I've never written a backdoor for any of the applications I've released publicly. However, when I graduated from University and resigned from a system administrator position in one of its departments, I wrote a little backdoor program that gave me root privileges because I knew the guy who was to replace me was completely incompetent. I knew I would get to keep my account, so I wrote the program so that it would only work from my user ID.
The program came in handy a few times. I finally deleted it about six months later.
Actually, if you look at the x86-64 spec, you'll see that it uses 48-bit virtual addressing, and 40-bit physical addressing. Virtual addresses are sign-extended to the full 64 bits.
The DMCA doesn't stand up very well when it comes to DVDs because when you buy a DVD you own the medium. Hence, it would seem that, under fair use rights, you can do nearly anything you want with the data on that medium.
In the case of satellite TV transmissions, who owns the medium? The satellite owners? The broadcasters? A government entity? I don't think we, as individuals, own the medium, here.
I used to be a loyal PINE user. I was never really happy with the PICO editor and found that using PINE with PGP or GPG was awkward. However, I hacked up my.pinerc quite a bit and got the thing working the way I liked it to (like using vi as my editor).
Then, I tried mutt. After a few minutes I was hooked. I now use mutt for all of my mail. I think its ability to seamlessly integrate with GPG was the biggest factor in convincing me to switch.
So, will he be driving around letting you and anyone else borrow his equipment whenever you want to watch illegitimate copies of the latest box office hits?
Yes, it only takes one person to design a "mod chip", but what about when each instance of the DRM-enabled hardware requires its own custom chip? It will happen.
They have learned. Yes, the ability to defeat DRM mechanisms will always exist. However, the cost to defeat those mechanisms will grow with each new iteration.
Anyone can afford the Sharpie pen required to defeat today's protection scheme. But who will be able to afford the in-circuit emulator or logic analyzer needed to defeat tomorrow's scheme?
If I didn't play games, I would have a FreeBSD-only household. I haven't tried winex yet, so I can't say whether Battlefield 1942 plays as well under winex as it does in a native Windows environment.:-)
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As should be noted from Figure 4, updating on Linux was rather easier than updating on *BSD, since all of the *BSD updates required compilation, either of the base system or from the ports/packages collection.
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Sounds like a job for ECC.
Nice, but it doesn't include a comparison with a Vogon construction fleet. :-(
If the universe is torus shaped, then there is no space in the middle of the torus!
Maybe he is color blind! :-)
The program came in handy a few times. I finally deleted it about six months later.
Actually, if you look at the x86-64 spec, you'll see that it uses 48-bit virtual addressing, and 40-bit physical addressing. Virtual addresses are sign-extended to the full 64 bits.
- Uh, post codes are a series of auditory beeps there chief.
Really? The POST codes I find most useful are the ones sent to I/O port 80h and displayed on my POST-Probe card's LEDs!In the case of satellite TV transmissions, who owns the medium? The satellite owners? The broadcasters? A government entity? I don't think we, as individuals, own the medium, here.
Anyone have any ideas about this?
So I guess this means Star Trek XI will be The Search for Data.
Then, I tried mutt. After a few minutes I was hooked. I now use mutt for all of my mail. I think its ability to seamlessly integrate with GPG was the biggest factor in convincing me to switch.
- It only takes one person.
So, will he be driving around letting you and anyone else borrow his equipment whenever you want to watch illegitimate copies of the latest box office hits?Yes, it only takes one person to design a "mod chip", but what about when each instance of the DRM-enabled hardware requires its own custom chip? It will happen.
Anyone can afford the Sharpie pen required to defeat today's protection scheme. But who will be able to afford the in-circuit emulator or logic analyzer needed to defeat tomorrow's scheme?
If I didn't play games, I would have a FreeBSD-only household. I haven't tried winex yet, so I can't say whether Battlefield 1942 plays as well under winex as it does in a native Windows environment. :-)
- As should be noted from Figure 4, updating on Linux was rather easier than updating on *BSD, since all of the *BSD updates required compilation, either of the base system or from the ports/packages collection.
Huh?# pkg_add ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/packages/A ll/openssl-0.9.6g.tgz
Binaries installed -- no compilation required!