I was under the impression that a rootkit was only supposed to be undetectable from _within_ the system. i.e. Overwriting ls with your version that hides your secret malicious files. Pulling out hard drives and placing them inside of other systems would not be a reasonable method of rootkit detection.
His argument is basically a rehash of Mark Twain's http://www.bpmlegal.com/twain.html. It's ideas are nearly as antiquated. It's insistence that the removal of copyright only benefits the publishers, and Booksamillions of the world belays a fundamental misunderstanding of the ease in which Intellectual property can be reproduced in the digital age. If I want to read a book in the public domain, I don't buy it marked up from some corporation. I download it legally for free. If the book industry ever figured out digital distribution the value of public domain works would fall completely for the public and would not benefit publishers. Which is one of the many reasons digital book distribution is rare and underdeveloped.
Unfortunately, there is no way a standards organization can force Microsoft into doing anything. Microsoft's bloat and lack of agility has made accepting any change very expensive for them. There going to fight these standards or implement them half assed. The more ubiquitous the web becomes the less relevant their large proprietary operating systems become. Vast improvements in Firefox and opera's market share is the only way Microsoft will adopt any web standards.
Good games will often take these brick wall scenario's in mind. For example, in halo, after wandering around aimlessly for half an hour a way point will lead you in the right direction. Other games will ask if you want to reduced the difficulty after you died 10 - twenty times. Brick walls in games is just laziness on the part of the developers. There was a great article earlier this week on slashdot http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/24/ 1821238 that asked whether mathematical tuning made games better, in my opinion, Yes.
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My cell already lasts a week, but I think that's because no one calls
US federal minimum wage = $5.85 $5.85 * 3 times = $17.55 And this is under the assumption that you only make minimum wage.
I was under the impression that a rootkit was only supposed to be undetectable from _within_ the system. i.e. Overwriting ls with your version that hides your secret malicious files. Pulling out hard drives and placing them inside of other systems would not be a reasonable method of rootkit detection.
His argument is basically a rehash of Mark Twain's http://www.bpmlegal.com/twain.html. It's ideas are nearly as antiquated. It's insistence that the removal of copyright only benefits the publishers, and Booksamillions of the world belays a fundamental misunderstanding of the ease in which Intellectual property can be reproduced in the digital age. If I want to read a book in the public domain, I don't buy it marked up from some corporation. I download it legally for free. If the book industry ever figured out digital distribution the value of public domain works would fall completely for the public and would not benefit publishers. Which is one of the many reasons digital book distribution is rare and underdeveloped.
"I disagree with what you are saying, but I would fight to the death to defend your right to say it."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_Zero/ Halo zero
Maybe, but any reduction in the number of infected PCs is win for the entire net.
Unfortunately, there is no way a standards organization can force Microsoft into doing anything. Microsoft's bloat and lack of agility has made accepting any change very expensive for them. There going to fight these standards or implement them half assed. The more ubiquitous the web becomes the less relevant their large proprietary operating systems become. Vast improvements in Firefox and opera's market share is the only way Microsoft will adopt any web standards.
Good games will often take these brick wall scenario's in mind. For example, in halo, after wandering around aimlessly for half an hour a way point will lead you in the right direction. Other games will ask if you want to reduced the difficulty after you died 10 - twenty times. Brick walls in games is just laziness on the part of the developers. There was a great article earlier this week on slashdot http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/24/ 1821238 that asked whether mathematical tuning made games better, in my opinion, Yes.