signing with Sony Music has a gun pointed to their face.
If selling music in old fashion way is crime, that cool, modern artist guy is to blame too. Not just the record company. That is some "good cop, bad cop" trick which is working since Napster days. Don't get tricked.
Oh, if you buy your legal (!) mp3 from some Russian gang abusing radio broadcast license making trouble to all REAL radios on planet, that is the time they don't get money. It is much more worse than pirating the track since you get somehow robbed too.
The working model of Firefox and IE are completely different on modern , widely used "Run application inside Webbrowser" kind of things.
What if company uses a intranet page for adding critical database records and because Firefox works in a different way, it breaks things? What if 1000 users installs Firefox in a single day? Can you imagine the offline time and the cost?
This has been known about for years. Here's a digg posting from over a year ago... The issue here is, why does a "Digg" kind of story makes into YRO section of Slashdot.
People on Slashdot were advocating disabling of executable attachments and not allowing them to be double clicked/run on Outlook Express or any kind of mail client. So, MSN people implemented basically same thing on their (yes, their) network for additional security against click happy people.
Since when sending people.exe,scr files is part of our rights? Even screensaver companies doesn't distribute their files via.scr extension, they pack them into zip files. I bet people actually needing to send a executable to their friends either ZIPs or RARs them already.
Dear Slashdot, stop racing with your "light" version. End this policy please.
Why would someone who chose a Mac, then choose to use Internet Explorer?
Actually, I don't understand why microsoft supports mac os at all... They've not supported linux. Well Apple paid them.:) Yes, they paid MS to code IE for Mac and stuff I detail below could have something to do with it.
If MS coded IE/Windows like they did as IE/Mac, sitting in its own directory, not messing system and tries to comform current standards as much as possible, Mozilla wouldn't exist now.
IE for Mac has nothing to do with Windows version except name and couple of text encoding (win-1252) evil MS tricks. To explain you better, it came with a full feature download manager, colorsync support and even ebay etc. bidding watch.
Of course it is not maintained anymore and a complete security/stability risk now. I am just trying to explain why you still see Mac users referencing it. Using Mac doesn't mean hating everything MS produces. In fact, their Office is one of the very good apps they produced. I really don't care about loud mouth fanatics so I basically reference "versiontracker" top downloads and Amazon.com top selling Mac software. That is the reality, real World.
The Mac scene is different. Real Player gets good reviews, MSN Messenger is one of the top downloaded apps, people still download/use Netscape because they have nothing to do with Windows versions. They never did.
The grammar/syntax nazi in me is screaming to get out. I, MUST, (RESIST). I wondered what kind of horrible mistakes I did to cause this message by you and installed a grammar/spell checking tool. Beside couple of "punctuation should be in quotes" and an obviously missing comma, there are no issues. It also says I shouldn't use "In fact" since it is not needed.
The tool is maintained/coded for a decade, and it is fairly expensive. People are using it instead of MS Word one without thinking.
If your standards are way beyond the capabilities a $70 program offers, I must apologize and suggest filtering me out via adding as "Foe" or something.
You want tabs? Try iTerm. Horrible name, but it works quite well!
-andy Linux guy (incorrectly) bitches about control-d actually doing logout instead of closing window (yes,lose all contents) and you guys are suggesting something that starts with lower letter "i" as Terminal. Trying to kill him?
Let me do the rest of the job: "iTerm has Growl notifications too. Those stylish looking notifications. Also it has Bonjour support along with self update over the Internet. Did I tell it is also a drag drop install?". How dare they! Someone call nerd police!
IBM always impresses with level of the support and especially their attitude of "never abandon people you sell stuff to".
OS/2 was declared dead 10000 times (even by fans) while it was getting some new graphic drivers actually purchased from Sci-Tech software.
If you are a PowerPC (G4/G5) user and in desperate need for non beta, working Java 6, you simply install PPC-Linux and install IBM supported, non beta Java 6 along with CPU acceleration to it. That is the system and OS which Nvidia/ATI refuses to ship a basic binary driver or Adobe doesn't even bother to check for Flash support.
That is how they get that image. In fact, impossible in short term but lets say Apple tells "I am not shipping any OS X updates for PowerPC, buy Intel", it would take 2-3 months for IBM to ship AIX 5L bootable install for PowerPC Macs or start coding mainboard etc. support to Linux kernel themselves.
I am sure Windows server flavors are involved too. IBM is "Big blue"- they take decisions based on the job, not whoever makes it or codes it. While they were advertising OS/2 like crazy, I have seen lots and lots of Windows clients in their buildings doing stuff. That was the day I started to question future of OS/2.
Same for UI too I think. There is a British bank which their branches are relatively new here. I was there yesterday and I was amazed watching a single broker doing 5 customers work same time, million dollars stuff in 5-10 mins. There was no "mouse" or any graphics involved, I think it was some Mainframe Terminal application.
I bet the OS was virtual too running inside mainframe.:)
I bet as ex IT manager he could answer my questions but I don't think they are allowed to answer and guy was really busy moving millions of dollars like ping pong.
HFS+ does have "case sensitive" option while formatting (erase) and I did opted in for it while making my raid 0 (software) HFS+.
There is ZERO effect on compatibility. Even on software which was coded before 10.4.x, e.g. 10.2.8.
There was one problem with single shareware utility but it turned out to be a glitch in programming and they fixed it after my bug report. The real issue was lack of support from commercial level disk utilities such as Diskwarrior, Techtool but they both have excellent support to it now.
What I mean is you can backup your drive using Disk Utility image and ASR options, erase it case insensitive and restore back, you magically have case sensitive HFS+.
Since when does Mac OS support NTFS? I missed the news obviously or I would not still be using FAT32 to tote files between home (PC) and work (Mac) Fuse I think. The safest and most easy/open way to install its NTFS support on OS X is getting Fink (Debian like) along with developer tools (both free), enable "unstable" (Debian like unstable) and type 'fink install ntfs-3g'
FAT32 is some historical stone age thing really which is never suited to modern operating systems, especially OS X. I say because I tried to copy a 4 gb+ archive to FAT32 external drive and seen what happens;)
I surely hope Bram Cohen patented his little invention... Hmm I could find but
this If he won't patent or sue MSFT, why did Bittorrent decide to be complete evil corporate losing all torrent fans? Serious, their "official" client is banned from some credible privacy concerned trackers. I am not saying pirates, you don't have to be pirate to be anxious about your privacy.
Currently whole bittorrent.com IP Block, Bittorrent official client and the uTorrent versions after they acquired it are banned from closed trackers, privacy concerned trackers and some p2p anti corporate community (via IP blocks).
I am saying something for 3-4 years since I switched to OS X as ex Slackware/WindowMaker user.
If people supported WindowMaker/OpenStep as they really seem to get impressed with OS X Desktop, things could really change in Linux Desktop scene. Especially those guys who spend hard time trying to make OS X work flawless on white box PCs via binary hacks.
Thanks to Fink project I checked WindowMaker again on OS X and I easily recommend it to Mac only people wanting a "real" fullscreen X11 since it is very close to OS X Desktop. In fact I made it my default X11 windowmanager easily. It has some features which lacks from OS X as it would confuse average end user (in Apple eyes) which are there on Next.
If Apple releases Cocoa etc. stuff for open source systems one day, I am sure they will first check WindowMaker and AfterStep.
It is either the submissions choice of words/headline or some Linux distro known for its fanatics but the discussion under this story is completely off topic. I think it is a waste.
Ahh, well then. Good to know that we can finally blame the users for not installing the updates as needed for security holes. For the longest time people kept saying that the worms that hit windows were Microsoft's fault, despite the fact that none of them took advantage of an unpatched vulnerability. First thing I do on friends Windows machinse is enabling updates and even including the option "install automatically". Some may say its evil but I know those people will rather download couple of mp3s than security updates. I think they licensed that "idle bandwidth" framework too.
I don't like the fake feeling of security on Linux/FBSD too. Which machines are on phishtank.com hacked phisher URLs? All those "but linux is secure, no need to update php" guys:)
If you are up to date and you still get hacked (with sane passwords,etc), it is vendors fault but that of course raises the issue that there is a BSD based firewall right there with one click on OS X.
It is as if the fanatics actually believed their OS was so secure it had no security holes. About this specific issue (if worm really written), it is NON issue since OS X 10.4.10 update was released back in 21-06-2007 and available free at Apple downloads without any kind of nagging. In fact, internal software update can download/install it with one click. If they (users) don't click couple of things and download at most a 30mb (movie trailer size) package, it is not Apple's fault or platform isn't insecure because of this issue.
Someone reads Apple CVE/update notes, write a trivial junk which can only allegedly work on local network (big difference from internet on OS X) and talks about it on a blog probably sending his friends to "digg" or something to talk about it.
The fanatic idiots who are finding this junk credible enough to make "death threats" are a despise to OS X/Mac users like me. You can use pure Mac setup on every occasion, buy lots of software but there is no way escaping them. I agree on that.
On the other hand, there are companies such as Intego who doesn't give a heck to those fanboys and announce every issue they find. To this time, there is no Intego Antivirus/Firewall update shipped, nothing on "press releases" so they really don't find this credible. These are the guys who didn't care about Apple security updates and kept on removing SETUID of Apple default software for months for additional safety. They also uncovered a major security issue on OS X Finder but their PR department raped the issue by claiming mp3 viruses and so on.
However if it is true it's not the first time people poking fun at the Mac have had death threats; Overclockers had them when they pretended to put an Intel/Windows motherboard/system inside a G5 case and Maynor reported death threats after his Wifi debacle. So Maynor got death threats when he blurbed about Wifi exploit (!) but not when they tried to harm Apple USERS (not company, not lusers, real average users) in every possible way for entire month? One of their first evil (!) security issue findings was VLC, yes the open source media player with millions of users including Mac. They announced it publicly instead of fixing the damn source code sitting there and didn't get a "death threat" from one user?
I am speaking about MOAB and their lame attacks even including a jp2 DOS attack to OS X default browser Safari. That is the lowest level you can get, attack a tabbed browser which may include unsaved data and do it to average user who tricked (by stupid media) to visit your site to "pay" for using Apple software.
BTW- as a guy who uses Mac exclusively , I had to follow MOAB project. No, LMH is not Maynor of course. Everyone who he attacked (read: Popular software vendors) must have a good clue who he is and where he is from. Maynor must be enjoying the publicity though.
Start your own non-junk channel and submit to guide than. It is open media, entire suite including broadcasting is free and open source without any kind of restrictions.
It has nothing to do with Youtube btw. Youtube is controlled by one of the biggest corporations on planet and has very strict policies. A team of organised monkeys clicking some buttons can get your content pulled very easy. Or just a phone call from some government/company which has contract otw with Google.
Well, maybe if "democracy" immediately evokes "left wing", there are other conclusions that might follow that than "and therefore democracy is bad." It bugs me because this is true next gen media with everything built on open source and using p2p very extensively.
So, movie pirates can use p2p/torrent very fine and if someone raises eyebrows they can shout "my democratic rights! freedom of speech" but a true open and neutral (because of nature) application has to drop "Democracy" from its name.
You know, the "broadcast machine", software providing those "channels" was always there, free and also open source. The power of application comes from that. It is P2P enabled so you don't need some million dollar Akamai contract, a professional movie studio to start your own channel.
They could launch some neocon-TV and submit it to the Guide, they could even get into top-10 if it was really good channel.
They bitched and wrote about some conspiracy theory about left wing and apparently they "won".
Even OS X Versiontracker in early application versions were poisoned with such "Democracy? Ha!" comments so I can really guess their reasons. The people whined about applications name were in fact hating the fact that someone can write an open source application, lets millions watch without paying some huge money to providers. Just a name change won't fix it, they HATE the idea, not the name.
Can VLC download dozens of videos via P2P enabled protocol? That is what my Mac Mini upstairs connected to HDTV does right now and did for months.
It was always suggested to them but I understand them, there is no need for super high tech advanced player to do its job. It "plays" "unwatched" media files and keep them on disk for pre-configured time. It also offers to import local media files to prevent user from buying sometimes very expensive "Media Hub" type application. It is a "bonus" feature rather than claiming to race with established media players.
So at least on OS X you got a free Framework along with component functionality which is Quicktime. If you can "tell" the video play fullscreen via possible hardware acceleration, why send user to VLC launching? Also how to figure out if a movie is watched or not if user external views it?
Of course as there is no DRM involved, you can find the actual file and play it with player of your choice.
The people he talks/JOKES about doesn't live on Slashdot. This site has very nice workarounds for fascist minded people's abuse such as karma.He speaks and JOKES about such stuff:
Slashdot Apple section is one of the few remaining Apple news/comment areas I can stand. It is one of the few remaining IT sites you can joke about Apple you don't get "dugg down" or "marked as inapporiate".
Thanks to those hypothetical (!) Mac lusers especially in iPhone madness, we are compared to plain idiots who runs after a company logo or public image rather than people who have dared to choose a different platform than Windows.
About this "issue"? It is non issue, none of security vendors took it serious and I am not disabling default parts of system because some idiot script kiddie posted a worm for already patched issue.
The only people I always see spouting such crap are the people who claim to hate Apple fanboys. I've never seen an Apple fanboy make absurd claims like yours. This is like a fucking self-fullfilling prophecy. Every damn article about Apple is run over by stupid Anti-Apple trolls who write hundreds of comments laughing about imaginary Apple fanboys and the imaginary stupid things they say.
Here's an idea: Shut up, and let those who are interested in the article discuss it. Thanks. After years of karma burn and of course going nuts, I finally managed to/ignore Apple fanboys and Apple fanboy blogs. Thanks to that achievement, I stay in my favourite platform and software scene.
Yes I am one of those cult infidels or traitors who flooded those forums because his mind couldn't handle all those non logical junk there. Now, I am happily missing.
Worst security nightmare is having some issues on host operating system and whoever tells such flaws gets burned by some zealot cult. I hate fanboys because they risk my OS security.
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I am running OS X here and all my games are OS X native but you don't need DX 10 enabled Vista to browse game forums
The absolute need for Vista to run DX 10 killed it from the beginning. The DX 10 and Vista respectively. I am sure lots of game developers who coded direct3d only stuff questioned their choice and started to look to recent OpenGL advancements.
I am hoping they finally started to figure risks of using a MS only technology rather than platform independent, documented frameworks such as OpenGL, OpenAL.
Did MS care to explain what kind of undocumented,hidden quantum computing (!) routines in Vista needed for DX 10 running?
You think that "Linux user" wouldn't have clue but you forget WINE factor. If I had a problem with a missing dll in DirectX, I would talk to WINE people
So it doesn't make any difference. Come on, they get SOME money from sales. Small, large, all artists gets some money from each sale. That is only a urban legend like thing which is popular in piracy scene. If they produced their own album and sell it on a new generation copyright (Creative Commons) site such as Magnatunes.com , they make some great money since they get half of the price user or company (in case of commercial use) pays. No strings attached. That is their own choice. I don't think anyone signing with Sony Music has a gun pointed to their face.
If selling music in old fashion way is crime, that cool, modern artist guy is to blame too. Not just the record company. That is some "good cop, bad cop" trick which is working since Napster days. Don't get tricked.
Oh, if you buy your legal (!) mp3 from some Russian gang abusing radio broadcast license making trouble to all REAL radios on planet, that is the time they don't get money. It is much more worse than pirating the track since you get somehow robbed too.
The working model of Firefox and IE are completely different on modern , widely used "Run application inside Webbrowser" kind of things.
What if company uses a intranet page for adding critical database records and because Firefox works in a different way, it breaks things? What if 1000 users installs Firefox in a single day? Can you imagine the offline time and the cost?
People on Slashdot were advocating disabling of executable attachments and not allowing them to be double clicked/run on Outlook Express or any kind of mail client. So, MSN people implemented basically same thing on their (yes, their) network for additional security against click happy people.
Since when sending people
Dear Slashdot, stop racing with your "light" version. End this policy please.
Actually, I don't understand why microsoft supports mac os at all... They've not supported linux. Well Apple paid them.
If MS coded IE/Windows like they did as IE/Mac, sitting in its own directory, not messing system and tries to comform current standards as much as possible, Mozilla wouldn't exist now.
IE for Mac has nothing to do with Windows version except name and couple of text encoding (win-1252) evil MS tricks. To explain you better, it came with a full feature download manager, colorsync support and even ebay etc. bidding watch.
Of course it is not maintained anymore and a complete security/stability risk now. I am just trying to explain why you still see Mac users referencing it. Using Mac doesn't mean hating everything MS produces. In fact, their Office is one of the very good apps they produced. I really don't care about loud mouth fanatics so I basically reference "versiontracker" top downloads and Amazon.com top selling Mac software. That is the reality, real World.
The Mac scene is different. Real Player gets good reviews, MSN Messenger is one of the top downloaded apps, people still download/use Netscape because they have nothing to do with Windows versions. They never did.
you and installed a grammar/spell checking tool. Beside couple of
"punctuation should be in quotes" and an obviously missing comma, there
are no issues. It also says I shouldn't use "In fact" since it is not
needed.
The tool is maintained/coded for a decade, and it is fairly expensive.
People are using it instead of MS Word one without thinking.
If your standards are way beyond the capabilities a $70 program offers,
I must apologize and suggest filtering me out via adding as "Foe" or
something.
-andy Linux guy (incorrectly) bitches about control-d actually doing logout instead of closing window (yes,lose all contents) and you guys are suggesting something that starts with lower letter "i" as Terminal. Trying to kill him?
Let me do the rest of the job: "iTerm has Growl notifications too. Those stylish looking notifications. Also it has Bonjour support along with self update over the Internet. Did I tell it is also a drag drop install?". How dare they! Someone call nerd police!
IBM always impresses with level of the support and especially their attitude of "never abandon people you sell stuff to".
OS/2 was declared dead 10000 times (even by fans) while it was getting some new graphic drivers actually purchased from Sci-Tech software.
If you are a PowerPC (G4/G5) user and in desperate need for non beta, working Java 6, you simply install PPC-Linux and install IBM supported, non beta Java 6 along with CPU acceleration to it. That is the system and OS which Nvidia/ATI refuses to ship a basic binary driver or Adobe doesn't even bother to check for Flash support.
That is how they get that image. In fact, impossible in short term but lets say Apple tells "I am not shipping any OS X updates for PowerPC, buy Intel", it would take 2-3 months for IBM to ship AIX 5L bootable install for PowerPC Macs or start coding mainboard etc. support to Linux kernel themselves.
I am sure Windows server flavors are involved too. IBM is "Big blue"- they take decisions based on the job, not whoever makes it or codes it. While they were advertising OS/2 like crazy, I have seen lots and lots of Windows clients in their buildings doing stuff. That was the day I started to question future of OS/2.
Same for UI too I think. There is a British bank which their branches are relatively new here. I was there yesterday and I was amazed watching a single broker doing 5 customers work same time, million dollars stuff in 5-10 mins. There was no "mouse" or any graphics involved, I think it was some Mainframe Terminal application.
:)
I bet the OS was virtual too running inside mainframe.
I bet as ex IT manager he could answer my questions but I don't think they are allowed to answer and guy was really busy moving millions of dollars like ping pong.
HFS+ does have "case sensitive" option while formatting (erase) and I did opted in for it while making my raid 0 (software) HFS+.
There is ZERO effect on compatibility. Even on software which was coded before 10.4.x, e.g. 10.2.8.
There was one problem with single shareware utility but it turned out to be a glitch in programming and they fixed it after my bug report. The real issue was lack of support from commercial level disk utilities such as Diskwarrior, Techtool but they both have excellent support to it now.
What I mean is you can backup your drive using Disk Utility image and ASR options, erase it case insensitive and restore back, you magically have case sensitive HFS+.
links:
http://www.apple.com/developer/ -->Get latest Xcode
http://www.finkproject.org/ ---> Get Fink which runs completely in
FAT32 is some historical stone age thing really which is never suited to modern operating systems, especially OS X. I say because I tried to copy a 4 gb+ archive to FAT32 external drive and seen what happens
this If he won't patent or sue MSFT, why did Bittorrent decide to be complete evil corporate losing all torrent fans? Serious, their "official" client is banned from some credible privacy concerned trackers. I am not saying pirates, you don't have to be pirate to be anxious about your privacy.
Currently whole bittorrent.com IP Block, Bittorrent official client and the uTorrent versions after they acquired it are banned from closed trackers, privacy concerned trackers and some p2p anti corporate community (via IP blocks).
I am saying something for 3-4 years since I switched to OS X as ex Slackware/WindowMaker user.
If people supported WindowMaker/OpenStep as they really seem to get impressed with OS X Desktop, things could really change in Linux Desktop scene. Especially those guys who spend hard time trying to make OS X work flawless on white box PCs via binary hacks.
Thanks to Fink project I checked WindowMaker again on OS X and I easily recommend it to Mac only people wanting a "real" fullscreen X11 since it is very close to OS X Desktop. In fact I made it my default X11 windowmanager easily. It has some features which lacks from OS X as it would confuse average end user (in Apple eyes) which are there on Next.
If Apple releases Cocoa etc. stuff for open source systems one day, I am sure they will first check WindowMaker and AfterStep.
It is either the submissions choice of words/headline or some Linux distro known for its fanatics but the discussion under this story is completely off topic. I think it is a waste.
I don't like the fake feeling of security on Linux/FBSD too. Which machines are on phishtank.com hacked phisher URLs? All those "but linux is secure, no need to update php" guys
If you are up to date and you still get hacked (with sane passwords,etc), it is vendors fault but that of course raises the issue that there is a BSD based firewall right there with one click on OS X.
Someone reads Apple CVE/update notes, write a trivial junk which can only allegedly work on local network (big difference from internet on OS X) and talks about it on a blog probably sending his friends to "digg" or something to talk about it.
The fanatic idiots who are finding this junk credible enough to make "death threats" are a despise to OS X/Mac users like me. You can use pure Mac setup on every occasion, buy lots of software but there is no way escaping them. I agree on that.
On the other hand, there are companies such as Intego who doesn't give a heck to those fanboys and announce every issue they find. To this time, there is no Intego Antivirus/Firewall update shipped, nothing on "press releases" so they really don't find this credible. These are the guys who didn't care about Apple security updates and kept on removing SETUID of Apple default software for months for additional safety. They also uncovered a major security issue on OS X Finder but their PR department raped the issue by claiming mp3 viruses and so on.
I am speaking about MOAB and their lame attacks even including a jp2 DOS attack to OS X default browser Safari. That is the lowest level you can get, attack a tabbed browser which may include unsaved data and do it to average user who tricked (by stupid media) to visit your site to "pay" for using Apple software.
BTW- as a guy who uses Mac exclusively , I had to follow MOAB project. No, LMH is not Maynor of course. Everyone who he attacked (read: Popular software vendors) must have a good clue who he is and where he is from. Maynor must be enjoying the publicity though.
It really creates some real schizoid situation.
Start your own non-junk channel and submit to guide than. It is open media, entire suite including broadcasting is free and open source without any kind of restrictions.
It has nothing to do with Youtube btw. Youtube is controlled by one of the biggest corporations on planet and has very strict policies. A team of organised monkeys clicking some buttons can get your content pulled very easy. Or just a phone call from some government/company which has contract otw with Google.
So, movie pirates can use p2p/torrent very fine and if someone raises eyebrows they can shout "my democratic rights! freedom of speech" but a true open and neutral (because of nature) application has to drop "Democracy" from its name.
You know, the "broadcast machine", software providing those "channels" was always there, free and also open source. The power of application comes from that. It is P2P enabled so you don't need some million dollar Akamai contract, a professional movie studio to start your own channel.
They could launch some neocon-TV and submit it to the Guide, they could even get into top-10 if it was really good channel.
They bitched and wrote about some conspiracy theory about left wing and apparently they "won".
Even OS X Versiontracker in early application versions were poisoned with such "Democracy? Ha!" comments so I can really guess their reasons. The people whined about applications name were in fact hating the fact that someone can write an open source application, lets millions watch without paying some huge money to providers. Just a name change won't fix it, they HATE the idea, not the name.
Can VLC download dozens of videos via P2P enabled protocol? That is what my Mac Mini upstairs connected to HDTV does right now and did for months.
It was always suggested to them but I understand them, there is no need for super high tech advanced player to do its job. It "plays" "unwatched" media files and keep them on disk for pre-configured time. It also offers to import local media files to prevent user from buying sometimes very expensive "Media Hub" type application. It is a "bonus" feature rather than claiming to race with established media players.
So at least on OS X you got a free Framework along with component functionality which is Quicktime. If you can "tell" the video play fullscreen via possible hardware acceleration, why send user to VLC launching? Also how to figure out if a movie is watched or not if user external views it?
Of course as there is no DRM involved, you can find the actual file and play it with player of your choice.
The people he talks/JOKES about doesn't live on Slashdot. This site has very nice workarounds for fascist minded people's abuse such as karma.He speaks and JOKES about such stuff:
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http://digg.com/apple/Anonymous_blogger_claims_pr
Slashdot Apple section is one of the few remaining Apple news/comment areas I can stand. It is one of the few remaining IT sites you can joke about Apple you don't get "dugg down" or "marked as inapporiate".
Thanks to those hypothetical (!) Mac lusers especially in iPhone madness, we are compared to plain idiots who runs after a company logo or public image rather than people who have dared to choose a different platform than Windows.
About this "issue"? It is non issue, none of security vendors took it serious and I am not disabling default parts of system because some idiot script kiddie posted a worm for already patched issue.
So they have read that article explaining the issue and created a theoretical Worm exploiting the documented security issue?
This is also exploiting a security announcement for popularity in my eyes.
http://www.answers.com/script+kiddie
I wonder what Mr. Lynn, the REAL issue reporter will say.
Here's an idea: Shut up, and let those who are interested in the article discuss it. Thanks. After years of karma burn and of course going nuts, I finally managed to
Yes I am one of those cult infidels or traitors who flooded those forums because his mind couldn't handle all those non logical junk there. Now, I am happily missing.
Worst security nightmare is having some issues on host operating system and whoever tells such flaws gets burned by some zealot cult. I hate fanboys because they risk my OS security.