trademarked or copyrighted names? Wasn't that one of the items SCO claimed ownership to (the Unix name)?
Could be another reason.
Why is that post marked as "Troll"? TFA says the same thing:
UPDATE@8:54 EST: Seems this may be a trademark issue. Words like Microsoft are also banned. No word yet on whether or not "having fun" is still allowed on the console. Developing...
Last I knew this would be nearly impossible since JWICS and SIPRnet computers arn't normally hooked up to what we know as the internet. It's more of a military intranet. So basically the only way to hack them is either raid a workstation on the network, splice some fiber or hijack a satellite.
"How hard is it to send out an e-mail letting people know about [any changes]?" she said. What about a company like Google, where it is impossible for them to notify everyone occasionally using them?
And can someone tell me how updating the TOS page on a website isn't considered 'letting them know' if it was enough to let them know in the first place what the terms where?
Exactly, if the computer knows what language is and knows how to attempt to decipher it, I would assume that could be called some kind of priori knowledge of language. What fascinates me is this:
And if the computer can do it, he said, a baby can, too.
Really now? My computer, being a rather old and low end one can do a lot of things that I know a baby can't do, Hell, most adults couldn't learn to do the majority of the algorithms it does on a daily basis.
TFA points out that Windows is just as vulnerable to these cheats as BSD, Linux and Solaris. The cheat works by releasing the CPU just before the end of a time tick there by allowing the whole tick to be charged to whatever task gets the rest of the tick. Windows, like Solaris, has accurate job accounting information available, but choses not to use it for scheduling. In addition, like the Linux 2.6 kernel, Windows will actually artificially raise the priority of a cheating task under the misaprehension that the job is interactive.
...but this is proof that Vista is more secure. Aero alone will use up most of your resources, therefore, you cant have a program monopolize the CPU more then the host OS. Just more proof those M$ guys know security;)
BD+
BD+ is effectively a small virtual machine embedded in authorized players. It allows content providers to include executable programs on Blu-ray discs. Such programs can:
* examine the host environment, to see if the player has been tampered with. Every licensed playback device manufacturer must provide the BD+ licensing authority with memory footprints that identifies their devices.
* verify that the player's keys have not been changed.
* execute native code, possibly to patch an otherwise insecure system.
* transform the audio and video output. Parts of the content will not be viewable without letting the BD+-program unscramble it. But i have to think... If it has hardware access(or can run native code) what's to say someone wont make a disk that has a BD+ program that aids in the hacking? Once you break a way around(or through) the digital signature for BD+ your whole system is compromised, how is that a good strategy?
Imagine something close to, I make a disk with a BD+ program that once I have the program loaded I can eject the disk and put in a protected one, the BD+ can help circumvent the protection, and circumvent the BD+ on that disk. Vuala! BD+ makes it easier for me to copy.
Do any of those alternative sources of blame sound reasonable? Yes, but which sounds the most profitable? The parents wont sue themselves or the kids, and the predators don't have money, so obviously its the sites fault
But you forget that the majority of the persons Belew contacted where not US citzens.
Belew's bout with the Terrorist Surveillance Program began in 2004, when he was representing the U.S. branch office of the prominent Saudi Arabian charity Al-Haramain. Formerly one of the largest charities in Saudi Arabia, Al-Haramain worked to spread a strict view of Islam through philanthropy, missionary work and support for mosques around the world. One could easily argue, and him being a lawyer should know this, that any phone call he had with another party that is not a US citizen is fair game. Since in 2004, the same time the alleged tapping happened he had some very strong ties with non-Americans, Saudis as well which happened to be most of the hijackers, it's actually very likely the tapings where legal.
Don't get me wrong, I would love to see how the courts deal with it, after all they claim to have found one of the copies and have gone through with a lawsuit. But don't be disappointed and all NSA/George Bush/FBI conspiracy theory if he loses the case, because it nowhere says that any of the calls where domestic and American to American calls.
A press release from the Swedish police is rumored to soon be published, saying, "it's not decided that we'll put The Pirate Bay in the list - if the content is still there next week we'll put them there." I bet if there isn't any next week the Swedish police will make sure there is some.
no, xp is vista without aero glass and actual usability with less than a top of the line computer. You know, I thought the same same thing until I played around with Vista using an MSDN license. Took me like 5 minutes on google to find an install crack to install Vista on a PC with less then 512MB RAM, after all I wanted to have some fun with my old P4 256MB RDRAM(too expensive to upgrade ram) PC. So as it happened first run was slow, but remarkably smooth, and after playing with services, deleting all the useless ones for me, I found it actually ran rather nice even with half the *required* RAM. That includes AERO on my outdated ATI DX8 card. Anyways, the moral of my story is dont bitch about Vista before actually playing with it, I was rather impressed, even though i still went back to my old Fedora/XP dual boot.
ODF isn't just a product being shilled by a single corporation and so there's no single company to bankrupt or buy out so victory can be declared. I think this is going to be more like guerrilla warfare than a conventional battle. Last I knew Sun and IBM had lots of stock in ODF and where also the main Microsoft resistance. But neither of those companies will be owned by Microsoft any time soon I think.
In my opinion after reviewing the ISO papers on ODF it was an alright idea but poorly implemented. ODF is about as flawed as the Office specification, except that at least the states are already using Office. It will take roughly the same amount of money to the state to change either now or later, so why change what is already working? When and if Microsoft attempts the back stab that this would be preventing, then change, since it's roughly equal cost now or later. As for usability, I honestly find Microsoft Office superior to OO, although there are some nice other programs that give Office a run for it's money, OO still if the flagship, and honestly it acts like it was written by Sun, much like even the original JVMs. So you also have to factor in the cost of people learning OO, AND the cost of the certain imperfections that Microsoft Office doesn't have(load time, refresh, latency after it has been inactive a while or sitting in the menubar).
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It is in fact illegal in USA to scream "Fire" in a crowded theater when there is no fire. I would assume it's also illegal to claim that president of a country decided to leave his post when he didn't.
Actually, it's been completely legal to since 1969. Brandenburg v Ohio overturned the Schenck v United States decision which also outlawed such things as speaking out against the draft, good thing we had intelligent justices in 1969. As for the argument at hand, this logic wouldn't even apply to the RCTV case because RCTV WAS told Chavez was stepping down, in fact there was even "video of it" that they aired. They where just the only one's that didn't play Chavez's game. I respect them trying youtube, they're not just rolling over like other's might have.
This argument is critically flawed. Just because they collected information does not mean they could do with it as they please... Even ignoring copy-write... The second you submit someone anything, any piece of work, you almost always forfeit your rights to it. You can see this on disclaimers for almost anything, submitting editorials to newspapers, even making warcraft and starcraft maps, you technically forfeit your rights the second you distribute it. Google is doing nothing different then this, they are clearly saying what they are doing. This argument has stood up in court (at least US ones) before, and i presume it will again. The argument at hand is about data people willingly give google, not what thier crawlers pick up.
they need to be watched just like any other company Are you saying we should violate Google's right to privacy on the notion that it is *possible* that there is a problem? Tell me if I'm wrong, but isn't that just slightly hypocritical?
Google should effectively has part ownership to everything you do on their servers. And therefore they have the right to what to do with it, if you don't like what they do don't share information with them, it's that simple.
If you would allow me to quote Al:
During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system. Sure, he may really mean he was responsible in an economic and legislative sense. But in reality he WAS NOT even that involved in it's creation. Please, tell me ONE positive thing him and Clinton did for the internet after running on a repave the information superhighway stance. The answer is NOTHING, they did shit to push the internet along, and we are paying the price for that now, the US has very little true broadband infrastructure, when countries like India have massive ones. He is simply a politician through and through. He makes a documentary on global warming, yet uses about 20 times the average power usage. He talks about carbon in the atmosphere, yet helps sell carbon credits to companies so they can put more there. Honestly, how could you vote for this man?
My grandpa told me "Boy, never, ever use double quotation marks inside a quote, you'll look like a bigger fucking retard then the person who misspelled expiry"
I hear tin foil hats are comfortable this time of year...
Sorry, I am a natural skeptic, if it comes from official government sources-assume it's a lie until proven otherwise.
I'm sorry you are too, it's stopped you from thinking logically. The burden of proof would lie on the skeptic, you in this case, if it is a lie it can be proven as such.
How about the "tonkin gulf attacks"? Never happened, NOW they finally admit it. A complete fabrication.
Actually all the evidence points to the original attack being real, however after the initial reports that got shown to congress and the press turned up to be exaggerated they created a second attack. And furthermore, it wasn't LBJ that seems to be the culprit but actually the captain on the Turner Joy falsifying his own report. LBJ said himself "For all I know, our Navy was shooting at whales out there."
How about the USS Liberty, and killing your own guys? It's only because some lived through it and the ship didn't sink that we even found out about it, and it was that same crook LBJ and the zionazis who pulled that stunt.
Would you like to show me your evidence of this? First off, its a known fact that we would know about this, even if people hadn't lived, the story had broken to the press far before the survivors could. Secondly, the NSA has released intercepted Israeli communications from an EC-121 surveillance aircraft prior to the incident that show them worrying about the ship, and later "confirming" it was Egyptian
I'm not going to copy your 3rd paragraph its far too long to, but I will make some points about it. One, the "art students" where Egyptian, and where found, basically just being college students and partying a little too much and not going to class when they should have, sure this likely violates their visa, but they where found and investigated. Two, with a terrorist attack who do you think technically has the case, the NYPD which is respectable but doesn't have the means to do an elaborate investigation on something as large as 9/11, or the FBI, who may or may not still have the means but will come closer then the NYPD?
You actually have way TOO much faith in the US government, strangely enough. The US government is too bureaucratic and in some instances also too stupid to pull off much of anything. It's actually amazing how inept our government is sometimes. Bill Clinton couldn't cover up a BJ, Karl Rove couldn't cover up something he didn't do(yes, Armitage admitted to it later, but they needed to fry Rove so they tried him on obstruction charges).
Seriously, was there ever any doubt? Did _anybody_ believe the government over all of the eye witnesses, the drawn out court-case, the ridiculous implausible explanation required, or the pristine perfect bullet found OUTSIDE his body?
Witnesses couldn't have seen anything the TIME tape didn't catch about the shootings. Sure talk about the grassy knoll all you want, but with all the people there(the "witnesses" you where talking about) I would expect at least a fair physical description of a suspect from there or something more then a "it looked like smoke came from there" response.
Oswald happened to get shot in the middle of it all, that might have messed up the court system maybe?
What explanation would you have considered plausible given the strange occurance of the entry vs exit wounds? Tell me why there was no bullet found that would have come from the opposite direction(the main conspiracy theory relies on a wound in JFKs back to be an exit wound, but that would mean there's a bullet lying around somewhere).
Last, what pristine bullet are you talking about? I know of one that ended up in 5 pieces inside JFK, and another that ended up in the car after passing through the original's entry/exit wounds and passing through his I believe right leg before embedding itself in the car(and not in prestine condition either).
I've always believed that TABs should be treated just like clean room design. Unless you can prove that the person who detailed out his way to play a song did so using unlicensed means (something like took official tab book and published it as his own). I really don't know how even a misinterpreted TAB could be property of the label who owns the song recording. I guess this is just one more piece of evidence that the whole patent/copyright system needs to be re-looked at, because it's just completely fucked up as-is.
The point of drills is not to educate on what to do when you're scared, the point is to educate on what to do in this specific situation. Take fire drills, for example: are students tricked into thinking their school is burning down? No, of course not. The point of the drill is to inculcate the directions that all students must follow in order to avoid chaos. Tricking the students achieves nothing but emotional distress--which is not helpful in any way--and disorder. Drills are there to make the procedure second nature so that disorder does not happen; they're there so that students in distress don't have to make decisions, because the drill spells out all decisions beforehand.
I'm not sure about you, but I have never seen a fire drill where they have actually said it was a drill, otherwise who would care about it? A couple of the chemistry labs had caught on fire at my high school when I went there, and did so a couple of times per year(never underestimate teenage kids and dangerous substances). Anyways, i cant think of a single time which there was a difference between the drill and when it wasn't a drill. And yes, I understand these kids where 6th graders, but that doesn't unnecessarily break my point. Secondly, how do you know this wasn't some sort of test to show them how they react to unforeseen experiences, at least partially. When you hold meetings, and explain that it IS a drill you delude the experience.
The real problem here is that this ended up exploding into a politically correct argument and everything that can be learned from it will be lost. The kids should be thankful that it WAS a drill that time, and actively peruse how to make everything work out better. Instead this has become another "Think about the kids and their feelings" issue, with the focus not on what it should be.
"Microsoft holds at least 235 patents that should have never been awarded, of which some OSS projects infringe."
There fixed it. I'm with John Carmak that patents being filed for software is incredibly stupid and just a blatant way to attempt to scam off the broken system we've created.
FTA: According to the patent, they've invented a way to create password security that is so tough, it would take you longer than the life of a hard drive in order to figure it out.
So it's security is that a brute-force/birthday attack is just so improbable that the drive will wear out before i can test enough possibilities to have a measurable chance of getting it? Besides, twofish, blowfish, AES, any virtually any other standard encryption algorithm could boast the same thing. Tell me if I'm wrong, but couldn't i make a bunch of 1:1 copies of the disk and use those to crack it?
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Why is that post marked as "Troll"? TFA says the same thing: UPDATE@8:54 EST: Seems this may be a trademark issue. Words like Microsoft are also banned. No word yet on whether or not "having fun" is still allowed on the console. Developing...
Last I knew this would be nearly impossible since JWICS and SIPRnet computers arn't normally hooked up to what we know as the internet. It's more of a military intranet. So basically the only way to hack them is either raid a workstation on the network, splice some fiber or hijack a satellite.
And can someone tell me how updating the TOS page on a website isn't considered 'letting them know' if it was enough to let them know in the first place what the terms where?
Exactly, if the computer knows what language is and knows how to attempt to decipher it, I would assume that could be called some kind of priori knowledge of language. What fascinates me is this:
And if the computer can do it, he said, a baby can, too.
Really now? My computer, being a rather old and low end one can do a lot of things that I know a baby can't do, Hell, most adults couldn't learn to do the majority of the algorithms it does on a daily basis.
TFA points out that Windows is just as vulnerable to these cheats as BSD, Linux and Solaris. The cheat works by releasing the CPU just before the end of a time tick there by allowing the whole tick to be charged to whatever task gets the rest of the tick. Windows, like Solaris, has accurate job accounting information available, but choses not to use it for scheduling. In addition, like the Linux 2.6 kernel, Windows will actually artificially raise the priority of a cheating task under the misaprehension that the job is interactive.
...but this is proof that Vista is more secure. Aero alone will use up most of your resources, therefore, you cant have a program monopolize the CPU more then the host OS. Just more proof those M$ guys know security ;)
* examine the host environment, to see if the player has been tampered with. Every licensed playback device manufacturer must provide the BD+ licensing authority with memory footprints that identifies their devices.
* verify that the player's keys have not been changed.
* execute native code, possibly to patch an otherwise insecure system.
* transform the audio and video output. Parts of the content will not be viewable without letting the BD+-program unscramble it. But i have to think... If it has hardware access(or can run native code) what's to say someone wont make a disk that has a BD+ program that aids in the hacking? Once you break a way around(or through) the digital signature for BD+ your whole system is compromised, how is that a good strategy?
Imagine something close to, I make a disk with a BD+ program that once I have the program loaded I can eject the disk and put in a protected one, the BD+ can help circumvent the protection, and circumvent the BD+ on that disk. Vuala! BD+ makes it easier for me to copy.
Don't get me wrong, I would love to see how the courts deal with it, after all they claim to have found one of the copies and have gone through with a lawsuit. But don't be disappointed and all NSA/George Bush/FBI conspiracy theory if he loses the case, because it nowhere says that any of the calls where domestic and American to American calls.
In my opinion after reviewing the ISO papers on ODF it was an alright idea but poorly implemented. ODF is about as flawed as the Office specification, except that at least the states are already using Office. It will take roughly the same amount of money to the state to change either now or later, so why change what is already working? When and if Microsoft attempts the back stab that this would be preventing, then change, since it's roughly equal cost now or later. As for usability, I honestly find Microsoft Office superior to OO, although there are some nice other programs that give Office a run for it's money, OO still if the flagship, and honestly it acts like it was written by Sun, much like even the original JVMs. So you also have to factor in the cost of people learning OO, AND the cost of the certain imperfections that Microsoft Office doesn't have(load time, refresh, latency after it has been inactive a while or sitting in the menubar).
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It is in fact illegal in USA to scream "Fire" in a crowded theater when there is no fire. I would assume it's also illegal to claim that president of a country decided to leave his post when he didn't.
Actually, it's been completely legal to since 1969. Brandenburg v Ohio overturned the Schenck v United States decision which also outlawed such things as speaking out against the draft, good thing we had intelligent justices in 1969. As for the argument at hand, this logic wouldn't even apply to the RCTV case because RCTV WAS told Chavez was stepping down, in fact there was even "video of it" that they aired. They where just the only one's that didn't play Chavez's game. I respect them trying youtube, they're not just rolling over like other's might have.
Google should effectively has part ownership to everything you do on their servers. And therefore they have the right to what to do with it, if you don't like what they do don't share information with them, it's that simple.
Guess Ballmer missing some of his developers due to early game injuries...
My grandpa told me "Boy, never, ever use double quotation marks inside a quote, you'll look like a bigger fucking retard then the person who misspelled expiry"
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I hear tin foil hats are comfortable this time of year...
Sorry, I am a natural skeptic, if it comes from official government sources-assume it's a lie until proven otherwise.
I'm sorry you are too, it's stopped you from thinking logically. The burden of proof would lie on the skeptic, you in this case, if it is a lie it can be proven as such.
How about the "tonkin gulf attacks"? Never happened, NOW they finally admit it. A complete fabrication.
Actually all the evidence points to the original attack being real, however after the initial reports that got shown to congress and the press turned up to be exaggerated they created a second attack. And furthermore, it wasn't LBJ that seems to be the culprit but actually the captain on the Turner Joy falsifying his own report. LBJ said himself "For all I know, our Navy was shooting at whales out there."
How about the USS Liberty, and killing your own guys? It's only because some lived through it and the ship didn't sink that we even found out about it, and it was that same crook LBJ and the zionazis who pulled that stunt.
Would you like to show me your evidence of this? First off, its a known fact that we would know about this, even if people hadn't lived, the story had broken to the press far before the survivors could. Secondly, the NSA has released intercepted Israeli communications from an EC-121 surveillance aircraft prior to the incident that show them worrying about the ship, and later "confirming" it was Egyptian
I'm not going to copy your 3rd paragraph its far too long to, but I will make some points about it. One, the "art students" where Egyptian, and where found, basically just being college students and partying a little too much and not going to class when they should have, sure this likely violates their visa, but they where found and investigated. Two, with a terrorist attack who do you think technically has the case, the NYPD which is respectable but doesn't have the means to do an elaborate investigation on something as large as 9/11, or the FBI, who may or may not still have the means but will come closer then the NYPD?
You actually have way TOO much faith in the US government, strangely enough. The US government is too bureaucratic and in some instances also too stupid to pull off much of anything. It's actually amazing how inept our government is sometimes. Bill Clinton couldn't cover up a BJ, Karl Rove couldn't cover up something he didn't do(yes, Armitage admitted to it later, but they needed to fry Rove so they tried him on obstruction charges).
I've always believed that TABs should be treated just like clean room design. Unless you can prove that the person who detailed out his way to play a song did so using unlicensed means (something like took official tab book and published it as his own). I really don't know how even a misinterpreted TAB could be property of the label who owns the song recording. I guess this is just one more piece of evidence that the whole patent/copyright system needs to be re-looked at, because it's just completely fucked up as-is.
The point of drills is not to educate on what to do when you're scared, the point is to educate on what to do in this specific situation. Take fire drills, for example: are students tricked into thinking their school is burning down? No, of course not. The point of the drill is to inculcate the directions that all students must follow in order to avoid chaos. Tricking the students achieves nothing but emotional distress--which is not helpful in any way--and disorder. Drills are there to make the procedure second nature so that disorder does not happen; they're there so that students in distress don't have to make decisions, because the drill spells out all decisions beforehand.
I'm not sure about you, but I have never seen a fire drill where they have actually said it was a drill, otherwise who would care about it? A couple of the chemistry labs had caught on fire at my high school when I went there, and did so a couple of times per year(never underestimate teenage kids and dangerous substances). Anyways, i cant think of a single time which there was a difference between the drill and when it wasn't a drill. And yes, I understand these kids where 6th graders, but that doesn't unnecessarily break my point. Secondly, how do you know this wasn't some sort of test to show them how they react to unforeseen experiences, at least partially. When you hold meetings, and explain that it IS a drill you delude the experience.
The real problem here is that this ended up exploding into a politically correct argument and everything that can be learned from it will be lost. The kids should be thankful that it WAS a drill that time, and actively peruse how to make everything work out better. Instead this has become another "Think about the kids and their feelings" issue, with the focus not on what it should be.
"Microsoft holds at least 235 patents that should have never been awarded, of which some OSS projects infringe."
There fixed it. I'm with John Carmak that patents being filed for software is incredibly stupid and just a blatant way to attempt to scam off the broken system we've created.
FTA: According to the patent, they've invented a way to create password security that is so tough, it would take you longer than the life of a hard drive in order to figure it out.
So it's security is that a brute-force/birthday attack is just so improbable that the drive will wear out before i can test enough possibilities to have a measurable chance of getting it? Besides, twofish, blowfish, AES, any virtually any other standard encryption algorithm could boast the same thing. Tell me if I'm wrong, but couldn't i make a bunch of 1:1 copies of the disk and use those to crack it?