Way more fun than any of the "sim" guitar games but requires a bit more commitment. Love to see lots of new players getting exposed to guitars through Rocksmith and actually learning to play.
That doesn't even make sense. There have got to be a bunch of easier ways to steal metal than going out of your way to find the exposed pipe that just happens to contain out a bunch of important fibre.
These police are complete fucking idiots if they think this was the motive. It's quite obvious the objective wasn't theft, it was just to cause damage.
Or maybe they were smart criminals who had some other crime to perform but wanted the communications of the emergency services to be impaired before they got down to some serious doing of crimes. There may be a bank somewhere in Northern AZ that is still trying to call the police.
MS is still paranoid about media distribution because, institutionally, they still link media control to piracy.. Even though that ship sailed looooooooong ago.
Of course, you can do fun things with windows activation..
Did you know you can install windows without a key and it will be completely fully functional for 30 days and not bug you once? This is called the activation "Grace Period" and it's a built in facility specifically designed to make deployments/testing/imaging/etc easier.
Did you know you can reset the grace period timer up to three times with a simple built-in command line tool?
Did you know that if you boot up in safe mode and apply a little registry hackery to reset the grace period "Re arm" counter?
Did you know you can automate all of the above with a clever batch file?
Did you know the best way to pirate windows is to ignore all that silly cat-and-mouse nonsense trying to subvert windows activation with special bootloaders and just use built in commands that shipped with windows?
While it don't really like their products, they are legitimate products that do what they claim to do and I use them. So when I do install Windows on a machine, instead of seeking the cleverest way to avoid paying the price, I just pay the price. It's easier and a heck of a lot more honest.
Sorry, fella, but our health care costs ain't at all cheap. They are just masked from the individual because of our system. Practitioners and unions as well as regional health management are constantly complaining of funding shortfalls even as the budget for health care increases, and then other public services suffer, or taxes go up. DO NOT BELIEVE THE BULLSHIT that our system is either better, or less expensive. neither of those thins is even remotely true.
But in this instance, we're talking about mail order pharmaceuticals, which are often much cheaper in Canada than the US.
I haven't read the study in detail yet, but in general, yes - the study will be bad. They usually are.
Feeding rats on trans-fat laden crisco was the generally preferred way to screw up a rat's metabolism. The disappearance of trans-fats from supermarket shelves has revealed holes in many studies when they're found to not be repeatable.
Long term consumption of low-dose DNP has an air of "What could possibly go wrong?" to it.
The slideware published on government attempts to undermine SSL web traffic suggests they are supremely interested in trying anything they can. Getting a trusted cert with a key they control installed on a large number of laptops is a dream come true. So who is actually behind Komodo?
The entropy is coming from nothing but hardware. Your software is running on the hardware. You typed in that post using hardware. If you don't trust the hardware, why do you think an entropy pool implemented in software will save you?
Those would be the ones that cell phone chip companies buy from IP providers right? Like this one.. http://www.discretix.com/accel...
Go look at the the picture. It's a ring oscillator that is sub sampled, to turn the accumulated phase noise of the RO into random bits. The process introduces serial correlation. This is normal.
Then it goes into a "Von-Neumann" whitener. This is a bias correction algorithm. Put in biased bits, get out unbiased bits. Lovely, it doesn't say anything about auto-correlation. The link to the Von Neumann paper is broken, but the Yuval Peres paper is just as illuminating. I quote..
1. Introduction. A source produces independent biased random bits {x_sub_i}^n,i=1 with p = Pr[x_sub_i = 0] ne 1/2, q = Pr[x_sub_i = 1].
So the Von Neumann balancer and the iterated Yuval Peres version have undefined properties for dependent inputs. They require independent inputs. But that isn't what the circuit is generating. They're most definitely auto-correlated.
However I've done the test and I can confirm that a VN whitener will make the result worse. not better when you put auto-correlated data into it.
This is how most of the published IP designs work. They are all wrong by design./dev/random isn't magic. It needs its input to be entropic. Synchronous embedded systems regularly don't meet this requirement. PCs regularly don't meet this requirement early in the boot cycle.
Good RNGs exist. I've designed a few. Others have designed many. But bad RNGs and naive kernel code outnumbers the good ones.
>And yet, on many systems running many different operating systems, the OS is able to do precisely that:
You should be concerned about the situations where it doesn't work, which are probably in the majority of Linux deployments. The people taking advantage of low entropy crypto systems don't just focus on the ones that work.
FreeBSD isn't doing the 'wrong' thing. It's doing all it can in a bad situation. However my application code can know where to go look for well defined sources of entropy and use it appropriately. We have the math on extractor theory. We have the math on secure PRNGs. The algorithms are easy. The sourcing of the entropy is the problem to solve and OSs demonstrably do it in a way that doesn't work on a wide spectrum of deployments.
>you should be pushing for better RNGs in OSs instead.
No. I'm pushing for better RNGs in hardware, which I can reasonably claim to have done something about.
waaaay off base. hardware is far more difficult to audit (tools that cost hundreds of thousands) vs software. openbsd does things right here. they use hardware as an additional (but not the only) source of entropy.
Hardware, or more accurately, the physical world is the only source of entropy. Software is incapable of making entropy. It is deterministic. It can run entropy extraction algorithms to turn entropic data from physical sourced into uniform, cryptographically secure random numbers, but the entropy out of an extractor is strictly less than or equal to the entropy in. So software cannot itself be a source of entropy.
This isn't an issue of off-base/on-base. It's an issue of fact.
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Way more fun than any of the "sim" guitar games but requires a bit more commitment. Love to see lots of new players getting exposed to guitars through Rocksmith and actually learning to play.
Like her?
That doesn't even make sense. There have got to be a bunch of easier ways to steal metal than going out of your way to find the exposed pipe that just happens to contain out a bunch of important fibre.
These police are complete fucking idiots if they think this was the motive. It's quite obvious the objective wasn't theft, it was just to cause damage.
Or maybe they were smart criminals who had some other crime to perform but wanted the communications of the emergency services to be impaired before they got down to some serious doing of crimes. There may be a bank somewhere in Northern AZ that is still trying to call the police.
> You can't eat green vegetables if you take warfarin,
That's ok. I don't eat green vegetables anyway.
I'll gladly remember that over Shatner's career as a "singer"
It's beats his career as a Hooker.
MS is still paranoid about media distribution because, institutionally, they still link media control to piracy.. Even though that ship sailed looooooooong ago.
Of course, you can do fun things with windows activation..
Did you know you can install windows without a key and it will be completely fully functional for 30 days and not bug you once? This is called the activation "Grace Period" and it's a built in facility specifically designed to make deployments/testing/imaging/etc easier.
Did you know you can reset the grace period timer up to three times with a simple built-in command line tool?
Did you know that if you boot up in safe mode and apply a little registry hackery to reset the grace period "Re arm" counter?
Did you know you can automate all of the above with a clever batch file?
Did you know the best way to pirate windows is to ignore all that silly cat-and-mouse nonsense trying to subvert windows activation with special bootloaders and just use built in commands that shipped with windows?
While it don't really like their products, they are legitimate products that do what they claim to do and I use them. So when I do install Windows on a machine, instead of seeking the cleverest way to avoid paying the price, I just pay the price. It's easier and a heck of a lot more honest.
Sorry, fella, but our health care costs ain't at all cheap. They are just masked from the individual because of our system. Practitioners and unions as well as regional health management are constantly complaining of funding shortfalls even as the budget for health care increases, and then other public services suffer, or taxes go up. DO NOT BELIEVE THE BULLSHIT that our system is either better, or less expensive. neither of those thins is even remotely true.
But in this instance, we're talking about mail order pharmaceuticals, which are often much cheaper in Canada than the US.
But with ACTUAL GUITAR! We have the technology! Rocksmith tries to go i in that direction, though I don't know how well it does.
It does just fine. I've been playing guitar for 30 years, but I learned a ton of new songs quickly on Rocksmith and broadened my skills substantially.
Guitar Hero has been entirely upstaged and replaced by Rocksmith, with which you get to play a real guitar and learn to play real music.
I haven't read the study in detail yet, but in general, yes - the study will be bad. They usually are.
Feeding rats on trans-fat laden crisco was the generally preferred way to screw up a rat's metabolism. The disappearance of trans-fats from supermarket shelves has revealed holes in many studies when they're found to not be repeatable.
Long term consumption of low-dose DNP has an air of "What could possibly go wrong?" to it.
It's not known as NAFLD. It's known as NASH. Non Alcoholic SteatoHepatitis. It's even in the title of the TFA FFS.
I just can't cope with this summary.
AC tries using a ball bearing on a tank, it has no effect.
you need a much bigger ball bearing to do mega damage. you could bounce that off the paint all day and not leave a scratch.
That depends on how fast it's moving.
UPS recently paid $40 million dollars because they shipped fake drugs.
They didn't ship fake drugs. They shipped real drugs: prescription drugs from Canada.
Like they were supposed to open all the packages and verify the contents?
They didn't need to open the packages. They already knew what was in them.
If the government did not stop this activity, our health would have been at risk of deteriorating to Canadian levels.
No, our health costs were at risk of deteriorating to Canadian levels.
>was twice as effective as the standard best practices protocol.
So presumably the best practices protocol is no longer called 'best practices'.
Yes. Now where's that button to edit my slashdot post?
The slideware published on government attempts to undermine SSL web traffic suggests they are supremely interested in trying anything they can.
Getting a trusted cert with a key they control installed on a large number of laptops is a dream come true.
So who is actually behind Komodo?
Thomas the Train? wth? I thought it was Thomas the Tank Engine. *checks* Yeah, according to wikipedia, Thomas the Tank Engine is the name.
Is this another one of those Where's Wally vs Where's Waldo things? o_O
Thomas the Tank Engine is the illegitimate offspring of Ivor the Engine.
There will be an end of days. Once the sun has expanded and engulfed earth, both sides of Earth will be illuminated. So no more days or nights.
This is only a hypothesis, but it's not a bad one given all the evidence in the sky.
The entropy is coming from nothing but hardware. Your software is running on the hardware. You typed in that post using hardware. If you don't trust the hardware, why do you think an entropy pool implemented in software will save you?
>The exceptions are newer CPU instructions which can be used directly from user-land processes.
I may have an unusual level of familiarity with those.
>whether dedicated hardware generators
Those would be the ones that cell phone chip companies buy from IP providers right? Like this one..
http://www.discretix.com/accel...
Go look at the the picture. It's a ring oscillator that is sub sampled, to turn the accumulated phase noise of the RO into random bits. The process introduces serial correlation. This is normal.
Then it goes into a "Von-Neumann" whitener. This is a bias correction algorithm. Put in biased bits, get out unbiased bits. Lovely, it doesn't say anything about auto-correlation. The link to the Von Neumann paper is broken, but the Yuval Peres paper is just as illuminating. I quote..
1. Introduction. A source produces independent biased random bits {x_sub_i}^n,i=1 with p = Pr[x_sub_i = 0] ne 1/2, q = Pr[x_sub_i = 1].
So the Von Neumann balancer and the iterated Yuval Peres version have undefined properties for dependent inputs. They require independent inputs. But that isn't what the circuit is generating. They're most definitely auto-correlated.
However I've done the test and I can confirm that a VN whitener will make the result worse. not better when you put auto-correlated data into it.
This is how most of the published IP designs work. They are all wrong by design. /dev/random isn't magic. It needs its input to be entropic. Synchronous embedded systems regularly don't meet this requirement. PCs regularly don't meet this requirement early in the boot cycle.
Good RNGs exist. I've designed a few. Others have designed many. But bad RNGs and naive kernel code outnumbers the good ones.
>And yet, on many systems running many different operating systems, the OS is able to do precisely that:
You should be concerned about the situations where it doesn't work, which are probably in the majority of Linux deployments. The people taking advantage of low entropy crypto systems don't just focus on the ones that work.
FreeBSD isn't doing the 'wrong' thing. It's doing all it can in a bad situation. However my application code can know where to go look for well defined sources of entropy and use it appropriately. We have the math on extractor theory. We have the math on secure PRNGs. The algorithms are easy. The sourcing of the entropy is the problem to solve and OSs demonstrably do it in a way that doesn't work on a wide spectrum of deployments.
>you should be pushing for better RNGs in OSs instead.
No. I'm pushing for better RNGs in hardware, which I can reasonably claim to have done something about.
OK, I take that back, I just looked at newegg. Prices are about 50% of what I expected.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...
I could. But the price for 1TB 2.5" SSD ain't right yet. So I guess we're just arguing over the price.
waaaay off base. hardware is far more difficult to audit (tools that cost hundreds of thousands) vs software. openbsd does things right here. they use hardware as an additional (but not the only) source of entropy.
Hardware, or more accurately, the physical world is the only source of entropy. Software is incapable of making entropy. It is deterministic. It can run entropy extraction algorithms to turn entropic data from physical sourced into uniform, cryptographically secure random numbers, but the entropy out of an extractor is strictly less than or equal to the entropy in. So software cannot itself be a source of entropy.
This isn't an issue of off-base/on-base. It's an issue of fact.