Well, it is definitely an impressive keyboard. I'm sure there are UI designers looking at this thing and having seizures as we speak. I know if it had some durability, spill resistance, and was =$250 I'd pick one up for my next machine.
In any case, the keys don't look like they are OLED. They look just like regular backlit LCD (maybe LED backlit). Any OLED experts want to chime in on this?
everyone knows that this is really for the good of the PeopLE. the internet hAs poiSonEd our country as a wHolE and we must not alLow it to subvert our years of history, and tradition or Pollute our culture. i aM glad that our nation is taking a stand to assurE we stay united through this and any other time or crisis.
The SQL is perfectly valid. Backticks are used to denote field names in the SQL spec. If you are writing software to write a sql query and you don't know what the field names are (i.e. if they are user or integrator supplied at install or run time) then by placing them in backticks you indicate to the parser that they are indeed field names.
How would your sql parser handle:
SELECT * from sort where select like "%cow"
Some parsers will figure it out. Some won't. To each thier own.
They didn't do a full brute force on the key (which takes around a gig of captured packets and a few cpu-hours to do). What they did was exploit the fact that many wireless AP's allow you to select a pass-phrase and generate a set of keys from that. They then ran a dictionary attack against the pass-phrases and checked the resulting keys. Not a bad job, but they could do much better. Here's how:
First, the first 24 bits of the key are transmitted in clear text. This allows you to narrow the field of keys by 2^24. Not too useful on its own - but...
Secondly, pre-compute the keys of all words in a dictionary attack. Select only the resulting keys whose first 24 bits match your target. You now have ((dictionary size*4) / 2^24) keys to check through. (dictionary size is multiplied by 4 since most AP's allow you to select one of four keys for any given pass-phrase.)
Now, this will handle most novices who setup their router with a weak passkey. For defense against this attack, simply don't use a password/phrase. MD5ing a certain length of/dev/urandom and using that as a passkey is almost certain to thwart this attack, although it can still be brute forced with enough captured data and cpu time.
Of course, if you really care about people sniffing your traffic, you should be using ipsec anyway.
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The National Weather Service has issued an alert for the entirety of the United States. An unusual buildup of heat is expected over the next few days related to a sudden and massive increase in processor usage of select personal computers across the country.
This alert is based off of previous temperature surges related to the release of the 'KDE' software package to users of the 'Gentoo' operating system. As another release of this package has just occurred, the National Weather Service is issuing this alert so relief organizations can be prepared. Special attention is to be paid to the south-western united states due to unseasonably high temperatures, and high concentrations of personal computer equipment.
An additional National Weather Service extreme temperature WARNING has been issued for the Silicon Valley region.
Check out number 99. They want someone to port wine!
Now, porting between OS's on the same architecture is difficult. Porting between the same OS on different architectures can be easy, or insanely difficult. Porting a "not-an-emulator" that "ports" other applications running on a different operating system across a different architecture to run the "ported" application on the non-native architecture... well, the word difficult just doesn't seem to cut it.
But, if anyone manages to do it they deserve a freakin' medal!
There is something called "impossible numbers" which are numbers that simply do not and cannot exist. Take for example the number 0.43223400240983312345432. It doesn't exist. It can't. It's impossible to generate by any means.
So, if someone took a plate that was 1 meter long and placed a mark at 0.43223400240983312345432 meters, it wouldn't exist?
If you think about it carefully, the buttered toast has to be strapped to the cat's feet;-)
Not in the "classical" buttered-toast-on-cat scenario. In the classical scenario, a slice of buttered toast it attached to the back of the cat (usually with duct tape) so that the buttered side is facing up if the cat is standing on its feet. When the cat-buttered-toast object is dropped from any height two laws regarding the components come into play. Firstly, a falling cat will always land on its feet. Secondly, a falling piece of buttered toast will always fall buttered-side down. When the cat-buttered-toast object falls, one of the "laws" will be violated assuming the cat-buttered-toast object does indeed hit the ground. Again, in the classical scenario the cat either ends up perpetually spinning above the ground, or simply floats in mid air.
In your example you are using a non-traditional cat-buttered-toast model in which the cat is placed on top of the buttered toast in such a manner that the cat ends up with buttery paws. This model is not used for various reasons. Firstly, the difficulty of attaching toast to all four paws of the cat is at least an order of magnitude greater than simply attaching the toast to said cats back. Although various attempts at slicing the toast have overcome this difficulty, the amount of effort required is always greater than attaching the toast to the cat's back.
In any event, the results of the non-traditional model are usually the same as the classical. Our cat with buttery paws is dropped from a height and attempts to land on its feet, however the toast that is attached to its feed attempts to land buttered-side down.
Now, it should be noted that defenders of the classical scenario usually point out that the toast, relative to the cat, has already succeeded in landing buttered side down by the nature of it being attached to the cats paws. If the cat were to hit the ground while standing on the toast, it would be akin to someone steping on a slice of toast after it has already landed on the floor, buttered side down. Basically it would be irrelevant as the goal of the toast to attach its buttered side to a surface has already been acomplished.
So, although I used the traditional buttered-toast-on-cat model and the non-traditional models are at least partially flawed, I believe I made the correct decision in its use.
Great.. A cell phone that charges by air. Now all I need is a light weight air compressor with an efficiency greater than unity and I'll never have to plug my phone in again! At least, I won't have to plug it into anything aside from the turbine and the perpetual motion machine.
I still prefer the alternator strapped to a cat with a slice of buttered toast strapped to its back.
Forgive me for not reading my latest issue of Cryptographer weekly but how on earth is this any different than RSA fingerprints? It looks like the "envelope" and "carbon paper" are just elements of a pre-shared key anyway.
If you know the fingerprint of the host you are connecting to, you are more or less immune from man-in-the-middle attacks. If you have never communicated with the host before, nothing is going to stop a man-in-the-middle - especially if you have to magically share locations of "carbon paper" without the man-in-the-middle knowing about it.
Does this strategy remind anyone of Cartman's "You can't come and play here" amusement park? I just wonder who is getting the hemorrhoid.
As far as not affecting the Korean release, it won't. Korea will have its own servers. The MMO's in Korea are traditionally not released in boxes. They are downloaded for free and the players pay a greater fee per month. I believe the number was around USD$23/month in Korea compared to $15 in the US.
This Ampakine sounds real interesting to me. Especially since I have trouble getting stuff into my longterm memory. But once it's there, I have no problem with it.
Perhaps you have no problem with your long term memory for the exact reason that everything doesn't get dumped into it. Think of it like a pagefile. The less of them you have, the faster everything goes.
Of course, you could take this and remember the number of ceiling tiles in your janators closet from last week, and it might take you 3 minutes to remember your home phone number.
I'm pretty sure the submitter gets it, but doesn't want to admit it. Yes, there is a demand for qualified techies coming in on H1-B's. Yes, a good number of domestic techies are having hard times finding employment. However, these two items are not mutually exclusive.
See, managers wised up. They found out that you can either hire a domestic techie for 50-80k/yr or hire an imported techie for 25-35k/yr. As an added bonus, the imported techie will be thankful for the opportunity he has, and do everything he can to appease the management that hired him.
I'd _love_ to see a tariff on 'imported' labor. However, I'm not an economist.
This is a problem. Children, not only in the US but all across the world are using simple statistical analysis to break and decypher our national language. Nearly all of our nuclear, biological, chemical, and conventional weapons are created and deployed using this language. We must act.
But what can we as a nation do? We do not need any additional laws, we must only enforce the laws we have. Reverse engineering of this and other national secrets is strictly forbidden by the DMCA. Just because they are minors doesn't mean we can't sue them.
Let's go through what is the cheapest on pricewatch (note: I'm not always picking the cheapest part in a category.. many parts are sold below cost, and extras are tacked on (i.e. cpu for $29, heatsink & fan for an additional 19.95.. In cases like that I'm picking the best price with everything "necessary"..) All prices are marked as/
That should just about cover the bare minimum... but we're at $191 before shipping. I think its reasonable to assume that you can cut 50% out of that if you are doing some volume, but $100 is a very tough price point for everything you need in a pc.
From reading the patent it looks like Honeywell actually had a decent and possibly novel invention. I say possibly because the solution they propose is obvious to anyone trying to solve their particular problem, however no one before had tried to solve their problem hence its originality. Now... as to exactly what Honeywell's problem is...
They decided that in displays used in situations like fighter jets, air traffic control towers and commercial airlines, having displays "bleed" out of the angle of view is not desirable. For instance, you don't want a reflection of your cockpit display in the corner of your eye from the canopy. They designed a "system of lenses" to reduce this out-of-angle light and redirect it to viewing angles.
The problem seems to come when they filed for the patent on the system. Instead of describing the system as a way to limit/redirect unused/undesired light they wrote it as a system to increase the amount of desired light. My guess as to why is because it's much easier to sue someone trying to make their displays brighter than it is to find someone trying to make their displays darker.
The reason I say that they intended to sue/collect royalties from every manufacturer was because they went ahead and sued every single manufacturer. They did not attempt to license their technology (but of course they wouldn't... Because Honeywell also manufacturers LCD's. They'd love to put their competitors out of business.) This is all just an abuse of the patent/court system to try and get ahead... too bad it works so well.
Oh, and I have some prior art. You see, I'm sure someone had an LCD with some backlights about 10 years ago, and wanted it to be brighter in the area they were viewing... so they put a MIRROR behind it. What a novel idea! They should have patented it.
There have been several quotes back in the era of "Big Unix" before the dilution of a certain company's intellectual property. Specifically, one relating to "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of backup tapes." My first question relates to this quote. To the best of your knowledge, was Unix source or object code ever backed up and transported via this method, possibly through Finland?
What are your feelings on Lucy's younger brother from the Peanuts(TM) cartoon?
Do you feel that the Communist Hippies in Berkley were involved in a mass conspiracy to doctor previously released copies of source code to attempt to dilute the value of the Unix operating system?
And finally, someone were to want to subpoena an individual very much like yourself, where and when would the best place to do so be?
Actually, you are a bit off. 1 calorie (1g water+1c) is used to denote energy. One Calorie as used to denote the amount of energy in food is equal to 1000 calories, so devide your result by 1000.
You had to ask didn't you? Well, I asked google how many burning libraries of congress(es?) in one gram of antimatter... And google was stumped:(
So, here we go... 1 gram of antimatter -> burning libraries of congress(es?):
For the sake of argument, lets assume that the Library of Congress is entirely non-flamable and only the books contribute to the heat. Furthermore, lets assume that all the books are made of 100% wood or equivilant.
Now, 1 gram of wood when completely burned produces 3000 calories.
The Library of Congress contains approximately 128 million items. Again, some of these are recordings of various natures and will not burn as well as books... so to compensate we'll deviate from our initial assumptions and assume that the burning of the 530 miles of bookshelves compensate for any lack of flamability of the old records.
So... our average paperback weighs under 1lb and our average hardcover book weighs between 1 and 2lbs. Seems reasonable enough. Lets assume a distribution between hardcover and paperbacks so as the average book weight in the LOC is 1lb.
Now, Google can help us some more here. Our friendly search engine lets us know that one pound is 453.59237 grams. We'll round that off to 453 grams, since we're averaging book weight anyway.
So, the LOC has (453*128,000,000) or 57,984,000,000 grams worth of books. At 3000 calories per gram, burning down the LOC would produce 173,952,000,000,000 calories of energy. For the sake of sanity, lets convert that to joules. Google says that 173 952 000 000 000 calories = 7.27815168 × 10^14 Joules
Now, our space shuttle main tank (and engines, NOT including boosters which are more powerful) produce 1,987,500,000 Watts of energy, and burn for 8.5 minutes. That's (510*1,987,500,000) 1013625000000 Watt/seconds of energy. Converted to joules, that is remarkably 1013625000000 Joules.
So.. One space shuttle fuel tank of energy is 1013625000000 Joules. 23 space shuttle tanks of energy is 23313375000000 Joules. For convienence, one space shuttle tank is 0.23313375x10^14 joules.
So... it comes down to one burning LOC is 7.27815168 × 10^14 joules. 23 space shuttle fuel tanks are 0.23313375*10^14 joules. So, one gram of antimatter combining with one gram of matter is approximately 0.032 Burning Libraries of Congress(es?). I actually expected it to be more.
Now how do I get Google to include space shuttle fuel tanks and burning libraries of Congress(es?) as acceptable measurements?
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Well, it is definitely an impressive keyboard. I'm sure there are UI designers looking at this thing and having seizures as we speak. I know if it had some durability, spill resistance, and was =$250 I'd pick one up for my next machine.
In any case, the keys don't look like they are OLED. They look just like regular backlit LCD (maybe LED backlit). Any OLED experts want to chime in on this?
You'd think that it would be a good idea to actually link to the html list, or the xml list, or the pretty charts.
The press release is interesting too.
everyone knows that this is really for the good of the PeopLE. the internet hAs poiSonEd our country as a wHolE and we must not alLow it to subvert our years of history, and tradition or Pollute our culture. i aM glad that our nation is taking a stand to assurE we stay united through this and any other time or crisis.
The SQL is perfectly valid. Backticks are used to denote field names in the SQL spec. If you are writing software to write a sql query and you don't know what the field names are (i.e. if they are user or integrator supplied at install or run time) then by placing them in backticks you indicate to the parser that they are indeed field names.
How would your sql parser handle:
SELECT * from sort where select like "%cow"
Some parsers will figure it out. Some won't. To each thier own.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<speech>
<voice>Nelson Muntz</voice>
<voiceArtist>Nancy Cartwright</voiceArtist>
<text>Ha-Ha!</text>
</speech>
They didn't do a full brute force on the key (which takes around a gig of captured packets and a few cpu-hours to do). What they did was exploit the fact that many wireless AP's allow you to select a pass-phrase and generate a set of keys from that. They then ran a dictionary attack against the pass-phrases and checked the resulting keys. Not a bad job, but they could do much better. Here's how:
/dev/urandom and using that as a passkey is almost certain to thwart this attack, although it can still be brute forced with enough captured data and cpu time.
First, the first 24 bits of the key are transmitted in clear text. This allows you to narrow the field of keys by 2^24. Not too useful on its own - but...
Secondly, pre-compute the keys of all words in a dictionary attack. Select only the resulting keys whose first 24 bits match your target. You now have ((dictionary size*4) / 2^24) keys to check through. (dictionary size is multiplied by 4 since most AP's allow you to select one of four keys for any given pass-phrase.)
Now, this will handle most novices who setup their router with a weak passkey. For defense against this attack, simply don't use a password/phrase. MD5ing a certain length of
Of course, if you really care about people sniffing your traffic, you should be using ipsec anyway.
The National Weather Service has issued an alert for the entirety of the United States. An unusual buildup of heat is expected over the next few days related to a sudden and massive increase in processor usage of select personal computers across the country.
This alert is based off of previous temperature surges related to the release of the 'KDE' software package to users of the 'Gentoo' operating system. As another release of this package has just occurred, the National Weather Service is issuing this alert so relief organizations can be prepared. Special attention is to be paid to the south-western united states due to unseasonably high temperatures, and high concentrations of personal computer equipment.
An additional National Weather Service extreme temperature WARNING has been issued for the Silicon Valley region.
Check out number 99. They want someone to port wine!
Now, porting between OS's on the same architecture is difficult. Porting between the same OS on different architectures can be easy, or insanely difficult. Porting a "not-an-emulator" that "ports" other applications running on a different operating system across a different architecture to run the "ported" application on the non-native architecture... well, the word difficult just doesn't seem to cut it.
But, if anyone manages to do it they deserve a freakin' medal!
I prefer to store all my information by sending it into a black hole. As with the microwires, reading it tends to be a bit difficult.
In your example you are using a non-traditional cat-buttered-toast model in which the cat is placed on top of the buttered toast in such a manner that the cat ends up with buttery paws. This model is not used for various reasons. Firstly, the difficulty of attaching toast to all four paws of the cat is at least an order of magnitude greater than simply attaching the toast to said cats back. Although various attempts at slicing the toast have overcome this difficulty, the amount of effort required is always greater than attaching the toast to the cat's back.
In any event, the results of the non-traditional model are usually the same as the classical. Our cat with buttery paws is dropped from a height and attempts to land on its feet, however the toast that is attached to its feed attempts to land buttered-side down.
Now, it should be noted that defenders of the classical scenario usually point out that the toast, relative to the cat, has already succeeded in landing buttered side down by the nature of it being attached to the cats paws. If the cat were to hit the ground while standing on the toast, it would be akin to someone steping on a slice of toast after it has already landed on the floor, buttered side down. Basically it would be irrelevant as the goal of the toast to attach its buttered side to a surface has already been acomplished.
So, although I used the traditional buttered-toast-on-cat model and the non-traditional models are at least partially flawed, I believe I made the correct decision in its use.
Great.. A cell phone that charges by air. Now all I need is a light weight air compressor with an efficiency greater than unity and I'll never have to plug my phone in again! At least, I won't have to plug it into anything aside from the turbine and the perpetual motion machine.
I still prefer the alternator strapped to a cat with a slice of buttered toast strapped to its back.
Forgive me for not reading my latest issue of Cryptographer weekly but how on earth is this any different than RSA fingerprints? It looks like the "envelope" and "carbon paper" are just elements of a pre-shared key anyway.
If you know the fingerprint of the host you are connecting to, you are more or less immune from man-in-the-middle attacks. If you have never communicated with the host before, nothing is going to stop a man-in-the-middle - especially if you have to magically share locations of "carbon paper" without the man-in-the-middle knowing about it.
Well, at least Windows is catching up. We've had rootkits on linux forever! :)
Does this strategy remind anyone of Cartman's "You can't come and play here" amusement park? I just wonder who is getting the hemorrhoid.
As far as not affecting the Korean release, it won't. Korea will have its own servers. The MMO's in Korea are traditionally not released in boxes. They are downloaded for free and the players pay a greater fee per month. I believe the number was around USD$23/month in Korea compared to $15 in the US.
Of course, you could take this and remember the number of ceiling tiles in your janators closet from last week, and it might take you 3 minutes to remember your home phone number.
In any event, don't screw with your head.
I'm pretty sure the submitter gets it, but doesn't want to admit it. Yes, there is a demand for qualified techies coming in on H1-B's. Yes, a good number of domestic techies are having hard times finding employment. However, these two items are not mutually exclusive.
See, managers wised up. They found out that you can either hire a domestic techie for 50-80k/yr or hire an imported techie for 25-35k/yr. As an added bonus, the imported techie will be thankful for the opportunity he has, and do everything he can to appease the management that hired him.
I'd _love_ to see a tariff on 'imported' labor. However, I'm not an economist.
This is a problem. Children, not only in the US but all across the world are using simple statistical analysis to break and decypher our national language. Nearly all of our nuclear, biological, chemical, and conventional weapons are created and deployed using this language. We must act.
But what can we as a nation do? We do not need any additional laws, we must only enforce the laws we have. Reverse engineering of this and other national secrets is strictly forbidden by the DMCA. Just because they are minors doesn't mean we can't sue them.
Let's go through what is the cheapest on pricewatch (note: I'm not always picking the cheapest part in a category.. many parts are sold below cost, and extras are tacked on (i.e. cpu for $29, heatsink & fan for an additional 19.95.. In cases like that I'm picking the best price with everything "necessary"..) All prices are marked as /
/w onboard video, audio & lan)
Case: $24/0 - atx 300w
Mb & Processor: $83/4.94 (P3 Celeron 1ghz SiS 635
Ram: $18/0 128mb PC2700 DDR
HDD: $36/0 WD Caviar 40gb EIDE 7200rpm
DVD/CDRW: $30/4 LG 32X10X40X16 CD-RW/DVD Combo
That should just about cover the bare minimum... but we're at $191 before shipping. I think its reasonable to assume that you can cut 50% out of that if you are doing some volume, but $100 is a very tough price point for everything you need in a pc.
From reading the patent it looks like Honeywell actually had a decent and possibly novel invention. I say possibly because the solution they propose is obvious to anyone trying to solve their particular problem, however no one before had tried to solve their problem hence its originality. Now... as to exactly what Honeywell's problem is...
They decided that in displays used in situations like fighter jets, air traffic control towers and commercial airlines, having displays "bleed" out of the angle of view is not desirable. For instance, you don't want a reflection of your cockpit display in the corner of your eye from the canopy. They designed a "system of lenses" to reduce this out-of-angle light and redirect it to viewing angles.
The problem seems to come when they filed for the patent on the system. Instead of describing the system as a way to limit/redirect unused/undesired light they wrote it as a system to increase the amount of desired light. My guess as to why is because it's much easier to sue someone trying to make their displays brighter than it is to find someone trying to make their displays darker.
The reason I say that they intended to sue/collect royalties from every manufacturer was because they went ahead and sued every single manufacturer. They did not attempt to license their technology (but of course they wouldn't... Because Honeywell also manufacturers LCD's. They'd love to put their competitors out of business.) This is all just an abuse of the patent/court system to try and get ahead... too bad it works so well.
Oh, and I have some prior art. You see, I'm sure someone had an LCD with some backlights about 10 years ago, and wanted it to be brighter in the area they were viewing... so they put a MIRROR behind it. What a novel idea! They should have patented it.
Mr. Pike, a few questions if you will...
There have been several quotes back in the era of "Big Unix" before the dilution of a certain company's intellectual property. Specifically, one relating to "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of backup tapes." My first question relates to this quote. To the best of your knowledge, was Unix source or object code ever backed up and transported via this method, possibly through Finland?
What are your feelings on Lucy's younger brother from the Peanuts(TM) cartoon?
Do you feel that the Communist Hippies in Berkley were involved in a mass conspiracy to doctor previously released copies of source code to attempt to dilute the value of the Unix operating system?
And finally, someone were to want to subpoena an individual very much like yourself, where and when would the best place to do so be?
Actually, you are a bit off. 1 calorie (1g water+1c) is used to denote energy. One Calorie as used to denote the amount of energy in food is equal to 1000 calories, so devide your result by 1000.
You had to ask didn't you? Well, I asked google how many burning libraries of congress(es?) in one gram of antimatter... And google was stumped :(
So, here we go... 1 gram of antimatter -> burning libraries of congress(es?):
For the sake of argument, lets assume that the Library of Congress is entirely non-flamable and only the books contribute to the heat. Furthermore, lets assume that all the books are made of 100% wood or equivilant.
Now, 1 gram of wood when completely burned produces 3000 calories.
The Library of Congress contains approximately 128 million items. Again, some of these are recordings of various natures and will not burn as well as books... so to compensate we'll deviate from our initial assumptions and assume that the burning of the 530 miles of bookshelves compensate for any lack of flamability of the old records.
So... our average paperback weighs under 1lb and our average hardcover book weighs between 1 and 2lbs. Seems reasonable enough. Lets assume a distribution between hardcover and paperbacks so as the average book weight in the LOC is 1lb.
Now, Google can help us some more here. Our friendly search engine lets us know that one pound is 453.59237 grams. We'll round that off to 453 grams, since we're averaging book weight anyway.
So, the LOC has (453*128,000,000) or 57,984,000,000 grams worth of books. At 3000 calories per gram, burning down the LOC would produce 173,952,000,000,000 calories of energy. For the sake of sanity, lets convert that to joules. Google says that 173 952 000 000 000 calories = 7.27815168 × 10^14 Joules
Now, our space shuttle main tank (and engines, NOT including boosters which are more powerful) produce 1,987,500,000 Watts of energy, and burn for 8.5 minutes. That's (510*1,987,500,000) 1013625000000 Watt/seconds of energy. Converted to joules, that is remarkably 1013625000000 Joules.
So.. One space shuttle fuel tank of energy is 1013625000000 Joules. 23 space shuttle tanks of energy is 23313375000000 Joules. For convienence, one space shuttle tank is 0.23313375x10^14 joules.
So... it comes down to one burning LOC is 7.27815168 × 10^14 joules. 23 space shuttle fuel tanks are 0.23313375*10^14 joules. So, one gram of antimatter combining with one gram of matter is approximately 0.032 Burning Libraries of Congress(es?). I actually expected it to be more.
Now how do I get Google to include space shuttle fuel tanks and burning libraries of Congress(es?) as acceptable measurements?