"Why would I want to sell the book back (for a small fraction of the cost) when I can keep it and refer to it later on in the future[?]"
When it's a terrible reference, or it would only be taking up space, etc. I have a bunch of books from my programming classes that are great for reading through every so often, but if I want to read up on anything outside my field of choice, it's off to the library. Libraries are great for books that you hardly ever read - why keep a book if you only read it twice?
(Disclaimer: Reference books are good to have on hand, but as a coder, when are you going to be rummaging through your collection in search of a psychology reference book?)
"Especially the ones where you could die really easily."
I had a set where - no matter what set of choices I made - I always was killed by ninjas. No, seriously; "Oh no, there's a tornado outside! Do you: get into the storm cellar (turn to page 54 and be killed by ninjas hiding in the storm cellar) or face it head on (turn to page 86 and be killed by ninjas falling out of the tornado)?
Unfortunately, they're not the only ones. Ask university students in the US, and I'd bet that around half wouldn't be able to tell you much about the Kent State shootings (I mean, I knew about them, but I had to look up the name). Makes you wonder about other things you aren't taught about...
"Although you might have concerns about what might potentially be going on, those potentials are not actually being realized and if you could see what was going on, you would be reassured just like everyone else," he says.
You can't be serious. He's a lawyer and he says this?
If what is really going on isn't what might potentially be going on, why not get rid of the potentially? Give a system just as much power as it needs, but no more. Of course, some might say that this system doesn't need any power...
"From early accounts, it sounds an awful lot like Gdrive, the still-as-yet-publicly-unannounced storage service from Google."
So wait, you're comparing Microsoft's only-barely-announced product with Google's as-yet-unannounced product? How about we wait for actual implemented features before we get all excited?
Nevermind, I can't help myself.
Personally, the GDrive would be more helpful to me, because I'm storing so much of my information with Google anyway. The more I have invested in a system, the more that system is worth to me, and all that. Of course, someone who's using Hotmail and all the other Microsoft services would most likely be better served with their offering, if they're integrated.
(but if you just haven't gotten an invitation, that's no excuse. email me and I'll send one to you.)
Also - anyone thinking the 40 'conspiring' devices makes it impractical to break HDCP/HDMI - think again. It just means 40 (or less) like minded hackers have to get together - not particularly hard to imagine these days.
Furthermore, as Ed notes, once one key is found, we can generate keys on the fly (if I read that right. if not, we can still get quite a few keys before they can invalidate them all). At that point, an intelligent hacker can build a system to plug into anything with HDCP and determine the key within minutes (generate 40 new keys, sync 40 times, do the algebra, and now you know).
Why don't these people understand that if you give people the key and the mechanism for unlocking things (both contained in the firmware/hardware for these devices, at this point), you can't keep them secret for long?
Not to be pedantic, but the GP has a point: "leaked" memory is memory the program doesn't know about anymore, lost in the bowels of the machine. This memory is being used to cache the pages in history (to make the "back" functionality faster). It isn't leaked, it's working as intended.
Now, whether this is the right thing to do or not is pretty contested, but that's the design.
Absolutely! I'm definitely excited about the new controller, but I'm also excited about bringing home four systems (NES/SNES/N64/Rev, don't count the Cube because I already have one) instead of one.
For the person who's getting the Revolution as their first system, they have loads of games that they might choose from to buy. That's what I was talking about.
Actually, the Rev (and the PS3, for that matter) will start with the full library of GameCube games and whatever NES/SNES/N64/Sega/etc. games Nintendo wants to add backwards compatibility for.
Needless to say, I'm sure as hell glad I don't have AT&T, because it saves me the trouble of cancelling my account and writing a nasty letter about why. As an earlier poster wrote, your internet connection almost surely passes through AT&T controlled lines, and that's all they need.
To the rest of your post: the general public doesn't care about anything but convenience and annoyance. I mean, the British had started killing people in the colonies before they got serious about splitting. You think that people in this country (more lazy, uninformed, and apathetic than most) are going to care about rights if they can still get their 5,000 cable channels and a pizza? We'll need headlines of "500 people killed during New York riots by national guard" and such before the general public even realizes what's going on.
On a different article, a former Marine talked about the strategic difficulties in waging a civil war against the current gov't; it's practically impossible without a centralized, intelligent command structure. Think we're going to be able to set one of those up before our communications are shut down?
How much will it take? How far does the government have to go before everyone says, "Enough!" and finally recognizes the greater danger that we're all in? How badly does our government have to act before people take up the call to arms and start rioting in the streets of this outrageous behavior?
The general public doesn't act unless it is personally harmed. You've heard the "they came for the Jews, but I didn't speak up, for I wasn't a Jew" piece, right? Same deal.
I figured - I mean, it depends on how they store their strings, definitely. At the very least, you could open up a plaintext editor (vim or whatever) and change it to another name with the same length, but you'd have to make sure you changed it wherever it appeared.
Even so, it doesn't fix the underlying problem: D-Link is using level (my vocab escapes me) 1 NTP servers for mass-produced client hardware, with only a firmware way of changing them. There are several problems just there that won't be fixed by changing this one name.
4. If you download a firmware file from D-Link, it is often a ARJ archive. unpack that and run strings. If you see GPS.dix.dk in there, please use another version. If the firmware you run is older than about a month, please update it. It would be nice if someone would just hack the newest firmware update to change/remove that DNS name, and send it back to D-Link so they have no reason to ignore your plea. Of course, the design you suggested (point at a D-Link-controlled name so they have control over it without using firmware updates) is the best way to go.
I wish you the best of luck at shutting this down, and hope that it doesn't come to needing to drop the service.
The problem with pointing to the apparent improbability of us even being here as evidence of supernatural intervention is that if we weren't here, we wouldn't be able to ask such a question.
In other words, our ability to even consider our existence implies that everything worked out, so even if the probability was extremely small, it must have worked out at least this once for us to be here. Perhaps there are millions of other universes where life can't exist; we don't really know.
Perhaps a troll, but depending on who you ask, it might be better phrased thus: God loves you enough to let you make your own choice as to whether you'd like to spend eternity with him or not.
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Slashdot propogates YOU!
That's a good thing - most people here won't be doing any propagating... Huh?
*nudge, nudge, wink, wink*
Aw...
Virt should apply, with his Blood of Ganon. That would be an awesome one to play.
I had wondered if someone would correct the franglais here...
"Why would I want to sell the book back (for a small fraction of the cost) when I can keep it and refer to it later on in the future[?]"
When it's a terrible reference, or it would only be taking up space, etc. I have a bunch of books from my programming classes that are great for reading through every so often, but if I want to read up on anything outside my field of choice, it's off to the library. Libraries are great for books that you hardly ever read - why keep a book if you only read it twice?
(Disclaimer: Reference books are good to have on hand, but as a coder, when are you going to be rummaging through your collection in search of a psychology reference book?)
"Especially the ones where you could die really easily."
I had a set where - no matter what set of choices I made - I always was killed by ninjas. No, seriously; "Oh no, there's a tornado outside! Do you: get into the storm cellar (turn to page 54 and be killed by ninjas hiding in the storm cellar) or face it head on (turn to page 86 and be killed by ninjas falling out of the tornado)?
Madness, I tell you.
Unfortunately, they're not the only ones. Ask university students in the US, and I'd bet that around half wouldn't be able to tell you much about the Kent State shootings (I mean, I knew about them, but I had to look up the name). Makes you wonder about other things you aren't taught about...
If what is really going on isn't what might potentially be going on, why not get rid of the potentially? Give a system just as much power as it needs, but no more. Of course, some might say that this system doesn't need any power...
I'm not sure if that's irony or not; you're being pretty ambiguous there...
Now you've met one that hasn't.
15 bonus points for the URL parameters, there. I vote for them to be included in image search.
"From early accounts, it sounds an awful lot like Gdrive, the still-as-yet-publicly-unannounced storage service from Google."
So wait, you're comparing Microsoft's only-barely-announced product with Google's as-yet-unannounced product? How about we wait for actual implemented features before we get all excited?
Nevermind, I can't help myself.
Personally, the GDrive would be more helpful to me, because I'm storing so much of my information with Google anyway. The more I have invested in a system, the more that system is worth to me, and all that. Of course, someone who's using Hotmail and all the other Microsoft services would most likely be better served with their offering, if they're integrated.
(but if you just haven't gotten an invitation, that's no excuse. email me and I'll send one to you.)
Also - anyone thinking the 40 'conspiring' devices makes it impractical to break HDCP/HDMI - think again. It just means 40 (or less) like minded hackers have to get together - not particularly hard to imagine these days.
Furthermore, as Ed notes, once one key is found, we can generate keys on the fly (if I read that right. if not, we can still get quite a few keys before they can invalidate them all). At that point, an intelligent hacker can build a system to plug into anything with HDCP and determine the key within minutes (generate 40 new keys, sync 40 times, do the algebra, and now you know).
Why don't these people understand that if you give people the key and the mechanism for unlocking things (both contained in the firmware/hardware for these devices, at this point), you can't keep them secret for long?
Not to be pedantic, but the GP has a point: "leaked" memory is memory the program doesn't know about anymore, lost in the bowels of the machine. This memory is being used to cache the pages in history (to make the "back" functionality faster). It isn't leaked, it's working as intended.
Now, whether this is the right thing to do or not is pretty contested, but that's the design.
Ditto for the U.S.
Absolutely! I'm definitely excited about the new controller, but I'm also excited about bringing home four systems (NES/SNES/N64/Rev, don't count the Cube because I already have one) instead of one.
For the person who's getting the Revolution as their first system, they have loads of games that they might choose from to buy. That's what I was talking about.
Actually, the Rev (and the PS3, for that matter) will start with the full library of GameCube games and whatever NES/SNES/N64/Sega/etc. games Nintendo wants to add backwards compatibility for.
:)
It's an exciting time
Needless to say, I'm sure as hell glad I don't have AT&T, because it saves me the trouble of cancelling my account and writing a nasty letter about why.
As an earlier poster wrote, your internet connection almost surely passes through AT&T controlled lines, and that's all they need.
To the rest of your post: the general public doesn't care about anything but convenience and annoyance. I mean, the British had started killing people in the colonies before they got serious about splitting. You think that people in this country (more lazy, uninformed, and apathetic than most) are going to care about rights if they can still get their 5,000 cable channels and a pizza? We'll need headlines of "500 people killed during New York riots by national guard" and such before the general public even realizes what's going on.
On a different article, a former Marine talked about the strategic difficulties in waging a civil war against the current gov't; it's practically impossible without a centralized, intelligent command structure. Think we're going to be able to set one of those up before our communications are shut down?
How much will it take? How far does the government have to go before everyone says, "Enough!" and finally recognizes the greater danger that we're all in? How badly does our government have to act before people take up the call to arms and start rioting in the streets of this outrageous behavior?
The general public doesn't act unless it is personally harmed. You've heard the "they came for the Jews, but I didn't speak up, for I wasn't a Jew" piece, right? Same deal.
I figured - I mean, it depends on how they store their strings, definitely. At the very least, you could open up a plaintext editor (vim or whatever) and change it to another name with the same length, but you'd have to make sure you changed it wherever it appeared.
Even so, it doesn't fix the underlying problem: D-Link is using level (my vocab escapes me) 1 NTP servers for mass-produced client hardware, with only a firmware way of changing them. There are several problems just there that won't be fixed by changing this one name.
4. If you download a firmware file from D-Link, it is often a ARJ archive. unpack that and run strings. If you see GPS.dix.dk in there, please use another version. If the firmware you run is older than about a month, please update it.
It would be nice if someone would just hack the newest firmware update to change/remove that DNS name, and send it back to D-Link so they have no reason to ignore your plea. Of course, the design you suggested (point at a D-Link-controlled name so they have control over it without using firmware updates) is the best way to go.
I wish you the best of luck at shutting this down, and hope that it doesn't come to needing to drop the service.
Looks good to me, although I don't know how much it will help...
The problem with pointing to the apparent improbability of us even being here as evidence of supernatural intervention is that if we weren't here, we wouldn't be able to ask such a question.
In other words, our ability to even consider our existence implies that everything worked out, so even if the probability was extremely small, it must have worked out at least this once for us to be here. Perhaps there are millions of other universes where life can't exist; we don't really know.
Perhaps a troll, but depending on who you ask, it might be better phrased thus: God loves you enough to let you make your own choice as to whether you'd like to spend eternity with him or not.
That is all.
That is all.