I'm certain his email must be umich@wagnerr.edu. Now I just need to figure out why he's attending Wagner of all schools, and how the heck they managed to typo their own domain name.
I did, in fact, RTFA. It points out that even in the absence of search space limiting tricks employed by the author, rainbow tables could be used to achieve the same goal. Adding salt would have made the problem quite a bit tougher for an attacker, but wouldn't have put it completely out of reach. It's quite well known that MD5 shouldn't be used for anything privacy related, given the fact that it's been exploited quite publicly in recent history.
If this is directly related to MD5 (as it would seem), let's hope Gravatar switches to another algorithm. Of course, this won't do much about the existing hashes I suppose.
Actually, he goe $6K in licensing fees for his library, so he's probably pretty happy.
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Well, fancy meeting you here:). I'd go so far as to say we're pursuing somewhat different markets, too. I've certainly heard folks who put a premium on price speak favorably of your offerings. Anyhow, back to hacking on stuff. Have a good one!
I'm willing to entertain this if you can show some medical documentation that specifically discusses this example. I believe the quantity of carbon we're talking about here is low enough the body's natural processes will remove it; we inhale large volumes of stuff every day that makes it past lung filtration without any long term ill effects. That aside, I haven't seen anything that indicates an immunological or otherwise negative reaction to this carbon versus carbon ingested from other sources.
What's so special about carbon nanotubes? You're going to inhale much more carbon just driving a few miles to work in moderate traffic. Heaven forbid you spend an evening sitting beside a campfire with a few friends.
I like your idea, and think it would make an excellent topic for my next blog post. Once it's done I'll be sure to tweet the URL to you. Maybe I'll ask my boss to consider buying one of these IBM machines to host the blog; I'm certain my traffic is going to go through the roof!
Again, nothing stops the console from working here. You simply can't play it on the network if you violate those terms of service. It works fine off the network.
My rights weren't violated at all. Participation in their network requires agreeing to those terms of service. The console works just fine without that.
should not be used as a weapon to hinder any social, cultural and educational use of any copyrighted work
I strongly disagree on two points. First, to say that the average Slashdot reader honestly has the public good in mind when talking about copyright policy is laughable. The most frequent post simply amounts to "damn those big companies, I'll do what I want."
Next, I personally disagree with your view on the purpose of copyrights. While I accept that copyright law has gotten completely out of hand with absurd extensions on the lifetime of copyrights, I vehemently oppose the idea that there should be varying levels of protections based on the "intended use" of the work. If an copyright holder would like to specifically allow exemptions for educational use or non-commercial use, he has that right. However, there should not be a law that forces the holder to allow such exemptions.
I personally license 90% of what I create under Creative Commons licenses. That's my choice, but it's not yours or any government's to make for me. Period.
I can definitely see the value in your view. However, I'm not advocating them just having to pay the licensing fees they originally should have. I'd love to see them pay a nasty punitive damages fine (enough to really hurt both their cash reserves and their public image). Of course, if they were forced to disclose a bunch of source on top of that, all the better.
Well, that depends. If the discussion revolves around people wanting to share files regardless of copyright, this community is probably against copyright law. If the discussion is about [insert large company here] violating the GPL, then copyright law is awesome. It's a simple conditional.
Please refrain from using GPL licensed code in your projects, then. Now that we've solved the problem for you, let's fix your first statement with regard to Palm: "Well, if Palm hadn't decided to include code licensed under the GPL and subsequently ignore the requirements of the license, shipping shitloads of infringing units, this wouldn't be a problem."
I don't license my stuff under the GPL; I prefer BSD-style licensing. However, the copyright holder is free to choose how they want their stuff distributed. Palm should have secured a commercial use license from Artifex, failed to do so, and will now have to pony up a whole lot of "oopsie" money.
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I'm certain his email must be umich@wagnerr.edu. Now I just need to figure out why he's attending Wagner of all schools, and how the heck they managed to typo their own domain name.
I did, in fact, RTFA. It points out that even in the absence of search space limiting tricks employed by the author, rainbow tables could be used to achieve the same goal. Adding salt would have made the problem quite a bit tougher for an attacker, but wouldn't have put it completely out of reach. It's quite well known that MD5 shouldn't be used for anything privacy related, given the fact that it's been exploited quite publicly in recent history.
So, essentially, we're left with the same problem :).
Really? Are you familiar with MD5 collisions?
If this is directly related to MD5 (as it would seem), let's hope Gravatar switches to another algorithm. Of course, this won't do much about the existing hashes I suppose.
Heavens, you're in rare form this evening.
I would prefer the bra made out of zero.
That is neither ladylike nor gaga.
Actually, he goe $6K in licensing fees for his library, so he's probably pretty happy.
Well, fancy meeting you here :). I'd go so far as to say we're pursuing somewhat different markets, too. I've certainly heard folks who put a premium on price speak favorably of your offerings. Anyhow, back to hacking on stuff. Have a good one!
They're both Linux only at this point, and Xen effectively runs a forked version of Linux because it isn't, and won't be, upstream.
This is false. You can actually run various BSDs under Xen, and you can run Windows too.
Buy a Linode ;).
Sorry, I just couldn't resist.
I'm willing to entertain this if you can show some medical documentation that specifically discusses this example. I believe the quantity of carbon we're talking about here is low enough the body's natural processes will remove it; we inhale large volumes of stuff every day that makes it past lung filtration without any long term ill effects. That aside, I haven't seen anything that indicates an immunological or otherwise negative reaction to this carbon versus carbon ingested from other sources.
What's so special about carbon nanotubes? You're going to inhale much more carbon just driving a few miles to work in moderate traffic. Heaven forbid you spend an evening sitting beside a campfire with a few friends.
No, no! They kept it a secret from the other criminal gangs in the neighborhood, silly.
I like your idea, and think it would make an excellent topic for my next blog post. Once it's done I'll be sure to tweet the URL to you. Maybe I'll ask my boss to consider buying one of these IBM machines to host the blog; I'm certain my traffic is going to go through the roof!
But I'm friends with his mother-in-law.
Refer to my other replies, I'll save the bits here.
Again, nothing stops the console from working here. You simply can't play it on the network if you violate those terms of service. It works fine off the network.
My rights weren't violated at all. Participation in their network requires agreeing to those terms of service. The console works just fine without that.
should not be used as a weapon to hinder any social, cultural and educational use of any copyrighted work
I strongly disagree on two points. First, to say that the average Slashdot reader honestly has the public good in mind when talking about copyright policy is laughable. The most frequent post simply amounts to "damn those big companies, I'll do what I want."
Next, I personally disagree with your view on the purpose of copyrights. While I accept that copyright law has gotten completely out of hand with absurd extensions on the lifetime of copyrights, I vehemently oppose the idea that there should be varying levels of protections based on the "intended use" of the work. If an copyright holder would like to specifically allow exemptions for educational use or non-commercial use, he has that right. However, there should not be a law that forces the holder to allow such exemptions.
I personally license 90% of what I create under Creative Commons licenses. That's my choice, but it's not yours or any government's to make for me. Period.
That's not a change in lifestyle for many folks these days.
I can definitely see the value in your view. However, I'm not advocating them just having to pay the licensing fees they originally should have. I'd love to see them pay a nasty punitive damages fine (enough to really hurt both their cash reserves and their public image). Of course, if they were forced to disclose a bunch of source on top of that, all the better.
Is Slashdot for or against copyrights this week?
Well, that depends. If the discussion revolves around people wanting to share files regardless of copyright, this community is probably against copyright law. If the discussion is about [insert large company here] violating the GPL, then copyright law is awesome. It's a simple conditional.
Please refrain from using GPL licensed code in your projects, then. Now that we've solved the problem for you, let's fix your first statement with regard to Palm: "Well, if Palm hadn't decided to include code licensed under the GPL and subsequently ignore the requirements of the license, shipping shitloads of infringing units, this wouldn't be a problem."
I don't license my stuff under the GPL; I prefer BSD-style licensing. However, the copyright holder is free to choose how they want their stuff distributed. Palm should have secured a commercial use license from Artifex, failed to do so, and will now have to pony up a whole lot of "oopsie" money.