You will get a situation where two alternatives exists:
You will have the perfect copy-protection, but only a select few will buy your game.
There will be a crack that solves the problem of copy-protection.
And anyway - there has to be some code that accesses the TPM chip, and that also means that given enough time and effort it's possible to circumvent it, or even simulate the TPM chip.
Copy protection has been tried before - always with dubious result.
And if you buy it in commercial quantities it starts to get useful for blowing things up! But anyway - a lot of things are explosive. A tablespoon of petrol in a large barrel is sufficient for a good bang. It's just the question of getting the mixture right.
And I also heard about two boys playing and they got hold of an inner tube for a tractor. They filled it with gas from a gas welder and added a long fuse. They nearly cracked all windows in the village they lived - and they did get a beating by their father afterwards...
And overheated water boilers are fine too! Just watch that episode on Mythbusters...
Even better - check which water plant that provides the airport with water and add a mix of compounds to the water. You will get traces everywhere - spread by the cleaners and everybody visiting the toilet.
But this may be the way to go to catch people that didn't wash their hands after their business at the toilet!
If the company acts like this then it's just not in their interest to get any information at all out of you so you can just write down a documentation that is completely outrageous or confusing and not really saying anything at all and then tell them that all you NEED to know is in that document, and then resort to play Tetris or try to learn something outrageously odd on the paid time that's left. Maybe write a new version of Tetris using bash...
The pressure that a shop vac can issue is limited by physics - you have a pressure of 1 atmosphere and a vacuum cleaner can only decrease that by a fraction.
A compressor on the other hand that's blowing air has no problem blowing more than an atmosphere pressure. And in a 500m pipe that can make a huge difference.
right click on a program icon, choose the menu option "run as administrator", and away you go. Is that really so difficult?
Because it doesn't always work as you expect. And sometimes the "Run as..." option is missing for some obscure reason known only to Microsoft...
The weakness is that it can not distinguish between permitted normal behavior and abnormal behavior that still is permitted.
Example, an application is permitted to write to a file, but it is assumed that it will write just a limited amount of data. The problem comes when the application starts to write humongous amount of data to that file. That's one thing that SELinux of today doesn't handle. Same with normal/abnormal network traffic etc. So there are weaknesses, but it's possible to take care of them. I'm not saying that SELinux is bad, just that it can get better.
And SELinux has to be easier to manage too. The shortcomings in this area is a major reason why it's turned off.
As for point 2 - you can use compressed air to blow the cable through the hose. There are places where they just bury empty hoses/pipes and then use compressed air to blow optical fibres through the hose later.
But you will need a good sized compressor. Maybe you can ask someone with a bulk transport truck to provide some blowing!:-) A different kind of blow-job!
And you can get a lot more information from Wikipedia too!
And if one can isn't enough you should be able to stack them, but that requires cable splitting and a fine hand.
Yet another thing is that the cable between the antenna and the electronics has to be as short as possible to avoid losses in the cable, which means that you probably have to place the node/access point outdoors.
Well - seems to be a nice device for some but it seems to be too expensive.
And I miss one thing on modern smartphones that I had on my old Palm m505 - a lid that can cover the display. I want the display to be protected when it's in my pocket, not only for fear of cracking it, but sometimes the phone may wake up on an event and enable the touchscreen, and if the phone is in the pocket you can end up dialing whoever/whatever...
And the funny thing is that it's really to call for funny things in Windows as soon as you don't run as Admin. Often you won't see it first but there are always some things that seems to behave funny.
OK, it's usually caused by badly written applications.
A contributing factor is that it's not that easy to perform "sudo" or "su" in Windows, often you will have to resort to log of and log on again since the application complains about "Not running as Administrator" or that some right or environment is inherited from your original login that causes things to go braindead and as soon as you log on as Administrator all is working.
If you are a malware writer you only have a few days for your application to kick in or the AV companies will keep up. So it's not completely futile to run AV software but you will get some that aren't caught. The difference is that if no AV software was employed we could have a computer pandemic.
So even if AV software isn't the best solution but merely a patch it at least protect us somewhat.
But what's needed is a completely different design of the operating systems we have. SELinux is far too weak in reality - even if it is a good step forward it is very static in it's behavior. It is also necessary to have more dynamically adapting operating systems that can see overall patterns and be able to lock down certain processes if they start to behave in an unexpected way.
It exists malware for both Apple and Linux too, but not in the same volume as for Microsoft's OS:es.
And it's not completely useless to have anti-virus software on your machine, but the problem is that they are always a bit behind so there are always a few that takes a hit before the propagation is halted by updated AV software.
Unfortunately there have been too many mistakes made throughout history with the intent of making it easy for users to work with a computer. This way of relaxed behavior is kicking back because it also makes it easy to create malware.
And I avoid to call them "Church", just "Scientology" is sufficient.
Calling them "Cult" will also lend them credibility for something they aren't.
And by the way, isn't "Church" a Christian designation? But Scientology is a completely different thing, and has really not much to do with Christianity.
And by the way - My opinion is that you should be able to have a religion, or copyright, but never both.
Anyway - one person's view can be "Religion", another "Cult" and a third it can be "Lifestyle".
The difference is that an engineer does the things needed, may it be building a bridge or designing a new chip while the humanists just talk and make social theories.
However the persons that are endangering development the most are the economists (actually just bean-counters). They are only calculating cents on and off and tries to shave off costs by forcing the engineers to under-design solutions - and at the same time providing suspicious evidence about "successful" savings which in turn gives them a huge salary bonus.
Just beware of bonus systems for management and CFO:s, they indicate a sick model, but even worse - they also attract persons that tries to gain an advantage while suppressing the quality of life for the average Joe on the workplace.
Unfortunately a solution of only engineers doesn't work either, but mostly because the engineers tends to want their solution to be "perfect".
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- You will have the perfect copy-protection, but only a select few will buy your game.
- There will be a crack that solves the problem of copy-protection.
And anyway - there has to be some code that accesses the TPM chip, and that also means that given enough time and effort it's possible to circumvent it, or even simulate the TPM chip.Copy protection has been tried before - always with dubious result.
It's all matter of taste and what you need. The good thing with Eclipse is that it's relatively easy to start with and you can adapt it to your needs.
But I'm hardly surprised that these bacteria exists - considering that oil-eating bacteria already has been found!
The issue is otherwise at what rate they can consume plastics and which conditions that are required.
And I also heard about two boys playing and they got hold of an inner tube for a tractor. They filled it with gas from a gas welder and added a long fuse. They nearly cracked all windows in the village they lived - and they did get a beating by their father afterwards...
And overheated water boilers are fine too! Just watch that episode on Mythbusters...
Just wait a few years and it will get so expensive to travel that you think about growing your own potatoes...
But this may be the way to go to catch people that didn't wash their hands after their business at the toilet!
If the company acts like this then it's just not in their interest to get any information at all out of you so you can just write down a documentation that is completely outrageous or confusing and not really saying anything at all and then tell them that all you NEED to know is in that document, and then resort to play Tetris or try to learn something outrageously odd on the paid time that's left. Maybe write a new version of Tetris using bash...
A compressor on the other hand that's blowing air has no problem blowing more than an atmosphere pressure. And in a 500m pipe that can make a huge difference.
Example, an application is permitted to write to a file, but it is assumed that it will write just a limited amount of data. The problem comes when the application starts to write humongous amount of data to that file. That's one thing that SELinux of today doesn't handle. Same with normal/abnormal network traffic etc. So there are weaknesses, but it's possible to take care of them. I'm not saying that SELinux is bad, just that it can get better.
And SELinux has to be easier to manage too. The shortcomings in this area is a major reason why it's turned off.
It's usually better to wait for a while when a new product is released - that way someone else will have all problems.
The only catch is that the mail programs are so inferior when it comes to make security easy.
Otherwise a VPN connection would be the best alternative and then have a document share that's very restricted.
But there are also optical "wireless" links that you can put up, usually works until a flock of birds passes by...
But you will need a good sized compressor. Maybe you can ask someone with a bulk transport truck to provide some blowing! :-) A different kind of blow-job!
And you can get a lot more information from Wikipedia too!
And if one can isn't enough you should be able to stack them, but that requires cable splitting and a fine hand.
Yet another thing is that the cable between the antenna and the electronics has to be as short as possible to avoid losses in the cable, which means that you probably have to place the node/access point outdoors.
The correct question here is "Will it cook?"
Only the retired or dead.
More interesting would be if it ends up surviving the whole exercise including the hairdryer!
And I miss one thing on modern smartphones that I had on my old Palm m505 - a lid that can cover the display. I want the display to be protected when it's in my pocket, not only for fear of cracking it, but sometimes the phone may wake up on an event and enable the touchscreen, and if the phone is in the pocket you can end up dialing whoever/whatever...
And the funny thing is that it's really to call for funny things in Windows as soon as you don't run as Admin. Often you won't see it first but there are always some things that seems to behave funny.
OK, it's usually caused by badly written applications.
A contributing factor is that it's not that easy to perform "sudo" or "su" in Windows, often you will have to resort to log of and log on again since the application complains about "Not running as Administrator" or that some right or environment is inherited from your original login that causes things to go braindead and as soon as you log on as Administrator all is working.
Since every new PC is sold with a Vista license today regardless of if it is used or not figures like these are useless.
What really is needed is to figure out how many machines that actually runs Vista, and also what they are used for.
I had a moment where I was considering Vista Ultimate, but when a friend had outrageous problems with Vista I considered it a dead end.
So even if AV software isn't the best solution but merely a patch it at least protect us somewhat.
But what's needed is a completely different design of the operating systems we have. SELinux is far too weak in reality - even if it is a good step forward it is very static in it's behavior. It is also necessary to have more dynamically adapting operating systems that can see overall patterns and be able to lock down certain processes if they start to behave in an unexpected way.
And it's not completely useless to have anti-virus software on your machine, but the problem is that they are always a bit behind so there are always a few that takes a hit before the propagation is halted by updated AV software.
Unfortunately there have been too many mistakes made throughout history with the intent of making it easy for users to work with a computer. This way of relaxed behavior is kicking back because it also makes it easy to create malware.
Calling them "Cult" will also lend them credibility for something they aren't.
And by the way, isn't "Church" a Christian designation? But Scientology is a completely different thing, and has really not much to do with Christianity.
And by the way - My opinion is that you should be able to have a religion, or copyright, but never both.
Anyway - one person's view can be "Religion", another "Cult" and a third it can be "Lifestyle".
But to really do things is a different issue.
The difference is that an engineer does the things needed, may it be building a bridge or designing a new chip while the humanists just talk and make social theories.
However the persons that are endangering development the most are the economists (actually just bean-counters). They are only calculating cents on and off and tries to shave off costs by forcing the engineers to under-design solutions - and at the same time providing suspicious evidence about "successful" savings which in turn gives them a huge salary bonus.
Just beware of bonus systems for management and CFO:s, they indicate a sick model, but even worse - they also attract persons that tries to gain an advantage while suppressing the quality of life for the average Joe on the workplace.
Unfortunately a solution of only engineers doesn't work either, but mostly because the engineers tends to want their solution to be "perfect".