Why, tell me why there isn't already backbone and ISP filtering of packets containing known exploits? Such action wouldn't completely end the problem, but it would sure help.
At least let's take the known drive-by shooters off of the information superhighway.
should give performance ten times of conventional processors.
It's all about the bandwidth now. The cache(s) and path(s) to memory should be the most fascinating aspects to this processor. Speed is nothing without data to process.
I think that's a bit overstated. They didn't just double the width of the registers and data paths. They upped the address size beyond what I'll be able to afford in the rest of my life, added more registers overall in 64-bit mode, and generally seem to have dealt with the worst constraints imposed by backward compatability with the original 8086/88 processors.
It's hard to call an Opteron an x86 chip. More accurately it's a superset of the x86 archtecture.
What I really wish they'd do next is what IBM pioneered with their 400 series mid-frames. In those systems with 44-bit addressing, every byte of data -- including every byte on every disc drive -- had a unique address. I thought that was a groundbreaking idea at the time.
And just compatible is Intel to AMD-64? IIRC Microsoft's latest beta of Win64 makes the point of stating:...runs on Intel 32/64 bit processors now. The strong implication is that the previous Win64 releases don't.
So does anyone know what Intel left out of their AMD-64 (Intel will hate that reference) instruction set implementation?
a chip located "way in the machine, right near the laser" that embeds the dots when the document "is about 20 billionths of a second" from printing.
What are the chances that this is in PROM that is burned internally once the serial number is assigned? If so, overwrite it with a new code, perhaps through an undocumented command to the printer controller. After all, you don't think each of these chips is uniquely made, or that they don't have to do something like this to keep them all properly matched to the corresponding external serial numbers.
Or is it RAM, loaded by the firmware on each power-up? Then change your internal printer serial number. Those things are set during manufacture somehow.
Or look up Xerox's patent on the process.
Or swap your yellow, cyan, and magenta toners around, and make the corrections in Photoshop to get the desired image with the transposed colors. They'll be looking for the wrong color dots.
Or add lots of dots of your own.
Ever notice that this isn't the only anti-counterfeiting technology that likes to use yellow. Why is that?
How about more creative mischief? Where does it print? Can you turn your 8.5x11 sheet into 8x10 sans id code?
Of course very creative mischief would just have you pay cash and not register your printer. Sure you don't get warrenty coverage, however if you're that worried about discovery it would be a small price to pay.
Is it possible that that person wanted the documents found at the last minute to draw up controversy over this?
Yeah, right. And Kerry won the election. And Scott Peterson was framed. And Kobe was at home with his wife that day, not in Colorado. And O.J. Simpson was on his way to the airport thinking about how much he loved his ex-wife...
the number of votes granted to Bush exceeded the number of votes Bush should have received -- given all of the other variables -- while the number of votes that Bush received in counties using other types of voting equipment lined up perfectly with what the variables would have predicted for those counties.
All this tells me is that all of the other variables may well not be all of the other variables. No other conclusion can be drawn.
And how about mechanical voting machines? Are those audited? Especially those in New York City where there have been many reports over many elections that conservative votes seem to either not register, or jam up the machine invalidating a voter's entire ballot. And they don't allow revotes without a judge's order that day. Who does this benefit?
What I don't like about paper audit trails in electronic voting machines is that everyone thinks they should be printed out in real time, like a cash register receipt at the grocery store as each item (voter) goes past. That makes it rather simple to match up voters to their votes if someone wished, and remove all the protections of the secret ballot process. Are you concerned?
And I do find it curious that voting machines are only being questioned in states that Republicans have won. Don't you?
"We've been working with Internet2 for a while to explore ways we can take advantage of delivering content at these extremely high speeds, and basically manage illegitimate content distribution at the same time,"
In short, they want to use a research funded network for their own personal profit -- those bastards!
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At least let's take the known drive-by shooters off of the information superhighway.
Because...uh...the majority of people who author web pages aren't compliant to current standards. Could it be that?
Lose weight. Lie now!
I wish they'd extend it enough to add Tom Bombadil back in.
The moment they know you're in I.T. everyone in your family, and all your mother's friends, want you to fix their PCs.
It's all about the bandwidth now. The cache(s) and path(s) to memory should be the most fascinating aspects to this processor. Speed is nothing without data to process.
And on the next USR download, they will take over the world!
You give it away for free (in America, at least), over my public airwaves.
And then you get angry when I give it away for free.
Hypocrites!
I think that's a bit overstated. They didn't just double the width of the registers and data paths. They upped the address size beyond what I'll be able to afford in the rest of my life, added more registers overall in 64-bit mode, and generally seem to have dealt with the worst constraints imposed by backward compatability with the original 8086/88 processors.
It's hard to call an Opteron an x86 chip. More accurately it's a superset of the x86 archtecture.
What I really wish they'd do next is what IBM pioneered with their 400 series mid-frames. In those systems with 44-bit addressing, every byte of data -- including every byte on every disc drive -- had a unique address. I thought that was a groundbreaking idea at the time.
So does anyone know what Intel left out of their AMD-64 (Intel will hate that reference) instruction set implementation?
Uh, dual cores on a single die?
As much as I like AMD over Intel these days, that isn't fair to Intel. Their archtectures are significantly different.
A fair comparison would the best match of equivalently priced processors from each company.
An almost fair comparison would be each company's currently shiping in quantity top-of-the-line processor in a modern motherboard.
And is there anyone -- anyone who reads Slashdot at least -- that didn't already know this?
What are the chances that this is in PROM that is burned internally once the serial number is assigned? If so, overwrite it with a new code, perhaps through an undocumented command to the printer controller. After all, you don't think each of these chips is uniquely made, or that they don't have to do something like this to keep them all properly matched to the corresponding external serial numbers.
Or is it RAM, loaded by the firmware on each power-up? Then change your internal printer serial number. Those things are set during manufacture somehow.
Or look up Xerox's patent on the process.
Or swap your yellow, cyan, and magenta toners around, and make the corrections in Photoshop to get the desired image with the transposed colors. They'll be looking for the wrong color dots.
Or add lots of dots of your own.
Ever notice that this isn't the only anti-counterfeiting technology that likes to use yellow. Why is that?
FOR SALE - CHEAP
Almost new Xerox[tm] color printer.
Only $200,000, er, 2000 double-sided pages printed.
It's consumer fraud, and should be proscuted as such.
How about more creative mischief? Where does it print? Can you turn your 8.5x11 sheet into 8x10 sans id code?
Of course very creative mischief would just have you pay cash and not register your printer. Sure you don't get warrenty coverage, however if you're that worried about discovery it would be a small price to pay.
I'll manipulate it with a hammer, and it will be a manipulation it will long remember.
Yeah, right. And Kerry won the election. And Scott Peterson was framed. And Kobe was at home with his wife that day, not in Colorado. And O.J. Simpson was on his way to the airport thinking about how much he loved his ex-wife...
All this tells me is that all of the other variables may well not be all of the other variables. No other conclusion can be drawn.
What I don't like about paper audit trails in electronic voting machines is that everyone thinks they should be printed out in real time, like a cash register receipt at the grocery store as each item (voter) goes past. That makes it rather simple to match up voters to their votes if someone wished, and remove all the protections of the secret ballot process. Are you concerned?
And I do find it curious that voting machines are only being questioned in states that Republicans have won. Don't you?
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From now own you need to license: Yeah, right!
(Update: I'm just informed that 'varient' also belongs to Microsoft Visual Basic. Yeah, right!)
In short, they want to use a research funded network for their own personal profit -- those bastards!
Not only no, but F--- No!
And if you need a reason, it's because you'll contribute absolutely NOTHING to I2.