128-bit AES is used these days based on the assumption of computational infeasibility with today's equipment, even assuming millions of computers all crunching at once.
Well-financed terrorists or crime-families can easily access the same resources available to government agencies. if our privacy can easily be undermined by FBI or CIA, what keeps us safe from the Mafia attempting identity theft on millions?
Some can argue expotential growth of computational power. But even after making that assumption, and weakER (not necessarily "weak") passwords, it should still be near-impossible today (unless backdoors). And by the time computational power has grown, so will the encryption key-length. So technically, yes, a person traveling on a time-machine from the future can destroy our entire dellusion of "Internet security," but until then, I'm happy with my AES or TripleDES.
iTunes allows you burn unlimited copies of ur DRMed AACs (m4p) to CDs.
A new hit CD these days is what? $13-$17? And it contains maybe 3 good songs, plus another 7 placeholders. (of course there will be dissidents who insist that EVERY song on their non-compilation CD is good).
CD-R are going for 20cents a piece (if u don't count super rebates). 3 songs on iTMS is $2.98. So to buy them will cost you $3.18, and takes less than 10 mins search for those songs, download them, and burn the CD-R.
Now compare $3.18 and 10 mins to traveling back and forth to the CD store (for 1hr total) to pay a $13-$17 CD.
iTMS offers 128kbps AAC at $0.99. In the future they can offer multiple versions:
128kbps for 0.79 192kbps for 0.99 320kbps for 1.29 Apple Lossless for 1.49
So everyone can be happy. Those who want a ton of songs to blast can buy them at 79 cents a piece. Those who need PRISTINE quality can get the lossless version for only $1.49. Burning a lossless to CD-R is 100% same as buying the original CD-Audio.
if Pentium Ms are similar performance to Pentium 4s, wouldn't it be ideal for clusters and server farms in which (a) density, (b) heat, and (c) power dissipation becomes major factors in day-to-day operations?
first establish an encryption session through SSL so data is not sent in clear-text.
then ask for both the password (4-digit PIN) as well as a random question, such as first-3 of SSN, or last-4 of SSN, or birth year, etc.
another solution for phising attacks:
have a registry of all known financial institutions, and their domains (through WHOIS).
when a user accesses a financial institution, ask the user to input the name of the financial institution they're trying to access. if it matches the WHOIS, the website is legitamite:
for example
a. user accesses www.chase.com b. browser asks : "What institution are u accessing?" c. user types in "chase bank" d. browser checks WHOIS, then lets user goes through.
scenario b.
a. user clicks on phising attack to access URL 250.250.250.250 (let's say, www.phishnet.com) b. browser asks : "What institution are u accessing?" c. user types "wachovia" d. browser checks WHOIS, sees mismatch, then notifies user to phishing attack and denies access.
if Google can scan our emails for relevant ads, what prevents them from scanning my financial spreadsheets stored on their server farm for "relevant offers"?
given Google's track record, I'd rather have my personal files on my own computer.
even if the companies start charging for news, others will be able to duplicate the same content on their blog sites, thus nullifying the model. also, if only *one* single major news source continues free RSS feeds, the ones who charge will loose readership (unless they're significantly more credible than others, say, A.P.)
Sites can charge for *premium* content, like special features. but for regular headline news, free will be the way to go for quite some time to come
Dual-Core Dual-CPU G5 will be the ultimate design powerhouse....esp if Apple/IBM can up the cores to like 2.8 or even 3GHz each, then you can have a theoretical 12GHz workstation. Even accounting for SMP overhead, a dual-core dual-cpu G5 can chunk a massively parallel job (e.g. HD movie rending) at the equivalent of 10GHz.
in theory that's easy. in real life, esp with a brave new world (e.g. iTunes Music Store initial launch), who will know what the most optimal price point is without going to diminishing returns ?
unless u interview a whole bunch of potential buyers, which by then your revolutionary idea has already leaked out
> Personally, though, I don't see a lot of point in running Mac hardware and not running Mac OS X. The OS is what makes the system so insanely great.
The Apple Powerbook is steps ahead of comparable offerings from the PC world, from a purely hardware perspective. We're not comparing GLOPS here. We're talking the light weight, strong brushed anodized aluminum, glowing keyboard, Firewire 800, Bluetooth 2.
I'd run Linux on Powerbook over an Inspiron any day of the week.
If Intel is truly the industrial leader (true)and innovator (questionable), then they should come up with a radically different concept PC to compete with Mac mini, and yet can target the same audience. Having a carbon-copy of Mac mini is the same as saying:
their design is superior, the only thing special about ours....we use a x86 cpu!!
Reminds me of Creative Zen looking awfully similar to the iPod mini, but much uglier colors.
if the 2 cores can share L1 and L2, then it's less than "twice the power"...and given the close distances between the 2, it's not hard to create a high-speed connect that will equate Shared L1 to Local L1 speeds.
i agree. just because he's a pre-med student doesn't mean he's a "kid." he can vote, marry, engage in private behaviors, and even drink. by all means, that's an adult.
If Apple simply seeks a small damage in court, the message will be clear : we will enforce our NDA, but we will be lenient on the first time. next time, it will be damages galore!!
the article fails to specify how well WiMax penetrates building in a density populated urban setting. If it's poor, carriers will have to spend much much more to get indoor or underground reception. 3 billion is an ideological figure.
these days online discussion forums and blogs are so much better than the Usenet it instends to replace. you can change your font's apperance, add URL links, embed images and videos, and even add emoticons. binary posting is already a thing of the past, and it was one of the major spreading sources of viruses.
if u really have a binary file to show all, load it on a website, and simply put the URL on the blog site.
by suing a scapegoat, Apple can hype up the product anticipation before its launch simply by word-of-mouth. Afterwards, they'll probably settle out of court quietly for a very low price. slightly dirty tactics, but not that much real damage
>> What good is a new chip, no matter how fast it is, if you can't run anything on it?
This is the good ol' anti-new-architectural speak. A new architecture is not necessarily a bad thing, provided:
1) it's massively scalable to it's targeted size and hopefully beyond (either large or small)
2) it's easily portable
3) it's architecture doesn't have a super bottleneck (namely, x87 float point stack)
Apple managed to embrace MacOS from 68K to PowerPC.
HP wrote HP-UX for Itanium (non-emulation mode).
Digital went from VAX to Alpha.
also, just because an architecture can run everything on it doesn't mean it's successful. say, Transmeta. They're 100% capable of x86 execution, and promised support of multiple architures through virual emulation onto the native 256-bit Crusoe system. end result? a plain ol' x86 architecture with an emulation fat padded on.
Apple has good reason to embrace Cell, primarily because they wanted their machine to be a multimedia hub, and the Cell processor is perfect for that goal. Different cells will process different items of the system, and share idle resources. This doesn't mean Apple *needs* to switch MacOS totally over to Cell. Keep a generic PowerPC as the general purpose processor, but distribute multimedia code to different cells, thus freeing up the main PowerPC for non-vectorizable tasks.
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128-bit AES is used these days based on the assumption of computational infeasibility with today's equipment, even assuming millions of computers all crunching at once.
Well-financed terrorists or crime-families can easily access the same resources available to government agencies. if our privacy can easily be undermined by FBI or CIA, what keeps us safe from the Mafia attempting identity theft on millions?
Some can argue expotential growth of computational power. But even after making that assumption, and weakER (not necessarily "weak") passwords, it should still be near-impossible today (unless backdoors). And by the time computational power has grown, so will the encryption key-length. So technically, yes, a person traveling on a time-machine from the future can destroy our entire dellusion of "Internet security," but until then, I'm happy with my AES or TripleDES.
Person A : What are u doing now ?
Person B : I'm texting John on my cell phone
meaning : writing and sending him a short message through SMS
"blog" is a netspeak, and now it's already commonly accepted as an english word.
"E-mail" used to be a technical term, and now can be written as plain english in "email".
"Text" was never a verb until SMS.
"When the content is properly priced"....
:
iTunes allows you burn unlimited copies of ur DRMed AACs (m4p) to CDs.
A new hit CD these days is what? $13-$17? And it contains maybe 3 good songs, plus another 7 placeholders. (of course there will be dissidents who insist that EVERY song on their non-compilation CD is good).
CD-R are going for 20cents a piece (if u don't count super rebates). 3 songs on iTMS is $2.98. So to buy them will cost you $3.18, and takes less than 10 mins search for those songs, download them, and burn the CD-R.
Now compare $3.18 and 10 mins to traveling back and forth to the CD store (for 1hr total) to pay a $13-$17 CD.
iTMS offers 128kbps AAC at $0.99. In the future they can offer multiple versions
128kbps for 0.79
192kbps for 0.99
320kbps for 1.29
Apple Lossless for 1.49
So everyone can be happy. Those who want a ton of songs to blast can buy them at 79 cents a piece. Those who need PRISTINE quality can get the lossless version for only $1.49. Burning a lossless to CD-R is 100% same as buying the original CD-Audio.
interesting how irony is modded up as "insightful" instead of "funny"
> ... but I'm guessing PornWorld isn't just looking for who's bigger ...
size doesn't matter in porn? then why don't i see more 2-inch legends and flat-tits on screen?
According the xe.com, the international symbol for the pound sterling is actually GBP (for Great Britain Pound), not UKP as commonly denoted.
Same for CAD for Canadian dollars, but it's frequently listed (incorrectly) as
Cdn $
if Pentium Ms are similar performance to Pentium 4s, wouldn't it be ideal for clusters and server farms in which (a) density, (b) heat, and (c) power dissipation becomes major factors in day-to-day operations?
ING Direct.com uses this method :
:
:
first establish an encryption session through SSL so data is not sent in clear-text.
then ask for both the password (4-digit PIN) as well as a random question, such as first-3 of SSN, or last-4 of SSN, or birth year, etc.
another solution for phising attacks
have a registry of all known financial institutions, and their domains (through WHOIS).
when a user accesses a financial institution, ask the user to input the name of the financial institution they're trying to access. if it matches the WHOIS, the website is legitamite
for example
a. user accesses www.chase.com
b. browser asks : "What institution are u accessing?"
c. user types in "chase bank"
d. browser checks WHOIS, then lets user goes through.
scenario b.
a. user clicks on phising attack to access URL 250.250.250.250 (let's say, www.phishnet.com)
b. browser asks : "What institution are u accessing?"
c. user types "wachovia"
d. browser checks WHOIS, sees mismatch, then notifies user to phishing attack and denies access.
The register, although opinionated, is much more realistic than something like National Enquirer.
The Onion would be a tabloid.
The Register hardly fits the definition.
imagine Google serving us everything we need....
if Google can scan our emails for relevant ads, what prevents them from scanning my financial spreadsheets stored on their server farm for "relevant offers"?
given Google's track record, I'd rather have my personal files on my own computer.
even if the companies start charging for news, others will be able to duplicate the same content on their blog sites, thus nullifying the model. also, if only *one* single major news source continues free RSS feeds, the ones who charge will loose readership (unless they're significantly more credible than others, say, A.P.)
Sites can charge for *premium* content, like special features. but for regular headline news, free will be the way to go for quite some time to come
Dual-Core Dual-CPU G5 will be the ultimate design powerhouse....esp if Apple/IBM can up the cores to like 2.8 or even 3GHz each, then you can have a theoretical 12GHz workstation. Even accounting for SMP overhead, a dual-core dual-cpu G5 can chunk a massively parallel job (e.g. HD movie rending) at the equivalent of 10GHz.
slap a B+Tree index on a journaling FS, and you have better performance than dealing a full transaction-oriented database-derived file system...
if conceptually WinFS is such a good idea (regardless of how MS implements it), open source FS would've already appeared for Linux or BSD....hmmm....
in theory that's easy. in real life, esp with a brave new world (e.g. iTunes Music Store initial launch), who will know what the most optimal price point is without going to diminishing returns ?
unless u interview a whole bunch of potential buyers, which by then your revolutionary idea has already leaked out
> Personally, though, I don't see a lot of point in running Mac hardware and not running Mac OS X. The OS is what makes the system so insanely great.
The Apple Powerbook is steps ahead of comparable offerings from the PC world, from a purely hardware perspective. We're not comparing GLOPS here. We're talking the light weight, strong brushed anodized aluminum, glowing keyboard, Firewire 800, Bluetooth 2.
I'd run Linux on Powerbook over an Inspiron any day of the week.
Torvalds is showing 2 things :
a) Linux on PPC is at least as good as on any x86 CPU.
b) Apple hardware is desired over your Average Joe's box from Dell or HP.
If Intel is truly the industrial leader (true)and innovator (questionable), then they should come up with a radically different concept PC to compete with Mac mini, and yet can target the same audience. Having a carbon-copy of Mac mini is the same as saying :
their design is superior, the only thing special about ours....we use a x86 cpu!!
Reminds me of Creative Zen looking awfully similar to the iPod mini, but much uglier colors.
if the 2 cores can share L1 and L2, then it's less than "twice the power"...and given the close distances between the 2, it's not hard to create a high-speed connect that will equate Shared L1 to Local L1 speeds.
i agree. just because he's a pre-med student doesn't mean he's a "kid." he can vote, marry, engage in private behaviors, and even drink. by all means, that's an adult.
If Apple simply seeks a small damage in court, the message will be clear : we will enforce our NDA, but we will be lenient on the first time. next time, it will be damages galore!!
the article fails to specify how well WiMax penetrates building in a density populated urban setting. If it's poor, carriers will have to spend much much more to get indoor or underground reception. 3 billion is an ideological figure.
these days online discussion forums and blogs are so much better than the Usenet it instends to replace. you can change your font's apperance, add URL links, embed images and videos, and even add emoticons. binary posting is already a thing of the past, and it was one of the major spreading sources of viruses.
if u really have a binary file to show all, load it on a website, and simply put the URL on the blog site.
by suing a scapegoat, Apple can hype up the product anticipation before its launch simply by word-of-mouth. Afterwards, they'll probably settle out of court quietly for a very low price. slightly dirty tactics, but not that much real damage
what discman? we rich people from South Bronx only use the superior cassette boombox!
>> What good is a new chip, no matter how fast it is, if you can't run anything on it?
:
This is the good ol' anti-new-architectural speak. A new architecture is not necessarily a bad thing, provided
1) it's massively scalable to it's targeted size and hopefully beyond (either large or small)
2) it's easily portable
3) it's architecture doesn't have a super bottleneck (namely, x87 float point stack)
Apple managed to embrace MacOS from 68K to PowerPC.
HP wrote HP-UX for Itanium (non-emulation mode).
Digital went from VAX to Alpha.
also, just because an architecture can run everything on it doesn't mean it's successful. say, Transmeta. They're 100% capable of x86 execution, and promised support of multiple architures through virual emulation onto the native 256-bit Crusoe system. end result? a plain ol' x86 architecture with an emulation fat padded on.
Apple has good reason to embrace Cell, primarily because they wanted their machine to be a multimedia hub, and the Cell processor is perfect for that goal. Different cells will process different items of the system, and share idle resources. This doesn't mean Apple *needs* to switch MacOS totally over to Cell. Keep a generic PowerPC as the general purpose processor, but distribute multimedia code to different cells, thus freeing up the main PowerPC for non-vectorizable tasks.