2. Despite lame excuses about "market share" that MS uses for their frequently exploited vulnerabilities, there isn't a system that CANNOT be hacked.
If we leave exploits till later, it is perfectly possible to run a completely sure OS by requiring all code running on the OS be signed so malware simply can't exist.
3. The best standards and coding practices can probably only hope to reduce exploits by about 80 to 90 percent.
The best security standards can make 99% of exploits pointless, if the browser tab only exists while rendering a page and is separated from all other pages, and the browser itself can only access files (other than those it needs) through an external file dialog, similar logic applied to all programs.
While 2 would severely cripple the OS and 3 would take a shitload of work and cripple performance (can be worked around with COW and other tricks to make separate processes cheap). You CAN infact make an os that to all intense and purposes cannot be hacked. The xbox360 to all intense and purposes has been hacked ONCE in 3 years and all games are coded pretty shitty (e.g no verifcation of savegames, graphics code shares main memory, etc), if you consider programs games, and replace CDs with files, then the xbox360 is a good working model of a completely secure OS.
Not sure why this is marked troll, without a rebuttal?
Personally i look at freemusic for my paid downloads, I don't mind buying actual CDs from indies either (but it is a bit tricky to know your buying from an indie and not a front, of a front, of a major record label)
I'm confused by magnatune they advertise that they give 50% to artists, but taking a 50% cut for hosting & selling music seams excessive (AFAIK they don't do brick and mortar sales)
I don't mind the talking scenes (although i do think developing the plot in other ways is much better), but they did a lot of lame walking (in/out of rooms/gates) in SG1. I appreciate the good dialogues, but there are also a lot of time wasting, particularly in the lame middle series (3/4ish to 6/7ish)
US has no regulation, that's why they have companies that are too big to fail. We're a fan or regulation, if you want play in our court you play by our rules.
In Latin (From which Spanish is derived) abbreviations of plural things use 2 letters. Which is why John Paul II is PP. Ionnes Paulus (He's the 2nd with the name, hence plural, etc)... 68.39.174.238 06:55, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
meh, ZFS filesystem abstraction done wrong. quick lets put all our features in one big module, lump together disk management, backups and file layout, on a unix system!
What's worrying is people are looking to copy this on other platforms!
TBH, i don't mind wearing 3d glasses (they will help by stopping me looking elsewhere), my real problem is that so far 3d is used as a gimmick. If taken seriously: *most content would be as good (although on a slightly smaller screen and with the hassle of putting on the glasses) *some content will look slightly worse as the director looses some of the control of where you look *some content will look slightly better as 3d aspects matter (sports,wildlife,news,etc) *some content will look amazing as it can use new techniques (the same way that sin city actually uses the medium of file as compared to just telling a story on it, the same can be done on 3d)
Am i the only one that doesn't want to see people walking around for 10mins of a 50min show! The worst offence is opening a scene showing somebody silently walking into a room from a corridor, in a 2/3hr film this isn't too bad as it can be used to set the scene (i'd still rather they didn't), but if you add up the time people walk about in a series like Stargate SG-1 it's got to be about a 1/5 of the show!!! I distinctly remember the lack of corridors on firefly as one of the reasons i loved the show!
I don't know much beyond what ive read of the xbox scene, but homebrewers are the kind of people that are going to put timer chips on motherboards, patch kernels, code simple games, exploit and generally do clever things, pirates just trick a console into thinking that it is playing a legit game. (again AFAIK) The xbox360 has pretty bulletproof, however 1 hole was found (by homebrew, to run linux on it) as a result the encryption keys for the cd drives where swiped and now pirates have produced modchips for piracy. Sometimes (from what i read here) the relationship is more symbiotic but basically all the hardwork is done by the homebrew scene. I think the wii is a special case as it was soo easy to crack and the GC already had its piracy tools, as soon as the homebrew guys got in the pirates followed.
The PS has always had an established piracey crowd, IMO its why they beat N64s, however afaik as of now, there is no piracy on the ps3, the major difference between xbox360 and the ps3 was that linux/homebrew had a place on the ps3.
The guy that owned the xbox and compromised the xbox360 security, claimed the only reason that the ps3 was safe from pirates was because they let you run all your otherOS/homebrew stuff, it will be interesting to see if this happens or if 1) homebrew are happy using the older consoles 2) homebrew try but fail to cack it 3) pirates crack the new (weaker) ps3 without homebrew's help
don't forget fussion to put the status-bar info in the url-bar like apple do this in safari (much better than what chrome does tbh). also a few lines to usrchrome will get rid of all those unless buttons and dropdowns
[disabled="true"],/*hides inactive stop button*/
#back-forward-dropmarker,/*hides back/forward drop marker*/ .autocomplete-history-dropmarker,/*hide the adressbar dropmarker*/ .searchbar-dropmarker-image,/*hide the search box dropmarker */ .toolbarbutton-menu-dropmarker,/*hides the bookmark menu drops*/ .search-go-button,/*hides the magnifying glass in the search bar*/
how often do you use the menubar, even in kde3 they realised that 90% of the time you dont and the few times you do an extra click/key combo won't bother you
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ctrl+shift+P FTW, that way nobody has every found out that i like gay midget donkey porn!
Normal computers can solve it, just not efficiently!
2. Despite lame excuses about "market share" that MS uses for their frequently exploited vulnerabilities, there isn't a system that CANNOT be hacked.
If we leave exploits till later, it is perfectly possible to run a completely sure OS by requiring all code running on the OS be signed so malware simply can't exist.
3. The best standards and coding practices can probably only hope to reduce exploits by about 80 to 90 percent.
The best security standards can make 99% of exploits pointless, if the browser tab only exists while rendering a page and is separated from all other pages, and the browser itself can only access files (other than those it needs) through an external file dialog, similar logic applied to all programs.
While 2 would severely cripple the OS and 3 would take a shitload of work and cripple performance (can be worked around with COW and other tricks to make separate processes cheap). You CAN infact make an os that to all intense and purposes cannot be hacked. The xbox360 to all intense and purposes has been hacked ONCE in 3 years and all games are coded pretty shitty (e.g no verifcation of savegames, graphics code shares main memory, etc), if you consider programs games, and replace CDs with files, then the xbox360 is a good working model of a completely secure OS.
Thats only a DOS attack, its not exploitable, thanks to stack protection in the kernel.
You're really over exposed as well, i fail to see how this is any better than an electric bike in any way!
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that was a close one!
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So it only caches reads then?
Not sure why this is marked troll, without a rebuttal?
Personally i look at free music for my paid downloads, I don't mind buying actual CDs from indies either (but it is a bit tricky to know your buying from an indie and not a front, of a front, of a major record label)
I'm confused by magnatune they advertise that they give 50% to artists, but taking a 50% cut for hosting & selling music seams excessive (AFAIK they don't do brick and mortar sales)
I don't mind the talking scenes (although i do think developing the plot in other ways is much better), but they did a lot of lame walking (in/out of rooms/gates) in SG1. I appreciate the good dialogues, but there are also a lot of time wasting, particularly in the lame middle series (3/4ish to 6/7ish)
ofc it had a fucking corridor, but there is about 2 minutes footage in there in the series!
What makes a bank is defined by the government, not ICANN.
What makes an educational institute is also defined by the government, i fail to see your point.
What makes a bank is defined by the government, not ICANN.
Few people check for EV/SSL, so if you DNS hijack a site many people will fall for it.
US has no regulation, that's why they have companies that are too big to fail. We're a fan or regulation, if you want play in our court you play by our rules.
In Latin (From which Spanish is derived) abbreviations of plural things use 2 letters. Which is why John Paul II is PP. Ionnes Paulus (He's the 2nd with the name, hence plural, etc)... 68.39.174.238 06:55, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
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meh, ZFS filesystem abstraction done wrong.
quick lets put all our features in one big module, lump together disk management, backups and file layout, on a unix system!
What's worrying is people are looking to copy this on other platforms!
Can't they just use DNSSEC for banks (optionally give a tld for anything financial)
TBH, i don't mind wearing 3d glasses (they will help by stopping me looking elsewhere), my real problem is that so far 3d is used as a gimmick. If taken seriously:
*most content would be as good (although on a slightly smaller screen and with the hassle of putting on the glasses)
*some content will look slightly worse as the director looses some of the control of where you look
*some content will look slightly better as 3d aspects matter (sports,wildlife,news,etc)
*some content will look amazing as it can use new techniques (the same way that sin city actually uses the medium of file as compared to just telling a story on it, the same can be done on 3d)
Am i the only one that doesn't want to see people walking around for 10mins of a 50min show! The worst offence is opening a scene showing somebody silently walking into a room from a corridor, in a 2/3hr film this isn't too bad as it can be used to set the scene (i'd still rather they didn't), but if you add up the time people walk about in a series like Stargate SG-1 it's got to be about a 1/5 of the show!!! I distinctly remember the lack of corridors on firefly as one of the reasons i loved the show!
I don't know much beyond what ive read of the xbox scene, but homebrewers are the kind of people that are going to put timer chips on motherboards, patch kernels, code simple games, exploit and generally do clever things, pirates just trick a console into thinking that it is playing a legit game. (again AFAIK) The xbox360 has pretty bulletproof, however 1 hole was found (by homebrew, to run linux on it) as a result the encryption keys for the cd drives where swiped and now pirates have produced modchips for piracy. Sometimes (from what i read here) the relationship is more symbiotic but basically all the hardwork is done by the homebrew scene. I think the wii is a special case as it was soo easy to crack and the GC already had its piracy tools, as soon as the homebrew guys got in the pirates followed.
The PS has always had an established piracey crowd, IMO its why they beat N64s, however afaik as of now, there is no piracy on the ps3, the major difference between xbox360 and the ps3 was that linux/homebrew had a place on the ps3.
The guy that owned the xbox and compromised the xbox360 security, claimed the only reason that the ps3 was safe from pirates was because they let you run all your otherOS/homebrew stuff, it will be interesting to see if this happens or if
1) homebrew are happy using the older consoles
2) homebrew try but fail to cack it
3) pirates crack the new (weaker) ps3 without homebrew's help
if you want to lead the charge to progress do it in the right place, design a new WM/toolkit not a new app
you always edit preferences, sometimes you tool options though.
don't forget fussion to put the status-bar info in the url-bar like apple do this in safari (much better than what chrome does tbh).
also a few lines to usrchrome will get rid of all those unless buttons and dropdowns
[disabled="true"], /*hides inactive stop button*/
#back-forward-dropmarker, /*hides back/forward drop marker*/
.autocomplete-history-dropmarker, /*hide the adressbar dropmarker*/
.searchbar-dropmarker-image, /*hide the search box dropmarker */
.toolbarbutton-menu-dropmarker, /*hides the bookmark menu drops*/
.search-go-button, /*hides the magnifying glass in the search bar*/
#personal-bookmarks .toolbarbutton-text, /* hide bookmark toolbar icon images */
.tabs-newtab-button
{display: none !important; }
and one day you can all be as cool as me (well you only get the minimal windowdecoration with kde)
how often do you use the menubar, even in kde3 they realised that 90% of the time you dont and the few times you do an extra click/key combo won't bother you
I've always been partial to pepsi since they smashed that one up in fightclub, but hey at least i don't use a mac and drive a vw beatle.