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I wonder how much of an amplifier you would need before this bone conduction stuff starts causing microfractures :D

Perhaps you missed the whole "bone conduction" part, which yours doesn't do and doesn't compare in any way to this just because you have a waterproof case for it.

People don't seem to understand that wide area networks like the internet and ISP networks work through statistical multiplexing, which states that not everyone needs all the bandwidth they are alloted constantly. Without this, it would be impossible to aggregate traffic upstream without 10GBps links everywhere. Stop complaining.

Heres a good comparison:

Dedicated lines are usually just virtual circuits over ATM or frame relay, with a committed information rate for your service level. Any traffic over the CIR gets a CLP/DE bit set on each cell/frame, called the Discard bit, which means any traffic with a DE bit set is excess and might be discarded under load, but under low usage you might get far over the CIR, which is somewhat how cable and dsl work, they just dont publicly state what your CIR is, they do however tell you what the physical line clock rate is set for, but that doesn't equate to end-to-end traffic bandwidth.

To put it in relative terms, a DSL or cable modem might be clocked up to 5Mbps, but it might have a CIR of around 50KBps, with a DE bit set on all traffic over that rate, and most of the time all your traffic would get through, but under load you will get less because thats how much the physical pipe to the rest of the network has available, giving you a much more equal bandwidth compared to other users on the same local node.

If we were to allocate real bandwidth to each user, even the local SONET link from your neighborhood to the central office would need to be a 10GBps link, which isn't likely to happen, or your cable service would cost well over what it does now.

The point you all should be understanding, is that these people who want to throw away the current network and start a new one want to lock the entire network down, most likely they will claim it will stop viruses and spyware. There is no reason to throw away the old network for speed reasons, it can be scaled almost indefinitely given new transport mediums and fast routers at the core layer of the network (tier 1).

The only real reason to wipe the entire network and start over is to implement something like packet signing as a way to totally destroy anonymity and keep records of everything you do. That sort of thing is the ONLY reason you would need to start over.

Why is something that shows any intelligence automatically considered a robot?

A device which shows thinking capacity is a computer.

If that device gets up and walks around my desk, its a robot.

Until then, stop naming things incorrectly.

If Microsoft hadn't spent 2 years screwing around in development adding worthless DRM to vista, the laptop i bought 6 months ago that says vista ready might have actually COME with vista.

And because i didn't buy it within one month of vistas release, I'm supposed to spend $259 MORE on something i already paid for.

Why $259 and not $99? Because ultimate is the only one that retains all the new functions microsoft has been bitching about. I'm tired of Microsoft trying to create artificial price points by removing parts of the system so they can charge more for them. There is no excuse, its called gouging the market.

Consider:

Most of the new security features that would be useful for a laptop, like bitlocker, aren't even available unless you get ultimate, and considering how far MS has gone out of their way to make sure the system is not really in my control, its not worth $259, because they don't deserve it.

The thing is, a seed is not a key, its just the entropy used to generate keys. So if they used the same seed for all disk keys it means that a well crafted equation could come up with a disk key in far less time than the 2^128 keys you would have to check otherwise, consider that if you followed the same process they used to make disk keys from that seed, you would come up with real keys at a rate much faster than trying every possible combination of bits.

Second, the real decryption key HAS to be in memory anyway, there is no other way of doing decryption like that. You can't encrypt memory without a TPM or hardware component holding the private key, because somewhere you then have to store the decryption key for that too. You probably couldn't use the registers in a CPU either because they're not very big, most aren't big enough to store a 128bit key in one register.

You guys should read up on palladium, MS and hte others pushed it so hard because it was supposed to stop stuf like this, with partitioned kernel memory space and processes, in effect palladium would have hidden the dvd player process and the memory space it used with no real way to get to it.

They aren't going to keep screwing with hack solutions, stuff like this just makes them want to lock your PC more, something much more drastic has to be done to stop them from going forward with more TCPA development in the future, because thats the holy grail to them, not hiding keys for a few months and changing them.

What pisses me off is the huge processing power they want you to use just to watch a movie that most cpus can easily handle otherwise, the old terminator 2 hd disc they made with WMVHD, my old p4 1.3 couldn't play it right off, but after decryption it was fine with room to spare, talk about a waste of power and energy.