If you have a Mac Pro system and have updated to Apple’s recently released OS X 10.7.4 update, you may find an apparent warning window appear whenever you reboot your system. The warning looks like a standard information dialog box window that contains a picture of a Mac Pro system from the side, but the rest of the window contains no information of value.
Instead of a hint at what the warning could be about, the window simply states “keyApplicationTitle” in the area where the referenced application name might be, “keyWarningOptimalInfo” where the information or warning description text might be, and instead of an OK button the only button in the window contains the text “keyOKButton.”
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This window appears at boot-up for some Mac Pro users who have upgraded to OS X 10.7.4.
These components are clearly the code structure that Apple uses to insert the appropriate text strings into the window, but it appears either a syntax error or some similar oversight has caused the string association to misfire, and instead put the object titles into the window. Clicking the OK button seems to close the window with no apparent change to the system; however, the intent of the warning is lost to those who are experiencing it.
This error is reminiscent of the one that appeared with the previous OS X 10.7.3 update, where users were finding interface elements being replaced with odd green and pink patterns, with red question marks and orange “CUI” text. While not as widespread as the one in OS X 10.7.3, this one evokes similar confusion in its that users cannot figure out what their systems are trying to tell them.
Simple tests like booting to Safe Mode show no change in the behavior of this error, so those who experience it can either tolerate it or try reinstalling the OS X 10.7.4 Combo update, and perform simple maintenance procedures like running a permissions fix on the boot drive, or at the very worst reinstalling OS X followed by again applying the combo updater, though these steps are not guaranteed to work.
Hopefully Apple will clarify the situation soon, but until then Mac Pro users with this issue may have to dismiss the bizarre warning window every time they boot their systems.
Hacker group Anonymous, in an embarrassment for law enforcement, released a recording of a conference call between the FBI and Scotland Yard discussing operations against the hacking collective.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation confirmed the authenticity of the nearly 17-minute recording posted on YouTube and other sites and said it was “intended for law enforcement officers only and was illegally obtained.”
“A criminal investigation is under way to identify and hold accountable those responsible,” the FBI said in a statement.
The release of the audio recording was one in a series of attacks Friday by the shadowy loose-knit group of international hackers.
Members of Anonymous also attacked the website of the Greek justice ministry in a protest against the country’s tough fiscal reforms and a site operated by the Boston Police Department.
In addition, members of the hacker group claimed to have briefly knocked Citibank offline and defaced the website of the law firm that defended a US Marine charged in connection with the 2005 killing of 24 Iraqi civilians.
Anonymous, in a statement on the website of the law firm of Puckett and Faraj, also claimed to have published online three gigabytes of private email messages of attorneys Neal Puckett and Haytham Faraj.
A search of several Mexican lawmakers’ offices turned up recording equipment, leading legislators to believe they have been spied on for years, a congressman said Wednesday.
Congressman Armando Rios said security personnel found microphones and other devices that seemed to have been installed years ago.
“Some of the equipment has newer technology, but other devices are from a long time ago, which leads us to believe they were installed years ago,” said Rios, a member of the leftist Democratic Revolution Party, or PRD.
Rios said the offices of key committees and of several lawmakers from different political parties were bugged.
“What is at stake is the vulnerability of the legislature, of one of the powers of the union,” Rios said.
Congress president Guadalupe Acosta, also of the PRD, on Tuesday filed a complaint with federal prosecutors, who opened an investigation.
Acosta wouldn’t identify the lawmakers who were being spied on or who he thinks was behind the espionage. Rios blamed the government of President Felipe Calderon, who belongs to the conservative National Action Party, or PAN.
Interior Secretary Alejandro Poire denied Rios’ accusations and said the government has done nothing illegal.
Mexico’s main intelligence agency allegedly spied on the government’s political opponents during the 71 years of rule by the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI.
After PAN candidate Vicente Fox won the 2000 presidential election, he announced that the agency, the Center for National Security and Investigation, would no longer spy on political opponents. But in 2008, under Calderon, the agency hired a private company to monitor the activities of legislators.
Legislators complained they were being spied on but the government said it was simply collecting public information.
Several secretly recorded telephone conversations of government officials or politicians have been made public in Mexico in the last few years.
In 2006, the former governor of Puebla state, Mario Marin, was implicated in a revenge plot against a journalist after Mexican news media released a recorded telephone conversation. In it, he allegedly speaks with a businessman about punishing Lydia Cacho, who had written a book that accuses one of their acquaintances of being a child molester.
In 2010, a radio station broadcast a telephone conversation between then federal lawmaker Cesar Godoy and alleged drug trafficker Servando Gomez, known as “La Tuta.” In it, Godoy and Gomez express support for each other and discuss bribing a reporter.
Shortly after the recording was released, Godoy, who is now a fugitive, was charged with aiding drug trafficking and money laundering.
MIAMI – There’s a new device that lets you be James Bond. It’s called DetectiGo. DetectiGo can track someone anywhere in the world and listen to what they’re saying.
It’s small enough to be hidden in a backpack, a briefcase or in a glove compartment, according to founder Esteban Delaossa. Gustavo Roldan was one of the first people to own one of the devices. He wants to know where his teenage kids are.
“I use it for safety for my kids. It gives me an opportunity to know where they’re at, what they’re doing and when they’re doing it,” Roldan said.
“Why shouldn’t you have the right to know what you need to know?” said Delaossa.
If you set the device with a maximum speed, it can also alert you if the driver goes over it.
Soon it will give you constant, almost instant, GPS tracking and you will be able to set up a perimeter to notify you if the person you are tracking travels outside that zone.
“The typical average response by women is ‘I need this.’ The response of men is ‘You’re killing us,’ said Yesenia Hernandez of DetectiGo.
Legal expert David Milian says it’s not breaking the law to track someone. The legality of listening in on someone depends on where the person is located, he said.
“If it’s just tracking location, it’s the same thing you can do if you are watching someone and following them as long as you don’t do anything else,” said Milian.
DetectiGo costs $149 plus the cost of an air card to cover the cell charges.
Brazil may have been banned from bond work – but not from high-stakes politics. As vice president of field operations for the campaign of the former pizza- company chief executive and top-tier Republican White House wannabe, aides said the operative from northeastern Pennsylvania is part of Cain’s inner circle of five top aides. Another member of that circle, press aide J.D. Gordon, said Brazil is “essential.”
“This is an old and tired story,” said Gordon of Brazil’s ties to the Philadelphia probe. He said he had discussed inquiries from the Daily News with Brazil yesterday. “He was never accused of anything and never targeted.”
Gordon said the 2006 finding by the National Association of Security Dealers that prevented him from associating with its member firms was not important because Brazil never was a registered securities dealer – precisely the reason that the industry watchdog group was probing his work for two mid-Atlantic bond firms.
Brazil’s murky background is sure to add volume to complaints about the quality of Cain’s campaign staff, which has been reeling in recent days from its handling of sexual-harassment allegations, as well as from Cain’s seeming lack of knowledge of foreign-policy issues, including a disastrous, fumbling answer to a question about Libya. Cain, who had been leading in some national polls, has now fallen behind Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich in new surveys.
Brazil’s story is colorful. Until three years ago, the now-aide to a tea-party favorite was a Democrat, known for his ties to the family of that party’s stalwart Hillary Rodham Clinton, the secretary of state.
