My HP laptop came with a nice DVD including the windows installation and all the basic drivers to get the baby going. I think it depends on how cheap you buy your machine (Mine is a Nx8220, not top of the line, but it sure isn't cheap).
I think it will be good. I'm on a very fast connection, and I try to avoid handing data during the first rush to slow peers, that is, if you don't serve me at a reasonable speed I will block you off until I got the full package and then it is free for all. When distributing it makes sense in my book to make sure that people who can ship data at 1+MB/s should get the full package first and when they are done, up the amount of connections and let the slow seeders have it.
Theres a big difference between guarding material with watermarks and identifying material from known content. The already got those annoying dots in the movies so they can identify where a TS was made.
Solving the problem should be possible, but theres a lot of licensing issues to deal with. You need to try to match pictures from the original to every single frame to look for similarities, and then you need to match the sound from those frames, find a good threshold and mark offending videos for manual review.
That was the point of our project, to make it easier to use. With a linux router running iptables and our software all TCP/IP will be captured and transmitted on TOR (Or whatever subset of TCP/IP communication you want it to grab)
Theres a few reasons why this is so. First of all, this was as far as I know a proof of concept. Secondly in order to send one bit, the you need to transmit 2k+1 bits (from memory, should be in same section as the one you mentioned), that is very expensive. And due to the protocol it's very easy to do some DoS attacks on a clique, granted you can try to switch to a new clique, but you can spend a lot of time trying to get your message sent.
The article is very low on information on how he proposes to locate a computer. Yes clock skew would help, but you need to locate the machine somehow. And on top of that he thinks that more traffic equals higher load on the cpu. This isn't necessarily true, in a closed environment you might be able to do it, but on a global scale I can't see how this would help you unless you got global knowledge of the network, and if you do, sybil attack is a lot easier to do.
One must remember TOR doesn't guarantee strong anonymity, for that you need something like Herbivore.
No they don't. Mr and Mrs Denmark doesn't know how to use / apply a firmware upgrade. So when the movie won't play, something is broken and will be returned to whatever outlet they bought it from.
Ohh and auto updating firmwares? No way. All sorts of bad things happen if you loose power during upgrade. Besides, most places void warranty if a firmware upgrades screws you up. Doesn't sound like a good solution to me.
Our system gives users basic rights, but they are certainly not admins, but they still have the "power" to write most places on the drive. (Windows XP).
Users should never ever have sensitive information on their laptop unless it's encrypted. And important data should NEVER EVER! only exist in one place. So if the laptop is lost with encrypted data, you lost a laptop, easy to replace and you just reload the information. If you on the other hand lose a laptop with unencrypted sensitive information you got all sorts of bad problems, ranging from stolen ID to blackmail and espionage.
Not only should they be able to pull it off, someone should be fired for not having this in place already.
Because software frequently puts sensitive data in files outside your home directory.
Never mind the software, what about the users? I work for a small organization, and users drop sensitive information all over their drives, depending on when they started working with computers and what kind of habits they acquired, Documents and settings is a fairly new concept.
The movie is encrypted with a single key, so if only the movie key gets put on the intarweb, they can't figure out what key to revoke. And as lots of others has pointed out, while in theory it sounds like a good solution to revoke a key, you can't do that in the real world.
Perhaps in the US where the consumer watch dogs are less fierce than those in my neck of the woods you can cripple a paid for product. But here in Denmark the company would be forced to ship replacement units should the key be revoked, and let's see how many times you can go do that until the consumers demand their money back (yeah, you can do that here if the product is broken for up to two years).
Even with the trusted hardware paths it's only a matter of time until the consumers realize what a bad thing DRM is. It's a lost fight, they should spend their money on making a better product rather than trying to find the holy grail.
if it's already possible to decrypt blueray/hd-dvd, won't they have to wait for next generation untill next round? The fun thing is, the DRM guys gets one swing at it, while the hackers can poke around untill they beat it. It's a lost war.
You know what, you are going to find traces of my blood alot of places - I've left it on various kitchen knives, slippery spots and most other places where it's possible for me to hurt myself by doing something stupid - but that doesn't mean I've been killed in any of those places.
I'm with you on that. I find it sad that a person is not believed to be innocent untill proven guilty. About the missing frontseat - how do one tell that a set of tools was used to remove 4 bolts? And perhaps the seat is missing because he forgot to close the door of the car and it got spoiled in a rainstorm - would explain why the carpet had been soaked.
I mean he might have done it, but how about giving him the benefit of doubt?
And a missing front seat? Perhaps it was raining, and he forgot to close the door and the seat was spoiled - which would explain the soked rug. Lets see a body before we call it murder...
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And this is why the rest of the world finds the Americans insane. You are advocating killing someone over $2000, what the fuck is wrong with you????
If the cops haven't got the time to deal with it go talk to your local government, if they won't deal with it talk to the newspapers.
A quick google on washer rpm's gives a lot of pages showing above 1k RPM's, and with a small child inside 600RPM's isn't out of the question.
My HP laptop came with a nice DVD including the windows installation and all the basic drivers to get the baby going. I think it depends on how cheap you buy your machine (Mine is a Nx8220, not top of the line, but it sure isn't cheap).
Thank you, always nice to have new things haunting you in your dreams...
I think it will be good. I'm on a very fast connection, and I try to avoid handing data during the first rush to slow peers, that is, if you don't serve me at a reasonable speed I will block you off until I got the full package and then it is free for all. When distributing it makes sense in my book to make sure that people who can ship data at 1+MB/s should get the full package first and when they are done, up the amount of connections and let the slow seeders have it.
Theres a big difference between guarding material with watermarks and identifying material from known content. The already got those annoying dots in the movies so they can identify where a TS was made.
Solving the problem should be possible, but theres a lot of licensing issues to deal with. You need to try to match pictures from the original to every single frame to look for similarities, and then you need to match the sound from those frames, find a good threshold and mark offending videos for manual review.
That is not exactly true.
I reeeaaaally want to find the idiot who designed the way tabs work in Visual Studio over at microsoft and give him a good beating.
That was the point of our project, to make it easier to use. With a linux router running iptables and our software all TCP/IP will be captured and transmitted on TOR (Or whatever subset of TCP/IP communication you want it to grab)
Theres a few reasons why this is so. First of all, this was as far as I know a proof of concept. Secondly in order to send one bit, the you need to transmit 2k+1 bits (from memory, should be in same section as the one you mentioned), that is very expensive. And due to the protocol it's very easy to do some DoS attacks on a clique, granted you can try to switch to a new clique, but you can spend a lot of time trying to get your message sent.
The article is very low on information on how he proposes to locate a computer. Yes clock skew would help, but you need to locate the machine somehow. And on top of that he thinks that more traffic equals higher load on the cpu. This isn't necessarily true, in a closed environment you might be able to do it, but on a global scale I can't see how this would help you unless you got global knowledge of the network, and if you do, sybil attack is a lot easier to do.
One must remember TOR doesn't guarantee strong anonymity, for that you need something like Herbivore.
No they don't. Mr and Mrs Denmark doesn't know how to use / apply a firmware upgrade. So when the movie won't play, something is broken and will be returned to whatever outlet they bought it from.
Ohh and auto updating firmwares? No way. All sorts of bad things happen if you loose power during upgrade. Besides, most places void warranty if a firmware upgrades screws you up. Doesn't sound like a good solution to me.
Our system gives users basic rights, but they are certainly not admins, but they still have the "power" to write most places on the drive. (Windows XP).
Users should never ever have sensitive information on their laptop unless it's encrypted. And important data should NEVER EVER! only exist in one place. So if the laptop is lost with encrypted data, you lost a laptop, easy to replace and you just reload the information. If you on the other hand lose a laptop with unencrypted sensitive information you got all sorts of bad problems, ranging from stolen ID to blackmail and espionage.
Not only should they be able to pull it off, someone should be fired for not having this in place already.
Never mind the software, what about the users? I work for a small organization, and users drop sensitive information all over their drives, depending on when they started working with computers and what kind of habits they acquired, Documents and settings is a fairly new concept.
The movie is encrypted with a single key, so if only the movie key gets put on the intarweb, they can't figure out what key to revoke. And as lots of others has pointed out, while in theory it sounds like a good solution to revoke a key, you can't do that in the real world.
Perhaps in the US where the consumer watch dogs are less fierce than those in my neck of the woods you can cripple a paid for product. But here in Denmark the company would be forced to ship replacement units should the key be revoked, and let's see how many times you can go do that until the consumers demand their money back (yeah, you can do that here if the product is broken for up to two years).
Even with the trusted hardware paths it's only a matter of time until the consumers realize what a bad thing DRM is. It's a lost fight, they should spend their money on making a better product rather than trying to find the holy grail.
But they do have something to hide...
Yes, but in this case you don't have one legal user for every compromised key, you got thousands, if not millions potential users of a single key.
if it's already possible to decrypt blueray/hd-dvd, won't they have to wait for next generation untill next round? The fun thing is, the DRM guys gets one swing at it, while the hackers can poke around untill they beat it. It's a lost war.
You know what, you are going to find traces of my blood alot of places - I've left it on various kitchen knives, slippery spots and most other places where it's possible for me to hurt myself by doing something stupid - but that doesn't mean I've been killed in any of those places.
I'm with you on that. I find it sad that a person is not believed to be innocent untill proven guilty. About the missing frontseat - how do one tell that a set of tools was used to remove 4 bolts? And perhaps the seat is missing because he forgot to close the door of the car and it got spoiled in a rainstorm - would explain why the carpet had been soaked.
I mean he might have done it, but how about giving him the benefit of doubt?
And a missing front seat? Perhaps it was raining, and he forgot to close the door and the seat was spoiled - which would explain the soked rug. Lets see a body before we call it murder...
So how do you propose to walk through a huge tree without recursion?
Doh, my bad.
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Yeah, and so what? Never been an issue for most users, they just think; "oh its microsoft" restarts the application and you get your next try.
So you are saying segmentation fault is an accepted way of halting a program?
I would say segmentation faults are a big nono.