All versions of windows are affected by this self-destruct bug, BY DEFAULT!!!! There are many series of commands that can make your [Windows] machine unwillingly self destruct...
Apparently there's also a set of commands on a special CD-ROM that once inserted can close all these vulnerabilities.
Another interesting option is USB. I believe it's possible to alter the USB power with a software driver. Just set the power level to over 9000, and your peripherals will fry.
USB limits current to the devices. A device won't draw more current than it needs, so you can't fry them this way. If the user had a ton of things connected that normally didn't get enough power due to the PC limiting it, having the PC stop limiting it might blow a fuse in the power supply or trip a thermal breaker in the USB section.
The concern is that, in an earthquake, the unanchored casks of nuclear waste material awaiting burial at Yucca Mountain could be sent into a "chaotic melee of bouncing and rolling juggernauts"
I, for one, would welcome our new chaotic melee of bouncing and rolling juggernaut overlords if it came to that.
Yes, I have a drive with some uh test data on it that I am challenging anyone to recover. The prize is $100, and you must send me all the data (including the 3 GB direcory named "dissertation") so I can er verify that you have properly recovered it. This isn't data I've lost! It's a real challenge of data I've specially crafted for the test.
OSX hides extensions, too, and what's arguably worse, OSX allows you to arbitrarily replace the icon of any file, thereby allowing you to disguise files more easily. Don't some Linux DEs do the same thing?
But doesn't Mac OS X warn you the first time you're running a program? (or am I thinking of that case when you're opening a document that uses said program?)
As long as there have been reporters, there have been people who lied to reporters. Fitzgerald's stunt is just a high-tech version of this. It doesn't mean anything in terms of the quality of reporting today vs. some half-mythical golden age of journalism.
How is something in Wikipedia lying to reporters? They should know that Wikipedia is not a SOURCE of information; if you want that, you follow whatever the article cites, and use the cited works to evaluate the validity of the claim. I only casually browse Wikipedia and am aware of this fundamental aspect of it.
Since they are using bacteria, I could imagine them then solidifying the uppermost portion of the dune to make it higher. Rinse and repeat until your mountain (or hill) chain stops growing.
There's a difference; most people use the roads (perhaps indirectly), but lots of people don't watch TV of any kind but do surf the web. Why should they pay for what they consider a worthless service (television content) if they never watch it?
In other words, in this particular case, the idea was that the original patch would incur a performance hit to x86 and other mainstream architectures in compensating for ARM's differing alignment. Consequently Drepper wanted the change to be done in a platform-specific file outside of his purview.
Yep, that's exactly what I figured was the problem, assumption that the hardware handles misaligned accesses. This kind of thing is used in memory copies and sometimes string routines. Seems simple enough; default to the portable variant that makes no unaligned accesses, and provide an #ifdef'd non-portable one that assumes unaligned accesses (and perhaps little-endian byte order). It would be sad if these techniques were wide-spread, rather than limited to a few core bottleneck routines.
First off, you'd appear more informed than me if you didn't fly off the handle when replying. Yes, I meant if you pissed in an OPEN bottle, since the bacteria will come from the air. I think my point still stands. It was a reply to the dumb summary that seemed to be arguing that because it was from your body, it MUST be safe to put back in later, no need for testing, even though it's had things added and been grown into more tissue.
And of course the child bears 100% of the risk, since he can't walk away period; bad parents? he has to put up with them and bear the abuse for over a decade.
According to the FDA, even therapies that simply re-inject your body's adult stem cells could be prohibited without five years of clinical trials and millions of dollars of research.
If I piss into a bottle, it comes out of my body sterile and is safe to drink, but left to sit for a few days, it is full of bacteria and not safe. Just because it came from my body doesn't mean it's safe to put back in later or after things have been done to it.
Heh, I just finished watching Bicentennial Man, and the robot/android wasn't given the status of a person until he gave himself a finite life span. Funny how imaginary people (who cannot be put in jail and never die) have more rights than any robot in the real world...
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Apparently there's also a set of commands on a special CD-ROM that once inserted can close all these vulnerabilities.
USB limits current to the devices. A device won't draw more current than it needs, so you can't fry them this way. If the user had a ton of things connected that normally didn't get enough power due to the PC limiting it, having the PC stop limiting it might blow a fuse in the power supply or trip a thermal breaker in the USB section.
I think they already do, or at least I always feel as if something of mine is being reduced when I'm in the presence of a TV tuned to Fox News.
I, for one, would welcome our new chaotic melee of bouncing and rolling juggernaut overlords if it came to that.
Yes, I have a drive with some uh test data on it that I am challenging anyone to recover. The prize is $100, and you must send me all the data (including the 3 GB direcory named "dissertation") so I can er verify that you have properly recovered it. This isn't data I've lost! It's a real challenge of data I've specially crafted for the test.
But doesn't Mac OS X warn you the first time you're running a program? (or am I thinking of that case when you're opening a document that uses said program?)
Damn it, don't give Adobe any more stupid ideas for ways to make PDF do more stupid tricks!
How is something in Wikipedia lying to reporters? They should know that Wikipedia is not a SOURCE of information; if you want that, you follow whatever the article cites, and use the cited works to evaluate the validity of the claim. I only casually browse Wikipedia and am aware of this fundamental aspect of it.
Typical journalist, getting superuser access for things that can done at normal user level...
Where will they get the water from?
There's a difference; most people use the roads (perhaps indirectly), but lots of people don't watch TV of any kind but do surf the web. Why should they pay for what they consider a worthless service (television content) if they never watch it?
Yep, that's exactly what I figured was the problem, assumption that the hardware handles misaligned accesses. This kind of thing is used in memory copies and sometimes string routines. Seems simple enough; default to the portable variant that makes no unaligned accesses, and provide an #ifdef'd non-portable one that assumes unaligned accesses (and perhaps little-endian byte order). It would be sad if these techniques were wide-spread, rather than limited to a few core bottleneck routines.
First off, you'd appear more informed than me if you didn't fly off the handle when replying. Yes, I meant if you pissed in an OPEN bottle, since the bacteria will come from the air. I think my point still stands. It was a reply to the dumb summary that seemed to be arguing that because it was from your body, it MUST be safe to put back in later, no need for testing, even though it's had things added and been grown into more tissue.
And of course the child bears 100% of the risk, since he can't walk away period; bad parents? he has to put up with them and bear the abuse for over a decade.
Yeah, maybe their final disappearance will signal the arrival of Duke Nukem Forever.
If I piss into a bottle, it comes out of my body sterile and is safe to drink, but left to sit for a few days, it is full of bacteria and not safe. Just because it came from my body doesn't mean it's safe to put back in later or after things have been done to it.
We don't play outside any more, OLD MAN!!!
Damn, I don't think organic soy-based ink would even fit within the pixel dimension limits of the JPG file format in this ink price comparison graph.
Sorry about my previous message; I see now that you were saying that they have so little influence that it cannot be understated.
Hey, where do I sign up to astroturf for this company? Uh oh, did I just break the first rule of astroturfing, "don't talk about astroturfing"?
Us Linux-using geeks would be spared, at least.
Huh? I'd let them pay me to watch YouTube videos, but they'd have to pay quite a bit for most.
Oh wait, they want me to pay? I already pay with minutes of my life I'll never regain; isn't that enough?
I am interested in your composite money-time concept and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Heh, I just finished watching Bicentennial Man, and the robot/android wasn't given the status of a person until he gave himself a finite life span. Funny how imaginary people (who cannot be put in jail and never die) have more rights than any robot in the real world...
Yeah, but how will he be able to fly the airline again, considering it has no name?