Also, wouldn't someone notice if they checked their logs, and everyone had the same public key (NSA's)?
Although your overall position is correct, this is a mistake. The NSA or anybody else is free to create as many public/private key pairs as they want. In this hypothetical NSA attack, the NSA could, and I imagine would, generate two fresh public/private key pairs for every pair of people upon whom they were eavesdropping.
Taken to the extreme, there can only be as many used CDs are there were new CDs originally sold.
It's true that those two numbers are equal but they are not the right numbers. What you want to compare is the number of new CD sales to the number of used CD sales. And the difference is that a used CD can be sold any number of times. There is nothing to stop a store from selling a used CD and buying it back three hours later for a slightly lower amount: say, two dollars less. It's Blockbuster's model with two twists: the customer takes the risk of the disk taking damage, and any reasonably new computer already has a CD burner that can make perfect copies.
This idea is kind of like the analog hole. It doesn't matter in practice today but it does in principle. Most people don't buy and copy used CDs because downloading MP3s from P2P is easier and faster. But it's still perfectly doable, and if in some fantasyland the RIAA were to make P2P actually difficult for average people, they would start doing it.
You want to know how p2p is going to use up a 30mb/s pipe? HDTV over bittorrent, that's how. Up to 15 mb/s for one stream of video. You can soak up 30mb/s very easily. And either throw it away when done or put it on a 50 cent DVD-R which you burn in ten minutes. It's not happening today, but it will before this fiber to the home stuff is widespread.
I find it uncomfortable to read with a flashing or animated display. Any computer that I use or set up for a friend will filter popups, banner ads, animated GIFs and Flash. Which is why I have a friend who is comfortably running Opera on a 75MHz Pentium from 1995. (RAM and HDD upgrades were performed years back using old spare parts.) With his cable modem connection it works just fine; there are not many web pages that display slower than they would on a brand new machine, since the server is the weak link in most cases. His setup works better than a new high speed connection system with IE and no popup filtering, and better than dialup which 60% of home users still use.
And of course he does also read email and do IM chat, again without trouble. I think there's something to this idea that you hardly need any processor power for basic productivity programs.
Your numbers are confusing me. You mention 100,000 bits per field for MJPEG. I assume you mean bytes, since that is not enough space for a decent looking field of video. And you mention 50 Mbps (megabits) for high quality standard definition video. That sounds about right, and agrees with 100,000 bytes/field * 8 bits/byte * 60 fields/sec = 48 Mbps. That's 6 MBps (megabytes). Consumer equipment was doing one stream of video at that bandwidth years ago.
You said double that for MPEG. Why? MPEG requires less data for the same visual quality as MJPEG. You don't need 100 Mbps worth of MPEG to deliver visual transparency. Somewhere in the vicinity of 50 Mbps is the most needed for natural scenes.
Today's 10K RPM drives deliver over 40 MBps minimum sustained sequential transfer. A disk array with four data drives should deliver as much as 160 MBps depending on the interface and controller. You say your arrays only give you 3 streams, 2 playback and 1 recording, if I understand you correctly. But according to the above numbers you should have room for upwards of 15 streams of MPEG video. (Because video is sequential, buffering should allow you to keep the number of seeks down so that the actual performance of the drives is close to the theoretical maximum bandwidth.)
If we were talking about uncompressed 4:2:2 24-bit 720x480 video, then the bandwidth is about 41 MBps for each stream, and three streams would fit inside the bandwidth of the array with no room for a fourth. Is it possible this is what you had in mind?
It's hard to find consensus about anything involving this Microsoft (NasdaqNM:MSFT - News) quarter, except one detail: Why the heck did they split the stock?
That's right, when you ask the purists and the critics and the spectators why they did it, they all say the same thing: to gussy up a blah quarter.
Mozilla needs to introduce something revolutionary (like it's predecessor Netscape) in order to get developers/designers on the boat, with end-users in tow.
There is no force on earth that could convince the bulk of Windows users to install a browser other than IE, because IE works pretty darn well, and it is preinstalled. Therefore commercial web developers will never stop developing with IE foremost in mind. The best we can hope for is cross-browser compatible design. Nobody is going to switch away from IE in large numbers. It's a chicken-egg thing.
A conversation with Steve Wozniak In an exclusive two-part interview, Apple Computer's co-founder discusses Steve Jobs and the company's roots By David Zeiler: The Mac Experience
The Mac Experience Originally published Jun 5, 2003
The Mac Experience
First of two parts
Though out of the spotlight since leaving Apple Computer Inc. in 1985, Steve Wozniak remains revered for his integral role in helping Steve Jobs establish the company in 1976. He is credited with single-handedly designing the Apple I and Apple II machines.
A native of San Jose, Calif., Wozniak was introduced to Jobs in the mid-1970s by a mutual friend, Bill Fernandez.
Wozniak, who had dropped out of the University of California at Berkeley to get a job, was five years older than Jobs, who was in high school. He later received his degree from Berkeley.
Since leaving Apple, Wozniak has dabbled in several unsuccessful technological ventures, such as a wireless universal TV remote control company called CL-9, while devoting much of his time to educational causes.
In January 2002, Wozniak announced the formation of a startup company, Wheels of Zeus, to design and build "new consumer electronics wireless products to help everyday people track everyday things." The company has yet to announce any products.
Wozniak, 52, was in Baltimore last week for the silver anniversary celebration of the Maryland Apple Corps. He received a standing ovation before beginning his remarks.
In an interview, Wozniak discussed Jobs, the first Apple and the 1999 cable television movie, "Pirates of Silicon Valley," which depicted the showdown between his colleague and Microsoft Corp. founder Bill Gates.
The Mac Experience will feature more excerpts next week.
How did you and Steve Jobs meet?
I think it was my second year of college. I finally got some parts from a company that I had worked for, so I could build a computer of my own design. It was the first computer that I had ever built in my life. It was a minimal one. It couldn't do much, but it had switches and lights and it ran.
We built it down in Bill Fernandez's garage. He lived down the street, a few streets down. And Bill introduced me to Steve. That's my recollection.
Steve thinks we met much earlier, but I don't think so. Bill said: "There's this guy you've got to meet, because he likes electronics and he pulls pranks. You two have so much in common." And we did.
What was Jobs like? Was he like how he was portrayed in "Pirates of Silicon Valley"?
He was very much like he was portrayed there. He was sort of a free-floating hippie who could go a lot of different ways. He ate a lot of nuts -- and walked around barefoot or in sandals. He could get a job at Atari as a technician-engineer who could take designs and finish them. And then he'd go out for a few months and work on spreads in Oregon, or go over to India, bathe in the Ganges River. Then he'd come back.
I was very much the opposite -- just real stable. A settled, middle- type person, feet on the ground, have a normal life and a family and a home.
Has he changed much over the years?
No. Those values are very much unchanged. But his head was always looking toward business. Always. Even in those days. The questions he would ask: "With this design, could you ever put a disk drive on it?" "Could you ever have multiple users on it, sharing it?"
It's funny that, way back in time, these little questions he was asking, they're things that he keeps making sure Apple does to this day.
What is your relationship now with Apple?
I get a small salary. I want to be an Apple employee forever, if I can. I don't know what the salary is, but it's real small. Whenever I'm in the press, it sorta represents Apple. And I have occasional phone calls to Steve Jobs; sometimes, we'll get together for lunch. He might ask me a few questions about what do I think about that, how are we doing here. I let him know
Microsoft's market cap is presently about $260 billion, down from a high of about $630 billion. About 17% of the company's stock is held by company executives; Gates alone holds about 10%. So the executives personally hold $44 billion in stock, down $62 billion from the stock's peak. If the stock were ever to reflect more modest (some might say realistic) prospects for future earnings, those executives stand to lose tens of billions more. And of course all the Microsoft millionaires and ex-millionaires in the company are presently less motivated to stay and could become more demotivated by future declines.
Jason Earl has it right; Microsoft's $45 billion may be a handy thing to have but it is only a rounding error compared to the stock market losses the company has eaten, and the losses it could face.
Yuriy Well hello Denise, thanks for agreeing to help us learn how to configure the PIX Firewall.
Denise It's my pleasure Yuriy, let's cut right to the chase and talk about the PIX. The PIX is not a router, it can not participate in dynamic routing protocols. The PIX in it's most basic form is simply a box with 2 Ethernet interfaces. (...)
That depend on what the meaning of 'is' is
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(with apologies to Mr. Clinton)
Indeed, if that's the case, it would be correct to say that DirectFB is an X server. To say that it "is X" sounds a bit off, though.
Try Bittorrent if you haven't already. It is the solution to that particular problem, and I predict that it will take a lot of people out of Usenet file downloading.
From now on South-Central will start disappearing from maps, and the area will be called South Los Angeles in city documents, correspondence, maps and community plans.
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IBM's current TV campaign is something I enjoy. The whole ad is an absurd joke, with no hard sell. I even learned the punch lines. "There is no magic performance dust." "There is no business time machine." Their ad agency should get an award. Normally computer TV ads drive me nuts, like the current campaigns of Apple and Dell and every campaign ever from MS.
I understand your argument to be: money in the political process is corrupting, therefore giving money to the EFF is just throwing fuel on a corrupting process, and we should instead... well, then you advocate either campaign finance reform, revolution or abandonment (whatever you mean by that term).
The EFF doesn't operate by bribing legislators with campaign contributions. They spend their money on staff, which they use to do legal action and analysis. You could ban campaign contributions tomorrow and it wouldn't affect the EFF. Giving them a lot of money is not "paying for a just legal environment" because they do not function to counterbalance contributions of their adversaries with their own contributions. They influence the legal process the old fashioned way, by writing papers and filing suits.
When teaching Granny to suck eggs The dusky maiden softly begs The husky crone to lift a hand And helps the wrinkled hag to stand Where moth and mildew cannot reach Ties her in place, and starts to teach With many cries of "Stand up straight!" "Now put it in your mouth, like so - And must I tell you: suck, don't blow!" But Granny blew and eggy mess Besmirched the helpful maiden's dress Who then delivered such a slap That Gran responded "Shut your trap!" And tried to slap the maiden back Her aged joints went crick and crack The ropes held tight; the maiden smiled, The crone could only curse the child; The evil girl now took her switch But luckily, a sudden glitch Occurred to stop her beating Gran She beat the egg instead,/enfin/.
These guys are setting a good example. Their 7-page PDF is 80KB expanded, 24KB zipped. That's for 20K non-space formatted characters plus a simple figure. Less formatting overhead than the average HTML 3.0 page. Looks good, too; it is groff output run through Distiller and it renders well on Acrobat Reader and is typeset well.
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CHDK is a free software package that runs on Canon compact cameras like A-series and S2 and gives RAW capability among other neat features.
Although your overall position is correct, this is a mistake. The NSA or anybody else is free to create as many public/private key pairs as they want. In this hypothetical NSA attack, the NSA could, and I imagine would, generate two fresh public/private key pairs for every pair of people upon whom they were eavesdropping.
It's true that those two numbers are equal but they are not the right numbers. What you want to compare is the number of new CD sales to the number of used CD sales. And the difference is that a used CD can be sold any number of times. There is nothing to stop a store from selling a used CD and buying it back three hours later for a slightly lower amount: say, two dollars less. It's Blockbuster's model with two twists: the customer takes the risk of the disk taking damage, and any reasonably new computer already has a CD burner that can make perfect copies.
This idea is kind of like the analog hole. It doesn't matter in practice today but it does in principle. Most people don't buy and copy used CDs because downloading MP3s from P2P is easier and faster. But it's still perfectly doable, and if in some fantasyland the RIAA were to make P2P actually difficult for average people, they would start doing it.
But what simpli actually wrote was that:
and since
CableCard is an interface for digital TV that lets you plug your cable line directly into your TV set without the need for a set-top box.
he wasn't talking about an analog signal.
You want to know how p2p is going to use up a 30mb/s pipe? HDTV over bittorrent, that's how. Up to 15 mb/s for one stream of video. You can soak up 30mb/s very easily. And either throw it away when done or put it on a 50 cent DVD-R which you burn in ten minutes. It's not happening today, but it will before this fiber to the home stuff is widespread.
I find it uncomfortable to read with a flashing or animated display. Any computer that I use or set up for a friend will filter popups, banner ads, animated GIFs and Flash. Which is why I have a friend who is comfortably running Opera on a 75MHz Pentium from 1995. (RAM and HDD upgrades were performed years back using old spare parts.) With his cable modem connection it works just fine; there are not many web pages that display slower than they would on a brand new machine, since the server is the weak link in most cases. His setup works better than a new high speed connection system with IE and no popup filtering, and better than dialup which 60% of home users still use.
And of course he does also read email and do IM chat, again without trouble. I think there's something to this idea that you hardly need any processor power for basic productivity programs.
Yeah, you're right, sarcastic would be a better term.
Morons? Nope. This calls for meta-mod 'Ironic'.
Your numbers are confusing me. You mention 100,000 bits per field for MJPEG. I assume you mean bytes, since that is not enough space for a decent looking field of video. And you mention 50 Mbps (megabits) for high quality standard definition video. That sounds about right, and agrees with 100,000 bytes/field * 8 bits/byte * 60 fields/sec = 48 Mbps. That's 6 MBps (megabytes). Consumer equipment was doing one stream of video at that bandwidth years ago.
You said double that for MPEG. Why? MPEG requires less data for the same visual quality as MJPEG. You don't need 100 Mbps worth of MPEG to deliver visual transparency. Somewhere in the vicinity of 50 Mbps is the most needed for natural scenes.
Today's 10K RPM drives deliver over 40 MBps minimum sustained sequential transfer. A disk array with four data drives should deliver as much as 160 MBps depending on the interface and controller. You say your arrays only give you 3 streams, 2 playback and 1 recording, if I understand you correctly. But according to the above numbers you should have room for upwards of 15 streams of MPEG video. (Because video is sequential, buffering should allow you to keep the number of seeks down so that the actual performance of the drives is close to the theoretical maximum bandwidth.)
If we were talking about uncompressed 4:2:2 24-bit 720x480 video, then the bandwidth is about 41 MBps for each stream, and three streams would fit inside the bandwidth of the array with no room for a fourth. Is it possible this is what you had in mind?
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Microsoft's Split Raises Eyebrows
Friday January 17, 2:52 pm ET
By James J. Cramer,
It's hard to find consensus about anything involving this Microsoft (NasdaqNM:MSFT - News) quarter, except one detail: Why the heck did they split the stock?
That's right, when you ask the purists and the critics and the spectators why they did it, they all say the same thing: to gussy up a blah quarter.
There is no force on earth that could convince the bulk of Windows users to install a browser other than IE, because IE works pretty darn well, and it is preinstalled. Therefore commercial web developers will never stop developing with IE foremost in mind. The best we can hope for is cross-browser compatible design. Nobody is going to switch away from IE in large numbers. It's a chicken-egg thing.
A conversation with Steve Wozniak
In an exclusive two-part interview, Apple Computer's co-founder discusses Steve Jobs and the company's roots
By David Zeiler: The Mac Experience
The Mac Experience
Originally published Jun 5, 2003
The Mac Experience
First of two parts
Though out of the spotlight since leaving Apple Computer Inc. in 1985, Steve Wozniak remains revered for his integral role in helping Steve Jobs establish the company in 1976. He is credited with single-handedly designing the Apple I and Apple II machines.
A native of San Jose, Calif., Wozniak was introduced to Jobs in the mid-1970s by a mutual friend, Bill Fernandez.
Wozniak, who had dropped out of the University of California at Berkeley to get a job, was five years older than Jobs, who was in high school. He later received his degree from Berkeley.
Since leaving Apple, Wozniak has dabbled in several unsuccessful technological ventures, such as a wireless universal TV remote control company called CL-9, while devoting much of his time to educational causes.
In January 2002, Wozniak announced the formation of a startup company, Wheels of Zeus, to design and build "new consumer electronics wireless products to help everyday people track everyday things." The company has yet to announce any products.
Wozniak, 52, was in Baltimore last week for the silver anniversary celebration of the Maryland Apple Corps. He received a standing ovation before beginning his remarks.
In an interview, Wozniak discussed Jobs, the first Apple and the 1999 cable television movie, "Pirates of Silicon Valley," which depicted the showdown between his colleague and Microsoft Corp. founder Bill Gates.
The Mac Experience will feature more excerpts next week.
How did you and Steve Jobs meet?
I think it was my second year of college. I finally got some parts from a company that I had worked for, so I could build a computer of my own design. It was the first computer that I had ever built in my life. It was a minimal one. It couldn't do much, but it had switches and lights and it ran.
We built it down in Bill Fernandez's garage. He lived down the street, a few streets down. And Bill introduced me to Steve. That's my recollection.
Steve thinks we met much earlier, but I don't think so. Bill said: "There's this guy you've got to meet, because he likes electronics and he pulls pranks. You two have so much in common." And we did.
What was Jobs like? Was he like how he was portrayed in "Pirates of Silicon Valley"?
He was very much like he was portrayed there. He was sort of a free-floating hippie who could go a lot of different ways. He ate a lot of nuts -- and walked around barefoot or in sandals. He could get a job at Atari as a technician-engineer who could take designs and finish them. And then he'd go out for a few months and work on spreads in Oregon, or go over to India, bathe in the Ganges River. Then he'd come back.
I was very much the opposite -- just real stable. A settled, middle- type person, feet on the ground, have a normal life and a family and a home.
Has he changed much over the years?
No. Those values are very much unchanged. But his head was always looking toward business. Always. Even in those days. The questions he would ask: "With this design, could you ever put a disk drive on it?" "Could you ever have multiple users on it, sharing it?"
It's funny that, way back in time, these little questions he was asking, they're things that he keeps making sure Apple does to this day.
What is your relationship now with Apple?
I get a small salary. I want to be an Apple employee forever, if I can. I don't know what the salary is, but it's real small. Whenever I'm in the press, it sorta represents Apple. And I have occasional phone calls to Steve Jobs; sometimes, we'll get together for lunch. He might ask me a few questions about what do I think about that, how are we doing here. I let him know
Microsoft's market cap is presently about $260 billion, down from a high of about $630 billion. About 17% of the company's stock is held by company executives; Gates alone holds about 10%. So the executives personally hold $44 billion in stock, down $62 billion from the stock's peak. If the stock were ever to reflect more modest (some might say realistic) prospects for future earnings, those executives stand to lose tens of billions more. And of course all the Microsoft millionaires and ex-millionaires in the company are presently less motivated to stay and could become more demotivated by future declines.
Jason Earl has it right; Microsoft's $45 billion may be a handy thing to have but it is only a rounding error compared to the stock market losses the company has eaten, and the losses it could face.
Check out the link.
Yuriy
Well hello Denise, thanks for agreeing to help us learn how to configure the PIX Firewall.
Denise
It's my pleasure Yuriy, let's cut right to the chase and talk about the PIX. The PIX is not a router, it can not participate in dynamic routing protocols. The PIX in it's most basic form is simply a box with 2 Ethernet interfaces. (...)
(with apologies to Mr. Clinton)
Indeed, if that's the case, it would be correct to say that DirectFB is an X server. To say that it "is X" sounds a bit off, though.
s/it's/its
Try Bittorrent if you haven't already. It is the solution to that particular problem, and I predict that it will take a lot of people out of Usenet file downloading.
Los Angeles, April 9
From now on South-Central will start disappearing from maps, and the area will be called South Los Angeles in city documents, correspondence, maps and community plans.
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parent poster is the subject of the article, Craig Sanders
IBM's current TV campaign is something I enjoy. The whole ad is an absurd joke, with no hard sell. I even learned the punch lines. "There is no magic performance dust." "There is no business time machine." Their ad agency should get an award. Normally computer TV ads drive me nuts, like the current campaigns of Apple and Dell and every campaign ever from MS.
I understand your argument to be: money in the political process is corrupting, therefore giving money to the EFF is just throwing fuel on a corrupting process, and we should instead... well, then you advocate either campaign finance reform, revolution or abandonment (whatever you mean by that term).
The EFF doesn't operate by bribing legislators with campaign contributions. They spend their money on staff, which they use to do legal action and analysis. You could ban campaign contributions tomorrow and it wouldn't affect the EFF. Giving them a lot of money is not "paying for a just legal environment" because they do not function to counterbalance contributions of their adversaries with their own contributions. They influence the legal process the old fashioned way, by writing papers and filing suits.
My French Bananas Of Unbounded Magnificence
/enfin/.
When teaching Granny to suck eggs
The dusky maiden softly begs
The husky crone to lift a hand
And helps the wrinkled hag to stand
Where moth and mildew cannot reach
Ties her in place, and starts to teach
With many cries of "Stand up straight!"
"Now put it in your mouth, like so -
And must I tell you: suck, don't blow!"
But Granny blew and eggy mess
Besmirched the helpful maiden's dress
Who then delivered such a slap
That Gran responded "Shut your trap!"
And tried to slap the maiden back
Her aged joints went crick and crack
The ropes held tight; the maiden smiled,
The crone could only curse the child;
The evil girl now took her switch
But luckily, a sudden glitch
Occurred to stop her beating Gran
She beat the egg instead,
from A Golden Treasury of Collaborative Verse
These guys are setting a good example. Their 7-page PDF is 80KB expanded, 24KB zipped. That's for 20K non-space formatted characters plus a simple figure. Less formatting overhead than the average HTML 3.0 page. Looks good, too; it is groff output run through Distiller and it renders well on Acrobat Reader and is typeset well.
Hack 'em Fast
Fast Hack 'Em, rather. I loved that program.