"Common sense isn't." In headlines or in similar contexts, there is a rhetorical device (I forget what it's called) of leaving off the predicate noun of a "to be" verb. In general, the missing predicate noun can be replaced with "what {it is|they are} commonly thought to be." In this case, "digital signatures aren't" signatures.
Easy. It would be really hard for a bot to recognize the image on the screen; image recognition isn't that advanced. Plus, doesn't X11 have some support for input device authentication?
This means that the server should never send data to the client that the human should not have access to, and the server should accept any command that make sense in the current game state.
The only way to make sure the players see only what they're supposed to see is if the data sent from the server to the player is the current state of the framebuffer. Otherwise, how is the player supposed to not know what's happening right behind a wall?
Would 16-bit XORs work? Or would someone find a way to analyze all 65k combinations for consistency and break through in sufficient time to gain an advantage?
Your 500 MHz box can execute approximately 2^29 cycles per second. There are 2^16 distinct encryption keys. Provided a key takes less than 2^(29 - 16) ~= 8000 CPU cycles to check, a patched client can crack the protocol in one second.
Besides, if the client is copylefted Free software, the crypto is Free too and can be cracked quite easily (commented C/Python/Java/etc. is a lot easier to read than uncommented assembly).
But consider what reflex augmentation could do in Warcraft 2, for example. One could write a script that caused the "mouse" to "click" on your Town Hall and Barracks, automatically creating peons and ogres at a set rate, while you controlled everything else.
Oh, you mean like Starcraft? Moral: If you find a bug, find some way to turn it into a feature.
If you're tired of the old GNOME vs. KDE flamewar, take out your frustration on a friend in GNOME vs. KDE: Battle of the Desktops for the NES. (Get a GPL'd NES emulator for GNU/Linux86 systems with X11 here.)
ObTopic: I've tried both (KDE on a Slack box and GNOME on a Red Hat box); they're both quite nice, and they're both Free. The creation of the KDE League (learn to spell, Rob!) and the GNOME Foundation show that there will be friendly competition. This is a Good Thing.
There is still a hard-working nesdev community developing NES software. I am a member of this community, and I have developed some NES software myself.
So you wish you had mod points right now. How would you like to have mod points all the time? Look at Kuro5hin. Every logged-in user can rate every comment between Score=1 and Score=5. In systems like Half-empty's Glasscode and Everything, every user can rate every comment +1 or -1 (like on Slashdot).
2 -- an expert system powerful enough to comprehend and categorize musical information, that could tell a licensed recording of Mozart from a bootleg NIN concert, i.e. practically full-blown Artificial Intelligence.
Convert the.ogg,.mp3, etc. to.wav or some other transparent linear PCM format.
Use a low-pass filter to go down to the low frequencies where the bass line lives.
Use a similar algorithm to the "beat finder" in many XMMS/Winamp plugins, along with the Fourier transform, to reduce the wave to a list of notes being played.
Taking into account transpositions and speed changes, pattern match with MIDI files from the ASCAP, SESAC, BMI, and RIAA libraries.
Sue.
This technique also would have caught "Ice Ice Baby" (really "Under Pressure") and "Come As You Are" (really "Eighties").
[Qt is] truly Free, so you can port it yourself if you want to. There's a lot of Unix-only Free software, I don't hear you moaning about how GNOME only runs on Unix.
But this means you have to do the work of porting Qt. The work of porting GTK+ is already mostly done.
Or to put it another way: Qt makes a fellow choose two out of three from the set {free software, available now, available on both Windows and POSIX+X11}. Until the WinXFree86 team figures out how to work around 16-bit code in Windows 9x GDI (XF86 pretty much works in NT), those three attributes are available in GTK+.
We don't have a resolution independent operating systems/applications
Under Windows 9x, right-click on the desktop (unless you are using a web page with Active Desktop and a JavaScript [right-click trap]) and choose Properties. In the Settings tab, click Advanced. In the General tab, choose Font Size: Other... and crank the res up to 192 dpi.
The Open Publication License 1.0 covering this book can be./configured as a free or non-free license. The base Open Publication License 1.0 is free; the OPL with either of the Section VI options is not free.
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Your Linux news sites on OSDN are Linux.com and NewsForge. Slashdot is just News for Nerds. Stuff that matters.
And yes, both BSD and LSD came out of Berkeley.
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If you install AIM 4, you waive your right to use free(speech) third-party clients!
There's a clause in the AIM 4.x license that states roughly, "You may not use third-party clients on the AIM servers," which is why I clicked Cancel instead of Agree in the AIM 4 installer and downloaded a Jabber client for my winbox.
unless you think microsoft might port it's window's APIs
This, in a thread whose subject is one letter away from WINE? The WINE project has been creating a free reference implementation of WinAPI that will be very useful for creating.NET class libraries.
if you're an enemy, will you have an easier time figuring out software running on a Linux OS running using an x86 variant or a completely closed system?
For the last time, obscurity is not security! The enemy military can probably crack an instruction set real fast.
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"Common sense isn't." In headlines or in similar contexts, there is a rhetorical device (I forget what it's called) of leaving off the predicate noun of a "to be" verb. In general, the missing predicate noun can be replaced with "what {it is|they are} commonly thought to be." In this case, "digital signatures aren't" signatures.
- the software was finalized at 4:13 PM, and a user surfed until 2:13 AM, or
- Windows can't handle the fact that the system clock is set to UTC (British time), or
- The developers are nocturnal like owls.
In other words, who gives a hoot?Easy. It would be really hard for a bot to recognize the image on the screen; image recognition isn't that advanced. Plus, doesn't X11 have some support for input device authentication?
The object of the game [Nomic] is to change the rules so that you're the only winner.
This means that the server should never send data to the client that the human should not have access to, and the server should accept any command that make sense in the current game state.
The only way to make sure the players see only what they're supposed to see is if the data sent from the server to the player is the current state of the framebuffer. Otherwise, how is the player supposed to not know what's happening right behind a wall?
Would 16-bit XORs work? Or would someone find a way to analyze all 65k combinations for consistency and break through in sufficient time to gain an advantage?
Your 500 MHz box can execute approximately 2^29 cycles per second. There are 2^16 distinct encryption keys. Provided a key takes less than 2^(29 - 16) ~= 8000 CPU cycles to check, a patched client can crack the protocol in one second.
Besides, if the client is copylefted Free software, the crypto is Free too and can be cracked quite easily (commented C/Python/Java/etc. is a lot easier to read than uncommented assembly).
the same psychological conditioning scheme that makes old ladies spend their retirement checks all day at slot machines and BINGO games.
What kind of bingo games? You mean the GNOME vs. KDE bingo game for NES? I've seen a four-year-old beat several "old ladies" at that one.
But consider what reflex augmentation could do in Warcraft 2, for example. One could write a script that caused the "mouse" to "click" on your Town Hall and Barracks, automatically creating peons and ogres at a set rate, while you controlled everything else.
Oh, you mean like Starcraft? Moral: If you find a bug, find some way to turn it into a feature.
If you're tired of the old GNOME vs. KDE flamewar, take out your frustration on a friend in GNOME vs. KDE: Battle of the Desktops for the NES. (Get a GPL'd NES emulator for GNU/Linux86 systems with X11 here.)
ObTopic: I've tried both (KDE on a Slack box and GNOME on a Red Hat box); they're both quite nice, and they're both Free. The creation of the KDE League (learn to spell, Rob!) and the GNOME Foundation show that there will be friendly competition. This is a Good Thing.
There is a third-party portable NES, and it's called the Game Axe. Read more here and here.
There is still a hard-working nesdev community developing NES software. I am a member of this community, and I have developed some NES software myself.
Remember 3d tictactoe? It had three dimensions (up a square, right a square, right a block of squares). This maze adds a fourth (up a row).
So you wish you had mod points right now. How would you like to have mod points all the time? Look at Kuro5hin. Every logged-in user can rate every comment between Score=1 and Score=5. In systems like Half-empty's Glasscode and Everything, every user can rate every comment +1 or -1 (like on Slashdot).
the following is illegal: Pictures of genital or anal region of any person under the age of 18.
So how are pediatricians supposed to learn how to treat diseases in that area of a child's body?
2 -- an expert system powerful enough to comprehend and categorize musical information, that could tell a licensed recording of Mozart from a bootleg NIN concert, i.e. practically full-blown Artificial Intelligence.
- Convert the
.ogg, .mp3, etc. to .wav or some other transparent linear PCM format.
- Use a low-pass filter to go down to the low frequencies where the bass line lives.
- Use a similar algorithm to the "beat finder" in many XMMS/Winamp plugins, along with the Fourier transform, to reduce the wave to a list of notes being played.
- Taking into account transpositions and speed changes, pattern match with MIDI files from the ASCAP, SESAC, BMI, and RIAA libraries.
- Sue.
This technique also would have caught "Ice Ice Baby" (really "Under Pressure") and "Come As You Are" (really "Eighties").[Qt is] truly Free, so you can port it yourself if you want to. There's a lot of Unix-only Free software, I don't hear you moaning about how GNOME only runs on Unix.
But this means you have to do the work of porting Qt. The work of porting GTK+ is already mostly done.
Or to put it another way: Qt makes a fellow choose two out of three from the set {free software, available now, available on both Windows and POSIX+X11}. Until the WinXFree86 team figures out how to work around 16-bit code in Windows 9x GDI (XF86 pretty much works in NT), those three attributes are available in GTK+.
The reason for your existance died when Qt became GPL.
Not necessarily. What if you don't want to code in C++? Making language bindings for Qt isn't as easy as for GTK+.
Want to continue the flamewar on the NES?We don't have a resolution independent operating systems/applications
Under Windows 9x, right-click on the desktop (unless you are using a web page with Active Desktop and a JavaScript [right-click trap]) and choose Properties. In the Settings tab, click Advanced. In the General tab, choose Font Size: Other... and crank the res up to 192 dpi.
The Open Publication License 1.0 covering this book can be ./configured as a free or non-free license. The base Open Publication License 1.0 is free; the OPL with either of the Section VI options is not free.
Your Linux news sites on OSDN are Linux.com and NewsForge. Slashdot is just News for Nerds. Stuff that matters.
And yes, both BSD and LSD came out of Berkeley.
If you install AIM 4, you waive your right to use free(speech) third-party clients!
There's a clause in the AIM 4.x license that states roughly, "You may not use third-party clients on the AIM servers," which is why I clicked Cancel instead of Agree in the AIM 4 installer and downloaded a Jabber client for my winbox.
unless you think microsoft might port it's window's APIs
This, in a thread whose subject is one letter away from WINE? The WINE project has been creating a free reference implementation of WinAPI that will be very useful for creating .NET class libraries.
if you're an enemy, will you have an easier time figuring out software running on a Linux OS running using an x86 variant or a completely closed system?
For the last time, obscurity is not security! The enemy military can probably crack an instruction set real fast.
[EDB] uses [Everything].
If the free(beer) Napster Network goes away, there are always other Napster-compatible networks running free(speech) server software and client software.