Somehow I don't see this effectively combating movie pirating. All that will happen is some bright spark will write a DVD decoding program that streams the decoded data to a HDD as it plays
Plus unless the DVDs are made of something similar to this, then won't this just clutter up the environment with more petrochemical based polutants?
Personally I think it's really cool that even though she's got all the "geek cred" going back that far, that she is actually dealt with in a positive light for her recent work.
A lot of the ex-star trek actors from the various shows trade off the fact that they were ST actors - even if nothing they've done recently was worth spit - definitely not the case with Forbes.
That's true. However I think you might find that the Tokamak reactors are still not quite up to commercial reliability levels, although they are definitely getting there.
EG: http://www.pppl.gov/projects/pages/tftr.html
My read on this one is it is ALMOST at the point where it can be used to 1) Power a small city and ALSO 2) cover the energy deficit created when gathering, processing and extracting the Deuterium and Tritium =)
Well, if you were speaking Russian (or most of the major Slavic languages), "Not not" rather then negating itself, instead means something along the lines of "Very much not".
and (sorry, couldn't resist) In Soviet Russia, Not-not negates YOU!
I've got to admit to a certain degree of sarcasm about the conversion (I did RTFA after all) =)
My understanding of C++ compilation is that all of the template and class information, including the object structure etc, is effectively lost when it is compiled. The only way that functions could be determined is through laborious tracking... but then it won't be pretty either, with no function-names etc. About the only things where function-names would be recoverable would be the ones that have external entry-points.
I find this to be an intriguing concept: How C++ like could we make the decompiled.exe? Even given the fact of the unrecoverable parts (eg: templates) the majority - enough to form a "hard-coded" version of the program - should exist. Still, bugger trying to be the one that writes the heuristics to reverse-match the... basically assembler, into valid C++ code structures!
Lemme get this straight: You agree that the author has shown how to decompile some C++ code, but then complain that he hasn't shown how to decompile C++ code?
The other issue here is the nature of the beast: There is nothing in C++ that can not be expressed in C.... it might be a little more confusing to read, but hey... at least he's not just converting the.exe to assembler =)
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I've lost the links, but if you wanted to, there's even a couple of good memory-management classes for C++ out there that fill more or less the same role as Garbage Collection in Java while still having the full flexibility of C++ - one that I've seen allows you to specify the "agressiveness" of the garbage collection and the keep-priority of the objects (so you can set a priority for objects that do not need to be removed immediately, but can be done later when there is more cpu-cycles available - this is good for doing mathematically-intense operations where you want to be able to focus more on the algorithm then dealing with memory management performance issues.
Anyway, that's my opinionated 2c =) -Trav
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Actually, the result that you are talking about here depends on the GC implementation - you get differing levels of GC agressiveness, some of which would not deallocate the memory untill ages (on the nanosecond scale) after the function has exited, while other GC's will wait only a short while to check that there are no other remaining references to that variable.
You can however recommend to the GC that it should run a collection now - though it is only a recommendation, and again different implementations handle this differently
To my mind, the biggest issues with GC in Java (and this is true for all standard implementations) is that 1) you can get memory leaks if you don't delete your variable before you remove the variable reference, but that's the same in most languages, and 2) Garbage collection is an expensive operation in terms of both memory and cpu-cycles, using system resources that could otherwise be used in processing... well, in this case, a rather inefficient loop, but processing other stuff anyway =)
Cheers! -Trav
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My background is as a AP for the financial sector. Quite frankly, if you think that sprintf is that much of a security risk, don't ever use any non-mainframe bank services - including ATMs (most of which seem to run M$ Winblows NT nowdays) - as about a quarter of non-mainframe services (in my experience) are C or C++ based (though this is more a rough 65-35 split for server and client, so even though the client program may not be a C/C++ program, the server may well contain C coding) and the majority of the server-side code that does any reparsing or formatting (this is probably more common then you think) will have at least one sprintf.
For that matter, non-C/C++ applications that the programming tool has been coded in C/C++ - there is a high chance that if not a sprintf it will have an equivalent.
Still, your call - the issues that are found in sprintf are very real for the inexperienced coders out there - but they ARE avoidable when sprintf is used correctly
I was aware of said scientific estimates, but I decided to be flippant instead of asinine. Can you ever forgive me? =p... and just remember: I said SEVERAL google molecules... =)... and no: I don't give a rats behind that I misspelt googol.
Please... do not waste my time by posting a reply.
The statement is essentially correct... if you add the word "single" in front of the word "molecule" =)
OLEDs, LEDs and light-bulbs, etc, all have a few billion molecules (or several google molecules in the case of ol' Thom's thread) that are triggered to make that light. What is special about this is that just a single molecule has had electricity applied to produce the light - in just that molecule, not any others.
Heh, it surprised me to see the claim that the C|Net review is the first out of the gate: That was posted on 2003/03/11, while Toms Hardware Guide have had this review out since 2003/02/05 !
Admittedly it is a pre-launch review, but I don't see that anything signifigant has changed since - it was a final chip after all.
I'm not so aware of the wording inflection issue from a Japanese language point of view, but I have encountered it with some Indian work-mates who, while they do speak pretty good english, have a tendancy for changing the meaning of their words through tone, meter and inflection of their speech.
I find that hearing the tones in the speech helps bring clearer meaning to what is going on - you can often understand exactly what is happening in some of the scenes through simply hearing the words and the tone, even before you have read the subtitle. But that's just me: I know my flattie refuses to watch anything subtitled - he claims that needing to read while watching detracts from the action. I personally disagree with that, but hey, that's his opinion =)
Don't worry Micro - I know you either sell DVD's or at least you often chuck the animeondvd link as your sig =)
Firstly, I am a realist: When the DVD is released, it will be ripped.
Secondly, yes, I'm not thick. =)
I'm in a backwater (as far as Movie releases are concerned, anyway) of a country called New Zealand: If the movie is released on a zone/region 4 (Asia/Pacific region) I will buy it, just like I brought the english dub of the series - I've got 3 of the DVDs so far. I've got the entire series as DiVX, which tends to be the only way that I can get some movies / shows. If the movie is released in the cinema I will go, though I might not buy the DVD in that case.
Heh... I'm one of the few people that I know who can say that they own actual legal licences to every bit of software I have installed on my Windows computer - that includes MS Visual Studio 6.0 Enterprise edition and Office XP Pro.
Likewise, I try to buy the DVD or go to the movie for any movies / shows that I have, if they are available. If they are NOT available though, I don't inconvenience myself (I always buy locally - I've had a couple of bad experiences buying from overseas) and nor do I feel guilty or responsible.
Besides, I don't understand why you should try to act as the consience for others: Maybe if you knew me, OK, but on slash?? Heh - funny =) -Trav
Because until this movie is released and can be ripped, only the fansubbed version is available.
And as a personal reason, I prefer the voices on the original cast - the dubbed voices don't sound right, well at least if it is the same crowd that dub'd the series on DVD vs. the orig. cast.
Of course the truely dedicated fans have got the DVD from Japan and just watched it with subtitles (or learnt Japanese).. and the slightly less dedicated fans have got a DiVX rip of said DVD =)
Ouch - I shouldn't have said that - now the MPAA are gonna get medievil on my ass!
While your colo customers may be able to tell the undesired packet to "go away, nobody home", the point that needs to be made is that they have no way of preventing incomming traffic being charged, as it has to arrive at their server before any rules can be put in place to reject it, ergo, they get charged, even if their firewall setup stops the request cold in it's tracks. Hey, maybe just don't charged for un-ACK'd SYNs - There's a really bad pun in there somewhere =
I agree that it is their responsibility to monitor incomming traffic and alert you, the ISP, if it is getting out of hand, but it is an impossible cost in man-hours to monitor this constantly.
Maybe a good middle ground is similar to the approach Visa take with stolen credit-cards: If you are notified right away, you can implement the block at the ISP level, then yell at _YOUR_ upline providers about the clown sending unwanted traffic. Rinse and repeat untill it gets to the ISP of the problem-causing machine(s) and tell them to can it, but in the meanwhile, your client thinks you're a hero for stopping the flood of junk. If they don't notify you right off, then the longer they leave it, the greater their liability for the cost.
Another option is (and this would be a schite to implement) that all ISP's (and the connecting telecomunications parteners) change the pricing structure so that what the end-user is charged for is: Incomming Bandwidth on server-side initiated exchanges, and outgoing bandwidth on externally initiated exchanges.
I will admit that I have not fully thought that last suggestion through, as this does not really cover off things like FTP sites (Public or otherwise) that accept or encourage uploads. Hey, maybe we need a combination of the two? Dunno.
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Somehow I don't see this effectively combating movie pirating. All that will happen is some bright spark will write a DVD decoding program that streams the decoded data to a HDD as it plays
Plus unless the DVDs are made of something similar to this, then won't this just clutter up the environment with more petrochemical based polutants?
Personally I think it's really cool that even though she's got all the "geek cred" going back that far, that she is actually dealt with in a positive light for her recent work. A lot of the ex-star trek actors from the various shows trade off the fact that they were ST actors - even if nothing they've done recently was worth spit - definitely not the case with Forbes.
Demonoid is closed to new signups for the timebeing - getting too hammered from this place, eh?
That's true. However I think you might find that the Tokamak reactors are still not quite up to commercial reliability levels, although they are definitely getting there.
EG: http://www.pppl.gov/projects/pages/tftr.html
My read on this one is it is ALMOST at the point where it can be used to 1) Power a small city and ALSO 2) cover the energy deficit created when gathering, processing and extracting the Deuterium and Tritium =)
Well, if you were speaking Russian (or most of the major Slavic languages), "Not not" rather then negating itself, instead means something along the lines of "Very much not".
and (sorry, couldn't resist) In Soviet Russia, Not-not negates YOU!
-Trav
... And in a recent study by Brittish scientists, we will now be equipping all terrorists with cell-phones for use in taking over planes ...
If they wanted the advantages of a Linux-like system, they'd just choose BSD... which has the best TCP/IP support - bar none.
There is a reason that the BSD TCP/IP implementation has been ported to so many different platforms =)
I've got to admit to a certain degree of sarcasm about the conversion (I did RTFA after all) =)
.exe? Even given the fact of the unrecoverable parts (eg: templates) the majority - enough to form a "hard-coded" version of the program - should exist. Still, bugger trying to be the one that writes the heuristics to reverse-match the... basically assembler, into valid C++ code structures!
My understanding of C++ compilation is that all of the template and class information, including the object structure etc, is effectively lost when it is compiled. The only way that functions could be determined is through laborious tracking... but then it won't be pretty either, with no function-names etc. About the only things where function-names would be recoverable would be the ones that have external entry-points.
I find this to be an intriguing concept: How C++ like could we make the decompiled
Lemme get this straight: You agree that the author has shown how to decompile some C++ code, but then complain that he hasn't shown how to decompile C++ code?
.exe to assembler =)
The other issue here is the nature of the beast: There is nothing in C++ that can not be expressed in C.... it might be a little more confusing to read, but hey... at least he's not just converting the
I've lost the links, but if you wanted to, there's even a couple of good memory-management classes for C++ out there that fill more or less the same role as Garbage Collection in Java while still having the full flexibility of C++ - one that I've seen allows you to specify the "agressiveness" of the garbage collection and the keep-priority of the objects (so you can set a priority for objects that do not need to be removed immediately, but can be done later when there is more cpu-cycles available - this is good for doing mathematically-intense operations where you want to be able to focus more on the algorithm then dealing with memory management performance issues.
Anyway, that's my opinionated 2c =)
-Trav
Actually, the result that you are talking about here depends on the GC implementation - you get differing levels of GC agressiveness, some of which would not deallocate the memory untill ages (on the nanosecond scale) after the function has exited, while other GC's will wait only a short while to check that there are no other remaining references to that variable.
You can however recommend to the GC that it should run a collection now - though it is only a recommendation, and again different implementations handle this differently
To my mind, the biggest issues with GC in Java (and this is true for all standard implementations) is that 1) you can get memory leaks if you don't delete your variable before you remove the variable reference, but that's the same in most languages, and 2) Garbage collection is an expensive operation in terms of both memory and cpu-cycles, using system resources that could otherwise be used in processing... well, in this case, a rather inefficient loop, but processing other stuff anyway =)
Cheers!
-Trav
My background is as a AP for the financial sector. Quite frankly, if you think that sprintf is that much of a security risk, don't ever use any non-mainframe bank services - including ATMs (most of which seem to run M$ Winblows NT nowdays) - as about a quarter of non-mainframe services (in my experience) are C or C++ based (though this is more a rough 65-35 split for server and client, so even though the client program may not be a C/C++ program, the server may well contain C coding) and the majority of the server-side code that does any reparsing or formatting (this is probably more common then you think) will have at least one sprintf.
For that matter, non-C/C++ applications that the programming tool has been coded in C/C++ - there is a high chance that if not a sprintf it will have an equivalent.
Still, your call - the issues that are found in sprintf are very real for the inexperienced coders out there - but they ARE avoidable when sprintf is used correctly
-Trav
I was aware of said scientific estimates, but I decided to be flippant instead of asinine. Can you ever forgive me? =p ... and just remember: I said SEVERAL google molecules... =) ... and no: I don't give a rats behind that I misspelt googol.
Please... do not waste my time by posting a reply.
The statement is essentially correct... if you add the word "single" in front of the word "molecule" =)
OLEDs, LEDs and light-bulbs, etc, all have a few billion molecules (or several google molecules in the case of ol' Thom's thread) that are triggered to make that light. What is special about this is that just a single molecule has had electricity applied to produce the light - in just that molecule, not any others.
I hope that cleared that up for you.
-Trav
Semi-off-topic, but too true =)
Heh, it surprised me to see the claim that the C|Net review is the first out of the gate: That was posted on 2003/03/11, while Toms Hardware Guide have had this review out since 2003/02/05 !
Admittedly it is a pre-launch review, but I don't see that anything signifigant has changed since - it was a final chip after all.
Later!
-Trav
I'm not so aware of the wording inflection issue from a Japanese language point of view, but I have encountered it with some Indian work-mates who, while they do speak pretty good english, have a tendancy for changing the meaning of their words through tone, meter and inflection of their speech.
I find that hearing the tones in the speech helps bring clearer meaning to what is going on - you can often understand exactly what is happening in some of the scenes through simply hearing the words and the tone, even before you have read the subtitle. But that's just me: I know my flattie refuses to watch anything subtitled - he claims that needing to read while watching detracts from the action. I personally disagree with that, but hey, that's his opinion =)
L8r!
-Trav
Don't worry Micro - I know you either sell DVD's or at least you often chuck the animeondvd link as your sig =)
Firstly, I am a realist: When the DVD is released, it will be ripped.
Secondly, yes, I'm not thick. =)
I'm in a backwater (as far as Movie releases are concerned, anyway) of a country called New Zealand: If the movie is released on a zone/region 4 (Asia/Pacific region) I will buy it, just like I brought the english dub of the series - I've got 3 of the DVDs so far. I've got the entire series as DiVX, which tends to be the only way that I can get some movies / shows. If the movie is released in the cinema I will go, though I might not buy the DVD in that case.
Heh... I'm one of the few people that I know who can say that they own actual legal licences to every bit of software I have installed on my Windows computer - that includes MS Visual Studio 6.0 Enterprise edition and Office XP Pro.
Likewise, I try to buy the DVD or go to the movie for any movies / shows that I have, if they are available. If they are NOT available though, I don't inconvenience myself (I always buy locally - I've had a couple of bad experiences buying from overseas) and nor do I feel guilty or responsible.
Besides, I don't understand why you should try to act as the consience for others: Maybe if you knew me, OK, but on slash?? Heh - funny =)
-Trav
Not soo stupid if you don't know the answer:
Because until this movie is released and can be ripped, only the fansubbed version is available.
And as a personal reason, I prefer the voices on the original cast - the dubbed voices don't sound right, well at least if it is the same crowd that dub'd the series on DVD vs. the orig. cast.
-Trav
Sorry dude - From a post last time this was mentioned:
"Ask DNA"
Words by: Tim Jensen
Sung by: Raju Ramayya
Music by: Yoko Kanno
Performed by: Raju Ramayya and Seatbelts
Like I said... Sorry =)
-Trav
I never said if I actually had a DVD, or that I ever needed subtitles =)
But seriously, I just saw the fan-subbed DiVX =)
-Trav
Well... I can count to 10 in Japanese... =)
If you had seen the movie, you would understand that this is _VERY_ on-topic... Besides, it's better then posting a scummy spoiler!
-Trav
It's a clone! I'm sure that at least one word is different! Isn't it???
=)
-Trav
Of course the truely dedicated fans have got the DVD from Japan and just watched it with subtitles (or learnt Japanese) .. and the slightly less dedicated fans have got a DiVX rip of said DVD =)
Ouch - I shouldn't have said that - now the MPAA are gonna get medievil on my ass!
Legal, Medievil, what's the difference? =)
-Trav
While your colo customers may be able to tell the undesired packet to "go away, nobody home", the point that needs to be made is that they have no way of preventing incomming traffic being charged, as it has to arrive at their server before any rules can be put in place to reject it, ergo, they get charged, even if their firewall setup stops the request cold in it's tracks. Hey, maybe just don't charged for un-ACK'd SYNs - There's a really bad pun in there somewhere =
I agree that it is their responsibility to monitor incomming traffic and alert you, the ISP, if it is getting out of hand, but it is an impossible cost in man-hours to monitor this constantly.
Maybe a good middle ground is similar to the approach Visa take with stolen credit-cards: If you are notified right away, you can implement the block at the ISP level, then yell at _YOUR_ upline providers about the clown sending unwanted traffic. Rinse and repeat untill it gets to the ISP of the problem-causing machine(s) and tell them to can it, but in the meanwhile, your client thinks you're a hero for stopping the flood of junk. If they don't notify you right off, then the longer they leave it, the greater their liability for the cost.
Another option is (and this would be a schite to implement) that all ISP's (and the connecting telecomunications parteners) change the pricing structure so that what the end-user is charged for is: Incomming Bandwidth on server-side initiated exchanges, and outgoing bandwidth on externally initiated exchanges.
I will admit that I have not fully thought that last suggestion through, as this does not really cover off things like FTP sites (Public or otherwise) that accept or encourage uploads. Hey, maybe we need a combination of the two? Dunno.
L8r!
-Trav