The point the OP was trying to say was that if the error is in the FPU, that isn't used for integer calculations at all, and so wouldn't be exercised by security code. I don't know if this is true, but for instance RSA in theory is all integers.
What I want to know is whether I can get something that's the equivalent of a mortgage for this. In other words, use the drive itself for collateral. Do they offer this service?
All apple computers now ship with two button mice, and have for a while. This doesn't apply to their laptops, does it?
but really you should be just copying and then manually deleting after confirming that your files moved properly. What? I think this is a dumb statement. Why should I check? The system can check a lot easier than I can, it should be it's job.
In many places, this is a dumb idea, as there is enough traffic that one can reasonably stay in the "passing lane" for a rather long time. It's probably safer than passing someone, changing lanes, waiting 30 seconds to catch up to the next car, changing lanes, passing, changing lanes, etc.
This is true even on interstates on what would otherwise be the middle of nowhere, especially when the 18-wheelers are out in force.
This article is tagged "thief". I thought it was standard/. wisdom that copyright infringement isn't theft?
Anyway, are we sure that the text is from Wikipedia, and not both from a third source? It's probably unlikely, but "they copied from Wikipedia" is far from the only explanation.
Or when the Nasa describes Gagarin as the first 'european' in space.
Many people consider the dividing line between Europe and Asia to be well within Russia, to the East of where Gagarin is from. It's not totally unreasonable, and may be a more correct description than 'asian'.
I agree that the claims are probably BS. I saw the article on CNN yesterday afternoon and was skeptical, though not dismissive -- it is definitely not out of the question that Da Vinci would do something like that. But there's a link to a MP3 of the piece above, and that dropped the credibility down a bit IMO. It is very sparse, and from my personal aesthetic point of view... I sorta think Da Vinci could have done a bit better, no?;-)
I thought that Da Vinci was smart enough to embedd some DRM into his paintings.
Oh, he clearly was; you're just backwards. The Last Supper is actually the song, and the painting is the DRM. It lasted 500 years, which is pretty darn good for a DRM scheme too.
Without a clef, a staff is totally meaningless and carries no information.
What? It still carries information -- intervals. I don't think it's complete because not all notes are a whole step apart, but it's still way more than "no information".
Well, I suppose you could trace through the execution of what Linux would do on paper since it's open source. But I don't think that would really work.
One important difference that I've only recently picked up is that Time Machine is actually intended for backup purposes: you have to do it on a separate drive. Shadow copy, I believe, works on the same volume.
What you're using it for will greatly influence which of those approaches is right for you. If you want a backup, Time Machine is more what you want, because it protects you against drive failures. If you're like me and want a versioning file system, shadow copy is much closer to what you want, though still not completely there.
(I was all excited that features like what I want are finally becoming somewhat commonplace, being in both Vista and OS X 10.5, but was disappointed to learn that Time Machine isn't really what I want at all. Oh well...)
Let's face it, most action games are about force. Even when confronted with overwhelmingly powerful enemies, your only option is to avoid their killing shots while grinding away at them or searching for their vulnerable spots. In stealth play the idea is to never even let the enemies know you're there, and it requires a completely different approach from the usual Rambo-style mayhem. Best-known early example: Thief: The Dark Project, 1998. First use: unknown.
Really? Not Metal Gear? 1987 for the original, or also 1998 (according to Wikipedia, two months before Thief: The Dark Project) for Metal Gear Solid?
you aren't going to be getting the goodness from that $250 graphics card you just picked up, are you (barring two monitors I guess) More than two. The 8800 can drive two monitors itself. You'd need three before you would have to fall back to the motherboard's.
[I apologize for the long post, but I'm procrastinating from vital schoolwork and this is as good of a way as any to do so.]
Okay, this argument has come up in most Vista articles here. After one of them about a month ago, I started logging every UAC prompt I've gotten, because I didn't believe that Vista actually prompts for *that* much more than what you would get on other systems. I cannot compare with what OS X does, but I can somewhat compare with what Sudo does on Linux. These comparisons are not completely fair, because I'm running Vista in the normal setup, with the almost-admin user, but I have no reason to believe that there would be many more prompts with a limited account.
Since I started logging, I have gotten 72 UAC prompts in 25 days I have spent most of my time booted to Windows. I'll break down the prompts in a few ways.
First, by reason: * 29 prompts were for program installations or updates, things that would require 'sudo emerge' or whatever on Linux. 10 of these prompts were while starting Firefox; I'm running the Alpha version, and get prompted to update to the latest nightly each time I run it. 4 of them were from trying to install one particular program, it's patch, and trying to work around a couple compatibility issues. One prompt was for Windows Update, to update Vista itself. * 10 prompts were from when I logged in and this buggy hardware monitor program that I have ran. For some reason, it requests elevation. (Then, after running for a while, pegs one of my cores and I kill it. One of these days I'll remove it from the startup sequence...) * 10 prompts were from enabling and disabling my NIC. I was having network problems for about a week, and was trying to diagnose. (This is essentially doing 'ifconfig eth0 down/up' in Linux, except that it tries to get a new DHCP address upon up, and I don't recall if ifconfig does this. ) * 8 prompts were from when I was trying to solve a weird permissions issue when I was trying to delete something. This involved various permutations of trying to take ownership of the file, changing permissions, doing something in the Users dialog, etc. * 5 prompts were from opening the anti-virus dialog * 2 prompts were for OKing software for the firewall * 2 prompts were from doing some process management stuff; one from instructing task manager to show all processes, and one from running ProcessExplorer in admin mode, probably to try to figure out what program was holding a handle open to a USB drive. * 1 prompt was from messing with the Steam service * 1 prompt was from opening regedit * 1 prompt was from opening the drive format dialog so I could see the options in it * 1 prompt was from a user environment variable change. This is not entirely necessary -- a user doesn't need admin rights to change them. However, the dialog Windows provides to do so involves both user-local and system-wide environment variables, and doesn't appear to provide a way to access it with the latter in read-only mode, hence the elevation request. (XP does BTW.) * 1 prompt was for something TrueCrypt related, but I'm not sure exactly what * 1 prompt was for something that I have no clue about, because I got distracted before recording what caused it and forgot...and 2 that I must have thought I counted but didn't. Oops.
Now, let's compare with what would have happened on Linux:
29 program installations. Assuming you're like my impression of most Linux users, you're using something like Portage or Apt to install programs, which means you're doing it as root, and need to sudo. In Linux it is usually possible to install programs locally, usually by downloading the source, doing/.configure with the appropriate options, and then building. However, when doing so, you have to worry about dependencies and such yourself -- the exact thing that made Linux an absolute PITA to use before distributions started widely using package management stuff. Because of this, I'm going to count installing
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The point the OP was trying to say was that if the error is in the FPU, that isn't used for integer calculations at all, and so wouldn't be exercised by security code. I don't know if this is true, but for instance RSA in theory is all integers.
Extending the rules of war to an enemy who has no intention of following them is fucking asinine.
Because the way to show that we are better than them, more moral than them, is to stoop to their level?
In fact, I would say it's exactly when you're fighting someone who won't follow the rules of war that they become the most important.
Or the Duke LaCross case
"Are the rest of the volunteers likely to be hot, naked chicks?"
After reading this part of the discussion, I'm not sure that would work out so well.
What I want to know is whether I can get something that's the equivalent of a mortgage for this. In other words, use the drive itself for collateral. Do they offer this service?
Yeah, because after all, the XP box I'm on hasn't been up since 10/24/2007 2:02 AM, when it was automatically rebooted for updates.
In fact, I would be hard-pressed to think of a time when this computer has ever frozen in the last 14 months, when I first used it.
All apple computers now ship with two button mice, and have for a while.
This doesn't apply to their laptops, does it?
but really you should be just copying and then manually deleting after confirming that your files moved properly.
What? I think this is a dumb statement. Why should I check? The system can check a lot easier than I can, it should be it's job.
In many places, this is a dumb idea, as there is enough traffic that one can reasonably stay in the "passing lane" for a rather long time. It's probably safer than passing someone, changing lanes, waiting 30 seconds to catch up to the next car, changing lanes, passing, changing lanes, etc.
This is true even on interstates on what would otherwise be the middle of nowhere, especially when the 18-wheelers are out in force.
What? That's not my understanding of how things work. Each process gets its own page table, which means separate permissions, no?
This article is tagged "thief". I thought it was standard /. wisdom that copyright infringement isn't theft?
Anyway, are we sure that the text is from Wikipedia, and not both from a third source? It's probably unlikely, but "they copied from Wikipedia" is far from the only explanation.
Or when the Nasa describes Gagarin as the first 'european' in space.
Many people consider the dividing line between Europe and Asia to be well within Russia, to the East of where Gagarin is from. It's not totally unreasonable, and may be a more correct description than 'asian'.
Dear god I wish I had points right now.
I agree that the claims are probably BS. I saw the article on CNN yesterday afternoon and was skeptical, though not dismissive -- it is definitely not out of the question that Da Vinci would do something like that. But there's a link to a MP3 of the piece above, and that dropped the credibility down a bit IMO. It is very sparse, and from my personal aesthetic point of view... I sorta think Da Vinci could have done a bit better, no? ;-)
I thought that Da Vinci was smart enough to embedd some DRM into his paintings.
Oh, he clearly was; you're just backwards. The Last Supper is actually the song, and the painting is the DRM. It lasted 500 years, which is pretty darn good for a DRM scheme too.
Without a clef, a staff is totally meaningless and carries no information.
What? It still carries information -- intervals. I don't think it's complete because not all notes are a whole step apart, but it's still way more than "no information".
Actually, from some reports of it working for other people on other systems, more like "for all values of 'now' in the null set"
Well, I suppose you could trace through the execution of what Linux would do on paper since it's open source. But I don't think that would really work.
I know people don't read the article, but can we at least read the summary? It says it RIGHT THERE:
"OLPC SimCity is based on the X11 TCL/Tk version of SimCity for Unix developed and adapted to the OLPC by Don Hopkins..."
One important difference that I've only recently picked up is that Time Machine is actually intended for backup purposes: you have to do it on a separate drive. Shadow copy, I believe, works on the same volume.
What you're using it for will greatly influence which of those approaches is right for you. If you want a backup, Time Machine is more what you want, because it protects you against drive failures. If you're like me and want a versioning file system, shadow copy is much closer to what you want, though still not completely there.
(I was all excited that features like what I want are finally becoming somewhat commonplace, being in both Vista and OS X 10.5, but was disappointed to learn that Time Machine isn't really what I want at all. Oh well...)
D'oh, I should have previewed. I put nice "" around that.
Let's face it, most action games are about force. Even when confronted with overwhelmingly powerful enemies, your only option is to avoid their killing shots while grinding away at them or searching for their vulnerable spots. In stealth play the idea is to never even let the enemies know you're there, and it requires a completely different approach from the usual Rambo-style mayhem. Best-known early example: Thief: The Dark Project, 1998. First use: unknown.
Really? Not Metal Gear? 1987 for the original, or also 1998 (according to Wikipedia, two months before Thief: The Dark Project) for Metal Gear Solid?
No more than a Live CD is a non-malicious rootkit, which is really not at all.
you aren't going to be getting the goodness from that $250 graphics card you just picked up, are you (barring two monitors I guess)
More than two. The 8800 can drive two monitors itself. You'd need three before you would have to fall back to the motherboard's.
Wow, very informative post, thank you. It's too bad that you're so far down the page.
[I apologize for the long post, but I'm procrastinating from vital schoolwork and this is as good of a way as any to do so.]
...and 2 that I must have thought I counted but didn't. Oops.
/.configure with the appropriate options, and then building. However, when doing so, you have to worry about dependencies and such yourself -- the exact thing that made Linux an absolute PITA to use before distributions started widely using package management stuff. Because of this, I'm going to count installing
Okay, this argument has come up in most Vista articles here. After one of them about a month ago, I started logging every UAC prompt I've gotten, because I didn't believe that Vista actually prompts for *that* much more than what you would get on other systems. I cannot compare with what OS X does, but I can somewhat compare with what Sudo does on Linux. These comparisons are not completely fair, because I'm running Vista in the normal setup, with the almost-admin user, but I have no reason to believe that there would be many more prompts with a limited account.
Since I started logging, I have gotten 72 UAC prompts in 25 days I have spent most of my time booted to Windows. I'll break down the prompts in a few ways.
First, by reason:
* 29 prompts were for program installations or updates, things that would require 'sudo emerge' or whatever on Linux. 10 of these prompts were while starting Firefox; I'm running the Alpha version, and get prompted to update to the latest nightly each time I run it. 4 of them were from trying to install one particular program, it's patch, and trying to work around a couple compatibility issues. One prompt was for Windows Update, to update Vista itself.
* 10 prompts were from when I logged in and this buggy hardware monitor program that I have ran. For some reason, it requests elevation. (Then, after running for a while, pegs one of my cores and I kill it. One of these days I'll remove it from the startup sequence...)
* 10 prompts were from enabling and disabling my NIC. I was having network problems for about a week, and was trying to diagnose. (This is essentially doing 'ifconfig eth0 down/up' in Linux, except that it tries to get a new DHCP address upon up, and I don't recall if ifconfig does this. )
* 8 prompts were from when I was trying to solve a weird permissions issue when I was trying to delete something. This involved various permutations of trying to take ownership of the file, changing permissions, doing something in the Users dialog, etc.
* 5 prompts were from opening the anti-virus dialog
* 2 prompts were for OKing software for the firewall
* 2 prompts were from doing some process management stuff; one from instructing task manager to show all processes, and one from running ProcessExplorer in admin mode, probably to try to figure out what program was holding a handle open to a USB drive.
* 1 prompt was from messing with the Steam service
* 1 prompt was from opening regedit
* 1 prompt was from opening the drive format dialog so I could see the options in it
* 1 prompt was from a user environment variable change. This is not entirely necessary -- a user doesn't need admin rights to change them. However, the dialog Windows provides to do so involves both user-local and system-wide environment variables, and doesn't appear to provide a way to access it with the latter in read-only mode, hence the elevation request. (XP does BTW.)
* 1 prompt was for something TrueCrypt related, but I'm not sure exactly what
* 1 prompt was for something that I have no clue about, because I got distracted before recording what caused it and forgot
Now, let's compare with what would have happened on Linux:
29 program installations. Assuming you're like my impression of most Linux users, you're using something like Portage or Apt to install programs, which means you're doing it as root, and need to sudo. In Linux it is usually possible to install programs locally, usually by downloading the source, doing