There used to be loads of adverts for bugs and so-forth in the classified sections of UK satirical mag Private Eye... haven't been any for a while now, though.
Everyone here should drop by the Public portion of the MS R&D site once in a while, some of the concepts showcased are seeds of things that could be crucial in society next month or even 10 years from now.
Yes, they have some clever people working for them, but this is Microsoft we're talking about. They're a business, not an academic institute, and that worries me. And to claim that current R-and-D could be "crucial" in ten years' time is somewhat debatable; Microsoft seems to "make" things "crucial" regardless of necessity by strongarming the marketplace.
Your sig is a Zardoz reference, and therefore you win the Internet. Congratulations.
Great then, that solves the old "Net Neutrality" problem. All your address space are belong to me. And as King ettlz of Teh Intarwebs, my first decree will be that all who have pictures of Charlotte Rampling in any state of undress taken before 1975 shall hand them over to me.
All of the above! Here would be Apple's long term fun plan: 1. Make a "next-generation" game console called i-Game that'll be the name of the system after Wii. The soft drink will be iJuice. The Fertilizer Factory in Peru will be used building explosives for their military hardware. Apple's Military toys will be iGrunt, iExplode, and iKill. The Online Strip Joint will be cover for their covert ops plan to steal industrial design ideas from Unlikely Sources, Inc, and it'll be code named iSpy.
Join players like Dvorak and so forth in predicting: What will Apple Computers buy/do next? No qualifications are needed. In fact, they're recommended against! So, what will your speculation be? Is Apple going to...
buy Nintendo?
buy a fertilizer factory in Peru?
go into the soft drinks business?
open an on-line strip-joint and call it iBoobs?
start shipping marvellously good-looking military hardware?
It's all open for speculation — 'cause in this game, there are no rules, and nobody really gives a fuck anyway!
I'd at the very least expect some recesses on the top of the lid for a plate, cup and come cutlery. Disconnect the fans, it could even keep my dinner warm!
But it doesn't junk the system. Anything that infects via this vector is effectively contained, and cannot use rootkit-like measures or exploit the NT kernel or privilege system to protect or hide itself. Doing ordinary stuff as an admin is like riding bareback in a brothel, whatever the operating system.
I don't think anyone would bother trying to attack a kernel image as (1) they are big so supplying a trojan version is not "practical"; and (2) a live CD would cure the problem in minutes. In order for such an attack to work, so many other parts of the system would also need to be compromised to hide/keep the infected kernel in place that it may as well be a conventional rootkit.
This is interesting... quite often I've seen Windows XP start up faster under qemu than it would natively as Linux has kept an amount of the disk image in the cache. (Of course, if I start it from cold, it spends about 20 seconds just transferring a portion of the image into RAM, and then the rest of the startup is very quick.)
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Ah, they don't allow them on transatlantic flights, then?
You weren't the dude who surrendered that bloody great bat'leth to the Police in the recent knife amnesty, were you?
There used to be loads of adverts for bugs and so-forth in the classified sections of UK satirical mag Private Eye... haven't been any for a while now, though.
Yes, they have some clever people working for them, but this is Microsoft we're talking about. They're a business, not an academic institute, and that worries me. And to claim that current R-and-D could be "crucial" in ten years' time is somewhat debatable; Microsoft seems to "make" things "crucial" regardless of necessity by strongarming the marketplace.
To paraphrase the oldun, "Carly, is that you?"
- buy Nintendo?
- buy a fertilizer factory in Peru?
- go into the soft drinks business?
- open an on-line strip-joint and call it iBoobs?
- start shipping marvellously good-looking military hardware?
It's all open for speculation — 'cause in this game, there are no rules, and nobody really gives a fuck anyway!Take off every 'scissors' !!
You know what you doing.
Move 'scissors'.
For great justice.
"The Nadburner(TM): 'Ave You Got The Balls?"
Can you name the 'top with two hard-drives
A built in webcam and a screen that's wide?
Ninety-eight double-zero-oooooh,
9800.
Well it goes real fast with dual-core brain,
It's the super-size 'book too big for a plane,
Ninety-eight double-zero-oooooh,
9800.
380 mills deep, 490 mills wide,
7.8 kilos of Taiwanese pride,
Ninety-eight double-zero-oooooh,
9800.
Top of the line in weightlifting sports,
Knackered elbows are a matter for the courts,
Ninety-eight double-zero-oooooh,
9800.
She stuns everybody with a CrystalBrite screen,
She's a 20-inch dual-core computing machine,
Ninety-eight double-zero-oooooh,
9800.
Actually, it reminds me of the the Atlas of Finite Groups...
I'd at the very least expect some recesses on the top of the lid for a plate, cup and come cutlery. Disconnect the fans, it could even keep my dinner warm!
But it doesn't junk the system. Anything that infects via this vector is effectively contained, and cannot use rootkit-like measures or exploit the NT kernel or privilege system to protect or hide itself. Doing ordinary stuff as an admin is like riding bareback in a brothel, whatever the operating system.
You must really trust all the applications you use not to have any vulnerabilities, then!
I don't think anyone would bother trying to attack a kernel image as (1) they are big so supplying a trojan version is not "practical"; and (2) a live CD would cure the problem in minutes. In order for such an attack to work, so many other parts of the system would also need to be compromised to hide/keep the infected kernel in place that it may as well be a conventional rootkit.
Well I guess you could probably call them the "Real Daily Mail"...
Next we'll have David Blaine advertising Macs.
This is interesting... quite often I've seen Windows XP start up faster under qemu than it would natively as Linux has kept an amount of the disk image in the cache. (Of course, if I start it from cold, it spends about 20 seconds just transferring a portion of the image into RAM, and then the rest of the startup is very quick.)