The thing is, they won't be using a pure brute force but rather a 'directed' brute force through some sort of markov-chain implementation. So if you use standard English words and grammar the number of bits of random data in your password is dramatically reduced.
Apparently there are over 90,000 IPs involved in the attacks, so they can effectively test a 90,000 password dictionary before you even see the same IP twice.
It's ironic how they charge him with aiding the enemy when the US isn't even at war.
Also, to be aiding the enemy he has to have leaked them with the *intention* of them getting to the enemy. He can just argue that those ones were collateral damage, and use the standard "collateral damage is acceptable if minimized" argument, a la standard military protocol.
Surely there is some sort of contradiction with charging him with aiding the enemy while not being officially at war? If they want to be able to use war-time charges, they should man up and declare it as a war, dammit!
Those that were actually classified for a good reason were just "collateral damage", they were entirely unintentional. All in the name of democracy. That's the justification the military gives, right?
This is 2013, we shouldn't have to indent manually still. If you want to cut/paste a few lines of of code from one section to another, if the indentation doesn't match it can be seriously annoying in python to get it all correct. Compare this to java, where as long as it is between the curly brackets I know it will be OK. Press the shortcut for auto-indent, and I can tell immediately if it is in the right place.
Let me guess, you also support sending shoplifters to prison for extended periods of time. Drug users as well, because they will definitely kick the habit *right now* if they know that they might have to go to prison. Well guess what, that doesn't work. All you end up with is a large prison population.
The goal is not to punish people for being evil, those are the thoughts of a vindictive 3 year old who wants it "to be fair". The goal is to create a safe, harmonious society where people are not in danger. Would you rather run into an ex-junkie late at night in town after he had spend 3 years in prison or after 6 months in rehab? Would you rather be walking your kids to school and cross a road knowing that your local cop pulled over speeders and told them to slow down ASAP or just sent them fines in the mail which they will get a week or two later once they have been processed, sent, transported, delivered and opened on the other side?
Even with prison, we don't lock people up to "teach them a lesson". We lock them up to remove them from society so that they can't cause any additional harm.
You failed to get the point for two consecutive points, so now you get two fines. Does that seem fair? Or would you rather I told you you were getting the fine after the first one so that you could modify your behaviour as quickly as possible?
You're looking at it from a 'punishment' point of view, when you should be looking at it from a 'rehab' point of view. The point is not to punish people for speeding, but to prevent them speeding in the future. If you let them know that they were speeding the first time, you've reduced their speeding to 33% of what you would if they only found out after the 3rd time.
TI has a new range of super-low-power embedded chips which use FRAM, they are using it to replace flash and get faster writes, lower power consumption and higher write cycles before failure, so there's one new tech which made it to market and might become more popular over the coming years as it gets cheaper.
And even current-gen ultra-capacitors have a similar or better *power*/weight ratio as a battery - I'd like to see a 30g battery which can give 30A at 600V without damage to itself. It's the *energy*/weight ratio which is a killer - that 30A spike doesn't last long enough to be useful for the types of applications we currently use batteries for.
Just because it isn't copper doesn't mean it won't be stolen. I've seen bead necklaces being sold with the string made out of... you guessed it: optic fiber.
On a more serious note, the radiation hardening and reliability required of a space platform limits the performance of pretty much any electronics on board. I wonder if we ever figure out optical-based computers if they will be better at EM/cosmic-particle rejection.
Except that it's not a private company. Harvard is taxpayer subsidised. Just as the shareholders of a company would expect to be informed of an internal company scandal that involved over 100 employees being severely disciplined/fired, so can the general public expect to be informed of the goings-on within a publicly funded university.
Accelerate faster? Are you on crack? You get instant torque from 0 RPM. No power band. No time lost on shifting gears. No vibration, no reciprocating components about to fail at any moment. Don't tell me electric cars have less torque: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_drag_racing#Cars.2C_1.2F4_mile
Any car can suffer from throttle-lift-induced oversteer in a long turn, or the beginning sequence of the Scandinavian Flick, and unexpectedly be flung wildly out of control with an unprepared driver.
Nope, they route torque to the front wheels and it will understeer instead. Braking induced oversteer/spinouts is non-existent as well, because the moment the back starts sliding out the brakes are released to bring it back in. And all of this is happening hundreds of times a second, so that little patch of gravel/oil/dirt isn't going to cause an issue either. You have to try pretty hard if you want to spin out a car with full 4WD/ESP/ABS/ACRONYM.
Yup, they had no clue about aerodynamic stability. They should have added weight at the front, then increased the upwards pitch of their canard. *That* would have resulted in a stable aircraft.
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Less than 1% of 1%.
The thing is, they won't be using a pure brute force but rather a 'directed' brute force through some sort of markov-chain implementation. So if you use standard English words and grammar the number of bits of random data in your password is dramatically reduced.
Apparently there are over 90,000 IPs involved in the attacks, so they can effectively test a 90,000 password dictionary before you even see the same IP twice.
30,000 metres. 100,000 feet.
It's ironic how they charge him with aiding the enemy when the US isn't even at war.
Also, to be aiding the enemy he has to have leaked them with the *intention* of them getting to the enemy. He can just argue that those ones were collateral damage, and use the standard "collateral damage is acceptable if minimized" argument, a la standard military protocol.
Surely there is some sort of contradiction with charging him with aiding the enemy while not being officially at war? If they want to be able to use war-time charges, they should man up and declare it as a war, dammit!
Those that were actually classified for a good reason were just "collateral damage", they were entirely unintentional. All in the name of democracy. That's the justification the military gives, right?
It works, bitches.
This is 2013, we shouldn't have to indent manually still. If you want to cut/paste a few lines of of code from one section to another, if the indentation doesn't match it can be seriously annoying in python to get it all correct. Compare this to java, where as long as it is between the curly brackets I know it will be OK. Press the shortcut for auto-indent, and I can tell immediately if it is in the right place.
Let me guess, you also support sending shoplifters to prison for extended periods of time. Drug users as well, because they will definitely kick the habit *right now* if they know that they might have to go to prison. Well guess what, that doesn't work. All you end up with is a large prison population.
The goal is not to punish people for being evil, those are the thoughts of a vindictive 3 year old who wants it "to be fair". The goal is to create a safe, harmonious society where people are not in danger. Would you rather run into an ex-junkie late at night in town after he had spend 3 years in prison or after 6 months in rehab? Would you rather be walking your kids to school and cross a road knowing that your local cop pulled over speeders and told them to slow down ASAP or just sent them fines in the mail which they will get a week or two later once they have been processed, sent, transported, delivered and opened on the other side?
Even with prison, we don't lock people up to "teach them a lesson". We lock them up to remove them from society so that they can't cause any additional harm.
Did he?
You failed to get the point for two consecutive points, so now you get two fines. Does that seem fair? Or would you rather I told you you were getting the fine after the first one so that you could modify your behaviour as quickly as possible?
You're looking at it from a 'punishment' point of view, when you should be looking at it from a 'rehab' point of view. The point is not to punish people for speeding, but to prevent them speeding in the future. If you let them know that they were speeding the first time, you've reduced their speeding to 33% of what you would if they only found out after the 3rd time.
TI has a new range of super-low-power embedded chips which use FRAM, they are using it to replace flash and get faster writes, lower power consumption and higher write cycles before failure, so there's one new tech which made it to market and might become more popular over the coming years as it gets cheaper.
And even current-gen ultra-capacitors have a similar or better *power*/weight ratio as a battery - I'd like to see a 30g battery which can give 30A at 600V without damage to itself. It's the *energy*/weight ratio which is a killer - that 30A spike doesn't last long enough to be useful for the types of applications we currently use batteries for.
No, x86 is clearly bigger and better than x64!
Just because it isn't copper doesn't mean it won't be stolen. I've seen bead necklaces being sold with the string made out of... you guessed it: optic fiber.
One Pi, yes. But IN SPACE!!!1!!
On a more serious note, the radiation hardening and reliability required of a space platform limits the performance of pretty much any electronics on board. I wonder if we ever figure out optical-based computers if they will be better at EM/cosmic-particle rejection.
Think stuff like image stitching, terrain depth calculations via stereoscopy, detecting growth areas via changes in night-light levels, etc.
Except that it's not a private company. Harvard is taxpayer subsidised. Just as the shareholders of a company would expect to be informed of an internal company scandal that involved over 100 employees being severely disciplined/fired, so can the general public expect to be informed of the goings-on within a publicly funded university.
You can get them both working together in bursts, just not continuously.
Accelerate faster? Are you on crack? You get instant torque from 0 RPM. No power band. No time lost on shifting gears. No vibration, no reciprocating components about to fail at any moment.
Don't tell me electric cars have less torque:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_drag_racing#Cars.2C_1.2F4_mile
Not true, the Greeks saw having a small penis as a sign of virility.
Any car can suffer from throttle-lift-induced oversteer in a long turn, or the beginning sequence of the Scandinavian Flick, and unexpectedly be flung wildly out of control with an unprepared driver.
Nope, they route torque to the front wheels and it will understeer instead. Braking induced oversteer/spinouts is non-existent as well, because the moment the back starts sliding out the brakes are released to bring it back in. And all of this is happening hundreds of times a second, so that little patch of gravel/oil/dirt isn't going to cause an issue either. You have to try pretty hard if you want to spin out a car with full 4WD/ESP/ABS/ACRONYM.
It doesn't use batteries, it uses a kinetic (ie. flywheel) system of energy storage.
Yup, they had no clue about aerodynamic stability. They should have added weight at the front, then increased the upwards pitch of their canard. *That* would have resulted in a stable aircraft.