Realistically that modification would probably be quite trivial, maybe as simple as changing some strings and making a message repeat if the key is wrong:
Disk Error: Device Not Ready (A)bort, (R)etry, (F)ail
If I were to have the ability and/or inclination to design a system of encryption designed to not arouse suspicion it would have to be something that is there by default like having a separate partition or container file for each user with the encryption tied-in to their user account so when logging in their login credentials are the encryption key and the volume is auto mounted transparently.
This is exactly the behavior of the Mac OS built-in encryption, but it is not on by default. It's also not perfect but better than nothing.
I made a habit of encrypting my system before I travel. I really do have nothing to hide, but that doesn't mean I want TSA agents to be able to easily poke through all of my photographs. That is assuming they don't call the bomb squad when they see verbose kernel messages.
He makes a good point about having the software drawing attention and being suspicious. At this point Mac OS and Windows (and some Linux distros) include built-in drive encryption, so the presence of the software should not be as surprising. Even using it is becoming more common as news stories about stolen laptops become more prevalent and the systems make it easy. On my Mac I hit a button and reboot.
Really the thing that will get you under the microscope is not providing a key. If you don't provide any key they'll assume you're hiding something. If you do the shadow volume trick it just takes a smart cop to look at the drive capacity and see that the system only shows half that, there's not much way around that.
Mac OS X is UNIX 03 certified, it is UNIX. Both a FreeBSD-like ports system, and Debian-like apt-get system are available as well as a compiler out of the box. What does it not have? Pengiuns at boot time? The path of Linux seems to be heading in a similar direction towards current OS X... a nice GUI with the guts still accessible. Open up the terminal, it's pretty familiar, Darwin makes a fine system.
Your last paragraph seems to say Windows uses Mach. Is this intended? The OS X XNU kernel is a hybrid kernel built of BSD and Mach. The NT kernel is a hybrid kernel, but completely independent.
or Apple doesn't want it there because no HV could help prevent the installation of MacOS.
You've solved the mystery! I'm sure Apple is behind all of it, Sony is just bowing to pressure and disabling this feature in one series. Intel meanwhile continues to manufacture processors with this evil anti-Apple technology and Apple is fighting other software vendors, such as VMware, for shipping their own technologies that use HV even within the Mac OS!
$30 would be the monthly price for the contract, which would include a set number of minutes.
"Free" incoming just means incoming calls don't count against your minutes. Regardless of how much or how little you use your phone, you will still have to pay $30.
Generally without access to source code or design documents you are merely licensing the software. In this case they managed to completely own it! I'm sure they somehow activated Windows without clicking the EULA.
While not abused or forced on users, this is similar to how the original jailbreak was performed... a user would visit a website in Safari and it would jailbreak the phone as well as fixing the vulnerability.
Now they are more complicated with the custom firmwares and such.
Meanwhile Microsoft remains #NULL computer maker.
Oh, were you talking about software? Is it really such a surprise? How many companies can you list, other than Apple, that ship Apple software. Now, how many ship Microsoft? Apple keeps their software tied to the hardware, they will never outsell Microsoft in software unless they beat all of the other hardware makers combined, which is unlikely - though they are doing quite well with hardware as well! Guess what, the PC wasn't meant to be so prevalent either. IBM made a big mistake and paid dearly for it when others made clones, and of course Microsoft was happy to work with those cloners.
MS is a prostitute, Apple is monogamous. Which one is realistically going to get more action?
The second half of your first paragraph really makes no sense. There have always been a ton of free applications for the Apple computer, and they are not related to the hardware at all, nor is the prevalence of software for IBM compatibles. IBM compatible systems were cheap and similar to what people used at work. Period. It gained prominence and gained applications. In general applications on the default OS could not be legally be traded, installed, hacked or improved either, especially in later years like today.
Exactly. Let us remember, you cannot use your copy of iTunes in the development, design, manufacture or production of nuclear, missiles, or chemical or biological weapons.
It appears they added a way for an external device, like say a reader, to read the event log. It certainly saves having to remove half the components every time someone turns in a device for repair.
When was the last time your auto mechanic removed the engine computer in order to read the output? Maybe it utilized "communication between the electonic device and an external device."
I wasn't aware "hip and cool" meant dropping your laptop down a stairwell and then claiming the broken hinges were a manufacturing defect.
Seriously this does not influence the hip and cool aspect, and is really not even newsworthy.
I wasn't aware Windows came with a warranty. If the CD is broken when I buy it I can exchange it at the store, but if I scratch it up later I'm SOL.
Oh, you're talking about the Xbox? They don't need sensors, it tells you when it broke itself, though opening it up will void the warranty. The Zune is the only device where it would even make sense to include a sensor.
"any fee you wish for distributing a copy of the program"
The source is available. You may charge *any fee you wish* for distributing a compiled binary. It does not appear this is only meant to cover transport fees or else it would be limited; you could distribute via free email and still charge any fee you wish. The fact is you can modify it (with source provided), recompile it and run it, but you may have a hard time doing so on the Apple platform. There is nothing stopping someone from grabbing the source, modifying it, and porting it to Android.
You're right, I lack the knowledge to say "The chicken came before the egg", but I don't think many scientists have yet to explain it either, experience or otherwise I think I would have heard something.
The whole relationship between DNA and the processes are a chicken and egg event; you cannot make the things that run the processes without them already existing (or being externally created, which would require something intelligent). Personally I find that unexplained... at least in anything I've read/seen/heard/etc. So yes, I do think that the chances of random amino acids being folded in a certain way that they just happen to copy DNA are very slim and have yet to see any evidence for how it just happened. Heck, it takes a computer a couple of hours to fold one protien, and this one is not being made to do a certain purpose.
I know science isn't the study of things we already know, I suppose I don't like putting my faith in unproven theories then, but it seems the thing to do around here is bash anyone that thinks something else is possible. What I don't understand is why sciense as a whole is so against the idea that something could have had a hand in it (not saying they should say that something did, but why not admit the possibility?), except for their job security.
Isn't the saying "Rome wasn't built in a day"?
Which came first, DNA or the protiens that parse DNA to make protiens that parse and duplicate DNA (and do all the other work in the body as well). The only reason we do anything more than sitting around as an extremely pre-embryo is the protiens that are in the one cell created at conception. I cannot think of a scientific way that those protiens and the DNA would both get into a cell and be a perfect match for eachother without some kind of intervention to jump start the thing "in the beginning".
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Hasn't hurt Blackberry too much.
You opt-in to sending your data to Microsoft when you connect your Xbox to the internet and create an account with Xbox Live.
Realistically that modification would probably be quite trivial, maybe as simple as changing some strings and making a message repeat if the key is wrong:
Disk Error: Device Not Ready
(A)bort, (R)etry, (F)ail
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I think this functionality is included in the FireGPG Firefox add-on.
This is why file-based encryption is not the way to do it. If his partition would have been encrypted you would have been SOL.
If I were to have the ability and/or inclination to design a system of encryption designed to not arouse suspicion it would have to be something that is there by default like having a separate partition or container file for each user with the encryption tied-in to their user account so when logging in their login credentials are the encryption key and the volume is auto mounted transparently.
This is exactly the behavior of the Mac OS built-in encryption, but it is not on by default. It's also not perfect but better than nothing.
I made a habit of encrypting my system before I travel. I really do have nothing to hide, but that doesn't mean I want TSA agents to be able to easily poke through all of my photographs. That is assuming they don't call the bomb squad when they see verbose kernel messages.
He makes a good point about having the software drawing attention and being suspicious. At this point Mac OS and Windows (and some Linux distros) include built-in drive encryption, so the presence of the software should not be as surprising. Even using it is becoming more common as news stories about stolen laptops become more prevalent and the systems make it easy. On my Mac I hit a button and reboot.
Really the thing that will get you under the microscope is not providing a key. If you don't provide any key they'll assume you're hiding something. If you do the shadow volume trick it just takes a smart cop to look at the drive capacity and see that the system only shows half that, there's not much way around that.
Mac OS X is UNIX 03 certified, it is UNIX. Both a FreeBSD-like ports system, and Debian-like apt-get system are available as well as a compiler out of the box. What does it not have? Pengiuns at boot time? The path of Linux seems to be heading in a similar direction towards current OS X... a nice GUI with the guts still accessible. Open up the terminal, it's pretty familiar, Darwin makes a fine system.
Your last paragraph seems to say Windows uses Mach. Is this intended? The OS X XNU kernel is a hybrid kernel built of BSD and Mach. The NT kernel is a hybrid kernel, but completely independent.
Red Hat and the logo were inspired by Mark Ewing's hat, as he was known to wear a red fedora around the Carnegie Mellon campus.
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or Apple doesn't want it there because no HV could help prevent the installation of MacOS.
You've solved the mystery! I'm sure Apple is behind all of it, Sony is just bowing to pressure and disabling this feature in one series. Intel meanwhile continues to manufacture processors with this evil anti-Apple technology and Apple is fighting other software vendors, such as VMware, for shipping their own technologies that use HV even within the Mac OS!
$30 would be the monthly price for the contract, which would include a set number of minutes.
"Free" incoming just means incoming calls don't count against your minutes. Regardless of how much or how little you use your phone, you will still have to pay $30.
Generally without access to source code or design documents you are merely licensing the software. In this case they managed to completely own it! I'm sure they somehow activated Windows without clicking the EULA.
While not abused or forced on users, this is similar to how the original jailbreak was performed... a user would visit a website in Safari and it would jailbreak the phone as well as fixing the vulnerability.
Now they are more complicated with the custom firmwares and such.
Meanwhile Microsoft remains #NULL computer maker. Oh, were you talking about software? Is it really such a surprise? How many companies can you list, other than Apple, that ship Apple software. Now, how many ship Microsoft? Apple keeps their software tied to the hardware, they will never outsell Microsoft in software unless they beat all of the other hardware makers combined, which is unlikely - though they are doing quite well with hardware as well! Guess what, the PC wasn't meant to be so prevalent either. IBM made a big mistake and paid dearly for it when others made clones, and of course Microsoft was happy to work with those cloners. MS is a prostitute, Apple is monogamous. Which one is realistically going to get more action? The second half of your first paragraph really makes no sense. There have always been a ton of free applications for the Apple computer, and they are not related to the hardware at all, nor is the prevalence of software for IBM compatibles. IBM compatible systems were cheap and similar to what people used at work. Period. It gained prominence and gained applications. In general applications on the default OS could not be legally be traded, installed, hacked or improved either, especially in later years like today.
Exactly. Let us remember, you cannot use your copy of iTunes in the development, design, manufacture or production of nuclear, missiles, or chemical or biological weapons.
It appears they added a way for an external device, like say a reader, to read the event log. It certainly saves having to remove half the components every time someone turns in a device for repair. When was the last time your auto mechanic removed the engine computer in order to read the output? Maybe it utilized "communication between the electonic device and an external device."
I wasn't aware "hip and cool" meant dropping your laptop down a stairwell and then claiming the broken hinges were a manufacturing defect. Seriously this does not influence the hip and cool aspect, and is really not even newsworthy.
I wasn't aware Windows came with a warranty. If the CD is broken when I buy it I can exchange it at the store, but if I scratch it up later I'm SOL. Oh, you're talking about the Xbox? They don't need sensors, it tells you when it broke itself, though opening it up will void the warranty. The Zune is the only device where it would even make sense to include a sensor.
"any fee you wish for distributing a copy of the program" The source is available. You may charge *any fee you wish* for distributing a compiled binary. It does not appear this is only meant to cover transport fees or else it would be limited; you could distribute via free email and still charge any fee you wish. The fact is you can modify it (with source provided), recompile it and run it, but you may have a hard time doing so on the Apple platform. There is nothing stopping someone from grabbing the source, modifying it, and porting it to Android.
Thanks for some explanation :)
You're right, I lack the knowledge to say "The chicken came before the egg", but I don't think many scientists have yet to explain it either, experience or otherwise I think I would have heard something.
The whole relationship between DNA and the processes are a chicken and egg event; you cannot make the things that run the processes without them already existing (or being externally created, which would require something intelligent). Personally I find that unexplained... at least in anything I've read/seen/heard/etc. So yes, I do think that the chances of random amino acids being folded in a certain way that they just happen to copy DNA are very slim and have yet to see any evidence for how it just happened. Heck, it takes a computer a couple of hours to fold one protien, and this one is not being made to do a certain purpose.
I know science isn't the study of things we already know, I suppose I don't like putting my faith in unproven theories then, but it seems the thing to do around here is bash anyone that thinks something else is possible. What I don't understand is why sciense as a whole is so against the idea that something could have had a hand in it (not saying they should say that something did, but why not admit the possibility?), except for their job security.
I don't think either one is the most fit to lead, but I'd rather see GW on TV than John Kerry... he looks like a Ken doll with grey hair.
Isn't the saying "Rome wasn't built in a day"? Which came first, DNA or the protiens that parse DNA to make protiens that parse and duplicate DNA (and do all the other work in the body as well). The only reason we do anything more than sitting around as an extremely pre-embryo is the protiens that are in the one cell created at conception. I cannot think of a scientific way that those protiens and the DNA would both get into a cell and be a perfect match for eachother without some kind of intervention to jump start the thing "in the beginning".
So you're really saying is you feel you're more intelligent than your son and wife? That's not very nice....
And yes, Windows is still the best place for me to play WoW in between tps reports...
That all works until the US goes "Woah! Now we know how we can get some money to pay off our debt!"....
Watch MS profits go down to like 3 billion.