Each process has their own instance of the generator...does it mean that if a lay Bob wants to look at Alice's past SSL key generation, it has to be admin because otherwise how could a normal user looks at the internal state of another user?
I have seen youths died/fainted/got heart attack for playing MMORPG (or other game like Diablo) for N hours/days straight and those did made newspapers headline.
It's not unimaginable that it happened in a Cyber Cafe, it certainly does happen and will happen.
and I would say Linux would phone home a lot too...
Let's say Firefox: It phone home and a) checks for update, b) checks for plugins update, c) checks for phishing.
Even apt-get would: Contact and download the catalog, I didn't check but believe by only downloading the difference, the other peer could easily guess how old my catalog is.
And the list just go on with many other softwares.
The difference is, you can always verify the source with open source software, which I believe 0.1% user, at most, might actually do. You can always assume Microsoft is doing bad thing with its phone home feature, but if you are that paranoid, you better setup an independent machine for going online, or a proxy machine to route and only route those absolutely necessary traffic.
I will presume your setup is: 1) used at home. That means downtime is not that uber important, while heat and noise could be a problem 2) Budget is not that limited, but you surely want to maximize the effectiveness of every dollars spent
I am running a MythTV Box with Ubuntu Linux, just with a single harddisk. On the other hand, I have a standalone backup server, again Ubuntu Linux, on a old P4 box.
The backup is done with a software called Dirvish, which is a rsync based solution. It will keep changes and versions, while those not-changed are only kept once, not duplicated, hence saving space. The good thing I like most is that the backup data is retrievable by normal means, directly from file system or Samba. By the way, the backup server is configured wake-on-lan in the morning and shutdown after it has finish the backup.
As my media collection grows, I have upgraded my mythtv box 2 times, from 250G to 320G to currently 500G. The retired harddisk is moved to the backup box as JBOD to enlarge the backup volume. I use EMVS BadBlockRelocation feature for the JBOD just for the peace of mind (not sure if there is any actual use though:P)
The pros (compare to RAID5/10 solution): 1) Single harddisk: less heat and noise. Less heat also translated to longer harddisk life, less pressure on cooling equipment. 2) Multiple version of backup. From my experience, so far (used for 1.5 year) all my data lost is result from human (read: me) error...like accidentally deleting something, or overwriting something. The backup saves me couple of times, really. RAID can save hardware failure, not human error. 4) As you upgrade the harddrive of the Media Center Box, you got a new one. In my experience I need a bigger harddrive for every 6-9 months, and the rate of failure within 9 months is really low. If you start with a big RAID, and planned to use for the prolonged time, it's just easier for any of them to die. 5) $$$ might not be a problem...but it really is!
The cons (compare to RAID5/10 solution): 1) When any backup harddisk totally fry and die (not just bad sector), your backup partition is just doomed. But who cares? Just rebuild the backup server and redo. 2) When your Media center's harddisk die, your media center just down. Although you are safe, but you have to spend time to execute the restore plan. 3) Frequent upgrade may end up putting a lot of harddisk in the backup server...not that much that would cause problem on me yet, but eventually...
So they should just patent it. After all, DRM just makes legal use harder, and pose no obstacle to the pirate market.
After all, people who don't care about the piracy matter are satisfied with DVD quality, even when the movie is illegally recorded from cinema, containing all the noise and shadow from moving people, people are still enjoying it!...those who watches that probably won't care about genuine / going to cinema anyway! No DRM -> No Hi-Def on Vista? People are good with DVD!
In short, by patenting it, the big bothers / whatso-RIAA-ever could still collect the royal fee by licensing just the hex strings, while the result about the pirate control is the same anyway.
Well, they could still patent it for US:) They have a 1 year grace period after public disclosure.
I didn't RTFA, but from the comments I have read...it's probably leaked from the whatever USB connection to the XBOX 360 box...that passing the key on the USB wire, unencrypted. So it's just simply doom, by design.
IANAL, If they decided to keep the number in the form of Trade Secret http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_secret, as oppose to Patent, (or even Design Registration? anyone?)...How could they tell others to shut up when it is leaked!?
It's just like if Coca-cola formula is leaked, you are just free to use it...
You tilt/swing the wiimote, the TV won't follow you.
For mobile phone screen though will follow your action. Everyone who has tried Wario on Gameboy would probably agree that it's a challenge to follow the screen while you set the Gameboy in motion...
IANAL, but that's not quite the case. Even for a simple exe, it needs to be copied to the RAM before execution, yeah yeah, but no one has any problem with this kind of copying, why? Because it's explicitly allowed by the law.
I can't recall exactly, it says something like "If it's by technical definition that it has to make copied in order to make it useful, you are explicitly allowed to do that". I think that's similar with the HD DVD case, the buffering, decrypting are explicited allowed during playback, but not otherwise....
I live in Hong Kong in a typical home - i.e. tiny small room compare to most western's. I don't have an exact figure but I think over 90% of home are using CFL or FL. May be because dimmer is not common here, another factor I believe is that a brighter light source would make your room looks much much bigger. Give a try to 100W eqv. and you can feel it!
Talking about the start up time, I am more annoy by the startup time of other modern electronics: like TV, DVR, cell phone, PDA...oh nevermind, may be because I replaced my PDA with a Windows-based one
There is TSA required us to keep our luggage unlocked, I believe bank would remove our ATM pin soon, to save admin or to spot terrorists (read foreigner) entering ATM pin.
At some point in the future, capacity will take a back seat to recoverability ( for the average consumer ).
Hey! The harddrive makers are already doing this. Those ECC blocks are inserted along the data block, without them your harddisk would lose data much faster.
Recovery by ECC is auto, is not reported to SMART, and is consider normal. Afterall, we can't expect every magnet information to be kept forever perfectly in shape for such a density, the makers understand this and is already trading quite a portion of space for ECC.
Thinkpad's power receptacle is not as sophisticated MagSafe, but at least it is standalone, screwed to the chassis by itself, and not soldered on the system board.
Keyboard is just ~$40 for Thinkpad, which IMO it is very reasonable and...actually I would say cheap, given that quality.
I think why they implement it as an Opetron is that besides the hypertransport thing, they have their own exclusive set of memory. The co-processor don't have to share this with the system, making algorithm a lot easier (a big continuous chunk of memory for matrix operation!) and design would be much simplier, no MMU whatsoever.
Sorry I cannot cite any source...but I remember seeing documentary around 10 years ago, doing the very same experiment (by US), for the very same purpose: investigate the effect on living in Zero G.
10 participant laid on bed for a week, exactly 6 degree tilted. Bathing in horizontal container, eating on bed, watching TV on bed, anything on bed. No exercise was done. One week later, they can't even put on the socks for themselve.
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Each process has their own instance of the generator...does it mean that if a lay Bob wants to look at Alice's past SSL key generation, it has to be admin because otherwise how could a normal user looks at the internal state of another user?
I have seen youths died/fainted/got heart attack for playing MMORPG (or other game like Diablo) for N hours/days straight and those did made newspapers headline.
It's not unimaginable that it happened in a Cyber Cafe, it certainly does happen and will happen.
Vista + BitLocker + Parental control?
and I would say Linux would phone home a lot too...
Let's say Firefox:
It phone home and a) checks for update, b) checks for plugins update, c) checks for phishing.
Even apt-get would:
Contact and download the catalog, I didn't check but believe by only downloading the difference, the other peer could easily guess how old my catalog is.
And the list just go on with many other softwares.
The difference is, you can always verify the source with open source software, which I believe 0.1% user, at most, might actually do. You can always assume Microsoft is doing bad thing with its phone home feature, but if you are that paranoid, you better setup an independent machine for going online, or a proxy machine to route and only route those absolutely necessary traffic.
I am seriously think if your son birthday is on 29 Feb or not...
I will presume your setup is:
:P)
1) used at home. That means downtime is not that uber important, while heat and noise could be a problem
2) Budget is not that limited, but you surely want to maximize the effectiveness of every dollars spent
I am running a MythTV Box with Ubuntu Linux, just with a single harddisk. On the other hand, I have a standalone backup server, again Ubuntu Linux, on a old P4 box.
The backup is done with a software called Dirvish, which is a rsync based solution. It will keep changes and versions, while those not-changed are only kept once, not duplicated, hence saving space. The good thing I like most is that the backup data is retrievable by normal means, directly from file system or Samba. By the way, the backup server is configured wake-on-lan in the morning and shutdown after it has finish the backup.
As my media collection grows, I have upgraded my mythtv box 2 times, from 250G to 320G to currently 500G. The retired harddisk is moved to the backup box as JBOD to enlarge the backup volume. I use EMVS BadBlockRelocation feature for the JBOD just for the peace of mind (not sure if there is any actual use though
The pros (compare to RAID5/10 solution):
1) Single harddisk: less heat and noise. Less heat also translated to longer harddisk life, less pressure on cooling equipment.
2) Multiple version of backup. From my experience, so far (used for 1.5 year) all my data lost is result from human (read: me) error...like accidentally deleting something, or overwriting something. The backup saves me couple of times, really. RAID can save hardware failure, not human error.
4) As you upgrade the harddrive of the Media Center Box, you got a new one. In my experience I need a bigger harddrive for every 6-9 months, and the rate of failure within 9 months is really low. If you start with a big RAID, and planned to use for the prolonged time, it's just easier for any of them to die.
5) $$$ might not be a problem...but it really is!
The cons (compare to RAID5/10 solution):
1) When any backup harddisk totally fry and die (not just bad sector), your backup partition is just doomed. But who cares? Just rebuild the backup server and redo.
2) When your Media center's harddisk die, your media center just down. Although you are safe, but you have to spend time to execute the restore plan.
3) Frequent upgrade may end up putting a lot of harddisk in the backup server...not that much that would cause problem on me yet, but eventually...
Do you mean this: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/01/175 9235?
So they should just patent it. After all, DRM just makes legal use harder, and pose no obstacle to the pirate market.
:) They have a 1 year grace period after public disclosure.
After all, people who don't care about the piracy matter are satisfied with DVD quality, even when the movie is illegally recorded from cinema, containing all the noise and shadow from moving people, people are still enjoying it!...those who watches that probably won't care about genuine / going to cinema anyway! No DRM -> No Hi-Def on Vista? People are good with DVD!
In short, by patenting it, the big bothers / whatso-RIAA-ever could still collect the royal fee by licensing just the hex strings, while the result about the pirate control is the same anyway.
Well, they could still patent it for US
I didn't RTFA, but from the comments I have read...it's probably leaked from the whatever USB connection to the XBOX 360 box...that passing the key on the USB wire, unencrypted. So it's just simply doom, by design.
IANAL, If they decided to keep the number in the form of Trade Secret http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_secret, as oppose to Patent, (or even Design Registration? anyone?)...How could they tell others to shut up when it is leaked!?
It's just like if Coca-cola formula is leaked, you are just free to use it...
the screen!
You tilt/swing the wiimote, the TV won't follow you.
For mobile phone screen though will follow your action.
Everyone who has tried Wario on Gameboy would probably agree that it's a challenge to follow the screen while you set the Gameboy in motion...
The salesman aren't even sure if Linux box can be hooked up to the router, not to mention flashing the router to be Linux itself.
IANAL, but that's not quite the case. Even for a simple exe, it needs to be copied to the RAM before execution, yeah yeah, but no one has any problem with this kind of copying, why? Because it's explicitly allowed by the law.
I can't recall exactly, it says something like "If it's by technical definition that it has to make copied in order to make it useful, you are explicitly allowed to do that". I think that's similar with the HD DVD case, the buffering, decrypting are explicited allowed during playback, but not otherwise....
I live in Hong Kong in a typical home - i.e. tiny small room compare to most western's. I don't have an exact figure but I think over 90% of home are using CFL or FL. May be because dimmer is not common here, another factor I believe is that a brighter light source would make your room looks much much bigger. Give a try to 100W eqv. and you can feel it!
Talking about the start up time, I am more annoy by the startup time of other modern electronics: like TV, DVR, cell phone, PDA...oh nevermind, may be because I replaced my PDA with a Windows-based one
There is TSA required us to keep our luggage unlocked, I believe bank would remove our ATM pin soon, to save admin or to spot terrorists (read foreigner) entering ATM pin.
Hey! The harddrive makers are already doing this. Those ECC blocks are inserted along the data block, without them your harddisk would lose data much faster.
Recovery by ECC is auto, is not reported to SMART, and is consider normal. Afterall, we can't expect every magnet information to be kept forever perfectly in shape for such a density, the makers understand this and is already trading quite a portion of space for ECC.
...summon Batman.
I guess you are not using Thinkpad nor MacBook?
...actually I would say cheap, given that quality.
Thinkpad's power receptacle is not as sophisticated MagSafe, but at least it is standalone, screwed to the chassis by itself, and not soldered on the system board.
Keyboard is just ~$40 for Thinkpad, which IMO it is very reasonable and
Cool! Those are exactly what I am NOT looking for.
IE7 - Replaced by Firefox.
Windows Defender - I wonder if you need one when you are using Firefox and behaves?
Aero Glass - Who cares!?
I think why they implement it as an Opetron is that besides the hypertransport thing, they have their own exclusive set of memory. The co-processor don't have to share this with the system, making algorithm a lot easier (a big continuous chunk of memory for matrix operation!) and design would be much simplier, no MMU whatsoever.
DDR2 ram works at lower voltage, I wonder would that save some energy, even if it's by a small amount?
Office software weakens classic writing skills...
Speak to your investor, "We just have CTO and CFO, there is no CEO...", loud and clear.
Sorry I cannot cite any source...but I remember seeing documentary around 10 years ago, doing the very same experiment (by US), for the very same purpose: investigate the effect on living in Zero G.
10 participant laid on bed for a week, exactly 6 degree tilted. Bathing in horizontal container, eating on bed, watching TV on bed, anything on bed. No exercise was done. One week later, they can't even put on the socks for themselve.