I think you are overlooking a HUGE area of research called "digital signatures". The producer signs or watermark the data and a description of the transaction (including the recipient) with his private key. The DRM can then use the public key of the producer to verify the signature is intact and valid for the particular user in question.
The only assumption here to be made is the DRM itself is not subject to attack: if it has been altered to forego these checks, then of course, anything is possible.
There are FCC regulations covering how much EMF noise electronic equipment is allowed to generate. Ever see that CE mark on almost any electronic equipment? That means its certified by the FCC.
are regressive taxes, which mean that lower income people pay a higher percentage than higher income. Sales tax, Gas Tax, even the lottery are all regressive taxes. At least with this system, you would only pay for what you use.
How again are toll roads not "regressive"? They obviously aren't adjusted for the income of the user.
With the current system, income taxes (progressive) and gas taxes go to pay for construction of roads. Moving to a usage based system would actually hurt lower income people by removing the progressiveness of the income tax base.
1. The president carries veto power over any bill produced by Congress. They need a 2/3 vote to override. How often have you seen that happen?
2. The judicial branch can declare a law unconstitutional only *after* someone has been found guilty and appealed through the appropriate lower courts. This isn't something that happens overnight, but it does happen. See @all_important_cases_in_history.
This is modded up to +5? Your numbers are wildy inaccurate. Intel x86 is fact, limited to 32 bit address space. The segment registers select descriptors in the LDT that are constrained with a 32 bit logical address space. This LDT isn't accessible from user mode, anyway. That means, even if the OS did collude to mess with your segments in the LDT, you still can't address more than 4gb of memory.
Now. For the 64gb number. That indeed is a hard limit. That's the limit of addressable physical memory set by the recent (Pentium Pro+) series Physical Address Extensions. These extensions allow the OS or application to address pages of physical memory up to 64gb, but only 4gb of them at a time.
This is such an old question, and a particularly pointless one to pose, if you ask me. You choose your path in college (and life), friend. How can you be upset at the university for offering specialized majors when you aren't forced to choose them?
The point of college is specialization. You choose what you are interested in and what you will pursue in a career. A lot of people who aren't mature enough to do that come to college expecting them to give them skills they can't learn on their own. Wakeup call for those people. That's not what college was ever intended for!
It's unfortunate that we can't move towards a more liberal society...
Wake the FUCK UP! Compare the 1950's with segregation, oppression, "separate but equal" doctrine, McCarthyism, as well as things labelled "obscene" to today where we have eliminated those ridiculous discriminations and even gone for some of your favorite liberal things like affirmative action, welfare, social security, and working towards a national healthcare system. Maybe you weren't paying attention when Larry Flynt had his run-ins and defended his right to free speech. Pornography is rampant and vibrant today, regardless of what people's moral views are about it. Today you're free to spout your socialist ideals. It wasn't always that way! Wake UP!
America as a whole is a shitload more liberal than it ever has been, and if you had paid attention for four seconds in any history class you'd realize that. In the face of any regime in the history of the world, whatever minor restrictions on free speech there are in America pale in comparison! Go to the library and look under the heading "Nazi" or "fascist" or "McCarthy." Then come back.
SMP not requiring a recompile to add? I'm sorry, I agree with your philosophy, but this is a bad example. SMP awareness impacts everything from the VMM to the scheduler, the locking mechanisms, file system caches, memory allocation routines, and just about anything that has to be designed to work concurrently. Multiprocessor operation is by no means a "module".
But overall, I agree. Everything should be more modularized, but deep internal systems just don't always come out of the system so nicely.
I am really starting to get utterly sick of Jon Katz's evangelism masquerading as news. I'm tired of being told what I should think about globalism, corporatism, and technology's impact on the world. Katz spews his rhetoric with no balancing viewpoint (with the exception of some replies that do not carry the same legitimacy or weight as a slashdot article).
Yes Katz, tell me how evil America is and why anything but unbridled selfish freedom unbalanced against the common good is the ultimate goal of society and why I'm some mindless glutonous drone in this capitalist evil that is the US. Tell me again how spoiled and rotten I am. Tell me all about the "wholesome" nations of the earth who lived in undeveloped, backwards, and repressive regimes when in America I am some evil person for living here and having a dollar in my pocket.
Could you please shut the hell up Katz? You're hardly representative of the views on slashdot and you paint us all as zealots.
Sure, it could lose 99% of its routing nodes, if all those were the internal routers inside of autonomous systems. Lose those 1% of nodes that speak a border gateway protocol (i.e. exchange routing information among autonomous systems), and suddenly you have a much larger problem.
"The Presentation overmodule works with the Platform overmodule to give programs access to a powerful and platform-independent visual interface that can present the output of programs as anything from terminal text to a 3-dimensional Hollywood-style GUI called "Tripwire" (which does shadows, transparencies, textures and light rendering better than most video game engines) depending on what the user chooses to see and what the hardware can handle."
Tripwire!? It was so revolutionary and new that they had to name it after an existing, well known security tool?
No. You can only challenge the constitutionality of a law before the Supreme Court. You can only get to the Supreme Court by appealing from lower courts after being convicted. You can only get into the lower courts by being charged.
You can't just throw your hands up in the air and end up in the Supreme Court. You have to be caught and convicted long before that happens.
Both translations are pretty liberal. The most literal translation is "among arms, laws keep silent." It's a loose translation to go from "among arms" to "time of war" and also to loose the plurality of "leges." Its important to note that "silent" is a verb (third person plural), not an adjective, in case you were thinking along those lines.
"Of course, the impression I got after all of this, was that if I couldn't vote against them in an upcoming election, they didn't care about my opinion."
I don't think you understand the point of representative government. The reason why states send their own representatives is so that those representatives can express the opinions of their individual states. It's not some cold, heartless disregard for the American people, but rather a dedication to the people they represent. Wouldn't it be more of a problem if they ignored their constituents and instead listened to the most numerous stream of letters?
Except the artists signed a legal contract with full knowledge of what their compensation would be. It's not like someone turning around and stealing it from the recording companies solves anything.
It takes more than 5 words to describe how to buy (or build) a nuclear weapon, smuggle it in, coordinate those involved, and execute. Really. Hell it takes more than 5 words to order at McDonalds.
So what? You think it takes just 10 digits of data to coordinate and plan a nuclear attack? What fallacy are you living under? A huge, coordinated attack encompassed massive amounts of communication. Argue what you want about whether the terrorists using digital media, but something on the scale of the coordination needed for the procurement, operation, and execution of such a plan is more than a 10 digit "blip" on the NSA's radar.
It seems a lot of you are making an overly pessimistic assumption of our intelligence capabilities. Do you have any idea the scope and scale of the wave of attacks planned for the original 1993 bombing of the WTC? The network had planned to bomb dozens of landmarks and kill thousands of people as well as destroying 11 jetliners in the air. Yet as our intelligence came to bear on them, we discovered their plans and thankfully foiled them.
Did you see any disturbances in America on New Year's Eve 1999? Bin Laden's network had dozens of attacks planned, including armed terrorists with machine guns opening fire in malls in Jordan and bombings in many places in the US. Thankfully our intelligence recognized the importance and immediacy of the situation and our government placed sufficient resources and faith in our intelligence community that these attacks were thwarted.
The attacks that are foiled are almost never newsworthy. Keep that in mind before you knee-jerk react and point the finger at our intelligence community.
I thought I sensed a hint of sarcasm in your first sentence, but I guess you really believe what you are saying. Do you really think that this is such a wonderful security measure? A hacker challenge? How about a provably secure system, based on formal methods?
Let's review why black-box testing is a weak form of testing:
Just because no one finds an exploit doesn't mean the system is secure.
If someone discovers a flaw, it may in fact be more lucrative for them to keep it a secret and exploit it later.
If you were a malicious group wanting to cause havoc in America, do you think you would enter a "hacker challenge" to demonstrate flaws in a system, then reveal the flaws for a moderate compensation, or do you think you would wait quietly until the system was deployed, at which point you could massively influence the elections through the flaw you discovered?
Interesting points, but you do have to remember that massively parallel systems aren't for the masses anyway, and normal programmers don't wrestle with these "0.0001%" of problems that demand this kind of power. The fact is that those small percentage of problems aren't always trivial theoretical problems that don't have impact on our lives, but are more often things of practical importance to scientists and the military. Nuclear reaction simulations (both weapons and energy), protein folding, DNA sequencing, molecular simulations...all very very intense computing problems that demand powerful computers to produce better and better simulations.
We need more programmers to program the machines? Maybe. This is an important but niche market, and throwing billions into education so that kids with bachelor's can call themselves super-computer programmers isn't the answer. The systems are already programmed by brilliant people researching these problems, doctorates all around. This isn't work for your average 15 year old 3r33t haXor, you know?
Yo jigga, you don't wanna be around when Big bad DOJ comes busting down on yo ass like an 800 pound gorilla...
Seriously tho, as much as Katz complains about corporatism in America, it is good to see our government wield the power to punish greedy corporatism severely when it is clear it has overstepped its bounds. The examples may be few of government versus big business, but their are illustrative: the judicial branch is by no means in the pocket of corporate America.
Welcome to checks and balances, limited government sphere of influence, and this is a good example of the benefits those separations bring.
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I think you are overlooking a HUGE area of research called "digital signatures". The producer signs or watermark the data and a description of the transaction (including the recipient) with his private key. The DRM can then use the public key of the producer to verify the signature is intact and valid for the particular user in question.
The only assumption here to be made is the DRM itself is not subject to attack: if it has been altered to forego these checks, then of course, anything is possible.
There are FCC regulations covering how much EMF noise electronic equipment is allowed to generate. Ever see that CE mark on almost any electronic equipment? That means its certified by the FCC.
are regressive taxes, which mean that lower income people pay a higher percentage than higher income. Sales tax, Gas Tax, even the lottery are all regressive taxes. At least with this system, you would only pay for what you use.
How again are toll roads not "regressive"? They obviously aren't adjusted for the income of the user.
With the current system, income taxes (progressive) and gas taxes go to pay for construction of roads. Moving to a usage based system would actually hurt lower income people by removing the progressiveness of the income tax base.
We can't even give the unborn rights.
Didn't you pay attention in government class?
1. The president carries veto power over any bill produced by Congress. They need a 2/3 vote to override. How often have you seen that happen?
2. The judicial branch can declare a law unconstitutional only *after* someone has been found guilty and appealed through the appropriate lower courts. This isn't something that happens overnight, but it does happen. See @all_important_cases_in_history.
Wake up.
This is modded up to +5? Your numbers are wildy inaccurate. Intel x86 is fact, limited to 32 bit address space. The segment registers select descriptors in the LDT that are constrained with a 32 bit logical address space. This LDT isn't accessible from user mode, anyway. That means, even if the OS did collude to mess with your segments in the LDT, you still can't address more than 4gb of memory.
Now. For the 64gb number. That indeed is a hard limit. That's the limit of addressable physical memory set by the recent (Pentium Pro+) series Physical Address Extensions. These extensions allow the OS or application to address pages of physical memory up to 64gb, but only 4gb of them at a time.
So, 32 bit address space is it.
This is such an old question, and a particularly pointless one to pose, if you ask me. You choose your path in college (and life), friend. How can you be upset at the university for offering specialized majors when you aren't forced to choose them? The point of college is specialization. You choose what you are interested in and what you will pursue in a career. A lot of people who aren't mature enough to do that come to college expecting them to give them skills they can't learn on their own. Wakeup call for those people. That's not what college was ever intended for!
It's unfortunate that we can't move towards a more liberal society...
Wake the FUCK UP! Compare the 1950's with segregation, oppression, "separate but equal" doctrine, McCarthyism, as well as things labelled "obscene" to today where we have eliminated those ridiculous discriminations and even gone for some of your favorite liberal things like affirmative action, welfare, social security, and working towards a national healthcare system. Maybe you weren't paying attention when Larry Flynt had his run-ins and defended his right to free speech. Pornography is rampant and vibrant today, regardless of what people's moral views are about it. Today you're free to spout your socialist ideals. It wasn't always that way! Wake UP! America as a whole is a shitload more liberal than it ever has been, and if you had paid attention for four seconds in any history class you'd realize that. In the face of any regime in the history of the world, whatever minor restrictions on free speech there are in America pale in comparison! Go to the library and look under the heading "Nazi" or "fascist" or "McCarthy." Then come back.
SMP not requiring a recompile to add? I'm sorry, I agree with your philosophy, but this is a bad example. SMP awareness impacts everything from the VMM to the scheduler, the locking mechanisms, file system caches, memory allocation routines, and just about anything that has to be designed to work concurrently. Multiprocessor operation is by no means a "module".
But overall, I agree. Everything should be more modularized, but deep internal systems just don't always come out of the system so nicely.
I am really starting to get utterly sick of Jon Katz's evangelism masquerading as news. I'm tired of being told what I should think about globalism, corporatism, and technology's impact on the world. Katz spews his rhetoric with no balancing viewpoint (with the exception of some replies that do not carry the same legitimacy or weight as a slashdot article).
Yes Katz, tell me how evil America is and why anything but unbridled selfish freedom unbalanced against the common good is the ultimate goal of society and why I'm some mindless glutonous drone in this capitalist evil that is the US. Tell me again how spoiled and rotten I am. Tell me all about the "wholesome" nations of the earth who lived in undeveloped, backwards, and repressive regimes when in America I am some evil person for living here and having a dollar in my pocket.
Could you please shut the hell up Katz? You're hardly representative of the views on slashdot and you paint us all as zealots.
Not necessarily. If the elevation is lower, then you have to push the weight farther to get it into orbit.
Sure, it could lose 99% of its routing nodes, if all those were the internal routers inside of autonomous systems. Lose those 1% of nodes that speak a border gateway protocol (i.e. exchange routing information among autonomous systems), and suddenly you have a much larger problem.
"The Presentation overmodule works with the Platform overmodule to give programs access to a powerful and platform-independent visual interface that can present the output of programs as anything from terminal text to a 3-dimensional Hollywood-style GUI called "Tripwire" (which does shadows, transparencies, textures and light rendering better than most video game engines) depending on what the user chooses to see and what the hardware can handle."
Tripwire!? It was so revolutionary and new that they had to name it after an existing, well known security tool?
This has got to be completely made up.
No. You can only challenge the constitutionality of a law before the Supreme Court. You can only get to the Supreme Court by appealing from lower courts after being convicted. You can only get into the lower courts by being charged.
You can't just throw your hands up in the air and end up in the Supreme Court. You have to be caught and convicted long before that happens.
Both translations are pretty liberal. The most literal translation is "among arms, laws keep silent." It's a loose translation to go from "among arms" to "time of war" and also to loose the plurality of "leges." Its important to note that "silent" is a verb (third person plural), not an adjective, in case you were thinking along those lines.
"Of course, the impression I got after all of this, was that if I couldn't vote against them in an upcoming election, they didn't care about my opinion."
I don't think you understand the point of representative government. The reason why states send their own representatives is so that those representatives can express the opinions of their individual states. It's not some cold, heartless disregard for the American people, but rather a dedication to the people they represent. Wouldn't it be more of a problem if they ignored their constituents and instead listened to the most numerous stream of letters?
Except the artists signed a legal contract with full knowledge of what their compensation would be. It's not like someone turning around and stealing it from the recording companies solves anything.
It takes more than 5 words to describe how to buy (or build) a nuclear weapon, smuggle it in, coordinate those involved, and execute. Really. Hell it takes more than 5 words to order at McDonalds.
So what? You think it takes just 10 digits of data to coordinate and plan a nuclear attack? What fallacy are you living under? A huge, coordinated attack encompassed massive amounts of communication. Argue what you want about whether the terrorists using digital media, but something on the scale of the coordination needed for the procurement, operation, and execution of such a plan is more than a 10 digit "blip" on the NSA's radar.
It seems a lot of you are making an overly pessimistic assumption of our intelligence capabilities. Do you have any idea the scope and scale of the wave of attacks planned for the original 1993 bombing of the WTC? The network had planned to bomb dozens of landmarks and kill thousands of people as well as destroying 11 jetliners in the air. Yet as our intelligence came to bear on them, we discovered their plans and thankfully foiled them.
Did you see any disturbances in America on New Year's Eve 1999? Bin Laden's network had dozens of attacks planned, including armed terrorists with machine guns opening fire in malls in Jordan and bombings in many places in the US. Thankfully our intelligence recognized the importance and immediacy of the situation and our government placed sufficient resources and faith in our intelligence community that these attacks were thwarted.
The attacks that are foiled are almost never newsworthy. Keep that in mind before you knee-jerk react and point the finger at our intelligence community.
Let's review why black-box testing is a weak form of testing:
If you were a malicious group wanting to cause havoc in America, do you think you would enter a "hacker challenge" to demonstrate flaws in a system, then reveal the flaws for a moderate compensation, or do you think you would wait quietly until the system was deployed, at which point you could massively influence the elections through the flaw you discovered?
Interesting points, but you do have to remember that massively parallel systems aren't for the masses anyway, and normal programmers don't wrestle with these "0.0001%" of problems that demand this kind of power. The fact is that those small percentage of problems aren't always trivial theoretical problems that don't have impact on our lives, but are more often things of practical importance to scientists and the military. Nuclear reaction simulations (both weapons and energy), protein folding, DNA sequencing, molecular simulations...all very very intense computing problems that demand powerful computers to produce better and better simulations.
We need more programmers to program the machines? Maybe. This is an important but niche market, and throwing billions into education so that kids with bachelor's can call themselves super-computer programmers isn't the answer. The systems are already programmed by brilliant people researching these problems, doctorates all around. This isn't work for your average 15 year old 3r33t haXor, you know?
The machine in Britain would barely rank #48 on top500.org, so what's your point?
Yo jigga, you don't wanna be around when Big bad DOJ comes busting down on yo ass like an 800 pound gorilla...
Seriously tho, as much as Katz complains about corporatism in America, it is good to see our government wield the power to punish greedy corporatism severely when it is clear it has overstepped its bounds. The examples may be few of government versus big business, but their are illustrative: the judicial branch is by no means in the pocket of corporate America.
Welcome to checks and balances, limited government sphere of influence, and this is a good example of the benefits those separations bring.
It sounds like a TV with just static. Scientists have known since the early 80s that people are inescapably drawn to the sound of a staticy TV.
Does that count the people who frantically aim for the X button and miss, inadvertantly rewarding these bastards for being so annoying?