Yeah, his rough description sounds similar. In this case, he's causing the hypervisor to constantly update the MMU page tables, then glitching the system during that, which gives him access to memory that the hypervisor thought it had protected.
I know I always have an odd number of points on my account because of so many different denominations of DLC prices.
Wouldn't you be just as likely to have an even number of points? I suppose you could have started out with an odd number of points, and bought only things costing an even number of points, so that your remaining points were always odd.
In other words, these are DRM schemes, with all the inherent problems. My rule is simple: if I can't download it to my own machine and be able to ensure I can still run it 10 years from now, connected only to my own local network, I'm not interested. Doesn't matter whether it's movies, music, software, or games. There's no excuse for making these things dependent on something still existing and running thousands of miles from here.
Wow, this makes me feel a lot better about my youth. Apparently I wasn't a geek who played D&D all the time and never got out, no, I was in a gang! Maybe they'll find that living in a basement is actually the same structure as a president living in a secure bunker giving orders to everyone.
The best approach seems to be something BOFH-like: retaliate against the annoying person, but not in a way he can trace back to you. So on the bus, you might say something without your mouth being visible to the annoying person, and be sure not to move differently during or after saying it. Maybe even look back as if to try to find who said that.
I look at it like this: X tells you that he wants A, but his actions show that he really wants B. Solution? Give him B, because that's what he really wants.
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Actually, the square was supposed to be the Infinity symbol, but the plant that prints the buttons doesn't have the right font installed, so it keeps showing up as a square instead.
Oh crap, I actually spent a few minutes trying to find confirmation of this, until I realized the joke. Haha.
I'd love to do something like that to annoying people on the bus, but I'm always concerned about retaliation the next time I encounter the person outside the bus. I don't want to be looking over my shoulder all the time.
Bluetooth headsets make people seem insane. Walking down the street laughing and talking to an invisible friend without holding anything up to their ear. It's just not right.
You've got it all wrong. It makes those of us who talk to ourselves look normal. I hardly ever get looks anymore when I'm talking to myself in the grocery store about what to get. They just think I'm talking to a SO or something on a bluetooth earphone that's so small you can't even see it.
I've never had much of a problem doing things that distract me from driving, because I can barely even carry on a conversation while doing so. Thus, when I'm driving, I'm driving and nothing else. Somehow I find driving enjoyable, because there is so much to pay attention to in order to make everything smooth and efficient. Things like looking ahead for yellow/red lights so I can let off the accelerator and not have to brake as much.
If it can stop a lot of this kind of spam, that's fine with me. Let it be an arms race. If the spammers have to make up new templates every 4 hours, that's going to make things a lot harder.
You think after a few rounds of this, they might change their meta-template? As in, stop using templates, etc.? Nahhhh, this method will be foolproof!
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The hack apparently involves pressing up, down, left, right, X, and O in pairs.
I'm sure the research modeling is interesting and worthwhile, and it's just the writeup that is idiotic. But y'know *computer* models do not ever show anything *conclusively*.
Oh, come on, they show conclusively what that computer model will do when run on that computer at that moment. You can't argue with it, you know I'm right!
How are any of these scams? In other words, where is the fraud? It sounds like the things being sold are accurately represented. Are you him a scam artist simply because you don't like what he's selling, or that he might have (well-informed) buyers? If he does, do you think the buyers may know something you don't know about economics and the value of the things they're buying?
Maybe you could do a visualization of this guy's astroturfing. And for some reason it seems highly appropriate to use his own visualization tools for it. The ad demonstrating the product would be based on everywhere the ad itself had been spammed. I love it.
If there's an economic question, it's when you don't have enough funds to buy all the current systems or all the well-rated games for any system. Even if a particular game gave a lot of enjoyment per dollar, you can't buy the same game again to get that enjoyment all over; you must buy a different game to get more enjoyment. Even if the next game doesn't give as much enjoyment per dollar, it's still more than you were getting from the previous game at that point.
machine - 1. [...] b. A simple device, such as a lever, a pulley, or an inclined plane, that alters the magnitude or direction, or both, of an applied force; a simple machine.
A hot air balloon converts the downward force of the atmosphere into an upward force on the basket.
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Yeah, his rough description sounds similar. In this case, he's causing the hypervisor to constantly update the MMU page tables, then glitching the system during that, which gives him access to memory that the hypervisor thought it had protected.
Wouldn't you be just as likely to have an even number of points? I suppose you could have started out with an odd number of points, and bought only things costing an even number of points, so that your remaining points were always odd.
The name of the game was obviously ^H.
Or maybe if they go belly-up, they won't have the money to release a patch? Nahhhh....
In other words, these are DRM schemes, with all the inherent problems. My rule is simple: if I can't download it to my own machine and be able to ensure I can still run it 10 years from now, connected only to my own local network, I'm not interested. Doesn't matter whether it's movies, music, software, or games. There's no excuse for making these things dependent on something still existing and running thousands of miles from here.
Wow, this makes me feel a lot better about my youth. Apparently I wasn't a geek who played D&D all the time and never got out, no, I was in a gang! Maybe they'll find that living in a basement is actually the same structure as a president living in a secure bunker giving orders to everyone.
The best approach seems to be something BOFH-like: retaliate against the annoying person, but not in a way he can trace back to you. So on the bus, you might say something without your mouth being visible to the annoying person, and be sure not to move differently during or after saying it. Maybe even look back as if to try to find who said that.
I look at it like this: X tells you that he wants A, but his actions show that he really wants B. Solution? Give him B, because that's what he really wants.
Oh crap, I actually spent a few minutes trying to find confirmation of this, until I realized the joke. Haha.
I'd love to do something like that to annoying people on the bus, but I'm always concerned about retaliation the next time I encounter the person outside the bus. I don't want to be looking over my shoulder all the time.
You've got it all wrong. It makes those of us who talk to ourselves look normal. I hardly ever get looks anymore when I'm talking to myself in the grocery store about what to get. They just think I'm talking to a SO or something on a bluetooth earphone that's so small you can't even see it.
I've never had much of a problem doing things that distract me from driving, because I can barely even carry on a conversation while doing so. Thus, when I'm driving, I'm driving and nothing else. Somehow I find driving enjoyable, because there is so much to pay attention to in order to make everything smooth and efficient. Things like looking ahead for yellow/red lights so I can let off the accelerator and not have to brake as much.
You think after a few rounds of this, they might change their meta-template? As in, stop using templates, etc.? Nahhhh, this method will be foolproof!
The hack apparently involves pressing up, down, left, right, X, and O in pairs.
Oh, come on, they show conclusively what that computer model will do when run on that computer at that moment. You can't argue with it, you know I'm right!
How are any of these scams? In other words, where is the fraud? It sounds like the things being sold are accurately represented. Are you him a scam artist simply because you don't like what he's selling, or that he might have (well-informed) buyers? If he does, do you think the buyers may know something you don't know about economics and the value of the things they're buying?
Maybe you could do a visualization of this guy's astroturfing. And for some reason it seems highly appropriate to use his own visualization tools for it. The ad demonstrating the product would be based on everywhere the ad itself had been spammed. I love it.
I already spent a good portion on tiger-repelling rocks for my neighborhood (they work great, BTW... no tigers yet).
You want a quiet, sensible discussion when the WORLD IS ABOUT TO CATCH FIRE?!? You wouldn't ask for that if your house were burning down, would you?
</sarcasm> (amazing I have to disclaim this, but sadly there are people who would seriously argue just like this)
Hmmm, I don't know. As I sit here sipping my soda, the imagery reminds me of various things. One thing comes to mind, though.
If there's an economic question, it's when you don't have enough funds to buy all the current systems or all the well-rated games for any system. Even if a particular game gave a lot of enjoyment per dollar, you can't buy the same game again to get that enjoyment all over; you must buy a different game to get more enjoyment. Even if the next game doesn't give as much enjoyment per dollar, it's still more than you were getting from the previous game at that point.
A hot air balloon converts the downward force of the atmosphere into an upward force on the basket.
Or you could just mount a huge subwoofer in the back of your van and blast them with vibes until their car falls apart.
More importantly, did they run it several times to bne sure that one network wasn't just a fluke?