It just makes it infeasible to inject known plaintext into the real filesystem, but someone can simply corrupt the ciphertext image and therefore corrupt the real filesystem.
If you were able to do several lunch-time attacks over time, you might also be able to do 'traffic analysis' to figure out which files were system files, correlate that with a security update, then replace the updated software with an older, vulnerable version by re-writing old ciphertext. This would be particularly easy if, for example,/home is mounted on a different encrypted volume than/usr.
CA's shouldn't be non-profit, they should not exist at all. The whole browser trust model is a hack to work around the fact that the DNS provided no authentication mechanism.
Actually what the germans would have done instead of trying to bomb bletchley (which they likely could have done using the knickebein , X-beam or Y-beam bombing system depending on date) was to change their encryption systems to something more secure.
An interesting thing I find here so far, though, is that there's so many people decrying the antitrust investigation of Google for being "too successful" but going on about how Microsoft should go under an antitrust investigation for being...too successful.
Having programmed in versions of MS BASIC that limited variable names to 2 letters, I find the M$ moniker to be a rather sophisticated slur, albeit a somewhat obscure one.
There's nothing wrong with charging per kilobyte. What they should do is *only* charge per kilobyte, and not differentiate between "voice", "local calls", "tethered data", "text messaging", etc. It's absurd that it's cheaper to acoustically-couple a 300-baud modem to your cell phone for 5 minutes than it is to transfer the equivalent amount of data over text messaging, despite the massive overhead of the audio traffic.
I think we can agree that Canadian copyright laws are definitely more reasonable (while imperfect) than those of the US.
I am Canadian and I disagree. U.S. copyright law (especially pre-DMCA copyright law) is more reasonable in many ways than Canadian law. For example, in the U.S., "Crown copyright" is replaced by the public domain, and American "fair use" is much broader than Canadian "fair dealing".
Don't be so daft. If Microsoft's past behaviour is any indication, they wouldn't sue Debian. They'd sue individual Debian users and distributors. Look at what they did to TomTom.
Microsoft's strategy seems to be to make "FOSS" and "non-commercial" equivalent. Part of this strategy is to treat "commercial" and "open source" as a dichotomy in all their PR materials, and part of this strategy is to scare anyone who dares to use FOSS commercially.
So, even in the highly unlikely event that they were able to use the patent to stop any given free software implementation of their technology, it is almost inconceivable that there would be any monetary damages--just an order to stop distributing the technology.
"Just" an order to stop distributing the technology is a tad expensive if you're a hardware manufacturer. Like TomTom.
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That's what Microsoft and the Linux Foundation are fighting against: a recommendation that there be an implied warranty that cannot be disclaimed.
(b) He's going to just declare bankruptcy anyway, so it's rather silly as an aside.
Can court judgments be discharged in bankruptcy court? I thought they couldn't (like student loans).
It just makes it infeasible to inject known plaintext into the real filesystem, but someone can simply corrupt the ciphertext image and therefore corrupt the real filesystem.
If you were able to do several lunch-time attacks over time, you might also be able to do 'traffic analysis' to figure out which files were system files, correlate that with a security update, then replace the updated software with an older, vulnerable version by re-writing old ciphertext. This would be particularly easy if, for example, /home is mounted on a different encrypted volume than /usr.
And what software will verify that hash?
I do not think the GPL has any requirement that what you distribute under it actually has to be usable by the recipient... :)
GPLv3 does.
... and get his "flashy thing"
CA's shouldn't be non-profit, they should not exist at all. The whole browser trust model is a hack to work around the fact that the DNS provided no authentication mechanism.
They can't pull this stunt with a physical book . . .
They did something similar in Canada with a Harry Potter book.
This reminds me a bit about rms's old short story, The Right To Read.
Actually what the germans would have done instead of trying to bomb bletchley (which they likely could have done using the knickebein , X-beam or Y-beam bombing system depending on date) was to change their encryption systems to something more secure.
Why "instead"?
An interesting thing I find here so far, though, is that there's so many people decrying the antitrust investigation of Google for being "too successful" but going on about how Microsoft should go under an antitrust investigation for being...too successful.
If that's what you "find", then you're not doing an honest job of looking.
Who said anything about CSD? I'm talking about tricking the voice codec into encoding data.
Having programmed in versions of MS BASIC that limited variable names to 2 letters, I find the M$ moniker to be a rather sophisticated slur, albeit a somewhat obscure one.
There's nothing wrong with charging per kilobyte. What they should do is *only* charge per kilobyte, and not differentiate between "voice", "local calls", "tethered data", "text messaging", etc. It's absurd that it's cheaper to acoustically-couple a 300-baud modem to your cell phone for 5 minutes than it is to transfer the equivalent amount of data over text messaging, despite the massive overhead of the audio traffic.
How come metric fanatics don't suggest we move to a base-10 system for angular measurements?
They have.
It would be a lot easier for protesters to organize if U.S. export law didn't prohibit exporting cryptography software to Iran.
Why is "per person" the standard? If using birth control reduces greenhouse gas emissions, why should a country be penalized for doing so?
Anyone want to dig up the Ogg Tarkin project? Theora's getting pretty old, and we could use a new codec.
you might need to borrow someone's Windows PC to update the firmware.
Nope. You just unzip and copy the update to the device. I don't remember the exact procedure, but I've done it before and it was fairly straightforward. The Sansa gear is pretty sane that way.
Sandisk's Sansa Clip and Sansa Vuse devices support Vorbis (though you might need a firmware upgrade).
I think we can agree that Canadian copyright laws are definitely more reasonable (while imperfect) than those of the US.
I am Canadian and I disagree. U.S. copyright law (especially pre-DMCA copyright law) is more reasonable in many ways than Canadian law. For example, in the U.S., "Crown copyright" is replaced by the public domain, and American "fair use" is much broader than Canadian "fair dealing".
Don't be so daft. If Microsoft's past behaviour is any indication, they wouldn't sue Debian. They'd sue individual Debian users and distributors. Look at what they did to TomTom.
Microsoft's strategy seems to be to make "FOSS" and "non-commercial" equivalent. Part of this strategy is to treat "commercial" and "open source" as a dichotomy in all their PR materials, and part of this strategy is to scare anyone who dares to use FOSS commercially.
So, even in the highly unlikely event that they were able to use the patent to stop any given free software implementation of their technology, it is almost inconceivable that there would be any monetary damages--just an order to stop distributing the technology.
"Just" an order to stop distributing the technology is a tad expensive if you're a hardware manufacturer. Like TomTom.
The trial and error school of medicine has been debunked more times than I have plucked nose hairs.
Really? Where? A quick search of Google for 'trial and error medicine' suggests that we might one day be able to do away with it.
I took her to our local GP who actually admitted that he didn't know what it was, BUT STIIL PRESCRIBED a topical steroidal cream
Uh, you realize that one way to help with a diagnosis is to give the patient some drugs and look at the response, right?