i meant zipping the plaintext before being encrypted - partly to reduce the key length required, and partly for the reason you mentioned; better that the plaintext contains as little redundancy as possible (or does that matter with an OTP?)
why is this modded down - this is actually probably the only 100% unbreakable encryption (i.e. the key length is the same as the data length, all about entropy and stuff, way over my head).
Of course you don't really want to use the same bit of CD twice, and you really want to XOR the data with the key rather than add. And again, you need to give a copy of the CD to the recipient if you're transmitting the data.
On a practical note, why not do this? two CDs, ZIP the data first, prepend an offset into the CD at the beginning of each message.
100% uncrackable encryption (albeit a pain in the ass)
this is true - but while sites won't drop support for non-Passport users of their services just yet, Passport will be heavily demanded once it starts to get popular.
It makes life easier for the average Joe - and thats likely to get _more_ sales for the e-commerce sites.
Which of course means more pressure to develop for IIS/.Net, whether Passport support is initially required (wanted) or not.
I see you point - but I worry that.Net will be the Windows or IE of the connected world. I.e. everything else will become gradually more sidelined, more difficult to 'sell' to the non-technical people who make the decisions that we then have to implement.
Basically, I'm worried that they'll all say 'we want.Net, we want Passport' and I'll have to stop coding in my beloved PHP and go back to the pain and suffering that is ASP.
Ok - I agree with your points in principle - but when it comes down to it practicality has to be taken into account.....and yeah I expect to be modded down for this...
> Slashdot uses GIFs for images
Fair - but its only the LZW compression thats patented (I dont know if the/. images use that but anyways...). GIF is the best format to use for non JPeG-able images - not all browsers have support for PNGs...
Slashdot uses MP3 for it's "radio" program
Ok so Ogg Vorbis may be more OSS correct... but the 'preaching to the choir' thing comes to mind - everyone can play MP3s so why not let them listen to what/. recommends and has to say. Lets face it, people are lazy...
> Slashdot editors advocate the purchase of DVDs
Ok so noone can argue that the DVD/CSS situation is in any way good - but what alternative do we have??? Seriously, noone is going to make a better format in the near future and everyone knows CSS doesn't work anyway....
hehe - I remember writing a (basic) news server for coursework back at university.
Articles are referenced by a unique ID - generated by the originating server. It is this that links the article to a group. Only one copy of an article goes anywhere - the actual entries in a given group are always references to that article by its ID.
(somewhat comparable to hard linking as opposed to the vague comparison with symbolic linking that comes to mind with the way it was explained by james_shoemaker)
despite the similarity in name to FreeBSD it's a kickass web control panel thing.
lots of power to the user, the best I've seen yet.
Of course, 'no previous Linux experience' doesn't really come into it so it might not be for your client - but for cheap virtual hosting for geeks its unbeatable.
for an ISP that uses it, check out www.dsvr.co.uk (very good, fast, reliable).
I'm surprised nobody's mentioned fortify - its an excellent set of stuff that traps all of the problems mentioned above - and can be enabled/disabled quickly and easily (lets not forget the performance hit that these things have...)
I can't find a URL offhand (why isnt it in the source files i wonder..) but it should turn up in searches......or email me and I'll send it to ya.
This is an issue I'd really like to see resolved without it being brought to the courts. Its not unreasonable for Sega to be a little miffed that people are getting their games for free - but they need to see that no-one buys or sells the consoles or the games any more, and therefore that it doesn't hurt their market even one tinsy bit!
Its blatantly in their interest to keep people enthused with their older products - not just for the obvious mindshare - but for the reputation it gives!
If Sega could find a way to come to an agreement with ROM distributers it would also appease large segments of the 'geek' population - who are probably a significant proportion of their market. (and the legally paranoid of us get to play loadsa wonderful games).
(of course, the reason why I feel this way is that it might just show the rest of the world that lawsuits aren't necessarily the best way to 'fix' these sorts of situation)
ah, but the cheaper they are, the more we can buy without losing out on the beer, cigarettes and coffee required to keep us alive while we trawl the net looking for things to download in order to fill them up....
Yes it also pisses me off that some crappy 'internet company' in the UK has 'doofer.net' and 'doofer.com' 'to protect your brand'.. bastards.. I wanted doofer.org anyway 'just because'.. but it's still annoying to find those parasites out there.
Hang on - the Internet is truly international - why should you americans have.com/.net/.org all to yourselves?
We in the UK at least try to use.co.uk/.net.uk/etc domains for sites that are targeted at UK audiences. Shouldn't american only sites use.co.us /.net.us /.org.us???
.com/.net/etc should (IMHO) only be used for international sites!
I know this is going to invite major flames - but it's a fair point (if inarticulately made)
We're in a similar dilemma with a product we're developing here in the UK. We'd thought of releasing a standard version of it (Linux only) that was free and (maybe) included the source - but the problem is that much of our business involves building and selling Linux servers to offices/companies. We always recommend Linux as the server OS - which means we won't get any more money for 'selling' this product. The way I see it is this: I don't like the idea of paying for Linux software. Linux software is (for me at least) _supposed_ to be free/OSS. I would feel rude trying to sell a closed source product for Linux. Whats the consensus on this - is it actually acceptable to release closed source Linux software?
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At the same time though, I'm sure they could have made it a little easier to actually buy the games...
How about downloading them online for example? I would have bought at least two from them if I could have downloaded them and played straight away!
[I dont buy games online to be posted to me - whats the point? I'd rather pay the petrol and start playing straight away!]
i meant zipping the plaintext before being encrypted - partly to reduce the key length required, and partly for the reason you mentioned; better that the plaintext contains as little redundancy as possible (or does that matter with an OTP?)
doh, of course they are...
why is this modded down - this is actually probably the only 100% unbreakable encryption (i.e. the key length is the same as the data length, all about entropy and stuff, way over my head).
Of course you don't really want to use the same bit of CD twice, and you really want to XOR the data with the key rather than add. And again, you need to give a copy of the CD to the recipient if you're transmitting the data.
On a practical note, why not do this? two CDs, ZIP the data first, prepend an offset into the CD at the beginning of each message.
100% uncrackable encryption (albeit a pain in the ass)
There was a slashdot story a while ago with an article linking to this - with shots of Q3A and UT running across 3 monitors...
http://slashdot.org/articles/00/08/04/1534250.shtand the article is at...
http://www.planetquake.com/mhg/this is true - but while sites won't drop support for non-Passport users of their services just yet, Passport will be heavily demanded once it starts to get popular.
It makes life easier for the average Joe - and thats likely to get _more_ sales for the e-commerce sites.
Which of course means more pressure to develop for IIS/.Net, whether Passport support is initially required (wanted) or not.
Just a matter of time...
I see you point - but I worry that .Net will be the Windows or IE of the connected world. I.e. everything else will become gradually more sidelined, more difficult to 'sell' to the non-technical people who make the decisions that we then have to implement.
.Net, we want Passport' and I'll have to stop coding in my beloved PHP and go back to the pain and suffering that is ASP.
Basically, I'm worried that they'll all say 'we want
Seriously, it scares me
This has probably been gone over before, but really, why bother writing an OSS version of .Net?
.Net/MS way will just use the real thing - the rest of us will use our preferred platform for getting the job done.
.Net/Hailstorm/Passport/MS/etc - especially not from the Linux/BSD/UNIX community.
Those who want to do things the
And I don't like the idea of encouraging support for
Just my 2 cents...
Ok - I agree with your points in principle - but when it comes down to it practicality has to be taken into account... ..and yeah I expect to be modded down for this...
/. images use that but anyways...). GIF is the best format to use for non JPeG-able images - not all browsers have support for PNGs...
/. recommends and has to say. Lets face it, people are lazy...
> Slashdot uses GIFs for images
Fair - but its only the LZW compression thats patented (I dont know if the
Slashdot uses MP3 for it's "radio" program
Ok so Ogg Vorbis may be more OSS correct... but the 'preaching to the choir' thing comes to mind - everyone can play MP3s so why not let them listen to what
> Slashdot editors advocate the purchase of DVDs
Ok so noone can argue that the DVD/CSS situation is in any way good - but what alternative do we have??? Seriously, noone is going to make a better format in the near future and everyone knows CSS doesn't work anyway....
hehe - I remember writing a (basic) news server for coursework back at university.
Articles are referenced by a unique ID - generated by the originating server. It is this that links the article to a group. Only one copy of an article goes anywhere - the actual entries in a given group are always references to that article by its ID.
(somewhat comparable to hard linking as opposed to the vague comparison with symbolic linking that comes to mind with the way it was explained by james_shoemaker)
first Interbase, now the FP extensions. Bit worrying really...
damn the temptation to skip the preview button... the FreeVSD web site is at www.freevsd.org damn my laziness in not making that a real link...
despite the similarity in name to FreeBSD it's a kickass web control panel thing.
lots of power to the user, the best I've seen yet.
Of course, 'no previous Linux experience' doesn't really come into it so it might not be for your client - but for cheap virtual hosting for geeks its unbeatable.
for an ISP that uses it, check out www.dsvr.co.uk (very good, fast, reliable).
excellent stuff!
I'm surprised nobody's mentioned fortify - its an excellent set of stuff that traps all of the problems mentioned above - and can be enabled/disabled quickly and easily (lets not forget the performance hit that these things have...) I can't find a URL offhand (why isnt it in the source files i wonder..) but it should turn up in searches... ...or email me and I'll send it to ya.
eh? whats this about mainframes being great and UNIX obexen being poor?? wasnt UNIX originally built for mainframes????????
This is an issue I'd really like to see resolved without it being brought to the courts. Its not unreasonable for Sega to be a little miffed that people are getting their games for free - but they need to see that no-one buys or sells the consoles or the games any more, and therefore that it doesn't hurt their market even one tinsy bit!
Its blatantly in their interest to keep people enthused with their older products - not just for the obvious mindshare - but for the reputation it gives!
If Sega could find a way to come to an agreement with ROM distributers it would also appease large segments of the 'geek' population - who are probably a significant proportion of their market. (and the legally paranoid of us get to play loadsa wonderful games).
(of course, the reason why I feel this way is that it might just show the rest of the world that lawsuits aren't necessarily the best way to 'fix' these sorts of situation)
on the way? we already have it in the UK 9labeit rarely) - so i guess u guys must have for ages..
IBM Deskstar 76.8Gb drives (i forget the model number) at UDMA100
and Promise Ultra100 EIDE controllers
raa!
ah, but the cheaper they are, the more we can buy without losing out on the beer, cigarettes and coffee required to keep us alive while we trawl the net looking for things to download in order to fill them up....
painfully so...
AFAIK, we're about to have another spike taking prices to about £1/litre - i guess thats about $1.50 a litre = >$7.50 a gallon?
(exchange rates are soooo not my thing....)
hmm fair enough - i might have read too much into that (attaching too much importance to him mentioning it was a UK company)
:)
either way - its something thats been bugging me for a while - jsut one of my pet hates I guess
Yes it also pisses me off that some crappy 'internet company' in the UK has 'doofer.net' and 'doofer.com' 'to protect your brand' .. bastards.. I wanted doofer.org anyway 'just because' .. but it's still annoying to find those parasites out there.
.com/.net/.org all to yourselves?
.co.uk/.net.uk/etc domains for sites that are targeted at UK audiences. Shouldn't american only sites use .co.us / .net.us / .org.us???
Hang on - the Internet is truly international - why should you americans have
We in the UK at least try to use
.com/.net/etc should (IMHO) only be used for international sites!
I know this is going to invite major flames - but it's a fair point (if inarticulately made)
We're in a similar dilemma with a product we're developing here in the UK. We'd thought of releasing a standard version of it (Linux only) that was free and (maybe) included the source - but the problem is that much of our business involves building and selling Linux servers to offices/companies. We always recommend Linux as the server OS - which means we won't get any more money for 'selling' this product. The way I see it is this: I don't like the idea of paying for Linux software. Linux software is (for me at least) _supposed_ to be free/OSS. I would feel rude trying to sell a closed source product for Linux. Whats the consensus on this - is it actually acceptable to release closed source Linux software?
On WinNT, the file is called HOSTS.SAM and lives in winnt/system32/drivers/ or thereabouts On Win9x, its also called HOSTS.SAM and lives in windows/