The crack broke the PS3 wide open - completely. Those cracked PS3s can have their code read - and they can lie to Sony about their firmware version. Sony really has lost - it's you that doesn't understand.
Bingo, you've got it.
Now hackers have full access to the hypervisor Its only a (probably short) matter of time until apps appear that either lie about the firmware version, or even better, allow you to upgrade the firmware and retaining hypervisor access.
Totally agree. Only problem is writing recursive CTE queries is beyond most programmers. Hell, a lot of programmers struggle with anything but simple inner joins.
IMHO CTE's are one of the most underused and powerful features of SQL. Not just for recursive queries, but for bridging the gap between functional and procedural programming.
I write all my complex queries as a series of simple CTE's now - each CTE gets me one step closer to the actual query I need, and the magic of the query optimizer combines them all into a single query plan. Makes testing, debugging and maintaining a complex query about a million times easier.
I read somewhere the other day a response to just that suggestion - wish I could find the link for ya...
But basically they said with the density of people in cities, to give everyone gigabit connections over a wireless link you'd need a tower in *every* block.
I read somewhere that the blowout preventer had been damaged, and wasn't functioning correctly. And the operators knew this. You'd think the required action here would be to stop work until the blowout preventer was fixed, but no, apparently they only had a few days of work to go so they continued and hoped for the best (possibly under pressure from BP)
I'm sad to hear of your problems, but I doubt if your 64 bit OS is the problem. Yes bioware suck for not supporting your configuration, but unfortunately thats how things work. Most companies have muppets for support people, they aren't experts and they are just following a script for resolving a known set of problems.
Here at work all our servers are virtualized, except one... because its running an application written by a vendor that will not support running in a virtualized environment. We're 100% sure virtulizing the server wouldn't cause any problems, but if we hit a problem and had to log a support call they wouldn't support us. Even though the problem was unrelated to the virtualized environment.
Back to your issue, An application or game CANNOT lock up the OS. Its not the game's fault, its something the game is doing that is triggering the bug elsewhere.
I'd suggest upgrading your GFX drivers, and checking you don't have an overheating problem (clean out heatsinks etc)
Windows x64 only runs an app as an x64 process if the app is compiled as a 64 bit app. If its a 32 bit app then it runs in a 32 bit process, and should (in theory) be 100% compatible. The only problems I've ever heard of with games running on windows x64 have been caused by device drivers requred for DRM that are 32 bit only.
If windows locks it can only be one of 3 things 1) hardware problem 2) bug in a device driver 3) bug in the OS.
There are no exceptions to this. If an application locks up your pc then it is not at fault, it is doing something that is triggering one of the above problems.
Haha, all Peter Hamilton's books are awesome. Each to their own, the commonwealth saga is my favourite series of books, evar. Night's dawn is right up there too.
Jailbreak it. Seriously, just do it. Look up spirit, it will do a fully automated untethered jailbreak, meaning you *don't* have connect your phone to itunes while it boots for it to work. I've got an ipod touch 1g and I jailbroke it a while back for fun and I was amazed at how many of the things that bugged me about the whole itouch/iphone thing it removed. I installed backgrounder, kirikae and winterboard, and now I can customize the heck out of it, including enabling a background wallpaper on springboard. I can also easily enable any app to keep running in the background when I press home, and I hold home for a couple of seconds to bring up kirikae (task manager) to change to or shutdown a running app.
How about proper ACID compliance? Not null constraints?
Of course, if you talk to MySQL users you soon realise most won't consider anything an "enterprisy feature" until it is supported by MySQL.
I nearly fell off my chair a while ago when I read the changelist for the last major MySQL release trumped the exciting new ability to do *online database backups*.
I mean, seriously? lets not kid ourselves, MySQL has its uses as a quick and dirty database, can be fast if you stay away from the slow bits (things like joining more than a couple of tables together, or concurrent updates) but its an enterprise database in the same way MS Access is.
It appears to describe an special antenna setup as well as how to use the radio/antenna to get a data rate/ghz of bandwith ratio much better than previously practical.
So its not a math patent, or a pure software patent (although part of the implementation is software). It looks like something the patent system was designed to protect.
Our 3 kids were born in hospitals, delivered by Midwives - the first in New Zealand, the other two in Australia All 3 times they waited until the cord stopped pulsing before they claped it and invited me to cut it.
IMHO getting your baby delivered by a midwife, at the hospital gives you the best of both worlds. Obstetricians can be a little gung-ho about intervening in the process of childbirth instead of letting things progress naturally, With our first the obstetrician was concerned at how slowly things were going and wanted to induce labour. The midwife stood up to her and said the baby & mother didn't appear to be in any distress so lets just wait a while longer and see what happens. We did that and had a completely natural childbirth a couple of hours later, but we had the comfort of knowing that if things weren't going well the obstetrician and all the specialist help we would need were right there.
"Doesn't have multitasking" - I won't listen to Pandora while I read email.
Sorry but most smartphones did not do this either. A very VERY small number of people want this. and many that did have it on a WM5 phone hated it as the phone would crawl because of having apps in the background running consuming processing power. My older Nokia smartphones also suffered from multitasking apps. nothing like getting the battery sucked dry and the phone taking 12 seconds to answer a call because of some damn app in the background using up the system resources.
I've had a series of nokia symbian phones since 2002, first the 7650, then the 7610, now the 6110 and I use the multitasking abilities all the time. I've never had a problem with background apps causing slowdowns etc in real-world use.
"No replaceable battery" - I won't use it on the plane to watch that movie, that way I can make sure to call a cab when I land.
I have never met a person that carries around spare phone batteries. Plus anyone that even had a Palm Treo had the same problem. not easy to replace battery on smartphones has been a theme. Ever try to replace the battery in a Blackjack? the battery door self-welded shut every time you put it back on.
Hi there. I always carry a spare battery for my phone when I go on a trip. Always have done. Nice to meet you:)
"It can be tethered now" - I have AT&T and they don't allow tethering, but the AT&T 3G network is so crappy I won't even bother.
It always was able to tether if you got away from a sociopath carrier. Unlock it to go to t-mobile and you can add a tethering app or more recently use the built in function.
I have been a smartphone user for over a decade. I have used them all. and I currently have an iPhone because the apps that work with my workflow are on it, I don't have to reboot it weekly, and being a phone is first priority to it. I have never had a call I could not answer because the damned phone was busy... Unlike Windows Mobile phones. or have a phone freak on certain callers... like my Nokia E62 did.
there are some "neat-o" things I would like to do. Like have the phone report my GPS location every 15 seconds to my server at home. It would be cool to have the house see that I am on my way home and turn the heater on the hot-tub on when I am within a 15 minute distance, or make other decisions when it senses I am on a return path. but I can live without that, or simply grab the phone, fire up the crestron app and press the button myself.
I also still have not found a single Apple-hater that does not change their mind when I actually show them what I do with my phone that they CANT do with theirs. (lack of "app for that"(tm)(r) on their platform mostly)
Recently the biggest was sitting at a bar, talking to a client, filling out and sending them an invoice and then processing a credit card payment over the phone right there after they got the invoice. A colleague freaked and instead of doing his typical, frothing at the mouth apple-hate, started asking serious questions about it more.
Yeah, there are definitely some nice apps out there for the iphone. So much tho that I'm actually considering getting the next one... As long as there is an untethered jailbreak available for it. I have an itouch, and yes the apps are cool... but on my current phone my 3 favourite apps have no iphone alternative - that I'm aware of. I use:
- An answerphone app. If I don't answer in x rings, this app answers my phone, plays my greeting and records the callers message right on the phone. Then I'm not stung for call charges to later check my messages, as it is all on the phone.
- An e-book reader. I have a large collection of ebooks in plain text, html and pdf. On I use mobipocket reader to read these on my phone, and its a simple matter to load these onto my phone from my pc. Mobipocket isn't availalb
As others have pointed out to you, this is pretty much no security at all, as each of those devices is broadcasting its MAC address with each packet, all someone has to do is sniff one packet and impersonate that MAC address
But if you aren't using WPA or WEP then all the traffic on your wireless network is unencrypted and anyone driving past/sitting in the snow can eavesdrop on your email, harvest account passwords, etc etc.
Of course anything using HTTPs/SSL is still encrypted, but typically pop/imap email is not.
1) Stephen Conroy is spot on when he says the internet shouldn't be treated any different to any other forms of media. It isn't a magical beast, it's just another form of media (albeit more accessible and chaotic).
No, I see one crucial difference in the way these two mediums are being treated that I haven't seen brought up anywhere else yet.
In other forms of media the censoring applies to the creator of the media. What the filter proposes to do is censor the audience, not the creator.
Now I'm of the opinion that total freedom of speech isn't necessarily a right I feel everyone needs. The greater good of our society trumps the rights of the individual when it comes to banning things such as child pornography, hate speech (at its most extreme), and shouting fire in a crowded cinema. I have no problem with these things being illegal, and the authorities coming down on those responsible for such things.
But don't persecute the audience. (with the exception of child pornography, where there is a clear link between the creator and the consumer)
Freedom to listen is a much more important right than freedom of speech
Yeah, I've still got some VCDs at home which appeared to be legit licensed versions of hollywood movies that I brought in Singapore and Hong Kong in the mid 90s. They were sold everywhere. I doubt if they were bootlegs, I brought most of them in reputable looking music and video stores at the airport, not some shady stall in a market.
Yes and you can do too many things to list on an iphon eyou can't do on those, so what.
Like what? Seriously, name one thing you can do on an iphone that you can't do on an E90 or N95.
The secret sauce of the iphone isn't its huge feature set. Its how _well_ it implements the features it does have. Nokia's approach is different. They cram so many features in their smartphones that they are very powerful tools, but full of rough edges. The iphone has reduced the number of features available to the user, so there is a much reduced surface required for apple to apply their polish.
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The crack broke the PS3 wide open - completely. Those cracked PS3s can have their code read - and they can lie to Sony about their firmware version. Sony really has lost - it's you that doesn't understand.
Bingo, you've got it.
Now hackers have full access to the hypervisor Its only a (probably short) matter of time until apps appear that either lie about the firmware version, or even better, allow you to upgrade the firmware and retaining hypervisor access.
Totally agree. Only problem is writing recursive CTE queries is beyond most programmers. Hell, a lot of programmers struggle with anything but simple inner joins.
IMHO CTE's are one of the most underused and powerful features of SQL. Not just for recursive queries, but for bridging the gap between functional and procedural programming.
I write all my complex queries as a series of simple CTE's now - each CTE gets me one step closer to the actual query I need, and the magic of the query optimizer combines them all into a single query plan. Makes testing, debugging and maintaining a complex query about a million times easier.
I wonder if that includes the time inbetween running out of fuel and slamming into the gound.
I read somewhere the other day a response to just that suggestion - wish I could find the link for ya...
But basically they said with the density of people in cities, to give everyone gigabit connections over a wireless link you'd need a tower in *every* block.
Ouchies. Getting a vaccination from a needle 200 meters wide x 650 meters long doesn't sound "painless".
I read somewhere that the blowout preventer had been damaged, and wasn't functioning correctly. And the operators knew this. You'd think the required action here would be to stop work until the blowout preventer was fixed, but no, apparently they only had a few days of work to go so they continued and hoped for the best (possibly under pressure from BP)
I thought he said that to, but re-read it... he's talking about vista:
"Microsoft's most stunted OS since the much maligned Windows ME"
I'm sad to hear of your problems, but I doubt if your 64 bit OS is the problem. Yes bioware suck for not supporting your configuration, but unfortunately thats how things work. Most companies have muppets for support people, they aren't experts and they are just following a script for resolving a known set of problems.
Here at work all our servers are virtualized, except one... because its running an application written by a vendor that will not support running in a virtualized environment.
We're 100% sure virtulizing the server wouldn't cause any problems, but if we hit a problem and had to log a support call they wouldn't support us. Even though the problem was unrelated to the virtualized environment.
Back to your issue, An application or game CANNOT lock up the OS. Its not the game's fault, its something the game is doing that is triggering the bug elsewhere.
I'd suggest upgrading your GFX drivers, and checking you don't have an overheating problem (clean out heatsinks etc)
Windows x64 only runs an app as an x64 process if the app is compiled as a 64 bit app. If its a 32 bit app then it runs in a 32 bit process, and should (in theory) be 100% compatible.
The only problems I've ever heard of with games running on windows x64 have been caused by device drivers requred for DRM that are 32 bit only.
If windows locks it can only be one of 3 things
1) hardware problem
2) bug in a device driver
3) bug in the OS.
There are no exceptions to this. If an application locks up your pc then it is not at fault, it is doing something that is triggering one of the above problems.
Yeah they definitely are. Very reasonable prices and no DRM. He's a good author and well worth supporting. I've got nearly all of his ebooks.
Haha, all Peter Hamilton's books are awesome.
Each to their own, the commonwealth saga is my favourite series of books, evar. Night's dawn is right up there too.
Fallen dragon is pretty good too.
If you are into hard sci-fi, check out Michael McCollum's books. http://www.scifiaz.com/
Physical age doesn't necessarily correspond to mental age. Personally, I've been getting more immature as years pass.
"I have abandoned the quest for eternal youth and instead setttled for lifelong immaturity"
There is really only one definition of sexual pornography. Any media intended to arouse one sexually.
The best definition of porn I've heard is anything you lose interest in after you orgasm.
Jailbreak it. Seriously, just do it. Look up spirit, it will do a fully automated untethered jailbreak, meaning you *don't* have connect your phone to itunes while it boots for it to work. I've got an ipod touch 1g and I jailbroke it a while back for fun and I was amazed at how many of the things that bugged me about the whole itouch/iphone thing it removed. I installed backgrounder, kirikae and winterboard, and now I can customize the heck out of it, including enabling a background wallpaper on springboard. I can also easily enable any app to keep running in the background when I press home, and I hold home for a couple of seconds to bring up kirikae (task manager) to change to or shutdown a running app.
Don't forget that Google's recent security breach is directly because of MS products.
Actually, wasn't google's breach caused by a flash or acrobat vulnerability?
What does an HTTP server have to do with a DB?
PostgreSQL has a lot of more enterprisy features than MySQL.
You mean like clustering?
Oh, wait...
How about proper ACID compliance?
Not null constraints?
Of course, if you talk to MySQL users you soon realise most won't consider anything an "enterprisy feature" until it is supported by MySQL.
I nearly fell off my chair a while ago when I read the changelist for the last major MySQL release trumped the exciting new ability to do *online database backups*.
I mean, seriously? lets not kid ourselves, MySQL has its uses as a quick and dirty database, can be fast if you stay away from the slow bits (things like joining more than a couple of tables together, or concurrent updates) but its an enterprise database in the same way MS Access is.
I think the relevant US patent is this (5487069).
It appears to describe an special antenna setup as well as how to use the radio/antenna to get a data rate/ghz of bandwith ratio much better than previously practical.
So its not a math patent, or a pure software patent (although part of the implementation is software). It looks like something the patent system was designed to protect.
Which makes islam a cult, rather than a religion. Admittedly the world's largest cult, but a cult none the less.
Wait, I thought the world's biggest cult was catholicism?
Anyway, as someone else once said:
"I don't get the point of religious conflict. Its just like two dudes fighting over who has the best imaginary friend"
Our 3 kids were born in hospitals, delivered by Midwives - the first in New Zealand, the other two in Australia All 3 times they waited until the cord stopped pulsing before they claped it and invited me to cut it.
IMHO getting your baby delivered by a midwife, at the hospital gives you the best of both worlds. Obstetricians can be a little gung-ho about intervening in the process of childbirth instead of letting things progress naturally, With our first the obstetrician was concerned at how slowly things were going and wanted to induce labour. The midwife stood up to her and said the baby & mother didn't appear to be in any distress so lets just wait a while longer and see what happens. We did that and had a completely natural childbirth a couple of hours later, but we had the comfort of knowing that if things weren't going well the obstetrician and all the specialist help we would need were right there.
Aha I read the site and you are right - but you can only transfer via a wireless network... It was loading content via USB that apple nuked.
"Doesn't have multitasking" - I won't listen to Pandora while I read email.
Sorry but most smartphones did not do this either. A very VERY small number of people want this. and many that did have it on a WM5 phone hated it as the phone would crawl because of having apps in the background running consuming processing power. My older Nokia smartphones also suffered from multitasking apps. nothing like getting the battery sucked dry and the phone taking 12 seconds to answer a call because of some damn app in the background using up the system resources.
I've had a series of nokia symbian phones since 2002, first the 7650, then the 7610, now the 6110 and I use the multitasking abilities all the time. I've never had a problem with background apps causing slowdowns etc in real-world use.
"No replaceable battery" - I won't use it on the plane to watch that movie, that way I can make sure to call a cab when I land.
I have never met a person that carries around spare phone batteries. Plus anyone that even had a Palm Treo had the same problem. not easy to replace battery on smartphones has been a theme. Ever try to replace the battery in a Blackjack? the battery door self-welded shut every time you put it back on.
Hi there. I always carry a spare battery for my phone when I go on a trip. Always have done. Nice to meet you :)
"It can be tethered now" - I have AT&T and they don't allow tethering, but the AT&T 3G network is so crappy I won't even bother.
It always was able to tether if you got away from a sociopath carrier. Unlock it to go to t-mobile and you can add a tethering app or more recently use the built in function.
I have been a smartphone user for over a decade. I have used them all. and I currently have an iPhone because the apps that work with my workflow are on it, I don't have to reboot it weekly, and being a phone is first priority to it. I have never had a call I could not answer because the damned phone was busy... Unlike Windows Mobile phones. or have a phone freak on certain callers... like my Nokia E62 did.
there are some "neat-o" things I would like to do. Like have the phone report my GPS location every 15 seconds to my server at home. It would be cool to have the house see that I am on my way home and turn the heater on the hot-tub on when I am within a 15 minute distance, or make other decisions when it senses I am on a return path. but I can live without that, or simply grab the phone, fire up the crestron app and press the button myself.
I also still have not found a single Apple-hater that does not change their mind when I actually show them what I do with my phone that they CANT do with theirs. (lack of "app for that"(tm)(r) on their platform mostly)
Recently the biggest was sitting at a bar, talking to a client, filling out and sending them an invoice and then processing a credit card payment over the phone right there after they got the invoice. A colleague freaked and instead of doing his typical, frothing at the mouth apple-hate, started asking serious questions about it more.
Yeah, there are definitely some nice apps out there for the iphone. So much tho that I'm actually considering getting the next one... As long as there is an untethered jailbreak available for it. I have an itouch, and yes the apps are cool... but on my current phone my 3 favourite apps have no iphone alternative - that I'm aware of. I use:
- An answerphone app. If I don't answer in x rings, this app answers my phone, plays my greeting and records the callers message right on the phone. Then I'm not stung for call charges to later check my messages, as it is all on the phone.
- An e-book reader. I have a large collection of ebooks in plain text, html and pdf. On I use mobipocket reader to read these on my phone, and its a simple matter to load these onto my phone from my pc. Mobipocket isn't availalb
As others have pointed out to you, this is pretty much no security at all, as each of those devices is broadcasting its MAC address with each packet, all someone has to do is sniff one packet and impersonate that MAC address
But if you aren't using WPA or WEP then all the traffic on your wireless network is unencrypted and anyone driving past/sitting in the snow can eavesdrop on your email, harvest account passwords, etc etc.
Of course anything using HTTPs/SSL is still encrypted, but typically pop/imap email is not.
1) Stephen Conroy is spot on when he says the internet shouldn't be treated any different to any other forms of media. It isn't a magical beast, it's just another form of media (albeit more accessible and chaotic).
No, I see one crucial difference in the way these two mediums are being treated that I haven't seen brought up anywhere else yet.
In other forms of media the censoring applies to the creator of the media. What the filter proposes to do is censor the audience, not the creator.
Now I'm of the opinion that total freedom of speech isn't necessarily a right I feel everyone needs. The greater good of our society trumps the rights of the individual when it comes to banning things such as child pornography, hate speech (at its most extreme), and shouting fire in a crowded cinema. I have no problem with these things being illegal, and the authorities coming down on those responsible for such things.
But don't persecute the audience. (with the exception of child pornography, where there is a clear link between the creator and the consumer)
Freedom to listen is a much more important right than freedom of speech
Yeah, I've still got some VCDs at home which appeared to be legit licensed versions of hollywood movies that I brought in Singapore and Hong Kong in the mid 90s. They were sold everywhere. I doubt if they were bootlegs, I brought most of them in reputable looking music and video stores at the airport, not some shady stall in a market.
Yes and you can do too many things to list on an iphon eyou can't do on those, so what.
Like what? Seriously, name one thing you can do on an iphone that you can't do on an E90 or N95.
The secret sauce of the iphone isn't its huge feature set. Its how _well_ it implements the features it does have. Nokia's approach is different. They cram so many features in their smartphones that they are very powerful tools, but full of rough edges. The iphone has reduced the number of features available to the user, so there is a much reduced surface required for apple to apply their polish.
Ahh... oops.. Yep, right you are. Sorry, my bad.