All Microsoft-bashing aside, does anyone else see something majorly wrong when it's impossible to fix a fairly serious exploit due to architecture limitations in the OS??
They're basically saying that they can't fix it because the OS makes it impossible to do so. Not because it's inherent in some protocol, or because it is a natural effect of some kind of desired behavior or something, but because the OS DOESN'T SUPPORT IT?????
That's just wrong.
Unless I'm mistaken, the gimp uses GTK, and a nativ OS X port of GTK is in progress (very early beta atm, I believe), so we may not even need to hope that Apple does it.
Such a system would just really piss off the average user, who would just OK his way through it anyways and keep his password set to his dog's name, with it posted on a post-it note on his monitor, just in case he forgets.
I think you may have just proved yourself wrong... The Baked Apple still worked after being baked, so the PowerBook should be able to easily stand up the much lower temperatures of the desert.
Linux administration course that does not teach any Unix concepts?
etc...
No, I don't know of any such courses, but that's irrelevant, because using C keywords in a C++ course is utterly different from teaching straight C, and then saying "OK, now for C++: this is new, you can't do this anymore..."
He doesn't want an XHTML course that doesn't use the HTML tags at all - that's impossible.
He just wants a course that STARTS right out with XHTML, and that doesn't teach HTML, and then expect the students to alter what they've learned to use XHTML.
I actually suspect this post is a joke, but because it was modded up as interesting, I feel compelled to repy.
Read the f*cking article. No, you can't randomly tweak bytes in an executable and expect it to still work, but you can replace instructions with functionally equivalent ones, and develop a system to encode data that way (as described in the article). For example (again, straight from the article), an instruction to add 50 can be replaced with one to subtract -50, and you can (and the program does) encode data that way.
It's a text file on what appears to be a decent server, not some Joe Q. User's geocities account, discussing a topic of relatively low interest to most people.
In other words, it's not going to get slashdotted, so stop karma whoring.
Microsoft would never go for a scheme like that, it seems, as it would mean that they could not implement any sort of DRM via the online registration (i.e. have windows lock itself down if this copy has been registered before)..
One robot, outfitted with a small camera, will monitor an aquarium and be controlled over the Internet.
I can just see it now.. A control site goes up, it gets posted to/., and within minutes the robot overheats and melts...
int main(int argc, char ** argv) { printf("I disagree.\n"); printf("CGI is great - "); printf("I don't see why anyone doesn't like"); printf("writing web pages like this!\n"); printf("CGI all the way!\n\n"); return 0; }
people made fun of me because I did alot of cool stuff on my TI-85 and saying I was looking at calculator porn
lol - Exact same story here, 'cept it's an 86 in my case...
Why is that everyone always assumes everything is porn?
... Aside from the fact that it usually is, of course.
I agree with the principle of learning how things work on a low level before you use them, but nowadays most people don't have the time/need to build a whole software renderer when you can just learn OpenGL. Learning the math behind the 3D math is a good idea, however. It helps you understand a lot better how things are working and what's going on.
99% of owners of linksys routers haven't changed the password away from 'admin'. 99% of owners of wireless networks haven't bothered to add any sort of access control.
I'm a big fan of wxWindows - really nice look AND API, but I've had trouble getting any of the dialog editors to work (I'm under OS X), which has been something of an annoyance, since, as any GUI programmer can probably tell you, implementing GUIs entirely in code is a huge pain in the ass, and is harder to change later on than if you use a resource file...
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All Microsoft-bashing aside, does anyone else see something majorly wrong when it's impossible to fix a fairly serious exploit due to architecture limitations in the OS??
They're basically saying that they can't fix it because the OS makes it impossible to do so. Not because it's inherent in some protocol, or because it is a natural effect of some kind of desired behavior or something, but because the OS DOESN'T SUPPORT IT?????
That's just wrong.
The scary part is, even though the parent is currently moderated "funny," it's not a joke. Everything he says is true.
Unless I'm mistaken, the gimp uses GTK, and a nativ OS X port of GTK is in progress (very early beta atm, I believe), so we may not even need to hope that Apple does it.
d'oh! s/and/an/ s/not/now/ I really should preview...
Such a system would just really piss off the average user, who would just OK his way through it anyways and keep his password set to his dog's name, with it posted on a post-it note on his monitor, just in case he forgets.
I think you may have just proved yourself wrong ... The Baked Apple still worked after being baked, so the PowerBook should be able to easily stand up the much lower temperatures of the desert.
- C++ tutorial that does not teach any C keywords?
- Linux administration course that does not teach any Unix concepts?
- etc...
No, I don't know of any such courses, but that's irrelevant, because using C keywords in a C++ course is utterly different from teaching straight C, and then saying "OK, now for C++: this is new, you can't do this anymoreHe doesn't want an XHTML course that doesn't use the HTML tags at all - that's impossible. He just wants a course that STARTS right out with XHTML, and that doesn't teach HTML, and then expect the students to alter what they've learned to use XHTML.
I actually suspect this post is a joke, but because it was modded up as interesting, I feel compelled to repy.
Read the f*cking article.
No, you can't randomly tweak bytes in an executable and expect it to still work, but you can replace instructions with functionally equivalent ones, and develop a system to encode data that way (as described in the article).
For example (again, straight from the article), an instruction to add 50 can be replaced with one to subtract -50, and you can (and the program does) encode data that way.
It's a text file on what appears to be a decent server, not some Joe Q. User's geocities account, discussing a topic of relatively low interest to most people.
In other words, it's not going to get slashdotted, so stop karma whoring.
Microsoft would never go for a scheme like that, it seems, as it would mean that they could not implement any sort of DRM via the online registration (i.e. have windows lock itself down if this copy has been registered before)..
One robot, outfitted with a small camera, will monitor an aquarium and be controlled over the Internet. .. A control site goes up, it gets posted to /., and within minutes the robot overheats and melts...
I can just see it now
I can't speak for him, but I have XP running fine on a PII-233 with 256 MB of RAM, so odds are XP WOULD run on his machine.
int main(int argc, char ** argv)
{
printf("I disagree.\n");
printf("CGI is great - ");
printf("I don't see why anyone doesn't like");
printf("writing web pages like this!\n");
printf("CGI all the way!\n\n");
return 0;
}
...post an informed opinion... /. was when?
And the last time that happened on
hmm.
Looks an awful lot like just another matrix rip-off, no?
I had the trailer in 20 seconds...
Ditto that. I had it streaming at better-than-realtime as well.
What kind of connecction DOES this guy have?
I think he's implying that he can't wait for some sort of solid state hdd that won't break down after a few hundred thousand rewrites.
people made fun of me because I did alot of cool stuff on my TI-85 and saying I was looking at calculator porn
... Aside from the fact that it usually is, of course.
lol - Exact same story here, 'cept it's an 86 in my case...
Why is that everyone always assumes everything is porn?
Run!! Bad Puns!!!
I agree with the principle of learning how things work on a low level before you use them, but nowadays most people don't have the time/need to build a whole software renderer when you can just learn OpenGL. Learning the math behind the 3D math is a good idea, however. It helps you understand a lot better how things are working and what's going on.
99% of owners of linksys routers haven't changed the password away from 'admin'.
99% of owners of wireless networks haven't bothered to add any sort of access control.
What else is new?
wxWindows</cough>
I'm a big fan of wxWindows - really nice look AND API, but I've had trouble getting any of the dialog editors to work (I'm under OS X), which has been something of an annoyance, since, as any GUI programmer can probably tell you, implementing GUIs entirely in code is a huge pain in the ass, and is harder to change later on than if you use a resource file...
You forgot The Path of Daggers, Winter's Heart, and Crossroads of Twilight (less than 3 weeks old as of this posting - I finished it about 40 minutes ago
Have you been living in a hole the last few years?