I've never understood what the big worry is about hash collisions. I mean, even if in theory you could find another message that hashes to the same value, it's many orders of magnitude harder to find a meaningful and believable substitute message that hashes to the same value. Even the Birthday attack seems pointless. Who cares if the hash is effectively half as long to find ANY two message that hash to the same value, I only care if somebody can find a message that matches MY message hash. Is it because cryptographers are obsessed with theoretical but impractical weaknesses, or am I just not understanding this right?
If you're going to post release notices on/. there either needs to be compelling new features (which should appear in the/. article) or it needs to be the reslease of Duke Nukem Forever.
So what you're saying is that you've never used a piece of software (widget) that interferes with another piece of software (widget). I guess you've also never used a piece of software that doesn't fail gracefully and instead loses data. Both non-interference and graceful degredation are just as important to software as hardware. I really hope you're not a software engineer, although you probably are.
Actually no. More and more people have access to gaming machines while the trend is that a single company does all the voting. Even Asimov predicted as much (read Franchise).
My employer paid for my SCLE (SCO Certified Linux Engineer) and the test went something like this:
1. You have a network of 90 desktop Linux PCs, 4 dual-procressor Linux workgroup servers, and 1 16-way Linux enterprise server. How much do you pay SCO?
a) $142,000 b) $62,000,000 c) $118,000,000 d) All of the above
It looks like Sun is adding compelling new features that make Solaris 10 a more powerful alternative than Linux. I wonder if offering a better product is a valid business model. Seems like suing your competitors and their customers is cheaper (no pesky high-paid engineers) and,uch better for the stock price. I'd suggest anyone investing SUNW should instead buy into a company with a proven business model like SCOX.
"Leakage, the unintentional dissipation of electricity, among other phenomena, can also inadvertently raise memory consumption." I would have to disagree, unless they're watching Johnny Mnemonic.
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After reading the article I stopped by Brookstone and picked up one of the Eco-Spheres after work. It a little lackluster given the price, but it's really fascinating. 4 little 1/2 inch shrimps running around in a little glass sphere muching on green algae. They're supposed to live 2-5 years and there's a small change they will reproduce. Basically its the pet for people who can't even keep plants alive (yep, that's me).
Just have it glow red the moment SCO puts out a new press release. Buy SCO. Have it glow red the moment IBM puts out a new press release. Sell SCO. Stop bitching about pump-n-dump and start making money instead.
The sphere is also scriptable. You can change its color by making HTTP GET requests to the sphere-controlling server. Although I'm not gonna plop down $150 for it, I think having a glowing sphere telling you how much email you have (green no mail, yellow some, red too much) would be pretty cool.
But there are over one million lines of code that we have identified that are derivative works by IBM and Sequent that have been contributed into Linux that we have identified and there's been no effort by Linux leaders to start acting and rectify that situation.
It's kind of hollow words that we are not showing code, because we have shown examples and if we keep showing it, they'll just take that out and say 'no harm no foul.' That doesn't solve the problem.
Paraphrasing... we have identified a million lines of code but if we actually told them which lines they would remove them and that doesn't solve our problem.
So let me get this straight... you're going to sue for the damages caused by our refusal to remove your code but you don't want us to remove it because then you can't sue us.
They must still be blaming the poor box office sales of Gigli on leaked pre-release copies of the film warning people how bad it was before paying to see it.
The actually story says T-Online is going to buy an AOL account. The 1 billion dollar price tag is a little steep, but that's what happens if you go over your 10,000 free hours in the first month.
I saw a leaked version of the user manual PDF. Apparently you're supposed to put in the CD, lay naked in a bathtub of strawberry Jello, and have a friend shove a metal spike in the back of your neck. I'm sure real Matrix fans won't have a problem with this, but personally I prefer orange Jello.
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Somebody at Microsoft must have assumed AAC was Apple Audio Codec.
FastCompany, who I generaly refuse to read, had this eye-opening article on the hidden costs of shopping at WalMart.
I've never understood what the big worry is about hash collisions. I mean, even if in theory you could find another message that hashes to the same value, it's many orders of magnitude harder to find a meaningful and believable substitute message that hashes to the same value. Even the Birthday attack seems pointless. Who cares if the hash is effectively half as long to find ANY two message that hash to the same value, I only care if somebody can find a message that matches MY message hash. Is it because cryptographers are obsessed with theoretical but impractical weaknesses, or am I just not understanding this right?
If you're going to post release notices on /. there either needs to be compelling new features (which should appear in the /. article) or it needs to be the reslease of Duke Nukem Forever.
You're right! With those qualifications I should apply for the SCO board of directors!
I'm just quoting from memory, but an old press release said something like,
"Open source leaders have refused to take action [and remove the code]".
And then a few sentences later,
"We don't want them to take out the code because then we can't sue them".
Stupid bitches.
It's because their IT department is "distributed" on Christmas vacation and some exec probably rebooted it because he wasn't getting his email.
So what you're saying is that you've never used a piece of software (widget) that interferes with another piece of software (widget). I guess you've also never used a piece of software that doesn't fail gracefully and instead loses data. Both non-interference and graceful degredation are just as important to software as hardware. I really hope you're not a software engineer, although you probably are.
Would you ever post sensitive documents on the internet?
You, apparently, are not an unemployed software engineer.
Actually no. More and more people have access to gaming machines while the trend is that a single company does all the voting. Even Asimov predicted as much (read Franchise).
My employer paid for my SCLE (SCO Certified Linux Engineer) and the test went something like this:
1. You have a network of 90 desktop Linux PCs, 4 dual-procressor Linux workgroup servers, and 1 16-way Linux enterprise server. How much do you pay SCO?
a) $142,000
b) $62,000,000
c) $118,000,000
d) All of the above
It looks like Sun is adding compelling new features that make Solaris 10 a more powerful alternative than Linux. I wonder if offering a better product is a valid business model. Seems like suing your competitors and their customers is cheaper (no pesky high-paid engineers) and ,uch better for the stock price. I'd suggest anyone investing SUNW should instead buy into a company with a proven business model like SCOX.
"Leakage, the unintentional dissipation of electricity, among other phenomena, can also inadvertently raise memory consumption." I would have to disagree, unless they're watching Johnny Mnemonic.
After reading the article I stopped by Brookstone and picked up one of the Eco-Spheres after work. It a little lackluster given the price, but it's really fascinating. 4 little 1/2 inch shrimps running around in a little glass sphere muching on green algae. They're supposed to live 2-5 years and there's a small change they will reproduce. Basically its the pet for people who can't even keep plants alive (yep, that's me).
Just have it glow red the moment SCO puts out a new press release. Buy SCO. Have it glow red the moment IBM puts out a new press release. Sell SCO. Stop bitching about pump-n-dump and start making money instead.
The sphere is also scriptable. You can change its color by making HTTP GET requests to the sphere-controlling server. Although I'm not gonna plop down $150 for it, I think having a glowing sphere telling you how much email you have (green no mail, yellow some, red too much) would be pretty cool.
So let me get this straight... you're going to sue for the damages caused by our refusal to remove your code but you don't want us to remove it because then you can't sue us.
And a bunch of Jolted up perl hackers as "The Architect".
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They must still be blaming the poor box office sales of Gigli on leaked pre-release copies of the film warning people how bad it was before paying to see it.
The actually story says T-Online is going to buy an AOL account. The 1 billion dollar price tag is a little steep, but that's what happens if you go over your 10,000 free hours in the first month.
of failed business plans, right next to my collection of mint condition CueCats.
I saw a leaked version of the user manual PDF. Apparently you're supposed to put in the CD, lay naked in a bathtub of strawberry Jello, and have a friend shove a metal spike in the back of your neck. I'm sure real Matrix fans won't have a problem with this, but personally I prefer orange Jello.