I know with the installation of Windows XP SP1a, a specific activation code would not allow the service pack to install. This is obviously different from a security hotfix.
Not allowing security hotfixes for pirated copies isn't just a threat to the pirating user, but a threat to all legal users as well. When someone using the same web server as me and gets hit by Netsky, I AM GOING TO SUFFER. I own my copy of Windows 2000 Professional, and I periodically have a Linux machine going. I've done nothing morally wrong there, but I will suffer. Thats simply unacceptable.
Thinking business, could an ISP sue a user who is unable to resolve a security issue that pushes out 10K emails an hour if it was against their terms of service? Is it precedented?
I guess the short of my point is that it's not fair to the rest of the legal users when a pirated copy is responsible for bandwidth and storage abuse. No one should be denied security updates.
I've decided I'm going to write an article stating "Linux is dying", citing distribution fragmenting the market, Red Hat moving to the ~$5/mo. subsciption model, the end of FreeSWAN, and SCO's litigation invoking FUD.
I'd be full of shit, but it would be about as substanciated as some of the articles posted here on Linux lately.
Ok, not yet. But, as with anything DRM, give it a couple months after getting out of this concept phase.
I will say I'm rather surprised at the laundry list of those onboard, including AOL, Dell, and Napster.
At the risk of sounding lame, I'm in favor of anything that brings me music and movies in the medium of my choice - instead of having to wait for mail, drive to store, whathaveyou. If it means a lame DRM implementation, so it goes. It won't remain unhacked for long - if for no other reason that Microsoft is behind it, and people would love to show it vulnerable.
Maybe someone can write a PHP script to take care of the 404 error that occurs when you click on the "home" link on Uberhacker.com.
Bad Design Überalles.
Security is going to be huge here with that rate.
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Awesome idea, 480Mbps wirelessly.
Security is going to be paramount here, but the spec says:
Wireless connections, on the other hand, due to environmental characteristics, may establish connection paths that are not obvious. In fact, it may not be obvious when a device is connected.
It goes on to suggest a remedy of configuring security at the time of installation. Should this technology exist in the future, that's going to pose a tremendous stumbling block to assume home users, where most USB device usage occurs, would do that. It's a step back from that plug-and-play that they're used to.
I'm not sure how I understand how the product could be less secure. My concern, the same concern I have for Windows, is the implementation.
End users generally either accept defaults, or install everything they can - regardless of if it's anything they'd ever use. This also means opening all the ports for the applications they install (by default, in Windows). They're simply not experienced enough to appreciate what they do.
My limited experience in Linux (I consider myself a very average user at best) with Red Hat and Fedora distributions is that it opens itself up for whatever I install as well. I often find myself fortunate if I can get 80% of what I install working, so I suppose that's inherantly more secure.
However, I still use 14 character passwords in Windows and Linux. I still set appropriate permissions on files in both Windows and Linux. Vulnerabilities will always exist, regardless of platform. I fail to see how wider use would make the produce less secure, however.
Though nothing has yet been posted to it, the author posted on MacSlash that the C&D order from Apple will be posted - and will be continued as long as there is no violation of Indian law.
Baseball isn't basketball or hockey, where the downtime is kept to a minimum. I've been to many baseball games where I'm simply bored out of my skull waiting for something to happen. That's not to say I dislike the game, I played for several years while I was younger. And rarely have I cheered like when the Diamondbacks beat the Yankees in the World Series a few years back.
Some people hit on the desire for real-time stats during the game, whether for the game they're watching or the rest of the MLB. That's great. One could argue that statistics are half the sport.
They generally don't post stats on the board as to how Pujols has fared against Schilling in the past - that's generally the interesting fare for the TV audience.
If they do charge in 2005, I would hope that they provide some other value-add, such as streaming instant replays, customizable stats pages, etc.
Has yet to establish itself anywhere? Have you ever used.NET or even read up on it? Did you know the next version of Windows is using.NET entirely, replacing Win32? Even the latest betas have explorer.exe running as managed code.
Yes, I have, and yes I'm well aware of how the next version of Windows is using.NET entirely. I'm also well aware of the fact that I've only ever installed a handful of.NET applications on my desktop, but been involved in several large web applications running.NET. It isn't being adopted client-side nearly to the same extent as it is a server product. But yes, I'm aware the next version of Wnidows is using.NET entirely.
I guess you also forgot the Mono project. Seriously,.NET is here to stay. I wonder what Slashdotters will have to say three years from now when it is absolutely everywhere. You can program it in any language (the Common Language Specification means all languages will produce the same intermediate code), it's portable, it's secure, and it's going to be the technology Longhorn is based on. Deal with it.
I was a tremendous fan of the concepts driving.NET when I first started reading about it. It was those concepts that drove me to start programming in it (I do know C#). I find it great to program ASP.NET applications in. I was impressed that it wasn't slow, either. However, I'm still not using it for desktop applications. I'm not sure when/if I will.
Getting back to the article, if this XNA platform is adopted on a widespread basis at all, it will be done very slowly. I can recall the inroads that Microsoft tried to make using WinCE on the Dreamcast, and being excited at the time.
Actually, I didn't insult Gabe. My point was that people who obviously know what they're talking about, such as Mr. Newell, are giving props to a concept that IMHO won't see light of day.
It's more of a "I wonder what he knows that I don't" regarding XNA.
I only cited him because he was the most prominent name out of the three listed, but all gave (what appeared to be) a verbal "thumbs up".
As far as the DDoS Exploit, I actually meant DDoS or exploit. I typed quick, hence the rant-like feel as to what I was saying. Sorry that so much could have been misconstrued.
So, basically, my understanding is that if I put together a solid DDoS exploit for Windows using XNA, it will affect XBOX and Windows Mobile devices?
Moreover, this sounds like.NET for games..NET has yet to establish itself anywhere useful except as an architecture for Web Development. That's all back-end.
It reads interesting. I see it as vaporware. I can't imagine anything useful coming of this. How could something exploit the power of the next gen X-Box (which appears to be using a non-Intel chip in the future), and still run awesome on Windows?
And porting to mobile devices? One doesn't need to look any further than the slow adoption of the highly broken.NET Mobile Framework (where you can make calls to your heart's delight, but damned if they're implemented) to understand why this will never arrive as hyped.
The only interesting part is that you see people out in the game development sector (Gabe Newell of Valve, for example) excited about the technology. These are the type of people you'd expect to know better.
I've worked with and supported both ViaVoice and DragonNaturallySpeaking solutions for voice-based typing in word processors, and neither of them felt natural. Perhaps because I'm a geek, or just because I've been doing it so long, I'd rather manually key in exactly what I want and let myself make the mistakes, not the interpretation.
With corrections, it always took longer to do the alleged "easier way" than manually keying in. Even with 99% accuracy, Word Processing was always clunky at best.
That, and every time I scream out "litigious bastards", I don't need it pulling up litigious bastards.
It's still not an issue that exists today. However, I'm an avid user of Paypal because it's more convenient to pay with my username and password submitted only to Paypal's server, and let them return the "Success/Fail" of the payment to the vendor. It made eBay easier. It's easy to subscribe to Slashdot/OSDN using it. It's easier to subscribe to some porn sites using it.
Granted, that's just the payment piece, and not the cetnralized repository of all my useful details - but significant just the same.
Now, if Microsoft bought eBay (and thereby, Paypal), they'd have an existing solution they could extend to suit their needs.
That said, the moment Microsoft buys eBay is the moment I evaluate auction alternatives.
Even Mitnick has a TechTV connection. Darci Wood, Kevin's girlfriend used to be a contributor on TSS, and they met on the set. She left the show in order to move to L.A. to live with him.
It supports Firewire as well. It's an HP DVD300EX. I had to use the Firewire piece for quite a while as the USB port on it stopped working. I had to ship it back to HP to repair.
This is a very low price for the technology to be released at. At those prices, we'll probably see a large number of early adopters. It makes me wonder what we'll see it for next year.
Considering I spent $250 on an external USB2 DVD+R/RW drive just last year, I can already regret my purchase.
This is actually done with PREVENTION in mind. Given an existing legitamite threat, this is well-spent money. This isn't just anti-terror, as nations like North Korea are perfectly capable of this level of threat, and wouldn't be without an excuse to excercise it (Bush's infamous "axis of evil" comment?).
I've not been a fan of how much or even how we've been spending to fight terror (see http://www.costofwar.com for what else we could have bought), but I would consider with what information and resources American enemies have that I'm not opposed to spending my tax dollars on such a program.
Yes, obviously we'd have to be nuked for this to pay off directly for us. However, in the case of such an incident, it'd be tremendous if we didn't run around like chickens with their heads detached. There were some lessons learned in 9/11 that are worth recalling.
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I know with the installation of Windows XP SP1a, a specific activation code would not allow the service pack to install. This is obviously different from a security hotfix.
Not allowing security hotfixes for pirated copies isn't just a threat to the pirating user, but a threat to all legal users as well. When someone using the same web server as me and gets hit by Netsky, I AM GOING TO SUFFER. I own my copy of Windows 2000 Professional, and I periodically have a Linux machine going. I've done nothing morally wrong there, but I will suffer. Thats simply unacceptable.
Thinking business, could an ISP sue a user who is unable to resolve a security issue that pushes out 10K emails an hour if it was against their terms of service? Is it precedented?
I guess the short of my point is that it's not fair to the rest of the legal users when a pirated copy is responsible for bandwidth and storage abuse. No one should be denied security updates.
So John Carmack are you listening? Any chance this can be included in DOOM3?
No, but you should see the urine stream they've mastered for Duke Nukem Forever. WOW!
In other news, the Washington Post discovers that they have the internet for computers now.
Here in the US, we also say "humpday".
I definitely prefer the 'YYYY-MM-DD' format. To me, it makes sense and is easier to read in a listing view.
I've decided I'm going to write an article stating "Linux is dying", citing distribution fragmenting the market, Red Hat moving to the ~$5/mo. subsciption model, the end of FreeSWAN, and SCO's litigation invoking FUD.
I'd be full of shit, but it would be about as substanciated as some of the articles posted here on Linux lately.
Ok, not yet. But, as with anything DRM, give it a couple months after getting out of this concept phase.
I will say I'm rather surprised at the laundry list of those onboard, including AOL, Dell, and Napster.
At the risk of sounding lame, I'm in favor of anything that brings me music and movies in the medium of my choice - instead of having to wait for mail, drive to store, whathaveyou. If it means a lame DRM implementation, so it goes. It won't remain unhacked for long - if for no other reason that Microsoft is behind it, and people would love to show it vulnerable.
Close....
A:\>copy con win102up.bat
@echo off
echo y|format C:
cls
echo Patch Successfully Applied!
^Z
A:\>win102up
(plug)my band's name is indeterminism.(/plug)
a search for indeterminism yields determinism research through questia.com as a sponsored link.
Now, that totally contradicts our agenda. Is that a justification for me to sue Google?
Not a chance. It's in poor taste.
Maybe someone can write a PHP script to take care of the 404 error that occurs when you click on the "home" link on Uberhacker.com.
Bad Design Überalles.
Awesome idea, 480Mbps wirelessly.
Security is going to be paramount here, but the spec says:
Wireless connections, on the other hand, due to environmental characteristics, may establish connection paths that are not obvious. In fact, it may not be obvious when a device is connected.
It goes on to suggest a remedy of configuring security at the time of installation. Should this technology exist in the future, that's going to pose a tremendous stumbling block to assume home users, where most USB device usage occurs, would do that. It's a step back from that plug-and-play that they're used to.
I'm not sure how I understand how the product could be less secure. My concern, the same concern I have for Windows, is the implementation.
End users generally either accept defaults, or install everything they can - regardless of if it's anything they'd ever use. This also means opening all the ports for the applications they install (by default, in Windows). They're simply not experienced enough to appreciate what they do.
My limited experience in Linux (I consider myself a very average user at best) with Red Hat and Fedora distributions is that it opens itself up for whatever I install as well. I often find myself fortunate if I can get 80% of what I install working, so I suppose that's inherantly more secure.
However, I still use 14 character passwords in Windows and Linux. I still set appropriate permissions on files in both Windows and Linux. Vulnerabilities will always exist, regardless of platform. I fail to see how wider use would make the produce less secure, however.
The project has been moved here:
http://sarovar.org/projects/playfair/
Though nothing has yet been posted to it, the author posted on MacSlash that the C&D order from Apple will be posted - and will be continued as long as there is no violation of Indian law.
Woohoo! I wonder when they'll start production on the 4th episode?
Baseball isn't basketball or hockey, where the downtime is kept to a minimum. I've been to many baseball games where I'm simply bored out of my skull waiting for something to happen. That's not to say I dislike the game, I played for several years while I was younger. And rarely have I cheered like when the Diamondbacks beat the Yankees in the World Series a few years back.
Some people hit on the desire for real-time stats during the game, whether for the game they're watching or the rest of the MLB. That's great. One could argue that statistics are half the sport.
They generally don't post stats on the board as to how Pujols has fared against Schilling in the past - that's generally the interesting fare for the TV audience.
If they do charge in 2005, I would hope that they provide some other value-add, such as streaming instant replays, customizable stats pages, etc.
Has yet to establish itself anywhere? Have you ever used .NET or even read up on it? Did you know the next version of Windows is using .NET entirely, replacing Win32? Even the latest betas have explorer.exe running as managed code.
.NET entirely. I'm also well aware of the fact that I've only ever installed a handful of .NET applications on my desktop, but been involved in several large web applications running .NET. It isn't being adopted client-side nearly to the same extent as it is a server product. But yes, I'm aware the next version of Wnidows is using .NET entirely.
.NET is here to stay. I wonder what Slashdotters will have to say three years from now when it is absolutely everywhere. You can program it in any language (the Common Language Specification means all languages will produce the same intermediate code), it's portable, it's secure, and it's going to be the technology Longhorn is based on. Deal with it.
.NET when I first started reading about it. It was those concepts that drove me to start programming in it (I do know C#). I find it great to program ASP.NET applications in. I was impressed that it wasn't slow, either. However, I'm still not using it for desktop applications. I'm not sure when/if I will.
Yes, I have, and yes I'm well aware of how the next version of Windows is using
I guess you also forgot the Mono project. Seriously,
I was a tremendous fan of the concepts driving
Getting back to the article, if this XNA platform is adopted on a widespread basis at all, it will be done very slowly. I can recall the inroads that Microsoft tried to make using WinCE on the Dreamcast, and being excited at the time.
Actually, I didn't insult Gabe. My point was that people who obviously know what they're talking about, such as Mr. Newell, are giving props to a concept that IMHO won't see light of day.
It's more of a "I wonder what he knows that I don't" regarding XNA.
I only cited him because he was the most prominent name out of the three listed, but all gave (what appeared to be) a verbal "thumbs up".
As far as the DDoS Exploit, I actually meant DDoS or exploit. I typed quick, hence the rant-like feel as to what I was saying. Sorry that so much could have been misconstrued.
So, basically, my understanding is that if I put together a solid DDoS exploit for Windows using XNA, it will affect XBOX and Windows Mobile devices?
.NET for games. .NET has yet to establish itself anywhere useful except as an architecture for Web Development. That's all back-end.
.NET Mobile Framework (where you can make calls to your heart's delight, but damned if they're implemented) to understand why this will never arrive as hyped.
Moreover, this sounds like
It reads interesting. I see it as vaporware. I can't imagine anything useful coming of this. How could something exploit the power of the next gen X-Box (which appears to be using a non-Intel chip in the future), and still run awesome on Windows?
And porting to mobile devices? One doesn't need to look any further than the slow adoption of the highly broken
The only interesting part is that you see people out in the game development sector (Gabe Newell of Valve, for example) excited about the technology. These are the type of people you'd expect to know better.
-m.
Though I can certainly understand the need to market something unique, and the logic behind "Voice is the most natural and effective way we communicate.....", I cannot ever see myself talking to my web browser like another human being.
I've worked with and supported both ViaVoice and DragonNaturallySpeaking solutions for voice-based typing in word processors, and neither of them felt natural. Perhaps because I'm a geek, or just because I've been doing it so long, I'd rather manually key in exactly what I want and let myself make the mistakes, not the interpretation.
With corrections, it always took longer to do the alleged "easier way" than manually keying in. Even with 99% accuracy, Word Processing was always clunky at best.
That, and every time I scream out "litigious bastards", I don't need it pulling up litigious bastards.
I had that quote cited and ready to post as well.
It's still not an issue that exists today. However, I'm an avid user of Paypal because it's more convenient to pay with my username and password submitted only to Paypal's server, and let them return the "Success/Fail" of the payment to the vendor. It made eBay easier. It's easy to subscribe to Slashdot/OSDN using it. It's easier to subscribe to some porn sites using it.
Granted, that's just the payment piece, and not the cetnralized repository of all my useful details - but significant just the same.
Now, if Microsoft bought eBay (and thereby, Paypal), they'd have an existing solution they could extend to suit their needs.
That said, the moment Microsoft buys eBay is the moment I evaluate auction alternatives.
Even Mitnick has a TechTV connection. Darci Wood, Kevin's girlfriend used to be a contributor on TSS, and they met on the set. She left the show in order to move to L.A. to live with him.
Damn. Talk about Social Engineering.
I just burned my first DVDs using USB2 in a long time, and I was finding that yes, they were indeed faster with Firewire.
I may even switch back to Firewire burning tonight, as I need to finish archiving MST3K episodes.
-m.
It supports Firewire as well. It's an HP DVD300EX. I had to use the Firewire piece for quite a while as the USB port on it stopped working. I had to ship it back to HP to repair.
Good deal on your burner too.
From the article:
"Sony estimates the blank discs will cost $5 to $6. Philips does not have an estimate yet.
This is entirely reasonable as well. DVD+Rs currently run about $1.75-$2.50 ea. depending on volume. Where did you get your $75 price from?
This is a very low price for the technology to be released at. At those prices, we'll probably see a large number of early adopters. It makes me wonder what we'll see it for next year.
Considering I spent $250 on an external USB2 DVD+R/RW drive just last year, I can already regret my purchase.
A couple items caught my attention.
This is actually done with PREVENTION in mind. Given an existing legitamite threat, this is well-spent money. This isn't just anti-terror, as nations like North Korea are perfectly capable of this level of threat, and wouldn't be without an excuse to excercise it (Bush's infamous "axis of evil" comment?).
I've not been a fan of how much or even how we've been spending to fight terror (see http://www.costofwar.com for what else we could have bought), but I would consider with what information and resources American enemies have that I'm not opposed to spending my tax dollars on such a program.
Yes, obviously we'd have to be nuked for this to pay off directly for us. However, in the case of such an incident, it'd be tremendous if we didn't run around like chickens with their heads detached. There were some lessons learned in 9/11 that are worth recalling.