I don't think the difficulty score is based on what you SAY you are going to do. It is for what you ACTUALLY try to do. The first group of judges watches your performance, and computes you difficulty score based on that. The second group watches your performance, and deducts from your execution score.
Thus, assuming you are very good at sitting down and doing nothing, you would end up with 10.0 points, and not come anywhere near winning.
That Heise article was unclear. The clustering in their plot doesn't necessarily indicate XOR with a fixed block. The same thing would show up if a block cipher (even a very good one) was being used in ECB mode.
I note that after they assume XOR with a fixed block, and derive that block from one known plaintext sector, they say they could now decrypt the rest of the disk, but they don't say that they DID do that. Just that they could.
They need to actually do that decryption of other blocks, to see if it really is just XOR'ing with a fixed block, as opposed to, say, using a block cipher in ECB mode.
If, as I speculated above, these machines are Eee PCs, then they probably stay running Linux for all their operational life. The target market for such machines wouldn't know how to reinstall an OS.
The manual for the Linux EEE includes very detailed instructions on how to wipe Linux and install XP. (The manual for the Windows EEE does not contain instructions on wiping XP an installing Linux).
*IF* MS wanted to be open source friendly, things like OOXML would just vanish
So, to be friendly to open source, they should get rid of the only open document format that can handle billions of legacy documents without losing fidelity???
How would artists be screwed? First of all, a work only falls under the bill if the copyright owner can't be found through a good faith search. As long as the artist's work is signed and the artist lists themselves in the places one would customarily look for artists of the appropriate type, a good faith search will find them.
Second, if a good faith search fails to find the artist, and someone incorporates that artists work, and then the artist turns up, the artist can still sue for copyright infringement. All that changes there is that the damages will be reasonable compensation (basically, what would have been a reasonable license fee to allow the use of his work).
Artists, in fact, will be big beneficiaries under this bill. For example, if you are making a video, and you find an old piece of music that you'd like to use in your video, and can't find the copyright owner to ask permission, under this bill you can go ahead and use the music, knowing that if the copyright owner later shows up, the damages will be reasonable. You don't have to worry that you'll get hit with a giant statutory damages award, or worse, an injunction that stops you from distributing your art.
You can do experiments to test usability, and if you do, you will find that there are measurable differences in how fast and accurate people perform using different interfaces, and how quickly they become proficient with those interfaces.
You can have all the opinions you want, but when they conflict with experimentally determined reality, your opinions are useless.
Also, with all due respect to his charitable efforts, for which, if for little else, I respect him, what does he, as one of the richest men in the world, think he's doing saying what people in abject poverty want?
I'd venture a guess that what they want is for a persons worth and entitlement to the basics of life to be unrelated to money.
The difference is that all you can do is to venture to guess. He, being rich, can afford to actually go talk to the people in abject poverty and to the organizations (charitable, corporate, academic, and government) that work with them, and have them want to talk to him, and so actually find out what they need and want, so doesn't have to merely venture to guess.
SO he's currently one of the voices trying to get the copyright laws changed so any non-registered creative works become orphaned if their creators don't watch over them like a hawk (the current laws copyright everything by default and you don't have to pay money for it). If the law is changed all the works on those image banks will lose their copyright and Mr. Gates will be able to turn a profit on them, while all the creative people learn a hard lesson in capitalism
Please explain how Open Source can distribute medicine to the sick, manufacture that medicine in the first place, make bed nets to help against malaria, vaccinate children, or do anything else that involves making and deploying hardware?
They want to talk to regulators as "insiders" in the Open Source community, asking for increases in software patenting that will actually block Open Source
Except Microsoft has been publicly calling for reforms to make it much harder to get software patents, which is opposite of what your theories would predict. Oops.
OK, now that we've all a bunch of posts about how it can't work, my prediction is that as soon as they get a patent, we'll have at least as many posts (many from the same people) about how the patent is bad because it is obvious.
None of those reasons justify preventing legitimate customers from getting service. Perhaps you overlooked that they are suggesting trying to fill up the Genius Bar reservation system, so that ALL the appointments for two days go to them, not legitimate customers?
It seems like it would be hard to enforce jurisdiction in space when we don't even have jurisdiction 10 miles off our coastline
They aren't asserting jurisdiction over space. They are asserting jurisdiction over what US citizens do in space.
Governments have jurisdiction over both the territory they control and over their citizens. That's why, for example, if you were to move to Europe, but retain US citizenship, the US would have jurisdiction to tax your income, even though you earned it outside the US.
old-timers like me (i.e. more than 25-30 years old)
Actually, that's not old. In fact, that is very very young. Want proof? OK. I'm 48. Let's say you are 28. You might think I'm 1.7 times as old as you are (48/28). However, that's not really right.
After all, we don't really start to differentiate ourselves until we are adults. So we should not count the first 21 years. That means that I've got 27 years AS AN ADULT, and you only have 7 yeas AS AN ADULT. So, effectively, I'm 3.9 times as old you, kid.
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Why does one pilot have to fly the drone for all 13 hours? Can't they rotate pilots on a long mission?
I don't think the difficulty score is based on what you SAY you are going to do. It is for what you ACTUALLY try to do. The first group of judges watches your performance, and computes you difficulty score based on that. The second group watches your performance, and deducts from your execution score.
Thus, assuming you are very good at sitting down and doing nothing, you would end up with 10.0 points, and not come anywhere near winning.
That Heise article was unclear. The clustering in their plot doesn't necessarily indicate XOR with a fixed block. The same thing would show up if a block cipher (even a very good one) was being used in ECB mode.
I note that after they assume XOR with a fixed block, and derive that block from one known plaintext sector, they say they could now decrypt the rest of the disk, but they don't say that they DID do that. Just that they could.
They need to actually do that decryption of other blocks, to see if it really is just XOR'ing with a fixed block, as opposed to, say, using a block cipher in ECB mode.
What factory Linux install? The Windows EEE models come with Windows installed from the factory.
The manual for the Linux EEE includes very detailed instructions on how to wipe Linux and install XP. (The manual for the Windows EEE does not contain instructions on wiping XP an installing Linux).
So, to be friendly to open source, they should get rid of the only open document format that can handle billions of legacy documents without losing fidelity???
How would artists be screwed? First of all, a work only falls under the bill if the copyright owner can't be found through a good faith search. As long as the artist's work is signed and the artist lists themselves in the places one would customarily look for artists of the appropriate type, a good faith search will find them.
Second, if a good faith search fails to find the artist, and someone incorporates that artists work, and then the artist turns up, the artist can still sue for copyright infringement. All that changes there is that the damages will be reasonable compensation (basically, what would have been a reasonable license fee to allow the use of his work).
Artists, in fact, will be big beneficiaries under this bill. For example, if you are making a video, and you find an old piece of music that you'd like to use in your video, and can't find the copyright owner to ask permission, under this bill you can go ahead and use the music, knowing that if the copyright owner later shows up, the damages will be reasonable. You don't have to worry that you'll get hit with a giant statutory damages award, or worse, an injunction that stops you from distributing your art.
You can do experiments to test usability, and if you do, you will find that there are measurable differences in how fast and accurate people perform using different interfaces, and how quickly they become proficient with those interfaces.
You can have all the opinions you want, but when they conflict with experimentally determined reality, your opinions are useless.
That covers discovery. How about manufacturing and distributing?
The difference is that all you can do is to venture to guess. He, being rich, can afford to actually go talk to the people in abject poverty and to the organizations (charitable, corporate, academic, and government) that work with them, and have them want to talk to him, and so actually find out what they need and want, so doesn't have to merely venture to guess.
So how come Richard Stallman says we should support that ball?
Please explain how Open Source can distribute medicine to the sick, manufacture that medicine in the first place, make bed nets to help against malaria, vaccinate children, or do anything else that involves making and deploying hardware?
Except Microsoft has been publicly calling for reforms to make it much harder to get software patents, which is opposite of what your theories would predict. Oops.
Every project needs a code name. For this, I propose "Bullwinkle", and their slogan can be "This time for sure!".
That was an idiotic comment. If the posts costs them jobs, then they aren't meaningless posts.
OK, now that we've all a bunch of posts about how it can't work, my prediction is that as soon as they get a patent, we'll have at least as many posts (many from the same people) about how the patent is bad because it is obvious.
How about rocket-assisted balloons? That would probably be a lot of fun, too.
None of those reasons justify preventing legitimate customers from getting service. Perhaps you overlooked that they are suggesting trying to fill up the Genius Bar reservation system, so that ALL the appointments for two days go to them, not legitimate customers?
They aren't asserting jurisdiction over space. They are asserting jurisdiction over what US citizens do in space.
Governments have jurisdiction over both the territory they control and over their citizens. That's why, for example, if you were to move to Europe, but retain US citizenship, the US would have jurisdiction to tax your income, even though you earned it outside the US.
Maybe the don't want people writing crappy drivers for NVIDIA cards?
Actually, that's not old. In fact, that is very very young. Want proof? OK. I'm 48. Let's say you are 28. You might think I'm 1.7 times as old as you are (48/28). However, that's not really right.
After all, we don't really start to differentiate ourselves until we are adults. So we should not count the first 21 years. That means that I've got 27 years AS AN ADULT, and you only have 7 yeas AS AN ADULT. So, effectively, I'm 3.9 times as old you, kid.
Craig and 24 employees, which I would say is more than a handful.
Much more effective than 10 seconds?
No, you did not stumble on this years ago. What you stumbled upon has long since been fixed. This attack gets around those fixes.
That's not the attack. Try again.