It won't be Obama that pulls the 'Internet Kill Switch' That ship has not sailed yet... and I doubt very seriously it will sail on his watch, even if the man gets re-elected. It will be some future tool that gets voted into the hot seat, and decides thing are bad-assed enough to make that call. some future, elected asshat, that get the distinction of triggering a long over due civil war.
I'd bet money it won't come to that for another generation... eventually it will... as it must... We've been too long without Jefferson's predicted 'blood cleasing' event.
If the govermint's questioning gets too invasive then no one will qualify/want to work for the governmint, and many position will remain unfilled. Eventually no one worth-a-shit will want to work for them...
Could this be a way of reducing the governmint budget by reducing interest in governmint related jobs?
To all the Paranoia references.... Remember that the FBI took Steve Jackson Games out for being too subversive... there is no other credible justification... Steve Jackson Games pissed off the powers that be for being a little too effective in publishing games that painted the authorities in a bad light.
Here we are again. With too many secrets in the bag.... and now, as many times before the government has so thoroughly defied the will of the people that it must systematically violate their rights for a time until scapegoats are in place to take the heat....
This whole mess with Palin reminds me of that weird thing that happens with a room full of people at a party all having different conversations. Suddenly the room goes silent except for one person who is in the middle of saying something that is loud and also socially inept. Everyone else in the room hears it.... In this case what distracted the party was 31 gunshots.
Your failing to see the obvious because you see these developments through the lens of profit motive.
I suspect you seek to make money off the anti-DRM movement and cannot find a easy way to accomplish that goal.
Businesses that focus on this will probably get their throats cut as Lik Sang did. Many other approaches do not result in someone acting as gate keeper for enabling tech.... they tend to survive longer than commercial approaches.
funny thing about LVDS is that the chips for decoding it are already on the market. Any fool with basic digital electronic skills, and soldering skills can patch one into the signal chain and feed that signal to a wide variety of chips that can convert that to a storable stream.
I think you neglect the value of Open Source Hardware. This isn' t rocket science.
As for the Games angle. All of the game consoles are jailbroken. How one chooses to use that situation is their own affair.
I'll point out that the 65816 had to be binary compatible with the 6502.
Also I'd point out that the 68k line had some similar constraints to be binary compatible with the 68000.
You are correct.... the 68K was an awesome CPU in it's day. However: the 6502 was MUCH easier to write code for. Writing a boot kernel for the 6502 took less than a day. Writing the same for a 68K took a week. Why because the 68K required a lot of crap set up in your boot code to get a sane execution environment. With the 6502, the environment was mostly sane before the first instruction was executed. Hardware development for the 68K required a lot of glue logic to deal with the async I/O bus. Almost no glue logic is required to set up a 6502 bus.
Comparing the two CPUs is not even fair. They had very different markets and design goals.
One of the more interesting (and flat-out-fun) projects I had over the years was reverse engineering a production product where the source code for the app that ran on it had been lost (years before my arrival to the team.) There was a 32K binary image to be burned into EPROM. There was a schematic of the hardware, and the end-user documentation. From those items I produced compilable, fully documented source code and a theory of operation document.
Just a side note. Over clocking a 68000L8 at >=24MHz causes the address and data bus to act as synchronous counters. I am inclined to believe that this was a test mode designed into the 68000. I discovered it by accident while chasing down (one of many) design flaws in a 68000 motherboard designed by Granger & Assoc. The clock chain was borked thus overclocking the CPU by a factor of 3. To me it this behavior from the CPU seemed very useful.... it was also VERY consistent across many members of the 68K family.
Using the funky behavior of bus accesses on the Apple ][ it was possible to synchonize video-page flips. The apple ][ did not have a VerticalBlank interrupt or a flag to indicate that Vertical Blank was active. The apple//e (and later systems) did have a Vertical Blank Flag bit in the I/O pages, but it was not as useful as being able to read the video latch data via the video switch bank.(This was a timing bug in the Apple ][ that allowed the video latch data to be snapped by executing an immediate Read (LDA, LDX, LDY) on Write-Only I/O switches.) Also: Most of the 'undefined opcodes' on the 6502 were actually very useful. They were very consistent across the entire 65xx line. I published a list of them back in 1985 or 1986 on USENET. Nick Westgate published a similar list after the 65816 had been out a while. Many of the most useful OPs combined common 6502 idioms. It is unknown to me if those were an artifact of the instruction decoder logic or if those OPs were designed in, but undocumented. I am inclined to believe they were undocumented since most of them appear in the 6502, 6507, 6502A, 6510, 65C02, and 65802. Some of them are also active in the Nintendo NES but I am not sure how many. I saw documents reporting a few of the OPs but never had time to explore the undefined ops on that implementation when I was a game dev for Atari/Tengen.
I can tap into the LVDS lines that connect the TV's flat panel display. These lines are NOT encrypted, and easily decoded. Additionally I could capture the HDCP signal off the encrypted channel, and decode them 'offline.' HDCP, is as others have pointed out, a joke to decrypt.
The real issue here is that we need to find a convincing clue-bat to dissuade Hollyweird from attempting to force hardware developers from participating in this stupid 'arms race.'
A key handle to grab for is NOT BUYING THIS CRAP! If you don't fund it, by buying it. It will cease to exist!
Stop paying Hollywood for the privilege of fucking you in the ass with no lube, and no reach-around!
I used to see this buffering issue when my DSL got close to saturation. The solution I applied and suggest to iFriends who have similar issues is to avoid saturating their connections. What TCP cannot resolve easily is my usage behaviors. I have to fix those behaviors on my own. My suggestion: Stop downloading porn while you are playing WoW/(real-time-game-of-the-month). Your latency will improve dramatically.
Thanks to all who posted well reasoned explanations for why traffic buffering might be a false solution.
For anyone that still doesn't get it... Meditate on this the next time you hear the pipes in your apartment building rattling....
On the other hand. The Guardian would gladly WikiLeaks out of the mix if they thought they could get away with it as it would leave them in the ideal position to profit from the windfall if WikiLeaks/Assange bites the big one.
The NYT, the WSJ and all the other big-media mouth pieces made money off of other historical 'leaks' of secret documents/scoops/etc. Often their direct and indirect sources did get shafted. In some cases, editors and journalists 'took one for the team' as well.
Look at what happened to the FOX journalists who broke the story on Monsanto's( a FOX advertiser) scheme to addict the beef industry to synthetic growth hormones.... those people got dropped down a proverbial mine shaft for their efforts.
I have it on good authority that hot, attractive wimming aren't attracted to sensitive dorks. Go figure. Pay attention to who is getting laid. Applied asshattery pays dividends.
Assange is proof that being a pushy asshat pays the bills, and also proves that there are significant risks.... like any profitable investment.
I also note that 'Ass' is a featured component in his name. Do you think that Julian is not aware of that fact? Do you believe for a minute that he didn't get abused by his peers for that fact?
I have an OMAP 3 (Beagle board) running over clocked at 720MHz tasked with a Knight's tour solver it's been running for 6 weeks, on Angstrom. It draws about 1Watt (Video & audio turned off). To date it has solved 38M tours and 8.4B traversals from start pos . The current minimum depth is 24. I haven't even gotten the DSP into the mix yet. With a bit more work I could get this system to run 24/7/365 off a battery backed supply and add DSP solving support. I can let this sucker run for years if needs be. These high performance SoCs are amazing. My earlier attempts at running Tour solvers wasted a lot of power, and never found a single tour...because I could not let them run long enough, either due to other task needs, or power cost.
I think a better example is the story of Job. Look what God did to him. God makes a bet with the Devil that Job will be loyal to Him no matter what the Devil does to Job (he cant kill him though) Job goes through hell for a stupid bet, without even knowing why until the end. Innocent blood is shed, animals are killed, crops are ruined. Job is tortured by Nature and Disease. God bets with His follower's livelyhood against the Devil without Job's consent or knowlege! How is that the act of a loving God?
It is one thing to fail... and have a child die through natural cause... It is quite another to strangle the tyke in the crib, or worse yet leave said baby on an open widow sill.
/. -> NOISE... therefore I filter and derive part of a curve that represents/. reality. It is not real reality. It is just a point on that curve. Often it is an outlier.
While this Boa is kinda of freaky with the WW chromosomes, (which were previously thought to be sterile females,) there are a number of reptiles that can do the parthenogenesis trick. whiptials, geckos, Kimodo dragons, and others are know to do this under various conditions. Now we can add Boas to the list.
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It won't be Obama that pulls the 'Internet Kill Switch'
That ship has not sailed yet... and I doubt very seriously it will sail on his watch, even if the man gets re-elected.
It will be some future tool that gets voted into the hot seat, and decides thing are bad-assed enough to make that call.
some future, elected asshat, that get the distinction of triggering a long over due civil war.
I'd bet money it won't come to that for another generation... eventually it will... as it must...
We've been too long without Jefferson's predicted 'blood cleasing' event.
Aw come on guys.... thats clever and funny. If only I had mod points.
If the govermint's questioning gets too invasive then no one will qualify/want to work for the governmint, and many position will remain unfilled. Eventually no one worth-a-shit will want to work for them...
Could this be a way of reducing the governmint budget by reducing interest in governmint related jobs?
To all the Paranoia references.... Remember that the FBI took Steve Jackson Games out for being too subversive... there is no other credible justification... Steve Jackson Games pissed off the powers that be for being a little too effective in publishing games that painted the authorities in a bad light.
Here we are again. With too many secrets in the bag.... and now, as many times before the government has so thoroughly defied the will of the people that it must systematically violate their rights for a time until scapegoats are in place to take the heat....
Wash rinse repeat.
This whole mess with Palin reminds me of that weird thing that happens with a room full of people at a party all having different conversations. Suddenly the room goes silent except for one person who is in the middle of saying something that is loud and also socially inept. Everyone else in the room hears it.... In this case what distracted the party was 31 gunshots.
"Homogenized, pasteurized, cheese food."
Food for cheese?
"Homogenized, pasteurized, cheese food substitute."
Food for cheese that is intolerant of, 'cheese food?'
The mind boggles.
Your failing to see the obvious because you see these developments through the lens of profit motive.
I suspect you seek to make money off the anti-DRM movement and cannot find a easy way to accomplish that goal.
Businesses that focus on this will probably get their throats cut as Lik Sang did. Many other approaches do not result in someone acting as gate keeper for enabling tech.... they tend to survive longer than commercial approaches.
funny thing about LVDS is that the chips for decoding it are already on the market. Any fool with basic digital electronic skills, and soldering skills can patch one into the signal chain and feed that signal to a wide variety of chips that can convert that to a storable stream.
I think you neglect the value of Open Source Hardware. This isn' t rocket science.
As for the Games angle. All of the game consoles are jailbroken. How one chooses to use that situation is their own affair.
DRM is fail. It always will be.
I'll point out that the 65816 had to be binary compatible with the 6502.
Also I'd point out that the 68k line had some similar constraints to be binary compatible with the 68000.
You are correct.... the 68K was an awesome CPU in it's day. However: the 6502 was MUCH easier to write code for. Writing a boot kernel for the 6502 took less than a day. Writing the same for a 68K took a week. Why because the 68K required a lot of crap set up in your boot code to get a sane execution environment. With the 6502, the environment was mostly sane before the first instruction was executed.
Hardware development for the 68K required a lot of glue logic to deal with the async I/O bus. Almost no glue logic is required to set up a 6502 bus.
Comparing the two CPUs is not even fair. They had very different markets and design goals.
One of the more interesting (and flat-out-fun) projects I had over the years was reverse engineering a production product where the source code for the app that ran on it had been lost (years before my arrival to the team.) There was a 32K binary image to be burned into EPROM. There was a schematic of the hardware, and the end-user documentation. From those items I produced compilable, fully documented source code and a theory of operation document.
Just a side note. Over clocking a 68000L8 at >=24MHz causes the address and data bus to act as synchronous counters. I am inclined to believe that this was a test mode designed into the 68000. I discovered it by accident while chasing down (one of many) design flaws in a 68000 motherboard designed by Granger & Assoc. The clock chain was borked thus overclocking the CPU by a factor of 3. To me it this behavior from the CPU seemed very useful.... it was also VERY consistent across many members of the 68K family.
Using the funky behavior of bus accesses on the Apple ][ it was possible to synchonize video-page flips. The apple ][ did not have a VerticalBlank interrupt or a flag to indicate that Vertical Blank was active. //e (and later systems) did have a Vertical Blank Flag bit in the I/O pages, but it was not as useful as being able to read the video latch data via the video switch bank.(This was a timing bug in the Apple ][ that allowed the video latch data to be snapped by executing an immediate Read (LDA, LDX, LDY) on Write-Only I/O switches.) Also: Most of the 'undefined opcodes' on the 6502 were actually very useful. They were very consistent across the entire 65xx line. I published a list of them back in 1985 or 1986 on USENET. Nick Westgate published a similar list after the 65816 had been out a while. Many of the most useful OPs combined common 6502 idioms. It is unknown to me if those were an artifact of the instruction decoder logic or if those OPs were designed in, but undocumented. I am inclined to believe they were undocumented since most of them appear in the 6502, 6507, 6502A, 6510, 65C02, and 65802. Some of them are also active in the Nintendo NES but I am not sure how many. I saw documents reporting a few of the OPs but never had time to explore the undefined ops on that implementation when I was a game dev for Atari/Tengen.
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No.
I can tap into the LVDS lines that connect the TV's flat panel display. These lines are NOT encrypted, and easily decoded. Additionally I could capture the HDCP signal off the encrypted channel, and decode them 'offline.' HDCP, is as others have pointed out, a joke to decrypt.
The real issue here is that we need to find a convincing clue-bat to dissuade Hollyweird from attempting to force hardware developers from participating in this stupid 'arms race.'
A key handle to grab for is NOT BUYING THIS CRAP! If you don't fund it, by buying it. It will cease to exist!
Stop paying Hollywood for the privilege of fucking you in the ass with no lube, and no reach-around!
I used to see this buffering issue when my DSL got close to saturation. The solution I applied and suggest to iFriends who have similar issues is to avoid saturating their connections. What TCP cannot resolve easily is my usage behaviors. I have to fix those behaviors on my own. My suggestion: Stop downloading porn while you are playing WoW/(real-time-game-of-the-month). Your latency will improve dramatically.
Thanks to all who posted well reasoned explanations for why traffic buffering might be a false solution.
For anyone that still doesn't get it... Meditate on this the next time you hear the pipes in your apartment building rattling....
On the other hand. The Guardian would gladly WikiLeaks out of the mix if they thought they could get away with it as it would leave them in the ideal position to profit from the windfall if WikiLeaks/Assange bites the big one.
The NYT, the WSJ and all the other big-media mouth pieces made money off of other historical 'leaks' of secret documents/scoops/etc. Often their direct and indirect sources did get shafted. In some cases, editors and journalists 'took one for the team' as well.
Look at what happened to the FOX journalists who broke the story on Monsanto's( a FOX advertiser) scheme to addict the beef industry to synthetic growth hormones.... those people got dropped down a proverbial mine shaft for their efforts.
I have it on good authority that hot, attractive wimming aren't attracted to sensitive dorks. Go figure.
Pay attention to who is getting laid. Applied asshattery pays dividends.
Assange is proof that being a pushy asshat pays the bills, and also proves that there are significant risks.... like any profitable investment.
I also note that 'Ass' is a featured component in his name. Do you think that Julian is not aware of that fact? Do you believe for a minute that he didn't get
abused by his peers for that fact?
I have an OMAP 3 (Beagle board) running over clocked at 720MHz tasked with a Knight's tour solver it's been running for 6 weeks, on Angstrom. It draws about 1Watt (Video & audio turned off). To date it has solved 38M tours and 8.4B traversals from start pos . The current minimum depth is 24. I haven't even gotten the DSP into the mix yet. With a bit more work I could get this system to run 24/7/365 off a battery backed supply and add DSP solving support. I can let this sucker run for years if needs be. These high performance SoCs are amazing. My earlier attempts at running Tour solvers wasted a lot of power, and never found a single tour...because I could not let them run long enough, either due to other task needs, or power cost.
I think a better example is the story of Job. Look what God did to him. God makes a bet with the Devil that Job will be loyal to Him no matter what the Devil does to Job (he cant kill him though) Job goes through hell for a stupid bet, without even knowing why until the end. Innocent blood is shed, animals are killed, crops are ruined. Job is tortured by Nature and Disease. God bets with His follower's livelyhood against the Devil without Job's consent or knowlege! How is that the act of a loving God?
Bank throws down gauntlet....
Cambridge Prof. picks up gauntlet and smacks bank across the chops with it.
Move along nothing to see here....
ROFLMFAO!
Er.... sounds like the crap that goes on in SecondLife® or OpenSim.... virtually speaking. Er... yeah.
It is one thing to fail... and have a child die through natural cause... It is quite another to strangle the tyke in the crib, or worse yet leave said baby on an open widow sill.
/. -> NOISE... therefore I filter and derive part of a curve that represents /. reality. It is not real reality. It is just a point on that curve. Often it is an outlier.
MTV?!?! !QQ! You are spelling it wrong... it is spelled EMPTY-V!
Peace Out!
While this Boa is kinda of freaky with the WW chromosomes, (which were previously thought to be sterile females,) there are a number of reptiles that can do the parthenogenesis trick. whiptials, geckos, Kimodo dragons, and others are know to do this under various conditions. Now we can add Boas to the list.