Really? Maybe their software just changes the bits in ram that enable/disable it? Doesn't seem hard and obfuscates the backdoor quite simply.
People are so worried about the government breaking their crypto but if hackers and the Kevin Mitnick story have taught us anything it's that the best way to break security is Soc. Eng., just try to make sure that 50-60% of people are using encryption that doesn't really work, change the google rankings insert some articles develop flawed software and insinuate yourself into projects that seem to be gaining popularity.
Or you could try and break 512bit RC4 until the heat death of the universe, yea that's the easy option I guess.
Once you decide you want access, options that seemed ridiculous during the that decision suddenly seem plausible.
You're assuming that computers can't be better than humans already? That's easy? If every mob talked to each other (at computer speeds and swarmed you, you'd be dead.
Better A.I. doesn't mean harder A.I. it means more depth of A.I. mobs not just running in circles, bots that act more human. Friendships between monsters (Or bots in an FPS etc.)
Think of what better A.I. could do for the most popular series of all time, the Sims.
Decision trees are hard, hard to code tough on processors... anything that can offload either part of that equation will make a big diffrence in what game designers can do.
Makes sense if physics takes off, if there are $200 ageia cards and Intel ships high end motherboards with onboard physics (like onboard sound) they'll dominate. The same thing as AMD is trying to do with graphics (Fusion).
If I can buy an integrated graphics solution through AMD or an integrated physics/graphics solution through Intel it's an easy choice, fusion will provide crap graphics and graphics will have a faster upgrade cycle.
There's some really interesting video's floating around about Intel increasing the power of their integrated graphics, not enough to play Crysis at 1600 but enough to PLAY just about every game.
When I search for 50cent I want to see a torrent of his album listed on ThePirateBay... In Canada and Sweden it's legal, in the states it isn't yet somehow we still get stupid summaries from American magazines.
I'm not sure how the internet got broken, but somehow it is. Most of these problems seem to be benefiting the states, there's no reason Swedes or Brits should know what the DMCA is yet they do... So yea we need to move the internet towards being more global/less controlled (and yes I mean less corporate control, not government).
Google has the advertising clout to compete with anyone for mind-share.
I think the price drop on the iPhone is reactionary... it doesn't have any technologies that can't be licenced elsewhere. Also it's somewhat limited in reconfigurability... If google puts it on their main page (even as the google graphic for the day) mentioning it will have an ad supported version and will support free voip out of the box it should be incredibly successful. Geeks and college students know about wi-fi availability and that capability will really sell a phone these days, the only tech that google really needs to perfect to have a market destroying/creating tech is switching between wi-fi and gsm calling.
If there servers can handle it and the tech is seamless then they'll destroy, if they rush it out to compete with the iPhone (which is actually a good idea as it's making people think about upgrading to smart phones and voip) they'll have problems but by competing while offering a lower price point (ad-supported/voip service) they'll clean up.
So the fact that they've admitted that there's a backdoor doesn't bother you?
A backdoor that contacts the internet often enough for it to patch your system? But not often enough to have been known about before this?!
I guess it's tinfoil time, but a keylogger would have to send what... 500k a month?
Sure windows is huge and bloated, what tipped you off the 4gig directory? But that's not too bad, I mean you get word and paint! What more could you need?
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If I asked you to tour my plant, but when you arrived I stuck you in a crate and said it was a new subdivision of an existing plant would that be ok?
AMD basically wasted this guy's time by restricting his right to publish and asking him to sign away his right to publish anti-AMD information in the future.
That's bullocks, he's making a good point that journalists shouldn't waste their time with this company if it's going to be worse than not talking to them at all.
Yea Opera was the only browser that worked on my p233 96 ram laptop, it was reasonably snappy too. Some stuff still killed it but not much. I've been using opera for a long time, I find it very quick... I love the built in e-mail client with baysian filtering... I like how it saves my pages when I close it (though it only saves the most recent one and doesn't seem to be able to save a group of tabs ala firefox).
Mainly I like how it's so secure, I go to some pretty nasty places on the net and I'm not concerned.
Let's keep the marketshare low people, 3-5% is the sweet spot, no one looking for exploits and they'll have enough money to keep updating the software.
I with some exceptions. Just a fantastic company raising the bar for everyone.
It's true, every whistle blower is likely just a disgruntled employee. The press get's involved and facts get uncovered, the more the whistle blower has to offer the harder reporters are supposed to search.
Since private presses have largely died out, this is the only way to be able to provide relevant details etc before getting hauled into court and fired.
The phone works for 30 second explanations but the kind of stuff going on now requires longer explanations, and this is a good medium.
If I worked in the public sector I'd keep pace with the scandles surrounding my superiors. Might keep them on their toes as long as the public can remember not to go vigilante.
Yea it'll be like America and gold! Or Cotten or whatever, they're taking education seriously and unless patents become even more restrictive they'll be a functional economy in 30-40 years. Unless Bush kills Chavez... but meh, it could happen.
Before spitting anti-socialist propoganda, check out "The Revolution Will not be Televised" for the kinds of problems South American countries (and close U.S. trade partners actually face). Russia's economy totally collapsed overnight and it got worse when they switched to capitalism, they're just getting back on their feet under the socialist Putin.
The cool thing is we'll see what the press says about this website. Seems pretty tough to control doesn't it...
It seems to me that if BSD simply going the FSF/GPL party this problem would go away.
BSD was created early and available before linux was really practical.
Since the GPL/GNU/Linus Kernal have gotten together things have been looking up from the slide under BSD towards Microsoft products.
So that's the historic argument, currently trusted computing means there will be less and less total control over hardware. The GPL has taken steps to deal with this, while also freeing phones, routers (WRT54G)and PDAs. So in future BSD will be less successful in preserving freedom then it has been in the past.
It would be nice if the GPL had provisions for seperate running code... oh wait it does, and people still don't use it. Well I wonder why:(
Considering this skepticism I can't imagine how much the wright brothers must have put up with.
We have flight we have hovering vehicles we simply need to combine them.
Actually this is more practical than most people appreciate, if we can get the cars to hover 3-5m above the ground if they crash in our roadways other traffic won't need to stop or even slow.
Truck traffic can continue underneath.
Eventually this will be practical, and I suspect far earlier than similar advances from maglev or other competing techs.
This guy's problem is obvious, he makes a cool hobby car get's close to something cool then backs off to reduce cost or increase safety.
This is largely because of the kind of whinning you can see in all the/. posts, he should just make the car without thought of cost or safety and treat it as a tool.
Even your XM is probably subsidized by Payola (Advertising for the very bands you say aren't being advertised)... Oldies -> Payola. Britney Spears -> Payola.
Yes it's more obvious that modern music is crap but that's just because some people are ACTUALLY pissed with mainstream music and not just trying to be cool and diffrent.
It's amazing how we know that people only like music based on familiarity and that bands are pushed so rapidly you begin to hear them everywhere yet no one thinks about the massive marketing budgets this creates.
These guys need to stop, and yes that means going to bars and clubs and never hearing music you've heard before. So be it.
Too bad Slashdot didn't run this, it would have made an interesting conversation even if it was fake:)
My current phone is free (totally) so buying an expensive one kind of sucks, the prices are massively inflated (as evidenced by their lake of VOIP software), the Gphone doesn't seem to have these problems as much as it has advertising problems (which might be solved with say the ability to use "delivery pizza" to have it suggest a pizza place)... A Free phone with VOIP and the ability to hook up to any GSM provider would be totally kickass.
It's not the OpenMoko but it'll do to show the telecoms the future. They can panic and make their service better or they can grab for quick profits and speed the transition, I don't care which they choose (I already have a free phone remember). Cell phone bills are way too high, they shouldn't need 3 hours of service [$10 hr x 3] per phone, that's just crazy talk.
I see you have a low UID (so I'm gonna let you troll as you like). I'm aware of the distinction, and the purpose of both sites.
I won't be using torrentspy any longer, I suspect most people may join me.
I just think it's interesting that the M/RIAA scared them so badly (And they're so decent) that they would block the U.S. to keep it's citizens from incriminating themselves.
Sorry, if I format I will still have 5 installs? That sounds like a lie:(
I wonder how long it will be until someone wants to go back and play a classic game and can't because of something like this, it's already happened with other games for example Bane of the Cosmic Forge (Wizardry 6)...
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Free Speech...
Not really sports are fun war isn't.
If fights are fair people won't engage in them, since you're a crazy warmonger can I also assume you're a gun nut?
Do you see a contradiction between the arguments about self defense vs overwhelming power disrupting MAD?
Really? Maybe their software just changes the bits in ram that enable/disable it? Doesn't seem hard and obfuscates the backdoor quite simply.
People are so worried about the government breaking their crypto but if hackers and the Kevin Mitnick story have taught us anything it's that the best way to break security is Soc. Eng., just try to make sure that 50-60% of people are using encryption that doesn't really work, change the google rankings insert some articles develop flawed software and insinuate yourself into projects that seem to be gaining popularity.
Or you could try and break 512bit RC4 until the heat death of the universe, yea that's the easy option I guess.
Once you decide you want access, options that seemed ridiculous during the that decision suddenly seem plausible.
This still doesn't explain why handguns (almost totally useless against soldiers) are allowed?
Steroids have certainly improved.
You're assuming that computers can't be better than humans already? That's easy? If every mob talked to each other (at computer speeds and swarmed you, you'd be dead.
Better A.I. doesn't mean harder A.I. it means more depth of A.I. mobs not just running in circles, bots that act more human. Friendships between monsters (Or bots in an FPS etc.)
Think of what better A.I. could do for the most popular series of all time, the Sims.
Decision trees are hard, hard to code tough on processors... anything that can offload either part of that equation will make a big diffrence in what game designers can do.
Makes sense if physics takes off, if there are $200 ageia cards and Intel ships high end motherboards with onboard physics (like onboard sound) they'll dominate. The same thing as AMD is trying to do with graphics (Fusion).
If I can buy an integrated graphics solution through AMD or an integrated physics/graphics solution through Intel it's an easy choice, fusion will provide crap graphics and graphics will have a faster upgrade cycle.
There's some really interesting video's floating around about Intel increasing the power of their integrated graphics, not enough to play Crysis at 1600 but enough to PLAY just about every game.
When I search for 50cent I want to see a torrent of his album listed on ThePirateBay... In Canada and Sweden it's legal, in the states it isn't yet somehow we still get stupid summaries from American magazines.
I'm not sure how the internet got broken, but somehow it is. Most of these problems seem to be benefiting the states, there's no reason Swedes or Brits should know what the DMCA is yet they do... So yea we need to move the internet towards being more global/less controlled (and yes I mean less corporate control, not government).
Google has the advertising clout to compete with anyone for mind-share.
I think the price drop on the iPhone is reactionary... it doesn't have any technologies that can't be licenced elsewhere. Also it's somewhat limited in reconfigurability... If google puts it on their main page (even as the google graphic for the day) mentioning it will have an ad supported version and will support free voip out of the box it should be incredibly successful. Geeks and college students know about wi-fi availability and that capability will really sell a phone these days, the only tech that google really needs to perfect to have a market destroying/creating tech is switching between wi-fi and gsm calling.
If there servers can handle it and the tech is seamless then they'll destroy, if they rush it out to compete with the iPhone (which is actually a good idea as it's making people think about upgrading to smart phones and voip) they'll have problems but by competing while offering a lower price point (ad-supported/voip service) they'll clean up.
Sorry how is being able to slow enough to enter the proper orbit not a problem of having enough thrust?
It seems like this would actually solve the problem you says it doesn't solve?
So the fact that they've admitted that there's a backdoor doesn't bother you?
A backdoor that contacts the internet often enough for it to patch your system? But not often enough to have been known about before this?!
I guess it's tinfoil time, but a keylogger would have to send what... 500k a month?
Sure windows is huge and bloated, what tipped you off the 4gig directory? But that's not too bad, I mean you get word and paint! What more could you need?
If I asked you to tour my plant, but when you arrived I stuck you in a crate and said it was a new subdivision of an existing plant would that be ok?
AMD basically wasted this guy's time by restricting his right to publish and asking him to sign away his right to publish anti-AMD information in the future.
That's bullocks, he's making a good point that journalists shouldn't waste their time with this company if it's going to be worse than not talking to them at all.
stupidity to declare unnecessary for him war on US. Yes that was an unnesessary mistake, the U.S. decided not to bother with that in future.
Does anyone wonder if the U.S. is just at war with everyone so repeating themselves with a declaration would just be a waste of time?
Yea Opera was the only browser that worked on my p233 96 ram laptop, it was reasonably snappy too. Some stuff still killed it but not much. I've been using opera for a long time, I find it very quick... I love the built in e-mail client with baysian filtering... I like how it saves my pages when I close it (though it only saves the most recent one and doesn't seem to be able to save a group of tabs ala firefox).
Mainly I like how it's so secure, I go to some pretty nasty places on the net and I'm not concerned.
Let's keep the marketshare low people, 3-5% is the sweet spot, no one looking for exploits and they'll have enough money to keep updating the software.
I with some exceptions. Just a fantastic company raising the bar for everyone.
Background and sanity checks?
What if this was a software gaff?
What if the software/hardware of the unscheduled b52 was compromised?
It's true, every whistle blower is likely just a disgruntled employee. The press get's involved and facts get uncovered, the more the whistle blower has to offer the harder reporters are supposed to search.
Since private presses have largely died out, this is the only way to be able to provide relevant details etc before getting hauled into court and fired.
The phone works for 30 second explanations but the kind of stuff going on now requires longer explanations, and this is a good medium.
If I worked in the public sector I'd keep pace with the scandles surrounding my superiors. Might keep them on their toes as long as the public can remember not to go vigilante.
Yea it'll be like America and gold! Or Cotten or whatever, they're taking education seriously and unless patents become even more restrictive they'll be a functional economy in 30-40 years. Unless Bush kills Chavez... but meh, it could happen.
Before spitting anti-socialist propoganda, check out "The Revolution Will not be Televised" for the kinds of problems South American countries (and close U.S. trade partners actually face). Russia's economy totally collapsed overnight and it got worse when they switched to capitalism, they're just getting back on their feet under the socialist Putin.
The cool thing is we'll see what the press says about this website. Seems pretty tough to control doesn't it...
It seems to me that if BSD simply going the FSF/GPL party this problem would go away.
:(
BSD was created early and available before linux was really practical.
Since the GPL/GNU/Linus Kernal have gotten together things have been looking up from the slide under BSD towards Microsoft products.
So that's the historic argument, currently trusted computing means there will be less and less total control over hardware. The GPL has taken steps to deal with this, while also freeing phones, routers (WRT54G)and PDAs. So in future BSD will be less successful in preserving freedom then it has been in the past.
It would be nice if the GPL had provisions for seperate running code... oh wait it does, and people still don't use it. Well I wonder why
Considering this skepticism I can't imagine how much the wright brothers must have put up with.
/. posts, he should just make the car without thought of cost or safety and treat it as a tool.
We have flight we have hovering vehicles we simply need to combine them.
Actually this is more practical than most people appreciate, if we can get the cars to hover 3-5m above the ground if they crash in our roadways other traffic won't need to stop or even slow.
Truck traffic can continue underneath.
Eventually this will be practical, and I suspect far earlier than similar advances from maglev or other competing techs.
This guy's problem is obvious, he makes a cool hobby car get's close to something cool then backs off to reduce cost or increase safety.
This is largely because of the kind of whinning you can see in all the
Society will find a use for it or not.
Even your XM is probably subsidized by Payola (Advertising for the very bands you say aren't being advertised)... Oldies -> Payola. Britney Spears -> Payola.
Yes it's more obvious that modern music is crap but that's just because some people are ACTUALLY pissed with mainstream music and not just trying to be cool and diffrent.
It's amazing how we know that people only like music based on familiarity and that bands are pushed so rapidly you begin to hear them everywhere yet no one thinks about the massive marketing budgets this creates.
These guys need to stop, and yes that means going to bars and clubs and never hearing music you've heard before. So be it.
This is hardly the biggest announcement today, though it may be fake the GPhone seems to be gathering a lot of buzz.
:)
The GPhone!
Too bad Slashdot didn't run this, it would have made an interesting conversation even if it was fake
My current phone is free (totally) so buying an expensive one kind of sucks, the prices are massively inflated (as evidenced by their lake of VOIP software), the Gphone doesn't seem to have these problems as much as it has advertising problems (which might be solved with say the ability to use "delivery pizza" to have it suggest a pizza place)... A Free phone with VOIP and the ability to hook up to any GSM provider would be totally kickass.
It's not the OpenMoko but it'll do to show the telecoms the future. They can panic and make their service better or they can grab for quick profits and speed the transition, I don't care which they choose (I already have a free phone remember). Cell phone bills are way too high, they shouldn't need 3 hours of service [$10 hr x 3] per phone, that's just crazy talk.
I see you have a low UID (so I'm gonna let you troll as you like). I'm aware of the distinction, and the purpose of both sites.
I won't be using torrentspy any longer, I suspect most people may join me.
I just think it's interesting that the M/RIAA scared them so badly (And they're so decent) that they would block the U.S. to keep it's citizens from incriminating themselves.
Sorry, if I format I will still have 5 installs? That sounds like a lie :(
I wonder how long it will be until someone wants to go back and play a classic game and can't because of something like this, it's already happened with other games for example Bane of the Cosmic Forge (Wizardry 6)...
You don't just need to recup costs, you also need to deal with inflation and your return on investing the money.
:)
Solar may break even in 5 years but not if you consider the 7-8% average for investment returns.
Upgrading a kitchen (if it encourages you to eat home 3x more a month) is still a better investment in your home... plus it's pretty