This is probably quite basement-level for usability. Microsoft has a history of lowballing the requirements for their operating systems.
Since even around Windows 98, they've been trying to change, but they can't very well come out and say "these are actually valid measures now", and you're not alone in continuing to think they're giving bare-minimum requirements. So they're pretty much forced into doing the same thing.
Remember that these are Vista's requirements for the fancy schmancy UI, not for the core OS itself.
ANY education level? Sorry, but they have to be above age 7 or so (for the average student). I wouldn't quite feel comfortable recommending it for elementary school students. Through apprximately age 7, your mind has trouble distinguishing between fact and opinion, history and story, programming and commercials, etc. If they see such a well-written resource as Wikipedia with a couple of vandalized pages, I don't think they'll quite understand that the vandalism is inaccurate (especially the trollish vandalism, as opposed to the blatant x ON WHEELS-type vandalism).
Worse, if they themselves edit and mess with with one page, they may not notice the quick (10m) reversion and completely mistrust the site. Wikipedia's fuzzy trustworthiness takes a little maturity to be able to realize is neither Boolean "valid" nor "invalid".
We don't actually know this. We don't have a proof that any suitable computationally intractable problems exist. It seems very likely, but I wouldn't want to state it with certainty without proof.
What about the task proving that a computationally intractable problem exists? Or would it make that task collapse to easy once we've proven it, thereby failing to prove it, thereby....
It is mathematically impossible to have an unbreakable DRM, whereas unbreakable (or at least impractical) encryption is possible. The difference is that DRM requires the computer of the potential snooper to have both the data and the decryption key. Encryption keeps the private key only in trusted hands.
CSS was first cracked when a program forgot to encrypt and hide its decryption key. From there they could mathematically solve CSS so that you didn't even need a key (and that's where you get the 4-line Perl DeCSS).
8. Put a 0.2 - 0.3cc daub of thermal grease, in the center, on all three chip mating surfaces, as shown below. Note: One syringe of thermal grease (922-7144) contains about 0.2 - 0.3 cubic centimeters (cc). So use one syringe per pad. If in doubt, use the picture below and apply a similar amount
Although I agree that the pedophilophobia is out of hand, I don't think that was his intent. The question was that if he wasn't buying something for a child, what was he doing in the children's section other than causing problems?
That's called Internet Protocol Version 6, where some of the address is your MAC address.
No it's not. First, if you're on a NAT, your private IP doesn't help (and if you think ISPs are going to give away blocks of public IPv6 addresses to their customers just 'cause they have plenty, you misunderstand the ISP industry). Second, if I remember correctly, your IPv6 address only contains your MAC address for the private autoconfiguration address. If you're on the public internet - or any network with a DHCP server or with manual addressing - you don't have your MAC address embedded. Requiring each computer to include its MAC address in its IP address would just be wasting 6 bytes of your IP address.
And the most important thing is that TCP/IP works perfectly fine over token-ring, LocalTalk, carrier pigeon, or whatever other non-Ethernet link layer you have. And MAC addresses only apply to Ethernet networks.
The term you are looking for is "Yarmulke". Unfortunately, it is pronounced exactly like "Yamaka".
--This message brought to you from the Committee to Pronounce "Goethe" as "Gertha", and paid for by the Office of the Irish Taoiseach (pronounced, of course, "Teeshock").
So long as they keep "economically reasonable" in there, it is trivial to say that since you're not charging to receive the broadcast, all you can afford to broadcast with is a Linux computer running ShoutCast - which only supports streaming MP3s.
And if you are charging for it...how do you justify charging for people to receive unrestricted or restricted copies of other people's music without licensing it for redistribution? Especially if you're not encrypting it, this could probably be prosecuted under existing laws as buying music, making copies, and selling them.
The editor wasn't. The submitter was. The editors are merely clueless enough not to proofread. Have you seen their own articles or addenda? They don't make errors of their own - but they always preserve the submitter's.
Or if there are, they're not enabled, so how can I get to something the CPU itself can't access?
Quite. The hardware is designed to hide information from you, the person who paid for it, under the control of Apple's software.
Noo. Reread what I wrote. If the hardware could get to something that I couldn't, I might be worried. But neither of us are worried.
What the fuck you are babbling about?
Don't blame Apple for including Intel's latest chip that just happens to have a TPM module. If TPM were active, you couldn't run (slightly hacked) OS X on regular PCs.
You definitely know what you're talking about, but you didn't read - or probably the summary was misphrased. "there's no explanation for why that ratio should be constant. If true it would provide support for string theory": in other words, if the constant is actually constant, then string theory's cool. If it's not, then we might have problems.
Nobody really accidentally finds porn, and those who do should get over it. Most kids who see porn were looking for it.
You know this how? I've had some crazy stuff result from the most innocuous of Google searches. And telling young kids to "get over it" isn't quite the answer.
The age limit is for legal protection reasons, not for anything practical. That's why my phrasing said "Are you sure you want to view pr0n?" and had the age thing as a parenthetical. Basically, just have a warning before it puts anything on the screen. If the kid tells the site he's over 18, then the site owner is safe.
Login as root and try to print out the crypto keys and SRK stored in the TPM. Come back to me when you've figured out how to get past the self-destructing chip packaging.
Obviously I can't because there are no crypto keys. Or if there are, they're not enabled, so how can I get to something the CPU itself can't access?
What you're doing is blaming Continental for using the same class of vehicle that bombed Hiroshima. Just 'cause they're both "airplanes" doesn't mean that the Continental plane has any bombs inside it.
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Stop spreading bullshit FUD.
Indeed. There are enough valid reasons to criticize Windows that it weakens your case to make up easily refutable claims.
Did you get the facts yet? emerge facts should let you install Vista over Linux.
This is probably quite basement-level for usability. Microsoft has a history of lowballing the requirements for their operating systems.
Since even around Windows 98, they've been trying to change, but they can't very well come out and say "these are actually valid measures now", and you're not alone in continuing to think they're giving bare-minimum requirements. So they're pretty much forced into doing the same thing.
Remember that these are Vista's requirements for the fancy schmancy UI, not for the core OS itself.
Did you hear about the German Romantic philosopher that was believed to have eaten too much pork?
Goethe considered ham-full.
simple: isn't the great wealth of knowledge in depth and in breadth that en: is. It may as well be any other website.
ANY education level? Sorry, but they have to be above age 7 or so (for the average student). I wouldn't quite feel comfortable recommending it for elementary school students. Through apprximately age 7, your mind has trouble distinguishing between fact and opinion, history and story, programming and commercials, etc. If they see such a well-written resource as Wikipedia with a couple of vandalized pages, I don't think they'll quite understand that the vandalism is inaccurate (especially the trollish vandalism, as opposed to the blatant x ON WHEELS-type vandalism).
Worse, if they themselves edit and mess with with one page, they may not notice the quick (10m) reversion and completely mistrust the site. Wikipedia's fuzzy trustworthiness takes a little maturity to be able to realize is neither Boolean "valid" nor "invalid".
We don't actually know this. We don't have a proof that any suitable computationally intractable problems exist. It seems very likely, but I wouldn't want to state it with certainty without proof.
What about the task proving that a computationally intractable problem exists? Or would it make that task collapse to easy once we've proven it, thereby failing to prove it, thereby....
We've never had an unbreakable DRM.
It is mathematically impossible to have an unbreakable DRM, whereas unbreakable (or at least impractical) encryption is possible. The difference is that DRM requires the computer of the potential snooper to have both the data and the decryption key. Encryption keeps the private key only in trusted hands.
CSS was first cracked when a program forgot to encrypt and hide its decryption key. From there they could mathematically solve CSS so that you didn't even need a key (and that's where you get the 4-line Perl DeCSS).
8. Put a 0.2 - 0.3cc daub of thermal grease, in the center, on all three chip mating surfaces, as shown below. Note: One syringe of thermal grease (922-7144) contains about 0.2 - 0.3 cubic centimeters (cc). So use one syringe per pad. If in doubt, use the picture below and apply a similar amount
[ POOF ] ===== [ SPLAT ] ===== [ <syringe
Anonymous Coward: Why not log in?
Anonymous Coward: Hello pot, meet kettle.
Introduced by a mutual friend, I see?
Although I agree that the pedophilophobia is out of hand, I don't think that was his intent. The question was that if he wasn't buying something for a child, what was he doing in the children's section other than causing problems?
That's called Internet Protocol Version 6, where some of the address is your MAC address.
No it's not. First, if you're on a NAT, your private IP doesn't help (and if you think ISPs are going to give away blocks of public IPv6 addresses to their customers just 'cause they have plenty, you misunderstand the ISP industry). Second, if I remember correctly, your IPv6 address only contains your MAC address for the private autoconfiguration address. If you're on the public internet - or any network with a DHCP server or with manual addressing - you don't have your MAC address embedded. Requiring each computer to include its MAC address in its IP address would just be wasting 6 bytes of your IP address.
And the most important thing is that TCP/IP works perfectly fine over token-ring, LocalTalk, carrier pigeon, or whatever other non-Ethernet link layer you have. And MAC addresses only apply to Ethernet networks.
yamaka
The term you are looking for is "Yarmulke". Unfortunately, it is pronounced exactly like "Yamaka".
--This message brought to you from the Committee to Pronounce "Goethe" as "Gertha", and paid for by the Office of the Irish Taoiseach (pronounced, of course, "Teeshock").
Seems like this is the answer for this guy.
Who got the facts NOW!??
You ain't got no facts, Bill! We got the facts!
So long as they keep "economically reasonable" in there, it is trivial to say that since you're not charging to receive the broadcast, all you can afford to broadcast with is a Linux computer running ShoutCast - which only supports streaming MP3s.
And if you are charging for it...how do you justify charging for people to receive unrestricted or restricted copies of other people's music without licensing it for redistribution? Especially if you're not encrypting it, this could probably be prosecuted under existing laws as buying music, making copies, and selling them.
That is probably because you are spending your entire day surfing Slashdot instead of doing REAL WORK!!!
For CmdrTaco, those two aren't mutually exclusive.
The editor wasn't. The submitter was. The editors are merely clueless enough not to proofread. Have you seen their own articles or addenda? They don't make errors of their own - but they always preserve the submitter's.
Tag "scuttlemonkeysucks".
Or if there are, they're not enabled, so how can I get to something the CPU itself can't access?
Quite. The hardware is designed to hide information from you, the person who paid for it, under the control of Apple's software.
Noo. Reread what I wrote. If the hardware could get to something that I couldn't, I might be worried. But neither of us are worried.
What the fuck you are babbling about?
Don't blame Apple for including Intel's latest chip that just happens to have a TPM module. If TPM were active, you couldn't run (slightly hacked) OS X on regular PCs.
Oh, ok. Sorry.
You definitely know what you're talking about, but you didn't read - or probably the summary was misphrased. "there's no explanation for why that ratio should be constant. If true it would provide support for string theory": in other words, if the constant is actually constant, then string theory's cool. If it's not, then we might have problems.
So a bar walks into a man...oh wait, wrong frame of reference.
Nobody really accidentally finds porn, and those who do should get over it. Most kids who see porn were looking for it.
You know this how? I've had some crazy stuff result from the most innocuous of Google searches. And telling young kids to "get over it" isn't quite the answer.
The age limit is for legal protection reasons, not for anything practical. That's why my phrasing said "Are you sure you want to view pr0n?" and had the age thing as a parenthetical. Basically, just have a warning before it puts anything on the screen. If the kid tells the site he's over 18, then the site owner is safe.
Login as root and try to print out the crypto keys and SRK stored in the TPM. Come back to me when you've figured out how to get past the self-destructing chip packaging.
Obviously I can't because there are no crypto keys. Or if there are, they're not enabled, so how can I get to something the CPU itself can't access?
What you're doing is blaming Continental for using the same class of vehicle that bombed Hiroshima. Just 'cause they're both "airplanes" doesn't mean that the Continental plane has any bombs inside it.