Deepcrack was 80Gkeys/sec, the peak rate of the rest of D.net was 170 Gkeys/sec. So Deepcrack was half as fast as the rest of D.net. Not bad for $250,000. So you see that for $100 million it could be trivially 100x as fast as D.net. I would suspect that $100 million gets you a better design to boot, but with government procurement, it might get you much less as well.
Unfortunately getting stronger crypto is not a function of Moore's law, since clearly "unbreakable" crypto with 128 bit symettric keys or 4096 bit public keys is well within the reach of modern CPUs. It is much more a function of inflexible legacy systems or protocols and assinine government regulation.
You make a good point that security is a time sensitive issue, but for me a few months is a not a good enough margin of safety for any crypto, since there is always the possibility that somebody is 10 times smarter, faster, or more determined than I thought they would be. A few months quickly becomes as few days or hours. I am much less worried where the theoretical margin of safety approaches the age of the universe. Since this is possible with modern crypto and large keys, I see no reason not to go the extra mile. --
www.freerepublic.com a conservative news discussion site is being sued by the LA Times and the Washington Post for copying news stories for discussion. Sort of like Slashdot without the links. The judge ruled that this was not free use. A final ruling in the case has not been reached.
Linking to content is likely to be much safer than copying it or framing it, although copying headlines might be safe.
Remember it is not whether someone can sue you that is the important question. Anyone can sue you. It is a question of whether you will piss them off enough they might sue you, and whether it is easy to get the lawsuit dismissed.
An architect's first work is apt to be spare and clean. He knows he doesn't know what he's doing, so he does it carefully and with great restraint.
As he designs the first work, frill after frill and embellishment after embellishment occur to him. These get stored away to be used "next time". Sooner or later the first system is finished, and the architect, with firm confidence and a demonstrated mastery of that class of systems, is ready to build a second system.
This second is the most dangerous system a man ever designs. When he does his third and later ones, his prior experiences will confirm each other as to the general characteristics of such systems, and their differences will identify those parts of his experience that are particular and not generalizable.
The general tendency is to over-design the second system, using all the ideas and frills that were cautiously sidetracked on the first one. The result, as Ovid says, is a "big pile". -- Frederick Brooks, "The Mythical Man Month"
Since ASP providers never distribute their program, it would seem to me that they could integrate GPL software into their offering without redistributing source. If ASP became ubiquitous (a big if), this could lead to interesting conflicts.
I'm not terribly concerned since it would simply make GPL software more BSDish, and BSD software seems to be doing just fine. --
(3) With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead.
At first blush I would tend to agree with you, but let's dream a little. IPv6 has the potential for revolutionizing autoconfiguration of devices on a network, as does Jini or whatever Sun's NC flavor of the month is. I can imagine a world in which computer networks are set up like telephone networks or electrical networks. A professional contractor comes out to install and maintain the major hardware, but the individual user can plug in an individual device that doesn't need any configuration to be useful.
But never fear, pager jockeys aren't likely to be out of work anytime soon. --
Distributed.net has been cracking RC5-64 for 2 years and has exhausted 15% of the keyspace. A computer 100x as powerful (which is not far fetched if you assume a hardware based solution similar to Deep Crack from the EFF) could brute force the keyspace in a few months. That's not a very large margin of safety since the brute force attack can be trivially twice as fast if you spend twice the amount of money on it. If you assume a brute force attack combined with a cryptanalysis attack, you could be talking days or hours instead of months.
At this point you are banking on the fact that it still would cost a considerable amount of money to build a fast RC5-64 cracking device, probably between 1 and 100 million, and that the benefit of decrypting your transaction is much less than that. Since much more powerful codes exist, it seems silly to take that chance.
Redhat played by the rules of the GPL, spent some time to build a market, and invested time and money in development projects such as Gnome and kernel development. They were more than fair, in fact since they released their own utilities under the GPL, including the installer. Because of this, anyone can repackage and resell a Redhat based distribution.
Whether or not their stock price is valued at an appropriate level is a matter for the stockholders to decide. I don't believe they have done any creative accounting to artificially raise their stock price.
As for the programmers that wrote the software at the base of Redhat's distribution, all of them released their code as open source, apparently with little money motivation. Redhat did try, somewhat successfully, to include these people in the IPO game, but I don't think they had any obligation to do so.
In short, Redhat adds value to a collection of open source software through testing, indpendent development, and support. They go beyond their legal requirements in giving back to the open software community. And a fair number of people are willing to spend exorbitant amounts of money on their stock. I see nothing inherently unfair about that. --
There's a resistor you can replace to increase the receive range. The transmit range is several feet, so it's enough for couch to TV if the TV is sensitive enough. I couldn't find any info on increasing transmit power, although I remember a discussion on/., possibly the one in http://slashdot.org/articles/98/11/21/0958242.shtml but the relavent comments seem to have disappeared (the thread is visible but the comments are empty). One readable post does recommend the HP48G/GX for it's sending range.
I think #18 is talking about the substantial cost of moving to a platform where one's apps don't run and you either have to buy the ported app or an equivalent. This takes a substantial amount of time at least, even if there are free equivalents of your apps, and you may not be left with 100% functionality or file compatibility.
#19 is a little more questionable, and is only true if you are talking about commercial server OSes in a commercial environment, since you can get Solaris x86 for cheap for personal use and obviously Linux and *BSD will run quite nicely on low end hardware. --
Linux, which I use mind you, is certainly a fringe operating system. That is not to say that it is an inferior or irrelavent OS, just that it has very small market share in the Intel desktop market, which Judge Jackson focused on.
It would be harder to call Linux a fringe OS in the low end server market, but it would also be hard to say that MS has a monopoly in the server market, as much as they might want one. --
You mean not everything can be reduced to money. That's true. But it's all economics. You just have to define economics broadly enough so as to be useless, a skill at which economists are quite proficient. --
Why indeed, there is digital cinema from Qualcomm. The idea is to have a digital projector project a feature film that is sent digitally in encrypted form from a central hub and locally stored.
One of my professors at HMC worked on the project and said the result is quite impressive. There have been some demonstrations including screenings of the Phantom Menance, but no wide commercial release yet.
Something like this is clearly the wave of the future, since film duplication and distribution is so expensive. It remains to be seen whether it's Qualcomm or some other technology that prevails. --
If she is a qualified employee, you should build the ramp or make other accomodations that don't require her to go into that room. If it is too expensive to build the ramp, you can get assistance. If it is still too expensive you don't have to. You can get free technical assistance from the DOJ.
I was going to pass on this one until you started SHOUTING, since the subject is discussed above. But here goes.
The ADA requires braille on walk up ATMs. This seems reasonable to me, especially since the marginal cost for adding braille new ATMs is close to zero.
Banks specify braille on all ATMs to save a few bucks and avoid hassle in ordering spare parts. Ergo, your drive up ATM has braille. Is that so horrible?
As for blind people not being able to see the computer screen, that's the point, they can't, but they can read the text once it's passed through a translator of some kind. Most of the important information online is text, and HTML is certainly text based. Is it so much for the largest content provider on the internet to represent in text form that can be reasonably represented in a text form.
Look, if blind people start suing for the inability to view porn, I'll be on your side, but I don't see that happening. --
If a blind doesn't get a truck driving job because they are blind, then do they have the right to sue the employer?
No. The ADA prevents discrimination in employment against qualified disabled people who could do the job with reasonable accomodation. A ramp, elevator, or modified working hours could all be reasonable accomodations. A blind person would not be qualified for a truck driving position since they could not get a drivers license. If you're interested they're examples of court cases and a DOJ Q&A on the ADA.
The part of the ADA that is being applied to AOL is that commercial property must be accessible by disabled people. If you consider AOL's online real estate to be commercial property, and there is a reasonable accomodation that can be made (through use of ALT tags, etc) to make the property accessible to the blind, then I don't think it's unreasonable in the context of the law. You may well argue that the law is unreasonably vague or unnecessary, or even unconstitutional, but be that as it may, it has been sucessful at achieving it's main goal of making the US a more decent place to live and work for disabled people (and skateboarders).
Regional lockouts were demanded by the movie studios. They want to be able to release movies first in the US and later use the same film stock (which is quite expensive) to release in foreign markets. The foreign release often happens about the same time as the domestic video/DVD release. They don't want people to be able to mail order a DVD from the US instead of going to the theater.
Not that this necessarily make much sense, but movie studios apparently strongly believe that it does. It helps that the US movie studios don't care that you can't purchase a french DVD that is unavailable in the US, since they probably didn't make it.
I'm not sure if it is possible to make a playble video DVD without regional encoding, but if not there should be. --
Close, the idea behind RISC is to do more per cycle. This means you want instructions that are easier to decode and which are pipelineable, which means you may be doing a register write, register read, instruction fetch, instruction decode, and ALU operations all in the same cycle. --
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Deepcrack was 80Gkeys/sec, the peak rate of the rest of D.net was 170 Gkeys/sec. So Deepcrack was half as fast as the rest of D.net. Not bad for $250,000. So you see that for $100 million it could be trivially 100x as fast as D.net. I would suspect that $100 million gets you a better design to boot, but with government procurement, it might get you much less as well.
Unfortunately getting stronger crypto is not a function of Moore's law, since clearly "unbreakable" crypto with 128 bit symettric keys or 4096 bit public keys is well within the reach of modern CPUs. It is much more a function of inflexible legacy systems or protocols and assinine government regulation.
You make a good point that security is a time sensitive issue, but for me a few months is a not a good enough margin of safety for any crypto, since there is always the possibility that somebody is 10 times smarter, faster, or more determined than I thought they would be. A few months quickly becomes as few days or hours. I am much less worried where the theoretical margin of safety approaches the age of the universe. Since this is possible with modern crypto and large keys, I see no reason not to go the extra mile.
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www.freerepublic.com a conservative news discussion site is being sued by the LA Times and the Washington Post for copying news stories for discussion. Sort of like Slashdot without the links. The judge ruled that this was not free use. A final ruling in the case has not been reached.
Linking to content is likely to be much safer than copying it or framing it, although copying headlines might be safe.
Remember it is not whether someone can sue you that is the important question. Anyone can sue you. It is a question of whether you will piss them off enough they might sue you, and whether it is easy to get the lawsuit dismissed.
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Since ASP providers never distribute their program, it would seem to me that they could integrate GPL software into their offering without redistributing source. If ASP became ubiquitous (a big if), this could lead to interesting conflicts.
I'm not terribly concerned since it would simply make GPL software more BSDish, and BSD software seems to be doing just fine.
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At first blush I would tend to agree with you, but let's dream a little. IPv6 has the potential for revolutionizing autoconfiguration of devices on a network, as does Jini or whatever Sun's NC flavor of the month is. I can imagine a world in which computer networks are set up like telephone networks or electrical networks. A professional contractor comes out to install and maintain the major hardware, but the individual user can plug in an individual device that doesn't need any configuration to be useful.
But never fear, pager jockeys aren't likely to be out of work anytime soon.
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Distributed.net has been cracking RC5-64 for 2 years and has exhausted 15% of the keyspace. A computer 100x as powerful (which is not far fetched if you assume a hardware based solution similar to Deep Crack from the EFF) could brute force the keyspace in a few months. That's not a very large margin of safety since the brute force attack can be trivially twice as fast if you spend twice the amount of money on it. If you assume a brute force attack combined with a cryptanalysis attack, you could be talking days or hours instead of months.
At this point you are banking on the fact that it still would cost a considerable amount of money to build a fast RC5-64 cracking device, probably between 1 and 100 million, and that the benefit of decrypting your transaction is much less than that. Since much more powerful codes exist, it seems silly to take that chance.
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What features does BSDi have that is lacking in Open/Free/NetBSD? I would have thought basing a firewall on OpenBSD would be a no brainer.
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Redhat played by the rules of the GPL, spent some time to build a market, and invested time and money in development projects such as Gnome and kernel development. They were more than fair, in fact since they released their own utilities under the GPL, including the installer. Because of this, anyone can repackage and resell a Redhat based distribution.
Whether or not their stock price is valued at an appropriate level is a matter for the stockholders to decide. I don't believe they have done any creative accounting to artificially raise their stock price.
As for the programmers that wrote the software at the base of Redhat's distribution, all of them released their code as open source, apparently with little money motivation. Redhat did try, somewhat successfully, to include these people in the IPO game, but I don't think they had any obligation to do so.
In short, Redhat adds value to a collection of open source software through testing, indpendent development, and support. They go beyond their legal requirements in giving back to the open software community. And a fair number of people are willing to spend exorbitant amounts of money on their stock. I see nothing inherently unfair about that.
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There's a resistor you can replace to increase the receive range. The transmit range is several feet, so it's enough for couch to TV if the TV is sensitive enough. I couldn't find any info on increasing transmit power, although I remember a discussion on /., possibly the one in http://slashdot.org/articles/98 /11/21/0958242.shtml but the relavent comments seem to have disappeared (the thread is visible but the comments are empty). One readable post does recommend the HP48G/GX for it's sending range.
BTW, if you want to open up your HP48, see http://www.contrib.andr ew.cmu.edu/~drury/oldhp/how2open.htm first.
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I think #18 is talking about the substantial cost of moving to a platform where one's apps don't run and you either have to buy the ported app or an equivalent. This takes a substantial amount of time at least, even if there are free equivalents of your apps, and you may not be left with 100% functionality or file compatibility.
#19 is a little more questionable, and is only true if you are talking about commercial server OSes in a commercial environment, since you can get Solaris x86 for cheap for personal use and obviously Linux and *BSD will run quite nicely on low end hardware.
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Linux, which I use mind you, is certainly a fringe operating system. That is not to say that it is an inferior or irrelavent OS, just that it has very small market share in the Intel desktop market, which Judge Jackson focused on.
It would be harder to call Linux a fringe OS in the low end server market, but it would also be hard to say that MS has a monopoly in the server market, as much as they might want one.
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You mean not everything can be reduced to money. That's true. But it's all economics. You just have to define economics broadly enough so as to be useless, a skill at which economists are quite proficient.
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You mean not everything reduces to economics...?
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Why indeed, there is digital cinema from Qualcomm. The idea is to have a digital projector project a feature film that is sent digitally in encrypted form from a central hub and locally stored.
One of my professors at HMC worked on the project and said the result is quite impressive. There have been some demonstrations including screenings of the Phantom Menance, but no wide commercial release yet.
Something like this is clearly the wave of the future, since film duplication and distribution is so expensive. It remains to be seen whether it's Qualcomm or some other technology that prevails.
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First step, collect underpants. .........
Second step,
Third step, emotion control.
I'll believe it when it makes me believe it.
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If she is a qualified employee, you should build the ramp or make other accomodations that don't require her to go into that room. If it is too expensive to build the ramp, you can get assistance. If it is still too expensive you don't have to. You can get free technical assistance from the DOJ.
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I was going to pass on this one until you started SHOUTING, since the subject is discussed above. But here goes.
The ADA requires braille on walk up ATMs. This seems reasonable to me, especially since the marginal cost for adding braille new ATMs is close to zero.
Banks specify braille on all ATMs to save a few bucks and avoid hassle in ordering spare parts. Ergo, your drive up ATM has braille. Is that so horrible?
As for blind people not being able to see the computer screen, that's the point, they can't, but they can read the text once it's passed through a translator of some kind. Most of the important information online is text, and HTML is certainly text based. Is it so much for the largest content provider on the internet to represent in text form that can be reasonably represented in a text form.
Look, if blind people start suing for the inability to view porn, I'll be on your side, but I don't see that happening.
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If a blind doesn't get a truck driving job because they are blind, then do they have the right to sue the employer?
No. The ADA prevents discrimination in employment against qualified disabled people who could do the job with reasonable accomodation. A ramp, elevator, or modified working hours could all be reasonable accomodations. A blind person would not be qualified for a truck driving position since they could not get a drivers license. If you're interested they're examples of court cases and a DOJ Q&A on the ADA.
The part of the ADA that is being applied to AOL is that commercial property must be accessible by disabled people. If you consider AOL's online real estate to be commercial property, and there is a reasonable accomodation that can be made (through use of ALT tags, etc) to make the property accessible to the blind, then I don't think it's unreasonable in the context of the law. You may well argue that the law is unreasonably vague or unnecessary, or even unconstitutional, but be that as it may, it has been sucessful at achieving it's main goal of making the US a more decent place to live and work for disabled people (and skateboarders).
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Regional lockouts were demanded by the movie studios. They want to be able to release movies first in the US and later use the same film stock (which is quite expensive) to release in foreign markets. The foreign release often happens about the same time as the domestic video/DVD release. They don't want people to be able to mail order a DVD from the US instead of going to the theater.
Not that this necessarily make much sense, but movie studios apparently strongly believe that it does. It helps that the US movie studios don't care that you can't purchase a french DVD that is unavailable in the US, since they probably didn't make it.
I'm not sure if it is possible to make a playble video DVD without regional encoding, but if not there should be.
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So that's what you've been doing in the wheat field.
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I find it's funnier if you think it's serious for a little while.
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Close, the idea behind RISC is to do more per cycle. This means you want instructions that are easier to decode and which are pipelineable, which means you may be doing a register write, register read, instruction fetch, instruction decode, and ALU operations all in the same cycle.
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