As I understand it, the emulator app didnt let you just run any C64 ROM you want... only games you buy through the app itself (you get 5 games buying the app).
Since you can't boot arbitrary files (You can only boot the C64 games you buy), you can't boot a BASIC image, since the authors of the app don't make a BASIC image available for purchase.
However, I doubt that the emulator gives you access to any of the iPhone's facilities. So it's not like you can write a program to call someone, utilize the network, or perform other privacy-compromising activities.
What you can do is pretty limited and (one would think) innocuous....
No matter how evil you want to get, without a security bug of some sort in the emulation layer and in the iPhone OS itself, you aren't getting far.
By this logic, IM apps should be banned, because one of your friends might paste a copyrighted quote.
Skype should be banned, since a friend on the phone may have some copyrighted music playing in the background.
The ability to play AAC files and MP3s should be removed, because you may have downloaded pirated music to your iTunes.
(Far more likely, and a risk that Apple is far more aware of, and thus far more susceptible to being charged with willful contributory infringement over)
I actually don't think it does outweigh the risk... it's not that much harder to enter credentials to update the files.
There are a lot of good ways to implement auto-update that don't require self-modifying scripts. A good example, would be to have a yum repository, and deploy updates with "yum update"
Or even to have the user setup a daemon during install that checks for and applies updates.
If the script can modify files in the web folder, there is much more serious damage a script kiddie can do if they manage to exploit a security hole.
For example, they can use the web server to setup a phishing site, they can deploy malware to the server.
They can make permanent changes to PHP code, they can modify images on the site to exploit bugs in visitors' browsers.
They can upload malicious.js files to exploit browser bugs in visitors' computers.
Without the ability to modify files in the web folder, they're basically limited to what they can do by modifying the SQL database.
They can definitely deface the site, but they won't be serving phishing sites from your web server, without the ability to create web pages that lack blog elements....
You think they can build a global sensor net and detect every time the laser is used?
I think it would be enough for computers onboard a plane that has a message to send to periodically activate the laser to send the (timestamped, encrypted) message at random intervals during the flight.
Enemies in the water that receive the signal will have no idea as to the ultimate destination of the aircraft, only presumably that the sub may have been expected to be (at some point) in range of one of the laser activations.
But they won't know where all the laser activations were, because their ships with acousting listening devices can't keep up with the fast aircraft...
You are attempting to develop a product, and therefore a business to sell the product.
That's really the only thing that is important.
It doesn't matter whether that product is a piece of gear, a software program, a movie, a book, a web site, etc, the basic considerations are the same.
You need resources to develop the product. In the case of a physical good, you need raw materials to built test units with, you need people to build the units, you need electricity to power the units, you need time to build the units, and you may need additional people to assist you to meet realistic timeframes.
Once you've built them, you need even more resources to be able to build a business selling them.
There are many ways to obtain the resources you need...
Go back and get another job. Use the income to survive, and set some of it aside to use for developing your product in your spare time.
Borrow money to buy the resources you need to finish building the product. This includes trying to borrow from a rich friend, or from a bank.
Expand your team (add people), and ask for them to help you find ways of getting access to the resources the team needs, if they are better at that.
Engage in litigation to obtain resources. E.g. if you have obtained a patent, look for other people who might be practicing your patent. However, you require lawyers and may need significant cash reserves to do this.
Sell other excessive resources you have acquired or generated that are not essential in reaching your goal.
Let investors take a stake in your business. Use their capital to acquire needed resources.
Start another line of business that requires fewer resources, if the other line of business is successful, revisit the original line of business at a later date (a company can use profits from one activity to assist in financing the other potentially more-profitable but harder-to-develop product).
Most expensive doesn't necessarily mean tastes better. The more expensive products are for people shopping at the store, who think they can pay more money and have a better-tasting healthier product:)
There are many computer retailers who discount the price so you don't pay the windows tax if you get a Linux or other system (Dell does this, and other OEMs do too).
And (unless you are buying a Netbook/non-PC that utilizes special hardware) their products are usually more expensive than equivalent ones from other retailers that have Windows preinstalled.
There are a variety of ways to get Windows for 'free' from MS. Most people can't take advantage of them, but there are some copies of Windows that MS gives away for free.
Namely various giveaways... uh, students/teachers at some schools may get the OS through MSDNAA, for educational purposes, subject to some restrictions.
Windows is also bundled with most new computer systems.. the cost is built-in... Even if you want Linux, BSD, or FreeDOS, you pay the windows tax.
Maybe a difference in the formulations they are testing?
Maybe more people they are testing/re-testing have taken the drugs before, and so reduced the effect VS effect to a person who had never taken certain other drugs before.
Maybe a generational change over decades, where the effects of the drugs are less on newer generations of people?
Maybe climate/temperature differences.
Or some other variable they aren't thinking about...
They do taste better.. often... probably because they actually have a good consistent way of cooking them, VS using a microwave at home, and maybe a good idea of what type to use.
Yep... and there's a great method that cannot be "overheard" in an area, because the transmission can be heard all over the planet. ELF transmissions from the ground.
They could randomly generate "dummy" communications in places where there are no submarines much more often and in many more places than there are actually submarines.
To Swimmers and wildlife, when a plane is shooting this giant high-powered laser into the water, to communicate with the submarine?
achieved by concentrating the light sufficiently to ionize a small amount of water, which then absorbs laser energy and superheats. The result is a small explosion of steam, which can generate a 220 decibel pulse of sound.
Au Contraire. I think if it can modify itself, the site clearly has incorrect file permissions.
It's intended behavior that scripts can't modify themselves.
Actually, I use SELinux configurations to make sure Apache can never write to files in web content directories.
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As I understand it, the emulator app didnt let you just run any C64 ROM you want... only games you buy through the app itself (you get 5 games buying the app).
Since you can't boot arbitrary files (You can only boot the C64 games you buy), you can't boot a BASIC image, since the authors of the app don't make a BASIC image available for purchase.
I'm thinking they could possibly patch the BASIC implementation to make sure the human cannot interact with it, rather than removing it entirely.
There's some code in there responsible for reading line-oriented input into the program buffer..
However, I doubt that the emulator gives you access to any of the iPhone's facilities. So it's not like you can write a program to call someone, utilize the network, or perform other privacy-compromising activities.
What you can do is pretty limited and (one would think) innocuous....
No matter how evil you want to get, without a security bug of some sort in the emulation layer and in the iPhone OS itself, you aren't getting far.
No... but it might pass the iTuring test.
No it doesn't, not if you use -f, anyways.
Take a look at the man page for rm:
--no-preserve-root do not treat â/â(TM) specially (the default)
--preserve-root fail to operate recursively on â/â(TM)
So (it doesn't make much sense), to protect against accidentally rm -rf'ing /, you have to remember to include the --preserve-root option.
By this logic, IM apps should be banned, because one of your friends might paste a copyrighted quote.
Skype should be banned, since a friend on the phone may have some copyrighted music playing in the background.
The ability to play AAC files and MP3s should be removed, because you may have downloaded pirated music to your iTunes. (Far more likely, and a risk that Apple is far more aware of, and thus far more susceptible to being charged with willful contributory infringement over)
The list goes on...
And the moment someone manages to do it, Apple will probably change their mind and pull the BrainF*ck interpreter off the appstore.
I actually don't think it does outweigh the risk... it's not that much harder to enter credentials to update the files.
There are a lot of good ways to implement auto-update that don't require self-modifying scripts. A good example, would be to have a yum repository, and deploy updates with "yum update"
Or even to have the user setup a daemon during install that checks for and applies updates.
If the script can modify files in the web folder, there is much more serious damage a script kiddie can do if they manage to exploit a security hole.
For example, they can use the web server to setup a phishing site, they can deploy malware to the server.
They can make permanent changes to PHP code, they can modify images on the site to exploit bugs in visitors' browsers.
They can upload malicious .js files to exploit browser bugs in visitors' computers.
Without the ability to modify files in the web folder, they're basically limited to what they can do by modifying the SQL database.
They can definitely deface the site, but they won't be serving phishing sites from your web server, without the ability to create web pages that lack blog elements....
How is it that the enemy can track every cup?
You think they can build a global sensor net and detect every time the laser is used?
I think it would be enough for computers onboard a plane that has a message to send to periodically activate the laser to send the (timestamped, encrypted) message at random intervals during the flight.
Enemies in the water that receive the signal will have no idea as to the ultimate destination of the aircraft, only presumably that the sub may have been expected to be (at some point) in range of one of the laser activations.
But they won't know where all the laser activations were, because their ships with acousting listening devices can't keep up with the fast aircraft...
You are attempting to develop a product, and therefore a business to sell the product. That's really the only thing that is important.
It doesn't matter whether that product is a piece of gear, a software program, a movie, a book, a web site, etc, the basic considerations are the same.
You need resources to develop the product. In the case of a physical good, you need raw materials to built test units with, you need people to build the units, you need electricity to power the units, you need time to build the units, and you may need additional people to assist you to meet realistic timeframes.
Once you've built them, you need even more resources to be able to build a business selling them.
There are many ways to obtain the resources you need...
Outside Academia, it means very little.
And when running your own business, it means very little: in most cases, your customers won't ask "Does he have a Ph.d.?" before buying your product.
Most expensive doesn't necessarily mean tastes better. The more expensive products are for people shopping at the store, who think they can pay more money and have a better-tasting healthier product :)
The Dell ubuntu section is very sparse.
The hardware available is definitely not the same as the massive selection that is available with windows pre-installed.
It may be cheaper.. but you really pay because the hardware is cheaper too...
There are many computer retailers who discount the price so you don't pay the windows tax if you get a Linux or other system (Dell does this, and other OEMs do too).
And (unless you are buying a Netbook/non-PC that utilizes special hardware) their products are usually more expensive than equivalent ones from other retailers that have Windows preinstalled.
You can pass WGA validation without installing the WGA notification service update.
You can also avoid installing or validating using WGA ever, as long as you only use automatic updates to pull critical updates.
You won't be able to go to the windowsupdate site manually, or download WGA-protected downloads without doing a WGA validation, however
There are a variety of ways to get Windows for 'free' from MS. Most people can't take advantage of them, but there are some copies of Windows that MS gives away for free.
Namely various giveaways... uh, students/teachers at some schools may get the OS through MSDNAA, for educational purposes, subject to some restrictions.
Windows is also bundled with most new computer systems.. the cost is built-in... Even if you want Linux, BSD, or FreeDOS, you pay the windows tax.
Maybe a difference in the formulations they are testing?
Maybe more people they are testing/re-testing have taken the drugs before, and so reduced the effect VS effect to a person who had never taken certain other drugs before.
Maybe a generational change over decades, where the effects of the drugs are less on newer generations of people?
Maybe climate/temperature differences. Or some other variable they aren't thinking about...
They do taste better.. often... probably because they actually have a good consistent way of cooking them, VS using a microwave at home, and maybe a good idea of what type to use.
An Alien is a person from a foreign country. What do you think it means?
Perhaps we could have a behavioral study of researchers to show to what extent they fudge data....
By having researchers 'study' the effects of two drugs
A "drug" known to have no effect, and a drug known to have an effect.
They would have to perform the same testing and trials of both drugs that they perform with other drugs.
If their testing shows the known-ineffective drug is better than placebo, then we know something is amiss <EG>
Yep... and there's a great method that cannot be "overheard" in an area, because the transmission can be heard all over the planet. ELF transmissions from the ground.
They could randomly generate "dummy" communications in places where there are no submarines much more often and in many more places than there are actually submarines.
I'm thinking more along the lines of swimmers in the North atlantic who are tethered to a boat and on a dive expedition...
To Swimmers and wildlife, when a plane is shooting this giant high-powered laser into the water, to communicate with the submarine?
achieved by concentrating the light sufficiently to ionize a small amount of water, which then absorbs laser energy and superheats. The result is a small explosion of steam, which can generate a 220 decibel pulse of sound.
Au Contraire. I think if it can modify itself, the site clearly has incorrect file permissions. It's intended behavior that scripts can't modify themselves.
Actually, I use SELinux configurations to make sure Apache can never write to files in web content directories.