Tier 1 OEMs and authorized vendors were pushing for this. You see, if a part is readily overclockable, it is easily remarked as a higher speed part and sold at a higher price.
(I have experience in this arena, I used to work in the anti fraud group for a x86 mIcroprocessor maNufacTurer that will remain namELess)
Remarking microprocessors can be big business for remarkers. Once fully automated processes are put into place, they can "reprocess" (that's the term they use) hundereds of processors a day.
When housed got raided, there would be many hundreds of parts in process of having their appearance altered.
Remarkers don't just focus on the chips. They have the ability to produce retail boxes, appearing to all but the most highly trained eye to be authentic.
Remarking the chips and making phony boxes is the easy part. Getting the parts back into distribution is the hard part.
Just how many computer shows are there on any given weekend? Not many. How many mom/pop computer shops are just itching to save $5 on each processor, not really caring if the parts don't come from the authorized channel? Tons!
You see, if the grey market proliferates, it does so at the expense of the authorised distis and the tier 1 OEM markets.
Expect to see an even greater embrace of AMD's processors by big name manufacturers now.
As a matter of abstract, ignorant speculation: how hard would it be to implement several modern AGP slots on a motherboard and plug in multiple cards either SLI fashion or SGI "extreme gfx/max impact" fashion?
AGP - Accelerated Graphics Port
It's not a multipoint bus like PCI, it's a port, like a serial or parallel port. The chipset would have to be designed to implement multiple ports to have more than one AGP slot. This would add quite a bit of complexity to the chipset. Adding complexity==lower yields==higher per unit prices. Not to mention that it would add complexity to the BIOS code.
That would be just while using it with memory rich graghics cards. If you put memory poor cards that use system memory for texture storage (like the i740 did) then you are looking at an order of magnitude more complex for video drivers, especially if you wanted to share the memory space between the 2 cards.
In the short term, forget it. You won't see multiple AGP ports on mainstream motherboards soon.
I have to admit, that about 1/3 of the way through the article (about when the author started yammering about the computer not having any mass for non-processing parts, like that's gonna happen) I was wondering about how the computer's power supply starts the process of doing what it does. Then I got to thinking of what kind of power source could be used to provide the vast amount of disparate levels of power needed, And it struck me:
Use brownian motion from a hot cup of tea.
Douglas Adams had it all wrong when he was designing the Infinite Perspective Vortex, he was really designing the Infinate Calculation Device. (not to be confused with an improbibility generator)
A bill will be sponsored by both political parties in both the house and senate at the federal level requiring that all web servers in the United States (and territories) conform to the.com(.org.edu.net).city.state.US domain structure. State government servers would conform to the.state.US domain structure, and federal government servers conform to the.US structure. This bill will be perfectly legal, as the constitution gives the federal legislature the right (and responsibility) to regulate interstate and international commerce.
Of course, all new domain names must conform to the new structures. However, old domain names will have a several year grace period to abandon the "old" structure in favor of the new structure. To make it easier to transition, "legal" domain nameholders will receive tax credit to transition over to the new naming convention. If you want to have a presence in multiple cities and/or states? Simple, place a server in the actual locations.
A side benefit of this would be that all commercial and residential connections to the internet would be easily identifiable through DNS as to what municipality, and state the connection is made. The onus of providing accurate DNS information will reside on the service provider.
At the routers at the geographical borders, checking and filtering will take place to ensure that no servers based outside of the USA are using the.US extension, with the exception of US military bases and foreign embassies. (International commerce)
Once all servers and individual connections in the USA are conforming, and non-USA servers are easily identifiable, internet based taxation becomes a no brainer. State and local sales taxes will easily be assessed and levied and distributed to the proper agencies.
A short time later, a bill will be passed requiring all servers rate themselves in meta tags against pornography, violence, language, ETC. The onus of selecting the proper tags will reside on the author of the page. Misapplying or failing to apply the proper rating tags will become a criminal offense.
Since the tags are a government mandated standard, every browser will be required to support them. Again, this would be legal under the guise of interstate commerce.
Almost instantly, local communities will demand censorship based on the geographical information of DNS, and the rating tags. Servers on foreign soil will be blocked carte blanche. Local decency laws will be used as the basis of this demand.
Of course, I could be wrong.
Joe Goldmeer
Yes, I have been called paranoid before.
A true pessimist calls himself a realist, while those that call themselves realists, are in actuality pessimistic.
So you're saying if I send you random garbage or stuff encrypted to a key you don't have for some reason, the burden of proof is on you?
Just how long do you think random, encrypted mail that I don't have a key to would stay on my computer? I'm not going to be spending one spare cpu cycle trying to figure out what the heck this file is supposed to be. Especially if I'm not expecting communication from you.
Document Retention Policy. Learn it. Live it.
And if by some chance the files were on my computer when a subponea was served, I could show that none of my private keys (that match up with my public keys) will decrypt the mystery messages from you. It would be likely that your comuter would be subponead to examine your keyring to see what public key you used to encrypt the message. Nasty scenario. It would be a real pain in the arse, but it is surviveable.
IANAL...
Documents are subject to court subponea. If you choose to not comply with a subponea, you can be held in contempt of court.
The defination of document not only includes ard copy printouts and handwritten papers, but also includes files on a computer hard drive, even e-mail.
The court can order you to unlock your safe to hand over any paper documents that are kept inside, just as they can order you to decrypt your electronic documents and mail.
While encryption is a good safeguard against prying eyes, the truly paranoid encrypt their documents, and then implement a sensible document retention program. If the document no longer exists, it cannot be subponead.
How long do you really need to keep that mail message anyway? (My wife's answer to that would be measured in years)
512 Nodes? Pssh! Check out Intel's TFLOPS...
4,500 processors in that baby.
http://developer.intel.com/technology/itj/q11998 /articles/art_1a.htm
http://developer.intel.com/technology/itj/q11998 /pdf/overview.pdf
(don't get too excited, it's really just a hyped up ultra cluster)
I'm getting tired of everyone assuming incorrectly that they have an expectation of privacy regarding regular email.
As I explain it to anyone that will listen:
If you send a postcard in the regular mail, anyone that touches the card can easily read the message that you have written. You have no expectation of privacy.
If you send a letter sealed in an envelope, then those that handle the letter cannot easily read the message written on the paper within. You have a reasonable expectation of privacy that came from sealing the envelope.
Email is a postcard, not a letter. There is nothing on the standard mail message that is sealing it from the eyes of anyone that touches the mail message. The text and any attachments are in the clear for anyone that has access and cares to look to read your message.
The answer is encryption. Once you encrypt a message, you are sealing the envelope. You then have an expectation of privacy, the better the encryption, the better the expectation of privacy.
You see, companies reading mail is not at all like steaming open letters, because unencrypted mail is not like a letter. Companies reading email is much more like reading the postcards that you get in interoffice mail.
What's that, you say, you don't send postcards in the interoffice mail? Sure you do, every time you click SEND in your email program.
Assuming that you have the ability to push your remarked processors out the door, you can make a not so small fortune producing remarked processors.
All you need is a a some plastic molding equipment (to make new cases for the processor with the new speeds molded in just the right way), some soldering irons (to make the modifications to the PCB), a quality printer and stock (To make lookalike boxes), and a shrinkwrap machine.
These things are not really bulky or have high power requirements, unlinke years past, where you had to have a laser to etch the ceramic of older processors. These types of operations can easily be done in a mobile home or on a boat. That truely gives a new defination for an offshore enterprise, no?
That makes this type of operation very difficult to shut down completely.
I doubt the shop that sold this chip to this guy realized they were selling a fake chip.
B.S.
While the vast majority of computer dealers are on the up and up, there are some very shady dealers out there. There are people that will buy hardware from anyone, without asking where the parts came from.
I used to work for a major microprocessor manufacturer in customer/technical support working very closely with the customers/victims of these shady charecters. I've met slimy hardware dealers that wouldn't care if a processor was legitimate or not. They get your money with a warranty thatlasts as long as you are in the store. They explicitly sell kit "as is" with no warranty from them. If the part fails, go talk to the manufacturer. What, they won't help you because the processor is counterfit? That's a shame. Too bad that you bought it "as is" If you wanted a warranty, I could have sold you this boxed processor for 40% more. I can assure you that I had no idea that the part was remarked. I can provide you with all the informaiton that I have on where I purchased the chip from, if you want to press legal matters further. I assure you that I had no intent to defraud you or any other customer.
To say that the vendor is ignorant in this matter is nieve at best, intentionally decitful in the worst.
Do you own a small computer shop? If you do, I'm certain that you know how to purchase legetimite parts from authorized channels. I'm also equally certain that you know of at least one "grey market" vendor that can get you parts for a discount.
I'll give you that clock / bus locking with substrate resistors is a stopgap measure at best. The only real wat to lock bus / clock speeds is to make microfuses in silicon, and blow the correct fuses in silicon during the test/burnin cycle of manufacturing. until this process becomes perfected (It's only a matter of time) fraud will be a fact of life in the computer industry.
-Goldmeer (Boy, do I have some nasty stories of remaking that i wish I could tell...)
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That would be no different than lending him the CD...
Actually, it is very different from loaning out your CD. You see, if you loan your CD to me, you cannot listen to the music while It is on loan.
You see, fair use is based on the premise that you cannot use the IP on more instances that you are entitled to.
EXAMPLE: It's legal to make a tape copy of your CD to listen to while in the car. However, your roommate cannot listen to the CD back in the dorm while you are listining to the tape in the car. If he listens to it while you are in class, that's OK. If he listens to it while you listen to another tape, or to the radio, that's OK. But if he's listining to the CD in your room, and you are listining to the copy at the same time, you are no longer excercising fair use and have crossed the line into the illegal.
Not much, I assure you. You probibly wanted to use MHz, meaning millions of cycles per second, rather than mHz, meaning thousandths of a cycle per second.
A 400mHz processor would have 1 clock cycle every 2.5 seconds. Not exactly the speed demon that *I* would spend my hard earned pennies on...
Here's my plan for the Sate and Federal governments to implement.
First, all internet DNS names for all servers hosted on US soil must have the top level domain of.US
Next, all DNS Names for servers in an individual state will have a second level domain name for that state. Examples: .AZ.US .CA.US .HI.US You get the idea.
Next, all user accounts will be mandated to conform to the TLD and SLD for where the user's primary residence is. If I live in California, my username might be johndoe@aol.com.ca.us If I work for a company in California, I might have the address j.doe@intel.com.ca.us If I then take a job across state borders with a company named foo in Oregon, but I choose not to move my primary residence (in accordance with BOTH state's laws on residance) I may have an address of jdoe@foo.com.ca.us While my boss might have an address of phb@foo.com.or.us when I move my residence to Oregon, my address would change to jdoe@foo.com.or.us
This will raise the importance of standard based internet white pages to be cleanly developed. While this would be a heartache for sysadmins to keep everything straight, the government benifits, so they don't really care.
The Federal and State governments can require these regulations under the guise of regulating international, interstate and intrastate commerce.
Now, it's much easier to collect the proper state and federal sales taxes on purchases for goods and services (yes a subscription to look at prawn is a goods purchase)
The side benifit of this is now that all servers on US soil are required to conform to TLD and SLD rules, it's now easier to crack down on WAREZ, Prawn, and other materials that the government may want to regulate. Laws will be passed in the state level that say something like: All servers in the state of California will have to self rate their content in accordance with the rating shceme outlined below. Failure to rate internet provided content will be punishable. Charges that your site is rated at too low a level will be reviewable by a citizen review board, and punishable by a fine.
Now, you have killed several birds with a single stone (OK, it's a bunch of stones, but that's not how this cliche goes, deal) You get the ability to tax, you get the ability to filter, you get the ability to regulate even more content on the internet.
How is it a violation of a reporter's 1st amendment rights when someone does not give them information?
If a police officer wanted to talk about an arrest, and did do, and was sanctioned for doing so, that might be a violation of 1st amendment rights, but probibly not. Especially if the job duties clearly state that the officer is not to talk about cases.
Just as it's not my job to make it easier for the police to investigate a crime, it's not the police's job to make it easier for reporters to cover stories.
After all, the police are not telling the press that they cannot cover a particular story, it's just no longer going to be an active source of information. (shock) Oh no! reporters will soon have to become journalists!(/shock):)
However, a campaign on the basis of "Even when you buy it, it's not yours" could push the button of a lot of people. There is a strong feeling that if you bought something, it's yours to do with anything you please -- and DMCA breaks this.
Naaah, all you need to do is look at your automobile or house to see that you don't really "own" anything and can do "anything" you please. You see, you may "own" an automobile, but you cannot drive it on a public road or highway without proper permission (Driver liscence) and even then, if you do it in a manner that is not prescribed (say going 60mph in a 15mph zone) you may find that you will have the property that you "own" removed from your possession.
You may "own" your house, but you cannot do "anything" you please while on your land, inside your house. You cannot create certain things (drugs, explosives) inside your own house, on your own land, even if the things that you create are to never be taken off of your property. You may find that property taken from you if you make these types of things.
You may want to be careful of what you teach the general population regarding freedoms and rights. See Government V. Socrates for a clue.:)
Does anyone think that the US Federal government would like the likes of the founding fathers of the country, if they were alive and disliking the current form of government, and talking about a revolution? (woah, I got offtopic)
If we break up Microsoft, I think that you will see increased innovation (real innovation not Microsoft's idea of "innovation") and a virtual explosion of computer products.
Are you sure?
The common scuttlebut is that there would be an OS division of MS. OK, one provider of Windows. Hmm, let's see, there will still only be one provider of THAT particular OS. Can you still say "monopoly power" on Operating Systems? (remember, Macintosh computers do not fit he defination for this instance) You would have an apps MS company. MS Office is still the bees knees as far as office app suits goes. No problem there, it's a virtual monopoly, in the fact that they can lock down the file formats and pretty much change them at a whim. Then you would have your Internet technology company. This company would have to charge for IE and Outlook Express. Chances are great that this company would be sold, as the market is already saturated with free browsers. (possibly to AOL/Time warner, talk about monopoly power then, it's almost scary to contemplate that one)
They were exactly the same design, except that the FPU in 486SX was disabled (it was still there).
While that was true for the very first i486sx chips, they very quickly had seperate masks for the SX chip. This mask allowed the chip to use ~1/4 less space. (less space per chip = more chips per wafer = cheaper production costs in the long run) I'm certain that that will be the same case for the celeron2 processors as well.
Why should the daily coursework count 1 iota towards the final grade? Shouldn't the grade of the course indicate the level of mastery of the subject? All daily coursework does is drill the ideas. Exams that test for knowledge should be the ONLY things that make up a final grade mark.
Mea Culpa. I need to be hit with the cluestick sometimes... Thanks for making it a light beating.
Hmmm, now that I've stated that I'm against what they are doing, I have to defend my previous stance, even if I don't believe my own arguments. It's not like I can change my mind or anything...:)
I guess that they want the program removed from general access because they realize that it's possible that user B (from my earlier post) can still get the program from a friend that has access through an uncensored connection. They haven't figured out how to block sneakernet yet.
The best thing that CP could do, is change the encryption used, and force all users to update (for free) with the latest not list download. (I hope that they have this ability for the stockholders sake.
There! I made an argument that I don't really believe in. But at least I'm consistant.
(There should be an option to disable.sig files on a per post basis, just like you can have a No Score +1 bonus, or Post Anonymously on a per post basis.)
Typicaly, I side with the ACLU. (really I do) However, on this one, they are either uninformed about certain facts, or just plain ignoring facts about CPHACK.EXE, the program that they are defending.
You see, the only people that are blocked from seeing the pages that CP blocks are those that are using a computer that someone relatively "in charge" installed the censorware software. Therefore, they are either fully aware that they will have limited access to the internet, or they are most likely children of "responsible" adults (wether or not they *are* responsible is besides the point) that have installed the censorware software. Therefore, the only people that a site is being "injured" from (no access granted) has implicitly requested that access be blocked. I just don't see any standing. (IANAL)
Let's put Standing aside for a minute.
It's common user interface design to put the "most important" or "most often used feature" on the default tab on a multi tabbed user interface (not that a multi tabbe dinterface is all that great to begin with) When anyone downloads the win32 binary CPHACK.EXE and runs it, (as I have) they will see a multi tabbed user interface, with the default tab listing the user accounts and thier passwords. Among the user accounts will be the "administrator" account.
Assume that user A is the administrator, and controls to what level the filters are set. User B is a common user, and is being restricted by the settings of user A, the "administrator" of the computer. If you like, assume that A is a parent, and B is a child below the age of majority. (it makes this so much easier if you picture it this way) User A (the parent) purchased CP with the expectation that it will block sites with certain charecteristics from other users, including user B. (the child) Now, someone comes up with a program that easily allows user B to obtain user A's password. Since it's the job of CP to block certain material from user B, it is not even a small stretch of the scope of it's list of items to block to include this program, wherever it may be. This is exactly what CP is intended to do. In fact, user A would have every right to expect that user B be blocked from sites that would allow him to bypass CP's protections.
The fact that this program also provides information on exactly what web sites and newsgroups are blocked is completely beside the point. Once the software provided the passwords, it's going to be blocked. It would not matter if it contained information on how to cheaply produce cold fusion, it would still be blocked. (I use cold fusion as a fictional example of something that would be of value to anyone)
If the situation was changed, and the program did not provide the passwords, and it was blocked by CP, then I would be right behind the ACLU on this one. It's a shame that the authors weren't content with making fools aut of CP's "not" list (the list of blocked sites), and chose instead to include password information as well. (Sometimes it is best to write a utility that does *one* thing very well. In this case, the authors of CPHACK.EXE should have weitten 2 utilities, one that provides the "not" list, and one that decrypts the passwords.
But, since I'm voicing an opinion contrary to the majority of/. postings, I'm sure to lose some karma over this one. I think that the most you can lose on a single post is 5 points, right?
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Tier 1 OEMs and authorized vendors were pushing for this. You see, if a part is readily overclockable, it is easily remarked as a higher speed part and sold at a higher price.
(I have experience in this arena, I used to work in the anti fraud group for a x86 mIcroprocessor maNufacTurer that will remain namELess)
Remarking microprocessors can be big business for remarkers. Once fully automated processes are put into place, they can "reprocess" (that's the term they use) hundereds of processors a day.
When housed got raided, there would be many hundreds of parts in process of having their appearance altered.
Remarkers don't just focus on the chips. They have the ability to produce retail boxes, appearing to all but the most highly trained eye to be authentic.
Remarking the chips and making phony boxes is the easy part. Getting the parts back into distribution is the hard part.
Just how many computer shows are there on any given weekend? Not many. How many mom/pop computer shops are just itching to save $5 on each processor, not really caring if the parts don't come from the authorized channel? Tons!
You see, if the grey market proliferates, it does so at the expense of the authorised distis and the tier 1 OEM markets.
Expect to see an even greater embrace of AMD's processors by big name manufacturers now.
Joe Goldmeer
I guess that they are coming up with a new metric... Silobits!
AGP - Accelerated Graphics Port
It's not a multipoint bus like PCI, it's a port, like a serial or parallel port. The chipset would have to be designed to implement multiple ports to have more than one AGP slot. This would add quite a bit of complexity to the chipset. Adding complexity==lower yields==higher per unit prices. Not to mention that it would add complexity to the BIOS code.
That would be just while using it with memory rich graghics cards. If you put memory poor cards that use system memory for texture storage (like the i740 did) then you are looking at an order of magnitude more complex for video drivers, especially if you wanted to share the memory space between the 2 cards.
In the short term, forget it. You won't see multiple AGP ports on mainstream motherboards soon.
I have to admit, that about 1/3 of the way through the article (about when the author started yammering about the computer not having any mass for non-processing parts, like that's gonna happen) I was wondering about how the computer's power supply starts the process of doing what it does. Then I got to thinking of what kind of power source could be used to provide the vast amount of disparate levels of power needed, And it struck me:
Use brownian motion from a hot cup of tea.
Douglas Adams had it all wrong when he was designing the Infinite Perspective Vortex, he was really designing the Infinate Calculation Device. (not to be confused with an improbibility generator)
Oh, never mind.
Here is my seeing of the sooth.
.com(.org.edu.net).city.state.US domain structure. State government servers would conform to the .state.US domain structure, and federal government servers conform to the .US structure. This bill will be perfectly legal, as the constitution gives the federal legislature the right (and responsibility) to regulate interstate and international commerce.
.US extension, with the exception of US military bases and foreign embassies. (International commerce)
A bill will be sponsored by both political parties in both the house and senate at the federal level requiring that all web servers in the United States (and territories) conform to the
Of course, all new domain names must conform to the new structures. However, old domain names will have a several year grace period to abandon the "old" structure in favor of the new structure. To make it easier to transition, "legal" domain nameholders will receive tax credit to transition over to the new naming convention. If you want to have a presence in multiple cities and/or states? Simple, place a server in the actual locations.
A side benefit of this would be that all commercial and residential connections to the internet would be easily identifiable through DNS as to what municipality, and state the connection is made. The onus of providing accurate DNS information will reside on the service provider.
At the routers at the geographical borders, checking and filtering will take place to ensure that no servers based outside of the USA are using the
Once all servers and individual connections in the USA are conforming, and non-USA servers are easily identifiable, internet based taxation becomes a no brainer. State and local sales taxes will easily be assessed and levied and distributed to the proper agencies.
A short time later, a bill will be passed requiring all servers rate themselves in meta tags against pornography, violence, language, ETC. The onus of selecting the proper tags will reside on the author of the page. Misapplying or failing to apply the proper rating tags will become a criminal offense.
Since the tags are a government mandated standard, every browser will be required to support them. Again, this would be legal under the guise of interstate commerce.
Almost instantly, local communities will demand censorship based on the geographical information of DNS, and the rating tags. Servers on foreign soil will be blocked carte blanche. Local decency laws will be used as the basis of this demand.
Of course, I could be wrong.
Joe Goldmeer
Yes, I have been called paranoid before.
A true pessimist calls himself a realist, while those that call themselves realists, are in actuality pessimistic.
Just how long do you think random, encrypted mail that I don't have a key to would stay on my computer? I'm not going to be spending one spare cpu cycle trying to figure out what the heck this file is supposed to be. Especially if I'm not expecting communication from you.
Document Retention Policy. Learn it. Live it.
And if by some chance the files were on my computer when a subponea was served, I could show that none of my private keys (that match up with my public keys) will decrypt the mystery messages from you. It would be likely that your comuter would be subponead to examine your keyring to see what public key you used to encrypt the message. Nasty scenario. It would be a real pain in the arse, but it is surviveable.
IANAL...
Documents are subject to court subponea. If you choose to not comply with a subponea, you can be held in contempt of court.
The defination of document not only includes ard copy printouts and handwritten papers, but also includes files on a computer hard drive, even e-mail.
The court can order you to unlock your safe to hand over any paper documents that are kept inside, just as they can order you to decrypt your electronic documents and mail.
While encryption is a good safeguard against prying eyes, the truly paranoid encrypt their documents, and then implement a sensible document retention program. If the document no longer exists, it cannot be subponead.
How long do you really need to keep that mail message anyway? (My wife's answer to that would be measured in years)
512 Nodes? Pssh! Check out Intel's TFLOPS...8 /articles/art_1a.htm
8 /pdf/overview.pdf
4,500 processors in that baby.
http://developer.intel.com/technology/itj/q1199
http://developer.intel.com/technology/itj/q1199
(don't get too excited, it's really just a hyped up ultra cluster)
Well, you don't have to work at that type of company, do you?
Also, if you have internet access to web based mail accounts, you can then bypass their mail server completely, can't you?
-Joe
As I explain it to anyone that will listen:
If you send a postcard in the regular mail, anyone that touches the card can easily read the message that you have written. You have no expectation of privacy.
If you send a letter sealed in an envelope, then those that handle the letter cannot easily read the message written on the paper within. You have a reasonable expectation of privacy that came from sealing the envelope.
Email is a postcard, not a letter. There is nothing on the standard mail message that is sealing it from the eyes of anyone that touches the mail message. The text and any attachments are in the clear for anyone that has access and cares to look to read your message.
The answer is encryption.
Once you encrypt a message, you are sealing the envelope. You then have an expectation of privacy, the better the encryption, the better the expectation of privacy.
You see, companies reading mail is not at all like steaming open letters, because unencrypted mail is not like a letter. Companies reading email is much more like reading the postcards that you get in interoffice mail.
What's that, you say, you don't send postcards in the interoffice mail? Sure you do, every time you click SEND in your email program.
Joe Goldmeer
All you need is a a some plastic molding equipment (to make new cases for the processor with the new speeds molded in just the right way), some soldering irons (to make the modifications to the PCB), a quality printer and stock (To make lookalike boxes), and a shrinkwrap machine.
These things are not really bulky or have high power requirements, unlinke years past, where you had to have a laser to etch the ceramic of older processors. These types of operations can easily be done in a mobile home or on a boat. That truely gives a new defination for an offshore enterprise, no?
That makes this type of operation very difficult to shut down completely.
B.S.
While the vast majority of computer dealers are on the up and up, there are some very shady dealers out there. There are people that will buy hardware from anyone, without asking where the parts came from.
I used to work for a major microprocessor manufacturer in customer/technical support working very closely with the customers/victims of these shady charecters. I've met slimy hardware dealers that wouldn't care if a processor was legitimate or not. They get your money with a warranty thatlasts as long as you are in the store. They explicitly sell kit "as is" with no warranty from them. If the part fails, go talk to the manufacturer. What, they won't help you because the processor is counterfit? That's a shame. Too bad that you bought it "as is" If you wanted a warranty, I could have sold you this boxed processor for 40% more. I can assure you that I had no idea that the part was remarked. I can provide you with all the informaiton that I have on where I purchased the chip from, if you want to press legal matters further. I assure you that I had no intent to defraud you or any other customer.
To say that the vendor is ignorant in this matter is nieve at best, intentionally decitful in the worst.
Do you own a small computer shop? If you do, I'm certain that you know how to purchase legetimite parts from authorized channels. I'm also equally certain that you know of at least one "grey market" vendor that can get you parts for a discount.
I'll give you that clock / bus locking with substrate resistors is a stopgap measure at best. The only real wat to lock bus / clock speeds is to make microfuses in silicon, and blow the correct fuses in silicon during the test/burnin cycle of manufacturing. until this process becomes perfected (It's only a matter of time) fraud will be a fact of life in the computer industry.
-Goldmeer
(Boy, do I have some nasty stories of remaking that i wish I could tell...)
Actually, it is very different from loaning out your CD. You see, if you loan your CD to me, you cannot listen to the music while It is on loan.
You see, fair use is based on the premise that you cannot use the IP on more instances that you are entitled to.
EXAMPLE: It's legal to make a tape copy of your CD to listen to while in the car. However, your roommate cannot listen to the CD back in the dorm while you are listining to the tape in the car. If he listens to it while you are in class, that's OK. If he listens to it while you listen to another tape, or to the radio, that's OK. But if he's listining to the CD in your room, and you are listining to the copy at the same time, you are no longer excercising fair use and have crossed the line into the illegal.
Not much, I assure you. You probibly wanted to use MHz, meaning millions of cycles per second, rather than mHz, meaning thousandths of a cycle per second.
A 400mHz processor would have 1 clock cycle every 2.5 seconds. Not exactly the speed demon that *I* would spend my hard earned pennies on...
Sorry, but the rest of us never got baked beans.
Wait, I never signed up for AOL. That might explain it.
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I mean, if they bring LINUX to the masses, can they really be evil?
A: You betcha!
First, all internet DNS names for all servers hosted on US soil must have the top level domain of .US
Next, all DNS Names for servers in an individual state will have a second level domain name for that state. Examples:
.AZ.US
.CA.US
.HI.US
You get the idea.
Next, all user accounts will be mandated to conform to the TLD and SLD for where the user's primary residence is. If I live in California, my username might be johndoe@aol.com.ca.us If I work for a company in California, I might have the address j.doe@intel.com.ca.us If I then take a job across state borders with a company named foo in Oregon, but I choose not to move my primary residence (in accordance with BOTH state's laws on residance) I may have an address of
jdoe@foo.com.ca.us
While my boss might have an address of
phb@foo.com.or.us
when I move my residence to Oregon, my address would change to
jdoe@foo.com.or.us
This will raise the importance of standard based internet white pages to be cleanly developed. While this would be a heartache for sysadmins to keep everything straight, the government benifits, so they don't really care.
The Federal and State governments can require these regulations under the guise of regulating international, interstate and intrastate commerce.
Now, it's much easier to collect the proper state and federal sales taxes on purchases for goods and services (yes a subscription to look at prawn is a goods purchase)
The side benifit of this is now that all servers on US soil are required to conform to TLD and SLD rules, it's now easier to crack down on WAREZ, Prawn, and other materials that the government may want to regulate.
Laws will be passed in the state level that say something like: All servers in the state of California will have to self rate their content in accordance with the rating shceme outlined below. Failure to rate internet provided content will be punishable. Charges that your site is rated at too low a level will be reviewable by a citizen review board, and punishable by a fine.
Now, you have killed several birds with a single stone (OK, it's a bunch of stones, but that's not how this cliche goes, deal)
You get the ability to tax, you get the ability to filter, you get the ability to regulate even more content on the internet.
Goldmeer
If a police officer wanted to talk about an arrest, and did do, and was sanctioned for doing so, that might be a violation of 1st amendment rights, but probibly not. Especially if the job duties clearly state that the officer is not to talk about cases.
Just as it's not my job to make it easier for the police to investigate a crime, it's not the police's job to make it easier for reporters to cover stories.
After all, the police are not telling the press that they cannot cover a particular story, it's just no longer going to be an active source of information. (shock) Oh no! reporters will soon have to become journalists!(/shock) :)
Goldmeer
Naaah, all you need to do is look at your automobile or house to see that you don't really "own" anything and can do "anything" you please.
You see, you may "own" an automobile, but you cannot drive it on a public road or highway without proper permission (Driver liscence) and even then, if you do it in a manner that is not prescribed (say going 60mph in a 15mph zone) you may find that you will have the property that you "own" removed from your possession.
You may "own" your house, but you cannot do "anything" you please while on your land, inside your house. You cannot create certain things (drugs, explosives) inside your own house, on your own land, even if the things that you create are to never be taken off of your property. You may find that property taken from you if you make these types of things.
You may want to be careful of what you teach the general population regarding freedoms and rights. See Government V. Socrates for a clue. :)
Does anyone think that the US Federal government would like the likes of the founding fathers of the country, if they were alive and disliking the current form of government, and talking about a revolution? (woah, I got offtopic)
Are you sure?
The common scuttlebut is that there would be an OS division of MS. OK, one provider of Windows. Hmm, let's see, there will still only be one provider of THAT particular OS. Can you still say "monopoly power" on Operating Systems? (remember, Macintosh computers do not fit he defination for this instance)
You would have an apps MS company. MS Office is still the bees knees as far as office app suits goes. No problem there, it's a virtual monopoly, in the fact that they can lock down the file formats and pretty much change them at a whim.
Then you would have your Internet technology company. This company would have to charge for IE and Outlook Express. Chances are great that this company would be sold, as the market is already saturated with free browsers. (possibly to AOL/Time warner, talk about monopoly power then, it's almost scary to contemplate that one)
While that was true for the very first i486sx chips, they very quickly had seperate masks for the SX chip. This mask allowed the chip to use ~1/4 less space. (less space per chip = more chips per wafer = cheaper production costs in the long run) I'm certain that that will be the same case for the celeron2 processors as well.
Why should the daily coursework count 1 iota towards the final grade? Shouldn't the grade of the course indicate the level of mastery of the subject? All daily coursework does is drill the ideas. Exams that test for knowledge should be the ONLY things that make up a final grade mark.
of course, this is only my opinion...
Hmmm, now that I've stated that I'm against what they are doing, I have to defend my previous stance, even if I don't believe my own arguments. It's not like I can change my mind or anything... :)
I guess that they want the program removed from general access because they realize that it's possible that user B (from my earlier post) can still get the program from a friend that has access through an uncensored connection. They haven't figured out how to block sneakernet yet.
The best thing that CP could do, is change the encryption used, and force all users to update (for free) with the latest not list download. (I hope that they have this ability for the stockholders sake.
There! I made an argument that I don't really believe in. But at least I'm consistant.
(There should be an option to disable .sig files on a per post basis, just like you can have a No Score +1 bonus, or Post Anonymously on a per post basis.)
goldmeer
Typicaly, I side with the ACLU. (really I do) However, on this one, they are either uninformed about certain facts, or just plain ignoring facts about CPHACK.EXE, the program that they are defending.
You see, the only people that are blocked from seeing the pages that CP blocks are those that are using a computer that someone relatively "in charge" installed the censorware software. Therefore, they are either fully aware that they will have limited access to the internet, or they are most likely children of "responsible" adults (wether or not they *are* responsible is besides the point) that have installed the censorware software. Therefore, the only people that a site is being "injured" from (no access granted) has implicitly requested that access be blocked. I just don't see any standing. (IANAL)
Let's put Standing aside for a minute.
It's common user interface design to put the "most important" or "most often used feature" on the default tab on a multi tabbed user interface (not that a multi tabbe dinterface is all that great to begin with)
When anyone downloads the win32 binary CPHACK.EXE and runs it, (as I have) they will see a multi tabbed user interface, with the default tab listing the user accounts and thier passwords. Among the user accounts will be the "administrator" account.
Assume that user A is the administrator, and controls to what level the filters are set. User B is a common user, and is being restricted by the settings of user A, the "administrator" of the computer. If you like, assume that A is a parent, and B is a child below the age of majority. (it makes this so much easier if you picture it this way) User A (the parent) purchased CP with the expectation that it will block sites with certain charecteristics from other users, including user B. (the child)
Now, someone comes up with a program that easily allows user B to obtain user A's password. Since it's the job of CP to block certain material from user B, it is not even a small stretch of the scope of it's list of items to block to include this program, wherever it may be. This is exactly what CP is intended to do. In fact, user A would have every right to expect that user B be blocked from sites that would allow him to bypass CP's protections.
The fact that this program also provides information on exactly what web sites and newsgroups are blocked is completely beside the point. Once the software provided the passwords, it's going to be blocked. It would not matter if it contained information on how to cheaply produce cold fusion, it would still be blocked. (I use cold fusion as a fictional example of something that would be of value to anyone)
If the situation was changed, and the program did not provide the passwords, and it was blocked by CP, then I would be right behind the ACLU on this one. It's a shame that the authors weren't content with making fools aut of CP's "not" list (the list of blocked sites), and chose instead to include password information as well. (Sometimes it is best to write a utility that does *one* thing very well. In this case, the authors of CPHACK.EXE should have weitten 2 utilities, one that provides the "not" list, and one that decrypts the passwords.
But, since I'm voicing an opinion contrary to the majority of /. postings, I'm sure to lose some karma over this one. I think that the most you can lose on a single post is 5 points, right?
goldmeer
I wouldn't say never. Check out my post from easrlier today.