The poorly written code was in the Atheros driver, which was nothing to do with Apple, and indeed other platforms using the same hardware were also vulnerable.
They still haven't clearly stated that a stock Airport Extreme setup is as vulnerable as shown, as they clearly used a usb wireless device for the demo.
I would have more respect for these guys if they hadn't come out with the 'poke a lit cigarette in every Apple user's eye' comment which proved they had an axe to grind.
According to the TV advert in the uk, this is the original thatrical release of all 3.
So the reader claiming it would still have Episode IV in the titles is talking bullshit.
Legally they couldn't advertise it as such, and besides, there is a clear few seconds of the trail without "Episode IV" in it.
Better research needed,/. really is going down hill lately.
Pretty much all the smack mods for macs use Amit Singh's handywork. The 'creators' of the smackbook virtual desktop thing decided it wasn't good to smack computers and went for the ambient light sensors as an interface instead.
1. They are not talking illegal downloads, more software updates, and *speculated* itunes content.
2. It's not an upload for credit, it's a permission to use you as a node for credit.
3. MS has already bought groove networks and ray ozzie helped build p2p into vista - go look it up - Apple just following suit.
and i suppose it's a little too much to expect that you actually know what you are talking about and have a point!
What exactly is OSX, a fancy GUI based on the free distro darwin - which is a bastardised form of BSD.
So, your point is, linux community is now more proactive, so that includes OSX then ?!?!?!?
Nice try
"To these people, lowering the barrier to entry from $500 to $0 will make a tremendous difference."
hmm, just like all those expensive linux distros that have been littered with viruses ever since they cost $0 to install.
Some people are criticising Jobs for not doing as much charity work as Gates, ok fair cop.
Let's look at how they made their fortune;-
Jobs - by hiring the most talent people to produce very good innovative hardware and software (at both Apple and NeXT [and also animation at pixar]), he has been rewarded with stock and good wages from both current jobs.
Gates - started by developing for the Altair - poor choice - managed to get Apple to license basic from them - tried to buy a version of DOS, failed so built a crappy bug-ridden alternative, and repeated this process with any number of products - built on the shoddy core of DOS. Not worried about the product just box shifting.
You may think of this as Apple Centric, but I think Gates is just trying to even his Karma out.
The article actually only says Apple breaks with common rss practice.
RSS isn't a standard anyway, at best it is like html in the early days, widely adopted, but browser, or in this case feed readers, are dominating how rss should be. I don't see the harm in this, especially if RSS doesn't really do what iPhoto needs, do all browsers render pages the same?
Maybe we should look at why RSS only supports one date format, and maybe re-title the article "Apple helps improve RSS"
just a thought.
Please for the LOVE OF *insert deity reference* teach people the difference between a hard drive and a case.
The amount of times people say 'my hard drive died' meaning "the box in the corner which is my computer just stopped working correctly".
Just because it annoys me sooooo much!
for a company which handled a LOT of oil industry data.
They had a windoze domain admin account for sophos to do it's stuff to all the pcs.
The password was 'antivirus'
an audit team got it on their third guess.
Apple patented the mighty mouse - maybe 2 years before they actually produced it.
They also have a tablet mac patent too.
My point is, this could all be a smokescreen, get everyone excited about their new 'tamper-resitant' code, and then on day one Intel suprise us with a totally new type of instructions set and chip for the MacIntels.
I'll wait to judge this one, when I have a MacIntel sat in front of me.
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The poorly written code was in the Atheros driver, which was nothing to do with Apple, and indeed other platforms using the same hardware were also vulnerable.
They still haven't clearly stated that a stock Airport Extreme setup is as vulnerable as shown, as they clearly used a usb wireless device for the demo.
I would have more respect for these guys if they hadn't come out with the 'poke a lit cigarette in every Apple user's eye' comment which proved they had an axe to grind.
According to the TV advert in the uk, this is the original thatrical release of all 3. So the reader claiming it would still have Episode IV in the titles is talking bullshit. Legally they couldn't advertise it as such, and besides, there is a clear few seconds of the trail without "Episode IV" in it. Better research needed, /. really is going down hill lately.
That just pins the elegancy debate for me.
And there was no need to get anti-mac-fanboy at the bottom of your post, made you look like an inarticulate uneducated fool.
apple vs apple admission that the beatles back catalogue is being remastered and will be released on itunes?
How does something that has been around for this long, make it on Slashdot? slow news day?
Pretty much all the smack mods for macs use Amit Singh's handywork. The 'creators' of the smackbook virtual desktop thing decided it wasn't good to smack computers and went for the ambient light sensors as an interface instead.
1. They are not talking illegal downloads, more software updates, and *speculated* itunes content. 2. It's not an upload for credit, it's a permission to use you as a node for credit. 3. MS has already bought groove networks and ray ozzie helped build p2p into vista - go look it up - Apple just following suit.
Errrrr, Now who can't read :O
and i suppose it's a little too much to expect that you actually know what you are talking about and have a point! What exactly is OSX, a fancy GUI based on the free distro darwin - which is a bastardised form of BSD. So, your point is, linux community is now more proactive, so that includes OSX then ?!?!?!? Nice try
"To these people, lowering the barrier to entry from $500 to $0 will make a tremendous difference." hmm, just like all those expensive linux distros that have been littered with viruses ever since they cost $0 to install.
Nothing to see here, move along. This has already been covered to death EVERYWHERE, why is it being talked about again YAWN!
"All your uboat belong to us"
Some people are criticising Jobs for not doing as much charity work as Gates, ok fair cop. Let's look at how they made their fortune ;-
Jobs - by hiring the most talent people to produce very good innovative hardware and software (at both Apple and NeXT [and also animation at pixar]), he has been rewarded with stock and good wages from both current jobs.
Gates - started by developing for the Altair - poor choice - managed to get Apple to license basic from them - tried to buy a version of DOS, failed so built a crappy bug-ridden alternative, and repeated this process with any number of products - built on the shoddy core of DOS. Not worried about the product just box shifting.
You may think of this as Apple Centric, but I think Gates is just trying to even his Karma out.
The article actually only says Apple breaks with common rss practice. RSS isn't a standard anyway, at best it is like html in the early days, widely adopted, but browser, or in this case feed readers, are dominating how rss should be. I don't see the harm in this, especially if RSS doesn't really do what iPhoto needs, do all browsers render pages the same? Maybe we should look at why RSS only supports one date format, and maybe re-title the article "Apple helps improve RSS" just a thought.
Please for the LOVE OF *insert deity reference* teach people the difference between a hard drive and a case. The amount of times people say 'my hard drive died' meaning "the box in the corner which is my computer just stopped working correctly". Just because it annoys me sooooo much!
for a company which handled a LOT of oil industry data. They had a windoze domain admin account for sophos to do it's stuff to all the pcs. The password was 'antivirus' an audit team got it on their third guess.
Apple patented the mighty mouse - maybe 2 years before they actually produced it. They also have a tablet mac patent too. My point is, this could all be a smokescreen, get everyone excited about their new 'tamper-resitant' code, and then on day one Intel suprise us with a totally new type of instructions set and chip for the MacIntels. I'll wait to judge this one, when I have a MacIntel sat in front of me.