In America you poison the media. In Soviet Russia the media poisons you!
I mean really kiddies why not look up the origins of the joke and then use it responsibly? Otherwise you'll turn it into "all your base" and we saw where that went.
When you're a big boy you can afford the $5 movie rental at blockbuster.
Then you know what you do with the rental? Rip it.
Takes far less effort, gets higher quality, supports the economy how you choose to do it and doesn't zap so much bandwidth for your own ego-stroking purposes.
Honestly folk, get a life. Copying music and videos is cool when you're 9 because you can't afford shit but even a teenager working a burger joint can afford a rental once in a while. And frankly how much media is there out there that is WORTH wasting the three hours downloading every night anyways?
My apps built and tested in Linux build in BSD routinely with little to no modification (occasionally I need to fix a makefile to use the build tools differently).
Just because some people *can't* code a program without going directly to asm to make syscalls doesn't mean things like glibc [which has threads] and the POSIX.1 standards don't exist. In fact I once wrote a webserver for QNX that built out of the box for GNU/Linux because I used nothing but standard function calls.
Stop being a poser. You don't need Java to get program portability.
My point is if your going to change the protocol in a NON BACKWARDS COMPATIBLE FASHION why not just change it for a proper hash like SHA-2 or Whirlpool?
If you're going to modify your system anyways (to use a hidden combo trick) you might as well just swap out a new hash.
In the case of portage that could be done in parallel. E.g. keep using the MD5 hash and introduce a SHA-2 + DSA based signature. Then later on down the road make the switch and make the signatures mandatory.
The problem is the Gentoo folk aren't cryptographers. They did MD5 hashing mostly to make sure you grabbed the right file off some random mirror (e.g. to avoid simple typos and what not). Not to stop attackers from modifying files.
It's ok as a checksum [e.g. non-malicious modification].
If you need say authentication you need a MAC anyways. As far as I know HMAC-MD5 is not immediately attackable by the known attacks [though I wouldn't use it anyways].
When I am running WoW, VLC, Thunderbird, Firefox, Gimp, TS, and Eric3 all at once. I want them all to be fast and responsive as if I had only one application running.
And 4GB of ram won't help that.
Fucking newbs. You want a high performance box and then you put windows on it?
I could write a program to combine suffix/prefix combos to common words like "mail", "net", "service", "video", "sound", "conference"
Then sue everyone 3 years afterwards?
The fact they never even bought a domain name for the service [or advertised it broadly] suggests they're not seriously impacted by Googles actions because it's their own ineptitude that crippled any chance of making it big.
At 2Mbit/sec [250KB/sec] ~34 hours of recording with no moving parts other than the shutter. Current video recorders don't last super long on batteries and reporters in the field have to lug them around [or have their camera crew do that].
If they could make it last a while [e.g. handle wear] you could use it as a laptop hard drive. I probably wouldn't run Gentoo on it [unless/var/tmp was mounted in a ram drive] but you could get away with a binary only Gentoo/Debian install just fine.
And in most laptops the harddrive is the second most waste of energy anyways. So while making the CPU take less power you can make the storage take less too.
Granted I wouldn't use this where I was doing many re-writes or needed quick writes. But for a normal user [e.g. email, web, im, word processing] it's more than adequate.
If 30 years from now I'm still press-whoring about my projects and I haven't personally contributed things of note then you have my permission to repeat my words to my face.:-)
I'd hope that 30 years from now I would have accomplished other things of note and that would be what I'm gloating about.
First off, the wright brothers didn't invent flight. The first flight was with a glider. So go read a proper history text.
Second, there is an acceptable period in which you can gloat about your accomplishments. 8 terms of office later... give it up.
Granted hindsight is always 20/20 there are a lot of flaws with IP and TCP in general. It isn't perfect and frankly the lack of progress since the early 80s when TCP/IP was standardized shows that his "ability to innovate" is right up there with grapefruit.
As for this interplanetry bullshit, it's the same ol' same ol'. You apply error correction codes and do longer packets once the connection has been established. You can even do SYN/ACK over a different medium.
The fact is we can simulate [in about 200 lines of C code] a "network with really long delays and random chances of packet drops".
You don't have to be in space to test out what delays do to a protocol...
you can do your own protocols on top of IP if you want. Since it's IP which is what routing boxes actually deal with [unless it's a NAT and/or firewall].
So you could do proto=111 and invent your own...
You can even do this userspace with libpcap and/or raw sockets.
But yeah, I'm not saying TCP/IP is worthless I'm saying he did it 32 years ago, 9 years before I was even born!!!
I mean without him we'd all be cave dwelling heathens... There is a way to be proud of something without outwardly showing it... oh what the hell is that called...
oh yeah...
MODESTY
Apparently that's all lost. Though I blame the trivial media hero worship bullshit more than I'd blame Cerf. Though I'm sure he displays restraint when getting awards for trivial computer science accomplishments...
You think I'm a troll? Name the guy who invented the Y-modem transfer protocol. If you can do that, name how many awards he/she has received because of it.
Frankly yes IP and TCP are useful and sent us headlong into the info tech age... but it's just a comms protocol. Nothing genius. You send X bytes, I ACK X bytes,... I mean seriously not that super.
Specially when you consider TCP has **NO** inherent security in place, uses trivial linear checksums and has no accomodations for ciphering.
Granted in 1973 block/stream ciphers were not that abundant so on the last point you can really cut the guy some slack.
Let's see, take a some medium like IEEE 802.3... hook up IP routing tables... um
THATS WHAT THE NET IS... just really large scale. Why people pretend the internet is this magical construct is beyond me.
I mean I have a "network" between 9 computers at my home. that's about as big as the ARPANET was in 1973...:-)
But seriously, kudos for doing work THREE DECADES AGO. But let's not pretend for a second that it takes just one person to make the net.
According to the wiki he invented [among other things but primarily] TCP/IP... well that's good but it took Naggle to figure out properly flow control, who actually made IP practical? Did he invent DNS? What about NAT and firewalls? etc, etc, etc....
To treat this guy as a god because 30 years ago he figured out that if you gave a box an address you could send packets to it... my god, what a fucking genius!...mumble.../rant
Um, ok... first off -pedantic WILL warn you about non-standard issues. Try combining it with a standard flag e.g. "--std=c99 -pedantic".
Second, who the fuck are you? I write code [easily] that builds with unix CC on Solaris, IRIX, HP-UX, BSD, MacOSX and Linux.
Maybe your gripe with GCC is that you're a lousy coder and you blame the compiler for your shortcomings.
I mean man, whine like a stuck pig you are. Sure GCC isn't perfect but stable releases seem to work fine for hundreds of thousands of people.
So yes, it is *just you*.
Tom
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While I'm all for cutting bloat the random belief that private sector handles things any more competently or equitably is just as naive.
What we actually need are for the established trade laws to be enforced with vigour. Such that when underhanded deals are exposed there are actual consequences.
I mean I could found a company, become a billionaire through shady practices and my family would still live comfortably after I'm arrested and throw in jail. I say no, take the familys funds and redistribute it to the community.
How many CEOs have simply ducked out of view when the heat was turned on? Once we stop being a society that actively encourages such scheming individuals we'll be better off.
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In America you poison the media.
In Soviet Russia the media poisons you!
I mean really kiddies why not look up the origins of the joke and then use it responsibly? Otherwise you'll turn it into "all your base" and we saw where that went.
Tom
When you're a big boy you can afford the $5 movie rental at blockbuster.
Then you know what you do with the rental? Rip it.
Takes far less effort, gets higher quality, supports the economy how you choose to do it and doesn't zap so much bandwidth for your own ego-stroking purposes.
Honestly folk, get a life. Copying music and videos is cool when you're 9 because you can't afford shit but even a teenager working a burger joint can afford a rental once in a while. And frankly how much media is there out there that is WORTH wasting the three hours downloading every night anyways?
I say all the power to them.
Tom
True, mostly I was talking about the BSD and GNU based OSes. Frankly I think UNIX has been obsolete for the last decade.
But really comparing Windows to UNIX is a bit loaded in the first place as UNIX came out "slightly before" windows. So the entire article is weird.
Tom
My point here is that there is no need to jumpship and start using inferior technologies like Java just because you can't be arsed to use glibc.
Tom
At the OS level?
Um *cough* POSIX.1 *cough*....
My apps built and tested in Linux build in BSD routinely with little to no modification (occasionally I need to fix a makefile to use the build tools differently).
Just because some people *can't* code a program without going directly to asm to make syscalls doesn't mean things like glibc [which has threads] and the POSIX.1 standards don't exist. In fact I once wrote a webserver for QNX that built out of the box for GNU/Linux because I used nothing but standard function calls.
Stop being a poser. You don't need Java to get program portability.
Tom
Why would you concatenate two hashes?
My point is if your going to change the protocol in a NON BACKWARDS COMPATIBLE FASHION why not just change it for a proper hash like SHA-2 or Whirlpool?
Tom
If you're going to modify your system anyways (to use a hidden combo trick) you might as well just swap out a new hash.
In the case of portage that could be done in parallel. E.g. keep using the MD5 hash and introduce a SHA-2 + DSA based signature. Then later on down the road make the switch and make the signatures mandatory.
The problem is the Gentoo folk aren't cryptographers. They did MD5 hashing mostly to make sure you grabbed the right file off some random mirror (e.g. to avoid simple typos and what not). Not to stop attackers from modifying files.
Tom
It's ok as a checksum [e.g. non-malicious modification].
If you need say authentication you need a MAC anyways. As far as I know HMAC-MD5 is not immediately attackable by the known attacks [though I wouldn't use it anyways].
Tom
said this before...
... LAST YEAR.
Dan Kaminsky is actually the dude who came up with the Stripwire idea.
Tom
When I am running WoW, VLC, Thunderbird, Firefox, Gimp, TS, and Eric3 all at once. I want them all to be fast and responsive as if I had only one application running.
And 4GB of ram won't help that.
Fucking newbs. You want a high performance box and then you put windows on it?
HAIL SATAN!
Tom
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Flib tomcrypt.org&charset=(detect+automatically)&doctyp e=Inline
It isn't like w3c is exactly stable....
I clearly have opening tags for my <A> tags. Otherwise how would the links work?
Tom
Windows emulator and
... not very accurate emulator.
"2. System is stable."
Tom
I could write a program to combine suffix/prefix combos to common words like "mail", "net", "service", "video", "sound", "conference"
Then sue everyone 3 years afterwards?
The fact they never even bought a domain name for the service [or advertised it broadly] suggests they're not seriously impacted by Googles actions because it's their own ineptitude that crippled any chance of making it big.
Tom
Nobody made PC133 [SDRAM] dense enough to be useful for this.
I'm sure with todays technology a 20GiB "drive" could be made with PC133 cells for cheap if done in enough volume.
And yes, it would be cool [both figuratively and literally].
Tom
DRAM is MUCH faster than flash. Thus it's harder to make and keep in spec.
I'm sure if you could buy PC27-whatever memory you could get gigs at pennies each... but what's the point?
This chip has more than a billion transistors. You could just as easily ask why an AMDX2 with only 150M transistors costs so much...
When flash memory supports nanosecond writes like DDR we'll start seeing expensive flash.
Tom
Camera for video/etc. An audio recorder..
/var/tmp was mounted in a ram drive] but you could get away with a binary only Gentoo/Debian install just fine.
At 2Mbit/sec [250KB/sec] ~34 hours of recording with no moving parts other than the shutter. Current video recorders don't last super long on batteries and reporters in the field have to lug them around [or have their camera crew do that].
If they could make it last a while [e.g. handle wear] you could use it as a laptop hard drive. I probably wouldn't run Gentoo on it [unless
And in most laptops the harddrive is the second most waste of energy anyways. So while making the CPU take less power you can make the storage take less too.
Granted I wouldn't use this where I was doing many re-writes or needed quick writes. But for a normal user [e.g. email, web, im, word processing] it's more than adequate.
Tom
There is a time and place to gloat.
:-)
If 30 years from now I'm still press-whoring about my projects and I haven't personally contributed things of note then you have my permission to repeat my words to my face.
I'd hope that 30 years from now I would have accomplished other things of note and that would be what I'm gloating about.
Tom
When I get something of major note I'll let you know.
:-)
You can also see me at toorcon this year
Tom
First off, the wright brothers didn't invent flight. The first flight was with a glider. So go read a proper history text.
... give it up.
Second, there is an acceptable period in which you can gloat about your accomplishments. 8 terms of office later
Granted hindsight is always 20/20 there are a lot of flaws with IP and TCP in general. It isn't perfect and frankly the lack of progress since the early 80s when TCP/IP was standardized shows that his "ability to innovate" is right up there with grapefruit.
As for this interplanetry bullshit, it's the same ol' same ol'. You apply error correction codes and do longer packets once the connection has been established. You can even do SYN/ACK over a different medium.
The fact is we can simulate [in about 200 lines of C code] a "network with really long delays and random chances of packet drops".
You don't have to be in space to test out what delays do to a protocol...
Tom
you can do your own protocols on top of IP if you want. Since it's IP which is what routing boxes actually deal with [unless it's a NAT and/or firewall].
So you could do proto=111 and invent your own...
You can even do this userspace with libpcap and/or raw sockets.
But yeah, I'm not saying TCP/IP is worthless I'm saying he did it 32 years ago, 9 years before I was even born!!!
Talk about milking it...
Tom
It's called ego.
... oh what the hell is that called ...
... I mean seriously not that super.
I mean without him we'd all be cave dwelling heathens... There is a way to be proud of something without outwardly showing it
oh yeah...
MODESTY
Apparently that's all lost. Though I blame the trivial media hero worship bullshit more than I'd blame Cerf. Though I'm sure he displays restraint when getting awards for trivial computer science accomplishments...
You think I'm a troll? Name the guy who invented the Y-modem transfer protocol. If you can do that, name how many awards he/she has received because of it.
Frankly yes IP and TCP are useful and sent us headlong into the info tech age... but it's just a comms protocol. Nothing genius. You send X bytes, I ACK X bytes,
Specially when you consider TCP has **NO** inherent security in place, uses trivial linear checksums and has no accomodations for ciphering.
Granted in 1973 block/stream ciphers were not that abundant so on the last point you can really cut the guy some slack.
Anyways, hero worship is annoying.
Tom
Invented the internet? Really? Wow....
... hook up IP routing tables ... um
... :-)
... well that's good but it took Naggle to figure out properly flow control, who actually made IP practical? Did he invent DNS? What about NAT and firewalls? etc, etc, etc....
... my god, what a fucking genius! ...mumble.../rant
Let's see, take a some medium like IEEE 802.3
THATS WHAT THE NET IS... just really large scale. Why people pretend the internet is this magical construct is beyond me.
I mean I have a "network" between 9 computers at my home. that's about as big as the ARPANET was in 1973
But seriously, kudos for doing work THREE DECADES AGO. But let's not pretend for a second that it takes just one person to make the net.
According to the wiki he invented [among other things but primarily] TCP/IP
To treat this guy as a god because 30 years ago he figured out that if you gave a box an address you could send packets to it
Tom
Um, ok... first off -pedantic WILL warn you about non-standard issues. Try combining it with a standard flag e.g. "--std=c99 -pedantic".
Second, who the fuck are you? I write code [easily] that builds with unix CC on Solaris, IRIX, HP-UX, BSD, MacOSX and Linux.
Maybe your gripe with GCC is that you're a lousy coder and you blame the compiler for your shortcomings.
I mean man, whine like a stuck pig you are. Sure GCC isn't perfect but stable releases seem to work fine for hundreds of thousands of people.
So yes, it is *just you*.
Tom
While I'm all for cutting bloat the random belief that private sector handles things any more competently or equitably is just as naive.
What we actually need are for the established trade laws to be enforced with vigour. Such that when underhanded deals are exposed there are actual consequences.
I mean I could found a company, become a billionaire through shady practices and my family would still live comfortably after I'm arrested and throw in jail. I say no, take the familys funds and redistribute it to the community.
How many CEOs have simply ducked out of view when the heat was turned on? Once we stop being a society that actively encourages such scheming individuals we'll be better off.
Tom
Nice potshot at the OSS community.
... that builds on EVERY PLATFORM YOU CAN THINK OF. Yeah no standards...
I'll keep using GCC to build my source
DRM is just another effort in gross futilism.
Tom