There is a difference between critical security vulnerabilities, and critical security vulnerabilities made public.
Now for another car analogy: Suppose I drive by you at 30mph and throw an egg at your face. This egg represents apache. Now, because it splatters open all over your face, you are not yet dead, and you realise something has happened. Now suppose I do a U-turn and come back the other way as you're running up the street yelling at me. This time I hurl an equally-sized rock at your face. This rock represents IIS. Now unfortunately the rock does not yield its contents upon contact with your eyes, so you are left unconscious on the ground in a pool of blood and egg yolk. If you're _very_ lucky someone might tell you what happened when you wake up. More likely than not though you'll just smell funny and be left with brain damage after coming into contact with IIS.
This is from/usr/src/linux/include/acpi/acconfig.h. Linux already identifies as windows. Foxconn are actively seeking it out and giving it a broken ACPI setup. This is not stupidity, this is malice.
Last time I checked, game console controllers haven't used "analog sensors" for oh... 20+ years. The N64's one did the digital on/off signals mechanically, even.
Wow, I went clicking through the privacy link at the bottom and came to a one-line message on charter's site basically flipping people off for wanting to know the privacy policy.
This is something I really, really wish would happen. GPG is a million times better than SSL, and browser makers could still have a "trusted" signature list if they really want it. One nice thing about the web model instead of SSL's tree is that you can authenticate your key with as many groups as you want, so you're not screwed (along with half the internet) if the verisign cert suddenly becomes invalid for some reason...
If you want _plausible_ deniability, which is what this is about, then having no history file is only going to arouse suspicion. Open a shell with HISTFILE=/dev/null only when you're running the secret VM, and run the shell command using a GUI+script or some other method that doesn't keep tracks.
Blu-ray is a limitation. It has far too much capacity for any practical use. It's one of the reasons why MPEG2 is one of the official BD video codecs in spite of MPEG4 - so the movie studios can waste space.
When the 360 FF13 is released expect it to need nowhere near 50GB. Maybe as little as two DVDs.
They could easily detect such a pattern and have it silently change that user's front page settings not to show Zonk-posted articles. In fact that sounds like a good idea - instead of consciously having to remember which editors are the worst just let people click buttons on articles and the system will figure out who they don't like.
I'm curious as to why nobody's made a wrapper library to run one toolkit's GUI natively with another one's programs, instead of just a hacked up theme.
My sound card (a high-end Vortex 2) does not even function in XP, let alone Vista, but it works beautifully in Linux. Clearly Windows is never going to be more than a "toy OS".
Don't use ext3 on USB drives, use UDF. It has all the advantages of FAT32 (not having to screw around with UIDs, works everywhere) with none of the microsoft.
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Oh man, that's the best part too. Syntax-highlighted make output!!!11
Well, if you're reading this thread I have one question... how well will it cope with a tiny screen? I've had 1.x on my eee but it was pretty awkward.
There is a difference between critical security vulnerabilities, and critical security vulnerabilities made public.
Now for another car analogy:
Suppose I drive by you at 30mph and throw an egg at your face. This egg represents apache. Now, because it splatters open all over your face, you are not yet dead, and you realise something has happened. Now suppose I do a U-turn and come back the other way as you're running up the street yelling at me. This time I hurl an equally-sized rock at your face. This rock represents IIS. Now unfortunately the rock does not yield its contents upon contact with your eyes, so you are left unconscious on the ground in a pool of blood and egg yolk. If you're _very_ lucky someone might tell you what happened when you wake up. More likely than not though you'll just smell funny and be left with brain damage after coming into contact with IIS.
This is from /usr/src/linux/include/acpi/acconfig.h. Linux already identifies as windows. Foxconn are actively seeking it out and giving it a broken ACPI setup. This is not stupidity, this is malice.
If he had got the death penalty, or even put in a prison with any semblance of security, two other people might not be dead now.
The idea of /b/ spreading outside of 4chan terrifies me more than the thought that my DNS might get hijacked, TBH.
Not really. It'd be ironic if a dictatorship passed an anti-monopoly law. China's just adhering to their stated beliefs.
Last time I checked, game console controllers haven't used "analog sensors" for oh... 20+ years. The N64's one did the digital on/off signals mechanically, even.
and people were hinting that Linux has similar issues.
There, now it doesn't. Try doing that on those other OSes.
Supersonic commercial flight - Yet another thing the US could never have due to its overbearing paranoid government.
There is no copy protection scheme that has not been utterly broken.
Yes there is - make a product so shitty nobody wants to pirate it, let alone buy it. I hear EA is using this scheme these days.
Wow, I went clicking through the privacy link at the bottom and came to a one-line message on charter's site basically flipping people off for wanting to know the privacy policy.
Given that ICANN are worse than these ISPs, giving them *more* power over the internet is the last thing anyone should be suggesting.
This is something I really, really wish would happen. GPG is a million times better than SSL, and browser makers could still have a "trusted" signature list if they really want it. One nice thing about the web model instead of SSL's tree is that you can authenticate your key with as many groups as you want, so you're not screwed (along with half the internet) if the verisign cert suddenly becomes invalid for some reason...
It's been shown to bypass the chinese firewall without problems, for one.
I'd be happy if I can play my old MegaCD games on it, if only so I can do it without needing 4kg of power bricks.
If you want _plausible_ deniability, which is what this is about, then having no history file is only going to arouse suspicion. Open a shell with HISTFILE=/dev/null only when you're running the secret VM, and run the shell command using a GUI+script or some other method that doesn't keep tracks.
If you want to get pedantic, he doesn't need to - Linux has a software workaround for that bug.
you also don't have to discard the whole chip if a single cell fails - like you do if a single cell fails in a RAM chip.
Says who?
Is that +1 Informative or -1 TMI?
Blu-ray is a limitation. It has far too much capacity for any practical use. It's one of the reasons why MPEG2 is one of the official BD video codecs in spite of MPEG4 - so the movie studios can waste space.
When the 360 FF13 is released expect it to need nowhere near 50GB. Maybe as little as two DVDs.
They could easily detect such a pattern and have it silently change that user's front page settings not to show Zonk-posted articles. In fact that sounds like a good idea - instead of consciously having to remember which editors are the worst just let people click buttons on articles and the system will figure out who they don't like.
I'm curious as to why nobody's made a wrapper library to run one toolkit's GUI natively with another one's programs, instead of just a hacked up theme.
My sound card (a high-end Vortex 2) does not even function in XP, let alone Vista, but it works beautifully in Linux. Clearly Windows is never going to be more than a "toy OS".
Don't use ext3 on USB drives, use UDF. It has all the advantages of FAT32 (not having to screw around with UIDs, works everywhere) with none of the microsoft.