I was just trying to make people understand his arguments before they dismiss him as a loon. The media portray him as a drooling madman when in fact his ideas are clearly thought out and logical, they're just based on things most of us disagree with (kids are damaged by violent games, the community has a responsibility to raise other people's kids, etc). Without understand his belief structure you can't understand his arguments. The thread you linked to is a perfect example. People say Thompson is crazy because he claims The Sims is pornography. No, he doesn't, he says EA is immoral because they're making money off pornographic mods to The Sims. You may still not agree with him but arguing about the first claim instead of the second is not very productive.
Heh, not like you need to do much overriding, the windows apis used by netstat are so pathetic they report connections open that are closed, or never even existed. TcpSafe uses WinPCap to capture live traffic and present it in a user friendly format. Although it is possible for a rootkit to directly attack this technique, they don't as they are intended to defeat userland programs, not installable network drivers.
As always, The OSx86 Project does not condone piracy. Downloading these files is a crime. We have not and will not be a party to illegal activities. This information, like all our news, is to keep you up-to-date on the latest news. Please don't steal.
What a bunch of idiots. No-where on earth is it illegal to download a file. Thing is, they could make it illegal tomorrow and no-one would complain because you're all happy being criminals.
That nuclear waste materials are moved by ship to be stored in huge underground facilities where they are covered in a water bath until they have stablized enough to be processed for reuse in medical equipment, radiothermic generators, smoke detectors, etc. As for what should be done, well we should continue fission power station research so breeder reactors become so efficient they produce little to no nuclear waste materials.
Yeah, it actually updates the status of connections in realtime. Kinda like nettop, except it keeps closed connections in the list. You can also see incoming connection attempts, even if they fail.
Grab a copy of my software and monitor your network usage. If you happen to find blatantly obvious spyware running on your machine, try some of the automatic spyware removal tools available. If you're still infected, the best course of action is a reinstall.
The CreateProcess function creates a new process and its primary thread. The new process runs the specified executable file in the security context of the calling process.
If the calling process is impersonating another user, the new process uses the token for the calling process, not the impersonation token. To run the new process in the security context of the user represented by the impersonation token, use the CreateProcessAsUser or CreateProcessWithLogonW function.
i.e., the problem is (one again) that Microsoft is braindead. You click RunAs on a program and select the Guest user. The program runs as the Guest user. If that program then spawns a new process using CreateProcess does it run as Guest? No, it runs as YOU.
Blah, even if they went to the 2% extra effort to hang the characters on wires and airbrush the wires out in post-production, what benefit would you get? Sure, they could add a rotating section to Serenity, but how ugly would that look?
downloading and executing the file, which is fairly basic, common behavior across most of computerdom.
Which is why operating systems should be associating privileges with programs, not users. The age old assumption that the user trusts the software, especially on unix-like platforms, is outmoded. People download and run shit they don't trust. It's a fact of life. The security model should be based around that behaviour.
Clicking on an untrusted executable should run it in a sandbox. The sandbox should provide the program with a virtual filesystem that is isolated from the real filesystem. It should provide the program with a virtual network which the user can review and whitelist/blacklist ports and connections with. Breaking out of the sandbox should be as difficult as possible. Settings for a sandbox should be saved with that program for later invocations.
So what's the speculation in Buffy/Angel? I mean other than the kind of "speculation" you get from a session of pot-smoking?
Dude 1: What if, like, demons, right, were real.. and they like, lived among us? Dude 2: Man, you're spinnin' me out! Dude 1: And what if like, a vampire, had a soul right, and he did good deeds and stuff? Dude 2: Yeah man, he could be a private detective in LA.
Don't get me wrong, it's a cool show and there's a certain modern approach taken to the rules that it is built upon, but to call it Science Fiction or even Speculative Fiction is just silly. Call it what it is: Fantasy.
When we find exotic matter than has repulsive instead of a attractant gravity, then warp drive will be feasible. Until then, it's magic. As are worm holes. As are jump gates. It's cool, don't get me wrong, but any Sci-Fi that doesn't rely on it is stronger in my book.
Probably the worst thing about Star Trek is that it makes space cadets go "ho hum" when people talk about colonising our solar system. They consider any society that is "pre-warp" as insignificant. They talk about finding an "M-class" planet, instead of making one. In fact, the general consensis of the Star Trek universe is that teraforming is a waste of time or even dangerous.
Excuse me? If we had workable fusion technology we could travel between the planets of our solar system in days.. and that's without suffering anymore than a standard gravity of acceleration. It's all about energy consumption. The highest density fuels we have are made from dead dinosaurs or produce so much harmful radiation that you need to encase them with lots of heavy shielding.
As for the breathable atmosphere, they teraformed lifeless planets/moons so they could colonize their new solar system. Technology to do that is at our fingertips right now: it's called life. We're just so pathetic at manipulating it that we can't see the potential.
If there's anything unbelievable in the science of FireFly it is artificial gravity. Both on the ships and on the planets/moons. Our science can't explain that, but it's unfortunately necessary so us idlers can relate to the characters.
There's no if. Firefly is set in a solar system which contains no less than 12 planets, each with no less than 2 moons, the gas giants with at least 10 moons. Few of these planets/moons were inhabitable when humans came to the system (perhaps just one) but they brought teraforming equipment with them which gives every planet/moon an atmosphere and gravity as near to Earth-that-was as possible. How'd they get there in the first place? With a multi-generation space ark. All consistent with the current laws of physics.. which the possible exception of artificial gravity, which is a necessary conceit to make a space drama recognisable. There's plenty of references in FireFly to an aversion to transhumanism, suggesting that Earth went through the Singularity and FireFly is the story of the survivors. Yeah, you heard me, survivors, the few people who managed to get away from the hell of utopia. You may think having a superintellegent mind controlling your destiny is fun, but I'll take the unknown of the frontier.
FireFly is more Sci-Fi than StarTrek as Joss Whedon decided he didn't need to throw out Einstein (there's no faster than light travel) and he didn't need to speculate about aliens (as if it is possible to ever realistically present alien life).
So when you see Captain Kirk go down to random-planet-X-that-always-looks-like-a-californi a-backlot think about how far we've progressed in Sci-Fi by taking the fantasy out of the show, not putting more in.
They're clearly smarter than you and recognise that the US political system has been thoroughly gamed such that it is impossible for any radical change to ever happen. You have a choice, Bob the Republician or Bob the Democrat, both of who believe the same things, but for slightly different reasons, except for the few insignificant details that should never decide the outcome of an election but innevitably do because it is impossible to change the system without first defeating it.
Compare this to some European countries where anyone can write up a proposal for a referendum, collect signatures, submit it and their government is required by the constitution to put it to a national vote.
This is reflected in just about every company that is started by engineers and happens to avoid getting taken over by businessmen. They think if they make a product and put it up on their website people will line up to give them money. When, in fact, it isn't the best product that wins, it's the product that is developed so it is "good enough" and then sold to the people who need it. Back in the dotcom boom I remember interviewing for jobs and getting asked the "do you have any questions for us?" closer. I'd always ask at least two questions:
What's the employee share plan like?
What percentage of your employees are in sales?
If the answer to the second was less than 50% the answer to the first question had better not include the concept of less pay for more stake, otherwise I was outta there.
See, what was really annoying is people who would open the door and say "I don't want to buy anything". I would generally say "ok, fine. I'll just go then" to which 90% of people would say "oh no, tell me what it is first" and I'd actually tell them and they'd say "hey, yeah, that actually is a good deal" and they'd buy. The key is to be polite and not be forceful. One thing that never felt good though was the rehash.. trying to get someone who has already agreed to by one to buy more. It annoys most everyone, but most people react by laughing, not by getting abusive. And, unfortunately, most people will buy a second item if you point out the benefits, so you have to try otherwise you've wasted an opportunity.
At least they're honest about selling you a product. They're not pretending they're your friend or that this is a personal cause. For the brief period of my life that I did door-to-door sales I never lied to get a sale. I didn't try to convince people that I was there to do anything less than sell them a product, service, or promotion, usually at a very competitive price. As such, I never had a door slammed on my face, or was treated disrespectfully. Thankfully I've never done telesales.. it's just way too impersonal and agressive.
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I was just trying to make people understand his arguments before they dismiss him as a loon. The media portray him as a drooling madman when in fact his ideas are clearly thought out and logical, they're just based on things most of us disagree with (kids are damaged by violent games, the community has a responsibility to raise other people's kids, etc). Without understand his belief structure you can't understand his arguments. The thread you linked to is a perfect example. People say Thompson is crazy because he claims The Sims is pornography. No, he doesn't, he says EA is immoral because they're making money off pornographic mods to The Sims. You may still not agree with him but arguing about the first claim instead of the second is not very productive.
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Heh, not like you need to do much overriding, the windows apis used by netstat are so pathetic they report connections open that are closed, or never even existed. TcpSafe uses WinPCap to capture live traffic and present it in a user friendly format. Although it is possible for a rootkit to directly attack this technique, they don't as they are intended to defeat userland programs, not installable network drivers.
As always, The OSx86 Project does not condone piracy. Downloading these files is a crime. We have not and will not be a party to illegal activities. This information, like all our news, is to keep you up-to-date on the latest news. Please don't steal.
What a bunch of idiots. No-where on earth is it illegal to download a file. Thing is, they could make it illegal tomorrow and no-one would complain because you're all happy being criminals.
it's much better than those MacB's.
That nuclear waste materials are moved by ship to be stored in huge underground facilities where they are covered in a water bath until they have stablized enough to be processed for reuse in medical equipment, radiothermic generators, smoke detectors, etc. As for what should be done, well we should continue fission power station research so breeder reactors become so efficient they produce little to no nuclear waste materials.
Yeah, it actually updates the status of connections in realtime. Kinda like nettop, except it keeps closed connections in the list. You can also see incoming connection attempts, even if they fail.
Actually it does. I just don't support it.
Grab a copy of my software and monitor your network usage. If you happen to find blatantly obvious spyware running on your machine, try some of the automatic spyware removal tools available. If you're still infected, the best course of action is a reinstall.
CreateProcess
The CreateProcess function creates a new process and its primary thread. The new process runs the specified executable file in the security context of the calling process.
If the calling process is impersonating another user, the new process uses the token for the calling process, not the impersonation token. To run the new process in the security context of the user represented by the impersonation token, use the CreateProcessAsUser or CreateProcessWithLogonW function.
i.e., the problem is (one again) that Microsoft is braindead. You click RunAs on a program and select the Guest user. The program runs as the Guest user. If that program then spawns a new process using CreateProcess does it run as Guest? No, it runs as YOU.
Yep, which is nicely solved by the magic, err, technology of artificial gravity.
The amount of energy used boggles out little minds, but that's just cause we're cavemen who like to play with metal.
Blah, even if they went to the 2% extra effort to hang the characters on wires and airbrush the wires out in post-production, what benefit would you get? Sure, they could add a rotating section to Serenity, but how ugly would that look?
downloading and executing the file, which is fairly basic, common behavior across most of computerdom.
Which is why operating systems should be associating privileges with programs, not users. The age old assumption that the user trusts the software, especially on unix-like platforms, is outmoded. People download and run shit they don't trust. It's a fact of life. The security model should be based around that behaviour.
Clicking on an untrusted executable should run it in a sandbox. The sandbox should provide the program with a virtual filesystem that is isolated from the real filesystem. It should provide the program with a virtual network which the user can review and whitelist/blacklist ports and connections with. Breaking out of the sandbox should be as difficult as possible. Settings for a sandbox should be saved with that program for later invocations.
Well it's not like Run As User.. actually fuckin' works. Why does Microsoft put this shit in their OS if it aint gunna work?
So what's the speculation in Buffy/Angel? I mean other than the kind of "speculation" you get from a session of pot-smoking?
Dude 1: What if, like, demons, right, were real.. and they like, lived among us?
Dude 2: Man, you're spinnin' me out!
Dude 1: And what if like, a vampire, had a soul right, and he did good deeds and stuff?
Dude 2: Yeah man, he could be a private detective in LA.
Don't get me wrong, it's a cool show and there's a certain modern approach taken to the rules that it is built upon, but to call it Science Fiction or even Speculative Fiction is just silly. Call it what it is: Fantasy.
When we find exotic matter than has repulsive instead of a attractant gravity, then warp drive will be feasible. Until then, it's magic. As are worm holes. As are jump gates. It's cool, don't get me wrong, but any Sci-Fi that doesn't rely on it is stronger in my book.
Probably the worst thing about Star Trek is that it makes space cadets go "ho hum" when people talk about colonising our solar system. They consider any society that is "pre-warp" as insignificant. They talk about finding an "M-class" planet, instead of making one. In fact, the general consensis of the Star Trek universe is that teraforming is a waste of time or even dangerous.
Excuse me? If we had workable fusion technology we could travel between the planets of our solar system in days.. and that's without suffering anymore than a standard gravity of acceleration. It's all about energy consumption. The highest density fuels we have are made from dead dinosaurs or produce so much harmful radiation that you need to encase them with lots of heavy shielding.
As for the breathable atmosphere, they teraformed lifeless planets/moons so they could colonize their new solar system. Technology to do that is at our fingertips right now: it's called life. We're just so pathetic at manipulating it that we can't see the potential.
If there's anything unbelievable in the science of FireFly it is artificial gravity. Both on the ships and on the planets/moons. Our science can't explain that, but it's unfortunately necessary so us idlers can relate to the characters.
There's no if. Firefly is set in a solar system which contains no less than 12 planets, each with no less than 2 moons, the gas giants with at least 10 moons. Few of these planets/moons were inhabitable when humans came to the system (perhaps just one) but they brought teraforming equipment with them which gives every planet/moon an atmosphere and gravity as near to Earth-that-was as possible. How'd they get there in the first place? With a multi-generation space ark. All consistent with the current laws of physics.. which the possible exception of artificial gravity, which is a necessary conceit to make a space drama recognisable. There's plenty of references in FireFly to an aversion to transhumanism, suggesting that Earth went through the Singularity and FireFly is the story of the survivors. Yeah, you heard me, survivors, the few people who managed to get away from the hell of utopia. You may think having a superintellegent mind controlling your destiny is fun, but I'll take the unknown of the frontier.
FireFly is more Sci-Fi than StarTrek as Joss Whedon decided he didn't need to throw out Einstein (there's no faster than light travel) and he didn't need to speculate about aliens (as if it is possible to ever realistically present alien life).
i a-backlot think about how far we've progressed in Sci-Fi by taking the fantasy out of the show, not putting more in.
So when you see Captain Kirk go down to random-planet-X-that-always-looks-like-a-californ
They're clearly smarter than you and recognise that the US political system has been thoroughly gamed such that it is impossible for any radical change to ever happen. You have a choice, Bob the Republician or Bob the Democrat, both of who believe the same things, but for slightly different reasons, except for the few insignificant details that should never decide the outcome of an election but innevitably do because it is impossible to change the system without first defeating it.
Compare this to some European countries where anyone can write up a proposal for a referendum, collect signatures, submit it and their government is required by the constitution to put it to a national vote.
If the answer to the second was less than 50% the answer to the first question had better not include the concept of less pay for more stake, otherwise I was outta there.
It teaches deceptive business practices. It's only salesmanship if you're upfront with people, otherwise it's just grifting.
See, what was really annoying is people who would open the door and say "I don't want to buy anything". I would generally say "ok, fine. I'll just go then" to which 90% of people would say "oh no, tell me what it is first" and I'd actually tell them and they'd say "hey, yeah, that actually is a good deal" and they'd buy. The key is to be polite and not be forceful. One thing that never felt good though was the rehash.. trying to get someone who has already agreed to by one to buy more. It annoys most everyone, but most people react by laughing, not by getting abusive. And, unfortunately, most people will buy a second item if you point out the benefits, so you have to try otherwise you've wasted an opportunity.
At least they're honest about selling you a product. They're not pretending they're your friend or that this is a personal cause. For the brief period of my life that I did door-to-door sales I never lied to get a sale. I didn't try to convince people that I was there to do anything less than sell them a product, service, or promotion, usually at a very competitive price. As such, I never had a door slammed on my face, or was treated disrespectfully. Thankfully I've never done telesales.. it's just way too impersonal and agressive.
Whatever, it's geek humour.