http://apple.slashdot.org/story/12/08/20/1924243/apple-is-now-the-most-valuable-company-in-history

RRR can barely spell his own name

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A recent study to determine the smartest guy on IDO and the best looking guy on IDO found that one was BK and the other was RRR, but couldn’t identify which was which.
Can You ?

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Who wants some?

I just drove by this weekend and it looked pretty bad, like others have said, huge boulders everywhere, etc.

Should I just PM this stuff to you directly from now on?

just thought I’d share since some of you knuckleheads were bragging about how android had flash and iphone didn’t..

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it’s hilarious how long the fanbois have been just waiting to pounce on this. for four years my iPhone has been crippled because of this.

the “pow” ‘s made me giggle.

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anyone mind posting a picture of what the old one looks like?

Did you hear any noise at all? Or is it just completely dead?

This may sound dumb but I’ve had this happen and the power just got disconnected.

You mean the one where you once again contributed absolutely nothing of value to?

quote]Wow, you still tore up about the PC and Mac thread from last week ?

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Put your tinfoil hat back on if you think cryptography approved by the NSA to secure top-secret level information is going to be cracked by someone because of this article.

“Until May 2009, the only successful published attacks against the full AES were side-channel attacks on some specific implementations. The National Security Agency (NSA) reviewed all the AES finalists, including Rijndael, and stated that all of them were secure enough for U.S. Government non-classified data. In June 2003, the U.S. Government announced that AES could be used to protect classified information:”

http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/toolkit/documents/aes/CNSS15FS.pdf

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What a stupid proclamation. I can only imagine how many people with the know how saw this and said “challenge accepted!”

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What is worse, losing an encrypted file, or losing your entire wallet?

Or this guy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Miller_(security_researcher)

Still full-disk encryption is pretty hard to beat, it’s based on government standards based AES-256 bit encryption, when implemented correctly it’s what protects our nations secrets, and now our iPhones.

still have yet to catch a mooneye..

there is also microsoft sky drive

online?

The moral of this story is to use two-factor authentication. Not rush to judge some company and all their products because of a bad security policy in their call centers.

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I was following this earlier and this is some good stuff. Amazon and Apple screwed up big letting people change their passwords on the phone and probably closed a huge security gap after having that exposed. Sucks for the Wired editor, good for everyone else probably.

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I thought this was an interesting read.

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/08/apple-amazon-mat-honan-hacking/

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We were just sent this email here at work. I am not an Apple guy but if I were I might be reconsidering after reading that article!

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The best defense against having your password compromised is two-fold. You want to have a secure password that is long enough that it makes it more difficult to crack, they say that starts at 16 characters and beyond. What I use is a sentence for my password, complete with spaces, example: “idofishing is the best website evar in 2012!” or “my son same plays baseball really well” if you want to throw some special characters or numbers in there go for it. 2nd is to use two-factor authentication. That is the most important thing here and not a lot of providers offer that. 2Factor auth means there is a 2nd part to your password, usually 6 “random” numbers that change every 60 seconds that you append to the end of your password when you login. I have two-factor authentication enabled on my Google accounts and I use the android app “google authenticator” that gives me my 6 numbers. When you login to gmail you have an option to allow logins for 30 days without having to keep putting in your password+6 digits and you can also create permanent passwords for things like your android device or iPad as well. I also have an RSA secure-ID keyfob that was provided by my bank (eTrade) that sits on my keychain that does the same thing.

Some links:

https://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=180744

http://news.softpedia.com/news/quot-Epic-Hacking-quot-Story-Is-Why-You-Need-Google-s-Two-Factor-Authentication-285429.shtml

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I post this, not because I’m a PC/Windows guy, thiswas to inform everyone. This single sign on BS the world is moving to isn’t a good thing. In the past, I used the same password for everything. Now I use different ones, but they are similar. Probably a bad idea.

I need to get a good encrypted password keeper application so I can apply more unique passwords. Anyone suggest a good app for Droid based phone?

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I’ve never used my comcast email address, but I imagine that google or hotmail has better spam protection than these guys.

James will you be upgrading to this next year?

Hey pug and everyone else needing password security help, if you haven’t checked it out already look into KeePass. It will generate random passwords for you, store them, and is available on your android phone as well I believe. Whether or not you want to store your encrypted password file on dropbox to make that happen is up to you.

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I was following this earlier and this is some good stuff. Amazon and Apple screwed up big letting people change their passwords on the phone and probably closed a huge security gap after having that exposed. Sucks for the Wired editor, good for everyone else probably.

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I thought this was an interesting read.

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/08/apple-amazon-mat-honan-hacking/

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I’m not sure I would feel any better watching them steal my boat.

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So first he should decide by stock prices and now you suggest he buy based on the looks of a store???

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Go see what product you like better, you know you can play around on the machines in the store right? Apple has a technically superior product IMO, sorry you are so butt hurt about that.

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The Mall of America has an Apple store and Microsoft store right across the hall from each other on the 1st floor.

Go see what you like better.

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Apple has issues, just a lot less of them. Windows XP is what really gave Microsoft a bad name. Any efforts to secure XP were always considered “bolted on” and were easily evaded. Microsoft has spent the last 10 years learning from their mistakes, instituting secure coding practices, and performing code audits internally and from the Internet at large. It might be harder to compare who is more secure, WIndows 7 or the latest version of OSX, but like you said it probably doesn’t matter since Windows is the prolific OS and preferred target of enterprising virus/malware authors and global criminal organizations.

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Let me preface this by saying I’m not a computer guy.

I keep hearing that Apple doesn’t have issues with viruses. Isn’t that because nobody used their products up until the iPod put them back on the radar? Why would a hacker bother writing a virus for a platform that not many people use?

Apple is a luxury company. Do you see people putting PC related stickers on their cars? Nope. But you see that stupid little apple all over the place. They have a great marketing team, period.

There’s my $.02

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I don’t even own a macbook, wish I did.. don’t have an iPhone either, and my iPad barely gets used.

sorry you’ve had so many problems, I’ve gone through the same issues with all sorts of different hardware.

Maybe you should hire a competent IT guy to take care of your employees stuff so it doesn’t break so often.

All I’m saying is if you’re in the market for a new computer, and you are already leaning towards Apple, go for it! Great company, great products, great user experience. If you are in the market for such a thing and price was ever a concern, I’m not sure how Apple ever got on your radar to begin with.

You’re right, you can do a lot of stuff on a 200$ netbook.

If you want a taste of the good life, try out a Mac.

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No way at all. It wouldn’t be economical. Companies in the valley sure, but the Target, Medtronic, USBank, or whomevers of the world will probably never move their userbase to a Mac.

We’ll see corporations moving away from Windows and putting thin clients on peoples desk powered by Linux in the back-end way before that.

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Are you seeing massive moves to the Apple platform at large corporations in the US? The reason I ask, there is rarely ever a requirement for Apple experience in any of the infrastructure positions I watch.

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Here are some more reasons for you James..

OSX is UNIX! UNIX was written by two geniuses from Bell Labs in 1969 and it’s derivatives remain the most popular OS for servers powering basically everything in the world. It is the most installed base platform of any OS ever. 830,000 new Linux devices are turned on every day.

OSX is more secure, there are far fewer vulnerabilities discovered and reported on OSX than there are Windows. OSX is virus and malware RESISTANT. Windows itself has gotten a lot better about security but the problem still remains.

The hardware is better supported – Apple writes software that works on specific hardware that was thoroughly tested by their engineers. Instead of trying to write an OS that works on hundreds and thousands of different components, an drivers to power all of those different devices, apple only has to write a few. DUH.