It isn't 100% clear from reading the article that the plants are in fact resistant. No tests were done to determine if the plants are resistant. It would have been pretty easy to take a bottle of Roundup and spray one then wait a few days.
Also, this is an incredible poorly written article. It is basically a big tease, based on the premise that the plants might be genetically engineered, which it turns out they aren't. Also he keeps comparing farms to p2p filesharers, as if the farmers are taking a hint from 14 yr olds in the US. Selective breeding and distribution of new strains is not a new tech.
In all it is an annoying article that is full of speculation, short on facts, and proves nothing. I was pretty disappointed.
The lead for JCOP has told me that for flash based systems the OS is loaded into flash rather than rom since there is so much storage space. On EEPROM systems it is written in the ROM.
I am familiar with these devices, having bought about 10 of them three years ago on a trip to Taiwan. I gave them out as Christmas presents when I came home. They were very inexpensive in Taiwan. Even a model with two controllers and a light gun was less than $20. The games play the same as they do on a real Nintendo but the controllers don't work well and don't last long. That is both frustrating and expected I guess.
When I say some for sale in a mall kiosk in the USA I went up to the young man that was selling them. I asked how they were able to import what was clearly a pirate device. He said, "If I'm selling it then it must be legal!" I told him that he clearly didn't know what he was talking about and he got angry with me. He was even madder when I told him in earshot of potential customers that what he was selling for $59.99 was available in Taiwan for $8.00.
If the bank loaded the applet (it could be a general purpose filesystem with little or no security) then they wouldn't care. What they don't want at this point is a hobbyist writing their own applet and loading it themselves. If you don't have the card manager keys you can't load/delete/lock/instatiate applets.
For large volume applications the applications are already coded into ROM. You can go read the Open Platform/Global Platform spec at GlobalPlatform.org and see how applets are loaded and verified. You have to be able to derive the correct 3DES key to even talk to the card manager and then you need another key to sign all the APDUs. Finally there is optional integrity checking.
I am pretty sure that there are free SDKs out there. IBM's costs about $50 last time I checked. It is integrated with Eclipse and is the best kit out there. It comes with three sample cards (JCOP10, 20 and 31). Cards are pretty cheap. Much less expensive that $20 each.
Lumpy,
For one thing, the smart card itself has no concept of Windows or Linux. All it knows about are the APDUs that are coming and going.
I don't know why there are no consumer apps. There certainly are in Europe. You can store your browser bookmarks on your bankcard and things like that. I am not sure what sort of "basic information" you want to store.
Most vendors concentrate on healthcare, banking, and finance rather than the hobbist market. If you want a password manager ActivCard makes a very capable one. IBM had one in the past but I believe that it has been discontinued.
Another reason there are no consumer apps is lack of standards. Until recently most smart cards were very proprietary. Software was written for a specific card platform, burned into the mask, and would not work with other cards. With the advent of JavaCard some of these problems are going away. However that brings us to a new problem of card management.
Who owns your smartcard? You might think that you do, but unless you have the keys needed to load new applets, then from the smartcard's point of view you are not in charge. Because of security functionality you can't just sit down, write a Java applet to store your passwords, and load it to your Visa card. This is a good thing, because Visa wants to know that the applets on the card came from them and are legit. However it reduces the hobbyist market substantially, doesn't it?
I work for IBM with smart cards. My team directect Sharp the the JCOP (Java Card Open Platform) operating system over a year ago. The 1MB is rewritable storage. The OS is stored in ROM. It is a simplified version of Java (the JavaCard standard) that requires very little in the way of resources.
Functionality is added to the card by securely loading JavaCard applets to the 1MB of storage. More info on JCOP can be found here.
I would expect 800x600 to look terrible on an older 1024x768. However 800x600 should look just fine on any 1600x1200, old or new. Think about it, you are just taking one pixel and turning it into four. Saying that 800x600 looks good on a new 1600x1200 is saying just about nothing.
I really doubt that I would want to sit next to someone on a long flight that is smoking one of these. If it is worth smoking (to a smoker that is) then it will annoy non-smokers in the vicinity.
You mean that on an older 1600x1200 the 800x600 mode didn't look good? Why would that be? In that case you are simply doubling pixels, so it should look fine.
On my old laptop I could not stand to run at a non-native resolution. The jaggies were awful. However recently I find that laptops scale to non-native resolutions very nicely. I don't know if this is being done in the video card or drivers or where. In any case, I find that non-native resolutions look fine for gaming on my Thinkpad T40.
vote for a 3rd party candidate! Obviously the choices the Republicans and Democrats have given you are crap. Express your displeasure with the system in a way that will have no negative consequences no matter which of the two puppets you want to win.
If you do live in a swing state, I am so sorry that your TV has been taken over for the last while. Don't worry though, it will be over soon!
huh? You would prefer to play with a trackpad? I have both on my T40 and I can tell you which is better for general purpose mousing and the great majority of games. It is the trackpoint.
By hardware piracy I meant exactly what you explained. That people by blackmarket hardware and avoid paying import tarrifs. This means that even if you are going to outfit a machine with Free software the machine is still either artificially expensive or illegal.
I have lived in Brazil, so I know what the software market is like there. I am also aware of Brazilian politics, having met and conversed with FHC. I agree that Lula's government (PT) is more likely to being on friendly terms with the free software movement than many of the more right leaning parties. What I don't understand is why you think that what you say is "contrary to what you would believe."
Recent reports have Brazil as the world's #1 hardware pirate nation, due to high tarrifs. Maybe the software caucus should get together and do something about the taxes on hardware which raise the cost of a system by 50%. You thought the MS tax was bad...
That is not what you said originally. I believe that we do agree on the following: We will not be paying (in the future) the same prices that the Canadians do (currently).
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or even commas!
Also, this is an incredible poorly written article. It is basically a big tease, based on the premise that the plants might be genetically engineered, which it turns out they aren't. Also he keeps comparing farms to p2p filesharers, as if the farmers are taking a hint from 14 yr olds in the US. Selective breeding and distribution of new strains is not a new tech.
In all it is an annoying article that is full of speculation, short on facts, and proves nothing. I was pretty disappointed.
The lead for JCOP has told me that for flash based systems the OS is loaded into flash rather than rom since there is so much storage space. On EEPROM systems it is written in the ROM.
When I say some for sale in a mall kiosk in the USA I went up to the young man that was selling them. I asked how they were able to import what was clearly a pirate device. He said, "If I'm selling it then it must be legal!" I told him that he clearly didn't know what he was talking about and he got angry with me. He was even madder when I told him in earshot of potential customers that what he was selling for $59.99 was available in Taiwan for $8.00.
If the bank loaded the applet (it could be a general purpose filesystem with little or no security) then they wouldn't care. What they don't want at this point is a hobbyist writing their own applet and loading it themselves. If you don't have the card manager keys you can't load/delete/lock/instatiate applets.
For large volume applications the applications are already coded into ROM. You can go read the Open Platform/Global Platform spec at GlobalPlatform.org and see how applets are loaded and verified. You have to be able to derive the correct 3DES key to even talk to the card manager and then you need another key to sign all the APDUs. Finally there is optional integrity checking.
no, different card. Sorry.
Actually most smart cards use EEPROM rather than flash. The Sharp card is a bit different in that it does use flash.
What are you talking about? JCOP is the OS.
Having written an applet loader I can tell you that it has nothing to do with what you are describing.
I am pretty sure that there are free SDKs out there. IBM's costs about $50 last time I checked. It is integrated with Eclipse and is the best kit out there. It comes with three sample cards (JCOP10, 20 and 31). Cards are pretty cheap. Much less expensive that $20 each.
Lumpy, For one thing, the smart card itself has no concept of Windows or Linux. All it knows about are the APDUs that are coming and going. I don't know why there are no consumer apps. There certainly are in Europe. You can store your browser bookmarks on your bankcard and things like that. I am not sure what sort of "basic information" you want to store. Most vendors concentrate on healthcare, banking, and finance rather than the hobbist market. If you want a password manager ActivCard makes a very capable one. IBM had one in the past but I believe that it has been discontinued. Another reason there are no consumer apps is lack of standards. Until recently most smart cards were very proprietary. Software was written for a specific card platform, burned into the mask, and would not work with other cards. With the advent of JavaCard some of these problems are going away. However that brings us to a new problem of card management. Who owns your smartcard? You might think that you do, but unless you have the keys needed to load new applets, then from the smartcard's point of view you are not in charge. Because of security functionality you can't just sit down, write a Java applet to store your passwords, and load it to your Visa card. This is a good thing, because Visa wants to know that the applets on the card came from them and are legit. However it reduces the hobbyist market substantially, doesn't it?
Functionality is added to the card by securely loading JavaCard applets to the 1MB of storage. More info on JCOP can be found here.
I would expect 800x600 to look terrible on an older 1024x768. However 800x600 should look just fine on any 1600x1200, old or new. Think about it, you are just taking one pixel and turning it into four. Saying that 800x600 looks good on a new 1600x1200 is saying just about nothing.
The point of the article isn't that "fiqojeio" is better or worse than "foo7bar+". It is that LM hashing method is weak and should not be used.
I really doubt that I would want to sit next to someone on a long flight that is smoking one of these. If it is worth smoking (to a smoker that is) then it will annoy non-smokers in the vicinity.
You mean that on an older 1600x1200 the 800x600 mode didn't look good? Why would that be? In that case you are simply doubling pixels, so it should look fine.
On my old laptop I could not stand to run at a non-native resolution. The jaggies were awful. However recently I find that laptops scale to non-native resolutions very nicely. I don't know if this is being done in the video card or drivers or where. In any case, I find that non-native resolutions look fine for gaming on my Thinkpad T40.
Utah is not a swing state. Massachusetts is not a swing state. Sorry.
If you do live in a swing state, I am so sorry that your TV has been taken over for the last while. Don't worry though, it will be over soon!
huh? You would prefer to play with a trackpad? I have both on my T40 and I can tell you which is better for general purpose mousing and the great majority of games. It is the trackpoint.
I have lived in Brazil, so I know what the software market is like there. I am also aware of Brazilian politics, having met and conversed with FHC. I agree that Lula's government (PT) is more likely to being on friendly terms with the free software movement than many of the more right leaning parties. What I don't understand is why you think that what you say is "contrary to what you would believe."
Recent reports have Brazil as the world's #1 hardware pirate nation, due to high tarrifs. Maybe the software caucus should get together and do something about the taxes on hardware which raise the cost of a system by 50%. You thought the MS tax was bad...
That is not what you said originally. I believe that we do agree on the following: We will not be paying (in the future) the same prices that the Canadians do (currently).
So you are agreeing with me and backing off your previously stated position of :
If they can afford to sell them cheaply in Canada, they could afford to sell them just a cheaply in the US.????