I was wondering what the fuck TwenCen meant until I read your post, though now I wish I hadn't. That word is so much more annoying now that I know what it means. Thanks.
You could probably pay a couple months' rent on an apartment with the setup and equipment costs for satellite internet. It's not cheap. And it's no good for most types of online gaming.
Excellent job. Once again you have shown that slashdotters are smarter than the well-paid engineers who design large multi-million dollar projects. When are companies going to learn that they are wasting their money? They just need to read slashdot a bit more often; there's always someone explaining why a given idea is infeasable.
ps. You should really give them a call to let them know about the scrubbers. That's probably an expense that a waste-management company would never think of.
Yeah, and those damn free-software hippies sure couldn't have written a web browser on their own had it not been for netscape opening up their source... If Microsoft hadn't released a free web browser then nobody else would have thought to do the same. Sorry, but that's just bullshit. And so what if people got accustomed to paying for a browser? For one thing, paying for software is not wrong or bad. Secondly, paying for something is one habit people tend to break pretty quickly when there is a decent free version available. So that's really not an issue.
No company has the inherent right to be in business and to stay in business forever. Why do you bring the Bush administration into this at all? Hell, what does any administration have to do with any of this? This is capitalism, no more, no less. Protecting companies like Trumpet and Real by prohibiting other companies from entering those markets is simply absurd. TCP/IP is a standard. Nobody owns it and nobody has exclusive rights to it. Trumpet offered an implementation of it. And so did Microsoft. How is Microsoft in the wrong? RealNetworks is barely relevant anymore mainly because their protocol sucks. The only reason they were relevant in the first place is because they were one of the first companies to offer streaming media. There are better protocols now. Again, how is this microsoft's fault?
These companies didn't deserve anything. Companies come and go as markets change. Protecting these companies will only stifle innovation and competition.
For the record, I'm not a Microsoft supporter. I don't care for their software and I don't use any of it. However, I do not feel the need to bash them with bullshit economics like you apparently do. Stop that.
When performing a brute force attack on a PIN system like this, the attacker is going to first try easy combinations like this. Repetitions, basic sequences, keypad patterns(corners, zigzags, etc.), stuff like that. Then after those are exhausted(it's a relatively small subset of the total combinations), the attacker will move on to the rest of the possibilites. This is also used in PBX/voicemail attacks.
That doesn't mean your ISP has 1 gigabit/s of dedicated bandwidth in from/out to the internet just for you. Your bandwidth is still shared at some level. The 600megabits/s is not shared.
Oh okay. So because google doesn't have a definition for a word then it doesn't exist? Do a regular google search for 'learnt' and you'll get more than 14 million pages, plus a definition from answers.com.
And how long do you think it will take them to notice the same username/password accessing the site from all over the world in a very short timespan? Porn sites figured this out a long long time ago, and services exist to help combat the problem(such as proxypass).
The experiment has nothing to do with stupidity. It an issue of cognitive development, not intelligence. I'd wager that most adults, no matter how stupid, would be able to pass the water volume conservation test.
We spent a few days talking about this in my cognitive psych class last semester. It's called conservation, and Piaget did quite a few experiments very similar to what you described when he was working out his stages of development. The preoperational(~3-7 years old) stage is when children have difficulty realizing that the volume of liquid is actually the same. Concrete operational(~7-11 years old) is when children start developing the skills for thinking logically about stuff(such as the conservation of liquid), and can realize that the volume of liquid is indeed the same. It's really a bit odd at first to see a group of children at one age say that one glass has more water than the other, and another group of children a year or two older realize they have the same amount.
Damn. I never thought I would use anything from that class.
Which is why common sequences were moved to opposite sides of the keyboard - to allow the typist to type faster without jamming the mechanisms. QWERTY allowed typists to type faster, not slower.
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Please explain how calling it Firefaux is clever or funny.
Faux does not rhyme with fox. You are not clever.
I was wondering what the fuck TwenCen meant until I read your post, though now I wish I hadn't. That word is so much more annoying now that I know what it means. Thanks.
Takedown is most definitely not a sequel to Hackers.
You could probably pay a couple months' rent on an apartment with the setup and equipment costs for satellite internet. It's not cheap. And it's no good for most types of online gaming.
Excellent job. Once again you have shown that slashdotters are smarter than the well-paid engineers who design large multi-million dollar projects. When are companies going to learn that they are wasting their money? They just need to read slashdot a bit more often; there's always someone explaining why a given idea is infeasable.
ps. You should really give them a call to let them know about the scrubbers. That's probably an expense that a waste-management company would never think of.
Looks like stupidity is hereditary.
He's a comedian. If you try to apply logic to comedy then you've missed the point entirely.
Yeah, and those damn free-software hippies sure couldn't have written a web browser on their own had it not been for netscape opening up their source... If Microsoft hadn't released a free web browser then nobody else would have thought to do the same. Sorry, but that's just bullshit. And so what if people got accustomed to paying for a browser? For one thing, paying for software is not wrong or bad. Secondly, paying for something is one habit people tend to break pretty quickly when there is a decent free version available. So that's really not an issue.
It is pretty shortsighted of you to think that there could not possibly have been another decent, free web browser.
No company has the inherent right to be in business and to stay in business forever. Why do you bring the Bush administration into this at all? Hell, what does any administration have to do with any of this? This is capitalism, no more, no less. Protecting companies like Trumpet and Real by prohibiting other companies from entering those markets is simply absurd. TCP/IP is a standard. Nobody owns it and nobody has exclusive rights to it. Trumpet offered an implementation of it. And so did Microsoft. How is Microsoft in the wrong? RealNetworks is barely relevant anymore mainly because their protocol sucks. The only reason they were relevant in the first place is because they were one of the first companies to offer streaming media. There are better protocols now. Again, how is this microsoft's fault?
These companies didn't deserve anything. Companies come and go as markets change. Protecting these companies will only stifle innovation and competition.
For the record, I'm not a Microsoft supporter. I don't care for their software and I don't use any of it. However, I do not feel the need to bash them with bullshit economics like you apparently do. Stop that.
If the USPS is delivering mail at highway speeds then I think a 20% increase in fuel usage is the least of their problems.
You must have done some top-notch sleuthing to dig up that link. It was hidden pretty well in the first few words of the grandparent post.
When performing a brute force attack on a PIN system like this, the attacker is going to first try easy combinations like this. Repetitions, basic sequences, keypad patterns(corners, zigzags, etc.), stuff like that. Then after those are exhausted(it's a relatively small subset of the total combinations), the attacker will move on to the rest of the possibilites. This is also used in PBX/voicemail attacks.
That doesn't mean your ISP has 1 gigabit/s of dedicated bandwidth in from/out to the internet just for you. Your bandwidth is still shared at some level. The 600megabits/s is not shared.
Wrong. Metacity is gnome's default window manager. KDE's default WM is Kwin.
I don't think low level format means what you think it means.
Oh okay. So because google doesn't have a definition for a word then it doesn't exist? Do a regular google search for 'learnt' and you'll get more than 14 million pages, plus a definition from answers.com.
hmm... Just like any other product worth anything at all?
And how long do you think it will take them to notice the same username/password accessing the site from all over the world in a very short timespan? Porn sites figured this out a long long time ago, and services exist to help combat the problem(such as proxypass).
The experiment has nothing to do with stupidity. It an issue of cognitive development, not intelligence. I'd wager that most adults, no matter how stupid, would be able to pass the water volume conservation test.
We spent a few days talking about this in my cognitive psych class last semester. It's called conservation, and Piaget did quite a few experiments very similar to what you described when he was working out his stages of development. The preoperational(~3-7 years old) stage is when children have difficulty realizing that the volume of liquid is actually the same. Concrete operational(~7-11 years old) is when children start developing the skills for thinking logically about stuff(such as the conservation of liquid), and can realize that the volume of liquid is indeed the same. It's really a bit odd at first to see a group of children at one age say that one glass has more water than the other, and another group of children a year or two older realize they have the same amount.
Damn. I never thought I would use anything from that class.
Everything in italics is what the submitter wrote. Thus, the question was added by the submitter, not the "editor".
And yet they both got modded up. :)
Which is why common sequences were moved to opposite sides of the keyboard - to allow the typist to type faster without jamming the mechanisms. QWERTY allowed typists to type faster, not slower.