Actually, you are flat out wrong. I see zero fact in your post, just mere speculation.
Windows ME *REALLY WAS* the most stable of the win9x's. The "instability" issues were bad HARDWARE of the time and piss poor drivers. No one remembers when Win95/98 would just blue screen out of nowhere. They will still do such inside a VM. Windows ME doesn't. The difference? No native DOS. Once you opened a DOS window inside win9x, it was a countdown until a crash. People just blamed Windows and rebooted, never paying attention to the consistency of the problem.
The American people love to yell and scream when someone infringes on our (individual) rights. But as soon as our safety is threatened, we are willing to sacrifice our rights...
It isn't "American People", it is people in general. Hell, everytime my wife does something ridiculous, I way whether I should bend over and take it, or suffer the fallout of a confrontation. The people living in the so-called first world countries lost their motivation to grab a gun and possibly sacrifice their life for what they believe in
Flat out, I buy games because I know that ~50% of torrents of games are loaded with malware, and the other 50% are loaded with malware that you can't detect. Buying a game makes me feel like I've got a clean copy.
Not everybody agrees with Kindel's analysis. Old-timers may remember Kindel, who recently resigned from Microsoft, from his days as developer relations guru for COM/OLE/Active-X
Is the submitter trying to imply that his judgement doesn't matter because COM/OLE/ActiveX was somehow bad?
Sorry, if I offended the loyal customers who think Republican means something other than the brand name it now is which was bought and payed for many years ago.
No you aren't. But that is the point, right? Making it seem like you have more to say than you really do.
All you have to do is blitz the raido waves with garbage, wait for it to go into "home" mode, spoof the GPS signal, and you got yourself a hot sell on ebay.
BOOL NtGdiDrawStream(IN HDC hdcDst, IN ULONG cjIn, IN VOID* pvI);
So, simply speculating, this may be something like a ULONG going in, but it gets cast to a signed integer.
win32k.sys is responsible for Windows window manager, keyboard input, and GDI among other things. So you are knee deep in it regardless what you do. Apparently this oh so important system file is quite familiar with being exploited. At this rate, christ, at least do a real code audit of the friggin file.
Your thinking is short sighted and ignorant. Debit transactions take place everyday, without the ability to record your "pin". You wrongly assert that authentication means telling the system, "hey, yeah, I'm me", but it only works that way on some high schoolers ASP project, not in real life. I could go on, but I really don't need to.
If the computer is taking into account things like pheromones, brain structure, shoe size, teeth cleanliness, etc, then the entry level of someone trying to "hack" the system goes enormously high. If you are a valuable enough target to try and replicate all of such, you need a security team with guns looking at you physically and unlocking the system with synchronous key turns (see nuclear weapon launch).
You assume biometrics are fingerprint/iris scanners and the likes. Why couldn't our "mind reading" computer friends tell who you are based on your thought pattern? How about coupled with the scent of pheromones you excrete? Volume of food you tend to have in your stomach? The style of tacky shirt you tend to wear? Obviously, none of these are a solution by themselves, but if you put enough of these patterns together, you should be able to tell who is who.
and unless you are emailing Richard Stallman with exchanged PGP keys, there are countless systems that look at your emails between here and there. Expecting privacy just doesn't register.
It would be cool if there was a solution to properly handle a 32-bit driver in a 64-bit host environment, but there isn't. (Is there? Even if you use a 32-bit VM on a 64-bit host, you can't do shit.)
In the beginning, Microsoft used Thunking to be able to use 16-bit drivers (and other DLLs) on a 32-bit system (Windows 95). This halted in Windows 98 (driver wise) due to horrible stability problems. Eventually, Microsoft moved to Windows on Windows (WOW) which provided an adequate environment for 16-bit apps to run on 32-bit Windows NT. However, if you have a 64-bit version of Windows, you don't have WOW, but WOW64, which runs 32-bit apps on 64-bit Windows, and has no support for 16-bit Windows applications.
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Actually, you are flat out wrong. I see zero fact in your post, just mere speculation.
Windows ME *REALLY WAS* the most stable of the win9x's. The "instability" issues were bad HARDWARE of the time and piss poor drivers. No one remembers when Win95/98 would just blue screen out of nowhere. They will still do such inside a VM. Windows ME doesn't. The difference? No native DOS. Once you opened a DOS window inside win9x, it was a countdown until a crash. People just blamed Windows and rebooted, never paying attention to the consistency of the problem.
Well, that doesn't say much for your family because it was rather easy to socially engineer you mom's pants off
The American people love to yell and scream when someone infringes on our (individual) rights. But as soon as our safety is threatened, we are willing to sacrifice our rights...
It isn't "American People", it is people in general. Hell, everytime my wife does something ridiculous, I way whether I should bend over and take it, or suffer the fallout of a confrontation. The people living in the so-called first world countries lost their motivation to grab a gun and possibly sacrifice their life for what they believe in
Why would you want a longer penis? Unless you are in really sad shape, women don't like being probed with a baseball bat.
Flat out, I buy games because I know that ~50% of torrents of games are loaded with malware, and the other 50% are loaded with malware that you can't detect. Buying a game makes me feel like I've got a clean copy.
greylines sentence:
They may have backtracked on this "convenience fee", but Verizon will still get their $2 from their customers, just not as obviously.
Harry McCracken's tweet:
When Verizon says it won't charge $2 for online payments, it's saying it'll get $2 out of you in some less obvious manner. Some victory.
I see NOTHING plagiaristic. Having the same idea isn't the same as plagiarism.
Open APIs can be used by companies to grow their user base...
Seriously. Stop that shit. "Grow" is not synonymous with "increase", and no, you don't sound cool.
Having an interesting job doesn't pay the bills.
Not everybody agrees with Kindel's analysis. Old-timers may remember Kindel, who recently resigned from Microsoft, from his days as developer relations guru for COM/OLE/Active-X
Is the submitter trying to imply that his judgement doesn't matter because COM/OLE/ActiveX was somehow bad?
Sorry, if I offended the loyal customers who think Republican means something other than the brand name it now is which was bought and payed for many years ago.
No you aren't. But that is the point, right? Making it seem like you have more to say than you really do.
All you have to do is blitz the raido waves with garbage, wait for it to go into "home" mode, spoof the GPS signal, and you got yourself a hot sell on ebay.
The prototype for the NtGdiDrawStream is as such:
BOOL NtGdiDrawStream(IN HDC hdcDst, IN ULONG cjIn, IN VOID* pvI);
So, simply speculating, this may be something like a ULONG going in, but it gets cast to a signed integer.
win32k.sys is responsible for Windows window manager, keyboard input, and GDI among other things. So you are knee deep in it regardless what you do. Apparently this oh so important system file is quite familiar with being exploited. At this rate, christ, at least do a real code audit of the friggin file.
Your thinking is short sighted and ignorant. Debit transactions take place everyday, without the ability to record your "pin". You wrongly assert that authentication means telling the system, "hey, yeah, I'm me", but it only works that way on some high schoolers ASP project, not in real life. I could go on, but I really don't need to.
More like "winning!"
She is dead and we still can't replace her.
If the computer is taking into account things like pheromones, brain structure, shoe size, teeth cleanliness, etc, then the entry level of someone trying to "hack" the system goes enormously high. If you are a valuable enough target to try and replicate all of such, you need a security team with guns looking at you physically and unlocking the system with synchronous key turns (see nuclear weapon launch).
You assume biometrics are fingerprint/iris scanners and the likes. Why couldn't our "mind reading" computer friends tell who you are based on your thought pattern? How about coupled with the scent of pheromones you excrete? Volume of food you tend to have in your stomach? The style of tacky shirt you tend to wear? Obviously, none of these are a solution by themselves, but if you put enough of these patterns together, you should be able to tell who is who.
and unless you are emailing Richard Stallman with exchanged PGP keys, there are countless systems that look at your emails between here and there. Expecting privacy just doesn't register.
You're a professional ball thrower and personality on TV. The problem is, it seems as though most of them see themselves as the latter.
By all means, if it is mostly winning personality to do what they do, then show me how easy it is.
Go too Goodwill, grab a ratty looking Barney the Dinosaur. Cut a hole and insert.
Just like Al Queda
no lissen. u dont even no who u r dealin with. ur mom sayz hi by the way. she wants 2 no if u need sumpin from the store on her way home
It would be cool if there was a solution to properly handle a 32-bit driver in a 64-bit host environment, but there isn't. (Is there? Even if you use a 32-bit VM on a 64-bit host, you can't do shit.)
In the beginning, Microsoft used Thunking to be able to use 16-bit drivers (and other DLLs) on a 32-bit system (Windows 95). This halted in Windows 98 (driver wise) due to horrible stability problems. Eventually, Microsoft moved to Windows on Windows (WOW) which provided an adequate environment for 16-bit apps to run on 32-bit Windows NT. However, if you have a 64-bit version of Windows, you don't have WOW, but WOW64, which runs 32-bit apps on 64-bit Windows, and has no support for 16-bit Windows applications.
Objection. Leading the witness.
You can't stop people from wanting to hurt themselves. You can just limit their options