How many times does the letter 'D' occur in 'advertisement'?. Only once, so...
Its 'ads' not 'adds'. One adds one number to another, perhaps whilst watching the ads on television.
It annoys me as much as the people who confuse loose and lose. It's sad to see how loose we are becoming with our grammar, we are losing the ability to spell correctly.
The Grid Computing argument is a furphy. As Bruce Schneier says, in Applied Cryptography, p158:
"One of the consequences of the second law of thermodynamics is that a certain amount of energy is necessary to represent information. To record a single bit by changing the state of a system requires an amount of energy no less than kT, where T is the absolute temperature of the system and k is the Boltzman constant. (Stick with me; the physics lesson is almost over.)
Given that k =1.38*10-16 erg/Kelvin, and that the ambient temperature of the universe is 3.2K, an ideal computer running at 3.2K would consume 4.4*10-16 ergs every time it set or cleared a bit. To run a computer any colder than the cosmic background radiation would require extra energy to run a heat pump.
Now, the annual energy output of our sun is about 1.21*1041 ergs. This is enough to power about 2.7*1056 single bit changes on our ideal computer; enough state changes to put a 187-bit counter through all its values. If we built a Dyson sphere around the sun and captured all of its energy for 32 years, without any loss, we could power a computer to count up to 2192. Of course, it wouldn't have the energy left over to perform any useful calculations with this counter.
But that's just one star, and a measly one at that. A typical supernova releases something like 1051 ergs. (About a hundred times as much energy would be released in the form of neutrinos, but let them go for now.) If all of this energy could be channeled into a single orgy of computation, a 219-bit counter could be cycled through all of its states.
These numbers have nothing to do with the technology of the devices; they are the maximums that thermodynamics will allow. And they strongly imply that brute-force attacks against 256-bit keys will be infeasible until computers are built from something other than matter and occupy something other than space.
[ERRATA; The section on "Thermodynamic Limitations" is not quite correct. It requires kT energy to set or clear a single bit because these are irreversible operations. However, complementing a bit is reversible and hence has no minimum required energy. It turns out that it is theoretically possible to do any computation in a reversible manner except for copying out the answer. At this theoretical level, energy requirements for exhaustive cryptanalysis are therefore linear in the key length, not exponential.]"
Your idea about getting some ideas about the passphrase is very valid tho, and can cut down the attack time considerably.
However, a properly constructed passphrase should be uncrackable, assuming the crypto algorithm has no other weaknesses (ie, the best attack is brute force).
And as far as I can see, Bin Laden has the better strategy, and the silly yanks and our arse-licking prime minister howard constantly take the poisoned pawns.
Any and all goodwill towards the west seems to have been lost and these morons (show me the WMD's please) can't spell 'quagmire'.
I find Chess easier than Go, but I think the world is probably more like Go than Chess.
CS follows the "scientic method" of 'observe, hypothesise, test' and is falsifiable in a Popper-esque sense.
Hrrrm... this query is running slow, maybe I should build an index and see if that fixes it... Hrrrm these results have improved nicely with that new index.
Looks like a science to me.
What exactly do you mean when you say it is not a science? What is your basis for that?
QUOTE: "We are not against the Open Source movement, but we don't want to be lumped in with them. We acknowledge that they have contributed to our community, but we created this community, and we want people to know this. We want people to associate our achievements with our values and our philosophy, not with theirs. We want to be heard, not obscured behind a group with different views. To prevent people from thinking we are part of them, we take pains to avoid using the word ``open'' to describe free software, or its contrary, ``closed'', in talking about non-free software.
Also, if you are going to replace the GNU userland, are you going to write your own compiler as well?
Though it is not quite what I had in mind. Something like "Spelling flames inevitably contain spelling mistakes" - Vryl's Law.
Btw, I never said you were wrong. Just a fuckwit for correcting someones spelling, when you can't spell yourself. It was funny.
Oddly enough, the loose/lose thing drives me mad too, but I have got used to it by now. Eventually, I suppose, your usage of G R A M M *E* R will probably prevail.
I don't give a flying fuck. The irony of the situation was all that I was trying to bring attention to, tosspot.
It seems that in your opinion I was SHOUTING AT YOU by pointing out the TRUE IRONY of a post correcting someone's spelling itself containing a SPELLING MYSTACHE (!).
Rather than have a little laugh at your own silliness, you respond with a post containing another spelling/grammar error [missing Apostrophe of Possession], as well as mischaracterising my original post.
Plus, Google's research into search AI is not at the level of Microsoft's
Completely unsubstantiated tripe.
There are some indications that Google may indeed "sit on their laurels" and let Microsoft pass them by.
"Some indications"... fuck me gently with a chainsaw!
There are "some indications" that the world will end in 5 minutes. There are "some indications" that aliens rule the earth. There are even "some indications" that 1+1=3.
The intellectual property attorney told me that it is only a matter of time until people begin to assert the right to royalties for code contributed to free software projects that generates any income for anybody.
Absolute trollish bs. If a third party has complied with the terms of the licence (say the GPL), then they have explicit permission to redistribute it. Specifically:
"You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty; and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License along with the Program." and "You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2..."
Nowhere does it mention payment of royalties.
Additional terms cannot be added after the fact (something SCO are about to learn to their detriment).
The GPL is an explicit licence to use and redistribute the code WITHOUT PAYMENT OF ROYALTIES, as long as certain conditions are satisfied.
Slashdot Mirror
36yo, and still laughing, laughing, laughing....
/. ??? For the lulz, yeah?
Mind you, wtf am I doing STILL READING
How many times does the letter 'D' occur in 'advertisement'?. Only once, so...
Its 'ads' not 'adds'. One adds one number to another, perhaps whilst watching the ads on television.
It annoys me as much as the people who confuse loose and lose. It's sad to see how loose we are becoming with our grammar, we are losing the ability to spell correctly.
Oh well...
gets shot by the guy who doesn't.
The oft quoted example of shouting 'fire' in a theatre...
Or defaming people, ie 'hackstraw is a paedophile', etc
Not that I disagree with your presumed sentiment. Cisco *are* out of order here.
The Grid Computing argument is a furphy. As Bruce Schneier says, in Applied Cryptography, p158:
"One of the consequences of the second law of thermodynamics is that a certain amount of energy is necessary to represent information. To record a single bit by changing the state of a system requires an amount of energy no less than kT, where T is the absolute temperature of the system and k is the Boltzman constant. (Stick with me; the physics lesson is almost over.)
Given that k =1.38*10-16 erg/Kelvin, and that the ambient temperature of the universe is 3.2K, an ideal computer running at 3.2K would consume 4.4*10-16 ergs every time it set or cleared a bit. To run a computer any colder than the cosmic background radiation would require extra energy to run a heat pump.
Now, the annual energy output of our sun is about 1.21*1041 ergs. This is enough to power about 2.7*1056 single bit changes on our ideal computer; enough state changes to put a 187-bit counter through all its values. If we built a Dyson sphere around the sun and captured all of its energy for 32 years, without any loss, we could power a computer to count up to 2192. Of course, it wouldn't have the energy left over to perform any useful calculations with this counter.
But that's just one star, and a measly one at that. A typical supernova releases something like 1051 ergs. (About a hundred times as much energy would be released in the form of neutrinos, but let them go for now.) If all of this energy could be channeled into a single orgy of computation, a 219-bit counter could be cycled through all of its states.
These numbers have nothing to do with the technology of the devices; they are the maximums that thermodynamics will allow. And they strongly imply that brute-force attacks against 256-bit keys will be infeasible until computers are built from something other than matter and occupy something other than space.
[ERRATA; The section on "Thermodynamic Limitations" is not quite correct. It requires kT energy to set or clear a single bit because these are irreversible operations. However, complementing a bit is reversible and hence has no minimum required energy. It turns out that it is theoretically possible to do any computation in a reversible manner except for copying out the answer. At this theoretical level, energy requirements for exhaustive cryptanalysis are therefore linear in the key length, not exponential.]"
Your idea about getting some ideas about the passphrase is very valid tho, and can cut down the attack time considerably.
However, a properly constructed passphrase should be uncrackable, assuming the crypto algorithm has no other weaknesses (ie, the best attack is brute force).
But I decided to respond...
Use a very long passphrase and you got pretty good security, but with time it is crackable.
How many millions of years do you have?
When I can talk to the thing, I probably wont care about windows and menu's and things.
There will need to be a big re-think about how things work.
Some-one wake me up when this happens, pls...
I never see the borg icon. Text mode /. is the way to go. Life is good then.
Is Katz still around? I have filtered out stories from him for so many years that I don't even know what he is up to.
Almost lj like.
And as far as I can see, Bin Laden has the better strategy, and the silly yanks and our arse-licking prime minister howard constantly take the poisoned pawns.
Any and all goodwill towards the west seems to have been lost and these morons (show me the WMD's please) can't spell 'quagmire'.
I find Chess easier than Go, but I think the world is probably more like Go than Chess.
Have a nice day.
Craptacular is a goody too, a bit like your 'craptastic'.
Scary thing is that I have been *saying* W00t! for ages now.
But I don't think "IT" is.
... this query is running slow, maybe I should build an index and see if that fixes it... Hrrrm these results have improved nicely with that new index.
CS follows the "scientic method" of 'observe, hypothesise, test' and is falsifiable in a Popper-esque sense.
Hrrrm
Looks like a science to me.
What exactly do you mean when you say it is not a science? What is your basis for that?
Nothing to do with Free Software. ANYBODY could use Bitmovers 'research' to develop a copy.
This happens in all industries every day. Someone releases a new, innovative product, and competitors rush to market with similar things. Whoopie doo!
What was your point again?
Typical moron who just does not get it.
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Linus Torvalds did more in 10 years to popularize open source software than GNU did in double that...
Well, DUH!
Stallman goes out of his way to make the point that he has little to do with the Open Source movement.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-f
QUOTE: "We are not against the Open Source movement, but we don't want to be lumped in with them. We acknowledge that they have contributed to our community, but we created this community, and we want people to know this. We want people to associate our achievements with our values and our philosophy, not with theirs. We want to be heard, not obscured behind a group with different views. To prevent people from thinking we are part of them, we take pains to avoid using the word ``open'' to describe free software, or its contrary, ``closed'', in talking about non-free software.
Also, if you are going to replace the GNU userland, are you going to write your own compiler as well?
A law, like Godwin's Law or thereabouts.
e lling
Humour is lost on you, you twit.
Try this:
http://www.advicemeant.com/flame/04psych.shtml#Sp
Though it is not quite what I had in mind. Something like "Spelling flames inevitably contain spelling mistakes" - Vryl's Law.
Btw, I never said you were wrong. Just a fuckwit for correcting someones spelling, when you can't spell yourself. It was funny.
Oddly enough, the loose/lose thing drives me mad too, but I have got used to it by now. Eventually, I suppose, your usage of G R A M M *E* R will probably prevail.
I don't give a flying fuck. The irony of the situation was all that I was trying to bring attention to, tosspot.
Truly odd, thou art.
screamed, bitched, whined and pouted...
Really?
I do beg to differ.
It seems that in your opinion I was SHOUTING AT YOU by pointing out the TRUE IRONY of a post correcting someone's spelling itself containing a SPELLING MYSTACHE (!).
Rather than have a little laugh at your own silliness, you respond with a post containing another spelling/grammar error [missing Apostrophe of Possession], as well as mischaracterising my original post.
Tosspot, I say... thou art a tosspot!
C'est la vie.
G R A M M *A* R
And it wasn't a grammar mistake, my dearest tosspot, it was a spelling mistake, aka, a TYPO.
Right you are.
The madness of doze gets to me sometimes. Why can't you minimize everything?
Gnome has 'iconify' last time I looked. How hard can it be?
M doesn't always minimize things. D *always* does.
Stupid windows with dialogue boxes that can't be iconised and don't turn up in the the start bar.
Shows that songs are overpriced as I said on this forum before here.
...
"average cd collection" = 50 cd's
50 x $30 = $1500
iPod = (what?) 5000 songs? 10000? say 5k
so, to fill up your iPod $1500/5000 = $0.30
I think this stuff will really take off when songs are 10cents or less, because capacity is only going to get huger and huger.
There is a limited amount of dosh that ppl will spend on music.
Who modded this?
... fuck me gently with a chainsaw!
Plus, Google's research into search AI is not at the level of Microsoft's
Completely unsubstantiated tripe.
There are some indications that Google may indeed "sit on their laurels" and let Microsoft pass them by.
"Some indications"
There are "some indications" that the world will end in 5 minutes. There are "some indications" that aliens rule the earth. There are even "some indications" that 1+1=3.
I have used acl's on linux, but have never found a non-command line way of doing this. Mind you, this was years ago.
Is there a distro that supports ACL's out of the box, from the GUI ?
The intellectual property attorney told me
..."
that it is only a matter of time until people
begin to assert the right to royalties for
code contributed to free software projects
that generates any income for anybody.
Absolute trollish bs. If a third party has complied with the terms of the licence (say the GPL), then they have explicit permission to redistribute it. Specifically:
"You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty; and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License along with the Program." and "You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2
Nowhere does it mention payment of royalties.
Additional terms cannot be added after the fact (something SCO are about to learn to their detriment).
The GPL is an explicit licence to use and redistribute the code WITHOUT PAYMENT OF ROYALTIES, as long as certain conditions are satisfied.
Too funny ...
Australia was, of course, a collection of penal colonies for the British for quite a while.
Various bits of the net are hard to get at right now (from Oz, that is ...).
... anyone heard any reports?
Wondering if the quake has caused any probs