And how many genuine threats have you detected using an A/V scanner?
The tipping point for me that made me uninstall all virus scanners was when I realized that: 1- I had no way to let it understand my own code was not hostile. 2- They fail to detect in time some of the most dangerous threats nowadays, such as password sniffing rootkits.
Not really, because then the expectations are lower. It's actually much harder to impress others and compete when you have a lot of things already at your disposal.
Besides, it's not like you can use much, desktop systems don't come with such useful libraries, or APIs written in the spirit of reducing the amount of setup code required.
I initially got abysmal results (no result found for just about anything I searched for, like the very technical "implicit volumes" or "queyras")
Then I deactivated "safe search" and finally obtained some results. However I suspect my original good impression I had of having found "relevant" (authoritative?) results in the first place were due to the safe search being on.
Minister Amer actually got sued for that particular track, "Brigitte, femme de flic." Few frenchmen would favorly compare it to Mozart, much less the all elusive "intellectuals."
Anyhow, the translation you quote is literal but the text requires interpretation.. Minister Amer (vulgarly) talks about a cop's wife secret lusting for thugs, and does not actually condone beating women or raping them.
Let's imagine I have a book in my hand which is the last remaining copy of this book. Let me through this book in a fire. Now, I don't see in which way the information was not destroyed.
Sure, it was turned into heat, I would call that the reverse of information.
(example set up as a way for a physics graduate to introduce what information means in the context of the article)
We have mentionned this to grisoft a couple of times.
If you actually check what AVG is complaining about, (and I must say they don't make it easy for the novice to know about that) you will see it is complaining that the executable has been compressed. ("packed")
It's *not* actually detecting a trojan, just being overly suspicious.
Try it out, pack one of your trusted executables with a packer such as kkapture, (http://www.farbrausch.de/~fg/kkapture/) the best generic packer the demoscene has to offer.
Certainly not. You're not going to run the.com against a decompiler, because the.com isn't even the real program!
The.com is just a header, plain.exe executable stitched to it as a "CAB" file. After uncompression, the real.exe is then run by the header code.
As for being trustful or not, I for one trust these executables a great deal more than the stuff you download on large "commodity software" download sites.
The demoscene crowd is very picky and a virus would not stay very long without being noticed.
This dumb-ass girl took a shirt with a bomb-looking device attached to it to a place where you are not allowed to say the word "Bomb" and was surprised when security reacted!???! What is even more shocking is that dumb-ass anarchists on slashdot don't understand why security reacted. Um... maybe it's because the dumb-ass girl had what appeared to be a bomb strapped to their chest? JH Christ! If security doesn't react to that, WTF are they supposed to react to? WTF do you think these guys should do all day, only arrest the bombers AFTER the bombs go off?
The key point here before going in hyperventilation mode is to notice that:
She was arrested about 8 a.m. outside Terminal C, home to United Airlines, Jet Blue and other carriers.
A Massachusetts Port Authority staffer manning an information booth in the terminal became suspicious when Simpson - wearing the device - approached to ask about an incoming flight, Pare said.
-guardian
Basically picking up some friend arriving via plane.. She was *not* about to board a plane, and outside the confine of the terminal.
Security did not even initiate the incident, it's another staffer at an information booth, in a less security sensitive area.
What I mean to say here is that if you consider it normal, then it would be normal to arrest her anywhere in the USA. Which is kind of the point that Bruce Schneier makes about not letting yourself being terrorized.
I contend it's actually one of the goals of DRM, to hinder amateur creativity. Or at least to create a monetary barrier of entry to high quality creation tools. My example would be: for years, the minidisc format was totally closed to such things as bringing back into digital the analog recordings one would have made. Strangely, towards the end of its life, when only professionals or prosumers might use it, sony releases a device that precisely does this.
This one is so blatant, and coming from 2005 it should clear any doubts one should have that he simply lifted the melody from the.mod /.sid. The ringtone basically contains the melody, looped, with just a hiphop beat on top.
The sound chip used in the Commodore C64 is really distinct, and easy to spot. No commercial synth can do similar sounds, except the Sidstation which, surprise surprise, uses a SID chip.
So, even if the original track by Tempest, covered on the C64 by Grg, was inspired by Mozart or Haydn, it is still pretty clear, due to the particular sounds being used, that their works were the source, not the dead white guys. The intent was clear, to use the beat, melody but also the distinctive chiptune sound touch.
The evidence is not fabricated, because there are actual third-parties (the assembly competition organization, scene.org) which can testify that the piece of music entered a competition back then in 2000.
I'm sorry.. Standard procedure? Why would you need to be armed to coerce a company to disclose anything when you have the law on your side? Why aren't trenchcoat-and-trilby wearing investigators sufficient?
I'm not sure about the legal currency precision for the dollar, but what I do know is that you have to make a distinction between prices and amounts. Prices can be defined with an arbitrary precision, and are used in calculations only. But you cannot exchange prices, only amounts. And once you go from the world of prices to the world of amounts, you have to use the currency's official precision.
Also, the more people vote, the more work for politicians/representatives to actually cover the needs of their population. It's much easier for them to focus on small groups with special interests. So be sure to vote, just to show that you might come and sanction them afterwards.
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And how many genuine threats have you detected using an A/V scanner?
The tipping point for me that made me uninstall all virus scanners was when I realized that:
1- I had no way to let it understand my own code was not hostile.
2- They fail to detect in time some of the most dangerous threats nowadays, such as password sniffing rootkits.
Not really, because then the expectations are lower. It's actually much harder to impress others and compete when you have a lot of things already at your disposal.
Besides, it's not like you can use much, desktop systems don't come with such useful libraries, or APIs written in the spirit of reducing the amount of setup code required.
A/V scanners are just too fucking stupid to see past the fact the executable has been compressed.
No extra download on top of a fresh installation of your (proprietary) OS.
On linux, it's much harder to define what's in and what's not, so it's a genuinely less interesting playing field for competitions.
It seems to me you would also forbid a demo to use a 3d accelerator in the name of having a metric you can understand.
That's alright, but that's not really pushing your hardware to its extents.
I initially got abysmal results (no result found for just about anything I searched for, like the very technical "implicit volumes" or "queyras")
Then I deactivated "safe search" and finally obtained some results. However I suspect my original good impression I had of having found "relevant" (authoritative?) results in the first place were due to the safe search being on.
Minister Amer actually got sued for that particular track, "Brigitte, femme de flic." Few frenchmen would favorly compare it to Mozart, much less the all elusive "intellectuals."
Anyhow, the translation you quote is literal but the text requires interpretation.. Minister Amer (vulgarly) talks about a cop's wife secret lusting for thugs, and does not actually condone beating women or raping them.
Let's imagine I have a book in my hand which is the last remaining copy of this book. Let me through this book in a fire. Now, I don't see in which way the information was not destroyed.
Sure, it was turned into heat, I would call that the reverse of information.
(example set up as a way for a physics graduate to introduce what information means in the context of the article)
Yes, there was an executable version: http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=2588
Into the shadows by the demogroup Triton? (Which later became Starbreeze Entertainment)
I didn't mean kkapture, but kkrunchy... Damn farbrausch naming schemes ;)
http://www.farbrausch.de/~fg/kkrunchy/
We have mentionned this to grisoft a couple of times.
If you actually check what AVG is complaining about, (and I must say they don't make it easy for the novice to know about that) you will see it is complaining that the executable has been compressed. ("packed")
It's *not* actually detecting a trojan, just being overly suspicious.
Try it out, pack one of your trusted executables with a packer such as kkapture, (http://www.farbrausch.de/~fg/kkapture/) the best generic packer the demoscene has to offer.
Certainly not. You're not going to run the .com against a decompiler, because the .com isn't even the real program!
.com is just a header, plain .exe executable stitched to it as a "CAB" file. After uncompression, the real .exe is then run by the header code.
The
As for being trustful or not, I for one trust these executables a great deal more than the stuff you download on large "commodity software" download sites.
The demoscene crowd is very picky and a virus would not stay very long without being noticed.
The key point here before going in hyperventilation mode is to notice that: -guardian
Basically picking up some friend arriving via plane.. She was *not* about to board a plane, and outside the confine of the terminal.
Security did not even initiate the incident, it's another staffer at an information booth, in a less security sensitive area.
What I mean to say here is that if you consider it normal, then it would be normal to arrest her anywhere in the USA. Which is kind of the point that Bruce Schneier makes about not letting yourself being terrorized.
I contend it's actually one of the goals of DRM, to hinder amateur creativity. Or at least to create a monetary barrier of entry to high quality creation tools. My example would be: for years, the minidisc format was totally closed to such things as bringing back into digital the analog recordings one would have made. Strangely, towards the end of its life, when only professionals or prosumers might use it, sony releases a device that precisely does this.
That, or its general contempt of the public.
This one is so blatant, and coming from 2005 it should clear any doubts one should have that he simply lifted the melody from the .mod / .sid. The ringtone basically contains the melody, looped, with just a hiphop beat on top.
The sound chip used in the Commodore C64 is really distinct, and easy to spot. No commercial synth can do similar sounds, except the Sidstation which, surprise surprise, uses a SID chip.
So, even if the original track by Tempest, covered on the C64 by Grg, was inspired by Mozart or Haydn, it is still pretty clear, due to the particular sounds being used, that their works were the source, not the dead white guys. The intent was clear, to use the beat, melody but also the distinctive chiptune sound touch.
The evidence is not fabricated, because there are actual third-parties (the assembly competition organization, scene.org) which can testify that the piece of music entered a competition back then in 2000.
I'm sorry.. Standard procedure? Why would you need to be armed to coerce a company to disclose anything when you have the law on your side? Why aren't trenchcoat-and-trilby wearing investigators sufficient?
I'm not sure about the legal currency precision for the dollar, but what I do know is that you have to make a distinction between prices and amounts. Prices can be defined with an arbitrary precision, and are used in calculations only. But you cannot exchange prices, only amounts. And once you go from the world of prices to the world of amounts, you have to use the currency's official precision.
Also, the more people vote, the more work for politicians/representatives to actually cover the needs of their population. It's much easier for them to focus on small groups with special interests. So be sure to vote, just to show that you might come and sanction them afterwards.
An uninformed vote is helpful in as much as it might reduce the
variance in opinions induced by ephemereal informations.
But they do have Fumito Ueda.
Also, interestingly, calling for a boycott is actually illegal in some countries. Like France. I'm wondering about other countries.
Well, as a matter of fact they (those the article is talking about) can't, anyway, because they don't own their tracks anymore.