Seconded. I imagine that apple did, in fact, ban this from the 'real' application store, but this is a webapp - a monstrosity of HTML, Javascript, and AJAX. It's just a webpage, and Apple doesn't give two shits. And even if they did, they couldn't do anything about it.
S2Disk will still POST, as the S2Disk is usually not handled by ACPI anymore (too buggy)
Now, the kernel looks for a 'hibernate' (in Windows terminology) file on boot, and loads that.
sub boot {
if (checkForHibFile())
restoreFromHibFile()
else
doNormalBoot() }
Does any major operating system use true ACPI S4? I was under the impression that it was all under OS control and the PC/BIOS knew of it only as a shutdown.
Donations? That's how it works in my volunteer ambulance squad, at least - though it's something of a rarity that we're quite proud of (it pulls us out of the politics of the town budget)
Of course, we're lucky in other ways, being able to raise $90,000 for a brand new shiny ambulance and $20,000 of equipment in one year... in a town of 7000
An outside observer would call emergency agencies inefficient, but stuff costs a lot and you pay a lot for the knowledge that your shit will work every moment you need it. Which is why a suction unit (simple battery, container, and pump, right?) costs about $700.
this isn't anything specifically to do with malware.
As far as I can see, this verifies that the binary currently running is the same binary that was compiled from a (trusted) source.
When you compile it, it knows (from the source) what the program will and won't do. If the program deviates from that, it dies (as it's been replaced by malware, presumably)
Wait, disregard my above comment for dumbassery. This has nothing to do with children... I should go to bed.
But I'll try to salvage it:
Assuming there was consumer choice in the ISP market, why wouldn't you be able to choose 'granny ISP' that allowed email, websites, and iTunes but filtered porn, hack attempts, and would clean your computer for you if you got infected? And then there's the HARDCORE TORRENT provider with a (possibly) lower bandwidth, but no throttling and high upstream, with the assumption that people will torrent 24/7.
As it is, they're selling a 'one-size-fits-all' plan of high-bandwidth, but we'll cut you off if you use it more than we want, and charge you more than you should pay.
This is trying to shoehorn this strategy into a changing market. People are using IPTV and there are more people knowing how to use BitTorrent... but they don't want to upgrade their system to support new uses. So, to fend off the law knocking on their door, they're trying to get it named 'malware' because their system can't handle it and it hurts other people sometimes.
Why must? Just think, with more consumer choice, this could be a 'specialty' ISP that you made a conscious decision to subscribe to.
As it is, they're trying to say 'existing ISP need to be able to filter'. Why's that? It sure isn't about customer choice; otherwise it would be a 'could' or a 'should'
And we're back to net neutrality again, but this time with a pretty 'think of the children' mask.
I highly recommend AT&T with a bare-bones plan and not the free phone, but the next one up. I had the RAZR v3xx (IMAP email, full bluetooth, HSDPA, rugged, easy tethering...) for around $50
GSM providers tend to be better, because they know that if they're too restrictive, you can always say 'fuck you' and buy your phone direct. If it's GSM-capable and works on the US frequencies, they can't not allow it. Verizon can refuse to 'activate' it if they don't like it, if you even can buy direct...
Consider AT&T. They're not a shining white knight, but OBEX works out of the box on every phone I tried, as does DUN. You can even get your phone (subsidized by them) unlocked - all you have to do is ask.
Most experience I had was with a Motorola Razr, which is good because I've been able to compare the same phone AT&T and Verizon. Verizon had the worst fucking interface I've ever seen, while the Moto interface isn't perfect, but it works wonderfully. It had a standard Mini-USB, so no proprietary crap. It had 3 USB options - PictBridge, modem, or mass-storage (let you get the Micro-SD card). And easy to hack (check out hackmyrazr.com and P2KCommander)
Unless you *need* to be on Verizon, I think that, as a fellow nerd, a GSM provider will work better for you. With GSM, the provider has less leverage.
Very interesting. You're correct; I'd always assumed the 'classical economics' bit about re-selling a product for a profit that you (retailer) buys in bulk.
Though I'd say it would work fine for a 'classical' defect like a fatal bug, I'm not so sure a bunch of nerds being jerks would do anything meaningful.
And fuck over the businesses, who don't care about DRM in the slightest? Why would you think that would move 'up the chain' as it were? Will Gamestop stores talk to their management, who talk to their management all the way up the chain of Gamestop, then somehow it gets to the publisher?
Yeah right. You're just fucking over the wrong people.
I probably should have explicitly spelled that out - but treaties that contravene the Constitution aren't passed, so in effect they have the same status as an amendment that doesn't change a part of the constitution
That's what I see here, and that's what's so dangerous about treaties (it's why we never ratified the Treaty of Versailles):
Treaties are given equal status with the Constitution. Which makes this line:
the US courts and Congress are still working out the correct balance between protecting copyrights and the free exchange of information on the Web and a treaty could be counterproductive.
very interesting. If a treaty spelled this all out, it'd be like passing an amendment and not even the Supreme Court could do anything.
This is why treaties are usually an uncomfortable topic. Passing a bad treaty is a big fuckup similar to a bad amendment.
It's not that hard. Steam is value-added DRM - which means the impetus to crack it is low. I've had pirated Half-Life, Half-Life 2 and Ep. 1, but Steam was easier than managing that (well, that and the games were worth every penny)
Steam has seen me through 3 computers and 8 OS reinstalls. I double-click a game and come back when it's 60% downloaded, and play it. That's worth money to me, even if it is stuck in my account and linked to their servers.
I don't see what's so hard about re-implementing Steam, aside from the fact that it doesn't allow the producer to double-dip (sell you a license when you try to copy it, but change it to a product when it breaks)
And I fear that's the crux of this whole thing - they're hoping that people will just re-buy.
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Seconded. I imagine that apple did, in fact, ban this from the 'real' application store, but this is a webapp - a monstrosity of HTML, Javascript, and AJAX. It's just a webpage, and Apple doesn't give two shits. And even if they did, they couldn't do anything about it.
HIGHLY MISLEADING ARTICLE!
Somebody already did, except they used it on me...
Any true geek would have an RSS/Email robot to notify them of important Slashdot articles and emails
Fixed that for you
S2Disk will still POST, as the S2Disk is usually not handled by ACPI anymore (too buggy)
Now, the kernel looks for a 'hibernate' (in Windows terminology) file on boot, and loads that.
sub boot {
if (checkForHibFile())
restoreFromHibFile()
else
doNormalBoot()
}
Does any major operating system use true ACPI S4? I was under the impression that it was all under OS control and the PC/BIOS knew of it only as a shutdown.
Donations? That's how it works in my volunteer ambulance squad, at least - though it's something of a rarity that we're quite proud of (it pulls us out of the politics of the town budget)
Of course, we're lucky in other ways, being able to raise $90,000 for a brand new shiny ambulance and $20,000 of equipment in one year... in a town of 7000
An outside observer would call emergency agencies inefficient, but stuff costs a lot and you pay a lot for the knowledge that your shit will work every moment you need it. Which is why a suction unit (simple battery, container, and pump, right?) costs about $700.
this isn't anything specifically to do with malware.
As far as I can see, this verifies that the binary currently running is the same binary that was compiled from a (trusted) source.
When you compile it, it knows (from the source) what the program will and won't do. If the program deviates from that, it dies (as it's been replaced by malware, presumably)
If I'm wrong, please correct me...
Maybe he was dictating
Wait, disregard my above comment for dumbassery. This has nothing to do with children... I should go to bed.
But I'll try to salvage it:
Assuming there was consumer choice in the ISP market, why wouldn't you be able to choose 'granny ISP' that allowed email, websites, and iTunes but filtered porn, hack attempts, and would clean your computer for you if you got infected? And then there's the HARDCORE TORRENT provider with a (possibly) lower bandwidth, but no throttling and high upstream, with the assumption that people will torrent 24/7.
As it is, they're selling a 'one-size-fits-all' plan of high-bandwidth, but we'll cut you off if you use it more than we want, and charge you more than you should pay.
This is trying to shoehorn this strategy into a changing market. People are using IPTV and there are more people knowing how to use BitTorrent... but they don't want to upgrade their system to support new uses. So, to fend off the law knocking on their door, they're trying to get it named 'malware' because their system can't handle it and it hurts other people sometimes.
Why must? Just think, with more consumer choice, this could be a 'specialty' ISP that you made a conscious decision to subscribe to.
As it is, they're trying to say 'existing ISP need to be able to filter'. Why's that? It sure isn't about customer choice; otherwise it would be a 'could' or a 'should'
And we're back to net neutrality again, but this time with a pretty 'think of the children' mask.
Because penis enlargement ads (that they probably won't be able to read) will physically or mentally damage them.
Take a deep breath, step back, and think about what you just said.
I was joking... you clearly had no idea what you were talking about, going on about bit twiddling and 'reverse-seek twin sector searches'...
Check out your sibling comment (mine...)
I highly recommend AT&T with a bare-bones plan and not the free phone, but the next one up. I had the RAZR v3xx (IMAP email, full bluetooth, HSDPA, rugged, easy tethering...) for around $50
GSM providers tend to be better, because they know that if they're too restrictive, you can always say 'fuck you' and buy your phone direct. If it's GSM-capable and works on the US frequencies, they can't not allow it. Verizon can refuse to 'activate' it if they don't like it, if you even can buy direct...
Consider AT&T. They're not a shining white knight, but OBEX works out of the box on every phone I tried, as does DUN. You can even get your phone (subsidized by them) unlocked - all you have to do is ask.
Most experience I had was with a Motorola Razr, which is good because I've been able to compare the same phone AT&T and Verizon. Verizon had the worst fucking interface I've ever seen, while the Moto interface isn't perfect, but it works wonderfully. It had a standard Mini-USB, so no proprietary crap. It had 3 USB options - PictBridge, modem, or mass-storage (let you get the Micro-SD card). And easy to hack (check out hackmyrazr.com and P2KCommander)
Unless you *need* to be on Verizon, I think that, as a fellow nerd, a GSM provider will work better for you. With GSM, the provider has less leverage.
Very interesting. You're correct; I'd always assumed the 'classical economics' bit about re-selling a product for a profit that you (retailer) buys in bulk.
Though I'd say it would work fine for a 'classical' defect like a fatal bug, I'm not so sure a bunch of nerds being jerks would do anything meaningful.
Or maybe he thought that nobody would read it and that he had made a good joke... :P
You've obviously never done this... that's just a suggestion to the unnamed people who can... :P
And fuck over the businesses, who don't care about DRM in the slightest? Why would you think that would move 'up the chain' as it were? Will Gamestop stores talk to their management, who talk to their management all the way up the chain of Gamestop, then somehow it gets to the publisher?
Yeah right. You're just fucking over the wrong people.
...they already do. I've heard anecdotal reports of 5-tier NAT. Bad reports. Very bad reports...
He was probably joking... but it's no joke that many places in China are behind 5 levels of NAT (and it sucks as much as it sounds like it does)
I probably should have explicitly spelled that out - but treaties that contravene the Constitution aren't passed, so in effect they have the same status as an amendment that doesn't change a part of the constitution
Well hetero didn't work out for anyone... :P
That's what I see here, and that's what's so dangerous about treaties (it's why we never ratified the Treaty of Versailles):
Treaties are given equal status with the Constitution. Which makes this line:
the US courts and Congress are still working out the correct balance between protecting copyrights and the free exchange of information on the Web and a treaty could be counterproductive.
very interesting.
If a treaty spelled this all out, it'd be like passing an amendment and not even the Supreme Court could do anything.
This is why treaties are usually an uncomfortable topic. Passing a bad treaty is a big fuckup similar to a bad amendment.
And here I was wasting time by clicking Settings on the search bar... :P
It's not that hard. Steam is value-added DRM - which means the impetus to crack it is low. I've had pirated Half-Life, Half-Life 2 and Ep. 1, but Steam was easier than managing that (well, that and the games were worth every penny)
Steam has seen me through 3 computers and 8 OS reinstalls. I double-click a game and come back when it's 60% downloaded, and play it. That's worth money to me, even if it is stuck in my account and linked to their servers.
I don't see what's so hard about re-implementing Steam, aside from the fact that it doesn't allow the producer to double-dip (sell you a license when you try to copy it, but change it to a product when it breaks)
And I fear that's the crux of this whole thing - they're hoping that people will just re-buy.
Well, naturally. A lot like barratry charges; both could fix a lot of BS we see if any judges cared.