... that they can't acquire the game some other way if they really wanted to.
I didn't realize "making sure computer games are readily available to soldiers" was a priority of the US military, much less a priority for a private company who themselves have the freedom to do what they want.
"We're fighting for your freedoms, just don't exercise them."
Plus, American companies are shackled to the fact that they have to make a profit quarter per quarter, or shareholders can sue the company in the ground.
And I have to make monthly mortgage payments or the bank will take my house away. See me complaining?
If you don't want to be shackled by shareholders, don't trade your shares publicly. As a public company you are subject to the investing acumen and superstitions of the general public -- you're basically taking a loan from thousands of "John Smiths." And of course these people just want to see profitability in the short term.
If I came in here bitching about losing my house because I couldn't keep my creditors happy, you'd tell me to grow up, and if I didn't want to be subject to their whims, maybe I should finance my home myself. But when the same thing happens to a corporation you pity the poor little corporation. Weird.
You have one big fat apple "sticker" on the back. With that everybody knows your are a Apple whore. It's like a t-shirt with coca cola commercial that you have to wear everywhere.
Yeah, it's totally shocking. What the hell comes next, Coca Cola putting their logo on bottles of Coke? Jesus, what has the world come to.
Not paying has nothing to do with it. I think most people are happy to have a reasonable excuse to take a day off from the daily grind.
If sitting in a courtroom is preferable to sitting at work, then your job REALLY sucks. I can't think of too many places I'd like even less than being in court, and work certainly isn't one of them.
Such a thing would not be possible with current computer architectures, even if we had the materials. There is a fundamental theorem in physics/computing that the destruction of information causes an increase in entropy, i.e. generates heat. Thus, an information-destroying gate such as AND can never be completely free of inefficiency simply because it destroys information (if the output of AND is 0, you cannot tell if the input was 00, 01, or 10, therefore information was destroyed). Regardless of whether the components themselves are 100% efficient, the computing process must, in some manner, increase entropy by destroying information. The solution is reversible computing.
So, the official line is, if I see a suspicious unidentified device sitting around somewhere, I should NOT report it because it's probably just a police thing. Great, I'll keep that in mind.
NX doesn't protect you from much of anything. Modern exploit techniques like ROP easily defeat NX. If you can cause a stack based overflow, you can execute arbitrary code, regardless of NX. It just isn't QUITE as straightforward as it used to be.
Are automobile drivers somehow less capable of tapping on the horn if they see a pedestrian they could be in danger of hitting than cyclists are?
I don't know about how capable they are, but they are less likely to do so. So your two options are 1) create vast social change or 2) install a device on the cars. Which one sounds more feasible?
Are they going to require these for bicycles as well then?
The law in most places already requires bicyclists to give an audible notice when approaching or passing. I've seen the cops hand out tickets for failing to do so. Getting pulled over on a bike is embarrassing, don't let it happen to you.
So this is just the automotive world finally catching up to how we've done it with bicycles for many years already.
The bicyclist is supposed to give a... wait for it now... audible cue when approaching a pedestrian or passing another cyclist. As in, ringing a bell or shouting "passing on the left." Welcome to reality -- you seem new here.
I mean, it was kind of obvious, how can you trust a library or sample code some unknown guy wrote when you yourself, the master developer, can do the optimal implementation yourself.
Translation: "I am a better program than any other programmer on Earth." Yeah, right.
With open source, you have many eyes looking at the code. If there is a subtle bug it will more easily be found by 10,000 people looking at it rather than 10 or 20.
Subtle bugs are found in closed source code by single individuals every day, then exploited for malicious purposes. I don't get you people. On the one hand, you bitch about DRM, saying "It only gets in the way of legitimate users -- no matter how complex you make the DRM, somebody will be able to figure out how it works and defeat it" -- this is an attitude of inevitability. On the other hand, someone dares to release a closed source driver for a piece of hardware and you act as if all the expert reverse engineers in the world simply poofed out of existence "It's closed source, we'll never be able to figure it out!" -- this is an attitude of hopelessness.
So, which is it, folks? Is the world full of intelligent reverse engineers who can figure out how anything works or isn't it? If you think some technologies are simply too difficult to reverse engineer, then why do you claim that all DRM is breakable? Help me understand.
I do not think the sound adds anything, myself. The visuals could be helpful if played more slowly, but the sound? It does not help me, and as used in TFA, it is even an annoying noise.
An old boss of mine used to work on a large computer which was used to control the activities inside a sawmill. It was made up of several thousand magnetic reed relays to perform the logic. The program itself was keyed into the system via about 1000 throw switches. The entire machine was devoid of silicon. This was pretty "old school." When the "code" was updated and a bug was introduced, he was often able to diagnose the bug by listening to the buzzing, clacking and whirring of the relay switches opening and closing. Stuck in an infinite loop somewhere? That made a "bzzz chicka chicka brr brr bzzz chicka chicka brr brr" sound. Is bit 6 of the program counter register stuck at zero due to a wiring fault? Why, it goes "whacka chunka whacka chunka whacka chunka..." After months of experience, he was able to characterize the internal state of the control program simply by listening to the sound of the machine. Don't discount the value of all possible input modalities when trying to understand how something works.
Way #3: Inferior cable with sub-par shielding causes interference with a nearby analog conductor, putting noise on the line.
To make the example more extreme, suppose I lob grenades at you once per second. When I want to send a 0 bit, I throw a dud grenade. When I want to send a 1 bit, I throw a live grenade. Sure, the transmission is "digital" but it has a significant effect on other things around the communications channel. Namely, blowing them the fuck up.
I'm a fungus afficionado, if there is such a thing, and here I was all excited that they'd actually made some progress explaining how the fungus causes the ants to carry out such very specific behaviors. And the summary made it sound like that... But it basically boiled down to a sentence or two at the end of the article saying "We think the fungus uses some kind of chemicals on the ants. We don't really know." What a bunch of bullshit.
So, giving system administrators a decent opportunity to triage and sequence their patches and updates in a way that causes less disruption to their users while minimizing actual risk, is something you just don't give a crap about? Is it cold up there on your mountain top?
When I interview these recent grads and see nothing out there, I wonder, did they have NO life or did they manage to erase their past?
I am too busy living my life to spend any time whoring it out on social sites to thousands of people I don't even know. But I suppose having a sense of privacy makes me some kind of sociopath with skeletons in the closet. I don't understand the need some people have to tell everybody every thing they do. Do you also have sex with every person who happens to come within 10 feet of you? Why the hell are people so promiscuous with their "friendship?"
Do the Linux developers put a news announcement out every time there is a bug
No, but all changes to the kernel are documented in the changelog. And security-related bugs are treated the same as any other bugs. They are not explicitly called out as being security related. Linus has been pretty clear on this in the past. A bug is a bug, period. The fact that it's security related is uninteresting (to him, at least).
I think that's a weird attitude but that's what we've got.
Even the best stuff I've ever read barely reached $0.17 per page value. Every once in a while you might get a page that's worth $100, but these days you'd just find that data on Google. Maybe it was true in the past, but in the modern era it's hard to pack that kind of value into printed material. No matter how good an authority you are.
They don't know how LUCKY they are that it was "Medium" and not "Lowest" or something lower. I'm in charge of 5 sites, most having over 100 computers on campus, with one other person.
Wow man. You're SOOOOO important that you're doing.... tech support. For people with broken sound cards.
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... that they can't acquire the game some other way if they really wanted to.
I didn't realize "making sure computer games are readily available to soldiers" was a priority of the US military, much less a priority for a private company who themselves have the freedom to do what they want.
"We're fighting for your freedoms, just don't exercise them."
Plus, American companies are shackled to the fact that they have to make a profit quarter per quarter, or shareholders can sue the company in the ground.
And I have to make monthly mortgage payments or the bank will take my house away. See me complaining?
If you don't want to be shackled by shareholders, don't trade your shares publicly. As a public company you are subject to the investing acumen and superstitions of the general public -- you're basically taking a loan from thousands of "John Smiths." And of course these people just want to see profitability in the short term.
If I came in here bitching about losing my house because I couldn't keep my creditors happy, you'd tell me to grow up, and if I didn't want to be subject to their whims, maybe I should finance my home myself. But when the same thing happens to a corporation you pity the poor little corporation. Weird.
You have one big fat apple "sticker" on the back. With that everybody knows your are a Apple whore. It's like a t-shirt with coca cola commercial that you have to wear everywhere.
Yeah, it's totally shocking. What the hell comes next, Coca Cola putting their logo on bottles of Coke? Jesus, what has the world come to.
Not paying has nothing to do with it. I think most people are happy to have a reasonable excuse to take a day off from the daily grind.
If sitting in a courtroom is preferable to sitting at work, then your job REALLY sucks. I can't think of too many places I'd like even less than being in court, and work certainly isn't one of them.
Such a thing would not be possible with current computer architectures, even if we had the materials. There is a fundamental theorem in physics/computing that the destruction of information causes an increase in entropy, i.e. generates heat. Thus, an information-destroying gate such as AND can never be completely free of inefficiency simply because it destroys information (if the output of AND is 0, you cannot tell if the input was 00, 01, or 10, therefore information was destroyed). Regardless of whether the components themselves are 100% efficient, the computing process must, in some manner, increase entropy by destroying information. The solution is reversible computing.
So, the official line is, if I see a suspicious unidentified device sitting around somewhere, I should NOT report it because it's probably just a police thing. Great, I'll keep that in mind.
NX doesn't protect you from much of anything. Modern exploit techniques like ROP easily defeat NX. If you can cause a stack based overflow, you can execute arbitrary code, regardless of NX. It just isn't QUITE as straightforward as it used to be.
You wouldn't think that if your son was one of the hundreds of deaths.
If his son was one of those deaths, then he probably wouldn't be the most objective person to ask, would he?
Are automobile drivers somehow less capable of tapping on the horn if they see a pedestrian they could be in danger of hitting than cyclists are?
I don't know about how capable they are, but they are less likely to do so. So your two options are 1) create vast social change or 2) install a device on the cars. Which one sounds more feasible?
Are they going to require these for bicycles as well then?
The law in most places already requires bicyclists to give an audible notice when approaching or passing. I've seen the cops hand out tickets for failing to do so. Getting pulled over on a bike is embarrassing, don't let it happen to you.
So this is just the automotive world finally catching up to how we've done it with bicycles for many years already.
The bicyclist is supposed to give a... wait for it now... audible cue when approaching a pedestrian or passing another cyclist. As in, ringing a bell or shouting "passing on the left." Welcome to reality -- you seem new here.
I mean, it was kind of obvious, how can you trust a library or sample code some unknown guy wrote when you yourself, the master developer, can do the optimal implementation yourself.
Translation: "I am a better program than any other programmer on Earth." Yeah, right.
With open source, you have many eyes looking at the code. If there is a subtle bug it will more easily be found by 10,000 people looking at it rather than 10 or 20.
Subtle bugs are found in closed source code by single individuals every day, then exploited for malicious purposes. I don't get you people. On the one hand, you bitch about DRM, saying "It only gets in the way of legitimate users -- no matter how complex you make the DRM, somebody will be able to figure out how it works and defeat it" -- this is an attitude of inevitability. On the other hand, someone dares to release a closed source driver for a piece of hardware and you act as if all the expert reverse engineers in the world simply poofed out of existence "It's closed source, we'll never be able to figure it out!" -- this is an attitude of hopelessness.
So, which is it, folks? Is the world full of intelligent reverse engineers who can figure out how anything works or isn't it? If you think some technologies are simply too difficult to reverse engineer, then why do you claim that all DRM is breakable? Help me understand.
I do not think the sound adds anything, myself. The visuals could be helpful if played more slowly, but the sound? It does not help me, and as used in TFA, it is even an annoying noise.
An old boss of mine used to work on a large computer which was used to control the activities inside a sawmill. It was made up of several thousand magnetic reed relays to perform the logic. The program itself was keyed into the system via about 1000 throw switches. The entire machine was devoid of silicon. This was pretty "old school." When the "code" was updated and a bug was introduced, he was often able to diagnose the bug by listening to the buzzing, clacking and whirring of the relay switches opening and closing. Stuck in an infinite loop somewhere? That made a "bzzz chicka chicka brr brr bzzz chicka chicka brr brr" sound. Is bit 6 of the program counter register stuck at zero due to a wiring fault? Why, it goes "whacka chunka whacka chunka whacka chunka..." After months of experience, he was able to characterize the internal state of the control program simply by listening to the sound of the machine. Don't discount the value of all possible input modalities when trying to understand how something works.
Way #3: Inferior cable with sub-par shielding causes interference with a nearby analog conductor, putting noise on the line.
To make the example more extreme, suppose I lob grenades at you once per second. When I want to send a 0 bit, I throw a dud grenade. When I want to send a 1 bit, I throw a live grenade. Sure, the transmission is "digital" but it has a significant effect on other things around the communications channel. Namely, blowing them the fuck up.
Quantum econ has nothing to do with quants, despite the lexical similarity.
You do realize that quantum economics is an actual field of study, right?
I looked up the definitions of "school" and "studio" in the dictionary. Turns out, they're different words! Weird.
I'm a fungus afficionado, if there is such a thing, and here I was all excited that they'd actually made some progress explaining how the fungus causes the ants to carry out such very specific behaviors. And the summary made it sound like that... But it basically boiled down to a sentence or two at the end of the article saying "We think the fungus uses some kind of chemicals on the ants. We don't really know." What a bunch of bullshit.
Maybe you shouldn't allow assholes like that to photograph you. Or hang out with such assholes, for that matter.
So, giving system administrators a decent opportunity to triage and sequence their patches and updates in a way that causes less disruption to their users while minimizing actual risk, is something you just don't give a crap about? Is it cold up there on your mountain top?
When I interview these recent grads and see nothing out there, I wonder, did they have NO life or did they manage to erase their past?
I am too busy living my life to spend any time whoring it out on social sites to thousands of people I don't even know. But I suppose having a sense of privacy makes me some kind of sociopath with skeletons in the closet. I don't understand the need some people have to tell everybody every thing they do. Do you also have sex with every person who happens to come within 10 feet of you? Why the hell are people so promiscuous with their "friendship?"
Do the Linux developers put a news announcement out every time there is a bug
No, but all changes to the kernel are documented in the changelog. And security-related bugs are treated the same as any other bugs. They are not explicitly called out as being security related. Linus has been pretty clear on this in the past. A bug is a bug, period. The fact that it's security related is uninteresting (to him, at least).
I think that's a weird attitude but that's what we've got.
Even the best stuff I've ever read barely reached $0.17 per page value. Every once in a while you might get a page that's worth $100, but these days you'd just find that data on Google. Maybe it was true in the past, but in the modern era it's hard to pack that kind of value into printed material. No matter how good an authority you are.
They don't know how LUCKY they are that it was "Medium" and not "Lowest" or something lower. I'm in charge of 5 sites, most having over 100 computers on campus, with one other person.
Wow man. You're SOOOOO important that you're doing.... tech support. For people with broken sound cards.
Grow the fuck up and do your job.