% Later, the cast of the show perform a musical number, singing "Guys And Dolls" to the tune of "Hooray for Hollywood".
Singers: Guys and dolls! We're just a bunch of crazy guys and dolls! Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, guys and dolls...
% Meanwhile, Mark Hamill, dressed as Luke Skywalker, talks with one of the show's "producers", wearing a cook's outfit.
Hamill: This is a conceptual nightmare! I mean, Nathan Detroit would never wear this! And this song isn't even in the show!
Producer: I don't have time for this. I got seventy-five shortcakes to strawberry. Now get out there, Luke.
% Mark sighs, then walks out on stage to sing the "Guys and Dolls" song, swinging his lightsabre leisurely about, the other singers joining in.
% Mark, wearing his Skywalker costume with a top hat, does another song.
Hamill: Luke, be a Jedi tonight!
Just be a Jedi tonight! Hamill & Chorus: Do it for Yoda, while we serve our guests a soda. Hamill: Uh, and do it for Chewie and the Ewoks, and all the other puppets... Hamill & Chorus: Luke, be a Jedi tonight!
-- "Mayored to the Mob" Shameless butchered from snpp.com
As for damaging the RSA key, it's hard to do more than superficial scratches to those things. They are tough, like digital watches. I've never heard of anyone actually breaking the things, and I've seen them used at every place I work.
Nice to meet you. I've broken two (and not just breaking the flimsy plastic that lets you hook it onto your keychain). One went in the wash, and the other fell on the pavement. From my balcony. 4th floor.
I'm as geeky as the next slashdotter, so I'm down with spending $1000 on a color laser printer. But I don't really see how that's gonna help you defend your home.
If it's like the one I have... just drop it on them. Sure is heavy enough.
Or take the cord, strip the wires on the device side, and touch him. Be careful.
I thought it required a special processor chip, so they would have to replace the boxes, not just the card.
It does. Initially it will be part of new boxes only (with advanced features, like home networking, HDTV, and a few others that I cannot say), but odds are all new boxes will get it, so even if it takes 5 years, then it will be done.
If I'm not mistaken the new cards encryption isn't designed by NDS. I beleive it's now inhouse. They feel it should be more secure for a longer period. You are mistaken. The D1 (the card that looks like a letterboxes dark blue image on a gray background) was designed by DTV using the same technology as an NDS P4 (Access Card 4). However, now that Rupert owns both companies, development is back at NDS. Their P4 (and DTV's D1, which is cryptologically identical) is secure, and the P5 is currently under development (not sure if it'll be called a D2, P5, or what). Keep in mind, despite the P1 and P2 hacks (and P3 glitches -- not really a cryptological hack), there's some good minds working on it... Adi Shamir is involved in security design... and yes, he's the S in RSA.
Smart cards run about $10 apiece. Yes, I know this for a fact... I work for a company (can't say who) who develops them. Yes, even on the scale that DTV uses.
Our company is moving in November. All of those who are not part of the move (700 people) are _required_ to take vacation for the 10 days that it takes (6 business days). Sucks. Of course, we get 25 days a year, so that helps...
Put it this way, if you lived during the cold war, you'd never pick up a piece of merchandise you bought from the store and see "Made in USSR" on the bottom. "Made in China" is farily common, last I checked....
No, but if you lived in Russia, there's a good chance you ate wheat that could've been stamped "Made in the USA"...
except for the fact that stamping wheat is kind of difficult. Isn't writing characters on a grain more of a chinese thing, anyway?
Yes! Dangerous eye melting lasers combined with mercury! I like your style.
Now let's just make it small enough to be a choking hazard.
Don't forget powering it off 120V, with exposed terminals...
On a serious note- I was running my laptop without ground for a while (on a plug adapter that only did two prongs), and there was some _serious_ leakage... if I touched the back of the PC while inserting a USB device, I definitely could tell...
No, 1GB/GB is just 1. To get a rate of 1GB, it'd be 1GB^2/GB, Note that this should not be confused with 1G^2B/GB, which is one petabyte per gigabyte. And don't even mention GiB...
Broadband from bezeq in Israel (*shudder*.. they make me wish I was back on Verizon) starts at 256Kbps down. Most people have either 500 or 750 down, with 96Kbps up.
if the market keeps shrinking due to the increasing ease of piracy... then the number and quality of games will almost certainly decrease. Without a big market there can be no big budgets. No Doom 4, no Far Cry 2 and no Half-Life 3. Ironically, auther was not able to come up with even one example wich is not sequel. Indsutry really have problem with creativity, piracy notwithstanding. Well, duh... you won't recongnize any of them games he mentions if they're not sequels and not almost released (insert DNF joke here). Imagine if he'd said, "Without a big market, there'd be no Binge, Future Sky, or Rungy" Two notes: 1. Do you know how hard it is to come up with a few random names? 2. Yes, I know someone will post a reply with links to all of these games that already exist. So don't bother.
The only problem I've had with my DI-614+ is that it used to lock up a lot when running eMule. It didn't like opening so many ports over NAT in such a short time. Then again, that's probably just the router side... as an AP it ought to be fine.
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% Later, the cast of the show perform a musical number, singing "Guys And Dolls" to the tune of "Hooray for Hollywood".
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Singers: Guys and dolls! We're just a bunch of crazy guys and dolls! Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, guys and dolls
% Meanwhile, Mark Hamill, dressed as Luke Skywalker, talks with one of the show's "producers", wearing a cook's outfit.
Hamill: This is a conceptual nightmare! I mean, Nathan Detroit would never wear this! And this song isn't even in the show!
Producer: I don't have time for this. I got seventy-five shortcakes to strawberry. Now get out there, Luke.
% Mark sighs, then walks out on stage to sing the "Guys and Dolls" song, swinging his lightsabre leisurely about, the other singers joining in.
% Mark, wearing his Skywalker costume with a top hat, does another song.
Hamill: Luke, be a Jedi tonight!
Just be a Jedi tonight!
Hamill & Chorus: Do it for Yoda, while we serve our guests a soda.
Hamill: Uh, and do it for Chewie and the Ewoks, and all the other puppets
Hamill & Chorus: Luke, be a Jedi tonight!
-- "Mayored to the Mob"
Shameless butchered from snpp.com
As for damaging the RSA key, it's hard to do more than superficial scratches to those things. They are tough, like digital watches. I've never heard of anyone actually breaking the things, and I've seen them used at every place I work.
Nice to meet you. I've broken two (and not just breaking the flimsy plastic that lets you hook it onto your keychain). One went in the wash, and the other fell on the pavement. From my balcony. 4th floor.
No, I'm not very popular with the IT department
Since when did 100mb = 1 gig?
Since the time when 1000mb = 1 gig.
Please, no Gibibyte posts
Actually, most PHBs earn much more than two bits more than most PhDs...
NDwho? ;)
Let me rephrase that. The cost of smart card _to_ DTV is $10. That includes purchasing, burning, labeling, license fees...
I'm as geeky as the next slashdotter, so I'm down with spending $1000 on a color laser printer. But I don't really see how that's gonna help you defend your home.
If it's like the one I have... just drop it on them. Sure is heavy enough.
Or take the cord, strip the wires on the device side, and touch him. Be careful.
I thought it required a special processor chip, so they would have to replace the boxes, not just the card.
It does. Initially it will be part of new boxes only (with advanced features, like home networking, HDTV, and a few others that I cannot say), but odds are all new boxes will get it, so even if it takes 5 years, then it will be done.
If I'm not mistaken the new cards encryption isn't designed by NDS. I beleive it's now inhouse. They feel it should be more secure for a longer period.
You are mistaken. The D1 (the card that looks like a letterboxes dark blue image on a gray background) was designed by DTV using the same technology as an NDS P4 (Access Card 4). However, now that Rupert owns both companies, development is back at NDS. Their P4 (and DTV's D1, which is cryptologically identical) is secure, and the P5 is currently under development (not sure if it'll be called a D2, P5, or what). Keep in mind, despite the P1 and P2 hacks (and P3 glitches -- not really a cryptological hack), there's some good minds working on it... Adi Shamir is involved in security design... and yes, he's the S in RSA.
Smart cards run about $10 apiece. Yes, I know this for a fact... I work for a company (can't say who) who develops them. Yes, even on the scale that DTV uses.
Our company is moving in November. All of those who are not part of the move (700 people) are _required_ to take vacation for the 10 days that it takes (6 business days). Sucks. Of course, we get 25 days a year, so that helps...
Put it this way, if you lived during the cold war, you'd never pick up a piece of merchandise you bought from the store and see "Made in USSR" on the bottom. "Made in China" is farily common, last I checked....
No, but if you lived in Russia, there's a good chance you ate wheat that could've been stamped "Made in the USA"...
except for the fact that stamping wheat is kind of difficult. Isn't writing characters on a grain more of a chinese thing, anyway?
*groan*
(+1 Insulting someones time)
(-5 Poor job of the above)
or a tilt switch.
Yes! Dangerous eye melting lasers combined with mercury! I like your style.
Now let's just make it small enough to be a choking hazard.
Don't forget powering it off 120V, with exposed terminals...
On a serious note- I was running my laptop without ground for a while (on a plug adapter that only did two prongs), and there was some _serious_ leakage... if I touched the back of the PC while inserting a USB device, I definitely could tell...
in other news from USA Today:
"Number 2 is Number 1"
"America's Favorite Pencil"
USA Today... the newspaper that's not afraid to tell it like it is: Everything's going to be just fine
With apologies to the Simpsons...
No, 1GB/GB is just 1. To get a rate of 1GB, it'd be 1GB^2/GB, Note that this should not be confused with 1G^2B/GB, which is one petabyte per gigabyte. And don't even mention GiB...
Broadband from bezeq in Israel (*shudder*.. they make me wish I was back on Verizon) starts at 256Kbps down. Most people have either 500 or 750 down, with 96Kbps up.
If all words ending in -us were made plural with an i, wouldn't the plural of us be I?
(ok, it would be ii, but that's just too much).
if the market keeps shrinking due to the increasing ease of piracy ... then the number and quality of games will almost certainly decrease. Without a big market there can be no big budgets. No Doom 4, no Far Cry 2 and no Half-Life 3.
Ironically, auther was not able to come up with even one example wich is not sequel. Indsutry really have problem with creativity, piracy notwithstanding.
Well, duh... you won't recongnize any of them games he mentions if they're not sequels and not almost released (insert DNF joke here). Imagine if he'd said,
"Without a big market, there'd be no Binge, Future Sky, or Rungy"
Two notes:
1. Do you know how hard it is to come up with a few random names?
2. Yes, I know someone will post a reply with links to all of these games that already exist. So don't bother.
Currybird?
Is that the one outsourced to India?
The only problem I've had with my DI-614+ is that it used to lock up a lot when running eMule. It didn't like opening so many ports over NAT in such a short time. Then again, that's probably just the router side... as an AP it ought to be fine.
Actually, in my original submission, that's what I'd asked. Taco decided not to post my entire submission...
"If it is or uses either Electricy or a Chemical, and/or its not found in nature in any way, it will kill you slowly"
What uses Electricy [sic]?
Even the most beautiful moon still doesn't compare to the wonders of Uranus.
Does that mean a goatse.cx link would be appropriate here?
*shudder*
Maybe because moons are just really large boulders...