And don't forget CD-Rs. Always buy them burned in.
But I figure out the problem. It turns out that the life-extending magnetic soles in my shoes were to close to the power cable, causing elections to pick up quantum vibrations in the cable. They were fine inside my computer, but bouncing too much in the network cable and going slow that they should be.
I put polarizing cables on my network and it worked fine.
Yeah, because the big problem in sound system is often corroded metal cables. It's right up there with 'frogs crawled inside the air vents' and 'resonance frequency of the entire house is a midrange E, causing house to collapse when sound is played'.
In the real world, the actual problem with sound systems is crappy speakers hooked to crappy amp. Adjusting the cables to get better sound is akin to adjusting a car's mirrors to get better gas mileage.
And they don't use gold because it doesn't corrode, or, at least, that's not the main reason. They use it because it doesn't change size when heated up, and it conduct electricity very very well.
Have a chunk of Static RAM that will survive power-downs (e.g some fast Flash RAM). Place boot-files and drivers here, and the whole machine starts in no-time.
This is what I've been saying for quite some time. A flash drive is enough to hold an entire memory image of a booted up Windows XP system. Dump that into ram, do the tiny amount of driver init needed, and there you go.
In fact, it should work in tandem with hibernation. Make a single image every time the computer gets 'really' booted up, aka, every time it boots with the hardware power flipped off.
When you shutdown the computer, it should check your state. Do you have extra programs running, or have you closed basically everything? If the former, it should prompt you if you want to 'resume the session' later. If the later, or the former and you say 'no', it should just throw everything away and start with the clean image next time. Of course, power users would be able to make it prompt you every time, or never prompt, or whatever.
If you were really clever, hibernation images could be 'diffs' of the original.
In addition to that, if there's any room left over, the flash drive should operate as a manual disk read cache, where files can be marked by the OS and put on there. Do this to system startup files, and suddenly cold boots are a lot faster too. (The burden is on the OS to recopy the files to the flash memory when they change.) Also, it can journal the filesystem, at least enough to have a consistent state on boot.
You could also put the swap file on there, but as flash ram is more expensive than actual ram, and will probably continue to be so, that makes no sense at all.
Yeah, something like a gig of flash memory, on the motherboard, with some consistent API would be nice. (And, of course, it should be SD or some standard socket so it's upgradable.) Don't make it, inside the OS, look like a standard drive, have it explicitly that everything on that 'drive' is temporary and can be recreated from the the OS and files on the actual disk drive.
That's not because of interference, that's because normal, purchased-in-Walmart cables are, as I said, crap. The shielding on RCA cables, especially, often comes mostly loose from the plug. (And never ever buy a phono to RCA cable there.)
It's like food. You get a crap meal for 5 dollars. You get a pretty good one for 15-20. You're not going to get a noticeable better one for 50.
You get a crap RCA cable for 3 dollars. You get a good one for 5. You pay 15 dollars for Monster Calbers, and they claim absurd things like they're 'bandwidth blended' and have 'time correct' bindings and 'dual balanced' conductors, what the hell those things are. They even have wires that 'add warmth' to CD recordings and are specially designed for cars and all sorts of crazy stuff.
They're damn wires, they can't magically give you better sound, all they can do is crap it up. Buy wires that don't crap it up and be done with it. Spend the money you saved on better speakers.
Likewise, with this card: It's a damn network card. Almost all none of your latency is due to your network card.
Hell, you don't need a 100 dollar NIC, those things are themselves overpriced. And I don't know why anyone would need gigabit to talk to a DSL router.
A 15 dollar NIC will do just as good. It will offload processing that your 3 dollar built-in network card does not. And that, really, is about the only thing that can be altered on your own computer that can lower latency over the internet, and it won't be be more than one millisecond. (OTOH, it will also lower CPU time, which can't hurt.)
This reminds me of gold-plated power cords for sound systems. Guaranteed to create richer, deeper sound!
Damn it, I thought I was clever by pointing that out, too, but apparently at least you and two other people realize this is pretty much the same scam, aimed at idiots who have built what they think is the Ultimate Gamer Machine instead of the Ultimate Sound System, but instead is a piece of crap because they don't actually know what they are doing and just buy whatever is the most expensive.
Please please tell me they don't really have Monster network cables. Please tell me people that are smart enough to buy network cables aren't dumb enough to buy Monster cables.
I bought this card a while ago and I absolutely loath it. It's only compatible with Windows for Workgroups 3.11, it's VLBus, and under heavy load it makes a high pitched whine that makes my eyes bleed. Also it come packaged in seal skin, and, for some reason, the plastic rings that hold six packs together.
Now, who are you going to believe? A guy who registered, apparently, just to post here, or me, a user with a UID that's a hundredth of his?;)
And, seriously, am I the only person who thinks this sounds like the 'Monster cables' scam? 'Hey, everyone's buying cheap shit, let's create a slightly better product, the same sort you'd find if you'd do your damn shopping at a real store instead of Wal*Mart, pretend it's some sort of ultimate solution, and sell it for ten times what the cheap stuff costs and four times what the other quality stuff does.'.
Except, here, it's more like 100 times what the cheap stuff costs and 20 times what the quality stuff does. A nice scam if you can get it. I don't know if gamers are quite as stupid as audiophiles, though.
I sound bitter, but I snapped when I saw 'High quality digital audio cables' that were three times the price of normal ones. I guess the electrical ones help if you're running your sound system through a magnetron or inside an FM broadcast tower, but God knows where the optical ones are picking up enough interference to flip any bits. Medically speaking, you probably shouldn't stand close enough to a visible light source that's powerful enough to go through the plastic surrounding 'cheap' optical digital cables, because, like, your skin would melt.
This whole concept sounds akin to that scam. A deal for people who've never heard of 'diminishing returns', and think that every single fractional increase in something is worth whatever price, and operating in total ignorance as to whether or not latency is the problem, and, if it is, whether or not that latency is being caused by the card or something else.
In some states it only takes the consent of one party to record a telephone call, so I, for example, can record any conversation I'm participating in, regardless of whether or not I tell the other person, or even if they object and tell me to stop.
The way to do it in your head is to look at the 10 for 7 dollars, and realize that's one for 70 cents.
Then, for the second step, you could multiple the 70 by 16. 7 times 8 is 56 times times 2 is 112 times 10 is 1120, which means, if the 16 was sold at the same rate as the 10, it would cost $11.20. So $8.99 is a good deal.
Alternately, you could look at 16 for 9 dollars, realize that's slightly more than 16 for 8 dollars, which would be one for 50 cents. You've got a dollar left over, to divide by 16, so divide that by 8 get 12 and that by 2 to get 6. So it's 56 cents compared to the 70.
I do have a problem with people that are capable of the aforementioned X and choose not to do anything about it. That was and is the point of my rant. You've chosen to nit-pick an area that I tried to exclude from my example/situation.
I think, really, that says it all. You're an utter fucking moron.
Looking around, just at my immediate family, I know at least three people who, if they had not had their family to fall back on, would, at this point, be stuck in a job trying to pay off their debt, or homeless.
So, I suspect, do you, and I suspect, you are yourself one. Is it so fucking hard to imagine you didn't have your family at that point? Is it really so hard to imagine how the rest of your life would have turned out if you'd been handed a $30,000 debt at exactly the wrong moment, so you couldn't pay for things without charging them, and all your interest rates were slightly higher because of your credit?
Yeah, that would have made a lot more sense. They have an alien spacecraft. It's not implausible that the alien spacecraft can send a signal to take down shields. (Like, uh, when they want to go through them.)
So, just use the big mothership to relay that signal to all the little motherships. You don't need a 'virus', although, if you're smart, you'll still blow up the big mothership before anyone can realize what you did, and thus the little motherships won't figure out 'shit, our shields are down!'.
That is not actually completely improbable in 1983.
A lot of modems ended in places they shouldn't be, wide open to the world. People would put them on work computers and have them answer the phone so they could dial up from home. People would indeed war-dial entire area codes and find a dozen of them, most of which were set up with the assumption that no one would be calling that number, and hence had little or no security at all.
At least WOPR's login was password protected.
And, yes, the movie explained it was a backdoor, but the point is that, at that time, and in fact for the next decade, unauthorized modems were hugely overlooked security holes in computer security. The military overlooking one is not improbable, especially one that was 'supposed' to be there.
I'm always vaguely confused by the Jurassic Park complaints. The Jurassic Park movie had almost nothing wrong with its presentation of computers or technology in general. (I'm not including the sci-fi cloning in that. I'm sure there were problems with that.)
First of all, yes, that's a real Unix system. A very stupid one, but a real one.
Secondly, the system was crap. And the point is?
It's a very badly designed system. It was designed by one person, and it's not finished. No one was trained in it yet, and the only person who understands it dies early, and it was sabotaged. Of course you have crazy stuff like not automatically switching the power over or the fences going down.
I mean, yeah, some stuff was slightly improbable, but it's the kinda shit that actually does happen in emergency situations, at least the first time...you discover that, hey, the damn generator didn't come on line or that the carefully constructed key-card security system is not, apparently, on the battery backups This is why you don't test with live data, or, in this case, live dinosaurs.
Again, unfinished, crappy system. Sorta like the actual park itself, when you think about it. Remember it was being worked on by someone who, at least for a short period of time, knew he was going to fleeing his job with a boatload of money for selling them out, and ask yourself if you think he really was working on fixing bugs during that time?
About the only thing I actually have issues with is the 'We can't get a phone line out' plot. But I guess, logically, those couldn't be 'real' phone lines, it's not like the phone company ran lines to the island. No, they have a sat or underwater cable connection with somewhere, and a PBX, and Nedry screwed up the PBX, and they don't know what the hell they'll talking about, all they know is they can't get a dial tone.
You ask 'What prevents you, or any other person in any developed country from doing X?', and then say 'Of course, some people may be unable to do X due to certain circumstances.'
So what the FUCK point were you trying to make there? 'Everyone can do X, except those who can't do X?'
No shit, Sherlock. What about those of us who can't do X?
And it's not just medical bills. What about those people who had to drop out of high school to support their family? Yeah, they can probably get a GED, but certainly can't get a college diploma. They'll fall deeper and deeper in debt. (And point of order: Someone has to work minimum wage jobs.)
I love how people think their start in life applies to everyone, but let's pretend it does, and everyone started where you were until, say, age 18.
Well, it takes almost nothing to fall behind. Yeah, the people who do it voluntarily are idiots, and those are the ones you run into at college, but a lot of people started in the exact same circumstances as you until a certain bad thing happened, like they go injured in a car accident, lost their car, had to drop out of school, lost their parent's health insurance cause of that, etc. Or their parent's company folded, taking the pension and health insurance with it.
Almost everyone without a few hundred thousand dollars in the bank is walking a very thin ledge in this country. You've never fallen, so assume there's some sort of safety net down there. There isn't anymore.
And don't assume everyone who fell jumped or even was stupidly leaning over the edge.
This is not a 0-day exploit by any sane definition, because, duh, there's no fucking 'exploit'.
It's an unpatched vulnerability. An exploit is a program that can use a vulnerability. An exploit 'in' WMP would mean that it's attacking other computers.
I don't know who the hell is writing the headlines here, but they're idiots.
And 'zero-day' is wrong too. 0-Day exploits are ones that exist before a vulnerability is found, or at least before it's well known, or right after (within the same day) it's known about. 0-Day means 'out the same day', although it also applies to 'out in advance'.
Even if there were an exploit written now, it wouldn't be '0-Day', because everyone has known about the hole for two weeks.
I know the article said '0-day flaw', not '0-day exploit', and that is even worse as that is completely meaningless, unless it's applying to flaws that are discovered the same day they are created or something.
It gets sometimes to seem like a bunch of non-nerds have wandered onto this site.
No shit. Someone said 'Hey, the hole is only four bytes' and suddenly we have a bunch of parrots.
For future references: Many buffer overflows are small. Hence, you don't put the code in the buffer. You put it somewhere else, and jump to it.
Some absolute goober has managed to notice that 'displacement' requires four bytes, and the JMP one byte, but JMP can also, instead of that, use a single byte that locates the start of the displacement bytes. So all you have to do is find, within 256 bytes, bytes that you can change into being the correct jump location. As this is a data segment, that's rather trivial to find..
If people on this site don't think hackers can get four bytes of a certain value in a data segment within 256 bytes of this buffer overflow, they're idiots.
yet citizens who are charged with breaking such laws may not be able to use ignorance of the law as a defense in a court of law.
charged with breaking a law? What are you, some sort of hippy? we don't charge people with crimes anymore.
Seriously, though, this isn't a 'law'. It is a Decision made by the Decider and people who work for him, which will result in them doing things to you. Specifically in this case, barring you from airline travel. It is like all his other Decisions, like detaining people without a trial and spying on whatever conversations he wants.
'Laws' involve the executive and judicial branch, too. This has nothing to do with 'laws'. Almost none of Bush's behavior is even vaguely related to 'laws'.
As such, this article headline is rather...crazy. Yes, this happens to be against what appears to be an explicit law barring it. However, it wouldn't be legal for the executive branch to randomly remove, without trial, the ability to use airplanes without a law banning it. It wouldn't even be legal with a law saying they can do that! The executive branch cannot punish behavior or decide guilt, only the courts can do that!
This is like asserting Gitmo is illegal under kidnapping and assault laws. Well, in a technical sense, yes, but it's illegal for so many other reasons, like, oh, various things in the Bill of Rights, that applying that law is rather absurd. It's not 'illegal' if the entire process is 'extralegal', completely outside the ability of the executive branch to even do lawfully even if there were laws allowing it. Talking about the 'laws' as if the process fits within some sort of legal framework is completely surreal.
No, not armed with guns. A shootout is just a dangerous idea, and random people will get hurt. People aren't going to be able to sneak guns on the plane, so you don't need guns to fight them.
You know those pressure masks that drop down? Well, put a manual switch on them that the staff and pilots can flip(I think they already can), and stick a knife in every one of those. (Obviously in a sheath.)
Someone hijacks the plane? Tada, everyone immediately get a knife. (And there are now pressure masks flopping around, too.) Try keeping four or five people at knife point while you hold off fifty others with knifes.
Of course, the concept is silly. You can't hijack planes anymore and fly them into anything.
In fact, you probably couldn't hijack a plane and order the pilot to fly to Cuba. You'd have to explain the concept really quickly to keep everyone from killing you, and reassure them that the original pilot is still flying and not going to crash the plane. This is kinda sad, because hijacking a plane was one of the few hostage-taking incidents that actually usually ended well, with the passengers returning safely home. Then terrorists go and screw it up.
Of course, I'm actually of the opinion that, whenever anyone takes a hostage, we should kill them. Immediately, without hesitation. Yeah, a lot of hostages would die, but if society as a whole stopped negotiating with hostage takers, after a few years, no one would ever be taken hostage again.
We could even impliment a 'grace period'. If someone ends up taking over a place with people, and immediately lets all the people go the second the police or anyone shows up, we let them have a free hour to do whatever they want, as if they had hostages. Whereas if they keep them, we just ignore the hostages and walk in.
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And don't forget CD-Rs. Always buy them burned in.
But I figure out the problem. It turns out that the life-extending magnetic soles in my shoes were to close to the power cable, causing elections to pick up quantum vibrations in the cable. They were fine inside my computer, but bouncing too much in the network cable and going slow that they should be.
I put polarizing cables on my network and it worked fine.
Yeah, because the big problem in sound system is often corroded metal cables. It's right up there with 'frogs crawled inside the air vents' and 'resonance frequency of the entire house is a midrange E, causing house to collapse when sound is played'.
In the real world, the actual problem with sound systems is crappy speakers hooked to crappy amp. Adjusting the cables to get better sound is akin to adjusting a car's mirrors to get better gas mileage.
And they don't use gold because it doesn't corrode, or, at least, that's not the main reason. They use it because it doesn't change size when heated up, and it conduct electricity very very well.
Have a chunk of Static RAM that will survive power-downs (e.g some fast Flash RAM). Place boot-files and drivers here, and the whole machine starts in no-time.
This is what I've been saying for quite some time. A flash drive is enough to hold an entire memory image of a booted up Windows XP system. Dump that into ram, do the tiny amount of driver init needed, and there you go.
In fact, it should work in tandem with hibernation. Make a single image every time the computer gets 'really' booted up, aka, every time it boots with the hardware power flipped off.
When you shutdown the computer, it should check your state. Do you have extra programs running, or have you closed basically everything? If the former, it should prompt you if you want to 'resume the session' later. If the later, or the former and you say 'no', it should just throw everything away and start with the clean image next time. Of course, power users would be able to make it prompt you every time, or never prompt, or whatever.
If you were really clever, hibernation images could be 'diffs' of the original.
In addition to that, if there's any room left over, the flash drive should operate as a manual disk read cache, where files can be marked by the OS and put on there. Do this to system startup files, and suddenly cold boots are a lot faster too. (The burden is on the OS to recopy the files to the flash memory when they change.) Also, it can journal the filesystem, at least enough to have a consistent state on boot.
You could also put the swap file on there, but as flash ram is more expensive than actual ram, and will probably continue to be so, that makes no sense at all.
Yeah, something like a gig of flash memory, on the motherboard, with some consistent API would be nice. (And, of course, it should be SD or some standard socket so it's upgradable.) Don't make it, inside the OS, look like a standard drive, have it explicitly that everything on that 'drive' is temporary and can be recreated from the the OS and files on the actual disk drive.
A better way to say it is that truthiness is orthogonal to truth.
That's not because of interference, that's because normal, purchased-in-Walmart cables are, as I said, crap. The shielding on RCA cables, especially, often comes mostly loose from the plug. (And never ever buy a phono to RCA cable there.)
It's like food. You get a crap meal for 5 dollars. You get a pretty good one for 15-20. You're not going to get a noticeable better one for 50.
You get a crap RCA cable for 3 dollars. You get a good one for 5. You pay 15 dollars for Monster Calbers, and they claim absurd things like they're 'bandwidth blended' and have 'time correct' bindings and 'dual balanced' conductors, what the hell those things are. They even have wires that 'add warmth' to CD recordings and are specially designed for cars and all sorts of crazy stuff.
They're damn wires, they can't magically give you better sound, all they can do is crap it up. Buy wires that don't crap it up and be done with it. Spend the money you saved on better speakers.
Likewise, with this card: It's a damn network card. Almost all none of your latency is due to your network card.
For the price of this NIC, you can buy a dedicated computer to be a server.
Hell, you don't need a 100 dollar NIC, those things are themselves overpriced. And I don't know why anyone would need gigabit to talk to a DSL router.
A 15 dollar NIC will do just as good. It will offload processing that your 3 dollar built-in network card does not. And that, really, is about the only thing that can be altered on your own computer that can lower latency over the internet, and it won't be be more than one millisecond. (OTOH, it will also lower CPU time, which can't hurt.)
This reminds me of gold-plated power cords for sound systems. Guaranteed to create richer, deeper sound!
Damn it, I thought I was clever by pointing that out, too, but apparently at least you and two other people realize this is pretty much the same scam, aimed at idiots who have built what they think is the Ultimate Gamer Machine instead of the Ultimate Sound System, but instead is a piece of crap because they don't actually know what they are doing and just buy whatever is the most expensive.
Please please tell me they don't really have Monster network cables. Please tell me people that are smart enough to buy network cables aren't dumb enough to buy Monster cables.
I bought this card a while ago and I absolutely loath it. It's only compatible with Windows for Workgroups 3.11, it's VLBus, and under heavy load it makes a high pitched whine that makes my eyes bleed. Also it come packaged in seal skin, and, for some reason, the plastic rings that hold six packs together.
Now, who are you going to believe? A guy who registered, apparently, just to post here, or me, a user with a UID that's a hundredth of his? ;)
And, seriously, am I the only person who thinks this sounds like the 'Monster cables' scam? 'Hey, everyone's buying cheap shit, let's create a slightly better product, the same sort you'd find if you'd do your damn shopping at a real store instead of Wal*Mart, pretend it's some sort of ultimate solution, and sell it for ten times what the cheap stuff costs and four times what the other quality stuff does.'.
Except, here, it's more like 100 times what the cheap stuff costs and 20 times what the quality stuff does. A nice scam if you can get it. I don't know if gamers are quite as stupid as audiophiles, though.
I sound bitter, but I snapped when I saw 'High quality digital audio cables' that were three times the price of normal ones. I guess the electrical ones help if you're running your sound system through a magnetron or inside an FM broadcast tower, but God knows where the optical ones are picking up enough interference to flip any bits. Medically speaking, you probably shouldn't stand close enough to a visible light source that's powerful enough to go through the plastic surrounding 'cheap' optical digital cables, because, like, your skin would melt.
This whole concept sounds akin to that scam. A deal for people who've never heard of 'diminishing returns', and think that every single fractional increase in something is worth whatever price, and operating in total ignorance as to whether or not latency is the problem, and, if it is, whether or not that latency is being caused by the card or something else.
In some states it only takes the consent of one party to record a telephone call, so I, for example, can record any conversation I'm participating in, regardless of whether or not I tell the other person, or even if they object and tell me to stop.
That way doesn't make any sense.
The way to do it in your head is to look at the 10 for 7 dollars, and realize that's one for 70 cents.
Then, for the second step, you could multiple the 70 by 16. 7 times 8 is 56 times times 2 is 112 times 10 is 1120, which means, if the 16 was sold at the same rate as the 10, it would cost $11.20. So $8.99 is a good deal.
Alternately, you could look at 16 for 9 dollars, realize that's slightly more than 16 for 8 dollars, which would be one for 50 cents. You've got a dollar left over, to divide by 16, so divide that by 8 get 12 and that by 2 to get 6. So it's 56 cents compared to the 70.
I do have a problem with people that are capable of the aforementioned X and choose not to do anything about it. That was and is the point of my rant. You've chosen to nit-pick an area that I tried to exclude from my example/situation.
I think, really, that says it all. You're an utter fucking moron.
Looking around, just at my immediate family, I know at least three people who, if they had not had their family to fall back on, would, at this point, be stuck in a job trying to pay off their debt, or homeless.
So, I suspect, do you, and I suspect, you are yourself one. Is it so fucking hard to imagine you didn't have your family at that point? Is it really so hard to imagine how the rest of your life would have turned out if you'd been handed a $30,000 debt at exactly the wrong moment, so you couldn't pay for things without charging them, and all your interest rates were slightly higher because of your credit?
Yeah, that would have made a lot more sense. They have an alien spacecraft. It's not implausible that the alien spacecraft can send a signal to take down shields. (Like, uh, when they want to go through them.)
So, just use the big mothership to relay that signal to all the little motherships. You don't need a 'virus', although, if you're smart, you'll still blow up the big mothership before anyone can realize what you did, and thus the little motherships won't figure out 'shit, our shields are down!'.
That is not actually completely improbable in 1983.
A lot of modems ended in places they shouldn't be, wide open to the world. People would put them on work computers and have them answer the phone so they could dial up from home. People would indeed war-dial entire area codes and find a dozen of them, most of which were set up with the assumption that no one would be calling that number, and hence had little or no security at all.
At least WOPR's login was password protected.
And, yes, the movie explained it was a backdoor, but the point is that, at that time, and in fact for the next decade, unauthorized modems were hugely overlooked security holes in computer security. The military overlooking one is not improbable, especially one that was 'supposed' to be there.
No only that, the damn waiting list is a mile long.
I'm always vaguely confused by the Jurassic Park complaints. The Jurassic Park movie had almost nothing wrong with its presentation of computers or technology in general. (I'm not including the sci-fi cloning in that. I'm sure there were problems with that.)
First of all, yes, that's a real Unix system. A very stupid one, but a real one.
Secondly, the system was crap. And the point is?
It's a very badly designed system. It was designed by one person, and it's not finished. No one was trained in it yet, and the only person who understands it dies early, and it was sabotaged. Of course you have crazy stuff like not automatically switching the power over or the fences going down.
I mean, yeah, some stuff was slightly improbable, but it's the kinda shit that actually does happen in emergency situations, at least the first time...you discover that, hey, the damn generator didn't come on line or that the carefully constructed key-card security system is not, apparently, on the battery backups This is why you don't test with live data, or, in this case, live dinosaurs.
Again, unfinished, crappy system. Sorta like the actual park itself, when you think about it. Remember it was being worked on by someone who, at least for a short period of time, knew he was going to fleeing his job with a boatload of money for selling them out, and ask yourself if you think he really was working on fixing bugs during that time?
About the only thing I actually have issues with is the 'We can't get a phone line out' plot. But I guess, logically, those couldn't be 'real' phone lines, it's not like the phone company ran lines to the island. No, they have a sat or underwater cable connection with somewhere, and a PBX, and Nedry screwed up the PBX, and they don't know what the hell they'll talking about, all they know is they can't get a dial tone.
House is in his own little 'Diagnostic Medicine' department. The hospital covers all the bills.
You ask 'What prevents you, or any other person in any developed country from doing X?', and then say 'Of course, some people may be unable to do X due to certain circumstances.'
So what the FUCK point were you trying to make there? 'Everyone can do X, except those who can't do X?'
No shit, Sherlock. What about those of us who can't do X?
And it's not just medical bills. What about those people who had to drop out of high school to support their family? Yeah, they can probably get a GED, but certainly can't get a college diploma. They'll fall deeper and deeper in debt. (And point of order: Someone has to work minimum wage jobs.)
I love how people think their start in life applies to everyone, but let's pretend it does, and everyone started where you were until, say, age 18.
Well, it takes almost nothing to fall behind. Yeah, the people who do it voluntarily are idiots, and those are the ones you run into at college, but a lot of people started in the exact same circumstances as you until a certain bad thing happened, like they go injured in a car accident, lost their car, had to drop out of school, lost their parent's health insurance cause of that, etc. Or their parent's company folded, taking the pension and health insurance with it.
Almost everyone without a few hundred thousand dollars in the bank is walking a very thin ledge in this country. You've never fallen, so assume there's some sort of safety net down there. There isn't anymore.
And don't assume everyone who fell jumped or even was stupidly leaning over the edge.
This is not a 0-day exploit by any sane definition, because, duh, there's no fucking 'exploit'.
It's an unpatched vulnerability. An exploit is a program that can use a vulnerability. An exploit 'in' WMP would mean that it's attacking other computers.
I don't know who the hell is writing the headlines here, but they're idiots.
And 'zero-day' is wrong too. 0-Day exploits are ones that exist before a vulnerability is found, or at least before it's well known, or right after (within the same day) it's known about. 0-Day means 'out the same day', although it also applies to 'out in advance'.
Even if there were an exploit written now, it wouldn't be '0-Day', because everyone has known about the hole for two weeks.
I know the article said '0-day flaw', not '0-day exploit', and that is even worse as that is completely meaningless, unless it's applying to flaws that are discovered the same day they are created or something.
The vast majority of Window XP users use IE7 now. It came out in the automatic updates a month ago.
I don't know about WMP11, or what percentage use XP.
It gets sometimes to seem like a bunch of non-nerds have wandered onto this site.
No shit. Someone said 'Hey, the hole is only four bytes' and suddenly we have a bunch of parrots.
For future references: Many buffer overflows are small. Hence, you don't put the code in the buffer. You put it somewhere else, and jump to it.
Some absolute goober has managed to notice that 'displacement' requires four bytes, and the JMP one byte, but JMP can also, instead of that, use a single byte that locates the start of the displacement bytes. So all you have to do is find, within 256 bytes, bytes that you can change into being the correct jump location. As this is a data segment, that's rather trivial to find..
If people on this site don't think hackers can get four bytes of a certain value in a data segment within 256 bytes of this buffer overflow, they're idiots.
Read here.
A 0-day exploit is one that appears before a patch or even an announcement of the security flaw.
yet citizens who are charged with breaking such laws may not be able to use ignorance of the law as a defense in a court of law.
charged with breaking a law? What are you, some sort of hippy? we don't charge people with crimes anymore.
Seriously, though, this isn't a 'law'. It is a Decision made by the Decider and people who work for him, which will result in them doing things to you. Specifically in this case, barring you from airline travel. It is like all his other Decisions, like detaining people without a trial and spying on whatever conversations he wants.
'Laws' involve the executive and judicial branch, too. This has nothing to do with 'laws'. Almost none of Bush's behavior is even vaguely related to 'laws'.
As such, this article headline is rather...crazy. Yes, this happens to be against what appears to be an explicit law barring it. However, it wouldn't be legal for the executive branch to randomly remove, without trial, the ability to use airplanes without a law banning it. It wouldn't even be legal with a law saying they can do that! The executive branch cannot punish behavior or decide guilt, only the courts can do that!
This is like asserting Gitmo is illegal under kidnapping and assault laws. Well, in a technical sense, yes, but it's illegal for so many other reasons, like, oh, various things in the Bill of Rights, that applying that law is rather absurd. It's not 'illegal' if the entire process is 'extralegal', completely outside the ability of the executive branch to even do lawfully even if there were laws allowing it. Talking about the 'laws' as if the process fits within some sort of legal framework is completely surreal.
No, not armed with guns. A shootout is just a dangerous idea, and random people will get hurt. People aren't going to be able to sneak guns on the plane, so you don't need guns to fight them.
You know those pressure masks that drop down? Well, put a manual switch on them that the staff and pilots can flip(I think they already can), and stick a knife in every one of those. (Obviously in a sheath.)
Someone hijacks the plane? Tada, everyone immediately get a knife. (And there are now pressure masks flopping around, too.) Try keeping four or five people at knife point while you hold off fifty others with knifes.
Of course, the concept is silly. You can't hijack planes anymore and fly them into anything.
In fact, you probably couldn't hijack a plane and order the pilot to fly to Cuba. You'd have to explain the concept really quickly to keep everyone from killing you, and reassure them that the original pilot is still flying and not going to crash the plane. This is kinda sad, because hijacking a plane was one of the few hostage-taking incidents that actually usually ended well, with the passengers returning safely home. Then terrorists go and screw it up.
Of course, I'm actually of the opinion that, whenever anyone takes a hostage, we should kill them. Immediately, without hesitation. Yeah, a lot of hostages would die, but if society as a whole stopped negotiating with hostage takers, after a few years, no one would ever be taken hostage again.
We could even impliment a 'grace period'. If someone ends up taking over a place with people, and immediately lets all the people go the second the police or anyone shows up, we let them have a free hour to do whatever they want, as if they had hostages. Whereas if they keep them, we just ignore the hostages and walk in.