It's been a long time, so I doubt the project is still online, but in the '90s one of the MIT kids built a dozen or so robots that were a couple of cubic inches... like tiny bulldozers.
He called them "ants"... all in all it turned out very well and he derived many interested behavior patterns out of only a few sensors and actuators.
Actually they (the Doom9 crowd and the Xbox360 hackers) have already discovered a method that recovers Volume Unique Keys which is completely unrelated to the method they used before. One which doesn't require reprogramming the device (Although they have already done that as well)
So not only was AACS not really fixed (Just the key revoked) the velocity of revocation process is slower than the hacking process. And this revocation was a key for a software package, I imagine that the process for revoking the key for a hardware device, like the external Xbox360 HD-DVD drive to be slower, a lot slower.
Also given the nature of this sort of thing, I also figure pretty soon there will be increased interest in hacking a stand alone HD or BD player... as the price comes down I'm sure the allure of forcing revocation of a series of hardware players will attract attention.
I know I'd sure like to do it, if only to annoy and embarrass the AACS group.
Yep, and I'm checking the job listings now... The ski season sucked this year and I'm up for a change, I could take a few years of living down that way. How hard could it be running a bunch of co-located server farms, postal mail drop boxes, and accountant offices?
Oh I know that... I've also read the testimony. At this point there is an answer for all of their tactics... I'm amazed someone hasn't come up with a comprehensive defense strategy that reads somewhat like a troubleshooting manual or an old kid's play by reading adventure book.
But in all fairness... I'd rather face the M.A.F.I.A.A's lawyers than get my Mum entangled into anything like this and have her find out.... even living on a different continent is not far enough away to insure my own safety!
Just playing the devil's advocate... My Mum has an unlimited home DSL account... which she uses to send about 6 mails a month with. It would be perfect to add a router and Mac Mini with a bit torrent client running on it to her existing setup. She would never notice and I could occasionally FTP in and download the files obtained. Then if she ever got into one of these lawsuits I could remove the whole setup and she could honestly deny having anything to do with it.
Your explanation is completely contrary to my experience in dealing with DBA's. When dealing with code they did not design or implement (or as the case with iTunes, even have access to it) suggesting to upgrade the hardware is among first things that comes up. No one, who has ever been part of a validation process, is enthusiastic about moving production code back to development and repeating the cycle.
Anyone who's got "well over 750 gigs" of music needs to look at the hardware they manage the library with. That old G4 with 256 meg of RAM may well be able to play any music just fine... but it's not the thing to manage a library of that size with.
But hey, don't let me get in the way of your childish sound effects.
You know the exact same can be said of iTunes. I have about 350GB and have noticed a slowdown myself but when it was 150GB I saw no speed problems at all. 750GB is a lot of data, no matter what kind of data it is... I'd hate to use my old G4 cube to deal with an music library that large.
So I think the real answer lies along the lines of what would a database pro do if his application got so big it started to slow down on his existing hardware?
Wasn't there a rash of malware which imitated the Windows login; which MS attempted to controvert by implementing the control-alt-delete thing to get to the login screen?
That piece of shit they make to download photos to your iPod sucks directly from your camera.... egregiously.
I have a Nexto USB / Firewire hard drive (160 GB) with an, compact flash port and internal & external battery. It's tiny, you can wear it on your belt and it will download a card faster than my 5D can fill it. I generally only use 2, 1GB cards now.
I took to Africa for 8 weeks and filled it up only with determined effort.
I'm going to Peru in a couple of weeks... I thought about making a power conditioner for it.
In my mind this is the one area Apple is not really looking at... the sub-notebook market. I have a G5 PowerMac and a MacPro so I'm not really interested in a MacBook Pro. I would be very interested in a sub-notebook if I could manage photos from a shoot and do minor editing to them. I'd like it even more if my iPod could double as the mass storage device... I find I don't listen to the music that I bring form home when I travel, I'd rather listen to local tunes.
Soldering, Wiring, Rudimentary EE skills non Wintel or X86 Linux programming / cross compiling Command Line only no GUI
I think I summed that up nicely.... and for the record I found all of the above easier to learn than the modern IDE (Microsoft Visual Studio) and OS interaction.
Slashdot Mirror
No it is *not* 6 years old.
No everything on the page is not six years old.
Go back a reread it.
There is a whole email chain included, on the mirrordot link, stretching back to 2001 (and probably further I did not read the whole chain)
I doubt cryptome will have trouble finding hosting, honestly I'm sort of surprised that they use Verio/NTT
Pity that's just abstract. I'd like to read a little more on this.
I don't know... I go to a few sites that are site.de, site.at, site.co.uk and I think it helps somewhat.
Just because I'm reading in German doesn't mean the site is in Austria.
But I guess you could do the same thing like wikpedia with en.site, de.site....
It's been a long time, so I doubt the project is still online, but in the '90s one of the MIT kids built a dozen or so robots that were a couple of cubic inches... like tiny bulldozers.
He called them "ants"... all in all it turned out very well and he derived many interested behavior patterns out of only a few sensors and actuators.
As far as I can tell key revocation can target both individual devices and ranges of devices.
I could be wrong but I really don't think so.
Actually they (the Doom9 crowd and the Xbox360 hackers) have already discovered a method that recovers Volume Unique Keys which is completely unrelated to the method they used before. One which doesn't require reprogramming the device (Although they have already done that as well)
So not only was AACS not really fixed (Just the key revoked) the velocity of revocation process is slower than the hacking process. And this revocation was a key for a software package, I imagine that the process for revoking the key for a hardware device, like the external Xbox360 HD-DVD drive to be slower, a lot slower.
Also given the nature of this sort of thing, I also figure pretty soon there will be increased interest in hacking a stand alone HD or BD player... as the price comes down I'm sure the allure of forcing revocation of a series of hardware players will attract attention.
I know I'd sure like to do it, if only to annoy and embarrass the AACS group.
The last armed conflict over the Falkland Islands involved the BRITISH.
Not the United States of America.
Doubtless, a update could be achieved with a properly written DVD.
Still I'd love to see the necessity.
We probably should, They're the ones running the experiment anyway.
Fuck! Why couldn't it have been years ago... *before* I had to learn it!
Yep, and I'm checking the job listings now... The ski season sucked this year and I'm up for a change, I could take a few years of living down that way. How hard could it be running a bunch of co-located server farms, postal mail drop boxes, and accountant offices?
People take this shit way too seriously.
Oh I know that... I've also read the testimony. At this point there is an answer for all of their tactics... I'm amazed someone hasn't come up with a comprehensive defense strategy that reads somewhat like a troubleshooting manual or an old kid's play by reading adventure book.
No Doubt!
But in all fairness... I'd rather face the M.A.F.I.A.A's lawyers than get my Mum entangled into anything like this and have her find out.... even living on a different continent is not far enough away to insure my own safety!
Just playing the devil's advocate... My Mum has an unlimited home DSL account... which she uses to send about 6 mails a month with. It would be perfect to add a router and Mac Mini with a bit torrent client running on it to her existing setup. She would never notice and I could occasionally FTP in and download the files obtained. Then if she ever got into one of these lawsuits I could remove the whole setup and she could honestly deny having anything to do with it.
I saw on MacSlash he is using a G4 powerbook with 1.5gig RAM and USB drives. That just hurts my feelings thinking of it.
I've wound up with Highpoint RAID (with external drives) with my PowerMac. A very unsatisfactory solution.
Your explanation is completely contrary to my experience in dealing with DBA's. When dealing with code they did not design or implement (or as the case with iTunes, even have access to it) suggesting to upgrade the hardware is among first things that comes up. No one, who has ever been part of a validation process, is enthusiastic about moving production code back to development and repeating the cycle.
Anyone who's got "well over 750 gigs" of music needs to look at the hardware they manage the library with. That old G4 with 256 meg of RAM may well be able to play any music just fine... but it's not the thing to manage a library of that size with.
But hey, don't let me get in the way of your childish sound effects.
You know the exact same can be said of iTunes. I have about 350GB and have noticed a slowdown myself but when it was 150GB I saw no speed problems at all. 750GB is a lot of data, no matter what kind of data it is... I'd hate to use my old G4 cube to deal with an music library that large.
So I think the real answer lies along the lines of what would a database pro do if his application got so big it started to slow down on his existing hardware?
Answer: Buy more, better, and faster hardware.
5 miles a way and they could *still* hear it. Wow.
Wasn't there a rash of malware which imitated the Windows login; which MS attempted to controvert by implementing the control-alt-delete thing to get to the login screen?
It's been a while so I could be wrong....
That piece of shit they make to download photos to your iPod sucks directly from your camera.... egregiously.
I have a Nexto USB / Firewire hard drive (160 GB) with an, compact flash port and internal & external battery. It's tiny, you can wear it on your belt and it will download a card faster than my 5D can fill it. I generally only use 2, 1GB cards now.
I took to Africa for 8 weeks and filled it up only with determined effort.
I'm going to Peru in a couple of weeks... I thought about making a power conditioner for it.
In my mind this is the one area Apple is not really looking at... the sub-notebook market. I have a G5 PowerMac and a MacPro so I'm not really interested in a MacBook Pro. I would be very interested in a sub-notebook if I could manage photos from a shoot and do minor editing to them. I'd like it even more if my iPod could double as the mass storage device... I find I don't listen to the music that I bring form home when I travel, I'd rather listen to local tunes.
Soldering, Wiring, Rudimentary EE skills
non Wintel or X86 Linux programming / cross compiling
Command Line only no GUI
I think I summed that up nicely.... and for the record I found all of the above easier to learn than the modern IDE (Microsoft Visual Studio) and OS interaction.
Oh... I'm sure it was meant to be funny but it failed.
in any event I hadn't heard 'sarchasm' before so it's all worth it.
Shame I can't mod you as "missed sarcasm"
That's what I was thinking...
Oh and I did the green hair thing back in the late seventies or early eighties I forget which. It sounded a lot more fun than it was.
I'm really surprized the Chinese haven't really done amazing things with wireless grids and better crypto.
OK maybe they have and it works well and that's why we haven't heard about it.