This statement implies to me that the phone they bought ten years ago is still going strong and still works on the local networks, and still fulfills their communication needs without this year's shiny BS. You know, a telephone, not a billable event generator?
Very true that once you can get a valid endorsement key out of one TPM the jig is up, at least until that key somehow is revoked. Getting that key is the tough part. The Infineon implementation claims to be hardened against most forms of electrical attack (clock speed variations, voltage variations) and I wouldn't be surprised to see some pretty advanced security on the chip. Clearly cracking this nut is not for script kiddies.
Surreal movies with a bizarre plot are good. Surreal movies that turn into insipid action flicks 2/3 of the way through with vapid endings are bad. Let us hope the adaptation of Ubik doesn't repeat the mistakes of the adaptation of Fight Club.
In fact, wouldn't it be great if the drive could be smart about it and--over time--identify files that were mostly read-only (iPhoto archives, MP3s) and migrate them to the flash storage area where fast, low-power reads would be a benefit. No. Actually, it'd be awful. The drive has absolutely no business knowing anything about filesystems. That's the OS's job, specifically delegated to the filesystem driver.
It's not impossible to implement that functionality with a dumb SSD and HDD. The easy part is unionfs -- done. The hard part is determining with sufficient accuracy what files are unlikely to be written again -- a first cut could just consider some directories, MIME types and/or file extensions more or less likely to be rewritten than others. The ugly part: file metadata has to be present for both file sets at all times (or at least all directories which are split across both devices), metadata might be changed frequently, the HDD must be on for as little time as possible, and writing to flash must be avoided as much as possible. The only way to satisfy all those constraints is by reading and maintaining a complete write-back cache of the HDD's inodes and dirents in RAM at mount time, flushing dirty entries whenever the HDD spins up and writing through whenever the HDD is on. At 144 bytes apiece a cache for a typical homedir/archive disk could eat up a sizable chunk of RAM.
While we're dreaming, database engines could even be optimized to read only from the SSD-portion of a hybrid drive if a particular data point had not been written to in over N minutes, or since the last collation (explained later), but would write to the platters, and then during quiet cycles, it could do a collation. The collation would move data which was on the platters, but which did not have a pattern of large volumes of writes back to the SSD volume. An equal amount of battery-powered RAM as cache and journal for a traditional HDD would under most real workloads beat RAM+SSD or HDD+SSD. If you really wanted to identify (manually or otherwise) cold tables and load them into flash SSDs, the database engine will probably still load and cache them in main memory anyway (costing all of a few extra milliseconds), and any RAM not used to cache those tables can be used to speed up temporary tables or for dynamic caching. (compare Amdahl's Law)
And... I'd like a pony... NOT YOURS
The usual structure of a storage hierarchy is that each level contains a fast, small subset of the next level. A consequence of this is that at the steady state the final level contains a complete copy of everything. Poor write endurance makes flash SSDs poor participators in this sort of hierarchy.
Disclaimer: I'm not a Canadian citizen but I've toyed with the idea more than once.
What are the odds that the telecoms will get regulatory bodies and judges to agree that pay-for-play is "reasonable"? I would recommend getting the words "and non-discriminatory" added if at all possible.
TPMs are individually signed by the TPM manufacturer. You may have trouble convincing a TPM-using application that your TPM emulator is a genuine, trustworthy TPM. Also, the path between the TPM and the application can be asymmetrically encrypted. You may have trouble attacking the chip hardware unless you are near semiconductor manufacturers or their support industries. Applications may require their trusted host OSes to have facilities like OS-level installation/decryption of executables and shared objects; trusted virtual memory controls with encrypted paging; tamper-proof hardware assurance; and trusted debug/trace/probe restrictions.
At that point you're hoping for implementation defects in the application or you're microprobing the chip for key material.
Cases take a long time to come to court, and all MediaDefender needs to do is destroy their solvency before that happens. California has pretty strong anti-SLAPP laws. The next packet that flows from MD to R3 would likely result in an immediate DoS order from a judge. Even if they get a "good faith" pass from the Feds, MD still has to deal with California's cracker-unfriendly computer crime laws in California courts.
Likely strategies for MD include: mount a vigorously frivolous SCO defense until the stockholders pull out, leaving ashes for R3; receive gigantic retainer from *AA for MD's services to buy R3 off or out; throw Dmitry and company to the dogs to get a more favorable precedent; and/or run the Chewbacca defense by a jury. It will be very interesting to see what happens to the perps after baldly admitting willful unauthorized access to R3's computers.
Whoever owns the other 10% of the anti-p2p "self-help" market is probably very, very happy right now.
I'm not sure that increased life expectancy in and of itself is necessarily a good thing. It slows social innovation way down. "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it." -Max Planck, quantum physicist
Is public funding for basic research that drives exports and improves the standing of the country's currency in the world not an excellent example of providing for the general welfare? It sure beats faith-based education.
In other countries there are typically four or five parties that have to come to some sort of consensus to get anything done, and that encourages a wider variety of viewpoints in government what tension is resolved more often by eliminating points of contention instead of horse-trading them. But in the US, election law doesn't allow for that sort of cross-pollination and the people most capable of bringing about that kind of change stand to lose too much from it.
Presentation matters. That political news is almost indistinguishable from the sports page does not inspire sober and genuine thought about the issues. Then, an electoral system designed to disenfranchise up to and sometimes more than 50%-1 of the population does not inspire informational news coverage nor accountability. Public referenda on big issues in Switzerland seems to usually get the right thing done.
feedlots, madrasas or homeschooling. After the Archdiocese of Detroit blew six figures of tax-free church money funding the passage of anti-gay laws in Michigan, I'm absolutely against public money going to any organization that has even a passing association with religion. But the quality and quantity of actual instruction in public school is appalling, mostly due to unrealistic demands from self-serving, clueless parents abdicating their parental duties.
The best choice is not to have kids at all, but parents don't want their children to even hear that it's possible. Yeah, we're fscked.
Were they even there before? Threat? Worse than killing our children and raping our women, they started "threatening" us at the gas station back in the 1970's. Arab OPEC stopped sending us oil because we were supporting their enemies in a land grab. How is this morally reprehensible in the face of the Cuban embargo, the "oil for food" program in Iraq, the global family planning gag rule, etc.?
And who is this "they" you speak of? The elites or the commoners? They inhabit two very different worlds, you know.
I spent years of my life over there, and the only thing that gets me emotionally fired up is the lack of reason on this side of the pond. Would it kill you to perhaps form your opinion based off of experience, rather than from TV? As humans, our perception of the world is colored by our experiences with it, and those who are compelled to interact with unfamiliar communities unconsciously build stereotypes and prejudices based upon that interaction. It's like asking a beat cop to comment on the higher aspects of human nature when they see so little of it in their day-to-day lives.
Mark this as a troll, but there HAS to be more than a handful of vets that read Slashdot and agree with this - am I the only one, and do I have to bite my tongue for EVERY post like this? Until you take a bit more account of the facts in the matter and the smoke their leaders are blowing up their asses (and why), I wish you would at least consider it.
Islam was a young religion when Christians first attacked the Middle East. How are you not supposed to harbor a grudge, or at the very least distrust, with that kind of introduction, especially when (usually wrongly) self-identified Christians indiscriminately hold a gun to Muslims' heads while their hated cousins steal their land, the "Christians" steal their natural resources, and both of the robbers tell themselves fairy tales to rationalize it?
So it's not some kind of base resistance to being occupied. In fact that's all a bunch of non-sense. The Iraqi people elected their government. I'm glad you brought up sham elections in a discussion about security theater. Uncanny!
The Insurgents are the same people as always. The same ones who are willing to give up having a home and travel anywhere that their Jihad calls them. They are the same ones setting up camp in Somalia right now to trick a mostly nonreligious group of people into following them. Like the Christian neocons in the US? What was that about planks and specks and eyes?
Can you make ANY points in your argument without referring to Israeli, British or US news sources? No? Why not? Because no one who doesn't stand to benefit from this hydrocarbon piracy has any reason to repeat this nonsense?
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This statement implies to me that the phone they bought ten years ago is still going strong and still works on the local networks, and still fulfills their communication needs without this year's shiny BS. You know, a telephone, not a billable event generator?
Very true that once you can get a valid endorsement key out of one TPM the jig is up, at least until that key somehow is revoked. Getting that key is the tough part. The Infineon implementation claims to be hardened against most forms of electrical attack (clock speed variations, voltage variations) and I wouldn't be surprised to see some pretty advanced security on the chip. Clearly cracking this nut is not for script kiddies.
Surreal movies with a bizarre plot are good. Surreal movies that turn into insipid action flicks 2/3 of the way through with vapid endings are bad. Let us hope the adaptation of Ubik doesn't repeat the mistakes of the adaptation of Fight Club.
It's not impossible to implement that functionality with a dumb SSD and HDD. The easy part is unionfs -- done. The hard part is determining with sufficient accuracy what files are unlikely to be written again -- a first cut could just consider some directories, MIME types and/or file extensions more or less likely to be rewritten than others. The ugly part: file metadata has to be present for both file sets at all times (or at least all directories which are split across both devices), metadata might be changed frequently, the HDD must be on for as little time as possible, and writing to flash must be avoided as much as possible. The only way to satisfy all those constraints is by reading and maintaining a complete write-back cache of the HDD's inodes and dirents in RAM at mount time, flushing dirty entries whenever the HDD spins up and writing through whenever the HDD is on. At 144 bytes apiece a cache for a typical homedir/archive disk could eat up a sizable chunk of RAM. While we're dreaming, database engines could even be optimized to read only from the SSD-portion of a hybrid drive if a particular data point had not been written to in over N minutes, or since the last collation (explained later), but would write to the platters, and then during quiet cycles, it could do a collation. The collation would move data which was on the platters, but which did not have a pattern of large volumes of writes back to the SSD volume. An equal amount of battery-powered RAM as cache and journal for a traditional HDD would under most real workloads beat RAM+SSD or HDD+SSD. If you really wanted to identify (manually or otherwise) cold tables and load them into flash SSDs, the database engine will probably still load and cache them in main memory anyway (costing all of a few extra milliseconds), and any RAM not used to cache those tables can be used to speed up temporary tables or for dynamic caching. (compare Amdahl's Law) And... I'd like a pony... NOT YOURS
The usual structure of a storage hierarchy is that each level contains a fast, small subset of the next level. A consequence of this is that at the steady state the final level contains a complete copy of everything. Poor write endurance makes flash SSDs poor participators in this sort of hierarchy.
Cringely's article is gold.
I prefer the term "jovial".
Because many /.ers have little reason to trust the law, let alone its enforcers.
traceroute from your border routers oughta get it.
11393 - I think FiberConnexion is MD's friendly name. People get ASes to do business and typically don't park their domains with GoDaddy.
Disclaimer: I'm not a Canadian citizen but I've toyed with the idea more than once.
What are the odds that the telecoms will get regulatory bodies and judges to agree that pay-for-play is "reasonable"? I would recommend getting the words "and non-discriminatory" added if at all possible.
TPMs are individually signed by the TPM manufacturer. You may have trouble convincing a TPM-using application that your TPM emulator is a genuine, trustworthy TPM. Also, the path between the TPM and the application can be asymmetrically encrypted. You may have trouble attacking the chip hardware unless you are near semiconductor manufacturers or their support industries. Applications may require their trusted host OSes to have facilities like OS-level installation/decryption of executables and shared objects; trusted virtual memory controls with encrypted paging; tamper-proof hardware assurance; and trusted debug/trace/probe restrictions.
At that point you're hoping for implementation defects in the application or you're microprobing the chip for key material.
Or the system by which they are elected.
A known violator of computer security deserves to have their AS blacklisted. Problem is, net neutrality may be the spammer's best friend.
Likely strategies for MD include: mount a vigorously frivolous SCO defense until the stockholders pull out, leaving ashes for R3; receive gigantic retainer from *AA for MD's services to buy R3 off or out; throw Dmitry and company to the dogs to get a more favorable precedent; and/or run the Chewbacca defense by a jury. It will be very interesting to see what happens to the perps after baldly admitting willful unauthorized access to R3's computers.
Whoever owns the other 10% of the anti-p2p "self-help" market is probably very, very happy right now.
You also raise an excellent point. I'll have to get back with you on that.
I'm not sure that increased life expectancy in and of itself is necessarily a good thing. It slows social innovation way down. "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it." -Max Planck, quantum physicist
Is public funding for basic research that drives exports and improves the standing of the country's currency in the world not an excellent example of providing for the general welfare? It sure beats faith-based education.
In other countries there are typically four or five parties that have to come to some sort of consensus to get anything done, and that encourages a wider variety of viewpoints in government what tension is resolved more often by eliminating points of contention instead of horse-trading them. But in the US, election law doesn't allow for that sort of cross-pollination and the people most capable of bringing about that kind of change stand to lose too much from it.
Presentation matters. That political news is almost indistinguishable from the sports page does not inspire sober and genuine thought about the issues. Then, an electoral system designed to disenfranchise up to and sometimes more than 50%-1 of the population does not inspire informational news coverage nor accountability. Public referenda on big issues in Switzerland seems to usually get the right thing done.
I like the idea in theory, but I don't think I'd trust the likes of Peter Griffin in a legislative capacity.
feedlots, madrasas or homeschooling. After the Archdiocese of Detroit blew six figures of tax-free church money funding the passage of anti-gay laws in Michigan, I'm absolutely against public money going to any organization that has even a passing association with religion. But the quality and quantity of actual instruction in public school is appalling, mostly due to unrealistic demands from self-serving, clueless parents abdicating their parental duties.
The best choice is not to have kids at all, but parents don't want their children to even hear that it's possible. Yeah, we're fscked.
To properly call them "government" would be granting armed thieves far more respect than they deserve.
Were they even there before? Threat? Worse than killing our children and raping our women, they started "threatening" us at the gas station back in the 1970's. Arab OPEC stopped sending us oil because we were supporting their enemies in a land grab. How is this morally reprehensible in the face of the Cuban embargo, the "oil for food" program in Iraq, the global family planning gag rule, etc.?
And who is this "they" you speak of? The elites or the commoners? They inhabit two very different worlds, you know. I spent years of my life over there, and the only thing that gets me emotionally fired up is the lack of reason on this side of the pond. Would it kill you to perhaps form your opinion based off of experience, rather than from TV? As humans, our perception of the world is colored by our experiences with it, and those who are compelled to interact with unfamiliar communities unconsciously build stereotypes and prejudices based upon that interaction. It's like asking a beat cop to comment on the higher aspects of human nature when they see so little of it in their day-to-day lives. Mark this as a troll, but there HAS to be more than a handful of vets that read Slashdot and agree with this - am I the only one, and do I have to bite my tongue for EVERY post like this? Until you take a bit more account of the facts in the matter and the smoke their leaders are blowing up their asses (and why), I wish you would at least consider it.
Islam was a young religion when Christians first attacked the Middle East. How are you not supposed to harbor a grudge, or at the very least distrust, with that kind of introduction, especially when (usually wrongly) self-identified Christians indiscriminately hold a gun to Muslims' heads while their hated cousins steal their land, the "Christians" steal their natural resources, and both of the robbers tell themselves fairy tales to rationalize it?
Can you make ANY points in your argument without referring to Israeli, British or US news sources? No? Why not? Because no one who doesn't stand to benefit from this hydrocarbon piracy has any reason to repeat this nonsense?