It's not the fact that you can burn this stuff to CD/DVD-R. We all already knew about the downloadable emulator update from the xbox.com site that you can burn to disc and run on the 360 and everything.
The point is that this demo disc loads unsigned/unprotected data files (although whether any of the game demos verify these files to any extent is currently unknown). I'm sure everyone heard about the vulnerability in Windows' GDI+ JPEG processing. It's a prime example of supposedly innocent data files being far from "innocent".
It's 100% possible that someone out there will find a vulnerability to exploit in one of these what, 5 or 6 game demos? Don't even try to tell me that you think every programmer on every one of these development teams produces bug-free code.
"Team Pi also notes that the all datafiles on this disc isn't signed in any way, and will allow for extensive modification for producing exploits to further our efford to hack this box!"
For someone with the name "Ancient Hacker" I'd expect that you would understand that this means a very high chance of exploiting the software that loads these data files, whether the.XEX is signed or not.
"Not a big deal. It's still encrypted and signed -- the hypervisor still won't run it if a single bit has been altered."
Actually...
Team Pi also notes that the all datafiles on this disc isn't signed in any way, and will allow for extensive modification for producing exploits to further our efford to hack this box!
The previous version was "6.x". The new version is "7.x". Using the word "major" is just a linguistic technicality of version numbers.:)
Major/minor/update version numbers: The digit to the left of the decimal is considered the "major" version while the digit just to the right of the first decimal is the "minor" version. If there is another decimal followed by a digit, that digit is considered the "update" version.
For instance
4.8.3 = update version 3 of minor verion 8 of major version 4. Although spoken aloud you'd just say "4 point 8 point 3" of course...;)
"War On ____" A.K.A. "we are unable to come up with any decent solutions to rid ourselves of ____ so let's just throw money, violence and authoritarianism at the problem."
Yeah those 5 steps are pretty much what you do if you want to reverse engineer a networking protocol, too. Do various actions and watch the TCP stream. Change one property and see how that affects the data. Before long you start to get a picture of how the protocol functions and you start getting some real progress.:) Then you can write up your own 3rd party software to interface with the protocol's native software. In fact that's how most "proxy" cheat programs work for games like WoW, Quake, CS, etc... they interpret the network stream and actually become part of the networking process, entering their own data or manipulating the existing data stream.
The XDK (Xbox Developers' Kit) is "out there" and not very hard to obtain. It has huge amounts of documentation on developing for the Xbox, and at the same time a pretty decent amount of filesystem info.
Also the Xbox filesystem is very very similar to FAT32 (or was it NTFS? I forget which now), as people snooping at the systems quickly determined. It's easy to look for signature filesystem footprints and so on using various handy filesystem tools:)
Same dude, I hadn't heard of it either. I 100% agree that piracy helps the music/movie industries. It's free advertising!! What a luxury for these assholes! We advertise for them, and they send *us* a bill for it!
"the facts just don't seem to mesh with the description there."
What "facts"? We don't know shit about the story, as is the usual for any news article. You mean "the one easily-disputable 'fact' doesn't mesh well with the guy's alleged description of himself"?...
"target an audience with the sort of ads that most appeal to them" ?
Yeah, I'll enjoy those "appealing" ads on my home PC while enjoying a fine dry wine and maybe browsing some Christian Science websites... which in my objective opinion tend to be filled with a lot of passive aggressive people... that's the relative truth!....
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Yeah but even worse: Thumbnail? Alpha channel?? Layers??!? Hello, I'm typing up a fax cover sheet, it doesn't need alpha channels and layers! What, are they going to start including compatibility with Photoshop Filters so you can apply Ripple and Brushed Strokes filters to your memos to your boss?
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Yes, at the TechVibes Massive 2005 trade show at Science World in Vancouver I visited the Rogers Wireless booth and talked to a representative about some of the phones/devices they offer, and I noticed a lot of features that I knew existed in the devices were not enabled with Rogers...
A coworker where I work got a PDA cellphone which also has 802.11b wifi capability. It had to be purchased from a European retailer because the local carriers don't offer the 802.11b capability even though the device is 100% capable - the carriers just want to restrict users' options, it seems...
I see no practical reason for it at all... but whatever, I have yet to purchase any sort of cellular device and probably never will...
The ROKR will be available in Canada exclusively from Rogers Wireless, according to this Motorola Canada site. Too bad there isn't more detailed information though. Rogers Wireless' site has no information on the phone or its pending availability unfortunately.
$3.29/gallon? Not bad. Last night I paid $1.13 CDN/litre for gas, 87 octane ($1.20+ isn't uncommon). That's $4.28 CDN/gallon which, converted to US funds, is $3.60/gallon...
For sure, there's no reason they couldn't have said "Hey wait, we've already given you like 200 boxes, you can't have any more."
So basically, they gave him tons and tons of boxes for free, and now they're trying to take legal action against him because he didn't use them in the way that they assumed he would?
"Oh hey you needed some paper for your printer right? Okay here you go man" (gives stack of paper)
(receiver of paper makes paper airplanes out of every page)
"Hey what the fuck dude I thought you needed that for your printer! I'm suing your ass! You are in violation of hundreds of international fair-usage laws regarding paper and paper-like materials!"...
However, none of that even remotely justifies blatant abuse of the legal system...
Yeah, so they don't like it... they probably don't like other people using competitors like UPS or Purolator, but that's part of doing business... and it's no grounds for legal action at all.
Insane Lawyer: "hey, this guy is making our logo and related corporate branding imagery get seen by millions of people worldwide... hmm... let's ruin our reputation with every single one of those people!"
Aren't there laws about making absolutely unreasonable legal threats towards someone?...
This is wayyy over the line!
Well, guess I won't be shipping any packages with FedEx any time soon. Knowing that "that could be me" is enough for me to boycott the company and encourage others to do so as well...
Yeah that's what we suggest our clients use so they can update their sites in the future. Then they can work with the templates and files we've created just as you mentioned.
We use Dreamweaver exclusively for HTML/CSS programming and it doesn't create code that doesn't work - in fact the code it creates is very very compatible: I've never had to manually tweak code to obtain proper design and layout with the sites I've built.
Indeed we'd love to move to advanced CSS for page formatting but that's a big step right now - there are no professional WYSIWYG editors that have the sheer range and quality of features we need - Page templates, ability for clients to update the site later in a very convenient WYSIWYG interface, high compatability with ultra-common web media such as Flash, etc. etc...
Trust me we're keeping our eyes peeled for a better solution but right now Dreamweaver is the best available. Sometimes simply sticking to "standards" isn't neccesarily the best idea. In fact, sticking to proper standards creates sites that differ in appearance from browser to browser. Dreamweaver has very impressive awareness of inconsistencies and standards-deviation in many browsers.
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Everyone seems to be missing the point here.
It's not the fact that you can burn this stuff to CD/DVD-R. We all already knew about the downloadable emulator update from the xbox.com site that you can burn to disc and run on the 360 and everything.
The point is that this demo disc loads unsigned/unprotected data files (although whether any of the game demos verify these files to any extent is currently unknown). I'm sure everyone heard about the vulnerability in Windows' GDI+ JPEG processing. It's a prime example of supposedly innocent data files being far from "innocent".
It's 100% possible that someone out there will find a vulnerability to exploit in one of these what, 5 or 6 game demos? Don't even try to tell me that you think every programmer on every one of these development teams produces bug-free code.
"Team Pi also notes that the all datafiles on this disc isn't signed in any way, and will allow for extensive modification for producing exploits to further our efford to hack this box!"
.XEX is signed or not.
For someone with the name "Ancient Hacker" I'd expect that you would understand that this means a very high chance of exploiting the software that loads these data files, whether the
"Not a big deal. It's still encrypted and signed -- the hypervisor still won't run it if a single bit has been altered."
Actually...
Team Pi also notes that the all datafiles on this disc isn't signed in any way, and will allow for extensive modification for producing exploits to further our efford to hack this box!
The previous version was "6.x". The new version is "7.x". Using the word "major" is just a linguistic technicality of version numbers. :)
;)
Major/minor/update version numbers:
The digit to the left of the decimal is considered the "major" version while the digit just to the right of the first decimal is the "minor" version. If there is another decimal followed by a digit, that digit is considered the "update" version.
For instance
4.8.3 = update version 3 of minor verion 8 of major version 4. Although spoken aloud you'd just say "4 point 8 point 3" of course...
"War On ____" A.K.A. "we are unable to come up with any decent solutions to rid ourselves of ____ so let's just throw money, violence and authoritarianism at the problem."
Yeah those 5 steps are pretty much what you do if you want to reverse engineer a networking protocol, too. Do various actions and watch the TCP stream. Change one property and see how that affects the data. Before long you start to get a picture of how the protocol functions and you start getting some real progress. :) Then you can write up your own 3rd party software to interface with the protocol's native software. In fact that's how most "proxy" cheat programs work for games like WoW, Quake, CS, etc... they interpret the network stream and actually become part of the networking process, entering their own data or manipulating the existing data stream.
The XDK (Xbox Developers' Kit) is "out there" and not very hard to obtain. It has huge amounts of documentation on developing for the Xbox, and at the same time a pretty decent amount of filesystem info.
:)
Also the Xbox filesystem is very very similar to FAT32 (or was it NTFS? I forget which now), as people snooping at the systems quickly determined. It's easy to look for signature filesystem footprints and so on using various handy filesystem tools
Same dude, I hadn't heard of it either. I 100% agree that piracy helps the music/movie industries. It's free advertising!! What a luxury for these assholes! We advertise for them, and they send *us* a bill for it!
"the facts just don't seem to mesh with the description there."
...
What "facts"? We don't know shit about the story, as is the usual for any news article. You mean "the one easily-disputable 'fact' doesn't mesh well with the guy's alleged description of himself"?
"target an audience with the sort of ads that most appeal to them" ?
....
Yeah, I'll enjoy those "appealing" ads on my home PC while enjoying a fine dry wine and maybe browsing some Christian Science websites... which in my objective opinion tend to be filled with a lot of passive aggressive people... that's the relative truth!
Yeah but even worse: Thumbnail? Alpha channel?? Layers??!? Hello, I'm typing up a fax cover sheet, it doesn't need alpha channels and layers! What, are they going to start including compatibility with Photoshop Filters so you can apply Ripple and Brushed Strokes filters to your memos to your boss?
Innovation!! Freedom (as in beer)!!
Yeah, it's just that... well.. http://www.google.ca/search?q=motorola+e790
Yes, at the TechVibes Massive 2005 trade show at Science World in Vancouver I visited the Rogers Wireless booth and talked to a representative about some of the phones/devices they offer, and I noticed a lot of features that I knew existed in the devices were not enabled with Rogers...
A coworker where I work got a PDA cellphone which also has 802.11b wifi capability. It had to be purchased from a European retailer because the local carriers don't offer the 802.11b capability even though the device is 100% capable - the carriers just want to restrict users' options, it seems...
I see no practical reason for it at all... but whatever, I have yet to purchase any sort of cellular device and probably never will...
The ROKR will be available in Canada exclusively from Rogers Wireless, according to this Motorola Canada site. Too bad there isn't more detailed information though. Rogers Wireless' site has no information on the phone or its pending availability unfortunately.
Press releases here, for those interested in more detailed information..
Apple iPod nano
Apple iTunes phone
Motorola ROKR
The model number is actualy E790, not E1 ... "ROKR" is the user-friendly marketing-devised name for it, of course.
$3.29/gallon? Not bad. Last night I paid $1.13 CDN/litre for gas, 87 octane ($1.20+ isn't uncommon). That's $4.28 CDN/gallon which, converted to US funds, is $3.60/gallon...
Well, now that this is *all over the news* online, looks like FedEx has kind of shot themselves in the foot... :-D
For sure, there's no reason they couldn't have said "Hey wait, we've already given you like 200 boxes, you can't have any more."
...
So basically, they gave him tons and tons of boxes for free, and now they're trying to take legal action against him because he didn't use them in the way that they assumed he would?
"Oh hey you needed some paper for your printer right? Okay here you go man" (gives stack of paper)
(receiver of paper makes paper airplanes out of every page)
"Hey what the fuck dude I thought you needed that for your printer! I'm suing your ass! You are in violation of hundreds of international fair-usage laws regarding paper and paper-like materials!"
However, none of that even remotely justifies blatant abuse of the legal system...
Yeah, so they don't like it... they probably don't like other people using competitors like UPS or Purolator, but that's part of doing business... and it's no grounds for legal action at all.
Yeah it's like...
Insane Lawyer: "hey, this guy is making our logo and related corporate branding imagery get seen by millions of people worldwide... hmm... let's ruin our reputation with every single one of those people!"
CEO: "hey yeah good idea! proposal approved!"
Aren't there laws about making absolutely unreasonable legal threats towards someone? ...
This is wayyy over the line!
Well, guess I won't be shipping any packages with FedEx any time soon. Knowing that "that could be me" is enough for me to boycott the company and encourage others to do so as well...
Yeah that's what we suggest our clients use so they can update their sites in the future. Then they can work with the templates and files we've created just as you mentioned.
We use Dreamweaver exclusively for HTML/CSS programming and it doesn't create code that doesn't work - in fact the code it creates is very very compatible: I've never had to manually tweak code to obtain proper design and layout with the sites I've built.
Indeed we'd love to move to advanced CSS for page formatting but that's a big step right now - there are no professional WYSIWYG editors that have the sheer range and quality of features we need - Page templates, ability for clients to update the site later in a very convenient WYSIWYG interface, high compatability with ultra-common web media such as Flash, etc. etc...
Trust me we're keeping our eyes peeled for a better solution but right now Dreamweaver is the best available. Sometimes simply sticking to "standards" isn't neccesarily the best idea. In fact, sticking to proper standards creates sites that differ in appearance from browser to browser. Dreamweaver has very impressive awareness of inconsistencies and standards-deviation in many browsers.