Oh, of course, but having to enable/disable secure boot (which Windows won't boot without) each time you switch OS's (on a dual-boot setup) is going to be a royal PAIN IN THE ASS. Also note that less-technical distros (arch, debian, Mint, and probably even Ubuntu) will be affected by this.
Their "certified by Microsoft" agreement requires that there only be ONE key installed, and guess which is the only key Microsoft will let you sign Windows with...
The UEFI (new school BIOS) will actually perform a 2-way signed handshake with the OS. This means that the firmware knows the OS is legit and the OS knows the firmware is legit.
Interresting, so with current technology, a typical home computer (300W) would need 12ft^ of solar panels to run. If it ran 24x7 (powerful home server) you'd need 24ft^ - 30ft^ to compensate for darker hours of the day if you wanted to go for 0-net power. For home use, that sounds very workable (unless you live in an appartment), but still fairly infeasible for server farms unless you have a few dozen acres of empty land next to the facility.
The whole POINT of secure boot is so you CAN'T just put a live-cd in a boot off of it, you need to disable secure boot or sign the bootloader first!
Don't forget that Windows is going to be written so it will only boot if SecureBoot is enabled (to preven man-in-the-middle), which means if you dual-boot with an unsigned linux OS (LFS, etc most definitely won't be signed) or need to use a live-cd as a rescue disk, you need to enable/disable secure boot EVERY FUCKING TIME you switch OS's. No thank you!
FWIW, it's also a reason why Stone Crabs Claws are a more "friendly and sustainable" catch for seafood. It's not perfect but the animal has a good chance of surviving even after being harvested. The crabs are caught, the claws are removed (which they will grow back) and then they are released. "mathematically challenged" crabbers will only take the largest claw because the mortality rates are 47% for double amputation but only 28% for single amputation although it is legal to take both claws.
FTFY. If you need 100 claws, you can either take both claws of 50 crabs (50 X 47% = 23.5 dead crabs) or half the claws of 100 crabs (100 X 28% = 28 dead crabs).
And there's a difference between holding a 9-volt battery in a dry hand and licking it.
Here's a hint for you. Try licking your fingers, and then grabbing both terminals of your car battery.
Or if you want to avoid the whole 'there's a crapton of reasons why a good electrical current won't run from the terminal, through dry or mildly moist skin, through to the rest of me below said skin', try grabbing a wrench nice and firmly, and laying that wrench across both terminals. Let me know how that works out for you.
I'm guessing you've never actually tried that. Here's a hint, it's not the low-quality connection between your skin and the battery that protectsus , it's the 1000Ohms of reistance IN your skin (which your tongue does not have) that protects us. That make a car battey put out 12mA, which would be conducted through the subdermal if anything and you still wouldn't feel it.
Now, CUT both hands and touch the bloody parts to the battery, and that's a whole other story!
Does anyone know the theoretical maximum output of solar energy per square foot? You only get so much energy hitting the ground, so it may not even be possible with a 100% efficient solar cell. Just throwing that out there.
Depends entirely on the surface area. The point with solar is to make it work you need to be able to cover a HUGE surface area. If you covered the whole state of Nevada with solar cells we could probably feed total US electrical demand and then some. But short of that it's a waste of time.
Does anyone know the theoretical maximum output of solar energy per square foot? You only get so much energy hitting the ground, so it may not even be possible with a 100% efficient solar cell. Just throwing that out there.
It's more like "according to this old book that has been passed down for thousands of years, the invisible person over there has a bomb that will unleash a swarm of killer bees if we don't give him all of our money".
Why get a Windows Phone, when you can an Android or an iPhone...
Well that one is easy - WP7 is simply a nicer, snappier, more polished experience than Android. (With Android you have to worry about getting updates, about uninstallable crapware, if&how you can root, malware, laggy UIs, etc...)
Yeah, with win7 phones it's just a straight-up "no", SOO much better...
The tools will come. You will probably see 2 types of dev tools arrive, editors and frameworks. The editors will be like qtcreator where you only see the code for the logic part and the frameworks will resemble jQuery and the like.
Yes there is. You use multiple key-pairs. You have main keypair (Foo) whose public key is well known and trusted (or signed by a CA of some kind). Then for each connection you generate a temporaray keypair (Bar). You then sign BarPublic with Foo and use Bar for the actual encryption.
Now if they ever rubber-hose you, all you would literally* be able give them is Foo. Foo was only used for signed Bar (which did the encryption/decryption) and Bar was only ever kept in memory and is long since gone.
Note: this only works for live-only encryption (sms, voip, etc) and wouldn't work very well for e-mail since there is no two-way communication involving your public key. But you can (and should) still use that system for your smtp/imap/pop3 connections (not end-to-end mind you).
* see folks, THAT is the proper use of the word "literally"
1,000 other sites on a single IP address? What kind of budget hosting plan are you using, $2/year?!? Every hosting company i've seen has at least 1 static IP per account and you can buy additional ones for like $2/month.
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Oh, of course, but having to enable/disable secure boot (which Windows won't boot without) each time you switch OS's (on a dual-boot setup) is going to be a royal PAIN IN THE ASS. Also note that less-technical distros (arch, debian, Mint, and probably even Ubuntu) will be affected by this.
Their "certified by Microsoft" agreement requires that there only be ONE key installed, and guess which is the only key Microsoft will let you sign Windows with...
The UEFI (new school BIOS) will actually perform a 2-way signed handshake with the OS. This means that the firmware knows the OS is legit and the OS knows the firmware is legit.
Like with the PS3 right? Oh, right....
Interresting, so with current technology, a typical home computer (300W) would need 12ft^ of solar panels to run. If it ran 24x7 (powerful home server) you'd need 24ft^ - 30ft^ to compensate for darker hours of the day if you wanted to go for 0-net power. For home use, that sounds very workable (unless you live in an appartment), but still fairly infeasible for server farms unless you have a few dozen acres of empty land next to the facility.
We don't need planetary energy storage, there's always SOME area of the eart that is in darkness and needs more power.
And you didn't answer it.
I think Sony already proved that strategy to be fruitless.
The whole POINT of secure boot is so you CAN'T just put a live-cd in a boot off of it, you need to disable secure boot or sign the bootloader first!
Don't forget that Windows is going to be written so it will only boot if SecureBoot is enabled (to preven man-in-the-middle), which means if you dual-boot with an unsigned linux OS (LFS, etc most definitely won't be signed) or need to use a live-cd as a rescue disk, you need to enable/disable secure boot EVERY FUCKING TIME you switch OS's. No thank you!
No, but what about all the smaller distros? Hell, what about the poor suckers running LFS?!?
FWIW, it's also a reason why Stone Crabs Claws are a more "friendly and sustainable" catch for seafood. It's not perfect but the animal has a good chance of surviving even after being harvested. The crabs are caught, the claws are removed (which they will grow back) and then they are released. "mathematically challenged" crabbers will only take the largest claw because the mortality rates are 47% for double amputation but only 28% for single amputation although it is legal to take both claws.
FTFY. If you need 100 claws, you can either take both claws of 50 crabs (50 X 47% = 23.5 dead crabs) or half the claws of 100 crabs (100 X 28% = 28 dead crabs).
And there's a difference between holding a 9-volt battery in a dry hand and licking it.
Here's a hint for you. Try licking your fingers, and then grabbing both terminals of your car battery. Or if you want to avoid the whole 'there's a crapton of reasons why a good electrical current won't run from the terminal, through dry or mildly moist skin, through to the rest of me below said skin', try grabbing a wrench nice and firmly, and laying that wrench across both terminals. Let me know how that works out for you.
I'm guessing you've never actually tried that. Here's a hint, it's not the low-quality connection between your skin and the battery that protectsus , it's the 1000Ohms of reistance IN your skin (which your tongue does not have) that protects us. That make a car battey put out 12mA, which would be conducted through the subdermal if anything and you still wouldn't feel it.
Now, CUT both hands and touch the bloody parts to the battery, and that's a whole other story!
Does anyone know the theoretical maximum output of solar energy per square foot? You only get so much energy hitting the ground, so it may not even be possible with a 100% efficient solar cell. Just throwing that out there.
Depends entirely on the surface area. The point with solar is to make it work you need to be able to cover a HUGE surface area. If you covered the whole state of Nevada with solar cells we could probably feed total US electrical demand and then some. But short of that it's a waste of time.
That was kind of my point.
Totally visited the article just for the graph. Totally not worth it.
Does anyone know the theoretical maximum output of solar energy per square foot? You only get so much energy hitting the ground, so it may not even be possible with a 100% efficient solar cell. Just throwing that out there.
Yep, when your $600 phone has twice as many pixels as your $1500 laptop, something has most definitely gone terribly wrong.
It's more like "according to this old book that has been passed down for thousands of years, the invisible person over there has a bomb that will unleash a swarm of killer bees if we don't give him all of our money".
Why get a Windows Phone, when you can an Android or an iPhone...
Well that one is easy - WP7 is simply a nicer, snappier, more polished experience than Android. (With Android you have to worry about getting updates, about uninstallable crapware, if&how you can root, malware, laggy UIs, etc...)
Yeah, with win7 phones it's just a straight-up "no", SOO much better...
The tools will come. You will probably see 2 types of dev tools arrive, editors and frameworks. The editors will be like qtcreator where you only see the code for the logic part and the frameworks will resemble jQuery and the like.
If you believe the OS X version of silverlight is the same as the Windows version, you are only kidding yourself.
Hmm, I wonder if that could be intercepted at the network level (hacked router, unprotected wifi, etc) to get the stream to other devices....
Not it doesn't.
Ok. But either way, it's not like they are getting "windows for free anyways" they still need a site license.
There is no resisting rubber-hose decryption.
Yes there is. You use multiple key-pairs. You have main keypair (Foo) whose public key is well known and trusted (or signed by a CA of some kind). Then for each connection you generate a temporaray keypair (Bar). You then sign BarPublic with Foo and use Bar for the actual encryption.
Now if they ever rubber-hose you, all you would literally* be able give them is Foo. Foo was only used for signed Bar (which did the encryption/decryption) and Bar was only ever kept in memory and is long since gone.
Note: this only works for live-only encryption (sms, voip, etc) and wouldn't work very well for e-mail since there is no two-way communication involving your public key. But you can (and should) still use that system for your smtp/imap/pop3 connections (not end-to-end mind you).
* see folks, THAT is the proper use of the word "literally"
1,000 other sites on a single IP address? What kind of budget hosting plan are you using, $2/year?!? Every hosting company i've seen has at least 1 static IP per account and you can buy additional ones for like $2/month.