Copyrights are actually the one form of property that you can reasonably claim: "Nobody would ever have this if I didn't create it." It's a very pure creation that doesn't depend on any prior property of any kind.
No-one lives in a vacuum - writers, directors and musicians are influenced by existing works and may draw on the public domain as much as they want (Disney provides prime examples of the latter). No creative work is entirely original.
The i386 architecture allows reading of some control registers (such as the GDT) at all privilege levels. Unless the VM can ensure that the real value always matches the virtual value set by the guest OS then code running at virtual ring 0 inside the VM can detect the difference. See this document about virtualisation.
It's not going to let just any process take control over any other process (not by design, anyway). There is an API that debuggers have to use to attach to another process and that is what enables the debugged process to use this function. Having said that, the debugger could patch the call within the target process.
One important step would be to require all code coming in from the Internet be signed. Now, you would have to know who published the code before we would install it.
That's what IE does. It doesn't solve anything because a signature doesn't tell you whether the publisher is trustworthy or competent to write unexploitable code. Besides which most CAs have very weak identity verification procedures.
If you run explorer.exe it just sends a message to the existing explorer.exe process to open another window for you, then exits (despite the fact that that other process belongs to the other user). However if you run iexplore.exe you always get a new process, and since the two Explorers are integrated you can then browse the file-system as administrator in that process.
The real problem is that monitor makers should have been required to build in the cost of disposal.... It's a pisser that we, as buyers of monitors, are now paying the costs of disposal.
How do you think the monitor makers are supposed to pay for disposal if you the customer don't pay them for it? I do agree that disposal and other environmental costs should be included in the initial price though - if we can do that then market forces should work to reduce environmental damage.
The profit comes from the extra sales to people that could have used second-hand computers if they hadn't been given to Office Depot to destroy.
"Recycled" electronics often end up being shipped to places like China where poorly paid and unprotected workers manually strip the few valuable materials out of them and dump the rest in the river, slowly poisoning the entire area. But hey, it's good for the economy!
Pterry is fairly well known as a fan of TMBG. He also used their lyrics as input for a dissociated-press type text generator, resulting in the phrase "millenium hand and shrimp" which is used by insane characters in a couple of his books.
CSV can't represent any structure beyond a table and has no means for providing metadata such as the types of values. XML can represent many different structures (this can be both a strength and a weakness) which can be constrained and described by a DTD or schema. This means there's much more potential for processing data with generic tools if it's in a (sensible) XML format.
He did document it rather more - see his full report. Some of the details have been elided but it appears that the US ISP is Lycos and the UK ISP is Freeserve/Wanadoo (the URL given for T&Cs is http://www.XXXXX.com/sitebuilder/tandc.htm which matches http://www.freeserve.com/sitebuilder/tandc.htm).
I'd love to see the numbers that show e-voting is cheaper. The voting machines seem quite expensive to me even before accounting for the cost of fixing them to be reliable. As for the larger number of voters in the US, that's irrelevant - the US also has a larger tax base and a larger pool from which to draw election workers. What's more relevant is that the US has elections for many more different offices than most countries.
What difference does certification make, anyway? The certification is based on cursory tests by private organisations funded by the very companies who submit their equipment for testing!
Sure, but most people already carry a mobile phone and few of them will be happy to carry a second device. Besides which, phones can seem much cheaper than PDAs due to an up-front subsidy and recouping of costs through inflated monthly charges. The market for PDAs has always been small by comparison to the market for phones, and I suspect it's only going to shrink now that the core PDA functions are common in phones.
Agreed. I got a couple of Palm IIIx's for myself and my wife on eBay for about 30 (~$50) each after our old PDAs started to break down. They run for about a month on NiMH batteries and their 4 MB RAM is enough for a few books.
So I have to relay my own (outgoing) email through my ISP's mail server for email to be sent. However, SPF presumably is going to result in my ISP blocking that email unless I can persuade my ISP (for whom I'm just one customer amongst millions) to specifically allow email through from me that's from my domain.
SPF isn't for "smart-hosts" like your ISP's outgoing mail server to check; it's for recipients to check. Besides, if you don't publish an SPF list for your domain then mail purporting to be from your domain will be accepted from any address, as it is now.
"Chance" and probability only apply to random members of classes of situation, not to specific situations. It is possible to come up with a confidence level for a specific outcome in a specific situation but that depends upon choosing a class of situations that it belongs to for which the probability is known. The value is highly dependent on this subjective choice of class. So that value of 10% is either a crude attempt to quantify a feeling of "not very likely" or represents the percentage of suits in some particular (unspecified) class that are successful. I suspect it's the former.
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Sending XHTML as text/html Considered Harmful
Besides which, XHTML 1.1 and 2.0 aren't even vaguely backward-compatible.
No-one lives in a vacuum - writers, directors and musicians are influenced by existing works and may draw on the public domain as much as they want (Disney provides prime examples of the latter). No creative work is entirely original.
The i386 architecture allows reading of some control registers (such as the GDT) at all privilege levels. Unless the VM can ensure that the real value always matches the virtual value set by the guest OS then code running at virtual ring 0 inside the VM can detect the difference. See this document about virtualisation.
It's not going to let just any process take control over any other process (not by design, anyway). There is an API that debuggers have to use to attach to another process and that is what enables the debugged process to use this function. Having said that, the debugger could patch the call within the target process.
That's what IE does. It doesn't solve anything because a signature doesn't tell you whether the publisher is trustworthy or competent to write unexploitable code. Besides which most CAs have very weak identity verification procedures.
If you run explorer.exe it just sends a message to the existing explorer.exe process to open another window for you, then exits (despite the fact that that other process belongs to the other user). However if you run iexplore.exe you always get a new process, and since the two Explorers are integrated you can then browse the file-system as administrator in that process.
How do you think the monitor makers are supposed to pay for disposal if you the customer don't pay them for it? I do agree that disposal and other environmental costs should be included in the initial price though - if we can do that then market forces should work to reduce environmental damage.
The profit comes from the extra sales to people that could have used second-hand computers if they hadn't been given to Office Depot to destroy.
"Recycled" electronics often end up being shipped to places like China where poorly paid and unprotected workers manually strip the few valuable materials out of them and dump the rest in the river, slowly poisoning the entire area. But hey, it's good for the economy!
Only if your income is vastly higher than the lower end of that tax bracket.
Try Totem. It's a GNOME front-end for Xine.
s/most/most important/
The most advantage of Totem over most other media players is that it has a standard Gtk 2 interface instead of skins.
Anagram: Alec Guinness = genuine class. (With thanks to The Simpsons.)
Pterry is fairly well known as a fan of TMBG. He also used their lyrics as input for a dissociated-press type text generator, resulting in the phrase "millenium hand and shrimp" which is used by insane characters in a couple of his books.
CSV can't represent any structure beyond a table and has no means for providing metadata such as the types of values. XML can represent many different structures (this can be both a strength and a weakness) which can be constrained and described by a DTD or schema. This means there's much more potential for processing data with generic tools if it's in a (sensible) XML format.
Most of the LaserJet 4 line of printers runs on i960s.
He did document it rather more - see his full report. Some of the details have been elided but it appears that the US ISP is Lycos and the UK ISP is Freeserve/Wanadoo (the URL given for T&Cs is http://www.XXXXX.com/sitebuilder/tandc.htm which matches http://www.freeserve.com/sitebuilder/tandc.htm).
I'd love to see the numbers that show e-voting is cheaper. The voting machines seem quite expensive to me even before accounting for the cost of fixing them to be reliable. As for the larger number of voters in the US, that's irrelevant - the US also has a larger tax base and a larger pool from which to draw election workers. What's more relevant is that the US has elections for many more different offices than most countries.
What difference does certification make, anyway? The certification is based on cursory tests by private organisations funded by the very companies who submit their equipment for testing!
The film's already been done: Enigma. Turing remained British but got a girlfriend.
Sure, but most people already carry a mobile phone and few of them will be happy to carry a second device. Besides which, phones can seem much cheaper than PDAs due to an up-front subsidy and recouping of costs through inflated monthly charges. The market for PDAs has always been small by comparison to the market for phones, and I suspect it's only going to shrink now that the core PDA functions are common in phones.
Agreed. I got a couple of Palm IIIx's for myself and my wife on eBay for about 30 (~$50) each after our old PDAs started to break down. They run for about a month on NiMH batteries and their 4 MB RAM is enough for a few books.
SPF isn't for "smart-hosts" like your ISP's outgoing mail server to check; it's for recipients to check. Besides, if you don't publish an SPF list for your domain then mail purporting to be from your domain will be accepted from any address, as it is now.
Thanks for the explanation.
Yes, and I seem to remember that flour in the air can be a real danger in bakeries. Maybe flour shakers should be on the list of banned items?
"Chance" and probability only apply to random members of classes of situation, not to specific situations. It is possible to come up with a confidence level for a specific outcome in a specific situation but that depends upon choosing a class of situations that it belongs to for which the probability is known. The value is highly dependent on this subjective choice of class. So that value of 10% is either a crude attempt to quantify a feeling of "not very likely" or represents the percentage of suits in some particular (unspecified) class that are successful. I suspect it's the former.