Do you not know what escrow funding is? You get a percentage of the promised funds as you reach each milestone, with some portion being released immediately. It's not like a product where the escrow is held until you deliver.

If only there were a -1 WRONG button.

That's for Pwn2Own, which google is also not particpating in. Pwnium (what this is about) allows pre-written exploits.

I've got a few issues with this whole thing.

First, since the main complaint against megaupload was they were doing data-deduplication, at what granularity do you need to dedupe before you become infringing?
This is problematic because of #2: DMCA complaints lie. Like, the majority of the time. They keyword search and send takedown requests to files with names they don't like without ever seeing the content. So, if a service dedupes content like that all you need to do is upload something that's popular and name it "Britney Spears #1 hit poop" and get it DMCAd. Troll heaven.
Third, their "Paying pirates" is a bald-faced lie. Putting up content you own and getting paid for it was a way to make money for independants of all stripes - modmakers, musicians, amateur directors, etc. The fact that some people made money with things they didn't own (And don't forget that takedowns were honored, dispite the misleading wording of the indictment.) doesn't change the fact that it had a massively non-infringing use. As for their "evidence", try to find one ISP where employees don't talk about using their bandwidth to download not-entirely-legit content. It's considered a job perk of a fat pipe.

Lastly, The MU takedown had the intended effect. Filesonic died early this morning as well. If you don't own your own hosting, good fucking luck sharing anything you've created with the world. There's a lot of minecraft mods that are just gone now, for instance.

Add the following URL to AddblockPlus (with http, not hxxp).
hxxp://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:BannerLoader&banner=blackout*

Since you're needing this comment, you're already aware of SOPA and you want to use wikipedia today. Also, pass it on to anyone who complains. They're aware of SOPA and they get to learn about how they'll need to use obnoxious technological workarounds to legislative damage.

Also, today's a great day for creative wiki editing.

actually you picked a terrible example - Crysis 2 was written for consoles and ported to PC, which means it's didn't even support DX11 on release, and it certainly doesn't have a DX11 optimized workflow. The levels are smaller, more confined, the textures have to fit in console RAM, etc. You're not missing
out on anything by not having a new card.

Wait, I missed the announcement where nVidia dumped all their hardware internal documentation on the Xorg guys and said 'have fun'?

There _IS_ no competition for linux until that happens, there's ATI and some proprietary vendor I never think of when buying cards.

that's why you use async IO instead of select/poll.

Ugh, don't say 'pixel perfect', I utterly despise pixel-perfect designs. What DPI? 100? 80? 120? 600 for print?

pixel-perfect designs that break when I set a minimum font size are obnoxious as hell, when I have to select text that flows under other elements and paste it somewhere to read it. Ugh. Seriously, don't even think about giving designers that kind of control until they've proven themselves able to design for something other than their own monitor.

Good news! You don't need to execute it with root privileges, it gets those for itself.

Well, for one both the exploit and the detector are broken by default - it's looking for per_cpu__current_task for >=2.6.30 kernels and not every kernel has that - it's just 'current_task' on 2.6.36-rc4. Turn off that check and both the detector and exploit work. Ignoring the l33+, the important bits are the shellcode and any remnants of the exploit when run.

The exploit itself is trivial to understand - compat_alloc_user_space() didn't check the bounds, and one user didn't properly handle the checking first.

Here's the actual exploit:
getsockopt(7, SOL_IP, MCAST_MSFILTER, 0x804b4a0, 0x804b8a8) = -1 EFAULT (Bad address)
and a quick glance at net/compat.c shows that no check is made on optlen. The rest is just stack-trashing and shellcode,
your basic exploit.

He asked when you could do the equivilant of rm /bin/rm - which you can't in windows. Although I'm not entirely sure that's a filesystem thing, it's a VFS layer thing where an open is an automatic exclusive read lock.

Which is why you get the ridiculous volume shadow copy bullshit and forced reboots to update anything.

I'm more interested in the soundstage with the wire-fu of people with circles painted on them dancing around. That looked like an interesting way to do a movie.

If the first poster doesn't have a comment like "Yeah I'm using one of them right now, my internet is blazingly fast", it's a wasted opportunity.