In the case of sharing MP3s the person having something forced on them is the owner of the copyright who loses the right to dispose of their (intellectual) property. It's striking that so many posters on slashdot consider an email address property that spammers are tresspassing on but refuse to do the same for pieces of music.
The PCI SIG need to own the PCI trademark so they can license it only to companies which actually conform to the standard - I don't understand why so many people find this objectionable.
If you run any old crap off the internet then you ought to be more worried about it deleting your personal files than system files which can be restored by reinstalling in 30 minutes.
Moreover I was wrong to suggest in my earlier post that the default ACL would allow full access to HKLM: a clean installation of Windows 2000 gives the group Users only read access to so you must have been either a Power User or an Administrator.
It is true that there is legacy software that requires to run in a more privileged context than is necessary - but by the same token there are Unix programs that require suid root when they don't need it. This doesn't have any bearing on the underlying security of the system only that users have the choice in both cases to forego some security to run more software.
If you want you can set a more restrictive ACL on that registry tree. However I doubt most users need to be prevented from intentionally destroyed their systems.
Its a bug in the application which runs a privileged process on an unprivileged user's desktop - a properly written application would be unprivileged and use an IPC mechanism to communicate with the service it controls.
That's exactly how most motherboard graphics chipsets (like the Intel 840) work - it's also very slow because 3d graphics is very memory bandwidth intensive.
German civilian casualities were more like hundreds of thousands or millions and as for the idea that the second world war was sought to stop the holocaust, this is an invention of the last couple of decades; during WW2 the allies didn't mention it very much for fear of alienating their domestic populations and at the Nuremburg trials the main charge against the defendants was crimes against peace, the death camps were secondary. Also a large number of German civilian casualities occurred during bombing raids, the allies had a specific policy of bombing workers' housing to affect the morale of the population, and after the war due to cold, disease and malnutrition which the occupying power did very little to alleviate. How were the deaths of these people supposed to be stopping the holocaust?
Practically the first act of the Yelstin government was to ban the CPSU (and a smaller split.) It was only legalised as the KPRF several years later. So I think they already know.
How can you ever guarantee that a program is reliable? Microsoft is just telling the user that the driver has been subject to some quite intensive testing by an independent party so there is more evidence for its reliability than just its developers say-so.
NT has privileges (so users don't need to be root to do certain operations), access control lists for all objects, more than 32 groups for a user, impersonation (so a server can take on the identity of a connecting user and do operations on their behalf).
The operating system provides the mechanisms for security (and Windows NT/2K/XP does) but this doesn't help if applications don't make use of the mechanisms, by insisting on running in a privileged mode for example. Just the same problem can exist on UNIX systems.
From what the article describes, the people doing these experiments have got their research backwatds. Specficially finding that a particular set of assumptions to a simulation generates a result 'like' human society is meaningless unless you also show that the assumptions are legitimate. The racism example was particularly egregious; nowhere is it explained why ignoring the effect of income distribution, access to jobs, the actions of the government, etc on where people lived was valid. It gives the strong impression that showing that racial division arises from inscrutable preferences is attractive for political reasons more than anything.
Point out that defending a peaceful demonstration
against rightist thugs has nothing in common
with defending US imperialism, responsible for
more death and destruction than al-Queda could
ever dream of.
I think you should start with something more
basic; the system tray is nothing like/etc/init.d
the similar function is performed by the services
applet available from the control panel; you
can set the start order, user to run as, etc
of services (aka daemons).
Indeed the number of casualities has nothing do
with who is right and wrong but the popular
press in both the US and Europe seems to pay a lot
more attention to Israeli deaths and Palestinians
killed are either described as 'militants' or
as having been killed accidently by the IDF. It
would be as though reporting on WW2 detailed
every death of a US solider but never mentioned
those killed at Hiroshima.
Under Windows NT/2000/XP you can very easily
configure what user a service runs as. Moreover
unlike Unix you don't need to have webservers
running as root and then rely on them giving up
their privileges correctly.
> One problem is that Guatemala and Chile have
> chosen less than ideal governments
>
So the US decided to choose for them as is well
documented, and neither are these the only
examples. Of course for the US this was inbetween
being a champion of anti-imperialism and
democracy.
> The Palestinians are part of the problem
>
So you admit Israeli discrimination but
just like every kind of racism you
justify it by some threatening myth
about the target group.
> If one act of imperialism prevents 4...
>
So the people of South America (for
example) have your blessing to despose
the US government; if one act of
imperialism prevents another Chile,
Guatamealo, Nicaragua, Hati, etc.
Israel is an explicitly religious state with
laws to match. Furthermore freedom is
indivisible; the Israeli government may not kill
apostates but it does kill, tortue and deny
democratic rights to people for being born to
the wrong parents.
> The US's now dusty "imperialism" in
> that area is now several decades old
>
It may be dusty to you but it's very
real for people living in the region.
> Remember also, that Iran under the
> Shah was not imperialist.
>
So by deposing an elected government
the US was preventing imperialism!
> Was the U.S. not a democracy during
> the years it occupied Japan?
>
That's quite right; a country which
denies democratic rights to people
living under its control is not
a democracy. Equally the US was
not a democracy when it denied
blacks the vote.
> Israel is anxious to get out of those
> territories,
>
That must be why it is building
settlements there.
> For example, you are allowed
> to practice your religion
> there. Israel's neighbors,
> in contrast, tend to have
> laws to punish people for
> being of the wrong religion.
>
What a singular sense of
humour you have; not only
does Israel punish
people for being the
wrong religion, it also
punishes them for having
the wrong parents or
living in the wrong
place.
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In the case of sharing MP3s the person having
something forced on them is the owner of the
copyright who loses the right to dispose of
their (intellectual) property. It's striking that
so many posters on slashdot consider an email
address property that spammers are tresspassing on
but refuse to do the same for pieces of music.
The PCI SIG need to own the PCI trademark so
they can license it only to companies which
actually conform to the standard - I don't
understand why so many people find this
objectionable.
If you run any old crap off the internet then
you ought to be more worried about it deleting
your personal files than system files which can
be restored by reinstalling in 30 minutes.
Moreover I was wrong to suggest in my earlier
post that the default ACL would allow full access to HKLM: a clean installation of Windows 2000
gives the group Users only read access to
so you must have been either a Power User or an Administrator.
It is true that there is legacy software that
requires to run in a more privileged context
than is necessary - but by the same token there
are Unix programs that require suid root when
they don't need it. This doesn't have any
bearing on the underlying security of the system
only that users have the choice in both cases to
forego some security to run more software.
If you want you can set a more restrictive
ACL on that registry tree. However I doubt most
users need to be prevented from intentionally
destroyed their systems.
Its a bug in the application which runs a
privileged process on an unprivileged user's
desktop - a properly written application would
be unprivileged and use an IPC mechanism to
communicate with the service it controls.
That's exactly how most motherboard graphics
chipsets (like the Intel 840) work - it's also
very slow because 3d graphics is very memory
bandwidth intensive.
German civilian casualities were more like
hundreds of thousands or millions and as for the
idea that the second world war was sought to
stop the holocaust, this is an invention of the
last couple of decades; during WW2 the allies
didn't mention it very much for fear of
alienating their domestic populations and at the
Nuremburg trials the main charge against the
defendants was crimes against peace, the death
camps were secondary. Also a large number of
German civilian casualities occurred during
bombing raids, the allies had a specific policy
of bombing workers' housing to affect the morale
of the population, and after the war due to
cold, disease and malnutrition which the
occupying power did very little to alleviate.
How were the deaths of these people supposed
to be stopping the holocaust?
Practically the first act of the Yelstin
government was to ban the CPSU (and a smaller
split.) It was only legalised as the KPRF
several years later. So I think they already
know.
How can you ever guarantee that a program
is reliable? Microsoft is just telling the user
that the driver has been subject to some quite
intensive testing by an independent party so
there is more evidence for its reliability than
just its developers say-so.
> We fight the communists
>
And the communists kicked your ass.
Silly boneheads.
NT has privileges (so users don't need to be
root to do certain operations), access control
lists for all objects, more than 32 groups for a
user, impersonation (so a server can take on the
identity of a connecting user and do operations
on their behalf).
The operating system provides the mechanisms
for security (and Windows NT/2K/XP does) but
this doesn't help if applications don't make
use of the mechanisms, by insisting on running
in a privileged mode for example. Just the same
problem can exist on UNIX systems.
Microsoft wrote the first version of OS/2 and
Windows NT was to have been the second version.
DX9 multichannel surfaces can have a different
format for channel including 32-bit floats.
So a surface using 128bits is possible.
From what the article describes, the people doing these experiments have got their research backwatds. Specficially finding that a particular set of assumptions to a simulation generates a result 'like' human society is meaningless unless you also show that the assumptions are legitimate. The racism example was particularly egregious; nowhere is it explained why ignoring the effect of income distribution, access to jobs, the actions of the government, etc on where people lived was valid. It gives the strong impression that showing that racial division arises from inscrutable preferences is attractive for political reasons more than anything.
Point out that defending a peaceful demonstration
against rightist thugs has nothing in common
with defending US imperialism, responsible for
more death and destruction than al-Queda could
ever dream of.
MS have kidnapped Britain's entire population
of functional language designers.
I think you should start with something more /etc/init.d
basic; the system tray is nothing like
the similar function is performed by the services
applet available from the control panel; you
can set the start order, user to run as, etc
of services (aka daemons).
I thought releasing beta ("untested in the field")
software was a Microsoft practice. Why is an
excuse for Linux vendors?
Indeed the number of casualities has nothing do
with who is right and wrong but the popular
press in both the US and Europe seems to pay a lot
more attention to Israeli deaths and Palestinians
killed are either described as 'militants' or
as having been killed accidently by the IDF. It
would be as though reporting on WW2 detailed
every death of a US solider but never mentioned
those killed at Hiroshima.
Under Windows NT/2000/XP you can very easily
configure what user a service runs as. Moreover
unlike Unix you don't need to have webservers
running as root and then rely on them giving up
their privileges correctly.
That's the requirements for the system you are doing development on.
> One problem is that Guatemala and Chile have
> chosen less than ideal governments
>
So the US decided to choose for them as is well
documented, and neither are these the only
examples. Of course for the US this was inbetween
being a champion of anti-imperialism and
democracy.
> The Palestinians are part of the problem
>
So you admit Israeli discrimination but
just like every kind of racism you
justify it by some threatening myth
about the target group.
> If one act of imperialism prevents 4...
>
So the people of South America (for
example) have your blessing to despose
the US government; if one act of
imperialism prevents another Chile,
Guatamealo, Nicaragua, Hati, etc.
Israel is an explicitly religious state with
laws to match. Furthermore freedom is
indivisible; the Israeli government may not kill
apostates but it does kill, tortue and deny
democratic rights to people for being born to
the wrong parents.
> The US's now dusty "imperialism" in
> that area is now several decades old
>
It may be dusty to you but it's very
real for people living in the region.
> Remember also, that Iran under the
> Shah was not imperialist.
>
So by deposing an elected government
the US was preventing imperialism!
> Was the U.S. not a democracy during
> the years it occupied Japan?
>
That's quite right; a country which
denies democratic rights to people
living under its control is not
a democracy. Equally the US was
not a democracy when it denied
blacks the vote.
> Israel is anxious to get out of those
> territories,
>
That must be why it is building
settlements there.
> For example, you are allowed
> to practice your religion
> there. Israel's neighbors,
> in contrast, tend to have
> laws to punish people for
> being of the wrong religion.
>
What a singular sense of
humour you have; not only
does Israel punish
people for being the
wrong religion, it also
punishes them for having
the wrong parents or
living in the wrong
place.