After all, who do you trust more: A corporation which is after your money and tries to remove any feature which costs them money or a hacker who tries to open up the net as wide as possible?;)
The most corrupt cracker (not to be confused with muthafu$%in cracka) is pretty much on par with the most corrupt corporation... so that's actually a pretty tough call...
Look at it this way. Differently clued execs sell more wireless networks and related equipment. Differently clued people buy them. Clued people support them and make money. This could be the next economic bubble.
or the second coming of the hacker golden age... heheheh... I agree with saintlupus, time to grab AirSnort and see what I can come up with;)
humbug... what a waste of time... I'd personally rather see more initiative in securing wireless networks, instead of proceeding in a definitely windowsesque fashion and just ship ship ship the damned thing... who cares if it's ready??
Isn't that a little high? I'm no expert on batteries but it would seem to me that this idea would be useful only for something along the lines of continually adding energy to these things (until just before the material would reach its breaking point) and then do a large deceleration to capacitors to store up a shizerload of charge for burst transmission, like say to a lazer.... hmmm...
But since both sides want to build copy protection into everything, they only differ over the process, we're in trouble either way.
So if I understand correctly, it's about time to start stocking up on 1GHz processors and build shizer-loads of beowulf clusters.... sounds good to me...
"i still see a lot of development with c or c++ for speed reasons. Java may be a great language in theory, but it still has issues with speed over a native language."
It's not just speed; I do pretty much ALL of my coding in C (including building a feed forward neural net if you can believe that) and I LIKE it for the same reasons I like Linux; the system/language proudly hands me more than enough rope to hang myself and doesn't bother to complain if I do. In the IT industry hanging rope = flexibility... I LIKE the fact that I can do weird sh!t with the system and I like that I could type rm -rf *.h if I wanted to and the system would follow my command.... another reason is this email I once got:
Java java.text.NumberFormat formatter = java.text.NumberFormat.getNumberInstance(); forma tter.setMinimumFractionDigits(2); formatter.setMa ximumFractionDigits(2); String s = formatter.format(x); for (int i = s.length(); i < 10; i++)
System.out.print(' '); System.out.print(s);
I've read a lot of comments about how this operating system covers it, and this other one doesn't etc... This isn't really about computers, this is about routers, ALL routers have to talk to each other, and you can't block that. There's a strong possibility mentioned in the Fin's paper about using that to have a loverly worm created (likely by the same folks that gave us nimda et al) that just tries every vulnerability against all the routers... it's possible that you could take the entire net down in a few hours. Phone companies also use a lot of SNMP enabled gear that is vulnerable to the overflowing that most of this code would produce, so you could effectively take down ALL comms... from a mil standpoint this is downright frightening....
....it's like if someone were to invent a cold fusion device out of common household materials that so simple that a child of three could put it together, of course it would be patented!!! and we'd probably still get some asshole on/. saying but it's so simple!! anyone could've designed that!! that fscking patent office is on crack!! crack I tell you CRACK!!!... dah well.. back to my cave
Any idiot could have designed the force feedback stuff, even Microsoft! How did that get a patent on something so simple???
Once something is invented it's pretty much always simple ref zippers and velcro... that's why there's patent laws; someone is innovative enough to realize that there's a huge potential market for something that's been pretty much staring us in the face for the last umpteen years, so they perfect it, and patent it so that [insert-megalithic-corporation-here] can't screw them outta there rightly deserved cash.
displaying pictures that have been "thumbnailed" on my site and once you download them you notice that they're really 200k? Is it still fair use if you "thumbnail" them instead of actually degrading the quality AND the size... or would just shrinking them be enough?
Those are PUBLICLY AVAILABLE INTERFACES. There is nowhere to "HIDE" windows-only hooks
In case you haven't been paying attention, we know all this, what we're afraid of is the following scenario:
MICROSOFT: now that you've made the switch so that 50% + of your apps are using our "publicly available interfaces" we're going to close them and change the interface so your shit won't work anymore...
EVERYONE ELSE: but...but... you can't!!
MICROSOFT: so sue us?... I'm sure in 4 years when the case is settled we'll be more than happy to open it all back up again.... 's just too bad we'll have 99% market dominance... but hey; that's life right?
You're kidding, right? Have you heard two hardcore gardeners have a conversation?
hehehe... no can't say that I have. I still maintain my point though; I'll be looking through something as inane as a job offering and can't help but laughing at myself for having to reread the offering about 4 times just to convince myself that it really is written in english.;)
Just make sure that whatever book you do make, you give a solid foundation before you jump into the examples. I know far too many people, mostly profs, who's only programming experience is buying dozens of books and wrestling with the code to get something useable.
I don't know if I speak for everyone, but as far as I'm concerned, if you are still wrestling with the code, as opposed to actually programming with it, then you haven't really learned the language.
Books need to have more examples. Personally I learn by example, by taking what someone else has done and riping it up, to make it do something else.
sorry, I have to disagree... When I reach for a book, I need both a SOLID Technical description, something along the lines of a man page in plain english AND a DETAILED theoretical background to what I'm reading examples are usually only icing on the cake, and can generally be found anywhere. The others are a must for a ref book.
Dude has a valid point, there are certain user interface issues that have to be dealt with before Linux can be considered better all around. Don't get me wrong, I use a single boot slackware box as my home machine... but I do generally feel left wanting....
Any cipher can be attacked, and generally just about every cipher is vulnerable when you take a reduced round variant. Also, right now you can take ANY key and block multiple of 32bits (there may be a lower limit of 128, but there's no upper limit) and you have to do at least 12 rounds (14 if you're using a 256 256 mix) And the reduced round attack (published by Eli Biham and Nathan Keller rom the Israel Institute of Technology) can only work on 4,5 or 6 rounds.... The main reason for choosing Rijndael over the other 5 competitors was that it is FAST!!!!!!!!!!! I'm using it for my undergrad thesis and it's ridiculously fast at encryption and decryption... it's also fairly easy to implement (except for the MixColumn and inverseMixColumn step) and very small... the cipher could fit easily on a smartcard.
Why the fuck is it that people get more upset about a kid who cost some company that no one really gives a ratfuck about some cash, than people being murdered!?!?! The kid would've been better off murdering someone and claiming he thought they'd come back to life just like in nintendo... then he'd only have gotten a few months and some psychiatry... how fucking pitiful...
... I think I'll go become a hermit somewhere...:(
The towers were hit, the pentagon was hit and so was a building near the whitehouse... and I'll give you one guess as to which TLA that hates both the US and Israel is claiming responsibility....
That's right!!! the PLO... isn't that great folks!?!?!? Man.. the fit is really going to hit the shan now....
Listen to the radio or something... sheesh... Apparently aircraft crashed into the pentagon, a building very near the whitehouse and the two that hit the world trade centre... and, get this, the PLO is claiming responsibility!!!!
JEEZUS!!!! Could you IMAGINE the potential hacks!?!?!?!? Think about how pissed you would be if when you woke up to take a shower I hacked into it (cuz it has it's own IP now:) and made it go ice fucking cold!!! or worse yet... I hack into your beer fridge and set it to PISS WARM.....
OH THE HORROR!!! THE DESTRUCTION!!! WE'RE ALL DOOMED!!!!.... the shower's not so bad... but the BEER!!! THINK OF THE BEER, MAN!!!
Any Canucks on this list, CHECK THE LINK there is a mailto: portion, they're accepting comments until the 15th of september... a few thousand gentle reminders that the DMCA (and likely and DMCA-derived law) is in violation of our right to free speech (detailed in our Charter of Rights and Freedoms) might be enough to make them at least take a hard look at what they might be legislating!!!
I for one DO NOT want to see the DMCA making its way north, the rest of this part of the world is doing all it can to get rid of the fucking thing... why in gods green earth would we want to take it off of their hands?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
note to US citizensGOOD LUCK, YOU'VE GOT ALL OUR SUPPORT!!!!
hmm.... apparently no one made the connection.... you know "share and enjoy" motto of ciriius cybernetics corporation.... ..*Sigh*... I miss you D.A. ... . .:(
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After all, who do you trust more: A corporation which is after your money and tries to remove any feature which costs them money or a hacker who tries to open up the net as wide as possible? ;)
The most corrupt cracker (not to be confused with muthafu$%in cracka) is pretty much on par with the most corrupt corporation... so that's actually a pretty tough call...
Look at it this way. Differently clued execs sell more wireless networks and related equipment. Differently clued people buy them. Clued people support them and make money. This could be the next economic bubble.
;)
or the second coming of the hacker golden age... heheheh... I agree with saintlupus, time to grab AirSnort and see what I can come up with
humbug... what a waste of time... I'd personally rather see more initiative in securing wireless networks, instead of proceeding in a definitely windowsesque fashion and just ship ship ship the damned thing... who cares if it's ready??
They claim a 5% loss per day.
Isn't that a little high? I'm no expert on batteries but it would seem to me that this idea would be useful only for something along the lines of continually adding energy to these things (until just before the material would reach its breaking point) and then do a large deceleration to capacitors to store up a shizerload of charge for burst transmission, like say to a lazer.... hmmm...
But since both sides want to build copy protection into everything, they only differ over the process, we're in trouble either way.
So if I understand correctly, it's about time to start stocking up on 1GHz processors and build shizer-loads of beowulf clusters.... sounds good to me...
"i still see a lot of development with c or c++ for speed reasons. Java may be a great language in theory, but it still has issues with speed over a native language."
a tter.setMinimumFractionDigits(2);a ximumFractionDigits(2);
It's not just speed; I do pretty much ALL of my coding in C (including building a feed forward neural net if you can believe that) and I LIKE it for the same reasons I like Linux; the system/language proudly hands me more than enough rope to hang myself and doesn't bother to complain if I do. In the IT industry hanging rope = flexibility... I LIKE the fact that I can do weird sh!t with the system and I like that I could type rm -rf *.h if I wanted to and the system would follow my command.... another reason is this email I once got:
The March of Progress
C
printf("%10.2f", x);
C++
cout << setw(10) < < setprecision(2) << showpoint << x;
Java
java.text.NumberFormat formatter = java.text.NumberFormat.getNumberInstance();
form
formatter.setM
String s = formatter.format(x);
for (int i = s.length(); i < 10; i++)
System.out.print(' ');
System.out.print(s);
I've read a lot of comments about how this operating system covers it, and this other one doesn't etc... This isn't really about computers, this is about routers, ALL routers have to talk to each other, and you can't block that. There's a strong possibility mentioned in the Fin's paper about using that to have a loverly worm created (likely by the same folks that gave us nimda et al) that just tries every vulnerability against all the routers... it's possible that you could take the entire net down in a few hours. Phone companies also use a lot of SNMP enabled gear that is vulnerable to the overflowing that most of this code would produce, so you could effectively take down ALL comms... from a mil standpoint this is downright frightening....
DONE!!!
not sure about the whole shinny thing though...
Basically they are after scammers offering easy money quick, not the average 'get porn here' type of spam
so basically some ijit (such as a congress-critter) fell for this scam and got burned and threw the FTC on the case... right... gotcha.... waytago...
....it's like if someone were to invent a cold fusion device out of common household materials that so simple that a child of three could put it together, of course it would be patented!!! and we'd probably still get some asshole on /. saying but it's so simple!! anyone could've designed that!! that fscking patent office is on crack!! crack I tell you CRACK!!!...
dah well.. back to my cave
Any idiot could have designed the force feedback stuff, even Microsoft! How did that get a patent on something so simple???
Once something is invented it's pretty much always simple ref zippers and velcro... that's why there's patent laws; someone is innovative enough to realize that there's a huge potential market for something that's been pretty much staring us in the face for the last umpteen years, so they perfect it, and patent it so that [insert-megalithic-corporation-here] can't screw them outta there rightly deserved cash.
displaying pictures that have been "thumbnailed" on my site and once you download them you notice that they're really 200k? Is it still fair use if you "thumbnail" them instead of actually degrading the quality AND the size... or would just shrinking them be enough?
Those are PUBLICLY AVAILABLE INTERFACES. There is nowhere to "HIDE" windows-only hooks
In case you haven't been paying attention, we know all this, what we're afraid of is the following scenario:
MICROSOFT: now that you've made the switch so that 50% + of your apps are using our "publicly available interfaces" we're going to close them and change the interface so your shit won't work anymore...
EVERYONE ELSE: but...but... you can't!!
MICROSOFT: so sue us?... I'm sure in 4 years when the case is settled we'll be more than happy to open it all back up again.... 's just too bad we'll have 99% market dominance... but hey; that's life right?
... or am I just being paranoid?
You're kidding, right? Have you heard two hardcore gardeners have a conversation?
;)
hehehe... no can't say that I have. I still maintain my point though; I'll be looking through something as inane as a job offering and can't help but laughing at myself for having to reread the offering about 4 times just to convince myself that it really is written in english.
Mondrian is a modern, purely functional language specifically designed to leverage the possibilities of the
AAAAUUUUGGGGGHHHH!!! ENGLISH MUTHAFUCKA; DO YOU SPEAK IT!!??
*sigh*
Just make sure that whatever book you do make, you give a solid foundation before you jump into the examples. I know far too many people, mostly profs, who's only programming experience is buying dozens of books and wrestling with the code to get something useable.
I don't know if I speak for everyone, but as far as I'm concerned, if you are still wrestling with the code, as opposed to actually programming with it, then you haven't really learned the language.
Books need to have more examples. Personally I learn by example, by taking what someone else has done and riping it up, to make it do something else.
sorry, I have to disagree... When I reach for a book, I need both a SOLID Technical description, something along the lines of a man page in plain english AND a DETAILED theoretical background to what I'm reading examples are usually only icing on the cake, and can generally be found anywhere. The others are a must for a ref book.
HOW IN THE NAME OF *BOB* IS THIS A TROLL!?!?!
Dude has a valid point, there are certain user interface issues that have to be dealt with before Linux can be considered better all around. Don't get me wrong, I use a single boot slackware box as my home machine... but I do generally feel left wanting....
Any cipher can be attacked, and generally just about every cipher is vulnerable when you take a reduced round variant.
Also, right now you can take ANY key and block multiple of 32bits (there may be a lower limit of 128, but there's no upper limit) and you have to do at least 12 rounds (14 if you're using a 256 256 mix) And the reduced round attack (published by Eli Biham and Nathan Keller rom the Israel Institute of Technology) can only work on 4,5 or 6 rounds.... The main reason for choosing Rijndael over the other 5 competitors was that it is FAST!!!!!!!!!!! I'm using it for my undergrad thesis and it's ridiculously fast at encryption and decryption... it's also fairly easy to implement (except for the MixColumn and inverseMixColumn step) and very small... the cipher could fit easily on a smartcard.
Why the fuck is it that people get more upset about a kid who cost some company that no one really gives a ratfuck about some cash, than people being murdered!?!?! The kid would've been better off murdering someone and claiming he thought they'd come back to life just like in nintendo... then he'd only have gotten a few months and some psychiatry... how fucking pitiful...
:(
... I think I'll go become a hermit somewhere...
watch more tv!!!!
The towers were hit, the pentagon was hit and so was a building near the whitehouse... and I'll give you one guess as to which TLA that hates both the US and Israel is claiming responsibility....
That's right!!! the PLO... isn't that great folks!?!?!? Man.. the fit is really going to hit the shan now....
Listen to the radio or something... sheesh...
Apparently aircraft crashed into the pentagon, a building very near the whitehouse and the two that hit the world trade centre... and, get this, the PLO is claiming responsibility!!!!
Man the fit is going to hit the shan soon!!!!
JEEZUS!!!! Could you IMAGINE the potential hacks!?!?!?!? Think about how pissed you would be if when you woke up to take a shower I hacked into it (cuz it has it's own IP now :) and made it go ice fucking cold!!! or worse yet... I hack into your beer fridge and set it to PISS WARM .....
.... the shower's not so bad... but the BEER!!! THINK OF THE BEER, MAN!!!
OH THE HORROR!!! THE DESTRUCTION!!! WE'RE ALL DOOMED!!!!
Any Canucks on this list, CHECK THE LINK there is a mailto: portion, they're accepting comments until the 15th of september... a few thousand gentle reminders that the DMCA (and likely and DMCA-derived law) is in violation of our right to free speech (detailed in our Charter of Rights and Freedoms) might be enough to make them at least take a hard look at what they might be legislating!!!
I for one DO NOT want to see the DMCA making its way north, the rest of this part of the world is doing all it can to get rid of the fucking thing... why in gods green earth would we want to take it off of their hands?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
note to US citizensGOOD LUCK, YOU'VE GOT ALL OUR SUPPORT!!!!
hmm.... apparently no one made the connection.... you know "share and enjoy" motto of ciriius cybernetics corporation.... . .*Sigh*... I miss you D.A. . .. . . :(