I can't find any detailed technical spec on Espra, at least there are some on Alpine, till then Espra is at the bottom of p2p appl that I will listen to till it faces the real world. Alpine is already getting critisim for questionably "flawed" design... Let's not get burned by the p2p hype, take it slow guys...
"The more relevent question is whether you can have a peer-to-peer network without central servers that *can* scale. And the answer is "no"."
That question bugged me so much, I will like to answer it for you, the answer is YES! I figured out a solution, after reading the paper yesterday, I spent my time in class scrawling and pondering over that, and I have a very simple elegant solution, I can't believe it! So, I am going to perform some experiments first before I make a fool of myself, but I certainly think it can be done. If I told you how, you do smack yourself in the forehead and say, "of course!"
"And the Japanese beat our socks off." Their CanSats talked to each other and sent pictures from digital cameras that toggled around. One CanSat even had a global positioning system receiver that was so good at detecting the satellite's location that the students went out to meet it. "Their professor grabbed the CanSat before it hit the ground," Twiggs says.
How often have you posted anonymously? do you have a pseudo handle? Have you ever trolled?
Are you getting bored with slashdot? What is the biggest screw up that you did to the site that we never found out? Have you ever used "super moderating power" to mod down posts attacking slashdot editors...? What is your favorite pizza topping and sandwich?
I am not taking sides on Microsoft or Sun, but I liked one thing Sun said and definitely agree with it.
"Sun Answer: We hate to be the first ones to tell you this, but the concept of open applies to architecture, not to implementations. And architectures and implementations are two different and independent notions."
This is important because there are still many people who don't know this, give them an open architecture with a close implementation, and they will bitch all day long about how it is not open, give them a closed architecture with an open implementation and they do think you did the right thing. Some might argue that the architecture can be derived from the implementation, but that is wrong...
"We discuss the possibility that someone has already written that script and uploaded it to the Web. We go a step further -- maybe he should write the script and get Freshmeat to link to it. He's pleased by the idea, but later, after inspecting Freshmeat's new redesign and deciding he doesn't like it, he puts the idea aside."
They had a warranty.
"They executed a search and confiscated a computer, CDs and computer games from Room 304. Kent State University police obtained a warrant after consulting with the prosecutor."
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nah, not implementations. if someone implemented RSA incorrectly and you exploited that, you haven't broken RSA. cryptanalysists don't care about implementation, crackers do. a cryptanalysist assumes that all implementation is correct, thus focuses on shredding the algorithm into tiny pieces for once that is done, all the implementations are useless.
This problem will never go away unless new security related technologys are shown to the crypto and security community for peer review before deployment. This is why I respected the recording industry when they asked for SDMI to be tested.
System admin is not an easy job, and if you want it easy you should go work for McD. Distributing a script that makes it easy to upgrade is not the answer, think of some script kiddies distributing their own trojan upgrade scripts. If you don't take the pain to verify source of script and checksum, you will be owned!
i would pay for it, but it will suck if i logon to find only 100 other users! so what will they do? make you share for free? and pay to download? what if i have 100000 mp3s to share, will they pay me some $$$? if not, then they are exploiting me, no? unless they plan to put those mp3s up their themselves, i don't see how this will work out fairly.
I hate to say this, but none of the shells are okay for web programming. Never forget this, "use the right tool for the job to be done.", just because one loves assembly programming doesn't mean it should be used for webprogramming. strong interpretted/scripted programming languages like perl/python/php are what you should look at. If ksh was fixed up to be good enough for webprograming, someone will soon request for a database library! yeah, for a shell...
It is very hard to find a programmer who is completely satisified with his code. No matter how happy she is with it, there is always that part which she wishes to improve. As far as ksh is concerned what is it that you wish you didn't do, can improve?
if you read a lot, you will see that there is a way around this, emulation, basically what happens is that a PROM gets written to, by using emulation to emulate that PROM, we can reverse all the bits DirecTV's toggled back to the original, it is not theortical, it is already out there, those who were smart to get it early are not crying now. But I am sure DirecTV will come up with a smart idea, in the console world, it is possible to write game that can detect different kind of emulators. So they might write code that can detect an emulator. i.e, Emulators usually don't emulate bugs in hardware.;) It is amazing how a bug in hardware can be used for useful things.:D
what if this happened in the software world? Where ID did this to quake, and somehow quake had an update, and they end up updating in such a way that the pirate/cracked versions are destroyed. Would people be screaming about their privacy being violated?
It all depends on opinion, some of those guys you called pirates are hackers. In the pirate world, you have hackers, crackers, the pirates, lamers, etc. The hackers are the ones who usually figure out the system, the crackers are the ones who build tools to crack it based on info obtained by the hackers, the pirates are the ones selling the cloned cards, etc, etc. anyway, Dodger, ltns!:-)
They are both hackers! You have no idea the amount of skill it takes to crack smart cards, you don't go to www.rootsmartcards.com and get a script, run it and bam! It takes some very indept knowledge of electrical engineering and digital logics with some programming. Give respect where respect is due. If anyone that breaks a code is called a cracker then cryptobreakers should just be called crackers, so everyone running those distributed cryto attacks are crackers.:-)
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shame on you for not reading the article!!!
If you did, you will see he is making fun of the camera for it's flash, a flash that you cannot turn off, no spy photos for you, so your argument is invalid. If you look at article #60, you will see him giving credit to another small camera for spy photos. Please read before you post, speed reading/glancing is not enough to post a comment.
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Bahaha, duh, they are on MySQL, No transactions, No rollback. At least they back up!
I can't find any detailed technical spec on Espra, at least there are some on Alpine, till then Espra is at the bottom of p2p appl that I will listen to till it faces the real world. Alpine is already getting critisim for questionably "flawed" design... Let's not get burned by the p2p hype, take it slow guys...
"The more relevent question is whether you can have a peer-to-peer network without central servers that *can* scale. And the answer is "no"."
That question bugged me so much, I will like to answer it for you, the answer is YES! I figured out a solution, after reading the paper yesterday, I spent my time in class scrawling and pondering over that, and I have a very simple elegant solution, I can't believe it! So, I am going to perform some experiments first before I make a fool of myself, but I certainly think it can be done. If I told you how, you do smack yourself in the forehead and say, "of course!"
"And the Japanese beat our socks off." Their CanSats talked to each other and sent pictures from digital cameras that toggled around. One CanSat even had a global positioning system receiver that was so good at detecting the satellite's location that the students went out to meet it. "Their professor grabbed the CanSat before it hit the ground," Twiggs says.
How often have you posted anonymously? do you have a pseudo handle? Have you ever trolled?
Are you getting bored with slashdot? What is the biggest screw up that you did to the site that we never found out? Have you ever used "super moderating power" to mod down posts attacking slashdot editors...? What is your favorite pizza topping and sandwich?
the problem with web pages out there are not the browsers but the web sites, the site design, lack of content, flash, and multimedia, etc...
If the recording device comes with a realdoll, I will not complain!
you are just as wrong as them, it is the strong tag. :p
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...leaders can't verfiy html code before throwing it on the front page.
they have a
how sad that our fearsome ahem
I am not taking sides on Microsoft or Sun, but I liked one thing Sun said and definitely agree with it.
"Sun Answer: We hate to be the first ones to tell you this, but the concept of open applies to architecture, not to implementations. And architectures and implementations are two different and independent notions."
This is important because there are still many people who don't know this, give them an open architecture with a close implementation, and they will bitch all day long about how it is not open, give them a closed architecture with an open implementation and they do think you did the right thing. Some might argue that the architecture can be derived from the implementation, but that is wrong...
As I was reading the article, I couldn't help but think, what if SUN had made the Xbox?
"We discuss the possibility that someone has already written that script and uploaded it to the Web. We go a step further -- maybe he should write the script and get Freshmeat to link to it. He's pleased by the idea, but later, after inspecting Freshmeat's new redesign and deciding he doesn't like it, he puts the idea aside."
I wonder if this is really happening...
They had a warranty.
"They executed a search and confiscated a computer, CDs and computer games from Room 304. Kent State University police obtained a warrant after consulting with the prosecutor."
tux vs bsd devil celebrity deathmatch?
look at http://www.rageout.net/takeittux.jpg for evidence.
nah, not implementations. if someone implemented RSA incorrectly and you exploited that, you haven't broken RSA. cryptanalysists don't care about implementation, crackers do. a cryptanalysist assumes that all implementation is correct, thus focuses on shredding the algorithm into tiny pieces for once that is done, all the implementations are useless.
This problem will never go away unless new security related technologys are shown to the crypto and security community for peer review before deployment. This is why I respected the recording industry when they asked for SDMI to be tested.
System admin is not an easy job, and if you want it easy you should go work for McD. Distributing a script that makes it easy to upgrade is not the answer, think of some script kiddies distributing their own trojan upgrade scripts. If you don't take the pain to verify source of script and checksum, you will be owned!
i would pay for it, but it will suck if i logon to find only 100 other users! so what will they do? make you share for free? and pay to download? what if i have 100000 mp3s to share, will they pay me some $$$? if not, then they are exploiting me, no? unless they plan to put those mp3s up their themselves, i don't see how this will work out fairly.
I hate to say this, but none of the shells are okay for web programming. Never forget this, "use the right tool for the job to be done.", just because one loves assembly programming doesn't mean it should be used for webprogramming. strong interpretted/scripted programming languages like perl/python/php are what you should look at. If ksh was fixed up to be good enough for webprograming, someone will soon request for a database library! yeah, for a shell...
It is very hard to find a programmer who is completely satisified with his code. No matter how happy she is with it, there is always that part which she wishes to improve. As far as ksh is concerned what is it that you wish you didn't do, can improve?
if you read a lot, you will see that there is a way around this, emulation, basically what happens is that a PROM gets written to, by using emulation to emulate that PROM, we can reverse all the bits DirecTV's toggled back to the original, it is not theortical, it is already out there, those who were smart to get it early are not crying now. But I am sure DirecTV will come up with a smart idea, in the console world, it is possible to write game that can detect different kind of emulators. So they might write code that can detect an emulator. i.e, Emulators usually don't emulate bugs in hardware. ;) It is amazing how a bug in hardware can be used for useful things. :D
this story is very exciting, i could have sworn it was written by william gibson. i was just thinking of "Burning Chrome", amazing! :-)
what if this happened in the software world? Where ID did this to quake, and somehow quake had an update, and they end up updating in such a way that the pirate/cracked versions are destroyed. Would people be screaming about their privacy being violated?
It all depends on opinion, some of those guys you called pirates are hackers. In the pirate world, you have hackers, crackers, the pirates, lamers, etc. The hackers are the ones who usually figure out the system, the crackers are the ones who build tools to crack it based on info obtained by the hackers, the pirates are the ones selling the cloned cards, etc, etc. anyway, Dodger, ltns! :-)
They are both hackers! You have no idea the amount of skill it takes to crack smart cards, you don't go to www.rootsmartcards.com and get a script, run it and bam! It takes some very indept knowledge of electrical engineering and digital logics with some programming. Give respect where respect is due. If anyone that breaks a code is called a cracker then cryptobreakers should just be called crackers, so everyone running those distributed cryto attacks are crackers. :-)
shame on you for not reading the article!!!
If you did, you will see he is making fun of the camera for it's flash, a flash that you cannot turn off, no spy photos for you, so your argument is invalid. If you look at article #60, you will see him giving credit to another small camera for spy photos. Please read before you post, speed reading/glancing is not enough to post a comment.