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Comment Re:sigh So just turn it off (Score 1) 345

by infinsq on Saturday November 14, 2020 @12:02PM (#60723790) Attached to: Your Computer Isn't Yours

No.... Gatekeeper is one of the many security checks performed by a Mac. But the point of Gatekeeper, its even in the name, is to check with Apple before running an application so, if you don't want it to do that, you can turn it off.

Comment Re:sigh So just turn it off (Score 1) 345

by infinsq on Friday November 13, 2020 @04:30PM (#60721014) Attached to: Your Computer Isn't Yours

sudo spctl --master-disable

Comment sigh So just turn it off (Score 5, Informative) 345

by infinsq on Friday November 13, 2020 @02:05PM (#60720330) Attached to: Your Computer Isn't Yours

OCSP is the gatekeeper daemon. If you donâ(TM)t want it on, turn it off. Then youâ(TM)re responsible for making sure apps havenâ(TM)t been modified and that are none are known to be bad actors. Thatâ(TM)s your trade off.

SCO Sells Its UNIX Product Line To London Firm 95

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday June 17, 2009 @12:57PM from the still-alive dept.

An anonymous reader writes "SCO just forged a deal to sell its UNIX product line to Gulf Capital Partners LLC of London. Under the terms of the deal, SCO would continue to exist as a separate company helmed by Darl McBride, with its primary remaining assets being related to its mobile platform offerings. However, it's noted that this deal must be approved by the court, and should not be considered 'done' yet. It could fall through as others have in the past."

Remote Kill Flags Surface In Kindle 630

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday May 14, 2009 @10:14AM from the because-they-can dept.

PL/SQL Guy writes "The Kindle has a number of 'remote kill' flags built in to the hardware that, among other things, allow the text-to-speech function to be disabled at any time on a book-by-book basis. 'Beginning yesterday, Random House Publishers began to disable text-to-speech remotely. The TTS function has apparently been remotely disabled in over 40 works so far.' But what no one at Amazon will discuss is what other flags are lurking in the Kindle format: is there a 'read only once' flag? A 'no turning the pages backwards' flag?"

Why Microsoft Is Chasing Yahoo 245

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday July 09, 2008 @10:42AM from the jeeves-wanted-to-much-money dept.

latif writes "Microsoft has been chasing Yahoo for quite a while now. Most people think that it all started with Microsoft's acquisition bid for Yahoo, but this is not so. It is well-known that Microsoft and Yahoo have been negotiating since at least May of 2006, and may have been negotiating since 2003. I have done a thorough analysis utilizing information made public over the past five years and my analysis suggests that most people are completely wrong about what Microsoft wants from Yahoo."

Apple Crippled Its DTrace Port 476

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday January 22, 2008 @06:26PM from the nothing-to-see-here dept.

Linnen writes in to note that one of developers of Sun's open source system tracing tool, DTrace, has discovered that Apple crippled its port of the tool so that software like iTunes could not be traced. From Adam Leventhal's blog: "I let it run for a while, made iTunes do some work, and the result when I stopped the script? Nothing. The expensive DTrace invocation clearly caused iTunes to do a lot more work, but DTrace was giving me no output. Which started me thinking... did they? Surely not. They wouldn't disable DTrace for certain applications. But that's exactly what Apple's done with their DTrace implementation. The notion of true systemic tracing was a bit too egalitarian for their classist sensibilities..."

Leopard Upgraders Getting "Blue Screen of Death" 542

Posted by kdawson on Saturday October 27, 2007 @03:58PM from the they're-called-haxies-for-a-reason dept.

Z80xxc! writes "Some Mac users upgrading to Apple's new Leopard operating system are encountering long delays on reboot — an experience they liken to the Windows 'Blue Screen of Death.' While some of those upgrading were able to access their computer after waiting for as long as several hours, others were forced to do a complete reinstall. Some suspect that a framework called 'Application Enhancer' by Unsanity LLC may be causing the problem, but there has been no official word from Apple at this point."

Feed RFID Chips Shrink to Powder Size (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Thursday February 22, 2007 @11:12PM

Hitachi's new tags measure 0.002 inches square, but store as much information as their much-larger predecessors. The company's still investigating possible uses. By the Associated Press.

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