Yep. Scummy, even for Microsoft. Too bad their EULA blocks class action.
They were selling it until October 2021, so it's not some ancient system. By building a time bomb into it, they misrepresented what was effectively a $50/year subscription as if it were a $229 purchase. Should be a slam dunk case, but it won't be.
I would like to see approaches to recovering data from fragile disks by placing the inner disk on a flat surface and using some kind of imaging technology to measure the magnetic fields - perhaps an electron microscope could do the job at low enough field strengths?
Using this I imagine it might be possible to not only read the disk data, but perhaps even previous versions of data that has been overwritten.
Could you use them on a hard disk platter? Is there software out there for recovery of data from a set of platters taken from a bad HDD for which replacement heads / doner drives are not longer available?
Perhaps only a very early hard drive, as 15um is the resolution of those cameras but the latest hard drives have a track pitch around 100nm (0.1um); in any case, in the data recovery industry the usual solution is a spinstand:
And it looks like the software support needs work too - the obvious way to do it is being done able to import a jpeg or png to project or wrap onto the surface, a bit like texture maps in video games.
It's been around for years. There are databases of filaments with their TD values and color measurements to use. The blog really sells Prusa's attempts to do this with their own PLA, but there's a long history of color mixing in the community with extensive measurements of filaments that anyone interested should check out, too.
You can use it with any printer if you're willing to swap the filaments manually.
The print file will have pauses inserted at the layer swaps. You manually swap the filaments when it pauses. There are only a few layers and colors so it's not too hard.
Newer devices support Remote Key Provisioning (RKP), so you still can't export keys but you can import them. (Physical attacks are still possible, just very difficult)
If the data is going through the air or a wire it can be sniffed, right? Is every message signed or encrypted like ssl/tls, or is this just some kind of extra header(s)?
Yes, it can be sniffed. It will at least use transport encryption, like TLS. For everything, yes. So you'll only get encrypted data you cannot read. You could attempt a Man-in-the-middle attack on this connection. Unless the app is badly made, this will not succeed.
And then, even if you could look inside, there's another type of asymmetric cryptography going on: the remote attestation itself. Again, if properly designed and possibly backed by a hardware security chip, it cannot be spoofed. This isn't something trivial like a shared secret in an HTTP header.
Okay, well that's a start. Could you help me understand where I went wrong? I'm not trying to be stupid here but just saying "wrong" is extremely unhelpful.
I understand betting on something as a hedge - for example a farmer betting there will be no rain as a way to hedge the failure of his crops.
But nobodies life depends which singer is most searched (apart from maybe the singers themselves trying to have a more stable income). Surely that doesn't equate to millions of dollars though.
That's only if these AI companies can keep improving their model performance faster than open source options can keep up. I don't think performance will keep scaling with more training data, and even if it does they've likely already used the entire history of content created by humans for training. Everything points towards diminishing returns in an increasingly crowded space of competitors, there's no other reason for these companies to be rushing to an IPO if they felt secure in their market positioning.
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