Excpet they wouldn't get the MAC address. Since it would go through at least one router, the headers would lose the MAC address. All they would have is the IP address. The router closest to the Cable Modem would be the only one that cares about the MAC addresses of it's subnet. Everyone else works on IP address.
Yes, except that 'enough processor cycles' means hundreds or thousands of years of processor time for the major encryption standards as of right now. What they're talking about is a mathmatical 'shortcut' to find that key, a way to do the same thing in a much shorter amount of time, or cycles.
AOL is a pay service, however, AIM is not a pay service. AIM has been free for users for a long time. They just want people to use that, like it, and then start using AOL. However, this leaves out a lot of slashdot users as they are, for the most part, Linux users. I am one of those.
AOL is trying to rectify this, and has put out a version of AIM for LInux, however, I'm still a fan of GAIM. It works very well, and stably. At least the version I'm using.
Basically my point is that they are not losing revenue. They are probably gaining revenue. They dont' have to do the programming for a Linux client, therefore don't have to pay programmers to do it, and they still get the word-of-mouth advertising from the people that use AIM on Linux.
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Excpet they wouldn't get the MAC address. Since it would go through at least one router, the headers would lose the MAC address. All they would have is the IP address. The router closest to the Cable Modem would be the only one that cares about the MAC addresses of it's subnet. Everyone else works on IP address.
Yes, except that 'enough processor cycles' means hundreds or thousands of years of processor time for the major encryption standards as of right now. What they're talking about is a mathmatical 'shortcut' to find that key, a way to do the same thing in a much shorter amount of time, or cycles.
AOL is a pay service, however, AIM is not a pay service. AIM has been free for users for a long time. They just want people to use that, like it, and then start using AOL. However, this leaves out a lot of slashdot users as they are, for the most part, Linux users. I am one of those. AOL is trying to rectify this, and has put out a version of AIM for LInux, however, I'm still a fan of GAIM. It works very well, and stably. At least the version I'm using. Basically my point is that they are not losing revenue. They are probably gaining revenue. They dont' have to do the programming for a Linux client, therefore don't have to pay programmers to do it, and they still get the word-of-mouth advertising from the people that use AIM on Linux.