I tried this a while back (bout to try it again) and could not get it to work with FTP locations.
It'd be great to have all of my browser preferences, settings etc (except the cache) stored in a central location. I don't think I'd pay for the service though. Perhaps a nominal fee.
Explain to me how having a user execute a suid binary is the same as giving them root access to your machine, please. It's just another level of abstraction. The user must interact with several processes that have super-user access to the system throughout any login session. Specifically logging in for instance, even when accessing device drivers. Suid binaries do the abstraction in a different way, but it's still just an abstraction. It's not the same as logging in as a super-user.
Perhaps you (and he) don't understand how abstraction works.
How the hell did this incredibly wrong post (EVERY SINGLE POINT IS *WRONG*) get modded up?
1) *MOST* apps can be installed in your home directory. Doesn't matter anyways, there's not a whole lot of sense (some, but not a lot) in letting users run binaries out of their homedirs anyways. You SHOULD have to be admin to install things.
Longhorn is supposed to ship with a better shell I believe. I don't know how MUCH better, but a new one at least.
But, even so, a nice shell is not all that useful without the console apps to go with it. I guess Microsoft's answer to this is Windows Scripting Host, but that still doesn't fit the same set of problems that *n*x console apps can solve.
To you and the other reply (though I think he may have got that it was a joke). it was a joke. I got the OP's point. You, on the other hand, were looking too hard for mine...:)
Start school later, but go to work at the same time? Won't work for working parents of schoolchildren whose worktimes are aligned with their children's school schedule.
Even in your scenario, he said he'd opt for surgery BEFORE the treatment that makes him infertile. Why do you think he is going to get someone pregnant before he is cured?
If that were the case, he'd just get someone pregnant and THEN have the treatment that makes him infertile.
No, I'm saying if he agreed to that license before he installed the software on his machine then it doesn't matter if he has a right to reverse engineer it or not. He agreed not to when he accepted the license. If he's doing otherwise, he is breaking the license / not honoring the agreement.
I don't know though, perhaps he bought his own version of BitKeeper to use outside of work. That is entirely possible.
Yes I have. I'm not saying compressed air breaks it. What I'm saying is that compressing air is akin to pumping oil out of the ground. Only the air has a much lower energy density...less energy than it takes to compress it (which explains the last sentence you quoted).
Yea. A friend of mine recently researched using compressed air to run his house (and subsequently creating a solar powered air pump, using a sun-tracking reflective satellite dish) and eventually came to the same conclusion you just said.
What is interesting about compressed air though, the energy you get out of it is NOT what you have put into it. The energy comes from the ambient temperature of the air. This means that if a compression technique could be found that is efficient enough then you could have a potential self filling energy tank.
Unfortunately, like you said, the air doesn't have *that* much energy. Still thought that concept was interesting though.
Yes, that is a good point. Just have a trojan run in userspace and hijack the first RunAs'd process.....is a pretty obvious attack I gueess if you do much Win32/MFC programming...hadn't considered that possiblity though.
Databases are useful in many situations people don't think about. Saved games, and other things you'd store on your XBox included. Now sure, the version to run on the XBox (if it were true..honestly there probably is one for XBox...there's one for WindowsCE)... wouldn't have use for DTS, Replication, etc....
I understand what you're saying, but I still say it'd be way easier to crack a single standard API than to crack a moving target.
Distribution of cracks is important to game makers too. If their copy protection is a moving target then less people will have the cracks for any given game. If there's one point of failure for all games then everyone is going to get *THE* crack that will let them play copied games.
As for an emulation layer like you're saying, I've got no faith in something like that. It's just another chance for security holes...especially coming from MS.
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Wow...this one does seem to work with FTP actually. I was trying SyncMarks before which wasn't working.
This extension does seem to work.
Great!
Thanks for the info. I'll look into setting that up.
Yes, except that it would work.
=)
I tried this a while back (bout to try it again) and could not get it to work with FTP locations.
It'd be great to have all of my browser preferences, settings etc (except the cache) stored in a central location. I don't think I'd pay for the service though. Perhaps a nominal fee.
Explain to me how having a user execute a suid binary is the same as giving them root access to your machine, please. It's just another level of abstraction. The user must interact with several processes that have super-user access to the system throughout any login session. Specifically logging in for instance, even when accessing device drivers. Suid binaries do the abstraction in a different way, but it's still just an abstraction. It's not the same as logging in as a super-user.
Perhaps you (and he) don't understand how abstraction works.
How the hell did this incredibly wrong post (EVERY SINGLE POINT IS *WRONG*) get modded up?
1) *MOST* apps can be installed in your home directory. Doesn't matter anyways, there's not a whole lot of sense (some, but not a lot) in letting users run binaries out of their homedirs anyways. You SHOULD have to be admin to install things.
2) Bullshit
3) Horseshit
Longhorn is supposed to ship with a better shell I believe. I don't know how MUCH better, but a new one at least.
But, even so, a nice shell is not all that useful without the console apps to go with it. I guess Microsoft's answer to this is Windows Scripting Host, but that still doesn't fit the same set of problems that *n*x console apps can solve.
To you and the other reply (though I think he may have got that it was a joke). it was a joke. I got the OP's point. You, on the other hand, were looking too hard for mine... :)
Uhhh...just invoke Godwin's law and end that conversation cold.
Average Joe is obviously a n3wb.
I can see with a normal 9 to 5 day, but a lot of people here (in my region at least) work 7 - 3:30 (30 min lunch)
Or maybe you WERE hit by a car but you have amnesia?
Must've been a pretty bad hit. I hope you're OK.
Start school later, but go to work at the same time? Won't work for working parents of schoolchildren whose worktimes are aligned with their children's school schedule.
I gotcha now. Thanks for the clarification.
Strange....isn't this why people said the move to BitKeeper was stupid? Because they could (and did) "take their ball and go home" ?
But, you can do that with GPL'ed code too apparently.
Less likely, sure, but still possible.
Talk about mis-interpeting a post....
Even in your scenario, he said he'd opt for surgery BEFORE the treatment that makes him infertile. Why do you think he is going to get someone pregnant before he is cured?
If that were the case, he'd just get someone pregnant and THEN have the treatment that makes him infertile.
Talking about flying off the handle...
No, I'm saying if he agreed to that license before he installed the software on his machine then it doesn't matter if he has a right to reverse engineer it or not. He agreed not to when he accepted the license. If he's doing otherwise, he is breaking the license / not honoring the agreement.
I don't know though, perhaps he bought his own version of BitKeeper to use outside of work. That is entirely possible.
Wasn't US Citizen C using said license to gather information to perform the reverse engineering?
I bet you're fun at parties.
He's talking about an episode of Reading Rainbow. Duh.
Great! Now my tinfoil glasses product might finally take off!
Yes I have. I'm not saying compressed air breaks it. What I'm saying is that compressing air is akin to pumping oil out of the ground. Only the air has a much lower energy density...less energy than it takes to compress it (which explains the last sentence you quoted).
Yea. A friend of mine recently researched using compressed air to run his house (and subsequently creating a solar powered air pump, using a sun-tracking reflective satellite dish) and eventually came to the same conclusion you just said.
What is interesting about compressed air though, the energy you get out of it is NOT what you have put into it. The energy comes from the ambient temperature of the air. This means that if a compression technique could be found that is efficient enough then you could have a potential self filling energy tank.
Unfortunately, like you said, the air doesn't have *that* much energy. Still thought that concept was interesting though.
Yes, that is a good point. Just have a trojan run in userspace and hijack the first RunAs'd process.....is a pretty obvious attack I gueess if you do much Win32/MFC programming...hadn't considered that possiblity though.
Thanks for the info.
Are you saying that MS SQL server is "almost as good" as MySQL?
SQL Server isn't competing with MySQL. They have no need to. Completely different targets...
It's not that unbelievable actually.....
Databases are useful in many situations people don't think about. Saved games, and other things you'd store on your XBox included. Now sure, the version to run on the XBox (if it were true..honestly there probably is one for XBox...there's one for WindowsCE)... wouldn't have use for DTS, Replication, etc....
I understand what you're saying, but I still say it'd be way easier to crack a single standard API than to crack a moving target.
Distribution of cracks is important to game makers too. If their copy protection is a moving target then less people will have the cracks for any given game. If there's one point of failure for all games then everyone is going to get *THE* crack that will let them play copied games.
As for an emulation layer like you're saying, I've got no faith in something like that. It's just another chance for security holes...especially coming from MS.