40 bits is nothing, and has been for decades.
That limit was/chosen/ to be crackable. And in my book, and in the minds of many others, that pretty much disqualifies it from even being called 'crypto'.
Dan's system is more of a revolution rather than an evolution.
Computer users tend to evolve, so despite it being a smart potential solution it will almost certainly never happen, which is a shame. Of course, there's nothing to stop people actually running the system for fun, and just see if it ever grows (so I'd have SMTP for one job, but use IM2000 or whatever to converse with fellow geeks.)
IRC started that way, for example (as did most things).
I'll 'fess up - I have 2 DVDs (/Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels/ bought for 5UKP second hand, and/Falling Down/, bought for 70FIM from a bargain bucket.)
By 'we' I meant the geeks who go to work wearing "Got DeCSS" T-shirts.
Argh, I'm not American, and it's a while since I chatted about the guts of US constitutional law with an expert. However, you're probably right, I seem to remember that changes to the constitution need a different process to that of the simple repealing of other laws.
What you cite upholds the MPAA's view more than the EFF's view, for reference. (To my mind, that is, as they are the self-appointed promoters of the "useful arts", and upholders of the "exclusive rights".)
I think we've drifted off the precise Norwegian-law-oriented topic back onto the well-trodden DVD-cases path! Ooops!
The biggest problem is the following scenario:
- The libertarian holds up the new law and says "this contradicts the good old law".
- The guys with funny wigs (who are still wondering whether they should upgrade from an AM to an FM radio) say "you're right - we must change the old law".
- We all say "Ooops".
There's nothing carved in stone that says that the older law is the less changable one.
Add to that the fact that it wasn't even Jon (not Jan) that broke the crypto, he merely hosted the source code files. The actual reverse engineer who wrote the original code was allegendly German, and as far as I know to this day remains anonymous (though pseudonyms, and the name of the cracker group they belonged to are known).
I was thinking that maybe I could pack up my "Got DeCSS" T-shirts for posterity just last week, but hell no. The world is still full of shite and nonsense, and _we_ are still a tiny minority.
Your 'delivery' was perhaps too subtle, we work in a flawed medium. The information was all there in your post, it just required too much effort to put it all together and say "Aha!" as I was reading it. There needs to be a sarcasm tag in html...
I may be a pompous git (i.e. I _am_), but I sure as hell know when the other guy's argument's got me beat. Like now.
Actually he's right. I misinterpretted him.
He _was_ actually pointing out the mistake, but I couldn't hear his sarcastic tone through this ASCII medium which we are forced to use.
I will admit I was slightly shocked by his reply at first, but when I'd read it all it was clear he had a right to be pissed off by my arrogant reply.
Oh, the 'wicca' reference in my name was a joke on the address of an ultra-lame karma-troll called "Lover's Arrival, The", from whom my nick is stolen too.
Reread that article. This time take it in.
That was a virus which propogated using a file perported (i.e. had a subject line and fake file extension) to be a SWF but was actually an ordinary virus (EXE/VBS/WhoCares). This new one is actually a SWF which can use the scripting features within the SWF viewer.
Apples and pears, mate. Consider yourself lucky you've been replied to not down-modded.
I bet that the basketball playing rats in Helsinki's Heureka could be tought soccer quite quickly. I propose a rats vs. robots tournament. Then I'd put my money on the rats any day. (They could always cheat and piss on the robots to make them short-circuit!)
YEah, they don't really say what 'lightness' is. Given the examples listed above, I'd say not were light. I'd say they are all bloated pigs. And I program professionally in at least 2 of them.
For what I consider to be light I'd suggest C or Lisp personally.
Forth is lighter, but it's 15 years since I've done any of that, even though it is still quite popular in the embedded realtime world due to its lightweightness.
> Honestly, I have seen users that save everything in their "My Documents" folder, and that includes their 1200 MP3's, their 50 Word documents, their 20 Excell documents and the 500 jpegs of pr0n. All flat in one directory, I kid you not!
Which is precisely why more recent versions of Windoze have 'My Documents', 'My Sounds', and 'My Images' folders. Et voila, the problem disappears.
You're not wrong. However, we must also remember that fridges don't take a minute to turn the light on and let you have access to your foodstuffs. You could reply that fridges are on the whole time, but if you leave the PC on the whole time, who pays the electricity bill?
PC/human interaction is vastly different from real-world physical interactions in many ways. Trying to force them into being analogous is often a/bad thing/.
The future lies in places like the Xerox PARC of old, and in usability labs, where people can simply brainstorm interface ideas, and fitness/evolution will take care of the rest.
Note, however, that there _isn't_ a single solution. People have many different prefered ways of arranging data not just in their head, but externally too.
Firstly all phones for the last 2 years have had predictive entry (not auto-complete). However, even that's not too brilliant.
Which is why the Nokia 9210 is the world's highest selling PDA currently. For text, the dear old keyboard is hard to beat.
THL
"Official" Information (repost)
on
New Nokia Phone
·
· Score: 1
(Repost - Since when can't I stick less-than characters in plain text?)
What's wrong with Nokia being the source of the "official" information?
http://www.nokia.com/phones/7650/index.html
:::
The Nokia 7650 at a Glance:
Availability: Europe, Africa, Asia Pacific
Weight: 154 g
Dimensions: 114 x 56 x 26 mm
Talktime: 2 - 4 h
Standby time: 90 - 230 h
Key features: Integrated digital camera, picture
taking and sending, MMS (Multimedia Messaging
Service), photo album for storing pictures, GPRS,
an advanced user interface, joystick navigation
and a color display
Operating frequency: EGSM900/1800 in
Europe, Africa, Asia Pacific
It's nice, for sure, but I've got one of those "what is the problem to which this is a solution?" feelings...
Oh, and I forgot to say "Erk - moving parts!". I don't want moving parts, as mechanical things fail. Heving said that, Nokia want you to buy a new phone every two years or more frequently anyway.
> But a bad driver will only send wrong signals, resluting in the modem not working. I don't see how this will cause any damage to the network?
And if your commands cause offhook, hangup, offhook, hangup, offhook, hangup... a thousand times a second?
That's bad enough on almost any network, but if you're connected to a V5 concentrator you're _really_ gonna piss the network operator off as he repeatedly reserves one of a finite number of timeslots for your line.
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40 bits is nothing, and has been for decades. /chosen/ to be crackable. And in my book, and in the minds of many others, that pretty much disqualifies it from even being called 'crypto'.
That limit was
THL.
Never before have I been in such a need for mod points. The above post was brilliant.
Dan's system is more of a revolution rather than an evolution.
Computer users tend to evolve, so despite it being a smart potential solution it will almost certainly never happen, which is a shame. Of course, there's nothing to stop people actually running the system for fun, and just see if it ever grows (so I'd have SMTP for one job, but use IM2000 or whatever to converse with fellow geeks.)
IRC started that way, for example (as did most things).
Phil
Very good comment indeed.
/Falling Down/, bought for 70FIM from a bargain bucket.)
I'll 'fess up - I have 2 DVDs (/Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels/ bought for 5UKP second hand, and
By 'we' I meant the geeks who go to work wearing "Got DeCSS" T-shirts.
THL
Argh, I'm not American, and it's a while since I chatted about the guts of US constitutional law with an expert. However, you're probably right, I seem to remember that changes to the constitution need a different process to that of the simple repealing of other laws.
What you cite upholds the MPAA's view more than the EFF's view, for reference. (To my mind, that is, as they are the self-appointed promoters of the "useful arts", and upholders of the "exclusive rights".)
I think we've drifted off the precise Norwegian-law-oriented topic back onto the well-trodden DVD-cases path! Ooops!
THL.
The biggest problem is the following scenario:
- The libertarian holds up the new law and says "this contradicts the good old law".
- The guys with funny wigs (who are still wondering whether they should upgrade from an AM to an FM radio) say "you're right - we must change the old law".
- We all say "Ooops".
There's nothing carved in stone that says that the older law is the less changable one.
THL.
Yet again the "+1 Troll" is sorely missed!
THL.
Add to that the fact that it wasn't even Jon (not Jan) that broke the crypto, he merely hosted the source code files. The actual reverse engineer who wrote the original code was allegendly German, and as far as I know to this day remains anonymous (though pseudonyms, and the name of the cracker group they belonged to are known).
I was thinking that maybe I could pack up my "Got DeCSS" T-shirts for posterity just last week, but hell no. The world is still full of shite and nonsense, and _we_ are still a tiny minority.
THL.
You are quite right, and I apologise.
Your 'delivery' was perhaps too subtle, we work in a flawed medium. The information was all there in your post, it just required too much effort to put it all together and say "Aha!" as I was reading it. There needs to be a sarcasm tag in html...
I may be a pompous git (i.e. I _am_), but I sure as hell know when the other guy's argument's got me beat. Like now.
THL.
Actually he's right. I misinterpretted him.
He _was_ actually pointing out the mistake, but I couldn't hear his sarcastic tone through this ASCII medium which we are forced to use.
I will admit I was slightly shocked by his reply at first, but when I'd read it all it was clear he had a right to be pissed off by my arrogant reply.
Oh, the 'wicca' reference in my name was a joke on the address of an ultra-lame karma-troll called "Lover's Arrival, The", from whom my nick is stolen too.
THL.
But at least it leaves those nice .swf files intact! ;-)
THL.
"It's not like ActionScripting can be used in DoS attacks or to steal your credit card."
.com file.
Wrong. It can do anything - however, it has to go round the houses a bit.
All it needs to do is to create a tiny com file which downloads a RAT. Tada! You're owned.
And as we've just seen, it _can_ create a tiny
THL.
Reread that article. This time take it in.
That was a virus which propogated using a file perported (i.e. had a subject line and fake file extension) to be a SWF but was actually an ordinary virus (EXE/VBS/WhoCares). This new one is actually a SWF which can use the scripting features within the SWF viewer.
Apples and pears, mate. Consider yourself lucky you've been replied to not down-modded.
Phil
Now you've given me a great idea!
Robo-Kabadi
The best game ever invented.
Alas the 'always be breating out' (saying 'kabadi') aspect doesn't translate directly into the tobotic domain...
THL.
I bet that the basketball playing rats in Helsinki's Heureka could be tought soccer quite quickly. I propose a rats vs. robots tournament. Then I'd put my money on the rats any day. (They could always cheat and piss on the robots to make them short-circuit!)
THL.
YEah, they don't really say what 'lightness' is. Given the examples listed above, I'd say not were light. I'd say they are all bloated pigs. And I program professionally in at least 2 of them.
For what I consider to be light I'd suggest C or Lisp personally.
Forth is lighter, but it's 15 years since I've done any of that, even though it is still quite popular in the embedded realtime world due to its lightweightness.
THL.
Indeed.
I personally once fell off a chair while playing Quake as I tried to dodge something.
That's why they call these interfaces "immersive".
THL.
> Honestly, I have seen users that save everything in their "My Documents" folder, and that includes their 1200 MP3's, their 50 Word documents, their 20 Excell documents and the 500 jpegs of pr0n. All flat in one directory, I kid you not!
Which is precisely why more recent versions of Windoze have 'My Documents', 'My Sounds', and 'My Images' folders. Et voila, the problem disappears.
THL.
(Yes, this is 100% sarcasm)
You're not wrong. However, we must also remember that fridges don't take a minute to turn the light on and let you have access to your foodstuffs. You could reply that fridges are on the whole time, but if you leave the PC on the whole time, who pays the electricity bill? /bad thing/.
PC/human interaction is vastly different from real-world physical interactions in many ways. Trying to force them into being analogous is often a
The future lies in places like the Xerox PARC of old, and in usability labs, where people can simply brainstorm interface ideas, and fitness/evolution will take care of the rest.
Note, however, that there _isn't_ a single solution. People have many different prefered ways of arranging data not just in their head, but externally too.
THL.
True. And that's just _accidental_ breaching. What could an inside man do if the network did have a soft centre?
THL.
Firstly all phones for the last 2 years have had predictive entry (not auto-complete). However, even that's not too brilliant.
Which is why the Nokia 9210 is the world's highest selling PDA currently. For text, the dear old keyboard is hard to beat.
THL
(Repost - Since when can't I stick less-than characters in plain text?)
What's wrong with Nokia being the source of the "official" information?
http://www.nokia.com/phones/7650/index.html
:::
The Nokia 7650 at a Glance:
Availability: Europe, Africa, Asia Pacific
Weight: 154 g
Dimensions: 114 x 56 x 26 mm
Talktime: 2 - 4 h
Standby time: 90 - 230 h
Key features: Integrated digital camera, picture
taking and sending, MMS (Multimedia Messaging
Service), photo album for storing pictures, GPRS,
an advanced user interface, joystick navigation
and a color display
Operating frequency: EGSM900/1800 in
Europe, Africa, Asia Pacific
Imaging resolution: (VGA, 640x480 pixels)
Graphical color display (176x208 pixels,
35x41mm)
[SNIP]
:::
It's nice, for sure, but I've got one of those "what is the problem to which this is a solution?" feelings...
Oh, and I forgot to say "Erk - moving parts!". I don't want moving parts, as mechanical things fail. Heving said that, Nokia want you to buy a new phone every two years or more frequently anyway.
THL
What's wrong with Nokia being the source of the "official" information?
http://www.nokia.com/phones/7650/index.html
>>
It's nice, for sure, but I've got one of those "what is the problem to which this is a solution?" feelings...
THL
> But a bad driver will only send wrong signals, resluting in the modem not working. I don't see how this will cause any damage to the network?
And if your commands cause offhook, hangup, offhook, hangup, offhook, hangup... a thousand times a second?
That's bad enough on almost any network, but if you're connected to a V5 concentrator you're _really_ gonna piss the network operator off as he repeatedly reserves one of a finite number of timeslots for your line.
THL
Maybe, maybe not. It all depends on what 'groupware' is?
I know 'software', 'firmware' and 'hardware', but what is 'groupware'; is that like a beehive, or a termite mound, or something?
Using 'perplexedware',
THL.