User mode software does not need to be rewritten. It doesn't care whether drivers are Ring 1 or Ring 0 (except for things like Sysinternals tools). Only drivers need to be rewritten, and they need to be to support Win64 anyway. Might as well make it a clean break.
That depends on the implementation. It should be (relatively) simple to make a Linux that only runs signed executables and is given the public key at build time (if such does not already exist), with no key present by default.
I would have no problem compiling something like that and using it if I needed that level of security.
Out of the box, OS X has an active firewall The firewall was not active out of the box for me (Panther, not Tiger, so YMMV)
Non Administrator users cannot install a virus Users can very easily install a virus. It just writes to ~/Library/InputManagers, ~/Library/LaunchDaemons, ~/Library/StartupItems, ~/Library/LaunchAgents,...
You don't need admin privileges to screw a users account and do "useful" things. Point of example - MyDoom.A didn't need Administrative privileges for anything it did.
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And bookstores
And music stores
All media or none. That's the only constitutional way, and it's quite obvious that restrictions like that on all media aren't constitutional.
Way back in the day, MS promised (directly, not someone else saying they would) Office for OS2 when it hit a certain number of users.
It blew by that number, and was Office forthcoming? Nope.
What percentage of movies are meant to be viewed in order?
What percentage of albums are meant to be listened to in order?
Except one of the members of the "choir" here is likely JT himself.
He likes making a fool out of himself on message boards, and never answers the posts that ask him questions in ways that can't be weaseled out of.
User mode/kernel mode.
User mode software does not need to be rewritten. It doesn't care whether drivers are Ring 1 or Ring 0 (except for things like Sysinternals tools). Only drivers need to be rewritten, and they need to be to support Win64 anyway. Might as well make it a clean break.
So what? The question is still valid, why should they be allowed to rewrite the agreement for security updates
This sounds like what they are doing
Not enough. Do something like the following:
Ring 0 - Kernel, MS signed only
Ring 1 - Drivers
Ring 3 - Userland
Give up on the 2 modes, that's a backward compatibility hack for a port that doesn't exist any more.
You can set it so that regular users can't schedule tasks, eliminating that hole.
And games not running as admin is (usually) not Bill's fault. Blame copy protection for that one.
That's out? When did that come out?
Why the hell do you fucking spammers think that anyone will ever buy from you?
Because the number I've seen (can't recall the spammer) is something like 8%
People do.
eh. I don't know of really good DS RPGs. However, it does play the GBA ones.
Government enforcement of third party ratings have already been thrown out as violation of due process.
There is a dongle. The Mac itself. The intel one has a TPM module.
So go back to requiring a prototype
The movie system is not legally enforced (in the US)
So what?
What's the definition of incident?
Is it per Hot Coffee, or is it per Hot Coffee sold?
The PS2 at least has the front switch meaning "on/standby" and a toggle switch in the back that can turn it completely off.
Oh and BTW, Windows updates are signed, so even if someone managed to crack into it the packages would not install.
Are you sure about that? Remember, the MS network was compromised a while as well. Do you trust their auditing?
That depends on the implementation. It should be (relatively) simple to make a Linux that only runs signed executables and is given the public key at build time (if such does not already exist), with no key present by default.
I would have no problem compiling something like that and using it if I needed that level of security.
It depends on who controls the keys.
If the vendor controls the keys, yes, it is scary. If I do, no, it is not.
Not at first. There was always several months of exclusivity
Out of the box, OS X has an active firewall
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The firewall was not active out of the box for me (Panther, not Tiger, so YMMV)
Non Administrator users cannot install a virus
Users can very easily install a virus. It just writes to ~/Library/InputManagers, ~/Library/LaunchDaemons, ~/Library/StartupItems, ~/Library/LaunchAgents,
Not completely true.
You don't need admin privileges to screw a users account and do "useful" things. Point of example - MyDoom.A didn't need Administrative privileges for anything it did.
It's rather hard to find. At gamestop, it's currently backordered for $59.99 and it's going for up to $135 on eBay.
I knew a remake was coming out for the PSP, I was unaware of the sequel.