If you had ever seen The Visitors, you'd know that the disappearance of the bees is the result of a time travel accident, and that pollination in the future will be done by loud and stinking pollination machines.
Of course the two purposes are not mutually exclusive. Indeed, if there was such a nuclear war surviving rationale, it certainly was because of the sharing computers rationale. Otherwise, building something which survives a nuclear war would be much easier (I'd suggest a small cube of lead, buried several miles below the ground; that will surely survive a nuclear war).
This would indeed be a viable way to find a leak. Provided all the suspects get different software, so you can identify them through the software leaked.
I'd like to modify your proposal slightly. It's OK that the whitehats get on internet A and the asshats on internet B. However I'd prefer the blackhats to get on internet B instead of internet A.
No. There are many, and often even stronger, motives than money. Which starts with such motives like fun and pleasure (which most people are even willing to pay money for), then there's love, hate, the desire for power, and the dream of a better world (RMS surely didn't found the FSF in order to get rich!). I don't claim that list to be exhaustive.
Sorry to disappoint you, but people don't even want my personal information when I offer it to them (that chick at the bar) for free! Well, maybe it's that you offered her the wrong personal information. I'm sure if you offered her the data needed to get at the money on your bank account, she would have been interested.
Never mind security. If it's stored locally, I can always get at it and do what I want with it, even if I'm away from my desk and my WLAN. When I'm not at home, I can only hope that there's accessible wifi (and not one of those subscription-based hotspots). Of course the same argument can be used the other way round: With locally installed apps, when you are not around your computer, you have no chance to get to your documents. With web apps, all you need is any computer with Internet access. It may be yours, it may be that of your friend, or it might even be a computer in an internet cafe on the other side of the world (assuming you don't worry about the security risk). It won't matter if that computer is running Windows, Linux, MacOS or even something very exotic, as long as there's a decent browser and internet connection.
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But the other thing about computers is that nothing at all happens without hardware, and if your processor simply refuses to run your instructions (or there aren't even instructions to do what you want), there's nothing you can do. Note that as soon as CPU and GPU are integrated, it's possible that the unencrypted data never leaves the die.
Yes, in principle you could reverse engineer the chip hardware, but I don't think that's something you can do with the ressources of a DVD Jon.
When Bill Gates is on the ISS and wants to go back: "Huston, I have a problem." "What's your problem, Bill?" "I tried to get back to earth, but this damned space ship won't start." "You can't get back now." "Why not?" "You only bought the Space Basic license to get into space." "And that means?" "The Space Basic license doesn't include the license to return to earth." "Ehm... but I want to return to earth!" "Well, no problem. You just have to upgrade your license to Space Premium. Or to Space Ultimate." "What's the difference?" "Space Ultimate also gives you the license to return to earth alive." "Ok, I'll take space ultimate." "Fine. The money will be drawn from your bank account. Of course you have to register." "Ok... well, it says I cannot upgrade, because Space Genuine Advantage determined an invalid license." "Well, of course you have to have a valid Space Basic or Space Premium license to upgrade." "But I do have a valid license. Isn't there a way to circumvent SGA?" "Of course not. We certainly have to make sure that only people with valid licenses enter the ISS." "But I am already on the ISS." "So you must be a space pirate. Sorry, but we don't support space pirates."
Seriously, what does running as a restricted user do to prevent this? Restricted users can still install software anyplace they can write to. Unless they don't have execute permissions on the directories they have write permissions to. Well, maybe they can install that software, but they can't run it.
Which of course would raise the question: What is the most expensive option: A security package which protects against all their exploits, or an exploit which works for all their security packages?
I think their patent has lots of prior art. At least I've seen messages like "Please insert disk #2" quite often. And what is that, if not humans assisting computers (after all, one could also imagine an automatic disk switcher attached to the computer, in which case the computer wouldn't need to aks for human assistance for changing disks).
Forget about terrahertz carriers. I want communication at the frequency of gravity. Let's see... I guess the biggest source of gravitational waves in the solar system is Mercury (the planet) on its way around the sun. It circulates the sun once in 88 days, which means the frequency is about 0.13 microhertz. I don't think you get much bandwidth at that frequency:-)
BTW, it's terahertz (from greek teras, monster), not terrahertz (it has nothing to do with the earth).
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If you had ever seen The Visitors, you'd know that the disappearance of the bees is the result of a time travel accident, and that pollination in the future will be done by loud and stinking pollination machines.
No, it's the other way round: Fewer bees -> lower human population density. Didn't they tell you about the birds and the bees?
Of course the two purposes are not mutually exclusive. Indeed, if there was such a nuclear war surviving rationale, it certainly was because of the sharing computers rationale. Otherwise, building something which survives a nuclear war would be much easier (I'd suggest a small cube of lead, buried several miles below the ground; that will surely survive a nuclear war).
Or Steve. And mention at some point that some problem made you throw chairs.
This would indeed be a viable way to find a leak. Provided all the suspects get different software, so you can identify them through the software leaked.
I'd like to modify your proposal slightly. It's OK that the whitehats get on internet A and the asshats on internet B. However I'd prefer the blackhats to get on internet B instead of internet A.
No. There are many, and often even stronger, motives than money. Which starts with such motives like fun and pleasure (which most people are even willing to pay money for), then there's love, hate, the desire for power, and the dream of a better world (RMS surely didn't found the FSF in order to get rich!). I don't claim that list to be exhaustive.
What will be the TLD for space routers? :-)
Maybe " "?
Well, there's still missing a reference to goatse. But then, astronomers tell us there are many big black holes in space.
No. IE7 is already out now, and MS would be silly to give the next version the same version number as the current version.
If you sell, please tell AMD's investor relations that you sell because of the DRM plans.
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But the other thing about computers is that nothing at all happens without hardware, and if your processor simply refuses to run your instructions (or there aren't even instructions to do what you want), there's nothing you can do. Note that as soon as CPU and GPU are integrated, it's possible that the unencrypted data never leaves the die.
Yes, in principle you could reverse engineer the chip hardware, but I don't think that's something you can do with the ressources of a DVD Jon.
When Bill Gates is on the ISS and wants to go back: ... but I want to return to earth!" ... well, it says I cannot upgrade, because Space Genuine Advantage determined an invalid license."
"Huston, I have a problem."
"What's your problem, Bill?"
"I tried to get back to earth, but this damned space ship won't start."
"You can't get back now."
"Why not?"
"You only bought the Space Basic license to get into space."
"And that means?"
"The Space Basic license doesn't include the license to return to earth."
"Ehm
"Well, no problem. You just have to upgrade your license to Space Premium. Or to Space Ultimate."
"What's the difference?"
"Space Ultimate also gives you the license to return to earth alive."
"Ok, I'll take space ultimate."
"Fine. The money will be drawn from your bank account. Of course you have to register."
"Ok
"Well, of course you have to have a valid Space Basic or Space Premium license to upgrade."
"But I do have a valid license. Isn't there a way to circumvent SGA?"
"Of course not. We certainly have to make sure that only people with valid licenses enter the ISS."
"But I am already on the ISS."
"So you must be a space pirate. Sorry, but we don't support space pirates."
Unfortunately this is not possible since now there's no more a planet Pluto.
Which of course would raise the question: What is the most expensive option: A security package which protects against all their exploits, or an exploit which works for all their security packages?
If MS has to open up its APIs in the EU, and some OSS implements them, there's nothing to stop anyone in the US from using that OSS, is there?
I think their patent has lots of prior art. At least I've seen messages like "Please insert disk #2" quite often. And what is that, if not humans assisting computers (after all, one could also imagine an automatic disk switcher attached to the computer, in which case the computer wouldn't need to aks for human assistance for changing disks).
You already can see electric fields. Provided they oscillate at 400 to 750 THz.
Only if it's a DeLorean and contains a flux condensator.
BTW, it's terahertz (from greek teras, monster), not terrahertz (it has nothing to do with the earth).