Seeing as the purpose of this setup seems to be more for the ability to drive the 5K display than to actually use the power of the GPU for gaming or other heavy tasks, I don't think it's going to be a huge issue. As well, the 4x lane isn't as huge a limitation as you'd expect
Is there a viable market for MacOS and Linux gaming in your view?
I'd wager they believe there's a viable market for MacOS as the majority of their releases have been cross-platform (even before OS X was released, in the case of Starcraft and Diablo). Can't offer an opinion on Linux, though.
Most of those cross-browser incompatibilities are actually with the DOM model, not the underlying JavaScript implementation. While IE 5.0's implementation* had some notable bugs (String.slice() and String.substr() along with a fair bit of the assert() functionality), things are pretty compatible these days until you start using the DOM.
* Opera 6 and below as well as Netscape 4 and below had some interesting quirks too, but those browsers are beyond the memory of most modern web-designers.
From the Opera developers' description it appears that the Mozilla foundation could have handled things more professionally - Opera was only notified the day before a public advisory was published, and since that time the Mozilla foundation have opened most of the bug reports containing exploitation details to the general public. Judging from the emoticons on Opera's blog, the latter action by the Mozilla foundation is the primary issue here, not that they published the advisory.
And leap seconds. With the shuttle and calculating movement relative to two planetary bodies (the orbits of which can be calculated according to time/date) everything has to be dead-on precise - anything not precise and big, big problems happen.
The Pragmatic Programmers sell most of their books as either dead-tree, e-book, or a combo pack where you get 'em both (not to mention the cool beta-book thingy - you get the beta of the book as it's being worked on, then get the full book once it's done, including a dead-tree copy as well if that's what you wanted).
Cracking passwords when you have access to the non-reversible hashed versions of the passwords (aka "/etc/shadow") can be trivially easy on modern hardware, when using a tool such as John the Ripper, or, if you have a lot of spare harddrive space (and RAM), RainbowCrack. If this box was using md5 hashes (most likely), JTR on modern hardware can easily crack 8,000+ passwords a second, which, when combined with advanced password guessing techniques, will most likely find weak passwords within an hour or two.
... Most of you didn't get the point. It's not that you can access the GPU from userland (it depends on that access, but that's not the point). The main point is that that the current gen of programmable GPUs allow you to (theoretically) directly access kernel memory, as pointed out later in the thread by Theo:
> Are these new programable cards capable of reading main memory, which > OpenBSD would not be able to prevent if machdep.allowaperture were > set to something other than 0?
Yes, they have DMA engines. If the privilege seperate X server has a bug, it can still wiggle the IO registers of the card to do DMA to physical addresses, entirely bypassing system security.
Thus, a resourceful attacker theoretically could get access to kernel memory through anything which allows access to the video card. An unusual and probably difficult-to-exploit hole, but a possible hole none the less.
Well, I don't have a relevant Canadian case, but the law seems pretty explicit on the definition of "hate speech":
318. (1) Every one who advocates or promotes genocide is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years.
Definition of "genocide"
(2) In this section, "genocide" means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy in whole or in part any identifiable group, namely,
(a) killing members of the group; or
(b) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction.
Consent
(3) No proceeding for an offence under this section shall be instituted without the consent of the Attorney General.
Definition of "identifiable group"
(4) In this section, "identifiable group" means any section of the public distinguished by colour, race, religion, ethnic origin or sexual orientation.
R.S., 1985, c. C-46, s. 318; 2004, c. 14, s. 1.
Public incitement of hatred
319. (1) Every one who, by communicating statements in any public place, incites hatred against any identifiable group where such incitement is likely to lead to a breach of the peace is guilty of
----
Canadian Criminal Code, sections 318 and 319. Unfortunately I don't have any information on the case, but it seems pretty cut-and-dry to me, similar to what would happen if a newspaper carried hate content (they would most liekly be considered an accessory to the crime).
318. (1) Every one who advocates or promotes genocide is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years.
Definition of "genocide"
(2) In this section, "genocide" means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy in whole or in part any identifiable group, namely,
(a) killing members of the group; or
(b) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction.
Consent
(3) No proceeding for an offence under this section shall be instituted without the consent of the Attorney General.
Definition of "identifiable group"
(4) In this section, "identifiable group" means any section of the public distinguished by colour, race, religion, ethnic origin or sexual orientation.
R.S., 1985, c. C-46, s. 318; 2004, c. 14, s. 1.
Public incitement of hatred
319. (1) Every one who, by communicating statements in any public place, incites hatred against any identifiable group where such incitement is likely to lead to a breach of the peace is guilty of
(a) an indictable offence and is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years; or
(b) an offence punishable on summary conviction.
Wilful promotion of hatred
(2) Every one who, by communicating statements, other than in private conversation, wilfully promotes hatred against any identifiable group is guilty of
(a) an indictable offence and is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years; or
(b) an offence punishable on summary conviction.
Defences
(3) No person shall be convicted of an offence under subsection (2)
(a) if he establishes that the statements communicated were true;
(b) if, in good faith, the person expressed or attempted to establish by an argument an opinion on a religious subject or an opinion based on a belief in a religious text;
(c) if the statements were relevant to any subject of public interest, the discussion of which was for the public benefit, and if on reasonable grounds he believed them to be true; or
(d) if, in good faith, he intended to point out, for the purpose of removal, matters producing or tending to produce feelings of hatred toward an identifiable group in Canada.
... now, I'm not a judge, but the Criminal code seems pretty clear on this fact. "Black people commit crimes", whether true or untrue (in this case true. Black people commit crimes. So do white people.) does not incite genocide, does not willfully promote hatred, and is covered under 3a. However, "Kill all the niggers" would fall under the definition of hate speech as it expressly promotes genocide.
It is possible using a program such as nLite to create an XP ISO without the executable itself, although the rendering core (Trident) still needs to be installed unless you want a huge headache (as tons of stuff depends on it).
While it's obvious that if you succeed there is nothing that the government can do about it, a previous poster made the point that if it wasn't illegal they would have no legal way of sending someone to stop you, which is the reason for it being illegal.
Here's the reason.
In brief:
Games are still being released using the Q3 engine. Carmack doesn't feel it's fair to release the source until after those projects are release, which is understandable.
It would be easier in the fact that effectively it gives you more desktop space, and without the complete separation of virtual desktops. Say you have a document, a calculator, and an IDE open. You want to use the calculator with both the IDE and the document. With a virtual desktop you couldn't do that, and with a traditional desktop you'd constantly have to be switching, because most likely you'd have the IDE and document fullscreened. With this, you merely put the calculator between the IDE and document, and rotate your view accordingly.
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Seeing as the purpose of this setup seems to be more for the ability to drive the 5K display than to actually use the power of the GPU for gaming or other heavy tasks, I don't think it's going to be a huge issue. As well, the 4x lane isn't as huge a limitation as you'd expect
The GSA has declared that Google's product does have FISMA certification so (at least on this point) they are not lying.
By "US only" they mean North America (or possibly the Americas) ... which still may or may not help you (I'm Canadian and merged my account just fine).
Replying to this to cancel my mod. And yes, I agree with your mini review from what of seen of WoTLK
Is there a viable market for MacOS and Linux gaming in your view?
I'd wager they believe there's a viable market for MacOS as the majority of their releases have been cross-platform (even before OS X was released, in the case of Starcraft and Diablo). Can't offer an opinion on Linux, though.
Most of those cross-browser incompatibilities are actually with the DOM model, not the underlying JavaScript implementation. While IE 5.0's implementation* had some notable bugs (String.slice() and String.substr() along with a fair bit of the assert() functionality), things are pretty compatible these days until you start using the DOM. * Opera 6 and below as well as Netscape 4 and below had some interesting quirks too, but those browsers are beyond the memory of most modern web-designers.
From the Opera developers' description it appears that the Mozilla foundation could have handled things more professionally - Opera was only notified the day before a public advisory was published, and since that time the Mozilla foundation have opened most of the bug reports containing exploitation details to the general public. Judging from the emoticons on Opera's blog, the latter action by the Mozilla foundation is the primary issue here, not that they published the advisory.
And leap seconds. With the shuttle and calculating movement relative to two planetary bodies (the orbits of which can be calculated according to time/date) everything has to be dead-on precise - anything not precise and big, big problems happen.
Apart from spying on their own employees, HP also had several journalists targeted and a journalist's father's phone records obtained, by 'prextexting' (read: illegally lying to obtain information).
<xactogy>i'm going to become rich and famous after i invent a device that allows you to stab Roland Piquepaille in the face over the internet
my apologies to <[SA]HatfulOfHollow>
The Pragmatic Programmers sell most of their books as either dead-tree, e-book, or a combo pack where you get 'em both (not to mention the cool beta-book thingy - you get the beta of the book as it's being worked on, then get the full book once it's done, including a dead-tree copy as well if that's what you wanted).
Cracking passwords when you have access to the non-reversible hashed versions of the passwords (aka "/etc/shadow") can be trivially easy on modern hardware, when using a tool such as John the Ripper, or, if you have a lot of spare harddrive space (and RAM), RainbowCrack. If this box was using md5 hashes (most likely), JTR on modern hardware can easily crack 8,000+ passwords a second, which, when combined with advanced password guessing techniques, will most likely find weak passwords within an hour or two.
Well, not a specific place, but you could install Broadcast machine on your server if you wanted to do that.
... Most of you didn't get the point. It's not that you can access the GPU from userland (it depends on that access, but that's not the point). The main point is that that the current gen of programmable GPUs allow you to (theoretically) directly access kernel memory, as pointed out later in the thread by Theo:
> Are these new programable cards capable of reading main memory, which
> OpenBSD would not be able to prevent if machdep.allowaperture were
> set to something other than 0?
Yes, they have DMA engines. If the privilege seperate X server has a
bug, it can still wiggle the IO registers of the card to do DMA to
physical addresses, entirely bypassing system security.
Thus, a resourceful attacker theoretically could get access to kernel memory through anything which allows access to the video card. An unusual and probably difficult-to-exploit hole, but a possible hole none the less.
Rather, it's hate speech, which is a crime as defined in the Canadian Criminal Code.
Well, I don't have a relevant Canadian case, but the law seems pretty explicit on the definition of "hate speech": 318. (1) Every one who advocates or promotes genocide is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years. Definition of "genocide" (2) In this section, "genocide" means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy in whole or in part any identifiable group, namely, (a) killing members of the group; or (b) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction. Consent (3) No proceeding for an offence under this section shall be instituted without the consent of the Attorney General. Definition of "identifiable group" (4) In this section, "identifiable group" means any section of the public distinguished by colour, race, religion, ethnic origin or sexual orientation. R.S., 1985, c. C-46, s. 318; 2004, c. 14, s. 1. Public incitement of hatred 319. (1) Every one who, by communicating statements in any public place, incites hatred against any identifiable group where such incitement is likely to lead to a breach of the peace is guilty of ---- Canadian Criminal Code, sections 318 and 319. Unfortunately I don't have any information on the case, but it seems pretty cut-and-dry to me, similar to what would happen if a newspaper carried hate content (they would most liekly be considered an accessory to the crime).
From the Canadian Criminal Code:
... now, I'm not a judge, but the Criminal code seems pretty clear on this fact. "Black people commit crimes", whether true or untrue (in this case true. Black people commit crimes. So do white people.) does not incite genocide, does not willfully promote hatred, and is covered under 3a. However, "Kill all the niggers" would fall under the definition of hate speech as it expressly promotes genocide.
318. (1) Every one who advocates or promotes genocide is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years.
Definition of "genocide"
(2) In this section, "genocide" means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy in whole or in part any identifiable group, namely,
(a) killing members of the group; or
(b) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction.
Consent
(3) No proceeding for an offence under this section shall be instituted without the consent of the Attorney General.
Definition of "identifiable group"
(4) In this section, "identifiable group" means any section of the public distinguished by colour, race, religion, ethnic origin or sexual orientation.
R.S., 1985, c. C-46, s. 318; 2004, c. 14, s. 1.
Public incitement of hatred
319. (1) Every one who, by communicating statements in any public place, incites hatred against any identifiable group where such incitement is likely to lead to a breach of the peace is guilty of
(a) an indictable offence and is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years; or
(b) an offence punishable on summary conviction.
Wilful promotion of hatred
(2) Every one who, by communicating statements, other than in private conversation, wilfully promotes hatred against any identifiable group is guilty of
(a) an indictable offence and is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years; or
(b) an offence punishable on summary conviction.
Defences
(3) No person shall be convicted of an offence under subsection (2)
(a) if he establishes that the statements communicated were true;
(b) if, in good faith, the person expressed or attempted to establish by an argument an opinion on a religious subject or an opinion based on a belief in a religious text;
(c) if the statements were relevant to any subject of public interest, the discussion of which was for the public benefit, and if on reasonable grounds he believed them to be true; or
(d) if, in good faith, he intended to point out, for the purpose of removal, matters producing or tending to produce feelings of hatred toward an identifiable group in Canada.
It is possible using a program such as nLite to create an XP ISO without the executable itself, although the rendering core (Trident) still needs to be installed unless you want a huge headache (as tons of stuff depends on it).
While it's obvious that if you succeed there is nothing that the government can do about it, a previous poster made the point that if it wasn't illegal they would have no legal way of sending someone to stop you, which is the reason for it being illegal.
Here's the reason. In brief: Games are still being released using the Q3 engine. Carmack doesn't feel it's fair to release the source until after those projects are release, which is understandable.
Epic has moved back the dates for Phase 4 and the Grand Finale. They are September 10th and November 15th respectively. More details here
You can find your flame-sptting video card right here ;)
Why was this modded as troll? He makes a good point, one that isn't trolling at all.
Damnit! Where's the +1 Flamebait option! ;)
It would be easier in the fact that effectively it gives you more desktop space, and without the complete separation of virtual desktops. Say you have a document, a calculator, and an IDE open. You want to use the calculator with both the IDE and the document. With a virtual desktop you couldn't do that, and with a traditional desktop you'd constantly have to be switching, because most likely you'd have the IDE and document fullscreened. With this, you merely put the calculator between the IDE and document, and rotate your view accordingly.