I cant remember the exact name but some 15 years ago there was a functional open project for doing die design.. Not sure if its around anymore or not...
You can do this in your basement with an FPGA on a slower scale, and i am sure that if enough orders were batched we could get a chip fab in some other country to make a 'smallish run' at a more reasonable cost than your estimate.. ( no, not 'cheap' but i don't think 100's of thousands either )
And 'free', or 'low cost' isn't the only selling point here, to me at least. 'Fully documented' and 'non-proprietary' is nothing to sneeze at.
For now. Don't think for a moment that it will start AND stop with AT&T. We are slowly returning to the dark days where you were afraid to get online ( or use your phone ) as you knew you would get an extra bill.
And don't forget you get to pay for all the spam and commercials too, in effect since its cuts into your bandwidth.
Someone has to take this seriously and deal with these botnets,
i totally agree, but it should be by cutting off access to infected computers and keep them off-line until they are 'clean'. ISP's can detect 'bad things' and do this automatically.
All that said, it's also entirely likely that Sony has crypted hash passwords, but it's safer to say 'your password is compromised', because of how many users have passwords like 'yourmom65' rendering the hashing pointless.
Then they should have presented it that way, and not scare people outright and look like fools.
I don't care if i am infected, who gives the the federal government the right to touch my PC? Sure, call my ISP and cut me off until i fix it, but stay the hell out of my property unless i am under a court sanctioned investigation.
( in reality i cant be infected with this windows-only issue, but the question still stands. who died and gave them god rights? )
In time this will happen, if nothing else to enable the government to have more control over content and increased monitoring ability.
Keep in mind that not all utilities are owned/run by the government, as many are now private. However, they do have to live under quite draconian regulations that are designed to protect the public. ( by intent at least.. actual results may vary )
Sometimes that is the safest thing to do. Besides, all they will lose is millions of users data.. It's not like they really care, they know you cant go anywhere else.
Not saying is right or wrong, but you cant argue that you didn't give them the permission to do it. You may not have known if you didn't take the time to read it, but you did.
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Never defended the corporations. Just stated that the lawyers are the only ones that profit from this stuff.
Even the lawyers on the losing side get paid big bucks.
A class action is NEVER about making he victims whole
Correct, its about making the attorneys ( on BOTH sides.. ) wealthy.
You have enough market share to be noticed. Sux to be us Mac users tho.
Why not just pony up about $69/mo...and get a business connection for your home.
Yes that will 'fix' it but why should i be screwed as a home customer?
No, Sony should have been gone a while ago. Perhaps this will be the push over the edge they need and can never fully recover.
I meant out of being overly excited.. not from fear. They see $$ falling out of sky like rain drops in a storm.
I bet the carriers are peeing themselves at this point.
wow.
You do know the difference between ASIC and FPGA, right?
The story is about ASIC, which isn't exactly trivial. Doing a FPGA implementation of OR1/2k is a non-event.
Bring back grail.. it was small, fast and mulitplatform out of the box, being based on Python.
( and one of the first broswers.. )
I cant remember the exact name but some 15 years ago there was a functional open project for doing die design.. Not sure if its around anymore or not...
"sea or something" or other ...
You can do this in your basement with an FPGA on a slower scale, and i am sure that if enough orders were batched we could get a chip fab in some other country to make a 'smallish run' at a more reasonable cost than your estimate.. ( no, not 'cheap' but i don't think 100's of thousands either )
And 'free', or 'low cost' isn't the only selling point here, to me at least. 'Fully documented' and 'non-proprietary' is nothing to sneeze at.
Then use a FPGA and program it yourself.
You are talking about tiered internet and the blackmailing content providers.
Unless you were just being sarcastic?
For now. Don't think for a moment that it will start AND stop with AT&T. We are slowly returning to the dark days where you were afraid to get online ( or use your phone ) as you knew you would get an extra bill.
And don't forget you get to pay for all the spam and commercials too, in effect since its cuts into your bandwidth.
future development platform for touch based devices.
God i hope not. Its already ruined the desktop/web world.
Someone has to take this seriously and deal with these botnets,
i totally agree, but it should be by cutting off access to infected computers and keep them off-line until they are 'clean'. ISP's can detect 'bad things' and do this automatically.
All that said, it's also entirely likely that Sony has crypted hash passwords, but it's safer to say 'your password is compromised', because of how many users have passwords like 'yourmom65' rendering the hashing pointless.
Then they should have presented it that way, and not scare people outright and look like fools.
I don't care if i am infected, who gives the the federal government the right to touch my PC? Sure, call my ISP and cut me off until i fix it, but stay the hell out of my property unless i am under a court sanctioned investigation.
( in reality i cant be infected with this windows-only issue, but the question still stands. who died and gave them god rights? )
In time this will happen, if nothing else to enable the government to have more control over content and increased monitoring ability.
Keep in mind that not all utilities are owned/run by the government, as many are now private. However, they do have to live under quite draconian regulations that are designed to protect the public. ( by intent at least.. actual results may vary )
But the point is that the concept was similar.
But even nerdier, there are still people hacking typewriters into USB keyboards and such, or doing Arduino hacks, etc.
Blasphemy
Sometimes that is the safest thing to do. Besides, all they will lose is millions of users data.. It's not like they really care, they know you cant go anywhere else.
Or, probably nothing wrong with the hardware that isn't also wrong with all the competition.
That there is the key. But its far more fun to bash your 'favorite' whipping boy/company for some people.
Read you EULA. You gave them permission.
Not saying is right or wrong, but you cant argue that you didn't give them the permission to do it. You may not have known if you didn't take the time to read it, but you did.