Seeing Inslaw mentioned sends shivers up my spine and reminds me of my conspiracy buff days. Inslaw a part of The Octopus and tied up with all manner of cloak and dagger stuff.
I'm not pickin' a fight or nothin' but stuff randomly seems to go wrong in databases anyway. Users put in weird crap. There are bugs in the code, or at least artifacts of previous incarnations that cause weird crap to happen. Lots of stuff goes wrong anyway (jeez, I hope it's not just me).
I agree this would be a nightmare but there are already error trapping (if you will) systems in place that catch input errors (and bugs) and I think these systems would catch such a virus.
Something that could learn what your controls do and then remap the code (Save button now reformats hard drive). Then I'd buy a nice ranch...out west someplace.
I know I'm supposed to blame MS (and I'm supposed to use a "$" instead of an "S") but really I think the reason so many viruses pop up in Outlook and the whole office package (I'm honestly surprised there aren't more excel viruses, I used to code in VBA and a template replacement script was easily altered to delete entire directories on firing it up) is that currently it's the easiest way to write a far reaching virus.
If the easiest viral language were a unix flavor, we would see more of that. If it were really easy to crack open apache servers that's were you'd find your attacks. Sure, MS is the wimpiest kid on the block security-wise but just because Bill (well, Steve) leaves the door unlocked, don't think that the rest of us live in vaults. So no, I don't think we'll ever be 100% free of viruses as their evolution will continue with computing's...Quantum Viruses, Holographic Viruses, all of it.
But it will maintain the balance we have now, I think the security people and the virus kids (tomorrow's security people) will maintain much of the give and take they 'enjoy' now, each trying to outdo the other.
They cut singers budget and moved the movie up six months. So they didn't have the resources to do the heavy cg characters (beast, colossus. Is what i hear
You're absolutely right and I think you need to use movie and tv examples because nobody's done it with their book yet. There's no www.thisguysbook.com yet that's made the splash of a 'jesus vs santa' or 'troops'. It'll happen though, books are a tougher sell online cause reading off a screen chews on it. But the act itself will be a statement.
Use this book as your resume. Post it for free and grassroots blitzkrieg market it yourself. Set up a site around it and pimp the damn thing nonstop. Let every critic/zine/slashdot/open source enthusiast know about it. If it's quality work it will get read. Let the publishers come to you and publish your next book for pay and reprint the first one hard-copy on your own terms.
If you're just worried about making money off it of course this isn't the way to go. If you want it to be read and enjoyed it is. It could garner larger rewards in the long run (matt and trey's recent contract with Comedy Central and their oscar nod come to mind) but you won't have as much "control" over your material.
I've noticed a lot of concern in this forum with folks saying things like "people could make a million copies of your book and give it to their friends". Indeed. Wouldn't it just be awful to have your work read by so many people.
They make most of the fake OSs in Director, or at least they used to. So not only do you get a fake screen, you can have the mouse moves and window openings all scripted events so the actor doesn't even have to click on the fake boxes.
I Concur. If we're asking for software to do so much these days, we should get a little help in return. So much programming is typing in not so much what you want the damn thing to do but describing exactly how all the intricicies and conventions of that specific language works. Simple standard supported graphic or glyphy type pictography type deals to represent "If...Then" stuff and "Do...While" crap would keep you from typing the same grammatical declarations all day long.
I don't know if they were lying, exactly. True the report doesn't come out and say peer to peer file sharing technologies should be illegal, but it is attacking Napster. This sentence is especially leading: Napster is an online service, popular among college students, that allows users free access to illegal digital copies of songs. First of all why single out college students? Just so you can shake your head and say "those damn kids"? It's like saying (don't you love these/. virtual vs. real world metaphors?): Cars are mechanical devices, popular among criminals, allowing them quick and easy flight from a crime scene Defining the product by its most dubious use is attacking it.
Archives, which include unauthorized reproductions of Microsoft's copyrighted work entitled Microsoft Authorization Data Specification v.1.0 for Microsoft Windows 2000 Operating Systems" (hereafter "Specification").
Agreed, if they don't want it up, pull it. They wrote it and they own it. They get to say where it shows up and where it doesn't
In addition, some comments include links to unauthorized reproductions of the Specification,
Now you can shut up. You're essentially shooting the messenger. If slashdot isn't hosting it then it isn't slashdot's problem. Indicating that such information exists is merely informing slasdot readers, not infringing your copyright. You don't like those sites, go after them, then the links will be dead and useless. You're just being lazy.
and some comments contain instructions on how to circumvent the End User License Agreement that is presented as part of the download for accessing the Specification.
Now this is what puts a hair across my ass. Now you're not even attacking the messenger, but the message. If people break your EULA, go after them. This is really telling people, flat out, that they cannot even talk about certain aspects of your software and policy.
That's my plan too (although release date cuts it a little close, as the batman beyond: return of the joker movie comes out on halloween). By all accounts it's a pretty full featured player with the only weirdness being that you have to use the gamepad as the remote. Interact swears they're making a remote for it for launch though, so i'm with you.
Just as many metallica songs as before. So bravo, Lars Inc. You've angered your fans, shown your true colors and failed to stop the trading of your material. You really showed them.
Bruce would make the perfect die fladermaus, he's got the chin for it. Chairface would be great with just a funny voice and CG head. One of my friends thinks we should shave Curtis "booger" Armstrong and make him Arthur. s
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It's more fractal, like asking the exact measurement of the coastline or somesuch.
as long as you don't start with any pedantic spelling
Seeing Inslaw mentioned sends shivers up my spine and reminds me of my conspiracy buff days. Inslaw a part of The Octopus and tied up with all manner of cloak and dagger stuff.
well in a post-columbine world, what else can he do?
I think he spells his "B." with a "G."
I agree this would be a nightmare but there are already error trapping (if you will) systems in place that catch input errors (and bugs) and I think these systems would catch such a virus.
Something that could learn what your controls do and then remap the code (Save button now reformats hard drive). Then I'd buy a nice ranch...out west someplace.
If the easiest viral language were a unix flavor, we would see more of that. If it were really easy to crack open apache servers that's were you'd find your attacks. Sure, MS is the wimpiest kid on the block security-wise but just because Bill (well, Steve) leaves the door unlocked, don't think that the rest of us live in vaults. So no, I don't think we'll ever be 100% free of viruses as their evolution will continue with computing's...Quantum Viruses, Holographic Viruses, all of it.
But it will maintain the balance we have now, I think the security people and the virus kids (tomorrow's security people) will maintain much of the give and take they 'enjoy' now, each trying to outdo the other.
They cut singers budget and moved the movie up six months. So they didn't have the resources to do the heavy cg characters (beast, colossus. Is what i hear
Just sayin' is all
Use this book as your resume. Post it for free and grassroots blitzkrieg market it yourself. Set up a site around it and pimp the damn thing nonstop. Let every critic/zine/slashdot/open source enthusiast know about it. If it's quality work it will get read. Let the publishers come to you and publish your next book for pay and reprint the first one hard-copy on your own terms.
If you're just worried about making money off it of course this isn't the way to go. If you want it to be read and enjoyed it is. It could garner larger rewards in the long run (matt and trey's recent contract with Comedy Central and their oscar nod come to mind) but you won't have as much "control" over your material.
I've noticed a lot of concern in this forum with folks saying things like "people could make a million copies of your book and give it to their friends". Indeed. Wouldn't it just be awful to have your work read by so many people.
They make most of the fake OSs in Director, or at least they used to. So not only do you get a fake screen, you can have the mouse moves and window openings all scripted events so the actor doesn't even have to click on the fake boxes.
I'm just sayin' is all
I don't know if they were lying, exactly. True the report doesn't come out and say peer to peer file sharing technologies should be illegal, but it is attacking Napster. This sentence is especially leading: Napster is an online service, popular among college students, that allows users free access to illegal digital copies of songs. First of all why single out college students? Just so you can shake your head and say "those damn kids"? It's like saying (don't you love these /. virtual vs. real world metaphors?): Cars are mechanical devices, popular among criminals, allowing them quick and easy flight from a crime scene Defining the product by its most dubious use is attacking it.
Archives, which include unauthorized reproductions of Microsoft's copyrighted work entitled Microsoft Authorization Data Specification v.1.0 for Microsoft Windows 2000 Operating Systems" (hereafter "Specification").
Agreed, if they don't want it up, pull it. They wrote it and they own it. They get to say where it shows up and where it doesn't
In addition, some comments include links to unauthorized reproductions of the Specification,
Now you can shut up. You're essentially shooting the messenger. If slashdot isn't hosting it then it isn't slashdot's problem. Indicating that such information exists is merely informing slasdot readers, not infringing your copyright. You don't like those sites, go after them, then the links will be dead and useless. You're just being lazy.
and some comments contain instructions on how to circumvent the End User License Agreement that is presented as part of the download for accessing the Specification.
Now this is what puts a hair across my ass. Now you're not even attacking the messenger, but the message. If people break your EULA, go after them. This is really telling people, flat out, that they cannot even talk about certain aspects of your software and policy.
That's my plan too (although release date cuts it a little close, as the batman beyond: return of the joker movie comes out on halloween). By all accounts it's a pretty full featured player with the only weirdness being that you have to use the gamepad as the remote. Interact swears they're making a remote for it for launch though, so i'm with you.
Just as many metallica songs as before. So bravo, Lars Inc. You've angered your fans, shown your true colors and failed to stop the trading of your material. You really showed them.
Bruce would make the perfect die fladermaus, he's got the chin for it. Chairface would be great with just a funny voice and CG head. One of my friends thinks we should shave Curtis "booger" Armstrong and make him Arthur. s