Re: Identifying and editing a variable in memory

From: Dances With Crows (danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows_at_gmail.com)
Date: 08/12/05 

Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 11:25:51 -0500

On 12 Aug 2005 09:01:36 -0700, Random Penguin staggered into the Black
Sun and said:

Include context when posting to Usenet. That never-to-be-sufficiently
damned G2 "permanent Alpha" excuse for an NNTP client doesn't do that by
default. Get a Real Newsreader or cut-n-paste or figure out which
things you have to click on to get context included. Context restored:

> Stan Bischof wrote:
>>Random Penguin <nonexistent2032@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>> Yes, and whether this turns out to be an academic exercise or not
>>> depends on whether I determine if it is illegal to "transfer" the
>>> license to another unused computer while I use my main computer for
>>> other non-related work. Ultimately, exactly 2 computers will still
>>> be using the program as was licensed.
>>To dispell any naysayers why don't you just post the license agreement
>>from whatever software you are looking at?
> I am an honest user with a valid licence and a grain of curiousity.

So far, nobody's said you were dishonest. What Stan wants is to see the
actual legal language (or even the full name of whatever program you're
running is.) Maybe the lawyers, for whatever reason, made it so that
legally, your licenses are locked to a particular computer. If you
circumvent that, you're legally in the wrong.[0]

> Me posting the licence agreement would "dispel" nothing; I could have
> simply copied and pasted it from anywhere. It would however give you
> ammunition to base more false accusations on.

Slow down there, cowboy. In which message-ID has Stan (or anybody) made
"false accusations"?

> I have valid allegations of your libellous statements as per your
> previous post

Calling statements made on Usenet "libel" will get you laughed out of
court, eh?[1]

> You should apologise, and that will be the end of the story. You might
> want to check Section 6 of your Google Groups Terms of Use, since you
> appear to be interested in such documents.

Stan's not bound by Google's Terms of Use, since he's not using that POS
G2 excuse for an NNTP client to post things to Usenet. Pick a different
way to yap at him if you're gonna yap at him. His ISP may have relevant
things in its TOS; go find which ISP he's using and look up its TOS if
you're curious.

And just in case... strace. It'll generate a metric arseload of output,
but redirect it to a file and look at it for whatever matches the key
you're concerned about.

I think Peter T. Breuer was barking up the wrong badger hole when he
said "it's the IP!"; machines can have no IP or an IP that changes every
2 hours with cable/DSL/dialup. My guess would be some sort of huge
unique identifier built from PCI IDs, any serial#s in the ROM BIOS, and
possibly the serial#s of any IDE (or SCSI) hard disks that are
connected. The easiest way to find that stuff will be with strace and
dogged persistence. If the people who wrote the code were *really*
clever, you may need User-Mode Linux to figure out exactly what's up.
HTH,

[0] As usual, what's legal is orthogonal to what's *right*.

[1] Otherwise, Gateway, HPCompaq, Dull, and 6 or 8 other companies
who've made shoddy products and/or provided inept service could probably
sue me for libel. 

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