TC goes much further than a unique identification number, though I'd be against that too. The TC chip is essentially a hardware secutiry mechanism that will only allow code to interact with the TC OS (or the TC internet site, or whatever) if it's been digitally signed by the private key, which Intel, AMD and MS will own.
Exactly. TC is designed to do nothing less than change root on your system from yourself to whoever has the TC's private key. These companies realise that software based security is never going to prevent people from doing exactly what they like with their systems, and so are moving to take control of the hardware away from the end user. If preventing piracy was the only outcome of this,:shrug: fine. But anybody who has taken a cursory glance at human history knows that power is always abused.
TC will be optional at first, of course, but I suspect that as more and more devices have this installed (and they will, look at the companies backing this) it will slowly become impossible to use a PC without it. Insidious and extremely dangerous. I'm not against the idea of security implemented in hardware, but that hardware has to remain under the control of the owner, that equals a user override for anything the TC chip does, otherwise we no longer own our own PC's.
Dark Energy is at least as much of a fudge as Einstein's cosmological constant IMO. There is no direct evidence for it. The equations of relativity don't agree with observed data. So rather than questioning whether Einsteins theory of gravity holds at these scales, or looking for other explanations for the data, we simply say some mysterious force nobody has ever observed first hand must be pushing against gravity. Might be true, but it's a long way from proven. The evidence for dark energy and dark matter have always been tenuous, they're just things we postulate must exist for other theories to still be true.
$100k per machine. I doubt it somehow. I'm not familiar with the laws on this issue, so maybe i'm wrong here, but in my experience even corporate manslaughter is rarely punished seriously by the courts. I can't imagine they'll impose billions in fines over a rootkit.
I expect a token slap on the wrist fine for sony and some bad publicity. Corporate execs will change their behaviour when they're held personally accountable and the company is fined a meaningful percentage of profits.
Great, now not only do I have to pay for us to host this bloody circus out of my tax money but they can ban me from speaking the words "summer 2012" too. Nice.
The olympics has become nothing more than another oppurtunity for business to get their snouts in the trough, the public funds some pointless building program for massive sports venues that will never be used again and the only ones to benifit are the sponsors and the contractors. Any of the old olympic values are long gone and forgotten anyway, it's all about cash. Spend the money that will be spent on the Olympics bringing some genuinely usefull redevelopment to east london that will actually benifit people, not on this pointless joke.
This is the story in the words of one of the ET admins themselves. Copied From ET IRC.
[23:29] [Bleach] Ok this is the deal people listen closely [23:29] [Bleach] This whole ordeal started with a STOLEN workprint form lucas films [23:30] [Bleach] This promted a FEDERAL investigation on that particular release [23:30] [Bleach] Now MPAA could not touch ET (civily) but because a CRIMINAL [23:30] [Bleach] CASE was issued that now changes the RULES [23:30] [Bleach] lucas wanted someones head on a platter [23:30] [Bleach] Said it cost the film Big dollars making it a felony [23:31] [Bleach] Said it was taken over seas to foreign countries [23:31] [Bleach] thus bringing in ICE [23:31] [Bleach] NOW someone from ET leaked to the WRONG people that ET had this release up [23:31] [Bleach] 6 hours prior to its first showin [23:31] [Bleach] And that it was DL 10k times [23:32] [Bleach] This focused the CRIMINAL case on to ET [23:32] [Bleach] (thinking it was probably someone here) BUT NO IT WAS NOT ANYONE FROM ET WHO STOLE THE MOVIE [23:32] [Bleach] FBI shuts ET down issue warrants for admins PC [23:32] [Bleach] NOT ALL WARRANTS WERE ET STAFF [23:33] [Bleach] TWO admins were raided and ONLY their PC was taken [23:33] [Bleach] NO arrest have been made [23:33] [Bleach] No other details have been leaked [23:33] [Bleach] Right now there is still a CRIMINAL case going on with the SW3 WORKPRINT RELEASE [23:34] [Bleach] Those who DL may have something to worry about [23:34] [Bleach] BUT for now only those who made it AVAILABLE has to worry about it [23:35] [Bleach] NOw I DO NOT [23:35] [Bleach] KNOW what is to become of the logs with the star wars DL [23:35] [Bleach] I DONT KNOW what Kryl0n is doing [23:35] [Bleach] or gone to [23:36] [Bleach] This came from a MOD who called to update someone on what happened to the 2 admins [23:36] [Bleach] That is it for now [23:37] [Bleach] Actually i got a PM right now from a END USER who got searched [23:37] [Bleach] HE/she DL star wars 3 [23:37] [Bleach] WORKPRINT
If you want to make technically sound products I think you need technically sound people making the decisions.
You don't need to be the greatest technical genius in the world to run the company but you do need to understand what the company does, how it operates internally, and prefarably understand what those "below" you actually have to spend their time doing. Obviously technical knowledge alone doesn't make a good manager, but it's still important.
The German Automotive industy always had a tradition of promoting staff with technical experience from within the ranks of the company and as a result always produced reliable, well built, quality cars.
The American car industry on the other hand...
Of course it's quite possible to make good money with bad products, Microsoft is not the biggest software company in the world because of their track record of innovation....
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Okay. Well, here's the thing folks. This project isn't meant to be a personal computer to be installed in the hut of some starving family.
Exactly what I was thinking. This project clearly isn't aimed at those in desperate danger of starvation or suffering from disease (which according to some people here is seemingly the entire developing world). This is surely aimed much more at those many countries/areas where providing eduaction and development on a very limited budget are the problems, and where something like this could actually be pretty usefull.
MS just bought giant AS and rebranded their product as Microsoft. As far as I can tell there's very little change to the program itself beyond the branding.
Giant has always been among the top antispyware products, as evidenced by Failing Grades for most anti-spyware tools so this "MS should know their own security holes better than anyone" stuff isn't strictly relevant. I think MS should foucus more on fixing the secuity problems in IE that are responsible for 90%+ of spyware infections rather than sticking plaster over the holes by buying up anti-spyware solutions. Is this even going to be free when it's released?
Personally I prefer webroot spysweeper anyway, Giant has always generated too many false positives for me.
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TC goes much further than a unique identification number, though I'd be against that too. The TC chip is essentially a hardware secutiry mechanism that will only allow code to interact with the TC OS (or the TC internet site, or whatever) if it's been digitally signed by the private key, which Intel, AMD and MS will own.
Exactly. TC is designed to do nothing less than change root on your system from yourself to whoever has the TC's private key. :shrug: fine. But anybody who has taken a cursory glance at human history knows that power is always abused.
These companies realise that software based security is never going to prevent people from doing exactly what they like with their systems, and so are moving to take control of the hardware away from the end user. If preventing piracy was the only outcome of this,
TC will be optional at first, of course, but I suspect that as more and more devices have this installed (and they will, look at the companies backing this) it will slowly become impossible to use a PC without it.
Insidious and extremely dangerous. I'm not against the idea of security implemented in hardware, but that hardware has to remain under the control of the owner, that equals a user override for anything the TC chip does, otherwise we no longer own our own PC's.
Dark Energy is at least as much of a fudge as Einstein's cosmological constant IMO. There is no direct evidence for it.
The equations of relativity don't agree with observed data. So rather than questioning whether Einsteins theory of gravity holds at these scales, or looking for other explanations for the data, we simply say some mysterious force nobody has ever observed first hand must be pushing against gravity. Might be true, but it's a long way from proven.
The evidence for dark energy and dark matter have always been tenuous, they're just things we postulate must exist for other theories to still be true.
$100k per machine. I doubt it somehow. I'm not familiar with the laws on this issue, so maybe i'm wrong here, but in my experience even corporate manslaughter is rarely punished seriously by the courts. I can't imagine they'll impose billions in fines over a rootkit.
I expect a token slap on the wrist fine for sony and some bad publicity. Corporate execs will change their behaviour when they're held personally accountable and the company is fined a meaningful percentage of profits.
Great, now not only do I have to pay for us to host this bloody circus out of my tax money but they can ban me from speaking the words "summer 2012" too. Nice.
The olympics has become nothing more than another oppurtunity for business to get their snouts in the trough, the public funds some pointless building program for massive sports venues that will never be used again and the only ones to benifit are the sponsors and the contractors.
Any of the old olympic values are long gone and forgotten anyway, it's all about cash.
Spend the money that will be spent on the Olympics bringing some genuinely usefull redevelopment to east london that will actually benifit people, not on this pointless joke.
This is the story in the words of one of the ET admins themselves. Copied From ET IRC.
[23:29] [Bleach] Ok this is the deal people listen closely
[23:29] [Bleach] This whole ordeal started with a STOLEN workprint form lucas films
[23:30] [Bleach] This promted a FEDERAL investigation on that particular release
[23:30] [Bleach] Now MPAA could not touch ET (civily) but because a CRIMINAL
[23:30] [Bleach] CASE was issued that now changes the RULES
[23:30] [Bleach] lucas wanted someones head on a platter
[23:30] [Bleach] Said it cost the film Big dollars making it a felony
[23:31] [Bleach] Said it was taken over seas to foreign countries
[23:31] [Bleach] thus bringing in ICE
[23:31] [Bleach] NOW someone from ET leaked to the WRONG people that ET had this release up
[23:31] [Bleach] 6 hours prior to its first showin
[23:31] [Bleach] And that it was DL 10k times
[23:32] [Bleach] This focused the CRIMINAL case on to ET
[23:32] [Bleach] (thinking it was probably someone here) BUT NO IT WAS NOT ANYONE FROM ET WHO STOLE THE MOVIE
[23:32] [Bleach] FBI shuts ET down issue warrants for admins PC
[23:32] [Bleach] NOT ALL WARRANTS WERE ET STAFF
[23:33] [Bleach] TWO admins were raided and ONLY their PC was taken
[23:33] [Bleach] NO arrest have been made
[23:33] [Bleach] No other details have been leaked
[23:33] [Bleach] Right now there is still a CRIMINAL case going on with the SW3 WORKPRINT RELEASE
[23:34] [Bleach] Those who DL may have something to worry about
[23:34] [Bleach] BUT for now only those who made it AVAILABLE has to worry about it
[23:35] [Bleach] NOw I DO NOT
[23:35] [Bleach] KNOW what is to become of the logs with the star wars DL
[23:35] [Bleach] I DONT KNOW what Kryl0n is doing
[23:35] [Bleach] or gone to
[23:36] [Bleach] This came from a MOD who called to update someone on what happened to the 2 admins
[23:36] [Bleach] That is it for now
[23:37] [Bleach] Actually i got a PM right now from a END USER who got searched
[23:37] [Bleach] HE/she DL star wars 3
[23:37] [Bleach] WORKPRINT
If you want to make technically sound products I think you need technically sound people making the decisions.
You don't need to be the greatest technical genius in the world to run the company but you do need to understand what the company does, how it operates internally, and prefarably understand what those "below" you actually have to spend their time doing. Obviously technical knowledge alone doesn't make a good manager, but it's still important. The German Automotive industy always had a tradition of promoting staff with technical experience from within the ranks of the company and as a result always produced reliable, well built, quality cars.
The American car industry on the other hand...
Of course it's quite possible to make good money with bad products, Microsoft is not the biggest software company in the world because of their track record of innovation....
Okay. Well, here's the thing folks. This project isn't meant to be a personal computer to be installed in the hut of some starving family.
Exactly what I was thinking. This project clearly isn't aimed at those in desperate danger of starvation or suffering from disease (which according to some people here is seemingly the entire developing world). This is surely aimed much more at those many countries/areas where providing eduaction and development on a very limited budget are the problems, and where something like this could actually be pretty usefull.
MS just bought giant AS and rebranded their product as Microsoft. As far as I can tell there's very little change to the program itself beyond the branding.
Giant has always been among the top antispyware products, as evidenced by Failing Grades for most anti-spyware tools so this "MS should know their own security holes better than anyone" stuff isn't strictly relevant. I think MS should foucus more on fixing the secuity problems in IE that are responsible for 90%+ of spyware infections rather than sticking plaster over the holes by buying up anti-spyware solutions. Is this even going to be free when it's released?
Personally I prefer webroot spysweeper anyway, Giant has always generated too many false positives for me.