The TPM does slow public key authentication. It doesn't have the throughput to do high data rate AES which is what's necessary to decrypt the video stream.
a: Its about time. Everyone has been clamoring for this, because there are some real interesting industrial & cool uses this could be used for. Between the daylight screen and highly rugged design, this has the potential to be very interesting. I'd be tempted to pick one up for $300 to play with myself...
b: You can stop the reselling problem (one worry is always that by selling them you'd create an adult market and therefore encourage theft) by a simple expedient: a different color case. Make purchased OLPCs black, and kid ones in cheerful old-school iMac colors, and now they are vastly different products from a retail viewpoint.
Now the question is: will there be Hack Johnson, "public interest" laywer, in the game, who you get to kill when he's frollicking with a bunch of prostitutes?
BitTyrant (read the paper) [i]follows the protocol[/i].
From any other peer, you can't tell whether someone is using the BitTyrant bandwidth selection strategy or the default allocatino strategy, and user agent is, of course, meaningless.
They bought Sysinternals as a way of buying the services of the two founders, who in many ways know more than Microsoft does on how Windows works on the inside, especially the registry. The guys are so good that when they saw the simple idea ("High/Low scan, look for differences"), they were abel to code it up very quickly because they already had the tools for very low level access to the registry.
Hiring the sysinternals guys by buying the company is probably one of the smartest things Microsoft has done in years, those guys skills really ARE worth millions to Microsoft.
Tripwire is different. Tripwire is "detect deviation from previous". It is easy to fool with a rootkit and has to know the "ground truth".
Ghostbuster and Rootkit Reveleare are "detect deviation from different viewpoints", the general API for accessing data and the low level of whats actually there (done in Ghostbuster by a reboot, and by Rootkit Revealer by using VERY low level access that you got to be really smart to know how to patch).
Ghostbuster was described, tested, and PUBLISHED first. After Ghostbuster got/.ed the first time, Sysinternals came out with Rootkit Revealer in less then a week (the Sysinternals guys are GOOD, and Microsoft wasn't releasing Ghostbuster due to internal political issues.) THe big difference: Ghostbuster does a high/low scan with low being a "reboot to trusted media". Rootkit Revealer just uses two different APIs to do the high/low scan, as the SysInternals guys are part of the very few people who truely understand the registry and Windows file system.
Note that Ghostbuster, by requiring a reboot, is more intrusive but harder to fool. Rootkit Revealer on the other hand, can be fooled by a sophisticated rootkit which works at the very low level, yet does not require rebooting, which allows it to work without taking the system down.
Stores keep getting in shipments and selling them out the same day, usually 20-40 at a time about once a week.
Pick your favorite retailer, and just call them once a day when they open.
This worked for a friend, and I'm trying it now.
EG, for Black Friday after thanksgiving, the local Tarje (thats Target for those not from SoCal) got some 30-40 Wiis (and 3 PS3s that got placed in a corner and nobody cared about).
I'd bet an extended warantee is included, those things are pure gravy to the stores, and can really up the price.
Also, I wonder if many won't bother. My bet is that it will be like the DS Lite: Unavailable for love or money within the first couple of weeks, but as Nintendo cranks them out in volume (SERIOUS volume), they become purchasable at your local Tarjet at list with no added crap.
Most have already decided what console(s) they are getting, if any. (Me, I'm getting a Wii).
Those dead set on the PS3 are already mentally adjusted to geting, umm, "anal lovin without lube" on the price.
All this means is those who want teh PS3 are more likely to have to buy it off of Ebay from some EBGames employee who actually was able to do a preorder.
A: Who wants to bet that Apple has a bunch of patents to happily sue about. Apple doesn't make a boatload of money on the hardware (why else are they able to effectively price-match other MP3 players), but a huge amount from Itunes.
B: They can keep tweaking the format. Having every iPod upgrade break your music and you'll quickly stop buying it.
Wal-Mart's aleged threat to cut Disney orders if Disney started selling through iTunes would, in an honest administration, be an instant anti-trust lawsuit by the Department of Justice.
Its perfectly legal and valid for Wal-Mart to squeeze its suppliers when they sell to Wal-Mart, but to threaten suppliers because they are selling through other venues, when Wal-Mart has an unquestioned monopoly in many areas, would be asking for intervention.
However, with the current DoJ completely toothless, and prefering Seattlements (eg, the Microsoft anti-trust resolution) to actually going after entrenched business interests (especially hard-core republican supporters like the Waltons), Wal-Mart doesn't need to worry.
The next TV I buy, when the dinky current one gives up the ghost whenever, WILL be 1080p.
Why? Because the true 1080p, rear projection, 50" TVs are not much more expensive than a 1080i TV, but I plan on hooking up a Mac Mini or similar computer output, thus I'd want all the pixels when displaying text etc on the big screen.
Cool hack, but who cares. With proper authentication (eg, WPA), you don't need to worry about MAC spoofing as the packets won't authenticate right to the access point.
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The TPM does slow public key authentication. It doesn't have the throughput to do high data rate AES which is what's necessary to decrypt the video stream.
a: Its about time. Everyone has been clamoring for this, because there are some real interesting industrial & cool uses this could be used for. Between the daylight screen and highly rugged design, this has the potential to be very interesting. I'd be tempted to pick one up for $300 to play with myself...
b: You can stop the reselling problem (one worry is always that by selling them you'd create an adult market and therefore encourage theft) by a simple expedient: a different color case. Make purchased OLPCs black, and kid ones in cheerful old-school iMac colors, and now they are vastly different products from a retail viewpoint.
Read the article: Theres a trivial piece of example "exploit" code running calc.exe.
But as you can run ANY windows binary with any command line (at least according to the article), actual exploitation is trivial.
Uhh, BMW did that. They called it iDrive. As iDrive me Crazy...
l y/bad.html
I have yet to read a review of a BMW with iDrive where the operator liked the resulting change to the user interface.
http://www.cartalk.com/content/features/goodbadug
Hmm, I may have to get an X-box 360 after all.
Now the question is: will there be Hack Johnson, "public interest" laywer, in the game, who you get to kill when he's frollicking with a bunch of prostitutes?
BitTyrant (read the paper) [i]follows the protocol[/i].
From any other peer, you can't tell whether someone is using the BitTyrant bandwidth selection strategy or the default allocatino strategy, and user agent is, of course, meaningless.
You submit your OBSFUCATOR after you reobsfucate it a few times.
Make a C mutator: It takes C, parses, and applies a bunch of randomizing but semantically preserving transformations. Make it small, and compact.
Then run your code through it a few times and submit it.
They bought Sysinternals as a way of buying the services of the two founders, who in many ways know more than Microsoft does on how Windows works on the inside, especially the registry. The guys are so good that when they saw the simple idea ("High/Low scan, look for differences"), they were abel to code it up very quickly because they already had the tools for very low level access to the registry. Hiring the sysinternals guys by buying the company is probably one of the smartest things Microsoft has done in years, those guys skills really ARE worth millions to Microsoft. Tripwire is different. Tripwire is "detect deviation from previous". It is easy to fool with a rootkit and has to know the "ground truth". Ghostbuster and Rootkit Reveleare are "detect deviation from different viewpoints", the general API for accessing data and the low level of whats actually there (done in Ghostbuster by a reboot, and by Rootkit Revealer by using VERY low level access that you got to be really smart to know how to patch).
Ghostbuster was described, tested, and PUBLISHED first. After Ghostbuster got /.ed the first time, Sysinternals came out with Rootkit Revealer in less then a week (the Sysinternals guys are GOOD, and Microsoft wasn't releasing Ghostbuster due to internal political issues.) THe big difference: Ghostbuster does a high/low scan with low being a "reboot to trusted media". Rootkit Revealer just uses two different APIs to do the high/low scan, as the SysInternals guys are part of the very few people who truely understand the registry and Windows file system.
Note that Ghostbuster, by requiring a reboot, is more intrusive but harder to fool. Rootkit Revealer on the other hand, can be fooled by a sophisticated rootkit which works at the very low level, yet does not require rebooting, which allows it to work without taking the system down.
Stores keep getting in shipments and selling them out the same day, usually 20-40 at a time about once a week.
Pick your favorite retailer, and just call them once a day when they open.
This worked for a friend, and I'm trying it now.
EG, for Black Friday after thanksgiving, the local Tarje (thats Target for those not from SoCal) got some 30-40 Wiis (and 3 PS3s that got placed in a corner and nobody cared about).
I'd bet an extended warantee is included, those things are pure gravy to the stores, and can really up the price.
Also, I wonder if many won't bother. My bet is that it will be like the DS Lite: Unavailable for love or money within the first couple of weeks, but as Nintendo cranks them out in volume (SERIOUS volume), they become purchasable at your local Tarjet at list with no added crap.
Who cares at this point?
Most have already decided what console(s) they are getting, if any. (Me, I'm getting a Wii).
Those dead set on the PS3 are already mentally adjusted to geting, umm, "anal lovin without lube" on the price.
All this means is those who want teh PS3 are more likely to have to buy it off of Ebay from some EBGames employee who actually was able to do a preorder.
Who cares about the controversy, its manufactured (on both sides!). Is the game any good?
ANd just HOW many millions of Wiis will Nintendo have made by then?
"Will this server ever die?"
Well, lets slashdot it and find out.
Yeup.
Edward Teller won an ig Nobel for his work on the hydrogen bomb, star wars, etc etc etc...
A: Who wants to bet that Apple has a bunch of patents to happily sue about. Apple doesn't make a boatload of money on the hardware (why else are they able to effectively price-match other MP3 players), but a huge amount from Itunes.
B: They can keep tweaking the format. Having every iPod upgrade break your music and you'll quickly stop buying it.
ITs unclear, but it sounds like its just a cool CounterStrike map.
If so, where can we get it, it sounds like fun!
Wal-Mart's aleged threat to cut Disney orders if Disney started selling through iTunes would, in an honest administration, be an instant anti-trust lawsuit by the Department of Justice.
Its perfectly legal and valid for Wal-Mart to squeeze its suppliers when they sell to Wal-Mart, but to threaten suppliers because they are selling through other venues, when Wal-Mart has an unquestioned monopoly in many areas, would be asking for intervention.
However, with the current DoJ completely toothless, and prefering Seattlements (eg, the Microsoft anti-trust resolution) to actually going after entrenched business interests (especially hard-core republican supporters like the Waltons), Wal-Mart doesn't need to worry.
How innovative do your thumbs feel after 60 minutes of Halo?
Vader in the gold bikini...
The next TV I buy, when the dinky current one gives up the ghost whenever, WILL be 1080p.
Why? Because the true 1080p, rear projection, 50" TVs are not much more expensive than a 1080i TV, but I plan on hooking up a Mac Mini or similar computer output, thus I'd want all the pixels when displaying text etc on the big screen.
Cool hack, but who cares. With proper authentication (eg, WPA), you don't need to worry about MAC spoofing as the packets won't authenticate right to the access point.
Bushido Blade, now there was a fighting game with "Sharp" weapons: one hit kills, perry and dodges, feints, etc.
The environment wasn't very interactive, but it was also a PS1 game.