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Dnet was much more lucky with the RC5 project. We found the key with 12% of the keyspace left to go (with odds of 135 to 1).
For the last project, CSC, we had to exhaust the entire keyspace and then go back and recheck some of the work.
Congrats to everyone who participated.
And just for kicks, here are my final stats on the project:
Rank: 38501 (out of 331,286)
First block: 25-Sep-1999
Last Block: 22-Sep-2002
Days working: 1,094 (out of 1,796)
Total Blocks: 226,544 (out of 61,015,324,138!)
The odds were 1 in 3,802,292 that I would have found the lucky key before anyone else.
On the other hand, most sensitive information tends to stay sensitive for long periods of time.
The success of the bovine project proves that if you need data to be secure for the long run, choose something stronger than 64-bit encryption.
[Sorry about the lack of spacing in my last post. Forgot to change to Plain Old Text]
It sounds as if much of your criticism of episodic television series is due to the inherent limitations of the medium.
TV basically has to have the same cast of characters coming back week after week, facing some sort of conflict and resolving it based on their predetermined traits. And it all has to appeal to a very wide audience. It must also be understood that "classical" science fiction has since its creation been humanity's vehicle for expressing our hopes and dreams of for the future (unless we're going the postmodern dystopian route, which doesn't really cover Star Trek).
This is why humans tend to be the main characters and the dominant race. First, we want to see ourselves, and second, we want to know what the future could be like for us. Any storyline that covers those topics in a negative aspect might be intellectually stimulating, but probably won't keep a mainstream US audience (Star Trek's target market) coming back week after week.
I would also venture to say that a Star Trek series not based around a human/Federation ship just wouldn't be Star Trek. They'd have to come up with a different name for it, because what would it have in common with the rest of the shows?
It sounds as if you might enjoy good independent cinema or Japanese anime series better. In those formats the writers are free to be as daring as they like with the stories, develop characters howver they like and kill them off if need be, without having to worry about what the advertisers sponsoring the show will think. If you're not familiar with anime, there was an Ask Slashdot: "What's your favorite Anime?" a couple years back, that might be a good place to start.
1,2. Budgets. It's easier and cheaper to dress people up with a little makeup and prosthetics (and have them look convincing) than to rig up animatronic aliens or CGI (we'll let Lucas work through the bugs in CG chars).
3. One reason was the "political correctness" fad that took hold in the early 90s. Also, the writers decided they wanted the TNG Earth to be a Utopia, and additionally, any attempts to be another Kirk would simply look like a bad ripoff of the original. Riker and Worf took over the "badass" role, while Picard had a new part to play: the intelligent, sophisticated leader.
4. People get attached to their favorite characters, and tend to get upset when they are killed off. Minor characters are called "minor" for a reason -- how many stories can you think of that have more than a dozen main characters (and even that's quite a lot!) It would get too confusing to keep track of what was going on. This point contradicts your next, btw.
5. Troi/Riker? Miles/Keiko? (ok, they weren't exactly major characters but they did develop). Picard/Beverly (or am I making that one up? can't remember exactly.)
Possibly the zero-g vomiting scene? I don't recall whether there was any cursing, but if so, that would also be a prime candidate for editing in the US.
Nothing in that movie was offensive to me, by the way, I'm just hazarding a few guesses. IMAX theatres tend to be located at Science Museums, planetariums, and other family-oriented venues, so wanting to keep things as inoffense as possible is entirely understandable, in my mind.
The tourist says (I just went back and checked), "At least one of you has red eyes."
First, how does that make the case of a single red eyed monk untenable? Second, how does the scenario you lay out in the last 3 paragraphs depend on what the tourist said?
The tourist said that at least 1 monk has red eyes. If there is only one red-eyed monk, this statement is notable because the one red-eye now looks around and sees that no one else has red eyes. If there were two red-eyed monks, the fact that there is at least one red-eye would already be known. Each red-eyed monk would already noticed the other, and any scenario where the two monks wake up the next morning and realize it's them would have played itself out earlier.
Now, I wasted a lot of time, but eventually confirmed on the web that this is a known bug in the Microsoft C++ library which has persisted from Visual Studio 5 into version 6.
Apparently, the Standard C++ Library used in both products was produced by Dinkumware and they, with their illustrious author/founder P. J. Plauger, were embroiled in a multi-year copyright dispute which made it impossible for them to debug (let alone update) the library. Most of the commenters online seemed to believe that this problem could not be solved and we had to wait for the copyright battle to be resolved (it has).
My impression is that Microsoft has elected not to provide an update to the library (which includes the STL) until the release of.NET.
There are many conflicting claims, however those who claim the satellites aren't compensated seem to have better references for this than those who claim they are, who seem to just toss off the example and move on to other "proofs," like the bending of light around stars.
"The accuracy of this comparison [ground-based clocks to satellite clocks] is limited mainly because atomic clocks change frequencies by small, semi-random amounts (of order 1 ns/day) at unpredictable times for reasons that are not fully understood."
Sounds pretty unscientific to me. Here's one researcher's papers on the subject, which conclude that the GPS systems aren't following relativity. http://www.stcloudstate.edu/~ruwang/
We've already got a bunch of atomic clocks circling the earth -- in the form of GPS satellites. The funny thing is, they don't need to compensate for relativity, when they clearly should.
Probably this won't be so much beta-testing relativity as it is verifying the anti-relativists.
There's actually a very good reason why this hasn't happened yet -- the US airwaves are public property, administered by the FCC, who decided, in a somewhat wiser era, that all broadcasts must be sent in a format that anyone could decode.
I'm not exactly sure how satellite broadcasters get around this, but I think it has something to do with the fact that for someone to tune in they must buy the dish and receiver from the satellite company.
It's "Thoreau," and the essay was called "Civil Disobedience," which he wrote after willingly going to prison for refusing to pay the poll tax, in protest of both slavery and the Mexican war.
What you're wanting to attribute to Gandhi is most likely "passive resistance," basically any nonviolent but noncooperative form of protest (in his case, against British rule over India), which could include civil disobedience. MLK borrowed this idea for the civil rights protest marches, boycotts, etc.
The PC clone market was born when Compaq and Phoenix clean room reverse-engineered the IBM BIOS, which specifies the low-level interaction between motherboard components. After that it was simple to piece together the parts that would act like a real IBM.
The cloners were (and still are) able to sell their PCs cheaper because IBM charged ridiculous margins.
I'm sure you can think of a few reasons why a small company in a niche market could have trouble getting started, but might still grow to be successful.
And a few reasons why users of said company's products might have an interest in seeing that company survive.
Especially when said users have probably been using said product for free.
Personally, I've been downloading new Mandrake ISOs for 3 years now, and I'd much rather donate than buy a boxed version of the distro. More of my $$ go to fund development that way.
I always end up clearing the location bar history every few days, like after I enter a full google search URL and then can't get to the front page by typing g-o-o-ENTER anymore. amazon.com does this by default for some reason.
Also, has anyone else had the problem that the URL-autocomplete will NEVER return mail.yahoo.com ? I think it started sometime during the.9.X builds.
Maybe I oughta go register for that bugzilla account...
I realize single servers might run only one service, I was saying that within an organization there's bound to be a couple of the serivces running that require email addresses.
I don't see why a single server has to have an email address. As long you can get an address within that organization's IT staff, ideally you should be able to get in contact with whoever you need (ditto for emailing noc@domain. hopefully the admin person you get isn't some BOFH type, but the original poster was talking about not being able to get ANY email contact. If it was an urgent issue, there are better means of communication than email anyway.)
Dialup users aren't going to have their own SMTP servers to be contacted through (but their ISPs will.) You could say "every IP address must have an email address", but that wouldn't be too practical.
You know, why not submit an RFC yourself? I'm not exactly sure how they handle addendums, but you're sure to get some interesting feedback, and if you make a good enough case maybe they'll add "time" (or "ntp") as one of the required addresses.
The key term in the RFC is COMMON SERVICES. We could just require every open port to have its own email address, but that would be ridiculous to maintain. ("Hi, is your CHARGEN daemon running? Better go catch it!").
And really, how many organizations do you know that run only NTP and no other services? ("Yup, we pay for a net connection just to keep our clocks synchronized!") I mean, gopher MAYBE, if were talking 1993 or something, but otherwise an organization is on the 'net it's bound to have http and email.
Also, I think for a server to be useful, it ought to be connected to some sort of network infrastructure. Like, I dunno, a LAN cable.
So for now we'll agree to disagree over whether the government is too far gone to be worth patching. (personally I think it's time we scrapped it and went with another vendor's solution)
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For the last project, CSC, we had to exhaust the entire keyspace and then go back and recheck some of the work.
Congrats to everyone who participated.
And just for kicks, here are my final stats on the project:
Rank: 38501 (out of 331,286)
First block: 25-Sep-1999
Last Block: 22-Sep-2002
Days working: 1,094 (out of 1,796)
Total Blocks: 226,544 (out of 61,015,324,138!)
The odds were 1 in 3,802,292 that I would have found the lucky key before anyone else.
On the other hand, most sensitive information tends to stay sensitive for long periods of time. The success of the bovine project proves that if you need data to be secure for the long run, choose something stronger than 64-bit encryption.
[Sorry about the lack of spacing in my last post. Forgot to change to Plain Old Text]
It sounds as if much of your criticism of episodic television series is due to the inherent limitations of the medium.
TV basically has to have the same cast of characters coming back week after week, facing some sort of conflict and resolving it based on their predetermined traits. And it all has to appeal to a very wide audience. It must also be understood that "classical" science fiction has since its creation been humanity's vehicle for expressing our hopes and dreams of for the future (unless we're going the postmodern dystopian route, which doesn't really cover Star Trek).
This is why humans tend to be the main characters and the dominant race. First, we want to see ourselves, and second, we want to know what the future could be like for us. Any storyline that covers those topics in a negative aspect might be intellectually stimulating, but probably won't keep a mainstream US audience (Star Trek's target market) coming back week after week.
I would also venture to say that a Star Trek series not based around a human/Federation ship just wouldn't be Star Trek. They'd have to come up with a different name for it, because what would it have in common with the rest of the shows?
It sounds as if you might enjoy good independent cinema or Japanese anime series better. In those formats the writers are free to be as daring as they like with the stories, develop characters howver they like and kill them off if need be, without having to worry about what the advertisers sponsoring the show will think. If you're not familiar with anime, there was an Ask Slashdot: "What's your favorite Anime?" a couple years back, that might be a good place to start.
Cheers!
1,2. Budgets. It's easier and cheaper to dress people up with a little makeup and prosthetics (and have them look convincing) than to rig up animatronic aliens or CGI (we'll let Lucas work through the bugs in CG chars). 3. One reason was the "political correctness" fad that took hold in the early 90s. Also, the writers decided they wanted the TNG Earth to be a Utopia, and additionally, any attempts to be another Kirk would simply look like a bad ripoff of the original. Riker and Worf took over the "badass" role, while Picard had a new part to play: the intelligent, sophisticated leader. 4. People get attached to their favorite characters, and tend to get upset when they are killed off. Minor characters are called "minor" for a reason -- how many stories can you think of that have more than a dozen main characters (and even that's quite a lot!) It would get too confusing to keep track of what was going on. This point contradicts your next, btw. 5. Troi/Riker? Miles/Keiko? (ok, they weren't exactly major characters but they did develop). Picard/Beverly (or am I making that one up? can't remember exactly.)
Nothing in that movie was offensive to me, by the way, I'm just hazarding a few guesses. IMAX theatres tend to be located at Science Museums, planetariums, and other family-oriented venues, so wanting to keep things as inoffense as possible is entirely understandable, in my mind.
First, how does that make the case of a single red eyed monk untenable? Second, how does the scenario you lay out in the last 3 paragraphs depend on what the tourist said?
The tourist said that at least 1 monk has red eyes. If there is only one red-eyed monk, this statement is notable because the one red-eye now looks around and sees that no one else has red eyes.
If there were two red-eyed monks, the fact that there is at least one red-eye would already be known. Each red-eyed monk would already noticed the other, and any scenario where the two monks wake up the next morning and realize it's them would have played itself out earlier.
Do I get them job now? ;-)
But what was the easiest way attackers ever took down Troy?
The trojan horse.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb; EN-US;q240015
Now, I wasted a lot of time, but eventually confirmed on the web that this is a known bug in the Microsoft C++ library which has persisted from Visual Studio 5 into version 6.
Apparently, the Standard C++ Library used in both products was produced by Dinkumware and they, with their illustrious author/founder P. J. Plauger, were embroiled in a multi-year copyright dispute which made it impossible for them to debug (let alone update) the library. Most of the commenters online seemed to believe that this problem could not be solved and we had to wait for the copyright battle to be resolved (it has).
My impression is that Microsoft has elected not to provide an update to the library (which includes the STL) until the release of .NET.
Some company willing to stand up to MS needs an ad campaign with that R.E.M. song ("Can't get there from here.")
LucasArts is probably retaliating against Sourceforge for all those stupid "Star Wars"-ripoff ads ;-)
There are many conflicting claims, however those who claim the satellites aren't compensated seem to have better references for this than those who claim they are, who seem to just toss off the example and move on to other "proofs," like the bending of light around stars.
Sounds pretty unscientific to me. Here's one researcher's papers on the subject, which conclude that the GPS systems aren't following relativity. http://www.stcloudstate.edu/~ruwang/
Not that Salon is a peer-reviewed journal or anything, but this will give a little background for those who'd like it. http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2000/07/06/ein stein/
Probably this won't be so much beta-testing relativity as it is verifying the anti-relativists.
I'm not exactly sure how satellite broadcasters get around this, but I think it has something to do with the fact that for someone to tune in they must buy the dish and receiver from the satellite company.
What you're wanting to attribute to Gandhi is most likely "passive resistance," basically any nonviolent but noncooperative form of protest (in his case, against British rule over India), which could include civil disobedience. MLK borrowed this idea for the civil rights protest marches, boycotts, etc.
The cloners were (and still are) able to sell their PCs cheaper because IBM charged ridiculous margins.
If you've only got 128mb (or god forbid less), NT is probably swapping it in and out, in and out.
And a few reasons why users of said company's products might have an interest in seeing that company survive.
Especially when said users have probably been using said product for free.
Personally, I've been downloading new Mandrake ISOs for 3 years now, and I'd much rather donate than buy a boxed version of the distro. More of my $$ go to fund development that way.
Also, has anyone else had the problem that the URL-autocomplete will NEVER return mail.yahoo.com ? I think it started sometime during the .9.X builds.
Maybe I oughta go register for that bugzilla account...
I don't see why a single server has to have an email address. As long you can get an address within that organization's IT staff, ideally you should be able to get in contact with whoever you need (ditto for emailing noc@domain. hopefully the admin person you get isn't some BOFH type, but the original poster was talking about not being able to get ANY email contact. If it was an urgent issue, there are better means of communication than email anyway.)
Dialup users aren't going to have their own SMTP servers to be contacted through (but their ISPs will.) You could say "every IP address must have an email address", but that wouldn't be too practical.
You know, why not submit an RFC yourself? I'm not exactly sure how they handle addendums, but you're sure to get some interesting feedback, and if you make a good enough case maybe they'll add "time" (or "ntp") as one of the required addresses.
And really, how many organizations do you know that run only NTP and no other services? ("Yup, we pay for a net connection just to keep our clocks synchronized!") I mean, gopher MAYBE, if were talking 1993 or something, but otherwise an organization is on the 'net it's bound to have http and email.
Also, I think for a server to be useful, it ought to be connected to some sort of network infrastructure. Like, I dunno, a LAN cable.
(OK I'mdone smartalecking for the day)
So for now we'll agree to disagree over whether the government is too far gone to be worth patching. (personally I think it's time we scrapped it and went with another vendor's solution)
p.s. It was campaign finance reform.