They fixed SHA up cuz they knew of a flaw, but didn't explain what the fix does.
For DES, they were... ahem... they realize that DES was DAMNED good. And allegedly they knew of 2 theoretical attacks 20 years before the civilian academics.
But their interference in DES is to restrict DES DOWN to a 56-bit keyspace, cuz they knew that DES was TOO good.:)
Almost anyone with a million bucks can search through 56-bit key space nowadays. As far as I know, there currently does not exist a DES attack that is more efficient (cheaper) than exhaustive search. Not bad for a 20 year old algorithm, huh? That's SECURITY!!
It is commonly believe in the crypto community the weakest point of attack for DES is its small key space.
Now imagine how many more years of service we could had squeezed out of DES, if the keyspace was set to 128?
NSA has been known to "fix" a major flaw in what was SHA, but now known as SHA-0. The did a minor change to the algorithm, but didn't tell anyone why they changed it, and what attack that change was meant to fix.
It's not until years later that civilian crytographers discovered an attack that works fairly well with SHA-0, but not with the modifications made by the NSA.
Being a recent undergrad myself... What the hell is wrong with the good old fashioned 3 ring binder? Using a note book or PDA is way over kill for the over priced joke of an education that you're getting.
90% of the Canadian population live on the edge of the Canadian/US border.:) So we're actually pretty dense. And no, our broadband penetration rate in northern Canada, is nothing that high either:)
if you're contend with leaving space as part of the frontier, then yes, safety is not that important.
I want something different however. I want space to be another part of everyday life, accessible to everyone. And everyone in everyday life expects safety.
Imagine if no one bitched and complained about airline safety. Then getting on an airplane and flying across the oceans would STILL be only a hero's job.
The primary problem identified in the Columbia incident was that lack of sound scientific reasoning in the judgement of the observed foam debris. The reasoning used for disregarding that foam impact goes like, "well, we have seen this thousands of times in previous shuttle liftoff, since it never was a problem before, it won't be a problem this time either. even though we have never made any study on foam impact to the shuttle."
Yet, I see posts here using that very reasoning here again. "Don't worry, debris is normal. It had never caused any problems for the last hundred of so flights (except for Columbia). It's cool."
Let's put it this way. I would have no problems telling my boss that we should use ant to build Java projects. But I would not risk it if we were doing C/C++ projects.
Ant and C/C++ is not ready for professional use. That's why the facilities are still in the "contrib" tree, and not the offical one.
You can. But you should not. You're falling into the Turing Tar Pit. The C and C++ building facilities are too immature for now. And the Ant developers certainly are not putting priority in making it work well with C and C++ building anyhow.
I remember there was a song for cs452 on Buddy's site:)
http://buddy.bbsg.ca/pics/cs452/pos-code.txt
Ode To My Code
==============
(To the tune of "Ode to My Car" by Adam Sandler)
Lyrics corrupted by Marc "Slackmaster" Fletcher
and "His Alcoholiness" Pete Strachan.
Here we go
Piece of shit code
We've Microsoft code
That fuckin' pile of shit
Won't move trains very far
Out code's a big piece of shit
'Cause the kernel's fucking shot
The context switch is fucking broken
And the clock ain't doing so hot
(It's a piece of shit)
I can't see the track display
Cause our VGA programming is a flop
And the WYSE term looks real bad
It pukes debug output non-stop
(It's a piece of shit)
(Piece of shit code)
Piece of shit code
(They've got a real shitty app)
It sucks royal dick
(That fuckin' pile of shit)
100% crap
(Never gets us many marks)
Oh fuck you code
It's got no timeslicing, it only got the syscall Pass()
Whoever designed this course can lick MFCF's sweaty ass
(They can lick our nuts too)
And it's got no keyboard handler
We can't tell it what to do
Eleven times a day I see
``Unhandled IRQ''
(You fuckin' piece of shit)
(Piece of shit code)
We've got piece of shit code
(They've got a piece of shit code)
Interrupts suck my ass
(That fuckin' pile of shit)
That pile of assembly shit
(Never gets trains very far)
Who the fuck do I call
I'll see Gord again next fall
Four megs is too small
No free space at all
A blocking Reply() system call
But it's too late to rewrite it all
Oh fuck me
Well the track likes to lock
The trains they tend to crash
And when they hit the floor
It's five hundred dollars cash
(Ouch, ouch, ouch)
The lab code is public knowledge
So we've got to work in MC 6080
(What a pain in their asses)
And if a girlie sees our app
There's no chance I'll bang that lady
(Even Raymond gets more pussy)
Hey shut up
(Piece of shit code)
You piece of shit code
You piece of shit code
(Piece of shit code)
Bad fucking cprintf()s
(You got a piece of shit program)
No dynamic allocation
(Piece of shit code)
Only 8 bit colour
(You got a piece of shit app)
Fucking "halt" for a Delay()
(Piece of shit code)
NMI gives a fucking parity check
(You got a piece of shit app)
(Piece of shit code)
(You've got a piece of shit code)
(Piece of shit code)
The whole class thinks we're slackers.
(You got pile of shit code)
(Ian give us some marks)
(Pile of shit code...)
haha... I'm also impressed with Enterprise engineer's frequent trick of solving problems by reversing field polarities:) They must have taught it in star fleet academy's engineering 101, "when in doubt, try reversing the polarity".:-)
The best is a singular exclusive choice. What you're actually after is a set of choices from which you can perform your evaluations on. I am against the authoritative term "the best", not against people seeking for suggestions.
Why are people obsessed with "The Best" software package for everything? Everytime I browse through forums and newsgroups, there'd be people asking for "the best" software package for this, and that.
"The Best" is what you decide on after evaluating all reasonable choices. The question is not what "the best" is, but what "the recommended" are.
religion is an interesting subject and should be offered in public schools. I'm from Canada, and in social studies class, we studied creation myths from dozens of cultures. (there were a lot of similarities). Religion as an academy subject should not be kept out of schools.
Valid scientific theories (generally accepted ones) should be taught in science class. Creation myths should be taught in social studies (or a religion class).
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use gnu screen. that way your jobs are attached to the screen, not the window manager.
:) )
(Note that we have deferred the problem again to another layer, but gnu screen is "as stable as any terminal multiplexor I have used, maybe more".
http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/
not quite.
... ahem... they realize that DES was DAMNED good. And allegedly they knew of 2 theoretical attacks 20 years before the civilian academics.
:)
They fixed SHA up cuz they knew of a flaw, but didn't explain what the fix does.
For DES, they were
But their interference in DES is to restrict DES DOWN to a 56-bit keyspace, cuz they knew that DES was TOO good.
Almost anyone with a million bucks can search through 56-bit key space nowadays. As far as I know, there currently does not exist a DES attack that is more efficient (cheaper) than exhaustive search. Not bad for a 20 year old algorithm, huh? That's SECURITY!!
It is commonly believe in the crypto community the weakest point of attack for DES is its small key space.
Now imagine how many more years of service we could had squeezed out of DES, if the keyspace was set to 128?
NSA has been known to "fix" a major flaw in what was SHA, but now known as SHA-0. The did a minor change to the algorithm, but didn't tell anyone why they changed it, and what attack that change was meant to fix.
:)
It's not until years later that civilian crytographers discovered an attack that works fairly well with SHA-0, but not with the modifications made by the NSA.
So do give the NSA some credit.
Being a recent undergrad myself ... What the hell is wrong with the good old fashioned 3 ring binder? Using a note book or PDA is way over kill for the over priced joke of an education that you're getting.
90% of the Canadian population live on the edge of the Canadian/US border. :) So we're actually pretty dense. And no, our broadband penetration rate in northern Canada, is nothing that high either :)
if you're contend with leaving space as part of the frontier, then yes, safety is not that important.
I want something different however. I want space to be another part of everyday life, accessible to everyone. And everyone in everyday life expects safety.
Imagine if no one bitched and complained about airline safety. Then getting on an airplane and flying across the oceans would STILL be only a hero's job.
The primary problem identified in the Columbia incident was that lack of sound scientific reasoning in the judgement of the observed foam debris. The reasoning used for disregarding that foam impact goes like, "well, we have seen this thousands of times in previous shuttle liftoff, since it never was a problem before, it won't be a problem this time either. even though we have never made any study on foam impact to the shuttle."
Yet, I see posts here using that very reasoning here again. "Don't worry, debris is normal. It had never caused any problems for the last hundred of so flights (except for Columbia). It's cool."
Let's put it this way. I would have no problems telling my boss that we should use ant to build Java projects. But I would not risk it if we were doing C/C++ projects.
Ant and C/C++ is not ready for professional use. That's why the facilities are still in the "contrib" tree, and not the offical one.
You can. But you should not. You're falling into the Turing Tar Pit. The C and C++ building facilities are too immature for now. And the Ant developers certainly are not putting priority in making it work well with C and C++ building anyhow.
FYI: I use Ant to build/test/deploy my Java code.
Parent is an unpatriotic terroist!!! Get him!!
Get him!! He's a terroist!!
wow, you have a 110" TV. you're so cool.
I remember there was a song for cs452 on Buddy's site :)
http://buddy.bbsg.ca/pics/cs452/pos-code.txt
Ode To My Code
==============
(To the tune of "Ode to My Car" by Adam Sandler)
Lyrics corrupted by Marc "Slackmaster" Fletcher
and "His Alcoholiness" Pete Strachan.
Here we go
Piece of shit code
We've Microsoft code
That fuckin' pile of shit
Won't move trains very far
Out code's a big piece of shit
'Cause the kernel's fucking shot
The context switch is fucking broken
And the clock ain't doing so hot
(It's a piece of shit)
I can't see the track display
Cause our VGA programming is a flop
And the WYSE term looks real bad
It pukes debug output non-stop
(It's a piece of shit)
(Piece of shit code)
Piece of shit code
(They've got a real shitty app)
It sucks royal dick
(That fuckin' pile of shit)
100% crap
(Never gets us many marks)
Oh fuck you code
It's got no timeslicing, it only got the syscall Pass()
Whoever designed this course can lick MFCF's sweaty ass
(They can lick our nuts too)
And it's got no keyboard handler
We can't tell it what to do
Eleven times a day I see
``Unhandled IRQ''
(You fuckin' piece of shit)
(Piece of shit code)
We've got piece of shit code
(They've got a piece of shit code)
Interrupts suck my ass
(That fuckin' pile of shit)
That pile of assembly shit
(Never gets trains very far)
Who the fuck do I call
I'll see Gord again next fall
Four megs is too small
No free space at all
A blocking Reply() system call
But it's too late to rewrite it all
Oh fuck me
Well the track likes to lock
The trains they tend to crash
And when they hit the floor
It's five hundred dollars cash
(Ouch, ouch, ouch)
The lab code is public knowledge
So we've got to work in MC 6080
(What a pain in their asses)
And if a girlie sees our app
There's no chance I'll bang that lady
(Even Raymond gets more pussy)
Hey shut up
(Piece of shit code)
You piece of shit code
You piece of shit code
(Piece of shit code)
Bad fucking cprintf()s
(You got a piece of shit program)
No dynamic allocation
(Piece of shit code)
Only 8 bit colour
(You got a piece of shit app)
Fucking "halt" for a Delay()
(Piece of shit code)
NMI gives a fucking parity check
(You got a piece of shit app)
(Piece of shit code)
(You've got a piece of shit code)
(Piece of shit code)
The whole class thinks we're slackers.
(You got pile of shit code)
(Ian give us some marks)
(Pile of shit code...)
haha... I'm also impressed with Enterprise engineer's frequent trick of solving problems by reversing field polarities :) They must have taught it in star fleet academy's engineering 101, "when in doubt, try reversing the polarity". :-)
The best is a singular exclusive choice. What you're actually after is a set of choices from which you can perform your evaluations on. I am against the authoritative term "the best", not against people seeking for suggestions.
Why are people obsessed with "The Best" software package for everything? Everytime I browse through forums and newsgroups, there'd be people asking for "the best" software package for this, and that.
"The Best" is what you decide on after evaluating all reasonable choices. The question is not what "the best" is, but what "the recommended" are.
I hate "the best".
if you want people to interpret "Free Software" as "Freedom Software", then you should had called it "Freedom Software"... Dumb asses ...
firefox.exe weights in 39,856 Kb of memory on Windows (after openning a few tabs), sure feels like a fat client to me.
see dcc, razor, and pyzor for details. but there is such a thing as fuzzy checksum that hashes two similar input to the same output.
religion is an interesting subject and should be offered in public schools. I'm from Canada, and in social studies class, we studied creation myths from dozens of cultures. (there were a lot of similarities). Religion as an academy subject should not be kept out of schools.
Valid scientific theories (generally accepted ones) should be taught in science class. Creation myths should be taught in social studies (or a religion class).
A $90 pair of headphones cost too much for most people's budget for music appreciation.
boo!! my infinite loop is far superior!!
;; ) ; }
int main() { for(
I thought about that, but your version unnecessarily drags in an unrelated question of abortion... haha, I win!!
bullshit. Apples and Oranges. Letting something which is already alive live, is very different from creating a new life.
A more accurate comparison would be:
"Would you say the same of, say, letting couples whose genetic makeup encourages a high probability of a severely deformed child procreate?"
Am I the only one who is wincing: "ewwww ...." ?