On the other hand, if I were the RIAA attempting to identify common files in this way, I might be inclined to exclude the ID3 tag from the MD5 computation since it is so easily modified.
The article seemed (to me at lest) to be implying that they were doing this as it made a separate reference to examining metadata.
Glenn Graham demonstrates how Postfix gives you most of the power with a fraction of the pain.
Don't know about the "most of the power" bit but I could hit myself in the head and still have "a fraction of the pain". It's sendmail for f**ks sake!!!
Branch prediction is an algorithm that is used to guess where the execution flow will go next based on the past.
What this guy is talking about is having a processor that has a certain percentage of it's internal components (transistors) faulty, and yet still give the correct result.
I remember about a guy that was doing a similar thing only his basic unit was a CPU. This is at a lot smaller level.
If you think that's old hat you're a smarter man than me. 'Cause I'll be damned if I can even begin to think of how they are going to tackle that one.
...have a D->A->D process, keep the A part SHORT...
Over the ranges that we are talking, 1-2m, noise introduced by the signal traveling over distance is not a major factor. The digital to analog conversion is going to introduce more errors. The real error prone process is the analog to digital conversion. Which only happens for digital screens, such as LCD, CRT (which still comprise the vast majority of installed screens) do not.
Take it to the extreme... Send an analog signal around the world on a copper pair.... Look at the result... Now send a digital signal around the world on a copper pair (or anything else), look at the result.. Ohhh, Digital is pretty picture
You for get that a analog signal is used to represent a digital digital signal. They are both subject to the same signal lost over distance. That's why they still have repeaters on fiber optic cables. Digital just has better error detection & correction.
I think you'll find that the cable running between you box & screen is carrying an analog signal.
Remember back when every man & his dog trying to flog off a computer monitor was claiming that their's was a "digital" monitor? Well they were just talking about the fact that it now had buttons to adjust the contrast instead of a twiddle knob.
The phasing from digital to analog had been basically completed years before. This is because the shear amount of information that needs be transfered to the screen was getting out of hand as the resolutions & colour depth went up. At 1024x768x24@24fps you need to be transferring 432Mb/s. Try forcing that down 14 wires!
Think what's been one of the driving forces of bus tech. such as PCI. After it's left the graphics card there is no need to keep it in a digital form as there is no processing required and it cuts down on the number of wires need.
Maybe it's just the nature of the post, but I looked at the DirectFB screenshots (on DirectFB.org), and I see everything from GNOME 2 to WindowMaker to the GIMP, translucency, etc., etc., while I've never heard of DirectFB before.
I think (well maybe not) that the translucency effects you see on WM are not provided by WM per say. Rather they are a hack of the application you're running. You can't just tell WM to render all windows at 50% translucency.
Besides DirectFB is not really competing with "GNOME 2 to WindowMaker to the GIMP" but with X.
Actually they can. He expressed those opinions as suggestions to the Australian Parliamentary Joint Committee on the Australian Crime Commission's (ACC) investigation into cybercrime. This committee will go on to make a report to parliament which will contain suggestions for new laws to be enacted.
Greg Melick is not some quack who they will dismiss. He was the former presiding member of the National Crime Authority (NCA). The NCA was one of three government bodies that went to make up the ACC. The ACC only came into existence at the begging of the year, so Greg Melick has been out of the NCA for about 7 months. He has now become a professional adviser/lobbier(?spelling?). Furthermore he was involved in our anti-internet gambling law in exactly the same manner.
This anti-internet gambling law prohibits the operation of gambling sites on the internet with in Australia or by Australians. I'm not in favor of gambling (quite the contra in fact) however this law has only served thus far to hurt Australian bookies they loose out to competitors in Britain who are not constrained by these laws. You will notice that it was totally outlawed, not just regulated like other mediums for gambling.
Also Greg Melick is no champion of civil rights. He has used strong arm tactics in his position as head of the NCA.
If you think that our politicians will not listen to this guy you only have to look at the history of near misses and sadly some hits, that have happened in Australia.
Some of the suggestions were "100 point checks for internet users and the abolition of free email accounts."
I don't know about you but I don't find that "relatively minor".
Hell, in Australia (where I'm at & from) I don't need a 100 point check to use a phone, or send an letter. These are both services that are used by criminals and a lot more than email.
As for abolition of free email accounts I find the argument similar to banning and/or registration of the sale hammers as they might used to kill someone.
I don't think that the Tux image was in the game executable, rather the save game file. This is a hack that uses a weakness in 007, not a back door placed in by someone working on 007.
I think it could. Steganography means hidden/covered writing from it's Greek roots. The term is older than computers so I think the distinction between the body or header of an image file is a bit fine.
OK, maybe my call about WalMart was a bit harsh. After all I have never been to one. However from my post it was not clear why I disliked WalMart, and it was certainly not because they sold things cheaply.
As to me justifying theft, well I don't know how buying an XBox could be theft. You must be just a lot smarter than me to work that one out.
What about all those countries that don't have WalMart (thank god!)?
As the article said computers are more expensive in Europe and other places. That's where the difference between the price of an XBox & a white clone makes the XBox a tempting choice.
The problem is that the airframe and the wings are NOT designed to withstand the necessary stress of escape velocity.
Correct, yet only shows that you did not follow the link & read. If you had, you know that their flight plan calls for sub-orbital speeds. Sub-orbital speeds are, as the name implies, slower than orbital speed. Which in turn even slower than escape velocities, which for some strange reason your talking about. Escape velocity is the speed at which you totally escape (hence the name) the gravitational pull of a body (i.e. Earth).
If you look at the successful "space plane" type vehicles that NASA or any other big research team has developed, you'll see that it required designs that looked more like a rocket than an airplane to get anything anywhere near the edge of space.
That's because they are designed for orbital speeds. Take the space shuttle. It has not only to flight at sub-sonic & super-sonic speeds, it also has to flight at what is called ultra-sonic speeds. At ultra-sonic (> mach 15 if I remember correctly, though someone will know doubt correct me) the aerodynamics of the shuttle change again. The designers had to take this all into account. That's why the shuttle handles little better than a brick while landing. Indeed to call what the shuttle does during re-entry flighting is being rather kind.
I would expect the wings to rip out at the roots when they light up the rocket motors.
You did not read much did you? They slowly increase the angle of accent as they increase trust & altitude. They only hit mach 2.97 at an altitude of 55 km. Thus the wings are not exposed to the range of forces that you seem to be imagining.
No, where the wings will face the most stress is in re-entry. It looks like they may have not full worked out all the details for this bit as they are bit sketchy on the details.
I fully agree with you that the demise of "fair use" is bad. However I fail to see how fair use is being stopped here, either in the case of the Phantom or your pen.
Fair use is the protection given when you incorporate a piece of another's work into your own under certain circumstances. Such as you quoting a paragraph out of a book in a Uni. assignment. You can't just quote the whole book, 10% is the limit established by the courts.
What the hell are you going to do with 10% of an executable that you don't have the source to?
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On the other hand, if I were the RIAA attempting to identify common files in this way, I might be inclined to exclude the ID3 tag from the MD5 computation since it is so easily modified.
The article seemed (to me at lest) to be implying that they were doing this as it made a separate reference to examining metadata.
- Alex
treated like some form of existing technology???
'Cause they're law makers! If they could think creatively they would be doing technology.
-Alex
Fuck you!!! I was going to say that!! :)
- Alex
Glenn Graham demonstrates how Postfix gives you most of the power with a fraction of the pain.
Don't know about the "most of the power" bit but I could hit myself in the head and still have "a fraction of the pain". It's sendmail for f**ks sake!!!
- Alex
It's not 4(R) as you can't register a pure digit number like that. That's why Intel started using the name Pentium instead of 586.
-Alex
Branch prediction is an algorithm that is used to guess where the execution flow will go next based on the past.
What this guy is talking about is having a processor that has a certain percentage of it's internal components (transistors) faulty, and yet still give the correct result.
I remember about a guy that was doing a similar thing only his basic unit was a CPU. This is at a lot smaller level.
If you think that's old hat you're a smarter man than me. 'Cause I'll be damned if I can even begin to think of how they are going to tackle that one.
- Alex
Your first idea has already been covered on /. here.
- Alex
Over the ranges that we are talking, 1-2m, noise introduced by the signal traveling over distance is not a major factor. The digital to analog conversion is going to introduce more errors. The real error prone process is the analog to digital conversion. Which only happens for digital screens, such as LCD, CRT (which still comprise the vast majority of installed screens) do not.
Take it to the extreme... Send an analog signal around the world on a copper pair.... Look at the result... Now send a digital signal around the world on a copper pair (or anything else), look at the result.. Ohhh, Digital is pretty picture
You for get that a analog signal is used to represent a digital digital signal. They are both subject to the same signal lost over distance. That's why they still have repeaters on fiber optic cables. Digital just has better error detection & correction.
- Alex
I think you'll find that the cable running between you box & screen is carrying an analog signal.
Remember back when every man & his dog trying to flog off a computer monitor was claiming that their's was a "digital" monitor? Well they were just talking about the fact that it now had buttons to adjust the contrast instead of a twiddle knob.
The phasing from digital to analog had been basically completed years before. This is because the shear amount of information that needs be transfered to the screen was getting out of hand as the resolutions & colour depth went up. At 1024x768x24@24fps you need to be transferring 432Mb/s. Try forcing that down 14 wires!
Think what's been one of the driving forces of bus tech. such as PCI. After it's left the graphics card there is no need to keep it in a digital form as there is no processing required and it cuts down on the number of wires need.
- Alex
Maybe it's just the nature of the post, but I looked at the DirectFB screenshots (on DirectFB.org), and I see everything from GNOME 2 to WindowMaker to the GIMP, translucency, etc., etc., while I've never heard of DirectFB before.
I think (well maybe not) that the translucency effects you see on WM are not provided by WM per say. Rather they are a hack of the application you're running. You can't just tell WM to render all windows at 50% translucency.
Besides DirectFB is not really competing with "GNOME 2 to WindowMaker to the GIMP" but with X.
- Alex
Actually they can. He expressed those opinions as suggestions to the Australian Parliamentary Joint Committee on the Australian Crime Commission's (ACC) investigation into cybercrime. This committee will go on to make a report to parliament which will contain suggestions for new laws to be enacted.
Greg Melick is not some quack who they will dismiss. He was the former presiding member of the National Crime Authority (NCA). The NCA was one of three government bodies that went to make up the ACC. The ACC only came into existence at the begging of the year, so Greg Melick has been out of the NCA for about 7 months. He has now become a professional adviser/lobbier(?spelling?). Furthermore he was involved in our anti-internet gambling law in exactly the same manner.
This anti-internet gambling law prohibits the operation of gambling sites on the internet with in Australia or by Australians. I'm not in favor of gambling (quite the contra in fact) however this law has only served thus far to hurt Australian bookies they loose out to competitors in Britain who are not constrained by these laws. You will notice that it was totally outlawed, not just regulated like other mediums for gambling.
Also Greg Melick is no champion of civil rights. He has used strong arm tactics in his position as head of the NCA.
If you think that our politicians will not listen to this guy you only have to look at the history of near misses and sadly some hits, that have happened in Australia.
- Alex
This is a relatively minor one IMO.
Some of the suggestions were "100 point checks for internet users and the abolition of free email accounts."
I don't know about you but I don't find that "relatively minor".
Hell, in Australia (where I'm at & from) I don't need a 100 point check to use a phone, or send an letter. These are both services that are used by criminals and a lot more than email.
As for abolition of free email accounts I find the argument similar to banning and/or registration of the sale hammers as they might used to kill someone.
Wow, apparently I know over half the people that use the XBox, including the 0.4!
- AlexThat has to be one of the worst cases of trolling I've ever seen. The trick is to be subtle, to make it not look like your trolling.
Bringing MS into a discussion that has nothing to do with MS is a bit of a give away.
Try again and this time remember subtle
-Alex
Well, there you go. Learn something new every day.
-Alex
AT FILM RESOLUTION
It would have been at the resolution of the screen they were doing the demo on.
-Alex
I think your thinking of the the 08186.
- Alex
No, generated by my own hast. I forgot to change the HTML formated and skipped the preview.
I closed my fucking p's this time :)
- Alex
What, like this one?
Read the artical first next time mate.
-Alex
I don't think that the Tux image was in the game executable, rather the save game file. This is a hack that uses a weakness in 007, not a back door placed in by someone working on 007.
- Alex
I think it could. Steganography means hidden/covered writing from it's Greek roots. The term is older than computers so I think the distinction between the body or header of an image file is a bit fine.
<p>- Alex
OK, maybe my call about WalMart was a bit harsh. After all I have never been to one. However from my post it was not clear why I disliked WalMart, and it was certainly not because they sold things cheaply.
As to me justifying theft, well I don't know how buying an XBox could be theft. You must be just a lot smarter than me to work that one out.
- Alex
What about all those countries that don't have WalMart (thank god!)?
As the article said computers are more expensive in Europe and other places. That's where the difference between the price of an XBox & a white clone makes the XBox a tempting choice.
- Alex
The problem is that the airframe and the wings are NOT designed to withstand the necessary stress of escape velocity.
Correct, yet only shows that you did not follow the link & read. If you had, you know that their flight plan calls for sub-orbital speeds. Sub-orbital speeds are, as the name implies, slower than orbital speed. Which in turn even slower than escape velocities, which for some strange reason your talking about. Escape velocity is the speed at which you totally escape (hence the name) the gravitational pull of a body (i.e. Earth).
If you look at the successful "space plane" type vehicles that NASA or any other big research team has developed, you'll see that it required designs that looked more like a rocket than an airplane to get anything anywhere near the edge of space.
That's because they are designed for orbital speeds. Take the space shuttle. It has not only to flight at sub-sonic & super-sonic speeds, it also has to flight at what is called ultra-sonic speeds. At ultra-sonic (> mach 15 if I remember correctly, though someone will know doubt correct me) the aerodynamics of the shuttle change again. The designers had to take this all into account. That's why the shuttle handles little better than a brick while landing. Indeed to call what the shuttle does during re-entry flighting is being rather kind.
I would expect the wings to rip out at the roots when they light up the rocket motors.
You did not read much did you? They slowly increase the angle of accent as they increase trust & altitude. They only hit mach 2.97 at an altitude of 55 km. Thus the wings are not exposed to the range of forces that you seem to be imagining.
No, where the wings will face the most stress is in re-entry. It looks like they may have not full worked out all the details for this bit as they are bit sketchy on the details.
I fully agree with you that the demise of "fair use" is bad. However I fail to see how fair use is being stopped here, either in the case of the Phantom or your pen.
Fair use is the protection given when you incorporate a piece of another's work into your own under certain circumstances. Such as you quoting a paragraph out of a book in a Uni. assignment. You can't just quote the whole book, 10% is the limit established by the courts.
What the hell are you going to do with 10% of an executable that you don't have the source to?
- Alex