Most local exploits are outright dismissed by Microsoft as "not a bug".
For a big example, although one that Microsoft later partially mitigated due to the outcry, look for the "shatter attack".
Windows may not be as defenseless to remote attacks as it used to be, but locally, it'd be a lunacy to claim it has even semi-working security. Allowing programs root access left and right doesn't help, either.
1. MAC addresses don't traverse the network beyond your first hop, and are trivially overridable. 2. Most current machines have TPM built in. It's not just a "niche value-subtracted(correction mine) component", it's actually there in, in all likelihood, your machine as well. 3. The problem here is that TPM provides that unique serial number, and more -- so it deserves at least as much attention as the Pentium3 one did.
And they have it again. The first time, it caused a huge outcry, but now, as a part of the TPM chip, somehow no one seems to be upset, even though it's a much worse invasion of privacy and customer rights than just a mere serial number.
It's not fully automatic, I assume? Since that would cause a major slowdown.
For manual dedupes, btrfs can do that as well, and a part of vserver patchset (not related to the main functionality) includes a hack that works for most Unix filesystems.
Uhm, a slightly overweight Norwegian Forest cat is 8kg, and that's the biggest race there is. Your sister's kitteh at 11kg sounds like something barely able to move.
I mean hell, in the IT world, a couple of examples are "megabyte" which somehow now means 1000^2 bytes now, instead of the 1024^2 that it has meant forever (or as long as I have been alive).
It still means what it used to meant, unless you're a drive maker. They did get a committee to muddle the water in order to avoid lawsuits, but that doesn't change the meaning of a term that's well-established for sixty years.
The few places that do use it do have bad effects. In facts, "MiB" for most IT professionals who haven't heard of that committee's revelations sounds like "millions of bytes", bringing confusion. Plain old "MB" doesn't have that flaw as long as drive labelling is not concerned.
Someone remind me, what is the point of ChromeOS after all? Because I can't see any.
An actual OS can run a browser, and, in addition, any other program. Having an OS that's an one-trick pony seems to be useless to me here. For flight controllers, that can be good. For non-embedded computers, big or small, not so.
I guess his choice to not pick a n900 is a bit bizarre. I never knew that gps was such a killer app on a phone.
Especially considering that you have strictly more mapping programs for n900 than for Android. Why? You can use Google Maps (install maemo-geolocation then for extra functionalities perhaps other extensions), then you have additional programs at hand. The one that offers the best native support is probably Mappero (formerly Maemo Mapper) that can use Open Street Map (default, sucks in Poland), Google Maps, Virtual Earth, Yahoo Maps, Yandex (Russia) and "topomaps" (Finland).
Nokia's Ovi maps do suck goat balls, just like anything that comes within a hundred miles from Ovi. The only thing it has good is its satelite view which has my garage 20px big and my tree 10px (at the best non-scaled zoom) while Google Sat shows the whole town as a dirty blotch.
It's not a problem of the machine, it's a problem of DRM. n900 is much smaller than iPad, yet it works almost perfectly for sysadmin tasks. It's "almost" because of a 3-row keyboard that makes you press Fn for digits.
I've learned to read at 3-4. Pitfalls? At 5ish when I could read well enough, one thing I stumbled upon was a popular science magazine for 12-15 year olds that included an article about the evolution and future of the Solar System, that ends with Earth and other planets as frozen dead rocks.
I had nightmares about this for a couple of years. "We're all doomed!". Freaking astronomy...!
The main problem is that when the offender walks off, no one reacts. In theory, police should be dispatched and nab him -- but that never happens. Not even "rarely", it's for all practical purposes "never". This makes the system just a costly joke.
Except that to be able to use quantum crypto at all, you need to provide a physical way to pass the quantum state. And with that requirement, why won't you just pass the key the good old fashioned way? Strictly more secure, and much cheaper.
Removing any number but ALL servers does entirely no good. The only effect is slowing the botnet for a day while the zombies fall back to surviving servers.
And, like an incomplete antibiotics therapy, it gives the botnet's herder a clue -- that he needs to move to more resilient techniques instead of relying on fixed, easy to remove, servers.
Start the joystick emulation. Run dosbox and the keymapper -- with all those games using port 60 instead of the BIOS you have to remap physical keys anyway; you need left shift, right shift, then whatever you need to start the game (F1-F4 in Pinball Dreams/Fantasies). Then, remap the joy up event to space. Play PD/PF/whatever else.
Laptops don't have accelerometers and are too unwieldy, iPhone has no keyboard. It might be possible to do this on a Milestone if someone writes an accelerometer->joystick driver (probably needing a jailbreak) or adds that to DosBox directly.
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If you have problems with it, just change it to something better. Slashdot specifies merely { font-family:monospace; }.
They'll use a token ring.
You mean, if you blow yourself and a bunch of other denomination mosque goers with a shahid's belt, you end up with 72 uglies? Good to know!
Most local exploits are outright dismissed by Microsoft as "not a bug".
For a big example, although one that Microsoft later partially mitigated due to the outcry, look for the "shatter attack".
Windows may not be as defenseless to remote attacks as it used to be, but locally, it'd be a lunacy to claim it has even semi-working security. Allowing programs root access left and right doesn't help, either.
1. MAC addresses don't traverse the network beyond your first hop, and are trivially overridable.
2. Most current machines have TPM built in. It's not just a "niche value-subtracted(correction mine) component", it's actually there in, in all likelihood, your machine as well.
3. The problem here is that TPM provides that unique serial number, and more -- so it deserves at least as much attention as the Pentium3 one did.
And they have it again. The first time, it caused a huge outcry, but now, as a part of the TPM chip, somehow no one seems to be upset, even though it's a much worse invasion of privacy and customer rights than just a mere serial number.
Just never use biplanes... that has been tried many times, without any success.
It's not fully automatic, I assume? Since that would cause a major slowdown.
For manual dedupes, btrfs can do that as well, and a part of vserver patchset (not related to the main functionality) includes a hack that works for most Unix filesystems.
Uhm, a slightly overweight Norwegian Forest cat is 8kg, and that's the biggest race there is. Your sister's kitteh at 11kg sounds like something barely able to move.
I mean hell, in the IT world, a couple of examples are "megabyte" which somehow now means 1000^2 bytes now, instead of the 1024^2 that it has meant forever (or as long as I have been alive).
It still means what it used to meant, unless you're a drive maker. They did get a committee to muddle the water in order to avoid lawsuits, but that doesn't change the meaning of a term that's well-established for sixty years.
The few places that do use it do have bad effects. In facts, "MiB" for most IT professionals who haven't heard of that committee's revelations sounds like "millions of bytes", bringing confusion. Plain old "MB" doesn't have that flaw as long as drive labelling is not concerned.
Someone remind me, what is the point of ChromeOS after all? Because I can't see any.
An actual OS can run a browser, and, in addition, any other program. Having an OS that's an one-trick pony seems to be useless to me here. For flight controllers, that can be good. For non-embedded computers, big or small, not so.
I guess his choice to not pick a n900 is a bit bizarre. I never knew that gps was such a killer app on a phone.
Especially considering that you have strictly more mapping programs for n900 than for Android. Why? You can use Google Maps (install maemo-geolocation then for extra functionalities perhaps other extensions), then you have additional programs at hand. The one that offers the best native support is probably Mappero (formerly Maemo Mapper) that can use Open Street Map (default, sucks in Poland), Google Maps, Virtual Earth, Yahoo Maps, Yandex (Russia) and "topomaps" (Finland).
Nokia's Ovi maps do suck goat balls, just like anything that comes within a hundred miles from Ovi. The only thing it has good is its satelite view which has my garage 20px big and my tree 10px (at the best non-scaled zoom) while Google Sat shows the whole town as a dirty blotch.
Just like today's Girl Genius strip (in the last panel).
You're not supposed to get your software from Ovi (which is worthless), but from Debian (which is the biggest OS distribution in existence).
Here's the best iPad stand.
And yeah, iPad combines the worst properties of a netbook and a handheld, _plus_ lacking a keyboard. Me not wants.
It's not a problem of the machine, it's a problem of DRM. n900 is much smaller than iPad, yet it works almost perfectly for sysadmin tasks. It's "almost" because of a 3-row keyboard that makes you press Fn for digits.
Yay mbox with more than 1000 plain text mails, or just several ones with attachments of the size business drones tend to send you.
Maildirs are just as greppable, with none of the downsides.
I've learned to read at 3-4. Pitfalls? At 5ish when I could read well enough, one thing I stumbled upon was a popular science magazine for 12-15 year olds that included an article about the evolution and future of the Solar System, that ends with Earth and other planets as frozen dead rocks.
I had nightmares about this for a couple of years. "We're all doomed!". Freaking astronomy...!
Release what you have, see if the customer notices/finds your bugs, patch, profit.
ID is pretty much the only game company which bothers with anything after "release what you have".
The main problem is that when the offender walks off, no one reacts. In theory, police should be dispatched and nab him -- but that never happens. Not even "rarely", it's for all practical purposes "never". This makes the system just a costly joke.
In fact, neither ASLR nor DEP can ever prevent an attack. They can at most minimize the damage, turning running arbitrary code into a mere DoS.
With or without ASLR or DEP, you still need to fix the underlying security hole.
If your endpoint has been compromised, there isn't anything you can do.
Except that to be able to use quantum crypto at all, you need to provide a physical way to pass the quantum state. And with that requirement, why won't you just pass the key the good old fashioned way? Strictly more secure, and much cheaper.
Removing any number but ALL servers does entirely no good. The only effect is slowing the botnet for a day while the zombies fall back to surviving servers.
And, like an incomplete antibiotics therapy, it gives the botnet's herder a clue -- that he needs to move to more resilient techniques instead of relying on fixed, easy to remove, servers.
For playing with real tilt on a computer:
n900 + dosbox + acceleromymote.
Start the joystick emulation. Run dosbox and the keymapper -- with all those games using port 60 instead of the BIOS you have to remap physical keys anyway; you need left shift, right shift, then whatever you need to start the game (F1-F4 in Pinball Dreams/Fantasies). Then, remap the joy up event to space. Play PD/PF/whatever else.
Laptops don't have accelerometers and are too unwieldy, iPhone has no keyboard. It might be possible to do this on a Milestone if someone writes an accelerometer->joystick driver (probably needing a jailbreak) or adds that to DosBox directly.