Well, to be sure, were they of the mind to, they'd likey brick the console by doing a firmware check/upgrade with a new game. Or simply program new games to refuse to run on modded consoles. Point being, it could be done, but isn't.
MS doesn't particularly care if you mod the console; if they did, they'd have bricked the modded consoles instead of simply banning them from Xbox Live.
The problem with systems (such as Windows) that do not have a good central repository is that users will immediately start searching the Internet at random for their software. Once installed, most of that software (assuming it's not malware) either bogs down the system with its own updater or gets hopelessly out of date and never gets patches to fix any security holes in it.
Actually, the problem with systems (such as Windows) is that when they try to do such things, they get charged with antitrust, get accused of 'bundelling' and 'stifling competition' and all sorts of crap like that.
Mikrotik RouterOS is multithreaded (there were some interesting bugs back in the early 3.x days, actually.)
If power's a consideration, get a RouterBOARD. A 493 AH will run you less than 300 dollars, with case and power supply, will run at nine volts (but you'll likely want 18 to 24 for every day use, if you throw in a wireless card or two) has 8 ports on a switch chip, and one port not (this is the port you ignore utterly,) and has a 680 mhz CPU, 128 MB of ram, I believe a separate packet processor. RouterOS will do whatever networky task you want it to.
A 433AH is also good if you have your own switches you want to use. Crossgrade to a 450G if you need GIG-E ports.
Yeah, we should pattern our health care system on Canada's. That way we won't get situations like what affected this Quebec woman.
Yes, you should, as this case is an example of a private company pulling somebody's coverage on a whim. Kind of like that whole American 'prior condition' crap.
Or, to put it another way, the gov't is paying for her hospital/psych visits, tests being done (say she needs a CAT scan or MRI) and what not.
Her private insurance is paying for the fact that she's not at work during all of this. Possibly her prescriptions (which, although far more reasonable in Canada than the States in cost, are still not convered.)
That said, she may or may not qualify for unemployment and the like from the gov't.
I distinctly remember an Archie comic from when I was a kid, so around early to mid 80s. One page, one panel throwaway gag. Archie's mom is in the car, which has a flat. She says 'I think the car needs an oil change. It started making a 'flub-flub-flub' sound.' Archie's dad is facepalming rather violently.
I've had conversations with my mother that go something like: MOM: I'm trying to install this new version of IE, but it's asking questions that I can't answer. ME: Such as? MOM: It says 'Do you want to keep your current settings and preferences?' and had a yes or no button. ME: Do you want to keep your current settings and preferences? MOM: Yes, I think it would make sense to. ME: Ok, so click the 'yes' button. MOM: OH!
Of course gang-rape is illegal. The idea behind this bill is that the American government might not want to do business with the companies that try to prevent it's employees from availing themselves of said legal system when they are raped by their coworkers.
1: The bad: this was pretty obviously an Xbox game originally. That's why people bitch about the graphics. Details on armour and what not are just textures. No bump mapping or whatever the kids are using these days. If a shield has a hide with a coat-of-arms strapped onto the front, it's a flat texture with a picture of a hide with a coat-of-arms. Doesn't cut it these days.
2: The good: No arbitrary alignment axis. If you're mean to person X, person X doesn't like you. You don't get pushed to renegade/The Dark Side/Evil/whatever overall. This makes for much more realistic sorts of interactions. For example, and ever-so-mild and obfuscated spoilers ahoy: (skip the next paragraph if you don't want them)
Yeah, when I'm trying to save a kid from demonic posession without sacrificing his mother in a blood magic ritual, you're damn right I'm going to be slightly less kind with the ferryman who's not letting me get to the island I need to get to.
Lets use a simple paraphrased example. Party A says 'Hey, lets spend umpity million dollars to give body armour to our troops.' Party B says 'Great, but lets, on that spending bill, also give 2 umpity million dollars worth of tax cuts to the wealthiest one percent of the nation.' Party A says 'Um, no.' Party B says, to the media, 'HOLY SHIT! PARTY A REFUSES TO SPEND MONEY ON OUR TROOPS!'
You raise a very valid point that the intent of a lot of the 'Congress shall not' clauses are supposed to have, mentally inserted, 'but the States can do whatever the fuck they want.'
If Alabama wants the Ten Commandments chiselled into the court buildings, Alabama is supposed to be able to do that. Congress has no say in it.
Now, the problem is that America is designed to be many things that it isn't. And because a) there's no system in place for the things that it is, and b) America tends to view the Constitution as a sacred, inflexible document, even while it ignores it utterly, America has a lot more trouble than it would otherwise.
I'll give you a relativly non-inflammatory example. America's political system was designed with the idea that there's no such thing as a Poltical Party. Reps are supposed to vote their concience and their electorate's wills on every single thing as if it's separate and distinct.
However, parties arose. And becaues America's system makes zero provisions for parties, it can't deal with them properly, and you wind up with a two party, at the throats, 'if you're against abortion, you're also pro gun,' polarized and no place to go but further apart system.
Governments that *are* designed with parties in mind, however, can deal with them much more efficiently.
Now look at socialism. America claims to be against the idea (just take a look at this thread!) but is, in reality, socialist. SS, Medicade, public highways, blah blah blah. You really can't have a modern nation without some form of this. So, while America claims to be ruggedly individualistic, and so on, when it then needs to act in a socialist manner, way more effort and treasure are spent than if America had simply put 'socialist' bits into the government originally. Example: Katrina. If America were not socialist in fact, why did federal public money go to disaster relief? But because America is not socialist 'in theory,' it was confused, inefficient, and wasteful.
Healthcare is the same. America *will* have socialized health care. It is inevitable. But in attempting to make it as 'unsocialist' as possible, America will fuck it up, cause it to be incredibly wasteful, inefficient, and useless, then point at it as an example of how bad Socialism is.
(Join me for my next lecture, in which I demonstrate that America should break up into about six separate countries.)
Generally, you don't run the forensics software on the target computer; that would be stupid.
Generally, you pull the hard drive out of the target computer, plug it into a drive duplicator (which can be a simple as a PC with an IDE cable missing the write pins), mount the duplicate, and scan it. No executables on the duplicate are actually executed.
For 2: The purpose of a firewall is to filter traffic to open ports. Mac OS X has no open ports by default. Any services the user chooses to run have to get a hole in the firewall anyway to work. So how exactly would turning the firewall on by default help the security against intrusion?
The purpose of a firewall is to filter traffic on open ports. Without a firewall, *all* ports are open, even if there are no daemons listening on them. When you install new software, you are potentially installing a daemon, or a client software. Some people like having firewalls that do the proper job of also filtering outbound traffic.
The most foolproof safety system which could ever be installed in a car would be a naked eight-inch blade in the center of the steering column, pointed directly at the driver's chest.
Silly Wright Bros! Everybody knows that if God intended men to fly, he'd have given them wings!
Silly Marconi! Everybody knows it takes a message WEEKS to get across the Atlantic on a stout steamer! This concept of the message somehow magically flying through the air is preposterous!
Silly Semelweiss! A doctor not washing his hands couldn't POSSIBLY prevent fevers and illness in his patients!
My iPhone with the TomTom North America app *is* a standalone GPS. It requires no network connection whatsoever to run once it's loaded.
No way I'd want something that requires net access to work, though.
That said, the iPhone's GPS chip is crap. Cruising along the TransCanada towards Ottawa, clear sunny blue sky from horizon to horizon, and it's still suddenly deciding I'm on a side road several hundred meters to the right? Crap. Hey, Apple, throw in a serial Bluetooth profile so I can use my Bluetooth GPS keychain with a frighteningly better GPS chip in it.
(Actually, I'm going to drink the TomTom Car Kit koolaid. If it ever comes out.)
RAM is in no way considered, intrinsically, to be volitile or non-volitile. Simply that it's random access; that is, you can seek within it. You don't need to start at the first bit and read until you find what you want.
I draw your attention to the terms 'flash ram' and 'NVRAM.'
So yesterday, I'm driving along Highway 118. 80 km/h speed limit.
There's this white van riding my ass. I don't know why, as I'm cruise-controlling at the limit, and the highway is pretty empty.
Eventually he passes me, and sure enough, America plates. Michigan, to be precise.
A minute or two later, I come back across him. He's now stuck behind two cars. The spacing is like this: car1->decent space->car 2->tailgaiting American->decent space->me.
The American keeps having to tap his brakes to keep from running into my poor countryman, who, obviously, is also on cruise.
Eventually, car1 wants to make a left hand turn. So, signals and brakes. Car2 also brakes. American van, at this point, needs to crash-stop, and tries to swerve around the left of car2 to avoid a rear-end collision. This causes him to damn near t-bone car1, who is executing his left turn. So American van tries swerving back to the right, which causes him to damn near sideswipe car2 out of existance. Finally, he gets back behind, and, this is the part that really nuked me, *continues with the tailgaiting.*
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Dragon Age: Origins. Admittedly, OL2 came first.
Well, to be sure, were they of the mind to, they'd likey brick the console by doing a firmware check/upgrade with a new game. Or simply program new games to refuse to run on modded consoles. Point being, it could be done, but isn't.
MS doesn't particularly care if you mod the console; if they did, they'd have bricked the modded consoles instead of simply banning them from Xbox Live.
Actually, the problem with systems (such as Windows) is that when they try to do such things, they get charged with antitrust, get accused of 'bundelling' and 'stifling competition' and all sorts of crap like that.
God help you if your bloodtype is /b/, cuz nobody else can.
Mikrotik RouterOS is multithreaded (there were some interesting bugs back in the early 3.x days, actually.)
If power's a consideration, get a RouterBOARD. A 493 AH will run you less than 300 dollars, with case and power supply, will run at nine volts (but you'll likely want 18 to 24 for every day use, if you throw in a wireless card or two) has 8 ports on a switch chip, and one port not (this is the port you ignore utterly,) and has a 680 mhz CPU, 128 MB of ram, I believe a separate packet processor. RouterOS will do whatever networky task you want it to.
A 433AH is also good if you have your own switches you want to use. Crossgrade to a 450G if you need GIG-E ports.
Yes, you should, as this case is an example of a private company pulling somebody's coverage on a whim. Kind of like that whole American 'prior condition' crap.
Or, to put it another way, the gov't is paying for her hospital/psych visits, tests being done (say she needs a CAT scan or MRI) and what not.
Her private insurance is paying for the fact that she's not at work during all of this. Possibly her prescriptions (which, although far more reasonable in Canada than the States in cost, are still not convered.)
That said, she may or may not qualify for unemployment and the like from the gov't.
I distinctly remember an Archie comic from when I was a kid, so around early to mid 80s. One page, one panel throwaway gag. Archie's mom is in the car, which has a flat. She says 'I think the car needs an oil change. It started making a 'flub-flub-flub' sound.' Archie's dad is facepalming rather violently.
I've had conversations with my mother that go something like:
MOM: I'm trying to install this new version of IE, but it's asking questions that I can't answer.
ME: Such as?
MOM: It says 'Do you want to keep your current settings and preferences?' and had a yes or no button.
ME: Do you want to keep your current settings and preferences?
MOM: Yes, I think it would make sense to.
ME: Ok, so click the 'yes' button.
MOM: OH!
Of course gang-rape is illegal. The idea behind this bill is that the American government might not want to do business with the companies that try to prevent it's employees from availing themselves of said legal system when they are raped by their coworkers.
Given that thirty Conservative senators voted against a gang-rape-prevention bill recently....
Nah, look at the chainmail on shoulders, for example. Straight flat texture of a picture of chainmail with shadows and stuff drawn in.
A few things that really jumped out at me:
1: The bad: this was pretty obviously an Xbox game originally. That's why people bitch about the graphics. Details on armour and what not are just textures. No bump mapping or whatever the kids are using these days. If a shield has a hide with a coat-of-arms strapped onto the front, it's a flat texture with a picture of a hide with a coat-of-arms. Doesn't cut it these days.
2: The good: No arbitrary alignment axis. If you're mean to person X, person X doesn't like you. You don't get pushed to renegade/The Dark Side/Evil/whatever overall. This makes for much more realistic sorts of interactions. For example, and ever-so-mild and obfuscated spoilers ahoy: (skip the next paragraph if you don't want them)
Yeah, when I'm trying to save a kid from demonic posession without sacrificing his mother in a blood magic ritual, you're damn right I'm going to be slightly less kind with the ferryman who's not letting me get to the island I need to get to.
Ah, but it's not that simple.
Lets use a simple paraphrased example. Party A says 'Hey, lets spend umpity million dollars to give body armour to our troops.' Party B says 'Great, but lets, on that spending bill, also give 2 umpity million dollars worth of tax cuts to the wealthiest one percent of the nation.' Party A says 'Um, no.' Party B says, to the media, 'HOLY SHIT! PARTY A REFUSES TO SPEND MONEY ON OUR TROOPS!'
You raise a very valid point that the intent of a lot of the 'Congress shall not' clauses are supposed to have, mentally inserted, 'but the States can do whatever the fuck they want.'
If Alabama wants the Ten Commandments chiselled into the court buildings, Alabama is supposed to be able to do that. Congress has no say in it.
Now, the problem is that America is designed to be many things that it isn't. And because a) there's no system in place for the things that it is, and b) America tends to view the Constitution as a sacred, inflexible document, even while it ignores it utterly, America has a lot more trouble than it would otherwise.
I'll give you a relativly non-inflammatory example. America's political system was designed with the idea that there's no such thing as a Poltical Party. Reps are supposed to vote their concience and their electorate's wills on every single thing as if it's separate and distinct.
However, parties arose. And becaues America's system makes zero provisions for parties, it can't deal with them properly, and you wind up with a two party, at the throats, 'if you're against abortion, you're also pro gun,' polarized and no place to go but further apart system.
Governments that *are* designed with parties in mind, however, can deal with them much more efficiently.
Now look at socialism. America claims to be against the idea (just take a look at this thread!) but is, in reality, socialist. SS, Medicade, public highways, blah blah blah. You really can't have a modern nation without some form of this. So, while America claims to be ruggedly individualistic, and so on, when it then needs to act in a socialist manner, way more effort and treasure are spent than if America had simply put 'socialist' bits into the government originally. Example: Katrina. If America were not socialist in fact, why did federal public money go to disaster relief? But because America is not socialist 'in theory,' it was confused, inefficient, and wasteful.
Healthcare is the same. America *will* have socialized health care. It is inevitable. But in attempting to make it as 'unsocialist' as possible, America will fuck it up, cause it to be incredibly wasteful, inefficient, and useless, then point at it as an example of how bad Socialism is.
(Join me for my next lecture, in which I demonstrate that America should break up into about six separate countries.)
Generally, you don't run the forensics software on the target computer; that would be stupid.
Generally, you pull the hard drive out of the target computer, plug it into a drive duplicator (which can be a simple as a PC with an IDE cable missing the write pins), mount the duplicate, and scan it. No executables on the duplicate are actually executed.
The purpose of a firewall is to filter traffic on open ports. Without a firewall, *all* ports are open, even if there are no daemons listening on them. When you install new software, you are potentially installing a daemon, or a client software. Some people like having firewalls that do the proper job of also filtering outbound traffic.
The most foolproof safety system which could ever be installed in a car would be a naked eight-inch blade in the center of the steering column, pointed directly at the driver's chest.
Parapharsed, badly.
Silly Wright Bros! Everybody knows that if God intended men to fly, he'd have given them wings!
Silly Marconi! Everybody knows it takes a message WEEKS to get across the Atlantic on a stout steamer! This concept of the message somehow magically flying through the air is preposterous!
Silly Semelweiss! A doctor not washing his hands couldn't POSSIBLY prevent fevers and illness in his patients!
My iPhone with the TomTom North America app *is* a standalone GPS. It requires no network connection whatsoever to run once it's loaded.
No way I'd want something that requires net access to work, though.
That said, the iPhone's GPS chip is crap. Cruising along the TransCanada towards Ottawa, clear sunny blue sky from horizon to horizon, and it's still suddenly deciding I'm on a side road several hundred meters to the right? Crap. Hey, Apple, throw in a serial Bluetooth profile so I can use my Bluetooth GPS keychain with a frighteningly better GPS chip in it.
(Actually, I'm going to drink the TomTom Car Kit koolaid. If it ever comes out.)
RAM is in no way considered, intrinsically, to be volitile or non-volitile. Simply that it's random access; that is, you can seek within it. You don't need to start at the first bit and read until you find what you want.
I draw your attention to the terms 'flash ram' and 'NVRAM.'
Winner! This looks pretty awesome.
Nice. I apparently don't share your opinons of the GPL, so I'm obviously an astroturfer.
Guess we can't discuss the BSD or Apache licenses, then.
Came for the references to Robert J. Sawyer's Neanderthal Parallax. Left sad. Hugo winner, fer chrissakes.
So yesterday, I'm driving along Highway 118. 80 km/h speed limit.
There's this white van riding my ass. I don't know why, as I'm cruise-controlling at the limit, and the highway is pretty empty.
Eventually he passes me, and sure enough, America plates. Michigan, to be precise.
A minute or two later, I come back across him. He's now stuck behind two cars. The spacing is like this: car1->decent space->car 2->tailgaiting American->decent space->me.
The American keeps having to tap his brakes to keep from running into my poor countryman, who, obviously, is also on cruise.
Eventually, car1 wants to make a left hand turn. So, signals and brakes. Car2 also brakes. American van, at this point, needs to crash-stop, and tries to swerve around the left of car2 to avoid a rear-end collision. This causes him to damn near t-bone car1, who is executing his left turn. So American van tries swerving back to the right, which causes him to damn near sideswipe car2 out of existance. Finally, he gets back behind, and, this is the part that really nuked me, *continues with the tailgaiting.*