It is made to sound more uncontrolled that it is. This is what really happens:
The markup uses existing standards such as HTML5 (rel=”author”) and XFN (rel=”me”) to enable search engines and other web services to identify works by the same author across the web.
This is handy, allowing search engines to find content by a specific author. It's not like Google will automatically decide what content links to which author.
We can't expect Google to give purely weighted search results based on this either. More like they will keep their existing page rankings, and include this extra author meta-data in specialized searches.
We know that great content comes from great authors, and we’re looking closely at ways this markup could help us highlight authors and rank search results.
The bnet article seems to over dramatize it, possibly due to a lack of understanding what this means for content creators.
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. -- Henry David Thoreau
We constantly hear about how piracy is a crime, but how on earth did the entertainment industry manage to lobby this so high up that it gained such prominent elevation in the police force?
I have to add that the title *is* misleading. The 7 character password which was cracked in 17 minutes is alpha-numeric only. That hardly constitutes a strong password.
Including special chars, the 8 character password estimated 25 days to beat, while the nine char password of the same set, estimates a 7 year solve period.
I think the concept is very interesting and how this can be done! I still love it!
My photographic memory film isn't always loaded, so it's nice to be reminded of this again:)
P.S. Nerd = derogatory and not necessarily a geek. Dork = slang for a penis. Wannabe = someone pretending they know everything and thus so should everybody else.
Yes! So it's a device design flaw, the encryption itself is pretty secure if used properly. I see their software also lists Blackberry. Better change my 4-digit password too! gulp.
Here is a great analogy of how strong the encryption is, if a secure password is used:
Imagine a computer that is the size of a grain of sand that can test keys against some encrypted data. Also imagine that it can test a key in the amount of time it takes light to cross it. Then consider a cluster of these computers, so many that if you covered the earth with them, they would cover the whole planet to the height of 1 meter. The cluster of computers would crack a 128-bit key on average in 1,000 years.
If you want to brute-force a key, it literally takes a planet-ful of computers. And of course, there are always 256-bit keys, if you worry about the possibility that government has a spare planet that they want to devote to key-cracking.
That small divergence could just be an indication of the variance from instrumentation readings on such a small scale. Perhaps that figure will narrow over move years of testing until it finally reaches zero divergence.
I bet however, just like the theory of relativity which can never reach the actual speed of light (the idea of infinity), the time needed to measure this to a zero-fault level would also take infinity. Possibly due to the observer disturbing the observed.
But I'm no physicist, just my wild guess:-)
Oh matter & antimatter aren't exact opposites, they behave the same way, but just that they have opposite charges.
My conclusion is not about which laws should be enforced where. It is about how the people should stand together, whether they be civilians, small business owners or large telecom companies.
The country was upset when the guys in high corporate positions abandoned their civil duty to the people. The lawsuits are a repercussion of the events. I talked about the cause.
Sorry SMS were never free, I live in a third world country:(
During the Egyptian revolution the telecom companies, instead of supporting the people, complied with and acted upon the requests of a tyrannical leader to shut down internet access, in an attempt to silence the people. [1]
They also complied to send out pro-government, anti-democracy [2] mobile text messages [3].
Don't buy Vodafone's excuse, they abide to a mad man's "emergency laws", while the people and journalists risked life and limb to have their voice heard. Vodafone agreed to his terms, a guy who is now facing the death penalty under charge or premeditated murder against civilians[5], and need to grow a pair.
And do you know why? "Its not clear who paid for the messages which could amount to hundred of thousands of dollars worth of messaging."
Worth satisfying curiosity? Definitely! But only in a VM. Old hardware will have problems from aging, you'll just end up frustrating yourself trying to get it working if a part is faulty. I know I would.
Worth learning? Not really. For the time it was exciting as it was new and we didn't have anything else like it to compare! Over time things have improved, methods and interfaces and all that good stuff.
Things like enabling extended memory, DMPI mode and installing CD-Rom/mouse drivers (config.sys/autoexec.bat, yech!) was an ache, DOSBox handles that very well for us:-)
Skip all the hardware nuances, and just start exploring the software right away!
I'm not old, but living in ZA we got exposed to more legacy hardware, new stuff took longer to catch on around 1995 (when 486's were in here).
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It is made to sound more uncontrolled that it is. This is what really happens:
The markup uses existing standards such as HTML5 (rel=”author”) and XFN (rel=”me”) to enable search engines and other web services to identify works by the same author across the web.
This is handy, allowing search engines to find content by a specific author. It's not like Google will automatically decide what content links to which author.
We can't expect Google to give purely weighted search results based on this either. More like they will keep their existing page rankings, and include this extra author meta-data in specialized searches.
We know that great content comes from great authors, and we’re looking closely at ways this markup could help us highlight authors and rank search results.
The bnet article seems to over dramatize it, possibly due to a lack of understanding what this means for content creators.
Or do I also have the wrong idea?
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. -- Henry David Thoreau
We constantly hear about how piracy is a crime, but how on earth did the entertainment industry manage to lobby this so high up that it gained such prominent elevation in the police force?
I have to add that the title *is* misleading. The 7 character password which was cracked in 17 minutes is alpha-numeric only. That hardly constitutes a strong password.
Including special chars, the 8 character password estimated 25 days to beat, while the nine char password of the same set, estimates a 7 year solve period.
I think the concept is very interesting and how this can be done! I still love it!
And That's we have a 256-bit encrypted luks /homes
Correct, salting is used to secure _many_ rows of hashed passwords, it basically ensures that the attacker _has_ to brute-force each hash.
They couldn't stick around waiting for the facade to reboot after the upgrade.
How interesting!
This morning I got sidetracked into a past code breaking challenge that involved a substitution cipher.
Sigaba seems like a 1-digit substitution cipher implemented on a complex rotor system.
My photographic memory film isn't always loaded, so it's nice to be reminded of this again :)
P.S.
Nerd = derogatory and not necessarily a geek.
Dork = slang for a penis.
Wannabe = someone pretending they know everything and thus so should everybody else.
Going through this transition now, glad I decided this :-)
http://intellinuxgraphics.org/ demands to differ. How's them apples, Will Hunting?
Year of the rapture.. oh wait, never mind.
Nah, that's only in 2014
I understand how you feel. We are just jealous we didn't think of it first - a reason to search every kind of pron!
You know there's a problem when the big names in the business target minor towns to take advantage of their resources.
Of course these small places make sense to a crowded market
This move doesn't surprise anybody.
"Intel does provide development drivers for Intel graphics to the open source community."
+1 :D
http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/sb/cs-010512.htm?wapkw=(linux)
Ooh, and I'm sure Google's neat linky home page logos on special days weigh on the results too!
/. needs a "vote spam" flag for articles.
Yes! So it's a device design flaw, the encryption itself is pretty secure if used properly. I see their software also lists Blackberry. Better change my 4-digit password too! gulp.
Here is a great analogy of how strong the encryption is, if a secure password is used:
Imagine a computer that is the size of a grain of sand that can test keys against some encrypted data. Also imagine that it can test a key in the amount of time it takes light to cross it. Then consider a cluster of these computers, so many that if you covered the earth with them, they would cover the whole planet to the height of 1 meter. The cluster of computers would crack a 128-bit key on average in 1,000 years.
If you want to brute-force a key, it literally takes a planet-ful of computers. And of course, there are always 256-bit keys, if you worry about the possibility that government has a spare planet that they want to devote to key-cracking.
from: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200607/msg00058.html
hunter2
That small divergence could just be an indication of the variance from instrumentation readings on such a small scale. Perhaps that figure will narrow over move years of testing until it finally reaches zero divergence.
I bet however, just like the theory of relativity which can never reach the actual speed of light (the idea of infinity), the time needed to measure this to a zero-fault level would also take infinity. Possibly due to the observer disturbing the observed.
But I'm no physicist, just my wild guess :-)
Oh matter & antimatter aren't exact opposites, they behave the same way, but just that they have opposite charges.
My conclusion is not about which laws should be enforced where. It is about how the people should stand together, whether they be civilians, small business owners or large telecom companies.
The country was upset when the guys in high corporate positions abandoned their civil duty to the people. The lawsuits are a repercussion of the events. I talked about the cause.
Sorry SMS were never free, I live in a third world country :(
Good arguments :)
I agree, the art in some games were created around the pixelated look, some angles are meant to be there.
A great way to upscale old 16x16 icons to 256x256!
There is a bigger picture involved.
During the Egyptian revolution the telecom companies, instead of supporting the people, complied with and acted upon the requests of a tyrannical leader to shut down internet access, in an attempt to silence the people. [1]
They also complied to send out pro-government, anti-democracy [2] mobile text messages [3].
Don't buy Vodafone's excuse, they abide to a mad man's "emergency laws", while the people and journalists risked life and limb to have their voice heard. Vodafone agreed to his terms, a guy who is now facing the death penalty under charge or premeditated murder against civilians[5], and need to grow a pair.
And do you know why?
"Its not clear who paid for the messages which could amount to hundred of thousands of dollars worth of messaging."
[1] http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/01/2011128796164380.html
[2] http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/Content.aspx?id=133349
[3] http://liberalconspiracy.org/2011/02/03/unsolicited-pro-mubarak-text-messages-from-egypt/
[4] http://www.renesys.com/blog/2011/01/egypt-leaves-the-internet.shtml
[5] http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/24/us-egypt-mubarak-idUSTRE74N3LG20110524
Worth satisfying curiosity? Definitely! But only in a VM. Old hardware will have problems from aging, you'll just end up frustrating yourself trying to get it working if a part is faulty. I know I would.
Worth learning? Not really. For the time it was exciting as it was new and we didn't have anything else like it to compare! Over time things have improved, methods and interfaces and all that good stuff.
Things like enabling extended memory, DMPI mode and installing CD-Rom/mouse drivers (config.sys/autoexec.bat, yech!) was an ache, DOSBox handles that very well for us :-)
Skip all the hardware nuances, and just start exploring the software right away!
I'm not old, but living in ZA we got exposed to more legacy hardware, new stuff took longer to catch on around 1995 (when 486's were in here).
When you said "Westwood" I just imagined Dune and Dune II :D