DMA for external devices is a horrible idea because of the security implications. Google 'winlockpwn' for an example of why you shouldn't do this. Not to mention, we already had ExpressCard for external PCIe. That really took off, didn't it?
Weren't passwords stolen? It's already been shown that a huge amount of people use the same password for their email and other things, so if anything, that would encourage hackers to go after email accounts as well.
Why can't we come up with some solutions such as local wi-fi hot-spots that are insulated against radiation emissions (maybe like a smoking room)
Would that apply to cell phones too? Does that mean I would have to shut myself in a small room to make a phone call in public? Guess what, that already exists.
And you would protect him by making everyone else pay for what got stolen? By treating everybody like the thieves that broke into his house?
Also, I think your definition of competition is a little off. Running in a race is competition. Tripping another runner is anti-competitive. Breaking into a house is not competitive. Not to mention copyright "theft" does not carry the same implications as real theft, thereby making your analogy worthless.
But in order to actually use encrypted data, it has to be decrypted at some point, so the rootkit just needs to wait for you to decrypt it. In the case of say, full disk encryption, this is rather easy.
That would take much, much longer than the 2.4GHz band. For one, the 2.4GHz band has only about 50MHz of spectrum, whereas 5.8GHz alone has about 150, and even more if you include the 5.3GHz band, which adds another 300 or so. Secondly, higher frequency waves will not get through walls and other obstructions as well, therefore severely decreasing the amount of 5GHz interference, both incoming and outgoing. See wikipedia.
But most of those "good sequels" you mentioned do "[deviate] from the original format"
SC2 has no lan play, no chat channels at launch, etc. BNet 2.0 is completely different.
ME2 gameplay wise feels like a completely different game. It feels like I'm playing GoW in space, whereas the original was more run-in-and-shoot. Not to mention completely different, and arguably worse weapon and upgrade system.
Granted, neither of these really qualifies as "pissing in the face of the fans" but I still can't stand the new weapons and upgrades in ME2. It feels like its not a true RPG.
Not quite. The nat network would only have a (relatively) small private address space, not the whole IPv4 address space. GP is correct, since the raw IPv4 space is 2^32 and the raw IPv6 space is 2^128.
Depends on the computer, but the laptops that tend to be un-upgradeable (apple, cheap laptops, netbooks) are typically targeted towards the market that is okay with buying new devices anyway. The high-end laptop market usually uses socketed CPUs, upgradeable video, and ram caps that won't be obsolete in a year or two (16GB+, some even 32GB).
You're missing the point. With the HDMI cables, there is no actual difference that you can perceive. However, with sound cards, there is a great difference. I can't stand the sound on my laptop but my desktop's sound card has much better sound. The companies that make high-quality sound cards aren't just making a cheap cable and marking it up 10x, they are actually making a product with a difference.
I'm not familiar with firesheep in particular, but wouldn't the OS be decrypting the traffic for you (since you are connected to the network) and then firesheep simply captures it? or does firesheep work on a lower layer, bypassing that part of the OS's networking?
You don't even need that. PAE makes 64-bit unnecessary for a lot of things. Whenever I install linux on a USB drive with the intention of using it on multiple computers, I usually stick to a PAE-enabled 32-bit kernel, since it will work on older hardware and still support more than 4GB of RAM.
At least one of the apps mentioned in TFS (Flexnet) runs a service in the background, so running as a non-admin user would make no difference since the service is still privileged.
NAT has the side-effect of eliminating the most simple and obvious attack vector on the Internet without any additional effort.
Any firewall that blocks all incoming connections except those allowed while allowing all outgoing connections except those forbidden has the same effect as NAT.
NAT has without any shred of doubt done more for the security of the Internet than any other network service, firewalls included.
Which is only because NAT is forced down people's throats. If consumer internet connections got their own public IP ranges instead of NAT, and used routers that blocked incoming connections by default, the effects would be just the same, but consumers don't get that option.
Some schools provide laptops for students, either temporarily (for a project) or more-or-less permanently (i.e. for the duration of the school year). You wouldn't want to have to plug into a jack and unplug every time you change classes.
changing one character gives a completely different hash result
That's the point. You could theoretically get find out the MD5 assuming it wasn't salted by computing md5's yourself and finding one with the characters you need. For example, I would test md5's with all the possible first characters and find the one that is fastest, then generate a list of password and hash pairs with every possible second character and the first character we found earlier, and repeat for every character thereon. It would be a stretch, and the original password would not be revealed, just a hash, but in theory such an attack could work.
It could be extended to hashes, to a lesser degree. If you know the hashing algorithm used, you could use it to figure out where the hash does not match and ultimately use it to determine the hash, which can then be cracked easily if the password is weak.
As far as I know, the range is very low. Typically 1 or 2 semitones is enough. Even if they increase the range, you can get away with a fairly large pitch shift as long as it stays on-tune. It will only sound musically wrong if you shift it by, say 2/3 of a note. Otherwise, it simply sounds like it is being played in a different key. Even if they did figure out a way to block that, there are always certain distortion filters that can be used to mask the original audio from automated detection.
Maybe they're trying to make a filter that can't be bypassed easily. You can usually just shift the music up or down a note to slip it past the filter, and while audiophiles and the music-obsessed will complain about this, it's barely noticeable to the average viewer if done properly.
On paper, it looked like a great technology when it was created, but nobody ever expected the internet to spread like wildfire. Not we're faced with exhaustion of it's (comparatively) tiny address space. In addition to that, ISP customers get a single IP and have to use NAT, which as we all know, causes lots of problems.
I guess an addressing crisis has it's ups and downs. The good part of this is that it will light a fire under ISPs and get them to seriously think about IPv6. The bad part is that IPv4 will become an even worse situation, with not only customer equipment NAT, but ISP-wide NAT, which causes routing messes, and will give ISPs yet another thing to gouge you over. Want a real IP? Oh, that's $20 a month extra.
Real pushes towards IPv6 deployment would make this entire point moot. However, half the big-name ISPs refuse to do anything about it, and until we see some real support from the home/small business ISPs, IPv6 will pretty much go nowhere, and we'll be stuck in the IPv4 hellhole.
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You're missing the point. The firmware could be modified to not display that message.
DMA for external devices is a horrible idea because of the security implications. Google 'winlockpwn' for an example of why you shouldn't do this. Not to mention, we already had ExpressCard for external PCIe. That really took off, didn't it?
Weren't passwords stolen? It's already been shown that a huge amount of people use the same password for their email and other things, so if anything, that would encourage hackers to go after email accounts as well.
Why can't we come up with some solutions such as local wi-fi hot-spots that are insulated against radiation emissions (maybe like a smoking room)
Would that apply to cell phones too? Does that mean I would have to shut myself in a small room to make a phone call in public? Guess what, that already exists.
And you would protect him by making everyone else pay for what got stolen? By treating everybody like the thieves that broke into his house?
Also, I think your definition of competition is a little off. Running in a race is competition. Tripping another runner is anti-competitive. Breaking into a house is not competitive. Not to mention copyright "theft" does not carry the same implications as real theft, thereby making your analogy worthless.
But in order to actually use encrypted data, it has to be decrypted at some point, so the rootkit just needs to wait for you to decrypt it. In the case of say, full disk encryption, this is rather easy.
upgrading to Bose
Is that like "upgrading" to vista?
That would take much, much longer than the 2.4GHz band. For one, the 2.4GHz band has only about 50MHz of spectrum, whereas 5.8GHz alone has about 150, and even more if you include the 5.3GHz band, which adds another 300 or so. Secondly, higher frequency waves will not get through walls and other obstructions as well, therefore severely decreasing the amount of 5GHz interference, both incoming and outgoing. See wikipedia.
But most of those "good sequels" you mentioned do "[deviate] from the original format"
SC2 has no lan play, no chat channels at launch, etc. BNet 2.0 is completely different.
ME2 gameplay wise feels like a completely different game. It feels like I'm playing GoW in space, whereas the original was more run-in-and-shoot. Not to mention completely different, and arguably worse weapon and upgrade system.
Granted, neither of these really qualifies as "pissing in the face of the fans" but I still can't stand the new weapons and upgrades in ME2. It feels like its not a true RPG.
Not quite. The nat network would only have a (relatively) small private address space, not the whole IPv4 address space. GP is correct, since the raw IPv4 space is 2^32 and the raw IPv6 space is 2^128.
Depends on the computer, but the laptops that tend to be un-upgradeable (apple, cheap laptops, netbooks) are typically targeted towards the market that is okay with buying new devices anyway. The high-end laptop market usually uses socketed CPUs, upgradeable video, and ram caps that won't be obsolete in a year or two (16GB+, some even 32GB).
You're missing the point. With the HDMI cables, there is no actual difference that you can perceive. However, with sound cards, there is a great difference. I can't stand the sound on my laptop but my desktop's sound card has much better sound. The companies that make high-quality sound cards aren't just making a cheap cable and marking it up 10x, they are actually making a product with a difference.
2.57 petaflops per second
floating point operations per second per second?
I'm not familiar with firesheep in particular, but wouldn't the OS be decrypting the traffic for you (since you are connected to the network) and then firesheep simply captures it? or does firesheep work on a lower layer, bypassing that part of the OS's networking?
You don't even need that. PAE makes 64-bit unnecessary for a lot of things. Whenever I install linux on a USB drive with the intention of using it on multiple computers, I usually stick to a PAE-enabled 32-bit kernel, since it will work on older hardware and still support more than 4GB of RAM.
At least one of the apps mentioned in TFS (Flexnet) runs a service in the background, so running as a non-admin user would make no difference since the service is still privileged.
NAT has the side-effect of eliminating the most simple and obvious attack vector on the Internet without any additional effort.
Any firewall that blocks all incoming connections except those allowed while allowing all outgoing connections except those forbidden has the same effect as NAT.
NAT has without any shred of doubt done more for the security of the Internet than any other network service, firewalls included.
Which is only because NAT is forced down people's throats. If consumer internet connections got their own public IP ranges instead of NAT, and used routers that blocked incoming connections by default, the effects would be just the same, but consumers don't get that option.
NAT address translation
Network Address Translation Address Translation? Is that like an ATM machine or a PIN number?
Some schools provide laptops for students, either temporarily (for a project) or more-or-less permanently (i.e. for the duration of the school year). You wouldn't want to have to plug into a jack and unplug every time you change classes.
changing one character gives a completely different hash result
That's the point. You could theoretically get find out the MD5 assuming it wasn't salted by computing md5's yourself and finding one with the characters you need. For example, I would test md5's with all the possible first characters and find the one that is fastest, then generate a list of password and hash pairs with every possible second character and the first character we found earlier, and repeat for every character thereon. It would be a stretch, and the original password would not be revealed, just a hash, but in theory such an attack could work.
It could be extended to hashes, to a lesser degree. If you know the hashing algorithm used, you could use it to figure out where the hash does not match and ultimately use it to determine the hash, which can then be cracked easily if the password is weak.
the only thing they bring to the table is "on a touch display".
Not even that. I've seen iPhone ebooks that do this.
As far as I know, the range is very low. Typically 1 or 2 semitones is enough. Even if they increase the range, you can get away with a fairly large pitch shift as long as it stays on-tune. It will only sound musically wrong if you shift it by, say 2/3 of a note. Otherwise, it simply sounds like it is being played in a different key. Even if they did figure out a way to block that, there are always certain distortion filters that can be used to mask the original audio from automated detection.
Maybe they're trying to make a filter that can't be bypassed easily. You can usually just shift the music up or down a note to slip it past the filter, and while audiophiles and the music-obsessed will complain about this, it's barely noticeable to the average viewer if done properly.
Luckily, IPv4 isn't a bad technology.
On paper, it looked like a great technology when it was created, but nobody ever expected the internet to spread like wildfire. Not we're faced with exhaustion of it's (comparatively) tiny address space. In addition to that, ISP customers get a single IP and have to use NAT, which as we all know, causes lots of problems.
I guess an addressing crisis has it's ups and downs. The good part of this is that it will light a fire under ISPs and get them to seriously think about IPv6. The bad part is that IPv4 will become an even worse situation, with not only customer equipment NAT, but ISP-wide NAT, which causes routing messes, and will give ISPs yet another thing to gouge you over. Want a real IP? Oh, that's $20 a month extra.
Real pushes towards IPv6 deployment would make this entire point moot. However, half the big-name ISPs refuse to do anything about it, and until we see some real support from the home/small business ISPs, IPv6 will pretty much go nowhere, and we'll be stuck in the IPv4 hellhole.