I'm particularly intrigued by the fact that if you're using ElGamal and for whatever dumb reason (bad RNG or
just wild luck) you choose the same k twice, you give away your private key.
If you've got a bad RNG. than it doesn't matter what cryptosystem you're using. As far as generating the same k twice with a reasonable RNG, assuming that you've used the minimun reasonable keysize of 768 bits, and your implementation isn't broken, well, I believe that it's more likely for you to be hit by lightning on the day that you win the lottery;)
It's funny. On the bottom of the "slashdot user" comment posting page, it says "Use the Preview Button! Check those URLs!". I guess the admin's story posting page doesn't have that feature.
Or it could just be that the admins are too busy digging up news to bother with checking it's validity. Oops, I mean the validity of the URLs.
Wasn't Pirhana installed and turned on for default redhat installations? Were those big bold letters telling users to change the password included in the "installing redhat" section of the manual?
If not, then it means that after installing RedHat Linux and following the instructions, I am open to this backdoor.
SQL Server isn't installed by default when you install NT. If you do install SQL Server, and read the "Installing SQL Server" section of the manual, it does tell you to change the password.
Of course, if the redhat manual did tell you to change the pirhana password in the "installing redhat" section, and if the SQL Server manual doesn't tell you to change the password in it's "installing sql server" section, then I've revealed my ignorance and should be moderated down to negative oblivion.
The lesson? Follow OpenBSD's secure by default motto/practices. How freaking hard is that?
There are so many silly bits of flaming bait in that post, none worth responding to, but I just couldn't let this one go by:
I find that pretty ironic, but probably not the same way he does. I think that for people who cry out so much about their
"right" to view a DVD on whatever they want, they haven't actually purchased even one legitimate player. No wonder
they want the illegal Linux player.
I do believe that the man was talking about not owning the hardware necessary to play a DVD. See? The irony being that they are defending software that they can't use. So, they couldn't perform the criminal act of DeCSSing a DVD even if they wanted to.
sheesh.
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Oops- should've previewed. I meant I've never seen anything cool built with the mindstorm kit.
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The mindstorm kit is nice, but very limited. I'd recommend it for ages 6 to 14. For a kid over 14, I would recommend a HandyBoard. Not only is the board much more powerful, but they also learn more by buliding their own sensors. I've never seen anything really cool done with the HandyBoard (thought I'm sure it's been done) but I've seen high school kids produce some pretty amazing projects with the HandyBoard.
This slashdot quality control issue really must be dealt with. For example, what was the point of posting this review? If I'm thinking about buying this book, I'll obviously look at amazon's page (even if I'm purchasing from fatbrain or brick-and-mortar).
The "The Book" section is exactly the type of material that one finds in Amazon's Editorial Review sections, and as such is not only redundant but also uninformative, providing minimal information about the book itself and sounding more like a paraprasing of a JavaSpaces whitepaper.
The "What's to consider" section of this review has the only marginally interesting content, summed up into 150 words, perfect for an Amazon.com comment. And what do you know! The amazon comments sound just like this one!
So, why was this review posted, or more to the point, why was it written?
Anyway, the rental car agencies hate this law so much, that they banded togehter in Illinois and gave LOTS of money to the state legislature to get it removed there...
Shit man! So much for my days of bashing the corporate lobbying of legislatures. You just provided a perfect example of the good that they can do.
hmm.
guess i'll have to find something else to bitch about now.
I don't know what country you live in, paco, but here in the good ol' US of A, companies *do* own the airwaves in every way possible, except perhaps that niggling little letter of the law.
why? well, let's face it, our lawmakers are for sale, and these corporations have money. Not that I necessarily blame the lawmakers for pimping themselves, because they need the money in order to get elected. The candidate that promises the most to corporate America will get the most money and therefore the most publicity and therefore will get elected. See? Our country is set up to promote the interests of corporations. Nobody is going to revoke (or refuse to renew) the lease on the airwaves owned by any part of AOL/Time-Warner. For more info, a good starting point is Selling the Air, by Thomas Streeter (Chicago UP, 1996). Or, if the information revolution has given you add and you haven't the attention span to read a book, watch the movie Bulworth. Then you'll want to read the book.
The problem that I've always seen is that humans have stopped evolving.
Please back up this statement with some facts.
I don't see that humans have stopped evolving. Sure, we haven't seen any significant changes in the human species during the course of recorded history, but we also haven't seen any significant changes in elephants, whales, lions, et cetera.
The times when evolution will be most noticeable will be during times of scarcity. Otherwise, there is no natural selection occuring because everyone is fit to survive.
Wait a few centuries for overpopulation to really kick in, then you'll notice large numbers of human beings dying out. You'll also notice selection kicking in. However, keep in mind that physical traits aren't going to be the only factor in selection. Natural selection will probably be most apparent between different cultures due to sociobiological effects. Simply put, some behaviors among groups will make them likely to out-compete other groups of people.
If you want to focus on garbage generation, this is not the place. I could even argue that any paper really isn't the place, since that is pretty easy to recycle.
Yes, but if you want to focus on the environment, recycling is probably not the place to start. Heck, if you want to focus on problems in the world, the environment is probably not the place to start.
We shouldn't ignore the small abuses just because there are bigger problems out there.
They haven't closed it down, they've just tried to secure it. However, the silly blokes aren't even filtering by HTTP-Referrer, but rather just checking for some parameters to be passed with the GET request.
To get around it, find a NYTimes partner. The easiest way is to go to Google and search for "link:partners.nytimes.com". Take the first one off the list, PressDemo. Go to their site and look at their links to partners.nytimes.com. Note that they are all of the form "http://partners.nytimes.com/somepathtosomestory?. html?Partner=PressDemo&RefId=YY1js4EFnnn n.FnBoj"
The question is not "why must people keep making these stupid worms" but "who cares" and "why does slashdot insist on publishing stories about them"?
Do we really care? Even the slashdot-reading Windows users probably don't care!
Hint- if you use Windows AND Gnutella AND you download and run arbitrary Visual Basic scripts, then you probably don't understand most of what slashdot reports on (well...). Hey kid, here's a nickel. Go buy yourself a real OS.
What I meant was it takes a team of developers full-time working to create stuff like this. Yes, open source developers could do it, if they would get a sponsor to pay for computers/office space/pizzas/toilet papar/etc... But then wouldn't you rather work for some money?
OK, now that I could agree with. I just couldn't let the flamebait in the original post go by, well, unflamed.:)
The real question is not whether Linux has trouble running on the Athlon, but whether Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, BeOS, and so on have any trouble with the Athlon chipsets. If AMD is going to make a product that doesn't behave *exactly* the same as an Intel x86 product, that's fine, as long as they document it. I'm wondering, how much support has AMD given people like RedHat, SUSE et al who are trying to work around these incompatibilites?
For me, it's not the incompatibilities that matter. Heck, I run OpenBSD on a sparc, which is sure as hell incompatible with an Intel chip. And that's OK. I am, however, pissed that OpenBSD threads are *broken* on the sparc right now. But I can live with this, given the *BSD fixation with Intel. However, if this were an AMD chip, and I had to live with some piece of my OS not working on the Athlon because of their chipset, even though it is *supposedly* compatible with Intel, then I would be demanding a refund. Unless, of course, they provided the support necessary for fixing the problem.
...which makes the reference to Steve in Physical that much sweeter. As far as I understand it, Physical and [track99] were added to the CD *after* it had somehow been signed off on by TVT management. Hmm, what was track 99 called? It's been too long since I've put that disc in. Let's go find it...
This is why people like myself are making 6 figures less than 2 years after getting their degrees, and are less than impressed with your $70K after 10 years.
Oh geez, you're making more money than me, I'm so sad. I guess experience really sucks.
My post was meant as a refutation of the idea that companies will always hire cheap programmers in bulk rather than hire more expensive, experienced programmers. I was not trying to brag about my salary. I would for a fscking non-profit, afterall.
Besides, I didn't say I got my degree 10 years ago, just that I have 10 years of experience.;)
it has been proven mathematically and verified experimentally
Don't put too much faith in things that are proven mathematically. Mathematical proofs can only be used to prove mathematical statements. As mush as we'd like to believe that there is an isomorphism between math and physics, there is not. Sure, there are a lot of things we can do with math that appear to model the real world, but that's as far as you can take it. We have no proof that any physical system works in accordance with any particular piece of math.
Which is where experimental verification comes in. But experiments are really only good for two things- either disproving a theory, or supporting it's predictions. Keep in mind that supporting a theory's predictions don't prove a theory, they only give us more faith in it.
Yes, I also hate using the word faith in relation to physics, but when someone mentions something being "proven" in physics, then the mathematician in me speaks up. As ridiculous as some philosophy of science courses can be, there's something to be learned there for those of us who grew up in this age where science is worshipped as a religion.
You're worth more with experience. True. Meaning you cost more. A company won't pay one person $70,000 when they can get two for $30,000, experience be damned.
What? I don't know where you work, but my company will pay me 70k even though they could get two other programmers for 30k. Why do they pay me? Experience. My ten years of experience pretty much guarantees that I'll code circles around any two kids they manage to hire for 30k
I'm sorry, but whoever moderated that down was a nimrod. That post was funny as hell, and I'm not even opposed to moderation.
Sure, the moderator was "literally" correct in scoring it offtopic, but come on- it'd never be on-topic (unless slashdot posts some lame article about their own moderation system), and yet it still deserves to be recognized,
What's wrong with people here? (well, most of them, anyway) Now, if Xbox would have been made by anybody else but Microsoft, it wouldn't get the shit it is getting here! Please, remove the Microsoft label and what do you see?
Umm, I still see a box running a Windows2000-ish kernel and Direct-Something-or-other
This is a kind of system that no Open Source zealots [-1, flamebait] could hack to gether. It takes commitment and work (Read: working 8+ hrs a day, 5-6 days a week for few months) from talented and experienced people to design/program a thing like that.
Gosh, you're right. Open source zealots aren't committed, never work 8 hours a day, much less 5 days a week, and they're certainly not talented and experienced. What am I doing running this open source software crap? Thanks for pointing out the problems with programmers who release source code. Obviously people who release source code can't program worth a damn, otherwise they'd never give it away, right?
A special interest group for education has sprung out of the Computer Programming for Everybody initiative. Check the SIG section of the Python site for more details.
Of particular interest should be the mailing list archives. They contain a lot of discussion on this very topic, along with tales of personal experience teaching kids how to program.
And DO buy the CDROMs, they help the project in so many ways...
No! Don't buy the CD-ROMs just to support the project. Buy them if you need to. Otherwise just download the damn thing. If you want to support the project, just figure out the price of the CD, plus shipping, and donate it to the project. They get to keep the shipping expense, and there's one less worthless CD destined for some landfill.
If you really want to own some physical thing that shows you support OpenBSD, then buy a T-shirt or two. You'll use it a hell of a lot more often than you would use a CD, and in the long run it's a bit more biodegradeable;)
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If you've got a bad RNG. than it doesn't matter what cryptosystem you're using. As far as generating the same k twice with a reasonable RNG, assuming that you've used the minimun reasonable keysize of 768 bits, and your implementation isn't broken, well, I believe that it's more likely for you to be hit by lightning on the day that you win the lottery ;)
Or it could just be that the admins are too busy digging up news to bother with checking it's validity. Oops, I mean the validity of the URLs.
SQL Server isn't installed by default when you install NT. If you do install SQL Server, and read the "Installing SQL Server" section of the manual, it does tell you to change the password.
Of course, if the redhat manual did tell you to change the pirhana password in the "installing redhat" section, and if the SQL Server manual doesn't tell you to change the password in it's "installing sql server" section, then I've revealed my ignorance and should be moderated down to negative oblivion.
The lesson? Follow OpenBSD's secure by default motto/practices. How freaking hard is that?
I find that pretty ironic, but probably not the same way he does. I think that for people who cry out so much about their "right" to view a DVD on whatever they want, they haven't actually purchased even one legitimate player. No wonder they want the illegal Linux player.
I do believe that the man was talking about not owning the hardware necessary to play a DVD. See? The irony being that they are defending software that they can't use. So, they couldn't perform the criminal act of DeCSSing a DVD even if they wanted to.
sheesh.
Oops- should've previewed. I meant I've never seen anything cool built with the mindstorm kit.
The mindstorm kit is nice, but very limited. I'd recommend it for ages 6 to 14. For a kid over 14, I would recommend a HandyBoard. Not only is the board much more powerful, but they also learn more by buliding their own sensors. I've never seen anything really cool done with the HandyBoard (thought I'm sure it's been done) but I've seen high school kids produce some pretty amazing projects with the HandyBoard.
This slashdot quality control issue really must be dealt with. For example, what was the point of posting this review? If I'm thinking about buying this book, I'll obviously look at amazon's page (even if I'm purchasing from fatbrain or brick-and-mortar).
The "The Book" section is exactly the type of material that one finds in Amazon's Editorial Review sections, and as such is not only redundant but also uninformative, providing minimal information about the book itself and sounding more like a paraprasing of a JavaSpaces whitepaper.
The "What's to consider" section of this review has the only marginally interesting content, summed up into 150 words, perfect for an Amazon.com comment. And what do you know! The amazon comments sound just like this one!
So, why was this review posted, or more to the point, why was it written?
Shit man! So much for my days of bashing the corporate lobbying of legislatures. You just provided a perfect example of the good that they can do.
hmm.
guess i'll have to find something else to bitch about now.
why? well, let's face it, our lawmakers are for sale, and these corporations have money. Not that I necessarily blame the lawmakers for pimping themselves, because they need the money in order to get elected. The candidate that promises the most to corporate America will get the most money and therefore the most publicity and therefore will get elected. See? Our country is set up to promote the interests of corporations. Nobody is going to revoke (or refuse to renew) the lease on the airwaves owned by any part of AOL/Time-Warner. For more info, a good starting point is Selling the Air, by Thomas Streeter (Chicago UP, 1996). Or, if the information revolution has given you add and you haven't the attention span to read a book, watch the movie Bulworth. Then you'll want to read the book.
Please back up this statement with some facts.
I don't see that humans have stopped evolving. Sure, we haven't seen any significant changes in the human species during the course of recorded history, but we also haven't seen any significant changes in elephants, whales, lions, et cetera.
The times when evolution will be most noticeable will be during times of scarcity. Otherwise, there is no natural selection occuring because everyone is fit to survive.
Wait a few centuries for overpopulation to really kick in, then you'll notice large numbers of human beings dying out. You'll also notice selection kicking in. However, keep in mind that physical traits aren't going to be the only factor in selection. Natural selection will probably be most apparent between different cultures due to sociobiological effects. Simply put, some behaviors among groups will make them likely to out-compete other groups of people.
well shit on me. i didn't even realize that i had a nytimes cookie set when i tried that one. next time, more rigorous testing methods are in order.
my apologies.
http://www1 .nytimes.com/library/tech/00/06/biztech/articles/2 0blue.html
Gosh has the hacking level declined here. People don't even check for ways to shorten their code anymore!
Yes, but if you want to focus on the environment, recycling is probably not the place to start. Heck, if you want to focus on problems in the world, the environment is probably not the place to start.
We shouldn't ignore the small abuses just because there are bigger problems out there.
To get around it, find a NYTimes partner. The easiest way is to go to Google and search for "link:partners.nytimes.com". Take the first one off the list, PressDemo. Go to their site and look at their links to partners.nytimes.com. Note that they are all of the form "http://partners.nytimes.com/somepathtosomestory?. html?Partner=PressDemo&RefId=YY1js4EFnnn n.FnBoj"
To get the story you want (i.e.library/tech/00/06/biztech/articles/20blue.ht ml) just substitute it in there. So, hit the link http://partners.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/06/biz tech/artic les/20blue.html?Partner=PressDemo&RefId=YY1js4EFnn nn.FnBoj anv voila.
Now, I won't defend this as being either convenient or ethical, but it works.
The question is not "why must people keep making these stupid worms" but "who cares" and "why does slashdot insist on publishing stories about them"?
Do we really care? Even the slashdot-reading Windows users probably don't care!
Hint- if you use Windows AND Gnutella AND you download and run arbitrary Visual Basic scripts, then you probably don't understand most of what slashdot reports on (well...). Hey kid, here's a nickel. Go buy yourself a real OS.
OK, now that I could agree with. I just couldn't let the flamebait in the original post go by, well, unflamed. :)
For me, it's not the incompatibilities that matter. Heck, I run OpenBSD on a sparc, which is sure as hell incompatible with an Intel chip. And that's OK. I am, however, pissed that OpenBSD threads are *broken* on the sparc right now. But I can live with this, given the *BSD fixation with Intel. However, if this were an AMD chip, and I had to live with some piece of my OS not working on the Athlon because of their chipset, even though it is *supposedly* compatible with Intel, then I would be demanding a refund. Unless, of course, they provided the support necessary for fixing the problem.
Oh geez, you're making more money than me, I'm so sad. I guess experience really sucks.
My post was meant as a refutation of the idea that companies will always hire cheap programmers in bulk rather than hire more expensive, experienced programmers. I was not trying to brag about my salary. I would for a fscking non-profit, afterall.
Besides, I didn't say I got my degree 10 years ago, just that I have 10 years of experience. ;)
Don't put too much faith in things that are proven mathematically. Mathematical proofs can only be used to prove mathematical statements. As mush as we'd like to believe that there is an isomorphism between math and physics, there is not. Sure, there are a lot of things we can do with math that appear to model the real world, but that's as far as you can take it. We have no proof that any physical system works in accordance with any particular piece of math.
Which is where experimental verification comes in. But experiments are really only good for two things- either disproving a theory, or supporting it's predictions. Keep in mind that supporting a theory's predictions don't prove a theory, they only give us more faith in it.
Yes, I also hate using the word faith in relation to physics, but when someone mentions something being "proven" in physics, then the mathematician in me speaks up. As ridiculous as some philosophy of science courses can be, there's something to be learned there for those of us who grew up in this age where science is worshipped as a religion.
What? I don't know where you work, but my company will pay me 70k even though they could get two other programmers for 30k. Why do they pay me? Experience. My ten years of experience pretty much guarantees that I'll code circles around any two kids they manage to hire for 30k
I'm sorry, but whoever moderated that down was a nimrod. That post was funny as hell, and I'm not even opposed to moderation.
Sure, the moderator was "literally" correct in scoring it offtopic, but come on- it'd never be on-topic (unless slashdot posts some lame article about their own moderation system), and yet it still deserves to be recognized,
Umm, I still see a box running a Windows2000-ish kernel and Direct-Something-or-other
This is a kind of system that no Open Source zealots [-1, flamebait] could hack to gether. It takes commitment and work (Read: working 8+ hrs a day, 5-6 days a week for few months) from talented and experienced people to design/program a thing like that.
Gosh, you're right. Open source zealots aren't committed, never work 8 hours a day, much less 5 days a week, and they're certainly not talented and experienced. What am I doing running this open source software crap? Thanks for pointing out the problems with programmers who release source code. Obviously people who release source code can't program worth a damn, otherwise they'd never give it away, right?
A special interest group for education has sprung out of the Computer Programming for Everybody initiative. Check the SIG section of the Python site for more details.
Of particular interest should be the mailing list archives. They contain a lot of discussion on this very topic, along with tales of personal experience teaching kids how to program.
Good luck!
No! Don't buy the CD-ROMs just to support the project. Buy them if you need to. Otherwise just download the damn thing. If you want to support the project, just figure out the price of the CD, plus shipping, and donate it to the project. They get to keep the shipping expense, and there's one less worthless CD destined for some landfill.
If you really want to own some physical thing that shows you support OpenBSD, then buy a T-shirt or two. You'll use it a hell of a lot more often than you would use a CD, and in the long run it's a bit more biodegradeable ;)