RSA has been the defacto standard for public key exchange since it came around. PGP was based on it, and if I remember correctly that's all it supported for a long time. RSA is still a very strong algorithm and has a few benefits over ElGamal. The main reason that people wanted to switch from RSA to something else was that until September of 2000 RSA was covered under a patent and required royalties to use.
When people talk about 128 bit encryption being hard to break they are talking about symmetric algorithms such as Blowfish. A 128 bit symmetric algorithm is still very, very tough to crack a key for.
This particular challenge is for the RSA algorithm which is an asymmetric algorithm. They require much longer keys to be secure. Right now most people recommend at least a 2048 bit key for RSA and plenty of people are using 4096 bit keys.
Comparativly, it should be a long, long time before anyone is worried about their current keys. Back in the day when PGP came out, it was fairly common for people to use a 512 bit key with RSA, but most used 1024. Those people could be concerned at this point that their old messages could be cracked.
Your USB cable has three ends. One is firewire, one is USB and one is the iPod dock. Plug the USB end into the computer, the dock end into the iPod and the firewire end into the AC adapter that came with your iPod.
I run the desktop OS that gives me the most options. If I want to play pretty much any game, or run any kind of application I can do it in Windows. I don't have the same options under Linux. Free is less important than having the ability, should I need it.
This is the same line of bullshit that people give for using Linux. "Why pay for something when you can get it free by using these other 10 somethings?".
I have personally converted many people from AOL to some random ISP. Helped them install a mail client and browser, showed them how to use a search engine, how to install an instant messenger client, how to install IRC or another chat client, how to install a news client and where to find forums. It is not the same.
For many people AOL is a good bargain. They get most of what the net has to offer in a nice little bundle and if the services built into AOL are not enough they have a web browser and a TCP/IP connection to the net they can do whatever they want with.
AOL is not evil. They are not "collecting souls". They are a company making money by offering a valuable service that a lot of people like.
A quick browse through the legal text that was posted with this article has whole lot of "...without authorization..." in it. Like I said in my first post, I guarantree that in some license agreement you gave AOL authorization to do this, so it's NOT illegal.
When you run Windows Update and install updates a lot of changes get made that aren't very clearly defined. If Microsoft decides they see the value in turning off Messenger for those who do not specifically need it, are people going to say it was illegal for them to do so? Most of Microsoft's updates say something to the effect of "Resolves Security Issues With X" and reference a MSDN article. A little more notice than AOL is giving, but MOST users are not going to read anything about it. They see critical update and press the button.
I said above that I agree that there should be a dialog box to tell the user what is happening, but I personally think that making the change is better than not making it. The article says that you can turn Messenger back on and AOL will not try to turn it off again.
This has nothing to do with a "strong pro-AOL stance". It's more of a "strong fending off the unthinking rabid masses stance". I am a huge privacy advocate but I think that in this particular case AOL is doing the (almost) right thing.
I agree with you here. They should be offering a dialog box that says something to the effect of "You currently have Messenger enabled, which allows you to receive spam. Wanna turn it off?"
That would be the perfect solution, but even without a perfect solution I think that in this case their solution is better than doing nothing at all.
If your ISP got root on your linux box, killed telnetd, and commented that line out, without telling you, then you might have an analogy worth discussing.
I guarantee that somewhere in some license agreement the users gave AOL permission to do this.
And as for "adjusting Windows internal settings", let's stop the FUD shall we? It's turning off a service. Nothing insidious. If someone recommended that you comment out the telnet line in/etc/inetd.conf would you call it "adjusting Linux's internal settings"?
Everyone knows that turning off Messenger is a good thing. AOL is looking out for their customers. Give em a break.
Well Dan usually comes in and says, "Jason, are you having any trouble getting to email?" and I'll say "I don't think so. Let me check." and then I'll have a problem and be like "Yea, let me check it out." and I'll fix it a few minutes later.
If instead Greg says something like "Hey, we need an ecommerce site for this new project." I'll usually pull up notepad.exe and type "Write ecommerce engine for new project." and just leave it up so I don't forget.
There will not be RFID tags in paper currency until that technology is 100% foolproof. The value of currency is that everyone (for a certain, important set of everyone) accepts it. If I have accidentally had a dollar bill in my pocket and took a CAT scan, disabling the RFID (just an example, settle down) and then someone won't accept my dollar that currency is now disabled. That is a risk I don't think the government is willing to accept.
Likewise, if RFID tags become so prevalent that everyone is worried they are being tracked, eventually you will be able to buy a RFID destroyer box from the back of every magazine for $10.
There might be reasons to be worried, but getting tracked by what currency you are carrying isn't one of them.
I'm sure Microsoft is shaking in their boots. Bill Gates is probably lying in his golden bed crying to his wife about how the mean ol commies are going to overthrow his empire.
Oh, wait. That's stupid. What he's actually doing is laughing at how much publicity and extra sales of Windows this is going to generate when it fails like everything else.
I know this is anti-Microsoft land but I have been searching all morning and have found nothing, so I'll ask you.
Is there any free software that will filter attachments in Exchange 5.5 and let me block emails with attachments such as *.vbs, *.pif and so on? I have not had much luck finding out how to do this without buying Norton or some other such thing and I can't afford to do that right now.
I know I could set up a relay / filtering box in front of it, but I don't have the time or resources to do that today and this latest virus outbreak is driving me nuts.
My company requires me to run an Exchange server, mainly because our execs love Outlook and the calendering features. I have to run Exchange. I can't change it. I would love to run something else but I can't. Please don't suggest I do.
I started dieting just over a month ago with the goal to lose all the weight I have gained over the last 7 years or so. It's working out wonderfully. I've lost about 20 pounds so far and it's been fairly easy. Here is my trick:
1) Stop eating so damn much. 2) Get some excersize.
To expand on that a little, before I started dieting I had a pretty standard IT guy diet. I went to a shitty restaurant for lunch almost every day (Applebee's, Chili's, Chipotle, Fuddruckers) and I would eat something terrible like pizza, or Wendy's or something for dinner. Some beers to polish off the evening and I had no problem keeping a giant belly on me.
Now I drink a Slim Fast shake for breakfast because it's cheap, and I can take it in the car with me on the way to work. I have a turkey sandwich for lunch from the deli downstairs (a friend of mine goes to Subway for a turkey sandwich every day and he's losing weight too) and I have either a Healthy Choice frozen meal or a big sandwich for dinner. I'll have a handful of pretzels and mustard for a snack if I am hungry, or some yogurt or whatnot. Skip normal soda, juice and beer. Huge amounts of calories there and you consume them without even realizing it. Drink diet soda for a week and you will forget that it sucks. Drink more water. Drink black coffee if you are hungry. The heat and the caffeine will knock off your appetite for a while.
That might sound kind of boring, but it's not going to be my life. I take in about 1200 calories a day now which is quite a deficit from what I was taking in. I am never starving during the day and although I do feel hungry more often it's very bearable.
So that's diet. For excersize I go to the gym every day over lunch with a friend. Gym is about 15 minutes away and I take an hour lunch so I get to work out for about 30 minutes. Most days I lift weights and if I don't feel like doing that I'll walk on a treadmill. Nothing major and I feel good afterwards.
I'm not saying this is the answer to everything, but it's working for me and it feels "right". No gimmicks, or special machines or drugs. Just eat less food and get some excersize. If you can't go to the gym over lunch then go for a long walk when you get home. Spend less time playing EverQuest, or IRCing, or whatever. You'll find you don't miss that stuff at all once you start to feel better and look better. You need to drop 500 calories a day to lose 2 lbs a week, which is considered healthy weight loss. 500 calories is pretty easy if you think about it. That's 3.5 beers, or Cokes, or 1 soft pretzel, or 30 minutes on the treadmill. Find something you can live with and it's no problem.
Check out http://www.fitday.com too. You can make a free account and it's very handy for getting a good idea of how much food you are taking in and how much you are burning. It was very valable for me the first few days to determine what was good and what was bad.
Oh, well, that's okay then. "grillion" is the number used to count the number of people the Krikketer's killed when they were trying to destroy the Universe.
It went something like: "Approximatly how many people zilched out?" "Roughly 1 grillion m'lud"
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I'm sure Slashcode will eat this Java source for lunch, but here we go.
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4 63 2914695302097116459852171130520711256363590397527" );
0 716356337941 73827007633564229888597152346654853190606065047430 45317388011303396716199692321205734031879550656996 221305168759307650257059
import java.math.*;
public class Calculator
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
BigInteger x = new
BigInteger("39807508642406493739712550055038649
BigInteger y = new
BigInteger("47277214610743530253622307197304822
BigInteger z = x.multiply(y);
System.out.println(z.toString());
}
}
[c:\temp]\j2sdk1.4.2_01\bin\javac Calculator.java
[c:\temp]java Calculator
1881988129206079638386972394616504398
RSA has been the defacto standard for public key exchange since it came around. PGP was based on it, and if I remember correctly that's all it supported for a long time. RSA is still a very strong algorithm and has a few benefits over ElGamal. The main reason that people wanted to switch from RSA to something else was that until September of 2000 RSA was covered under a patent and required royalties to use.
When people talk about 128 bit encryption being hard to break they are talking about symmetric algorithms such as Blowfish. A 128 bit symmetric algorithm is still very, very tough to crack a key for.
This particular challenge is for the RSA algorithm which is an asymmetric algorithm. They require much longer keys to be secure. Right now most people recommend at least a 2048 bit key for RSA and plenty of people are using 4096 bit keys.
Comparativly, it should be a long, long time before anyone is worried about their current keys. Back in the day when PGP came out, it was fairly common for people to use a 512 bit key with RSA, but most used 1024. Those people could be concerned at this point that their old messages could be cracked.
That might be, but I bet they are formatted FAT32. Try creating a long filename on one.
Your USB cable has three ends. One is firewire, one is USB and one is the iPod dock. Plug the USB end into the computer, the dock end into the iPod and the firewire end into the AC adapter that came with your iPod.
Not true. There were and are tons of alternatives to Music Match on Windows.
My very own vPod is one of them.
I run the desktop OS that gives me the most options.
If I want to play pretty much any game, or run any kind of application I can do it in Windows. I don't have the same options under Linux. Free is less important than having the ability, should I need it.
That would be the same two words he addressed in the article then?
Okay, thanks for posting!
This is the same line of bullshit that people give for using Linux. "Why pay for something when you can get it free by using these other 10 somethings?".
I have personally converted many people from AOL to some random ISP. Helped them install a mail client and browser, showed them how to use a search engine, how to install an instant messenger client, how to install IRC or another chat client, how to install a news client and where to find forums. It is not the same.
For many people AOL is a good bargain. They get most of what the net has to offer in a nice little bundle and if the services built into AOL are not enough they have a web browser and a TCP/IP connection to the net they can do whatever they want with.
AOL is not evil. They are not "collecting souls". They are a company making money by offering a valuable service that a lot of people like.
A quick browse through the legal text that was posted with this article has whole lot of "...without authorization..." in it. Like I said in my first post, I guarantree that in some license agreement you gave AOL authorization to do this, so it's NOT illegal.
When you run Windows Update and install updates a lot of changes get made that aren't very clearly defined. If Microsoft decides they see the value in turning off Messenger for those who do not specifically need it, are people going to say it was illegal for them to do so? Most of Microsoft's updates say something to the effect of "Resolves Security Issues With X" and reference a MSDN article. A little more notice than AOL is giving, but MOST users are not going to read anything about it. They see critical update and press the button.
I said above that I agree that there should be a dialog box to tell the user what is happening, but I personally think that making the change is better than not making it. The article says that you can turn Messenger back on and AOL will not try to turn it off again.
This has nothing to do with a "strong pro-AOL stance". It's more of a "strong fending off the unthinking rabid masses stance". I am a huge privacy advocate but I think that in this particular case AOL is doing the (almost) right thing.
I agree with you here. They should be offering a dialog box that says something to the effect of "You currently have Messenger enabled, which allows you to receive spam. Wanna turn it off?"
That would be the perfect solution, but even without a perfect solution I think that in this case their solution is better than doing nothing at all.
If your ISP got root on your linux box, killed telnetd, and commented that line out, without telling you, then you might have an analogy worth discussing.
Fair enough. I rescind my broken analogy.
I guarantee that somewhere in some license agreement the users gave AOL permission to do this.
/etc/inetd.conf would you call it "adjusting Linux's internal settings"?
And as for "adjusting Windows internal settings", let's stop the FUD shall we? It's turning off a service. Nothing insidious. If someone recommended that you comment out the telnet line in
Everyone knows that turning off Messenger is a good thing. AOL is looking out for their customers. Give em a break.
Yea. This ain't kindergarten any more. Grow up.
In the Advanced dialog for Appearance you can change the height of title bars down to the "normal" size, and then you get the best of both worlds.
Well Dan usually comes in and says, "Jason, are you having any trouble getting to email?" and I'll say "I don't think so. Let me check." and then I'll have a problem and be like "Yea, let me check it out." and I'll fix it a few minutes later.
If instead Greg says something like "Hey, we need an ecommerce site for this new project." I'll usually pull up notepad.exe and type "Write ecommerce engine for new project." and just leave it up so I don't forget.
Do they sell any software I can use to recover the time I wasted reading that "article"?
Next time just send it out as spam so my filter will eat it.
There will not be RFID tags in paper currency until that technology is 100% foolproof. The value of currency is that everyone (for a certain, important set of everyone) accepts it. If I have accidentally had a dollar bill in my pocket and took a CAT scan, disabling the RFID (just an example, settle down) and then someone won't accept my dollar that currency is now disabled. That is a risk I don't think the government is willing to accept.
Likewise, if RFID tags become so prevalent that everyone is worried they are being tracked, eventually you will be able to buy a RFID destroyer box from the back of every magazine for $10.
There might be reasons to be worried, but getting tracked by what currency you are carrying isn't one of them.
I'm sure Microsoft is shaking in their boots. Bill Gates is probably lying in his golden bed crying to his wife about how the mean ol commies are going to overthrow his empire.
Oh, wait. That's stupid. What he's actually doing is laughing at how much publicity and extra sales of Windows this is going to generate when it fails like everything else.
Thanks to everyone for your answers! I really appreciate it.
I know this is anti-Microsoft land but I have been searching all morning and have found nothing, so I'll ask you.
Is there any free software that will filter attachments in Exchange 5.5 and let me block emails with attachments such as *.vbs, *.pif and so on? I have not had much luck finding out how to do this without buying Norton or some other such thing and I can't afford to do that right now.
I know I could set up a relay / filtering box in front of it, but I don't have the time or resources to do that today and this latest virus outbreak is driving me nuts.
My company requires me to run an Exchange server, mainly because our execs love Outlook and the calendering features. I have to run Exchange. I can't change it. I would love to run something else but I can't. Please don't suggest I do.
Thanks for any helpful answers you have.
Windows update told me about this and patched me up before Slashdot even posted it.
Where's Linux update?
I started dieting just over a month ago with the goal to lose all the weight I have gained over the last 7 years or so. It's working out wonderfully. I've lost about 20 pounds so far and it's been fairly easy. Here is my trick:
1) Stop eating so damn much.
2) Get some excersize.
To expand on that a little, before I started dieting I had a pretty standard IT guy diet. I went to a shitty restaurant for lunch almost every day (Applebee's, Chili's, Chipotle, Fuddruckers) and I would eat something terrible like pizza, or Wendy's or something for dinner. Some beers to polish off the evening and I had no problem keeping a giant belly on me.
Now I drink a Slim Fast shake for breakfast because it's cheap, and I can take it in the car with me on the way to work. I have a turkey sandwich for lunch from the deli downstairs (a friend of mine goes to Subway for a turkey sandwich every day and he's losing weight too) and I have either a Healthy Choice frozen meal or a big sandwich for dinner. I'll have a handful of pretzels and mustard for a snack if I am hungry, or some yogurt or whatnot.
Skip normal soda, juice and beer. Huge amounts of calories there and you consume them without even realizing it. Drink diet soda for a week and you will forget that it sucks. Drink more water. Drink black coffee if you are hungry. The heat and the caffeine will knock off your appetite for a while.
That might sound kind of boring, but it's not going to be my life. I take in about 1200 calories a day now which is quite a deficit from what I was taking in. I am never starving during the day and although I do feel hungry more often it's very bearable.
So that's diet. For excersize I go to the gym every day over lunch with a friend. Gym is about 15 minutes away and I take an hour lunch so I get to work out for about 30 minutes. Most days I lift weights and if I don't feel like doing that I'll walk on a treadmill. Nothing major and I feel good afterwards.
I'm not saying this is the answer to everything, but it's working for me and it feels "right". No gimmicks, or special machines or drugs. Just eat less food and get some excersize. If you can't go to the gym over lunch then go for a long walk when you get home. Spend less time playing EverQuest, or IRCing, or whatever. You'll find you don't miss that stuff at all once you start to feel better and look better. You need to drop 500 calories a day to lose 2 lbs a week, which is considered healthy weight loss. 500 calories is pretty easy if you think about it. That's 3.5 beers, or Cokes, or 1 soft pretzel, or 30 minutes on the treadmill. Find something you can live with and it's no problem.
Check out http://www.fitday.com too. You can make a free account and it's very handy for getting a good idea of how much food you are taking in and how much you are burning. It was very valable for me the first few days to determine what was good and what was bad.
Oh, well, that's okay then. "grillion" is the number used to count the number of people the Krikketer's killed when they were trying to destroy the Universe.
It went something like:
"Approximatly how many people zilched out?"
"Roughly 1 grillion m'lud"
Or something like that.
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