I am the original author of "priv", which came before sudo, and I didn't see any mention of it. This utility was published in Unix World back in 1987, and basically did the same thing. Does this mean "priv" is exempt from this patent?
I can see three ways to get around this without thinking very hard about it. If that's the case, then I can imagine the true crackers out there can get around this very easily.
1. Have you and your friend record the same video. Examine each frame, and locate the watermark. Then, hack the watermark on each frame. A software program to do this would be trivial.
2. Hack the box to change the "serial number" or whatever else it uses to identify itself. This is probably stored in a removable ROM of some type for production purposes (it's cheaper to make the parts all the same and then add in a ROM at the end). So, reverse engineer it and sell hacked ROMs on the net.
3. Find the spot in the code that inserts the watermark in the video stream. It's probably easy to find. Stuff a RETURN or a JUMP in there so it doesn't do it, and burn a new ROM.
The proposed solution just moves the problem; it doesn't eliminate it.
If you just mount the laser on the back of your vehicle and increase the laser power based on your vehicle speed, then those pesky tailgaters will find a hole in their radiator or, even better, right through their engine block.
Probably, the people you deal with are less technical than you are. I sign all my outgoing emails anyway in an attempt to get people to consider using it, and still get very few encrypted emails also. When I do get one, the person is usually geekier than I am.
I always have wondered why the spammers aren't using the database of PGP/GPG keys to send spam too. Maybe they are, but obviously aren't willing to sign it for computational reasons, even with a phony key.
I don't understand why MySQL doesn't just aquire one of the existing closed-source database backend companies and do the integration work. Seems like [shameless plug] Unify's DataServer product [/shameless plug] might make a good choice. Another possibility is Birdstep's RDM.
Unify's product has a detachable SQL engine and Birdstep doesn't even have an SQL engine.
Yes they are! They can instantly become single-peered.
The whole point of being multi-peered means you have multiple connectivity. One goes down, temporarily, and the others stay up. At this point, this looks like more than just a temporary outage.
Interpretation: buying out anyofthe companies that can ALREADY read PDFs and convert them to Word is too expensive.
Or, interpret as: Microsoft engineering determines they can't do it because they lack the skills and/or knowledge and/or management and/or motivation to actually do it themselves.
Actually, that's not it at all. All one has to do is have access to the algorithm.
1. Take the picture, run gimp on it.
2. Blur/blend any existing "signature" information. Take your time and extrapolate as much as necessary so it can't be easily detected.
3. Decide how fast you want the supposed "speeder" to be going, and encode that information.
4. Feed the photo back into your proprietary tamper-proof chip so it gets a new signature.
5. Profit!
While most of your post was quite insightful, I disagree with your axiom of "If they have to keep using something, they will memorize it eventually". Perhaps that is true, but they will never be as quick at it as the person who used flash cards until they were very quick at recognizing the answer.
Flash cards have a tendency to move the number calculation process to the subconscious, and, if done at the right time in a child's life, can remain there forever.
Writing hundreds of lines of code to improve performance leaves you with a maintenance nightmare in a few years.
I think this problem is a DATABASE problem. If the query is common enough, try caching it in memory on the database server. Something like the mysql query cache is your friend, not hundreds of lines of code!
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Well, not on slashdot. I was hiding in an obscure part of the universe.
I am the original author of "priv", which came before sudo, and I didn't see any mention of it. This utility was published in Unix World back in 1987, and basically did the same thing. Does this mean "priv" is exempt from this patent?
So now we know what a null pointer exception smells like!
1. Have you and your friend record the same video. Examine each frame, and locate the watermark. Then, hack the watermark on each frame. A software program to do this would be trivial.
2. Hack the box to change the "serial number" or whatever else it uses to identify itself. This is probably stored in a removable ROM of some type for production purposes (it's cheaper to make the parts all the same and then add in a ROM at the end). So, reverse engineer it and sell hacked ROMs on the net.
3. Find the spot in the code that inserts the watermark in the video stream. It's probably easy to find. Stuff a RETURN or a JUMP in there so it doesn't do it, and burn a new ROM.
The proposed solution just moves the problem; it doesn't eliminate it.
If you just mount the laser on the back of your vehicle and increase the laser power based on your vehicle speed, then those pesky tailgaters will find a hole in their radiator or, even better, right through their engine block.
I always have wondered why the spammers aren't using the database of PGP/GPG keys to send spam too. Maybe they are, but obviously aren't willing to sign it for computational reasons, even with a phony key.
Unify's product has a detachable SQL engine and Birdstep doesn't even have an SQL engine.
That and femto light-years for trips to the corner store.
The reason this didn't go through, as far as I can tell from the trenches, is because Sun suffers from the "not invented here" syndrome.
Must be a fake; it's not for sale on ebay!
Level 3 has a 1.5 billion market cap whereas Cogent is already at 2.1 billion
Yes they are! They can instantly become single-peered. The whole point of being multi-peered means you have multiple connectivity. One goes down, temporarily, and the others stay up. At this point, this looks like more than just a temporary outage.
Who knew we had DNA revision control that goes back that far!
Interpretation: buying out any of the companies that can ALREADY read PDFs and convert them to Word is too expensive. Or, interpret as: Microsoft engineering determines they can't do it because they lack the skills and/or knowledge and/or management and/or motivation to actually do it themselves.
1. Take the picture, run gimp on it.
2. Blur/blend any existing "signature" information. Take your time and extrapolate as much as necessary so it can't be easily detected.
3. Decide how fast you want the supposed "speeder" to be going, and encode that information.
4. Feed the photo back into your proprietary tamper-proof chip so it gets a new signature.
5. Profit!
They DID have a robots.txt and, they contend, the internet archive took the web pages and archived them anyway!
Flash cards have a tendency to move the number calculation process to the subconscious, and, if done at the right time in a child's life, can remain there forever.
#!/usr/bin/perl //, $cc) { $sum += $digit; } /.(.)/, $cc) { $sum += $digit; }
do {
my ($cc, $sum) = '54' . (join '', (map { $_ = int rand 10 } (1..13))) . '0';
foreach $digit (split
foreach $digit (split
$cc =~ s/.$//;
print $cc, 9 - ($sum % 10), "\n"
} while (sleep 1);
appeal to popularity
I think this problem is a DATABASE problem. If the query is common enough, try caching it in memory on the database server. Something like the mysql query cache is your friend, not hundreds of lines of code!
Exactly! It would solve that, and anything else Micro and Soft.
Did the article say what the BASE of the ten digit number was? Binary?
All we have is the machine code. We can read that, but there aren't any comments.
Blue screen of WHAT?