What's to prevent you from building a VM in hardware? Or, more accurately, building hardware that has typical VM capabilities, like sandboxing and privilege separation?
Answer: Nothing. This is how it's done for things that actually need to be secure. Your register holding a Top Secret bit simply cannot be accessed by a Secret process. Done.
I realized, after I seriously started the game, that there was one glaring, blinding flaw with the concept:
THE EVIL GENIUS ALWAYS FUCKING LOSES.
Take, for example, base defense. A super-agent comes in, so you activate your red alert. Your minions, including your highly trained mercenaries, run for the armories, grab weapons, and proceed to run, single file, up a hallway, and get mowed down in echelon. Forty armed soldiers? Bah, they'll still all get mowed down.
Now, yes, this is EXACTLY how it works in the movies, but it's not FUN.
Actually, they haven't. They understand that unless the community as a whole agrees to this kind of change, that all they'll accomplish is to create an anonymous fork.
"Ok, grandma, open the start menu, now select run. Ok, now type c-m-d. No, grandma, m. MMMMM. M as in Mike. Ok. No, grandma, D. DEEEEE. Not g. D. Ok, now did a big black box open up? No? Oh, you're on Windows 95/98, you'll need to reboot."
Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean. I agree that an alarm going off isn't an indicator of anything other than an alarm going off.
My point is that store security *can* legally detain you for the cops, but if they turn out to be wrong, or they go about it the wrong way, they open themselves up to an incredibly big liability.
Everything I've ever read, typified by this and this, state that, yes, the store can detain you if you've been in their store, but if they turn out to be wrong, they're utterly hosed.
If the sec guard really really thinks you shoplifted, he can detain you while the police are summoned. If, when the cops get there, it turns out that you're innocent, the sec guard is hosed.
I always thought that Episode 1 really make the Jedi look terrible.
Ok, so Qui-Gonn and Obi-Wan can hold their breath, and mow down an army of Droids.
Then, when they get to a locked door, rather than Qui-Gonn closing his eyes, focusing on one of the bridge crewers, and having him open the door, he sticks his lightsabre in.
Next, when confronted by two droids, they consider it a 'stand off.' Oh, noes, they have shields. Use the damn Force to, oh, knock them ass-over-teakettle, bend the barrels of their blasters, cut their power cords, SOMETHING.
It could be done, but they'd make a better long mini-series than movie trilogy.
Much of the content of episodes 1 and 2 flatly contradicts some of the events in the Heir to the Empire books, particularly the bits relating to clones and cloning (the Heir to the Empire books assumes that the clones were unleashed *against* the Republic).
Bah. Just put in a throwaway line, like 'Too bad we'll never know how much of these history books are just so much vapor that the Emperor's cronies put in to make him look good.'
If you replace 'passive' with 'not antagonistic' then you have it right.
Oh, and I think the Republican attempt to have the *federal* executive and legislative branches overturn a *state* *judicial* matter gives lie to that other bit.
Man, a hundred years ago, an attempt like that would have seen armed citizens in the streets.
Cosmonauts: Welcome aboard, comrades. We are glad to be havink you.
STS Crew: Thanks, sorry to drop in, but the shuttle's broke. Hey, where's the can? We gotta piss like racehorses.
CNs: Is through that door there.
STS: The one labelled 'airlock?'
CNs: Da, is joke. Ivan here makes us wish that bathroom has airlock, yes?
STS: Oh, ok, well, we'll be back in a minute...*clang clang* what the!? *woosh*
CNs: (belly laughs)
The other thing that I've run into is that lots of buyers want to see a flat shipping rate. I started having much better results when I stopped saying 'send me your zip code/state/province and I'll give you an exact shipping quote' and started saying '15 bucks, period.'
So, I give a flat rate, but put in the text that I'm more than happy to give a real quote.
what happened to the tightly-integrated developer network that Microsoft has worked to cultivate
Why, it gave people months and months and months of information, and beta versions to test against, and release candidates to test against, and so on and so fifth.
Note that this is on top of Microsoft trying to gently ease people over from the 'one user, full access' paradigm to the 'multi-user, restricted access unless you really really need full access to install something' paradigm.
The fact that some vendors may have been unwilling or unable to actually do anything with it all is beside the point.
I agree with a lot of what you say; what one company thinks is the bee's knees, another company will toss your resume for.
I'll also point out that you don't find jobs by plastering your resume about; you find jobs through your network of contacts, the friend of a friend who knows a co-worker who's hiring.
I know that if someone sent me a job application, and said "Please read the attached cover letter", I would probably trash the application because it indicates that the person does not know the appropriate way to use email.
I don't know about the 'don't know how to use email' part. Ideally, it should be made clear how submissions are to be made, in the job posting. When I'm emailing a resume/CL around, I put an abbreviated CL into the email body, and attach the spiffy version, by default.
Oh, and you're not 'sending an email asking to read an attachment.' You're sending an email with two important documents attached, that won't be read in the context of an email program by a single HR type.
Well, mainly because when making an application to somebody, you follow their (or standard accepted for that type of application) practices, or you risk having your application thrown out.
And they might not add value to the communication as far as your concerned, but it's not your perspective on this that matters, is it?
Now tell me, when you mail a postal letter do you include one letter that says "Look at the next sheet of paper for the cover letter?" No.
Actually, a better comparison might be FAX. You declare the number of pages, and note if that includes the coversheet or not.
Next, you DO NOT put your cover letter into the 'memo' area of the fax coverpage.
Why put your CL into an attachment (with full name in the file name) rather than the email body? Because if the person receiving has to jump through an extra hoop, your resume is discarded. Period. If they save the attachments to a central repositiory and grep them for buzzwords, you think they'll really want to go to the bother of copy/paste and save your CL? No.
Exactly; it's a playstation 1 with a built-in screen. It's portable in the way that a laptop is portable. But that laptop's still a bitch to yank out on a street corner talking to somebody, just to dig out and pass on a phone number.
A gameboy, OTOH, is mobile; small, quick, easy. More like a PalmOS device; you turns it on, and there it is.
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What's to prevent you from building a VM in hardware? Or, more accurately, building hardware that has typical VM capabilities, like sandboxing and privilege separation?
Answer: Nothing. This is how it's done for things that actually need to be secure. Your register holding a Top Secret bit simply cannot be accessed by a Secret process. Done.
I realized, after I seriously started the game, that there was one glaring, blinding flaw with the concept:
THE EVIL GENIUS ALWAYS FUCKING LOSES.
Take, for example, base defense. A super-agent comes in, so you activate your red alert. Your minions, including your highly trained mercenaries, run for the armories, grab weapons, and proceed to run, single file, up a hallway, and get mowed down in echelon. Forty armed soldiers? Bah, they'll still all get mowed down.
Now, yes, this is EXACTLY how it works in the movies, but it's not FUN.
Actually, they haven't. They understand that unless the community as a whole agrees to this kind of change, that all they'll accomplish is to create an anonymous fork.
"Ok, grandma, open the start menu, now select run. Ok, now type c-m-d. No, grandma, m. MMMMM. M as in Mike. Ok. No, grandma, D. DEEEEE. Not g. D. Ok, now did a big black box open up? No? Oh, you're on Windows 95/98, you'll need to reboot."
Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean. I agree that an alarm going off isn't an indicator of anything other than an alarm going off.
My point is that store security *can* legally detain you for the cops, but if they turn out to be wrong, or they go about it the wrong way, they open themselves up to an incredibly big liability.
Everything I've ever read, typified by this and this, state that, yes, the store can detain you if you've been in their store, but if they turn out to be wrong, they're utterly hosed.
If the sec guard really really thinks you shoplifted, he can detain you while the police are summoned. If, when the cops get there, it turns out that you're innocent, the sec guard is hosed.
This just leads to players fighting difficult battles with one hand on the ethernet cord, ready to yank.
The MMO equivalent of 'save before every battle.'
'Twas one of the many fine points about the .hack RPG series; original voice track w/ subtitles.
Well, seeing as how in Word 2000, that would produce a word count, not a spell check.... ;-)
I always thought that Episode 1 really make the Jedi look terrible.
Ok, so Qui-Gonn and Obi-Wan can hold their breath, and mow down an army of Droids.
Then, when they get to a locked door, rather than Qui-Gonn closing his eyes, focusing on one of the bridge crewers, and having him open the door, he sticks his lightsabre in.
Next, when confronted by two droids, they consider it a 'stand off.' Oh, noes, they have shields. Use the damn Force to, oh, knock them ass-over-teakettle, bend the barrels of their blasters, cut their power cords, SOMETHING.
It could be done, but they'd make a better long mini-series than movie trilogy.
Bah. Just put in a throwaway line, like 'Too bad we'll never know how much of these history books are just so much vapor that the Emperor's cronies put in to make him look good.'
Jail isn't a deterrent; it's a method of keeping criminals out of the general populace.
Unfortunately, nobody can come up with anything better.
And your alternative suggestions are?
I've always thought that America is simply too large and diverse a country to actually treat as a single entity.
If you replace 'passive' with 'not antagonistic' then you have it right.
Oh, and I think the Republican attempt to have the *federal* executive and legislative branches overturn a *state* *judicial* matter gives lie to that other bit.
Man, a hundred years ago, an attempt like that would have seen armed citizens in the streets.
Cosmonauts: Welcome aboard, comrades. We are glad to be havink you.
STS Crew: Thanks, sorry to drop in, but the shuttle's broke. Hey, where's the can? We gotta piss like racehorses.
CNs: Is through that door there.
STS: The one labelled 'airlock?'
CNs: Da, is joke. Ivan here makes us wish that bathroom has airlock, yes?
STS: Oh, ok, well, we'll be back in a minute...*clang clang* what the!? *woosh*
CNs: (belly laughs)
The other thing that I've run into is that lots of buyers want to see a flat shipping rate. I started having much better results when I stopped saying 'send me your zip code/state/province and I'll give you an exact shipping quote' and started saying '15 bucks, period.'
So, I give a flat rate, but put in the text that I'm more than happy to give a real quote.
Why, it gave people months and months and months of information, and beta versions to test against, and release candidates to test against, and so on and so fifth.
Note that this is on top of Microsoft trying to gently ease people over from the 'one user, full access' paradigm to the 'multi-user, restricted access unless you really really need full access to install something' paradigm.
The fact that some vendors may have been unwilling or unable to actually do anything with it all is beside the point.
I agree with a lot of what you say; what one company thinks is the bee's knees, another company will toss your resume for.
I'll also point out that you don't find jobs by plastering your resume about; you find jobs through your network of contacts, the friend of a friend who knows a co-worker who's hiring.
I don't know about the 'don't know how to use email' part. Ideally, it should be made clear how submissions are to be made, in the job posting. When I'm emailing a resume/CL around, I put an abbreviated CL into the email body, and attach the spiffy version, by default.
Oh, and you're not 'sending an email asking to read an attachment.' You're sending an email with two important documents attached, that won't be read in the context of an email program by a single HR type.
Well, mainly because when making an application to somebody, you follow their (or standard accepted for that type of application) practices, or you risk having your application thrown out.
And they might not add value to the communication as far as your concerned, but it's not your perspective on this that matters, is it?
Shit, you can run SqlServer on a PocketPC, so why not on an Xbox?
Actually, a better comparison might be FAX. You declare the number of pages, and note if that includes the coversheet or not.
Next, you DO NOT put your cover letter into the 'memo' area of the fax coverpage.
Why put your CL into an attachment (with full name in the file name) rather than the email body? Because if the person receiving has to jump through an extra hoop, your resume is discarded. Period. If they save the attachments to a central repositiory and grep them for buzzwords, you think they'll really want to go to the bother of copy/paste and save your CL? No.
Exactly; it's a playstation 1 with a built-in screen. It's portable in the way that a laptop is portable. But that laptop's still a bitch to yank out on a street corner talking to somebody, just to dig out and pass on a phone number.
A gameboy, OTOH, is mobile; small, quick, easy. More like a PalmOS device; you turns it on, and there it is.