ok so his comments might be taken with a grain of salt. but, it does give me an idea that may have implications for Linux/ other OSs.
Windows is currently getting attacked more because it is more popular. There are many people searching for ways to get at it. As they are successful, Windows (eventually) patches the problem and (theoretically) learns a little bit more about security.
Linux et al is not facing the same level of attack and therefore is not getting the same "education" about security. Granted, people are reviewing the code, but not as many as are attacking Windows and not, I would bet, with the same motivation as the Windows miscreants.
What happens when/if Linux gains the same popularity and suddenly is found to be suffering from the same set of problems that Windows worked through years before? Perhaps, at that point, Windows might be considered more battle-hardened and thereby more "secure"
Snail send another microwave beam generator to Mars and use the sail to slow it down on the other side. It can be powered via solar- or even nukes. It could spend a week powering up a battery for a 1 hour blast to slow something down coming at it.
If you are building one to put into orbit, you can use the same tech (or there abouts) to build another one that you send to Mars the slow way.
But then you can always forget the password on those sites and it will ask you a simple question before letting you in like your mother's maiden name or the last 4 digits of your SSN (your universal, can't-be-changed password). I would bet a lot of that information is obtainable rendering the whole password scheme meaningless.
Having had boiling water turn to ice when thrown in the air at only -50F or 60F, I am dubious about running around in -100F after sweating at 200 degrees.
Our local post office had a single box of AOL coasters a year or so ago. In the manufacture of my halloween costume that year I grabbed most all of the box.
A few weeks later I went in to post a letter and there had to be 8-10 boxes of AOL coasters spread out on every counter and flat space available. They even had a few stand up display racks.
the hashes themselves would be sorted, as you say. Therefore hash ab12fe="pass" would be right next to ab12ff="god" and the "ab12f" part would be the same.
its the same with dictionary words, only compressing the hash prefixes.
> Written naively the overloaded '+' operator returns a vector object. But I don't want any object returned. I want the code to be expanded in place as...
> It would be great, if instead, I could hook into the compiler and tell it exactly how it should handle vectors.
But what if your code was to run on a vector processor (or even SSE, etc)? Your telling the compiler how to handle vectors (serially, in your example) would limit your speed.
a better method would be to use declarative/ functional semantics to describe what you want, and then have a compiler that would optimize that to the architecture. many examples exist.
I believe a big problem of procedural languages is over specification of procedure (by definition...)
Hmm. Imagine these become popular as UPS devices (computers, buildings, etc). Then, there is a huge blackout that drains them down. At that point, the power comes back on.
Suddenly, there is a massive surge far greater than the power usage before the power outage as all these UPS devices suck down power trying to recharge in 30 secs.
I don't know about that. That same argument was used in the US about converting the speed limit signs to metric but when the 55 MPH speed limit was elliminated, all of a sudden it was no problem to replace all these signs.
All they would need would be a bunch of numbered stickers. I bet the whole US could be done for $100m if it was a priority.
I think the analogy is great. The problem is that your confusing "legal" for "ethical". There are plenty of things that are legal but not ethical, and vice versa.
Slavery was legal, segregation was legal, pouring makeup into rabbits eyes is legal. It all depends upon your personal ethical (moral?) system.
Does anyone know the relative speeds of todays PCs vs. an old super computer from the 80s?
UMass had one of those Connection Machines with the 65k processes and the blinking lights sitting unused in the basement for awhile and I was always curious to know whether it was any faster than what could be done serially with a 3GHz PC.
I have never bothered to send out a protest letter before but when I received this email, I felt compelled to send a letter to the clerk of court telling them how rediculous the whole thing is....
given that there is only so many useful ways to structure a C statement, could't one take the MD5 hashes and generate a table of common 3 lines of C code hashes and reconstruct most of the original code this way? There will be billions of combinations (more even) but that wouldn't take all that long to work out. A variant of crack could do it. The key is that there are only so many useful combinations.
This would work if the code was first de-obfuscated as you mention. It may not find all the lines but it would find lots and the holes could be worked out by the context. Remember that only one of 3 hashes would need to be worked out in order to figure out a particular line.
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ok so his comments might be taken with a grain of salt. but, it does give me an idea that may have implications for Linux/ other OSs.
Windows is currently getting attacked more because it is more popular. There are many people searching for ways to get at it. As they are successful, Windows (eventually) patches the problem and (theoretically) learns a little bit more about security.
Linux et al is not facing the same level of attack and therefore is not getting the same "education" about security. Granted, people are reviewing the code, but not as many as are attacking Windows and not, I would bet, with the same motivation as the Windows miscreants.
What happens when/if Linux gains the same popularity and suddenly is found to be suffering from the same set of problems that Windows worked through years before? Perhaps, at that point, Windows might be considered more battle-hardened and thereby more "secure"
fdc
Access to my computer does not equate to access to my bank. How would this work?
Are we talking keystroke monitors or something?
Snail send another microwave beam generator to Mars and use the sail to slow it down on the other side. It can be powered via solar- or even nukes. It could spend a week powering up a battery for a 1 hour blast to slow something down coming at it.
If you are building one to put into orbit, you can use the same tech (or there abouts) to build another one that you send to Mars the slow way.
Yeah yeah, same here.
But then you can always forget the password on those sites and it will ask you a simple question before letting you in like your mother's maiden name or the last 4 digits of your SSN (your universal, can't-be-changed password). I would bet a lot of that information is obtainable rendering the whole password scheme meaningless.
Having had boiling water turn to ice when thrown in the air at only -50F or 60F, I am dubious about running around in -100F after sweating at 200 degrees.
I call BS
Our local post office had a single box of AOL coasters a year or so ago. In the manufacture of my halloween costume that year I grabbed most all of the box.
A few weeks later I went in to post a letter and there had to be 8-10 boxes of AOL coasters spread out on every counter and flat space available. They even had a few stand up display racks.
no really.
the hashes themselves would be sorted, as you say. Therefore hash ab12fe="pass" would be right next to ab12ff="god" and the "ab12f" part would be the same.
its the same with dictionary words, only compressing the hash prefixes.
or could the carbon be recycled from the emissions before being recombined with the hydrogen in a closed loop?
> Written naively the overloaded '+' operator returns a vector object. But I don't want any object returned. I want the code to be expanded in place as...
> It would be great, if instead, I could hook into the compiler and tell it exactly how it should handle vectors.
But what if your code was to run on a vector processor (or even SSE, etc)? Your telling the compiler how to handle vectors (serially, in your example) would limit your speed.
a better method would be to use declarative/ functional semantics to describe what you want, and then have a compiler that would optimize that to the architecture. many examples exist.
I believe a big problem of procedural languages is over specification of procedure (by definition...)
I propose, apropos of RMS's GNU/Linux, that SCO be hereafter referred to as MSFT/SCO to reflect the true source of the FUD.
ehem.
MSFT/SCO Sucks! etc.
(not an endorsement of GNU/Linux nomenclature)
Then network them together and they can do the whole war over the internet.
fyi, a short means he does not
In college I knew a bunch of beautiful women who would frequent chat rooms for puriant reasons. I mean, I knew them personally, not via chat.
It always helped my own online experience to know that it was "possible" that she was really the model she claimed to be...
Fortunately, we have the Sun to take up the slack.
Hmm. Imagine these become popular as UPS devices (computers, buildings, etc). Then, there is a huge blackout that drains them down. At that point, the power comes back on.
Suddenly, there is a massive surge far greater than the power usage before the power outage as all these UPS devices suck down power trying to recharge in 30 secs.
Wham! There goes the power again. Rinse. Repeat.
Use all the extra bandwidth to serve all programs on demand. The industry is heading this way anyway. Then, the cable provider is just an ISP.
If they knew that no one would do extra searches on an 80-year-old WWII veteran in a wheelchair wouldn't that be the perfect place to hide the bomb?
Anyone setting up a donation fund to help her replenish her funds?
I don't know about that. That same argument was used in the US about converting the speed limit signs to metric but when the 55 MPH speed limit was elliminated, all of a sudden it was no problem to replace all these signs.
All they would need would be a bunch of numbered stickers. I bet the whole US could be done for $100m if it was a priority.
I think the analogy is great. The problem is that your confusing "legal" for "ethical". There are plenty of things that are legal but not ethical, and vice versa.
Slavery was legal, segregation was legal, pouring makeup into rabbits eyes is legal. It all depends upon your personal ethical (moral?) system.
Dos anyone have any experience installing Debian (unstable) on one of these?
Does anyone know the relative speeds of todays PCs vs. an old super computer from the 80s?
UMass had one of those Connection Machines with the 65k processes and the blinking lights sitting unused in the basement for awhile and I was always curious to know whether it was any faster than what could be done serially with a 3GHz PC.
One CD of windows installs just Windows
3 CDs of Linux installs quite a bit more than just Linux OS
I have never bothered to send out a protest letter before but when I received this email, I felt compelled to send a letter to the clerk of court telling them how rediculous the whole thing is....
Perhaps there is a way to sue the lawyers?
given that there is only so many useful ways to structure a C statement, could't one take the MD5 hashes and generate a table of common 3 lines of C code hashes and reconstruct most of the original code this way? There will be billions of combinations (more even) but that wouldn't take all that long to work out. A variant of crack could do it. The key is that there are only so many useful combinations.
This would work if the code was first de-obfuscated as you mention. It may not find all the lines but it would find lots and the holes could be worked out by the context. Remember that only one of 3 hashes would need to be worked out in order to figure out a particular line.