Re: Isolationism is history.
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 08:05:36PM -0800, Day Brown wrote:
> women barefoot and pregnant. The only thing they want, they only thing
> they have always wanted, is more sons to go into battle to steal more
> women for the alpha male warrior class leaders. That's what they been
> doing, in Iraq and elsewhere, for 5000 years.
Aw, you'll probably get the chance to stick it in eventually. Keep
trying.
> but- from your modem on, *they* own all the rest of the hardware and
> software. I dont trust the bastards. I Know they dont have the
They may own it, but you every pimply-faced teenager working at an ISP
can get their hands on the bits midstream. And you'd be shocked the
sorts of people who have access to your Credit report data. It's
absolutely scandalous how poor the access controls are on things. As I
have said many times, its the unregulated private operatives who make my
life hell.
We need to tear down the entire internet and start over with proper
encryption from the ground up. We need to tear down the entire credit
system (imagine!) and start over with proper authentication and
encryption. I have my own ideas about *how* to do this (hint, it starts
with a planetwide DNA database and assigning each of us a 128-bit
number) -- you will undoubtedly have your own.
> the problem, consider ATTRIB.EXE, which is used to mark files with
> A)rchived, S)ystem, H)idden, R)ead only. Pretty simple. The usual MS
> version runs about 25-30,000 bytes. But if you go to the dos hacker tool
> lists, you can find ATTR.COM ... all 627 bytes of it. What does
> Micky$loth do with the other 25,000 bytes? Nobody knows.
I used to have read-only access to that codebase. The code is actually
pretty clean and maintainable (what I read). Microsoft does tend to use
gotos for error exits. There are a couple of famously trapped
exceptions (such as a floating point GPF in Visual Basic) which are
"normal."
You can probably read the Windows code by looking at the Windows CE.NET
source which is freely available. It's a fork. You can get a flavor of
it. If you try real hard, you can probably via a University take a look
at the source -- Microsoft is handing out read-access grudgingly. Work
within the system and you can accomplish that goal.
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