I have made numerous suggestions about the issues and also suggested how their appalling database schema could be vastly improved, but the devs (and the Company MD) just cannot acknowledge that an outsider may have useful input for them.
The nice thing about captive audiences is not that you're necessarily too dumb to believe they have good advice, it's that you just don't care.
It's more that governments are slow to react to changes, and it is only in the last 5-10 years that open source software has entered the public consciousness/at all/.
There are a lot of interest groups that want to make it sound like nothing of value is ever free.
I'm really lucky that my mother's maiden name is a 64 byte sequence of random hex, as was my father's city of birth. And even more lucky that it's different depending on who is asking.
The only services I use still vulnerable to that attack are my financial ones. It sucks, I know, but they force you to do it, and I haven't been able to convince them not to.
It's sad. We have these passwords which provide some security at least, and then we throw it all away and force users NOT to be secure.
For reference, Planck time is 5.39124*10^-44 seconds.
Where does the 65 passwords per minute come from? Even if we assume many, many, users, you still need to provide the correct username/password pair.
I was under the impression that the mass ssh password bots that hit our cluster constantly are looking for weak passwords, not trying to break reasonable ones.
That said, let's start moving to two-factor now, while it'll be an orderly transition.
Sigh. Ok. The following is copy-pasted from wikipedia. And no, I understand just fine what dimensions are;) You're making some assumptions and I'm being anal about calling you out on them;)
"In physics and mathematics, the dimension of a space is roughly defined as the minimum number of coordinates needed to specify every point within it[1][2]." -- Note that SPACE simply means expressing something in terms of various quantities in it, such as three distinct axis for Euclidean space. It is perfectly reasonable to talk about a SPACE of things other than that, or to add a fourth or fifth dimension. All these need to be is components that can be independently modified (for the space itself).
"Some physical theories are also by nature high-dimensional, such as the 4-dimensional general relativity and higher-dimensional string theories." Yes, but if you want to attack string theory I don't know enough to counter you.
"Perhaps the most basic way in which the word dimension is used in literature is as a hyperbolic synonym for feature, attribute, aspect, or magnitude." Of course that's in literature...sort of like research papers...sort of like the topic of this article.
I know this is a fairly anal correction, but given how much your misconception is a basis of the idea being discussed I believe it worth mentioning. Each storage unit (abstractly) is a point and the number of degrees of freedom (dimensions, essentially) it has, taking into account that there are a finite number of distinguishable values in each dimension . Then multiply by the number of points and you have the number of different possible system states. Take a log base 2 and you have the number of bits you can store.
For example, if I store data by poking a 1 or a 0 into a 3D space, (say there are 10 different values of x, y, z that we can tell apart), then we can store 10*10*10*2 different values per point, or just under eleven bits.
Hell, if space is not infinite it becomes possible to express a point's position in terms of a single dimension instead of three. If space is 10x10x10 then I can express location as an integer between 1 and 1000.
In the end, I concede the most important point of your argument though: that these guys were calling them dimensions to sound smart. We both know that's the real reason. But technically it's still correct.
That's a rather closed-minded view of it. Maybe he cares about the privacy of his body but not his laptop? Maybe he sees them as fundamentally different?
Assuming this is safe, I'd rather have it used on me than a laptop search. Personal email to my close friends for five years vs a pink featherless biped? But this is a personal choice.
It would be nice if he took a similar view to us (IE, a well-informed, rational one;P), but this is still something. He agrees with part of what we do for the same reason. I'll take that in a politician, it doesn't happen often.
Even if you buy it, the DRM will prevent you from reinstalling it on your new computer once it's activated.
On hte plus side, DRM has caused me to explore more smaller publishers, who still treat their customers fairly, and tend to produce higher quality games as well.
What about color? What about weight? What about temperature? What about how much Barack Obama likes it on a scale of 1-10 assuming that's defined? All of these are valid features to include in your consideration. Perhaps you only care about two of the spacial dimensions, and it's two-dimensional.
Time is not automatically a 4th dimension. I really wish that myth would disappear. It's a convenience for visualizing some forms of 4D things (eg, imagining a hypercube as a normal cube that is gradually changing size) but you can visualize it other ways as well. I prefer to think of a hypercube as a cube plus its color.
Of course, these researchers are totally exploiting that consideration in the population to get fudning. Kind of like how you always add "with implications to homeland security" to the end of proposals, or "the Reds might already have one" in the good old days.
To be blunt, your toaster is very much four dimensional if you care about its color.
In ML we talk about feature spaces having hundreds of dimensions and are just being accurate. The things you care about are the dimensions. Want Euclidean dimension in space? There are three dimensions. Dimensionality of spin? One for each of the quantities.
If we want to sound smart, we explain the theory behind SVMs and how it's in an infinite dimensional space:-)
the legalese says that they claim copyright on the each results page and require attribution.
and that day appears a long way off, especially given the way they hyped it.
Besides, all their data comes from somewhere, and I don't see those attributions. And by all their data I mean symbolic integration, fractals, and Wolfram's formulation of a Turing machine which no one else uses.
I don't know what Alpha will be like in the future, but I was extremely disappointed in the present, and imagine Google^2 will make Alpha obsolete very soon anyway.
I see a fairly even split between OS X and linux and desktops/laptops and pure linux on servers. What's this windows you speak of? I think they have a few of them in the library.
Except the artist, unless they happened to make anywhere near the "advertising fees" extortion.
Bands make money from concerts* and merchandise, not albums. Exceptions are indie and wildly wildly successful mainstream bands that make enough to pay back the fees and/or are popular enough to negotiate a fair contract.
* Often the things they sell there as well as the tickets, many times they keep a greater deal of profit sold at concerts.
Wow, didn't know Brown was that bad. In America we have something called "no bid contracts" to ensure that government doesn't get too cozy with corporations.
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Sounds like somebody tried to use Gentoo.
Software problem: The autorun vulnerability in Windows only fails for CD drives.
Hardware solution: Make a flash drive with an extra partition that presents itself as a CD drive to the OS.
Fixed that for you.
I have made numerous suggestions about the issues and also suggested how their appalling database schema could be vastly improved, but the devs (and the Company MD) just cannot acknowledge that an outsider may have useful input for them.
The nice thing about captive audiences is not that you're necessarily too dumb to believe they have good advice, it's that you just don't care.
Only M$ could fuck up a monopoly.
Her parents named her after some output from a tRNG. Short of gvmt organizations who can get in anyway, I'm sure, I don't think anyone's breaking in.
I'm not trying to stop a determined attacker. I'm trying to stop the mass harvesters.
It's more that governments are slow to react to changes, and it is only in the last 5-10 years that open source software has entered the public consciousness /at all/.
There are a lot of interest groups that want to make it sound like nothing of value is ever free.
I'm really lucky that my mother's maiden name is a 64 byte sequence of random hex, as was my father's city of birth. And even more lucky that it's different depending on who is asking.
The only services I use still vulnerable to that attack are my financial ones. It sucks, I know, but they force you to do it, and I haven't been able to convince them not to.
It's sad. We have these passwords which provide some security at least, and then we throw it all away and force users NOT to be secure.
Cracking with a hash is a lot faster than cracking without one.
I'm still confused by the math:
(90 days) / (8 ** 94) = 1.0006852 x 10^-78 seconds
For reference, Planck time is 5.39124*10^-44 seconds.
Where does the 65 passwords per minute come from? Even if we assume many, many, users, you still need to provide the correct username/password pair.
I was under the impression that the mass ssh password bots that hit our cluster constantly are looking for weak passwords, not trying to break reasonable ones.
That said, let's start moving to two-factor now, while it'll be an orderly transition.
Sigh. Ok. The following is copy-pasted from wikipedia. And no, I understand just fine what dimensions are;) You're making some assumptions and I'm being anal about calling you out on them;)
"In physics and mathematics, the dimension of a space is roughly defined as the minimum number of coordinates needed to specify every point within it[1][2]."
-- Note that SPACE simply means expressing something in terms of various quantities in it, such as three distinct axis for Euclidean space. It is perfectly reasonable to talk about a SPACE of things other than that, or to add a fourth or fifth dimension. All these need to be is components that can be independently modified (for the space itself).
"Some physical theories are also by nature high-dimensional, such as the 4-dimensional general relativity and higher-dimensional string theories."
Yes, but if you want to attack string theory I don't know enough to counter you.
"Perhaps the most basic way in which the word dimension is used in literature is as a hyperbolic synonym for feature, attribute, aspect, or magnitude."
Of course that's in literature...sort of like research papers...sort of like the topic of this article.
I know this is a fairly anal correction, but given how much your misconception is a basis of the idea being discussed I believe it worth mentioning. Each storage unit (abstractly) is a point and the number of degrees of freedom (dimensions, essentially) it has, taking into account that there are a finite number of distinguishable values in each dimension . Then multiply by the number of points and you have the number of different possible system states. Take a log base 2 and you have the number of bits you can store.
For example, if I store data by poking a 1 or a 0 into a 3D space, (say there are 10 different values of x, y, z that we can tell apart), then we can store 10*10*10*2 different values per point, or just under eleven bits.
Hell, if space is not infinite it becomes possible to express a point's position in terms of a single dimension instead of three. If space is 10x10x10 then I can express location as an integer between 1 and 1000.
In the end, I concede the most important point of your argument though: that these guys were calling them dimensions to sound smart. We both know that's the real reason. But technically it's still correct.
That's a rather closed-minded view of it. Maybe he cares about the privacy of his body but not his laptop? Maybe he sees them as fundamentally different?
Assuming this is safe, I'd rather have it used on me than a laptop search. Personal email to my close friends for five years vs a pink featherless biped? But this is a personal choice.
It would be nice if he took a similar view to us (IE, a well-informed, rational one;P), but this is still something. He agrees with part of what we do for the same reason. I'll take that in a politician, it doesn't happen often.
Even if you buy it, the DRM will prevent you from reinstalling it on your new computer once it's activated.
On hte plus side, DRM has caused me to explore more smaller publishers, who still treat their customers fairly, and tend to produce higher quality games as well.
What about color? What about weight? What about temperature? What about how much Barack Obama likes it on a scale of 1-10 assuming that's defined? All of these are valid features to include in your consideration. Perhaps you only care about two of the spacial dimensions, and it's two-dimensional.
Time is not automatically a 4th dimension. I really wish that myth would disappear. It's a convenience for visualizing some forms of 4D things (eg, imagining a hypercube as a normal cube that is gradually changing size) but you can visualize it other ways as well. I prefer to think of a hypercube as a cube plus its color.
Of course, these researchers are totally exploiting that consideration in the population to get fudning. Kind of like how you always add "with implications to homeland security" to the end of proposals, or "the Reds might already have one" in the good old days.
To be blunt, your toaster is very much four dimensional if you care about its color.
In ML we talk about feature spaces having hundreds of dimensions and are just being accurate. The things you care about are the dimensions. Want Euclidean dimension in space? There are three dimensions. Dimensionality of spin? One for each of the quantities.
If we want to sound smart, we explain the theory behind SVMs and how it's in an infinite dimensional space:-)
the legalese says that they claim copyright on the each results page and require attribution.
and that day appears a long way off, especially given the way they hyped it.
Besides, all their data comes from somewhere, and I don't see those attributions. And by all their data I mean symbolic integration, fractals, and Wolfram's formulation of a Turing machine which no one else uses.
I don't know what Alpha will be like in the future, but I was extremely disappointed in the present, and imagine Google^2 will make Alpha obsolete very soon anyway.
I see a fairly even split between OS X and linux and desktops/laptops and pure linux on servers. What's this windows you speak of? I think they have a few of them in the library.
What's not to like?
If you're they;P
And I find it a bit ironic you trust pirates of all people to deliver you a product free of root kits and trojans.
Me too. Especially that it's a far safer choice than the legal deal.
Except the artist, unless they happened to make anywhere near the "advertising fees" extortion.
Bands make money from concerts* and merchandise, not albums. Exceptions are indie and wildly wildly successful mainstream bands that make enough to pay back the fees and/or are popular enough to negotiate a fair contract.
* Often the things they sell there as well as the tickets, many times they keep a greater deal of profit sold at concerts.
Don't pirate at work. Problem solved.
Vraiment, vouz comprenez la France.
Yeah I'm glad I live in the US, where our government would NEVER sell us out to business interests!
At least they have better wine and cheese.
Tell me more about this encryption, and who I buy to outlaw it.
Is this a time to whip out terrorism? Muslims invasion of our culture? Or perhaps child pornography or French culture is the way to go this time.
No, not at all. Your handle is indeed apt, sir.
The argument is that a merchandise so popular fans make unofficial sequels is one that you can easily produce titles for and sell them to make money.
Wow, didn't know Brown was that bad. In America we have something called "no bid contracts" to ensure that government doesn't get too cozy with corporations.
He had already voluntarily decrypted it, so it's kind of fuzzy. The overturning was sidestepping the root issue.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/06/189248
Anyone who can do it isn't biting.