Oh, I understand the difference. The shareware is out there, that's my point.
I also had another thought about this... What if you developed your application with another developer? Sure, your rights may be usurped by a contract, etc, but your codeveloper isn't subject to such bogosity. Just make your spouse/SO your codeveloper. S/he hasn't encumbered his/her rights at all. Now that would be an interesting legal case if you wanted to fight it...
In that case, it's time to become a very crappy developer... Just because you are forced to write code doesn;t mean it has to be GOOD code or even function in the way you originally intended. Here's a start:
You mean, Apple has pulled back software after it has been released to the Internet? That's rich! Did that work for the DeCSS code? Or the Adobe eBook decrypter?
The one foolproof way of ensuring a particular bit of information is forever available on the net is to declare it illegal...
Expect the source code to show up any minute now...
The PET was lame as well. I used to love messing with the CompSci teacher (who was also the girl's volleyball coach...). She'd give us an assignment to solve a particular problem (using what we just learned from the book she was only a chapter ahead of us in.. Anyway, my program would be a loop POKEing data from data statements, then a JMP. She tried to bust my chops for using assembly (really machine language) when we were learning BASIC. So I did the same thing again. She tried to bust my chops again. I said (after she ran the program) "Did you LIST the program?" She did. And there it was, my BASIC program that had been POKEed into memory by the first program! (She quickly decided to give me an A and leave me alone in the computer lab. Worked out for everybody!)
Nobody that picked on me had the brains to put up a website! In fact, I didn't gain the respect of the jocks until CompSci class when they would ask me to help with their work. Of course, it was all on Commodore PETS (gawd, I feel old...).
Sponsoring the project is not the same as assuming the risk. If it weren't for that little issue, this would have been done already (MS not withstanding). MS as muddied the waters for the already-risk averse...
Nope, the attacks on WorldPay were network-level, not application level. This is the same old Trin00-type crap Yahoo got hit with. Now if the attack were on the app level, just imagine how fscked up the backside systems would be as well!
Centurion Technologies makes a product that removes all changes to a filesystem between boots. A friend of mine that works in a university lab environment uses it (as well as Ghost) and swears by it.
dcfldd is a dd clone/replacement commonly used in forensics work. It let's you generate a hash to ensure what was read is what was written. It's available here.
You can use PCMCIA with DOS driver support, if you can still get it for your card. Most 3Com drivers don't need the whole set, just the PCMCIA "enabler". I keep an old 3c589 PCMCIA card in my bag (with the appropriate boot diskette, actually a bootable CD) just for those occasions where I know I'll have PCMCIA but have no clue what nic is in place.
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I think the MFM drive killer just seeked it to death. (Not hard to do with those old Seagate MFM drives...) Other than flashable-BIOS (which should be flashable, so it's not a defect in design... maybe a "BIOS flash enable/disable" jumper is needed?) that CGA card was the only case I could come up with (re: killer software).
Of course, with kiddie trojans dialing 911 on the modem, I could see circumstances in which software might kill the user, but that's a little far-fetched...;)
Paradise was great for the cheap geeks. I couldn't live until I got a Targa Truvision. That puppy did video overlay (poorly, but it was the only game in town). Then I saw a buddy's Amiga and wondered why I just didn't get one of those instead. I think I still have that Targa in a box somewhere. "Damn thing cost me $2000. I don't care if it is obsolete, I just can't throw it away!"...
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What? No mention of the IBM CGA card that you could destroy by putting it into video modes it didn't support? One of the few circustances in which PC hardware could be broken by software. That in itself should be worth mentioning!
The device is defective. Make product support give you one that works. While you're at it, send hate mail to the marketing team. I bet the support guy will give you the right email addresses...
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Oh, I understand the difference. The shareware is out there, that's my point.
I also had another thought about this... What if you developed your application with another developer? Sure, your rights may be usurped by a contract, etc, but your codeveloper isn't subject to such bogosity. Just make your spouse/SO your codeveloper. S/he hasn't encumbered his/her rights at all. Now that would be an interesting legal case if you wanted to fight it...
In that case, it's time to become a very crappy developer... Just because you are forced to write code doesn;t mean it has to be GOOD code or even function in the way you originally intended. Here's a start:
10 PRINT "Hello World!"
20 GOTO 10
You mean, Apple has pulled back software after it has been released to the Internet? That's rich! Did that work for the DeCSS code? Or the Adobe eBook decrypter?
The one foolproof way of ensuring a particular bit of information is forever available on the net is to declare it illegal...
Expect the source code to show up any minute now...
What do you mean supersonic commercial flights never managed to materialize into anthing substantial! What about the Concorde? HUh?
Never mind...
The PET was lame as well. I used to love messing with the CompSci teacher (who was also the girl's volleyball coach...). She'd give us an assignment to solve a particular problem (using what we just learned from the book she was only a chapter ahead of us in.. Anyway, my program would be a loop POKEing data from data statements, then a JMP. She tried to bust my chops for using assembly (really machine language) when we were learning BASIC. So I did the same thing again. She tried to bust my chops again. I said (after she ran the program) "Did you LIST the program?" She did. And there it was, my BASIC program that had been POKEed into memory by the first program! (She quickly decided to give me an A and leave me alone in the computer lab. Worked out for everybody!)
Nobody that picked on me had the brains to put up a website! In fact, I didn't gain the respect of the jocks until CompSci class when they would ask me to help with their work. Of course, it was all on Commodore PETS (gawd, I feel old...).
The Good News: Ubiquitous open source computing is inevitable. The faster we get the momentum, the sooner we reap the benefits.
:(
The Bad News: IBM couldn't sell the cure for *death.
*They tried. (Check their patents...)
It's called Knoppix...
Sponsoring the project is not the same as assuming the risk. If it weren't for that little issue, this would have been done already (MS not withstanding). MS as muddied the waters for the already-risk averse...
No initiative is going to work unless someone gets a major credit card company on-board to assume the risk, pure and simple.
Nope, the attacks on WorldPay were network-level, not application level. This is the same old Trin00-type crap Yahoo got hit with. Now if the attack were on the app level, just imagine how fscked up the backside systems would be as well!
Centurion Technologies makes a product that removes all changes to a filesystem between boots. A friend of mine that works in a university lab environment uses it (as well as Ghost) and swears by it.
dcfldd is a dd clone/replacement commonly used in forensics work. It let's you generate a hash to ensure what was read is what was written. It's available here.
You can use PCMCIA with DOS driver support, if you can still get it for your card. Most 3Com drivers don't need the whole set, just the PCMCIA "enabler". I keep an old 3c589 PCMCIA card in my bag (with the appropriate boot diskette, actually a bootable CD) just for those occasions where I know I'll have PCMCIA but have no clue what nic is in place.
>Yes.
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> NANPA
Thank you! (What do you know... an informative AC post.
Is there a POTS equivilent for IANA?
I think the MFM drive killer just seeked it to death. (Not hard to do with those old Seagate MFM drives...) Other than flashable-BIOS (which should be flashable, so it's not a defect in design... maybe a "BIOS flash enable/disable" jumper is needed?) that CGA card was the only case I could come up with (re: killer software).
;)
Of course, with kiddie trojans dialing 911 on the modem, I could see circumstances in which software might kill the user, but that's a little far-fetched...
Paradise was great for the cheap geeks. I couldn't live until I got a Targa Truvision. That puppy did video overlay (poorly, but it was the only game in town). Then I saw a buddy's Amiga and wondered why I just didn't get one of those instead. I think I still have that Targa in a box somewhere. "Damn thing cost me $2000. I don't care if it is obsolete, I just can't throw it away!"...
What? No mention of the IBM CGA card that you could destroy by putting it into video modes it didn't support? One of the few circustances in which PC hardware could be broken by software. That in itself should be worth mentioning!
Uh, "spam" is not a feature I should have to turn off... Can you point to the RFC for this "feature"? No? Then it's defective...
The device is defective. Make product support give you one that works. While you're at it, send hate mail to the marketing team. I bet the support guy will give you the right email addresses...
Better yet, get the addresses and post them here.
If you want to learn about cross-site scripting attacks, just click here!
And for a not-so-small-fee, I'd be happy to tell you whatever you want to hear so you can be quoted in national media with authority!
Yes, of course people are deleting all their music files out of fear of prosecution!
That'll be $10 million, please. Thanks.
I've long held the opinion that virtual actors are the future of Hollywood. Why pay for a high-priced actor when we can whip them up online?
And the stunts will get crazier and crazier, for sure! (And I didn't even mention pr0n...)
Not to say WSJ isn't mainstream...
CNN's article...