People will scoff at the idea that Unix has a more secure model, but really little things - like the executable bit, like not running as admin - raise the barrier for malware..NET tried to implement a third way - by sandboxing applications - but it was realistically too much of a faff to configure, and not much good if you could still write all your malware in plain C.
Data Execution Prevention was enabled in Windows XP SP2. (Shortly after CPUs with the ability popped up.)
You haven't had to run as administrator since Windows 2000. You haven't had to run as administrator to have all your shitty programs work since Windows XP. You haven't run as administrator by default since Vista.
Exactly. And incidentally, if you have your iPod turned up so loud you can't hear an ambulance siren, you're going to end up stone deaf in short order. I would be interested to see what happens in 2030 or so (if I'm still here), when we have half a generation wandering around with hearing-aids...
Hearing aids with a dock connector. I'll be filthy rich.
It's not a matter of needing the pat on the back, it's a matter of the pat on the back being better than not getting the pat on the back.
The pat on the back, the annoying chime, the shitty popup, the wasted development time, the shitty way people play online in an attempt to farm them, the slow loading they cause when I want to send a message to someone, etc. are all DETRIMENTAL to the game.
Go play TF2 or L4D/L4D2 after a major update. Or go play the PS3 ever.
At least on ecksbawks you can turn the notifications off.
The term "jailbreak" is retarded. For a mobile phone, there are 4 levels:
1: Out of the box, locked-down piece of shit.
2: Application-unlocked. This means you can run unapproved applications. Be it by disabling/fooling some code signing check, or by flipping a bit in the security model (because the OS allows it normally and the carrier locked it afterward - see every Windows Mobile phone prior to 7).
3: Carrier-unlocked. This means you can take your shitPhone to somewhere other than AT&T.
4: Rooted. This means you have complete control of the device software.
The PS3 is at #2 right now. #3 does not apply. And we have ZERO progress toward getting to #4.
If it were so easy to catch people who do $bad_things, these networks would have failed the litmus test (presence of "child porn").
Seems to me child porn isn't really fought over by the major copyright holders.
As for the government, I guess you missed the news:
In a related inquiry, the Pentagon's Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS) cross-checked the ICE list against military databases to come up with a list of Defense employees and contractors who appeared to be guilty of purchasing child pornography. The names included staffers for the secretary of defense, contractors for the ultra-secretive National Security Agency, and a program manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. But the DCIS opened investigations into only 20 percent of the individuals identified, and succeeded in prosecuting just a handful.
You can't trace someone on TOR or Freenet just by holding the exit nodes.
You can trace someone just by being a part of th network, no nodes needed.
At some point there is copyrighted material on the network unencrypted (identifiable as copyrighted material). If a copyright holder were to offer up said copyrighted material, anyone and everyone who touches a single piece of it, encrypted or not, becomes a legal target.
An RIAA guy sharing "Look at my Dick - Lady Gaga.mp3" can and will sue everyone he sends an encrypted chunk of that file to. Who gives a shit who it was destined for? Who gives a shit if the users it was sent to couldn't even decrypt the thing? They're still distributing copyrighted material without permission. How many 3-piece lawyers can you afford?
If you're hoping to get off because the copyright holder (or an authorized agent, or a blackmailed pirate they got to via other means) is the one distributing the material, think again. The can simply join the network as a regular user, request the song about lady gaga's mancock, and then sue everyone who sends them a chunk of that data.
If the proxies say "Sorry, I don't know who that IP belongs to", proxies will come under legal attack, legislation will be written requiring them to keep records of IP addresses for X amount of time, and anyone using a proxy will be put on a damned watch list.
Encrypted is not really complicated, use https sites and turn encryption on in your torrent client.
I think you mean "protocol encryption" for torrents. When you enable protocol encryption for torrents, all you're doing is obfuscating the traffic in an attempt to keep your ISP from throttling you (on the basis of it being a torrent).
This does NOTHING to encrypt the actual data sent, so anyone doing a MITM attack can see what you're downloading.
If total encryption were implemented, it would do NOTHING to stop a copyright holder from hopping on the same torrent and seeing everyone in the swarm.
Private trackers, dark nets, and whatever other shitty ideas you can come up with will all fail. If you have 2 people who trust each other, they'll only ever be able to share what one of them already has. If you allow these two trusting users to invite others in to increase the amount of shit you can get, you've thrown out your entire trust model, and your "private" network must be assumed to be compromised.
At least these BBs will be automatically backed up, re-routed and physically located nowhere, so will be uncensorable.
1: Everything is physically located somewhere. The "cloud" is bullshit.
2: When you're goal is to distribute something such that it's in multiple locations (resilient), encrypted (deniable), anyone involved with the damned thing becomes a target.
You can claim deniability, say "but I only had a HASH of HALF of it!" bullshit, and other childish "legal" arguments - they'll still take your ass down because they have the guns and you're a weak, poor, nerd.
If I don't want Google knowing what I'm searching for, I'll use Bing! (/sarcasm, I'd never ever ever use Bing).
Because you're a fucking tool. Bing is actually good, and does many things better than Google.
And guess what - Hotmail is better than Gmail, too. (Priority Inbox is a copy cat of the better "quick view" and "filter" features Hotmail already has. Hotmail has unlimited storage, a 50 MB per-attachment limit, and a 10 GB per-message limit. The only thing GMail has over Hotmail is labels, which are useless anyway when you have full search.)
This article is about a box for displaying shit on a TV. Transcoding is useless except for when you need to improve the source material (e.g., inverse telecine).
But we need holes for our speaker, our microphone, our swappable SIM card, our swappable microSD card, our USB port, our headphones, etc. (No, bluetooth doesn't cover the last two - it's shit.)
And if something breaks, we need to open the device and be able to repair it.
Tests just test how good your memory is. Not how to use that info in work place / real life.
Some certification tests are like that you can learn the test and have little to no idea on how to use that info in the work place.
So my tests that had "Decrypt the following block of text" or "Design a..." or "If you were designing a..., would you...? Or...? Or something else? Why?" were all based on memorization?
Both universities I went to required international grad students to pass a spoken English test (typically more difficult to pass than TOEFL) before they were allowed to be TAs. I assume there are similar rules in other schools.
Seriously, there's lots of reasons to transcode. Not all movies are available for download in friendly formats. I recently got a beautiful DVD set of the silent film Greed by Erich von Stroheim and I wanted to watch it on something that didn't have an optical drive, away from home.
How else but to transcode?
You could rip the DVD without transcoding it, then copy the VOBs over.
We're talking about alternatives to having your shit on the internet.
1: VPNs do not have to be run over th epublic internet 2: The main cause for concern with regards to using the internet is security, not reliability. 3: Derp.
The brain is estimated to have about 60 Trillion synapses (bio-electrical connections between neurons). Neuroscientists have suggested that to simulate a human brain you would need a computer with at least that many neurons. It seems that ~43 of these chips would do the trick!
It seems to me that 43 of these chips still contain 0 neurons.
Slashdot Mirror
Sucks for anyone living in or going to Pennsylvania.
People will scoff at the idea that Unix has a more secure model, but really little things - like the executable bit, like not running as admin - raise the barrier for malware. .NET tried to implement a third way - by sandboxing applications - but it was realistically too much of a faff to configure, and not much good if you could still write all your malware in plain C.
Data Execution Prevention was enabled in Windows XP SP2. (Shortly after CPUs with the ability popped up.)
You haven't had to run as administrator since Windows 2000. You haven't had to run as administrator to have all your shitty programs work since Windows XP. You haven't run as administrator by default since Vista.
A bunch of GS-12+ civilian employees arguing for half an hour over where the place the word 'the'.
It appears to me that we need to have our discussion at least once more...
Exactly. And incidentally, if you have your iPod turned up so loud you can't hear an ambulance siren, you're going to end up stone deaf in short order. I would be interested to see what happens in 2030 or so (if I'm still here), when we have half a generation wandering around with hearing-aids...
Hearing aids with a dock connector.
I'll be filthy rich.
PATENT PENDING, BITCHES.
New Zealanders
An entire fence made of tooth brushes.
It's not a matter of needing the pat on the back, it's a matter of the pat on the back being better than not getting the pat on the back.
The pat on the back, the annoying chime, the shitty popup, the wasted development time, the shitty way people play online in an attempt to farm them, the slow loading they cause when I want to send a message to someone, etc. are all DETRIMENTAL to the game.
Go play TF2 or L4D/L4D2 after a major update.
Or go play the PS3 ever.
At least on ecksbawks you can turn the notifications off.
The term "jailbreak" is retarded.
For a mobile phone, there are 4 levels:
1: Out of the box, locked-down piece of shit.
2: Application-unlocked. This means you can run unapproved applications. Be it by disabling/fooling some code signing check, or by flipping a bit in the security model (because the OS allows it normally and the carrier locked it afterward - see every Windows Mobile phone prior to 7).
3: Carrier-unlocked. This means you can take your shitPhone to somewhere other than AT&T.
4: Rooted. This means you have complete control of the device software.
The PS3 is at #2 right now. #3 does not apply. And we have ZERO progress toward getting to #4.
If it were so easy to catch people who do $bad_things, these networks would have failed the litmus test (presence of "child porn").
Seems to me child porn isn't really fought over by the major copyright holders.
As for the government, I guess you missed the news:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot...ld-pornography
You can't trace someone on TOR or Freenet just by holding the exit nodes.
You can trace someone just by being a part of th network, no nodes needed.
At some point there is copyrighted material on the network unencrypted (identifiable as copyrighted material).
If a copyright holder were to offer up said copyrighted material, anyone and everyone who touches a single piece of it, encrypted or not, becomes a legal target.
An RIAA guy sharing "Look at my Dick - Lady Gaga.mp3" can and will sue everyone he sends an encrypted chunk of that file to. Who gives a shit who it was destined for? Who gives a shit if the users it was sent to couldn't even decrypt the thing? They're still distributing copyrighted material without permission. How many 3-piece lawyers can you afford?
If you're hoping to get off because the copyright holder (or an authorized agent, or a blackmailed pirate they got to via other means) is the one distributing the material, think again. The can simply join the network as a regular user, request the song about lady gaga's mancock, and then sue everyone who sends them a chunk of that data.
If the proxies say "Sorry, I don't know who that IP belongs to", proxies will come under legal attack, legislation will be written requiring them to keep records of IP addresses for X amount of time, and anyone using a proxy will be put on a damned watch list.
BME Pain Olympics is fake, by the way.
Encrypted is not really complicated, use https sites and turn encryption on in your torrent client.
I think you mean "protocol encryption" for torrents.
When you enable protocol encryption for torrents, all you're doing is obfuscating the traffic in an attempt to keep your ISP from throttling you (on the basis of it being a torrent).
This does NOTHING to encrypt the actual data sent, so anyone doing a MITM attack can see what you're downloading.
If total encryption were implemented, it would do NOTHING to stop a copyright holder from hopping on the same torrent and seeing everyone in the swarm.
Private trackers, dark nets, and whatever other shitty ideas you can come up with will all fail. If you have 2 people who trust each other, they'll only ever be able to share what one of them already has. If you allow these two trusting users to invite others in to increase the amount of shit you can get, you've thrown out your entire trust model, and your "private" network must be assumed to be compromised.
At least these BBs will be automatically backed up, re-routed and physically located nowhere, so will be uncensorable.
1: Everything is physically located somewhere. The "cloud" is bullshit.
2: When you're goal is to distribute something such that it's in multiple locations (resilient), encrypted (deniable), anyone involved with the damned thing becomes a target.
You can claim deniability, say "but I only had a HASH of HALF of it!" bullshit, and other childish "legal" arguments - they'll still take your ass down because they have the guns and you're a weak, poor, nerd.
copying DVDs and selling them
creating your own DVD, labeling it as if it were the legitimate DVD and selling it
What if I made and sold a copy of "Be Kind Rewind"?
Do I get off on some sort of double jeopardy thing?
Signing a treaty to do X means the US is obligated to do X.
But the US still has to pass legislation that covers X through the normal process.
If I don't want Google knowing what I'm searching for, I'll use Bing! (/sarcasm, I'd never ever ever use Bing).
Because you're a fucking tool.
Bing is actually good, and does many things better than Google.
And guess what - Hotmail is better than Gmail, too. (Priority Inbox is a copy cat of the better "quick view" and "filter" features Hotmail already has. Hotmail has unlimited storage, a 50 MB per-attachment limit, and a 10 GB per-message limit. The only thing GMail has over Hotmail is labels, which are useless anyway when you have full search.)
This article is about a box for displaying shit on a TV. Transcoding is useless except for when you need to improve the source material (e.g., inverse telecine).
But we need holes for our speaker, our microphone, our swappable SIM card, our swappable microSD card, our USB port, our headphones, etc. (No, bluetooth doesn't cover the last two - it's shit.)
And if something breaks, we need to open the device and be able to repair it.
Tests just test how good your memory is. Not how to use that info in work place / real life.
Some certification tests are like that you can learn the test and have little to no idea on how to use that info in the work place.
So my tests that had "Decrypt the following block of text" or "Design a ..." or "If you were designing a ..., would you ...? Or ...? Or something else? Why?" were all based on memorization?
Both universities I went to required international grad students to pass a spoken English test (typically more difficult to pass than TOEFL) before they were allowed to be TAs. I assume there are similar rules in other schools.
If the rules exist, they are completely ignored.
Said WD box will not handle:
Proper subtitling
All h.264 levels / options
All audio formats
A full-fledged PC (with whatever fucking operating system you want) is the ONLY way to do it properly. It can also be used for many other things.
SO I CAN WATCH IT ON MY HANDHELD!!!
(why are we shouting?)
Seriously, there's lots of reasons to transcode. Not all movies are available for download in friendly formats. I recently got a beautiful DVD set of the silent film Greed by Erich von Stroheim and I wanted to watch it on something that didn't have an optical drive, away from home.
How else but to transcode?
You could rip the DVD without transcoding it, then copy the VOBs over.
Yea? How well does the software my work has me use run on Linux?
Final Cut
DVD Studio
Photoshop
Illustrator
Word
Duxbury Braille Translator
Final Cut and DVD Studio are dog turds.
Them not running at all would be an improvement.
We're talking about alternatives to having your shit on the internet.
1: VPNs do not have to be run over th epublic internet
2: The main cause for concern with regards to using the internet is security, not reliability.
3: Derp.
Again, you're an idiot.
The top of the line x86 chips have always spanked PPC chips. The only way to get different results was to intentionally gimp benchmarks and compilers.
The brain is estimated to have about 60 Trillion synapses (bio-electrical connections between neurons). Neuroscientists have suggested that to simulate a human brain you would need a computer with at least that many neurons. It seems that ~43 of these chips would do the trick!
It seems to me that 43 of these chips still contain 0 neurons.