Why not? A 386 does (within a certain limit) exactly the same thing that an i7 does, it just does it faster because it can run more operations in parallel and at a higher clock speed (to take a simplistic view). The minimum number of gates required simply sets the baseline speed of the final product. To get more speed you add more parallel processors, up to the available parallelism of the problem to be solved.
Knowing the algorithm would seem to allow a reasonable lower bound to be placed on the number of gates, from which a baseline speed can be determined.
If the algorithm takes 175,000 gates and you know the processing speed you can determine the throughput. If you know the necessary/target throughput you know how many pipelines you need and, if you're an ASIC mfr you have a good idea of the % overhead required to parallelize and the in house estimating group can take it from there to evaluate feasibility.
That's why you always put your workstation login password on a post-it that is permanently taped to the monitor. Jeesh - it's like you've never been in an office before!;-)
Okay...here's the solution to this problem which I made up when I worked at NASA and we had similar draconian requirements on our passwords for a while. Generate a plaintext file, say 400 characters long. Here's an example*:
R29fzI4iPxr6mq66fBGvO99kX5jofEYVEB CeIHmcDMkhEazDXqZnN67MMyyb7oeq5cz5njvFJsfDJtzb --this was inserted to eliminate the/. filter error-- 0oi4l2h0ORPMuwWeGic1dOmvRtLp0Jc2 iR3ozourXWsUvIwHQptHH6TnNOGaJZSsuO4BjG8Qm9yHGnUq --this was inserted to eliminate the/. filter error-- E8cYIFZRxhwRaXmEDZeuOh4TlmgxHmU NRnYi2aoS6hbrL6PXIYCcnnAfxqsJf8qJwJTm3lLUCiPlJwgj --this was inserted to eliminate the/. filter error-- G483gcZVpmVB61zM5XGC24BJzmB7wj WqfowiOgh8aAwFZw16fkPcP8a8ygz8w9tXoVbX6dFcP8fUHZBc --this was inserted to eliminate the/. filter error-- EGiCBqKlHBLb8JHCEnwd9Wxob6KnS5c QDAJ1jZLWEvQVCZipqsFzAkYVO2zyCfW2eSFJzfVz8v2sZ7Gh
Print this out and put a copy in your wallet, a copy in your desk, and a copy at home. Heck, put it in a text file on your phone, too.
Choose a 12 character password (this is your workstation, not the nuclear launch control center) from somewhere in this string. When the password times out, choose another. You can double the life of the cipher by using backwards too, and add a touch of crazy by appending a symbol if you really need to (you can even choose the symbol by appending the shifted number that correlates to the line where the password starts or ends if you need a rule, or just use the same one every time). After using your password for a short period (aka by the time you've memorized it), you'll easily recognize the pattern and be able to "recover" your password from among the full string. If your concern is being locked out after 3 tries, you'd be pretty safe letting this just lie about anywhere since the chances of choosing not just your starting point but your length in 3 tries is diminishingly small.
*note:I wrote a program which randomly generated characters, but also checked (and re-selected a number/letter) to ensure that every string of my chosen size met the criteria (1 number, 1 uppercase, 1 lowercase). The above example was just random.
That's almost certainly an order of magnitude more expensive. Most legal assistant bill out at $200-400/hr. I would expect an annual agreement to be north of $500 for a known-traffic condition like this. The PO method is probably $60/yr.
It's a more certain solution, to be sure (if these don't come for a month, come find me), but a bit on the pricey side for Joe Everyman.
You need a better post office. One of the groups I volunteer for can go 3-4 months between checking the box. Never a problem. As long as it' doesn't overfill (in a small town they're likely to notify you), they're usually happy to take your money every year. Of course, there is the possible problem of them giving you notice of renewal at the PO box location rather than your physical address...it's been long enough since I've set one up that I can't remember what the billing options are.
More cumbersome but simple - text file in a truecrypt container with the master password kept in your wallet. Bonus points: you use a combination of your drivers licence number and the type and number of your most used credit card as the master password (that way if you lose your wallet you can still recover your password, but its going to have letters, numbers, and be about 30 characters long).
For the paranoid, a text file stored in a truecrypt container stored in your desktop background image file using steganography. Okay, that last part is just for a good movie storyline; you'd put it somewhere better - like uuencoding it and storing it in a series of non-consecutive series keys in the Windows registry. God knows you can't find shit in there even if you know what you're looking for.
How do you remember the master password? Let's skip amnesia (which may not be total, but would almost certainly include forgetting a password) and just assume you're dead.
Go get a small PO Box Print a master list of passwords each week and mail it to yourself at that PO box Every 3-6 months go clean out your box except for the most recent and shred them Keep the key with you at all times.
Why use this over a safety deposit box?
(1) It's a federal felony for someone else to remove or open the letters
(2) You have a list no more than a week old (prior to your death or amnesia) available
(3) If you should die or become incapacitated, your home/mailing address will get a reminder once a year that you HAVE a box, and where it is, by producing ID or appears certifying your death or incapacitation, your attorney or next of kin will get a notification that such a box exists and when they (or you) check to see what mail you've gotten they'll discover your passwords.
Correlation is not causation, however if you look at most of the developed world and take the ratio of privately owned firearms to deaths from firearms, you will find that the results are nearly constant. This ignores laws, lawfulness, causes of death, population density, etc. The number of firearms in a country will be directly proportional to the number of deaths from firearms.
It's not a matter of intent or use, the more firearms you have, the more people will die from firearms-related injuries.
If you outlaw kindness, only outlaws will be kind.
So does this mean Intel is likely to fix things and stop being malware, or just business as usual and a increasing the need for ever faster processors to run ever bloated and invasive software?
Regarding point (2) - would it be your intent to simply prevent distribution of a public domain work as a copyrighted work, or would it prevent the copyrighting of a derivative work from anything in the public domain.
Example: Currently, if someone arranges "Silent Night" for bell-choir, the arrangement is copyright (not the work, but the specific version created for bell choir). Under the (2) provision, would that bell choir version now be public domain also? What if they added a new section - a bridge - which was original. Is the whole work public domain, copyrightable, or is only the bridge subject to a new copyright?
It depends on how AT&T prices the back end of their services. It might be worth it to get the minimum data plan ($15 for 200MB on a tablet, for example...if they still have that) and sign up with a bandwidth proxy to route all traffic through their server at, say, $2-5/GB, if the backend rates are advantageous enough. I don't think AT&T will allow this, as it would cut into their profits for the medium-metered plans.
I actually tried a physical keyboard with my iPhone 4, since I missed my slide-out keyboard from win-phone days of old. I hated it. Oh I liked the physical keys, but the autocorrections were missing and turned out to be more efficient than the hard keys.
Yes, they're sifting through a sea of data which contains both yours and mine. You and I are not the "targets" of these dragnets any more than you are a target of the police officer who is running a speed trap. He doesn't give a shit who you are or what you are doing as long as you're travelling within the unwritten margin around the speed limit (well, unless you're black and in a state/city where DWB is regularly enforced). Yes, the data is stored - oddly enough just like the data is stored by private corporations. The difference is that every time a corporation want's to make a dime off of you call list, or search history, or facebook likes (ew!), they pull up that list and sell it to everyone willing to write a check. The NSA, otoh, generally says "fuck you" to every outside request they get. They are actually very protective of "their" data.
And, yes, if you regularly phoned a suspect (actual target) they're after, you're going to get a call. Oddly enough, the same thing would happen if they didn't collect the data, but it would cost them money (your money and my money, presuming you too pay taxes in the US) to run the check through Verizon/AT&T on the suspects phone line. The data is the same, it's just not billed at a commercial rate, and it takes more manpower to do the investigative work. Note that their information stops there, presuming they have meta-data. They still have to go wear down the shoe leather to find out what occured, but associative nets are one way to do this automatically rather than hiring more agents to chase down every lead.
True. Jony has destroyed much of the UI Jobs toiled over; maybe he will sell out and join this open standard. My money is on the no side of this though. I see Apple devolving into all the bad things with none of the elegance now that Jobs is feeding the worms.
Yes, but can you *see* 1920x1200 on a 7" tablet. I happen to (still) have 20/12 vision, and I can't. It's like hearing the difference between 320kbps mp3s and uncompressed rips. Or, more accurate 48kHz vs 96kHz music. Unless you are in the very tippy top of the population, you can't do it in the best conditions, and if you take your laptop anywhere but the perfect room with perfect lighting you can't tell even if you have the rare physical senses to do so. I have 2880 res on my 15" laptop; I run at 150% scaling for UI elements. It's unbelievably sharp, but I also use it as a tablet with my nose pressed against the screen for photos.
And not a single Apple device will play VP9. Every Apple device will require transcoding, or using whatever format they find optimizes their [battery life|thermal envelope|PROFIT], which will nudge every well heeled, non-technical user to gravitate away from VP9.
Fair point. I don't watch the news. I troll the wire stories, but I usually fact check anything out of the ordinary - at least with a quick online search. That's one good thing about MSNBC and Fox. They have it "in" for the other side so bad they're almost rabid with their fact checking. Usually when the dust settles there's actual truth lying around. Sadly, truth is neither simple nor direct, but far more nuanced that what can be used to control the masses. Which is why it's almost never seen all by itself.
Private companies are collecting the data for PROFIT. It just turns out that governments are clients (even forced disclosures are generally compensated...some very, very well). Government has a much more limited scope. 99.99999% of the time they're just looking for "bad guys," and the other 0.00001%* of the time some corrupt official is trying to profit off of it or you accidentally look like a "bad guy". The odds are still in your favor if the government is the one doing the collecting.
*note: this is a guess, but it's based on a random supposition that - in the last year - the governments we are discussing (US, UK, EU) have targeted less than 700 completely innocent people in any given year using the NSAs (or UK or EU equiv.) surveillance dragnets. If you have a list longer than that, then the percentage may be higher. Note that, in a typical year, the odds of winning $1,000,000 or more in the Powerball lottery with a single ticket purchased in each drawing is 0.0002%, so even if I'm off in my estimate by an order of magnitude, you still have a much better chance of becoming a Powerball millionaire than being accidentally (or intentionally, but falsely) targetted by the government. I can guarantee that Google, Verizon, and Facebook will sell any data you give them, 100% chance.
It's not a patent, it's copyright, though the algorithms may or may not be subject to patent protection in any given country. And abuse is such a strong word. We prefer "revenue enhancement through creative application of multiple intellectual property safeguards and mechanisms" when we write the prospectus for the IPO.
(1) Install the start menu. (2) pretend it's Windows 7 (3) ???? (4) profit
Never go into metro and you'll be fine. With the start menu back (freeware), it's just like win 7 but with a better task manager and access to everything admin-related via the Win-X key combination. I have a new Sony Flip hybrid, and ~90% of the time its practically indistinguishable from my W7 desktop. I usually keep the desktop even when I go tablet (it has a real digitizer pen), but the full-screen pdf reader, Plex media player, and some tablet games (okay, Minion Rush...I admit it) are very good. Seriously...take a day and putter around, delete/hide all the MS crapware tiles and install http://www.classicshell.net/ . After working with it for a month, I kind of wish I had W8 on my desktop, but the actual upgrades aren't worth the effort to reinstall the system from scratch, which takes about 2-3 days with all my workstation applications.
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There will be no accountability. Engineers in manufacturing are exempt from the responsibility required of actual Professional Engineers.
Why not? A 386 does (within a certain limit) exactly the same thing that an i7 does, it just does it faster because it can run more operations in parallel and at a higher clock speed (to take a simplistic view). The minimum number of gates required simply sets the baseline speed of the final product. To get more speed you add more parallel processors, up to the available parallelism of the problem to be solved.
Knowing the algorithm would seem to allow a reasonable lower bound to be placed on the number of gates, from which a baseline speed can be determined.
If the algorithm takes 175,000 gates and you know the processing speed you can determine the throughput. If you know the necessary/target throughput you know how many pipelines you need and, if you're an ASIC mfr you have a good idea of the % overhead required to parallelize and the in house estimating group can take it from there to evaluate feasibility.
Funny, that was my thought. I don't know squat about it, but it seems like a starting point if you had to make an educated guess.
That's why you always put your workstation login password on a post-it that is permanently taped to the monitor. Jeesh - it's like you've never been in an office before! ;-)
Okay...here's the solution to this problem which I made up when I worked at NASA and we had similar draconian requirements on our passwords for a while. Generate a plaintext file, say 400 characters long. Here's an example*:
R29fzI4iPxr6mq66fBGvO99kX5jofEYVEB CeIHmcDMkhEazDXqZnN67MMyyb7oeq5cz5njvFJsfDJtzb /. filter error-- /. filter error-- /. filter error-- /. filter error--
--this was inserted to eliminate the
0oi4l2h0ORPMuwWeGic1dOmvRtLp0Jc2 iR3ozourXWsUvIwHQptHH6TnNOGaJZSsuO4BjG8Qm9yHGnUq
--this was inserted to eliminate the
E8cYIFZRxhwRaXmEDZeuOh4TlmgxHmU NRnYi2aoS6hbrL6PXIYCcnnAfxqsJf8qJwJTm3lLUCiPlJwgj
--this was inserted to eliminate the
G483gcZVpmVB61zM5XGC24BJzmB7wj WqfowiOgh8aAwFZw16fkPcP8a8ygz8w9tXoVbX6dFcP8fUHZBc
--this was inserted to eliminate the
EGiCBqKlHBLb8JHCEnwd9Wxob6KnS5c QDAJ1jZLWEvQVCZipqsFzAkYVO2zyCfW2eSFJzfVz8v2sZ7Gh
Print this out and put a copy in your wallet, a copy in your desk, and a copy at home. Heck, put it in a text file on your phone, too.
Choose a 12 character password (this is your workstation, not the nuclear launch control center) from somewhere in this string. When the password times out, choose another. You can double the life of the cipher by using backwards too, and add a touch of crazy by appending a symbol if you really need to (you can even choose the symbol by appending the shifted number that correlates to the line where the password starts or ends if you need a rule, or just use the same one every time). After using your password for a short period (aka by the time you've memorized it), you'll easily recognize the pattern and be able to "recover" your password from among the full string. If your concern is being locked out after 3 tries, you'd be pretty safe letting this just lie about anywhere since the chances of choosing not just your starting point but your length in 3 tries is diminishingly small.
*note:I wrote a program which randomly generated characters, but also checked (and re-selected a number/letter) to ensure that every string of my chosen size met the criteria (1 number, 1 uppercase, 1 lowercase). The above example was just random.
That's almost certainly an order of magnitude more expensive. Most legal assistant bill out at $200-400/hr. I would expect an annual agreement to be north of $500 for a known-traffic condition like this. The PO method is probably $60/yr.
It's a more certain solution, to be sure (if these don't come for a month, come find me), but a bit on the pricey side for Joe Everyman.
You need a better post office. One of the groups I volunteer for can go 3-4 months between checking the box. Never a problem. As long as it' doesn't overfill (in a small town they're likely to notify you), they're usually happy to take your money every year. Of course, there is the possible problem of them giving you notice of renewal at the PO box location rather than your physical address...it's been long enough since I've set one up that I can't remember what the billing options are.
Easy - password manager with local access only.
More cumbersome but simple - text file in a truecrypt container with the master password kept in your wallet. Bonus points: you use a combination of your drivers licence number and the type and number of your most used credit card as the master password (that way if you lose your wallet you can still recover your password, but its going to have letters, numbers, and be about 30 characters long).
For the paranoid, a text file stored in a truecrypt container stored in your desktop background image file using steganography. Okay, that last part is just for a good movie storyline; you'd put it somewhere better - like uuencoding it and storing it in a series of non-consecutive series keys in the Windows registry. God knows you can't find shit in there even if you know what you're looking for.
How do you remember the master password? Let's skip amnesia (which may not be total, but would almost certainly include forgetting a password) and just assume you're dead.
Go get a small PO Box
Print a master list of passwords each week and mail it to yourself at that PO box
Every 3-6 months go clean out your box except for the most recent and shred them
Keep the key with you at all times.
Why use this over a safety deposit box?
(1) It's a federal felony for someone else to remove or open the letters
(2) You have a list no more than a week old (prior to your death or amnesia) available
(3) If you should die or become incapacitated, your home/mailing address will get a reminder once a year that you HAVE a box, and where it is, by producing ID or appears certifying your death or incapacitation, your attorney or next of kin will get a notification that such a box exists and when they (or you) check to see what mail you've gotten they'll discover your passwords.
And a funny word choice as a substitute for boobs.
Correlation is not causation, however if you look at most of the developed world and take the ratio of privately owned firearms to deaths from firearms, you will find that the results are nearly constant. This ignores laws, lawfulness, causes of death, population density, etc. The number of firearms in a country will be directly proportional to the number of deaths from firearms.
It's not a matter of intent or use, the more firearms you have, the more people will die from firearms-related injuries.
If you outlaw kindness, only outlaws will be kind.
Really? Are you sure it wasn't the first sunrise? I mean, 168,000 years...give or take 6 hours?
So does this mean Intel is likely to fix things and stop being malware, or just business as usual and a increasing the need for ever faster processors to run ever bloated and invasive software?
Regarding point (2) - would it be your intent to simply prevent distribution of a public domain work as a copyrighted work, or would it prevent the copyrighting of a derivative work from anything in the public domain.
Example: Currently, if someone arranges "Silent Night" for bell-choir, the arrangement is copyright (not the work, but the specific version created for bell choir). Under the (2) provision, would that bell choir version now be public domain also? What if they added a new section - a bridge - which was original. Is the whole work public domain, copyrightable, or is only the bridge subject to a new copyright?
It depends on how AT&T prices the back end of their services. It might be worth it to get the minimum data plan ($15 for 200MB on a tablet, for example...if they still have that) and sign up with a bandwidth proxy to route all traffic through their server at, say, $2-5/GB, if the backend rates are advantageous enough. I don't think AT&T will allow this, as it would cut into their profits for the medium-metered plans.
I actually tried a physical keyboard with my iPhone 4, since I missed my slide-out keyboard from win-phone days of old. I hated it. Oh I liked the physical keys, but the autocorrections were missing and turned out to be more efficient than the hard keys.
Yes, they're sifting through a sea of data which contains both yours and mine. You and I are not the "targets" of these dragnets any more than you are a target of the police officer who is running a speed trap. He doesn't give a shit who you are or what you are doing as long as you're travelling within the unwritten margin around the speed limit (well, unless you're black and in a state/city where DWB is regularly enforced). Yes, the data is stored - oddly enough just like the data is stored by private corporations. The difference is that every time a corporation want's to make a dime off of you call list, or search history, or facebook likes (ew!), they pull up that list and sell it to everyone willing to write a check. The NSA, otoh, generally says "fuck you" to every outside request they get. They are actually very protective of "their" data.
And, yes, if you regularly phoned a suspect (actual target) they're after, you're going to get a call. Oddly enough, the same thing would happen if they didn't collect the data, but it would cost them money (your money and my money, presuming you too pay taxes in the US) to run the check through Verizon/AT&T on the suspects phone line. The data is the same, it's just not billed at a commercial rate, and it takes more manpower to do the investigative work. Note that their information stops there, presuming they have meta-data. They still have to go wear down the shoe leather to find out what occured, but associative nets are one way to do this automatically rather than hiring more agents to chase down every lead.
True. Jony has destroyed much of the UI Jobs toiled over; maybe he will sell out and join this open standard. My money is on the no side of this though. I see Apple devolving into all the bad things with none of the elegance now that Jobs is feeding the worms.
Yes, but can you *see* 1920x1200 on a 7" tablet. I happen to (still) have 20/12 vision, and I can't. It's like hearing the difference between 320kbps mp3s and uncompressed rips. Or, more accurate 48kHz vs 96kHz music. Unless you are in the very tippy top of the population, you can't do it in the best conditions, and if you take your laptop anywhere but the perfect room with perfect lighting you can't tell even if you have the rare physical senses to do so. I have 2880 res on my 15" laptop; I run at 150% scaling for UI elements. It's unbelievably sharp, but I also use it as a tablet with my nose pressed against the screen for photos.
And not a single Apple device will play VP9. Every Apple device will require transcoding, or using whatever format they find optimizes their [battery life|thermal envelope|PROFIT], which will nudge every well heeled, non-technical user to gravitate away from VP9.
Fair point. I don't watch the news. I troll the wire stories, but I usually fact check anything out of the ordinary - at least with a quick online search. That's one good thing about MSNBC and Fox. They have it "in" for the other side so bad they're almost rabid with their fact checking. Usually when the dust settles there's actual truth lying around. Sadly, truth is neither simple nor direct, but far more nuanced that what can be used to control the masses. Which is why it's almost never seen all by itself.
Private companies are collecting the data for PROFIT. It just turns out that governments are clients (even forced disclosures are generally compensated...some very, very well). Government has a much more limited scope. 99.99999% of the time they're just looking for "bad guys," and the other 0.00001%* of the time some corrupt official is trying to profit off of it or you accidentally look like a "bad guy". The odds are still in your favor if the government is the one doing the collecting.
*note: this is a guess, but it's based on a random supposition that - in the last year - the governments we are discussing (US, UK, EU) have targeted less than 700 completely innocent people in any given year using the NSAs (or UK or EU equiv.) surveillance dragnets. If you have a list longer than that, then the percentage may be higher. Note that, in a typical year, the odds of winning $1,000,000 or more in the Powerball lottery with a single ticket purchased in each drawing is 0.0002%, so even if I'm off in my estimate by an order of magnitude, you still have a much better chance of becoming a Powerball millionaire than being accidentally (or intentionally, but falsely) targetted by the government. I can guarantee that Google, Verizon, and Facebook will sell any data you give them, 100% chance.
It's not a patent, it's copyright, though the algorithms may or may not be subject to patent protection in any given country. And abuse is such a strong word. We prefer "revenue enhancement through creative application of multiple intellectual property safeguards and mechanisms" when we write the prospectus for the IPO.
(1) Install the start menu.
(2) pretend it's Windows 7
(3) ????
(4) profit
Never go into metro and you'll be fine. With the start menu back (freeware), it's just like win 7 but with a better task manager and access to everything admin-related via the Win-X key combination. I have a new Sony Flip hybrid, and ~90% of the time its practically indistinguishable from my W7 desktop. I usually keep the desktop even when I go tablet (it has a real digitizer pen), but the full-screen pdf reader, Plex media player, and some tablet games (okay, Minion Rush...I admit it) are very good. Seriously...take a day and putter around, delete/hide all the MS crapware tiles and install http://www.classicshell.net/ . After working with it for a month, I kind of wish I had W8 on my desktop, but the actual upgrades aren't worth the effort to reinstall the system from scratch, which takes about 2-3 days with all my workstation applications.