I think neither the MPAA nor Aiplex really care about about their websites getting knocked down; if anything, it gives them more publicity and lets them generate additional FUD about the dreaded "pirates". If anonymous members can't target more essential parts of their business with their attacks, they shouldn't bother.
Blu-ray is perhaps the best source to rip from. It's of course possible to rip from satellite, but interference is possible, and so is some form of watermarking that might reveal the person whose cable box was used to steal the video.
"For someone to use this information to unlock anything, they would have to implement it in silicon -- make a computer chip," Waldrop told Fox News, and that chip would have to live on a dedicated piece of hardware -- something Intel doesn't think is likely to happen in any substantial way.
I think we've got a new challenge here! Props to the first person to post an easy hardware/software system for intercepting and decoding HDTV signals.
...that military security automatically scans their machines and networks for classified documents in the wrong locations, and that every time someone downloads the file set from Wikileaks it sets off a dozen alarms, and that's why they're banning the downloads.
Well, no... The idea is, your computer would open a connection between the dongle and the remote server. The connection would be both encrypted and digitally signed by the dongle, making it "impossible" for software on the computer to interfere with the contents of the connection. The dongle would show, on its built-in display, the payee account name and the payment amount, and prompt for pressing a button on the dongle itself (or PIN entry, or retina scan, or whichever). The dongle would then send a signed certificate authorizing the transaction.
This would be fairly complete security, though there are a few caveats: Strength and hardiness of the encryption and signature algorithms, hardiness of the software on the dongle, and the creation of accounts with the same name as the payee. There would be other methods of attack against the server side, but nothing that would be considered the user's fault.
I can think of only one way to make transactions nearly completely secure, so that malware cannot spoof or redirect payments - and I doubt our government is smart enough, or willing to pay enough, for such a system. It would require a security dongle with its own display and a yes/no button at a minimum, with a numeric keypad for PIN entry being a useful addition. Without its own display, even if it requires some sort of physical response on the dongle, malware can make the computer show one payee while telling the dongle to authorize another.
Sorry if this is trollish, but Macs are IMO a WORSE security risk than Windows when dealing with spearphishing and other forms of targeted attacks. Security updates are rare. Even if the OS model is better than Microsoft's, it's not a good choice.
According to trademark law (at least in the US), if you don't defend your trademark you risk losing it. This unfortunately means people with trademarks wind up setting lawyers on everyone who produces anything vaguely familiar to that trademark, even if they don't particularly want to. Don't know whether it's true in this case, but it would be improper to jump to conclusions.
But Microsoft OSes don't need this sort of tweaking, and it's one of the things Ubuntu was supposed to get away from; requiring end users to be more knowledgeable than they have to be. Why isn't there an expert system in the power management options app that will change these settings according to users' wishes?
It's also possible they've assembled one of Bussard's whiffleball fusors. Not tremendously complicated, and if you threw a couple hundred million at it (assuming the theory behind it were correct) you might get a practical reactor.
Does Intel's architecture adjust its management scheme based on CPU temperature? It'd be nice if having a better heat sink or a cooling system would allow the system to run even faster.
I've also been wondering why, given the new poly-core systems, we don't see a mix of CPU types in a system. Throwing a bunch of slower but less complex and therefore less expensive cores in with a few premium cores would result in a better balance, allowing the system to concentrate heavy-load apps on the faster CPUs while offloading less-intensive work onto the cheaper cores.
Yup, BitTorrent was designed for distributing content legitimately, even commercially, rather than sharing w4r3z. As such, trying to hide the identities of downloaders was silly and would have slowed distribution.
What exactly were they expecting to find on these computers? Evidence that he had the "stolen" phone in his possession? They already had that. Information about the phone that wasn't published? Unlikely. Harassment of someone who is the object of a complaint by a politically connected corporation? Perhaps... Just plain incompetence and a routine overly-broad search policy? Most likely.
It would travel through the atmosphere at several times the speed of sound, generating so much heat that it would have to be shielded with special materials to avoid melting...
Wouldn't that make it an easy target for a heat seeking ABM? Even as fast as it's moving?
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Are there other open-source OSes which are better suited to more parallelism? The Hurd, perhaps?
I think neither the MPAA nor Aiplex really care about about their websites getting knocked down; if anything, it gives them more publicity and lets them generate additional FUD about the dreaded "pirates". If anonymous members can't target more essential parts of their business with their attacks, they shouldn't bother.
Blu-ray is perhaps the best source to rip from. It's of course possible to rip from satellite, but interference is possible, and so is some form of watermarking that might reveal the person whose cable box was used to steal the video.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/16/confirmed-intel-says-hdcp-master-key-crack-is-real/ /.'d)
(original article
"For someone to use this information to unlock anything, they would have to implement it in silicon -- make a computer chip," Waldrop told Fox News, and that chip would have to live on a dedicated piece of hardware -- something Intel doesn't think is likely to happen in any substantial way.
I think we've got a new challenge here! Props to the first person to post an easy hardware/software system for intercepting and decoding HDTV signals.
...that military security automatically scans their machines and networks for classified documents in the wrong locations, and that every time someone downloads the file set from Wikileaks it sets off a dozen alarms, and that's why they're banning the downloads.
They can use some of the same technology as was utilized on this motorcycle:
http://biertijd.com/mediaplayer/?itemid=21816
My cursory and inexpert review says that the graphs look extremely inconclusive. I wouldn't hold much hope.
Evil. Very evil.
You have a lucrative future ahead of you in climatology.
http://iphonedslr.com.nyud.net/blog/archives/73fb
...But it doesn't seem to be working right either...
Perhaps people who own shares in the RIAA's member companies should sue for misspending?
Why did the article make me flash on this anime?
Well, no... The idea is, your computer would open a connection between the dongle and the remote server. The connection would be both encrypted and digitally signed by the dongle, making it "impossible" for software on the computer to interfere with the contents of the connection. The dongle would show, on its built-in display, the payee account name and the payment amount, and prompt for pressing a button on the dongle itself (or PIN entry, or retina scan, or whichever). The dongle would then send a signed certificate authorizing the transaction.
This would be fairly complete security, though there are a few caveats: Strength and hardiness of the encryption and signature algorithms, hardiness of the software on the dongle, and the creation of accounts with the same name as the payee. There would be other methods of attack against the server side, but nothing that would be considered the user's fault.
I can think of only one way to make transactions nearly completely secure, so that malware cannot spoof or redirect payments - and I doubt our government is smart enough, or willing to pay enough, for such a system. It would require a security dongle with its own display and a yes/no button at a minimum, with a numeric keypad for PIN entry being a useful addition. Without its own display, even if it requires some sort of physical response on the dongle, malware can make the computer show one payee while telling the dongle to authorize another.
The Nook can display PDF, EPUB and other files, and you can load up a Micro-SD card with all the ebooks you can find.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p34v2t1xUFM ;-)
Sorry if this is trollish, but Macs are IMO a WORSE security risk than Windows when dealing with spearphishing and other forms of targeted attacks. Security updates are rare. Even if the OS model is better than Microsoft's, it's not a good choice.
According to trademark law (at least in the US), if you don't defend your trademark you risk losing it. This unfortunately means people with trademarks wind up setting lawyers on everyone who produces anything vaguely familiar to that trademark, even if they don't particularly want to. Don't know whether it's true in this case, but it would be improper to jump to conclusions.
Now as for power issues in Linux
But Microsoft OSes don't need this sort of tweaking, and it's one of the things Ubuntu was supposed to get away from; requiring end users to be more knowledgeable than they have to be. Why isn't there an expert system in the power management options app that will change these settings according to users' wishes?
It's also possible they've assembled one of Bussard's whiffleball fusors. Not tremendously complicated, and if you threw a couple hundred million at it (assuming the theory behind it were correct) you might get a practical reactor.
How about, every app that runs in the background or as a tray icon by default gets a cheesy core? :-P
Does Intel's architecture adjust its management scheme based on CPU temperature? It'd be nice if having a better heat sink or a cooling system would allow the system to run even faster.
I've also been wondering why, given the new poly-core systems, we don't see a mix of CPU types in a system. Throwing a bunch of slower but less complex and therefore less expensive cores in with a few premium cores would result in a better balance, allowing the system to concentrate heavy-load apps on the faster CPUs while offloading less-intensive work onto the cheaper cores.
Yup, BitTorrent was designed for distributing content legitimately, even commercially, rather than sharing w4r3z. As such, trying to hide the identities of downloaders was silly and would have slowed distribution.
What exactly were they expecting to find on these computers? Evidence that he had the "stolen" phone in his possession? They already had that. Information about the phone that wasn't published? Unlikely. Harassment of someone who is the object of a complaint by a politically connected corporation? Perhaps... Just plain incompetence and a routine overly-broad search policy? Most likely.
It would travel through the atmosphere at several times the speed of sound, generating so much heat that it would have to be shielded with special materials to avoid melting...
Wouldn't that make it an easy target for a heat seeking ABM? Even as fast as it's moving?
Um, please remind me, how did they orbit the Hubble?