"Of course, that would sound a bit like flamebait itself"
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So do not worry,/. do not see you as a flamebait. Right?
"maybe its time to grow some thicker skin"
It has little to do with feelings ("skin"), the retribution for the attacks against the Prophet, sal Allahu 'alaihi wa sallam, is part of my religion. Every religion has a sacred part that has to be defended, Islam has it too and part of the reason Islam being taken seriously is the willingness of many followers to follow the Islamic rulings strictly.
emphasis added.
This is the core of the issue. Extremist islamists believe everything that is mildly against their tenets to be an attack. Do you really think the authors of southpark are out to destroy islam? Christianity? Anything else they've lampooned?
Re-read Sura 42, titled Counsel. Line 6 "Had God so pleased, He had made them one people and of one creed." Line 47 "But if they turn aside from thee, yet We have not sent thee to be their guardian' Tis thine but to preach."
They probably used automated reviewing software - the computers are conspiring against us! Next thing you know we'll have autogenerated legislation and automated reviews for congressmen to vote on. How long till we have automaton congressmen voting for autogenerated legislation with pork provisions for "free storage enhancement" for their cronies?? OMG!:)
"As a result, each application has its own private address space from which it can use the lower 2 GB--the system reserves the upper 2 GB of every process's address space for its own use"
um, 2GB for the process + "the upper 2GB of every process's address space for its own use" for the system = 4GB _per_process_. It says so even in the part you quoted:)
"... but I'd still like to see some more effort placed into demonstrating that semiconductor RAM remains a scarce resource."
Well, considering in 32 bit Windows-land each process is allocated 4GB of "virtual address space" (the set of virtual memory addresses the process has available to it; 2GB for user and 2GB for kernel by default) you can quickly demonstrate that ram is a scarce resource. Multiply the # of processes running on your system by 4GB and you'll see the exact amount of virtual address space windows is allocating:)
64 bit Windows-land allocates 8TB per 64 bit process, fwiw.
Additionally, because the source of the laser energy is offset a bit from one another (I assume,) parallax would diffuse any 'ricochet' as there's a very tiny liklihood that fractional reflected energy from more than one of the units would concentrate at a strong enough level to cause damage. Think "angle of incidence equals the angle of reflection." The liklihood would decrease exponentially as the distance of the ricochet victim from the target increases. Likewise with the radial distance between the different nodes of the weapon.
"Even without metal chisels or hammers, prehistoric masons wielding flint tools could have chipped away at softer limestone outcrops, shaping them into pillars on the spot before carrying them a few hundred yards to the summit and lifting them upright."
In eve, death (having your capsule blown up aka being "podded") can result in a drop in skill points if you don't have an appropriate clone. Remember, these skill points are earned in real time. Losing several percentage points off of a skill can mean losing the ability to pilot some of your ships, use some of your equipment or perform some other functions. It is PAINFUL to die unprepared in this game.
Additionally, you lose all implants in your clone's head at the time. Beyond the overall cost (10s of millions of isk into the billions for very rare or multi-effect sets) there's the fact that you earn skill points less rapidly until you plug in some new ones.
With that being said, there is no permadeath. Even if you DO get podded into oblivion, buying clones is relatively cheap, though you can't do it in every station or even in every system. Even if you are blockaded into a dead-end system with no cloning facility, you could "clone jump" out, assuming you have spares around the universe.
I bought my PS3 for gaming, but the blu-ray player has seen lots of use since my old 32" sony xbr (circa 1998) died. The replacement I bought - 52" sony bravia xbr lcd - is fricking awesome, so I decided to start renting bd movies from blockbuster via moviepass, which allows the rental of any number of dvd or bd for any length of time (2 out at a time) for a monthly fee.
At first, the bd section was miniscule, but it is slowly expanding. Many of the new releases are available on bd as well as dvd, so it gives me a choice at the time I'm picking out movies.
For me, blu-ray adoption has really been an as-convenient process. Nothing and noone is forcing me, but considering I now have an appropriate tv, audio system and bd player I may as well take advantage of the bd movie quality for no additional charge.
"Public folders Keep a central calendar and contact folders wo(sic) which everbody has access"
In Exchange, Public folders can of course maintain central calendar, contact, mail, document etc repositories. They also can be mail enabled (you can send and receive email between properly configured public folders) and can have business intelligence processing performed on objects they receive, via forms. This includes creating new forms, forwarding new messages, email replies, interaction with other public folders and THEIR forms etc etc. Public folders in Exchange can essentially perform business processing without human interaction beyond creating the forms (and troubleshooting them when they fail;)
Big things missing though - No public folders, which allow automated, customized workflow processes, no single instance store (each attachment is a separate file within the message store,) limited support (enterprise class support 24x7 is > 15,000 euros and their business hours aren't conducive to US business support - GMT+1) and it runs on linux instead of bsd *grin*
With that being said, I can see where a LOT of businesses will be able to make extensive use of this. Best of luck to them!
I can see this being relatively secure if you use files you've either created yourself (.ogg of you humming backstreet boys or something equally unlikely, image of you doing something unlikely etc.)
but got me through some rough patches in intermediate & high school:
Memory, Sorrow & Thorn (Tad Williams) Darwath Trilogy (Barbara Hambly) Hammer's Slammers (David Drake) Thieves' World (various, edited by Robert Lynn Asprin) Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever (Stephan R. Donaldson - both the author and protagonist have been mentioned but not the series)
Already mentioned but deserve more:
Guardians of the Flame (Joel Rosenberg) Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit (Tolkien) Anything by Heinlein Dragonsbane (Hambly) Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy (Adams) The Belgariad (Eddings)
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instead of saying things like "I bet it works" why don't you try it and let us know how it goes? There's plenty of free mouse/kb automation tools out there - autoit, rannorex recorder, quick macros, apis ceratina, macro recorder & ptfb pro all pop up on a quick search for macro recorders. I'd be careful though some of that stuff looks shaaaaaady. I can shortcut the whole thing for you though - none of them work in the uac dialog for reasons already explained.
nope. In previous versions of windows they accomplished this via changing the gina.dll. Apparently in vista this is now handled via a separate subsystem with credential providers, replacing the function of gina.dll. The fact that the application has to be registered as a credential provider & run in kernel mode prevents user mode applications from accomplishing the same feat. If you try installing an application that does these things you'll get a UAC greyed out screen secure attention sequence because, well, you're installing something that can circumvent these protections:)
thats because pcanywhere connects the user to the console and runs as a kernel mode process. It even replaces the gina.dll. Without all that pcanywhere couldn't do it. If you've allowed spyware/malware that does all that to be installed on your machine then you're already screwed and no amount of sas will protect you.
actually that "allow or cancel" dialog is a SAS - secure attention sequence of the same ilk as ctrl-alt-del - it prevents any application from accessing the interface and doing exactly what you suggest - programmatically clicking the "allow" button.
One thousand, nay a million voices full of fear. And terror possesed me then. And I begged, "Angel of the Lord, what are these tortured screams?" And the angel said unto me, "These are the cries of the virii, the cries of the virii! You see, Reverend Maynard, tomorrow is pre-transfusion blood disinfection day and to them it is the holocaust." </revMaynard>
The scandal that blew it all into the open has already been posted. However, Magnus insinuates that this was an isolated event - a single dev doing a single naughty thing. Unfortunately, that is not true in the least. There have been numerous incidents of CCP employees' favoritism exhibited in-game, some of which have been noted by the eve playing public - scorp with all officer equipment spawned by a gm for instance that was blown up by a player gatecamp for instance.
I, personally, have been involved in numerous actions over the course of 3 years, including outright wars, against the corp and alliance of which t20 was a member and have seen first hand some very questionable events and decisions.
For instance, a corporation was involved in an event - essentially "Take back NOL-M9" which is the alliance in question's home system. The event coordinators within CCP assisted this corporation with a SINGLE carrier and a few other actors in faction battleships. A carrier can't take down pos - a fleet of a hundred carriers couldn't - yet they were supposed to take back the alliance's home system. Of course the attempt failed and the reward for the corporation involved was a few tier 1 battleships and some tech 1 cruisers.
ok, no big deal you say. True, but for events that transpired a few weeks afterwards. Essentially the same event but against a different target - a different alliance in the North - and the corporation involved is one of the founding corps of the alliance in question. For their event they received the assistance of several (I've heard variously 5 through 9) dreadnaughts, carriers and numerous faction battleships to assist them. On its own, the fleet provided by CCP would've been enough to do significant damage and take down many pos. In combination with the player forces it was unstoppable. I don't know the specifics of the rewards given to the corp involved but my understanding is that they received a few capital ships as well as several faction battleships.
This sort of lopsided favoritism is blatant and rampant in the game, unfortunately. After 3 and a half years of telling myself it couldn't be that bad, I've come to the realization that it is. CCP's bungled handling of this situation and the ones that preceded it and lack of acknowledgement of the scope of the issue constituted the final nail in the coffin - I cancelled both of my 3 and a half year old accounts already.
Background: I've been playing eve since august of 2003 with two accounts
Currently: I've cancelled both accounts due to CCP's flaccid response to the dev/gm cheating scandal
Question: Why wasn't the scandal - discovered by CCP back in the middle of 2006 - publicized and the dev (t20) properly punished (fired, per CCP policy) at that time? Why, after the scandal was publicized 6 months later haven't you taken appropriate action per your own policies and yet stretched your policies to ban the person that publicized the events? Why haven't CCP publicized the full extent of the cheating and the damage caused to the rest of the eve public?
I still don't understand where the supposed security gain is. Since when is malware unable to click ok itself?
The UAC confirmation is implemented the same as ctrl-alt-del - its a secure attention sequence that cannot be accessed by apps running in user space. So no, malware can't click "ok" itself:)
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well, I for one am not affected:
C:\Windows\system32>vssadmin list shadows | findstr /i time
Contained 2 shadow copies at creation time: 4/20/2010 1:04:24 AM
Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 4/23/2010 8:41:14 PM
Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 4/23/2010 8:44:13 PM
Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 4/23/2010 8:45:18 PM
Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 4/23/2010 8:47:44 PM
Contained 2 shadow copies at creation time: 4/26/2010 3:00:41 AM
Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 4/26/2010 3:33:43 AM
Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 8/12/2009 12:26:15 AM
Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 8/12/2009 10:19:21 PM
Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 8/13/2009 2:15:41 PM
Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 9/15/2009 8:34:40 PM
Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 9/23/2009 7:52:40 PM
Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 9/23/2009 7:59:05 PM
Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 9/24/2009 1:14:49 PM
Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 9/25/2009 1:18:36 AM
Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 10/2/2009 2:23:48 AM
Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 10/2/2009 10:28:52 PM
Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 10/3/2009 9:39:41 PM
Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 10/5/2009 2:35:10 AM
Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 10/5/2009 2:40:03 AM
Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 10/5/2009 2:44:26 AM
Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 10/5/2009 3:27:32 AM
Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 10/5/2009 3:34:46 AM
Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 10/5/2009 3:36:32 AM
Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 10/5/2009 3:37:27 AM
Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 10/5/2009 3:39:03 AM
Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 10/5/2009 4:19:47 AM
Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 10/5/2009 4:21:54 AM
Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 10/5/2009 4:23:33 AM
Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 10/5/2009 11:44:25 PM
Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 10/7/2009 11:37:10 AM
Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 10/8/2009 1:14:00 AM
Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 10/9/2009 12:39:08 AM
Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 12/11/2009 3:25:05 AM
I've rebooted my machine a few times since August of '09 =)
"Of course, that would sound a bit like flamebait itself"
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Extra 'Interesting'
So do not worry, /. do not see you as a flamebait. Right?
"maybe its time to grow some thicker skin"
It has little to do with feelings ("skin"), the retribution for the attacks against the Prophet, sal Allahu 'alaihi wa sallam, is part of my religion. Every religion has a sacred part that has to be defended, Islam has it too and part of the reason Islam being taken seriously is the willingness of many followers to follow the Islamic rulings strictly.
emphasis added.
This is the core of the issue. Extremist islamists believe everything that is mildly against their tenets to be an attack. Do you really think the authors of southpark are out to destroy islam? Christianity? Anything else they've lampooned?
Re-read Sura 42, titled Counsel. Line 6 "Had God so pleased, He had made them one people and of one creed." Line 47 "But if they turn aside from thee, yet We have not sent thee to be their guardian' Tis thine but to preach."
They probably used automated reviewing software - the computers are conspiring against us! Next thing you know we'll have autogenerated legislation and automated reviews for congressmen to vote on. How long till we have automaton congressmen voting for autogenerated legislation with pork provisions for "free storage enhancement" for their cronies?? OMG! :)
"As a result, each application has its own private address space from which it can use the lower 2 GB--the system reserves the upper 2 GB of every process's address space for its own use"
um, 2GB for the process + "the upper 2GB of every process's address space for its own use" for the system = 4GB _per_process_. It says so even in the part you quoted :)
"... but I'd still like to see some more effort placed into demonstrating that semiconductor RAM remains a scarce resource."
Well, considering in 32 bit Windows-land each process is allocated 4GB of "virtual address space" (the set of virtual memory addresses the process has available to it; 2GB for user and 2GB for kernel by default) you can quickly demonstrate that ram is a scarce resource. Multiply the # of processes running on your system by 4GB and you'll see the exact amount of virtual address space windows is allocating :)
64 bit Windows-land allocates 8TB per 64 bit process, fwiw.
reference:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366778.aspx
If I still had mod points you'd get +1 Funny!
Additionally, because the source of the laser energy is offset a bit from one another (I assume,) parallax would diffuse any 'ricochet' as there's a very tiny liklihood that fractional reflected energy from more than one of the units would concentrate at a strong enough level to cause damage. Think "angle of incidence equals the angle of reflection." The liklihood would decrease exponentially as the distance of the ricochet victim from the target increases. Likewise with the radial distance between the different nodes of the weapon.
From TFA:
"Even without metal chisels or hammers, prehistoric masons wielding flint tools could have chipped away at softer limestone outcrops, shaping them into pillars on the spot before carrying them a few hundred yards to the summit and lifting them upright."
Not exactly "many miles."
In eve, death (having your capsule blown up aka being "podded") can result in a drop in skill points if you don't have an appropriate clone. Remember, these skill points are earned in real time. Losing several percentage points off of a skill can mean losing the ability to pilot some of your ships, use some of your equipment or perform some other functions. It is PAINFUL to die unprepared in this game.
Additionally, you lose all implants in your clone's head at the time. Beyond the overall cost (10s of millions of isk into the billions for very rare or multi-effect sets) there's the fact that you earn skill points less rapidly until you plug in some new ones.
With that being said, there is no permadeath. Even if you DO get podded into oblivion, buying clones is relatively cheap, though you can't do it in every station or even in every system. Even if you are blockaded into a dead-end system with no cloning facility, you could "clone jump" out, assuming you have spares around the universe.
I bought my PS3 for gaming, but the blu-ray player has seen lots of use since my old 32" sony xbr (circa 1998) died. The replacement I bought - 52" sony bravia xbr lcd - is fricking awesome, so I decided to start renting bd movies from blockbuster via moviepass, which allows the rental of any number of dvd or bd for any length of time (2 out at a time) for a monthly fee.
At first, the bd section was miniscule, but it is slowly expanding. Many of the new releases are available on bd as well as dvd, so it gives me a choice at the time I'm picking out movies.
For me, blu-ray adoption has really been an as-convenient process. Nothing and noone is forcing me, but considering I now have an appropriate tv, audio system and bd player I may as well take advantage of the bd movie quality for no additional charge.
You missed the fact they aren't public folders in the same vein as Exchange public folders:
from the feature doc
http://download.zarafa.com/zarafa/en/Featureslist620.pdf
"Public folders Keep a central calendar and contact folders wo(sic) which everbody has access"
In Exchange, Public folders can of course maintain central calendar, contact, mail, document etc repositories. They also can be mail enabled (you can send and receive email between properly configured public folders) and can have business intelligence processing performed on objects they receive, via forms. This includes creating new forms, forwarding new messages, email replies, interaction with other public folders and THEIR forms etc etc. Public folders in Exchange can essentially perform business processing without human interaction beyond creating the forms (and troubleshooting them when they fail ;)
Not until Q4 2008
From the features pdf
http://download.zarafa.com/zarafa/en/Featureslist620.pdf
"Integration with the Blackberry Enterprise Server to get email, calendar items, contacts and tasks real-time on your Blackberry. Available Q4 2008"
Big things missing though - No public folders, which allow automated, customized workflow processes, no single instance store (each attachment is a separate file within the message store,) limited support (enterprise class support 24x7 is > 15,000 euros and their business hours aren't conducive to US business support - GMT+1) and it runs on linux instead of bsd *grin*
With that being said, I can see where a LOT of businesses will be able to make extensive use of this. Best of luck to them!
I can see this being relatively secure if you use files you've either created yourself (.ogg of you humming backstreet boys or something equally unlikely, image of you doing something unlikely etc.)
but got me through some rough patches in intermediate & high school:
Memory, Sorrow & Thorn (Tad Williams)
Darwath Trilogy (Barbara Hambly)
Hammer's Slammers (David Drake)
Thieves' World (various, edited by Robert Lynn Asprin)
Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever (Stephan R. Donaldson - both the author and protagonist have been mentioned but not the series)
Already mentioned but deserve more:
Guardians of the Flame (Joel Rosenberg)
Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit (Tolkien)
Anything by Heinlein
Dragonsbane (Hambly)
Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy (Adams)
The Belgariad (Eddings)
mmmm I should read some of these again...
21. The Slashdot - Unleashing hordes of un-/poorly-informed armchair scientists|lawyers|doctors|engineers|*, causing chaos and confusion with their variety of often conflicting and/or innacurate information, recipes, opinion, straw-men, and/or social advice.
instead of saying things like "I bet it works" why don't you try it and let us know how it goes? There's plenty of free mouse/kb automation tools out there - autoit, rannorex recorder, quick macros, apis ceratina, macro recorder & ptfb pro all pop up on a quick search for macro recorders. I'd be careful though some of that stuff looks shaaaaaady. I can shortcut the whole thing for you though - none of them work in the uac dialog for reasons already explained.
nope. In previous versions of windows they accomplished this via changing the gina.dll. Apparently in vista this is now handled via a separate subsystem with credential providers, replacing the function of gina.dll. The fact that the application has to be registered as a credential provider & run in kernel mode prevents user mode applications from accomplishing the same feat. If you try installing an application that does these things you'll get a UAC greyed out screen secure attention sequence because, well, you're installing something that can circumvent these protections :)
thats because pcanywhere connects the user to the console and runs as a kernel mode process. It even replaces the gina.dll. Without all that pcanywhere couldn't do it. If you've allowed spyware/malware that does all that to be installed on your machine then you're already screwed and no amount of sas will protect you.
actually that "allow or cancel" dialog is a SAS - secure attention sequence of the same ilk as ctrl-alt-del - it prevents any application from accessing the interface and doing exactly what you suggest - programmatically clicking the "allow" button.
One thousand, nay a million voices full of fear.
And terror possesed me then.
And I begged,
"Angel of the Lord, what are these tortured screams?"
And the angel said unto me,
"These are the cries of the virii, the cries of the virii!
You see, Reverend Maynard, tomorrow is pre-transfusion blood disinfection day and to them it is the holocaust."
</revMaynard>
I have 3 pix 501s just lying around unused right now - its not that farfetched :)
The scandal that blew it all into the open has already been posted. However, Magnus insinuates that this was an isolated event - a single dev doing a single naughty thing. Unfortunately, that is not true in the least. There have been numerous incidents of CCP employees' favoritism exhibited in-game, some of which have been noted by the eve playing public - scorp with all officer equipment spawned by a gm for instance that was blown up by a player gatecamp for instance.
I, personally, have been involved in numerous actions over the course of 3 years, including outright wars, against the corp and alliance of which t20 was a member and have seen first hand some very questionable events and decisions.
For instance, a corporation was involved in an event - essentially "Take back NOL-M9" which is the alliance in question's home system. The event coordinators within CCP assisted this corporation with a SINGLE carrier and a few other actors in faction battleships. A carrier can't take down pos - a fleet of a hundred carriers couldn't - yet they were supposed to take back the alliance's home system. Of course the attempt failed and the reward for the corporation involved was a few tier 1 battleships and some tech 1 cruisers.
ok, no big deal you say. True, but for events that transpired a few weeks afterwards. Essentially the same event but against a different target - a different alliance in the North - and the corporation involved is one of the founding corps of the alliance in question. For their event they received the assistance of several (I've heard variously 5 through 9) dreadnaughts, carriers and numerous faction battleships to assist them. On its own, the fleet provided by CCP would've been enough to do significant damage and take down many pos. In combination with the player forces it was unstoppable. I don't know the specifics of the rewards given to the corp involved but my understanding is that they received a few capital ships as well as several faction battleships.
This sort of lopsided favoritism is blatant and rampant in the game, unfortunately. After 3 and a half years of telling myself it couldn't be that bad, I've come to the realization that it is. CCP's bungled handling of this situation and the ones that preceded it and lack of acknowledgement of the scope of the issue constituted the final nail in the coffin - I cancelled both of my 3 and a half year old accounts already.
Background: I've been playing eve since august of 2003 with two accounts
d =424.
d =423
Currently: I've cancelled both accounts due to CCP's flaccid response to the dev/gm cheating scandal
Question: Why wasn't the scandal - discovered by CCP back in the middle of 2006 - publicized and the dev (t20) properly punished (fired, per CCP policy) at that time? Why, after the scandal was publicized 6 months later haven't you taken appropriate action per your own policies and yet stretched your policies to ban the person that publicized the events? Why haven't CCP publicized the full extent of the cheating and the damage caused to the rest of the eve public?
Most of the allegations were publicized via http://www.kugutsumen.com/forumdisplay.php?f=2 but suspicions have been rampant for ages.
The allegations were confirmed by one of the dev's involved, t20, in this post: http://myeve.eve-online.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&bi
CCP's limp-wristed response is here: http://myeve.eve-online.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&bi
I still don't understand where the supposed security gain is. Since when is malware unable to click ok itself?
:)
The UAC confirmation is implemented the same as ctrl-alt-del - its a secure attention sequence that cannot be accessed by apps running in user space. So no, malware can't click "ok" itself