The Internet really shakes things up. Millions of people are beginning to have access to high quality contextual information. A site like electoral-vote.com provides voters with the relevant information they need to decide where their vote goes. Getting all meta here, through peoples actions the Internet self-organizes information as needed or from reference (message boards and wikis respectively).
Debugging cartridge. Action Replay something or other. You had to load a file with Load "*",8,1 to load it into it's proper memory address. I would patch the binary so that instead of executing immediately on load it would have a machine language jump command poining to itself in memory. This would leave the computer in an infinite loop. So I'd load the patched binary as usual and wait for it to freeze. Then I would press the debug button on my Action Replay and I would be in a machine language debugger. I'd fix the couple bytes in memory where the infinite jump command was and in the case of V-Max I would just have to load a file into memory and once unprotected in memory save the file back out unprotected using a binary save function. As V-Max was a third party product the developers of content provided masters to V-Max's company that had absolutely no protection on it. V-Max would wrap the files in a custom load routine that patched the vectors of the built in load function to protect the content. V-Max is impervious to any form of disk copy including all nibblers and hardware copiers. But by simply stripping the V-Max wrapper you end up with completely unprotected files that use the standard kernal load vector. Took an hour to strip a disk. Back when it was still legal to do it.
Oh. No hard disks back then, all floppys.
My first computer was a Radio Shack TRS-80. I didn't have any storage mediums (not even tape) so I had to write something for it to do each time I turned it on. Sometimes I would press the reset button really fast to occasionaly cause a bad initialization. I really do remember the days of going uphill both ways to the computer shop. When I upgraded to a Commodore 128 (which I used almost exclusively in 64 mode) I unfortunately purchased an MSD brand hard drive instead of a 1541 drive which almost every piece of software depended on for copy protection purposes. So I had to reverse engineer my software to remove the copy protection before I could play it. One of the last protections on the 1541 was called V-Max (for Verify Maximum) and as a cracker I loved it because it was a third party product - once I cracked it it was the same protection for all titles.
Been there done that.:p
I'm wondering whether or not the wimote will work with my setup. I have a tv card with a built-in mpeg decoder. So when I'm pointing the thing at my lcd monitor the raster information has been lost - no more timing signal at 60hz. Am I confused or does the wimote work in such a setup?
... Browzar's developers say they are examining the feedback but strongly deny that it is adware....
If it meets the criteria for spyware: (excerpt)
Five evaluation criteria
Microsoft researchers use the following categories to determine whether to add a program to the definition library for detection, and what classification type, risk level, and recommendation to give it.
Deceptive behaviors. Runs processes or programs on the user's computer without notifying the user and getting the user's consent. Prevents users from controlling the actions taken by the program while it runs on the computer. Prevents users from uninstalling or removing the program.
Privacy. Collects, uses, or communicates the user's personal information and behaviors (such as Web browsing habits) without explicit consent.
Security. Attempts to circumvent or disable the security features on the user's computer, or otherwise compromises the computer's security.
Performance. Undermines performance, reliability, and quality of the user's computing experience with slow computer speed, reduced productivity, or corruption of the operating system.
Industry and consumer opinion. Considers the input from software industry and individual users as a key factor to help identify new behaviors and programs that might present risks to the user's computing experience.
Then it is spyware/adware no matter how strongly the vendor denies it.
I'm still waiting for my diamond processor that runs at a nice 300 Ghz. And it would probably be an eight core cpu by the time it graduates from lab to mass produced consumer item.
Um, there is no body that has oversight for the Linux kernel. As a public service announcement for you, most of what people call "Linux" is actually the Linux kernel plus the GNU Free Unix base and a windowing layer. There is no maintaner because the because the various licences that cover these code bases (including the gpl v2) are permissive. You are allowed to use the code as long as you list in your own documentation where the code came from and who it is copyrighted to. Usually, there are conditions in a particular license where derivative code must be released under the same license. Some licences such as the gpl require you to publish your source code while others such as the bsd license doesn't require this and also allows commercial use without any payment.
Actually, Open Source could save the US government tons of money a year if they established a open software core of engineers for themselves. Then there is additional billions of savings for us citizens who could also use said software.
They were dysfunctional individually but in some episodes they worked together to compute things that were beyond even starfleet's capabilities. Ultimately they were wrong but that was because of unknown factors such as the plague that affected the shapeshifters.
On long time scales (1000+ years), unless we're stupid enough to kill all of ourselves, genetic programming is inevitable. Just say it takes centuries to become reliable and palatable enough to take root. Once the knowledge and ability is present then it's easy to imagine humans tailored to survive on say Mars without artificial life support. And if your creating tailored humans for specific environments you might as well make them smarter while your at it.
Collectively humanity must define it's ethics because the ability to do these things is fast approaching.
Some are afraid of artificial intelligence. I'm afraid I'll have to get my kid "enhanced" just so he can keep up in school. Meat is programmable too. Knowledge is good but ethics will hopefully ease our future obsolescence.
Searching for "Laws fall silent in times of war" led to this page. Putting it in context, barring further violence US politics hopefully will begin to lose some hysteria and in another 5 years and we can get back to more pressing issues such as whether or not such and such president got or did not get a bj and whether we ought to impeach the bastard. And he didn't inhale.
It would have had to have some pretty impressive computer controlled landing software for 1969!?!
A lot of people worked on the moon shots, so many that something did go to the moon in July of 1969. I believe that people went because they could handle all the problems easily (e.g. landing) that computers of the era could not easily do.
People also tend to think that finding one case where a general rule fails invalidates the entire rule. The entire moon shot could have been faked at great expense at the time - so much so that actually doing it cost less.
Well good, at the least now the conspiracy nuts will now have to admit that aliens from Area 51 put up that pesky reflection array on the moon. But damnit, men did not walk on the moon.
This is a good chance for Microsoft to show off their embedded systems (Maybe WinCE? The article doesn't say.). Now as long as the race cars don't suddenly blow up;)
You know though, when I'm about 70 I'll just morgage the health cost across another 75 years to keep me going until I'm about 150. Then I'll just keep working and paying as I go.
You sound like there's only so much to go around whereas I believe in increasing returns where there will be enough for everyone.
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I would borrow a friends 1541 on the weekends to strip protection and during the week I'd clean up what I had ripped and play stuff that was complete.
The Internet really shakes things up. Millions of people are beginning to have access to high quality contextual information. A site like electoral-vote.com provides voters with the relevant information they need to decide where their vote goes. Getting all meta here, through peoples actions the Internet self-organizes information as needed or from reference (message boards and wikis respectively).
Debugging cartridge. Action Replay something or other. You had to load a file with Load "*",8,1 to load it into it's proper memory address. I would patch the binary so that instead of executing immediately on load it would have a machine language jump command poining to itself in memory. This would leave the computer in an infinite loop. So I'd load the patched binary as usual and wait for it to freeze. Then I would press the debug button on my Action Replay and I would be in a machine language debugger. I'd fix the couple bytes in memory where the infinite jump command was and in the case of V-Max I would just have to load a file into memory and once unprotected in memory save the file back out unprotected using a binary save function. As V-Max was a third party product the developers of content provided masters to V-Max's company that had absolutely no protection on it. V-Max would wrap the files in a custom load routine that patched the vectors of the built in load function to protect the content. V-Max is impervious to any form of disk copy including all nibblers and hardware copiers. But by simply stripping the V-Max wrapper you end up with completely unprotected files that use the standard kernal load vector. Took an hour to strip a disk. Back when it was still legal to do it.
Oh. No hard disks back then, all floppys.
MSD brand hard drive = MSD brand disk drive.
My bad.
My first computer was a Radio Shack TRS-80. I didn't have any storage mediums (not even tape) so I had to write something for it to do each time I turned it on. Sometimes I would press the reset button really fast to occasionaly cause a bad initialization. I really do remember the days of going uphill both ways to the computer shop. When I upgraded to a Commodore 128 (which I used almost exclusively in 64 mode) I unfortunately purchased an MSD brand hard drive instead of a 1541 drive which almost every piece of software depended on for copy protection purposes. So I had to reverse engineer my software to remove the copy protection before I could play it. One of the last protections on the 1541 was called V-Max (for Verify Maximum) and as a cracker I loved it because it was a third party product - once I cracked it it was the same protection for all titles. :p
Been there done that.
Thanks.
Preview! Preview! Preview!
decoder = encoder
I'm wondering whether or not the wimote will work with my setup. I have a tv card with a built-in mpeg decoder. So when I'm pointing the thing at my lcd monitor the raster information has been lost - no more timing signal at 60hz. Am I confused or does the wimote work in such a setup?
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As a computer, I find your faith in technology amusing.
... Browzar's developers say they are examining the feedback but strongly deny that it is adware. ...
If it meets the criteria for spyware: (excerpt)
Five evaluation criteria
Microsoft researchers use the following categories to determine whether to add a program to the definition library for detection, and what classification type, risk level, and recommendation to give it.
Deceptive behaviors. Runs processes or programs on the user's computer without notifying the user and getting the user's consent. Prevents users from controlling the actions taken by the program while it runs on the computer. Prevents users from uninstalling or removing the program.
Privacy. Collects, uses, or communicates the user's personal information and behaviors (such as Web browsing habits) without explicit consent.
Security. Attempts to circumvent or disable the security features on the user's computer, or otherwise compromises the computer's security.
Performance. Undermines performance, reliability, and quality of the user's computing experience with slow computer speed, reduced productivity, or corruption of the operating system.
Industry and consumer opinion. Considers the input from software industry and individual users as a key factor to help identify new behaviors and programs that might present risks to the user's computing experience.
Then it is spyware/adware no matter how strongly the vendor denies it.
I'm still waiting for my diamond processor that runs at a nice 300 Ghz. And it would probably be an eight core cpu by the time it graduates from lab to mass produced consumer item.
Um, there is no body that has oversight for the Linux kernel. As a public service announcement for you, most of what people call "Linux" is actually the Linux kernel plus the GNU Free Unix base and a windowing layer. There is no maintaner because the because the various licences that cover these code bases (including the gpl v2) are permissive. You are allowed to use the code as long as you list in your own documentation where the code came from and who it is copyrighted to. Usually, there are conditions in a particular license where derivative code must be released under the same license. Some licences such as the gpl require you to publish your source code while others such as the bsd license doesn't require this and also allows commercial use without any payment.
Actually, Open Source could save the US government tons of money a year if they established a open software core of engineers for themselves. Then there is additional billions of savings for us citizens who could also use said software.
Bill? Is that you?!?
They were dysfunctional individually but in some episodes they worked together to compute things that were beyond even starfleet's capabilities. Ultimately they were wrong but that was because of unknown factors such as the plague that affected the shapeshifters.
On long time scales (1000+ years), unless we're stupid enough to kill all of ourselves, genetic programming is inevitable. Just say it takes centuries to become reliable and palatable enough to take root. Once the knowledge and ability is present then it's easy to imagine humans tailored to survive on say Mars without artificial life support. And if your creating tailored humans for specific environments you might as well make them smarter while your at it.
Collectively humanity must define it's ethics because the ability to do these things is fast approaching.
Some are afraid of artificial intelligence. I'm afraid I'll have to get my kid "enhanced" just so he can keep up in school. Meat is programmable too. Knowledge is good but ethics will hopefully ease our future obsolescence.
...this "fault-tolerant" characteristic is of great interest to engineers...
I believe it's called redundancy. Seriously.
Searching for "Laws fall silent in times of war" led to this page. Putting it in context, barring further violence US politics hopefully will begin to lose some hysteria and in another 5 years and we can get back to more pressing issues such as whether or not such and such president got or did not get a bj and whether we ought to impeach the bastard. And he didn't inhale.
It would have had to have some pretty impressive computer controlled landing software for 1969!?!
A lot of people worked on the moon shots, so many that something did go to the moon in July of 1969. I believe that people went because they could handle all the problems easily (e.g. landing) that computers of the era could not easily do.
People also tend to think that finding one case where a general rule fails invalidates the entire rule. The entire moon shot could have been faked at great expense at the time - so much so that actually doing it cost less.
Well good, at the least now the conspiracy nuts will now have to admit that aliens from Area 51 put up that pesky reflection array on the moon. But damnit, men did not walk on the moon.
Just goes to show that verbal contracts aren't worth the paper they're written on.
This is a good chance for Microsoft to show off their embedded systems (Maybe WinCE? The article doesn't say.). Now as long as the race cars don't suddenly blow up ;)
I'm assuming that along with longevity treatments will also rejuvinate you.
You know though, when I'm about 70 I'll just morgage the health cost across another 75 years to keep me going until I'm about 150. Then I'll just keep working and paying as I go.
You sound like there's only so much to go around whereas I believe in increasing returns where there will be enough for everyone.
Too bad /. doesn't let you fix your posts. For talking among themselves I meant talking about how the audits were "broken" citing the texts.