Under "Tools" -> "Internet Options" -> "Advanced" deselect "Enable third party browser extensions" and reboot. Even if the.dll responsible for the redirection, bpboh.dll, is installed, it won't be able to run.
Try this SEARCH for bpboh.dll with that search window open you can try to delete the file outright, but Windows will claim "File is in use". So leave the search window open. Close all Internet Explorer browsing windows. Then you can delete bpboh.dll easily. If you want, you can then under START/RUN type "regedit" then Find "bpboh" and delete the registry keys that it has (there will be some keys regarding "recent searches" which you can also safely delete).
BitTorrent is...suspect. Even worse, its creator is a bit much. Please see, on the same site, http://bitconjurer.org/a_torturers_account.html [bitconjurer.org] and http://bitconjurer.org/it_happened.html [bitconjurer.org]. This Bram Cohen is One Sick Fuck [bitconjurer.org].
YIKES! I hate to agree on this one, but even though BitTorrent might be the next big wave to reinvent the concept of FTP, Bram needs to reexamine his fantasy life (which seems to come straight out of a woman-despising serial-killer profile sheet) before he gets the cash investments to play those fantasies out in reality.
The only thing that really differs the wealthy from the poor is the money to act upon their sickest whims without consequence.
The skinny of the news is a file called BPBOH.DLL that comes with the MORPHEUS PREVIEW version and carries the nasty little bugger that is causing CONSTANT browser crashes right now on my system. LAVASOFT's AdAware has a program called REFUPDATE which includes the killer for this little spyware nasty.The downside is RefUpdate is SUPPOSED to be aware of BPboh.dll, but didn't find it on my system as per Lavasoft's mirror page. So search the BPBOH.DLL and delete the nasty crashing bugger.
The nasty is made by a sleazy firm called Wurld Media, Inc. (They spelled it "Wurld" not "World")
Here's a snippet of the bastard. rdxr020305.dat (which appears on my desktop) bpboh.dll (the offending file) bpboh2.dll (not on my system but in the hex dump) www.rdxrp.com www.maplehollow.com www.rdx rs.com www.inmotiongolf.com /rdxr020304.dat /bp boh.dll about:blank werule \winbpupd.exe www.sephora.com http://www.sephora.com (Who wants to boycott Sephora's "we'll make you look like a prostitute" makeup selection? I don't wear it, but who would?) http://www.sephora.com/help/about_sephora.jhtml?lo cation=contact
Or use their snail mail address: WURLD Media, Inc. 63 Putnam Street Saratoga, Springs, NY 12866 Telephone: 1-518-691-1100 Fax: 1-518-691-1180 (Oh... let me think for a moment about what kinds of FAX pranks exist...)
Why don't they just encode everything the moron said in l33t sp34k?
This idiot deserves whatever he gets, and I seriously hope the judge shoves a good one up his ass.
It's kind of a scary statement. This retard managed to root *how many?* machines?
His parents aren't much better with that "They're suppressing his right to defend himself!" malarkey. The whole family must be fucking retards.
Well, I can't speak for the parents of the overly spoiled child (cues Oompah-Loompah song), but the machines have only humans to defend them. Heck, with Windoze Servers they are just wide open for a hearty goatsx screwing. It's tantamount to having one person babysit a gymnasium of toddlers. The odds are one of the servers will hurt itself if some stranger comes in and offers candy. When the rest start bawling too the sysop is going to be overwhelmed instantly. Now mix some metaphors and call me when the crow caws.
Brute force. How random is this random noise? If you can create a similar noise generator, all you have to do is filter out 80% of the crap, and you'll be able to grab the signal. It's like picking out the flashlight from a group of strobes. It's a PITA, but once you cover most of the strobes, you can see the flashlight.
Ah, so you propose LOCATION-based encryption. The real signal is spread across key "real" locations and random noise generators fill in the blanks with simliar level noise. This can work on cellphone bandwidths and other "live" signals. A more sophisticated method would shift key spots around the signal to keep things dynamic.
This could be used for static messages as well as the keypad would be the locations of the actual signal intermixed into noise.
I want mine to give of screaming moans of agony and pain should burgerlers ever break into my house when I am gone.
Oooh yaaaah.
I've got a better deal. Have your walls and floors give off the screaming moans of a porn soundtrack. Five minutes of that at loud volume and the cops will be called over the noise complaints alone. It certainly would confuse most burglers.
Does anyone else think some of these scenes look awfully familiar? I know Lucas wants to appeal to our sense of how much the original trilogy rocked but who wants a repeat of old material? I had to do a double take when I saw the trailer on TV, I had visions of Princess Leia in Jabba's palace again. I just hope he hasn't given everything away in the trailers and we'll still get a big surprise when we got to see it. Luke, I am your father...
Well... they have to do the Darth / Clown Queen boinking (so they can get Luke & younger sister Leia). They have to have Luke ending up stuck under the wise care of "Uncle Ben" & his other relatives. They have to have Leia sticking with her mom while her dad comes chasing after Leia in his battle-starship. Or at least set all this up for the beginning of "Episode 4.
Considering this isn't Episode 3, they'll have the birth of Luke and possibly Leia. The rise of the Dark Empire and the collapse of the Democratic Federation. They have to foreshadow the killing of the Jedi Knights, the conversion of young Vader into Dark Vader, and quite possibly the rise of the Resistance.
Wow, these are pretty bad. They didn't really even change any of the plot, or dialog. Just substituted in SW characters doing Pulp Fiction line for line.
I've got a better concept. Do a remake of David Lynch's DUNE - but instead of the regular cast I suggest a MUPPET cast. Put Gonzo in the role of Paul Atreides, Fozzie as Thufir, Miss Piggy as the Baron, Kermit as Feyd, Janice as Reverend Mother Ramallo, Sam the Eagle as Emperor Shaddam IV, Lew Zealand (the boomrang fish guy) as Gurney Halleck, Doctor Teeth as The Baron's Doctor, Dr. Bunsen Honeydew as the Head of the Spacer's Guild, etc...
There is enough cast to transfer between both movies and the casting is the most fun in this case. It would require a slight alteration in dialog to fit the MUPPET character types, but that is also the fun bit as well.
It's time to play the music, It's time to harvest the spice, It's time to get things started, It's time to light the lights, So let's use the weirdo way, Why don't we take the spice?
It's sensational, Persperational, This is what we call the "Kwisatz Haderach".
Statler: "When will this make any sense?" Waldorf: "Somebody's been putting whiskey in the stillsuits." (Both laugh)
A premium all-anime channel for $10/month would have no editing requirements whatsoever, just dubbing/subbing chores to be done. I'd sign up in a minute. "Kero Kero Hime" and "Digi Charat" in the mornings, "GALS," "Child's Toy" and "His and "Her Circumstances" in the afternoons, "Big O" and "Giant Robo" in late afternoon, "Fushigi Yuugi" and "El Hazard" in early prime, "Noir" and "Excel Saga" in late prime. At 10, a selected anime feature, followed by an all-night block of classic anime. Intersperse with it all some "Making of" featurettes and creator interviews. Closed captions will carry subs, SAP Channel has the dubs.
Let me at it!!!!
AMEN! If some enterprising company goes the HBO or SHOWTIME route and show uncensored Anime 24-hours-a-day they'll have a customer here. The tapes are too pricey to investigate all the subgenres and I don't have the time to track them down in their various markets. I'm tired of an entire artform being watered down to the lowest-common-crybaby tier. If they can show the stuff with stories and not wallow in demon-rape porn and the disturbing obsession Japanese men have with schoolgirls & snuff-porn I'll also devote a few hours a day watching the Anime channel.
So let me whisper this to the channels with money and experience getting into the premium viewer market... HBO & CINEMAX why are you not considering a stab at this concept? You have SHOWTIME EXTREME and 5 HBO networks. There is a prebuilt audience that spends thousands of dollars every year on Anime. Would they scoff at $10 / month? Think about it!" (Again, my sig is not just for show.)
As for the goo, I tend to doubt it will be used ON protestors. More likely it will be used to prevent passage across a particular area. Slime a nice perimeter around something, and it makes it very difficult to get through. It would be a good substitute for a fence when you need a barrier in a few seconds.
Which also means the World Trade Organization cannot drive their pretty little limos into their fancy isolated hotels to decide on how to screw every nation in the world. The perfect protest would be to put up barriers (to prevent innocent drivers from encountering the goo), lay down the goo, and wait for the WTO to appear, crash their limos, try to cross the goo, have the hotel enjoy a day of zero business (perhaps more if the protesters decide so and have plenty of goo), and enjoy the slapstick.
While this ISP was not as much of a sham as the ISP the articule links to, they had an executive with access to the company's purse strings. This person outright stole money from the company's bank account for personal use; we are talking about millions of dollars here. Finally, when the company went bankrupt one or two years later, this crook fled the country, and, as far as I know, is living in the Carribian.
I had such a painful AMIGA bankruptcy flashback on this sentance alone.
I am no longer surprised at the Bush Fraud Family pump & dump scams. I am simply very angry.
Interestingly enough if you play the wav file backwards you hear the sound of Bill Gates uttering a hypnotic mantra commanding you to sell your soul to Microsoft
Interestingly enough there is a "woop" sound at 3.35 seconds in until 3.7 seconds in an entirely instrumental piece which is called "The Microsoft Sound". Rather out of place I think. If you amplify it you can hear a "way-do" sound or maybe "mamma".
CD's & DVD's also have one more benefit over magnetic media that I would have expected you to remember: reliability. CD's & DVD's last longer and maintain their quality longer. Even if you are using DAT, the magnetic media will still degrade faster than a CD would.
There's a thing to note... The clear layer on top of the CD shrinks with use.
My friend liked the song "Cottoneye Joe" by the Rednex and played it over and over. The covering over the track which contained "Cottoneye Joe" shrank (though it also could be the track heated up slightly + the CD spinning melted some of the material toward the outer rim - though the track itself appeared to be indented) to the point where the laser wouldn't read it anymore.
So the trick is to find a shortcut or a flaw in the algorithm that allows you to get the data without searching all the keys.
In the case of RSA, the shortcut is factoring the product of two primes. It's way way easier to factor a 128-bit product than it is to search through a 128-bit keyspace. So RSA bumped the size of the product up and up and up until it was as impossibly hard to factor it as it was to search a 128-bit keyspace.
There is a simpler method. Divide a random number of 1000 digits ending in 1,3,7, or 9 into 1. If the number repeats only when reaching (random 1000 digit number)-1 then it is prime. It will ALWAYS be prime. This set of prime numbers accounts for 1/3 of all prime numbers. If it isn't prime advance to the next number ending in 1,3,7, or 9. Keep going until you find one (hint, you can stop with the current number the instant it repeats).
Would you like a 10000 digit prime number? Just do the above procedure for a random 10000 digit search space. It's easy if you think about it (my signature is not just for show alone).
Note: people are interested in the knapsack problem because it is NP-complete to solve in general; the problem is that many (many!) specific cases are very easy to crack, and it's hard to tell a priori if you are generating such an example (a similar thing occurs in factor, in that there are some numbers that are much easier to factor than they may appear).
Yep and some things are IMPOSSIBLE to crack. Would you like to make your own unlimited transcendental number? You know how to do long division? Take the divisor then divide it into the number and continue until it repeats.
Okay, to get the result in any base divide exactly the same number into the other number. But instead of multiplying by 10, multiply by that base until you get a number larger than a multiple of the divisor's base (and smaller than the multiplying base). If you understand that then let us continue...
Transcendental numbers are EASY to make mathematically. This time multiply by a NON-INTEGER base (say 9.6). Go ahead, it's easy, but the decimal results increase with each decimal point. Don't worry, it will NEVER become a repeating decimal but the long division becomes increasingly difficult over standard integer base division.
Now consider using this resulting transcendental number to encrypt a string of numbers. Can you imagine anyone decrypting it without knowing the three keys (divisor, the divided number, and the non-integer base)? Elliptic curves... BLAH! I can top that in 30 seconds. That's only ONE of my bags of tricks. I also have a TURING acceptable infinite base numbering system created very simply with little extra memory indexing overhead.
the idea is simple. the pendulums interact with each other by small vibrations. that's why the clocks themselves have to be big. the bigger an object is, the bigger the "small vibration" is.
the pendulums themselves have to be small in order to be influenced by the vibration of the support.
I agree. It looks to me like the clock "tick" & "tock" vibrates the platform which provides a bit of friction. With each swing on the arc the offbeat vibration of each clock throws off the swing of the other clock slightly. The path of least resistance is no offbeat pulse. With continued error correction vibrations the end result would have to be synchronization provided the clocks are small enough to correct the vibrational offbeat pulses before the spring or weight needs resetting. I suspect two identical clocks hanging on freestanding wall (like a cabinet) with a carpeted floor (which diminishes floor vibration transmission) will sync up quickly too.
Before everyone offers clever comments about what they'll do with the source code when they get it, note that individual average citizens won't be getting the source code (at least not as a result of this ruling, except in the case of leaks). They're not talking about handing over the code so everyone can see it, it is only to be used for a specific purpose by specific people. The "states" will get it, meaning the people representing the states involved in the case such as the attorney generals, other lawyers, and most importantly expert witnesses. They're not getting access to the source code to determine whether it sucks or to help the Samba team out, but only to determine the validity of one specific argument made by MS:
Even worse (I'm dead serious right now) Microsoft can leak some code secretly, blame the code examiners, and then claim the case has hurt them and file for damages. They can also stop the state programmers from examining further code this way.
The only way to stop this is to make the code PUBLIC for everyone to see. If they don't Microsoft will do their standard dirty tricks and poison the case again.
We already have deer season, bear season, elk season. Why not have kitty season and puppy season? Stalking strays through the urban wilderness with a 22-caliber air rifle loaded with darts would be a new challenge for the hunters - and they wouldn't even have to travel!
And we can use our Daisy Air Rifles.
Oh wait, that's on of the exact reasons they were encouraged NOT to sell them in comic books anymore
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Ooo. Dancing Q2 models. Soon we'll have to feed them, play with them, punish them, and clean up their little piles of crap, or they'll revolt and take over the desktop.
Dread the thought of a crap-firing railgun now before it becomes reality.
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I hoped the Morpheus name would help gnutella network along but maybe not...
... although I have installed this "Preview Edition" I ran a piece of software and could find no BHO files other than Norton's and Adobe's.
So... my question is where is the spyware?
You want it? I've stuck that nasty piece of crapware in my Norton Antivirus Quarentine directory just for future reference.
Hell, I'll email it to you today if you desire it.
Under "Tools" -> "Internet Options" -> "Advanced" deselect "Enable third party browser extensions" and reboot. Even if the .dll responsible for the redirection, bpboh.dll, is installed, it won't be able to run.
Try this SEARCH for bpboh.dll with that search window open you can try to delete the file outright, but Windows will claim "File is in use". So leave the search window open. Close all Internet Explorer browsing windows. Then you can delete bpboh.dll easily. If you want, you can then under START/RUN type "regedit" then Find "bpboh" and delete the registry keys that it has (there will be some keys regarding "recent searches" which you can also safely delete).
BitTorrent is...suspect. Even worse, its creator is a bit much. Please see, on the same site, http://bitconjurer.org/a_torturers_account.html [bitconjurer.org] and http://bitconjurer.org/it_happened.html [bitconjurer.org]. This Bram Cohen is One Sick Fuck [bitconjurer.org].
YIKES!
I hate to agree on this one, but even though BitTorrent might be the next big wave to reinvent the concept of FTP, Bram needs to reexamine his fantasy life (which seems to come straight out of a woman-despising serial-killer profile sheet) before he gets the cash investments to play those fantasies out in reality.
The only thing that really differs the wealthy from the poor is the money to act upon their sickest whims without consequence.
The skinny of the news is a file called BPBOH.DLL that comes with the MORPHEUS PREVIEW version and carries the nasty little bugger that is causing CONSTANT browser crashes right now on my system. LAVASOFT's AdAware has a program called REFUPDATE which includes the killer for this little spyware nasty. The downside is RefUpdate is SUPPOSED to be aware of BPboh.dll, but didn't find it on my system as per Lavasoft's mirror page. So search the BPBOH.DLL and delete the nasty crashing bugger.
x rs.comp boh.dllo cation=contact
. comc e/morehelp.asp?userid=199PI1EZ1Y
The nasty is made by a sleazy firm called Wurld Media, Inc. (They spelled it "Wurld" not "World")
Here's a snippet of the bastard.
rdxr020305.dat (which appears on my desktop)
bpboh.dll (the offending file)
bpboh2.dll (not on my system but in the hex dump)
www.rdxrp.com
www.maplehollow.com
www.rd
www.inmotiongolf.com
/rdxr020304.dat
/b
about:blank werule
\winbpupd.exe
www.sephora.com
http://www.sephora.com
(Who wants to boycott Sephora's "we'll make you look like a prostitute" makeup selection? I don't wear it, but who would?)
http://www.sephora.com/help/about_sephora.jhtml?l
www.shop.barnesandnoble.com
www.barnesandnoble
http://www.barnesandnoble.com
(Who wants to boycott Barnes&Nobles now for foisting crappy spyware on us? I sure do! By the way, MAKE CERTAIN you let them KNOW what we feel about spyware please.)
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/help/customer_servi
Go to this nasty crapware website and share how you feel about their little spyware games please.
http://www.wurldmedia.com/
Their email address for contacting them is
corpcom@wurldmedia.com
Or use their snail mail address:
WURLD Media, Inc.
63 Putnam Street
Saratoga, Springs, NY 12866
Telephone: 1-518-691-1100
Fax: 1-518-691-1180
(Oh... let me think for a moment about what kinds of FAX pranks exist...)
Why don't they just encode everything the moron said in l33t sp34k?
This idiot deserves whatever he gets, and I seriously hope the judge shoves a good one up his ass.
It's kind of a scary statement. This retard managed to root *how many?* machines?
His parents aren't much better with that "They're suppressing his right to defend himself!" malarkey. The whole family must be fucking retards.
Well, I can't speak for the parents of the overly spoiled child (cues Oompah-Loompah song), but the machines have only humans to defend them. Heck, with Windoze Servers they are just wide open for a hearty goatsx screwing. It's tantamount to having one person babysit a gymnasium of toddlers. The odds are one of the servers will hurt itself if some stranger comes in and offers candy. When the rest start bawling too the sysop is going to be overwhelmed instantly. Now mix some metaphors and call me when the crow caws.
Brute force. How random is this random noise? If you can create a similar noise generator, all you have to do is filter out 80% of the crap, and you'll be able to grab the signal. It's like picking out the flashlight from a group of strobes. It's a PITA, but once you cover most of the strobes, you can see the flashlight.
Ah, so you propose LOCATION-based encryption. The real signal is spread across key "real" locations and random noise generators fill in the blanks with simliar level noise. This can work on cellphone bandwidths and other "live" signals. A more sophisticated method would shift key spots around the signal to keep things dynamic.
This could be used for static messages as well as the keypad would be the locations of the actual signal intermixed into noise.
I want mine to give of screaming moans of agony and pain should burgerlers ever break into my house when I am gone.
Oooh yaaaah.
I've got a better deal. Have your walls and floors give off the screaming moans of a porn soundtrack. Five minutes of that at loud volume and the cops will be called over the noise complaints alone. It certainly would confuse most burglers.
Does anyone else think some of these scenes look awfully familiar? I know Lucas wants to appeal to our sense of how much the original trilogy rocked but who wants a repeat of old material? I had to do a double take when I saw the trailer on TV, I had visions of Princess Leia in Jabba's palace again. I just hope he hasn't given everything away in the trailers and we'll still get a big surprise when we got to see it. Luke, I am your father...
Well... they have to do the Darth / Clown Queen boinking (so they can get Luke & younger sister Leia). They have to have Luke ending up stuck under the wise care of "Uncle Ben" & his other relatives. They have to have Leia sticking with her mom while her dad comes chasing after Leia in his battle-starship. Or at least set all this up for the beginning of "Episode 4.
Considering this isn't Episode 3, they'll have the birth of Luke and possibly Leia. The rise of the Dark Empire and the collapse of the Democratic Federation. They have to foreshadow the killing of the Jedi Knights, the conversion of young Vader into Dark Vader, and quite possibly the rise of the Resistance.
Wow, these are pretty bad. They didn't really even change any of the plot, or dialog. Just substituted in SW characters doing Pulp Fiction line for line.
I've got a better concept. Do a remake of David Lynch's DUNE - but instead of the regular cast I suggest a MUPPET cast. Put Gonzo in the role of Paul Atreides, Fozzie as Thufir, Miss Piggy as the Baron, Kermit as Feyd, Janice as Reverend Mother Ramallo, Sam the Eagle as Emperor Shaddam IV, Lew Zealand (the boomrang fish guy) as Gurney Halleck, Doctor Teeth as The Baron's Doctor, Dr. Bunsen Honeydew as the Head of the Spacer's Guild, etc...
There is enough cast to transfer between both movies and the casting is the most fun in this case. It would require a slight alteration in dialog to fit the MUPPET character types, but that is also the fun bit as well.
It's time to play the music,
It's time to harvest the spice,
It's time to get things started,
It's time to light the lights,
So let's use the weirdo way,
Why don't we take the spice?
It's sensational,
Persperational,
This is what we call the "Kwisatz Haderach".
Statler: "When will this make any sense?"
Waldorf: "Somebody's been putting whiskey in the stillsuits."
(Both laugh)
A premium all-anime channel for $10/month would have no editing requirements whatsoever, just dubbing/subbing chores to be done. I'd sign up in a minute. "Kero Kero Hime" and "Digi Charat" in the mornings, "GALS," "Child's Toy" and "His and "Her Circumstances" in the afternoons, "Big O" and "Giant Robo" in late afternoon, "Fushigi Yuugi" and "El Hazard" in early prime, "Noir" and "Excel Saga" in late prime. At 10, a selected anime feature, followed by an all-night block of classic anime. Intersperse with it all some "Making of" featurettes and creator interviews. Closed captions will carry subs, SAP Channel has the dubs.
Let me at it!!!!
AMEN!
If some enterprising company goes the HBO or SHOWTIME route and show uncensored Anime 24-hours-a-day they'll have a customer here. The tapes are too pricey to investigate all the subgenres and I don't have the time to track them down in their various markets. I'm tired of an entire artform being watered down to the lowest-common-crybaby tier. If they can show the stuff with stories and not wallow in demon-rape porn and the disturbing obsession Japanese men have with schoolgirls & snuff-porn I'll also devote a few hours a day watching the Anime channel.
So let me whisper this to the channels with money and experience getting into the premium viewer market...
HBO & CINEMAX why are you not considering a stab at this concept? You have SHOWTIME EXTREME and 5 HBO networks. There is a prebuilt audience that spends thousands of dollars every year on Anime. Would they scoff at $10 / month? Think about it!"
(Again, my sig is not just for show.)
For the record --- Plural of penis is penes ...
He's right
http://www.circumstitions.com/Glossary.html
penes
L. plural of penis. Penises is clear; peni and penii would be the plurals of "penus" and "penius".
As for the goo, I tend to doubt it will be used ON protestors. More likely it will be used to prevent passage across a particular area. Slime a nice perimeter around something, and it makes it very difficult to get through. It would be a good substitute for a fence when you need a barrier in a few seconds.
Which also means the World Trade Organization cannot drive their pretty little limos into their fancy isolated hotels to decide on how to screw every nation in the world. The perfect protest would be to put up barriers (to prevent innocent drivers from encountering the goo), lay down the goo, and wait for the WTO to appear, crash their limos, try to cross the goo, have the hotel enjoy a day of zero business (perhaps more if the protesters decide so and have plenty of goo), and enjoy the slapstick.
claimed it could provide service to locations like "the dark side of the moon"
Of course, any real geek would known that there's no such thing [badastronomy.com].
This means no Pink Floyd visits?
(Had to be said)
(Or maybe not)
(Or maybe... IT DID...)
While this ISP was not as much of a sham as the ISP the articule links to, they had an executive with access to the company's purse strings. This person outright stole money from the company's bank account for personal use; we are talking about millions of dollars here. Finally, when the company went bankrupt one or two years later, this crook fled the country, and, as far as I know, is living in the Carribian.
I had such a painful AMIGA bankruptcy flashback on this sentance alone.
I am no longer surprised at the Bush Fraud Family pump & dump scams. I am simply very angry.
Interestingly enough if you play the wav file backwards you hear the sound of Bill Gates uttering a hypnotic mantra commanding you to sell your soul to Microsoft
Interestingly enough there is a "woop" sound at 3.35 seconds in until 3.7 seconds in an entirely instrumental piece which is called "The Microsoft Sound". Rather out of place I think. If you amplify it you can hear a "way-do" sound or maybe "mamma".
CD's & DVD's also have one more benefit over magnetic media that I would have expected you to remember: reliability. CD's & DVD's last longer and maintain their quality longer. Even if you are using DAT, the magnetic media will still degrade faster than a CD would.
There's a thing to note...
The clear layer on top of the CD shrinks with use.
My friend liked the song "Cottoneye Joe" by the Rednex and played it over and over. The covering over the track which contained "Cottoneye Joe" shrank (though it also could be the track heated up slightly + the CD spinning melted some of the material toward the outer rim - though the track itself appeared to be indented) to the point where the laser wouldn't read it anymore.
So the trick is to find a shortcut or a flaw in the algorithm that allows you to get the data without searching all the keys.
In the case of RSA, the shortcut is factoring the product of two primes. It's way way easier to factor a 128-bit product than it is to search through a 128-bit keyspace. So RSA bumped the size of the product up and up and up until it was as impossibly hard to factor it as it was to search a 128-bit keyspace.
There is a simpler method. Divide a random number of 1000 digits ending in 1,3,7, or 9 into 1. If the number repeats only when reaching (random 1000 digit number)-1 then it is prime. It will ALWAYS be prime. This set of prime numbers accounts for 1/3 of all prime numbers. If it isn't prime advance to the next number ending in 1,3,7, or 9. Keep going until you find one (hint, you can stop with the current number the instant it repeats).
Would you like a 10000 digit prime number?
Just do the above procedure for a random 10000 digit search space. It's easy if you think about it (my signature is not just for show alone).
Note: people are interested in the knapsack problem because it is NP-complete to solve in general; the problem is that many (many!) specific cases are very easy to crack, and it's hard to tell a priori if you are generating such an example (a similar thing occurs in factor, in that there are some numbers that are much easier to factor than they may appear).
Yep and some things are IMPOSSIBLE to crack.
Would you like to make your own unlimited transcendental number? You know how to do long division? Take the divisor then divide it into the number and continue until it repeats.
Okay, to get the result in any base divide exactly the same number into the other number. But instead of multiplying by 10, multiply by that base until you get a number larger than a multiple of the divisor's base (and smaller than the multiplying base). If you understand that then let us continue...
Transcendental numbers are EASY to make mathematically. This time multiply by a NON-INTEGER base (say 9.6). Go ahead, it's easy, but the decimal results increase with each decimal point. Don't worry, it will NEVER become a repeating decimal but the long division becomes increasingly difficult over standard integer base division.
Now consider using this resulting transcendental number to encrypt a string of numbers. Can you imagine anyone decrypting it without knowing the three keys (divisor, the divided number, and the non-integer base)? Elliptic curves... BLAH! I can top that in 30 seconds. That's only ONE of my bags of tricks. I also have a TURING acceptable infinite base numbering system created very simply with little extra memory indexing overhead.
Look at ELF and ALF, these people have done far more harm then good.
But... ALF keeps the stray cat population down.
I've always had a soft spot for ELF with the ELFQUEST series.
Gordon Shumway we miss you.
(It had to be said.)
the idea is simple. the pendulums interact with each other by small vibrations. that's why the clocks themselves have to be big. the bigger an object is, the bigger the "small vibration" is.
the pendulums themselves have to be small in order to be influenced by the vibration of the support.
I agree. It looks to me like the clock "tick" & "tock" vibrates the platform which provides a bit of friction. With each swing on the arc the offbeat vibration of each clock throws off the swing of the other clock slightly. The path of least resistance is no offbeat pulse. With continued error correction vibrations the end result would have to be synchronization provided the clocks are small enough to correct the vibrational offbeat pulses before the spring or weight needs resetting. I suspect two identical clocks hanging on freestanding wall (like a cabinet) with a carpeted floor (which diminishes floor vibration transmission) will sync up quickly too.
Before everyone offers clever comments about what they'll do with the source code when they get it, note that individual average citizens won't be getting the source code (at least not as a result of this ruling, except in the case of leaks). They're not talking about handing over the code so everyone can see it, it is only to be used for a specific purpose by specific people. The "states" will get it, meaning the people representing the states involved in the case such as the attorney generals, other lawyers, and most importantly expert witnesses. They're not getting access to the source code to determine whether it sucks or to help the Samba team out, but only to determine the validity of one specific argument made by MS:
Even worse (I'm dead serious right now) Microsoft can leak some code secretly, blame the code examiners, and then claim the case has hurt them and file for damages. They can also stop the state programmers from examining further code this way.
The only way to stop this is to make the code PUBLIC for everyone to see. If they don't Microsoft will do their standard dirty tricks and poison the case again.
We already have deer season, bear season, elk season. Why not have kitty season and puppy season? Stalking strays through the urban wilderness with a 22-caliber air rifle loaded with darts would be a new challenge for the hunters - and they wouldn't even have to travel!
And we can use our Daisy Air Rifles.
Oh wait, that's on of the exact reasons they were encouraged NOT to sell them in comic books anymore
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Maybe not in Santa Cruz, but high-altitude used to be a common means of euthanasia. See:
x ii .htm [www.ccac.ca]
http://www.ccac.ca/guides/english/V1_93/chap/ch
for details. FWIW, the practice is now "discouraged" but it wouldn't surprise me if it still happens in lower-income pounds and such...
Physical methods of euthanasia include stunning, cervical dislocation, electrocution, pithing, decapitation, shooting, maceration, microwave radiation, and exsanguination.
Microwave Radiation
Poor Gerbils
Ooo. Dancing Q2 models. Soon we'll have to feed them, play with them, punish them, and clean up their little piles of crap, or they'll revolt and take over the desktop.
Dread the thought of a crap-firing railgun now before it becomes reality.
I would be impressed to see a worm silently infect your machine and try to infect your contacts. But this one asks you a *click a url* ??
Which bring up this obvious chuckle...
This is an Amish computer virus. Please pass this message along then format your hardrives. Thank you.