You could probably get the key just by watching how the processor behaves.
You may be able to get the public key from the cpu (im assuming asymetric encryption), however this wont give you much, just more garbage when run through the (encryption algo)^-1. All of the decryption would take place in some IC in the monitor, which would contain the private key needed to decrypt the pixel. Thus the computer would never know what the acual decryption key was. Makes me wonder how this will affect 3d games. Will this encryption be done via software? forcing my Spiffy3DCard to send back the rendered frames for encrytion, or will it be an intermediate card, it just _has_ to be the last on the chain and the monitor is plugged into that. As though im going to buy a new monitor anytime soon.
Step one: send Windows source over to linux machine somewhere. (Think: PR)
Step two: write small perl script to remove all comments, tabstops, spaces and carriage returns, where possible.
Step three: run it through some "new" proprietary CABing compression, with compress turned off, that no current windows has (includeing 2000, which will eventually include support for decompressing the files, but it will be hidden away, and hard to understand how to extract the whole source tree instead of just a single file)
Step four: make sure that the new de-cab 2000 program cant read the directory tree, just "decompress" the files into c:\, so you're left with one HUGE mess in your c drive. But just for kicks they will make it also change some windows\system files, and force you to reboot after extracting them.
Step five: stick them SOMEWHERE in the help database, then make the homepage 404 so no one can find it.
Re:Introversion vs. Social Anxiety Disorder
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Amen:)
I personally find rainy days cheerful and happy. I used to live in central florida, so it rained every day at 15:00 like clockwork (bad pun). All of my RealWorld friends agree with me. They see the sun as another thing to get in the way of a good cloudy day. It keeps the temperature just right, no blining sun, and its kinda fun when it drips rain. Imagine that, i have alot of real world && !DigitalAbstraction friends, even a girlfriend of 9months who i absolutly adore. But i also have a bunch of DigitalAbstraction only friends online who i talk to ~3-4hours a day via IRC, email, and IM type things.
Ewwww... Creepy... Could you just imagine where this would leed? Everyone would be good little boy scouts, always doing TheRightThing. Ah jeez. Don't you realize how CREEPY that would be? Where would we get our heavy metal music? Caffine? QUAKE?? Think of the Clans! WONT ANYBODY THINK OF THE QUAKE CLANS?! We would all be medics in TF, but we wouldnt go around killing or captureing the flag. That would be MEAN, we would all sit around healing our teammates! I'm not even going to go into what taking your girlfriend to the movies would turn into. (I mean, coming out of the theatre knowing what movie you just saw? Thats not right!)
This sounds incredibly like Future Problem Solving (FPS), an international program for kids in school, elementry to high school, who are good at looking at problems, and solving them. You are presented with ~1page situation, 2hours, and a packet to work in. In the 2 hours you and your team mates (4) must devise 20 problems with the situation, determine the main problem and write it up, then come up with 20 solutions to those problems, and evaluate them according to some criteria that you make up, which is relevant to the course you chose, and the problem at hand, to determine the best solution you have, then write that one up also. Points are awarded for originality, clarity, and relavancy. Then you must act out your best solution using only certain things on a list as props.
I did this for 2 years when my school had it, it was a great way to promote silly things like team work and creative thinking, things i think public schools are bascially lacking. Im glad universities are finally seeing how outdated their testing methods are, standardized testing has always bugged me, only recently have i ever seen "Computer Science" listed as an intented Carreer path (i am still in high school). It ticked me off when teachers constantly had me mark undecided or the equivalent of Word98-expert-clerical-person.
So does this mean i can get into universities by building those cool spaceship things i made back in elementry/middle school? (Which obviously taught me nothing in the ways of spelling:) Or do i acually have to construct something that goes to a particular problem? Either way, problem solving has always been my high points (State level FPS both years, go IB@BHS:)
I would imagine that the price would be relativly reasonable, judging by what i've read their target market is going to be. No one is going to pay 1500$ for a TransPalm MMXVI. I would like to see this in smaller computers that can take the beating of being mounted under the seat in my truck. Possibly with a ultra-shock-resistant-40seconds-ESP DVD-ROM and one of those nifty flat/touch screen monitors... Road trips would suddenly seem fun, and it would be a way to shut the kids up:) (Imagine, Half-life TFC/CS over your wireless inet connection, assuming they can fine tune that tech also)
However, according to idle banter in #distributed there is supposedly a modular client in the works, possibly for a 3.0 release. At least, we've been pushing for one for awhile now;-)
Well Mitnick is currently on Probation, and a very strict one at that, so if the contents of the files are incriminating they could be concievably used against him in probation hearings. I dont know if thats legal or not, so even if it couldnt officially be used, it would still rest in the back of the judges mind when deciding to loosen/lift the probation.
I seriously doubt the stimulation would have to be very strong. When you throw off your inner-ear, even a tad, your whole body "thinks" its doing whatever the ear is being told. It would be like those rides which can simulate moving long distances while the seat/room only moves a few inches. If your brain "thinks" its standing still, when in fact you are moving forward, you will feel like you are standing still.
Ill restate my opinion on this, if you dont care about it, dont click "Read More...", it would take you less time and energy to skip the article then goto it, read it, and then post a flamebate reply. I know this could be applied to this post to, oh well.
I like the article though:) Couldnt get through to the pictures though, dont know if the sites/.'d or our school sysadmin is playing with my connection again. (Weee...Bess) Congrats to Chris and Christina =) and a haha to Taco, had to dress up:P
I dont see what the big deal is. If you dont like what is posted, dont read it. Scroll past the news that doesnt interest you or you deem stupid. Do you get pissed off when CNN reports something you personally dont care about (or dont think it was their place to report)? no, you change the channel, or wait for the next news item to come up. I happen to find it interesting, i skim slashdot daily for interesting tidbits, i dont avidly check every site which could possibly have geek news, so i wouldnt have known about this release.
Last i checked alot of plugins speed up web browsing. Would you rather load a 100K animated GIF or a 30K Flash object? Sure the first time download is alot for the flash plugin, however it does let you save _alot_ of bandwidth in the long run if sites use it right.
In your preferences you can make comments which have certain characteristics be scored +1, this a +5 rating would become +6 if it had those characteristics.:)
Why don't the banks care ? Well, it doesn't cost them any money, now does it ? The merchant and the consumer always lose. (Mostly the merchant)
Unless of course they cannot re-coup the damages directly, then it cuts into profits, or there being able to pay a bill, etc. Either way they dont take the damages, they pass the losses onto the consumer through increased prices, less discounts and coupons etc. Thats one of the reasons credit cards are so expensive (besides the fact that they can get away with it), what do you think banks do when you call to have an item taken off your bill? They pass those losses straight back to the consumer through interest and monthly fees. Either way the consumer loses, and business is right where it was before, as though it never happened.
Re:No WuName to Normal Translator
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Hrm, I'm tha prickly comedian too, small world, or small DB, you choose:)
I am curious as to which website you speak of? I read the article and am curious about what the imaging is like? And can they fit it into a pair of sunglasses like in The World is not Enough?:) (wouldnt that be fun at a party:)
Unfortunatly, with any gas option you run the risk of people being hyper-allergenic to them. Corporations couldnt risk the kind of lawsuit that kind of a death would bring about, and no one is going to sign a waiver before they get onto the plane which says "If we get hi-jacked we're going to gas you, all of you, and if anything happens, its not our problem." We have to think about this from the capitalistmoneyhungryinvestors side also.
Ahh, you describe my middle school/9th grade life to the T. Just recently the school decided it would be worth while to change all the locks around campus. Why? Because it was looking like we had some money to buy paper towels for the bathrooms. During this, the locksmiths went around and systematically removed every lock on campus, before replaceing them. They locked us out of our classrooms in the process if teachers weren't careful, what a look of shock *that* was when i picked the mechanism to the doors that were "un openable". fun fun.
Woohoo, i could finally dust off the ole' catapult and hurl large rocks long distances through the air, maybe my trusty canon? then they would be nice and hot as to leave a heat signiture, really through them off.
I seriously dont see whats wrong with elitism in schools. I was in the IB diploma program at a school for a year before moving out to california, and into "everyones equal" non elitist school systems. They say they cant track kids and excelerate the smart ones etc. While at the same time they let the mentally retarted kids have there own class etc. But those are "special cases" so its OK. I dont like having to take very low level classes in high school because its "required", and such are mixed with some kids whow ant to learn, some who are indifferent, and the ones who are taking the class for the 3rd time, and are proud of this fact. Why not let the administrators weed out the stupid and put them in there own class, weed out the average and put them in there own ring of classes, and the above average and excellerate them, or hell, m*tivate them. Also, the pre-requisite system for tech classes has got to go, they tried to hold me outta a College c++ class (junior in high school) because i didnt have my "core computer classes", better known has "How to turn on a computer 101", "What the little letters on the plastic rectangle infront of you do", and "Microsoft Office 97".
Lets overhaul the schools, start elitist stuff, and re-think the pre-requisite system. Bleh. Sorry for the rant:)
Show me a bit. Hold it in your hand. Lick it, go on, I dare you.
Easy for modem-er's. Dialup to your ISP, connect another RJ-11 cord into the other port on your modem. Lick the connector at the end. It gives this wierd tingly feeling in your tounge. (mmm, electricity)
Just so you know, im not a phsyco who goes around licking electricly charged wires. One day i was hooking up a computer system and was short one hand. I decided on the phone cord of the mouth useing the reasoning "well the computer isnt plugged in...", causally neglecting the fact that the phone cord was plugged into the wall...
About Piracy: I noticed someone mention that you had to have some sort of proof of purchase along with all orignial packaging etc. I bought half-life from a friend of mine, his original cd, box, manual, etc. Is this piracy by "their" definition? His computer couldnt run half-life, and he doesnt have a way (or the know-how) to copy a cd.
If i remember correctly, you can still *copy* the files, encrypted or not, to another media. True haveing.99gb files which are essentially garbage on your HD because there encrypted makes no sense, but you can read the data, and thus copy it. css-auth simply decrypts files, which you have already copy'd elsewhere, or left on the disc. The copywrite section's there quoteing make no mention of the ability to acually view the contents, just circumvent copying of the copywrited material, or am i totally off? Because if you use "cp" to copy a buncha files onto your drive, you have technically made an "exact" copy of what they have copywrited. Like Duplicating a book page for page on a copy machine, you have made an exact copy as they gave it to you.
So im curious, what happens if you buy 25%+ of David Bowie. Can you legally require him to ship you his left arm or something? The latest craze on the playground, not kids tradeing Magic cards, but celebrity arms and legs. Trys explaining that to a psychiatrist (sp?)
Why not aim it at deathrow in a prison on accident Wouldnt that be a site for the guard on duty. I mean imagine his report: "Today around 10:23pm (gotta be at night so we get a cool light show) all of my prisoners on death row were mysteriously killed by a large lightning bolt. Oh well." Might be a mess to clean up, but thats what we have the other inmates for. "Clean this up or you're next" Hell the cathlic church could claim responsibility saying "God struck down those sinners" or something and everyone could get a good laugh.
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You could probably get the key just by watching how the processor behaves.
You may be able to get the public key from the cpu (im assuming asymetric encryption), however this wont give you much, just more garbage when run through the (encryption algo)^-1. All of the decryption would take place in some IC in the monitor, which would contain the private key needed to decrypt the pixel. Thus the computer would never know what the acual decryption key was. Makes me wonder how this will affect 3d games. Will this encryption be done via software? forcing my Spiffy3DCard to send back the rendered frames for encrytion, or will it be an intermediate card, it just _has_ to be the last on the chain and the monitor is plugged into that. As though im going to buy a new monitor anytime soon.
Eraser_
I can see it now.
Step one: send Windows source over to linux machine somewhere. (Think: PR)
Step two: write small perl script to remove all comments, tabstops, spaces and carriage returns, where possible.
Step three: run it through some "new" proprietary CABing compression, with compress turned off, that no current windows has (includeing 2000, which will eventually include support for decompressing the files, but it will be hidden away, and hard to understand how to extract the whole source tree instead of just a single file)
Step four: make sure that the new de-cab 2000 program cant read the directory tree, just "decompress" the files into c:\, so you're left with one HUGE mess in your c drive. But just for kicks they will make it also change some windows\system files, and force you to reboot after extracting them.
Step five: stick them SOMEWHERE in the help database, then make the homepage 404 so no one can find it.
Amen :)
I personally find rainy days cheerful and happy. I used to live in central florida, so it rained every day at 15:00 like clockwork (bad pun). All of my RealWorld friends agree with me. They see the sun as another thing to get in the way of a good cloudy day. It keeps the temperature just right, no blining sun, and its kinda fun when it drips rain. Imagine that, i have alot of real world && !DigitalAbstraction friends, even a girlfriend of 9months who i absolutly adore. But i also have a bunch of DigitalAbstraction only friends online who i talk to ~3-4hours a day via IRC, email, and IM type things.
Eraser
Ewwww... Creepy... Could you just imagine where this would leed? Everyone would be good little boy scouts, always doing TheRightThing. Ah jeez. Don't you realize how CREEPY that would be? Where would we get our heavy metal music? Caffine? QUAKE?? Think of the Clans! WONT ANYBODY THINK OF THE QUAKE CLANS?! We would all be medics in TF, but we wouldnt go around killing or captureing the flag. That would be MEAN, we would all sit around healing our teammates! I'm not even going to go into what taking your girlfriend to the movies would turn into. (I mean, coming out of the theatre knowing what movie you just saw? Thats not right!)
Eraser_
This sounds incredibly like Future Problem Solving (FPS), an international program for kids in school, elementry to high school, who are good at looking at problems, and solving them. You are presented with ~1page situation, 2hours, and a packet to work in. In the 2 hours you and your team mates (4) must devise 20 problems with the situation, determine the main problem and write it up, then come up with 20 solutions to those problems, and evaluate them according to some criteria that you make up, which is relevant to the course you chose, and the problem at hand, to determine the best solution you have, then write that one up also. Points are awarded for originality, clarity, and relavancy. Then you must act out your best solution using only certain things on a list as props.
:) Or do i acually have to construct something that goes to a particular problem? Either way, problem solving has always been my high points (State level FPS both years, go IB@BHS :)
I did this for 2 years when my school had it, it was a great way to promote silly things like team work and creative thinking, things i think public schools are bascially lacking. Im glad universities are finally seeing how outdated their testing methods are, standardized testing has always bugged me, only recently have i ever seen "Computer Science" listed as an intented Carreer path (i am still in high school). It ticked me off when teachers constantly had me mark undecided or the equivalent of Word98-expert-clerical-person.
So does this mean i can get into universities by building those cool spaceship things i made back in elementry/middle school? (Which obviously taught me nothing in the ways of spelling
Eraser_
Thanx for clearing that up, i was never very clear on how all that worked.
;-)
Eraser_
ps: So you're the one with that nick, sorry if i emailed your password to you a few times
I would imagine that the price would be relativly reasonable, judging by what i've read their target market is going to be. No one is going to pay 1500$ for a TransPalm MMXVI. I would like to see this in smaller computers that can take the beating of being mounted under the seat in my truck. Possibly with a ultra-shock-resistant-40seconds-ESP DVD-ROM and one of those nifty flat/touch screen monitors... Road trips would suddenly seem fun, and it would be a way to shut the kids up :) (Imagine, Half-life TFC/CS over your wireless inet connection, assuming they can fine tune that tech also)
Eraser_
*Disclaimer* I am not part of distributed.net
;-)
However, according to idle banter in #distributed there is supposedly a modular client in the works, possibly for a 3.0 release. At least, we've been pushing for one for awhile now
Eraser_
Well Mitnick is currently on Probation, and a very strict one at that, so if the contents of the files are incriminating they could be concievably used against him in probation hearings. I dont know if thats legal or not, so even if it couldnt officially be used, it would still rest in the back of the judges mind when deciding to loosen/lift the probation.
Eraser_
I seriously doubt the stimulation would have to be very strong. When you throw off your inner-ear, even a tad, your whole body "thinks" its doing whatever the ear is being told. It would be like those rides which can simulate moving long distances while the seat/room only moves a few inches. If your brain "thinks" its standing still, when in fact you are moving forward, you will feel like you are standing still.
Ill restate my opinion on this, if you dont care about it, dont click "Read More...", it would take you less time and energy to skip the article then goto it, read it, and then post a flamebate reply. I know this could be applied to this post to, oh well.
:) Couldnt get through to the pictures though, dont know if the sites /.'d or our school sysadmin is playing with my connection again. (Weee...Bess) Congrats to Chris and Christina =) and a haha to Taco, had to dress up :P
I like the article though
Eraser_
I dont see what the big deal is. If you dont like what is posted, dont read it. Scroll past the news that doesnt interest you or you deem stupid. Do you get pissed off when CNN reports something you personally dont care about (or dont think it was their place to report)? no, you change the channel, or wait for the next news item to come up. I happen to find it interesting, i skim slashdot daily for interesting tidbits, i dont avidly check every site which could possibly have geek news, so i wouldnt have known about this release.
Last i checked alot of plugins speed up web browsing. Would you rather load a 100K animated GIF or a 30K Flash object? Sure the first time download is alot for the flash plugin, however it does let you save _alot_ of bandwidth in the long run if sites use it right.
In your preferences you can make comments which have certain characteristics be scored +1, this a +5 rating would become +6 if it had those characteristics. :)
Eraser_
Why don't the banks care ? Well, it doesn't cost them any money, now does it ? The merchant and the consumer always lose. (Mostly the merchant)
Unless of course they cannot re-coup the damages directly, then it cuts into profits, or there being able to pay a bill, etc. Either way they dont take the damages, they pass the losses onto the consumer through increased prices, less discounts and coupons etc. Thats one of the reasons credit cards are so expensive (besides the fact that they can get away with it), what do you think banks do when you call to have an item taken off your bill? They pass those losses straight back to the consumer through interest and monthly fees. Either way the consumer loses, and business is right where it was before, as though it never happened.
Hrm, I'm tha prickly comedian too, small world, or small DB, you choose :)
I am curious as to which website you speak of? I read the article and am curious about what the imaging is like? And can they fit it into a pair of sunglasses like in The World is not Enough? :) :)
(wouldnt that be fun at a party
Unfortunatly, with any gas option you run the risk of people being hyper-allergenic to them. Corporations couldnt risk the kind of lawsuit that kind of a death would bring about, and no one is going to sign a waiver before they get onto the plane which says "If we get hi-jacked we're going to gas you, all of you, and if anything happens, its not our problem." We have to think about this from the capitalistmoneyhungryinvestors side also.
Ahh, you describe my middle school/9th grade life to the T. Just recently the school decided it would be worth while to change all the locks around campus. Why? Because it was looking like we had some money to buy paper towels for the bathrooms. During this, the locksmiths went around and systematically removed every lock on campus, before replaceing them. They locked us out of our classrooms in the process if teachers weren't careful, what a look of shock *that* was when i picked the mechanism to the doors that were "un openable". fun fun.
Woohoo, i could finally dust off the ole' catapult and hurl large rocks long distances through the air, maybe my trusty canon? then they would be nice and hot as to leave a heat signiture, really through them off.
I seriously dont see whats wrong with elitism in schools. I was in the IB diploma program at a school for a year before moving out to california, and into "everyones equal" non elitist school systems. They say they cant track kids and excelerate the smart ones etc. While at the same time they let the mentally retarted kids have there own class etc. But those are "special cases" so its OK. I dont like having to take very low level classes in high school because its "required", and such are mixed with some kids whow ant to learn, some who are indifferent, and the ones who are taking the class for the 3rd time, and are proud of this fact. Why not let the administrators weed out the stupid and put them in there own class, weed out the average and put them in there own ring of classes, and the above average and excellerate them, or hell, m*tivate them. Also, the pre-requisite system for tech classes has got to go, they tried to hold me outta a College c++ class (junior in high school) because i didnt have my "core computer classes", better known has "How to turn on a computer 101", "What the little letters on the plastic rectangle infront of you do", and "Microsoft Office 97".
:)
Lets overhaul the schools, start elitist stuff, and re-think the pre-requisite system.
Bleh. Sorry for the rant
Show me a bit. Hold it in your hand. Lick it, go on, I dare you.
Easy for modem-er's. Dialup to your ISP, connect another RJ-11 cord into the other port on your modem. Lick the connector at the end. It gives this wierd tingly feeling in your tounge. (mmm, electricity)
Just so you know, im not a phsyco who goes around licking electricly charged wires. One day i was hooking up a computer system and was short one hand. I decided on the phone cord of the mouth useing the reasoning "well the computer isnt plugged in...", causally neglecting the fact that the phone cord was plugged into the wall...
About Piracy: I noticed someone mention that you had to have some sort of proof of purchase along with all orignial packaging etc. I bought half-life from a friend of mine, his original cd, box, manual, etc. Is this piracy by "their" definition? His computer couldnt run half-life, and he doesnt have a way (or the know-how) to copy a cd.
--Eraser
If i remember correctly, you can still *copy* the files, encrypted or not, to another media. True haveing .99gb files which are essentially garbage on your HD because there encrypted makes no sense, but you can read the data, and thus copy it. css-auth simply decrypts files, which you have already copy'd elsewhere, or left on the disc. The copywrite section's there quoteing make no mention of the ability to acually view the contents, just circumvent copying of the copywrited material, or am i totally off? Because if you use "cp" to copy a buncha files onto your drive, you have technically made an "exact" copy of what they have copywrited. Like Duplicating a book page for page on a copy machine, you have made an exact copy as they gave it to you.
So im curious, what happens if you buy 25%+ of David Bowie. Can you legally require him to ship you his left arm or something? The latest craze on the playground, not kids tradeing Magic cards, but celebrity arms and legs. Trys explaining that to a psychiatrist (sp?)
Why not aim it at deathrow in a prison on accident Wouldnt that be a site for the guard on duty. I mean imagine his report: "Today around 10:23pm (gotta be at night so we get a cool light show) all of my prisoners on death row were mysteriously killed by a large lightning bolt. Oh well." Might be a mess to clean up, but thats what we have the other inmates for. "Clean this up or you're next"
Hell the cathlic church could claim responsibility saying "God struck down those sinners" or something and everyone could get a good laugh.
Promoting better living through mass exections of Stupid People(tm).