be aware the runnable patch is completely unofficial, the only action microsoft suggest is unregistering a vulnerable dll which only mitigates the most common method of exploitation while not fixing the underlying problem. NFI how long it will take microsoft to have an official patch out, but from the sans site, it doesnt look promising that it will appear soon.
We've known about this for at least a year... do people not remember the bush administration threatening to use anti-satellite weapons unless europe gave the US the power to interfere with it, jam the satellites and/or switch them off or to a lower resolution mode for certain areas of the globe which they were fighting in?
Imo a fixed number for fines is all wrong. large companies can afford to pay it because actually playing by the rules is more expensive for them:/ it should be % based on their global income, that way it would "hurt" both large and small companies equally in terms of how badly they are affected by it.
still, should provide a bit of insentive for ms to hurry up and comply
didnt anyone tell him that carbon dioxide can dissolve in water to make carbonic acid?
does he honestly think that acidic seas would be better for the environment?
unless it was a human player who knows you have to empty the food supply in that case, and toss it back into *your* village stores, and refill their own rapidly;)
Intelligent Design advocate: YEAAARRRRGGGHHHH! YOU BROKE MY KNEECAP!
Scientist: Perhaps it only appears that I broke your kneecap. Certainly, all the evidence points to the hypothesis I broke your kneecap. For example, your kneecap is broken; it appears to be a fresh wound; and I am holding a baseball bat, which is spattered with your blood. However, a mere preponderance of evidence doesn't mean anything. Perhaps your kneecap was designed that way. Certainly, there are some features of the current situation that are inexplicable according to the "naturalistic" explanation you have just advanced, such as the exact contours of the excruciating pain that you are experiencing right now.
Intelligent Design advocate: AAAAH! THE PAIN!
Scientist: Frankly, I personally find it completely implausible that the random actions of a scientist such as myself could cause pain of this particular kind. I have no precise explanation for why I find this hypothesis implausible --- it just is. Your knee must have been designed that way!
Intelligent Design advocate: YOU BASTARD! YOU KNOW YOU DID IT!
Scientist: I surely do not. How can we know anything for certain? Frankly, I think we should expose people to all points of view. Furthermore, you should really re-examine whether your hypothesis is scientific at all: the breaking of your kneecap happened in the past, so we can't rewind and run it over again, like a laboratory experiment. Even if we could, it wouldn't prove that I broke your kneecap the previous time. Plus, let's not even get into the fact that the entire universe might have just popped into existence right before I said this sentence, with all the evidence of my alleged kneecap-breaking already pre-formed.
Intelligent Design advocate: That's a load of bullshit sophistry! Get me a doctor and a lawyer, not necessarily in that order, and we'll see how that plays in court!
Scientist (turning to audience): And so we see, ladies and gentlemen, when push comes to shove, advocates of Intelligent Design do not actually believe any of the arguments that they profess to believe. When it comes to matters that hit home, they prefer evidence, the scientific method, testable hypotheses, and naturalistic explanations. In fact, they strongly privilege naturalistic explanations over supernatural hocus-pocus or metaphysical wankery. It is only within the reality-distortion field of their ideological crusade that they give credence to the flimsy, ridiculous arguments which we so commonly see on display. I must confess, it kind of felt good, for once, to be the one spouting free-form bullshit; it's so terribly easy and relaxing, compared to marshaling rigorous arguments backed up by empirical evidence. But I fear that if I were to continue, then it would be habit-forming, and bad for my soul. Therefore, I bid you adieu.
well, it does to an extent.
The more they try to crush p2p, the harder it is to crush the next generation of p2p software.
"You cant win, corportate fatcats. If you should strike me down i shall become more powerful then you can possibly imagine"
problem is, they cant bundle it with the operating system without facing a lawsuit, especially in europe. They're a convicted monopoly and so their options are quite limited
I agree. Pushing the issue will just force people back onto p2p networks, and with the RIAA/MPAA crusade to have them shut down - its only going to spawn the next-generation of p2p networks sooner.
Any bets on what the 'pinnacle' of p2p networks will resemble? Some form of automated ms-blaster type propegation method, combined with rootkit functionality ( to make it bloody hard to remove ) - forcing an always-on , highly encrypted, distributed tracking + data network a-la-freenet with a "Get Songs" link on every windows explorer window , or similar is my bet.
after all, if the average user is clueless enough to let their computer get infected with spyware, they sure as hell wont know how to remove a rootkit.
Geeks are probably the last usergroup on the internet you want to piss off.
in terms of bittorrent, yes you get something out of it - that is the more you seed ( upload to others ) , the faster you can download. As for what they'll do with bittorrent, to encourage others to upload - no idea.
Bandwith costs money
BT allows these movie studios to cut costs, and yet still host large files.
Letting people just download directly from them, especially when large files are involved will cost them a packet.
Slashdot Mirror
better get ziggy to find out where you are then and what you need to do to leap again :)
There is information available on temporary fixes from the following sites
http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?rss&storyid=996
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/#00000760
http://www.grc.com/sn/notes-020.htm
be aware the runnable patch is completely unofficial, the only action microsoft suggest is unregistering a vulnerable dll which only mitigates the most common method of exploitation while not fixing the underlying problem.
NFI how long it will take microsoft to have an official patch out, but from the sans site, it doesnt look promising that it will appear soon.
We've known about this for at least a year...
do people not remember the bush administration threatening to use anti-satellite weapons unless europe gave the US the power to interfere with it, jam the satellites and/or switch them off or to a lower resolution mode for certain areas of the globe which they were fighting in?
Imo a fixed number for fines is all wrong. large companies can afford to pay it because actually playing by the rules is more expensive for them :/
it should be % based on their global income, that way it would "hurt" both large and small companies equally in terms of how badly they are affected by it.
still, should provide a bit of insentive for ms to hurry up and comply
finally , sanity prevails
thats just it though, they didnt.
Microsoft make a (not so insignificant) loss on each one - which they hope to regain through game sales.
lets hope Galen can get there in time to take out the control centre then ;)
(b5 - crusade , 1x10 reference for those who dont get it)
people++;
:(
You've got more choices in the ps3/xbox360 'wars' then you realise. you can choose to have neither and thus hurt them both equally :)
are sony that determined to bury themselves?
Surely, they realise that its only going to create a backlash against DRM if they continue this nonsense?
didnt anyone tell him that carbon dioxide can dissolve in water to make carbonic acid?
does he honestly think that acidic seas would be better for the environment?
unless it was a human player who knows you have to empty the food supply in that case, and toss it back into *your* village stores, and refill their own rapidly ;)
it nearly was, in brazil.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1505163.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4662877.stm
(taken from http://abstractfactory.blogspot.com/2005/10/only-d ebate-on-intelligent-design-that.html )
The only debate on Intelligent Design that is worthy of its subject
Moderator: We're here today to debate the hot new topic, evolution versus Intelligent Des---
(Scientist pulls out baseball bat.)
Moderator: Hey, what are you doing?
(Scientist breaks Intelligent Design advocate's kneecap.)
Intelligent Design advocate: YEAAARRRRGGGHHHH! YOU BROKE MY KNEECAP!
Scientist: Perhaps it only appears that I broke your kneecap. Certainly, all the evidence points to the hypothesis I broke your kneecap. For example, your kneecap is broken; it appears to be a fresh wound; and I am holding a baseball bat, which is spattered with your blood. However, a mere preponderance of evidence doesn't mean anything. Perhaps your kneecap was designed that way. Certainly, there are some features of the current situation that are inexplicable according to the "naturalistic" explanation you have just advanced, such as the exact contours of the excruciating pain that you are experiencing right now.
Intelligent Design advocate: AAAAH! THE PAIN!
Scientist: Frankly, I personally find it completely implausible that the random actions of a scientist such as myself could cause pain of this particular kind. I have no precise explanation for why I find this hypothesis implausible --- it just is. Your knee must have been designed that way!
Intelligent Design advocate: YOU BASTARD! YOU KNOW YOU DID IT!
Scientist: I surely do not. How can we know anything for certain? Frankly, I think we should expose people to all points of view. Furthermore, you should really re-examine whether your hypothesis is scientific at all: the breaking of your kneecap happened in the past, so we can't rewind and run it over again, like a laboratory experiment. Even if we could, it wouldn't prove that I broke your kneecap the previous time. Plus, let's not even get into the fact that the entire universe might have just popped into existence right before I said this sentence, with all the evidence of my alleged kneecap-breaking already pre-formed.
Intelligent Design advocate: That's a load of bullshit sophistry! Get me a doctor and a lawyer, not necessarily in that order, and we'll see how that plays in court!
Scientist (turning to audience): And so we see, ladies and gentlemen, when push comes to shove, advocates of Intelligent Design do not actually believe any of the arguments that they profess to believe. When it comes to matters that hit home, they prefer evidence, the scientific method, testable hypotheses, and naturalistic explanations. In fact, they strongly privilege naturalistic explanations over supernatural hocus-pocus or metaphysical wankery. It is only within the reality-distortion field of their ideological crusade that they give credence to the flimsy, ridiculous arguments which we so commonly see on display. I must confess, it kind of felt good, for once, to be the one spouting free-form bullshit; it's so terribly easy and relaxing, compared to marshaling rigorous arguments backed up by empirical evidence. But I fear that if I were to continue, then it would be habit-forming, and bad for my soul. Therefore, I bid you adieu.
well, it does to an extent.
The more they try to crush p2p, the harder it is to crush the next generation of p2p software.
"You cant win, corportate fatcats. If you should strike me down i shall become more powerful then you can possibly imagine"
one true DRM and media format
One DRM to rule them all
One DRM to find them
One DRM to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them
problem is, they cant bundle it with the operating system without facing a lawsuit, especially in europe.
They're a convicted monopoly and so their options are quite limited
so what do you call a moon with no planet?
a space station?
I thought it was apache :(
I agree. Pushing the issue will just force people back onto p2p networks, and with the RIAA/MPAA crusade to have them shut down - its only going to spawn the next-generation of p2p networks sooner.
Any bets on what the 'pinnacle' of p2p networks will resemble?
Some form of automated ms-blaster type propegation method, combined with rootkit functionality ( to make it bloody hard to remove ) - forcing an always-on , highly encrypted, distributed tracking + data network a-la-freenet with a "Get Songs" link on every windows explorer window , or similar is my bet.
after all, if the average user is clueless enough to let their computer get infected with spyware, they sure as hell wont know how to remove a rootkit.
Geeks are probably the last usergroup on the internet you want to piss off.
in terms of bittorrent, yes you get something out of it - that is the more you seed ( upload to others ) , the faster you can download.
As for what they'll do with bittorrent, to encourage others to upload - no idea.
Bandwith costs money
BT allows these movie studios to cut costs, and yet still host large files.
Letting people just download directly from them, especially when large files are involved will cost them a packet.
perhaps the ori are making him into a prior? ....
think of the facts - evil incarnate , origin ,
you forgot the "???" step!!!
Now its doomed to fail
1) install firefox
2) install adblock
3) block ad
4) ???
5% profit!!!