The fact has always been that MD5 collisions can be calculated with rainbow tables for all sorts of reasons... Why weren't all CA's using SHA-1? It's trivial enough with the openssl from apt-get.
The media has been rooting for a recession since Clinton left office.
NPR especially, going so far as to tell me how this is basically the great depression. Yet, everywhere I go I see people driving SUV's to the various outlets to buy crap they don't need.
Amazon represents the second-best reason for a free market economy: efficiency. They can bring you goods and services cheaper than their competitors, you win, they win, competitor looses.
When looking for information about this or that virus, I would sometimes come across CastleCops.
The website looked a lot like all the superwindowsvirussmasher scam websites....You may have trojan.dropper.w32, free scanner here! with all the ads, color, and layout.
It's possible that it just never presented a legit-looking or professional experience. I'm no the only one who thought this...the community let it die too.
The Army National Guard is a part of the Department of the Army, and does things along with the Regular Army...just less frequently.
At one time, the National Guard didn't do anything but make sure black kids could get into a school or shoot protesters. But this led to a pretty crappy force. Now, they give us more training opportunities
like these small training deployments, as well as real-world deployments (95% of my unit has been to Iraq or Afghanistan, or both).
Someone high up decided to have a joint exercise with the Bulgarian Army and our NG unit got to provide some troops to participate. These kinds of things give our troops more experience and make them better soldiers.
Using your (non-car) analogy, no. Of course, the phone company isn't liable for this...HUB is. Just like your credit card company not being liable if someone steals your llama.
But the phone company continued to sell to HUB a stolen service, thereby financially benefiting from the theft.
...then they should be legally liable for selling stolen goods.
The phone bill is exactly stolen services....and for the phone company to sell that should be illegal.
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Again, you kind-of miss the point.
If you assume 50% of torture victims will tell you what you want to hear, then you learn what 50% of them THINK you want to hear.
This is information. Sometimes useful. Usually not.
What about the things he isn't telling you, that you believe he thinks you want to hear. Again, this is more information.
The truth is, torture can work but there are much better ways (usually) that don't come with the same costs.
When I was in the Infantry, I admired our general working ethos: we sneak through the night, quietly and patiently to kill people...but if they know we are coming - fuck it, we'll be coming to kill them anyway. THAT is the kind of style we should have: we want the information the prisoner has....if we can't get without stooping to torture - fuck it, we'll win this war anyway.
We fight wars and support insurrections world wide to secure for ourselves and our posterity: crude oil.
This crude oil is then piped for millions of miles through inhospitable climates and unfriendly countries (more war and strife-support) and/or shipped through often-dangerous shipping routes (piracy, weather).
This crude oil is then refined into fuels and petrochemicals which are then re-shipped.
Petrochemicals end up in China where they are made into plastic garbage for whiny brats at walmart...after even more shipping.
Every step of this process requires siphoning some capacity to fuel the process (fuel for ships, trucks, pumps, refineries, factories).
Alt.fuels will shine like a diamond in a goats ass soon enough. The companies that make lay the groundwork now (or better yet, in the 90's) will be the winners.
In the town of Virgin, Utah it is legally mandated that every household that can legally have a firearm must have one.
You don't see too many terrorists there. QED.
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I hear everyone jumping on the bandwaggon..."torure does not work".
You keep basing it off what the victim says. It's un-reliable, etc...
Torture can be useful to get what ISN'T said. What you already know the victim knows...but you'd like to fill in gaps or corroborate gaps in other theories.
In the medical field, the "pertinent negative" information....what the patient ISN'T saying is often more important than what he or she IS.
A better argument is that we can win wars without it. It is beneath us. It is wasteful and can lose your Hearts and Minds battle.
Haliburton, thus Kellog, Brown and Root were the prime military contractors during the Clinton years.
Somalia, Haiti, Kosovo just to name a few places they went with our troops.
A better solution would to have transition.gov for EVERY incoming presidency...this would prevent both parties from introducing MORE unchecked party-line bullshit which must be paid for with taxes.
This prevents bullshit from both parties.
Oh..yeah, libertarians too.
About half of the posts thusfar, on/. of all places, display a lack of understanding of the programming paradigm-sphere.
How many posts here just extolled (or decried) the virtues (or problems) of "functional" programming languages like C and C++? Functional is not Procedural. Functional != just programming with functions.
Even here, among the (arguably) nerdiest nerds on to ever move mice... many people don't really know. So maybe you need to start there...a sampler course with various paradigms and languages so people will actually know how all these things fit together. Some functional OCaml, some imperative::procedural C, and some imperative::OO Java. Mix it up.
someone called you captain obvious...but he/she is captain doesn'tknowthedifference.
functional programming (ocaml, et al) is quite a different thing than procedural. Procedural is imperative with procedures, which are often called functions, which almost sounds like functional programming, which often confuses the fucktard on/. that confused you for cpt. obvious.
In fact, there are multitudes of private schools that are worse then public schools.
this is especially true in Utah, where the voucher system was killed by the teacher union's pravda.
Imagine trying to outperform a competitor who you have to pay to support. Charter and private schools in these cases don't get the millions of dollars or the legislative grandstanding the public schools get...they just pay for it.
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The fact has always been that MD5 collisions can be calculated with rainbow tables for all sorts of reasons... Why weren't all CA's using SHA-1? It's trivial enough with the openssl from apt-get.
The media has been rooting for a recession since Clinton left office.
NPR especially, going so far as to tell me how this is basically the great depression. Yet, everywhere I go I see people driving SUV's to the various outlets to buy crap they don't need.
Amazon represents the second-best reason for a free market economy: efficiency. They can bring you goods and services cheaper than their competitors, you win, they win, competitor looses.
Oh...and I drink YOUR milkshake.
The website looked a lot like all the superwindowsvirussmasher scam websites....You may have trojan.dropper.w32, free scanner here! with all the ads, color, and layout.
It's possible that it just never presented a legit-looking or professional experience. I'm no the only one who thought this...the community let it die too.
...FTW.
About a gazillion WoW bots say no
There, fixed that for you.
This is one case where I think that Microsoft has been the industry leader.
White lettering on azure field, clearly states the information, and no user can ignore it or work past it.
"A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer..."
At one time, the National Guard didn't do anything but make sure black kids could get into a school or shoot protesters. But this led to a pretty crappy force. Now, they give us more training opportunities like these small training deployments, as well as real-world deployments (95% of my unit has been to Iraq or Afghanistan, or both).
Someone high up decided to have a joint exercise with the Bulgarian Army and our NG unit got to provide some troops to participate. These kinds of things give our troops more experience and make them better soldiers.
But the phone company continued to sell to HUB a stolen service, thereby financially benefiting from the theft.
Let me assure you, none of us had ever seen so many gorgeous women in one place.
No, all deaths are a result of hypoxemia, a lack of oxygen to the brain.
The phone bill is exactly stolen services....and for the phone company to sell that should be illegal.
If you assume 50% of torture victims will tell you what you want to hear, then you learn what 50% of them THINK you want to hear.
This is information. Sometimes useful. Usually not.
What about the things he isn't telling you, that you believe he thinks you want to hear. Again, this is more information.
The truth is, torture can work but there are much better ways (usually) that don't come with the same costs.
When I was in the Infantry, I admired our general working ethos: we sneak through the night, quietly and patiently to kill people...but if they know we are coming - fuck it, we'll be coming to kill them anyway. THAT is the kind of style we should have: we want the information the prisoner has....if we can't get without stooping to torture - fuck it, we'll win this war anyway.
Microsoft was wise to do a console. PC gaming was the largest source of MS apologists, next to business users (but more militant).
But PC gaming is dieing because of factors like DRM schemes, insane requirements and costs, laptop popularity, and Vista.
2008 was the year that built the coffin, 2009 will probably nail it shut. Linux for the PC, games for the console, mac for the spoiled Emo kids.
We fight wars and support insurrections world wide to secure for ourselves and our posterity: crude oil.
This crude oil is then piped for millions of miles through inhospitable climates and unfriendly countries (more war and strife-support) and/or shipped through often-dangerous shipping routes (piracy, weather).
This crude oil is then refined into fuels and petrochemicals which are then re-shipped.
Petrochemicals end up in China where they are made into plastic garbage for whiny brats at walmart...after even more shipping.
Every step of this process requires siphoning some capacity to fuel the process (fuel for ships, trucks, pumps, refineries, factories).
Alt.fuels will shine like a diamond in a goats ass soon enough. The companies that make lay the groundwork now (or better yet, in the 90's) will be the winners.
You don't see too many terrorists there. QED.
You keep basing it off what the victim says. It's un-reliable, etc...
Torture can be useful to get what ISN'T said. What you already know the victim knows...but you'd like to fill in gaps or corroborate gaps in other theories.
In the medical field, the "pertinent negative" information....what the patient ISN'T saying is often more important than what he or she IS.
A better argument is that we can win wars without it. It is beneath us. It is wasteful and can lose your Hearts and Minds battle.
You almost sound like that lady on NPR that reports on the US Supreme Court.
Haliburton, thus Kellog, Brown and Root were the prime military contractors during the Clinton years. Somalia, Haiti, Kosovo just to name a few places they went with our troops.
A better solution would to have transition.gov for EVERY incoming presidency...this would prevent both parties from introducing MORE unchecked party-line bullshit which must be paid for with taxes. This prevents bullshit from both parties. Oh..yeah, libertarians too.
change.gov? so his political party tagline can get a .gov tld?
Did you know that WW2 German soldiers did NOT wear swastikas? That's because even the Nazis recognized SOME separation between party and government.
Mao would be proud though...and it looks like Khrushchev was right.
You Sir, are exactly the kind of young man that gives me hope in this world.
About half of the posts thusfar, on /. of all places, display a lack of understanding of the programming paradigm-sphere.
How many posts here just extolled (or decried) the virtues (or problems) of "functional" programming languages like C and C++? Functional is not Procedural. Functional != just programming with functions.
Even here, among the (arguably) nerdiest nerds on to ever move mice... many people don't really know. So maybe you need to start there...a sampler course with various paradigms and languages so people will actually know how all these things fit together. Some functional OCaml, some imperative::procedural C, and some imperative::OO Java. Mix it up.
someone called you captain obvious...but he/she is captain doesn'tknowthedifference.
functional programming (ocaml, et al) is quite a different thing than procedural. Procedural is imperative with procedures, which are often called functions, which almost sounds like functional programming, which often confuses the fucktard on /. that confused you for cpt. obvious.
See also, imperative programming.
In fact, there are multitudes of private schools that are worse then public schools.
this is especially true in Utah, where the voucher system was killed by the teacher union's pravda.
Imagine trying to outperform a competitor who you have to pay to support. Charter and private schools in these cases don't get the millions of dollars or the legislative grandstanding the public schools get...they just pay for it.