Isn't that a bit like saying placing a meter in a taxi violates "innocent until proven guilty"?

It is a screening or preventive measure, not an assumption of guilt.

That said, I think this one is stupid. Even if the goal is just to stop underage girls from stripping.

Is that really what has been happening?

I have never worked with a large open source project (beyond bug reports), but I always suspected they had a real need for project managers, technical writers/documenters, and various other support personnel.

I don't know, I can imagine a few dozen ways Dubya would have mispronounced "vulnerabilities"

Wasn't there an article years ago about a theoretical test that only required a particle accelerator the size of Mars' orbit?

TBF, I think that would still qualify as "testable, just not with current technology".

Well, given all that, do you think it's more likely that: a) the submitter oversimplified their summary or b) an article in Science both has the intellectual value of "derp" and was accurately summarized on Slashdot?

I read it three times and I still don't understand your point. I know plenty of people in the media industry who are going to love the new 5K iMac. It looks plenty powerful to produce content.

You know a good portion of Hollywood is still running on cheese grater Mac Pros, right?

IIRC, astronauts need to do a lot of exercise to counteract the effects of zero g. Wouldn't being legless make this much more difficult?

I imagine a good deal of their exercise equipment requires legs. I'm not saying this is an insurmountable problem, just that I suspect it would be a problem.

:O WHAT?! Ok, it's pretty good, but still... textmate deserves a mention as well.

Me me me me me me me!!!! And anyone else who is interested in making more discoveries.

True, but I think the point is that it could work differently. If we had a more thorough understanding of neurology, we could pinpoint the precise electro-chemical reactions that need to take place. Then we could follow these pathways and determine precisely what was preventing them. Then we would search for the type of chemical/drug/gene that would have the desired effect, AND we would have a pretty damned good idea what other side effects that treatment should have (or how to prevent them).

I'm not saying biology is there yet. Just that I hope to see that in my lifetime.

What's YOUR point? Yes, there ARE OS X servers running publicly accessible, vulnerable software. I am not only claiming it but stating I personally know this to be true. And no, I'm sure as hell not going to name names or give you more details than that.

I already said the developers (and companies still using OS X Server) were being stupid. That is irrelevant.

Apple was too slow. Being days late matters. This isn't kindergarten, and nobody is "picking on Apple". We do need to be honest and critical. And anyone with half a brain should interpret this as one more piece of evidence that Apple is lackadaisical about servers.

Thank you for the well-thought reply, and sorry for the slow one on my end. I was afraid I wouldn't get to this before commenting was closed (again).

I am half playing devil's advocate, half serious. I am not entirely opposed to prioritizing protocols (say UDP over TCP), provided it's done fairly and in a reasonable, objective manner.

However, this still seems to shift the responsibility and open numerous vectors for abuse. If my neighbor decides to run a call center from home, and use 50mbps of VoIP, and my cable provider oversubscribes their node, is all of my traffic constantly throttled? If my ISP also offers TV streaming over RTP, but a competitor uses UDP, the ISP now has an excuse to "prioritize" their own service and harm competitors.

On a sidenote, I don't particularly want my ISP or any of their intermediaries deciding my skype call or streaming video is more important than a deliverable I need to upload over SFTP by 10pm. I'm not a network engineer, but it seems like it would be pretty easy for them to give me 5mbps, 15ms latency, etc. to the appropriate peering. If peering/backbones/whatever are that congested that often... maybe we can address that instead?

I think we both agree, at least, that ISPs have conflicts of interest and should not be trusted.

It's actually kind of brilliant. They want their remaining paying customers to be afraid to pirate. To think it's difficult, immoral, and dangerous. To believe they made the right choice. Bonus points: make them feel superior to those who do pirate.

They should probably include a short video of a an unattractive geek working really hard to hack something, followed by an image of a SWAT team kicking down a door and killing his puppy before arresting him.

I don't see how "the ISP should treat every packet the same" is unreasonable. The ISP should guarantee latency, throughput, jitter, availability, etc. per their SLAs. The end user can do their own QOS and decide whether they want netflix or remote robotic surgeries to take priority. If the user needs a stronger guarantee, they should get a better connection with a better SLA. None of this is illegal or unreasonable.

Data should be delivered as determined by the client and the server, not the ISP. I'm not a web developer, but I suspect any real browser will load title, layout, text, then images.

Thanks for proving my point. Local administrators should be allowed to prioritize their own networks. ISPs coming up with simple rules that override admins is much trickier, especially for large media companies with conflicts of interest. I mean, bureaucrats.

A lot of us use OS X for server work. A real terminal (though I really just need ssh and scp), can use nearly every tool I can use on Linux, yet not stuck with the *cough* horrendous Linux desktop experience.

Plus, I get the added bonus of being able to ARD mac systems, test AFP shares from servers that use them, and run Win and Linux VMs. The only way to run all three without wasting a lot of time is on a Mac.

In other words, the thousands of businesses and people using xserves or OS X Server to host various sites/apps with the OS-included software?

Apple is late. Stupid though it may be, many people are using OSX for servers. Apple did once sell these servers, cater to this market, and have enterprise support. Apple didn't even bother to release a patch for 10.6, even though it is still in use on most of these servers.

Apple completely dropped the ball.