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Hmm. This is concerning. I'm worried about Apple going into the proprietary audio plug business. They want to make a 2.0 mm thick stereo jack when there is already a 2.5 sub-mini stereo jack standard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phone_connector_…
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Red Shirts. See the red shirts? Meaningful? Accommodation for Red China perhaps? *creepy*
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No Morgan Stanley, Apple will not use NFC, because NFC is crap technology. Perhaps you, Morgan Stanley, should catch up with the modern world and understand WHY RFC is crap technology.
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I agree with repairing permissions before and after an update. HOWEVER: It did NOT stop this bug in my case. I ended up with one affected partition and one unaffected on the same hard drive. Then I later watched the unaffected partition become aff…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ApplePieGuy yes yes and yes BTW, i did the combo install. Maybe thats the difference? To make things even more complicated: I used the COMBO update on two partitions on the same drive. ONE caught the bug. The oth…
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There is no permanent solution to this bug at this point in time. There are workarounds, but none that directly address whatever bad code created this problem. I'm leaving it to Apple to provide the permanently solution. A Summary of the situation…
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This is the correct way to use a fingerprint scanner: As a second, added, method of authentication. Never use it as the only method of authentication. It's too easy to fake fingerprints. Apple has (rumored) added the ability to tell if the fingerpr…
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Clunky Brick-On-A-Wrist. I won't expect any decent 'smartwatches' until 2015. We're waiting for the maturation of flexible displays and flexible batteries. Meanwhile... crap.
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Thank you Dan. It's great to have you back on the beat in good health and good order. There aren't many people in tech journalism who could have written this article. Bravo.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Mac-sochist I have always just taken it as a given that this entire site was a one-man operation by DED. All the articles are bylined by obviously made-up names...It never occurred to me to think that they …
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Here are a couple relevant recent Android security articles to reinforce Dan's points: July 4th: New Android Vulnerability Affects 99% of Devices http://blog.malwarebytes.org/whats-in-the-news/2013/07/new-android-vulnerability-affects-99-of-devices…
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Hey Daniel! You agreed to the same NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement) that I did as a 10.8 beta tester, assuming you ARE a beta tester. So why are you BREAKING the NDA by talking about 10.8 BEFORE it's released? Can't you hold it in while we wai…
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Quote: Originally Posted by s4b FYI: The Free and Open Source AV engine Clamav (part of many Linux-/Unix systems and also part of MacOSX Server) is able to detect and isolate MacDefender. The donationware and Clamav engine-based GUI-Version, …
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Quote: Originally Posted by neosum As for the pwn2own contests, those aim at web browser vulnerabilities and are not real world scenarios. In a real world scenario, if anyone gains physical access to your computer, consider it compromised no mat…
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Quote: Originally Posted by chabig I'm shocked that Dan is promoting the "security through obscurity" meme. Mac OS is inherently more secure than Windows, by design. As a student of Mac security since 2005 and Mac security blogger since 2007 I…
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Much as I like Dan Dilger, I don't agree with this one at all. Apple has just wiped out its credibility selling Mac OS X Server into the Enterprise market. Having wiped out their Enterprise efforts now on two occasions, it's over for good this ti…
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If only Condé Nast were TechLiterate. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF As described in detail at Wikipedia.ort, here is a short list of what the PDF format supports: Text Fonts Text encoding Raster images Vector images Video Audio Tr…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Nebrie $17.99 a month for the WSJ app?!?!?? That is significantly higher than what they charge for access to their website (at least when I canceled last year). Herr Murdoch, Führer of News Corp., has dictated that…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Woohoo! Doesn't make a whole lot of practical sense, but the Reality Distortion Effect is in full effect regardless. "Reality Distortion Effect" is anything spewing from a troll's mouth. Try mouthwash woohoo.
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"It has called Apple's tying of Mac OS X to proprietary machines an "anticompetitive" practice." If indeed there is no anticompetitive backer for Psystar whose intent is to damage Apple, then I have to point out that the owners of this joke comp…