NT? Hell, there's lots of banks around that are still relying on OS/2 and Win 3.1(1) for mission critical system operations.
But then you have to ask... why?!?!?! Well simply... they work for what they are needed for. Yea, if the bank ABSOLUTLY NEEDED little red boxes with X's in them to close a window... then yea they might think about upgrading to XP. But there's no need for it. They are the best example of the best computing policy ever... "If it's not broken, don't screw with it"
It works for what they need, there is no reason to upgrade to anything more.
I partly agree. I am pursuaded to buy online because I can see more exactly what my bottom line is going to be.
If I go to an online store and want to buy something for $15, I see shipping is $5... I know I have to pay $20. Not $20 + some odd ammount. It's MUCH easier to keep track of things like what where you don't have to calculate tax on the fly in your head. That's one thing that I REALLY do like about buying online.
Yes, having a bigger selection and convineance is nice... but I think the people making the laws need to realize that there are other reasons people buy online. One of them is being able to see your total so much easier.
Some people are better at math than others. I'm not. It's much easier for me to add 15 + 5 = 20 than 15 + 5 = N then N * 0.06 = X then N + X = H. Hell, I probably have even that wrong... do you see what I mean now!?!?!
Yay. Now maybe they can do something useful. People try to send me URL's to this crap all the time. I bitch at them that I don't care about someones personal life. They leave me alone for 20 mins till Mrs Blog writter talks about her damn cat falling off the chair. I DON'T CARE!
Why don't I feel that way? Cause they are not talking about Porsche the car company. Check this out. This post that I'm linking to should be modded up Informative/Insightful.
So if a fourth demension sphere can't be pictured. Now, getting a night with Jennifer Lopez also can't be pictured. Then that means that a 4th dimension sphere is Jennifer Lopez. Which means that a 4th dimension actually CAN be seen... does this mean I get to have a night with J-Lo?
Well from what I've seen on the news and from logical conclusions... this person seems to someone that is highly trained with a sniper rifle. Most shots have been between 100 and 225 yards. I, could not get clean shots at that range. I'd be lucky to at least hit something the size of a human at that range. Something tells me that this person(s) is/are probably good at hiding and/or not being seen. Also probably good at covering their tracks.
My guess would be someone trained by military (army, marines, cia, kgb, swat, US government, maybe foreign govt.. etc.) or someone that's see WAY too many movies.
Yes. For you, the process is nice. However, for the person calling, that's really annoying. Personally, if I had to call someone and they "screen their calls"... I hang up. I call and let it ring once or twice. Hang up. Keep that up untill they actually pick up the phone. If they don't, well they don't get the joy of talking to me.
I'm not going to stand there, let it ring, hear an answering machine, prepare a message to be left, start leaving the message just to be thrown off by someone picking up. "Sorry man I was just screening my calls" "That's really fu*#$*%^ annoying!!! KNOCK IT OFF! *click*"
All the asteroids in OUR solar system... or all asteroids in the infinate void of the entire universe?
On a more related note, ya know those webcams that you can control... imagine the Hubble being able to be controled... now imagine it controled by a 8th grade class. Yea, they'll be looking at the local pools and sun bathing spots. Ok, so will I.
Good thing you won't be buying them. You don't understand the basics of the slashdot effect. Assuming those are the servers that are actually hosting the site... has nothing to do with it. Ya have to look at their conneciton to the net. If they are squeezin 30-40k hits through a 56k modem, ya it's going to go nowhere fast.
It's only as fast as the weakest link. I doubt the servers are the weak link.
They don't? Ever seen the show Cribs on MTV? Ever seen The Osbournes? Ever see Lifestyles of The Rich And Famous? It's an opulant lifestyle some of these artists, that don't get any money, live.
They make a catchy noise and rhyme some words and they can drop $500,000 for just cars, for their long lost cousins, friends, neighbors, mothers dogs trainers, sons classmate..... here I'm buying a used old car for a couple thousand and I'm in debt for the next 3-4 years. I have talent, I have skills... but noones going to pay $20 a copy to watch or hear me do what I do. Mine aren't as valuable. I'm sure if someone followed me around with a MIC and put $10million worth of advertising and a catchy name/title... I'd make some money too.
And what's this bit about "the 43 states"... which 43 are they talking about? Last I checked, there was "the 50 states".
And another thing. (I love this) Possible that maybe sometime maybe soon maybe, they might possibly drop prices by AS MUCH AS $5. (I'll believe it when I see it) That's still a hell of a lot for something that, physically, costs so little. Average cost now is $15-20 per cd. Minus $5 from that and it's still $10-15. Personally, I don't think there should be a cd priced over $10. There was a post on Slashdot a couple of weeks ago, I don't remember who, but said something to the effect of... 'yea, they won't be making billions in profit, but they will still be making millions, they aren't going to be living in the streets anytime soon.'
You need to define charities. I mean just because they used the word "charity" doesn't mean that it's a good charity. Hell I could start "The Children's Miracle Network to Help ClickWir Pay Off His Car Loan Charity"... if you wish to donate I would be happy to contact you. I could really use a few free payments. But is it so bad that someone might realize how stupid my charity is?
My point, the example just used a charity as an example. But don't jump to conclusions that all charities are good and that they are just targeting charities. From what I've seen, this works with ANY type of account that might be on Amazon.com. Not just charities.
Wake up huh? You do realize that the total key space was NOT used. It's possible it could have taken 100 more days. It's possible it could have only taken 1 day from the begining. That's the point of this whole thing. There is no way of knowing if the first key tried is going to be the one that works, without trying it. However, you might have to go all the way to the end and then look back and cover your tracks again. It could have taken another 1700+ days. You don't know.
If you read the site you would see that the next challenge is RC5-72. It is entirely posible that RC5-72 is cracked in 1 week. Might take a year. Maybe 8 years. That's the point of brute force, not to try every combination. But to try every combination till you find the right one.
Total Blocks to Search: 68,719,476,736 Keyspace Checked: 0.00247402% Total Keys Tested: 456,376,245,551,104 Time Working: 1,735days Overall Rate: 3,044 KKeys/sec
8,917 were completed yesterday (_% of the keyspace) at a sustained rate of _KKeys/sec! Ranked 872 for the day.
The odds are 1 in 6,396 that this participant will find the key before anyone else does.
___ Braggin rights aside (I'm not first, but I'm far from last). It was a lot of fun to see it progress. Check up on it from time to time. Compare with friends. Buy a Compaq Rack System just for RC5. Tech talk about the background. Ponder the reactions when it's over... etc.... GOOD TIMES AHEAD!
RSA Labs is offering a US$10,000 prize to the group that wins this contest. The distribution of the cash will be as follows:
$1000 to the winner $1000 to the winner's team - this would go to the winner if he wasn't affiliated with a team $6000 to a non-profit organization, decided by vote $2000 to distributed.net for building the network and supplying the code
The vote will be decided on through an extension of the statistics engine, with one vote per block per person.
And to think.. it took a few seconds to find that, and a couple minutes to type your post
Well to some it's more worthwhile. I don't care to. Any project ending with @Home has already lost my participation. It's just stupid sounding, too closely named to the horrible cable modem company and I don't want anything to do with it.
Yahoo actually uses Google and not that Inkertomi junk that it used to. It still gives higher ranked results to whoever pays more... but that's why I don't use it.
Slashdot Mirror
NT? Hell, there's lots of banks around that are still relying on OS/2 and Win 3.1(1) for mission critical system operations.
But then you have to ask... why?!?!?! Well simply... they work for what they are needed for. Yea, if the bank ABSOLUTLY NEEDED little red boxes with X's in them to close a window... then yea they might think about upgrading to XP. But there's no need for it. They are the best example of the best computing policy ever... "If it's not broken, don't screw with it"
It works for what they need, there is no reason to upgrade to anything more.
I partly agree. I am pursuaded to buy online because I can see more exactly what my bottom line is going to be.
If I go to an online store and want to buy something for $15, I see shipping is $5... I know I have to pay $20. Not $20 + some odd ammount. It's MUCH easier to keep track of things like what where you don't have to calculate tax on the fly in your head. That's one thing that I REALLY do like about buying online.
Yes, having a bigger selection and convineance is nice... but I think the people making the laws need to realize that there are other reasons people buy online. One of them is being able to see your total so much easier.
Some people are better at math than others. I'm not. It's much easier for me to add 15 + 5 = 20 than 15 + 5 = N then N * 0.06 = X then N + X = H. Hell, I probably have even that wrong... do you see what I mean now!?!?!
NO ONLINE TAXES, please.
Yay. Now maybe they can do something useful. People try to send me URL's to this crap all the time. I bitch at them that I don't care about someones personal life. They leave me alone for 20 mins till Mrs Blog writter talks about her damn cat falling off the chair. I DON'T CARE!
Why don't I feel that way? Cause they are not talking about Porsche the car company. Check this out. This post that I'm linking to should be modded up Informative/Insightful.
Check this out. This post that I'm linking to should be modded up Informative/Insightful. Two seperate companies here.
Check this out. This post that I'm linking to should be modded up Informative/Insightful.
Check this out. This post that I'm linking to should be modded up Informative/Insightful.
So if a fourth demension sphere can't be pictured. Now, getting a night with Jennifer Lopez also can't be pictured. Then that means that a 4th dimension sphere is Jennifer Lopez. Which means that a 4th dimension actually CAN be seen... does this mean I get to have a night with J-Lo?
Really? First time I ever saw an article on Slashdot that had a slow server hosting the rest of the article.
My guess would be someone trained by military (army, marines, cia, kgb, swat, US government, maybe foreign govt.. etc.) or someone that's see WAY too many movies.
I'm not going to stand there, let it ring, hear an answering machine, prepare a message to be left, start leaving the message just to be thrown off by someone picking up. "Sorry man I was just screening my calls" "That's really fu*#$*%^ annoying!!! KNOCK IT OFF! *click*"
But I'm sure your happy I'm not calling you.
All the asteroids in OUR solar system... or all asteroids in the infinate void of the entire universe?
On a more related note, ya know those webcams that you can control... imagine the Hubble being able to be controled... now imagine it controled by a 8th grade class. Yea, they'll be looking at the local pools and sun bathing spots. Ok, so will I.
Once again, someone that doesn't realize that it's probably a bandwidth problem and that the pages probably aren't even on those servers.
It's only as fast as the weakest link. I doubt the servers are the weak link.
Hell, you could have the google.com cluster all going through one DSL and it's not that hard to slashdot it.
Lets not bring some strangers sexual preferance into this.
They don't? Ever seen the show Cribs on MTV? Ever seen The Osbournes? Ever see Lifestyles of The Rich And Famous? It's an opulant lifestyle some of these artists, that don't get any money, live.
They make a catchy noise and rhyme some words and they can drop $500,000 for just cars, for their long lost cousins, friends, neighbors, mothers dogs trainers, sons classmate..... here I'm buying a used old car for a couple thousand and I'm in debt for the next 3-4 years. I have talent, I have skills... but noones going to pay $20 a copy to watch or hear me do what I do. Mine aren't as valuable. I'm sure if someone followed me around with a MIC and put $10million worth of advertising and a catchy name/title... I'd make some money too.
And what's this bit about "the 43 states"... which 43 are they talking about? Last I checked, there was "the 50 states".
And another thing. (I love this) Possible that maybe sometime maybe soon maybe, they might possibly drop prices by AS MUCH AS $5. (I'll believe it when I see it) That's still a hell of a lot for something that, physically, costs so little. Average cost now is $15-20 per cd. Minus $5 from that and it's still $10-15. Personally, I don't think there should be a cd priced over $10. There was a post on Slashdot a couple of weeks ago, I don't remember who, but said something to the effect of... 'yea, they won't be making billions in profit, but they will still be making millions, they aren't going to be living in the streets anytime soon.'
My point, the example just used a charity as an example. But don't jump to conclusions that all charities are good and that they are just targeting charities. From what I've seen, this works with ANY type of account that might be on Amazon.com. Not just charities.
If you read the site you would see that the next challenge is RC5-72. It is entirely posible that RC5-72 is cracked in 1 week. Might take a year. Maybe 8 years. That's the point of brute force, not to try every combination. But to try every combination till you find the right one.
Time for you to wake up TomatoMan.
Overall: 6634(up46) 1,700,134
Yesterday: 872(up1899) 8,917
Total Blocks to Search: 68,719,476,736
Keyspace Checked: 0.00247402%
Total Keys Tested: 456,376,245,551,104
Time Working: 1,735days
Overall Rate: 3,044 KKeys/sec
8,917 were completed yesterday (_% of the keyspace)
at a sustained rate of _KKeys/sec! Ranked 872 for the day.
The odds are 1 in 6,396 that this participant will find the key before anyone else does.
___
Braggin rights aside (I'm not first, but I'm far from last). It was a lot of fun to see it progress. Check up on it from time to time. Compare with friends. Buy a Compaq Rack System just for RC5. Tech talk about the background. Ponder the reactions when it's over... etc.... GOOD TIMES AHEAD!
More than 5 gallons?
Hmmm... as it says here:
RSA Labs is offering a US$10,000 prize to the group that wins this contest. The distribution of the cash will be as follows:
$1000 to the winner
$1000 to the winner's team - this would go to the winner if he wasn't affiliated with a team
$6000 to a non-profit organization, decided by vote
$2000 to distributed.net for building the network and supplying the code
The vote will be decided on through an extension of the statistics engine, with one vote per block per person.
And to think.. it took a few seconds to find that, and a couple minutes to type your post
Well to some it's more worthwhile. I don't care to. Any project ending with @Home has already lost my participation. It's just stupid sounding, too closely named to the horrible cable modem company and I don't want anything to do with it.
They should have one of these on Thinkgeek. "For $30, you to can watch pitch drip."
Yahoo actually uses Google and not that Inkertomi junk that it used to. It still gives higher ranked results to whoever pays more... but that's why I don't use it.