The website says they are making seach engine software. You could take this software and create a search site. This could be a public site, or a private one behind a corporate firewall.
you could fund the public site with advertising. or not..it's up to you. You could use it as a searh engine for your own public internet site, without indexing the rest of the world.
Microsoft Windows and the various flavours of Unix are all pretty good operating systems - what do we need Linux or FreeBSD for?
in the same way a parent ignores a screaming child pushing for an ice cream?
Oh for crying out loud, don't ignore your screaming child - you may be used to ignoring the screaming but everyone else around you isn't! I almost bought a kid (never seen him before but he was whining uncontrollably to his mother) a candy bar the other day just to get some peace and quiet whilst waiting in line.
wouldn't this mean that a US gov't employee could not extend a GPL'd program and distribute it, because it could not be distributed under the GPL (which as we know is NOT public domain?)
I'm sure Bill Gates is wishing he'd had the forethought to use a pump & dump business model in the early eighties - he and the other executives could have split over a MILLION dollars instead of operating under a relatively long term business and being left with what they have now...
It seems the general consensus here is opretty negative on this technology due to it's potential for abuse. However I can't help but feel if a couple of Uni students rigged up the same thing in their dorm room with a couple of pringles cans and aan empty pizza box, everyone would be applauding at how cool it is and how it has the potential to save the world.
precisely why I would consider this type of player over an iPod.
Not that I'd necessarily consider this over other solid state players, but the 'drive' type MP3 players are too big for my intended use (or rather the small size is more of a benefit for me than the large capacity)
If they have been harmed by SCO's antics, and win their case, they would be in line for a portion of SCO's remains...may not be much but might cover lawyer fees.
However, they will probably make more money through this than they could spending those lawyer fees on advertising.
Why not mail opensourcenow@redhat.com to find out the details of the fund BEFORE complaining about it?
I have, and I expect that it will be an independantly managed fund to cover legal expenses associated with infringement claims brought against companies developing software under the GPL license and non-profit organizations supporting the efforts of companies developing software under a GPL license. Red Hat has pledged one million dollars to be provided as funding in this initiative
The above release seems to indicate that it is not limited to the SCO case and it is certainly not limited to the Redhat vs SCO case (and may not pertain to the Redhat vs SCO issue at all). The funds will be used to help GPL developers and non-profit organizations. Sounds like a pretty good thing to me.
Now they are not doing it solely out of the goodness of their hearts - I'm sure the positive publicity will make them much more than a million in return. But that's business...
Just make it fair to everybody. Split each PDA in half and the company will get half of each PDA and the person who won it gets the other half of the PDA.
If you could access it by that method it wouldn't be very secure would it?
Security and convenience almost never mix. If you want the convenience of being able to forget your passphrase and recovering your data, then it is not secure.
I did a test once with Win 2000 encryption on the NTFS filesystem. Encrypted a directory as a normal user, logged in as administrator to change the users password, logged in as the user again (with the new password), and could still access my data. That is hardly a secure encryption system...but it is convenient if you lose your password.
But you are doing something wrong. You are getting something for free that the circus owner has spent money to put together to make a living from. He has a right to chase you away from the holes in the fence.
No - he has the right to patch the holes or put up a bigger fence (on his property, subject to zoning regulations) but he does not have the right to ask you not to stand on public ground and look in a particular direction.
I thought it was pretty clear that the lookup table they used contained ALL combinations of letters and numbers (and because the old windows algortihms converted letters to uppercase it didn't have to worry about caps).
And another set of data created was 20GB that contained 16 other characters in the mix.
It is a dictionary attack but the dictionary is the entire set of possibilities.
Considering EVERY password is already encoded infinite times in PI (in both encrytped and unencrypted form) is any password safe?
in your computer store example why not just use this?
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/
it's really quite handy - had an interesting reason to use it (legitimately) when the corporate IT scripts decided it wanted to put my laptop in the corporate domain, which subsequently locked out all my local accounts and I couldn't log in to the domain account because the local dhcp server was not operating and thus I could not get to the network!
Yeah but their power of 10 increase isn't globally applicable to many types of encryption breaking
Apparently it is applicable to more than just MS passwords -> from the article:
Oechslin said he hadn't notified Microsoft of the issue before publishing his paper. He said his research has been more about creating efficient time-memory trade-offs, not about breaking Microsoft passwords.
"This is not a new vulnerability," he said. "It is only the first time that it has been worked in so much detail. Microsoft passwords are just a nice example to demonstrate the theoretical results."
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who said there would be no advertising?
Who said they are even making a search site?
The website says they are making seach engine software. You could take this software and create a search site. This could be a public site, or a private one behind a corporate firewall.
you could fund the public site with advertising. or not..it's up to you. You could use it as a searh engine for your own public internet site, without indexing the rest of the world.
Microsoft Windows and the various flavours of Unix are all pretty good operating systems - what do we need Linux or FreeBSD for?
the Germans seemed to stop SCO's silliness there...
plus they were willing to pony up a million $$$
Wasn't JFS one of the original technologies that SCO mentioned was in question? Better put back the filesystem source and do a recount.
in the same way a parent ignores a screaming child pushing for an ice cream?
Oh for crying out loud, don't ignore your screaming child - you may be used to ignoring the screaming but everyone else around you isn't! I almost bought a kid (never seen him before but he was whining uncontrollably to his mother) a candy bar the other day just to get some peace and quiet whilst waiting in line.
it would require way more knowledge than most admins in most businesses and corporations have...
wouldn't this mean that a US gov't employee could not extend a GPL'd program and distribute it, because it could not be distributed under the GPL (which as we know is NOT public domain?)
I'm sure Bill Gates is wishing he'd had the forethought to use a pump & dump business model in the early eighties - he and the other executives could have split over a MILLION dollars instead of operating under a relatively long term business and being left with what they have now...
It seems the general consensus here is opretty negative on this technology due to it's potential for abuse. However I can't help but feel if a couple of Uni students rigged up the same thing in their dorm room with a couple of pringles cans and aan empty pizza box, everyone would be applauding at how cool it is and how it has the potential to save the world.
Just a thought...
and disabling is no more complex than a menu selection
You've obviously never seen the menu selections on a Nikon digital camera...
GPS Jammer?? Plant a tree!
I can't get my Garmin to work reliably without an external antenna in the forest!
precisely why I would consider this type of player over an iPod.
Not that I'd necessarily consider this over other solid state players, but the 'drive' type MP3 players are too big for my intended use (or rather the small size is more of a benefit for me than the large capacity)
If they have been harmed by SCO's antics, and win their case, they would be in line for a portion of SCO's remains...may not be much but might cover lawyer fees.
However, they will probably make more money through this than they could spending those lawyer fees on advertising.
Why not mail opensourcenow@redhat.com to find out the details of the fund BEFORE complaining about it?
I have, and I expect that it will be an independantly managed fund to
cover legal expenses associated with infringement claims brought against companies developing software under the GPL license and non-profit organizations supporting the efforts of companies developing software under a GPL license. Red Hat has pledged one million dollars to be provided as funding in this initiative
The above release seems to indicate that it is not limited to the SCO case and it is certainly not limited to the Redhat vs SCO case (and may not pertain to the Redhat vs SCO issue at all). The funds will be used to help GPL developers and non-profit organizations. Sounds like a pretty good thing to me.
Now they are not doing it solely out of the goodness of their hearts - I'm sure the positive publicity will make them much more than a million in return. But that's business...
Just make it fair to everybody. Split each PDA in half and the company
will get half of each PDA and the person who won it gets
the other half of the PDA.
Thanks Newman you are so wise and learned...
These guys seem to have come up with a solution for the easy to fly part.
e li copter.html
http://www.netpackx.com/html/dragan_fly_micro_h
Hmmm..seems they have an integrated camera with wireless transmitter too. Too bad the sites linked here are slashdotted - can't compare.
Apparently you wouldn't be able to access it
If you could access it by that method it wouldn't be very secure would it?
Security and convenience almost never mix. If you want the convenience of being able to forget your passphrase and recovering your data, then it is not secure.
I did a test once with Win 2000 encryption on the NTFS filesystem. Encrypted a directory as a normal user, logged in as administrator to change the users password, logged in as the user again (with the new password), and could still access my data. That is hardly a secure encryption system...but it is convenient if you lose your password.
But you are doing something wrong. You are getting something for free that the circus owner has spent money to put together to make a living from. He has a right to chase you away from the holes in the fence.
No - he has the right to patch the holes or put up a bigger fence (on his property, subject to zoning regulations) but he does not have the right to ask you not to stand on public ground and look in a particular direction.
what if he does drive an efficient car (or rides his bike everywhere) and recycles everything he can?
Should he not strive to improve?
If I have a non-efficient car, should I then not recycle? And not worry about disposing of my used oil properly?
Every little bit helps.
What needs to happen is let the rest of the world switch and then shut off access to IPv4 for the US to accept it.
:)
Right just like the metric system! Once the rest of the world switches so will the US!
I thought it was pretty clear that the lookup table they used contained ALL combinations of letters and numbers (and because the old windows algortihms converted letters to uppercase it didn't have to worry about caps).
And another set of data created was 20GB that contained 16 other characters in the mix.
It is a dictionary attack but the dictionary is the entire set of possibilities.
Considering EVERY password is already encoded infinite times in PI (in both encrytped and unencrypted form) is any password safe?
To sniff traffic it requires administrative rights on a machine on the network, not the target machine.
you still have to have physical access to that subnet (that and a bit of arp poisoning).
in your computer store example why not just use this?
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/
it's really quite handy - had an interesting reason to use it (legitimately) when the corporate IT scripts decided it wanted to put my laptop in the corporate domain, which subsequently locked out all my local accounts and I couldn't log in to the domain account because the local dhcp server was not operating and thus I could not get to the network!
Yeah but their power of 10 increase isn't globally applicable to many types of encryption breaking
Apparently it is applicable to more than just MS passwords -> from the article:
Oechslin said he hadn't notified Microsoft of the issue before publishing his paper. He said his research has been more about creating efficient time-memory trade-offs, not about breaking Microsoft passwords.
"This is not a new vulnerability," he said. "It is only the first time that it has been worked in so much detail. Microsoft passwords are just a nice example to demonstrate the theoretical results."
Imagine the turmoil to a school administrator, knowing their students' life savings are about to get sucked up by the RIAA for sharing a few songs.
Imagine the turmoil when they realize that the student won't be able to pay tuition next term!