Nope. The government is doing what the voters wanted it to do, get this damned company off our backs. Jobs lost are just the industry moving along. Not the governments problem.
It's not a flaw in windows security, it's just their method used isn't a good one. This same principle can probably be applied to MD5/SHA1 mechanisms. If you keep a lookup table of HASH->TEXT that is sufficiently large, then you can decode anything within that set of data trivially fast.
So they took, A-z0-9, and encoded all possible permutations of it, and stored it in a file. You then type in your password hash, which has to fall into/{A-z0-9}/ or however you regex that, and they run it against a DB. If they start looking at A and your password is zzzzzzz or whatever, it takes the longer to calculate. Of course this is trivializing it, they are breaking it into 7byte chunks and probably skip directly to the DB section which has that 7byte chunk in it, etc.
Welcome to website in a can. You set this up for one artist, or whatnot, charge people little to nothing to access it, let them buy a "cd" from you for $10, tshirts, stickers, et al., and then do it for the next guy too. 1 artist isn't going to pay the rent (remember, the artist needs to get a nice chunk of that revenue from tshirts, cds, etc sales, we are trying to avoid becoming the RIAA), but if you can get 100-500 independent artists who are worth the air they breathe, *that* is good money.
Let say you get your 5000 subscriptions at $1/month, thats $4,000/year (revenue sharing with the band), so now that you have your webserver running for a year, and no money in your pocket, and time/labor expended (your time isn't free, is it?) you sell tshirts, concert tickets, cd's, high quality music videos, mp3's, anything you can put a price tag on, and remember, retail price == cost *2 in most cases, offer "members" 10% off your entire site, let them earn that $12 back buying $120 worth of merchandise from you, at a gross profit of $50/person. "Most" people won't become members just for the 10% off, but might still buy something, and most $12 members won't earn back their membership dues 2 years running. Two to Three people should be able to pull this off, given some time to get the site up and running, plus your deals with indie labels to provide content.
So like, if I frag myself when I rocket jump, I have to ensure none of my little bits will kill any of the other players? Oh, real life? thousands of pounds of thrust? huh?
I agree, there are a lot of safety concerns that have to be addressed when shooting things a few miles up in the air. It's one thing to strap a few bottle rockets to something and let it rock, the debris was normally fairly cool and not that large when we got hit with it, it being florida, and aiming over the lake meant nothing if a large gust of wind came through. Not that we would pollute the lake doing things like that.
Ah ok, just checking, I read most, but certinaly not all of the posters comments, as it started reading like a sales pitch IIRC, the examples made my eyes glaze over while the technical stuff held my interest hehe.
The other thing is I tend to use a monolithic kernel , hard to install modules in a kernel which doesn't support it.
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The one thing I see with plugins like the ms-word plugin is, while cool, seems like it would load the kernel down doing things best left to userspace. How seperate is that ms-word(or anything, acrobat, html, whatever) from the rest of kernel land, where things can go VeryWrong if something fails?
If a buffer over or underflows in the FS plugin is the kernel going to panic, or simply segfault that FS module, core it, and move on? I'm just worried about my system going down because of a mostly-tested plugin.
A cool kernel land example I can see for this is like cat/dev/dc0/ip or/dev/eth0/subnet (whatever your ethernet iface is) because these could be dynamically updated as life goes on for the ethernet interface. (Your server has been up long enough to suffer a complete network overhaul right?:)
I am the "tech guy" for many of my friends, and their families as well. I have had now 3 mothers come to me and say "could you please make these damned pop-ups go away". I install Mozilla, set their homepage to hotmail again, and set it to the default browser. Sure they didn't do it themselves, but put on the "modern" look and feel to it (vs. the netscape default one) and they don't find it that intimidating.
The key is not to introduce them to any of the features. They are scared enough using this new thing let alone trying to say "oh and look at all this whizbang" (tabs, the advanced popup blocking, search features, etc). Thats now 3 computers which have passed the mom test. Not to mention the friends and the girlfriend test, all of them have passed, and have passed since 1.1. If this browser isn't ready for mainstream I don't know what is, or ever will be. Bugs are a part of life, it's why we all have jobs, if this stuff all worked out of the box geeks would be out of a job.
I live in Claremont, and as such, got to see all these cars come in last year. It was impressive to see what the engineers came up with the power their cars, shaving off a few watts here and there to preserve power (or increase speed:). Lots of very bright individuals were around just chatting with the crowds. I can't wait to see the ending of this race again, just to look under the hoods of those human bakeries.
New Scientist is where it's at. You have to get it shipped over from europe though, so it's slightly more expensive than the average magazine here (which are what, free? $1/issue with cover to cover ads?)
A contracting partner of mine has a thing which says "I do not accept calls from telemarketers. Push 1 to connect, or enter your phone number so the call can be screened, and have the number added to the accept list".
I can call him on my cell phone and home phone because Call ID works, but from a friends house with no call ID I have to hit 1, and then it rings.
Not to get too nerdy here, but I wouldn't know if my card went missing for a day or two if I were purchasing online, mainly because I know my debit and credit card info by heart:(
I even use an old canceled one as the login to my online banking, nothing like pulling a 16digit userID out of your head infront of your friends to minimize shoulder surfing.
I sign "DuckCow" (a joke amongst my friends) to any credit card slip where my picture ID isn't verified. I do it in mostly legible text too, so as to make anyone notice who pays attention. Not once have I been called on it, however some friends of mine who are cashiers places laugh at it when they see it.
I have also been tempted to write "Null and Void".
Thank you. That is much more concise and well thought out than I could have written. I buy my Sony products at an expense (Vs. something cheaper by someone else) because I trust that my digital camera will still work in 3 years (chugging away, dropped it twice), and still have "cool" features. USB, charges, connects as a Mass Storage device under FreeBSD, no fuss, no muss.
I know I purchased their software assuming it would be "normal" software. Then I called, and I bitched, and I moaned to various people on multiple occasions about it. They got my money up front, I got screwed after I tore open the shrink wrap.
Yeah, I have a computer with two monitors running on it. Yes it is a PITA to have one monitor, ask anyone who has used two:)
My primary card is a GF4-4200Ti, and my secondary is a GF2-MX400, or possibly a GF2-MX200, I just don't remember, it's not important. Either way, I had been using an ATI Xpert@Play (Rage Pro) 8meg card forever. I got sick of being supergeek one day (at least to my friends) but having shit hole graphics, with no 3d accleration (as the D3D drivers were hit and miss, and OpenGL was broken). It had hardware DVD acceleration though.
This would make a great secondary card in peoples computers who occasionally have 3d apps running on their second monitor, or who need a nice companion capable of rendering the screen quickly next to their primary card.
While iTunes is nifty, and I would use it to purchase my music, I seriously hope they write a Winamp2 and Winamp3 plug-in. Do what WMA does and make it a wrapper app or something, dis-allow WAV writing, etc, but make it a standard winamp input plugin. This service makes me drool already, as I have an iPod, and a mac at work, plus a Firewire card at home in my PC. And for now, I don't much like the Winamp3 interface, it needs a year of maturation, just like Winamp 1.4ish did when it was a new gadget.
I would love it if the winamp guys wrote it too, as they tend to output pretty solid stuff, but who knows how much of a reality that would be to Apple.
My credit card winces at the thought of having this available.
This is like Verizon DSL. I once set up my friends computer to work on the DSL, come back the next day to find that, low and behold, his IE has become branded by Verizon, and everything points him back to Verizon when it opens. I asked him what he did, "I put the CD in the computer to see what was there..." "That CD I told you to chuck?"
Contrary to popular opinion, that thing they ship with the default install (at least here in LA area) is simply a network bridge, I plugged it into my freebsd machine and ran "ifconfig interface dhcp" and blamo I had an IP address etc. All those modem does is modulate the ethernet into DSL signals the DSLAM will understand. If they want me to go to their portal things they are going to have to do something server side to my DNS and routing info, at which point I will hold them in violation of contract and switch providers.
You know, I was thinking of the farday generator from thinkgeeks website. I told my dad about it the other day. He said to me "yeah, they use what, a generator based on faradays principle?" Bah! How are us geeks supposed to stay ahead of good old fashioned laws and principles!
You have never been in a room full of geeks. My leg bounces all day long. I'm sure if there were some form of generator hooked up to my leg I could power a PDA with a full colour screen. Seriously. Ask my girlfriend, my leg bounces almost all day long, some say it could be nervous energy. I blame it on sleep deprivation. You don't drink... DECAF do you?
Maybe I'm a bit short sited here, however while the vibration thingy is cool, in HVAC, isn't the idea that you are blowing air around? Why not harness some of the air via, say, a small fan hooked to a generator? You stick the fan inside, poke an insulated hole in the ductwork, and run the sensor off a battery + wirelss. I imagine using some ultra-low energy wireless combined with some form of low energy sensor you could pull this off. Possibly coupled with the vibration-engine?
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Nope. The government is doing what the voters wanted it to do, get this damned company off our backs. Jobs lost are just the industry moving along. Not the governments problem.
It's not a flaw in windows security, it's just their method used isn't a good one. This same principle can probably be applied to MD5/SHA1 mechanisms. If you keep a lookup table of HASH->TEXT that is sufficiently large, then you can decode anything within that set of data trivially fast.
/{A-z0-9}/ or however you regex that, and they run it against a DB. If they start looking at A and your password is zzzzzzz or whatever, it takes the longer to calculate. Of course this is trivializing it, they are breaking it into 7byte chunks and probably skip directly to the DB section which has that 7byte chunk in it, etc.
So they took, A-z0-9, and encoded all possible permutations of it, and stored it in a file. You then type in your password hash, which has to fall into
Welcome to website in a can. You set this up for one artist, or whatnot, charge people little to nothing to access it, let them buy a "cd" from you for $10, tshirts, stickers, et al., and then do it for the next guy too. 1 artist isn't going to pay the rent (remember, the artist needs to get a nice chunk of that revenue from tshirts, cds, etc sales, we are trying to avoid becoming the RIAA), but if you can get 100-500 independent artists who are worth the air they breathe, *that* is good money.
Let say you get your 5000 subscriptions at $1/month, thats $4,000/year (revenue sharing with the band), so now that you have your webserver running for a year, and no money in your pocket, and time/labor expended (your time isn't free, is it?) you sell tshirts, concert tickets, cd's, high quality music videos, mp3's, anything you can put a price tag on, and remember, retail price == cost *2 in most cases, offer "members" 10% off your entire site, let them earn that $12 back buying $120 worth of merchandise from you, at a gross profit of $50/person. "Most" people won't become members just for the 10% off, but might still buy something, and most $12 members won't earn back their membership dues 2 years running. Two to Three people should be able to pull this off, given some time to get the site up and running, plus your deals with indie labels to provide content.
So like, if I frag myself when I rocket jump, I have to ensure none of my little bits will kill any of the other players? Oh, real life? thousands of pounds of thrust? huh?
I agree, there are a lot of safety concerns that have to be addressed when shooting things a few miles up in the air. It's one thing to strap a few bottle rockets to something and let it rock, the debris was normally fairly cool and not that large when we got hit with it, it being florida, and aiming over the lake meant nothing if a large gust of wind came through. Not that we would pollute the lake doing things like that.
Ah ok, just checking, I read most, but certinaly not all of the posters comments, as it started reading like a sales pitch IIRC, the examples made my eyes glaze over while the technical stuff held my interest hehe.
The other thing is I tend to use a monolithic kernel , hard to install modules in a kernel which doesn't support it.
The one thing I see with plugins like the ms-word plugin is, while cool, seems like it would load the kernel down doing things best left to userspace. How seperate is that ms-word(or anything, acrobat, html, whatever) from the rest of kernel land, where things can go VeryWrong if something fails?
/dev/dc0/ip or /dev/eth0/subnet (whatever your ethernet iface is) because these could be dynamically updated as life goes on for the ethernet interface. (Your server has been up long enough to suffer a complete network overhaul right? :)
If a buffer over or underflows in the FS plugin is the kernel going to panic, or simply segfault that FS module, core it, and move on? I'm just worried about my system going down because of a mostly-tested plugin.
A cool kernel land example I can see for this is like cat
I am the "tech guy" for many of my friends, and their families as well. I have had now 3 mothers come to me and say "could you please make these damned pop-ups go away". I install Mozilla, set their homepage to hotmail again, and set it to the default browser. Sure they didn't do it themselves, but put on the "modern" look and feel to it (vs. the netscape default one) and they don't find it that intimidating.
The key is not to introduce them to any of the features. They are scared enough using this new thing let alone trying to say "oh and look at all this whizbang" (tabs, the advanced popup blocking, search features, etc). Thats now 3 computers which have passed the mom test. Not to mention the friends and the girlfriend test, all of them have passed, and have passed since 1.1. If this browser isn't ready for mainstream I don't know what is, or ever will be. Bugs are a part of life, it's why we all have jobs, if this stuff all worked out of the box geeks would be out of a job.
I live in Claremont, and as such, got to see all these cars come in last year. It was impressive to see what the engineers came up with the power their cars, shaving off a few watts here and there to preserve power (or increase speed :). Lots of very bright individuals were around just chatting with the crowds. I can't wait to see the ending of this race again, just to look under the hoods of those human bakeries.
New Scientist is where it's at. You have to get it shipped over from europe though, so it's slightly more expensive than the average magazine here (which are what, free? $1/issue with cover to cover ads?)
My computer once thougt my Xpert@Play had 8 monitors. True story.
Those drivers were hell, and it's OpenGL support, wasn't. My computer currently has 2 nVidia graphics cards in it.
A contracting partner of mine has a thing which says "I do not accept calls from telemarketers. Push 1 to connect, or enter your phone number so the call can be screened, and have the number added to the accept list".
I can call him on my cell phone and home phone because Call ID works, but from a friends house with no call ID I have to hit 1, and then it rings.
Not to get too nerdy here, but I wouldn't know if my card went missing for a day or two if I were purchasing online, mainly because I know my debit and credit card info by heart :(
I even use an old canceled one as the login to my online banking, nothing like pulling a 16digit userID out of your head infront of your friends to minimize shoulder surfing.
I sign "DuckCow" (a joke amongst my friends) to any credit card slip where my picture ID isn't verified. I do it in mostly legible text too, so as to make anyone notice who pays attention. Not once have I been called on it, however some friends of mine who are cashiers places laugh at it when they see it.
I have also been tempted to write "Null and Void".
Thank you. That is much more concise and well thought out than I could have written. I buy my Sony products at an expense (Vs. something cheaper by someone else) because I trust that my digital camera will still work in 3 years (chugging away, dropped it twice), and still have "cool" features. USB, charges, connects as a Mass Storage device under FreeBSD, no fuss, no muss.
I know I purchased their software assuming it would be "normal" software. Then I called, and I bitched, and I moaned to various people on multiple occasions about it. They got my money up front, I got screwed after I tore open the shrink wrap.
Remember though, if those who control the keys are in on the conspiracy, then the evidence can still be generated.
Yay for using OOo, but Word does have these same features, however you have to train it to know what you want to say.
Yeah, I have a computer with two monitors running on it. Yes it is a PITA to have one monitor, ask anyone who has used two :)
My primary card is a GF4-4200Ti, and my secondary is a GF2-MX400, or possibly a GF2-MX200, I just don't remember, it's not important. Either way, I had been using an ATI Xpert@Play (Rage Pro) 8meg card forever. I got sick of being supergeek one day (at least to my friends) but having shit hole graphics, with no 3d accleration (as the D3D drivers were hit and miss, and OpenGL was broken). It had hardware DVD acceleration though.
This would make a great secondary card in peoples computers who occasionally have 3d apps running on their second monitor, or who need a nice companion capable of rendering the screen quickly next to their primary card.
While iTunes is nifty, and I would use it to purchase my music, I seriously hope they write a Winamp2 and Winamp3 plug-in. Do what WMA does and make it a wrapper app or something, dis-allow WAV writing, etc, but make it a standard winamp input plugin. This service makes me drool already, as I have an iPod, and a mac at work, plus a Firewire card at home in my PC. And for now, I don't much like the Winamp3 interface, it needs a year of maturation, just like Winamp 1.4ish did when it was a new gadget.
I would love it if the winamp guys wrote it too, as they tend to output pretty solid stuff, but who knows how much of a reality that would be to Apple.
My credit card winces at the thought of having this available.
Having installed Slackware 4 just to have Slackware 7 come out a month later, I can tell you there wasn't a Slackware 6.
That was a fun evening, 3 Floppies, A and N chugging away, oh yeah, we forgot to tell you, the one package you need (SMB) doesn't fit on a floppy.
The problem lies in that you have to download manually a bunch of files and patches, put them in certain places, and then it will install.
Oh well, I don't user java for much anyways.
This is like Verizon DSL. I once set up my friends computer to work on the DSL, come back the next day to find that, low and behold, his IE has become branded by Verizon, and everything points him back to Verizon when it opens. I asked him what he did, "I put the CD in the computer to see what was there..." "That CD I told you to chuck?"
Contrary to popular opinion, that thing they ship with the default install (at least here in LA area) is simply a network bridge, I plugged it into my freebsd machine and ran "ifconfig interface dhcp" and blamo I had an IP address etc. All those modem does is modulate the ethernet into DSL signals the DSLAM will understand. If they want me to go to their portal things they are going to have to do something server side to my DNS and routing info, at which point I will hold them in violation of contract and switch providers.
You know, I was thinking of the farday generator from thinkgeeks website. I told my dad about it the other day. He said to me "yeah, they use what, a generator based on faradays principle?" Bah! How are us geeks supposed to stay ahead of good old fashioned laws and principles!
You have never been in a room full of geeks. My leg bounces all day long. I'm sure if there were some form of generator hooked up to my leg I could power a PDA with a full colour screen. Seriously. Ask my girlfriend, my leg bounces almost all day long, some say it could be nervous energy. I blame it on sleep deprivation. You don't drink... DECAF do you?
Maybe I'm a bit short sited here, however while the vibration thingy is cool, in HVAC, isn't the idea that you are blowing air around? Why not harness some of the air via, say, a small fan hooked to a generator? You stick the fan inside, poke an insulated hole in the ductwork, and run the sensor off a battery + wirelss. I imagine using some ultra-low energy wireless combined with some form of low energy sensor you could pull this off. Possibly coupled with the vibration-engine?