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That MYSTERY Duqu Trojan language: Plain old C
An appeal for help from the programming community has allowed antivirus analysts to classify the unknown language used to develop key components of the Duqu Trojan. Duqu creates a backdoor on compromised SCADA-based industrial control systems. The malware is closely related to the nuke plant centrifuge-busting Stuxnet worm and …
It was created by professional developers [check] quite possibly in an organised team of developers [check] where some aspects of the team worked on separate chunks of the code [check] possibly unaware of what other coding cells were working on [check]
So, CIA / NSA, anyone (or any other shady TLA agency)? Team A with lower clearance worked on general framework while team B (and maybe C) worked on sensitive and intricate exploit code to run within it...
Framework oriented, Apple like
They say it is some Apple style code, it sounds right but the first object oriented operating system was next, the grandfather of OS which was loved by NSA and probably CIA.
Re: So....
I agree with the first half of what you say, but I don't see why it necessarily means that someone like CIA/NSA is behind it. The approach described is quite standard in any company that likes to develop software in a sensible manner (as opposed to hacking a solution out). Having one team develop the framework while another develops the application/payload allows different people to focus on what they're good at and should result in a well-structured and reliable program.
I would say that the obvious desire for a professional development does indicate some level of organisation and a long-term aim, but you can find those features in many non-spook organisations.
Re: So....
Or, plucking anything NOT a boring conspiracy theory out of the air:
- any professional team of software engineers working for a company who's slightly amoral.
Russian spammers, industrial rivals ("Look how rubbish their security is! By us instead!"), god-knows-what that could lead to profit indirectly. What better way to make an attack code within a legitimate corporate environment than to make it so modular that no one programmer actually knows what it is while they are working on it.
First, we don't even know what it sends back to central servers. Second, it doesn't "damage" anything, even the SCADA control systems it seeks out. Third, it steals PKE certificates. That's about all we know about it.
My actual "conspiracy theory" explanation would be: Written by a bunch of professional programmers who usually do professional programming work, in a modular way so that few know its actual purpose or where their code ends up, or could give them away. Then distribute to key sites, "discovered" (or just wait until someone DOES discover it), then pick major nation that's a key "potential" culprit and blame them for it with zero evidence (my bet at the moment would be China but Iran's a strong candidate too), in order to justify - what? A war? A cyber-attack? Internet censorship? A Great Wall of America? Removing their nuclear ability? I don't know.
But the media certainly seem to have hooked into those attacks fast and been quick to name potential sources and blame them without evidence past "we saw one copy spread from a China IP". By which argument, the Chinese government makes every spam message on the planet with the purpose of attacking "Western" government by a social DoS. It's just as insane and just as without proof (and, actually, probably more effective).
All this tells us: Security analysts don't know anything (I've seen lots of posts on Duqu in the last few weeks that say it's DEFINITELY not C, etc.) and still haven't properly reverse-engineered it (apparently too busy trying to discover the language so they can google "decompiler for language X"), and the people who wrote it had done some programming in their lives enough to get used to doing things properly and modularly.
Anything beyond that is conspiracy theory, and a bad one at that. And picking ANY source on such limited information (Hell, they could find "(C) China 2012" in the damn thing - that's still not any sort of proof it was from China, or the Chinese government, for example) is ridiculously stupid.
Ask yourself: Why have governments been SO keen and SO quick to suggest the origin of code that we'll probably NEVER know exactly where it came from?
Re: So....
Actually this eliminates a number of countries.
I know I am going to be flamed on this one but in some countries anyone who could write a framework has either long emigrated or undergone frontal lobotomy to be in charge of an outsourcing project run by Crapita, W*nkPro or someone else of that ilk.
So yeah, 3 letter agency - may be. 2 letter and a number agency - definitely not. Many letters agency in a place with religious headgear - quite likely.
Objective C is not necessarily old school. It is quite likely to be multiplatform new school too. I would not be surprised if we see the same framework in trojan targeting non-Windows industrial equipment next.
Re: So....
This could have been written by a software company at the behest of an intelligence agency. There are plenty of software companies founded by ex-Mossad/CIA/NSA/etc staffers who could be tapped up for this kind of work.
Re: So....
Has anyone considered the possibility that just because this beast uses an OO framework developed by well-disciplined, well trained professional engineers that doesn't mean the actual payload code was developed by them...
My experience is that this sort of code is usually generated with the aid of a pretty compact set of cleverly implemented, well honed macros, data structures and the odd script, and that being able to *use* this sort of stuff doesn't necessarily being able to generate it - could it be that someone's got hold of someone else's toolkit (could be a published academic project, could be something that's escaped from a long-gone commercial project, could be anything), possibly as a result of working on an entirely legitimate project at a low level and is now turning it to their own nefarious uses?
Re: So....
Has anyone considered the possibility that just because this beast uses an OO framework developed by well-disciplined, well trained professional engineers that doesn't mean the actual payload code was developed by them...
The fact that the payload was fairly quickly identified as being C++ in MS developer studio suggests that already.
"more efficient, smaller, faster, more flexible and re-useable"
Queue a re-run of the 1990s C versus C++ flame wars on whose code is most efficient, smallest and fastest!
(Yes, the fuse is lit. I'm running now - better keep up...)
Re: "more efficient, smaller, faster, more flexible and re-useable"
It is obviously about three times faster to type 'C' than 'C++'.
Re: "more efficient, smaller, faster, more flexible and re-useable"
FORTH obviously :-)
A language that vanished with cheap large capacity RAM.
Re: "more efficient, smaller, faster, more flexible and re-useable"
I would have thought it depends entirely on the compiler, since the eventual target is going to be machine language. Various compilers may wrap this machine language in various levels of cruft...
Re: "more efficient, smaller, faster, more flexible and re-useable"
"It is obviously about three times faster to type 'C' than 'C++'."
That is just the kind of pitiful appeal to an irrelevant speed difference that I've come to expect from C loons.
Re: "more efficient, smaller, faster, more flexible and re-useable"
> A language that vanished with cheap large capacity RAM.
A language that hasn't vanished at all.
I've got several customers for whom I write Forth. One project in particular might end up funding my retirement in a couple of years.
You'd be surprised where Forth crops up...
Re: "more efficient, smaller, faster, more flexible and re-useable"
Come on, didn't you caught my joke?
Surround yourself with try/catch mate, it could save you from saying stupidities....
Re: "more efficient, smaller, faster, more flexible and re-useable"
> It is obviously about three times faster to type 'C' than 'C++'.
Only twice as fast if you are going to waste time with quotes.
Tocharian A and B are not intercomprehensible
and everybody's forgotten about Tocharian C...
Anybody else think not being able to identify C compiled code is itself a comment on the industry? That it was object-oriented confusing them is a crock.
Re: Tocharian A and B are not intercomprehensible
"Anybody else think not being able to identify C compiled code is itself a comment on the industry? "
Re: Tocharian A and B are not intercomprehensible
"Anybody else think not being able to identify C compiled code is itself a comment on the industry?"
I dunno. I don't think so. Can you do it? Are you trick-cyclist enough?
There are many ways to compile source down to machine code, and if the result has something that looks "this" pointers either on-stack or in registers, it's not obvious where it's coming from. At all.
Re: Tocharian A and B are not intercomprehensible
"I dunno. I don't think so. Can you do it? Are you trick-cyclist enough?"
Often, actually, yes. Unless they replaced the entire standard library, you will find that a lot of compilers give hints. From RISC OS "Shared C library not loaded"; MicroSoft's "Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library"; Linux/GCC "GLIBC_2.3"; lcc is harder, but it contains "malloc", "strncmp" plus "c:\lcc\projects\...blah..."...
Just had a look at the exe for InnoSetup uninstall program. It isn't laid out like traditional C (code first, with strings at the end). At a guess, I'd say some sort of Pascal but tending towards high level concepts a la VB. Thus, most likely shot given file layout would be something like Delphi.
So, in answer to your question, you can often tell a lot about the file "looking at it" in a text editor (not a disassembler, not yet).
wtf is object orientated C?
Do you mean OOPC? Or Objective C? Or some unknown 01d5k001 l33t OO C preprocessor framework? You don't know, so it's M3G4 F4IL, DUD3, obviously
Re: wtf is object orientated C?
Once upon a time C++ compilers merely translated C++ source code into C source code then ran a C compiler.
Just because C isn't restricted to being object orientated (nor is C++ for that matter) doesn't mean that you can't write code in a an object oriented way. Functions pointers in structures aren't a million miles away from methods inside objects (that's probably how the early C++ compilers/translators did it). Though of course with C you can cheat, so one would generally opt to be disciplined when coding that way to stick to whatever rules you choose. I wrote an entire windowing graphics library that way back in the really old days (1980s).
Re: wtf is object orientated C?
I prefer to use C preprocessor without forcing OO paradigm on code, but there are some who worship OO. Here's what Igor Soumenkov from Kaspersky Labs says:
"The Duqu Framework shares many principles of libevent, but it is completely object-oriented, even all events and callbacks are wrapped in objects ... Now, there are several open-source "OO C" frameworks available, and some of them produce code constructions that are very similar to those in the Duqu code. The best match we found is SOO (Simple Object Orientation for C), however it could not have been used in Duqu, because it was only published when the Trojan was already in the wild"
Re: wtf is object orientated C?
Amongst other things, it is clear evidence of illiteracy, since "orientated" isn't a proper word.
Re: Re: wtf is object orientated C?
Christ, I knew today was going too well. I have no idea how that slipped past. Long day. Fixed.
The whole Linux kernel is OO C
Object oriented C really just means using function pointers etc to set up interfaces so that it is easy to plug in new behaviour/code/whatever. That's how Linux is able to plug in different file systems, device drivers, schedulers and such.
Of course this is nothing special to Linux either. BSD, Windows and other OSs use exactly the same mechanism (though some use C++ wrappers in places too).
Re: The whole Linux kernel is OO C?
Sometimes Linux kernel code is useful outside of kernel BTW (for instance, you can use linux/list.h in userspace projects, but you need to hack it first), but from my experience I cannot say it's wholly OO. Quite the contrary...
Re: wtf is object orientated C?
Orientated vs oriented is a British vs American thing; both are acceptable but the American one is arguably slightly more correct, from discussion I've read. I was surprised, twenty-odd years ago, to see "objected-oriented" rather than "objected-orientated"; I assumed it was an American corruption but that doesn't seem to be the case; e.g., see http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=431002
Re: wtf is object orientated C?
An interesting link, if only to see the number of Americans who believe that the "ate" form is a Britishism. Speaking as a Brit, I can assure you that it bloody isn't. It's wrong over here too. It has *always* been object-oriented.
Doesn't stop people making the mistake but that, in turn, doesn't mean we have to roll over and let the language get mangled again.
Re: wtf is object orientated C?
"however it [SOO] could not have been used in Duqu, because it was only published when the Trojan was already in the wild"
Well, it could have been used by Duqu if Duqu was written by the same people who wrote SOO.
Re: The whole Linux kernel is OO C?
The OP was correct. The Linux kernel is object oriented C. It has data abstraction, inheritence and polymorphism. Also, because it's the kernel it can cheat and edit its own code at run time :)
Of course "the whole linux kernel is OO C" is not the same as "the Linux kernel is wholly OO C" just as object orientedness is not the only abstraction. There is a lot of both procedural and iteratative abstraction in the kernel (the previously mentioned lists are responsible for a lot of the iterators you find scattered through the kernel).
Is it just me or
1) Do Kaspersky look dafter with every press release?
2) Does the idea of "professional", "old skool" developers choosing to use VC when they have other options ie when not dictated by corporate policy seem utterly utterly laughable?
3) Does (2) support the concept that this code came from a clueless badly-micromanaged organisation e.g. corporate IT, government department, etc?
Re: Is it just me or
"came from a clueless badly-micromanaged organisation"
That doesn't really narrow it down much. Where is this workplace of myth and legend that doesn't fit your description, and are they hiring in Canada?
Re: Is it just me or
Plain old C. My first love and still my favorite.
"clueless badly-micromanaged organisation"
"Where is this workplace of myth and legend that doesn't fit your description, and are they hiring in Canada?"
Quite. I'm afraid it's not so much "where" as "when". Back in the day when technology was driven and managed by technologists and engineers. These days, on the whole the PHBs and clueless beancounters are in charge around the globe. There are a few exceptions but they ones I know of are smaller companies (albeit with global markets) and I'm afraid I don't know any in Canada (recruiting or otherwise). Best of luck anyway.
...More efficient, smaller, faster, more flexible and re-useable code...
So we've eliminated disgruntled Microsoft employees, then.
Boom tish. Thangyouverymuch. I'm available for weddings, birthdays and bar mitzvahs, etcetera.
Re: ...More efficient, smaller, faster, more flexible and re-useable code...
you'll starve
Missed the obvious conclusion
The article states: "The best match we found is SOO (Simple Object Orientation for C), however it could not have been used in Duqu, because it was only published when the Trojan was already in the wild. "
Obvious conclusion is that the VXers open-sourced their toolkit after Duqu was released!
Re: Missed the obvious conclusion
I am not in the software business but that was my thought when I read that quote.Something like hey how great am I.
Re: Missed the obvious conclusion
I'm sure a "cleaner team" has already been dispatched to erase any suspicious traces.
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"That MYSTERY Duqu Trojan language: Plain old C"
So, NOT written in Thetan?
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One thing's clear. It's not the work of script kiddies.....
The pointer stuff will be a bit too hard for them. While it doesn't necessarily have the fingerprints of the CIA/NSA/Mosad, I can't think of too many people out there who'd have the motivation to steal information about industrial control systems with nuclear applications (or, as with the apparently related Stuxnet, disrupt industrial control systems that just happen to be in Iranian nuclear research facilities).
My money is on the virus writers.
If something as trivial as normal C written in an object oriented way, together with non-default optimizing flags can throw the virus-hunters completely off, then any decent programmer (and I mean someone that can write some c and some assembly code) can completely outwit them.
Oh and the oldest C++ compilers where just preprocessors first converting it to C with some arrays of function pointers resembling the vtable. So C and C++ where originally not that far apart.
So I would say, learn to read assembly code and don't rely so much on reverse engineering tools, that will decompile your assembly into a language you do understand.
A few notes
For those who don't know.
In assembly language pointers-to-functions are usually called *addresses*. Pretty much *every* OS function list is a table of addresses or jump table. Even *DOS* could have been turned into a reasonable OS as the poorer versions were swapped out and better ones substituted. TSR's did it on the fly (Hacking the the jump table has been used in software up to mainframes).
Historically the C++ *pre-processor* the Bell Labs originally developed mapped the methods to a virtual function table (and AFAIK most modern full compilers still do).
Delphi was basically object orientated Pascal and (internally) also used this. Full Pascal *did* include a way to do pointers to functions. Perhaps if Turbo Pascal had included them from first release the development landscape would be *very* different.
It might a bit surprising it's taken this long to spot that it's C all along but given the almost *infinite* ways the OO functions could be *implemented* (and given it's a framework how the developers *might* have over ridden them by hacking the C source) perhaps the big breakthrough was to stop looking at *as* language X but C wrapped in framework X.
This *totally* different approach suggest a completely separate team using it's in house developed framework, or possibly someone who has *inherited* this from a much larger effort. A little going away present taken by a disgruntled ex-employee, re-purposed for a bit of private enterprise?
So either a big team developing a fairly complex code base from *scratch* or a team that is leveraging an *existing* way of doing business.
While I could believe there would need to be little communication between the teams (penetration and payload) I'd find it very hard to believe the payload team would be ignorant of *what* they were building.
BTW the Kaspersky team even hit the *version* of Visual C (2008) that was used which is pretty impressive.
Something tells me we have not seen the last of this gangs efforts.
Re: A few notes
Checking the comments on http://www.securelist.com/en/blog/667/The_Mystery_of_the_Duqu_Framework, we find:
*A commenter called "SCooke" says:*
Re: That code looks familiar
It's easier to figure this out if you consider vendor sourcing. The work was probably done by a government. And, whether the software was sourced through a US agency or whether a US agency itself was the creator, the net result is the same: you're looking for a major GSA-contracted firm who A) has clearance, B) has a compiler team, C) has a track record of providing similar product to the US government, and D) has a compiler codebase that looks kind of unfamiliar and not mainstream.
The likely suspects fitting that set of criteria are IBM, Microsoft, SAS and SAIC. All the others (remnant AT T, HP, remnant SGI... who am I forgetting?) incorporate a considerable amount of fairly recognizable shared compiler code in their offerings. Since you've disqualified Microsoft, my bet is on IBM.
I don't think it's SAS, because their compiler codebase is ancient. I don't think it's SAIC, because for them this would be a fairly difficult project. Three reasons why I think IBM.
First is that IBM has a library of bizarro options to select from. There's an internal HLASM-to-C frontend. There's all the CSet descendants. They've got research versions of damn near everything. (I'd try getting ahold of the ia32 version of CSet - probably hard to come by, but out there). They've also got a Windows source license, and if you were going to write a virus, that's always handy.
Second is that IBM has a history of doing projects like this. If there was a federal bid, they almost certainly would have been a bidder.
Third is that the project could have been run out of IBM Haifa. A number of the old IBM AV team probably either were there or ended up there, so it wouldn't be too far out of their wheelhouse. And if you wanted to build a state-sponsored virus, you'd almost certainly want to build it in a country who already has near-active hostilities with the intended target for the virus such that those acts of aggression don't become de facto acts of war for you.
If you want to dig into that, have someone from IBM wander through the employee-written and internal software libraries for all the preprocessor frontends for various languages and compiler backends that output to ia32. Probably none of that is inherently secret. I bet you'll find something that produces similar output.
*A commenter on the Securelist called "2esoskwahom4" says:*
sniffing from wrong direction, what does history tell you?
both "As400tech" and "SCooke" handed you the best hints.
A few years back I worked at East Fishkill long enough to meet eggs rubbing elbows with the 'black' GSA guys working down in Endicott and Watson (mostly the latter). The big topic at the time was exhorbitantly hi-priced memory being frantically consumed (we knew it was NSA, we realized later for upgrading Echelon to make it's data more transparent for future TIA transactions) post-911.
A cyberop like this would inevitably end up at big blooze' shop for the reasons scooke mentions: NOTHING gets thrown away by Endicott's hacks (a somewhat frustrating problem for workers needing access to boxes), their library of tools is as incomprehensibly massive as it is old. Indeed, Watson has not infrequently sent researchers there first to get their feet wet.
This probably initiated at Watson under NSA aegis, followed by research of tools at Endicott's library, then a handover to Haifa after payload completion. It's unrecognizable because NSA would demand that; any self-respecting beemer hack would know to hit up Endicott's libraries to make it so.
That said, it might be a little naive thinking any ibm'er you ask is gonna be successful convincing one of the mustier Endicott hacks to pony up from their libraries. scooke is right none of it is officially secret - but it frequently is VERY proprietary for some of them. A handful of old Endicott hacks still spend more time there than at home. That should tell you something about their priorities. It's all who you know. 'n no, I don't.
Visual C++ Express is now officially l33t
Ye Gods, the decline of the industry is worse than I thought.
Still, at least it means I should manage to hold onto a job.
So old, it's new again!
I have faith in the anti-virus industry, all right. Just not the kind that anti-virus sales droids like their customers to have.
It could have been C++ converted to C by CFront, an aberration which we had to go through in the late 80s before native C++ compilers. The C output from that was truly hideous.
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August 28, 2014
After finishing off his commitments, Kevin Steen has now officially reported for duty with WWE. The former ROH champion posted on Twitter that it was his first day at the WWE Performance Center. While he is viewed as one of the best performers on the independent wrestling circuit, the belief is that management will keep him in developmental, so he can simplify his in ring style to suit the audience.
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August 16, 2014
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July 1, 2014
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May 6, 2014
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May 6, 2014
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May 6, 2014
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May 6, 2014
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May 6, 2014
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April 30, 2014
A video of the main event match between Randy Orton and Roman Reigns from Monday Night Raw. WWE utilized this segment to promote the big six man tag team match at Extreme Rules 2014.
April 30, 2014
A video from Monday Night Raw of Ric Flair making his return to television and meeting up with his former Evolution teammates. While fans assumed that he would be siding with Randy Orton, Triple H and Batista, the former WWE champion instead endorsed Roman Reigns, Dean Ambrose and Seth Rollins.
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Let's take a quick break from the winter gloom to feast our eyes on these yummy-looking new styles at Mulberry. The charm ballerinas in neon pink and acid yellow patent are bound to be summer staples for the seriously well-heeled, while the Bayswater pump in fuzzy floral leather is the stuff that dreams are made of.
Mulberry hasn't been making shoes for long, but it's hard to believe that these instant classics are really such recent fixtures in the shoe-lust stakes. It's good to see the designers already playing around with the styles, and I think we can expect many more great seasons to come. Watch out for matching bags and other accessories in all of these gorgeous, edible-looking fabrics and let's look forward to a bright and colourful spring!
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21 October 2010
All the snowboots that crop up around this time of year tend to split the UK into a nation of cosy boot-wearers and those who, in the words of a certain member of my family, believe they're 'totally minging'.I'm in the cosy camp, but I'm not won over by these
5 November 2008
Earlier this year I fell head over heels in love with a pair of Eley Kishimoto court shoes I could never dream of affording. Frilly and elegant, they hit the spot in terms of grown-up girliness. Fortunately, I've just discovered that Topshop have whipped up a
25 February 2008
We first saw this fabulous graphic print on Eley Kishimoto's S/S08 catwalks waaaay back in September and happily it's now hit the stores! In a more enticing package than the low-heeled courts, these Mary Janes are seriously sexy. An incredibly flattering shape
2 April 2007
We brought these Eley Kishimoto cut out courts to your attention last December, when we were getting sneaky peaks of what was coming for spring/summer'07. Well now the wait is over, and now they can be yours for £150 direct from ASOS! Yep, you read it correctly-
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El Reg lobs iPhone at Genius Bar
wow. hmmm you waited in line to buy a phone that:
1. all the features were announced months in advance including at&t and edge
2. had the opportunity to view almost an hour's worth of video on apple's site about the phone's functionality in the weeks leading up to the release
3. walked into a store and had the opportunity to ask questions and *actually use one* before purchase.
and you still bought one?
you are a complete and utter moron. you are the mindless lemming.
good thing i wasn't working there. this is how our conversation would have gone:
"oh you don't like AT&T? did you not hear that the iphone only worked on at&t's network? did you think the iphone would magically make at&t not suck? are you from the past? so tell me again why did you buy the iphone?" are you on any medication right now?"
trust me, i would have made you feel like the idiot you've just told us you are.
i had all the same information you had. i knew the iphone inside and out before ever getting my hands on one. i already had at&t and have had *no* issues with them. please stop with the FUD.
emotional rollercoaster??? WTF?? it's a PHONE!!! another paid lackey from RIM i imagine...
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ignorant comments
mr. anonymous,
all the people i showed the phone to were my friends who are professionals (read: have money). no one ever balked at the cost of the phone or the fact that the phone is "2.5G." Why? because the typical 3G phone is cumbersome at best to do anything worthwhile online and they are at or near the iphone's price range (treo, n95, 8800 even my slvr was $300). plus $635 isn't that much to spend on a phone. i spent far more in '91 for my pioneer 3 watt car phone ($1200) not including the $300 installation and the $400-$1000 a month in service charges. cuz back then, there were no calling plans. it was $.50/min peak, $.25/min off peak.
so please don't belittle something you know nothing about. that wasn't the point of this thread. people have some good questions. however you:
a. weren't there.
b. you obviously have no experience using the product.
c. you don't place value on UI design
d. haven't noticed it's the fastest selling consumer electronics product in history.
and lastly:
e. so bravely post anonymously.
please don't just post irrelevant statements. guess what? you don't have to buy an iphone. stick with whatever you have. i promise, i won't laugh at you. go back to WoW.
btw, (20th Century poster) i'm not from LA. but i do know many people there...heh.
the iPhone *is* magic
I've had my 8GB version for three days now. Some interesting points to answer the queries posted here...
1. battery life is good compared my old motorola slvr. i get about 8 hours of constant usage on the thing. it seems every time i pull this out a crowd gathers and everyone want to use and see it for themselves. people are usually laughing and saying things "no ---king way" or "holy s---". and many are people with blackberrys on them. i don't know what the standby time is yet cuz it's rarely been in standby mode...
2. the phone is fast, i mean really fast! you can't really appreciate it until you use it. screens snap into place with a gracious dissolve that vista or even macosx can't touch. (maybe when leopard comes out?) i loaded 2500 photos from my iphoto library and can scroll through them all in seconds. it's insane. in minutes i went through my photo library, cropped, resized and assigned photos to 50 or so contacts in my address book. a feat that's almost a ridiculous undertaking on my motorola or blackberry.
3. call quality and reception is as good or better than my motorola slvr. also the fact that the entire phone os is still available when on a call is awesome. i'm waiting for an opportunity to get 5 people on a conference call...
4. tactile response??? rubbish! buttons are so 20th century. get with the program people! you are the same ones who laughed at mac's gui in 1986 running xcopy.exe on your dos machines. you get a nice audible click when a character is entered. the typing is so fast and intuitive that i can almost type as fast as i can on a regular keyboard. the magnifying glass edit function rocks too. i would like to see up, down, left, right keys however... also cut, copy and paste are missing as are drag and drop.
5. AT&T's edge network can be slow but it can also be fast. last night i was downloading youtube videos with no problem. email and the web were quick and responsive. For what i need, this is more than adequate. bear in mind, this is real email and real web. forget that crappy wap cell providers would fool you into thinking is the "internet". from what i understand the 3g variant is much more power hungry and would probably reduce battery life significantly.
6. i do miss the flash capability. i mean, imagine homestarrunner.com in flash on the iPhone. seriously folks, that would be awesome "melonade!". i also miss my salling clicker bluetooth remote to control frontrow and itunes.
7. MMS is missing but last night i got an MMS message and it was converted into an sms message telling me to go to viewmymessage.com with an id and password to view the image. interestingly, the image was in adobe flash! which means full flash support can't be far off. the sms implementation is awesome. it resembles the chat sms features on my motorola phone. it stores sms sessions by user so you can have multiple sms sessions going without losing track of your conversations. it's done very well. i imagine a full implementation of ichat can't be far off either...
8. GPS would be nice to have on this phone and would bring iphone up to par with blackberrys, but since i rarely used it, i don't miss the feature on the iphone. Perhaps the next rev of the iphone will have a gps chipset. who knows? i mean i use google maps at my office and it works great and i don't have a gps there. why? cuz i know where i am. sheeesh.
9. did i mention it's an ipod? yeah it rocks too. coverflow is awesome and so smooth that you just have to see it. you'll see little tweeks to the interface that makes you shake your head in wonder. there is so much attention to detail. people who appreciate aesthetics will marvel at this interface.
10. visual voicemail. you will never want old crappy voicemail again. this feature alone is almost worth the price of the iphone. if you get as many calls as i do, it's not uncommon to get 20 or more voicemails a day. now i can see who's left me a voicemail and listen to it immediately without going through the other 15 prior messages.
11. the alarm clock feature i was particularly interested in since have used my cellphones as alamclocks for the last 10 years. the iphone alarm clock function is amazing. like my motorola and blackberry i can have multiple alarms, but on the iphone i can set those alarms to occur say, only on weekdays (so i don't get woken up at 8am on saturdays) or at 8pm on fridays to wake me up before i have to dj.
12. the call plan i signed up for included 900 anytime minutes, 1500 sms messages and unlimited data for about $75 a month. about $20 less than my current AT&T plan. the phone was $635 with tax for the 8GB version. you also cannot get phone insurance through AT&T and apple did not offer applecare for the phone which i thought was interesting... it took me under 5 minutes to acivate the phone, another 30 minutes to sync and load the phone to capacity. i have about 300 contacts, 2500 photos, 1500 songs on the device now...
to summarize the iphone isn't without some obvious ommissions such as third party sdk, gps, movie recorder etc., but bear in mind, this is REV1! apple not only hit a home run, they won the series with their first at-bat! the movie recorder and sdk should be coming soon and some other features i'm sure will be added including flash support and perhaps native MMS. killer apps for this will be access to the terminal, vnc (or remote desktop of some sort) i'm wondering if gotomypc will work on this... hmmmm. ms office or at least some way to edit word and excel docs would be nice too. i don't miss my stylus or buttons at all. btw, i heard apple has sold 700,000 phones already? every sceptic that's used this phone has changed their mind... cheers.
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You're back from vacation, your purse is empty, and your video cassettes are full of vacation memories. You edit the vacation video on your Linux PC. To put a final polish on your movie, all you need to do is add the credits. If you use MainActor for video editing, you will discover that the title generator, 2D Text, is well-hidden and gives you only basic caption generating features. But never fear, a few tricks and a smattering of effects will help you create more pleasing titles. Installation MainActor is a commercial video editing program by MainConcept. The MainConcept homepage [1] has a test version; the only restriction is that the test version adds a watermark to the finished video. When this issue went to print, binaries for Suse Linux and Mandrake were available as downloads. If you do not use one of these distributions, you should test MainActor on your distribution before you buy.
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The meal program helps alleviate hunger and malnutrition for seniors unable to shop or prepare food for themselves. The program provides nutritious meals to seniors age 60 and older in communities from Fortuna to Trinidad. Customers who purchase Subaru vehicles from the McCrea dealership in Eureka from now through Jan. 2, 2013 will have the opportunity to designate HSRC Home Delivered Meals as the charity to which Subaru will donate $125. McCrea will then match the $125 donation, according to the release.
As one of the five Subaru "Share the Love" Event charitable partners, the Meals On Wheels Association of America is awarding $200,000 in "Share the Love" grants to local Meals On Wheels programs that partner with Subaru dealerships in the fight to end senior hunger. HSRC's Home Delivered Meals program is eligible to win a MOWAA-Subaru "Share the Love" grant of up to $35,000 to help provide nutritious meals to homebound seniors in Eureka and surrounding communities.
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The cabin has 50 feet of waterfront with a southern exposure. The water is clean and clear and very gradually deepens creating a perfect swimming area for children. The cabin has a dock and deck area at the water. A canoe, small sailboat and paddle boat are included with the rental. A pontoon boat is available to rent. The 1,100 square foot cabin has two bedrooms with double beds and two sets of bunk beds on the enclosed back porch. There is an enclosed front porch as well which affords a wonderful view of the lake. There is one bathroom with a shower, a fully equipped kitchen and a combined dining area/living room with a beautiful stone fireplace. The landlords are next door to the property.
Golf and Groceries: There are several golf courses all within a half hour of the cabin. The cabin is located off US10 between Farwell and Evart. We are about 10 minutes away from Farwell and 15 away from Evart where major grocery shopping can be done. Clare is just 20 minutes away for additional shopping and a movie theater.
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Friends and co-workers of 65-year-old, Linda Hochstetler, say she was constantly taking care of animals. On Saturday, Aug. 3, Hochstetler died doing just that.
Police say she spotted a groundhog along N. Main St., got out of her car to help it and then was hit by an oncoming car. She was pronounced dead at the scene while the driver of the car that struck her, Irma Hiemstra, was taken to the hospital for standard drug and alcohol testing.
"She went doing what she loved and not many of us are going to get that opportunity so I'm sure that she was happy when she was doing what she was doing," said Hochstetler's ex-husband Warren Kathan.
On Monday, Kathan stopped by her home in Constantine, MI, to check in on some of the animals she left behind. He was shocked at the news and recalled having talked to Hochstetler just last week about another cat she rescued and found a home for.
"Well normally if she saw an injured animal she would try to help it or see what she could do for it," Kathan explained. Over the years he said Hochstetler has rescued dozens of animals, including her German Shepherd mix, Max, who Kathan is now taking in. Kathan said he hopes the rest of the animals are placed with families through the local humane society, if not he said he may take them in.
"She didn't have any children of her own, the animals were her babies," Kathan added.
Instead of children or a close-knit family it seems as if Hochstetler lived life for two things: animals and her job waitressing at the Family Restaurant in Middlebury.
According to Kathan, his ex-wife spent her whole life working. Hochstetler was a waitress for 40 years, the last eight of which she spent at the Family Restaurant.
Saturday afternoon Hochstetler was leaving a breakfast-lunch shift when she pulled over on N. Main St. to reportedly help a groundhog.
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In memory of Hochstetler the restaurant hung black ribbons on their doors. Business was slow following her death, and the Family Restaurant closed its doors early. Mask said Hochstetler's regular clientele heard about her death and were also shocked to hear the news.
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- Studio: Screen Gems
- Release Date: Jan 19, 2001
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Mixed: 12 out of 266
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Dec 29, 2011If you have seen a Guy Ritchie film and enjoyed it, you will enjoy this. NO it is not a great movie, but it is extremely entertaining and fun to watch, which is the reason i watch movies. i am not giving it a 10 because it is perfect because its not, im giving it a 10 because it is my favourite movie so far. I have seen the making of the movie and can see that Guy Ritchie has his own way of directing that is not strictly professional and it shows through in the movie, IN A GOOD WAY. I recommend this fast paced Brittish heist/gangster movie to anyone who is reading this.… Expand
Nov 12, 2012If you can understand a word of Ritchie's screenplay, which is loaded with British slang unheard of for most Americans, that you might be able to enjoy it. Obviously, I wasn't. And didn't.
Apr 17, 2014A highly under rated movies by many critics. The acting in this movie was great people like Brad Pitt pulled of incredible accents and performances which must have been really hard to do. The beginning of this movie was a little hard to follow but once it got started it was great.
Oct 22, 2010Brilliant from start to finish. Classic characters in every single scene. This is surely Guy Richie's finest movie to date. I guess you'd have to be British to truly get the most out of it...?
Aug 21, 2011i love this movie...Jason Statham and Brad Pitt are great, excellent movie...just like Lock, Stock...and even a bit better.I like ,,dawgs" ,,caravans" all of it.
Sep 20, 2011Loved it! Alan Ford's performance should be all the reason you need to see this. I'm not usually a fan of Ritche's work, with Sherlock Holmes being an exception, but this movie hooked me from the very beginning and never let go. Brad Pitt is terrific, even if you can't understand 95% of what he says.
Dec 27, 2011This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. My all time favourite movie tied with RocknRolla. Too many people say that it has no plot, and though there is very little of it, it is still their. However it is witty, funny, action packed and is just filled with awesome. A minor masterpiece. Jason Statham is very funny and is a strong character. I hoped to see more of him in this movie but sadly not. Brad Pitt showed his best acting to date (2011). He manages to keep a thick incomprehensible irish accent throughout. The scene where his mother dies in the caravan had me devastated. This movie really showed the potential he has. Lots of people say that all the characters are similar, but only one thing about them is similar. They all live a life of crime. To say that Boris the Blade (or Bullet dodger) is similar to Tom or Bullettooth is madness. The ending truly makes one joyful that it ended as it did. Looking forward to see Lock, Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels, haven't seen it yet.… Expand
Sep 2, 2012This is probably the best British comedy I have ever seen.It's full of twist and irony. It's somewhat of a cross between Pulp Fiction and Burn After Reading. I't gets a little confusing when all the characters start running into each other, but quickly resolves it's self. This is a great movie to spend an hour and a half on. Brad Pitt's accent is alone, is worthy enough of your time.
Dec 2, 2012So there's this stolen 86-carat diamond stone that has recently gone missing. And you can bet that there are quite a number of people who will risk their life and threaten lives in order to acquire this precious stone once news gets out. Except perhaps for one weird gypsy who just wants a brand new caravan for his mama, but that
Sep 8, 2012Guy Ritchie never disappoints you. A funny and equally lame storyline, and Jason Statham's narration make this film way funnier than it actually is. I really liked the techniques that have been incorporated in this film considering the fact that it was released in 2001. The characterization is really good and the way all of the characters are shown related to each other in different way is really amazing. Brad Pitt and Jason Statham's performances were so good especially Brad Pitt's Pikey accent, always makes me laugh whenever I think about it. Overall it is a good film, "crime with humour topping" lovers should not miss it.… Expand
Jul 15, 2013Another amazing Guy Ritchie film. A bit like Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels. Very funny, very clever and very entertaining. If you haven't seen this or Lock Stock, then you need to watch them now. 10/10.
Dec 1, 2013It's a solid 8 or 9 depending on how you feel about the contrast between the very funny humor and the very violent crime that takes place. Definitely feels like the spiritual successor to lock stock, with a little more polish and star power.
Mar 8, 2014Bence çok iyi bir film. neden bu kadar düşük olduğunada anlamadım. Guy Ritche muhteşem bir performans çıkarmış. kesinlikle izlenmesi lazım.
Jun 19, 2011It's a marked improvement over Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels, I'll give it that. It had a bigger budget, so it looks a whole lot better than that movie, and it has a more experienced cast, too, so the performances were a lot more convincing. Dennis Farina doesn't get enough work in Hollywood. He's so good, he has such an imposing presence, especially when he played Bones in Get Shorty. He's good in his role here, too. I liked Jason Statham, He actually had stuff to say, and when he has stuff to say, he's not bad. But Brad Pitt really stole the spotlight, no matter how incomprehensible he is in this movie. Talking with such a thick accent all the way through, he was hilarious, and I loved that nobody else out of his family had a clue what he was saying. But like Lock, Stock, I still have issues with Guy's dialogue. There's arrogance about the way everybody talks, and they all talk the same way, like they're all talking out of the same mouth. There's no individuality to the characters. Brad and Alan Ford are the only ones who really make their characters their own. Alan's **** accent is a gift from God I tell ya, He makes a great mob boss. But I never found the movie boring, It's fast-paced and occasionally funny, but there's no wit in the writing, and the plot never takes us anywhere, it just kinda goes on without becoming anything more than what it started out as, which would've been perfectly fine had there been interesting characters thrown in the mix with better dialogue to bounce off each other.… Expand
Jan 3, 2014Eh, it was nothing more than ok. There's nothing here really, other than a great performance from Brad Pitt. It had two stories, but only one was interesting and the other left much to be desired. The pace was quick, yet was boring and the dialogue did not help lighten it up in the least. It was funny in spurts for sure, which did help, but ultimately, this one does not live up to expectations.
Feb 2, 2013An atrocious comedic drama which glamorizes criminal activity, violence, and almost mind-numbingly pervasive profanity...I had a hard time finishing it. Rest assured that your potential for gaining new insight or finding life-enriching meaning of any kind is slim to none; you definitely will not be uplifted. Even just measuring it in terms of simple entertainment value, its wit humor don't come close to compensating for its violence. The kinds of flashy bloodshed and theatrical cruelty which are found in films like Snatch desensitize fragile minds and corrode morals in a way that, yes, does in fact facilitate real-world violence. Brief example: the film's analysis of the efficiencies of pig farms for human corpse disposal some people inevitably walked away reflecting on the strengths weaknesses of different corpse disposal methods...a topic in which they would not have otherwise invested mental energy. I just wish we could have more honest conversations with ourselves and each other about the impact the media to which we expose ourselves has on us individually, and on those among us who are most malleable. Not to be preachy, but that there is any real market for this movie ought to be unsettling to those of us who value human life; this film almost entirely implies that it is worthless. Watch something else...there is plenty of better out there to be seen.… Expand
Feb 5, 2014Snatch.'s intentions were to be a satire on the whole crime movie genre, but it ends up falling flat on a sarcastic, poorly-written script with comeback after comeback and no real substance. It's a shame, as good directing and a decent performance from Statham gave the movie potential.
Oct 12, 2014ive change my fakin mind. ill give it a ten actually. it one of those film like pulp fiction, big lewboski that really surprises you when you watch it. it very bold and very rare. for that pure reason I have to give a ten my pedigree chums.
It all feels rather laddish and belabored, but it will eat up 90 minutes of your time without making you regret the loss.
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For those who care, Madonna has found her match in Guy Ritchie, whose absence of talent when it comes to the film medium is equal to her own.