Not only is M$ a founding member of this org, but it is also a member of some of the orgs that are listed as "founding members". or the members are big M$ customers.
the material is a coating, and effectively, the coating turns opaque after laser exposure. nothing says that mister spy cant pull your key disk out of the trash, wipe off the coating (or peel of the layer ) and get the data underneath.
Heinlien was onto this back in the 50's or 60's when he wrote "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress"
the thesis is that as the moon's control computer network approached the complexity level of a human mind and as it's software got more complex and self-modifying/maintaining, it woke up, becoming Adam Selene.
the performance penalty for having pre-emptive multitasking is so small as to be unnoticeable if you are only doing one thing at a time.
for instance if you are in photoshop, working on a picture, and you have no other programs running, the penalty is probably under 1%.
the thing is, what if, while you are waiting for that filter to finish, you could be doing other productive work? pre-emptive tasking allows that.
as an example, say you are surfing the web, and you would like to do something else while waiting for a big web page to load over a slow modem. with the co-op mac scheduling, the computer often won't even respond until the page load is complete ( in my experience ).
with pre-emptive tasking, I can click on that link to a big page, then get back to some serious work while waiting for the star wars trailer to load.
This may seem to be off topic, but stick with it, it applies.
The other day I walked into my bank. They had just replaced their old ATM machines with new ones. I thought "Great! now they'll be faster! and ooo, look, a pretty color touch screen!"
Well, the truth is, the new machines are slower on two counts. 1. more proccessing required for color screen == slower transactions 2. it is harder to discriminate the information that matters ( how much money do I want ) from the information I don't care about ( look, We have this new loan you can get and you only have to give us your third borne child! ) which also == slower transactions
the basic conclusion here is that there are places where color is a sensible useful thing and other situations where it is just plain harmful.
the key with the upcoming palms will be to: 1. ensure that the old, B&W apps don't run any slower on the new machines. 2. color is only used where it makes SENSE. 3. new apps still run on B&W palm pilots, without a performance/memory penalty for being compatible with the new machines.
My understanding of the GPL is that it has virus like qualities in that all derived works of a GPL'd code base are also 'infected' with the GPL.
Does this mean that Quake 2/3 are now also GPL?
I find it hard to believe that there is NO shared/derived code from one version to the next.
Or does the GPL allow for cases exactly like this where a derived work (Q2) exists prior to the GPL being attached to the precursor (Q1) means that the derived work is exempt?
cracking, whether it is just snooping in a person's or company's private files or something more malicious like taking down a web site or server, is a crime.
it is a crime no different than breaking and entering a business or a home would be.
sure it takes intelligence, skill and perseverance to crack a major site. that does not make it OK.
I do believe, however, that instead of prosecuting the skillful ones, they should be taught to use their powers for good, then given jobs, not thrown in prison.
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script kiddies however, should be thrashed unmercifully.
as far as the hacker/cracker thing goes, it is a lost battle. the general public does not know or care that there are different meanings. get over it and move on.
the real pirates out there, I mean the industrial pirates, not two geeks with a software hack, but the guys who do the serious damage, the companies in foreign nations with, shall we say, lax copyright protection laws, don't care about encryption.
all the home entertainment DVD players out there probably won't play an unencrypted DVD. (correct me if I'm wrong here) so an unencrypted dvd copy is useless EXCEPT to someone who wants to watch their DVD's ONLY on their computer (great on a laptop on a plane, but at home? come on!)
The big boys are gonna make a bit-for-bit complete copy of the DVD, INCLUDING the encrypted key, duplicate packaging and sell the ripoff copies for less than the "real thing".
The real reason they are upset is that this hack reduces their perceived control of the medium.
note the article states that there are 400 individual keys pressed into every dvd. this reduces the 40 bit security down to a little more than 35 bits.
that might stand up for an hour on a brute force attack by a pentium 90. if they were lucky.
MUCH more likely, a valid key would be hit early in the attack, after all, there are 400 to choose from.
ensure the center of gravity of the breakaway portion is at greater than geo orbit altitude. this makes for 2 nice properties:
1. cable always in tension ( centrifugal force pulling cable out like tennis ball on a string.
2. in event of breakaway, fall "up"
unfortunately, our idiotic government would never cough up the funds to do basic development of the components necessary to build such a thing...
I am 32 yrs old. When I was 5 ( 1972 ) it was reasonable to believe that within my working lifetime, I would be able to go to orbit as a tourist. we were progressing that fast. the technology (except HAL) of 2001 was reasonable. everything (technologically speaking) in that movie COULD have happened by now.
somewhere along the line we lost our way.
the government fell in love with the space shuttle, a brilliant idea, flawed execution.
the government fell in love with the space station, again good idea, crappy execution.
beta was sony's proprietary vcr format and yes, it was better in some ways.
the reasons it lost to vhs were primarily:
1. sony wanted a buttload in license fees 2. sony would not allow pornographic movies to be distributed on beta 3. vhs was an open standard, which anyone could build to, royalty free. 4. porn producers didn't have to run their product by sony's corporate censors
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Not only is M$ a founding member of this org, but it is also a member of some of the orgs that are listed as "founding members". or the members are big M$ customers.
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see the following links:
http://www.actonline.org/about/good_company.asp
http://www.claritycnslt.com/About/frameset.asp?
there are probably more. I dont have time to look it all up.
the material is a coating, and effectively, the coating turns opaque after laser exposure. nothing says that mister spy cant pull your key disk out of the trash, wipe off the coating (or peel of the layer ) and get the data underneath.
Heinlien was onto this back in the 50's or 60's when he wrote "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress"
the thesis is that as the moon's control computer network approached the complexity level of a human mind and as it's software got more complex and self-modifying/maintaining, it woke up, becoming Adam Selene.
Has there ever been one?
If so, when
if not why not?
I would think that we could come up with better questions than this moronic journalist did.
my comments regarding winXX were only regarding pre-emptive scheduling.
their memory protection in general is not much better than mac's.
the performance penalty for having pre-emptive multitasking is so small as to be unnoticeable if you are only doing one thing at a time.
for instance if you are in photoshop, working on a picture, and you have no other programs running, the penalty is probably under 1%.
the thing is, what if, while you are waiting for that filter to finish, you could be doing other productive work? pre-emptive tasking allows that.
as an example, say you are surfing the web, and you would like to do something else while waiting for a big web page to load over a slow modem. with the co-op mac scheduling, the computer often won't even respond until the page load is complete ( in my experience ).
with pre-emptive tasking, I can click on that link to a big page, then get back to some serious work while waiting for the star wars trailer to load.
I'm sorry too,
I shouldn't have used insulting language.
read my freakin post before you flame me.
I was saying "thank god mac will FINALLY have pre-emptive multitasking!"
It's about time mac woke up to the world of protected memory and pre-emptive multi-tasking.
As crappy as M$ Win XX is, at least it has pre-emptive multi-tasking.
I am a dedicated [U/Li]n[i/u]x and Xwindows user, but would still rather use Win XXXX than deal with Mac's crappy co-operative multi-tasking.
Now maybe Macs will finally enter into the realm of serious computers and take advantage of all that yummy hardware.
This may seem to be off topic, but stick with it, it applies.
The other day I walked into my bank. They had just replaced their old ATM machines with new ones. I thought "Great! now they'll be faster! and ooo, look, a pretty color touch screen!"
Well, the truth is, the new machines are slower on two counts.
1. more proccessing required for color screen == slower transactions
2. it is harder to discriminate the information that matters ( how much money do I want ) from the information I don't care about ( look, We have this new loan you can get and you only have to give us your third borne child! ) which also == slower transactions
the basic conclusion here is that there are places where color is a sensible useful thing and other situations where it is just plain harmful.
the key with the upcoming palms will be to:
1. ensure that the old, B&W apps don't run any slower on the new machines.
2. color is only used where it makes SENSE.
3. new apps still run on B&W palm pilots, without a performance/memory penalty for being compatible with the new machines.
so, the basic conclusion is that
My understanding of the GPL is that it has virus like qualities in that all derived works of a GPL'd code base are also 'infected' with the GPL.
Does this mean that Quake 2/3 are now also GPL?
I find it hard to believe that there is NO shared/derived code from one version to the next.
Or does the GPL allow for cases exactly like this where a derived work (Q2) exists prior to the GPL being attached to the precursor (Q1) means that the derived work is exempt?
cracking, whether it is just snooping in a person's or company's private files or something more malicious like taking down a web site or server, is a crime.
it is a crime no different than breaking and entering a business or a home would be.
sure it takes intelligence, skill and perseverance to crack a major site. that does not make it OK.
I do believe, however, that instead of prosecuting the skillful ones, they should be taught to use their powers for good, then given jobs, not thrown in prison.
[FLAMEBAIT]
script kiddies however, should be thrashed unmercifully.
as far as the hacker/cracker thing goes, it is a lost battle. the general public does not know or care that there are different meanings. get over it and move on.
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formatting is VERY important in legal documents.
I would presume that it is because HTML can not guarantee exact formatting
the real pirates out there, I mean the industrial pirates, not two geeks with a software hack, but the guys who do the serious damage, the companies in foreign nations with, shall we say, lax copyright protection laws, don't care about encryption.
all the home entertainment DVD players out there probably won't play an unencrypted DVD. (correct me if I'm wrong here) so an unencrypted dvd copy is useless EXCEPT to someone who wants to watch their DVD's ONLY on their computer (great on a laptop on a plane, but at home? come on!)
The big boys are gonna make a bit-for-bit complete copy of the DVD, INCLUDING the encrypted key, duplicate packaging and sell the ripoff copies for less than the "real thing".
The real reason they are upset is that this hack reduces their perceived control of the medium.
correction: "this reduces the 40 bit security down to a little more than 35 bits."
should read: "this reduces the 40 bit security down to a little more than 31 bits."
note the article states that there are 400 individual keys pressed into every dvd. this reduces the 40 bit security down to a little more than 35 bits.
that might stand up for an hour on a brute force attack by a pentium 90. if they were lucky.
MUCH more likely, a valid key would be hit early in the attack, after all, there are 400 to choose from.
simple.
ensure the center of gravity of the breakaway portion is at greater than geo orbit altitude.
this makes for 2 nice properties:
1. cable always in tension ( centrifugal force
pulling cable out like tennis ball on a
string.
2. in event of breakaway, fall "up"
unfortunately, our idiotic government would never cough up the funds to do basic development of the components necessary to build such a thing...
I am 32 yrs old.
When I was 5 ( 1972 ) it was reasonable to believe that within my working lifetime, I would be able to go to orbit as a tourist.
we were progressing that fast. the technology (except HAL) of 2001 was reasonable. everything (technologically speaking) in that movie COULD have happened by now.
somewhere along the line we lost our way.
the government fell in love with the space shuttle, a brilliant idea, flawed execution.
the government fell in love with the space station, again good idea, crappy execution.
if we had only....
now there's a good idea, lets make the internet useable only by idiots and those with photographic memories.
I know that if I want to go to the kodak site ( just an example ) I can type "www.kodak.com" and get there.
using your suggestion, I would either
a: have to go to a search site first ( by the way, how do I get there without a name )
or
b: have some cryptic xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx number memorized.
or
c: have already been there and bookmarked it ( again, how would I get there in the first place )
for the internet to be of any use at all to anyone other than complete geeks, it must be "meatspace" friendly.
come up with a friendlier solution than DNS and you might have a chance.
beta was sony's proprietary vcr format and yes, it was better in some ways.
the reasons it lost to vhs were primarily:
1. sony wanted a buttload in license fees
2. sony would not allow pornographic movies to be distributed on beta
3. vhs was an open standard, which anyone could build to, royalty free.
4. porn producers didn't have to run their product by sony's corporate censors
unobtanium - cause you cant get one
vaporium - cause it is all just hot air
subathlonium - cause even with the extra 32 bits, it is still slower than athlon
bankruptium - what it is gonna do for intel