An even weirder scenario: How about people who buy a legitimate copy of some software, switch to a different OS (GNU/Linux, anyone?), find that said software doesn't run on (insert (non-)emulator of your choice, WINE for example) because of the copy-protection and then proceed to crack the software to make it interoperate with their new OS? There are countries where this action would be considered legitimate.
Yep, and you can also build a kernel image with ed (if you figure out how to enter high-bit ASCII chars). Then you just need to update LILO or grub and you're done.
I hope your post was not meant as flamebait, because otherwise I am tempted to munch on it bait hook and sinker.
How does an MSI installer handle dependencies? Somewhat like: "If this DLL is not ours, just overwrite it 'cause our version is better?" How does an MSI installer handle updates? Somewhat like: "No need to, the user will know it's time to go look for an update when the next worm or Trojan hits?" Etcetera, etcetera.
If you like apt and get dependency hell, enter the 21st century and use aptitude or synaptic. Both offer you ways of resolving dependency problems, aptitude currently being the most sophisticated. Need to know about software updates? Install update-manager or kpackage.
What do we need a civilisation-supporting spaceship for? We're sitting on one right now! Oh, we're too busy fsking this one up, before we even understand exactly how it works...nevermind.
Get something like this (hint: there's a much cheaper one with backlight that costs only about 50 bux), read this, lean to program the MCU, add some Flash memory, learn to hack the BPU and get goin' already.
No wonder the military too are going COTS, they can't hack up anything themselves anymore unless millions of dollars are dumped into the project.
Heck, even the famous voting machine scanner from the Netherlands was in fact a hacked TomTom navigator (you can prolly find them by the roadside by the dozens, tossed out the window by some bored SUV cowboys)
Then it will be just a matter of time before you wish you would, after Microsoft stops sending out critical security updates for old versions. Don't worry, you will know when that is. By that time the festering hive of viruses, worms and other malware on dozens of PC's will have become so bored with infecting yet more machines that they will content themselves playing poker using random registry keys for chips.
...is not a typo, but a Dutch company that offers solutions that claim to do the same thing Microsoft does with regard to detecting and quarantining (potentially) compromised hosts, except it's not limited to just windoze boxes. I'm not affiliated with them, but I know for a fact that the quarantining is being thoroughly stress-tested in the field at Twente University, where some 12,000 hosts are under continuous attack from the 'net (mainly due to their fat pipe to it).
To me the link you posted seems worthy of its own Slashdot article. If there has been a Slashdot article about this, then I think it's time for a dupe, because I didn't read it the first time around.
The real problem is saving the hardware state of all the peripherals. I think that's where the real solution can be found. Instead of trying to save hardware state, why not re-initialize the hardware to a known workable state and go from there? For example (don't know if it isn't done like this already), after hibernate, let the X server re-init the graphics card to the current configuration, then signal the window manager to have all the apps redraw themselves. As for soundcards, USB devices, whatever, re-init the hardware and have the applications reconnect to them. As mentioned in previous posts, it is safe to assume that all network connections will have died since the hibernate anyway, why not just re-initialize the network from scratch and signal all servers and clients to re-establish all connections?
If I had to choose between a supposedly seamless transition between on-state and hibernate and back again that bombs out with a nasty crash 3 out of 4 times or some sort of shortened 'boot sequence' and session restore, I know what I would choose.
I can see the nightmare coming....BSOD...module BRAKE.SYS...KerBLAM! I sure hope these bots have some system aboard that allows a real human driver to assume control and pull over the moment something is about to go wrong.
Erh..m. This move sounds to me like taking a toddler who can barely walk to the other end of the room, dropping him off in the middle of Times Square at the top of rush hour, then telling him to walk home to somewhere in Queens and be there by 7 PM. Moronic, in other words. I hope and pray there will be no human casualties.
Strike my [on meteorites] insertion. Of course, the idea is much more general. It doesn't matter whether the chiral amino acids come from meteorites or not.
Wikipedia article on the Murchison meteorite. The entry mentions the idea that "a small amount of chiral amino acids [on meteorites] may explain the evolution of right-handedness of sugars."
Also, here is an abstract of an article on extraterrestrial chirality w.r.t. the Murchison and Murray meteorites.
You, sir (or madam, I don't know), are presenting a stereotypical view of stereotypes. Not all stereotypes are bad, but that doesn't mean yours is good. I do like the idea of meta-stereotypes, however.
I bet your one of those people that still uses the Mosaic web browser, claiming it's more "innovative" than all the others. For graphical browsing maybe. But the CERN line-mode browser beats Mosaic hands-down. Just imagine the World Wide Web (sic) without hyperlinks. If it wasn't for this wonderful piece of innovation from CERN, you would have needed to Google (or should that be Gopher?) for content on each and every web page you wanted to see, then manually paste URLs from the search results into your browser.
"You're not safe!" - The Press "Safety has been an illusion since the beginning of life" - Any biologist "Life...don't talk to me about life" - Marvin, the Paranoid Android
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An even weirder scenario: How about people who buy a legitimate copy of some software, switch to a different OS (GNU/Linux, anyone?), find that said software doesn't run on (insert (non-)emulator of your choice, WINE for example) because of the copy-protection and then proceed to crack the software to make it interoperate with their new OS?
There are countries where this action would be considered legitimate.
Yep, and you can also build a kernel image with ed (if you figure out how to enter high-bit ASCII chars). Then you just need to update LILO or grub and you're done.
I hope your post was not meant as flamebait, because otherwise I am tempted to munch on it bait hook and sinker.
How does an MSI installer handle dependencies? Somewhat like: "If this DLL is not ours, just overwrite it 'cause our version is better?"
How does an MSI installer handle updates? Somewhat like: "No need to, the user will know it's time to go look for an update when the next worm or Trojan hits?"
Etcetera, etcetera.
If you like apt and get dependency hell, enter the 21st century and use aptitude or synaptic. Both offer you ways of resolving dependency problems, aptitude currently being the most sophisticated.
Need to know about software updates? Install update-manager or kpackage.
What do we need a civilisation-supporting spaceship for? We're sitting on one right now!
Oh, we're too busy fsking this one up, before we even understand exactly how it works...nevermind.
get into some real hacking.
Get something like this (hint: there's a much cheaper one with backlight that costs only about 50 bux), read this, lean to program the MCU, add some Flash memory, learn to hack the BPU and get goin' already.
No wonder the military too are going COTS, they can't hack up anything themselves anymore unless millions of dollars are dumped into the project.
Heck, even the famous voting machine scanner from the Netherlands was in fact a hacked TomTom navigator (you can prolly find them by the roadside by the dozens, tossed out the window by some bored SUV cowboys)
...like the Kuang Grade Mark 11...
...when we have PC104?
Has been on the market for ages, is well established and to me one of the neatest designs since the S100 bus.
Ergo, you are just a theory. ...and I am not a solipsist.
"My Gödel, why have you forgotten me?"
$ make world
universe: Segmentation fault
Then it will be just a matter of time before you wish you would, after Microsoft stops sending out critical security updates for old versions.
Don't worry, you will know when that is. By that time the festering hive of viruses, worms and other malware on dozens of PC's will have become so bored with infecting yet more machines that they will content themselves playing poker using random registry keys for chips.
Since when is Shenzhen suddenly located in Japan? Must've been a really BIG earthquake for it to end up there...
...or are you just happy to see mee?"
English version here.
...is not a typo, but a Dutch company that offers solutions that claim to do the same thing Microsoft does with regard to detecting and quarantining (potentially) compromised hosts, except it's not limited to just windoze boxes. I'm not affiliated with them, but I know for a fact that the quarantining is being thoroughly stress-tested in the field at Twente University, where some 12,000 hosts are under continuous attack from the 'net (mainly due to their fat pipe to it).
Link: Quarantainenet
To me the link you posted seems worthy of its own Slashdot article. If there has been a Slashdot article about this, then I think it's time for a dupe, because I didn't read it the first time around.
Add Hyper to that and maybe you'll see 'Get High'/'Get Stoned' as well.
And a deep insider trick: Do a quadruple bucky and you open the Doors of Perception..!
If I had to choose between a supposedly seamless transition between on-state and hibernate and back again that bombs out with a nasty crash 3 out of 4 times or some sort of shortened 'boot sequence' and session restore, I know what I would choose.
I can see the nightmare coming. ...BSOD...module BRAKE.SYS...KerBLAM!
I sure hope these bots have some system aboard that allows a real human driver to assume control and pull over the moment something is about to go wrong.
Erh..m. This move sounds to me like taking a toddler who can barely walk to the other end of the room, dropping him off in the middle of Times Square at the top of rush hour, then telling him to walk home to somewhere in Queens and be there by 7 PM. Moronic, in other words. I hope and pray there will be no human casualties.
Peacefully?
Satyagraha, Mahatma Gandhi
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Strike my [on meteorites] insertion. Of course, the idea is much more general. It doesn't matter whether the chiral amino acids come from meteorites or not.
Wikipedia article on the Murchison meteorite. The entry mentions the idea that "a small amount of chiral amino acids [on meteorites] may explain the evolution of right-handedness of sugars."
Also, here is an abstract of an article on extraterrestrial chirality w.r.t. the Murchison and Murray meteorites.
Worship the Great Green Arkleseizure! Beware of the Coming of the Great White Handkerchief!
You, sir (or madam, I don't know), are presenting a stereotypical view of stereotypes.
Not all stereotypes are bad, but that doesn't mean yours is good.
I do like the idea of meta-stereotypes, however.
"You're not safe!" - The Press
"Safety has been an illusion since the beginning of life" - Any biologist
"Life...don't talk to me about life" - Marvin, the Paranoid Android