02 Dec 2007
Native Windows PE File Loading on OS X?

What if Jobs & Co. built better "Windows" into OSX??? Coupled with the Vista fiasco that would be the the first tolling of the death knell for M$.

Coders working on Wine for Mac have found that the Mac loader has gained its own undocumented ability to load and understand Windows Portable Executable (PE) files. They found PE loading capabilities in Leopard that weren't there in Tiger. Further dissection showed that Apple is masking references to 'Win' and 'PE' in the dll, which means it's not an accidental inclusion. Is Apple planning native PE execution within OS X?

(link) [Slashdot]

08:27 /Technology | 0 comments | permanent link

A Science Challenge for Republicans

"Morons" and "Republicans" are starting to be synonyms. So marijuana is more "dangerous" than morphine? Is it more addictive than Oxycontin?

Idiots.

Some of the Republican presidential candidates have dismissed medical marijuana as unnecessary or "too dangerous." Now they're being offered $10,000 to come up with the scientific evidence. The Medical Marijuana Project, a group advocating the use of medical marijuana, will be in New Hampshire on Monday with a mobile billboard offering to contribute $10,000 to the campaigns of Rudy Giuliani, John McCain or Mitt Romney if any of the candidates can substantiate their statements about medical marijuana.

(link) [New York Times]

08:25 /Politics | 0 comments | permanent link