The issue is not that there are collisions, but that the collisions become predictable. e.g. Given a hash value, you could deliberately generate data to yield the same hash value.
For a real world example, it was a broken hash function that allowed some versions of the iopener to be hacked. Someone was able to determine that the password hash algorithm had a bug in it, and they generated a password that had the same hash code - instant root login!
Some of their statements are downright silly, given that Apache could be considered P2P software.
Good point.
Someone knowledgeable should start contacting any AG offices that have web/email/etc. servers and explain to them that they are running P2P software with all of its attendant risks.
Squirrel 1: Sir, we are under attack. Squirrel 2: Raise shields. Squirrel 1: [Holds up large leaf with hole in it] Our shields are no match for their weapon systems, sir. But I believe that if we remodulate our communication frequencies, we will be undetectable to the enemy. Squirrel 2: Make it so.
They further go on to to say that RemoteWare requires expensive client side software, and this is why their product is innovative. Because they won't charge as much money for it.
Aha! There you have it. What they've patented is a business model: "We will sell our stuff for a lower price than the other guy."
We have one of these Washington Mutal branches near us.
Thanks to the USPTO, other bank's customers will be spared this abomination, at least for a couple of decades. This is the dumbest idea for a bank layout I can imagine, except, possibly for card tables on the sidewalk.
If I want to send a photograph to my mom (for example), I've usually navigated to the folder where I keep the photos so I can preview them in the Finder. When I find the one I want, I switch over to my email program, compose a new message, then drag that photo into the mail window.
Well, there you have it. You see, this system will be much easier.
You'll navigate to the folder where you keep the photos, then touch the one you want with your pen. You'll then mail the pen to your mom, who will probably use it to write a check at the grocery store and accidentally leave it at the checkstand. The checker will take it home and give it to one of her kids, who will recognize the type of pen and use it to look at your photos.
Fortunately, unless you have an "unusual" relationship with your mom, the photos won't have anything provocative in them.
Meanwhile, your mom will be complaining about her son, who never sends her any photos of her grandkids, and never calls or writes, but keeps sending her these stupid Sony promo pens.
The whole IT community went through this debate years ago.
Report it to the developer, not the whole world.
The standard nowadays is to notify the vendor and give them time to create a fix, and then report it to the world at large.
The problem with notifying only the vendor was (years ago) found to be that vendors would not fix an exploit if they were confident that few people knew about it. Vulnerabilities known to the vendors went years without being fixed because they knew that few people were capable of figuring out that the vulnerability existed.
The current system is basically a way to shame the vendors into acting proactively to fix a vulnerability, before an exploit is found in the wild. The hazards of it were debated long and hard by the IT community, but in the end it was decided that they had to force vendors to act.
The reason the 'r' comes and goes is because the 'Q', in Klingon, is sort of like an over done 'k' in English. It's pronounced toward the back of the mouth. The net effect is vaguely like a "kr" sound in English.
So "Kronos" is sort of a phonemic transcription of what "Qo'noS" would sound like.
That's just ugly. The crappy graphical circular thing (I guess it moves to the music?).
(Disclaimer - I'm a W2K user at home and WinNT at work. I think I've got WMP9 installed at home, and may even use it once a month or so.)
Yeah, that circular thing is pretty ugly. I think they call it a "visualization". It changes based on the sound. It's sort of an oscilloscope.
The badly-contrasted buttons with text RIGHT in the center between dark and light, impossible to read or decipher (thanks MS, for making my monitor look like it has glare on it, ALL THE TIME!)
THAT'S what's been bothering me about the current state of "chrome" on user interfaces. I could never quite put my finger on it. Yeah, maybe those cute rounded surfaces may look cool, but they are making stuff harder and harder to read.
Same goes for the bizzaro default color scheme that Windows XP comes up with. It makes me want to dim the monitor so the bright blue and green don't glare so much.
I'm sure I must be turning more fuddy-duddy as I get older, but was there something seriously wrong with plain grey buttons with a little highlight in the upper left?
The useless empty space to the right with a.. album cover?.. at the top.
I think that would contain a list of tracks if an entire album or playlist were being played. The "album cover" (?) is probably something you could maybe call out in a playlist (which are XML, IIRC), or will be shown for online media playing (with the opportunity to buy it, of course).
(d) opening the application and automatically causing the application to display the last known state of the application if the application button is pressed, without being released, for a period
equal to or in excess of the threshold time limit.
So, could the patent be sidestepped if you waited for a period of time only in excess of, but not equal to, the threshold time limit?
What's interesting is that the Copy-II-PC card could probably not be sold now, due to the DMCA. Neither could a lot of the hack cards for the Apple II.
The manufacturers would be subject to arrest a la Dmitry Sklyarov.
We live in a different world now that we've turned our lives over to corporations.
I hope that this will get the industry thinking about how their foolish actions have affected their customers (...ya right..)
I think that the music industry understands perfectly what the problem is. But fixing it is sort of a "you first" thing. No company wants to be the first one to try and buck the trend. They're too afraid of the consequences of failure.
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How do you know? You haven't yet seen the EULA for this thing.
Well, that does it for me.
I'm voting "Predator" in 2004!
The issue is not that there are collisions, but that the collisions become predictable. e.g. Given a hash value, you could deliberately generate data to yield the same hash value.
For a real world example, it was a broken hash function that allowed some versions of the iopener to be hacked. Someone was able to determine that the password hash algorithm had a bug in it, and they generated a password that had the same hash code - instant root login!
Free beer... They offer free breakfast, lunch AND dinner... and snacks.
Once you say "free beer", saying "breakfast", "lunch", etc. are redundant.
"Beer" pretty well covers everything.
Some of their statements are downright silly, given that Apache could be considered P2P software.
Good point.
Someone knowledgeable should start contacting any AG offices that have web/email/etc. servers and explain to them that they are running P2P software with all of its attendant risks.
I just got an idea: I'm going to start using these kinds of fasteners to make women's clothing.
Then sell the "auto-unzip" codes to geeks. I'll be rich!
Squirrel 1: Sir, we are under attack.
Squirrel 2: Raise shields.
Squirrel 1: [Holds up large leaf with hole in it] Our shields are no match for their weapon systems, sir. But I believe that if we remodulate our communication frequencies, we will be undetectable to the enemy.
Squirrel 2: Make it so.
I'm holding out for Segway jousting!
What brilliance! What innovation!
Now, while coding it, you just know some C programmer is accidentally going to hold the shift key down for one millisecond too long:I think that we may need to move the punctuation off of the numeric keys before we all die at the hands of misprogrammed androids.
We have one of these Washington Mutal branches near us.
Thanks to the USPTO, other bank's customers will be spared this abomination, at least for a couple of decades. This is the dumbest idea for a bank layout I can imagine, except, possibly for card tables on the sidewalk.
You'll navigate to the folder where you keep the photos, then touch the one you want with your pen. You'll then mail the pen to your mom, who will probably use it to write a check at the grocery store and accidentally leave it at the checkstand. The checker will take it home and give it to one of her kids, who will recognize the type of pen and use it to look at your photos.
Fortunately, unless you have an "unusual" relationship with your mom, the photos won't have anything provocative in them.
Meanwhile, your mom will be complaining about her son, who never sends her any photos of her grandkids, and never calls or writes, but keeps sending her these stupid Sony promo pens.
The whole IT community went through this debate years ago.
Report it to the developer, not the whole world.
The standard nowadays is to notify the vendor and give them time to create a fix, and then report it to the world at large.
The problem with notifying only the vendor was (years ago) found to be that vendors would not fix an exploit if they were confident that few people knew about it. Vulnerabilities known to the vendors went years without being fixed because they knew that few people were capable of figuring out that the vulnerability existed.
The current system is basically a way to shame the vendors into acting proactively to fix a vulnerability, before an exploit is found in the wild. The hazards of it were debated long and hard by the IT community, but in the end it was decided that they had to force vendors to act.
Hoo-boy. I'm labeling myself as uber-geek.
The reason the 'r' comes and goes is because the 'Q', in Klingon, is sort of like an over done 'k' in English. It's pronounced toward the back of the mouth. The net effect is vaguely like a "kr" sound in English.
So "Kronos" is sort of a phonemic transcription of what "Qo'noS" would sound like.
That's just ugly. The crappy graphical circular thing (I guess it moves to the music?).
.. album cover? .. at the top.
(Disclaimer - I'm a W2K user at home and WinNT at work. I think I've got WMP9 installed at home, and may even use it once a month or so.)
Yeah, that circular thing is pretty ugly. I think they call it a "visualization". It changes based on the sound. It's sort of an oscilloscope.
The badly-contrasted buttons with text RIGHT in the center between dark and light, impossible to read or decipher (thanks MS, for making my monitor look like it has glare on it, ALL THE TIME!)
THAT'S what's been bothering me about the current state of "chrome" on user interfaces. I could never quite put my finger on it. Yeah, maybe those cute rounded surfaces may look cool, but they are making stuff harder and harder to read.
Same goes for the bizzaro default color scheme that Windows XP comes up with. It makes me want to dim the monitor so the bright blue and green don't glare so much.
I'm sure I must be turning more fuddy-duddy as I get older, but was there something seriously wrong with plain grey buttons with a little highlight in the upper left?
The useless empty space to the right with a
I think that would contain a list of tracks if an entire album or playlist were being played. The "album cover" (?) is probably something you could maybe call out in a playlist (which are XML, IIRC), or will be shown for online media playing (with the opportunity to buy it, of course).
From the patent (in several places):So, could the patent be sidestepped if you waited for a period of time only in excess of, but not equal to, the threshold time limit?
I mean, this is just amazing! A system that lets you send messages by waving your arms!
Maybe in a few more years they'll invent a system which lets you send a message by entering just dots and dashes.
What's interesting is that the Copy-II-PC card could probably not be sold now, due to the DMCA. Neither could a lot of the hack cards for the Apple II.
The manufacturers would be subject to arrest a la Dmitry Sklyarov.
We live in a different world now that we've turned our lives over to corporations.
They've been making keyboards like that ever since the shift key got DMCA'd.
Googie is the architecture of the future, dammit!
Are you suggesting that we're not performing DDOS attacks? :)
I hope that this will get the industry thinking about how their foolish actions have affected their customers (...ya right..)
I think that the music industry understands perfectly what the problem is. But fixing it is sort of a "you first" thing. No company wants to be the first one to try and buck the trend. They're too afraid of the consequences of failure.
No, it's "dabadaba" - truly meaningful music.
You mean the same way that suspending someone's driver's license prevents them from getting behind the wheel of a car?
It looks to me like it doesn't have much residential space.