No, I'm not. When you are talking about copying bit's around, the equation is not "Increasing complexity => decreasing pool of users capable of getting the hacked version". It's "Increasing complexity => decreasing pool of users capable of getting the first hacked version". Once that's done the barrier to piracy is reduced to "using a search engine" or perhaps "hanging out on the right forum". After that first hacked version is produced, all DRM schemes are equivalent.
In that case, the most trivial of restrictions would suffice. You don't need to tie each person to an internet connection. Just a simple generated key check would be enough of a road block for most people.
HDD's are much cheaper than $5K, and can be attached to any computer. For 3TB of data per customer, you're looking at 4 x 2TB drives to mirror the data. You can buy the drives for about $700. Compared to the tape solution, you're talking about $5K for the drive, and you only have one of them, then about $40 per 1.2TB tape. Sure tape is about 70% cheaper per TB in the long run, but you really need to factor in the cost of tape drives (and replacement tape drives) when you recommend it for smaller sized backup requirements.
And of course this plugin would work best if it knew the raw file format and exact colour pixel layout of the CCD in your camera. You should then be able to use the different RGB sub-pixel values, and their positions to build a far more detailed image.
Except in this case it's an embedded instance of the web browser control trying to invoke another external instance of itself, passing the same cookies etc, that's broken. And since this is all microsoft's code, it's more code for steam to intercept and fix this behaviour.
So if I fetch the above URL repeatedly and try to brute force a valid logtoken, this isn't the same as the "Hack" in TFA?
Not that I'm really trying to disagree with you. The search space in this case is about 1 in 1e83 depending on the characters used. A publicly accessible url with no authentication, and a short guessable id number is no protection whatsoever.
Some of that "poorly written software" was window's own control panel. In a number of cases there was very poor separation between user customisation and administration of system settings.
I believe in vista & 7 if you run a memory greedy application that needs heaps of ram, causing the working set of other programs to be swapped out. When the memory is given back, the OS will start swapping that memory back in.
eg, if a batch job runs on your machine overnight, you wont need to wait for everything to swap back in when you unlock your machine in the morning.
The ultimate dream would be a truly holographic sensor that records exactly where, when, and at what angle each photon hit the sensor
That's already been done to some extent. Put a grid of small lenses in front of your sensor and you can trace each ray back through the main lens and reconstruct a lower resolution image from any point of view, or focal length, that would have been viewable from any point within the volume of the camera.
Yeah, the money multiplier theory of credit creation is a great theory and all, but it doesn't work that way in practice.
Banks create loans first, then you deposit it in another account. At the end of the day, the banks all look at their reserve and capital requirements, then go to the money markets and borrow enough money from each other, from foreigners and from the fed to back the new loans.
Still don't believe me? If the money multiplier theory was true, you'd expect any expansion of credit money to happen after expansions of government money. But this simply isn't the case, instead empirical evidence says that the reverse happens;
and still not bring usage over 50% more than occasionally
Let me guess, you have a dual core or hyperthreading processor. Guess what, those programs are stressing a single core. You will only see the CPU usage go over 50% if there are 2 threads running.
a person makes each film available online only once through the BitTorrent system and electronically transmits each film only once through that system
Copyright refers to the right to make copies. Downloading doesn't make a copy it merely saves it, the copy is made by the uploader. And assuming you are running a bittorrent client with a seed ratio of 100% (or at least, less than 200%), then you only upload one whole copy (in many small pieces to many other people). Even seeding the initial copy can be done with a ratio only slightly higher than 100%.
I believe the judges ruling is perfectly consistent with the implementation of the bittorrent protocol.
While I agree that you might be better off managing what is on your SSD yourself just by treating it as a separate disk drive. With a good 3rd party defragmenter, this could actually be useful.
For example My Defrag can be scripted to move files into specific places on your drive based on just about any criteria. So you could set it up to move your OS, Program, Temp, Swap, Hibernate and any other recently accessed files to the start of the disk. Then move everything else to the end.
Yeah, it simply mirrors the start of your HD, up to the size of the SSD. It doesn't look like there's any intelligence in the way it caches content. So if you have more data stored on the HD than the size of the SSD, the performance of reading this data will be ever so slightly slower than reading from the HD directly.
I doubt he would be complaining if 15 taps = 15 mph, to me it reads like a firmware bug.
Perhaps something like; If you hold the lever down for a couple seconds it adds 10mpg instead of just 1. Now if that was implemented by starting a timer when the lever is pressed, and if the lever is being pressed when the timer elapses it adds 10mph. But maybe there's a bug that doesn't always clear the timer when the lever is released...
But who knows, any number of race conditions could potentially cause this. It all depends on how the system is implemented.
Woz's example that he posted here a while ago suggested that tapping the cruise control level a few times to increase speed by 1mph each can cause this issue. Perhaps a software bug is causing the cruising speed to jump up 10,20 or more mph causing the exact behaviour you describe. But I certainly wouldn't be game to see what speed the car levels off at...
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No, I'm not. When you are talking about copying bit's around, the equation is not "Increasing complexity => decreasing pool of users capable of getting the hacked version". It's "Increasing complexity => decreasing pool of users capable of getting the first hacked version". Once that's done the barrier to piracy is reduced to "using a search engine" or perhaps "hanging out on the right forum". After that first hacked version is produced, all DRM schemes are equivalent.
In that case, the most trivial of restrictions would suffice. You don't need to tie each person to an internet connection. Just a simple generated key check would be enough of a road block for most people.
Well, if you are working completely on your own desktop, just disconnect from the network.
HDD's are much cheaper than $5K, and can be attached to any computer. For 3TB of data per customer, you're looking at 4 x 2TB drives to mirror the data. You can buy the drives for about $700. Compared to the tape solution, you're talking about $5K for the drive, and you only have one of them, then about $40 per 1.2TB tape. Sure tape is about 70% cheaper per TB in the long run, but you really need to factor in the cost of tape drives (and replacement tape drives) when you recommend it for smaller sized backup requirements.
And of course this plugin would work best if it knew the raw file format and exact colour pixel layout of the CCD in your camera. You should then be able to use the different RGB sub-pixel values, and their positions to build a far more detailed image.
Except in this case it's an embedded instance of the web browser control trying to invoke another external instance of itself, passing the same cookies etc, that's broken. And since this is all microsoft's code, it's more code for steam to intercept and fix this behaviour.
Link.
http://slashdot.org/index.pl?op=userlogin&logtoken=611928::[randomstring]
So if I fetch the above URL repeatedly and try to brute force a valid logtoken, this isn't the same as the "Hack" in TFA?
Not that I'm really trying to disagree with you. The search space in this case is about 1 in 1e83 depending on the characters used. A publicly accessible url with no authentication, and a short guessable id number is no protection whatsoever.
Some of that "poorly written software" was window's own control panel. In a number of cases there was very poor separation between user customisation and administration of system settings.
I see messages of people being kicked from TF2 with no steam id all the time...
I believe in vista & 7 if you run a memory greedy application that needs heaps of ram, causing the working set of other programs to be swapped out. When the memory is given back, the OS will start swapping that memory back in.
eg, if a batch job runs on your machine overnight, you wont need to wait for everything to swap back in when you unlock your machine in the morning.
The ultimate dream would be a truly holographic sensor that records exactly where, when, and at what angle each photon hit the sensor
That's already been done to some extent. Put a grid of small lenses in front of your sensor and you can trace each ray back through the main lens and reconstruct a lower resolution image from any point of view, or focal length, that would have been viewable from any point within the volume of the camera.
So how does removing access to the store from hacked handsets *reduce* piracy?? Won't this force everyone with a jailbroken handset to pirate more?
How many of those businesses that have forced their users to remain on IE6 have also blocked youtube?
And what's to stop them from remotely turning off all copies of windows 7 after end of life?
Yeah, the money multiplier theory of credit creation is a great theory and all, but it doesn't work that way in practice.
Banks create loans first, then you deposit it in another account. At the end of the day, the banks all look at their reserve and capital requirements, then go to the money markets and borrow enough money from each other, from foreigners and from the fed to back the new loans.
Still don't believe me? If the money multiplier theory was true, you'd expect any expansion of credit money to happen after expansions of government money. But this simply isn't the case, instead empirical evidence says that the reverse happens;
Kydland & Prescott, Business Cycles: Real Facts and a Monetary Myth, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Quarterly Review, Spring 1990.
"There is no evidence that either the monetary base or M1 leads the cycle, although some economists still believe this monetary myth. Both the monetary base and M1 series are generally procyclical and, if anything, the monetary base lags the cycle slightly." (p. 11)
Ever seen a blue screen crash?
(Yes I know it's sysinternals screen saver...)
More likely it's exactly 15mm x 16mm.
and still not bring usage over 50% more than occasionally
Let me guess, you have a dual core or hyperthreading processor. Guess what, those programs are stressing a single core. You will only see the CPU usage go over 50% if there are 2 threads running.
using statistical analysis developed by economists
Funny, given recent events I would be more worried about the economists models.
a person makes each film available online only once through the BitTorrent system and electronically transmits each film only once through that system
Copyright refers to the right to make copies. Downloading doesn't make a copy it merely saves it, the copy is made by the uploader. And assuming you are running a bittorrent client with a seed ratio of 100% (or at least, less than 200%), then you only upload one whole copy (in many small pieces to many other people). Even seeding the initial copy can be done with a ratio only slightly higher than 100%.
I believe the judges ruling is perfectly consistent with the implementation of the bittorrent protocol.
While I agree that you might be better off managing what is on your SSD yourself just by treating it as a separate disk drive. With a good 3rd party defragmenter, this could actually be useful.
For example My Defrag can be scripted to move files into specific places on your drive based on just about any criteria. So you could set it up to move your OS, Program, Temp, Swap, Hibernate and any other recently accessed files to the start of the disk. Then move everything else to the end.
Yeah, it simply mirrors the start of your HD, up to the size of the SSD. It doesn't look like there's any intelligence in the way it caches content. So if you have more data stored on the HD than the size of the SSD, the performance of reading this data will be ever so slightly slower than reading from the HD directly.
I doubt he would be complaining if 15 taps = 15 mph, to me it reads like a firmware bug.
Perhaps something like; If you hold the lever down for a couple seconds it adds 10mpg instead of just 1. Now if that was implemented by starting a timer when the lever is pressed, and if the lever is being pressed when the timer elapses it adds 10mph. But maybe there's a bug that doesn't always clear the timer when the lever is released...
But who knows, any number of race conditions could potentially cause this. It all depends on how the system is implemented.
Woz's example that he posted here a while ago suggested that tapping the cruise control level a few times to increase speed by 1mph each can cause this issue. Perhaps a software bug is causing the cruising speed to jump up 10,20 or more mph causing the exact behaviour you describe. But I certainly wouldn't be game to see what speed the car levels off at...