I was thinking the same thing. Use the best parts from from shuttle which are already designed and well tested. Scrap the useless space truck parts. Why do we have to design and build brand new hardware everytime we get a new space initiative. Don't suppose it has anything to do with corporate welfare for aerospace companies?
Anyone have some boilerplate forms and step by step instructions to file the necessary legal objections to this? I would sure do it and I'll bet enough other people would to keep the court busy just reading the stuff for quite a while.
Is it my imagination or is Mars melting? If you look closely at recent pictures of the first trench it looks like the white stuff has melted. Also the sample in the scoop looks a little runny.
PC World is a good candidate for one of the '10 worst web pages' about the '10 worst keyboards'. What a piss-poor stupid clunky 'having to scroll everywhere' web page.
by wiping the drive? Think again. All these drives have embedded firmware. It would be real easy for a motivated entity to put malware in the drive firmware in such a way that it would be almost undetectable and un-eraseable. Maybe this is the Chinese Government's payback for the backdoors Embedded in Microsofts Windows by the US Government.
>> Until the studio pulls out the contract with his signature that states that the studio owns the IP.
Anytime you see the term 'IP' used in this context, think 'Illusionary Property' because that's exactly what it is. The whole fiction of IP being somehow property that can be owned, sold, stolen, or otherwise equated with real hard goods is a fiction created by lawyers and corporations to extract more money and control for themselves.
So what's the secret to reading scribd's material without flash. I refuse to install flash on my Linux systems after previous experiences with flash's binary pukefests.
This is a very serious matter for the technical and scientific community. A lot of us travel internationally to attend technical conferences with little or no customs hassles. Now other countries will probably retaliate by requiring special visas for US citizens to attend conferences in their countries. This is going to curtail a lot of this travel for US citizens. Just another example of the US becoming more isolated and further behind than the rest of the world. Thanks a lot George Bush.
Unless you have a 'key under the doormat' type of programmer writing your target code, how would you exploit the dangling pointer? First you would have to have some idea of where it pointed to. Then you would have to have write access to where it was pointed to be able to write your evil code there. Then you would have to have the application actually do a function call using that pointer. Most modern OS's are not going to let you do all three of the preceding. There may be some merit to allocating a large area of memory, filling it full of NOP's with the 'evil' code at the end. But you still have to get the application to jump or call somewhere in the NOP series, maybe by some sort of lucky jump with a random bad pointer. Does Microsoft still allow this kind of stuff?
You free the the object the pointer is pointing too.
The bad guy figures out where the pointer is pointing and writes his code at that location. The next time the pointer is called the bad code is executed.
This is like saying you lock a door and put the key away somewhere. The bad guy finds the key, unlocks the door and takes what he wants.
Why is this suddenly a major security issue and what am I missing?
Hate for Windows comes automatically the first time a Windows Programmer sees how bad the wool has been pulled over their eyes when they finally have a chance to do Linux programming.
Seems like it would be easier to have everyone that George's government wants keep track of just sew on cloth patches on their clothes. We could have one style for suspected illegal immigrants, another style for suspect terrorists, another style for music pirates, and so on. That way good Americans would know at a glance who was an undesirable.
These things were being discounted at up to 70% off in Omaha. My Dad bought the full blown professional version for $100.00. He doesn't even know what he's going to do with it.
This is another example of the US Government being taken over by the Corporations with the human residents being demoted to being just consumers and taxpayers.
All the toilets and urinals that I've relocated "Designed for Microsoft Windows XP" stickers onto seem to work fine. Just have use a drop of superglue under them to make sure they stay put.
Verizon's phone lines are running right across my land. I should be getting a cut of all the phone calls that traverse my land too. Isn't this what monopolism is all about.
After reading the patent application it sure sounds like Microsoft has managed to patent the Golden Records sent out on the Voyager spacecraft back in to 1970's. Way to go US Patent Office.
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I was thinking the same thing. Use the best parts from from shuttle which are already designed and well tested. Scrap the useless space truck parts. Why do we have to design and build brand new hardware everytime we get a new space initiative. Don't suppose it has anything to do with corporate welfare for aerospace companies?
Anyone have some boilerplate forms and step by step instructions to file the necessary legal objections to this? I would sure do it and I'll bet enough other people would to keep the court busy just reading the stuff for quite a while.
This is less than what 1 day in Bush's Iraq War. http://www.nationalpriorities.org/costofwar_home
I thought Captains who wanted to water ski after lunch killed off the slave rowers.
Is it my imagination or is Mars melting?
If you look closely at recent pictures of the first trench it looks like the white stuff has melted. Also the sample in the scoop looks a little runny.
PC World is a good candidate for one of the '10 worst web pages' about the '10 worst keyboards'. What a piss-poor stupid clunky 'having to scroll everywhere' web page.
I think 'Imaginary Property' is good but 'Illusionary Property' defines the lawyers wet dream IP better.
by wiping the drive? Think again. All these drives have embedded firmware. It would be real easy for a motivated entity to put malware in the drive firmware in such a way that it would be almost undetectable and un-eraseable. Maybe this is the Chinese Government's payback for the backdoors Embedded in Microsofts Windows by the US Government.
Those pesky pesces
>> Until the studio pulls out the contract with his signature that states that the studio owns the IP.
Anytime you see the term 'IP' used in this context, think 'Illusionary Property' because that's exactly what it is. The whole fiction of IP being somehow property that can be owned, sold, stolen, or otherwise equated with real hard goods is a fiction created by lawyers and corporations to extract more money and control for themselves.
Now he's available for the Head of FEMA position.
We'll need it for when we meet up with the Kzinti.
So what's the secret to reading scribd's material without flash. I refuse to install flash on my Linux systems after previous experiences with flash's binary pukefests.
This is a very serious matter for the technical and scientific community. A lot of us travel internationally to attend technical conferences with little or no customs hassles. Now other countries will probably retaliate by requiring special visas for US citizens to attend conferences in their countries. This is going to curtail a lot of this travel for US citizens. Just another example of the US becoming more isolated and further behind than the rest of the world. Thanks a lot George Bush.
Unless you have a 'key under the doormat' type of programmer writing your target code, how would you exploit the dangling pointer? First you would have to have some idea of where it pointed to. Then you would have to have write access to where it was pointed to be able to write your evil code there. Then you would have to have the application actually do a function call using that pointer. Most modern OS's are not going to let you do all three of the preceding. There may be some merit to allocating a large area of memory, filling it full of NOP's with the 'evil' code at the end. But you still have to get the application to jump or call somewhere in the NOP series, maybe by some sort of lucky jump with a random bad pointer. Does Microsoft still allow this kind of stuff?
You have a pointer.
You free the the object the pointer is pointing too.
The bad guy figures out where the pointer is pointing and writes his code at that location. The next time the pointer is called the bad code is executed.
This is like saying you lock a door and put the key away somewhere. The bad guy finds the key, unlocks the door and takes what he wants.
Why is this suddenly a major security issue and what am I missing?
Can't wait for someone to register the domain
Hate for Windows comes automatically the first time a Windows Programmer sees how bad the wool has been pulled over their eyes when they finally have a chance to do Linux programming.
Seems like it would be easier to have everyone that George's government wants keep track of just sew on cloth patches on their clothes. We could have one style for suspected illegal immigrants, another style for suspect terrorists, another style for music pirates, and so on. That way good Americans would know at a glance who was an undesirable.
These things were being discounted at up to 70% off in Omaha. My Dad bought the full blown professional version for $100.00. He doesn't even know what he's going to do with it.
This is another example of the US Government being taken over by the Corporations with the human residents being demoted to being just consumers and taxpayers.
All the toilets and urinals that I've relocated "Designed for Microsoft Windows XP" stickers onto seem to work fine. Just have use a drop of superglue under them to make sure they stay put.
Verizon's phone lines are running right across my land. I should be getting a cut of all the phone calls that traverse my land too. Isn't this what monopolism is all about.
Didn't anybody see this movie. It predicted caves on Mars a long time ago. See here -- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058530/
After reading the patent application it sure sounds like Microsoft has managed to patent the Golden Records sent out on the Voyager spacecraft back in to 1970's. Way to go US Patent Office.