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That's a lot of Molsen. Bigger R writes contributes this link to a story in the Calgary Herald with more detail on the sale of Corel's Linux division which was mentioned in vague terms the other day. It's going to a company called Xandros, in exchange for cash and equity, so Corel will still have at least some interest in the continued success of Linux, or at least its distro. A snippet: "Xandros Corp. president Michael Bego, who started the Ottawa company recently in preparation for the deal announced Wednesday, is also a shareowner in Linux Global Partners, a privately held New York venture firm that put up $10 million US to start Xandros."
Small, cheap and fun are all good words. An Anonymous Coward writes "There's an announcement of the winners of the embedded linux journal's design contest over at linuxdevices.com. Cool projects -- voting system, digital audio workstation, solar racing vehicle, GizmoCopter Project, and Hacking BigMouth Billy Bass. Follow the urls for the projects which are given in the announcement to learn about each project. Oh, and the prize for winning each category? An all expense paid trip to Costa Rica. Dang, why didn't I enter?"
Stuff that's hard to read. John Sokol writes with an update on the Cayley-Purser Algorithm mentioned here before.
"This story went through some time back about a 16-year-old girl outdoing RSA, but it lacked any discussion of the actual algorithm. This link is her paper that she now has posted on the net. It seems reasonable. Maybe someone here can find a flaw in it?"
Roll 'em. Slide100 writes: "It seems that there is more to the desktop rover that was posted about on Tuesday.
The marketing manager sent me a PDF file that explains some more - apparently, they just don't have the time to update the website.
Each rover comes with a cable that plugs into the transmitter and software to allow control of the rover from your computer (or through TCP/IP).
Additionally, each rover has 'Laser Tag' as an integral part of the vehicle. 10 hits (including sound effects) and your rover is disabled 'till the next match See it here. BTW - I have nothing to do with the company, I just think its very cool."
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But i must say that the corel distro wasnt that good anyway. Stick with suse,mandrake, or redhat.
my sig sucks.
STEPS IN OVERCOMING MASTURBATION
Mark E. Petersen
Council of the 12 Apostles
Be assured that you can be cured of your difficulty. Many have been,
both male and female, and you can be also if you determine that it must be so.
This determination is the first step. That is where we begin. You
must decide that you will end this practice, and when you make that decision,
the problem will be greatly reduced at once.
But it must be more than a hope or a whish, more than knowing that it
is good for you. It must be actually a DECISION. If you truly make up your
mind that you will be cured, then you will have the strength to resist any
tendencies which you may have and any temptations which may come to you.
After you have made this decision, then observe the following specific
guidelines:
A Guide to Self-Control:
1. Never touch the intimate parts of your body except during
normal toilet processes.
2. Avoid being alone as much as possible. Find good company
and stay in this good company.
3. If you are associated with other persons having this same
problem, YOU MUST BREAK OFF THEIR FRIENDSHIP. Never
associate with other people having the same weakness. Don't
suppose that two of you will quit together, you never will.
You must get away from people of that kind. Just to be in
their presence will keep your problem foremost in your mind.
The problem must be taken OUT OF YOUR MIND for that is where
it really exists. Your mind must be on other and more
wholesome things.
4. When you bathe, do not admire yourself in a mirror. Never
stay in the bath more than five or six minutes -- just long
enough to bathe and dry and dress AND THEN GET OUT OF THE
BATHROOM into a room where you will have some member of your
family present.
5. When in bed, if that is where you have your problem for the
most part, dress yourself for the night so securely that you
cannot easily touch your vital parts, and so that it would
be difficult and time consuming for you to remove those
clothes. By the time you started to remove protective
clothing you would have sufficiently controlled your
thinking that the temptation would leave you.
6. If the temptation seems overpowering while you are in bed,
GET OUT OF BED AND GO INTO THE KITCHEN AND FIX YOURSELF A
SNACK, even if it is in the middle of the night, and even if
you are not hungry, and despite your fears of gaining
weight. The purpose behind this suggestion is that you GET
YOUR MIND ON SOMETHING ELSE. You are the subject of your
thoughts, so to speak.
7. Never read pornographic material. Never read about your
problem. Keep it out of mind. Remember -- "First a
thought, then an act."
The thought pattern must be changed. You must not
allow this problem to remain in your mid. When you
accomplish that, you soon will be free of the act.
8. Put wholesome thoughts into your mind at all times. Read
good books -- Church books -- Scriptures -- Sermons of the
Brethern [sic, Cistern too?]. Make a daily habit of reading
at least one chapter of Scripture, preferably from one of the
four Gospels in the New Testament, or the Book of Mormon. The
four Gospels -- Matthew, Mark, Luke and John -- above
anything else in the Bible can be helpful because of their
uplifting qualities.
9. Pray. But when you pray, don't pray about this problem, for
that will tend to keep [it] in your mind more than ever. Pray
for faith, pray for understanding of the Scriptures, pray
for the Missionaries, the General Authorities, your friends,
your families, BUT KEEP THE PROBLEM OUT OF YOUR MIND BY NOT
MENTIONING IT EVER -- NOT IN CONVERSATION WITH OTHERS, NOT
IN YOUR PRAYERS. KEEP IT _OUT_ of your mind!
The attitude of a person toward his problem has an affect [sic] on how
easy it is to overcome. It is essential that a firm commitment be made to
control the habit. As a person understands his reasons for the behavior, and
is sensitive to the conditions or situations that may trigger a desire for the
act, he develops the power to control it.
We are taught that our bodies are temples of God, and are to be clean
so that the Holy Ghost may dwell within us. Masturbation is a sinful habit
that robs one of the Spirit and creates guilt and emotional stress. It is not
physically harmful unless practiced in the extreme. It is a habit that is
totally self-centered, and secretive, and in no way expresses the proper use of
the procreative power given to man to fulfill eternal purposes. It therefore
separates a person from God and defeats the gospel plan.
This self-gratifying activity will cause one to lose his self-respect
testimony becomes weak, and missionary work and other Church callings become
burdensome, offerins.
To help in planning an effective program to overcome the problem a
brieation is given of how the reproductive organs in a young man function.
The testes in your body are continually producing hundreds of millions
of reproductive cells call _spermatozoa_. These are moved up a tube called the
_vas deferens_ to a place called the _ampulla_ where they are mixed with fluids
from two membranous pouches called _seminal vesicles_ and the _prostate gland_.
The resultant fluid is calleeminal vesicles are full a signa to the _central
nervous system_ indicating they are ready to benother, depending on such
thingsexercise, state of health, etc. everal times a week, for others
It is normal for the vesicles to be emptied occasionally at night
durise the emptying come from the cetral nervous system. Often an erotic dream
is experienced at the same time, and is a part of this normal process. nstead
ourse, the reproductive system is operating at a more rapid pace, trying to
keep up with the loss of semen. When he stops the habit, the body will
continue to produce ahis increased rate, for an indefese are not harmful and
are to be endured until the normal central nervous system pathway of rel
During this period of control several things can be done to make the pr
As one meets with his Priesthood Leader, a program for overcoming
masturbation can be implemented using some of t Remember it is essential that a
regur report program be agreed on, so progress can be recognized and failures
understood and eliminated.
Suggestions:
1. Pray daily, ask for the gifts of the Spirit, that which will
strengthen you against temptation. Pray fervently and out
lout when the temptations are the strongest.
2. Follow a program of vigorous daily exercise. The exercises
reduce emotional tension and depression and are absolutely
basic to the solution of this problem. Double your physical
activity when you feel stress increasing.
3. When the temptation to masturbate is strong, yell _STOP_ to
those thoughts as loudly as you can in your mind and then
recite a prechosen Scripture or sing an inspirational hymn.
It is important to turn your thoughts away from the selfish
need to indulge.
4. Set goals of abstinence, begin with a day, then a week,
month, year and finally commit to never doing it again.
Until you commit yourself to _never again_ you will always be
open to temptation.
5. Change in behavior and attitude is most easily achieved
through a changed self-image. Spend time every day
imagining yourself strong and in control, easily overcoming
tempting situations.
6. Begin to work daily on a self-improvement program. Relate
this plan to improving your Church service, to improving your
relationships with your family, God and others. Strive to
enhance your strengths and talents.
7. Be outgoing and friendly. Force yourself to be with others
and learn to enjoy working and talking to them. Use
principles of developing friendships found in books such as
_How to Win Friends and Influence People_ by Dale Carnegie.
8. Be aware of situations that depress you or that cause you to
feel lonely, bored, frustrated or discouraged. These
emotional states can trigger the desire to masturbate as a
way of escape. Plan in advance to counter these low periods
through various activities, such as reading a book, visiting
a friend, doing something athletic, etc.
9. Make a pocket calendar for a month on a small card. Carry
it with you, but show it to no one. If you have a lapse of
self control, color the day black. Your goal will be to
have _no black days_. The calendar becomes a strong visual
reminder of self control and should be looked at when you
are tempted to add another black day. Keep your calendar up
until you have at least three clear months.
10. A careful study will indicate you have had the problem at
certain times and under certain conditions. Try and recall,
in detail, what your particular times and conditions were.
Now that you understand how it happens, plan to break the
pattern through counter activities.
11. In the field of psychotherapy there is a very effective
technique called _aversion therapy_. When we associate
or think of something very distasteful with something which has
been pleasurable, but undesirable, the distasteful thought
and feeling will begin to cancel out that which was
pleasurable. If you associate something very distasteful
with your loss of self-control it will help you to stop the
act. For example, if you are tempted to masturbate, think
of having to bathe in a tub of worms, and eat several of
them as you do the act.
12. During your toileting and shower activities leave the
bathroom door or shower curtain partly open, to discourage
being alone in total privacy. Take cool brief showers.
13. Arise immediately in the mornings. Do not lie in bed awake,
no matter what time of day it is. Get up and do something.
Start each day with an enthusiastic activity.
14. Keep your bladder empty. Refrain from drinking large
amounts of fluids before retiring.
15. Reduce the amount of spices and condiments in your food.
Eat as lightly as possible at night.
16. Wear pajamas that are difficult to open, yet loose and
not binding.
17. Avoid people, situations, pictures or reading materials that
might create sexual excitement.
18. It is sometimes helpful to have a physical object to use
in overcoming this problem. A Book of Mormon, firmly held in
hand, even in bed at night has proven helpful in extreme
cases.
19. In very severe cases it may be necessary to tie a hand to
the bed frame with a tie in order that the habit of
masturbating in a semi-sleep condition can be broken. This
can also be accomplished by wearing several layers of
clothing which would be difficult to remove while half
asleep.
20. Set up a reward system for your successes. It does not have
to be a big reward. A quarter in a receptacle each time you
overcome or reach a goal. Spend it on something which
delights you and will be a continuing reminder of your
progress.
21. Do not let yourself return to any past habit or attitude
patterns which were part of your problem. _Satan Never Gives
Up_. Be calmly and confidently on guard. Keep a positive
mental attitude. You can win this fight! The joy and
strength you will feel when you do will give your whole life
a radiant and spiritual glow of satisfaction and fulfillment.
i hate it when i get frost on my piss. great treat for the kids though!
NEW YORK (Reuters) - For some, a new stock offering gone awry is worth more than a successful one.
Lawyers are the only characters involved in the initial public offering drama of the late 1990s still making money as a consequence of those deals, and keeping their reputations clean so far. The other actors -- disgruntled investors, ailing dot-coms and investment bankers under regulatory scrutiny -- are licking their wounds.
A rash of lawsuits by investors trying to recoup losses in IPOs is turning into a boon for the legal profession. The suits are bringing in steady fees at a time securities-related business, like IPOs and merger advisory, is tapering off.
Lawyers aren't earning the kind of money made by the Wall Street banks that helped companies sell their shares, typically 7 percent of the raised capital. Nor do the fees amount to the estimated $3 million in stock and cash law firms made on a typical hot IPO last year.
But it's still a steady flow of cash -- at least several hundred dollars an hour -- that increases each time a new IPO-related lawsuit is filed. And that happens every day.
``Representing companies in securities litigations is very respectable and remunerative,'' said Scott Schreiber, attorney at the Washington, D.C.-based law firm Arnold & Porter. Law firms are paid mostly by the hour, but in longer cases they can receive a monthly fee, he added.
To be sure, law firms that specialized in high-tech start-up companies are feeling the pinch of the dot-com bust. Cooley Godward of San Francisco recently laid off 13 percent of its attorneys partly because its once blossoming merger advisory business had dried up.
But defending against angry shareholders is booming.
More than 150 companies this year have been sued in over 700 complaints alleging that secret agreements between the companies and their underwriters artificially inflated stock prices on their first trading day. The shareholders have not yet sued the IPO's legal advisers, and two experts told Reuters lawyers can't be held liable for their work on a new stock offering.
The list includes most of the companies whose stocks enjoyed the biggest first-day gains ever, up to 600 percent. Names like software makers FreeMarkets Inc. and VA Linux Systems Inc., and Internet data delivery services provider Akamai Technologies Inc.
Most of the corporate defendants have gone back to the law firms that signed off on their IPO prospectuses. The first hearing for the cases is scheduled for next week in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Legal fees are among the highest fixed expenses for a company wanting to go public. In 1999 they amounted to about half a million dollars. In many cases -- over one-third of the 450 IPOs closed in 1999 -- lawyers also bargained for shares in the public company-to-be.
Those stock awards amounted to an average $1 million (at the time of the IPO) in 1999 and $2.3 million in 2000, according to research firm Equilar Inc.
Stock compensation has lost its allure in the slumping stock market. This year, only nine law firms have accepted shares in lieu of cash to advise an IPO. The average legal fee, in the meantime, has jumped to $1.1 million.
The amount law firms can pocket during a civil suit depends on the length and complexity of the case, and some say the sum can top an IPO's legal fees.
``There is big money to be made in those cases,'' said Jennifer Vaughan, executive editor of the Class Action Law Monitor, a twice-monthly magazine of Strafford Publication Inc.
Some of the nation's biggest law firms, which had a role in the hottest IPOs, told Reuters they now are representing these same companies against the shareholder lawsuits.
Cooley Godward, which was legal counsel in 90 IPOs over the past three years, represents nine sued companies, including Tivo Inc.
Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault LLP is working on the litigation of Red Hat Inc., among others. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, the largest law firm on the West Coast, which participated in 210 IPOs since mid-1998, represents VA Linux, whose shareholders are trying to recoup huge losses.
``When it comes to IPOs, lawyers have the best part of the deal,'' said John Fitzgibbon, editor of IPO Desktop. ``No matter how they turn out, for them it's a win situation.''
Third, that must really suck.
Hey, is Slashdot not doing quickies anymore? These Slashbacks are getting more frequent, have they replaced the good ol' round of quickies?
http://www.talknerdy.org
Obviously the poster did not read the article himself. In a postscript of her own paper (http://www.cayley-purser.ie/#Post_Script__An_Atta ck_on_the_CP_Algorit), a successful attack is described. The CP algorithm is only useful as a private key scheme, which is no big news.
since it makes absolutely no fucking sense what-so-ever it must be a lie! She is just tricking us into thinking it is real by using all that fancy mumbo-jumbo ;-)
You know this is a really cool little deal. What is really going to be pretty neat is when you can set up rock'em socke'em robots.
With lasers on them to plug into your computer though a wireless network work. Then play with them though a head mounted camera! -- Opss wait that is Quake.
Neck_of_the_Woods
#/usr/local/surf/glassy/overhead
as described in the postscript of the paper documenting a successfull attack.
why does timothy always post slashbacks?
Get that rats nest off your head, you numbskull -- Wesley Willis
I don't see anything about laser tag on the vehicle, but I did get this when I was trying to find it:
This page is being modified, Sorry about that -
come back later and we should have the
changes completed. Please Click your
browser's "Back" Button.
Thank You!
Heh. I guess maybe they're trying to add it, or trying to keep from getting slashdotted too badly?
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Posted by timothy on Thursday August 30, @06:59PM
from the pine-does-too-have-filters dept.
More details below in tonight's Slashback on the sale of Corel's Linux division, the public posting of the encryption scheme some bright young Irish whippersnapper has come up with, fun details on those toys you can roll around with your computer, and winners of another contest.
That's a lot of Molsen. Bigger R writes contributes this link to a story in the Calgary Herald with more detail on the sale of Corel's Linux division which was mentioned in vague terms the other day. It's going to a company called Xandros, in exchange for cash and equity, so Corel will still have at least some interest in the continued success of Linux, or at least its distro. A snippet: "Xandros Corp. president Michael Bego, who started the Ottawa company recently in preparation for the deal announced Wednesday, is also a shareowner in Linux Global Partners, a privately held New York venture firm that put up $10 million US to start Xandros."
Small, cheap and fun are all good words. Anonymous Coward writes "There's an announcement of the winners of the embedded linux journal's design contest over at linuxdevices.com. Cool projects -- voting system, digital audio workstation, solar racing vehicle, GizmoCopter Project, and Hacking BigMouth Billy Bass. Follow the urls for the projects which are given in the announcement to learn about each project. Oh, and the prize for winning each category? An all expense paid trip to Costa Rica. Dang, why didn't I enter?"
Stuff that's hard to read. John Sokol writes with an update on the Cayley-Purser Algorithm mentioned here before.
"This story went through some time back about a 16-year-old girl outdoing RSA, but it lacked any discussion of the actual algorithm. This link is her paper that she now has posted on the net. It seems reasonable. Maybe someone here can find a flaw in it?"
Roll 'em. Slide100 writes: "It seems that there is more to the desktop rover that was posted about on Tuesday.
The marketing manager sent me a PDF file that explains some more - apparently, they just don't have the time to update the website.
Each rover comes with a cable that plugs into the transmitter and software to allow control of the rover from your computer (or through TCP/IP).
Additionally, each rover has 'Laser Tag' as an integral part of the vehicle. 10 hits (including sound effects) and your rover is disabled 'till the next match See it here. BTW - I have nothing to do with the company, I just think its very cool."
I'm posting this again because slashdot keeps rejecting it.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/621827.asp [msnbc.com]
please don't click this line, I'm avoiding the lameness filter
Aug. 30 -- It's easy to load a small library of electronic books into your laptop or handheld organizer and carry it with you on the bus or to the beach. But try to make backup copies of those same e-books or loan one to a friend, and you'll run smack into the digital equivalent of an electrified fence. The problem is that once a literary work has been liberated from the printed page, it's potentially vulnerable to unlimited digital piracy--a danger that makes most e-book publishers insist on strict software controls to prevent anyone but the purchaser from opening an e-book file.
COMPETING "digital rights management" systems offered by companies such as Adobe Systems, Microsoft, Reciprocal and ContentGuard allow publishers to outfit e-books and other forms of electronic content with customized usage rules. The companies naturally strive to make these systems as hacker-proof as possible. But Technology Review recently learned of a home-brewed decryption program that defeats the most advanced antipiracy features built into Microsoft Reader, a leading e-book program downloaded by over a million people since its debut in August 2000.
(MSNBC is a Microsoft-NBC joint venture.)
CODE BREAKING
The decryption program enables purchasers of "owner-exclusive" Microsoft Reader titles--Microsoft's most highly protected form of e-book--to convert these titles to unencrypted files viewable on any Web browser. The program's creator, a U.S. cryptography expert who asked not to be identified, says he wanted to circumvent the "two-persona" limit, a rule built into Microsoft Reader at the behest of publishers that allows purchasers to read the same e-book on up to two devices, but no more.
Though the decryption program works on any Windows PC, the programmer hasn't released it, saying he developed it for his personal use. But the program's existence, together with decryption efforts directed against e-book formats from other companies, such as Adobe, illustrates the vulnerabilities in digital rights management schemes. It also promises to fuel the ongoing debate over the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, under which it is legal in certain circumstances to use--but, paradoxically, not to make or distribute--software that circumvents technological copyright protections.
Microsoft controls access to copyright-protected e-books through Microsoft Reader, the software used to display e-book files. Reader is a free program that can be installed on any Windows laptop or desktop. When you purchase a Reader e-book from a retailer such as Amazon.com, special server software equips your title with one of three levels of copy protection, as specified by the publisher.
E-books with owner-exclusive protection, the level used for premium titles such as current bestsellers, are encrypted during download using a unique mathematical key contained in your copy of the Reader software. This key is obtained by "activating" your copy of Reader, which requires you to register for a Microsoft Passport account and supply Microsoft with an e-mail address and other identifying information.
Currently, only two copies of Reader can be activated under the same Passport account--the "two-persona" rule--so access to owner-exclusive e-books is limited to the devices on which those two copies of the software are installed.
READERS RESPOND
Such rules irritate many e-book readers, who feel that once they have purchased a book, they should be able to read it wherever they want. "I like to read e-books at my desk, when I'm traveling, lying on the sofa and when I'm eating lunch. I use different computers for these things, so I need more than two activations," says Roger Sperberg, a publishing consultant and a columnist for the industry site eBookWeb.
Some readers also complain that Microsoft's limitation makes it difficult to recover their e-books after a hardware upgrade, which can invalidate the activation key. The anonymous programmer says he wrote his decryption software partly to sidestep such practical problems, and partly so that he could extract the text of his e-books for display on additional devices such as the REB1100, a dedicated reading device manufactured by RCA.
The programmer's software works by recovering a series of well-hidden encryption keys specific to each activated copy of Reader and to each owner-exclusive e-book. It essentially reverses the process that publishers follow when they assemble source files such as text and images into a final e-book. The software dumps unprotected copies of these files into a new folder on the user's computer--as the programmer demonstrated to Technology Review using an actual owner-exclusive e-book purchased from a major online bookstore.
Approached for comment, Jeff Ramos, director of worldwide marketing for Microsoft's "eMerging Technologies" group, said, "We do not comment on alleged security violations of our software. In general, if necessary in response to such incidents, we take appropriate measures."
DIGITAL-RIGHTS DEBATE
So far, programmers intent on exposing e-book security weaknesses haven't been deterred, even by the possibility of legal action. Indeed, the publicity surrounding the prosecution of Dmitry Sklyarov, a Russian cryptographer who wrote similar software that strips copy protection from Adobe e-book files, has only added to widespread criticism of digital rights management technologies and the laws designed to bolster them.
FBI agents arrested Sklyarov at a July hacker convention in Las Vegas after a tip-off from Adobe that Sklyarov's employer, ElcomSoft, had been selling the protection-removing software from its Web site. The arrest--the first criminal case brought under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act--spurred a boycott against Adobe products and protests against the company in more than 20 cities around the world. (Adobe quickly withdrew its support for the prosecution, and Sklyarov was released from custody in August. The U.S. Department of Justice continues to pursue the case.)
One issue in the Adobe debate is a conflict in the copyright act. An exemption to the legislation makes it legal to circumvent technological protections when an e-book is malfunctioning, damaged or obsolete. Civil-liberties groups such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation say such exemptions are necessary to protect traditional rights of "fair use" of copyrighted materials. But the act outlaws the manufacture, distribution or sale of software or devices that would allow consumers to exploit the exemption--a provision supported by publishers.
"There is no device that can currently distinguish between a fair use and an illegal use of a copyrighted work," explains Allan Adler, vice president for legal and government affairs at the Association of American Publishers.
But unless publishers give readers the leeway to use e-books the same way they use print books, say many critics, few consumers will ultimately buy into the technology. To eBookWeb's Sperberg, getting rid of the "crazy catch-22" in the copyright law and rules like Microsoft's two-persona limit would be a good start. The fact that Microsoft has now joined Adobe as a victim of e-book decryption efforts, he says, should make it clear that "digital rights management doesn't make things harder for the professional pirate or the black-market publisher; it makes things harder for me, the reader."
Until software makers and publishers can figure out how to protect their e-books without treating all readers like thieves, in other words, the summer of beach-blanket e-books may never materialize.
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Umm, she has pointed out the flaw in her own post-script. If I read it correctly, it says
that if you know the public key and one encrypted
message then you can break it.
There is a book entitled "In Code" by Sarah and her father, published by Workman, NY, that very interestingly describes her work. In it she tells of being advised by a well known mathematician that there is an attack on the method she described, due to the famous Caley-Hamilton theorem.
Soposidly the encryption is 20 times faster than RSA. So if it's deemed as secure as RSA, she recommends switching over to it. I could be an idiot, but wouldn't it be faster to brute force crack it if it is 20 times speedier than RSA?
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What I find most interesting is the use of an inverse posiform discombobulator to repel sophisticated man in the middle attacks. Combined with the infix digestive emulator, this will be a key component in the "Digital Nervous System" of the future.
Superficially, the Algorithm appears similary to the Bosun-Smee cipher which has been shown to be vulnerable to chosen plaintext attacks when not run in output feedback mode. Personally I think an approach based on a 4x4 Holmes-Longpole network would have been a preferable starting point, but this would be more vulnerable to differential polyp-cystizing cryptanalyis. This can (theoretically) be compensated for by a field-coit gestation transform, but no one is quite sure how to overcome the slow encryption speed of such a system.
All in all it's a fairly interesting approach and I intend to study it further. I'd love to hear anyone elses opinion though.
--Shoeboy
then I wouldn't feel so bad having a 486 as a server. Doing scp's can take the whole processor and still only afford me 100K/s versus the 3Megs/s unencrypted.
It's very strange that I am moved to post by this thing.
Many of the most useful little devices started as toys. For instance the Aztec and Inca civilizations had wheels on their childrens toys but not on their wagons and carts.
This little toy, or at least the model of a cheap travelling rover based on existing tech, could lead to cheaply revolutionized communications in cities and other compact spaces, such as aircraft carriers, etc.
Using these devices as messengers would cut down on traffic and save gasoline and car-use resources in many cities.
It sounds weird to us not because it's scientifically or fiscally implausible but because we are involved in a car culture.
Global warming is good for you!
...codes. Controversial website adequacy.org has the skinny on autistic people being used by the NSA to crack RC5. Apparantly, each autist is capable of 1 megaflop per second, and there are many thousands of unused autists in our fine country. Are we not using their potential as we should?
KTB:Lover, Poet, Artiste, Aesthete, Programmer.
There is no
My crypto (and linear algebra) is somewhat rusty, it's been a few years, but I think that the problem is that Alice can't sign with her secret code. The paper mixes Alice and Bob a little, but assuming that Alice publishes and Bob encrypts in the algorithm, then unlike the RSA keys, Alice can't sign a message with her private key for all the world to see (using her public key). That is a big advantage of RSA.
Is it a feature or a bug? what's the difference?
Ummm...I can't seem to get the lazer game...any ideas? Appearently the page is up for construction.
The anti-salmon
The algorithm has already been shown to have fatal flaws (search for Plaintext Defense). Sarah Flannery herself was quoted as such. However, there is nothing to say that the flaw cannot be eliminated in the next version. To say the least, this algorithm provides a strong foundation on which to build.
I just skimmed over the paper, but her algorithm seems a lot like RSA except that she encrypts/decrypts with pre computed matricies instead of exponentiations. There are some easy ways to speed exponentiation up when doing it modulo... I wonder if she took that into account when comparing.
It appears that the matricies that are used as keys instead of the normal RSA keys are the cause of the crack. They give too much extra info to a possible attacker.
I want to look this over better when I have more time, it's pretty interesting. God knows I didn't understand RSA that well when I was 16.
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Controversial website adequacy.org has the skinny on autistic people being used by the NSA to crack RC5. Apparantly, each autist is capable of 1 megaflop per second, and there are many thousands of unused autists in our fine country. Are we not using their potential as we should?
Of course we're not! Can you imagine a beowulf cluster of those things?!
NO CARRIER
If I were hacking Big Mouth Billy Bass to put Linux on it, I'd replace that annoying "Take Me To The River" sample with the classic "Hello, this is Linus Torvalds, and I pronounce Linux as Leenux."
Of course, that would probably get old really fast, just like the standard sample. Plus, no one really wants to hear Linus say the same thing every day (except maybe his kids, who want to hear the "scary module under the bed" story every night).
I'd really like to replace the current sample with the Talking Heads cover of the same song. Much better. Maybe give Big Mouth Billy a Big David Byrne Suit too.
"I may not have morals, but I have standards."
You're counting cards?
We're counting cards....
Uhh...huh...
Think about it, get one of those desk rovers, strap an x10 camera to it, drop it in somewhere interesting, like the runways in your office for cabling and in the ceiling... Instant remote control first person shooter!
That's just some politically correct crap to try and inspire little girls to study math and technology.
Typical politically correct feminist crap.
H O W T O G E T L A I D O N T H E F I R S T D A T E
Written by 808 STATE
Uploaded - Raphael
Edited - Raphael & 808 State
One of the perpetual needs of the average male is sex, but sadly most women
are reluctant to give in to this on the first date. This guide will tell
you step by step, how to ensure that you get her into bed.
THE DATE
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Take her to a restaurant, somewhere nice but cheap. I'd advice someplace
close to home, because if all goes well, you will want to get her home as
quickly as possible, before she escapes, err.. changes her mind.
Dress for the occasion. Wear clothes that mask the real you, that being
wear a suit, or something. You want to get her to believe that you are a
gentlemen, as opposed to a sex crazed maniac, the latter being the real you.
Take her flowers. Something so cheap, but such a powerful weapon. If you
don't want to pay for some, steal them. Anyone can pull some flowers out
of their nextdoor neighbour's yard.
Preparation is the key to success, so before leaving, put the following in
your car (just in case): A strong nylon rope, a balaclava, a sharp
Wiltshire stay sharp filleting knife (preferably with a brown handle), a
copy of "Solider of Fortune" magazine, and a walkman. It would also be a
good idea to pack a large polythene bag as well, and maybe some bricks to
match it.
ON THE DATE
-----------
Whilst on the date, you must be polite. Try and trick the bitch into
believing that you are honest, kind, considerate of others, and a "new
age" male. Get her believing this and you are half way there to getting the
slag in the bag.
Talk about things of culture, music, art, theatre. Don't talk about things
like "The time you bit the head of your mother's budgie", "Or how you
murdered a million tibetan monks, but we're excused because you were a
freemason", or "How many men you killed in Vietnam". No, ladies don't like
that sort of talk, despite the fact it is far more interesting. Tell them
about how you are a fan of good music, and have a great record collection.
Make sure you gear everything you say around their interests. If you find
out that she is a fan of "The National Bulgarian Potplant Orchestra", tell
her you have got all their albums at home, and maybe one day she could come
over and have a look (at the records).
Use humour, be funny and make her laugh. While she is laughing, you can
order more drinks. The more intoxicated you get her, the better. Aim to
have her vomiting bilious fluid by the end of the night and success is
assured. Don't order beer, order expensive wines. Ladies like wine, and
if you pour drinks at a 4:1 ratio, you should only be tipsy by the nights
end.
As the night progresses, slowly but steadily, start telling her how much
you like her, and how much you have in common. Women love this sort of
crap. Act like you mean it, and she will be putty in your sweaty hands.
Don't go overboard though and start licking her feet, but pay her lots of
subtle compliments.
Towards the end of the night, tell how you would really like to see her
again. By now, she should be totally pissed. If not, tell her anyway. It
is now time to play the final card. Tell her that she is too pissed to
drive, and so you'll take her home.
Stop off at your house, and invite her inside for a coffee. Hopefully, she
will accept, if not then it's time to get mean. Remember, fear and threats
the greatest aphrodisiac. If she refuses, try and convince her with words.
If words fail, lock the doors. Central locking is beaut for this. She will
probably get scared and start screaming now. If not now, then she probably
will when you begin to rape her. Take the nylon rope and tie her neck to the
headrest. Do it tightly in a slipknot, so that the more she moves, the more
she'll choke. Rip off her dress, and taking the knife in one hand hold it
to her. Then get on top of her, and rape her. You should be able to take
it from here.
Once you're done and you've told her how good she was. Give a kiss, and
tell her how much you'd like to see her, and maybe even her family, again.
Then take the knife and kill her. Put her body in the bag and dump it
somewhere, a good place being in X-Club, the nightclub in King Street
Melbourne, because no-one ever goes there.
If she decides to come into your home, you have won. Shut the door behind
her, then take out the knife. It is your house, and you are a male, so it
should be no problem to bash the fuck out of the bitch and then rape her.
Aim to knock her unconscious, but not into a coma. In case you didn't know,
a woman's cunt tenses up in a coma, and thus entry may be difficult.
Once done, discard of her. A dead bitch is environmentally friendly, so
have no hesitation in burying her someplace. Your backyard? Why not.
It's funny. I've sent in several submissions over time, and certainly, not ALL of them deserved a singular entry, and one of them most certainly did (The short lived media explosion of the Kent State 'bust of a Starcraft Clan for "hate" crimes').
Just yesterday, I pointed out that the epoch timestamp tacks on another digit next week or so, and that didn't even make the Slashback. I'd bet a case of beer with CmdrTaco and Cowperson Niel that somewhere, there will be a y2k-esque software failure because some twit only packed an int(9) epoch date field.
No one seemed to care when I submitted an article about content protection plans for ATA hard drives, even though I thought it was interesting.
Slashdot is no longer news for nerds. It's fodder for the unwashed masses who are stunned and amazed by shiny things and anything to firm up the belief that Microsoft is bad, and Linux is Good, no matter what the truth may be.
I don't mean to get off on a rant here, but I'm increasingly disillusioned by the portal of interest that Slashdot used to be. You can hardly call this 'news' of any journalistic stripe when it lacks any kind of clear detachment from a specific point of view, and behaves more like a pack of screaming frat boys with pocket calculators.
I'm pretty much a daily reader, and I occasionally submit something that other people like myself would find interesting. Rejected. 9 for 10. The one piece I've had accepted wound up in a Slashback, with very little mention. It's funny though, considering the content, since you, the foaming-at-the-mouth, Damn-The-Man Slashdot populace, actually took the time to potentially make a situation worse for a Kent State student by sending crap emails and even a few phone calls 'in support' of the accused. I spent three days playing journalist and digging up facts to present a clarified story that apparantly wasn't interesting enough for Slashdot once it wasn't a clear oppression of the geeked. Shenanigans, I say!
It's enough that the rampant Anonymous Cowards don't have the nerve, integrity, or sheer balls to attach a name to their drivel, but I guess that's for the best. I don't want to know who you are, because your opinion generally isn't worth the price of admission. You guys sit and bitch about Katz, who takes the time to present a clear view that anyone can read, whether you like it or not, and the courage to put his name on it.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not sitting here with my Microsoft polo biting my thumb at the DoJ, but I'm also not sporting my Linux fanaticism like a bad tupee and sniggering down my nose at anyone who thinks you're talking about algebra when you use 'x' by itself as a term. I used to really dig my daily Slashdot read, but now it's all I can do to just gloss over the front page before skipping straight to Freshmeat to keep up with what's really going on.
In closing, Katz, we who could be central characters of 'Geeks', salute you. To the news acceptance squad, thanks for the rejections. It's just like high school, and I'm still not good enough. CmdrTaco and founding crew, my condolences on the lobotomization of your site.
(Yes, I put my name to this, because it's MY voice, and people are damn well gonna know it.)
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this is fucking +1 informative or you fucking censors are sucking even MORE ass than usual
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The right approach is to decompress ontlogogical entropism. You have to do this, or all you're left with is a lot of noise!
I've had some frustrating times teaching and working with autistic children. Using their potential is easier said than done. Realizing their potential was difficult because it was very hard to keep their attention. In most cases, if they were not on medication beforehand, they became completely uncooperative. Obviously I am only speaking from my experiences, but I took that article with a grain of salt...
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i read that link. It doesnt say ANYTHING about NSA using autistic people, nor autistics being able to do computations at 1 megaflop/second. Besides, theose ppl cant be trusted as autistics are easily mislead and such, so anything they do/see can be easily weasled out of them. Learn to read, then try making false claims.
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"Do you, like, ever let people into your meat-locker to, like, uh, you know,
fuck around with the meat?" I asked.
The short-haired Greek man looked at me strangely from behind the counter.
Several of the waitresses glared in my direction.
"What you mean 'fuck around'?" the dumpy Greek asked.
"You know, like shovin' your dick in and out of the openings in the meat.
Then, like, getting a bunch of smelly, sticky cream of tubesteak all over the
junk that you grind into foodburgers," I informed him.
"Naw. We don't do that. You don't do that. Nobody do that," the imbecile
claimed.
"I do that," I began, "and as a matter of fact, most of my pals do that too.
We like it."
Overhearing our conversation, one of the waitresses gave me a sour look.
She seemed to be acting like she was getting sick. The cook and the other two
waitresses completely ignored everything except the random orders for patty
melts and double cheeseburgers.
"Look, I don't wanna do nothin' weird or strange or anything. I just wanna
fuck a bunch of meat that you got in your huge ol' meat locker. Listen, don't
any of you stupid fuckers understand what I'm sayin'?" I stated in an agitated
manner.
"Mister, people gotta eat my food. If you stick dick in food, no can eat.
Frank lose money. No can do," the Greek said.
"How much money would you lose, bright eyes?" I asked.
"Big thing of cow cost Frank $220 for a half," Greek-man said.
"Well, I wanna fuck around with about 13 of them. Let's see...that's about
$2860...and I'll give you...oh, let's see...$40 just for letting me do it,
OK?"
"I dunno."
"OK. Look, I'll give you $3000 cash, RIGHT NOW, cause I like you an awful
lot, and also cause I'm fucking sick and tired or trying to talk to you
goddamn Greek half-wits."
The Greek seemed to ponder what I had said for a minute, or perhaps he was
just wallowing in incomprehension. One waitress went into the back-room and
loudly threw up.
"OK. But you give Frank money NOW."
I handed the three bills over to the fool and lifted up a section of the
counter and walked into the walk-in freezer.
"OK, you can fuck with 13 sides of cow, but leave cheese and other gunk
alone. OK?"
There was a wide variety of different kinds of food present in the walk-in
freezer. Many, many eggs and other fine foods. I could see containers of
pancake batter and butter. On the left was what I was after. Thirteen
beautiful sides of beef!
I started to get a hard-on just looking at the beef!
"You got your cash. Get out of here!" I shouted at the geek.
I casually waltzed up to the nearest beef-side and began to sweet-talk it.
"Hi, new in town? Ever get into Satanism? Shit, you're cute."
The cool beef did not reply.
I don't know a lot about alternative encryption schemes, but the relatively simple math involved suggests that this has the potential to be fast by any standard.
I'm wondering if it might be worthwhile to do a mixed scheme whereby E is returned using RSA or some other technique and the bulk of the message is encrypted using C-P. If I read the comments correctly one has to retrieve the unique E for each message in order to break the system and read the encrypted text of that message.
The table on the end show that a 250k file takes 50 minutes to encrypt/decrypt with RSA on the P 133 under Mathematica (relatively inefficient), and only a little more than 2 mins for C-P. Even given faster computers and optimized code, it would seem that one might see significant gains in speed if you are encrypting multi-megabyte files.
Any thoughts?
This fucking bitches dad is a fricken math professor, gee who couldn't come up with some weak peice of shit algorithm with daddy holding your hand. It's not like this is some chick from a working class family who's smart or something. It's some rich bitch from a stuffy academic family. I say fuck you, you fucking cunt.
What did i do when i was sixteen? I had fun with my FRIENDS and enjoyed being a TEENAGER not sit on my ass studying math to make my daddy happy.
a lot of people I think did not see this posting:h tm l (it was also mentioned in a slashback, when someone pointed out the several leap seconds that the unix timestamp does not account for).
/. search engine. Well, google helped me find this interview with Andre Hedrick: http://slashdot.org/interviews/01/01/10/1427235.sh tml
... :) what can I tell ya besides make your choice and enjoy the returns?
http://slashdot.org/articles/01/04/17/1915221.s
There were also more than one posting about content protection on ATA drives. I'd point to one or more, if an airplane hadn't just struck the mountain which houses the
But if you don't like reading particular authors, you can turn them off in your preferences. If you don't like reading stories about particular topics, same thing. And if you don't like reading Slashdot, well
timothy
jrnl: http://tinyurl.com/c2l8yr / foes: http://tinyurl.com/ckjno5
All of the posters advertising adequacy.org, then modding each other up, should have their accounts killed. Let's see if slashdot's editors have enough balls for that.
I bet that bitch gets no dick.
Block ciphers like DES and AES are much faster to compute than even C-P, since they don't require multiprecision arithmetic. AES, in particular, screams.
but will the cluster run linux?
Shift happens. Fire it up.
Block ciphers like DES and AES are much faster to compute than even C-P, since they don't require multiprecision arithmetic. AES, in particular, screams.
The encryption/decrytpion of C-P uses only matrices of integers (all operations are modulo n). Having another encryption method might not be needed, but you're objection doesn't seem accurate.
Or is there some meaning for "multiprecision arithmetic" other than multiprecision floating-point arithmetic?
Nobody uses RSA to encrypt multi-megabyte files anyway. Traditionally you use a public key algorythim to encrypt a session key (realistically no bigger than 32 bytes or so), and then use the session key to encrypt the message with a well known and tested symmetric algorythim (like 3Des, Blowfish, IDEA, etc).
-- The act of censorship is always worse than whatever is being censored. Always.
When does this chick turn 18? I'm in love....
By multiprecision arithmetic, I mean arithmetic involving numbers larger than the computer can natively handle. e.g. multiplying two 200-bit numbers together on a 32-bit CPU.
Well yes, but only with x86 emulation ... damn binary-only drivers.
It's very strange that I am moved to post by this thing.
Many of the most useful little devices started as sex toys. For instance the Aztec and Inca civilizations had wheels on their childrens ass toys but not on their dildos and gay porn ass ramming machine.
This little toy, or at least the model of a cheap travelling dildo based on existing tech, could lead to cheaply revolutionized gay sex in cities and other compact spaces, such as aircraft carriers, etc.
Using these devices as sex robots would cut down on aids and save niggers and gay faggots in many cities.
It sounds weird to us not because it's scientifically or fiscally implausible but because we are involved in a gay culture.
I have a couple of questions. hopefully someone
who knows a lot about encryption can answer.
The paper claims there are two lines of attack:
1. B={(AC)^-1}*C
2. G=C^r
For the first attack to be hard we need to
pick p and q carefully. Does this restriction
affect the ease of the second attack?
Also, this negligible probability that the first
attack will be easy seems to have a PR disaster
written all over it. Does RSA have similar
probability issues?
Will it still be called corel linux or xandros linux?
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How about a slashback talking about Adequacy.org, the Internet's most Controversial Site!
Anyway - factor of 20 is negligible when we I talking about attacks - but not negligible, when we are talking about usage.
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What the hell are you talking about? Crack and computers don't mix. If you imagine the future to be some sort of weird spaceworld where pansies like you strap Quake lasers to their head and run around work firing at each other, think again.
16 is the age of consent in the UK (not sure about Ireland). You only need to wait till 18 to get married without parents consent, and even then IIRC you can still legally get married at 16 in Scotland.
This site is cool; where is the babe who has an hour to spare?
- Kaos games and encryption systems developer
It's not even a new update to old news.
you're not very bright are you?
Everyone-- me, the old lady next door, the kid down the street, the dog-- knows that field-coit gestation transforms and ontological decompression over a finite field are about as secure as a tipsy girl's chastity on prom night. Field-coit, when push comes to shove, is hardly more than a complex-- but certainly tractable-- hex-stacked XORing from an arbitrary (but by no means random) set of figures of undefined length. And ontological demopression?!? Christalmighty! Not only is it slow (maybe you can wait 1345 months to encrypt "The Old Man in the Sea", but I myself have a wife and dog to feed), but you actually end up with LESS entropy than using, say, triple-DES with unique keys-- which also has the tiny-tiny-twee little advantage of not taking 112 YEARS!!!
This is what I hate about this ENTIRE FIELD: Some gintch in Ireland comes up with a cute (if entirely infeasable)cryptosystem (which, I might add, she has already aknowledged and published the weaknesses of!), and then I have to listen to every blowhard from here to Katamandu go off about how great field-coit and ontological decompression are. Christ, it's wors than talking about laptops with Mac-Addicts!
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I wonder, if since the desktop rover can be hooked up via tcp/ip to a computer, and since it has laser tag capabilities...
Could one hack it to be a remote IrDA port? maybe be used as a second remote control for your TV? There must be some super-cool use for a radio controlled remote control...
At least you'd never lose it!!
"He's more machine now than man, twisted and evil."
The government has done tons of wacky stuff...e.g., the CIA had (or maybe still has??) a program, to train people to psychicly detect the presence of russian submarines. The scary thing is that this was apparently really working (or else why would the spooks care?).
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Wouldnt that then be large scale arithmetic rather than large precision arithmetic?
Just curious.
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what exactly would you be getting at? If you were to follow the link the post made, you wont see references to NSA nor how well autistic people can do math.
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A cluster of which? The sixteen year old girls or the autistic people? Personally, I'd prefer a cluster of 24 year old ladies, but I doubt I'd ever get that wish.
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