So, quick, write some exploit to inject code into the xbox using some buffer overflow in the remote desktop code. Does this sound feasible?
Hopefully this UI code does not run in a sandbox (for example as managed code) as some form of type/range checked byte code. That would pretty much spoil the fun.
This is great news IMO. Shaders will be able to allow adding new and previously computationally infeasible of features into video codecs.
How about a near-optimal motion vector search at subpel accuracy? No problem for a GPU. How about a GPU driven parametric inloop filtering which saves many many CPU cycles?
Especially codecs like H.264 which have many options for motion vector resolution could benefit greatly from this technology. The GPU will help in bringing the bitrates down by providing a better motion vector accuracy in the encoding process.
Also relatively new techniques could be implemented, like overlapping (blended) macroblocks to reduce blocking - using the GPU's alpha channel.
This is exciting stuff from a codec developer's perspective.
In addition to fooling unsuspecting users into downloading these broken torrents, it is likely that IP addresses were also harvested - potentially for future lawsuits. So BitTorrent clients will have to add/invent a trust systems for trackers now - not just for files.
My car runs on Soylent Green. Green alternative fuel. Totally biodegradable and regenerative. It's just that people need to have more babies to produce enough bio-fuel.
I would say: Put the foam insulation on the inside of the external tank shell. That makes the tank somewhat heavier but trades weight for safety. Coat the outside of the tank with a non-adhesive paint that makes any forming ice peel off quickly.
In addition to that, before launch keep sprinkling the tank with a de-icing chemical similar to that used in civial aviation during wintertime.
Every Windows system contains a few blocks of encrypted data in some places. And be it only the Windows Media Player DRM keys, or the passwort database.
Should be easy enough to hide some information in there.
An interesting problem arises if you get another worm or virus that encrypts portions of the users hard drive. Preferrably with PGP or some other program. Does that make anyone a criminal if he doesn't own the keys to the files?
Don't give distributors and consumers a choice. This is about unbundling Windows Media technology from Windows. If this is to be effective, it has to be mandatory.
Customers can still download all the media player software they want either from Microsoft, Real or QuickTime or whatever other sites.
Dear European Commission: Either force Microsoft to unbundle the Media Player from all Microsoft products sold in the US - or don't! But this is bullsh*t.
The forced released Windows without Media Player, while still allowing consumer a choice which version to buy is utterly pointless and useless. Because in effect there is no choice to be made. Dealers won't carry XP N because there is no demand for it. There is no demand for it because dealers don't carry XP N. So there is no choice.;)
The desired effect was to allow competition regarding media formats and players (Real, QuickTime, Windows, DivX/MPEG-4 etc).
This won't happen if 99.9% of all users still acquire the regular XP version either -because they don't know about XP N -or the PC manufacturers don't bundle XP N with their PCs. -or people think they somehow buy an "inferior" product.
What a waste of time, money and resources. The EC's ruling won't have the desired effect.
Yes the people who are "up to something" actually write differently. Most of the time they use phrases like "validate your bank account", "please verify your credit card information", etc.
So this patch is essentially a "diff" *before* install with no possibility to apply this to an existing installation.
The real interesting question is: What would have to be patched to apply this upgrade to an existing system? I do not want to reinstall a nicely working system just to get this little extra functionality.
So the path is clear: install one XP normally, then install one with the "Pro Lite" option. THEN run a diff on all files and on the registry and report your findings.
Ah, so THAT's why I never get to see the end sequence of any game I play. The games are too long! (the alternative being that I suck at playing games is thereby ruled out. Thank god for that)
Except that if you burn this stuff, you will radiate a large area. Especially alpha ray emitting isotopes are very dangerous to human tissue when inhaled or ingested. Cheers. I'd prefer eating Li Ion cells instead.
Have you ever considered the fact that an RTG-style battery causes quite an amount of heat constantly? Isnt't that a potential fire hazard?
I wonder how many slashbots already have posted a reply containing something that goes like like: Of course it's not longer "My computer" because the latest internet worm already ownz0red it and turned the machine into a friggin sp@mbot.
No chance you this kind of system will succeed.
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Am I the only one to see a problem here? Why should I potentially buy such an audio sharing system if no one else has one? The classic chicken and egg problem!
Plus, the broadcaster's association as well as copyright holders would be lobbying against it. See how Apple had to cripple itunes music sharing?
That's exactly what I have done. I bought a Mac Mini in order to check out OS X. I like a lot of things in OS X, but there are some flaws in OS X as well. The Finder is not quite as good as it could be.
For someone familiar with Linux and Windows, the OS X BSD core (Darwin) is pure heaven. You can get and compile almost any open source package that is also available on Linux. It is much less of a hassle than running the kludgy CygWin on Windows to get a simular functionality.
I am now running some services on the Mac Mini 24/7 because it is quiet and does not consume a lot of power.
But I am not going to give up Windows XP or Linux on my desktop computer and three company laptops. I am not going to throw out perfectly good hardware that just happens to be incapable of running Mac OS X.
And besides: Software on the Mac tends to be more stable in price than its Windows counterparts. Some games that you already find as bargains in the PC might have just been released for the Mac. And 2 years later, their price will remain high (~$50 for games)!
Overall I am having a good experience with my Mac Mini. I like it, but it's not going to change my view of the world - or computers in general.
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Would the article submitter PLEASE not call ion engines "traditional thrusters"?
Now back to thrusting my girlfriend traditionally.
hmm, Linus Thorvalds to the rescue! No killing people with the Linux kernel, please!
So, quick, write some exploit to inject code into the xbox using some buffer
overflow in the remote desktop code. Does this sound feasible?
Hopefully this UI code does not run in a sandbox (for example as managed code) as some form of type/range checked byte code. That would pretty much spoil the fun.
P2P - Porn 2 Peers
HTTP - Hypertexttransport for porn.
FTP - Filetransfer for porn.
This is great news IMO. Shaders will be able to allow adding new and previously computationally infeasible of features into video codecs.
How about a near-optimal motion vector search at subpel accuracy? No problem for a GPU. How about a GPU driven parametric inloop filtering which saves many many CPU cycles?
Especially codecs like H.264 which have many options for motion vector resolution could benefit greatly from this technology. The GPU will help in bringing the bitrates down by providing a better motion vector accuracy in the encoding process.
Also relatively new techniques could be implemented, like overlapping (blended) macroblocks to reduce blocking - using the GPU's alpha channel.
This is exciting stuff from a codec developer's perspective.
Because a DVD holds a lot of data - same for hard drives.
Doesn't matter if people actually use any of the provided
software - really
But you may have received 98% of actually copyrighted data. So it's copyright infringement nonetheless even if the product turns out to be useless.
In addition to fooling unsuspecting users into downloading these broken torrents, it is likely that IP addresses were also harvested - potentially for future lawsuits. So BitTorrent clients will have to add/invent a trust systems for trackers now - not just for files.
The Mars face has started to smile.
My car runs on Soylent Green. Green alternative fuel. Totally biodegradable and regenerative. It's just that people need to have more babies to produce enough bio-fuel.
A correct headline would have been:
Proprietary encoding of Media Player Broadcast definition files successfully reverse engineered.
The problem is, no one really makes use of NSC files anyway. Most streaming media is still done as simulcast, not as multicast.
RSS URL is feed://science.nasa.gov/podcast.xml, smartass
I am subscribed with the iPodder app. Again, how is this not a podcast?
I would say: Put the foam insulation on the inside of the external tank shell. That makes the tank somewhat heavier but trades weight for safety. Coat the outside of the tank with a non-adhesive paint that makes any forming ice peel off quickly.
In addition to that, before launch keep sprinkling the tank with a de-icing chemical similar to that used in civial aviation during wintertime.
Every Windows system contains a few blocks of encrypted data in some places. And be it only the Windows Media Player DRM keys, or the passwort database.
Should be easy enough to hide some information in there.
An interesting problem arises if you get another worm or virus that encrypts portions of the users hard drive. Preferrably with PGP or some other program. Does that make anyone a criminal if he doesn't own the keys to the files?
>> Does it play Ogg=
> No!
Why doesn't it play Ogg?
Honestly, it took me 5 minutes from reading the slashdot post until ordering the NSLU2 from amazon. Lol.
This is so cool. Does anyone know about a USB 2.0 ISDN hardware that is supported by Debian ARM? I want to make this a PBX using Asterisk.
Christian
Don't give distributors and consumers a choice. This is about unbundling Windows Media technology from Windows. If this is to be effective, it has to be mandatory.
Customers can still download all the media player software they want either from Microsoft, Real or QuickTime or whatever other sites.
Christian
Dear European Commission: Either force Microsoft to unbundle the Media Player from all Microsoft products sold in the US - or don't! But this is bullsh*t.
The forced released Windows without Media Player, while still allowing consumer a choice which version to buy is utterly pointless and useless. Because in effect there is no choice to be made. Dealers won't carry XP N because there is no demand for it. There is no demand for it because dealers don't carry XP N. So there is no choice.
The desired effect was to allow competition regarding media formats and players (Real, QuickTime, Windows, DivX/MPEG-4 etc).
This won't happen if 99.9% of all users still acquire the regular XP version either
-because they don't know about XP N
-or the PC manufacturers don't bundle XP N with their PCs.
-or people think they somehow buy an "inferior" product.
What a waste of time, money and resources. The EC's ruling won't have the desired effect.
Yes the people who are "up to something" actually write differently. Most of the time they use phrases like "validate your bank account",
"please verify your credit card information", etc.
So this patch is essentially a "diff" *before* install with no possibility to apply this to an existing installation.
The real interesting question is: What would have to be patched to apply this upgrade to an existing system? I do not want to reinstall a nicely working system just to get this little extra functionality.
So the path is clear: install one XP normally, then install one with the "Pro Lite" option. THEN run a diff on all files and on the registry and report your findings.
Anyone up to the task? Please?
Ah, so THAT's why I never get to see the end sequence of any game I play. The games are too long! (the alternative being that I suck at playing games is thereby ruled out. Thank god for that)
Except that if you burn this stuff, you will radiate a large area. Especially alpha ray emitting isotopes are very dangerous to human tissue when inhaled or ingested. Cheers. I'd prefer eating Li Ion cells instead.
Have you ever considered the fact that an RTG-style battery causes quite an amount of heat constantly? Isnt't that a potential fire hazard?
I wonder how many slashbots already have posted a reply containing something that goes like like: Of course it's not longer "My computer" because the latest internet worm already ownz0red it and turned the machine into a friggin sp@mbot.
Am I the only one to see a problem here? Why should I potentially buy such an audio sharing system if no one else has one? The classic chicken and egg problem!
Plus, the broadcaster's association as well as copyright holders would be lobbying against it. See how Apple had to cripple itunes music sharing?
That's exactly what I have done. I bought a Mac Mini in order to check out OS X. I like a lot of things in OS X, but there are some flaws in OS X as well. The Finder is not quite as good as it could be.
For someone familiar with Linux and Windows, the OS X BSD core (Darwin) is pure heaven. You can get and compile almost any open source package that is also available on Linux. It is much less of a hassle than running the kludgy CygWin on Windows to get a simular functionality.
I am now running some services on the Mac Mini 24/7 because it is quiet and does not consume a lot of power.
But I am not going to give up Windows XP or Linux on my desktop computer and three company laptops. I am not going to throw out perfectly good hardware that just happens to be incapable of running Mac OS X.
And besides: Software on the Mac tends to be more stable in price than its Windows counterparts. Some games that you already find as bargains in the PC might have just been released for the Mac. And 2 years later, their price will remain high (~$50 for games)!
Overall I am having a good experience with my Mac Mini. I like it, but it's not going to change my view of the world - or computers in general.