To be fair, this technology is best applied for subversive communications - it'd be too slow, or not safe+distributed enough for piracy. (It can be safe and not distributed, or distributed and not safe, but not both.)
FSO is harder to set up, harder to apply to more than a point to point link, is more vulnerable to weather, and the transceivers are much more visible, but it has longer range, is significantly harder to intercept (especially without detection,) and can't be triangulated on. Denial of service attacks require knowledge of the location of both transceivers.
802.11 is easier to set up, easier to make omnidirectional, but can be intercepted and triangulated on very, very easily. And, denial of service attacks... hell, too densely crowded routers can be their own DoS attack.
Free space optical. Although, that's not stealth at all.
There's always 802.11n mesh networking... go to the maximum allowed power and maximum allowed antenna gain, and then set the network up using a protocol that can handle thousands of hops.
Note that the article specifically said that Tor has insufficient bandwidth.
As for BitTorrent, the downloaders themselves provide the bandwidth. You can't use that approach on an anti-censorware proxy unless you do something like make your home computer a Tor endpoint.
More like, their time is spent working on trying to advance the OS without breaking compatibility (resulting in ugly hacks like NTVDM,) and then fixing the things that they broke anyway (like, oh, NTVDM's security flaws.)
Also, as for requiring the user to manually select a filetype other than.txt, you don't want newbies just diving in and editing every file they see in Notepad.
And yes, they WILL do that
Or worse, something like, "I opened my programs in Notepad and there was all sorts of weird letters in them, I think they had a virus, so I deleted them!"
Except the decoder wouldn't implement the format - it would implement a method of decoding the format.
The encoded media would implement the format.
I'm guessing that H.264 consists of a BUNCH of patents, and some of them apply to encoding, some of them apply to storage of the encoded data, and some apply to decoding. It's just the decoding patents that would have to be dodged.
Well, open-sourcing Flash wouldn't help the H.264 situation.
What about doing a workaround on the patent? Create an H.264 decoder that doesn't use any of the techniques that are patented? Then again, lawyers aren't exactly known for efficient coding, and you'd basically have to use lawyers as your programmers.
So you're assuming that potential child molesters live in a heavily insulated world in which they've never heard of having sex with children, until they see child porn?
That is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard of.
Or they could be using a South Park-style redefinition of "fag."/b/tards (I've never posted on any/b/, so I can break rules #1 and #2) tend to call pretty much anyone they disagree with a fag of some kind, AFAICT. Scifags, newfags, gaiafags, oldfags, furfags, etc., etc.
The problem is, the EU member countries are a pretty large market in themselves, and the EC appears to reserve the right to tell companies to go home and stop selling in the EU, if they don't like what they're doing.
So, if they want the EU market, they need to play by the EC's rules.
...however, MySQL is a popular solution for businesses that don't want to use Oracle, and they can slowly migrate MySQL into being a "lightweight Oracle" - use MySQL, get hooked, and then have a simple migration process to real Oracle if you want more.
That's why you communicate with the tower, and do what they let you do.
If you're flying it that fast that there's an issue, you need government approval, and they'd require you to follow a strict flight path to avoid collisions.
SysRq's original function was to drop to the OS to issue an OS command outside of the context of the currently running application.
On the IBM PC, it was meant as a keyboard shortcut to switch between multiple concurrently running OSes, and later, as an application switching key (just like Alt-Tab in Windows today.)
What if that newer hardware has closed source drivers?
I guess you could write a shim to use the newer drivers, but that gets to be a pain.
And, Windows 3.1 has public APIs for drivers and doesn't handle filesystem access - it just calls DOS for that, and there are DOS filesystem drivers for quite a few filesystems (and a few different DOS variants from multiple vendors, including Microsoft, that natively handle FAT32, including an open source DOS clone.)
First, what other CPU tech? Intel sold off quite a lot of the XScale tech to Marvell, Itanium is fail, i860 and i960 have gone away. x86 is all they've really got.
Second, let's say they did have other CPU tech that was viable. Right now, Intel is very, very heavily invested in x86. They're benefitting greatly from x86 owning the desktop market - AMD and VIA are their bitches, basically.
Intel likes x86 lock-in. x86 lock-in means that everyone has to either go through them, or someone who has to license technology back to them.
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To be fair, this technology is best applied for subversive communications - it'd be too slow, or not safe+distributed enough for piracy. (It can be safe and not distributed, or distributed and not safe, but not both.)
FSO is harder to set up, harder to apply to more than a point to point link, is more vulnerable to weather, and the transceivers are much more visible, but it has longer range, is significantly harder to intercept (especially without detection,) and can't be triangulated on. Denial of service attacks require knowledge of the location of both transceivers.
802.11 is easier to set up, easier to make omnidirectional, but can be intercepted and triangulated on very, very easily. And, denial of service attacks... hell, too densely crowded routers can be their own DoS attack.
Free space optical. Although, that's not stealth at all.
There's always 802.11n mesh networking... go to the maximum allowed power and maximum allowed antenna gain, and then set the network up using a protocol that can handle thousands of hops.
Note that the article specifically said that Tor has insufficient bandwidth.
As for BitTorrent, the downloaders themselves provide the bandwidth. You can't use that approach on an anti-censorware proxy unless you do something like make your home computer a Tor endpoint.
More like, their time is spent working on trying to advance the OS without breaking compatibility (resulting in ugly hacks like NTVDM,) and then fixing the things that they broke anyway (like, oh, NTVDM's security flaws.)
Also, as for requiring the user to manually select a filetype other than .txt, you don't want newbies just diving in and editing every file they see in Notepad.
And yes, they WILL do that
Or worse, something like, "I opened my programs in Notepad and there was all sorts of weird letters in them, I think they had a virus, so I deleted them!"
At which point, the files are included in C:\i386, and a quick trip to Start>Control Panel>Features and Programs will install them.
I'm thinking it could reduce fraud from someone else depositing a stolen check.
Not practical if the payment's coming from the US - my bank charges $40 for an international wire transfer, and that's not out of the ordinary.
Also, wire transfers are usually regarded as very insecure here, because when someone thinks "wire transfer," they think "Western Union."
In the US, that's impractical.
The only low-cost ways to transfer money are either PayPal (instant,) or mailing a check or money order via the postal mail system (several days.)
Wire transfers only make sense here when the amount being transferred is $1000+.
Replying to myself, but holy crap.
FORTY SEVEN PAGES JUST TO LIST THE PATENTS.
Yeah, you're gonna need an army of lawyers for the "work around the H.264 patents" technique.
Except the decoder wouldn't implement the format - it would implement a method of decoding the format.
The encoded media would implement the format.
I'm guessing that H.264 consists of a BUNCH of patents, and some of them apply to encoding, some of them apply to storage of the encoded data, and some apply to decoding. It's just the decoding patents that would have to be dodged.
Well, open-sourcing Flash wouldn't help the H.264 situation.
What about doing a workaround on the patent? Create an H.264 decoder that doesn't use any of the techniques that are patented? Then again, lawyers aren't exactly known for efficient coding, and you'd basically have to use lawyers as your programmers.
So you're assuming that potential child molesters live in a heavily insulated world in which they've never heard of having sex with children, until they see child porn?
That is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard of.
Or they could be using a South Park-style redefinition of "fag." /b/tards (I've never posted on any /b/, so I can break rules #1 and #2) tend to call pretty much anyone they disagree with a fag of some kind, AFAICT. Scifags, newfags, gaiafags, oldfags, furfags, etc., etc.
http://freshmeat.net/articles/red-hat-updated-lynx-package-corrects-a-security-flaw-2
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=510348
Or you make "Wine is now an emulator" - Wine + QEMU.
The problem is, the EU member countries are a pretty large market in themselves, and the EC appears to reserve the right to tell companies to go home and stop selling in the EU, if they don't like what they're doing.
So, if they want the EU market, they need to play by the EC's rules.
...however, MySQL is a popular solution for businesses that don't want to use Oracle, and they can slowly migrate MySQL into being a "lightweight Oracle" - use MySQL, get hooked, and then have a simple migration process to real Oracle if you want more.
A country cannot work if they have to change their laws according to the wishes of a company.
Which is why the US is in the decline it's in, but that's another story.
That's why you communicate with the tower, and do what they let you do.
If you're flying it that fast that there's an issue, you need government approval, and they'd require you to follow a strict flight path to avoid collisions.
Wait, redundant? Really?
It's not -1, Disagree, it's -1, Redundant. Which means something that's been said before, not something you disagree with.
Take a look at TFA, and see that they did remap PrtSc to Fn-Insert.
SysRq's original function was to drop to the OS to issue an OS command outside of the context of the currently running application.
On the IBM PC, it was meant as a keyboard shortcut to switch between multiple concurrently running OSes, and later, as an application switching key (just like Alt-Tab in Windows today.)
http://www.liliputing.com/2010/01/shuttle-launches-push-for-notebook-motherboard-standards.html
What if that newer hardware has closed source drivers?
I guess you could write a shim to use the newer drivers, but that gets to be a pain.
And, Windows 3.1 has public APIs for drivers and doesn't handle filesystem access - it just calls DOS for that, and there are DOS filesystem drivers for quite a few filesystems (and a few different DOS variants from multiple vendors, including Microsoft, that natively handle FAT32, including an open source DOS clone.)
First, what other CPU tech? Intel sold off quite a lot of the XScale tech to Marvell, Itanium is fail, i860 and i960 have gone away. x86 is all they've really got.
Second, let's say they did have other CPU tech that was viable. Right now, Intel is very, very heavily invested in x86. They're benefitting greatly from x86 owning the desktop market - AMD and VIA are their bitches, basically.
Intel likes x86 lock-in. x86 lock-in means that everyone has to either go through them, or someone who has to license technology back to them.