One problem with Konghorn is that they want to put security onto the Windows architecture. However this can be an endless source of problems. The Windows architecture is not secure beforehand. And integrating a security layer is doomed to be complicated and half-backery. They had already to change their security scheme because it turned out to be too slow (on a 3 GHz Pentium mind you).
The cleanest way would be to scrap the Windows architecture and rebuild the OS from bottom. But their popularity will bite their back and asses: this would breake approx 3.5 million applications and even simple stuff like Virtual Basic.
It's quite a shame as Gates could use a free, non-viral operating like OpenBSD as the basis for a new Windows version. This can be done as Apple has shown and the superior security and performance features of OpenBSD would make the WinOpenBSD the best system in teh world.
However, this would have the negative side effect they we would never see Linux on the desktop as OpenBSD is much better in the security and performance aspects and with the fool-safe user interface of Windows XP added it would really be a killer. And the user interface should be even more improved in the next version of Windows as MS is very hot in reseach there.
If a boxen is 0wned then we can savely assume that the 0wner/w0rm has root access. And with root access it can do anything anyway.
This is like complaining that one can shut down your computer by removing the power plug.
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I fear that in the long term windows manager features will included into the X server. The cooperation between X.ORG and the KDE / Gnome teams doesn't bode well.
Such an integration would destroy the versatility and uniqueness of the X protocoll. Indeed X would degenerate to a remote enabled clone of the Windows desktop after some time.
Yes, want Linux/BSD on the desktop but not this way.
This is like getting an elephant into your car by cutting him into pieces.
The idea of an army of clones is interesting. Explains why all stormtroopers wear masks (so you don't have to see the same face everyplace).
No, it's fucking stupid.
In this first movie of the old series the wannabe jedi frees princess Leia. He enters the cell in a stromtrooper uniform without mask and Leia think's he is a stormtrooper who wants to rape her. Thus we can conclude that all stormtroopers look like Luke Skywalker.
I wonder what sense it makes for a large company to produce OSS.
Basically there are only three points
To push competitors out of the field by offering their products for free. This is a more agressive version of what MS did with Netscape. SAP and IBM are using this to attack Oracle and MS.
To establish own standards and push competing approaches out of the way. Stuff like TCP/IP and XML come into mind...
To grab control of a competitor's standard base by offering free tools for a modified version.
That's the main point of the Eclipse project targeted at SUN.
So, OSS can strenghten/enlarge your own market share greatly but I don't see people making money by OSS directly.
No, RMS getting donated money to get a shower doesn't count.
whether 64 bit virii are more dangerous as they can access more data and make caluculations more quickly.
The author could include sofisticated data analysis, sealth technology and even artificial intelligence into the virus. This would give in the long term a breed which would be unpenetrable by common AV software. However, for the survival of the virus strain it might be very likely that the damage functions will be removed for better survival...
If you look at Tolkiens books then you see that there is mostly no character development for the heros.
So I doubt that you will be able to play any hero class online. It's far more likely that you play the common people like peons, butchers and fishermen where you can really have much more character development just look at Ultima Online.
I wonder if someone here has the same problem as me:
I get constantly swamped with GMail invites. Far too much people are sending me these stupid invites and it's really getting on my nerves.
Well, it was fun for the first 20 or so, but now it's really annoying. Even people I just remotely know are sending me this stuff.
I usually sign them up with bogus data just to stop this madness but it doesn't really work.
Does anyone know when Google is stopping its beta test ? I hope soon otherwise I see a nervous breakdown coming.
Bombing it will not cause as much media interest as other terrorist acts e.g. beheadings.
As a full metal construction and 18th century quality work it's hard to blow up with convention explosives. A mini H-bomb might do the trick however.
And instead of bombs they could use the rust inducing propeties of nail polish. This stuff would react with the copper coating incuding a pretty nasty acid which eats metal away in no time.
On the other hand, buckets of nail polish will raise some questions...
Terrorists are very unlikely to do sightseeing tours in New York.
Terrorist don't place bombs in lockers as they want to blow up people and not lockers.
The metal construction of the statue of liberty renders radio, GPS and timer controlled bombs useless.
1) Who is going to search every web page to find incorrect meta tags
There will be enough people.
I don't know if this is a specialty of German law, but competitors (and special societies ? - but I think that got nuked) can "admonish" the violating party. The interesting thing is that they can demand the cost for this from the violating party.
There is quite a number of laywers making money with this and it can be e.g. pretty expensive for a German not to put his contact information on a (even partially) commercial website. And in one click range please !
No, this is not a joke.
This stuff will be enforced.
5) What about servers across national lines
From legal rulings it does only matter if you reside in Germany and/or have a business residing in Germany. I think your website must be (partially ?) directed to Germans, too, but I'm not sure about this.
So, if you have a foot in Germany and make business with Germans then you have to obey this ruling.
And, yes, such stuff IS enforced when you have your webservers outside Germany etc.
You will be sued by the aforcementioned laywers or competitors.
As a rather funny sidenote it is illegal for German businesses to use to.ag domain unless they are stock compenies (AG = Aktiengesellschaft = stock company).
This whole story is mainly an attention whoring attempt of the Green party to fill in the summer gap. Traditionally 2nd rate MPs spew out pretty stupid proposals during the summer holidays for journalist who don't know what to write as nothing happens in politics.
It's very that any of these announcements has consequences. But I think we can assume that the responsibles for the Linux migration project are on holidays, too, and some 2nd level guy overstepped his competences.
Well if these are big issues then OSRM will go bankrupt at the first patent attack of doom. And all your money paid to them will be useless.
On the other hand if the patent claims are bogus then your investment will be useless, too, as there is nothing to defend.
The money would be better invested in a real legal insurance which covers being sued by teh mad discrimination laywers of NAL-p'ThUK-NZer-RaK etc.
One should note that a "white kight" worm is illegal like "bad" worm and would fall under the same criminal charges. And the author would have to pay civil damages as the worm consumes bandwidth. The affected party might even argue that such a worm requires a complete security check-up with reinstalls etc. as the source of the worm can't be trusted. A white kight worm author would end up with the same civil damages to pay only gaining perhaps a small reduction of the criminal charges.
E.g. DaimlerCrysler has about 100 times higher earings but a 26 billion stock value. And they have a huge IP and patent pool compared to a medium-sized company like Google.
For spreading viruses need a sufficiently high density of potential victims. So your PoketPC is safe. The story is completely different if someone get this done on cell phones.
MS passport system is a big failure. Why should we care about alternatives for something which won't work anyway ?
These centralized identification systems have all the same fundamental security and privacy issues.
This is a very stupid method (not for a virus of course...).
If a processor uses a different cache updating scheme which updates the instruction cache upon writes into memory then your program won't run.
You might argue that "this would be stupid processor design" or "not necessary for any decent processor to do this" - well, such methods were the reason why several copy (crack) protected old DOS programs won't run on Pentium computers. The method used there was exploiting the same effect with the instruction pipeline instead of the instruction cache. Some nops were overwritten with a ret or an interrupt call causing a program within a debugger to exit.
However, the pipeline on the Pentium was either too small or a write triggered a refresh - I don't recall the actual details. So the program always exited.
People are usually tired 'cos they didn't get enough sleep. In fact the condition "being tired" means that the body wants sleep. You don't need 32000 emails to track this phenomena.
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One problem with Konghorn is that they want to put security onto the Windows architecture. However this can be an endless source of problems. The Windows architecture is not secure beforehand. And integrating a security layer is doomed to be complicated and half-backery. They had already to change their security scheme because it turned out to be too slow (on a 3 GHz Pentium mind you).
The cleanest way would be to scrap the Windows architecture and rebuild the OS from bottom. But their popularity will bite their back and asses: this would breake approx 3.5 million applications and even simple stuff like Virtual Basic.
It's quite a shame as Gates could use a free, non-viral operating like OpenBSD as the basis for a new Windows version. This can be done as Apple has shown and the superior security and performance features of OpenBSD would make the WinOpenBSD the best system in teh world.
However, this would have the negative side effect they we would never see Linux on the desktop as OpenBSD is much better in the security and performance aspects and with the fool-safe user interface of Windows XP added it would really be a killer. And the user interface should be even more improved in the next version of Windows as MS is very hot in reseach there.
Makes me wonder when we will the first sourceforge project for such stuff. Like OpenGenozide 0.001alpha...
If a boxen is 0wned then we can savely assume that the 0wner/w0rm has root access. And with root access it can do anything anyway.
This is like complaining that one can shut down your computer by removing the power plug.
I fear that in the long term windows manager features will included into the X server. The cooperation between X.ORG and the KDE / Gnome teams doesn't bode well.
Such an integration would destroy the versatility and uniqueness of the X protocoll. Indeed X would degenerate to a remote enabled clone of the Windows desktop after some time.
Yes, want Linux/BSD on the desktop but not this way.
This is like getting an elephant into your car by cutting him into pieces.
No, it's fucking stupid.
In this first movie of the old series the wannabe jedi frees princess Leia. He enters the cell in a stromtrooper uniform without mask and Leia think's he is a stormtrooper who wants to rape her. Thus we can conclude that all stormtroopers look like Luke Skywalker.
Basically there are only three points
- To push competitors out of the field by offering their products for free. This is a more agressive version of what MS did with Netscape. SAP and IBM are using this to attack Oracle and MS.
- To establish own standards and push competing approaches out of the way. Stuff like TCP/IP and XML come into mind...
- To grab control of a competitor's standard base by offering free tools for a modified version.
That's the main point of the Eclipse project targeted at SUN.
So, OSS can strenghten/enlarge your own market share greatly but I don't see people making money by OSS directly.No, RMS getting donated money to get a shower doesn't count.
A virus doesn't need any stack overflow as it spreads by the user executing infected programs.
The techniques you describe are usually used by worms.
whether 64 bit virii are more dangerous as they can access more data and make caluculations more quickly.
The author could include sofisticated data analysis, sealth technology and even artificial intelligence into the virus. This would give in the long term a breed which would be unpenetrable by common AV software. However, for the survival of the virus strain it might be very likely that the damage functions will be removed for better survival...
If you look at Tolkiens books then you see that there is mostly no character development for the heros.
So I doubt that you will be able to play any hero class online. It's far more likely that you play the common people like peons, butchers and fishermen where you can really have much more character development just look at Ultima Online.
I wonder if someone here has the same problem as me: I get constantly swamped with GMail invites. Far too much people are sending me these stupid invites and it's really getting on my nerves.
Well, it was fun for the first 20 or so, but now it's really annoying. Even people I just remotely know are sending me this stuff.
I usually sign them up with bogus data just to stop this madness but it doesn't really work.
Does anyone know when Google is stopping its beta test ? I hope soon otherwise I see a nervous breakdown coming.
If you want Dasani you can just travel to a village near Liverpool and try any watertap.
Nonsense, it's just a cube that speaks.
There is Mac OS X and Lunix on teh Mac so why would anyone use Solaris ?
What would be the benefits ?
There will be enough people.
I don't know if this is a specialty of German law, but competitors (and special societies ? - but I think that got nuked) can "admonish" the violating party. The interesting thing is that they can demand the cost for this from the violating party.
There is quite a number of laywers making money with this and it can be e.g. pretty expensive for a German not to put his contact information on a (even partially) commercial website. And in one click range please !
No, this is not a joke.
This stuff will be enforced.
5) What about servers across national lines
From legal rulings it does only matter if you reside in Germany and /or have a business residing in Germany. I think your website must be (partially ?) directed to Germans, too, but I'm not sure about this.
So, if you have a foot in Germany and make business with Germans then you have to obey this ruling.
And, yes, such stuff IS enforced when you have your webservers outside Germany etc.
You will be sued by the aforcementioned laywers or competitors.
As a rather funny sidenote it is illegal for German businesses to use to .ag domain unless they are stock compenies (AG = Aktiengesellschaft = stock company).
This whole story is mainly an attention whoring attempt of the Green party to fill in the summer gap. Traditionally 2nd rate MPs spew out pretty stupid proposals during the summer holidays for journalist who don't know what to write as nothing happens in politics.
It's very that any of these announcements has consequences. But I think we can assume that the responsibles for the Linux migration project are on holidays, too, and some 2nd level guy overstepped his competences.
Well if these are big issues then OSRM will go bankrupt at the first patent attack of doom. And all your money paid to them will be useless.
On the other hand if the patent claims are bogus then your investment will be useless, too, as there is nothing to defend.
The money would be better invested in a real legal insurance which covers being sued by teh mad discrimination laywers of NAL-p'ThUK-NZer-RaK etc.
Is the segway battery strong enough for a entire game of polo ?
One should note that a "white kight" worm is illegal like "bad" worm and would fall under the same criminal charges. And the author would have to pay civil damages as the worm consumes bandwidth. The affected party might even argue that such a worm requires a complete security check-up with reinstalls etc. as the source of the worm can't be trusted.
A white kight worm author would end up with the same civil damages to pay only gaining perhaps a small reduction of the criminal charges.
Don't you fear that the FBI will use the Patriot act to raid the conference ?
E.g. DaimlerCrysler has about 100 times higher earings but a 26 billion stock value. And they have a huge IP and patent pool compared to a medium-sized company like Google.
For spreading viruses need a sufficiently high density of potential victims. So your PoketPC is safe. The story is completely different if someone get this done on cell phones.
MS passport system is a big failure.
Why should we care about alternatives for something which won't work anyway ?
These centralized identification systems have all the same fundamental security and privacy issues.
This is a very stupid method (not for a virus of course...).
If a processor uses a different cache updating scheme which updates the instruction cache upon writes into memory then your program won't run.
You might argue that "this would be stupid processor design" or "not necessary for any decent processor to do this" - well, such methods were the reason why several copy (crack) protected old DOS programs won't run on Pentium computers. The method used there was exploiting the same effect with the instruction pipeline instead of the instruction cache. Some nops were overwritten with a ret or an interrupt call causing a program within a debugger to exit. However, the pipeline on the Pentium was either too small or a write triggered a refresh - I don't recall the actual details. So the program always exited.
People are usually tired 'cos they didn't get enough sleep. In fact the condition "being tired" means that the body wants sleep. You don't need 32000 emails to track this phenomena.