The problem with that is that high-level traffic analysis is relatively difficult and requires expensive hardware. And without that anyone who maxes out their upstream bandwidth for more than a short time is going to be suspected of spamming, which will result in plenty of angry articles on/.about how ISPs are infringing on their all-you-can-eat connections.
It sounds like this hack is a procedure that has to be performed for each 360, not a universal key that can be mass-produced like an Xbox 1 chip. And of course expect a new rev of the 360 that breaks this to hit pretty soon (or, as a stopgap, all 360s start using the Hitachi drive).
You missed the point. Lag is caused in part by the fact that it takes light a certain time to travel a certain distance- this is a fundamental limit that advancing technology will not remove for the foreseeable future. Chicago is not all that far from the UIUC as these things go, so a 6ms ping can be attained there. But if you tried playing on servers in California, New York, or other countries, the minimum ping will always be much higher and there is nothing anyone can do about this, so your call for reduced lag is not ever going to be answered.
The difference between this and a simple fragment program is probably a method for dealing with the fact that the entire texture cannot be kept in VRAM (or even main system RAM). It'll need to dispatch loads for parts of the texture that aren't yet loaded and expire parts that haven't been used for a while.
The truth is the Intel processor is a lot more prone to buffer overflow attacks
Bullshit. Buffer overflows are a software problem and have nothing to do with the CPU. The PowerPC would have been just as vulnerable, when running identical code.
And building your own PC teaches you absolutely nothing about discovering vulnerabilities.
I don't really see anything wrong with the manager's response. A huge number of people were impersonating employees, it was confusing the customers (and it's her responsibility to prevent that from happening), and I assume the Best Buy didn't have enough real staff to throw out 80 people and keep the store running at the same time. How was she supposed to know it was harmless comedy? If it hadn't been, she'd at the very least have been fired and possibly held liable for whatever havoc ensued.
Downhillbattle lost all my respect when they admitted that they bought a digital camera, used it to take a bunch of pictures for one of their pages, and then returned it for a refund. Way to take the moral high ground there.
Why wouldn't they just switch to a "Firefox = Internet" mentality, especially if they were forcibly switched to Firefox by a geek who "knows what's best for them" without them learning anything or making their own decision?
Can someone explain the YouTube business model? It neither directly charges its users nor sells ad space, and streaming video takes a ton of storage and bandwidth. How are they keeping it up?
I look forward to all stations switching to my upcoming audio format, which is both the most restrictive and most expensive to license in the world. Contact me for the address to mail the checks.
Back when the RIAA was going after entire file-sharing programs, weren't we complaining that going after individual users is what they should be doing?
I (and a lot of other people) don't want to move to a subscription or rental model. I'd still pay more, and give up small amounts of real estate in my house, in exchange for permanent access to a particular piece of content. What makes you think the video server will always give you what you ask for when you ask for it? It's a golden opportunity for them to push for eternally recurring minor charges instead of the pay once, play forever model we have today.
I'm a little curious as to how the card is going to notify the user the system may have been compromised. If it involves the host OS in any way (dialog box) it could be bypassed by the rootkit. Maybe an LED on the card will switch from green to red? How often are you going to remember to check it?
Why shouldn't we? Every other animal attempts to make itself most likely to survive at the expense of other organisms. What makes humans an exception? What life form would you rather see survive and reproduce than yourself?
There are already people who have extracted the electronics from the Guitar Hero controller and installed them in a real guitar body.
As for Van Halen, it was probably a combination of licensing fees and musician apathy. From the interview it looks like this time around the former will be less of a problem and the latter is definitely no longer a factor.
Actually, the answer to all possible P2P schemes is enforcing a rate cap on your entire connection- If there's 500K/sec going into your port and that keeps up for, say, 12 hours, then it magically becomes 400, then 300, and so on until the network is less strained.
Like another poster said, if the restaurant has to choose between losing the $5 you pay for the AYCA meal or the $100 cost of the food you actually end up eating, that's an easy choice.
It's not just about software- it's about design, and software and hardware working together. Have you ever opened up a G5? You pop off one panel and one plastic barrier and everything is right there in plain sight. The hard disks slide in and out on little rails and their cables are built into the case and snap on without having a chance to get all messy. The fan assembly over the RAM slots plugs into a plastic connector on the motherboard and comes out as a single unit if you tug on it. There are no screws to unscrew and no sharp corners or edges to gouge you. And if you take out the plastic barrier while the computer is on it will pop up an alert to tell you that doing that disrupts the cooling airflow.
The popularity of intelligent design is not rising in the US. The volume and rate at which its supporters, a group which remains fairly static, are speaking are rising.
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The problem with that is that high-level traffic analysis is relatively difficult and requires expensive hardware. And without that anyone who maxes out their upstream bandwidth for more than a short time is going to be suspected of spamming, which will result in plenty of angry articles on /.about how ISPs are infringing on their all-you-can-eat connections.
It sounds like this hack is a procedure that has to be performed for each 360, not a universal key that can be mass-produced like an Xbox 1 chip. And of course expect a new rev of the 360 that breaks this to hit pretty soon (or, as a stopgap, all 360s start using the Hitachi drive).
You missed the point. Lag is caused in part by the fact that it takes light a certain time to travel a certain distance- this is a fundamental limit that advancing technology will not remove for the foreseeable future. Chicago is not all that far from the UIUC as these things go, so a 6ms ping can be attained there. But if you tried playing on servers in California, New York, or other countries, the minimum ping will always be much higher and there is nothing anyone can do about this, so your call for reduced lag is not ever going to be answered.
The difference between this and a simple fragment program is probably a method for dealing with the fact that the entire texture cannot be kept in VRAM (or even main system RAM). It'll need to dispatch loads for parts of the texture that aren't yet loaded and expire parts that haven't been used for a while.
The truth is the Intel processor is a lot more prone to buffer overflow attacks
Bullshit. Buffer overflows are a software problem and have nothing to do with the CPU. The PowerPC would have been just as vulnerable, when running identical code.
And building your own PC teaches you absolutely nothing about discovering vulnerabilities.
That dichotomy rather breaks down when you notice that the highly rated comedy you're watching on YouTube came from SNL in the first place.
I'm gonna go build my own lunar lander! With blackjack! And hookers! In fact, forget the lunar lander and the blackjack! Ahh, screw the whole thing.
I don't want to shut out my view of the outside world entirely. Using headphones is bad enough, but not being able to see is too much.
Also, they look incredibly dorky.
I don't really see anything wrong with the manager's response. A huge number of people were impersonating employees, it was confusing the customers (and it's her responsibility to prevent that from happening), and I assume the Best Buy didn't have enough real staff to throw out 80 people and keep the store running at the same time. How was she supposed to know it was harmless comedy? If it hadn't been, she'd at the very least have been fired and possibly held liable for whatever havoc ensued.
I'd be more interested in who's giving YouTube that sort of money in the first place. It has minimal advertising and no usage fees.
Downhillbattle lost all my respect when they admitted that they bought a digital camera, used it to take a bunch of pictures for one of their pages, and then returned it for a refund. Way to take the moral high ground there.
Why wouldn't they just switch to a "Firefox = Internet" mentality, especially if they were forcibly switched to Firefox by a geek who "knows what's best for them" without them learning anything or making their own decision?
Can someone explain the YouTube business model? It neither directly charges its users nor sells ad space, and streaming video takes a ton of storage and bandwidth. How are they keeping it up?
I look forward to all stations switching to my upcoming audio format, which is both the most restrictive and most expensive to license in the world. Contact me for the address to mail the checks.
Back when the RIAA was going after entire file-sharing programs, weren't we complaining that going after individual users is what they should be doing?
I (and a lot of other people) don't want to move to a subscription or rental model. I'd still pay more, and give up small amounts of real estate in my house, in exchange for permanent access to a particular piece of content. What makes you think the video server will always give you what you ask for when you ask for it? It's a golden opportunity for them to push for eternally recurring minor charges instead of the pay once, play forever model we have today.
I'm a little curious as to how the card is going to notify the user the system may have been compromised. If it involves the host OS in any way (dialog box) it could be bypassed by the rootkit. Maybe an LED on the card will switch from green to red? How often are you going to remember to check it?
Why shouldn't we? Every other animal attempts to make itself most likely to survive at the expense of other organisms. What makes humans an exception? What life form would you rather see survive and reproduce than yourself?
There are already people who have extracted the electronics from the Guitar Hero controller and installed them in a real guitar body.
As for Van Halen, it was probably a combination of licensing fees and musician apathy. From the interview it looks like this time around the former will be less of a problem and the latter is definitely no longer a factor.
Actually, the answer to all possible P2P schemes is enforcing a rate cap on your entire connection- If there's 500K/sec going into your port and that keeps up for, say, 12 hours, then it magically becomes 400, then 300, and so on until the network is less strained.
Like another poster said, if the restaurant has to choose between losing the $5 you pay for the AYCA meal or the $100 cost of the food you actually end up eating, that's an easy choice.
I like how the list of what's wrong with iTunes is from three years ago.
It's not just about software- it's about design, and software and hardware working together. Have you ever opened up a G5? You pop off one panel and one plastic barrier and everything is right there in plain sight. The hard disks slide in and out on little rails and their cables are built into the case and snap on without having a chance to get all messy. The fan assembly over the RAM slots plugs into a plastic connector on the motherboard and comes out as a single unit if you tug on it. There are no screws to unscrew and no sharp corners or edges to gouge you. And if you take out the plastic barrier while the computer is on it will pop up an alert to tell you that doing that disrupts the cooling airflow.
I just post to drive up the value of my account for when it hits eBay.
The popularity of intelligent design is not rising in the US. The volume and rate at which its supporters, a group which remains fairly static, are speaking are rising.