[flamesbball84]

Is anyone else sick to death of this MacBook Air commercial, the one with the computer in the envelope? Honestly, every time I watch anything on TV this commercial is aired a minimum of once, maybe even twice, every half hour. It doesn't even matter what I watch. I could be watching sports, comedy central, the news, history channel, discovery channel. Literally everything I watch has this commercial at least once.

[Cider Jim]

I love that song! I'd rather hear that than watch Carolina basketball.

[flamesbball84]

i thought the song was okay the first few times i heard it, but when you have to hear it 10-25+ times a day (depending on how much tv i'm watching) it gets old really quick

[JDUB]

maybe you should quit watching so much tv if you are seeing it 30 times a day

[Rocketfan]

if you only make 25k a year you might want to look for a second job instead.....you know so you can afford to find the hot internet women.

[flamesbball84]

maybe you should quit watching so much tv if you are seeing it 30 times a day

i noly see it that much when i watch basketball all day, like last weekend.

[JDUB]

or just drop the cable service so you can afford to join several online dating sites...

[flamesbball84]

or just drop the cable service so you can afford to join several online dating sites...

no woman is worth dropping espn, i don't care who it is lol

[Sly Fox]

or just drop the cable service so you can afford to join several online dating sites...

Touche

[mrmacphisto]

I love that song! I'd rather hear that than watch Carolina basketball.

The whole song isn't really that great. She was on Letterman or Conan recently and I wasn't too impressed. The part on the MacBook Air commercial is pretty good, though.

[matshark]

im quite sure they dont show it on the Liberty Channel... maybe you could watch that for a while...

[Hold My Own]

To bad nobody got Anderson Cooper falling with his Macbook air in his hand yet he saves the macbook but takes asphalt to the dome because of it. I'm pretty sure that would have made a pretty good commercial.



PS...that was a true story

[matshark]

what is this anderson cooper asphalt to the dome you speak of?

pics? story?

[Hold My Own]

my bad it was Charlie Rose that took the fall...Anderson had some skin removed and joked he got into a fist fight with Rose

If you are wondering where the joke with Rose comes from he did a face plant trying to save his MacBook Air from damage after he tripped and decided that the Apple was way more important that his face. That was a bad decision as he took it hard in the face

[mrmacphisto]

AHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Either he had some extremely sensitive data on that MacBook or he doesn't know about AppleCare. Although, AppleCare might not cover a trip-and-fall.

Still, with the solid-state drives they're using in those things, a drop from a few feet would probably only add character to the casing.

[Hold My Own]

no kidding...i was thinking the same thing...PBS must not pay very well...i mean really...take one to the dome piece or pay a few hundo to get it fixed...I'll pick the latter

[Hold My Own]

http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.a ... -for-10000

Macbook Air compormised in 2 minutes for 10 grand

Many of you remember last year's CanSecWest conference, where a MacBook Pro was compromised for a $10,000 prize. Well... take that, replace the MacBook Pro with a MacBook Air, and repeat it again for 2008.

We learned in February that this year's CanSecWest would still involve a Mac, but also a laptop running Vista and some flavor of Linux. That's exactly how it played out this week in Vancouver when security teams were presented with the three machines for the PWN2OWN contest. Unfortunately for Mac fanboys, the MacBook Air was the first to go down, thanks to security researcher Charlie Miller. Miller is now the proud owner of $10,000 in cold, hard cash.

Charlie Miller's name might sounds familiar to you, and that's because he was among the first to discover an exploit in mobile Safari on the iPhone. According to IDG News Service, Miller took less than two minutes to compromise the MacBook Air. "Within 2 minutes, he directed the contest's organizers to visit a Web site that contained his exploit code, which then allowed him to seize control of the computer, as about 20 onlookers cheered him on," wrote IDG.

Part of the rules for the contest were that hackers could only use software that was preinstalled on the machines. DVLabs says that it is privvy to the exploit, and that it was through Safari. The exploit itself, however, is not being revealed for now in order to give Apple time to patch it (DVLabs says that the vulnerability has been "responsibly disclosed" to the company and that Apple is already working on it).

The contest ends sometime today. It's expected that the Vista and Linux (Ubuntu) laptops are expected to go down today, but no news has come down yet about how they fared.

Update: As many of our commenters have pointed out, the MacBook Air was, in fact, hacked after the first day of the conference passed. None of the machines had been hacked on the first day, which prompted the PWN2OWN organizers to relax the rules on the second day. Regardless, the Safari exploit is still serious enough to allow someone to compromise the machine, whereas the other two machines (under the same, new set of rules) have yet to be compromised.

[JDUB]

http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.a ... -for-10000

Macbook Air compormised in 2 minutes for 10 grand

been hanging around with GMTM too much??

[ALUmnus]

PS...that was a true story

Isn't there a limp-wristed emoticon available? That would really come in handy around here.

[LUconn]

I posted one once. I guess it wasn't good enough to include on our list.

[LUconn]

Alright, I think I've seen this commercial at least 6 times and we're only through the first set of games.

[flamesbball84]

Alright, I think I've seen this commercial at least 6 times and we're only through the first set of games.

It's ridiculous how much this commercial is aired. Apple products will cost 500% more by the time the tournament is over, I imagine air time during the tournament isn't cheap.

[kel varson]

Funny parody of the commercial.