Im not technically knowledable but is it possible to strip the plastic casing top and examine the microchip under a microscope?
Not really. Oh, if the chip designer is incompetent you could but the techniques for hiding stuff on-chip are well-known from way back when.
I've even consulted internally on techniques used by military-grade security ICs that not only defy structural or e-beam attacks but also detact indirect attacks such as power analysis. Keep in mind that these security tricks are also used by "smart cards" and the like that you hope are actually fairly secure.
It's not a giant lizard, it's a monstrosity put together out of pieces of other things. If it came from northern Europe, we could call it "Chim-era" but instead it should be Chimzilla.
Read the post again -- I was pointing out that the Democratic "article of faith" had just bounced a reality check, based on both vote tallies and exit polls, in nearly every precinct in the USA.
And, no, I'm not a ranting Bush-hater. I'm a member of the Radical Center: my motto is "a plague on both your houses."
Bush rigged every district in every State. Including the ones with paper trails.
This was the highest turnout election in decades, and contrary to Democratic expectations (one might almost consider it an article of faith) the increase didn't favor them. This, according to exit polls.
Something is funny about this last election no matter how you slice it.
PCI-Express reflects Intel's continuing obsession with bandwidth at the expense of latency. An AGP channel is inherently much lower latency than a PCIe channel regardless of how many PCIe lanes you may throw at it.
Unfortunately for the PCIe users (and I am one, the new box that $EMPLOYER got me uses PCIe video) graphics are quite sensitive to latency.
I'm one of the SPICE trolls at $EMPLOYER who developed the I/O stuff for both AGP and PCIe. For what it's worth, I won't be switching to PCIe until it looks like I don't have a choice.
Still, IMHO, the all-time classic. Digging around in my grandfather's basement I even came across a set that my uncles had used as kids, so (I even got permission) I added the parts to my own collection.
If you think Legos let you build great stuff, you've never used an Erector set to put together a meter-high four-legged walker -- and that was forty years ago.
The article doesn't say _anything_ about wince running the fuel injectors, or the ABS, or air bags, or brakes, or steering...
I hope you enjoy having the air conditioning come on when the outdoor temperature is somewhere south of freezing, or having the wipers quit at rush hour in heavy rain, or having the headlamps turn off/dome lamps turn on while driving a mountain road at night.
If you think that just the entertainment systems would be under Redmond's control for now, then think about having your car stereo suddenly pumping out 130 dBA of distortion just as you're trying to change lanes at 130 kph.
On an automotive platform, there are precious few systems that aren't safety-related.
Hate to break the news, but unless someone finds a way to use superfluids (lossless flow fluids, like liquid helium) for these, they're gonna take power to run.
At a rough guess from scaling theory, they're gonna take several orders of magnitude more energy/bit than electronic gates.
The only TV I watch is by time-shifting. At least I can time-shift analog. I'm certainly in no hurry to trade in the ability to timeshift for the priveledge of having to pay several times as much for a set whose primary design feature is its ability to keep me from recording broadcast programs.
The old analog set works, and I'm not planning to replace it.
When you license (not "buy") an MS product, you waive any claim on them for anything. Put another way: whatever problems you have are none of their worry.
Upgrading to one of the Mozilla family would be a great security solution! All you'd have to do would be uninstall IE (obviously you aren't secure as long as it's there) and replace it with Mozilla.
Silver was the BSF attorney at this week's hearing. He's supposed to be one of BSF's top guns, but his main contribution to the hearing was snores -- he visibly slept through the proceedings.
This case will be well argued - and that is a good thing.
Not so far -- it's turning into a textbook case in "1001 ways to ruin a case." BSF has contradicted itself not only in its filings in different courts, but even in its filings before the Utah court. It's misrepresented the orders and findings of the Magistrate Judge to the District Judge, with the Magistrate's assistants present.
When Judge Kimball asked Mr. Frei (SCOX Counsel) to explain the contradictions between their filings in Delaware and their filings in Utah, he tried to change the subject. The Judge then pointedly demanded a responsive reply, whereupon Mr. Frei deferred to Mr. Silver as the expert on the Delaware case.
At this point Mr. Silver woke up, tried to change the subject, and finally simply declared that there was no contradiction -- not, as you may imagine, a response calculated to reassure a United States District Judge who'd already commented on those very contradictions himself.
now here is what i dont understand. its either the us.a legal system that is completely rotten that u can make fals claims and accusations for several years without any proof or evidence, or there has to be something to sco's case actually, and the judges arent sure either, and ibm has something to hide too, no matter if its some shit that they did to linux, or whether its just their aix/dynix/whatever code they messedup and mixed with sco stuff...
Dismissal is when the suit is structurally flawed to begin with (e.g.: SCOX sued Novell for "Slander of Title" but didn't even allege one of the requisite elements for SoT.)
What you're talking about would be summary judgment: there's not even enough evidence that a jury would be needed to weigh it. Since it can take a while to develop evidence through discovery, motions for summary judgment generally wait until the case is well-developed.
IBM now is proceeding to file motions for summary judgment, based in large part on the fact that SCOX hasn't even tried to identify specific facts that would support a charge of either copyright infringement or contract violation.
Slow, frustrating, but like Juggernaught's Carriage it gets there eventually and regardless.
Caldera (now called "the SCO Group") is going to sue IBM because they worked with Caldera on Linux, so that when Monterey stalled IBM and Caldera were able to move on.
Thanks at least in part to the failure of Monterey (and the fact that Caldera helped IBM have a contingency plan that worked) Caldera was able to pick up the Santa Cruz Operation's Unix business at a discount.
Because they got it at a discount, they're going to sue IBM for conspiring with themselves to save them acquisition costs?
Wall Street and financials have nothing to do with the price of this stock. Most of it is held by insiders, and of the public float much more than half is shorted.
The few institutional investors that got stuck with this turkey are so far underwater that they may as well pray for a miracle, because selling now they'll take a bath -- besides, there aren't any takers.
SUNW doesn't mean SuSE -- they know that IBM uses Red Hat as well. SUNW means System V Unix and AIX.
SUNW just woke up to the fact that their deals with SCOX didn't mean anything because Novell still owns all of the collateral, including the right to tell SCOX to stifle itself.
If SUNW were to buy Novell, the thinking must go, they could reverse Novell's order telling SCOX to leave IBM alone. Instead, they could harass IBM over AIX, which is a direct competitor to SUNW's server offerings.
SUNW still doesn't see Linux as a strategic threat. Don't be fooled into thinking that our interests are what drive them.
Unless you are working with individual gates inside a chip, I doubt picoseconds really matters.
More like individual transistors, but it's all oriented towards getting traffic between chips. For some of the stuff that I'm doing the total chip-to-chip budget is less than a nanosecond (and yes, that means that they have to be really friendly.)
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Not really. Oh, if the chip designer is incompetent you could but the techniques for hiding stuff on-chip are well-known from way back when.
I've even consulted internally on techniques used by military-grade security ICs that not only defy structural or e-beam attacks but also detact indirect attacks such as power analysis. Keep in mind that these security tricks are also used by "smart cards" and the like that you hope are actually fairly secure.
Considering that "billg@microsoft.com" is hard-wired into quite a few tools for use with anonymous FTP ...
And, yes, I know that there's already a browser named Chimera. It's dead, Jim.
Read the post again -- I was pointing out that the Democratic "article of faith" had just bounced a reality check, based on both vote tallies and exit polls, in nearly every precinct in the USA.
And, no, I'm not a ranting Bush-hater. I'm a member of the Radical Center: my motto is "a plague on both your houses."
Why do you think early and absentee voting was at record-high levels this year? In some places it's the only way to dodge the touchscreens.
This was the highest turnout election in decades, and contrary to Democratic expectations (one might almost consider it an article of faith) the increase didn't favor them. This, according to exit polls.
Something is funny about this last election no matter how you slice it.
Unfortunately for the PCIe users (and I am one, the new box that $EMPLOYER got me uses PCIe video) graphics are quite sensitive to latency.
I'm one of the SPICE trolls at $EMPLOYER who developed the I/O stuff for both AGP and PCIe. For what it's worth, I won't be switching to PCIe until it looks like I don't have a choice.
Still, IMHO, the all-time classic. Digging around in my grandfather's basement I even came across a set that my uncles had used as kids, so (I even got permission) I added the parts to my own collection. If you think Legos let you build great stuff, you've never used an Erector set to put together a meter-high four-legged walker -- and that was forty years ago.
I finally escaped from 7 years on a Sun workstation to a Linux box. Solaris had its advantages, but X11 wasn't one of them and CDE wasn't another.
I hope you enjoy having the air conditioning come on when the outdoor temperature is somewhere south of freezing, or having the wipers quit at rush hour in heavy rain, or having the headlamps turn off/dome lamps turn on while driving a mountain road at night.
If you think that just the entertainment systems would be under Redmond's control for now, then think about having your car stereo suddenly pumping out 130 dBA of distortion just as you're trying to change lanes at 130 kph.
On an automotive platform, there are precious few systems that aren't safety-related.
At a rough guess from scaling theory, they're gonna take several orders of magnitude more energy/bit than electronic gates.
Quick, ship this sucker to the Utah District Court, attention Judge Dale Kimball.
The old analog set works, and I'm not planning to replace it.
Now you understand why OEMs push MS so hard. They don't get that kind of marketing support from Linux.
When you license (not "buy") an MS product, you waive any claim on them for anything. Put another way: whatever problems you have are none of their worry.
No update for Win2000 which is still used by my 50000-employees company ?
Yup -- but you were supposed to upgrade to XP already, so what's the big deal? You have been paying for Software Protection, haven't you?
Oh, wait a minute ...
Or was that "blue scream of death?"
More like "low farce." I'd moderate SCOX at "-1, Troll."
This case will be well argued - and that is a good thing.
Not so far -- it's turning into a textbook case in "1001 ways to ruin a case." BSF has contradicted itself not only in its filings in different courts, but even in its filings before the Utah court. It's misrepresented the orders and findings of the Magistrate Judge to the District Judge, with the Magistrate's assistants present.
When Judge Kimball asked Mr. Frei (SCOX Counsel) to explain the contradictions between their filings in Delaware and their filings in Utah, he tried to change the subject. The Judge then pointedly demanded a responsive reply, whereupon Mr. Frei deferred to Mr. Silver as the expert on the Delaware case.
At this point Mr. Silver woke up, tried to change the subject, and finally simply declared that there was no contradiction -- not, as you may imagine, a response calculated to reassure a United States District Judge who'd already commented on those very contradictions himself.
Dismissal is when the suit is structurally flawed to begin with (e.g.: SCOX sued Novell for "Slander of Title" but didn't even allege one of the requisite elements for SoT.)
What you're talking about would be summary judgment: there's not even enough evidence that a jury would be needed to weigh it. Since it can take a while to develop evidence through discovery, motions for summary judgment generally wait until the case is well-developed.
IBM now is proceeding to file motions for summary judgment, based in large part on the fact that SCOX hasn't even tried to identify specific facts that would support a charge of either copyright infringement or contract violation.
Slow, frustrating, but like Juggernaught's Carriage it gets there eventually and regardless.
Thanks at least in part to the failure of Monterey (and the fact that Caldera helped IBM have a contingency plan that worked) Caldera was able to pick up the Santa Cruz Operation's Unix business at a discount.
Because they got it at a discount, they're going to sue IBM for conspiring with themselves to save them acquisition costs?
The few institutional investors that got stuck with this turkey are so far underwater that they may as well pray for a miracle, because selling now they'll take a bath -- besides, there aren't any takers.
SUNW just woke up to the fact that their deals with SCOX didn't mean anything because Novell still owns all of the collateral, including the right to tell SCOX to stifle itself.
If SUNW were to buy Novell, the thinking must go, they could reverse Novell's order telling SCOX to leave IBM alone. Instead, they could harass IBM over AIX, which is a direct competitor to SUNW's server offerings.
SUNW still doesn't see Linux as a strategic threat. Don't be fooled into thinking that our interests are what drive them.
More like individual transistors, but it's all oriented towards getting traffic between chips. For some of the stuff that I'm doing the total chip-to-chip budget is less than a nanosecond (and yes, that means that they have to be really friendly.)