You can walk down the street and beat a regular person to a bloody pulp, and nothing happens. But once you beat up a cop, your 'wanted level' rises, all hell breaks loose and they're on your ass.
Fortunately you can collect some kind of starshaped power ups hidden in the game, that will decrease your wanted level. You can even fool your pursuers completely by repainting your car or changing clothes. Hell, even if you are cought you can bribe the police by giving them your weapons and cash. I mean, what does this teach the American youth? That the police is both stupid and for sale? I hope for your American minors sakes the us.gov doesn't find out about this game.;)
...The most common password was "password" (12 per cent) and the most popular category was their own name (16 per cent) followed by their football team (11 per cent) and date of birth (8 per cent)...
That's not true! The the most common used passwords are love, secret and sex. Everybody knows that! Oh and don't forget God. It's that whole sysadmin male ego thing.;)
These anti-OC measures are not meant to bug the home tweaker. They are to prevent retailers from OC'ing CPUs and selling them as if they were higher rated CPUs. Apart from the obvious unfairness towards the unsuspecting average customer, it also irritates Intel because of OC'ed CPUs tend have a shorter MTBF. Also Intel has to deal with all these burned out CPUs as they are returned. This ofcourse can have no positive effect on their reputation. Hence these anti OC precautions. I think it's a good thing.
I don't think this will help cracking RSA in anyway. I even believe this will even strengthen the RSA encryption. RSA is based upon the fact that it is very difficult (as in there is no trivial way) to factor a composit number into two primes. And these new theories won't help factorization. Ofcourse, if there is indeed a usufull pattern, it may help to find the primes---that are required for factorization---faster, but the person who uses the RSA-technique can do this too. This will allow the this person to find even bigger primes faster then usuall, so even if the cracker can find possible usufull primes faster, he has to try a whole lot more to facter the composite number. And since trying out a factor to see if the is part of the composite takes much longer time, I only see benefits for the RSA encryption scheme.
I don't think you have to worry about that. Tankers are even bigger then the accuracy of the public signal (100 meters). Besides, even a 300 square meter area in the ocean is like a poststamp to us. Especially for those big ships like oil tankers.
The article does not mention anything about dependencies. In my opinion dependencies are almost as important as keeping track of which file belongs to what application. Maybe they should do some more homework and take a look at Gentoo's Portagepackaging system. This system not only compiles a tar/tar.gz/tar.bz2 package, but also retrieves the needed packages (including the dependencies) from their homepages.
Actually it is not really my computer if Longhorn (with full Palladium enabled hardware) is running. I guess Microsoft tries to hide this fact by putting a comforting 'my' in front of everything. But they do not fool us for a second, no not us indeed.;) --
That said, this affects everyone. Mind you, I'm told that Palladium will always be able to be shut off via the BIOS, so you can always buy a Palladium-enabled processor and make it act as if it isn't. That's not the problem, really.
The problem is that Palladium is hardware-embedded Digital Rights Denial. It's paving the way for music and movies that won't play at all unless you have a Palladium-enabled processor.
I hope any one reads this but I may have found a sollution. Just get the damn Palladium enabled platform, but disable the palladium DRM or whatever in the BIOS. Format C: and install your favorite Linux distro. Build a VM that mimics the palladium features of the CPU. Only run the CD playing software on that VM, and everything else can be run 'uncontroled'. And presto: happy ripping and ogging/DivX-ing.
They did it on purpose, I knew it. ;D
on
Shattering Windows
·
· Score: 0
From the CNET interview:
[quote]
The second thing is the Palladium model, which is a couple years off, will require hardware with a different chipset. You know, a security chip. While it works side by side with Windows, it won't replace Windows. It will enable all sorts of things for both consumers and businesses. For example, you will have "trusted agents"--pieces of code that are signed by people you trust. This is a good thing because it can eliminate a lot of viruses. So if you get code and it's not from anyone you trust, you can choose to not run it.[/quote]
Call me paranoid, but is he (Scott Charney) actually saying Microsoft dellibritely created a environment in which virii thrive so they could justify the Palladium platform? I mean, he is implying that you can not choose to NOT run virri on current systems. (Well ofcourse there are the alternative office and email programs, but still...)
"Oh and they seem to like using Corel CD-ROM discs for their experiment."
I think they had better tested this with 'Red Alert 2' CDs. (You know, the rts-game Red Alert 2.) I know of nine cases where people had exploding Red Alert 2 CDs. Some with such force, that it ripped their CD-ROM drive to shreds. >:(
Slashdot Mirror
... discloded after they got the Homeland security account. >_
They are referring to the Linux kernel, not the GNU/Linux kernel.
That's Richard Gill man! The hacker enemy number one.
...the land of illusions. The speed of your CPU turns out to be a myth and your 801.11g-card is subject to controversy.
You can walk down the street and beat a regular person to a bloody pulp, and nothing happens. But once you beat up a cop, your 'wanted level' rises, all hell breaks loose and they're on your ass.
Fortunately you can collect some kind of starshaped power ups hidden in the game, that will decrease your wanted level. You can even fool your pursuers completely by repainting your car or changing clothes. Hell, even if you are cought you can bribe the police by giving them your weapons and cash. I mean, what does this teach the American youth? That the police is both stupid and for sale? I hope for your American minors sakes the us.gov doesn't find out about this game. ;)
Actually, they would be at XHTTP1.1 by now ;)
It is, but monday was just not long enough ::)
That's not true! The the most common used passwords are love, secret and sex. Everybody knows that! Oh and don't forget God. It's that whole sysadmin male ego thing. ;)
Yes, you might not want to have a WIFI laptop on your lap all day.---If you ever plan on having children with two arm and legs, that is.
These anti-OC measures are not meant to bug the home tweaker. They are to prevent retailers from OC'ing CPUs and selling them as if they were higher rated CPUs. Apart from the obvious unfairness towards the unsuspecting average customer, it also irritates Intel because of OC'ed CPUs tend have a shorter MTBF. Also Intel has to deal with all these burned out CPUs as they are returned. This ofcourse can have no positive effect on their reputation. Hence these anti OC precautions. I think it's a good thing.
20" inch LCD monitor three years ago?? As a present?? Sheez, how hot is she? ;)
I don't think this will help cracking RSA in anyway. I even believe this will even strengthen the RSA encryption. RSA is based upon the fact that it is very difficult (as in there is no trivial way) to factor a composit number into two primes. And these new theories won't help factorization. Ofcourse, if there is indeed a usufull pattern, it may help to find the primes---that are required for factorization---faster, but the person who uses the RSA-technique can do this too. This will allow the this person to find even bigger primes faster then usuall, so even if the cracker can find possible usufull primes faster, he has to try a whole lot more to facter the composite number. And since trying out a factor to see if the is part of the composite takes much longer time, I only see benefits for the RSA encryption scheme.
Microsoft and Intel think we're not ready for 64 bit systems eh? I bet they think we still are doing just fine with that 640 K RAM. :)
I don't think you have to worry about that. Tankers are even bigger then the accuracy of the public signal (100 meters). Besides, even a 300 square meter area in the ocean is like a poststamp to us. Especially for those big ships like oil tankers.
The article does not mention anything about dependencies. In my opinion dependencies are almost as important as keeping track of which file belongs to what application. Maybe they should do some more homework and take a look at Gentoo's Portagepackaging system. This system not only compiles a tar/tar.gz/tar.bz2 package, but also retrieves the needed packages (including the dependencies) from their homepages.
If people find certain scenes in certain movies offensive, maybe Hollywood shouldn't force its paying customers to watch those scenes.
Anyone else bothered by being chained to a chair by with his/hers eyeslids ducktaped open? Really, Hollywood should stop doing that to their customers
--... it was called weird sience.
--
I hate to think what happens when your tie gets caught in this machine ;D
--
invent something to convert ping times to odours? Then with a laggy connection it would actually make sense to say: "My connection stinks."
--
Actually it is not really my computer if Longhorn (with full Palladium enabled hardware) is running. I guess Microsoft tries to hide this fact by putting a comforting 'my' in front of everything. But they do not fool us for a second, no not us indeed. ;)
--
There is still the VIA C3 ;D Let's hope VIA will make high performace chips in the future w/o making it Palladium compatible.
[quote] The second thing is the Palladium model, which is a couple years off, will require hardware with a different chipset. You know, a security chip. While it works side by side with Windows, it won't replace Windows. It will enable all sorts of things for both consumers and businesses. For example, you will have "trusted agents"--pieces of code that are signed by people you trust. This is a good thing because it can eliminate a lot of viruses. So if you get code and it's not from anyone you trust, you can choose to not run it.[/quote]
Call me paranoid, but is he (Scott Charney) actually saying Microsoft dellibritely created a environment in which virii thrive so they could justify the Palladium platform? I mean, he is implying that you can not choose to NOT run virri on current systems. (Well ofcourse there are the alternative office and email programs, but still ...)
"Oh and they seem to like using Corel CD-ROM discs for their experiment."
I think they had better tested this with 'Red Alert 2' CDs. (You know, the rts-game Red Alert 2.) I know of nine cases where people had exploding Red Alert 2 CDs. Some with such force, that it ripped their CD-ROM drive to shreds. >:(