Indeed, that is the embrace/extend/extinquish model MS has become famous for, littering the One Microsoft Way with dead heaps of promising companies. (Oops, who gave me the purple pen?)
Anyone trying to reimplement the server-side functionality of passport and hailstorm will have to rely on consistency from microsoft. Oh joy.
The idea of single sign-on is compelling only to entities wishing to track your movements across the 'Net.
At least, that's what I'm getting. Any other opinions?
Look you stupid little gnome, unless you remove all chance of variability in your chosen experiment except from one source, you actually haven't created an experiment at all and you cannot draw any conclusions from it. It's useless. That's what this experiment was: useless. That guy going through that data is making claims he cannot support. The "experiment" was just "making the water turn black" (as Franky would say.)
Take you and your faith-based science back to church where you belong.
the rate constant of that reaction and the presence of light in frequencies of energy greater than the Energy of Activation determine whether there'll be any ozone. 'Course, if it's an environment hostile to ozone ozone aint gonna hang around too long.
I think the mars surface is highly reduced so it's not gonna hang around too long, but that just explains the "circadian rhythm" if it is being generated through the day.
I conjecture it may gain an appreciable partial pressure in the daylight hours that is eroded come nightfall.
For when this gets slashdotted, the gist of the story is that the petri dishes shows signs of activity for nine weeks, far too long to be explained by the chemical story. The bacteria's activity was cycling with the temperature, and we know today but didn't know then that that sort of cycle points to cellular activity (so say the reporters at the EurekaAlert!).
But... remember this thing called the ozone layer, here on earth? Well it's generated in sunlight at high altitudes, and could very well be generated down on the martian surface. This is all that would be required to create the superoxide effect seen in the "circadian rhythms" activity found in those petri dishes. Careful with that axe, Eugene.
I'm not saying the report is wrong, just that it doesn't suggest any alternative, life-negative, scenarios that are also plausible, more probable even. According to this page, oxygen makes up 0.13% of the martian atmosphere, so I think there might be an appreciable level of ozone as well.
New companies (or old companies with the wrong idea) could be formed around this idea.
The nice thing is it's completely voluntary, a client-side option (except for the kid, of course, who might want to see what this pr0n thing is all about)
Still, it'd be hard to implement without blocking legitimate sites....
Uh, I don't think so. Everyone bailed out of the market or got cleaned out when Bush's "successful" election put a big frosty chill on the economy.
Not that I like Clinton. That ass signed the DMCA. It had unanimous support in both the (republican controlled) house and senate, but he could have refused out of principle.
I think you are going to criminalize a lot of parents that are otherwise very responsible people that take very good care of their kids. My mother's husband (who has kids) is an avid pr0n-surfer, which he does from the comfort of his AOL account. AOL is a haven for pr0n-surfin' dads. Go figure.
If you don't like it, why don't you just ban AOLers from the 'Net? Or dismantle AOL?
If it were me I'd probably feel like he did: My company makes this software, and I'm going to demonstrate how it works to permit fair-use on a device made to restrict that right.
look at the protocol 2 information in the ssh man pages, I think there it describes the DSA authentication you'll also find at the bottom of the article linked to in the headline blurb.
Well perhaps you should listen a little more closely, and you'll find I'm on your side of the argument. The way things stand now you do have a lot of control over the content that spills onto your desktop and you can view it or send it to dev/null if you like. A web-site's gotta make a living somehow, right? My only problem is the current rumblings among the big corporations about taking that control away from you. They want to centralize packet distribution, for Pete's sake!
Well, I do have another problem: they will do it "for the children", i.e., in the name of business and in the name of authors and musicians. Well it has nothing to do with "business" and commerce so much as obtaining captive markets, people with no real choice as to what they might view, buy, or even learn from.
A large corporation is a slow-moving giant that can't compete against the quicker, more adaptive small businesses in this new frontier. It needs to grab up all the land it can reach and herd cattle. That's what the DMCA is, UCITA, and other efforts to control information flow. Fences in the new frontier, protecting their cattle and their profit.
These current discussions don't have anything good in mind for you, or even for small businesses attempting to farm the new frontier, it's just a land grab.
I don't know how to test this but it looks like it could work:
n n+1
00001111 00110011 <- text(i)
01010101 01010101 <- key(i)
-------- --------
01011010 01100110 <- interm. result
(next n) 00111100 <- key(i+1) (your method)
--------
01011010 01011010 <- identical!
Well, even RSA does that, moving up through the key as it goes through the character stream, and rolling over to start anew after the key characters have been exhausted. The key is just so darn big you don't get appreciable data for a frequency analysis. I think it's also not limited to chars, though, but I'm not sure about that one.
Yeah, isn't it re-applying the XOR of/each/ key element to each character?
I would think they'd only do it once, and do a
i=++i%strlen(key) instead of that for loop. That way they iterate through the key/and/ have somewhat better encryption (like, ok until mid-19th century)
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Damn, forgot to mention the obvious:
MS is a supporter of the DMCA, which, with a single license change, could render Passport functionality off-limits to developers.
(OT aside: why mark this flamebait?)
Indeed, that is the embrace/extend/extinquish model MS has become famous for, littering the One Microsoft Way with dead heaps of promising companies. (Oops, who gave me the purple pen?)
Anyone trying to reimplement the server-side functionality of passport and hailstorm will have to rely on consistency from microsoft. Oh joy.
The idea of single sign-on is compelling only to entities wishing to track your movements across the 'Net.
At least, that's what I'm getting. Any other opinions?
Jeff was righter than you if nature==pressure
but bacteria? uh-uh. they just eat and reproduce.
Due to its half-life, it's never been seen outside the Intel labs...
Three cheers from the Amen Corner, brother.
That's the only way to compete against Microsoft.
Sheesh, I can't believe this moron got modded up.
Look you stupid little gnome, unless you remove all chance of variability in your chosen experiment except from one source, you actually haven't created an experiment at all and you cannot draw any conclusions from it. It's useless. That's what this experiment was: useless. That guy going through that data is making claims he cannot support. The "experiment" was just "making the water turn black" (as Franky would say.)
Take you and your faith-based science back to church where you belong.
Uh, at the risk of sounding partisan, might I suggest... Linux?
3O2 + hv <--> 2O3*
the rate constant of that reaction and the presence of light in frequencies of energy greater than the Energy of Activation determine whether there'll be any ozone. 'Course, if it's an environment hostile to ozone ozone aint gonna hang around too long.
I think the mars surface is highly reduced so it's not gonna hang around too long, but that just explains the "circadian rhythm" if it is being generated through the day.
I conjecture it may gain an appreciable partial pressure in the daylight hours that is eroded come nightfall.
Hey circadian rhythms, for a long time now, have been this whacked out area of neuro-biology that nobody could get a grip on.
It wasn't until 1995 or so that someone got a good strong indication of a biochemical regulator of circadian rhythms, in the fruit fly.
But... remember this thing called the ozone layer, here on earth? Well it's generated in sunlight at high altitudes, and could very well be generated down on the martian surface. This is all that would be required to create the superoxide effect seen in the "circadian rhythms" activity found in those petri dishes. Careful with that axe, Eugene.
I'm not saying the report is wrong, just that it doesn't suggest any alternative, life-negative, scenarios that are also plausible, more probable even. According to this page, oxygen makes up 0.13% of the martian atmosphere, so I think there might be an appreciable level of ozone as well.
Hey why look only on the bad side?
This is a new market opportunity:
p2p filters.
New companies (or old companies with the wrong idea) could be formed around this idea.
The nice thing is it's completely voluntary, a client-side option (except for the kid, of course, who might want to see what this pr0n thing is all about)
Still, it'd be hard to implement without blocking legitimate sites....
Uh, I don't think so. Everyone bailed out of the market or got cleaned out when Bush's "successful" election put a big frosty chill on the economy.
Not that I like Clinton. That ass signed the DMCA. It had unanimous support in both the (republican controlled) house and senate, but he could have refused out of principle.
He didn't.
Somebody give this guy the Nobel Prize for Good Parenting, or at least mod him up. :)
I think you are going to criminalize a lot of parents that are otherwise very responsible people that take very good care of their kids. My mother's husband (who has kids) is an avid pr0n-surfer, which he does from the comfort of his AOL account. AOL is a haven for pr0n-surfin' dads. Go figure.
If you don't like it, why don't you just ban AOLers from the 'Net? Or dismantle AOL?
The parent that has that fear for her child should supervise the child, not infringe on my rights.
If it were me I'd probably feel like he did: My company makes this software, and I'm going to demonstrate how it works to permit fair-use on a device made to restrict that right.
Wups.
look at the protocol 2 information in the ssh man pages, I think there it describes the DSA authentication you'll also find at the bottom of the article linked to in the headline blurb.
Well perhaps you should listen a little more closely, and you'll find I'm on your side of the argument. The way things stand now you do have a lot of control over the content that spills onto your desktop and you can view it or send it to dev/null if you like. A web-site's gotta make a living somehow, right? My only problem is the current rumblings among the big corporations about taking that control away from you. They want to centralize packet distribution, for Pete's sake!
Well, I do have another problem: they will do it "for the children", i.e., in the name of business and in the name of authors and musicians. Well it has nothing to do with "business" and commerce so much as obtaining captive markets, people with no real choice as to what they might view, buy, or even learn from.
A large corporation is a slow-moving giant that can't compete against the quicker, more adaptive small businesses in this new frontier. It needs to grab up all the land it can reach and herd cattle. That's what the DMCA is, UCITA, and other efforts to control information flow. Fences in the new frontier, protecting their cattle and their profit.
These current discussions don't have anything good in mind for you, or even for small businesses attempting to farm the new frontier, it's just a land grab.
I don't know how to test this but it looks like it could work:
n n+1
00001111 00110011 <- text(i)
01010101 01010101 <- key(i)
-------- --------
01011010 01100110 <- interm. result
(next n) 00111100 <- key(i+1) (your method)
--------
01011010 01011010 <- identical!
(grmblfixedwidthmyassmbl)
It's just truly lame-ass encryption, truly rotX
Well, even RSA does that, moving up through the key as it goes through the character stream, and rolling over to start anew after the key characters have been exhausted. The key is just so darn big you don't get appreciable data for a frequency analysis. I think it's also not limited to chars, though, but I'm not sure about that one.
please, someone encourage me to hack the RSA challenge! I need the money.
Wha- huh?
Did someone accuse MS of consistency?
Yeah, isn't it re-applying the XOR of /each/ key element to each character?
/and/ have somewhat better encryption (like, ok until mid-19th century)
I would think they'd only do it once, and do a
i=++i%strlen(key) instead of that for loop. That way they iterate through the key