Why not just use the existing mechanism of personal certificates/digital IDs? These achieve the same effect, but without the requirement of a lookup on a centralised database. ie, the certificate holds all the required information, and is digitally signed by a trusted party which has supposudly verified the information.
As everyone has this trusted party's public key (ie Verisign), they can verify the information.
All the same benifits, without the need of some central database. If you dont trust verisign, or don't like their business practices, then just become a CA yourself and work in exactly the same way. It is much more flexible than a central online database.
Given that more people complain that windows isnt 'secure by default' and people arent patching their machines, I really think this is the best decision.
Well given that sp2 hasnt been released yet I dont think you should be so quick to jump up and down about it not being included. Im sure MS will roll this in once its out. They would like their product to be at its most updatedness on everyones machine. They dont have much to gain from people running outdated copies.
Well to be honest I put more trust in Intel after this incident. Afterall, they were quick to admit their mistake, and are prepared to compensate the manufacturers for any loss.
Id have a lot less trust if they tried to deny it for ages, until theyre eventually forced to admit the mistake and then not want to compensate people for their losses.
Of course, with the problem being that the motherboards prevent booting, I suspect its not something they could hide for long - so they really didnt have much choice.
I dont know about this article, but at least a couple of the articles i have read on this have mentioned that scientists are wacthing him closely because of that very reason.
Yeah, Visual Assist was what I was referring to with the 'wavy red lines' etc. It improves the intellisense heaps and highlighting heaps. You barely need to remember variable names, just the first few letters and it'll be pretty good at guessing what you want. Makes programming a hell of a lot easier for me at least - when working on big projects with probably too many global variables than it should have.
Couldn't agree more. Im often ammused at people who seem to think vi and grep etc is all they need for programming. And are too stubborn to look at anything else. Pretty much 100% of the time these people have never tried VS, and it shows.
Perhaps if they did, they might just realise how much their productivity increases. Being able to use tab completion, seeing all members of a class/struct as you type, little wavy lines under invalid variables (with addins), being able to just place a breakpoint anywhere in their code as they are typing etc etc etc the list is pretty much endless, the little things that they are continuing to add are so minor it is clear they are nearing perfection.
And when debugging, you can drag the current execution spot up a few lines, change some code, then let it run over the spot again without re-compiling or restarting the process! Thats fuckin unbelievable.
The development tools under windows blow everything else out of the water. Coupled with some cool other tools from compuware etc, and youve got yourself an environment that is very highly unlikely to be replicated under a free OS simply due to the time and effort and research and money required to build such a thing.
The definition of a worm isn't to do with whether or not it needs a user to run it - its just about whether it propgates via a network by itself rather than having users do the spreading.
A virus hides itself in other executables and runs itself via proxy with the user not realising it. But it gernerally requires the user to do the distribution (generally without realising it).
A trojan is simply a program which is malicous but pretends to be something else. If it happens to spread itself when run that doesn't make it a worm or a virus, but just a self spreading trojan. It would be closer to a trojan-slash-worm than a virus.
automatically display the section of source in question
errr.... how exactly do we know what lines are in question?
What he means is the list will allow you to jump to the line the TODO/error occurs on by just doubleclicking the item in the list. Something a stupid grep script couldnt do.
"heard" its supposed to be great? Not meaning to troll or anything, but you really should try it to see for yourself. Being a user of vs.net myself, it pains me to hear of developers still using anything but that:P It beats any other IDE hands down, and the only people I hear claiming that emacs/vi/grep/make etc is all they need are people that have never actually tried vs. Well at least give it a go, you can always go back to emacs. I think Microsoft has a free preview available, or at least used to.
all digital watermarking schemes are useless, as well as "subtle pixel changes", as these will certainly be lost as the camcorder encodes the movie into whatever format is being used
The idea of a watermark is that this info isn't lost. As I said, the 'subtle pixel changes' (or whatever they use - probably more like a block of screen slightly darker than the original film etc) are done over and over again, so that while a lot would get lost, when averaged over a large area for a long period of time, you can restore the intended data.
Those images are for the projector operators to know when to change reels. (or something similar). Why do you think its halfway through the film?
If it was just a single dot like that on one frame, it would be incredibly easy to remove. Have a read up on watermarks. With a couple hour long movie, its very easy to make hundres of subtle pixel changes throughout the entire length of the movie. There is bound to be a fair bit of loss, but with 2 hrs worth of data, you can average it out and obtain a serial/watermark quite reliably.
Still, if you're a snazzy dresser and you wear clothing that tends to need ironing and you're a single person, I suppose this is a decent product.
What does being single have to do with it? Because when you have a girlfriend/wife you make her do it? Or perhaps you don't need to iron once you get hooked up?
Yeah, except when the hacked client just renders stuff at half the resolution or lower quality textures to get faster throughput and higher stats. Then it gets spread on p2p programs so theres a hell of a lot of people running the client.
People examining the frames wont notice the lower res, yet the magic 3 'hacked' frames will be hit quite often.
repository 1. See data dictionary. 2. The core of a CASE tool, typically a DBMS where all development documents are stored.
Shit, seems like calling it a '..source database' isn't too far off the mark for a news outlet. Better than 'the fabric of the internet' or something gay.
I think the point he is making is the precednt it might set will disallow other content-based advertising, including that you actually may 'want'(eg. ads in the opera browser). But I for one think that should be outlawed as well.
But these companies are making money off of someone elses content, and the advertising/incentive etc to get them to the site in the first place. If you choose to open up an ad when you visit a site, that is fine.
But this software automatically opens up (competing) ads based on the content of someone elses site. So in a way, its kind of stealing content, or at least the 'vibe' of a site. ie, the author may go to a lot of trouble to make their site give people the incentive to buy things advertised, and this software is effectively stealing that.
I think this type of software should be illegal, even if you want it, because as I outlined above, it is similar to stealing. This includes ads in the opera browser etc.
Or they do what some are already doing, and looking for keywords in ICQ/messenger/e-mails/key presses and displaying ads based on that, so theres no one to sue them.
Unfortuantly probably a sizable chunk of companies which advertise through this spyware crap aren't even aware thats how their ads are being displayed.
And if they are, its easy enough for the spyware companies to sign up for one of the many web page banner ad services and display those instead. The banner ad companies will not be immediately aware that a particular id is not being displayed on a web page, and is instead being 'pinged' by a victims comp. When they do become aware, its a simple matter of getting a new id and distributing it to all the compromised machines through their auto updating features they all seem to have.
And do they adjust by giving you more support under the arch of your foot, or increasing the 'suspension' under your heel? You might adjust the way you plant your foot down, but you cant dynamically physically change the support around your foot.
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Why not just use the existing mechanism of personal certificates/digital IDs? These achieve the same effect, but without the requirement of a lookup on a centralised database. ie, the certificate holds all the required information, and is digitally signed by a trusted party which has supposudly verified the information.
As everyone has this trusted party's public key (ie Verisign), they can verify the information.
All the same benifits, without the need of some central database. If you dont trust verisign, or don't like their business practices, then just become a CA yourself and work in exactly the same way. It is much more flexible than a central online database.
Given that more people complain that windows isnt 'secure by default' and people arent patching their machines, I really think this is the best decision.
Well given that sp2 hasnt been released yet I dont think you should be so quick to jump up and down about it not being included. Im sure MS will roll this in once its out. They would like their product to be at its most updatedness on everyones machine. They dont have much to gain from people running outdated copies.
Well to be honest I put more trust in Intel after this incident. Afterall, they were quick to admit their mistake, and are prepared to compensate the manufacturers for any loss.
Id have a lot less trust if they tried to deny it for ages, until theyre eventually forced to admit the mistake and then not want to compensate people for their losses.
Of course, with the problem being that the motherboards prevent booting, I suspect its not something they could hide for long - so they really didnt have much choice.
I dont know about this article, but at least a couple of the articles i have read on this have mentioned that scientists are wacthing him closely because of that very reason.
Yeah, Visual Assist was what I was referring to with the 'wavy red lines' etc. It improves the intellisense heaps and highlighting heaps. You barely need to remember variable names, just the first few letters and it'll be pretty good at guessing what you want. Makes programming a hell of a lot easier for me at least - when working on big projects with probably too many global variables than it should have.
Couldn't agree more. Im often ammused at people who seem to think vi and grep etc is all they need for programming. And are too stubborn to look at anything else. Pretty much 100% of the time these people have never tried VS, and it shows.
Perhaps if they did, they might just realise how much their productivity increases. Being able to use tab completion, seeing all members of a class/struct as you type, little wavy lines under invalid variables (with addins), being able to just place a breakpoint anywhere in their code as they are typing etc etc etc the list is pretty much endless, the little things that they are continuing to add are so minor it is clear they are nearing perfection.
And when debugging, you can drag the current execution spot up a few lines, change some code, then let it run over the spot again without re-compiling or restarting the process! Thats fuckin unbelievable.
The development tools under windows blow everything else out of the water. Coupled with some cool other tools from compuware etc, and youve got yourself an environment that is very highly unlikely to be replicated under a free OS simply due to the time and effort and research and money required to build such a thing.
No.. that would make it a trojan.
The definition of a worm isn't to do with whether or not it needs a user to run it - its just about whether it propgates via a network by itself rather than having users do the spreading.
A virus hides itself in other executables and runs itself via proxy with the user not realising it. But it gernerally requires the user to do the distribution (generally without realising it).
A trojan is simply a program which is malicous but pretends to be something else. If it happens to spread itself when run that doesn't make it a worm or a virus, but just a self spreading trojan. It would be closer to a trojan-slash-worm than a virus.
automatically display the section of source in question
errr.... how exactly do we know what lines are in question?
What he means is the list will allow you to jump to the line the TODO/error occurs on by just doubleclicking the item in the list. Something a stupid grep script couldnt do.
I've heard VisualStudio is supposed to be great
:P It beats any other IDE hands down, and the only people I hear claiming that emacs/vi/grep/make etc is all they need are people that have never actually tried vs. Well at least give it a go, you can always go back to emacs. I think Microsoft has a free preview available, or at least used to.
"heard" its supposed to be great? Not meaning to troll or anything, but you really should try it to see for yourself. Being a user of vs.net myself, it pains me to hear of developers still using anything but that
all digital watermarking schemes are useless, as well as "subtle pixel changes", as these will certainly be lost as the camcorder encodes the movie into whatever format is being used
The idea of a watermark is that this info isn't lost. As I said, the 'subtle pixel changes' (or whatever they use - probably more like a block of screen slightly darker than the original film etc) are done over and over again, so that while a lot would get lost, when averaged over a large area for a long period of time, you can restore the intended data.
Those images are for the projector operators to know when to change reels. (or something similar). Why do you think its halfway through the film?
If it was just a single dot like that on one frame, it would be incredibly easy to remove. Have a read up on watermarks. With a couple hour long movie, its very easy to make hundres of subtle pixel changes throughout the entire length of the movie. There is bound to be a fair bit of loss, but with 2 hrs worth of data, you can average it out and obtain a serial/watermark quite reliably.
so why not do both? it gets screened more than once a day.
Besides, Im sure most younger people would give someone more cred for pirating a movie than busting someone doing it.
Still, if you're a snazzy dresser and you wear clothing that tends to need ironing and you're a single person, I suppose this is a decent product.
What does being single have to do with it? Because when you have a girlfriend/wife you make her do it? Or perhaps you don't need to iron once you get hooked up?
Yeah, except when the hacked client just renders stuff at half the resolution or lower quality textures to get faster throughput and higher stats. Then it gets spread on p2p programs so theres a hell of a lot of people running the client.
People examining the frames wont notice the lower res, yet the magic 3 'hacked' frames will be hit quite often.
Problem *not* solved, Im afraid.
At $450,000? I would sell it of course.
A 100Mbits router is sufficient for me, I could make a lot more use of 450,000 bucks.
Does his super geek powers include the ability to frist post?
that should have read:
/database/ See data dictionary. /programming/ The core of a CASE tool, typically a DBMS where all development documents are stored.
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"CVS repository."
repository
1. See data dictionary.
2. The core of a CASE tool, typically a DBMS where all development documents are stored.
Shit, seems like calling it a '..source database' isn't too far off the mark for a news outlet. Better than 'the fabric of the internet' or something gay.
give these guys a break.
I think the point he is making is the precednt it might set will disallow other content-based advertising, including that you actually may 'want'(eg. ads in the opera browser). But I for one think that should be outlawed as well.
But these companies are making money off of someone elses content, and the advertising/incentive etc to get them to the site in the first place. If you choose to open up an ad when you visit a site, that is fine.
But this software automatically opens up (competing) ads based on the content of someone elses site. So in a way, its kind of stealing content, or at least the 'vibe' of a site. ie, the author may go to a lot of trouble to make their site give people the incentive to buy things advertised, and this software is effectively stealing that.
I think this type of software should be illegal, even if you want it, because as I outlined above, it is similar to stealing. This includes ads in the opera browser etc.
Or they do what some are already doing, and looking for keywords in ICQ/messenger/e-mails/key presses and displaying ads based on that, so theres no one to sue them.
Unfortuantly probably a sizable chunk of companies which advertise through this spyware crap aren't even aware thats how their ads are being displayed.
And if they are, its easy enough for the spyware companies to sign up for one of the many web page banner ad services and display those instead. The banner ad companies will not be immediately aware that a particular id is not being displayed on a web page, and is instead being 'pinged' by a victims comp. When they do become aware, its a simple matter of getting a new id and distributing it to all the compromised machines through their auto updating features they all seem to have.
And do they adjust by giving you more support under the arch of your foot, or increasing the 'suspension' under your heel? You might adjust the way you plant your foot down, but you cant dynamically physically change the support around your foot.
Not only highly inaccurate (IE?), but also covered by Slashdot two days ago.
New Windows Worm on the Loose
Stupidest...story...ever...