The big problem for crackers would be finding a way to make any changes persistant. They could go to all the trouble of cracking a machine, but when the Xbox gets shut down a half-hour later, all is lost. When someone decides they're sick of Q3A and switches to Halo, all is lost.
You won't be able to install a root-kit or anything else that perpetuates when the machine is turned back on.
Most crashes are due to unknown hardware, dll conflicts, hardware conflicts, and (oh yeah) hardware assumtions. And any programmer out there has at least once uttered the phrase,"Well it worked on my computer"
The X-box gets rid of this by eliminating alot of hardware uncertainty. They'll also lock down exactly what.dlls are or aren't installed.
Of course, this'll only take care of 99% of the BSOD's, but it's a good start.
Where they'll really run into problems is if the market gets flooded with 3rd party perpherials, but I imagine MS will keep this under control, and provide a mandatory Xbox certification at an affordable price:)
Emulation is running one platform (DOS) under another (Linux), regardless of a common processor. There are plenty of emulators that will take advantage of the fact that you have the same processor. There are also plenty of emulators that do a JIT compile so that they arn't "emulating anything in the traditional sense"
System Virtualization is a subset of emulation. You are emuluting a system, you just have some other goals as well, such as running in a protected memory environment, and making sure someone can't wipe the 'real' hard disk, or interfere with other programs going on.
It's not quite the same as running a bunch of virtual machines, but alot of newer VMS runs on alpha chips. That's one of the linux ports that even has CD bootable install.
I've set up a distributed system where I can absorb some of your load by hosting your/etc/passwd and/etc/shadow files via NFS. This can result in as much as a 0.003% performance boost on your machine. E-mail me if interested.
Description: Machine is compromised when end user attempts to close a pornographic page. This pops up two new pornographic pages. Each of these subsequently pops up two more pages until a stack or buffer overflow occurs. This compromises the system and allows root access on port 69.
OS's affected: ALL. Using Nescape or Internet Explorer can be compromised
Solution: Until patches for Netscape and IE are available, it is recommended that users browse with Lynx, although this will interfere with legitimate pornographic viewing.
Of course, the fact the everyone wants to be able to do the above doesn't seem to make an impact anymore... the democracy I learned about was based on the idea that The People could do any damnfool thing they wanted as long as most of them wanted to do it. That includes putting all the musicians on the planet out of business, which according to the RIAA is what The People would do if they weren't kept under their careful but benevolent control...
That's anarchy. The democracy I learned about is giving up your natural rights to protect the rights of others. You have the natural right to bash someone's skull in with a rock, but that interferes with their natural right to live. So in a society, you give up your right to bash someone in the skull with a rock, so that you don't have to worry about someone else bashing you in the head with a rock
The big problem I have whenever people start talking about 'corporations' or 'the government' is that they don't realize that corporations and the government are made up of a bunch of little people trying to get by. A bunch of little people who would like a raise or a Christmas bonus or a good health plan. It's so easy to blame some faceless corporation or government for your problems, but you're really just blaming a bunch of other faceless people.
You can go to the mall or a store that's entirely open to the public, and the owners are still within thier rights to kick you out.
If you stay at a store for three or four hours run around, bother the salesmen, knock over displays (and most importantly) with no intention of buying anything, you will be asked to leave. Once that's been done you are trespassing.
A buddy of mine started watching Austin Powers at the video store, almost saw the whole thing, but after an hour and fifteen minutes of doing nothing but look at the monitor with no intention of spending money, he was asked to leave.
He left, he didn't start yelling about how it was a public place or 'Why do you show movies if you don't want people watching them?'
I'd really like to know how much pollution is created generating the fuel for Fuel Cells. Just because your car doesn't emit pollution doesn't mean that pollution isn't being generated. It's just removed from the public eye.
Noone realizes the Electricity Generation pollutes the environment more than anything else.
The theory with fuel cells is that it's easier to make a centralized plant more efficient and reuduce emmissions and what not, but they're still not pollution free.
Just out of curiosity, couldn't this be controlled at the router level, since DSL isn't on the local loop? I got in before PPPoE and I'm just running Bridged Ethernet.
But here's an interesting angle. MOSR publishes its stories under the OpenContent License (which goes by the odd acronym "OPL"). If anyone happened to snag a copy of the offending rumors before they were removed, then according to the terms of this license,
"You may copy and distribute exact replicas of the OpenContent (OC) as you receive it, in any medium,"
With all due respect, you need to own the rights to something to license it. If the information was illegal or in violation of an NDA, then any license this site put out is invalid.
That'd be like releasing VCD's of The Phantom Menace under the GPL
If he had superhuman strength, he'd probably be able to be able to figure out that he's a replacant. Even if he didn't other people would. And replicants are officially banned on Earth.
It was more when Harrison ford finds the origami unicorn the Edward James Olmos character left for him. A hint that he knew what Dekkard was dreaming about, just like Dekkard knew all about Sean Young memories.
I just took for granted that he was a replicant. Sure he doesn't have superhuman strength, but he does have superhuman drinking abilities.
If the author rolls in any changes/fixes by other people, will he be able to grant exceptions and change the license? Doesn't he need to get permission from everyone who contributed source code?
It depends if the Chinese Government recognizes international copyright law. IANAC, but I know the former Soviet Union didn't recognize this.
Thats why whenever you see cheapo $6 CD's of Mozart, Chopin, or whoever, they're always recordings performed by a Soviet orchestra. It worked as a two way street and they released their own recordings into the public domain.
I know the space shuttle doesn't have a land line:)
My thinking was that there are probably a few people who stay in touch with the space shuttle, and higher-ups that go through them, instead of whoever feels like it just calling up the space shuttle. If these two different people are in another room, building, or another site, and they can't communicate with each other any more, then communications with the space shuttle are effectively cut off.
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The big problem for crackers would be finding a way to make any changes persistant. They could go to all the trouble of cracking a machine, but when the Xbox gets shut down a half-hour later, all is lost. When someone decides they're sick of Q3A and switches to Halo, all is lost.
You won't be able to install a root-kit or anything else that perpetuates when the machine is turned back on.
It'll also probably survive six foot falls, getting repeatedly hit with a controller flying at 60 MPH, and the occasional beer spill.
Most crashes are due to unknown hardware, dll conflicts, hardware conflicts, and (oh yeah) hardware assumtions. And any programmer out there has at least once uttered the phrase ,"Well it worked on my computer"
.dlls are or aren't installed.
:)
The X-box gets rid of this by eliminating alot of hardware uncertainty. They'll also lock down exactly what
Of course, this'll only take care of 99% of the BSOD's, but it's a good start.
Where they'll really run into problems is if the market gets flooded with 3rd party perpherials, but I imagine MS will keep this under control, and provide a mandatory Xbox certification at an affordable price
Emulation is running one platform (DOS) under another (Linux), regardless of a common processor. There are plenty of emulators that will take advantage of the fact that you have the same processor. There are also plenty of emulators that do a JIT compile so that they arn't "emulating anything in the traditional sense"
System Virtualization is a subset of emulation. You are emuluting a system, you just have some other goals as well, such as running in a protected memory environment, and making sure someone can't wipe the 'real' hard disk, or interfere with other programs going on.
It's not quite the same as running a bunch of virtual machines, but alot of newer VMS runs on alpha chips. That's one of the linux ports that even has CD bootable install.
What good is 1.13 GHz with a 100Mhz bus?
I've set up a distributed system where I can absorb some of your load by hosting your /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files via NFS. This can result in as much as a 0.003% performance boost on your machine. E-mail me if interested.
Is finding the right balance between doing things the right way and actually finishing what you start.
Name: infinite porn loop
Description: Machine is compromised when end user attempts to close a pornographic page. This pops up two new pornographic pages. Each of these subsequently pops up two more pages until a stack or buffer overflow occurs. This compromises the system and allows root access on port 69.
OS's affected: ALL. Using Nescape or Internet Explorer can be compromised
Solution: Until patches for Netscape and IE are available, it is recommended that users browse with Lynx, although this will interfere with legitimate pornographic viewing.
CSS level 1 became an approved standard in 1996.
HTML 4.0 was approved April 1998.
It's July 2000.
That's anarchy. The democracy I learned about is giving up your natural rights to protect the rights of others. You have the natural right to bash someone's skull in with a rock, but that interferes with their natural right to live. So in a society, you give up your right to bash someone in the skull with a rock, so that you don't have to worry about someone else bashing you in the head with a rock
The big problem I have whenever people start talking about 'corporations' or 'the government' is that they don't realize that corporations and the government are made up of a bunch of little people trying to get by. A bunch of little people who would like a raise or a Christmas bonus or a good health plan. It's so easy to blame some faceless corporation or government for your problems, but you're really just blaming a bunch of other faceless people.
Has anyone tried hooking these up to a PC running Linux? I'm probably wrong, but I thought Mac printers had PostScript Engines built in.
You can go to the mall or a store that's entirely open to the public, and the owners are still within thier rights to kick you out.
If you stay at a store for three or four hours run around, bother the salesmen, knock over displays (and most importantly) with no intention of buying anything, you will be asked to leave. Once that's been done you are trespassing.
A buddy of mine started watching Austin Powers at the video store, almost saw the whole thing, but after an hour and fifteen minutes of doing nothing but look at the monitor with no intention of spending money, he was asked to leave.
He left, he didn't start yelling about how it was a public place or 'Why do you show movies if you don't want people watching them?'
How do you make liquid Hydrogen? The same way you make electricity, off at a plant somewhere.
I should have been more specific in the original post. Most fuel cell fuel gets made somewhere using a process that pollutes.
I'd really like to know how much pollution is created generating the fuel for Fuel Cells. Just because your car doesn't emit pollution doesn't mean that pollution isn't being generated. It's just removed from the public eye.
Noone realizes the Electricity Generation pollutes the environment more than anything else.
The theory with fuel cells is that it's easier to make a centralized plant more efficient and reuduce emmissions and what not, but they're still not pollution free.
Just something to think about.
'Nuff said
Just out of curiosity, couldn't this be controlled at the router level, since DSL isn't on the local loop? I got in before PPPoE and I'm just running Bridged Ethernet.
But here's an interesting angle. MOSR publishes its stories under the OpenContent License (which goes by the odd acronym "OPL"). If anyone happened to snag a copy of the offending rumors before they were removed, then according to the terms of this license,
"You may copy and distribute exact replicas of the OpenContent (OC) as you receive it, in any medium,"
With all due respect, you need to own the rights to something to license it. If the information was illegal or in violation of an NDA, then any license this site put out is invalid.
That'd be like releasing VCD's of The Phantom Menace under the GPL
If he had superhuman strength, he'd probably be able to be able to figure out that he's a replacant. Even if he didn't other people would. And replicants are officially banned on Earth.
It was more when Harrison ford finds the origami unicorn the Edward James Olmos character left for him. A hint that he knew what Dekkard was dreaming about, just like Dekkard knew all about Sean Young memories.
I just took for granted that he was a replicant. Sure he doesn't have superhuman strength, but he does have superhuman drinking abilities.
I'm still waiting for A Scanner Darkly... movie.
If the author rolls in any changes/fixes by other people, will he be able to grant exceptions and change the license? Doesn't he need to get permission from everyone who contributed source code?
Do you guys use nospammed email for Anonymous FTP?
It depends if the Chinese Government recognizes international copyright law. IANAC, but I know the former Soviet Union didn't recognize this.
Thats why whenever you see cheapo $6 CD's of Mozart, Chopin, or whoever, they're always recordings performed by a Soviet orchestra. It worked as a two way street and they released their own recordings into the public domain.
It's operational expenses are paid by it's onStar division.
I know the space shuttle doesn't have a land line:)
My thinking was that there are probably a few people who stay in touch with the space shuttle, and higher-ups that go through them, instead of whoever feels like it just calling up the space shuttle. If these two different people are in another room, building, or another site, and they can't communicate with each other any more, then communications with the space shuttle are effectively cut off.