Sony taught all the console manufacturers a lesson - Never ship with the ability to run Linux - if you take it away at some point in future a small group of angry geeks will make it their life's mission to destroy your business.
Didn't something like that already happen to MS with the first Xbox back in 2003, even though they didn't have the ability built in to start with?
Why yes, I believe it did.
You can't escape the small group of angry geeks!
People, please, "Big D" democrats... wrong in the story summary. (I usually restrain my inner Grammar-Nazi, but this is one of my pet peeves.)
Agreed!
A 'democratic push for a congressional investigation' is people voting to investigate;
a 'Democratic push' is the political party trying to make it happen.
No, they are offering interested parties a chance to do free work, if it interests them to do so. They're not creating any obligation on the security experts to provide their time if they don't want to.
If you have to repeat or cancel more than 1% of the things you say it isn't ready yet.
I agree with everything else you say, but humans do not actually get that low an error rate in conversations. Not much worse than humans is a good metric, though.
Alright, so let's make it really human-like. It should be able to deduce, from both signal quality and context, whether or not it heard you right. If a person hears you say that your hovercraft is full of eels, they'll ask you to repeat yourself. But they won't ask "Ok, did you say X?" after every single phrase you utter.
Unless it already knows you're talking about Monty Python. But that just confirms your point about context.
[quote]Saying, "Open a command prompt," is in no way more convenient, faster, or easier than slamming the mouse to the lower left, clicking, and typing cmd.exe. Having it say, "OK, here's a command prompt," afterward would just be annoying[/quote]
I usually use Win+R [Enter]. But then I use cmd.exe an awful lot:-)
Well, if we're gonna brag, I press Ctrl-Alt-D
That's D for DOS prompt - C is taken by calc.exe:-)
I don't know about you, but when I have AutoRun disabled I can still right-click on the drive in Explorer and manually choose AutoRun. It's a misnomer at that point, but it still runs.
Another problem with the GoL is that it becomes less random over time, not more. A large proportion of random starting points will end with the same fairly predictable outputs: a blank slate or some configuration of well-known stable forms like blinkers, 2x2 squares, etc.
A graphical representation of the output of MD5 or SHA should look like random speckling.
I wrote a little program that will reverse any MD5 hash produced from a printable string up to five characters in length, and do so in about 1/3 second. I could make it up to six characters easily if I were willing to set up an extra 4TB of storage for the tables. Seven or more, the storage requirements get silly. And it's not a rainbow - no 99.999% chance of success here. If the password is 1-5 characters, it will be broken.
Salting still defeats it though.
How is your rainbow table not a rainbow table?
Rainbow tables don't have an uncertain chance of success, if the password is in the search space they have been built for. It just isn't certain that the password will be in that search space, same as with your method.
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Tesla was a genius. Edison however was a overrated hack who liked to torture puppies.
Appropriate sig is appropriate!
Tesla really was a genius.
All spammers are Vietnamese, now? Wtf?
So, they mean "non-core" then.
Looks like LISP code to me.
GNU/Stallman strikes again!
Why do all the people mentioning Lisp have no idea who made it? It's McCarthy, people, McCarthy!
(John, not Joe)
What pricing disparity? I am serious. Show me another similar spec, similar hardware, same weight and dimensions, for significantly less money..
People always make this lame argument, no one ever provides a link...
Apple does not control 95% of the over 1k laptop market because all the people who buy laptops in that range are morons..Quite th
Typing too fast on a new Macbook there, perhaps?
load up on gun and tell your friend it's fun to loose and to prepend.
Well played... I do believe Mr. Cobain just turned in his grave.
No. They absorb that shit and transform it into Hello Kitty hentai.
FTFY ;)
That word has GOT to be the world's most versatile fucking adjective!
Surely you mean "most fucking versatile adjective"?
can you stream some wildebeest ball licking porn to my zune?
"Squirt". It's called "squirting". Get it right. *shudders*
My psychiatrist always told me I was a very special patient.Oh and that I should try his liver and fava beans.
He told you to eat his liver?
I was waiting for something to happen after hearing about the massive solar flare yesterday, but nothing this big.
And how is that supposed to work?
Didn't you see that documentary about next year? It's the neutrinos!
How about People's Republic of America?
Pronounced "pray"?
so the wonderful hippie ethic of the net would continue and rainbows and unicorns would eventually appear, or something.
Have you visited The Daily WTF recently? :-D
Sony taught all the console manufacturers a lesson - Never ship with the ability to run Linux - if you take it away at some point in future a small group of angry geeks will make it their life's mission to destroy your business.
Didn't something like that already happen to MS with the first Xbox back in 2003, even though they didn't have the ability built in to start with?
Why yes, I believe it did.
You can't escape the small group of angry geeks!
People, please, "Big D" democrats... wrong in the story summary. (I usually restrain my inner Grammar-Nazi, but this is one of my pet peeves.)
Agreed!
A 'democratic push for a congressional investigation' is people voting to investigate;
a 'Democratic push' is the political party trying to make it happen.
Sorry, off-topic - but your username looks like the name of a Harry Potter spell. :-)
I'm not quite sure what it should do, though... any ideas?
No, they are offering interested parties a chance to do free work, if it interests them to do so. They're not creating any obligation on the security experts to provide their time if they don't want to.
Not everybody created a Slashdot account as soon as they learned to type.
If you have to repeat or cancel more than 1% of the things you say it isn't ready yet.
I agree with everything else you say, but humans do not actually get that low an error rate in conversations. Not much worse than humans is a good metric, though.
Alright, so let's make it really human-like. It should be able to deduce, from both signal quality and context, whether or not it heard you right. If a person hears you say that your hovercraft is full of eels, they'll ask you to repeat yourself. But they won't ask "Ok, did you say X?" after every single phrase you utter.
Unless it already knows you're talking about Monty Python. But that just confirms your point about context.
[quote]Saying, "Open a command prompt," is in no way more convenient, faster, or easier than slamming the mouse to the lower left, clicking, and typing cmd.exe. Having it say, "OK, here's a command prompt," afterward would just be annoying[/quote]
I usually use Win+R [Enter]. But then I use cmd.exe an awful lot :-)
Well, if we're gonna brag, I press Ctrl-Alt-D :-)
That's D for DOS prompt - C is taken by calc.exe
At which point, it's probably easier to simply burn a CDR with the virus on it.
I don't know about you, but when I have AutoRun disabled I can still right-click on the drive in Explorer and manually choose AutoRun. It's a misnomer at that point, but it still runs.
Another problem with the GoL is that it becomes less random over time, not more. A large proportion of random starting points will end with the same fairly predictable outputs: a blank slate or some configuration of well-known stable forms like blinkers, 2x2 squares, etc.
A graphical representation of the output of MD5 or SHA should look like random speckling.
I wrote a little program that will reverse any MD5 hash produced from a printable string up to five characters in length, and do so in about 1/3 second. I could make it up to six characters easily if I were willing to set up an extra 4TB of storage for the tables. Seven or more, the storage requirements get silly. And it's not a rainbow - no 99.999% chance of success here. If the password is 1-5 characters, it will be broken.
Salting still defeats it though.
How is your rainbow table not a rainbow table?
Rainbow tables don't have an uncertain chance of success, if the password is in the search space they have been built for. It just isn't certain that the password will be in that search space, same as with your method.
Oh...I'll have to remember that! :-P
...in bed.
... for the win!