I've always thought it lame to always look for life similar to Earth, when unless the planet is like Earth, there couldn't be such life there.
It seems like we haven't exhausted the possibilities on this planet: What says that life forms based on convection currents of molten iron cannot exist in Earth's core?
In WoW, pressing both the left and right buttons simultaneously means "walk forward". The Mighty Mouse can't click both buttons simultaneously due to its physical design. The Mighty Mouse is a 1.5-button mouse.
Maybe it's a Visual Studio 8 compiler bug. Between Excel 2003 and 2007, Microsoft released Visual Studio 8.
It'll be fun to reverse engineer the patch they'll release and see what the problem actually was. If it's a compiler bug, it would be best for all developers to know.
It wouldn't surprise me if it were a bug in the code generation for/arch:sse. Someone claimed here that on a Pentium Pro it works correctly, suggesting that it could be something related to SSE. Mac Excel 2007 doesn't have the bug, but that is probably compiled with ICC or GCC.
I found the PSO exploit when I was cheating the Dreamcast version of the game. PSO "version 2" added a new packet, known as RcvProgramPatch, that downloaded code to the system. Sega used that packet to download assembly code to the client that checked for some of the cheats we made. The packet stayed in the game through the GameCube version, at which point someone else found it and made the BBA homebrew exploit.
Of course, Sega didn't sign that downloaded code, which is why it worked.
Regarding this savegame thing, it's just dumb. There's no reason for them to use asymmetric cryptography on saved games when symmetric cryptography would have worked equally well. Once someone, anyone, can execute code on the machine, the savegame protection on that system will be broken. The only real protection is to use per-device keys - that is what makes Wii saved games secure, not this asymmetric crypto. Sacrificing player convenience for security.
I can't wait until quantum computers end the reign of the 360 and Wii homebrew security systems.
You're right that you couldn't directly use these emails in court, but that's more because it's hearsay than because it's stolen. However, during discovery, you could subpoena these particular emails to get legally sanctioned copies then use those in court. MediaDefender would have a hard time proving that they don't exist or that the requested emails are irrelevant.
The Chinese government will behave themselves during the Olympics. Attempts to control these kinds of actions by foreigners would result in heat from the rest of the world. They want positive PR, plain and simple. An outward appearance of freedom is more important than actual freedom.
They'll probably crack down once the Olympics are over.
And, if your content is actually valuable, then the large provider's customers will leave and use competitors, the large provider will go bankrupt, and the free market will work without requiring any government intervention.
In most areas, there are exactly three broadband services available: cable, DSL and satellite. Satellite sucks, and cable and DSL are only available from the single local company that has a monopoly.
Cable and DSL are "natural monopolies": it would be very inefficient to have competition. However, precisely because they are a monopoly, the government regulates them.
Not maintaining net neutrality is effectively an abuse of monopoly: there is no free market to correct the situation because the customers have nowhere else to go.
The difference between raw materials and a car is simply arrangement: a car is an arranged form of its materials. The raw materials have value, but probably most of the car's value is in its arrangement. Thus, order has value.
I would think that all economics is derived from the first and second laws of thermodynamics.
It seems to me that the problem has more to do with IPsec's inclusion of the address in its hashes. If the address were ignored by the hash, NAT wouldn't be a problem. To identify senders, a second kind of address could be attached to the packet. This is how Xbox Live works.
How long will it be until all major ISPs disallow incoming TCP connections and UDP packets? The benefits to ISPs are enormous:
1. 70% bandwidth reduction 2. No need for IPv6 because no customer needs their own IP address anymore 3. No need for customers to update software (UDP can be allowed to ISP's DNS servers) 4. Kickbacks from the MAFIAA for ending online piracy 5. 90% of customers would not notice the difference 6. Blizzard and Xbox Live will adapt by necessity 7. There's no way for a competitor to rise up and fill the void 8. Collusion will be overlooked because they're already regulated monopolies 9. Kickbacks from Congress and the NSA because it's much easier to monitor the few servers
I dumped the bad word list stored in the Xbox version of Phantasy Star Online soon after it came out. Linux was in there. It was clearly Microsoft's; the list in the GameCube and Dreamcast versions was much shorter.
If you make a mistake in your job that costs more than your yearly salary to correct, should you get fired?
I think this is an interesting management question, particularly in technical fields. It's so easy for us to make tiny mistakes that end up costing a lot.
I'm sorry, but I've never had a PC that wasn't slowed down when downloading.
The problem is the other way around. If you are playing multimedia, it makes downloads slow. This is because of the way Vista optimizes multimedia playback: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/28/025620 8
I heard that Vista SP1 was really just upgrading Vista users to a non-server version Win2008. Does this mean that the OS version number is changing to 6.1?
I wish Microsoft had made XP SP2 upgrade everyone to Win2003 (NT 5.2).
"Windows XP x64 Edition" is 64-bit, and it works great for me on my laptop. It's actually not really XP - it's a non-server build of Windows 2003. Its Service Pack 2 was released in March, finally adding WPA2 support.
Every Vista install that uses the exploitable driver, you mean.
Except when you consider that you can just package the driver with your malware and issue a command to load it. In some cases, you can get a driver to load well enough even when the victim computer doesn't have that device.
Maybe the MAFIAA is behind this, secretly paying for the damage BitTorrent is doing to itself. BitTorrent could then make a new version that improves usability but also integrates copyright enforcement.
Just a paranoid conspiracy theory that is unlikely to be true.
We haven't even eliminated this solar system for the possibility of life. There could be "fish" floating around in Jupiter. Magma monsters could be floating around in the mantle underneath us.
The only thing we've eliminated in our solar system is the possibility of life like us elsewhere except perhaps a very small area of Mars.
There certainly isn't any other intelligent life with radio capability anywhere around here though.
We're in an annoying period where vehicle control systems can help a bit, but aren't yet good enough to reliably drive cars automatically.
Self-driving cars will never happen, at least not in the foreseeable future. The problem isn't that the technology and software won't be able to do it - it's that product liability will make it infeasible. No human or computer can always prevent a crash caused by another car running a red light. Yet almost certainly the computer's manufacturer would be sued in that situation, just because they have deep pockets.
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I've always thought it lame to always look for life similar to Earth, when unless the planet is like Earth, there couldn't be such life there.
It seems like we haven't exhausted the possibilities on this planet: What says that life forms based on convection currents of molten iron cannot exist in Earth's core?
In WoW, pressing both the left and right buttons simultaneously means "walk forward". The Mighty Mouse can't click both buttons simultaneously due to its physical design. The Mighty Mouse is a 1.5-button mouse.
(Yes, you can walk with the keyboard too.)
Maybe it's a Visual Studio 8 compiler bug. Between Excel 2003 and 2007, Microsoft released Visual Studio 8.
/arch:sse. Someone claimed here that on a Pentium Pro it works correctly, suggesting that it could be something related to SSE. Mac Excel 2007 doesn't have the bug, but that is probably compiled with ICC or GCC.
It'll be fun to reverse engineer the patch they'll release and see what the problem actually was. If it's a compiler bug, it would be best for all developers to know.
It wouldn't surprise me if it were a bug in the code generation for
So, does anyone really believe that piracy costs Canadians about $900 per person per year?
Can the certificate be used to sign drivers for Vista 64? =)
Your site requires a password, by the way.
I found the PSO exploit when I was cheating the Dreamcast version of the game. PSO "version 2" added a new packet, known as RcvProgramPatch, that downloaded code to the system. Sega used that packet to download assembly code to the client that checked for some of the cheats we made. The packet stayed in the game through the GameCube version, at which point someone else found it and made the BBA homebrew exploit.
Of course, Sega didn't sign that downloaded code, which is why it worked.
Regarding this savegame thing, it's just dumb. There's no reason for them to use asymmetric cryptography on saved games when symmetric cryptography would have worked equally well. Once someone, anyone, can execute code on the machine, the savegame protection on that system will be broken. The only real protection is to use per-device keys - that is what makes Wii saved games secure, not this asymmetric crypto. Sacrificing player convenience for security.
I can't wait until quantum computers end the reign of the 360 and Wii homebrew security systems.
You're right that you couldn't directly use these emails in court, but that's more because it's hearsay than because it's stolen. However, during discovery, you could subpoena these particular emails to get legally sanctioned copies then use those in court. MediaDefender would have a hard time proving that they don't exist or that the requested emails are irrelevant.
warning: I'm not a lawyer.
The Chinese government will behave themselves during the Olympics. Attempts to control these kinds of actions by foreigners would result in heat from the rest of the world. They want positive PR, plain and simple. An outward appearance of freedom is more important than actual freedom.
They'll probably crack down once the Olympics are over.
Although it'd been used before FF4, the official line is that the currency is named after Prince Gilbert of Damcyan in FF4.
RMT = real-money trading, as someone else above explained.
In most areas, there are exactly three broadband services available: cable, DSL and satellite. Satellite sucks, and cable and DSL are only available from the single local company that has a monopoly.
Cable and DSL are "natural monopolies": it would be very inefficient to have competition. However, precisely because they are a monopoly, the government regulates them.
Not maintaining net neutrality is effectively an abuse of monopoly: there is no free market to correct the situation because the customers have nowhere else to go.
The difference between raw materials and a car is simply arrangement: a car is an arranged form of its materials. The raw materials have value, but probably most of the car's value is in its arrangement. Thus, order has value.
I would think that all economics is derived from the first and second laws of thermodynamics.
It seems to me that the problem has more to do with IPsec's inclusion of the address in its hashes. If the address were ignored by the hash, NAT wouldn't be a problem. To identify senders, a second kind of address could be attached to the packet. This is how Xbox Live works.
How long will it be until all major ISPs disallow incoming TCP connections and UDP packets? The benefits to ISPs are enormous:
1. 70% bandwidth reduction
2. No need for IPv6 because no customer needs their own IP address anymore
3. No need for customers to update software (UDP can be allowed to ISP's DNS servers)
4. Kickbacks from the MAFIAA for ending online piracy
5. 90% of customers would not notice the difference
6. Blizzard and Xbox Live will adapt by necessity
7. There's no way for a competitor to rise up and fill the void
8. Collusion will be overlooked because they're already regulated monopolies
9. Kickbacks from Congress and the NSA because it's much easier to monitor the few servers
I dumped the bad word list stored in the Xbox version of Phantasy Star Online soon after it came out. Linux was in there. It was clearly Microsoft's; the list in the GameCube and Dreamcast versions was much shorter.
If you make a mistake in your job that costs more than your yearly salary to correct, should you get fired?
I think this is an interesting management question, particularly in technical fields. It's so easy for us to make tiny mistakes that end up costing a lot.
"Shoulder surfing" is usually not the problem. The more common case for stealing passwords is getting a keylogger.
First eyelogger release in 3, 2, 1...
I heard that Vista SP1 was really just upgrading Vista users to a non-server version Win2008. Does this mean that the OS version number is changing to 6.1?
I wish Microsoft had made XP SP2 upgrade everyone to Win2003 (NT 5.2).
"Windows XP x64 Edition" is 64-bit, and it works great for me on my laptop. It's actually not really XP - it's a non-server build of Windows 2003. Its Service Pack 2 was released in March, finally adding WPA2 support.
Except when you consider that you can just package the driver with your malware and issue a command to load it. In some cases, you can get a driver to load well enough even when the victim computer doesn't have that device.
Maybe the MAFIAA is behind this, secretly paying for the damage BitTorrent is doing to itself. BitTorrent could then make a new version that improves usability but also integrates copyright enforcement.
Just a paranoid conspiracy theory that is unlikely to be true.
We haven't even eliminated this solar system for the possibility of life. There could be "fish" floating around in Jupiter. Magma monsters could be floating around in the mantle underneath us.
The only thing we've eliminated in our solar system is the possibility of life like us elsewhere except perhaps a very small area of Mars.
There certainly isn't any other intelligent life with radio capability anywhere around here though.
Self-driving cars will never happen, at least not in the foreseeable future. The problem isn't that the technology and software won't be able to do it - it's that product liability will make it infeasible. No human or computer can always prevent a crash caused by another car running a red light. Yet almost certainly the computer's manufacturer would be sued in that situation, just because they have deep pockets.
Does this mean that if you get a bind-on-equip epic drop, you'll have to file a W-2G form with the IRS?
At that depth, have the Sun's rays been completely occluded by the outer layers of the atmosphere?