If roads were slashdot, there'd also be road signs diverting MILLIONS OF CARS onto a single driveway owned by some poor schmuck who happened to build something cool out of legos.
It's great. Tom Hanks plays a gruff, solitary cop who gets assigned a wacky, wisecracking, half-crippled psychic as a partner! Hilarity ensues as the unlikely duo track down an eeeevil murderer! A must-see!
The thing is there is a strong urge by many very tallented people to crack this particular scheme.
There is a strong urge to crack all of the major cryptosystems out there.
There is no algorithm that has been mathematically proven to be uncrackable to my knoledge, I could be wrong about that though since I am not a crypto guy.
You are wrong about that. There are many proven-strong cryptosystems. Of course, any algorithm is vulnerable to exhaustively searching the entire keyspace (a "brute force" attack) but with a sufficiently long key, it would take many millions of years to do that.
I was making refernce to MS's beautiful "activation" key scheme, what makes you think they won't be as stupid in the future? a) product activation != encryption b) the algorithm used was never cracked, only circumvented c) what makes you so sure they will be?
So your argument is, The system can't work, because MS has to be stupid? Just because CSS was cracked doesn't mean that every major software company in the world has its head up its ass. There are dozens of completely workable encryption algorithms that have been mathematically proven to be secure, any one of which could be used here. And when they do, a globe full of amateur cryptographers won't have a snowflake's chance in hell.
The key flaw in your argument is assuming that it is possible to emulate the architecture with a virtual machine. The whole point of Intel et al. being in on this is that processors will be "secured" as well. And you can be damn sure that Windows Media Player 12 won't be able to decrypt movies without the help of a properly keyed processor.
You're missing the fundamental point Have you been following ANYTHING that Microsoft has been doing? Sysadmins will no longer have unfettered access to their filesystem. Only the OS gets to have that.
It's like this:
localhost$ su Password: localhost# whoami root localhost# cat/etc/passwd Palladium trust error: fuck off and die, hacker localhost# chmod +r/etc/passwd Palladium trust error: no fucking way.
This is why "kernel level SQL" makes sense. These are queries that ONLY the kernel is allowed to run. For that matter, definitely not non-microsoft kernel drivers.
Actually, I think of this as the Good Thing part of Palladium; security is more effectively built into the CPU. The problems arise when Microsoft decides that "trusted" is actually shorthand for "trusted by Microsoft".
Wow, I was way off when I predicted that Microsoft would further obfuscate their Word format. This seems to be in all respects a Good Thing.
StarOffice has used XML for their native file formats for some time now; I wonder if this means we'll see an even better-quality translator between the two formats?
Err... since when did a communications bus generatte any appreciable noise or sound? Nothing distinguishes the dynamics of hard drive operation between IDE and SCSI. SCSI hard drives tend to be faster, since people who buy them tend to want to attach them to servers, but if pushed into the home consumer arena you'd see SCSI drives with exactly the same noise/heat output as IDE drives. This is an example of market-driven, not technology-driven.
In practice, this isn't an issue for films; just set the refresh rate to some multiple (as high as possible) of your shutter speed, and you'll be fine (e.g. for film, 72 hz).
I dunno... tho obviously I don't have to live in the place, I'm kind of fond of the geographic center of government living a life of forced apolicy, letting the federal lawmakers make laws in peace without being accosted by local influences.
Kind of like guarding a harem with eunuchs, really.
Yeah... I've heard of those tests... I think it would actually be really cool to be a test subject for one of those. Quite a productivity drain, of course.... but anything in the name of science.:-D
Oh, and you forgot the facts that (a) this is a complex module, and (b) applications that don't explicitly support it can incur significant performance drops (think OpenGL). Hence, a complex nonsolution.
Hey, I never said flexibility was a bad thing. For all I know, there's a handicapped man somewhere whose ocular disability causes him to see everything in reverse. I'm sure he'll like this. My only point is that the suggested use was not actually a useful one.
Pretty much all digital projectors support horizontal and vertical mirroring in-hardware. Hehe... another point for X's best slogan yet: "Complex nonsolutions to simple nonproblems".
1. Create a worthless product. 2. Use annoying and illegal tactics to market product to consumers who don't want it. 3. Get the pants sued off of you by the state. 4. ?? 5. Profit!
Could there be other factors to account for such a profound localized decrease (80%??). The polar icecaps certainly don't look 80% smaller to me...
The temperature near the Kilamanjaro icecap is much closer to melting than the temperature at the poles, especially in the summer. A fixed temperature increase would obviously show there first.
Yup... our traffic monitors here at USC tell us that over 90 percent of packets are P2P stuff. And that's not just the resnet... all the uni computers. Freakin' amazing.
Because OTPs can be distributed separately, through a secure channel. You can hand a CD-R with 800 MB of random data on it to the intended recipient (possibly in a cool metal briefcase handcuffed to his wrist) and then, later, use that data to encrypt up to 800 MB of email, merely telling the recipient what portion of the pad was used to encrypt. Bingo--unbreakable encryption.
Slashdot Mirror
If Ford were developing a really cool car that I wanted, and might not be able to stay afloat financially without outside help, yeah, I might donate.
If roads were slashdot, there'd also be road signs diverting MILLIONS OF CARS onto a single driveway owned by some poor schmuck who happened to build something cool out of legos.
It's great. Tom Hanks plays a gruff, solitary cop who gets assigned a wacky, wisecracking, half-crippled psychic as a partner! Hilarity ensues as the unlikely duo track down an eeeevil murderer! A must-see!
The thing is there is a strong urge by many very tallented people to crack this particular scheme.
There is a strong urge to crack all of the major cryptosystems out there.
There is no algorithm that has been mathematically proven to be uncrackable to my knoledge, I could be wrong about that though since I am not a crypto guy.
You are wrong about that. There are many proven-strong cryptosystems. Of course, any algorithm is vulnerable to exhaustively searching the entire keyspace (a "brute force" attack) but with a sufficiently long key, it would take many millions of years to do that.
I was making refernce to MS's beautiful "activation" key scheme, what makes you think they won't be as stupid in the future?
a) product activation != encryption
b) the algorithm used was never cracked, only circumvented
c) what makes you so sure they will be?
So your argument is, The system can't work, because MS has to be stupid? Just because CSS was cracked doesn't mean that every major software company in the world has its head up its ass. There are dozens of completely workable encryption algorithms that have been mathematically proven to be secure, any one of which could be used here. And when they do, a globe full of amateur cryptographers won't have a snowflake's chance in hell.
The key flaw in your argument is assuming that it is possible to emulate the architecture with a virtual machine. The whole point of Intel et al. being in on this is that processors will be "secured" as well. And you can be damn sure that Windows Media Player 12 won't be able to decrypt movies without the help of a properly keyed processor.
You're missing the fundamental point Have you been following ANYTHING that Microsoft has been doing? Sysadmins will no longer have unfettered access to their filesystem. Only the OS gets to have that.
/etc/passwd /etc/passwd
It's like this:
localhost$ su
Password:
localhost# whoami
root
localhost# cat
Palladium trust error: fuck off and die, hacker
localhost# chmod +r
Palladium trust error: no fucking way.
This is why "kernel level SQL" makes sense. These are queries that ONLY the kernel is allowed to run. For that matter, definitely not non-microsoft kernel drivers.
Actually, I think of this as the Good Thing part of Palladium; security is more effectively built into the CPU. The problems arise when Microsoft decides that "trusted" is actually shorthand for "trusted by Microsoft".
Huh... I got in before the FPers. Yay short articles.
Wow, I was way off when I predicted that Microsoft would further obfuscate their Word format. This seems to be in all respects a Good Thing.
StarOffice has used XML for their native file formats for some time now; I wonder if this means we'll see an even better-quality translator between the two formats?
Erm... heehee... noise or heat that is.
Friends don't let friends post drunk!
Err... since when did a communications bus generatte any appreciable noise or sound? Nothing distinguishes the dynamics of hard drive operation between IDE and SCSI. SCSI hard drives tend to be faster, since people who buy them tend to want to attach them to servers, but if pushed into the home consumer arena you'd see SCSI drives with exactly the same noise/heat output as IDE drives. This is an example of market-driven, not technology-driven.
In practice, this isn't an issue for films; just set the refresh rate to some multiple (as high as possible) of your shutter speed, and you'll be fine (e.g. for film, 72 hz).
Ever heard of "sarcasm"?
(don't see how you can with #1)...
Tranquilizer darts.
I dunno... tho obviously I don't have to live in the place, I'm kind of fond of the geographic center of government living a life of forced apolicy, letting the federal lawmakers make laws in peace without being accosted by local influences.
:-D
Kind of like guarding a harem with eunuchs, really.
*ducks flamethrower*
Yeah... I've heard of those tests... I think it would actually be really cool to be a test subject for one of those. Quite a productivity drain, of course.... but anything in the name of science. :-D
Oh, and you forgot the facts that (a) this is a complex module, and (b) applications that don't explicitly support it can incur significant performance drops (think OpenGL). Hence, a complex nonsolution.
Hey, I never said flexibility was a bad thing. For all I know, there's a handicapped man somewhere whose ocular disability causes him to see everything in reverse. I'm sure he'll like this. My only point is that the suggested use was not actually a useful one.
Pretty much all digital projectors support horizontal and vertical mirroring in-hardware. Hehe... another point for X's best slogan yet: "Complex nonsolutions to simple nonproblems".
1. Create a worthless product.
2. Use annoying and illegal tactics to market product to consumers who don't want it.
3. Get the pants sued off of you by the state.
4. ??
5. Profit!
Could there be other factors to account for such a profound localized decrease (80%??). The polar icecaps certainly don't look 80% smaller to me...
The temperature near the Kilamanjaro icecap is much closer to melting than the temperature at the poles, especially in the summer. A fixed temperature increase would obviously show there first.
Yup... our traffic monitors here at USC tell us that over 90 percent of packets are P2P stuff. And that's not just the resnet... all the uni computers. Freakin' amazing.
IIRC, NetMeeting allows you to plug in extra codecs. So it shouldn't be too hard to get this working under windows.
Because OTPs can be distributed separately, through a secure channel. You can hand a CD-R with 800 MB of random data on it to the intended recipient (possibly in a cool metal briefcase handcuffed to his wrist) and then, later, use that data to encrypt up to 800 MB of email, merely telling the recipient what portion of the pad was used to encrypt. Bingo--unbreakable encryption.