I dream of having every document digitized and searchable - every book, magazine, report, study and gov't document - all at our fingertips. Luckily enough, this dream is possible.
Some people are already doing their best to have their pages not being indexed, like putting text up in gif-format...
Well, it's my nephew's birthday next week, and I've got a bunch of games and a copy of the 'Giant Black Book of Computer Viruses' for him. If that doesn't do it...
Biggest problem is the method of payment; I don't wanna send my credit card info to every site on which I wanna spend a few dollars. If I could buy a smartcard for say 100$ and plug it into my PC to pay for little things, (specially downloads), I certainly would consider buying my MP3s (at a reasonable price ofcourse!).
And I could finally register some of those sharewares I've been using for years;-)
You can give your files any name you want to. So Napster would also have to check if the MP3's in question were made from copyrighted material. Not that easy to do I believe.
Since quantum fysics could give us a communication line that cannot be tapped without detection, we have a non-problem. Your line is compromised, you choose another one. Unless you've got two quantum machines, one tapping the line, the other one generating the new (false) signals. I think this possibility has been dealt with already(ie the laws of quantum physics make it impossible),but I'm not sure.
You call it practical, and it may be practical for spies and secret agents, but it's not for normal people. You first have to exchange the key by non-electronic means (ie fysically, by giving them a disk, CD or listing...). Can you imagine everyone exchanging CDRs with all the people they want to talk with?
The great thing about public key encryption is that your communication can be completely public from beginning to end. If quantum computers enable us to break that encryption before it gives us a way to replace it, we will be facing some interesting problems (security by obscurity?).
From what I've read i got the impression that quantum encryption might be the first to become practical. Anyone with more knowledge on the subject who could enlighten us?
Not anti-US, but anti US foreign policy. They use the human rights argument when it suits them, but they support many oppressive regimes for military strategic or economic reasons.
I think the French attitude has more to do with their actions during German occupation. the role of the Vichy regime is not something they want to see discussed.
It's not the first time, and it won't be the last time. This is one of the nice features about Lotus Notes: You can write a notes mail-virus(put it in any of the form events), but it will only execute if the "Allow use of stored forms in this database" option is checked, and even then you will have to cross-certify if the mail comes from another organisation, which should prevent it from spreading far.(That was the case at least with the one I wrote).
Disclaimer: I am only experienced in 4.6 and LotusScript so there may be other ways to write virii in version 5 I don't know of. (and there are some bugs in at least the early 4.5 and 4.6 versions which make it possible to get round the cross-certification by pretending to be for example"CN=Rob Slapikoff/O=Iris" "CN=Lotus Notes Template Development/O=Lotus Notes")
NI3
Lesson of the day: if you distill HNO3, don't breath.
It would be helpful if, besides browsing at a certain threshold to avoid the trolls, we could have the choice to add individual users to an ignore list. I for one have read enough about sour feet to last me a lifetime...
You seem to forget the unique privileges the entertainment industry already enjoys. All revenue they get from other sources than actual product sales comes from the consumer population as a whole, which also includes music haters. Record companies get payed royalties for having their products promoted by radiostations and television stations. Even if they plug a number (paying for it to be played often), they still pay way less than the normal advertisement rates.
I am also paying for music I don't buy because of radio taxes (here in Europe), restrictions on the use of radiofrequencies due to the amount of radiostations all sending out the same music that I am not interested in, or shops forcing me to listen to and paying (royalties) for music I don't wanna hear.
Let's also not forget the pressures for putting extra taxes on blanc CD's and tapes; just another way to have the public in general pay for the pirating by individuals. Until the moment that the industry is prepared to get ALL their revenue from the people who actually want their product, I see no problem with encouraging piracy in any way I can.
Give us your tired, your poor... Except Cuban kids. We throw those back.
You do? Remember the few hundred Haitian refugees that arrived around the same time? Didn't take 5 months to send those back, did it? And when they don't get sent back, the NYPD uses them for target practice.
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You don't need to crack CyberPatrol in order to determine its accuracy on whatever criteria you wish to measure.
What exactly do you mean by that??? Unless you have a list of all valid URL's on the internet and try them all, how are you going to find out which one's are blocked that shouldn't be and vice versa? By breaking the encryption, you can at least determine which links are unjustly blocked. Your statement may be theoretically correct, just like in theory a public key contains the same information as the corresponding private key, it just takes a bit longer...
Finally, and what I think is really important right now is to actively use the country code in domains. Browsers can easily be configured or patched to automatically end.com and the other TLD's in the appropriate country code (.us, etc) Yes, this means that by default, a person in the UK would have to go "www.apple.com.us", but this is necessary to remove the American-ization of the Internet, and would limit domain name disputes to within countries only (no etoys vs etoy problems).
Great, I'm sure people from Armenia to Zambia will be very pleased only to be able to surf inside their own country. Not to talk about all the dictorial regimes that won't have to worry about outside support for dissidents anymore.
As for the etoy(s) problem: Do you really consider this a domain registration problem?? Looks to me more like corporate arrogance and greed, and an incompetent judicial system.
I don't think you 'll find an engine on the market that can solve this problem in a reasonable amount of time. However, it looks to me that you could write one for this particular problem. The main decision you have to take is how deep you are going to use brute force before you filter the results.
Old Wolf wrote: "There are 119,060,324 different 6ply (3 moves) chess games". So abouth 6 million that start with e2-e4. In the vast majority of these games it will not be possible for a knight to capture a rook in two moves. Checking for this condition can be done very fast ( 3,812,256 different positions for the four pieces,which are either valid or invalid: an array small enough to be kept in RAM).
You're left with a number of valid positions ( anyone an idea how many?) to consider. Depending on who mates, you'll have between 40 and 3000 possible moves to check (rough estimates).
My conclusion: the number of positions to examine will be in the order of 10**9. Writing the program will probably take you more time than running it.
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I dream of having every document digitized and searchable - every book, magazine, report, study and gov't document - all at our fingertips. Luckily enough, this dream is possible.
Some people are already doing their best to have their pages not being indexed, like putting text up in gif-format...
Well, it's my nephew's birthday next week, and I've got a bunch of games and a copy of the 'Giant Black Book of Computer Viruses' for him. If that doesn't do it...
Would people use something like this?
;-)
Biggest problem is the method of payment; I don't wanna send my credit card info to every site on which I wanna spend a few dollars. If I could buy a smartcard for say 100$ and plug it into my PC to pay for little things, (specially downloads), I certainly would consider buying my MP3s (at a reasonable price ofcourse!).
And I could finally register some of those sharewares I've been using for years
You can give your files any name you want to. So Napster would also have to check if the MP3's in question were made from copyrighted material.
Not that easy to do I believe.
Since quantum fysics could give us a communication line that cannot be tapped without detection, we have a non-problem. Your line is compromised, you choose another one.
Unless you've got two quantum machines, one tapping the line, the other one generating the new (false) signals. I think this possibility has been dealt with already(ie the laws of quantum physics make it impossible),but I'm not sure.
NI3(getting drunk..)
Not true. It's practical, and it works
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You call it practical, and it may be practical for spies and secret agents, but it's not for normal people. You first have to exchange the key by non-electronic means (ie fysically, by giving them a disk, CD or listing...). Can you imagine everyone exchanging CDRs with all the people they want to talk with?
The great thing about public key encryption is that your communication can be completely public from beginning to end. If quantum computers enable us to break that encryption before it gives us a way to replace it, we will be facing some interesting problems (security by obscurity?)
From what I've read i got the impression that quantum encryption might be the first to become practical. Anyone with more knowledge on the subject who could enlighten us?
Not anti-US, but anti US foreign policy. They use the human rights argument when it suits them, but they support many oppressive regimes for military strategic or economic reasons.
I think the French attitude has more to do with their actions during German occupation. the role of the Vichy regime is not something they want to see discussed.
Those are the terms on yahoo.fr, but are the auctions also on .fr or on .com?
"Those who hammer their swords into plows, will plow for those who don't"
It's not the first time, and it won't be the last time. This is one of the nice features about Lotus Notes: You can write a notes mail-virus(put it in any of the form events), but it will only execute if the "Allow use of stored forms in this database" option is checked, and even then you will have to cross-certify if the mail comes from another organisation, which should prevent it from spreading far.(That was the case at least with the one I wrote).
Disclaimer: I am only experienced in 4.6 and LotusScript so there may be other ways to write virii in version 5 I don't know of. (and there are some bugs in at least the early 4.5 and 4.6 versions which make it possible to get round the cross-certification by pretending to be for example"CN=Rob Slapikoff/O=Iris" "CN=Lotus Notes Template Development/O=Lotus Notes")
NI3
Lesson of the day: if you distill HNO3, don't breath.
It would be helpful if, besides browsing at a certain threshold to avoid the trolls, we could have the choice to add individual users to an ignore list. I for one have read enough about sour feet to last me a lifetime...
You seem to forget the unique privileges the entertainment industry already enjoys.
All revenue they get from other sources than actual product sales comes from the consumer population as a whole, which also includes music haters. Record companies get payed royalties for having their products promoted by radiostations and television stations. Even if they plug a number (paying for it to be played often), they still pay way less than the normal advertisement rates.
I am also paying for music I don't buy because of radio taxes (here in Europe), restrictions on the use of radiofrequencies due to the amount of radiostations all sending out the same music that I am not interested in, or shops forcing me to listen to and paying (royalties) for music I don't wanna hear.
Let's also not forget the pressures for putting extra taxes on blanc CD's and tapes; just another way to have the public in general pay for the pirating by individuals.
Until the moment that the industry is prepared to get ALL their revenue from the people who actually want their product, I see no problem with encouraging piracy in any way I can.
it's not enough to let people decide for themselves whether they want a filtering program or not...
:-)
that's just the reason why the pasword crack was published, to let people decide for themselves
Give us your tired, your poor... Except Cuban kids. We throw those back.
You do? Remember the few hundred Haitian refugees that arrived around the same time? Didn't take 5 months to send those back, did it? And when they don't get sent back, the NYPD uses them for target practice.
or here: The Lycaeum.
You don't need to crack CyberPatrol in order to determine its accuracy on whatever criteria you wish to measure.
What exactly do you mean by that??? Unless you have a list of all valid URL's on the internet and try them all, how are you going to find out which one's are blocked that shouldn't be and vice versa? By breaking the encryption, you can at least determine which links are unjustly blocked.
Your statement may be theoretically correct, just like in theory a public key contains the same information as the corresponding private key, it just takes a bit longer...
NI3
If finding out whether it is hackable requires opening the case, won't that void your 14-day return right? (not that they would know)
Finally, and what I think is really important right now is to actively use the country code in domains. Browsers can easily be configured or patched to automatically end .com and the other TLD's in the appropriate country code (.us, etc) Yes, this means that by default, a person in the UK would have to go "www.apple.com.us", but this is necessary to remove the American-ization of the Internet, and would limit domain name disputes to within countries only (no etoys vs etoy problems).
Great, I'm sure people from Armenia to Zambia will be very pleased only to be able to surf inside their own country.
Not to talk about all the dictorial regimes that won't have to worry about outside support for dissidents anymore.
As for the etoy(s) problem: Do you really consider this a domain registration problem?? Looks to me more like corporate arrogance and greed, and an incompetent judicial system.
I don't think you 'll find an engine on the market that can solve this problem in a reasonable amount of time. However, it looks to me that you could write one for this particular problem. The main decision you have to take is how deep you are going to use brute force before you filter the results.
Old Wolf wrote: "There are 119,060,324 different 6ply (3 moves) chess games". So abouth 6 million that start with e2-e4.
In the vast majority of these games it will not be possible for a knight to capture a rook in two moves. Checking for this condition can be done very fast ( 3,812,256 different positions for the four pieces,which are either valid or invalid: an array small enough to be kept in RAM).
You're left with a number of valid positions ( anyone an idea how many?) to consider. Depending on who mates, you'll have between 40 and 3000 possible moves to check (rough estimates).
My conclusion: the number of positions to examine will be in the order of 10**9. Writing the program will probably take you more time than running it.