yes, but then you'd have to write it down. Maybe you are a super genius at remembering 100-long alphanumeric + additional character passwords, but most of us are not. So you'd put it on a post-it note and cleverly hide it underneath your paperweight or whatever. So where has your unbreakable password gotten you? Well, it'll take you an additional 10 minutes logging in everytime you bootup or log out. And then you have to contend with physical security. Now it doesn't take a compu-whiz with a cluster of computers, now it takes a disgruntled janitor or coworker who takes the 2 minutes looking for your postit.
So you decide that you'd like to live with a 100-digit password inside an electrical emmissions-proof room guarded by a company of marines. And you could do this. But is it worth it? With security there is always the trade-off of reliability and feasibility.
And with all this talk about biometric data... do you really want your retinal scan or DNA profile or whatever stored in a digital file? What type of heinous security will we have to put in place to protect THAT data? The security guys in this paper really hit it on the head when they (obviously) pointed out that once the password hash file has been divulged, the game's over. Will we need a fresh stool sample to pre-authorize the computer to authorize your hand print every time you log in?
Cracking becomes easier if you have access to a distributed network. Parse the table into managable chunks and throw it out to 100 computers. While the time taken to crack the password might not scale down in a linear fashion [ie: time/(N computers)], it will most definately drop the crack time down to less than an hour for those computers with 12bit salts (4906*.6min= 41 hr, 41hr/100comps= 25 minutes).
Even if the 12 bit salt for mac/linux/etc was increased in size, a scale up in the number of computers used would defeat this added protection. The trend in the comp world seems to be more connectivity between large numbers of computers. All it takes is one disgruntled folding@Home grad student out at stanford to break even the most stringent password.
It seems that increasing the size of the salt would prevent the average script kiddie from breaking your password, but does nothing to alleviate the threat distributed computing presents. So what other options are there?
Declaring kansas flatter than a pancake based upon a comparison to ONE pancake hardly seems fair. A mean value for the flatness of a pancake should have been derived from multiple pancakes and a standard deviation value given. Besides, you get hash browns and a side of variable meat with the 3-pancake special at IHOP.
True, anything with the MS name on it will get ridiculed severely on slashdot. Thats just the culture here. Also true, slashdot harbors a lot of goodwill towards apple.
That being said, there are fundamental differences between the apple and buymusic.com approaches to treating their customers. Apple has uniform licensing which guarantees unlimited burns, simultaneous access to the music on 3 computers (with the option to change the computers as often as you wish), and unlimited transfers to an iPod. (apple needs to add support for more players)
BuyMusic.com offers none of these things. Songs are tied to ONE computer, without the ability to change that. Depending upon the particular song, burns and transfers to a (select) number of mp3 players is limited to a discrete number.
I've never heard of CDBaby. Their website looks very shoddy, as if they used a very basic WYSIWYG editor. I would also like to know how picky apple is about taking music from the labels. Do they take anything the labels feed them or are they selective in their choices? If they'll take anything, then CDBaby looks like a fantastic way to get wide-spread distribution. If not, then you've just wasted $40 on a pipedream.
There is no fdisk-like program to delete the beer belly partition. When it comes down to it, the best thing you can do for getting back in shape is to dedicate exercise time each day, or maybe a few days a week. Sitting at your desk doing curlups or pushups or whatever during short break periods is not going to benefit you as much as 30+ minutes of cardio activity will. Though there are conflicting studies, the current idea seems to be that light activity (30 minutes) really does nothing for you.
I've tried those office exercises and even started taking the stairs instead of the elevator and walking home instead of public transit, but nothing improved. Hours on end at the office on the computer, and then at home on the computer, have taken their toll. Do yourself a favor and work on your diet and get a trial gym membership. If you don't feel better after a month or two, try something else. Good luck!!
As one of the chosen few attempting to understand the fundamentals of protein folding, I can say that we are still a long way off from understanding how these "few" 20 amino acids fold into highly-specific structures. There are people with access to super computing centers (ala: UCSD super computing center, IBM's Gene Blue) who still cannot devise a simulation that accurately reproduces biological systems. The amount of atomic and subatomic properties that must be taken into account is just overwhelming. It can take a 64cpu cluster of computers a week to reproduce what nature does in 1 nanosecond!
So how can we restructure our current computing system to a model that is based upon something that we understand only at basic level? We can't. While I agree that a biologically-derived computing architecture could be quite powerful indeed, we are still a LONG way off from the level of understanding needed to even put this idea on the drawing board.
If he answers this question with "oh, songs, videos, pirated software, etc" he'd be incriminating himself and the "impending doom from the RIAA/MPAA" would be over before it began.
The only answer he'd be able to give is "oh, stuff covered by the Creative Commons or the GPL (etc)."... which is a canned "I don't want to get sued" response.
Now that the product is in a semi-usable state, has the decision been made to feature-freeze and to focus on quality control? Running the OSX client turns my iBook to mush. The linux client brings my dual AMD MP system to its knees. I love getting large files (ie: ISOs) at great speeds, but when it renders my computer useless for the duration of the download it ceases to be useful.
Half the fun of owning a mac is maintaining a defeatist attitude b/c no one makes enough software ports and all the features/bugs in the platform are undocumented easter-eggs. That software problem has been mostly stamped out. Now, if someone filled the documentation void, what would I do with all my angst????
Web-design has evolved into its own art form. More and more webpages are popping up with elaborate layering schemes and graphical widgets. Toss in some php scripts and you've created a beautiful mess that one could never code by hand.
Along this vein, does BBedit stand a chance any more? I for one have switched to Dreamweaver. When I need to edit the source, dreamweaver has a more than adequete color-schemed text interface.
I admit this limited-CD release is a really cool idea, but it rings a little too loud as a final hurrah of an obsolete product.
If someone *really* needs the news read to them via their iPod, then purchased subscriptions to such things as the NYTimes would be better. This application, as nifty as it might be, is not a suitable replacement for subscription news services. I've turned the speakable items options off b/c the sound of Agnes/Victoria/Zarvox/etc infuriate me.
Now, when the iPod goes WiFi and *if* this app can download and process RSS streams on the fly, then maybe.
For those curious, both the NYTimes and the Wallstreet Journal are $70 each for an annual subscription at Audible.
Also, the new iPods have a new feature called Notes that contain text. You can create a script to transfer RSS-feed text into the iPod so you can read the news on the iPod screen.
This was one of the major holdups in the antitrust settlement. MS wanted to inundate the schools with free software vouchers and its competitors cried foul and demanded that the vouchers be replaced with straight-out cash grants. A similar tale has been repeated in europe as well.
The problem is that until there is a legal ruling on whether software-gifts are anticompetitive, MS will continue to do this. However, when you start to regulate software gifts, you risk classifying other similar acts as anticompetitive. Is it OK for apple to give free software? What about open source software? Its not long until the whole house of cards falls down.
You are right for novice users, but what about the typical slashdotter who fiddles with their settings and is constantly dragging around huge divx movies or iso's?
"You can probably get the same performance increase by reorganizing your files, and defragging the harddrive." What are you basing this HUGE assumption on?
My iBook running OS X had taken such a pounding for nearly a year and was lagging despite defrags and uninstalls. I reformatted and reinstalled and now my system is MUCH more responsive. The same goes for a couple of my office linux boxes and my home winXP computer. I agree that typical maintenance should be limited to defrag and uninstall, but yearly maintenance should definitely include a reformat.
Certain countries and areas of the world have strict censorship laws. With a 20gb iPod, one of those 4000 songs is bound to break one of those laws and get you killed.
Just a thought...
If you are sufficently scared, please send me your iPod and I'll give it a safe home.:-)
How many K-6 teachers you see giving presentations to their students? "OK class, we are cancelling nap time today so I can show you a keynote presentation on my trip to cupertino." In fact, I NEVER had a powerpoint presentation in my entire K-12 career. Yeah, sure, some tech savvy teachers might use presentation apps, but this number is small. My dad, a highschool teacher concurs with this observation.
So why is keynote being targetted at K-12 teachers? I think this is a bad idea. If Apple wants Keynote to take off, it should target college students and college professors... a market which can be expected to jump on it.
All of this, of course, has no bearing on iLife apps... which I think have a certain place in K-12 ed.
"I sat down to write with the intent of saying that I think Ximian Desktop 2.0 is a desktop on which absolutely anyone would be comfortable working. It is the most sophisticated desktop I've seen for Linux or any current operating system."
A lot of "the best" technology flops in the marketplace (oh my poor betamax...). Sadly, Ximian might just join them.
Have an encrypted file that you need decrypted? Not a problem at all... hack into altnet and have 10 million unsuspecting users brute force the password for you! woo hoo!:-)
Have a website that you just abhor? Again, not a problem... piggypack a little DDOS app into altnet and watch the fun. And you thought the slashdot effect was bad!!
I seriously distrust the security for altnet. They claim its 100% secure, but I'm not buying it. Hell, microsoft says their products are secure!
On one hand, I agree with the idea. The state license system for discerning citizens from non-citizens is a joke. It doesn't work. Any joe can make a fake identity.
On the other hand, do you think they'll allow me to substitute my fingerprint for a scan of my ass on my license?
Slashdot Mirror
yes, but then you'd have to write it down. Maybe you are a super genius at remembering 100-long alphanumeric + additional character passwords, but most of us are not. So you'd put it on a post-it note and cleverly hide it underneath your paperweight or whatever. So where has your unbreakable password gotten you? Well, it'll take you an additional 10 minutes logging in everytime you bootup or log out. And then you have to contend with physical security. Now it doesn't take a compu-whiz with a cluster of computers, now it takes a disgruntled janitor or coworker who takes the 2 minutes looking for your postit.
So you decide that you'd like to live with a 100-digit password inside an electrical emmissions-proof room guarded by a company of marines. And you could do this. But is it worth it? With security there is always the trade-off of reliability and feasibility.
And with all this talk about biometric data... do you really want your retinal scan or DNA profile or whatever stored in a digital file? What type of heinous security will we have to put in place to protect THAT data? The security guys in this paper really hit it on the head when they (obviously) pointed out that once the password hash file has been divulged, the game's over. Will we need a fresh stool sample to pre-authorize the computer to authorize your hand print every time you log in?
Cracking becomes easier if you have access to a distributed network. Parse the table into managable chunks and throw it out to 100 computers. While the time taken to crack the password might not scale down in a linear fashion [ie: time/(N computers)], it will most definately drop the crack time down to less than an hour for those computers with 12bit salts (4906*.6min= 41 hr, 41hr/100comps= 25 minutes).
Even if the 12 bit salt for mac/linux/etc was increased in size, a scale up in the number of computers used would defeat this added protection. The trend in the comp world seems to be more connectivity between large numbers of computers. All it takes is one disgruntled folding@Home grad student out at stanford to break even the most stringent password.
It seems that increasing the size of the salt would prevent the average script kiddie from breaking your password, but does nothing to alleviate the threat distributed computing presents. So what other options are there?
Declaring kansas flatter than a pancake based upon a comparison to ONE pancake hardly seems fair. A mean value for the flatness of a pancake should have been derived from multiple pancakes and a standard deviation value given. Besides, you get hash browns and a side of variable meat with the 3-pancake special at IHOP.
True, anything with the MS name on it will get ridiculed severely on slashdot. Thats just the culture here. Also true, slashdot harbors a lot of goodwill towards apple.
That being said, there are fundamental differences between the apple and buymusic.com approaches to treating their customers. Apple has uniform licensing which guarantees unlimited burns, simultaneous access to the music on 3 computers (with the option to change the computers as often as you wish), and unlimited transfers to an iPod. (apple needs to add support for more players)
BuyMusic.com offers none of these things. Songs are tied to ONE computer, without the ability to change that. Depending upon the particular song, burns and transfers to a (select) number of mp3 players is limited to a discrete number.
I've never heard of CDBaby. Their website looks very shoddy, as if they used a very basic WYSIWYG editor. I would also like to know how picky apple is about taking music from the labels. Do they take anything the labels feed them or are they selective in their choices? If they'll take anything, then CDBaby looks like a fantastic way to get wide-spread distribution. If not, then you've just wasted $40 on a pipedream.
There is no fdisk-like program to delete the beer belly partition. When it comes down to it, the best thing you can do for getting back in shape is to dedicate exercise time each day, or maybe a few days a week. Sitting at your desk doing curlups or pushups or whatever during short break periods is not going to benefit you as much as 30+ minutes of cardio activity will. Though there are conflicting studies, the current idea seems to be that light activity (30 minutes) really does nothing for you.
I've tried those office exercises and even started taking the stairs instead of the elevator and walking home instead of public transit, but nothing improved. Hours on end at the office on the computer, and then at home on the computer, have taken their toll. Do yourself a favor and work on your diet and get a trial gym membership. If you don't feel better after a month or two, try something else. Good luck!!
As one of the chosen few attempting to understand the fundamentals of protein folding, I can say that we are still a long way off from understanding how these "few" 20 amino acids fold into highly-specific structures. There are people with access to super computing centers (ala: UCSD super computing center, IBM's Gene Blue) who still cannot devise a simulation that accurately reproduces biological systems. The amount of atomic and subatomic properties that must be taken into account is just overwhelming. It can take a 64cpu cluster of computers a week to reproduce what nature does in 1 nanosecond!
So how can we restructure our current computing system to a model that is based upon something that we understand only at basic level? We can't. While I agree that a biologically-derived computing architecture could be quite powerful indeed, we are still a LONG way off from the level of understanding needed to even put this idea on the drawing board.
broken link... Fixed.
He can't answer this question.
... which is a canned "I don't want to get sued" response.
If he answers this question with "oh, songs, videos, pirated software, etc" he'd be incriminating himself and the "impending doom from the RIAA/MPAA" would be over before it began.
The only answer he'd be able to give is "oh, stuff covered by the Creative Commons or the GPL (etc)."
Now that the product is in a semi-usable state, has the decision been made to feature-freeze and to focus on quality control? Running the OSX client turns my iBook to mush. The linux client brings my dual AMD MP system to its knees. I love getting large files (ie: ISOs) at great speeds, but when it renders my computer useless for the duration of the download it ceases to be useful.
Half the fun of owning a mac is maintaining a defeatist attitude b/c no one makes enough software ports and all the features/bugs in the platform are undocumented easter-eggs. That software problem has been mostly stamped out. Now, if someone filled the documentation void, what would I do with all my angst????
from a May19th /. piece ... Here.
Web-design has evolved into its own art form. More and more webpages are popping up with elaborate layering schemes and graphical widgets. Toss in some php scripts and you've created a beautiful mess that one could never code by hand.
Along this vein, does BBedit stand a chance any more? I for one have switched to Dreamweaver. When I need to edit the source, dreamweaver has a more than adequete color-schemed text interface.
I admit this limited-CD release is a really cool idea, but it rings a little too loud as a final hurrah of an obsolete product.
If someone *really* needs the news read to them via their iPod, then purchased subscriptions to such things as the NYTimes would be better. This application, as nifty as it might be, is not a suitable replacement for subscription news services. I've turned the speakable items options off b/c the sound of Agnes/Victoria/Zarvox/etc infuriate me.
Now, when the iPod goes WiFi and *if* this app can download and process RSS streams on the fly, then maybe.
For those curious, both the NYTimes and the Wallstreet Journal are $70 each for an annual subscription at Audible.
Also, the new iPods have a new feature called Notes that contain text. You can create a script to transfer RSS-feed text into the iPod so you can read the news on the iPod screen.
This was one of the major holdups in the antitrust settlement. MS wanted to inundate the schools with free software vouchers and its competitors cried foul and demanded that the vouchers be replaced with straight-out cash grants. A similar tale has been repeated in europe as well.
The problem is that until there is a legal ruling on whether software-gifts are anticompetitive, MS will continue to do this. However, when you start to regulate software gifts, you risk classifying other similar acts as anticompetitive. Is it OK for apple to give free software? What about open source software? Its not long until the whole house of cards falls down.
You are right for novice users, but what about the typical slashdotter who fiddles with their settings and is constantly dragging around huge divx movies or iso's?
"You can probably get the same performance increase by reorganizing your files, and defragging the harddrive." What are you basing this HUGE assumption on?
My iBook running OS X had taken such a pounding for nearly a year and was lagging despite defrags and uninstalls. I reformatted and reinstalled and now my system is MUCH more responsive. The same goes for a couple of my office linux boxes and my home winXP computer. I agree that typical maintenance should be limited to defrag and uninstall, but yearly maintenance should definitely include a reformat.
Being a DeGrado employee, I applaud your praise of my boss. :-)
:p
Just wait till we get our new cluster. In between Unreal Tourney lan parties, we might just one-up our caltech friends.
Certain countries and areas of the world have strict censorship laws. With a 20gb iPod, one of those 4000 songs is bound to break one of those laws and get you killed.
:-)
Just a thought...
If you are sufficently scared, please send me your iPod and I'll give it a safe home.
How many K-6 teachers you see giving presentations to their students? "OK class, we are cancelling nap time today so I can show you a keynote presentation on my trip to cupertino." In fact, I NEVER had a powerpoint presentation in my entire K-12 career. Yeah, sure, some tech savvy teachers might use presentation apps, but this number is small. My dad, a highschool teacher concurs with this observation.
So why is keynote being targetted at K-12 teachers? I think this is a bad idea. If Apple wants Keynote to take off, it should target college students and college professors... a market which can be expected to jump on it.
All of this, of course, has no bearing on iLife apps... which I think have a certain place in K-12 ed.
"I sat down to write with the intent of saying that I think Ximian Desktop 2.0 is a desktop on which absolutely anyone would be comfortable working. It is the most sophisticated desktop I've seen for Linux or any current operating system."
A lot of "the best" technology flops in the marketplace (oh my poor betamax...). Sadly, Ximian might just join them.
doh!
Have an encrypted file that you need decrypted? Not a problem at all... hack into altnet and have 10 million unsuspecting users brute force the password for you! woo hoo! :-)
Have a website that you just abhor? Again, not a problem... piggypack a little DDOS app into altnet and watch the fun. And you thought the slashdot effect was bad!!
I seriously distrust the security for altnet. They claim its 100% secure, but I'm not buying it. Hell, microsoft says their products are secure!
dude, thanks for making me ill.
On one hand, I agree with the idea. The state license system for discerning citizens from non-citizens is a joke. It doesn't work. Any joe can make a fake identity.
On the other hand, do you think they'll allow me to substitute my fingerprint for a scan of my ass on my license?