Or would have done. Well, first they would have blocked DNS for site too, but that was dropped from the bill after the early complains.
After that, all SOPA/PIPA did was make it possible to block payments to sites which hosted infringing content.
I would say that the rejection of SOPA/PIPA means the internet rejected this idea, except i think few actually bothered to read or understand SOPA/PIPA before passing judgement on them.
They can institute rolling blackouts without smart meters. They just cut the power. I know, I went through a lot of them in the Enron-driven California power crisis. And that was before smart meters!
And CISPA has nothing to do with this. CISPA doesn't even require any more data collection or submission. It makes it legal for companies to share internet traffic data, but it doesn't require them to do so and doesn't give the government any (new) way to demand them.
The law is explicit. It is illegal to sell technology to Iran. And the law is explicit that if you know the technology will be exported, you cannot sell it.
I know you're trying to draw a moral parallel. But this case is specifically against the law. Other cases you can describe may not be.
There's a lot more to this than just asking slashdot what wires to run. Once it's set up, someone will have to keep it working. And slashdot won't be able to help you with that.
Hire a company that does this as a business. Hire them to set it up and contract them to keep it running.
They've been getting away with it for a while. Check out the situation with Dual Shock on the PS3.
Immersion decides to patent troll the gaming industry over rumble force feedback, claiming they have the patents on it even though as a corporation they eschewed simple "rumble".
So MS settles with Immersion, giving Immersion money with the requirement that they continue to press their case against Sony and that MS will get a cut of any monies from those suits if there is a settlement.
We find out about it when MS discovers the risk of deal with an extortionist with low morals after Immersion takes the money from Sony and runs.
"Apple has already sold millions of iPads across the U.K., Europe and Australia, while the vast majority are unaware that they will not be able to connect to high-speed mobile broadband networks."
Have any citation for the bald assertion that the vast majority of iPad owners don't know their iPad won't be able to connect to high-speed mobile broadband networks?
There are also other flights where lithium ion fires are suspected but not anywhere near conclusively proven, like Asiana Air 991 linked in that article.
Talk about paranoia. Why do people find it so hard to believe someone is doing their job instead of just being out to inconvenience them?
Most equipment in your house can handle minor surges. Furthermore, most of the surges seen in your house will be generated within the house and so this won't stop them.
This would only be useful for massive external surges (i.e lightning), which it is unlikely to stop anyway.
The screen shows just a generic outline with a highlighted area of where something was detected.
However, this doesn't end the privacy concerns. The device still has a full-res picture (visualization) in it, it just doesn't put it on the screen. And I don't believe for a minute that the device doesn't store the picture despite what they say. If I were designing the system, I'd store the picture at least for a couple days.
What happens if they are doing testing where they try to sneak weapons on board and they make it on? You would want the data so it can be analyzed after the fact to see why the system didn't detect them. What happens if a plane blows up? You would want to look at the images to see if the software missed a carried device.
There's no way you'd just throw the data away, it really harms your capability to improve the system over time.
Cree's light replacements have excellent CRI and color temperature, and very long life. They are dynamite replacements for incandescent downlights (architectural cans). But they aren't as efficient as Philips' bulbs (60 lumens per Watt versus 94).
The Philips LumiLEDs emitters (aka Luxeon) are as good as Cree LEDs.
I own a couple excellent flashlights that use Cree LEDs. They aren't actually as efficient a the Philips L Prize bulb, but they do throw a ton of light and have very good battery life considering how much light they throw.
Also, a car headlamp isn't as bright as you think, it is partially so bright because it throws all the light in one direction. My Fenix TK35 uses a Cree LED and does appear to be as bright as a car headlamp. But it's only 820 lumens, a Philips L Prize bulb is 940. A car headlamp (or my TK35) appears to be so bright because it throws all the light in one direction. A normal house light bulb has to throw omnidirectionally, meaning it illluminates a much larger area. A car headlamp would cover less than one octant.
Where did you get the idea otherwise? And LED emitters are not called "bulbs".
The Philips L Prize bulb (similar to this one) has been tested, heat isn't a problem. You can be quite certain of getting the rated life. They don't have a 100W version yet, maybe there is a heat problem as you say.
First, if you timestamp it, you don't need to salt it. The password would effectively have a lifetime of minutes at best, so adding a salt doesn't improve anything.
Second, your idea ruins the whole point of using a trapdoor function (what the internet means by "hash"). The point of the trapdoor function is that the server doesn't have to have your password stored on it, because you can just verify the password presented by comparing a hashed form of the presented password to the hash you have stored.
But with a time+password hashing scheme, the server must know the user's password because each time the user logs in, the must construct a new hash from the password and the current time.
So, if your server is going to know the password, just use a shared secret system like SRP. Then you get two-way mutual authentication too.
Come on, let's not overromanticize DropBox here. They didn't invent the online storage business either. There were several companies in it during the.com boom, even Apple got into it before DropBox (and back out).
DropBox entered into a business which is less a business dependent on client software but more on network infrastructure, something Google excels at.
So just to ask, when was Google the first into a market? Not search. Not ads. Not mail. Not voice (they bought Grand Central).
They're the same as they ever were. They aren't first, but sometimes they do a better job or change up the business model.
They found the testing parameters weren't right. That doesn't mean it has a safety flaw. It doesn't even mean it wouldn't pass the testing with the right parameters.
Given how overbuilt and designed these things are it's unlikely this would result in a safety issue.
You think you're saving money, but you do give up some guarantees.
Oddly, it works out worst for the richest people. The "suggested donations" required to ensure fair treatment tend to get larger the richer you are. Or just the richer they think you are.
You could put one into an implementation of the ISA.
If you wanted to put a backdoor into an implementation, you could easily do so with x86-64. It has instructions specifically used for AES. Just wire those to record keys, substitute keys or not actually encrypt and you're off and running.
Of course, since any ISA and implementation is Turing-complete without the specialized crypto instructions, you could just use the non-specialized instructions to do your work and then it would be a lot harder for the chip to save off your keys or data.
If a game is going to use my GPU to mine bitcoins for the other end, they should have to tell me. Because otherwise they're just taking money from me and having my electric utility do the billing for them.
Note that anyone who is on a pay-per-bandwidth internet plan is in the same boat with ad-supported software. You are paying the maker of the software, just your ISP is doing the billing for them.
The devil is in the details. It isn't a question as to whether a hardware device can be manufactured that runs your code, it is provably possible.
The issue is how cost-efficient is the SoC. How power efficient. How does it perform, does it do any more parallelism than a CPU would do if you just fed it the compiled code.
It's interesting you point this out in this thread. Because if you attach a controller to your 360 to charge it, the 360 goes into a special mode to charge it. In this mode on my original 360, it took about 40W. It would leave the mode and go to true off/standby when the controller was charged.
I dunno about encouraging the device being left on 24x7. If you owned an original PS3, you'd have noticed it was so damn loud you couldn't really leave it on 24/7 unless you had a separate wing of your house to put it in.
Get a separate charger or just have two controllers. Use one until it runs out of juice, then plug it into the PS3 to charge and switch to the other. Even though your PS3 is off most of the time, it's on and charging that controller when you are using the other. So you'll always have one charged.
That's a display that can be viewed with reflected light (light from the front) or with a backlight (light from the back).
You've probably owned at least one. Blackberries and iPods used to have them.
The problem is that they don't have good contrast ratios. This is because when you make the display reflective, it reflects room lighting. This raises the black level (darkest a pixel can be), and so the contrast ratio (which is brightest to darkest pixel) drops.
So displays went to transmissive only to increase contrast. That's why you can't see the display on your portable device if the backlight is off anymore.
It's rather unlikely Pixel Qi has overcome this issue. More likely they just use testing environments that make it look like their displays are better than they actually are in normal use. That's de rigeur in the LCD (or displays in general) business anyway.
Given that cars already have black boxes that record this data, why do you care if a law is passed about how it can be used? You claim the government pays no heed to what the law says they can do, so why do you care if the law is changed in this regard?
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Or would have done. Well, first they would have blocked DNS for site too, but that was dropped from the bill after the early complains.
After that, all SOPA/PIPA did was make it possible to block payments to sites which hosted infringing content.
I would say that the rejection of SOPA/PIPA means the internet rejected this idea, except i think few actually bothered to read or understand SOPA/PIPA before passing judgement on them.
They can institute rolling blackouts without smart meters. They just cut the power. I know, I went through a lot of them in the Enron-driven California power crisis. And that was before smart meters!
And CISPA has nothing to do with this. CISPA doesn't even require any more data collection or submission. It makes it legal for companies to share internet traffic data, but it doesn't require them to do so and doesn't give the government any (new) way to demand them.
The law is explicit. It is illegal to sell technology to Iran. And the law is explicit that if you know the technology will be exported, you cannot sell it.
I know you're trying to draw a moral parallel. But this case is specifically against the law. Other cases you can describe may not be.
There's a lot more to this than just asking slashdot what wires to run. Once it's set up, someone will have to keep it working. And slashdot won't be able to help you with that.
Hire a company that does this as a business. Hire them to set it up and contract them to keep it running.
They've been getting away with it for a while. Check out the situation with Dual Shock on the PS3.
Immersion decides to patent troll the gaming industry over rumble force feedback, claiming they have the patents on it even though as a corporation they eschewed simple "rumble".
So MS settles with Immersion, giving Immersion money with the requirement that they continue to press their case against Sony and that MS will get a cut of any monies from those suits if there is a settlement.
We find out about it when MS discovers the risk of deal with an extortionist with low morals after Immersion takes the money from Sony and runs.
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/196042/microsoft-lands-force-feedback-payout/
"Apple has already sold millions of iPads across the U.K., Europe and Australia, while the vast majority are unaware that they will not be able to connect to high-speed mobile broadband networks."
Have any citation for the bald assertion that the vast majority of iPad owners don't know their iPad won't be able to connect to high-speed mobile broadband networks?
And they're not designed to be untraceable.
Just because you didn't hear of it doesn't mean it didn't happen.
Although official conclusions are not out yet, it is strongly believed that UPS Air flight 6 crashed due to a lithium battery fire.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPS_Airlines_Flight_6
There are also other flights where lithium ion fires are suspected but not anywhere near conclusively proven, like Asiana Air 991 linked in that article.
Talk about paranoia. Why do people find it so hard to believe someone is doing their job instead of just being out to inconvenience them?
Most equipment in your house can handle minor surges. Furthermore, most of the surges seen in your house will be generated within the house and so this won't stop them.
This would only be useful for massive external surges (i.e lightning), which it is unlikely to stop anyway.
The airport in Bozeman, Montana did at least.
The screen shows just a generic outline with a highlighted area of where something was detected.
However, this doesn't end the privacy concerns. The device still has a full-res picture (visualization) in it, it just doesn't put it on the screen. And I don't believe for a minute that the device doesn't store the picture despite what they say. If I were designing the system, I'd store the picture at least for a couple days.
What happens if they are doing testing where they try to sneak weapons on board and they make it on? You would want the data so it can be analyzed after the fact to see why the system didn't detect them. What happens if a plane blows up? You would want to look at the images to see if the software missed a carried device.
There's no way you'd just throw the data away, it really harms your capability to improve the system over time.
So I still have privacy concerns.
No, they can't do 208 lumens per watt from 120V AC.
http://creelighting.com/products/downlights/6inchdownlights/CR6.aspx
Cree's light replacements have excellent CRI and color temperature, and very long life. They are dynamite replacements for incandescent downlights (architectural cans). But they aren't as efficient as Philips' bulbs (60 lumens per Watt versus 94).
The Philips LumiLEDs emitters (aka Luxeon) are as good as Cree LEDs.
I own a couple excellent flashlights that use Cree LEDs. They aren't actually as efficient a the Philips L Prize bulb, but they do throw a ton of light and have very good battery life considering how much light they throw.
Also, a car headlamp isn't as bright as you think, it is partially so bright because it throws all the light in one direction. My Fenix TK35 uses a Cree LED and does appear to be as bright as a car headlamp. But it's only 820 lumens, a Philips L Prize bulb is 940. A car headlamp (or my TK35) appears to be so bright because it throws all the light in one direction. A normal house light bulb has to throw omnidirectionally, meaning it illluminates a much larger area. A car headlamp would cover less than one octant.
Where did you get the idea otherwise? And LED emitters are not called "bulbs".
The Philips L Prize bulb (similar to this one) has been tested, heat isn't a problem. You can be quite certain of getting the rated life. They don't have a 100W version yet, maybe there is a heat problem as you say.
Under $30 sounds nice.
EnduraLED/AmbientLED are the lesser line with lower efficiency and lower CRI (worse color rendition).
The Endura/Ambient series predates the L Prize bulbs by a couple years.
Not at 60Hz or 120Hz. There is no noticeable flicker or pulsing even when dimmed.
First, if you timestamp it, you don't need to salt it. The password would effectively have a lifetime of minutes at best, so adding a salt doesn't improve anything.
Second, your idea ruins the whole point of using a trapdoor function (what the internet means by "hash"). The point of the trapdoor function is that the server doesn't have to have your password stored on it, because you can just verify the password presented by comparing a hashed form of the presented password to the hash you have stored.
But with a time+password hashing scheme, the server must know the user's password because each time the user logs in, the must construct a new hash from the password and the current time.
So, if your server is going to know the password, just use a shared secret system like SRP. Then you get two-way mutual authentication too.
It wasn't so much they stole as they infringed on patents.
Stac felt their patents covered software Microsoft bought from Vertisoft, improved upon and rolled into MS-DOS.
Stac was found to steal from MS though.
Come on, let's not overromanticize DropBox here. They didn't invent the online storage business either. There were several companies in it during the .com boom, even Apple got into it before DropBox (and back out).
DropBox entered into a business which is less a business dependent on client software but more on network infrastructure, something Google excels at.
So just to ask, when was Google the first into a market? Not search. Not ads. Not mail. Not voice (they bought Grand Central).
They're the same as they ever were. They aren't first, but sometimes they do a better job or change up the business model.
They found the testing parameters weren't right. That doesn't mean it has a safety flaw. It doesn't even mean it wouldn't pass the testing with the right parameters.
Given how overbuilt and designed these things are it's unlikely this would result in a safety issue.
You think you're saving money, but you do give up some guarantees.
Oddly, it works out worst for the richest people. The "suggested donations" required to ensure fair treatment tend to get larger the richer you are. Or just the richer they think you are.
You could put one into an implementation of the ISA.
If you wanted to put a backdoor into an implementation, you could easily do so with x86-64. It has instructions specifically used for AES. Just wire those to record keys, substitute keys or not actually encrypt and you're off and running.
Of course, since any ISA and implementation is Turing-complete without the specialized crypto instructions, you could just use the non-specialized instructions to do your work and then it would be a lot harder for the chip to save off your keys or data.
If a game is going to use my GPU to mine bitcoins for the other end, they should have to tell me. Because otherwise they're just taking money from me and having my electric utility do the billing for them.
Note that anyone who is on a pay-per-bandwidth internet plan is in the same boat with ad-supported software. You are paying the maker of the software, just your ISP is doing the billing for them.
The devil is in the details. It isn't a question as to whether a hardware device can be manufactured that runs your code, it is provably possible.
The issue is how cost-efficient is the SoC. How power efficient. How does it perform, does it do any more parallelism than a CPU would do if you just fed it the compiled code.
It's interesting you point this out in this thread. Because if you attach a controller to your 360 to charge it, the 360 goes into a special mode to charge it. In this mode on my original 360, it took about 40W. It would leave the mode and go to true off/standby when the controller was charged.
I dunno about encouraging the device being left on 24x7. If you owned an original PS3, you'd have noticed it was so damn loud you couldn't really leave it on 24/7 unless you had a separate wing of your house to put it in.
Get a separate charger or just have two controllers. Use one until it runs out of juice, then plug it into the PS3 to charge and switch to the other. Even though your PS3 is off most of the time, it's on and charging that controller when you are using the other. So you'll always have one charged.
That's a display that can be viewed with reflected light (light from the front) or with a backlight (light from the back).
You've probably owned at least one. Blackberries and iPods used to have them.
The problem is that they don't have good contrast ratios. This is because when you make the display reflective, it reflects room lighting. This raises the black level (darkest a pixel can be), and so the contrast ratio (which is brightest to darkest pixel) drops.
So displays went to transmissive only to increase contrast. That's why you can't see the display on your portable device if the backlight is off anymore.
It's rather unlikely Pixel Qi has overcome this issue. More likely they just use testing environments that make it look like their displays are better than they actually are in normal use. That's de rigeur in the LCD (or displays in general) business anyway.
Given that cars already have black boxes that record this data, why do you care if a law is passed about how it can be used? You claim the government pays no heed to what the law says they can do, so why do you care if the law is changed in this regard?