Protecting the XBox is good practice for building an 'unbreakable' home PC.
MS had to build a PC becasue they need to have a reference point. A software DRM solution would be problematic because of the wide range of hardware it was likely to end up running on. They have a need to get this reference system into the wild and see how people would attempt to break into it. Already they have reaped dividends by having their first attempt cracked.
They can do this without any great risk to their reputation as secure system builders because, after all, it's *only* a games console.
French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin said the probe "will find out exactly what happened" and stressed that "no possibility is ruled out".
That includes allied coercion.
It wouldn't be the first time. I don't know why you sound surprised. The Americans are a govt. that imported and sold cocaine to finance covert arms purchases. Remember?
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Text files are not what's universal, its the text-able API to access them that's universal
That's a tenuous distinction.
I guess one could export the registry to text, perform the manipulations and then import the result back into the registry if one really wanted to.
Its because of an unrelated issue, the user interface. Text based files enables one to *choose* the user interface. A specialised GUI for editing them can provide all the customization of the process one desires.
Aside from hex-editing, binary configuration files require the program to know the format of the file in order for them to translate it to and from a human readable form.
Binary files don't print too well either.
As long as a system retains its ability to access the configuration by unified API's We only need one API. open read seek write close
If its binary, many algorithmic efficiencies can be implemented That tin god, efficiency. The only possible saving is file size and that is not compelling.
and what's in your Documents and Settings directory is obfuscated
[as many settings were in 9x iirc - see Outlook Express as an example - you can't get to the files through Explorer Navigation, you need to do a file find on "Inbox" and then transfer the path into the address bar]
If you've ever transferred multiple users from a 9x to NT you'll know the nightmare.
There's these little legal loopholes, you see, called evidence, burden of proof and innocent until proven guilty. You may of heard them on Matlock.
Your statement is akin to "they lock their door, they are obviously up to no good".
[ianal] The copyright holder would have to bring the case before the court personally [or though counsel]. If it was a criminal case the crown would have to be sure that conviction was likely and that such a prosection was in the public interest before bringing the matter before the courts.
(a) he causes a computer to perform any function with intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer;
(b) the access he intends to secure is unauthorised; and
(c) he knows at the time when he causes the computer to perform the function that that is the case.
(2) The intent a person has to have to commit an offence under this section need not be directed at--
(a) any particular program or data;
(b) a program or data of any particular kind; or
(c) a program or data held in any particular computer.
(3) A person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale or to both.
hehe typical that the first time a story about my company's line of work comes along I've got the server out of the co-lo so it's down until 9am BST when I go and fit the replacement one. I've got a nice Compaq Proliant to replace the 15 reboots in a day hand built.
We offer advice on CVs as well as a CV writing service and, although I say it myself, we do a good job. We have placed plenty of graduates and by Christmas we'll have well over 100,000 members.
Our money really comes from providing recruiters with good graduates so going over the top on a CV just makes us look ridiculous.
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single secure sign-on for multiple domains
here
or
[pdf]
If *all* individuals were monitored from birth to death how do you think that would shape society?
Personally I think that would bring the liberation of us all.
Either that or the road to insanity!
Protecting the XBox is good practice for building an 'unbreakable' home PC.
MS had to build a PC becasue they need to have a reference point. A software DRM solution would be problematic because of the wide range of hardware it was likely to end up running on. They have a need to get this reference system into the wild and see how people would attempt to break into it. Already they have reaped dividends by having their first attempt cracked.
They can do this without any great risk to their reputation as secure system builders because, after all, it's *only* a games console.
French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin said the probe "will find out exactly what happened" and stressed that "no possibility is ruled out".
That includes allied coercion.
It wouldn't be the first time. I don't know why you sound surprised. The Americans are a govt. that imported and sold cocaine to finance covert arms purchases. Remember?
boom!
In the 1970's the British government blew up a Dublin bar IRA style to try and garner support away from the republican movement.
I expect the lessons were not missed.
The French seek a third way around Saddam and suddenly a "terrorist" attack against the French.
if anyone's loosing money I'll catch it
however if they are losing money then I'll just stay out of it thanks
Unlike Britain, news is not disseminated from one source.
That's right, we have no other source of information anywhere at all other than that kindly provided by the Bristish Broadcasting Corporation.
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I've been trawling the history pages to try and get a confirmation.
I think it's the 3 part I'm wrong with not the Windows bit.
I've held the "windows was assembler" bit in my head for some time, maybe I'm passing on something that someone told me.
but there's no excuse these days
Text files are not what's universal, its the text-able API to access them that's universal
That's a tenuous distinction.
I guess one could export the registry to text, perform the manipulations and then import the result back into the registry if one really wanted to.
Its because of an unrelated issue, the user interface.
Text based files enables one to *choose* the user interface. A specialised GUI for editing them can provide all the customization of the process one desires.
Aside from hex-editing, binary configuration files require the program to know the format of the file in order for them to translate it to and from a human readable form.
Binary files don't print too well either.
As long as a system retains its ability to access the configuration by unified API's
We only need one API.
open read seek write close
If its binary, many algorithmic efficiencies can be implemented
That tin god, efficiency.
The only possible saving is file size and that is not compelling.
As business models go it seems to be working.
/etc/rc.conf
It's even got people prepared to promote it with words like "better" and "faster".
Text files are so amazing universal that it's a crime to not utilise their power and the many approaches one can take to the data.
Binary configuration files are the devils spawn.
Pray, which is the quicker way to change the box's ip
vi
or navigate through control panel?
or write a visual basic program to do it for me?
and what's in your Documents and Settings directory is obfuscated
[as many settings were in 9x iirc - see Outlook Express as an example - you can't get to the files through Explorer Navigation, you need to do a file find on "Inbox" and then transfer the path into the address bar]
If you've ever transferred multiple users from a 9x to NT you'll know the nightmare.
loading all your settings into memory at boot for programs you might not even use during this session is such a Great Idea.
/$MY_DOCUMENTS/Program Settings/*.ini
and then make it a binary file format
let's make it so you can't back it up with simple file copy operations
Winner!!!
how much better than a bunch of text files in
and then your average Windows user melts
and looks like a serious piece of software
gtk on windows looks like the amatureish piece of crud anyone has ever written.
When a Photoshop user sees it and starts laughing the only defence you can come up with is "at least it's free and not warezed"
And then you try and use a 3000x5000 pixel image and watch it die a slow death.
I can't get ASPI drivers to work for me
so I can't use CDex
EAC installed and ran flawlessly [although I had to find and install LAME binaries myself.]
with a nice little path, and a waterfall
Recently the UK Govt found the CD producing cartel of price fixing, but only in the past.
here
They say that they can find no evidence of continued law breaking so they will take no action.
and yet the prices stay the same
If Mr Edision thought a bit more he wouldn't have to sweat so much.
There's these little legal loopholes, you see, called evidence, burden of proof and innocent until proven guilty. You may of heard them on Matlock.
Your statement is akin to "they lock their door, they are obviously up to no good".
[ianal]
The copyright holder would have to bring the case before the court personally [or though counsel].
If it was a criminal case the crown would have to be sure that conviction was likely and that such a prosection was in the public interest before bringing the matter before the courts.
In the UK it has to be shown that the person making the attempts to connect had knowledge that their attempt was unauthorised.
Computer Misuse Act 1990
1.--(1) A person is guilty of an offence if--
(a) he causes a computer to perform any function with intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer;
(b) the access he intends to secure is unauthorised; and
(c) he knows at the time when he causes the computer to perform the function that that is the case.
(2) The intent a person has to have to commit an offence under this section need not be directed at--
(a) any particular program or data;
(b) a program or data of any particular kind; or
(c) a program or data held in any particular computer.
(3) A person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale or to both.
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hehe typical that the first time a story about my company's line of work comes along I've got the server out of the co-lo so it's down until 9am BST when I go and fit the replacement one. I've got a nice Compaq Proliant to replace the 15 reboots in a day hand built.
We offer advice on CVs as well as a CV writing service and, although I say it myself, we do a good job. We have placed plenty of graduates and by Christmas we'll have well over 100,000 members.
Our money really comes from providing recruiters with good graduates so going over the top on a CV just makes us look ridiculous.