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What do you mean if? You don't even have to read the article - the two sentence summary states that the patent was granted.
He probably said that because slashdot submitters quite frequently confuse patent applications with the actual patent approvals. Readers do it even more frequently. Of course these days the application for and the granting of a patent seem to go hand in hand.
This is a physical-access backdoor. You have to have your hands on the hardware to be able to use JTAG. It's not a "remote kill switch" driven by a magic data trigger, it's a mechanism that requires use of a special connector on the circuit board to connect to a dedicated JTAG port that is simply neither used nor accessible in anything resembling normal operation.
Surreptitiously modifying a system in place through the JTAG port is possible, but less of a threat: the adversary would have to get access to the system and then return it without anyone noticing.
As someone else mentioned in another post, physical access can be a bit of a misnomer. Technically all that is required is for a computer to be connected via the JTAG interface in order to exploit this. This might be a diagnostic computer for example. If that diagnostic computer were to be infected with a targeted payload, there is your physical access.
We do? I thought America had pretty much given up on manufacturing anything...
We seem to be churning out lawyers and MBAs at an amazing rate.
Heaven forbid artists and authors get rewarded for their creativity.
You do realize that everything on project Gutenberg is out of the governmentally imposed monopoly known as copyright, right?
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Very few commercially available DVR systems have a skip function, usually only a fast forward function which is very irritating to use.. I'm sure this is down to pressure from operators rather than any technical reasons.
I have had Dish for 5 years or so and my DVR system has a 30sec skip forward. Needless to say, that was the first button to have its label worn off.
Like a beautiful woman, you have to chase it... No, I didn't really say that.
I believe the technical term is stalking.
I haven't heard all that much about profiling from them.
Just because you haven't heard about it does not mean that it isn't happening.
Funny how people will defend Google for taking publicly available information from unsecured wifi
Because Google is not the government. Despite what some people think about corporations and the government these days, Google does not have the ability to deprive you of your life or your freedom. The Government on the other hand can and does these days. Big difference.
Or enable encryption on your torrent. Most torrent clients have an option for encryption, most of the time it's set to 'prefer encryption' but you can set it to 'require encryption'
What would that accomplish? The MAFIAA is not capturing your packets and analyzing them to see what you are transferring. They are one of the clients that you are seeding to. Once they download the song and capture your IP address, the start the paperwork. There are solutions to this, but encryption of your data stream is not one of them.
Exactly. It's obvious that e.g. distances between stations can't be too short or too long. And obviously the structure is determined by the structure of the city, the distribution of its population and their destinations. And subway planners might also have taken a look at solutions in other cities. I think I'm going to do a study on mathematical properties of articles in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface. I will of course assume that such articles are self-organizing, and arrive at the surprising conclusion that they're all made up of words; I might even find that some words are much more frequent than others, despite there being so many opportunities in so many different pieces of text. I expect this conclusion to reach Slashdot in due time...
Slow down there cowboy! First you need to secure a grant...
Seems to me that it would be a simple matter to use 3D printing to build a model for traditional metal casting methods. But as mentioned, none of that gives you the strength of forged metal. So is there a way to combine 3D printing with casting and some sort of "generic" forging process?
3D printing is compatible with both casting and forging. 3D printing is a good way to make the initial master model for a casting mold. It can also be used to create the model from which the forging dies will be created.
As far as 3D printing replacing forging, that's a different story. The forging process itself affects the material being forged, essentially aligning the "grains" of the metal along the contours of the piece. This is what gives forged parts increased strength. At this point I don't believe we can replicate that with any known 3D printing technique.
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