After a crash and as far as POSIX goes, it's perfectly legitimate to overwrite the entire disk with hentai.
Are you implying that it is perfectly legitimate to overwrite the entire disk of hentai I have amassed through years of work, or that this POSIX thingy will overwrite and empty hard drive with the hentai you speak of?
If it's the former, I'm going to get a job as consultant and recommend everybody to put a disk filled with hentai in their servers, since only that one will be overwritten after a crash. If it's the latter, I'm going to force the crashes myself.
Oh man, this POSIX thing is cool! Where do I get it anyway?
The point is there is not much reward hacking into a console. Most of them are read-only devices, with recent exceptions like flash drives or hard disks to either cache games or save user preferences. What good is it for a hacker to 0wn your PS3? Will he sell your Tetris preferences on the black market? Maybe delete them? There's not much personal information there like documents or visa credit card information like on a PC (I guess you could get the cache of the browser if the console stores one, but then again, that's easy to flush after each usage).
What do we have left then? CPU. You could use the CPU of the console for a bot network. The point is, consoles may not be online all the time like a PC might, especially if we consider that most of the market of consoles is for the casual gamer who doesn't spend more than one hour every day playing games. So again, not much to exploit there really.
Maybe hack the firmware upgrade to deploy troyan? This could get you somewhere, installing a network sniffer for other more valuable PCs' communications. But then again, not everybody networks their console, especially if people are unaware of the possibility (wow, so you can browse the internet on a TV with the wii? cool!). Another reduced percentage of the whole market. Plus firmware may be easier to restore than a real OS on a PC once you know you have a virus, tends to be a matter of pressing the reset button for a longer time than usual.
All in all consoles surely can be hacked, but in general Windowses are so much easier targets that consoles are just like Macs and other minority OSes. Hackers know they exists, but don't put much attention to them because they are not the low hanging fruit.
Network LOD? They do some nice things with voice over network and reliability, but still most of the work is for the coders. Check http://blogs.msdn.com/shawnhar/ for the network posts.
More than seeing that petition in action, I would like to meet some of the last 500 british citizens who signed the petition, including:
God, Creator of Worlds
Sam "I hate Tony Blair" Judd
Coco The Clown
Purple
Mungo Jerry
insane volvoman
carinabeana
CLAIREASHENHURST
The Battster
I'm pretty surprised I didn't see any pornstar names in there...
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This is not a problem at all, at least in real life. I practice kendo, and there's an exercise named kirikaeshi (ignore spelling) where you basically attack the head in a diagonal from the right, left, right, etc. The funny thing is, if the defender (motodachi) is wearing his helment he can decide whether he allows you to hit him in the head or blocks with his shinai putting it completely vertical on his side, a few cm from his head, more or less at his shoulder.
So, when you are actually doing the sucessive attacks you don't how long you will be able to extend your arms until you hit something. Which is basically the situation here. Guess what? It doesn't matter. Once you have learned that you simply have to always make the effort of reaching the head, and you get to a nice speed (a well done kirikaeshi is damn fast), you understand why the sensei tells there are just two movements: load, attack, load, attack. And you want to perform them so fast, that it doesn't really matter if you were blocked or hit the head, your hands are already moving back for the next cut.
And I bet games are going to be like this. Sure, you will attack, and your wii-mote will reach a position in the air where you basically have crossed the head/torso of the enemy. But if he has blocked (likely you get tactile/sound feedback) you will need to reach with the wii-mote again to a "load position". And likely you will be exposed in the game, so you will have an incentive to "release" the wii-mote to its "load position", as fast as possible because otherwise you won't be able to attack or defend.
I'm going to buy the wii as soon as it hits the local stores, it's going to be damn fun to see how sword games play and compare to real practice.
Let me ask you two offtopic questions about the code you posted (I'm one of those stupid coders): if you allocate getpagesize(), aren't you actually allocating two pages? I mean, malloc needs to keep somewhere the size of how much memory you allocated, so you are actually using getpagesize() + bytes used by malloc implementation. Is this correct?
Second, never saw kmalloc or vmalloc before, but from a quick google it seems that they should be equal for this example, right? kmalloc seems to malloc physically contiguous pages and vmalloc not, but since you are requesting just one getpagesize(), it doesn't matter which one you use?
Well, I'm tetra-lingual (woah, girls should go grazy after hearing that, don't you think?) and around my usual friends I'm considered THE KILLING MACHINE on any game.
Long story short, I went to a Starcraft competition and couldn't even pass first round. Sure, I might be able to pick up fast any kind of game, but from there to excellence is a lot of work (which you require for any activity).
Oh, the winner of the Starcraft contest was a guy who nearly couldn't speak his mother language properly and was thrown out of university because he was unable to pass exams. But he played Starcraft 6 hours every day... hopefully the study didn't miss those kind of details.
Why keep everything secret, and keep the account frozen??
Because they can invest that money. When the account is frozen you have to do something to actually unfreeze it, like you said, calling a lawyer to send a nice letter to them.
The point is, if you keep money in paypal it doesn't do anything. It's like keeping money in a bank, you are losing money due to inflation. OTOH, even if you invest in the lowest risk fund of your bank, you will get about 1% income, and you can cancel the investment in less than a week. Actually, my current bank returns 89% of the money immediately and the rest in the next two days.
So Paypal is being the middle man: they invest YOUR money, and when you want it back, they give you the money back, but they get to keep the interests it has generated.
As other posters are saying, for big quantities of people, the amount of money can sum a lot, and 1% of "a lot" with practically no risk is a nice bonus. Wouldn't you do the same if you had the chance?
I work in a tech support call center for ACT!, and let me tell you, 90% of people I talk to don't know jack about their computers
And that should surprise us? As a worker of tech support, you are going to be called when something goes wrong or the user doesn't know how to do something. So it's obvious that 90% of the people who are going to call you are clueless. Man, that's what you are there for!
On the other hand, at/. 90% of the readers are (or presume to be) GNU/Linux experts who never have to reboot even to switch their motherboard because they learnt a trick from some obscure IRC channel where they spend several hours a day. Would you accept that statistic as valid? No? Well, in that case don't use your pretty 90% figure as an important point in a discussion, because that number is pretty useless.
Now, if you compared the number of calls you receive, with the number of people who are afraid to call and prefer a neighbour, to the number of people who actually read/., then, you will have a good point.
One who distributes a device with the object of promoting its use to infringe human rights... is liable for the resulting acts of infringement by third parties using the device, regardless of the device's lawful uses
What does the court have to say for weapons (used by police, for example) which every year kill thousands of people in the USA alone? Oh, wait, human rights are not even close to be as important as copyright... May the USA keep being the world's top weapon exporter, god bless America!
I guess that the people who overwork in China or India to provide you with your cheaper goods and live the whole year with your month's (or even week's) salary are going to be deadly grateful. Aren't they?
First we state that girls require money and time: girls = money * time As we all know, 'time is money': time = money Therefore: girls = money^2 And because 'money is the root of all evil': money = sqrt(evil) Therefore: girls = sqrt(evil)^2 And we are forced to conclude that: girls = evil
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After a crash and as far as POSIX goes, it's perfectly legitimate to overwrite the entire disk with hentai.
Are you implying that it is perfectly legitimate to overwrite the entire disk of hentai I have amassed through years of work, or that this POSIX thingy will overwrite and empty hard drive with the hentai you speak of?
If it's the former, I'm going to get a job as consultant and recommend everybody to put a disk filled with hentai in their servers, since only that one will be overwritten after a crash. If it's the latter, I'm going to force the crashes myself.
Oh man, this POSIX thing is cool! Where do I get it anyway?
The point is there is not much reward hacking into a console. Most of them are read-only devices, with recent exceptions like flash drives or hard disks to either cache games or save user preferences. What good is it for a hacker to 0wn your PS3? Will he sell your Tetris preferences on the black market? Maybe delete them? There's not much personal information there like documents or visa credit card information like on a PC (I guess you could get the cache of the browser if the console stores one, but then again, that's easy to flush after each usage).
What do we have left then? CPU. You could use the CPU of the console for a bot network. The point is, consoles may not be online all the time like a PC might, especially if we consider that most of the market of consoles is for the casual gamer who doesn't spend more than one hour every day playing games. So again, not much to exploit there really.
Maybe hack the firmware upgrade to deploy troyan? This could get you somewhere, installing a network sniffer for other more valuable PCs' communications. But then again, not everybody networks their console, especially if people are unaware of the possibility (wow, so you can browse the internet on a TV with the wii? cool!). Another reduced percentage of the whole market. Plus firmware may be easier to restore than a real OS on a PC once you know you have a virus, tends to be a matter of pressing the reset button for a longer time than usual.
All in all consoles surely can be hacked, but in general Windowses are so much easier targets that consoles are just like Macs and other minority OSes. Hackers know they exists, but don't put much attention to them because they are not the low hanging fruit.
Network LOD? They do some nice things with voice over network and reliability, but still most of the work is for the coders. Check http://blogs.msdn.com/shawnhar/ for the network posts.
There are people who don't like to lump everything in the term IP precisely to avoid these confusions: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.xhtml
mkfs.ext3 -c -c device
I think you are confused: Jesus didn't try to catch Moby-Dick.
Fuck The What?
The very same quote you wrote ends with (emphasis mine):
resulting in localized burning and permanent damage in seconds or even less time.
Hopefully you were only temporarily blinded and can now read that sentence in full length.
A good alternative to C is D: http://www.digitalmars.com/d/.
Ignore the 2.0 version for the while, it's alpha. Use the 1.0 which is pretty good stuff.
...was well counted, after all, it's a nice OS with a poor text editor.
God, Creator of Worlds
Sam "I hate Tony Blair" Judd
Coco The Clown
Purple
Mungo Jerry
insane volvoman
carinabeana
CLAIREASHENHURST
The Battster
I'm pretty surprised I didn't see any pornstar names in there...
So, when you are actually doing the sucessive attacks you don't how long you will be able to extend your arms until you hit something. Which is basically the situation here. Guess what? It doesn't matter. Once you have learned that you simply have to always make the effort of reaching the head, and you get to a nice speed (a well done kirikaeshi is damn fast), you understand why the sensei tells there are just two movements: load, attack, load, attack. And you want to perform them so fast, that it doesn't really matter if you were blocked or hit the head, your hands are already moving back for the next cut.
And I bet games are going to be like this. Sure, you will attack, and your wii-mote will reach a position in the air where you basically have crossed the head/torso of the enemy. But if he has blocked (likely you get tactile/sound feedback) you will need to reach with the wii-mote again to a "load position". And likely you will be exposed in the game, so you will have an incentive to "release" the wii-mote to its "load position", as fast as possible because otherwise you won't be able to attack or defend.
I'm going to buy the wii as soon as it hits the local stores, it's going to be damn fun to see how sword games play and compare to real practice.
Second, never saw kmalloc or vmalloc before, but from a quick google it seems that they should be equal for this example, right? kmalloc seems to malloc physically contiguous pages and vmalloc not, but since you are requesting just one getpagesize(), it doesn't matter which one you use?
Any pictures?
Long story short, I went to a Starcraft competition and couldn't even pass first round. Sure, I might be able to pick up fast any kind of game, but from there to excellence is a lot of work (which you require for any activity).
Oh, the winner of the Starcraft contest was a guy who nearly couldn't speak his mother language properly and was thrown out of university because he was unable to pass exams. But he played Starcraft 6 hours every day... hopefully the study didn't miss those kind of details.
Oh man, what age is he? Doesn't he know what they are for? It's not like they are going to bite you, anyway...
Because they can invest that money. When the account is frozen you have to do something to actually unfreeze it, like you said, calling a lawyer to send a nice letter to them.
The point is, if you keep money in paypal it doesn't do anything. It's like keeping money in a bank, you are losing money due to inflation. OTOH, even if you invest in the lowest risk fund of your bank, you will get about 1% income, and you can cancel the investment in less than a week. Actually, my current bank returns 89% of the money immediately and the rest in the next two days.
So Paypal is being the middle man: they invest YOUR money, and when you want it back, they give you the money back, but they get to keep the interests it has generated. As other posters are saying, for big quantities of people, the amount of money can sum a lot, and 1% of "a lot" with practically no risk is a nice bonus. Wouldn't you do the same if you had the chance?
And that should surprise us? As a worker of tech support, you are going to be called when something goes wrong or the user doesn't know how to do something. So it's obvious that 90% of the people who are going to call you are clueless. Man, that's what you are there for!
On the other hand, at /. 90% of the readers are (or presume to be) GNU/Linux experts who never have to reboot even to switch their motherboard because they learnt a trick from some obscure IRC channel where they spend several hours a day. Would you accept that statistic as valid? No? Well, in that case don't use your pretty 90% figure as an important point in a discussion, because that number is pretty useless.
Now, if you compared the number of calls you receive, with the number of people who are afraid to call and prefer a neighbour, to the number of people who actually read /., then, you will have a good point.
What does the court have to say for weapons (used by police, for example) which every year kill thousands of people in the USA alone? Oh, wait, human rights are not even close to be as important as copyright... May the USA keep being the world's top weapon exporter, god bless America!
Pinky, are you pondering what I am pondering?
I guess that the people who overwork in China or India to provide you with your cheaper goods and live the whole year with your month's (or even week's) salary are going to be deadly grateful. Aren't they?
Dude, where's my car?
Not mine, I saw this on http://pasky.ji.cz/
First we state that girls require money and time:
girls = money * time
As we all know, 'time is money':
time = money
Therefore:
girls = money^2
And because 'money is the root of all evil':
money = sqrt(evil)
Therefore:
girls = sqrt(evil)^2
And we are forced to conclude that:
girls = evil