They are a company and can do what ever the hell they want so long as it is with in the law, and does not defraud/mislead customers/potential customers. In a free market that would be a valid position to take. But comcast depends on state-granted monopolies in many cases they have franchise agreements with the towns that prevent any other CATV systems from being installed in the town. But even when they have not been able to exclude other CATV operators, the state still grants them right-of-way over private property to run their lines.
By accepting those state-granted monopoly privileges, they've opened the door to the state regulating their operation. In my opinion, it is in the state's best interest to impose some minimum requirements on comcast (and all the other similarly monopoly-based ISPs) that address such discriminatory network traffic handling practices.
Typically the overhead of the memory copy across the PCI bus to the crypto card and back into main memory is higher than just letting the host cpu do the crypto work itself (AES was designed to be very efficient even on slow cpus, far better than DES/3DES).
As others have mentioned, the Via cpus have built-in accelerators which avoid those memory copies
I also wonder if one cant get similar performance gains with normal ssh and for example forwarded X-windows. Probably not. The X11 protocol is very latency sensitive, so the bottleneck tends to be round-trip times rather than raw throughput.
I haven't read the article, so I don't know what it says about per-packet set-up times, but I wouldn't be surprised if latency was actually increased due to the overhead of having to at least decide to distribute encryption work across multiple CPUs.
If they want us, they can bring us in as civilian contractors. Why would anyone want to take a low paying job they can't quit. It doesn't necessarily need to be low-paying. The air-force and navy have been suffering a mass pilot exodus to the commercial industry, so they started implementing retainer bonuses to keep their pilots. There is no reason the military can't do the same for computer guys. In addition, the computers guys don't have to worry about the biggest downside - dying.
There are perks to being in the military - access to USAA banking and insurance, being able to jump a transport flight to anywhere in the world for free, stay in military housing world wide for a pittance (some of said housing is near resort quality), pension, medical care, etc.
For the right combination of benefits, it might be a good deal. Of course it would have to be head and shoulders above what they give to the rank and file, but that's the nature of a competitive labor market.
PS - for you 420 types, there is no drug testing required for a secret clearance, nor most types of top-secret clearances, but they will ask about drug usage as part of the standard questionnaire (along with stuff like defaulted loans, arrest record, etc).
In other words, no, an image of your iris cannot be recovered from the watermark. That's not enough, not by a long-shot. For example, finger-print identification works by recording information about 'minutae' (whorls, curves, etc). It is not possible to reconstruct a fingerprint solely from the minutae that is stored in fingerprint identification databases.
HOWEVER, it is possible to use the minutae data to make a fake fingerprint that has all the right information to fool a fingerprint identification system. After all, the computer only cares about what information it stores - if all id systems work the same way (and for fingerprints the vast majority do, they just have different algorithms for comparing the minutae data) then one system's data is probably sufficient enough to fool another system.
In other words, no, the information won't just be easily removed tags in the metadata. However, the information required by canon's system must, by definition, be stored in the image. Given enough samples of photographs with the same watermark, it should be possible to extract useful information. At the very least, it should be possible to falsify the ownership info onto another image and if iris systems work the same way fingerprint systems do, there may be enough information there to spoof another iris-based biometric id system.
That's right, armchair experts, Canon isn't stupid enough to develop this entire application of watermarking without even knowing the first thing about it. Surprise! Well, your post drips with irony. It may be the case that canon has come up with a system to blunt the attacks I've proposed, but the text of this article does not provide much assurance beyond "trust us" style hand-waving.
yes. just not the OS itself. thus why the slipstream providers can't provide you the ISO already one. Well, the pirates can - seems like there are monthly pirate releases all over the net with the latest patches slipstreamed in.
Am I the only one that wondered why Tor (the anonymity network) was giving away free ebooks? The free ebooks are part of a new steganographic exit node.
I'm sorry, let me be clear on this.... The ONLY price that was different, was the price being declared at the register. Yes. Best Buy regularly sells DVDs in store for an order of magnitude less than the stickered price and what their externally visible website says. All the big box stores do the same when they want to clear out merchandise, discontinued or not. Read fatwallet.com for a while and you will find thousands of such cases.
I knew it was an accident No, you only believed it was an accident. All of the big box stores do funny things with their inventory pricing, it is almost impossible to judge the validity of a price at one of those stores without access to the intention of the person, or the system, which set it.
Unique at the time, and Motorola stopped production on them. That would easily explain why they were marked down.
However, for those that cannot seem to figure out that forcing a corporation to sell you something at an incorrect price based on a malfunction are being immoral, maybe a little instruction is required. Do you believe people should take responsibility for the consequences of their actions? Do you believe the same applies to corporations?
Amazon benefits through cost savings by using an automated system. Turns out the automated system has downsides too, one of which is increased costs when there are errors.
Why should Amazon be allowed to reap the benefits of the system they voluntarily implemented, but not pay the costs?
So grow up. Attacks like that do not make for a particularly persuasive argument.
I was not a victim of the deliberate fraud reported in the linked, and subsequent threads, but after seeing many reports by others on that forum, I filled my amazon account with garbage information and have not made a purchase there for over a year.
where do you think the water in the rivers came from? Cow piss. Cow farts being the second greatest contributor to global warming, they gotta balance it out somehow.
why aren't there scores of clerics appearing on the news saying so? Because it doesn't sell commercials. Even the grand ayatollah of Iran denounced 9/11, but that wasn't on the US news.
As others have pointed out all ready - how come the catholic church got away with never condemning the IRA's actions, but "muslims" - who are a much more diverse and less hierarchical group are expected to do what the pope never would?
Where are you guys? It's the silence of this majority of muslims, the moderate ones, that is allowing the loud-mouthed ones to hurt you. The only silence is from the western news organizations that don't carry reports of the denunciations.
But I personally know a few people where it might one day be a matter of life and death (if not already). Puhlease. You've gone from asserting that moderate muslims "do not refute the verses being used/abused by the extremists" to now asking me to save the lives of your friends?
You can do exactly what I did, I gave you the formula -- type quran and the verse number into google and read through the results. If the lives of your friends really are on the line, and its not just some slashdot debate, don't you think it behooves YOU to do it?
The Quran is not as blood thirsty as the "popular" verses taken out of context will have some believe, but there are definitely calls for killing which are in context (4:88-90 - you will see the "exception clause" in 90 isn't that strong for keeping hypocrites alive.). Sure seems strong to me - if they don't screw with you, don't mess with them.
Right now they just keep repeating "Islam is a religion of peace", and sometimes (rarely) quote some verses backing their position, but they do not refute the verses being used/abused by the extremists. Gee, that's funny, all I have to do is type the word quran and the number of the misused verse into google to find plenty of refutations of the extremist interpretations. It has worked for every single example I've come across in this discussion on slashdot.
I have not seen any of the alleged Christians who bombed the abortion clinics provide verses in the Bible justifying their action. Nor would they be able to. Lol! Sounds like you haven't read the bible, or any of the extremist christian websites.
The bible is loaded, even the New Testament, with stuff that can be taken out of context by extremists exactly the same way that extremists take stuff out of context from the quran.
There were many in my country (a muslim country) who cheered the 9/11 attacks There were many in America who cheered the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Doesn't mean shit except people of any stripe can revel in the pain of those whom they consider their enemy.
Research Israeli behavior profiling and you will see how successful it has been for them. I know plenty about israeli profiling. Obviously you don't if you think the piss-poor training of the minimum-wage-plus employees of the TSA even resembles the behavioral profiling that Israelis do.
Eliminating "the israeli and iraqi conflicts" won't work here because the suicide bombers are still Muslim and hence my point stands. Sucker. You took the bait. Too bad you suck at math.
Let's go ahead and include the civil wars to humor the sucker: Chechen suicide attacks since 2000 - 20 Iraqi suicide attacks since the invasion - 1407 Palestinian suicide attacks since 1993 - 72
In order to way overcompensate for missing data like afghanistan, the handful of suicide attacks outside of those areas like the 2 in Bali and the years before 2000 for the chechens, I'm going to multiply those by 5, minus Iraq since we can be pretty sure there were few if any suicide attacks there before the invasion.
That gives you a total of 1867. Round that up to 2000 just to be generous to my innumerate friend.
That's ~2,000 out of ~1,000,000,000 or 0.0002% of the muslim population
So, I ask you, is a number so minuscule as 1 out of half a million really a meaningful value? Statistically speaking that is.
Also the reason that affinity requests aren't hard is that otherwise it would have to throw an error if that processor wasn't available either due to hardware issues or due to the process attributes being set so that it can't see that processor. That's a stupid reason.
All the big unices have no problem with hard-locking a process/thread to a specific cpu. If the cpu isn't available at the time of the lock, then the lock call returns an error and the process remains free-floating. If a cpu gets oversubscribed, the processes just get smaller time-slices (or none depending on their priority) and it is up the programmer to deal with that contingency.
If the cpu goes away (like a hot-plug event) then the processes get migrated somewhere else and may or may not get a signal to let them know what happened.
Cruelty in the Quran - These are the first 10, there are 500 more after these Gee cruelty is now the equivalent of killing? Hellfire and brimstone for the sinners - never heard of that before...
If you read the quran looking for justification to kill you will find it. That doesn't mean the justification is there, just that the reader is looking for justification, not guidance. The same applies to all the holy books of the world's major and minor religions.
In other words, even the devil can quote scripture to suit his purposes.
Heaven knows my little old mother and her Shih Tzu are a threat; she hasn't made it through TSA once without them going over the dog and her luggage EVERY SINGLE TIME. How does the TSA know that she is JUST a little old mother? You know it. She knows it. How do you expect them to know it? By looking at her? Do terrorists have a visible evil bit?
How can the TSA tell that she is not a terrorist in drag? Or maybe the little old mother of two generations of family that have been slaughtered in Iraq?
If you really believe in all this terrorist hokum then you should realize that the moment the TSA starts making exceptions for "obvious" reasons is the moment all those crafty terrorists will start exploiting those exceptions and planes will begin raining from the sky...
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By accepting those state-granted monopoly privileges, they've opened the door to the state regulating their operation. In my opinion, it is in the state's best interest to impose some minimum requirements on comcast (and all the other similarly monopoly-based ISPs) that address such discriminatory network traffic handling practices.
Typically the overhead of the memory copy across the PCI bus to the crypto card and back into main memory is higher than just letting the host cpu do the crypto work itself (AES was designed to be very efficient even on slow cpus, far better than DES/3DES).
As others have mentioned, the Via cpus have built-in accelerators which avoid those memory copies
I haven't read the article, so I don't know what it says about per-packet set-up times, but I wouldn't be surprised if latency was actually increased due to the overhead of having to at least decide to distribute encryption work across multiple CPUs.
There are perks to being in the military - access to USAA banking and insurance, being able to jump a transport flight to anywhere in the world for free, stay in military housing world wide for a pittance (some of said housing is near resort quality), pension, medical care, etc.
For the right combination of benefits, it might be a good deal. Of course it would have to be head and shoulders above what they give to the rank and file, but that's the nature of a competitive labor market.
PS - for you 420 types, there is no drug testing required for a secret clearance, nor most types of top-secret clearances, but they will ask about drug usage as part of the standard questionnaire (along with stuff like defaulted loans, arrest record, etc).
HOWEVER, it is possible to use the minutae data to make a fake fingerprint that has all the right information to fool a fingerprint identification system. After all, the computer only cares about what information it stores - if all id systems work the same way (and for fingerprints the vast majority do, they just have different algorithms for comparing the minutae data) then one system's data is probably sufficient enough to fool another system. In other words, no, the information won't just be easily removed tags in the metadata. However, the information required by canon's system must, by definition, be stored in the image. Given enough samples of photographs with the same watermark, it should be possible to extract useful information. At the very least, it should be possible to falsify the ownership info onto another image and if iris systems work the same way fingerprint systems do, there may be enough information there to spoof another iris-based biometric id system. That's right, armchair experts, Canon isn't stupid enough to develop this entire application of watermarking without even knowing the first thing about it. Surprise! Well, your post drips with irony. It may be the case that canon has come up with a system to blunt the attacks I've proposed, but the text of this article does not provide much assurance beyond "trust us" style hand-waving.
The ONLY price that was different, was the price being declared at the register. Yes. Best Buy regularly sells DVDs in store for an order of magnitude less than the stickered price and what their externally visible website says. All the big box stores do the same when they want to clear out merchandise, discontinued or not. Read fatwallet.com for a while and you will find thousands of such cases.
Do you believe the same applies to corporations?
Amazon benefits through cost savings by using an automated system. Turns out the automated system has downsides too, one of which is increased costs when there are errors.
Why should Amazon be allowed to reap the benefits of the system they voluntarily implemented, but not pay the costs? So grow up
I was not a victim of the deliberate fraud reported in the linked, and subsequent threads, but after seeing many reports by others on that forum, I filled my amazon account with garbage information and have not made a purchase there for over a year.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=445648&cid=22339326
http://www.unc.edu/~kurzman/terror.htm - a hundred or so high profile denunciations
http://www.muhajabah.com/otherscondemn.php - links to hundreds of denunciations
http://www.yehhumnaheen.org/english/the_song.html - chart topping song in pakistan
As others have pointed out all ready - how come the catholic church got away with never condemning the IRA's actions, but "muslims" - who are a much more diverse and less hierarchical group are expected to do what the pope never would?
http://www.muhajabah.com/otherscondemn.php
http://www.unc.edu/~kurzman/terror.htm
You can do exactly what I did, I gave you the formula -- type quran and the verse number into google and read through the results. If the lives of your friends really are on the line, and its not just some slashdot debate, don't you think it behooves YOU to do it?
The bible is loaded, even the New Testament, with stuff that can be taken out of context by extremists exactly the same way that extremists take stuff out of context from the quran. There were many in my country (a muslim country) who cheered the 9/11 attacks There were many in America who cheered the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Doesn't mean shit except people of any stripe can revel in the pain of those whom they consider their enemy.
Let's go ahead and include the civil wars to humor the sucker:
Chechen suicide attacks since 2000 - 20
Iraqi suicide attacks since the invasion - 1407
Palestinian suicide attacks since 1993 - 72
In order to way overcompensate for missing data like afghanistan, the handful of suicide attacks outside of those areas like the 2 in Bali and the years before 2000 for the chechens, I'm going to multiply those by 5, minus Iraq since we can be pretty sure there were few if any suicide attacks there before the invasion.
That gives you a total of 1867. Round that up to 2000 just to be generous to my innumerate friend.
That's ~2,000 out of ~1,000,000,000 or 0.0002% of the muslim population
So, I ask you, is a number so minuscule as 1 out of half a million really a meaningful value? Statistically speaking that is.
Stupid thug wannabe.
All the big unices have no problem with hard-locking a process/thread to a specific cpu.
If the cpu isn't available at the time of the lock, then the lock call returns an error and the process remains free-floating. If a cpu gets oversubscribed, the processes just get smaller time-slices (or none depending on their priority) and it is up the programmer to deal with that contingency.
If the cpu goes away (like a hot-plug event) then the processes get migrated somewhere else and may or may not get a signal to let them know what happened.
These are the first 10, there are 500 more after these Gee cruelty is now the equivalent of killing? Hellfire and brimstone for the sinners - never heard of that before...
If you read the quran looking for justification to kill you will find it. That doesn't mean the justification is there, just that the reader is looking for justification, not guidance. The same applies to all the holy books of the world's major and minor religions.
In other words, even the devil can quote scripture to suit his purposes.
How can the TSA tell that she is not a terrorist in drag? Or maybe the little old mother of two generations of family that have been slaughtered in Iraq?
If you really believe in all this terrorist hokum then you should realize that the moment the TSA starts making exceptions for "obvious" reasons is the moment all those crafty terrorists will start exploiting those exceptions and planes will begin raining from the sky...