How very specious of you. You know damn well 99% of folks, including you and your URL, call it GIMP (with or without capitalization). I agree with Matt's rhetorical question, would you have the same response if it were the New Image Gnu Graphics Editing Routine?
Facts: the name is offensive to some people (disclaimer: not me), and you've known this for at least 6 years. Rather than issuing belligerent Bush-like denials, you'd be MUCH better off by saying "we're sorry you're offended, but that's not our intent".
First, if you had (horror of horrors) read the article you would know that the rumor is a slightly larger mini with a 3.5" HD.
More importantly, you haven't been paying attention to Intel's timeline. Codename Yonah (65nm dualcore Pentium M with SSE3) is on the way, and it's perfect for the mini.
Hmm... this rumor is sounding much less implausible than I first thought.
Which is irrelevantly orthogonal to discussion of a mini built-in dock. If Apple offers that, it could (and should) work exactly the same on standard external docks.
Eliminating a couple feet of cable and a small piece of plastic is not a big deal.
No. Snork (et al) is hoping for a Mac DVR in a stereo component form factor, so it can sit directly in the media cabinet, replacing any current PVR and DVD player/burner. A true Mac appliance. Its real-world probability approaches epsilon, but folks still dream.
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In partial defense of Carl, let the record show that Apple was designing three PowerMacs right then:
PM 6100: codename Piltdown Man, famous archaeology hoax
PM 7100: codename Sagan
PM 8100: codename Cold Fusion, overhyped physics flop du jour
In his place, I'd also be unhappy about the implication of being placed in between those two.
Really wouldn't say that iPod integration is "all important". It would certainly be a nice touch with elegant Apple style, but the value add is maybe 10 bucks max.
True DVR capability though... if it has both well-designed, powerful iSoftware AND true plug-n-play hardware, that would make it a serious killer device that launches Macs into millions of living rooms.
If there really is a Macintel mini next month, most likely they'll release a low-end model comparable to the existing high-end, and a premium version with built-in DVR. Personally I'm not prepared to accept this rumor just yet, but boy would it be a nice birthday present.
Another important factor is that Lagrange 2 is a saddle point. You can't keep an object there without constant monitoring and course correction (aka thrusters). Given that there's no way to send a resupply shuttle, our dear rocket scientists will absolutely have to get it right the first time. That means perfectly arranged mirrors (unlike Hubble), long-lasting gyros (unlike Hubble), and of course big honking fuel tank.
So whatever the final cost is, the project managers absolutely must resist the urge to cut corners. I'd rather see us spend $5B on a successful mission than $4B on an unintentional lunar impactor.
With nothing more to go on than a couple vague sentences from eEye, here's my guess:
One major thing that make iTunes different from other music player apps is the Music Store integration, which operates as a limited web browser. On OSX it calls WebKit; on Windows either Apple built a custom minibrower or it calls Explorer. Does anyone know which, BTW?
In any case, this means that iTunes accepts URLs, specifically itms://[...]. It's also capable (on OSX at least) of launching your default browser and other URL helper apps. I'm guessing that Apple did a bad job validating input, and a malicious itms URL could trick iTunes into launching a remote file as if it were a helper app. Hence the local user context. If this is the case, simply viewing an evil web page (with the itms URL as a redirect/iframe/img/whatever) in most browsers should be sufficient to start the attack.
Hopefully someone will divulge the facts soon. Let's see if I'm even close.
I don't read either Spanish or Hackerspeak very well, so I may have misunderstood their explanation, but it sounded like the exploit requires the attacker to gain access to the source code of the login screen for a user who already has a valid Gmail cookie. In other words, Gmail sends (or used to send?) stealable authentication info in the html. Is that accurate? If so, I'd have to agree that's not Best Practices for web security.
Their screenshot walkthrough seemed like a mess. Which browser (and which URL) was associated with each of those source views?
I don't exactly agree with the quote you deride, but you unfairly ignored the keyword "noncommercial". Sony/F4I is abusing unlicensed code FOR PROFIT, which makes a big difference in many circumstances both legally and ethically.
+5 Informative. It's just an expensive non-peer-reviewed project, which at least manages to produce some amount of useful data, but nowhere near enough to justify the cost (in dollars, that is. the environmental cost is really small).
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Why would he do that? There's no need any more. He's already established his credentials as a Bold Leader(tm) who isn't afraid to take on Special Interests(tm) and protect the Little Guy(tm). Any further mega-cases would only waste time that he would rather spend campaigning.
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Yes, they'll use lunar slingshots to reach the Lagranges.
Rather than launching arbitrary pairs like this, I wonder if we could place large permanent scaffoldings at the L1 and L2 points with docking points to put dozens (hundreds?) of different probes out there without worrying about collisions.
Since the submitter didn't bother to explain...
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...the Cell processor is an upcoming PowerPC variant that will be used in the PlayStation 3. It's great at DSP but terrible at branch prediction, and would not make a very good Mac. If you want to know full tech specs, Hannibal is da man.
Rosa Parks absolutely has a great deal to do with this case. She is on record as saying that she would never have stood up to the bus driver without the activist training she received the previous summer at Highlander Folk School. She needed encouragement from many other people.
Without their help, the entire civil rights movement would have been delayed by years. The bus boycott was the flash point that brought a certain preacher to national prominence, who of course was also encouraging MANY other people to break the law.
The failure condition is obvious: lethal doses of radiation delivered to patients by a software-controlled device. Res Ipsa Loquitur.
I don't think some of you responding to my post really understand how this software works
I understand how medical control software SHOULD work. If the software was designed to follow instructions blindly, then it was designed INCORRECTLY. Any software that is specifically intended to inflict physical changes on a human body should have built-in safeguards to prevent catastrophic error. I do not accept any other answer, and I believe the majority of western civilization would agree with me if asked.
results on screen should be hand-checked. The math is ludicrously simple
The software merrily blasted multiple patients with lethal doses of radiation, when it could have done "ludicrously simple" math and popped an alert dialog. Yes, the doctors screwed up. No, the developer does not get a pass. He is also to blame. The failure condition should not have been possible.
Typical software standards (e.g. version X.0 is effectively a public beta) absolutely do NOT apply to life-critical equipment. End of story.
No. When you design software that is explicitly intended to perform potentially lethal actions on human beings, you absolutely make sure it's foolproof. You do input validation at every freaking step, then double-check the result before you pull the trigger.
If I go in for LASIK and get my retina burned off because some technician turned the wrong dial up to 11, you bet your ass I'm suing the manufacturer right along side the clinic. It should not be possible for the user to screw up the software when life is on the line.
...then it's a PHP/*nix worm, not Linux specifically.
Heck there's decent odds it could be modified to attack OSX PHP too. A shame the linked article provides ZERO information about exactly which scripts (and versions thereof) are vulnerable.
RCC embraced scientific evidence MUCH longer ago than JP2. Both of my parents were taught evolution in 1950s Catholic schools. John Paul II merely took it one step further and officially declared that evolution is not just the most likely theory, but about as close to guaranteed fact as anything can be in this imperfect world of ours. He also finally pardoned Galileo, IIRC.
Roman Catholicism has many Many MANY flaws, most of which we all know quite well, but I.D.-iocy in the classroom is not one of them.
Tell us where you live so we can all avoid moving there.
If a school board member in my area even suggested banning any topic that might appear on a college board exam, they would be recalled and thrown out of town so quickly, every window in the building would shatter from the sonic boom.
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How very specious of you. You know damn well 99% of folks, including you and your URL, call it GIMP (with or without capitalization). I agree with Matt's rhetorical question, would you have the same response if it were the New Image Gnu Graphics Editing Routine?
Facts: the name is offensive to some people (disclaimer: not me), and you've known this for at least 6 years. Rather than issuing belligerent Bush-like denials, you'd be MUCH better off by saying "we're sorry you're offended, but that's not our intent".
Anand says: By now we've hopefully stressed the importance of Yonah, and there's just one more detail to mention - we have one.
More importantly, you haven't been paying attention to Intel's timeline. Codename Yonah (65nm dualcore Pentium M with SSE3) is on the way, and it's perfect for the mini.
Hmm... this rumor is sounding much less implausible than I first thought.Which is irrelevantly orthogonal to discussion of a mini built-in dock. If Apple offers that, it could (and should) work exactly the same on standard external docks.
Eliminating a couple feet of cable and a small piece of plastic is not a big deal.
No. Snork (et al) is hoping for a Mac DVR in a stereo component form factor, so it can sit directly in the media cabinet, replacing any current PVR and DVD player/burner. A true Mac appliance. Its real-world probability approaches epsilon, but folks still dream.
In his place, I'd also be unhappy about the implication of being placed in between those two.
Really wouldn't say that iPod integration is "all important". It would certainly be a nice touch with elegant Apple style, but the value add is maybe 10 bucks max.
True DVR capability though... if it has both well-designed, powerful iSoftware AND true plug-n-play hardware, that would make it a serious killer device that launches Macs into millions of living rooms.
If there really is a Macintel mini next month, most likely they'll release a low-end model comparable to the existing high-end, and a premium version with built-in DVR. Personally I'm not prepared to accept this rumor just yet, but boy would it be a nice birthday present.
Another important factor is that Lagrange 2 is a saddle point. You can't keep an object there without constant monitoring and course correction (aka thrusters). Given that there's no way to send a resupply shuttle, our dear rocket scientists will absolutely have to get it right the first time. That means perfectly arranged mirrors (unlike Hubble), long-lasting gyros (unlike Hubble), and of course big honking fuel tank.
So whatever the final cost is, the project managers absolutely must resist the urge to cut corners. I'd rather see us spend $5B on a successful mission than $4B on an unintentional lunar impactor.
OK, in my grandparent post, s/web browser/web-like XML interface/, but the general point about URL handling remains.
With nothing more to go on than a couple vague sentences from eEye, here's my guess:
One major thing that make iTunes different from other music player apps is the Music Store integration, which operates as a limited web browser. On OSX it calls WebKit; on Windows either Apple built a custom minibrower or it calls Explorer. Does anyone know which, BTW?
In any case, this means that iTunes accepts URLs, specifically itms://[...]. It's also capable (on OSX at least) of launching your default browser and other URL helper apps. I'm guessing that Apple did a bad job validating input, and a malicious itms URL could trick iTunes into launching a remote file as if it were a helper app. Hence the local user context. If this is the case, simply viewing an evil web page (with the itms URL as a redirect/iframe/img/whatever) in most browsers should be sufficient to start the attack.
Hopefully someone will divulge the facts soon. Let's see if I'm even close.
I don't read either Spanish or Hackerspeak very well, so I may have misunderstood their explanation, but it sounded like the exploit requires the attacker to gain access to the source code of the login screen for a user who already has a valid Gmail cookie. In other words, Gmail sends (or used to send?) stealable authentication info in the html. Is that accurate? If so, I'd have to agree that's not Best Practices for web security.
Their screenshot walkthrough seemed like a mess. Which browser (and which URL) was associated with each of those source views?
However, the release notes are now up.
I don't exactly agree with the quote you deride, but you unfairly ignored the keyword "noncommercial". Sony/F4I is abusing unlicensed code FOR PROFIT, which makes a big difference in many circumstances both legally and ethically.
+5 Informative. It's just an expensive non-peer-reviewed project, which at least manages to produce some amount of useful data, but nowhere near enough to justify the cost (in dollars, that is. the environmental cost is really small).
Why would he do that? There's no need any more. He's already established his credentials as a Bold Leader(tm) who isn't afraid to take on Special Interests(tm) and protect the Little Guy(tm). Any further mega-cases would only waste time that he would rather spend campaigning. </cynical>
Yes, they'll use lunar slingshots to reach the Lagranges.
Rather than launching arbitrary pairs like this, I wonder if we could place large permanent scaffoldings at the L1 and L2 points with docking points to put dozens (hundreds?) of different probes out there without worrying about collisions.
...the Cell processor is an upcoming PowerPC variant that will be used in the PlayStation 3. It's great at DSP but terrible at branch prediction, and would not make a very good Mac. If you want to know full tech specs, Hannibal is da man.
Rosa Parks absolutely has a great deal to do with this case. She is on record as saying that she would never have stood up to the bus driver without the activist training she received the previous summer at Highlander Folk School. She needed encouragement from many other people.
Without their help, the entire civil rights movement would have been delayed by years. The bus boycott was the flash point that brought a certain preacher to national prominence, who of course was also encouraging MANY other people to break the law.
The failure condition is obvious: lethal doses of radiation delivered to patients by a software-controlled device. Res Ipsa Loquitur.
I don't think some of you responding to my post really understand how this software worksI understand how medical control software SHOULD work. If the software was designed to follow instructions blindly, then it was designed INCORRECTLY. Any software that is specifically intended to inflict physical changes on a human body should have built-in safeguards to prevent catastrophic error. I do not accept any other answer, and I believe the majority of western civilization would agree with me if asked.
The software merrily blasted multiple patients with lethal doses of radiation, when it could have done "ludicrously simple" math and popped an alert dialog. Yes, the doctors screwed up. No, the developer does not get a pass. He is also to blame. The failure condition should not have been possible.
Typical software standards (e.g. version X.0 is effectively a public beta) absolutely do NOT apply to life-critical equipment. End of story.No. When you design software that is explicitly intended to perform potentially lethal actions on human beings, you absolutely make sure it's foolproof. You do input validation at every freaking step, then double-check the result before you pull the trigger.
If I go in for LASIK and get my retina burned off because some technician turned the wrong dial up to 11, you bet your ass I'm suing the manufacturer right along side the clinic. It should not be possible for the user to screw up the software when life is on the line....then it's a PHP/*nix worm, not Linux specifically.
Heck there's decent odds it could be modified to attack OSX PHP too. A shame the linked article provides ZERO information about exactly which scripts (and versions thereof) are vulnerable.
RCC embraced scientific evidence MUCH longer ago than JP2. Both of my parents were taught evolution in 1950s Catholic schools. John Paul II merely took it one step further and officially declared that evolution is not just the most likely theory, but about as close to guaranteed fact as anything can be in this imperfect world of ours. He also finally pardoned Galileo, IIRC.
Roman Catholicism has many Many MANY flaws, most of which we all know quite well, but I.D.-iocy in the classroom is not one of them.
while working for a laboratory in Switzerland... which is funded by several European governments...
Tell us where you live so we can all avoid moving there.
If a school board member in my area even suggested banning any topic that might appear on a college board exam, they would be recalled and thrown out of town so quickly, every window in the building would shatter from the sonic boom.