For some reason it won't let me mod up this answer, but it's correct.
Schrodinger wasn't making a point about quantum theory, just the copenhagen interpretation. For some reason, even today this interpretation is so widespread that it's equated (even among many unaware grad students) with quantum theory itself, even though there are dozens of other equally-absurd interpretations out there.
Not sure why this is moderated as "funny," since it's true - <img> tags can be/are used in XSS and CSRF attacks. In fact, SVG images can contain executable javascript. And let's not even mention the possibility of polyglots: http://www.thinkfu.com/blog/gifjavascript-polyglots
It sounds to me like you're just rationalizing to convince yourself that this could never happen to you. Because bad things only happen to people who deserve it, right?
I was about to post this same thing. I can break a 14-character LM password using OphCrack (which fits a rainbow table of all possible 7-character halves on a CD) in 6 minutes on my grandma's PC. And MD5 has become broken so badly (primarily by Wang, et al) that I can literally generate collisions on my calculator in a few seconds.
Did they try their GPU cluster against a **non-broken** hashing scheme?
I still don't understand the benefit of Quantum Cryptography - it only prevents eavesdropping on the wire, right? It doesn't prevent a man-in-the-middle (where someone would receive the signal, read it, and retransmit it along the wire)?
Assuming your machine is clean from infection, the big eavesdropping concerns today come from man-in-the-middle attacks: rerouted lan traffic (such as compromised clients running an ARP spoof), and intermediary nodes between endpoints (eg. your ISP, and the Internet backbone routers). The only thing QC prevents (actual, physical wiretapping), as I understand it, is not much of a concern anyways.
Can you imagine if the movie or publishing industry did this, so books and movies couldn't be rented/sold/checked out from a library? So why is the video game industry able to get away with this!?
If they completely ignored takedown-requests, that's one thing. But otherwise I think they're going to have a hard time getting "deleting content that was not regularly downloaded, therefore pirates" to stick.
I thought there were laws protecting content distributers from being prosecuted, like why Google can't be held responsible if you email a confidential document, or if their webcrawler links to child porn; or why the phone company can't be held liable if you discuss a terrorist attack over the phone.
Megaupload isn't required to filter the content they share unless a takedown request is made; in fact, they *can't*, since a lot of it was zip-file password-encrypted.
^ this.
DD-WRT claims to have QoS, but it doesn't actually work, and never has - multiple independent tests have proved this. Tomato's QoS actually *does* something.
The real problem is that the managers don't understand what they have. Like Amazon, the real power of Netflix is its extensive user-reviews and recommendation engine - which Netflix has let go completely to shit.
Could you imagine seeing only reviews from users who agree with your taste? Being able to make movie recommendations to your friends and followers through Netflix? Being able to search for a movie by actor, writer, director, year, category, etc? Going over to a friend's house, and having Netflix recommend a movie it thinks you'll *both* like? How about having separate ratings/recommendations for every member of the family, so that Netflix stops recommending "Dora the Explorer" for you?
Yet, in 5+ years, they've done nothing to move towards any of that. They had a friends feature (which was *completely* inaccessible from their website - you had to google for the link) which they removed because "no one was using it." They took away user profiles, so you have no way to know which user-reviews to trust (the "top three reviews" are usually also the first three written, because of their poor review-sorting). The closest thing they had to a decent search was the "sortable list," which they also took away, without reason.
With the million-dollar Netflix recommendation contests, it was clear that Netflix *used* to know that the user experience is almost as important as what random TV shows they offer - it's not just about offering the right content, it's also about letting users who would enjoy that content *know* about it. Yet, somewhere along the way they lost that, replacing managers who understood with managers who think "removing useful features" is the same as "streamlining the website" (PROTIP: Make friends and user-profiles easier to find/more accessible, and people will use them!).
If Netflix doesn't shift gears and start listening to its customers, they're GOING to get replaced by someone who will listen.
What Microsoft said was they are "confident that every unit of Kinect sold to gamers will generate profit." That doesn't mean they are making a profit on each unit.
Of course if this happened, sales of Kinect sensors would go up without sales of Kinect video games going up...
and since MS is actually *losing* money on these sensors, suddenly the price of Kinect sensors would go up...
Clever is a taboo word in programming. Anyone who's spent hours debugging a bash script, or hours searching google trying to figure out how to do something in SQL that would take 3 minutes to program in a programming language, would know this.
If you have to ask, you clearly should not be doing this.
I would say the same thing to a chemistry teacher asking what explosives to show her students.
Please don't call it encryption - it was (*extremely* poor) obfuscation.
I bought one of these at Goodwill for a quarter a few years ago - played around with it for a bit, learned Python by writing a program that took:CueCat input and looked up the corresponding ISBN code on Amazon... good times.
Slashdot Mirror
It's too hard, so don't even try?
$500 a month if I want to be able to search my feeds? Are they fucking insane?
For some reason it won't let me mod up this answer, but it's correct.
Schrodinger wasn't making a point about quantum theory, just the copenhagen interpretation. For some reason, even today this interpretation is so widespread that it's equated (even among many unaware grad students) with quantum theory itself, even though there are dozens of other equally-absurd interpretations out there.
Oh yeah, and images can be/are used for tracking as well.
Plus, if we allowed images, I'm pretty sure 90% of it would end up being porn and cat pictures.
Not sure why this is moderated as "funny," since it's true - <img> tags can be/are used in XSS and CSRF attacks. In fact, SVG images can contain executable javascript. And let's not even mention the possibility of polyglots: http://www.thinkfu.com/blog/gifjavascript-polyglots
So your advice is, always be subservient?
It sounds to me like you're just rationalizing to convince yourself that this could never happen to you. Because bad things only happen to people who deserve it, right?
"the risk for oral and pharyngeal cancer held steady for the participants who consumed tea on a regular basis."
Tea has more antioxidants than coffee, so it seems your theory is incorrect.
spoken like someone who has clearly never lived anywhere else...
I was about to post this same thing. I can break a 14-character LM password using OphCrack (which fits a rainbow table of all possible 7-character halves on a CD) in 6 minutes on my grandma's PC. And MD5 has become broken so badly (primarily by Wang, et al) that I can literally generate collisions on my calculator in a few seconds.
Did they try their GPU cluster against a **non-broken** hashing scheme?
I still don't understand the benefit of Quantum Cryptography - it only prevents eavesdropping on the wire, right? It doesn't prevent a man-in-the-middle (where someone would receive the signal, read it, and retransmit it along the wire)?
Assuming your machine is clean from infection, the big eavesdropping concerns today come from man-in-the-middle attacks: rerouted lan traffic (such as compromised clients running an ARP spoof), and intermediary nodes between endpoints (eg. your ISP, and the Internet backbone routers). The only thing QC prevents (actual, physical wiretapping), as I understand it, is not much of a concern anyways.
I believe iOS has had forced full-disk encryption since iOS4
My OS class in college has us write the OS on top of a virtual MIPS PC written in Java. It ran just fine.
...thus producing an entire country whose writing-skills were conditioned to game the auto-grader.
Can you imagine if the movie or publishing industry did this, so books and movies couldn't be rented/sold/checked out from a library? So why is the video game industry able to get away with this!?
If they completely ignored takedown-requests, that's one thing. But otherwise I think they're going to have a hard time getting "deleting content that was not regularly downloaded, therefore pirates" to stick.
I thought there were laws protecting content distributers from being prosecuted, like why Google can't be held responsible if you email a confidential document, or if their webcrawler links to child porn; or why the phone company can't be held liable if you discuss a terrorist attack over the phone.
Megaupload isn't required to filter the content they share unless a takedown request is made; in fact, they *can't*, since a lot of it was zip-file password-encrypted.
What did megaupload actually do wrong here?
^ this. DD-WRT claims to have QoS, but it doesn't actually work, and never has - multiple independent tests have proved this. Tomato's QoS actually *does* something.
Could you imagine seeing only reviews from users who agree with your taste? Being able to make movie recommendations to your friends and followers through Netflix? Being able to search for a movie by actor, writer, director, year, category, etc? Going over to a friend's house, and having Netflix recommend a movie it thinks you'll *both* like? How about having separate ratings/recommendations for every member of the family, so that Netflix stops recommending "Dora the Explorer" for you?
Yet, in 5+ years, they've done nothing to move towards any of that. They had a friends feature (which was *completely* inaccessible from their website - you had to google for the link) which they removed because "no one was using it." They took away user profiles, so you have no way to know which user-reviews to trust (the "top three reviews" are usually also the first three written, because of their poor review-sorting). The closest thing they had to a decent search was the "sortable list," which they also took away, without reason.
With the million-dollar Netflix recommendation contests, it was clear that Netflix *used* to know that the user experience is almost as important as what random TV shows they offer - it's not just about offering the right content, it's also about letting users who would enjoy that content *know* about it. Yet, somewhere along the way they lost that, replacing managers who understood with managers who think "removing useful features" is the same as "streamlining the website" (PROTIP: Make friends and user-profiles easier to find/more accessible, and people will use them!).
If Netflix doesn't shift gears and start listening to its customers, they're GOING to get replaced by someone who will listen.
I would guess any activity in which people zone out - such as playing Bejeweled, or cooking or driving a car - would reduce the PTSD
What Microsoft said was they are "confident that every unit of Kinect sold to gamers will generate profit." That doesn't mean they are making a profit on each unit.
Of course if this happened, sales of Kinect sensors would go up without sales of Kinect video games going up... and since MS is actually *losing* money on these sensors, suddenly the price of Kinect sensors would go up...
Clever is a taboo word in programming. Anyone who's spent hours debugging a bash script, or hours searching google trying to figure out how to do something in SQL that would take 3 minutes to program in a programming language, would know this.
One step closer to biotics and mass relays
If you have to ask, you clearly should not be doing this. I would say the same thing to a chemistry teacher asking what explosives to show her students.
Please don't call it encryption - it was (*extremely* poor) obfuscation. I bought one of these at Goodwill for a quarter a few years ago - played around with it for a bit, learned Python by writing a program that took :CueCat input and looked up the corresponding ISBN code on Amazon... good times.