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- My Kids Hate Macs
I hate to admit this, but my kids hate Macs. Despite forcing them to dress as iPods at Macworld* the little chickens aren't in love with beautiful Apple hardware. Even though the house is filled with wonderful Macs, the kids...
I hate to admit this, but my kids hate Macs. Despite forcing them to dress as iPods at Macworld* the little chickens aren't in love with beautiful Apple hardware.
Even though the house is filled with wonderful Macs, the kids prefer an old ThinkPad we have kicking around for playing Club Penguin and other online games .
Why, I hear you ask?
"It is much faster," says son number one, Milo, seen here giving his Mac user salute.
They couldn't give a hoot about the elegant interface or the better quality of QuickTime video. All they care about is the responsiveness of the Flash games they're addicted to.
Worse thing is they have a point. As my esteemed colleague Paul Boutin pointed out many years ago, Windows machines are much faster on the Web than Macs.
*Actually my wife's idea. I was mortified.
lkahney - Mursi Tribeswoman with iPod and AK-47
I found this striking picture of a Mursi tribeswoman at iLounge's "iPods Around the World" gallery, but there's very little information about it. The caption simply says: Female member of Mursi tribe in Southern Ethiopia. Unfortunately, there's no other information,...
I found this striking picture of a Mursi tribeswoman at iLounge's "iPods Around the World" gallery, but there's very little information about it.
The caption simply says: Female member of Mursi tribe in Southern Ethiopia. Unfortunately, there's no other information, but a quick Google search reveals:
We'd been hearing for days about the Mursi tribe--the one where women split their lower lip and insert a round metal plate. As we were repeatedly told, the Mursi are neither fun nor friendly. And while they've kept their distance from the outside world--largely in part because their territory is a vast expanse of remote national park--they nevertheless have turned their small contact with foreigners into an art form of extortion. Pictures equal money. No exceptions. (from Gabriel Openshaw).
lkahney - Safari Zero-Day Exploit -- The Only Links Worth Checking
Hacking stories bore me to tears, but the cleverly named "pwn-2-own" hacking competition (Hack a honeypot MacBook, get it as the prize) is getting such attention, it's worth pointing to some of the better reporting on the subject: Dan Goodin...
Hacking stories bore me to tears, but the cleverly named "pwn-2-own" hacking competition (Hack a honeypot MacBook, get it as the prize) is getting such attention, it's worth pointing to some of the better reporting on the subject:A New York-based security researcher spent less than 12 hours to identify and exploit a zero-day vulnerability in Apple's Safari browser that allowed him to remotely gain full user rights to the hacked machine. The feat came during the second and final day of the CanSecWest "pwn-2-own" contest in which participants are able to walk away with a fully-patched MacBook Pro if they are first able to hack it.
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Dai Zovi, who is not attending the conference, was recruited on Thursday night by Shane Macaulay, a friend and conference attendee. The ease Dai Zovi found in pwning the machine was all the more remarkable, given an update Apple pushed out yesterday patching 25 Mac security holes. Macaulay described Dai Zovi's vulnerability as a client-side javascript error that executed arbitrary code when Safari visited a booby-trapped website.Turn off Java; to be safe, until Dino lets us say more, turn off everything else too. Or live dangerously like me.
... huge numbers of pundits and anonymous nerds on the Internet will decry Apple's lack of security and how unfair it is that Microsoft, which expands so much effort on security, is perceived as having a less secure OS. Meanwhile, Mac users will rationalize the situation, including me.
lkahney - Steve Jobs To Skate in Options Probe, Says SJ Merc
Silicon Valley's hometown paper, the San Jose Mercury News, says Steve Jobs is unlikely to face criminal or civil charges in Apple's options backdating scandal. A close review of the events that led to the controversial grant reveals that the...
Silicon Valley's hometown paper, the San Jose Mercury News, says Steve Jobs is unlikely to face criminal or civil charges in Apple's options backdating scandal.A close review of the events that led to the controversial grant reveals that the backdating emerged from a good-faith, although clumsy, attempt by Apple's board of directors to reward its star chief executive for resurrecting a moribund company.
The Merc's story details a series of stock grants given to Jobs by Apple's board between 1999 and 2003. The grants were often generous (and one was a record breaker) but because of fluctuations in Apple's stock price, Jobs' grants were often underwater. Several times, Jobs gave the underwater grants back, and the board gave him new ones.
However, according to the Merc, Jobs sometimes spent weeks negotiating the price of these new options, which affected their value. Jobs held out for the lowest price, and sometimes the board backdated the options to keep their price low.
The upshot is that neither Jobs nor the board were very good at picking the right number of options at the right price. If Jobs had simply kept all his grants, instead of constantly swapping them for new ones, they would be worth considerably more:
... Last year, Jobs handed back to Apple 4.6 million of his restricted shares - worth $295 million - to pay the taxes on them. His remaining restricted shares are now worth about $494 million.
But given the rise in Apple's stock over the past four years, even that turned out to be a bad deal for the iconic CEO. Had he held on to all of his options, they would be worth about $4 billion right now, even if the 2001 grant had been given the December date.
lkahney - An iBone! on Flickr
An iBone from Flickr user laughtonb....An iBone from Flickr user laughtonb.
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