I meant as I wrote it, "old code from 16-bit Windows" that is compiled into 64-bit binaries (obviously with some modification to make it work). Some of the code has been around since the 16-bit days and just molded to make it keep working in 32-bit and 64-bit Windows.
You'd be surprised to find that some old code from 16-bit Windows is still kicking around in Windows 8... things just get ported to the next OS so that they work. Code is only re-written or developed from scratch if it's for new features or the old code was so broken or impossible to port that it had to be re-written.
Plus you can right click on the bottom left corner where the start button used to be a get a pseudo-start menu that still runs some useful things. I wonder if you can customize its contents via the registry or something...
We could start by reforming the monetary systems that most countries operate on. Banks essentially get to print money out of thin air and collect interest on it. For more info, see http://www.positivemoney.org.uk/
This is very true and the reasons behind it are pretty well explained in a video on this website: http://www.positivemoney.org.uk/ The same website proposes some interesting solutions to the world's debt-fuelled economies and the ideas merit some consideration.
Polymorphic and metamorphic malware has been around for years. They're probably seeing a rise in detections simply because of the popularity of a certain malware generation tool or something. You can read about polymorphic and metamorphic malware in a book written by a guy from Symantec that was published in 2005:
http://www.amazon.com/Art-Computer-Virus-Research-Defense/dp/0321304543
Why don't they use one of the many open source social network engines like Elgg or Anahita? Rolling your own engine would require a huge amount of time and support, not to mention security concerns that are hard to avoid and catch without a full support team that you can trust.
My friend moved his 360 while Gears of War was running and it left a huge gash in the disc. He tried playing the game and could only play multiplayer, so he gave it the toothpaste treatment. After that, he could only play single player. Toothpaste again, only multiplayer. After that, he had to toothpaste it depending what he felt like playing.
“I lived in California for four years and this one made me go for the doorway
Thus, an earthquake of the same magnitude in southern British Columbia or California would cause more devastation because of the population density, but would be felt over a far smaller distance.
I was on the 5th floor and felt quite a bit of shaking for about 15 seconds. Good thing I have an old CRT monitor, or I wouldn't have been able to use the computer! I heard the quake caused a tsunami on Stephen Harper's fake lake. Either that or the G20 protesters jumping up and down.
I'll explain this one a little more fully. Not long ago, the Liberal, NDP and Bloc parties proposed forming a coalition against Harper's Conservative party (which currently had the most seats, ie. had won the last election). Harper stopped this from happening by suspending Parliament for a while.
As you might know, just recently in England the party that won the election formed a coalition with one of the other parties. During Harper's recent visit to England, he was asked what he thought of England's coalition situation compared to the one he faced in Canada. To this question he replied (don't quote me on this, I'm paraphrasing) something along the lines of "The difference is that your coalition was formed by winners, and that's why it works. In Canada, only losers try to make coalitions, and they fail."
How does this make Canada look in the eyes of the rest of the world? A country led by a presumably responsible and mature adult capable of solving problems by talking through them with the opposition, and compromising so that the highest percentage of the Canadian population is represented? No! By calling his opponents a bunch of losers, it makes him look like a 5-year-old kid on the playground whose argument is that he wins because the other kids are all thumb-and-index-to-the-forehead losers.
I'm glad that the world at least had the recent Olympics to judge Canada by, instead of this leader with the maturity of a spoiled brat.
Canada's not without its right-wing bullshit. Check Google News for some of the things Stephen Harper's been up to lately. Proroguing Parliament twice, calling his opposition a bunch of losers, comparing other MPs to terrorist groups, no presence at the carbon emissions/pollution world summit not long ago, major cuts to arts programs, just to name a few.
No, they actually would be safer because now that the exploit has been publicly disclosed, a much more vast audience of malicous hackers knows about and can use the exploit. If you assume someone knew about the exploit before (which is a safe assumption), it was probably only a small number of people because I'm sure some hacker isn't going to share something he thinks he's the only one sitting on.
While security through obscurity is definitely a bad thing, it's at least somewhat better than having the hole posted for the world to see, getting even more publicity because of the surrounding debate on the subject.
I disagree that Blu-ray is going to die off. With all the DRM-laden media available for purchase online and this stupid C-61 copyright bill coming up in Canada that will probably make torrent illegal somehow, I'd much rather be able to purchase something I can physically hold in my hands and keep, to be able to play at any time on my Blu-ray player. Also don't have to worry whether my bandwidth can handle streaming HD or not, be it the internet connection or the home router, or my PC itself.
I completely agree with Anonymous Coward. Also, it's not being spineless if our country stands up to international pressure rather than bowing to it at the expense of the average Canadian. As a country, we can have whatever copyright laws we feel apply to our own people. If our laws adversely affect the economy or political views of other countries, it's up to them to make laws that control their own population, not to pressure us to hurt our own population to satisfy their needs.
While placing a function's return address right next to its local variables and arguments on the stack is kind of a dumb idea, there are many higher-level security issues to work out that aren't specific to x86. For example, phishing, cross-site scripting, input validation, side-channel attacks, in-band attacks, and the fact that it's safe to assume the user is an idiot that will click on anything he's told to. The list goes on.
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I meant as I wrote it, "old code from 16-bit Windows" that is compiled into 64-bit binaries (obviously with some modification to make it work). Some of the code has been around since the 16-bit days and just molded to make it keep working in 32-bit and 64-bit Windows.
You'd be surprised to find that some old code from 16-bit Windows is still kicking around in Windows 8... things just get ported to the next OS so that they work. Code is only re-written or developed from scratch if it's for new features or the old code was so broken or impossible to port that it had to be re-written.
Plus you can right click on the bottom left corner where the start button used to be a get a pseudo-start menu that still runs some useful things. I wonder if you can customize its contents via the registry or something...
A UK-based website has a very interesting alternative to fractional reserve banking. http://www.positivemoney.org.uk/
We could start by reforming the monetary systems that most countries operate on. Banks essentially get to print money out of thin air and collect interest on it. For more info, see http://www.positivemoney.org.uk/
This is very true and the reasons behind it are pretty well explained in a video on this website: http://www.positivemoney.org.uk/ The same website proposes some interesting solutions to the world's debt-fuelled economies and the ideas merit some consideration.
The link to blaming video games is a link to the previous slashdot article..
Polymorphic and metamorphic malware has been around for years. They're probably seeing a rise in detections simply because of the popularity of a certain malware generation tool or something. You can read about polymorphic and metamorphic malware in a book written by a guy from Symantec that was published in 2005: http://www.amazon.com/Art-Computer-Virus-Research-Defense/dp/0321304543
Also, I hope they have some knowledge of graph theory
Why don't they use one of the many open source social network engines like Elgg or Anahita? Rolling your own engine would require a huge amount of time and support, not to mention security concerns that are hard to avoid and catch without a full support team that you can trust.
I actually kind of like the static menu bars on the top and side. Even on a 900 pixel high monitor in Firefox it doesn't eat up too much space.
She ain't no Zefram Cochrane. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zefram_Cochrane
I wasn't actually being serious.
Should have used <sarcasm> tags for those that need them.
I wonder what this guy would have to say about it http://playstationlifestyle.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/PS3-guy.JPG
My friend moved his 360 while Gears of War was running and it left a huge gash in the disc. He tried playing the game and could only play multiplayer, so he gave it the toothpaste treatment. After that, he could only play single player. Toothpaste again, only multiplayer. After that, he had to toothpaste it depending what he felt like playing.
Which company in Kanata? I was at Mitel and felt it quite a bit.
“I lived in California for four years and this one made me go for the doorway
Thus, an earthquake of the same magnitude in southern British Columbia or California would cause more devastation because of the population density, but would be felt over a far smaller distance.
I was on the 5th floor and felt quite a bit of shaking for about 15 seconds. Good thing I have an old CRT monitor, or I wouldn't have been able to use the computer! I heard the quake caused a tsunami on Stephen Harper's fake lake. Either that or the G20 protesters jumping up and down.
calling his opposition a bunch of losers
I'll explain this one a little more fully. Not long ago, the Liberal, NDP and Bloc parties proposed forming a coalition against Harper's Conservative party (which currently had the most seats, ie. had won the last election). Harper stopped this from happening by suspending Parliament for a while.
As you might know, just recently in England the party that won the election formed a coalition with one of the other parties. During Harper's recent visit to England, he was asked what he thought of England's coalition situation compared to the one he faced in Canada. To this question he replied (don't quote me on this, I'm paraphrasing) something along the lines of "The difference is that your coalition was formed by winners, and that's why it works. In Canada, only losers try to make coalitions, and they fail."
How does this make Canada look in the eyes of the rest of the world? A country led by a presumably responsible and mature adult capable of solving problems by talking through them with the opposition, and compromising so that the highest percentage of the Canadian population is represented? No! By calling his opponents a bunch of losers, it makes him look like a 5-year-old kid on the playground whose argument is that he wins because the other kids are all thumb-and-index-to-the-forehead losers.
I'm glad that the world at least had the recent Olympics to judge Canada by, instead of this leader with the maturity of a spoiled brat.
Canada's not without its right-wing bullshit. Check Google News for some of the things Stephen Harper's been up to lately. Proroguing Parliament twice, calling his opposition a bunch of losers, comparing other MPs to terrorist groups, no presence at the carbon emissions/pollution world summit not long ago, major cuts to arts programs, just to name a few.
No, they would seem safer, but be less safe.
No, they actually would be safer because now that the exploit has been publicly disclosed, a much more vast audience of malicous hackers knows about and can use the exploit. If you assume someone knew about the exploit before (which is a safe assumption), it was probably only a small number of people because I'm sure some hacker isn't going to share something he thinks he's the only one sitting on. While security through obscurity is definitely a bad thing, it's at least somewhat better than having the hole posted for the world to see, getting even more publicity because of the surrounding debate on the subject.
I disagree that Blu-ray is going to die off. With all the DRM-laden media available for purchase online and this stupid C-61 copyright bill coming up in Canada that will probably make torrent illegal somehow, I'd much rather be able to purchase something I can physically hold in my hands and keep, to be able to play at any time on my Blu-ray player. Also don't have to worry whether my bandwidth can handle streaming HD or not, be it the internet connection or the home router, or my PC itself.
I completely agree with Anonymous Coward. Also, it's not being spineless if our country stands up to international pressure rather than bowing to it at the expense of the average Canadian. As a country, we can have whatever copyright laws we feel apply to our own people. If our laws adversely affect the economy or political views of other countries, it's up to them to make laws that control their own population, not to pressure us to hurt our own population to satisfy their needs.
While placing a function's return address right next to its local variables and arguments on the stack is kind of a dumb idea, there are many higher-level security issues to work out that aren't specific to x86. For example, phishing, cross-site scripting, input validation, side-channel attacks, in-band attacks, and the fact that it's safe to assume the user is an idiot that will click on anything he's told to. The list goes on.
I happened to be looking up "DNS Failover" on Wikipedia at the time of the DNS failure