So it doesn't actually modify anything on the player, eh? Would the discs actually have an index containing keys to every individual player manufactured, including every software player?
a way to re-enable keys? If so, then the meta-encryption is what will get cracked, not individual keys. Actually, that will happen anyway - if these things are networked, just wait for something that disables mass blocks of keys all at once as an attack against a given hardware manufacturer. That or someone will pass out free HD-DVD's that disable competitor's machinery completely.
encrypted spam? There is frequently junk in spam that looks like noise, but encrypted data also can look like noise. If you send out a million spams and just make sure that a couple of them go to the people you want to get the message...well, there ya go.
This sounds just completely insane. Fraud by downloading GPL software? Why would SCO post it if they were just going to claim fraud? It sounds like entrapment, or bait and switch, to me.
someone cracks the new formats' encoding schemes? I mean, it *will* happen. Do they honestly think it won't?
I know there is talk of meta-encoding that updates firmware to removes cracks over time, but seriously...that can and will be cracked, too. Then what?
Hmm...I hadn't considered the fitness equation to be a functional where the (oh, crap, what's it called, the kernel? what the functional evaluates?) is energy utilization. Fix that, and vary the local fitness function...very interesting!
Because background radiation and imperfect copying of DNA cause mutations. Many mutations are fatal very quickly. Those mutations which are not fatal quickly are still frequently fatal before reproduction allows them to propagate. Those mutations that do propagate cause variety in species. There are many many ways to get food, attack, defend, reproduce, etc. It's akin to computer virus writers and anti-virus software - The virus writer creates a new one, the anti-virus writer stops it, and the cycle repeats. The cycle can repeat infinitely (mathematically speaking) because there can never be a perfect virus, nor a perfect anti-virus.
Most optimizations in simulations are indeed toward a fixed goal. In evolution of living things, however, the goal is merely "survive long enough to mate and reproduce" and the fitness equation is not fixed - it changes not only by climate, but the living things themselves change the fitness equation, either by modifying the physical environment or creating a society (both of which are included in a larger "environment" actually). So, actually, there does not need to be a predetermined best fit that things are evolving toward.
Incidentally, my doctoral thesis was on creating a new and efficient method for optimization of functions.:)
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So it doesn't actually modify anything on the player, eh? Would the discs actually have an index containing keys to every individual player manufactured, including every software player?
a way to re-enable keys? If so, then the meta-encryption is what will get cracked, not individual keys. Actually, that will happen anyway - if these things are networked, just wait for something that disables mass blocks of keys all at once as an attack against a given hardware manufacturer. That or someone will pass out free HD-DVD's that disable competitor's machinery completely.
encrypted spam? There is frequently junk in spam that looks like noise, but encrypted data also can look like noise. If you send out a million spams and just make sure that a couple of them go to the people you want to get the message...well, there ya go.
This sounds just completely insane. Fraud by downloading GPL software? Why would SCO post it if they were just going to claim fraud? It sounds like entrapment, or bait and switch, to me.
That's meta-protection, and that can be cracked, too, like I said. Then what?
someone cracks the new formats' encoding schemes? I mean, it *will* happen. Do they honestly think it won't? I know there is talk of meta-encoding that updates firmware to removes cracks over time, but seriously...that can and will be cracked, too. Then what?
Hmm...I hadn't considered the fitness equation to be a functional where the (oh, crap, what's it called, the kernel? what the functional evaluates?) is energy utilization. Fix that, and vary the local fitness function...very interesting!
Because background radiation and imperfect copying of DNA cause mutations. Many mutations are fatal very quickly. Those mutations which are not fatal quickly are still frequently fatal before reproduction allows them to propagate. Those mutations that do propagate cause variety in species. There are many many ways to get food, attack, defend, reproduce, etc. It's akin to computer virus writers and anti-virus software - The virus writer creates a new one, the anti-virus writer stops it, and the cycle repeats. The cycle can repeat infinitely (mathematically speaking) because there can never be a perfect virus, nor a perfect anti-virus.
Most optimizations in simulations are indeed toward a fixed goal. In evolution of living things, however, the goal is merely "survive long enough to mate and reproduce" and the fitness equation is not fixed - it changes not only by climate, but the living things themselves change the fitness equation, either by modifying the physical environment or creating a society (both of which are included in a larger "environment" actually). So, actually, there does not need to be a predetermined best fit that things are evolving toward. Incidentally, my doctoral thesis was on creating a new and efficient method for optimization of functions. :)
So *that's* the name Dorian's using these days...interesting...
This looks really cool, but if it boots into French Linux, I don't want it. :)