It appears that this article is based on old infromation. I would suggest that all read the Your Rights Online Artcile about Clinton relaxing crypto. If I read it correctly he has gotten rid of the key escrow idea, what appears to be the major issue here.....
Just out of curiousity, did NSI do this to ALL domains in their database or only to the ones that came from their services? i.e. If I registerd a domain through register.com (which I didn't) would they also add this service to that domain? Just an interesting point to consider....
If I remmeber correctly the trademark of Linux was recelty overturned in Taiwan because it was proven that linux was used before the trademark. I imagine that such a law also exists in Germany...And it's really easy to prove linux has been used since before they applied the trademark (SuSE).
As a College student I live in dorms that have 2 Flourescent lights per room and a window, that's all the lighting they provide. And I spend all day in classes that have flourescent lights. And I have noticed that I've been getting headaches more often since I came back to this. My alternative is just putting a lot of lamps arroud my room. In my small space of the room (11' x 6'), I have 3 lamps that I use. I find that I actually have fewer problems with the two Flourescent lights when they are on if I have these lamps on as well. I personally think Halogen lamps are a better solution that flourescent, but they get very hot and can cost more. (I've never really done a close comparison to cost).
Even if the NSA knew how to crac 1024-bit keys it wouldn't make all that big of a difference. The NSA probably has cracked 512-bit RSA keys already. The point of this all is that PRIVATE CITIZENS did it, not a multi-billion dollar government agency. And if anyone is seriously concerned about privacy they are using 2048-bit RSA Keys or some of the other algorithms that use 4000+ bit keys.
I personally think that such a device would be absolutely great. And there is one coming, Pine Technology USA is coming out with a device called the D'Music. It will read MP3s off burned CDs, Read Regular CDs, and I think I heard something about it having a FM Radio Tunner in it too. So there's the three best ways to get music, all in one device! And the best part....It's portable! They haven't really put much info on their page, but they do have a picture you can check out!
Only the House of Reps. has passed the bill. The Senate is still reviewing it. Though it is unlikely that the senate will kill it, there is still the chance...
[And now for my rant]
I see some very differing opinions out there on the usefulness/worthieness of the space station. I have to say that personally I think it's worth the cost. With the science advances made in space and the research potential of the station it's well worth the cost. Not to mention that it will provide experience for the eventual move off the planet.
Yes I know that sounds really far fetched, and I'm not saying it's going to happen today, tomorrow, or even this century. But at the rate that we are destroying the environment, Earth won' tbe habitable for much longer.
I think because of the recent actions of AntiOnline v Harvard/PacketStorm I'll be avoiding this challenge. I think it's probably just a publicity stunt to get some of the heat off him because of the previous affairs...
I personally will be avoiding this challenge, mainly because of the people hosting it.
More info is here from CWI. It took them between 3.5 ad 3.7 months (I've seen both numbers). But here's the stats on what the used:
"Sieving was done on about 160 175-400 MHz SGI and Sun workstations, on 8 300 MHz SGI Origin 2000 processors, on about 120 300-450 MHz Pentium II PCs, and on 4 500 MHz Digital/Compaq boxes. The total amount of CPU-time spent on sieving was 35.7 CPU years estimated to be equivalent to approximately 8000 mips years. Calendar time for sieving was 3 1/2 months."
"(L: using lattice sieving code from Arjen K. Lenstra C: using line sieving code from CWI)
20.1 % (3057 CPU days) Alec Muffett (L at Sun Microsystems Professional Services, Camberley, UK) 17.5 % (2092 CPU days) Paul Leyland (L,C at Microsoft, Cambridge, UK) 14.6 % (1819) Peter L. Montgomery, Stefania Cavallar (C,L at CWI, Amsterdam) 13.6 % (2222) Bruce Dodson (L,C at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA) 13.0 % (1801) Francois Morain and Gerard Guillerm (L,C at Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France) 6.4 % (576) Joel Marchand (L,C at Ecole Polytechnique/CNRS, Palaiseau, France) 5.0 % (737) Arjen K. Lenstra (L at Citibank, Parsippany, NJ, USA and Univ. of Sydney, Australia) 4.5 % (252) Paul Zimmermann (C at Inria Lorraine and Loria, Nancy, France) 4.0 % (366) Jeff Gilchrist (L at Entrust Technologies Ltd., Ottawa, Canada) 0.65 % (62) Karen Aardal (L at Utrecht University, The Netherlands) 0.56 % (47) Chris and Craig Putnam (L at ?)
Calendar time for the sieving was 3.7 months. The relations were collected at CWI and required 3.7 Gbytes of disk space."
Quoted material from the link provided at the begining.
This seems to be becoming a common problem. Everyone and everything is starting to block websites that they don't agree with. Not only the standard, NetNanny, CyberPatrol, etc. Even McAffee's VShield blocks sites. Now None of these neccessarily block content simply because they don't agree with it, I can't make a judgement on that....but I've heard of some software blocking sites such as the Republican and Democratic Party homepages (not the same piece of software, obvisouly).
I would say your problem is with CyberPatrol. Your ISP shouldn't really have to use more money to run a separate sever because a poorly written program blocks them.
I'm not a lawyer, but if you really feel the need to go after someone, I'd be lookind at the people that write censor software. They obviously need to come up with something better than they have now. (Again, I'm not a lawyer, so talk to one if your going to do anything serious.)
I never stated that by releasing all new source code was wrong. I agree fully that it was time for the entire thing to start from the bottom up again. I was just simply stating this as a reason that hundreds of people haven't joined up to work on the source code. Those hundreds that didn't sign up want to work on something that's working, tweak it, improve it, not start from the begining.
The article is rather dull, nothing new...but what bugged me the most is their reasoning on why Netscape's Mozilla is failing. It's not because programmers don't want to participate because a large company is behid it. It's because what Netscape released as OSS is a very limited (barely working) body of code. They didn't release their code for the 4.5x browsers. They released something new. That is their problem. I have a feeling that had they released the code for the browser most of use are using right now that their experiment would have faired better.
Really LOC is an innaccurate way of showing productivity. I could make a given language print Hello World! in 12 lines (one letter per line) or in 1 line. The fact that american programmers produce fewer LOC than others might just mean we produce more efficient code...
This is the first article on "hackers" that I have read and actually been insulted by. These people he is suposedly profiling sound more like our common prison crazy than any body involved in hacking.
I find the article personally insulting, abusive families, sexual abuse, loner? My family has always treated me great, and I have a good social life...
I especially like how he's geting credit for some of the terms put there...last I checked newbie and script-kiddie wern't invented by him...
The hate isn't universal amoung the people there. Most of the problems come from leaders like Milosivic who are racial/ethnic supremist. Many of the Serbians have said that they don't approve of what M. is doing, they just support their country/religion. If peaceful/sane leaders were in control, attrocities like what is happening in Kosovo wouldn't be happening. But that, unfortunately, is not the case.
One of the factors that frequently gets overlooked in warfare is Psycological Warfare. Ever wonder why those masses of Iraqi Troops were surrendering? Psychological warfare played an enormous part in that. Following is some of the history I picked up when I wrote a report on psyhcological warfare, sorry, I don't have the refferences anymore.
The First thing wed did was conditioning. We practiced and practiced for a beach assault, which kept two full Iraqi divisions busy watching the coast of Kuwait for us. On the day of the invasion a small number of US Navy SEALs planted bombs and other things along the beaches, without Iraqis seeing them, to convince the Iraqis that we were coming that way. They bought it, and moved another division in to support the two they already had there.
One of our other major things we did was "leaflet drops." We droped thousands of paper leaflets depicting how to surrender and showing delicaies that they would be served if they did so.
Entire divisions surrendered after a single display of power. Leaflets would be droped warning the troops in the area to surrender or they would be targeted next. The first round didn't work. A BLU-32 (Fuel Air Explosive, the most powerful weapon in the US Arsenal, short of nuclear) was droped on that division. The next division that was warned promptly surrendered.
Radio broadcasts are also very powerful. Broadcasting from special modified C-130 Cargo Planes, experts broadcast pro-western messages, information on how to surrender. It worked quite effectly as they broadcast across standard radio stations and military frequencies.
I would be more than willing to chat with anyone interested in this subject to share knowledge, though I admit it is somewhat limited.:)
Is is so dishonorble to try and stop the killing of people just because of their religion? You call the US government 'dishonorable bullies,' yet were going out trying to stop the killing of a race. If this is so dishonorable I certainly can't see how.
The reason we are fighting is to save the lives of hundreds of thousands of people who are being executed or driven from their homes a gun point.
Ethnic cleansing is one of the most dishonorable things I can think of, and that is what is happening in Kosovo. The serbian army is driving ethnic Albanians from their homes to kill them or make them refugees.
I find it quite honorable to be fighting to stop this cleansing. You say that the World Wars were just/honorable wars. Part of what we were fighting for then was to stop the ethnic and racial cleansing of Hitler. The reasons for fighting are the same.
And just as a side note: I'd like to point out that tomahawk missiles are launched from ships. Not B-52s.:) B-52s launch "Air Launched Cruise Missiles (ALCMs)." though they are both cruise missiles they arn't not the same.:)
They have a way to contact them. Considering they've already been slashdotted the might correct it (yeah right!). Goto their "Fun" area and the "Guestbook". The guestbook is really a form to e-mail them, not a real guestbook (Would have never guessed....;))
I've seen things like this before. Never quite $500, but characters from the Simutronics online games are frequently sold by people who are tired of playing them. I find it rather sad though that someone would buy one of these characters. Half the fun on the games are to start from the begining and make progress.
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It appears that this article is based on old infromation. I would suggest that all read the Your Rights Online Artcile about Clinton relaxing crypto. If I read it correctly he has gotten rid of the key escrow idea, what appears to be the major issue here.....
Just out of curiousity, did NSI do this to ALL domains in their database or only to the ones that came from their services? i.e. If I registerd a domain through register.com (which I didn't) would they also add this service to that domain? Just an interesting point to consider....
If I remmeber correctly the trademark of Linux was recelty overturned in Taiwan because it was proven that linux was used before the trademark. I imagine that such a law also exists in Germany...And it's really easy to prove linux has been used since before they applied the trademark (SuSE).
As a College student I live in dorms that have 2 Flourescent lights per room and a window, that's all the lighting they provide. And I spend all day in classes that have flourescent lights. And I have noticed that I've been getting headaches more often since I came back to this. My alternative is just putting a lot of lamps arroud my room. In my small space of the room (11' x 6'), I have 3 lamps that I use. I find that I actually have fewer problems with the two Flourescent lights when they are on if I have these lamps on as well. I personally think Halogen lamps are a better solution that flourescent, but they get very hot and can cost more. (I've never really done a close comparison to cost).
Even if the NSA knew how to crac 1024-bit keys it wouldn't make all that big of a difference. The NSA probably has cracked 512-bit RSA keys already. The point of this all is that PRIVATE CITIZENS did it, not a multi-billion dollar government agency. And if anyone is seriously concerned about privacy they are using 2048-bit RSA Keys or some of the other algorithms that use 4000+ bit keys.
I personally think that such a device would be absolutely great. And there is one coming, Pine Technology USA is coming out with a device called the D'Music. It will read MP3s off burned CDs, Read Regular CDs, and I think I heard something about it having a FM Radio Tunner in it too. So there's the three best ways to get music, all in one device! And the best part....It's portable! They haven't really put much info on their page, but they do have a picture you can check out!
Only the House of Reps. has passed the bill. The Senate is still reviewing it. Though it is unlikely that the senate will kill it, there is still the chance...
[And now for my rant]
I see some very differing opinions out there on the usefulness/worthieness of the space station. I have to say that personally I think it's worth the cost. With the science advances made in space and the research potential of the station it's well worth the cost. Not to mention that it will provide experience for the eventual move off the planet.
Yes I know that sounds really far fetched, and I'm not saying it's going to happen today, tomorrow, or even this century. But at the rate that we are destroying the environment, Earth won' tbe habitable for much longer.
I think because of the recent actions of AntiOnline v Harvard/PacketStorm I'll be avoiding this challenge. I think it's probably just a publicity stunt to get some of the heat off him because of the previous affairs...
I personally will be avoiding this challenge, mainly because of the people hosting it.
More info is here from CWI. It took them between 3.5 ad 3.7 months (I've seen both numbers). But here's the stats on what the used:
"Sieving was done on about 160 175-400 MHz SGI and Sun workstations, on 8 300 MHz SGI Origin 2000 processors, on about 120 300-450 MHz Pentium II PCs, and on 4 500 MHz Digital/Compaq boxes. The total amount of CPU-time spent on sieving was 35.7 CPU years estimated to be equivalent to approximately 8000 mips years. Calendar time for sieving was 3 1/2 months."
"(L: using lattice sieving code from Arjen K. Lenstra C: using line sieving code from CWI)
20.1 % (3057 CPU days) Alec Muffett (L at Sun Microsystems Professional Services, Camberley, UK)
17.5 % (2092 CPU days) Paul Leyland (L,C at Microsoft, Cambridge, UK)
14.6 % (1819) Peter L. Montgomery, Stefania Cavallar (C,L at CWI, Amsterdam)
13.6 % (2222) Bruce Dodson (L,C at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA)
13.0 % (1801) Francois Morain and Gerard Guillerm (L,C at Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France)
6.4 % (576) Joel Marchand (L,C at Ecole Polytechnique/CNRS, Palaiseau, France)
5.0 % (737) Arjen K. Lenstra (L at Citibank, Parsippany, NJ, USA and Univ. of Sydney, Australia)
4.5 % (252) Paul Zimmermann (C at Inria Lorraine and Loria, Nancy, France)
4.0 % (366) Jeff Gilchrist (L at Entrust Technologies Ltd., Ottawa, Canada)
0.65 % (62) Karen Aardal (L at Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
0.56 % (47) Chris and Craig Putnam (L at ?)
Calendar time for the sieving was 3.7 months.
The relations were collected at CWI and required 3.7 Gbytes of disk space."
Quoted material from the link provided at the begining.
This seems to be becoming a common problem. Everyone and everything is starting to block websites that they don't agree with. Not only the standard, NetNanny, CyberPatrol, etc. Even McAffee's VShield blocks sites. Now None of these neccessarily block content simply because they don't agree with it, I can't make a judgement on that....but I've heard of some software blocking sites such as the Republican and Democratic Party homepages (not the same piece of software, obvisouly).
I would say your problem is with CyberPatrol. Your ISP shouldn't really have to use more money to run a separate sever because a poorly written program blocks them.
I'm not a lawyer, but if you really feel the need to go after someone, I'd be lookind at the people that write censor software. They obviously need to come up with something better than they have now. (Again, I'm not a lawyer, so talk to one if your going to do anything serious.)
I never stated that by releasing all new source code was wrong. I agree fully that it was time for the entire thing to start from the bottom up again. I was just simply stating this as a reason that hundreds of people haven't joined up to work on the source code. Those hundreds that didn't sign up want to work on something that's working, tweak it, improve it, not start from the begining.
The article is rather dull, nothing new...but what bugged me the most is their reasoning on why Netscape's Mozilla is failing. It's not because programmers don't want to participate because a large company is behid it. It's because what Netscape released as OSS is a very limited (barely working) body of code. They didn't release their code for the 4.5x browsers. They released something new. That is their problem. I have a feeling that had they released the code for the browser most of use are using right now that their experiment would have faired better.
Really LOC is an innaccurate way of showing productivity. I could make a given language print Hello World! in 12 lines (one letter per line) or in 1 line. The fact that american programmers produce fewer LOC than others might just mean we produce more efficient code...
This is the first article on "hackers" that I have read and actually been insulted by. These people he is suposedly profiling sound more like our common prison crazy than any body involved in hacking.
I find the article personally insulting, abusive families, sexual abuse, loner? My family has always treated me great, and I have a good social life...
I especially like how he's geting credit for some of the terms put there...last I checked newbie and script-kiddie wern't invented by him...
The hate isn't universal amoung the people there. Most of the problems come from leaders like Milosivic who are racial/ethnic supremist. Many of the Serbians have said that they don't approve of what M. is doing, they just support their country/religion. If peaceful/sane leaders were in control, attrocities like what is happening in Kosovo wouldn't be happening. But that, unfortunately, is not the case.
I would be more than willing to chat with anyone interested in this subject to share knowledge, though I admit it is somewhat limited.
Is is so dishonorble to try and stop the killing of people just because of their religion? You call the US government 'dishonorable bullies,' yet were going out trying to stop the killing of a race. If this is so dishonorable I certainly can't see how.
:) B-52s launch "Air Launched Cruise Missiles (ALCMs)." though they are both cruise missiles they arn't not the same. :)
The reason we are fighting is to save the lives of hundreds of thousands of people who are being executed or driven from their homes a gun point.
Ethnic cleansing is one of the most dishonorable things I can think of, and that is what is happening in Kosovo. The serbian army is driving ethnic Albanians from their homes to kill them or make them refugees.
I find it quite honorable to be fighting to stop this cleansing. You say that the World Wars were just/honorable wars. Part of what we were fighting for then was to stop the ethnic and racial cleansing of Hitler. The reasons for fighting are the same.
And just as a side note: I'd like to point out that tomahawk missiles are launched from ships. Not B-52s.
They have a way to contact them. Considering they've already been slashdotted the might correct it (yeah right!). Goto their "Fun" area and the "Guestbook". The guestbook is really a form to e-mail them, not a real guestbook (Would have never guessed.... ;))
I've seen things like this before. Never quite $500, but characters from the Simutronics online games are frequently sold by people who are tired of playing them. I find it rather sad though that someone would buy one of these characters. Half the fun on the games are to start from the begining and make progress.