All Abrahamic religions are actually bogus morally when you look at them. It seems on the surface as if they have moral principles, at least for fellow believers - infidels/gentiles and pagans are SOL, but once you read the fine print you realise they actually don't. Successive generations of scumbags have managed to find loopholes to make those principles worthless in reality, even for the in group that the religion claims to protect.
Islamic finance is one example, but they are ubiquitous. It's like someone said about Judaism "it forces you to be smart because you have to know the loopholes to get anything done".
I suppose the secular example would be the tax code. It would seem obvious that everyone pays tax, and rich people pay more. In actuality rich people can afford to hire someone smart to find the loopholes and can structure their businesses in a way that means they end up paying not just a lower percentage of tax than poor people but often a lower absolute amount. Arguably trying to codify morality or anything means you have an ever increasing body of rules to cover loopholes, but the more rules you have the more loopholes you get. It's like more complex and featureful software has a larger 'attack surface'.
Depending on the range, I could be paying a premium so I never have to remember to charge my devices. For instance, if it could cover my whole couch, then I could charge whenever I watch TV or play video games. And some devices (wireless video game controllers) live in that region, so that would be great.
This is why the terrorists hate us and this is why we can't have nice things.
So I think it depends if MSHTML.DLL is in use or not. I seldom use IE as I prefer Opera, and I don't really use anything much on this machine that uses MSHTML.DLL either - no Outlook or Outlook Express as I use Thunderbird and no sidebar, so presumably it could be patched.
Any application that use MSHTML.DLL will lock it against writes and force the installer to reboot to change it. I'm not sure about now but in the old days you'd try MoveFile and if that failed because the file was in use you'd use MoveFileEx(..MOVEFILE_DELAY_UNTIL_REBOOT) to queue the move after the next reboot. If you needed to call MoveFileEx you'd pop up a dialog offering to reboot the machine now, or reboot it later at the end of the installation.
Hmm, lets see
C:\Users\HP>tasklist -m mshtml.dll INFO: No tasks are running which match the specified criteria.
No tasks using the dll means no reboot to install the patch. Now if I start the sidebar
C:\Users\HP>tasklist -m mshtml.dll
Image Name PID Modules sidebar.exe 1234 mshtml.dll
I've got auto updates set to "Download updates but let me choose whether to install them" so I can control when the machine reboots and KB960714 was ready to install. Since it's an Internet Explorer update, I can install it without a reboot.
Actually that's not necessarily possible. Consider.
Server has a private key. The game has the public key. The server signs messages. Even if you take the game totally to bits the private key used to sign is nowhere to be found only the public key used to verify signatures.
Of course you could crack the game so that it doesn't check. But that implies you have the whole game image. Potentially each level could be a new exe file sent down from the server, and before running it could check for cracks. Hell the server could send out bits of code that would run on the client. E.g. you could checksum a random area of memory and compare it against the value from a known good machine as a way to find cracked machines. A console doesn't have the resources to run two copies of the game, one cracked and one genuine so theoretically a cracked machine must be vulnerable to this sort of test.
The hardware can verify signatures too and make sure that modified software is not run.
None of this stuff is absolutely foolproof. You could have a cracked console talking to a reverse engineered server. But the vast majority of players are going to give up way before this point and use the genuine server and a non cracked console.
You can see it now with XBox360. There is a crack, but only for the old firmware. New games need the new firmware so if you want to use cracked games you have to download before you use them and upgrade if you want to play anything new. This is so fiddly that most people don't bother. And the PS3 has never been cracked as far as I know.
Trusted hardware and trusted servers probably means no cracked games. No cracked games means no piracy. That's the reason that software companies like consoles more than PCs.
Ha, actually I'm English and not exactly poor. The UK only spends about 2-4% of its GDP on defence now, and if we hadn't spent it we would have ended up being invaded by the Nazis next to a hostile Europe controlled by the Communists. Seems like a bargain to me.
I can think of lots of worse things that governments spend money on.
Here's a thought experiment. Suppose you're a Chinese entrepreneur given cash by a bunch of gullible Americans. You're an approved organisation which means you give results that won't annoy the Chinese government and cause them to pull your approval. Polling people is expensive. Do you 1) Poll lots more randomly selected people than the survey requires and cherry pick to the the politically correct results or 2) Make shit up, or poll a bunch of people who are politically reliable.
Or maybe you should be less of a douchebag. The fact that something is an engineering marvel doesn't mean much to some people, but that doesn't mean that lessens the impact it has for them. Who hasn't looked up at a bird in the sky and wanted to journey? Who hasn't seen the stars and wished upon them? When I look at the shuttle, I don't see an engineering marvel. I see the realization of over twenty thousand years of human beings dreaming of having their own wings and flying through the heavens. And you know what -- I think I'm allowed to say it does have a bad paint job, and I could care less about the mechanical guts of it. That's not why it's beautiful.
Tanks, bombers, subs, and all that jazz you like--You can love them if you want, call them awesome. They're not special to me, they're just made so some people can kill other people. I'll stick with my dolls, and if you don't mind terribly, I'll be doing it in that badly painted bird over there that was built with hopes and dreams, instead of fears and insecurities.
Those tanks and bombers are the reason we don't have to stop being douchebags. As someone said "An MLRS means never having to say you're sorry".
The first time I sat in a 'front line' fighter jet, I was amazed at how 'beat' it was. F-111E, England, mid 70's. Some of you can figure out what base it was.
But but slashdot told me 'Information wants to be free and there's no such thing as intellectual property!' If the Chinese want to copy stuff and sell it cheaper and drive the people who invented it out of business surely that just shows that US industry has an obsolete business model, like buggy whip manufacturers or the RIAA/MPAA?
After all the Chinese aren't stealing anything - the American company didn't lose any property. It's just the same as if I copy a file over bittorrent. Everyone knows that isn't theft or piracy (unless I do it on a boat, lol), just copyright infringement. No one lost anything physical so it can't be theft. And the copyright laws have been written by the RIAA anyway to give them a perpetual monopoly. Hell, if I were Chinese I'd say IP laws give American companies a perpetual monopoly, so I'm justified in ignoring them.
So you shouldn't say its jacking or theft. Maybe it's against US IP law but we all know those are bogus.
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All Abrahamic religions are actually bogus morally when you look at them. It seems on the surface as if they have moral principles, at least for fellow believers - infidels/gentiles and pagans are SOL, but once you read the fine print you realise they actually don't. Successive generations of scumbags have managed to find loopholes to make those principles worthless in reality, even for the in group that the religion claims to protect.
Islamic finance is one example, but they are ubiquitous. It's like someone said about Judaism "it forces you to be smart because you have to know the loopholes to get anything done".
I suppose the secular example would be the tax code. It would seem obvious that everyone pays tax, and rich people pay more. In actuality rich people can afford to hire someone smart to find the loopholes and can structure their businesses in a way that means they end up paying not just a lower percentage of tax than poor people but often a lower absolute amount. Arguably trying to codify morality or anything means you have an ever increasing body of rules to cover loopholes, but the more rules you have the more loopholes you get. It's like more complex and featureful software has a larger 'attack surface'.
This reminds me of David Irving's very funny and very trolly review of the positive messages (from his pro Nazi perspective) in Lord of The Rings.
Fight down the urge to Google it from work!
Depending on the range, I could be paying a premium so I never have to remember to charge my devices. For instance, if it could cover my whole couch, then I could charge whenever I watch TV or play video games. And some devices (wireless video game controllers) live in that region, so that would be great.
This is why the terrorists hate us and this is why we can't have nice things.
Nope. The server sends a few hundred bytes of checksum code down to the client. Checksum code runs and sends back the much shorter result.
I think he's talking about <1% market share. Also, despite Vista's unpopularity, OS X has been the main beneficiary, e.g.
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/os-market-share.aspx?qprid=9&qpdt=1&qpct=4&qptimeframe=M&qpsp=95&qpnp=25
Month________Windows Mac Linux iPhone
December 2006 93.86% 5.67% 0.37% 0.00%
November 2008 89.62% 8.87% 0.83% 0.37%
This patch only changes MSHTML.DLL
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960714
So I think it depends if MSHTML.DLL is in use or not. I seldom use IE as I prefer Opera, and I don't really use anything much on this machine that uses MSHTML.DLL either - no Outlook or Outlook Express as I use Thunderbird and no sidebar, so presumably it could be patched.
Any application that use MSHTML.DLL will lock it against writes and force the installer to reboot to change it. I'm not sure about now but in the old days you'd try MoveFile and if that failed because the file was in use you'd use MoveFileEx(..MOVEFILE_DELAY_UNTIL_REBOOT) to queue the move after the next reboot. If you needed to call MoveFileEx you'd pop up a dialog offering to reboot the machine now, or reboot it later at the end of the installation.
Hmm, lets see
No tasks using the dll means no reboot to install the patch. Now if I start the sidebar
If I stop the sidebar it's not in use again.
Vista didn't need a reboot to install this.
I've got auto updates set to "Download updates but let me choose whether to install them" so I can control when the machine reboots and KB960714 was ready to install. Since it's an Internet Explorer update, I can install it without a reboot.
You seem to be very confused about how cracking the 360 works.
I got the information on XBox360 here -
http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=uxjpmc8ZIxM
It mentions the crack for the old firmware and having the bootrom verify code signatures before running games.
The idea about the server sending out bits of code to detect cracked machines is mine, and as far as I know no one has implemented.
The Romans had Insulae, upto 9 stories high.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulae
Actually that's not necessarily possible. Consider.
Server has a private key. The game has the public key. The server signs messages. Even if you take the game totally to bits the private key used to sign is nowhere to be found only the public key used to verify signatures.
Of course you could crack the game so that it doesn't check. But that implies you have the whole game image. Potentially each level could be a new exe file sent down from the server, and before running it could check for cracks. Hell the server could send out bits of code that would run on the client. E.g. you could checksum a random area of memory and compare it against the value from a known good machine as a way to find cracked machines. A console doesn't have the resources to run two copies of the game, one cracked and one genuine so theoretically a cracked machine must be vulnerable to this sort of test.
The hardware can verify signatures too and make sure that modified software is not run.
None of this stuff is absolutely foolproof. You could have a cracked console talking to a reverse engineered server. But the vast majority of players are going to give up way before this point and use the genuine server and a non cracked console.
You can see it now with XBox360. There is a crack, but only for the old firmware. New games need the new firmware so if you want to use cracked games you have to download before you use them and upgrade if you want to play anything new. This is so fiddly that most people don't bother. And the PS3 has never been cracked as far as I know.
Trusted hardware and trusted servers probably means no cracked games. No cracked games means no piracy. That's the reason that software companies like consoles more than PCs.
No my argument is that both sides are putting a political spin on the research to reflect their prejudices.
From the movies I've seen, I'm sure the sharks will have their revenge on the scientists sooner or later.
This is the internet. The real topic is always someone's social experiment.
The ucusa criticises people who cherry pick data to support their prejudices but aren't the ucusa just doing the same thing for the other side?
I loved that movie. The test of leadership was being willing to squish the likable French guy for the good of The Party.
Oops, I mean for the good of the team.
If you'd have registered a bit earlier you have got ID 2600.
Can I has F-111E?
Ha, actually I'm English and not exactly poor. The UK only spends about 2-4% of its GDP on defence now, and if we hadn't spent it we would have ended up being invaded by the Nazis next to a hostile Europe controlled by the Communists. Seems like a bargain to me.
I can think of lots of worse things that governments spend money on.
Here's a thought experiment. Suppose you're a Chinese entrepreneur given cash by a bunch of gullible Americans. You're an approved organisation which means you give results that won't annoy the Chinese government and cause them to pull your approval. Polling people is expensive. Do you 1) Poll lots more randomly selected people than the survey requires and cherry pick to the the politically correct results or 2) Make shit up, or poll a bunch of people who are politically reliable.
The survey is worthless.
Or maybe you should be less of a douchebag. The fact that something is an engineering marvel doesn't mean much to some people, but that doesn't mean that lessens the impact it has for them. Who hasn't looked up at a bird in the sky and wanted to journey? Who hasn't seen the stars and wished upon them? When I look at the shuttle, I don't see an engineering marvel. I see the realization of over twenty thousand years of human beings dreaming of having their own wings and flying through the heavens. And you know what -- I think I'm allowed to say it does have a bad paint job, and I could care less about the mechanical guts of it. That's not why it's beautiful.
Tanks, bombers, subs, and all that jazz you like--You can love them if you want, call them awesome. They're not special to me, they're just made so some people can kill other people. I'll stick with my dolls, and if you don't mind terribly, I'll be doing it in that badly painted bird over there that was built with hopes and dreams, instead of fears and insecurities.
Those tanks and bombers are the reason we don't have to stop being douchebags. As someone said "An MLRS means never having to say you're sorry".
The first time I sat in a 'front line' fighter jet, I was amazed at how 'beat' it was. F-111E, England, mid 70's. Some of you can figure out what base it was.
RAF Upper Heyford?
The CO2 used in soda also causes global warming.
But but slashdot told me 'Information wants to be free and there's no such thing as intellectual property!' If the Chinese want to copy stuff and sell it cheaper and drive the people who invented it out of business surely that just shows that US industry has an obsolete business model, like buggy whip manufacturers or the RIAA/MPAA?
After all the Chinese aren't stealing anything - the American company didn't lose any property. It's just the same as if I copy a file over bittorrent. Everyone knows that isn't theft or piracy (unless I do it on a boat, lol), just copyright infringement. No one lost anything physical so it can't be theft. And the copyright laws have been written by the RIAA anyway to give them a perpetual monopoly. Hell, if I were Chinese I'd say IP laws give American companies a perpetual monopoly, so I'm justified in ignoring them.
So you shouldn't say its jacking or theft. Maybe it's against US IP law but we all know those are bogus.
What about the scientific consensus though? CNN tells me that the scientific consensus is that Global Warming is real.