Too true. Even the firewall doesn't come on by default, and to lock the eprom/nvram/whatever requires command line knowledge and some bit-shifting trickery (for the "protection" on the password). Also, every drive on the system is always auto-mounted with every user having read/write privs unless you explicitly deny access. It's like Apple expects OSX never to be adopted into the business/public world, so they don't even try.
This differs from Windows PCs how?
Windows XP SP2 and later: Firewall on by default
Every version of Mac OS X I've seen, including OSX Server: Firewall off by default Furthermore, only Server has a granular GUI for firewall. ipfw is required on workstations (no regular mac user is going to know how to use that)
Non-Apple hardware that Windows usually runs on: BIOS locking is done easily, and you don't have to do string to binary, bit flips, then binary to hex just to get a password
Apple hardware; nvram locking is: nvram security-mode="command" && nvram security-password="%c6%c4%79..." The password can not be entered as a normal string; it's stored in nvram as a hex representation of the string where every character has had every other bit flipped. And... on iMacs, resetting the nvram to blank is as easy as removing the RAM, which doesn't get locked with a Kensington, so you have to use superglue
Windows: Non-OS internal drives/ partitions are not automatically given read/write to every user.
Mac OS X: Any non-OS drives/partitions *are* automatically given read/write to every user. Furthermore, disabling these drives requires knowing what they're named, because apparently disk and partition numbers aren't valid in OSX/etc/fstab any more, only partition labels or disk UUIDs.
I will just ignore the fact you made it sound much more complicated to lock down than it actually is since you are clearly an anti-mac troll.
I will just ignore the fact that you've apparently never had to lock down a lot of macs in a multi-user environment before.
OS X is not locked down. This is something that started with the iPhone.
Too true. Even the firewall doesn't come on by default, and to lock the eprom/nvram/whatever requires command line knowledge and some bit-shifting trickery (for the "protection" on the password). Also, every drive on the system is always auto-mounted with every user having read/write privs unless you explicitly deny access. It's like Apple expects OSX never to be adopted into the business/public world, so they don't even try.
Newsday's web site redesign and relaunch reportedly cost about $4 million and the 35 people who've signed up have earned Newsday about $9,000. Still publisher Terry Jimenez is unapologetic. 'That's 35 more than I would have thought it would have been,' said Jimenez to his assembled staff
So you expected to be out $4M, but instead you're out $3.991M? Was the point of this exercise to keep the "assembled staff" on board and well-paid through these lean years? If so, incredible charity work. It might have done more help elsewhere, but we can always say that about any charity, so there's no point quibbling.
If you are an RPG player, think through things that were said around your game table
Nightblade: OGRES!?! Man, I got an ogre slaying knife! It's got a +9 against ogres!
Graham: You're not there, you're getting DRUNK!
Nightblade: Ok, but if there's any girls there I wanna do them!
and try to imagine hearing them as a prison guard or corrections officer. How might you interpret them?
"Drunk? KNIFE! GIRLS! Damn Pedos got a knife and alcohol somehow."
In my workplace, one worker is denoted the Manager, who is tasked with giving directions to the other workers,
But in prison, no prisoner is supposed to be taking orders from any other prisoner. No prisoner is supposed to be a manager. Of course, DMs don't direct player characters at all, so the point's moot...
It occurs to me that it's like someone found that making their child go sit in the corner alone for 10 minutes when they were somewhat bad was a decent punishment and then tried to just sort of scale up the time and how far away the corner was for more serious offences and didn't consider that some things don't scale well...
Gaol wasn't invented in recent times. It goes waaaaay back. In the old days, when a child misbehaved, you beat him. They also beat criminals the same amount back then, though. "Time outs" for children are a very recent innovation (the 60's generation), when even mild spanking was considered inhumane torture.
I'm in software. I freely admit my spelling and grammar skills SUCK.:)
(re)Learning spelling would be a good idea. I'd hate to be the one to debug human resources code with a variable named bool higher=False;/*Whether or not higher subject*/
which actually determined if someone was hired, but another coder thought it was a boolean for hierarchical levels, and was making it flip-flop between true/false.
Coders, as the future jacks of all trades, need to know a little of everything, and a lot of the fundamentals.
Cause I am SO sure there life out there that makes no point to dedicate vast amounts of computing power to just know where it is... cause anyway, it is not like you're going to have a conversation with someone 100 million years light away.
The instant humanity *knows* there is other life out there is the instant we stop most infighting and work together to defend against/conquer the aliens. Didn't you read Watchmen? Drake's trying to pull a Veidt.
He's certainly not lacking in ambition. But I'm wondering where he thinks he's going to get the money to finance some of these ambitious ideas.
Huh? There was funding enough for TWO giant gyroscopes. Government coalitions and one really rich dude. Someone wasn't paying attention in history class.
Had there been no spam filters, we'd all receive about the same amount of e-mail spam as we receive in the postal mail world.
...which I asked my postman to block (most intelligent spam filter ever). Before I asked him to do this, two or three days worth of "bulk rate mail" would be enough to fill my mailbox.
I don't run any internet-facing servers- in fact, my firewall is locked down as far as it can be without causing problems for myself, and every nonessential service and port is closed. My wireless network uses WPA2 and MAC filtering. All that, and I was identified several times as a zombie.
Have you port-sniffed your computer with another machine? Port sniffed your wireless router? Your router might be a zombie, and I've seen Mac zombies that look benign from the OS side, but have ports open that the GUI says are closed.
With any luck this will force Bin Laden to have to use Windows O.S. and programs from downloads.com to do his twisted interpretation of Allahs will.
There could be some justice in this yet.
"Al Qaeda's latest offer of peaceful relations with all peoples of the Earth will culminate in a computer controlled robotic presentation of Fiddler on the Roof. The robots are taking the stage now...
*DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL*
It's crashing! Watch it! Watch it, folks! Get out of the way! Get out of the way! Get this, Charlie! Get this, Charlie! It's fire--and it's crashing! It's crashing terrible! Oh, my, get out of the way, please! It's burning and bursting into flames, and the--and it's falling off the stage and all the folks agree that this is terrible, this is the worst of the worst catastrophes in the world. Ohhhhh! It's-it's-it's the flames, [indecipherable, 'enty' syllable] oh, four- or five-hundred feet into the sky and it... it's a terrific crash, ladies and gentlemen. It's smoke, and it's flames now... Oh, the humanity and all the audience screaming around here."
If Apple would release an "alpha" product to "test the waters" like so many other companies do, the iPod (and iPhone, for that matter) would have died at birth or would be so hideously deformed that it would be unrecognizable.
Except they do. They release hundreds of rumors just to see which ones get people talking the most, then they *almost* fulfill the wishes of the masses (Total wish fulfillment in version 3 or 4; by which time new wishes will crop up).
Hello, Apple? I'd like to buy more experience for my Paladin. I need to be able to Turn a Ghoul with a roll of 9 or less before our next game session. My DM is gonna freak because I know he's using ghouls to make our Elf feel useful again.
I need Apple OS X Server for that? Okay, but I'm installing it on a Mac mini.
I have never run into a Windows application where drag and drop does not work.
I know what you're getting at, but for completeness, try drag and drop with Wordpad. Dumbest ^&*@@$ implementation of Drag and Drop ever, and it's still broken. When I drag a txt file into any other text editor, it Opens the File. With Wordpad, the same action Creates a Link to the file on the local computer. WTF?
You clearly were not paying attention; they dressed in a similar STYLE, but there was wide variation. They WERE free-thinking and individualistic compared to the people who went into work wearing the same color shirts (usually white), ties, hats, shoes, slacks, jackets. Streets of major cities at rush hour at the time were a sea of men dressed the same.
Brown/beige/black/blue/gray jackets and slacks. Brown/Black/Burgundy shoes. Ties back then were probably less varied, and matched the jackets. Hats couldn't have all been the same. I doubt it was a sea of Men in Black, except maybe on a rainy day with trenchcoats.
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"Good Samaritan" laws in the sense of Seinfeld already exist in many jurisdictions. It is called a "duty to rescue" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duty_to_rescue.
"A duty to rescue is a concept in tort law..."
Civil law, not criminal.
It's not our fault you never understood the Bass-o-matic.
Too true. Even the firewall doesn't come on by default, and to lock the eprom/nvram/whatever requires command line knowledge and some bit-shifting trickery (for the "protection" on the password). Also, every drive on the system is always auto-mounted with every user having read/write privs unless you explicitly deny access. It's like Apple expects OSX never to be adopted into the business/public world, so they don't even try.
This differs from Windows PCs how?
Windows XP SP2 and later: Firewall on by default
/etc/fstab any more, only partition labels or disk UUIDs.
Every version of Mac OS X I've seen, including OSX Server: Firewall off by default Furthermore, only Server has a granular GUI for firewall. ipfw is required on workstations (no regular mac user is going to know how to use that)
Non-Apple hardware that Windows usually runs on: BIOS locking is done easily, and you don't have to do string to binary, bit flips, then binary to hex just to get a password
Apple hardware; nvram locking is: nvram security-mode="command" && nvram security-password="%c6%c4%79..." The password can not be entered as a normal string; it's stored in nvram as a hex representation of the string where every character has had every other bit flipped. And... on iMacs, resetting the nvram to blank is as easy as removing the RAM, which doesn't get locked with a Kensington, so you have to use superglue
Windows: Non-OS internal drives/ partitions are not automatically given read/write to every user.
Mac OS X: Any non-OS drives/partitions *are* automatically given read/write to every user. Furthermore, disabling these drives requires knowing what they're named, because apparently disk and partition numbers aren't valid in OSX
I will just ignore the fact you made it sound much more complicated to lock down than it actually is since you are clearly an anti-mac troll.
I will just ignore the fact that you've apparently never had to lock down a lot of macs in a multi-user environment before.
Next thing you know we will start war with canada for serving mayo with their fries.
They do *what* now? I don't know what continent Canada's on any more. French speaking, mayo-covered freedom fry eaters.
I would assume that since it has bluetooth, you would be able to connect a bluetooth mouse to it.
People assumed that about the iPhone too. They were disappointed.
Buying an Apple and expecting freedom is like
OS X is not locked down. This is something that started with the iPhone.
Too true. Even the firewall doesn't come on by default, and to lock the eprom/nvram/whatever requires command line knowledge and some bit-shifting trickery (for the "protection" on the password). Also, every drive on the system is always auto-mounted with every user having read/write privs unless you explicitly deny access. It's like Apple expects OSX never to be adopted into the business/public world, so they don't even try.
AI researcher Jurgen Schmidhuber says his main scientific ambition 'is to build an optimal scientist, then retire.'
But...but... but yours isn't an iPod, so it isn't as good.
His can run iTunes natively. Who needs a tablet sized iPod? ;)
Newsday's web site redesign and relaunch reportedly cost about $4 million and the 35 people who've signed up have earned Newsday about $9,000. Still publisher Terry Jimenez is unapologetic. 'That's 35 more than I would have thought it would have been,' said Jimenez to his assembled staff
So you expected to be out $4M, but instead you're out $3.991M? Was the point of this exercise to keep the "assembled staff" on board and well-paid through these lean years? If so, incredible charity work. It might have done more help elsewhere, but we can always say that about any charity, so there's no point quibbling.
If you are an RPG player, think through things that were said around your game table
Nightblade: OGRES!?! Man, I got an ogre slaying knife! It's got a +9 against ogres!
Graham: You're not there, you're getting DRUNK!
Nightblade: Ok, but if there's any girls there I wanna do them!
and try to imagine hearing them as a prison guard or corrections officer. How might you interpret them?
"Drunk? KNIFE! GIRLS! Damn Pedos got a knife and alcohol somehow."
In my workplace, one worker is denoted the Manager, who is tasked with giving directions to the other workers,
But in prison, no prisoner is supposed to be taking orders from any other prisoner. No prisoner is supposed to be a manager. Of course, DMs don't direct player characters at all, so the point's moot...
It used to be that the rational alternative was Australia. :-)
Now we know why we should go to Mars.
It occurs to me that it's like someone found that making their child go sit in the corner alone for 10 minutes when they were somewhat bad was a decent punishment and then tried to just sort of scale up the time and how far away the corner was for more serious offences and didn't consider that some things don't scale well...
Gaol wasn't invented in recent times. It goes waaaaay back. In the old days, when a child misbehaved, you beat him. They also beat criminals the same amount back then, though. "Time outs" for children are a very recent innovation (the 60's generation), when even mild spanking was considered inhumane torture.
I'm in software. I freely admit my spelling and grammar skills SUCK. :)
(re)Learning spelling would be a good idea. I'd hate to be the one to debug human resources code with a variable named /*Whether or not higher subject*/
bool higher=False;
which actually determined if someone was hired, but another coder thought it was a boolean for hierarchical levels, and was making it flip-flop between true/false.
Coders, as the future jacks of all trades, need to know a little of everything, and a lot of the fundamentals.
Cause I am SO sure there life out there that makes no point to dedicate vast amounts of computing power to just know where it is... cause anyway, it is not like you're going to have a conversation with someone 100 million years light away.
The instant humanity *knows* there is other life out there is the instant we stop most infighting and work together to defend against/conquer the aliens. Didn't you read Watchmen? Drake's trying to pull a Veidt.
He's certainly not lacking in ambition. But I'm wondering where he thinks he's going to get the money to finance some of these ambitious ideas.
Huh? There was funding enough for TWO giant gyroscopes. Government coalitions and one really rich dude. Someone wasn't paying attention in history class.
By the time we can send something(s) 500AU away and can use them in tandem with the Sun, we'll have sent something 266877.442+AU away?
Had there been no spam filters, we'd all receive about the same amount of e-mail spam as we receive in the postal mail world.
...which I asked my postman to block (most intelligent spam filter ever). Before I asked him to do this, two or three days worth of "bulk rate mail" would be enough to fill my mailbox.
I don't run any internet-facing servers- in fact, my firewall is locked down as far as it can be without causing problems for myself, and every nonessential service and port is closed. My wireless network uses WPA2 and MAC filtering. All that, and I was identified several times as a zombie.
Have you port-sniffed your computer with another machine? Port sniffed your wireless router? Your router might be a zombie, and I've seen Mac zombies that look benign from the OS side, but have ports open that the GUI says are closed.
With any luck this will force Bin Laden to have to use Windows O.S. and programs from downloads.com to do his twisted interpretation of Allahs will. There could be some justice in this yet.
"Al Qaeda's latest offer of peaceful relations with all peoples of the Earth will culminate in a computer controlled robotic presentation of Fiddler on the Roof. The robots are taking the stage now...
... it's a terrific crash, ladies and gentlemen. It's smoke, and it's flames now ... Oh, the humanity and all the audience screaming around here."
*DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL*
It's crashing! Watch it! Watch it, folks! Get out of the way! Get out of the way! Get this, Charlie! Get this, Charlie! It's fire--and it's crashing! It's crashing terrible! Oh, my, get out of the way, please! It's burning and bursting into flames, and the--and it's falling off the stage and all the folks agree that this is terrible, this is the worst of the worst catastrophes in the world. Ohhhhh! It's-it's-it's the flames, [indecipherable, 'enty' syllable] oh, four- or five-hundred feet into the sky and it
No Helium indeed.
I would imagine the US has a tremendous amount to lose if social unrest breaks out in China.
A classic way to quell internal unrest is to focus on an external enemy. How many times has history taught us this?
If Apple would release an "alpha" product to "test the waters" like so many other companies do, the iPod (and iPhone, for that matter) would have died at birth or would be so hideously deformed that it would be unrecognizable.
Except they do. They release hundreds of rumors just to see which ones get people talking the most, then they *almost* fulfill the wishes of the masses (Total wish fulfillment in version 3 or 4; by which time new wishes will crop up).
Apple is an EXPERIENCE company.
Hello, Apple? I'd like to buy more experience for my Paladin. I need to be able to Turn a Ghoul with a roll of 9 or less before our next game session. My DM is gonna freak because I know he's using ghouls to make our Elf feel useful again.
I need Apple OS X Server for that? Okay, but I'm installing it on a Mac mini.
I have never run into a Windows application where drag and drop does not work.
I know what you're getting at, but for completeness, try drag and drop with Wordpad. Dumbest ^&*@@$ implementation of Drag and Drop ever, and it's still broken. When I drag a txt file into any other text editor, it Opens the File. With Wordpad, the same action Creates a Link to the file on the local computer. WTF?
You clearly were not paying attention; they dressed in a similar STYLE, but there was wide variation. They WERE free-thinking and individualistic compared to the people who went into work wearing the same color shirts (usually white), ties, hats, shoes, slacks, jackets. Streets of major cities at rush hour at the time were a sea of men dressed the same.
Brown/beige/black/blue/gray jackets and slacks. Brown/Black/Burgundy shoes. Ties back then were probably less varied, and matched the jackets. Hats couldn't have all been the same. I doubt it was a sea of Men in Black, except maybe on a rainy day with trenchcoats.