Soldiers should always question their orders if they believe them to be wrong. The East German guards on the Berlin Wall who killed escapees were eventually tried for war crimes - even though it was their superiors who gave the orders and designed the Berlin Wall.
If you want to be located when you call 911, maintain a land-line. Where is the goddamn rocket science here, people?
Yeah, great idea. That way, if I'm not at home and I have a heart attack, I can run back home so that the dispatchers will know where I am.
Seriously. Embedded GPS is overkill for a stationary phone, but it's necessary to track it if it's moving. If a stationary phone sufficed, people could just type in their address. If you have a phone with GPS, the point is to be able to find it when it's moving.
By the way, I'm surprised to hear that zero people a year die from terrorism. I feel so stupid for mourning the damaged buildings in that recent attack in Egypt, if nobody was killed. And I wonder why we're worried about suicide bombers that strap explosives to themselves, run into an area where nobody is around, and blow themselves up.
1) and 2) didn't work for NetZero or any of the other dot bombs. Why would it work for Google?
It'd work for the same reason that banner ads (and popup ads and whatever else in the advertising arms race) didn't work for the dot bombs, but AdWords is Google's main source of revenue.
All they have to do is show targeted text ads in a frame, a la Gmail.
At least I am not the unscrupulous individual who is taking the time and effort into doing something that is morally wrong.
It is morally wrong not to stand up against evil. It is an even worse moral wrong when the evil convinces you that it is good.
Microsoft made an Xbox, great. They put a lockout code, more power to them. But when they try to portray people who bypass the lockout code on their own property as lawbreakers or wrongdoers, then that is morally wrong. And it is the duty of moral individuals to stand up and say what is wrong.
(While I'm at it, I may as well mention that copying games without paying for it is morally wrong. All that is acceptable is modding the Xbox for fair uses: copying games you own (although I'm not sure why you'd do that), installing Linux, etc.)
Just a theory...IIRC, the Xbox processor is slightly customized, right? It's not the generic off-the-shelf Celeron? So I suppose that when MS was asking Intel to make Xbox processors, Intel asked the MS guys, "Do you need it to throw an exception when the instructioon pointer overflows? We can make the chip slightly cheaper by removing that feature." MS thought for a second and said, "We're putting security on all the code that goes in, so we can watch for that feature. Besides, the users can't do anything if the CPU halts in a commercial game; it may as well overflow and crash that way. So no, we don't need that feature." And they forgot to ask their security team itself, who was relying on that feature, which was present in the development systems only.
From the article: Apparently the i386 CPU family throws no exception in this case, Microsoft's engineers only assumed it or misread the documentation and never tested it.
Does anyone know which CPUs actually throw exceptions? I have a feeling the security team tested their code on one that did.
At least I am not the unscrupulous individual who is taking the time and effort into doing something that is morally wrong.
It is morally wrong not to stand up against evil. It is an even worse moral wrong when the evil convinces you that it is good.
Microsoft made an Xbox, great. They put a lockout code, more power to them. But when they try to portray people who bypass the lockout code on their own property, that is morally wrong.
You can't regulate how other people choose to protect their kids. You are the spineless pansy who gets his panties in a bunch as soon as someone dares to say that bad words might actually be bad. You are the ignoramus who forces his own brand of freedom of speech on everyone. Howard Stern is perfectly safe on satellite frequencies; it's just that a lot of people don't want him on public radio frequencies. Your comments remind me of Brave New World, where the government-raised children have all the sexual freedom they want, but no true liberties. This country wasn't founded on totalitarianism, it was founded on the rights of the individual. The right not to listen to smut is one of those. The right to raise one's children as one wishes (within reason) is another one.
er...being that Slashdot apparently doesn't like Unicode (nor the degree sign..argh!), that's the best I can do. Anyone have a better way to write l33takana?
Slashdot Mirror
I'm confused too, but I think this site may have something to do with it?
Where's the obligatory explain-the-joke post?
Oh wow. A Slashdot link to Amazon that doesn't contain a referral link!
So there is hope left in mankind after all!
(And thanks for stripping out the unnecessary session data, by the way.)
What I'm worried about is the game programmers mentioning "persistence". To them, that just means the ability to save your game.
Soldiers should always question their orders if they believe them to be wrong. The East German guards on the Berlin Wall who killed escapees were eventually tried for war crimes - even though it was their superiors who gave the orders and designed the Berlin Wall.
(The superiors were punished too, of course.)
launch those nucluar missels
It's a fake! He misspelled nucular!
Cetero censeo leggo meis eggo!
Wouldn't that statement be a little eggo-centric?
Is that one of the Andrew Tanenbaum books? I remember those from when I was 6. The cartoons on the covers were amusing.
(Implying, of course, I never saw any of it past the front cover.)
In order to be in a building, you have to enter it.
So we need a) continuous GPS tracking of the phone and b) send the last known location iff you call 911.
If you want to be located when you call 911, maintain a land-line. Where is the goddamn rocket science here, people?
Yeah, great idea. That way, if I'm not at home and I have a heart attack, I can run back home so that the dispatchers will know where I am.
Seriously. Embedded GPS is overkill for a stationary phone, but it's necessary to track it if it's moving. If a stationary phone sufficed, people could just type in their address. If you have a phone with GPS, the point is to be able to find it when it's moving.
By the way, I'm surprised to hear that zero people a year die from terrorism. I feel so stupid for mourning the damaged buildings in that recent attack in Egypt, if nobody was killed. And I wonder why we're worried about suicide bombers that strap explosives to themselves, run into an area where nobody is around, and blow themselves up.
Well finally, some innovation from Microsoft. A Mac with a bunch of games.
1) and 2) didn't work for NetZero or any of the other dot bombs. Why would it work for Google?
It'd work for the same reason that banner ads (and popup ads and whatever else in the advertising arms race) didn't work for the dot bombs, but AdWords is Google's main source of revenue.
All they have to do is show targeted text ads in a frame, a la Gmail.
Perhaps you are unaware; blind people cannot see things.
Oh, and if you were referring to the Axis of E-vil, then you forgot iAtollah CP/Meini.
Google including iTunes would be a great move, especially considering what they've done with Google Video. They could m
Please explain what you can't do with Access that you can do with MySQL.
No, I think you got a letter asking you to cease and desist using a Mac that still has a floppy drive. Geez.
(Grr. Should've previewed. Oh well.)
At least I am not the unscrupulous individual who is taking the time and effort into doing something that is morally wrong.
It is morally wrong not to stand up against evil. It is an even worse moral wrong when the evil convinces you that it is good.
Microsoft made an Xbox, great. They put a lockout code, more power to them. But when they try to portray people who bypass the lockout code on their own property as lawbreakers or wrongdoers, then that is morally wrong. And it is the duty of moral individuals to stand up and say what is wrong.
(While I'm at it, I may as well mention that copying games without paying for it is morally wrong. All that is acceptable is modding the Xbox for fair uses: copying games you own (although I'm not sure why you'd do that), installing Linux, etc.)
Just a theory...IIRC, the Xbox processor is slightly customized, right? It's not the generic off-the-shelf Celeron? So I suppose that when MS was asking Intel to make Xbox processors, Intel asked the MS guys, "Do you need it to throw an exception when the instructioon pointer overflows? We can make the chip slightly cheaper by removing that feature." MS thought for a second and said, "We're putting security on all the code that goes in, so we can watch for that feature. Besides, the users can't do anything if the CPU halts in a commercial game; it may as well overflow and crash that way. So no, we don't need that feature." And they forgot to ask their security team itself, who was relying on that feature, which was present in the development systems only.
From the article:
Apparently the i386 CPU family throws no exception in this case, Microsoft's engineers only assumed it or misread the documentation and never tested it.
Does anyone know which CPUs actually throw exceptions? I have a feeling the security team tested their code on one that did.
At least I am not the unscrupulous individual who is taking the time and effort into doing something that is morally wrong.
It is morally wrong not to stand up against evil. It is an even worse moral wrong when the evil convinces you that it is good.
Microsoft made an Xbox, great. They put a lockout code, more power to them. But when they try to portray people who bypass the lockout code on their own property, that is morally wrong.
I think knot.
You can't regulate how other people choose to protect their kids. You are the spineless pansy who gets his panties in a bunch as soon as someone dares to say that bad words might actually be bad. You are the ignoramus who forces his own brand of freedom of speech on everyone. Howard Stern is perfectly safe on satellite frequencies; it's just that a lot of people don't want him on public radio frequencies. Your comments remind me of Brave New World, where the government-raised children have all the sexual freedom they want, but no true liberties. This country wasn't founded on totalitarianism, it was founded on the rights of the individual. The right not to listen to smut is one of those. The right to raise one's children as one wishes (within reason) is another one.
Mooninites
Don't you mean Moonies?
I'm using Firefox, and it's not working. Most HTML escapes don't work. It's a problem with the Slash software.
I think you meant ")^E- /\^ -,' |/ /-).
er...being that Slashdot apparently doesn't like Unicode (nor the degree sign..argh!), that's the best I can do. Anyone have a better way to write l33takana?