> At least today's artists aren't out committing treason.
The word "treason" has gotten so diluted these days in no small part to the fact that pretty much every generation of artists has been accused of treasonous sentiments ever since Grog drew Grunk tripping over his spear on a hunt. A few years ago, people called it treason to oppose the Iraq war. Soon it'll be something else.
The algorithms underlying AACS are quite strong. However, in order to be able to play, AACS not only delivers the encrypted content on the disk, it delivers the key itself, in an encrypted format. And they deliver the key for that in the guts of every single player. Kind of daft, isn't it?
The AACS algorithm itelf hasn't been cracked. The encryption itself is based on AES, and it has no known practical attacks against it. The industry was smart about it this time, and made the spec fully open for review. What is happening is that they keep hiding the key under the mat, and we keep finding out where it is.
OK, technically they have CSS, but it's so totally broken I don't even understand why they bother with it anymore.
Not only do they still bother with it, they come up with new ones, like ARccOS (courtesy of our good friends at Sony). That was a PITA to rip properly til recently... tho any decent one-click DVD ripper will handle it now.
Simple answer: don't make it viewable, only processable. Bury it in the CPU itself. Remove all JTAG interfaces. Legislate the design of all new CPUs. Ban imports that don't meet the standards. Nothing's wholly impossible to get out, but if you make it expensive and take long enough, you can suppress it that much more easily. The tech industry has shown a complete willingness to bend over and say "deeper" this whole time, so don't think it can't happen.
We all know how to google for "09 F9". Some of have that key committed to memory. Or emblazoned on a sticker. Or you can google for "digg revolt". How many people know to google for "45 5F"? How many tshirts will have that? How many hits are on the front page of Digg?
After a dozen more iterations, how visible will those keys be? Easily available, yes. News, no. They go back to being "eeeeevil underground hacking codes" they can more easily legislate against.
> there is no 'do not call' list for US corporations, and it's not harassment.
Correct, there is no Federal Do Not Call list. It's also irrelevant -- if they are told to stop calling, they must stop calling -- period. Anything else is harrassment. If you're a big company, just ring up your legal department, tell them the problem, and they'll craft a nice Cease and Desist letter. They live for that sort of thing.
How's this differ from humans? If you asked me what I think of Palladium, I'd say they made some pretty fun RPG's. A semantic web search will at least be able to separate the distinct definitions from each other, which is something you don't get with current lexical searches.
To say nothing of the energy requirements of populating that drive. Quoth Jeff Bonwick:
Although we'd all like Moore's Law to continue forever, quantum mechanics imposes some fundamental limits on the computation rate and information capacity of any physical device. In particular, it has been shown that 1 kilogramme of matter confined to 1 litre of space can perform at most 1051 operations per second on at most 1031 bits of information [see Seth Lloyd, "Ultimate physical limits to computation." Nature 406, 1047-1054 (2000)]. A fully populated 128-bit storage pool would contain 2128 blocks = 2137 bytes = 2140 bits; therefore the minimum mass required to hold the bits would be (2140 bits) / (1031 bits/kg) = 136 billion kg.
To operate at the 1031 bits/kg limit, however, the entire mass of the computer must be in the form of pure energy. By E=mc, the rest energy of 136 billion kg is 1.2x1028 J. The mass of the oceans is about 1.4x1021 kg. It takes about 4,000 J to raise the temperature of 1 kg of water by 1 degree Celsius, and thus about 400,000 J to heat 1 kg of water from freezing to boiling. The latent heat of vaporization adds another 2 million J/kg. Thus the energy required to boil the oceans is about 2.4x106 J/kg * 1.4x1021 kg = 3.4x1027 J. Thus, fully populating a 128-bit storage pool would, literally, require more energy than boiling the oceans.
Watching compiler messages scroll by does not constitute "learning how an OS really works".
I like how I can mix and match features in gentoo with USE flags, and I like being able to easily do source edits before a package install. Virtually everything else said about it is unmitigated hype.
The spam was probably not going directly to you, but to distribution lists you were a member of. Perhaps back in '99, email address lists were worth something to sell, so I'm not ruling it out, just applying Occam's Razor is all.
Using a tagged address is for your convenience in tracking a leak. It's hardly presentable as ironclad evidence. Most spammers strip tagged addresses anyway, so this trick will only catch the dumbest mainsleaze e-penders.
That reminds me when Sun Microsystems fielded the only yacht to have ever sunk in the Americas Cup. Sun had this tongue-in-cheek orientation video with a "thrill of victory / agony of defeat" section that showed the video clip of their yacht, with the Sun logo prominently emblazoned on the side, going to Davey Jones' Locker.
That is synchronous message passing. Async would involve setting a callback and continuing.
It's still possible to deadlock if your whole program's dataflow deadlocks, i.e. all your callbacks are circularly dependent and nothing else produces data, but async removes deadlock that happens for silly reasons like order of executing just a couple of ops.
> Those 218 swapped out megs aren't hurting you at all... why worry?
They are when the memory allocations are fragmented all over and doing something like switching a tab has to thrash through those 218 megs doing god-knows-what. It also bloats the TLB, which slows everything down every context switch.
I have a sqlite databases with over 1.5 million rows and it doesn't break a sweat even with complex queries. Perhaps the amarok folks don't know about indexes?
He's not even running, but the "Not-Bush" candidate, the one that has the best chance of grinding the GOP into the ground, into utter irrelevance, until they're as dead and forgotten as the Whig and Bull-Moose party. That's the candidate I want.
No, I don't want single-party politics. And I don't even have anything against the GOP in general other than disagreeing with them -- but in particular, its current leadership is driving us off a cliff, and it'd be nice if anyone in the GOP who isn't a black-hearted mendacious zealoutrous hateful son of a bitch would jump ship. But it'll take driving the party into the ground before that ever happens.
So they didn't set up a security question, they lost their email access, changed their drivers licenses, and closed their credit cards? At the same time?
Are you sure your friend is the same actual person every year?
It's a first-party popup that comes up fairly predictably (always on launch) on a service you're choosing to use. That's nothing if not targeted. If Steam were to start popping up "your PC needs optimization" or adverts for gaming keyboards during random game or server browsing, I suspect the clickthrough on those owuld drop precipitously. As it is, I tend not to click on them, since I'll see the same thing on the landing page anyway. Still, Steam's taken nearly a couple hundred bucks off of me already, and it's money well spent.
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> At least today's artists aren't out committing treason.
The word "treason" has gotten so diluted these days in no small part to the fact that pretty much every generation of artists has been accused of treasonous sentiments ever since Grog drew Grunk tripping over his spear on a hunt. A few years ago, people called it treason to oppose the Iraq war. Soon it'll be something else.
The algorithms underlying AACS are quite strong. However, in order to be able to play, AACS not only delivers the encrypted content on the disk, it delivers the key itself, in an encrypted format. And they deliver the key for that in the guts of every single player. Kind of daft, isn't it?
The AACS algorithm itelf hasn't been cracked. The encryption itself is based on AES, and it has no known practical attacks against it. The industry was smart about it this time, and made the spec fully open for review. What is happening is that they keep hiding the key under the mat, and we keep finding out where it is.
I guess in the future they should make a stock strip and replace the daily strip with it the second a new AACS fix is announced.
I kind of figured that's how UF was produced in the first place.
OK, technically they have CSS, but it's so totally broken I don't even understand why they bother with it anymore.
... tho any decent one-click DVD ripper will handle it now.
Not only do they still bother with it, they come up with new ones, like ARccOS (courtesy of our good friends at Sony). That was a PITA to rip properly til recently
Simple answer: don't make it viewable, only processable. Bury it in the CPU itself. Remove all JTAG interfaces. Legislate the design of all new CPUs. Ban imports that don't meet the standards. Nothing's wholly impossible to get out, but if you make it expensive and take long enough, you can suppress it that much more easily. The tech industry has shown a complete willingness to bend over and say "deeper" this whole time, so don't think it can't happen.
We all know how to google for "09 F9". Some of have that key committed to memory. Or emblazoned on a sticker. Or you can google for "digg revolt". How many people know to google for "45 5F"? How many tshirts will have that? How many hits are on the front page of Digg?
After a dozen more iterations, how visible will those keys be? Easily available, yes. News, no. They go back to being "eeeeevil underground hacking codes" they can more easily legislate against.
> Have the compiler randomize the kernel's ABI.
I believe this is called the Linux Kernel Development Process. It even scrambles the API's pretty good between iterations.
> there is no 'do not call' list for US corporations, and it's not harassment.
Correct, there is no Federal Do Not Call list. It's also irrelevant -- if they are told to stop calling, they must stop calling -- period. Anything else is harrassment. If you're a big company, just ring up your legal department, tell them the problem, and they'll craft a nice Cease and Desist letter. They live for that sort of thing.
How's this differ from humans? If you asked me what I think of Palladium, I'd say they made some pretty fun RPG's. A semantic web search will at least be able to separate the distinct definitions from each other, which is something you don't get with current lexical searches.
You are going to die alone.
Watching compiler messages scroll by does not constitute "learning how an OS really works".
I like how I can mix and match features in gentoo with USE flags, and I like being able to easily do source edits before a package install. Virtually everything else said about it is unmitigated hype.
The spam was probably not going directly to you, but to distribution lists you were a member of. Perhaps back in '99, email address lists were worth something to sell, so I'm not ruling it out, just applying Occam's Razor is all.
Using a tagged address is for your convenience in tracking a leak. It's hardly presentable as ironclad evidence. Most spammers strip tagged addresses anyway, so this trick will only catch the dumbest mainsleaze e-penders.
That reminds me when Sun Microsystems fielded the only yacht to have ever sunk in the Americas Cup. Sun had this tongue-in-cheek orientation video with a "thrill of victory / agony of defeat" section that showed the video clip of their yacht, with the Sun logo prominently emblazoned on the side, going to Davey Jones' Locker.
> MPI_Wait(Until request struct matches data);
That is synchronous message passing. Async would involve setting a callback and continuing.
It's still possible to deadlock if your whole program's dataflow deadlocks, i.e. all your callbacks are circularly dependent and nothing else produces data, but async removes deadlock that happens for silly reasons like order of executing just a couple of ops.
> He knows that God was not a scientist?
Being omniscient does tend to take a lot out of that whole "tireless search to expand the boundaries of knowledge" thing.
> Those 218 swapped out megs aren't hurting you at all... why worry?
They are when the memory allocations are fragmented all over and doing something like switching a tab has to thrash through those 218 megs doing god-knows-what. It also bloats the TLB, which slows everything down every context switch.
I have a sqlite databases with over 1.5 million rows and it doesn't break a sweat even with complex queries. Perhaps the amarok folks don't know about indexes?
IE never skipped a version. IE 1.0 came with the Windows 95 Plus! Pack.
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He's not even running, but the "Not-Bush" candidate, the one that has the best chance of grinding the GOP into the ground, into utter irrelevance, until they're as dead and forgotten as the Whig and Bull-Moose party. That's the candidate I want.
No, I don't want single-party politics. And I don't even have anything against the GOP in general other than disagreeing with them -- but in particular, its current leadership is driving us off a cliff, and it'd be nice if anyone in the GOP who isn't a black-hearted mendacious zealoutrous hateful son of a bitch would jump ship. But it'll take driving the party into the ground before that ever happens.
No, that's part of the "8,573 reasons to not use PHP" article.
Way to make me feel old, kid. Now get off my lawn.
So they didn't set up a security question, they lost their email access, changed their drivers licenses, and closed their credit cards? At the same time?
Are you sure your friend is the same actual person every year?
It's a first-party popup that comes up fairly predictably (always on launch) on a service you're choosing to use. That's nothing if not targeted. If Steam were to start popping up "your PC needs optimization" or adverts for gaming keyboards during random game or server browsing, I suspect the clickthrough on those owuld drop precipitously. As it is, I tend not to click on them, since I'll see the same thing on the landing page anyway. Still, Steam's taken nearly a couple hundred bucks off of me already, and it's money well spent.