[The GPL is] about the sharing of information in the form of source code, without restrictions.
Not entirely accurate.
Public Domain has no restrictions whatsoever.
The BSD/MIT style licenses have no restrictions other than the fact that you must give credit where credit is due.
GPL has an important restriction -- you MUST give your changes back to the community if you want to distribute them.
Now, this may be a noble and community-minded goal, but it's still a significant restriction on the programmer's freedom to license HIS contributions as HE sees fit.
GPL uses property law to force property to be public instead of private -- instead of locking the code up behind closed doors, it's locking the code up on the village green.
Indeed. The Constitution says that no one shall "be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law". If you've been duly convicted by a court of law, that IS due process.
When you start subjecting the entire population to the same kind of treatment you've got a MAJOR due process violation.
My primary rifle is a Ruger Mini-30, also 7.26x39 but based on the Garand action vs the Kalishnikov action. Both actions have an outstanding record of reliability under field conditions, a record which the AR-15/M-16 derivitive can't match. And, since it's not a scary black "assault weapon", it doesn't freak people out as much, which is an important factor when you live in a state controlled by gun-grabbing liberals.
However, if you look at the data coming from Iraq, the current generation of body armor is highly effective at defeating 7.62x39. Based on this, it might be time to move to something with a bit more punch.
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If a foreign intelligence agency is using ANY electronic transmission to communicate with their US-based assets, they're fools. NSA is the best SIGINT agency in the world, anyone going head-to-head against them at their own game is asking to be spanked.
The smart spies use good-old-fashioned, low-tech methods like dead drops and face-to-face meetings. You can only defeat fieldcraft with fieldcraft -- it's pretty much immune to advances in technology. You can beat crypto by getting more/faster computers. You can only beat fieldcraft by putting more trained officers in the field.
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Keep in mind that EVEN WITH this attack, SHA-1 is STILL incredibly hard to break. Yes, 2^69 is much easier to solve than 2^80, but (this is the important part), 2^69 is still computationally impractical.
No cryptosystem is 100% secure, other than a one-time-pad. Ditto for a (physical) safe. It's not a question of IF you can crack it, the question is HOW LONG will it take to crack it. As long as the time it takes to crack is significantly greater than the useful life of the information being protected, it's strong enough.
Let's say for sake of argument that a brute-force attack at 2^80 takes an average of 10,000 years. (2^69)/(2^80) =.0004882812, so now it only take an average of 4.9 years with the new attack.
There's no argument that this is a substantial reduction in time. The question is whether or not 4.9 years is "long enough". That depends on the application.
If the document you're hashing is a 30 year contract, then no, that's not long enough. But if it's a piece of software which will be obsolete in 1 year, you're probably safe. If it's a password which will be changed in 3 months, you're fine. If it's a session key that's only valid for an hour, it's overkill.
I own handguns and long guns (rifles & shotguns). For someone who's never owned a gun before, a long gun is a much better choice. Using a handgun effectively takes A LOT more skill and practice than either a shotgun or rifel.
The main reason to have a handgun is so that you can carry it with you. If you don't live in a shall-issue state and don't intend on carrying illegaly, there really isn't much point in getting a handgun for self-defense; a shotgun is an infinitely superior home defense weapon.
And, if (like the OP was implying) your reason for owning a weapon is to resist an oppressive government should the need arise, a high-power semi-automatic rifle is what you want.
How easily can your small children brute-force a locked box containing DVDs?
And why would I want to put the kids' DVDs in a locked box where then can't get to them? The whole point of buying a (shudder) Barney DVD is to amuse the rugrats.
But it's hard to imagine a scheme that allows computer drives to read the data enough to play the movie but not enough to rip it.
Hard? Try impossible. If you can read the data enough to play the move, you can copy it. Even a closed hardware system (CSS) will be defeated eventually.
That was denied to even exist into the 1980's, and you claim to know what their mission is?
Hello, it's 2005 now.
NoSuchAgency's mission has been public knowledge for over 20 years. Hell, they have their http://www.nsa.gov/about/about00003.cfmmission statement on their frelling web site.
Your definition of free will is knowing the difference between right and wrong and being able to chose between them.
By that definition, my cat has free will. She knows it's wrong to get up on the kitchen counter, as evidenced by the facts that she doesn't do it when I'm looking and that she jumps down when she hears me coming. Yet, despite this clear evidence that she knows the kitchen counters are taboo, she persists on getting up on them when she thinks she can get away with it.
$RPM_DISTRO installs faster, but in the end, is it really worth it?
It is when you have to build a server farm or do a big desktop rollout. If you have 20 boxes to build, spending 2 hours per box vs 3 is the difference between working a 40 hour week and a 60 hour week. If I'm paying you by the hour, your elitist attitude just increased my costs by 50% (or more, if I have to pay you time and a half for overtime). If I'm paying you a salary, you've either just given me 20 hours of your life for free, or you turned a one week job into a week and a half job.
Second, it's probably going to be easier to get consistant results if you're using a less flexible processess. If I use $RPM_DISTRO on all 20 of my boxes, I have a high degree of confidence that they're all going to be identical. With Gentoo, I need to spend extra time & effort making sure that they all get built exactly the same way. Wasting time tracking down avoidable configuration management problems is not a productive use of time.
Gentoo has it's place. So does RHEL. So does Centos. A good engineer picks the right tool for the job.
"Gentoo will never be a viable distro" (total BS, but whatever..)
Some of us want to actually get useful work done with our computers, not spend a week waiting for everything to compile.
My "play" system runs Gentoo. It took me about 2 weeks worth of evenings to get a Stage 3 install up and running, compared to the 2 hours it usually takes me to dial in a RHAT-based system starting from bare metal.
Spending a week or two doinking around with a system and waiting hours for a chain of a dozen packages to compile is fine if that's your idea of fun. Installing Gentoo is a great educational experience, and it's an excellent base to work from if you want to build a dedicated single-purpose machine (EG, a MythTV box). But, if your objective is to actually start doing productive work in a reasonable amount of time, Gentoo sucks.
It's like the difference between a vintage hot-rod and a mini-van. If you enjoy spending more time under the hood tweaking things than you actually spend driving, get a hotrod. If you just want to take the kids over to Grandma's house, get a minivan.
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Public Domain has no restrictions whatsoever.
The BSD/MIT style licenses have no restrictions other than the fact that you must give credit where credit is due.
GPL has an important restriction -- you MUST give your changes back to the community if you want to distribute them.
Now, this may be a noble and community-minded goal, but it's still a significant restriction on the programmer's freedom to license HIS contributions as HE sees fit.
GPL uses property law to force property to be public instead of private -- instead of locking the code up behind closed doors, it's locking the code up on the village green.
Some of us are happy with our bodies just the way they are.
Nah, low caliber is the way to go. To the kneecaps.
When you start subjecting the entire population to the same kind of treatment you've got a MAJOR due process violation.
However, if you look at the data coming from Iraq, the current generation of body armor is highly effective at defeating 7.62x39. Based on this, it might be time to move to something with a bit more punch.
The smart spies use good-old-fashioned, low-tech methods like dead drops and face-to-face meetings. You can only defeat fieldcraft with fieldcraft -- it's pretty much immune to advances in technology. You can beat crypto by getting more/faster computers. You can only beat fieldcraft by putting more trained officers in the field.
No cryptosystem is 100% secure, other than a one-time-pad. Ditto for a (physical) safe. It's not a question of IF you can crack it, the question is HOW LONG will it take to crack it. As long as the time it takes to crack is significantly greater than the useful life of the information being protected, it's strong enough.
Let's say for sake of argument that a brute-force attack at 2^80 takes an average of 10,000 years. (2^69)/(2^80) = .0004882812, so now it only take an average of 4.9 years with the new attack.
There's no argument that this is a substantial reduction in time. The question is whether or not 4.9 years is "long enough". That depends on the application.
If the document you're hashing is a 30 year contract, then no, that's not long enough. But if it's a piece of software which will be obsolete in 1 year, you're probably safe. If it's a password which will be changed in 3 months, you're fine. If it's a session key that's only valid for an hour, it's overkill.
The main reason to have a handgun is so that you can carry it with you. If you don't live in a shall-issue state and don't intend on carrying illegaly, there really isn't much point in getting a handgun for self-defense; a shotgun is an infinitely superior home defense weapon.
And, if (like the OP was implying) your reason for owning a weapon is to resist an oppressive government should the need arise, a high-power semi-automatic rifle is what you want.
Pull your head out of your ass.
Which is why my pirate labs have only 29 VCRs each.
Damn foobarred link... NSA Mission statement
NoSuchAgency's mission has been public knowledge for over 20 years. Hell, they have their http://www.nsa.gov/about/about00003.cfmmission statement on their frelling web site.
Crawl out from under your rock sometime, troll.
You need the gown, towel, satchel, and junk mail extension for that.
Not having to scoop the litter box as often was a nice bonus, but the downside was that the rancid little mutt always wanted to lick your face.
Maybe he has small children. Little ones *always* need to be reminded to wipe, flush, and wash their hands. This is a job begging for automation.
By that definition, my cat has free will. She knows it's wrong to get up on the kitchen counter, as evidenced by the facts that she doesn't do it when I'm looking and that she jumps down when she hears me coming. Yet, despite this clear evidence that she knows the kitchen counters are taboo, she persists on getting up on them when she thinks she can get away with it.
Second, it's probably going to be easier to get consistant results if you're using a less flexible processess. If I use $RPM_DISTRO on all 20 of my boxes, I have a high degree of confidence that they're all going to be identical. With Gentoo, I need to spend extra time & effort making sure that they all get built exactly the same way. Wasting time tracking down avoidable configuration management problems is not a productive use of time.
Gentoo has it's place. So does RHEL. So does Centos. A good engineer picks the right tool for the job.
My "play" system runs Gentoo. It took me about 2 weeks worth of evenings to get a Stage 3 install up and running, compared to the 2 hours it usually takes me to dial in a RHAT-based system starting from bare metal.
Spending a week or two doinking around with a system and waiting hours for a chain of a dozen packages to compile is fine if that's your idea of fun. Installing Gentoo is a great educational experience, and it's an excellent base to work from if you want to build a dedicated single-purpose machine (EG, a MythTV box). But, if your objective is to actually start doing productive work in a reasonable amount of time, Gentoo sucks.
It's like the difference between a vintage hot-rod and a mini-van. If you enjoy spending more time under the hood tweaking things than you actually spend driving, get a hotrod. If you just want to take the kids over to Grandma's house, get a minivan.