You know, when I really think of it, I don't really remember any broadband ISP claiming unlimited bandwidth
Sympatico (Bell Canada) says that it offers unlimited bandwidth to all users of its high-speed internet service. They never complained that I used 16gb of bandwdith per month, but I guess that it will change when everyone starts doing the same.
Firefox does an "I'm feeling lucky" search on Google when the address is invalid if I well remember. It turns out that Microsoft is first in the list when you search for that.
I know what you mean, and this is why my comment was not completely a reply to yours. You were talking about simplicity and I see that there are other people using that as an argument against the iPod. So I took the opportunity to add my opinion about that.
"and the fact that they really don't understand computers"
I disagree with that statement. iPod users aren't more computer-illiterate than people who have, say, a Creative player. Sure, the iPod is easie.r to use and less problematic but it is does not really change who buys these things
In fact, if I take a look at people I know, those who know the less about computers bought anything but an iPod and many of those who were knowledgeable with computers got an iPod.
Of course, iPod users can't all be crackers spending their time in the basement trying to hack the latest DRM schemes and using l33tsp3@k in all their conversations.
Indeed, it is a direct port from Windows. A real Mac developer sane in their mind would break all the OS X design conventions like Google does with Google Earth. It is not only the UI, but also everything underneath.
The dialogs are bundled in the executable instead of being attached as Interface Builder files. There are a bunch of icons, like the "info" icon (i in a speech bubble), take right from Windows 2000. The buttons are placed at the wrong locations in dialogs and the default buttons are not always selected like they should be. There's more but my eyes bleed because of this Windowish UI so I'll just say that it is a beta and stay optimistic.
Whoo there are so much overreaction here that I can't believe that such paranoïa exists.
Come on, calling this spyware is really an over-exaggeration (I know this is not a word). A real spyware would have used encrypted requests to be undetectable and would not be that easy to disable. It doesn't even use any information. This is a *FEATURE*. Don't like it? Fine!, disable it. It ends right there.
Seriously, do you think it is new in media players? Windows Media Player on Windows by default contacts a CD info server each time you import music. Any music with DRM can send info to another server. And if you ever asked to get more info about your music, you sent a lot more to Microsoft. This is there since at least versions 8/9.
This new feature in iTunes is nothing dangerous. It is not like if iTunes checked for filesharing software. They don't check all your passwords, they don't spy on you, they don't check where your music comes from, they just offer you to send a song name to Apple.
I saw somebody on MacOSXHints.com comparing this to spying you with an iSight. That makes me think that there is really some overparanoid people in this world.
OneCare includes virus detection as far as I remember. They simply updated the virus definitions to detect some attempts to exploit the vulnerability. Symantec and other antivirus vendors did the exact same thing.
Firefox will ask you if you want to download the file instead of displaying it.
If you are using Firefox 1.0.x, it will by default *offer* you to open it in Windows Picture and Fax Viewer (which is vulnerable). Just say No.
Firefox 1.5 has a bug and will offer you to open the WMF images with Windows Media Player instead. Media Player does not recognize these images, so they won't be displayed and will not infect you.
If you actually read the white paper, it is very very easy to bypass the "click to activate" protection using Javascript. Anyway, if you had read it, you'd also know that controls will continue to run and respond to script commands. The click is required to enable the user to interact with the control.
Why not use the new Clear Private Data feature of Firefox 1.5?
You can set it to delete your history every time you close your browser. Then, you just have to remember to restart Firefox and your mother won't see anything...
It is not a real privacy hole because the list of the dropdown address bar is cleared when you empty your history. There is no point to empty the address bar history if you leave your real, complete history on the computer...
Also, "Right-clicking and seeing "Block active content from ad1.crapads.com" rather than "About Macromedia Flash Player 8"" would be harder to do because the menu is generated by the plugin and not by firefox.
Aren't console games protected by DRM or something like that?
You can't just put an XBOX game in your computer. It probably has an encyption technology similar to DVDs...
the current flaw affects WMF (Windows Metafile) and EMF (Enhanced Metafile) file formats only. This is not the same thing as any jpeg or png-related vulnerability
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err... no.
Mac OS X 10.3 and later support a case sensitive file system, but it is not used by default.
You know, when I really think of it, I don't really remember any broadband ISP claiming unlimited bandwidth
Sympatico (Bell Canada) says that it offers unlimited bandwidth to all users of its high-speed internet service. They never complained that I used 16gb of bandwdith per month, but I guess that it will change when everyone starts doing the same.
Firefox does an "I'm feeling lucky" search on Google when the address is invalid if I well remember. It turns out that Microsoft is first in the list when you search for that.
I know what you mean, and this is why my comment was not completely a reply to yours. You were talking about simplicity and I see that there are other people using that as an argument against the iPod. So I took the opportunity to add my opinion about that.
"and the fact that they really don't understand computers"
I disagree with that statement. iPod users aren't more computer-illiterate than people who have, say, a Creative player. Sure, the iPod is easie.r to use and less problematic but it is does not really change who buys these things
In fact, if I take a look at people I know, those who know the less about computers bought anything but an iPod and many of those who were knowledgeable with computers got an iPod.
Of course, iPod users can't all be crackers spending their time in the basement trying to hack the latest DRM schemes and using l33tsp3@k in all their conversations.
Sorry I meant "wouldn't break all the OS X design conventions".
Indeed, it is a direct port from Windows. A real Mac developer sane in their mind would break all the OS X design conventions like Google does with Google Earth. It is not only the UI, but also everything underneath.
The dialogs are bundled in the executable instead of being attached as Interface Builder files. There are a bunch of icons, like the "info" icon (i in a speech bubble), take right from Windows 2000. The buttons are placed at the wrong locations in dialogs and the default buttons are not always selected like they should be. There's more but my eyes bleed because of this Windowish UI so I'll just say that it is a beta and stay optimistic.
Whoo there are so much overreaction here that I can't believe that such paranoïa exists.
Come on, calling this spyware is really an over-exaggeration (I know this is not a word). A real spyware would have used encrypted requests to be undetectable and would not be that easy to disable. It doesn't even use any information. This is a *FEATURE*. Don't like it? Fine!, disable it. It ends right there.
Seriously, do you think it is new in media players? Windows Media Player on Windows by default contacts a CD info server each time you import music. Any music with DRM can send info to another server. And if you ever asked to get more info about your music, you sent a lot more to Microsoft. This is there since at least versions 8/9.
This new feature in iTunes is nothing dangerous. It is not like if iTunes checked for filesharing software. They don't check all your passwords, they don't spy on you, they don't check where your music comes from, they just offer you to send a song name to Apple.
I saw somebody on MacOSXHints.com comparing this to spying you with an iSight. That makes me think that there is really some overparanoid people in this world.
OneCare includes virus detection as far as I remember. They simply updated the virus definitions to detect some attempts to exploit the vulnerability. Symantec and other antivirus vendors did the exact same thing.
Firefox will ask you if you want to download the file instead of displaying it.
If you are using Firefox 1.0.x, it will by default *offer* you to open it in Windows Picture and Fax Viewer (which is vulnerable). Just say No.
Firefox 1.5 has a bug and will offer you to open the WMF images with Windows Media Player instead. Media Player does not recognize these images, so they won't be displayed and will not infect you.
If you actually read the white paper, it is very very easy to bypass the "click to activate" protection using Javascript. Anyway, if you had read it, you'd also know that controls will continue to run and respond to script commands. The click is required to enable the user to interact with the control.
Why not use the new Clear Private Data feature of Firefox 1.5? You can set it to delete your history every time you close your browser. Then, you just have to remember to restart Firefox and your mother won't see anything...
It is not a real privacy hole because the list of the dropdown address bar is cleared when you empty your history. There is no point to empty the address bar history if you leave your real, complete history on the computer... Also, "Right-clicking and seeing "Block active content from ad1.crapads.com" rather than "About Macromedia Flash Player 8"" would be harder to do because the menu is generated by the plugin and not by firefox.
To my knowledge, nightlies, alphas, betas and release candidates are not counted in the number of total downloads.
Well, the core is already open sourced. It is a good step in the right direction, but I doubt that Apple will offer the rest.
Aren't console games protected by DRM or something like that? You can't just put an XBOX game in your computer. It probably has an encyption technology similar to DVDs...
the current flaw affects WMF (Windows Metafile) and EMF (Enhanced Metafile) file formats only. This is not the same thing as any jpeg or png-related vulnerability
So true. Last year my house heating system broke and I was able to heat my room just by using my Intel Pentium 4.