"But anyway, there is no such thing as an encryption scheme that cannot be cracked. It is just a matter on how much time it will take to crack it. Encryption will always be crackable, we are just playing with the fact it would take 512 or so years to crack a particular scheme with the actual technology."
Actually, there is almost no encryption scheme that can stand up for a weekend to the 'suitcase full of cash' cracking methodology.
If you care to out whatever story you have, I will guarantee that you can tell your tale privately. I am the person who wrote the original 'planes' stories, and several other related articles at The Inquirer, and not of the otehr people who talked to me were ever outed. I am very interested in this story.
Please write me at charlie at theinquirer.net, or the address listed above.
I agree about the puppet bit, but there is more to it. The way I understand it was the board asked her to share power with someone competent, I forget who, and I am too lazy to look it up right now. It was basically she would be the name and the puppet, but they needed someone there to actually so the work she was supposed to.
Carly took a bit of umbrage at this, and the board insisted on it. She called their bluff but they were not bluffing. From what I gather, she found that bit out when they showed her the door.
Carly was one of the worst things to hit corporate america since Ken Lay. I watched her run HP into the ground and line her own pockets while doing it. Division doing well? They can obviously cut costs and headcount. Look, next quarter, they have higher margins, so give yourself a bonus, and repeat in Q2. Division doing badly? Cut people, and reorg. Tough decisions deserve a bonus.
Carly was about polishing her own star, from putting herself in front of the company when there was capital to be spent, cash or political, to building a cult of personality. Ask the people shoved out of the way by her bodyguards IN THE HP HQ! Ask the people who installed an executive bathroom in her plane hanger, normal bathrooms wouldn't do there, oh no.
Ask the HP Australia people about the world class logistics operation they built, and then completely outsourced without adequate contract provisions. Look at how much the Magellan contract cost them, and the reasons for losing it. If you want real fun, look at what the board told her before they handed her ass walking papers. Tis to laugh, no tis to feel sad for the greedy ruining the lives of the hardworking.
Hurd, who on some levels I am no fan of, has spent the last year and change completely undoing all the things Carly did. The difference is that Carly had all the shyness and hard working mindset of Paris Hilton, while Hurd gets the job done.
Anyone putting the sucess of HP on Carly rather than Hurd is an incompetent researcher, revisionist historian, or has an agenda. Oh wait, this is Forbes, you know, the ones who are still defending SCO. Replace the 'or' a couple of sentences ago..... Also look at the politics, this has all the hallmarks of a paid for image campaign to prep her Carlyness for a senate run. Forbes isn't shy about politics, and it would take a political strategist with long term thinking in a high place to do this. I won't name names though.
I was privy to a lot more of HPs dirt than I wrote about, and even then, I wrote a lot. I honestly can't think of a more worthless, to the corporation, manager that had the company survive their tenure. The only reason it did was a long history of innovation (real, not MS), good people, and good product lines. Most of that is gone now, but Hurd looks to be bringing a lot of it back. It is an uphill climb, but if you look at Dell vs HP right now, it is the correct thing to do.
The article that prompted this is several shades beyond sad, and completely ignores what Hurd has done. Do the research people, ask HP about the changes, they are real, but they are not spun for the benefit of the general audience like the old days. Then ask yourself why this would be coming out right about now, and from whom.
I keep referring to them as being run by a turtlenecked sociopath. This behavior, suing anyone they don't like, control freakery and related things that make you want to scream 'cult' at the top of your lungs comes from one place.
They are banking bad karma at a terrifying rate, and as soon as cracks appear in their fashion-oriented views of computing, they are going to fall. Hard.
Have your house boy carry it behind you, generally 5 paces is considered respectful. Barring that, you can just have the limo driver deliver it to the place you are going while the throngs greet you upon making an appearance. That always gives me enough time to say hi and to have my stuff unpacked and booted up on my arrival.
It really isn't so hard if you put your mind to it, why do you act so 'working class'?
I saw the last one (Stanley), and I must say that it's skills left me a little under the.... under..... http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=28756 Either way, my insurance company is still trying to go after the estate of a Mr. Babbage, but are having a hard time tracking him down.
Unless spammers start setting up servers under the guise of security to harvest mails you send to them. Or that people who don't mark spam religiously have their dirty addressed uploaded because it is set on by default. Or.... or... or... Nope, next.
The Merom/Conroe/Woodcrest cores are NOT based on the PM, aka Banias/Dothan/Yonah. Any even cursory look at the architectures, from pipeline depth to functional units will show they are totally different.
Who keeps perpetuating this stupidity, and when have we as a culture lost the ability to look past shiny things shown to us by guys in lab coats? The cores rock, the previos cores rock, they are not the same.
Just because Merom is more like the PM than the P4 means all of squat.
"Why do users refuse to adopt collaboration software?'"
Well, that can be summed up in a single word, "proprietary".
Steve: Gee, lets add Bob from company X into this discussion since they will be doing the design for the double ended latex parts. Bob: Sure, I use iCollaborate - Black Turtleneck Edition V3.0.7 Steve: Looks like that won't work with our MS proprietary Subscribe and Collaborate With Those Who Also Subscribe V8.1.1 Security Edition. IT Longhair: Well, you could all switch to Open Featureless Collaborate With Clunky Interface V 0.0.2. Steve and Bob: Get bent. Steve: Bob, go to the iSuite Bob: No, you go to Subscribe. IT Longhair: Your computers will never run right again, trust me, but you will never be able to prove it is me. Ph33r the admin.
So ends the tale of proprietary bullshit. Every vendor must foster ths because the funding, patent, and legal system is broken. Until it is changed, nothing will change.
The only question left is why people keep wondering why incompatible, proprietary and patent laden crap doesn't take off, even if it truly is the better way.
-Charlie
P.S. I personally think it all sucks regardless, but that is just my opinion.
It seems MS missed the basics of press relations. When you call the press out to a dog and pony show, we (yes, I am one) generally try to give a fair representation of what happened. Events and press conferences are generally one sided, IE good for the people putting on the act. So are trade shows, you get to see the shiny happy things, and there is no time or forum to dig in and see all the warts.
This leads to almost universally good news on all the applicable outlets. If the show is interesting, all the better, we will sit there and smile, taking notes and pictures.
Now, if you bore us to tears with stupid, irrelevant and wrong info, we will sit there for 60-90 minutes and think up ways to make your life pain, usually in the form of an article. We sit there, turn to the guy next to us and crack jokes about everything and anything, relevant or not. Nothing tends to be sacred.
Yep, the MS people botched this one bad, and the Lyons piece is a good example of this. They promised the moon, gave nothing, and did it in a way that from the sound of it was thoroughly unpleasant to watch.
And they are wondering why they got hammered. Duh. If you are going to take up our time, don't waste it. If you do, you almost guarantee your product will be panned.
As a corolary to this, fill the press section with syncophantic or bribed tame press, then do what you want. This is a time honored tradition that works well, but if you do it too often with sucky presentation, it will bite you, your costs will go up. Look at... well, that would be telling.
-Charlie
P.S. Take this article with a big grain of salt. Anyone still defending SCO is pretty suspect in my book, but that is just one reporter's opinion.
"If this is the case then why is Intel putting up with it?"
One phrase, Mandatory Remote Key Revocation. When Intel agreed to this, game over. It is the ultimate power, undefendable, given to MS and the content mafia. Intel is bent over an playing bitch.
"This is news to me (and good news!). I kind of had the idea that Intel supported DRM. Most likely Intel caters to whoever brings them money, and since this is being marketed towards users, they take a stance against DRM. Notice they don't prohibit DRM to be used in any VIIV products, just discourage it. Still, any position against DRM is a good position."
Sadly though, their rhetoric is not matched by their code. They do implement a crushing and overwhelming DRM infection. If you ask them about it, and I have many times, they will dance about the issue, minimize the impact, and at times flat out lie (yes, I do have the emails).
They are peddling DRM infections, they just don't have the balls to admit it, and talk of rosy futures and happy places. They sell DRM though.
Intel thinks that consumers should be able to do what they want.....
Unfortunately, their software is a DRM framework and infection that screws the consumers. If I had to go with which side to believe, I would take the functionality over the rhetoric. How about you?
Read this: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=24638 East Fork == VIIV, and some details have changed, but it is a lot more than that. Transcoding, transrating, a store, and a connection framework. It is also a MASSIVE DRM infection, but they try and pretend otherwise.
Intel flat out lied about Linux, they said it could happen to my face, but all the docs said otherwise. They are handing the space to MS and the DRM infectors.
That said, Intel honestly does want to do the right thing here, but they are caught between a rock and a hard place. They have no leverage, and are being used until the content industry tires of batting them around like a cat with a half dead mouse in it's grasp.
The sad thing is, Intel can not do anything to prevent being bent over and screwed here. They have to smile and minimize the damage, but the whole process has been coopted. They were planning on making v1.5 and v2.0 a little better each release, but right now, they are in backpedal so hard it hurts mode, so the chance of them being able to do right is next to zero.
The first version will be mostly non-functional, it won't do most of what they hoped, and has more animosity among the vendors than any product that I have seen to date. Everyone I talked to at CeBit last week was something between annoyed and angry that it was being shoved down their throat.
But wait, it gets better. Notice he said that it would be easier, not cheaper. You get a file locked down hard, seriously DRM infected, and restricted. The PRV functionality is already shut down because they MUST support the broadcast flag (HD only though), so basically, they are screwed. If you like PVRing CSpan, VIIV is your toy, everything else, well, not so much.
So, you have the grand plan of selling an inferior, restricted, DRM infect product at a higher price than the competition. Add in that you are selling an expensive box that phones home way to often that says 'NO!' to it owner more often than most find palatable, and you have a recipe for disaster.
My prediction, abject failure. Why? The content industry does not want it to exist, and Intel is a fly under their steamroller. It is a pity, it could have not sucked.
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The short story is 'maybe'. Read this, it will answer most of the questions.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=1
-Charlie
"But anyway, there is no such thing as an encryption scheme that cannot be cracked. It is just a matter on how much time it will take to crack it.
Encryption will always be crackable, we are just playing with the fact it would take 512 or so years to crack a particular scheme with the actual technology."
Actually, there is almost no encryption scheme that can stand up for a weekend to the 'suitcase full of cash' cracking methodology.
-Charlie
If you care to out whatever story you have, I will guarantee that you can tell your tale privately. I am the person who wrote the original 'planes' stories, and several other related articles at The Inquirer, and not of the otehr people who talked to me were ever outed. I am very interested in this story.
Please write me at charlie at theinquirer.net, or the address listed above.
-Charlie
I agree about the puppet bit, but there is more to it. The way I understand it was the board asked her to share power with someone competent, I forget who, and I am too lazy to look it up right now. It was basically she would be the name and the puppet, but they needed someone there to actually so the work she was supposed to.
Carly took a bit of umbrage at this, and the board insisted on it. She called their bluff but they were not bluffing. From what I gather, she found that bit out when they showed her the door.
-Charlie
Carly was one of the worst things to hit corporate america since Ken Lay. I watched her run HP into the ground and line her own pockets while doing it. Division doing well? They can obviously cut costs and headcount. Look, next quarter, they have higher margins, so give yourself a bonus, and repeat in Q2. Division doing badly? Cut people, and reorg. Tough decisions deserve a bonus.
Carly was about polishing her own star, from putting herself in front of the company when there was capital to be spent, cash or political, to building a cult of personality. Ask the people shoved out of the way by her bodyguards IN THE HP HQ! Ask the people who installed an executive bathroom in her plane hanger, normal bathrooms wouldn't do there, oh no.
Ask the HP Australia people about the world class logistics operation they built, and then completely outsourced without adequate contract provisions. Look at how much the Magellan contract cost them, and the reasons for losing it. If you want real fun, look at what the board told her before they handed her ass walking papers. Tis to laugh, no tis to feel sad for the greedy ruining the lives of the hardworking.
Hurd, who on some levels I am no fan of, has spent the last year and change completely undoing all the things Carly did. The difference is that Carly had all the shyness and hard working mindset of Paris Hilton, while Hurd gets the job done.
Anyone putting the sucess of HP on Carly rather than Hurd is an incompetent researcher, revisionist historian, or has an agenda. Oh wait, this is Forbes, you know, the ones who are still defending SCO. Replace the 'or' a couple of sentences ago..... Also look at the politics, this has all the hallmarks of a paid for image campaign to prep her Carlyness for a senate run. Forbes isn't shy about politics, and it would take a political strategist with long term thinking in a high place to do this. I won't name names though.
I was privy to a lot more of HPs dirt than I wrote about, and even then, I wrote a lot. I honestly can't think of a more worthless, to the corporation, manager that had the company survive their tenure. The only reason it did was a long history of innovation (real, not MS), good people, and good product lines. Most of that is gone now, but Hurd looks to be bringing a lot of it back. It is an uphill climb, but if you look at Dell vs HP right now, it is the correct thing to do.
The article that prompted this is several shades beyond sad, and completely ignores what Hurd has done. Do the research people, ask HP about the changes, they are real, but they are not spun for the benefit of the general audience like the old days. Then ask yourself why this would be coming out right about now, and from whom.
-Charlie
Wow, featherweight sub-gram flying things! I wonder if they can lift the the 23 kilo car battery needed to power it? Still, way cool.
I am going to wait for the one that can carry the HD camera though, is it worth investing in SD parts at this point in time?
-Charlie
It is not Pirates vs Ninjas, more like Pirates vs clods, but the clods have a steamroller and a lot of morons to push it.
-Charlie
I keep referring to them as being run by a turtlenecked sociopath. This behavior, suing anyone they don't like, control freakery and related things that make you want to scream 'cult' at the top of your lungs comes from one place.
They are banking bad karma at a terrifying rate, and as soon as cracks appear in their fashion-oriented views of computing, they are going to fall. Hard.
-Charlie
Have your house boy carry it behind you, generally 5 paces is considered respectful. Barring that, you can just have the limo driver deliver it to the place you are going while the throngs greet you upon making an appearance. That always gives me enough time to say hi and to have my stuff unpacked and booted up on my arrival.
It really isn't so hard if you put your mind to it, why do you act so 'working class'?
-Charlie
I saw the last one (Stanley), and I must say that it's skills left me a little under the.... under.....
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=28756
Either way, my insurance company is still trying to go after the estate of a Mr. Babbage, but are having a hard time tracking him down.
-Charlie
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=31096
Old news. Old old new.
-Charlie
Unless spammers start setting up servers under the guise of security to harvest mails you send to them. Or that people who don't mark spam religiously have their dirty addressed uploaded because it is set on by default. Or.... or... or... Nope, next.
-Charlie
So I guess you have already written off a military career..... :)
-Charlie
The Merom/Conroe/Woodcrest cores are NOT based on the PM, aka Banias/Dothan/Yonah. Any even cursory look at the architectures, from pipeline depth to functional units will show they are totally different.
Who keeps perpetuating this stupidity, and when have we as a culture lost the ability to look past shiny things shown to us by guys in lab coats? The cores rock, the previos cores rock, they are not the same.
Just because Merom is more like the PM than the P4 means all of squat.
-Charlie
Fair enough, but why is it out of band and obscure (sometimes)? Proprietary... :)
-Charlie
"Why do users refuse to adopt collaboration software?'"
Well, that can be summed up in a single word, "proprietary".
Steve: Gee, lets add Bob from company X into this discussion since they will be doing the design for the double ended latex parts.
Bob: Sure, I use iCollaborate - Black Turtleneck Edition V3.0.7
Steve: Looks like that won't work with our MS proprietary Subscribe and Collaborate With Those Who Also Subscribe V8.1.1 Security Edition.
IT Longhair: Well, you could all switch to Open Featureless Collaborate With Clunky Interface V 0.0.2.
Steve and Bob: Get bent.
Steve: Bob, go to the iSuite
Bob: No, you go to Subscribe.
IT Longhair: Your computers will never run right again, trust me, but you will never be able to prove it is me. Ph33r the admin.
So ends the tale of proprietary bullshit. Every vendor must foster ths because the funding, patent, and legal system is broken. Until it is changed, nothing will change.
The only question left is why people keep wondering why incompatible, proprietary and patent laden crap doesn't take off, even if it truly is the better way.
-Charlie
P.S. I personally think it all sucks regardless, but that is just my opinion.
Think of it as 'tough love', not hate. Maybe 'premtive editing in the search for sites of mass destruction'. How about 'Teh sux0r!'?
-Charlie
Umm, who OK'd this news, and what were you smoking. No comment on the review itself, just a hearty 'WTF'? Were you guys really that bored?
In related news, there was a car crash on the freeway this morning, and it probably rained somewhere, why aren't those headlines?
While this will probably get me flamed, I expected better from Slashdot.
-Charlei
It seems MS missed the basics of press relations. When you call the press out to a dog and pony show, we (yes, I am one) generally try to give a fair representation of what happened. Events and press conferences are generally one sided, IE good for the people putting on the act. So are trade shows, you get to see the shiny happy things, and there is no time or forum to dig in and see all the warts.
This leads to almost universally good news on all the applicable outlets. If the show is interesting, all the better, we will sit there and smile, taking notes and pictures.
Now, if you bore us to tears with stupid, irrelevant and wrong info, we will sit there for 60-90 minutes and think up ways to make your life pain, usually in the form of an article. We sit there, turn to the guy next to us and crack jokes about everything and anything, relevant or not. Nothing tends to be sacred.
Yep, the MS people botched this one bad, and the Lyons piece is a good example of this. They promised the moon, gave nothing, and did it in a way that from the sound of it was thoroughly unpleasant to watch.
And they are wondering why they got hammered. Duh. If you are going to take up our time, don't waste it. If you do, you almost guarantee your product will be panned.
As a corolary to this, fill the press section with syncophantic or bribed tame press, then do what you want. This is a time honored tradition that works well, but if you do it too often with sucky presentation, it will bite you, your costs will go up. Look at... well, that would be telling.
-Charlie
P.S. Take this article with a big grain of salt. Anyone still defending SCO is pretty suspect in my book, but that is just one reporter's opinion.
"If this is the case then why is Intel putting up with it?"
One phrase, Mandatory Remote Key Revocation. When Intel agreed to this, game over. It is the ultimate power, undefendable, given to MS and the content mafia. Intel is bent over an playing bitch.
-Charlie
"This is news to me (and good news!). I kind of had the idea that Intel supported DRM. Most likely Intel caters to whoever brings them money, and since this is being marketed towards users, they take a stance against DRM. Notice they don't prohibit DRM to be used in any VIIV products, just discourage it. Still, any position against DRM is a good position."
Sadly though, their rhetoric is not matched by their code. They do implement a crushing and overwhelming DRM infection. If you ask them about it, and I have many times, they will dance about the issue, minimize the impact, and at times flat out lie (yes, I do have the emails).
They are peddling DRM infections, they just don't have the balls to admit it, and talk of rosy futures and happy places. They sell DRM though.
-Charlie
Intel thinks that consumers should be able to do what they want.....
Unfortunately, their software is a DRM framework and infection that screws the consumers. If I had to go with which side to believe, I would take the functionality over the rhetoric. How about you?
-Charlie
Read this:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=24638
East Fork == VIIV, and some details have changed, but it is a lot more than that. Transcoding, transrating, a store, and a connection framework. It is also a MASSIVE DRM infection, but they try and pretend otherwise.
-Charlie
OK, I know Don MacDonald personally, and I was the first one to sound the alarm bells about ViiV, then called East Fork. See:/ 170256
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=24638
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/17
Intel flat out lied about Linux, they said it could happen to my face, but all the docs said otherwise. They are handing the space to MS and the DRM infectors.
That said, Intel honestly does want to do the right thing here, but they are caught between a rock and a hard place. They have no leverage, and are being used until the content industry tires of batting them around like a cat with a half dead mouse in it's grasp.
The sad thing is, Intel can not do anything to prevent being bent over and screwed here. They have to smile and minimize the damage, but the whole process has been coopted. They were planning on making v1.5 and v2.0 a little better each release, but right now, they are in backpedal so hard it hurts mode, so the chance of them being able to do right is next to zero.
The first version will be mostly non-functional, it won't do most of what they hoped, and has more animosity among the vendors than any product that I have seen to date. Everyone I talked to at CeBit last week was something between annoyed and angry that it was being shoved down their throat.
But wait, it gets better. Notice he said that it would be easier, not cheaper. You get a file locked down hard, seriously DRM infected, and restricted. The PRV functionality is already shut down because they MUST support the broadcast flag (HD only though), so basically, they are screwed. If you like PVRing CSpan, VIIV is your toy, everything else, well, not so much.
So, you have the grand plan of selling an inferior, restricted, DRM infect product at a higher price than the competition. Add in that you are selling an expensive box that phones home way to often that says 'NO!' to it owner more often than most find palatable, and you have a recipe for disaster.
My prediction, abject failure. Why? The content industry does not want it to exist, and Intel is a fly under their steamroller. It is a pity, it could have not sucked.
-Charlie
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=30289
:)
Luckily I was there yesterday. 6/10 for effort though.
-Charlie