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Jan. 15th, 2006 12:39 amFirst, potentially interesting data: One of the hosts of Security Now, Steve Gibson, suggests that the Windows Metafile vulnerability is a backdoor. If he's right, then there's plenty of heads that can roll.
And I got some of it done... although it wasn't a whole lot, really. It's okay, there's still at least a week or two before those papers are due, but I'm going to have to figure some stuff out soon enough. Shouldn't be too hard, though, I think. I just need to find my inspiration - that's always tough. I guess that it would help me more to think like a genius, rather than just worrying. Oh, yes, I also get to express my amusement at the Canadian political adverts - as I have spent much of today watching the CBC's hockey coverage. (TK - Wings and Avs either next week or week after on NBC. I might also note that it's a little weird saying what networks the hockey games are on these days...) These adverts are of about the same quality as American political adverts. More about personal attacks of the leaders than the actual politics. I think the NDP ad was the only one that criticized the Liberals rather than Paul Martin and Steven Harper. Also, it looks like the parties are the only entities authorized to air political adverts, so no PAC advertisements endorsing one candidate or another. Is this true,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lordmork? (Insomuch as the captions all say "Authorized by the representative agent of the X party")
Another age-restriction game bill. This is only significant because it's quite possible that a Bush says something intelligent at the end of it.
A different staff writer had to have done this upcoming article, because the tone changes completely from advocate to aggravant. PSP firmware 2.60 cracked. I find this proves that people will always want things to do more than what they're programmed for, if they have the capability. Inventive ideas do come out of unorthodox use, and I recognize the reasons why device manufacturers say quite strongly that warranties get voided and that they're not responsible for undesigned uses. Still, why be angry or annoyed at people who choose to add extra functionality to their devices. They already paid the manufacturer... and they may have to do so again if they crash it unrecoverably.. If they use the device for illegal means on home created software, the manufacturer has a very good case of not being liable for any damages - they didn't use the company's software. (Otherwise, Microsoft would be responsible for every gods-damned virus and worm that was designed on a Windows machine. With the way some people are anti-Microsoft, virus writers would be claiming they were designed with Microsoft products, regardless of their real origins.)
Speaking of Microsoft, I'll link it again - one of the hosts of Security Now, Steve Gibson, suggests that the Windows Metafile vulnerability is a backdoor.
Beyond that, I got to look at stereograms today, on the monitor - and I was able to do it on the monitor, something I had trouble with before. Even able to hold things for an animated stereogram. In terms of finding order in chaos, or rather, the natural chaos of the universe, Stereograms can be great, as they make one pattern hide in another. But this, this sort of idea that Taoists have been saying for years is true - overloading one way, either in yin or yang, is unhealthy. Simply stick to the way that nature goes, find the Way and be in harmony with it, even when the Way is chaotic. Hail Eris, Aneris, and everything else, including J.R. "Bob" Dobbs.
For some other ideas on how chaos and freedom are necessary pieces of a fulfilling life (with an interesting thought about copyright is antithetical to free speech), check out the philosophy of FreeNet, an anonymous, distributed network of objects. The program itself is available at the Freenet main page on Sourceforge. Apparently, they haven't been shut down yet, possibly because of decisions that say that if you don't know and can't point to an exact point where infringements and such occur, you can't shut down a network. (Someone else who knows better, let me know.)
So that's the stuff out of my department tonight. Tomorrow, I have to remember to play some games tomorrow to get better data for a paper, and then to write said paper and do the reading for it. The rest of you get to enjoy tomorrow unfettered.
And I got some of it done... although it wasn't a whole lot, really. It's okay, there's still at least a week or two before those papers are due, but I'm going to have to figure some stuff out soon enough. Shouldn't be too hard, though, I think. I just need to find my inspiration - that's always tough. I guess that it would help me more to think like a genius, rather than just worrying. Oh, yes, I also get to express my amusement at the Canadian political adverts - as I have spent much of today watching the CBC's hockey coverage. (TK - Wings and Avs either next week or week after on NBC. I might also note that it's a little weird saying what networks the hockey games are on these days...) These adverts are of about the same quality as American political adverts. More about personal attacks of the leaders than the actual politics. I think the NDP ad was the only one that criticized the Liberals rather than Paul Martin and Steven Harper. Also, it looks like the parties are the only entities authorized to air political adverts, so no PAC advertisements endorsing one candidate or another. Is this true,
lordmork? (Insomuch as the captions all say "Authorized by the representative agent of the X party")Another age-restriction game bill. This is only significant because it's quite possible that a Bush says something intelligent at the end of it.
A different staff writer had to have done this upcoming article, because the tone changes completely from advocate to aggravant. PSP firmware 2.60 cracked. I find this proves that people will always want things to do more than what they're programmed for, if they have the capability. Inventive ideas do come out of unorthodox use, and I recognize the reasons why device manufacturers say quite strongly that warranties get voided and that they're not responsible for undesigned uses. Still, why be angry or annoyed at people who choose to add extra functionality to their devices. They already paid the manufacturer... and they may have to do so again if they crash it unrecoverably.. If they use the device for illegal means on home created software, the manufacturer has a very good case of not being liable for any damages - they didn't use the company's software. (Otherwise, Microsoft would be responsible for every gods-damned virus and worm that was designed on a Windows machine. With the way some people are anti-Microsoft, virus writers would be claiming they were designed with Microsoft products, regardless of their real origins.)
Speaking of Microsoft, I'll link it again - one of the hosts of Security Now, Steve Gibson, suggests that the Windows Metafile vulnerability is a backdoor.
Beyond that, I got to look at stereograms today, on the monitor - and I was able to do it on the monitor, something I had trouble with before. Even able to hold things for an animated stereogram. In terms of finding order in chaos, or rather, the natural chaos of the universe, Stereograms can be great, as they make one pattern hide in another. But this, this sort of idea that Taoists have been saying for years is true - overloading one way, either in yin or yang, is unhealthy. Simply stick to the way that nature goes, find the Way and be in harmony with it, even when the Way is chaotic. Hail Eris, Aneris, and everything else, including J.R. "Bob" Dobbs.
For some other ideas on how chaos and freedom are necessary pieces of a fulfilling life (with an interesting thought about copyright is antithetical to free speech), check out the philosophy of FreeNet, an anonymous, distributed network of objects. The program itself is available at the Freenet main page on Sourceforge. Apparently, they haven't been shut down yet, possibly because of decisions that say that if you don't know and can't point to an exact point where infringements and such occur, you can't shut down a network. (Someone else who knows better, let me know.)
So that's the stuff out of my department tonight. Tomorrow, I have to remember to play some games tomorrow to get better data for a paper, and then to write said paper and do the reading for it. The rest of you get to enjoy tomorrow unfettered.
