...block the service. If you filter out any Javascript from websites (except perhaps those on a whitelist) you'll be able to keep nearly all the malware off your systems - with the bonus of killing a lot of the enjoyment on those productiveness-destroying websites.
It seems simple, and it is, but there's subtlety involved that prevented earlier attempts at the same idea just wouldn't work right. Bram's P2P economy concepts got it working, and working superbly. Nitpicking about features you believe it lacks is missing the point.
P2P certainly did. Using P2P for swarming download amplification? That's another story. It had been tried before, but it took Bram's genius to make it work.
If you're talking leading INNOVATORS, Bram Cohen and BitTorrent are notably absent. BitTorrent is IMO absolutely the most novel and fascinating idea that was released straight to open-source. Their funding also ranks up with the other people mentioned. So why were they omitted?
Another has been kicking around the theoretical star-travel circles for a while now: Make a VERY small (1Kg) instrument package, put a sail on it, then fire some big lasers at it. For the cost of the ark mentioned in the article you could set up the infrastructure to send out a lot of these packages at a sizable fraction of the speed of light. You'd be able to get decent data about planets in the Epsilon Eridani system within a century; assuming the reports were positive, THEN you'd send out the ark.
I thought they already had a conventional algorithm that could solve Sudoku without utilizing quantum effects?
I'm very skeptical about the whole concept of utilizing quantum effects to solve problems. It's an interesting idea, utilizing the structure of the universe to tell us what we want to know, but it may not be at all practical. Nature doesn't seem to have utilized the method, and since it evolves molecule-sized structures it ought to be in the position to do so.
I think that, when we're done playing with the concepts, we'll discover that qubits tend to interfere with each other, and that there's a horrible limit to how much can be achieved in quantum computing.
The main problem is your security system contains a modem which is plugged into a VoIP adapter which encodes and decodes the analog signals on both ends of the connection, potentially distorting the communications.
Well, what about plugging the alarm system directly into the internet, bypassing the VoIP link? This might allow even MORE reliable communications between the alarm and the monitoring station than the phone line link would be.
LOGO. It's kinda fun, doesn't take much brainpower to play with, but has a huge amount of depth to plumb. Then when you find the handful of kids who take LOGO to its limits, start them off on even more interesting things.
After reading through the article I must conclude that while the author has made decoding current discs easier, AACS has NOT been "fully cracked". The key embedded in the current software may be expired in the future, rendering this method useless for discs produced after that expiration.
I'm not saying that this isn't a nice event, but we have further work to do.
I don't know about the $99 price point, but he makes a shrewd observation as to the cost of the player being an important determining factor. The fact that Sony has the Blu-ray platform locked up will make it likely that HD-DVD player manufacturers will be able to underprice them as well as trying to underprice each other.
I've had false positives from AV software before thanks to my use of NSIS as an installer. Apparently it's also a favorite of malware creators. I don't blame Nullsoft, but instead lazy AV makers who should know about NSIS by now and should test their signatures against it before publishing them.
This sounds like a very good idea. I'm wondering if the concept is already in use, though; I'm sure the warehouse owners wouldn't mind saving some on their electric bills by only utilizing electricity at off-peak times. If this is true, then the idea of storing more won't go anywhere.
This may also cause problems when you consider the food doesn't just sit there; it MOVES. Take it out to ship it to a market, and you've "lost" that cold. Move new food in and it'll absorb calories from everything around it, raising the overall temperature and requiring the refrigerators to turn back on.
Let companies prioritize their delivery, but when they advertise performance, they're only allowed to use the lowest common denominator. Time Warner can then stream HD stuff just for their customers, but when they advertise 4 megabits down, they aren't allowed to throttle anyone below it.
Insurance companies should instead put their money into having USGS images taken more often, resulting in more-often-updated aerial imagery which we ALL can use.
Running a public health-care system seems to me to be about equivalent to running, oh, a public school system. Here in the US our public school system's administrative costs are running >50%. And you want us to place our health-care system in the hands of that government, too??
Considering Microsoft is still in the process of patching Vista, including a major patch issued just as Vista went out the door, can we really stick all the blame on Nvidia?
Has other hardware for that machine been replaced in the past? Apparently MS will allow you to replace one or two major components before considering it to be a "different computer". Maybe the HD was switched a few months or years ago?
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Why exactly do you define avoiding taxes as "evil"?
Unlawful, certainly. But evil?
That's what the whitelist is for.
...block the service. If you filter out any Javascript from websites (except perhaps those on a whitelist) you'll be able to keep nearly all the malware off your systems - with the bonus of killing a lot of the enjoyment on those productiveness-destroying websites.
It seems simple, and it is, but there's subtlety involved that prevented earlier attempts at the same idea just wouldn't work right. Bram's P2P economy concepts got it working, and working superbly. Nitpicking about features you believe it lacks is missing the point.
P2P certainly did. Using P2P for swarming download amplification? That's another story. It had been tried before, but it took Bram's genius to make it work.
If you're talking leading INNOVATORS, Bram Cohen and BitTorrent are notably absent. BitTorrent is IMO absolutely the most novel and fascinating idea that was released straight to open-source. Their funding also ranks up with the other people mentioned. So why were they omitted?
That's one alternative.
Another has been kicking around the theoretical star-travel circles for a while now: Make a VERY small (1Kg) instrument package, put a sail on it, then fire some big lasers at it. For the cost of the ark mentioned in the article you could set up the infrastructure to send out a lot of these packages at a sizable fraction of the speed of light. You'd be able to get decent data about planets in the Epsilon Eridani system within a century; assuming the reports were positive, THEN you'd send out the ark.
And now, a haiku.
I thought they already had a conventional algorithm that could solve Sudoku without utilizing quantum effects?
I'm very skeptical about the whole concept of utilizing quantum effects to solve problems. It's an interesting idea, utilizing the structure of the universe to tell us what we want to know, but it may not be at all practical. Nature doesn't seem to have utilized the method, and since it evolves molecule-sized structures it ought to be in the position to do so.
I think that, when we're done playing with the concepts, we'll discover that qubits tend to interfere with each other, and that there's a horrible limit to how much can be achieved in quantum computing.
The main problem is your security system contains a modem which is plugged into a VoIP adapter which encodes and decodes the analog signals on both ends of the connection, potentially distorting the communications.
Well, what about plugging the alarm system directly into the internet, bypassing the VoIP link? This might allow even MORE reliable communications between the alarm and the monitoring station than the phone line link would be.
LOGO. It's kinda fun, doesn't take much brainpower to play with, but has a huge amount of depth to plumb. Then when you find the handful of kids who take LOGO to its limits, start them off on even more interesting things.
I think that I think, therefore I think that I am?
After reading through the article I must conclude that while the author has made decoding current discs easier, AACS has NOT been "fully cracked". The key embedded in the current software may be expired in the future, rendering this method useless for discs produced after that expiration.
I'm not saying that this isn't a nice event, but we have further work to do.
I don't know about the $99 price point, but he makes a shrewd observation as to the cost of the player being an important determining factor. The fact that Sony has the Blu-ray platform locked up will make it likely that HD-DVD player manufacturers will be able to underprice them as well as trying to underprice each other.
I've had false positives from AV software before thanks to my use of NSIS as an installer. Apparently it's also a favorite of malware creators. I don't blame Nullsoft, but instead lazy AV makers who should know about NSIS by now and should test their signatures against it before publishing them.
I wonder what their response would be to the attack of a botnet. Carpet bombing, maybe?
This sounds like a very good idea. I'm wondering if the concept is already in use, though; I'm sure the warehouse owners wouldn't mind saving some on their electric bills by only utilizing electricity at off-peak times. If this is true, then the idea of storing more won't go anywhere.
This may also cause problems when you consider the food doesn't just sit there; it MOVES. Take it out to ship it to a market, and you've "lost" that cold. Move new food in and it'll absorb calories from everything around it, raising the overall temperature and requiring the refrigerators to turn back on.
Whichever it is, it's definitely DRASTIC.
Let companies prioritize their delivery, but when they advertise performance, they're only allowed to use the lowest common denominator. Time Warner can then stream HD stuff just for their customers, but when they advertise 4 megabits down, they aren't allowed to throttle anyone below it.
...the iPhone can do this in software. :-P
Insurance companies should instead put their money into having USGS images taken more often, resulting in more-often-updated aerial imagery which we ALL can use.
Running a public health-care system seems to me to be about equivalent to running, oh, a public school system. Here in the US our public school system's administrative costs are running >50%. And you want us to place our health-care system in the hands of that government, too??
Considering Microsoft is still in the process of patching Vista, including a major patch issued just as Vista went out the door, can we really stick all the blame on Nvidia?
Has other hardware for that machine been replaced in the past? Apparently MS will allow you to replace one or two major components before considering it to be a "different computer". Maybe the HD was switched a few months or years ago?
Yeah, I know it's stupid.
Yeah, and Apple gets 500 googazilion dollars of revenue.
Then gets sued by Google for revenue similarity...