Another alternative would be to force the companies named to use a minimum 50% AMD chips averaged over the next five years.
Extra costs for them, loss of market share for Intel. Seems to me like justice is done all round (I consider the companies almost as guilty as Intel for their complicity).
Yes the price of computers would undergo a hiccup as they retool for different chips but that's not _really_ any different then Intel being fined billions of dollars.
lucky for us ASUS isn't a US company. They're the only ones who seem to get the design right (so far all the others are basically clones of what ASUS is doing, very little innovation).
The new ASUS 1000HE is about 99% perfect. I could wish for dual-core CPU and G40 chipset, but they're not essential (and I'm sure we'll have them by Xmas anyway...)
Not true. DES has never been broken and there's no reason to believe it ever will be. All that's happened is that the key size is now too small so a brute force attack is feasible.
128-bit keys can't be brute-forced by any conceivable technology* so if AES holds up as well as DES (and there's every reason to think it will) then you can relax, nobody will ever read your message.
[*] There's not enough energy in the Sun to power such a search.
It's a collision attack, that means you can make two files with the same SHA1 in 2^52 operations (via the birthday paradox).
In the best possible application of this attack you can make two files, one good, one incriminating and get somebody to sign the good one.
The two changeling files are generated via a randomizing process so generating meaningful text files really isn't possible, the files have to contain binary data with a 'random' appearance. Examples of this would be crypto keys, SSL certificates, stuff like that.
Anybody who makes his own files and signs them is immune to this attack. The SHA1 of your favorite Linux distro is as safe as ever.
So... this attack isn't very useful in the real world but it does show that SHA1 is slowly being deconstructed, that relationships are being found between input bits and output bits.
I'm not sure which part of "different type of toner" equals "green"*, but... you're under orders from a green-obsessed boss so make him/her happy by buying a couple and see how they work out.
[*] Is current toner bad for the environment? How bad is it as a percentage of the whole printing process?
Really big business can play the "we're moving to Linux because it's more secure" trump card.
I think manufacturers of stuff like medical equipment should definitely have it, too.
I don't know how far down the pecking order it could go. I assume they did something so that ordinary people won't want it (no DirectX or something...).
The core isn't necessarily broken. They'll use broken ones if there's any coming off the line but if there aren't any they'll use perfectly good quad-cores for this.
Normally the "disable" is done with those tiny resistors soldered on the outside of the chip. Maybe one of yours isn't soldered properly.
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Um... explain to me again which part of the "display and video capabilities" is being done by the AMD chip...
Another alternative would be to force the companies named to use a minimum 50% AMD chips averaged over the next five years.
Extra costs for them, loss of market share for Intel. Seems to me like justice is done all round (I consider the companies almost as guilty as Intel for their complicity).
Yes the price of computers would undergo a hiccup as they retool for different chips but that's not _really_ any different then Intel being fined billions of dollars.
Unless they fine them billions they'll just shrug it off as a business expense.
Even then it's a hollow victory. The people will be the ones paying the fine via increased prices.
lucky for us ASUS isn't a US company. They're the only ones who seem to get the design right (so far all the others are basically clones of what ASUS is doing, very little innovation).
The new ASUS 1000HE is about 99% perfect. I could wish for dual-core CPU and G40 chipset, but they're not essential (and I'm sure we'll have them by Xmas anyway...)
Not true. DES has never been broken and there's no reason to believe it ever will be. All that's happened is that the key size is now too small so a brute force attack is feasible.
128-bit keys can't be brute-forced by any conceivable technology* so if AES holds up as well as DES (and there's every reason to think it will) then you can relax, nobody will ever read your message.
[*] There's not enough energy in the Sun to power such a search.
It's a collision attack, that means you can make two files with the same SHA1 in 2^52 operations (via the birthday paradox).
In the best possible application of this attack you can make two files, one good, one incriminating and get somebody to sign the good one.
The two changeling files are generated via a randomizing process so generating meaningful text files really isn't possible, the files have to contain binary data with a 'random' appearance. Examples of this would be crypto keys, SSL certificates, stuff like that.
Anybody who makes his own files and signs them is immune to this attack. The SHA1 of your favorite Linux distro is as safe as ever.
So ... this attack isn't very useful in the real world but it does show that SHA1 is slowly being deconstructed, that relationships are being found between input bits and output bits.
>Oh god, I hope you, nor anyone else, ever gets this to work.
This.
You were dedicating neurons to this? You need to get out more.
More likely:
a) They were married and the wife started nagging for a baby.
or
b) They weren't married and getting jabbed with a huge needle once a month "just in case I get lucky" gets old real fast.
I wonder what their built-in web browser makes of that news site...
I got a 2Gb DIMM for my Eee PC for $26 (Kingston brand).
I installed it and turned off Windows' page file, now it runs waaaay faster than before.
Crysis works fine on mine under Windows XP. Looks like I'll be skipping Windows 7...
I'm still waiting for inkjet cartridges with aloe vera.
I'm not sure which part of "different type of toner" equals "green"*, but ... you're under orders from a green-obsessed boss so make him/her happy by buying a couple and see how they work out.
[*] Is current toner bad for the environment? How bad is it as a percentage of the whole printing process?
"...has been based on a false premise."
I think you misspelled 'lie'.
The NSA knows exactly how well SIGINT works against terrorists who use code words, personal ads in newspapers, etc.
The terrorists also know how ineffective the NSA is against such things.
The government selling wiretapping on the basis of catching terrorists is a very transparent lie.
"The bread is blue".
(Let's see how 'SIGINT' decodes that...)
Really big business can play the "we're moving to Linux because it's more secure" trump card.
I think manufacturers of stuff like medical equipment should definitely have it, too.
I don't know how far down the pecking order it could go. I assume they did something so that ordinary people won't want it (no DirectX or something...).
Next up, the Army and Navy. After that, government agencies ... finally, big businesses and the public.
I'm sure it was accidental. Nobody at Microsoft would notice this because they all use IE (by law).
"First idiot", you mean...
FTFY.
(unless it's just a Microsoft trick to make people believe exactly that...)
Which part of "insert credit card to continue" is confusing you?
Huh? If there's a law, and Intel broke it, then why is anybody but Intel to blame?
The core isn't necessarily broken. They'll use broken ones if there's any coming off the line but if there aren't any they'll use perfectly good quad-cores for this.
Normally the "disable" is done with those tiny resistors soldered on the outside of the chip. Maybe one of yours isn't soldered properly.
Which part of "We're not looking inside the packets*, just where they're going to" escaped you...?
[*] Yet.
If you want safety, add a bit of extra information to the JPG files on your innocent-looking blog.