Well, I know how I did it on my old Commodore 64 - with the assistance of an Action Reply cartridge. This was how you did it:
- start the game
- note down number of lives left
- freeze the game with the cartridge
- enter number of lives in the cheat menu
- unfreeze the game
- loose a life
- freeze game again
- enter the cheat menu again, wait for some moments
...and voila! There was your 'infinite life' cheat code.
(What it actually did was first to find all memory locations which had the selected value in them and at the same time had code pointing to it. The next time you froze the game, it checked all locations again to see if some had been decremented, and if it found one, the relevant address-modifying code was nulled out. Pretty clever, indeed.)
I don't really see the problem with the AV vendors overlooking ML. No, I'm not mad - bear with me for a moment:
First - think about how AV software works. It usually scans a file when it's accesed for certain known patterns - the virus signatures. Every virus/trojan/worm have their more or less unique signature which is used to identify it. So, when AV vendors say they won't detect it they software is not deliberately letting ML through - the software just will not have a signature for ML, and therefore it won't be recognized as a trojan.
This is not a hole.
It's just how antivirus software works - looking for known malware patterns.
Now, if I were to make my own personal Magic Lantern, I could theoretically modify FBIs software, or write my own. They will both be equally undetectable. Now, when certain AV vendors say the won't look for ML it is in fact good - because they are open about it. You KNOW their software won't detect it, and if you feel threatened by it you are free to change vendor and add in additional layers of paranoia (Firewalls, IDS, tripwire).
If we are going to hate AV vendors for something, we could just as well blame them for not including anti-spyware in their signature files. They have overlooked this specific kind of malware for years, and not many have raised their voices about it.
I'm more scared of the methods they intend to infect their targets - pushing ISPs into modifying data as it arrives at the victim's computer is just plain scary.
Then again, it's FBI we're talking about. For the most part they play by the rules. And if you're really so scared about Magic Lantern, you should be scared about phone wiretaps and Tempest too. They are all equally privacy-invading technologies, but very few of us encrypt our telephone calls or install lead-walls to protect our privacy.
I'm not saying that Magic Lantern is a good thing (it's not), but the AV vendors are not trying to make a gaping hole in you computer, and shouldn't be accused of such things.
For all the fanboys that scream out that Opera is better than IE (and it is, I love it too) - in this case it is vulnerable too, as this link proves. The file save dialogue will show the text.txt filename, but if you select to open it directly, it will run.
Opera 6.0 is not vulnerable - but take note - even though it is much better and has less exploits than IE, it's still not completely free of them. (On the other hand, the only secure applications are those on an unpowered computer, or a program of 'Hello World' complexity)
Oh - it's worse than that. They don't even have to move to Norway now. Just set up a shop right next to our border, and you will be overrun by Norwegians overnight. You don't need to come to us - we'll more than gladly come to you!
(The cause of all this madness is that alcoholic beverages and meat cost much less in Sweden than in Norway. And we don't have Red Bull here either, but the Swedes do. Lucky bastards...)
Yep. So much easier. Instead of first using seven days to figure out the algorithm used, and then just a few thousand years for decryption, you can get away with ONLY using those thousands of years on the decryption process...
In reality, that 80% of people uses the same algorithm, and have no problem telling others that they do is a testament of the security of RSA.
I'd worry more about certain people trying to outlaw encryption completely..
I don't really see what everybody have against Jar-Jar. Is he really that more annoying than C-3PO was in Episode 4-6?
I think old George wishes himself back to the days before the old Star Wars, where his works wouldn't be compared to what we nostalgia-deluded fans now treat as 'legendary'.
Not likely, since MP3s were first widely used around spring 1997. The format itself had been around for sometime, but it wasn't until 1997 the possibilities of the format were discovered by the masses.
Perhaps somebody had fun making mp3s before that time, but far too few to make a 'Scene' out of it.
I recall some friends of mine talked about another alternative energy source - you dig a tunnel from below sealevel so far down into the earth that it starts to boil - and then lead the steam that results through generators. I don't know if this is feasible or not, but it atleast seems like it could be done. Anybody have more information on this?
This law (norwegian link) was created and put into use within one day when it was suspected one of Bin Ladens economic supporters was in this country. Really scary.
Now imagine this, from the mouth of an Afghan:
Even in the darkest days of the Soviet invasion, we all knew that the Soviets loved the same things we did: a good days work at the farm, walks around the countryside, their children. Todays enemy just wants us to die - the more gastly the better. I'm glad that we decided to curtail some conveince to help weed out the scum, and I'm really glad that our government is brave enough to do somethig about it.
Let's hope we can kill them all, before they kill us. These are not people who just have a differing viewpoint than us, or a different way of life. These are human debris that use the fruits of our civilisation to destroy us.
Our well measured response, at home and abroad, will save our lives, as well as save the lives of the vast majority of decent people in Afganistan: if we were sucuessfully attacked with weapons of mass destruction, we would suffer horribly, but many more good people would die in the fires of our retaliation.
A bit of violence and self sacrifice, now, will save lives.
They fight for the same reasons as you. They too want to defend their country and way of life.
Movies can give insight, wether they're based on something true or not. I think 'Enemy of the State' is a really good way of Joe Sixpack what could happen if he didn't care about his privacy.
But no matter what setting you choose, it will still tag the 'Opera 5.12' string onto the end of the browser ID string. I haven't tried hacking the ini-file for Opera yet, but that might be one possibility...
Opera does it with even more elegance - at the side of the URL field there is a field that will search on anything put into it through Google. You can also use the URL field by typing 'g searchterm' there. They also have 'a' for altavista and lots of other search shortcuts (Though I only use Google regularly. Strange that.)
This is a really interesting technology, but I don't think it will be useful for us commoners quite yet. And I don't think I would have one either - for once, I believe the speed of this thing will be much lower than normal wires for some time yet, and it will be very expensive.
But the possibilities are countless - Imagine how much easier it would be to control a space probe on Mars with zero latency!
If this thing really works over such great distances this could be one major step ahead for space colonization and long-distance communication.
(About encryption - it might seem like a swell idea, but remember that the particles have to interact some time before separating them, and then it would be just as practical giving your trusted party a symmetric cipher key instead of a molecule.)
Our network switch says it has been up for 49566 days.
You can say a lot of bad things about old hardware, but then, back in 1865, they knew how to make strong and reliable equipment.
Interesting use of statistics here..
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At first glance, the graph titled 'Redmond Blues' looks like it's showing a decline in Microsoft's earnings. However, the real numbers are quite the opposite - the graph shows how many percent increase the earnings have had since last year, and it is of cours natural for the curve to fall (since an $2.5 billion increase from $25b is only 10%, while an $2.5 billion increase from $6 is almost 60%).
But somehow they have warped the statistics (intentionally?) to make the curves more grim.
To their defense, it is stated clearly in the text of the article, but the subtle difference between text and graphics might be hard to spot.(Especially since it's easier to think up a conclusion from a curve than a paragraph of text)
Not only will they give us a new form of storage, but they can also be used as a treatment for AIDS.
Interesting how versatile a simple molecule can be..
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Well, I know how I did it on my old Commodore 64 - with the assistance of an Action Reply cartridge. This was how you did it:
- start the game
- note down number of lives left
- freeze the game with the cartridge
- enter number of lives in the cheat menu
- unfreeze the game
- loose a life
- freeze game again
- enter the cheat menu again, wait for some moments
...and voila! There was your 'infinite life' cheat code.
(What it actually did was first to find all memory locations which had the selected value in them and at the same time had code pointing to it. The next time you froze the game, it checked all locations again to see if some had been decremented, and if it found one, the relevant address-modifying code was nulled out. Pretty clever, indeed.)
I don't really see the problem with the AV vendors overlooking ML. No, I'm not mad - bear with me for a moment:
First - think about how AV software works. It usually scans a file when it's accesed for certain known patterns - the virus signatures. Every virus/trojan/worm have their more or less unique signature which is used to identify it. So, when AV vendors say they won't detect it they software is not deliberately letting ML through - the software just will not have a signature for ML, and therefore it won't be recognized as a trojan.
This is not a hole.
It's just how antivirus software works - looking for known malware patterns.
Now, if I were to make my own personal Magic Lantern, I could theoretically modify FBIs software, or write my own. They will both be equally undetectable. Now, when certain AV vendors say the won't look for ML it is in fact good - because they are open about it. You KNOW their software won't detect it, and if you feel threatened by it you are free to change vendor and add in additional layers of paranoia (Firewalls, IDS, tripwire).
If we are going to hate AV vendors for something, we could just as well blame them for not including anti-spyware in their signature files. They have overlooked this specific kind of malware for years, and not many have raised their voices about it.
I'm more scared of the methods they intend to infect their targets - pushing ISPs into modifying data as it arrives at the victim's computer is just plain scary.
Then again, it's FBI we're talking about. For the most part they play by the rules. And if you're really so scared about Magic Lantern, you should be scared about phone wiretaps and Tempest too. They are all equally privacy-invading technologies, but very few of us encrypt our telephone calls or install lead-walls to protect our privacy.
I'm not saying that Magic Lantern is a good thing (it's not), but the AV vendors are not trying to make a gaping hole in you computer, and shouldn't be accused of such things.
I think you just set off the 'Immediate danger' alarm on a few hundred Echelon systems. Good work. :)
PS. Don't open any emails sent by the FBI.
For example the cross-site scripting bug that could make websites grab your password cookies? (Don't remember any URLs atm)
For all the fanboys that scream out that Opera is better than IE (and it is, I love it too) - in this case it is vulnerable too, as this link proves. The file save dialogue will show the text.txt filename, but if you select to open it directly, it will run.
Opera 6.0 is not vulnerable - but take note - even though it is much better and has less exploits than IE, it's still not completely free of them. (On the other hand, the only secure applications are those on an unpowered computer, or a program of 'Hello World' complexity)
Oh - it's worse than that. They don't even have to move to Norway now. Just set up a shop right next to our border, and you will be overrun by Norwegians overnight. You don't need to come to us - we'll more than gladly come to you!
(The cause of all this madness is that alcoholic beverages and meat cost much less in Sweden than in Norway. And we don't have Red Bull here either, but the Swedes do. Lucky bastards...)
Yep. So much easier. Instead of first using seven days to figure out the algorithm used, and then just a few thousand years for decryption, you can get away with ONLY using those thousands of years on the decryption process...
In reality, that 80% of people uses the same algorithm, and have no problem telling others that they do is a testament of the security of RSA.
I'd worry more about certain people trying to outlaw encryption completely..
I don't really see what everybody have against Jar-Jar. Is he really that more annoying than C-3PO was in Episode 4-6?
I think old George wishes himself back to the days before the old Star Wars, where his works wouldn't be compared to what we nostalgia-deluded fans now treat as 'legendary'.
Not likely, since MP3s were first widely used around spring 1997. The format itself had been around for sometime, but it wasn't until 1997 the possibilities of the format were discovered by the masses.
Perhaps somebody had fun making mp3s before that time, but far too few to make a 'Scene' out of it.
(feel free to prove me wrong..)
I recall some friends of mine talked about another alternative energy source - you dig a tunnel from below sealevel so far down into the earth that it starts to boil - and then lead the steam that results through generators. I don't know if this is feasible or not, but it atleast seems like it could be done. Anybody have more information on this?
...a similair bill passed half a month ago.
This law (norwegian link) was created and put into use within one day when it was suspected one of Bin Ladens economic supporters was in this country. Really scary.
Now imagine this, from the mouth of an Afghan:
Even in the darkest days of the Soviet invasion, we all knew that the Soviets loved the same things we did: a good days work at the farm, walks around the countryside, their children. Todays enemy just wants us to die - the more gastly the better. I'm glad that we decided to curtail some conveince to help weed out the scum, and I'm really glad that our government is brave enough to do somethig about it.
Our enemy appears to have nucluar capabilitys and obviously isn't afraid to use them: http://www.exploratorium.edu/nagasaki/mainn.html
Let's hope we can kill them all, before they kill us. These are not people who just have a differing viewpoint than us, or a different way of life. These are human debris that use the fruits of our civilisation to destroy us.
Our well measured response, at home and abroad, will save our lives, as well as save the lives of the vast majority of decent people in Afganistan: if we were sucuessfully attacked with weapons of mass destruction, we would suffer horribly, but many more good people would die in the fires of our retaliation.
A bit of violence and self sacrifice, now, will save lives.
They fight for the same reasons as you. They too want to defend their country and way of life.
Think about it.
...of showing Joe Sixpack...
And so was Schindler's List.
Movies can give insight, wether they're based on something true or not. I think 'Enemy of the State' is a really good way of Joe Sixpack what could happen if he didn't care about his privacy.
No, no..
...for INFINITE justice!
But no matter what setting you choose, it will still tag the 'Opera 5.12' string onto the end of the browser ID string. I haven't tried hacking the ini-file for Opera yet, but that might be one possibility...
Opera does it with even more elegance - at the side of the URL field there is a field that will search on anything put into it through Google. You can also use the URL field by typing 'g searchterm' there. They also have 'a' for altavista and lots of other search shortcuts (Though I only use Google regularly. Strange that.)
It was also the OS used in Nokia 9000/9110 Communicator. (The 9210, though, runs Symbian)
Sweet!
Amazing what that old machine still can do.
Go here for some good examples and here is the emulator if you don't have your C64 anymore.
There's even simple Wolf3D clones, a remake of the old PC demo Second Reality, and even a multitasking OS called Lunix!
The C64 is dead. Long live the C64.
This is a really interesting technology, but I don't think it will be useful for us commoners quite yet. And I don't think I would have one either - for once, I believe the speed of this thing will be much lower than normal wires for some time yet, and it will be very expensive.
But the possibilities are countless - Imagine how much easier it would be to control a space probe on Mars with zero latency!
If this thing really works over such great distances this could be one major step ahead for space colonization and long-distance communication.
(About encryption - it might seem like a swell idea, but remember that the particles have to interact some time before separating them, and then it would be just as practical giving your trusted party a symmetric cipher key instead of a molecule.)
Personally, I'm anticipating the release of The Last Ninja 4. oooh...
Our network switch says it has been up for 49566 days.
You can say a lot of bad things about old hardware, but then, back in 1865, they knew how to make strong and reliable equipment.
At first glance, the graph titled 'Redmond Blues' looks like it's showing a decline in Microsoft's earnings. However, the real numbers are quite the opposite - the graph shows how many percent increase the earnings have had since last year, and it is of cours natural for the curve to fall (since an $2.5 billion increase from $25b is only 10%, while an $2.5 billion increase from $6 is almost 60%).
But somehow they have warped the statistics (intentionally?) to make the curves more grim.
To their defense, it is stated clearly in the text of the article, but the subtle difference between text and graphics might be hard to spot.(Especially since it's easier to think up a conclusion from a curve than a paragraph of text)
Now, whenever you yell you YIEEEE! in a shower because the water is too hot or cold, it will immediatly switch to a more pleasant temperature!
Not only will they give us a new form of storage, but they can also be used as a treatment for AIDS.
Interesting how versatile a simple molecule can be..