You can sleep a little easier knowing that before they even manufacture the first disc with their anti-whatever scheme, a non-descript guy with glasses in his mom's basement somewhere will have crafted a patch that fully ignores it.
Apparently it foils 97% of DVD-copying programs. So whoever made the remaining 3% has already done that
Unless this has a built-in privilege escalation, I don't see how this is true. If it just runs as the user (which it appears to) then you could erase the users information that way, but not the disk.
True, it couldn't erase the disk. But it could send four million spam emails and open a backdoor.
Not all real CDs have the logo visible. I've got a CD here that has the logo only printed inside the case, where you can only see it after you've bought it.
I've also ripped CDs with no logo anywhere that I noticed with no problems.
"echo Please use sudo to run this script" would probably do the job just fine, if Linux starts being widely used by the people who run email attachments.
If a virus can make a phone dial the emergency services, it can presumably also make the phone call the premium-rate phone number the virus writer set up in a foreign country. This could get nasty.
I don't want open source voting machines any more than I want closed-source ones. Okay, we can all see the code and look for trickery, but how do I know that the machine I'm about to vote on is actually using that code?
it would probably help if i knew how to do capital letters and punctuation and i would definitely befaster on a keyboard but this is fun and its really cool when you see an entire word approaching ready to be pointed to with one smooth motion
You don't send the message via the quantum method - all you are sending is the key for a one-time pad cipher. If it's intercepted, you don't use that key, you generate a new one and try to send it again.
Further, damages (in terms of $$$) are easy to calculate...how many hours/months/billable time increments did it take a person to achieve what was destroyed? How much can be got back? Total it out, it's simple math.
Except that if I play a MMORPG, I'm not paying them $15/month or whatever just so that I can get a level 100 character with a +5 Sword of Ultimate Whatever. I'm playing for fun. Of course, it's annoying to lose that stuff, but how much of the total value of playing is lost?
Then the interviewer says something about all the bugs in '95, or in MS software in general, and Gates bristles and say "did you ever here of user error?"--suggesting that there were not bugs, but just people incorrectly using the software and thinking that there are bugs as a result.
Gates blames the users for Windows 95, and that made you think he was a nice person? It gives me the exact opposite impression.
They wouldn't need blockers. All they have to do is turn the thing back on that limits accuracy for people without US military hardware. It's partly this that makes Europe want their own system, I think.
I also seem to remember reading somewhere that they want Galileo to operate on the same frequency as GPS, so the US can't jam Galileo without also jamming GPS.
If things go pop, I restore the things I did back up, reinstall the operating system and applications from CD, download things from the internet as I need them and forget about the junk. (Part of the bloat comes from not deleting foo.tar and foo.tar.gz when I download and unarchive something.
I very rarely delete things. I always worry that I'll want the file again soon, and backing it up to CD is too much bother right now.
I have 14GB in ~/, and I've still got another 20GB to go before I need to delete some useless files or get a new HD. But at the rate of increase, I may well have a new computer by then anyway.
Incidentally, of that 14GB, about 10MB is actually important, and that is backed up.
Could you explain some of these mysterious names to a non-Mac'er?
NeXTStep - operating system that Apple bought and based OS X partly on
PA-RISC, SPARC, 80x86, and 680x0 - assorted CPUs. 68k and 680x0 mean the same thing, and is the range of chips that Macs used to be built on, before they changed to the PPC architecture.
Cocoa - the libraries/environment/whatever (informative, eh?) that NeXTStep used, and MacOS X now uses. Cocoa programs are generally written in Objective-C, but I believe Java is possible.
Carbon - legacy library containing a slightly cleaned-up version of the pre-OS X libraries. It's still used a fair bit though.
There are probably errors here (I make errors a lot) but it's probably not too dreadful.
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The original C&C was definitely released for on the Mac. I know, because I've played it on one.
You can sleep a little easier knowing that before they even manufacture the first disc with their anti-whatever scheme, a non-descript guy with glasses in his mom's basement somewhere will have crafted a patch that fully ignores it. Apparently it foils 97% of DVD-copying programs. So whoever made the remaining 3% has already done that
True, it couldn't erase the disk. But it could send four million spam emails and open a backdoor.
The lions didn't eat the gazelles. Why would they, when they could eat unicorn instead?
I'd rather know which one is page 0.
I've also ripped CDs with no logo anywhere that I noticed with no problems.
I thought the scientists had lost count and just called it umpteenium.
"echo Please use sudo to run this script" would probably do the job just fine, if Linux starts being widely used by the people who run email attachments.
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If a virus can make a phone dial the emergency services, it can presumably also make the phone call the premium-rate phone number the virus writer set up in a foreign country. This could get nasty.
I don't want open source voting machines any more than I want closed-source ones. Okay, we can all see the code and look for trickery, but how do I know that the machine I'm about to vote on is actually using that code?
I'm looking forward to the next stage, where the badges will do all the communication, so I can be sociable while browsing the web, without noticing.
I'd consider the idiots who let someone through security on the strength of a card that doesn't really prove anything to be liable.
When you downloaded this post, you gave me the right to destroy your computer.
If most people look on it that way, the trademark is probably generic.
it would probably help if i knew how to do capital letters and punctuation and i would definitely befaster on a keyboard but this is fun and its really cool when you see an entire word approaching ready to be pointed to with one smooth motion
You don't send the message via the quantum method - all you are sending is the key for a one-time pad cipher. If it's intercepted, you don't use that key, you generate a new one and try to send it again.
If someone has a 24x CD burner, they're actually downloading 24 movies. Or was that the RIAA? I forget.
I also seem to remember reading somewhere that they want Galileo to operate on the same frequency as GPS, so the US can't jam Galileo without also jamming GPS.
If things go pop, I restore the things I did back up, reinstall the operating system and applications from CD, download things from the internet as I need them and forget about the junk. (Part of the bloat comes from not deleting foo.tar and foo.tar.gz when I download and unarchive something.
I have 14GB in ~/, and I've still got another 20GB to go before I need to delete some useless files or get a new HD. But at the rate of increase, I may well have a new computer by then anyway.
Incidentally, of that 14GB, about 10MB is actually important, and that is backed up.
NeXTStep - operating system that Apple bought and based OS X partly on
PA-RISC, SPARC, 80x86, and 680x0 - assorted CPUs. 68k and 680x0 mean the same thing, and is the range of chips that Macs used to be built on, before they changed to the PPC architecture.
Cocoa - the libraries/environment/whatever (informative, eh?) that NeXTStep used, and MacOS X now uses. Cocoa programs are generally written in Objective-C, but I believe Java is possible.
Carbon - legacy library containing a slightly cleaned-up version of the pre-OS X libraries. It's still used a fair bit though.
There are probably errors here (I make errors a lot) but it's probably not too dreadful.