Not only are these web sites supporting IE only, they are supporting IE for Windows only. As a Mac OS X user, I have encountered many web sites, using IE for Mac, only to be told that my browser will not work with their site, because I didn't make the "smart choice" of using Windows.
So not only is this a problem with web designers targeting IE, but IE on Windows.
Apple has been really turning around its marketing in the last few months. More agressive. I think when Steve Jobs came back to Apple, he saw that he needed to cement his base customers like a politician does when they start a political campaign. Preach to the converted, assure them of their choice and then reach out to the rest. Apple first started giving historical Mac users something to crow about -- Mac OS X, Dual G4s (proud owner) and lately, the iPod. Now Apple is gunning for the Windows user in its switch campaign.
Now with this move, Jobs is deftly putting a thumb in the eye of Gates. Microsoft talks about 2006 for security, Apple says, "Hey, why not today?". Having a respected third party audit will ring loud against Microsoft's tight lipped security policy. Apple already exposes the base source code for Mac OS X called Darwin to anyone that wants to take the time to download it.
I had something else important to point out but the FedEx guy just showed up with Warcraft III. I am sure you will understand...
Are you seriously claiming that it is not possible to modify a binary? It is only slightly more difficult than modifying the source, and if you are doing it for the purposes of spreading backdoored software, the small difference in difficulty is not relevant at all.
Yes, I am seriously saying that a third party would not modify the binary, give it back to the Software Publisher and have the Software Publisher redistribute the modified binary to the public through their corporate FTP server.
Did you think about your comment before you typed it? Or did you fail to read my original comment. It makes no sense what-so-ever what you typed.
If BitchX was some sort of closed-source product, how long might this have taken to show up? Many eyes lock down all backdoors.
Not to burst your bubble, but if BitchX was closed source, I doubt a third party would have access to the source code to inject the trojaned backdoor, modify the FTP server and set up a bizarre distribution method (has anyone figured this out yet?). Granted many eyes helped find this problem, but in a closed source world, this wouldn't happen unless you had a disgruntled employee or a really stupid project manager. If BitchX were a commercial, closed source product, the exploit would most likely be a buffer overflow, not a blatant backdoor.
Disclaimer: I use a closed source IRC product called, Ircle.
Re:Quit Moderating My Posts!!! Please!
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I just got moderated overrated, underrated and funny in one go. In my book, that qualifies as spam.
You think that is bad. I just "Trolled" myself according to a moderator on the parent post.
Quit Moderating My Posts!!! Please!
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For the record, moderators, I am not Insightful, Informative or Interesting. If I appear to be, it is a complete accident. Just ask any of the college professors that passed me in college to get me out of their programs. I might have posed nekkid in Wired Magazine back in 1995 but that doesn't transfer those labels automatically to my postings.
Moderating the parent post of mine was just a plain waste of moderation points that could have been used on truely Insightful, Informative and Interesting posts. It wasn't funny or insightful. It was three seconds of brain power.
Hopefully, Meta-Moderators will correct this waste of moderation points.
It's not that republicans are looser with their wallets. It's that rich people tend to become republicans. They got theirs, now it's time to keep the government from taking it away from them. let the poor make their own fortune.
What about all the rich Hollywood Actors and Actresses? Also 9 of 10 the richest US Senators are Democrats. I vote Republican, but I am not rich -- mostly for tax issues and personal freedom issues.
I think there are rich people on both sides of the political spectrum.
Re:Fun with Robot Combat, Today!
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I had that game!!! Wow! Thanks for sparking my memory.
Brilliant! Hacktivism!
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I agree. Instead of pinging and scanning my servers 24/7, go after the real assholes of the Internet. Script Kiddies, you have the tools, you have the time, you have the disregard for the law, do something worthwhile for a change.
Come on, just because the behavior, inappropriate though it is, wasn't concievable to Moses when he wrote the foundations of Hebrew law, doesn't give you the right to change the meaning of those words simply to satisfy your own notion of what should and should not be.
We will just have to agree to disagree. I don't live my life with a complicated moral structure that defines words for each and every action that man does wrong. When you take what is not yours, I call it stealing -- whether its a 1999 Ford Taurus, Celine Dion CDs or 100Mbits of bandwidth. If you don't have rights to it and take/use it, you are stealing from another in my moral structure. I do feel it is "my right" to use my moral structure to judge the world around me. Without it, I would be a ship without a rudder. However, you are most welcome to disagree with my view of personal morality.
You appear to have a specialized moral condition that lets you compartimentalize each of the actions mention into specfic moral failures. I am not saying that is wrong, just different from how my morality exists.
You are misusing equipment and violating your contract. You haven't taken anything, ergo you have stolen nothing.
If bandwidth is "nothing", then why do companies sell bandwidth? You are assuming it is nothing more than air. Like plucking a Tulip in Holland a century or so ago and claiming it would grow back. Bandwidth is a commodity. It has value.
If it makes you comfortable to use the English language to remove your behavior (not you specifically) from the "Sin of Taking What is Not Yours" (i.e., Stealing), that is your moral choice. I just think that when we do this as a society, we make it easier for us to violate our neighbor when we rationalize this sort of behavior.
It all boils down to, you are taking what is not yours in the first place along with violating an agreement with another party.
Maybe I am just one of those old moralists or it was my Catholic school up bringing. I think when you take something that is not yours, its stealing. So if you if you signed a contract that states you will only take 1.5Mb/s of bandwidth and you modify a device to take more than 1.5Mb/s, you are stealing along with breaching a contract.
I tend to think more on a moral level than a legal level. Morality is important as the law is the bare minimum of common conduct. We wouldn't have all the corporate fraud stories in the news right now if we had executives that not only followed the law but a moral course.You can still cause pain and suffering following the law. Granted several are just plain rat bastards that didn't even care about the law that make Capitalism look real ugly.
Morals do not have to be religious based. Doing no harm to others is perfecting acceptable moral course that doesn't involve God, Xenu, Vishnu or Buddha.
While I don't think you should not go around modifying equipment that is under a user agreement signed by the user and the equipment provider in order to steal services but sending in the FBI is a bit much. I thought there was more important things to deal with besides obese men with a pr0n addiction using a modified cable modem. You know...that whole "War on Terra" thingy.
I almost want to sue the cable company for wasting the time of the FBI. Next time, cut off their service (A pair of wire cutters will do just fine) and take the losers to court and sue them. I couldn't believe the FBI showed up and didn't arrest anyone! Just took the guys computers.
The only real question is did any of their "non-stealing" customers notice that their net connections were slower because of these "bandwidth theives"?
Re:Review: "Left-wing media a financial failure?"
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Is that out 4 or 5 asterixes?
Left-wing media a financial failure?
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Is there something outside the marketability of political orientation that is a factor in this difference in success? Does political orientation give a business an advantage in a Capitalistic society? Or is it that Republicans are just looser with their wallets?
The site listed had bad links, sorry. But you can download
RoboWar 4.4 from info-mac. This is the 4.4 version, I think there is a 4.5.2 version that was the last developed but I can't find it online. If you have a copy or know where I could download it, please reply. I would like to see the bots I wrote in 1995 still work.:)
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Is that they will run a Chicken Shit Operating System.
Close. The best HTML editor, ever, is BareBone's BBEdit. It Doesn't Suck(TM)
Its also one of the best Text Editors ever made, if not the best ever made.
So not only is this a problem with web designers targeting IE, but IE on Windows.
Me either...
Now with this move, Jobs is deftly putting a thumb in the eye of Gates. Microsoft talks about 2006 for security, Apple says, "Hey, why not today?". Having a respected third party audit will ring loud against Microsoft's tight lipped security policy. Apple already exposes the base source code for Mac OS X called Darwin to anyone that wants to take the time to download it.
I had something else important to point out but the FedEx guy just showed up with Warcraft III. I am sure you will understand...
Yes, I am seriously saying that a third party would not modify the binary, give it back to the Software Publisher and have the Software Publisher redistribute the modified binary to the public through their corporate FTP server.
Did you think about your comment before you typed it? Or did you fail to read my original comment. It makes no sense what-so-ever what you typed.
Exactly! Check out this post in the same thread. I mentioned exactly this problem!!!
Not to burst your bubble, but if BitchX was closed source, I doubt a third party would have access to the source code to inject the trojaned backdoor, modify the FTP server and set up a bizarre distribution method (has anyone figured this out yet?). Granted many eyes helped find this problem, but in a closed source world, this wouldn't happen unless you had a disgruntled employee or a really stupid project manager. If BitchX were a commercial, closed source product, the exploit would most likely be a buffer overflow, not a blatant backdoor.
Disclaimer: I use a closed source IRC product called, Ircle.
As reported in The Register. Why worry about IRC when Microsoft 0w3n$ j00!...legally...24/7.
I figured it should be listed under "Cult/Occult".
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You think that is bad. I just "Trolled" myself according to a moderator on the parent post.
Moderating the parent post of mine was just a plain waste of moderation points that could have been used on truely Insightful, Informative and Interesting posts. It wasn't funny or insightful. It was three seconds of brain power.
Hopefully, Meta-Moderators will correct this waste of moderation points.
What about all the rich Hollywood Actors and Actresses? Also 9 of 10 the richest US Senators are Democrats. I vote Republican, but I am not rich -- mostly for tax issues and personal freedom issues.
I think there are rich people on both sides of the political spectrum.
I had that game!!! Wow! Thanks for sparking my memory.
I agree. Instead of pinging and scanning my servers 24/7, go after the real assholes of the Internet. Script Kiddies, you have the tools, you have the time, you have the disregard for the law, do something worthwhile for a change.
We will just have to agree to disagree. I don't live my life with a complicated moral structure that defines words for each and every action that man does wrong. When you take what is not yours, I call it stealing -- whether its a 1999 Ford Taurus, Celine Dion CDs or 100Mbits of bandwidth. If you don't have rights to it and take/use it, you are stealing from another in my moral structure. I do feel it is "my right" to use my moral structure to judge the world around me. Without it, I would be a ship without a rudder. However, you are most welcome to disagree with my view of personal morality.
You appear to have a specialized moral condition that lets you compartimentalize each of the actions mention into specfic moral failures. I am not saying that is wrong, just different from how my morality exists.
If bandwidth is "nothing", then why do companies sell bandwidth? You are assuming it is nothing more than air. Like plucking a Tulip in Holland a century or so ago and claiming it would grow back. Bandwidth is a commodity. It has value.
If it makes you comfortable to use the English language to remove your behavior (not you specifically) from the "Sin of Taking What is Not Yours" (i.e., Stealing), that is your moral choice. I just think that when we do this as a society, we make it easier for us to violate our neighbor when we rationalize this sort of behavior.
It all boils down to, you are taking what is not yours in the first place along with violating an agreement with another party.
Well if there is no limits, you can't take more than contracted therefor you couldn't be stealing.
You are correct. Thanks for catching that as I liked that quote and want to make sure it is attributed properly. I think I have it fixed now.
I tend to think more on a moral level than a legal level. Morality is important as the law is the bare minimum of common conduct. We wouldn't have all the corporate fraud stories in the news right now if we had executives that not only followed the law but a moral course.You can still cause pain and suffering following the law. Granted several are just plain rat bastards that didn't even care about the law that make Capitalism look real ugly.
Morals do not have to be religious based. Doing no harm to others is perfecting acceptable moral course that doesn't involve God, Xenu, Vishnu or Buddha.
I almost want to sue the cable company for wasting the time of the FBI. Next time, cut off their service (A pair of wire cutters will do just fine) and take the losers to court and sue them. I couldn't believe the FBI showed up and didn't arrest anyone! Just took the guys computers.
The only real question is did any of their "non-stealing" customers notice that their net connections were slower because of these "bandwidth theives"?
Is that out 4 or 5 asterixes?
Is there something outside the marketability of political orientation that is a factor in this difference in success? Does political orientation give a business an advantage in a Capitalistic society? Or is it that Republicans are just looser with their wallets?
The site listed had bad links, sorry. But you can download RoboWar 4.4 from info-mac. This is the 4.4 version, I think there is a 4.5.2 version that was the last developed but I can't find it online. If you have a copy or know where I could download it, please reply. I would like to see the bots I wrote in 1995 still work. :)