--Remote attestation is controversial, but you don't have to turn it on in BIOS. Same with Intel's vPro stuff.--
But their might be a back way in. How would you know? The potential for abuse is high but the potential for good is too, kinda reminds me of nuclear power or something.
As you say you might have to have a high tech chip fab to know. Back in them good ole days of the TRS80, Apple II, and Atari, etc. you could get all of the documentation on the OS's that were on those machines chips or I remember doing that with Atari. You had to pay extra but it all fit on a spiral bound notebook.
Couldn't they just give that away without compromising the encryption? I know it would be vastly larger but even millions of lines of code could fit in a few text files. I dunno I just don't trust them for some reason an think they are doing this purely for DRM. I just don't trust Trusted Computing.
But still for a workplace (small business) this sounds good. Microsoft might get some people to move away from XP with BitLocker. It is something a business would want. I think this would also eliminate a cold boot attack with a USB stick too. I will read some more.
--New members were only admitted with sponsorship of existing members.--
This sounds like how a gang operates not an organization. Looks like the dude could just pay membership dues or something. He ain't paying so they are going to mess him up.
I know little, but the trick is to sell envy straight up. Like, buy (x) and you will better than every one else. x=product. Simple math. It works on anyone.
Damn, the man is always bad and the women is always right no matter what. Some women eat this up.
Like my wife. She sometimes tries to make me watch this if I have done something that she didn't like to punish me. Believe you me they end up being the boss. After this torment you will then say OK to whatever they want.
--Are you going to make a homosexual themed site so that homosexuals can be distinguished between buyers that are heterosexual. Again, see above.--
No, I really wouldn't want to do that, because I think they could distinguish it themselves. I sure as hell can't tell who they are unless they let me know somehow and I just don't want to know.
I hope I didn't say something offensive or sensitive.
I did look at the site. You are right, if they want to sell this stuff, then they don't need a separate woman's section for it. Some of it maybe anyone would buy. One of the designs didn't look to me like it was for women but for stoners but that is just an opinion. And..I didn't go to that other wedding site by mistake.
--Even so, most such incidents destroy small businesses completely just because they don't manage to get people back working in time.--
Been there done that. Speed is very important. All the insurance in the world will not help you if you can't get back up fast enough, but if you do you will have a crew that has a work their ass off mentality for a few years after that and then you will do well. Then every one gets lazy again and something happens to remind them.
Yeah, how can a tape be hacked if it is setting somewhere else. Even if they didn't have money, off site tape backup is pretty cheap. Maybe they would loose a day but not the whole shebang.
Probably just laziness, we always have the owners take a tape home once a week in case of fire that might take out a tape safe. They probably will forget to do that once in a while and we will loose 2 weeks work, which for what we do is acceptable risk.
I have been through a fire before, and we did have a backup plan, but we didn't plan for that and lost a lot of stuff, but you know what, at that time it ended up being a good thing. Now people can't get CAD files for their homes built before 2000 for the most part. All of the stuff before CAD (paper drawings) went up as well. The real important paper stuff in the 2 hour fire safe was singed. Now maintaining 10 years of data for us is getting to be a struggle. Every so many years we just delete all of the email and only keep it for maybe 2 years.
Most of it is just garbage anyhow, inter office stuff, sending attached files rather then looking them up and that sort of thing.
I really wouldn't trust anything but off site backup. But damn even on a shoestring they could have done better.
security risk - At least it's blocked externally but not internally where I work. Telnetting into Cisco PIX seems to be easier than using their web based way in.
Yeah, I have extensions out the wazoo. Even with memory leaks and all. One is a must have; "Ad Block Plus". Tabbed browsing and lack of spyware problems that we with IE6 caused me to switch everyone over. No one even noticed. But man now there is a lot of plugins I take for granted. Outlook and Firefox don't play as nice together as IE8 and Outlook. I get memory leaks fro one or the other eventually.
Not exactly my point. The point I was trying to make was, "is it really going to help AMD?". I'm not upset at all if that IS the reason.
Will it change their market share? Probably not. The EU should give a portion of their fines to the companies that were affected. How you do that, I don't since many are driven out of business by the time a judgment get's handed down from the EU.
In the US it's worse, we just don't enforce the DOJ judgments. That changes with the administration.
As of now that is just a slap on the wrist for someone that has got rid of SPARC, Power PC, and others pretty much.
--Last time I setup a VPN, was with a Cisco PIX firewall,--
They are still in use. I think they still make them. I know we have one and have not had that problem. I guess I just don't understand why it wouldn't work either.
At work here I have what I want IE8, Firefox3, Chrome, Safari, and Opera. I use Firefox mostly with IE8 coming in second, but Firefox has some memory leaks if pushed hard that IE8 doesn't have AND IE8 is better because of Firefox. So I think Microsoft has some good programmers. They do in fact have some good stuff but their marketing, now, is a different story entirely. But I mostly use IE8 for the same reasons that you use IE6 and it seems to have to do with certain sites where I pay my bills that I may have something blocked with Firefox for my normal surfing. Instead of trying to figure it out, it is just easier to bring up IE8. Now it looks great but it doesn't have that one feature that you can get with Firefox.
--As they've slapped plenty of EU companies with fines for anti competitive behavior, your accusations are fairly unfounded.--
Not exactly, look at the amounts.
Siemens has received a â 397 million (about $500 million) fine from the European Commission for illegal price fixing in the energy distribution business.
Siemens Market Cap: â 45.85 billion
Intel Market Cap: â 62.26 billion
That's way more of a fine for Intel than Siemens even figuring in it's market cap 1.4 times higher while the fine was 3.4 times higher.
You will find this pattern across the board. Even Microsoft didn't get hit this hard for doing much worse things IMO.
Wait till the EU gets Apple for it's iTunes anti competitive behavior and other companies that SlashDot likes? There are plenty of companies in the EU with anti competitive behavior as well.
Did the EU give the money to AMD? The US market is slightly smaller than the EU but we don't fine their companies much.
This is a good question. It shouldn't be modded as flamebait either. It is true that the EU has levied fines against companies in the EU but the big fines are against US companies. We'll AMD complained. Shouldn't they get a portion along with the other chip manufactures that this affects if there are any others.
So while the EU might be right to fine them the money should go to the other companies hurt. I didn't see Netscape getting anything from Microsoft? So while Siemens gets fined a much smaller amount for the same practices while being just as large of a company.
So, no it will not help prop up their economy that way, but if they hurt US companies then EU companies will benefit.
So now the US is no longer dictating world economic policy but the EU is. Most/.r's seem to be happy about this. That they will do a better job. I wonder really about the long term here.
I think a better solution would have been to say to Intel "Hey you can't have these practices here in the EU if you want to do business here." but they are also telling Intel what they can and can't do outside their borders. Maybe the DOJ does the same thing, but that's the only issue I have with it.
Microsoft can still bundle Media Player here but not in the EU I think?
Yes there has to be either storage or base power when the sun don't shine, the wind don't blow, etc.
Geothermal looks promising for this in some areas. So does tidal. There ARE ways to store power from wind and solar, and I know the US could have much more wind power for sure. Probably without subsidies.
Solar is coming along, but those silicon wafers need to get cheaper. There are promising new technologies there that eventually would drive the price down, but for right now solar would have to be subsidized for that to work and you can't sell excess power back to the grid everywhere in the US. Where you can do that you might get a 5 year payback.
Even bio fuels are not as bad as what we use now. Corn takes a lot of subsidies to get that 10% ethanol that we use now in our gasoline. Sugar cane would be much cheaper. Look at Brazil.
We need to make some decisions to tear down one infrastructure and build another to power our homes and get place to place. Going totally with wind and solar seems doable but you may still need a few nukes for your base power.
Someone here is smart enough to figure this out. If we could do without the nukes too that would be better if it is possible.
Think about how many people this happens to. Then think about how many have money enough to hire a lawyer to sue them and even then their overall success in winning would still be slim.
Around here a person can usually be detained for no reason at all for about 3 days. Maybe just to scare you into talking or something like that but they don't have to tell you their reasons unless you are charged. They can hold you under suspicion for a while. The FBI can do this for a very long time when they wish (K. Mitnik or some other person that scares them).
We'll maybe if this is feasible then we can line both sides of the interstates with PV cells. That covers a lot.
Maybe you could also power automobiles this way by induction for safety reasons this way. You still would have to have some extra power from somewhere when the sun doesn't shine.
This would lead to hybrid designs which I don't like because of the extra weight. Imagine what a car would weigh if it only needed electric motors without batteries or an internal combustion engine?
But...for right now this would only be feasible for the interstate highways.
Trains are cool and all for distances between large cities, but it wont work for everywhere in the US. A pure electric vehicle seems to be the solution. With short range batteries that can be standardized like gas pumps are today and can be changed out on the fly at a battery station instead of a gas station and charged at home when you have the time.
The thing for the government to do would be to line all it's roads with PV cells to charge these batteries.
Standardization is the key to make something like this or some of the other good ideas work. So I propose we spend $34,000 on a study to find out which way is best and I will study it by paying an expert $10,000. Then we will know.
Yeah, yeah but here's the trick. If you can sell both hardware and software, you might have what a business wants most. Everything to blame on one company if something goes wrong.
If you use many vendors, get the best deals etc. then when it goes bad people get fired. IBM already has this capability. Now, so does Sun to some extent, but it is a little bit like comparing Intel to AMD.
--You can name a file anything you want and its content based md5 will stay the same.--
What if you were to re-sample them? People do that all the time to make sure the volume level is the same for all *.mp3's in their collection?
I guess there is always a hex editor to remove such things if need be. Real pirates are not going to be slowed down. They are just stopping mom and pop. Why? I don't get it. It can only be about controlling not just the distribution of old Led Zeppelin files but controlling future do it your self-ers. They are wanting to get enough control over the Net to stop people that want to publish there own material by their selves.
Slashdot Mirror
--Remote attestation is controversial, but you don't have to turn it on in BIOS. Same with Intel's vPro stuff.--
But their might be a back way in. How would you know? The potential for abuse is high but the potential for good is too, kinda reminds me of nuclear power or something.
As you say you might have to have a high tech chip fab to know. Back in them good ole days of the TRS80, Apple II, and Atari, etc. you could get all of the documentation on the OS's that were on those machines chips or I remember doing that with Atari. You had to pay extra but it all fit on a spiral bound notebook.
Couldn't they just give that away without compromising the encryption? I know it would be vastly larger but even millions of lines of code could fit in a few text files. I dunno I just don't trust them for some reason an think they are doing this purely for DRM. I just don't trust Trusted Computing.
But still for a workplace (small business) this sounds good. Microsoft might get some people to move away from XP with BitLocker. It is something a business would want. I think this would also eliminate a cold boot attack with a USB stick too. I will read some more.
--New members were only admitted with sponsorship of existing members.--
This sounds like how a gang operates not an organization. Looks like the dude could just pay membership dues or something. He ain't paying so they are going to mess him up.
I know little, but the trick is to sell envy straight up. Like, buy (x) and you will better than every one else. x=product. Simple math. It works on anyone.
2 words
Dr. Phil
Damn, the man is always bad and the women is always right no matter what. Some women eat this up.
Like my wife. She sometimes tries to make me watch this if I have done something that she didn't like to punish me. Believe you me they end up being the boss. After this torment you will then say OK to whatever they want.
--Are you going to make a homosexual themed site so that homosexuals can be distinguished between buyers that are heterosexual. Again, see above.--
No, I really wouldn't want to do that, because I think they could distinguish it themselves. I sure as hell can't tell who they are unless they let me know somehow and I just don't want to know.
I hope I didn't say something offensive or sensitive.
I did look at the site. You are right, if they want to sell this stuff, then they don't need a separate woman's section for it. Some of it maybe anyone would buy. One of the designs didn't look to me like it was for women but for stoners but that is just an opinion. And..I didn't go to that other wedding site by mistake.
--Surely all the people who've downloaded the downloadable content over the years can all band together and restore a large proportion of it?--
From you and the parent.
All good ideas. If that guy wants to quit maybe someone else will do it instead.
He obviously wants an excuse to quit. Most of the data can probably still be rounded up one way or another.
--Even so, most such incidents destroy small businesses completely just because they don't manage to get people back working in time.--
Been there done that. Speed is very important. All the insurance in the world will not help you if you can't get back up fast enough, but if you do you will have a crew that has a work their ass off mentality for a few years after that and then you will do well. Then every one gets lazy again and something happens to remind them.
Yeah, how can a tape be hacked if it is setting somewhere else. Even if they didn't have money, off site tape backup is pretty cheap. Maybe they would loose a day but not the whole shebang.
Probably just laziness, we always have the owners take a tape home once a week in case of fire that might take out a tape safe. They probably will forget to do that once in a while and we will loose 2 weeks work, which for what we do is acceptable risk.
I have been through a fire before, and we did have a backup plan, but we didn't plan for that and lost a lot of stuff, but you know what, at that time it ended up being a good thing. Now people can't get CAD files for their homes built before 2000 for the most part. All of the stuff before CAD (paper drawings) went up as well. The real important paper stuff in the 2 hour fire safe was singed. Now maintaining 10 years of data for us is getting to be a struggle. Every so many years we just delete all of the email and only keep it for maybe 2 years.
Most of it is just garbage anyhow, inter office stuff, sending attached files rather then looking them up and that sort of thing.
I really wouldn't trust anything but off site backup. But damn even on a shoestring they could have done better.
Uh Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, +4 Informative? Should be +5 Funny! I really wanna see some citations here.
--What say you now?--
security risk - At least it's blocked externally but not internally where I work. Telnetting into Cisco PIX seems to be easier than using their web based way in.
Yeah, I have extensions out the wazoo. Even with memory leaks and all. One is a must have; "Ad Block Plus". Tabbed browsing and lack of spyware problems that we with IE6 caused me to switch everyone over. No one even noticed. But man now there is a lot of plugins I take for granted. Outlook and Firefox don't play as nice together as IE8 and Outlook. I get memory leaks fro one or the other eventually.
Yeah, and now I'm getting Cowboy spam. Like wanting me to buy cheap land out west where you can raise your own Viagra.
Not exactly my point. The point I was trying to make was, "is it really going to help AMD?". I'm not upset at all if that IS the reason.
Will it change their market share? Probably not. The EU should give a portion of their fines to the companies that were affected. How you do that, I don't since many are driven out of business by the time a judgment get's handed down from the EU.
In the US it's worse, we just don't enforce the DOJ judgments. That changes with the administration.
As of now that is just a slap on the wrist for someone that has got rid of SPARC, Power PC, and others pretty much.
BTW, what was that French company?
--Last time I setup a VPN, was with a Cisco PIX firewall,--
They are still in use. I think they still make them. I know we have one and have not had that problem. I guess I just don't understand why it wouldn't work either.
At work here I have what I want IE8, Firefox3, Chrome, Safari, and Opera. I use Firefox mostly with IE8 coming in second, but Firefox has some memory leaks if pushed hard that IE8 doesn't have AND IE8 is better because of Firefox. So I think Microsoft has some good programmers. They do in fact have some good stuff but their marketing, now, is a different story entirely. But I mostly use IE8 for the same reasons that you use IE6 and it seems to have to do with certain sites where I pay my bills that I may have something blocked with Firefox for my normal surfing. Instead of trying to figure it out, it is just easier to bring up IE8. Now it looks great but it doesn't have that one feature that you can get with Firefox.
"Ad Block Plus"
--As they've slapped plenty of EU companies with fines for anti competitive behavior, your accusations are fairly unfounded.--
Not exactly, look at the amounts.
Siemens has received a â 397 million (about $500 million) fine from the European Commission for illegal price fixing in the energy distribution business.
Siemens Market Cap: â 45.85 billion
Intel Market Cap: â 62.26 billion
That's way more of a fine for Intel than Siemens even figuring in it's market cap 1.4 times higher while the fine was 3.4 times higher.
You will find this pattern across the board. Even Microsoft didn't get hit this hard for doing much worse things IMO.
Wait till the EU gets Apple for it's iTunes anti competitive behavior and other companies that SlashDot likes? There are plenty of companies in the EU with anti competitive behavior as well.
Did the EU give the money to AMD? The US market is slightly smaller than the EU but we don't fine their companies much.
This is a good question. It shouldn't be modded as flamebait either. It is true that the EU has levied fines against companies in the EU but the big fines are against US companies. We'll AMD complained. Shouldn't they get a portion along with the other chip manufactures that this affects if there are any others.
So while the EU might be right to fine them the money should go to the other companies hurt. I didn't see Netscape getting anything from Microsoft? So while Siemens gets fined a much smaller amount for the same practices while being just as large of a company.
So, no it will not help prop up their economy that way, but if they hurt US companies then EU companies will benefit.
So now the US is no longer dictating world economic policy but the EU is. Most /.r's seem to be happy about this. That they will do a better job. I wonder really about the long term here.
I think a better solution would have been to say to Intel "Hey you can't have these practices here in the EU if you want to do business here." but they are also telling Intel what they can and can't do outside their borders. Maybe the DOJ does the same thing, but that's the only issue I have with it.
Microsoft can still bundle Media Player here but not in the EU I think?
Yes there has to be either storage or base power when the sun don't shine, the wind don't blow, etc.
Geothermal looks promising for this in some areas. So does tidal. There ARE ways to store power from wind and solar, and I know the US could have much more wind power for sure. Probably without subsidies.
Solar is coming along, but those silicon wafers need to get cheaper. There are promising new technologies there that eventually would drive the price down, but for right now solar would have to be subsidized for that to work and you can't sell excess power back to the grid everywhere in the US. Where you can do that you might get a 5 year payback.
Even bio fuels are not as bad as what we use now. Corn takes a lot of subsidies to get that 10% ethanol that we use now in our gasoline. Sugar cane would be much cheaper. Look at Brazil.
We need to make some decisions to tear down one infrastructure and build another to power our homes and get place to place. Going totally with wind and solar seems doable but you may still need a few nukes for your base power.
Someone here is smart enough to figure this out. If we could do without the nukes too that would be better if it is possible.
Think about how many people this happens to. Then think about how many have money enough to hire a lawyer to sue them and even then their overall success in winning would still be slim.
Around here a person can usually be detained for no reason at all for about 3 days. Maybe just to scare you into talking or something like that but they don't have to tell you their reasons unless you are charged. They can hold you under suspicion for a while. The FBI can do this for a very long time when they wish (K. Mitnik or some other person that scares them).
We'll maybe if this is feasible then we can line both sides of the interstates with PV cells. That covers a lot.
Maybe you could also power automobiles this way by induction for safety reasons this way. You still would have to have some extra power from somewhere when the sun doesn't shine.
This would lead to hybrid designs which I don't like because of the extra weight. Imagine what a car would weigh if it only needed electric motors without batteries or an internal combustion engine?
But...for right now this would only be feasible for the interstate highways.
Trains are cool and all for distances between large cities, but it wont work for everywhere in the US. A pure electric vehicle seems to be the solution. With short range batteries that can be standardized like gas pumps are today and can be changed out on the fly at a battery station instead of a gas station and charged at home when you have the time.
The thing for the government to do would be to line all it's roads with PV cells to charge these batteries.
Standardization is the key to make something like this or some of the other good ideas work. So I propose we spend $34,000 on a study to find out which way is best and I will study it by paying an expert $10,000. Then we will know.
In the end the will be only one game left.
WOW
Now that would really suck. There's your drugs; World or Warcrack?
--so customers do not have to do it themselves..."--
That is the part that is appealing to businesses.
Yeah, yeah but here's the trick. If you can sell both hardware and software, you might have what a business wants most. Everything to blame on one company if something goes wrong.
If you use many vendors, get the best deals etc. then when it goes bad people get fired. IBM already has this capability. Now, so does Sun to some extent, but it is a little bit like comparing Intel to AMD.
or any of the others that make you jump through hoops to get at something.
1. Partial menus (Office)
2. The Search Dog (Windows XP)
3. I don't what else but the way they have features turned off and on makes no sense at all.
The I'm done sig.
--You can name a file anything you want and its content based md5 will stay the same.--
What if you were to re-sample them? People do that all the time to make sure the volume level is the same for all *.mp3's in their collection?
I guess there is always a hex editor to remove such things if need be. Real pirates are not going to be slowed down. They are just stopping mom and pop. Why? I don't get it. It can only be about controlling not just the distribution of old Led Zeppelin files but controlling future do it your self-ers. They are wanting to get enough control over the Net to stop people that want to publish there own material by their selves.