Resilient sure, but collisions can still occur with any hash, no matter that the possibility is extremley remote. There's already a flawless way to see if two files match - diff. MD5s should be used to streamline the investigative process, not as a proof of guilt.
So you would deny a tool to the wise and sophisticated just so the stupid and ignorant won't abuse it? Trust me, denying the introduction of GOTO will do nothing to stop the hobbyists from continuing to unleash unholy abominations of code.
So what if all of his questions were purely hypothetical based on a daydream? The questions themselves and the replies are still valid and applicable. Even if the subject at hand was a distant fantasy for the man, they are questions that concern him. If a politicians response to a hypothetical scenario is vague and ineffectual, don't blame the scenario.
Yeah, there's no way people will keep falling for those pyramid schemes. You would need a constant supply of ignorant, short-sighted greedy people, and they're just so rare to find these days...
production, recording, promotion and distribution costs
If you give away your digital music, you eliminate the production and distribution costs as people copy it freely, the music promotes itself through word-of-mouth reccomendations and you're left with only recording costs to cover. Using any of #2, #3 and #4 above, and many other ways, this should be trivial if your music is any good. The major labels have no future without a massive change of attitude.
I'm not so sure about the Lanier case. He denies he is a film director, yet there is an objective truth that he directed a film that was shown at a film festival, which seems notable enough to include in a biographical entry. His subjective opinion doesn't change this fact. It's quite clear he's not proud of it and wishes to distance himself from it, yet I don't think that's any reason to whitewash his past and rewrite history.
You can get the apps from somewhere other than the Google Market if you don't like the idea of a kill switch. That's what makes it ok. I personally don't like it either, but if they want to go down that path that's their choice. As long as they leave it open to alternatives it will still be a good platform, and they can do whatever stupidity they like in their own shop.
Really, he should have just asked if his bosses were as crazy and Dilbertesque as he thinks they are so we could have all said OF COURSE YOU DOLT and moved on. Seriously, we're here discussing if a crazy PHB idea has any merit... if we're not careful we might end up becoming one of them!
* The Mathematics of the Brain: Develop a mathematical theory to build a functional model of the Terminator that is mathematically consistent and predictive rather than merely biologically inspired.
* The Dynamics of Networks: Develop the high-dimensional mathematics needed to accurately model and predict behavior in large-scale distributed networks that evolve over time occurring in communication, biology and the Matrix.
* Capture and Harness Stochasticity in Nature: Address Mumford's call for new mathematics for the 21st century. Develop methods that apply extrodinary rendition to persistence in stochastic environments.
* 21st Century Fluids: Classical chemical warfare and the Navier-Stokes Equation were extraordinarily successful in obtaining quantitative understanding of shock waves, turbulence and solitons, but new methods are needed to tackle complex fluids such as foams, suspensions, gels and liquid crystals.
* Biological Quantum Field Theory: Quantum and statistical methods have had great success modeling virus evolution. Can such techniques be used to model more complex systems such as biological warfare agents? Can these techniques be used to control the battlefield?
* Computational Duality: Duality in mathematics has been a profound tool for theoretical understanding. Can it be extended to develop principled computational techniques where duality and geometry are the basis for novel weapon systems?
* Occam's Razor in Many Dimensions: As data collection increases can we "do more with less" by finding lower bounds for surveiling each and every citizen on the planet? This is related to questions about entropy maximization algorithms.
* Beyond Convex Optimization: Can linear algebra be replaced by algebraic geometry in a systematic weapon guidance system?
* What are the Physical Consequences of Perelman's Proof of Thurston's Geometrization Theorem?: Can profound theoretical advances in understanding three dimensions be applied to construct and manipulate structures across scales to fabricate giant robots?
* Algorithmic Origami and Biology: Build a stronger mathematical theory for isometric and rigid embedding that can give insight into protein destruction.
* Optimal Nanostructures: Develop new mathematics for constructing optimal globally symmetric structures by following simple local rules via the process of nanoscale self-assembling armor plates.
* The Mathematics of Quantum Computing, Algorithms, and Entanglement: In the last century we learned how quantum phenomena shape our world. In the coming century we need to develop the mathematics required to blast the quantum world into little tiny pieces.
* Creating a Game Theory that Scales: What new scalable mathematics is needed to replace the traditional Partial Differential Equations (PDE) approach to android targeting systems?
* An Information Theory for Virus Evolution: Can Shannon's theory shed light on this fundamental area of biological warfare?
* The Geometry of Genome Space: What notion of distance is needed to disintegrate biological utility?
* What are the Symmetries and Action Principles for Biology?: Extend our understanding of symmetries and action principles in biology along the lines of classical thermodynamics, to include important biological concepts such as robustness, modularity, evolvability and head mounted laser beams.
* Geometric Langlands and Quantum Explosives: How does the Langlands program, which originated in number theory and repres
I stumbled across this game a while back, it has a very interesting design philosophy. Basically the guy tried to create a piece of art where the message is conveyed through gameplay alone.
You speak a damning truth that seems damn near impossible to face in this day and age. Our current governments are no better than organised crime, the minor parties corrupted by the larger players, no chance to alter the systematic abuse of the population.
I think another Eureka stockade could work, in that there was a great injustice witnessed by the population and they reacted accordingly. I'm just hoping that the many injustices we've dealt with lately can trigger such widespread discontent, there is still an indominatble spirit in the Australian character that's impossible to break, or so I would have thought.
That is absolute bullshit. For a tenth of the price, they could hire adequate manpower to make such technology pale in comparison for that intended purpose.
The real purpose, the big brother surveillance of every minutae of our life by our opressive dictators is being trialled in Australia for a wider market. We're just the test population before it is rolled out in larger shores, a testbed to iron out the kinks in the plan to dominate every facet of our life.
This is the end of our liberty, the end of our fraternity and equality too. We are no longer free men, we are slaves to masters we are all too willing to support and succumb to.
The intent behind this technology is not to improve our understanding of human behaviour, that's an unintentional side-effect. It's the intent behind the technology that has stirred opposition.
But, when going through security, it's a toss up between beautiful martyrdom and failure resulting in a good long stretch in Guantanamo Bay being questioned unmercifully by the infidels.
I'd hardly call what he did profiling, unless you care to name another faith that this referred to.
True, there was less reliance on technological surveillance in the prole districts and more on old fashioned informant networks, yet they still had vidscreens concealed there didn't they. Even the trees in the woods were bugged. You're not flat out wrong, but you're way off the mark if you think that technological surveillance wasn't omnipresent.
Slashdot Mirror
I always preferred Lameass myself.
Resilient sure, but collisions can still occur with any hash, no matter that the possibility is extremley remote. There's already a flawless way to see if two files match - diff. MD5s should be used to streamline the investigative process, not as a proof of guilt.
Oh, and some disagree with your analysis.
In addition, the 128-bit output is arguably not long enough to make generating collisions using a birthday attack infeasible.
Another post in this thread also noted that you can generate a collision with identically sized files.
So you would deny a tool to the wise and sophisticated just so the stupid and ignorant won't abuse it? Trust me, denying the introduction of GOTO will do nothing to stop the hobbyists from continuing to unleash unholy abominations of code.
So what if all of his questions were purely hypothetical based on a daydream? The questions themselves and the replies are still valid and applicable. Even if the subject at hand was a distant fantasy for the man, they are questions that concern him. If a politicians response to a hypothetical scenario is vague and ineffectual, don't blame the scenario.
My personal favourite is United States Consbreastution
Though, most people are wise to it by now...
Yeah, there's no way people will keep falling for those pyramid schemes. You would need a constant supply of ignorant, short-sighted greedy people, and they're just so rare to find these days...
production, recording, promotion and distribution costs
If you give away your digital music, you eliminate the production and distribution costs as people copy it freely, the music promotes itself through word-of-mouth reccomendations and you're left with only recording costs to cover. Using any of #2, #3 and #4 above, and many other ways, this should be trivial if your music is any good. The major labels have no future without a massive change of attitude.
I'm not so sure about the Lanier case. He denies he is a film director, yet there is an objective truth that he directed a film that was shown at a film festival, which seems notable enough to include in a biographical entry. His subjective opinion doesn't change this fact. It's quite clear he's not proud of it and wishes to distance himself from it, yet I don't think that's any reason to whitewash his past and rewrite history.
2+2 is anything greater than 4, as we all know the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
I quite liked the response from another who thought they were there, "Of course he has WMDs, the CIA still have the reciepts!"
You can get the apps from somewhere other than the Google Market if you don't like the idea of a kill switch. That's what makes it ok. I personally don't like it either, but if they want to go down that path that's their choice. As long as they leave it open to alternatives it will still be a good platform, and they can do whatever stupidity they like in their own shop.
Really, he should have just asked if his bosses were as crazy and Dilbertesque as he thinks they are so we could have all said OF COURSE YOU DOLT and moved on. Seriously, we're here discussing if a crazy PHB idea has any merit... if we're not careful we might end up becoming one of them!
Armagetron is not freeware. It's free software that happens to be distributed for zero dollars.
That's a mouthful. Here, let me paraphrase:
Armagetron is not freeware. It's free software.
Still too long. How about:
Not freeware, it's free software.
Nice, but not concise enough. We want to get the message through to the kids, and you know what their attention spans are like. I know!
Not freeware, free warez!
Nah, too cheesy, better just stick with:
Not freeware, free 'ware.
Now, stop being silly.
Here's the list:
* The Mathematics of the Brain: Develop a mathematical theory to build a functional model of the Terminator that is mathematically consistent and predictive rather than merely biologically inspired.
* The Dynamics of Networks: Develop the high-dimensional mathematics needed to accurately model and predict behavior in large-scale distributed networks that evolve over time occurring in communication, biology and the Matrix.
* Capture and Harness Stochasticity in Nature: Address Mumford's call for new mathematics for the 21st century. Develop methods that apply extrodinary rendition to persistence in stochastic environments.
* 21st Century Fluids: Classical chemical warfare and the Navier-Stokes Equation were extraordinarily successful in obtaining quantitative understanding of shock waves, turbulence and solitons, but new methods are needed to tackle complex fluids such as foams, suspensions, gels and liquid crystals.
* Biological Quantum Field Theory: Quantum and statistical methods have had great success modeling virus evolution. Can such techniques be used to model more complex systems such as biological warfare agents? Can these techniques be used to control the battlefield?
* Computational Duality: Duality in mathematics has been a profound tool for theoretical understanding. Can it be extended to develop principled computational techniques where duality and geometry are the basis for novel weapon systems?
* Occam's Razor in Many Dimensions: As data collection increases can we "do more with less" by finding lower bounds for surveiling each and every citizen on the planet? This is related to questions about entropy maximization algorithms.
* Beyond Convex Optimization: Can linear algebra be replaced by algebraic geometry in a systematic weapon guidance system?
* What are the Physical Consequences of Perelman's Proof of Thurston's Geometrization Theorem?: Can profound theoretical advances in understanding three dimensions be applied to construct and manipulate structures across scales to fabricate giant robots?
* Algorithmic Origami and Biology: Build a stronger mathematical theory for isometric and rigid embedding that can give insight into protein destruction.
* Optimal Nanostructures: Develop new mathematics for constructing optimal globally symmetric structures by following simple local rules via the process of nanoscale self-assembling armor plates.
* The Mathematics of Quantum Computing, Algorithms, and Entanglement: In the last century we learned how quantum phenomena shape our world. In the coming century we need to develop the mathematics required to blast the quantum world into little tiny pieces.
* Creating a Game Theory that Scales: What new scalable mathematics is needed to replace the traditional Partial Differential Equations (PDE) approach to android targeting systems?
* An Information Theory for Virus Evolution: Can Shannon's theory shed light on this fundamental area of biological warfare?
* The Geometry of Genome Space: What notion of distance is needed to disintegrate biological utility?
* What are the Symmetries and Action Principles for Biology?: Extend our understanding of symmetries and action principles in biology along the lines of classical thermodynamics, to include important biological concepts such as robustness, modularity, evolvability and head mounted laser beams.
* Geometric Langlands and Quantum Explosives: How does the Langlands program, which originated in number theory and repres
I stumbled across this game a while back, it has a very interesting design philosophy. Basically the guy tried to create a piece of art where the message is conveyed through gameplay alone.
The Marriage
Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instanteously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.
Do you drive? If so, you should know that this will be heavily abused, and are a fool for supporting it.
You speak a damning truth that seems damn near impossible to face in this day and age. Our current governments are no better than organised crime, the minor parties corrupted by the larger players, no chance to alter the systematic abuse of the population.
I think another Eureka stockade could work, in that there was a great injustice witnessed by the population and they reacted accordingly. I'm just hoping that the many injustices we've dealt with lately can trigger such widespread discontent, there is still an indominatble spirit in the Australian character that's impossible to break, or so I would have thought.
That is absolute bullshit. For a tenth of the price, they could hire adequate manpower to make such technology pale in comparison for that intended purpose.
The real purpose, the big brother surveillance of every minutae of our life by our opressive dictators is being trialled in Australia for a wider market. We're just the test population before it is rolled out in larger shores, a testbed to iron out the kinks in the plan to dominate every facet of our life.
This is the end of our liberty, the end of our fraternity and equality too. We are no longer free men, we are slaves to masters we are all too willing to support and succumb to.
+1 Painful!
The intent behind this technology is not to improve our understanding of human behaviour, that's an unintentional side-effect. It's the intent behind the technology that has stirred opposition.
But, when going through security, it's a toss up between beautiful martyrdom and failure resulting in a good long stretch in Guantanamo Bay being questioned unmercifully by the infidels.
I'd hardly call what he did profiling, unless you care to name another faith that this referred to.
True, there was less reliance on technological surveillance in the prole districts and more on old fashioned informant networks, yet they still had vidscreens concealed there didn't they. Even the trees in the woods were bugged. You're not flat out wrong, but you're way off the mark if you think that technological surveillance wasn't omnipresent.
He's only cursing those who march joyfully, as well he should.
Re-read this thread, there are several self proclaimed deletionists here justifying their viewpoint.