I disagree as well... 1 is incredibly easy to remember. Some random number isn't as easy, even if it is say an old telephon number. Also a check for 1 is more likely to get past even a pair of eyes, more so than some random integer.
I agree that it's important to know that games run from multiple sources and that the media check doesn't need to be present for an executable to be run. Still need to be able to execute unsigned code though - or figure out how to sign executables for there to be a soft mod.
Obviously only signed code was intended to be run on the machine, the absence of a media check does not mean the executable isn't signed. In fact anyone would be incredibly naive to think that the executables were not unsigned.
That should read : In fact anyone would be incredibly naive to think that the executables were not signed.
There have been demo disks circulating for sometime (also media check free). So while these demo discs may have no media checks that doesn't mean that the executables are not signed.
As I understand it the media check basically lets the 360s hypervisor know what media the executable is allowed to run from. Demos do not have these media checks as they may be downloaded and run from the hard disk, or run from DVD.
Obviously only signed code was intended to be run on the machine, the absence of a media check does not mean the executable isn't signed. In fact anyone would be incredibly naive to think that the executables were not unsigned.
All in all I don't think we're any closer to modding the 360. This hacker group also released an Xbox 360 iso extraction tool which amounted to nothing. It turned out that any of the existing Xbox iso extraction tools could do the exact same thing. It's just alot of smoke and no fire.
Copy protections on the discs themselves is just one part of the much larger puzzle. As someone pointed out earlier you have to be able to get unsigned code to run on the machine. While this was fairly easy to accomplish on the original Xbox, the Xbox 360 is supposed to be a trusted computing platform. It looks as though there's alot to overcome in getting unsigned code to run.
Everyone knows that XMLHttpRequest isn't secure. Where do we go from here? Is there a way to force the object to use SSL? Is there too much overhead in encrypting and decrypting the XML data with Blowfish or another algorithm?
There seems to be a disconnect between what CS is and what most curriculums offer. It seems that the submitter is getting a solid CS background when he might be looking for a degree in Software Engineering.
This seems to be a common occurance. My alma mater offered a CS degree which was actually more of a software engineering degree. Sure they offered courses in AI and more scientific branches, but I learned more practical programming than anything I believe this confusion comes from the fact that colleges are pushed to churn out students that can get jobs instead of get their PhD. Sounds like it's time for seperate degrees.
"These days, it's almost unquestioned that college-bound students will tote laptops back to school."
I hardly find it unquestionable that a new college student would bring a laptop with them to college. While it's almost a certainty that a new student will bring a computer (although some still do not), there is still a mix of desktops and laptops out there.
The price of a desktop is still less than a notebook and buying a desktop usually yields a computer with more computing power, for many that equates to a computer that will last longer. If I were a fiscal parent I would be tempted to purchase the desktop computer, which yields more bang for the buck, is less likely to be stolen, and less easily damaged.
During my last semester in college (a year and a half ago) I saw almost no students bring a laptop with them to class. Professors regularly offer their lecture slides for download to supplement, but often replace note taking. This practice makes bringing a laptop to class, and sometimes pencil, pen and paper pointless.
I'm not saying that I don't see laptops becoming the de facto standard for a new college student, it's just not a foregone conclusion yet.
Xbox 360 will come with a hard drive (XBOX 360 Fact Sheet), the hard drive is detachable and upgradble, but there will be a 20 gig hard drive when you buy it.
It also appears that it will be high def out of the box as well. Shipping with an High Def cable and Component Adapter.
The national deficit is at around 7 trillion dollars. Nasa's budget this year - 16 billion dollars. Even with the increases scheduled in NASAs budget it doesn't get above 20 billion in this decade. Even at 20 billion a year it take roughly 350 years to pay off the deficit, and that's if it stopped growing NOW.
The education system in America needs repair no doubt about it. I don't agree that we no longer attract bright students from abroad. I would say that a degree from a U.S. institution is still highly valued. Carnigie Mellon and MIT remain some of the best schools in the world for engineering and computer science.
If immigration was stopped and all illegal aliens were sent back to their respective countries there would be a massive shortage in the labor force. In my area a vast majority of the construction force is made up of illegal aliens.
Yeah the country has some problems, it always had problems and always will. That's no reason to stop space exploration, or scientific research, or any number of other things
The reason that pattern occurs is that google is asserting their intellectual property rights in a friendly way. Also Google isn't shutting the site down - they're asking first! "Please take down your site." Which I read as "Please take down the site so we don't have to sue you. By the way we have more lawyers and cash than you but we're trying to be nice first."
The MPAA or RIAA usually comes in guns blazing.
Whether or not people would really comply if the *AA's asked nicely is another issue.
Other than Opteron server boards with HT slots, where is a motherboard that could hook in two grpahic cards?
Well here's the list from NewEgg.
SLI Equipped Motherboards.
I knew alot more about the PSP when they had the launch party for that. What it looked like, how much it was going to cost etc.
Microsoft has been keeping pretty tight wraps on the details. People will probably watch this to just see what the thing is all about.
/Just saying
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It depends on the artist. Some artists openly allow the taping of their shows if it doesn't interfere with other concert goers enjoyment. The Dave Matthews Band has allowed taping for a very long time.
However, not all bands agree to digital distribution of these recordings. The Dave Matthews Band has stated that they do not support digital sharing of their live shows, rather they would like to see the community continue sharing CD's of shows that started before digital music came into the mainstream.
This is a slightly complicated issue especially when artists allow taping of their shows.
At the university I used to work at during my undergrad our servers were cooled not only by 2 large A/C units in the room, but by large fans on the rear of the racks whose exhaust went directly out of the room.
IIRC this was a solution from APC. All together it effectively kept the room at right around 55 - 60 degrees.
People used to wonder why I'd go to work in jeans and long sleeved shirt in the summer.
Banks and univerisities should do more to protect SSNs and other identifiable information. As the parent pointed out if we don't use an SSN what do we use? DNA, retinal scan, etc. It's just easier to assign a number to people as a unique identifier, and any unique identifier should be protected.
Until DNA identification becomes widespread I'll keep my SSN to myself as much as I can.
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I disagree as well ... 1 is incredibly easy to remember. Some random number isn't as easy, even if it is say an old telephon number. Also a check for 1 is more likely to get past even a pair of eyes, more so than some random integer.
I agree that it's important to know that games run from multiple sources and that the media check doesn't need to be present for an executable to be run. Still need to be able to execute unsigned code though - or figure out how to sign executables for there to be a soft mod.
That would cause the executable to no longer be signed, and the system would not allow it to run.
Of course it boots.. the executables are still signed and therefore allowed to run.
Obviously only signed code was intended to be run on the machine, the absence of a media check does not mean the executable isn't signed. In fact anyone would be incredibly naive to think that the executables were not unsigned. That should read : In fact anyone would be incredibly naive to think that the executables were not signed.
There have been demo disks circulating for sometime (also media check free). So while these demo discs may have no media checks that doesn't mean that the executables are not signed.
As I understand it the media check basically lets the 360s hypervisor know what media the executable is allowed to run from. Demos do not have these media checks as they may be downloaded and run from the hard disk, or run from DVD.
Obviously only signed code was intended to be run on the machine, the absence of a media check does not mean the executable isn't signed. In fact anyone would be incredibly naive to think that the executables were not unsigned.
All in all I don't think we're any closer to modding the 360. This hacker group also released an Xbox 360 iso extraction tool which amounted to nothing. It turned out that any of the existing Xbox iso extraction tools could do the exact same thing. It's just alot of smoke and no fire.
Copy protections on the discs themselves is just one part of the much larger puzzle. As someone pointed out earlier you have to be able to get unsigned code to run on the machine. While this was fairly easy to accomplish on the original Xbox, the Xbox 360 is supposed to be a trusted computing platform. It looks as though there's alot to overcome in getting unsigned code to run.
You can checkout Xbox Scene, or Free60.org for information.
Everyone knows that XMLHttpRequest isn't secure. Where do we go from here? Is there a way to force the object to use SSL? Is there too much overhead in encrypting and decrypting the XML data with Blowfish or another algorithm?
There seems to be a disconnect between what CS is and what most curriculums offer. It seems that the submitter is getting a solid CS background when he might be looking for a degree in Software Engineering.
This seems to be a common occurance. My alma mater offered a CS degree which was actually more of a software engineering degree. Sure they offered courses in AI and more scientific branches, but I learned more practical programming than anything
I believe this confusion comes from the fact that colleges are pushed to churn out students that can get jobs instead of get their PhD. Sounds like it's time for seperate degrees.
"These days, it's almost unquestioned that college-bound students will tote laptops back to school."
I hardly find it unquestionable that a new college student would bring a laptop with them to college. While it's almost a certainty that a new student will bring a computer (although some still do not), there is still a mix of desktops and laptops out there.
The price of a desktop is still less than a notebook and buying a desktop usually yields a computer with more computing power, for many that equates to a computer that will last longer. If I were a fiscal parent I would be tempted to purchase the desktop computer, which yields more bang for the buck, is less likely to be stolen, and less easily damaged.
During my last semester in college (a year and a half ago) I saw almost no students bring a laptop with them to class. Professors regularly offer their lecture slides for download to supplement, but often replace note taking. This practice makes bringing a laptop to class, and sometimes pencil, pen and paper pointless.
I'm not saying that I don't see laptops becoming the de facto standard for a new college student, it's just not a foregone conclusion yet.
Xbox 360 will come with a hard drive (XBOX 360 Fact Sheet), the hard drive is detachable and upgradble, but there will be a 20 gig hard drive when you buy it.
It also appears that it will be high def out of the box as well. Shipping with an High Def cable and Component Adapter.
How I miss the days when BitTorrent wasn't mainstream...*sigh*.
/Hates cleaning spyware of peoples computers
Yes 2000 year of the Dubya - how odd :)
Thanks for the insight. If I had mod points I'd mod you up.
/not an economist
20 billion, to me at least seems to small to make an impact on the deficit.
The national deficit is at around 7 trillion dollars. Nasa's budget this year - 16 billion dollars. Even with the increases scheduled in NASAs budget it doesn't get above 20 billion in this decade. Even at 20 billion a year it take roughly 350 years to pay off the deficit, and that's if it stopped growing NOW.
The education system in America needs repair no doubt about it. I don't agree that we no longer attract bright students from abroad. I would say that a degree from a U.S. institution is still highly valued. Carnigie Mellon and MIT remain some of the best schools in the world for engineering and computer science.
If immigration was stopped and all illegal aliens were sent back to their respective countries there would be a massive shortage in the labor force. In my area a vast majority of the construction force is made up of illegal aliens.
Yeah the country has some problems, it always had problems and always will. That's no reason to stop space exploration, or scientific research, or any number of other things
Real Genius...
The reason that pattern occurs is that google is asserting their intellectual property rights in a friendly way. Also Google isn't shutting the site down - they're asking first! "Please take down your site." Which I read as "Please take down the site so we don't have to sue you. By the way we have more lawyers and cash than you but we're trying to be nice first."
The MPAA or RIAA usually comes in guns blazing.
Whether or not people would really comply if the *AA's asked nicely is another issue.
Other than Opteron server boards with HT slots, where is a motherboard that could hook in two grpahic cards?
Well here's the list from NewEgg.
SLI Equipped Motherboards.
So this asteroid may not hit the Earth but one will probably slam into us eventually. So why not use this one as a practice run?
From TFA:
"This is most likely not the object with our number on it, but one day we will have to address this question and we'll need the technology."
So let's develop the technology now, when a screw up won't mean utter devastation of part of the planet.
One of the bullet points in the PCMag article was that they want Longhorn to be the OS for the next 10 years.
The same OS for 10 years? Maybe that's how long they think it will take them to roll out all the updates?
Seriously though - in 10 years what if we have 128 bit processors? Is Microsoft going to update the code to support those? I'd like to see them try.
I knew alot more about the PSP when they had the launch party for that. What it looked like, how much it was going to cost etc.
/Just saying
Microsoft has been keeping pretty tight wraps on the details. People will probably watch this to just see what the thing is all about.
It depends on the artist. Some artists openly allow the taping of their shows if it doesn't interfere with other concert goers enjoyment. The Dave Matthews Band has allowed taping for a very long time.
However, not all bands agree to digital distribution of these recordings. The Dave Matthews Band has stated that they do not support digital sharing of their live shows, rather they would like to see the community continue sharing CD's of shows that started before digital music came into the mainstream.
This is a slightly complicated issue especially when artists allow taping of their shows.
At the university I used to work at during my undergrad our servers were cooled not only by 2 large A/C units in the room, but by large fans on the rear of the racks whose exhaust went directly out of the room.
IIRC this was a solution from APC. All together it effectively kept the room at right around 55 - 60 degrees.
People used to wonder why I'd go to work in jeans and long sleeved shirt in the summer.
Beating a dead horse doesn't even come close to these stories now.... please stop. Please.
Banks and univerisities should do more to protect SSNs and other identifiable information. As the parent pointed out if we don't use an SSN what do we use? DNA, retinal scan, etc. It's just easier to assign a number to people as a unique identifier, and any unique identifier should be protected.
Until DNA identification becomes widespread I'll keep my SSN to myself as much as I can.