That's far from the most important. There's undocumented IPC that's faster than others, functions for getting system information and more. There's several books on this, this is the gold standard for one set of the APIs. Note that this book *alone* covers several hundred calls, and it's not complete.
And Office (as of at least 2003, don't know about 2007) uses undocumented functions. Compare the import tables of the executable and DLLs to the libraries provided with the SDK and the export tables of the system DLLs. I don't know what these functions do, but they're linked in.
There the Windows API that's published, and then functions that no one other than Microsoft (and reverse engineers) know about. That's what they're talking about.
The original example from Win 3.1 that's always talked about is a certain timer function. The function that would provide timers to programmers could fail with insufficient resources, and you had to code around that. MS had an API, not in the documentation, used in Office, that would return a timer no matter what. They never had to code the error condition, where everyone else did.
Such laws would be unconstitutional, and have already been ruled a violation of due process for movies.
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That's not really a security issue because Quicktime and Quicktime Pro are the same software.
Yes, it is a security issue, but only from Apple's point of view. Customers are getting something they didn't pay for. That's a hole in the implementation. The only truly secure implementation would be to not ship the feature in the lite version.
odds of the average user writing an applescript to fullscreen quicktime is basically nil compared to the odds of them downloading VLC
It's not really state by state. EVERY SINGLE ONE has been shot down.
And you need to care because of lowest common denominator. If it's too hard to sell M games, they will not be sold, and since they can't be sold, won't be made.
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sure, unless you want to play them full screen when the author doesn't want you to - you actually have to pay for quicktime pro for that
Or learn a little scripting. Apple didn't learn the "if you don't want it used, don't ship it" tenet of security. The full screen functionality (at least it used to be) was easily accessible with AppleScript, even without pro.
14th applies these to to all layers of government.
There is precedent for the speech to have to cause imminent harm for there to be a priori regulation.
The violation of fifth (I was mistaken saying fourth, I meant fifth) by mandatory third party ratings has been established by precedent (movie ratings)
That's what they thought they had with this. It can still be found. It's hard, but someone will see it and bring it to light. It may not be quickly, but chances are it will happen.
Mandatory governmental ratings = chilling effect = violation of First amendment Mandatory third party ratings = violation of due process = violation of Fourth amendment
Considering I'm 35, no, the outcry is not (just) from 14 year olds. It's from people that understand that governmental regulation screws things up more often than not.
If it's that easy to get around, it's not effective, is it?
And CSS isn't really copy protection. You can copy it bit for bit and play the resultant copy. You don't have to understand encrypted bits to copy them.
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That's far from the most important. There's undocumented IPC that's faster than others, functions for getting system information and more. There's several books on this, this is the gold standard for one set of the APIs. Note that this book *alone* covers several hundred calls, and it's not complete.
And Office (as of at least 2003, don't know about 2007) uses undocumented functions. Compare the import tables of the executable and DLLs to the libraries provided with the SDK and the export tables of the system DLLs. I don't know what these functions do, but they're linked in.
There the Windows API that's published, and then functions that no one other than Microsoft (and reverse engineers) know about. That's what they're talking about.
The original example from Win 3.1 that's always talked about is a certain timer function. The function that would provide timers to programmers could fail with insufficient resources, and you had to code around that. MS had an API, not in the documentation, used in Office, that would return a timer no matter what. They never had to code the error condition, where everyone else did.
Such laws would be unconstitutional, and have already been ruled a violation of due process for movies.
That's not really a security issue because Quicktime and Quicktime Pro are the same software.
Yes, it is a security issue, but only from Apple's point of view. Customers are getting something they didn't pay for. That's a hole in the implementation. The only truly secure implementation would be to not ship the feature in the lite version.
odds of the average user writing an applescript to fullscreen quicktime is basically nil compared to the odds of them downloading VLC
Not when it's easy to find and do. It's not much (if any) harder than downloading a dmg and copying the app.
It's not really state by state. EVERY SINGLE ONE has been shot down.
And you need to care because of lowest common denominator. If it's too hard to sell M games, they will not be sold, and since they can't be sold, won't be made.
Riigght. MS has what to do with this?
And keep in mind that there are documented parental controls for the 360. MS has done it's job.
This is nothing more than JT being the attention whore he is.
Never trust the client.
I'm surprised it took this long.
sure, unless you want to play them full screen when the author doesn't want you to - you actually have to pay for quicktime pro for that
Or learn a little scripting. Apple didn't learn the "if you don't want it used, don't ship it" tenet of security. The full screen functionality (at least it used to be) was easily accessible with AppleScript, even without pro.
Spam Doubles: No-brainer -- but no one cares because we're all using IM, especially at work
I just stopped using one of my accounts at work because of spim. So yes, people care.
The STL is not a panacea. You still need to interact with the OS for any non-trivial program, which is going to take/return raw chunks of memory.
RTFA.
Win 2k and later, including Vista
14th applies these to to all layers of government.
There is precedent for the speech to have to cause imminent harm for there to be a priori regulation.
The violation of fifth (I was mistaken saying fourth, I meant fifth) by mandatory third party ratings has been established by precedent (movie ratings)
That's what they thought they had with this. It can still be found. It's hard, but someone will see it and bring it to light. It may not be quickly, but chances are it will happen.
It can be shown to be Constitutional *if* it is unambigously very bad for society. Very, very few things have met that standard.
And yes, the problem is parents are ignoring things. So solve that, don't put foam rubber around everything.
Mandatory governmental ratings = chilling effect = violation of First amendment
Mandatory third party ratings = violation of due process = violation of Fourth amendment
Considering I'm 35, no, the outcry is not (just) from 14 year olds. It's from people that understand that governmental regulation screws things up more often than not.
Would you be able to use a PC without an OS installed to take inventory? Teach classes? Check E-mail?
Yes
Some things aren't so harmless. .txt .rtf
I tested both of those with word docs, and word opened. RTF is fine, since that was default to Word anyway. TXT is defaulted to notepad.
I think Young Yangus is already out in Japan, so it still may be released here.
They work perfectly? My Dell laptop with XP at my old job I could never let go to sleep. If it did, it would never come back. That was with XP
Great, so Windows 2050 gets to use Linux 0.1 code with free reign. Wow, that's devastating I tell you, devastating!
I've seen mention of people using candles instead of the sensor bar, and christmas tree lights throwing off the alignment, so it's not hard.
That was the intended effect, yes.
And WGA only hits pirated Windows. I also have some ocean front property in Arizona if you're interested.
Yeah, they're really red faced after this court loss
You've got it backwards. It $306 for 20, $240 for 60
If it's that easy to get around, it's not effective, is it?
And CSS isn't really copy protection. You can copy it bit for bit and play the resultant copy. You don't have to understand encrypted bits to copy them.