Or maybe the people making these calls are the kind of people who form conclusions and then look for evidence.
Oh, e-Voting! It uses computers, so it must be better!
When beliefs held this way are challenged, the response is hostility, not a rational defence of said beliefs.
There's also something about knowing you're not really doing it for money. One of our school's pep band's songs has a line making fun of the rival school's band because they get paid to play.
I guess since Mac people just blindly assume they are secure, they... um... don't really have to publicize it... so they can remain blissfully exploitable.
No, the assumption is that it will be applied automatically like all the other patches. Whenever any Mac OS X system update is released, the System Update app (installed on every system, runs weekly by default) will catch it and prompt the user to download it next time it runs. There is no need to publicize it.
IOW, this is evidently not the same vulnerability claimed by SecureWorks.
Stumulated by the brouhaha, Apple have performed a code audit. (I'd suspect they did a remarkably thorough code audit too:) They have found some problems with the PPC drivers, and they have released a patch for them. They don't appear to have found any issues with the Intel code though.
Very true. I wonder why they didn't catch the code said to be responsible for Johnny Cache's exploit. Maybe that's because it's Atheros' driver code, not Apple's.
Remember, everybody, they exploited an Atheros card -- an Atheros chipset running Atheros drivers. It's more or less abstracted away from the OS interacting with the card.
If Verizon wants to lay wire across your land, they're going to have to pay rent.
I actually know some people who collect rent from Commonwealth Edison for the power lines running across a little corner of their farm (the rest of the right-of-way is owned by ComEd).
Of course, I'm not suggesting this as a workable solution. If Verizon had to actually deal with the free market, and obtain the right to lay line on everyone's land, they wouldn't exist. The logistics would be impossible.
Just model it off the CLEC system. Have one entity, probably the government, own the lines and lease them to service providers at a price regulated by some disjoint entity.
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I've seen more than a few people wonder why they have to declare arrays with their sizes in C and can't just keep writing past the end when they run out of space (like with a java.util.ArrayList).
Somehow, I get the feeling that avionics software is too time-sensitive for interpreted languages, but I've never done it before, so I don't really know.
Most of the professors in the CS department here use PDFs for lecture notes. It lets them switch easily between the departments Windows and Linux machines, and it means that students (no matter what kind of computer they have) can view them outside of class.
That said, I'm curious as to why you say that no animation is a plus.
Either way, the humor of Ohio and Floridas minority district problems are that they were mostly run by Democrats. Sure these minorities might have been disenfranchised, but it was out of incompitance and not nessesarily some scheme.
I don't have much info on the Ohio one, but the disenfranchisement, vote prevention, whatever-you-want-to-call-it, was brought about by Florida's (Republican-controlled) state government.
If that's all it restricts, then most people won't much care whether or not it's free like speech. Being free like beer is enough for the typical user.
With the flood of patent applications coming in from everyone, patentability checking is a thing of the past.
Here is a brief description of some such patents. There are patents on obvious ideas, non-trivial ideas, previously-implemented ideas, etc.
You don't have to prove much of anything to get a patent.
Learning requires the right to reproduce knowledge; to transcribe it verbatim until it sinks in, and to produce derivative works and an expanded understanding from it. Copyright law blocks all these things, so if he's retaining his lectures as "IP", he's actively blocking the student's (paid for) right to learn.
FYI, facts are not copyrighted/patented/trademarked by anyone. The students can do what they want with the information given in the lecture. Since it's for educational/personal use, they can take notes (even verbatim) on his lectures. None of these learning processes is "blocked" by copyright (distributing derivative works is not a learning process -- students can apply concepts without copying content). He has copyright over the way in which he presents the information (the wording of the lecture) and no more. The only "IP encumbrance" is that he's the only one who gets to distribute his lectures.
Then again you probably had no idea what the GP was talking about with "retain IP rights on their work." Some universities let professors keep the copyright on their research/writings, and some don't. It looks like this university does. For someone who pretends to be a slashdotter, you have a dismal grasp of IP.
Expect to have demands like 'we need an entire application written this week, don't worry about design or figuring out what the application really needs to do, just write something.'
You mean random experimentation? Having a bunch of people write something, then taking the most interesting ideas and developing them into something usable, then into something for general consumption? Like R&D, or Google Labs?
I highly doubt that that's what management had in mind.
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Yep, sure enough, my weekly system update got the AirPort patch.
Parent sure has a point though.
Or maybe the people making these calls are the kind of people who form conclusions and then look for evidence.
Oh, e-Voting! It uses computers, so it must be better!
When beliefs held this way are challenged, the response is hostility, not a rational defence of said beliefs.
There's also something about knowing you're not really doing it for money. One of our school's pep band's songs has a line making fun of the rival school's band because they get paid to play.
Y'know... someone should write a script to make it do just that....
Just model it off the CLEC system. Have one entity, probably the government, own the lines and lease them to service providers at a price regulated by some disjoint entity.
I've seen more than a few people wonder why they have to declare arrays with their sizes in C and can't just keep writing past the end when they run out of space (like with a java.util.ArrayList).
Somehow, I get the feeling that avionics software is too time-sensitive for interpreted languages, but I've never done it before, so I don't really know.
Most of the professors in the CS department here use PDFs for lecture notes. It lets them switch easily between the departments Windows and Linux machines, and it means that students (no matter what kind of computer they have) can view them outside of class.
That said, I'm curious as to why you say that no animation is a plus.
And what do people do if they have Dell/Apple laptops without batteries from the bad lots?
If that's all it restricts, then most people won't much care whether or not it's free like speech. Being free like beer is enough for the typical user.
At the moment, with Karl Rove.
With the flood of patent applications coming in from everyone, patentability checking is a thing of the past. Here is a brief description of some such patents. There are patents on obvious ideas, non-trivial ideas, previously-implemented ideas, etc.
You don't have to prove much of anything to get a patent.
I keep hearing that they are and that they aren't. It's so hard to get either side to post links to court documents.
Add in a few "figure out what goes in this blank" lines and you've got a pretty good teaching/learning tool.
Then again you probably had no idea what the GP was talking about with "retain IP rights on their work." Some universities let professors keep the copyright on their research/writings, and some don't. It looks like this university does. For someone who pretends to be a slashdotter, you have a dismal grasp of IP.
$10 per month? The web site says 15-20....
Does anyone know how much the iTunes DRM scheme changed with the new release?