For every message, I have to check and unpack the header, go out to some PK server, and validate the keys, before I decide to accept/reject?
How about remembering headers that check out, so that next time you get a mail from that same person via that same route your server accepts it without bothering to check the key? That would slash the processor overhead, and I can't see how it would damage the workability of the system.
I though it WAS guaranteed that old stuff would run? There are quite a few comments in this story that state as much. (Though admittedly a posting on/. isn't the firmest of guarantees...)
The theory as I understand it is that TC data is only available to TC programs, so allowing freeware to run isn't a security risk since the unsigned code can't access any DRM's data.
But - and I'm sorry, I'm really not trying to be a jerk here - why can't I simply run a freeware MP3 ripper and open source P2P client on my TC PC? I mean, if the TC platform is backward compatible, it MUST be able to run code that doesn't use TC, right?
Huh? I don't get any of my media files from media companies. I rip them from CDs and DVDs into unprotected formats, and I trade them with friends and strangers who've done the same thing. How will TC prevent me from doing this?
He can't walk into a shop and use that number. Not without extremely implausible optical surgery. That's the whole point of biometrics. And naturally any sort of transaction which doesn't involve the customer's physical presence will need additional security, just as happens now with credit cards.
Even if it is paid to some fat cat, that fat cat spends the money on goods and services.
No he doesn't, he sits on it and accrues interest. Maybe he invests it, but the ultimate intention is still to move money out of circulation into his bank account.
I have to agree. I find that particular American meme utterly baffling. Can someone please name for me (say) three prominent Brits with unusually bad teeth?
Roland also = Boss, and some of their kit is pretty ace. I have a GX-700 and a DR-770, and I wouldn't exchange them not for the entire world I wouldn't no.
(Was making a point about the literal meaning of crusade = a marking with the cross, i.e. specifically a Christian pursuit. I know what the poster meant, I was just being an arse...)
Doctor Who is interesting mostly because of what it's not. While shows like Star Trek and Blake's Seven provided groups of bombastic characters in exciting situations - sort of cowboys and indians in space - for the kids to idolise, the Doctor was always an alien, with no particular allegiance and no mission to speak of. He doesn't even have a gun. His adventures are often pedestrian, and for a lot of the time he observes rather than leading the action.
While the production values were often pretty atrocious, and many of the stories amazingly overlong and dull, this was a breath of fresh air; and I think many of us feel that, in these days of Attack of the Clones and Terminator 3, we need to Doctor to bring some restraint and ambiguity back into our lives.
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For every message, I have to check and unpack the header, go out to some PK server, and validate the keys, before I decide to accept/reject?
How about remembering headers that check out, so that next time you get a mail from that same person via that same route your server accepts it without bothering to check the key? That would slash the processor overhead, and I can't see how it would damage the workability of the system.
I love the way that sig adds so much to the credibility of the rest of this post... :)
Probably an archaism - to "pretend" means literally to claim, and can sort of mean to hope for, as in "pretender to the throne."
I suspect there is.
People keep saying this, but I've got 4Gb files on my FAT32 XP system. (That seems to be the maximum though.)
Surely in that case it ought to be called Ginp?
I though it WAS guaranteed that old stuff would run? There are quite a few comments in this story that state as much. (Though admittedly a posting on /. isn't the firmest of guarantees...)
The theory as I understand it is that TC data is only available to TC programs, so allowing freeware to run isn't a security risk since the unsigned code can't access any DRM's data.
But - and I'm sorry, I'm really not trying to be a jerk here - why can't I simply run a freeware MP3 ripper and open source P2P client on my TC PC? I mean, if the TC platform is backward compatible, it MUST be able to run code that doesn't use TC, right?
Huh? I don't get any of my media files from media companies. I rip them from CDs and DVDs into unprotected formats, and I trade them with friends and strangers who've done the same thing. How will TC prevent me from doing this?
China is NOT a free state, and are just as totalitarian as the Americans
Now there's a phrase you wouldn't have heard four years ago... *sigh*
He can't walk into a shop and use that number. Not without extremely implausible optical surgery. That's the whole point of biometrics. And naturally any sort of transaction which doesn't involve the customer's physical presence will need additional security, just as happens now with credit cards.
Hell, that's pretty much my life.
Well, 3DO wasn't exactly a killer platform. OTOH, if I could get a GC on a card for my PC I wouldn't like to promise I wouldn't jump at it.
[Your sig seems to have an untranslated 'inquit' in the Latin?]
Even if it is paid to some fat cat, that fat cat spends the money on goods and services.
No he doesn't, he sits on it and accrues interest. Maybe he invests it, but the ultimate intention is still to move money out of circulation into his bank account.
Remember the solar storm of aprox 1859?
If you do, these people would love to hear from you.
I have to agree. I find that particular American meme utterly baffling. Can someone please name for me (say) three prominent Brits with unusually bad teeth?
Roland also = Boss, and some of their kit is pretty ace. I have a GX-700 and a DR-770, and I wouldn't exchange them not for the entire world I wouldn't no.
Hey, security like that has a use. It's just that this company was using it inappropriately.
(Was making a point about the literal meaning of crusade = a marking with the cross, i.e. specifically a Christian pursuit. I know what the poster meant, I was just being an arse...)
... some of the nastier things Sharon has done in his crusade.
;)
Just to be a pedant - probably "crusade" isn't quite the appropriate word here...
Huh? Dude, what are you planning to do? Buy another PS2 so you can play it twice at once?
I bet you like Alanis too, right?
Doctor Who is interesting mostly because of what it's not. While shows like Star Trek and Blake's Seven provided groups of bombastic characters in exciting situations - sort of cowboys and indians in space - for the kids to idolise, the Doctor was always an alien, with no particular allegiance and no mission to speak of. He doesn't even have a gun. His adventures are often pedestrian, and for a lot of the time he observes rather than leading the action.
While the production values were often pretty atrocious, and many of the stories amazingly overlong and dull, this was a breath of fresh air; and I think many of us feel that, in these days of Attack of the Clones and Terminator 3, we need to Doctor to bring some restraint and ambiguity back into our lives.
her screaming actually cracked my skull.
:P
That would explain why you like Peri...