Who says copying is illegal? Its not. I've got several songs on my web site from a few different bands and the authors want them copied. Copying something that an RIAA member owns is a different thing and is offten illegal. A given university needs some given sized pipe to the net. Any bits not used go to waste and proper managment of that resource had to be done if P2P exists or not. If the system puts the P2P bits at the last in the que, it won't cost the university an extra money at all. Years ago the pres of AT&T said "We have to build the phone network to take all the calls on Mother's Day. All the extra load is free." If I was a small label that used m3's to support my business, I think I would be looking at a different letter to schools about P2P since university students tend to buy at least 50% of the new music that comes out that isn't boy band forumlas.
University legal departments are the only ones with enough resources to take on the RIAA and win. Keep in mind that out of a typical university budget, about 5% goes to teaching, 5% for building, 10% goes to special expenses (labs, computers), and almost all the rest goes to administration. Every sub-department under admin is fighting to prove its good for the univerity even though 90% of them could go away and the student and teachers could cope just fine. If you think those ratios are bad, check out the ones for your local public school.
I find it interesting that we hear about smartcard cracks with Sat TV systems but we don't hear about people cracking the smart card bank cards. If its worth 10 years in jail to crack a TV system to save $39.95/mo, how many people are going after the bank systems? The last numbers I saw showed chip card fraud something link 10x the dollar amount of mag card fraud and the only people that seem to be reporting chip card fraud to the public are the pay tv compaines.
The RSA patent is on a device to do it, not how its done. At least thats how it was viewed for the 1st decade of the patent. That has now changed with software patents and no one will waste time looking at crypto that is described in a patent.
About all he can do is submit it so someone else can't patent it and put it in the public domain and hope someone wants to pay him because hes an "expert" in the field. I don't see any other way to build enough credibility for people to even consider looking at this. OTP with reused keys get publised (and patented) ever few weeks. So far they are all insecure.
I think sendmail.org should up the version number at once and kill the.6 version once and for all. That would allow many people to look at what they have and say "yep, its.6, throw it out" but they want to keep the old version number so people get to play games. There are many reasons why they won't have the origianl tar ball and they have a very simple way to insure people don't have the trojaned version.
What would happen if someone was to approach MS as a game developer and officaly port this so its got all the real stuff and so MS can sell it at K-mart or wherever. I know its wrong on so many levels but it would get around the mod chip issue and be legal (assuming the licenses allow it)
Maybe it is. There are several advantages of this. The 1st is it convinces people to look past page 1. This is a good thing from Googles point of view. It also convinces people to create better search terms when they are looking for things. I don't see that as a bad thing either or else Google could just come up with a 10 link static page for each the 20,000 most common english words and everyone could go home. Many of the google searches to my pages are single word searches. People need to learn type two words in the box and maybe even use thouse qote things that are hiding on their keyboard. The third advantage is it forces the spamsites to change. Remember they have last month data and they will have next months data. A quick compare might show a large number of sites that should never be crawled again. I'm willing to look at page 2 if it means better searches in a few months.
This new page rank could only be running on part of their server farm. I've noticed recently that the same complex search will offten give different results just 10 minutes apart.
From what I can tell, it needs better examples of how to do the simple stuff. The last example I saw, went from makeing a sphere to making it move. I would like to see a good example of how to merge items together and make simple models.
I make models for POVray in cycas which is an architecture program but it works fine for many types of modles.
It will hit the news stories just as soon as the spin doctors can direct it in a way of "we need more money to fight info-terrorism". At work we have a US paranoia pool. Its like a dead pool or a football pool but with catagories of paranoia and how they get covered in the US press. I'm down for $10 on info-terrorism in the next week.
Ok so infastruture liability is on the verge of OT...
US DOT figures show that a accident scene can cost others up to a million dollars a minute while the police are out finding out who caused it and other insurance paperwork gathering. Next time you see a wreck that delays you, call up the police to get the accident report and file aginst the insurance company. Right now the rights of the idiots involed in the accident have more rights than the people waiting because of insurance companies want to place blame and the wrecked cars have to be protected. What they should do is push the cars off the road and cover them with tents to stop the rubbernecking.
Of course anyone reading this topic is here rubbernecking on the information super highway...
Planes are only viable with systems like CDMA. GSM (which most poor countries are tring to install) only works with very small cell sites (like 25km max). A plane high enough to stay out of the weather will need to be at 60,000+ ft (18km) and that ends up making your GSM 17km gsm footprint. A 300 foot tower is much cheaper and will provide the same coverage.
What we need is a very fast distributed monte carlo attack on one of the public keys that is everywhere. They keys are made by taking two large pseudoprimes so all we have to do is find one of the primes that a master key was signed with. Since the early certs were done using RSA's tool kit, all we have to have is millions of computers randomly selecting big primes the same way it would and checking to see if they match. This can be done thousands of times faster than key generation. While it is 1024 bit numbers, the estimated keystrength is no stronger than a hypothetical 70 bit DES and may be more in the order of 40 bit DES. There is a very small chance anyone would randomly hit the right key in the next year but there are enough machines sitting around doing nothing, that it could make an interesting distributed project and the magic bit stream may just show up.
MS Flight sim is a good program to practice IFR flight procedures... Its also the only MS program I'll ever buy again (I've got friends that switch between working on MSFS and military systems every few years). Why hasn't MS ported their longest selling "game" to the Xbox?
Of course I would buy any real console based flight sim if it did the IFR type of things properly and had a realistic navaid database.
Is the IP address shortage a real technical problem or is it simply a managment issue thats hiding under the excuse that "routers can't cope with large route tables" combined with our current routing infastructure?
The way the aussie one works, both sides provide a list of who should be #1,#2,#3,...#25. They carefuly try to match it up so that none of the lower players get the majority. The result is that sometimes the winner will be someone one who would have got less than 2% of the vote but they are at the mid point of three parties. Thats how ms hanson (the most raceist govt offical at the time) got in power. Other goverments have had that problem too.
In the Aussie vote, you have to put a number by everyones name or vote a party line (which fills in the boxes with the party's recomened numbers). If you don't have that requirement, people will only vote for one choice most of the time according to most expierments.
Re: your sig... Instant runoff voting (or prefernce voting) is what allows some very interesting people to get elected. When you have two good canidate from the popular parties where the election is going to be close, what tends to happen is a third place person ends up winning and sometimes this results in some strange winners and was how some of the most racists canidates in recent times won their seats. It's happened in Australia, Ireland, NZ and a few european countries.
It would reduce the load on my server. The regex filters in sendmail can be triggered before the body is read. All the spam headers a week still aren't even as big as just one of the bodies from marketing I bounce because of its size.
I've got patches for sendmail that let you filter the message body as well but you have to let it in first but you can bounce the messages at the SMTP transport level.
Last year I was looking at what it would cost to get part of a human's DNA extracted into human readable format to send off to the copyright office to mess with peoples heads when the patent fights get going. I found a few places that were doing samples for about $400 but I have no idea how many base pairs the would decode for that amount of money. It also appeared that there could be some major costs in preping the samples. It also looked like if you were in an lab in Calif, you could call up a company that would drive around and pick up your samples.
I thought film tended to topout at about 30,000 lines per inch but that might be film used for those nice U2 cameras. There is a picture at the smithsonian which is blown up to cover a very large wall but you can still see very high detail even after its been enlarged 100 times or so.
At 30,000 lpi, that would put 35mm film at something in the order of 500 megapixels.
Why do all numbers need to be the same length? The 7 digit numbers in most areas are more than enough for all the numbers people need to remember. The reason phone numbers are running out is something like 1/2 of them are assigned to devices that don't care about dialing a 20 digit number. What would happen if every new phone was assigned a 20 digit checksumed number (plus the area code) and then each person was allocated a free 7 digit number and then had to pay extra if they wanted a second one. Most businesses would be happy with the 20 digit indial ranges to the desk phones, most fax machines would be happy with the numbers and no one could hope to war dial and catch people at home at dinner time.
The only effective way to get many compaines to fix problems is blackmail which is technicaly illegal just about everywhere. There is something wrong when you have to break the law to get your vendor to fix something.
The page says a black hat will not disclose their hacks and use them for their own gain. That sounds like me. I run unix boxes and I think Windows in most cases is trash. When a client says they are as secure, I've been known to show them why they aren't. I've had one client get all upset since I wouldn't explain to MS how I took down their secure box. MS isn't paying me and they have done enough boneheaded things to make my life hell at times. I'm not going to do anything else that helps gates and his evil minions make my job harder.
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Who says copying is illegal? Its not. I've got several songs on my web site from a few different bands and the authors want them copied. Copying something that an RIAA member owns is a different thing and is offten illegal. A given university needs some given sized pipe to the net. Any bits not used go to waste and proper managment of that resource had to be done if P2P exists or not. If the system puts the P2P bits at the last in the que, it won't cost the university an extra money at all. Years ago the pres of AT&T said "We have to build the phone network to take all the calls on Mother's Day. All the extra load is free." If I was a small label that used m3's to support my business, I think I would be looking at a different letter to schools about P2P since university students tend to buy at least 50% of the new music that comes out that isn't boy band forumlas.
University legal departments are the only ones with enough resources to take on the RIAA and win. Keep in mind that out of a typical university budget, about 5% goes to teaching, 5% for building, 10% goes to special expenses (labs, computers), and almost all the rest goes to administration. Every sub-department under admin is fighting to prove its good for the univerity even though 90% of them could go away and the student and teachers could cope just fine. If you think those ratios are bad, check out the ones for your local public school.
I find it interesting that we hear about smartcard cracks with Sat TV systems but we don't hear about people cracking the smart card bank cards. If its worth 10 years in jail to crack a TV system to save $39.95/mo, how many people are going after the bank systems? The last numbers I saw showed chip card fraud something link 10x the dollar amount of mag card fraud and the only people that seem to be reporting chip card fraud to the public are the pay tv compaines.
The RSA patent is on a device to do it, not how its done. At least thats how it was viewed for the 1st decade of the patent. That has now changed with software patents and no one will waste time looking at crypto that is described in a patent.
About all he can do is submit it so someone else can't patent it and put it in the public domain and hope someone wants to pay him because hes an "expert" in the field. I don't see any other way to build enough credibility for people to even consider looking at this. OTP with reused keys get publised (and patented) ever few weeks. So far they are all insecure.
I think sendmail.org should up the version number at once and kill the .6 version once and for all. That would allow many people to look at what they have and say "yep, its .6, throw it out" but they want to keep the old version number so people get to play games. There are many reasons why they won't have the origianl tar ball and they have a very simple way to insure people don't have the trojaned version.
What would happen if someone was to approach MS as a game developer and officaly port this so its got all the real stuff and so MS can sell it at K-mart or wherever. I know its wrong on so many levels but it would get around the mod chip issue and be legal (assuming the licenses allow it)
This is most probably not intentional.
Maybe it is. There are several advantages of this. The 1st is it convinces people to look past page 1. This is a good thing from Googles point of view. It also convinces people to create better search terms when they are looking for things. I don't see that as a bad thing either or else Google could just come up with a 10 link static page for each the 20,000 most common english words and everyone could go home. Many of the google searches to my pages are single word searches. People need to learn type two words in the box and maybe even use thouse qote things that are hiding on their keyboard. The third advantage is it forces the spamsites to change. Remember they have last month data and they will have next months data. A quick compare might show a large number of sites that should never be crawled again. I'm willing to look at page 2 if it means better searches in a few months.
This new page rank could only be running on part of their server farm. I've noticed recently that the same complex search will offten give different results just 10 minutes apart.
Then again it could just be a bug.
From what I can tell, it needs better examples of how to do the simple stuff. The last example I saw, went from makeing a sphere to making it move. I would like to see a good example of how to merge items together and make simple models.
I make models for POVray in cycas which is an architecture program but it works fine for many types of modles.
It will hit the news stories just as soon as the spin doctors can direct it in a way of "we need more money to fight info-terrorism". At work we have a US paranoia pool. Its like a dead pool or a football pool but with catagories of paranoia and how they get covered in the US press. I'm down for $10 on info-terrorism in the next week.
Ok so infastruture liability is on the verge of OT...
US DOT figures show that a accident scene can cost others up to a million dollars a minute while the police are out finding out who caused it and other insurance paperwork gathering. Next time you see a wreck that delays you, call up the police to get the accident report and file aginst the insurance company. Right now the rights of the idiots involed in the accident have more rights than the people waiting because of insurance companies want to place blame and the wrecked cars have to be protected. What they should do is push the cars off the road and cover them with tents to stop the rubbernecking.
Of course anyone reading this topic is here rubbernecking on the information super highway...
Planes are only viable with systems like CDMA. GSM (which most poor countries are tring to install) only works with very small cell sites (like 25km max). A plane high enough to stay out of the weather will need to be at 60,000+ ft (18km) and that ends up making your GSM 17km gsm footprint. A 300 foot tower is much cheaper and will provide the same coverage.
What we need is a very fast distributed monte carlo attack on one of the public keys that is everywhere. They keys are made by taking two large pseudoprimes so all we have to do is find one of the primes that a master key was signed with. Since the early certs were done using RSA's tool kit, all we have to have is millions of computers randomly selecting big primes the same way it would and checking to see if they match. This can be done thousands of times faster than key generation. While it is 1024 bit numbers, the estimated keystrength is no stronger than a hypothetical 70 bit DES and may be more in the order of 40 bit DES. There is a very small chance anyone would randomly hit the right key in the next year but there are enough machines sitting around doing nothing, that it could make an interesting distributed project and the magic bit stream may just show up.
MS Flight sim is a good program to practice IFR flight procedures... Its also the only MS program I'll ever buy again (I've got friends that switch between working on MSFS and military systems every few years). Why hasn't MS ported their longest selling "game" to the Xbox?
Of course I would buy any real console based flight sim if it did the IFR type of things properly and had a realistic navaid database.
You need to be able to grok everything in "The Unix Programming Environment" by Kernighan & Pike.
Tats in addition to just about everything else listed here.
Is the 1st time a human has flown in a real rocket that wasn't connected to a goverment?
Is the IP address shortage a real technical problem or is it simply a managment issue thats hiding under the excuse that "routers can't cope with large route tables" combined with our current routing infastructure?
The way the aussie one works, both sides provide a list of who should be #1,#2,#3,...#25. They carefuly try to match it up so that none of the lower players get the majority. The result is that sometimes the winner will be someone one who would have got less than 2% of the vote but they are at the mid point of three parties. Thats how ms hanson (the most raceist govt offical at the time) got in power. Other goverments have had that problem too.
In the Aussie vote, you have to put a number by everyones name or vote a party line (which fills in the boxes with the party's recomened numbers). If you don't have that requirement, people will only vote for one choice most of the time according to most expierments.
Re: your sig...
Instant runoff voting (or prefernce voting) is what allows some very interesting people to get elected. When you have two good canidate from the popular parties where the election is going to be close, what tends to happen is a third place person ends up winning and sometimes this results in some strange winners and was how some of the most racists canidates in recent times won their seats. It's happened in Australia, Ireland, NZ and a few european countries.
Not to mentioned designed and built before most of the people reading about it.
you forgot the echo >>/etc/motd bit...
It would reduce the load on my server. The regex filters in sendmail can be triggered before the body is read. All the spam headers a week still aren't even as big as just one of the bodies from marketing I bounce because of its size.
I've got patches for sendmail that let you filter the message body as well but you have to let it in first but you can bounce the messages at the SMTP transport level.
Last year I was looking at what it would cost to get part of a human's DNA extracted into human readable format to send off to the copyright office to mess with peoples heads when the patent fights get going. I found a few places that were doing samples for about $400 but I have no idea how many base pairs the would decode for that amount of money. It also appeared that there could be some major costs in preping the samples. It also looked like if you were in an lab in Calif, you could call up a company that would drive around and pick up your samples.
I thought film tended to topout at about 30,000 lines per inch but that might be film used for those nice U2 cameras. There is a picture at the smithsonian which is blown up to cover a very large wall but you can still see very high detail even after its been enlarged 100 times or so.
At 30,000 lpi, that would put 35mm film at something in the order of 500 megapixels.
Why do all numbers need to be the same length? The 7 digit numbers in most areas are more than enough for all the numbers people need to remember. The reason phone numbers are running out is something like 1/2 of them are assigned to devices that don't care about dialing a 20 digit number. What would happen if every new phone was assigned a 20 digit checksumed number (plus the area code) and then each person was allocated a free 7 digit number and then had to pay extra if they wanted a second one. Most businesses would be happy with the 20 digit indial ranges to the desk phones, most fax machines would be happy with the numbers and no one could hope to war dial and catch people at home at dinner time.
The only effective way to get many compaines to fix problems is blackmail which is technicaly illegal just about everywhere. There is something wrong when you have to break the law to get your vendor to fix something.
The page says a black hat will not disclose their hacks and use them for their own gain. That sounds like me. I run unix boxes and I think Windows in most cases is trash. When a client says they are as secure, I've been known to show them why they aren't. I've had one client get all upset since I wouldn't explain to MS how I took down their secure box. MS isn't paying me and they have done enough boneheaded things to make my life hell at times. I'm not going to do anything else that helps gates and his evil minions make my job harder.