The big problem with the SHA's [and their elk] is that they're all UFN [unbalanced feistel networks], in particular they're source heavy. Which means the the branch/diffusion is minimal (e.g. it's possible to make inputs collide and cancel out differences).
SPN [substitution permutation networks] like WHIRLPOOL are balanced in their branch/diffusion.
Best of all, WHIRLPOOL is already out there. just a sign the paper!
The Core 2 Duo has an awesome ALU, and it is definitely low power.
But they still suck for NUMA. Unless Sun is building desktops I don't see the point of the move until Intel starts rolling out CSI [which by that time AMD will be 65nm working on 45nm parts...].
For the desktop, hands down the Core 2 Duo is the winner. These things are just amazing. Even when overclocked the thing is so cold that the CPU fan turns off and the BIOS warns me (annoying... so I turned the warning off). In terms of IPC it matches the AMD offerings fairly well.
Whether or not music, especially contemporary music, is even a subset of art is a matter of opinion
While I fully acknowledge there is some shite music/art/performance work out there, I should note that EVERY single generation has hated the art that comes after them.
My parents don't listen to Green Day/Pumpkins/Oasis/etc, and I don't usually appreciate the "make a star diva" crap that seems to be more rampant than normal today (e.g. Kelly Clarkson can kiss my ass, stupid no talent digitally enhanced ass clown).
Doesn't mean it's not an art form, just means it's a departure from what you're used to and it's hard to identify with.
Personally, I apply at least one standard
1. If you're not purporting yourself as a DJ, learn to actually play/sing without digital filters and enhancements. That is, if you actually claim you can perform live, actually be able to do it.
The stupid boy/girl bands and American Idol "stars" are nothing more than people with HALF an ounce of talent and the rest is in the mixing. Then they claim it's all their talent and hard work...
Theory: Well formed educated explanation of observations
Theorem: Something that has been proven.
So if you notice a billion tonnes of carbon in the atmosphere and it's hot out, like all the time, it's a reasonable HYPOTHESIS that they could be related. You'd need to isolate the cause [or at least reject plausible alternatives] before you could frame a theory. Once you prove it you can state a theorem.
And my point is why can't you make code that is self-explanatory? Is coding properly, designing thoughtfully, and commenting thoroughly a sin?
Have you seen the Kernel source?
The problem with many [but not all] OSS projects is that they exclude many PROGRAMMERS from the development realm due to the excessively, and often, needlessly high learning curve.
I'm a competent computer scientist and I can't easily work with the GCC source code, nor Linux kernel, nor OpenOffice, nor Mozilla.
I'm not saying they're bad projects. I just question whether it's what you'd learn anything from reading it any faster than just studying the subject classically and then coming back to it.
RMS has good intentions with the FSF but misses one critical point.
It's all good and well to give out free software, but how useful is that if nobody can really learn from it or modify it?
Raise your hand if you're a software developer. Keep your hand up if you can digest the Mozilla code and add new functionality to it within a day. Weekend. Week. Month.
Repeat for GCC, Linux Kernel, etc...
Now granted there are some well commented/documented projects. But if you don't make it part of your core values to not only give out free functional software but also EDUCATIONAL SOURCE CODE then we're not much better off are we?
So if Microsoft's tools were technologically superior to the alternatives, the behavior would be okay? I don't think so.
Monopolies only become a problem when they stop doing what's in the best interests of the customers. If Microsoft produced quality software and listened to the customers, then I suspect most people wouldn't have a problem with them. Oddly enough, a fairly common criticism of MSFT is that they're all closed source. So if they listened to their customers and opened up more of the kernel, file formats, and what not, we wouldn't have this vendor lockin problem and hence no abuse of monopoly.
BTW there are quite a few natural monopolies like gas, water, telco, cable, etc. Which usually don't get broken up until they start really abusing their customers. (I'm waiting for Rogers to get a bitch slap...)
As for Google, I guess I can't comment since I'm not in the market to advertise and I mentally block out Adsense advertisements. But that said, I see [or acknowledge] more ads from slashdot and fark than I do from google.
Microsoft leverages their monopoly to trap you into using MSFT tools, most of which are in some way or shape flawed compared to alternatives. Microsoft also holds a fairly large portion of the market share.
Google doesn't force you to advertise with them, nor do they limit your ability to advertise with others. And they're not the only website on the internet. I don't see that Google has a monopoly on "the Internet." Tom
Your isp or server is who. I wish gmail had an option "reject all attachments with the following extensions". It'd save them disk space and cut down on spam. They already BAN emails with executable types in them, adding an addition for images probably isn't that much work. I'd make it optional for the images so the ignorant fucks of the world don't have a fit. At least it'd give me a bit of piece of mind.
Frankly if you can't figure out how to use Flickr or some other website, you probably should open your mind, pull the cord and get it going again. Thinking outside of high school isn't a sin. You don't have to be a complete fucking tool you're entire life you know.
I don't know why they don't just ban emails with stupid images anyways, or best yet just strip them out of the attachments. If I really want to share pictures I'll put them on a website or Flickr or something.
If Spammers knew that all of their lovely penny stock.gif puzzle emails were getting stripped of the.gif files, they'd stop sending them.
That's all good and said. Except that doesn't make people money.
If the top echelon of MSFT (just picking on them because I hate MSFT, but others are just as bad) make so much, why not spread the wealth? Pay your developers more, pay the janitorial and maintenance staff (who usually make slave wages...) more, etc, etc, etc.
The point of paying your staff like shit and hording all the money is so you can have the money and power it commands. It's not about "oh I'll put it in the bank so people can get home loans that they can't afford to pay off because I won't pay them their fair share of the pie."
The problem with Blue is that they didn't work with others on it. For a smart card system to work all of the banks have to participate.
And it's not like we don't have the readers here. All of the common retail stores I go to here in Ottawa (that have debit/credit) have a reader built-in (I imagine because the machines are made in one factory and chances are it's good for tourism).
So really the only problem left is to actually roll out the cards and start enforcing their use.
The point of the smart card, isn't to be neato or costly but to help prevent fraud. The crypto authentication is done inside the card itself so there is no real "skimming" possible. Lower fraud, should (most likely won't) lead to lower interest rates and service fees (maybe they will after the government cracks down on banks...).
Even through the depression the wealthy were not bad off. It was the rich that suffered.
As the man himself, Chris Rock put it, Michael Jordan is rich, the man who signs his pay cheque is wealthy.
All that will happen is more and more economic bubbles will burst, the rich will join the poor and the wealthy will be further separated.
The only real balancing acts comes at the end of a sword during a revolution. Well I guess in modern times we'll use guns, but the idea is the same. Wealthy people keep taking and taking, hording cash and assets, till the point where the rest of society will just plunder and steal. The real trick is how far can society be pushed until this actually happens (again).
Frankly, hording cash and assets is the worst thing wealthy people can do. Money only has value when it's being traded for something. Which is also a form of wealth distribution. Keeps the rest of us fed and warm at night.
If you look at an average income of say $25,000/yr for a low income person, then realize that the wealth accumulated by people like Gates could pay the yearly salary of ~1.7 million people, it kinda makes you think what exactly are they doing with this money anyways? (Yes, I know Gates has his charity, but there is only so much money a person needs...)
Instead of spending that money on putting RFID in, why not just release, oh, I dunno, SMART CARDS!!!
Oh, no, we're north american, we have to be different *cough* cdma *cough*, no way we can conform with the rest of the fucking world *cough* soccer *cough*...
Besides, RFID is not meant for privacy or security. It's meant to track inventory. The sooner these "experts" realize that the better. The sooner they realize that RFID readers are common place the even better.
Yeah, I can see your point, all kids are little bill gates and it'll be a synch....
I guess those OLPC guys just haven't thought any of this through. Good to know armchair participants from slashdot can give solid advice. Especially since they have such perspective and knowledge of the problem at hand.
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WHIRLPOOL.
It's a balanced design, an SPN to boot.
The big problem with the SHA's [and their elk] is that they're all UFN [unbalanced feistel networks], in particular they're source heavy. Which means the the branch/diffusion is minimal (e.g. it's possible to make inputs collide and cancel out differences).
SPN [substitution permutation networks] like WHIRLPOOL are balanced in their branch/diffusion.
Best of all, WHIRLPOOL is already out there. just a sign the paper!
Tom
Must be 65nm parts. I have two 885 Opterons [90nm] and while they're not super hot, they do run warm [~40-45C] and can peak ~50C at full load.
That said, the Sempron 2GHz I bought my parents runs wickedly stupidly cold. Basically like +2C over ambient at idle. It's crazy.
Yeah, technology!
Tom
Try this: run two memory intense applications on an SMP box. Tell me how great that shared FSB works out for you.
Oh yeah, and DIAF.
The Core 2 Duo has an awesome ALU, and it is definitely low power.
But they still suck for NUMA. Unless Sun is building desktops I don't see the point of the move until Intel starts rolling out CSI [which by that time AMD will be 65nm working on 45nm parts...].
For the desktop, hands down the Core 2 Duo is the winner. These things are just amazing. Even when overclocked the thing is so cold that the CPU fan turns off and the BIOS warns me (annoying... so I turned the warning off). In terms of IPC it matches the AMD offerings fairly well.
Tom
Aren't there native OSS libs for mpeg4 playback already? Might need a binary for wmv but not for mpeg4.
Tom
Whether or not music, especially contemporary music, is even a subset of art is a matter of opinion
...
While I fully acknowledge there is some shite music/art/performance work out there, I should note that EVERY single generation has hated the art that comes after them.
My parents don't listen to Green Day/Pumpkins/Oasis/etc, and I don't usually appreciate the "make a star diva" crap that seems to be more rampant than normal today (e.g. Kelly Clarkson can kiss my ass, stupid no talent digitally enhanced ass clown).
Doesn't mean it's not an art form, just means it's a departure from what you're used to and it's hard to identify with.
Personally, I apply at least one standard
1. If you're not purporting yourself as a DJ, learn to actually play/sing without digital filters and enhancements. That is, if you actually claim you can perform live, actually be able to do it.
The stupid boy/girl bands and American Idol "stars" are nothing more than people with HALF an ounce of talent and the rest is in the mixing. Then they claim it's all their talent and hard work
Tom
Hypothesis: Something that is testable
Theory: Well formed educated explanation of observations
Theorem: Something that has been proven.
So if you notice a billion tonnes of carbon in the atmosphere and it's hot out, like all the time, it's a reasonable HYPOTHESIS that they could be related. You'd need to isolate the cause [or at least reject plausible alternatives] before you could frame a theory. Once you prove it you can state a theorem.
Science 101.
Tom
If you download a fake torrent what law did you break?
Tom
And my point is why can't you make code that is self-explanatory? Is coding properly, designing thoughtfully, and commenting thoroughly a sin?
Have you seen the Kernel source?
The problem with many [but not all] OSS projects is that they exclude many PROGRAMMERS from the development realm due to the excessively, and often, needlessly high learning curve.
Tom
I'm a competent computer scientist and I can't easily work with the GCC source code, nor Linux kernel, nor OpenOffice, nor Mozilla.
I'm not saying they're bad projects. I just question whether it's what you'd learn anything from reading it any faster than just studying the subject classically and then coming back to it.
Tom
RMS has good intentions with the FSF but misses one critical point.
It's all good and well to give out free software, but how useful is that if nobody can really learn from it or modify it?
Raise your hand if you're a software developer. Keep your hand up if you can digest the Mozilla code and add new functionality to it within a day. Weekend. Week. Month.
Repeat for GCC, Linux Kernel, etc...
Now granted there are some well commented/documented projects. But if you don't make it part of your core values to not only give out free functional software but also EDUCATIONAL SOURCE CODE then we're not much better off are we?
Tom
Good point. I actually wanna get a Wii next year (prolly in the Summer).
Let's narrow the fire bombing down a bit. What's the zipcode of 1 Microsoft Way?
Tom
They are to busy copying google books and the apple look and feel to actually write secure code. /me wants to set fire to Redmond...
Tom
Microsoft never has had an original idea before, why start now?
I think any original thoughts born out of Microsoft were not corporately endorsed and happened totally at random.
Of course never underestimate the power of bureaucracy to crush insightful ideas...
Tom
So if Microsoft's tools were technologically superior to the alternatives, the behavior would be okay? I don't think so.
Monopolies only become a problem when they stop doing what's in the best interests of the customers. If Microsoft produced quality software and listened to the customers, then I suspect most people wouldn't have a problem with them. Oddly enough, a fairly common criticism of MSFT is that they're all closed source. So if they listened to their customers and opened up more of the kernel, file formats, and what not, we wouldn't have this vendor lockin problem and hence no abuse of monopoly.
BTW there are quite a few natural monopolies like gas, water, telco, cable, etc. Which usually don't get broken up until they start really abusing their customers. (I'm waiting for Rogers to get a bitch slap...)
As for Google, I guess I can't comment since I'm not in the market to advertise and I mentally block out Adsense advertisements. But that said, I see [or acknowledge] more ads from slashdot and fark than I do from google.
Tom
I don't see them as the same thing though.
Microsoft leverages their monopoly to trap you into using MSFT tools, most of which are in some way or shape flawed compared to alternatives. Microsoft also holds a fairly large portion of the market share.
Google doesn't force you to advertise with them, nor do they limit your ability to advertise with others. And they're not the only website on the internet. I don't see that Google has a monopoly on "the Internet."
Tom
Your isp or server is who. I wish gmail had an option "reject all attachments with the following extensions". It'd save them disk space and cut down on spam. They already BAN emails with executable types in them, adding an addition for images probably isn't that much work. I'd make it optional for the images so the ignorant fucks of the world don't have a fit. At least it'd give me a bit of piece of mind.
Frankly if you can't figure out how to use Flickr or some other website, you probably should open your mind, pull the cord and get it going again. Thinking outside of high school isn't a sin. You don't have to be a complete fucking tool you're entire life you know.
tom
Why not use email for what it was meant for?
...
If clients weren't so friendly to "auto show" images this spam would never had existed.
I too send attachments to folks but usually only source files and/or patches (e.g. really small things).
I want my email client to read/write messages, not the "web". It's bad that HTML emails exist
Tom
I don't know why they don't just ban emails with stupid images anyways, or best yet just strip them out of the attachments. If I really want to share pictures I'll put them on a website or Flickr or something.
.gif puzzle emails were getting stripped of the .gif files, they'd stop sending them.
If Spammers knew that all of their lovely penny stock
Tom
That's all good and said. Except that doesn't make people money.
If the top echelon of MSFT (just picking on them because I hate MSFT, but others are just as bad) make so much, why not spread the wealth? Pay your developers more, pay the janitorial and maintenance staff (who usually make slave wages...) more, etc, etc, etc.
The point of paying your staff like shit and hording all the money is so you can have the money and power it commands. It's not about "oh I'll put it in the bank so people can get home loans that they can't afford to pay off because I won't pay them their fair share of the pie."
Tom
The problem with Blue is that they didn't work with others on it. For a smart card system to work all of the banks have to participate.
And it's not like we don't have the readers here. All of the common retail stores I go to here in Ottawa (that have debit/credit) have a reader built-in (I imagine because the machines are made in one factory and chances are it's good for tourism).
So really the only problem left is to actually roll out the cards and start enforcing their use.
The point of the smart card, isn't to be neato or costly but to help prevent fraud. The crypto authentication is done inside the card itself so there is no real "skimming" possible. Lower fraud, should (most likely won't) lead to lower interest rates and service fees (maybe they will after the government cracks down on banks...).
Tom
Even through the depression the wealthy were not bad off. It was the rich that suffered.
As the man himself, Chris Rock put it, Michael Jordan is rich, the man who signs his pay cheque is wealthy.
All that will happen is more and more economic bubbles will burst, the rich will join the poor and the wealthy will be further separated.
The only real balancing acts comes at the end of a sword during a revolution. Well I guess in modern times we'll use guns, but the idea is the same. Wealthy people keep taking and taking, hording cash and assets, till the point where the rest of society will just plunder and steal. The real trick is how far can society be pushed until this actually happens (again).
Frankly, hording cash and assets is the worst thing wealthy people can do. Money only has value when it's being traded for something. Which is also a form of wealth distribution. Keeps the rest of us fed and warm at night.
If you look at an average income of say $25,000/yr for a low income person, then realize that the wealth accumulated by people like Gates could pay the yearly salary of ~1.7 million people, it kinda makes you think what exactly are they doing with this money anyways? (Yes, I know Gates has his charity, but there is only so much money a person needs...)
Tom
Instead of spending that money on putting RFID in, why not just release, oh, I dunno, SMART CARDS!!!
Oh, no, we're north american, we have to be different *cough* cdma *cough*, no way we can conform with the rest of the fucking world *cough* soccer *cough*...
Besides, RFID is not meant for privacy or security. It's meant to track inventory. The sooner these "experts" realize that the better. The sooner they realize that RFID readers are common place the even better.
Yeah, I can see your point, all kids are little bill gates and it'll be a synch....
I guess those OLPC guys just haven't thought any of this through. Good to know armchair participants from slashdot can give solid advice. Especially since they have such perspective and knowledge of the problem at hand.
Tom
Why? Is your 54G stuff not working?
Tom