I suppose you haven't actually checked the Apple Store the last few years. The barrier of entry has been around $500-600 the last few years. Unless haxors absolutely need l33t 15" Powerbooks instead of a mac mini.
Good point - you're quite right. But, while virus writing has become a multi-million dollar industry recently, many of the people writing exploits are not the ones directly making money off them.
To these people, lowering the barrier to entry from $500 to $0 will make a tremendous difference.
And on that point, wouldn't some haxors love to also be one of the few to make a sucessful virus/trojan/etc OS X or Linux (where's the barrier of entry here?) instead of one of the few thousand for Windows? I thought prestige was some sort of motivation. Pff.
Its good that you mention linux - A few years ago, linux users were complacent the way mac users are now. A few worms, a few defacements, a few embarressed, burnt users & now the linux community is more proactive about threats. That has yet to happen in OS X land.
And yes, prestige as you say is going to be a big motivator to uncover OS X holes.
I can see how the increased market share would make them more of a target,
The ability to run Mac OS X in virtual machine lowers the barriers to entry to test exploit code from $2000 to (effectively if you allready own a PC) $0.
The intel transition makes it cheaper & easier for crackers, phishers, etc to develop for OS X. (As well as making assembly easier to port).
Its about making it easier to port exploits rather then having fat binary viruses.
What a load of rubbish - viruses infect via operating system and application vulnerabilities, the chipset those are running on has very little relevance.
I don't think you've thought this through.
1) Consider how long it took for the hacking community to make OS X to run in a virtual machine on an Intel Box.
2) Now consider how long it took for the hacking community to make windows run on a macbook.
Which one of these tasks was harder (I would say the first, as Apple was actively hindering this activity, but 'not precluding' the second).
In spite of this (and inspite of the second task having a $13000 prize), the first hack was done in a much (much) faster time. Why do you think this is? The answer of course is barrier to entry. The $2000 barrier to entry you used to have to pay to use OS X (and test exploits against it) no longer exists, if you don't think that makes a difference to hackers (many of whom are in far less afluent countries then you), then quite frankly, you're insane.
Ouch. The description from secuania do sound like MS fumbles (mostly vulnerabilities in the way Safari handles multimedia files).
However, what sounds most MS-like was this:
Apple plans to patch the holes reported by Ferris in the next automatic update of Mac OS X, and there have been no reports of them being exploited, spokeswoman Natalie Kerris said. She disagreed that the vulnerabilities make it possible for a criminal to run code on a targeted machine.
No discussion of water flowing uphill can go without mention of M.C. Escher's Waterfall and Dyson's fantastic real world recreation (and there's a good explanation of Dyson did it at the BBC.
what's not clear is if they expect the reduction to come from local business pressure or more direct government intervention.
Of course its going to be "more direct government intervention" - does the submitter think local businesses are going to pressure someone so they can pay a tax to a large foreign corporation?
It's interesting how bad it is, said Steve Manning, managing director of branding company Igor International, the company behind such names as MTV's Urge and The Signature at MGM Grand. I don't know who's going to love it.[emp mine]
Right. Someone from 'Igor international' who created 'Urge' shouldn't criticise anything
Anyway, the only really thoughtful paragraph in any of the articles was from the Gamelife blog - and it was a quote from the comments to an earlier article:
Talking to people that have worked in games retail, you find that normal people can't/don't/won't keep the names of the systems straight. People ask for PlayStation 360s and PlayCubes and Mario on Xbox even though they actually own a GameCube - to them the system names are confusing and completely interchangeable.
This is basically Nintendo trying to create a name and brand that is in no way similar to the others, in order to be distinct in the minds of consumers. They see the ad, they actually retain the correct name, and they go and ask for it at the store.
Also, while it may sound dumb to us, you know that they focus-tested the hell out of it in all three territories and, at the very least, it's not completely repellent to those focus groups.
That's as good an explanation as any I've heard (in fact all the good speculation I've read about on not just this story, but just about anything recent, has come from random members of the public rather then the pundits)
Re:not "faking a company"
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. To fake the company, one needs to fake offices, for starters, so people can walk up to the office with sign "NEC" on it without knowing.
TFA:
...the counterfeiters carried NEC business cards, commissioned product research and development in the company's name and signed production and supply orders.
He said they also required factories to pay royalties for "licensed" products and issued official-looking warranty and service documents.
Some of the factories that were raided had erected bogus NEC signs and shipped their products packaged in authentic looking boxes and display cases.
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I know a person who gets ill at the sight of snow (it reminds them of cream, that made them sick once). I feel sorry for that person & I feel sorry for you.
Watching something normal should not make you sick.
Seriously, he's not Ghandi. He just doesn't *pay for software* That doesn't exactly make him a saint.
He pays for software with his time. He created GCC - without it the vast majority of software you use would not be possible.
I like open source too, but these are not the grand principles he makes them out to be. It's just a way of distributing *computer software*, which isn't that important in the grand scheme of things. Computers in general are not a major source of tyranny in the world.
1) Stallman has got nothing to do with Open Source.
2) Computer software is the aspect of life where Stallman feels he can make a difference. And he does - rather then bitching about other achievements.
but by refusing to use *any* software that is commercial, you aren't helping anyone. Certainly not developers.
Here you display a complete lack of understanding for Stallman's beliefs. He isn't trying to help developers. He's trying to help users.
In short your post is an ill-informed troll. There are better anti-rms trolls out there. Please read up on them before posting here again.
It falls to me to tell them they are doing so, that they with their own actions are giving certain large companies more power. When you send someone a ".doc' file, a "Word' file, or an audio or video file in RealPlayer or Quicktime format, you are actually pressuring someone to give up their freedom. Perhaps because I constantly have to bring this up, people believe I don't have a sense of proportion.
Sometimes people take for granted that I will participate in those activities with them. Thus, when I webcast a speech, I have to ask which format it is going to be webcast in. I am not going to go along with a webcast of my speech about freedom that you have to give up your freedom in order to hear or watch. Once I put my coat over a camera before giving my speech, when I learned it was webcasting in RealPlayer format. [emph mine]
Note - I am not making fun of RMS here - I greatly admire his principals even if I am too lazy to always follow them myself.
Oh - and anyone interested in hearing the grey album mentioned in the/. summary, a torrent. It is an amazing album.
Red Hat (NASDAQ: RHAT), the world's leading provider of open source to the enterprise, today announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) saved the federal government more than $15 million in datacenter operating and upgrading costs by migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Hmmmmmn, this reads alot like a press release. Confirmed by the last paragraph
these forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing the company's views as of any date subsequent to the date of the press release.
Source: Red Hat, Inc.
Still - good to see some in the federal government moving to cheap commodity systems where they can. The amount of departments who still staying with expensive, proprietary systems, where they will experience vendor lock in.
I fail to see how nintendo can be talented at self-destruction if they've been doing it for a decade.
I mean, I have no inherent abilities at self-destruction, but give me free reign at Nintendo & I'll run the company into the ground in less then a month.
Slashdot Mirror
Gosh - you demolished my point didn't you?
$2000 or $500, its a huge difference from nothing.
As such, I invite you to use this flaw to do anything to my Mac.
Errr, you'll actually have to provide me with an IP address to do that.
Furthermore, your handle, (Anonymous coward), should be a tip-off that you are not posting about this matter in good faith.
I suppose you haven't actually checked the Apple Store the last few years. The barrier of entry has been around $500-600 the last few years. Unless haxors absolutely need l33t 15" Powerbooks instead of a mac mini.
Good point - you're quite right. But, while virus writing has become a multi-million dollar industry recently, many of the people writing exploits are not the ones directly making money off them.
To these people, lowering the barrier to entry from $500 to $0 will make a tremendous difference.
And on that point, wouldn't some haxors love to also be one of the few to make a sucessful virus/trojan/etc OS X or Linux (where's the barrier of entry here?) instead of one of the few thousand for Windows? I thought prestige was some sort of motivation. Pff.
Its good that you mention linux - A few years ago, linux users were complacent the way mac users are now. A few worms, a few defacements, a few embarressed, burnt users & now the linux community is more proactive about threats. That has yet to happen in OS X land.
And yes, prestige as you say is going to be a big motivator to uncover OS X holes.
I can see how the increased market share would make them more of a target,
The ability to run Mac OS X in virtual machine lowers the barriers to entry to test exploit code from $2000 to (effectively if you allready own a PC) $0.
The intel transition makes it cheaper & easier for crackers, phishers, etc to develop for OS X. (As well as making assembly easier to port).
Its about making it easier to port exploits rather then having fat binary viruses.
What a load of rubbish - viruses infect via operating system and application vulnerabilities, the chipset those are running on has very little relevance.
I don't think you've thought this through.
1) Consider how long it took for the hacking community to make OS X to run in a virtual machine on an Intel Box.
2) Now consider how long it took for the hacking community to make windows run on a macbook.
Which one of these tasks was harder (I would say the first, as Apple was actively hindering this activity, but 'not precluding' the second).
In spite of this (and inspite of the second task having a $13000 prize), the first hack was done in a much (much) faster time. Why do you think this is? The answer of course is barrier to entry. The $2000 barrier to entry you used to have to pay to use OS X (and test exploits against it) no longer exists, if you don't think that makes a difference to hackers (many of whom are in far less afluent countries then you), then quite frankly, you're insane.
However, what sounds most MS-like was this:Thanks Natalie, we'll take your word on it.
No discussion of water flowing uphill can go without mention of M.C. Escher's Waterfall and Dyson's fantastic real world recreation (and there's a good explanation of Dyson did it at the BBC.
There's now way the FSF fanboys will be able to make it past the crush of girls desperate to get close to the Man :-)
You're talking complete madness.
There can never be something wrong with an apple product.
Its obvious those people over at Ars are just anti-apple!!!!!!11!!1
"inflammable means flammable? What a country"
:-)
One of my favorite quotes, from one of my favorite episodes
Makes me think that it is still the safest option to have stupid customers do all their banking right at a teller.
what's not clear is if they expect the reduction to come from local business pressure or more direct government intervention.
Of course its going to be "more direct government intervention" - does the submitter think local businesses are going to pressure someone so they can pay a tax to a large foreign corporation?
Anyway, the only really thoughtful paragraph in any of the articles was from the Gamelife blog - and it was a quote from the comments to an earlier article:That's as good an explanation as any I've heard (in fact all the good speculation I've read about on not just this story, but just about anything recent, has come from random members of the public rather then the pundits)
TFA:
That show's you can copy & paste the article.
The GP was asking you to read the article.
The automatic white balance dropper is "somewhat broken" (it works for me still in some cases).
Oh right. I stand corrected. (sounds great)
Watching homosexual behavior makes me vommit.
I know a person who gets ill at the sight of snow (it reminds them of cream, that made them sick once). I feel sorry for that person & I feel sorry for you.
Watching something normal should not make you sick.
Ok, how exactly does an ipod play streaming music?
:-)
Inevitably, all discussions about digital music must lead to the iPod.
Its a variation upon godwin's law - call it wmf's law if you like
e.g., Windows Media or Real
;-)
This won't happen - the Mac community will never allow it... iPods 95% of the market, etc etc...
Seriously, he's not Ghandi. He just doesn't *pay for software* That doesn't exactly make him a saint.
He pays for software with his time. He created GCC - without it the vast majority of software you use would not be possible.
I like open source too, but these are not the grand principles he makes them out to be. It's just a way of distributing *computer software*, which isn't that important in the grand scheme of things. Computers in general are not a major source of tyranny in the world.
1) Stallman has got nothing to do with Open Source.
2) Computer software is the aspect of life where Stallman feels he can make a difference. And he does - rather then bitching about other achievements.
but by refusing to use *any* software that is commercial, you aren't helping anyone. Certainly not developers.
Here you display a complete lack of understanding for Stallman's beliefs. He isn't trying to help developers. He's trying to help users.
In short your post is an ill-informed troll. There are better anti-rms trolls out there. Please read up on them before posting here again.
LESSI G?
;-)
Is that Ali G's younger sister?
Oh - and anyone interested in hearing the grey album mentioned in the
There's nothing disingenuous about this. We released it as a press release on our own site:
/. hive mind jumps just as hard on linux fluff pieces as it does on MS / Apple fluff)
I think the OP was not so much complaining about red hat's actions as the submitters (and by extension the editors).
Red Hat releasing a press release = OK.
Slashdot featuring regurgitation of said press release on its front page as 'news' = not OK.
(At least this shows the MS / Apple Fanboys that the
decade-old talent for self-destruction
????
I fail to see how nintendo can be talented at self-destruction if they've been doing it for a decade.
I mean, I have no inherent abilities at self-destruction, but give me free reign at Nintendo & I'll run the company into the ground in less then a month.