No, that's not capitalism at work. If you make a gizmo for $80 and sell it for $100 but noone wants it, that's capitalism. If your neighbor figures out how to make them for $60 and sell them for $75, obviously people would buy at the lower price. Driving you out of business is also capitalism at work. But if the local thief take them at no cost and sell them for $50 (or for that matter give them away for free), that's not capitalism.
And lets say your neighbor is in violation of patent law, should all the consumers really care? It's not that much different than when some 14 year old downloaded the latest metallica cd off napster. He might not have a clue what tech or laws are involved, he just knows he's getting what he wants for the best (and possibly only if he has no allowance)
What I won't do is spend the $80/mo or whatever to get all the really geeky channels I want when I won't watch the other 90-95% of the channels I'm paying for.
Thats what most people do though, including all those people that don't watch your really geeky channels. If they stopped paying for them, you'd stop getting them.
a-la-carte works great for the consumer in theory until you look at the any other industry driven similarly(music, movies, etc): Only the 'sure thing' gets funded. Nothing niche is worth the investment unless the investment is trivially small.
It's already at the point where a show has to immediately pick up a huge following or get shitcanned. No time to set up characters or plot, you need instant twists and hooks or you'll be dead by the end of the first season. If a show like Buffy or ST: TNG came out this year instead of back when they did, they'd never have been given the chance to grow that they both needed.
One night of likely bad but still potentially enjoyable sex for your entire epic mount training costs? It's really not a bad investment if you play a lot, couple hours of bad sex, couple weeks of feeling like a whore (maybe), but then a large amount of time with something you want. I assume anyone willing to make that offer plays many hours a day, so thats a huge chunk of her life that will be improved by a single night.
As for the second part.. She is living her life. Gaming is a part of it. What should she be spending her life on instead, something you deem worthy? Watching TV? Reading things she doesn't care about? Working all day for money she doesnt really need and wouldnt have time to spend?
I have the opposite experience. I thought steam was a great idea, and it was. Even wasn't that bad implemented back in the day (1.6 beta). It's just as it went along it seemed to get worse and worse. Slower, clunkier. Friends network down for about a year. etc.
I still like steam more than most people, but it really was done poorly. Compare your framerate in 1.6with 1.5 and notice how even with identical graphics somehow 1.6 is amazingly slower, mostly due to the way the new ingame gui is done.
Not needing your cds is awesome though, as is being able to use a friends steam account to try stuff out. And getting patches as they come out, aside from the fact that valve rarely patches anything useful, or updates any of their content (how many years of 1.6 w/o a new map thrown in?). On top of that, Steam is capable of something Valve doesn't even attempt to put to good use: Streamed gameplay.
Basically in a single player game, imagine you first download all of the core files -- The code, the interface, everything possibly needed to launch the game initially. Now you start downloading the first 3 levels, every model used in them, every sound related, anything that could come up.
Now you start playing. While playing, the rest of the game downloads as you need it.
This would let you play a game a lot faster on a fresh install, and is something steam was supposed to allow. It looks like its even still in there (precache.lst), but I dont think anything uses it right now.
CDs don't have the highest quality audio. Probably as high as these tracks will, for sure, but they're not the end all be all of audio quality. No, I'm not a crazy audiophile, but if you have more than 2 speakers its nice to have them do something other than clone eachother. CDs are just 2 channel, 44khz(I believe), whereas an SACD or DVD-Audio can easily be 5.1 48khz if not more.
If I have to choose between buying a cd or torrenting a 5.1 channel rip of something, the 5.1 wins hands down. Granted, I don't even own a cd player any more as digital music is just easier to manage.
How many of those would have been successful without zonealarm? My guess is 0. How does it define "get into your computer"? I'd guess any single SYN packet that hits your machine, incl. worms that wouldn't effect you anyways as they target software you don't run, blanket network-wide scans, call-back services like things that check IdentD (ircd +ftpds), things that scan you to see if you're running an open proxy, etc.
Is someone calling you due to dialing the wrong number a social engineering attempt? What about a criminal driving past your house and looking at it? How is either really any different from getting hit with some stray SYN packets that zone alarm goes apeshit over?
My solution would be to make all new laws have an expirey date of no more than 5 years at which point it will need to be re-voted upon. Think that would clog the system? Fuck yes it would, until they start saying "no" to renewing frivilous or outdated laws.
All existing laws should then expire in 20 years unless renewed under the new system. That way we dont have legal anarchy, but we do weed out the old ones quick enough.
Which is great until you factor in error rate/recovery time(1 bad sector on disk = 1 new trip. yes you could burn parity data too, but then you need to copy a lot more data at once). Then theres rate it takes to burn and store disks, and get them all back into a computer on the other end (disk read rate + rate to unpack and move N thousand disks).
Networks already much faster once you factor that in.
And of course theres the fact that this multi-gigabit link doesn't need 3.07 petabytes to reach maximum speed. If you only had a 20 gigs or so to move around, this would do it in seconds instead of hours. Then theres streaming multiple angles of hidef video..
Hey, if everyone else can take the joke too far by bringing math in, someone should at least get to defend the other side.
In WingCommanderIII for example when the Behemoth gets destroyed, the first thing I did was to try again, then again and then give up and let the story continue, the emotional scene didn't really work because as a player I was expecting to succeed, but couldn't. Similar issue in The Longest Journey when Emma gets shoot, I did load a old savegame to try if there was a way around it, well, there wasn't.
You don't want to know how many attempts I made at the first part of Mega Man X before finally letting myself die. I think good use of cutscenes or pre-scripted sequences help a lot, like in Max Payne, so in game you're just triggering the event and getting to more story. Of course this can be overused, like Metal Gear Solid, where the game is just the buttons you press to get to the next scene.
The other way to go of course is like Oblivion where its all part of the game and the story is as you progress it. Still has that issue of undoing bad changes removing immersion though.
Which makes me question if they're actually a jury of my peers, and whether its possible to get a fair trial.
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I think a better use of technology would be having speedlimits broadcasted so you could know. A lot of times the signs will be be hidden behind a big overgrown tree or bush, or purposely hard to see. If your car could just alert you that you're approaching the speed limit (and preferably only you, and not do anything other than sound a buzzer and light something), I think there would be less accidental speeding.
They missed one of the worst, 18 USC 2257, which makes a large chunk of internet sites impossible to run legally, like any site where people are uploading content or streaming video. This includes anonymous rateme sites like ratemyboobies, flashyourrack, and arguably even things like tinypic, flickr, and photobucket.
Of course nobody will admit to hating it as it protects the children and if you dont like it you're a creepy pedophile.
Impossible to hate the law because it makes distributors have to keep a copy of everything they distribute (technologically impossible for a cam site, not enough storage exists), makes pornstars give up a lot more personal info that all needs kept on file, even though they're usually the type that would want to stay anonymous or at least not have random guys able to come find and rape them, and makes it impossible for a girl to randomly post a tit picutre on a forum, imageboard, or whatever.
Nope. None of those are valid complaints. Don't like the law = want to dick an 8 year old. Must be why it was left out from the article.
I haven't received any BSA notices since installing SafePeer (not that I'm necessarily saying I downloaded anything;^) but if you want to be targeted instead, go right ahead.
How many did you get before you installed it, or are you saying it had zero impact on your BSA notice quota and is thus an irrelevant data point?
If it wasn't for games would there be any argument for Windows at all?
The question is why would I run Linux over windows? Your argument is that Linux doesn't run games. Thats fine, my windows box can also not run games, all it takes is some self control. Failing that, remove direct3d, opengl, or even replace your videocard with something cheap.
Now, as for what Windows can do that Linux can't: Run plenty of applications. Just about any good 'Linux' app has been ported to windows (gaim, firefox, xchat, apache or thttpd, perl/php/etc, gvim, mplayer and vlc, really anything I'd ever want to run on linux runs on windows.) What about windows apps on linux? No foobar2000 (far above and beyond any other media player), none of those enjoyable games you don't want to run, no IM clients capable all the features of the protocol the way the official ones are (webcams, voip, rich content, etc), no utorrent, no photoshop/autocad/soundforge/vegas (pick your specialty..and no, opensource clones don't count as most run on windows too anyways, at least we get the choice).
I won't get started on the hardware support. Linux has gotten much better, but as far as slapping in random usb devices and getting something functional out of them windows is still ahead. Yeah, you can probably get your usb printer to work, but what about syncing a cellphone? Reprogramming that phone?
When I was younger I strived to do things the hard way because I thought there was some kind of pride, ran all kinds of flavors of linux, freebsd, openbsd, you name it. Spent months without even having my mouse plugged in because I could do everything in console. Then I matured and realized I was wasting time and effort like an idiot and would be better served using the best tool for the job. For desktop computing, thats still windows for me. Obviously thats not true for everyone, but I'd say its true for a lot more people than like to admit due to some kind of pride, ego, or outright ignorance due to having never given XP a fair chance.
To keep things on topic: Cedega is nice but you really can't depend on it, especially for an online game where every few months a new update will break it, and you're constantly having to worry about your cdkey getting banned due to cedega not being 100% on the anticheat, etc. If you want to game, you're better off dual booting or just running windows on your desktop and linux on your servers, doing your work in putty. Or even doing your work in a VM on windows. Or even running Linux on windows with CoLinux -- Like I said, everything worth running gets ported, even the kernel itself.
All that breaks is automatic updates. You can still manually download the updates. If you are smart enough to figure out how to get a pirate copy of Windows, you should be smart enough to figure out how to manually patch. Don't want to? Then get a legit version...
Or don't do it, which is also their choice.
For the first time since win98 I'm actually on a legit copy of windows. I leave autoupdate on but usually take a few weeks to reboot after it grabs one because frankly, I don't really care. Half the time updates are for things I don't care about, it's not like microsoft admits something is a patch to a vulnerability. Heres a good example, right now I have an update waiting..
Initializing installation... done! Installing Windows Genuine Advantage Notification (KB905474) (update 1 of 1)...
Yippie. Kind of makes me miss running debian on the desktop, at least Apt never told me to install something stupid like that.
When I was on an illegit copy of XP, I just used a patched windows update and the same "I'll reboot when I reboot, if it installs an update at the same time so be it" attitude.
The only questionable things I have installed are DRM-related things bundled with other services, and "helper tasks" for stuff I only used once. Try out vmware for a few days? Have vmwares network stuff running 24/7 after that. Get a new ipod? Prepare for 5-6 new services/tasks thanks to iTunes.
or better yet, get a usb thumbdrive and stick SQLite on it so you can ship your product without relying on them having a DBA to set it up on the other side. I still don't see why so many people use MySQL or PGSQL for simple webapps like blogs and CMS systems. You arn't going to have multiple accesses from seperate machines, simultaneous updates, or any other possibly reason for justifying a remote DB. The only reason MySQL is so popular is it was shipped default in so many distros. Switching to PGSQL is just using a different brand of the wrong tool (90% of the time, of course)
How long does it take you to move your webapp+db to a clean machine? I can just rsync.
I don't see the point of using ipods though. Unless you equip every teacher with a mic hooked up to some central server to podcast everything, ipods really are not a good education device. At least give the students something with a mic in it so they can record classes on their own, and even their own notes seperately.
Or give the kids cheap tablets or laptops (OLPC?), so they can actually use them for research and as a viable textbook alternative.
'in addition to' isn't entirely accurate. Unless they changed something, usually you have to choose between onboard video or card video. Pretty annoying when you want dual heads and have to just waste the onboard.
My only experince is with agp though, so again, that might have changed.
So somebody tell me again why I need a Zune? Or an iPod? I suppose if I were interested in portable video I'd feel differently, but as it happens I'm not. I just want to tuck the thing in a pocket and listen to my music.
To store 30-80 times more music on your device and not actually need to manage it separately?
I hate having to use itunes, and will ditch it as soon as foo_pod starts working reliably again, but its definitely the easiest way for your average person to deal with moving a small segment of their music to a portable.
Read that on the forums, had the same response(though I didn't post it as others beat me to it): Solves nothing.
Recording mouse movement and clicks is not any harder than recording keystrokes (okay, its more data and a little harder to sort through, but still trivial for any highschol kid with an outdated warez copy of vb).
In your main loop, check the list of open processes or windows and look for WoW. Wait a few seconds before next check if it isn't open.
If it's open, hook the mouse press event. Every click, get the mouse location and store it. Take a screenshot, compress it, store it with.
Also hook the file open event, or sniff the network. Both of these will tell you when the login is finished and you can stop capturing and begin slowly transferring your data so as not to produce any lag.
If its a set number of images you could even compare the images clientside to defeat it. Would be even easier than breaking captchas (which pwncha shows was doable).
Pictures and clicking are no more secure than users and passwords. Both can be sniffed. Both can be seen over the shoulder. Both can be social engineered out.
Though now that I actually think about it.. as worded ("several of these graphics") you wouldn't even need their image they clicked. Just their login and pass, which you could then use to start a login attempt up to the phase where you need to select an image. Note which images are shown. Wait however long you need to wait until their watchdogs go away(so as not to prematurely lock the account due to failed logins). Do it again. Remove any icons that wernt present both times. Repeat until you've got the only icon that was present in all attempts, and there you go.
Of course that's assuming randomized icon selection out of a large probability, obviously you don't have to randomize it each attempt but should instead take a random set of say 6*6 to show in a grid on every login in the accounts lifetime. Still sniffable as described earlier.
Then, he would realise that its not worth it, and bows before the ISP lords, and goes to sign up for gmail.com.
Fucking truth. I ran my own mail for the longest time on a colo'd server. Worked fine, enjoyed being able to do what I want with it (procmail, spamassasin, pop imap squirrelmail pine whatever). In the end though it's just not worth the hassle of maintaining a mailserver. Machine gets DoSed due to idiots on irc? Hope its back in before mails start dropping. Someone write a script that ran amuck? Disks full*, enjoy ur dropped mails. With gmail I don't have to worry about anything other than firefox running horribly slow.
* Yes I know I could quota things, set up partitions, and otherwise work around this and other issues. Adding more work to it doesn't make it any more worth the time.
Whats the better solution, every app having its own incomputable html renderer each needing to be updated separately? From a security standpoint, yeah, that would lead to not having one vulnerability effect all apps, but it also means a lot more codebases each with their own bugs, especially considering the number of developers that use IE's renderer vs the number that are capable of writing their own non-fail html renderer.
Not only was gmail an april fools joke, but the year after they announced that everyones gig of email was upgraded to infinity+1 (with your max space growing all the time)
Guess what? "You are currently using 229 MB (8%) of your 2835 MB." Still got that extra storage space.
As jokefilled as the page is(much like the formulas for how they can manage to store infinity+1), it wouldn't surprise me at all if this ended up being a new service.
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And lets say your neighbor is in violation of patent law, should all the consumers really care? It's not that much different than when some 14 year old downloaded the latest metallica cd off napster. He might not have a clue what tech or laws are involved, he just knows he's getting what he wants for the best (and possibly only if he has no allowance)
Thats what most people do though, including all those people that don't watch your really geeky channels. If they stopped paying for them, you'd stop getting them.
a-la-carte works great for the consumer in theory until you look at the any other industry driven similarly(music, movies, etc): Only the 'sure thing' gets funded. Nothing niche is worth the investment unless the investment is trivially small.
It's already at the point where a show has to immediately pick up a huge following or get shitcanned. No time to set up characters or plot, you need instant twists and hooks or you'll be dead by the end of the first season. If a show like Buffy or ST: TNG came out this year instead of back when they did, they'd never have been given the chance to grow that they both needed.
One night of likely bad but still potentially enjoyable sex for your entire epic mount training costs? It's really not a bad investment if you play a lot, couple hours of bad sex, couple weeks of feeling like a whore (maybe), but then a large amount of time with something you want. I assume anyone willing to make that offer plays many hours a day, so thats a huge chunk of her life that will be improved by a single night.
As for the second part.. She is living her life. Gaming is a part of it. What should she be spending her life on instead, something you deem worthy? Watching TV? Reading things she doesn't care about? Working all day for money she doesnt really need and wouldnt have time to spend?
I have the opposite experience. I thought steam was a great idea, and it was. Even wasn't that bad implemented back in the day (1.6 beta). It's just as it went along it seemed to get worse and worse. Slower, clunkier. Friends network down for about a year. etc.
I still like steam more than most people, but it really was done poorly. Compare your framerate in 1.6with 1.5 and notice how even with identical graphics somehow 1.6 is amazingly slower, mostly due to the way the new ingame gui is done.
Not needing your cds is awesome though, as is being able to use a friends steam account to try stuff out. And getting patches as they come out, aside from the fact that valve rarely patches anything useful, or updates any of their content (how many years of 1.6 w/o a new map thrown in?). On top of that, Steam is capable of something Valve doesn't even attempt to put to good use: Streamed gameplay.
Basically in a single player game, imagine you first download all of the core files -- The code, the interface, everything possibly needed to launch the game initially. Now you start downloading the first 3 levels, every model used in them, every sound related, anything that could come up.
Now you start playing. While playing, the rest of the game downloads as you need it.
This would let you play a game a lot faster on a fresh install, and is something steam was supposed to allow. It looks like its even still in there (precache.lst), but I dont think anything uses it right now.
CDs don't have the highest quality audio. Probably as high as these tracks will, for sure, but they're not the end all be all of audio quality. No, I'm not a crazy audiophile, but if you have more than 2 speakers its nice to have them do something other than clone eachother. CDs are just 2 channel, 44khz(I believe), whereas an SACD or DVD-Audio can easily be 5.1 48khz if not more.
If I have to choose between buying a cd or torrenting a 5.1 channel rip of something, the 5.1 wins hands down. Granted, I don't even own a cd player any more as digital music is just easier to manage.
How many of those would have been successful without zonealarm? My guess is 0. How does it define "get into your computer"? I'd guess any single SYN packet that hits your machine, incl. worms that wouldn't effect you anyways as they target software you don't run, blanket network-wide scans, call-back services like things that check IdentD (ircd +ftpds), things that scan you to see if you're running an open proxy, etc.
Is someone calling you due to dialing the wrong number a social engineering attempt? What about a criminal driving past your house and looking at it? How is either really any different from getting hit with some stray SYN packets that zone alarm goes apeshit over?
Then you end up with vauge laws being misapplied.
My solution would be to make all new laws have an expirey date of no more than 5 years at which point it will need to be re-voted upon. Think that would clog the system? Fuck yes it would, until they start saying "no" to renewing frivilous or outdated laws.
All existing laws should then expire in 20 years unless renewed under the new system. That way we dont have legal anarchy, but we do weed out the old ones quick enough.
Which is great until you factor in error rate/recovery time(1 bad sector on disk = 1 new trip. yes you could burn parity data too, but then you need to copy a lot more data at once).
Then theres rate it takes to burn and store disks, and get them all back into a computer on the other end (disk read rate + rate to unpack and move N thousand disks).
Networks already much faster once you factor that in.
And of course theres the fact that this multi-gigabit link doesn't need 3.07 petabytes to reach maximum speed. If you only had a 20 gigs or so to move around, this would do it in seconds instead of hours. Then theres streaming multiple angles of hidef video..
Hey, if everyone else can take the joke too far by bringing math in, someone should at least get to defend the other side.
You don't want to know how many attempts I made at the first part of Mega Man X before finally letting myself die. I think good use of cutscenes or pre-scripted sequences help a lot, like in Max Payne, so in game you're just triggering the event and getting to more story. Of course this can be overused, like Metal Gear Solid, where the game is just the buttons you press to get to the next scene.
The other way to go of course is like Oblivion where its all part of the game and the story is as you progress it. Still has that issue of undoing bad changes removing immersion though.
Which makes me question if they're actually a jury of my peers, and whether its possible to get a fair trial.
I think a better use of technology would be having speedlimits broadcasted so you could know. A lot of times the signs will be be hidden behind a big overgrown tree or bush, or purposely hard to see. If your car could just alert you that you're approaching the speed limit (and preferably only you, and not do anything other than sound a buzzer and light something), I think there would be less accidental speeding.
They missed one of the worst, 18 USC 2257, which makes a large chunk of internet sites impossible to run legally, like any site where people are uploading content or streaming video. This includes anonymous rateme sites like ratemyboobies, flashyourrack, and arguably even things like tinypic, flickr, and photobucket.
Of course nobody will admit to hating it as it protects the children and if you dont like it you're a creepy pedophile.
Impossible to hate the law because it makes distributors have to keep a copy of everything they distribute (technologically impossible for a cam site, not enough storage exists), makes pornstars give up a lot more personal info that all needs kept on file, even though they're usually the type that would want to stay anonymous or at least not have random guys able to come find and rape them, and makes it impossible for a girl to randomly post a tit picutre on a forum, imageboard, or whatever.
Nope. None of those are valid complaints. Don't like the law = want to dick an 8 year old. Must be why it was left out from the article.
How many did you get before you installed it, or are you saying it had zero impact on your BSA notice quota and is thus an irrelevant data point?
The question is why would I run Linux over windows? Your argument is that Linux doesn't run games. Thats fine, my windows box can also not run games, all it takes is some self control. Failing that, remove direct3d, opengl, or even replace your videocard with something cheap.
Now, as for what Windows can do that Linux can't: Run plenty of applications. Just about any good 'Linux' app has been ported to windows (gaim, firefox, xchat, apache or thttpd, perl/php/etc, gvim, mplayer and vlc, really anything I'd ever want to run on linux runs on windows.)
What about windows apps on linux? No foobar2000 (far above and beyond any other media player), none of those enjoyable games you don't want to run, no IM clients capable all the features of the protocol the way the official ones are (webcams, voip, rich content, etc), no utorrent, no photoshop/autocad/soundforge/vegas (pick your specialty..and no, opensource clones don't count as most run on windows too anyways, at least we get the choice).
I won't get started on the hardware support. Linux has gotten much better, but as far as slapping in random usb devices and getting something functional out of them windows is still ahead. Yeah, you can probably get your usb printer to work, but what about syncing a cellphone? Reprogramming that phone?
When I was younger I strived to do things the hard way because I thought there was some kind of pride, ran all kinds of flavors of linux, freebsd, openbsd, you name it. Spent months without even having my mouse plugged in because I could do everything in console. Then I matured and realized I was wasting time and effort like an idiot and would be better served using the best tool for the job. For desktop computing, thats still windows for me.
Obviously thats not true for everyone, but I'd say its true for a lot more people than like to admit due to some kind of pride, ego, or outright ignorance due to having never given XP a fair chance.
To keep things on topic: Cedega is nice but you really can't depend on it, especially for an online game where every few months a new update will break it, and you're constantly having to worry about your cdkey getting banned due to cedega not being 100% on the anticheat, etc. If you want to game, you're better off dual booting or just running windows on your desktop and linux on your servers, doing your work in putty. Or even doing your work in a VM on windows. Or even running Linux on windows with CoLinux -- Like I said, everything worth running gets ported, even the kernel itself.
For the first time since win98 I'm actually on a legit copy of windows. I leave autoupdate on but usually take a few weeks to reboot after it grabs one because frankly, I don't really care. Half the time updates are for things I don't care about, it's not like microsoft admits something is a patch to a vulnerability. Heres a good example, right now I have an update waiting..
Yippie. Kind of makes me miss running debian on the desktop, at least Apt never told me to install something stupid like that.
When I was on an illegit copy of XP, I just used a patched windows update and the same "I'll reboot when I reboot, if it installs an update at the same time so be it" attitude.
The only questionable things I have installed are DRM-related things bundled with other services, and "helper tasks" for stuff I only used once. Try out vmware for a few days? Have vmwares network stuff running 24/7 after that. Get a new ipod? Prepare for 5-6 new services/tasks thanks to iTunes.
or better yet, get a usb thumbdrive and stick SQLite on it so you can ship your product without relying on them having a DBA to set it up on the other side. I still don't see why so many people use MySQL or PGSQL for simple webapps like blogs and CMS systems. You arn't going to have multiple accesses from seperate machines, simultaneous updates, or any other possibly reason for justifying a remote DB. The only reason MySQL is so popular is it was shipped default in so many distros. Switching to PGSQL is just using a different brand of the wrong tool (90% of the time, of course)
How long does it take you to move your webapp+db to a clean machine? I can just rsync.
I don't see the point of using ipods though. Unless you equip every teacher with a mic hooked up to some central server to podcast everything, ipods really are not a good education device. At least give the students something with a mic in it so they can record classes on their own, and even their own notes seperately.
Or give the kids cheap tablets or laptops (OLPC?), so they can actually use them for research and as a viable textbook alternative.
'in addition to' isn't entirely accurate. Unless they changed something, usually you have to choose between onboard video or card video. Pretty annoying when you want dual heads and have to just waste the onboard.
My only experince is with agp though, so again, that might have changed.
To store 30-80 times more music on your device and not actually need to manage it separately?
I hate having to use itunes, and will ditch it as soon as foo_pod starts working reliably again, but its definitely the easiest way for your average person to deal with moving a small segment of their music to a portable.
Not that many people actually. Couple of on site hands, no reason anybody else has to show up. It's a datacenter, not an office complex.
Read that on the forums, had the same response(though I didn't post it as others beat me to it): Solves nothing.
Recording mouse movement and clicks is not any harder than recording keystrokes (okay, its more data and a little harder to sort through, but still trivial for any highschol kid with an outdated warez copy of vb).
In your main loop, check the list of open processes or windows and look for WoW. Wait a few seconds before next check if it isn't open.
If it's open, hook the mouse press event. Every click, get the mouse location and store it. Take a screenshot, compress it, store it with.
Also hook the file open event, or sniff the network. Both of these will tell you when the login is finished and you can stop capturing and begin slowly transferring your data so as not to produce any lag.
If its a set number of images you could even compare the images clientside to defeat it. Would be even easier than breaking captchas (which pwncha shows was doable).
Pictures and clicking are no more secure than users and passwords. Both can be sniffed. Both can be seen over the shoulder. Both can be social engineered out.
Though now that I actually think about it.. as worded ("several of these graphics") you wouldn't even need their image they clicked. Just their login and pass, which you could then use to start a login attempt up to the phase where you need to select an image. Note which images are shown. Wait however long you need to wait until their watchdogs go away(so as not to prematurely lock the account due to failed logins). Do it again. Remove any icons that wernt present both times. Repeat until you've got the only icon that was present in all attempts, and there you go.
Of course that's assuming randomized icon selection out of a large probability, obviously you don't have to randomize it each attempt but should instead take a random set of say 6*6 to show in a grid on every login in the accounts lifetime. Still sniffable as described earlier.
Fucking truth. I ran my own mail for the longest time on a colo'd server. Worked fine, enjoyed being able to do what I want with it (procmail, spamassasin, pop imap squirrelmail pine whatever). In the end though it's just not worth the hassle of maintaining a mailserver. Machine gets DoSed due to idiots on irc? Hope its back in before mails start dropping. Someone write a script that ran amuck? Disks full*, enjoy ur dropped mails. With gmail I don't have to worry about anything other than firefox running horribly slow.
* Yes I know I could quota things, set up partitions, and otherwise work around this and other issues. Adding more work to it doesn't make it any more worth the time.
Whats the better solution, every app having its own incomputable html renderer each needing to be updated separately? From a security standpoint, yeah, that would lead to not having one vulnerability effect all apps, but it also means a lot more codebases each with their own bugs, especially considering the number of developers that use IE's renderer vs the number that are capable of writing their own non-fail html renderer.
Not only was gmail an april fools joke, but the year after they announced that everyones gig of email was upgraded to infinity+1 (with your max space growing all the time)
Guess what? "You are currently using 229 MB (8%) of your 2835 MB." Still got that extra storage space.
As jokefilled as the page is(much like the formulas for how they can manage to store infinity+1), it wouldn't surprise me at all if this ended up being a new service.
True, or just reencode the video. Slight quality loss, but likely not enough to make people complain if the original was hidef and clean.