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Submission + - The Code War - It's On (businessweek.com)

Submitted by pacopico on Friday July 22, 2011 @03:59PM

pacopico writes: A story in Bloomberg Businessweek gives the first in-depth look at a wave of new start-ups selling cyber weaponry. The story describes this as the evolution of the defense industry in response to a wave of brazen attacks against Google, the Pentagon, the IMF and thousands of companies. It's pretty scary stuff, especially considering that these new weapons are not regulated at all. Good times!

Comment Risc computing. (Score 1) 450

by chuck48 on Saturday August 01, 2009 @10:55PM (#28913695) Attached to: Why Do Hard Drives Keep Getting Bigger?

the reason is due the reduced instruction set computers!. the core of Microprocessors are actually risc cpu's and requires software to to make instructions sets for them thus the size of the software will double with 2 cores and quadruple with 4 and so on!.

Comment You all are missing the boat! (Score 1) 749

by chuck48 on Thursday July 30, 2009 @06:07PM (#28889173) Attached to: RIAA Says "Don't Expect DRMed Music To Work Forever"

They already have enforcement in place ! built right into your O/S and your Micropressor! read my journal I belive I explaind it quite nicely.

Journal Journal: What is Data Execution Prevention Really ?

Journal by chuck48 on Thursday July 30, 2009 @05:40PM

What is Data Execution Prevention?

From Wiki. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Execution_Prevention
Data Execution Prevention (DEP) is a security feature included in modern Microsoft Windows operating systems that is intended to prevent an application or service from executing code from a non-executable memory region. This helps prevent certain exploits that store code via a buffer overflow, for example. DEP runs in two modes: hardware-enforced DEP for CPUs that can mark memory pag

RIAA Says "Don't Expect DRMed Music To Work Forever" 749

Posted by timothy on Thursday July 30, 2009 @01:50PM from the just-ask-what-and-whether-you're-buying-or-renting dept.

Oracle Goddess writes "Buying DRMed content, then having that content stop working later, is fair, writes Steven Metalitz, the lawyer who represents the MPAA, RIAA in a letter to the top legal advisor at the Copyright Office. 'We reject the view that copyright owners and their licensees are required to provide consumers with perpetual access to creative works.' In other words, if it stops working, too bad. Not surprisingly, Metalitz also strongly opposes any exemption that would allow users to legally strip DRM from content if a store goes dark and takes down its authentication servers."

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