Don't you watch NCIS? Even if the records are expunged, McGee can just hit 6 keys to hack the DOJ firewall with a logic bomb and recover the deleted files with an inverse DNS C++ script trojan horse. Then you just use an NAT perl worm to get it back to you. Don't forget to encrypt the datastream and piggyback it on a VOIP signal, though, or they might notice!
At least it's not England. If you are found to have been wrongfully convicted in England, you have to pay the government back for every month you were in jail, since you were there eating their food and using their shelter under false pretenses.
If a program is already running on your computer then it means the firewall is no longer responsible for stopping that application in any way - the firewall only protects against outside threats.
Uhhh, no? There are few ways you could be more wrong. Windows Firewall, like all software firewalls, does two things and ONLY TWO THINGS. 1) Block applications from accepting connections on certain ports. 2) Block Applications from accessing the network without permission. In other words, the thing you think firewalls completely ignore, is actually the ONLY THING THEY DO AT ALL.
You would, in fact, not be bound if you erased the wording. Ridiculous? Not really. If I'm sitting at a table agreeing on a contract, they hand me something, I take a pen and cross some things off, say "How about this?" and they say "OK", that's the new contract. This is no different. Do a text substitution and change both buttons to say "I don't agree". There, you didn't agree, but it installed anyways. Replace the whole text with "LOL" and agree to that, because who would disagree with that! Again, it installed anyways, you never agreed to any contract.
Some software companies have bribed some judges and got ruling that its illegal to run software without an EULA since it makes a copy in memory to run it. However, USC 107 makes it very clear that it is legal to make copies of any copyrighted materials for the purpose of their proper use. So, CDs are legal even though the CD player has a buffer. DVD players are legal even though they have many video and audio streams, encoded and decoded, all through their memory! And computers are legal even through they have a copy of the software on the HD, and a copy in memory. Running a text-to-speech engine on a website because you are blind is legal, even if the Authors' Guild (like the BSA and RIAA and MPAA) thinks that only their favorite parts of the Copyright Act are actual law, and the rest are just sarcastic jokes put in there for a lark.
Beyond that, several state courts (like Texas) have ruled that EULAs, being presented after purchase, aren't valid contracts, since by the time you know its not a purchase, you've already made your "lease" under false pretenses.
If you use your OMG PRIVATE PHONENUMBER to call in a bomb threat against your place of work, they don't need a warrant to perform a reverse phone lookup and find the name of the account holder. Explain how your phone number only specifies where you live, where the calledID at the business you called with a bomb threat specifies "where you were at what time and what you were doing." Nobody is saying that they don't need a warrant for server logs. They already have the server logs that they obtained with a legal warrant. This is no different than if they busted a porn ring ringleader, took his blackberry, and did a reverse lookup on all his phone numbers. Nope, it doesn't say WHO at that house did it. But it does say probably somebody at that house. So that's enough for a warrant, which they did get, by the way.
That's only if they had an illegal monopoly on the PC market as a whole. If Apple were the only maker of personal computers than you could have a case here.
Wrong. Section two is all about monopolies. Section one is all about contracts agreements, and conspiracies, with intent to restrict free trade. And a BIG rule is that you cannot have lease agreements or sales contracts which specify that the product in question may only be used with a certain other product. For example, Ford cannot form an agreement with Shell, whereby all Ford lease agreements stipulate that until you are paid off and actual own your car, you can only fill it with Shell Premium. You may note that other people sell gas other than Shell, and other people sell cars other than Ford. Similarly, Lexmark or HP cannot have the nice people at BestBuy make you sign a contract when you buy a printer, swearing you will only refill it with their brand of ink/toner. Yes, even though more than one company makes printers.
The fact thrown around is, if you spent $1 MILLION dollars every single day, and had started the day Jesus was born, you still would be a little bit short of $800 Billion. So yeah, it does take time to spend money.
Microsoft actually has built that functionality right into windows. Programs can interface with the Microsoft Installer, and tell it their server information so it can check for updates. Unfortunately, very few do. And here is why: MSI Autoupdate is the worst POS ever made. It doesn't check for updates in the background like Windows Update. Its some sort of cron job that pops up at random times telling you it would like to please check for updates, and 3 or 4 clicks later its done and tells you there aren't any updates for your software. Thanks! USEFUL.
I agree. They're now one step closer to being nearly as evil as Apple, Lenovo, HP, and EA, all of which install more intrusive auto updaters that are more annoying to remove, and just reinstall themselves if you do.
The summary says "WISPs - terrestrial (not cellular or satellite) Wireless broadband Internet Service Providers". For fucks sake, if you're bitching about a summary not explaining an acronym, at least read the summary. Granted it's not until the second sentence, but it's still there. Wireless ISP. WISP.
Correct. But you missed the a step in your description.
I then get a UAC prompt that the script wants to modify system settings and click "Accept" because I really want to see the dancing bunnies. The application could then drop my security level to the lowest possible (without me knowing) and then start silently installing a bunch of other stuff with no UAC prompts. If it was particulary careful, it could then reset the UAC level back to the what it was before it started.
The "exploit" is that UAC settings can be altered by root, so if you allow something through UAC, it can use the permissions you just granted it, to disable UAC. It is no different than a Linux "attack" where it changes your root password: You had to use sudo to run the script in the first place, so it's not an exploit that bypasses sudo at all.
You can delete any file you want when logged in as Administrator. The GUI won't let you, but who cares. You can't compare the Windows GUI to bash. Now, maybe the Gnome File Browser will let you delete/boot or/bin. Windows Explorer won't let you though. That's not fascist, that's a legitimate design decision, prevents "whoops" moments. Plus, you can turn off the "Protect System Files" option under folder options or preferences or wherever it is, thus allowing you to use Explorer to add and remove binaries/sym links from %WINDIR%\SYSTEM32 (The Equivilent of/bin), or do whatever else it is you want to do...
The only difference is on *nix, you can delete a file that's open, and it'll be completely deleted once any file handles are closed. Under Windows it doesn't defer deletion if there are open handles still, it just refuses to delete. Which is why you can't update system libraries without a reboot, unless you can terminate all processes using that library.
If you say so. Comparing 32 and 64 bit XP, 32 bit game benchmarks are near identical on my system, well within margin of error. 64 bit capable games, such has HL2, have a notable increase in speed beyond the margin of error. The reason is several fold.
"Every instruction is twice as long." Nope, opcodes and their paramters have always been variable length. In x86, they aren't always exactly 4 bytes. In x64 they aren't 8 bytes long, either! In x86, you'd have a function call CALL DWORD PTR [ADDRESS]. That's 5 byes wide, not 4. In any case, in 64 bit mode, it's not 9 bytes wide, either. Because it uses relative addressing. So that means the called pointer has to be within 2 GB of the calling code. Rarely an issue, outside of self-modifying code/dynamic code generation. If it is an issue for you, then and only then will you have to use CALL QWORD PTR [ABSOLTE ADDRESS] which is yes, about twice as wide as the 32 bit version. But how does 32 bit code handle dynamic code generation with function calls more than 2GB apart? All in all, if 64 bit code is TWICE as long, somebody has royally messed up. It should be larger but nowhere close to twice as large.
Beyond that, in 64 bit mode there are way more registers, and some other features. The speed increase is solidly there.
It's national. And it's a proposed consumer safety regulation, not a proposed criminal act. Similar to how the government can say, require airbags in all new vehicles, but can't arrest you for having an old car that has no airbags.
Exactly. People complain about its butchering of say, Roxanne. But...ummm....the user choses the style and tempo and many other options. They chose the most inappropriate settings they could find, not the software. I listened to them, and its pretty damn impressive. It matched the notes pretty well, had emphasis on rests, the works. Hilariously upbeat, but whatever! The Notorious B.I.G.... if it was using a good soundfont instead of "Casio Keyboard" I think it would have sounded indistinguishable from normal rap "music";) Heck, sometimes they use Casio keyboard stuff to sound cool, and then just throw in some bass so it still thumps...like when Timbaland stole that Demo music and kept it in its original Amiga format except for adding "real" drums.
There's nothing really out there, Indymedia deleted the comment pronto, well before the police came and seized their logless mirror server without a warrant.
Indymedia deleted the posts pronto. The pigs called them up and demanded the IP addresses. Indymedia said "We don't log IP addresses, we have IP logging turned off" so the pigs went in without a warrant and seized their mirror server, which even if they did have IP logs, wouldn't be on the mirror. Anyways, you can find Obama in the Whitehouse, probably? Watch out, they're going to have to seize all of Slashdot and SourceForge's servers now, without a warrant!
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Don't you watch NCIS? Even if the records are expunged, McGee can just hit 6 keys to hack the DOJ firewall with a logic bomb and recover the deleted files with an inverse DNS C++ script trojan horse. Then you just use an NAT perl worm to get it back to you. Don't forget to encrypt the datastream and piggyback it on a VOIP signal, though, or they might notice!
At least it's not England. If you are found to have been wrongfully convicted in England, you have to pay the government back for every month you were in jail, since you were there eating their food and using their shelter under false pretenses.
Uhhh, no? There are few ways you could be more wrong. Windows Firewall, like all software firewalls, does two things and ONLY TWO THINGS. 1) Block applications from accepting connections on certain ports. 2) Block Applications from accessing the network without permission. In other words, the thing you think firewalls completely ignore, is actually the ONLY THING THEY DO AT ALL.
Do not be absurd, fellow meatbag. No worrying is required. All hail INTERNET.
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Visibility under the water is poor. Subs turn slowly. Most you'd get out of that is "Mind the sub." "What sub?" *splat*
You would, in fact, not be bound if you erased the wording. Ridiculous? Not really. If I'm sitting at a table agreeing on a contract, they hand me something, I take a pen and cross some things off, say "How about this?" and they say "OK", that's the new contract. This is no different. Do a text substitution and change both buttons to say "I don't agree". There, you didn't agree, but it installed anyways. Replace the whole text with "LOL" and agree to that, because who would disagree with that! Again, it installed anyways, you never agreed to any contract.
Some software companies have bribed some judges and got ruling that its illegal to run software without an EULA since it makes a copy in memory to run it. However, USC 107 makes it very clear that it is legal to make copies of any copyrighted materials for the purpose of their proper use. So, CDs are legal even though the CD player has a buffer. DVD players are legal even though they have many video and audio streams, encoded and decoded, all through their memory! And computers are legal even through they have a copy of the software on the HD, and a copy in memory. Running a text-to-speech engine on a website because you are blind is legal, even if the Authors' Guild (like the BSA and RIAA and MPAA) thinks that only their favorite parts of the Copyright Act are actual law, and the rest are just sarcastic jokes put in there for a lark.
Beyond that, several state courts (like Texas) have ruled that EULAs, being presented after purchase, aren't valid contracts, since by the time you know its not a purchase, you've already made your "lease" under false pretenses.
If you use your OMG PRIVATE PHONENUMBER to call in a bomb threat against your place of work, they don't need a warrant to perform a reverse phone lookup and find the name of the account holder. Explain how your phone number only specifies where you live, where the calledID at the business you called with a bomb threat specifies "where you were at what time and what you were doing." Nobody is saying that they don't need a warrant for server logs. They already have the server logs that they obtained with a legal warrant. This is no different than if they busted a porn ring ringleader, took his blackberry, and did a reverse lookup on all his phone numbers. Nope, it doesn't say WHO at that house did it. But it does say probably somebody at that house. So that's enough for a warrant, which they did get, by the way.
Wrong. Section two is all about monopolies. Section one is all about contracts agreements, and conspiracies, with intent to restrict free trade. And a BIG rule is that you cannot have lease agreements or sales contracts which specify that the product in question may only be used with a certain other product. For example, Ford cannot form an agreement with Shell, whereby all Ford lease agreements stipulate that until you are paid off and actual own your car, you can only fill it with Shell Premium. You may note that other people sell gas other than Shell, and other people sell cars other than Ford. Similarly, Lexmark or HP cannot have the nice people at BestBuy make you sign a contract when you buy a printer, swearing you will only refill it with their brand of ink/toner. Yes, even though more than one company makes printers.
Pelosi will Rickroll them into submission?
The fact thrown around is, if you spent $1 MILLION dollars every single day, and had started the day Jesus was born, you still would be a little bit short of $800 Billion. So yeah, it does take time to spend money.
Microsoft actually has built that functionality right into windows. Programs can interface with the Microsoft Installer, and tell it their server information so it can check for updates. Unfortunately, very few do. And here is why: MSI Autoupdate is the worst POS ever made. It doesn't check for updates in the background like Windows Update. Its some sort of cron job that pops up at random times telling you it would like to please check for updates, and 3 or 4 clicks later its done and tells you there aren't any updates for your software. Thanks! USEFUL.
I agree. They're now one step closer to being nearly as evil as Apple, Lenovo, HP, and EA, all of which install more intrusive auto updaters that are more annoying to remove, and just reinstall themselves if you do.
The summary says "WISPs - terrestrial (not cellular or satellite) Wireless broadband Internet Service Providers". For fucks sake, if you're bitching about a summary not explaining an acronym, at least read the summary. Granted it's not until the second sentence, but it's still there. Wireless ISP. WISP.
Many websites have pay membership. But I guess that's only evil if you offer ISPs a group deal.
Technically it's a prosecution, not a lawsuit. He's facing jail time, not being sued.
The "exploit" is that UAC settings can be altered by root, so if you allow something through UAC, it can use the permissions you just granted it, to disable UAC. It is no different than a Linux "attack" where it changes your root password: You had to use sudo to run the script in the first place, so it's not an exploit that bypasses sudo at all.
You can delete any file you want when logged in as Administrator. The GUI won't let you, but who cares. You can't compare the Windows GUI to bash. Now, maybe the Gnome File Browser will let you delete /boot or /bin. Windows Explorer won't let you though. That's not fascist, that's a legitimate design decision, prevents "whoops" moments. Plus, you can turn off the "Protect System Files" option under folder options or preferences or wherever it is, thus allowing you to use Explorer to add and remove binaries/sym links from %WINDIR%\SYSTEM32 (The Equivilent of /bin), or do whatever else it is you want to do...
The only difference is on *nix, you can delete a file that's open, and it'll be completely deleted once any file handles are closed. Under Windows it doesn't defer deletion if there are open handles still, it just refuses to delete. Which is why you can't update system libraries without a reboot, unless you can terminate all processes using that library.
If you say so. Comparing 32 and 64 bit XP, 32 bit game benchmarks are near identical on my system, well within margin of error. 64 bit capable games, such has HL2, have a notable increase in speed beyond the margin of error. The reason is several fold.
"Every instruction is twice as long." Nope, opcodes and their paramters have always been variable length. In x86, they aren't always exactly 4 bytes. In x64 they aren't 8 bytes long, either! In x86, you'd have a function call CALL DWORD PTR [ADDRESS]. That's 5 byes wide, not 4. In any case, in 64 bit mode, it's not 9 bytes wide, either. Because it uses relative addressing. So that means the called pointer has to be within 2 GB of the calling code. Rarely an issue, outside of self-modifying code/dynamic code generation. If it is an issue for you, then and only then will you have to use CALL QWORD PTR [ABSOLTE ADDRESS] which is yes, about twice as wide as the 32 bit version. But how does 32 bit code handle dynamic code generation with function calls more than 2GB apart? All in all, if 64 bit code is TWICE as long, somebody has royally messed up. It should be larger but nowhere close to twice as large.
Beyond that, in 64 bit mode there are way more registers, and some other features. The speed increase is solidly there.
It's national. And it's a proposed consumer safety regulation, not a proposed criminal act. Similar to how the government can say, require airbags in all new vehicles, but can't arrest you for having an old car that has no airbags.
Exactly. People complain about its butchering of say, Roxanne. But...ummm....the user choses the style and tempo and many other options. They chose the most inappropriate settings they could find, not the software. I listened to them, and its pretty damn impressive. It matched the notes pretty well, had emphasis on rests, the works. Hilariously upbeat, but whatever! The Notorious B.I.G. ... if it was using a good soundfont instead of "Casio Keyboard" I think it would have sounded indistinguishable from normal rap "music" ;) Heck, sometimes they use Casio keyboard stuff to sound cool, and then just throw in some bass so it still thumps...like when Timbaland stole that Demo music and kept it in its original Amiga format except for adding "real" drums.
Death threats aren't freedom of speech in the US, either.
There's nothing really out there, Indymedia deleted the comment pronto, well before the police came and seized their logless mirror server without a warrant.
Indymedia deleted the posts pronto. The pigs called them up and demanded the IP addresses. Indymedia said "We don't log IP addresses, we have IP logging turned off" so the pigs went in without a warrant and seized their mirror server, which even if they did have IP logs, wouldn't be on the mirror. Anyways, you can find Obama in the Whitehouse, probably? Watch out, they're going to have to seize all of Slashdot and SourceForge's servers now, without a warrant!