Physicists have developed a software only form of data streaming that just might send hackers packing. The technology, based on the Hiesenburg uncertainty principle, makes it possible to send a digital song or movie over the internet without fear of the data being intercepted or copied at the final destination. Dr Peter Hackinsack from the University of Southern California explains:
"It's truly amazing. When we first started thinking about sending quantum data over the Internet we were talking about optic fiber and very complicated optic only switches."
Electromagnetic fields have been shown to disrupt the stability of quantum super states and has been a major hurdle in quantum computing.
"Then one day we decided to try measuring a quantum state but not actually observing the calculations until they had passed over the Internet as normal data. We expected the results to be skewed and indeed they were. It was during this process that we discovered that we could shape the data into any form we wanted!"
Dr Hackinsack continues to explain how the data passes through a complex encryption mechanism that is the key to the data's encoding. Dr Hackinsack ensures us that the encryption process is very fast and can be done on a media company's web server in real time. The data then passes over the Internet to the user's home computer where a program such as Windows Media Player or Winamp can deliver it to the end user.
"They can store the data for as long as they like and make as many copies as they like. But once the song or movie or whatever is actually istened to, all the copies revert to random garbage!"
The process is called "quantum state destablization" and is observed daily by researchers in quantum computing. Dr Hackinsack and a number of associates who requested not to be identified have formed a startup company and secured funding from the MPAA.
"Oh we're going to make the SDMI obsolete. There's no reason to rely on big numbers when you've got the power of the universe to protect you."
But securing funding has not been easy. Describing the process to media executives has been grueling for scientists who deal with this kind of physics day by day.
"They were such a pain. We tried everything. They didn't want to learn about the technology and they didn't understand the demo we erformed. In the end we got some undergraduates to explain it and they seemed happy. Well they gave us the money!"
Deployment of the product is still some months away.
well you can also just intercept the analouge signal and record that. It's not what the corps are worried about, they're worried about flawless copies of their digital masters.
Digital VCRs will probably include software to do time shifting (without fast forwarding the commercials). There will just be no way to get the unencrypted digital stream out of the VCR. What's more the user interfaces in these VCR's will probably be so superiour that people will immediately forget about the freedom they used to have to fast forward, especially seeing more people will be timeshifting than used to. New users fix everything.
Hardware is definitely possible of protecting the "digitalness" of the content. If I program a microprocessor to contain a decryption key and distribute all media that to you encrypted with that key (or one of the many keys in the processor), and the chip outputs an analogue signal when asked to decrypt (to say your tv), then there is only two ways that you can get the digital content. 1) You can break the encryption, I think we can safely say that it is possible to use hard to break encryption or 2) you can somehow tamper with the chip and there are chips that claim to be tamperproof. For digital dvds that only plug into digital televisions the problem is already solved. We just program the said microprocessor to only communicate with devices that can offer up a digital certificate signed by some authority that only issues certificates to "safe" devices. If the digital content never leaves these tamperproof chips in digital unencrypted form, you are forced to tamper with the chip which is supposedly impossible.
are impossible in theory but really make no difference to the practical problem. You can solve the halting problem for every problem except that one special case which proves the halting problem unsolvable for every case. Woop! The "proof" that the halting problem is not solvable has done more to damage research into software verifiability than any suggestings that it might be a hard problem. How sane is that? Oh, we cant solve it for every case (because you can manufacture a case that is not solvable) so why bother trying to solve it for any cases, including the large majority of cases?
Sad.
Moores "Law", based on observations by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore and first uttered around 1964, predicts that the density of transistors contained on intergrated circuits will double every 18 to 24 months.
we dont have to educate them about shit. What we have to do is get rid of these stupid ass laws that serve no purpose but to put the boot on people's faces.
His property has been confiscated and he hasn't had a fair trial, sounds like a police state to me. The site should remain up until such time as a court order is produced to take it down. If he was a corporation this is what would happen, there would be no kicking down of doors and burly guys looting equipment. Corporations have more rights than your own individual citizens.
Surely the police had a warrent to raid his property, who issued the warrent? Is there anything you can do about judges who issue unjust search and siezure warrents in your country? I know there is nothing you can do in my country (Australia).
Admitably I am not in the US, I'm in Australia, but they took my computers for over 12 months and I wasnt even arrested. I wasn't even being investigated for a crime! They were gathering evidence on someone else. Why they had to take all my computers, modems, mice and monitors to copy my harddrive I don't know. If they ever show up at my door again I will pull out a few cd's and burn them an image of my harddrive. If they demand to take the computers I will eject them from my home and see them in court.
When they came to my house they said they had to take all computer equipment. My response was "I hope you've got a truck." After 4 hours they gave up when they got to the third cupboard and found 40 IBM RLL harddrives. "Anything on these?" "Yer there's all sorts of incriminating.. errm, I mean, no, no there isn't." There was no "dont be smart son", they were too tired. When they opened a draw on my flatmate's desk and saw over 800 5 1/4 inch floppies they were ready to tear up their search warrent. After they finally left we put together a PC from parts in 25 minutes and grabbed the 14k4 modem that they hadn't taken because it was sitting near the c64's and didn't look like a modern modem. It took 8 months to get my computer back and 12 months to get all the computers back.
If he bothered to click on the link he would see that it is about Australian drug laws, where only two types of pot are sold. Leaf and skunk. Leaf is lame and costs next to nuffin. Skunk is hardcore shit and costs a small fortune. I dont smoke pot, I just support the end of prohibition.
There isn't. It is specifically to stop public outcry at specific judges. Judges in Australia are not liable for their actions. In the end it was enough that they gave me the agent's name. I called him every day until I got them computers back. One day he went home from work early after refusing to speak with me so I looked him up in and phone book and called him at home. It was only three years ago but these days I would probably get hit with an invasion of privacy charge for using the phone book.
The statement was, "none of our current laws deal with people buying stuff from overseas, let's make more laws!" and my response was, "I think the current laws already cover this, we don't need more laws". See, whilst you're reading what I type, people who have half a clue are reading between the lines. Now if you put your name on your post people would be able to add up all your little comments and determine whether you have anything to say. But frankly I think you're just someone who cant argue and has to resort to name calling. I got over that when I was ten, try thinking instead of abusing.
Are you totally politically inept? Having a huge drug supply means you can wage a war for an infinite amount of time and easily attract allies. Attacking Afghanistan in an effort to change their cultural beliefs would result in massive casualties on both sides for the rest of the forseeable future.
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Physicists have developed a software only form of data streaming that just might send hackers packing. The technology, based on the Hiesenburg uncertainty principle, makes it possible to send a digital song or movie over the internet without fear of the data being intercepted or copied at the final destination. Dr Peter Hackinsack from the University of Southern California explains:
"It's truly amazing. When we first started thinking about sending quantum data over the Internet we were talking about optic fiber and very complicated optic only switches."
Electromagnetic fields have been shown to disrupt the stability of quantum super states and has been a major hurdle in quantum computing.
"Then one day we decided to try measuring a quantum state but not actually observing the calculations until they had passed over the Internet as normal data. We expected the results to be skewed and indeed they were. It was during this process that we discovered that we could shape the data into any form we wanted!"
Dr Hackinsack continues to explain how the data passes through a complex encryption mechanism that is the key to the data's encoding. Dr Hackinsack ensures us that the encryption process is very fast and can be done on a media company's web server in real time. The data then passes over the Internet to the user's home computer where a program such as Windows Media Player or Winamp can deliver it to the end user.
"They can store the data for as long as they like and make as many copies as they like. But once the song or movie or whatever is actually istened to, all the copies revert to random garbage!"
The process is called "quantum state destablization" and is observed daily by researchers in quantum computing. Dr Hackinsack and a number of associates who requested not to be identified have formed a startup company and secured funding from the MPAA.
"Oh we're going to make the SDMI obsolete. There's no reason to rely on big numbers when you've got the power of the universe to protect you."
But securing funding has not been easy. Describing the process to media executives has been grueling for scientists who deal with this kind of physics day by day.
"They were such a pain. We tried everything. They didn't want to learn about the technology and they didn't understand the demo we erformed. In the end we got some undergraduates to explain it and they seemed happy. Well they gave us the money!"
Deployment of the product is still some months away.
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well you can also just intercept the analouge signal and record that. It's not what the corps are worried about, they're worried about flawless copies of their digital masters.
yer. Like when everyone uses recreational drugs... oh wait.
Digital VCRs will probably include software to do time shifting (without fast forwarding the commercials). There will just be no way to get the unencrypted digital stream out of the VCR. What's more the user interfaces in these VCR's will probably be so superiour that people will immediately forget about the freedom they used to have to fast forward, especially seeing more people will be timeshifting than used to. New users fix everything.
Hardware is definitely possible of protecting the "digitalness" of the content. If I program a microprocessor to contain a decryption key and distribute all media that to you encrypted with that key (or one of the many keys in the processor), and the chip outputs an analogue signal when asked to decrypt (to say your tv), then there is only two ways that you can get the digital content. 1) You can break the encryption, I think we can safely say that it is possible to use hard to break encryption or 2) you can somehow tamper with the chip and there are chips that claim to be tamperproof. For digital dvds that only plug into digital televisions the problem is already solved. We just program the said microprocessor to only communicate with devices that can offer up a digital certificate signed by some authority that only issues certificates to "safe" devices. If the digital content never leaves these tamperproof chips in digital unencrypted form, you are forced to tamper with the chip which is supposedly impossible.
heard of reversible computing? We havn't even scratched the surface of power/heat reduction.
gee, I dont know, but I think I would prefer to use the Symetric MultiProcessor support in my kernel.
Would you have felt better if they said "at the start of the second quarter"?
are impossible in theory but really make no difference to the practical problem. You can solve the halting problem for every problem except that one special case which proves the halting problem unsolvable for every case. Woop! The "proof" that the halting problem is not solvable has done more to damage research into software verifiability than any suggestings that it might be a hard problem. How sane is that? Oh, we cant solve it for every case (because you can manufacture a case that is not solvable) so why bother trying to solve it for any cases, including the large majority of cases?
Sad.
I would have said:
Moores "Law", based on observations by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore and first uttered around 1964, predicts that the density of transistors contained on intergrated circuits will double every 18 to 24 months.
uh huh. They said the Scanning Tunnelling Microscope was impossible for exactly the same reasons, now people are building them at home.
The article says that without EUV the end of Moore's law would be around 2005, so how much time has EUV bought?
we dont have to educate them about shit. What we have to do is get rid of these stupid ass laws that serve no purpose but to put the boot on people's faces.
His property has been confiscated and he hasn't had a fair trial, sounds like a police state to me. The site should remain up until such time as a court order is produced to take it down. If he was a corporation this is what would happen, there would be no kicking down of doors and burly guys looting equipment. Corporations have more rights than your own individual citizens.
Has Slashdot's population aged so much that a 19 year old is refered to as a "kid". Sheesh, you're making me feel old, I'm only 23.
Surely the police had a warrent to raid his property, who issued the warrent? Is there anything you can do about judges who issue unjust search and siezure warrents in your country? I know there is nothing you can do in my country (Australia).
Admitably I am not in the US, I'm in Australia, but they took my computers for over 12 months and I wasnt even arrested. I wasn't even being investigated for a crime! They were gathering evidence on someone else. Why they had to take all my computers, modems, mice and monitors to copy my harddrive I don't know. If they ever show up at my door again I will pull out a few cd's and burn them an image of my harddrive. If they demand to take the computers I will eject them from my home and see them in court.
When they came to my house they said they had to take all computer equipment. My response was "I hope you've got a truck." After 4 hours they gave up when they got to the third cupboard and found 40 IBM RLL harddrives. "Anything on these?" "Yer there's all sorts of incriminating.. errm, I mean, no, no there isn't." There was no "dont be smart son", they were too tired. When they opened a draw on my flatmate's desk and saw over 800 5 1/4 inch floppies they were ready to tear up their search warrent. After they finally left we put together a PC from parts in 25 minutes and grabbed the 14k4 modem that they hadn't taken because it was sitting near the c64's and didn't look like a modern modem. It took 8 months to get my computer back and 12 months to get all the computers back.
If he bothered to click on the link he would see that it is about Australian drug laws, where only two types of pot are sold. Leaf and skunk. Leaf is lame and costs next to nuffin. Skunk is hardcore shit and costs a small fortune. I dont smoke pot, I just support the end of prohibition.
There isn't. It is specifically to stop public outcry at specific judges. Judges in Australia are not liable for their actions. In the end it was enough that they gave me the agent's name. I called him every day until I got them computers back. One day he went home from work early after refusing to speak with me so I looked him up in and phone book and called him at home. It was only three years ago but these days I would probably get hit with an invasion of privacy charge for using the phone book.
We have the posix standard so we dont have to port between different variants of unix. Am I right?
Gold is rare, pot is infinite.
The statement was, "none of our current laws deal with people buying stuff from overseas, let's make more laws!" and my response was, "I think the current laws already cover this, we don't need more laws". See, whilst you're reading what I type, people who have half a clue are reading between the lines. Now if you put your name on your post people would be able to add up all your little comments and determine whether you have anything to say. But frankly I think you're just someone who cant argue and has to resort to name calling. I got over that when I was ten, try thinking instead of abusing.
Are you totally politically inept? Having a huge drug supply means you can wage a war for an infinite amount of time and easily attract allies. Attacking Afghanistan in an effort to change their cultural beliefs would result in massive casualties on both sides for the rest of the forseeable future.
I suggest you read anything about political philosophy before you start bagging politics.