Not sure exactly what your are talking about, but he said "brute force it" just by downloading the stream. If you are trying to hack the key that could make it easier, but that's by definition not brute force.
And again it depends on the implementation. A really good DRM implementation uses wrapped keys - ie. keys encrypted with another key that is unique to the hardware, and never available in RAM. Most PC implementations don't use that, of course, but many embedded devices do. If it was embedded in secure hardware, that doesn't reduce your search space at all, and any decent software implementation still never stores the actual decrypted key in a contiguous 16 byte chunk of RAM. If you don't first reverse engineer the exact algorithm trying random 16 byte memory locations won't help at all.
You can't. But there's no way to do it in Windows or Mac, either.
There is, but it's not widely used (yet). Intel Sandybridge supports decrypting and decoding in a secure path to a secure/encrypted video overlay (many embedded SoCs already do this, as well, but you are talking Windows/Mac x86). The easiest way to get the unencrypted video in that case would just be to record the uncompressed full screen output from a hacked HDMI/HDCP device. But then why bother, just do that with a BD player.
There's also nothing you can do to prevent me from running netcat on another box on the network and capturing the stream in its entirety for brute force decryption at a later date.
Yeah, sure. You are going to brute force AES 128. Better start now, with current technology it would take all of the computers in the world running for a billion billion years to brute force one key.
It has already been done both in Flash and HTML5. And obviously, developing for Flash or HTML5 have tools that are just as polished (and also cross-platform).
Frist post troll strikes again (just look at the UID, it was created today). Though he is more or less correct about the DRM... it's a moot point trying to complain about Netflix or any other streaming provider, the studios require DRM to provide their content.
SMS won drastically on colors on screen (32 vs 16), sprite size, and palette limitations (most notably NES had fugly 4 color sprites while SMS could use 16) though, which were some of the major reasons most SMS games just looked better. Altered Beast is a pretty drastic example of the difference those factors that can make.
You are trying to compare the N64 to the *Saturn*? The Saturn was 2 years older than the N64. You might as well compare the N64 to the Dreamcast, since there is a 2 year difference, there, too. Same with the SNES and the Genesis, the SNES was two years newer.
None of these comparisons mean much. The SEGA/Nintendo battles of the 80's/90's were about one company leapfrogging the other every couple years. Of course you can pick any two consoles and one has better specs, that was the point.
Wow, speak for yourself. Many people (myself included) consider duck an amazing delicacy (if occasional, since they are just a *bit* fatty). Cantonese roast duck, Peking duck, duck a l'orange, duck confit, duck liver pate... not to mention duck fat french fries! Ok, now I'm hungry.
You get proteins (not DNA) of bigger and bigger size forming from the same basic building blocks. Like Prions and the normal proteins of our bodies. Now get one that is by accident capable of self-reproducing (probably with the environment and other simpler proteins already doing most of job),
"Self-reproducing" is a bit of a stretch there. It's just an existing protein with a mis-folded tertiary structure. It's as alive as a slinky that doesn't slink.
Though I agree "alive" is an extremely subjective term... still, there are some definitions that allow you to "bin" organisms pretty effectively.
anyone who believes that humans are direct descendants of apes are using faith as a tool as much as one who believes in religion X.
Sigh. That's just absurd. This isn't some random philosophers sitting in a room coming up with "interesting ideas". There is well documented DNA evidence (as well as morphological and anatomical evidence, etc) that can be used to trace human evolution back millions of years with an extremely high level of confidence. And you are equating that to people who think the Earth is 6000 years old by claiming direct observation is all that matters, and everything else is "faith"?
Just because you don't know the first thing about evolutionary biology doesn't mean no one does. And reason and deduction are not the same faith.
That article is wrong - they misinterpreted Sony's comments that the PS4 GPU would have a "DirectX 11.1+ feature set." NOT that it would actually use the DirectX API. (not to mention calling DirectX the "industry standard"... huh??)
Though if he wanted to put $50B of his own money in, he almost could. Despite his claims that his net worth is less than a million, real estimates (due to his shares from plundering - I mean privatizing - the Russian oil & gas industry) is closer to $40B. The current Russian regime makes the US robber barons of the late 1800s look like small potatoes...
Your replies, though highly sarcastic, provided absolutely nothing to the debate.
An example of the tantrums I mentioned. You're sooo special and important that we should change all the rules for you.
Why is asking the government to allow more immigration to the US to perform highly skilled work a tantrum and "special"? Why should the arbitrary "rules" (whatever you think those are... they are NOT an inherent or Constitutional mandate, they are a 20th century protectionist, isolationist, sometimes racist vestige) not be changed? You do understand (despite strong opposition from various protectionist and racist groups making the same arguments you do) constant immigration helped make the US what it is today in terms of labor, industry, academics, and technology?
How awful! They should do it for the love of it, just like Zuckerberg. I also don't want a doctor who plodded through school because "the money is good", so I'll only see physicians who work for free. Thankfully I haven't gotten sick lately.
And if you are such a simpleton that you think anyone can be a software engineer, let alone a doctor, you have zero experience or knowledge or either field.
Right, housing, cars, restaurants, aircraft, etc. are all booming because Google and Facebook are selling more advertising. Those online ads, customized by sniffing up their users butts, are just sooo important to the rest of the economy.
Yes. Those companies and hundreds of others. In the Bay Area that is 100% true, thanks for pointing that out, not sure I could have said it better. The housing, cars, restaurants, (aircraft? probably...) are all booming because they are selling more advertising (and phones and tablets and apps and games and services and B2B software and electric cars and everything else that all of the tech companies are providing), people are employed, spending their money in the economy which helps employ more people, etc. And economic recovery progresses...
Oh, those artificial scarcities are just so terrible. Thank heavens they've gotten rid of them so I can now travel to any country I want and get a job.
Ok, now are you just being ironic? That's the whole FUCKING point! If the other countries don't want to admit qualified labor from other nations, too bad. But we should gladly accept their best and brightest with open arms and too hell with them...
Yes, it does. It's based on a principle called a "market". The idea is that if a "resource" (formerly known as skilled people) is in short supply, then the price will rise. Hence more people will enter that market, and the "shortage" will disappear. I know it's a radical idea, but it just might work.
"Not instantaneous" is an understatement. Tech companies don't have 4+ years to wait to hire people (and those are just going to be new college grads! There ARE talented experienced non-American developers out there). Not to mention people use this same argument every time there is a labor shortage, and it has yet to be proven true. The problem is there is only a limited pool of talent that has both the interest and capability of being an effective software engineer (same with being a doctor, salesperson, actor, athlete, carpenter, whatever). It's not like no one is studying it now, and the fact is the minor increases you would see still don't cover the shortage. I don't want an incompetent new college grad who plodded through school because "the money is good" any more than I want an incompetent experienced engineer who disastrously fails the interview process.
The entire recent tech boom - which has helped DRIVE recovery from the recession - has only been going on for a few years. In that time, Google has grown their R&D staff by 30%, and Facebook by 300%. And it's the same with many others. The fact is these increases have been great for the US economy as a whole - the products and services these companies created have kickstarted or revitalized a lot of other industries, as well. Creating artificial scarcity and preventing that growth is just a bad idea for the US economy as a whole.
The current 2.2% SWE unemployment figure is national, not regional. Everyone keeps using the argument "there are a lot of good engineers in XXX!" they they don't get it - most of *those* good engineers are already employed, as well. Sure, I'd have no problem hiring them away from another company if they want to leave, but that does zero to solve the resource shortage. It's just churn.
Yeah, but who says any of those applications are unemployed? That 2.2% figure was national, not regional. As you said, you applied but already have a job that pays well. If you left your job your company would just have to replace you. High churn does not mean there is a surplus!
And STEM != software engineering. There are a HUGE variety of specialized fields in "science, technology, engineering, and mathematics." There could be a 10% unemployment/underemployment in molecular biologists, but that does no good to someone hiring software engineers.
Debunked my ass. A different article from the SAME source claims in the US "it's near full employment for software developers, whose unemployment rate falls from last year to 2.2%".
As a software engineer, I appreciate the scarcity that has caused salaries in the Bay Area to rise more quickly in the last couple of years. But as someone who has interviewed endless streams of unqualified people, the industry really does need a larger applicant pool. (Lets face, it, the percentage of current software engineers who are just plain bad is well above 2.2%, so that's about as close to full employment as it will get).
Not only that, but have you SEEN what the "Xbox creative directors" have done to the Xbox 360 Dash lately? It's a half-assed Metro-based design hamstrung by the hardware limitations of Kinect.
Not only was he bad for the company's image, he couldn't have been a very good creative director anyway.
If you SERIOUSLY think this price chart represents a useful *currency* vs. a commodity in a bubble - please, for the love of your descendants, store your savings in a mattress.
Yes, you fuckwit, that's the right way to treat your parents and grandparents. I'm sure you are about 14, but once your family members get to that age hopefully you have actually grown up.
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Ok, mod me into oblivion if I'm wrong, I guess every blue moon there is someone with a 5 digit id as a "first time submitter";) I was just rather surprised they posted a story with a link to their own article that was posted a few hours before the referencing one... last couple of times I had a story posted it was at least a day after I submitted it. And of course the HP AD I SAW next to it didn't help the situation one bit...
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Not sure exactly what your are talking about, but he said "brute force it" just by downloading the stream. If you are trying to hack the key that could make it easier, but that's by definition not brute force.
And again it depends on the implementation. A really good DRM implementation uses wrapped keys - ie. keys encrypted with another key that is unique to the hardware, and never available in RAM. Most PC implementations don't use that, of course, but many embedded devices do. If it was embedded in secure hardware, that doesn't reduce your search space at all, and any decent software implementation still never stores the actual decrypted key in a contiguous 16 byte chunk of RAM. If you don't first reverse engineer the exact algorithm trying random 16 byte memory locations won't help at all.
You can't. But there's no way to do it in Windows or Mac, either.
There is, but it's not widely used (yet). Intel Sandybridge supports decrypting and decoding in a secure path to a secure/encrypted video overlay (many embedded SoCs already do this, as well, but you are talking Windows/Mac x86). The easiest way to get the unencrypted video in that case would just be to record the uncompressed full screen output from a hacked HDMI/HDCP device. But then why bother, just do that with a BD player.
There's also nothing you can do to prevent me from running netcat on another box on the network and capturing the stream in its entirety for brute force decryption at a later date.
Yeah, sure. You are going to brute force AES 128. Better start now, with current technology it would take all of the computers in the world running for a billion billion years to brute force one key.
It has already been done both in Flash and HTML5. And obviously, developing for Flash or HTML5 have tools that are just as polished (and also cross-platform).
Frist post troll strikes again (just look at the UID, it was created today). Though he is more or less correct about the DRM... it's a moot point trying to complain about Netflix or any other streaming provider, the studios require DRM to provide their content.
SMS won drastically on colors on screen (32 vs 16), sprite size, and palette limitations (most notably NES had fugly 4 color sprites while SMS could use 16) though, which were some of the major reasons most SMS games just looked better. Altered Beast is a pretty drastic example of the difference those factors that can make.
You are trying to compare the N64 to the *Saturn*? The Saturn was 2 years older than the N64. You might as well compare the N64 to the Dreamcast, since there is a 2 year difference, there, too. Same with the SNES and the Genesis, the SNES was two years newer.
None of these comparisons mean much. The SEGA/Nintendo battles of the 80's/90's were about one company leapfrogging the other every couple years. Of course you can pick any two consoles and one has better specs, that was the point.
Big whoosh on that one! His entire post was obviously sarcasm, and was pointing out the GP post was a typical anti-Google article troll...
Wow, speak for yourself. Many people (myself included) consider duck an amazing delicacy (if occasional, since they are just a *bit* fatty). Cantonese roast duck, Peking duck, duck a l'orange, duck confit, duck liver pate... not to mention duck fat french fries! Ok, now I'm hungry.
Yes, we are. Hominidae is called the "great apes", and includes humans as well as a bunch of other primates.
Not only are we descended from apes, we *are* apes. Not descended from a gorilla, maybe, but from an ape, absolutely.
You get proteins (not DNA) of bigger and bigger size forming from the same basic building blocks. Like Prions and the normal proteins of our bodies. Now get one that is by accident capable of self-reproducing (probably with the environment and other simpler proteins already doing most of job),
"Self-reproducing" is a bit of a stretch there. It's just an existing protein with a mis-folded tertiary structure. It's as alive as a slinky that doesn't slink.
Though I agree "alive" is an extremely subjective term... still, there are some definitions that allow you to "bin" organisms pretty effectively.
anyone who believes that humans are direct descendants of apes are using faith as a tool as much as one who believes in religion X.
Sigh. That's just absurd. This isn't some random philosophers sitting in a room coming up with "interesting ideas". There is well documented DNA evidence (as well as morphological and anatomical evidence, etc) that can be used to trace human evolution back millions of years with an extremely high level of confidence. And you are equating that to people who think the Earth is 6000 years old by claiming direct observation is all that matters, and everything else is "faith"?
Just because you don't know the first thing about evolutionary biology doesn't mean no one does. And reason and deduction are not the same faith.
That article is wrong - they misinterpreted Sony's comments that the PS4 GPU would have a "DirectX 11.1+ feature set." NOT that it would actually use the DirectX API. (not to mention calling DirectX the "industry standard"... huh??)
You mean when he said this?
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/2011/03/11/carmack-directx-better-opengl/
And of all the things you mentioned only Spinal Tap is still actually relevant.
Speak for yourself! I still like banana pudding.
Though if he wanted to put $50B of his own money in, he almost could. Despite his claims that his net worth is less than a million, real estimates (due to his shares from plundering - I mean privatizing - the Russian oil & gas industry) is closer to $40B. The current Russian regime makes the US robber barons of the late 1800s look like small potatoes...
Your replies, though highly sarcastic, provided absolutely nothing to the debate.
An example of the tantrums I mentioned. You're sooo special and important that we should change all the rules for you.
Why is asking the government to allow more immigration to the US to perform highly skilled work a tantrum and "special"? Why should the arbitrary "rules" (whatever you think those are... they are NOT an inherent or Constitutional mandate, they are a 20th century protectionist, isolationist, sometimes racist vestige) not be changed? You do understand (despite strong opposition from various protectionist and racist groups making the same arguments you do) constant immigration helped make the US what it is today in terms of labor, industry, academics, and technology?
How awful! They should do it for the love of it, just like Zuckerberg. I also don't want a doctor who plodded through school because "the money is good", so I'll only see physicians who work for free. Thankfully I haven't gotten sick lately.
And if you are such a simpleton that you think anyone can be a software engineer, let alone a doctor, you have zero experience or knowledge or either field.
Right, housing, cars, restaurants, aircraft, etc. are all booming because Google and Facebook are selling more advertising. Those online ads, customized by sniffing up their users butts, are just sooo important to the rest of the economy.
Yes. Those companies and hundreds of others. In the Bay Area that is 100% true, thanks for pointing that out, not sure I could have said it better. The housing, cars, restaurants, (aircraft? probably...) are all booming because they are selling more advertising (and phones and tablets and apps and games and services and B2B software and electric cars and everything else that all of the tech companies are providing), people are employed, spending their money in the economy which helps employ more people, etc. And economic recovery progresses...
Oh, those artificial scarcities are just so terrible. Thank heavens they've gotten rid of them so I can now travel to any country I want and get a job.
Ok, now are you just being ironic? That's the whole FUCKING point! If the other countries don't want to admit qualified labor from other nations, too bad. But we should gladly accept their best and brightest with open arms and too hell with them...
Analogy fail. You must live somewhere warm... hate to break it to you, but snowflakes are real ;)
Yes, it does. It's based on a principle called a "market". The idea is that if a "resource" (formerly known as skilled people) is in short supply, then the price will rise. Hence more people will enter that market, and the "shortage" will disappear. I know it's a radical idea, but it just might work.
"Not instantaneous" is an understatement. Tech companies don't have 4+ years to wait to hire people (and those are just going to be new college grads! There ARE talented experienced non-American developers out there). Not to mention people use this same argument every time there is a labor shortage, and it has yet to be proven true. The problem is there is only a limited pool of talent that has both the interest and capability of being an effective software engineer (same with being a doctor, salesperson, actor, athlete, carpenter, whatever). It's not like no one is studying it now, and the fact is the minor increases you would see still don't cover the shortage. I don't want an incompetent new college grad who plodded through school because "the money is good" any more than I want an incompetent experienced engineer who disastrously fails the interview process.
The entire recent tech boom - which has helped DRIVE recovery from the recession - has only been going on for a few years. In that time, Google has grown their R&D staff by 30%, and Facebook by 300%. And it's the same with many others. The fact is these increases have been great for the US economy as a whole - the products and services these companies created have kickstarted or revitalized a lot of other industries, as well. Creating artificial scarcity and preventing that growth is just a bad idea for the US economy as a whole.
The current 2.2% SWE unemployment figure is national, not regional. Everyone keeps using the argument "there are a lot of good engineers in XXX!" they they don't get it - most of *those* good engineers are already employed, as well. Sure, I'd have no problem hiring them away from another company if they want to leave, but that does zero to solve the resource shortage. It's just churn.
Yeah, but who says any of those applications are unemployed? That 2.2% figure was national, not regional. As you said, you applied but already have a job that pays well. If you left your job your company would just have to replace you. High churn does not mean there is a surplus!
And STEM != software engineering. There are a HUGE variety of specialized fields in "science, technology, engineering, and mathematics." There could be a 10% unemployment/underemployment in molecular biologists, but that does no good to someone hiring software engineers.
Debunked my ass. A different article from the SAME source claims in the US "it's near full employment for software developers, whose unemployment rate falls from last year to 2.2%".
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9238266/Unemployment_rate_for_electrical_engineers_soars
As a software engineer, I appreciate the scarcity that has caused salaries in the Bay Area to rise more quickly in the last couple of years. But as someone who has interviewed endless streams of unqualified people, the industry really does need a larger applicant pool. (Lets face, it, the percentage of current software engineers who are just plain bad is well above 2.2%, so that's about as close to full employment as it will get).
Not only that, but have you SEEN what the "Xbox creative directors" have done to the Xbox 360 Dash lately? It's a half-assed Metro-based design hamstrung by the hardware limitations of Kinect.
Not only was he bad for the company's image, he couldn't have been a very good creative director anyway.
Clearly. But that's not money when you have to sell it at an exchange for fiat currency to do any of what he described with it. That's a commodity.
http://blockchain.info/charts/market-price
If you SERIOUSLY think this price chart represents a useful *currency* vs. a commodity in a bubble - please, for the love of your descendants, store your savings in a mattress.
Frankly I'm surprised Method found the unlock. I always thought Redman was the brains of that group.
Yes, you fuckwit, that's the right way to treat your parents and grandparents. I'm sure you are about 14, but once your family members get to that age hopefully you have actually grown up.
Ok, mod me into oblivion if I'm wrong, I guess every blue moon there is someone with a 5 digit id as a "first time submitter" ;) I was just rather surprised they posted a story with a link to their own article that was posted a few hours before the referencing one... last couple of times I had a story posted it was at least a day after I submitted it. And of course the HP AD I SAW next to it didn't help the situation one bit...