I used to feal like i was occasionally getting haxored on pub CS, then i went to my unis lan gaming society, turns out the kids that brought headphones where pretty good.
yeah but we know that spore was going after the sims2 "what's DRM?" crowd and not the HL2 "my 120FPS >>> your 70"
in the spirit of the comments here are some bullshit statistics proportion of casual gamers who care about drm 0.000% proportion of standard gamers who care about drm 20% proportion of standard gamers who care that will not get a game (say SPORE) due to drm 10% proportion of hardcore gamers who care about drm 70% proportion of hardcore gamers who care that will not buy a big game due to DRM 20% (but 80% will claim they wont) now weight according to EAs sales target sales in each group 90% casual gamers * 0 = 0% 10% standard gamers *.2*.1 =.2% 0% hardcore gamers *.7*.2 = 0%
Stop using gnome. FF3 has crashed on me once, it sometimes locks up due to flash but thats what the flash kill button is for Kopete will sometimes have problems connecting to msn but going offline online seams to fix it
I have had problems with linux but 95% of the time when i looked into the problem, it turned out my config was wrong, i guess that's because the devs arnt telepathic or something.
eee + kde + awm/kxdocker (+ compiz) should make an almost mac for a 7 year old. kde3 can have a mac style menubar awm/kxdocker looks like the dock apparently a walkthough guide that changes fonts and stuff to make it more similar but the generally picking the mac menubar deskop -> behavior then autohide the real panel and a mac like window decoration (either compiz or kde theme) should make the kid feal at home
not sure why you got troll modded overrated. but even TFA says
1. Windows
2. Windows 2
3. Windows 3.0
4. Windows NT (NT 4)
5. Windows 2000 (NT 5)
6. Windows XP (NT 5.1)
7. Windows Vista (NT 6)
The article is clearly trolling some slashdot love/ad-money the windows 7 agument works quite well if you could vista as 6 and accept that 6.1 doesn't sound good (6.11 for...oh nvm)
I dont think you understand how WPA cracking works. Perhaps i used the wrong word when i said keyspace, im no cryptography expert. What i meant was computing the hash into a form where you can compare it with the captured packets takes a long time, but comparing it doesn't
a quick read of church of wifi tells us that a computer with 15 GPUs could manage ~9000 hashs per second, even with a 20fold speed increase ~180,000 hashes per second, a p3/700 could check 18,000 of these hashes a second, so a dual core 2.5ghz machine can probably compare 180,000 hashes per second ( i couldnt find any benchmarks or comparison to p3/p4 flops to verify the speed increase ). So while the 1st run of an attack requires substantial power to generate the hashes (unique for your SSID) a 2nd attack will be 1500 times faster (or 75 if the checking speed isnt affected by the "breakthrough")
Realistically if you know the victim changes the passkey you only need to generate the hashes for a smaller subset of the all the possible passphrases to get the same chance of success, thus reducing the attack time and security of the system
t = G/n + nC where ( t is the time taken for an attack , G is time taken to generate hashes , C is time taken to check the keys, n is the number of key)
Assuming G = 75C [ its probably still 1500 ] for the same chance of success 1 key takes 76 time units (75 to generate 1 to compare) [1501] 2 keys take 39.5 time units [752] 9 keys take 17 time units [196.5] above 9 keys the attacker can just take a sample of 9 keys to work on
Changing keys does mean that if your key is broken youll loose less data however it does weaken your security and the time to get all your keys is still 75+n unless you change your SSID with your key changes
Actually changing keys weakens your security. Assuming your not using one of the 1000 most popular wifi names, an attacker will first have to generate possible keys for your system (slow as hell) then he will have to compare them to the captured packets (really quick) If an attacker can tell youve changed your password (or if he gets lucky and thinks you have) then he has a better chance of guessing your one of your keys.
chance of correct guess = (number of keys)/96^(length of key)
I mean the important factor is still the key length (96 times more important to be exact) but bad advice is still bad advice
with 1 key i the attacker checks 1/2 the key space he has 50% chance off success with 2 keys he has a 75% chance of success with 4 keys he has a 93% chance of success
I think in America, when the whitehouse changes its there its all change, judges, military contractors and constitutional experts, to whoever suits the presidents friends best. And that not just Bush (although the huge cost+ contracts to the VPs company stink) but a bipartisan effort.
the contract has propably been around since before we knew EDS was incompetent, the gov contractors have a habit of signing long contracts with "and we still get all the money if you cancel early" clauses.
My dad works for a company contracted to do some system for skynet (yes they seriously called their new satellite network skynet WTF) and all his files are stored remotely via a VPN* w/ keycard, even though his local hard drive is encrypted and all hes doing is writing the training manual for the system.
I seriously doubt the MOD would accept less stringent practices on the contractors, wether the contractors fucked up or not is another question.
which is good as his laptop can only connect to WEP wireless because its locked down so much.
It runs a server kernel which is optimized for servers, but other than server specific programs, most of the stuff is optimized for desktops and ease of use (dbus and all that included). It does lack ubuntu specific tools but when dealing with something the size of Wikipedia id guess that doesn't really matter
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I used to feal like i was occasionally getting haxored on pub CS, then i went to my unis lan gaming society, turns out the kids that brought headphones where pretty good.
yeah but we know that spore was going after the sims2 "what's DRM?" crowd and not the HL2 "my 120FPS >>> your 70"
in the spirit of the comments here are some bullshit statistics .2%
proportion of casual gamers who care about drm 0.000%
proportion of standard gamers who care about drm 20%
proportion of standard gamers who care that will not get a game (say SPORE) due to drm 10%
proportion of hardcore gamers who care about drm 70%
proportion of hardcore gamers who care that will not buy a big game due to DRM 20% (but 80% will claim they wont)
now weight according to EAs sales target sales in each group
90% casual gamers * 0 = 0%
10% standard gamers *.2*.1 =
0% hardcore gamers *.7*.2 = 0%
Stop using gnome. FF3 has crashed on me once, it sometimes locks up due to flash but thats what the flash kill button is for
Kopete will sometimes have problems connecting to msn but going offline online seams to fix it
I have had problems with linux but 95% of the time when i looked into the problem, it turned out my config was wrong, i guess that's because the devs arnt telepathic or something.
eee + kde + awm/kxdocker (+ compiz) should make an almost mac for a 7 year old.
kde3 can have a mac style menubar
awm/kxdocker looks like the dock apparently
a walkthough guide that changes fonts and stuff to make it more similar but the generally picking the mac menubar
deskop -> behavior then autohide the real panel
and a mac like window decoration (either compiz or kde theme) should make the kid feal at home
not sure why you got troll modded overrated. but even TFA says
1. Windows
2. Windows 2
3. Windows 3.0
4. Windows NT (NT 4)
5. Windows 2000 (NT 5)
6. Windows XP (NT 5.1)
7. Windows Vista (NT 6)
The article is clearly trolling some slashdot love/ad-money the windows 7 agument works quite well if you could vista as 6 and accept that 6.1 doesn't sound good (6.11 for ...oh nvm)
80 7A 93 26 81 8B 26 7B 87 8A 26 88 90 8B 8B 8B 7A 37 26 62 55 66 69
I belive its called Giuliani's rule
I dont think you understand how WPA cracking works. Perhaps i used the wrong word when i said keyspace, im no cryptography expert. What i meant was computing the hash into a form where you can compare it with the captured packets takes a long time, but comparing it doesn't
a quick read of church of wifi tells us that a computer with 15 GPUs could manage ~9000 hashs per second, even with a 20fold speed increase ~180,000 hashes per second, a p3/700 could check 18,000 of these hashes a second, so a dual core 2.5ghz machine can probably compare 180,000 hashes per second ( i couldnt find any benchmarks or comparison to p3/p4 flops to verify the speed increase ). So while the 1st run of an attack requires substantial power to generate the hashes (unique for your SSID) a 2nd attack will be 1500 times faster (or 75 if the checking speed isnt affected by the "breakthrough")
Realistically if you know the victim changes the passkey you only need to generate the hashes for a smaller subset of the all the possible passphrases to get the same chance of success, thus reducing the attack time and security of the system
t = G/n + nC
where
( t is the time taken for an attack , G is time taken to generate hashes , C is time taken to check the keys, n is the number of key)
Assuming G = 75C [ its probably still 1500 ] for the same chance of success
1 key takes 76 time units (75 to generate 1 to compare) [1501]
2 keys take 39.5 time units [752]
9 keys take 17 time units [196.5]
above 9 keys the attacker can just take a sample of 9 keys to work on
Changing keys does mean that if your key is broken youll loose less data however it does weaken your security and the time to get all your keys is still 75+n unless you change your SSID with your key changes
what wireless chipset are you using?
if 40bit was broken a decade ago, wouldn't 256bit be broken now?
120/18 ~= 64 times the computational power
Actually changing keys weakens your security.
Assuming your not using one of the 1000 most popular wifi names, an attacker will first have to generate possible keys for your system (slow as hell) then he will have to compare them to the captured packets (really quick)
If an attacker can tell youve changed your password (or if he gets lucky and thinks you have) then he has a better chance of guessing your one of your keys.
chance of correct guess = (number of keys)/96^(length of key)
I mean the important factor is still the key length (96 times more important to be exact) but bad advice is still bad advice
with 1 key i the attacker checks 1/2 the key space he has 50% chance off success
with 2 keys he has a 75% chance of success
with 4 keys he has a 93% chance of success
hack the registry? that sounds hard i think im just going to install gentoo instead.
they are going to break maths? cool
I think in America, when the whitehouse changes its there its all change, judges, military contractors and constitutional experts, to whoever suits the presidents friends best. And that not just Bush (although the huge cost+ contracts to the VPs company stink) but a bipartisan effort.
Oh, yes those encrypted disks that were lost. By whom were they lost? TNT, a privately owned courier company.
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It doesnt really matter EDS have probably already lost the data so the UK are the only country without a copy
mod parent up, labour are one step away from outsourcing governance to an Indian telephone exchange tbh.
the contract has propably been around since before we knew EDS was incompetent, the gov contractors have a habit of signing long contracts with "and we still get all the money if you cancel early" clauses.
We have plenty of good techs,... Maybe the 26,400 jobs that HP cuts over the next 3 years will take care of some of that.
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My dad works for a company contracted to do some system for skynet (yes they seriously called their new satellite network skynet WTF) and all his files are stored remotely via a VPN* w/ keycard, even though his local hard drive is encrypted and all hes doing is writing the training manual for the system.
I seriously doubt the MOD would accept less stringent practices on the contractors, wether the contractors fucked up or not is another question.
which is good as his laptop can only connect to WEP wireless because its locked down so much.
Why not just run a mail server and stick a squirrelmail front end on it for web access?
erm how do you know hes not italian? Lightbulbs & The War On * are your claims to fame i believe.
It runs a server kernel which is optimized for servers, but other than server specific programs, most of the stuff is optimized for desktops and ease of use (dbus and all that included). It does lack ubuntu specific tools but when dealing with something the size of Wikipedia id guess that doesn't really matter
erm breaking wikipedia.
palin has an account on Slashdot?