+1, Insightful. It sounds stupid and trivial but stereotypes are huge. Wearing a turban and muttering in Arabic as you walk through the gate is going to get you hauled off and strip searched. Wearing jeans and some American pop culture t-shirt, maybe something referring to a university if you're under 25 (and bonus points here for a matching accent) and they'll wave you through.
Or far worse, some tool walking along the footpath can press a button on a $10 keychain that he bought off ThinkGeek and make every car within 10 meters lock up its brakes.
It's like using your garage door opener to scare that guy who just screamed past you by setting off his radar detector (don't think this one works any more though).
However, there is one big note of caution. Do not back up the container. Ever. An attacker could look at the change over time and determine there is a hidden volume. That's probably too paranoid for your case but it's worth mentioning.
If you have two copies of your "big file of random data" and one of them has a small amount of the file changed, then that indicates that there is data in there somewhere that's being changed.
Focusing on the encryption of digital image and video, this paper reports an intrinsic weakness of all existing discrete-cosine-transform (DCT) based algorithms.
Last I checked, 'plain bitmap' isn't DCT based. >.>
Actually, that's an awkward mistype because in French, 'voila' is roughly 'there ya go' (lit. 'see there') whereas 'viola' is more along the lines of 'rape'.:P
Haha... bitter much? Your Full Sail degree didn't get you anywhere and you now spend your days making Microsoft Access databases for middle management?
MMOs are a helluva lot more complex than most of the IT/workflow/papertrail software that you're talking about. I've worked on business software for half my career. I know. I've also worked in robotics R&D, computer vision (just illustrating that I have relatively broad experience here), and I'm currently working for a games company on a commercial MMO. The complexity of a system is directly related to the number of interacting factors - even a simple MMO contains thousands of such, compared to the few dozen of your average commercial database.
Clean water, by the way, is a simple matter of pouring it through activated charcoal.
Um... OK. Are you quite sure that "Australian numbers" doesn't simply refer to the RMS voltage and maximum current draw for our wall sockets over here?
And torkus is correct, car starter batteries are designed for very high amperage rather than deep cycles, and can put out surprising amounts of current. They tend to go flat fairly fast under high load, though, and have abysmal (200ish or less) cycle lives.
OK, if you're talking "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing", Linux can be asploded with the root password and 2 seconds on a console window. But in terms of letting a kid / one of my fiancee's bubblehead friends / some random onto my computer, I'd prefer Linux over Windows because your average non-techie has as much chance of permanently breaking it (find out root password, type arcane command in prompt) as they do of successfully getting a legacy video capture card working (ie. zero:P )
Windows, on the other hand, just needs them to vapidly click "ok" on every window that IE pops up, and suddenly you've got a face full of f**king smileys animating on your desktop sending kiddie porn to the FBI and filling your hard drive with bank details. Or vice versa. Either way they're after your megahurtzes.
Managed to get Compiz working? Oh wait, it sucks and its a hog. The first time I saw vista on a computer beefy enough to run it smoothly, I thought it was Beryl at first.
What? Having chosen Linux over XP myself a year ago for exactly those reasons (it's less processor intensive, harder to break unless you get into its guts with a text editor, it's free, and unless you're already more used to XP than your windowmanager of choice, it's just as easy to use), I find that quite reasonable.
Remember her old man almost certainly runs Linux on their home computer, so it'd be what she's used to, and hence "more intuitive".
I invited a professional engineer and a stereophile guy to listen to the same album on two different CDRs... one cut at 1X one at 2X. The engineer preferred the 1X, and thought the CDRs had different mixes on them. The stereophile guy simply felt the sound on the 1X was sweeter and wider. And the award for nonscience goes to... this guy!
JV rocks the boat even more: I've experienced transferring a sound file from one hard drive system to another and the sound changed. *blinks in disbelief* This guy probably thinks that red smarties taste better than blue ones.
Two other engineers (in session with me) heard the sound change when we raised the client's computer off the floor with soft isolation pads. The only thing that changed was what the computer was sitting on. We found that setting the computer on a hardwood floor made the sound more immediate and crisp, compared with setting it on soft isolators. On the floor, the snare sounded punchier, the kick more immediate, and the overall sound was tighter. A solid platform is even better when vibration isolators are used - and you'll be amazed at the difference a great power cable makes too. I'm beginning to think that this guy can 'hear the differences' in everything, always, regardless of what equipment is used. I'd like to see him reliably tell the difference in a proper double-blind test though.
That sounds disturbingly like a time when I was in Harvey Norman and ran into an acquaintance who was looking for a stereo and asked me for advice. He happened to stand in front of one with a built-in CD duplicator, and the sales rep rushed over to tell us how the sound quality was much higher on a CD duplicated with this dedicated unit than if you just used a $50 CD burner on your PC...
Never, ever, ever trust a salesman. They generally don't know what they're talking about and will make up and say literally anything to make the sale.
Well, I don't know about strictly accurate buildings and whatnot but there was a street racing game a few years ago that was set in Sydney, Australia. It was promptly banned because they figured that "car hoons" (Australia treats car enthusiasts slightly worse than they treat paedophiles) might use it to "practice hooning".
You mean you think it's worse to merely be killed than to have some nasty adult's finger up your pre-teen twat?/sarcastic wide-eyed stare
I think a lot of the people espousing this legislation need to get their priorities straight. Kiddy fiddling is very, very bad, but killing people is worse.
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The one who came to mind first? Possibly the most popular one?
+1, Insightful. It sounds stupid and trivial but stereotypes are huge. Wearing a turban and muttering in Arabic as you walk through the gate is going to get you hauled off and strip searched. Wearing jeans and some American pop culture t-shirt, maybe something referring to a university if you're under 25 (and bonus points here for a matching accent) and they'll wave you through.
Or far worse, some tool walking along the footpath can press a button on a $10 keychain that he bought off ThinkGeek and make every car within 10 meters lock up its brakes.
It's like using your garage door opener to scare that guy who just screamed past you by setting off his radar detector (don't think this one works any more though).
However, there is one big note of caution. Do not back up the container. Ever. An attacker could look at the change over time and determine there is a hidden volume. That's probably too paranoid for your case but it's worth mentioning.
If you have two copies of your "big file of random data" and one of them has a small amount of the file changed, then that indicates that there is data in there somewhere that's being changed.
Focusing on the encryption of digital image and video, this paper reports an intrinsic weakness of all existing discrete-cosine-transform (DCT) based algorithms.
Last I checked, 'plain bitmap' isn't DCT based. >.>
Actually, that's an awkward mistype because in French, 'voila' is roughly 'there ya go' (lit. 'see there') whereas 'viola' is more along the lines of 'rape'. :P
Unless your computer screen is a reflective or transflective LCD, you're seeing light being emitted by your computer screen. /pedantic :P
Haha... bitter much? Your Full Sail degree didn't get you anywhere and you now spend your days making Microsoft Access databases for middle management?
MMOs are a helluva lot more complex than most of the IT/workflow/papertrail software that you're talking about. I've worked on business software for half my career. I know. I've also worked in robotics R&D, computer vision (just illustrating that I have relatively broad experience here), and I'm currently working for a games company on a commercial MMO. The complexity of a system is directly related to the number of interacting factors - even a simple MMO contains thousands of such, compared to the few dozen of your average commercial database.
Clean water, by the way, is a simple matter of pouring it through activated charcoal.
on a Vista laptop
There's your problem. Vista's a lot better now than when it launched but it's still bleh.
Um... OK. Are you quite sure that "Australian numbers" doesn't simply refer to the RMS voltage and maximum current draw for our wall sockets over here? And torkus is correct, car starter batteries are designed for very high amperage rather than deep cycles, and can put out surprising amounts of current. They tend to go flat fairly fast under high load, though, and have abysmal (200ish or less) cycle lives.
The command line... edits text. :P
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OK, if you're talking "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing", Linux can be asploded with the root password and 2 seconds on a console window. But in terms of letting a kid / one of my fiancee's bubblehead friends / some random onto my computer, I'd prefer Linux over Windows because your average non-techie has as much chance of permanently breaking it (find out root password, type arcane command in prompt) as they do of successfully getting a legacy video capture card working (ie. zero
Windows, on the other hand, just needs them to vapidly click "ok" on every window that IE pops up, and suddenly you've got a face full of f**king smileys animating on your desktop sending kiddie porn to the FBI and filling your hard drive with bank details. Or vice versa. Either way they're after your megahurtzes.
And what XP users pay for service packs (ie. just the download time) is worth it to them.
I'm somewhat curious as to whether Apple computers qualify as Veblen Goods, especially now that the hardware is essentially identical.
As opposed to something for no extra money? How's that kool-aid taste?
What? Having chosen Linux over XP myself a year ago for exactly those reasons (it's less processor intensive, harder to break unless you get into its guts with a text editor, it's free, and unless you're already more used to XP than your windowmanager of choice, it's just as easy to use), I find that quite reasonable.
Remember her old man almost certainly runs Linux on their home computer, so it'd be what she's used to, and hence "more intuitive".
If it's got carbs... old enough to be a collector's item if the kid does a good enough restoration job. :)
That sounds disturbingly like a time when I was in Harvey Norman and ran into an acquaintance who was looking for a stereo and asked me for advice. He happened to stand in front of one with a built-in CD duplicator, and the sales rep rushed over to tell us how the sound quality was much higher on a CD duplicated with this dedicated unit than if you just used a $50 CD burner on your PC...
Never, ever, ever trust a salesman. They generally don't know what they're talking about and will make up and say literally anything to make the sale.
So you're saying we should build robots to protect us? What if they push old people downstairs?
Depends, is it summer or winter ferrets you mostly use?
Australia was never at war with Eurasia. Australia has always been at war with Eastasia.
Well, I don't know about strictly accurate buildings and whatnot but there was a street racing game a few years ago that was set in Sydney, Australia. It was promptly banned because they figured that "car hoons" (Australia treats car enthusiasts slightly worse than they treat paedophiles) might use it to "practice hooning".
wouldn't im(not)givingashitrightnow be more apt?
Ah, I see where you were going now. And now that I do, I agree. :)
You mean you think it's worse to merely be killed than to have some nasty adult's finger up your pre-teen twat? /sarcastic wide-eyed stare
I think a lot of the people espousing this legislation need to get their priorities straight. Kiddy fiddling is very, very bad, but killing people is worse.