Thus I think its only really relevant if you wanted to DOS google, akamai, or some similar very-high-resource infrastructure.
If someone wants to use this trick to "DOS google, akamai, or some similar very-high-resource infrastructure" then I think that is very relevant to us all.
"...the chips can be programmed to switch from one variant to another..."
But of course the end user won't be able to make this happen, right? This is finally the infallible, unhackable DRM we've all been waiting for.
Whay would I have a problem with that? If a crime committed against me is caught on camera, it's probably a good thing. It will prove my story and hopefully help catch the perps.
But the guy who invented the automatic transmission cannot build cars, because that would violate the patent held by the car inventor.
Until the patent on cars expires, which will happen before the transmission patent expires. The inventor of the automatic transmission will then have a brief window to exploit his patent before everyone else joins in.
How brief the window should be (ideally) is debatable.
Academics publish on their own websites.
Journals provide an index of articles on a related topic.
Journals sell either subscriptions or ads, and can collect earth moneys in proportion to the service that they actually provide, which is an *index* not a *content creator*.
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What documentation could he possibly have proving that he is NOT a filmmaker?
Do you have documentation proving that you are NOT a filmmaker?
It's hard to prove a negative.
People don't demand the physical CD, DVD, etc., they demand the content. How that content is delivered is secondary.
People don't demand buggy whips either. They demand transport from one place to another.
Thus I think its only really relevant if you wanted to DOS google, akamai, or some similar very-high-resource infrastructure.
If someone wants to use this trick to "DOS google, akamai, or some similar very-high-resource infrastructure" then I think that is very relevant to us all.
In Soviet Russia, first post makes you!
"...the chips can be programmed to switch from one variant to another..." But of course the end user won't be able to make this happen, right? This is finally the infallible, unhackable DRM we've all been waiting for.
From TFA: "no one did post a full final solution." So it looks like there is no historical record for the next intake of students to leech off.
Whay would I have a problem with that? If a crime committed against me is caught on camera, it's probably a good thing. It will prove my story and hopefully help catch the perps.
a Beowulf cluster of these!
Academics publish on their own websites. Journals provide an index of articles on a related topic. Journals sell either subscriptions or ads, and can collect earth moneys in proportion to the service that they actually provide, which is an *index* not a *content creator*.