Don't care about history. Don't care about politics. Don't care about marketing. If I'm developing a commercial application, I'll use the best tool I can find so that I can make the most money possible.
They should focus their argument on the merits of their tool, not on the other crap.
2^64 combinations, whether they be bits or chars, and whether you're hashing or ciphering, means your algorithm will have to run on the order of 2^64 times for a sure break.
No, that is not a solution. Using a hash just means a brute-force attack would need to add a hashing step. Guessing a short password is still easy, as there are exponentially fewer combinations of letters in a short password compared to a longer password.
I assumed the FIPS standard at question set cryptographic standards. I did not know it was actually about hardware rate-limiting. It would seem to me, then, that devices compliant with this standard are far less secure. Instead of having to guess trillions of trillions of passwords (which is physically impossible given our current understanding of computing), an attacker would only need to take apart the hardware (which is not easy, but still quite possible).
This is stupid. A password must be 20 random characters MINIMUM to provide just 128 bit key strength. Nobody's going to type such long passwords on a tiny thumb-drive keyboard all the time.
Don't blame the Kindle for DRM. Blame the book publishers. The Kindle works fine with or without DRM. Unfortunately, publishers are only releasing their content with DRM, so any ebook reader which lacks DRM support is certain to fail (including this one).
Wait: we don't get pensions anymore. 401k contributions ARE our retirement plans. Cutting 401k is the same as saying "we care about you SO little, that we hope you die hungry and cold in your old age."
Considering how closely related these guys were to us, it actually is reasonable to infer a high probability that their brain structure was effectively identical.
I'm in IT security at a large American software company. Some of the guys I work with want to remove admin rights from every system. These are the sort of guys who think the job of IT security is to make paperwork and avoid responsibility at all costs. I'm more of a developer, myself, and I have been able to keep admin rights for developers, but only after much arguing.
Thank you for sharing your uninformed scientific opinion with us.
In fact, humans with larger brains tend to have higher IQs. Whales have a different brain structure, so your comparison of whale to human intelligence based on brain size alone is absurd.
What you posted is fantastically stupid. Really. You implied that people who aren't skilled at driving deserve to die.
That's utter fucking bullshit. You're a bad person.
Anyone with an ounce of moral decency would say "contrary to what you claim, helping save the lives of people is a good thing!" but it seems so self-evident to those of us who are not sociopaths, writing the words feels awkward.
Finally, an unlocked smartphone! But what is the cheapest voice+data plan you could use it with? Will it be possible to use it with a pre-pay carrier, like Virgin Mobile?
I don't talk much, and I'm rarely far from a real computer, but I would love to have the ability to get on the web from a smartphone available to me.
No matter how many times you use the word "clearly," your uninformed opinion becomes no less invalid. The fact that you dismiss a general example of web app syntax with "you could do that with just html" shows that you either have no idea what you are talking about (still in school?) or you're just a troll.
Either way, I'm not wasting my time on you. Good day.
That may be elegant but its equally useless and slow.
Wow. Really? It's like you're trying to miss the point. No sense wasting my time trying to communicating with someone like that; I've got code to write!
Wow, you're trying so hard to stress your opinion, it's as if you feel... threatened?
I've coded quite a deal in Python before switching to Ruby. As I said, Python is currently more mature. I like Python. It's my second favorite language. But the syntax? Metaprogramming? Python is chore to use by comparison. You are out of the loop, as evidenced by your errant performance claims. Ruby 1.9 is much faster than previous versions, and JRuby is faster than Python, while simultaneously providing access to all of Java's libraries! Jython performance isn't even in the same ballpark.
It's hard to articulate why one synatx is more beautiful than another, but let me give you an example of an entire Web App written with Sinatra:
get '/' do
"Hello world." end
Elegant.
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Python is more mature than Ruby. But that's Python's only advantage. Overall, Ruby is simply a more elegant and powerful language. It is a dream to program in. This is why you find people migrating from Python to Ruby, but very few going in the other direction. And the maturity disparity is only a matter of time...
Also, JRuby is much more mature than Jython. If you want to work with Java libraries while still using a dynamic language, JRuby is the way to go.
What position are you going to get into? Most jobs either pay far less, force you to work even more inconvenient hours, or stick you in a much less pleasant environment than an office...
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If IE and Chrome can play perfectly-smooth flash video, but Firefox makes it stutter, QA SHOULD HAVE CAUGHT THAT SHIT!
How about they roll up their sleeves and do REAL work: find and fix the major glitches. That is more important than vague mission statements.
Don't care about history. Don't care about politics. Don't care about marketing. If I'm developing a commercial application, I'll use the best tool I can find so that I can make the most money possible.
They should focus their argument on the merits of their tool, not on the other crap.
2^64 combinations, whether they be bits or chars, and whether you're hashing or ciphering, means your algorithm will have to run on the order of 2^64 times for a sure break.
No, that is not a solution. Using a hash just means a brute-force attack would need to add a hashing step. Guessing a short password is still easy, as there are exponentially fewer combinations of letters in a short password compared to a longer password.
I assumed the FIPS standard at question set cryptographic standards. I did not know it was actually about hardware rate-limiting. It would seem to me, then, that devices compliant with this standard are far less secure. Instead of having to guess trillions of trillions of passwords (which is physically impossible given our current understanding of computing), an attacker would only need to take apart the hardware (which is not easy, but still quite possible).
This is stupid. A password must be 20 random characters MINIMUM to provide just 128 bit key strength. Nobody's going to type such long passwords on a tiny thumb-drive keyboard all the time.
No, it's not. If the hardware gives up the data without requiring the encryption key, the hardware is flawed.
Don't blame the Kindle for DRM. Blame the book publishers. The Kindle works fine with or without DRM. Unfortunately, publishers are only releasing their content with DRM, so any ebook reader which lacks DRM support is certain to fail (including this one).
Wait: we don't get pensions anymore. 401k contributions ARE our retirement plans. Cutting 401k is the same as saying "we care about you SO little, that we hope you die hungry and cold in your old age."
Active brain cells? Your family? Do you have any idea what you are talking about?
No. Your family is not data. Your family is an anecdote. And I don't know WTF you mean by "active brain cells." I think you just made that up.
Considering how closely related these guys were to us, it actually is reasonable to infer a high probability that their brain structure was effectively identical.
I'm in IT security at a large American software company. Some of the guys I work with want to remove admin rights from every system. These are the sort of guys who think the job of IT security is to make paperwork and avoid responsibility at all costs. I'm more of a developer, myself, and I have been able to keep admin rights for developers, but only after much arguing.
Thank you for sharing your uninformed scientific opinion with us.
In fact, humans with larger brains tend to have higher IQs. Whales have a different brain structure, so your comparison of whale to human intelligence based on brain size alone is absurd.
What you posted is fantastically stupid. Really. You implied that people who aren't skilled at driving deserve to die.
That's utter fucking bullshit. You're a bad person.
Anyone with an ounce of moral decency would say "contrary to what you claim, helping save the lives of people is a good thing!" but it seems so self-evident to those of us who are not sociopaths, writing the words feels awkward.
The people who don't die in car accidents would want to spend 5 months with subfreezing temperatures but no snow, actually.
Bangalore without cow patties.
Finally, an unlocked smartphone! But what is the cheapest voice+data plan you could use it with? Will it be possible to use it with a pre-pay carrier, like Virgin Mobile?
I don't talk much, and I'm rarely far from a real computer, but I would love to have the ability to get on the web from a smartphone available to me.
You know, the exact same thing happens to me when I take placebo!
No matter how many times you use the word "clearly," your uninformed opinion becomes no less invalid. The fact that you dismiss a general example of web app syntax with "you could do that with just html" shows that you either have no idea what you are talking about (still in school?) or you're just a troll.
Either way, I'm not wasting my time on you. Good day.
Oh geeze, not this shit again. Moving on:
Wow. Really? It's like you're trying to miss the point. No sense wasting my time trying to communicating with someone like that; I've got code to write!
Wow, you're trying so hard to stress your opinion, it's as if you feel... threatened?
I've coded quite a deal in Python before switching to Ruby. As I said, Python is currently more mature. I like Python. It's my second favorite language. But the syntax? Metaprogramming? Python is chore to use by comparison. You are out of the loop, as evidenced by your errant performance claims. Ruby 1.9 is much faster than previous versions, and JRuby is faster than Python, while simultaneously providing access to all of Java's libraries! Jython performance isn't even in the same ballpark.
It's hard to articulate why one synatx is more beautiful than another, but let me give you an example of an entire Web App written with Sinatra:
get '/' do
"Hello world."
end
Elegant.
Python is more mature than Ruby. But that's Python's only advantage. Overall, Ruby is simply a more elegant and powerful language. It is a dream to program in. This is why you find people migrating from Python to Ruby, but very few going in the other direction. And the maturity disparity is only a matter of time...
Also, JRuby is much more mature than Jython. If you want to work with Java libraries while still using a dynamic language, JRuby is the way to go.
Corporate Intranets with no budget for upgrades are what keeps IE6 alive.
I buy lots of gadgets, AND I drive a convertible, but I'm not compensating for shit. I wear Magnums.
Can't a guy just love gadgets or cars or whatever? Why do jealous little people always have to talk about our penises?
What position are you going to get into? Most jobs either pay far less, force you to work even more inconvenient hours, or stick you in a much less pleasant environment than an office...