What a dumb idea.. Why in the world would anyone want to encrypt video signal between a video card and a monitor??? If I am able to gain access to someone's video cable, you can be sure I will be able to gain access to his hard drives by popping the case open... Anyone ever heard of video signal snooping? Why, you might as well snoop the keyboard, thats where the passwords are typed in unless of course we got a case of a windos user copying and pasting his password from say character map... Hmmm good idea;)))))
I mean this is great for intel, they already got their chips on majority of our motherboards, now they want them on every video card and in every monitor... Another plot to take over the world, this time by Intel;)))
Instead of this why don't they encrypt signals from wireless keyboards and mice, I am tired of watching my neighbor type...
I am pretty sure that relative performance of their 400-700Mhz CPU (which btw does not exist yet, they are working on the prototype... Hmm.. paper CPU, how nice...) Will compare to at most a pentium 160Mhz if that. "Caching blocks of x86 instructions" - WHAT? In order to determine if a fetched "block" is a hit or miss they need to compare this entire "block" to contents of their "translation table" This comparison already increases this poor "block"'s processing time by number of entries in this "translation table"... Please... Also these transmeta guys openly lie about Intel CPUs in their white paper saying that intel translates x86 instructions before executing them. This is true for the 16bit x86 instructions, but not for 32bit... Or do they mean that they only emulate pure x86? Hmmm... I guess it's back to the DOS/win3.1 days for them then... Anyway this whole thing is a bull, since when do emulators run things better or fastern then the real thing? Oh well, I guess slashdotters will be content with a cpu run on water as long as Linus had his hands in it...
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What a dumb idea.. Why in the world would anyone want to encrypt video signal between a video card and a monitor??? If I am able to gain access to someone's video cable, you can be sure I will be able to gain access to his hard drives by popping the case open... Anyone ever heard of video signal snooping? Why, you might as well snoop the keyboard, thats where the passwords are typed in unless of course we got a case of a windos user copying and pasting his password from say character map... Hmmm good idea ;)))))
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I mean this is great for intel, they already got their chips on majority of our motherboards, now they want them on every video card and in every monitor... Another plot to take over the world, this time by Intel
Instead of this why don't they encrypt signals from wireless keyboards and mice, I am tired of watching my neighbor type...
I am pretty sure that relative performance of their 400-700Mhz CPU (which btw does not exist yet, they are working on the prototype... Hmm.. paper CPU, how nice...) Will compare to at most a pentium 160Mhz if that. "Caching blocks of x86 instructions" - WHAT? In order to determine if a fetched "block" is a hit or miss they need to compare this entire "block" to contents of their "translation table" This comparison already increases this poor "block"'s processing time by number of entries in this "translation table"... Please... Also these transmeta guys openly lie about Intel CPUs in their white paper saying that intel translates x86 instructions before executing them. This is true for the 16bit x86 instructions, but not for 32bit... Or do they mean that they only emulate pure x86? Hmmm... I guess it's back to the DOS/win3.1 days for them then... Anyway this whole thing is a bull, since when do emulators run things better or fastern then the real thing? Oh well, I guess slashdotters will be content with a cpu run on water as long as Linus had his hands in it...