The correct unit is GB. Save the GiB unit for the base ten approximations.
Actually, you have it backwards. The MB, GB and so on are normal SI prefixes, and are units in base 10. The KiB, MiB, GiB etc, however, are in base 2. See for yourself.
It might be because it's CNN, and therefore about the history of the C64 in the US, but the article fails to mention the demoscene, which for the most part came from the European C64 user groups, and from there spread to other platforms. A lot didn't leave, though, and are stillcreating impressive productions.
This is one of the brilliant things about PalmOS: you can write a program that will run on it _without using any memory at runtime_. Because it can run programs straight off flash, without having to load them into RAM.
It will still use RAM. What about stack and heap memory? Maybe it's not loading the program into RAM, just allocating work memory?
That doesn't change his point. His point was that the only content concerning the video was the video itself.
I thought the article was mainly about the quote, not the video, and since the quote became a moderately large internet meme, I feel it is reasonable to include it.
Its....a YouTube video?!? Wow. And that needs a Wikipedia article? Because why?
So, every YouTube video should have a Wikipedia page? Or just all the ones with 1 million views? What about 900 thousand views? What about 9 thousand? Who gets to draw this line? Or is it just videos that you personally really really like?
What possible useful information could this page have anyway, other than a link to the video? Is this anything that Google couldn't provide, and much quicker and more accurately?
Soon, every single page on the web [will need an article about it on Wikipedia. And that includes those article pages, so I think you can see where this is going...
The video was so popular that the third X-Men movie put the line in as a homage. That makes it quite a bit more notable than if it was "just" a Youtube video.
The command and control system is rather clever. Some machines of the botnet itself are the C&C servers. They are rotated at random. One server remains a C&C node for only days or hours at a time. I have no idea how the botnet owner figures out how to connect...
It works like this:
- bot starts up and connects to the Storm P2P network - bot checks if other bots can connect to it through a randomly choosen TCP port - if they can't connect, the bot falls back to being a spam relay - but IF it's connectable, it becomes a C&C node, and also a web host for the malware
- it first starts publishing itself in the P2P network with a certain hash type - this hash type acts as a beacon for the second stage C&C servers, which connect to the bot and send over a list of RSA-encrypted hostnames - after this, the bot changes to publishing another hash type into the P2P network, marking it as an accessible C&C node
Also worth noting is that the C&C bots doesn't seem to do any "real" C&C stuff - they just act as a relay between the other nodes and the second stage C&C servers.
The second stage servers are mostly on the same subnet, so it's possible that they're under the direct control of the botnet owners. I haven't studied the IPs much, but my guess is that they're in Russia or some other place where they're hard to take down.
A few days old now, but these IPs are some of the ones that have been taken over to host the malware. Add http:/// to the front, and download the executables from there.
!!! WARNING - THESE SITES CONTAINS JAVASCRIPT EXPLOITS AND POSSIBLY OTHER EXPLOITS - APPROACH WITH CAUTION !!!
Doesn't matter that it's 40-byte. It's using simple XOR encryption, and the key is stored in plaintext inside the unpacked executable.
(If anybody cares, the current key, atleast for the botnet partition I've seen, is F3 AA 58 0E 78 DE 9B 37 15 74 2C 8F B3 41 C5 50 33 7A 63 3D E6 13 DF 6C 46 CA BE 9A 77 48 94 02 C0 F3 66 49 EE 87 21 BB.)
The guy that suggested the $2000 hard drive recovery can't really be called the worst offender unless he would have gotten some kickback or compensation for refering customers. Of course, he sucked as a tech, but saying "Your hard drive is broken - if there's anything important on it, the recovery might cost $2000" is hardly offensive or underhanded.
Even though there are 3 million accounts om Steam, that does not mean there have been 3 million software sales online, because even when you buy a Valve game in a retail store, you still have to create a Steam account to be able to play. Not to mention that you can create a Steam account without any games, so there are probably a lot of empty accounts there too.
Plenty of Sony 'compact discs bought at retail' are guaranteed to give you a root-kit. And that technology was in use two years ago - I can only imagine what they are putting on retail CDs now.
It's even worse now. They've started putting Britney Spears on them again.
Yay, DRM in every piece of hardware to the rescue!
Sounds actually like the exact opposite. DRM tries to hide away things, while this would give devices the ability to see everything that goes on inside the system RAM.
Is it possible to read deleted articles on Wikipedia in any way? I know articles are deleted for a reason, but it seems like a Bad Thing that once an article is judged unworthy, all its history and edits disappear into a black hole.
I know that right now I can use caches or Wikipedia mirrors to access the article, but imagine if somebody ten years into the future want to read the offending article. (It had to have some interesting stuff, since it had been picked out as a Good Article earlier.)
How reliable will the results from the GPU client be? I've got a video card that's on the verge of overheating, so it often exhibits stuff like a few flashing polygons when playing games. It doesn't crash, though.
Will things like this affect the outcome of the calculations, and give bad results? While an overheated CPU usually crashes and burns long before it can submit bad data, I am worried that overheating GPUs might give bad data which aren't obviously bad.
Who the hell seriously uses Numlock for autorun? One of the first things I do on a new install is to map 'Q' to autorun. Much more accessible. (Also, I set 'B' to open all bags by default. Love it.)
Are normal recordable CDs and DVDs truly write-once? Sure, you can't write anything sensible where you've already written data, but is it theoretically possible for a malicious program to turn that backup CD of yours into a disc of nothing but 1s?
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The correct unit is GB. Save the GiB unit for the base ten approximations.
Actually, you have it backwards. The MB, GB and so on are normal SI prefixes, and are units in base 10. The KiB, MiB, GiB etc, however, are in base 2. See for yourself.
It might be because it's CNN, and therefore about the history of the C64 in the US, but the article fails to mention the demoscene, which for the most part came from the European C64 user groups, and from there spread to other platforms. A lot didn't leave, though, and are still creating impressive productions.
This is one of the brilliant things about PalmOS: you can write a program that will run on it _without using any memory at runtime_. Because it can run programs straight off flash, without having to load them into RAM.
It will still use RAM. What about stack and heap memory? Maybe it's not loading the program into RAM, just allocating work memory?
I can't wait to play God of War 2
Why wait?
That doesn't change his point. His point was that the only content concerning the video was the video itself.
I thought the article was mainly about the quote, not the video, and since the quote became a moderately large internet meme, I feel it is reasonable to include it.
Its....a YouTube video?!? Wow. And that needs a Wikipedia article? Because why?
So, every YouTube video should have a Wikipedia page? Or just all the ones with 1 million views? What about 900 thousand views? What about 9 thousand? Who gets to draw this line? Or is it just videos that you personally really really like?
What possible useful information could this page have anyway, other than a link to the video? Is this anything that Google couldn't provide, and much quicker and more accurately?
Soon, every single page on the web [will need an article about it on Wikipedia. And that includes those article pages, so I think you can see where this is going...
The video was so popular that the third X-Men movie put the line in as a homage. That makes it quite a bit more notable than if it was "just" a Youtube video.
The command and control system is rather clever. Some machines of the botnet itself are the C&C servers. They are rotated at random. One server remains a C&C node for only days or hours at a time. I have no idea how the botnet owner figures out how to connect...
It works like this:
- bot starts up and connects to the Storm P2P network
- bot checks if other bots can connect to it through a randomly choosen TCP port
- if they can't connect, the bot falls back to being a spam relay
- but IF it's connectable, it becomes a C&C node, and also a web host for the malware
- it first starts publishing itself in the P2P network with a certain hash type
- this hash type acts as a beacon for the second stage C&C servers, which connect to the bot and send over a list of RSA-encrypted hostnames
- after this, the bot changes to publishing another hash type into the P2P network, marking it as an accessible C&C node
Also worth noting is that the C&C bots doesn't seem to do any "real" C&C stuff - they just act as a relay between the other nodes and the second stage C&C servers.
The second stage servers are mostly on the same subnet, so it's possible that they're under the direct control of the botnet owners. I haven't studied the IPs much, but my guess is that they're in Russia or some other place where they're hard to take down.
A few days old now, but these IPs are some of the ones that have been taken over to host the malware. Add http:/// to the front, and download the executables from there.
!!! WARNING - THESE SITES CONTAINS JAVASCRIPT EXPLOITS AND POSSIBLY OTHER EXPLOITS - APPROACH WITH CAUTION !!!
70.241.136.75
24.31.16.133
68.58.22.93
69.153.22.0
24.30.230.51
75.23.213.0
76.22.95.226
76.87.15.223
213.85.39.178
68.126.134.102
68.81.124.62
200.127.28.133
68.158.67.73
68.42.159.205
66.30.37.175
12.202.175.97
200.106.170.69
86.127.5.24
195.3.220.153
24.0.96.97
Doesn't matter that it's 40-byte. It's using simple XOR encryption, and the key is stored in plaintext inside the unpacked executable.
(If anybody cares, the current key, atleast for the botnet partition I've seen, is F3 AA 58 0E 78 DE 9B 37 15 74 2C 8F B3 41 C5 50 33 7A 63 3D E6 13 DF 6C 46 CA BE 9A 77 48 94 02 C0 F3 66 49 EE 87 21 BB.)
Why try to attack the 40-byte key directly? Just find an infected PC, get a copy of the worm, reverse it, voila, there's your 40-bit key inside.
The guy that suggested the $2000 hard drive recovery can't really be called the worst offender unless he would have gotten some kickback or compensation for refering customers. Of course, he sucked as a tech, but saying "Your hard drive is broken - if there's anything important on it, the recovery might cost $2000" is hardly offensive or underhanded.
Even though there are 3 million accounts om Steam, that does not mean there have been 3 million software sales online, because even when you buy a Valve game in a retail store, you still have to create a Steam account to be able to play. Not to mention that you can create a Steam account without any games, so there are probably a lot of empty accounts there too.
Plenty of Sony 'compact discs bought at retail' are guaranteed to give you a root-kit.
And that technology was in use two years ago - I can only imagine what they are putting on retail CDs now.
It's even worse now. They've started putting Britney Spears on them again.
...in fact the Declaration of Independance and the US Constitution are printed on paper made from hemp...
n ce/charters/treasure/declaration_facts.html - second question)
This is not correct. Those documents were written on parchment. Stop spreading this myth.
(References:
http://www.usconstitution.net/constfaq_a8.html - Question 145
http://www.archives.gov/national-archives-experie
Yay, DRM in every piece of hardware to the rescue!
Sounds actually like the exact opposite. DRM tries to hide away things, while this would give devices the ability to see everything that goes on inside the system RAM.
Is it possible to read deleted articles on Wikipedia in any way? I know articles are deleted for a reason, but it seems like a Bad Thing that once an article is judged unworthy, all its history and edits disappear into a black hole.
I know that right now I can use caches or Wikipedia mirrors to access the article, but imagine if somebody ten years into the future want to read the offending article. (It had to have some interesting stuff, since it had been picked out as a Good Article earlier.)
How reliable will the results from the GPU client be? I've got a video card that's on the verge of overheating, so it often exhibits stuff like a few flashing polygons when playing games. It doesn't crash, though.
Will things like this affect the outcome of the calculations, and give bad results? While an overheated CPU usually crashes and burns long before it can submit bad data, I am worried that overheating GPUs might give bad data which aren't obviously bad.
Who the hell seriously uses Numlock for autorun? One of the first things I do on a new install is to map 'Q' to autorun. Much more accessible. (Also, I set 'B' to open all bags by default. Love it.)
Replacing the DVD drive firmware, which involves opening the X360 and plugging the DVD drive into a PC, doesn't sound like a hardware mod?
I remember hackers speaking of how easy hacking the Xbox 360 will be, that it will only take hours once it is released.
No true hacker ever claimed that. Plenty of clueless idiots did, though.
Are normal recordable CDs and DVDs truly write-once? Sure, you can't write anything sensible where you've already written data, but is it theoretically possible for a malicious program to turn that backup CD of yours into a disc of nothing but 1s?
That was just another fact AFP got wrong. The site was designed in Bulgaria, but hosted in the US.
If your bounding box is growing, there's something wrong with the design of your code, not the rounding algorithm used.
Until you get all of the millions of file formats to support some kind of standard for magic bytes, your idea is dead in the water.
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