Aside from the pop-ups one (which may be difficult to "guage"), all of these features could be good or bad depending on the circumstances. The logic being, IF it has a lot of icons, AND you trust the company, then it's still safe to buy. OTH, if it has a lot of icons and you DON'T trust the company, it's probably NOT safe to buy. If it has one or no icons and you don't trust the company (or you do), it probably can't hurt.
Example:
Auto-Update, Uninstallable, and Modify system for a service pack from MS is no worse than Modify System + Popups from a "Free Web Accelerator" from some random website.
I can see them sticking those icons right next to the "recommended system requirements". It'd start looking like a Nutrition Facts label. They just need one for "Requires Administratrive Privledge", and maybe they should either add one that says "Directly Controls Hardware" too.
And I think the telephone calls one and pop-up ones are too specific. The telephone call one should be more like "can incur incremental cost automatically" (so it'd apply to MMRPGs or Click n' Run as well) and the pop-up one should simply be "Adware".
Ever since FFVII came out, Square doesn't refer to the US numbering scheme anymore for identifying it's previous games (it'll say something like FFIII US if they were trying to make that distinction. Otherwise they'll say FF VI. So FF II is the real FF II, not FFII US (which would be FF IV). Capiche?
Dulles Toll Road. HOV-2 in leftmost lane. If the HOV lane is backed up, 90% of the time it's for one of two reasons: accident rare, or that cops are enforcing HOV restrictions. What a load of good that does.
You can do it if the link ends up invoking rundll32 (for certain control panel components, for example). But if you use Right-Click Run As... on something like My Computer or the explorer icon you're not actually running it as another user. Go ahead, try it! Even with "Launch folders in a seperate process" you'll see that it'll accept the alterante user/password but no new window will launch. (hit CTRL+ALT+DELETE and check the processes running, you won't find explorer running as Administrator, I assure you)
Explorer is already running (as your shell) and you can't convince it to restart itself as a different user. What you have to do is kill your existing explorer, (which kills everything including your desktop) then use the task manager to start it again using runas.
The new problem there is your WHOLE DESKTOP is now running as Administrator. Remember to kill it and restart it as yourself when you're done.
It's such a tired meme, but I can't think of a better way to express my thoughts on this mystery. Seems to be the most likely thing I can imagine now, anyway.
Win2K and XP can pretty much handle any kind of USB-HID compliant joystick you throw at it (with click/pressure buttons, hats, and sticks). I would bet it'd work as you'd expect on first attach (but it may be "unidentified"). You might have to manually add a hardware ID for the unit in some far flung INF file.
You intend to send multiple messages to one person to reveal the whole message... you'd better be prepared to ALSO send the messages to 10,000 other email addresses too. If you cheat and send the same person 100 messages, and don't send them to anyone else, that looks like you're puposefully trying to hide information in that channel. Carnivore might pick up on that.
But if you do one->many like a real spammer, you'll probably be missed in the noise...
Here's a better technique:
Create a dictionary that maps the "whitening" noise words to an integer. (that is, create a table of such words which is used for encryption and decryption). Encrypt your message using some PKI scheme (or just symmetric encryption with a shared key). Convert the encrypted binary message into integers (maybe use 16-bit groups and use numbers ranged 0-65535, or whatever), then use the corresponding word in the whitening noise. You could fit a 40 character encrypted message in 20 garbage words. The garbage words would appear to be distributed randomly, as real garbage words should.
More impressive whitening filters try to create plausible two-word combinations weighted by occurance to fool more powerful filters. You can combat this by purposefully using an existing SPAM mailer's whitening filter. You can use a sort of arithmetic/range/huffman DECOCDING to convert the encrypted message back into the chatty phrases by treating the whitening filter as the "word frequency" tree from an arithmetic/huffman coder. Then you "recompress" the words on the other side using the fixed frequency model into the encrypted binary which contains the message.
I'll post it again: Frankly I'm tired of this bullshit. (OT) (Score:-1, Flamebait) by Ayanami Rei (621112) on Wednesday April 07, @09:33AM (#8791378)
TIRE COLOR HUMOR
THIS IS A WEBSITE IN FUCKING AMERICA YOU EUROPEAN WINDBAG. THEREFORE WE WILL SPELL WORDS HOWEVER WE FUCKING LIKE.
I like the shortened forms myself, and I'm proud to live in a country where I'm not ridiculed to use them (until people from other countries get a bug up their collective asses and feel the need to piss and moan).
THIS IS A WEBSITE IN FUCKING AMERICA YOU EUROPEAN WINDBAG. THEREFORE WE WILL SPELL WORDS HOWEVER WE FUCKING LIKE.
I like the shortened forms myself, and I'm proud to live in a country where I'm not ridiculed to use them (until people from other countries get a bug up their collective asses and feel the need to piss and moan).
I'm delaying a purchase of a car for a few months to save up for the iHP-140. It kicks ass up and down the block, let me tell you. It's like the Karma, but a nicer form factor and more robust. Oh yeah, it has a wicked fast USB 2.0 transfer rate (mass storage... simple). So I can do away with all those USB memory keys.
Just google for winamp 2.81 (or any other version you care to try). You'll find about quite a few links (make sure to use the google cache, and stick to winamp.com/aol.com servers)
When you download a song from iTunes, the encryption is unique to your account. What this software does is duplicate the procedure by which an iPod determines the session key that would have been used to encrypt said downloaded song (for the purpose of decrypting OUTSIDE the iPod). This only works with the key you registered with iTunes... otherwise the server encryption (and the iPod decryption, and thus this hack) wouldn't match up.
You can't derive a session key if you don't know the user key that was used to make it. So unless someone divulges their iPod key or user key to you that they registered the iTunes store with, you can't break the encryption of the songs they downloaded.
Instead, you could try to brute force it (astronomical cost). Or hack into the iTunes server (high risk). Good luck.
You can still get the previous version, which was released a scant 5 days ago. It's nothing special, just a clever way to get at the private keys that breaks the PKE scheme.
I mean, all "hacks" on DRM of this nature (single authority source, encrypted carrier, hardware or firmware enforcement) will be exactly the same technique. The question is how do you get at the unencrypted scheme or your session keys... this is an example of how to do that under Fairplay w/iPods.
Point being, at some stage you have to store a decryption key somewhere, and all you need to is intercept it or extract it. It checks your iTunes for it's user key, or generates the one the iPod would (eventually) use. Apparently using this and MD5 hashing of information from each protected song, you get a session key which can decrypted the DRMS atom (AES if you were wondering... figures). And that's it.
I wouldn't really call it hacking... it's reverse engineering and re-implementation of Veridisc's algorithm.
Point is, I was waiting for someone to finally hunker down and pick it apart. Now I know... so if I ever run into a situation where I need the unprotected stream, I can get it, but you're not going to see me giving these unprotected streams to my friends... I paid for them! I just need to increase my value.
Now I can use the AAC streams in my car (got a laptop rigged up... OGGs, MP3s, and now iTunes... heee heee!)
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Exactly the point I was trying to make (well, at the end of that comment).
ps - I have a bunny too!
I managed to pull 0.0.1 thinking they were gonna shut it down.
Aside from the pop-ups one (which may be difficult to "guage"), all of these features could be good or bad depending on the circumstances. The logic being, IF it has a lot of icons, AND you trust the company, then it's still safe to buy.
OTH, if it has a lot of icons and you DON'T trust the company, it's probably NOT safe to buy. If it has one or no icons and you don't trust the company (or you do), it probably can't hurt.
Example:
Auto-Update, Uninstallable, and Modify system for a service pack from MS is no worse than Modify System + Popups from a "Free Web Accelerator" from some random website.
I can see them sticking those icons right next to the "recommended system requirements". It'd start looking like a Nutrition Facts label. They just need one for "Requires Administratrive Privledge", and maybe they should either add one that says "Directly Controls Hardware" too.
And I think the telephone calls one and pop-up ones are too specific. The telephone call one should be more like "can incur incremental cost automatically" (so it'd apply to MMRPGs or Click n' Run as well) and the pop-up one should simply be "Adware".
Ever since FFVII came out, Square doesn't refer to the US numbering scheme anymore for identifying it's previous games (it'll say something like FFIII US if they were trying to make that distinction. Otherwise they'll say FF VI. So FF II is the real FF II, not FFII US (which would be FF IV). Capiche?
Herndon Parkway is useless now. There's this Worldgate drive which cuts between Monroe and Elden street, everyone uses that instead.
:-(
Of course, I got a speeding ticket on that.
Figures.
You know the one I mean... it turns red if you go too fast. I was going to say, "This is News?" when I read the article.
Dulles Toll Road. HOV-2 in leftmost lane.
If the HOV lane is backed up, 90% of the time it's for one of two reasons: accident rare, or that cops are enforcing HOV restrictions.
What a load of good that does.
I mean the other question 2.
Windows expert _and_ proofreader on Slashdot. Imagine that!
they're just doing what OSX, Gnome and KDE have had for at least a year now. (although with DirectX, great.....)
You can do it if the link ends up invoking rundll32 (for certain control panel components, for example). But if you use Right-Click Run As... on something like My Computer or the explorer icon you're not actually running it as another user. Go ahead, try it! Even with "Launch folders in a seperate process" you'll see that it'll accept the alterante user/password but no new window will launch. (hit CTRL+ALT+DELETE and check the processes running, you won't find explorer running as Administrator, I assure you)
Explorer is already running (as your shell) and you can't convince it to restart itself as a different user. What you have to do is kill your existing explorer, (which kills everything including your desktop) then use the task manager to start it again using runas.
The new problem there is your WHOLE DESKTOP is now running as Administrator. Remember to kill it and restart it as yourself when you're done.
It's such a tired meme, but I can't think of a better way to express my thoughts on this mystery. Seems to be the most likely thing I can imagine now, anyway.
They just keep irresponsibly banishing shit back and forth it's no wonder the two worlds start to integrate as the story develops.
In the future, don't reply to yourself.
It makes you look _crazy_.
with thunking to libwine.so, and now you have your linux version. Better use the codeweavers version, because the DirectX support is better.
Win2K and XP can pretty much handle any kind of USB-HID compliant joystick you throw at it (with click/pressure buttons, hats, and sticks). I would bet it'd work as you'd expect on first attach (but it may be "unidentified"). You might have to manually add a hardware ID for the unit in some far flung INF file.
You intend to send multiple messages to one person to reveal the whole message... you'd better be prepared to ALSO send the messages to 10,000 other email addresses too. If you cheat and send the same person 100 messages, and don't send them to anyone else, that looks like you're puposefully trying to hide information in that channel. Carnivore might pick up on that.
But if you do one->many like a real spammer, you'll probably be missed in the noise...
Here's a better technique:
Create a dictionary that maps the "whitening" noise words to an integer. (that is, create a table of such words which is used for encryption and decryption).
Encrypt your message using some PKI scheme (or just symmetric encryption with a shared key). Convert the encrypted binary message into integers (maybe use 16-bit groups and use numbers ranged 0-65535, or whatever), then use the corresponding word in the whitening noise. You could fit a 40 character encrypted message in 20 garbage words. The garbage words would appear to be distributed randomly, as real garbage words should.
More impressive whitening filters try to create plausible two-word combinations weighted by occurance to fool more powerful filters. You can combat this by purposefully using an existing SPAM mailer's whitening filter. You can use a sort of arithmetic/range/huffman DECOCDING to convert the encrypted message back into the chatty phrases by treating the whitening filter as the "word frequency" tree from an arithmetic/huffman coder. Then you "recompress" the words on the other side using the fixed frequency model into the encrypted binary which contains the message.
I'll post it again:
Frankly I'm tired of this bullshit. (OT) (Score:-1, Flamebait)
by Ayanami Rei (621112) on Wednesday April 07, @09:33AM (#8791378)
TIRE
COLOR
HUMOR
THIS IS A WEBSITE IN FUCKING AMERICA YOU EUROPEAN WINDBAG. THEREFORE WE WILL SPELL WORDS HOWEVER WE FUCKING LIKE.
I like the shortened forms myself, and I'm proud to live in a country where I'm not ridiculed to use them (until people from other countries get a bug up their collective asses and feel the need to piss and moan).
TIRE
COLOR
HUMOR
THIS IS A WEBSITE IN FUCKING AMERICA YOU EUROPEAN WINDBAG. THEREFORE WE WILL SPELL WORDS HOWEVER WE FUCKING LIKE.
I like the shortened forms myself, and I'm proud to live in a country where I'm not ridiculed to use them (until people from other countries get a bug up their collective asses and feel the need to piss and moan).
I'm delaying a purchase of a car for a few months to save up for the iHP-140. It kicks ass up and down the block, let me tell you. It's like the Karma, but a nicer form factor and more robust. Oh yeah, it has a wicked fast USB 2.0 transfer rate (mass storage... simple). So I can do away with all those USB memory keys.
Just google for winamp 2.81 (or any other version you care to try). You'll find about quite a few links (make sure to use the google cache, and stick to winamp.com/aol.com servers)
http://download.nullsoft.com/winamp/client/winamp2 81_full.exe
At least they still host it. (you can also s/full/lite in the URL)
When you download a song from iTunes, the encryption is unique to your account. What this software does is duplicate the procedure by which an iPod determines the session key that would have been used to encrypt said downloaded song (for the purpose of decrypting OUTSIDE the iPod). This only works with the key you registered with iTunes... otherwise the server encryption (and the iPod decryption, and thus this hack) wouldn't match up.
You can't derive a session key if you don't know the user key that was used to make it. So unless someone divulges their iPod key or user key to you that they registered the iTunes store with, you can't break the encryption of the songs they downloaded.
Instead, you could try to brute force it (astronomical cost). Or hack into the iTunes server (high risk). Good luck.
Some people say they want hardware based DRM, then recoil at that suggestion.
You can still get the previous version, which was released a scant 5 days ago. It's nothing special, just a clever way to get at the private keys that breaks the PKE scheme.
I mean, all "hacks" on DRM of this nature (single authority source, encrypted carrier, hardware or firmware enforcement) will be exactly the same technique. The question is how do you get at the unencrypted scheme or your session keys... this is an example of how to do that under Fairplay w/iPods.
Point being, at some stage you have to store a decryption key somewhere, and all you need to is intercept it or extract it. It checks your iTunes for it's user key, or generates the one the iPod would (eventually) use. Apparently using this and MD5 hashing of information from each protected song, you get a session key which can decrypted the DRMS atom (AES if you were wondering... figures). And that's it.
I wouldn't really call it hacking... it's reverse engineering and re-implementation of Veridisc's algorithm.
Point is, I was waiting for someone to finally hunker down and pick it apart. Now I know... so if I ever run into a situation where I need the unprotected stream, I can get it, but you're not going to see me giving these unprotected streams to my friends... I paid for them! I just need to increase my value.
Now I can use the AAC streams in my car (got a laptop rigged up... OGGs, MP3s, and now iTunes... heee heee!)