"On Linux, if you have root access, you can override the MTR buffers and install a root kit."
If you already have root access, WTF is the point, just install the root kit. The idea of exploits is to *GET* root access to be able to install these root kits.
Now while this might be moderately interesting if you can somehow manage to get a service running as root to run said code, but then, if you can get the service running as root to execute arbitrary code like this, then why not get it to install the root kit for you.
I thought new blood entered the franchise every time someone was forced to watch Enterprise. I know that made me want to slash MY wrists unless I turned it off.
This is similar to how all pilots who expect to fly internationally (and probably all commercial pilots regardless) are required to speak English. It is the standard language of air traffic control and such.
If you expect anyone else to work with or see your code, you should probably be writing it (and commenting it) in English. Not because it is a better language than your native language, but because it has basically become the modern Lingua Franca and tends to have the greatest chance of 'common ground' between nationalities.
How is this any different to P2P over TOR, except for the fact TOR exit nodes tend to block several 'standard' P2P ports (which is easily fixed by using a non-standard port for your P2P)?
TOR has the added avantage of nobody needing to use some new piece of specialized software to be able to get the benefits of anonymity - and it's not used for a single purpose - so people can't go 'Oh! he's using OneSwarm! He must be P2P sharing, and want to hide it!'....
I'm betting their focus will more be their SURFACE platform - demoing things like transferring to/from media player to the surface PC by just putting the media device ON the surface and dragging stuff to/from it. That seems where their next generation of 'wow' factor is going.
To do cord banking they have to basically clamp the cord as soon as the kid is out. WHILE it is still pulsing. This means that the cord blood they bank is the blood the kid WOULD have gotten if you had let the cord stop pulsing.
I say let the kid have the blood (ie. stem cells) at birth, and use them for further development and growth.
But then, both my kids were born AT HOME with a midwife. No drugs, no unnecessary procedures, and no c-sections because the birth is not happening on the doctor's timetable (omg! he might miss his golf game!). Plus it was cheaper, and we had one-on-one attention from the midwife + assistant for the whole time, rather than anonymous nurses checking in, and a doctor who swoops in when you start pushing and that's it. All in all, a much better and less stressful experience.
Cord banking is obviously not an option for home births (just as anesthesia isn't), but I would not do it anyway just because it deprives the kid of those same cells.
Of course they have, it's called having a monopoly in a marketplace (or enough clout to bully providers into towing their line), and being in a country where the government doesn't have the balls to follow through on FINDING them to be a monopoly (well, at least the Bush administration).
In that position, it's easy to make money, bundle the shit together, make it the default, or pressure service providers to make it the only option.
Actually, the vid. card I have in my laptop is an ATI V5200 - so it IS 256mb DEDICATED vid. memory.
As for OpenGL, I've tried tweaking everything I could in both wine and cedega - in either case, D3D mode gives me significantly better frame rates. I simply can't figure it out.
Add to this, of course, that under Cedega, OGL mode is not supported for Wrath (also the 3.0.2 patch) right now, so I have to use D3D mode anyway.
I always found blacksmithing was a disappointing profession.
It costs an arm and a leg to level to 375 - and when you get there, the gear you can make is at most only worth something to someone who JUST hit 70. There is basically no gear you can craft that would be eclipsed by even just doing things like Karazhan.. let alone later raids. So basically its a money pit with no benefit. Sure, there are some pattern drops - but even those are usually only good enough to make gear slightly BELOW the instance where they drop from, so they've of little use.
Please actually make this profession worth while again. Add some gear people will actually want to BUY because it's better than instance gear. Tailors got the soulcloth set, which most DPS casters will wear if they can - smiths have no equivalent 'desirable' set.
Additionally - WTF is with ALL the smithing stuff being plate? Smiths are supposed to make Mail as well! Apart from the general quality of what smiths can make being pretty poor - the amount of mail they can make is almost non-existent! Even in pattern drops!
I don't know why Leatherworkers can make mail in the first place - since I don't know about you, but I've not seen too much leather mail in any history books. But either way, that now means leatherworkers are making ALL the leather AND mail armor, while smiths get only plate, and tailors only cloth.
Not to mention that of the plate there IS for smiths to craft - it's pretty much ALL tanking warrior plate. VERY little ret or holy pally plate. Similarly, with the little mail we CAN craft, it's all enhance shaman, nothing for hunters, resto or elemental shammies.
All in all, smithing needs a MASSIVE rethink, and I hope a better job is done in WotLK.
I've wanted this for ages. Though they way they describe it sounds creepy - letting some anonymous person come view your guild run? not for me.
I envisioned spectator mode being more like people who missed out on going to a raid (it filled up), or who were just interested could enter spectator mode - and they would basically wander around like ghosts in the instance - not able to actually interact, but still with their own viewpoint and able to move around.
Then, even have the possibility of, if a raid slot fees up, allowing a spectator to 'corporialize' and then actually be a part of the raid.
Speaking of ghosts - WHY are ghosts a) so slow, and b) not able to climb infinitely steep inclines? or even fly? That is one of my pet peeves with WoW - having not just to run back to your corpse, but run AROUND everything to get back to your corpse. We should be able to fly as ghosts so we can get back to our bodies faster. As much as you might think otherwise, the being forced to run from whatever arbitrary place the graveyard is back to your body (which can be QUITE a distance), and basically taking several minutes (up to 15 or so!) to get back to your body, and not being able to intact with your environment is *NOT* part of the 'fun' experience. It's incredibly tedious. And it gets worse if you accidentally fall down a ravine or there is some feature (like a cliff) in the way that means you have to detour for ages to get back to your body... especially in places like Outland, where you would have never had to go around the obstacle in the first place because you would have flown!
Since Blizzard said they'd be looking at this post's comments;)
I for one have wanted native Linux support for quite a while. I run WoW on a dual core laptop that, when I had windows on it, was MORE than fast enough to run WoW at reasonably high quality settings.
I prefer to run Linux though, and removed Windows from my laptop entirely. Both Wine and Cedega do an OK job at getting WoW running, but it is not without it's problems and certainly not as fast as I had things going under Windows. Plus it seems WoW only uses a single core when I play under Wine or Cedega, rather than both.
Right now, if I use OpenGL mode in cedega or wine, I get about 3-4fps in shattrath, and D3D mode I get about 12fps. Pretty poor for a reasonably fast laptop with a 256mb vid. card! And I have the quality settings ratcheted way low.
This is besides the fact that I have had all kinds of issues using Wine or Cedega, from crashes, to texture issues, to the screen going black - and even the most basic - not being able to tab out of the game or change to windowed mode! And this is besides the PITA is is to setup the emulation environment (even beyond installing wine or cedega, then you have to make all the appropriate settings adjustment for your vid. card, choose whether to use ALSA or OSS to emulate windows sound, etc).
The fact that WoW is faster emulating D3d than it is usnig OpenGL is a little ridiculous, but part of that may be the fact that it is ALSO emulating a windows OS - and any emulation layer is going to siphon off raw speed, memory, etc.
If you have already done the work for a Linux client, or most of the work for it, why not release it as a supported platform? There are several other companies (ID and VMWare being notable) supporting Linux, and it is becoming more and more popular.
Don't think because the OS is free that people won't pay for software on it. Right now, on top of paying for my WoW software, and WoW subscription, I am also paying for Cedega, just to get my WoW on linux - I think a native client could do a much better job, and would love to see it.
Plus I suspect some linux-running friends of mine might start playing again if WoW were offered natively on their OS of choice;)
I tried coating my motherboard in the coolant H2O a few years back, did not improve my motherboard's temperature one bit... nor the performance for that matter.
I've always believed that patents should include not just the idea being patented, but also details on how to recreate such an idea (ie. the prototype).
For physical objects, this means schematics. For drugs and such this means formulas. For software it means source code.
See how many companies will be willing (or in the case of patent trolls, ABLE) to patent software when they have to pony up a working implementation as part of the patent application (and thus public record).
I am also against 'secret' or 'partially secret' patents, how is someone supposed to know they are infringing on a patent if they can't get all the details on a patent?
The company also owns the bathroom facilities. Plenty of people go to the bathroom during work hours, its unavoidable. Do you also have the right to spy on people as they are doing this? It IS after all an employee using company-owned equipment. Or are you going to say employees DO in fact have some expectation of privacy, in which case, where any expectation of privacy is extended, then normal laws about privacy invasion and searches without a warrant exist.
You can void this expectation under certain conditions by having the employee sign an employment contract that specifically makes the employee give up such expectations, but like all civil rights, unless they are voluntarily relinquished, they are still rights.
In the US, it is very unfashionable to charge by the byte. So most internet connectivity (for residential/personal use) is 'unmetered'. However often there is clauses about 'excessive' use and the right to slow you down or cut you off for excessive use - but this applies to mobile broadband as well as residential customers. However they're often very cagey about what 'excessive' means, and by and large, it equates to hundreds of gigabytes.
That said, AU is definitely ahead with mobile billing. In the US, they charge you for everything on the phone - IN AND OUT. Which means you receive (or make) a phone call? you pay for it. You receive (or send) a text message? you pay for it. They have plans with X text messages free, but since a lot of phone companies offer an email -> text message interface, it is quite possible to run up someone's bill by making a program that will send emails to a subscriber's email -> text message address, and give them like 5000 text messages in the month. And the subscriber has no choice but to pay for it. I've always been against being forced to pay for what you receive on a cell (mobile) phone as far as voice calls and text messages. Mobile internet is a different story of course.
Also, in the US, you can get residential internet speeds MUCH faster than what you can get on mobile broadband. Mobile broadband tends to be on the low end of 'high speed'. For example Verizon BroadbandAccess (which I have) advertises 700kbit, with bursts up to 2mbit. And this is approximately accurate. However you can get the Verizon FiOS (fiber to the home) service, and get up to a 50mbit connection (I have 20mbit, and have verified the speeds are accurate). This in itself is also forcing cable companies and other DSL providers to up their offering, which is why cable is all about saying 'You can get 10mbit!' or advertising their 'boosting' options to go up to 20/50/etc (though the big problem with cable is its a shared pipe, if your neighbours are flooding the line, your connection suffers - not so with DSL or FiOS).
In the US at least, the speed gap between 3G and residential broadband is huge, and getting bigger.
And to the original post, I'd recommend Verizon's BroadbandAccess. You will note that in the Sprint/AT&T ads, they NEVER mention Verizon, because Verizon's coverage is better, and their speeds are better. And their AUP is less draconian (though it still 'forbids' use for P2P applications and running a server though it, but Verizon also tends not to filter anything so doesn't enforce said AUP much unless it puts a strain on their network).
The patent listed above covers the running of an FTP or SMTP PROXY server. AFAIK ClamAV is simply a virus scanner, one that runs as a daemon and you can send it a signal to scan files in X location and report back, but still just a virus scanner.
The patent listed here *MIGHT* apply to Amavis, but not ClamAV. Amavis is actually creating a proxy SMTP server and then delivering it to the 'real' SMTP port once it is clean. And it USES ClamAV and other virus scanners. But ClamAV doesn't do this by itself.
I am not aware of any support group for things like 5p- (aka. Cri du Chat) which pre-date the internet. This is an EXTREMELY rare genetic disorder, as in 50-60 cases a YEAR in the US (which considering there were about 4 million live births in the US last year that puts it at 1 in 65-80,000). But then, before the 80s or so, they used to just put affected children in mental asylums for life. Unfortunately, my son has this condition, and it is good to find others out there going through the same thing.
You said it yourself, 'utterances'. The defendant already SAID such things, and though they had not been given their miranda rights, the court ruled them admissable anyway.
In this case, they are trying to get someone to PERFORM an utterance - to say something they have NOT said and have it admissable, not to use something they have already said and been heard saying. That is why it is a 5th amendment issue - they are trying to force him to 'divulge the contents of his mind' to self-incriminate himself.
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This is, of course, completely separate to wiki-pinups .. which is just pages and pages of semi-nude pictures of Jimmy Wales ... *shudder*.
According to http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl .. $6/hr in 1969 is equivalent to $34.78 today. I read it on the internet, so it must be true! :P
So not too shabby. Not omgwow!, but not exactly minimum wage either.
Re-read my comment. I said if you already have root access, INSTALL a root kit with root access so you can return later.
This security exploit REQUIRES root access to GET root access to install a rootkit. It's moronic.
"On Linux, if you have root access, you can override the MTR buffers and install a root kit."
If you already have root access, WTF is the point, just install the root kit. The idea of exploits is to *GET* root access to be able to install these root kits.
Now while this might be moderately interesting if you can somehow manage to get a service running as root to run said code, but then, if you can get the service running as root to execute arbitrary code like this, then why not get it to install the root kit for you.
Stupidest exploit scare ever.
I thought new blood entered the franchise every time someone was forced to watch Enterprise. I know that made me want to slash MY wrists unless I turned it off.
This is similar to how all pilots who expect to fly internationally (and probably all commercial pilots regardless) are required to speak English. It is the standard language of air traffic control and such.
If you expect anyone else to work with or see your code, you should probably be writing it (and commenting it) in English. Not because it is a better language than your native language, but because it has basically become the modern Lingua Franca and tends to have the greatest chance of 'common ground' between nationalities.
How is this any different to P2P over TOR, except for the fact TOR exit nodes tend to block several 'standard' P2P ports (which is easily fixed by using a non-standard port for your P2P)?
TOR has the added avantage of nobody needing to use some new piece of specialized software to be able to get the benefits of anonymity - and it's not used for a single purpose - so people can't go 'Oh! he's using OneSwarm! He must be P2P sharing, and want to hide it!' ....
I'm betting their focus will more be their SURFACE platform - demoing things like transferring to/from media player to the surface PC by just putting the media device ON the surface and dragging stuff to/from it. That seems where their next generation of 'wow' factor is going.
Maybe if they've shaved.
To do cord banking they have to basically clamp the cord as soon as the kid is out. WHILE it is still pulsing. This means that the cord blood they bank is the blood the kid WOULD have gotten if you had let the cord stop pulsing.
I say let the kid have the blood (ie. stem cells) at birth, and use them for further development and growth.
But then, both my kids were born AT HOME with a midwife. No drugs, no unnecessary procedures, and no c-sections because the birth is not happening on the doctor's timetable (omg! he might miss his golf game!). Plus it was cheaper, and we had one-on-one attention from the midwife + assistant for the whole time, rather than anonymous nurses checking in, and a doctor who swoops in when you start pushing and that's it. All in all, a much better and less stressful experience.
Cord banking is obviously not an option for home births (just as anesthesia isn't), but I would not do it anyway just because it deprives the kid of those same cells.
Of course they have, it's called having a monopoly in a marketplace (or enough clout to bully providers into towing their line), and being in a country where the government doesn't have the balls to follow through on FINDING them to be a monopoly (well, at least the Bush administration).
In that position, it's easy to make money, bundle the shit together, make it the default, or pressure service providers to make it the only option.
Sure! why not? Australia DOES have HUGE amounts of uninhabited land ...
Of course, let's not forget that this also happens to coincide with Australia having the second largest desert in the world ;)
But hey, they wouldn't have to worry about water levels.
Actually, the vid. card I have in my laptop is an ATI V5200 - so it IS 256mb DEDICATED vid. memory.
As for OpenGL, I've tried tweaking everything I could in both wine and cedega - in either case, D3D mode gives me significantly better frame rates. I simply can't figure it out.
Add to this, of course, that under Cedega, OGL mode is not supported for Wrath (also the 3.0.2 patch) right now, so I have to use D3D mode anyway.
I always found blacksmithing was a disappointing profession.
It costs an arm and a leg to level to 375 - and when you get there, the gear you can make is at most only worth something to someone who JUST hit 70. There is basically no gear you can craft that would be eclipsed by even just doing things like Karazhan .. let alone later raids. So basically its a money pit with no benefit. Sure, there are some pattern drops - but even those are usually only good enough to make gear slightly BELOW the instance where they drop from, so they've of little use.
Please actually make this profession worth while again. Add some gear people will actually want to BUY because it's better than instance gear. Tailors got the soulcloth set, which most DPS casters will wear if they can - smiths have no equivalent 'desirable' set.
Additionally - WTF is with ALL the smithing stuff being plate? Smiths are supposed to make Mail as well! Apart from the general quality of what smiths can make being pretty poor - the amount of mail they can make is almost non-existent! Even in pattern drops!
I don't know why Leatherworkers can make mail in the first place - since I don't know about you, but I've not seen too much leather mail in any history books. But either way, that now means leatherworkers are making ALL the leather AND mail armor, while smiths get only plate, and tailors only cloth.
Not to mention that of the plate there IS for smiths to craft - it's pretty much ALL tanking warrior plate. VERY little ret or holy pally plate. Similarly, with the little mail we CAN craft, it's all enhance shaman, nothing for hunters, resto or elemental shammies.
All in all, smithing needs a MASSIVE rethink, and I hope a better job is done in WotLK.
FINALLY they're talking about spectator modes.
I've wanted this for ages. Though they way they describe it sounds creepy - letting some anonymous person come view your guild run? not for me.
I envisioned spectator mode being more like people who missed out on going to a raid (it filled up), or who were just interested could enter spectator mode - and they would basically wander around like ghosts in the instance - not able to actually interact, but still with their own viewpoint and able to move around.
Then, even have the possibility of, if a raid slot fees up, allowing a spectator to 'corporialize' and then actually be a part of the raid.
Speaking of ghosts - WHY are ghosts a) so slow, and b) not able to climb infinitely steep inclines? or even fly? That is one of my pet peeves with WoW - having not just to run back to your corpse, but run AROUND everything to get back to your corpse. We should be able to fly as ghosts so we can get back to our bodies faster. As much as you might think otherwise, the being forced to run from whatever arbitrary place the graveyard is back to your body (which can be QUITE a distance), and basically taking several minutes (up to 15 or so!) to get back to your body, and not being able to intact with your environment is *NOT* part of the 'fun' experience. It's incredibly tedious. And it gets worse if you accidentally fall down a ravine or there is some feature (like a cliff) in the way that means you have to detour for ages to get back to your body ... especially in places like Outland, where you would have never had to go around the obstacle in the first place because you would have flown!
PLEASE fix ghost form!
Since Blizzard said they'd be looking at this post's comments ;)
I for one have wanted native Linux support for quite a while. I run WoW on a dual core laptop that, when I had windows on it, was MORE than fast enough to run WoW at reasonably high quality settings.
I prefer to run Linux though, and removed Windows from my laptop entirely. Both Wine and Cedega do an OK job at getting WoW running, but it is not without it's problems and certainly not as fast as I had things going under Windows. Plus it seems WoW only uses a single core when I play under Wine or Cedega, rather than both.
Right now, if I use OpenGL mode in cedega or wine, I get about 3-4fps in shattrath, and D3D mode I get about 12fps. Pretty poor for a reasonably fast laptop with a 256mb vid. card! And I have the quality settings ratcheted way low.
This is besides the fact that I have had all kinds of issues using Wine or Cedega, from crashes, to texture issues, to the screen going black - and even the most basic - not being able to tab out of the game or change to windowed mode! And this is besides the PITA is is to setup the emulation environment (even beyond installing wine or cedega, then you have to make all the appropriate settings adjustment for your vid. card, choose whether to use ALSA or OSS to emulate windows sound, etc).
The fact that WoW is faster emulating D3d than it is usnig OpenGL is a little ridiculous, but part of that may be the fact that it is ALSO emulating a windows OS - and any emulation layer is going to siphon off raw speed, memory, etc.
If you have already done the work for a Linux client, or most of the work for it, why not release it as a supported platform? There are several other companies (ID and VMWare being notable) supporting Linux, and it is becoming more and more popular.
Don't think because the OS is free that people won't pay for software on it. Right now, on top of paying for my WoW software, and WoW subscription, I am also paying for Cedega, just to get my WoW on linux - I think a native client could do a much better job, and would love to see it.
Plus I suspect some linux-running friends of mine might start playing again if WoW were offered natively on their OS of choice ;)
Hrm, RESIN! what an idea!
I tried coating my motherboard in the coolant H2O a few years back, did not improve my motherboard's temperature one bit ... nor the performance for that matter.
I've always believed that patents should include not just the idea being patented, but also details on how to recreate such an idea (ie. the prototype).
For physical objects, this means schematics. For drugs and such this means formulas. For software it means source code.
See how many companies will be willing (or in the case of patent trolls, ABLE) to patent software when they have to pony up a working implementation as part of the patent application (and thus public record).
I am also against 'secret' or 'partially secret' patents, how is someone supposed to know they are infringing on a patent if they can't get all the details on a patent?
OK ... to further that then.
Where is the impeachment for LYING ABOUT WHY THE COUNTRY WAS DRAGGED INTO A PROTRACTED WAR! ... not for the war itself.
That was a very cunning stunt ...
The company also owns the bathroom facilities. Plenty of people go to the bathroom during work hours, its unavoidable. Do you also have the right to spy on people as they are doing this? It IS after all an employee using company-owned equipment. Or are you going to say employees DO in fact have some expectation of privacy, in which case, where any expectation of privacy is extended, then normal laws about privacy invasion and searches without a warrant exist.
You can void this expectation under certain conditions by having the employee sign an employment contract that specifically makes the employee give up such expectations, but like all civil rights, unless they are voluntarily relinquished, they are still rights.
In the US, it is very unfashionable to charge by the byte. So most internet connectivity (for residential/personal use) is 'unmetered'. However often there is clauses about 'excessive' use and the right to slow you down or cut you off for excessive use - but this applies to mobile broadband as well as residential customers. However they're often very cagey about what 'excessive' means, and by and large, it equates to hundreds of gigabytes.
That said, AU is definitely ahead with mobile billing. In the US, they charge you for everything on the phone - IN AND OUT. Which means you receive (or make) a phone call? you pay for it. You receive (or send) a text message? you pay for it. They have plans with X text messages free, but since a lot of phone companies offer an email -> text message interface, it is quite possible to run up someone's bill by making a program that will send emails to a subscriber's email -> text message address, and give them like 5000 text messages in the month. And the subscriber has no choice but to pay for it. I've always been against being forced to pay for what you receive on a cell (mobile) phone as far as voice calls and text messages. Mobile internet is a different story of course.
Also, in the US, you can get residential internet speeds MUCH faster than what you can get on mobile broadband. Mobile broadband tends to be on the low end of 'high speed'. For example Verizon BroadbandAccess (which I have) advertises 700kbit, with bursts up to 2mbit. And this is approximately accurate. However you can get the Verizon FiOS (fiber to the home) service, and get up to a 50mbit connection (I have 20mbit, and have verified the speeds are accurate). This in itself is also forcing cable companies and other DSL providers to up their offering, which is why cable is all about saying 'You can get 10mbit!' or advertising their 'boosting' options to go up to 20/50/etc (though the big problem with cable is its a shared pipe, if your neighbours are flooding the line, your connection suffers - not so with DSL or FiOS).
In the US at least, the speed gap between 3G and residential broadband is huge, and getting bigger.
And to the original post, I'd recommend Verizon's BroadbandAccess. You will note that in the Sprint/AT&T ads, they NEVER mention Verizon, because Verizon's coverage is better, and their speeds are better. And their AUP is less draconian (though it still 'forbids' use for P2P applications and running a server though it, but Verizon also tends not to filter anything so doesn't enforce said AUP much unless it puts a strain on their network).
The patent listed above covers the running of an FTP or SMTP PROXY server. AFAIK ClamAV is simply a virus scanner, one that runs as a daemon and you can send it a signal to scan files in X location and report back, but still just a virus scanner. The patent listed here *MIGHT* apply to Amavis, but not ClamAV. Amavis is actually creating a proxy SMTP server and then delivering it to the 'real' SMTP port once it is clean. And it USES ClamAV and other virus scanners. But ClamAV doesn't do this by itself.
I am not aware of any support group for things like 5p- (aka. Cri du Chat) which pre-date the internet. This is an EXTREMELY rare genetic disorder, as in 50-60 cases a YEAR in the US (which considering there were about 4 million live births in the US last year that puts it at 1 in 65-80,000). But then, before the 80s or so, they used to just put affected children in mental asylums for life. Unfortunately, my son has this condition, and it is good to find others out there going through the same thing.
You said it yourself, 'utterances'. The defendant already SAID such things, and though they had not been given their miranda rights, the court ruled them admissable anyway.
In this case, they are trying to get someone to PERFORM an utterance - to say something they have NOT said and have it admissable, not to use something they have already said and been heard saying. That is why it is a 5th amendment issue - they are trying to force him to 'divulge the contents of his mind' to self-incriminate himself.