"And the only reason OSX is more secure is because of its significantly smaller user-base. If OSX had 90% of the market, you can be sure there would be many more OSX-based attacks out there."
Actually OSX is fundamentally more secure than XP by design. It has nothing to do with installed userbase. There would definitely be more attempts if more people used it though.
1. TiVO does not make a shitty product
2. They do not sue anyone who makes a decent DVR. This is true both because echostar does not make a good DVR, but also because it is simply not true.
You obviously have no idea what you are talking about.
I will however quote this from Wikipedia for you: "The Wrights were involved in several patent battles, which they won in 1914. Wilbur died from typhoid fever in 1912, an event Orville never completely recovered from. Orville sold his interests in the airplane company in 1915."
It seems to me that their patents held up fine, which is what is relevant to this discussion.
This was one patent I wanted to be upheld. Tivo put a lot of work into getting DVR's off the ground, and the have a rabid fanbase but almost nothing to show for it. Tivo makes a great product, I'm glad they won the first round and hope that this is the start of really good things for the company.
As someone who has used the knock off's they sure didn't do a good job knocking them off, their product sucks. That said - I know a few people who absolutely love my tivo's but are content just getting by with the cable companies DVR because it only costs $6/month, which is exactly what this lawsuit is about.
Sure did make my purchase of stocks last Friday pay off:)
Didn't mess up my OSX install, windows works great (runs TES 4 Oblivion just fine @ 1680x1050 with HDR turned off).. I wonder if some of these users didn't pay attention to what partition they were installing Windows on...
After getting this machine set up and running (it was pretty straight forward - repartitioned my drive without messing up my OSX install just fine) I ran a few benchmarks to get a feel for how the machine performed.
First I ran Super-Pi and got a 30s flat result crunching the 1m computation. Pretty impressive actually - especially for what is esentially a laptop chip. I then ran 3dmark'05 and scored 3808 3dmarks. Again not bad considering it is also using a laptop video card (in this case a Radeon Mobility X1600 256mb).
Not the perfect machine for the hardcore gamer, but a really great all in one machine for most households. Good enough to play pretty much all of the current games, while also running OSX for a nicer overall experience while doing anything else.
I'll give you the x64 release, kind of - as targeted as it may be. But I'm talking about consumer releases. After XP that was it, unless maybe you want to count the service packs:/
Most of those steps really aren't even needed. If there's an exploit it will be exploited - but so far everthing I've seen has been more social engineering than anything. Even running as an Admin, you have to enter your password whenever the computer tries to change anything substantial/install anything. At least as far as I've seen.
From what I understand it's an average cost of $7000/home during initial construction, this can vary by a bit depending on whether you have integrated panels, panels that sit on top of the roof etc. Really not that bad when you're considering it cuts down on your electricity bill quite a bit (like I said, 70% in areas like California), can provide hot water to cut down on heating bills etc. Granted it's not going to save you $7000/year but over the life of a house it will definitely pay itself off.
In my area with housing costs upwards of $850,000-$1,000,000 for your average family home, adding a $7000 solar array to the roof of the house is really not bad.
Not to mention, when you go on vacation and aren't using power, it actually runs your meter backwards. I would certainly install them on a home if I were in the market. Can you imagine if every new home in CA had these installed? HUGE energy production - most home arrays are between 1.5kWp and 2kWp depending on the type of array and the size. To give you an idea of how much power that is generating here are some different panel types:
Polycrystalline gives around 700-750kWh per kWp
Monocrystalline gives around 750-800kWh per kWp
Thin-film gives up to 900kWh per kWp
Hybrid gives at least 900kWh per kWp
Such as legislature to add solar panals to the roofs of homes? That alone will take in excess of 70% of home power use off the grid (per home) in a mild climate. Sure we'd still need power plants but the huge drop in power usage would make a very very large impact on our overall need for power.
I listen to Radio Paradise daily here and they along with supporting their running costs are working on paying off their old debts this month. So far they have raised almost $30,000 this month.
It seems that with the right combination of music, and website design internet radio does work. They have taken the route of no advertising in their streams, and make all of their money off donations, t-shirt sales and referral revenue.
I bought Konfabulator about a year back - and now it's free.. Yay? I'm also not exactly pleased with having to say no to a bunch of yahoo products when installing a product that I have paid money for.
I sent them an email: "I am getting a bit frustrated with your packet shaping in regards to Bittorrent. I realize that p2p torrent sharing uses a lot of your bandwidth resources, but I am unable to update World of Warcraft without it taking HOURS since they use torrents as their update protocol.
Along with this, I think you may be opening up a can of worms in regards to lawsuits. If you (Cox Cable) are censoring your traffic, and therefore no longer deserve the title of common carrier, you may become liable for the actions of your users in regards to piracy, etc.
Ironically, if you think about it, you are also putting yourselves in danger of getting a lawsuit from the RIAA."
Used a bit of your wording, just for fun;)
Of course - not everyone can use torrents. Here in Santa Barbara, Cox Cable filters out bittorrent traffic by examining the packet headers. You can't get around it by changing the port for example. Really sucks - I can't even patch WoW without it taking 2 hours unless I find a direct download.
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"And the only reason OSX is more secure is because of its significantly smaller user-base. If OSX had 90% of the market, you can be sure there would be many more OSX-based attacks out there."
Actually OSX is fundamentally more secure than XP by design. It has nothing to do with installed userbase. There would definitely be more attempts if more people used it though.
Yeah.. nevermind the fact that it probably has no bluetooth, a slow hard drive, etc. etc.
People seem to forget that a processor and RAM are not the only things in a computer.
1. TiVO does not make a shitty product
2. They do not sue anyone who makes a decent DVR. This is true both because echostar does not make a good DVR, but also because it is simply not true.
You obviously have no idea what you are talking about.
I wont even bother to answer that.
I will however quote this from Wikipedia for you: "The Wrights were involved in several patent battles, which they won in 1914. Wilbur died from typhoid fever in 1912, an event Orville never completely recovered from. Orville sold his interests in the airplane company in 1915."
It seems to me that their patents held up fine, which is what is relevant to this discussion.
This was one patent I wanted to be upheld. Tivo put a lot of work into getting DVR's off the ground, and the have a rabid fanbase but almost nothing to show for it. Tivo makes a great product, I'm glad they won the first round and hope that this is the start of really good things for the company. As someone who has used the knock off's they sure didn't do a good job knocking them off, their product sucks. That said - I know a few people who absolutely love my tivo's but are content just getting by with the cable companies DVR because it only costs $6/month, which is exactly what this lawsuit is about. Sure did make my purchase of stocks last Friday pay off :)
Didn't mess up my OSX install, windows works great (runs TES 4 Oblivion just fine @ 1680x1050 with HDR turned off).. I wonder if some of these users didn't pay attention to what partition they were installing Windows on...
After getting this machine set up and running (it was pretty straight forward - repartitioned my drive without messing up my OSX install just fine) I ran a few benchmarks to get a feel for how the machine performed.
First I ran Super-Pi and got a 30s flat result crunching the 1m computation. Pretty impressive actually - especially for what is esentially a laptop chip. I then ran 3dmark'05 and scored 3808 3dmarks. Again not bad considering it is also using a laptop video card (in this case a Radeon Mobility X1600 256mb).
Not the perfect machine for the hardcore gamer, but a really great all in one machine for most households. Good enough to play pretty much all of the current games, while also running OSX for a nicer overall experience while doing anything else.
Good job I say.
I'll give you the x64 release, kind of - as targeted as it may be. But I'm talking about consumer releases. After XP that was it, unless maybe you want to count the service packs :/
Let's just ignore the fact that there has been no new version of windows in over five years...
This is sounding remarkably similar to Duke Nukem Forever!
Erm, just hit command tab to leave safari and you can force quit just fine.
Moveon.org and and Gun Owners of America supporting the same thing???? THE WORLD IS ENDING!
Most of those steps really aren't even needed. If there's an exploit it will be exploited - but so far everthing I've seen has been more social engineering than anything. Even running as an Admin, you have to enter your password whenever the computer tries to change anything substantial/install anything. At least as far as I've seen.
From what I understand it's an average cost of $7000/home during initial construction, this can vary by a bit depending on whether you have integrated panels, panels that sit on top of the roof etc. Really not that bad when you're considering it cuts down on your electricity bill quite a bit (like I said, 70% in areas like California), can provide hot water to cut down on heating bills etc. Granted it's not going to save you $7000/year but over the life of a house it will definitely pay itself off.
In my area with housing costs upwards of $850,000-$1,000,000 for your average family home, adding a $7000 solar array to the roof of the house is really not bad.
Not to mention, when you go on vacation and aren't using power, it actually runs your meter backwards. I would certainly install them on a home if I were in the market. Can you imagine if every new home in CA had these installed? HUGE energy production - most home arrays are between 1.5kWp and 2kWp depending on the type of array and the size. To give you an idea of how much power that is generating here are some different panel types:
Polycrystalline gives around 700-750kWh per kWp
Monocrystalline gives around 750-800kWh per kWp
Thin-film gives up to 900kWh per kWp
Hybrid gives at least 900kWh per kWp
Such as legislature to add solar panals to the roofs of homes? That alone will take in excess of 70% of home power use off the grid (per home) in a mild climate. Sure we'd still need power plants but the huge drop in power usage would make a very very large impact on our overall need for power.
I listen to Radio Paradise daily here and they along with supporting their running costs are working on paying off their old debts this month. So far they have raised almost $30,000 this month.
It seems that with the right combination of music, and website design internet radio does work. They have taken the route of no advertising in their streams, and make all of their money off donations, t-shirt sales and referral revenue.
Heh...
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I bought Konfabulator about a year back - and now it's free.. Yay? I'm also not exactly pleased with having to say no to a bunch of yahoo products when installing a product that I have paid money for.
Yeah - that would definitely work better than what I wrote. I am not the best at addressing large corporations.
I sent them an email: "I am getting a bit frustrated with your packet shaping in regards to Bittorrent. I realize that p2p torrent sharing uses a lot of your bandwidth resources, but I am unable to update World of Warcraft without it taking HOURS since they use torrents as their update protocol. Along with this, I think you may be opening up a can of worms in regards to lawsuits. If you (Cox Cable) are censoring your traffic, and therefore no longer deserve the title of common carrier, you may become liable for the actions of your users in regards to piracy, etc. Ironically, if you think about it, you are also putting yourselves in danger of getting a lawsuit from the RIAA." Used a bit of your wording, just for fun ;)
I have not - are there any you would recommend?
Of course - not everyone can use torrents. Here in Santa Barbara, Cox Cable filters out bittorrent traffic by examining the packet headers. You can't get around it by changing the port for example. Really sucks - I can't even patch WoW without it taking 2 hours unless I find a direct download.
That all of your old socks have disappeared to.