the only way to predict it is to calculate it from the beginning. You couldn't say, give me the next number following 5873465097. I could give you a run of any length from any point within the digit stream of pi and there is no way you could tell me the next number (short of me starting from the first digit).
Don't forget that the personalization extended to the housing system too (eventually). Building the very walls, floor and windows any way you wanted within the frame of your plot of land. All the games give you today is the exact same house-shell as everything else (or the ability to pick from something like 5 different shells), and you get to put furniture where you want. I've never seen anything with a housing system that comes close to what UO had.
People can't be scared of things they aren't aware of. Most people aren't aware of much the government is doing these days. Governments passing laws to control people so much seems to indicate that the government is scared of the people and is trying to regain control. Oddly enough it seems we are in the situation of government fearing the people more that the people fearing the government. So that means... We have Liberty?
However (in a perfect world), if MS validated the files before patching/updating them, the user could be warned of their infection before their machine gets trashed.
Root kits are designed to hide their presence from the operating system. They can hook file system calls and return what looks like the proper version of the file to anything trying to read it. Once something is hooked into the machine at a low enough level the only way to detect it would be to boot from non infected start up disk and scan the infected volume.
It's pretty easy to fault them for not taking a checksum before they patch to ensure that the file isn't modified. If it is, warn the user.
root kits go to great lengths to hide. They could very well intercept the calls to read the infected file and return the correct version, which would result in an MD5 sum that looks perfectly valid.
Water supplies in the US and around the world are being contaminated to unsafe levels by industrial waste, agricultural runoff and mining effluent on a daily basis. Nobody cares until Intel can't use it to make chips? Slashdot is a strange place....
Nobody cares because the only pollution that matters any more is Carbon.
that these compounds are known to be toxic to various other organisms. Rather than blindly trust the company who's making a profit selling the stuff, perhaps we ought to test whether they're toxic to us too. Sure, insects are different from humans. But rats are considerably closer to us in their anatomy and physiology, and it looks like there's evidence that it's harmful to them too. And your response is that we should just take Monsanto's word that there's nothing to see here?
Not at all. I was just pointing out to the orriginal poster who stated that if something is harmful to insects we should just assume it's harmful to people also. I think Mansanto is just about as evil a company as they come, but that doesn't make GM Crops automatically bad. Just as there are natural fruits and plants out there that will kill you if you eat them. A GM plant is like a different species of plant, it needs to be tested from an unbiased perspective, not assumed good or bad.
If it kills insects when they eat it, then why would it be at all surprising if it was bad for rats or humans too?
If you spray an insect with water containing soap you will kill it too, are you going to stop taking baths? Salt has some rather nasty effects on slugs, so you better get rid of that. Insects are different that humans.
Does that include using Van Eck phreaking to duplicate your computer display? Or wifi snooping? What about monitoring the reflections of the sun off your windows and filtering for the minute vibrations in the glass caused by speech? Some of us prefer to live in homes rather than windowless faraday cages.
Yes it does. If you are going to throw radiation into public places, and into people's very bodies don't expect it to be private.
that depends on how you define wiretap. Physically bugging the phone = not ok. intercepting the signal off the phone network's wire = not ok. standing in a public place using an antenna that receives only = fine.
The protocol that the cell phone uses should be strong enough using encryption that just capturing the raw EM radiation doesnt allow you to listen in. If you are going to send a signal into my house (or even inside a police station),I should be able to use that EM radiation in any way I see fit. Afterall, you are the one sending a signal in to my property, once you do that you arent in control of it any more.
If your house is emitting any kind of radiations (EM, visible light, radio, sound, whatever), then anyone who can receive that radiation while standing in a public place should be able to use it as long as it's just passivly receiving.
In the context of the orriginal post I don't see the difference.
If a person understands and is capable of implementing something, of course it can be used in a program, regardless of the open of closed nature of the standard. If it's closed it may be harder to gain that understanding, but once the understanding is gained it can be used.
1) Open standards can be understood and used by anyone/any program that implements them, and
2) Closed standards are locked down and hidden by the vendor that created them, forcing you to use their software?
Technically Closed standards can be understood and used by anyone/any program that implements them too. There are plenty of libraries out that that can read and write locked down file formats, such as the Biff-8 fileformat that used to be used by Excel.
I just don't think that volunteering to take your hand out of the cookie jar when someone catches you qualifies as doing anything to further the position they are in.
You don't think this cost them anything? They suspended thier beta, losing any time and money spent on that so far. It's cost them bad press, and riled up the anti-microsoft crowd even more.
I just did a search for.conf files here on my linux box. Im seeing files in/etc sure, but there are also files in/usr,/usr/share,/usr/local,/usr/src,/usr/libexec,/var/spool. I'm sure some of them arent active configu files, but that's still a LOT of different locations.
This is a pretty much default install of Mandriva.
Sorry, I like the windows registry better. It's centralized, and editable in a consitant way, with decent tools. I know there is a *chance* of corruption, but I honestly can't remember the last time thats happened, i know it was before XP, probably windows 98 or even 95 era.
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the only way to predict it is to calculate it from the beginning. You couldn't say, give me the next number following 5873465097. I could give you a run of any length from any point within the digit stream of pi and there is no way you could tell me the next number (short of me starting from the first digit).
pi?
Not exactly.
He SAID they told him it was objectionable content.
Don't forget that the personalization extended to the housing system too (eventually). Building the very walls, floor and windows any way you wanted within the frame of your plot of land. All the games give you today is the exact same house-shell as everything else (or the ability to pick from something like 5 different shells), and you get to put furniture where you want. I've never seen anything with a housing system that comes close to what UO had.
People can't be scared of things they aren't aware of. Most people aren't aware of much the government is doing these days.
Governments passing laws to control people so much seems to indicate that the government is scared of the people and is trying to regain control.
Oddly enough it seems we are in the situation of government fearing the people more that the people fearing the government. So that means... We have Liberty?
Root kits are designed to hide their presence from the operating system. They can hook file system calls and return what looks like the proper version of the file to anything trying to read it. Once something is hooked into the machine at a low enough level the only way to detect it would be to boot from non infected start up disk and scan the infected volume.
root kits go to great lengths to hide. They could very well intercept the calls to read the infected file and return the correct version, which would result in an MD5 sum that looks perfectly valid.
How are you going to poststratify the gnomon clatch that way?
I use a hammer for that.
Water supplies in the US and around the world are being contaminated to unsafe levels by industrial waste, agricultural runoff and mining effluent on a daily basis.
Nobody cares until Intel can't use it to make chips? Slashdot is a strange place....
Nobody cares because the only pollution that matters any more is Carbon.
No, the operating system's job is to manage memory allocation, physical devices, and manage scheduling of threads and processes.
Not on contact.
OK, but I want half now, and the other half after.
Not at all. I was just pointing out to the orriginal poster who stated that if something is harmful to insects we should just assume it's harmful to people also. I think Mansanto is just about as evil a company as they come, but that doesn't make GM Crops automatically bad. Just as there are natural fruits and plants out there that will kill you if you eat them. A GM plant is like a different species of plant, it needs to be tested from an unbiased perspective, not assumed good or bad.
If you spray an insect with water containing soap you will kill it too, are you going to stop taking baths? Salt has some rather nasty effects on slugs, so you better get rid of that. Insects are different that humans.
Sounds like one of the Rules of Acquisition.
Yes it does. If you are going to throw radiation into public places, and into people's very bodies don't expect it to be private.
that depends on how you define wiretap.
Physically bugging the phone = not ok.
intercepting the signal off the phone network's wire = not ok.
standing in a public place using an antenna that receives only = fine.
The protocol that the cell phone uses should be strong enough using encryption that just capturing the raw EM radiation doesnt allow you to listen in.
If you are going to send a signal into my house (or even inside a police station),I should be able to use that EM radiation in any way I see fit. Afterall, you are the one sending a signal in to my property, once you do that you arent in control of it any more.
If your house is emitting any kind of radiations (EM, visible light, radio, sound, whatever), then anyone who can receive that radiation while standing in a public place should be able to use it as long as it's just passivly receiving.
Please, explain the difference in the context of the orriginal post that I replied to.
In the context of the orriginal post I don't see the difference.
If a person understands and is capable of implementing something, of course it can be used in a program, regardless of the open of closed nature of the standard. If it's closed it may be harder to gain that understanding, but once the understanding is gained it can be used.
Technically Closed standards can be understood and used by anyone/any program that implements them too.
There are plenty of libraries out that that can read and write locked down file formats, such as the Biff-8 fileformat that used to be used by Excel.
The fact that its a good gaming system.
You don't think this cost them anything? They suspended thier beta, losing any time and money spent on that so far. It's cost them bad press, and riled up the anti-microsoft crowd even more.
Memento was the opposite problem, wasnt it? Long term memory intact, no short term memory.
I just did a search for .conf files here on my linux box. Im seeing files in /etc sure, but there are also files in /usr, /usr/share, /usr/local, /usr/src, /usr/libexec, /var/spool. I'm sure some of them arent active configu files, but that's still a LOT of different locations.
This is a pretty much default install of Mandriva.
Sorry, I like the windows registry better. It's centralized, and editable in a consitant way, with decent tools. I know there is a *chance* of corruption, but I honestly can't remember the last time thats happened, i know it was before XP, probably windows 98 or even 95 era.