RE: [backstage] [Fwd: Fwd: Twitter Fever]

2007-04-18 Thread Tim Thornton
At 17:41 +0100 18/4/07, Gordon Joly wrote: At 15:48 +0100 18/4/07, Ian Forrester wrote: - There's huge value in Frameworks. No matter what you may think about Rails, you can't call them all bad. :) Ian A framework is a higher level of abstraction. Most of the time, there

RE: [backstage] Flash required?

2007-03-05 Thread Tim Thornton
On 05/03/07, Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 05/03/07, George Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 5) It runs on more archs than you can shake a stick at I know where there is an Arm board, do I need to shake a stick at it? Does Real Player run on Arm? There's always someone who has an obscure

RE: [backstage] DRM and hwardware attitudes

2007-02-11 Thread Tim Thornton
On 11/02/07, Michael Sparks wrote: On Saturday 10 February 2007 22:28, Tim Thornton wrote: Your machine will do what you tell it to. It's just that there are secrets you can't access. Regarding the point above, that's the issue here. Whilst you're happy with owning a computer

RE: [backstage] DRM and hwardware attitudes

2007-02-10 Thread Tim Thornton
On 09/02/07, Nic James Ferrier wrote: Tim Thornton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I believe it to be orthogonal to DRM. In the trusted computing space, your secrets are secret, as are mine. I can trust your computer not to reveal my secrets to you, and you can trust that I can't get at yours

RE: [backstage] DRM and hwardware attitudes

2007-02-10 Thread Tim Thornton
On 09/02/07, vijay chopra wrote: There's not a single benefit that treacherous computing brings that cannot be solved another way, in your example you can hold secrets via any number of numerous encryption methods, my home PC has a whole encrypted partition for data security. Why do I need a

RE: [backstage] DRM and hwardware attitudes

2007-02-10 Thread Tim Thornton
On 10/02/07, Michael Sparks wrote: On Friday 09 February 2007 18:26, Tim Thornton wrote: ... I can trust your computer not to reveal my secrets to you, Do you not see how this is a bad thing - how this can be abused? I buy a car. It does what I tell it (well it would if I drove). I buy

RE: [backstage] DRM and hwardware attitudes

2007-02-10 Thread Tim Thornton
On 10/02/07, Michael Sparks wrote: The TPM was designed with this in mind, and each TPM has its own keys. Because they're internal to the TPM and can't be extracted by software, you can have confidence in the TPM's authenticity. This is wy off topic, but how does a remote third party

RE: [backstage] DRM and hwardware attitudes

2007-02-10 Thread Tim Thornton
On 10/02/07, Nic James Ferrier wrote: You work in the industry and you've only met one person who uses it. So why are firms still putting it in their products? Surely a motherboard would be cheaper without it? Of course it's cheaper not to install a TPM, but it's chicken and egg - to take

RE: [backstage] DRM and hwardware attitudes

2007-02-09 Thread Tim Thornton
On 08/02/07, Nic James Ferrier wrote: Tim Thornton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No, this /is/ an implementation problem, and can be overcome with a trusted hardware element on the platform. At that stage, the hoop will be more than simply running some code. Do you work for ARM? I do

[backstage] RE: [backstage] RE: [backstage] RE: [backstage ] RE: [backstage] £1.2 billion question (or RE: [backstage] BBC Bias??? Click and Torrents)

2007-02-08 Thread Tim Thornton
On 06/02/07, Andrew Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 06/02/07, Andrew Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And yet it's still used... Doesn't that say something? It says that record execs are stupid, but we all knew that already. I was going more for a it might be broken by

[backstage] RE: [backstage] RE: [backstage] RE: [backstage ] RE: [backstage] RE: [backstage] £1.2 billion question (or RE: [backstage] BBC Bias?? ? Click and Torrents)

2007-02-08 Thread Tim Thornton
Hi Dave On 08/02/07, Dave Crossland wrote: On 08/02/07, Tim Thornton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Deterring the general public from blatant file-sharing. It fails at this purpose. I disagree. It fails at preventing all of the public from sharing files. Firstly, file sharing in itself. Most

RE: [backstage] Timezone bug?

2005-10-31 Thread Tim Thornton
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 14:32:11 - Kim Plowright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The set-to-record from trailer is a great idea - and you're right, should be possible / doable. The problem is, i think, that CRID isn't widely used across the whole industry - i don't know if TV anytime is used by