look up public key cryptography. It basicly works using a pair of keys. things encrypted with one key can can only be decrypted with the other key.
So i want to send a message to you. I lookup your public key, encrypt using it. only someone with the private key can read it, which should only be you.
How about developers who need to write vista applications that talk to databases? It helps to have a locally running copy of SQL server if you are disconnected from the network so that you can still work.
And it was later shown that they were wrong, and that it could be removed from the system. You can't have it both ways. Either it's part of the OS or it's not.
You're totally right, for a laptop to be called "turned off", there shouldn't be a *single* electron moving inside it...
Doesn't that violate physics? The electrons are sort of always moving in matter. Does that mean a rock is "Turned On" because it contains moving electrons?
You do realize thats for a commercial connection? Compare that to a T1, $500 a month for a measly 1.5mb. $230 a month gets you 2mb up, 30mb down. I'll take that any day over a T1
the.net compiler has ALWAYS been available for free as part of the.NET SDK. you don't get Visual Studio with it, but you can compile and make your own.net applications for free, without paying for any software.
no it's not. It's the goverment's money. It doesn't belong to you any more. It was exchanged for services provided by the goverment, ie. roads, police, and military. Do you still call it your money after you buy gas, and the gas station uses that money to buy other things?
The first thoughts that came to my head were these. "Can it be jammed so it doesn't fire?" "What happens if some random radio noise hits and and set it off?" "What happens if you aim enough random radio noise at say, an ammo supply room, that could potentially be bad."
does the place where a devided highway crosses another road count as 2 bridges? since each lane has a seperate bridge I'm guessing they would count that as 2.
Do you have any idea how much this would cost the government, corporations, and small businesses? All their support would instantly vanish, they would all have to do a massive retool of almost every piece of software they own, or have developed independently. Doing what you propose would decimate the US economy. If you thought the unemployment of Tech people after the internet bubble burst was bad, your idea would cause an utter nightmare.
There are bigger issues here to consider then a few people's hate for Microsoft.
The problem is that they are NOT opening up a faster lane and charging money to use it. They are artificially slowing down all the other lanes, and charging special rates to access the orriginal speeds.
Someone broke into my friend's car once, and snagged 2 $9 wallmart tennis rackets and a pack of 3 tennis balls. They left to $350 watch and stereo equipment that was just sitting lose in the back seat too.
Yeah... but it's implemented as an ActiveX control... so scratch "from your browser" and make that "from IE".
Umm... NO, read the artical linked. Read the snpped section below and note how it specificly says "No ActiveX".
So what happened, exactly, to get the spreadsheet in the browser? Behind the scenes, Excel Services opened the file the sales analyst saved to SharePoint, refreshed any external data in the spreadsheet, calculated any formulas, and rendered the results in the browser. Specifically, Excel services sends only DHTML to the browser (no ActiveX), so the sales manager could be using any modern browser. The result is a very high-fidelity version of the analysis that the sales manager can interact with in the browser or, if they have permissions to do so, open up back in Excel. One point I want to make clear is that Excel 12 is the authoring tool for spreadsheets that run on Excel Services.
Up until now it wasn't just a driver issue. It was an instruction set issue. The CPU's spoke a different language. Now that they all speak x86 it getting much closer to being just a matter of drivers.
buffer overflows mainly work by flowing onto the stack so that when a function call returns it doesn't jump back to where it was called from, instead it jumps to the address pushed into the stack by the exploit. Think of it as a sort of "runtime patching". The exploited program is actually having aditional code added to it. it could be almost anything. Because the executing code is actually part of the program it is running with the same privs as that program. ie, a mail client which has permission to write to the home directory has been "patched" to erease all the files in that directory.
Buffer overflows work when a section of memory for say, a string has been reserved for something like 100 bytes. If there is a bug in the program logic that allows a 125 byte sequence to be written into that 100 byte buffer then 25 bytes will be written PAST the point that was reserved for it. If the buffer is right before the stack address then 25 bytes jsut got written into the program stack. If the programmer is good enough they can use that to insert some arbitrary code and the CPU jsut follows it because it doesn't know any better.
A buffer overflow in something like the mail reader program which has permission to write to your home directory would be able to wipe out all of your documents.
Code could still run that ereases all the files in the user's home directory. To a normal user thats just as bad as the system getting trashed because they just lost EVERYTHING they care about.
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I can read NTFS drives just fine from Linux.
look up public key cryptography. It basicly works using a pair of keys. things encrypted with one key can can only be decrypted with the other key.
So i want to send a message to you. I lookup your public key, encrypt using it. only someone with the private key can read it, which should only be you.
How about developers who need to write vista applications that talk to databases? It helps to have a locally running copy of SQL server if you are disconnected from the network so that you can still work.
And it was later shown that they were wrong, and that it could be removed from the system. You can't have it both ways. Either it's part of the OS or it's not.
Sorry, but if it comes on the installation CD for the OS then the general public considers it to be part of the OS.
If you don't want to count those bugs, then you can't count bugs in IE as belonging to windows, because it was proven that IE isn't part of the OS.
Doesn't that violate physics? The electrons are sort of always moving in matter. Does that mean a rock is "Turned On" because it contains moving electrons?
You do realize thats for a commercial connection? Compare that to a T1, $500 a month for a measly 1.5mb. $230 a month gets you 2mb up, 30mb down. I'll take that any day over a T1
The also offer a very reasonably priced FiOS business service for running servers. My company is extreamly happy with the service.
the .net compiler has ALWAYS been available for free as part of the .NET SDK. you don't get Visual Studio with it, but you can compile and make your own .net applications for free, without paying for any software.
no it's not. It's the goverment's money. It doesn't belong to you any more. It was exchanged for services provided by the goverment, ie. roads, police, and military. Do you still call it your money after you buy gas, and the gas station uses that money to buy other things?
Riiiiight... Because a Firefox patch has never introduced a new bug into the system that would be patched in the next update.
or Aqua Man
The first thoughts that came to my head were these.
"Can it be jammed so it doesn't fire?"
"What happens if some random radio noise hits and and set it off?"
"What happens if you aim enough random radio noise at say, an ammo supply room, that could potentially be bad."
does the place where a devided highway crosses another road count as 2 bridges? since each lane has a seperate bridge I'm guessing they would count that as 2.
Do you have any idea how much this would cost the government, corporations, and small businesses? All their support would instantly vanish, they would all have to do a massive retool of almost every piece of software they own, or have developed independently. Doing what you propose would decimate the US economy. If you thought the unemployment of Tech people after the internet bubble burst was bad, your idea would cause an utter nightmare.
There are bigger issues here to consider then a few people's hate for Microsoft.
The problem is that they are NOT opening up a faster lane and charging money to use it. They are artificially slowing down all the other lanes, and charging special rates to access the orriginal speeds.
Maby because it's not illegal?
Someone broke into my friend's car once, and snagged 2 $9 wallmart tennis rackets and a pack of 3 tennis balls. They left to $350 watch and stereo equipment that was just sitting lose in the back seat too.
Wow, we better get rid of all those in-plane TVs then too.
Umm... NO, read the artical linked. Read the snpped section below and note how it specificly says "No ActiveX".
So what happened, exactly, to get the spreadsheet in the browser? Behind the scenes, Excel Services opened the file the sales analyst saved to SharePoint, refreshed any external data in the spreadsheet, calculated any formulas, and rendered the results in the browser. Specifically, Excel services sends only DHTML to the browser (no ActiveX), so the sales manager could be using any modern browser. The result is a very high-fidelity version of the analysis that the sales manager can interact with in the browser or, if they have permissions to do so, open up back in Excel. One point I want to make clear is that Excel 12 is the authoring tool for spreadsheets that run on Excel Services.
Up until now it wasn't just a driver issue. It was an instruction set issue. The CPU's spoke a different language. Now that they all speak x86 it getting much closer to being just a matter of drivers.
buffer overflows mainly work by flowing onto the stack so that when a function call returns it doesn't jump back to where it was called from, instead it jumps to the address pushed into the stack by the exploit. Think of it as a sort of "runtime patching". The exploited program is actually having aditional code added to it. it could be almost anything. Because the executing code is actually part of the program it is running with the same privs as that program. ie, a mail client which has permission to write to the home directory has been "patched" to erease all the files in that directory.
Buffer overflows work when a section of memory for say, a string has been reserved for something like 100 bytes. If there is a bug in the program logic that allows a 125 byte sequence to be written into that 100 byte buffer then 25 bytes will be written PAST the point that was reserved for it. If the buffer is right before the stack address then 25 bytes jsut got written into the program stack. If the programmer is good enough they can use that to insert some arbitrary code and the CPU jsut follows it because it doesn't know any better.
A buffer overflow in something like the mail reader program which has permission to write to your home directory would be able to wipe out all of your documents.
Code could still run that ereases all the files in the user's home directory. To a normal user thats just as bad as the system getting trashed because they just lost EVERYTHING they care about.
Wouldn't a non-portable GPS be kinda pointless? I'm seeing a big rock with "You are here" carved on it.