All of those conflicts have occured since the early-90's, I'm assuming he was talking closer to the World Wars; both sides absolutely did heavy experimenting with personnel as well as weaponry during that time, obviously Germany did much more human testing during WW2 than either side previously.
It depends what you mean by login point (I'm not sure if you meant at system startup, or simply before a given user logs in), but either way, the answer is yes. Once an attacker has gained superuser access, which is not an unreasonable assumption, with an intimate knowledge of the operating system, they could easily replace a driver, insert hidden malware (which would again go along with cleaning the logs and replacing utils like ps), or even create and install a new kernel, rife with malicious code.
Better yet..how many people will be able to access their Linksys routers, given the knowledge and motivation to do so? At my friends' swank apartment, you can access at least half a dozen WLANs, all with the ID "linksys"; subsequently, all of them now have new passwords.
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I read "Nobody goes there anymore -- too crowded" and spit coffee all over my desk. Thanks.
Huh. I should probably read the article before going off like that. I agree with what you originally said then; without the "expanded universe", there really is not much to discuss with regard to those topics. I also agree that while certainly very interesting, the subject matter I mentioned doesn't really provide any sort of assertion one way or the other about how the Star Wars universe operates--it's more of a conversation piece than anything. Finally, that's quite an astute point about deconstructionism, which I happen to agree with; mad props.
A lot of your points of contention are addressed in that game. It's possible that LucasArts created the storyline with the express purpose of quelling just those arguments amongst fans, betting that those viewers rabid enough about the storyline would also gobble up the videogame and be appeased. It's not by any means probable, but you bring up some decent points, and that has me thinking...anyway:
there's no evidence that I can remember that the Force makes everything happen according to some predefined plan. This would completely negate free will, which undermines Anakin's entire fall from grace.
Not in the movies, no. In KOTOR 2 (spoiler..sort of), one of the main characters manipulates the player character throughout the entire game in an effort to stop just this supposed motive of the Force. To end the Mandalorian Wars, he/she gave the command to initiate the Mass Shadow Generator, killing thousands of Mandalorians and Jedi alike. The result of all that death turned all surviving Jedi to the dark side (for a time, and depending on how you view Revan), except for the Exile, your character. Between then and the beginning of KOTOR 2, he/she completely lost or severed his connection to the Force. Traya viewed this from afar, and saw in him the ability to end the influence of the Force altogether. She did actually view it as what made everything happen, and wanted to end that measure of determinism. Whether that's correct is anyone's guess, it's never corroborated, but at the very least addressed as an option.
Also, there's nothing that precludes Anakin's fall to the dark side, if this is the case; I'm not really understanding your logic. Even if the Force were controlling all events, the mass slaughter of Force-sensitives occurs in several of the games and comic books that precede the two trilogies in the timeline, the Jedi Purge (the events of Ep. 3) was no different, and some trained Force-sensitives still endured. Additionally, the Jedi Purge really only exterminated a large number of trained Force-sensitves, vis-a-vis, Jedi; there were more than likely still Force-sensitives in the galaxy. Untrained Force-sensitives are apparently much harder to detect, as their power isn't concentrated, and usually much weaker than that of trained Jedi or Sith, etc. Thus, you'd have to be at least on the same planet, if not the same continent, if not the same city, if not the same general area to recognize an untrained Force-sensitive. Ep 4 is a good example, the bond between Obi-Wan and Vader is strong, as they were master and apprentice, and he notices as soon as Obi-Wan boards the Death Star. By comparison, Vader has to be within a few hundred meters of Luke (in the trench) before he notices his sensitivity; in later movies--when Luke is quasi-trained as a Jedi, he can feel him from the forest moon (I believe), and vice versa. Thus, the Force could still operate in subtle ways, even while most of the trained practitioners were dead.
Both individuals argue for both things, just in different contexts. Again, play KOTOR 2. They are actually telling them the same thing in different contexts, that's addressed. In the second KOTOR, after the Jedi Civil War in the first game, many "normal" folk in the universe despise the remaining Jedi, who are often confused with the Sith. To 'normals', the matter of context is irrelevant, it's just a minor difference of religious beliefs, and the general consensus is that they go to war quickly over these trivial matters, while at the same time being capable of immense acts of destruction (both light and dark), and thus are considered to hold too much power. It's a similar deal with the X-Men comics, etc. Thinking about it, they pretty much ripped off that entire part of the plot from the X-Men...and I haven't read much X-Men in like 10 years.
"we are led to understand in Sith that it was Palpatine himself who set the entire plot in motion by manipulating the Force toward Anakin's virgin birth." I still conside
I saw the topic of your comment, and was all ready with about 43,204 reasons why speed and simplicity just don't cut it for enterprise applications...but you're right. Views and triggers are awesome (Stored procedures are not, but they are, unfortunately, a necessary evil. Writing them is about as fun as stabbing yourself in the foot with a fork, but you'll always find statistics that speculate that 60,70,80%+ of business logic is written in stored procedures, however precise those numbers may be, they are actually mostly correct reflections), but there's no need for them for your blogging engine or even your shopping cart application. Good call.
what it's like to live in such conditions with no way out.
You mentioned a way for them to build a better life yourself! Sell someone's house while they're still in it. I never liked my current neighbors much, anyway. brb
Please stop confusing "hacking" with "writing simple blog/shopping cart/cms engines that only need to perform CRUD operations on non-optimised databases in such a manner as to forever forego modularity, reusability, and readability."
That made me spit coffee all over my desk. Why on Earth would a company pay you more because you're familiar with a technology that is both ubiquitous and extremely easy to learn? Instead of doing that, they could pay you the same, and pay someone equally as versed in PHP right out of high school for $9/hour. Then they'd even have concurrency, so that you could attend to more pressing matters that [presumably] the high school kid could not.
..it counts as 8 downloads. I'm praying you're not a C programmer.
Mod parent up, not in a dumb way. Seriously.
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I don't understand why this entire article is a big deal, because of what you just said. I had a Powerbook for awhile between 2002 and 2003, and I used this trick to run Enlightenment all the time.
I bet you've paid a lot for Linux, or BSD, or Apache, or OpenOffice, or any number of free products.
A lot of lead developers on those projects work for, or are subsidized by, large companies that make money off of these products. Face it, on the scale that Apple sells OS X, $129 probably doesn't cover the cost of R&D, packaging, etc. that go into the system, the markup on hardware is what contributes to them making any profit whatsoever.
When I pay $129 for OS X that is more that what I've paid for Windows. So what is the fucking problem with running it on any piece of hardware that can run it?
Are you running the absolutely wretched Windows XP Home? Or are you running Windows ME? Because Windows XP Professional is on sale today at Newegg, OEM version (not retail, meaning you need to buy hardware to get it that cheap), for $140.95. Even Windows 2000 costs $147.95 for an OEM license....or are you actually just running a pirated, corporate (no activation!) copy of Windows XP Professional, pretending for us that you showed your support by paying for your operating system, then forgetting how much Windows actually costs?
It's not about a patent. It's about a trademark. Which they're clearly infringing, at least in the UK. That's what happens when you trump things up, and call trademark disputes "Intellectual Property battles".
The article makes it seem like this company's "GMailTM web-based email" service doesn't even exist. Phrases like: "The idea was that", "it launched "G-MailTM web based email" in May 2002", etc. all talk of this 'service' in the past tense, there's no speak of whether or not this product still actually is still in existence. Granted, they still own the rights to the trademark, and one of the stipulations of owning a trademark is that you police yours. Still, why would a company with a deceased (presumably, because let's face it..this company would be suing Google whether or not they still actually maintained the service) product/service sue a company, instead of merely not policing their TM, and releasing it "back into the wild"?
Oh, that's right. Money. I'm guessing it went like this:
Trademark name.
Run mediocre project into the ground.
Begin talks with Google to try to get them to give you money, since you still own the trademark to a product that does not still exist.
Fail.
Send out press release to major news media, stating that you're going to sue Google, because there's no such thing as bad press.
Also, I'm kind of miffed that this keeps getting called an "intellectual property struggle". G'fuh? I remember back in the old days, we used to call them "trademark disputes". I wasn't aware that changing the first letter of a well-known contraction for "electronic mail" was a rigorous intellectual task. If that's your claim to fame, you're an idiot.
but its probably because i'm one of those stupid people.
Yep. Actually, you're just trolling that's cool, I'll school you anyway. The one-tenth is moderately arbitrary, and I'd call shenanigans that it could actually be that low..basically, it's accounting for those individuals that will inevitably die before reproducing. The.1 suggests that almost everyone in the population will reproduce (and have about 2 kids, on average), as well. Some may have less, but then some may have more, balancing it to maybe 2.1.
This is long after the fact, and you're probably not going to read this, but hey.
Your first point is well taken, really nothing to say there, everything really is a compromise.
The original poster mentioned Akai samplers v Reason, and mentioned the a/d and d/a, as well as latency, being so much better; I was really just calling bullshit on that. The great thing about computer software obviously is that you can almost always upgrade your hardware pretty easily (on supported platforms). I've never heard of latency problems with the MPC1000, either.
I suspect the parent poster was talking about playback latency in Reason using a MIDI controller (of any sort) on a shitty commodity PC. Well, sure, ok, that's going to suck, but it's also a lot cheaper than a decent Akai sampler. One time I ran Reason 2.5 on the onboard soundcard of an Intel D865PERL motherboard with an M-Audio Radium 49, and yeah..there was a system latency of about 0.6 seconds (which is literally unusable if you're doing pretty much anything), that could be isolated to the soundcard having that much of a delay. My point was that even a $100 converter card would make the latency and A/D D/A specs about the same, and that you could get even better convertors for the price, not that there were any particular latency issues with the MPC series. Of course, in a live setting, that really doesn't matter, any clarity gains and jitter minimization are lost on a shitty PA.
Personally, I'd really, really like an MPC, but for right now, I can't justify the cost.
For the price of an MPC1000, I can buy NI Kontakt (as someone mentioned), a very decent interface box (far surpassing the conversion and latency of the Akai box), and a MIDI knob box and a 4x4 set of pads.
For the price of an MPC3000, I can get the same software, Apogee conversion, build a new PC, and buy any set of control surfaces I feel like.
Granted, I do like the immediacy of physical samplers, but at the same time..it's really hard for me to justify the extra cost; especially for one of the larger units, where I could be getting top-of-the-line convertors which aren't tied to just sampling.
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All of those conflicts have occured since the early-90's, I'm assuming he was talking closer to the World Wars; both sides absolutely did heavy experimenting with personnel as well as weaponry during that time, obviously Germany did much more human testing during WW2 than either side previously.
It depends what you mean by login point (I'm not sure if you meant at system startup, or simply before a given user logs in), but either way, the answer is yes. Once an attacker has gained superuser access, which is not an unreasonable assumption, with an intimate knowledge of the operating system, they could easily replace a driver, insert hidden malware (which would again go along with cleaning the logs and replacing utils like ps), or even create and install a new kernel, rife with malicious code.
Better yet..how many people will be able to access their Linksys routers, given the knowledge and motivation to do so? At my friends' swank apartment, you can access at least half a dozen WLANs, all with the ID "linksys"; subsequently, all of them now have new passwords.
I read "Nobody goes there anymore -- too crowded" and spit coffee all over my desk. Thanks.
Huh. I should probably read the article before going off like that. I agree with what you originally said then; without the "expanded universe", there really is not much to discuss with regard to those topics. I also agree that while certainly very interesting, the subject matter I mentioned doesn't really provide any sort of assertion one way or the other about how the Star Wars universe operates--it's more of a conversation piece than anything. Finally, that's quite an astute point about deconstructionism, which I happen to agree with; mad props.
Good point, but Sun isn't [perhaps yet] owned by IBM, and those are Sun's ads, not IBM's.
A lot of your points of contention are addressed in that game. It's possible that LucasArts created the storyline with the express purpose of quelling just those arguments amongst fans, betting that those viewers rabid enough about the storyline would also gobble up the videogame and be appeased. It's not by any means probable, but you bring up some decent points, and that has me thinking...anyway:
there's no evidence that I can remember that the Force makes everything happen according to some predefined plan. This would completely negate free will, which undermines Anakin's entire fall from grace.
Not in the movies, no. In KOTOR 2 (spoiler..sort of), one of the main characters manipulates the player character throughout the entire game in an effort to stop just this supposed motive of the Force. To end the Mandalorian Wars, he/she gave the command to initiate the Mass Shadow Generator, killing thousands of Mandalorians and Jedi alike. The result of all that death turned all surviving Jedi to the dark side (for a time, and depending on how you view Revan), except for the Exile, your character. Between then and the beginning of KOTOR 2, he/she completely lost or severed his connection to the Force. Traya viewed this from afar, and saw in him the ability to end the influence of the Force altogether. She did actually view it as what made everything happen, and wanted to end that measure of determinism. Whether that's correct is anyone's guess, it's never corroborated, but at the very least addressed as an option.
Also, there's nothing that precludes Anakin's fall to the dark side, if this is the case; I'm not really understanding your logic. Even if the Force were controlling all events, the mass slaughter of Force-sensitives occurs in several of the games and comic books that precede the two trilogies in the timeline, the Jedi Purge (the events of Ep. 3) was no different, and some trained Force-sensitives still endured. Additionally, the Jedi Purge really only exterminated a large number of trained Force-sensitves, vis-a-vis, Jedi; there were more than likely still Force-sensitives in the galaxy. Untrained Force-sensitives are apparently much harder to detect, as their power isn't concentrated, and usually much weaker than that of trained Jedi or Sith, etc. Thus, you'd have to be at least on the same planet, if not the same continent, if not the same city, if not the same general area to recognize an untrained Force-sensitive. Ep 4 is a good example, the bond between Obi-Wan and Vader is strong, as they were master and apprentice, and he notices as soon as Obi-Wan boards the Death Star. By comparison, Vader has to be within a few hundred meters of Luke (in the trench) before he notices his sensitivity; in later movies--when Luke is quasi-trained as a Jedi, he can feel him from the forest moon (I believe), and vice versa. Thus, the Force could still operate in subtle ways, even while most of the trained practitioners were dead.
Both individuals argue for both things, just in different contexts.
Again, play KOTOR 2. They are actually telling them the same thing in different contexts, that's addressed. In the second KOTOR, after the Jedi Civil War in the first game, many "normal" folk in the universe despise the remaining Jedi, who are often confused with the Sith. To 'normals', the matter of context is irrelevant, it's just a minor difference of religious beliefs, and the general consensus is that they go to war quickly over these trivial matters, while at the same time being capable of immense acts of destruction (both light and dark), and thus are considered to hold too much power. It's a similar deal with the X-Men comics, etc. Thinking about it, they pretty much ripped off that entire part of the plot from the X-Men...and I haven't read much X-Men in like 10 years.
"we are led to understand in Sith that it was Palpatine himself who set the entire plot in motion by manipulating the Force toward Anakin's virgin birth."
I still conside
IBM doesn't rhyme with Hell. The only thing IBM rhymes with is "Guy BM".
I saw the topic of your comment, and was all ready with about 43,204 reasons why speed and simplicity just don't cut it for enterprise applications...but you're right. Views and triggers are awesome (Stored procedures are not, but they are, unfortunately, a necessary evil. Writing them is about as fun as stabbing yourself in the foot with a fork, but you'll always find statistics that speculate that 60,70,80%+ of business logic is written in stored procedures, however precise those numbers may be, they are actually mostly correct reflections), but there's no need for them for your blogging engine or even your shopping cart application. Good call.
sudo: user 'Lottery' is not in /etc/sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
what it's like to live in such conditions with no way out.
You mentioned a way for them to build a better life yourself! Sell someone's house while they're still in it. I never liked my current neighbors much, anyway. brb
Please stop confusing "hacking" with "writing simple blog/shopping cart/cms engines that only need to perform CRUD operations on non-optimised databases in such a manner as to forever forego modularity, reusability, and readability."
All my love,
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Many years I go I dated an English instructor.
I go? Ago! This one even is one word! Arrrgggghhhh
"Hmmmmm, he knows Php...We should pay him more."
That made me spit coffee all over my desk. Why on Earth would a company pay you more because you're familiar with a technology that is both ubiquitous and extremely easy to learn? Instead of doing that, they could pay you the same, and pay someone equally as versed in PHP right out of high school for $9/hour. Then they'd even have concurrency, so that you could attend to more pressing matters that [presumably] the high school kid could not.
..it counts as 8 downloads. I'm praying you're not a C programmer.
I don't understand why this entire article is a big deal, because of what you just said. I had a Powerbook for awhile between 2002 and 2003, and I used this trick to run Enlightenment all the time.
Um, no. That's actually not true at all. Have you ever seen the president In Person©? Pretty much every time he goes out to a public event, the Secret Service sets up free speech zones. I got herded into one when the president was just giving a talk in a small town in rural Pennsylvania this past Spring.
I bet you've paid a lot for Linux, or BSD, or Apache, or OpenOffice, or any number of free products.
...or are you actually just running a pirated, corporate (no activation!) copy of Windows XP Professional, pretending for us that you showed your support by paying for your operating system, then forgetting how much Windows actually costs?
A lot of lead developers on those projects work for, or are subsidized by, large companies that make money off of these products. Face it, on the scale that Apple sells OS X, $129 probably doesn't cover the cost of R&D, packaging, etc. that go into the system, the markup on hardware is what contributes to them making any profit whatsoever.
When I pay $129 for OS X that is more that what I've paid for Windows. So what is the fucking problem with running it on any piece of hardware that can run it?
Are you running the absolutely wretched Windows XP Home? Or are you running Windows ME? Because Windows XP Professional is on sale today at Newegg, OEM version (not retail, meaning you need to buy hardware to get it that cheap), for $140.95. Even Windows 2000 costs $147.95 for an OEM license.
It's not about a patent. It's about a trademark. Which they're clearly infringing, at least in the UK. That's what happens when you trump things up, and call trademark disputes "Intellectual Property battles".
Oh, that's right. Money. I'm guessing it went like this:
Also, I'm kind of miffed that this keeps getting called an "intellectual property struggle". G'fuh? I remember back in the old days, we used to call them "trademark disputes". I wasn't aware that changing the first letter of a well-known contraction for "electronic mail" was a rigorous intellectual task. If that's your claim to fame, you're an idiot.
You must be new here...IBM sold off it's consumer PC division some months ago.
but its probably because i'm one of those stupid people.
.1 suggests that almost everyone in the population will reproduce (and have about 2 kids, on average), as well. Some may have less, but then some may have more, balancing it to maybe 2.1.
Yep. Actually, you're just trolling that's cool, I'll school you anyway. The one-tenth is moderately arbitrary, and I'd call shenanigans that it could actually be that low..basically, it's accounting for those individuals that will inevitably die before reproducing. The
This is long after the fact, and you're probably not going to read this, but hey.
Your first point is well taken, really nothing to say there, everything really is a compromise.
The original poster mentioned Akai samplers v Reason, and mentioned the a/d and d/a, as well as latency, being so much better; I was really just calling bullshit on that. The great thing about computer software obviously is that you can almost always upgrade your hardware pretty easily (on supported platforms). I've never heard of latency problems with the MPC1000, either.
I suspect the parent poster was talking about playback latency in Reason using a MIDI controller (of any sort) on a shitty commodity PC. Well, sure, ok, that's going to suck, but it's also a lot cheaper than a decent Akai sampler. One time I ran Reason 2.5 on the onboard soundcard of an Intel D865PERL motherboard with an M-Audio Radium 49, and yeah..there was a system latency of about 0.6 seconds (which is literally unusable if you're doing pretty much anything), that could be isolated to the soundcard having that much of a delay. My point was that even a $100 converter card would make the latency and A/D D/A specs about the same, and that you could get even better convertors for the price, not that there were any particular latency issues with the MPC series. Of course, in a live setting, that really doesn't matter, any clarity gains and jitter minimization are lost on a shitty PA.
Personally, I'd really, really like an MPC, but for right now, I can't justify the cost.
Maybe they'll call it New New Jersey. That seems about right.
For the price of an MPC1000, I can buy NI Kontakt (as someone mentioned), a very decent interface box (far surpassing the conversion and latency of the Akai box), and a MIDI knob box and a 4x4 set of pads.
For the price of an MPC3000, I can get the same software, Apogee conversion, build a new PC, and buy any set of control surfaces I feel like.
Granted, I do like the immediacy of physical samplers, but at the same time..it's really hard for me to justify the extra cost; especially for one of the larger units, where I could be getting top-of-the-line convertors which aren't tied to just sampling.