SHA is a stream hash. That means you can do 4 bytes worth, save the state and then cycle through the next 5 bytes much faster. When doing the same thing with md5, you can pre calculate all but the last two bytes and then cycle those real fast.
MD5 uses a table of sine values that it uses. If someone were to make slight changes in thouse tables, then this kind of crack wouldn't work unless the hash as verified. I suspect the same is true for SHA but I haven't looked at that yet.
Judges are elected... by a small groups of people and theres ususaly only one to vote for. Its commonly called appointment.
Many lower court judges (in the state govements) have their name put on the ballot with a "Do you want judge ____ to retain the position". It allows for bad judges to go away. This needs to happen at the federal level as well.
If the judge isn't a lawyers then any lawyers working for any party to the case had better be able to explain things in plain language. -- That would be a very good thing.
If you've ever looked at the power PC insturction set, you'll see its 16 bit:-)
Ever address has be loaded as two instructions, one for the high bits, one for the low. When you go to 64 bit mode then it takes 5 instructions just to load one address.
In '93 when the US goverment said "all email will be Gossip" where gossip was a huge mess of a iso X.400 based junk, everyone and their dog started moving junk towards x.400. The early Mapi API has things to make x.400 easier. Luckly for the world, I managed to get the words "or SMTP" added to the line that told goverment departs what they could use until the gossip thing was finalized.
If you you miss X.400 addressing, send me some email, my address is: "I=t;S=hogard;O=abnormal;p=com;a=com"
So, the judge got it wrong. This isn't about legality, its about "looking good". What does it take to get rid of a federal judge? Can we get her name on a check box on the November ballot "Do you want to keep the Judge who bent over to Microsoft?" She played the political game and now she can advance to the next level. That is the only way you can advance to higher paying judge jobs is to do what congress wants. Its much like the public defenders. They need to be good at their job but not too good if they want to work for the DA. So they can't win hard cases. With the current judge appointment mess, you start out as a public defender, make your way in to the DA office then you can be appointed a judge.
Judges should not be lawyers. There is no reason they need to be. A judge is there to make sane judgements. The other defense and prosecution are there to tell the judge about the law. The judge doen't need to have a legal background and most of the better judges in the rural part of the mid west never took a class at a law school. More of them need to make it higher up in the legal food chain.
The wealthiest investor is Warren Buffett. He is know for "investing in compaines -- not stocks". He only invests in sound compaines with long term plans. He ignored the dot.coms. He has more cash now than anyone else except Gates. He only deals with businesses with strong morals. Its worked for him and lots of people try to follow his formula but aren't' but ignore the company morals issues. They bought Enron stock, Buffett didn't but Buffett personally knew some of the jokers in Enron long before most of the world heard about what they were up to.
I think the short term goal seeking is just about over. Once the current recession is over, people will be better at checking compaines for long term goals. That assumes things get better before something else causes them to get worse.
I think its time that the courts start punishing the stock holders for the crimes of the boards they elect. They can do that by disolving the company (aka the corporate death penalty). People seem to have the attitude that being a stock holder, they are protected from the companies issues, so they don't care. If the courts can throw away their investment because they elect scum to the board, then they might just care about the ethics of the companies more.
Lab assistants and grad students pay aren't even a blip on the expenses. 100% of the top paid at a university are in admin (either departmental or general or student loan or parking or...)
Thouse numbers were from the University of Missouri a few years ago. Okie State was about in line with that too. Keep in mind that UMC has 20,000 students and 20,000 empolyees. Educating the students are a small part of that operation.
So your saying America has more "far-flung rural dwellers and the relatively low-density suburbs" than Australia? Or maybe your saying the local mail is unrelaiable? Or maybe slow? If so, the assumptions are wrong on 3 counts. For AU$.45 i get next day delivery in major cities and three day delivery most everyplace else. For less than us$.90 I can send a letter anywhere in the world. On average most Aussies get less mail that Americans and about 1/2 have lables on their mail boxes that cut out the 3rd class junk mail so the local post office can't count on that offsetting any costs. The rates they show (from the USPS before the rise to.37) are now wrong and its cheaper to send a letter in France than in the US. The French letter will also goto a different country for the less than the US charges to deliver to the other side of town. So you fell for the USPS's FUD marketerring, you'll get over it.
With my dealings wtih two of these kinds of jokers shows that they get overloaded. They tend to be a small operation run out of shared offices and they send out lots of mail and then they get lots of responses and then they manualy transfer domains until one of the big registration companies finds out about a surge in transfers and starts asking questions and halts the operation.
If the USPS is so efficient compared to the rest of the world, why can Australia deliver mail for about US$.24 over a about the same area? They even put it in a letter box at the house, not in a shared box 2 blocks away like in 99% of new places in the US. the USPS rates are some of the highest in the world (even though they have a poster saying they aren't).
So you put the head of the patents office's name on it and drop it by the local federal court. Ist just like the case of whoever vs Reno getting changed to whoever vs Asscroft.
I was running a web server that did this sort of thing in Nov or Dec of '93 but it's "customers" were a different goverment department ordering parts to fix C-130 for the USAF. At that time there were few web servers around and only one useful client but the pr0n industry had already started taking credit cards and doing streaming audio.
In the past year I think I've bought 5 CD's from bands. Here in Melbourne Australia, the music scene is turning bad. Most of the places that used to have orignial music are now just coverbands. Its quite sad.
Some of the bands greed to have some of their work on the net http://www.ozmp3.com/bands.html
How wrong can you get? The RIAA doesn't care about any music. They care about protecting their members and their members don't care about music either. They only care about selling little plasic things.
I've got a LCD display that can rotate 90 degrees so it ends up with a resolution of 768x1024. I like the 3:4 profile better than the 4:3 (maybe because I liked my blit)
The problem is that the speed of the thing in the rotate mode is so slow. Modern graphics hardware seems to prefer loading things at the upper left and working towards the right and then down. The rotated drivers I've seen so far seems to do the same thing on a pixel level and its so slow...
Once this takes off, then I'll need to find a display I can rotate that has 1024 pixels accross. 768 just isn't enough for way too many web pages.
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.oz was removed years ago. What used to live there moved to oz.au.
Many forms of Autism are related to the link between both sides of the brain. People with less connections (or less effective connections -- which is a different problem) tend to be geeks. The other end of the spectrum seems are the socialites. Thouse with low levels of cross conects tend to be able to focus on a problem on one side of the brain but are hopeless for problems that require both. Men typicaly have fewer cross connects than women. A high level of cross connects are very importaint for verbal communication of ideas (and they play a part in strange moodyness as well).
If your mother's father was an Engineer, your very likly to be a geek if your male. When you throw this into a social context, you will find that most of the women who like hanging around with geeks, have a geeky father or or gradfather. This means they have the gene for this and have become conditioned to the "different" level of communication. If a geek breeds with a woman who has the gene, a geeky child is very likly. Its standard genetics and it explains why the best geeks of all time had a very short line of decendants.
One takes a $.20 chip and can run for a week on a 9v battery, the other a lots of power, complex software and it might just work better but I haven't seen an example.
I've been looking for something that can read RFID tags that uses modern radio design (like using a DSP) but so far I've found nothing.
There are more open source programmers in Oz per capita than in the US. There are also more xbox game developers per capita than in the US too. I wonder if they will still write games for an Xbox when they can't get them.
Remember that Aussie laws allowed the realese of ssleay and Samba. Writing ssleay as open source in the US was illegal at the time it was written. Its wide distribution was one of the key factors in getting the US crypto export laws fixed since congress was concerned about the US not keeping its crypto edge over the rest of the world.
However I think the goverment woudl cave in if MS started pushing them around.
Australia has laws allowing one to preserve ones culture with stiff fines for violators. If your culture involves playing Japanese video games, then no company in Australia can leagaly prevent you from doing so. I think it would be difficult to show in court that playing video games (in ones native language) with friends isn't in importaint part of Japanese social bonding of kids. If that example taken to the court and the company lost, the fines could be somewhere in the range of AU$50,000 per "disadvantaged" kid. I don't see MS or anyone else pushing the region codes in games too far here because they will lose in a very big way.
Modern production engineering can produce items to last a specifc time. Car compaines have done this for years. You get the right mix of plastics so they start breaking down in N years and as N gets smaller, the price gets better. If you can save $.02 on a million window lock knobs its only $20,000 but if you do it to all the plastic bits on a car, it will add up to a massive amount of cash.
Every civilized country in the world has Working Holiday Visas that allow young people to visit their country and work. The "young" bit is a subset of the range between 16 and 35 and the time they allow you to work is somewhere between one and three months with some odd requirements. For example in Australia, you can visit for up to a year, but can only work in any location for up to 3 months and only 6 months out of the year. The idea of these is to allow visitors to earn enough money so they enjoy their travels but to be restrictive enoungh not to displace local workers. The work that people on these visas get tends to be the kinds of jobs no one else wants but with computer skills, you should be able to find something.
The US of course only has these visas if your a Saudi even though they would be a major help to the depressed travel business. If your in this age group, maybe its something you should write your congresscritter about because they are making lots of changes to the immigration rules.
Most places also have Youth Hostels. These are cheap places to stay and they can range from small private rooms to a more typical dorm with several bunk beds in a room. In a big city downunder, it will cost you about US$10 a night. Other places can be three times more (London) or $2 nite (Bali last month). Its a great way to meet people. Some of my geek friends even meet their girlfriends while staying at yough hostels. The typical traveler will pack up all their stuff in a backpack and just go from place to place and find work when they can, see the differnt places, meet lots of people and then keep on going. Its a great way to spend a year or so.
If you look at the weight of a fully loaded train and the weight of an unloaded one you will see they are very close. A light weight train car will weight in at 50,000 lbs and can carry less than 3 times that. When the average loads these carry are a few pallets and is typicaly less than 10% of the weight of the car. The result is a huge mass that gets moved and that takes energy.
The reason train cars weigh so much is so they don't come off the track when they are pulled around corners. Even with the large radius curves on trainlines, the side forces of a mile long train with a fully loaded car at the back will be quite high. The early solution to that problem was to make the train cars weigh more and the result is now all trains cars fit into a standard weight. This also makes passenger trains weigh far more than they should. The US rail industry could save a major part of its energy bill by introducing a lighter train standard but that would cost a fortune in new rolling stock.
My guess (based on professional orginazations) that there are about 50,000 competent sysadmins out there. That leave the rest below that level and if their boxes get rooted, we all pay the price. Its not like upping a version number is going to cost sendmail anything and it will remove the doubt of a trojaned version. Real sysadmins won't care when they read that the new version was increased because of something that won't concern them or there servers but it will help out the masses of pretend sysadmins.
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I'm not thinking in the mindset of a intel coder... I hate their stuff. All the stack relitive stuff is sill 16 bits (or is it a few more?)
I feel that 5 instructions to load a 64 bit constant seems to be just wrong
SHA is a stream hash. That means you can do 4 bytes worth, save the state and then cycle through the next 5 bytes much faster. When doing the same thing with md5, you can pre calculate all but the last two bytes and then cycle those real fast.
MD5 uses a table of sine values that it uses. If someone were to make slight changes in thouse tables, then this kind of crack wouldn't work unless the hash as verified. I suspect the same is true for SHA but I haven't looked at that yet.
Judges are elected... by a small groups of people and theres ususaly only one to vote for. Its commonly called appointment.
Many lower court judges (in the state govements) have their name put on the ballot with a "Do you want judge ____ to retain the position". It allows for bad judges to go away. This needs to happen at the federal level as well.
If the judge isn't a lawyers then any lawyers working for any party to the case had better be able to explain things in plain language. -- That would be a very good thing.
If you've ever looked at the power PC insturction set, you'll see its 16 bit :-)
Ever address has be loaded as two instructions, one for the high bits, one for the low. When you go to 64 bit mode then it takes 5 instructions just to load one address.
In '93 when the US goverment said "all email will be Gossip" where gossip was a huge mess of a iso X.400 based junk, everyone and their dog started moving junk towards x.400. The early Mapi API has things to make x.400 easier. Luckly for the world, I managed to get the words "or SMTP" added to the line that told goverment departs what they could use until the gossip thing was finalized.
If you you miss X.400 addressing, send me some email, my address is: "I=t;S=hogard;O=abnormal;p=com;a=com"
So, the judge got it wrong. This isn't about legality, its about "looking good". What does it take to get rid of a federal judge? Can we get her name on a check box on the November ballot "Do you want to keep the Judge who bent over to Microsoft?" She played the political game and now she can advance to the next level. That is the only way you can advance to higher paying judge jobs is to do what congress wants. Its much like the public defenders. They need to be good at their job but not too good if they want to work for the DA. So they can't win hard cases. With the current judge appointment mess, you start out as a public defender, make your way in to the DA office then you can be appointed a judge.
Judges should not be lawyers. There is no reason they need to be. A judge is there to make sane judgements. The other defense and prosecution are there to tell the judge about the law. The judge doen't need to have a legal background and most of the better judges in the rural part of the mid west never took a class at a law school. More of them need to make it higher up in the legal food chain.
The wealthiest investor is Warren Buffett. He is know for "investing in compaines -- not stocks". He only invests in sound compaines with long term plans. He ignored the dot.coms. He has more cash now than anyone else except Gates. He only deals with businesses with strong morals. Its worked for him and lots of people try to follow his formula but aren't' but ignore the company morals issues. They bought Enron stock, Buffett didn't but Buffett personally knew some of the jokers in Enron long before most of the world heard about what they were up to.
I think the short term goal seeking is just about over. Once the current recession is over, people will be better at checking compaines for long term goals. That assumes things get better before something else causes them to get worse.
I think its time that the courts start punishing the stock holders for the crimes of the boards they elect. They can do that by disolving the company (aka the corporate death penalty). People seem to have the attitude that being a stock holder, they are protected from the companies issues, so they don't care. If the courts can throw away their investment because they elect scum to the board, then they might just care about the ethics of the companies more.
Lab assistants and grad students pay aren't even a blip on the expenses. 100% of the top paid at a university are in admin (either departmental or general or student loan or parking or ...)
Thouse numbers were from the University of Missouri a few years ago. Okie State was about in line with that too. Keep in mind that UMC has 20,000 students and 20,000 empolyees. Educating the students are a small part of that operation.
So your saying America has more "far-flung rural dwellers and the relatively low-density suburbs" than Australia? Or maybe your saying the local mail is unrelaiable? Or maybe slow? If so, the assumptions are wrong on 3 counts. For AU$.45 i get next day delivery in major cities and three day delivery most everyplace else. For less than us$.90 I can send a letter anywhere in the world. On average most Aussies get less mail that Americans and about 1/2 have lables on their mail boxes that cut out the 3rd class junk mail so the local post office can't count on that offsetting any costs. The rates they show (from the USPS before the rise to .37) are now wrong and its cheaper to send a letter in France than in the US. The French letter will also goto a different country for the less than the US charges to deliver to the other side of town. So you fell for the USPS's FUD marketerring, you'll get over it.
With my dealings wtih two of these kinds of jokers shows that they get overloaded. They tend to be a small operation run out of shared offices and they send out lots of mail and then they get lots of responses and then they manualy transfer domains until one of the big registration companies finds out about a surge in transfers and starts asking questions and halts the operation.
If the USPS is so efficient compared to the rest of the world, why can Australia deliver mail for about US$.24 over a about the same area? They even put it in a letter box at the house, not in a shared box 2 blocks away like in 99% of new places in the US. the USPS rates are some of the highest in the world (even though they have a poster saying they aren't).
So you put the head of the patents office's name on it and drop it by the local federal court. Ist just like the case of whoever vs Reno getting changed to whoever vs Asscroft.
I was running a web server that did this sort of thing in Nov or Dec of '93 but it's "customers" were a different goverment department ordering parts to fix C-130 for the USAF. At that time there were few web servers around and only one useful client but the pr0n industry had already started taking credit cards and doing streaming audio.
In the past year I think I've bought 5 CD's from bands. Here in Melbourne Australia, the music scene is turning bad. Most of the places that used to have orignial music are now just coverbands. Its quite sad.
Some of the bands greed to have some of their work on the net http://www.ozmp3.com/bands.html
The RIAA only cares about its own music
How wrong can you get? The RIAA doesn't care about any music. They care about protecting their members and their members don't care about music either. They only care about selling little plasic things.
I've got a LCD display that can rotate 90 degrees so it ends up with a resolution of 768x1024. I like the 3:4 profile better than the 4:3 (maybe because I liked my blit)
The problem is that the speed of the thing in the rotate mode is so slow. Modern graphics hardware seems to prefer loading things at the upper left and working towards the right and then down. The rotated drivers I've seen so far seems to do the same thing on a pixel level and its so slow...
Once this takes off, then I'll need to find a display I can rotate that has 1024 pixels accross. 768 just isn't enough for way too many web pages.
.oz was removed years ago. What used to live there moved to oz.au.
Many forms of Autism are related to the link between both sides of the brain. People with less connections (or less effective connections -- which is a different problem) tend to be geeks. The other end of the spectrum seems are the socialites. Thouse with low levels of cross conects tend to be able to focus on a problem on one side of the brain but are hopeless for problems that require both. Men typicaly have fewer cross connects than women. A high level of cross connects are very importaint for verbal communication of ideas (and they play a part in strange moodyness as well).
If your mother's father was an Engineer, your very likly to be a geek if your male. When you throw this into a social context, you will find that most of the women who like hanging around with geeks, have a geeky father or or gradfather. This means they have the gene for this and have become conditioned to the "different" level of communication. If a geek breeds with a woman who has the gene, a geeky child is very likly. Its standard genetics and it explains why the best geeks of all time had a very short line of decendants.
One takes a $.20 chip and can run for a week on a 9v battery, the other a lots of power, complex software and it might just work better but I haven't seen an example.
I've been looking for something that can read RFID tags that uses modern radio design (like using a DSP) but so far I've found nothing.
There are more open source programmers in Oz per capita than in the US. There are also more xbox game developers per capita than in the US too. I wonder if they will still write games for an Xbox when they can't get them.
Remember that Aussie laws allowed the realese of ssleay and Samba. Writing ssleay as open source in the US was illegal at the time it was written. Its wide distribution was one of the key factors in getting the US crypto export laws fixed since congress was concerned about the US not keeping its crypto edge over the rest of the world.
However I think the goverment woudl cave in if MS started pushing them around.
Australia has laws allowing one to preserve ones culture with stiff fines for violators. If your culture involves playing Japanese video games, then no company in Australia can leagaly prevent you from doing so. I think it would be difficult to show in court that playing video games (in ones native language) with friends isn't in importaint part of Japanese social bonding of kids. If that example taken to the court and the company lost, the fines could be somewhere in the range of AU$50,000 per "disadvantaged" kid. I don't see MS or anyone else pushing the region codes in games too far here because they will lose in a very big way.
Modern production engineering can produce items to last a specifc time. Car compaines have done this for years. You get the right mix of plastics so they start breaking down in N years and as N gets smaller, the price gets better. If you can save $.02 on a million window lock knobs its only $20,000 but if you do it to all the plastic bits on a car, it will add up to a massive amount of cash.
Every civilized country in the world has Working Holiday Visas that allow young people to visit their country and work. The "young" bit is a subset of the range between 16 and 35 and the time they allow you to work is somewhere between one and three months with some odd requirements. For example in Australia, you can visit for up to a year, but can only work in any location for up to 3 months and only 6 months out of the year. The idea of these is to allow visitors to earn enough money so they enjoy their travels but to be restrictive enoungh not to displace local workers. The work that people on these visas get tends to be the kinds of jobs no one else wants but with computer skills, you should be able to find something.
The US of course only has these visas if your a Saudi even though they would be a major help to the depressed travel business. If your in this age group, maybe its something you should write your congresscritter about because they are making lots of changes to the immigration rules.
Most places also have Youth Hostels. These are cheap places to stay and they can range from small private rooms to a more typical dorm with several bunk beds in a room. In a big city downunder, it will cost you about US$10 a night. Other places can be three times more (London) or $2 nite (Bali last month). Its a great way to meet people. Some of my geek friends even meet their girlfriends while staying at yough hostels. The typical traveler will pack up all their stuff in a backpack and just go from place to place and find work when they can, see the differnt places, meet lots of people and then keep on going. Its a great way to spend a year or so.
If you look at the weight of a fully loaded train and the weight of an unloaded one you will see they are very close. A light weight train car will weight in at 50,000 lbs and can carry less than 3 times that. When the average loads these carry are a few pallets and is typicaly less than 10% of the weight of the car. The result is a huge mass that gets moved and that takes energy.
The reason train cars weigh so much is so they don't come off the track when they are pulled around corners. Even with the large radius curves on trainlines, the side forces of a mile long train with a fully loaded car at the back will be quite high. The early solution to that problem was to make the train cars weigh more and the result is now all trains cars fit into a standard weight. This also makes passenger trains weigh far more than they should. The US rail industry could save a major part of its energy bill by introducing a lighter train standard but that would cost a fortune in new rolling stock.
My guess (based on professional orginazations) that there are about 50,000 competent sysadmins out there. That leave the rest below that level and if their boxes get rooted, we all pay the price. Its not like upping a version number is going to cost sendmail anything and it will remove the doubt of a trojaned version. Real sysadmins won't care when they read that the new version was increased because of something that won't concern them or there servers but it will help out the masses of pretend sysadmins.