In the context of the document 3D means that documents exist not in a visible z plane, but in a 3rd TIME dimension. You're not going to need stereoscopic glasses to read your files. Just to be able to concieve that a filesystem can have a TIME dimension to it
Yup I've even used the same ideas in solutions for clients (we market a content management solution which reformats content for PDA's using exactly the same ideas of unrolling tables/rescaling and removing images). It's kinda an obvious solution to the problem.
I'm just waiting to see them get a copyright on their 'invention'
Surely this system is as crackable as any dongle system, which are all pretty hackable. You'd need a cracked device driver to fake the communication between pc and cd.
This technology does not work on current drives! The article itself states that it is easily implemented into current drive production lines. I still don't see how it will prevent copying, as long as the unencrypted data has to be passed to the sound card you can still intercept that data stream at some point.
Yup you're right...i tried a quick experiment building a file with 100k of '0' followed by 100k of '255' but there's no obvious patterning visible in the disk at all.
Why ?? if you made the last (outer) track on your cd your image track, then you simply need to correctly encode the data in that track to produce an image. You would need to know the total amount of data in previous tracks and the data density to be able to calculate your starting radius. But as the first poster says from that point it's a matter of maths and a correctly formatted file to burn to disk
You can't create a computer to simulate it...the computer you need to build in order to simulate the universe would in fact be a universe, and would have to be constructed of matter from another universe, since if you used matter from your own universe by the time you had finished building your computer you would have used all the available matter and there would be nothing left to moderl.
"It would be really nice to see a system where, say, image data loaded from a website might be marked in the OS as "image (jpeg) from foo.bar.com -- unauthenticated, non-executable"
That'll be Microsofts.NET security framework you want then ? Damn you're all Linux geeks on slashdot guess you'll have to stick with "CHMOD -X *.JPEG"
More interesting than simple P2P would be a means to establish a permanent network over a collection of transient nodes. Routing packets across the network could be a logistical nightmare because of the transient and mobile nature of the nodes. Delivery of packets would obviously be non deterministic, but this is the same with TCP/IP - does IPV6 overcome some of these issues?. I've been told that you can plug into an IPV6 network at any point and still have packets routed correctly. The fact that individual or groups of nodes could become detatched from the main network would be an issue, but once they rejoin they should 'catch up'
Static gateways onto the main internet could be placed in various areas (shopping malls etc). In areas highly populated with nodes, town centres colleges etc this would be way better than 3G technology, obviously not as much cop if you're out of range. Packets would have to be encrypted by some means, since many 'untrusted' nodes would participate in the routing of packets accross the network.
Thank god for some comment that doesn't bow down and lick the nads of Open Source. For standard web pages I agree that cross browser support should be the norm, but many people are now trying to build DHTML based applications, and the crappy support of standards across the board for most DHTML functionality makes is prohibitively expensive to develop for all browsers - so most people opt for building for the most common browser - and guess who makes that!
I don't get what this is supposed to protect people from. You don't need a CA to use strong crypto. In fact why would anyone using crypto for nefarious purposes want to use a cert or key from a 3rd party. Surely you would exchange your public key with other parties involved via some highly technical method such as postal mail and then use strong crypto safe in the knowledge that it's pretty much unbreakable. In fact why use the internet - use a pc to pc connection using an standard modem over a standard phone line and any crypto/comms protocol you care to write.
All this does is make it more difficult for legitimate users of the technology while preventing sfa.
Ha security ain't difficult, any spanner with half a brain can install a patch. Lack of security on corporate networks is due to either
laziness or inneptitude.
I secured my home pc in a few hours of work, and
have not been affected by ANY of the recent virus attacks. You can get a cheap software or hardware firewall, you can install the patches as and when they're release etc.. not exactly brain surgery.
I saw the GWB interview, and definately heard someone speaking shortly before he spoke himself. It wasn't really possible to determine what was being said, but it sounded like he was being fed lines
BT Openworld's web site specifically mentions the ability to run servers as a feature of their DSL Business 500 package. The Home 500 package simply states that it is not suitable for doing so because of the dynamic IP address allocation, but using a dynamic DNS service it is simple to overcome this.
Hmmm look at the bandwidth available even using GPRS and I'd say the bandwith/client processing power still stands. Even your mobile phone will be able to process and manipule data client side and will probably give a better client experience if it does rather than having to do page refreshes every time something minimal changes on the page.
The PC will be with us for a long time yet...it'll get smaller, you may wear it instead of sitting in front of it, but No-one is going to want to use a spreadsheet which has to submit back to the server to do a formula calculation in a cell. In fact the ONLY web based office suites I've seen which work are either Java based, or in the case of the brainbox spreadsheet (www.brainbox.com) Use javascript EXTENSIVELY.
You only have to look at the rise in P2P style applications to see that distributed computing power, it taking off.
I'd say the era of the 'HTML web browser' should be coming to a close. I want an application browser which downloads application elements rather than an HTML based interface that's just a jumped way of displaying static information.
I'd say you wont be using a TV to watch streamed video anymore - you'll watch TV on your PC.
Given the speed their demos run at I'm not surprised this hasn't taken off. Although I'm sure every developer who is presently trying to hack a webbrowser into running desktop style apps dreams of a system which will make the process easier.
Something like the XUL language getting a GOOD cross browser implementation would be nice
using soap over HTTP the next generation of distributed systems will be unfilterable using conventional firewall technology since ISP's wouldn't be able to firewall port 80 without stopping you from browsing.
Slashdot Mirror
Did the same to ASDA in the UK which is owned by Wal-Mart.
This is the only real way to mitigate the power of these giant corporations. Hit 'em where it hurts and take your business elsewhere.
In the context of the document 3D means that documents exist not in a visible z plane, but in a 3rd TIME dimension. You're not going to need stereoscopic glasses to read your files. Just to be able to concieve that a filesystem can have a TIME dimension to it
Yup I've even used the same ideas in solutions for clients (we market a content management solution which reformats content for PDA's using exactly the same ideas of unrolling tables/rescaling and removing images). It's kinda an obvious solution to the problem.
I'm just waiting to see them get a copyright on their 'invention'
Surely this system is as crackable as any dongle system, which are all pretty hackable. You'd need a cracked device driver to fake the communication between pc and cd.
This technology does not work on current drives! The article itself states that it is easily implemented into current drive production lines. I still don't see how it will prevent copying, as long as the unencrypted data has to be passed to the sound card you can still intercept that data stream at some point.
Think the folks at neonapster have noticed the slashdot backlash.
"NeoNapster and NeoAudio are open source software under the GNU General Public License."
The source code IS available on the site.
Yup you're right...i tried a quick experiment building a file with 100k of '0' followed by 100k of '255' but there's no obvious patterning visible in the disk at all.
Why ?? if you made the last (outer) track on your cd your image track, then you simply need to correctly encode the data in that track to produce an image. You would need to know the total amount of data in previous tracks and the data density to be able to calculate your starting radius. But as the first poster says from that point it's a matter of maths and a correctly formatted file to burn to disk
You can't create a computer to simulate it...the computer you need to build in order to simulate the universe would in fact be a universe, and would have to be constructed of matter from another universe, since if you used matter from your own universe by the time you had finished building your computer you would have used all the available matter and there would be nothing left to moderl.
"It would be really nice to see a system where, say, image data loaded from a website might be marked in the OS as "image (jpeg) from foo.bar.com -- unauthenticated, non-executable"
.NET security framework you want then ? Damn you're all Linux geeks on slashdot guess you'll have to stick with "CHMOD -X *.JPEG"
That'll be Microsofts
Launching from a sub, means they can sail right up to the equator and do their launch from there.
More interesting than simple P2P would be a means to establish a permanent network over a collection of transient nodes. Routing packets across the network could be a logistical nightmare because of the transient and mobile nature of the nodes. Delivery of packets would obviously be non deterministic, but this is the same with TCP/IP - does IPV6 overcome some of these issues?. I've been told that you can plug into an IPV6 network at any point and still have packets routed correctly. The fact that individual or groups of nodes could become detatched from the main network would be an issue, but once they rejoin they should 'catch up'
Static gateways onto the main internet could be placed in various areas (shopping malls etc). In areas highly populated with nodes, town centres colleges etc this would be way better than 3G technology, obviously not as much cop if you're out of range. Packets would have to be encrypted by some means, since many 'untrusted' nodes would participate in the routing of packets accross the network.
Thank god for some comment that doesn't bow down and lick the nads of Open Source. For standard web pages I agree that cross browser support should be the norm, but many people are now trying to build DHTML based applications, and the crappy support of standards across the board for most DHTML functionality makes is prohibitively expensive to develop for all browsers - so most people opt for building for the most common browser - and guess who makes that!
I don't get what this is supposed to protect people from. You don't need a CA to use strong crypto. In fact why would anyone using crypto for nefarious purposes want to use a cert or key from a 3rd party. Surely you would exchange your public key with other parties involved via some highly technical method such as postal mail and then use strong crypto safe in the knowledge that it's pretty much unbreakable. In fact why use the internet - use a pc to pc connection using an standard modem over a standard phone line and any crypto/comms protocol you care to write.
All this does is make it more difficult for legitimate users of the technology while preventing sfa.
Ha security ain't difficult, any spanner with half a brain can install a patch. Lack of security on corporate networks is due to either
laziness or inneptitude.
I secured my home pc in a few hours of work, and
have not been affected by ANY of the recent virus attacks. You can get a cheap software or hardware firewall, you can install the patches as and when they're release etc.. not exactly brain surgery.
I saw the GWB interview, and definately heard someone speaking shortly before he spoke himself. It wasn't really possible to determine what was being said, but it sounded like he was being fed lines
BT Openworld's web site specifically mentions the ability to run servers as a feature of their DSL Business 500 package. The Home 500 package simply states that it is not suitable for doing so because of the dynamic IP address allocation, but using a dynamic DNS service it is simple to overcome this.
Hmmm look at the bandwidth available even using GPRS and I'd say the bandwith/client processing power still stands. Even your mobile phone will be able to process and manipule data client side and will probably give a better client experience if it does rather than having to do page refreshes every time something minimal changes on the page. The PC will be with us for a long time yet...it'll get smaller, you may wear it instead of sitting in front of it, but No-one is going to want to use a spreadsheet which has to submit back to the server to do a formula calculation in a cell. In fact the ONLY web based office suites I've seen which work are either Java based, or in the case of the brainbox spreadsheet (www.brainbox.com) Use javascript EXTENSIVELY. You only have to look at the rise in P2P style applications to see that distributed computing power, it taking off. I'd say the era of the 'HTML web browser' should be coming to a close. I want an application browser which downloads application elements rather than an HTML based interface that's just a jumped way of displaying static information. I'd say you wont be using a TV to watch streamed video anymore - you'll watch TV on your PC.
Given the speed their demos run at I'm not surprised this hasn't taken off. Although I'm sure every developer who is presently trying to hack a webbrowser into running desktop style apps dreams of a system which will make the process easier. Something like the XUL language getting a GOOD cross browser implementation would be nice
using soap over HTTP the next generation of distributed systems will be unfilterable using conventional firewall technology since ISP's wouldn't be able to firewall port 80 without stopping you from browsing.