Actually, B in the IUPAC code corresponds to [CGT]. It's unlikely (more likely that the base would be called as N=[ACGT]), but possible, that that would arise during a sequencing run.
1) I thought that it was permissible under the HDCP spec for the video to be played downscaled to 480p? If so, why isn't this happening? If not, what does Vista do/when did that change?
2) Especially without wall-to-wall TPM, why on earth are we worrying about the display as a digital hole? Scraping frames as they pass over the display connection seems about the _worst_ way imaginable to rip a protected stream. There are issues with audio/video sync, dropped frames and recompression that are all avoided by getting at the decrypted but not decoded stream - something that simply can't be controlled without TPM (and probably not with TPM, either).
There's an error in the newsweek article (backed up by the report in Science). The genetic variant isn't found in 30% of humans. The 30% number is the deficit of dopamine receptors in parts of the brains of people with the variant. The allele frequency is not actually discussed.
Surely if the reporter had stopped to think about what they were writing, the effect of 30% of the population being unable to learn from their mistakes would have been obvious.
What would break if you ignored additional DNS entries that changed IPs of entries already present in the cache and instead set the TTL of the entry to something low?
That way it you'd stop poisoning of anything anyone cared about, but you'd still provide a way for DNS changes to propagate faster than the originally set TTL would allow for.
You might have to combine that with a counter to stop denial of service attacks, but that wouldn't impact too much on legitimate traffic.
Interesting point, and relevant to the interpretation of this study as well. The big question is whether that kind of reaction becomes entrenched as a result of playing games, and, indeed, whether this is not just an example of a more general phenomenon to do with learning. A very similar effect is seen when driving safety is assessed immediately after playing a car racing game - and there's no evidence that that's a long term effect. The study didn't (and couldn't) examine long term effects of viewing violent material.
So far we've only seen 2d data, but from the look of the video, there's probably enough parallax information that you could perform 3d reconstruction of the scene. One really good aspect of this is that you could automatically remove objects such as people from the result.
I don't want to belittle the suffering of the individuals or their families in any way... but... can't... resist...
> So... send your prayers, positive vibes, your "mojo", or your voodoo. It doesn't matter now.
It does matter... Don't send your voodoo. We all know voodoo creates zombies, and if there's one thing that Scaled Composites doesn't need at this time, it's zombies.
This is interesting from the perspective of working in an entirely different colour space to CRTs and LCDs. What I can't see, though, is how one would change saturation and brightness in this system. It looks really good for producing rainbow colours, and bad for tonal variation.
I agree with you. Turbines do generate turbulence, however, and turbulence will impede the progress of cars to some small extent. It is possible for this to be a net win, contrary to the assumption of the originator of the thread. It's also reasonable to assume that it will cause a non zero increase in energy expenditure by cars. Whether it's negligible or not is something best left to engineers and fluid dynamics simulations.
It's not an entirely closed system, so I guess the answer is yes, but no. Although it will probably have an effect, it's not a given that the energy reclaimed requires an equal or greater increase in the total amount of energy expended by the cars.
I've had my (4th gen) iPod reach click-of-death stage twice, and both times I've been able to resurrect it by opening the case, and reseating the drive cable. The second time, it seemed to me that the problem was actually the zif socket at the drive end of the cable, which was displaced on one side by about.5mm.
I think the key to knowing whether this is the problem is to put your iPod into test mode, and look at the smart data. If you see lots of retracts, but no reallocs, then (my hypothesis is that) the hard drive isn't dying, it's just being reset a lot (which involves retracting the heads, and hence the audible click), due to transfer errors as a result of the flaky cable connection.
To achieve 3) in any meaningful way, Apple would have to disallow kernel rebuilds, which is something they do allow at present. I certainly wouldn't be impressed if they did that.
As for 2), it's been confirmed that Apple won't be changing the bios (much as you and I wish they would).
1) is the only difficult-to-circumvent approach, and it requires 3), which doesn't fill me with confidence.
I personally expect that apple will opt for a simple approach that's not tied to a kernel, and is just hard enough to get round that the majority of people won't bother.
There are precedents for this kind of behaviour: Apple don't bother with a software key for their OS install media. Retrieving music from an iPod is just barely impeded. AAC DRM is trivial to remove via a number of lossless and lossy methods.
This all leads me to suspect that Apple understand that any security they create will be broken, and is thus simply a waste of their engineers' time.
In general it doesn't seem obvious how you'd use an SPU in a traditional manner, however it seems like SPUs might offer a great opportunity with regard to X11. All in all it's not too big a leap from how I imagine SPUs will be used in the PS3.
An SPU implemenntation would have direct access to the video hardware, would mean no need to context switch on the main CPU, and would be able to leverage lots of FPU/ALU power for accelerating complex compositing operations and SVG.
I wasn't trying to imply that it's not wrong that you can't skip advertisments; merely that there are constructive (and not necessarily technological) ways to ignore the problem. It wasn't my intention, by the way, to criticize. I don't pretend to have an answer to my question, but do I recognise it as an endemic problem in today's society.
And, no, between two young children, a PhD and a job, I don't have much spare time. As a result, I've dramatically reduced the number of movies I watch.
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Actually, B in the IUPAC code corresponds to [CGT]. It's unlikely (more likely that the base would be called as N=[ACGT]), but possible, that that would arise during a sequencing run.
1) I thought that it was permissible under the HDCP spec for the video to be played downscaled to 480p? If so, why isn't this happening? If not, what does Vista do/when did that change?
2) Especially without wall-to-wall TPM, why on earth are we worrying about the display as a digital hole? Scraping frames as they pass over the display connection seems about the _worst_ way imaginable to rip a protected stream. There are issues with audio/video sync, dropped frames and recompression that are all avoided by getting at the decrypted but not decoded stream - something that simply can't be controlled without TPM (and probably not with TPM, either).
I love that Microsoft chose to call their cloud-based operating system Azure. Azure, as in: bright blue, like a cloudless sky.
There's an error in the newsweek article (backed up by the report in Science). The genetic variant isn't found in 30% of humans. The 30% number is the deficit of dopamine receptors in parts of the brains of people with the variant. The allele frequency is not actually discussed. Surely if the reporter had stopped to think about what they were writing, the effect of 30% of the population being unable to learn from their mistakes would have been obvious.
What would break if you ignored additional DNS entries that changed IPs of entries already present in the cache and instead set the TTL of the entry to something low? That way it you'd stop poisoning of anything anyone cared about, but you'd still provide a way for DNS changes to propagate faster than the originally set TTL would allow for. You might have to combine that with a counter to stop denial of service attacks, but that wouldn't impact too much on legitimate traffic.
Encourage everyone you know to opt out, on principle.
Interesting point, and relevant to the interpretation of this study as well. The big question is whether that kind of reaction becomes entrenched as a result of playing games, and, indeed, whether this is not just an example of a more general phenomenon to do with learning. A very similar effect is seen when driving safety is assessed immediately after playing a car racing game - and there's no evidence that that's a long term effect. The study didn't (and couldn't) examine long term effects of viewing violent material.
So far we've only seen 2d data, but from the look of the video, there's probably enough parallax information that you could perform 3d reconstruction of the scene. One really good aspect of this is that you could automatically remove objects such as people from the result.
I don't want to belittle the suffering of the individuals or their families in any way... but... can't... resist...
> So... send your prayers, positive vibes, your "mojo", or your voodoo. It doesn't matter now.
It does matter... Don't send your voodoo. We all know voodoo creates zombies, and if there's one thing that Scaled Composites doesn't need at this time, it's zombies.
This is interesting from the perspective of working in an entirely different colour space to CRTs and LCDs. What I can't see, though, is how one would change saturation and brightness in this system. It looks really good for producing rainbow colours, and bad for tonal variation.
...there are no complaints about paying an equivalent amount for a mobile phone...
No users = no vulnerability reports.
Dude! Someone censored your nose!
Not paying $10/month to keep playing.
I agree with you. Turbines do generate turbulence, however, and turbulence will impede the progress of cars to some small extent. It is possible for this to be a net win, contrary to the assumption of the originator of the thread. It's also reasonable to assume that it will cause a non zero increase in energy expenditure by cars. Whether it's negligible or not is something best left to engineers and fluid dynamics simulations.
The wind isn't mechanically attached to the turbines either, but it still acts upon them.
It's not an entirely closed system, so I guess the answer is yes, but no. Although it will probably have an effect, it's not a given that the energy reclaimed requires an equal or greater increase in the total amount of energy expended by the cars.
I've had my (4th gen) iPod reach click-of-death stage twice, and both times I've been able to resurrect it by opening the case, and reseating the drive cable. The second time, it seemed to me that the problem was actually the zif socket at the drive end of the cable, which was displaced on one side by about .5mm.
I think the key to knowing whether this is the problem is to put your iPod into test mode, and look at the smart data. If you see lots of retracts, but no reallocs, then (my hypothesis is that) the hard drive isn't dying, it's just being reset a lot (which involves retracting the heads, and hence the audible click), due to transfer errors as a result of the flaky cable connection.
Someone should patent buffer overflows, and bring microsoft to its knees.
It wasn't me! It was my mother!
To achieve 3) in any meaningful way, Apple would have to disallow kernel rebuilds, which is something they do allow at present. I certainly wouldn't be impressed if they did that.
As for 2), it's been confirmed that Apple won't be changing the bios (much as you and I wish they would).
1) is the only difficult-to-circumvent approach, and it requires 3), which doesn't fill me with confidence.
I personally expect that apple will opt for a simple approach that's not tied to a kernel, and is just hard enough to get round that the majority of people won't bother.
There are precedents for this kind of behaviour: Apple don't bother with a software key for their OS install media. Retrieving music from an iPod is just barely impeded. AAC DRM is trivial to remove via a number of lossless and lossy methods.
This all leads me to suspect that Apple understand that any security they create will be broken, and is thus simply a waste of their engineers' time.
Wouldn't bringing a donkey to work look a little suspicious?
In general it doesn't seem obvious how you'd use an SPU in a traditional manner, however it seems like SPUs might offer a great opportunity with regard to X11. All in all it's not too big a leap from how I imagine SPUs will be used in the PS3.
An SPU implemenntation would have direct access to the video hardware, would mean no need to context switch on the main CPU, and would be able to leverage lots of FPU/ALU power for accelerating complex compositing operations and SVG.
I wasn't trying to imply that it's not wrong that you can't skip advertisments; merely that there are constructive (and not necessarily technological) ways to ignore the problem. It wasn't my intention, by the way, to criticize. I don't pretend to have an answer to my question, but do I recognise it as an endemic problem in today's society.
And, no, between two young children, a PhD and a job, I don't have much spare time. As a result, I've dramatically reduced the number of movies I watch.
How about you start the DVD playing, turn off the TV, go make a coffee?
Why does everything have to be *now*?