Well, to be fair, this is not the default behaviour for OS X. It will prompt you before connecting to an untrusted WLAN.
You don't need to connect to be exploited.
It does, however, make me feel very smug as an OpenBSD user who has had to put up with Linux users telling me that running blobs in ring 0 is the 'pragmatic' thing to do
Hmmmmn, while I agree that openBSDs security is superior to linux's in almost every way, I've never really understood the POV of someone who feels superior for using an O/S (Theo has the right to be smug tho')
This isn't about Macs - it's about vulnerabilties in driver code
I should also have mentioned that some apologist was bound to say "This is not a Mac issue."
How can you possibly be serious? Kernel Drivers distributed in OS X have a serious vulnerability and you say its not about Macs? Just because it's about windows too doesn't mean Apple can't accept responsibility for their fuckup.
They should have disclosed the vulunerability to Apple and give fair time to patch OS X before going public with it.
Seeing you can't be bothered reading tfa to find out that they haven't discolsed & gone to some trouble to ensure the vulnerability's details weren't leaked, I'll quote the relevant sections for you:
hile those device driver flaws are particular to the Macbook -- and presently not publicly disclosed
and:
Maynor said he and his colleague opted in favor of a videotaped demonstration versus a live one because of the possibility that someone in the audience could intercept the traffic sent to a potentially live target and deconstruct the attack -- possibly to use the exploit in the wild against other Macbook users.
One last quote for you (just 'cause its funny):
"We're not picking specifically on Macs here, but if you watch those 'Get a Mac' commercials enough, it eventually makes you want to stab one of those users in the eye with a lit cigarette or something,"
takes aim at what one of the hackers calls the "Mac userbase aura of smugness on security,"
Expect to see plenty of post below, with this exact attitude. Many will begin by saying "This is not a virus" or noting you need proximity to take advantage of this flaw.
As it is, what bugs I have encountered are minor enough that it's worth dealing with for the increased capabilities over integrated video.
Not me - it's been a few years since I used a Nvidia chipset, but the problems for me were big enough for me to switch to a vendor who really supports OSS, rather than just porting their closed window's drivers.
The sort of bugs I had were irritating, and quite frankly, reminded me of the sort of troubles that caused me to move to linux in the first place.
Personally, I don't care. My interest is in making my computer work, but it seems I may be in the minority there.
Well good for you - others however, have an interest in making their computers work reliably. This means being able to expect support from their vendor & the kernel.org people.
However, running a closed source kernel module, means giving up that support (as the kernel developers cannot diagnose problems over which they have no control).
My interest is in making my computer work, and work relaibly. That's why I linux over MS/Apple's proprietary offerings. and intel video chipsets over Nvidia or ATI's proprietary offerings.
This issue has nothing to do with interoperability. It is about getting changes into the Linux kernel.
What? Nothing to do with interoperability? Xen and Vmware need to sit down & hammer out a shared API - but its nothing to do with interoperability?
Imagine if the first line of the TFA was:
VMware is fast losing its patience with both Oracle and Postgresql over their reluctance to work together to help develop a single interface that will integrate a variety of clustering filesystem solutions in the Linux kernel.
Oracle is not the sort of company that cooporates well with others with regards to common APIs, etc. Why the hell should we take advice from them about this seriously?
I know you're trying for funny, but origami is mostly software, MS is relying on partners such as lenovo to build them. MS and lenovo are not competitors per se.
but it's a problem that the GPL is powerless to solve, so it shouldn't try.
Why don't you go & read the article, the GPLv3 draft and the GPLv2 before you comment here? You clearly have no idea what the patent clause is trying to achieve & are looking like a complete dick in the process.
I started to get worried that Apple had run out of ideas. It's good to see that their back to their old tricks of updating the iPod at a ferorious pace...
I couldn't agree with you more - it is good to see innovation like this coming from Apple.
The MacBook discolouration took a little longer to emerge, but appears to be a reaction between the laptop's plastic casing and chemicals exuding from sweaty palms. Apple's machine isn't the only notebook out there to show this symptom
Ewwwwwww!
Have a look at these photos to see the extent of the problem. (Poor old Mac users, probably stress sweat from worrying about their credit card bills).
Anyway - good to see Apple finally 'fessing up to the problems - that's what we pay the extra cash for right?
The side effect of feeding the hungry is that it effectively destroys their entire local food production business. The farmers who previously supported themselves selling food can't compete with free and are suddenly themselves dependant on handouts to survive.
Depends on how its done. Aid agencies such as oxfam have recognised this for a while - and rather than importing food to troubled areas, try to either give locals money to buy food or buy from local farmers.
Government agencies don't particularly like that however, as they'd rather spend their aid budget within their own country, helping their own farmers (its amazing how much of the average first world nation's "aid" budget will be spent within that country).
Even though careful writers often maintain this distinction, comprise is increasingly used in place of compose, especially in the passive: The Union is comprised of 50 states. Our surveys show that opposition to this usage is abating. In the 1960s, 53 percent of the Usage Panel found this usage unacceptable; in 1996, only 35 percent objected. See Usage Note at include.
Let's get the slashdot editors to fix basic grammar & spelling before we start worrying about edge cases of grammar:-)
This is precisely why GNUStep gets no traction: the Linux crowd actually believes that a cross-platform abortion like Qt is acceptable. Of course, this isn't surprising for a community that still hasn't admitted to itself what an abomination X11 is.
*snort* - and people say that members of the linux community are rude!
What differentiates Gotuit from the likes of YouTube and Google Video, is twofold:
1) Gotuit is strictly about professional content. It's partnering with mainstream media video producers. This means you won't get the home grown humour, survailence footage, etc etc, that makes youtube so fun (see this attempted mugging for an example)
2) The technology is more advanced than their Internet competition currently. Gotuit has instantaneous video delivery - it is streamed directly to the user's PC and so there's no buffering or download. (uh huh, no buffering). As a bonus side effect of choosing flash nine, we're encouraging WMF & all other linux users to a) not use our service (no F9 for linux until 07) and b) discourage as many people as they know to do likewise.
Meh, more sanitized 'professional' content, none of the free, cool stuff. No linux support. Lame.
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Well, to be fair, this is not the default behaviour for OS X. It will prompt you before connecting to an untrusted WLAN.
You don't need to connect to be exploited.
It does, however, make me feel very smug as an OpenBSD user who has had to put up with Linux users telling me that running blobs in ring 0 is the 'pragmatic' thing to do
Hmmmmn, while I agree that openBSDs security is superior to linux's in almost every way, I've never really understood the POV of someone who feels superior for using an O/S (Theo has the right to be smug tho')
This isn't about Macs - it's about vulnerabilties in driver code
I should also have mentioned that some apologist was bound to say "This is not a Mac issue."
How can you possibly be serious? Kernel Drivers distributed in OS X have a serious vulnerability and you say its not about Macs? Just because it's about windows too doesn't mean Apple can't accept responsibility for their fuckup.
Seeing you can't be bothered reading tfa to find out that they haven't discolsed & gone to some trouble to ensure the vulnerability's details weren't leaked, I'll quote the relevant sections for you:
and:
One last quote for you (just 'cause its funny):
As it is, what bugs I have encountered are minor enough that it's worth dealing with for the increased capabilities over integrated video.
Not me - it's been a few years since I used a Nvidia chipset, but the problems for me were big enough for me to switch to a vendor who really supports OSS, rather than just porting their closed window's drivers.
The sort of bugs I had were irritating, and quite frankly, reminded me of the sort of troubles that caused me to move to linux in the first place.
Personally, I don't care. My interest is in making my computer work, but it seems I may be in the minority there.
Well good for you - others however, have an interest in making their computers work reliably. This means being able to expect support from their vendor & the kernel.org people.
However, running a closed source kernel module, means giving up that support (as the kernel developers cannot diagnose problems over which they have no control).
My interest is in making my computer work, and work relaibly. That's why I linux over MS/Apple's proprietary offerings. and intel video chipsets over Nvidia or ATI's proprietary offerings.
Lucky students are notoriously honest.
You can not start with a serious "doesn't come cheap" and then suddenly tack on a sarcastic specifier
Someone starting seriously, then ending up sarcasticly? You CANT be serious?
What? Nothing to do with interoperability? Xen and Vmware need to sit down & hammer out a shared API - but its nothing to do with interoperability?
Imagine if the first line of the TFA was:
Oracle is not the sort of company that cooporates well with others with regards to common APIs, etc. Why the hell should we take advice from them about this seriously?
Oracle's interoperability with competing products is perfect. Yeesh.
I know you're trying for funny, but origami is mostly software, MS is relying on partners such as lenovo to build them. MS and lenovo are not competitors per se.
and since most people want to run Windows servers, Xen won't really catch on.
Hahahahaaha! Retard - most people want to run windows desktops.
Cluestick for you - linux is killing windows in the server space.
No? 'cos a GTX-7800 does 320Gflop/s and you could buy a few of those for $1500...
True - but we're talking general purpose operations here.
but it's a problem that the GPL is powerless to solve, so it shouldn't try.
Why don't you go & read the article, the GPLv3 draft and the GPLv2 before you comment here? You clearly have no idea what the patent clause is trying to achieve & are looking like a complete dick in the process.
there had to be a post from whiney mac fanboy on this article :)
:-)
A story about whiney macs definitely needs a whiney mac fanboy in the comments
I started to get worried that Apple had run out of ideas. It's good to see that their back to their old tricks of updating the iPod at a ferorious pace...
I couldn't agree with you more - it is good to see innovation like this coming from Apple.
Ewwwwwww!
Have a look at these photos to see the extent of the problem. (Poor old Mac users, probably stress sweat from worrying about their credit card bills).
Anyway - good to see Apple finally 'fessing up to the problems - that's what we pay the extra cash for right?
(Imagine it was France:)
The side effect of feeding the hungry is that it effectively destroys their entire local food production business. The farmers who previously supported themselves selling food can't compete with free and are suddenly themselves dependant on handouts to survive.
Depends on how its done. Aid agencies such as oxfam have recognised this for a while - and rather than importing food to troubled areas, try to either give locals money to buy food or buy from local farmers.
Government agencies don't particularly like that however, as they'd rather spend their aid budget within their own country, helping their own farmers (its amazing how much of the average first world nation's "aid" budget will be spent within that country).
Enron was loved by Wall Street too.
Wall street hates google.
How is Google diferent that the big "E"?
Enron was deliberately fraudulent. Google (to our knowledge) is not.
You are correct, but:
1) The meaning is quite clear.
2) The American Heritage Dictionary sez:
Let's get the slashdot editors to fix basic grammar & spelling before we start worrying about edge cases of grammar
This is precisely why GNUStep gets no traction: the Linux crowd actually believes that a cross-platform abortion like Qt is acceptable. Of course, this isn't surprising for a community that still hasn't admitted to itself what an abomination X11 is.
*snort* - and people say that members of the linux community are rude!
God, how I miss the old diseases :-(
Oh yes, I agree with you completely - Apple closing off their service manuals is just like wiping out a disease.
Probably even more beneficial to the human race in many ways - thanks for your insight.
was that Apple Computer included the schematics for *all* of the motherboard and CPU design.
:-(
God, we have come a long way haven't we - now Apple will cease & desist you for linking to their Service Manual.
God, how I miss the old Apple
Meh, more sanitized 'professional' content, none of the free, cool stuff. No linux support. Lame.