Almost every program installed on this system is already in a whitelist of software known as a "repository" -- collections of software where (typically) the source code is available to all, tested, compiled and cryptographically signed so that I can be fairly confident the packages I install have not been tampered with. There are only five other packages I've installed manually, and even three of those are open-source and probably available from a repository somewhere.
Nice to see that the Windows world is trying to catch up.
First time I downloaded a NiN track, I redownloaded a couple of times before I figured out it was actually supposed to sound like that and wasn't a corrupted file!
Even if you buy a machine with pre-installed windows, the very first time you switch it on you will be presented with an EULA and have to agree with it before windows will let you do anything else. ANAICT This is in the contract that Microsoft have with large retailers like DELL (System builders may only use Microsoft's OPK to preinstall windows, and Microsoft's OPK always preinstalls Windows this way) so if you don't see the EULA the first time you boot the machine it probably means whoever preinstalled Windows for you has violated their System Builder Agreement.
Closer to home, this is what Alf Winters (Temuera Morrison) does when he finds a tracking device in his girlfriend's hair drier. Packages it up and sends it on a bus to Invercargill. "Never Say Die" (1988) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095721/
I wouldn't. Sooner or later the MAFIAA will find a way to shut them down and make them surrender (sorry) their logs, at which point you'll find buying the CD doesn't give you the right to upload it to random music sites.
The cost of computers is not just the cost of manufacturing either. There's a hell of a lot of 'intellectual property' in the design of CPUs, mobos, and basically every other component of a computer. But when you reproduce them in the millions, the amount 'per unit' becomes something people can afford.
Music should work the same way, unless there's some weird bistromathics involved.
fifteen or twenty years ago (when CD's were already fairly old technology) A computer probably not even as fast as the one you're using now was called a 'supercomputer' and cost about a quarter-million dollars. The cost of computing and the cost of network bandwidth has dropped two orders of magnitude since then.
The technology behind computers isn't just similar, it IS the technology behind distributing digital music. The processing power that cost a quarter million dollars twenty years ago costs a few hundred now. The cost of distributing a dozen songs (a CD that actually did cost a few dollars to stamp and ship twenty years ago) is now a download from a server that costs them only fraction of a cent, but they still want us to pay 1988 prices?
When I go to the store to buy a hammer, some of that price is the cost of making a hammer, and some is the cost of shipping a hammer, paying for warehouses full of hardware, having shop staff putting hammers on shelves, etc... and a small amount is profit.
If they could run the hammer program on a fab-o-matic and produce a hammer instantly, for damn near zero incremental cost, I would expect hammers to be a lot cheaper. If I have to use my own fab-o-matic machine and supply my own raw materials, I expect the hammer to be damn near free.
A friend of mine is blind and has quite a lot of trouble telling different banknotes apart; the New Zealand ones are only very slightly different sizes. It's not a big problem though because most people he deals with are honest, although one or two people have taken advantage..
In every piece of software I've ever used the sizes are called "A4" and "Letter". Letter is the size used in the USA. I've never once seen or heard any variation of "A4-sized letter" paper listed in any printer dialog or uttered by any computer user.
But not as slim as you might think.. the first decryption key was posted before most people had even heard of blueray, and only revoked months later. The new key was made public afaik before they had even got the next batch of disks out to the stores.
The data that is in RAM seems like it's perfectly valid for a court to request. Of course you'd have to be a moron to be using TorrentSpy at this point in time.
I suddenly feel an urge to use torrentspy for all my Linux ISO downloads.. perhaps all of slashdot should do the same as soon as we know they're logging it, and flood the logs with perfectly legal torrent downloads.
But most of those experiments could be performed by a robot. Humans are bulky and fragile, can't work 23/7, and have very difficult requirements for fueling and waste removal.
Except that there is NO WAY in HELL they will boot the original hard-drive and let it go about it's business as you suggest. Standard procedure for computer forensics is to shut down the computer by pulling the power cord, remove the hard-drive and make multiple images which are distributed to anyone who needs to look at it, complete with md5sum so they know they got every last bit that was on the drive, corrupted filesystem, unallocated blocks and all. And the original disk gets locked away safely just in case some judge wants another md5 from it.
You give the investigators the key and someone will then decrypt the disk image from their own trusted platform. They won't ever boot your OS.
Just a reminder for those with short memories; the first Word virus (WM/Concept) was accidentally included in the Microsoft Windows 95 Software Compatibility Test CD and shipped to hundreds of OEMs.
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Almost every program installed on this system is already in a whitelist of software known as a "repository" -- collections of software where (typically) the source code is available to all, tested, compiled and cryptographically signed so that I can be fairly confident the packages I install have not been tampered with. There are only five other packages I've installed manually, and even three of those are open-source and probably available from a repository somewhere.
Nice to see that the Windows world is trying to catch up.
First time I downloaded a NiN track, I redownloaded a couple of times before I figured out it was actually supposed to sound like that and wasn't a corrupted file!
Umm.. downloading isn't stealing, right?
Even if you buy a machine with pre-installed windows, the very first time you switch it on you will be presented with an EULA and have to agree with it before windows will let you do anything else. ANAICT This is in the contract that Microsoft have with large retailers like DELL (System builders may only use Microsoft's OPK to preinstall windows, and Microsoft's OPK always preinstalls Windows this way) so if you don't see the EULA the first time you boot the machine it probably means whoever preinstalled Windows for you has violated their System Builder Agreement.
Closer to home, this is what Alf Winters (Temuera Morrison) does when he finds a tracking device in his girlfriend's hair drier. Packages it up and sends it on a bus to Invercargill. "Never Say Die" (1988) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095721/
When you're getting low on ammo, you shoot an armoury?
http://www.myconfinedspace.com/wp-content/uploads/ 2006/08/89cd220f62f0b1c2a79444511b5bcd10.jpg
Probably much the same way they get income from broadcast radio?
Oh.. you said transcode mods.. ignore my previous comment :)
I wouldn't. Sooner or later the MAFIAA will find a way to shut them down and make them surrender (sorry) their logs, at which point you'll find buying the CD doesn't give you the right to upload it to random music sites.
The cost of computers is not just the cost of manufacturing either. There's a hell of a lot of 'intellectual property' in the design of CPUs, mobos, and basically every other component of a computer. But when you reproduce them in the millions, the amount 'per unit' becomes something people can afford.
Music should work the same way, unless there's some weird bistromathics involved.
Lets try another example;
fifteen or twenty years ago (when CD's were already fairly old technology) A computer probably not even as fast as the one you're using now was called a 'supercomputer' and cost about a quarter-million dollars. The cost of computing and the cost of network bandwidth has dropped two orders of magnitude since then.
The technology behind computers isn't just similar, it IS the technology behind distributing digital music. The processing power that cost a quarter million dollars twenty years ago costs a few hundred now. The cost of distributing a dozen songs (a CD that actually did cost a few dollars to stamp and ship twenty years ago) is now a download from a server that costs them only fraction of a cent, but they still want us to pay 1988 prices?
When I go to the store to buy a hammer, some of that price is the cost of making a hammer, and some is the cost of shipping a hammer, paying for warehouses full of hardware, having shop staff putting hammers on shelves, etc... and a small amount is profit.
If they could run the hammer program on a fab-o-matic and produce a hammer instantly, for damn near zero incremental cost, I would expect hammers to be a lot cheaper. If I have to use my own fab-o-matic machine and supply my own raw materials, I expect the hammer to be damn near free.
A friend of mine is blind and has quite a lot of trouble telling different banknotes apart; the New Zealand ones are only very slightly different sizes. It's not a big problem though because most people he deals with are honest, although one or two people have taken advantage..
In every piece of software I've ever used the sizes are called "A4" and "Letter". Letter is the size used in the USA. I've never once seen or heard any variation of "A4-sized letter" paper listed in any printer dialog or uttered by any computer user.
But not as slim as you might think.. the first decryption key was posted before most people had even heard of blueray, and only revoked months later. The new key was made public afaik before they had even got the next batch of disks out to the stores.
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/alice_and_bob.png
The data that is in RAM seems like it's perfectly valid for a court to request. Of course you'd have to be a moron to be using TorrentSpy at this point in time.
I suddenly feel an urge to use torrentspy for all my Linux ISO downloads.. perhaps all of slashdot should do the same as soon as we know they're logging it, and flood the logs with perfectly legal torrent downloads.
The teachers who actually try and get students to think about the stuff they're learning rather than memorize by rote is sadly very disappointing.
I think you meant to say the shortage of such teachers (the good ones who teach underlying concepts rather than memorized steps).. is disappointing.
Would you settle for a 1.6 megapixel 802.11g/WPA2 wireless camera that can do 12fps full res or 30fps full-motion mpeg4 at 800x600?
http://www.axis.com/products/cam_207mw/index.htm
Or you could just buy a high-resolution network camera specifically designed for the job
can't work 23/7 ... and they sometimes make mistakes too!
But most of those experiments could be performed by a robot. Humans are bulky and fragile, can't work 23/7, and have very difficult requirements for fueling and waste removal.
Except that there is NO WAY in HELL they will boot the original hard-drive and let it go about it's business as you suggest. Standard procedure for computer forensics is to shut down the computer by pulling the power cord, remove the hard-drive and make multiple images which are distributed to anyone who needs to look at it, complete with md5sum so they know they got every last bit that was on the drive, corrupted filesystem, unallocated blocks and all. And the original disk gets locked away safely just in case some judge wants another md5 from it.
You give the investigators the key and someone will then decrypt the disk image from their own trusted platform. They won't ever boot your OS.
Curious; with quotes, the second result matches the dimensions of a prototype hydrogen-powered Nissan X-terra
http://www.h2mobility.org/1_cardata/c075.htm
Just a reminder for those with short memories; the first Word virus (WM/Concept) was accidentally included in the Microsoft Windows 95 Software Compatibility Test CD and shipped to hundreds of OEMs.
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Ref; http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/wmconcept
No source is entirely 'safe'