I'm pretty sure that the lottery makes way more money than Apple does, even after paying out a prize. Remember, for every ticket that wins even a paltry $5, think of how much money is spent on losing tickets. While I'm sure it's technically possible, somebody in the company probably brought up "cost effectiveness" and bought the idea that these things couldn't be forged. The whole idea that you can keep information publicly accessible and always a secret via encryption is at best naivete at it's worst or marketing up to it's normal BS.
You don't have to attempt every possibility when trying to break a code. Stop when you get lucky and find a match. That's why it's a lie when they say you'd need 10,000,000 computers and a thousand years to break the latest and greatest file encryption. It's highly unlikely that the very last possibility is also correct one. And figure that this analogy only applies to brute force attacks, the time scale goes down once you start bringing in shortcuts such as dictionary attacks, system flaws and the like.
You can't identify the illegitimate cards. Each individual card isn't kept track of. The bar code on each of them is more like the answer to a math problem. If you know how to solve the problem, you get in, no questions asked. The only thing they can do is change the math problem and eventually get rid of the old one as a valid question to answer.
Random thought: Reminds me of the old days when you could create credit card "numbers" that weren't actually valid but passed the checksum test and use them to create AOL accounts. Kind of surprised that Apple wouldn't know better.
If you're really paranoid, use/dev/urandom and make several passes.
No that's if you're moderately paranoid....if you're really paranoid use a sledge hammer and fire. =)
The funny thing is, the secure method is considerably quicker too. I did this once to a large pile of old drives for work. Please, please, please, make sure you use protective goggles and the like. I did and was thankful after a drive shot out at my face.
Granted, it might have been an improvement, but the evil supergenius look got a big taken down after Dr Evil satirized it.
Scanning for viruses should not trump user education. The IT commonsense to not dismiss every damn prompt or to assume that the AV will catch everything does not apply to the regular public. Even at a techie level, most of us are still doing things we know we shouldn't.
Quick raise of hands, who's reading all this on an admin rights enabled account right now?
No, au contraire. The following policy _will_ guarantee that users will act like adult human beings:
We will take a peep at your files randomly and fire you without severance the first time we find something we don't like. Period.
That just means they'll be a douchebag on their neighbor's system rather than theirs. Depending on what's going on, would it be possible for somebody to sue for wrongful dismissal if they say it was somebody else? I know the hacker defense is popular here. Let's flip it around to attack the sysad instead of defending them.
Well, yeah. Anything they think law enforcement types "need" access to for good reasons are things criminals would love access to for their own. Make everything secure and suddenly we can't find terrorists. Loophole everything and suddenly you live in 29 other states and owe lots of money on custom made bowling balls for some reason.
"users should be able to flag to an independent adjudicator anything they regard as mistaken evidence"
"Should" is an interesting word, though. RIAA's problem with it's American cases is meeting evidence criteria that a crime was committed. And that's with so called experts helping them. What will the threshold be for proving your innocence? More to the point, what will have to be done to make sure it's brought to an independent adjudicator? If the adjudicator isn't sympathetic or sufficiently technical, then a "well, you did download/share and only deleted it off your computer after the fact" argument will be sufficient to force the person to have to pay the fine or whatever. And that's assuming the person actually knows enough or has the resources to bring about a good case of innocence. If they don't and are innocent, then they're being forced to pay for a crime that they didn't even get to commit!
Encrypted file sharing only means you have something to hide, making it that much harder for you to prove you're "innocent". On a lighter note, I'd love to see what happens if they try pulling the plug on a NSA/CIA/FBI operative... or whatever the New Zealand equivalent is.
Blu-spec CDs are compatible with existing CD players
Strangely enough, the CD/DVD drive in your computer isn't a "CD Player" to a lot of these companies. My guess is the new blue laser will embed DRM controls that a music cd player won't be able to read. Newer computers that have blu-ray readers,and eventually writers, will be able to, though. I'm guessing there will be any number of errors or outright usage bans enforced. Since Sony holds the patents on this, says what is and isn't needed for standard, they will be able to achieve their DRM requirements without having to add a proper rootkit to the disk. The intent of the rootkit will be in the drives firmware already. They're probably hoping this takes care of cross platform DRM issues since all the drives are basically theirs to begin with.
Anything? Well, how about inserting a penis? Well okay so it's not really an insertion so much as an in-out motion... but you did say nearly anything...
Penis sales have been on the decline forever. This is nothing new. Mothers always tell their daughters not to give it away for free, but fathers rarely do. Why do you think a young male has such a hard time making extra money during college? Few available "side jobs" such as man-whoring or stripping. The gay community, god love them, do their best, but until we get women to pay for our penises, it's not going to matter. It's not the economy, its our culture.
... well, native speakers of the English tongue, I propose setting aside at least $100,000,000 to teach law enforcement, children and parents the swear words of all other countries. If not, then it's obvious that this law is simply meant to persecute honest, god fearing, white folks while allowing foreigners to mock us in their inscrutable ways.
I think I agree with Zonnald, actually. The treadmill is a twofold upgrade cycle. New software needs newer hardware to run, then the hardware needs newer software to run and so on and so forth. By dropping support for the older hardware on the new OS, some companies were hoping to make a buck by not only selling new hardware units, but also save money by not having to support the older versions of Windows.
Can't believe IBM would permit such an arrangement; and carry out the release of the Cell Processor designs w/o Sony and Toshiba's willful consent.
In the business world I believe Sony and Toshiba gave willful consent by not having some sort of period of exclusivity to the new technology built into the contract. Naturally they'd would have needed to pay more for it, but it would have protected their interests better.
In business terms it's like complaining your prostitute was seeing other people behind your back and you got the clap because of it.
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I'm pretty sure that the lottery makes way more money than Apple does, even after paying out a prize. Remember, for every ticket that wins even a paltry $5, think of how much money is spent on losing tickets. While I'm sure it's technically possible, somebody in the company probably brought up "cost effectiveness" and bought the idea that these things couldn't be forged. The whole idea that you can keep information publicly accessible and always a secret via encryption is at best naivete at it's worst or marketing up to it's normal BS.
You don't have to attempt every possibility when trying to break a code. Stop when you get lucky and find a match. That's why it's a lie when they say you'd need 10,000,000 computers and a thousand years to break the latest and greatest file encryption. It's highly unlikely that the very last possibility is also correct one. And figure that this analogy only applies to brute force attacks, the time scale goes down once you start bringing in shortcuts such as dictionary attacks, system flaws and the like.
You can't identify the illegitimate cards. Each individual card isn't kept track of. The bar code on each of them is more like the answer to a math problem. If you know how to solve the problem, you get in, no questions asked. The only thing they can do is change the math problem and eventually get rid of the old one as a valid question to answer.
Random thought: Reminds me of the old days when you could create credit card "numbers" that weren't actually valid but passed the checksum test and use them to create AOL accounts. Kind of surprised that Apple wouldn't know better.
But the vendor said it was foolproof!
If you're really paranoid, use /dev/urandom and make several passes.
No that's if you're moderately paranoid....if you're really paranoid use a sledge hammer and fire. =)
The funny thing is, the secure method is considerably quicker too. I did this once to a large pile of old drives for work. Please, please, please, make sure you use protective goggles and the like. I did and was thankful after a drive shot out at my face.
Granted, it might have been an improvement, but the evil supergenius look got a big taken down after Dr Evil satirized it.
The professional thing to do is to send out love letters to the person's boss and accidentally CC the entire office.
You're even more IT cynical than I am!
Scanning for viruses should not trump user education. The IT commonsense to not dismiss every damn prompt or to assume that the AV will catch everything does not apply to the regular public. Even at a techie level, most of us are still doing things we know we shouldn't.
Quick raise of hands, who's reading all this on an admin rights enabled account right now?
No, au contraire. The following policy _will_ guarantee that users will act like adult human beings:
We will take a peep at your files randomly and fire you without severance the first time we find something we don't like. Period.
That just means they'll be a douchebag on their neighbor's system rather than theirs. Depending on what's going on, would it be possible for somebody to sue for wrongful dismissal if they say it was somebody else? I know the hacker defense is popular here. Let's flip it around to attack the sysad instead of defending them.
Well, yeah. Anything they think law enforcement types "need" access to for good reasons are things criminals would love access to for their own. Make everything secure and suddenly we can't find terrorists. Loophole everything and suddenly you live in 29 other states and owe lots of money on custom made bowling balls for some reason.
Oh, my mistake. Still, it has no bearing on the fact that they aren't getting the evidence needed to make the cases, criminal or civil, go their way.
"Should" is an interesting word, though. RIAA's problem with it's American cases is meeting evidence criteria that a crime was committed. And that's with so called experts helping them. What will the threshold be for proving your innocence? More to the point, what will have to be done to make sure it's brought to an independent adjudicator? If the adjudicator isn't sympathetic or sufficiently technical, then a "well, you did download/share and only deleted it off your computer after the fact" argument will be sufficient to force the person to have to pay the fine or whatever. And that's assuming the person actually knows enough or has the resources to bring about a good case of innocence. If they don't and are innocent, then they're being forced to pay for a crime that they didn't even get to commit!
Nope, don't like it.
Encrypted file sharing only means you have something to hide, making it that much harder for you to prove you're "innocent". On a lighter note, I'd love to see what happens if they try pulling the plug on a NSA/CIA/FBI operative... or whatever the New Zealand equivalent is.
Then they can share funding with the sex ed classes.
Blu-spec CDs are compatible with existing CD players
,and eventually writers, will be able to, though. I'm guessing there will be any number of errors or outright usage bans enforced. Since Sony holds the patents on this, says what is and isn't needed for standard, they will be able to achieve their DRM requirements without having to add a proper rootkit to the disk. The intent of the rootkit will be in the drives firmware already. They're probably hoping this takes care of cross platform DRM issues since all the drives are basically theirs to begin with.
Strangely enough, the CD/DVD drive in your computer isn't a "CD Player" to a lot of these companies. My guess is the new blue laser will embed DRM controls that a music cd player won't be able to read. Newer computers that have blu-ray readers
I know! /. needs to move to the rollover points plan. I had some extra last month!
I'd mod you up strictly for my love of flowery bullshit phrasing.
What's "Staff." short for?
In the military, like most jobs, the staff is always short for funding or recruiting reasons.
... but God turns up unexpectedly.
So how would this affect AI research? Is the occasional fried synapse what separates a "living" mind from that of a biological computer?
I'm grateful for the mods, but I guess it shows /. has less libertarians or capitalists that I would have thought.
* Sales Slump Over Economic Crisis
* = Insert nearly anything here
Anything? Well, how about inserting a penis? Well okay so it's not really an insertion so much as an in-out motion... but you did say nearly anything...
Penis sales have been on the decline forever. This is nothing new. Mothers always tell their daughters not to give it away for free, but fathers rarely do. Why do you think a young male has such a hard time making extra money during college? Few available "side jobs" such as man-whoring or stripping. The gay community, god love them, do their best, but until we get women to pay for our penises, it's not going to matter. It's not the economy, its our culture.
... well, native speakers of the English tongue, I propose setting aside at least $100,000,000 to teach law enforcement, children and parents the swear words of all other countries. If not, then it's obvious that this law is simply meant to persecute honest, god fearing, white folks while allowing foreigners to mock us in their inscrutable ways.
I think I agree with Zonnald, actually. The treadmill is a twofold upgrade cycle. New software needs newer hardware to run, then the hardware needs newer software to run and so on and so forth. By dropping support for the older hardware on the new OS, some companies were hoping to make a buck by not only selling new hardware units, but also save money by not having to support the older versions of Windows.
Can't believe IBM would permit such an arrangement; and carry out the release of the Cell Processor designs w/o Sony and Toshiba's willful consent.
In the business world I believe Sony and Toshiba gave willful consent by not having some sort of period of exclusivity to the new technology built into the contract. Naturally they'd would have needed to pay more for it, but it would have protected their interests better.
In business terms it's like complaining your prostitute was seeing other people behind your back and you got the clap because of it.
Can we nominate just Kaylee instead?
Sorry boss. Must not have gotten the email.