The NX flag on a stack selector will stop all of this form of buffer overflow. It won't stop every single hack, but the simple "fill the stack with NOP until it overflows then jam in code" days will be over.
They ususally can't once the RIAA gets a hold of them. It's like indentured servitude. I think a lot of artists are too naive and allow themselves to be coerced into signing this contract that seems like it will make them rich and famous, which it sometimes does, but at the cost of their intellectual freedom.
Joan Osbourne is one such artist. She signed into a particularly binding contract, IIRC, that states she has to make 5-6 Albums, and any one can be scrapped if the company believes it isn't "good enough", which did happen to her at least once. So those songs belong to the company, but it doesn't count toward her getting out of the contract. Suck ass, doesn't it?
I agree. I also think they are a great idea for inventory control. As long as it isn't abused, they can speed up operations like package movement, stocking, Point of Sale transactions, Business to Business transactions and inventorying. Of course, they can be abused, so I'm sort of on the fence here.
And the original quote from the article is pretty idiotic. They do collect info on what you buy. Why wouldn't they? I bet they sell the shit too. They collect it and offer you targeted advertisements and coupons. Now, I'm not saying that it's a bad idea, but the option should be presented to you, the customer and lifeblood of the business.
A good thought. They should really define an eccentricity that unambiguously defines a planetary orbit, if they are to ditch the size requirement (or rather, ditch the idea of one). And what about the Asteroid Belt? Are those all planets then? Or are they too small. Stupid vague language...
He said something to the effect of: When man has invented all that he can, the government of choice will be Communism. I agree. Where there can be no greed, is where communism will prevail.
I don't think there's a great 1:1 comparison here. It's kind of a fuzzy land, because modern large displacement engines have quite a bit of technology pushing them along too. And Intel (your big block analogy) doesn't outrun AMD (your 4-banger analogy);). A 2.2L VTEC will never outrun a 460cid (that's like 7.8L-7.9L) V8 without a great disparity in engineering.
Well, here's a trick I use, but you have to be cognizant of exactly what you are doing, or it is all over for your data.
First go and write down the partition data you have. If you don't know it, and your shit gets erased, you have to hand edit the table.
Next, using Linux's fdisk (do not use the Windows fdisk as it overwrites the first n bytes of the first sector of each partition it creates, I believe n=512, but I'm probably wrong). Put all that partition data back in. If you don't know how, fdisk has a man page. w then q. (w)rite and (q)uit.
You now should have a working disk again. If the virus is smart enough to wipe off the file records, it will be more difficult to repair, but it can STILL be done with a hell of a lot of hard work. Keep backups.
Careful there... Buddhism doesn't say anything about a hell, just a way to reach a state of peace with yourself. You should look it up, it's a very wise philosophy. In fact, it may give you new insight into your own beliefs.
You, a seemingly regular (over 650 posts with a highish UN) Slashdot poster, DENIED sex.... WITH A CONSENTING FEMALE!!!! You've got some nerve, posting that on here...;) But seriously, that is pretty low man, most girls would be gone at that point:P.
The Quantum Computers I've seen use a gas in a pressurized chamber with lasers to "read" and "write" the quantum states of the gas molecules. (Yes pedants, I realize this is far oversimplified, but I'm making a simple observation here) There is your gas processor, I suppose.
There's this thing called LASH... I forget exactly what the acronym means, but I think it means, Los Angeles Silent/SWAT Headset. It is basically a collar that goes around your throat, and you mouth the words you want to say, and everyone else with a reciever can hear them. You don't whisper, you just silently make the mouth gestures and the machine amplifies them. Perfect for a SWAT team, or pretty much any military force.
Shit, all the old good virii were like sub-800 bytes. A friend of mine still has the source to Monkey-B on a 5.25" floppy diskette. It isn't much, but it's a bastard.
...how someone can use God as a excuse to do or not do something. Maybe God wants us to figure out how to terraform Mars? Maybe that's why we built all this machinery to find out what the hell is on there. Perhaps the knowledge of transporting between planets makes us Gods? Who knows.
Circumvented or reburnt. If we are able to flash the area of the chip containing the "TCPA" bullshit, then we can just inject our own "trusted" code on there. Since the code can't possibly be too complex (unless a Linux/BE/DOS/all non-Windows lockout is attempted) it shouldn't be much to dump, disassemble, and alter.
I see... I was wondering what the hell GCC was doing.
I am writing my language like Perl was written. C with moderate C++ (just for classes, because of its high level implementation, you can do cool things like run multiple interpreters at once as long as you can get it to run quick enough)
I'm sorry, I overgeneralized most every comment you disagree with. Hence the misunderstanding...
Addressing:
1: I am aware of the design of languages. But you have to start somewhere, and you can't start with something that doesn't exist yet. You at least need an assembler. I guess if you built a string of machine code that did it that could work too.
2: Refer to (1). I realize that 90% of the language is written in itself, but it still needs a small kernel part written in another language. You can't use Java to define an = sign before the = sign rules exist in the language. I suppose Yacc and Bison are tools to this end, but they also aren't written in a language that doesn't exist.
3: I get tired of people being bit shots and snide asshats over the internet. No one has ever had the balls to say to my face some of the shit people say to me over the internet. It gets tiring, and the replies I write are a reminder that I will never sit there and let someone talk to me that way, becuase that's just silly. If you don't agree, great, even if I'm wrong, great, but no need to be a fuckoff about it. All it does is make me mad to see people shoot their mouths off. So then you get a fitting comment. I wouldn't kill you over a comment, please, I have far worse going on over here that I still haven't killed for, although I probably should... It's an exaggeration, but I guarantee unless you are a professional fighter it would be in your best interests not to fight me. And with that, I will drop it, because it's silly to talk about fighting over the internet. I feel dirty now...
4c: I know it's possible to translate byte code into machine code. Hell, I wrote a language of my own. Scripted and converted to my own version of byte code on the fly but with provisions (it's not done) to be compiled into a DLL with a executable wrapper.
5a: Overgeneralization on my part. Obviously there are other languages. None as pervasive as C, and Assembler is just like the building blocks of it all. Especially OS code. No one would write a performance OS or a serious video game in a scripted language or a byte code language, unless they wanted to introduce a lot of hacks to get it to run fast. I'm a performance programmer. I don't really like the "bloaty code" ideals that infest languages like Java and all the.NET suite.
5e: I merely meant that you lose all portability with the compiled machine code. That was the real point of Java, to allow the same byte code to run on all hardware, and all OS's. I wasn't addressing the point of all programming languages in general. You could make a compiler for all other systems, and I suppose if you liked Java enough to do so, then that would be great, but I don't.
5f: I've never seen a complier beat hand optimized assembler. It just can't happen, until AI gets into compiler technology, a human will always out-think a compiler's optimizations. Now you have to be smart in order to beat the compiler, this much is true. If all you're making is some business app though, then why even care, but as I said before, I'm a performance programmer. I don't like to waste cycles and I don't like to waste RAM.
5g: I guess this part comes down to preference. I love C/C++. Yes they have their "less good" points, and Pascal actually has a bunch of syntatic candy I wish they put in C++, but other than that, I haven't seen a language I enjoy more. I like being right over the metal, again, the performance nazi in me likes to make sure that what I write is doing its best on its environment. I can't totally verify that with a VHLL without doing the same things I would do with C/C++ (profiling, spying, etc). And I don't even like some aspects of C++ simply because they try to take me away from the metal.
7: Thank you for an apology, I apologize for being so "violent" in my response. I'm a decent guy, as long as you don't fuck me around. I find it interesting you chose to put me on your friends list. I was wrong on many points, but most were oversimplifications for my own benefit (the lazy benefit, I don't like spending 30 minutes making my post is pedant-proof). It's amazing a 3 sentence post can generate this much discussion.
8: Yes.
GM is the one working on Hydrogen Fuel Cell vehicles. Building crappy hybrid PMM/IC engines will only get you so far. There is still HC output and still CO output. With a Hydrogen system, it's all water vapor.
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The NX flag on a stack selector will stop all of this form of buffer overflow. It won't stop every single hack, but the simple "fill the stack with NOP until it overflows then jam in code" days will be over.
They ususally can't once the RIAA gets a hold of them. It's like indentured servitude. I think a lot of artists are too naive and allow themselves to be coerced into signing this contract that seems like it will make them rich and famous, which it sometimes does, but at the cost of their intellectual freedom.
Joan Osbourne is one such artist. She signed into a particularly binding contract, IIRC, that states she has to make 5-6 Albums, and any one can be scrapped if the company believes it isn't "good enough", which did happen to her at least once. So those songs belong to the company, but it doesn't count toward her getting out of the contract. Suck ass, doesn't it?
I agree. I also think they are a great idea for inventory control. As long as it isn't abused, they can speed up operations like package movement, stocking, Point of Sale transactions, Business to Business transactions and inventorying. Of course, they can be abused, so I'm sort of on the fence here.
And the original quote from the article is pretty idiotic. They do collect info on what you buy. Why wouldn't they? I bet they sell the shit too. They collect it and offer you targeted advertisements and coupons. Now, I'm not saying that it's a bad idea, but the option should be presented to you, the customer and lifeblood of the business.
A good thought. They should really define an eccentricity that unambiguously defines a planetary orbit, if they are to ditch the size requirement (or rather, ditch the idea of one). And what about the Asteroid Belt? Are those all planets then? Or are they too small. Stupid vague language...
He said something to the effect of: When man has invented all that he can, the government of choice will be Communism. I agree. Where there can be no greed, is where communism will prevail.
Well..... he's public now!
I don't think there's a great 1:1 comparison here. It's kind of a fuzzy land, because modern large displacement engines have quite a bit of technology pushing them along too. And Intel (your big block analogy) doesn't outrun AMD (your 4-banger analogy) ;). A 2.2L VTEC will never outrun a 460cid (that's like 7.8L-7.9L) V8 without a great disparity in engineering.
That's a real good idea.... I always forget about DD (stupid DOS, making me always think about shit the long way...)
Well, here's a trick I use, but you have to be cognizant of exactly what you are doing, or it is all over for your data.
First go and write down the partition data you have. If you don't know it, and your shit gets erased, you have to hand edit the table.
Next, using Linux's fdisk (do not use the Windows fdisk as it overwrites the first n bytes of the first sector of each partition it creates, I believe n=512, but I'm probably wrong). Put all that partition data back in. If you don't know how, fdisk has a man page. w then q. (w)rite and (q)uit.
You now should have a working disk again. If the virus is smart enough to wipe off the file records, it will be more difficult to repair, but it can STILL be done with a hell of a lot of hard work. Keep backups.
It's all complemetation. I bet if you two merged into a single being you'd be a super-human.
Careful there... Buddhism doesn't say anything about a hell, just a way to reach a state of peace with yourself. You should look it up, it's a very wise philosophy. In fact, it may give you new insight into your own beliefs.
You, a seemingly regular (over 650 posts with a highish UN) Slashdot poster, DENIED sex.... WITH A CONSENTING FEMALE!!!! You've got some nerve, posting that on here... ;) But seriously, that is pretty low man, most girls would be gone at that point :P.
GODFUCKING DAMMIT! I put a fucking disclaimer in there for pedants and they still fucking reply!!!! AAAAH! YOU FUCKING MORONS!
The Quantum Computers I've seen use a gas in a pressurized chamber with lasers to "read" and "write" the quantum states of the gas molecules. (Yes pedants, I realize this is far oversimplified, but I'm making a simple observation here) There is your gas processor, I suppose.
There's this thing called LASH... I forget exactly what the acronym means, but I think it means, Los Angeles Silent/SWAT Headset. It is basically a collar that goes around your throat, and you mouth the words you want to say, and everyone else with a reciever can hear them. You don't whisper, you just silently make the mouth gestures and the machine amplifies them. Perfect for a SWAT team, or pretty much any military force.
Shit, all the old good virii were like sub-800 bytes. A friend of mine still has the source to Monkey-B on a 5.25" floppy diskette. It isn't much, but it's a bastard.
...how someone can use God as a excuse to do or not do something. Maybe God wants us to figure out how to terraform Mars? Maybe that's why we built all this machinery to find out what the hell is on there. Perhaps the knowledge of transporting between planets makes us Gods? Who knows.
Why wouldn't they? What if it's buggy or it needs to be upgraded?
Circumvented or reburnt. If we are able to flash the area of the chip containing the "TCPA" bullshit, then we can just inject our own "trusted" code on there. Since the code can't possibly be too complex (unless a Linux/BE/DOS/all non-Windows lockout is attempted) it shouldn't be much to dump, disassemble, and alter.
I see... I was wondering what the hell GCC was doing.
I am writing my language like Perl was written. C with moderate C++ (just for classes, because of its high level implementation, you can do cool things like run multiple interpreters at once as long as you can get it to run quick enough)
That's what I was referring to. Thanks for flushing that out more.
Now, I'm no protocol researcher but can't the TCP/IP stack change the MTU and MRU to adjust the packet size for the connection speed/quality?
I'm sorry, I overgeneralized most every comment you disagree with. Hence the misunderstanding...
.NET suite.
Addressing:
1: I am aware of the design of languages. But you have to start somewhere, and you can't start with something that doesn't exist yet. You at least need an assembler. I guess if you built a string of machine code that did it that could work too.
2: Refer to (1). I realize that 90% of the language is written in itself, but it still needs a small kernel part written in another language. You can't use Java to define an = sign before the = sign rules exist in the language. I suppose Yacc and Bison are tools to this end, but they also aren't written in a language that doesn't exist.
3: I get tired of people being bit shots and snide asshats over the internet. No one has ever had the balls to say to my face some of the shit people say to me over the internet. It gets tiring, and the replies I write are a reminder that I will never sit there and let someone talk to me that way, becuase that's just silly. If you don't agree, great, even if I'm wrong, great, but no need to be a fuckoff about it. All it does is make me mad to see people shoot their mouths off. So then you get a fitting comment. I wouldn't kill you over a comment, please, I have far worse going on over here that I still haven't killed for, although I probably should... It's an exaggeration, but I guarantee unless you are a professional fighter it would be in your best interests not to fight me. And with that, I will drop it, because it's silly to talk about fighting over the internet. I feel dirty now...
4c: I know it's possible to translate byte code into machine code. Hell, I wrote a language of my own. Scripted and converted to my own version of byte code on the fly but with provisions (it's not done) to be compiled into a DLL with a executable wrapper.
5a: Overgeneralization on my part. Obviously there are other languages. None as pervasive as C, and Assembler is just like the building blocks of it all. Especially OS code. No one would write a performance OS or a serious video game in a scripted language or a byte code language, unless they wanted to introduce a lot of hacks to get it to run fast. I'm a performance programmer. I don't really like the "bloaty code" ideals that infest languages like Java and all the
5e: I merely meant that you lose all portability with the compiled machine code. That was the real point of Java, to allow the same byte code to run on all hardware, and all OS's. I wasn't addressing the point of all programming languages in general. You could make a compiler for all other systems, and I suppose if you liked Java enough to do so, then that would be great, but I don't.
5f: I've never seen a complier beat hand optimized assembler. It just can't happen, until AI gets into compiler technology, a human will always out-think a compiler's optimizations. Now you have to be smart in order to beat the compiler, this much is true. If all you're making is some business app though, then why even care, but as I said before, I'm a performance programmer. I don't like to waste cycles and I don't like to waste RAM.
5g: I guess this part comes down to preference. I love C/C++. Yes they have their "less good" points, and Pascal actually has a bunch of syntatic candy I wish they put in C++, but other than that, I haven't seen a language I enjoy more. I like being right over the metal, again, the performance nazi in me likes to make sure that what I write is doing its best on its environment. I can't totally verify that with a VHLL without doing the same things I would do with C/C++ (profiling, spying, etc). And I don't even like some aspects of C++ simply because they try to take me away from the metal.
7: Thank you for an apology, I apologize for being so "violent" in my response. I'm a decent guy, as long as you don't fuck me around. I find it interesting you chose to put me on your friends list. I was wrong on many points, but most were oversimplifications for my own benefit (the lazy benefit, I don't like spending 30 minutes making my post is pedant-proof). It's amazing a 3 sentence post can generate this much discussion.
8: Yes.
Yeah, and powerplants are magnitudes more efficient/clean than an ICE.
GM is the one working on Hydrogen Fuel Cell vehicles. Building crappy hybrid PMM/IC engines will only get you so far. There is still HC output and still CO output. With a Hydrogen system, it's all water vapor.