they could prove you are lying because if you were uploading songs, you would either have to a) set up port-forwarding for this so-called wireless freeloader b) set up port forwarding yourself or c) have been running without NAT and bought the router in a last ditch effort to cover your ass. the second two cases you're guilty, the first case is absurd.
I think that this is probably an overblown hype piece, like so many others. What the article is talking about is simply a way to download information on the car's systems (much like what is already done in,a href="http://www.formula1.com/news/home.html">F ormula One racing. This would not allow a hacker to gain control of your car in any way. Of course the threat of crashing the system is always there... The easiest solution to all these problems is to have manual backup systems. I don't like trusting my life to a computer, anyway.
Wouldn't this system be easily spoofable? GPS doesn't assign unique keys to each physical location, it just broadcasts streams of data from several sources, using which the GPS device determines its location by triangulation. So there is no way to send a message that would only be readable from a certain physical location, because there is no information that a device would _need_ to be in that location to have.
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If I understand what you are saying, there wouldn't be a key at all with this form of encryption but instead the noise generated by the hardware would mask the communications, unless the reciever had the same hardware. However, isn't this essentially security by obscurity? If an attacker was able to figure out how your hardware worked, either by some sort of sophisticated analysis or by stealing the information, he would be able to decrypt all of your communications.
It would seem to me that this encryption is less useful then schemes which use one-way algorithms, such as public key cryptography. While these can be attacked by brute force, it is easy to make the encryption strong enough that brute-force is impractical even for a government. This leaves them vulnerable only to key-stealing which can be guarded against by regularly generating new keys.
So all in all, I am not sure I see the use in this. It might be useful for ubiquitous encryption because it adds no lag to the process do to it's unique relience on hardware, but I am not sure why ubiquitous encryption on the network level is useful, anyway. It might be useful for governments, but I doubt it for the reasons I gave above. I can't see any way it would be useful to cypherpunks and the like...
Anybody care to explain to me in more detail what this is useful for?
In a story posted by CmdrTaco regarding open source chipsets/cpus (try this), i said:
the notion of open source hardware coupled with conductive polymer technology could have big implications. You could download a chipset blueprint and print it using plastics. Of course, this won't be suitable for the microprocessor market, but it will definitely be big in things like small personal display units and other electronics like cell phones.
The whole business of Apple staunchly 'protecting' their trademark designs (iMac, and now Aqua theming) is quite insane. Apple believes that people *have* to copy their design because it is the *best* out there.
1) so what is people copy off of them? If everyone does, it doesn't make Apple generic; it makes them the leader and innovator of the pack, something which will be respected by the consumer eventually. (and will certainly be applauded by us slashdot types)
2) they assume that their design is the *best* out there. I, for one, think that the Aqua interface is far too colorful and overdone. I'd rather not make my political statements by carrying a transparent computer and using a transparent UI - I prefer the simple, usable functionality of Be and photonGUI.
So they launched a FreeBSD site in India. This makes it *easier* for Indian people to get and use FreeBSD. It does NOT do the following:
a) advertise or get widespread knowledge of alternative OS's in India.
b) actually make the transition. Notice: there has been a FreeBSD.org for quite a while, and FreeBSD users account for about 1% of the US pop.
It will make a difference, but it isn't the instigator of a huge OS revolution. It's just the launch of the website in another country.
A lot of people would say that you need a good balance between technology and gameplay/plot, but it all depends on what the company's objective is.
Companies like id software don't need an enthralling plot - they need technology. They deliver that fantastically. Of course, with the advent of this technology, companies with creative minds (in the gameplay/plot sense) are now open to focus on other aspects of the game.
Most companies that attempt to do this in one go fail because its just way too much. Those that don't fail are either really good, or really lucky (usually the latter, because most of the times the sequels suck).
I guess they (finally) learned that you need a large potential market if you are selling a magazine..
And as far as the (small) linux community is, it is a remarkably bad market for a magazine. 12-Steps? I'd prefer the manpages. In depth discussions? HOWTOs. Interviews and news? Slashdot.
the notion of open source hardware coupled with conductive polymer technology could have big implications. You could download a chipset blueprint and print it using plastics. Of course, this won't be suitable for the microprocessor market, but it will definitely be big in things like small personal display units and other electronics like cell phones.
At the risk of being redundant, here are a few comparative advantages of FreeBSD over Linux, and vice-versa.
Linux Advantages
*Much* more commercial/developer support
Microsoft:Linux::Linux:FreeBSD(::FreeBSD:OpenBSD). And I'm not only talking about tech support. I'm talking about developers adding and improving the operating system. This has huge implications. Many companies will be much more comfortable building a linux box than building a BSD one. The Java implementation, overall, is better. Hardware support is further along the way. There are more options for clustering, etc.
FreeBSD Advantages
Just because Linux has more people behind it does not mean it is more mature. Linux has a lot of things to sort out. First is its development cycle - things happen quickly, but with not enough thought. That's why you see kernel updates like every week. FreeBSD, on the other hand, has had more playing time, and its development philosophy is much more precise. The kernel isn't the only place this advantage manifests itself; the other is in the ports collection, which I like a lot more than the various packaging systems of linux. Also, FreeBSD is generally more reliable and fast under heavy loads.
Plastics used in chips (i.e. Conductive Polymers), aren't suitable for *all* chipset uses. Polymers will be used in things like thin display units, etc. The versatility of polymers shines in printable chipsets, but as far as conductivity and other factors go, plastics are not up to par. Copper will be the *element* used most in motherboards, etc.
China is a prime candidate for supremacy in the 21st century. Although their culture is supressed and chock full of propaganda, their society can be very production oriented, like the US in its rise...
even if this is satire....
what the hell was the reason? to get some public attention?
i doubt that this move will bring nothing but bad pr for the company...most people still think that the lawsuit is actually real....
A hardware player would only be in violation of the DMCA if it provided a way to pirate the DVD (for example, digital output.) However, just making a regular unliscenced DVD player would not violate the DMCA.
-built in USB in all systems
Which distinguishes it from... a 486? All reasonably modern Intel-based systems have USB. Intel _invented_ USB, remember.
-built in Firewire in most systems
True. But the only thing that FireWire is good for right now is digital video (current FireWire hard drives are abysmally slow.) And all major Intel OEM's offer "Digital Video" versions with firewire. In fact, Sony includes firewire on all their systems, and Compaq on almost all of them. Sony even has firewire networking capability, if you have several of their computers.
-inexpensive wireless networking ($100 option on all systems)
Okay, so you have to pay an extra $50 to get it on an Intel-based system.
-Gigabit ethernet built in to all their towers, 10/100 on cheaper models
Gigabit is different, but what PC maker doesn't give you 10/100?
-easy setup
According to who? What is easier about the Mac setup?
-superior user interface
I disagree. I prefer a CLI to any other interface. And my Mom finds windows easier to use than Mac.
-induction cooling means no fans needed in the iMac or the Cube
Damn straight. That is actually really cool. It almost makes me want one...
-vastly superior color correction technology
I wouldn't say "vastly." Better, but not that much better.
-efficient RISC-based CPU
What does that mean? If their CPU is so efficient, than how come they can't manage to scale it down to a laptop? Intel can...
-groundbreaking industrial design
Damn straight. But that was the allegation in the first place.
-maniacal attention to detail in all phases of development
I don't know what the hell you're talking about... Who buys a computer for the process? The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
-free off-line storage space via iDisk
Wahoo. I've always wanted to get Geocities included with my OS.
that it doesn't take obscene amounts of money to make discoveries. I'm glad that smaller projects still tend to lead the field in terms of innovation, if not in terms of raw power.
I agree, there should be a TLD or two dedicated to non-commercial owners. Maybe if we all pooled our money we could buy a small nation-state's TLD and use that?
The cards tend to store all the textures on a level, if they can. Most cards render objects that are convered by other objects anyway, because they aren't smart enough to filter it out. An exception would be ATI's new Radeon, which uses HyperZ (an enhanced Z-buffer) to prevent itself from wasting time rendering objects that can't be seen...
My Neighbor Totoro is, without question, Miyazaki's best work. It is a gripping epic, pitting man against nature, and making us ask who, in the end, do we want to triumph? And, it has a large cat-like animal that transforms into a vehicle... of destruction.
I disagree with your assesment that the problem is the hardware, not the OS. First of all, what kind of movie are we talking about here? I have had trouble with the FPS playing "A Bug's Life" DVD on a G4. Secondly, what OS are you using on the Intel box? If you are using windows, like most people, than I see why you are having problems. In my experience, it takes the full resources of a pentium II 300 to play one MPEG or Quicktime movie in a small window in windows(never played fullscreen.) If you are running linux, I don't have much experience, but from what I have read, it isn't the best OS for media handling, and when I used it X seemed to be taking up a lot of resources... Anyway, have you ever tried BeOS? Now that's an OS that puts MacOS to shame. Back in 1994 the Be people were doing things like, in real time, playing 6 movies mapped to the sides of a 3D, rotating cube. That was on dual powerpc boxes... It is even better on the latest (intel) hardware.
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they could prove you are lying because if you were uploading songs, you would either have to a) set up port-forwarding for this so-called wireless freeloader b) set up port forwarding yourself or c) have been running without NAT and bought the router in a last ditch effort to cover your ass. the second two cases you're guilty, the first case is absurd.
I think that this is probably an overblown hype piece, like so many others. What the article is talking about is simply a way to download information on the car's systems (much like what is already done in ,a href="http://www.formula1.com/news/home.html">F ormula One racing. This would not allow a hacker to gain control of your car in any way. Of course the threat of crashing the system is always there... The easiest solution to all these problems is to have manual backup systems. I don't like trusting my life to a computer, anyway.
Wouldn't this system be easily spoofable? GPS doesn't assign unique keys to each physical location, it just broadcasts streams of data from several sources, using which the GPS device determines its location by triangulation. So there is no way to send a message that would only be readable from a certain physical location, because there is no information that a device would _need_ to be in that location to have.
If I understand what you are saying, there wouldn't be a key at all with this form of encryption but instead the noise generated by the hardware would mask the communications, unless the reciever had the same hardware. However, isn't this essentially security by obscurity? If an attacker was able to figure out how your hardware worked, either by some sort of sophisticated analysis or by stealing the information, he would be able to decrypt all of your communications.
It would seem to me that this encryption is less useful then schemes which use one-way algorithms, such as public key cryptography. While these can be attacked by brute force, it is easy to make the encryption strong enough that brute-force is impractical even for a government. This leaves them vulnerable only to key-stealing which can be guarded against by regularly generating new keys.
So all in all, I am not sure I see the use in this. It might be useful for ubiquitous encryption because it adds no lag to the process do to it's unique relience on hardware, but I am not sure why ubiquitous encryption on the network level is useful, anyway. It might be useful for governments, but I doubt it for the reasons I gave above. I can't see any way it would be useful to cypherpunks and the like...
Anybody care to explain to me in more detail what this is useful for?
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In a story posted by CmdrTaco regarding open source chipsets/cpus (try this), i said:
the notion of open source hardware coupled with conductive polymer technology could have big implications. You could download a chipset blueprint and print it using plastics. Of course, this won't be suitable for the microprocessor market, but it will definitely be big in things like small personal display units and other electronics like cell phones.
The whole business of Apple staunchly 'protecting' their trademark designs (iMac, and now Aqua theming) is quite insane. Apple believes that people *have* to copy their design because it is the *best* out there.
1) so what is people copy off of them? If everyone does, it doesn't make Apple generic; it makes them the leader and innovator of the pack, something which will be respected by the consumer eventually. (and will certainly be applauded by us slashdot types)
2) they assume that their design is the *best* out there. I, for one, think that the Aqua interface is far too colorful and overdone. I'd rather not make my political statements by carrying a transparent computer and using a transparent UI - I prefer the simple, usable functionality of Be and photonGUI.
So they launched a FreeBSD site in India. This makes it *easier* for Indian people to get and use FreeBSD. It does NOT do the following: a) advertise or get widespread knowledge of alternative OS's in India. b) actually make the transition. Notice: there has been a FreeBSD.org for quite a while, and FreeBSD users account for about 1% of the US pop. It will make a difference, but it isn't the instigator of a huge OS revolution. It's just the launch of the website in another country.
A lot of people would say that you need a good balance between technology and gameplay/plot, but it all depends on what the company's objective is.
Companies like id software don't need an enthralling plot - they need technology. They deliver that fantastically. Of course, with the advent of this technology, companies with creative minds (in the gameplay/plot sense) are now open to focus on other aspects of the game.
Most companies that attempt to do this in one go fail because its just way too much. Those that don't fail are either really good, or really lucky (usually the latter, because most of the times the sequels suck).
I guess they (finally) learned that you need a large potential market if you are selling a magazine.. And as far as the (small) linux community is, it is a remarkably bad market for a magazine. 12-Steps? I'd prefer the manpages. In depth discussions? HOWTOs. Interviews and news? Slashdot.
a whole box dedicated for monitoring? Hmm...ssh and GNU tools seemed good enough for monitoring for me....
the notion of open source hardware coupled with conductive polymer technology could have big implications. You could download a chipset blueprint and print it using plastics. Of course, this won't be suitable for the microprocessor market, but it will definitely be big in things like small personal display units and other electronics like cell phones.
You're wrong. Umm...NetBSD has basically *all* the platforms out there (like dreamcast)
At the risk of being redundant, here are a few comparative advantages of FreeBSD over Linux, and vice-versa. Linux Advantages *Much* more commercial/developer support Microsoft:Linux::Linux:FreeBSD(::FreeBSD:OpenBSD). And I'm not only talking about tech support. I'm talking about developers adding and improving the operating system. This has huge implications. Many companies will be much more comfortable building a linux box than building a BSD one. The Java implementation, overall, is better. Hardware support is further along the way. There are more options for clustering, etc.
FreeBSD Advantages
Just because Linux has more people behind it does not mean it is more mature. Linux has a lot of things to sort out. First is its development cycle - things happen quickly, but with not enough thought. That's why you see kernel updates like every week. FreeBSD, on the other hand, has had more playing time, and its development philosophy is much more precise. The kernel isn't the only place this advantage manifests itself; the other is in the ports collection, which I like a lot more than the various packaging systems of linux. Also, FreeBSD is generally more reliable and fast under heavy loads.
Plastics used in chips (i.e. Conductive Polymers), aren't suitable for *all* chipset uses. Polymers will be used in things like thin display units, etc. The versatility of polymers shines in printable chipsets, but as far as conductivity and other factors go, plastics are not up to par. Copper will be the *element* used most in motherboards, etc.
China is a prime candidate for supremacy in the 21st century. Although their culture is supressed and chock full of propaganda, their society can be very production oriented, like the US in its rise...
even if this is satire.... what the hell was the reason? to get some public attention? i doubt that this move will bring nothing but bad pr for the company...most people still think that the lawsuit is actually real....
A hardware player would only be in violation of the DMCA if it provided a way to pirate the DVD (for example, digital output.) However, just making a regular unliscenced DVD player would not violate the DMCA.
-built in USB in all systems Which distinguishes it from... a 486? All reasonably modern Intel-based systems have USB. Intel _invented_ USB, remember. -built in Firewire in most systems True. But the only thing that FireWire is good for right now is digital video (current FireWire hard drives are abysmally slow.) And all major Intel OEM's offer "Digital Video" versions with firewire. In fact, Sony includes firewire on all their systems, and Compaq on almost all of them. Sony even has firewire networking capability, if you have several of their computers. -inexpensive wireless networking ($100 option on all systems) Okay, so you have to pay an extra $50 to get it on an Intel-based system. -Gigabit ethernet built in to all their towers, 10/100 on cheaper models Gigabit is different, but what PC maker doesn't give you 10/100? -easy setup According to who? What is easier about the Mac setup? -superior user interface I disagree. I prefer a CLI to any other interface. And my Mom finds windows easier to use than Mac. -induction cooling means no fans needed in the iMac or the Cube Damn straight. That is actually really cool. It almost makes me want one... -vastly superior color correction technology I wouldn't say "vastly." Better, but not that much better. -efficient RISC-based CPU What does that mean? If their CPU is so efficient, than how come they can't manage to scale it down to a laptop? Intel can... -groundbreaking industrial design Damn straight. But that was the allegation in the first place. -maniacal attention to detail in all phases of development I don't know what the hell you're talking about... Who buys a computer for the process? The proof of the pudding is in the eating. -free off-line storage space via iDisk Wahoo. I've always wanted to get Geocities included with my OS.
that it doesn't take obscene amounts of money to make discoveries. I'm glad that smaller projects still tend to lead the field in terms of innovation, if not in terms of raw power.
I agree, there should be a TLD or two dedicated to non-commercial owners. Maybe if we all pooled our money we could buy a small nation-state's TLD and use that?
The cards tend to store all the textures on a level, if they can. Most cards render objects that are convered by other objects anyway, because they aren't smart enough to filter it out. An exception would be ATI's new Radeon, which uses HyperZ (an enhanced Z-buffer) to prevent itself from wasting time rendering objects that can't be seen...
My Neighbor Totoro is, without question, Miyazaki's best work. It is a gripping epic, pitting man against nature, and making us ask who, in the end, do we want to triumph? And, it has a large cat-like animal that transforms into a vehicle... of destruction.
They won't beat them by a week, unless they release a 1.13ghz athalon in the next week...
He's not gonna need the hockey puck now that the new apple mice have been released.
I disagree with your assesment that the problem is the hardware, not the OS. First of all, what kind of movie are we talking about here? I have had trouble with the FPS playing "A Bug's Life" DVD on a G4. Secondly, what OS are you using on the Intel box? If you are using windows, like most people, than I see why you are having problems. In my experience, it takes the full resources of a pentium II 300 to play one MPEG or Quicktime movie in a small window in windows(never played fullscreen.) If you are running linux, I don't have much experience, but from what I have read, it isn't the best OS for media handling, and when I used it X seemed to be taking up a lot of resources... Anyway, have you ever tried BeOS? Now that's an OS that puts MacOS to shame. Back in 1994 the Be people were doing things like, in real time, playing 6 movies mapped to the sides of a 3D, rotating cube. That was on dual powerpc boxes... It is even better on the latest (intel) hardware.