The 128 bits Netscape uses are for a symetric key. It takes considerably less bits for a symetric key to be secure, than an asymetric key. (I forget the equivalency, but ISTR that 128 bits symetric is roughly equivalent of 2048 bits asymetric.)
This is a bit dated but there is a section on the key length equivelants between symetrical and asymetrical methods.
I saw an article once (not sure if it was here or not) about someone using random pictures from a lava lamp to encrypt whatever he wanted. Last i heard was everyone that tried to break the encryption failed... the only way to decode it was to use the orignal picture that was taken of the lave lamp. If anyone else has heard about this or has any other information if this worked or not I would love to hear about it.
You're in big trouble when the light blows out though;)
Well, of course, if the picture is unique, this is the one-time-pad encryption. In order to decrypt, you have to use the same picture (i.e. the same key).
One-time-pad is so-far the most secure, but it is not very practical in daily use. And make sure you don't use the same key more than once, otherwise, it falls into the same weakness as other encryption.
My theory about open source is that Linux in particular is being privately funded by IBM, Sun, AOL and other big companies with the sole intention of breaking up Microsoft. I have no doubt that Linux will be sucessful in eventually becoming the predominant desktop OS
I really don't think any of those really expects to replace windows on the desktop with linux. I don't think they should either. IMHO, Linux's place is, and always should be in the server market. It may be early enough in the PDA game to compete with M$ and Palm OS but that remains to be seen.
Slashdot is not our employer. Our job isn't endangered if we go vote no.
This is not a product that we make in comparison to another product. It's deceiving to make a product and then skew the results that is suppose to be a public opinion on it.
I'e wonder about the quality of the steak. No, not because of the source, but because meat, essentially muscle and fat, is normally used and exercised... providing much of the quality and structure. Would "test tube steaks" have that same quality/texture?
Actually, the most tender, coveted piece of meat in a cow is the tenderloin fillet. It's one of the least used muscles in the body.
Ever tried adding metadata to an MP3 file? ID3v1.1 is trivial but ID3v2 has a 95,000 line reference implementation. Uh? UH?
Perl's MP3::Info Module makes ID3v1.1 updates pretty easy but as you said, ID3v2 isn't quite as easy. It has some support for ID3v2 tagging (read, delete but no update).
Hopefully write support will be available soon. The author doens't want to use MPEG::ID3v2Tag because it requires >= Perl 5.05. The MPEG::ID3v2Tag module doesn't look too rough.
It seems to be a random ad on the right column of the screen for a company called TechnoScout. It's a column of links with titles like:
Space program research creates "smart bed" sleep surface
Unique formulation combats oxygen deficiencies without chemicals
But when you click on one of them, it just takes you to a page with product and ordering information. It's pretty obvious to me that it's a advertisement (especially since there's a note on top of it that reads 'Advertisement').
A gcc cross compiler, like the one that is used by Palm, would work equally well. I am still not convinced of the value of this.
Only because you're trying so hard not to be. Bottom line, a PDA running Linux is almost infinitly more flexible than a PDA running an alternative OS. If you can't see that, then... well.. run and be happy with your wince or palm OS.
I don't expect PDAs to be desktops. But they aren't servers or development machines either
Why not? I'd like to have the ability to keep my code, apache, etc. on my PDA and keep it with me between work/home. I could ssh into it from my desktop over a wireless network connection and do my business.
I think the main problem here is peoples limited imagination.
openssh
shell script
perl script
any number of linux utils (awk, find, less, etc.)
emacs
vi!
gcc!!
nmap
netcat
etc.
etc.
from my PDA... I don't think I'll ever be able to do any of those things with winCE or PalmOS.
Screw the GUI apps.. I'd run a linux PDA for the same reason as I run my servers/development environment... I don't run linux as a desktop and I wouldn't expect my linux PDA to be a desktop. The GUI apps are nice but I wouldn't rely on it.
While this "new" form of advertising (I put "new" in quotations, as this kind of thing has been around for almost a year -- though now it's got some ridiculous name)
All sorts of high-end 3-d capability in these cards means that the very good 2-d capability (which used to only be in high-end cards) is much less expensive.
2 weeks ago I built a new server that wasn't going to run x-windows, much less any sort of games. I'd gone to 2 different Fry's, a Best Buy, and CompUSA to find a low end, PCI video card (the 2u case riser card didn't support AGP). The lowest end card I could find was a 3D TNT2 for $55.
Just a few years ago you could easily find a cheap ~4 meg card for around $10-20. Doesn't seem to be the case anymore. Of course, I probably coulda found one on-line but I like being able to actually walk into the store for a refund/exchange if something goes wrong.
Isnt this backward? Should we be porting software from Windows to Linux(e.g., WINE) instead of from Linux to Windows? Come on, Windows has enough good software already. Why spend time porting the useful stuff from Linux into the busted Windows environment?
The title "grab a dictionary" has a rebuttal quality to it. Maybe he wasn't? (and I'm a "her")
Just answering this question:
Really. Firstly, once on wheels, can the driver be considered a "pedestrian?"
It's just a fact... what your brain does with it is on you..
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the Kawasaki Ninja 250R has a retail price of $2,999, gets over 70mpg, does 0-60 in 5.5 seconds, and you won't look like a complete dork while riding one
Really. Firstly, once on wheels, can the driver be considered a "pedestrian?" Secondly, what about bicycles, scooters, and the like. I'm sure there is some incredible technology going on there, but the arrogance seems much more powerful.
This is a moot point, because who is foolish enough to run a system without a heatsink and fan.
Sure a fan can fail, but there are monitoring systems that tell you when this happens...
Maybe you should actually watch the video @ toms. The chip is toast within one second of the heatsink removal. All the early detection in the world can't help you there but then again, you might have better reflexes than me.
why the anal retentiveness about body counts? Its an American hangup, even though we lost, We killed more therefore we are better. Yeah right
LOL, you obviously didn't read my comment very well. I suggest you read it again. Rinse, repeat.
In case you still don't get it, I'll spell it out for you. Nothing was said about a body count being a good thing. In fact, it was implied that a body count is meaningless against a whole nation that doesn't fear death. The only way you win a war like that is to kill all of them or get inside their heads and play mind games w/ them based upon their strength which is also their weakness.
This is no different than the Americans island hopping in WW2 against Japanese soldiers as fanatical as they come, defending their positions until the last man.
Nonetheless, I stick by my statements regarding the Russian army. You simply cannot compare it to any NATO force. During the Afghan invasion this was a draftee force. They did not want to be there, and the incredibly high instances of substance abuse bore that out. The US went through a similar problem with perpetually stoned draftees during Vietnam, which is a key reason why no modern army will field a draftee force if they don't have to.
Even though the Japanese were as fanatical these militant Muslims, they knew when they were beat. And on top of that, it took 2 atomic bombs to get the point across. One wonders how it would have turned out if the war kept it's original course.
There are many differences here of course. For one, we aren't trying to occupy the country. That's one in our favor. A big wall
we face is trying to find Bin Laden in a sparse, desert, unforgiving countryside filled with mountainous terrain. That is definitly not in our favor. Snipers, abush attackers, suicide bombers and a host of other harsh elements are going to be encountered. It's not going to be as easy as Iraq by any means.
I'm not comparing Russia to an Allied invasion (The Soviets are actually considering helping w/ the invasion) but I am saying that it won't be easy. The Russians totally dominated these people by the numbers but it's not really the numbers that matter. They are as hard as it comes.
The psychological terror factor will no doubt play a big role in both sides of this war. If we are smart, we should use their fanatical belief system against them. This is going to get very dirty and unfortunately, we are going to end up looking very bad to the rest of the world before this is all said and done. What's done is done and there's not much in the works for turning back now.
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The 128 bits Netscape uses are for a symetric key. It takes considerably less bits for a symetric key to be secure, than an asymetric key. (I forget the equivalency, but ISTR that 128 bits symetric is roughly equivalent of 2048 bits asymetric.)
l -faq.html#SECTION00043000000000000000
This is a bit dated but there is a section on the key length equivelants between symetrical and asymetrical methods.
http://www.interhack.net/people/cmcurtin/snake-oi
I saw an article once (not sure if it was here or not) about someone using random pictures from a lava lamp to encrypt whatever he wanted. Last i heard was everyone that tried to break the encryption failed... the only way to decode it was to use the orignal picture that was taken of the lave lamp. If anyone else has heard about this or has any other information if this worked or not I would love to hear about it.
You're in big trouble when the light blows out though
Well, of course, if the picture is unique, this is the one-time-pad encryption. In order to decrypt, you have to use the same picture (i.e. the same key).
One-time-pad is so-far the most secure, but it is not very practical in daily use. And make sure you don't use the same key more than once, otherwise, it falls into the same weakness as other encryption.
More info on OTP's:
http://www.interhack.net/people/cmcurtin/snake-oi
My theory about open source is that Linux in particular is being privately funded by IBM, Sun, AOL and other big companies with the sole intention of breaking up Microsoft. I have no doubt that Linux will be sucessful in eventually becoming the predominant desktop OS
I really don't think any of those really expects to replace windows on the desktop with linux. I don't think they should either. IMHO, Linux's place is, and always should be in the server market. It may be early enough in the PDA game to compete with M$ and Palm OS but that remains to be seen.
Slashdot is not our employer. Our job isn't endangered if we go vote no.
This is not a product that we make in comparison to another product. It's deceiving to make a product and then skew the results that is suppose to be a public opinion on it.
This article indicates that the chip will run at room temp. I'll believe it when I see it though.
.13 micron and at 5GHz at normal room temperature, because of the low power circuits it will use.
And Intel claims McKinleys in the future will run at
I'e wonder about the quality of the steak. No, not because of the source, but because meat, essentially muscle and fat, is normally used and exercised... providing much of the quality and structure. Would "test tube steaks" have that same quality/texture?
Actually, the most tender, coveted piece of meat in a cow is the tenderloin fillet. It's one of the least used muscles in the body.
Ever tried adding metadata to an MP3 file? ID3v1.1 is trivial but ID3v2 has a 95,000 line reference implementation. Uh? UH?
Perl's MP3::Info Module makes ID3v1.1 updates pretty easy but as you said, ID3v2 isn't quite as easy. It has some support for ID3v2 tagging (read, delete but no update).
Hopefully write support will be available soon. The author doens't want to use MPEG::ID3v2Tag because it requires >= Perl 5.05. The MPEG::ID3v2Tag module doesn't look too rough.
It seems to be a random ad on the right column of the screen for a company called TechnoScout. It's a column of links with titles like:
Space program research creates "smart bed" sleep surface
Unique formulation combats oxygen deficiencies without chemicals
But when you click on one of them, it just takes you to a page with product and ordering information. It's pretty obvious to me that it's a advertisement (especially since there's a note on top of it that reads 'Advertisement').
A gcc cross compiler, like the one that is used by Palm, would work equally well. I am still not convinced of the value of this.
Only because you're trying so hard not to be. Bottom line, a PDA running Linux is almost infinitly more flexible than a PDA running an alternative OS. If you can't see that, then... well.. run and be happy with your wince or palm OS.
Can you explain what you would use gcc on a handheld for?
http://freshmeat.net
I don't expect PDAs to be desktops. But they aren't servers or development machines either
Why not? I'd like to have the ability to keep my code, apache, etc. on my PDA and keep it with me between work/home. I could ssh into it from my desktop over a wireless network connection and do my business.
I think the main problem here is peoples limited imagination.
Umm... let's see..
I'd love to:
openssh
shell script
perl script
any number of linux utils (awk, find, less, etc.)
emacs
vi!
gcc!!
nmap
netcat
etc.
etc.
from my PDA... I don't think I'll ever be able to do any of those things with winCE or PalmOS.
Screw the GUI apps.. I'd run a linux PDA for the same reason as I run my servers/development environment... I don't run linux as a desktop and I wouldn't expect my linux PDA to be a desktop. The GUI apps are nice but I wouldn't rely on it.
ldap integration
:)
Well, qmail supports ldap integration but it sure lacks the other features
While this "new" form of advertising (I put "new" in quotations, as this kind of thing has been around for almost a year -- though now it's got some ridiculous name)
Exactly... yahoo's been using these for months.
All sorts of high-end 3-d capability in these cards means that the very good 2-d capability (which used to only be in high-end cards) is much less expensive.
2 weeks ago I built a new server that wasn't going to run x-windows, much less any sort of games. I'd gone to 2 different Fry's, a Best Buy, and CompUSA to find a low end, PCI video card (the 2u case riser card didn't support AGP). The lowest end card I could find was a 3D TNT2 for $55.
Just a few years ago you could easily find a cheap ~4 meg card for around $10-20. Doesn't seem to be the case anymore. Of course, I probably coulda found one on-line but I like being able to actually walk into the store for a refund/exchange if something goes wrong.
Isnt this backward? Should we be porting software from Windows to Linux(e.g., WINE) instead of from Linux to Windows? Come on, Windows has enough good software already. Why spend time porting the useful stuff from Linux into the busted Windows environment?
Ummm... I think they are.
Just answering this question:
It's just a fact... what your brain does with it is on you..
the Kawasaki Ninja 250R has a retail price of $2,999, gets over 70mpg, does 0-60 in 5.5 seconds, and you won't look like a complete dork while riding one
I dunno... that's up for debate...
Really. Firstly, once on wheels, can the driver be considered a "pedestrian?" Secondly, what about bicycles, scooters, and the like. I'm sure there is some incredible technology going on there, but the arrogance seems much more powerful.
pedestrian noun
A person traveling on foot; a walker.
This is a moot point, because who is foolish enough to run a system without a heatsink and fan.
Sure a fan can fail, but there are monitoring systems that tell you when this happens...
Maybe you should actually watch the video @ toms. The chip is toast within one second of the heatsink removal. All the early detection in the world can't help you there but then again, you might have better reflexes than me.
the only difference is the last article referenced a press release by Bell Labs and this one references a NYT article.
Uhh... I don't think he was asking for a:
`diff articleA articleB`
why the anal retentiveness about body counts? Its an American hangup, even though we lost, We killed more therefore we are better. Yeah right
LOL, you obviously didn't read my comment very well. I suggest you read it again. Rinse, repeat.
In case you still don't get it, I'll spell it out for you. Nothing was said about a body count being a good thing. In fact, it was implied that a body count is meaningless against a whole nation that doesn't fear death. The only way you win a war like that is to kill all of them or get inside their heads and play mind games w/ them based upon their strength which is also their weakness.
This is no different than the Americans island hopping in WW2 against Japanese soldiers as fanatical as they come, defending their positions until the last man.
Nonetheless, I stick by my statements regarding the Russian army. You simply cannot compare it to any NATO force. During the Afghan invasion this was a draftee force. They did not want to be there, and the incredibly high instances of substance abuse bore that out. The US went through a similar problem with perpetually stoned draftees during Vietnam, which is a key reason why no modern army will field a draftee force if they don't have to.
Even though the Japanese were as fanatical these militant Muslims, they knew when they were beat. And on top of that, it took 2 atomic bombs to get the point across. One wonders how it would have turned out if the war kept it's original course.
There are many differences here of course. For one, we aren't trying to occupy the country. That's one in our favor. A big wall
we face is trying to find Bin Laden in a sparse, desert, unforgiving countryside filled with mountainous terrain. That is definitly not in our favor. Snipers, abush attackers, suicide bombers and a host of other harsh elements are going to be encountered. It's not going to be as easy as Iraq by any means.
I'm not comparing Russia to an Allied invasion (The Soviets are actually considering helping w/ the invasion) but I am saying that it won't be easy. The Russians totally dominated these people by the numbers but it's not really the numbers that matter. They are as hard as it comes.
The psychological terror factor will no doubt play a big role in both sides of this war. If we are smart, we should use their fanatical belief system against them. This is going to get very dirty and unfortunately, we are going to end up looking very bad to the rest of the world before this is all said and done. What's done is done and there's not much in the works for turning back now.