Let's count the kinds of attacks that have existed in the past:
Bad daemon/service design allowing for root control through the service itself remotely
Bad daemon/service permissions allowing a buffer overflow to give one service-level command access
Bad port use allowing for access to stuff that should be off by default
Bad user permissions control requiring everyone who actually want to do something to have local admin access
Bad MS software design giving software designed to look at public (read: anything) access to the service or kernel level
Bad implementation of MS software allowing for public, untrusted content to arbitrarily install stuff on the PC (see also: the Balmer Story)
Sounds like we have a lot of possible places to start, and I'm not even someone used to breaking into Microsoft systems. There are probably many, many more vectors of attack that I haven't thought of without even resorting to social engineering or taking advantage of stupid or ignorant users...
...sound like a challenge to me...
Let's count the kinds of attacks that have existed in the past:
Bad daemon/service design allowing for root control through the service itself remotely
Bad daemon/service permissions allowing a buffer overflow to give one service-level command access
Bad port use allowing for access to stuff that should be off by default
Bad user permissions control requiring everyone who actually want to do something to have local admin access
Bad MS software design giving software designed to look at public (read: anything) access to the service or kernel level
Bad implementation of MS software allowing for public, untrusted content to arbitrarily install stuff on the PC (see also: the Balmer Story)
Sounds like we have a lot of possible places to start, and I'm not even someone used to breaking into Microsoft systems. There are probably many, many more vectors of attack that I haven't thought of without even resorting to social engineering or taking advantage of stupid or ignorant users...
I have one of the old Sony "LaserMax" 1453 Laserdisc players that went into the console in the arcade. All I need is a Dragon's Lair Laserdisc and the schematics for the controller board (plugs into the RS-232 port on the player) and I can have my own MAME and Dragon's Lair console! Woohoo!
How about this?
Turn off the cell phone. Check one's voicemail every 1/2 hour or so, and immediately call the parents back from a landline or borrowed cell phone, complaining about the service.
Not to troll here, but how would a military mission be in peace?
Isn't the purpose of our military to engage in wartime activities, like defending our territories and offensively going after the enemy? Wouldn't peacetime air traffic be suspended in a true war zone?
Okay, I will acknowledge that the 100MHz processor in that configuration isn't up to the task, but it doesn't take a whole lot more. I have a Real Magic Hollywood Plus DVD decoder card, and it can't be all that powerful for what it cost new. It was in a P133, so I also know that the computer wasn't helping it out a lot either.
PC technology of ten years ago is still being made specifically for embedded applications. Look at DSL routers, cell phones, laptops, PDAs, and all sorts of other tech that is more powerful now than PCs were four years ago.
A laptop computer is expensive because it's typically using new technology, has expansion capabilities (PCMCIA, CF, USB, Memory sockets, socketted processor, etc) which cost more to manufacture, along with an LCD screen, keyboard, and durable packaging. A set top box without any of these things doesn't cost much at all.
Lower grade memory (good for self-correcting video and audio where 100% accuracy isn't necessary) isn't expensive. Your answering machine probably uses it if it doesn't use tape.
When you're playing with technology on its second life it's really, really cheap. Intel sells 486GX embedded microprocessors like hotcakes, and I assume that they're doing such for early Pentium designs too.
I'm mildly annoyed by all of these Tardis, K9, and Doctor Who analogies. No one would be making them except really, really hard-core science fiction fans if the show hadn't been resurrected after its 1989 cancellation and 1996 television movie. No one is making any Red Dwarf analogies, or continuing to reference Star Trek except for The History Channel and their Shatner-centric universe. We also never get any Blakes 7, Starlost, or Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (starring Gil Gerard) references, while we're LOADED with Battlestar Galatica, The Prisoner, and Forbidden Planet comments.
I'm sure that most of the huge computer companies that do their own development (Microsoft, IBM, and Oracle come to mind as some) didn't get into the aggressive patent fight in the modern era because the rug would be ripped out from underneath all of them. It doesn't help for both Microsoft and IBM that they've been ruled Monopolies at times, so the burden on them is more difficult yet. If they went after an infringer then they might find that they have a problem because of monopoly status, and could even lose the patent.
And there's the problem. The patent office basically has demonstrated that they feel that the courts will resolve it if it's a bad patent, while the courts have, at times, ruled that if a patent was granted that it's valid, regardless of prior art, obviousness, relying on pre-existing technology that is already patented by someone else, or directly at odds with an existing patent.
As for Creative v. Apple, I've never owned either companys' music player, so I don't know if Creative has a case or not, but if Apple has infringed on Creative then real harm might have been dealt to Creative. I'm sure that lot of damages will hinge on how important the co-opted technology was on the sale of the iPod, compared to things like marketting, existing loyal customer base, integration to computer software and services (read: iTunes), and the like. The court could find Apple at fault but the amount of real damage done to Creative could be found to be fairly small if the interface itself didn't heavily influence sales of Apple vis-a-vis Creative, so Apple's payments and penalties to Creative could be small too.
As for patent portfolio companies that are basically all lawyers, fuck 'em. Make patent holders actually have to make and distribute their products in order to keep their patents valid.
This is exactly why a format change is the ideal time to try this, especially if the artist can find a way to get his or her music filed under their performance name and force the industry music to be filed under the publisher's name rather than under the artist's. They could hijack their own music back to a certain extent and actually make a real profit on the music. Furthermore, if this distribution method works then they should be able to release any new music that they intend to create under the same new method, never even bothering with the recording industry beyond distribution of physical media.
Established artists that actually have some money should get smart and start re-recording their classic songs themselves without corporate money, so then they have completely independent music to sell.
Granted, they'd have to make the remake sound a lot like the original, and they'd also have to find a way to market their version through the Internet where it's higher-profile than the industry-owned tracks, but if they could find a way to get the Internet retailers to start classifying the existing industry stuff with names like "Sony/BMG/Cheap Trick" for the artist field and just "Cheap Trick" for the new recording it just might work...
And therein lies the biggest problem with Wikipedia. Great source of information on Pokemon & Star Wars... shit source on current events, politics, or anything else in the least bit controversial.
Well, it is an encyclopedia rather than a news organization. When's the last time that World Book was politically charged or contraversial...
Lack of insurance coverage for full-time employees.
Low wages for employees.
Products that are cheap in quality as well as construction.
Artificially low "Invade and take over" pricing with smaller communities, destroying local livelyhoods, then raising prices.
Attraction of the lowest common denominator to stores, bringing problems to the neighborhood.
Lack of benefits from the company forces the community to pick up the costs, which aren't trivial.
Their Doctor Who section is absolutely awesome, with details back to the early sixties. Similarly, their music and dance genre sections are also good.
If you are looking at hot-button issues you can expect bias. The only difference here is that the corporate bias shows through compared to personal bias from external sources. If you accept that anything that you read has bias and account for that then you won't have nearly as many problems.
Wal-Mart has a lot of haters and bashers out there. It seems only logical that they should fight back and try to balance out the haterade on wikipedia.
I personally think Wal-Mart is one of the best corporations out there. A company that provides value and offers cheap products to everybody? The horror!
HAAAHAAHAAHAAHAA!!!!
HAAAHAAHAAAAHAAA!!!
<breathes>
HAAAAAHAAAAAHAAAAHAAAA!!!!
Seriously, I hope that you're simply being really, really sarcastic, but it's hard to tell...
For those trying to rack their brains... the short story is called "There will come soft rains"
For some reason that doesn't sound right, but I admit that I could be incorrect. The gist of the story is that the house has been going in perpetuity for an indeterminate time with no people, preparing breakfast, turning on lights, and something short-circuits and it burns down. Almost kubla-khan-esque...
...So, these things come out, and someone programs a macro that gets them out of bed, into the trousers, walks to the bureau and stands for fifteen minutes, then walks out of the house, down the stairs, and to work. Unfortunately, the owner has recently become deceased, and the trousers, not programmed to account for little things like that still executes its normal routine...
I don't know which would be creepier, it doing that with the corpse, or it leaving the house empty...
And with that I'm reminded of a short story about an automated house...
This is Karen, your office manager. I don't want your damn office supplies, putting them away distracts from my time spent surfing the web. Just pretend that you used them up and throw them in the trash can on your way out...
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Come to think of it, it probably was a 1450. It's been awhile since I've gotten it out of storage...
The message should have looked like:
...sound like a challenge to me...
Let's count the kinds of attacks that have existed in the past:
Bad daemon/service design allowing for root control through the service itself remotely
Bad daemon/service permissions allowing a buffer overflow to give one service-level command access
Bad port use allowing for access to stuff that should be off by default
Bad user permissions control requiring everyone who actually want to do something to have local admin access
Bad MS software design giving software designed to look at public (read: anything) access to the service or kernel level
Bad implementation of MS software allowing for public, untrusted content to arbitrarily install stuff on the PC (see also: the Balmer Story)
Sounds like we have a lot of possible places to start, and I'm not even someone used to breaking into Microsoft systems. There are probably many, many more vectors of attack that I haven't thought of without even resorting to social engineering or taking advantage of stupid or ignorant users...
...sound like a challenge to me... Let's count the kinds of attacks that have existed in the past: Bad daemon/service design allowing for root control through the service itself remotely Bad daemon/service permissions allowing a buffer overflow to give one service-level command access Bad port use allowing for access to stuff that should be off by default Bad user permissions control requiring everyone who actually want to do something to have local admin access Bad MS software design giving software designed to look at public (read: anything) access to the service or kernel level Bad implementation of MS software allowing for public, untrusted content to arbitrarily install stuff on the PC (see also: the Balmer Story) Sounds like we have a lot of possible places to start, and I'm not even someone used to breaking into Microsoft systems. There are probably many, many more vectors of attack that I haven't thought of without even resorting to social engineering or taking advantage of stupid or ignorant users...
I have one of the old Sony "LaserMax" 1453 Laserdisc players that went into the console in the arcade. All I need is a Dragon's Lair Laserdisc and the schematics for the controller board (plugs into the RS-232 port on the player) and I can have my own MAME and Dragon's Lair console! Woohoo!
How about this? Turn off the cell phone. Check one's voicemail every 1/2 hour or so, and immediately call the parents back from a landline or borrowed cell phone, complaining about the service.
Call forwarding on my work's cell plan is $0.15 per minute, so I think that they'd notice, even if not initially...
Did anyone else read the headline as, "Direct from Japan, the SexToys HomeStar..."?
It's too early in the morning...
Not to troll here, but how would a military mission be in peace? Isn't the purpose of our military to engage in wartime activities, like defending our territories and offensively going after the enemy? Wouldn't peacetime air traffic be suspended in a true war zone?
Okay, I will acknowledge that the 100MHz processor in that configuration isn't up to the task, but it doesn't take a whole lot more. I have a Real Magic Hollywood Plus DVD decoder card, and it can't be all that powerful for what it cost new. It was in a P133, so I also know that the computer wasn't helping it out a lot either.
Nah, we'd airbrush on a naked woman, pinup/WWII style, with the important bits resting on certain important keys...
PC technology of ten years ago is still being made specifically for embedded applications. Look at DSL routers, cell phones, laptops, PDAs, and all sorts of other tech that is more powerful now than PCs were four years ago.
A laptop computer is expensive because it's typically using new technology, has expansion capabilities (PCMCIA, CF, USB, Memory sockets, socketted processor, etc) which cost more to manufacture, along with an LCD screen, keyboard, and durable packaging. A set top box without any of these things doesn't cost much at all.
Lower grade memory (good for self-correcting video and audio where 100% accuracy isn't necessary) isn't expensive. Your answering machine probably uses it if it doesn't use tape.
When you're playing with technology on its second life it's really, really cheap. Intel sells 486GX embedded microprocessors like hotcakes, and I assume that they're doing such for early Pentium designs too.
I'm mildly annoyed by all of these Tardis, K9, and Doctor Who analogies. No one would be making them except really, really hard-core science fiction fans if the show hadn't been resurrected after its 1989 cancellation and 1996 television movie. No one is making any Red Dwarf analogies, or continuing to reference Star Trek except for The History Channel and their Shatner-centric universe. We also never get any Blakes 7, Starlost, or Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (starring Gil Gerard) references, while we're LOADED with Battlestar Galatica, The Prisoner, and Forbidden Planet comments.
When are we going to stop this madness?!?!
I'm sure that most of the huge computer companies that do their own development (Microsoft, IBM, and Oracle come to mind as some) didn't get into the aggressive patent fight in the modern era because the rug would be ripped out from underneath all of them. It doesn't help for both Microsoft and IBM that they've been ruled Monopolies at times, so the burden on them is more difficult yet. If they went after an infringer then they might find that they have a problem because of monopoly status, and could even lose the patent.
And there's the problem. The patent office basically has demonstrated that they feel that the courts will resolve it if it's a bad patent, while the courts have, at times, ruled that if a patent was granted that it's valid, regardless of prior art, obviousness, relying on pre-existing technology that is already patented by someone else, or directly at odds with an existing patent.
As for Creative v. Apple, I've never owned either companys' music player, so I don't know if Creative has a case or not, but if Apple has infringed on Creative then real harm might have been dealt to Creative. I'm sure that lot of damages will hinge on how important the co-opted technology was on the sale of the iPod, compared to things like marketting, existing loyal customer base, integration to computer software and services (read: iTunes), and the like. The court could find Apple at fault but the amount of real damage done to Creative could be found to be fairly small if the interface itself didn't heavily influence sales of Apple vis-a-vis Creative, so Apple's payments and penalties to Creative could be small too.
As for patent portfolio companies that are basically all lawyers, fuck 'em. Make patent holders actually have to make and distribute their products in order to keep their patents valid.
It was seventeen minutes, five seconds long.
Yes, I am a drummer. Why do you ask?
This is exactly why a format change is the ideal time to try this, especially if the artist can find a way to get his or her music filed under their performance name and force the industry music to be filed under the publisher's name rather than under the artist's. They could hijack their own music back to a certain extent and actually make a real profit on the music. Furthermore, if this distribution method works then they should be able to release any new music that they intend to create under the same new method, never even bothering with the recording industry beyond distribution of physical media.
...and I'm always fighting against my coworkers and management...
Maybe it's for the best. Anything else would be too much Invasion of the Body Snatchers for my tastes...
Established artists that actually have some money should get smart and start re-recording their classic songs themselves without corporate money, so then they have completely independent music to sell.
Granted, they'd have to make the remake sound a lot like the original, and they'd also have to find a way to market their version through the Internet where it's higher-profile than the industry-owned tracks, but if they could find a way to get the Internet retailers to start classifying the existing industry stuff with names like "Sony/BMG/Cheap Trick" for the artist field and just "Cheap Trick" for the new recording it just might work...
Lack of insurance coverage for full-time employees.
Low wages for employees.
Products that are cheap in quality as well as construction.
Artificially low "Invade and take over" pricing with smaller communities, destroying local livelyhoods, then raising prices.
Attraction of the lowest common denominator to stores, bringing problems to the neighborhood.
Lack of benefits from the company forces the community to pick up the costs, which aren't trivial.
It depends on what you use Wikipedia for though.
Their Doctor Who section is absolutely awesome, with details back to the early sixties. Similarly, their music and dance genre sections are also good.
If you are looking at hot-button issues you can expect bias. The only difference here is that the corporate bias shows through compared to personal bias from external sources. If you accept that anything that you read has bias and account for that then you won't have nearly as many problems.
HAAAHAAHAAAAHAAA!!!
<breathes>
HAAAAAHAAAAAHAAAAHAAAA!!!!
Seriously, I hope that you're simply being really, really sarcastic, but it's hard to tell...
For those trying to rack their brains... the short story is called "There will come soft rains"
For some reason that doesn't sound right, but I admit that I could be incorrect. The gist of the story is that the house has been going in perpetuity for an indeterminate time with no people, preparing breakfast, turning on lights, and something short-circuits and it burns down. Almost kubla-khan-esque...
...So, these things come out, and someone programs a macro that gets them out of bed, into the trousers, walks to the bureau and stands for fifteen minutes, then walks out of the house, down the stairs, and to work. Unfortunately, the owner has recently become deceased, and the trousers, not programmed to account for little things like that still executes its normal routine...
I don't know which would be creepier, it doing that with the corpse, or it leaving the house empty...
And with that I'm reminded of a short story about an automated house...
This is Karen, your office manager. I don't want your damn office supplies, putting them away distracts from my time spent surfing the web. Just pretend that you used them up and throw them in the trash can on your way out...