The second-generation zune will come in a new color, Golden Shower, which is sure to be much more popular with fans of watersports. New catchphrase: Do I Hear Rain?
You're still missing step 0: Make Trojan executable and convince the user to run it. Firefox on *nix doesn't offer the "Run this program from its current location" option like MSIE does. You have to either talk the user through the whole "cd ~/Downloads && chmod 755 Trojan &&./Trojan" song and dance, or disguise it as a data file and exploit a hole in some application (difficult to exploit large numbers of machines because no two Linux users can agree on the best app for viewing any given file type).
Most purchasers these days don't care about DRM and have no idea what NTSC or ATSC are. Those who do know NTSC don't know what ATSC is.
No, but they do know they want a machine that can record any show (not just the old-looking fuzzy ones, or just the new-looking pixely widescreen ones) and doesn't automatically delete things after a few of days or refuse to recording certain movies or sports events. Less articulate wording, but the idea is the same...
And now see the real reason Apple crippled the features to be included in the Motorola ROKR phone (especially the storage).
Because the phone companies that are making $3 or $4 per song didn't want meaningful competition from $0.99 iTunes tracks?
(This is why I think iPhone, if it really exists, is doomed. No mobile carriers will allow it on their network because they don't want to jeopardize their own services that charge 3x more than iTMS.)
I don't assume anything about the morality or technical feasibility of missile defense lasers. I just wanted to point out that your argument is silly because it applies equally well to rational defense methods and to ludicrous "magic rock" defenses.
Now if only there were a way to channel the explosive rage of a drudge report fan's TERRORIST! COMMIE!! LIBERAL!!! AMERICA-HATER!!!! outbursts into a missile defense weapon...
True, but for Intel and AMD systems this is pretty unlikely to last very long once Vista ships. They both already have it in production and neither wants to be left behind.
I think it'll last at least another full Windows release cycle. 32-bit Vista won't support EFI. 64-bit Vista will, but is too locked down for some users. Gamers (and anyone else who wants to use unsigned drivers in Windows) will need BIOS for a long time to come.
That's what Debian is doing too. They just think that "Deer Park" and "Bon Echo" (unofficial Firefox 1.5 and 2.0 respectively) are lame names and call their trademark free version "Iceweasel".
If content type is "multipart/related" And: Any attachment name contains ".gif" And: Sender is not in my address book Then: Move message to folder "Spam Can"
Translate rules as necessary for your favorite mail client.
This is what happens after a sufficiently long period without sufficient opportunity for entry and mid-level IT workers. People leave the sector to tend bar or build houses or drive trucks because it pays better and drains the soul less than being a helpdesk tech or an asp monkey. Fewer new people stay long enough to develop the skills required to be senior engineers.
I realize it's hard to make a business case for hiring locally for a job that could be outsourced to China or continuously training your people in new languages and technologies instead of firing one batch of contractors as soon as their project is done and replacing them with new ones, but it has to be done. There's no self-study guide or college degree that can give a newbie the equivalent of real experience, so if the IT industry isn't creating the people it will need 5 or 10 or 20 years down the line right now it isn't going to have those people. Good luck getting upper managers who can't see past the end of next quarter to understand that, though.
Palm presumably has a big patent portfolio that covers the fundamental ideas of handheld computing. Good.com has a domain name and some mail servers. Which do you think NTP wants more?
President GHW Bush: Saddam wants Kuwait, and since he was a useful proxy against Iran I'll give him tacit permission to take it. Oh fuck, he's killing people live on CNN! About face!
Symantec to Mac users: "Pretty little Operating System ya gots there. Be a shame if somethin' unfortunate happened to it. Maybe you should hire a little protection..."
I guess this answers the question about whether Symantec can continue to sink to new lows of sleazy business practices after suing Microsoft for securing their kernel.
Try $120... in your local newegg.com or walmart. that's what normal people are generally paying for an OEM copy of Win XP Home.
That's what people who buy OEM Windows XP at list price (a.k.a. geeks who build their own systems) pay. Most people buy complete PCs from a big name OEM like Dell or HP. If you think Dell is paying $120 a pop for Windows when they sell complete PCs for $349, you're nuts.
My little sister who wants to share her travel photos with me doesn't. The highschool english teacher that lives next door to me and wants to get in invitation to our upcoming barbecue doesn't. The Montana farmer getting his first computer to manage his heavy equipment doesn't. My grandmother who wants to see how my cat is recovering from surgery doesn't.
Then those people need education, not software.
There is and always will be a fundamental difference between data stored on a system that you control and data stored elsewhere on someone else's nebulous array of servers and caching proxies and backup media. The difference is that data on my machine goes away when I delete it. Data on the internet stays on archive.org and other similar services forever. The teacher's students will always have their 9th grade english papers available for the world to laugh at. That farmer once downloaded a porno movie; that'll come back and haunt him when he tries to run for town council. Let's not even delve into the ways little sister's bitter ex-boyfriend can misuse her "private" data to cause her trouble. These hypothetical people may not know now what the difference between their local hard drive and google's servers is, but they'll learn. The question is how painful the lesson is going to be.
Is the situation now really that different from when people propagated computer viruses by trading infected Apple ][ floppies? Anyone who ever tried to download Leisure Suit Larry from a pirate BBS can tell you "virtual sex" has always carried a risk.
I was shooting for "funny" or "flamebait" depending on what the mods' opinion of wikipedia is today, but I'll take "insightful" is that's what you've got...
Hopefully now that the code is out there, someone independent (not Ellch and not a Mac blogger) will test this exploit on an out-of-the-box MacBook, and see if the hole lives up to the hype.
Why all this pro-Microsoft, anti Symantec and McAfee.
Five years of computer "security" product that get slower, more obnoxiously commercial, more expensive, and harder to remove with each mandatory annual update tends to earn one the ire of many geeks, especially when the product doesn't even work well. If there's justice to be had in the federal courts, this case will end with Symantec executives being ordered to spend 10,000 hours of community service uninstalling Norton Internet Security from PCs it's fscked up.
There's going to be a kybosh on naughty developers mucking about with the 64-bit kernel; patching will be banned.
If it will stop crapware like StarForce and the Sony rootkit from sneaking extra drivers in, bring on the kibosh. People who want to tinker can use one of the fine Open Source operating system kernels that run on 64-bit Intel machines. Those that just want to play games or run Office can feel a little bit safer from malware.
Sorry Symantec, but after dealing with the disaster that is Norton Internet Security, I won't shed a tear when I read that you've filed for Chapter 7.
You just need better 3D. I had a machine that could only run Quake at about 15 FPS, and it made me seasick after 10 minutes. It was the framerate that did it (though the 256-shades-of-puke color scheme didn't help). Anything over about 30 FPS fools the part of my brain that was rebelling against the 16 FPS slideshow. Maybe some will need a full 1080p high-definition image at 60 or 100 FPS, but eventually there will be a point where the simulation is good enough to fool everybody.
Besides, you can't count on human evolution to help. Last time I checked, people who don't spend much time playing video games tend to get laid more often and live longer, so the selection pressure is *against* higher tolerance of simulated 3D.
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The second-generation zune will come in a new color, Golden Shower, which is sure to be much more popular with fans of watersports. New catchphrase: Do I Hear Rain?
Paging Steve "I want to squirt you a picture..." Ballmer. Mr Ballmer, please pick up the brown disgusting mental images telephone.
You're still missing step 0: Make Trojan executable and convince the user to run it. Firefox on *nix doesn't offer the "Run this program from its current location" option like MSIE does. You have to either talk the user through the whole "cd ~/Downloads && chmod 755 Trojan && ./Trojan" song and dance, or disguise it as a data file and exploit a hole in some application (difficult to exploit large numbers of machines because no two Linux users can agree on the best app for viewing any given file type).
Most purchasers these days don't care about DRM and have no idea what NTSC or ATSC are. Those who do know NTSC don't know what ATSC is.
No, but they do know they want a machine that can record any show (not just the old-looking fuzzy ones, or just the new-looking pixely widescreen ones) and doesn't automatically delete things after a few of days or refuse to recording certain movies or sports events. Less articulate wording, but the idea is the same...
And now see the real reason Apple crippled the features to be included in the Motorola ROKR phone (especially the storage).
Because the phone companies that are making $3 or $4 per song didn't want meaningful competition from $0.99 iTunes tracks?
(This is why I think iPhone, if it really exists, is doomed. No mobile carriers will allow it on their network because they don't want to jeopardize their own services that charge 3x more than iTMS.)
I don't assume anything about the morality or technical feasibility of missile defense lasers. I just wanted to point out that your argument is silly because it applies equally well to rational defense methods and to ludicrous "magic rock" defenses.
Now if only there were a way to channel the explosive rage of a drudge report fan's TERRORIST! COMMIE!! LIBERAL!!! AMERICA-HATER!!!! outbursts into a missile defense weapon...
Would you like to buy my magic tiger-repelling rock for a mere $5,000? It's only a boondoggle if it fails to work and you get mauled by a tiger...
True, but for Intel and AMD systems this is pretty unlikely to last very long once Vista ships. They both already have it in production and neither wants to be left behind.
I think it'll last at least another full Windows release cycle. 32-bit Vista won't support EFI. 64-bit Vista will, but is too locked down for some users. Gamers (and anyone else who wants to use unsigned drivers in Windows) will need BIOS for a long time to come.
That's what Debian is doing too. They just think that "Deer Park" and "Bon Echo" (unofficial Firefox 1.5 and 2.0 respectively) are lame names and call their trademark free version "Iceweasel".
Translate rules as necessary for your favorite mail client.
This is what happens after a sufficiently long period without sufficient opportunity for entry and mid-level IT workers. People leave the sector to tend bar or build houses or drive trucks because it pays better and drains the soul less than being a helpdesk tech or an asp monkey. Fewer new people stay long enough to develop the skills required to be senior engineers.
I realize it's hard to make a business case for hiring locally for a job that could be outsourced to China or continuously training your people in new languages and technologies instead of firing one batch of contractors as soon as their project is done and replacing them with new ones, but it has to be done. There's no self-study guide or college degree that can give a newbie the equivalent of real experience, so if the IT industry isn't creating the people it will need 5 or 10 or 20 years down the line right now it isn't going to have those people. Good luck getting upper managers who can't see past the end of next quarter to understand that, though.
Palm presumably has a big patent portfolio that covers the fundamental ideas of handheld computing. Good.com has a domain name and some mail servers. Which do you think NTP wants more?
President GHW Bush: Saddam wants Kuwait, and since he was a useful proxy against Iran I'll give him tacit permission to take it. Oh fuck, he's killing people live on CNN! About face!
Symantec to Mac users: "Pretty little Operating System ya gots there. Be a shame if somethin' unfortunate happened to it. Maybe you should hire a little protection..."
I guess this answers the question about whether Symantec can continue to sink to new lows of sleazy business practices after suing Microsoft for securing their kernel.
Try $120... in your local newegg.com or walmart. that's what normal people are generally paying for an OEM copy of Win XP Home.
That's what people who buy OEM Windows XP at list price (a.k.a. geeks who build their own systems) pay. Most people buy complete PCs from a big name OEM like Dell or HP. If you think Dell is paying $120 a pop for Windows when they sell complete PCs for $349, you're nuts.
My little sister who wants to share her travel photos with me doesn't. The highschool english teacher that lives next door to me and wants to get in invitation to our upcoming barbecue doesn't. The Montana farmer getting his first computer to manage his heavy equipment doesn't. My grandmother who wants to see how my cat is recovering from surgery doesn't.
Then those people need education, not software.
There is and always will be a fundamental difference between data stored on a system that you control and data stored elsewhere on someone else's nebulous array of servers and caching proxies and backup media. The difference is that data on my machine goes away when I delete it. Data on the internet stays on archive.org and other similar services forever. The teacher's students will always have their 9th grade english papers available for the world to laugh at. That farmer once downloaded a porno movie; that'll come back and haunt him when he tries to run for town council. Let's not even delve into the ways little sister's bitter ex-boyfriend can misuse her "private" data to cause her trouble. These hypothetical people may not know now what the difference between their local hard drive and google's servers is, but they'll learn. The question is how painful the lesson is going to be.
http://ranger.users.finkproject.org/kde/index.php/ Home
.dmg images.
I haven't tried it, but they say "it kind of works". No fink necessary (even though it's in the URL), just bittorrent and
"Now virtual sex can make your computer sick."
Is the situation now really that different from when people propagated computer viruses by trading infected Apple ][ floppies? Anyone who ever tried to download Leisure Suit Larry from a pirate BBS can tell you "virtual sex" has always carried a risk.
I was shooting for "funny" or "flamebait" depending on what the mods' opinion of wikipedia is today, but I'll take "insightful" is that's what you've got...
she's flat-out rejected as being a highly derivative
No sources cited
nutjob unworthy of serious attention
non-NPOV
Sorry, I'm going to have to revert this comment!
50% of the price? Really? Could you post a link to someone selling new 2GHz core duo notebooks for $550? I'd like to buy about a dozen.
Hopefully now that the code is out there, someone independent (not Ellch and not a Mac blogger) will test this exploit on an out-of-the-box MacBook, and see if the hole lives up to the hype.
Yeah, this sounds like about the maturity level one would expect from a 15-year-old.
Also, the phrase "capslock-riding asshats" is great. I'm going to use that one at every possible opportunity today.
Why all this pro-Microsoft, anti Symantec and McAfee.
Five years of computer "security" product that get slower, more obnoxiously commercial, more expensive, and harder to remove with each mandatory annual update tends to earn one the ire of many geeks, especially when the product doesn't even work well. If there's justice to be had in the federal courts, this case will end with Symantec executives being ordered to spend 10,000 hours of community service uninstalling Norton Internet Security from PCs it's fscked up.
If it will stop crapware like StarForce and the Sony rootkit from sneaking extra drivers in, bring on the kibosh. People who want to tinker can use one of the fine Open Source operating system kernels that run on 64-bit Intel machines. Those that just want to play games or run Office can feel a little bit safer from malware.
Sorry Symantec, but after dealing with the disaster that is Norton Internet Security, I won't shed a tear when I read that you've filed for Chapter 7.
You just need better 3D. I had a machine that could only run Quake at about 15 FPS, and it made me seasick after 10 minutes. It was the framerate that did it (though the 256-shades-of-puke color scheme didn't help). Anything over about 30 FPS fools the part of my brain that was rebelling against the 16 FPS slideshow. Maybe some will need a full 1080p high-definition image at 60 or 100 FPS, but eventually there will be a point where the simulation is good enough to fool everybody.
Besides, you can't count on human evolution to help. Last time I checked, people who don't spend much time playing video games tend to get laid more often and live longer, so the selection pressure is *against* higher tolerance of simulated 3D.