The type of attack you specify has never been possible in the NT world, with the exception of "LocalSystem" accounts, which are denied access to the network. Which means, you could have a service in administrator context, that could write to a user context, but not vice versa.
I've often thought it was a bad design decision that Microsoft never opened Windows Update up to ISVs.
Even if they didn't do hosting, being able to submit a signed key, and a URL for files, and maybe hash values, and tie that into Windows Update would be awesome. Then I only have one application trying to do updates (Windows Update), and then all the crap in my systray wouldn't need to be there, and Adobe and Mozilla could stop checking every other run... grrrr.
So much of what Microsoft does is good, but they never go the extra mile to be great. It's like they're happy with mediocrity as long as they have 100% marketshare.
Though that may be true, thanks to many things, including the power of OSX and the simplicity of design, it's making inroads in places it's never made before. I've almost convinced my dad to switch to a Mac portable instead of a PC. Almost. It would have been nigh-impossible 5 years ago.
I own a Mac Mini, and I've been a professed mac hater since I first started using the PC in 1988. I'm surviving with Ubuntu 10.4 until I save the money for a MacBook Pro.
make it so that the E350 costs $0 to make identical copies of, and I guarantee you Mercedes will make a shitload of money off of $42 cars. Hell, I'd buy seven, one for each day of the week.
Wrong. Every dollar paid by a company to the government or in taxes, is a fraction of a dollar out of YOUR pocket at the point of sale. While you can abstain from using wifi products and so not pay this "tax," it's still there, and it makes products more expensive all around.
The major issue I have with Java is the GC - at some point, especially when dealing with THOUSANDS of objects, the GC is going to abruptly stop your application as it tries to deal with the allocation nightmare. It's gotten better over the years, but it's not gone away.
Visual Studio was awesome before they converted massive chunks of it to.Net and performance went in the toilet. I would argue that VS 7.0 was that last "great" version of VS.
Sort of like what happened to SQL Enterprise Manager when the.Net-ified it... went from a great MMC-based tool to a siloed Piece. Of. Garbage.
The two biggest issues I had with using XCode initially was qmake not properly specifying the include directories (maybe my fault), and not properly setting the include path to the boost libraries I was using - I had to specifically hardcode the libraries.
Again, maybe my fault, but I'm pretty used to gcc -I and -L working as advertised.
Other than that, the editor is awesome, except it's propensity to Uppercase every filename I'm working on...
I understand the Mac is not case sensitive, but just leave my case alone, please. Windows doesn't go and change it willy-nilly.:-P
I've been thinking long and hard about taking the original Microsoft Natural keyboard (with the front riser) and slapping an Arduino and Bluetooth module on it to make it wireless.
As far as I'm concerned, that keyboard is and was the pinnacle of Microsoft Hardware.
I don't understand why Parametric got out of the Unix business, especially with Linux the up-and-comer. Did Microsoft pay them to migrate from OpenGL to DirectX?
Okay, so maybe I'm being a bit of a nitpicker here...
but do ANY of the Gnome/KDE folks use more than one machine? Because I do, and my home directory can be used on any number of different versions of Gnome/KDE and distros.
Can't these guys figure out a way so that if I log into machine X, it doesn't bork the menu system because it has a config from machine Z?
WTF?
Hello, this is only a capability Unix/Linux has had since 1986/1993!!
Yeah, yeah, I could write it myself, but what are the odds I alone would get it A) accepted B) right for more use-cases??
The people who brought you open access to the Internet were startups. People who bought bandwidth from bandwidth providers (Sprint/MCI were kings back in the early 90's, at least in the Northeast). The big guys, Verizon, Comcast? These people got their Internet capabilities by buying them from local and regional startups, much of which was fostered by telecom deregulation in '96 that said backhaul companies had to make their backbones available to all at "market prices."
Now the backhaul companies are content companies, and have bought up all the startups and competition, and are closing up the backbone by virtue of just being too big to compete with. Now you have your content companies controlling the bandwidth and backbone. This is the danger of not enforcing net neutrality - deregulation created rules, and now the telco industry wants to simply disregard the rules. They want their cake, and they don't want to share.
I was visiting Washington last fall, and made the trip to the observatory at Mt. Saint Helens. I'm still amazed that the trees haven't grown back. AT ALL. Whole mountainsides of trees laid down by the blast, and nothing growing back.
Ebooks will win when an entire generation grows up on them. Like all things, using a digital device is only going to feel natural when you've been doing nothing but your entire life. It's part of why I like the whole leap-pad concept for kids. Yes, actual real-world 3D spatial skills development is important, but that's one of those things we get almost instinctually at birth - the first thing we do after screaming our heads off is reach for a nipple.
I have two laptops. One currently has 250 tabs open, because I haven't taken the time to pare down my research links in over a month. The other has roughly 50 open, same issue. Both are running betweeen 800 and 1800MB of RAM. What I need is an improved version of Prism, where I can put tabs into real windows.
Prism for IE would rule. Trying to use VMWare Lab Manager as both an admin and as a user is problematic when my tabs all share the same user profile.
Intelligence has never had anything to do with Darwinism. Probably quite the opposite. The intellectuals proslethize while the neanderthals fuck everything that moves.
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The type of attack you specify has never been possible in the NT world, with the exception of "LocalSystem" accounts, which are denied access to the network. Which means, you could have a service in administrator context, that could write to a user context, but not vice versa.
I've often thought it was a bad design decision that Microsoft never opened Windows Update up to ISVs.
Even if they didn't do hosting, being able to submit a signed key, and a URL for files, and maybe hash values, and tie that into Windows Update would be awesome. Then I only have one application trying to do updates (Windows Update), and then all the crap in my systray wouldn't need to be there, and Adobe and Mozilla could stop checking every other run... grrrr.
So much of what Microsoft does is good, but they never go the extra mile to be great. It's like they're happy with mediocrity as long as they have 100% marketshare.
Though that may be true, thanks to many things, including the power of OSX and the simplicity of design, it's making inroads in places it's never made before. I've almost convinced my dad to switch to a Mac portable instead of a PC. Almost. It would have been nigh-impossible 5 years ago.
I own a Mac Mini, and I've been a professed mac hater since I first started using the PC in 1988. I'm surviving with Ubuntu 10.4 until I save the money for a MacBook Pro.
make it so that the E350 costs $0 to make identical copies of, and I guarantee you Mercedes will make a shitload of money off of $42 cars. Hell, I'd buy seven, one for each day of the week.
Wrong. Every dollar paid by a company to the government or in taxes, is a fraction of a dollar out of YOUR pocket at the point of sale. While you can abstain from using wifi products and so not pay this "tax," it's still there, and it makes products more expensive all around.
The major issue I have with Java is the GC - at some point, especially when dealing with THOUSANDS of objects, the GC is going to abruptly stop your application as it tries to deal with the allocation nightmare. It's gotten better over the years, but it's not gone away.
Jack cranes build themselves, they're that cool. Like Chuck Norris.
We have some. Quackery, Snake Oil, religion, etc.
What do you expect from a one-hit wonder? Innovation?
Visual Studio was awesome before they converted massive chunks of it to .Net and performance went in the toilet. I would argue that VS 7.0 was that last "great" version of VS.
.Net-ified it... went from a great MMC-based tool to a siloed Piece. Of. Garbage.
Sort of like what happened to SQL Enterprise Manager when the
The two biggest issues I had with using XCode initially was qmake not properly specifying the include directories (maybe my fault), and not properly setting the include path to the boost libraries I was using - I had to specifically hardcode the libraries.
:-P
Again, maybe my fault, but I'm pretty used to gcc -I and -L working as advertised.
Other than that, the editor is awesome, except it's propensity to Uppercase every filename I'm working on...
I understand the Mac is not case sensitive, but just leave my case alone, please. Windows doesn't go and change it willy-nilly.
Except they're not recovering these vehicles for analysis.
I've been thinking long and hard about taking the original Microsoft Natural keyboard (with the front riser) and slapping an Arduino and Bluetooth module on it to make it wireless.
As far as I'm concerned, that keyboard is and was the pinnacle of Microsoft Hardware.
I don't understand why Parametric got out of the Unix business, especially with Linux the up-and-comer. Did Microsoft pay them to migrate from OpenGL to DirectX?
Okay, so maybe I'm being a bit of a nitpicker here...
but do ANY of the Gnome/KDE folks use more than one machine? Because I do, and my home directory can be used on any number of different versions of Gnome/KDE and distros.
Can't these guys figure out a way so that if I log into machine X, it doesn't bork the menu system because it has a config from machine Z?
WTF?
Hello, this is only a capability Unix/Linux has had since 1986/1993!!
Yeah, yeah, I could write it myself, but what are the odds I alone would get it A) accepted B) right for more use-cases??
Another AC pissed off that he can't take GPLed code and put it into his proprietary application. Boo hoo.
GPL evil. Bah! GPL is arguably the best thing to happen to software development since the invention of the compiler.
The people who brought you open access to the Internet were startups. People who bought bandwidth from bandwidth providers (Sprint/MCI were kings back in the early 90's, at least in the Northeast). The big guys, Verizon, Comcast? These people got their Internet capabilities by buying them from local and regional startups, much of which was fostered by telecom deregulation in '96 that said backhaul companies had to make their backbones available to all at "market prices."
Now the backhaul companies are content companies, and have bought up all the startups and competition, and are closing up the backbone by virtue of just being too big to compete with. Now you have your content companies controlling the bandwidth and backbone. This is the danger of not enforcing net neutrality - deregulation created rules, and now the telco industry wants to simply disregard the rules. They want their cake, and they don't want to share.
Except someone not voting, isn't a vote that someone is losing.
I'd like to find a way to make votes not cast by living registered voters count as negative votes against the candidates.
Ducks and Beavers living together, UTTER CONFUSION!!!!
Don't you mean "otter" confusion?
Cuz otherwise, wow. Totally got it man.
I was visiting Washington last fall, and made the trip to the observatory at Mt. Saint Helens. I'm still amazed that the trees haven't grown back. AT ALL. Whole mountainsides of trees laid down by the blast, and nothing growing back.
But oh my god was sunrise beautiful...
In Massachusetts in the 80's, that was just an average snow day. We still probably had school.
Ebooks will win when an entire generation grows up on them. Like all things, using a digital device is only going to feel natural when you've been doing nothing but your entire life. It's part of why I like the whole leap-pad concept for kids. Yes, actual real-world 3D spatial skills development is important, but that's one of those things we get almost instinctually at birth - the first thing we do after screaming our heads off is reach for a nipple.
I have two laptops. One currently has 250 tabs open, because I haven't taken the time to pare down my research links in over a month. The other has roughly 50 open, same issue. Both are running betweeen 800 and 1800MB of RAM. What I need is an improved version of Prism, where I can put tabs into real windows.
Prism for IE would rule. Trying to use VMWare Lab Manager as both an admin and as a user is problematic when my tabs all share the same user profile.
Intelligence has never had anything to do with Darwinism. Probably quite the opposite. The intellectuals proslethize while the neanderthals fuck everything that moves.
I think the whole fucking world should work off UTC.
Just saying.