Well, you don't have to own a gun. That doesn't mean there's any reason that I can't
How about the reason that your kid might find it and go out to shoot cars. Ok, not likely perhaps. But what about that someone's kid might find his/her parents' gun and go out to shoot cars. Perhaps even your car, with you inside. Not to mention the risk of your gun being stolen. What if you catch the thief just when he's got hold of the gun and some ammunition. Your gun in locked too safe for any thief, you might say, but what if it's the thief coming out of your neighbors house you catch.
For a safer environment, you have to sacrifice some things. Keeping your gun at the shooting range seems to be a reasonable sacrifice. Sacrificing a safer environment for you to always have quick access to your gun seems selfish and dumb to me.
If you link LGPL with GPL the result is GPL, since there's no way to link to only the LGPL part of the result.
IANAL, but the GPL does seem to have a loophole though, in that it's only linking that's disallowed. The only question is what's considered linking and what's not. Using something that has little applicability except to connect the two programs can probably be considered linking. Making a frontend that runs a program the way a user would from the command line isn't, however (but I don't know about running a program a way a user wouldn't).
To officially run linux on your PS2, you have to pay Sony $200.
Running it that way disables access to some parts of the hardware (reading and cds except the signed ones IIRC), presumably so you can't use it to run copied game cds.
Using this bug let you get around both those problems.
Ok, perhaps I was a bit harsh in the previous post, but I still don't think it's a very well written article. Try to be a bit more objective, like listing the current status, looking up more directions different file systems are heading in and the advantages and disadvantages of that, etc.
As for accessing files as folders, I find the concept interesing. Pretty much like OS X packages, except the other way around (to the same effect, more or less). I don't see why it would have to be file system specific though (or stored as metadata). A much nicer implementation would be something like linux's binformat_misc, where you list a magic or a file ending and then a program used to access it with. In this case the program could for example be called with the full path to the file as one argument and the subpath used as the next (following the args specified in the magic file). The program would then have a pipe (or socketpair) to the program calling open() on its stdin/stdout. I haven't thought much about security issues, but there can probably be a solid way to do it. I guess there might also be some issue with fseek(), not sure if there's a smart way to do seekable pipes.
This article seems to just be the author brainstorming or feeling excited about reiserfs. It's hardly a "summary of developments in the filesystem". Now if he was asking about opinions on his article it'd be fine, but he's not, so I'll just discard this as another non-news.
I have several computer interested friends who probably sits at the comp 1-2 hours a day at least and still have no idea what Palladium is. I don't think the general public is even aware it exists.
I'll risk a comment on the main topic too (despite I didn't bother to read the pdf). I thought the point of Palladium is that Microsoft will certify what programs can run on your computer. I don't see MS letting a program that can be used for piracy through.
The US government already hold over 400 people (IIRC) prisoners on Cuba without charging them with a crime. Common sense would say they are war prisoners and should be released, but USA says they're not.
It seems to me that USA is going downhill fast, and yes, to an outsider, the government is pretty much the whole country. We very seldom hear the opinions of anyone else then the government.
I'm having a hard time finding a single one decision of the Bush government that I agree with. It started with backing out of various international agreements, and just keeps getting worse. I've been boycotting products from USA for a while now and will not stop anytime soon. Of course my influence if miniscule at most.
The article makes it clear that you will always be able to run code of your choice before any code produced for DRM without the latter detecting it, which is A Good Thing(tm) because the former could then modify the latter in anyway, again without the latter detecting it.
It also makes clear that the private keys stored on the chip will be possible to extract, but only if the hardware owner enables it.
As for the endorsement key, it's a way for the TCPA producers to make money by selling licences to the list, so it's most likely only a matter of time before they will be using them. Some producer could take a stance by not recording it, but once media producers starts locking their media to these list, people might actually start to want to have it, because it's what lets you play the media. This is A Bad Thing(tm).
However, due to the good thing above, if you have access to your own private endorsement key, you could give it to someone else, thereby effectively letting that person assume your identity of these specific keys (you could still use the other keys you have generated yourself for security). A good enough software would be able to switch between different keys at will (of the user).
So what it really comes down to is: Is the private endorsement key extractable from the chip by software means? This will be a likely turn of events, as if someone enables this along with the software that lets you switch keys, people will start wanting it.
All that is left is whether this would be a legal thing to do under the DMCA/EUCP. If no, this is a DRM chip. If yes, it is not (a successful one).
I can't wait until someone *finally* has a GUI, drag and point interface to setting up interapp messag sending. I mean a rapid development environment where I can choose a menu item, drag a little line to a button in another window, and have that button trigger said menu item.
AppleScript has a nice functionality.
You start Script Editor, hit Record, then do your tasks, and whoops, a complete script... It won't be a button but well a menu item. The button can probably be gotten from some shareware.
Granted the target application must support it, and it's sadly very uncommon.
There used to be a shareware utility (probably spawned by the AppleScript functionality) that didn't have the support limitation, it tracked the mouse and keyboard events, which is somewhat weaker though as the setup must be exactly the same for it to work. Not sure if it has been ported to OS X or anywhere else, can't remember the name sorry.
Memory can vary pretty much from person to person. Some are better at remembering visual things, and other audio. Personally I certainly tend towards visual memory, sometimes even remembering the layout of the page I read something, but not the text/information itself.
One thing that is for certain is that memory is linked to emtions. The stronger the emotion, the clearer the memory. Perhaps your childhood was just very uneventful?:)
About this 2 year limit some people mentioned, it's not that simple. You start to learn language from the day you are born (if not before), something you certainly store indefinitely. In fact, everything you remember longer than about 20 seconds (IIRC) takes a trip through long term memory.
However, long term memory is in no way permanent. For something to be stored permanently, it will have to be reiterated over and over, through manual repetition (what you do in school), being put in similar situations over again, or simply through the memory being linked to strong enough emotions that it bubbles up by itself once in a while. It's the long term memory that needs to get reiterated. Just repeating something over and over is not that good, as you just keep it in your working memory. If you want to learn words or whatever, make sure you have more than 10 items, that way you won't be able to keep it all in your working memory, unless you group 2 or more into a single item.
It takes about 3 years for a memory to become really permanent. Everything you remember from further back you will always remember, disregarding diseases/brain damage. For fresher things, you'll need to access the memory once in a while. Something you should think about if you spent a lot of time 1-2 years ago trying to learn a new language or similar.
Would this be a plausible way to gain residency in the EU, were someone so inclined? That is, become accused of a crime which carries the death penalty (whether or not you actually commit the crime is left as an exercise for the reader), fly to Europe, and demand asylum? I realize it would be stupid and impractical, but disregard that and consider whether it would work.
Can only speak for Sweden but here risk to be killed by the government in the home country is enough reason to get asylum, yes.
However, they do have to prove that they are indeed in risk of getting killed if they get deported. [sarcasm]One popular way seems to be to announce yourself as homosexual in a major newspaper.[/sarcasm] Being under a death sentence is probably another.
And yes, it's legitimate to compare brain volume. Brain volume allows manual coordination, executive decision making, memory, image processing. Discounting brain volume puts you dangerously close to separating mind from brain, and if you want to go down that road, I surrender.
Looking back ~40k years in Europe we find the Neanderthals, who'd been living here for at least 160k years. Around this time Cro-Magnon (which is us) enters Europe. 10k years later the Neanderthals are extinct.
Neanderthals was shorter than Cro-Magnon (which is us) but possessed larger hands and did in fact also have larger brains. Evidence show that they were routed out and killed by the Cro-Magnon.
So how did we manage that? We were smarter, even though our brains were smaller. If you look at the tools the Neanderthals made, they are very simple. Typically it's just a stone with a sharp edge and very general purpose. If you look at the Cro-Magnon tools, you see saws and hammers and drills etc.
Point being, while brain size might certainly matter, it's not all that does.
Imagine standing outside your local mac tech shop. Their network runs ZeroConf, when you open your iBook you are greeted on to their corporate LAN. It may be secure but it sounds likely that it is more Zero Security and lots of Conf to make it secure.
This scenario is not more applicable with zeroconf than without it. To use zeroconf you must have access to the network data, and if you do you have already compromised the network. It's not much harder to configure an ip yourself than getting one by zeroconf. And it's not much harder to sniff the network for service discovery either when you know how.
The cursor doesn't modify itself, however its mask is one pixel thicker than the image - to give you a white border around the black arrow.
The arrow cursor didn't modify itself, but the I-beam one did (all the way up to os 9). It's as simple as this:
cursor mask underneath result
white 0 white white
white 0 black black
white 1 white white
white 1 black white
black 0 white black
black 0 black white
black 1 white black
black 1 black black
The current multicast DNS draft (which is part of Zeroconf) was released by a working group at Microsoft. I don't expect them to take long to implement it.
These mounts will appear as/Network/Servers/moroten/ and/Network/Servers/moroten/home The "net" entry in opts is very important. automount ignores any entry without it.
Forget the law, we couldn't afford to get it passed.
The backbone providers COULD however block access to all the RIAA sites.
"Oh sorry, I guess this router thingie here just went down. We'll have you back up momentarily."
Makes you wonder who the RIAA has as ISP. Surely the ISP has the right to discontinue having them as a customer whenever they want to.
If you have MacsBug installed (the system debugger) it brings it up with a cli.
If you don't, it brings up a modal dialog box with a prompt that simple remains until you type g on a single line or you hit the hard reset button. Needless to say, not many knew what to write.
To be fair, you could also type G <address> where address is what you want to set the pc to, but how useful is that in an OS with mandatory PIC?
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Well, you don't have to own a gun. That doesn't mean there's any reason that I can't
How about the reason that your kid might find it and go out to shoot cars. Ok, not likely perhaps. But what about that someone's kid might find his/her parents' gun and go out to shoot cars. Perhaps even your car, with you inside. Not to mention the risk of your gun being stolen. What if you catch the thief just when he's got hold of the gun and some ammunition. Your gun in locked too safe for any thief, you might say, but what if it's the thief coming out of your neighbors house you catch.
For a safer environment, you have to sacrifice some things. Keeping your gun at the shooting range seems to be a reasonable sacrifice. Sacrificing a safer environment for you to always have quick access to your gun seems selfish and dumb to me.
If you link LGPL with GPL the result is GPL, since there's no way to link to only the LGPL part of the result.
IANAL, but the GPL does seem to have a loophole though, in that it's only linking that's disallowed. The only question is what's considered linking and what's not. Using something that has little applicability except to connect the two programs can probably be considered linking. Making a frontend that runs a program the way a user would from the command line isn't, however (but I don't know about running a program a way a user wouldn't).
Wrong, you still have restricted access to the DVD-drive.
I thought of this, but how would you run it, since Sony would hardly license it...
To the other poster: It's the PS2 memory card.
To the OP: This hack would probably allow this, yes. None of the code released so far does though.
Using this bug let you get around both those problems.
Ok, perhaps I was a bit harsh in the previous post, but I still don't think it's a very well written article. Try to be a bit more objective, like listing the current status, looking up more directions different file systems are heading in and the advantages and disadvantages of that, etc.
As for accessing files as folders, I find the concept interesing. Pretty much like OS X packages, except the other way around (to the same effect, more or less). I don't see why it would have to be file system specific though (or stored as metadata). A much nicer implementation would be something like linux's binformat_misc, where you list a magic or a file ending and then a program used to access it with. In this case the program could for example be called with the full path to the file as one argument and the subpath used as the next (following the args specified in the magic file). The program would then have a pipe (or socketpair) to the program calling open() on its stdin/stdout. I haven't thought much about security issues, but there can probably be a solid way to do it. I guess there might also be some issue with fseek(), not sure if there's a smart way to do seekable pipes.
This article seems to just be the author brainstorming or feeling excited about reiserfs. It's hardly a "summary of developments in the filesystem". Now if he was asking about opinions on his article it'd be fine, but he's not, so I'll just discard this as another non-news.
I have several computer interested friends who probably sits at the comp 1-2 hours a day at least and still have no idea what Palladium is. I don't think the general public is even aware it exists.
I'll risk a comment on the main topic too (despite I didn't bother to read the pdf). I thought the point of Palladium is that Microsoft will certify what programs can run on your computer. I don't see MS letting a program that can be used for piracy through.
The US government already hold over 400 people (IIRC) prisoners on Cuba without charging them with a crime. Common sense would say they are war prisoners and should be released, but USA says they're not.
It seems to me that USA is going downhill fast, and yes, to an outsider, the government is pretty much the whole country. We very seldom hear the opinions of anyone else then the government.
I'm having a hard time finding a single one decision of the Bush government that I agree with. It started with backing out of various international agreements, and just keeps getting worse. I've been boycotting products from USA for a while now and will not stop anytime soon. Of course my influence if miniscule at most.
How could anyone fall for this? I thought it common knowledge that pasta is egg and flour. Raw pasta even taste flour.
Like some other recent Apple downloads, this one used Disc Copy to copy itself to the desktop and then auto-unmount.
The article makes it clear that you will always be able to run code of your choice before any code produced for DRM without the latter detecting it, which is A Good Thing(tm) because the former could then modify the latter in anyway, again without the latter detecting it.
It also makes clear that the private keys stored on the chip will be possible to extract, but only if the hardware owner enables it.
As for the endorsement key, it's a way for the TCPA producers to make money by selling licences to the list, so it's most likely only a matter of time before they will be using them. Some producer could take a stance by not recording it, but once media producers starts locking their media to these list, people might actually start to want to have it, because it's what lets you play the media. This is A Bad Thing(tm).
However, due to the good thing above, if you have access to your own private endorsement key, you could give it to someone else, thereby effectively letting that person assume your identity of these specific keys (you could still use the other keys you have generated yourself for security). A good enough software would be able to switch between different keys at will (of the user).
So what it really comes down to is: Is the private endorsement key extractable from the chip by software means?
This will be a likely turn of events, as if someone enables this along with the software that lets you switch keys, people will start wanting it.
All that is left is whether this would be a legal thing to do under the DMCA/EUCP. If no, this is a DRM chip. If yes, it is not (a successful one).
AppleScript has a nice functionality.
You start Script Editor, hit Record, then do your tasks, and whoops, a complete script... It won't be a button but well a menu item. The button can probably be gotten from some shareware.
Granted the target application must support it, and it's sadly very uncommon.
There used to be a shareware utility (probably spawned by the AppleScript functionality) that didn't have the support limitation, it tracked the mouse and keyboard events, which is somewhat weaker though as the setup must be exactly the same for it to work. Not sure if it has been ported to OS X or anywhere else, can't remember the name sorry.
Memory can vary pretty much from person to person. Some are better at remembering visual things, and other audio. Personally I certainly tend towards visual memory, sometimes even remembering the layout of the page I read something, but not the text/information itself.
:)
One thing that is for certain is that memory is linked to emtions. The stronger the emotion, the clearer the memory. Perhaps your childhood was just very uneventful?
About this 2 year limit some people mentioned, it's not that simple. You start to learn language from the day you are born (if not before), something you certainly store indefinitely. In fact, everything you remember longer than about 20 seconds (IIRC) takes a trip through long term memory.
However, long term memory is in no way permanent. For something to be stored permanently, it will have to be reiterated over and over, through manual repetition (what you do in school), being put in similar situations over again, or simply through the memory being linked to strong enough emotions that it bubbles up by itself once in a while. It's the long term memory that needs to get reiterated. Just repeating something over and over is not that good, as you just keep it in your working memory. If you want to learn words or whatever, make sure you have more than 10 items, that way you won't be able to keep it all in your working memory, unless you group 2 or more into a single item.
It takes about 3 years for a memory to become really permanent. Everything you remember from further back you will always remember, disregarding diseases/brain damage. For fresher things, you'll need to access the memory once in a while. Something you should think about if you spent a lot of time 1-2 years ago trying to learn a new language or similar.
Disclaimer: this was all taken from memory.
Did anyone else read that and ask "You are not a what? And who made the decision? Finish your damn sentence!"
No, but perhaps that's because i visit IANA's homepage around once a week. I mean, who can live without the assigned numbers of the Internet?
Can only speak for Sweden but here risk to be killed by the government in the home country is enough reason to get asylum, yes.
However, they do have to prove that they are indeed in risk of getting killed if they get deported. [sarcasm]One popular way seems to be to announce yourself as homosexual in a major newspaper.[/sarcasm] Being under a death sentence is probably another.
Looking back ~40k years in Europe we find the Neanderthals, who'd been living here for at least 160k years. Around this time Cro-Magnon (which is us) enters Europe. 10k years later the Neanderthals are extinct.
Neanderthals was shorter than Cro-Magnon (which is us) but possessed larger hands and did in fact also have larger brains. Evidence show that they were routed out and killed by the Cro-Magnon.
So how did we manage that? We were smarter, even though our brains were smaller. If you look at the tools the Neanderthals made, they are very simple. Typically it's just a stone with a sharp edge and very general purpose. If you look at the Cro-Magnon tools, you see saws and hammers and drills etc.
Point being, while brain size might certainly matter, it's not all that does.
Oh damn, hit submit instead of preview... oh well, point is a black cursor pixel with a 0 mask inverts what's underneath.
The arrow cursor didn't modify itself, but the I-beam one did (all the way up to os 9). It's as simple as this:
There is only one problem with this:
The current multicast DNS draft (which is part of Zeroconf) was released by a working group at Microsoft. I don't expect them to take long to implement it.
Oh, well, it was needed back in 10.0... Perhaps they changed it sometime along the road.
If you simply want to automount NFS/smb/afp /mounts/ directory in NetInfo:
/mounts .
/machines/
/Network/Servers/moroten/ /Network/Servers/moroten/home
enter this in the
[kaninen:~] morth% nidump -r
{
"name" = ( "mounts" );
CHILDREN = (
{
"vfstype" = ( "nfs" );
"name" = ( "moroten:/" );
"opts" = ( "net", "resvport", "rw" );
},
{
"vfstype" = ( "nfs" );
"name" = ( "moroten:/home" );
"opts" = ( "rw", "resvport", "net" );
},
(etc)
}
You might want to add the hosts in
These mounts will appear as
and
The "net" entry in opts is very important. automount ignores any entry without it.
The backbone providers COULD however block access to all the RIAA sites.
"Oh sorry, I guess this router thingie here just went down. We'll have you back up momentarily."
Makes you wonder who the RIAA has as ISP. Surely the ISP has the right to discontinue having them as a customer whenever they want to.
If you have MacsBug installed (the system debugger) it brings it up with a cli.
If you don't, it brings up a modal dialog box with a prompt that simple remains until you type g on a single line or you hit the hard reset button. Needless to say, not many knew what to write.
To be fair, you could also type G <address> where address is what you want to set the pc to, but how useful is that in an OS with mandatory PIC?