The FBI will prolly force major firewall manufacturers (both hardware and software) to put in backdoors for these types of packets in the future. If the SSSCA gets passed, then... (we all know what comes next, and I'm not going to patronize)
My intuition is telling me that the FBI won't be pulling a complete bonehead move when they send back data. My guess is that they'll modify the Type of Service and/or Security option fields in the IP header. In addition, if you write code that gets far enough down into the IP stack, you can bypass any programs that you want.:)
Yep, Norton's still a separate AV product (sold as Symantec Anti-Virus).
I wish Linux had AV programs (even if they were currently placebos) just so that we won't have to cover our asses when the first severe Linux viruses *do* arrive.:/
We tried plugging the hard drive into a normal computer. No operating system will recognize it. No surprise there, it's probably a proprietary filesystem. This will be pretty easily circumvented, however, and you should be able to hook the Xbox hard drive into your computer and get files off of it. I'm working on a program to do this.
Won't dd(1) work for this (assuming the drive is standard IDE, Linux -- you can substitute your chosen *N?X of choice -- will recognize it as a device on boot, and Microsoft doesn't have any anti-HD-modification stuff in place)?
you'll need to provide him with an auto-dispensary for the insulin when hyperglycemia hits, a computerized treadmill to work off the weight, and a eulogy-o-matic when years of slurpees and cotton candy take the ultimate toll.;)
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has been censored in accordance to the responsible disclosure policy of the Microsoft Security Framework.
By disclosing any useful information within this message, one could determine my posting history, motivations, and style, from that extrapolate the sequences in my DNA base pairs, then feed my physical and mental state into a complex iterative model of the Universe.
This could be seen as paving the way for recovery of time machine plans from the future, allowing you to go back and assassinate Bill Gates before he could come up with this crap.
Besides the obvious problem, that being that Microsoft's software of unsurpassed quality will never be released, such an event would create a causative paradox in the Universe, the end result being total destruction of all matter and energy.
In short, all hail Gates and his mighty army of high-priced lawyers!
(Note for the sarcasm-impaired: the preceding message was just a joke; don't mod me down)
by allowing bullies to not only put "kick me" signs on unfortunate kids' backs, but give them animated tips on form and ideal kick positioning. They could even tie in dynamic content such as a kick counter, and an automated "principal mode" that would change it to match the color of the wearer's shirt when an authority figure happened by.
I can see it now; I'll be sitting by a fire, talking to my grandkids...
"I remember the days when we couldn't change the wallpaper in our house without walking 10 miles to the home improvement store... in the snow... uphill... both ways!"
or does Afghanistan keep sounding better and better as a choice of homes? You lose a hand for shoplifting, among other draconian laws, but at least you don't get punished for writing a program like DeCSS or Advanced eBook Processor...
Why don't we get these undergrads, Martha Stewart, and the writers of MacGyver together to improvise a working missile-defense shield?
It'll be done on time and under-budget, it'll coordinate with all the other satellites, and it'll be made solely of a shoe polish tin, duct tape, a foot of rope, and a thumbtack!
OK, we all know of the existence of "aimbots" for various FPSes. I guess that how quickly you pedal this thing will affect your aim, so will pub servers now be infested with people using "pedalbots" to help them cheat at pedaling?
Used car parts: $50
50,000 rolls of duct tape: $25,000
Bottle of Elmer's Glue: $0.99
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And where are you going to vent the megawatts of heat produced? Where are you going to put the server rooms that you'll need to run just one lame "Hello, World?" And what are you going to do if your networking medium dies (as many BOFHs the world round are wont to make it do)? And, finally, what will you do when the next Nimda, Sircam, or Magistr makes its rounds, wipes 64 production servers, and necessitates days of downtime?
Thanks for the insight, but I'd rather put all my eggs in 2 *big* steel baskets rather than 64 small ones made of tissue paper.
I can't believe you haven't cracked the nerdss' code yet: "improved" means "it works better on our machines, but we're on dual P4 Xeons wired together with Gigabit Ethernet" (remember the "Improved" new Coke?). Likewise, "feature" implies "... for our competitors' marketing departments," and "security" means "thing that our support department can charge $10 a call to fix."
Is there any way a similar meteor could have come into my living room and destroyed my VCR remote without a trace?
I ask because of the fact that I am now unable to set my VCR clock or to make timed recordings (which wouldn't be so bad except for that damn daylight savings stuff)...
of alphabet soup? I think we have more than enough licenses as it is; mod me flamebait if you wish, but we already have so many licenses as to create this odd mystique around the OSS community and keep people from diving right in and feeling the code. This whole licensing mess gave birth to the term "potentially viral software" and I think the main thing the community and the world at large needs is to get back to coding and stop writing the small print.
Obviously this ATV is pretty darn cool but I don't see how it could be used in a game situation without making the odds against "infantry" grossly unfair.
Well, the infantry can feel free to use their paint-filled, shoulder-launched missiles, not to mention their fully stocked paintball bombers with rainbow cluster bombs.
Programmer Joe's Mobile Paintball Command Post, now with realistic crimson red paint splatters and carpal tunnel grip!
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I can see the MasterCard commercial now:
"Next-generation PDA: $10,000
Micropile to power extraneous features: $500,000
Watching the person next to you trip and drop it on the subway tracks as the train pulls up: priceless."
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Better yet, we can power it entirely off the aura of smugness generated by the lucky user. Man, I'd like to see the battery life on this thing...
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Erp... forgot a sentence or two.
After "... IP header.":
The FBI will prolly force major firewall manufacturers (both hardware and software) to put in backdoors for these types of packets in the future. If the SSSCA gets passed, then... (we all know what comes next, and I'm not going to patronize)
My intuition is telling me that the FBI won't be pulling a complete bonehead move when they send back data. My guess is that they'll modify the Type of Service and/or Security option fields in the IP header. In addition, if you write code that gets far enough down into the IP stack, you can bypass any programs that you want. :)
Yep, Norton's still a separate AV product (sold as Symantec Anti-Virus).
:/
I wish Linux had AV programs (even if they were currently placebos) just so that we won't have to cover our asses when the first severe Linux viruses *do* arrive.
Note: I realized after the fact that this won't work (unless Microsoft is even dumber than I thought) except if you want to put in a faster small HD.
We tried plugging the hard drive into a normal computer. No operating system will recognize it. No surprise there, it's probably a proprietary filesystem. This will be pretty easily circumvented, however, and you should be able to hook the Xbox hard drive into your computer and get files off of it. I'm working on a program to do this.
Won't dd(1) work for this (assuming the drive is standard IDE, Linux -- you can substitute your chosen *N?X of choice -- will recognize it as a device on boot, and Microsoft doesn't have any anti-HD-modification stuff in place)?
# dd if=/wherever/your/xbox/drive/is/plugged/in of=/better/drive/you/want/to/put/in bs=8g count=1
you'll need to provide him with an auto-dispensary for the insulin when hyperglycemia hits, a computerized treadmill to work off the weight, and a eulogy-o-matic when years of slurpees and cotton candy take the ultimate toll. ;)
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has been censored in accordance to the responsible disclosure policy of the Microsoft Security Framework.
By disclosing any useful information within this message, one could determine my posting history, motivations, and style, from that extrapolate the sequences in my DNA base pairs, then feed my physical and mental state into a complex iterative model of the Universe.
This could be seen as paving the way for recovery of time machine plans from the future, allowing you to go back and assassinate Bill Gates before he could come up with this crap.
Besides the obvious problem, that being that Microsoft's software of unsurpassed quality will never be released, such an event would create a causative paradox in the Universe, the end result being total destruction of all matter and energy.
In short, all hail Gates and his mighty army of high-priced lawyers!
(Note for the sarcasm-impaired: the preceding message was just a joke; don't mod me down)
by allowing bullies to not only put "kick me" signs on unfortunate kids' backs, but give them animated tips on form and ideal kick positioning. They could even tie in dynamic content such as a kick counter, and an automated "principal mode" that would change it to match the color of the wearer's shirt when an authority figure happened by.
I can see it now; I'll be sitting by a fire, talking to my grandkids...
"I remember the days when we couldn't change the wallpaper in our house without walking 10 miles to the home improvement store... in the snow... uphill... both ways!"
or does Afghanistan keep sounding better and better as a choice of homes? You lose a hand for shoplifting, among other draconian laws, but at least you don't get punished for writing a program like DeCSS or Advanced eBook Processor...
Why don't we get these undergrads, Martha Stewart, and the writers of MacGyver together to improvise a working missile-defense shield?
It'll be done on time and under-budget, it'll coordinate with all the other satellites, and it'll be made solely of a shoe polish tin, duct tape, a foot of rope, and a thumbtack!
OK, we all know of the existence of "aimbots" for various FPSes. I guess that how quickly you pedal this thing will affect your aim, so will pub servers now be infested with people using "pedalbots" to help them cheat at pedaling?
Java is an operating system, too...
/. :P
In either case, edit posts,
Used car parts: $50
50,000 rolls of duct tape: $25,000
Bottle of Elmer's Glue: $0.99
And where are you going to vent the megawatts of heat produced? Where are you going to put the server rooms that you'll need to run just one lame "Hello, World?" And what are you going to do if your networking medium dies (as many BOFHs the world round are wont to make it do)? And, finally, what will you do when the next Nimda, Sircam, or Magistr makes its rounds, wipes 64 production servers, and necessitates days of downtime?
Thanks for the insight, but I'd rather put all my eggs in 2 *big* steel baskets rather than 64 small ones made of tissue paper.
Erp... just found the typo, so don't complain about it. :D
Heh... a new one's born every minute.
I can't believe you haven't cracked the nerdss' code yet: "improved" means "it works better on our machines, but we're on dual P4 Xeons wired together with Gigabit Ethernet" (remember the "Improved" new Coke?). Likewise, "feature" implies "... for our competitors' marketing departments," and "security" means "thing that our support department can charge $10 a call to fix."
Is there any way a similar meteor could have come into my living room and destroyed my VCR remote without a trace?
:)
I ask because of the fact that I am now unable to set my VCR clock or to make timed recordings (which wouldn't be so bad except for that damn daylight savings stuff)...
On second thought, maybe it was the MPAA...
of alphabet soup? I think we have more than enough licenses as it is; mod me flamebait if you wish, but we already have so many licenses as to create this odd mystique around the OSS community and keep people from diving right in and feeling the code. This whole licensing mess gave birth to the term "potentially viral software" and I think the main thing the community and the world at large needs is to get back to coding and stop writing the small print.
Some guns (the Angel) can be connected to and programed via a serial port.
Imagine a Beowulf clus...
Note: the original author of this post has been incapacitated because of its intense lameness... but we still encourage you to imagine a Beowulf...
Note: the original author of the first note has been incapacitated for being redundant, but we still invite you to imagine...
Note: the author of the second note has been incapacitated, and this post will end here ->.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster...
SHUT UP!
Now all we need are fighter aircraft with paintball guns, paintball mortars and spinfusors, and we have ourselves a colorful Tribes2! :)
Obviously this ATV is pretty darn cool but I don't see how it could be used in a game situation without making the odds against "infantry" grossly unfair.
Well, the infantry can feel free to use their paint-filled, shoulder-launched missiles, not to mention their fully stocked paintball bombers with rainbow cluster bombs.
The hit toy of 2002:
Programmer Joe's Mobile Paintball Command Post, now with realistic crimson red paint splatters and carpal tunnel grip!
I can see the MasterCard commercial now:
"Next-generation PDA: $10,000
Micropile to power extraneous features: $500,000
Watching the person next to you trip and drop it on the subway tracks as the train pulls up: priceless."
Better yet, we can power it entirely off the aura of smugness generated by the lucky user. Man, I'd like to see the battery life on this thing...