Isn't address segmenting a throwback to the old 8086 days anyway? I used to have to deal with 64kb segmented addresses back in the day, and I can say it was a horrible PITA. Or are you speaking to traditional paging segments?
Also, on the difference between privileged and unprivileged vs. multi-ring privileges, one could argue that bifurcated privileges are all that's needed.
(though I realize that you are arguing in opposition to that position)
No. There are certainly register extensions to support 64 bit registers. And both AMD and Intel chips support greater than 32 bits of address space (neither support full 64 bit addresses - which would be gargantuan and unnecessary right now). The real issue is what DRM support is on the motherboard in order to hardware verify the signatures of whatever drivers are inserted into the kernel. This does not need 64 bits.
However -- I too -- am not a kernel developer. I've read through the linux and BSD kernel sources. And I've read the Tannenbaum book. But I don't claim to be able to write the stuff.
Fathi conceeded for 32-bit systems the firm will never have the amount of control over security. He said: "That train has left the station."
For 32-bit versions of Vista, it'll be mostly as you were on security. Developers will be able to patch the kernel, only now they'll have to compete with Microsoft's own brand anti-spyware, encryption, and anti-spam offerings. Fathi lamented Microsoft had "missed a great opportunity" last time round.
What's the difference between the 32 bit and 64 bit kernel? And what does a 'tabernacle of security' mean?
I don't think there's a significant difference in DRM hardware between 32bit and 64bit systems. Why make the distinction? If they're going to secure Windows - why not secure Windows?
The market for anti-virus software is a response to poor software design. So Microsoft claim they will fix it, and in the process are bundling tools similar to their competitors'. But the ultimate solution will will require not a reactive solution - which is why anti-virus software does - but a proactive solution, similar to just about every other professional OS. That is, pervasive use of filesystem ACLs, low privilege user accounts, etc etc etc. That is, enough security such that if a virus does run - it wouldn't do much damage.
Wouldn't a Windows system with proper security be just as damaging to these anti-virus makers as Microsoft bundling anti-virus software? And isn't the OS maker the proper responsible party for system security?
So let's summarise so far. Luminaries like Robert Scoble cannot make video on the web work economically, even with their advertising and audience pull. The economics are against him.
YouTube is assumed to be worth $1.65 billion yet it relies on pirated content to a degree we cannot ascertain. What we can conjecture is that it is not viable without pirated content.
Raising this theft issue invites ridicule -- something here doesn't add up.
Copyright also emerged this week as an issue for top flight talent like the Beatles and in actions taken by the music industry against 8,000 illegal filesharers.
The other side of the coin is that many media enterprises don't respect authors' copyright. Copyright abuse by newspapers in Europe is not uncommon. When it applies to freelance writers there is a wrongful assumption that a newspaper can sell and resell in the print and onlline syndication market without reverting to the content producer.
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We tend to take the "technology first" view of this -- we have the technology to share files so we should; likewise newspapers can exploit the technology of databases to continually resell content, so they should. But rights are trampled on in the process. There's no point in ignoring that. It's like assuming vidcasting is viable. It seems to be until you try it without a loss maker called YouTube.
Price Japan will export just about anything Japanese to anyone in the world. Some years ago I bought a Sony HS-20 video projector from that site, because it wasn't available in the US at the time. It still works just great. But perhaps court judgments like this will ultimately kill companies like Price Japan.
So, does this mean that Sony can legally prevent private international re-sale of their product line too? Where is the demark line between what is and what is not permissible?
The difference is that the Princeton team wrote a vote-switching virus which would spread itself through the smart cards used to tabulate votes. Thus, one infection could -- in time -- spread to any arbitrary number of machines without the knowledge of poll workers (or voters).
That outcome is obviously not possible with manual election rigging.
It contains contextual information about what is ozone, who the main players are / were that contributed to the ozone cycle discovery, who first discovered the Antarctic ozone hole, and why it is believed that it will begin to shrink in the near future (decades).
What basis do you have for this comparison? 7.5k page turns, at 1 turn per minute, reading 12 hours a day, works out to something like 10 days of battery life. Can you find an LCD device at 800x600 that will run for anywhere near that long, backlit or otherwise? I sure can't.
Fair point, I pulled it out of my ass. We'll see how well this unit does in stores. I've seen eink displays and found them rather wanting for real world use. As I wrote in the parent, a two second refresh per page turn is simply unacceptable for regular reading. And, lack of annotation, makes this device worthless to me. The Newton has excellent annotation support, making it still a useful device.
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You don't seem to have understood this E-Ink technology at all.
It consumes ZERO power to hold the current image on an E-Ink screen.
I do understand that fact, I simply find it irrelevant for daily real world ebook use.
Honestly, it's difficult to compare since eink utilizes energy proportionally to the number of pixels turned per page refresh (not page turns). LCD draws power per 30hz refresh. But I think in real world use, one would find that a modern 800x600 LCD (same as the resolution of this eink device) would last about as long per charge. In comparison, I note that I get over twenty hours of constant use with the backlight turned off on my Newton (B&W, 480x320, ten years old). I really think eink is a technology not appropriate for this use. It might be great for billboards though.
eink offers nothing in power savings over black & white LCD. Further, it has a ridiculously slow refresh rate. The Sony unit doesn't include a backlight, so good luck reading in bed at night. But to my original point, for serious work annotation support is critical. I don't just read for pleasure. I take notes and highlight material to note future quotations and mark counter-arguments. This device is worthless to me.
The Sony ebook reader doesn't support pen input or any kind of annotation. It uses eink and takes one to two seconds per pageturn to refresh the display. It supports plain text, PDF, and Sony's proprietary DRM'd ebook format... so at least Gutenberg.org material can be imported.
Still, without annotation - forget it. My ten year old Newton MP2100 is still a more useful ebook reader!
This is absolutely correct, and especially relevant for an investigation as serious as capital murder. There's absolutely no way the police arrested Reiser without at least circumstantial evidence that he committed the crime, along with a reasonable expectation of forensic evidence forthcoming. For example, I note that the investigators believe they have discovered his wife's blood in the house. If they match blood type, then they could arrest prior to conclusive DNA evidence.
Further, unlike a beat-cop making a bad arrest, these are professional detectives and a lead prosecutor - all of whom know their legal boundaries and will act accordingly to make sure they get a conviction. The arrest and murder charge is a good indication that the prosecutor believes he or she has sufficient evidence to sustain a conviction, even if they believe there is further evidence to collect in order to slam-dunk the case.
Which is not to say detectives and prosecutors don't make mistakes. Nor that Reiser is guilty - we still presume innocence until conviction.
The FDA is only concerned with nanotechnology that would be eaten, injected, used internally, or otherwise ingested. I don't believe they would have regulatory authority over nano-assembler use in manufacturing or environmental dumping. The EPA could possibly set regulations on the environmental aspects, and OSHA might be able to deal with the worker safety aspect of nantech used in manufacturing.
BTW: when does ordinary chip lithography become nanotech? I mean, isn't 45nm chip fab just around the corner? A good question to ask is whether regulating all nanotechnology makes sense, or if it is better handled by each respective regulatory agency. I would argue that too much centralization is probably a bad thing. Best to break the problem up and hand it out to the specialists within each field.
then can you see how your statement that she DESERVED IT is a little harsh?
Harsh - yes; inappropriate - no. It is exactly the proper judgment given the situation. She defaulted by not showing to court and by not hiring an attorney to show for a set court date. She could easily have requested a continuance. Further, she probably have called the court clerk, explained her situation, and had the court date changed. She had a perfectly valid reason to ask for more time.
Important rule of life #37: Don't fuck with a judge.
The women was likely a con artist. Read the record someone wrote up on her. She is a criminal and deserves to goto jail, not get $11 million dollars from the people she scams.
May God help anyone who draws you as a trial judge. Whether she is a scam artist or not I don't know. But I do know what the press report said. Further, were we to look, we could find the court record and determine what was placed into evidence. *shrug* - that's just the way it works. The judge can't rule based on a perceived state of scumminess. He or she must go with what facts are placed into evidence.
I'd just like to point out that, were I to hire an attorney and file a civil suit over those defamatory and libelous words you posted against me, given the context of this discussion you could reasonably argue that your words were meant in counter-argument and not intended to be considered by the reader as a statement of fact. Further, those words have yet to impeach my (already poor) credibility, nor have they impacted me financially.
An attorney would probably have to jump over those hoops before he or she stood a chance at winning a civil defamation case.
Many States within the US still practice Capital Punishment as a supposed deterent to First Degree Murder. The efficacy of this, life imprisonment, or any other court imposed punishment is open to debate.
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I'll go search for the golden tablets right now!!!
Isn't address segmenting a throwback to the old 8086 days anyway? I used to have to deal with 64kb segmented addresses back in the day, and I can say it was a horrible PITA. Or are you speaking to traditional paging segments?
Also, on the difference between privileged and unprivileged vs. multi-ring privileges, one could argue that bifurcated privileges are all that's needed.
(though I realize that you are arguing in opposition to that position)
Somebody mod that post informative. It actually answered my question!
No. There are certainly register extensions to support 64 bit registers. And both AMD and Intel chips support greater than 32 bits of address space (neither support full 64 bit addresses - which would be gargantuan and unnecessary right now). The real issue is what DRM support is on the motherboard in order to hardware verify the signatures of whatever drivers are inserted into the kernel. This does not need 64 bits.
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However -- I too -- am not a kernel developer. I've read through the linux and BSD kernel sources. And I've read the Tannenbaum book. But I don't claim to be able to write the stuff.
OTOH: I could use a scotch. (nudge nudge)
What's the difference between the 32 bit and 64 bit kernel? And what does a 'tabernacle of security' mean?
I don't think there's a significant difference in DRM hardware between 32bit and 64bit systems. Why make the distinction? If they're going to secure Windows - why not secure Windows?
The market for anti-virus software is a response to poor software design. So Microsoft claim they will fix it, and in the process are bundling tools similar to their competitors'. But the ultimate solution will will require not a reactive solution - which is why anti-virus software does - but a proactive solution, similar to just about every other professional OS. That is, pervasive use of filesystem ACLs, low privilege user accounts, etc etc etc. That is, enough security such that if a virus does run - it wouldn't do much damage.
Wouldn't a Windows system with proper security be just as damaging to these anti-virus makers as Microsoft bundling anti-virus software? And isn't the OS maker the proper responsible party for system security?
I'd say a comparison with Netscape is a bit off.
Well that was a _very_ interesting read. Thank you, it answered my question fully.
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Price Japan will export just about anything Japanese to anyone in the world. Some years ago I bought a Sony HS-20 video projector from that site, because it wasn't available in the US at the time. It still works just great. But perhaps court judgments like this will ultimately kill companies like Price Japan.
So, does this mean that Sony can legally prevent private international re-sale of their product line too? Where is the demark line between what is and what is not permissible?
The difference is that the Princeton team wrote a vote-switching virus which would spread itself through the smart cards used to tabulate votes. Thus, one infection could -- in time -- spread to any arbitrary number of machines without the knowledge of poll workers (or voters).
That outcome is obviously not possible with manual election rigging.
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It contains contextual information about what is ozone, who the main players are / were that contributed to the ozone cycle discovery, who first discovered the Antarctic ozone hole, and why it is believed that it will begin to shrink in the near future (decades).
Hope it is of interest.
What basis do you have for this comparison? 7.5k page turns, at 1 turn per minute, reading 12 hours a day, works out to something like 10 days of battery life. Can you find an LCD device at 800x600 that will run for anywhere near that long, backlit or otherwise? I sure can't.
Fair point, I pulled it out of my ass. We'll see how well this unit does in stores. I've seen eink displays and found them rather wanting for real world use. As I wrote in the parent, a two second refresh per page turn is simply unacceptable for regular reading. And, lack of annotation, makes this device worthless to me. The Newton has excellent annotation support, making it still a useful device.
You don't seem to have understood this E-Ink technology at all.
It consumes ZERO power to hold the current image on an E-Ink screen.
I do understand that fact, I simply find it irrelevant for daily real world ebook use.
Honestly, it's difficult to compare since eink utilizes energy proportionally to the number of pixels turned per page refresh (not page turns). LCD draws power per 30hz refresh. But I think in real world use, one would find that a modern 800x600 LCD (same as the resolution of this eink device) would last about as long per charge. In comparison, I note that I get over twenty hours of constant use with the backlight turned off on my Newton (B&W, 480x320, ten years old). I really think eink is a technology not appropriate for this use. It might be great for billboards though.
eink offers nothing in power savings over black & white LCD. Further, it has a ridiculously slow refresh rate. The Sony unit doesn't include a backlight, so good luck reading in bed at night. But to my original point, for serious work annotation support is critical. I don't just read for pleasure. I take notes and highlight material to note future quotations and mark counter-arguments. This device is worthless to me.
The Sony ebook reader doesn't support pen input or any kind of annotation. It uses eink and takes one to two seconds per pageturn to refresh the display. It supports plain text, PDF, and Sony's proprietary DRM'd ebook format... so at least Gutenberg.org material can be imported.
Still, without annotation - forget it. My ten year old Newton MP2100 is still a more useful ebook reader!
Bah!
This is absolutely correct, and especially relevant for an investigation as serious as capital murder. There's absolutely no way the police arrested Reiser without at least circumstantial evidence that he committed the crime, along with a reasonable expectation of forensic evidence forthcoming. For example, I note that the investigators believe they have discovered his wife's blood in the house. If they match blood type, then they could arrest prior to conclusive DNA evidence.
Further, unlike a beat-cop making a bad arrest, these are professional detectives and a lead prosecutor - all of whom know their legal boundaries and will act accordingly to make sure they get a conviction. The arrest and murder charge is a good indication that the prosecutor believes he or she has sufficient evidence to sustain a conviction, even if they believe there is further evidence to collect in order to slam-dunk the case.
Which is not to say detectives and prosecutors don't make mistakes. Nor that Reiser is guilty - we still presume innocence until conviction.
What an amazing reply! Thank you so much for offering your insider's perspective!
The FDA is only concerned with nanotechnology that would be eaten, injected, used internally, or otherwise ingested. I don't believe they would have regulatory authority over nano-assembler use in manufacturing or environmental dumping. The EPA could possibly set regulations on the environmental aspects, and OSHA might be able to deal with the worker safety aspect of nantech used in manufacturing.
BTW: when does ordinary chip lithography become nanotech? I mean, isn't 45nm chip fab just around the corner? A good question to ask is whether regulating all nanotechnology makes sense, or if it is better handled by each respective regulatory agency. I would argue that too much centralization is probably a bad thing. Best to break the problem up and hand it out to the specialists within each field.
then can you see how your statement that she DESERVED IT is a little harsh?
Harsh - yes; inappropriate - no. It is exactly the proper judgment given the situation. She defaulted by not showing to court and by not hiring an attorney to show for a set court date. She could easily have requested a continuance. Further, she probably have called the court clerk, explained her situation, and had the court date changed. She had a perfectly valid reason to ask for more time.
Important rule of life #37: Don't fuck with a judge.
The women was likely a con artist. Read the record someone wrote up on her. She is a criminal and deserves to goto jail, not get $11 million dollars from the people she scams.
May God help anyone who draws you as a trial judge. Whether she is a scam artist or not I don't know. But I do know what the press report said. Further, were we to look, we could find the court record and determine what was placed into evidence. *shrug* - that's just the way it works. The judge can't rule based on a perceived state of scumminess. He or she must go with what facts are placed into evidence.
Oh, like you Brits have it easier WRT British libel laws. Bah! Freedom of Speech indeed!
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I'd just like to point out that, were I to hire an attorney and file a civil suit over those defamatory and libelous words you posted against me, given the context of this discussion you could reasonably argue that your words were meant in counter-argument and not intended to be considered by the reader as a statement of fact. Further, those words have yet to impeach my (already poor) credibility, nor have they impacted me financially.
An attorney would probably have to jump over those hoops before he or she stood a chance at winning a civil defamation case.
Many States within the US still practice Capital Punishment as a supposed deterent to First Degree Murder. The efficacy of this, life imprisonment, or any other court imposed punishment is open to debate.
*shrug*
I suppose here in the US if you are allowed to own a gun, you then have "Freedom of Murder".
Nope.