I have to say that I am a *huge* fan of the game Deus Ex. That game includes some incredible storytelling. I can play the game over and over again, and each time I do, I find something new. The creators of that game really spent a lot of time paying attention to detail. Truly an incredible game.
Hopefully the Invisible War will be out soon. I will buy it as soon as it does:-) And if that game doesn't run on WineX like Deus Ex does, I will even go so far as to install Windows on my machine. Yes, that is how much this means to me...
Not only was the word "Linux" mentioned, but so were the words "computer evidence," and "court." Hey, this is Slashdot. News for Nerds. Stuff that matters. A lot of us are interested in things such as Linux and computer security. I found this document to be an interesting read, and I am glad it was posted on Slashdot.
Are they saying that two different files can't have the same hash value? That's a load of crap! It's not hard at all to modify data to create any hash value that you want
The SHA-1 is called secure because it is computationally infeasible to find a message which corresponds to a given message digest, or to find two different messages which produce the same message digest. Any change to a message in transit will, with very high probability, result in a different message digest, and the signature will fail to verify.
So yes, two different files can have the same hash, but it's infeasible to do this. That's why hashing methods like SHA are used in cryptography; SHA-1 is used in DSA signatures.
Before addressing the authentication for the four specific computers, an error in Mr. Allison's affidavit must be corrected. In his affidavit, Mr. Allison writes: "Many methods are available to create an exact duplicate; however, only one method - the GNU/Linux routine dd - has been approved by the National Institute of Standards and Technologies." Allison Affidavit at 3. This statement is simply wrong. The National Institute of Standards and Technologies (NIST) does not "approve" software, it merely tests it and then publishes the results of its tests.
Microsoft must feel proud... That the Linux people keep trying to emulate their OS and interface.
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A lot of current ISPs filter port 80 incoming. It wouldn't matter. If everyone has port 80 filtered, then none of the p2p programs would be able to connect to each other.
to the point where nobody will want to mess with it. ISPs can filter and throttle traffic. College campuses are already doing this. I wouldn't be surprised to see large scale ISPs doing this as well. If not because "bandwidth is expensive" but due to the fact that the "common carrier" ground that ISPs are standing on is becoming less sound.
I just spent a few days visiting my cousin in San Francisco. Apparently if the electronics don't work in the electronic toll lane, a camera captures your license plate number and then they look you up and bill you later. I wonder if they would also use this to track people?
Not so. Macrovision works by pulsating the intensity of the video sync signal. This fluctuation in intensity fools the AGC circuit in the recieving deck causing the picture colors to become distorted, and brighter and dimmer. TVs do not contain this AGC circuit, and therefore, are unaffected by macrovision. A more detailed explanation can be found here: http://www.repairfaq.org/filipg/LINK/F_MacroVision 1.html#MACROVISION_016
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bound by the terms of this EULA by
installing, copying, or otherwise using the
product. If you do not agree, do not install or use this product; you may return it to your
place of purchase for a full refund.
It looks like you have the right to return your windows license for a full refund. I don't know of anyone who has tried this, though.
If someone steals my software, then they are liable to me under the law-- not to the feds. The feds have no rights to my code and no rights to lock people up for violating my rights in this way.
Copyright infringement is a criminal offense, not civil. It is the government's duty to prosecute those who commit criminal acts.
Wiredog's right. FM broadcast radio, as well as cell phones, and broadcast television work in the VHF and UHF bands. Because of the frequency of the carrier wave, these bands propagate using line of sight which means that the signal's means of propagation are not by reflecting off of something such as the ground or sky. Lower frequencies, such as local AM broadcast use ground wave propagation, because the signal reflects off of the ground. Short wave radio tends to propagate using sky wave propagation, because the radio signal bounces off of the earth's ionosphere. This is often refered to as "skip" and can cause signals to travel across the globe.
With IDE drives, RAID lives up to it's name: Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks.
Actually, RAID is "redundant array of independent disks."
It used to be "redundant array of inexpensive disks" back in 1988 when the acronym first appeared. Since then, the RAID Advisory Board has since substituted "Independent" for "Inexpensive".
Here is the text of the license agreement. I have been unable to locate this license agreement on Borland's website, so here is the link to freshmeat's mirror of it:
http://freshmeat.net/.misc/borland-license.txt
Michigan Cybercourt has a website, which was not linked from the slashdot story.
The page can be accessed at:
here
and for all of you copy 'n pasters:
http://www.michigancybercourt.net/
It's the same kind of people who claimed years ago that vinyls were so much better sounding than CDs, when the truth is that the dynamics and S/N ratio of a good vinyl will never match that of a bad CD, and the only difference between a vinyl and a CD is the audio on the vinyl is compressed.
The problem with standard CD audio is that the audio is sampled linearly, not logarithmically. We discern differences in amplitude logarithmically, hence the deciBel system is used for measuring the intensity (not power level) of sound. This linear sampling causes sound that is reproduced at a low level to become distorted due to less available resolution for a quieter signal. This sampling technique may have made sense many years ago when the Audio CD standard was created and digital audio hardware was still expensive and relatively immature.
This specific problem doesn't exist on vinyl. Quieter signals are not distorted due to lack of resolution because there is no "resolution." The medium is analog, and threfore there are no samples to quantize. However, because it's analog, there's a "noise floor" which hurts the SNR. *good* analog is better than digital Audio CDs for this reason. With newer digital home audio standards such as the DVD digital audio standard, we'll have 24bit logarithmic recordings which will be better than *good* analog.
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I have to say that I am a *huge* fan of the game Deus Ex. That game includes some incredible storytelling. I can play the game over and over again, and each time I do, I find something new. The creators of that game really spent a lot of time paying attention to detail. Truly an incredible game.
:-)
Hopefully the Invisible War will be out soon. I will buy it as soon as it does
And if that game doesn't run on WineX like Deus Ex does, I will even go so far as to install Windows on my machine. Yes, that is how much this means to me...
Not only was the word "Linux" mentioned, but so were the words "computer evidence," and "court."
Hey, this is Slashdot. News for Nerds. Stuff that matters.
A lot of us are interested in things such as Linux and computer security. I found this document to be an interesting read, and I am glad it was posted on Slashdot.
From http://www.itl.nist.gov/fipspubs/fip180-1.htm:
So yes, two different files can have the same hash, but it's infeasible to do this. That's why hashing methods like SHA are used in cryptography; SHA-1 is used in DSA signatures.Or more specifically, here:
http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/196352.pdf
The test reults are abailable here:
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/sciencetech/cftt.htm
Microsoft must feel proud... That the Linux people keep trying to emulate their OS and interface.
A lot of current ISPs filter port 80 incoming. It wouldn't matter. If everyone has port 80 filtered, then none of the p2p programs would be able to connect to each other.
to the point where nobody will want to mess with it. ISPs can filter and throttle traffic. College campuses are already doing this. I wouldn't be surprised to see large scale ISPs doing this as well. If not because "bandwidth is expensive" but due to the fact that the "common carrier" ground that ISPs are standing on is becoming less sound.
I mean, do they expect to get more AOL subscribers? Who is going to get AOL just for TW content? Anyone?
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I just spent a few days visiting my cousin in San Francisco. Apparently if the electronics don't work in the electronic toll lane, a camera captures your license plate number and then they look you up and bill you later. I wonder if they would also use this to track people?
Not so. Macrovision works by pulsating the intensity of the video sync signal. This fluctuation in intensity fools the AGC circuit in the recieving deck causing the picture colors to become distorted, and brighter and dimmer. TVs do not contain this AGC circuit, and therefore, are unaffected by macrovision. A more detailed explanation can be found here: http://www.repairfaq.org/filipg/LINK/F_MacroVision 1.html#MACROVISION_016
I've discovered that these types of DVD players that won't read CD-Rs *will* read CD-RWs...
A good place to learn how to convert various media to burnable (S)VCD format can be found at http://www.vcdhelp.com
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these!
Wiredog's right.
FM broadcast radio, as well as cell phones, and broadcast television work in the VHF and UHF bands.
Because of the frequency of the carrier wave, these bands propagate using line of sight which means that the signal's means of propagation are not by reflecting off of something such as the ground or sky.
Lower frequencies, such as local AM broadcast use ground wave propagation, because the signal reflects off of the ground.
Short wave radio tends to propagate using sky wave propagation, because the radio signal bounces off of the earth's ionosphere. This is often refered to as "skip" and can cause signals to travel across the globe.
Actually, RAID is "redundant array of independent disks."
It used to be "redundant array of inexpensive disks" back in 1988 when the acronym first appeared. Since then, the RAID Advisory Board has since substituted "Independent" for "Inexpensive".
Here is the text of the license agreement. I have been unable to locate this license agreement on Borland's website, so here is the link to freshmeat's mirror of it:
http://freshmeat.net/.misc/borland-license.txt
Michigan Cybercourt has a website, which was not linked from the slashdot story.
The page can be accessed at: here
and for all of you copy 'n pasters: http://www.michigancybercourt.net/
Well, if you're looking for terrestrial Intelligence as the headline to this article says, you're looking in the wrong place!
The problem with standard CD audio is that the audio is sampled linearly, not logarithmically. We discern differences in amplitude logarithmically, hence the deciBel system is used for measuring the intensity (not power level) of sound. This linear sampling causes sound that is reproduced at a low level to become distorted due to less available resolution for a quieter signal. This sampling technique may have made sense many years ago when the Audio CD standard was created and digital audio hardware was still expensive and relatively immature.
This specific problem doesn't exist on vinyl. Quieter signals are not distorted due to lack of resolution because there is no "resolution." The medium is analog, and threfore there are no samples to quantize. However, because it's analog, there's a "noise floor" which hurts the SNR. *good* analog is better than digital Audio CDs for this reason. With newer digital home audio standards such as the DVD digital audio standard, we'll have 24bit logarithmic recordings which will be better than *good* analog.
Apparently, Konqueror renders this page funny. At least on my machine. Here is a link to the printer-friendly version.