It won't be described as piracy, because it isn't : Piracy is robbery with violence at sea.
The odd thing is not that you won't see copyright infringement (of print) described as piracy, but that you regularly see copyright infringement (of software) described that way. I understand the nature of the propaganda battle these guys won, but I still don't understand how they did it.
5v may be all you need, though : although a PC supplies +-12, +-5, most of those supplies are used only for cards, not the motherboard.
I've got a P55TV2 that's going to be used for an MP3 player. The motherboard will run happily with only 5V connected: I need 12V to run a video board, but that won't be in the final kit.
Unfortunately, the sound card also wants +-12 - but I could use USB sound, or I could use a tiny DC-DC converter to provide it for both sound and RS232. A 2 1/2" disc runs from 5V only. No need for a floppy, and the low-profile PCI ethernet card seems to use 5v too.
I agree that you need a clock to indicate when data becomes available, but it's increasingly difficult to design complex circuits with a global clock - the clock distribution itself becomes a major part of the silicon.
Asynchronous logic offers the opportunity to avoid this problem. Self-clocked might be a better description than Un-clocked - essentially, every data object has a related 'clock', or arrival indicator.
Think of a massively parallel pipelined processor (at the register, or even gate level) rather than some sort of unclocked anarchy. Or a very finely divided set of Communicating Sequential Processes, to use your software analogy.
You pay a subscription because you know the Economist is likely, on balance, to give you enough good articles to make it worth your while.
Paying article-by-article wouldn't work so well : you'd want to be confident that a given article would be worth paying for, BEFORE YOU READ IT.
There are, I think, a relatively small number of sites that could generate the confidence it takes to have people pay a subscription. Nowhere near as many as there are ad-supported sites now.
In the model as shown, yes : but it's clearly possible to extended the encrypted section further through the sound path. Ultimately, hardware decryption in the sound chip could leave no digital stream available.
This has some disadvantages for the content provider - it would require the DACs to be in the same chip as the decrypter, which is feasible on low-end audio systems. At present, that means nobody would build high-end audio around a secure audio path system, but it may eventually be possible to produce make a decent job of integrating the DACs, too.
More seriously, it ties the encryption to the hardware : not a good choice, as it will certainly be cracked. Don't expect to see anyone sensible do this until the decrypting DAC can be reprogrammed.
If OpenBSD maintainers found it that long ago, did they report it to the Bind authors ?
If they did, why wasn't it fixed before ?
And why did Bugtraq only just hear of it ?
We haven't seen them in the UK yet, but what is the Cybiko like ? Is it worth hacking ?
It's probably not up to running Linux (H8, 512k flash, 512k RAM, small screen) but it's cheap ($100), has some short-range wireless networking, and it's not vaporware.
Yeah, these could be a bit like lottery ticket machines. Maybe you could even get G-Tech to design them.. but better hope they test them properly, as they don't like admitting to minor errors that deprive a few thousand lottery winners of their prizes..
'The same people whom the DOJ is opening a can of woopass on?'
Governments don't understand stuff like this - they only understand bids and tenders, not trust and competence. If they did understand, they wouldn't bother standing for reelection after they've screwed the electors. But guess what.. we vote them right back in !
A few years ago, EDS (Ross Perot's company) was hauled before the courts in the UK for knowingly employing illegal immigrants. 2 years later, EDS got major contracts for some government jobs (including the passport office, I think !)
Of course MS can do it right. But it will take until version 3, so don't be impatient.
In the meantime, brush up your debug skills : the next contested election will need armies of programmers to examine blue screens of death in order to determine the outcome.
YOU might not want to buy one, but the Great Unwashed will demand nothing else since non-conforming drives won't support the applications that want to use it - RealPlayer10, WMP-2002 etc.
With the major manufacturers shipping these drives in preconfigured PCs, support will soon be strong enough to permit the applications to be fussy.
But it will take 2 years to get the drives into the market (not just for sale, but in a fair proportion of users machines). It will then take another year before a new download format has some credibility. Three years of keen cracking is a very long while. The protection has to be strong or they'll have to start all over again with CRAP^H^HMP-2
Similar story in the adjacent area (Luton/Bedford, ex-cabletel).
My BT line went faulty Nov 18th. I ordered an NTL telco/digital-tv/cable-modem Dec 5th.
It was installed Dec 11th, worked as advertised the same day (set up using Linux - I've tried W95 on it but only as an afterthought). Some delay creating the email account but IP routing worked in 30 mins - before the DiTV was fully running. Performance is as commented elsewhere : up to 60K at times but sometimes slower. Downloaded the 2.2.18 patch in 45 seconds.
On the same day, BT finally fixed their voice line but haven't yet made the necessary 7th (!) visit to fill in the hole in the road..
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I heard that story too .. about 200 comments back up this thread.
It won't be described as piracy, because it isn't : Piracy is robbery with violence at sea.
The odd thing is not that you won't see copyright infringement (of print) described as piracy, but that you regularly see copyright infringement (of software) described that way. I understand the nature of the propaganda battle these guys won, but I still don't understand how they did it.
The first thing I'd want to turn off is the most damaging - the adverts and the shopping channels.
What chance of that ?
Stack overflow.
The world needs a central registry for TLAs, to ensure confusing multiple definitions can't be used in the same domain.
Maybe ICANN would take the job on ?
5v may be all you need, though : although a PC supplies +-12, +-5, most of those supplies are used only for cards, not the motherboard.
I've got a P55TV2 that's going to be used for an MP3 player. The motherboard will run happily with only 5V connected: I need 12V to run a video board, but that won't be in the final kit.
Unfortunately, the sound card also wants +-12 - but I could use USB sound, or I could use a tiny DC-DC converter to provide it for both sound and RS232. A 2 1/2" disc runs from 5V only. No need for a floppy, and the low-profile PCI ethernet card seems to use 5v too.
I agree that you need a clock to indicate when data becomes available, but it's increasingly difficult to design complex circuits with a global clock - the clock distribution itself becomes a major part of the silicon.
Asynchronous logic offers the opportunity to avoid this problem. Self-clocked might be a better description than Un-clocked - essentially, every data object has a related 'clock', or arrival indicator.
Think of a massively parallel pipelined processor (at the register, or even gate level) rather than some sort of unclocked anarchy. Or a very finely divided set of Communicating Sequential Processes, to use your software analogy.
You pay a subscription because you know the Economist is likely, on balance, to give you enough good articles to make it worth your while.
Paying article-by-article wouldn't work so well : you'd want to be confident that a given article would be worth paying for, BEFORE YOU READ IT.
There are, I think, a relatively small number of sites that could generate the confidence it takes to have people pay a subscription. Nowhere near as many as there are ad-supported sites now.
'There is no mention of anybody being mentally incapacitated'
Come off it, they're military.
How much more mentally incapacitated can you get than someone who kills people for a day job ?
You'll convince people to resist content-controlled media as easily as you could convince them to avoid monopolistic browser companies.
If the consumer trash is only easily available in a controlled format, that's what they'll buy. The geek market isn't big enough to matter.
'clearly vulnerable to hardware based attack'
In the model as shown, yes : but it's clearly possible to extended the encrypted section further through the sound path. Ultimately, hardware decryption in the sound chip could leave no digital stream available.
This has some disadvantages for the content provider - it would require the DACs to be in the same chip as the decrypter, which is feasible on low-end audio systems. At present, that means nobody would build high-end audio around a secure audio path system, but it may eventually be possible to produce make a decent job of integrating the DACs, too.
More seriously, it ties the encryption to the hardware : not a good choice, as it will certainly be cracked. Don't expect to see anyone sensible do this until the decrypting DAC can be reprogrammed.
If OpenBSD maintainers found it that long ago, did they report it to the Bind authors ?
If they did, why wasn't it fixed before ?
And why did Bugtraq only just hear of it ?
We haven't seen them in the UK yet, but what is the Cybiko like ? Is it worth hacking ?
It's probably not up to running Linux (H8, 512k flash, 512k RAM, small screen) but it's cheap ($100), has some short-range wireless networking, and it's not vaporware.
Can't reach that URL.
You don't say it, but I have the impression from other posts that the replacement isn't Maglev.
Any ideas why ?
No, the DLR's conventional tracks.
It's interesting techy feature is that it has no driver in the cab.
'Are there any really convincing reasons to move to BSD?'
To give you experience in setting up another system ?
So a beowulf cluster would fill a shelf ?
Or a library ?
'w/ the Tektronics 'in circuit emulator' with the 8" floppy!'
That'd be the one with the PDP11 core, running V7.
So maybe you were closer to the cool students than you thought.
Thousands of English people go on day trips to France, bringing back beer wine and tobacco from the hypermarkets and avoiding UK tax & duty.
Seems as though a CD-R shop near Dover would be a good business venture.
Yeah, these could be a bit like lottery ticket machines. Maybe you could even get G-Tech to design them .. but better hope they test them properly, as they don't like admitting to minor errors that deprive a few thousand lottery winners of their prizes ..
'The same people whom the DOJ is opening a can of woopass on?'
.. we vote them right back in !
Governments don't understand stuff like this - they only understand bids and tenders, not trust and competence. If they did understand, they wouldn't bother standing for reelection after they've screwed the electors. But guess what
A few years ago, EDS (Ross Perot's company) was hauled before the courts in the UK for knowingly employing illegal immigrants. 2 years later, EDS got major contracts for some government jobs (including the passport office, I think !)
Of course MS can do it right. But it will take until version 3, so don't be impatient.
In the meantime, brush up your debug skills : the next contested election will need armies of programmers to examine blue screens of death in order to determine the outcome.
YOU might not want to buy one, but the Great Unwashed will demand nothing else since non-conforming drives won't support the applications that want to use it - RealPlayer10, WMP-2002 etc.
With the major manufacturers shipping these drives in preconfigured PCs, support will soon be strong enough to permit the applications to be fussy.
But it will take 2 years to get the drives into the market (not just for sale, but in a fair proportion of users machines). It will then take another year before a new download format has some credibility. Three years of keen cracking is a very long while. The protection has to be strong or they'll have to start all over again with CRAP^H^HMP-2
Similar story in the adjacent area (Luton/Bedford, ex-cabletel).
..
My BT line went faulty Nov 18th. I ordered an NTL telco/digital-tv/cable-modem Dec 5th.
It was installed Dec 11th, worked as advertised the same day (set up using Linux - I've tried W95 on it but only as an afterthought). Some delay creating the email account but IP routing worked in 30 mins - before the DiTV was fully running. Performance is as commented elsewhere : up to 60K at times but sometimes slower. Downloaded the 2.2.18 patch in 45 seconds.
On the same day, BT finally fixed their voice line but haven't yet made the necessary 7th (!) visit to fill in the hole in the road
What happened to the traditional laser lab advice 'do not look into beam with remaining eye' ?