Since sectors are small, it doesn't take very long to send a few. But since you don't know which sectors it will ask for, you have to have all of them. I.E. you must have the CD.
But is the sectors that it asks for actually random? It seems that to do this mp3.com would have to have a database containing all of the cdda info from every cd in their collection. Say that on average each cd contains 500 megs, this would add up very quickly. Isn't it possible that they just created a database with random sectors sampled from each cd, and then check the client for these specific sectors? This would dramatically cut down on the amount of info they would have to store in there database. A way to test this would be to create two different accounts, and sniff the packets as you beam the same cd under each account. If the sector info is the same, a database could be created with each cd's id and sector info. Which if true, it would seem that the RIAA's case against might have merit.
And since the I in IEEE (the standards body that specified 802.11) stands for 'International', I sure hope you can connect with European versions:)
Sorry to tell you, but the I stands for Institute. As in Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
European versions would be regulated by the respective countries FCC equivalent. So as long as the frequencies are available, they should work together fine. Just like standard ethernet. There are not different european and american versions of the ethernet standard.
From what I understand, it is not reading the message that the quantum computer would do. The advantage of the quantum computer is that it can factor the rsa keys in a short amount of time, compared to a conventional computer. After the key is factored, your message could be decrypted into the exact text you typed. The machines wouldn't decrypt the message using every possible key and then check the results.
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I think that he may have been refering to the app cd that comes with the official boxed set. It has some demo software and such. I think that it included wp 7 personal edition also.
From my experience linux is much more sensitive to faulty hardware than windows is. I had a p5 system in which the processor fan went bad. Linux would boot up just fine, but after a minute or two almost every program that was ran would produce a core dump.
But under windows the system was much more stable. Talk about a confusing problem. Once I had the machine apart and noticed that the fan wasn't spinning, I got the idea that it was overheating.
I replaced the fan, and underclocked the system, and it has been working fine under linux since.
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But is the sectors that it asks for actually random? It seems that to do this mp3.com would have to have a database containing all of the cdda info from every cd in their collection. Say that on average each cd contains 500 megs, this would add up very quickly. Isn't it possible that they just created a database with random sectors sampled from each cd, and then check the client for these specific sectors? This would dramatically cut down on the amount of info they would have to store in there database. A way to test this would be to create two different accounts, and sniff the packets as you beam the same cd under each account. If the sector info is the same, a database could be created with each cd's id and sector info. Which if true, it would seem that the RIAA's case against might have merit.
Sorry to tell you, but the I stands for Institute. As in Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
European versions would be regulated by the respective countries FCC equivalent. So as long as the frequencies are available, they should work together fine. Just like standard ethernet. There are not different european and american versions of the ethernet standard.
From what I understand, it is not reading the message that the quantum computer would do. The advantage of the quantum computer is that it can factor the rsa keys in a short amount of time, compared to a conventional computer. After the key is factored, your message could be decrypted into the exact text you typed. The machines wouldn't decrypt the message using every possible key and then check the results.
I think that he may have been refering to the app cd that comes with the official boxed set. It has some demo software and such. I think that it included wp 7 personal edition also.
From my experience linux is much more sensitive to faulty hardware than windows is. I had a p5 system in which the processor fan went bad. Linux would boot up just fine, but after a minute or two almost every program that was ran would produce a core dump.
But under windows the system was much more stable. Talk about a confusing problem. Once I had the machine apart and noticed that the fan wasn't spinning, I got the idea that it was overheating.
I replaced the fan, and underclocked the system, and it has been working fine under linux since.
Mike