>well X-Box games are hard to patch, as you can't patch them through X-Box live.
I'm certain you could patch a game through XBox Live if the game itself were designed with that functionality. You can download content for a game, which is just files that get stored on the XBox HD and can be loaded by that game. Those files could contain executable code which could be run by the loader on the disc. Some of the downloadable content for certain games includes new gameplay types, which may already involve small hunks of executable. Now, it's quite likely that Thief 3 and most other games weren't designed with code-level patchability, but that's another matter...
Sweet mother of god, he really does have a Pippin! Several of them! In fact, he probably owns every Pippin ever made, given that no one actually bought one.
I only have personal experience with one sort of intelligence--my own, which involves being self-aware. I have no actual evidence that it is possible to act intelligently without being self-aware. Thus, I am far more likely to ascribe self-awareness to other beings that act intelligently than to invoke some magical argument and claim that my sort of intelligence is somehow better than theirs because humans are just intrinsically superior to all other species for no good reason (other than my being one). It seems pretty clear to me that the difference between human intelligence and that of other animals is merely one of degree, not one of kind, and that the degrees of difference are far less than most people think. (This last part is probably due to that fact that most people feel deeply threatened if they cannot feel that they are somehow special.)
You have the advantage of me!:) Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.
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Blame is a lazy man's wages. Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing, but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
We are able to ship worldwide
An empty house is like a stray dog or a body from which life has departed.
Go here and get it You are absolutely anonymous!
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. A poor joke must invent its own laughter.
An important point is that this family of exploits is not the result of any programming errors. It is the result of everything working precisely as it was intended to, but there being unforeseen uses for the design as originally specified.
I'm sure this page will fill up soon enough with near-flames about the arrogance of Apple and how it lost them the computer market last time and so on. What most of the people making those comments don't realize is that the Mac never had the market share that the iPod does. Apple really does dominate this market, and can afford to act like Microsoft for several years, at least. (That Microsoft is intent on entering the market soon does not necessarily mean they will be successful at taking it over, as the XBox has shown.)
Licensing to Real would have two negative effects that Apple should rightly be concerned about. First, this would at best steal sales that would otherwise have gone to the iTMS, and, while the bulk of the profits come from the iPod itself, the iTMS can only be helped by increased traffic. (In particular, economies of scale are probably rather important--certainly with respect to the infrastructure, possibly the underlying music licensing as well.) Secondly, Real has a long reputation as obnoxious crap that works poorly and pushes ads at the user all the time. Associating with them could taint Apple's image, which is a valuable commodity. If Real's store was anything other than flawless, it could damage the perception of how easy to use the iPod is, hurting long-term sales and brand image.
That's why you should play Exalted instead. There, you get play mythic demi-gods with legendary kung-fu who can topple kingdoms in an afternoon's work. And, you can roll twenty or thirty dice on a single attack if you use the right charms...
This exact method is the basis of the MT-Blacklist comment-spam prevention system for Movable Type-based blogs. It works wonderfully, as it identifies spam on the basis of the one feature it must have to be successful--a link back to the spammer's site.
The file is a CFM application. As others have pointed out, this means that it has a resource fork which it needs in order to be able to run. Thus, it must be downloaded as a compressed file. If the resource fork is stripped, it is harmless, as the payload will never be executed.
Its name ends in ".mp3", and the included icon is copied from an iTunes MP3 file, but its type code is APPL, an application. The data fork is a valid MP3 with PowerPC executable code inside the ID3 tags. When given to iTunes or another MP3 player, it simply plays the included sounds without executing code. When double-clicked on from the Finder, the surrounding bits of MP3 file appear to be ignored and the code is executed. The payload for the proof-of-concept displays a dialog box, then tells iTunes to play the file itself, presumably via AppleScript.
When double-clicked, it shows up in the dock as an application, though this could be suppressed in an actual hostile trojan just like many utility programs do. In the Finder, if one is using column view, it is identified as an Application instead of an MP3 File, and its icon is shown instead of a QuickTime-style playback bar for previewing the contents.
In terms of an actual exploit, the only thing going on that is even possibly questionable at an OS level is the presence of other stuff in the data fork before the Joy!peffpwpc tag. I am not certain if this is allowed in the definition of what a PEF executable is supposed to look like. Aside from that, there is nothing else that is tricking the OS into doing something it shouldn't do, only legally included information that is deceptive to a user who is not looking carefully at things.
As a member of the CMU Robotics Institute, though not Red Team, I must add that this is such a rip...well, okay, I guess we can let the others compete, but we still win, right?
The reason we send so many more probes to Mars than to Venus is that a good day on Mars is a lot like a bad day in Antarctica, at least if you're a robot probe. A good day on Venus is more like a bad day in Hell.
In Spanish, elevator music is instead referred to as dentist music. Seems to make a lot more sense if you ask me, as the only music I've heard in an elevator is the near the end of the Blues Brothers movie, while dentists routinely play bland, tasteless music in their clinics.
The easiest solution is probably to do an automatic commit of everything every 24 hours or so, with the option to do a manual commit of select files whenever you want. It gives you reasonable rollback ability without active user intervention and allows users to demarcate specific points that they want to be able to return to. Most importantly, it doesn't require any changes to existing programs and file-access models.
While NeXT (now part of Apple) invented DPS, Apple did in fact invent the modern GUI. Xerox's early GUIs worked in fundamentally different, more limited ways. Most notably, they only used icons as verbs to represent actions that could be performed by clicking. Apple came up with the idea of using icons as nouns to represent objects such as files, which could be manipulated by clicking and dragging.
The Field Robotics Center is part of the Robotics Institute. If anyone at CMU is going to participate, it'll be them, given that autonomous outdoor vehicles is a big part of what they do. (Well, they is actually us, but I don't work on hardware at all. I'm an abstract algorithms and math guy...)
You'll definitely want Kaleidoscope (I'd recommend the Obsidian scheme), and I'd suggest getting Default Folder, Power Windows, Window Monkey, Snitch, and FinderPop, all various almost-requisite interface enhancements (and all shareware, or outright free). You can get Mac06 or MacDOS, to control things via a command-line (unix and DOS, respectively), but do yourself a favor and learn all the keyboard shortcuts for menus and window navigation. Since they're standardized on ALL apps (no one buys those that attempt to not conform), you'll be able to fly faster than any command-line. This is basically because each command will be a single keystroke and you'll get feedback in 2D instead of 1D. Give it a chance and you'll see how efficient a properly-designed GUI can be (this coming from someone who spent the day troubleshooting a Windows network and who has seven accounts on various unices).
What's particularly ironic is that KMFDM encourages non-violent protest in their music, not violence. With song titles like "A Drug Against War" and lyrics like "we shall use all peaceful means to overcome tyranny", it just shows that the idiot media reporters making such associations don't bother doing the most basic research about the things they're smearing. Then again, they know it's safe to do so, because no "normal" person would have the knowledge required to contradict their idiotic assertions...
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>well X-Box games are hard to patch, as you can't patch them through X-Box live.
I'm certain you could patch a game through XBox Live if the game itself were designed with that functionality. You can download content for a game, which is just files that get stored on the XBox HD and can be loaded by that game. Those files could contain executable code which could be run by the loader on the disc. Some of the downloadable content for certain games includes new gameplay types, which may already involve small hunks of executable. Now, it's quite likely that Thief 3 and most other games weren't designed with code-level patchability, but that's another matter...
Sweet mother of god, he really does have a Pippin! Several of them! In fact, he probably owns every Pippin ever made, given that no one actually bought one.
I only have personal experience with one sort of intelligence--my own, which involves being self-aware. I have no actual evidence that it is possible to act intelligently without being self-aware. Thus, I am far more likely to ascribe self-awareness to other beings that act intelligently than to invoke some magical argument and claim that my sort of intelligence is somehow better than theirs because humans are just intrinsically superior to all other species for no good reason (other than my being one). It seems pretty clear to me that the difference between human intelligence and that of other animals is merely one of degree, not one of kind, and that the degrees of difference are far less than most people think. (This last part is probably due to that fact that most people feel deeply threatened if they cannot feel that they are somehow special.)
And the "Martian Sand Kings" episode is based on Sand Kings, a short story by George R. R. Martin, of A Song of Ice and Fire fame.
You have the advantage of me! :)
Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.
Aspb, looking for a site to buy medication?
Blame is a lazy man's wages.
Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person
The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing, but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
We are able to ship worldwide
An empty house is like a stray dog or a body from which life has departed.
Go here and get it
You are absolutely anonymous!
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
A poor joke must invent its own laughter.
An important point is that this family of exploits is not the result of any programming errors. It is the result of everything working precisely as it was intended to, but there being unforeseen uses for the design as originally specified.
Releasing a search and indexing tool for the Mac wouldn't make much sense, given that one is already included in the OS.
I'm sure this page will fill up soon enough with near-flames about the arrogance of Apple and how it lost them the computer market last time and so on. What most of the people making those comments don't realize is that the Mac never had the market share that the iPod does. Apple really does dominate this market, and can afford to act like Microsoft for several years, at least. (That Microsoft is intent on entering the market soon does not necessarily mean they will be successful at taking it over, as the XBox has shown.)
Licensing to Real would have two negative effects that Apple should rightly be concerned about. First, this would at best steal sales that would otherwise have gone to the iTMS, and, while the bulk of the profits come from the iPod itself, the iTMS can only be helped by increased traffic. (In particular, economies of scale are probably rather important--certainly with respect to the infrastructure, possibly the underlying music licensing as well.) Secondly, Real has a long reputation as obnoxious crap that works poorly and pushes ads at the user all the time. Associating with them could taint Apple's image, which is a valuable commodity. If Real's store was anything other than flawless, it could damage the perception of how easy to use the iPod is, hurting long-term sales and brand image.
That's why you should play Exalted instead. There, you get play mythic demi-gods with legendary kung-fu who can topple kingdoms in an afternoon's work. And, you can roll twenty or thirty dice on a single attack if you use the right charms...
This exact method is the basis of the MT-Blacklist comment-spam prevention system for Movable Type-based blogs. It works wonderfully, as it identifies spam on the basis of the one feature it must have to be successful--a link back to the spammer's site.
The file is a CFM application. As others have pointed out, this means that it has a resource fork which it needs in order to be able to run. Thus, it must be downloaded as a compressed file. If the resource fork is stripped, it is harmless, as the payload will never be executed.
Its name ends in ".mp3", and the included icon is copied from an iTunes MP3 file, but its type code is APPL, an application. The data fork is a valid MP3 with PowerPC executable code inside the ID3 tags. When given to iTunes or another MP3 player, it simply plays the included sounds without executing code. When double-clicked on from the Finder, the surrounding bits of MP3 file appear to be ignored and the code is executed. The payload for the proof-of-concept displays a dialog box, then tells iTunes to play the file itself, presumably via AppleScript.
When double-clicked, it shows up in the dock as an application, though this could be suppressed in an actual hostile trojan just like many utility programs do. In the Finder, if one is using column view, it is identified as an Application instead of an MP3 File, and its icon is shown instead of a QuickTime-style playback bar for previewing the contents.
In terms of an actual exploit, the only thing going on that is even possibly questionable at an OS level is the presence of other stuff in the data fork before the Joy!peffpwpc tag. I am not certain if this is allowed in the definition of what a PEF executable is supposed to look like. Aside from that, there is nothing else that is tricking the OS into doing something it shouldn't do, only legally included information that is deceptive to a user who is not looking carefully at things.
As a member of the CMU Robotics Institute, though not Red Team, I must add that this is such a rip...well, okay, I guess we can let the others compete, but we still win, right?
Prior to MS DOS, every operating system was sold by a hardware manufacturer, and they wouldn't sell the OS without a computer.
What about BSD?
The reason we send so many more probes to Mars than to Venus is that a good day on Mars is a lot like a bad day in Antarctica, at least if you're a robot probe. A good day on Venus is more like a bad day in Hell.
Except it is illegal to use the wma codecs unless you have a paid copy of windows
Damn, somebody better tell Microsoft to stop illegally distributing WMP to us Mac users!
In Spanish, elevator music is instead referred to as dentist music. Seems to make a lot more sense if you ask me, as the only music I've heard in an elevator is the near the end of the Blues Brothers movie, while dentists routinely play bland, tasteless music in their clinics.
The easiest solution is probably to do an automatic commit of everything every 24 hours or so, with the option to do a manual commit of select files whenever you want. It gives you reasonable rollback ability without active user intervention and allows users to demarcate specific points that they want to be able to return to. Most importantly, it doesn't require any changes to existing programs and file-access models.
While NeXT (now part of Apple) invented DPS, Apple did in fact invent the modern GUI. Xerox's early GUIs worked in fundamentally different, more limited ways. Most notably, they only used icons as verbs to represent actions that could be performed by clicking. Apple came up with the idea of using icons as nouns to represent objects such as files, which could be manipulated by clicking and dragging.
The Field Robotics Center is part of the Robotics Institute. If anyone at CMU is going to participate, it'll be them, given that autonomous outdoor vehicles is a big part of what they do. (Well, they is actually us, but I don't work on hardware at all. I'm an abstract algorithms and math guy...)
You'll definitely want Kaleidoscope (I'd recommend the Obsidian scheme), and I'd suggest getting Default Folder, Power Windows, Window Monkey, Snitch, and FinderPop, all various almost-requisite interface enhancements (and all shareware, or outright free). You can get Mac06 or MacDOS, to control things via a command-line (unix and DOS, respectively), but do yourself a favor and learn all the keyboard shortcuts for menus and window navigation. Since they're standardized on ALL apps (no one buys those that attempt to not conform), you'll be able to fly faster than any command-line. This is basically because each command will be a single keystroke and you'll get feedback in 2D instead of 1D. Give it a chance and you'll see how efficient a properly-designed GUI can be (this coming from someone who spent the day troubleshooting a Windows network and who has seven accounts on various unices).
What's particularly ironic is that KMFDM encourages non-violent protest in their music, not violence. With song titles like "A Drug Against War" and lyrics like "we shall use all peaceful means to overcome tyranny", it just shows that the idiot media reporters making such associations don't bother doing the most basic research about the things they're smearing. Then again, they know it's safe to do so, because no "normal" person would have the knowledge required to contradict their idiotic assertions...