>Microsoft wants to see the number of exploits impacting its operating system disappear to zero.
No, they just want to fix all those exploits themselves. No more exploits means no more reason to install security patches, which means no more reason to install Windows Genuine Advantage.
I'm a English major who never took a single math class in above high school geometry (which was more like "nap time") and I still function pretty well without it.
i did not write that document. it's views are not mine.
see those things in the subject? they're called 'quotation marks'.
i was responding to the OP saying he could not understand Wbeelsoi's comment about 'helping the Internet' by using browser 0days to allow communication between blackhats. the document i linked to, which you were apparently able to read, explains what may have been meant by this.
Question for you: Magnatune [magnatune.com], who claim that they are "not evil" and do a lot of things right (no DRM, et al) charge about the same as a CD you'd get from a major label, and Magnatune doesn't have the two-tier distribution, or the overhead of traditional record companies (e.g. Magnatune relies on you to produce your own masters; they won't cover the cost of production). Why do you think they charge so much, then? Are they greedy? Do you think it would be more appropriate for them to charge $5 or $2 or even $1, rather than charging what the market will bear?
my child was raised to educate himself through playing video games alone in his room from a young age. my wife and i feel that many modern parents spend far too much time trying to entertain their children, who themselves would rather be defining their own identities by using technology. this is often because the parents themselves do not have much in their lives and are bored.
our son is growing into a well-adjusted and emotionally literate young man. the skeptical may wish to view this home video of him relaxing and playing unreal tournament.
because it would real difficult to write a computer program that could play tictactoe perfectly. i bet i'm the only person in the world who wrote one in BASIC at the age of 8. in fact this achievement probably makes me the smartest person that has ever lived.
make a guess g, doesn't have to be accurate at all
find x/g, again doesn't need to be blindingly accurate at this stage
take the average of g and x/g
use that as your guess in the next stage
rinse and repeat
(obviously in later stages you need to make sure the division x/g is done to necessary precision, but keeping numbers in fractional rather than decimal form makes the mental calculation easier, if you can handle an answer in that form.)
this method converges quadratically whereas 'trial and error' or a 'binary search' converges linearly. this means by using this method a simpleton from the 16th century could beat you quite easily doing 3-4 digits of accuracy, and could probably find 6 or 7 digits faster that you could if you were doing the divisions on a calculator.
btw i'm not sure if this is the same method you outline above, or if by 'divide, refine' you are simply deciding whether your guess is too big or too small, based on whether g or x/g is bigger. taking the average of the 2 is much better, and not computationally expensive.
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>Microsoft wants to see the number of exploits impacting its operating system disappear to zero.
No, they just want to fix all those exploits themselves. No more exploits means no more reason to install security patches, which means no more reason to install Windows Genuine Advantage.
but what would you do if the cash till broke?
reading TFA is overrated.
(without freedom)
>Nobody cares *why* software sucks, except software developers*.
Perhaps this is exactly the problem
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i did not write that document.
it's views are not mine.
see those things in the subject? they're called 'quotation marks'.
i was responding to the OP saying he could not understand Wbeelsoi's comment about 'helping the Internet' by using browser 0days to allow communication between blackhats. the document i linked to, which you were apparently able to read, explains what may have been meant by this.
irony indeed.
>What does that even mean?
n g-an-industry-which-just-hurts-humanity/
This may offer some elucidation:
http://antisec.wordpress.com/2006/01/05/stop-aidi
you must be new here
>I wouldn't be at all surprised to find that they managed to get some funding (either direct or indirect) from Microsoftl[sic].
complete bullshit and FUD.
you know nothing about these ppl, they are blackhats, they ruin things for no other reason than to piss ppl off and have a laugh at their expense.
MOD THIS FUNNY!
when moaning about slashdot, make sure you mention your girlfriend
if you don't have a girlfriend, mention that you used to have an 8-bit computer
economies of scale, fuckwit.
>There is a reason why anarchy isn't our choice of government
yes, that the govt would not allow us to make such a choice
my child was raised to educate himself through playing video games alone in his room from a young age. my wife and i feel that many modern parents spend far too much time trying to entertain their children, who themselves would rather be defining their own identities by using technology. this is often because the parents themselves do not have much in their lives and are bored.
our son is growing into a well-adjusted and emotionally literate young man. the skeptical may wish to view this home video of him relaxing and playing unreal tournament.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/ne ws/2006/09/12/njunk112.xml
..for at least another 30 years
i remember back when i was 8, i understood sarcasm.
because it would real difficult to write a computer program that could play tictactoe perfectly. i bet i'm the only person in the world who wrote one in BASIC at the age of 8. in fact this achievement probably makes me the smartest person that has ever lived.
(obviously in later stages you need to make sure the division x/g is done to necessary precision, but keeping numbers in fractional rather than decimal form makes the mental calculation easier, if you can handle an answer in that form.)
this method converges quadratically whereas 'trial and error' or a 'binary search' converges linearly. this means by using this method a simpleton from the 16th century could beat you quite easily doing 3-4 digits of accuracy, and could probably find 6 or 7 digits faster that you could if you were doing the divisions on a calculator.
btw i'm not sure if this is the same method you outline above, or if by 'divide, refine' you are simply deciding whether your guess is too big or too small, based on whether g or x/g is bigger. taking the average of the 2 is much better, and not computationally expensive.
which of course it never did.