I have my doubts about the use of entanglement for long (I mean really long!) distance communication for one simple reason - Although the entanglement effect is instantanious, the particles involved in the entanglement still have to travel from source to destination - and hence are restricted by the speed of light. Of course, for really long distances (interplanetary or perhaps even interstellar) some system of generating the particle streams ahead of time, and capturing the entangled particles at the destination in some sort of buffer at the destination could be envisioned but that would mean that (a) bidirectional streams would have to be generated for every source/destination pair of nodes and (b) sufficient particles for future use would have to be generated. Once a set of particles has been used to read/send a message, the entanglement is lost and a fresh set of particles would have to be used for the next message - this may well limit the usefulness of such a system. so, if you wanted to send a message a few light minutes/hours, this may not be a big problem, but if you were using it for interstellar traffic, you would have to estimate bandwith needs years in advance.
Knowing how much of a control freak Uncle Bill is, I wouldn't be at all surprised if there wasn't some code in IE5/6/ that can nuke WMP etc. If that's the case, then it would be quite difficult for a FW to stop it. It could be even be some sort of trigger phrase buried inside a tag, so you would never see it (unless you did an automatic validity check on every html page you receive)
</paranoia>
Dear Microsoft Customer, please spread those legs and bend over...
This ONLY applies to version 2. The vast majority of protected fiels are protected with version 1. This code DOES NOT crack version 1 files, so it's not a good deal of use yet. I suspect that by the time v2 is in wide use, MS will have done something to stop this (see my other post about how MS can modify your software if you break the EULA)
Of course, Linux users don't even have to worry about this.
Not only can MS revoke the certs used, it looks like they can also screw your system if you use tricks like this....
WARNING!!!!! I have just learned that the new Microsoft Media Player EULA includes a clause that says they can *automatically* modify the software on your system, without any confirmation from you required! In other words, they can disable your software, or force an upgrade so that FreeMe won't work, just because they feel like it. Be careful out there!
ummmm ok, EM radiation travels at 3e8 m/s
The distance is 20,000km or 2e7 metres
2e7/3e8 = 0.06666 seconds or 66 millisecs.
Packets can't travel faster than light (yet!)
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I have my doubts about the use of entanglement for long (I mean really long!) distance communication for one simple reason - Although the entanglement effect is instantanious, the particles involved in the entanglement still have to travel from source to destination - and hence are restricted by the speed of light. Of course, for really long distances (interplanetary or perhaps even interstellar) some system of generating the particle streams ahead of time, and capturing the entangled particles at the destination in some sort of buffer at the destination could be envisioned but that would mean that (a) bidirectional streams would have to be generated for every source/destination pair of nodes and (b) sufficient particles for future use would have to be generated. Once a set of particles has been used to read/send a message, the entanglement is lost and a fresh set of particles would have to be used for the next message - this may well limit the usefulness of such a system. so, if you wanted to send a message a few light minutes/hours, this may not be a big problem, but if you were using it for interstellar traffic, you would have to estimate bandwith needs years in advance.
Knowing how much of a control freak Uncle Bill is, I wouldn't be at all surprised if there wasn't some code in IE5/6/ that can nuke WMP etc. If that's the case, then it would be quite difficult for a FW to stop it. It could be even be some sort of trigger phrase buried inside a tag, so you would never see it (unless you did an automatic validity check on every html page you receive)
</paranoia>
Dear Microsoft Customer, please spread those legs and bend over...
This ONLY applies to version 2. The vast majority of protected fiels are protected with version 1. This code DOES NOT crack version 1 files, so it's not a good deal of use yet. I suspect that by the time v2 is in wide use, MS will have done something to stop this (see my other post about how MS can modify your software if you break the EULA)
Of course, Linux users don't even have to worry about this.
This from the "readme" that comes with the zip:
Not only can MS revoke the certs used, it looks like they can also screw your system if you use tricks like this....
WARNING!!!!! I have just learned that the new Microsoft Media Player EULA includes a clause that says they can *automatically* modify the software on your system, without any confirmation from you required! In other words, they can disable your software, or force an upgrade so that FreeMe won't work, just because they feel like it. Be careful out there!
Pick up the mike and say "Waaaaaazzaaaaaaaaaappp"
nah, they're Necoro-mancers!
try wothout the switches - it works.
ummmm ok, EM radiation travels at 3e8 m/s The distance is 20,000km or 2e7 metres 2e7/3e8 = 0.06666 seconds or 66 millisecs. Packets can't travel faster than light (yet!)