This might be true for the KEKs (key exchange keys).
But the PK (platform key) will be already set up (and controlled) by the hardware manufacturer if I understand the system correctly. With UEFI you do not own your hardware anymore.
No. It is designed to generate a chain of trust from the BIOS (UEFI) up to the operating system including drivers. So if you change anything in this chain, DRM-plagued media will refuse to play! It's all about the ability to play content withot the user being able to grab that content or do anything else with it. If it would be about preventing root kits, then the master keys could be in the hand of the user.
Heuristic simply means that your algorithm is not 100% correct. Top level human chess players use heuristics to play, they do not calculate all possibilities. Doing things by heuristics means guessing (and hopefully guessing right most of the time),
So I see that most of the posters here still watch the Olympic Games on television or other media. The IOC, the sponsors and the media conglomerates will NOT change their behavior, unless they realize that the public is not interested in the games anymore. Therefore everyone who watches this years Olympics is part of the problem, not part of the solution!
Very good argument. But it depends on the definition of "profitable". You can't prevent that people achieve economic gains by mugging.
Your only chance (if you don't want mugging) is to counter that reward with a social punishment, for example the mugger losing all peer group respect.
I do agree that this does not really work in our current western societies. If someone is wealthy and/or powerful, the question of where this power stems from is seldom if never asked. Best example: Bill Gates.
It really doesn't matter. MS was designing an operating system for a general purpose computer, not an embedded appliance. All these artificial and stupid limitations were excactly what made me despise DOS (and later Windows). Why only 640k? Why filenames with only 8 characters (and only 3 more after the dot)? I could go on endlessly. Why not build extensibility into the system? This thing felt like being programmed by a hacker in a hurry for his home built machine, soon to be replaced by a real OS.
This story report is horrible!
First it's the Sony rootkit. Name it as such. Not some "DRM" bullshit.
Second: "victory for consumers" ? This is wrong on so many levels, I don't believe it. We are customers, not consumers. And no, it's not a victory, not at all.
Sony did commit thousands of computer crimes for purely financial interests and got a slap on the wrist. Kevin Mitnick would be in Jail for 3000 years for this. And if my information is correct, the settlement states explicitly, that Sony does not recognize any guilt.
Sorry for this rant. But how can such a misleading article be on the front page?
Hey! You stole my idea!:-) Well, seriously, I built a tumbler lock myself with Legos and was pretty sure up until now that I was the only one to have ever thought about that.
Oh well, another hole in my theory that I'm a genius.
BUT: I did it more than 30 years ago. So at least I can claim prior art. (There can't be anyone older than me on slashdot.)
Ever heard of the "Busy Beaver Problem" invented by Rado? The program hasn't to be infinite. Only the tape. Even for very small turing machines (6 or more states) it can be nearly impossible (for a human or a machine) to prove that it halts.
My math teacher posed this problem as the so called "bear guardian test". It went like this: You are to become an ice bear guardian at the north pole. You know the following facts:
1. Bears appear only in pairs. 2. Bears live in holes. No holes - no bear.
That's all the information given. After the dice are rolled, you have to tell the number of holes and the number of bears. To make it harder, he did not always roll five dice, but varied from 2 to 5 dice. We tried like crazy for 45 minutes without getting a solution. Note that in this variation of the puzzle, the name does not give away the solution. It impressed me so much, that I haven't forgotten this lesson even after being out of school for more than 20 years.
That's quite right. But they did nothing against the effective key length of only 56 bits. At the time of invention of DES this key length could only be brute forced by an organization with an insanely huge amount of computing power.... Oops... Did I just describe the NSA?
From a programmers point of view I can fully understand why you would quantize the universe with a limit on the smallest spatial dimension (btw, I would do that with time also).
But why would one use a constant speed of light? It does not make simulations easier; all those general relativity equations must be really hard for the math coprocessor.
So why dont they use just a Newtonian Universe with quantum properties?
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This might be true for the KEKs (key exchange keys). But the PK (platform key) will be already set up (and controlled) by the hardware manufacturer if I understand the system correctly. With UEFI you do not own your hardware anymore.
No. It is designed to generate a chain of trust from the BIOS (UEFI) up to the operating system including drivers. So if you change anything in this chain, DRM-plagued media will refuse to play! It's all about the ability to play content withot the user being able to grab that content or do anything else with it. If it would be about preventing root kits, then the master keys could be in the hand of the user.
I toast, therefore I am!
Heuristic simply means that your algorithm is not 100% correct. Top level human chess players use heuristics to play, they do not calculate all possibilities. Doing things by heuristics means guessing (and hopefully guessing right most of the time),
The (relative) new option --recusive should reduce the memory usage.
So I see that most of the posters here still watch the Olympic Games on television or other media. The IOC, the sponsors and the media conglomerates will NOT change their behavior, unless they realize that the public is not interested in the games anymore. Therefore everyone who watches this years Olympics is part of the problem, not part of the solution!
Very good argument. But it depends on the definition of "profitable". You can't prevent that people achieve economic gains by mugging. Your only chance (if you don't want mugging) is to counter that reward with a social punishment, for example the mugger losing all peer group respect. I do agree that this does not really work in our current western societies. If someone is wealthy and/or powerful, the question of where this power stems from is seldom if never asked. Best example: Bill Gates.
It really doesn't matter. MS was designing an operating system for a general purpose computer, not an embedded appliance. All these artificial and stupid limitations were excactly what made me despise DOS (and later Windows). Why only 640k? Why filenames with only 8 characters (and only 3 more after the dot)? I could go on endlessly. Why not build extensibility into the system? This thing felt like being programmed by a hacker in a hurry for his home built machine, soon to be replaced by a real OS.
This story report is horrible! First it's the Sony rootkit. Name it as such. Not some "DRM" bullshit. Second: "victory for consumers" ? This is wrong on so many levels, I don't believe it. We are customers, not consumers. And no, it's not a victory, not at all. Sony did commit thousands of computer crimes for purely financial interests and got a slap on the wrist. Kevin Mitnick would be in Jail for 3000 years for this. And if my information is correct, the settlement states explicitly, that Sony does not recognize any guilt. Sorry for this rant. But how can such a misleading article be on the front page?
Thanks for the tips. I never realized that you could change the Homepage appearance of slashdot with the preferences. I will try it.
Hey! You stole my idea! :-)
Well, seriously, I built a tumbler lock myself with Legos and was pretty sure up until now that I was the only one to have ever thought about that.
Oh well, another hole in my theory that I'm a genius.
BUT: I did it more than 30 years ago. So at least I can claim prior art. (There can't be anyone older than me on slashdot.)
Please mod parent up. It's one of the most insightful non-technical comment I've seen on slashdot for a long time.
Ever heard of the "Busy Beaver Problem" invented by Rado?
The program hasn't to be infinite. Only the tape.
Even for very small turing machines (6 or more states) it can be nearly impossible (for a human or a machine) to prove that it halts.
My math teacher posed this problem as the so called "bear guardian test". It went like this: You are to become an ice bear guardian at the north pole. You know the following facts:
1. Bears appear only in pairs.
2. Bears live in holes. No holes - no bear.
That's all the information given. After the dice are rolled, you have to tell the number of holes and the number of bears. To make it harder, he did not always roll five dice, but varied from 2 to 5 dice. We tried like crazy for 45 minutes without getting a solution. Note that in this variation of the puzzle, the name does not give away the solution.
It impressed me so much, that I haven't forgotten this lesson even after being out of school for more than 20 years.
"Invasion of the Bodysnatchers" has 2 remakes. And soon "King Kong" will have 2, when Peter Jackson makes his remake.
That's quite right. But they did nothing against the effective key length of only 56 bits. At the time of invention of DES this key length could only be brute forced by an organization with an insanely huge amount of computing power. ... Oops ... Did I just describe the NSA?
That's totally new to me. Do you have any reference for that claim?
Offtopic: Did you watch soccer? Bremen just won the German Championship (Deutscher Meister) this weekend!!!
Probably not. Bremen is home of EADS and does NOT belong to lower saxony. It is a state on its own, just surrounded by lower saxony territory.
From a programmers point of view I can fully understand why you would quantize the universe with a limit on the smallest spatial dimension (btw, I would do that with time also).
But why would one use a constant speed of light? It does not make simulations easier; all those general relativity equations must be really hard for the math coprocessor.
So why dont they use just a Newtonian Universe with quantum properties?