Well, only if the CPU storage is used for passwords (ambiguous from the Intel info), and only if this CPU is the main one. Personally, I think that would be a blatantly stupid idea. You can get an external section of memory with its own set of encryption routines cheaply, and you'd never have to replace it.
What I wonder is, what happens if you want to replace your motherboard and your HD is encrypted? There must be a solution for that--probably a section of the drive (either a physically separate section of memory or a partition) contains the passwords or some sort of override that can be enabled by the vender. That's a whole new can of worms.
Myself, I'd prefer to use Rubberhose or something similar. That eliminates CPU/mobo replacement from the list of things that can destroy my data.
On the subject of overclocking, the CPU memory could contain information on the condoned values for CPU clock and FSB. Circumvention would be difficult.
It would turn popular opinion on edge. Posit the existence of life on Titan. Let's go so far as to say it's intelligent life, and that its level of technology is on a par with ours, except (presumably; we haven't seen evidence of it) no space exploration. How would that affect this planet?
First, there's really no scare of invasions on either side. Titan isn't a lot like Earth; we couldn't use their land; they couldn't use ours. Not without great expenditures of money and technological advances. Where would the benefit be? Would we mine Titan for its methane, or would the Titans mine the earth for its oxygen?
So. Our unmanned probes can reach Titan, and there are hypothetical people living there. How are we to recognize them as sentient beings? Presumably, by their technology, if it's recognizable--and that's hardly certain. How are we to understand their languages? If they even use speech, we have no way to learn, except by proxy. And that's not a good solution; unless we can put a person on Titan, pretty much, it'll take decades for the first portion of the task to be completed, and after that only a little bit of time until humans can become fluent in a Titan language. That's provided humans have the mental capacity to learn Titan languages.
So, basically, we're faced with a bunch of people we can't understand, on a piece of worthless land, who are too far away to matter and have no interest in our resources.
Nothing will turn on edge. Everything will continue much as it has.
Since when was that important? If you don't believe in a candidate enough to say it openly, why are you voting for en?
Weren't votes originally taken by a show of hands in some communities? Are people now too ashamed of their votes to let others know? But perhaps it's best to put that knowledge in the control of the voter.
I just hope that Congress doesn't institute secret ballots for its own voting.
A system like this is a complex language-parsing utility that can connect its analysis of a text with a database of appropriate knowledge--legal, in this case. It must also have the ability to discriminate between levels of complexity to appropriately disclude certain information. That's the easy 90% of creating an AI.
You could cut out the legal database. That's not too important. But the only other way to simplify a EULA summarization utility would be to match the pattern of each clause with a member of a predefined set of proto-clauses and parse the whole expression based on unique keywords; from that point there would be a dictionary that would instruct the utility to omit the clause or summarize it in a particular manner.
The former method is much more certain than the latter, which is liable to omit clauses that you should read and display ones that don't matter. However, the latter method is more reasonable.
Hey, the next time anyone comes up with a brilliant idea that they don't have the time to develop into a business, why don't they patent it and release it to the general public? That would ensure the freedom of simple systems like this--which is almost as old as dirt. (Humans have been doing it as long as we've existed, after all, and we weren't the first.)
This is supposed to make the politicians support P2P? We're letting people communicate quicker, more accurately, and using the cost of one FOIA request to get information to thousands or millions. It's in Washington's best interests to smash P2P, now.
How about petitioning via P2P? Everyone who gets it will support it, and perhaps the thought of a million voters on P2P networks will turn the tide from banning to strict regulation.
"For those who enjoy a bit of math, did you know that in the Metric paper system, the height-to-width ratio of all pages is the square root of 2? This means that you can place two sheets of A4 side-by-side and they will equal an A3 sheet exactly, and two sheets of A3 will equal an A2."
Um...you don't need metric to have a certain ratio be valid. If it works in millimeters, it works in inches. But why do I want to use an irrational number in my paper size? It's bad enough dealing with halves and primes; set the ratio to 1.5 and have 8x12" paper--or 20x30cm, college ruled.
Anyone have more information? Especially someone who reads Russian? I could translate, but I wouldn't trust the result--I haven't studied Russian at all.
Unless you're on a university LAN, in which case you're lucky to go an hour without getting new versions of Netsky, Blaster, and half a dozen others. So I installed Linux, and everything's running about 10% faster, doing only what I tell it to, and no viruses. Except I occasionally get an email saying I've been spreading Netsky--and I just laugh.
How can something that normally takes "hundreds of thousands of instructions" be handled in a single instruction? Surely all the same mathematical operations must take place, except for some optimization. Or is it a matter of a certain structure for computation being created in a more permanent fashion rather than being dynamically formed upon demand? Then the operations could be performed in a single cycle. On the other hand, that portion of the processor would become useless to other tasks.
Or am I misunderstanding this entirely?
I have a lot to hide. I've not done anything illegal, but how would you like it if the NSA knew when the last time you did laundry is and that you've worn the same pair of jeans three times since then? Or that you're having an affair?
Not that I'm engaging in either of those activities...well...I'm not having an affair, at least.
Is it just me who is sickened by the use of middle school students? You can't claim it's part of a broad legal education such as most citizens should have; they're not teaching them about anything but media piracy. And why would any school allow a special interest like that to "educate" middle school children?
...to an alcoholic vehicle. Fuel efficiency and "greenness" would be greatly improved if you used plain ethanol, 50 proof...you just modify your car's fuel injection system and away you go. (Regular gas, for comparison, burns with 12.5% efficiency, and diesel with 25%; if you have 50proof alcohol, it's probably somewhere between the two and not difficult to distill to that level.)
The benefits of alcohol are renewability and the safe emissions, of course; how does gasahol compare with unleaded gasoline? Not terribly favorably, I imagine.
If the symbols come from a completely standardized set and had predictable formatting, then the optical version will suffice. The computer reader could input information from the paper squares using a system of photoelectric sensors and charged carbon rods; since the dark ink absorbs the light, the sensors can distinguish between the imprinted symbols and the whitespace.
The photoelectric sensors shall be connected to a relay device that unifies the data streams in a particular order, then to a parser to determine which symbol is being displayed. That information could then be stored or used as necessary. A similar system could be used to temporarily record information while a program is in progress, but since it is desirable to erase this information when it is no longer necessary, perhaps engravings on clay are better. If the clay is kept soft, the impressions can be removed using a roller or other device.
Paper burns above the boiling point for water, at almost twice that if I recall correctly, and if any part of your computer is above 370 Kelvins, you have Big Problems. So the removable media burning isn't a problem; the CPU would burn out long before that, and you'd have other things to worry about.
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What I wonder is, what happens if you want to replace your motherboard and your HD is encrypted? There must be a solution for that--probably a section of the drive (either a physically separate section of memory or a partition) contains the passwords or some sort of override that can be enabled by the vender. That's a whole new can of worms.
Myself, I'd prefer to use Rubberhose or something similar. That eliminates CPU/mobo replacement from the list of things that can destroy my data.
On the subject of overclocking, the CPU memory could contain information on the condoned values for CPU clock and FSB. Circumvention would be difficult.
It would turn popular opinion on edge. Posit the existence of life on Titan. Let's go so far as to say it's intelligent life, and that its level of technology is on a par with ours, except (presumably; we haven't seen evidence of it) no space exploration. How would that affect this planet? First, there's really no scare of invasions on either side. Titan isn't a lot like Earth; we couldn't use their land; they couldn't use ours. Not without great expenditures of money and technological advances. Where would the benefit be? Would we mine Titan for its methane, or would the Titans mine the earth for its oxygen? So. Our unmanned probes can reach Titan, and there are hypothetical people living there. How are we to recognize them as sentient beings? Presumably, by their technology, if it's recognizable--and that's hardly certain. How are we to understand their languages? If they even use speech, we have no way to learn, except by proxy. And that's not a good solution; unless we can put a person on Titan, pretty much, it'll take decades for the first portion of the task to be completed, and after that only a little bit of time until humans can become fluent in a Titan language. That's provided humans have the mental capacity to learn Titan languages. So, basically, we're faced with a bunch of people we can't understand, on a piece of worthless land, who are too far away to matter and have no interest in our resources. Nothing will turn on edge. Everything will continue much as it has.
Since when was that important? If you don't believe in a candidate enough to say it openly, why are you voting for en? Weren't votes originally taken by a show of hands in some communities? Are people now too ashamed of their votes to let others know? But perhaps it's best to put that knowledge in the control of the voter. I just hope that Congress doesn't institute secret ballots for its own voting.
A system like this is a complex language-parsing utility that can connect its analysis of a text with a database of appropriate knowledge--legal, in this case. It must also have the ability to discriminate between levels of complexity to appropriately disclude certain information. That's the easy 90% of creating an AI. You could cut out the legal database. That's not too important. But the only other way to simplify a EULA summarization utility would be to match the pattern of each clause with a member of a predefined set of proto-clauses and parse the whole expression based on unique keywords; from that point there would be a dictionary that would instruct the utility to omit the clause or summarize it in a particular manner. The former method is much more certain than the latter, which is liable to omit clauses that you should read and display ones that don't matter. However, the latter method is more reasonable.
Hey, the next time anyone comes up with a brilliant idea that they don't have the time to develop into a business, why don't they patent it and release it to the general public? That would ensure the freedom of simple systems like this--which is almost as old as dirt. (Humans have been doing it as long as we've existed, after all, and we weren't the first.)
Once interpreted into a suitable phonetic representation: [eSti'AN RE mEf'ryn As`en]
This is supposed to make the politicians support P2P? We're letting people communicate quicker, more accurately, and using the cost of one FOIA request to get information to thousands or millions. It's in Washington's best interests to smash P2P, now. How about petitioning via P2P? Everyone who gets it will support it, and perhaps the thought of a million voters on P2P networks will turn the tide from banning to strict regulation.
"For those who enjoy a bit of math, did you know that in the Metric paper system, the height-to-width ratio of all pages is the square root of 2? This means that you can place two sheets of A4 side-by-side and they will equal an A3 sheet exactly, and two sheets of A3 will equal an A2." Um...you don't need metric to have a certain ratio be valid. If it works in millimeters, it works in inches. But why do I want to use an irrational number in my paper size? It's bad enough dealing with halves and primes; set the ratio to 1.5 and have 8x12" paper--or 20x30cm, college ruled.
I just noticed a fair amount of Cyrillic. Some of it might be interesting.
Anyone have more information? Especially someone who reads Russian? I could translate, but I wouldn't trust the result--I haven't studied Russian at all.
Death and dismemberment turned into tourism and profit. I sense a distinct lack of respect for the dead. On the other hand, do they care?
Unless you're on a university LAN, in which case you're lucky to go an hour without getting new versions of Netsky, Blaster, and half a dozen others. So I installed Linux, and everything's running about 10% faster, doing only what I tell it to, and no viruses. Except I occasionally get an email saying I've been spreading Netsky--and I just laugh.
How can something that normally takes "hundreds of thousands of instructions" be handled in a single instruction? Surely all the same mathematical operations must take place, except for some optimization. Or is it a matter of a certain structure for computation being created in a more permanent fashion rather than being dynamically formed upon demand? Then the operations could be performed in a single cycle. On the other hand, that portion of the processor would become useless to other tasks. Or am I misunderstanding this entirely?
I have a lot to hide. I've not done anything illegal, but how would you like it if the NSA knew when the last time you did laundry is and that you've worn the same pair of jeans three times since then? Or that you're having an affair? Not that I'm engaging in either of those activities...well...I'm not having an affair, at least.
Is it just me who is sickened by the use of middle school students? You can't claim it's part of a broad legal education such as most citizens should have; they're not teaching them about anything but media piracy. And why would any school allow a special interest like that to "educate" middle school children?
...to an alcoholic vehicle. Fuel efficiency and "greenness" would be greatly improved if you used plain ethanol, 50 proof...you just modify your car's fuel injection system and away you go. (Regular gas, for comparison, burns with 12.5% efficiency, and diesel with 25%; if you have 50proof alcohol, it's probably somewhere between the two and not difficult to distill to that level.) The benefits of alcohol are renewability and the safe emissions, of course; how does gasahol compare with unleaded gasoline? Not terribly favorably, I imagine.
If the symbols come from a completely standardized set and had predictable formatting, then the optical version will suffice. The computer reader could input information from the paper squares using a system of photoelectric sensors and charged carbon rods; since the dark ink absorbs the light, the sensors can distinguish between the imprinted symbols and the whitespace. The photoelectric sensors shall be connected to a relay device that unifies the data streams in a particular order, then to a parser to determine which symbol is being displayed. That information could then be stored or used as necessary. A similar system could be used to temporarily record information while a program is in progress, but since it is desirable to erase this information when it is no longer necessary, perhaps engravings on clay are better. If the clay is kept soft, the impressions can be removed using a roller or other device.
Paper burns above the boiling point for water, at almost twice that if I recall correctly, and if any part of your computer is above 370 Kelvins, you have Big Problems. So the removable media burning isn't a problem; the CPU would burn out long before that, and you'd have other things to worry about.