Of course, and we all know that mean, tough animals are the fittest, right? That's why you see lots of armadillos around, and rabbits are almost extinct. Oh, wait...
Perhaps when it comes to computers there's more to the fitness equation than security?
GPS fears are paranoia. If you're really afraid that the government is out to get you, you'd better avoid cell-phones entirely.
You're walking around with a fairly powerful radio transmitter. There are companies which sell software that triangulate the position of a cell-phone based on the surrounding cell towers. GPS doesn't add any new capability in terms of tracking that they didn't have before.
From what you're aware of? You're apparently aware of nothing. If there's one thing that pisses me off, people being really arrogant about a topic that they obviously know nothing about really, really pisses me off.
Start your journey into the mysterious and complex world of Windows NT security here.
What you're forgetting is that copyright infringement is not theft. Theft is a criminal crime, and so you can be arrested and thrown in jail. Copyright infringement is a civil crime, and so the cops cannot arrest you or put you in jail, but the copyright holder can sue you, which is exactly what the RIAA is attempting to do.
Yes, copyright is a civil tort, but it is also a criminal offense. See USC title 17, chapter 5, S.506. If you download a single, on average every day or two, or an album every three or four days for half a year, you've committed a felony and can be
fined or imprisoned for a year(USC title 18, chapter 113, S.2319).
While I have to wonder whether they're getting ahead of themselves, you've got to look at the competition. NASA thinks they'll have their shuttles running again by the end of the year. The Chinese and Indians are planning on moon-shots.
The Russians? They've got plans for a nuclear power plant on Mars. 10/10 for style, boys. It's refreshing to see a little ambition for once.
Still, there are practical uses. With a reasonable supply of water, a nuclear power plant could be used to create oxygen and hydrogen, both for surviving on and performing experiments, and for fueling any return craft.
M$ (and the media) hyped this security patch to the hilt, IMHO, because WU was the target. Other worm exploits that have been cited in the news can be prevented by patches that come out a year or two ago. It would be nice to have the other 30 or so patches released this year equally hyped.
Nice conspiracy theory. But you forgot that they were hyping the patch before the worm was released.
It seems to me that if you were exploiting a vulnerability for which a patch already existed it would be very easy to automatically modify the registry to make it appear that the patch had already been applied.
At which point the guys at Microsoft, if they have more than two brain cells, change the KB number of the patch and your brilliant plan becomes a waste of code and an easy way to detect infected systems.
X11 is allowed semi-direct access to hardware, which is why it can crash the whole OS. Anyway, high performance graphics drivers such as NVidia's include kernel mode components. See also KGI (the kernel-mode extensions to GGI) and other recent moves to put graphics drivers directly into the Linux kernel to handle lingering performance problems.
It's a simple fact of life that you can't shovel data around as quickly from user-space. What's the point in having a rock-solid machine if it's too slow to do what you want?
Dude, do you know what you're talking about? First, graphics drivers run in Ring0, along with most of the graphics subsystem. They haven't run in Ring3 since NT 3.51 days.
Regardless, if a driver is running in the same memory space as the subsystem, a driver crash is going to take it out. It doesn't matter what ring the code is in. Again, back in NT 3.51 days graphics drivers were kept in seperate memory spaces, in ring3, but that was dropped due to piss poor performance.
The GDI subsystem (several layers away from any graphics drivers) currently sprawls Ring0 and Ring3.
Yes, but John Dvorak doesn't understand basic statistics.
Gates said that 5 percent of Windows machines crash, on average, twice daily. Put another way, this means that 10 percent of Windows machines crash every day, or any given machine will crash about three times a month. Since Bill is a math junkie, I have to assume this number is real and based on something other than a phone survey.
Nice one there, John. Bill Gates might be a math junkie, but it's obvious you're not.
Frankly, I'd like to see both around. I mean, competition's a great thing, right? At least that's what everybody always complains about with Microsoft....
However, to be serious, they claim to require IE since they use an ActiveX control as part of the DRM mechanism (it downloads the license files you need to decrypt the music). While you can view the site in other browsers (the HTML doesn't seem to be IE dependent) you can't actually buy anything off of it.
'I don't understand this, and I can't possibly be wrong/ignorant, therefore they must be stupid!' is an attitude that is so common on/., and it really pisses me off.
The idea that judges should consider both the law and what is fair has been a fundamental part of common law for centuries.
Back when common law was first created in England there were seperate judges of law and equity, but modern judges are arbiters of both. As an example, this is part of the reason why non-compete clauses in contracts are difficult to enforce, because it's easy to argue that such clauses are unfair (i.e., not equitable). Of course, when acting for equity a judge's powers are technically much more limited than when acting for law, which historically leads to the kinds of strange rulings people are used to from the legal system.
Cringley is a moron, but doesn't everybody know that by now?
I haven't bothered reading the laws to check this, but I doubt this would be legal for the reasons other posters have mentioned.
Of course, more importantly, let's consider a hypothetical situation where it is legal under current laws. Considering it totally violates the spirit of copyright law, I can't imagine this practice would last long before being made illegal by congress.
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Perhaps when it comes to computers there's more to the fitness equation than security?
GPS fears are paranoia. If you're really afraid that the government is out to get you, you'd better avoid cell-phones entirely. You're walking around with a fairly powerful radio transmitter. There are companies which sell software that triangulate the position of a cell-phone based on the surrounding cell towers. GPS doesn't add any new capability in terms of tracking that they didn't have before.
Start your journey into the mysterious and complex world of Windows NT security here.
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That joke was dumb three years ago.
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The rest of the world,
Other examples: Avi is the file format, DivX is the codec. Quicktime Mov is the file format, Sorenson is the codec.
No, the last games to be conquered by machines will be drinking games.
I for one welcome our new vegetable overlords.
The Russians? They've got plans for a nuclear power plant on Mars. 10/10 for style, boys. It's refreshing to see a little ambition for once.
Still, there are practical uses. With a reasonable supply of water, a nuclear power plant could be used to create oxygen and hydrogen, both for surviving on and performing experiments, and for fueling any return craft.
Nice conspiracy theory. But you forgot that they were hyping the patch before the worm was released.
At which point the guys at Microsoft, if they have more than two brain cells, change the KB number of the patch and your brilliant plan becomes a waste of code and an easy way to detect infected systems.
You whack a capacitor in to smooth the square wave into a sine wave.
I believe WinXP and Win2K Datacenter also have kernel-mode protected memory. Don't quote me on this, though. :)
It's a simple fact of life that you can't shovel data around as quickly from user-space. What's the point in having a rock-solid machine if it's too slow to do what you want?
Also nicely demonstrates the pointlessness (and stupidity) of serving out your MD5sums from the same machine.
Regardless, if a driver is running in the same memory space as the subsystem, a driver crash is going to take it out. It doesn't matter what ring the code is in. Again, back in NT 3.51 days graphics drivers were kept in seperate memory spaces, in ring3, but that was dropped due to piss poor performance.
The GDI subsystem (several layers away from any graphics drivers) currently sprawls Ring0 and Ring3.
Gates said that 5 percent of Windows machines crash, on average, twice daily. Put another way, this means that 10 percent of Windows machines crash every day, or any given machine will crash about three times a month. Since Bill is a math junkie, I have to assume this number is real and based on something other than a phone survey.
Nice one there, John. Bill Gates might be a math junkie, but it's obvious you're not.
You must be new here.
A complementary set of casserole dishes?
How about www.winux.com? :-)
Frankly, I'd like to see both around. I mean, competition's a great thing, right? At least that's what everybody always complains about with Microsoft....
However, to be serious, they claim to require IE since they use an ActiveX control as part of the DRM mechanism (it downloads the license files you need to decrypt the music). While you can view the site in other browsers (the HTML doesn't seem to be IE dependent) you can't actually buy anything off of it.
'I don't understand this, and I can't possibly be wrong/ignorant, therefore they must be stupid!' is an attitude that is so common on /., and it really pisses me off.
Back when common law was first created in England there were seperate judges of law and equity, but modern judges are arbiters of both. As an example, this is part of the reason why non-compete clauses in contracts are difficult to enforce, because it's easy to argue that such clauses are unfair (i.e., not equitable). Of course, when acting for equity a judge's powers are technically much more limited than when acting for law, which historically leads to the kinds of strange rulings people are used to from the legal system.
I haven't bothered reading the laws to check this, but I doubt this would be legal for the reasons other posters have mentioned.
Of course, more importantly, let's consider a hypothetical situation where it is legal under current laws. Considering it totally violates the spirit of copyright law, I can't imagine this practice would last long before being made illegal by congress.