AFAIAC, this was a rip-off scheme to begin with. Selling underpriced printers and ripping you off with the ink. So, I don't really care about the outcome of this particular stunt.
Because if Microsoft had said no, then the Media Companies would all have just jumped ship to Linux, thus destroying Microsoft's monopoly once and for all.
And they will make Linux users run their copy protection... how exactly?
Actually, the terms "theory" and "law" are used in mathematical logic as well. In a given logic language, if you have a set of logic formulae called axioms, a theory is all that can be derived from these axioms by applying modus ponens. If the axioms eventually derive contradiction, then the theory is said to be the trivial theory, that is the theory that consists of all possible statements of the language. The smalles theory of the language is the one that contains only all taughtologies of the language. Taughtologies are called logical laws of the language.
The exploit has nothing to do with Vista in particular. It seems to exploit the Pacifica virtualization extensions in the newer models of AMD to create an on-the-fly VM. Here is the original author's blog: http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/
He meant using CTRL+Shift+Arrows to select a function call or a class name, and using CTRL-X or CTRL-C with CTRL-V to make writing the code faster. Suppose you have to build a grammar in Yacc. You generally use copy&paste to build up a number of 10-20-40-80-160 empty rules, fill in the blanks by typing, then remove the extra entries.
If memory is finite and the program is non-interactive, the stop problem is decidable. All you have to do is simulate the program with a fixed input and create a copy of *all* the memory (assuming that the input and the program counter are in that memory) at each step. If a certain memory snapshot repeats itself, the program will never stop. This, of course, means that the program cannot be interactive, because the input must be fixed and of fixed size before you begin the simulation.
There is a whole theory in mathematical logic dealing with the stop problem on interactive programs working with finite memory. Look up 'automata over infinite objects'.
So, basically, this outlaws just about any network connection, almost all kinds of LAN, any kind of radio transmission, and phone calls. Way to go, Spain! Back to the stone age!
You can be a woman, a man, a human being of unspecified gender, a green-blue tentacle from the planet XF-WQR-13, I cound't care less. If you have interest in computer programming, fragging, making guild raids, pwning n00bs, etc. that's just great. So? What's the big deal?
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Please, don't enroll in CS courses. That way my salary goes up, and I win. :P
Here, let me fix it up for you:
Don't use a PC.
There. Now you got it.
... Tomorrow it will be flying cars and cold fusion... You know, just around the corner.
I thought I would be the one to propose Python first, but since it's been done already...
How about MIT Scheme? Nice, easy to use, powerful.
Besides, it also gives a great theoretical approach to computing.
AFAIAC, this was a rip-off scheme to begin with. Selling underpriced printers and ripping you off with the ink. So, I don't really care about the outcome of this particular stunt.
Actually, the terms "theory" and "law" are used in mathematical logic as well. In a given logic language, if you have a set of logic formulae called axioms, a theory is all that can be derived from these axioms by applying modus ponens. If the axioms eventually derive contradiction, then the theory is said to be the trivial theory, that is the theory that consists of all possible statements of the language. The smalles theory of the language is the one that contains only all taughtologies of the language. Taughtologies are called logical laws of the language.
The sad thing is that I could almost understand what you were saying!
Actually, the article is misleading. The patch *fixes* the bug, it doesn't introduce it.
As far as I could understand by reading her blog, she was aiming to prove the concept of 100% undetectable malware.
Good point. :)
Doesn't look like it:= 15864368
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=193364&cid
The exploit has nothing to do with Vista in particular. It seems to exploit the Pacifica virtualization extensions in the newer models of AMD to create an on-the-fly VM. Here is the original author's blog:
http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/
What if you split the screen between 2 cpu/gpu pairs? You should get much better framerates.
Mod parent up.
Yes, I said, in a computing device with *fixed* memory.
Exactly. In a good IDE there is little use for copy & paste, except for editing non-supported files, like text files with custom scripts, etc.
He meant using CTRL+Shift+Arrows to select a function call or a class name, and using CTRL-X or CTRL-C with CTRL-V to make writing the code faster. Suppose you have to build a grammar in Yacc. You generally use copy&paste to build up a number of 10-20-40-80-160 empty rules, fill in the blanks by typing, then remove the extra entries.
Amen to that!
If memory is finite and the program is non-interactive, the stop problem is decidable. All you have to do is simulate the program with a fixed input and create a copy of *all* the memory (assuming that the input and the program counter are in that memory) at each step. If a certain memory snapshot repeats itself, the program will never stop. This, of course, means that the program cannot be interactive, because the input must be fixed and of fixed size before you begin the simulation.
There is a whole theory in mathematical logic dealing with the stop problem on interactive programs working with finite memory. Look up 'automata over infinite objects'.
.. these people have, see can I.
So, basically, this outlaws just about any network connection, almost all kinds of LAN, any kind of radio transmission, and phone calls. Way to go, Spain! Back to the stone age!
When are EA gonna rename themselves to GS, like, Game Sematary?
The Ur-Quan Masters!. The Best 2D Game Ever.
You can be a woman, a man, a human being of unspecified gender, a green-blue tentacle from the planet XF-WQR-13, I cound't care less. If you have interest in computer programming, fragging, making guild raids, pwning n00bs, etc. that's just great. So? What's the big deal?