The data was encrypted, so their was no way to copy it.
He's talking about a bit-by-bit copy of the encrypted data. Data, even if it's encrypted, is still just 0s and 1s, and you can still copy it. You may not be able to decrypt it, but nothing stops you from making a duplicate.
So the post you replied to was merely suggesting that the govt give Mitnick the data and keep it. Then, if they wanted to know what was in it, they could crack it themselves.
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They stopped developing for the powerpc cause apple stopped giving them the information they needed to write the os for their hardware
This isn't stopping LinuxPPC from supporting all the latest Apple hardware. It's very possible to support the hardware without help from Apple.
Personally, i think this was just Be's excuse to shift to the larger x86 market. They had a very strong association with Apple in users' minds, which was probably hurting their buisness.
Also, they are a very small company, and i can see how maintaining both architectures could be a strain. So they moved to x86 only (for all practical purposes).
Oh, and one last thing many people don't know about the traditional Macintosh. It comes with TWO CLI's already. You just have to know what you're doing to access or use them.
Excellent post, but you missed one. MPW (Macintosh Programmer's Workshop, distributed gratis by Apple) is basically a shell for development purposes. It has makefiles, scripts, config files, and all that other manly unix-like stuff. I use it on a daily basis and love it.
Futhermore they are using Firewire instead of USB.
Firewire is not an alternative to USB. Firewire is for high-speed devices like hard drives and video cameras. USB is for low-speed devices like keyboards, mouses, and joysticks.
There are USB hard drives, but they exist only because (1) they could, and (2) old iMacs don't have any external busses more appropriate for hard disks (this is very reminiscent of the hard drives that connected to the first macs thru the serial port or thru the floppy port. "Yep, i'm a 20M floppy! Really!"). USB sucks for hard drives, because it's so slow.
If it's all been modern hardware then it either came with "driver" disks (a monitor doesn't need a driver...but the disk contains hardware specs), or microsoft included the information on the windows CD. Go back and try to get an old no-brand SVGA monitor with no surviving documentation to work with windows. You're very lucky if you can get anything more then VESA modes to work.
How about my nice new 19" monitor connected to my MacOS machine? It's a standard PC monitor, but when i plugged it in, MacOS immediately knew what resolutions it was capable of, and at what frequencies.
Now, my last monitor wasn't so nice. It apparently didn't inform the OS what it was capable of, but MacOS then gave me a list of the resolutions that my video card was capable of, in italic! It was an easy matter to try a couple and see which ones worked. You can do the same thing on Windows.
So, what's special about my 19" that makes it capable of telling the OS what it can do? And why doesn't X come with a program that cycles thru all of the resolutions your video card is capable of and asks you if it's displayed correctly?
Why is it that my monitors and video cards have always "just worked" with MacOS, BeOS, and Windows, but when i try to use linux, it becomes a pain to configure?
Is there some auto-detect thing that other operating systems do to figure out what a monitor can do that XF86 doesn't do?
There must be some reason that i don't need to know about modelines until i try to get X working.
He's just showing a little humor. This guy makes me crack up almost as much as the naked & petrified guy did. If you want/. to be all serious, browse at a threshold of 2.
opensourceman, keep up the good work! Maybe sometime when i have more time on my hands i'll join your project and create an open-source Katie Holmes!
I bet a lot of people (myself included) read this article and thought, "Nice theory, but how would there be reverse-time regions? That doesn't make a lot of sense." I came up with a bit of a theory, so i'll share it.
Imagine particles that act in every way like "normal" particles, but that are going the opposite direction in time. I suppose this means that they have the opposite reaction to events (after all, time is nothing but causality [causes and their effects], right?).
Such particles wouldn't interact very well with "normal" particles for obvious reasons, but would interact very well with each other. So, you'd get anti-time atoms and molecules and stars and galaxies completely seperate from our own.
I was also confused for a moment when i thought, "If these guys are going backwards, then they must be created in the big crunch instead." Then i realized that they aren't actually going backwards, just having opposite reactions to the same things, which would make them appear in every way to be going in the opposite direction. You just have to look at it as cause-and-effect, not the flow of time. Time isn't flowing one way or the other. Stuff just affects other stuff.
In conclusion, this would make it impossible to jump into an "anti-time" zone and go back in time. But OTOH, some of this anti-time matter would be pretty fun to play with. Imagine the implications of having something as simple as a ball made out of it.
Then, if your head is still intact, try designing something mechanical using it. If you come up with anything cool, tell me about it.:)
There is actually a damn good anime about exactly this. It's called "Ghost in the Shell", and the main character is a human brain in an android body. Although not everyone in her near-future world has gone quite as far, many people have neural implants and are vulnerable to hackers.
It's actually pretty creepy when they talk to a guy who had most of his memories reprogrammed and was being used by the hacker to do other hacker stuff so he couldn't be traced. I guess this is the neurological equivalent to telnet'ing into a system in order to telnet into another system, etc, so you can be virtually untracable.
Anyway, this wouldn't happen in real life. You'd have to be pretty dumb to run telnetd on your neural implant.:)
It's nice to see that a mainstream organization has started to worry about electronic privacy. The ACLU is a well-respected organization with considerable clout, and can do much to prevent echelon-type activities and promote privacy.
It warms my heart to see that there are still people out there who actually care and are willing to try to change things. Maybe the world's not falling apart after all.:-)
Better latency is often more important than better bandwidth. With 300ms latency on my (and everyone else's) modem, the net is slow as hell with or without good bandwidth.
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1 GHz = 1000 MHz. Hz are not specific to binary (i.e. computer) systems, so they use standard base 10.
He's talking about a bit-by-bit copy of the encrypted data. Data, even if it's encrypted, is still just 0s and 1s, and you can still copy it. You may not be able to decrypt it, but nothing stops you from making a duplicate.
So the post you replied to was merely suggesting that the govt give Mitnick the data and keep it. Then, if they wanted to know what was in it, they could crack it themselves.
This isn't stopping LinuxPPC from supporting all the latest Apple hardware. It's very possible to support the hardware without help from Apple.
Personally, i think this was just Be's excuse to shift to the larger x86 market. They had a very strong association with Apple in users' minds, which was probably hurting their buisness.
Also, they are a very small company, and i can see how maintaining both architectures could be a strain. So they moved to x86 only (for all practical purposes).
Excellent post, but you missed one. MPW (Macintosh Programmer's Workshop, distributed gratis by Apple) is basically a shell for development purposes. It has makefiles, scripts, config files, and all that other manly unix-like stuff. I use it on a daily basis and love it.
Firewire is not an alternative to USB. Firewire is for high-speed devices like hard drives and video cameras. USB is for low-speed devices like keyboards, mouses, and joysticks.
There are USB hard drives, but they exist only because (1) they could, and (2) old iMacs don't have any external busses more appropriate for hard disks (this is very reminiscent of the hard drives that connected to the first macs thru the serial port or thru the floppy port. "Yep, i'm a 20M floppy! Really!"). USB sucks for hard drives, because it's so slow.
How can i become a licensed pyrotechnic? I had no idea that this sort of thing could actually be legal. :-)
How about my nice new 19" monitor connected to my MacOS machine? It's a standard PC monitor, but when i plugged it in, MacOS immediately knew what resolutions it was capable of, and at what frequencies.
Now, my last monitor wasn't so nice. It apparently didn't inform the OS what it was capable of, but MacOS then gave me a list of the resolutions that my video card was capable of, in italic! It was an easy matter to try a couple and see which ones worked. You can do the same thing on Windows.
So, what's special about my 19" that makes it capable of telling the OS what it can do? And why doesn't X come with a program that cycles thru all of the resolutions your video card is capable of and asks you if it's displayed correctly?
Is there some auto-detect thing that other operating systems do to figure out what a monitor can do that XF86 doesn't do?
There must be some reason that i don't need to know about modelines until i try to get X working.
opensourceman, keep up the good work! Maybe sometime when i have more time on my hands i'll join your project and create an open-source Katie Holmes!
Oh baby...
Imagine particles that act in every way like "normal" particles, but that are going the opposite direction in time. I suppose this means that they have the opposite reaction to events (after all, time is nothing but causality [causes and their effects], right?).
Such particles wouldn't interact very well with "normal" particles for obvious reasons, but would interact very well with each other. So, you'd get anti-time atoms and molecules and stars and galaxies completely seperate from our own.
I was also confused for a moment when i thought, "If these guys are going backwards, then they must be created in the big crunch instead." Then i realized that they aren't actually going backwards, just having opposite reactions to the same things, which would make them appear in every way to be going in the opposite direction. You just have to look at it as cause-and-effect, not the flow of time. Time isn't flowing one way or the other. Stuff just affects other stuff.
In conclusion, this would make it impossible to jump into an "anti-time" zone and go back in time. But OTOH, some of this anti-time matter would be pretty fun to play with. Imagine the implications of having something as simple as a ball made out of it.
Then, if your head is still intact, try designing something mechanical using it. If you come up with anything cool, tell me about it. :)
But i'd hate to see what emacs would do with a thought-activated interface available. :)
It's actually pretty creepy when they talk to a guy who had most of his memories reprogrammed and was being used by the hacker to do other hacker stuff so he couldn't be traced. I guess this is the neurological equivalent to telnet'ing into a system in order to telnet into another system, etc, so you can be virtually untracable.
Anyway, this wouldn't happen in real life. You'd have to be pretty dumb to run telnetd on your neural implant. :)
It warms my heart to see that there are still people out there who actually care and are willing to try to change things. Maybe the world's not falling apart after all. :-)
Interestingly enough, even with an 80% chance per nuke (which is damn good), you still have only about a 10% chance of taking down all 10.
Better latency is often more important than better bandwidth. With 300ms latency on my (and everyone else's) modem, the net is slow as hell with or without good bandwidth.