What's worse is that USB keys are generally unreliable. If you're running your OS off one with all of the data I can easily imagine some important blocks becoming unaccessible in 6-12 months. As it is, I won't store anything I don't have backed up on one of these things.
Anecdotal evidence alert! I've been running Ubuntu 7.04 off a 4GB thumbdrive for over a year now. What evidence is there that USB keys are unreliable? I've never had one fail.
If you plan on carrying a generator in the back of your Tesla, you're first completely unaware of the perks of a carbon fiber body (hint: weight!), and second completely unaware of the amount of storage space currently available in any sports car. Generators are big and heavy.
If you plan on bashing the GP post, you're first completely unaware of the perks of the Honda generators (hint: weight!), and second completely unaware of the amount of storage space needed to store one. Honda EU generators are small and light.
you think $30,000-$40,000 is too much for a car that gets 235 mpg??? Do you realize how much money you'd save in fuel costs each year? It would quickly drop down to probably less per-year over a 10 year span to own than a Civic (hybrid or non).
Let's discuss the hypothetical non-hybrid Civic DX sedan with 34mpg @ $15,010 and the American average 12,000 miles a year. $24,706 dollars spent in fuel over ten years at $7 a dollar gasoline. total cost = $39,716 Not to mention the Honda Civic can haul you, your family and your stuff at that price, this VW? Nope.
We won't even get into the cost of money and the lost value of paying the high up-front charges of the VW option.
Assuming (baselessly) they can find your freed file.
Are you implying there is difficulty in acquiring "scene" distributed media, much less the hundreds of smaller providers? Far from baseless, I think the current situation proves my "assumption" correct.
The point I was trying to make, and did not describe adequately is this:
Unless I have something unique in my house (Hope diamond in my bedroom), deterrence is enough, as my neighbor presumably has just as many valuables as me. My neighbor's house works well, in economic terms, as a perfect substitute.
This often is not true of software, movies, or music. If an attacker wants access to (for example) the new U2 single, the fact U2 DRMs their songs and Radiohead does not is no deterrent. Radiohead is an imperfect substitute.
Unless a design defect is discovered in a line of locks, picking one (or creating a specialized pick) does not grant all would-be attackers instant access. The best it can do is lower the barrier to entry, it can make the task easier. Physical access, time, and a certain level of skill are still required of the attacker.
This is very different from current media DRM schemes. Once a file is broken there is no longer a barrier at all. Anyone can use the broken file, without physical access, without spending time "picking the lock", and without any skill.
If a design defect is discovered in a line of physical locks, the locks can be changed. Until no media is delivered on physical media such recalls are impossible for the subjects of the original argument.
Copy protection is the exact same way. It only needs to be strong enough so that for most people, their utility is maximized by doing something *other* than copying the work. The person adding the copy protection is, just like you, trying to manipulate the risk:reward ratio of copying.
Except, as has been mentioned by others elsewhere in this thread, for the fact that picking my home's lock does not give you access to my neighbor's home.
Also, to pick my Honda's lock you need physical access to my home. This limits greatly the number of people able to work on picking the lock. To break the security on a DRM'd file - any (easy to make) copy will suffice.
Here's a second critical difference: Breaking the lock on one physical item nets you one physical item. Breaking the protection on a copy-protected work nets you as many copies of that work as you care to make.
And a third difference: Sometimes breaking the copy-protection on a work allows you to copy many other works as well.
Yes, I agree those are two very important distinctions. I had thought of the second one, but after I posted. The third one is a good point I had not considered.
Counter, though, is that the third point is possibly more of an artifact of this transitional period.
As soon as the media companies can reasonably assume a large (enough) percentage of their market has persistent internet connections (possibly as soon as they can trust a large enough percentage of media players have a persistent connection) shouldn't they be able to deploy a wide range of ever-changing DRM systems? With such a model the ability to contain a single security breech to a small number of files should be possible.
5. The imperfect protection offered by anti-piracy technologies - "Every lock can be picked" - is no reason to give up on them. Despite the existence of lock picks, identity thieves, and hackers, cars and homes still have locks, e-mail accounts have passwords, and computers have firewalls.
Car locks, home locks, e-mail accounts, and computer firewalls all differ greatly from media DRM in (at least) one important way: Not one of the security models used in his analogy depends on giving the key to the potential attacker. With media DRM you are given a restricted format and an obscured key to unlock it. This is its weakness, and has no corollary with the examples he gave.
Two - in the case of car and home locks - deterrence is enough. I don't need to secure my house against a perfect thief, unless I have the Hope diamond in my bedroom. I only need to secure my home better than my neighbor does. Even securing my house well enough to change the risk:reward or difficulty:reward balance is enough to greatly reduce the chances of a break-in.
The further back along the time-line you go, the fewer two income households there are. So the doubling of earning power in the first 30 years of the chart was decreasingly accomplished by single individuals making more. The lesser increase in earning power in the second half is increasingly accomplished by pairs.
You're such a pessimist. I see this as solid factual evidence that a second wife is needed in my household!
There is no magic wand which converts currency. Wages paid in Indian Rupees must be spent (eventually) in India. It might be inefficiently moved around, it might be hoarded by "fat cats", but the fact remains: outsourced jobs create real economic growth in the countries in which the labor is performed. How to reform those economies so that the "have-nots" see more and the "haves" see less is exercise #2. First there must be money in the economy before you can distribute it equitably.
They might not gain "our standard of living" but they (as a whole, I'm not going to argue individual cases) a better standard of living. Without an influx of money and the growth of leisure, there never will be political reform, IMHO.
But yeah, go ahead and support the destruction of the middle class for your twisted sense of self righteousness regarding other people's maturity.
I would argue it is not destroying the middle class, so much as moving the middle class. Welcome to the global economy. There is going to be a painful transition period while the former third world achieves what they have not had for so long. Blame the old status-quo on imperialism, blame it on racism, blame it on whatever you want. Regardless, the world is becoming an increasingly level playing field - finally.
The L2 is on a different frequency than the L1, by monitoring the different propagation delays of the L1 and the L2 frequencies you are able to model ionospheric conditions and compensate for them. The cyphertext is good enough for that.
Just one of the needed tricks to get reliable, real-time, sub CM positions.
The Y code itself isn't nearly as valuable as dual-frequency reception.
A terrestrial user in the flat part of Ohio. As for reflections, those are greatly mitigated by the antenna design. The grandparent is apparently also a land surveyor - and survey grade receivers/antennas are much more discriminating than consumer ones. I don't know anyone outside surveyors and the military who pay attention to L2 signal strength.
If you are getting 10 satellites with strong L2 signals you are lucky. At 40 degrees north I rarely have eight satellites with decent L2 SNRs, and really appreciate the extra 1 to 3 sats GLONASS gives me. I'm talking about a Trimble R8 model 2, arguably the best GPS antenna and receiver on the market today.
Aren't US Banks and financial institutions legally obligated to protect your private information such as the terms of your mortgage and the details of your bank and investment accounts?
In most (all?) states, mortgages (every last page of them) are public records and filed at the court house, as are any other liens against your real property.
And while we're on the topic of meth, do you want to know how this small aspect of the war could actually be won? Stop the twelve factories in the world that make pseudoephedrine.
The Birch Pseudoephedrine Reduction and Red Phosphorus methods are not the first, and will not be the last, recipes for cooking methamphetamine. Just because pseudoephedrine is the popular precursor today does not mean it is needed.
P2P was the proper precursor before it was tightly controlled, and a switch can easily happen again, most likely to phenylacetic acid, if pseudoephedrine supplies get pinched. A switch is probably easier today than in the past, as an ever larger percentage of the meth entering the United States is coming from large labs in Mexico. Those labs and their professional chemists should find a recipe switch easier (and faster) than the rural domestic production of the 60's and 70's.
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I'm sorry you do not have a need to run more than one CPU intensive process at a time.
You are significantly off on your estimate of its age.
Anecdotal evidence alert!
I've been running Ubuntu 7.04 off a 4GB thumbdrive for over a year now. What evidence is there that USB keys are unreliable? I've never had one fail.
What part of the questioner's desire to re-purpose old, existing, hardware did you not understand?
If you plan on bashing the GP post, you're first completely unaware of the perks of the Honda generators (hint: weight!), and second completely unaware of the amount of storage space needed to store one. Honda EU generators are small and light.
This post was written Fri Sep 5428 18:59:58 EDT 1993
What a crappy thing for them to do. My 1993 Civic DX had AC.
Wrong.
The VW does not appear to have AC, the Honda Civic DX sedan offers it as an accessory.
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oops! ;)
Let's discuss the hypothetical non-hybrid Civic DX sedan with 34mpg @ $15,010 and the American average 12,000 miles a year.
$24,706 dollars spent in fuel over ten years at $7 a dollar gasoline.
total cost = $39,716
Not to mention the Honda Civic can haul you, your family and your stuff at that price, this VW? Nope.
We won't even get into the cost of money and the lost value of paying the high up-front charges of the VW option.
DivX did not come from DIVX.
Are you implying there is difficulty in acquiring "scene" distributed media, much less the hundreds of smaller providers?
Far from baseless, I think the current situation proves my "assumption" correct.
The point I was trying to make, and did not describe adequately is this:
Unless I have something unique in my house (Hope diamond in my bedroom), deterrence is enough, as my neighbor presumably has just as many valuables as me. My neighbor's house works well, in economic terms, as a perfect substitute.
This often is not true of software, movies, or music.
If an attacker wants access to (for example) the new U2 single, the fact U2 DRMs their songs and Radiohead does not is no deterrent. Radiohead is an imperfect substitute.
Unless a design defect is discovered in a line of locks, picking one (or creating a specialized pick) does not grant all would-be attackers instant access. The best it can do is lower the barrier to entry, it can make the task easier. Physical access, time, and a certain level of skill are still required of the attacker.
This is very different from current media DRM schemes. Once a file is broken there is no longer a barrier at all. Anyone can use the broken file, without physical access, without spending time "picking the lock", and without any skill.
If a design defect is discovered in a line of physical locks, the locks can be changed. Until no media is delivered on physical media such recalls are impossible for the subjects of the original argument.
Except, as has been mentioned by others elsewhere in this thread, for the fact that picking my home's lock does not give you access to my neighbor's home.
Also, to pick my Honda's lock you need physical access to my home. This limits greatly the number of people able to work on picking the lock. To break the security on a DRM'd file - any (easy to make) copy will suffice.
Yes, I agree those are two very important distinctions. I had thought of the second one, but after I posted. The third one is a good point I had not considered.
Counter, though, is that the third point is possibly more of an artifact of this transitional period.
As soon as the media companies can reasonably assume a large (enough) percentage of their market has persistent internet connections (possibly as soon as they can trust a large enough percentage of media players have a persistent connection) shouldn't they be able to deploy a wide range of ever-changing DRM systems? With such a model the ability to contain a single security breech to a small number of files should be possible.
Car locks, home locks, e-mail accounts, and computer firewalls all differ greatly from media DRM in (at least) one important way:
Not one of the security models used in his analogy depends on giving the key to the potential attacker. With media DRM you are given a restricted format and an obscured key to unlock it. This is its weakness, and has no corollary with the examples he gave.
Two - in the case of car and home locks - deterrence is enough. I don't need to secure my house against a perfect thief, unless I have the Hope diamond in my bedroom. I only need to secure my home better than my neighbor does. Even securing my house well enough to change the risk:reward or difficulty:reward balance is enough to greatly reduce the chances of a break-in.
You're such a pessimist.
I see this as solid factual evidence that a second wife is needed in my household!
There is no magic wand which converts currency.
Wages paid in Indian Rupees must be spent (eventually) in India.
It might be inefficiently moved around, it might be hoarded by "fat cats", but the fact remains: outsourced jobs create real economic growth in the countries in which the labor is performed.
How to reform those economies so that the "have-nots" see more and the "haves" see less is exercise #2. First there must be money in the economy before you can distribute it equitably.
They might not gain "our standard of living" but they (as a whole, I'm not going to argue individual cases) a better standard of living.
Without an influx of money and the growth of leisure, there never will be political reform, IMHO.
I would argue it is not destroying the middle class, so much as moving the middle class.
Welcome to the global economy.
There is going to be a painful transition period while the former third world achieves what they have not had for so long.
Blame the old status-quo on imperialism, blame it on racism, blame it on whatever you want. Regardless, the world is becoming an increasingly level playing field - finally.
The L2 is on a different frequency than the L1, by monitoring the different propagation delays of the L1 and the L2 frequencies you are able to model ionospheric conditions and compensate for them.
The cyphertext is good enough for that.
Just one of the needed tricks to get reliable, real-time, sub CM positions.
The Y code itself isn't nearly as valuable as dual-frequency reception.
A terrestrial user in the flat part of Ohio. As for reflections, those are greatly mitigated by the antenna design. The grandparent is apparently also a land surveyor - and survey grade receivers/antennas are much more discriminating than consumer ones. I don't know anyone outside surveyors and the military who pay attention to L2 signal strength.
If you are getting 10 satellites with strong L2 signals you are lucky. At 40 degrees north I rarely have eight satellites with decent L2 SNRs, and really appreciate the extra 1 to 3 sats GLONASS gives me. I'm talking about a Trimble R8 model 2, arguably the best GPS antenna and receiver on the market today.
In most (all?) states, mortgages (every last page of them) are public records and filed at the court house, as are any other liens against your real property.
The Birch Pseudoephedrine Reduction and Red Phosphorus methods are not the first, and will not be the last, recipes for cooking methamphetamine. Just because pseudoephedrine is the popular precursor today does not mean it is needed.
P2P was the proper precursor before it was tightly controlled, and a switch can easily happen again, most likely to phenylacetic acid, if pseudoephedrine supplies get pinched. A switch is probably easier today than in the past, as an ever larger percentage of the meth entering the United States is coming from large labs in Mexico. Those labs and their professional chemists should find a recipe switch easier (and faster) than the rural domestic production of the 60's and 70's.