Comment Re:I'd mod the OP Flamebait (Score 1) 570
Not really, the article is quite specifically talking about Unix. Linux and iOS and OSX are not Unix.
Mac OS X is UNIX. iOS and Linux are not.
Not really, the article is quite specifically talking about Unix. Linux and iOS and OSX are not Unix.
Mac OS X is UNIX. iOS and Linux are not.
"how is this any different than the fact that Apple pays for product placement in *every* TV show or movie that has a laptop or phone in it?"
Apple doesn't tend to pay for product placements. When TV shows/Movies use a product on camera they will often go to the manufacturer demanding money for the logo to be seen. Apple says no in these cases. That's why most TV shows/movies using Apple products have the apple logo hidden under something (like a post-it note).
When the companies go to the TV show/movie people asking for product placement, the camera will usually hover unnaturally over the product for an extended period of time.
standard USB power port as in the same kind everyone else used/uses. The spec you pointed to didn't exist until 2010. Apple's USB charger predates the Standard standard but does not predate other standard USB chargers. If you've had a standard USB charger before Oct, 2011, chances are great that it does not conform to the 1.2 spec either.
("standard" as in bog-standard not as in the 1.2 Battery charging Standard).
No. the cables aren't built so cheaply that they would melt enough to break a circuit when a little heat is created. That's what fuses are for and USB cables aren't fuses.
It is a standard USB power port.
It's the "big lie". What is the charger for an Android phone? Oh right, a standard USB cable. What is the charger for an Apple product?
The Apple charger has a standard USB power port. Just like all Android chargers that plug into a power outlet.
Here is Apple's standard USB charger. Note that it has a USB port.
Here is a Galaxy S4 USB charger. Not that is has a USB port.
Either charger can be used interchangeably to charge either phone.
No one is going to die by having 5volts applied to their face.
But they do die from having 220 volts applied to their face.
The issue is that the counterfeit chargers short and deliver the mains directly to the head. It doesn't matter what electronic device is involved. hell, doesn't matter if any electronic device is connected to the end of the other side of the USB cable when the circuit is completed.
This is a video of a real murder and dismemberment done in the most gruesome way possible. There's no artistic, political, or cultural value in this video, it's just horribly shocking.
This is obviously wrong. It does have political and cultural value. After all, the video spawned this entire debate.
Perhaps you should become aware of XProtect.
there's no payload and no exploit involved. it's just a webpage that opens another webpage when you try to close it.
I'm guessing these people contain the sweetest of the red juice.
Ad networks/common popular websites have been compromised repeatedly in the past and will be compromised repeatedly in the future. All sites could be considered "dirty sites".
For example, Glibc is LGPL'd because FSF knows that if it was GPL'd, then some Unix vendor would push projects to ignore Glibc and use their proprietary libc instead.
As opposed to using the free libc that's part of clang/LLVM?
ODing on Vitamin C is not the problem.
It's quite the problem and quite difficult. When the human body has too much vitamin C, it starts getting rid of the excess through anal leakage.
Anal leakage, ftw!
Are you sure the keys are burned in during manufacturing? When you remote wipe an iPhone, it wipes the key and the contents become inaccessible. If the key itself is hard coded in hardware, that's not exactly possible to do directly.
And if they were hardware keys, Apple could extract those. They can't. See Apple's iOS Security Guide page 15 for reference.
Somebody ought to cross ball point pens with coat hangers so that the pens will multiply instead of disappear.
