This sucks ass. I have really wanted to get a nice Alpha system, but haven't had the money yet. Now it looks like a cheap system will never materialize...
What's more, I've been working on an Alpha emulator recently, and if the architecture is going to go down the drain, then perhaps the only good implementations left will be emulations....
Say, doesn't Cray use Alphas in its T3E machines or something? I would think that that is a pretty big market... -----
I think that Microsoft's software is widespread enough to count as "publically available"... I mean, they're giving it to the public in return for money, right? They offer it to anyone.
So, if you can't use any "publically available software" to develop with this SDK, and Microsoft's software is publically available, then what CAN you use?
Does anybody know if the blank media tax applies to the CD-Rs in question? I know it applies to CD-Rs marked as "audio CD-Rs", but I dunno about everything else. -----
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Cracking OSX
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The security of OSX will depend on how fast Apple puts out patches, just like any other operating system.
And as long as people don't run lots of services by default, this OS has the potential to be just as secure as MacOS classic... -----
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This Click-Through Agreement (the "Agreement") contains the terms and conditions applicable to participation in the SDMI Public Challenge. Please read it carefully.
Who Can Participate? The SDMI Public Challenge is open to everyone except that a proponent of a particular technology (and the proponent's present and former employees) or any person who has obtained confidential information under a confidentiality agreement applicable to a particular technology may not participate in the SDMI Public Challenge for such technology.
What is being tested? There are two different types of technologies that are available for testing: (1) four different watermark technologies that are designed to detect compression and (2) two additional technologies that are designed to ensure that under certain circumstances individual tracks of an album are not admitted into an SDMI domain without the presence of the original CD.
How do you test the watermark technologies? Participants in the SDMI Public Challenge may download several samples of digital music relating to the four different watermark technologies. The terms and conditions of this Agreement apply to each such technology. For each such technology, a set of music samples -- a "triplet" of digital music - will be provided. Each triplet contains three samples of music. Two of the samples in a triplet contain the same music, where one is encoded with a digital watermark and the other is a clean, unmarked version of the same music. The third sample in the triplet is encoded with the same digital watermark, but participants will not have access to an unmarked version of the same sample. Different music samples will be provided for each technology. The goal of the participant in the SDMI Public Challenge is to determine if the watermark can be removed from the entire sample without significantly reducing the sound quality of the digital music, i.e., degrading sound quality to below that of MP3 encoding at 64 Kbps for a stereo signal or a comparative analysis using PEAQ.
How do you test the two additional technologies? In order to test the two additional technologies, you must download files from the Download Page. Along with the downloaded files, participants are provided with instructions on the goals of the SDMI Public Challenge for those technologies.
How do you know if you've succeeded in the challenge? For each technology, submit the sample file(s) demonstrating that you have successfully challenged such technology to the SDMI Foundation "oracle," at www.hackSDMI.org. You must use the original file name of the sample when you submit it to the oracle. The oracle will automatically test your submission and may contact you seeking an explanation of what you did. In order to for your challenge to be deemed successful, your submission must be reasonably capable of being reproduced. If your submission regards one of the watermark technologies and appears successful, you will be provided with additional music samples, and will be asked to reproduce the results on those additional samples.
How do you become eligible to be compensated for a successful challenge? After preliminary review of your submission, you may receive notice requesting additional information. To receive compensation for the successful challenge, you must submit your name, date of birth, contact information, step-by-step details on how you conducted the successful challenge, and any source code and/or executables that you developed to carry out the attack. You will be responsible for any applicable taxes on any compensation you may receive.
Compensation of $10,000 will be divided among the persons who submit a successful unique attack on any individual technology during the duration of the SDMI Public Challenge. In exchange for such compensation, all information you submit, and any intellectual property in such information (including source code and other executables) will become the property of the SDMI Foundation and/or the proponent of that technology. In order to receive compensation, you will be required to enter into a separate agreement, by which you will assign your rights in such intellectual property. The agreement will provide that (1) you will not be permitted to disclose any information about the details of the attack to any other party, (2) you represent and warrant that the idea for the attack is yours alone and that the attack was not devised by someone else, and (3) you authorize us to disclose that you submitted a successful challenge. If you are a minor, it will be necessary for you and your parent or guardian to sign this document, and any compensation will be paid to your parent or guardian.
You may, of course, elect not to receive compensation, in which event you will not be required to sign a separate document or assign any of your intellectual property rights, although you are still encouraged to submit details of your attack.
The SDMI Foundation will also analyze the information you have submitted in detail to determine the reproducibility of your attack. To be clear, you will be eligible for compensation for reasonably reproducible attacks only if you have not disclosed the trade secrets in your submission to anyone other than the SDMI Foundation, have assigned all your intellectual property rights in your attack to the SDMI Foundation, and have kept your submission, and all information relating to your submission, confidential. All decisions relating to the success of your challenge, the timing of your submission and all other matters pertaining to the SDMI Public Challenge shall be within the discretion of the SDMI Foundation or its designee and shall be final and binding in all respects.
What else do I need to know? By releasing encoded digital music samples for attack and other digital files, the SDMI Foundation and the technology proponents are only providing permission, under U.S. or other applicable law, to attack those particular samples and files during the duration of this SDMI Public Challenge. No permission is granted to attack or make any other use of content protected by SDMI outside of this SDMI Public Challenge. In addition, neither the SDMI Foundation, copyright owners nor the proponent of the technology being attacked, waive any rights that it or they may have under any applicable law including, without limitation, the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act, for any acts not expressly authorized by this Agreement. Moreover, no permission is granted to attack content encoded with any technology proponent outside of this SDMI Public Challenge. You are prohibited from reproducing, modifying, distributing, performing or making any other use of the samples other than as specifically authorized by this Agreement. A list of persons who have submitted successful attacks and received compensation therefor will be provided if you mail a self-addressed, stamped envelope to the SDMI Secretariat, c/o SAIC at 10260 Campus Point Drive, San Diego, California 92121 USA. We are not responsible for lost, incomplete or misdirected submissions. This offer is void where prohibited.
By clicking on the "I Agree" button below you agree to be bound by the terms of this Agreement. -----
Augh, I know this comment is a bit late for anybody to see it in the story, but oh well. If you want to see the original web page, license, AND download the test data sets, then just check out the link in my sig. -----
dude, the fucking broadcast.com server got slashdotted at the last minute, and cut me off.... luckily, i'm getting the whole thing in high quality on asf recorder. so i can watch the replay, hehehehehe. -----
Slashdot Mirror
At the usual place. Click on my sig, go into the windows_product_activation directory.
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I thought you could only hook up keyboards and mice (and the occasional cuecat) to PS/2 ports.
note to moderators: i'm not this blatantly stupid.
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Nano can be used as a drop-in GPL replacement for pico... dunno about pine...
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The original design life was 20-25 years. And those smart DEC people made sure that it was that way.
You can still get another good 10-20 years out of the Alpha....... I don't know what's gonna happen now, though.
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This sucks ass. I have really wanted to get a nice Alpha system, but haven't had the money yet. Now it looks like a cheap system will never materialize...
What's more, I've been working on an Alpha emulator recently, and if the architecture is going to go down the drain, then perhaps the only good implementations left will be emulations....
Say, doesn't Cray use Alphas in its T3E machines or something? I would think that that is a pretty big market...
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I think that Microsoft's software is widespread enough to count as "publically available"... I mean, they're giving it to the public in return for money, right? They offer it to anyone.
So, if you can't use any "publically available software" to develop with this SDK, and Microsoft's software is publically available, then what CAN you use?
hehehehehe
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Did anyone else see "IPF" and immediately think "I pee freely"?
This is not a troll, just an honest question.
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Tested Konquerer 2.1.1, Netscape 4.77, and Mozilla nightly (20010528 or somesuch), all on Linux; all failed.
So, they want you to be running either MacOS or M$FT stuff........ it's not so much the browser as the OS.
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Even if the placebo effect isn't a real thing, it still works for me, because I think it's helping somehow!
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actually, i've done just that. i put it together last summer right after the G4 cube came out, but I haven't had a chance to make a case for it yet...
K6-3/450
128MB PC100 SDRAM
Voodoo3 3000 AGP 16MB RAM TVout
intel etherexpress pro 10/100 PCI +WOL
SB AWE64 value
20GB Maxtor IDE drive
no floppy
72X Kenwood multibeam CD-ROM
250W PS
and it all fits into a tiny bit more than 8"x8"x8".........
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Does anybody know if the blank media tax applies to the CD-Rs in question? I know it applies to CD-Rs marked as "audio CD-Rs", but I dunno about everything else.
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The security of OSX will depend on how fast Apple puts out patches, just like any other operating system.
And as long as people don't run lots of services by default, this OS has the potential to be just as secure as MacOS classic...
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I've got one word for you: Jabber.
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Actually, I only peddle in animal porn ;-)
Have a nice day!
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Click-Through Agreement for the SDMI Public Challenge
This Click-Through Agreement (the "Agreement") contains the terms and conditions applicable to participation in the SDMI Public Challenge. Please read it carefully.
Who Can Participate? The SDMI Public Challenge is open to everyone except that a proponent of a particular technology (and the proponent's present and former employees) or any person who has obtained confidential information under a confidentiality agreement applicable to a particular technology may not participate in the SDMI Public Challenge for such technology.
What is being tested? There are two different types of technologies that are available for testing: (1) four different watermark technologies that are designed to detect compression and (2) two additional technologies that are designed to ensure that under certain circumstances individual tracks of an album are not admitted into an SDMI domain without the presence of the original CD.
How do you test the watermark technologies? Participants in the SDMI Public Challenge may download several samples of digital music relating to the four different watermark technologies. The terms and conditions of this Agreement apply to each such technology. For each such technology, a set of music samples -- a "triplet" of digital music - will be provided. Each triplet contains three samples of music. Two of the samples in a triplet contain the same music, where one is encoded with a digital watermark and the other is a clean, unmarked version of the same music. The third sample in the triplet is encoded with the same digital watermark, but participants will not have access to an unmarked version of the same sample. Different music samples will be provided for each technology. The goal of the participant in the SDMI Public Challenge is to determine if the watermark can be removed from the entire sample without significantly reducing the sound quality of the digital music, i.e., degrading sound quality to below that of MP3 encoding at 64 Kbps for a stereo signal or a comparative analysis using PEAQ.
How do you test the two additional technologies? In order to test the two additional technologies, you must download files from the Download Page. Along with the downloaded files, participants are provided with instructions on the goals of the SDMI Public Challenge for those technologies.
How do you know if you've succeeded in the challenge? For each technology, submit the sample file(s) demonstrating that you have successfully challenged such technology to the SDMI Foundation "oracle," at www.hackSDMI.org. You must use the original file name of the sample when you submit it to the oracle. The oracle will automatically test your submission and may contact you seeking an explanation of what you did. In order to for your challenge to be deemed successful, your submission must be reasonably capable of being reproduced. If your submission regards one of the watermark technologies and appears successful, you will be provided with additional music samples, and will be asked to reproduce the results on those additional samples.
How do you become eligible to be compensated for a successful challenge? After preliminary review of your submission, you may receive notice requesting additional information. To receive compensation for the successful challenge, you must submit your name, date of birth, contact information, step-by-step details on how you conducted the successful challenge, and any source code and/or executables that you developed to carry out the attack. You will be responsible for any applicable taxes on any compensation you may receive.
Compensation of $10,000 will be divided among the persons who submit a successful unique attack on any individual technology during the duration of the SDMI Public Challenge. In exchange for such compensation, all information you submit, and any intellectual property in such information (including source code and other executables) will become the property of the SDMI Foundation and/or the proponent of that technology. In order to receive compensation, you will be required to enter into a separate agreement, by which you will assign your rights in such intellectual property. The agreement will provide that (1) you will not be permitted to disclose any information about the details of the attack to any other party, (2) you represent and warrant that the idea for the attack is yours alone and that the attack was not devised by someone else, and (3) you authorize us to disclose that you submitted a successful challenge. If you are a minor, it will be necessary for you and your parent or guardian to sign this document, and any compensation will be paid to your parent or guardian.
You may, of course, elect not to receive compensation, in which event you will not be required to sign a separate document or assign any of your intellectual property rights, although you are still encouraged to submit details of your attack.
The SDMI Foundation will also analyze the information you have submitted in detail to determine the reproducibility of your attack. To be clear, you will be eligible for compensation for reasonably reproducible attacks only if you have not disclosed the trade secrets in your submission to anyone other than the SDMI Foundation, have assigned all your intellectual property rights in your attack to the SDMI Foundation, and have kept your submission, and all information relating to your submission, confidential. All decisions relating to the success of your challenge, the timing of your submission and all other matters pertaining to the SDMI Public Challenge shall be within the discretion of the SDMI Foundation or its designee and shall be final and binding in all respects.
What else do I need to know? By releasing encoded digital music samples for attack and other digital files, the SDMI Foundation and the technology proponents are only providing permission, under U.S. or other applicable law, to attack those particular samples and files during the duration of this SDMI Public Challenge. No permission is granted to attack or make any other use of content protected by SDMI outside of this SDMI Public Challenge. In addition, neither the SDMI Foundation, copyright owners nor the proponent of the technology being attacked, waive any rights that it or they may have under any applicable law including, without limitation, the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act, for any acts not expressly authorized by this Agreement. Moreover, no permission is granted to attack content encoded with any technology proponent outside of this SDMI Public Challenge. You are prohibited from reproducing, modifying, distributing, performing or making any other use of the samples other than as specifically authorized by this Agreement. A list of persons who have submitted successful attacks and received compensation therefor will be provided if you mail a self-addressed, stamped envelope to the SDMI Secretariat, c/o SAIC at 10260 Campus Point Drive, San Diego, California 92121 USA. We are not responsible for lost, incomplete or misdirected submissions. This offer is void where prohibited.
By clicking on the "I Agree" button below you agree to be bound by the terms of this Agreement.
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Good job! Mirror early, mirror often.
You appear to have the whole document made into a link, though. Might wanna fix that.
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I have now put the Princeton paper up there as well. There's also a paper done by two French dudes, that has been up there for a while now.
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http://diddl.firehead.org/censor/hacksdmi.org/prin ceton-paper/
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I have a paper done by two French dudes who hacked it. I am currently getting what I hope is a copy of the paper in question for this article.
All of this stuff, as well as the original watermarked files, can be found here.
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It is specifically Solaris x86 running on a laptop.
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Augh, I know this comment is a bit late for anybody to see it in the story, but oh well. If you want to see the original web page, license, AND download the test data sets, then just check out the link in my sig.
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dude, the fucking broadcast.com server got slashdotted at the last minute, and cut me off.... luckily, i'm getting the whole thing in high quality on asf recorder. so i can watch the replay, hehehehehe.
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Yeah, bite me, I'm a techy user and I still prefer Slackware.
I could go on, but others will, so I'll just say this:
Slackware isn't dead, its death is always overrated, Slackware is something that will never die, bla, bla, bla.
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There will be a copy in the Censored Archive as soon as I'm finished downloading it.
.sig.
Link is in my
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As ESR put it...
"I get very angry whenever somebody compares open source to communism!"
Communism is where you must share what you have produced, with a gun to your head. If you refuse, you are thrown into jail or killed.
With open source, you have the FREEDOM to share what you make with others, and the FREEDOM to use freely what others have decided to give away.
Big difference, forced vs. voluntary sharing.
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