Sure they send your IP address and your browser details, and all file name extensions, all URLs visited w/Parental Controls enabled, all PnP devices installed (so your complete hardware specs), your Games folder(?!) etc. I'm not sure what else gets sent but from the list they provided I'm sure there's plenty more.
Activation, Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP), Device Manager, Driver Protection, Dynamic Update, Event Viewer, File Association Web Service, Games Folder, Error Reporting for Handwriting Recognition, Input Method Editor (IME), Installation Improvement Program, Internet Printing, Internet Protocol version 6 Network Address Translation Traversal, Network Awareness (somewhat), Parental Controls, Peer Name Resolution Service, Plug and Play, Plug and Play Extensions, Program Compatibility Assistant, Program Properties--Compatibility Tab, Program Compatibility Wizard, Properties, Registration, Rights Management Services (RMS) Client, Update Root Certificates, Windows Control Panel, Windows Help, Windows Mail (only with Windows Live Mail, Hotmail, or MSN Mail) and Windows Problem Reporting are the main features and services in Windows Vista that collect and transmit user data to Microsoft.
Yeah, it was just rebadged West End if my memory serves correctly. I drank a carton and I'm happy enough to have just experienced the stale taste of Duff beer before my taste for the Simpsons went stale.
Well we don't even know in any certain manner that the cosmic background radiation is anything but a localized event, say a still-dissipating nearby supernova or hitherto unknown stellar phenomena. The big bang theory doesn't hinge on background radiation though, we just use it to estimate the age of the universe. There are many other factors contributing to the theory of the origin of the universe though, so even if it drops below ambient levels it won't hinder other avenues of approach on the big bang theory.
"But how did you get there in the first place then?"
"Easy, I got a lift with a teaser."
"A teaser?"
"Yeah."
"Er, what is..."
"A teaser? Teasers are usually rich kids with nothing to do. They cruise around looking for planets which haven't made interstellar contact yet and buzz them."
"Buzz them?" Arthur began to feel that Ford was enjoying making life difficult for him.
"Yeah", said Ford, "they buzz them. They find some isolated spot with very few people around, then land right by some poor soul whom no one's ever going to believe and then strut up and down in front of him wearing silly antennae on their heads and making beep beep noises. Rather childish really."
Ecosystems aren't just pretty, their vital to our very existence and future as a species. It's not a question of utility - instead it highlights the fact that even the most remote ecosystems suffer great damage from unsustainable practices.
Well now we know that CPU usage is an indicator of the rootkit, a detector shouldn't be too hard. Thanks author of the undetectable rootkit for telling us how to detect it!
Murder is murder, even if you are killing a serial killer. Kill three serial killers and you become one. Who knows - perhaps these guys were framed as serial killers. There's good reason why the courts do not respect vigilante actions.
Thanks for the detailed response. I was hoping for an Insightful or Informative, but I guess my italicization made the post too funny or something. Unfortunately, you just proved the GP's point - almost everything you listed was a bungled and failed attempt at assassination. Not that they didn't try their best, but still they aren't very good at it.
Well basically you had a set of coprocessors Agnus, Paula and Denise.
Agnus was the memory controller chip (like the Sun chip), and had the blitter and copper which had independent access to the I/O bus and main+video memory (well video memory for the screen you were using could be anywhere in ram, allowing simple double buffering etc.) The copper has a simplified instruction set (move, wait and skip) and was tied to raster timings and good for screen effects while the blitter did blitting, and you could perform logic operations from 3 inputs and polygon fills. All the processors including the CPU go through Agnus to get to memory.
Denise is the video chip, and also handled the mouse/joystick ports. It was quite advanced for its day, with up to 64 colours(!) out of a 12 bit colour palette, and supported 8 sprites with collision detection (you could in fact use dozens of sprites by changing the pointers inbetween horizontal scanlines, the limit was only 8 sprites per scanline)
Paula was the sound chip with 4 channels, stereo output and a decent sampling rate (>22khz) and handled the other I/O (disk, serial port etc.).
So yeah, you could use the blitter (Agnus) to read from the floppy controller (Paula) to video memory while the cpu did something useful.
Most lawsuits would be a waste of time, as these scum are just fronts for the farmers, who would be difficult to implicate in a lawsuit. The farmers wouldn't stop, they'd just move to the next fence. They do have complete jurisdiction on their servers though, and it seems that's the best place to exact justice via mass bannings. Still, all the banning in the world won't stop the black market, it seems an EvE style solution of creating a legitimate market is a better way to reduce the black market economy, if not eliminate it entirely.
You have it all backwards.
Lower class people may have a hard time defending themselves, but, they also have very little to lose.
Actually, they have the most to lose, because they will almost certainly lose the little they have.
Middle class people have something to lose, but most live little better than paycheck-2-paycheck. Very few have savings. Most are already heavily in debt.
Another few thousand of debt could easily be enough to relegate them to lower class status.
The upper class have much to lose, but have no real reason to fight. Better to write a check and do away with the whole mess than to pay a lawyer.
They have the least to lose, so they eat the loss and go on their merry way.
Those who have little, treasure what little they have more than any other.
It should be their choice, yet if euthanasia was legal you would see parents, legal guardians and next of kin attempting to make this choice for others, and more than likely succeeding. This is my biggest problem with legalized murder, even if it starts with only self-murder it won't be that way for long.
But platform code that is obtained from a third party vendor should be acceptable provided that it is widely used as a general purpose platform and there is a reliable demonstration that the code has not been modified.
Like, for instance, providing the source code for analysis?
I'd say yes. While it is still trivial to pirate games for the PC with the right tools, it is much more difficult for the consoles. Still, I'd think the levels of piracy would be comparable in percentage terms, but in volume music would win out.
That said, the music industry has had a couple of surges in widespread piracy, first cassette tapes then downloads. The games industry has a rapid turnover of both protection mechanisms and the titles themselves, making it much more difficult to pirate during the few months that a game is popular after release.
Music has a greater timeless quality, while most games are fairly transient. Piracy of 20+ year old games is much less an issue than piracy of 20+ year old music. (especially now that most works will never enter the public domain *sigh*)
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Looks like a lot more data than an IP address.
Yeah, it was just rebadged West End if my memory serves correctly. I drank a carton and I'm happy enough to have just experienced the stale taste of Duff beer before my taste for the Simpsons went stale.
Well we don't even know in any certain manner that the cosmic background radiation is anything but a localized event, say a still-dissipating nearby supernova or hitherto unknown stellar phenomena. The big bang theory doesn't hinge on background radiation though, we just use it to estimate the age of the universe. There are many other factors contributing to the theory of the origin of the universe though, so even if it drops below ambient levels it won't hinder other avenues of approach on the big bang theory.
"But how did you get there in the first place then?"
"Easy, I got a lift with a teaser."
"A teaser?"
"Yeah."
"Er, what is..."
"A teaser? Teasers are usually rich kids with nothing to do. They cruise around looking for planets which haven't made interstellar contact yet and buzz them."
"Buzz them?" Arthur began to feel that Ford was enjoying making life difficult for him.
"Yeah", said Ford, "they buzz them. They find some isolated spot with very few people around, then land right by some poor soul whom no one's ever going to believe and then strut up and down in front of him wearing silly antennae on their heads and making beep beep noises. Rather childish really."
Ecosystems aren't just pretty, their vital to our very existence and future as a species. It's not a question of utility - instead it highlights the fact that even the most remote ecosystems suffer great damage from unsustainable practices.
I'm glad I could be of help.
Well now we know that CPU usage is an indicator of the rootkit, a detector shouldn't be too hard. Thanks author of the undetectable rootkit for telling us how to detect it!
Murder is murder, even if you are killing a serial killer. Kill three serial killers and you become one. Who knows - perhaps these guys were framed as serial killers. There's good reason why the courts do not respect vigilante actions.
Well most of those would be no fun, where the winning move is to own ICBM nukes while your opponent doesn't.
Entirely appropriate for a security comparison.
Thanks for the detailed response. I was hoping for an Insightful or Informative, but I guess my italicization made the post too funny or something. Unfortunately, you just proved the GP's point - almost everything you listed was a bungled and failed attempt at assassination. Not that they didn't try their best, but still they aren't very good at it.
When did 9/11 take place?
Agnus was the memory controller chip (like the Sun chip), and had the blitter and copper which had independent access to the I/O bus and main+video memory (well video memory for the screen you were using could be anywhere in ram, allowing simple double buffering etc.) The copper has a simplified instruction set (move, wait and skip) and was tied to raster timings and good for screen effects while the blitter did blitting, and you could perform logic operations from 3 inputs and polygon fills. All the processors including the CPU go through Agnus to get to memory.
Denise is the video chip, and also handled the mouse/joystick ports. It was quite advanced for its day, with up to 64 colours(!) out of a 12 bit colour palette, and supported 8 sprites with collision detection (you could in fact use dozens of sprites by changing the pointers inbetween horizontal scanlines, the limit was only 8 sprites per scanline)
Paula was the sound chip with 4 channels, stereo output and a decent sampling rate (>22khz) and handled the other I/O (disk, serial port etc.).
So yeah, you could use the blitter (Agnus) to read from the floppy controller (Paula) to video memory while the cpu did something useful.
Most lawsuits would be a waste of time, as these scum are just fronts for the farmers, who would be difficult to implicate in a lawsuit. The farmers wouldn't stop, they'd just move to the next fence. They do have complete jurisdiction on their servers though, and it seems that's the best place to exact justice via mass bannings. Still, all the banning in the world won't stop the black market, it seems an EvE style solution of creating a legitimate market is a better way to reduce the black market economy, if not eliminate it entirely.
If you can't see the benefit for Sun to have widespread cross platform software available, you aren't looking.
Touché.
Yeah, they just use the FAIRPLY one instead.
Did you hear from those responsible though? The ones who are quiet are the ones behind this project, not third party journalists.
Actually, they have the most to lose, because they will almost certainly lose the little they have.
Middle class people have something to lose, but most live little better than paycheck-2-paycheck. Very few have savings. Most are already heavily in debt.Another few thousand of debt could easily be enough to relegate them to lower class status.
The upper class have much to lose, but have no real reason to fight. Better to write a check and do away with the whole mess than to pay a lawyer.They have the least to lose, so they eat the loss and go on their merry way.
Those who have little, treasure what little they have more than any other.
So you have an imaginary social life too? Oh wait, this is Slashdot...
It should be their choice, yet if euthanasia was legal you would see parents, legal guardians and next of kin attempting to make this choice for others, and more than likely succeeding. This is my biggest problem with legalized murder, even if it starts with only self-murder it won't be that way for long.
Like, for instance, providing the source code for analysis?
You see, the role of the CIA is to assassinate foreign heads of state. It's the NSA and FBI files you're after.
That said, the music industry has had a couple of surges in widespread piracy, first cassette tapes then downloads. The games industry has a rapid turnover of both protection mechanisms and the titles themselves, making it much more difficult to pirate during the few months that a game is popular after release.
Music has a greater timeless quality, while most games are fairly transient. Piracy of 20+ year old games is much less an issue than piracy of 20+ year old music. (especially now that most works will never enter the public domain *sigh*)
Rating a snuff simulator Adults Only has nothing to do with Bibles. Anyway, if you are not a minor then nothing is 'on' your game anyway.