You know, not all of the music in the iTMS catalog is licensed from the Big Four. A fair bit is from smaller and indie labels, some of which have no problem with selling their music without DRM. In fact, there are those that have asked Apple to sell their music sans DRM but have been denied.
Jobs doesn't have to wait for the Big Four. If he really is serious about this he should give the smaller labels the option of selling their music through iTMS DRM-free. If he doesn't, then this open letter is just damage control to get the euro consumer ombudsmen off his back.
You don't get it. The data that's on the chip is already printed in plain sight on the passport. Everyone who looks at the passport can read it, it's not meant to be secret.
You been listening to the discussion at all? The problem isn't that there's a chip on the passport that contains a duplicate of the printed information on the passport. The problem is that this information can potentially be read wirelessly.
This doofus makes a big fuzz about just reading the goddamn bitstream off the chip. So what? That's what it's for in the first place.
Yeah, the article misses the mark on that one.
What I'd really like to see is a description of how the crypto on the 'contactless smartcard' works. The big potential security hole here is that it can be read from a distance, and what kinds of attacks are possible depends on the details of the crypto and transmission protocols.
There is a huge difference between, say, the chip sending the encrypted blob of information to any receiver and the chip not sending anything except a crypto challenge before a successful handshake has been performed. Even if just a crypto challenge is sent, there is the possibility that the implementation from country to country are different enough that a reader can tell which country you are from.
I think the main benefit of SSD is in the late stages of a boot. At least on Windows, when lots of 3rd party services and all those programs in the system tray hit the disk at the same time.
Long answer - memory protection between processes (and in this case guest OSes) is done by the MMU, making sure that process A can't read/write to memory owned by process B (or in this case guest OS and host OS). Unfortunately, the memory space seen by devices on extention buses like PCI is not mapped by the MMU. If a process has direct access to a device that supports DMA, it can tell the device to read or write memory that belongs to other processes (f.ex. order the sound card to read the sound buffer from kernel space. The process can then read the sound buffer to get access to kernel memory).
To safely allow a process (or guest OS) direct access to hardware devices, the hardware architecture and OS needs to be designed so that a DMA from the hardware device can only access memory owned by the process that ordered the DMA.
And an anonymous comment in the Schneier blog claims Silly String was originally invented for doing exactly this kind of work.. in the Korea war.
I'm sure a military historian will find that the first use of throwing light strings to discover tripwires was less than a month after the first use of tripwires.:)
I suppose IED is safer to use here, because for most slashdotters, the B-word resolves to a null-pointer. We don't want slashdotters dumping core because of an access violation.
Those are bound to be stinkers, but Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Revenge of the Terror of the Attack of the Evil, Mutant, Hellbound, Flesh-Eating Subhumanoid Zombified Google should be a hoot.
It means that there is a working exploit out there in the wild, which is using a vulnerability that was previously unknown to the security community / the software maker. That is, there was zero days warning.
By your logic, downloading and burning a copy of Windows XP is legal, as long as I don't enter into a contract with Microsoft.
You have got to be kidding me, that's not what he said at all.
If MS made WXP available for download by anyone, then yes it would be legal to do so.
The difference is that GNU software is made available for download With The Consent Of The Copyright Holder, while copies of WXP found on P2P networks are not.
Once you have legally acquired a copy of a piece of software, Title 17 gives you the right to install and run it without requiring any further consent or license from the copyright holder. Get that through your head, because copyright lawyers are trying hard to make you believe that an EULA is required. According to the law, if you have legally acquired a copy of a piece of software, you are allowed to install and run the software without any further consent from the copyright holder.
Think of it in terms of archive vs use format. If storage capacity is cheap, it makes sense to store all your media in the highest quality available (e.g. FLAC or other lossless if you rip from CDs, VOBs from DVDs). While MP3 and MPEG2 will be with us for a long time, when the codecs of choice for player devices change it makes sense to have the highest possible quality source available when you re-encode. It is perhaps even more important if you want to edit the media (trying to use YouTube or Google Video as source for a mashup is ugly).
With HD content available just around the corner, the storage requirements for full quality archive copies will go up a lot. A PVR set to capture digital broadcasts of all your favorite TV shows can easily fill a lot of disk.
(which reminds me - anyone have a howto on how to build a cheap and reliable Linux NAS?)
That makes sense. I wonder whether AMD's 4-in-1 is designed to be able to disable faulty cores too, it certainly would make sense to do so if they expect low yields. I know it is common to design GPUs and RAM that way, but have no idea how feasible it is for a multi-core CPU.
I was in the army when the PPro was released, so never bought one. Got a dual 440BX and assorted PII/PIII gathering dust, was my first SMP system and made me a convert. Peak performance on my current X2 isn't that hot, but being able to record a TV show while playing a game more than makes up for it.
The big question is how an X4 system will perform on the average desktop, more software has to go multithreaded before we see a real benefit and the current popular programming languages seem less than ideal.
It has been done for many years already - Cyrix MediaGX / NS/AMD Geode. Typically used in embedded and appliance computers.
With AMD merging with ATI, it wouldn't be a huge surprise if we see an upgraded all-in-one chip in the future. Perhaps targeted at low-end notebooks and media appliances.
While I don't disagree with your point about the potential for increased failure rates of 4 cores on a die vs 2 cores
4 cores on a die sounds like a recipe for low yields. Still, Intel's 2x2 might not be the superior solution either.
- Remember the Pentium Pro. It had a core die and an L2 die, but according to Wikipedia that didn't help with yield: "The two dies -- both of which were very large by the standards of the day -- had to be bonded together early in the production process, before testing was possible. This meant that a single, tiny flaw in either die made it necessary to discard the entire assembly, which was one of the reasons for the Pentium Pro's relatively low production yield and high cost.". Anyone know whether Intel's dies can be tested separately?
- Mounting one die in a package should be easier and cheaper than mounting and connecting 2 dies. Especially if the dies are closely interconnected.
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Apple will blame anyone but themselves
"and Apple would embrace it in a heartbeat"..
You know, not all of the music in the iTMS catalog is licensed from the Big Four. A fair bit is from smaller and indie labels, some of which have no problem with selling their music without DRM. In fact, there are those that have asked Apple to sell their music sans DRM but have been denied.
Jobs doesn't have to wait for the Big Four. If he really is serious about this he should give the smaller labels the option of selling their music through iTMS DRM-free. If he doesn't, then this open letter is just damage control to get the euro consumer ombudsmen off his back.
H.264 is a video codec and GSM and G.729 are audio codecs, so that's apples and oranges (or would that be eyes and ears?)
Mind providing a link? Googling turned up a copyright case, but I fail to see how that case applies to allofmp3.
Sorry, NASA used Linux.
That article doesn't say anything about what software is running on the Mars Rovers.
trollr
You don't get it. The data that's on the chip is already printed in plain sight on the passport. Everyone who looks at the passport can read it, it's not meant to be secret.
You been listening to the discussion at all? The problem isn't that there's a chip on the passport that contains a duplicate of the printed information on the passport. The problem is that this information can potentially be read wirelessly.
This doofus makes a big fuzz about just reading the goddamn bitstream off the chip. So what? That's what it's for in the first place.
Yeah, the article misses the mark on that one.
What I'd really like to see is a description of how the crypto on the 'contactless smartcard' works. The big potential security hole here is that it can be read from a distance, and what kinds of attacks are possible depends on the details of the crypto and transmission protocols.
There is a huge difference between, say, the chip sending the encrypted blob of information to any receiver and the chip not sending anything except a crypto challenge before a successful handshake has been performed. Even if just a crypto challenge is sent, there is the possibility that the implementation from country to country are different enough that a reader can tell which country you are from.
Is that on a consumer PC? I could understand it on a server that initialize a huge RAID, sanity check 64GB of RAM and whatnot.
:)
Server grade equipment, doesn't it suck?
Ah, figures.
Good point on caching and clustering.
I think the main benefit of SSD is in the late stages of a boot. At least on Windows, when lots of 3rd party services and all those programs in the system tray hit the disk at the same time.
Are chipsets with IOMMU support out yet?
How in the WORLD does access to the video, sound, or any other daughterboard grant access for a virus?
If you don't know, please leave your geek-card at the door on your way out.
Short answer - DMA.
Long answer - memory protection between processes (and in this case guest OSes) is done by the MMU, making sure that process A can't read/write to memory owned by process B (or in this case guest OS and host OS). Unfortunately, the memory space seen by devices on extention buses like PCI is not mapped by the MMU. If a process has direct access to a device that supports DMA, it can tell the device to read or write memory that belongs to other processes (f.ex. order the sound card to read the sound buffer from kernel space. The process can then read the sound buffer to get access to kernel memory).
To safely allow a process (or guest OS) direct access to hardware devices, the hardware architecture and OS needs to be designed so that a DMA from the hardware device can only access memory owned by the process that ordered the DMA.
http://www.google.no/search?q=biscitory
Your search - biscitory - did not match any documents.
Whow. I'm flabberstruck, you just made a new word.
And US Marines has used it since at least early 2004.
:)
Silly String wasn't such a silly battle order, their supplier finds
And an anonymous comment in the Schneier blog claims Silly String was originally invented for doing exactly this kind of work.. in the Korea war.
I'm sure a military historian will find that the first use of throwing light strings to discover tripwires was less than a month after the first use of tripwires.
I suppose IED is safer to use here, because for most slashdotters, the B-word resolves to a null-pointer. We don't want slashdotters dumping core because of an access violation.
So, ehh.. Can we infer that Booby Traps are trademarked?
Those are bound to be stinkers, but Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Revenge of the Terror of the Attack of the Evil, Mutant, Hellbound, Flesh-Eating Subhumanoid Zombified Google should be a hoot.
It means that there is a working exploit out there in the wild, which is using a vulnerability that was previously unknown to the security community / the software maker. That is, there was zero days warning.
What are the levels required for argyria?
Rebel without a cause he may be, but that doesn't give the campus cops the right to tazer him repeatedly. After being handcuffed.
By your logic, downloading and burning a copy of Windows XP is legal, as long as I don't enter into a contract with Microsoft.
You have got to be kidding me, that's not what he said at all.
If MS made WXP available for download by anyone, then yes it would be legal to do so.
The difference is that GNU software is made available for download With The Consent Of The Copyright Holder, while copies of WXP found on P2P networks are not.
Once you have legally acquired a copy of a piece of software, Title 17 gives you the right to install and run it without requiring any further consent or license from the copyright holder. Get that through your head, because copyright lawyers are trying hard to make you believe that an EULA is required. According to the law, if you have legally acquired a copy of a piece of software, you are allowed to install and run the software without any further consent from the copyright holder.
Think of it in terms of archive vs use format. If storage capacity is cheap, it makes sense to store all your media in the highest quality available (e.g. FLAC or other lossless if you rip from CDs, VOBs from DVDs). While MP3 and MPEG2 will be with us for a long time, when the codecs of choice for player devices change it makes sense to have the highest possible quality source available when you re-encode. It is perhaps even more important if you want to edit the media (trying to use YouTube or Google Video as source for a mashup is ugly).
With HD content available just around the corner, the storage requirements for full quality archive copies will go up a lot. A PVR set to capture digital broadcasts of all your favorite TV shows can easily fill a lot of disk.
(which reminds me - anyone have a howto on how to build a cheap and reliable Linux NAS?)
Seems "My! Very educated morons just screwed up numerous planetariums." would be more appropriate. ;-)
That makes sense. I wonder whether AMD's 4-in-1 is designed to be able to disable faulty cores too, it certainly would make sense to do so if they expect low yields. I know it is common to design GPUs and RAM that way, but have no idea how feasible it is for a multi-core CPU.
I was in the army when the PPro was released, so never bought one. Got a dual 440BX and assorted PII/PIII gathering dust, was my first SMP system and made me a convert. Peak performance on my current X2 isn't that hot, but being able to record a TV show while playing a game more than makes up for it.
The big question is how an X4 system will perform on the average desktop, more software has to go multithreaded before we see a real benefit and the current popular programming languages seem less than ideal.
It has been done for many years already - Cyrix MediaGX / NS/AMD Geode. Typically used in embedded and appliance computers.
With AMD merging with ATI, it wouldn't be a huge surprise if we see an upgraded all-in-one chip in the future. Perhaps targeted at low-end notebooks and media appliances.
While I don't disagree with your point about the potential for increased failure rates of 4 cores on a die vs 2 cores
4 cores on a die sounds like a recipe for low yields. Still, Intel's 2x2 might not be the superior solution either.
- Remember the Pentium Pro. It had a core die and an L2 die, but according to Wikipedia that didn't help with yield: "The two dies -- both of which were very large by the standards of the day -- had to be bonded together early in the production process, before testing was possible. This meant that a single, tiny flaw in either die made it necessary to discard the entire assembly, which was one of the reasons for the Pentium Pro's relatively low production yield and high cost.". Anyone know whether Intel's dies can be tested separately?
- Mounting one die in a package should be easier and cheaper than mounting and connecting 2 dies. Especially if the dies are closely interconnected.
Will someone please think of the poor helpless penguins !?!
Don't fret, they all got fat paychecks from the anti-Gore astroturfers.