* Hoping to foil the swapping of her American Life album, Madonna created full-length decoy files that contained a few seconds of music and the message, "What the (expletive) do you think you're doing?" Some downloaders responded by sampling the rant and creating their own music tracks around it.
Bwahahaha, leave it to pirates to illegally remix an antipiracy track;^)
Plus, if you bring a suit against your employer and win, you'll inevitably be fired a week later for greatly publicized gross incompetance. They'll always find something.
I honestly don't know because I either haven't come across these "evil-bit" PDFs or haven't bothered to print them but have you tried Foxit PDF Reader (direct link to download)?
Indeed. Reminds me of my shy early days in high school.
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Holy shit, that's awesome! I just fired up the installer and read through the EULA and bingo:
You may make copies of the Software for your personal noncommercial home entertainment use and to give to friends and acquaintances on a no cost noncommercial basis.
I'm still glad I bought it though, the game is awesome, especially with the open source engine enhancements.
Continuing the tangent, I've always thought that if you could ascertain the state of the entire universe and everything in it at any given time, you could use that data to extrapolate the future to an unlimited degree.
Of course, this is why we would need Deep Thought;^)
Exactly what I was thinking. I run a Gentoo server and I have asked various questions of the IRC channel while I was setting it up. However, I did a bunch of research before I asked them; reading through the guidebook again, searching the wiki, Googling, even experimenting myself. They have on the whole been very friendly to me, though I have occasionally had to be patient waiting for a response.
I think, really, the key in support is give and take. Users requesting support, especially for a free product, need to be aware that they are probably not the most important thing on the minds of the developers (or even the support techs). They need to avoid as much redundancy in their question as possible, and this means doing some work to eliminate the obvious possibilities first. I have found that as a support tech, whenever someone has done this before asking me a question, I was much happier to do work to answer a question because it wasn't work that had already been done. And as a user, I've found the same response in the people for whom I'm asking questions.
Interesting thought: If the media companies wanted to enforce the idea of licensing content and make it completely valid, they could force retailers to make the customer sign a short contract printed out on a receipt prior to purchasing the CD. Very possible.
The patent system is designed to give companies an advantage. Individual inventors often don't have the resources to patent something as soon as they come up with it, and by the time they do, several companies will have filed several patents covering the same ground.
This would seem to be better for processes designed to only use one CPU, but it then prevents me from coding something in, say, OpenMP, in order to fine tune the parallelisation of my code (which would almost certainly work better than the generic optimizations that they would be putting in the CPU). Admittedly 95+% of programs aren't coded to be parallel, but this would still take away an option that would otherwise be there.
Perhaps there could be a documented way to access both CPUs directly? That may solve the problem.
Exactly what I was thinking, and in fact, I expect to see this feature attempted by the uberconservatives in some of the southern states within around 20 years.
I use Canadian cable ISP Rogers. They do packet filtering whenever they detect a download coming from multiple sources -- including BitTorrent, podcasts, and several other types of "shotgun" downloads. They also have a digital phone service, which always goes through port 1720, which they cannot filter lest they affect their VoIP customers. Combine the two and you find that any BitTorrent download going through port 1720 goes at full speed.
It's just a matter of time before they find a way around this to filter all multiple-connection downloads though, and that scares me, considering that we really only have two high-speed ISPs here, Rogers and Sympatico DSL. Everyone else uses their lines, and thus their filtering. Hopefully we'll have more effective header encryption by then.
This is brilliant. You should be working at Microsoft.
It would almost certainly break legacy applications though, which would likely mean these applications would have to be run as root / Administrator. But this simple change you proposed would destroy 90% of malware's ability to hijack other programs.
As I remember from my MCSE courses from way back (offered through a high school so they were comparatively much cheaper, so I don't regret them), Win2K did attempt a sort of registry-level security, but left it as a task to the Administrator to actually secure it. Perhaps in the future they will make a secure configuration default, but again, you have the problem of legacy applications accessing areas they shouldn't by design.
I guess we'll have to see what they do in Vista, or (more likely in my case) finally switch over to a Linux distribution for true security.
Question: Do you actually own the domain name Microsoft registers "for" you? Microsoft says you can transfer in a domain if you so choose, but funny enough, they mention nothing about letting you transfer the free domain out if you are unsatisfied with their services.
What they should do is first, have a public policy of no outside storage devices or media, including laptops, CDs, memory sticks, etc., then have a clause in the employment contract that states very clearly that anyone who brings in outside media and then infects the internal network will be considered a threat to national security and will be treated as such. I think that might have the required effect.
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* Hoping to foil the swapping of her American Life album, Madonna created full-length decoy files that contained a few seconds of music and the message, "What the (expletive) do you think you're doing?" Some downloaders responded by sampling the rant and creating their own music tracks around it.
;^)
Bwahahaha, leave it to pirates to illegally remix an antipiracy track
-5, worst pun ever >_
You think object-oriented programming in C++ is bad? I'm curious now. Please explain.
Plus, if you bring a suit against your employer and win, you'll inevitably be fired a week later for greatly publicized gross incompetance. They'll always find something.
I honestly don't know because I either haven't come across these "evil-bit" PDFs or haven't bothered to print them but have you tried Foxit PDF Reader (direct link to download)?
Indeed. Reminds me of my shy early days in high school.
I'm still glad I bought it though, the game is awesome, especially with the open source engine enhancements.
Continuing the tangent, I've always thought that if you could ascertain the state of the entire universe and everything in it at any given time, you could use that data to extrapolate the future to an unlimited degree.
;^)
Of course, this is why we would need Deep Thought
Exactly what I was thinking. I run a Gentoo server and I have asked various questions of the IRC channel while I was setting it up. However, I did a bunch of research before I asked them; reading through the guidebook again, searching the wiki, Googling, even experimenting myself. They have on the whole been very friendly to me, though I have occasionally had to be patient waiting for a response.
I think, really, the key in support is give and take. Users requesting support, especially for a free product, need to be aware that they are probably not the most important thing on the minds of the developers (or even the support techs). They need to avoid as much redundancy in their question as possible, and this means doing some work to eliminate the obvious possibilities first. I have found that as a support tech, whenever someone has done this before asking me a question, I was much happier to do work to answer a question because it wasn't work that had already been done. And as a user, I've found the same response in the people for whom I'm asking questions.
Interesting thought: If the media companies wanted to enforce the idea of licensing content and make it completely valid, they could force retailers to make the customer sign a short contract printed out on a receipt prior to purchasing the CD. Very possible.
Your parallelized program took ten times as long? What were you doing?
Although I will say that when we were doing parallel programming, we did have access to Sharcnet nodes, so perhaps you were more limited.
Just like nobody bought the DVD player for the same reasons, right?
Do you have any idea how expensive it is to patent something? It can be as much as $8,000 to $10,000.
The patent system is designed to give companies an advantage. Individual inventors often don't have the resources to patent something as soon as they come up with it, and by the time they do, several companies will have filed several patents covering the same ground.
Virtual +1 Insightful, that sounds very accurate from what I've read of tax auditing. /me would never sign one of those "voluntary extension" papers.
This would seem to be better for processes designed to only use one CPU, but it then prevents me from coding something in, say, OpenMP, in order to fine tune the parallelisation of my code (which would almost certainly work better than the generic optimizations that they would be putting in the CPU). Admittedly 95+% of programs aren't coded to be parallel, but this would still take away an option that would otherwise be there.
Perhaps there could be a documented way to access both CPUs directly? That may solve the problem.
Week after: "Internet servers everywhere embroiled in battle to the death"
Exactly what I was thinking, and in fact, I expect to see this feature attempted by the uberconservatives in some of the southern states within around 20 years.
Hmm, some good news, thanks. I might try one of them out. :^)
Maybe they didn't include basic information on purpose so that you'd RTFAs they linked to.
And as of this post wikitruth.info is Slashdotted. Just now I had to go search Google because I'd never heard of the guy before.
This is why we have summaries: to summarize the story. A quick mention of who he was wouldn't have hurt.
I use Canadian cable ISP Rogers. They do packet filtering whenever they detect a download coming from multiple sources -- including BitTorrent, podcasts, and several other types of "shotgun" downloads. They also have a digital phone service, which always goes through port 1720, which they cannot filter lest they affect their VoIP customers. Combine the two and you find that any BitTorrent download going through port 1720 goes at full speed.
It's just a matter of time before they find a way around this to filter all multiple-connection downloads though, and that scares me, considering that we really only have two high-speed ISPs here, Rogers and Sympatico DSL. Everyone else uses their lines, and thus their filtering. Hopefully we'll have more effective header encryption by then.
Install Firefox and use WindizUpdate next time. No need to use IE for anything except browser compatibility checking now.
This is brilliant. You should be working at Microsoft.
It would almost certainly break legacy applications though, which would likely mean these applications would have to be run as root / Administrator. But this simple change you proposed would destroy 90% of malware's ability to hijack other programs.
As I remember from my MCSE courses from way back (offered through a high school so they were comparatively much cheaper, so I don't regret them), Win2K did attempt a sort of registry-level security, but left it as a task to the Administrator to actually secure it. Perhaps in the future they will make a secure configuration default, but again, you have the problem of legacy applications accessing areas they shouldn't by design.
I guess we'll have to see what they do in Vista, or (more likely in my case) finally switch over to a Linux distribution for true security.
Question: Do you actually own the domain name Microsoft registers "for" you? Microsoft says you can transfer in a domain if you so choose, but funny enough, they mention nothing about letting you transfer the free domain out if you are unsatisfied with their services.
I know I would jump ship really quickly. I haven't bought a version of Windows since Windows 95.
What they should do is first, have a public policy of no outside storage devices or media, including laptops, CDs, memory sticks, etc., then have a clause in the employment contract that states very clearly that anyone who brings in outside media and then infects the internal network will be considered a threat to national security and will be treated as such. I think that might have the required effect.