#3 is only an issue if I get caught, now isn't it.:-)
You are correct in that most here are concerned with technical possibility, but that is because it is what interests us. You are incorrect that as a collective we don't think about morality or legality. And just now is when I realize that you are a clever troll and I don't have my AC thresholds set correctly... Bah.
I still think it is a trolling of the/. editors. No one who knows how this could be accomplished would actually consider it at a home install network. Aside from being cost prohibitive, to defeat it all you need is an SSL proxy so that you can https to the proxy and from there go to the WWW. Thus this would not even be useful if the people being watched thought they were being watched.
What about in a RT rendering (game/BD-Rom decode) situation, or a RT communication (Skype) situation? Both of these do not need exact values, just close enough, and even if there was an error it will be transient and gone almost as fast as it was noticed? -nB
and now in all lowercase for the lameness filter and for good measure: whats with them police departments their always doing shit to keep teh man down.*
-nB
*damn it hurt to type those typos... Also, is it bad that I used shift instead of caps lock?
Who knows when that was done, or even if it *had* been done
I could tell. My desktop wallpaper is that of a die that has been depackaged. If the die had been damaged due to overcurrent it would leave tell tale evidence on the die its self (cratering, burns, discoloration). Now the interesting thing is, depending on how they apply the overcurrent, it may be *possible* (though very hard) to get some data off the flash chips. If the only part that dies is the comparator logic and block map in the flash chip its self, then with external probing it would still be possible to read the contents of individual flash cells with a SPA. Downside: this would have to be done one cell at a time, manually, and likely require FIBbing additional probe points onto the array and column drivers (which its self could further damage the die). I think this would be the electromechanical equivalent of brute forcing a crypto key. -nB
In the case of truecrypt with an AES-Twofish-AES cypher chain for example: You have little to no chance to analyze the image for clues. What you can do is brute force the password used to generate the key. Sadly, most users select a password only (no password + keyfile/dongle) and select only alphanumeric characters with a total length < 10 characters. That keyspace is very very small. you could even throw in the oxford dictionary and try all 2,3,4 word combos + common misspellings and still manage the time taken if done correctly and on a big machine farm. This would likely net you the majority of "normal" users encrypted file contents. Now, those who use TC and such may be more likely to have better password hygiene, but human nature being what it is, I'm not so sure. -nB
That's the danger of it. if there are conflicts your delta image will supersede the base image*, on Win XP this can lead to interesting behavior when the page file appears corrupted. Registry and pagefile will be your biggest challenges, but it really is manageable. -nB
*when you unload the delta these conflicts disappear as they are wholly contained in the delta image.
A VM with delta disk. you have your base image, along with a couple programs pre-installed. turn on delting and save all your [sensitive] data to the delta disk. When time to update programs or work on mundane stuff turn off deltaing. if you need to make the sensitive stuff go away write over the delta file with random data.
Plausible, makes things look current. If they ask about the delta file, it must have gotten corrupted. What did your team do to my machine?
This is actually trivially easy in Win7 pro as long as you're OK with the hidden machine being Windows XP. -nB
Possibly, but I think it really is a non-issue. Market forces will demand that the patentor will use the most profitable method, which would be up in 5 years anyway. -nB
Irrelevant. Patents are not meant to recoup investments.
Actually, that is their whole point. Patents were invented as a method to guarantee someone protection of their ideas so they could freely market them and recover the cost of invention, while also hopefully making a buck, in exchange, by registering the patent they are making a contract with the public that their work can go into the public domain after this grace period expires. In the tech industry that has been corrupted into: "Patents are weapons", "Collections of patents are nuclear weapons". In the case of big Pharma patents actually work as advertised (pharma's selection of what to make is a different issue), Phizer makes a drug, markets it for 10 or 15 years, then it goes generic and the price drops, often by one or two orders of magnitude. -nB
In the case of products with long development cycles (Pharma, Rockets for man rated launch, etc.) make the patent duration two pronged (this could apply to all patents): 5 years from commercial availability or 20 years total, whichever is shorter. Same for (C), 5/20. I realize there is a simple game of the system: don't start selling until 15 years from patent or copyright grant date, but at least it's an improvement on what we have now, and profit incentives will keep this from happening in many cases. The only real issue with this is the classic: Manufacturer discovers 2 ways to make a widget, method A, which is efficient, and method B, which has an incremental cost of 10% more. The manufacturer patents both methods, thus keeping B away from potential competitors. My plan would not solve this, but at least method A is available in 5 years. It is conceivable that they might start with method B and in 5 years switch to method A, but I think that the shareholders would be all over them for doing that, and if the cost difference is low enough between the two methods that the shareholders wouldn't care, then I think the cost of switching methods would be too high to make such a plan worth it. -nB
I'm still planning on voting for him. I think that the two party system we have is inherently broken. Do I think Paul would be the best president? not by a long shot. Do I think he would shake things up enough? hopefully.
And for those of us who work our asses off it breeds resentment, eventually (hopefully and with help of a wise greybeard) followed by enlightenment, which begets cynicism, then acceptance.
I have a good job. It is bursty in nature, which gives my manager fits, as when I'm busy I am so busy that I ignore people and make him run interference for me. When it's slow, I dilly dally around and read/., stack overflow, some open courseware from MIT, etc.
My peers range from genuinely brilliant, one with a bad streak of aspergers, to lazy bordering on incompetent. Us bright ones (I place myself near the bottom third of that pile) share notes and pointers, steer mostly harmless stuff to the real lusers, and codegrinding to the rank and file. I think it really comes down to management as to how a work experience goes. I don't see the good ones getting schucked off and replaced with college grads, but I do see low-end to middle employees move on. The really bottom end folks cling on for dear life till a re-org finally catches them. I started just over a decade ago at $13/hr and this last year came in just shy of six digits... So raises don't seem to be an issue either. -nB
What if it's flu season and you are wearing a surgical mask? What if you are a painter and you are wearing a fume mask and come outside to see what the ruckus is about? What if you simply hold your hand over your face in such a way as to occlude a view of your features? What if you are an Islamic female and you are wearing a burka (sp?) What if you are an undercover officer and you're wearing a mask, but the RCMP doesn't know you're there?
I think if the link you followed said something like "barely legal 18 year olds" then your intent was for that and if you saw CP it was not your intent to view it. OTOH if you followed a link that was "(n18) year old getting it on with older man" your intent was for CP. If you have the images still in your cache then you should also have the referring page in there I would think.
Also, if you save the images explicitly in another folder I would have to think that shows intent quite nicely (I realize that the law does not dictate you have to save the images, but I think many people do save some or all of their "favorites"?) -nB
My house was built in 1953 and had an extension put on in the late 80's. The extension is wired to code, and at that time the bathrooms and kitchen were mostly upgraded as well. I inquired about having an electrical refit done and of the three contractors I talked to, two said they wouldn't take the job and the third, a neighbor, said that the reason the others wouldn't even bid the job was that the cheapest solution is actually to pull out the interior walls and re-wire that way. As a bonus he pointed out that once the walls are off it's also possible to wire data, fix questionable pipes, and insulate nearly for free (not because it is cheap, just that pulling walls out and replacing all the Sheetrock is god awfully expensive). He said the other ways leave people always pissed off, even if cheaper: * outlets on a wall sill and under a window? pull the outlet and patch the wall, run a new outlet not under the window from the attic. The patch and new outlet both standout as not original. * Have a wall that's wood veneer and not textured? tough, it can't have a new outlet if there is a window in the way. * Where are you going to sink the ground rod? out next to the service panel of course, and that's not pretty either. -nB
there are exercises you can do in a cube. Incline pushups, crunches, static leg and arm lifts, squats. Eyes bugging you, tired of looking at the same problem from hell for the last hour? Take a micro break and pop out 1/3/5/10 pushups. it'll help more than just your health, it'll help your mental focus too. -nB
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#3 is only an issue if I get caught, now isn't it. :-)
You are correct in that most here are concerned with technical possibility, but that is because it is what interests us. You are incorrect that as a collective we don't think about morality or legality. And just now is when I realize that you are a clever troll and I don't have my AC thresholds set correctly... Bah.
I still think it is a trolling of the /. editors.
No one who knows how this could be accomplished would actually consider it at a home install network. Aside from being cost prohibitive, to defeat it all you need is an SSL proxy so that you can https to the proxy and from there go to the WWW. Thus this would not even be useful if the people being watched thought they were being watched.
-nB
Think of this as a fast low power aux ALU, the core CPU tracks program flow and uses this for math instructions that need to be fast and low power.
Which *is* math, specifically those chemical potentials relate closely with op-amp comparators.
I didn't say I wasn't new, just that he was :)
/golf clap.
Well done sir.
What about in a RT rendering (game/BD-Rom decode) situation, or a RT communication (Skype) situation?
Both of these do not need exact values, just close enough, and even if there was an error it will be transient and gone almost as fast as it was noticed?
-nB
NO HE ISNT BUT APPARENTLY YOU ARE
and now in all lowercase for the lameness filter and for good measure:
whats with them police departments their always doing shit to keep teh man down.*
-nB
*damn it hurt to type those typos... Also, is it bad that I used shift instead of caps lock?
Who knows when that was done, or even if it *had* been done
I could tell.
My desktop wallpaper is that of a die that has been depackaged. If the die had been damaged due to overcurrent it would leave tell tale evidence on the die its self (cratering, burns, discoloration). Now the interesting thing is, depending on how they apply the overcurrent, it may be *possible* (though very hard) to get some data off the flash chips. If the only part that dies is the comparator logic and block map in the flash chip its self, then with external probing it would still be possible to read the contents of individual flash cells with a SPA. Downside: this would have to be done one cell at a time, manually, and likely require FIBbing additional probe points onto the array and column drivers (which its self could further damage the die).
I think this would be the electromechanical equivalent of brute forcing a crypto key.
-nB
In the case of truecrypt with an AES-Twofish-AES cypher chain for example:
You have little to no chance to analyze the image for clues.
What you can do is brute force the password used to generate the key.
Sadly, most users select a password only (no password + keyfile/dongle) and select only alphanumeric characters with a total length < 10 characters.
That keyspace is very very small.
you could even throw in the oxford dictionary and try all 2,3,4 word combos + common misspellings and still manage the time taken if done correctly and on a big machine farm. This would likely net you the majority of "normal" users encrypted file contents.
Now, those who use TC and such may be more likely to have better password hygiene, but human nature being what it is, I'm not so sure.
-nB
yes.
That's the danger of it.
if there are conflicts your delta image will supersede the base image*, on Win XP this can lead to interesting behavior when the page file appears corrupted. Registry and pagefile will be your biggest challenges, but it really is manageable.
-nB
*when you unload the delta these conflicts disappear as they are wholly contained in the delta image.
A VM with delta disk.
you have your base image, along with a couple programs pre-installed.
turn on delting and save all your [sensitive] data to the delta disk. When time to update programs or work on mundane stuff turn off deltaing. if you need to make the sensitive stuff go away write over the delta file with random data.
Plausible, makes things look current. If they ask about the delta file, it must have gotten corrupted. What did your team do to my machine?
This is actually trivially easy in Win7 pro as long as you're OK with the hidden machine being Windows XP.
-nB
Possibly, but I think it really is a non-issue. Market forces will demand that the patentor will use the most profitable method, which would be up in 5 years anyway.
-nB
Irrelevant. Patents are not meant to recoup investments.
Actually, that is their whole point. Patents were invented as a method to guarantee someone protection of their ideas so they could freely market them and recover the cost of invention, while also hopefully making a buck, in exchange, by registering the patent they are making a contract with the public that their work can go into the public domain after this grace period expires. In the tech industry that has been corrupted into: "Patents are weapons", "Collections of patents are nuclear weapons". In the case of big Pharma patents actually work as advertised (pharma's selection of what to make is a different issue), Phizer makes a drug, markets it for 10 or 15 years, then it goes generic and the price drops, often by one or two orders of magnitude.
-nB
In the case of products with long development cycles (Pharma, Rockets for man rated launch, etc.) make the patent duration two pronged (this could apply to all patents): 5 years from commercial availability or 20 years total, whichever is shorter. Same for (C), 5/20. I realize there is a simple game of the system: don't start selling until 15 years from patent or copyright grant date, but at least it's an improvement on what we have now, and profit incentives will keep this from happening in many cases.
The only real issue with this is the classic:
Manufacturer discovers 2 ways to make a widget, method A, which is efficient, and method B, which has an incremental cost of 10% more. The manufacturer patents both methods, thus keeping B away from potential competitors. My plan would not solve this, but at least method A is available in 5 years. It is conceivable that they might start with method B and in 5 years switch to method A, but I think that the shareholders would be all over them for doing that, and if the cost difference is low enough between the two methods that the shareholders wouldn't care, then I think the cost of switching methods would be too high to make such a plan worth it.
-nB
I think they did follow Robbers rules, now Robert may have something to say about his rulebook...
I'm still planning on voting for him.
I think that the two party system we have is inherently broken. Do I think Paul would be the best president? not by a long shot. Do I think he would shake things up enough? hopefully.
And for those of us who work our asses off it breeds resentment, eventually (hopefully and with help of a wise greybeard) followed by enlightenment, which begets cynicism, then acceptance.
I have a good job. It is bursty in nature, which gives my manager fits, as when I'm busy I am so busy that I ignore people and make him run interference for me. When it's slow, I dilly dally around and read /., stack overflow, some open courseware from MIT, etc.
My peers range from genuinely brilliant, one with a bad streak of aspergers, to lazy bordering on incompetent. Us bright ones (I place myself near the bottom third of that pile) share notes and pointers, steer mostly harmless stuff to the real lusers, and codegrinding to the rank and file.
I think it really comes down to management as to how a work experience goes. I don't see the good ones getting schucked off and replaced with college grads, but I do see low-end to middle employees move on. The really bottom end folks cling on for dear life till a re-org finally catches them.
I started just over a decade ago at $13/hr and this last year came in just shy of six digits... So raises don't seem to be an issue either.
-nB
Oh I agree, but we all know that this law will be enforced selectively, even in the cases I listed.
It's a "Because we need a reason" law.
-nB
What if it's flu season and you are wearing a surgical mask?
What if you are a painter and you are wearing a fume mask and come outside to see what the ruckus is about?
What if you simply hold your hand over your face in such a way as to occlude a view of your features?
What if you are an Islamic female and you are wearing a burka (sp?)
What if you are an undercover officer and you're wearing a mask, but the RCMP doesn't know you're there?
So many ways this law could go sideways...
-nB
Because I'm a dumbass who didn't use & lt; and /. ate the bracket. Should have been: n < 18
That would be one FSCKing argument to use in court if you were silmutaniously being sued and charged for both respectively...
I think if the link you followed said something like "barely legal 18 year olds" then your intent was for that and if you saw CP it was not your intent to view it.
OTOH if you followed a link that was "(n18) year old getting it on with older man" your intent was for CP.
If you have the images still in your cache then you should also have the referring page in there I would think.
Also, if you save the images explicitly in another folder I would have to think that shows intent quite nicely (I realize that the law does not dictate you have to save the images, but I think many people do save some or all of their "favorites"?)
-nB
My house was built in 1953 and had an extension put on in the late 80's.
The extension is wired to code, and at that time the bathrooms and kitchen were mostly upgraded as well.
I inquired about having an electrical refit done and of the three contractors I talked to, two said they wouldn't take the job and the third, a neighbor, said that the reason the others wouldn't even bid the job was that the cheapest solution is actually to pull out the interior walls and re-wire that way. As a bonus he pointed out that once the walls are off it's also possible to wire data, fix questionable pipes, and insulate nearly for free (not because it is cheap, just that pulling walls out and replacing all the Sheetrock is god awfully expensive).
He said the other ways leave people always pissed off, even if cheaper:
* outlets on a wall sill and under a window? pull the outlet and patch the wall, run a new outlet not under the window from the attic. The patch and new outlet both standout as not original.
* Have a wall that's wood veneer and not textured? tough, it can't have a new outlet if there is a window in the way.
* Where are you going to sink the ground rod? out next to the service panel of course, and that's not pretty either.
-nB
there are exercises you can do in a cube. Incline pushups, crunches, static leg and arm lifts, squats.
Eyes bugging you, tired of looking at the same problem from hell for the last hour? Take a micro break and pop out 1/3/5/10 pushups.
it'll help more than just your health, it'll help your mental focus too.
-nB