[...] a misunderstanding that people were having [...]
Look to the others answers, like Shalda or temojen ones. It seems to me there IS a confusion, fuelled by people constantly making undue generalizations.
Are main car manufacturers only those that are making formula ones ?
Can someone explain how a thing like this is supposed to work? I don't mean whether or not it can be cracked, I'm sure it can. I mean, how does it ever work even on the non-technical user?
Just guessing:
As some protection scheme are relying on the autostart function of Windows:
The original is somewhat watermarked. Copying destroys the watermark. The autostart program installs "something" that forbids copying a non-watermarked CD.
Voilà, it's rather vague but hope it gives an idea. It might still be enough to apply for a patent those days:)
Sorry your math is wrong. 25 cubic meters are 25 000 liters, not 25. It's also the volume in a room with 2.5 meters from ceil to floor and 10m of surface. Now that's mach... ?
Yeah, but he's lost for the geek community anyway: He's using windows and need that modification just to do ctrl-alt-del, it's written black on white in TFA !
Posting a story on Slashdot acknowledging to use windows ! What a lame guy ! Hopefully for him not everyone is going to read TFA.
*** Yeah so there are only seven letters and that I isn't an I, it's just random bars that happen to form a bogus I ***
As far as i know there is no way to restrict a driver from accessing hardware registers it shouldn't access.
Huh ? What registers ? That's what context-switch is about : program "owns" all CPU registers while it runs, but it doesn't have access to the saved registers (context) of other tasks.
Device driver is just another user app (well, dynamic library is more accurate) that happens to access some piece of hardware directly.
A device driver is still a device driver, and as such has (and often needs) full access to you computers hardware.
No, it only needs full access to the device it handles. Therefore, if your sound card driver goes berserk, you just need to restart it, it can't possibly break something else. If it needs access to other components (say you need access to timers to sample audio), you access those other components like any other application does, sending a message to the timer driver.
One (and only one) thing seems obvious to me from the screenshots: Windows is the more eye-catching with it's bright, saturated blue.
Are screenshots using gnome and kde current versions default looks ? I have debian gnome 2.8.3 and KDE 3.3.2 so I haven't the same defaults - however I've switched kde look to "plastic", that's the default in 3.4 and less widows-ish/ playskool-ish than kde previous default. Gnome and KDE pastel colors are easier on the eyes.
Now about the applications... From the thumbnails, they're all the same with different skins, right ?;)
I suppose the telnet port (23) was filtered by firewall, but the telnet binary should still be there.
and if we wanted to connect we needed to use SSH.
You can't connect to a SMTP port (for example) with ssh. ssh binary is only useful in conjunction with the ssh protocol (usually on port 22).
I would add that telnet protocol is insecure as SMTP or HTTP are : they're plain text protocols, including login and password (that's why you should check for https when sending sensitive informations).
telnet is more than an (insecure) protocol. It's also a tool to directly write on a port.
telnet <hostname> 80
80 usually is the port for http. telnet connects you . Now you need to know http (rfc 2116). YOU now are talking to the server and the server responds to you as text/html.
You can do the same for other protocols (SMTP (port 25) and FTP (port 21) are quite easy to learn)
This is useful for testing/learning purposes. But if it's possible it's definately not usable.
For example, there are no hyperlinks, you get the html text (<a href="...">) and need to manually craft the GET request with that link if it's a local link. If it's a link to another site server, you need to manually connect to that server (that is, open another telnet session). So you will be totally crazy to do that:)
You know, it would be nice if you could at least tell where the submitter's comments end and where the first paragraph of the linked article begin. Quotation marks, anyone? "From the article:" perhaps?
How are slashdot editors supposed to know ?:)
Moreover there's no submitter comments at all. He just inserted two links "under" (should it be hyper ?) the article text
Maybe their goverment is interested in getting votes in the next election?
No. It might have been if the government had proposed a law, but this is not the case. Judiciary power is independant from legislative / executive power. Moreover the only near election is referendum about the project for a european constitution, and I can't see how it could influence people on that matter.
* And I'm pissed that when Slashdot posts news about Germany, links are usually in German, while when news are about France, links are usually in English *
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[...] a misunderstanding that people were having [...]
Look to the others answers, like Shalda or temojen ones. It seems to me there IS a confusion, fuelled by people constantly making undue generalizations.
Are main car manufacturers only those that are making formula ones ?
The last time I pointed this out, I was modded "Troll", as if I posted it just to provoke a reaction.
:)
Bad luck... some are getting +5, Insightful
Keep trying
Not exactly... look closely, there is the following structure :
Doggie Fizzle writes "(small Doggie Fizzle introduction) '(some Jason Kohrs paragraphs)'"
That's a citation in a citation...
Although there are currently only two main players in the CPU market, AMD and Intel [...]
Huh ?
What about IBM and all those embedded CPUS ?
Did you mean PC Desktop CPU market ?
Godwin's Law invoked PRIOR to the first post!
Amazing!
And there are still people to post even now that the whole thread is over !..
That is, Europe has its fair share of stupid people too.
I thought that the cause of all those zombies rather was a stupid OS from some Redmond company...
>>Will this be the real end of innovation in videogames?"
>Yes.
No. It was a loooong time ago.
I present to you... (drum roll)
Grand Theft Auto : New York!
Huh ? But... It looks like Flight Simulator 5.0 !
Since when does Earth belongs to Google ?
Moreover I'm worrying about Earth reaching release.
Everyone knows that vogons will destroy earth before it happens, so don't let that happen !
Can someone explain how a thing like this is supposed to work? I don't mean whether or not it can be cracked, I'm sure it can. I mean, how does it ever work even on the non-technical user?
:
:
:)
Just guessing
As some protection scheme are relying on the autostart function of Windows
The original is somewhat watermarked. Copying destroys the watermark. The autostart program installs "something" that forbids copying a non-watermarked CD.
Voilà, it's rather vague but hope it gives an idea. It might still be enough to apply for a patent those days
http://www.xcp-aurora.com/ are producing that protection, named xcp2.
if you change the format for whatever purpose, wouldn't it by definition not be a CD anymore?
:)
It's still a CD, it just isn't an Audio CD.
--
Don't worry, I won't click this
Sorry your math is wrong. ... ?
25 cubic meters are 25 000 liters, not 25.
It's also the volume in a room with 2.5 meters from ceil to floor and 10m of surface.
Now that's mach
I hope he does well
Sadly, I think that now it's patented, nobody will be interested for the next twenty years.
Those sort of things already happened before...
Yeah, but he's lost for the geek community anyway :
He's using windows and need that modification just to do ctrl-alt-del, it's written black on white in TFA !
Posting a story on Slashdot acknowledging to use windows ! What a lame guy ! Hopefully for him not everyone is going to read TFA.
*** Yeah so there are only seven letters and that I isn't an I, it's just random bars that happen to form a bogus I ***
Your browser must not know how to parse <sarcasm> tags.
:)
Yeah, that's because slashcode hides them
(it seems "plain old text" and "extrans" have been inverted for ages)
As far as i know there is no way to restrict a driver from accessing hardware registers it shouldn't access.
Huh ? What registers ? That's what context-switch is about : program "owns" all CPU registers while it runs, but it doesn't have access to the saved registers (context) of other tasks.
Device driver is just another user app (well, dynamic library is more accurate) that happens to access some piece of hardware directly.
A device driver is still a device driver, and as such has (and often needs) full access to you computers hardware.
No, it only needs full access to the device it handles. Therefore, if your sound card driver goes berserk, you just need to restart it, it can't possibly break something else. If it needs access to other components (say you need access to timers to sample audio), you access those other components like any other application does, sending a message to the timer driver.
PowerPC++, then.
Who was saying that user-mode device drivers, as done in true micro-kernels like QNX, was an inefficient design, again ?
One (and only one) thing seems obvious to me from the screenshots :
;)
Windows is the more eye-catching with it's bright, saturated blue.
Are screenshots using gnome and kde current versions default looks ? I have debian gnome 2.8.3 and KDE 3.3.2 so I haven't the same defaults - however I've switched kde look to "plastic", that's the default in 3.4 and less widows-ish/ playskool-ish than kde previous default.
Gnome and KDE pastel colors are easier on the eyes.
Now about the applications... From the thumbnails, they're all the same with different skins, right ?
telnet was being shut down
I suppose the telnet port (23) was filtered by firewall, but the telnet binary should still be there.
and if we wanted to connect we needed to use SSH.
You can't connect to a SMTP port (for example) with ssh. ssh binary is only useful in conjunction with the ssh protocol (usually on port 22).
I would add that telnet protocol is insecure as SMTP or HTTP are : they're plain text protocols, including login and password (that's why you should check for https when sending sensitive informations).
Excuse my [...] bad spelling
;)
:)
English isn't my native language either
telnet is more than an (insecure) protocol. It's also a tool to directly write on a port.
telnet <hostname> 80
80 usually is the port for http. telnet connects you . Now you need to know http (rfc 2116). YOU now are talking to the server and the server responds to you as text/html.
You can do the same for other protocols (SMTP (port 25) and FTP (port 21) are quite easy to learn)
This is useful for testing/learning purposes. But if it's possible it's definately not usable.
For example, there are no hyperlinks, you get the html text (<a href="...">) and need to manually craft the GET request with that link if it's a local link. If it's a link to another site server, you need to manually connect to that server (that is, open another telnet session).
So you will be totally crazy to do that
> Lynx is pretty safe...definitely haven't gotten any spyware from it.
:)
You might be lucky. I don't trust any other browser than telnet
How are slashdot editors supposed to know ? :)
Moreover there's no submitter comments at all. He just inserted two links "under" (should it be hyper ?) the article text
No. It might have been if the government had proposed a law, but this is not the case. Judiciary power is independant from legislative / executive power. Moreover the only near election is referendum about the project for a european constitution, and I can't see how it could influence people on that matter.
* And I'm pissed that when Slashdot posts news about Germany, links are usually in German, while when news are about France, links are usually in English *