The Z-80 added block i/o and block move instructions, along with a mirror register set. Mostly, one would avoid these instructions to provide compatibility for the 8080-using luddites of the time. Sure, it was possible to detect. We would opt for smaller code size many times as 64K was the limit unless of course the machine was of the nifty bank-switching variety. Every byte used by the BIOS took away from CP/M's TPA (Transient Program Area, the limit on the size of the application). BITD, some vendors beat out the competition on TPA size alone.
The mirror register set was a real bonus over the 8080. It took only a handful of clock cycles, and was way cheaper than pushing/popping in an ISR.
the alarming thing this time is the Linux guys adopting the Microsoft methodology for patching leaks. sit on their ass while boxes get rooted and release the patch when the "agree" to do it. don't tell anyone who might just code a patch into the source themselves. can't have that, can we?
My granddad has 15 battle stars for his service aboard the USS Washington in WWII. Iwojima, Guadalcanal, etc. He would tell me these stories about how they had to protect the world and our freedom from evil. He told me how his commanders trained him to believe the Japanese were yellow-skinned monkeys. Spotting the obvious propaganda, and through pacifist tendencies, I labelled him a warmonger. I really wanted to believe all people are intelligent and have goodness in their hearts, and can resolve their conflicts by talking things through, and war was the folly of arrogant men. The truth is, until recently, I never lived in a place that even remotely resembled his memories of the world prior to WWII. As I lay utterly astonished and barely awake in my bed, watching the WTC Towers burn and collapse, I instantly understood what he and others had fought for. I now respect him (and all those old drunk guys I saw at the ship reunion). Please do not label me as one who disparages the memory of those who gave their lives so we could live in freedom. I may not have always been grateful for them, all I can say is that I will be grateful for the rest of my life.
Sorry for the -dash- of a conspiracy theory here, but I really wonder what the spooks have on these guys. The thought that McAfee, Symantec, et.al. could be implicated for obstructing an investigation is absurd. Well, maybe not with John Ashcroft-Hitler running the DoJ. Anyway, back to my point. Here's an opinion from a judge who upheld a citizens' right to use a radar detector:
If government seeks to use clandestine and furtive methods to monitor citizen actions, it can ill afford to complain should the citizen insist on a method to effect his right to know he is under such surveillance.
Judge Joseph Ryan, Superior Court, District of Columbia
Granted, its only a district court, however it is a compelling opinion, and a brilliant interpretation of the Fourth Amendment. IR detection/imaging and monitoring utility bills have been tossed out on similar grounds. I wonder what AVP is going to choose... Perhaps this is a great opportunity for Free Software, I just wonder how a free software anti-virus lab would work. Anyway, end of my rant.
Not even close, dude. An ATI user actually receives the performance gains while playing Quake in this case. In your example, the user is sold a "bill of goods", believing they receive a performance benefit when they actually do not.
The real problem here is that so many of the cry babies in the world of 3D benchmarking want to benchmark xyz 3D app by proxy, accepting the Quake3 benchmark as the golden rule. Obviously, this is their own folly, and they really ought to accept responsbility for THAT rather than blaming ATI for optimizing performance for what is arguably the most popular 3D app on the market. Reading through Carmack's diatribe on the topic, I hear him saying that different apps and even different versions of the same app will perform differently. To me, this strongly suggests each pertinent application needs to be benchmarked individually, rather than by proxy. Well, if one really wants to know what is going on, that is.
The problem is accepting the Q3 benchmark alone. Savvy buyers should also take other raw benchmarks into consideration before plunking down their cash.
I'll second that motion, and add, too many times the editorializing comes off as some inexperienced snot-nosed crybaby crap. At times as I read some of the rants on the front page, I think to myself, "Grow the fuck up!"
Don't mean to piss in yer bangers and tomatoes there lad. The Brits may have helped spawn the CIA, but we all know it was the Nazis that made the CIA what it is today.
I agree. When I heard that the Apple invitations to the press conference read "This coming Tuesday, Apple invites you to the unveiling of a breakthrough digital device", I was expecting at the minimum practical speaker independent voice recognition, and at the extreme, some kind of direct neural interface. This is such a letdown. There is nothing "breakthrough" about streamlining an interface, reducing the size and upping the bandwidth on what have basically become commodity items. The size is cool and so's the design and all that. IMO, they should have released this before the new PB's. Now, _THAT_ got me excited. I had a really hard time keeping my credit cards in my pocket last week. WHEW! The only reason I don't have one of them 133Mhz monsters right now is I decided to wait for the DVD/CDRW combo drive. After all that frenzy last week, this iPod thing sort of lets the air out of my Apple tires, so to speak.
Yes, and everyone knows that the kernel local root exploits will rip holes in your box big enough to drive a truck through, almost exactly the same type of problem that makes IIS vulnerable to CodeRed et.al. worms.
(NOTE: extreme sarcasm, I'm getting reeeeeelly tired of ETITKU (every twit in the known universe) comparing these local root exploits to IIS. It is way harder to utilize these exploits. Even if running sshd w/ password authentication, you still have to break a password prior to gaining entry, much more detectable and preventable than injecting a nifty little root exploit via a GET a'la CodeRed)
except for the surveillance cams and firewall logs at the library. probably not too big a deal for library to spit images out regularly to biometric systems at FBI offices. next step CIA and NSA "acquire" cybercafes.
and don't forget that thing that looks like an eye on the front of your TiVO... =)
Probably if they spent as much money investing in supercomputers as implementing this proposed law, they might be able to approach real-time decryption of messages. They can look to Google for a good example of building an inexpensive supercomputer. They could probably implement a "Private Key Cache" [Patent Pending, BTW] to try on subsequent messages from the same sender before resorting to other methods.
Exactly. Steganography is a much more effective tool for facilitating covert communication. That's why spies have been using it for decades, posting personal ads in the paper or signs on a telephone pole, or just a book code.
I think rather than ScriptKiddies, it will be these mythical, supposedly Russian CyberMafia[tm] guys, you know, the ones who hack for dollars by breaking into e-commerce sites and getting card numbers, will probably invest in a beowulf cluster and mount an attack on the cypher to discover the backdoor, whether it's a master key or an algorithm.
Chances are the terrorists didn't use encrypted email. Why would these obviously intelligent albeit extremely evil perpetrators risk having their messages intercepted and cracked by US spooks? They met face-to-face to formulate their plans, in caves or rooms with blacked-out windows and the stereo blasting. They might have used the 'net to find the more lightly loaded flights, and then again, maybe they just went to the airport and hung around watching the crowds.
You are correct, Amendments to The Constitution have no jurisdiction in any way shape or form over anything. It is judges and law enforcement agencies that possess jurisdiction. If M$ attempts to enforce this EULA, the recipient of such action would have a healthy First Amendment argument, quite possibly rendering their EULA unenforceable. IANAL, but by best friend is, and he said in a blink of an eye that it was probably unenforceable. M$ is not actually trampling anybody's rights until they attempt to enforce this silly EULA, so it is my guess they probably hope some people to willingly surrender their rights to criticize Microsoft.
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"What rock has he been smoking" is perhaps more appropriate.
I believe the UI on this thing is more of the "Switches and Lamps" variety.
TiVo also patented 'a simple and reliable method for connecting TiVo DVRs and other streaming media devices to a network in the home,'
Wonder what Tridge has to say about this?
Yep, the 8080 came first. The Z-80 second.
The Z-80 added block i/o and block move instructions, along with a mirror register set. Mostly, one would avoid these instructions to provide compatibility for the 8080-using luddites of the time. Sure, it was possible to detect. We would opt for smaller code size many times as 64K was the limit unless of course the machine was of the nifty bank-switching variety. Every byte used by the BIOS took away from CP/M's TPA (Transient Program Area, the limit on the size of the application). BITD, some vendors beat out the competition on TPA size alone.
The mirror register set was a real bonus over the 8080. It took only a handful of clock cycles, and was way cheaper than pushing/popping in an ISR.
I like the "Network Switch Blade" the best.
Like they did with BIND 8.2.3? I had all my systems patched within hours of reading about it. Now _THAT_ was some good service.
the alarming thing this time is the Linux guys adopting the Microsoft methodology for patching leaks. sit on their ass while boxes get rooted and release the patch when the "agree" to do it. don't tell anyone who might just code a patch into the source themselves. can't have that, can we?
My granddad has 15 battle stars for his service aboard the USS Washington in WWII. Iwojima, Guadalcanal, etc. He would tell me these stories about how they had to protect the world and our freedom from evil. He told me how his commanders trained him to believe the Japanese were yellow-skinned monkeys. Spotting the obvious propaganda, and through pacifist tendencies, I labelled him a warmonger. I really wanted to believe all people are intelligent and have goodness in their hearts, and can resolve their conflicts by talking things through, and war was the folly of arrogant men. The truth is, until recently, I never lived in a place that even remotely resembled his memories of the world prior to WWII. As I lay utterly astonished and barely awake in my bed, watching the WTC Towers burn and collapse, I instantly understood what he and others had fought for. I now respect him (and all those old drunk guys I saw at the ship reunion). Please do not label me as one who disparages the memory of those who gave their lives so we could live in freedom. I may not have always been grateful for them, all I can say is that I will be grateful for the rest of my life.
comment[2625381] =~ s/Hitler/Mussolini/g; =)
(More appropriate too, Ashcroft really is more of a fascist than a nazi), and I will politely refrain from the use of the word nazi in the future.
If government seeks to use clandestine and furtive methods to monitor citizen actions, it can ill afford to complain should the citizen insist on a method to effect his right to know he is under such surveillance.
Judge Joseph Ryan, Superior Court, District of Columbia
Granted, its only a district court, however it is a compelling opinion, and a brilliant interpretation of the Fourth Amendment. IR detection/imaging and monitoring utility bills have been tossed out on similar grounds. I wonder what AVP is going to choose... Perhaps this is a great opportunity for Free Software, I just wonder how a free software anti-virus lab would work. Anyway, end of my rant.
I read him saying: technically it's good, but morally it's wrong.
The real problem here is that so many of the cry babies in the world of 3D benchmarking want to benchmark xyz 3D app by proxy, accepting the Quake3 benchmark as the golden rule. Obviously, this is their own folly, and they really ought to accept responsbility for THAT rather than blaming ATI for optimizing performance for what is arguably the most popular 3D app on the market. Reading through Carmack's diatribe on the topic, I hear him saying that different apps and even different versions of the same app will perform differently. To me, this strongly suggests each pertinent application needs to be benchmarked individually, rather than by proxy. Well, if one really wants to know what is going on, that is.
The problem is accepting the Q3 benchmark alone. Savvy buyers should also take other raw benchmarks into consideration before plunking down their cash.
I'll second that motion, and add, too many times the editorializing comes off as some inexperienced snot-nosed crybaby crap. At times as I read some of the rants on the front page, I think to myself, "Grow the fuck up!"
Don't mean to piss in yer bangers and tomatoes there lad. The Brits may have helped spawn the CIA, but we all know it was the Nazis that made the CIA what it is today.
I agree. When I heard that the Apple invitations to the press conference read "This coming Tuesday, Apple invites you to the unveiling of a breakthrough digital device", I was expecting at the minimum practical speaker independent voice recognition, and at the extreme, some kind of direct neural interface. This is such a letdown. There is nothing "breakthrough" about streamlining an interface, reducing the size and upping the bandwidth on what have basically become commodity items. The size is cool and so's the design and all that. IMO, they should have released this before the new PB's. Now, _THAT_ got me excited. I had a really hard time keeping my credit cards in my pocket last week. WHEW! The only reason I don't have one of them 133Mhz monsters right now is I decided to wait for the DVD/CDRW combo drive. After all that frenzy last week, this iPod thing sort of lets the air out of my Apple tires, so to speak.
Yes, and everyone knows that the kernel local root exploits will rip holes in your box big enough to drive a truck through, almost exactly the same type of problem that makes IIS vulnerable to CodeRed et.al. worms.
(NOTE: extreme sarcasm, I'm getting reeeeeelly tired of ETITKU (every twit in the known universe) comparing these local root exploits to IIS. It is way harder to utilize these exploits. Even if running sshd w/ password authentication, you still have to break a password prior to gaining entry, much more detectable and preventable than injecting a nifty little root exploit via a GET a'la CodeRed)
WTF?
and don't forget that thing that looks like an eye on the front of your TiVO... =)
yeah, and that's what cranking it up to like 11 is for
Probably if they spent as much money investing in supercomputers as implementing this proposed law, they might be able to approach real-time decryption of messages. They can look to Google for a good example of building an inexpensive supercomputer. They could probably implement a "Private Key Cache" [Patent Pending, BTW] to try on subsequent messages from the same sender before resorting to other methods.
Exactly. Steganography is a much more effective tool for facilitating covert communication. That's why spies have been using it for decades, posting personal ads in the paper or signs on a telephone pole, or just a book code.
I think rather than ScriptKiddies, it will be these mythical, supposedly Russian CyberMafia[tm] guys, you know, the ones who hack for dollars by breaking into e-commerce sites and getting card numbers, will probably invest in a beowulf cluster and mount an attack on the cypher to discover the backdoor, whether it's a master key or an algorithm.
Chances are the terrorists didn't use encrypted email. Why would these obviously intelligent albeit extremely evil perpetrators risk having their messages intercepted and cracked by US spooks? They met face-to-face to formulate their plans, in caves or rooms with blacked-out windows and the stereo blasting. They might have used the 'net to find the more lightly loaded flights, and then again, maybe they just went to the airport and hung around watching the crowds.
You are correct, Amendments to The Constitution have no jurisdiction in any way shape or form over anything. It is judges and law enforcement agencies that possess jurisdiction. If M$ attempts to enforce this EULA, the recipient of such action would have a healthy First Amendment argument, quite possibly rendering their EULA unenforceable. IANAL, but by best friend is, and he said in a blink of an eye that it was probably unenforceable. M$ is not actually trampling anybody's rights until they attempt to enforce this silly EULA, so it is my guess they probably hope some people to willingly surrender their rights to criticize Microsoft.
I believe the 1st Amemendment to The Constitution of The United States of America trumps M$ new EULA.