After having used both OS X (about a year) and Windows XP (about three months; previous Windows and DOS versions for more than a decade), I have to disagree about it looking anything like an OS X desktop. Slight modifications to it do not cause configuration windows (the majority of the pictures on the web page) to pop up that don't even contain the same text as OS X's Preferences windows. It looks like they used various XP icons and dialog pictures as if they were clip art and started pasting them everywhere. Using a slightly edited version of the XP Control Panel's Users icon as an artist icon is a good example.
However, I also don't trust these screen shots. There are a few things wrong. They included an icon from BeOS in one of the pictures (next to "Status"). They showed a lot of stupidity by remembering the last files played just so you can change the volume on them after they've already played in another picture; oh, and don't forget that there's no way to change the microphone or other assorted volumes (Wave, MIDI, CD Audio, etc.). And I sure am glad they got a picture of a computer with an illegible screen in there. I wouldn't have believed them without it. After all, there's no way to show Photoshop images full-screen on illegible monitors (if a tree fell in a forest, but...).
Microsoft is stupid. But it's not that stupid. Or is it ?
But the published police report and all news reports said nothing about SCO. How'd you know information that wasn't available to the general public, Mr. Coward ?!?!? Sounds highly suspicious to me.
We know you have information, Mr. Coward. If you don't want a long prison sentence, you'd better start talking now.
I would under the impression that phonehome software used internet exploder...
That's unlikely. It seems it would be far easier to just program the application to connect on its own, without the use of external applications. HTTP isn't that difficult. If they use a simpler protocol or just a raw connection, that's even easier to handle.
No, you should gain more experience, especially when you're one of the few who can't adapt to the degree required to correctly analyze the statement in question.
Because you are fond of oversyllabled words, perhaps you know what a false dichotomy is and why it is a logical fallacy. Perhaps you realize that you used a false dichotomy. You assume that either :
you are correct
OR
the previous poster is correct AND the person who likes Gentoo Linux can't use English lucidly
Implying is a commonly used, usually transparent activity that I will now explain to you, since you are apparently unfamiliar with or ignorant of it. When people imply something, they omit it because they think it is obvious. In this case, the person who likes Gentoo omitted whether the only reason he runs it is its installer or whether one of the reasons he runs it is its installer.
So, a third option could be added above :
the previous poster is correct AND you'll have a hard time understanding people unless you learn to infer things
I did RTFA and what this boils down to is what it says near the end: "Note that our threat model excludes compromise of the underlying tamper-resistant hardware...". Palladium has the same trouble.
Security through obscurity-and-a-bunch-of-hard-work-to-break-it. Basically, the first time anyone skilled figures out the algorithms for the hardware, they can help someone make an emulator.
Then, all you need is the key any "trusted" computer uses. So, you brute force crack your own computer's key by having it encrypt or sign some communique to some "trusted" server out there. Then, you intercept the communique. Since you know the algorithms, you try encrypting or signing the communique with different keys until you find a key that results in a match.
Once you have your key and your emulator, you can look at what any program on your computer is doing, change whatever the hell you want, and cause whatever "mischief" you want. Want a DRMed MP3 unDRMed so that everyone on the Internet can have a copy ? Go right ahead. You could probably make a program to automate the process. Want to change something a "trusted" program is sending to a server ? Go right ahead.
It's not even simple for the postal industry, really. Imagine if you have to deliver mail with these addresses.... You can't just look at the address numbers on buildings anymore, you'd have to walk and adjust using a GPS system.
If the postal system wanted any efficiency at all, they'd need stupidity-to-street-address converting computers to print and stick normal address labels on all the packages. Or handheld scanners, but that would be a bit awkward having to drive and scan at the same time...and forget about being able to quickly sort mail before a delivery in the order that you'll come to it so you don't have to go back and forth over the same street twenty times.
This isn't a solution created to address something mail deliverers or postal organizations were complaining about. This is a "solution" (problem) created by some moron in marketing or management who sees dollar signs from all those large, worldwide mail deliverers who aren't going to want this piece of crap.
P.S. The geographers of the world can use latitude and longitude or some other non-crappy system. They've been doing well so far.
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After having used both OS X (about a year) and Windows XP (about three months; previous Windows and DOS versions for more than a decade), I have to disagree about it looking anything like an OS X desktop. Slight modifications to it do not cause configuration windows (the majority of the pictures on the web page) to pop up that don't even contain the same text as OS X's Preferences windows. It looks like they used various XP icons and dialog pictures as if they were clip art and started pasting them everywhere. Using a slightly edited version of the XP Control Panel's Users icon as an artist icon is a good example.
However, I also don't trust these screen shots. There are a few things wrong. They included an icon from BeOS in one of the pictures (next to "Status"). They showed a lot of stupidity by remembering the last files played just so you can change the volume on them after they've already played in another picture; oh, and don't forget that there's no way to change the microphone or other assorted volumes (Wave, MIDI, CD Audio, etc.). And I sure am glad they got a picture of a computer with an illegible screen in there. I wouldn't have believed them without it. After all, there's no way to show Photoshop images full-screen on illegible monitors (if a tree fell in a forest, but...).
Microsoft is stupid. But it's not that stupid. Or is it ?
And you know this how? You work for SCO?
But the published police report and all news reports said nothing about SCO. How'd you know information that wasn't available to the general public, Mr. Coward ?!?!? Sounds highly suspicious to me.
We know you have information, Mr. Coward. If you don't want a long prison sentence, you'd better start talking now.
I would under the impression that phonehome software used internet exploder...
That's unlikely. It seems it would be far easier to just program the application to connect on its own, without the use of external applications. HTTP isn't that difficult. If they use a simpler protocol or just a raw connection, that's even easier to handle.
...and within a year you will see the US power system suddenly cost the most in the world... as if consumers had to pay to fix it.
Fuck Microsoft.
(I love it. Two of my favorite words and I get a chance to use them!!!) :) LOL
Microsoft is one of your favorite words ? Ack !
Here's two more I came up with :
In UNIX community, RECURSIVE Executable Codenames Ubiquitous -- Remembering Several Is Very Exhausting
No, you should gain more experience, especially when you're one of the few who can't adapt to the degree required to correctly analyze the statement in question.
Because you are fond of oversyllabled words, perhaps you know what a false dichotomy is and why it is a logical fallacy. Perhaps you realize that you used a false dichotomy. You assume that either :
- you are correct
ORImplying is a commonly used, usually transparent activity that I will now explain to you, since you are apparently unfamiliar with or ignorant of it. When people imply something, they omit it because they think it is obvious. In this case, the person who likes Gentoo omitted whether the only reason he runs it is its installer or whether one of the reasons he runs it is its installer. So, a third option could be added above :
Extra credit: Guess which option I pick.
Let me keep it short :
Palladium emulator + the cracked private key for my machine = sharable data
Send both to a friend. Send him whatever data you want. Through the miracle of trusted computing, you can trust that he can read the data.
I did RTFA and what this boils down to is what it says near the end: "Note that our threat model excludes compromise of the underlying tamper-resistant hardware...". Palladium has the same trouble.
Security through obscurity-and-a-bunch-of-hard-work-to-break-it. Basically, the first time anyone skilled figures out the algorithms for the hardware, they can help someone make an emulator.
Then, all you need is the key any "trusted" computer uses. So, you brute force crack your own computer's key by having it encrypt or sign some communique to some "trusted" server out there. Then, you intercept the communique. Since you know the algorithms, you try encrypting or signing the communique with different keys until you find a key that results in a match.
Once you have your key and your emulator, you can look at what any program on your computer is doing, change whatever the hell you want, and cause whatever "mischief" you want. Want a DRMed MP3 unDRMed so that everyone on the Internet can have a copy ? Go right ahead. You could probably make a program to automate the process. Want to change something a "trusted" program is sending to a server ? Go right ahead.
It's not even simple for the postal industry, really. Imagine if you have to deliver mail with these addresses.... You can't just look at the address numbers on buildings anymore, you'd have to walk and adjust using a GPS system.
If the postal system wanted any efficiency at all, they'd need stupidity-to-street-address converting computers to print and stick normal address labels on all the packages. Or handheld scanners, but that would be a bit awkward having to drive and scan at the same time...and forget about being able to quickly sort mail before a delivery in the order that you'll come to it so you don't have to go back and forth over the same street twenty times.
This isn't a solution created to address something mail deliverers or postal organizations were complaining about. This is a "solution" (problem) created by some moron in marketing or management who sees dollar signs from all those large, worldwide mail deliverers who aren't going to want this piece of crap.
P.S. The geographers of the world can use latitude and longitude or some other non-crappy system. They've been doing well so far.