I've been thinking... So you kill someone and take his cell phone. How do you find out the telephone number of the cell phone you have taken? You could call a known number that has caller-id, but that sets up a traceable record. So you call another stolen cell phone, but again, how do you find out the number of that stolen cell phone?
Hoping some expert can describe how this all works to the masses out here. From a quick glance through the forum, this is what I think is happening...
BD+ movies are released with corrupted data A conversion table is required to fix the corruption The conversion table is built using code on the BD+ disk that runs on the BDVM.
The bulk of the work on the forum thread seems to be an effort to reverse engineer the opcodes and libraries (called TRAPs?) available in the BDVM, and to reimplement the VM.
I'm not a security or crypt expert, but I can't imagine how anyone can expect this kind of security to remain secure for 10 years.
Yes, MD5 [wikipedia.org] is broken. Given a specific dataset with a specific MD5 hash, you can create another dataset with the same hash in minimal time (a few minutes on a modern computer).
Wrong. The MD5 attacks demonstrated are collision attacks - attacks where you generate two datasets that hash to the same MD5 hash.
What you are describing is a Preimage attack. Finding a dataset that has the same MD5 hash to an existing dataset is a different attack which is many orders of magnitude harder than collision attack, and AFAIK, has so far not been demonstrated yet for MD5.
I've been running Eclipse 3.4 no problems. When it comes to Eclipse, screw the repository. You will need to change your JVM from gcj to sun-java6-jdk, details here, then download the package from Eclipse, untar.gz and run the executable.
This would have prevented Jason Bourne from buying a phone and planting it on Simon Ross to talk to him covertly without the CIA being able to trace the call.
My guess would be the UK government watched the movie and decided this loophole need to be closed.
I'm going to reply from the point of view of a citizen of one of the many countries (in this case, Singapore) outside the US and the UK that have successfully deployed an ID system for many decades.
1. It wont stop illegal working.
Anyone who is supposed to have such a card but doesnt can just pretend to be on of the 99.9%
of the population that is not required to have the card.
This is true. In order for this to work, the whole population is required to have an ID.
2. Whats the point of the frigging fingerprint?
Who has got the both tha equipemnt and the right to check it?
The fingerprint is printed on the ID and provides proof of ownership of the ID itself. If your fingerprint matches that of the ID, then you are the valid owner of the ID. If it doesn't match, then the ID is probably stolen.
You do not need special equipment to check the fingerprint, it can be done manually with stamp ink and a piece of paper.
Only the police has the right to demand an ID or fingerprint check. However, you may be refused entry into a building or services of a bank if you do not provide your ID or fingerprint. In this case it is deemed that you grant the rights for the check in exchange for entry or service.
Second it was illegal immigration -- but some 350 million EU citizens have the right to work in the UK
anyway, the much villified asylum seekers are attempting to immigrate legally, plus nobody is going
to check the documents of thier Russian nanny or Morrocan cleaner.
Here in Singapore, anyone caught in employ of an illegal immigrant is considered guilty of harboring, and there are stiff penalties for this, in many cases leading to jail terms.
Thirdly it was "identity theft" -- but if the banks give money/credit to unverified strangers it is
thier problem. For this to be effective lenders would need to have; the equipment to read the card,
the right to ask for a fingerprint and access to the central database to verify the validity of the
card.
The equipment and the right I've covered earlier.
Cards have a serial number to go with the individual's identity number. It's a simple check against a central database to ensure that the two numbers match for the card to be valid. Replacements for stolen/lost cards will of course have a different serial number for the same identity number.
It's not a perfect system, of course. While the cards are hard to forge, it's not impossible. And not all service providers will go through all the available security measures. Depending on the level of service provided, fingerprint or validity check may be skipped.
However it's definitely a far better system than a system like SSN where all you need to do is provide a number to identify yourself.
I've had problems using Eclipse on Ubuntu before, the problems you had with Eclipse may be related.
1. Don't use the repositories for Eclipse. Download the linux version directly from the eclipse website, and run it. 2. Eclipse has problems with the default gcj jvm for Ubuntu. Solution here
You may have to use extra tools to break your archive into seperate chunks fitting Gmail's maximum attachment size, but I've used Gmail to backup a relative small (~20mb) website. The trick is to make one complete backup, then make incremental backups using rdiff-backup. I have this done daily with a cron job, sending the bz2'ed diff to a Gmail account. Every month, it will make a complete backup again.
And a seperate Gmail account for the backup of the mysql database.
This may be harder to do with a 2GB website, i guess, since Gmail provides atm about 6GB of space which will probably last you about 2 months. Of course you could use multiple gmail accounts or automated deletion of older archives...
But seriously, 2GB isn't too hard to do your from own PC if you only handle diffs. The first time download would take a while, but incremental backups shouldn't take too long unless your site changes drastically all the time.
After reading the title i was half expecting to read on to find out that concast begins filing lawsuits against bloggers. Offering apologies and help was a pleasant surprise.
Number of Java developers > Number of Flash developers > Number of Silverlight developers Number of Javascript capable browsers > Number of Flash enabled browsers > Number of Silverlight enabled browsers.
Which is a good idea, since Google has created a framework in a language that most developers are familiar with, for a platform that just about all web browsers support out of the box.
However...
Number of PHP hosting sites > Number of ASP hosting sites > Number of Ruby hosting sites > Number of Tomcat hosting sites
Which is probably one of the reasons why it's not doing so well. GWT-RPC is excellent. It allows me to use the same data objects on client and server, and debug both from the same IDE. But it requires a Tomcat server.
Now if GWT is able to compile the server portion to easily deployable PHP code, this could lead to somewhere interesting.
Did I get that right? He went to court, got away with a rather mild verdict, then the prosecutor showed that he is "partying" and this is grounds for a more serious conviction?
Hello? Did partying now become some sort of grounds for a harsher verdict? What should he have done? Mourn and weep for at least 2 years or whatever the court deems "appropriate"?
This is sick, people. This means you're not only judged for what you do but also for what you feel.
Nope, you did not get it right. He did not get "a more serious conviction". He did not initially "get away with a rather mild verdict".
After you are convicted, there will be a sentencing trial where the judge decides your sentence. In the trial, the prosecutors will generally argue to give you a harsh sentence while your lawyer will argue why you deserve less than that, and depending on the facts available to the judge, he will make his decision.
RTFA. In this case, the prosecutors were initially going to recommend only a probation for this criminal, but when discovering the photos, they recommended the harsher sentence and the judge concurred.
I would have concurred too, and I think it's justice well served. If this bastard had gotten away with only a probation I would have been pretty pissed off with these prosecutors.
Unfortunately when it comes to accidents caused by self-impaired driving, the victim is often not the asshat driver but an innocent bystander who would otherwise be looking forward to decades of fulfilling life. This disqualifies the asshat from the Darwin Award.
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I've been thinking... So you kill someone and take his cell phone.
How do you find out the telephone number of the cell phone you have taken?
You could call a known number that has caller-id, but that sets up a traceable record.
So you call another stolen cell phone, but again, how do you find out the number of that stolen cell phone?
...with the Australian dollar near an all-time low.
Jumping repeatedly against a wall.
It looks (and sounds) like the Prince is humping the wall
...is the same as being wrong 60% of the time.
Doesn't look so impressive when you look at it this way.
...behind Dr Fred Edison's mansion.
"I feel like I could... like I could... 'Take on the world!'"
s/Consumers/Corporations/g
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20011203
Hoping some expert can describe how this all works to the masses out here. From a quick glance through the forum, this is what I think is happening...
BD+ movies are released with corrupted data
A conversion table is required to fix the corruption
The conversion table is built using code on the BD+ disk that runs on the BDVM.
The bulk of the work on the forum thread seems to be an effort to reverse engineer the opcodes and libraries (called TRAPs?) available in the BDVM, and to reimplement the VM.
I'm not a security or crypt expert, but I can't imagine how anyone can expect this kind of security to remain secure for 10 years.
Wrong.
The MD5 attacks demonstrated are collision attacks - attacks where you generate two datasets that hash to the same MD5 hash.
What you are describing is a Preimage attack. Finding a dataset that has the same MD5 hash to an existing dataset is a different attack which is many orders of magnitude harder than collision attack, and AFAIK, has so far not been demonstrated yet for MD5.
I've been running Eclipse 3.4 no problems. When it comes to Eclipse, screw the repository. You will need to change your JVM from gcj to sun-java6-jdk, details here, then download the package from Eclipse, untar.gz and run the executable.
This would have prevented Jason Bourne from buying a phone and planting it on Simon Ross to talk to him covertly without the CIA being able to trace the call.
My guess would be the UK government watched the movie and decided this loophole need to be closed.
Oh, right. It's Oveur at System.Collections.Generic.List
I've always wondered why there's no equivalent of std::victor or java.util.Victor in C#
Maybe it's a reference to Bobby Fischer..
Nothing is unforgeable, but can be made very hard to forge.
https://www.psi.gov.sg/NASApp/tmf/TMFServlet?app=SIR-VOICES-ENQUIRER&isNew=true&Reload=true
I'm going to reply from the point of view of a citizen of one of the many countries (in this case, Singapore) outside the US and the UK that have successfully deployed an ID system for many decades.
1. It wont stop illegal working. Anyone who is supposed to have such a card but doesnt can just pretend to be on of the 99.9% of the population that is not required to have the card.
This is true. In order for this to work, the whole population is required to have an ID.
2. Whats the point of the frigging fingerprint? Who has got the both tha equipemnt and the right to check it?
The fingerprint is printed on the ID and provides proof of ownership of the ID itself. If your fingerprint matches that of the ID, then you are the valid owner of the ID. If it doesn't match, then the ID is probably stolen.
You do not need special equipment to check the fingerprint, it can be done manually with stamp ink and a piece of paper.
Only the police has the right to demand an ID or fingerprint check. However, you may be refused entry into a building or services of a bank if you do not provide your ID or fingerprint. In this case it is deemed that you grant the rights for the check in exchange for entry or service.
Second it was illegal immigration -- but some 350 million EU citizens have the right to work in the UK anyway, the much villified asylum seekers are attempting to immigrate legally, plus nobody is going to check the documents of thier Russian nanny or Morrocan cleaner.
Here in Singapore, anyone caught in employ of an illegal immigrant is considered guilty of harboring, and there are stiff penalties for this, in many cases leading to jail terms.
Thirdly it was "identity theft" -- but if the banks give money/credit to unverified strangers it is thier problem. For this to be effective lenders would need to have; the equipment to read the card, the right to ask for a fingerprint and access to the central database to verify the validity of the card.
The equipment and the right I've covered earlier.
Cards have a serial number to go with the individual's identity number. It's a simple check against a central database to ensure that the two numbers match for the card to be valid. Replacements for stolen/lost cards will of course have a different serial number for the same identity number.
It's not a perfect system, of course. While the cards are hard to forge, it's not impossible. And not all service providers will go through all the available security measures. Depending on the level of service provided, fingerprint or validity check may be skipped.
However it's definitely a far better system than a system like SSN where all you need to do is provide a number to identify yourself.
I've had problems using Eclipse on Ubuntu before, the problems you had with Eclipse may be related.
1. Don't use the repositories for Eclipse. Download the linux version directly from the eclipse website, and run it.
2. Eclipse has problems with the default gcj jvm for Ubuntu. Solution here
I suggest giving Eclipse another look. Download the latest ganymede, fix the jvm, add http://pydev.sourceforge.net/updates/ to your update sites.
You may have to use extra tools to break your archive into seperate chunks fitting Gmail's maximum attachment size, but I've used Gmail to backup a relative small (~20mb) website. The trick is to make one complete backup, then make incremental backups using rdiff-backup. I have this done daily with a cron job, sending the bz2'ed diff to a Gmail account. Every month, it will make a complete backup again.
And a seperate Gmail account for the backup of the mysql database.
This may be harder to do with a 2GB website, i guess, since Gmail provides atm about 6GB of space which will probably last you about 2 months. Of course you could use multiple gmail accounts or automated deletion of older archives...
But seriously, 2GB isn't too hard to do your from own PC if you only handle diffs. The first time download would take a while, but incremental backups shouldn't take too long unless your site changes drastically all the time.
So, he's kinda like the Colin Powell in George Bush's administration?
After reading the title i was half expecting to read on to find out that concast begins filing lawsuits against bloggers. Offering apologies and help was a pleasant surprise.
Theoretically...
Number of Java developers > Number of Flash developers > Number of Silverlight developers
Number of Javascript capable browsers > Number of Flash enabled browsers > Number of Silverlight enabled browsers.
Which is a good idea, since Google has created a framework in a language that most developers are familiar with, for a platform that just about all web browsers support out of the box.
However...
Number of PHP hosting sites > Number of ASP hosting sites > Number of Ruby hosting sites > Number of Tomcat hosting sites
Which is probably one of the reasons why it's not doing so well.
GWT-RPC is excellent. It allows me to use the same data objects on client and server, and debug both from the same IDE. But it requires a Tomcat server.
Now if GWT is able to compile the server portion to easily deployable PHP code, this could lead to somewhere interesting.
Did I get that right? He went to court, got away with a rather mild verdict, then the prosecutor showed that he is "partying" and this is grounds for a more serious conviction?
Hello? Did partying now become some sort of grounds for a harsher verdict? What should he have done? Mourn and weep for at least 2 years or whatever the court deems "appropriate"?
This is sick, people. This means you're not only judged for what you do but also for what you feel.
Nope, you did not get it right.
He did not get "a more serious conviction". He did not initially "get away with a rather mild verdict".
After you are convicted, there will be a sentencing trial where the judge decides your sentence. In the trial, the prosecutors will generally argue to give you a harsh sentence while your lawyer will argue why you deserve less than that, and depending on the facts available to the judge, he will make his decision.
RTFA. In this case, the prosecutors were initially going to recommend only a probation for this criminal, but when discovering the photos, they recommended the harsher sentence and the judge concurred.
I would have concurred too, and I think it's justice well served. If this bastard had gotten away with only a probation I would have been pretty pissed off with these prosecutors.
Easy. All you need is an Amber Spyglass.
The Darwin Award rules state that the asshat must cause his own demise.
Unfortunately when it comes to accidents caused by self-impaired driving, the victim is often not the asshat driver but an innocent bystander who would otherwise be looking forward to decades of fulfilling life. This disqualifies the asshat from the Darwin Award.
Now, how about relicensing Qt under BSD or LGPL...