If display devices "should" include HDCP and the playback device might output HD only on HDCP-capable display devices, this indirectly make HDCP mandatory to for playing back HD contents.
I do not buy into lock-ins so I will not be buying any HD stuff until HD-DVD encryption is broken. HDCP would probably be easier to break but tapping it would require a Virtex4-class FPGA (need some >2Gbps IOs) and on-chip realtime encoding. (Raw HD is ~180MB/s after all.)
But the real important part to keep in mind is that whatever this percentage may be, there is no and never will be any sure-fire absolute fix for it. In a technically secure system, human are the weakest link.
The first people to cross did so during the last ice age, they were most likely unaware of the fact. To them, it most likely looked like more icy ground or a very large ice-fishing spot.
GPL requires that you license your own code under GPL if you use any GPL libraries or include any GPL code, this is the essense of the GPL's "viral" nature.
With BSD, Apache and many other licenses, programmers are allowed to release closed-source software including BSD/etc. code/libraries or even forking then changing license with the only requirements being: 1) acknowledgement of the components' AS-IS disclaimer 2) not claim the components as their own original work and often 3) many ask for a simple mention of the component in the credits list
With GPL: once GPL, always GPL. With BSD: free-for-all, you can even fork then change the license.
IMO, GPLing libraries effectively ruin them. The LGPL at least allows dynamic linking.
I wonder if these would count as prior art for "internet-powered tracking of computing assets" patents - assuming such patents were applied for.
I hadn't thought of SETI&all as "tracking services" but anything that automatically connects to some server for whatever reason most likely qualifies as long as the service/whatever provides some way of retrieving your own last X known IPs and login date/time.
Most open WAPs are open due to uninformed owners and I believe it should be the WAP manufacturers' job to ensure (to a reasonable extent) that users of their products have at least minimal knowledge of the technology they are about to use. If the homeowner is leaving is WAP open out of ignorance, disabling WiFi by default would already force the users to go through the setup/warning sheet at least once in their WiFi life before going live.
A non-default SSID with broadcast turned off, WPA-AES-PSK and MAC whitelist is trivial to setup on most WAPs and clearly tells wardrivers that they are not invited. This becomes even more trivial the 2nd...nth time around.
Cyrix is not dead, it was taken over by VIA after NatSemi gave up on pushing it as a mainstream chip. NatSemi still makes some x86 chips for embedded applications. VIA's Epia also targets embedded and SFF applications.
Neither (NatSemi, VIA) is aiming for high-performance or mainstream markets, this is why the Cyrix legacy is pretty much forgotten.
This would go against the/. tin foil&duct tape first policy.
As for removing the HDD and using an adapter (or external 2.5" case), this works only when the OEM did not glue some proprietary header to the HDD's connector or use so-fitted HDDs. (For large OEMs, ordering customized parts is not uncommon.)
In my case, the HDD has a comb-like connector plugged in. Although there is no evidence of glue, getting it off requires more force than I felt comfortable with (a few times what I am used to for plain headers) so I gave up.
Something like a power-on boot lock based on server authentication would be much stronger... steal a laptop, its ID is dropped from the authentication servers and the laptop becomes little more than spare parts for whoever stole it after the "Allow X boots between mandatory check-in" counter expires.
This should also have some provisions for third-party servers - to cover LANs during internet outages and roaming - and an optional override code where unexpected lock-outs are not tolerable.
Run whois on an IP and you get the netblock information. The netblock information tells you who owns that part of the IP address space. Whoever owns these IPs usually also owns a log of which account owned which IPs at what time for the last couple of days/weeks.
Some years ago, there was an iBook owner who setup his laptop to sync with its desktop whenever it went online. By adding the logs to his theft case, he managed to get his laptop back within a few days from it showing up online.
If I stole a laptop, I would... - First boot it to see if there is anything interesting on it and copy anything that may be useful - Then check out if it has any interesting hardware in it I may upgrade my own laptop with (like a compatible 1GB SODIMM so I can have 2GB total) - Wipe it clean (and possibly reinstall) before reselling to make it harder (or possibly impossible) for the buyer to determine the actual origin (unless I decided to keep it)
Which kicks back to the old question: which costs more? Truly lost sales from copyright infringement or fundamentally flawed and ultimately doomed content protection schemes?
The *AAs will probably lobby for mandatory watermark detection shutdown devices on all audio/video recording-capable devices until they somehow get them, against the wishes of most customers, manufacturers and inventors.
Fair use is obviously "-#INF, overrated" in the *AAs' books.
Imagine installing Windows or Linux from a clipping set.
Actually, if you do the calculation, this triple-layer nail reader/writer has data density (KB/mm^3) comparable to DVDs: both have usable densities in the 300-400KB/mm^3 range!
The default of enabling WiFi by default is somewhat problematic here because it lets people use it without having to know anything about what they are actually doing.
As for WEP, the only thing it may be good for is proving willful intrusion - WEP does not magically break itself. For actual protection, people should opt for the full basic regiment of changing SSID and disabling its broadcasting, use WPA-AES and MAC whitelist.
Newer Linksys firmware have a one-click configuration button that automatically configures both sides of the link. It works but takes forever to complete so I am sticking to manual configuration - I am guessing the automatic configuration will setup every autoconfigurable WiFi device within range that's not already logged on some other network.)
Problem #1. What if there is an idea that everyone would have, but someone out there patents it first? Does that mean that everyone else can not use that idea for their own benifit or profit? For example, the way something is sold on the internet.
Ways of doing business are already being patented - look at the multiple Amazon cases. Most of these patents are painfully obvious but would still cost milion$ in court/lawyer fees to get revoked. The patent systems worldwide are effectively being used by big businesses to strengten their monopoly position by fragmenting the market.
1- Patent something 2- Implement exclusive related features 3- Monopoly over the features and related markets 4- Profit 5- Antitrust (6- Big trouble for small companies which governments can afford to crush, no big deal for most big corporations governments depend on like M$.)
Setting thread priority to 'idle' is a simple way of keeping intensive tasks from abusing the CPU(s) whenever the user is doing something. The only time where this may be insufficient is for tasks with huge data sets that would cause major swapping whenever the idle threads wake up.
For tasks that are IO-bound by nature, the likes of NCQ will help a little but for moderately sized compute-intensive tasks (like multiple SETIs), having processes running at idle/nicest priority makes nearly no measurable difference in most benchmarks.
We have ~50 years worth of oil left if demand continues to increase at the current pace - at least, this was the general concensus ~10 years ago.
Governments and the industry make big bucks with the oil economy and want to stretch it for all it is worth. Having no oil left earlier than expected would force many industries to go through extreme makeovers.
Best Buy bought FutureShop last year... so they are not going to be only "sort of alike" for much longer.
And yes, good service appears to be dying. Making big scenes in retail stores is slowly becoming the only way to get things resolved to the customer's advantage or break-even. (Many places only credit returns, no refunds. This sometimes changes when people complain long and loud enough with enough customers within range.)
Two episodes per DVD is common for the shorter series (4-14 episodes) but I would be somewhat surprised if full season releases in Japan packed only two episodes per DVD... most japanese probably have even less spare shelf space than I do.
They should also put more than three episodes per DVD... for 100+ episodes series like Naruto, Inuyasha, OnePiece, Ranma, etc., 3-4 episodes DVDs cost more than typical movies and waste quite a bit of valuable shelf space given that at least seven episodes can fit on a DVD.
Inuyasha sort of nice graphically and is often funny but it is also full of running gags that grow old after 100+ episodes.
Some of my friends liked GITS but I personally watched it in fast-forward, animes where gadgetry is given more screen time than the storyline requires get on my nerves.
In general, the best animes are not the ones casual viewers hear about and this is sort of sad.
Just like here, there are kid shows and more mature (not necessarily in the X(X(X(...))) category) shows.
A lot of anime has little to no plot other than consistent absurdity (Excel Saga, a parody of the parody manga of the same name...), others have a highly consistent story (Maison Ikkoku, Ikaru no Go, Great Teacher Onizuka, Monster, Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien, Read or Die), etc.
One annoying fact about japanese culture is its tendency to have too open-ended endings so a large proportion of attempts at formally ending a story european-style go sour.
Most of the best animes are tragedies (like Rurouni Kenshin OVA / Samurai-X) but there are also quite a few decent comedies like Irresponsible Captain Tylor, Tenchi Muyo Universe/OVA/In Tokyo, etc.
And for every noteworthy anime, there are countless average or sub-par ones. To me, the situation looks exactly the same as it does for Hollywood&all's shows.
Humm... I replied to this but my comment apparently vanished.
Anyhow, doing something like threaded "loop unrolling" should not trash the cache lines much since well written loops usually have fairly good data locality and as long as the total data set does not exceed the cache's size, cache management should not be a major issue.
For other less trivial threading, mileage can indeed vary wildly.
In any case, cache optimizations will not do any miracles when the OS decides to mix unrelated threads and probably trash much of the cache during the context switch.
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If display devices "should" include HDCP and the playback device might output HD only on HDCP-capable display devices, this indirectly make HDCP mandatory to for playing back HD contents.
I do not buy into lock-ins so I will not be buying any HD stuff until HD-DVD encryption is broken. HDCP would probably be easier to break but tapping it would require a Virtex4-class FPGA (need some >2Gbps IOs) and on-chip realtime encoding. (Raw HD is ~180MB/s after all.)
It is probably higher.
But the real important part to keep in mind is that whatever this percentage may be, there is no and never will be any sure-fire absolute fix for it. In a technically secure system, human are the weakest link.
The first people to cross did so during the last ice age, they were most likely unaware of the fact. To them, it most likely looked like more icy ground or a very large ice-fishing spot.
GPL requires that you license your own code under GPL if you use any GPL libraries or include any GPL code, this is the essense of the GPL's "viral" nature.
With BSD, Apache and many other licenses, programmers are allowed to release closed-source software including BSD/etc. code/libraries or even forking then changing license with the only requirements being:
1) acknowledgement of the components' AS-IS disclaimer
2) not claim the components as their own original work and often
3) many ask for a simple mention of the component in the credits list
With GPL: once GPL, always GPL. With BSD: free-for-all, you can even fork then change the license.
IMO, GPLing libraries effectively ruin them. The LGPL at least allows dynamic linking.
I wonder if these would count as prior art for "internet-powered tracking of computing assets" patents - assuming such patents were applied for.
I hadn't thought of SETI&all as "tracking services" but anything that automatically connects to some server for whatever reason most likely qualifies as long as the service/whatever provides some way of retrieving your own last X known IPs and login date/time.
Most open WAPs are open due to uninformed owners and I believe it should be the WAP manufacturers' job to ensure (to a reasonable extent) that users of their products have at least minimal knowledge of the technology they are about to use. If the homeowner is leaving is WAP open out of ignorance, disabling WiFi by default would already force the users to go through the setup/warning sheet at least once in their WiFi life before going live.
A non-default SSID with broadcast turned off, WPA-AES-PSK and MAC whitelist is trivial to setup on most WAPs and clearly tells wardrivers that they are not invited. This becomes even more trivial the 2nd...nth time around.
Cyrix is not dead, it was taken over by VIA after NatSemi gave up on pushing it as a mainstream chip. NatSemi still makes some x86 chips for embedded applications. VIA's Epia also targets embedded and SFF applications.
Neither (NatSemi, VIA) is aiming for high-performance or mainstream markets, this is why the Cyrix legacy is pretty much forgotten.
This would go against the /. tin foil&duct tape first policy.
As for removing the HDD and using an adapter (or external 2.5" case), this works only when the OEM did not glue some proprietary header to the HDD's connector or use so-fitted HDDs. (For large OEMs, ordering customized parts is not uncommon.)
In my case, the HDD has a comb-like connector plugged in. Although there is no evidence of glue, getting it off requires more force than I felt comfortable with (a few times what I am used to for plain headers) so I gave up.
Yup.
Something like a power-on boot lock based on server authentication would be much stronger... steal a laptop, its ID is dropped from the authentication servers and the laptop becomes little more than spare parts for whoever stole it after the "Allow X boots between mandatory check-in" counter expires.
This should also have some provisions for third-party servers - to cover LANs during internet outages and roaming - and an optional override code where unexpected lock-outs are not tolerable.
Run whois on an IP and you get the netblock information. The netblock information tells you who owns that part of the IP address space. Whoever owns these IPs usually also owns a log of which account owned which IPs at what time for the last couple of days/weeks.
Some years ago, there was an iBook owner who setup his laptop to sync with its desktop whenever it went online. By adding the logs to his theft case, he managed to get his laptop back within a few days from it showing up online.
So it would have to be airgapped within a suitable Faraday cage or equivalent - wrap the laptop in tin foil and use external KVM.
If I stole a laptop, I would...
- First boot it to see if there is anything interesting on it and copy anything that may be useful
- Then check out if it has any interesting hardware in it I may upgrade my own laptop with (like a compatible 1GB SODIMM so I can have 2GB total)
- Wipe it clean (and possibly reinstall) before reselling to make it harder (or possibly impossible) for the buyer to determine the actual origin (unless I decided to keep it)
Which kicks back to the old question: which costs more? Truly lost sales from copyright infringement or fundamentally flawed and ultimately doomed content protection schemes?
The *AAs will probably lobby for mandatory watermark detection shutdown devices on all audio/video recording-capable devices until they somehow get them, against the wishes of most customers, manufacturers and inventors.
Fair use is obviously "-#INF, overrated" in the *AAs' books.
Imagine installing Windows or Linux from a clipping set.
Actually, if you do the calculation, this triple-layer nail reader/writer has data density (KB/mm^3) comparable to DVDs: both have usable densities in the 300-400KB/mm^3 range!
Now they can offer data backup and recovery services to go along with manicures and pedicures!
Yup.
The default of enabling WiFi by default is somewhat problematic here because it lets people use it without having to know anything about what they are actually doing.
As for WEP, the only thing it may be good for is proving willful intrusion - WEP does not magically break itself. For actual protection, people should opt for the full basic regiment of changing SSID and disabling its broadcasting, use WPA-AES and MAC whitelist.
Newer Linksys firmware have a one-click configuration button that automatically configures both sides of the link. It works but takes forever to complete so I am sticking to manual configuration - I am guessing the automatic configuration will setup every autoconfigurable WiFi device within range that's not already logged on some other network.)
Problem #1. What if there is an idea that everyone would have, but someone out there patents it first? Does that mean that everyone else can not use that idea for their own benifit or profit? For example, the way something is sold on the internet.
Ways of doing business are already being patented - look at the multiple Amazon cases. Most of these patents are painfully obvious but would still cost milion$ in court/lawyer fees to get revoked. The patent systems worldwide are effectively being used by big businesses to strengten their monopoly position by fragmenting the market.
1- Patent something
2- Implement exclusive related features
3- Monopoly over the features and related markets
4- Profit
5- Antitrust
(6- Big trouble for small companies which governments can afford to crush, no big deal for most big corporations governments depend on like M$.)
Setting thread priority to 'idle' is a simple way of keeping intensive tasks from abusing the CPU(s) whenever the user is doing something. The only time where this may be insufficient is for tasks with huge data sets that would cause major swapping whenever the idle threads wake up.
For tasks that are IO-bound by nature, the likes of NCQ will help a little but for moderately sized compute-intensive tasks (like multiple SETIs), having processes running at idle/nicest priority makes nearly no measurable difference in most benchmarks.
We have ~50 years worth of oil left if demand continues to increase at the current pace - at least, this was the general concensus ~10 years ago.
Governments and the industry make big bucks with the oil economy and want to stretch it for all it is worth. Having no oil left earlier than expected would force many industries to go through extreme makeovers.
Best Buy bought FutureShop last year... so they are not going to be only "sort of alike" for much longer.
And yes, good service appears to be dying. Making big scenes in retail stores is slowly becoming the only way to get things resolved to the customer's advantage or break-even. (Many places only credit returns, no refunds. This sometimes changes when people complain long and loud enough with enough customers within range.)
Two episodes per DVD is common for the shorter series (4-14 episodes) but I would be somewhat surprised if full season releases in Japan packed only two episodes per DVD... most japanese probably have even less spare shelf space than I do.
They should also put more than three episodes per DVD... for 100+ episodes series like Naruto, Inuyasha, OnePiece, Ranma, etc., 3-4 episodes DVDs cost more than typical movies and waste quite a bit of valuable shelf space given that at least seven episodes can fit on a DVD.
Inuyasha sort of nice graphically and is often funny but it is also full of running gags that grow old after 100+ episodes.
Some of my friends liked GITS but I personally watched it in fast-forward, animes where gadgetry is given more screen time than the storyline requires get on my nerves.
In general, the best animes are not the ones casual viewers hear about and this is sort of sad.
Just like here, there are kid shows and more mature (not necessarily in the X(X(X(...))) category) shows.
A lot of anime has little to no plot other than consistent absurdity (Excel Saga, a parody of the parody manga of the same name...), others have a highly consistent story (Maison Ikkoku, Ikaru no Go, Great Teacher Onizuka, Monster, Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien, Read or Die), etc.
One annoying fact about japanese culture is its tendency to have too open-ended endings so a large proportion of attempts at formally ending a story european-style go sour.
Most of the best animes are tragedies (like Rurouni Kenshin OVA / Samurai-X) but there are also quite a few decent comedies like Irresponsible Captain Tylor, Tenchi Muyo Universe/OVA/In Tokyo, etc.
And for every noteworthy anime, there are countless average or sub-par ones. To me, the situation looks exactly the same as it does for Hollywood&all's shows.
Humm... I replied to this but my comment apparently vanished.
Anyhow, doing something like threaded "loop unrolling" should not trash the cache lines much since well written loops usually have fairly good data locality and as long as the total data set does not exceed the cache's size, cache management should not be a major issue.
For other less trivial threading, mileage can indeed vary wildly.
In any case, cache optimizations will not do any miracles when the OS decides to mix unrelated threads and probably trash much of the cache during the context switch.