So I would say the average NY'er experience have been the exact opposite of yours (more bandwidth, while prices haven't fallen (in "real" dollars) steeply.
You're right, but wrong about what we're talking about.
one way hashes are useful for proving identity w/o revealing what the identity matching item is (at least if its not transmitted over a network, in those cases, ala HTTP, it's basically considered plain text equivalent).
However, what we are talking about here is that the iPod has an encrypted disk image. If one is going to use (as presumambly the iPhone does) one has to decrypt it. As the iPhone doesn't require the user to enter the password, it has to have the password to decrypt it stored somewhere in a manner that it can use. At that point, either it hidden in the non encrypted FS (so just need to find it) or its hidden in some nvram type area on the phone, which might make it harder, but not impossible, to get at.
you don't go after breaking the password, you go after finding where apple stored it. If it's encrypted, the iphone has to be able to decrypt it, therefore has to have the password available.
see how the original xbox hacker (whose name I forget) captured it's encryption key by "simply" (yeah, not that simple) monitoring the bus.
I agree, but they also indicate that they consider all the files they have listed as potential damages. It goes towards the fact that this statement might not be made in good faith.
IANAL or a law student, just a future CS phd (hopefully RSN).
1) First Linares acknowledges that a route can have an IP address, then he says "Two computers cannot effectivly function if they are connected to the Internet with the same IP address".
This is not true. i.e. routers and NAT. Multiple Computers can have the same effective IP address to the internet. While they can track it down to the NAT device, they cant go further.
2) They assume the network provider maintains a log of IP addresses. This is not a given. A Good guess perhaps, but not a fact.
3) While its good practice that they download files and humanly verify the contents, the list of files can't be verified to be all infringing content. Unless they actually downloaded said file themselves, its an assumption that the file is named/labeled correctly. He says this later when he says that it only "suggests" that there were many copyright files. (Not being a lawyer, don't know the implication).
4) They claim an ISP can identify the computer being used. This is inaccurate. They can identify the customer, but most customers are behind routers (aka NAT) so they have no ability to identify which computer.
5) They claim expedited discovery is "critical" to stopping piracy. I can't believe they believe that expiding discovery will have any dent on piracy.
6) They claim that infringment of non public works greatly harms it when released, I believe there's evidence to the contrary (i.e. widely distributed albums have debuted at number 1 or other times higher then anyone expected).
7) unsure why expidited discovery impacts if they can serve defendants. If it happens quickly or over a long period of time, what difference does it make?
8) They now claim ISPs destroy logs, but if discovery is going on, are they allowed to?
i'm wondering why you think verizon demanded "more" restrictions. Verizon's main restriction is almost always that you can't run any other application on your phone. Well guess what, Apple agrees with that.:) Verizon has also crippled bluetooth in the past (no obex) but that wouldn't affect the iPhone because there's no point to it! Also, Verizon has crippled DUN, but again, there's no actually marketing on Apple's part to suggest it views DUN as a feature at all.
Personally, I think it's just that Verizon wasn't willing to pay up, while Cingular was (that's the only reason they would get a 5 year (!) exclusive (same reason why Verizon has an exclusive on the LG chocolate)
you are not forced to have a data plan w/ a treo on sprint. You might end up paying a huge amount of money if you don't (per KB charges can add up quickly with EVDO).
true, but think about a laptop, do you really want to shutdown every time you move somewhere? You want to be able to hibernate/suspend and then resume when you get to the new location. You don't want to worry about saving all your applications (if you were looking at cnn.com, you won't be able to get the same view when you return).
the idea of this project was to put the laptop metaphor into something you could store in your pocket.
We've done this on Linux, including supporting checkpointing the state (very quick, its under a second ignoring writeback time, which is a function of the device one wants to use) so one can migrate to a different machine where one can restart it.
No I have a Kill-A-Watt (bought from newegg 2 months ago).
There are 2 problems with your power supply argument
1) the power supplies take in more watts than they output (they are not 100% efficient) 2) My power supplies are both 400W antec power supplies.
I would guess power supply 1 is near it's max (dual athlon, radeon 9800, 8 HDs), while the other machine is probably using around 100-150W (single athlon, el cheap video card, 1 HD)
When I said how much it was using, it was the steady reading given by the kill-a-watt when the machines were doing nothing.
18 KWH a day. though the math was off a little. it was about 130 for electricity (20+ for gas) and it was a long month due to the holidays. and there were various taxes and fees that raised it. Though this bill it was actually 19KWH a day.
my 2 machines were easily averaging 500W. I thought a $140 electricity bill in the winter was a bit high, so bought a kill-a-watt and figured out that my computers were consuming 12 of the 18 KWH my apt was using a month. Now they are turned off except when I need them, and thanks to Wake-On-Lan, I can turn them on remotely as well.
perhaps, but I have a Radeon 9800, which should be good enough, and in Windows XP.
On the flip side, neither mplayer nor totem/xine nor totem/gstreamer seem to be able to play the ev0 files, so can't say if linux works better.
But to also say, I remember back in the day of my p2-400 (somewhere between 1998-2000), my computer could play mpeg2 (namely DVDs) that were at a higher bitrate and resolution than the divx files, but could barely keep up w/ the divx (using ac3 instead of mp3 put the hurt on it even more). Hence, just because something can keep up w/ divx and mpeg2, doesn't mean it can keep up with VC1.
It could also be the copy of powerdvd I tried it with, didn't work so well, but mostly tried just to see how it work, not that I have any real interest in it.
my 1.8 pentium M plays it significantly better than my dual athlon, I believe its related to memory bandwidth and that the athlon mp sucks relatively to the pentium M, though only other thing could be optimizations as the pentium has sse2 while the athlon you would need to use 3dnow.
but its even bigger at a 30GB download, besides the wasted time, my dual athlon mp 2800+ w/ 1.5GB of ram is not powerful enough to play it (albiet its 3-4 years old now)
Except I believe that WordPerfect made the same argument over *Perfect, as they had WordPerfect, DrawPerfect (and I believe PlanPerfect) and they tried suing someone over use of the Perfect suffix and lost. Basically you can't trademark prefixes or suffixes. (though google isn't being kind to me right now and can't find mention of the lawsuit so my memory could be failing me)
I'm a big fan of CFLs, but they don't seem to produce as good a light as regular incandescent bulbs. I have a teeny tiny living room in my apartment (split in half to make a 3rd bedroom) and 1 60W incandescent bulb lights it up nicely. However, the 13W CFL I replaced it with doesn't light it up as well, and it produces what I can only refer to as a more "yellowish" light than the incandescent does. that could be in regards to the type of bulb I picked up, but it was the only type of bulb home depot seemed to sell (in multiple different size packs).
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Eh. I don't know what your experience is, but since 2001, my cable modem w/ time warner has been about $42.
However, in that time, the downstream bandwidth cap went from 5Mbps to 7Mbps to 10Mbps (albiet upstream only went from 384Kbps to 512)
However, $42 dollars in 2001, is only about $36-$37 today, that's not a steep fall. (per http://www.measuringworth.com/uscompare/)
So I would say the average NY'er experience have been the exact opposite of yours (more bandwidth, while prices haven't fallen (in "real" dollars) steeply.
people who learn how to use the trackpoint correctly, never go back.
Having to take your fingers off the keyboard to use the mouse on a laptop is not ergonomic.
You're right, but wrong about what we're talking about.
one way hashes are useful for proving identity w/o revealing what the identity matching item is (at least if its not transmitted over a network, in those cases, ala HTTP, it's basically considered plain text equivalent).
However, what we are talking about here is that the iPod has an encrypted disk image. If one is going to use (as presumambly the iPhone does) one has to decrypt it. As the iPhone doesn't require the user to enter the password, it has to have the password to decrypt it stored somewhere in a manner that it can use. At that point, either it hidden in the non encrypted FS (so just need to find it) or its hidden in some nvram type area on the phone, which might make it harder, but not impossible, to get at.
you don't go after breaking the password, you go after finding where apple stored it. If it's encrypted, the iphone has to be able to decrypt it, therefore has to have the password available.
see how the original xbox hacker (whose name I forget) captured it's encryption key by "simply" (yeah, not that simple) monitoring the bus.
I agree, but they also indicate that they consider all the files they have listed as potential damages. It goes towards the fact that this statement might not be made in good faith.
IANAL or a law student, just a future CS phd (hopefully RSN).
1) First Linares acknowledges that a route can have an IP address, then he says "Two computers cannot effectivly function if they are connected to the Internet with the same IP address".
This is not true. i.e. routers and NAT. Multiple Computers can have the same effective IP address to the internet. While they can track it down to the NAT device, they cant go further.
2) They assume the network provider maintains a log of IP addresses. This is not a given. A Good guess perhaps, but not a fact.
3) While its good practice that they download files and humanly verify the contents, the list of files can't be verified to be all infringing content. Unless they actually downloaded said file themselves, its an assumption that the file is named/labeled correctly. He says this later when he says that it only "suggests" that there were many copyright files. (Not being a lawyer, don't know the implication).
4) They claim an ISP can identify the computer being used. This is inaccurate. They can identify the customer, but most customers are behind routers (aka NAT) so they have no ability to identify which computer.
5) They claim expedited discovery is "critical" to stopping piracy. I can't believe they believe that expiding discovery will have any dent on piracy.
6) They claim that infringment of non public works greatly harms it when released, I believe there's evidence to the contrary (i.e. widely distributed albums have debuted at number 1 or other times higher then anyone expected).
7) unsure why expidited discovery impacts if they can serve defendants. If it happens quickly or over a long period of time, what difference does it make?
8) They now claim ISPs destroy logs, but if discovery is going on, are they allowed to?
verizon has shipped phone's with wifi before.
the XV6700 for instance, and the Treo 700W/WX can use wifi w/ an add on card.
i'm wondering why you think verizon demanded "more" restrictions. Verizon's main restriction is almost always that you can't run any other application on your phone. Well guess what, Apple agrees with that. :) Verizon has also crippled bluetooth in the past (no obex) but that wouldn't affect the iPhone because there's no point to it! Also, Verizon has crippled DUN, but again, there's no actually marketing on Apple's part to suggest it views DUN as a feature at all.
Personally, I think it's just that Verizon wasn't willing to pay up, while Cingular was (that's the only reason they would get a 5 year (!) exclusive (same reason why Verizon has an exclusive on the LG chocolate)
you are not forced to have a data plan w/ a treo on sprint. You might end up paying a huge amount of money if you don't (per KB charges can add up quickly with EVDO).
5 digit UIDs are newbies (/me looks longly at 3 digit UIDs)
true, but think about a laptop, do you really want to shutdown every time you move somewhere? You want to be able to hibernate/suspend and then resume when you get to the new location. You don't want to worry about saving all your applications (if you were looking at cnn.com, you won't be able to get the same view when you return).
the idea of this project was to put the laptop metaphor into something you could store in your pocket.
Basically, you want a nicer version of coda.
We've done this on Linux, including supporting checkpointing the state (very quick, its under a second ignoring writeback time, which is a function of the device one wants to use) so one can migrate to a different machine where one can restart it.
a c2006_fordist.pdf
http://www.ncl.cs.columbia.edu/publications/comps
do you think OfficeXP uses SSE? as it beat it in that benchmark too
No I have a Kill-A-Watt (bought from newegg 2 months ago).
There are 2 problems with your power supply argument
1) the power supplies take in more watts than they output (they are not 100% efficient)
2) My power supplies are both 400W antec power supplies.
I would guess power supply 1 is near it's max (dual athlon, radeon 9800, 8 HDs), while the other machine is probably using around 100-150W (single athlon, el cheap video card, 1 HD)
When I said how much it was using, it was the steady reading given by the kill-a-watt when the machines were doing nothing.
18 KWH a day. though the math was off a little. it was about 130 for electricity (20+ for gas) and it was a long month due to the holidays. and there were various taxes and fees that raised it. Though this bill it was actually 19KWH a day.
uh. This is how I computed it.
Con Ed tells me I am averaging 18 KWH a day.
Con Ed charged me $150 for electricity (17-18c a KWH)
Computers are using over 500W (kill-a-watt, energy reader tells me this) steady if both are on (i.e. at least 12 KWH a day)
hence, computers were using at least 2/3 of my daily electricity.
my 2 machines were easily averaging 500W. I thought a $140 electricity bill in the winter was a bit high, so bought a kill-a-watt and figured out that my computers were consuming 12 of the 18 KWH my apt was using a month. Now they are turned off except when I need them, and thanks to Wake-On-Lan, I can turn them on remotely as well.
perhaps, but I have a Radeon 9800, which should be good enough, and in Windows XP.
On the flip side, neither mplayer nor totem/xine nor totem/gstreamer seem to be able to play the ev0 files, so can't say if linux works better.
But to also say, I remember back in the day of my p2-400 (somewhere between 1998-2000), my computer could play mpeg2 (namely DVDs) that were at a higher bitrate and resolution than the divx files, but could barely keep up w/ the divx (using ac3 instead of mp3 put the hurt on it even more). Hence, just because something can keep up w/ divx and mpeg2, doesn't mean it can keep up with VC1.
It could also be the copy of powerdvd I tried it with, didn't work so well, but mostly tried just to see how it work, not that I have any real interest in it.
serious risk? you are probably referring to the "Blue Pill", the Blue is way overblown, wikipedia has a short summary, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Pill_(malware)
my 1.8 pentium M plays it significantly better than my dual athlon, I believe its related to memory bandwidth and that the athlon mp sucks relatively to the pentium M, though only other thing could be optimizations as the pentium has sse2 while the athlon you would need to use 3dnow.
but its even bigger at a 30GB download, besides the wasted time, my dual athlon mp 2800+ w/ 1.5GB of ram is not powerful enough to play it (albiet its 3-4 years old now)
Except I believe that WordPerfect made the same argument over *Perfect, as they had WordPerfect, DrawPerfect (and I believe PlanPerfect) and they tried suing someone over use of the Perfect suffix and lost. Basically you can't trademark prefixes or suffixes. (though google isn't being kind to me right now and can't find mention of the lawsuit so my memory could be failing me)
you do realize that a 13W CFL is supposed to be equivalent to a 60W regular bulb?
I'm a big fan of CFLs, but they don't seem to produce as good a light as regular incandescent bulbs. I have a teeny tiny living room in my apartment (split in half to make a 3rd bedroom) and 1 60W incandescent bulb lights it up nicely. However, the 13W CFL I replaced it with doesn't light it up as well, and it produces what I can only refer to as a more "yellowish" light than the incandescent does. that could be in regards to the type of bulb I picked up, but it was the only type of bulb home depot seemed to sell (in multiple different size packs).