While you no longer *can* control uptime, you also no longer *have to*, and I'm pretty sure for smaller organizations the tradeoff is worth it.

Not quite good enough - you could still get a BIOS/EFI rootkit :\

If you were able to use the GPU to brute-force a password hash or similar authentication token for the system, you could install a rootkit on the card's option ROM.

1.It'd get to run with ring 0 access on each boot before the OS has a chance to do anything.
2. On EFI systems it'd have access to a TCP stack, full FAT and NTFS filesystem access, all included in the EDK. So it could update itself on the fly each boot.

The video card makes a great trojan horse to house your malware.

If I'm ever a rich guy I'm going to make a point of dying in some eccentric fashion. I mean think about it - the mental picture of a rich dude driving a segway off a cliff into a river is just epic.

I'm not trying to make light of the fact that this man's life ended, just giving tribute and appreciation to the manner in which it ended. Better than choking on a ham sandwich.

Not necessarily true. In general it seems like people will work 2x as hard to keep from legitimately working. As long as it isn't "legit", it feels like you're not working. From what I've seen people will work much harder at cheating than they will at legit work.

Isn't college already an expensive approach to gaining valuable skills?

Damn man, that's what she said.

The one time I don't have mod points.

Well you know what they say: in capitalism, man exploits man. In communism: it's the other way around.

it's more accurate to say they are like a variable with named "statistics" with a value that has never been set.

That doesn't sound anything like a car. You must be new here.

Sounds like a typical Friday night for me.

Google: "osx combo update". On the first result you'll see that the 10.5.8 combo update is 759MB and the 10.5.8 server combo update is 978MB.

... excuse me, sorry, I forgot to mention that I already know this is not going to work since it's public/private key crypto and the client never does get the private key. I was just clarifying the intent of the GP's question as I understood it.

I believe what the GP is suggesting is that you intentionally infect a machine you own then look for the decoded key in memory.

Oh look. A chocolate. And what's this? A chocolate.

Wait these are all chocolates. I predict chocolate.