Windows programs try doing all sorts of things they really shouldn't sometimes ( especially of the crapware variety).
Very true. Especially annoying, and also unlikely to change in a while, is this damn exclusive file open.
It's great and all Windows/NTFS supports it, gives MS some bragging rights, but what's up with pretty much everything opening files in exclusive mode?
Wrong. Just like Middleman A intercepted your attempt to contact Site X, Middleman B will intercept Middleman A's attempt, C will intercept Middleman B's attempt, and so on.
Yes, every MITM attack creates the opportunity for another one. But security is based on maximizing the effort needed to circumvent it. Every MITM attack decreases the total distance the packets have to travel, decreasing the probability for further attacks.
Encrypted, not authenticated traffic is almost exactly identical to plaintext traffic. The only thing it makes more difficult is stateless packet sniffing - that is, you have to intercept the whole connection from the start. Since we can assume that any potential attacker is watching either you or your target website, you gain absolutely no security whatsoever from encrypted but not authenticated traffic.
Except it raises the bar. You aren't vulnerable to the wardriving neighbor's kid anymore. Thus, security is increased.
You're not going to be secure from people targeting you or the website you want to go to, yes. Like I said, security is broken. But still increased.
Encryption without authentication is the Information Technology equivalent of armour made of grey-painted cardboard.
This analogy is only valid when the attacker has to watch the creation of the armor, has to know it's just cardboard in order to take advantage of it.
Well, all those that can't are welcome to use AMD Fabs Inc.'s excellent facilities.
I'd like to see more directly competing processors, so maybe it's just wishful thinking.
I think you are confusing encryption with authentication.
Even if you are presented by a Man in the Middle's self signed cert and accept it, you're traffic's still encrypted and secure from eavesdropping. It's just that the receipient changed without you realizing it.
So you now have one eavesdropper, while plain unencrypted HTTP would allow an arbitrary number of them without you knowing. Security would be broken either way, but encrypted, not authenticated traffic still is preferable to neither encrypted, nor authenticated traffic.
All those "cannot"...
The point of this obfuscation is to make it harder to sniff traffic, but not have the high administrative and computational cost of actually making it impossible.
You might be protecting your traffic from the wardriving kid next door, but not from your ISP, let alone NSA.
Also they could start licensing processor technology. Might level the playing field somewhat..
Okay, they probably could have done that the whole time, but somehow splitting into a design and a fabrication company makes it seem more likely.
It's sad people feel they have to restore their geek credentials after saying something positive about a Microsoft product.
Politics aside, and not everyone cares about politics, isn't it the logical choice to use the tool that gets the job done? And if that's Vista, so be it.
I hope nobody's seriously claiming there's a open source drop-in replacement for everything people use Windows for.
Yes well, but they released the GBC in 1989. The first Nintendo handheld that did not play GBC games anymore was the NDS, which came out in 2004.
So they kept GBC compatibility for 15 years.
The GBA was released in 2001. And now, in 2008, after only 7 years, they drop support for its software.
No, it's not surprising they would drop the slot at some point. But I didn't expect them to do it so soon.
Interesting point.
The new PSP has twice the RAM, did anybody release software that won't work on the old one?
The features that were added to the DSi don't really strike me as things to base a game on, but then the article was pretty impressive in its lack of information.
This version has the serious drawback of not playing GBA games.
But yes, I did skip the lite-version and might get that one, maybe, as my old DS broke.
But there's no way to compare old games with worse graphics to black and white movies. Black and white movies have real benefits over color movies, technical, e.g. contrast range, and cinematic. People perceive pictures differently when they're black and white.
While games with worse graphics are just that, games with worse graphics. You might have a point when you actually meant to compare 2D vs. 3D graphics though..
Oh, and note I did not judge the actual content, I know some older games have a lot more depth than what's around nowadays.
Anyway, yes, people don't play games if they feel their graphics look bad. Not exactly news, though.
So what?
Nobody's under the obligation to give any company that used to be so insistent on destroying their brand the benefit of the doubt and just forget about the past.
I agree it is a pretty good book. But then I've read it in eighth grade, so maybe the slashdot demographic might be a little too old to really enjoy it.
But then, I also think about LotR as a children's book.
The franchise has been disgraced beyond any hope for recovery quite a while ago, it can't really be disgraced again.
Tiberium Sun just sucked, Renegade was weird, Generals was not Command and Conquer and Tiberium Wars was boring.
o.O
Getting a little carried away there, eh?
Might want to think about putting those what-if scenarios you dream up to some more productive use than slashdot comments..
You should memtest that box. Memory defects show up when you least need them.
About Windows stablility.. totally offtopic, but I'll reply anyway. According to my experience, and I can only speak of my own experience, Windows crashes occur mostly due to badly designed (cheap) hardware that doesn't work without a pretty good driver that fixes hardware bugs in software. Bad, cheap hardware usually doesn't come with good software though.
So things go wrong.
If you're using drivers that weren't made by the hardware's vendor it's more likely the software does its job, because it's made by people that want it to work and aren't subject to the vendor's budget.
Of course, like you said above, that's not a catch-all excuse, Windows probably crashes on its own too. Don't remember it ever happening to me, but I don't use it that much.
I don't see an alternative. As far as I know, there is no other spaceship (something not Space Shuttle) available they could use as a rescue capsule.
Actually, I hope I'm wrong. So please, tell me I am.
<devil's advocate>Or hire some socially completely inept person into a position with a lot of power over your company. Any position gives the employee power over your company, one that you'd want an EE for even more so. And given that the guy's an autodidact, he'll be even harder to control.
You sure don't want to disgruntle that kind of employee.</devils advocate>
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Heh. Social darwinism FTW.
Probably you're a messy liberal. Except you put them up that way intentionally, in which case you're a messed up conservative.
And you're right. It's NaN - not a number.
So all this Algebra abuse, while kind of funny, just proved what the GP was saying - it's not solvable.
Windows programs try doing all sorts of things they really shouldn't sometimes ( especially of the crapware variety).
Very true. Especially annoying, and also unlikely to change in a while, is this damn exclusive file open.
It's great and all Windows/NTFS supports it, gives MS some bragging rights, but what's up with pretty much everything opening files in exclusive mode?
Not that you don't have a point, but is that really an excuse?
Kind of like "Sure we suck, but look, those guys suck too!"
There is windows\system32\runas.exe.
Pretty much like sudo, but afaict you have to enable Vista's admin account first.
Wrong. Just like Middleman A intercepted your attempt to contact Site X, Middleman B will intercept Middleman A's attempt, C will intercept Middleman B's attempt, and so on.
Yes, every MITM attack creates the opportunity for another one. But security is based on maximizing the effort needed to circumvent it. Every MITM attack decreases the total distance the packets have to travel, decreasing the probability for further attacks.
Encrypted, not authenticated traffic is almost exactly identical to plaintext traffic. The only thing it makes more difficult is stateless packet sniffing - that is, you have to intercept the whole connection from the start. Since we can assume that any potential attacker is watching either you or your target website, you gain absolutely no security whatsoever from encrypted but not authenticated traffic.
Except it raises the bar. You aren't vulnerable to the wardriving neighbor's kid anymore. Thus, security is increased.
You're not going to be secure from people targeting you or the website you want to go to, yes. Like I said, security is broken. But still increased.
Encryption without authentication is the Information Technology equivalent of armour made of grey-painted cardboard.
This analogy is only valid when the attacker has to watch the creation of the armor, has to know it's just cardboard in order to take advantage of it.
Well, all those that can't are welcome to use AMD Fabs Inc.'s excellent facilities.
I'd like to see more directly competing processors, so maybe it's just wishful thinking.
I think you are confusing encryption with authentication.
Even if you are presented by a Man in the Middle's self signed cert and accept it, you're traffic's still encrypted and secure from eavesdropping. It's just that the receipient changed without you realizing it.
So you now have one eavesdropper, while plain unencrypted HTTP would allow an arbitrary number of them without you knowing. Security would be broken either way, but encrypted, not authenticated traffic still is preferable to neither encrypted, nor authenticated traffic.
All those "cannot"...
The point of this obfuscation is to make it harder to sniff traffic, but not have the high administrative and computational cost of actually making it impossible.
You might be protecting your traffic from the wardriving kid next door, but not from your ISP, let alone NSA.
Also they could start licensing processor technology. Might level the playing field somewhat..
Okay, they probably could have done that the whole time, but somehow splitting into a design and a fabrication company makes it seem more likely.
It's sad people feel they have to restore their geek credentials after saying something positive about a Microsoft product.
Politics aside, and not everyone cares about politics, isn't it the logical choice to use the tool that gets the job done? And if that's Vista, so be it.
I hope nobody's seriously claiming there's a open source drop-in replacement for everything people use Windows for.
Cooler, maybe. Not that much of a theft deterrent though..
Yes well, but they released the GBC in 1989. The first Nintendo handheld that did not play GBC games anymore was the NDS, which came out in 2004.
So they kept GBC compatibility for 15 years.
The GBA was released in 2001. And now, in 2008, after only 7 years, they drop support for its software.
No, it's not surprising they would drop the slot at some point. But I didn't expect them to do it so soon.
Interesting point.
The new PSP has twice the RAM, did anybody release software that won't work on the old one?
The features that were added to the DSi don't really strike me as things to base a game on, but then the article was pretty impressive in its lack of information.
This version has the serious drawback of not playing GBA games.
But yes, I did skip the lite-version and might get that one, maybe, as my old DS broke.
But there's no way to compare old games with worse graphics to black and white movies. Black and white movies have real benefits over color movies, technical, e.g. contrast range, and cinematic. People perceive pictures differently when they're black and white.
While games with worse graphics are just that, games with worse graphics. You might have a point when you actually meant to compare 2D vs. 3D graphics though..
Oh, and note I did not judge the actual content, I know some older games have a lot more depth than what's around nowadays.
Anyway, yes, people don't play games if they feel their graphics look bad. Not exactly news, though.
So what?
Nobody's under the obligation to give any company that used to be so insistent on destroying their brand the benefit of the doubt and just forget about the past.
Better late than never.
I'd still give them credit for distancing themselves from that game.
I agree it is a pretty good book. But then I've read it in eighth grade, so maybe the slashdot demographic might be a little too old to really enjoy it.
But then, I also think about LotR as a children's book.
The franchise has been disgraced beyond any hope for recovery quite a while ago, it can't really be disgraced again.
Tiberium Sun just sucked, Renegade was weird, Generals was not Command and Conquer and Tiberium Wars was boring.
Totally true.
Get that a lot in Physics, Math and CS class. People just give up trying to understand what's going on and pass by memorizing stuff.
o.O
Getting a little carried away there, eh?
Might want to think about putting those what-if scenarios you dream up to some more productive use than slashdot comments..
You should memtest that box. Memory defects show up when you least need them.
About Windows stablility.. totally offtopic, but I'll reply anyway. According to my experience, and I can only speak of my own experience, Windows crashes occur mostly due to badly designed (cheap) hardware that doesn't work without a pretty good driver that fixes hardware bugs in software. Bad, cheap hardware usually doesn't come with good software though.
So things go wrong.
If you're using drivers that weren't made by the hardware's vendor it's more likely the software does its job, because it's made by people that want it to work and aren't subject to the vendor's budget.
Of course, like you said above, that's not a catch-all excuse, Windows probably crashes on its own too. Don't remember it ever happening to me, but I don't use it that much.
I don't see an alternative. As far as I know, there is no other spaceship (something not Space Shuttle) available they could use as a rescue capsule.
Actually, I hope I'm wrong. So please, tell me I am.
That's how you hire the next Wozniak.
<devil's advocate>Or hire some socially completely inept person into a position with a lot of power over your company. Any position gives the employee power over your company, one that you'd want an EE for even more so. And given that the guy's an autodidact, he'll be even harder to control.
You sure don't want to disgruntle that kind of employee.</devils advocate>