You do realise that 'Spirited Away' had the highest box-office take of any movie in Japanese cinema history, and when broadcast on Japanese television a couple of weeks ago, had the highest rating for any movie broadcast on TV?
Do you know which Japanese character you want that to correspond to? Offhand, the most common one for Kai would probably be 'sakigake', meaning leader or pioneer.
Yeah. I've got an Ultra 2 at home, and I cracked the case yesterday to upgrade the hard drives. That is one well-built chunk of hardware - no rough edges, everything easily pullable (the hard drives have this little door on the side, and slide out on rails). The only tricky bit was installing an SBus card, but a couple of tries and it went in OK, and unlike PCI, it doesn't feel like it'll pop out the moment you move the box.
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No, no, you've got it all wrong. The merger should be between:
Apple Motorola IBM Gateway Adobe
Then we'd have a company that would be dead in two years, but which everyone would talk about until the end of time.
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I just installed a couple of drives in an Ultra 10... the lack of rails isn't really a problem, since the disk below the CDROM is on a sled, but the fact that I had to remove the *power supply* to get the damn thing out really pissed me off.
I read the article. If you think that NSA didn't want to give them an export license because they couldn't break it, all I can say is I've got a bridge in New York to sell you...
Hate to tell you, but the quoted comments were from a reverse-engineered implementation of the "classified" algorithm... keeping the algorithm secret doesn't make it any more secure.
BTW, it was reverse-engineered from a shareware version released by Meganet. So, all in all, your comment doesn't really make a hell of a lot of sense, does it?
Probably because the US Navy (one of their supposed customers) doesn't want to listen to the NSA, whose cryptographers are almost certainly laughing their asses of at this pile of unprovable crap.
Meganet claims that the "Targeted Delivery System" increases security * by limiting decryption to copies of VME with certain serial numbers. * It's possible for anyone to compute the required decryption * parameters, though, as the program below demonstrates. It can decrypt * messages targeted to any serial number (provided you know the proper * passwords and such, of course). * * The "Date Limiting Algorithm" is supposed to prevent decryption after * a certain date. Meganet's VME software extracts the date limit from * the encrypted file, compares it to the current date, and refuses to * decrypt the file if the date isn't right. This program has no such * limitation, so it can decrypt regardless of the date limit. * * VME computes a "Transaction Code" and "Authentication Number" to * verify file integrity. These are basically dressed-up 8-bit checksums.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahaahaaahaaaa.... and they say that the US government is using this crap. WTF was the AES created for?
Strangely enough, that guy had something called "scientific proof" of the Earth being round... where's the proof of this company's claims? I see a bunch of buzzwords and that's about it.
Meganet has a beauty on their Web site: "The base of VME is a Virtual Matrix, a matrix of binary values which is infinity in size in theory and therefore have no redundant value. The data to be encrypted is compared to the data in the Virtual Matrix. Once a match is found, a set of pointers that indicate how to navigate inside the Virtual Matrix is created. That set of pointers (which is worthless unless pointing to the right Virtual Matrix) is then further encrypted in dozens other algorithms in different stages to create an avalanche effect. The result is an encrypted file that even if decrypted is completely meaningless since the decrypted data is not the actual data but rather a set of pointers. Considering that each session of VME has a unique different Virtual Matrix and that the data pattern within the Virtual Matrix is completely random and non-redundant, there is no way to derive the data out of the pointer set." This makes no sense, even to an expert.
I dunno, but a company that claims to have an unbreakable encryption algorithm that is not publically available and is not a one-time pad sure seems like something I wouldn't want to trust my data to...
"IPv5 exists and it's specified in RFC 1819. It's a connection-oriented alternative to IPv4 but before discussions went too far the IPv6 standards were implemented, and other protocols provided the proposed functionality of IPv5. Some experimental implementations of IPv5 are in limited use but mostly outside the United States. You won't see many references to "IPv5" but you may encounter it by it's experimental name, "ST2" or "ST2+". This stands for "STreaming" protocol. Here's what RFC 1819 says about it:
The Internet Stream Protocol, Version 2 (ST2) is an experimental connection-oriented internetworking protocol that operates at the same layer as connectionless IP. It has been developed to support the efficient delivery of data streams to single or multiple destinations in applications that require guaranteed quality of service. ST2 is part of the IP protocol family and serves as an adjunct to, not a replacement for, IP. The main application areas of the protocol are the real-time transport of multimedia data, e.g., digital audio and video packet streams, and distributed simulation/gaming, across internets.
ST2 can be used to reserve bandwidth for real-time streams across network routes. This reservation, together with appropriate network access and packet scheduling mechanisms in all nodes running the protocol, guarantees a well-defined Quality of Service (QoS) to ST2 applications. It ensures that real-time packets are delivered within their deadlines, that is, at the time where they need to be presented. This facilitates a smooth delivery of data that is essential for time-critical applications, but can typically not be provided by best-effort IP communication."
Not necessarily 80% - remember, a huge proportion of Internet users in Japan actually use mobile phones, which have IPs dynamically allocated from a pool held by the phone company. The proportion of users with static global addresses is very small.
NTT Communications Corporation A subcompany of the NTT group; the country's largest ISP.
Fujitsu Limited One of Japan's largest manufacturers of PCs and servers.
Impress Corporation/. users should know this one - it runs the Akiba PC Watch site.
Internet Research Institute, Inc. A company founded to take advantage of academic research. Funded by Yahoo Japan/Softbank (Softbank's one of Japan's largest Internet-related companies, and actually runs Yahoo Japan).
KDDI CORPORATION Japan's #2 phone company after NTT.
Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd. Japan's largest manufacturer of electronic goods.
Nokia-Japan Co., Ltd. Need I say more?
Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc. The Mitsubishi group's research organization.
The reason Japan's so hot for IPv6 is that it got rather shortchanged in the IPv4 handout - the ratio of IPv4 addresses to users is much worse than in the US.
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That title gets even better if you know that "bobo" is a euphemism for vagina in certain Japanese dialects.
And if you're thinking about moderating me down, no, I'm not lying, joking or trolling.
"...more mainstream types of entertainment"?
You do realise that 'Spirited Away' had the highest box-office take of any movie in Japanese cinema history, and when broadcast on Japanese television a couple of weeks ago, had the highest rating for any movie broadcast on TV?
It is mainstream, just not in your country.
Do you know which Japanese character you want that to correspond to?
Offhand, the most common one for Kai would probably be 'sakigake', meaning leader or pioneer.
Yeah. I've got an Ultra 2 at home, and I cracked the case yesterday to upgrade the hard drives. That is one well-built chunk of hardware - no rough edges, everything easily pullable (the hard drives have this little door on the side, and slide out on rails).
The only tricky bit was installing an SBus card, but a couple of tries and it went in OK, and unlike PCI, it doesn't feel like it'll pop out the moment you move the box.
No, no, you've got it all wrong. The merger should be between:
Apple
Motorola
IBM
Gateway
Adobe
Then we'd have a company that would be dead in two years, but which everyone would talk about until the end of time.
I just installed a couple of drives in an Ultra 10... the lack of rails isn't really a problem, since the disk below the CDROM is on a sled, but the fact that I had to remove the *power supply* to get the damn thing out really pissed me off.
What's the name?
Diving rod? I think you mean divining rod.
So either way, the firm's claims are crap...
I read the article. If you think that NSA didn't want to give them an export license because they couldn't break it, all I can say is I've got a bridge in New York to sell you...
Hate to tell you, but the quoted comments were from a reverse-engineered implementation of the "classified" algorithm... keeping the algorithm secret doesn't make it any more secure.
BTW, it was reverse-engineered from a shareware version released by Meganet. So, all in all, your comment doesn't really make a hell of a lot of sense, does it?
Probably because the US Navy (one of their supposed customers) doesn't want to listen to the NSA, whose cryptographers are almost certainly laughing their asses of at this pile of unprovable crap.
Meganet claims that the "Targeted Delivery System" increases security
* by limiting decryption to copies of VME with certain serial numbers.
* It's possible for anyone to compute the required decryption
* parameters, though, as the program below demonstrates. It can decrypt
* messages targeted to any serial number (provided you know the proper
* passwords and such, of course).
*
* The "Date Limiting Algorithm" is supposed to prevent decryption after
* a certain date. Meganet's VME software extracts the date limit from
* the encrypted file, compares it to the current date, and refuses to
* decrypt the file if the date isn't right. This program has no such
* limitation, so it can decrypt regardless of the date limit.
*
* VME computes a "Transaction Code" and "Authentication Number" to
* verify file integrity. These are basically dressed-up 8-bit checksums.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahaahaaahaaaa.... and they say that the US government is using this crap. WTF was the AES created for?
Randomness is a relative state, not an absolute one. It is perfectly possible to say that 'this data is more random than that data'.
Strangely enough, that guy had something called "scientific proof" of the Earth being round... where's the proof of this company's claims? I see a bunch of buzzwords and that's about it.
Meganet has a beauty on their Web site: "The base of VME is a Virtual Matrix, a matrix of binary values which is infinity in size in theory and therefore have no redundant value. The data to be encrypted is compared to the data in the Virtual Matrix. Once a match is found, a set of pointers that indicate how to navigate inside the Virtual Matrix is created. That set of pointers (which is worthless unless pointing to the right Virtual Matrix) is then further encrypted in dozens other algorithms in different stages to create an avalanche effect. The result is an encrypted file that even if decrypted is completely meaningless since the decrypted data is not the actual data but rather a set of pointers. Considering that each session of VME has a unique different Virtual Matrix and that the data pattern within the Virtual Matrix is completely random and non-redundant, there is no way to derive the data out of the pointer set." This makes no sense, even to an expert.
I dunno, but a company that claims to have an unbreakable encryption algorithm that is not publically available and is not a one-time pad sure seems like something I wouldn't want to trust my data to...
Probably a Japanese icon title, being displayed with incorrect fonts.
profiling reveals that a lot of time is wasted opening and closing huge Japanese font files on startup
If you're using Japanese, I wouldn't exactly say that the time is "wasted"...
Er... no.
I quote:
"IPv5 exists and it's specified in RFC 1819. It's a connection-oriented alternative to IPv4 but before discussions went too far the IPv6 standards were implemented, and other protocols provided the proposed functionality of IPv5. Some experimental implementations of IPv5 are in limited use but mostly outside the United States. You won't see many references to "IPv5" but you may encounter it by it's experimental name, "ST2" or "ST2+". This stands for "STreaming" protocol. Here's what RFC 1819 says about it:
The Internet Stream Protocol, Version 2 (ST2) is an experimental connection-oriented internetworking protocol that operates at the same layer as connectionless IP. It has been developed to support the efficient delivery of data streams to single or multiple destinations in applications that require guaranteed quality of service. ST2 is part of the IP protocol family and serves as an adjunct to, not a replacement for, IP. The main application areas of the protocol are the real-time transport of multimedia data, e.g., digital audio and video packet streams, and distributed simulation/gaming, across internets.
ST2 can be used to reserve bandwidth for real-time streams across network routes. This reservation, together with appropriate network access and packet scheduling mechanisms in all nodes running the protocol, guarantees a well-defined Quality of Service (QoS) to ST2 applications. It ensures that real-time packets are delivered within their deadlines, that is, at the time where they need to be presented. This facilitates a smooth delivery of data that is essential for time-critical applications, but can typically not be provided by best-effort IP communication."
Not necessarily 80% - remember, a huge proportion of Internet users in Japan actually use mobile phones, which have IPs dynamically allocated from a pool held by the phone company. The proportion of users with static global addresses is very small.
Urgh... of course, that should have said 20% of the population.
Well, based on the ARIN stats and APNIC stats that are made available to the public...
IP addresses (US): 1,847,483,219
IP addresses (Japan): 41,943,663
IP addresses (Canada): 61,747,968
The number of users is debatable, but make it, say, around 30% of the population of each country.
Users (US): 250 million x 0.2 = 50,000,000
Users (Japan): 120 million x 0.2 = 24,000,000
Users (Canada): 30 million x 0.2 = 6,000,000
Which means the ratio of IP addresses to population is:
US: 36.95 IPs/person
Japan: 2.573 IPs/person
Canada: 10.29 IPs/person
So, as you can see, Japan's getting a little desparate... hell, even Canada has five times more IPv4 addresses per user.
No (not from the Japanese ISPs, anyway).
NTT Communications Corporation
A subcompany of the NTT group; the country's largest ISP.
Fujitsu Limited
One of Japan's largest manufacturers of PCs and servers.
Impress Corporation /. users should know this one - it runs the Akiba PC Watch site.
Internet Research Institute, Inc.
A company founded to take advantage of academic research. Funded by Yahoo Japan/Softbank (Softbank's one of Japan's largest Internet-related companies, and actually runs Yahoo Japan).
KDDI CORPORATION
Japan's #2 phone company after NTT.
Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.
Japan's largest manufacturer of electronic goods.
Nokia-Japan Co., Ltd.
Need I say more?
Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc.
The Mitsubishi group's research organization.
The reason Japan's so hot for IPv6 is that it got rather shortchanged in the IPv4 handout - the ratio of IPv4 addresses to users is much worse than in the US.
The Japanese. Many Japanese ISPs will give you your own IPv6 subnet right now, for not very much money.