Although I agree that any critical application should be using ECC RAM the vast majority of desktops do not. The vast majority of RAM out there from the very low end to the very high end come in non-ECC versions, a memory fault every few days doesn't justify to cost and loss of performance to me and too most people.
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When was the last time USA did anything for the UN? Other then tearing down the whole thing and turning it all into a meaningless charade that is? For a good comparison look at Microsofts involvement with ISO.
I would suspect it's because the service is put their with the intention that you will use torrent through it and thus their bandwith costs are going to be significantly higher.
I'm a Canadian and I download music and movies, I do buy blank media but I don't buy it for moral justice, I buy it because I need somewhere to put the movies and music. I don't NEED to settle my morals because frankly I don't give a shit. I'm around when some of my friends watch those paparazzi shows and if Hollywood can afford those clowns ridiculous lifestyle then it can sure as hell afford my free copy of Watchmen.
I think most slashdotters can understand the implications of what happens when an application running as root get compromised. Those that don't probably work at Microsoft:-).
It's also very unclear what constitutes "pwned". Even reading the rules, "code execution in the context of the application" or something... Does that mean these exploits are actually usable to do something malicious, or do they just, say, crash the browser?
Seems pretty cut and dry to me, it means they were able to inject their own code into the processes memory and get it too execute. So no privilege escalation but you can now do whatever said application would theoretically been able to do.
Well yes and no, it's like safe building. You can get a very, very, very expensive safe that will take the best man in the world 100 hours to break through or you can get a cheaper one thta my only take a reasonably skilled person 12 hours to open. But the bigger question about these ATMs is why do they need so much hardware? They should be little more then a microcontrolelr then encrypts and decrypts data to and from a mainframe. No fancy videos, hard drives, high speed internet links. if they break in then so what? Sure, there's the cash that's unavoidable but how is the thing going to steal card numbers and send them out when there's not even enough RAM for them.
When a Cessna loses it's engine the plnae still glides quite nicely and the pilot can simply look for a nearby field, road or even a patch of water in a pinch. when a 747 loses it's engines it goes down fast and landing on a field or small rural road isn't an option for them.
I remeber a time before package managers, before Ubuntu, before wikis. When it was you, a partially working kernel, all the uncompiled source code you could imagine and an encyclopedias worth of READMEs. Yes, it took me 3 goddamn days to compile the ALSA modules and tools and get them to play nice with my kernel on my P1-133 machine.
No, steal a CD from Walmart and then if someone asks you for 1 second clip of that song you say "sure" and give it too them. That's an apples to apples comparison.
Also, don't expect energy to stay cheap. Fossil fuels are obviously finite.
Did you skip the Article AND Summary? Well let me remidn you, this discussion is about the implications of Fusion power. Dwell on that one of a while my freind.
Exactly, a planets distance from the sun is a far more tolerant variable then its atmospheric makeup whent its comes to habitability, and not only makeup but pressure too, we can actually only survive for a long term within a very small range.
You can definetly move a prosthetic eye, focus is a different matter but I suspect it would be one of the easier things to do given that it's just a matter of finding which nerve went too the muscle.
Doom, C&C, Total Annhialation were all big ones for me. UT was pretty huge. Oh and Starcraft should be pretty close to the top. C&C I think was one of the big games that brought the RTS to the world. And TA is an RTS which I still don't think is matched to this day.
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I personally prefer YY/M/SS/D/L/Y/UX/MD/Y.
Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
Although I agree that any critical application should be using ECC RAM the vast majority of desktops do not. The vast majority of RAM out there from the very low end to the very high end come in non-ECC versions, a memory fault every few days doesn't justify to cost and loss of performance to me and too most people.
When was the last time USA did anything for the UN? Other then tearing down the whole thing and turning it all into a meaningless charade that is? For a good comparison look at Microsofts involvement with ISO.
I think it's time we all went too bed, I had to read your post 3 times before I realized what you were talkign about.
I would suspect it's because the service is put their with the intention that you will use torrent through it and thus their bandwith costs are going to be significantly higher.
Given that compiz-fusion came late in the game I think you'll find you're talking out of your ass again.
Well that somewhat makes sense, I might have gotten that if it wasn't for a lack of sleep.
What on earth was the point of abbreviating the word keys and then explaining said abbriviation in a post that barely qualifies as a sentence?
And designed it to be an ultra-thin portable aphrodisiac.........
Those are mutually exclusive you know.
I'm a Canadian and I download music and movies, I do buy blank media but I don't buy it for moral justice, I buy it because I need somewhere to put the movies and music. I don't NEED to settle my morals because frankly I don't give a shit. I'm around when some of my friends watch those paparazzi shows and if Hollywood can afford those clowns ridiculous lifestyle then it can sure as hell afford my free copy of Watchmen.
I think most slashdotters can understand the implications of what happens when an application running as root get compromised. Those that don't probably work at Microsoft :-).
It's also very unclear what constitutes "pwned". Even reading the rules, "code execution in the context of the application" or something... Does that mean these exploits are actually usable to do something malicious, or do they just, say, crash the browser?
Seems pretty cut and dry to me, it means they were able to inject their own code into the processes memory and get it too execute. So no privilege escalation but you can now do whatever said application would theoretically been able to do.
Why the fuck is this not tagged Wirehead yet?
Well yes and no, it's like safe building. You can get a very, very, very expensive safe that will take the best man in the world 100 hours to break through or you can get a cheaper one thta my only take a reasonably skilled person 12 hours to open. But the bigger question about these ATMs is why do they need so much hardware? They should be little more then a microcontrolelr then encrypts and decrypts data to and from a mainframe. No fancy videos, hard drives, high speed internet links. if they break in then so what? Sure, there's the cash that's unavoidable but how is the thing going to steal card numbers and send them out when there's not even enough RAM for them.
When a Cessna loses it's engine the plnae still glides quite nicely and the pilot can simply look for a nearby field, road or even a patch of water in a pinch. when a 747 loses it's engines it goes down fast and landing on a field or small rural road isn't an option for them.
I remeber a time before package managers, before Ubuntu, before wikis. When it was you, a partially working kernel, all the uncompiled source code you could imagine and an encyclopedias worth of READMEs. Yes, it took me 3 goddamn days to compile the ALSA modules and tools and get them to play nice with my kernel on my P1-133 machine.
No, steal a CD from Walmart and then if someone asks you for 1 second clip of that song you say "sure" and give it too them. That's an apples to apples comparison.
And therein lies the difference between people with more dollars then brains and people with more brains then dollars.
One second while I tune my antennas to your monitor frequency.
Also, don't expect energy to stay cheap. Fossil fuels are obviously finite.
Did you skip the Article AND Summary? Well let me remidn you, this discussion is about the implications of Fusion power. Dwell on that one of a while my freind.
They would die. Frozen to death despite living in a dessert.
Exactly, a planets distance from the sun is a far more tolerant variable then its atmospheric makeup whent its comes to habitability, and not only makeup but pressure too, we can actually only survive for a long term within a very small range.
You can definetly move a prosthetic eye, focus is a different matter but I suspect it would be one of the easier things to do given that it's just a matter of finding which nerve went too the muscle.
Do you mean a white scientist with a lab coat, a scientist in a white lab coat, or a white scientist coated in a lab?
Doom, C&C, Total Annhialation were all big ones for me. UT was pretty huge. Oh and Starcraft should be pretty close to the top. C&C I think was one of the big games that brought the RTS to the world. And TA is an RTS which I still don't think is matched to this day.