I've got default security settings and while it certainly displayed a few popups nothing else got installed.
If however the user clicks 'OK' to things being installed without checking what they really do first then you get what you expect.:)
Rule of thumb: Never install anything while browsing when it pops up and says "Hi install me for extra wizzy things!!!".
As long as it stops all the emails I get from Ubi Lumjobo trying to get me to accept $21.5m from South Africa then I'll be happy.:)
Or the people that try to make my breasts larger...
Or viagra...
I've sometimes found that recommendations for new accounts seem to be based on what Amazon have most in stock or make the highest margin on.
Sometimes even my own old account with a large history of computer and sci-fi related purchases gets a very odd book recommended. Usually one that is quite expensive and profitable. I can see a tenuous match because most technical books tend to be expensive but isn't this stringing out the "pattern matching" for my purchases just a little bit?
There is a technical reason why Windows should not be used for phones. The version of Windows used in the phones doesn't support full memory protection, making it easy to corrupt and use the phone hardware in any way you might like. Symbian for mobile devices on the other hand does protect memory using the hardware and as far as I can tell Symbian is not open to such great abuses as Windows. Symiab also operates faster than Windows as it does not have the huge amount of over engineering that Windows has.
It's not quite a PDA but I do use my Nokia 7650 (http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,,137,00.html) as a PDA. It has full internet access thanks to some custom browsing software and I can read my emails any time I want. The best thing is that you can program the phone in Java and C/C++. (http://www.forum.nokia.com/) This is a major bonus for geeky programmers like me who like to create stuff.:) The processor is really quick as wel and it can run Doom without problems.:)
I would have though that the bigger story here would be that Intentia has released price sensitive information before they should have done by making available from non-secure download their Q3 results. There are lots of regulations that mean companies get in to a lot of trouble for leaking their results ahead of time. I think Reuters did us all a favour for highlighting this security risk.
I agree, the more logcial conclusion given the available evidence is that biological life is present.
However I find it anoying that debunkers tend to suddenly whip out the holy 'Occam's razor' argument, as if it removes any theory they don't like.
I myself am left wondering if it wasn't for the film 'Contact' how many people would know about it?
Although I do prefer the spelling 'Ockham' after the name of the Surrey village where he was born.
IIRC Stephen Baxter explores a related theory in his book "Deep Future" availble from Gollancz. I found it an excellent read and if you find this kind of thing interesting I recommend it.
If you had the courage to back that statement up without being anonymous then it would actually mean something. However because you are anonymous and your statement has no factual basis then it is worthless.
People make mistakes when they predict something. Bill Gates for example was predicting a stable and crash proof version of Windows by now... Look what we still have.;-)
--- Connection terminated ---
--- Blue screen of Death ---
LOL Thanks. I was just going to ask what it would be like to deeply submerge a quantity of sodium rather than having it skip around on the surface of a lake.:)
I'm also thinking that one of my housemates reads this site and he must be having dangerous ideas right about now.
Microsoft will find it very difficult, if not impossible, to quash the availability of XBox mod chips. Microsoft could quite easily create a Linux distro that can run and install on a normal unmodded XBox. This would allow hobbyist programmers to create their own games, much like Sony have done with Linux for the PS2. If MS did this then maybe the trade in XBox mod chips might decrease slightly.
For MS this would be a better solution as then the XBox Linux distro could at least run in a secure mode.
Just my brain rambling along as usual however could this kind of message be used to help show that life exists on other planets?
For example, this form of communication allows you to test if the message was intercepted. this is why the transmission form was invented in the first place.
However if you transmit a message to outer space to a fast traveling space probe a really long way away and find the message got intercepted then who did the interception?
If the whole world promised not to intercept the message then logically an intelligence somewhere else did it or someone here broke the promise... Failing that, a random reorganisation of atoms happened to fake the interception.
Theoretically you could build a cloud of fast traveling probes using this method of communication. You could cover a large area of space in a matter of years and listen and watch for intercepted signals.
(Damn sorry, the formatting got lost and guess who forgot to preview.;) Here is the text with formatting. )
The more I read about DRM the more I think that it is an idea that will not work. Here is my thinking on the subject. I'm sorry it's so long but I have tried to keep this short.
There is already in the world a lot of 'stuff' that is not encrypted and does not contain the "magic digital rights access key" information.
What happens when Microsoft release their operating system that uses their DRM ideas? Well they could block every single piece of non-DRM content. If MS do this then nothing much will work on the users machine. The website you always read in the morning will not work any more. The CD you like tio play won't play and the emails you want to read won't be there for you to read.
Obviously this kind of future will mean the death of MS and their new OS. Therefore MS will not impose any kind of mandatory rule set that means you have to only use DRM content.
What MS have said they will do is have the ability to run old applications and content along side the newer DRM content. Well this sounds to me like a huge open wide door. This also means you can continue to use your new DRM managed machine exactly how you did in the past. Any application you want to run you can, any piece of content you want to view you can.
What does this mean? Well it means that someone could quite easily come up with a computer program that takes DRM content, the latest pay per view film for example, and the DRM signatures could be stripped from the data. This means you will then have a very copyable and freely distributable film that you could send to your friends.
For the sake of example I could very simply write a movie player plugin using the MS developer example code sample. This movie player plugin could take each frame of the film as it plays and simply save the contents to my harddrive. Microsoft have to allow this kind of testing by developers to ensure products are bug free. In one day I have written a plugin that lets me break the whole idea of any DRM managed content. The best thing is that there is nothing to stop me giving this kind of plugin to friends or anyone else on the net. Remember that Microsoft are having to support old content and new alike.
Microsoft will assure the vendors that all pathways are encrypted and secure however, as any computer programmer will tell you, there are always ways and means of bypassing security. The Microsoft XBox is a machine that uses encryption between the chips. The only company able to produce software to run on this machine is Microsoft. However this is no longer the case since a few very intelligent people have found a way to bypass this security. It only took a matter of months to break this hardware security.
The DRM machine and OS does seem to offer the "holy golden carrot" to companies like Time Warner of never having to worry about illegal copies ever again. However someone should tell these companies that no matter how ingenious and secure nothing will keep out the combined efforts of millions of computer programmers. Especially since Microsoft have left the back door of needing to maintain backwards compatibility.
I anticipate that if the DRM machine, with it's DRM harddrives, network cards, montiors, keyboards and mice ever gets built then within six months (a year at the most) the entire idea of a secure and workable DRM machine will be forgotten. The idea will be consigned to the bin as a very costly mistake. Microsoft will necver admit this of course, rather they will let the idea fade and die like they have with so many other ideas in the past.
The more I read about DRM the more I think that it is an idea that will not work. Here is my thinking on the subject. I'm sorry it's so long but I have tried to keep this short.
There is already in the world a lot of 'stuff' that is not encrypted and does not contain the "magic digital rights access key" information.
What happens when Microsoft release their operating system that uses their DRM ideas? Well they could block every single piece of non-DRM content. If MS do this then nothing much will work on the users machine. The website you always read in the morning will not work any more. The CD you like tio play won't play and the emails you want to read won't be there for you to read.
Obviously this kind of future will mean the death of MS and their new OS. Therefore MS will not impose any kind of mandatory rule set that means you have to only use DRM content.
What MS have said they will do is have the ability to run old applications and content along side the newer DRM content. Well this sounds to me like a huge open wide door. This also means you can continue to use your new DRM managed machine exactly how you did in the past. Any application you want to run you can, any piece of content you want to view you can.
What does this mean? Well it means that someone could quite easily come up with a computer program that takes DRM content, the latest pay per view film for example, and the DRM signatures could be stripped from the data. This means you will then have a very copyable and freely distributable film that you could send to your friends.
For the sake of example I could very simply write a movie player plugin using the MS developer example code sample. This movie player plugin could take each frame of the film as it plays and simply save the contents to my harddrive. Microsoft have to allow this kind of testing by developers to ensure products are bug free. In one day I have written a plugin that lets me break the whole idea of any DRM managed content. The best thing is that there is nothing to stop me giving this kind of plugin to friends or anyone else on the net. Remember that Microsoft are having to support old content and new alike.
Microsoft will assure the vendors that all pathways are encrypted and secure however, as any computer programmer will tell you, there are always ways and means of bypassing security. The Microsoft XBox is a machine that uses encryption between the chips. The only company able to produce software to run on this machine is Microsoft. However this is no longer the case since a few very intelligent people have found a way to bypass this security. It only took a matter of months to break this hardware security.
The DRM machine and OS does seem to offer the "holy golden carrot" to companies like Time Warner of never having to worry about illegal copies ever again. However someone should tell these companies that no matter how ingenious and secure nothing will keep out the combined efforts of millions of computer programmers. Especially since Microsoft have left the back door of needing to maintain backwards compatibility.
I anticipate that if the DRM machine, with it's DRM harddrives, network cards, montiors, keyboards and mice ever gets built then within six months (a year at the most) the entire idea of a secure and workable DRM machine will be forgotten.
The idea will be consigned to the bin as a very costly mistake. Microsoft will necver admit this of course, rather they will let the idea fade and die like they have with so many other ideas in the past.
If it ever gets to the stage where something I buy refuses to do what I want it to do then the time comes to stop buying stuff from the big companies.:)
However saying that it won't happen, there will always be a market for mod-chips and the like to enable users to do what they want. Regardless of what digital rights management software/hardware is included.
DVD players and games consoles are prime examples of the type of mod-chip market already present. Going back earlier in time Macro Vision blockers for your old VHS machine also exploited this kind of market need.
Even though the cracks in parts of the space shuttle are serious and mean that the space program is delayed even more. I can see some of the headlines.
"Columbia crack sinks hope for Atlantis. Discovery causes concern for scientists."
Yeah yeah, sue me.:p I need a coffee.
I have a number of web servers, some Unix some Windows, and the number of attempted attacks each day from different IPs must run in to about one hundred. It is mostly people trying to execute commands or using malformed URLs trying to exploit some known past security hole.
My question is, how many attempted attacks each day do the Google servers get?
As a creditor you are labled as being an "investor" and you can choose to opt in or opt out of any class action or legal costs.
Just do nothing and you'll opt out of being a creditor insterested in recovering your "investment".
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I've got default security settings and while it certainly displayed a few popups nothing else got installed. If however the user clicks 'OK' to things being installed without checking what they really do first then you get what you expect. :)
Rule of thumb: Never install anything while browsing when it pops up and says "Hi install me for extra wizzy things!!!".
As long as it stops all the emails I get from Ubi Lumjobo trying to get me to accept $21.5m from South Africa then I'll be happy. :)
Or the people that try to make my breasts larger...
Or viagra...
Which will open a whole new area for security holes with emails and web pages able to execute more types of windows script. Wonderful.
I've sometimes found that recommendations for new accounts seem to be based on what Amazon have most in stock or make the highest margin on. Sometimes even my own old account with a large history of computer and sci-fi related purchases gets a very odd book recommended. Usually one that is quite expensive and profitable. I can see a tenuous match because most technical books tend to be expensive but isn't this stringing out the "pattern matching" for my purchases just a little bit?
Gives a whole new meaning to "chillin' vibes". Sorry :)
There is a technical reason why Windows should not be used for phones. The version of Windows used in the phones doesn't support full memory protection, making it easy to corrupt and use the phone hardware in any way you might like.
Symbian for mobile devices on the other hand does protect memory using the hardware and as far as I can tell Symbian is not open to such great abuses as Windows.
Symiab also operates faster than Windows as it does not have the huge amount of over engineering that Windows has.
It's not quite a PDA but I do use my Nokia 7650 (http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,,137,00.html) as a PDA. It has full internet access thanks to some custom browsing software and I can read my emails any time I want. The best thing is that you can program the phone in Java and C/C++. (http://www.forum.nokia.com/) This is a major bonus for geeky programmers like me who like to create stuff. :) :)
The processor is really quick as wel and it can run Doom without problems.
I would have though that the bigger story here would be that Intentia has released price sensitive information before they should have done by making available from non-secure download their Q3 results. There are lots of regulations that mean companies get in to a lot of trouble for leaking their results ahead of time. I think Reuters did us all a favour for highlighting this security risk.
But how many polygons will it render per second and does it run Quake3? ;)
I agree, the more logcial conclusion given the available evidence is that biological life is present. However I find it anoying that debunkers tend to suddenly whip out the holy 'Occam's razor' argument, as if it removes any theory they don't like. I myself am left wondering if it wasn't for the film 'Contact' how many people would know about it? Although I do prefer the spelling 'Ockham' after the name of the Surrey village where he was born.
IIRC Stephen Baxter explores a related theory in his book "Deep Future" availble from Gollancz. I found it an excellent read and if you find this kind of thing interesting I recommend it.
If you had the courage to back that statement up without being anonymous then it would actually mean something. However because you are anonymous and your statement has no factual basis then it is worthless.
People make mistakes when they predict something. Bill Gates for example was predicting a stable and crash proof version of Windows by now... Look what we still have. ;-)
--- Connection terminated ---
--- Blue screen of Death ---
LOL Thanks. I was just going to ask what it would be like to deeply submerge a quantity of sodium rather than having it skip around on the surface of a lake. :)
I'm also thinking that one of my housemates reads this site and he must be having dangerous ideas right about now.
Microsoft will find it very difficult, if not impossible, to quash the availability of XBox mod chips. Microsoft could quite easily create a Linux distro that can run and install on a normal unmodded XBox. This would allow hobbyist programmers to create their own games, much like Sony have done with Linux for the PS2. If MS did this then maybe the trade in XBox mod chips might decrease slightly. For MS this would be a better solution as then the XBox Linux distro could at least run in a secure mode.
Just my brain rambling along as usual however could this kind of message be used to help show that life exists on other planets? For example, this form of communication allows you to test if the message was intercepted. this is why the transmission form was invented in the first place. However if you transmit a message to outer space to a fast traveling space probe a really long way away and find the message got intercepted then who did the interception? If the whole world promised not to intercept the message then logically an intelligence somewhere else did it or someone here broke the promise... Failing that, a random reorganisation of atoms happened to fake the interception. Theoretically you could build a cloud of fast traveling probes using this method of communication. You could cover a large area of space in a matter of years and listen and watch for intercepted signals.
Sounds of paperclip wooshing on... 'Hi, it looks like you're trying to design an office! Please select from the following templates...'
(Damn sorry, the formatting got lost and guess who forgot to preview. ;) Here is the text with formatting. )
The more I read about DRM the more I think that it is an idea that will not work. Here is my thinking on the subject. I'm sorry it's so long but I have tried to keep this short.
There is already in the world a lot of 'stuff' that is not encrypted and does not contain the "magic digital rights access key" information.
What happens when Microsoft release their operating system that uses their DRM ideas? Well they could block every single piece of non-DRM content. If MS do this then nothing much will work on the users machine. The website you always read in the morning will not work any more. The CD you like tio play won't play and the emails you want to read won't be there for you to read.
Obviously this kind of future will mean the death of MS and their new OS. Therefore MS will not impose any kind of mandatory rule set that means you have to only use DRM content.
What MS have said they will do is have the ability to run old applications and content along side the newer DRM content. Well this sounds to me like a huge open wide door. This also means you can continue to use your new DRM managed machine exactly how you did in the past. Any application you want to run you can, any piece of content you want to view you can.
What does this mean? Well it means that someone could quite easily come up with a computer program that takes DRM content, the latest pay per view film for example, and the DRM signatures could be stripped from the data. This means you will then have a very copyable and freely distributable film that you could send to your friends.
For the sake of example I could very simply write a movie player plugin using the MS developer example code sample. This movie player plugin could take each frame of the film as it plays and simply save the contents to my harddrive. Microsoft have to allow this kind of testing by developers to ensure products are bug free. In one day I have written a plugin that lets me break the whole idea of any DRM managed content. The best thing is that there is nothing to stop me giving this kind of plugin to friends or anyone else on the net. Remember that Microsoft are having to support old content and new alike.
Microsoft will assure the vendors that all pathways are encrypted and secure however, as any computer programmer will tell you, there are always ways and means of bypassing security. The Microsoft XBox is a machine that uses encryption between the chips. The only company able to produce software to run on this machine is Microsoft. However this is no longer the case since a few very intelligent people have found a way to bypass this security. It only took a matter of months to break this hardware security.
The DRM machine and OS does seem to offer the "holy golden carrot" to companies like Time Warner of never having to worry about illegal copies ever again. However someone should tell these companies that no matter how ingenious and secure nothing will keep out the combined efforts of millions of computer programmers. Especially since Microsoft have left the back door of needing to maintain backwards compatibility.
I anticipate that if the DRM machine, with it's DRM harddrives, network cards, montiors, keyboards and mice ever gets built then within six months (a year at the most) the entire idea of a secure and workable DRM machine will be forgotten.
The idea will be consigned to the bin as a very costly mistake. Microsoft will necver admit this of course, rather they will let the idea fade and die like they have with so many other ideas in the past.
The more I read about DRM the more I think that it is an idea that will not work. Here is my thinking on the subject. I'm sorry it's so long but I have tried to keep this short. There is already in the world a lot of 'stuff' that is not encrypted and does not contain the "magic digital rights access key" information. What happens when Microsoft release their operating system that uses their DRM ideas? Well they could block every single piece of non-DRM content. If MS do this then nothing much will work on the users machine. The website you always read in the morning will not work any more. The CD you like tio play won't play and the emails you want to read won't be there for you to read. Obviously this kind of future will mean the death of MS and their new OS. Therefore MS will not impose any kind of mandatory rule set that means you have to only use DRM content. What MS have said they will do is have the ability to run old applications and content along side the newer DRM content. Well this sounds to me like a huge open wide door. This also means you can continue to use your new DRM managed machine exactly how you did in the past. Any application you want to run you can, any piece of content you want to view you can. What does this mean? Well it means that someone could quite easily come up with a computer program that takes DRM content, the latest pay per view film for example, and the DRM signatures could be stripped from the data. This means you will then have a very copyable and freely distributable film that you could send to your friends. For the sake of example I could very simply write a movie player plugin using the MS developer example code sample. This movie player plugin could take each frame of the film as it plays and simply save the contents to my harddrive. Microsoft have to allow this kind of testing by developers to ensure products are bug free. In one day I have written a plugin that lets me break the whole idea of any DRM managed content. The best thing is that there is nothing to stop me giving this kind of plugin to friends or anyone else on the net. Remember that Microsoft are having to support old content and new alike. Microsoft will assure the vendors that all pathways are encrypted and secure however, as any computer programmer will tell you, there are always ways and means of bypassing security. The Microsoft XBox is a machine that uses encryption between the chips. The only company able to produce software to run on this machine is Microsoft. However this is no longer the case since a few very intelligent people have found a way to bypass this security. It only took a matter of months to break this hardware security. The DRM machine and OS does seem to offer the "holy golden carrot" to companies like Time Warner of never having to worry about illegal copies ever again. However someone should tell these companies that no matter how ingenious and secure nothing will keep out the combined efforts of millions of computer programmers. Especially since Microsoft have left the back door of needing to maintain backwards compatibility. I anticipate that if the DRM machine, with it's DRM harddrives, network cards, montiors, keyboards and mice ever gets built then within six months (a year at the most) the entire idea of a secure and workable DRM machine will be forgotten. The idea will be consigned to the bin as a very costly mistake. Microsoft will necver admit this of course, rather they will let the idea fade and die like they have with so many other ideas in the past.
If it ever gets to the stage where something I buy refuses to do what I want it to do then the time comes to stop buying stuff from the big companies. :)
However saying that it won't happen, there will always be a market for mod-chips and the like to enable users to do what they want. Regardless of what digital rights management software/hardware is included.
DVD players and games consoles are prime examples of the type of mod-chip market already present. Going back earlier in time Macro Vision blockers for your old VHS machine also exploited this kind of market need.
Even though the cracks in parts of the space shuttle are serious and mean that the space program is delayed even more. I can see some of the headlines. "Columbia crack sinks hope for Atlantis. Discovery causes concern for scientists." Yeah yeah, sue me. :p I need a coffee.
I have a number of web servers, some Unix some Windows, and the number of attempted attacks each day from different IPs must run in to about one hundred. It is mostly people trying to execute commands or using malformed URLs trying to exploit some known past security hole. My question is, how many attempted attacks each day do the Google servers get?
If M$ did this with their compilers, would they sue themselves for writing buggy software? ;)
That's an example of bad code though and shouldn't appear in a program anyway.
As a creditor you are labled as being an "investor" and you can choose to opt in or opt out of any class action or legal costs. Just do nothing and you'll opt out of being a creditor insterested in recovering your "investment".