The cpuid instruction is not privileged, so a virtual machine wouldn't necessarily catch it (they do some amount of rewriting AFAIK but no for that.. no need to normally).
With the new virtualisation technology coming out you'll be able to catch any instruction which will make replacing it fairly trivial (and breaking into it fairly trivial too.. can't wait for the first debuggers that use virtualisation...).
That article seems to misundertand what GPS actually *is*. They've bought into the idea propogated by hollywood that it's some kind of two-way locator beacon.
The only way you could 'track' someone with GPS is have a box that recorded its location... say, like a satnav (which a lot of cars have now and I bet they have them in the US too). There would then have to be some way to extract the data - which would be hideously expensive to organise...
If they're only after distance for tax purposes they've had that on lorries for years and could add it to cars easily enough. No GPS needed.
The queen can summon the PM at any time and demand to know what is going on, - this has actually happened in recent times (btw. an aside is any british citizen can go to parliament and summon their MP for an audience - they are public servants, and have to comply. Few people do though, alas...).
In theory also the army swear allegience to the queen - not the government - so she could have a rogue government removed by force. I can't imagine a situation where this would actually happen though.. even Blair isn't *that* bad.
Console vendors aren't 'tying' games with their hardware.. they're only developing for it. Consoles aren't compatible with each other by nature.
Intel and AMD processors *are* compatible - there is no genuine reason for this limitation. That's illegal.
In a similar way when ink cartridge manufacturers tried to stop people refillling their cartridges by introducing chips... this was immediately deemded illegal (in Europe at at least, not sure about the US but I assume it was).
How are they going to reason AMD "can't handle it"?
Say it in an advert? There would be lawsuits before the advert had finished its first run - that's even if it would be allowed to be broadcast. Say it in Skype? Similar situation, except AMD would probably get an injunction stopping skype distribution at the same time.
They just issue a CPUID command. That's damned hard to fake... of course with the virtualisation stuff on the horizon you could easily do it but not with current processors.
It depends on where you are.. from the UK I can call most of the world for free (well a connect charge usually about 1p), including the US. Of course as it's a free market rather than a lockin like skype I have to keep an eye out for the best deal but I haven't paid for a call in about 2 years now.
In Europe it's product tying, which has been illegal for a while - if Skype try this there they'll be sued to oblivion by AMD under these laws.
Not sure about the US... I guess from the comments that there are no such laws there.
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That's no surprise... I personally wouldn't touch code written by someone just out of school without (a) extra money, and (b) the option to scrap and rewrite it.
Like any other job, it takes a while to actually get good. It's not unique to the computer industry.
The problem with phpBB is their plugin system... it's got loads of plugins (good) but you have to hand-edit the source files to install them (bad) which means you can't keep track of the security updates without scrapping your site and reloading all the plugins manually again (really bad).
Looking around for a replacement I found SMF... which inisists as part of its install you make all your files and directories chmod 777.. an curiously the author has no problem with this (and even tries to say this is not insecure). So that's out.
A small company I worked for was quoted £20,000 for a fully installed blackberry server. This was to support a single phone for a manager who liked his blackberry (everyone else was using Exchanged based mobiles already).
We passed on the offer... the blackberry was dumped.
When you used any bright colours the rest of the screen got dimmer to compensate. There was some debate whether this was merely subjective or whether the Spectrum really did 'bright' by darkening everything else... I suspect the latter.
Solaris is a pig until you've installed a load of stuff on it to make it usable (not tried Solaris 10 though.. we don't have any customers on that).
Once you get outside the Linux/OSX/Solaris 'safe zone' it all goes to hell.
HPUX? Good luck getting any precompiled software for it, and when you do good luck getting it to work. Compiling? It takes me 3-4 *days* to build a release of the (relatively small) software suite we do, due to constantly having to work around bugs in the compiler/linker/libraries, etc.
Tru64. Makes HPUX looks like childs play. Rumour has it that they sacked their develepmont team that the last release is their revenge.
OS-400. I'd love to see a Solaris user ever try to *use* that let alone get something done on it. It's the OS from hell.
SP2 out of the box is vulnerable - I've seen it happen.. unfortunately after installing windows the first thing you have to do is hunt down device drivers for everything, which means going on the web:(
Still not got into the reflex of downloading FF as the very first thing.. bad I know.
That's a tiny amount of bandwidth. I wouldn't get upset with anyone unless they started showing on the usage graphs - and that would require a few gig even on our relatively modest connection.
Even if they could make an LCD with that kind of pixel density for less than the cost of your mortgage, you wouldn't be able to percieve the difference from SD at that size anyway.
Hell, HDTV is difficult enough to discern at 28 inches unless you put them side by side.
DVB-H is the new up and coming technology... Apple could be the first with a working version of that. If not that then they need wifi or 3G builtin.
3G phones are wiping the floor with video ipods for a reason - in fact I've yet to see *anyone* viewing video on an ipod, when it's not uncommon for someone to be seen watching the news/football on their phone.
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The cpuid instruction is not privileged, so a virtual machine wouldn't necessarily catch it (they do some amount of rewriting AFAIK but no for that.. no need to normally).
With the new virtualisation technology coming out you'll be able to catch any instruction which will make replacing it fairly trivial (and breaking into it fairly trivial too.. can't wait for the first debuggers that use virtualisation...).
That article seems to misundertand what GPS actually *is*. They've bought into the idea propogated by hollywood that it's some kind of two-way locator beacon.
The only way you could 'track' someone with GPS is have a box that recorded its location... say, like a satnav (which a lot of cars have now and I bet they have them in the US too). There would then have to be some way to extract the data - which would be hideously expensive to organise...
If they're only after distance for tax purposes they've had that on lorries for years and could add it to cars easily enough. No GPS needed.
The queen can summon the PM at any time and demand to know what is going on, - this has actually happened in recent times (btw. an aside is any british citizen can go to parliament and summon their MP for an audience - they are public servants, and have to comply. Few people do though, alas...).
In theory also the army swear allegience to the queen - not the government - so she could have a rogue government removed by force. I can't imagine a situation where this would actually happen though.. even Blair isn't *that* bad.
Console vendors aren't 'tying' games with their hardware.. they're only developing for it. Consoles aren't compatible with each other by nature.
Intel and AMD processors *are* compatible - there is no genuine reason for this limitation. That's illegal.
In a similar way when ink cartridge manufacturers tried to stop people refillling their cartridges by introducing chips... this was immediately deemded illegal (in Europe at at least, not sure about the US but I assume it was).
How are they going to reason AMD "can't handle it"?
Say it in an advert? There would be lawsuits before the advert had finished its first run - that's even if it would be allowed to be broadcast.
Say it in Skype? Similar situation, except AMD would probably get an injunction stopping skype distribution at the same time.
They just issue a CPUID command. That's damned hard to fake... of course with the virtualisation stuff on the horizon you could easily do it but not with current processors.
Why should there be?
It depends on where you are.. from the UK I can call most of the world for free (well a connect charge usually about 1p), including the US. Of course as it's a free market rather than a lockin like skype I have to keep an eye out for the best deal but I haven't paid for a call in about 2 years now.
It's probably still illegal though.
In Europe it's product tying, which has been illegal for a while - if Skype try this there they'll be sued to oblivion by AMD under these laws.
Not sure about the US... I guess from the comments that there are no such laws there.
That's no surprise... I personally wouldn't touch code written by someone just out of school without (a) extra money, and (b) the option to scrap and rewrite it.
Like any other job, it takes a while to actually get good. It's not unique to the computer industry.
The problem with phpBB is their plugin system... it's got loads of plugins (good) but you have to hand-edit the source files to install them (bad) which means you can't keep track of the security updates without scrapping your site and reloading all the plugins manually again (really bad).
Looking around for a replacement I found SMF... which inisists as part of its install you make all your files and directories chmod 777.. an curiously the author has no problem with this (and even tries to say this is not insecure). So that's out.
Still looking for a good, extensible BB system.
No it's not illegal... it's called doing your job and keeping the employer happy.
I work nearly a 7 day week if I were to take into account *Everything*. Timesheets are 40 hours a week...
Works both ways of course - I can have a couple of days off and even it out occasionally.
A small company I worked for was quoted £20,000 for a fully installed blackberry server. This was to support a single phone for a manager who liked his blackberry (everyone else was using Exchanged based mobiles already).
We passed on the offer... the blackberry was dumped.
When you used any bright colours the rest of the screen got dimmer to compensate. There was some debate whether this was merely subjective or whether the Spectrum really did 'bright' by darkening everything else... I suspect the latter.
Those manuals were *great*.
Every system memory location documented. And the last chapter contained a machine code reference!
Young whippersnapper. I was in college by the time those were out.
I started with the venerable ZX81 with whole kilobyte of RAM!!
The Plus4 was a little after the Commodore 64... Around the same time they released the Commodore 16. Both flopped. Badly.
Commodore didn't have another 'hit' until the Amiga.
Solaris is a pig until you've installed a load of stuff on it to make it usable (not tried Solaris 10 though.. we don't have any customers on that).
Once you get outside the Linux/OSX/Solaris 'safe zone' it all goes to hell.
HPUX? Good luck getting any precompiled software for it, and when you do good luck getting it to work. Compiling? It takes me 3-4 *days* to build a release of the (relatively small) software suite we do, due to constantly having to work around bugs in the compiler/linker/libraries, etc.
Tru64. Makes HPUX looks like childs play. Rumour has it that they sacked their develepmont team that the last release is their revenge.
OS-400. I'd love to see a Solaris user ever try to *use* that let alone get something done on it. It's the OS from hell.
There are ways to "burn out" the chip through software.
*guess* what the first Vista Virus is going to do!
Indeed that would be a great wheeze.
...
1. Find out a few keys.
2. Hack them into someones revocation list.
3.
4. Profit! And lots of cheap secondhand dead hardware!
Yeah they're *really* gonna do that.
I think I'll crack the key that Sony use in the TVs.
And watch as half a million consumers sue Microsoft, Sony, etc. as their brand new HD TVs stop working.
SP2 out of the box is vulnerable - I've seen it happen.. unfortunately after installing windows the first thing you have to do is hunt down device drivers for everything, which means going on the web :(
Still not got into the reflex of downloading FF as the very first thing.. bad I know.
90MB? Are your admins on drugs are something?
That's a tiny amount of bandwidth. I wouldn't get upset with anyone unless they started showing on the usage graphs - and that would require a few gig even on our relatively modest connection.
Well that's killed it then...
PS2 was a runaway success because of its PS1 compatibility. The PS2 catalog is *huge* - to ditch that is a big mistake IMO.
You'll end up with the PSP situation... Nice box, no games.
You want HDTV in 3.5 inches?
Even if they could make an LCD with that kind of pixel density for less than the cost of your mortgage, you wouldn't be able to percieve the difference from SD at that size anyway.
Hell, HDTV is difficult enough to discern at 28 inches unless you put them side by side.
DVB-H is the new up and coming technology... Apple could be the first with a working version of that. If not that then they need wifi or 3G builtin.
3G phones are wiping the floor with video ipods for a reason - in fact I've yet to see *anyone* viewing video on an ipod, when it's not uncommon for someone to be seen watching the news/football on their phone.